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Great support for sore heel. Delivery was ahead of schedule.
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good fit
Walk a lot. You need these.
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They put your feet in the right position and you can feel the difference when you use other shoes.
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I use these for walking and gym aerobics
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Tried the product and it seemed to work, for about 10 minutes, that was it. After trying them for a day or two around Disney, found they didn't provide any relief.
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I have no more foot pain. Terrific product. Great look
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SturdyGreat supportI walk for exercise and shoes I wear break down easily. These don't Help solve my pronating problem.Gift from my wife, Dee the Grandma
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My husband is hard to fit and is hard on shoes. These fit great. He liked them so well that he bought a 2nd pair. What a great find.
Great comfort at a fair price.
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I am very impressed with these shoes. I would have expected to pay more. The built in orthotic is as good as any custom orthotic I have used for my plantar fascitis.
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"The office spends approximately 10 percent of the budget to give the constituents local access to me and the staff. The office has five district offices -- the cost is approx $134k just to have them open -- rent, utilities and phones. That doesn't include staff salaries, office supplies, equipment and furniture. Other members in the Houston area average three district offices. In addition, only one other member has an office in a GSA building. The rent in the GSA building is non-negotiable and is set by the federal government and is not free and is usually high. This building is in the 18th Congressional District and has been the location of the 18th District office for decades when the seat was held by previous congress persons.
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On 3 December 2008 – only one day after the new federal government had been sworn in – Chancellor Werner Faymann presented his pro-gramme for the next five years to Parliament. In his government declaration of almost one hour, Faymann stressed by way of introduction that the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the People's Party (ÖVP) had many common goals and were willing and ready to cooperate and to reach political compromises. To find a common denominator was the very nature of democracy, Faymann said. He described the fight against the economic crisis, the safeguarding of jobs, the promotion of social justice as well as the commitment to the European Union as priorities on the government's agenda. Faymann pointed out that the situation was serious but warned against excessive pessimism: "We can be a bit more optimistic than the commentators try to make us believe." The Chancellor also highlighted that economic policy packages had been adopted and that the tax reform had been advanced to 2009, which would help to reduce the tax burden, particularly on mid-sized companies.Faymann stated that the socially weak were a main concern as they should not face ruin through no fault of their own due to the financial crisis. "People but not sales figures or profit must be the decisive criterion of a successful policy." The guaranteed minimum income would be realised quickly, the Chancellor assured. Faymann also drew attention to the numerous measures benefitting families. He stressed that the reform of the health system would be "a top priority" of the government. New employment potentials as well as strategies to ease the financial burden on the factor "labour" were, for example, avenues to be explored in the combat against unemployment. More financial resources were made available for research and de-velopment. The creation of new childcare places was promoted and the "successful pilot test" of the New Middle School would be further developed. The future immigration policy had to be adjusted in particular to the interests of Austria and the domestic labour market, the Chancellor under-lined. A clear commitment to the Austrian Constitution and legal order was a prerequisite for immigration. With regard to the pension reform Faymann said that only a reporting duty but no automatic mechanisms would be introduced if life expectancy and other parameters changed. The Chancellor placed strong emphasis on the "unconditional" commitment to the "construction of a united Europe and Austria's membership in the EU" – especially in this difficult economic situation. The Treaty of Lisbon remained the basis for the EU's capacity to act. He expected the Union to intensify its efforts in the social sector as well as in climate and environmental protection. ■
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On 10 December 2008, Minister of the Interior Maria Fekter submitted the new draft regulation governing the right of residence for humanitarian reasons for review. The Länder should become responsible for "old" cases (in Austria since 1 January 2003). A pledge to assume liability for the subsistence costs of the asylum seeker will become mandatory. The humanitarian aspects of more recent cases are examined in the standard residence/asylum procedures. ■
The tax deductibility of donations announced by Finance Minister Pröll will apply especially to money given to social institutions. Details are being discussed. The volume of donations in Austria in 2008 is estimated at 430 million euros. ■
At the summit meeting of the EU heads of state and government in Brussels on 11/12 December 2008, Austria was for the first time represented by Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger. Key subjects were economic measures, climate protection and the EU Reform Treaty.The basic principles of a European stimulus package against the economic and financial crisis were adopted. The volume of the package will amount to 1.5 percent of the total economic output of the EU or about 200 billion euros. Chancellor Faymann stated that "multiplier" and "psycho-logical" effects could be expected if the Union was taking a tough stance and if every EU Member State helped to stimulate the economy. The major share of the funds – 170 billion euros or 12 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) – should come from the national economic programmes of the EU members, measures previously taken or announced would be taken into account in calculating the contribution. The European Investment Bank and the EU should inject 50 percent each of the remaining 30 billion euros. Faymann basically also supported the planned reallocation of 5 billion euros from reserves of the EU budget to infra-structure projects. It would be closely examined whether Austria was also benefiting from this measure.Two economic packages (amounting to 1.9 billion euros for 2009 and 2010) had been laid down in the Austrian government's programme. The amount available climbs to 5 billion euros if the tax reform is taken into account. The heads of state and government also reached an agreement regarding climate protection. The goals – 20 percent less CO2 emissions, a 20 percent-share of renewable energies and 20 percent less energy consumption by 2020 – remained undisputed. To realise them, a compromise had, however, to be worked out. Some countries, for example, are granted emission exemptions. The main concern are energy-intensive industries producing e.g. steel, aluminium, cement, glass and chemicals. They will continue receiving certificates that are free of charge up to 100 percent to prevent them from moving out of the EU due to costly climate requirements. However, the average CO2 emission of the cleanest 10 percent of the companies is to be used as a yardstick. Industrial plants with higher emissions are to buy the difference in an auction of emission allowances. The remaining sectors will have to pay only for 70 percent (instead of the previously planned 100 percent) of the emission rights in 2020. The poorer Eastern European countries are to receive 12 percent of the proceeds from emissions trading as from 2013. EU Council President Nicolas Sarkozy referred to a "historic agreement", Federal Chancellor Faymann to a "remarkable success". 