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The other day I was adding some shelving to my widget factory. At one point I walked over to the wall with an electric drill in my hand, and asked my helper to bring me the extension cord from out under the canopy. After waiting for what seemed like a long time I started out to see what was up. Just then he came thru the door, with the extension cord coiled up in his hand.
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Rather than sigh becuase the helper did exactly what you asked him to do, perhaps you should figure how you could have phrased the request less ambiguously.
I would have realized the obvious: that power was needed for the drill, that the cord in question was already plugged in, and the cord was needed at the drill.
Is it any wonder that old people get cranky? Not to me, not anymore. :)
Apologies if I am. I have worked for a few bosses who thought nothing of interrupting whatever it was I was doing, to complete some menial task for them that would've been more efficient to do themselves. It's a great way to make employees feel undervalued.
Then again, if they WERE doing nothing, and you WEREN'T standing with a drill in your hand waiting for a cord a few steps away-your exasperation is justified. 20 lashes with a wet noodle for the lackadaisical lout!
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what happened to common sense?
"Common sense" depends a great deal on what sort of background and knowledge base a person has. A person could be a world-class expert in one area and close to clueless in another ... not because they're stupid, but simply because they're inexperienced.
The electric drills around my house are battery operated and rechargable. If that was the only kind of drill this person had ever encountered, he might genuinely not have realized that your particular drill needed to be plugged in.
or am I missing something?I never tell the whole story, or so it's beginning to seem. He was standing between me and the cord, and not doing anything else.
Actually, I have 3 employees, and this thread is a sort of a wake-up call. I prefer computers to people exactly because I don't always communicate effectively. I've always been a self-starter and that's what I'm trying to get these three to become also. Then, there will be no reason to stand around waiting for the next set of marching orders... naa, now I'm dreaming.
I've always been a self-starter and that's what I'm trying to get these three to become also.
If they were self-starters they wouldn't be working for you, they would be doing their own thing.
This is something major employers figured out a long time ago. For example, if you go to Sears they make you fill out a personality profile. Most people think this is to weed out the truly ignorant and find smart intelligent workers, when in fact, these tests are to find unmotivated go nowhere type people. If they hired energetic self-starters, they would soon become tired of the job and move on to something else. This creates turn-over and a waste of money in training and hiring. Now if they can find a crew of unmotived lazy people. Then they won't have the motivation to leave their crappy job and move on to something better.
Also, a manager isn't going to hire someone smarter then they are, or they might find themselves out of a job.
It sounds like you were qualified/able to fetch the cord yourself, or am I missing something?
Building shelves; has a helper; asks helper for help; helper makes mistake. Bypassing the helper WOULD have been more efficient.
Apparently you missed the part about wanting to kick the helper's ass. :)
You sound just like me!
Why is it that those helpers aren't gifted with ESP!
It is so annoying that they don't get the plan before we explained it to them ;)
Dang it, you knew I was about to screw this piece of wood to the wall, so why didn't you have the tools ready helper?
I've been there a million times!
All I can offer as advise is this: Pay to have it done professionally, or start the job at 5:00pm when the beers are flowing and you will care a little less about the quality of the help!
Thinking back to my sheet metal shop days, I would probably waved the drill cord and said, "Hey, Dude. Plug me into that extension cord out by the canopy."
Only problem was, we always used air drills and the guy might have said, "Huh?"
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Also, a manager isn't going to hire someone smarter then they are, or they might find themselves out of a job.
Unfortunately, there are too many stupid managers who make hiring decisions based on self preservation.


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Start with and READ NOTES!!!
Then take these:
Purchase Order
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Choose one of these ehcnahtments and get spirit
Consider one or two of these.
Consider one of these
Core DPS
And this is ur TANK core
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Huh? Nothing much to say.. I just like Hecarim and i play him alot and hes my main if i go without a premade team because he can CARRY if feeded... So far Hecarim is my favourite because i do good with him. Im an eune player and i love going jungle.
By all means, TRY HIM!
Consider going Jungle
Hecarim should go jungle! I've tryed going top with him but... It just dosent work out that good.. He needs to go jungle to get that farm and get thouse few kills. If he stays top and gets no kills then he isnt going to do that good.. Unless your matchup is squishy and is easy to kill. If going top he can harass with his q but i dont find him to be THAT good top. Well, thats just my opinion.. I've read a few guides about solo top hecarim but... I dont know.. Just dosent work out for me ;)
Im not THAT good at the game and my grammar isnt that good too.. And i never made a guide before... ...Soooo before disliking just post a comment what you dont like about this guide and please excuse me for my not-so-good grammar
Summoner Spells
Take Ghost and Smite.. Every jungler but shaco needs a smite (he only needs smite for stealing). Ghost can make ur ganks better/Chasing easyer/Escaping easyer.
Pros / Cons, Tips / Tricks
Good movement speed
Good survivability
Has the ability to escape and save teammates
Invincible in team fights if you have a adc or ap teammate that does high damage
Can do good damage
His ult can change games and his ult can also help other champions, perhaps:
You ultimate, knock theyr ADCARRY in your team and while they are all feared people like-
Cassi can go in and use her ult and not get damage that much.
If people understand that they have to focus u early game (unless ur tank) then u get shutdown.
(If playing against )
Why people should focus hecarim? Because if you stop him from ulting or atacking ur ADCARRY then you can win! Also hec is a great chaser.. Soo when there are like 2 of you left on low hp- he can turret dive you and kill you.. So its smart to focus hec early game.
Pro tips: Dont counter jungle hecarim. Just dont! You cant kill him that easy unless ur bruce le- Ehm.. I mean lee sin. Hecarim is a great counter to Fiddle sticks because his e can do dmg to and also stop his health drain.
Tips / Tricks:
With your ult u can jump over walls!
Dont use ur E all the time. Use it only for running or knocking enemys in ur team or stopping theyr channel. Bad tops: Garen, Yorick, Jax. They will escape you. Hecarims W can heal you to full hp if your team is doing damage to enemys in the circle of your lifesteal "Circle".
Important thing to know: Your smite actualy HEALS you for quite a bit if you use it while your W is active/Your E does damage to turrets!
