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The Sabor Latin Festival at the Steel Stacks in Bethlehem will have a very special performer taking stage this weekend.
His name is Justin Lopez, known by his stage name DJ Ju5tin.
At just 8 years old he's already a local sensation playing to sold out crowds at the Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown and on radio stations throughout the Valley as well as some in New York City.
There's also more to the young prodigy than meets the eye, Justin has a rare condition of Muscular Dystrophy that only affects 1,100 people in the entire world.
"He has a condition called Glycogen Storage Disease. Glycogen storage disease affects the liver, the heart and the muscles so being a rare form of muscle dystrophy," said his father Dan Lopez.
Justin's one year old brother, Jeremy has the same condition.
Lopez says he and his wife Jeannette had no idea the ailment was genetic until after his birth.
Their 5 year old brother Jayden is unaffected.
Regardless, Lopez says all three boys have something in common "His one year old brother has already started nodding his head and loving music, his middle brother is actually a phenomenal artist so I have a house full of artistes," he laughed.
Lopez says his son's love for music also serves as a therapy helping him forget about his ailment.
When asked why he likes to DJ, Justin responded he likes to make people dance "People dance about a song, they're dancing to salsa, bachata, like everything," he said.
Lopez hopes Justin's talent can also help spread the word on his rare condition.
"What we're hoping is that this story gets out there and that one doctor could hopefully one day help us out and maybe not finding a cure but finding something so Justin and Jeremy can have a long lasting life," he said.
DJ Ju5tin will be performing Saturday from 5 – 6pm at the Fowler Blast Furnace Room in the ArtsQuest Center and will be in the same location from 3 – 4 pm on Sunday.
He can also be followed on his Facebook and Twitter page, just look for DJ Ju5tin.
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Incoming Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam on Tuesday named top staffers who will accompany when he takes office next month.
Leading Putnam's team of advisors and administrators is Mike Joyner, who will become assistant commissioner and Putnam's chief of staff. Joyner is a lobbyist for fruit and vegetable growers, among other clients. He also has worked at the Florida Farm Bureau and the Florida Forestry Association, and served as chief of staff at the Department of Environmental Protection.
Marion Aller will become acting deputy commissioner. She joined the agency in 1986 and has previously served as director of Food Safety and held several technical positions in the Bureau of Pesticides, rising to chief in 1992.
Jay Levenstein will remain as deputy commissioner, a position he has held under outgoing Commissioner Charles Bronson. Levenstein joined the department in 1993. He has also been the agency's state-federal relations director, legislative affairs director, chief of the Bureau of Animal Disease Control and senior attorney.
Shannon Shepp will be acting deputy commissioner. She joined the Department in 2001 as assistant division director and has served as the Fruit and Vegetables Division director since 2004. Prior to working in the agency, her career included public affairs management in the citrus and home building industries and worked as a legislative aide to Sen. J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales.
Jim Boxold becomes director of Cabinet affairs. He joined the agency in 2003 and served as Bronson's chief Cabinet aide. Prior to that, he served as a Cabinet aide to Gov. Jeb Bush and worked as legislative director for Congressman Porter Goss.
Cheryl Flood becomes director of external affairs. She follows Putnam from Congress, where she was his chief of staff. She previously worked in the Agriculture Department as deputy legislative affairs director under Bronson.
Grace Lovett takes over as director of legislative affairs. She moves over to the Capitol from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, where she served as deputy director and acting director of the Office of Legislative Affairs. She has also previously worked for the Florida Public Service Commission.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
SoBe Botanicals - The motherlode has landed
And hey! I look to have royally treated myself. Good work, past Me.
We have here the Cool as a Cucumber Eye Cream, the Primed and Proper eyeshadow Primer, four mineral eyeshadows in Emerald, Diamond dust, Jet and Butterfly, a sample of the Night Minerals powder and a sample of the Oil control powder. There's also two samples of eyeshadows which I know absolutely nothing about, since they are both labelled with the name ?OOAK? which feels like monkeyspeak to me. And a brush that came as a set with the eyeshadows. Lets look at the brush for a second.
It's labelled as an accent brush, whatever that is. What is immediately evident to me is the completely inappropriate size of the brush. You cannot apply eyeshadow with it. So stop complaining, you say, use it for something else. It came with an eyeshadow set!! This makes my head hurt! It's also too thick for foundation, too small for blush or powder, all I can think of is maybe using it with a highlighter...? And even then I've never heard of a specifically "highlighter" blush. It is a mystery brush. An international brush of mystery. I'm going to put it to one side and try not to think about it for the sake of my poor nerves.
Swatching the shadows (with a different brush) I am cheered. There's some nice stuff here.
Diamond Dust is pure shimmer, with no additional color. It'd be a nice mixer. Not with the other SoBe's here, since they're all shimmer central, but with other matte shadows. It's exactly what it sounds like, and builds nicely. One swipe is barely visible, had to load a fair bit on for all these shadows.
Butterfly is a very soft, shimmery lilac. I like lilac. But I never see it in the kind of opacity that I'd like, and this ones no exception. It's very pale and translucent, and what you see above is an absolute pile of eyeshadow on the back of my hand. But it is pretty.
Emerald is an odd one. It starts very translucent, and with the slightest slip of the brush it becomes opaque and a bit muddy. It's not an acid green in the pot, more of a golfing green color, and I think maybe a little more fluroescent could have cleared it a bit and clarified what it is the color is going for.
Jet makes me nervous. It had opened (interior seal and all) in transit, and dusted most things in my package with charcoal-ish powder, that, unless make up remover was involved, would not come off anything, including me. Every time I touch the pot it sheds black on me. All I can think is charcoal. Its a matte, smoky grey-black, and when you smooth it on, it immediately puts that kind of ashy film on your skin with the exterior edge of crumbling black. Seriously. It exactly like testing charcoals on the back of my hand in art in school. The volatile nature of this pot makes me not want to handle it.
What I like is the labels on the bottom:
They've actually bothered to point out the ones you shouldn't be putting near your mouth. I approve of this. And they aren't whacking it on anything, which always reeks to me of covering-our-arses.
I swatched the two samples, though I have no idea what they're called.
For now, lets say Disco Skin and Disco Taupe. And yes, I am actually that pale.
Disco Skin (above) is actually really pretty. Taking a cursory look through my collection I can't really see a color that's similar. It's a bit darker and peachier than skin, with a buttload of shimmer. It would be a knockout of a base to put on really lightly and widely on your lids.
