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The McGeorge Elder & Health Law Clinic presented it first Senior Financial & Health Safety Fair on the morning of Sat. April 6, 2013 in the student center on campus.
After welcoming remarks by Katie Roe '12, the fair organizer and clinical legal fellow, the California Department of Corporations' Commissioner of Corporations Jan Lynn Owen delivered the keynote address. Professor Melissa Brown, supervising attorney for the Elder and Health Law clinic, also addressed the crowd of fair attendees.
The fair provided more than 120 seniors with a "one stop" opportunity to obtain materials, become educated about financial safety and protection, and receive free health screenings and legal check-ups. "Senior Legal Check-Ups" and consumer/debtor consultations were provided by McGeorge law students and faculty. Free blood pressure screening, vision tests, and fall assessment provided the U.C. Davis School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences. Funding was made possible in part by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health.
Alumni attorney volunteers were Sandra Mathews '11, Rebecca Coleman '12, Christine Harlan '11, and David Snapp '11. In addition to Katie Roe and Melissa Brown, other staff and faculty participants were Dorothy Landsberg, Pauline Nguyen, Warren Jones, and Kim Buchholz. Emma Siverson '14 assisted in planning the event and coordinating the fair activities. Nearly 20 other students helped during the fair. Dr. Marius Koga spearheaded the participation of the UC Davis School of Medicine's Department of Public Health.
Seniors stopped by and gained information from booths throughout the student center. The 27 exhibitors were 211, Area 4 Agency on Aging, Asian Community Center, McGeorge Bankruptcy Clinic, Del Oro Caregiver Resource Center, Department of Corporations, Department of Financial Institutions, Department of Insurance/EFAIR, Domestic Violence Intervention Center, McGeorge Elder and Health Law Clinic, El Hogar-Senior Link, Eskaton Home Support Network, HICAP Services of N. California, McGeorge Housing Mediation Center, Gleaners (Senior Gleaners), Meals on Wheels by ACC, Multipurpose Senior Services Program, My Sister's House, Older Women's League/EFPN, Paratransit, Pioneer House, Sacramento County Adult Protective Services, Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, Senior Legal Hotline (Legal Services of Northern California), SMUD, Victims of Crime Resource Center, and WEAVE.
Digital Journal interviewed Katie Roe and published an article about the fair, "Law school holds first annual Financial Health Fair for Seniors."


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Steve Wynn on "Marquee Moon" by Television
Steve Wynn was right there at the forefront when the alternative music scene exploded in the '80s. As a member of The Dream Syndicate, Wynn helped usher in the movement known as The Paisley Underground. Since the band's breakup in 1989, Wynn has released a score of acclaimed albums, such as Kerosene Man and Crossing Dragon Bridge, and he has seen much international touring success. An inveterate fan of vinyl who's currently helming a few long-awaited Dream Syndicate reunion gigs, Steve put some time aside to dissect Television's "Marquee Moon," a key Song from His Soundtrack.
I listen to the title track to Television's 1977 debut Marquee Moon in so many ways. I listen as a guitarist, a Jazzmaster enthusiast, a fan of the modal, the freakout, the extended solo, the journey to nowhere and everywhere. I spent most nights of my 20th year on the planet playing along with this song, learning every guitar line, every solo, and making up my own while staring at the photo on the inner sleeve, a photo that suggested everything that I believed a band should be. It's not surprising that over the years, I borrowed a few of those bits and pieces ("Halloween" comes to mind) and even that very photo (check out the back cover of Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3's 2005 album, …tick..tick…tick). I played a Jazzmaster on The Dream Syndicate's 1982 debut The Days of Wine and Roses and foolishly sold it a year later. I lamented that estrangement from the sound that reignited my love of the guitar, and didn't have one again until the Miracle 3 and I made 2010's Northern Aggression. There's nothing like a Jazzmaster.
I also listen to this as a bandleader and as a producer. There's something perfect about the way the record fits together. I hear it like a car enthusiast looks at the engine of a '57 Chevy. I study how the gears interlock and then am dying to take it apart just to put it together again. Crude and organic, but any random change to the architecture would ruin its perfection and majesty. I toured with Richard Lloyd back in 2001, and he told me that the band rejected producer Andy Johns' idea to get a "John Bonham drum sound," and instead went for the more organic sound on the record. I told him that I was grateful they made that correct choice, and he replied, "I don't know. It might have been better if we would have met him halfway." Better? Richard, you're wrong. Marquee Moon could not be better.
