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U.S. U-23 head coach Peter Nowak has the same issues juggling his domestic and European-based players for Olympic qualifying as does Bob Bradley with the national team, yet he's assigned the role of captain to Chivas USA midfielder Sacha Kljestan.
When Clint Dempsey played a seemingly innocuous ball to him near the sideline early in his national team debut against China last June, Sacha Kljestan knew what to do: Find the man on the move.
Out of a congested midfield he spotted former U.S. under-20 teammate Benny Feilhaber slicing behind the Chinese back line. Kljestan looped a ball forward that Feilhaber ran onto and tapped over a charging goalkeeper to break a 1-1 tie. It held up to be the winning goal.
First cap/first assist isn't as dramatic as scoring on your debut, as other Americans - most recently defender Eddie Robinson against Switzerland in January - have done, yet as Kljestan has shown for the U.S. at several levels and with Chivas USA, his forte is forging chances, not necessarily taking them.
"Sacha just sent me through," said Feilhaber, neatly encapsulating the skillful yet simple manner in which Kljestan goes about his business. He'll play an important role as the under-23s attempt to qualify in March for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Many of the age-eligible Americans, including Feilhaber and Michael Bradley (Heerenveen), may not be released by their European clubs for the CONCACAF competition from which two teams qualify. So the MLS contingent of Kljestan, Stuart Holden (Houston), Dax McCarty (FC Dallas), Maurice Edu and Marvell Wynne (Toronto) could be among the midfield components Coach Peter Nowak counts on to get the team through qualifying.
"I have been getting the picture of what we're trying to accomplish with all of U.S. Soccer in general, things we're trying to change," says Kljestan, who played a season for U.S. head coach Bob Bradley during his rookie season with Chivas USA. "Peter trusts me, and I trust him. We have a lot of faith in each other, which is cool, because Peter's a great guy to play for."
Nowak and Bradley, for all their reluctance to publicly single out players for praise, are pushing the buttons on Kljestan. As busy as he was playing for the under-23s, national team and Chivas USA in 2007, this year is loaded up with club commitments and Olympic and World Cup qualifiers.
"It's good for me," says Kljestan. "I didn't have much of an offseason my first two years in the league but I'd rather be doing all these camps than being somewhere on vacation. My vacation time will come; now's the time to put in the work. It's a big year for myself and for the Olympic team and the national team."
SUMMER SCHOOL. A month after his national team debut, Kljestan started against Paraguay and played the full 90 minutes against Colombia in the Copa America. In the latter game, he misfired on a header that could have tied the game after playing a first-time ball - similar to his feed to Feilhaber - that Charlie Davies squared to Eddie Johnson, who couldn't put the chance away. Colombia held on to win, 1-0.
"I was disappointed that I missed my header and that we lost, though I thought I played well," says Kljestan. "But playing against those teams in that tournament was fantastic and can only help us get better as a team."
He finished the MLS regular season tied for second in assists with 13 as Chivas USA won the Western Conference before falling in the playoffs. As a rookie for Bradley, he'd played in the middle alongside veteran Jesse Marsch. When ex-assistant Preki took over for the 2007 season, he stationed Kljestan to the right side yet gave him license to work the middle, much as the coach himself had done during a brilliant playing career.
"The game has changed all over the world," says Preki, whose devious cutbacks and chops to his left foot as he drifted inside from the right wing befuddled defenders in Europe and America, indoors and outdoors. "The creative players, the attacking players, whatever you want to call them, are most likely to play outside, because there's a little bit more room, more time to get on the ball. That's why we put Sacha in that position."
Kljestan's season included a two-game suspension and $1,000 fine for chopping down Real Salt Lake midfielder Andy Williams with a two-footed tackle. The foul put Williams out of action for more than a month. Paced by the service of Kljestan and the scoring of Ante Razov and Maykel Galindo, Chivas USA rolled through the season until injuries to both forwards derailed its momentum.
Lacking Razov and with Galindo still hobbled, Chivas USA failed to score in the playoffs and was eliminated by Kansas City. In those two games, Kljestan got a few good looks at goal, but couldn't add to the four goals he scored during the regular season. The Wizards advanced, 1-0, on aggregate.
There wasn't much time to brood. Kljestan, keeper Brad Guzan, and defender Jonathan Bornstein were picked for the U.S. squad against South Africa, and thus Kljestan added another continent to his 2007 travel ledger. He played the final 17 minutes as the U.S. fought off a South African onslaught to preserve a 1-0 win.
Attention to the defensive side of the game is being preached by both Preki and Nowak. Kljestan's height (6-foot-1) offers advantages, but he's rather spindly (150 pounds) and must be tougher on the ball so as not to be knocked off it. "He's a very good kid, a good listener, and we're just trying to push him to the next level, because he does have all the tools if he wants to work a little more on the physical side of the game and the defensive side of his game," says Preki.
The other sides of his game are enticing. His touch, his two-footedness, his craftiness, and his soccer intelligence set him apart from most products of American colleges. Like Preki, Kljestan's heritage is Serbian, and for decades players from Yugoslavia and other Eastern European players have been famous for their flair. Preki grew up in Belgrade and played for Red Star; Sacha's father, raised near Sarajevo, left Europe more than two decades ago.
"It's not just Yugoslavia, there are players from many countries who are more clever, a different class, to see the next pass, players who have an idea before the ball comes to him," says Preki. "They have a very good idea of what's around them when they have the ball.
"Now we're trying to get Sacha, even though he's a technical guy, he can still get better technically."
COLLEGE LESSONS. Kljestan played his college ball at Seton Hall for Manfred Schellscheidt, who numbers among his disciples preaching coordination of ball movement and player movement one Bob Bradley.
"He understands the game so well," says Schellscheidt. "It's his mentality, how he sees the game, not so much his physical qualities.
"He's very good on the ball. With a lot of guys, the ball gets in the way. With him the ball becomes a weapon. The other expression I would use is a lot of guys play the music, he writes the music. He's got ideas, he's a composer."
The presence of an uncle in New Jersey, not far from the Seton Hall campus, eased Kljestan's transition from sunny California.
"It was pretty cool to have some family out there," says Kljestan, whose brother Gordon played for the Pirates at the same time. "Me and my brother would cruise down there on the weekends and have dinner and stuff like that, he came to every game. He lived like 45 minutes from the school. It was fun."
His first international call-up came during his sophomore year at Seton Hall. The annual Ballymena Tournament in Northern Ireland is a regular stop for U.S. U-20 teams, and head coach Sigi Schmid - who also was based in Southern California - brought him into the team. He played in two U-20 qualifiers and earned a spot on the U.S. team that finished 11th in the 2005 U-20 World Cup. He scored nine goals and 15 assists in his junior year at Seton Hall, then opted to enter the MLS SuperDraft.
"He's a gifted kid," says Schellscheidt. "There's a saying that, 'You can only be the things you remember,' and he has the capacity to make great memories. How many guys can do something 1,000 times and it's like they're doing it for the first time. It's because they can't make a memory, you know what I'm saying?"
CHINA PASSAGE. Last December came a return to another continent, Asia, which Kljestan had visited with the under-23s the previous February. For a two-game trip to China, host nation for the 2008 Olympics, Nowak named him team captain. The coach, though, downplays relying on the captain, or anybody else, all the time.
"Of course, Sacha is more experienced than let's say Robbie Rogers or Jozy Altidore," says Nowak of the appointment. "But on the field, you have the leaders. No one is extra special. I think the strongest teams in the world, they don't have a leader you can say, 'This is the one.' The days are over with saying one player can change the game by being a leader."
As captain, Kljestan attended press conferences with the head coach. One such session produced a question that might have flustered most young players.
Kljestan controlled the tricky query and dispatched it effortlessly. Asked if the women of Hunan province are cute, he responded, laughing. "Everyone that we have been around in Changsha has been very nice and very lovely to us. They have treated us very well. As for the rest, I can't answer that question."
In the second game of the tour, a 3-3 tie, Kljestan set up the first goal with a very different pass than his assist for Feilhaber. He flicked a Wynne throw-in to Rogers, who smashed a volley into the net. China rallied from a 3-0 halftime deficit to earn the tie and in the final minutes, Kljestan, playing the captain's role, tried to quell a ruckus involving Altidore, and instead got himself sent off.
"Peter makes a big deal about team unity and chemistry and all that stuff," says Kljestan, who grew up in Southern California admiring the play of Preki and Nowak in MLS. "The team has really responded to not just knowing our roles on the team, but what we're trying to accomplish as a country."
During his teen years, Kljestan won an MLS fantasy league competition among his brother and their friends. As a prize, he could request a signed playing card of any MLS player. It was duly delivered and he has kept it, framed, in his parent's home. The player? Preki.
"I don't remember who was on my [fantasy] team, but I'm sure Preki and Peter were on there," he recalls. "Preki was scoring all those goals and assists, so he was putting up all my points, probably."
