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WV Disc Golf Doubles Championship
Saturday, October 25, 2014 at Black Course in Moundsville, West Virginia
B-tier · PDGA sanctioned doubles tournament
B-tier · PDGA sanctioned doubles tournament
Tournament DirectorPaul Ashmore
About this tournament
We're very excited to host the second Annual West Virginia Disc Golf Doubles Championship and we're even more thrilled at the opportunity to help others! Last year, we were able to purchase ten wheelchairs and change the lives of individuals we will probably never meet. Join us this year on October 25th as we play disc golf and transform the lives of others. Our goal this year is to raise enough money to purchase twenty wheelchairs. Whether you're a player, volunteer, or spectator we invite you to join us for what will be a fantastic day of fun.
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Moundsville, WV Get Directions
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My TV says that Dodgers/Cubs is on both WGN and ESPN tonight. Is that for real? Why would they do that? Any chance WGN will switch to the Sox instead?
Get well, Billfer.
PREGAME Kenny Rogers returns to the rotation tonight. Let's hope he's got something left.
For the White Sox it will be Gavin Floyd who made the start of his career in his last match up against the Tigers throwing 6 shut out innings and fanning 6 while walking none.
It's another intimidating lineup tonight as Magglio Ordonez gets the night off. There's a reality to the fact his heel is killing him and I don't begrudge him the night off, it's just the rest that is depressing.
I'm fighting a cold and am heading to bed early so the postgame won't be up until tomorrow.
Game Time 7:05
CHW @ DET, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Game Preview – Baseball-Reference.com
POSTGAME: As a member of the "Timo Perez, what the hell?" club I need to pause and reflect on his awesomeness. While I still don't think he should be playing, and I don't think he should be on the team next year, the guy has produced for the last week or so with the club. And he did it some more last night, with a catch at the wall,and that whole walk-off hit thing. And on a night when nobody could deliver the big hit, Timo did it. So go Timo.
As for the rest of the game, it had a lot going for it. It had some real nice defensive plays like the aforementioned Perez play at the wall, Casey laying out a first, and Polanco saving a single up the middle. It had the return of Kenny Rogers who was stellar, and it had very strong bullpen performances as they maintained the tie for 6 innings. Zumaya was awesome and Fernando Rodney didn't let his last outing carry over. The Tigers even showed some patience and drew 8 walks, and forced the issue with 5 stolen bases.
Still, all that was kind of overshadowed by their inability to score off of Gavin Floyd, a guy that is awful and yet has allowed 1 run in his last 12 innings against the Tigers.
Nonetheless the Tigers did prevail, and it was largely on contributions from the more maligned Tigers. Pudge looked like the Pudge of old flipping doubles (including his 500th career) into the right field corner. Brandon Inge scored the winning run after doubling as a pinch hitter, and of course Timo!
My TV says that Dodgers/Cubs is on both WGN and ESPN tonight. Is that for real? Why would they do that? Any chance WGN will switch to the Sox instead?
Get well, Billfer.
Ben, WGN is doing the Cubs game and I didn't check ESPN so if it is the Cubs game, too, be prepared to strike up the mlb tv or follow along with the comments and gameday.
Since we've fallen out of the race essentially, I've actually found joy in watching baseball again. Since this 2 month slump hit I've been lamenting every twist and turn of every game. Now it's just a baseball game since there's nothing at stake. It's a good feeling to have back again, though I would prefer they be in the playoff hunt, obviously.
inge sits, raburn plays. Not bad.
perez infront of pudge is interesting too.
I'm sure Gavin Floyd is shaking in his spikes right now. He'll be jelly by game time.
the tribe wins again. can you believe we are 7.5 games out? we need a miracle. btw, i don't mind the line up tonight…tomorrow we put maglio and sheff in and it really should help…thinking positive here. we can outplay the yankees and mariners…fingers crossed.
Mike, I share your attitude. Gotta enjoy these games while we can.
Okay, I just got back from vacation over the weekend and I took some time away from my beloved Tigers. What did I miss since last Wednesday?
Hmm, lets see the standings. . .
Crap, 7 games back from the Indians. A good guess tells me the Tigers did not fair too well on their road trip.
I would like to see the Tigers end the season strong and stringing some wins together – playoffs or not if the Tigers are truly back they won't go down without a fight.
Lets see some guts here fellas!
Absolute murder's row tonight.
Grandy off to a good start, popping out with a 3-1 count. Jeez, how many times have we seen the last couple weeks, squandering a good hitter's count?
Also, any doubt at all that the Sox rookie catcher gets a least a double tonight?
Same as Andrew here, I was away in Atlanta for a week, and things looked even worse when I got back then when I left. Sadly, there was an obnoxious Indians fan at the same convention I was at, and he kept taking waaay too much delight in insulting my Tigers every time he saw me. Jerk.
It's amazing to me how many players hit their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th home run of the season against us. Cintron last night, and not it's Richar or whatever his name is.
um who?!
Regardless, if you take away that home run, this is the nastiest I've seen Kenny since the playoffs. 5 K's in 3 innings and all his pitches have serious movement. If only our pidge-podge lineup could support him.
Granderson needs to get another steal here. I really want to see him get the 20, 20, 20, and 20.
Granderson only needs two more steals and 1 more HR to reach the 20-20-20-20 mark.
I love Lucy
Ok, 2 steals will work.
It would be cool if he could reach that rare milestone in the same game.
Raburn fanned on ball four there – must be taking batting tips from Pudge.
No one should take batting tips from Pudge! Hm, that explains crInge and Casey, perhaps…
Guillen too.
Why is Thames and his HR per 15 ABs batting 8th??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Hoping Grandy reaches the 4:20 mark is about all we've got left at this point.
Looks like we're turning another palooka into Cy Young again tonight.
This would be a sweet double steal.
Yeah, its ridiculous how our boys made so-so pitchers look soooo, soooo good. 😛
Yeah Mike, i was just gonna say that.
I'm starting to come around on Jose Uribe. Rather than hate him, I think I'm gonna start cheering for him. He's so ridiculous that he's likable. This starts on Friday.
(Props to Inge's sister with the catch there)
Holy cow that sequence with Mario and Rod when that hot girl in the Inge jersey caught the ball was priceless.
Rod: An Inge fan just caught that ball!……That looks sweet.
Mario: That drink did too….
Mario: Lets take a look at Kenny's pitch count…..
Mario: Sixty Nine!!!!
That pitch to Guillen was ball 4, horrible call.
That was a really good catch by Timo, have to give him props there.
This must be kind of like what games in the dead ball era were like – lots of singles, lots of stolen bases, and not many runs.
Kenny was terrific. Looks like we'll be seeing him around next year. I hope this is the only inning Byrdak pitches.
Vince – this is just Tigers baseball. The performance from Kenny was a bonus, however.
Great to see Kenny pitch so well tonight. Need some pick-me-ups on offense again tonight.
Would it be wrong to think that Thames is really, really, really pressing at the plate right now?
So glad we're making Gavin Floyd (of the 6+ ERA) look like an All-Star.
It's bad enough we have our AAA lineup out there, but that doesn't mean they have to swing at terrible pitches. WE already have Pudge for that.
Yeah I know. One game they frustrate you with a complete team meltdown and the next they try to make up for it by puting you to sleep. Good performance by Kenny, but that WSox lineup isn't exactly Murderer's Row either. After all, they only managed 3 runs off of Bombedagain yesterday.
I think all that talk about them not having any heart really got to them and now they are all pressing.
Sadly, there was an obnoxious Indians fan at the same convention I was at, and he kept taking waaay too much delight in insulting my Tigers every time he saw me
Just ask him if he plays the lottery then ask if his number is "1948".
Clutch hitting…what exactly is that? I forgot.
My God, can this team ever catch fire!
So far the game looks pretty even with Granderson and Guillen, and Polly, our big guns vs the Sox Thome and Konerko. The others are rooks or just weak hitters. 1-1 tie game in the 8th isnt the end of the world all POWERthings considered along with an absent Maggs. Though Zoom Zoom looks outstanding I believe he's back to 2006 form or better with that great looking breaking ball. Well I just hope that we can win this one as the Yanks are pulling ahead of the Mariners 4-2 in the 7th.
BTW, not impressed with Hessman but he did get the job done to tie this baby up.
What the hell has gotten into Pudge tonight?
Can someone please single in a run…
Up to Thames, man come on do some of that awesome clutch stuff Marcus!!!!
And intentionally walking Casey i think guillen is on something that may be the final undoing tonite if Thames gets the hot hitting out of nowhere Pudge singled in to make it a 2-1 game.
The return of Gum Time? Could that be the spark that saves the season?
We need one here
Oh, the drama!!
Magglio has good eye
What an AB. MacDougal pitched him well.
bunt! bunt!
Oh Grandy..
To answer your question, I think they crashed and burned a long time ago.
C'mon Curtis…
Ugh – they really don't have anything left in the tank, do they?