It's funny how much I love this song as well as the full album from which it's taken and can always, at any moment, say it's at the top of my list without hesitation - and yet I don't love Tom Verlaine's lyrics (though there are many great ones), and I don't love his voice. But none of that matters. It's the perfect record. It stands alongside Neil Young & Crazy Horse's 1969 classic Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere as the rulebook of how a two guitars, bass, and drums band should sound. The song competes with John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman," and Charles Mingus's "Fables of Faubus" as my favorite jazz track ever, even though you would never find the Marquee Moon album in the jazz section at any record store. Every time I put it on, I hear something new. I find some detail that pushes the combustion engine to a new place.
It's my favorite song from my favorite record ever. I'm often asked to name the record that changed my life. Quite literally, that would have to be The Days of Wine and Roses, the aforementioned first album I made with The Dream Syndicate. But without "Marquee Moon" and the album it shares a title with, there would be no The Days of Wine and Roses, or at least it would have sounded a whole lot different. Really, I'd rather not think about it.
In this video interview, Steve Wynn and Mike Mettler discuss the merits of vinyl and the 30th anniversary of The Days of Wine and Roses.

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For Christian pastors, D-Day comes around twice a year.
For Christian pastors, D-Day comes around twice a year.
Once at Christmas, where sermons often get lost amid increasing commercialism. And second, at Easter, where pulpit messages, radical in the extreme, stand apart: that Jesus rose from the dead.
"That's what sets Christianity apart," said Alfred Smith, pastor of REACH Worship Center on Sierra Nevada Street in central Stockton. "The resurrection is the basis of true Christianity. If not, we just worship another martyr with good teaching."
Across San Joaquin County, pastors are preparing for Easter Sunday 2013 amid an array of societal challenges. And, in some cases, personal tests as well.
At Calvary First Assembly of God on Kelley Drive, Associate Pastor Victor Quintanilla is revisiting his tag-team preaching notes prepared 10 days ago with Pastor Jeff Etcheverry.
Quintanilla will stand alone in front of Calvary's congregation on Easter, one day after a memorial service honoring Etcheverry, who died unexpectedly March 22. The Easter message will still focus on redemption.
In Manteca, Pastor Dan Angove of Calvary Community Church will deliver three messages this weekend. This will be his last Easter leading the fast-growing church.
Angrove is retiring April 14 and moving to Bandon, Ore., population 3,066, a community only slightly larger than the church he's now leading.
Stockton resident Larry Thiel will step out of his InterVarsity Christian Fellowship role Sunday and bring the Easter message at Stockton Covenant Church in the Country Club neighborhood. He is preaching while Pastor Bud Locke is away on a mission trip to Medell�n, Colombia; Thiel is InterVarsity's associate area director for university campuses in California.
Pablo Zelaya, pastor of Stockton's Primera Iglesia Bautista, said his Sunday message will center on the biblical claims of Jesus.
"In one sense, Christ is still on trial," Zelaya said. "What's your verdict? You see, Easter really boils down to only two issues: Is Jesus who he says he is? Is he God? Or is he a lunatic or a liar? And two, if he is who he says he is, when are you going to start following what he says to do with your life?"
For eight years, Quintanilla, 32, has had responsibility for the youth and children of Calvary First Assembly of God. He steps into a new role Sunday.
"We've had a mournful season here," Quintanilla said. "It's been a difficult couple of weeks."
Etcheverry was diagnosed in November with a brain tumor. He had been in remission and had a scheduled surgery to address an infection. A blood clot developed and took his life.
Angrove's final Easter in Manteca will be bittersweet.
"I love this church and community," he said. "It's a incredible place with awesome people and an awesome staff. But I'll be 68 in a week, and it's time to let someone younger take over."
Angrove has built his retirement home along the southern Oregon coast. His sermon will focus on John 14:6.
"The whole message will explain what the way is," he said. "I will talk about the way, and there will be a testimony from an engineer who had lost his way - and then found the truth."
Zelaya's Spanish-language church is affiliated with and adjacent to central Stockton's First Baptist Church. The title of his sermon: "What's so important about Easter?"
"It's important, because it proved that Jesus was who he claimed to be. He was God in the flesh, and he came to Earth to save us," said Zelaya, who was born in El Salvador and came to the United States in 1985.