80 percent of Austria's goals had been realised, more than half of the domestic industrial plants affected would be relieved to hear that. Currently there were about 200,000 jobs in sectors which were threatened by relocation, including 80,000 jobs in production facilities affected by emissions trading due to their size. 50 to 90 percent of them would be exempted due to their high technical production standards and therefore relatively low CO2 emissions, Faymann said. He also emphasised Austria's pioneering role in this field (e.g. voestalpine). Ecological and economic objectives had to be compatible. Moreover, the EU heads of state and government finally agreed to give concessions to Ireland to allow the Irish to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Reform Treaty. The principle of "one country, one commissioner" will be upheld. Furthermore, Ireland is to be given guarantees regarding its tax sovereignty and neutrality. ■
Federal President Heinz Fischer and his wife Margit started their four-day state visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on 14 December 2008. Among the members of the delegation accompanying them are Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, Minister of Defence Norbert Darabos, Minister of Education Claudia Schmied and the Vice-President of the Economic Chamber Austria, Richard Schenz. The subjects for debate are the Middle East peace efforts and intensified cooperation between Israel and Austria.The programme includes meetings with leading politicians in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ramallah, including Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Other items on the agenda are a visit to the Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem, the Wailing Wall as well as the Austrian hospice in Jerusalem. Besides, an honorary doctorate of the University of Tel Aviv will be conferred on Fischer. In Tel Aviv the Federal President will open an economic forum. ■
On 9 December 2008, the European Commission approved Austria's 100 billion-euro bank rescue package. As the legal formalities have not been completed, no details were published. It is, how-ever, a fact that Brussels distinguishes between sound banks and distressed lenders. If the latter wish to resort to the package, they have to comply with stricter rules and submit a restructuring plan. Sound banks are only subject to an annual reporting requirement. The European Commission and Austria agreed on the fundamentals of the bank package: 15 billion euros are earmarked for strengthening the equity base of the banks, while 75 billion euros are allocated to a state guarantee for inter-bank loans. 10 billion euros are available for increasing the guarantees for savings deposits. It also seems to be clear that the banks will have to pay an interest rate of between 7 and 9.3 percent on the government's equity injections (participation capital). Minister of Finance Pröll welcomed the deal with Brussels, stating that legal certainty for implementing the Austrian bank aid package had been achieved. In general the EU Commission pled for a rate of remuneration for state aid that increases over time to provide sufficient incentive to the banks affected to exit the government support system. Furthermore, limits for dividend distribution will be introduced. Banks benefiting from a public capital injection may distribute a maximum of 17.5 percent of the net profit to their owners. The remainder should stay in the enterprise for credit refinancing and strengthening the balance sheet.Governor of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) Ewald Nowotny urged that the package should be implemented quickly to ensure its salutary effect on the financial statements for 2008. The large banks reacted cautiously, as the official formal approval had to be awaited. Only then would details on the terms become known. If the banks affected managed to obtain more than 30 percent of their required capital injections from private investors, this is accepted by the EU Commission as conforming to market requirements and no further conditions would be imposed. The main goal of the measures is to ensure the credit supply for individuals and companies. "A credit crunch would have had decisive and sizeable effects on small and mid-sized companies as well as private savers and house builders", Minister of Finance Pröll stressed. ■
The Austrian National Bank (OeNB) made a signifcant downward revision of its economic fore-cast for the next two years. The OeNB predicts a major recession for 2009. The real GDP is likely to shrink by 0.3 percentage points, for 2010 a growth rate of merely 0.8 percent is expected.According to OeNB boss Ewald Nowotny, the economic stimulus packages and the tax reform of the federal government could cushion the downturn. If these measures prove useful, a growth effect of 0.5 percent of the GDP is likely. However, they could also have a major impact on the budget deficit. The government deficit of 2.9 percent projected by the government for 2010 could climb to 3.4 percent, informed the OeNB. The un-employment rate based on the EU method of calculation would increase to 4.8 percent by 2010, exports would drop by 2.7 percent in 2009. ■
On 5 December 2008 the Austrian state holding company ÖIAG gave the go-ahead for the take-over of AUA (Austrian Airlines) by the German carrier Lufthansa. The agreement to sell ÖIAG's 41.56 percent stake to Lufthansa has been signed. Austria's interests are to be catered for by a foundation (existing for a minimum of five years). AUA will retain its brand name, its headquarters in Vienna and use Vienna Airport as a hub, particularly for crucial long-distance destinations. On 3 December 2008 the Lufthansa Supervisory Board announced the purchase of the Austrian government's stake in AUA for about 366,000 euros (with the option of investing an additional 162 million euros, depending on the performance of AUA). For the diversified holdings Lufthansa offers 4.44 euros per share; the total amount is 215 million euros. The EU Commission has not yet given the okay for the planned government subsidy of the Republic of Austria amounting to 500 million euros. ■
According to Eurostat, Austria remained the fourth richest country in the EU also in 2007, after Luxembourg, Ireland and the Netherlands. The GDP per capita was 24 percent above the EU average. ■