No breaks once again, and now thats 12 stranded runners this is turning into another KC game not good at all,. You have to score those runs. And yanks have broke it open 9-2, this is a MUST WIN!!! get those bats going guys for a nice walk off win.
Again, Grandy giving away an at bat. It's 2-0….take a friggin' pitch.
And tomorrow we'll probably get tons of runs and lousy pitching.
So, can someone explain why there wasn't a take sign on in that situation? Who lets Granderson swing 2-0 with 2 out and the bases loaded in a tied game at home in the 8th inning?
I guess Granderson didn't get a fastball. He cannot bat in that situation.
Wow. When the announcer says "Granderson should take one here…" you just assume that the player already knows this sort of elementary baseball strategy.
But apparently not.
batting one fortysomething and you don't take a strike. yikes.
I bet that will be something Granderson addresses next season, but I wish he would do it now. He could walk a lot more if he didn't swing at breaking balls down and away.
Sorry, he was batting .167 against lefties. Now one fiftysomething. My bad.
Here we go again.
I bet that will be something Granderson addresses next season, but I wish he would do it now. He could walk a lot more if he didn't swing at breaking balls down and away.
That needs to be addressed right now. I don't have any problem with him swinging at a breaking ball. I have a HUGE problem with him swinging at that pitch when the count was 2-0.
You can't win games when guys are playing stupid. Bases loaded? He should have been looking for the walk. Instead he tried to hit a home run. That's bush league.
gosh, i've almost convinced myself if they somehow win this game and sheff comes back and rogers is healthy, we might catch lightning in a bottle. but god, can we squeeze across one run?
I wonder what Al Kaline thinks of this team?
Is Al in good enough shape to suit up?
Jim Leland said it best about Grandy ….."he tries to please too many people."
As we sit here biting our nails, he's probably on his laptop writing his blog to his "friends" on my space.
I didn't even notice that Carlos struck out every time up. It's just another one of those weird anomalies that has been plaguing us. Why can we never have both cylinders firing at the same time? For the love of Skeeter Barnes! Great pitching tonight, and the only reason we haven't already lost is thanks to Hessman?
Perfect situation for the Jonsey haters. We can blame it on him if we lose.
any shot of pulling this one out…even at home?
You never know, but we certainly haven't done real well in these situations this season.
Looks like this is the beginning of the end.
Better get Grilli warming up.
of this game, Stephen, of this game.
Jones da man
please, just one meager little run..baseball gods, i beg you!
Glad cib took the night off. She'd be goin nuts over this game, but I bet wherever she is with her friends, she's managed to check on the score.
Marcus needs a hit.
nice abat thames! c;mon maggs!
This is just depressing.
Good lord. Thames just works a walk and Maggs swings at the first pitch. Is is 2002 all over again now? Leyland WAKE UP.
Seriously… I understand that baseball is a difficult sport.
And if Maggs grounds out later in the count… I can accept that.
But on the first pitch? Come ON… that's just another mental error.
Ooh – Maybin in left field, this should get exciting!
Maybe I am overly disgusted with the sorry excuse for baseball this year, but I think this team needs a makeover over the winter. There is a lot of dead weight that is going to have to go. Unfortunately the minors are not exactly teeming with help as far as position players go for next year, so it will have to be done the trade route or FA. Who do we keep as the core?
Position players:
2B Polanco
3B Raburn
SS Guillen (?)
RF Ordonez
CF Granderson
DH Sheffield
If Guillen moves to 1B, then a shortstop must be found, and there isn't much to be had via FA. Or if Guillen can play SS one more year, can we push Jeff Larish into 1st? – that might be askinng too much. Give Shelton another shot? – looks like he is in the doghouse.
C – This is tough, there's not much out there, but we have to say bye-bye to I-Rod. Wilson is iffy – what to do?
LF – Maybe some kind of platoon system would work, but LF has been a liability all year.
It sucked this year, with the exception of Raburn coming up and since I propose making him the regular 3B, we need three new guys plus a backup catcher (Rabelo?).
Maybin starts in Erie where he belongs.
Keep either Robertson or Bonderman as #4, and either Miner or Durbin as #5. Get new #2-3. Jurrgens and Miller start at Toledo.
Byrdak (?)
Seay (?)
A new closer and a couple of long men.
Anybody not on the above list is dispensable.
Leyland can stick around with his feel-good chatter, which the media finds so entertaining, but DD needs to find someone for the dugout who can intelligently fill out a lineup card.
Andy Gonzalez 0-for-4 tonight…here comes a home run, right?
Wow…rookie pitcher in his first big league spot and both Grandy and Polly swing at the first pitch. Is this Little League?
And Inge doubles from the 3-hole! This game is so entertaining in all the wrong ways…
Double wow….Inge gets a double.
Timo Perez makes a fool out of me by swinging at the first pitch.
God, I love/hate baseball.
Timo delivers…
Tiger Baseball 2007, you gotta love it.
Triple wow (and triple bypass coming) Timo F'N Perez. Who can figure out baseball?
Winning is nice
Nice job Inge! Nice job Timo!
LOL he still shouldnt have ever batted third.
If ever a win felt like a loss, this was it.
This is one of the reasons why baseball can be so fun.
i am happy to admit i was wrong about timo and leyland was right…i hope it stays that way for a long time…also nice AB by inge.
Well leave it to… Timo?
Hey, we'll take it! Tigers win in extra innings – woo!
Plus, this is the first game I got to watch live on my Slingbox from Ohio in some beautifully fluid, smooth video – best investment ever! 😀
Hooray! Now of the boys win EVERY game for the rest of the month, they MIGHT make the playoffs 😛 Hooray…
that was a tough game.
all Inge detracters it's yer turn to buy
all Pudge detracters yer turn next
Go Timo
good job Bobby
Just how I drew it up. See you guys tomorrow.
Tbone, i hear you, we burned our entire bullpen against a crap team, but i'm gonna take it. Now I think Timo should retire before his statistical reality catches up with his selling of his soul to Satan.
Man i know you guys are rough on the guy but TIMO is awesome since coming up. True hes not a #3 hitter and he wont be but i nominate him so far to either plattoon LF or starting LF in '08. Its his job to lose. Hes been clutch, hitting for average and for Xtra base hits. Bat him #6,7 or even 8 next year. Hes good enough to be on the team. With only one defensive blunder and a bad outing when he first came up hes been doing great since. Thank you Timo for keeping my hopes going for a now 5 percent playoff chance.
My father would like it known that Timo is his Tiger. (HAHA)
Bill, I'm buying a round for the .240 Career BA Fan Club. I'll make yours a triple, hold the ice.
I am looking for a middle aged Blonde that sat in Section 133, (about) row 15, Seat 2. She was wearing a white top a blue jeans. She was with a friend in an orange shirt.
If anyone can help…please post.
Kathy you are a stitch and I need to meet you some day. I did NOT check the score until I got into my car at 11:15 to go home. I really did take this game off and it seems they do better without me!!!
Timo did make an outstanding catch out there in LF and got the big hit along with Inge. Who'd a thunk? Weird game. I still can't believe we won.
Hope Sheff's shoulder is good to go.
OMG the weblog has become Craigslist!!! LOL
Only a half game behind Seattle now. Need some help from Yankee opponents here on in!
Cib, I was afraid you wouldn't have a good time thinking about the game. Glad to hear you really did take the day off and had some fun. Thank God, we finally won. It was torture.
I found myself nervous eating, nervous drinking, just flat out nervous. Glad they pulled it out. I noticed it was Gum Time back in the bullpen.
I'm still cautiously optomistic. Brandon Inge off the bench? Seriously?
(I didn't know this was Craigslist missed connections?)
Oh my god!
The Tigers have a 1-game winning streak right now! Ya'll know that if they win tomorrow, then that will stretch the winning streak to 2– the highest they have had since July 19th. (In other words, the Tigers have not had a winning streak of more than 2 games since forever.)
Time to reserve your post season Tiger tickets. (sarcasm)
Inge is so much better when he gets time off…I'm tellin' you all, he'd be the best utility guy in the game: go back to Super-Sub!
Seriously, a much needed win. Now, we need three weeks of the same…
Nice job – and waaay more than expected – from the Gambler.
The Free Press on line has the late story on the game posted and they are calling it "Timo-mentum!"
You are right, Kathy, sounds like the 6 innings of 1-1 tie would have killed me off. Fortunately I was at a friend's house in Corktown, within spitting distance of the old stadium, eating tapas and drinking sangria and keeping my mind off baseball. But not for long . . .
I tell ya Timo is making a case to stay here for at least two years until Maybin is TOTALLY ready for the bigs. Timo's defense can improve with the great one Van Slyke on the case. His clutch hitting, batting average and extra base hits is just awesome since his call up(forgetting that dismal 1 for 5 game in #3 slot in KC.) Bat him 6,7, or 8 next year and we got ourselves a LF people til Maybin is ready. Sign him to a two year extention for like 500K or 1 mil. thats pretty good for a above average semi power LFer. Timo keeps going hes going to impress more Detroit Fans. If we make it to the playoffs he should be on the roster as the backup OFer.
