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Catalunya is a region located in northeastern Spain that is home to the city of Barcelona. Catalunya sits on the Mediterranean coast, offering plenty of beaches and a mild climate. The region's gastronomy is distinguished by seafood, rice dishes, and traditional desserts such as Catalonian Cream. In addition to Barcelona, Catalunya is home to the cities of Girona and Tarragona.
The view from Parc Güell in Barcelona.
Bar Central
Bar Pinotxo
Cheese Me
Comerc 24
Tapas 24
El Quim
Kiosko Universal
Paco Meralgo
Santa Maria
Taller de Tapas
Vila Viniteca
Ideal Cocktail Bar
Suquet de l'Almirall
Quimet Quimet
41 Grados
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Bodegas Sumarroca
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Zenit Borrell
Bar Central | boqueria.info | 91 La Rambla |Mercat de la Boqueria, No. 494-498 | Barcelona 08002
Tel: 34 93 301 10 98
One of several great tapas bars in the Mercat de la Boqueria in Barcelona. A great place for traditional, super fresh tapas and vegetables a la plancha. Ask them to prepare eggs with fries and shaved foie gras, not on the menu but almost always available. Mario, who owns Bar Central, is the uncle of Antonio, who owns and runs Kioso Universal on the other side of the market.
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Bar Pinotxo | boqueria.info | 91 La Rambla | Mercat de la Boqueria, No. 466-470 | Barcelona 08002
Tel: 34 93 317 17 31
Another tapas bar in Mercat de la Boqueria. Known for great croquetas and "country food" like tripe and chickpea stew.
Blog Post: Day 1 in Spain: Barcelona
Cheese Me | cheeseme.org | Pl. Jacint Reventos (in front of Argenteria, 53) | Barcelona 08003
Tel: 34 93 268 11 27
Very casual cafe with a great cheese selection, and many vegetarian options. A nice break from typical Spanish food served at every single restaurant, and located in a cozy plaza in the gothic quarter. A great place to stop for a cappuccino while shopping in the neighborhood.
Comerc 24 | comerc24.com | Carrer Comerc 24 | Barcelona 08003
Tel: 34 93 319 21 02
This is the first restaurant in the group, and is a local favorite for fine dining, creative food, in a very hip environment. The wine list is one of the best Catalan selections of wine in Barcelona.
Tapas 24 | projectes24.com | Carrer de la Diputació, 269 | Barcelona 08007
Tel: 34 934 88 09 77
This new-ish younger cousin of Comerc24 is where we took multiple trips to during our visit to Alimentaria, the giant Barcelona gastro-fest. The line is long, so go early or be prepared to wait. But, anywhere we go back to multiple times in the same trip is worth some time in line.
El Quim | elquimdelaboqueria.cat | 91 La Rambla | Mercat de la Boqueria, No. 584-585, 606-609 | Barcelona 08001
Tel: 34 93 301 98 10
Another favorite in the Mercat de la Boqueria. One of the busiest bars in the market, so go early, 11am for lunch is advised if you want a seat. This is a great place for gambas al ajillo and vegetables a la plancha.
Kiosko Universal | boqueria.info | 91 La Rambla |Mercat de la Boqueria, No. 691 | Barcelona 08002
Tel: 34 93 317 8286
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We ate at Kiosko Universal where items off the plancha are the specialty. Scrambled eggs with fries and shaved foie gras torchon…says it all. Also had wild mushrooms a la plancha, simply prepared with olive oil and green onions, white beans a la plancha with lamb sausage, grilled langoustines, and fresh mussels with salsa verde. Everything we ordered was incredibly fresh – the restaurant gets all its products for the day from the market its sitting in, so everything is beyond the best ingredient you've ever tried, prepared very simply. And this was just breakfast!
Kiosko Eggs with fries and shaved foie gras:
Paco Meralgo | pacomeralgo.com | C/ Muntaner 171 | Barcelona 08036
Tel: 34 93 430 90 27
This is the restaurant in Barcelona that we take EVERYONE to. It's name is a play on "Para Comer Algo..." or "To Eat Something..." and we tend to gorge ourselves here on an array of deceptively simple tapas. The service comes on like a circus troupe trying to contain their antics by putting on nice clothes. Everything from the croquettes to the langostines shines.
Santa Maria | santarestaurant.wordpress.com | Carrer Comerc 17 | Barcelona 08003
Tel: 34 93 125 38 79
This is right across the street from Comerc 24, and is a local favorite for creative tapas. It has a tiny dining room so come early as it is always busy. There is a great value tasting menu here, so it is always my top recommendation for travelers looking for something special on a budget.
Taller de Tapas | tallerdetapas.com | L'Argenteria 51 (Born) | Barcelona
Tel: 34 92 268 85 59
This is a super popular pintxos bar in the Gothic quarter. Also stop here for a beer and a variety of snacks while seeing the sites.