Four years ago, the U.S. stumbled in the regional semifinals against Mexico and failed to qualify for the Olympics. Such an encounter is possible, since the CONCACAF powers are in different first-round groups and could be paired off again if one finishes first and the other second.
Nowak has used him in several different midfield spots and he could well play one role during the qualifiers and another in the Olympics, assuming the U.S. qualifies, depending on the form and availability of players. But getting to Beijing supersedes all else.
"Positionally, I don't think we've fully decided yet," says Kljestan of his spot on the field. "I've played on the right and I've actually played a game on the left. Mainly with the Olympic team I've been playing in the middle of midfield, which is nice because I've played that my first year in the league. We don't know for sure on the field, but off the field being a leader and speaking with the guys is the role we've talked about.
"We're going to be favored to qualify for the Olympics. This team, I've been with them for a quite a while, and different guys have come in and out. But this core group of guys we have and the way we move the ball and the way we keep it and the way we defend, I really have a special feeling about this team
(This article originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of Soccer America magazine.)


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GRASS and trees are to be protected from parking damage as Barton becomes the latest estate to benefit from council cash.
Oxford City Council wants to spend at least £60,000 to put down plastic mesh and bollards in Burchester Avenue to smarten up the street.
The scheme is planned as part of the council's Great Estates project, which aims to improve communal areas in the city's estates.
Van Coulter, council member for Barton and Sandhills, said parking on the verges had caused deep ruts in the grass.
He also said trees had had to be removed after roots were damaged by drivers using the road edges.
He said the council was looking at putting in between £60,000 and £70,000 for the works, with the cash coming from rent paid by council house tenants.
The Labour member said: "The appearance of this part of Barton is spoilt by the current situation.
"We have some serious rutting caused by lorries.
"It means there is a lot of mud spread over the pavements.
"It is just a complete eyesore."
Mr Coulter also said drivers would find somewhere else to park – and damage – if the council blocked off the street's verges, adding: "We are looking at a practical way of allowing access to parking but making sure it has a good level of appearance and gives the grass a chance to grow."
And he added: "This is another thing happening in Barton to make the estate look better."
Earlier this month the council unveiled new parking bays for 13 vehicles in Redmoor Close, Littlemore. New shrub beds and trees were also added to the area.
It was the fourth parking scheme to be completed under the £500,000 Great Estates project, with new parking bays already provided in Rose Hill's Ashhurst Way and Monks Close, and in Blackbird Leys Road.
Council spokeswoman Louisa Dean said: "There are several proposed schemes that we are currently considering for the Great Estates Programme for next year.
"Officers have been talking to ward councillors to seek their views about what measures would best improve the appearance of the road.
"We have a budget for £450,000 for car parking and verge protection works but that will be distributed within estates across the city."

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After 12 years, Tully's founder Tom O'Keefe hasn't been able to make a profit with his specialty coffee chain that stands in Starbuck's vast shadow. But O'Keefe could turn the art of acting big into the reality of being big.
Every Christmas Eve, the store managers heard from Santa by voicemail.
He'd give each a bundle of company shares, only to call back later that shift. Mrs. Claus had given him grog, he'd say. Their gift was then doubled.
Tom Tully O'Keefe — the founder, chairman and namesake of Tully's Coffee — was Santa, and the shares he doled were his own.
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"I wanted to make sure they felt a sense of ownership," said O'Keefe, whose middle name honors his mother's Greek heritage. "The best way to do this is to make them owners."
To some employees, O'Keefe's generosity is legendary. To some investors, however, that generosity is viewed as misguided, at best.
Tully's eventually had to account for O'Keefe's gifts of stock as a company expense. (Federal accounting rules had viewed it as disguised compensation.)
Investors see this as one more example of the company's inability to live within its means. "There are a lot of people losing faith," said one longtime investor. "Tully's is not even a competitor anymore."
Since opening its first cafe in 1992, Tully's has developed into a strong, regional specialty-coffee retailer — one with a brand that belies its size. But if Tully's name casts a vast shadow over competitors, its sales are spread over a base an inch thick.
In its 12 years in business, Tully's has not made a net profit. While the company generated $1.3 million in cash flow from operations in fiscal 2004, it doesn't expect to turn a net profit for another year.
To understand Tully's past and its future, however, one can't compare it to its specialty-coffee peers. Tully's has traveled another path — one best viewed through the prism of the dot-com boom.
Kinder, gentler alternative
O'Keefe was a real-estate developer when he opened the first Tully's in 1992. He had leased several storefronts to Starbucks in neighborhood shopping centers.
"Tom thought he could do it better," said Rich Padden, his longtime friend and attorney.
By the mid-1990s, Tully's became one of a handful of regional specialty-coffee retailers to set a plan for aggressive growth.
The Specialty Coffee Association of America projected in early 1996 that the U.S. and Canada would be home to 10,000 coffee shops by 1999. Of those, 5,500 would be coffee bars and cafes, the group projected. The rest would be carts.
It seemed a racy prediction.
Starbucks dwarfed the competition by then, with nearly 1,000 stores and a goal to double by 2000. Tully's, meantime, sought to distinguish itself in other ways.
Tully's presented a milder roast and used overstuffed chairs and fireplaces to create an aura of comfort and warmth in its stores. But even if it wanted to be viewed as a kinder, gentler alternative to Starbucks, it wasn't afraid to capitalize on its competitors' growth.
Tully's began opening stores adjacent to Starbucks, much as Burger King positioned its fast-food restaurants near McDonalds two decades before.
In 1996, O'Keefe said Tully's didn't want to "beat itself over the head" trying to educate new communities on the finer points of gourmet coffee.
"We'd rather let Starbucks do that and drag off of them," he said.
Venti-sized plans
For those who know O'Keefe, this type of boldness didn't surprise them. He was senior class president at Issaquah High School when he invited someone to speak about legal alternatives to the Vietnam draft.
O'Keefe's brother fought in Vietnam, and his father was a decorated World War II veteran. While he invited military recruiters, he wanted to present students with all their options.
"He took a lot of heat for it, but he felt that it was a role that he needed to play," said his sister, Maureen Atherton. "That's a very typical Tom move. The heat doesn't bother him."
Investment bankers, meantime, placed a fire under Tully's growth. Like its dot-com counterparts, the company's charge was to build the brand and store count as quickly as possible to prime it for the public markets.
In June 1995, Tully's had 10 stores and 80 employees. Four years later, it had 59 stores and 545 employees.
This get-big-fast approach — reminiscent of the boom — was most evident in its splashy marketing deals. In 1999, Tully's beat out longtime Mariners' sponsor Starbucks for exclusive rights to serve coffee and espresso drinks at Safeco Field — a privilege for which it paid more than a $1 million.
Tully's signed another baseball marketing agreement a year later, this time with the San Francisco Giants' Pacific Bell Park. For $1.8 million, it got its logo on the left centerfield wall.
By then, in 2000, the company had swelled to 851 employees, with 75 company-operated stores in the U.S., 35 licensed stores abroad, and 37 locations in the works.
The ultimate symbol of its budding influence, however, came atop a building visible from Interstate 5. Tully's moved its headquarters to the old Rainier Brewery building south of downtown Seattle. It replaced the neon red "R" — a local landmark — with the green "T."
Rainier was part of Seattle's history; Tully's, it seemed, was its future.
Who needs sleep
O'Keefe was born April 1, 1954, to John and Sophie O'Keefe — the fourth of five children. O'Keefe's father was Irish and his mother was "100 percent Greek," family members say.
"It wasn't quiet, let's put it that way," Tim O'Keefe said of growing up in the family. "It was fairly lively."
John O'Keefe served in the U.S. Marine Corp, where he fought in Guadalcanal, the first U.S. offensive campaign in the Pacific during World War II. He was a physicist and was recruited by Boeing to work on its supersonic transport program to help address the issue of the sonic boom.
"I can only remember my dad working all the time," Tom O'Keefe said. "He was a nocturnal guy. He had his last pot of coffee at 10 p.m."
O'Keefe and his four brothers and sisters learned never to be idle, which may have translated into what each sibling refers to as the "O'Keefe Curse." One sibling can e-mail another at 2 a.m. and, more often than not, get a response.
"I think we're antsy," Atherton said. "We think the day should start."
If O'Keefe's father was a model of hard work, his mother was the one who sent all five kids to college without allowing any of them to feel deprived. O'Keefe learned the extent of his mother's painstaking ingenuity 15 years ago.
He had sent his mother, an avid baseball fan, to spring training in Phoenix. While she was away, O'Keefe's father came over and handed him mail that was sent to the house.
One envelope contained a bill from the Boeing Credit Union. The balance was $1,500, with a monthly payment of $47. After a little digging, O'Keefe realized that his mother had borrowed $8,000 in his name for tuition in the early 1970s.