I get the feeling that Santiago/Perez:2007::Walewander/Lusader:1987.
This Timo guy is pretty good…. Leyland should have batted him 3rd…
I tell ya Timo is making a case to stay here for at least two years until Maybin is TOTALLY ready for the bigs. Timo's defense can improve with the great one Van Slyke on the case. His clutch hitting, batting average and extra base hits is just awesome since his call up(forgetting that dismal 1 for 5 game in #3 slot in KC.) Bat him 6,7, or 8 next year and we got ourselves a LF people til Maybin is ready. Sign him to a two year extention for like 500K or 1 mil. thats pretty good for a above average semi power LFer. Timo keeps going hes going to impress more Detroit Fans. If we make it to the playoffs he should be on the roster as the backup OFer.
If Timo Perez opens 2008 as a platoon player in LF then the Detroit Tigers are in ENORMOUS trouble. He's been TERRIBLE in his last 500-some-odd AB's of his career which outweighs what he's done since he was inexplicably called up despite having more then enough OFer's and inexcusably put into the 3rd spot in the order back in KC.
Brews must have had one too many at the game
To quote Michael Corleone in the Godfather Part III –
"Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in."
I love coming here. You guys always bring a smile to my face.
Bill, I'll gladly buy after the games when Inge hits well, as long as you agree to buy when he's hitting poorly.
Impressive indeed the way Curtis 'Mendoza' Granderson worked the count to 2-0 with the bases loaded against a real live flesh-and-blood major league lefthanded pitcher.And at least the pitch he swung at (and MADE CONTACT with) was in the strike zone.However,I also know for a fact that the Tigers had several right-handed batting pitchers on the bench who were available to pinch-hit for him.Certainly one of them carries a .200 average against LHP.

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Road conditions at the time of the accident were poor with ice, blowing snow and poor visibility.
The City�s Traffic Advisory Committee (TAC) will be waiting for the accident report from the RCMP in order to decide if safety measures will be taken at the accident location.
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�We�ll wait until we get a full report from the RCMP that identifies the contributing factors, but in the meantime we don�t want to make a knee-jerk (decision).�


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J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations
Murray Perahia, piano
Sony Classical SK 89243 (CD) SS 89243 (SACD). 2000. Andreas Neubronner, prod.; Markus Heiland, eng.; Andrew Grainger, asst eng.; Matthew Cocker, ed.; Jen Wyler, DSD authoring eng. DDD. TT: 73:28
With all the fuss that is currently and justifiably being made about the late Glenn Gould's two historically important readings of the Goldberg Variations—it was Gould who rescued the work from the museum—it is easy to forget that other pianists can breathe life into them. Since his recovery from a hand injury, Murray Perahia has been exploring Bach's keyboard works, to critical and commercial acclaim. No, this set of 30 imaginative variations on the "Fundamental Bass" of the Aria that bookends them was not written for the piano, but Perahia's delicacy of touch, subtle use of dynamic shadings, clarity of line in the canons and Fughetta, and effortless virtuosity demonstrate that the anachronistic instrument doesn't have to overpower the music within the notes. The sound is close, with the sound of Perahia's fingernails on the Steinway's keys occasionally clatteringly clear, but the music is not the worse for it. The SACD, which appears to be mastered from a 24-bit original, sounds simply better.
J.S. BACH: Six Keyboard Partitas, BWV 825-830
Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord
Hänssler Edition Bachakademie 92.115 (2 CDs). 2000. Michele Gaggia, recording supervisor. DDD. TT: 2:29:04
We all have skeletons in our closets. One of mine is that it was in 1963 that the Swingle Singers' arrangement of the Sinfonia from the second of Bach's keyboard Partitas (CD reissue, Philips 824 703-2) simultaneously turned me on to Bach and had me wishing my parent's stereo console could produce better sound. Majestic minor-key chords lead into a swinging, twisting, climbing vocal line that is supported by a walking bass line (footnote 1) from double bassist Pierre Michelot. This sounds so much like the small-group jazz that I was also then becoming aware of that it came as a surprise to learn, when I looked at the score, that every note (other than some necessary octave substitutions in the bass) was as Bach had written 250 years earlier.
Since that formative experience, I've been looking for a recording of the work that captures the sense of unfettered musicmaking embodied in these six sets of short works. This recent album from English early-music champion Trevor Pinnock does so in spades. This is not dry, academic score-reading, but spirited musicmaking that reminds you that no matter how complex the web woven by the musical development, every movement still stems from the dance. The recorded sound is also excellent. If you speak while touching the case of a good harpsichord, you can feel it tremble, as if it were eager to sing. The sound of this set captures that feeling, being rich, warm, and resonant, without emphasizing the plucked attacks of the instrument (a 1983 re-creation by David Way of a Hemsch original). The occasional low bass notes have delicious weight, without booming, and when Pinnock uses a damped stop, the cascading notes illuminate the recording space in a most pleasing manner.
Footnote 1: Like many of Bach's bass lines, this one is a joy to play, which is why I persuaded Bob Reina that we should open our set at Home Entertainment 2001 with a transcription of the Sinfonia for Hammond organ and Fender bass.—John Atkinson
Robert Baird
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: Satch Plays Fats
Columbia/Legacy CK 64927 (CD). 1955/2000. George Avakian, Tommy Rockwell, orig. prods.; Avakian, Nedra Olds-Neal, reissue prods; Mark Wilder, mastering; John T. Davies, transfers of 1929-30 material. AAD/A-D. TT: 78:57
In this latest reissue of one of the two albums generally thought to be Armstrong's last genuinely great records (the companion being ...Plays W.C. Handy), a variety of older recordings of the trumpeter doing the same material are included for perspective. While that's nice, the original 1955 record, not the inferior outtakes that filled a botched 1985 reissue also titled Satch Plays Fats, is still a dark, rich jewel—perhaps the finest melding of Armstrong's singing and playing ever captured on disc. His affinity for Waller's material is otherworldly, making his takes on such tunes as "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue," and particularly "Ain't Misbehavin'," almost definitive. Driven by trombonist Trummy Young, the breakneck tempo on "Misbehavin'," which forces Armstrong to run verses together into jabberwocky, never fails to make me smile.
RY COODER: Paradise and Lunch
Reprise 2179-2 (CD). 1974. Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman, prods.; Lee Herschberg, eng. Bobby Hata, John Neal, asst. engs. AAD. TT: 37:24
The kind of record that would never be made today by any major record label, Cooder's 1974 masterpiece was the one time this heretofore sideman (from the Rolling Stones to Captain Beefheart), whose solo career on record had been variable, finally aligned the planets and cut a knockout album. Aided by ace players like drummer Jim Keltner and bassists Russ Titelman and Chris Etheridge, not to mention guest appearances by tenor sax player Plas Johnson (best known for the theme to The Pink Panther) and the great Earl "Fatha" Hines on piano, Cooder's distinctive guitar work leads a session of only highlights. All songs here meet at the crossroads of gospel, blues, folk, and country collectively known as American roots music. At the album's heart are two of the choicest moments from Cooder's solo career: the traditional call-and-response gospel classic "Jesus on the Mainline," and Bobby Womack's r&b standard "It's All Over Now." While his soundtrack work is fine, this remains the reticent guitarist's magnum opus—so far.
Bradley Bambarger
TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE: Original Soundtrack
Jordi Savall, dir., viola da gamba; Christophe Coin, viola da gamba; Montserrat Figueras, Maria Cristina Kiehr, sopranos; Fabio Biondi, violin; Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord; Rolf Lislevand, theorbo; Les Concert des Nations
Alia Vox 9821 (CD). 1991/2001. Pierre Verany, prod.; André Pierrette, eng.; Jiri Heger, Nicolas Bartholomée, remastering. ADD. TT: 76:00
The 1991 Alain Corneau film of Pascal Quignard's novella Tous les Matins du Monde is rare in that it improves on the original: the film is deeper, richer than the book. Even more uncommon is the soundtrack, which still resonates a decade later in this beautifully remastered and repackaged anniversary edition. Catalan viola da gamba master Jordi Savall ideally evokes the French Grand Siécle, in particular the music of Marin Marais and the shadowy Sainte-Colombe—whose problematic relationship is the story's dramatic crux. Along with playing intimately expressive viola da gamba, Savall directs such scores as Couperin's Leçon de Ténèbres. Refracted through the prism of Savall's sensitive virtuosity, this is soul music for the ages. (XVI-5)
VASSILIS TSABROPOULOS/ARILD ANDERSEN/JOHN MARSHALL: Achirana
Vassilis Tsabropoulos, piano; Arild Andersen, bass; John Marshall, drums
ECM 1728 (CD). 2000. Manfred Eicher, prod.; Jan Erik Kongshaug, eng. DDD. TT: 69:45
If Keith Jarrett's name were on this album, critics would hail it as a classic. The disc is a classic, but it's by a pianist most listeners have probably never heard of: 36-year-old Vallis Tsabropoulos. Known more as a classical interpreter in his native Greece, Tsabropoulos came as a composer-improviser came to ECM's attention via veteran Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen. Their trio with English drummer John Marshall is seemingly telepathic, with the virile rhythm section framing perfectly the pianist's glimmering, cliché-free lyricism. The remarkably detailed production—this is one of the best-sounding piano-trio records you'll ever hear—makes Achirana all that much more hypnotic.