Vila Viniteca | vilaviniteca.es/es/inicio | Agullers, 7-9 | Barcelona 08003
Tel: 34 902 327 777
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Antonio knows a thing or 2 or 2000 about jamon iberico, and let me tell you, he told us every single bit of it. It was fascinating! And you really haven't lived until you've tasted Presa – it's the cured meat that comes from the base of the pig's neck (considered the best part of the animal).
Ideal Cocktail Bar| idealcocktailbar.com | Calle Aribau, 89 | Barcelona 08036
Tel: 34 934 53 10 28
Love Scotch? Imagine your favorite single-malt ... or that elusive single-barrel, vintage sip that is reportedly "impossible to find". You'll find it here.
Suquet de l'Almirall | suquetdelalmirall.com | Passeig de Joan de Borbó, 65 | La Barceloneta 08003
Tel: 34 932 21 62 33
Chef Quim introduced us to Antonio - the Maestro de Jamon at Vila Viniteca. Parked near the beach in Barceloneta, this place is so small that most of the tourists miss it, but if you've got a hankering for Black Rice or the eponymous Fisherman's Stew, head in to this little cave of a restaurant.
Quimet Quimet | suquetdelalmirall.com |C/Poeta Cabanas 25 | Barcelona 08004
Tel: 93 442 31 42
Quimet Quimet is a small tapas bar where all foods are prepared on the fly in front of you. The wine list here is extensive, and service is on point. One quirk of this tapas bar is that you can drop dirty napkins on the floor, instead of on the table.
41 Grados |41grados.es | Avinguda Paral-lel 164 | Barcelona 08015
This cocktail bar is one that resembles Superman's lair on Krypton, with hanging Plexiglas stalagtites and movie projectors everywhere. Professionals here are mixologists who take their art very seriously. One of the local favorites in this bar is the gin and tonic.
Cavas Masachs | cavasmasachs.com | Ctra. Sant Marti Sarroca Km 7 , Torrelles de Foix, | Barcelona, 08737
Tel: 34 938 99 00 17
For seeing the unique production method of Cava, this is one of our favorite visits. The bottling line is so impressive.
Bodegas Sumarroca | sumarroca.es | Crta. de Sant Sadurni a Gelida, km. 15 | Barrio El Rebato | 08739 Barcelona
Tel: 34 93 891 10 92
A highly regarded cava producer, Bodegas Sumarroca specializes in Brut Nature wines and is owned by Mr. Sumarroca, one of Spain's most important and awarded agriculturists. The quality of wine on the vineyard is amazing due to the fact the family cares so much about the quality of their grapes. The Brut Nature Gran Reserva is one we have on our own Barcelona menu, and happens to be one of the best cavas produced in Penedès.
Mercado de la Boqueria | boqueria.info | La Rambla, 91 | Barcelona 08001
Tel: 34 933 02 72 60
This is Gretchen's favorite site in Barcelona, and one of the best markets in Europe. Come hungry; besides the fresh produce, there are several eateries inside the market.
Gaudi | (Spanish modernist architect born in XIXth century) has a few buildings in town:
Sagrada Familia | sagradafamilia.cat | C/Mallorca, 401 | Barcelona 08013
Tel: 34 932 07 30 31
Though Gaudi never finished this church, it's still remarkable. You'll feel like you stepped into a Tim Burton movie! After you take the tour inside, make sure to walk around the entire outside of the building--each side has a different theme.
Güell Park | Take the Metro to "Lesseps" on the Green Line. Follow street signposts to the park.
Make sure you don't have to be anywhere, because you'll spend the entire day wandering this park. Everywhere you look, there are carved scultures, magnificent mosaic work, and plenty of photo opportunities. Take a break for lunch with a bocadillo and a cold can of beer on the sunny terrace, which gives amazing views of the town below.
The local beach, you should go if it gets sunny, and you can taste a wonderful rice or fideuá (paella made with noodles) or suquet by the sea. You will tell how different the authentic is…(just the right raw materials). The grilled vegetables (all simple) are another classic from the Catalan cuisine.
U232 Hotel | u232.com | Comte d'Urgell, 232 | Barcelona 08036
Tel: 34 93 322 41 53
One of our favorite hotels in Barcelona, located in the Eixample district. Modern and affordable rooms for Barcelona. Train station is 2 hops away, and walking distance from a favorite club of ours, Luz de Gas.
Silken Diagonal | hoteles-silken.com | Avenida Diagonal 205 | Barcelona 08018
Tel: 34 934 89 5300
Very modern hotel close to great shopping. Not great for business travelers, but perfect for couples.
Zenit Borrell | zenithoteles.com | Comte Borrell, 208 | Barcelona 08029
Tel: 34 91 218 20 28
This is a close second to U232 for favorite hotel in Barcelona. Nice location for walking to great tapas bars, and pretty affordable for the high quality.