Nearly two decades had passed, and Sophie O'Keefe was still dutifully paying down the loan. O'Keefe covered the balance and never brought it up.
When the bottom falls out
Tully's path paralleled the boom, but its business carried an important distinction. Retail businesses require repeated injections of money to cover the cost of inventory, rent and new stores.
Its goal was to debut on the stock market in 2000 or 2001, raising enough money to fuel its expansion. But the dot-com market collapsed, and with it went Tully's ability to raise the money it needed to expand.
Like its dot-com counterparts, Tully's went from the promise of a cash-fueled IPO to life-support in what seemed like an instant. "We were building to fit into that metric, and it went away," O'Keefe said.
Tully's shares are not publicly traded, but the company still must file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission because it has more than 500 investors.
Tully's had worked to build stores that rivaled Starbucks in staffing and décor, but the costs began to catch up with them.
During its early stages, Tully's cost structure could support only two employees a shift, but it used three, viewing the third worker as a marketing expense. The company wanted to help build its image as a larger, more sophisticated operation.
Tully's also overstocked the food cases by 10 to 12 percent. O'Keefe's reasoning: If a customer walked into Starbucks and saw a decimated pastry case at 11 a.m., they would reason that it had a good morning. If the same occurred at Tully's, the customer would think the opposite.
"If you buy enough pastries for 11 customers, you'll never get that 12th one," O'Keefe said. "In the early years, we used an overstaffing and overstocking mentality to build the brand."
The company's largest point of differentiation, a milder alternative to Starbucks' dark roast, also cost more to produce than its largest competitor.
Because Tully's roasted in small batches, and spent more time roasting each batch, it meant more "shrinkage." Every batch of coffee was reduced by up to 15 percent.
Still standing
O'Keefe said the company could have continued to grow the business by bringing in more money, but it chose not to because the dilution to existing shareholders was "far in excess of what we felt was palatable," he said.
After the IPO market collapsed, the company applied the brakes, but some say it was too little, too late. Tully's closed its store design and construction division because it didn't have the money to open more stores. The management team, meantime, took a 10 percent deferral in income "until further notice."
But the company was slow to let employees go — inaction some attribute to O'Keefe's penchant for generosity.
Tully's, meantime, had problems holding onto chief executives. Tony Gioia, a former president at Baskin-Robbins, left last July after two years. He had taken over from interim CEO Marc Evanger, who guided the company for 10 months after his predecessor, Jamie Colbourne, quit five months into the job.
Tully's in October named former Seattle Sonics executive John Dresel as its president, but it no longer has a CEO. "Having a lot of titles doesn't make the business any better," O'Keefe said at the time of Dresel's appointment.
Larry Benaroya, principal of Benaroya Companies, said O'Keefe was slower to "do those types of things than others might have done," such as letting employees go.
His take, however, is this: Most of the companies during the dot-com frenzy aren't around anymore, and Tully's is. "It's pretty impressive actually," Benaroya said.
While Tully's annual sales have been flat for the past three years at roughly $50 million, it has worked hard to shrink its costs.
In fiscal 2002, its cost of goods sold — the value of a product before it's sold — accounted for 50.3 percent of overall sales. Last year, it declined to 43.6 percent.
Overhead has fallen, too — although some would say that it hasn't fallen enough. In fiscal 2002, the company spent 21.7 percent of its sales on overhead, down to 14.2 percent in 2004.
Starbucks last fiscal year spent 5.7 percent of its sales on overhead. Peet's Coffee, a comparably sized Tully's competitor, spent 3.5 percent on overhead for the same period.
For all of 2004, Tully's posted a $2.7 million net loss on sales of $50.8 million.
Tully's, O'Keefe said, made a conscious decision not to "cut to the bone." "The good news is that the overhead we have today doesn't have to get any bigger to scale up substantially," he said.
Waiting, impatiently
Some shareholders have grown tired of waiting.
At its 2004 annual shareholders meeting in December, O'Keefe was one of seven members elected to its board of directors. On average, the six others board members each received 224,000 ballots cast against their re-election. O'Keefe had 613,648.
In a December 2002 Harvard Business Review article, "Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale," John Hamm identified four traits that mark successful entrepreneurs and that hinder business growth:
Loyalty to comrades — failing to see and respond to a team member's weaknesses.
Excessive attention to detail — executing brilliantly with demanding short-term assignments, but confusing tasks with goals.
Single-mindedness — vision becomes tunnel vision when CEOs fail to listen to employees with a distinct view.
Working in isolation.
Michael Preston, a Columbia University business-school professor, said the strengths that enable someone to get to one level often have the seeds of shortcomings when attempting to reach the next level.
"If you have a company that has been business for 12 years — and hasn't made a profit — I'd be very interested to see whether the founder has been willing to delegate," he said.
Eyeing the No. 2 spot
If Tully's ever had a chance to transcend its past, it's now.
The company is talking with investors, both institutional and private, to raise more than $10 million. Much of it will be used to open company-operated stores on the West Coast.
Tully's ended the 2004 fiscal year with 305 stores to Starbucks' 9,000.
Still, specialty-coffee retail experts say that while Starbucks is far and away No. 1, there's still room for a No. 2 brand.
For those who know O'Keefe best, they believe Tully's has a shot.
"I would never bet against Tom — never, ever, ever," Atherton said. "I have seen him pull a rabbit out of his hat too many times."
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MLB notebook: World Series Game 1
MLB notebook: World Series Game 1
The first 3-2 score in a Game 1 occurred on Oct. 4, 1922, when the Giants and Yankees tangled at the Polo Grounds. The game featured seven future Hall of Famers, took two hours and eight minutes to play, and saw the Giants -- the defending world champs -- turn a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth.
The rally began with four straight singles by the Giants, the last of which, by Irish Meusel (playing against his brother Bob, the Yankees left fielder), drove in two runs and knocked starter Bullet Joe Bush out of the game. Waite Hoyt entered to face Ross Youngs, who lifted a fly ball to a spot deep enough to score Frankie Frisch from third. After Rosy Ryan pitched around a leadoff single by Wally Pipp in the top of the ninth, the Giants were off on the right foot with a 3-2 win.
The Giants swept the Series and the Yankees moved across the Harlem River, opening Yankee Stadium and winning a World Series for the first time in 1923.
World Series: Rangers at Cardinals
Starter Chris Carpenter allowed two runs in six innings, and five Cardinals relievers combined for three innings of one-hit ball.
The team that has won the first game has gone on to capture the World Series title 65 times, and lost the Series 40 times. There was no winner of the scheduled Game 1 in 1907, as the Tigers and Cubs played to a 3-3 tie (the game was called after 12 innings). The Cubs then won the first game to be played to a conclusion and took the Series four games to none.
The Game 1 winner has captured the title 16 times in the past 20 World Series. The four Game 1 winners to come up short: the 1992 Braves, 1996 Braves, 2002 Giants and 2009 Phillies.
The home team in Game 1 is 13-7 in Game 1 over the past 20 World Series. The past 10 teams to win Game 1 at home have gone on to capture the title. The last team to win Game 1 at home and lose the Series was the 1992 Braves, who lost to the Blue Jays in six games. The 10 teams to win Game 1 at home and win the title: the 1993 Blue Jays, 1995 Braves, 1997 Marlins, 1998 Yankees, 2000 Yankees, 2001 Diamondbacks, 2004 Red Sox, 2005 White Sox, 2007 Red Sox and 2010 Giants.
Carpenter improved to 3-0 in four starts this postseason. He has allowed nine runs on 19 hits (3.52 ERA) in 23 innings. The rest of the Cardinals starters have a combined total of one victory: Edwin Jackson got the win in Game 4 of the Division Series.
Carpenter's victory gave him eight in his postseason career, all with the Cardinals, and the club record for most postseason wins, surpassing the seven recorded by Bob Gibson (all in the World Series). Carpenter is tied with the Yankees' Mariano Rivera for the most postseason wins among active pitchers.
Fernando Salas, Mark Rzepczynski, Octavio Dotel, Arthur Rhodes and Jason Motte combined for three shutout innings, allowing a single and a walk and striking out three. Cardinals relievers have thrown 31 2/3 innings since the start of the National League Championship Series, allowing six earned runs (1.71 ERA) on 16 hits and eight walks while striking out 24.
The Cardinals have had 50 appearances by relief pitchers in the postseason. That total is equal to the number of relief appearances by the 2003 Marlins and 2008 Rays for the seventh-most in a postseason. The 2002 Giants, with 62, hold the high mark.
Rhodes -- 41 years and 360 days old -- became the 20th-oldest pitcher to appear in a World Series game. His appearance marked the 29th time in Series history a pitcher past his 41st birthday appeared in a game. Jack Quinn (47 years and 95 days) is the oldest, appearing in Game 3 of the 1930 World Series for the Philadelphia A's.