At Vinewood Community Church in Lodi, Lead Pastor Rod Suess, 53, will try to help his congregation understand "the strange and terrifying message of Easter and how when we 'get it,' it turns our lives inside out."
He acknowledges that the notion of life conquering death is hard to believe - even Jesus' followers had a hard time understanding the resurrection. "But there came a point where it sank in," Suess said. "That ended their fear and terror and bewilderment, giving way to joy, hope and courage."
Smith is using the biblical story of the apostle Thomas as his Easter centerpiece.
"There is a little Thomas in all of us; times of uncertainty and doubt," Smith said. "We can only be brought to true faith if we admit those doubts. Jesus comes to people who are in doubt ... to reassure and restore. If we can believe and act on what Jesus promises, ... it will not only remove doubt and worry but will lead us to true life in him."
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By David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily
In a world that too often seems to be mired with negativity and bad news, John and Bert Jacobs showed that optimism does in fact pay off. And they have their mom to thank.
"Our mom raised six kids with limited funds, but she had a way of just spinning everything into a positive and laughing about everything," said John Jacobs, co-founder of Boston-based apparel manufacturer Life is good, which has sales of $100 million a year. "She was juggling a ton when we were growing up, and yet she filled every day with laughter and just made everything seem like a crazy adventure for us. Our dad is also very optimistic, as well, in a less crazy, quieter way. Together they really taught us that optimism can take you anywhere."
With that belief, the brothers took three simple words and turned them into a message oriented brand that resonates with millions of people. John and Bert have gone from struggling T-shirt salesmen to the heads of an apparel giant with 4,500 retailers featuring their products in all 50 states and Canada. According to the brothers, the key to their success is their strong branding and a message that speaks to customers on a personal level.
"We were never the smartest kids in class," said John Jacobs. "I believe it is really the power of the brand and the message that tends to carry us. We have made so many mistakes over the years, but there is a lot of hunger for this message and it is what carries us."
"The Life is good Festival has become the most exciting weekend of the year for us," Jacobs said of the festival that raised $1 million last year for Kids Foundation. "It is a way for us to raise money and awareness for kids facing adversities such as poverty, illness and violence. It is very simple why we exist as a company, and that is to spread the power of optimism. That is what we try to do."
Early struggles
The pair started their journey in 1989, when John and Bert were trying to make a living selling T-shirts at street fairs, college dormitories and anywhere their van would take them.
"My brother and I always liked to draw when we were kids, so when we finished college we were looking for ways to feature our art," said Jacobs. "T-shirts seemed to be an accessible way for us to do that. So we started designing shirts and taking them out to try to sell them. We did that for several years with little financial success."
Despite that limited success, the brothers continued to search for the big thing that would help turn their fortunes around. The answer turned out to be a lot closer than the brothers realized.
"When we came back from these trips, we would host a little party for friends," said Jacobs. "We had drawings taped up all over our apartment and we would often ask friends for feedback. Our friends would always comment and come back to this one drawing we had of a smiling face with sunglasses and a beret that came to be known as Jake."
With encouragement from their friends, John and Bert decided to test how an audience would respond to Jake. The brothers printed 48 T-shirts featuring Jake and the phrase "Life is good" and brought them to a street fair in Cambridge, Mass., in 1994. One hour later, the shirts were sold out and the brothers realized that they had something big on their hands.
"Finally, we had something that had a demand and seemed to have a broad appeal," said Jacobs. "We noticed that first day that there were a lot of people buying that shirt, from bikers to teachers. It confirmed that people would be drawn to something that was more positive. It was exciting and scary because we needed to learn how to run a business. We had been travelling around and having a lot of fun. Now we had something that had demand, so we started to figure out the nuts and bolts of the business and how retail worked."
Using what they had learned from their days on the road, the pair began selling their products to different mom-and-pop stores in Boston and Cape Cod. Stores started reordering the product right away.
"From that summer on, it was a matter of connecting with new accounts and seeing where we could go with expanding the graphic offerings," said Jacobs. "In the years to come, we would add new products like hats and bags and Frisbees and children's products."
Today, the company has 245 employees and offers hundreds of pieces of apparel for men, women and children. The company also makes sporting goods, products for pets and a book written by John and Bert.
Although the early years of Life is good did not bring extensive financial success, the brothers are quick to credit later success to lessons learned during that period.