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El Celler de l'Aspic| cellerdelaspic.com | Miquel Barcelo 31 | 43730 Falset (Tarragona)
Tel: 34 977 831 246
Located in the tiny town of Falset. If you are planning on visiting Priorat and Montsant, this is a must visit restaurant during your stay. High end food, but still traditional. One of our favorite places for great rice dishes in Catalunya, and we always pick up a few bottles of local vermouth to take with us on the rest of the trip.
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Restaurante Lo Goleró| logolero.com | Platja de l'Arenal, s/n | L'Ampolla 43895
Tel: 34 977 46 08 39
You likely won't find this place, hidden on a lost beach outside a tiny port town near the eel and crab farms off the coast. Look it up on the web and contact them for a tour of the surrounding rice-growing region and you'll land here to find not only eel five-ways, but remarkable clams steamed with almonds and paprika - and the best rice dishes we've experienced in Spain.
Clos Mogador | clos-mogador.ch/en | Cami Manyetes s/n | 4737 Gratallops, Tarragona
Tel: 34 977 83 91 71
The benchmark producer in Priorat, owned by Rene Barbier. Produces some of the most outstanding and sought after wines in Spain, all in a tiny, unadorned winery.
Blog Post: Day 2 in Spain: Touring Monstant
Fermenting wine at Clos Mogador:
Celler Laurona | cellerlaurona.com | Ctra. De Bellmunt, S/n Sort Dels Capellans Pol. 21 | Falset 43730
Tel: 34 977 83 17 12
This is a Gretchen Selection Winery.
Also owned by Rene Barbier, this is his Montsant property that influenced the DO status of the region. Small and quaint, but easy to get to if you are staying in Falset.
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Clos Martinet | masmartinet.com | Ctra de Falset a Gratallops KM 6 | Falset 43730
Tel: 34 629 23 8236
Operated by Rene Barier's daughter-in-law, Sara Perez. Like Rene, she makes outstanding and artisanal wines out of a small winery.
Celler de l'Encastell | roquers.com | Carrer de Castell, 13 | Porrera 43739
Tel: 34 977 82 81 46
It isn't easy to locate this underground cellar, but its great once you arrive! The tiny tasting room with the barrels (offering up the chance to taste right out of the barrels) is great, but the drive into the vineyards is amazing.
Celler Capcanes | cellercapcanes.com | Carrer Llaberia, 4 | Capcanes, Tarragona 43776
Tel: 34 977 178 319
A very proud co-op located in Capcanes, that every grape farmer in the area constributes to as "owners." Produced what is considered one of the best Kosher wines in the world, a very fun wine to learn about.
Josep Foraster | josepforaster.com | Celler Mas Foraster | Carrer de Forès | Montblanc 43400
Tel: 34 977 86 02 29
Not many wineries to visit in Conca de Barbera, but this is a gem. Produces one of the only 100% Trepat still wines in Spain, a rare Catalan red varietal used mostly for sparkling wine.
Hotels Priorat S.L. (Hostal Sport) | hotelpriorat-hostalsport.com | C/ Miquel Barcelo 4-6 |Falset 43730
Tel: 34 977 830 078
The only hotel to stay in really, located in Falset. Cozy accommodations, a great restaurant for breakfast is adjacent.
Hotel La Heredad Mas Collet | tripadvisor.com | Finca Mas Collet Capcanes, Spain 43776
Tel: 34 97 726 2455
Although the location is remote, the stay is beautiful, with a nice wine cellar and restaurant on premise. Great for romantic travel, good for business as well, although plan extra travel time for finding the location.
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Castell Del Remei S.L.| castelldelremei.com | Finca Castell del Remei | Castell del Remei 25333
Tel: 34 973 580 200
A really cool estate in Costers del Segre, that has 400 acres of property, with less than 25% being planted to vineyards, with the idea of keeping the land sustainable. A really cool place to visit with a great restaurant on site. Snails with aioli are a specialty.
Tomas Cusine| tomascusine.com | Plaça de Sant Sebastià, 13 | El Vilosell 25457
Tel: 34 973 17 60 29
Not much to see since the winery is just a garage in Vilosell, but produces some of the most impressive (and beautifully labeled) wines in the region.
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Celler Acustic| acusticceller.com | C/ Sant Lluís, 12| Els Guiamets 43777
Tel: 34 629 472 988
Albert, the owner and winemaker, is a dear friend and outstanding host. His winery is modest but the wines are amazing, as well as the visit to see his vineyards.
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You see, Joe is very smart. That's why his thought goes here. (Joe): I think it's the offense. Seriously. Our defense is very very good, top 6 or 7 actually. You can't be unhappy about that. The offense shoots considerably more midrange jumpers than the NBA average while simultaneously shooting much less at the rim or from three than the NBA average. We take much more of the least efficient shots in the game and much less of the most efficient shots. It's really that simple. Our offense is largely predicated on drive and dish, and the shot that results is usually a midrange. We need more better shooters to up our efficiency (Thabo stands out) or to tweak our offense.