If you have Iceborn Gauntlet then consider pushing and killing turrets because your E can do dmg to turrets and iceborn gauntlet works on turrets too! So spam your q at the turret.. q dosent hit turret but it activates ur iceborn gauntlet's effect wich does quite alot dmg. Iceborn gauntlet is very good on hecarim because hecarims Q is spammable! And you can activate the iceborn gauntlets special effect alot more often.
..Psst, another good tip is:
Feed him carrots, hes a horse!
Creeping / Jungling
jungle route is pretty simple: Wolfs with a leash, Blue with a leash ---> Wraiths ----> Wolfs ---> Red ---> Golems, Recall. Then go gank and when you have iceborn gauntlet start destroying turrets!
Post your thougths and help me
Post your thougths about this guide.
Its my first guide
..Psst, please help me improve it.. This big block of rainbow colored text is making me dizzy :/
About hecarim
at the moment is quite strong. He does good damage but is very strong late game. He needs atleast a few kills (3-4) to start doing good. His Devastating Charge will take a time to master and be carefull with his Onslaught of Shadows. Dont waste it!
Uses for it:
Defending turrets
Leading a charge/Initating
Saving ur ADCARRY from a whole team
And remember, you are the one who starts the teamfight. And you also are the one who wins it :P
Why take Hecarim and what items and teammates are good with him
can turn the tide of the battle around! From a losing game you can make it into a win! He CAN carry if feeded. Consider taking items like Thornmail or Twin Shadows-
Thornmail does a GOOD job because if combined with your Spirit of Dread it can actualy heal you for the damage that Thornmail does.
And Twin Shadows are very good! Isnt it just funny how all of a sudden- The enemy is doing baron and 2 ghosts run up to them, A horse with spectral riders jumps in and Smite theyr baron and runs away.. ..Its just such a good scouting item!
I almost ALWAYS take Twin Shadows if we are not winning.. Basicly- flying vision wards that chase enemys! What can be better? So.. Yea. Hes pretty good with this item.. Consider taking Hecarim if enemy has squishy teammates. I find myself getting countered by Garen and Yorick + Jax alot because i cant quite gank them.. They either slow me or they just spin to theyr tower :/ Dont you find that a bit annoying?
Well i do. Talking about hecarim.. He can chase down almost anything and he has fast clear time and is hard to counterjungle. Hecarim shines the moust if you go tank with him or offtank because you can dish out alot of damage with ur Iceborn Gauntlet. I usually rush Sheen with him but if im falling back i go for the Spirit of the Elder Lizard for survivability and extra healing from my Spirit of Dread in teamfights. Spirit Visage is always my fourth item. I get Iceborn Gauntlet, Spirit of elder wizard, mercury's threads and then Spirit Visage.. And if you are being pushed too much you can just get the homeguard enchantment and beat the sh** out of the enemys in ur base.
So? You probaly wonder whats a good team with hecarim?
Well a good team with him is good damage dealers that have slows, from my expierience this is what i like in my team
Anivia or Veigar mid. (Anivia is very good help) Or also Katarina is good- Who needs CC if the enemy is already dead?
Bot lane: Lulu and anything with a slow
And top lane i like irelia because she can help me with ganks even if she is low on hp because then she can stun. If enemys are focusing u when u are jumping in teammfights- consider getting health items or resistance items. And at early games u usualy die when charging in teamfights so.. lulus ultimate can help you there quite a lot. I like hecarim because he dosent need a premade team that much as other champs... but if you have a premade team and you are talking on skype- then hecarim can be really good :P However if you want to go top with him- go ahead. He is UNGANKABLE!
Hecarim does need quite alot of mana at the begging and he also needs blue. Dont give your blue away untill level 10.
does need that farm. If he gets a good farm or gets to clean up a wave of minions while an ally needs to recall, its always good. Hecarim can be VERY, VERY, VERY strong if feeded.. He can also carry his team (Yep, because he has a saddle) if feeded. So. He needs kills or farm to shine more! And earlyer! I usually do bad at early game but then end up super good late game. A few games before, i had a score of 17/0/38 wich i think is pretty good considering that our lee sin got a pentakill because of my help. Hecarim can snowball REALLY hard if he gets kills.. Hes also a great turretdiver if you get Ohmwrecker or some hp items. I love to play hecarim because NOONE ESCAPES HIM (Mobafire, y u no add shake effect?!)
Lets go trougth the items
Thornmail Is a good pick. It heals you while you are using your Spirit of Dread and is almost a MUST against AD team.
Guardian Angel Gives even more survivability, even more chance of escaping, and is a overall-good item.
Spirit of the Elder Lizard Once again, your Spirit of Dread benefits from this and heals you for more
Iceborn Gauntlet It is a MUST on Hecarim. It gives you survivability, extra damage against turrets, and works good with your Devastating Charge
The Black Cleaver You can get this if the enemy is very squishy or you are dominating.
Sword of the Occult If you are getting feeded, by all means, get this! It gives great extra damage.
Tiamat Not much to say.. Isn't that good unless you get it super early or go backdoor
Twin Shadows Its good for scouting baron or where the enemys are.. Basicly, a floating ward.
Warmog's Armor Gives good survivability and extra hp.. You can get it whenever you wish
Wriggle's Lantern Hecarim doesnt really benefit from this item.. I'd rather just buy something else
Youmuu's Ghostblade Its good for making better ganks or better initations to do extra dmg or escape.
Zeke's Herald Can help your team in teamfights and also gives some survivability..
Zephyr If you don't have merc threads but some other boots and you need CD reduction and extra damage then take this. Its a good item on Hecarim
Zhonya's Hourglass You can get this if you are getting turretdives or you want your Spirit of Dread to do more damage.. not really that good for Hec
Sunfire Cape Gives extra healing from Spirit of Dread and also gives more survivability. A good item on Hec, early or late game, it helps.
Spirit Visage You have to get this. its a must. It dosent give you THAT much extra healing, but it gives you enough to stay in a teamfight longer and also gives you survivability. A very good pick on Hecarim
Shurelya's reverie Its a good item. It helps you and ur team escape from tricky situations.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter Actualy.. Its not that bad of a item on hec. It slows, it gives you health and it gives your Spirit of Dread extra dmg! Its a wierd pick but go ahead..