On 10 December 2008 Minister of Education Claudia Schmied and Minister of Science Johannes Hahn awarded for the first time the Lifelong Learning Awards of the National Agency Lifelong Learning for the qualitatively best and most innovative projects and mobility activities in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme. Besides these projects, the success stories of so-called "ambassadors" were spotlighted, which had become possible thanks to funded stays abroad. Eva Bernat and Sonja Steinlechner became COMENIUS and LEONARDO DA VINCI ambassadors, René Kremser and Alfred Lang ERASMUS and GRUNDTVIG ambassadors.With its pillars COMENIUS, ERASMUS, LEONARDO DA VINCI and GRUNDTVIG, the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union covers school and university education, occupational (further) training and adult education and promotes projects, partnerships, study periods abroad, traineeships in foreign countries and a lot more. Every year more than 9,000 Austrians participate in these programmes. The National Agency for Lifelong Learning (Schreyvogelgasse 2, A-1010 Vienna, Tel.: 0043/1/53408-0) is responsible for coordinating and realising the EU educational programmes in Austria. The aim of the newly created award is to highlight the contribution made by projects and mobility activities to lifelong learning. An international jury composed of 20 experts in education, politics and economics nominated the three best projects and mobility activities in each sectoral programme from a wealth of applications. The winners are: the federal commercial college (BHAK) in Vienna's 10th district with the project "Economics, Physics and Mathematics Using e-Learning Software" for COMENIUS; the University of Vienna with "NICLAS – New International Constitutional Law Approach Summer School on Freedom, Security & Justice" for ERASMUS; the regional government of Styria (Division for Vocational Schools for Trade) and the vocational school of the Land in Eibiswald with "Edu-Puente estudiantes 2b" for LEONARDO DA VINCI and the Business Club AUSTRIALIA with "C'you – C'me: Looking both Ways" for GRUNDTVIG.On 10 December 2008 Minister of Education Claudia Schmied and Minister of Science Johannes Hahn awarded for the first time the Lifelong Learning Awards of the National Agency Lifelong Learning for the qualitatively best and most innovative projects and mobility activities in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme. Besides these projects, the success stories of so-called "ambassadors" were spotlighted, which had become possible thanks to funded stays abroad. Eva Bernat and Sonja Stein-lechner became COMENIUS and LEONARDO DA VINCI ambassadors, René Kremser and Alfred Lang ERASMUS and GRUNDTVIG ambassadors.With its pillars COMENIUS, ERASMUS, LEONARDO DA VINCI and GRUNDTVIG, the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union covers school and university education, occupational (further) training and adult education and promotes projects, partnerships, study periods abroad, traineeships in foreign countries and a lot more. Every year more than 9,000 Austrians participate in these programmes. The National Agency for Lifelong Learning (Schreyvogelgasse 2, A-1010 Vienna, Tel.: 0043/1/53408-0) is responsible for coordinating and realising the EU educational programmes in Austria. The aim of the newly created award is to highlight the contribution made by projects and mobility activities to lifelong learning. An international jury composed of 20 experts in education, politics and economics nominated the three best projects and mobility activities in each sectoral programme from a wealth of applications. The winners are: the federal commercial college (BHAK) in Vienna's 10th district with the project "Economics, Physics and Mathematics Using e-Learning Software" for COMENIUS; the University of Vienna with "NICLAS – New International Constitutional Law Approach Summer School on Freedom, Security & Justice" for ERASMUS; the regional government of Styria (Division for Vocational Schools for Trade) and the vocational school of the Land in Eibiswald with "Edu-Puente estudiantes 2b" for LEONARDO DA VINCI and the Business Club AUSTRIALIA with "C'you – C'me: Looking both Ways" for GRUNDTVIG.www.lebenslanges-lernen.at/Award2008 ■
Indulging in lifelong maladjustment, 60-year old Hubsi Kramar of gigantic build realised important artistic and socio-political projects. In the early 1970s he studied inter alia at Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna; he worked and studied with Jerzy Grotowski in Wroclaw, with Lee Strassberg in Bochum as well as with Alan Wynrode of La Mama in Vienna. He was profoundly shaped by different approaches like the sober-essential art of Polish theatre magician Tadeusz Kantor and the sumptuous life of the Compagnie Jérôme Savary. From all these ingredients Hubsi Kramar mixed his own, very distinct style of acting, directing and producing. Continuously challenging the prevailing social conditions, he founded several theatre groups which were to become legendary, e.g. "SHOWinisten" in 1980. He was not only responsible for stage direction and production but often also wrote the text and acted as a stage advisor. His work on Konrad Bayer, the writer of "Wiener Gruppe" ("Vienna Group"), who died young, became famous. The wild dada revue "Letzte Lockerung" ("Final Relaxation") based on Walter Serner's text is unforgotten. Later Hubsi Kramar founded "THEATER DIREKT", worked as a stage director for Vienna's youth theatre association "Theater der Jugend Wien" and started other theatre projects. Provocative public interventions like his Adolf Hitler performance at the opera ball 2000 caused a stir. He directed and produced one of his favourite plays, Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", several times. In 2002 he staged "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle") by George Tabori with Tina Leisch in the shelter for homeless men in Meldemannstraße in Vienna, where the jobless Hitler resided in his early days. Kramar was responsible for the mis-en-scene of more than 80 stage productions and authored 35 plays himself. His performance as an actor has also been extraordinary, e.g. in Dieter Berner's "Alpensaga" ("Alpine Saga") starring also Helmut Qualtinger or in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winnning film "Schindler's List". He was magnificent in the role of the hunted Pole "Moltke" in the episode of the same name of the "Schimanski" series of the "Tatort" TV thriller (with Götz George playing the title role), which won the Grimme award. In the TV film of film director Elisabeth Scharang "Franz Fuchs – A Patriot" about the letter bomber from Styria (performed by Karl Markovics) Kramar convinced with his sensitive interpretation of Chief Inspector Peringer.Kramar received several awards, e.g. the Kainz medal in 1985, the Gustav Gründgens Prize in 2000 and in 2003 – together with Tina Leisch – the Nestroy Theatre Prize for the best off-production. In 1989 he received the German Cabaret Prize ("Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis") with "Theater Wilde Mischung" ("Wild Mix Theatre").Since 2006 Hubsi Kramar – who has always been enthusiastic about "discovering and cultivating barren theatrical space" has run the "3-room anatomy theatre – open art rooms for communication, art and culture" in Beatrixgasse 11 in Vienna, near the University of Music. The venue consists in a dissecting room, an anatomy room and an auditorium of the former Department for Veterinary Medicine – rooms emanating a peculiarly cruel and at the same time poetic power. It is here that Vienna's most breathtaking theatre productions crossing borders and migrating between genres have been presented for some years, which would have been to the liking of Artaud and Brecht. A recent sensation was the premiere of the play "Schreber. Eine Nervenromanze ("Schreiber - A Nerve Romance") – book and stage design by the architect, musician and brilliant author Joachim J. Vötter – the second part of the trilogy "Die Walzermembrane" ("The Walz Membrane") directed by Kramar. The fascinating text describes the life of Court President Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911). He was the son of the paediatrician and pedagogue Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber, who became famous for inventing the allotment garden ("Schrebergarten" in German) and as a pioneer of "German remedial gymnastics". Obsessed with separating "noble" from "ignoble germs" in children, he developed a tying and chaining apparatus to force their bodies into the right posture. He tested this method with his sons. Daniel Paul Schreber, Court and Senate President of the Supreme Court of Dresden, suffered from a nervous disease and dropped to the bottom of the social ladder. His book "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" ("Memoirs of my Nervous Illness") appears to be strangely clear and – from today's perspective – revolutionary. He used it in court for regaining his reputation but faced many difficulties. In the unsparingly honest text he described his mental state and also uncovered the fascistic breeding ground, which was to erupt violently some decades later. Schreber is played by Andreas Patton. The trilogy will be concluded with the play "Der Weltintendant" ("The World Manager"), also directed by Kramar. Recently the audience in 3-room anatomy theatre was carried away by mezzo-soprano/ alto singer Annette Schönmüller in the mono-opera "Das Medium" ("The Medium") by British composer Peter M. Davies (production Leo Krischke). The (beautiful) singer, the medium, is torn between severe traumas, religious and sexual mania. The programme of 3-room anatomy theatre up to March 2009 includes Kafka's "The Trial", a production by WORT_ensemble_theater, "Toxo-plasma", a coproduction of different companies, Jean Cocteau's "The Human Voice" with Kathrin Grumeth and live music by GINGA, and the certainly polarising basement prison soap opera "Pension Fritzl" (director: Kramar, idea: Hermann Fritzl). Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan" with Lucy Mc Evil will be revived, and also "The Tigers of Bengal 2" and "Hawaii in Nothingness" as well as the box-office hit "Schreber" – all plays are directed by Hubsi Kramar. If you want to add an undreamt of dimension to your stay in Vienna visit the 3-room anatomy theatre: www.3raum.or.at. Tel.: 0043/6503233377 ■
Elfriede Jelinek considers him one of the best dramatists of the younger generation: 46-year-old René Pollesch born in the village Friedberg (Germany). His father was a mechanic, his mother a housewife. After studying applied theatre research, he became also as an actor. He attracted the attention of the audience for the first time at the Theater am Turm (TAT) in Frankfurt and made his breakthrough in 1999 with plays commissioned by renowned theatres. Pollesch writes his texts himself. Similarly to Bertolt Brecht's productions the performances are further developed in practice. So far 20 works by him have been premiered.His latest work was presented under the title "Fantasma" at the more up-market Akademie-theater in Vienna, although the bourgeois theatre of representation and illusion is totally alien to Pollesch. Superb actors such as Sophie Rois, Stephan Wieland or Martin Wuttke turned into speaking machines trying to get faster and faster, but – retarding and recapitulating – they cannot move from the spot. The theme is the finite nature of love and history, of capital and ideologies. Pollesch and his company know the culture diagnoses by Zeitgeist philosophers like Boris Groys or Slavoj Žižek. The title "Fantasma comes from the work "Infancy and History" by Giorgio Agamben, in which the Italian philosopher asks whether fantasy can be a place of knowledge. Based on the performance no final judgement can be made as to whether the actors really understood the philosophical texts. The verbal haze and battle for social justice ended after 90 minutes and was enthusiastically applauded by the first-nighters. www.burgtheater.at ■
On 12 December 2008 a gala night was staged at RadioKulturhaus in Vienna, which had been jointly organised by Wiener Musik Galerie and RadioKulturhaus of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and Ö1 Club. Franz Koglmann was awarded the Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna for his "Nocturnal Walks". Koglmann's "dawning thoughts based on themes by Joseph Haydn with the original voice of E. M. Cioran", an eight-movement piece for chamber orchestra and trumpet/flugelhorn as well as a taped recording, had been premiered in Sibiu (previously known in German as Hermannstadt) in Romania on 18 May 2007 after a preview at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. It was a truly original contribution of an Austrian composer to the European Capital of Culture 2007. One day later the "exxj…ensemble xx. Jahrhundert" led by Peter Burwik and with Franz Koglmann as a soloist performed the work in a seemingly enchanted castle fallen into oblivion in Freck/Avrig, near Sibiu. The castle had belonged to the Governor of Transylvania appointed by Empress Maria Theresa, the Free-Mason Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803). Vienna's Executive Councillor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny had paid a surprise visit to that concert. At the award ceremony he reminded of this unforgettable night and – by reference to Baron von Brukenthal – he praised above all Franz Koglmann's enlightening attitude expressed in his art. Before the speech the so far most stringent and powerful version of the "Nocturnal Walks" had been performed. The composer himself was fabulous as a soloist. The presentation speech was given by the brilliant head of the culture section of the Vienna city magazine "Falter", Klaus Nüchtern, who is also an idealistic music producer, under whose label handesemmel records (www.crackedanegg.com/ handsemmel/ handsemmel/) founded in 2005 the CD "the bridal suite" had appeared, in which Koglmann (flugelhorn) and Oskar Aichinger (piano) had devoted themselves to compositions by Burt Bacharach. Already some decades ago, British composer Peter Maxwell Davies asked in response to the question of a reporter whether he was a representative of the avant-garde: "Avant of what?" Precisely this historical and artistic situation was pinpointed by Nüchtern in his speech about Koglmann, who "stood more for complexity and less for radicalism" and "more for Lennie Tristano and less for Cecil Taylor". The absolute highlight of the gala was the premiere of Koglmann's composition "Lo-lee-ta – Music on Nabokov" with the Monoblue Quartet, with Tony Coe (clarinet, alto/tenor saxophone), Franz Koglmann (trumpet, flugelhorn), Ed Renshaw (guitar) and Peter Herbert (bass). Several noteworthy film adaptations of the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov had been produced, the latest in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, with Jeremy Irons as professor Humbert Humbert, with Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze and Dominique Swain as her daughter Dolores, "Lolita". Unfortunately this fine film adaptation failed to impress the critics – in contrast to Stanley Kubrick's legendary film of 1962, for which Vladimir Nabokov himself had written the script, and in which the actors James Mason, Shelley Winters and "Lolita" Sue Lyon became famous. The music for the film (used by Kubrick only very discretely) was composed by Nelson Riddle, the catchy Lolita theme orchestrated by Gil Grau was by Bob Harris. Franz Koglmann used it in the introduction to his "Lo-lee-ta" composition, interpreted in a more indirect, broken way. Other titles of the composition such as "Ada and Van" obviously refer to other classics by Vladimir Nabokov such as "Ada or Ardor". For connoisseurs of Koglmann's work it is hardly surprising that the composer tried to approach the texture of the like-minded Russian-American author (1899-1977), who said in his epilogue to "Lolita": "For me a work of art only exists to the extent that it gives me what I would flatly like to call esthetical pleasure – a feeling to be in touch somehow, somewhere with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, passion) is the norm". "Lo-lee-ta" will appear on CD in spring 2009. "Koglmann-Haydn Nocturnal Walks: col legno WWE 1CD 20273. www.col-legno.com ■