Disco Taupe(below) is awesome! I approve of this, Sir! It is taupe, but with a huge wallop of copper/brown in it. It's like the skin color of a Brazilian vegas showgirl, and that can only be a good thing. I love the shadows that are so metallic they make my fairly smooth and unmarked hands look like dried up river beds. It's fascinating.
Lets look away from the cosmetics for a bit. I have here the eye cream, which I've applied about six times at various times of the day and night.
Bad news - it's irritated my skin. It goes on fine, and then the skin it's sitting on will start to heat up like Tiger Balm and I have to wash it off. It's worth pointing out that my skin around my eyes is THE most sensitive skin most likely ever and about 99% of things set it off. Oddly enough specifically eye creams seem to do it more than all over face moisturisers, and I couldn't say why. Maybe it doesn't like being excessively touched or something. I don't think you should be deterred from this cream, necessarily. A lot of people have really liked it. But unfortunately it is the most recent in a big list of products that make my skin cry and reach for the tissues.
And damn, forgot to take a solo picture of the primer. The primer is great. I have no complaints about the primer. Goes on smoothly, lotiony and pleasant, and dries fast. Also seems to assist in the removal, which is handy. My only quibble is with the lid. You need such a minuscule amount that using the squeezy bottle and trying to get that tiny fraction out without it retracting again is frustrating, which is why I tend to use it to swatch on my arms more than my face. It needs a doefoot applicator. But that aside, it's my favorite product here and I really think it's quality.
Those observant souls will notice that I didn't cover the Oil Control of Night Minerals samples. There's a very good reason for that. Perth, right now, is in a 35-36 degree heat stretch. The days are unbearable and the nights are sweaty and miserable. Asking an oil control powder to do anything, with the exception of maybe melt off my face like that guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark, in this kind of weather is just unfair. Likewise the Night Minerals. I wake up most days with an ocean on my face. I'm not going to be able to do anything with these two until it get's drastically cooler. I will revisit them at a later date.
I was going to find an image of that face-melty guy. Came to the conclusion that it wigs me out too much to be on my blog.
In conclusion: Bit hit and miss for me. The primer is a champion. The eye cream and I have creative differences, the eyeshadows I just suspect I won't use. I don't add additional shimmer to anything (i.e. Diamond Dust), I have more vibrant greens, and Jet makes me fear for my carpets whenever I go near it. Butterfly (lilac) I think I'll probably get some wear out of. The two samples, on the other hand, were the best. really liked those two, if I was one hundred per cent sure which ones they were I'd jump on them.
And the brush OMGWTF what was going on with the brush.
Also worth mentioning that all correspondence with SoBe was speedy, professional and very friendly. This wins points. There's a huge catalog of stuff on their site which I haven't investigated yet, and suspect I will. I hear such good things.
UPDATE: Got a very lovely email from Lex at SoBe addressing some of the issues/reactions I had. She was very helpful and accommodating. I'm planning on buying a few more things soonish, which I'll have a look at as well. I respond amazingly when people send me nice emails. I go all gooey. STAY TUNED! Fun stuff in my future!
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Great review and great response from Sobe! I've seen this brand a number of times on Etsy but have never taken the plunge. I'm going to wait 'til your second haul before I buy! :)ReplyDelete
Cheers :) yeah, I was way impressed with the email she sent me. It was an ESSAY. She covered everything, and was incredibly friendly. I felt like such a villain. I'll be ordering some more things on the weekend :) I'm thinking two of the skin products and some more eyeshadows in denser colors.ReplyDelete
OOAK stands for One of a Kind, so I guess those are colours she mixed up just for you!ReplyDelete
yep - she did clarify that for me. was my face red!ReplyDelete
I ordered from Sobe and went through the saaaame thing with the OOAK shadows :PReplyDelete
I have a handful of shadows from her and to be honest, I don't reach for them all that often. To me, her best products are the face bits and the Gothstix. I have one in Panic, it's ridiculously creamy and I LOVE the colour.
I've been wanting to try her primer for a while, I might have to now ;) her Illusionist powder is luuuurvely, I have the tinted version and I use it everyday to combat my oily skin and the humidity.
Ordering from the U.S. is always tricky. Sometimes I get packages in 10 days, sometimes it takes over 3 weeks. So weird.
How have I not found your blog before?! You live in Perth, you like makeup and comics? Do I know who you are? :P
You almost certainly do, Perth is too small :p are you familiar with luke milton at all? he tends to be my link to most circles...ReplyDelete
I've tentatively tried the oil control powder, and it seems really nice, but it needs to cool down before it gets a proper evaluation. night minerals hasn't happened yet. I'm going to ask for a sample of illusionist next order... heard good things :)
And items shipped from the UK are the antidote to US shipping - a week usually. Book Depository has spoiled me hugely
I do not know this Luke Milton! Maybe we DON'T know each other! *gasp*ReplyDelete
Book Depository = <3
perth must have gotten bigger! or else we haven't found the connection yet...O_oReplyDelete


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I'm on the look around for a Full Suspension XC Bike with Hydraulic Disks Brakes(Deffinetly not V-Brakes) and I don't want a Cannondale
There seem to be quite a few on offer from various companies, and being that this is my first proper XC Bike that I want to keep for a few years, I'd like to make sure I got value for money and not ending up sacrifcing 1 part for another and getting ripped just because 1 lbs has a different prefference to another lbs
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As per the 2009 National Census, the county had a total population of 730,129 of which 49% were males while 51% were females. Bomet County has five electoral constituencies thus:
Information About Bomet County
Bomet County is a county in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Bomet. The county has a population of 730,129 (2009 census) and an area of 1,997.9 km². Bomet County is a multiracial, multi-ethnic nation with citizens of diverse socio-economic, religious and cultural backgrounds co-existing with the collective will of making things better for future generations. Bomet County Government has the major towns namely: Bomet Town, Sotik Town, and Longisa, Mulot.
Agriculture in Bomet County
Agriculture is the mainstay of Bomet County with tea farming and dairy production leading in the sector. Food crops are grown in the area with maize being the area's staple food. Beans, Irish potatoes, millet, cabbages, onions, bananas and pineapples are grown both for subsistence and sale in the county and distant markets mainly Nairobi and various counties in the former Nyanza Province. Commercial growing of avocado and passion fruits is picking up in the county.