Quicksilver Sash A VERY good item if enemy has hard CC and you are dominating. This can save you ALOT. Especialy if you are dominating- it will prevent the enemy from shutting u down.
Overlord's Bloodmail Sure, get it! If you are not doing that good, then this item is good. It gives survivability and even more survivability if someone dies.
Maw of Malmortius A good choice. More survivability and damage!
Locket of the Iron Solari It can help you initate and also save ur teammates.
Infinity Edge Hecarim dosent really need this.. it dosent give any extra hp so its not that good on him.
Hextech Gunblade You can build ur hecarim as a hybrid and take this..
Guinsoo's Rageblade Same as Hextech
Frozen Mallet You can take this even tough you dont need it because youve got ur iceborn gauntlet..

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I don't know. I've just always heard it.
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Rasmus40 (395) Beder, Aarhus, Denmark | March 19, 2017
Tiny, old bar with four taps and only a few bottles. I had a Rodenbach as that was the most interesting availble. Unsurprisingly there were no new ticks for me. I had walked past a few times and it looked like a fun little. The clientele was more locals than tourists on a Sunday evening. The music was Queen, Oasis and that sort of thing. Not bad.
Mathieu87 (328) Brussels, Belgium | June 28, 2015
Fun little place in Ghent! It's so small :p Usually go there during de Gentse Feesten, but visited a few times on regular days as well. Lovely atmosphere, some nice beers available... Worth a quick stop!
Alengrin (139) , Belgium | November 12, 2014
Claims to be the smallest bar in Ghent. Certainly is one of the oldest, housed next to the mediëval Vleeshuis. Small and usually crowded and my relations with the staff are, let's say, not optimal, so I don't make it to this pub very often. I did have Gulden Draak there yesterday but only because the weather was still good enough to sit outside - but then, there are cosier corners in Ghent to sit outside with a beer. Beer selection is average for a bar in a Belgian city centre, never found anything truly interesting there, not even when the former owner still ran it. Atmosphere was better in those days, though. Not my cup of tea.
olsvammel (177) Örebro, Sweden | August 11, 2014
Visited in 2011. Very small place but also very cool. It looks too small for a pub but there are a couple of tables inside. Me and my father ended up talking to the bartender and one of the locals. Not the best selection but still worth a visit.
JefVerstraete (151) Oosterzele, Belgium | July 3, 2014
Beatiful little bar in the city center. Friendly staff, but this is'nt a beer bar. Just some average boring Belgian beers, nothing special.
Hansen (159) Assentoft, Denmark | May 4, 2014
Funny house, lacy staff. Few interesting beers. Try to go upstairs, if there is room. Smallest beer-room I have been in, and with a great view.
limski (8) , Northern Ireland | January 13, 2014
Good service from friendly staff, loud music and a real mix of clientele. My wife and I really liked the small cosy atmosphere and the fact that even as tourists we were welcomed back on our second visit. Wish I had a local like this. Not a great selection but a great place to sit.
AndySnow (300) Huddinge , Sweden | November 14, 2013
Very small place in the central of Gent. Never went upstairs since there was plenty of room outside. Not a huge selection, but they do have a few good ones.
Holmen1 (203) Stavanger, Norway | August 22, 2013
En av de minste og mest særpregede puber jeg noensinne har besøkt. Originale keramiske fliser fra 1700-tallet, rester av galgene fra 1600-tallet, og verdens minste annnen etasje - max antall personer ad gangen: 7! Kjempehyggelig vertskap som er stolt av stedet sitt, men ølutvalget er meget begrenset. Allikevel det stedet du bare MÅ besøke i Gent.
Countbeer (259) Best of E-Town mit 2 Brauhausen, Netherlands | July 31, 2013
Charming and historical little place. Very small. Thought the beer selection was 't that special, but combining a good beer they serve with a sit here is quite remarkable. So all by all worth a visit but don't expect too much.


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- Figure 3: Travel and tourism expenditure and receipts in Russia, 2009-19
- Trend in passenger movements 1990-2009
- Rapid expansion through 2008
- Traffic fell by over 9% in 2009
- Figure 4: Trend in passenger traffic of Russian airlines, 2004-09
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- Figure 5: The 34 biggest Russian airlines, ranked by passengers carried in 2009
- Market share of major carriers
- Figure 6: Passenger transport market share of Russian carriers in the first half of 2009
- Domestic market shares
- Figure 7: Domestic passenger transport market share of Russian carriers in 2008
- International market shares
- Figure 8: International passenger transport market share of Russian carriers in 2008
Major Carriers
- Aeroflot
- Key performance indicators
- Figure 9: Key indicators for Aeroflot Group's total air transport business, 2007-08
- Figure 10: Key indicators for Aeroflot Group's domestic air transport business, 2007-08
- Figure 11: Key indicators for Aeroflot Group's international air transport business, 2007-08
- Figure 12: Key indicators for Aeroflot Group's passenger transport business by major region, 2007-08
- Aeroflot has numerous affiliates
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- Figure 16: New Donavia routes inaugurated in 2009
- Figure 17: New Nordavia routes inaugurated in 2009
- Air fleet
- Fleet set to double
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- Distribution
- Figure 19: Aeroflot's Russian distribution channels (in % of total sales in Russia), 2007-08
- Figure 20: Aeroflot's foreign distribution channels (in % of total sales in outside Russia), 2007-08
- Frequent-flyer programme
- Outlook
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- Hubs and route network
- New routes
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- A far-flung network
- Figure 22: Top ten city pairs' capacity and frequency share (in % of S7's network), June 2009
- Strong growth through 2007
- Slowdown in 2008
- Figure 23: Operating results for S7 in 2008
- A decline for 2009
- Figure 24: Globus Airlines' foreign holiday destinations, 2009
- Distribution
- Frequent-flyer programme
- S7's air fleet
- Figure 25: S7 Airlines' fleet, September 2009
- Transaero
- Figure 26: Transaero key performance indicators, 2004-08
- Positive results in 2009
- Rebound began in May
- New routes added
- Figure 27: New Transaero routes inaugurated in 2009 & 2010
- Fleet expansion
- Financing
- Co-operation with other carriers
- Frequent-flyer programme
- Rossiya Airlines
- 2009 results
- Rossiya's fleet
- New routes
- Figure 28: New Rossiya routes inaugurated in 2009
- Co-operation with other carriers
- UTair
- Traffic up by 15% in 2009
- Figure 29: UTair's performance indicators, 2008-09
- Outlook for 2010
- Hubs and route network
- Figure 30: New UTair routes inaugurated in 2009 & 2010
- Air fleet
- Helicopter fleet
- Figure 31: Utair's helicopter fleet, 2009
- Orenair
- Rapid growth in recent years
- Air fleet
- Figure 32: Orenair's fleet, 2009
- Frequent-flyer programme suspended
- Ural Airlines
- Route network
- Figure 33: New Ural Airlines routes inaugurated in 2009 & 2010
- Aircraft fleet
- International co-operation
- Distribution
- Frequent-flyer programme
- Aeroflot
Budget Airlines
- Sky Express
- Figure 34: Sky Express capacity breakdown by routes from Moscow, week beginning 1 December 2008
- Avianova
- Foreign ownership
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- Figure 35: Air freight market share of Russian carriers in the first half of 2009
- Volga-Dnepr Group
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- The An-124
- Ruslan International
- Volga-Dnepr's passenger service subsidiary
- Volga-Trucks
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- Figure 37: AirBridge expansion plans, 2009-15
- Volga-Dnepr Group results
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- Barriers to entry for foreign airlines
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- Rossiya and Vladivostokavia the most attractive assets
- A new budget carrier
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Unanswered: Package Procedure Termination Time
A package procedure is scheduled to execute at a give time (12:00:00 A.M.).