The University and Regional Sports Centre (ULSZ) Rif officially became an "Olympic Centre". The contract with the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC) was signed in Hallein-Rif (Salzburg) on 10 December 2008. The new Olympic Centre will start operations in early March 2009. Before that, the Land Salzburg and the University of Salzburg have to adopt the necessary formal decisions for the foundation of and the accession to the necessary supporting organisation. It will be named "Academy for Mass and Competitive Sports". The supporting organisation of the Olympic Centre Rif will be financed from subsidies of the federal government (ÖOC) and the Land, money from sponsors as well as contributions by the athletes themselves. The signing of the contract was "undoubtedly another milestone in Salzburg's history of sport", said Salzburg's sports official Deputy Governor David Brenner at the signing ceremony. "In concrete terms, the Olympic Centre offers a number of advantages to Rif as a location. Additional resources become available for elite sport, the higher status of an Olympic Centre triggers image gains for Salzburg's sports competence centre number one". Supra-regional sports centres such as that in Rif, combining comprehensive infrastructure with sports-medical/scientific examination, coaching and placement facilities, offered ideal conditions for quality improvements of top athletes. The ÖOC can award individual top quality sports centres the title "Olympic Centre" for one Olympic period, i.e. for four years. The ULSZ Rif receives this quality seal for the XXX. Olympic period (2009 to 2012). At present there are three Olympic Centres in Austria: in Südstadt (Lower Austria), Linz (Upper Austria) and Dornbirn (Vorarlberg). As ÖOC President Leo Wallner explained, the ÖOC planned to establish "another Olympic Centre in the west of Austria." "Upon awarding this title, the ÖOC enters into a cooperation agreement with the respective Land and the supporting organisation of the Olympic Centre, which guarantees top quality coaching and support to the athletes in the respective disciplines and that all standards regarding sports equipment and testing are met. The ULSZ Rif is one of Austria's leading sports centres with excellent contacts to sports associations, federations, the sports organisation of the Land and to the university. Thanks to its links to a competitive sports centre of the army and the fact that numerous Austrian top athletes train there, it is very easy for the ULSZ to meet the requirements of the best centre for coaching and training elite athletes", said Wallner. ■
On 8 December 2008 people with disabilities received the "Life Award" in Innsbruck (Tyrol) at an important gala. This is alredy the fourth time this award has been granted. The awards in different categories were presented at the Regional Theatre of Tyrol. Women's rights activist Lydia la Riviére-Zijdel from the Netherlands received the award for lifetime achievements. As a wheelchair user, she gives for example self-defence courses to girls and women with disabilities. Oliver Antosch became the winner in the category "economy and society", whom an accident with the motorbike at the age of 18 years left paralysed. Today he occupies a leading IT position with adidas and represents the concerns of staff members with bad health or handicaps as a shop steward. The deaf painter Josef Hofer became the number one in the category "art and culture". He grew up together with his disabled brother on a farm in Mühlviertel (Upper Austria). His artistic achievements were internationally acknowledged when his works were included in the "Collection de l'Art Brut" in Lausanne (Switzerland).It seem imperative that tribute is paid to race wheelchair driver Thomas Geierspichler from Salzburg. He won a gold medal at the Paralympics in Beijing 2008. The "Special Life Award" was conferred on tibetologist Sabriye Tenberken for developing a Braille alphabet for the blind in Tibet and founding a preschool for Tibetan blind children.The "Special Sport Award" – granted for the first time – went to the Austrian "Race-Across-America" team. The wheelchair drivers covered the distance of 4,912 km from the West Coast to the East Coast in ten days.The gala was moderated by Mirjam Weichselbraun, the prizes were presented by actress Geraldine Chaplin. ■


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The Kenyan agricultural industry may be viewed by many as a source of work not pleasure, but for an emerging class of tourist the thrill of life on the farm is seeing Kenya develop new brands of agricultural tourism and merchandising, with now an Agro Tourism Board of Kenya sat inside the Ministry of Tourism and a row of initiatives putting holidaymakers into tea plantations and factories, ahead of evenings spent in new 'bush bars', after a hard day picking tea.
At the forefront of the new drive is a project that set out, back in 2005, on a long-term vision to create the centre of the world's 'tea holidays', in Meru.
Officially opening this month, the Kilimo Talii initiative has been a 'poster child' project for The Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers (KENFAP), in partnership with Netherlands venture capitalist Agriterra, and the local community in Chogoria, Meru.
International tourists keen on cutting their holiday spending but sating their wanderlust and experience of other cultures are now heading for homesteads in Kisumu and other areas of Kenya under an initiative marketing organic farms as tourist destinations in return for help on the farm.
The new working holidays initiative is being run out of the UK as a programme called World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, and has put together a global network of farmers who offer accommodation and food to travelers in exchange for labour offered by the visitors.
Under the programme the WWOOF has an innovative Web site that connects travelers with a network of organic farms spanning from Africa to South America. An owner of an organic farm who is interested in the organic exchange programme subscribes to put the name of his farm on the website at a fee, listing the location and a brief description of their farming activities. Interested tourists then visit the website and choose from the catalogue of hosting farms then make direct contact to arrange a stay. The stay can run from two to six weeks depending on the amount of work involved.
To cushion travelers from exploitation by hosts, the programme spells out terms under which the travelers should be treated, which include working for a set number of hours a day, usually between five and six hours, and in exchange, receiving free room and board.
In Kenya the organic farms participating in the WWOOF programme are organised under the banner of the Kenya Organic Agriculture Network (KOAN), which explains the rules of engagement to individual farms.
Already Kenya has 30 registered farms in WWOOF, the majority of which are concentrated in Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces, against worldwide figures standing at an estimated 6,000 hosts in 100 countries. As the agriculture network expands its reach it hopes to get more organic farms into the programme, promoting tourism in the country and also fostering cultural understanding among the host and the travelers.
Achuth Women Group operating around Lake Victoria and running a 3 hectare organic farm growing vegetables, onions, tomatoes, bananas, pigeon peas and herding sheep and cows has enjoyed an influx of travelers since they enrolled with WWOOF two years ago. According to the chairperson Ms Rispah Okello the climax was in December last year when they got 10 visitors at a go.
"We usually get a maximum of five who stay for about a month. Out of the ten last December, four stayed with us for a whole season of six months," she said, noting that the travelers reacted with an extraordinary enthusiasm to the activities of the farm expressing the need to monitor how the food exported to them is handled from planting to harvesting and packaging.
Once inside the farm, the travelers go digging, fetching water from the nearby streams ,and preparing the nursery for planting. They also take the sheep and cows to the grazing field before taking a break for lunch with the other members of Achuth family. In the afternoon, it's back to the farm to harvest ready produce and accompany the Achuth Women Group to the market for two hours.