We use screens all the time, but when is the last time you actually saw our screener roll to the basket and get a shot close in? Our bigs always pull up and shoot (Green and Krstic). We need to go to the rim and the PNR is one very established way of doing it. We have the athleticism.
If we upped our offensive efficiency by a percent or two we would be in the playoffs. We may still be, but it would be virtually assured all things being equal and our defense holding the line.
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All of this is true. I kind of want to put Brooks and Triano in the Hadron Interim Collider and see if we can put a complete coach together. Because Brooks has his guys playing their brains out and destroying people with athleticism but they can't run an offensive set to save their souls. Seriously, they should put tape down on the floor for them. And Triano's sets result in high efficiency shots and great ball movement and flow but his defense is so bad Don Nelson is licking his chops at a chance to play them.
Most disturbing is little they seem with getting Durant quality shots in key situations. They either run a play using screens and curls that results in a shot for someone else, or they give the ball to Durant and let him go ISO, inevitably leading to a double that nets them nothing. Seriously. He's good enough to get the shot off, kids, but if you give him some help, he'll score EVEN MORE! Magic!
Also, Jeff Green is my favorite Thunder Dude and if he learns to roll to the basket I'm going to name my child after him.


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Strictly Come Dancing naysayers out in full force
THE NAYSAYERS are already in full flow over the appointment of Darcey Bussell as the replacement for Alesha Dixon in the judging line-up for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing.
She's too straitlaced, has no experience of modern dancing and, they claim, failed to impress with previous appearances.
What these people fail to realise is the real stars of the Strictly... are the fantastic "fun" acts, such as the incomparable Russell Grant last year, who made the show.
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HANCOCK, MI - Finlandia University is pleased to congratulate the student-athletes named to the university's 2011-12 All-Academic Team. The students were honored at a luncheon on April 19.
The All-Academic Team recognizes Finlandia student-athletes who have completed at least 30 college-level credits and achieved a minimum overall GPA of 3.50.
"These student-athletes have done a tremendous job at balancing both academics and athletics," says Chris Salani, Finlandia athletic director. "They have displayed superb leadership and teamwork skills on the field, rink, and court, as well as in the classroom. Many of them are also active in the community and with student life on campus."
The Finlandia student-athletes on the 2011-12 All-Academic Team are:
Reece Anderson (Hancock, MI)
Adam Arthur (Ironwood, MI)
Charles Benik (Andover, MN)
Nanci Crossman (Livonia, MI)
Dawn Engman (Dollar Bay, MI)
Kristen Fallon (Dollar Bay, MI)
Siera Hache (Winnipeg, Ontario)
Niki Hieda (Corona, CA)
Nemanja Jankovic (Belgrade, Serbia)
Jenny Johnson (Menahga, MN)
Eric Monticello (Hancock, MI)
Mariah Mumford (Mt. Pleasant, MI)
Haley Neri (Riga, MI)
Kelly Poelstra (Baltimore, Ontario)
Aaron Porath (Gladstone, MI)
Matt Strong (Houghton, MI)
Mallory Torola (Calumet, MI)
Kelsey Williams (Hopkins, MI)
Cole Workman (Howell, MI)
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Single KeanuKeanu Reeves has denied reports he is engaged to actress Claire Forlani.
The 'Matrix' star was said to have popped the question to the stunning 'Meet Joe Black' actress after secretly dating her for three years.
It was reported Keanu had got down on one knee during dinner at top Hollywood restaurant Cut.
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He said: "We're just good friends, nothing more."
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Good luck Spies.
LOL @the digs at Rossi and Co.
I think Spies pretty much summed it up.
Lets hope that the new riders can help Ducati get back to where they were before Rossi joined.
Hopefully Ducati will listen to all 4 riders this year, not just 1 that ironically led them the wrong way.


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Obviously what they found in testing was close to useless, again Tom fades more quickly than Primark jeans. Maybe he's outperforming the bike over one lap but struggling to keep it up for any length of time, but we're not seeing it from the other Kawasaki riders, or the BSB teams (although shorter races and slightly different regs might explain that)


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Swimming and Diving Travel to Kansas
AMES, Iowa- The Cyclone swimming and diving team will head to Lawrence, Kan. to compete in its last dual meet of the season. The team will face Big 12 rival Kansas in a two-day meet which will help prepare both teams for the upcoming Big 12 Championship meet.
"We are going to do a dual, but over a two-day period," head coach Duane Sorenson said. "We will swim the first half on Friday night and second half on Saturday morning. The reason is to get both teams ready for the Big 12 format where we swim finals at 6 p.m. then get up and swim fast again at 10 a.m. so it work out really great for all of our athletes. It allows them to focus on only one or two races per session where at most meets the women are swimming three or four."
The swimmers have seen Kansas once already this season at the Kansas Classic where the Cyclones finished in fourth and Kansas took second.
"We are really looking for some great races," Sorenson said. "Last year we had some tremendous races against Kansas at this time of the year at our pool. We want to see if we can go down to Kansas and repeat that performance like we had last year and race them tough in their pool."