How does one determine the terminiation time of a procedure?
Note: Estimated time of completion is between 1:00 or 2:00 A.M.
This oracle installation works with ERP software system. Only the
vendor has rights to modify package code. This limits the one to creating a trigger or examining a trace of the procedure.
Could the use of trigger be used, if so how? Is there an oracle
dynamic peformance view that shows the information needed?
Now one could examine a trace session to determine the when the
process ends, but sleep sound like a better idea.
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You got two possibilities
1) use the total_time column in dba_jobs. BUT this is cumulative time i.e. the time taken for running the job since the very first time so if it takes 10 minutes then the second time the job run total_time will be 20 mins.
So you could have another job which copies the dba_jobs table to another table so you can subtract the total_time from the previous days total_time to get the time spent today.
2) write sysdate to your own log table at the end of your stored proc.
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A mixture of the Eastern and Western styles with colorful accents, this house is a very good combination. Spacious 400 Sq.M. house in a big plot of 300 Sq.W. land. Four bedrooms in the main house plus another 2 bedrooms in guesthouse. Fully furnished and well finished with the highest standard.
Big terrace showing the garden and pool view. There are both normal bedrooms and some rooms for kids. Mainly use the wooden furniture with some carving and lacquer. Island kitchen with some electric appliances and emergency power generator. The living room is vast, showing the garden and pool view in background. Some patio for fun activities, such as a pool game. Dining area for your family with the most exclusive view.
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INDIANAPOLIS - A person familiar with the deal says the Atlanta Braves are close to trading reliever Rafael Soriano to the Tampa Bay Rays for pitcher Jesse Chavez.
The teams were waiting for the medical reports to be approved, the person told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the trade hadn't been finalized.
Soriano had 27 saves last season for Atlanta. This week, he agreed to the Braves' offer of salary arbitration.
The Braves recently signed free agent relievers Billy Wagner and Takashi Saito. That made Soriano expendable, and the Rays were looking for late-inning relief help.
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WASHINGTON - The Washington Nationals say there will be a news conference at their stadium today, when they're expected to announce the signing of free agent Ivan Rodriguez.
The 38-year-old catcher agreed this week to a $6 million, two-year contract, pending a physical.
A 14-time All-Star and the 1999 AL MVP, Rodriguez split last season between Houston and Texas. He hit a combined .249 with 10 homers and 47 RBIs.
Rodriguez, a 13-time Gold Glove winner, is slated to be a backup to Jesus Flores, who missed most of last season with injuries.
After playing for Texas from 1991-02, Rodriguez spent one season with Florida and 41/2 with Detroit before finishing 2008 with the New York Yankees. He then signed with Houston, and the Astros traded him to the Rangers in August.
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INDIANAPOLIS - Former AL Rookie of the Year Bobby Crosby and the Pittsburgh Pirates agreed Thursday to a $1 million, one-year contract.
The 29-year-old infielder had spent his previous seven seasons with Oakland and was voted the rookie honor in 2004, when he batted .239 with 22 homers and 64 RBIs.
He hit just .223 this year with six homers and 29 RBIs in 238 at-bats, becoming the first Oakland player to appear in at least five games at four infield positions since Ernest Riles in 1991. He went on the disabled list in August because of a strained left calf.
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The oft-injured right-hander had to pass a physical before the agreement was finalized.
Harden struck out 171 batters in 141 innings last season, going 9-9 with a 4.09 ERA for the Chicago Cubs.
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INDIANAPOLIS - The Houston Astros landed a new third baseman on the final day of the winter meetings, agreeing Thursday to a $4.5 million, one-year contract with Pedro Feliz.
The 34-year-old hit .266 with 12 homers and 82 RBIs last season for NL champion Philadelphia Phillies, who declined a $5.5 million option for 2010 and opted to pay a $500,000 buyout. Philadelphia then brought in Placido Polanco to replace him, agreeing to an $18 million, three-year deal.
"He's been an outstanding defensive player and a solid run producer for his entire career," Astros general manager Ed Wade said. "He played a premium position with a two-time World Series participant and was a key part of the Phillies' success. We're fortunate to have him on board."
Feliz is slated to take over from Geoff Blum, who started 94 games at third for Houston last season, and Jeff Keppinger, who started 67.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — This destination has more golf options than the average bogey machine has swing thoughts.
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And with a nickname like The Valley of the Sun, club-toting tourists can count on lush fairways and greens and plenty of Vitamin D in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area.
That's all old news, of course.
For years, this has been a favourite winter getaway for golf-crazed Canadians, and that certainly hasn't changed.
But if you're a repeat visitor to Arizona's hotspot — back in the spotlight recently as host of the PGA Tour's biggest party, the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale — and feel like you have tried almost every option on what is a super-sized menu of public-access courses, perhaps we can offer a few suggestions for your next trip.