Lance Berkman paced the Cardinals' offensive attack with two hits and two RBIs. Berkman has seven hits in 17 at-bats and has driven in eight runs in five career World Series games.
Rangers starter C.J. Wilson took the loss, allowing three runs in 5 2/3 innings. He became the 12th pitcher to start three Game 1s in a postseason, but the first to go winless in those starts.
Allen Craig's RBI single in the bottom of the sixth to break a 2-2 tie represented the fourth time a pinch-hitter has driven in the go-ahead run in a World Series opener.
In 1954, Dusty Rhodes hit a game-ending, three-run home run off Bob Lemon in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Giants a 5-2 win over the Indians.
In 1964, Carl Warwick drove in a run with a sixth-inning single off of Al Downing to give the Cardinals a 5-4 lead over the Yankees. St. Louis ended up with a 9-5 win.
In 1988, Kirk Gibson famously hit a game-ending, two-run home run off Dennis Eckersley in the bottom of the ninth to give the Dodgers a 5-4 win over the Athletics.
The Cardinals' David Freese went 1-for-2, getting a hit for an 11th straight game. His streak is tied for the ninth-longest in a postseason since 1995. Marquis Grissom of the 1995 Braves and Manny Ramirez of the 2004 Red Sox hold the record with 14-game hitting streaks.
Roger Schlueter is senior researcher for MLB Productions. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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To summarize, all applicants should do the following:
Gather the proper information (grades, test scores, transcripts).
Submit the above information within the initial application period.
Undergraduate students should apply to the Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) department for Pattern A: Nutrition and Dietetics
Graduate students apply as a graduate unclassified into the FCS department.
Each graduate student must have an undergrad cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 at the time her/his degree was conferred. If the GPA was lower, the student is required to take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) and score at least 50 percentile on at least one of the areas in order to be admitted to the FCS department.
All transfer students will work with the Didactic Program in Dietetics director to evaluate their transcripts. This enables both the director and the students to see which previously completed courses may substitute for DPD courses. Courses completed in community colleges with which there is an articulation agreement will possibly be accepted as substitutions if all other requirements are met. However, courses taken at non-articulated college/universities are subject to evaluation using transcripts, catalog course descriptions and, if necessary, course syllabi. It is possible that some of the previously completed courses may not be accepted as substitutes for DPD courses.
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A new announcement by Goggle brings a new product called Google Buzz. Google Buzz builds upon Gmail's messaging, IM and in-browser video chat, and focuses on in-Gmail sharing with other users.
This was taken from our slashgear.com:
Auto-following – Buzz takes advantage of Gmail's record of frequent contacts, automatically setting up contacts based on who you email with regularly.
Rich, fast sharing experience – Google Buzz pulls in information from your contacts' Google Reader, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, YouTube and other services, even if you yourself don't have an account with that service. Videos and photo thumbnails are shown in-line, but there's also a custom photo viewer that pulls up a full-browser slideshow. Links, meanwhile, when pasted into Buzz automatically pull out photos from the source URL, and you can click to add them to your stream. Meanwhile there are the regular Gmail keyboard shortcuts for speedy navigation.
Public and private sharing – When you post something – either an update or a comment – you can select between public or private comments. Anything public goes to the user's Google profile and is search-indexed, but anything private can be added to custom groups of people – friends, family, colleagues, etc – and be limited to those contacts.
Inbox Integration – Google have looked at mproved methods to integrate social updates with your inbox; rather than send simple emails, messages are flagged up with a Buzz logo, and those messages are dynamically updated with new comments. All the usual Buzz features – including the full-browser slideshow – are functional. Also integrated are @-replies, and typing that into the comment box automatically pulls up an auto-complete of your contacts. Sending an @-reply directs that comment to the other user's inbox.
Just the good stuff – Buzz is designed with sharing and recommending in mind. If several of a user's contacts comment on another item, from a user you're not following, that's automatically flagged up on your own Buzz stream. You can then click on the Recommend button to see who prompted it to be added to your Buzz stream, and then give feedback on how appropriate it was which educates the recommendation engine.
There will be an Android app for Google Buzz. this app will pull full event streams to your mobile device. When you open it, your GPS location will be recorded and all the businesses near you will be located for you. The details of the events will be determined by the time of day as well as your location.
This will be released as a consumer product first but later in the year Google plans to incorporate it as an enterprise tool. There is no release date set yet but in the mean time enjoy these video demos.
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Perspective: Mastering supply chain politics
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The rising role of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers and original design manufacturers (ODMs) in the electronics industry has spurred a power shift in electronics supply chain management. In supply chains where EMS providers or ODMs play a role, OEMs and their purchasing departments no longer hold dictatorial authority over decisions regarding which component suppliers to work with and which parts to buy. Instead, EMS and ODM companies have achieved parity with many OEMs when it
The rising role of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers and original design manufacturers (ODMs) in the electronics industry has spurred a power shift in electronics supply chain management. In supply chains where EMS providers or ODMs play a role, OEMs and their purchasing departments no longer hold dictatorial authority over decisions regarding which component suppliers to work with and which parts to buy. Instead, EMS and ODM companies have achieved parity with many OEMs when it comes to power over such purchasing decisions.
This separation of purchasing power often has created chaos in the supply chain. In some cases, unclear delegation of supply chain authority has made it difficult for electronic component suppliers to identify the right company or group to work with. Long-term, mutually beneficial relationships between certain suppliers and OEMs have suffered, as EMS/ODM providers with their own supplier strategies have entered the equation.
With decision-making authority for purchasing split between OEMs and EMS/ODM companies, the most successful suppliers, OEMs and EMS/ODMs will be those that understand how decentralized decision-making coalitions work, and that can create the supply chain coalitions that best achieve their goals. Because of the inclusion of a third-party contract manufacturer, both the supplier and the EMS companies become more powerful relative to the OEM. All three participants--the OEM, EMS and supplier--have much to lose if they do not wield their combined supply chain power intelligently.
Thus, the winners in the electronics supply chain will be those that are the best supply chain "politicians," adept at influencing others and building coalitions.
Production by the EMS/ODM industry, collectively called the contract manufacturing business, amounted to $127.9 billion in 2003, placing 33 percent of total electronic component purchase orders (POs) or material cost for the year. Contract manufacturing revenue is projected to rise to $229.6 billion in 2007 and the industry will account for 48 percent of total electronics material cost, as seen in the figure at the bottom of page 20.
The electronics supply chain has been fundamentally altered by the rise of contract manufacturing purchasing. In the past, OEMs worked directly with their component suppliers and assembled subsystems and built boxes in-house. OEMs had complete visibility of all their component suppliers and exercised total control. Of course, running electronics supply chains has never been easy, and even under the control of one company, issues such as centralized or decentralized supply chain decision making have always been controversial. However, with today's contract manufacturing model, the supply chain is now more complicated, as illustrated in the figure on page 19.
The added complexity contract manufacturing has brought to the supply chain has led to new areas of uncertainty regarding supply chain decisions. These include:
Which company--OEM or contract manufacturer--selects components?
Which company chooses component suppliers?
Which company negotiates with the component suppliers?
Who controls the supply chain?
The answers to these questions are unclear. These and other uncertainties have caused significant supply chain disruptions, inefficiencies and added cost.
Conflicts between OEMs and contract manufacturers over buying practices have become common nowadays. Meanwhile, many suppliers simply don't know who to sell to--or even how to sell--anymore.
In the new electronics supply chain, authority over purchasing decisions increasingly is distributed among OEMs and their contract manufacturers.
To understand how this divided authority works, we can use Shapely values, a tool from game theory (see "Game Theory in Supply Chain Management," on page 22). Shapely values are calculable and objective representations of power distribution among independent groups. These values are represented as fractions of 1, where any coalition achieving a value greater than 0.5 can dictate terms to everyone else.
The chart at the top of the page shows Shapely values applied to electronics purchasing decision-making power when dealing with multisourced parts. The OEM purchasing column shows, on the left, how power is distributed when there is no contract manufacturing involvement--the status quo for most supply chains before the major outsourcing trend began. The column on the right illustrates how the situation changes when contract manufacturing is involved.
With no contract manufacturing involvement, the OEM purchasing department holds enough power to dictate terms to everyone else. With a Shapely value of 0.5, purchasing can unilaterally decide which approved supplier gets an order. The next most powerful group is OEM engineering, which can change specifications to make it harder or easier for them. OEM engineering's Shapely value is typically around 0.3. The supplier, at most, had the remaining 0.2, which represents the least amount of power.
In this arrangement, the system was somewhat akin to a dictatorship, with OEM purchasing departments holding almost absolute power over buying decisions. Suppliers represent the downtrodden underclass, with little say in decision making--unless they can forge covert alliances with OEM engineering to change specifications to make them a sole source. If they accomplish this, the supplier/OEM engineering coalition could gain equal power. However, well-managed OEMs have specific processes in place to ensure such coalitions cannot develop.