Les Berkley
J.S. BACH: Suites for Solo Cello
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
EMI Classics 5 55364 26/27 (2 CDs). 1995. Guy Chesnais, prod.; Raymond Buttin, eng. DDD. TT: 2:27:54
ROD STEWART: Every Picture Tells a Story
Mercury 422-822 385-1 (LP). 1971. Rod Stewart, prod.; Gilbert Kong, mastering. AAA. TT: 40:54
The sound on the EMI Rostropovich discs is not of the highest order, but the playing is so far superior to anyone else's that I have to add it to the roster of Records For Which I Might Conceivably Discorporate. There are fine early-instrument performances available, as well as a long list of modern renditions going back to the age of 78s (Casals). None is a match for this set. Every note, every phrase sounds new-minted, as if being discovered for the first time. My only regret is that I did not add these to my list the moment they were issued. (XVIII-10)
It may have been our esteemed copy editor who suggested that Rod Stewart ought to be tied up and forced to listen to Every Picture Tells a Story until he remembers how to make a record again. Just a track list should suffice to remind everyone over 40 just how great Stewart could be: "Maggie May," "Mandolin Wind," "Reason to Believe" (the soon-to-be King of Disco doing Tim Hardin), and "I'm Losing You." Even the sound is pretty clean on my recently found LP copy, and I understand that there's a good CD remastering out that I ought to add to my Christmas wishes. Highest praise I can offer: I will actually stop at an oldies station and listen if they're playing something from this record.
Larry Birnbaum
BIG YOUTH: Screaming Target
Trojan TRL 61 (CD). 1973/1995. Gussie Clarke, prod.; Errol Thompson, Karl Pitterson, Syd Bucknor, engs. AAD? TT: 38:26
Big Youth, aka Manley Buchanan, brought a Rastafarian perspective to the original dancehall-reggae concept pioneered by deejay U-Roy. This 1973 debut LP, brilliantly produced by the 20-year-old Gussie Clarke, set the standard for Jamaican dancehall in the '70s and paved the way for the American hip-hop movement that followed.
Big Youth's stoned-out stream-of-consciousness chants, punctuated by jagged screams and such quaint interjections as "Good gosh!," anticipate today's freestyle raps. After opening with the explosive title track, the album settles into a series of bass-heavy rhythms, more impressive when you consider that dub reggae was still in its infancy. The groove deepens on "The Killer," a moralistic condemnation of "skylarkin' " ("You should never do a t'ing dat is wrong").
The climax comes on the following cut, "Solomon a Gunday," rapped over a remix of the Clarke-produced K.C. White single "Anywhere but Nowhere." The French word salmagundi is the root of "Solomon Grundy," a 19th-century English nursery rhyme; "Solomon Gundie," a 1964 ska hit by Eric Morris; and "Solomon Gundy," a Jamaican fish pâté. After White sings the haunting line "I can go anywhere and still be nowhere," Big Youth twists the fabled Solomon G. from a man who was "born on a Monday, christened on a Tuesday" into one who would "kill you on a Thursday, rob it on a Wednesday." As the layered rhythms churn to a slow boil, a mocking trombone erupts from the mix, and Big Youth, rapping over himself in sampled snippets, achieves a dancehall epiphany. The CD reissue includes "Concrete Jungle," a track not on the LP, plus an alternate version of "Screaming Target."
ALBERT KING: Born Under a Bad Sign
Stax SCD-8606-2 (CD). 1967/2002. George Horn, remastering. AAD? TT: 34:30
Though Albert King had already scored hit R&B singles, this 1967 release crossed him over into the album-oriented blues market and onto the psychedelic ballroom circuit, right alongside B.B. King. A classic Stax production, Born Under a Bad Sign features Booker T. and the MG's as well as the Memphis Horns, who were, typically, not credited on the original LP. That oversight was corrected on last year's long-overdue CD reissue, which also brings the vintage hot-and-dirty mix into sharper focus.
It was the powerhouse title song that first won King wider attention, thanks to Cream's cover version. But that track is mainly a vocal showcase, and while King's bluff singing is effective on such woeful lines as "I can't read, I didn't learn how to write / my whole life has been one big fight," his forte is guitar. On "Crosscut Saw," an old blues updated with a Latin beat, his instrument is heard at full power and intensity, squeezing the last drop of soul from sustained or repeated notes. He cranks it just as hard over the searing chord changes of "The Hunter" and between the clever lyrics of "Laundromat Blues," establishing a model for a new generation of guitar heroes, from Son Seals to Stevie Ray Vaughan. (XVII-11)
Paul Bolin
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON: Papua New Guinea Translations
Jumpin' and Pumpin' CD TOT52 (UK CD). 2001. Garry Cobain, Brian Dougans, prods., mix; Yage, Stone Freshwaters, engs. A?DD. TT: 54:25
Future Sound of London has always been at the furthest edge of England's New Psychedelia and ambient/trance genres, but Papua New Guinea Translations pushes that edge into an alternate universe. Dougans and Cobain offer their 1991 UK hit single, "Papua New Guinea," and seven "translations" thereof, to take the listener on a mind-blowing cosmic journey. Hey, if the theme-and-variations format was good enough for Elgar, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff, why not for today's premier purveyors of electronic music?
Every conceivable style of music appears on PNGT at some point: pulsing trip-hop house/electronica, ethnic percussion, film-score strings, funk guitar (think Shaft), jazzy double basses and sax, '70s progressive stylings, and, on one track, a banjo solo. Ultimately, it's one seamless web of superbly recorded, painstakingly constructed, infinitely layered sound. Spacey, tropical, funky, cosmic yet earthy, deep, dark, dense, and delicious, this CD defines the finest in modern progressive rock.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Orchestral Music
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Fantasia on "Greensleeves", The Lark Ascending, Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Argo ZRG 696 (LP). 1972. Michael Bremner, prod.; Stanley Goodall, eng. AAA.
For my money, this LP holds some of the most gorgeous music of the 20th century, played with thorough understanding and absolute conviction. This record is about beauty, pure and simple, and my love of the music of Vaughan Williams began with this wonderful LP. Other recordings of these works possess great distinction in their own rights, but Marriner and the ASMF have never been bettered. The final Variant and concluding recapitulation of Dives and Lazarus have been, for years, one of my acid tests for components. On a good enough system, they can move me to tears. And I've yet to hear a finer Lark. Just a bit of overdriven ragginess on a couple of the larger crescendos keeps the sound from being great. Apart from that, engineer Stanley Goodall captured a warm, luscious sound that perfectly serves the works. Essential.
Daniel Buckley
GOLIJOV: La Pasión Según San Marcos
Luciana Souza, Samia Ibrahím, Reynaldo Gonzáles Fernández, vocalists; Schola Cantorum de Carácas, Cantoría Alberto Grau, Orquesta La Pasión; Maria Guinand, conductor
Hännsler Classic 98.404 (2 CDs). 2000. Andreas Priemer, prod.; Karl-Heinz Runde, eng. DDD. TT: 85:38
Up front, I'm a lapsed Catholic with serious aversions to most things religious. It took an Argentine Jew—Osvaldo Golijov—to move my soul with a sacred work of power and originality. Commissioned for the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach's birthday, Golijov's La Pasión Según San Marcos is a pan-Latin American work scored for a mix of standard classical instruments augmented by Cuban, Brazilian, and Native American percussion, accordion, and guitar, with a full choir and, on this recording, exceptional soloists. The work succeeds in harnessing both the honest power of a broad range of traditional musics and the harmonic and structural sophistication of the classical sphere to speak to the profound and sincere Christian faith so many in the Hispanic Americas hold. A musically gripping experience performed with passion and stylistic nuance.