Golfers, here's your guide to what's new — new holes, new experiences and more — in the Valley of the Sun …
Westin Kierland Resort & Spa
This course has cool covered.
Whatever the latest and greatest way to boogie from tee to green, you can try it out at Westin Kierland, home to 27 links-style holes in the heart of Scottsdale.
Westin Kierland has a fleet of rental GolfBoards, motorized smile-makers that allow you to surf between shots. You control the speed with a thumb throttle and shift your weight to steer.
It might sound tricky, but the GolfBoard is so user-friendly that you'll wish you could hit a golf ball this straight. Take it from us — it's a hoot.
"We thought it was really going to appeal to the younger generation, but all generations have loved it," said Nancy Dickens, club manager at Westin Kierland. "I was walking to the parking lot one evening and a guy and his wife were coming in and he said, 'Oh my God, this is the most fun I've ever had. This is the only way to play golf.' "
If you're not so sure, you can also scoot around the Acacia, Ironwood and Mesquite Nines at Westin Kierland by segway or peddle on a specialized golf bike, the best way to chase guilt if you skipped your workout.
We-Ko-Pa Golf Club
If you only have time for one round at We-Ko-Pa, your decision is now more difficult than ever.
With its sibling Saguaro Course getting most of the love, staff figured it was time for a spiffing up of the Cholla Course, the original attraction at what is considered by many to the best 36-hole hangout in the area.
The renovation included a resurfacing and restoration of every green, plus sand replacement and re-vegetation efforts and irrigation upgrades that will save 12 million gallons of water each year.
For returning duffers to this superb setup on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, the most noticeable change is the approach on the eighth hole — a downhill doozy that stretches to 605 yards from the tips — is a now tad less frightening after crews grassed over a waste area that just wasn't much fun.
"We want to turn the 9s into 6s and the 7s into 5s," said Matt Barr, lucky enough as general manager at We-Ko-Pa to oversee two of the top three public tracks in Arizona, according to Golf Magazine's rating panel. "It's not an automatic birdie, by any stretch. It's still quite a challenge, but it's much more forgiving and player-friendly."
Verde River Golf & Social Club
Verde River Golf & Social Club, eh?
You're first reaction will probably be, 'Never heard of it. Never played it, either.'
You might have. You just don't recognize the name.
This semi-private setup in north Scottsdale was formerly known as Tegavah. And before that, Vista Verde.
New owners preferred a different name, but the signage switcheroo certainly isn't the only change at what will eventually transition to a private club.
There's a clubhouse sprouting out of the ground, with a brand-new first and finishing hole to reach that location and a re-routing of the other assignments, too.
Perhaps the name to know is Tom Lehman, the 1996 British Open champion who was tasked with the redesign of what he called "one of the best-kept secrets in Arizona."
After a six-month reno, Verde River re-opened in early November.
"(Lehman) wanted to preserve as much of the original layout as he could. He had a lot of respect for what was originally here," said Verde River's director of golf Jeff Lessig. "The feedback has been remarkably good. Most of the golfers who have played so far are people who'd played here before and wanted to experience the redesign, and the reaction has been very positive."
Seven Canyons Golf Club
We realize that you're already on a getaway.
But if you're a repeat visitor to the Valley of the Sun and have never made the two-hour trip to Sedona, you're really missing out.
Perched at 4,600 feet of elevation and carved into a red-rock setting that you must see to believe, Sedona is a hotspot for hikers and nature enthusiasts. We're biased, but we think the best way to explore this colourful canvas is a spin of Seven Canyons Golf Club.
"One of the things people always say is if you could image building a golf course at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, that's what it feels like," said Dave Bisbee, golf operations and membership director.
Seven Canyons is a private club, but tee-times are available for stay-and-play guests at Enchantment Resort.
With slightly cooler temperatures, an overnight trip could be a welcome reprieve during your desert escape.
"You have that private-club feel and then when you add the amenities that are available at Enchantment, it's just this remarkable retreat," Bisbee said. "Between the rooms over there, Mii amo Spa and access to what we have at Seven Canyons, I don't think you can match that anyplace else."
ASU Karsten Golf Course
On a brilliant blue-sky day at ASU Karsten Golf Course in Tempe, we were joined by a local for the back nine.
The new guy striped his drive on No. 10, sailing his tee-shot over a bunker on the exact line he'd suggested moments earlier.
There were ooohs, ahhhs and compliments
"That's nothing," he replied. "You should the college kids who play out here."
ASU Karsten has been home to the Arizona State University Sun Devils golf squads since 1989. During that span, the likes of Phil Mickelson, Grace Park, Anna Nordqvist and superstar-in-the-making Jon Rahm have honed their skills on this testy Pete Dye design.
If you spy a smooth-swinging student, he/she could be the next big thing.
"In the restaurant, there is a large wall with names of all the past players," said Derek Crawford, general manager at ASU Karsten. "There are pictures. There are golf bags of some of the great players who have been here. It's really neat. You don't see that everywhere."
You'll also appreciate that ASU Karsten is so close to the runways at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, a perfect spot to squeeze in a round at the start or end of your trip.


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This coming from a woman who writes erotica; are you surprised?
According to the Supreme Court, obscene is three-fold after the ruling in Miller v. California, 1973:
a. "the average person, applying contemporary community standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest
b. the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law,
c. the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
So we have sex and the words we use to talk/write about it that may or may not be considered obscene. I recently had an exchange with Abiola Abrams (@abiolatv) on Twitter about the word punany; I like it, but don't use it nearly as much as I should. I've recently taken to using the term coolie-coo to describe the "goodness between my (or a woman's) thighs". The point of my book where I used the word fuck (and its derivatives: fucking, fucked, motherfucker) 67 times, pussy 72 times, penis 12 times but dick 127 times, was to be "prurient". And I'm fully protected.


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It was the most sex I've ever had in a 36-hour period.
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I met Michael at a yearly festival and we had sex in the back of his station wagon parked in the middle of a big field with the back door open to the stars and the night. I felt like such an American girl. We talked a few times after that but I never saw him again and I never learned his last name. I was 26.