When EMS companies get involved, buying decisions become a more egalitarian affair. As the figure at the top of page 20 indicates, when dealing with multisourced components, and with contract manufacturing involved, vague contract terms and strong personalities often create situations in which all five parties can have equal Shapely values of 0.2.
In effect, when OEMs work with EMS/ODM companies, they must give away some of their supply chain power to contract manufacturers. The result is that all parties often have close to equal power--and no single player can hold sway on its own.
The best politician
In this new, more egalitarian environment, the best supply chain politician holds the real power. Today, few companies are aware of how the system works, so it's no wonder there's so much suspicion and chaos. Short of eliminating contract manufacturers, all supply chain participants must learn how to influence the supply chain portions controlled by others.
OEMs have much to win or lose by managing their supply chains properly. Because the top 20 electronic component buyers control more than 50 percent of all the components used, the interests and the strategies of the largest OEMs differ from those of the rest of the players. The biggest OEMs will gain the greatest competitive advantage by giving the least amount of power to their EMS prociders. Most midtier OEMs will have more to gain by structuring their EMS/ODM contracts so that the power inherent in managing the different critical supply chain processes is shared.
Suppliers face a critical choice: Take advantage of those of their OEM and EMS customers that are unversed in supply chain politics, or choose sides and help either the OEM or the EMS take the most profit out of the supply chain. If they help the winning side, then they will reap long-term rewards; if they help the losing side, they will be exiled. This is a dangerous game to play for those who don't know the rules.
Ultimately, the OEM, EMS provider and supplier can greatly improve supply chain performance and cost by managing the relationships to produce mutually beneficial and desired goals.
In many cases, the real-world relationships between OEMs and their EMS providers do not engender much trust from either side. But it is possible for EMS companies to change that equation by departing from tradition and offering informal incentives to OEMs to engage in more cooperative relationships.
Such incentives can take the form of additional free services whose value is just great enough to exceed any benefit an OEM can reap from maintaining a closed relationship with an EMS provider. Examples include testing, or removing some of the inventory burden from the OEM. By moving away from the traditional profit-split arrangement used in manufacturing outsourcing agreements, the OEM/EMS relationship can adopt a structure built on cooperation, trust and mutual benefit.
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Clean-Energy Aid Racks Up Losses
The U.S. government could lose $2.7 billion as a result of the loans and loan guarantees it offered to clean-energy companies, according to a White House-commissioned study carried out in the wake of Solyndra LLC's bankruptcy.
The Obama administration, which has defended its aid for clean energy in the wake of the solar-panel maker's demise, said the estimate was in line with its own projections.
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Thursday, October 21, 1999 Published at 13:18 GMT 14:18 UK
World: Africa
Sierra Leone rebels get cabinet posts
Despite the peace process, the scars of war are deep
Sierra Leone's rebels have been brought into the government of President Tejan Kabbah - but have been excluded from the senior ministerial positions they had been led to expect.
They include:
They were also given four deputy ministerial positions.
However, the rebels have failed to get one of three key ministries - finance, foreign affairs or justice, which the Lome peace deal signed in July had suggested they would be offered.
Sankoh 'reservations'
According to the text of the Lome agreement, which ended eight years of civil war, the rebels would be granted "one of the senior cabinet appointments such as finance, foreign affairs, and justice".
However, a presidential spokesman said trade and industry was a senior position and that the portfolios mentioned in the Lome accord were quoted only as "examples" of key posts.
The list of ministries is to be submitted to parliament for approval.
The leader of the RUF, Foday Sankoh, said he would respond to the announcement later but has already said he has "reservations" about the cabinet proposals.
He himself has been given powers equivalent to a vice-president and is due to head a commission overseeing the reconstruction of the mineral resources industry.
Disarmament starts
According to the presidential statement, the trade portfolio has been offered to the RUF's Mike Lamin.
Pallo Bangura - a former foreign minister in the AFRC junta - has been offered the energy post.
The RUF's Peter Vandy has been suggested for land and ABS Jomo-Jalloh, also of the RUF, would get tourism.
The cabinet announcement came a day after Sierra Leone officially launched a programme to disarm and demobilise rebel fighters.
On Wednesday, rebels and child soldiers handed in weapons at a symbolic ceremony in the capital, Freetown.
'Put down the guns'
A United Nations envoy, Francis Okelo, told those present at the Wilberforce barracks that the disarmament process, already several weeks behind schedule, could take two months.
Hundreds of civilians at the ceremony chanted: "We want peace - put down the guns!"
Mr Okelo said that the UN Security Council would on Friday approve the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone which would help disarmament and deliver aid.
He said the force - up to 6,000 strong - would monitor compliance with the peace agreement and deploy throughout the country.


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I love my bronies and all, but sometimes you want an actual person right here, right now to hold. Y'know? I've never had a girlfriend or anything (never really wanted one), but every once in a while I get really lonely and touchy-feely because of that feeling of emptiness. :/


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FALLBROOK – At the countywide awards meeting of the Fire Safe Council on June 7 at Sweetwater Summit Regional Park, the Fallbrook Fire Safe Council received recognition for its current "Helping People become more fire safe" project.
Fallbrook Fire Safe Council president Dorothy Roth explained how the project works with the support of the North County Fire Protection District, local youth groups, Marines, other volunteers, and local businesses.
Anyone interested in volunteering may contact the Fallbrook Fire Safe Council at (760) 728-1100 for more information.


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MCGREGOR, Texas, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. commercial space company SpaceX says it has successfully tested the next-generation rocket engine for its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
In a test firing at SpaceX's facility in McGregor, Texas, the Merlin 1D engine achieved a full mission duration firing and multiple restarts at target thrust, the company reported Tuesday.
The engine fired for 85 seconds with 147,000 pounds of thrust, the full duration and power required for a Falcon 9 rocket launch, SpaceX said.
"This is another important milestone in our efforts to push the boundaries of space technology," SpaceX head Elon Musk said . "With the Merlin 1D powering the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, SpaceX will be capable of carrying a full range of payloads to orbit."
With nine Merlins on the first stage, the Falcon 9 rocket will produce nearly 1.5 million pounds of thrust, the company said.
The Merlin 1D engines will first see their first use on Falcon 9 Flight 6, expected to launch in 2013, it said.


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"Monument for the Forgotten" chronicles unnamed thousands buried at mental institutions
The crusade to reclaim the dignity of thousands of forgotten people buried in numbered graves on the grounds of New York State's mental health hospitals has made great progress. Now, advocates are celebrating their success and asking for more.
The Museum of DisABILITY History in Amherst is hosting a new exhibit, "Monument for the Forgotten," chronicling the efforts to restore the neglected institutional cemeteries. The cemeteries are the final resting place for those who died after being turned over to the state for care, and their restoration has been undertaken with help from mental health organizations, local historians, municipal governments and dozens of volunteers.
As the grave markers are cleaned and reset, or replaced, and as new signs go up to designate the historic nature of the sites, the focus is turning toward filling in some of the blanks about the people buried there.
"Some family members have said the person was never discussed," said David Mack-Hardiman, associate vice president of People Inc., sponsor of the project. "Others said it was some time before they were notified that the person had died."
That meant the family member was buried before relatives even knew of the death. The use of numbers instead of names on the graves, Mack-Hardiman said, was done "out of consideration for the family's privacy. It was the ultimate depersonalization for these individuals."
The privacy concerns were a response to the huge stigma that society at the time attached to mental illness and developmental problems. Today, for those who are able to track down their relative's grave sites, it is difficult to comprehend.
"It's hard to see that their family member is just a number," Mack-Hardiman said.
The voices of those families are being heard.
Legislation has been introduced in Albany by Sen. Joseph E. Robach, of Rochester, and Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, of Long Island, to make it easier for people to access state mental health records of people who have been dead at least 50 years, so family members, preservationists and genealogists can learn who is buried in the numbered plots, and when and how they died.
"Families are seeking the information, but it is very difficult to find it in some cases," Mack-Hardiman said. "They want to know what happened to their relative, and you can't get a death certificate unless you know when the person died and where the person died."
The stated purpose of the bill is "to mark headstones or otherwise memorialize patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries," meaning the numbers will be able to have names attached.
Many are already discovered. As part of the museum exhibit, a scrolling video plays through hundreds of names of people known to be in the cemeteries. Still, it is only a start.
In Western New York, there are thousands of graves in cemeteries associated with Gowanda State Hospital, Buffalo State Hospital, the Niagara County Almshouse, the Craig Colony for Epileptics in Livingston County (which included names but no dates on its tombstones), the J.N. Adam Developmental Center in Perrysburg (originally built as a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients) and West Seneca Developmental Center.