Tea earns the residents of the county most of their revenue. Dairy industry is also a major player in contributing to household incomes. There is a milk factory in Sotik town and several milk cooling plants spread across the county. Coffee farming is also established in areas around Bomet, Tarakwa and Ndanai. Fish and poultry rearing are also receiving attention in the county of late.
The high altitude at which the county is located has predisposed it to favourable climatic conditions that have allowed the area to remain green for most parts of the year. The area also receives rainfall for a good part of the year which allows agriculture to flourish.
Business Trade and Investment in Bomet County
Trade is conducted in the urban centres of the region with a number of financial institutions offering banking and credit services to the people of the county. Micro-finance initiatives along with government loans towards the youth and women would see an increase in trade which would mean an increase in the household incomes of the people of the county.
The county is among the most densely populated counties in the region and thus has a large labour force concentrated around its agricultural centres. The potential for this labour force is quite high since any efforts to direct its energy towards increased agricultural production would see the county contribute a substantial portion toward the country's food requirements and consequently provide incomes for its people.
Investment opportunities abound in agriculture, hospitality and transport sectors. A maize milling factory would do well as there is a lot of maize grown in the county and in the two neighboring counties of Narok and Nyamira which have always used Bomet County roads as a transit route to far-off markets.
The close proximity of the county to the world-famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve means that hotels would prosper. As the county government takes root, increased number of visitors to the county will be a boost to hotels around Bomet town as well.
The Bomet County Government has laid a lot of emphasis on improving road infrastructure making areas that were hitherto inaccessible by vehicles accessible hence more opportunities in the public transport sector. Demand for housing from county staff, business community and people who want to settle in the serene suburbs of Sotik and Bomet towns is helping to boost the property market.
As a county with a youthful population, ICT related colleges and services are on demand. Businesses, government institutions and schools are digitizing services and processes hence business opportunities for ICT companies that provide these solutions are limitless.
There is also room for investment in retail and wholesale businesses, hardware stores and trade in farm products. Investors both from within and without the county should take advantage of investment incentives offered by the county government and the good investment environment that prevails in the county- good security, hospitable people, low labor costs, vast space for setting up structures, pro-investment policies set by the county and sound purchasing power of the community fueled by a fast growing middle class.
Bomet County Tenders
Bomet county tenders are awarded in a free, fair and transparency manner in the need to fight corruption in the country.
To access tenders in Bomet county click the link: http://www.bomet.go.ke/tenders/ for the latest job opportunities in the county.
Bomet County Jobs and Vacancies
Bomet County Jobs opportunities for all qualified personnel and those who would wish to work with Bomet County government. Jobs in Bomet County are posted on the county website.
Bomet County jobs are awarded in a free, fair and transparency manner in the need to fight corruption in the country.
To access Jobs in Bomet County click the link http://www.bomet.go.ke/tenders/ for the latest job opportunities in the county.
Constituencies in Bomet County
- Sotic Constituency
- Chepalungu Constituency
- Bonet East Constituency
- Konoin Constituency
Bomet County Wards
Details about Bomet county wards will be updated soon
Bomet County Governor and Deputy Governor
The current governor of Bomet County is Hon. Isaac Ruto and the deputy governor is Hon. Stephen Mutai.
Facts About Bomet County
Area (Km 2): 1,592.4 Km 2
Climate/Weather: The County has a mean monthly temperature of 18ºC with an annual rainfall ranging between 1,100mm and 1,500mm
Road Network: Total (521.6 Km); Bitumen Surface (169.9 Km), Gravel Surface (73 Km)
Key National Monument(s): None
Population of Bomet County
Population: 585,072 (Male – 49%, Female – 51 %)
Population Density: 367 people per Km 2
National Percentage: 1.52 %
Annual Growth Rate: 2.7 %
Age Distribution: 0-14 years (47.0 %), 15-64 years (49.7 %), 65+ years (3.3 %)
Number of Households: 111,258
Bomet County Government
County Capital: Bomet Town (Proposed)
Number of Constituencies (2010): 3 (Bomet, Chepalungu, Sotik)
Registered Voters: 192,380
National percentage: 1.5 %
Number of Districts (2009): 2 (Bomet, Sotik)
Number of Local Authorities (2010): 3 (Bomet Municipal and County Councils, and Sotik Town Council)
Economy of Bomet County
Poverty Level: 58.7 %
Age Dependency Ratio: 100:101
Resources: Forest, Pasture, River, Wildlife, Arable Land, Diatomite, Stone Quarry
Tourist Attractions: Key route to Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Traditional Ornaments
Financial Services: 8 Commercial Banks, 5 Micro-Finance Institutions
Main Economic Activities/Industries: Tea & Coffee farming, Horticulture, Cattle rearing
Agricultural products: Dairy Products, Maize, Beans, Irish Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes
Education in Bomet County
Number of Institutions (2007): Primary (479), Secondary (96)
Primary: Enrolment (116,868)
Teacher to Pupil Ratio: 1: 49 (Public Schools)
Secondary: Enrolment (18,876)
Teacher to Pupil Ratio: 1: 33 (Public Schools)
Tertiary: 2 Satellite Campuses, 1 Medical Training College, 1 National Polytechnic, 2 Teacher Training Colleges, and Several Commercial Colleges.
Adult Literacy Classes: Enrolment (33,409 – Rift Valley)
Health in Bomet County
Health Facilities: Total – 78; District Hospitals (2), Sub-District Hospitals (1), Dispensaries (61), Health Centres (10), Medical Clinics (1), Medical Centres (1), VCT Centres (1), Others (1)
Doctor to Population Ratio: 1:102,048
Infant Mortality Rates: 54/1000
Under Five Mortality Rates: 82/1000
Prevalent Diseases: Malaria, Respiratory Tract Infections, Skin Diseases
Notable Hospitals: Longisa and Ndanai District Hospitals
Bomet County Map
Bomet County Contacts
Address: P.O. Box 19-20400 BOMET, KENYA
Tel: 0772 99 11 44


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- Publication Date: 03-15-2000
- Page Count: 112
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This South African activist's story introduces children to the injustices of apartheid and to real-life heroism. In 1977, when Mamphela Ramphele was banned to a remote corner of South Africa, the nation's white apartheid government was inflicting some of the worst repression in its history. Yet she, like millions of black South Africans, continued protesting against the government's system of racial segregation and injustice. Years earlier, when Mamphela had decided to study medicine, many people told her that her dreams were unrealistic: after all, she was black and a girl. Mamphela proved them wrong. As a doctor, educator, and leader in the fight against apartheid, she would face hardships and suffer the loss of loved ones, but she would also see the birth of new dreams as freedom was achieved at last in South Africa.