The Celt
Seven months later I met the Celt. He was a few years younger than me, a pagan bohemian romantic, uncut and very sexually open. For a year and a half we explored some light BDSM and had sex in any way possible and in every place we could think of. He wanted to get married but I knew that he didn't have his shit together enough to make that work. We remained friends even after he married someone else and I just had drinks with him last month.
Another yearly festival where I met this round Samoan boy with shark's teeth tattooed on his chest. He called his dick "Little Elvis." I hardly knew him and I only had sex with him because the Blacksmith wasn't there.
The Blacksmith
He had a girlfriend but they were in an alleged open relationship wherein he slept with other people and she pretended to be okay with it. For a year and a half we talked on the phone for hours every week and had sex as often as he could sneak away. Our sex never had a lot of range or interesting qualities but it was explosive from the secrecy and sneaking around. I fell for him really hard and wanted to be with him openly so I finally told him it was her or me. He said, "It's not that simple."
The Body Builder
Post breakup with the Blacksmith, all I wanted from the Body Builder was a hook up but on our first date he told me that he was separated from his wife, looking for a girlfriend, and he wasn't interested in a fling. I was still in serial monogamy mode so I thought I'd give him a go and we dated for a year while he went through a difficult divorce. He had a great body and was very attentive but the sex between us was never great and I quickly became completely uninterested. I finally extricated myself and felt a huge sense of relief.
The Blacksmith again
When I received notice that I'd gotten into grad school I thought, "I should call the Blacksmith and tell him." And so it all started up again. He was still with his girlfriend but this time he actually broke up with her. We dated for four years during which time our sex life went from good to terrible. He was very distressed about it but I didn't want to have sex with him and I didn't know why. In retrospect, I think I never forgave him for choosing his girlfriend over me the first time around. After four years, we went through the ugliest break up I ever hope to endure, the aftermath of which lasted a full year until I moved out of town. However, we eventually started speaking again and now we talk once a year on our birthdays, which are a day apart.
A South African actor who came to town with a touring show. I went to Simba's apartment the night I broke up with the Blacksmith and we had rowdy athletic sex on the red couch in his living room. His show went to Denver the next week and I followed him out there. After a weekend together he stopped taking my calls and I never saw him or spoke to him again. He was the first black man I ever had sex with.
Austin31 was a dancer/acrobat who toured with Simba. He friended me on MySpace (remember Myspace?) and one day sent me a long strangely written email, told me it was encoded with a separate message, and I'd have to break the code. Inside the first letter was a completely filthy and glorious second letter about all the sexy things he thought we should do together. I flew to Austin to spend a weekend with him and had the most sex I'd ever had in a 36 hour period. He could come and stay hard. It was incredible. For the next six years we hooked up whenever geography allowed and we're still friends now.
A musician most notable for the time we smoked a lot of pot and had a lot of sex in Central Park. I shudder to think what might have happened had we gotten caught, but we didn't. He was intense and unpredictable with sexual predilections that included having his nipples bitten hard and only wanting sex doggy style or with my legs over my head. Sex with him was work and after a few encounters I decided we were better off friends, which we still are.
A surgical resident I met at the gym. The first time we had sex was nothing to tell stories about but the next time he revealed that he wanted a girl to fuck him with a strap on and how did I feel about that? I was fascinated, so he brought out his big black strap on and put it on me and I fucked him with it. It was awkward and vulnerable and thrilling and hot. Afterwards I felt like the world shifted on its axis a couple of degrees. For the last seven years we've seen each other occasionally. He always takes care of me then I fuck him and every time I'm amazed at how quickly it makes him come. Nothing ended our relationship but we text a lot less now than we used to.
A tall tattooed Bahamian stagehand I met backstage while I was on tour. He'd just gotten out of a long relationship, I wasn't looking for anything serious and the sex was fun. He had a kinky side and liked to be spanked, which was enjoyable, but he was a 24-hour stoner, which always made me wonder what he was avoiding. I stayed on tour and we saw each other a few more times but at a certain point he wanted exclusivity and I wasn't in that space for that so we stopped talking.
The Skier
My best friend's brother's best friend. One night we had drinks and ended up making out in the parking lot. The next time I saw him we had sex, which was only okay, but over the subsequent six years we've had a long running sexy picture exchange. That man has more naked pictures of me than anyone else. Recently, however, he's decided to get serious with his girlfriend so I cut off the sexty texting. We're still friends but we don't talk all that often.
The Celt's older brother and a Special Forces soldier. Years after I dated the Celt, Ajax friended me on Myspace. (I know, again with Myspace) and we flirted by IM for months. I was headed to Thailand and somehow he finagled vacation time so we met up in Bangkok for an epic tour of Southeast Asia. We went to sex shows, got sudsies, had sex in dance clubs, and generally tore it up for three weeks. He liked water sports so I explored that kinky fetish and discovered that while I don't mind peeing on someone or having them pee on me, it's not something I want to do every time I have sex.
We met on a Caribbean island off the coast of Honduras. He was scary smart, charming, good looking, and a widow. The week after I met him I knew I'd marry him if he asked me. He once drove 1,200 miles to see me on my day off and another time rented a yacht so we could sail around the Solent. He was the king of the grand gesture. It was the most romantic relationship I'd ever been in except the sex was always puzzling. He couldn't/didn't want to/wouldn't let himself come with me and in the months we dated, he orgasmed only four times. We broke up in Australia when he decided he wasn't ready to be in a relationship. It took me years to get over him.
You know those people you meet where there's instant chemistry and the flirting is intense and sexual and every time they touch you it feels warm all over your body and you just know that the sex is going to be mind blowing, but then you actually go to bed and you're like "What the hell is happening here?" Because it's all awkward and you can't find a rhythm and nothing they do is working for you. Then they're like "we should do that again" and you're like "uh, probably not"? It was like that.
Long Island
An Egyptian/Puerto Rican working as a tutor with whom I broke a nine-month dry spell. He was pretty and the sex was fun because I hadn't had any in so long, but it was the kind of sex you have with a young pretty person where you realize that they have no idea how great sex can actually be. We don't live in the same town and I got tired of answering texts that just said "hey" so we stopped talking.