In blunt prose, using the language of its times, the museum displays explain how, beginning in the late 1800s, large and often architecturally impressive residential facilities were constructed by the state for the safety, treatment and education of people determined to be incapable of caring for themselves. These were individuals who were designated, in the clinical terms of the time, as idiots, morons or lunatics, or whose physical disabilities were more than their families could or wanted to handle.
State hospitals also became homes for those with such illnesses as epilepsy or tuberculosis, and for "feeble-minded women," who were described as "inherently promiscuous women of child-bearing age and their crime prone offspring." The goals of the facilities were originally well thought out, said Doug Platt, the museum's curator.
"Initially they looked toward educating their patients and providing structure, but over time, partly due to overcrowding, they lapsed into a more custodial role," he said.
As a result, patients were forever sequestered, destined to remain anonymous and voiceless.
The populations of the institutions changed over the course of a century, as treatments developed for TB and other illnesses, and as care evolved so that more families could keep loved ones at home. Some facilities are now part of the state prison systems; other are closed entirely. But thanks to the work of the volunteers and People Inc., the cemeteries attached to them are getting a new chance at life.
"Monument for the Forgotten" will be on display at least through the end of the year at the Museum of DisAbility, 3826 Main St. The museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The exhibit has its grand opening at 11 a.m. Today. It will include a panel discussion on "Institutional Cemetery Restoration: Why We Restore."
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"We want the company to come into our county and provide the best level of service at the lowest cost. We're keeping it totally open to hear what our options are. If you insist on free you eliminate hearing all your options."
"Being near Silicon Valley has its advantages, and one of them is we're at ground zero for the companies doing wireless broadband. The advantage of going in as a team is that we become a much more attractive client because of the number of people we will be offering."
"Wireless Silicon Valley has the potential to revolutionize the way that City and County services are provided. Police officers, firefighters, building inspectors, public works engineers and other government field personnel won't have to go back to the office to get work orders, look up records, or submit reports. Maps, images, and even video will be available where ever they are in the Silicon Valley."
"Having a structured process like this will give us a better way to evaluate those proposals and decide which one is best for our community."


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PHOENIX — Starlin Castro's right hamstring strain may provide an opportunity at shortstop for one of his teammates. It will be former Gold Glove second baseman Darwin Barney, not hot prospect Javier Baez.
After announcing that Castro, a two-time All-Star, will miss seven to 10 days because of his injury suffered Sunday, Cubs manager Rick Renteria said Barney will receive some playing time at shortstop, along with versatile Emilio Bonifacio.


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Raut LLC is the stable name for trainer Gennadi Dorochenko. Dorochenko was born March 14, 1959 in Krasnodar, Russia. He began his career as a jockey in his native Russia in 1976 and for a time was employed by trainer Nikolai Nasibov, a leading horsemen there. He also rode for a time in Poland in 1989-90. He came to the United States to ride in 1993 and knew very little English at the time. He only won 13 races over seven years of riding in the U.S. He started purchasing yearlings at Keeneland in 2008 and has purchased more than 300 horses there since then. Some are shipped to Russia to be trained while others he trains here in the States. Before coming to Arlington for the 2011 meet, he had been training at Mountaineer Park in West Virginia. He won the Grade II Louisiana Derby in 2012 with Hero of Order. He won the Hatoof Stakes with Santina Dond on Million Day 2011.


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HILLSBOROUGH � Orange shut out visiting Graham by 35-0 in a non-conference football game Friday night.
Orange (4-0) was paced by 119 rushing yards and a touchdown on 12 carries by Drew LeMasters. Tay Jones added 92 rushing yards and 32 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Michael Bolden scored for Orange on the game�s first possession. Jones added a 5-yard rushing touchdown and a 15-yard receiving touchdown from Garrett Cloer in the second quarter.
LeMasters and Jones added rushing touchdowns in the third quarter to complete the scoring.
Graham (0-4) completed two passes and was held to 128 yards of offense. The first-team Orange defense has not allowed a touchdown this season.
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The Week in Photos 2/14/2017
Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, Arcadia, Sam F. Davis, Tampa Bay, Gulfstream Park Handicap, Lambholm South Endeavor, San Vicente, Santa Maria, Suwannee River, and more.
Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, Arcadia, Sam F. Davis, Tampa Bay, Gulfstream Park Handicap, Lambholm South Endeavor, San Vicente, Santa Maria, Suwannee River, and more.
TimeformUS Weekend Stakes Plays for Santa Anita, Tampa Bay, and Oaklawn Park.
Where the 4-year-old son of Malibu Moon and grade II winner will stand has not been set.
Mackey began his racing career at entry-level positions and climbed the management ladder to become Thistledown general manager in 1976 at 36.
Tampa Bay Downs and TVG will recognize TVG Tampa Bay area account holders by staging the inaugural "TVG Fan Appreciation Day at Tampa Bay Downs" April 9
Barbara Hunter's Keertana, unbeaten in both starts this season, will be among the favorites in a competitive field of nine drawn for the $150,000 Hillsborough Stakes (gr. IIIT) March 12 at Tampa Bay Downs.
Florida's three Thoroughbred tracks have made their preliminary filings for 2010-2011 race dates, and all have announced plans to run schedules almost identical to their current or recent meets.
A Florida jockey and two others have been indicted for what federal authorities say was a conspiracy to influence results at a Tampa Bay Downs.
Alan Brodsky's Don't Forget Gil turned the tables on her two main rivals by drawing off to a convincing victory in the March 14 Florida Oaks (gr. III) at Tampa Bay Downs.
Ballymore Lady made a late burst in the final yards and got the jump over three rivals at the shadow of the wire to take a thrilling edition of the $125,000 Endeavour Stakes (gr. IIIT) Feb. 14 on the Tampa Bay Downs turf.
Trainer Jamie Ness and jockey Daniel Centeno set records for most victories in winning their respective titles at Tampa Bay Downs, which concluded its 82-day meet May 4.
On paper, Z Humor tops the field in the Sam F. Davis Stakes, and his running style and jockey Garrett Gomez should get him into position to win. The question will be whether he can relax in the opening stages of the race.
2006 Eclipse Award Champion Dreaming of Anna will make her 4-year-old debut Feb. 16, when a field of 11 older fillies and mares takes to the turf in the $150,000 Endeavour Breeders' Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Tampa Bay Downs.
Jockey Terry Houghton, banned from Tampa Bay Downs last December, will not be permitted to ride at Arlington Park this summer even though he was allowed to ride at Hawthorne Race Course when the 2007 spring meet began there in February - but Rene Douglas, also banned from two Florida tracks in December, has received clearance to ride.
Tampa Bay Downs ruled off seven jockeys effective Dec. 19 because of what management called an "ongoing investigation" being conducted by the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau.
Tampa Bay Downs will reduce take-out of several wagering categories starting on its opening day card Saturday, Peter Berube, the track's vice president and general manager announced.
Allison De Luca has been named director of racing and racing secretary for the 2006-2007 Thoroughbred meet at Tampa Bay Downs, general manager Peter Berube announced Aug. 25.
Growth in on-track wagering, total handle and purse payouts, along with a record-high attendance mark, highlighted the 2005-2006 season at Tampa Bay Downs, the track's 80th year of live Thoroughbred racing.
Tampa Bay Downs canceled live racing on Feb 3 due to heavy rain and lightning.
Although there has been no official announcement from parent company Churchill Downs Inc., it is highly unlikely that the 2005 meet at Fair Grounds will be held at the New Orleans track as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
Test results confirmed late Friday afternoon that three horses have tested positive for strangles at Tampa Bay Downs. The affected barn has been placed under quarantine and the infected horses have been isolated to a separate area.
Tampa Bay Downs announced a purse increase to $75,000 for the May 7 Chris Thomas Turf Classic and the addition of a new stakes, the $75,000 Lightning City Stakes to the day's card.
Jill Jellison booted home Bobby Raymond's Halo Skywalker in the third race at Tampa Bay Downs March 4 to win her 1,770th career race and become the third all-time leading female jockey.
Saturday's "Festival Preview Day" at Tampa Bay Downs was a smash with bettors nationwide evidenced by a record all-source handle of $5,359,437 at the 79-year-old oval.
An increase in handle on its live product had led Tampa Bay Downs to raise purses 7% effective Feb. 15. The daily average--overnight races and stakes--will be $140,000, a record for the track located in Oldsmar, Fla.
Trainer Sam Cronk made three trips to the Tampa Bay Downs winners' on Thursday giving them a big boost in their respective standings at the Oldsmar oval.
Tampa Bay Downs, the only Thoroughbred racetrack on Florida's Gulf Coast, continued to make forward strides during its 2003-04 meet with substantial gains in attendance and handle.
Tampa Bay Downs officials announced that effective April 3, purses will be increased by 5%.
Several strong invaders currently based on Florida's Atlantic Coast will travel to the state's Gulf Coast to face the local contingent March 14 in what should prove a contentious 24th edition of the $250,000 Tampa Bay Derby (gr. III) at Tampa Bay Downs.