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Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio-mostly to hear the Mikesrs" (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with dignity. In Mike and Mikers"s Rules for Sports and Life, the beloved mic jockeys put their unique stamp on, well, the rules for sports and life. In years on the road, in the studio, and at home, Greeny and Golic have learned that itrs"s all about the big stuff: separating order from chaos, ensuring our survival as a species, and keeping peace. For instance: bull; The Fourth of July should be eliminated and replaced with an Independence Day that falls on the first Thursday of the month, creating a four-day weekend like Thanksgiving, which, by the way, could do without the Detroit Lions. bull; "The Human Element" in sports officiating and weather forecasting sucks. bull; The top pick in the NBA draft lottery should go to the team that came closest to making the playoffs-not to the team that rips off fans by mailing it in after the All-Star break. bull; When someone says, "Irs"m being completely honest," they might as well be claiming that they go to Hooters just for the wings. bull; Kids do not get to eat french fries for breakfast. Ever. And who cares what the kids at the next table are ordering. bull; No more designated hitter! If yours"re one of Golic and Greenyrs"s legions of followers, you probably canrs"t get enough of this sort of provocative, hilarious, and occasionally obsessive stuff. And if yours"re one of those fans who live by the rule "There oughta be a rule," thenMike and Mikers"s Rules for Sports and Lifeis the book for you.
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Off2Richmond, pulled over b4 I get2 the highway, kind gentleman let me off w/a warning… LET'S GOOO!! Off2 a good start!! #HTTR #heavyFoot
— Chris Neild (@TruckNeild) July 22, 2014
Until Neild comments further on his good fortune, I'm going to imagine that his interaction with the officer went something like this:
Neild: "I'm sorry, sir, I was just on my way to training ca–"
Officer: "Hey, aren't you that guy from 'American Muscle'?"
Neild: "Well, yeah, but I also–"
Officer: "Man, I love that show. Here's a warning. Be on your way."
Teammate Ryan Clark encountered an entirely different problem.
I need an 8:00 barber appointment in Richmond tomorrow!! Anyone available
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) July 22, 2014
Clark's followers responded with recommendations, but judging by the safety's tweets on Wednesday, none of them worked out.
@chpn at the shop and no one is here. Thought they got here early. That number doesn't work either.
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) July 23, 2014
My attempt to get a haircut in Richmond has failed!!! What barbershop isn't open at 9:00? — Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) July 23, 2014
I give up! I will now forgo haircuts until camp ends! — Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) July 23, 2014
Trent Williams set off for camp in a fresh T-shirt and the following message posted to Instagram: "Off to Richmond va. The grind is back #silverback #httr #camplife."
Pierre Garcon tweeted for everyone who has spent time on 95 South…
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Kirk Cousins will arrive in the coolest ride at camp…
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April 14, 2009 01:39 PM by Britteny Elrick
Last night onDancing With The Stars the couples performed either thesaucy Rumba or the energetic Jive. However, not all of the Rumbas sizzled and some ofthe Jives were a snoozefest. The celebrities who don't have a cloud of impending doom hanging over them are Lil Kim, Gilles Marini, and Melissa Rycroft, who have consistently impressed the judges week after week…
Although Lawrence narrowly escaped the jaws ofelimination last week, he may not be so lucky this time around. Scoring a possible 22 out of 30 points, he did better than he's ever done before – which still sets him at the bottom of the leader board. Another celebrity who keeps squeaking by is Ty. Ty has had problems loosening up the entire season. This week when he performed his Jive, he couldn't seem to get his hip actions right and left the judges disappointed. Ty and Chelsie scored a 18 out of 30 which puts them in the second to the bottom slot.
The worst dance of the night, as it has been almost all season, was Steve-O. Steve and Lacey weren't even in the bottom two last week, much to the surprise of many. Steve's Rumba was not only lacking both in passion and in technical ability, but it was just downright dreadful. It will be a miracle of mass proportions if he isn't in the bottom two.
Chuck and Julianneare cutting it close with 23 points, just one point above Lawrence and Edyta;however,I have a feeling they will live to dance another week. I'd say from the looks of things, that Steve-O and Ty had better get ready for a dance off tonight! What do you think?
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The management team at KinetX Aerospace brings a unique perspective, extensive engineering experience, and proven
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Kjell Stakkestad
Mr. Stakkestad received both his bachelor and master degrees in mathematics from the University of
California at Davis, and then accepted a position as a staff orbit analyst at Lockheed Missiles and
Space Company (LMSC). He produced orbit-planning products for an array of operational satellite
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could be rapidly, cheaply, and reliably developed. This prototype was used as the example for the
future development of the AFSCN satellite ground systems. His work on the prototype included
implementation of the orbital dynamics portion of the ground system including development of the
operational rule base.
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Financial Officer. As the orbit dynamics lead for the development of the IRIDIUM satellite ground
control system, he developed the initial orbital dynamics requirements for the ground system. He
led the orbit trade study that chose the company to implement the requirements, worked as the liaison
between the development and operational staffs, and was part of the initial operations team that
assembled the IRIDIUM constellation. Mr. Stakkestad also led a variety of KinetX Aerospace software,
hardware, and system engineering projects for the IRIDIUM project.
After leaving the IRIDIUM project, he worked on new business development for KinetX Aerospace and assisted
Spectrum Astro in the design of the satellite constellation and ground system architecture for the SBIRS
Low project. He has written a number of papers on effective satellite operations and autonomy for
large satellite constellations, a subject with which he is still actively involved.
Susan Dater
Susan Dater is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of KinetX Aerospace, Inc. As CFO, Ms. Dater is
responsible for all domestic and international finance, accounting, budgetary, contract and human
resource activities for the company. She also oversees all ITAR and regulatory affairs. She
joined KinetX Aerospace in 1996 as an accountant. After graduating Cum Lade with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Accountancy from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and
passing the CPA exam, she assumed the position of Controller at KinetX Aerospace. Over the past
few years, as more growth and changes occurred inside of KinetX Aerospace, Ms. Dater transitioned the
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government contractor cost accounting system with an on-line timekeeping system.