THE WHO: Who's Next
MCA 37217 (CD). 1971/1984. The Who, prods.; Glyn Johns, prod., eng. AAD. TT: 43:13
I remember driving back to Tucson with my college buddies in a freak snowstorm after seeing the Who perform Who's Next in Phoenix. There were no guardrails, so we determined where to drive by how far the cactus should be from the invisible road. It was the early '70s. Yet despite the fact that the snow was coming down so blindingly hard that we could barely see past the hood of the car, and might at any point have gotten our stoned asses into a desert wreck, all we could talk about was the music. Every tune on that album, from "Baba O'Riley" to "The Song is Over," "Behind Blue Eyes," and "Won't Get Fooled Again," got us stoked. Thirty-some years later, it still stands up, and remains one of the 10 discs I've carried with me on every long-distance driving trip I've taken since then. It's probably been responsible for half of my speeding tickets. (XVII-2, XVIII-12, XXII-12)
Jason Cohen
THE GO-BETWEENS: Spring Hill Fair
Circus/Jetset 48 (2 CDs). 1984/2002. Colin Fairley, John Brand, prods., engs.; Robert Andrews, prod.; Jacques Hermet, eng. AAD? TT: 40:29
The third effort from Australia's masters of the pop ache is slicker and less emblematic than its predecessor, Before Hollywood. But when I first discovered the Go-Bs on a 1985 best-of, the songs that won me over came from this one, which distills the quirky lushness of Prefab Sprout with both acoustic strum and wiry riffing (hence the band's initial association with the Postcard and Rough Trade labels). Robert Forster's "Man O' Sand to Girl O' Sea" (an indie-rock epic) and "Draining the Pool for You" ("Take This Job and Shove It" as if written by Warren Zevon and played by the Smiths) are highlights, but the record's heart lies in the longing and regret of Forster's "Part Company" and Grant McLennan's beauteous "Bachelor Kisses." The Jetset reissue is a two-disc set with 10 bonus tracks and one video.
JOHN HIATT: Slow Turning
A&M CD 5206 DX 003683 (CD). 1988. Glyn Johns, prod.; Larry Hirsch, eng. AAD. TT: 49:04
John Hiatt's craft is to write the same kind of songs as everybody else. His art is that he gets away with it. As a 20-year-old college student, I had no particular need to hear the Elvis Costello of Tennessee ruminate on marriage, and 15 years later, I still don't need to hear another outlaw-couple road song. But I never tire of Slow Turning. The successor to Hiatt's Bring the Family arrived without Nick Lowe, Ry Cooder, and Jim Keltner, and with heightened expectations, but musically it's no less striking, thanks to Sonny Landreth and the Goners and Bernie Leadon's added twang. The songs are lovely ("Feels Like Rain"), wise ("Sometime Other than Now"), and frequently hilarious. "Georgia Rae"—the sweetest, most lascivious, least mawkish tribute to a newborn ever—manages all three. And "Tennessee Plates" does more for lovestruck bandits in seven stanzas than anyone since Arthur Penn. (XI-11, XVI-2, XXII-6)


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Teaching students about the Creative Commons
Technology makes stealing easy, but it makes sharing just as easy. The Creative Commons will let your students innovate in and out of the classroom without having to worry about copyright violations.
Few changes have been as pronounced in the past decade as the shift from text-heavy content to messages delivered visually. Pairing increasingly sophisticated mobile devices with high-speed connections to the Web and cheap personal video and photography equipment, today's Internet users have led a visual content revolution. Video sharing sites like YouTube see millions of visitors every month and hours of new content uploaded every minute.1 More than 85 percent of all connected Americans watch online video, averaging an astounding 182 unique views per user each month.2 Pair that with the 4 billion images that have been uploaded to the popular photo sharing site Flickr and the 300 million new video game systems sold in America every year, and it becomes obvious that we're simply swimming in a world of visuals.3
Our students have joined in as active participants in this visual revolution. They're using cell phones to capture pictures and videos. They're remixing videos found online and uploading new, original versions to the Web. They're combining favorite audio tracks with collections of images to create interesting final products designed to entertain their peers or impress their teachers — and in the process, they're joining the 50 percent of online Americans sharing user-generated images and 20 percent of online American sharing user-generated videos each month.4
The hitch is this: Our students are also generally careless in using images, audio tracks, and videos created by others fairly. Having had easy access to multimedia content for their entire lives, students rarely understand that the same copyright protections they've learned to respect when working with text-based materials apply to new media creations as well. Instead of working to establish ownership and asking for permission to use this kind of content, most students simply search topics and download the best sources that they can find.
The Creative Commons
Even more interesting is the fact that the creators of new media works are often far more flexible than traditional content creators have ever been! Inspired by the open-source software movement, thousands of photographers, videographers, and musicians have embraced the Creative Commons. Founded in 2001, the Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and remix content in ways that respect the wishes of the original owner. In less than a decade, over 130 million works ranging from photos and videos to blog entries and textbooks have been made available under one of six basic Creative Commons licenses:
- Attribution
- The least restrictive of the Creative Commons licenses, content licensed Attribution can be used freely for any purpose and/or remixed into new final products as long as the initial author, artist, or musician is given credit for their original work. Attribution remains a fundamental part of every Creative Commons license.
- Attribution Share Alike
- Much like work licensed Attribution, Attribution Share Alike content can also be used freely for any purpose and/or remixed into new final products. The key difference is that any new content produced must also be licensed in the same way. Share Alike licenses promote the continued growth of the Creative Commons collection.
- Attribution No Derivatives
- Attribution No Derivatives is a more restrictive Creative Commons license. Works licensed No Derivatives can be freely displayed and distributed for any purpose but only in their original form. Remixing No Derivative content into new final products or editing No Derivative content in any way is not allowed.
- Attribution Non-Commercial
- As long as the original content creator is given credit, work released under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license can be freely redistributed and/or remixed into new final products for non-commercial purposes only.
- Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
- Combining elements of the Share Alike and Non-Commercial licenses, content released under Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licenses can be redistributed and/or remixed into new final products for any non-commercial purpose as long as the new product is licensed in the same way. Like Attribution Share Alike licenses, Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licenses help to encourage the continued growth of the Creative Commons.
- Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
- The most restrictive of the six basic Creative Commons licenses, content released under Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives licenses cannot be used for commercial purposes and cannot be remixed into any new final products. The work must remain unchanged and credit must be given to the original author of the piece.
- Free to use or share
- Free to use or share, even commercially
- Free to use, share or modify
- Free to use, share or modify, even commercially
- Flickr Creative Commons
- Flickr has rapidly become the most popular photo sharing site on the Web. In the interest of protecting the ownership rights of its users, Flickr recently added the ability to label images under each of the six main Creative Commons licenses. Users who visit the Flickr Creative Commons collection can quickly search by license and find millions of interesting, high-quality images to add to their final products. While Flickr is likely to be blocked by most district firewalls, teachers interested in promoting the responsible use of images can easily download collections of Creative Commons images connected to the curriculum for their students to use in ongoing projects.
- Wikimedia
- Despite its reputation as an unreliable source, Wikipedia was one of the first sites to begin to use Creative Commons licenses primarily because establishing ownership of content created collectively by groups of volunteers is simply impossible. Wikimedia — Wikipedia's ever-growing image collection — has followed the same pattern. Users regularly add photographs from their personal collections to articles and then license those images under Creative Commons licenses. What makes Wikimedia particularly valuable to school teachers is that it is rarely blocked by district firewalls.
- Morguefile
- Another impressive collection of still images, Morguefile has an interesting twist: Users are invited to use any image in the Morguefile collection for any purpose as long as it is remixed before being reused. Simply republishing the file on a stand-alone basis without alteration is not allowed unless that permission is specifically granted by the original photographer. Like Wikimedia, Morguefile is a valuable resource for classroom teachers because it is rarely blocked by district firewalls.
- Garageband
- Driven by music, today's students are likely to quickly fall in love with Garageband, the best source for audio tracks licensed under the Creative Commons. Designed to raise the profile of new bands trying to score contracts from record labels, Garageband has literally thousands of songs by bands in almost every genre. While users have to sign up for a free account before they can download songs — and while bands can set permissions for the use of any track — Garageband remains a valuable source for interesting music that can be used in student-generated projects.
- CCMixter
- CCMixter — a community exploring sound together — is one of the most interesting Creative Commons experiments. Not only are users able to download a wide variety of instrumental music tracks and interesting sound effects for use in almost any final product, they are also encouraged to remix content posted by others and to share new versions of popular tracks. While CCMixter will serve as a valuable source of sound for your students, it may be even more valuable as an example of the true spirit of the Creative Commons in action.
- YouTube
- Like Flickr, YouTube realized that many of their users — particularly universities and other educational institutions — were willing to make their content freely available under Creative Commons licenses. While the YouTube search options do not allow users to automatically filter results by license — a strange gap in functionality considering that YouTube is owned by Google — any video that is available for download will clearly state the conditions for reuse.
Finding licensed content
Teaching students to take advantage of work licensed under the Creative Commons begins in the same place that their research always seems to start: with Google. Understanding that their users — particularly students working on school projects — are often looking for content that is free for reuse and/or remixing, Google has added filters to their search results that align nicely with the licenses offered by the Creative Commons. To apply these filters, simply click the "Advanced Search" link found next to any Google Search box. Then, use the drop-down menu found beside "Usage Rights" at the bottom of the Advanced Search page to identify content that aligns with your intended use. Google has even translated the complex Creative Commons licenses into four simple phrases:
There are also several growing collections of Creative Commons content that can be found online. Some of the most popular include:
Summing up
The chances are good that if you've been working in the classroom for any length of time, you've developed a solid collection of lessons designed to introduce students to the concepts that surround copyright law. The chances are also good that your students have a fundamental understanding of the role that copyright plays in protecting text. Few recognize, however, that those same protections apply to any content posted online — and even fewer are familiar with the changing concepts of "fair use" introduced by the Creative Commons.