Tampa Bay Downs continues to make sizable gains in terms of its live signal and on-track attendance, but on-track simulcast revenues are down because of a conflict involving Magna Entertainment Corp. and the New York Racing Association.
Tampa Bay Downs racing is growing in popularity as evidenced by a 22% increase in total handle during the 93-day that ended May 4. Total handle of $237,158,919 was up about $44 million from the 2001-2002 season.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Gulfstream Park alleges Tampa Bay Downs is acting in violation of Gulfstream's exclusive contracts in the redistribution of simulcast signals to outlets in Florida.
Due to a 23% increase in handle to date, Tampa Bay Downs will boost purses 5% effective Feb. 20, Peter Berube, the track's vice president and general manager announced. The purse hike comes on the heels of a previous 6% raise the Oldsmar, Fla., oval that went into effect Jan. 30.
Buoyed by a 22% gain in off-sitse wagering on its signal, Tampa Bay Downs will raise overnight purses by 6% effective Jan. 30, track general manager Peter Berube said.
A new starter handicap series on the turf at Tampa Bay Downs lured a staggering 153 nominees for two divisions, one for colts and geldings, the other for fillies and mares.
Tampa Bay Downs and the local Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association appear on course to open the 2002-03 racing season without the conflict that has plagued the Florida track in recent years.
In a statement released March 20 in response to an ongoing situation involving Tampa Bay Downs, National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association president John Roark said the relationship between horsemen and racetrack management must be based on "fairness, mutual respect, and a desire to work toward common goals."
In a deal that has put some horsemen's associations on edge, the Kentucky Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association has agreed to reinstate signals from Kentucky racetracks to Tampa Bay Downs in exchange for dismissing its complaint for declaratory judgment against the Florida track.
Representatives from the Tampa Bay Downs Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association met with Tampa Bay president Peter Berube Dec. 4 in an effort to resolve a dispute over stalls that threatens the track's ability to receive out-of-state signals when the live meet begins Dec. 15.
Though horsemen's groups in various states did not vote to pull their signals from all wagering outlets in Florida in response to a stall-application denial by Tampa Bay Downs, their forces are being marshaled.
After months of negotiations, Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs will begin swapping signals on Feb. 17 as the result of a simulcasting agreement executed Friday. "The final hurdle was just the clarification of some language concerning the Florida statutes," said Gulfstream's president Scott Savin, who added that the bulk of the negotiations were handled through the California- based Simulcasting Department of Magna Entertainment Corporation, Gulfstream's parent track.
Tampa Bay Downs may be headed for another contract dispute with the local Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association for the second consecutive year.
Churchill Downs' president Alex Waldrop will oversee all company operations in Kentucky. Former Ellis Park president Jeffery Smith will take over the transition of Arlington International Racecourse into the Churchill family, but remains head of Hoosier Park.


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Need some advice regarding the Dynam T-28! Please Help!
Hello fellow fliers... I just want to thank you guys for being such a help here on these forums. The advice and information you guys put out is 2nd to none! Here is my situation... I am going to be making the Dynam t-28 my second plane. I don't have a rx or a tx, and was planning on buying the RTF version. I don't have a ton of money to invest into the hobby at the moment but am a bit weary of the stock electronics that come with the model. In the next few months i plan on buying a dx6i. To use the dynam with this i would need a spektrum reciever right? Any recommendations on what one? What about the esc? Does the transmitter just communicate with the reciever which then talks to the esc? I have a lot to learn about the hobby, and i plan on doing it with this plane. It is taking on a lot but i can't afford to progress through 3-4 planes. Is there something out there more reasonably priced than the dx6i that is comparable? Maybe a Tactic radio? I also here people saying that the stock servo's are sometimes junk. If thats the case how hard is it to redo the servo's in a plane like this? I basically want to invest 3-350.00 initially instead of spending much more over time to properly progress. I have good orientation skills and remain very calm while flying. I know how to use small inputs etc.... so i don't think im just gonna crash the hell out of this thing. Also is there a tx/flightsim combo where i can actually use the Tx for real flying? Thank you so much for any help in advance!!!
The Spektrum DX6i is a very popular transmitter. And yes you would need a spektrum Rx. There are several and I think you would need to be sure it is DSMX compatible.
There are cheaper radio systems. I cannot comment on their value. But I prefer to purchase systems on reputation and availability of service.
ESC's are not brand dependent. You can use any brand with the Spektrum system. The ESC connects to the primary battery, the motor, and the Rx.
When the battery is connected to the ESC, the ESC performs three functions. The BEC (Battery Eliminator Circuit) reduces the primary battery voltage to 5 volts (or 6 volts on some systems) and supplies that voltage to the RX via the throttle channel. The LVC (Low Voltage Cutoff) senses the the voltage of the primary battery and when it reaches a preset value (some ESC's have a programmable value) of 3.0 volts per cell (for LiPo's) it reduces or shuts off the power to the motor. This insures that there is power remaining in the primary battery to power the Rx and servos. The signal wire in the ESC to throttle channel provides the signal to control motor speed.
Servos are not generally brand specific with respect to radio systems. Ease of replacing a servo is aircraft dependent. Some are very easy and others require major surgery. I expect the Dynam T-28 is among the previous.
There are several sims available which will allow you use you transmitter. I believe Nitroplanes has a couple of inexpensive sims.
There are some free ones online too. GOOGLE for something.
You haven't mentioned a battery charger. If you don't have one look for one that provides at least:
Pack voltage, individual cell voltage, charging current, and milliamps returned to the pack while charging. Progressive has a good assortment of chargers.
I know you have a limited budget but when it comes to chargers I recommend you get the biggest charger you can possible afford. You need one that will grow with you.
If you are already planning to replace all the electronics in the plane, why get the RTF? Just get the kit.
I've bought 4 planes from Nitroplanes and all of them came with electronics that work just fine. None of the ESCs have caught on fire. None of the servos have stripped out mid-flight. I bought a Dynam motor and several Dynam ESCs to use in other non-Dynam planes I've built. I also have some ExceedRC Rocket motors that I like a lot.
I get the ARFs and use my own transmitter and receivers. The RTF transmitter you get with any RTF is going to be minimalistic. Of all the electronics in the Dynam/Exceed/Airfield planes, the bundled transmitter is the one to replace.
You don't have to use Spektrum receivers with a Spektrum or JR transmitter. You can also use cheaper "DSM compatible" receivers from places like Target Hobby, oomodel, and Hobby King. These receivers are DSM2, not DSMX. That is ok because the current line of Spektrum/JR TXs use either method to communicate with the receiver. I have a DX6i and use it with my sims too.
Also check out the classified ads, with folks jumping to 7/8/9 channel Spektrum transmitters you can pick up the DX6i cheap.
Like said the Hobby King receivers for Spektrum have done me well with my 6i on my park flyers.
And yeah stuff does break, but it's all part of the learning curve of flying. Learning to replace/repair is just one of em.
Biggest tip, ask first if you don't know. We've all been there. And you'll find places like here have a ton of folks who are more then willing to help you.
Most of us are of the same vein, there is no such thing as a "stupid" question.
Stupid is doing something without the knowledge and then asking why.
Good luck to you!!!
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JOHN GUIDETTI last night insisted he can't wait to get started at Celtic after FIFA cleared his move to Parkhead .
The Swedish striker completed his year loan switch after an appeal to world football chiefs was successful.
Guidetti was lined up from Manchester City on transfer deadline day but failure to get paperwork finalised in time left the deal in limbo.
The SFA helped take up Celtic's case with FIFA in a bid to clear the 22-year-old's move to Glasgow and the striker was given confirmation as he prepared at the national team hotel for tonight's Under-21 clash against Greece.
Guidetti was thrilled at the news and can't wait to make his bow.
He said: "I'm delighted to have finally signed and I cannot wait to get out there and start playing in front of those fans."
The Etihad loanee becomes the sixth signing of Ronny Deila's regime and adds more firepower after the £2.4million signing of Stefan Scepovic from Sporting Gijon .
The Norwegian boss had previously secured loan deals for Jo-Inge Berget, Jason Denayer and Aleksandr Tonev, while keeper Craig Gordon arrived on a free transfer.
Guidetti's paperwork issues means he will not be available play in the group stages of the Europa League but he could make his debut in next Saturday's clash against Aberdeen at Parkhead.
Do you think John Guidetti will be a success at Celtic?
Guidetti scored 20 goals in 23 games for Feyenoord on a loan spell in 2011-12 and made his international debut in 2012.
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Developers see the city as a premier location for residential subdivisions and neighborhood retail. But many residents don�t want to lose the pastoral charm provided by the lake and the rural surroundings.
Lake Geneva must grow, however, City Administrator Dennis Jordan said.