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Her attention to detail, dedication to continuing corporate governance and high ethical standards make
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Tony Goen
Mr. Goen received his BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin, and accepted a position at
Motorolas Government Electronics Group in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1978. He initially worked
at the device level in the companys Integrated Circuits Facility (ICF), and then led various teams
in the development of Electronic Security Measures (ESM) systems over the next few years.
In 1988, Mr. Goen was assigned a Design Assurance role, where he managed the divisions centralized
pool of mechanical engineers, material specialists, reliability specialists, and component engineers.
In 1990, he was asked to lead a division-level test initiative, and proceeded to standardize and
formalize the test approach for space and other high reliability programs. By its nature, this
task required significant Systems Engineering focus, leading to the advancement of Systems Engineering
capability at the division.
In 1992, Mr. Goen joined the IRIDIUM team and led the On-Board Processor (OBP) development efforts on
the payload. This seven-computer processing suite encompassed all aspects of subsystem
development, from systems engineering and architecture to design to parts/materials selection and
management, to integration/test/verification. This effort resulted in many defining attributes of
the IRIDIUM payload, such as the inter-computer communications architecture, the hardware routing
algorithm and implementation, and the processor bus and suite of associated custom ASICs. These
ASICs defined the payload behavior for everything from bus control to routing of payload communication
In 1999, Mr. Goen and a small group of individuals founded a development lab within Motorola in
Chandler, Arizona focused on the design of cellular infrastructure equipment. This team executed
RF, digital, FPGA, and DSP development efforts for 8 years in support of CDMA, WCDMA, and other air
interface technologies. The team also developed a new WiMAX Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) that
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In May of 2007, Mr. Goen joined KinetX Aerospace. Several former Motorolans also joined the KinetX Aerospace hardware
team to augment the considerable existing Software and Systems Engineering capabilities. The
primary foci of this team are Wireless Communications and Embedded Computing for product space
encompassing Aerospace, Government, and Commercial markets.
Bobby Gene Williams, Ph.D.
Dr. Williams holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and a
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is a member of Sigma
Gamma Tau, the national honor society for aerospace engineering.
As an employee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, he participated in
and eventually headed the orbit determination teams at JPL for the Viking missions to Mars, the Pioneer
Venus Orbiter mission, and the Earth oceanographic mission TOPEX/Poseidon. He participated in
gravity field determination for both Mars and Venus by analyzing orbiter tracking data and was a member
of the Phobos Experiment Team which first determined the mass of the Martian moon, Phobos, from
spacecraft tracking data. Dr. Williams was co-investigator for Venus gravity field determination
on NASAs Pioneer Venus Data Analysis and Guest Investigator Program. He was appointed lead
of ground based low thrust navigation development for NASAs Deep Space 1. He has
supported navigation trade studies and design for many Discovery proposals and was the navigation lead
for all three successful Discovery proposals from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory. He was navigation team chief throughout development and flight operations of
NASAs Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission which was the first mission to orbit and land
on an asteroid.
Dr. Williams has received several prestigious honors and awards including: the NASA Outstanding
Leadership Medal for leading the NEAR navigation team; the 2001 Aerospace Laureate for Space from
Aviation Week & Space Technology for his work as the NEAR mission navigation team
leader; the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Trophy as a member of the NEAR mission team; his
nomination to the American Astronautical Society Space Flight Mechanics Committee; and his nomination to
the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics National Technical Committee on
Astrodynamics for which he subsequently served as secretary. In honor of his efforts for NEAR,
asteroid 1990 OK1 was renamed (5642) Bobbywilliams by the International Astronomical Union.
Dr. Williams is author or co-author on over seventy technical papers, including twenty-four refereed
articles and over thirty-six conference papers. He holds current memberships in the American
Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, the Americal Geophysical Union, and the American
Astronautical Society.
He founded and is now the Director of Space Navigation and Flight Dynamics for KinetX Aerospace, the first
privately held company to supply critical navigation support for NASA deep space missions; the first two
being the New Horizons mission to Pluto and Charon and the MESSENGER mission to Mercury.
Craig Cigich
Mr. Cigich received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering technology (BSEET) from the DeVry
Institute of Technology, Columbus Ohio in 1984. He subsequently received an MBA from the
University of Phoenix in 1993.
Upon graduating with his bachelor degree, Mr. Cigich accepted a position at the Rockwell International
facility in Anaheim, California to support the design and development of Intercontinental Ballistic
Missile (ICBM) guidance systems. After supporting multiple efforts in the ICBM design and
development field, Mr. Cigich pursued opportunities in space based and terrestrial communication
programs. He has worked on satellite and terrestrial communication systems since 1993, primarily
in the area of ground systems network management infrastructure design and development.
Mr. Cigich was President/CEO of a consulting company (CMCS LLC) started in 1996 to provide network
management engineering consulting services to telecommunication companies developing both terrestrial
and space based communication systems. He grew the company to over 20 contractors supporting
multiple telecommunication programs in 4 years. Mr. Cigich engineered and managed the design and
development of a fault management system for the IRIDIUM communication system. In addition, he has
provided engineering and management for systems engineering and development efforts of both commercial
(e.g., AT&T wireless) and DoD (e.g., MUOS) terrestrial and satellite communications systems.
Mr. Cigich joined KinetX Aerospace in July 2007 to utilize his vast systems knowledge and broad skill range
cultivated over many years of supporting multiple customers and projects to help guide KinetX Aerospace on a
sustainable growth path across the systems engineering, HW/SW development, and operations
disciplines. He currently supports many facets of operations and business development. Mr.
Cigich was instrumental in steering KinetX Aerospace into the UAV business with the successful contract win of
providing a data recorder for the BAMS UAV. Mr. Cigich defined the target markets and roadmap for
KinetX Aerospace to obtain quality (CMMI, ISO, AS) standards to enable the company to broaden from just a services
organization to deliverable/product based.
Jack Sears Jr.
Jack Sears, Jr. is an Aerospace and Defense executive with over 25 years experience in military, federal service,
and industry leadership, management, and execution roles. Mr. Sears currently serves as Deloitte Services'
Strategic Client Relationship Executive for Strategic Federal and Aerospace and Defense clients in California,
Arizona, and Nevada.
Before joining Deloitte in 2011, Mr. Sears was the Sector Vice President and General Manager for the Information
Technology and Communications Sector of Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc, where his organization was responsible for
delivering professional services, engineering, and technical solutions to Department of Defense (DoD) customers.