Taking the time to introduce Creative Commons licenses and warehouses to your students will ensure that they have the knowledge and tools to act responsibly and respect the ownership rights of every content creator.


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Boston, MA (PRWEB) December 13, 2012
The thieves that are stealing sleep from millions of Americans may be lurking in their medicine cabinets. Prescription sleep aids and other prescription medications can interfere with much-needed ZZZs, reports the December 2012 Harvard Health Letter.
Sleep is essential to good health, and a lack of it can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, weight gain, and diabetes. Yet one in five Americans struggle with insomnia every night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. "Prescription drugs can be a serious problem," says sleep expert Dr. Lawrence Epstein, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Some prescription sleep aids, when taken for long periods of time, become less effective and actually interfere with sleep. Other types of prescription medications may also interfere with sleep. Some contain stimulants that make it difficult to fall asleep. Others—like steroids, antidepressants, and some medicines for migraine, heart disease, and allergies—can wake you with nausea, night sweats, or needing to go to the bathroom.
Read the full-length article: "Better sleep means better health"
Also in the December 2012 issue of the Harvard Health Letter:
- High blood sugar linked to brain shrinkage
- When loss of smell signals a bigger health issue
- Do-it-yourself skin cancer checks
The Harvard Health Letter is available from Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School, for $16 per year. Subscribe at http://www.health.harvard.edu/health or by calling 877-649-9457 (toll-free).


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A kiss can be life-changing. When Keara and Elam Jensen share their first kiss on their wedding day, a marriage of convenience becomes much less convenient! It also becomes more than they expected when God shows them what He really has in store for their lives. Will their mysteriously injured visitor ruin their future, or will her influence-and her personal battle-draw them into deadly danger? Visit Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in 1901, and discover for yourself what… (more)
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Harare – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Zimbabwe needs to act now if it is to reverse the deepening economic difficulties.
IMF head of mission to Zimbabwe Domenico Fanizza said the investment-hungry country needed not wait any longer, but act on its policies.
"Economic difficulties have deepened. Zimbabwe cannot wait and needs to act now. The El Niño-induced drought has hit the economy hard. Lower commodity prices and the appreciation of the United States dollar have compounded difficulties. Policy action is needed to reverse this trend," Fanizza said on Wednesday.
He said once the IMF staff-monitored programme was completed successfully - as an initial step toward reform and re-engagement with international partners – a comprehensive and ambitious economic transformation programme would be needed to revive Zimbabwe's economy and cement support among international partners.
Fanizza added that the authorities had met all quantitative targets and structural benchmarks of the final SMP (staff-monitored programme) review.
Zimbabwe has been holding discussions with the IMF team over economic developments, near and medium-term outlook and risks for the country, implementation of the policies and reforms under the SMP, and near and medium-term policies that could help remove hurdles to growth.
The IMF head of mission said fiscal discipline was the key priority, adding given the lack of resources, government needed to keep the cash primary accounts close to balance as this heightened the urgency of re-engagement with the international community.
In the financial sector, Fanizza said significant progress had been made, but risks remained.
"It will be important to continue with strong proactive supervision, further reduce non-performing loans and deliver on financial inclusion as outlined in the national financial inclusion strategy to reinforce confidence and cement financial stability," he said.
Also, improving the business environment was cited as key. In particular, the consistent and transparent implementation of the indigenisation policy will be critical to attract both foreign and domestic investment by limiting the scope for discretion.
This will go a long way to unleash Zimbabwe's growth potential. The bankable land leases which the authorities are finalising will help to boost productivity and access to financing in agriculture, the IMF team said.
"We are encouraged that the authorities plan to clear the outstanding arrears with international financial institutions, as outlined at the Lima meetings. The successful resolution of Zimbabwe's external payment arrears will be an important step toward normalizing relations with the international financial community and will allow the country to eventually seek a Fund financial arrangement. It will also send strong signals to the international community, reduce the perceived country risk premium, and unlock affordable financing for government and the private sector. This, together with policy reform, will help to achieve sustained economic development through economic transformation, to improve living conditions for the people of Zimbabwe, and to reduce poverty."
During discussions, the IMF team met with Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Douglas Mombeshora, ppublic sservice, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira, Chief Secretary to the President and the Cabinet Misheck Sibanda and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya.


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Technology / A quarter of employees have shared sensitive data outside their companies
A quarter of employees have shared sensitive data outside their companies
22 March 2016 |
More than a quarter of employees have uploaded sensitive information to cloud applications to share it outside of their companies, according to a report.
In a survey by SailPoint, 26 per cent of workers admitted that they had sent data to the services with the intent of accessing it from beyond their firms' walls.
These employees are putting company information at risk despite 85 per cent of those questioned saying they would react negatively if their personal data was breached by a company.
The survey also revealed other poor cyber security practices among workers.
65 per cent of respondents, for example, admitted they use a single password between applications, and a third said they share their passwords with their co-workers.
One in five even said they would sell their passwords to outsiders, with 44 per cent of those saying they would do so for less than $1,000 (£703).
The report also showed firms are struggling to keep up, as a third of employees say they have purchases software-as-a-service applications with IT's knowledge.
Meanwhile, 40 per cent said they still had access to accounts after leaving their last job.
Employees' actions – both malicious and careless – are an ongoing problem for cyber security teams trying to keep organisations' data safe and secure.
Just yesterday, research showed that just a quarter of IT professionals are confident in other employees' awareness of issues surrounding cyber security.
And a recent EY survey showed that breaches and malicious employees tampering with data are the most up-and-coming fraud risks for 83 per cent of executives in 2016.
Meanwhile, it has been estimated that three quarters of companies may face significant data loss due to insider threats, which account for 42 per cent of all confidential data breaches.
For more on the survey, see the SailPoint website.


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TIME: All Day
EVENT: INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS OF AMERICA holds its 27th Annual National Legislative Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
11:30 a.m.—Young Agents/InsurPAC State Chairs Luncheon
4 p.m.—Legislative Issues Briefing
6 p.m.—IIABA Congressional Reception, Madison Building, Library of Congress
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Sue Nester, 703-706-5448 or Kevin Callahan at 703-706-5445.
WEB ADDRESS: independentagent.com.
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS holds its 2003 Annual Meeting themed Clinical Pharmacology in the Post-Genome Era:
Advancing Towards Therapeutic Optimization.
AGENDA: Highlight:
10:30 a.m. - PRESIDENT'SWELCOME
Barbara A. Levey, MD, FACP, University of California, Los Angeles
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, D.C.
DATE April 2, 2003
CONTACT: Kathleen Holmay, 301-942-9595
WEB ADDRESS: ascpt.org
TIME: 8:45 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Policy Insiders Breakfast series presents Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao discussing this year's labor agenda and introducing a new program designed to help employers understand and comply with major employment laws administered by the Labor Department.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Deployment of U.S. Forces in Europe.
WHO: The speakers are:
9 a.m. - Political Considerations for U.S. Force Redeployment in Europe
Kori Schake, Director, Defense Policy and Arms Control
National Security Council
Bruce P. Jackson, President, Project on Transitional Democracies
Dr. Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Executive Editor
The National Interest
10:15 a.m. - Military and Strategic Considerations for U.S. Force Redeployment in Europe
Major General William L. Nash (USA Ret.), Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Daniel Goure, Vice President, Lexington Institute
Colonel Richard Dunn (USA Ret.), Senior Analyst, Northrop Grumman Analysis Center
11:30 a.m. – Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R- TX
United States Senate
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on "The State of Pakistan."
WHO: The speakers include:
Husain Haqqani, former ambassador of Pakistan and leading columnist,
will discuss "Civil-Military Relations: Showdown or Muddling Through?"
Christophe Jaffrelot, director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, will discuss "General Musharraf and the Jihadi Groups."
Anatol Lieven, former correspondent for The Times (London) and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will discuss "Pakistan & the US: Doomed to Partnership."
George Perkovich, author of India's Nuclear Bomb and vice
President for studies at Carnegie, will discuss "Pakistan: The Greatest Nuclear Proliferation Challenge."
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: SEN. MIKE ENZI, R-WY, REP. DENNY REHBERG R-MT, CHAIRMEN OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE RURAL ED CAUCUSES, AND SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ROD PAIGE hold the Rural Education news conference.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Brad Keena, 202-225-3211
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Southeast Europe: From Stabilization to European Integration with Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE presents Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy discussing "From Survival to Success: Leading in Turbulent Times."
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum to discuss "The Legal Significance of the Declaration of Independence."
WHO: The speakers are:
Scott Douglas Gerber, Editor, The Declaration of Independence: Origins and Impact (CQ Press, 2002), Professor, Ohio Northern University
Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Dorothee Heisenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of European Studies Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies discussing "The Institution of Consensus in the EU: Formal vs. Informal Decision-making in the Council."
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: ICC 550, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS holds a program on "Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia, featuring authors Marcus Noland and Howard Pack.