The Cyclones will enter this weekend after two back-to-back defeats against Nebraska-Omaha and in-state rivals UNI at home.
Against UNI, the Cyclones won the 200 freestyle event with sophomore Sarah Deis finishing with a time of 1:56.76. The team also won the 100 breaststroke event, with sophomore Ali Stearns finishing with a time of 1:06.91 to take first.
"We are just starting our taper sequence and more speed work," Sorenson said. "We are looking for people to keep improving on what they have worked on in practice.
"We are getting to the point where we have to pick our Big 12 scoring team," Sorenson said. "We can only score 18 of our women at the Big 12 meet and we are taking 30, so that means 10-12 are not going to be scoring, so they will be determining who will be the scoring team by their performances at this meet."
The Jayhawks last saw action when they fell to No. 18 Arkansas Feb. 2, 219-81. Kansas was led by senior Brooke Brull who had three top-three finishes on the evening.
The Cyclone divers also are looking forward to the last chance dual meet where they will have their final meet preparation before the championship meet.
"It's our final chance to really fine tune," diving coach Jeff Warrick said. "It's our last competition before Big 12's so our mind set going in is, how do we want to feel, and if it doesn't go as well as we would like, we can still fine tune during the next couple of weeks. I want them to go in mentally focused and emotionally read both Friday night and Saturday morning."
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The Mississippi House voted 90-30 Wednesday to pass a bill that will increase the state's cigarette tax this year and next. It was 18 more votes than it needed for the required three-fifths majority.
The bill goes to Gov. Haley Barbour, who said this week that he opposes both parts of it. However, the governor has stopped short of pledging to veto it.
The measure, which would also phase out the grocery tax by 2014, was described by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Percy Watson as the largest tax cut the state has seen in 30 years.
Several lawmakers asked repeatedly why the House should vote on the bill when they believe there are still significant, unanswered questions about how it will affect cities that depend on grocery tax collections.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Changes in a state law that limit how much school districts can pay toward employee health insurance and a higher number of medical claims are leaving some employees of a South Bend school district feeling strapped by their health care expenses.
The South Bend Community School Corporation, which is self-insured, overhauled its health benefits this fall in response to the law and an increase in claims. Premiums for a single employee rose from about $150 to $210 a month, while those for a family plan jumped from $350 to $600. The district also implemented new tiers of coverage, the South Bend Tribune reported http://bit.ly/ROwdFZ ).
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"Well, they have so many late game situations, I mean c'mon. If you go through their edit, there's no pattern. They have so many proven 25-point game scorers on their roster that they just go with usually who the hot hand is. We anticipated it would be a Pierce-Garnett pick-and-roll. That's what we thought it would be.†– Erik Spoelstra after the Heat's Game Three loss on a Paul Pierce game-winning jumper.
I don't want to pretend to know more about the game of Erik Spoelstra. I certainly don't have half of the knowledge that he possesses. He's worked his way up the ranks of the NBA coaching profession. I've spent one year as the assistant coach of a junior varsity boys high school basketball team (although we did win league for the first time in a long time). But I can't believe his post-game comments about Pierce's shot to bury the Heat into a seemingly insurmountable 3-0 deficit.
Here's the final shot:
I find it very hard to believe the Miami Heat didn't think this was coming. It was the only play that could have been called for the Celtics to win this game. It's kind of the same play they always run at the end of games. If they're behind and need a big three, they'll run the inbounds play to Pierce or KG and have Ray Allen find some open space for a three-point jumper. But when they're down one or tied with not much time remaining then they're going to give the ball to Paul Pierce and get the hell out of the way.
How did Spoelstra not know this but everybody watching the game did?
You just knew he was getting that shot. He ALWAYS gets that shot. He loves the elbow. He lives at the elbow. He's built a Hall of Fame career at that elbow. He's going to find a way to get into that area and get a shot off. As the head coach of the Miami Heat, you HAVE to know this. Or as one of the assistant coaches, you HAVE to know this.
When Spoelstra goes into that huddle and starts telling his guys to watch out for the pick-and-roll, that's when you interject and claim that you'd wager any body part that Pierce is getting the ball for the classic hero shot at the end of a game. All of the stars do it. Pierce does it. You HAVE to know this!
Just looking at the YouTube for less than five minutes, I found all of these buzzer-beaters by Pierce in which he's just getting the ball and creating a jumper.
That was less than FIVE minutes on YouTube. There's no way you couldn't have known that Paul Pierce was getting the ball in an isolation set near the top of the key.
I think it's time for the Miami Heat databank to update the Celtics' "edit.†Trying getting some data from post-1998.