From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Sears held the position of Program Manager for the Common High-Bandwidth Data Link-Surface Terminal
(CHBDL-ST) and Common Data Link (CDL) programs while a member of the Federal Service at the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR)
Systems Center in San Diego. Mr. Sears was a Project Manager and Subject Matter Expert in the Link 16 Program
at SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego from 1994 to 1998, and a member of the U.S. Navy from 1988 to 1994.
Mr. Sears is a recognized expert in the fields of federal contracting, Foreign Military Sales, and Advanced Tactical
Data Link Systems, and holds a BS in Business Management from San Diego Christian College and an MBA in Finance from
the University of Redlands.
Durrell Hillis
Durrell retired in 1999 as Senior Vice President and Group General Manager of Motorola's Defense and Space businesses
responsible for research, design, development and production of advanced communications and electronic systems for
domestic and international commercial users, NASA, and DOD.
Prior to a career in defense and space, Durrell held positions in engineering, marketing and product management
in Motorola's semiconductor business. Durrell created and led the Motorola Satellite Communications organization
which successfully developed and produced the Iridium System—the world's first and only satellite based global
communications network, starting with 20 people and growing to 2,000 Motorola employees and 6,000 contract personnel
for the $5 Billion program.
After his retirement from Motorola, From 2001-2006, Durrell was Board Chairman of the Insyte Corporation in
St. Petersburg, Fl., a specialized electronics company which provided advanced technology to DOD and the Intelligence
Community. He led the small company from $1m to $27M in sales, resulting in its acquisition by ITT Corporation in 2006.
In 1997 Durrell was elected to the U.S. Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame and in 1998 was elected to the
Arizona State University's College of Business Hall of Fame. Durrell received a BSEE from the University of Arizona,
an MSEE and an MBA from Arizona State University and completed the Motorola Executive Institute. He was awarded two patents
in semiconductor memory design and one in cellular communications. He was a Senior member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aerospace and Astronautics
(AIAA), a member of the Executive Council for the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), and a member of the
Advisory Board of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Community activities have included membership in the Greater Phoenix Leadership organization, the Valley of the Sun
United Way Campaign Cabinet, the Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Scottsdale, the Executive Committee of
the ASU Engineering Deans' Advisory Council, and the University of Arizona Engineering Advisory Council. He also served
as a member of the Board of Samaritan Health Services and as Chairman of the Phoenix Urban League and the Scottsdale
Christian Academy.
Robert E. Maskell
Robert E. (Bob) Maskell is the founder and CEO of Plan B Space Systems Consulting LLC and NorthStar Satellite
Services, Inc. Plan B Space Systems Consulting LLC works with public and private sector leaders to evolve space
systems through the innovative use of commercial products. NorthStar Satellite Services, Inc. is the U.S. sales
and marketing partner of NorStar Space Data, Inc. for products and services produced by the NorthStar system. The
company is also the lead for developing the NorthStar space segment.
Bob's 30 years of space systems experience includes 20 years of active duty as a Commissioned Officer in the
U.S. Navy with 10 years of sea duty in various operational assignments including command of USS CONOLLY (DD 979) during
Operation Desert Storm and 8 years of staff assignments ashore focused on MILSATCOM systems, with key roles in the MILSTAR,
FLTSATCOM EHF, and UHF Follow-On programs.
After retiring from the Navy in 1993, he started a consulting business that was retained by the Navy to manage
the Interim Polar EHF SATCOM Project. At the successful conclusion of that contract, he accepted the position
of Program Manager, MILSATCOM at Spectrum Astro in Gilbert, Arizona. In that capacity, he managed the Mobile User
Objective System (MUOS) concept development and the Transformational Communications System (TCS) concept development programs.
He moved to Cisco Systems, Inc. in 2003 where he authored the Internet Routing In Space (IRIS) concept. He retired
from Cisco in 2009 and started Plan B Space Systems Consulting LLC. In 2011, he founded NorthStar Satellite Services,
Inc. to provide program management, business development and marketing services as a partner in the NorthStar project.
Bob earned a Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering from the US Naval Academy and a Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Gene Milchak
Gene Milchak began his NASA career in 1972 as a ground station operator contractor to NASA with RCA Service Company
on the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) at Goddard Space Flight Center, MD.
He was then employed in 1977 by Grumman Aerospace as a Mission Controller on the OAO and SMM missions.
Gene then relocated to White Sands, NM with General Dynamics in 1981 when he joined General Dynamics Contel
(formerly Spacecom, Inc.) serving in a variety of positions including manager of Mission Planning and director of Ground Systems.
Gene left Contel in 1989 and joined Omitron, Inc. of Greenbelt MD as vice president of Operations and was made a part owner.
Gene sold his share of Omitron in 1997 and joined SGT, Inc. as director of Mission Operations.
In 1998, he rejoined GTE Government Systems as senior manager, Program/Proposal, until 2000, when he joined the
former General Dynamics Network Systems (GDNS) as director, Space Programs.
In March of 2004, Gene joined GDC4 Systems when GDNS' Space Programs was transferred into C4 Systems. He served as
director, Space Programs, and senior director of SGS&O. Gene was named a C4 Systems vice president in May 2012. Under
his direction, the business grew significantly and included the following primary locations: Las Cruces, NM; NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; Wahiawa, HI, and the Naval Satellite Operations Center, Pt. Mugu, CA. Gene was
instrumental in winning NASA's Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) program. GD has several future opportunities
with NASA, Navy, Air Force and other agencies which are viable because of the SGSS foothold, which was made possible through
Gene's personal reputation and visibility within this tight customer and industry community.
In his more than 41 years in the aerospace industry, Gene has received multiple NASA Group Achievement Awards,
which are presented for outstanding group accomplishments that contribute substantially to NASA's mission. He
also was one of the first 30 NASA contractor personnel to be selected for the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Award.
An Air Force veteran who served as a communications officer at the VIP Aeronautical Station at Andrews Air Force Base,
Gene received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and his Master of Science in Systems Management,
both from the University of Maryland.
Christopher Bryan
Christopher G. Bryan began his career in 1982 with Lockheed Corporation supporting the Air Force Satellite Control
Network (AFSCN) Space Test Program. While at Lockheed, he held lead positions as a Planner/Analyst, Mission
Controller, and Orbit Analyst, including Lead Orbit Analyst for the Strategic Defense Initiative's successful
Relay Mirror Experiment (RME).