The Brit
The Brit was my instructor when I trained as a dive master. He had blue eyes, a pierced tongue, and a history of criminal tendencies. After a week of talking about sex, we finally ended up in bed, and for the next five weeks, the sex was amazing and continuous. We'd have hours of sex, wake up a couple hours later to have more sex, sleep a few hours, wake up, and have a quickie or two, and run down the beach to work at the dive shop. I never got tired of him and we never slept together without fucking. It ended when we both left the island to go work other jobs so now we email and sext. I expect I'll see him again at some point.
Dancer Guy
Adorable, young, really good with his tongue, and one of the biggest penises I've ever seen but it didn't completely click for me. We sext and he's expressed interest in a repeat, but I haven't decided if I want to have sex with him again. He is cute though.
Tall and tattooed with a big beard and a curly handlebar mustache. Months of flirting followed by a couple weeks of great sex that fizzled when I suspected he had lots of secrets and more than one girl on the side. He's the kind of guy it's more fun to flirt with than to be with because he only wants the things he doesn't have. We're currently back to flirting with no sex but we're on tour together for the next 3 months so I guess nothing's really over until it's over.


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Twenty students at Kings Park High School have been suspended for viewing cellphone video of a sexual encounter between a girl and a boy at a neighboring school, and while their parents are outraged over the punishment, insisting their children didn't know what they were getting when they received the video, and that they deleted it right away, there really is not much they can do about it.
The school issued what's know as an "in-school suspension" meaning it was less than 5 days in length. Longer suspensions are called "superintendent's suspensions" because they require a hearing conducted by the District's superintendent. These short-term suspensions only entitle a student to a conference before the principal to plead you case. Good luck with that, after all the principal is the one who suspended you in the first place.
Students facing these suspensions are entitled to notice. The notice must contain 3 things:
(1) A description of the event causing the suspension and the date that it took place. The description must have enough detail for you to understand what event they're talking about.
(2) An explanation of your right to request a conference with the principal.
(3) An explanation of your right to question "complaining witnesses" at the conference. A complaining witness is the person who reported your alleged conduct.
The suspensions show the danger of underage "sexting." Most of the suspended students didn't ask for the video to be sent to them and fair number of them deleted the video immediately after viewing it. The principal said that was not enough, if they viewed it they were gone. So to avoid suspension the kids would have had to delete the video without seeing it. These quick-trigger suspensions are just one of the issues with underage sexting. The two boys who made the video have been charged with disseminating indecent material to minors and promoting a sexual performance by a child, both of which are Class-D felonies, and third-degree sexual abuse, which is a misdemeanor. One of the arrested boys was the person in the video the other one was the one who filmed it. These kids are now hit with felony charges and their cases are being brought in adult court not family court.
Similar charges of including charges of disseminating and possessing child pornography have been brought against sexting teens across the country.
So it would be wise for parents of middle school-aged kids and higher to have a serious discussion about sexting and passing photos or videos through their phones. Most of them will think they are just engaging in "kids being kids" but will find out the hard way that is not the case.


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ +16 years-old ] Sang Woo is a national swimmer who is always looking for the first place. Won Il is a swimming prodigy who stopped participating in sport, and now wants to make his comeback. They not only become rivals in the sport, also fall in love with the same girl, Eun Jung, an aspiring musician who is his childhood friend. You can watch Nobeulesing (No Breathing) online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Korean at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2013.
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Runtime: 118 minutes
Lee Jong Suk, Seo In Guk, Kwon Yu Ri and Ah Young.
118-minute film (full movie) directed by Jo Yong Seon.
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By Art Martone
Dick Williams, the man who took over as Red Sox manager in 1967 and was the catalyst for a baseball revitalization that reverberates to this day, died Thursday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 82.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which reported the news, said Williams died of "what was believed to be a brain aneurysm."
Williams, elected to the Hall of Fame as a manager in 2008, is best known nationally for guiding the Oakland A's to back-to-back World Series titles in 1972-73 (he resigned, due to conflicts with owner Charles O. Finley, prior to the A's third consecutive championship in 1974), and for leading two other teams (Boston and San Diego) to the World Series. He is one of only seven managers to qualify for the World Series with both A.L. and N.L. teams.
But locally, he'll forever be remembered as the crew-cutted, hard-driving taskmasker who changed the culture of the Red Sox.
As a utility player with the Sox at the end of his career in 1963 and '64, he was disgusted by the players' casual approach to their jobs and management's inability (or unwillingness) to impose accountability or discipline on them . . . which had been the case almost from the day Tom Yawkey bought the team in 1932. Upon his retirement he was appointed manager of the team's Triple-A affiliate in Toronto, where he worked in 1965 and '66 while the parent club lost a combined total of 190 games.
Williams was promoted to Boston at the end of the '66 season and he promised things would be different in 1967.
Were they ever.
The 1967 Red Sox were coming off eight consecutive losing seasons, and three straight years of 90 or more defeats. (They lost 100 on the nose in 1965.) They hadn't been in a pennant race since 1955, hadn't been a serious contender since 1951, and hadn't won a pennant since 1946. Ted Williams' retirement at the end of the 1960 season had almost extinguished interest in the team; the average attendance for a game at Fenway Park during the post-Ted era of 1961-66 was 10,026.
"You couldn't give tickets away -- no one wanted them," remembered Rico Petrocelli, the shortstop of the '67 team, in a book he wrote about the team in 2007.
But in this wasteland, Williams saw opportunity.
I thought we hada good ballclub, he remembered in a 1984 television interview. Wewere short on pitching, but we had guys that could play . .. A lot ofthem were going through the motions.
Not anymore, they wouldn't.
Two of the greatest managers in Red Sox history -- Dick
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Williams took charge with a forcefulness unseen in previous Red Sox managers. He stripped Carl Yastrzemski of the ceremonial title of captain, saying (in those pre-politically correct times) "I'm the chief and the players are Indians." He ran meticulous drills, pounding the fundamentals of baseball into the players. He laid down laws and (more importantly) he enforced them . . . consequences be damned. For instance: He put a weight limit on first baseman George Scott and benched Scott, one of his best hitters, for three straight games in Anaheim when he was overweight. The Sox lost all three games by one run, and Angels shortstop Jim Fregosi cracked, "We've got nine managers in this then-10-team league and one dietitian."