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New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored ten books, ranging from true crime to memoir to crime fiction. Her next book, THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER, due out in November 2015, chronicles the story behind the Steven DeMocker murder case in Prescott, Arizona. Her latest narrative non-fiction release, I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU, tells the story behind the murder of Newport Beach multimillionaire Bill McLaughlin by his femme fatale fiancee and her NFL-linebacker lover. That book, as well as an updated version of her only novel, NAKED ADDICTION, set in La Jolla and PB, were both released in 2014. The Los Angeles Times described her controversial LOST GIRLS as "a deeply reported, dispassionately written attempt to determine what created that monster and predator [John Gardner]. It is a cautionary tale and a horror story, done superbly by a writer who knows how to burrow into a complex case without becoming captive to her sources." Rother, a two-time San Diego Book Awards finalist, worked as an investigative reporter at daily newspapers for 19 years before deciding to write books full-time. Her work has also been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast and the Huffington Post. Rother has appeared more than 100 times on TV and radio on shows including Nancy Grace,Snapped, many Investigation Discovery programs, Greta Van Susteren's On the Record, XM Radio, America at Night and various PBS affiliates. She also works as a writing coach and research/publishing consultant. For more information, please visit her website, http://caitlinrother.
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Long-time editor-in-chief and acquisitions editor at award-winning Sunbelt Publications, Jennifer Silva Redmond is now a publishing consultant and editor, as well as a popular instructor and speaker. Her essays, articles, and fiction have been published in anthologies, magazines, and books; she teaches at the Southern California Writers Conference, San Diego Writers, Ink, was prose editor for A Year in Ink vol 3, and co-founder of the critically acclaimed "Sea of Cortez Review." Her latest role is independent film producer at WorkWithMeFilms; the original screenplay "El Camino" (her third script co-written with husband Russel Redmond) is in pre-production. She is always looking for "great new stuff" and has a wide circle of agents, editors, and publishers with whom to share marketable fiction and non-fiction. More information, a list of edited books, and client testimonials can be found at www.jennyredbug.com.
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Tom Spanbauer
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|The Source for Freedom Of Information Law and Action
|Journalists, Republican governor helped establish 1967 law
FOIArkansas Project
The Republican was Winthrop Rockefeller who decided to settle in Arkansas after returning from World War II and to do his best to end one-party rule in what used to be the most Democratic state in the country. Rockefeller, who served two terms as governor from 1967 to 1971, was the first Republican to be elected governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction.
Rockefeller came to Arkansas in 1953 to visit an Army buddy. Intrigued by the state, he settled on Petit Jean Mountain and followed the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy and later, through an appointment by Governor Orval Faubus, became involved in bringing industry to the state. He soon saw the need to strengthen the tiny Republican Party in one-party Arkansas.
At the same time, a chapter of a national organization of journalists named Sigma Delta Chi (now the Society of Professional Journalists) was being started in Little Rock. The year was 1961, and once formed, the chapter members largely reporters and photographers rather than editors and publishers looked about for a project. They became mildly interested in the national organizations campaign for a law in every state that would provide access to government meetings and records laws similar to a national Freedom of Information bill that was before Congress.
The Arkansas legislature had passed a very weak open-meetings law in 1953, but it was easily violated because it permitted public meetings to be closed if the agency holding the meeting decided it was considering privileged matters, communications or information concerning individuals. There was no law in Arkansas guaranteeing access to public records and documents.
The result was that secrecy was prevalent in government throughout the state.
Meanwhile, Rockefeller, seeing the abuse of government power, election fraud and other examples of government in secrecy, became convinced that the state needed a strong Republican Party to act as a watchdog. So he started a couple of organizations, the Arkansas Election Research Council and the Committee for Two Parties. People began urging him to run for office, and in 1964 he decided to become a candidate for governor against Faubus.
Faubus won easily, capturing 56 percent of the vote. But Rockefeller was determined, and in his concession speech to Faubus he announced that he would run again in two years.
Rockefeller immediately began criticizing the one-party dominance of state government and the secret deals of the Faubus machine. Rockefeller was responsible for the voters rejecting a huge highway bond issue that Faubus proposed. Traveling the state, Rockefeller described his inability to see voting records, or even to find out which banks were chosen as depositories of state money depositories that didnt even have to go to the expense of paying interest on the money.
Rockefellers lawyers took the state treasurer to the Supreme Court, which ruled that under common law, citizens had the right to know which banks had public funds on deposit. The lawsuit was among the things that made Faubus decide not to run for a seventh term, and, ironically, the author of the bank decision, Associate Justice Jim Johnson, became Rockefellers opponent in November 1966. Both Rockefeller and Johnson promised that, if elected, they would ask the legislature to pass a law opening records to the public, and the two parties made this a plank in their platform.
After Rockefeller was elected, the need for a better law for open meetings was also demonstrated. A few senior legislators met with the State Revenue Building Commission and decided to buy Capitol Hill apartments, a decrepit building next to the Capitol owned by a friend of the legislators. Reporters heard about the meeting, but when they showed up to cover it, the legislators made them leave. But the reporters found out what happened at the meeting and wrote about it, and not only the press but the public was incensed.