LOCATION: 1750 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
DATE: April 2, 2003
CONTACT: Yvonne Priestley, 202-328-9000
WEB ADDRESS: iie.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture on "Micro credit's Race to Profitability: Who Gets Left Behind?" with Andree Simon, manager of strategy and planning for FINCA International.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: Room 533, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Got Planet? International Relations and the Politics of Environmental Governance in Developing Countries" with Paul Steinberg, author of Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: Room 806, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE presents a program on Legal Protection of the World's Biodiversity Hotspots with John Kunich, Roger Williams University School of Law. Kunich is concerned that domestic and international legal protection of endangered species may be ineffective as well as "harmfully illusionary.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Lee C. Bollinger, 19th president of Columbia University and former president of the University of Michigan and dean of its law school, discussing two subjects in which he is heavily involved: free speech and journalism education.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE presents a luncheon program to discuss U.S. Invasion of Iraq: Democracy and Disarmament or a New American Empire? With Peter Kuznick, professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, has written extensively on U.S. nuclear and cultural history.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY International Legal Studies Program and the American Society of International Law hold The Fifth Annual Grotius Lecture: "Shaping Globalization - The Role of Human Rights," featuring Mary Robinson, Executive Director, Ethical Global Initiative, former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington
WEB ADDRESS: american.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Giants of Sound performing a variety of jazz and popular selections under the direction of dynamic Washington keyboardist Thomas Bryant.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program to discuss Prosecuting War and Protecting Human Rights.
WHO: The speakers are:
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner, Baker & Hostetler
Massimo Calabresi, Diplomatic Correspondent, Time Magazine
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: The Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Andrew Hacker discussing and signing copies of Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men. As a political scientist Hacker uses a wide array of statistics, and analyzes growing gender differences. He examines marriage and divorce, college graduation rates, voting patterns, violence against women, the income gap and the glass ceiling.
DATE: April 2, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com


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Originally posted by: rich
I'm sorry to say this~ you said "psapi is part of the platform SDK", but It's not easy to find.
please, tell me where It is.
Originally posted by: ashiq
what is the purpose of using system wide hook?Reply
Originally posted by: Jasion Wa
It's GREAT! Thanks a lot!Reply
Originally posted by: anhThuan
I want to know how to hook message from other computer....
For example :
somebody use "net.exe" to send me a short message, so i want to hook this message ....
goto run command : net send * text here
teach me...
Originally posted by: Ashok
Hai i need a help
Both WIndows 9x/ME and NT /2000
I need to hook the printer port i.e. if any application tries to print any job i should catch it and with validation job should enter for printing
Kindly help me
Originally posted by: Guru Prasad
I want to hook a Menu Click when the user clicks on a particular Menu Item. The problem with a WM_MENUSELECT hook is that it traps all events when the user "browses" over a particular menu item (the moment when the text of the Status Bar in a standard Windows application changes to reflect the menu item in focus. Like, you take the cursor over File > New and the Status bar says "Opens a new Document").
I want to trap the events when the user clicks or otherwises "chooses" a menu item (mapped using ON_COMMAND). In the hook I want the option to discard the Menu Item Click if I want to.
I tried using the WM_CALLWNDPROC hook which traps the WM_COMMAND message but the documentation in MSDN (Win32 Hooks by Kyle Marsh) says that we shouldn't (and cannot) modify the messages using this hook. Plus this hook is also a drain on the system as it traps most Windows messages.
As for the details - I am using this hook in an ActiveX control and this hook will be used only on a particular thread (So I don't need a system hook) - if that helps.
Can someone help me tackle this Menu Click beast?
Any help will be appreciated.
Best Regards and thanx in advance,
Originally posted by: prabhu
how can i list the details of the api called by an application. the details including parameters and return values.Reply
Originally posted by: Pascut Cristian
I need to log to a file (eventually to terminate it) every application that is started on a WIN9x, WINME system. CAn you help me here ? It can be done with a hook on WH_SHELL ? If yes, how ?Reply
Originally posted by: Aravindhan
Please help me.
I am using C++ Builder to create system wide Keyboard hooks
using the SetWindowsHookEx() command but the ncode parameter of the CALLBACK function does not receive any values.It's value is always equal to 0.
Please help me.
Originally posted by: Daniel Kumar
How can I hook an Interrupt systemwide? Whenever I hook an
Interrupt, it is limited to that program only. Is there any
way for hooking an Interrupt so that once it is hooked, all
programs should follow the new Interrupt Service Routine?
Please halp me in this.


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Tesla Patents 400-Mile Hybrid Battery Pack
Tesla Motors is exclusively an electric car maker, with Elon Musk expressing disdain for cars like the Chevy Volt and BMW i3, which pack gas-powered range-extenders. But Tesla may be working on a different kind of hybrid; a hybrid battery pack that could extend the range of cars like the Tesla Model S by up to 40%, allowing for 400 miles of driving between charges.
A report by Global Equities Research shows that Tesla recently filed patents 20130187591 and 20130181511, which describe a combination lithium-ion and metal-air battery pack. This hybrid battery pack would primarily use the lithium-ion side, only drawing power from the metal-air battery pack on extended journeys. Metal-air batteries, which use oxygen as an electrode, have a shorter lifetime when exposed to regular charging, but use more common elements like zinc or aluminum that drastically reduce battery costs.
Drivers would use the lithium-ion battery for daily use, and would either select the secondary battery, or have it automatically switch over on extended trips. A hybrid battery of this type could offer Tesla customers greater driving ranges, while not drastically increasing costs. There's also mention of a mode whereby the metal-air battery would charge the lithium-ion battery, which powers the car's systems. 95% of driving consist of short jaunts no more than 90 miles per day, but the option of going 400 or more miles on a single charge could open up the world of electric vehicles to a much wider audience.
For now though, Tesla will still rely on Panasonic for batteries, as they have a four-year, 80,000 unit contract with the Japanese tech giant. But going forward from there, who's to say Tesla doesn't deploy ground-breaking battery technology of its own? This could be a peek at the future, folks.
Source: Benzinga
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Power Players: Tom Werner NASCAR drivers feel the pinch Earlier free agency essential for MLB Lefton: Fanatics, NHL goods 'Zero-hour' part of StubHub-MLB deal Power Players: Jim Petersen Power Players: Derrick Hall NHRA highlights attendance gains Comcast to make most of Games A question of timing: College football
SBJ/Aug. 11-17, 2014/Events and AttractionsPrint All
Ganassi 'Bash' targets young crowd
Chip Ganassi Racing is throwing a social media party it hopes will help the team attract young, millennial fans.
The "Ganassi Sound Garage, a Digi Bash" is an invitation-only event on Sept. 8 that will cater to hundreds of 15- to 24-year-old social media influencers who will get a chance to meet the team's youngest drivers and attend a concert performed by country pop singer Cassadee Pope, a former competitor on "The Voice." It will be held at the team's shop in Concord, N.C.
Invitees can meet young Ganassi drivers Kwasniewski, Larson and Karam and "The Voice" performer Cassadee Pope (below).
Photo by:CHIP GANASSI RACING
The team plans to make the "Digi Bash" an annual event. It is going to ask some of its existing sponsors to help underwrite the event.
NASCAR and IndyCar will stream the concert on their websites.
Ganassi Racing is working with MVPIndex, a sports social media agency, to identify young people in the Carolinas with large social media followings to invite to the event. It expects 175 to 300 people to attend.
Big Machine Records, an associate sponsor of the team that works with artists such as Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift, liked the idea and worked with the team to bring its artist, Pope, to perform at the event.
A rendering shows the stage for "Ganassi Sound Garage, a Digi Bash."
"One of the things we know about social media and millennials is user-generated content is king, so everything is about trying to generate their own content," Olguin said.
Ganassi Racing plans to track the amount of social media generated by guests at the event. It also plans to look at how much people who don't attend interact with the tweets, photos and Facebook posts created by guests.
"What we really want to do is take a look at this and see what it does in order to set expectations for the following years," Olguin said. "We're going to learn a lot."
For ICC, good vibe and better results
"I never imagined I'd see that," Urch said. "There was such a great vibe. Such a great feeling. It was pretty impressive."
The moment stood out in Urch's mind as an example of what distinguished this year's Guinness International Champions Cup, a 13-game tournament featuring eight of Europe's top soccer clubs. In all respects, the second edition of the tournament exceeded expectations by attracting more spectators and reached more viewers
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Executive Editor Abraham Madkour and staff writer Tripp Mickle analyze the "summer of soccer," what it means for the sport in the U.S. and what it could mean for Major League Soccer.
"We had more games, we had more attendance, there was so much more consumer exposure, and it looks like we sold a lot of beers, so we're happy," Urch said.
See also: Execs weigh in on soccer's big summer in the U.S.