The surplus is then taken home, where they package it for buyers of horticultural produce. The tourists then join the members of the family in having supper that the host provides free, before being accommodated. The next day, horticultural buyers visit the farm and the tourists help pack their trucks before going back to the daily routine.
"I have stayed with Achuth farm for six months now, having originally been torn between taking a holiday in Zanzibar and coming here. I have had a huge learning experience and learnt to appreciate the work that goes into some of the produce I receive in the UK imported from Kenya, like pigeon peas.
I also have saved, and would definitely want to come back. I chose to stay for a whole season to familiarise myself with the seasons of planting in Kenya," said 30-year-old Davis Lance from the UK.
World Wide Opportunities was founded in Britain in 1971, but has lured many more volunteer farmhands in recent years as hard economic times have focused westerners on cheap ways to take a vacation.
Written by Bob Koigi for African Laughter
The community initially donated 1.6 hectares of land to put up tourist accommodation that included constructed cottages, a camping site and huts built in Meru's housing style, all set in the scenic hills, green and lush vegetation, and beside the rivers, waterfalls and caves that are already the core tourist attractions in the area, which sits beside the Meru National Park, with Mount Kenya bordering Chogoria in the East.
However it is the tea plantations at Chogoria that have been the strongest pillars of Kilimo Talii.
When tourists visit the area, they are taken to the tea plantations, given tea plucking bags and join the locals in picking tea. Once done, they then load the tea in the trucks and escort it to the tea factory. Once in the factory, a waiting officer explains the whole process of converting the leaves and buds into tea, after which they are taken to a nearby tea café where they enjoy a cup of tea.
There is also an adjacent bush bar where the tourists can watch the sun set. "If you look at that whole chain, you can imagine how many jobs the initiative has created. This is the kind of initiative that we would like to see; that which benefits the locals who own these attraction sites," said Mr. Charles Gitau, the programme Manager of Kilimo Talii, who also sits in the Agro Tourism Board of Kenya, created to promote the emerging form of tourism.
The tea holidays have already brought an influx of tourists to the area, but "we are working with local tour guides and ICT firms in the country, because we would like to capture the new way of doing things including tapping into e-tourism," said Mr Gitau.
To encourage locals to commit to the project, KENFAP, the majority shareholder, initially sold shares to individual farmers at Sh100 a share, with a minimum stake of 50 shares to become a full member.
Community based organizations in Chogoria have also bought shares, but to avoid any group dominating the project, their stakes were capped at a maximum of 1000 shares, while an individual farmer was not allowed to own more than 100 shares. "Our idea was to have every member of Chogoria on board, and we wanted everyone to own a share of this project, that's how we came up with the minimum and maximum number of shares that an individual and company can possess," said Mr. Gitau.
KENFAP now plans to transfer another 30 per cent of its current 95 shareholding to existing shareholders by 2012, with long-term plans of letting the locals own 70 per cent of the shares by 2016.
It has also collaborated with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to accompany the tourism development initiative with a parallel merchandising and branding project, marketing produce such as water, milk and yoghurt from the Mount Kenya region with conservation messages, depicting Mount Kenya as a World Heritage site. 'Let's join hands and save our trees & rivers," reads one of the branding messages.
"The initiative is line with the government policy of spreading tourism earnings to the rural communities and ensuring sustainable utilization of tourism resources," said Tourism Minister Najib Balala, while presenting cheques to the first beneficiaries of the program.
The thrust is also part of a growing interest worldwide in the potential for agricultural tourism. In May this year, the United Nations Tourism Organization, introduced the Sustainable Tourism for Elimination of Poverty Program, to further develop community tourism such as the Kilimo Talii program by injecting Sh16 million of funding.
As the world's newest type of tourism, international organizations estimate community tourism may now grow by as much as 20 to 30 per cent a year in tourism numbers, by appealing to a new class of holiday makers who would rather share the lifestyle of hosting communities and learn about agricultural, environmental, cultural and social diversity.
With Kenya's total tourism earnings now projected to hit Sh100bn by year-end, and the sector currently recording growth of 17 per cent per month in arrivals, it is hoped that agro-tourism will also now spread the benefits of the sector to the three-quarters of Kenya's population that depends on agriculture for their primary source of income.
Early projects throughout Kenya allowing tourists access to local land and lifestyles have so far brought increased revenues through wages, land leases and development funds, and many have now gone on to fund boreholes, schools and clinics for the local community - structured either as complete community management projects or as partnerships with investors or trusts who provides the capital to build the guest accommodation and tourist facilities.
Bob Koigi for African Laughter
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The Muslim Heritage Awareness Group Meeting (24 March 2009, Royal Society, London)
The previous MHAG meeting was at Church House at the reception of Mr Jim Knight, the Minister for Schools, to launch the 1001inventions exhibition at the Houses of Parliaments. Following that successful event, another MHAG meeting was held on Tuesday 24 March at the Royal Society in London.
Following the previous format, proceedings start with a light lunch at 12.30 followed by four presentations (20 minute each) from experts on the theme selected for the meeting followed by a business meeting. The theme for this meeting was "Social Media".
The speakers and presentations were:
The first part of the meeting was chaired by Bettany Hughes. It started by a spectacular short film entitled "Ancient Wisdom", originally shown at the launch of Qatar Science and Technology Park in Doha on 16 March 2009, to which FSTC contributed content and advice: see Ancient Wisdom Exhibition at Qatar Science and Technology Park 16th March 2009 in Doha.
A lively discussion ensued on all presentations with lengthy contributions from Dr Charles Savage, who came especially from Munich, and from Dr Munim Al-Rawi, who came especially from Dublin. Of particular note was the contributions of new members such as William Hopper, financier.
The last hour of the afternoon was spent on business issues related to future works and projects of FSTC, especially on the front of promoting Muslim heritage awareness for social cohesion and world peace.
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September 5, 2012
by Irwin Stelzer
There is much to admire in Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic convention: the admirable delivery, the praise of her husband's virtues was sincere and moving, and the rags-to-riches tale avoided seeming stale after so many others.
But the policy implications—and this was a political, as well as a personal, speech—are cause for alarm. As many observers have noted, there was no room for the private sector: all the goodies the president wishes to hand out come from government, with no mention of just how the wealth to fund these benefits is to be created. And, as contributing editor Charles Krauthammer points out, none of these benefits (all to be funded by massive redistributions of income) is the result of a left-leaning ideology. Rather, they simply represent a non-ideological president's desire to do good—to heal the sick, succor the poor, comfort the disadvantaged. This, from the wife of this most ideological president.