In 1993 he left Lockheed to help found KinetX. Since then, he has worked on many key projects for KinetX
including Iridium, the SBIRS Low missile defense simulation, and MUOS, earning several individual and group achievement awards.
Chris currently works in KinetX's Space Navigation and Flight Dynamics group, and is the Navigation Team Chief for
the MESSENGER spacecraft which is currently in orbit around the planet Mercury. While at KinetX, Chris has held
many senior management positions including Contracts Manager, Export Control Officer, CFO, Chairman, and President. Chris
has served as a Director of KinetX for over 20 years and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Chris has a B.S. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.S. in Computational Physics
with emphasis in Astrodynamics from San Jose State University.
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Today Classical 91.5 and the Hochstein Music School welcomed Chris Van Hof as the new host of Live from Hochstein. Chris began learning the ropes from temporary host Brenda Tremblay, and very quickly was ready to take the reins. Today, Chris welcomed the Kilbourn Saxophone Quartet to the Hochstein stage for a program of 20th Century music. Listeners heard Jack Marshall's Goldrush Suite, Astor Piazzola's Cafe 1930, and Faustin & Maurice Jeanjean's Quatour pour Saxophones.
If you missed the performance at noon, you'll have a chance to hear it again. Beginning this evening, Classical 91.5 will repeat these noonhour performances each Wednesday at 10:00 p.m.
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In the late-afternoon sunshine on Lakewood Street on Detroit's East Side, Chuck Brooks is working on his castle. A stocky, bearded African American in a baseball cap and work clothes, Brooks runs a small construction company out of his house, and he and a crew are doing some renovations. He is also a preacher, attested to by the Bible verses he's etched into the limestone and the Michigan plates on his white Cadillac parked at the curb: UPRAY4IT. Tucked into his belt are a measuring tape and a semiautomatic handgun.
Brooks keeps a toothpick in the corner of his mouth as he talks in sonorous cadences. "I was born and raised here, I've been a victim of crime here, and I've continued to stay here," he says. Brooks has been stabbed twice and shot twice, carjacked and nearly killed in front of his three children. And still he refuses to leave Detroit, a city that has long been a symbol of urban failure and decay, emptied of both population and hope. Why does Brooks stay? He gestures to the other tidy houses on his block. His presence, as he sees it, moves his neighbors to believe in this city, especially in its time of need. "It motivates people," he says. "It motivates the lady next door to cut her grass, it motivates the mailman to deliver the mail." Brooks is a man of faith, and faith for him begins at home. He paraphrases a verse from 2 Chronicles: "I'll hear from heaven, I'll forgive their sins and heal their land. Well, He's talking about Detroit."
A few blocks away, on Waveney Avenue, the idea of answered prayers or healed land seems like a cruel jest. The concrete squares of a sidewalk have been pulverized by frost and swallowed by encroaching weeds. In a desiccated field of milkweed and aster a house has been reduced to a heap of charred lumber and shattered glass. Another is flame-gutted, its vinyl siding melted beneath a blackened window. All that remains of a long row of neighboring homes are evenly spaced middens of rubble, overgrown by thickets of buckthorn and mulberry. The only sign of recent human endeavor is the road itself, the fresh blacktop laid down by some municipal entity with the Sisyphean task of maintaining a street grid that has long outlasted its utility. The only person visible is a man struggling with a shopping cart weighed down by a fire hydrant. Even among Detroit's ruins there is some spirit of resourcefulness: organized gangs of such "scrappers" mine buildings for anything of value, from copper pipes and wiring to the brass fittings on hydrants, dismantling the city from within, piece by piece.
This block -- and thousands like it -- are evolving into what has been called urban prairie, the human landscape dissolving back into nature. Pheasant, fox, and raccoon populations have surged to fill an ecological niche abandoned by people. For the first time in nearly a century, and with much fanfare in the media, beavers have returned to build their lodges in the Detroit River, an ironic nod to nature's industriousness in an area abandoned by industry. No corner of the city has been spared, and tens of thousands of structures stand in ruin, from the simple wooden bungalows of early autoworkers to the darkened neo-Renaissance skyscrapers of downtown Detroit. The vast Packard auto plant, derelict for more than 50 years, has a floor area the size of 60 football fields. So much structural steel has been cut from it by scrappers that the fire department no longer fights blazes there, fearing collapse. Illegal dumping is epidemic, with 300 sanitation employees patrolling 1,800 miles of streets.
For the people who have remained in the city, the statistics are no less grim. Detroit is America's poorest large city, with a third of its citizens living in poverty. The violent-crime rate is the country's second highest. Infant mortality is more than twice the national average. More than a third of students drop out of high school. The official unemployment rate is 30 percent, but if one counts those no longer looking for work, the figure approaches 50 percent. In the Motor City, almost one-third of the population has no access to a private vehicle.
It has not always been thus: growing exponentially with the auto industry's rise, Detroit was America's fifth-largest city by 1950, reaching a postwar peak of 1.85 million. It has since suffered an inexorable exodus, losing 60 percent of its population, the first American city to rise above and fall below a million people. Oakland County, the overwhelmingly white suburb immediately north of Detroit's 8 Mile Road, is among the wealthiest of its size in the country and has tripled in population since 1950. The region's urban core has been utterly hollowed out.
That hollowing out has been imprinted on the cityscape, but for the people of Detroit, the release of the 2010 U.S. Census figures in March was an event anticipated with deep anxiety, exacerbated by rampant speculation in the news media. Given the state of the economy, particularly the collapse of the American automotive industry, few expected good news about the city's fortunes, but the official numbers were starker than even the most dismal prognosticators had imagined: just 713,000 people lived within the city limits. Only Katrina-wrecked New Orleans had seen such a sharp decline. Detroit's population has fallen to a level not seen since 1910, four years before Henry Ford drew an army of workers to his Model T assembly line with the promise of five dollars for a day's labor. With Detroit's economy now in shambles, nobody seriously believes that those people will return, and at the current rate of exodus the population will fall an additional 40 percent by 2030.