Guinness wasn't the only one pleased with this year's event. In its second year of owning tournament organizer Relevent Sports, Stephen Ross' company RSE Ventures saw attendance increase 30 percent, TV rights revenue rise 700 percent and sponsorship revenue increase 300 percent. The event also served as a vehicle to help create a new media distribution business called Catalyst Media Group, which increased distribution overseas from 100 million households last year to more than 600 million households this year.
Liverpool FC and its fans converged in Charlotte, the second-best-attended tournament site.
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"We did extremely well, and you know how hard it is to make a complicated business like this successful," Higgins said. "The growth was strong."
The success of the tournament bolstered Higgins' confidence that RSE Ventures is ready to expand it to Asia and Oceania next year. The company signed a partnership with Australian sports marketing agency TLA Worldwide to run its first edition of the International Champions Cup in Asia next year, and it has begun scouting potential locations in China, Indonesia and other markets.
An Asian edition of the tournament will operate concurrently with a U.S. one.
"There's tons to improve upon [in the U.S.], but we're now ready to take the next step and go to Asia," Higgins said. "We want to do that because teams want to take the tournament to Asia. We need to operate globally."
The tournament's attendance increases this year came on the heels of the most-watched World Cup in U.S. history. Large crowds turned out in Ann Arbor, Mich., (109,318), Charlotte (69,364) and New York's Yankee Stadium (49,653). The attendance there was offset by smaller crowds in Toronto (10,603) and Philadelphia (12,169).
The attendance increases helped boost merchandise sales for clubs participating in the tournament. Liverpool FC Chief Commercial Officer Billy Hogan said the team saw a 200 percent increase in e-commerce and U.S.-related sales over the past month from the same period last year. In Charlotte, for example, long, weaving lines were evident at virtually every merchandise stand, even outside the venue.
"A lot of that is impacted by the tour," Hogan said. "Not only are people buying at the venue, but they're going online to the shop and buying there as well."
TV viewership in the U.S. delivered mixed results. The most-watched match averaged 726,000 viewers on Fox and featured Manchester United-Real Madrid on Aug. 2. Fox Sports 1 delivered its highest viewership when it averaged 504,000 viewers for the ManU-Liverpool final on Aug. 4. The lowest-rated game averaged 21,000 viewers on Fox Sports 2 and featured Real Madrid-AS Roma on July 29.
As RSE Ventures looks toward next year, it will need to finalize a title sponsorship for its tournaments in the U.S. and Asia. Guinness was in the last year of a two-year deal and is in discussions with RSE about returning. RSE also could consider bundling both tournaments and selling a single sponsorship for them.
It will face the challenge that many of the teams it showcased this year, such as Liverpool, will opt to skip the U.S. and go to other markets next year. But it stands to benefit from the recognition after this year's World Cup that the U.S. market is embracing the sport, said John Guppy, founder of Chicago-based consulting firm Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing. That should help as it looks to lure other big-name clubs to the U.S. for the third edition of the tour.
"In the past, some [soccer clubs] thought there was something here but weren't convinced," Guppy said. "Now every one of those brands look at the U.S. and see a 10 out of 10 opportunity."
Year No. of teams No. of venues No. of matches Total attendance 2014 8 13 13 642,224 2013 8 7 12 492,575 2012* 11 8 9 338,483 2011* 13 14 14 584,484 2009* 4 6 6 336,813
Date (Day) Venue (city) Matchup Attendance July 24 (Thurs.) BMO Field (Toronto) AC Milan-Olympiakos 10,603 July 26 (Sat.) Sports Authority Field at Mile High (Denver) AS Roma-Manchester United 54,116 July 26 (Sat.) Kabam Field at California Memorial Stadium (Berkeley, Calif.) Inter Milan-Real Madrid 62,583 July 27 (Sun.) Heinz Field (Pittsburgh) AC Milan-Manchester City 34,347 July 27 (Sun.) Soldier Field (Chicago) Liverpool-Olympiakos 36,170 July 29 (Tues.) FedEx Field (Landover, Md.) Inter Milan-Manchester United 61,238 July 29 (Tues.) Cotton Bowl (Dallas) AS Roma-Real Madrid 57,512 July 30 (Wed.) Yankee Stadium (New York) Liverpool-Manchester City 49,653 Aug. 2 (Sat.) Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia) AS Roma-Inter Milan 12,169 Aug. 2 (Sat.) TCF Bank Stadium (Minneapolis) Manchester City-Olympiakos 34,047 Aug. 2 (Sat.) Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Manchester United-Real Madrid 109,318 Aug. 2 (Sat.) Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte) AC Milan-Liverpool 69,364 Aug. 4 (Mon.) Sun Life Stadium (Miami) Liverpool-Manchester United 51,104
* Event was played as the Herbalife World Football Challenge. Its name was changed for 2013 after the event was purchased by RSE Ventures.
Note: The tourney was not held in 2010 because of the FIFA World Cup that year.
Compiled by Austin Karp, SportsBusiness Daily
American City Business Journals acquires half of international B-to-B event producer Leaders
American City Business Journals, parent company of SportsBusiness Journal/Daily, has acquired a 50 percent stake in Executive Sport Ltd., the international sports business-to-business event and networking business operating under the brand name Leaders.
Terms of ACBJ's investment in ESL were not disclosed.
Leaders produces five events in New York, London and Lisbon, Portugal, that bring together senior executives across the sports business and performance communities. In addition to the conferences, Leaders produces custom events for the NFL, NBA and UFC. The company also launched its Insights unit to develop additional content.
ESL founder and CEO James Worrall and COO Simon Lau, owners of the London-based company, will spearhead the continued international expansion of Leaders as well as create events across other industry sectors under the Leaders brand name.
ACBJ sees Leaders as a natural fit with its current business platforms.
"We're excited about the opportunity to help Leaders grow, and I am especially pleased that this is the first true step beyond the U.S. for our sports business group," said ACBJ President and CEO Whitney Shaw. "Because of our ownership of SportsBusiness Journal, SportsBusiness Daily, our Global edition and our own sports conference group, we knew firsthand of Leaders. What we loved most about the company was the strength and flexibility of its brand, the international reputation of its events and the fact that the business has shown year-on-year growth in a competitive sector every year from its start seven years ago."
Worrall said ACBJ is well-suited to help Leaders grow.
"It was incredibly flattering to receive an approach from ACBJ several months ago," he said. "With Simon and I retaining 50 percent of the business alongside such an influential group of businesses in media and publishing, we hope to accelerate our growth over the next five years."
— Staff report
Cycling race fills sponsor holes, sees slim gains
Colorado's USA Pro Cycling Challenge bicycle race will see a small increase in overall sponsorship revenue from 2013, following two consecutive years of major partnership growth. The race, which runs Aug. 18-24, will boast a total sponsorship budget of approximately $7 million for the second consecutive year.
Despite the negligible gain, race management views the sponsorship package as a success. The race was dealt a major setback in the fall of 2013 when founding partners RadioShack and Nissan pulled out of cycling entirely. Beer partner New Belgium brewery departed shortly thereafter.
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will have a total sponsorship budget of about $7 million for the second straight year.
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Management spent much of 2014 filling the approximately $1.5 million gap with renewals and new deals.
"We had a big hole to fill," said Shawn Hunter, CEO of the race. "So to be able to fill it and actually go forward with new categories and improvements within existing categories is a victory."
The race renewed the majority of its founding partnerships, which are valued in the mid-six-figure range. Centura Health, First Bank, Smashburger, UnitedHealthcare, Coca-Cola, the Colorado Tourism Board and Colorado State University all re-upped. It also brought back Sierra Nevada, which was the original beer sponsor in 2011.
Management then signed a handful of new deals at the official partner level — valued in the low six figures — with Redfox headphones, Edward Jones Investments, Certified Angus Beef and the Colorado National Guard.
"The fleet is exclusive to Lexus," Hunter said. "That is a big deal."
Will Nicklas, Lexus' corporate manager of marketing, planning and communications, said the caravan features seven Lexus models. The Lexus IS 250 F-Sport coupe will be the official pace car.
"It's a giant parade of our cars for seven days across Colorado," Nicklas said. "It's an authentic way to be part of the race."
The deal also gives Lexus ownership of the race's green jersey, which is awarded to the top sprinter, and allows the brand to award the overall race winner with a free three-year lease on its hybrid model, the CT 200h. The auto manufacturer also will display a 500-square-foot activation zone at the event festival. The activation includes a bicycle valet service for festival attendees, information on Lexus vehicles, and racing statistics for every rider in the event.
The deal adds cycling to Lexus' portfolio of sports properties, which includes the U.S. Golf Association and U.S. Open. Lexus also will activate at a handful of participatory cycling events in 2015.
Nicklas said cycling represents a shift in strategy away from traditional media-driven partnerships. While the U.S. Pro Challenge broadcasts on NBC Sports in the U.S. and on Eurosport internationally, the race reaches a million or so spectators on the roads of Colorado.
"The [golf] deals are geared toward spectators, and we feel [cycling] is more cutting-edge," he said. "Cycling plays well with the younger buyer who is into fitness."
Fred Dreier is a writer in Colorado.