Equally important was the disconnect between Mrs. Obama's obviously sincere wishes that the children of this country have an opportunity to realize the American dream, and the reality of her husband's policies. Set aside the fact that her version of that dream is to seize the opportunities that government will make available: "free" health care, jobs in the public sector, subsidized student loans. Consider instead that because of her husband's policies the children about whom she genuinely cares will enter life with the largest debt burden of any generation—a bill they will have to work very hard to pay before they can start to enjoy a rising standard of living. Consider, too, that they will enter life in a globalized, competitive world poorly educated because the president will not take on the teachers' unions and free kids from rotten schools, and has even killed a modest program that was allowing a handful of poor children to escape from the appalling Washington, D.C. public school system into schools similar to those his daughters attend.
In the competition of wives who love their husbands the Mrs. Romney vs. Mrs. Obama battle must be considered a draw: both ably extolled the virtues of their man. Mrs. Romney did not contest the policy field, a good thing since this is an area in which Mrs. Obama is a practiced and skilled combatant. As her speech clearly demonstrated.
Irwin Stelzer is a Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies for the Hudson Institute. He is also the U.S. economist and political columnist for The Sunday Times (London) and The Courier Mail (Australia), a columnist for The New York Post, and an honorary fellow of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies for Wolfson College at Oxford University. He is the founder and former president of National Economic Research Associates and a consultant to several U.S. and United Kingdom industries on a variety of commercial and policy issues. He has a doctorate in economics from Cornell University and has taught at institutions such as Cornell, the University of Connecticut, New York University, and Nuffield College, Oxford.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Picking Blueberries
43 comments:
- PrettyPhysicist said...
I love berries! I would love to be able to grow them, but there are too many animals where we live and they'd eat them all!
- May 31, 2012 at 5:42 AM
- Beth said...
That's so sweet. I love blueberries, they must taste amazing fresh. I remember once eating a whole supermarket carton full in about 5 minutes!
xox - May 31, 2012 at 5:57 AM
- Evelien said...
Berry bushes are the best!! We've already planned where our bushes are going to be in our new house haha! Mmmm :)
- May 31, 2012 at 6:11 AM
- Whitney @ Everything Happens For a Reason said...
I would love a berry bush, but I'm afraid my dogs would eat them all lol. Bentley loves the smell of fruit, so I probably wouldn't get to eat any haha
- May 31, 2012 at 6:48 AM
- Emily said...
I LOVE blueberries...jealous!
- May 31, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- P!nky said...
I <3 blueberries, especially fresh ones!
xoxo - May 31, 2012 at 7:41 AM
- Jenna said...
How fun! I love being able to go outside and pick my food and then eat it on the spot :) Blueberry bushes are a must one day!
Jenna - May 31, 2012 at 8:22 AM
- Valerie said...
So jealous. This looks like it was so much fun!!!!
- May 31, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Somewhere In Between said...
My mom has a peach tree. I pick a ton, cut, and freeze. It makes for a tasty treat later. Frozen peaches are an awesome snack too.
- May 31, 2012 at 9:07 AM
- Pamela said...
I have a bunch of fresh blueberries in my fridge! Love them!!
- May 31, 2012 at 9:49 AM
- Leslie said...
Fresh blueberries like that always taste SO much better than they do at the store. I love picking them!
- May 31, 2012 at 9:59 AM
- Ashley said...
That second to last photo is great haha
We have raspberry bushes out back, I can't wait until they are ready to pick! - May 31, 2012 at 10:02 AM
- Alyssa said...
There are few things better than fresh picked berries! Yum!!
- May 31, 2012 at 10:16 AM
- lori said...
ohhhh yum! i loveee blueberries! i just ate cereal with some on top :) and i think i need to have a blueberry bush when we own a house, too. i wonder if they're easy to grow...
- May 31, 2012 at 10:43 AM
- Erin said...
Loooove fresh blueberries, I wonder if we have a good spot to plant one?! I truly don't know much about planting anything other than flowers-- and even that I'm a lil rusty on ;)
Nothing tastes better to me than a garden-picked tomato!!! - May 31, 2012 at 11:01 AM
- Chelsea Coleen said...
love that you went blueberry picking and me strawberry! i was saying the same thing at the end of the day - i want a strawberry bush one day! but a blueberry one just might be a little easier. i am so doing it!
- May 31, 2012 at 11:18 AM
- Megan said...
LOVE. i would like to have a garden full of fruits and veggies one day
- May 31, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- Natalie said...
I have never went blueberry picking...I know how sad :( Need to go!
- May 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- Gabriella said...
How fun! I've only been apple picking, but blueberry picking looks pretty wonderful as well! Fresh fruit really is the best.
Gabriella - May 31, 2012 at 12:33 PM
- Michaela said...
Ohh boy, Melissa!! Yum...and how fun to pick them. We have blueberries and raspberries down in the creek below in our backyard. We used to pick them as kids!
- May 31, 2012 at 12:54 PM
- Maggie said...
So fun! I love blueberries; they add that perfect burst of flavor into life. Who doesn't need that?
If you get blueberry bushes, I'm coming over :)
p.s. you're super cute and look so happy! makes my heart happy. - May 31, 2012 at 1:08 PM
- Allison said...
I want to go blueberry picking now! Yum! And you all look so cute in your summery dresses!
- May 31, 2012 at 4:12 PM
- Lauren said...
xo - May 31, 2012 at 4:25 PM
- Amanda said...
Yum! These look delicious!! :)
- May 31, 2012 at 6:07 PM
- Heather said...
Fresh blueberries are delicious!
- May 31, 2012 at 6:30 PM
- Alexis Kaye said...
Fresh berries are the most delicious thing ever :) and you look darling as always :)
- May 31, 2012 at 7:17 PM
- Allyson Butler said...
How fun! I loooove blueberries, and you are looking adorable! You have had some of the cutest dresses this summer!
- May 31, 2012 at 8:56 PM
- Beth Ann said...
I'm not a huge blueberry fan but they are best fresh! Looks like fun!
- May 31, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Lisa @ MMT said...
How fun! I LOVE fresh fruit and veges from the garden. I can't believe there were so many blueberries to pick! We planted a blueberry plant last year, but it never grew. Someday we will have to plant a huge garden at our house and hopefully this time our blueberries grow as well as your friends!