In Fort Smith, reporters attempted to cover a meeting where the trustees of the state-operated junior college were going to raise staff salaries, but they were denied admission under the provisions of the so-called open-meetings law of 1953. The trustees asked Attorney General Bruce Bennett if they were correct, and Bennett said yes, writing in his official opinion that whatever a government official said was privileged was, in fact, privileged and therefore not subject to public scrutiny.
The opinion caused an uproar among journalists.
The search for a project by the Little Rock Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi came to an end when the members, already encouraged by the passage of a federal Freedom of Information law in 1966, voted to take on the drafting and promoting of a law for Arkansas. The Arkansas Press Association, the Arkansas Press Women and the Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors Association passed resolutions supporting the project.
True to his promise to the voters, Governor Rockefeller already had ordered his staff to prepare open-records and open-meetings bills. But State Capitol reporters prevailed upon him to let Sigma Delta Chi prepare the bill so it would be a nonpartisan effort. Rockefeller agreed.
The organization had only about 20 members and no money to spend on lawyers; there were two statewide newspapers in Little Rock then but neither of them made any contribution and were, in fact, somewhat skeptical about the project. So, Sigma Delta Chi members actually drafted the bill, deciding to deal with meetings and records in the same bill. The custom in most states had been to have separate laws on meetings and records.
Help came from several sources lawyer friends like Milton McLees, a municipal judge who believed in open government, and legislative allies like Nathan Schoenfeld of Hot Springs, who persuaded the Legislative Council legal staff to give advice and collect Freedom of Information laws from other states for the journalists to use as guides.
For the bills sponsors, the journalists recruited Ben Allen, a lawyer and a liberal veteran state senator from Little Rock, and Leon Holsted, a pharmacist, a former athlete and a very popular state representative from North Little Rock. They were Democrats, of course. In fact, at the time there were only three Republicans in the 135-member legislature.
Because freedom of information had been a campaign issue and was written about a great deal in state newspapers, there was very little opposition expressed publicly about the bill, although many legislators said privately that government would operate more smoothly if the press had less, rather than more, access.
But Allen and Holsted did a good job of persuading their colleagues to vote for the bill. Many of Rockefellers aides lobbied for the bill, especially those known in those days as Democrats for Rockefeller who were weary of the Faubus machine.
Rockefeller, of course, spoke in favor of the bill when asked, but he cleverly avoided the implication that this was a Republican idea.
Many journalists also became lobbyists for the bill, although a couple of State Capitol reporters refused, saying it would imperil their objectivity. The chairman of the FOI committee that did the brunt of the work was Richard Allin, who had been a State Capitol reporter for the Arkansas Gazette before becoming a columnist. Among those who worked hard on the project were Sylvia Spencer, Bob Carey and Cragg Hines of the United Press, Ernest Valachovic of the Gazette, R. B. Mayfield and Marcus George of the Arkansas Democrat and John Robert Starr of The Associated Press.
Many amendments were proposed that would have crippled the bill, but luckily all were avoided except for four, which were the usual exceptions found in most FOI laws. Amazingly, the bill passed without a dissenting vote 91-0 in the House, 32-0 in the Senate. Governor Rockefeller signed it into law Feb. 14, 1967.
Two months later, the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act got its first test.
At the conclusion of a regular meeting, the North Little Rock City Council adjourned to the mayors office to talk with City Attorney Reed Thompson about opposing a Public Service Commission order. Two members of the press, Ralph Patrick, managing editor of the North Little Rock Times, and Les Seago, a reporter for the Arkansas Gazette, followed the public officials into the office but were told by Mayor Casey Laman and Thompson that this was an executive session and they would have to leave.
Patrick objected, citing the recent passage of the FOI law. Thompson said that the City Council was his client and that no law could require that a lawyer meet with a client in public. When Patrick continued to object, Thompson said, Go ahead and file your damn lawsuit.
Thats exactly what the North Little Rock Times did. It engaged as its lawyer a real advocate of open government, Phil Carroll of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, who for many years was the libel lawyer for the Arkansas Gazette and other print and broadcast companies.
Circuit Court Judge Warren E. Wood heard the case and ruled that, indeed, the city had violated the new FOI law, and this infuriated Mayor Laman. He then hired Leon Catlett, one of the states most successful lawyers, to appeal to the state Supreme Court. There was an exchange of briefs and oral arguments in the case, styled Laman vs. McCord. On Oct. 21, 1968, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the lower court decision in favor of the newspaper
In the opinion, written by Associate Justice George Rose Smith, the court said:
In the act now before us, the General Assembly clearly declared the states public policy: It is vital in a democratic society that public business be performed in an open and public manner. We have no hesitation in asserting our conviction that the Freedom of Information Act was passed wholly in the public interest and is to be liberally interpreted to the end that its praiseworthy purposes may be achieved.