�You can�t stay stagnant,� he said. �But you don�t want to open the floodgates.�
Jordan said well-managed development is the key to controlling that growth.
�We�re looking at it as it comes in,� he said.
That�s what made the January 2005 annexation of more than 700 acres from Linn Township so attractive: It�s a large section of land in an area already identified by the city for future growth that it can plan all at once.
�Most communities would die for that development,� Jordan said.
The Hummel Group and Mirbeau of Geneva Lake have teamed up for a proposal that includes a spa, boutique inn, winery and 882 homes.
The proposal has divided the city. Some say it�s too much, too fast. Some say it�s detrimental to the area�s environment.
But city officials say the other options�setting aside the land as a nature preserve or parceling out the land for smaller developments�are impractical.
�I�d be very surprised if we ever got a package substantially better,� said the city�s consulting planner, Michael Slavney of Vandewalle & Associates.
The city has a record of being �very selective� when it comes to new development, he said, being careful to balance economic opportunities with maintaining the city�s character and protecting the environment.
The city�s master plan, adopted in the early 1990s, identified the southern parts of the city�including the Hummel property�as the most cost-effective for growth and development. That area is most efficiently served by urban services, the plan states.
The city rewrote its zoning ordinances in 1997 to better preserve and protect the area�s environmental features.
�There�s more at risk here with the lake, the watershed,� Slavney said.
Concurrent with the Hummel property�s annexation, the city adopted in June 2004 its South Neighborhood Plan because �development was looking like more of a sure thing,� Slavney said.
That plan lays out guidelines for how the southern part of the city should be developed. It recommends standard city density, which is about five dwelling units per acre, for tighter development, more open space and better preservation of environmental resources.
The original Mirbeau-Hummel proposal came in at half the recommended density, and the current proposal is about a fifth of that.
Slavney said that�s disappointing from a sprawl standpoint because the city will have to look to other areas sooner as it grows. But from an environmental standpoint, the proposal is �extremely favorable,� he said.
The Mirbeau-Hummel proposal includes about 375 acres�more than 50 percent of the land�of open space; preservation and restoration of existing environmental features; and improved storm water management and water quality.
The proposal includes features the city didn�t anticipate when it created a plan for the southern part of the city. A spa and boutique inn known as the Mirbeau Retreat and a winery not only add economic opportunity to the development, but also will make it stand out, Slavney said.
�It�s things like that that will help make that neighborhood distinct,� he said.
The Lake Geneva Plan Commission on Nov. 27 approved, 4-3, the rezone request and general development plan for the Mirbeau-Hummel development. The proposal goes to the city council Monday.
-- The Mirbeau Retreat, with 100 rooms and 12 villas, a spa, banquet and conference facilities and 57 single-family cottages, which would be sold to private owners.
-- A winery on 25 acres, with vineyard, wine production facilities, a restaurant and related retail.
-- Residential development of 882 homes, which would be a mix of single-family homes, row houses, townhouses and duplexes.
-- Permanent conservation of 375 acres.
-- Hiking and biking paths.
-- The rezoning request and general development plan go to the Lake Geneva City Council for consideration Monday.
-- If the city council gives the Mirbeau-Hummel project the go-ahead, the developer will need to draft a precise implementation plan for each phase of the development. The plan commission and city council will need to approve each plan.
-- Construction on the first phase of the development, which includes the Mirbeau Retreat and the winery, could begin as early as summer 2008.
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Johnson County Feed the Need kicks off this week
Johnson County's 2011 Feed the Need campaign — which benefits county food pantries including the De Soto Multi-Service Center — kicks off Wednesday, June 8, with an outdoor celebration.
The "Fun in the Sun" food collecting event is planned for 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the square outside the Johnson County Courthouse, 100 S. Kansas Ave., Olathe. The kickoff event features food, games, craft sales, drawings for prizes, donation opportunities and live entertainment. As in years past, platform-sitters at the dunk tank will include county leaders and department heads.
The 2011 campaign goal has been set at 187 tons of food, matching last year's record, in either cash or food donations. Each donated dollar is roughly equivalent to four pounds of food.
"Feed the Need is an important fund-raising campaign by Johnson County Government and serves an important role to the Johnson County community," John Bartolac, county records and tax administration department director and co-chairman of the 2011 campaign, said in a news release. "There is a critical need to keep up with increasing requests for food assistance at our local food pantries by citizens and families in need. Unfortunately, it's a need that's not going away."
Co-chairman Nick Crossley, director of Johnson County Emergency Management and Homeland Security, said the county's effort traditionally provides about a third of the annual food distributed by the food pantries.
Johnson County's Feed the Need started in 1987 with one county department and the collection of less than one ton of food. County government has collected more than three million pounds of donations for local pantries since the program began.
Feed the Need is a regional effort coordinated by the Mid-America Regional Council, the Mid-America Assistance Coalition and Harvesters International.
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- QuickStart Tennis | Ages 5 - 10
Tuesday and Thursday 4:00 - 5:00 pm - $70 monthly (plus registration fee)
One day a week option - $45 monthly (plus registration fee)
The programs listed below, advance to regulation balls, courts and nets
Children are divided by age and ability.
- Beginner / Intermediate Group | Ages 8 - 16
Tuesday and Thursday 5:00 - 6:00 pm - $70 monthly (plus registration fee)
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Prepares players for higher-level tournament competition.
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Pupils are being allowed to swear at one Northamptonshire secondary school - as long as they limit their use of bad language to five times a lesson. . .I wonder if this guy went to school in Northamptonshire?
"Within each lesson the teacher will initially tolerate (although not condone) the use of the f-word (or derivatives) five times and these will be tallied on the board so all students can see the running score," he wrote in the letter.
"Over this number the class will be spoken to by the teacher at the end of the lesson."
The school, which has 1,130 pupils, also plans to send "praise postcards" to the parents of children who do not swear in class.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Are you f*cking kidding me?
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OXFORD in Bloom is back – with a big twist.
For the past 30 years Oxford City Council has invited householders and businesses to enter their gleaming gardens or heavenly hanging baskets for gold, silver or bronze medals.
This year the authority has thrown that competition on the compost heap.
Instead, it is offering cash for groups of residents to revamp entire tired neighbourhoods of the city.
The council is offering groups up to £1,000 each (out of a £4,000 pot) to turn an ugly bit of wasteland or a sad-looking street into an explosion of summer colour.
But in return for the cash the council is asking all groups to enter the Royal Horticultural Society's local Thames and Chiltern in Bloom contest.
The only downside is that groups have just one day left to apply for council funding – the deadline is midnight tomorrow.
Oxford in Bloom co-ordinator Michelle Legg said: "This is a complete change to how we have run it for the past 30 years.
"Previously it's been a traditional 'in bloom' competition - each spring we would set up categories for people to enter front gardens, hanging baskets and schools.
"This year we really looked at how effective the competition was for Oxford: we now want to have a broader reach, going out into communities and reaching people who might not have been involved before.
"I would love to see schools link up with businesses and residents to make inclusive community groups which can run activities and events – there really are no boundaries."
Groups can submit an application to the council detailing what they would like to do in their neighbourhood and how they would spend the money.
Funding is available for seeds, plants, tools and anything else that might help create a green haven in a grey area.
Each group will then be asked to submit their work to the RHS Thames and Chiltern In Bloom competition in the 'it's your neighbourhood' category by the end of March.
Judges will then visit in June or July and announce their winners in September.
Ms Legg added: "What we really want to tap into is people's creativity: do you want to plant a fruit tree or create a wildlife meadow or fill your park with edible flowers?"
She also admitted that part of the reason for ditching the council-run competition was dwindling popularity.
She said: "It's about bringing the competition into the 21st century and meeting our values as a council of how we support people, rather than just working with the same 60 or 50 people delivering the same thing year in, year out."
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It's just a dark brown eyeshadow in a Lancome make-up pallet, blended with a short, round tipped brush. It's actually better than the brow shadow I bought!
Ah, so much better than pencil! Thanks :)
there is such a thing as brow shadow??? mind = blown
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Bluh. I look like a genderbend Yuna...........
Obviously not the wig I'll be using (this is my old Date wig hacked at the front with kitchen scissors and tied up), but I just wanted to get a feel for whether I suited him or not...
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Welcome to Verizon! As far as I know, you can't merge received calls, only a three way call that you initiate. You also can't swap calls when you dial out to two different callers, you can only merge them. If you want to disconnect one caller from a three way call, hut the menu button while on your call screen and you should be given the option to disconnect one of the calls.
Verizon 3 way calling does not work like a normal conference call feature. It is very limited.
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On 16 September, the Council on Veterans Employment met at the Department of Labor to discuss the hiring performance goals which will guide agency Fiscal year 2011 efforts in support of the Veterans Employment Initiative created by EO 13518. Positive progress in veterans hiring for the first two quarters of Fiscal year 2010 was highlighted during this third gathering of the full Council.
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