The reasons for Detroit's decline are complex and manifold, including the exporting of American manufacturing jobs and a long history of poisonous race relations that led to "white flight" to the suburbs. Perhaps Detroit's collapse was built into its very DNA: the city that more than any other embraced the singular potential of the automobile, undone by its own creation. Massive freeway projects, undertaken in the name of urban renewal, were bulldozed through the heart of African American neighborhoods like Paradise Valley and Black Bottom. Tensions boiled over with race riots in 1943 and 1967. Blue-collar whites with secure union jobs could afford to unload their homes in the city at a loss, a process encouraged by a real estate industry that played up racial fears. Detroit emptied straight down its new freeways, and since 1950 it has undergone a complete demographic turnover, from 80 percent white to 80 percent black, losing a million inhabitants in the process.
The effect on the city's physical landscape has been profound. Detroit occupies 139 square miles, and its infrastructure was built for a population, and a tax base, more than double its current size. All told, almost 20 square miles of Detroit's land area -- nearly the size of the entire city of San Francisco -- has been abandoned, leaving a vast patchwork of blight spread across the cityscape. It is difficult to provide even basic services like police, fire, water, and sanitation to a population spread so thin.
"Detroit, I think, will come back," Chuck Brooks says. How that will be done, given the physical facts of Detroit's current situation, is the central existential question facing its citizens. The urban theory mantra of the twenty-first century is "density is destiny." Cities are phenomenal economizers of scale, with far lower per-capita environmental impact than sprawling suburbs. The growing consensus of many community organizers, city officials, and urban planners is that to survive, Detroit must embrace its new scale and become a leaner, more efficient city. That means adopting a policy of smart growth, with dense, pedestrian-centered pockets concentrated around transit hubs and the city center. The term often used by urban planners for bringing a city down to a more manageable scale is "rightsizing," a word -- not unlike "downsizing" -- that comes heavily freighted.
"I'm not a euphemistic guy -- the city is shrinking," says Jeff DeBruyn, a 40-year-old community organizer who works in the Corktown neighborhood. "Detroit is going through a huge transition. It might be politically incorrect to say 'shrink,' but it must."
How Detroit will shrink and what sort of city it will become is a key policy challenge for Mayor Dave Bing, the former NBA All-Star and business executive elected in 2009 on a promise to help the city reinvent itself. He has faced a colossal task, inheriting a city with a $320 million budget deficit. Dithering was not an option.
"If we don't do it, this whole city is going to go down," Bing told a local radio host when he was elected. "There is just too much land and too many expenses for us to continue to manage the city as we have in the past. There are tough decisions to be made. There will be winners and losers, but in the end we've got to do what's right for the city's future." The question of how those winners and losers would be selected stirred a deep mistrust in a city that still recalled the countless betrayals of urban renewal. For those determined to stay, it was hard not to wonder what their city would become and what role they would play in it.
In February 2010, a coalition of dozens of advocacy groups, community organizations, and government entities assembled by the Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) issued a detailed strategic framework for revitalizing the city's neighborhoods. The plan envisions a cityscape classified according to 10 use categories, from "industry zones" and "urban homestead sectors" to "green venture zones" and "naturescapes." The goal is a balance between economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental integrity.


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At Bat: The Boston Red Sox have their new manager and it didn't take very long to replace one-year manager Bobby Valentine, who from the start did not have control of the clubhouse.
Seventeen days after Valentine was relieved of his duties after finishing dead last in the AL East with a 69-93 record, the Red Sox agreed to a three-year contract with John Farrell, the former skipper of the Toronto Blue Jays.
For the first time in a while, the Red Sox made a good move in signing Farrell as their next manager and should have immediate success when the 2013 season opens up.
Aside from spending the past two seasons in Toronto – meaning he knows the AL East – Farrell spent the previous four seasons in the Red Sox dugout as their pitching coach where he had phenomenal success. From their championship run in 2007 through the 2010 season the Red Sox pitching staff was lights out, ranking first in the AL in strikeouts (4,771), opponents' BA (.254), shutouts (49) and third in ERA (4.11).
Unlike Valentine, who was a questionable replacement after Terry Francona was fired in 2011, Farrell is already being greeted with open arms from current players on the Red Sox. Entering the clubhouse in 2013 with a solid relationship with a number of key players and knowing the success that was in place in 2007, Farrell's style of play should be quickly embraced as a recipe for winning, much of which could be taken from the 2007 playbook.
On Deck: Do not expect the Oakland Athletics to be that sweet story from this season to win the AL West and go back into hibernation. They will be back next year and possibly slightly better with a chance to win the division again, depending on what the Texas Rangers do with Josh Hamilton going forward.
In a three-team trade over the weekend, the Athletics acquired veteran outfielder Chris Young from the Arizona Diamondbacks, a deal that only makes the core of Oakland's outfield stronger and better.
From left to right the A's starting outfield would be: Yoenis Cespedes, Young and Josh Reddick. If Young hadn't suffered an injury this season, he probably would have finished with 20 home runs, meaning that if he and his corner men stay healthy next year, the A's could have at least 60 home runs from these three individuals alone.
Young comes cheap and is an underappreciated – probably why he comes so cheap – athlete who does everything a club wants from their everyday position player. He is still in his prime and has already had three 20-home run, 20-steal seasons and among outfielders has an 11.7 WAR in a list that includes Ryan Braun, Andrew McCutchen, Matt Holliday and a bunch of other highly regarded outfielders throughout baseball.
Another 90-win season in Oakland with the addition of Young should be a shoe in. What isn't, though, is Coco Crisp's future, and he could very well be on his way out even after coming up huge in ALDS with the Detroit Tigers.
In the Hole: Alex Rodriguez's superstar status is behind him according to New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman.
But after an appalling postseason in which Rodriguez batted .120 with 12 strikeouts, it may be time for the third baseman to be dealt. That is, if anyone even wants the overpaid corner infielder.
He signed a 10-year, $275-million contract in 2007 and with five years remaining is still owed $114 million with $130 million in potential incentives. He will still be making multi-millions in his forties, so from a North Sider standpoint it's good to know there is a team in worse financial straits than the Cubs with Alfonso Soriano.
But, after a great 2012 season in which Soriano hit 30 home runs and drove in 100 RBI, the Cubs' tenured franchise man might be easier to deal without eating a majority of what's left. Rodriguez, on the other hand, was not only pinch-hit for and benched a couple times in the postseason, but instead spent his down time tossing baseballs to girls in the stands with his phone number.
He is no leader and will probably be sent out quickly if his struggles continue in 2013, not because management feels the need to part ways, but Yankee fans will pressure them to get rid of the disease that Rodriguez has become since their last championship in 2009. For Chicago's sake, let's hope he doesn't become the talk of trade rumors.
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