The language of the act is so clear, so positive, that there is hardly any need for interpretation ... Counsel for the city base their arguments entirely on the attorney-client privilege ... predicting that the city will not be able to prepare its cases for trial without disclosing its strategy and its weaknesses to its adversaries.
We think that, as a practical matter, counsel are unduly apprehensive about the impact of the act upon municipal litigation ... The city attorney can certainly prepare a case for trial without discussing his plans in detail with the city council ...
On the one hand, to deny to the city council the right to meet in secret with the city attorney might in some instances work to the public disadvantage. But, on the other hand, to allow the council to go into executive session at any time, upon the pretext of consulting the city attorney about legal matters, might readily open the door to repeated and undetectable evasions of the Freedom of Information Act also to the public disadvantage.
Policy decisions such as that are peculiarly within the province of the legislative branch of the government. In this instance that branch has spoken so unequivocally that its command cannot be misunderstood.
In the 30 years since the passage of the FOI act, there have been efforts at every legislative session to weaken it with amendments. Most have been defeated but a few have passed, making the law weaker than it was in the beginning. Even the lawyer-client privilege ruling is regularly challenged, but fortunately no amendment obviating Laman vs. McCord has passed.
A coalition with representatives of every journalism organization in the state meets regularly during legislative sessions to examine bills that could affect the FOI law. The number of these bills decrease every two years because the good news for open government in Arkansas is that public officials have become very much aware of the FOI law and are reluctant to oppose it because they know it is popular with the public.
Twenty-five times the law has been appealed to the state Supreme Court, and each time the courts decision has been in support of the principle of open government. Every Attorney General since Bruce Bennett not only has supported FOI in official opinions, but has given speeches, conducted seminars and published handbooks to acquaint the public and elected officials of their rights under the FOI law.
Perhaps the best illustration of the laws influence is in the conduct of the legislators. The 1874 Arkansas Constitution, which, of course, has precedence over statutory law, says, The sessions of each house and of committees of the whole shall be open unless when the business is such as ought to be kept secret.
The House and Senate used to take advantage of this provision and meet in secret. However, since the passage of the FOI Act, it has never happened.
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Yesterday, it was reported that screenwriter Emma Forrest, the up-and-coming scribe behind the excellent and sadly unproduced screenplay "Liars (A-E)" had her memoir optioned a film. Entitled "Your Voice In My Head," the book chronicles a particularly trying time in Forrest's life in which she battled self-destructive behavior and was saved by a compassionate psychiatrist. And while much has been made about her previous relationship with Colin Farrell -- which she was in while she wrote the memoir -- we reached out to Forrest to ask her to clear the air regarding her memoir. And though she was already weary of being misrepresented by the press in past interviews, she did give us some brief thoughts.
"I've just been misquoted so many times -- 'I've dated LOTS OF ACTORS' being a particular fave (John Garfield? Louis Gossett Jr.? The half a man of 'Two And a Half Men'?). I'm starting to feel that even trying to correct all the bullshit by saying, for the millionth time, that 'Liars' was an amalgamation of all the men I've dated and that this is a memoir about the doctor who saved me, not the Colin Farrell train -- makes me complicit in some internet version of 'Sweet Smell of Success.' "
So, for those expecting some kind of juicy, tabloid ready tell-all memoir-turned-movie about a big celeb dished by his ex, sorry, move along. Nothing to see here. Now someone please get "Liars (A-E)" moving again, thanks.


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I have a legacy ASP website with COM object running under IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008. This generally works great but I ran into a rather strange issue lately for which I'm unable to find a solutions.
There's one page that calls into a custom made COM object (VB6 code, yeah, I know) that calls into a 3rd party graphics rendering COM object. After testing we found that this code works fine under Windows 2003 and IIS 6.0 but it doesn't under Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0. The problem is that the 3rd party render engine does not use the proper (custom installed) true-type font and seems to use a default font.
When the code from the ASP page is run as a VBScript file under an Administrator account the rendering does use the correct font. So you might think it's a permission issue. However, when I run the VBScript under the same account that the website and IIS application pool is running under, the correct font is used as well. So only when the code runs under IIS 7.0, it doesn't render with the correct font. If it runs from a CMD box under the same account as IIS is using, it renders correct.
The account that IIS is using is a custom created account (not NETWORK SERVICE) with very little priviledges, however enough to function. The website has been running for years also using 3rd party COM objects. It's the first time an issue like this has come up.
I thought that permissions on the font might be an issue, although that would not explain why it would work outside IIS. To make sure it's not part of the problem I've given the Everyone group read permissions on the specific font. This did not solve the problem.
Taking all of the above into consideration, I think my question comes down to what is IIS doing differently that might cause the code to fail to use the correct font. I know that IIS 7.x is automatically putting the application pool account into the group IIS_IUSRS before it launches the application pool. But I already manually added the account to that group so also when I run the VBScript from a CMD box under that account, the account is also part of the IIS_IUSRS group. So that should be the same.
I'm running out of ideas how to solve this. Any ideas, tips or suggestions are welcome.


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