"The thing I love to share most with anyone who is interested in starting a business is, you have to try things," said Jacobs. "Putting together a detailed business plan is a positive discipline, but you learn so much just by trying. All those years in the street or the van, we didn't have much financial success, but we learned so much."
Despite their current success, the brothers still remember all the rejections along the way and credit them for laying the groundwork for future success.
"The most important thing we learned was that hearing 'no' doesn't hurt you at all," said Jacobs. "In fact, it strengthens you, makes you smarter and forces you to adjust your approach and all the details of your business. You have to stay open to hearing feedback from people. It is not an option; you must be open to feedback and listen to it."
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Bart Simpson and the Sugar Bowl game could disappear from the TVs of Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and other markets in a bitter dispute over fees that the Fox television network is demanding.
As a midnight Thursday deadline approaches, Time Warner Cable offered an olive branch that could leave the Fox network and some of its cable TV channels on the lineup for millions of subscribers — for now.
But an executive at Fox owner News Corp. indicated a signal interruption was likely.
In dispute are the fees that Time Warner Cable Inc. pays Fox to carry its channels.
In the past, the Fox network was offered for free, and cable companies essentially paid more for FX and other cable channels that News Corp. also owns.
This time, News Corp. is demanding $1 per subscriber every month for the network itself.
Fox, hurt by reductions in advertising revenue and increases in programming costs, argues that Time Warner Cable is making money off its programming, so it should get a cut of subscription revenue. Time Warner Cable says the demanded fees are excessive.
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said Wednesday the cable TV operator will agree to binding arbitration and any interim steps necessary to keep Fox channels on while talks continue.
"Consumers should not be held hostage during these negotiations. That's just wrong," Britt said in an interview Wednesday.
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He also rejected arbitration as a possibility in a letter to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who had pleaded for both sides to agree to uninterrupted television for football fans "through the college bowl season."
Late Wednesday, Kerry threatened to ask the Federal Communications Commission to intervene if the sides can't agree in time.
If a new deal isn't reached, programs that could disappear from Time Warner Cable Inc.'s lineup include "The Simpsons" and several football games — among them, the Sugar Bowl on Friday, the Cotton Bowl on Saturday and the NFL's final regular season contests on Sunday.
Bright House Networks' cable TV systems also face a Thursday deadline with News Corp.
In Florida, two television viewers filed a lawsuit Wednesday against News Corp., seeking an injunction to ensure that the Fox broadcast of the Florida-Cincinnati Sugar Bowl contest would remain on Bright House's cable system. Circuit Judge Maura Smith in Orlando did not immediately rule.
Time Warner Cable has more than 13 million TV subscribers and Bright House has more than 2 million, though their dispute involving the Fox network only concerns 14 Fox-owned stations covering such markets as Los Angeles, New York, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin, Texas and Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg and Orlando, Fla.
Besides the Fox broadcast network, six cable channels — FX, Speed, Fuel, Fox Reality, Fox Soccer and Fox Sports en Espanol — and certain regional sports networks were also up for negotiations throughout the Time Warner Cable and Bright House service territories.
Unaffected are Fox News, Fox Business Network and National Geographic, which is partially owned by News Corp. Those three are covered by deals that aren't expiring yet.
Separately, TV station owners are also negotiating deals with several cable systems around the country.
About 650,000 subscribers of cable TV through Mediacom Communications Corp. in markets as large as Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are also in jeopardy of losing Fox and CBS broadcast signals as a fee dispute with Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. nears a midnight Thursday deadline.
Many of these disputes get resolved at the last minute with no disruption of service. Last year, Viacom Inc. threatened to pull Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other channels from Time Warner Cable but the two reached a last-minute deal.
The last time a major broadcaster went dark on a cable TV operator was when The Walt Disney Co. asked Time Warner to pull signals from its 10 ABC stations in May 2000 in a fee dispute.
Time Warner took the signal off for a day before succumbing to pressure and agreeing to an extension. A deal was made later that month.
"Normally they work things out," said Derek Baine, a senior analyst at SNL Kagan in Monterey, Calif. "But it's very hostile and it's very ugly."
Thomas Eagan, an analyst at Collins Stewart LLC, said Time Warner Cable would take the more direct hit from a standoff because subscribers could defect to one of its competitors, such as DirecTV or Verizon's FiOS.