But it worked. The Red Sox stayed in contention through the first half of the season, caught fire with a 10-game winning streak in July that propelled them to the top of the standings, and scratched through a four-team pennant race that was one of the tightest in baseball history. And when they beat the Twins -- and the Tigers lost to the Angels -- on Sunday, Oct. 1, the last day of the season, Boston had its first pennant in 21 years.
"Tell Fregosi the dietitian won," Williams said in the postgame celebration.
It was more than just one team winning one championship. 1967 came to be known as the Summer of Love, but in New England it had a different meaning. This region's affection for its baseball team, numbed by years of mediocrity, was reborn. When the Sox returned home after the 10th consecutive win in July, 15,000 people were waiting to greet them at Logan Airport. A man caused a huge traffic tieup on the Southeast Expressway when he refused to enter the tunnel until he'd heard the result of a crucial at-bat on his car radio. It's said you could walk along any New England beach that summer and never miss a pitch of a game, as transistor radios blared from every blanket.
"John Lennon hadonce said that The Beatles were more popular than God," wrote Petrocelli. "In 1967, theRed Sox were more popular than The Beatles!"
Around here, they were. It was the year that the seeds of the fanaticism we see today -- Red Sox Nation, to coin a phrase -- were planted.
And Dick Williams was the gardener.
Williams would only manage the Sox for two more years. Unable to dial down his pedal-to-the-metal approach, he eventually alienated a vast number of the players and was fired just before the end of the 1969 season. He would go on to manage five other teams -- the A's, Angels, Expos, Padres and Mariners -- and finished his 21-year career with a record of 1,571 wins and 1,451 losses. His teams won four pennants and two World Series.
He remained active until the end of his life. Just two weeks ago he was at a Hall of Fame event in Cooperstown, mourning the recent deaths of Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Harmon Killebrew, Duke Snider and Sparky Anderson, and talking about the "rough" road ahead for one of his ex-players, Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer.
"I guess there are 53, 54 of us Hall of Famers left now," Williams said. "It's sobering."
Two weeks later, he himself was gone.
But his legacy in Boston will never be forgotten.
Art Martone can be reached at email@example.com.


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Darrell Hoemann takes a fond look back
Longtime News-Gazette photo editor Darrell Hoemann is retiring, and we asked him to take a photographic look back at his career. Here is how he approached it:
"It was a challenge when features editor Tony Mancuso asked for a selection of my favorite photos from my 25 years at the N-G. This is a project I'm just not very good at. I've always had trouble with contests because they require you to look back at what has been done. What was next has always interested me more.
"Nevertheless, here are some moments that stand out for me. I've probably missed some, and there is an unnatural bias because I was balancing the managing part of my job with filling in by covering local cultural events and other news."
"One career highlight was covering the 2003 Nobel prize ceremonies with reporter Greg Kline." The University of Illinois had two Nobel prize winners in Paul Lauterbur and Anthony Leggett that year, and we went for focused coverage. This photo was the climax of a week of scrambling around Stockholm, Sweden, after convincing the foreign ministry we were real journalists with a notarized letter from publisher John Foreman. (The functionary wasn't sure about us, but the raised seal convinced her.)"
"We've increased our coverage of cultural events in our amazing community. On my arrival 2-1/2 decades ago, photographers were not allowed at most performances. By demonstrating we could combine good reporting and unobtrusive manners, we slowly gained access to document the talent — homegrown and visiting.
"The 2010 photo of Itzhak Perlman performing in Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, left, combined digital technology with a camera 'muzzle' to show the joy of the performer without disturbing audience members.
"Likewise the 2007 photo of Buddy Guy, right, was collaboration with KCPA staff. Guy, a headliner at the Ellnora Guitar Festival, turned down requests for photos. But persistence by Krannert staff, who trusted our ability to not intrude, got approval with just 20 minutes before the curtain."
"Speaking to a Girl Scout troop once, I was asked why I became a photojournalist. As someone who came of age in the tensions of the 1960s, I said it was because I believed we were all more alike in our goals and lives than we realized and if I could show how we were all more the same than different, it might help us all live together.
"When The N-G gathered local photographers for a special section offering a visual look at a week in our community, I assigned myself to Sunday morning, photographing the Spanish language Mass at St. John's Catholic Church on the UI campus.
"Likewise, during one Easter season, the Mount Olive Baptist church choir allowed me to photograph their rehearsal and high-energy worship on Palm Sunday."
"Not sure how this happened, but somehow I developed a sub-speciality in covering fireworks. My favorite is probably this image from 2007, the first year the event was moved to Parkland College. I used a radio remote to fire a remote flash to light the Olympic Tribute and then used budding cell phone technology to send the photo from my laptop in my van to make deadline and beat the traffic. Yeah, major geek stuff here."
"I had photographed the local roller derby team as women were just getting organized into a team, so it was fun to photograph them later when they were in full derby mode. They didn't disappoint, offering great action with visual appeal."
"The 2009 funeral in St. Joseph of Maj. David Audo was another highlight. The trust the family and their church placed in us was a little intimidating, but I tried to measure up. Sitting in the balcony with the muzzle on the camera allowed me to document the tributes to this fallen soldier for both our readers and the family."
"John Dixon and others have taken really great fire photos, but this was a day when I was the only available and headed south to Villa Grove before we really knew what was happening. On arrival it became apparent this was a significant event for the town. I spent the next several hours sending photos from the car and helping the local stringer file reports."
The public is invited to a reception for Hoemann from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday (Aug. 16) at the newspaper office, 15 Main St., C.
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People at the top of the corporate ladder possess similar attributes. They have a natural knack for getting along with people, strong multitasking and lateral thinking skills, a sharp eye for quality and an intuitive sense of crisis. Blanche Cheng, assistant director—events, InterContinental Hong Kong, adds that commonsense is nothing but vital. "This is something that cannot be taught," Ms Cheng says. "Novices, particularly those who aspire to a career in event management, certainly need this to survive the initial years."


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Re: Adolph J. Renn
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Re: Adolph J. Renn
I just sent you an email response on A.J. and Anna Pohl Renn. I also checked your message under the Pohl name and I might just have some errors in the data I sent you in regards to Franz Pohl. Was Franz Pohl Sr. or Jr, the father of Anna Pohl Renn?