- May 31, 2012 at 9:19 PM
- Vanessa said...
My boys love blueberries!! Id love to pick berries, how sweet :) && I love your dress!
- May 31, 2012 at 10:31 PM
- Meg {henninglove} said...
how awesome fresh picked blueberries! they are the best kind. are you eating them as ir or will you bake with them??
- May 31, 2012 at 10:36 PM
- Fran said...
You're the cutest! And I LOVE berries and those looks delicious!
- May 31, 2012 at 11:30 PM
- Faith said...
so fun! you and your girlfriends are so cute!
i want a berry bush too! - June 1, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- poptartyogini said...
I've never been blueberry picking before. Those look big and tasty. I abhor puny fruit. It just makes me angry. We go apple picking sometimes. Yum!
- June 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM
- Nicole said...
You can buy them and plant them easily, the hard part is remembering to plant them... lol :)
- June 1, 2012 at 1:20 PM
- Lauren said...
how fun! love picking fresh fruit...and fresh blueberries are delicious, they were even added to my smoothie this morning!
- June 1, 2012 at 4:02 PM
- Katie said...
blueberry bushes in her backyard?! So awesome!!
- June 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM
- Emily grapes said...
At first I was thinking..that's ALL the blueberries you guys got in each bag? Then I saw the other picture and felt better. I would have been the 4 bag lady.. yes I just called her the bag lady, but in all fairness, I was calling myself it too. ;)
- June 1, 2012 at 9:00 PM
- Janna Bogert said...
I feel like I am seriously missing out, because I have never had blueberries that fresh! Plus you all just look so darn cute. I especially love your maxi.
- June 1, 2012 at 11:22 PM
- Rach @ This Italian Family said...
I love it!! I want a blueberry bush in our backyard! We have strawberries growing on vines and I love picking those and just eating them right out there, but I'd love to have blueberries too! :)
- June 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM
- Amber said...
I used to LOVE going to my great-aunt's and picking berries to make jam! More often than not, I would eat more than we would make jam with, but such is always the case, right??
Hope you had a fabulous weekend! - June 3, 2012 at 4:28 PM
- Courtney B said...
YUM! I know how amazing fresh raspberries are... I can only imagine how yummy fresh blueberries are! I can't wait to buy a home and have a yard where we can plant raspberries and blueberries! YUM!
- June 3, 2012 at 5:35 PM
- Lauren said...
How fun! I would love to pick fresh berries! Strawberries would be my favorite!
Have you ever had blueberry crepes? They are SO good. If there is a Bob Evans near you, you should definitely try them. It's my new favorite breakfast!
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It had been previously reported that the team offered a two-year deal worth $10 million, but the club has reportedly upped their offer to "about $12 million." Pelfrey made 29 starts with the team last season, posting a 5.19 ERA in 152 2/3 innings.
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Kubel's option was declined by Cleveland in early November. Making him a free-agent. He hit .293/.317/.216 in 259 at-bats split between Cleveland and Arizona. Kubel came up with the Twins, and spent eight seasons with the club.
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Logan's contract with the club is worth $16.5 million. The 29-year-old lefty put up a 3.23 ERA in 39 innings with the Yankees last season.
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"I saw some video of him the other day and he was good," manager Terry Francona told the Plain Dealer. "He's making key adjustments. It's exciting. Hopefully, we'll see some results in spring training, but it's exciting. He's kind of revved up to come to camp to show who he is and what he's about. You're talking about a 23-year-old kid ... that would be great for us."
Bauer struggled with his control last season, walking 89 batters in 138 1/3 innings between the Indians and Triple-A Columbus. However, he was the third overall pick in 2011 and still has ample opportunity to deliver on his potential.
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"I don't know if I could quantify how far off that they might be," Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said. "We continue to have dialogue, so if you want to look at that as encouraging, I don't know. It's not so far out of the realm that we won't continue to have talks."
Sanchez, 21, went 4-5 with a 3.34 ERA, 1.19 WHIP and 75:40 K:BB ratio in 86 1/3 innings with high Class A Dunedin last season. Stroman, 22, went 9-5 with a 3.30 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and 129:27 K:BB ratio in 111 2/3 innings with Double-A New Hampshire.
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Butler, who is scheduled to reach free agency after the 2014 season, hit .289/.374/.412 with 15 home runs and 82 RBI in 582 at-bats last season while playing all 162 games. He has missed just 11 games over the last five seasons.
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"We feel we have the depth in our rotation now that we can continue to keep him in the bullpen," Jocketty said. "That's probably the plan going into spring training. We'll have him prepare for spring training like he has in the past. He'll come in and pitch a lot of innings in spring training, so he could go either way. In all likelihood when we get to spring training, we'll make a decision. I would think he'll continue to be our closer."
As for Chapman himself, he has no interest in closing at this stage of his career, he told USA Today.
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Price has said he may look to maximize Chapman's talents in other ways, such as bringing him in to pitch the eighth inning in certain situations.
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Castellanos was acquired from the Dodgers late in October after being designated for assignment, and now the Red Sox will try to sneak him through waivers before sending him to the minors. He hit .257/.347/.468 with 19 home runs, 61 RBI and 19 stolen bases in 385 at-bats with Triple-A Albuquerque last season.


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what I saw IN the pool!
Uh, I'd say there's no turning back now!
This was the beginning of five dump truck loads
of fill dirt being rearranged into the pool area.
Watching this guy was like watching a surgeon do robotic surgery.
After it was all spread out, this neat little remote control
operated gizmo, compacted the dirt like nobody's business!
Tomorrow, we'll get the rest filled up and then the topsoil delivered!
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Human beings are, among other things, social animals concerned about the people around them. Some psychologists say that one of the basic things that make people happy is helping others.
Hewlett Packard is aware of the significance of involving their employees into social issues, this is why in 2010 they created an employee volunteering program in which their employees are able to use four hours of company time each month to dedicate to volunteer efforts.
All the HP team is high qualified in different field such as technology, engineering, human resources and manufacturing, and all of them skills have a huge value to share them with communities.
Some of the activities that HP employees take part in are pro bono services, serve on nonprofit boards or join company-sponsored volunteer programs.
Such as they say on their website, "HP's goal is to keep growing this program until we're making a meaningful impact for communities in all the countries where we do business." A good initiative to help people based not only on the money donations but in time and knowledge sharing.


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