Consumers would still be able to get the stations with an antenna if they have a digital TV or converter box, but most Americans these days get broadcast channels through subscription services such as cable TV or satellite.
And if a channel gets pulled, they'll likely call their cable TV operator, not the network.
Although the networks are transmitted freely over the airwaves, the companies behind them have been increasingly demanding fees from the cable TV and satellite operators for retransmitting those signals, in part to pay for expensive event programming such as sports.
"It costs money to satisfy that thirst of consumers to go out and buy the product, the football, the baseball, the NASCAR," Tony Vinciquerra, chairman of Fox Networks Group, said in an interview. "To stay vibrant in the world of television, we need to be able to compete."
In the past, Fox had offered the broadcast signal from Fox-owned stations for free in exchange for subscriber fees on new cable channels it launched.
Since 1994, Fox has started nearly a dozen cable channels, including FX, Speed, Fox College Sports and Fuel. But launching new channels has slowed, putting the focus on getting paid for the broadcast signals, which still command the largest TV audiences.
Fox is asking for $1 per month per subscriber, which Fox says is in line with what Time Warner Cable pays for the lower-rated cable channel, TNT.
But Britt said his cable TV company has already cut deals for "much lower" than that with Fox affiliates — stations that carry Fox programming but are owned by other companies.
He said any higher fees would need to be passed on to consumers in their monthly subscription bills.
Scott Varley, a 45-year-old Time Warner Cable subscriber in Los Angeles, said he would miss the Speed channel and other Fox programs if they were pulled. But he expects the sides will eventually reach a deal, and he's resigned to accepting whatever price increases his provider imposes.
"Everybody always complains that they don't want to pay more for cable, but they'll end up doing it because we don't have any choice."
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Renault Netherlands wanted to promote their Facebook page with their latest campaign, they enlisted the help of agency Dorst & Lesser who developed this nostalgic Facebook campaign around the character Grandma Hilda.
The Facebook campaign focused around the story of Hilda and her Renault 4. The concept of the story was that Hilda had loved her Renault 4 but she was now too old to drive and her car was left sitting in the garage. Hilda wanted to give the car away to someone who could also enjoy driving it. Facebook users were asked to visit the Facebook app to play virtual 'hide and seek' around an interactive house placing a tag where they thought the missing car key was. The person who placed a tag closest to the missing key would win the car.
The campaign received 10,293 unique tags and the Facebook page increased by 27,930, which doubled the number of fans. This is a good way to use the Facebook platform to create a nice storyline around the competition.


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Meet the newest social networking kid on the block, Foursquare, which ensures you'll never have to be alone again (unless you want to be -- in which case, just turn off your phone already).
So how's it work? Download the application for your iPhone -- the BlackBerry version isn't scheduled to launch for a few more months -- or just use text messages to enter your location.
The app will find cool spots near your current location, or figure out where you can meet your friends in a hot sec.
Some tech bloggers are murmuring that Foursquare could be the next Twitter. GASP! As if anything could ever replace Twitter. Just like nothing will ever replace DOS, Windows 3.1, AOL dialup or Friendster.
"We are not competitive, rather complementary," said Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare. "We are specific on using locations to enable social interactions."
You'll also receive exclusive tips and "points" for every place you discover. The more adventurous you are, the more points you'll get. Compete with friends and other city residents to find out who will rule (virtually) the most hyped spots of your city. Venues, of course, get free advertising and new customers.
Venue owners in New York and San Francisco are already rewarding players with goodies like free beer or appetizers. We can only hope that D.C. gets on the ball with that soon, because, free fries? Totally worth a download.


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The picturesque market town of Stratford-upon-Avon is the home of William Shakespeare. This is Shakespeare's England. Swans glide gracefully along the River Avon, willow trees overhang the water's edge, barges move slowly around the canal basin and the distant spire of Holy Trinity Church completes the perfect English landscape.
Holy Trinity Church is where Shakespeare was baptised and buried. The church is a quiet place to begin or end your Stratford journey. It offers a place for reflection and a time for peace. Lying along the banks of the river, it is just a short distance from one of Stratford's best landmarks, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
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nuccachiro necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 48 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
We are in need of a logo to represent the student newspaper at the first and oldest chiropractic college in the world, Palmer College of Chiropractic. This logo will become the icon of the newspaper and will be used for years to come.
I want a logo that communicates to our readers that we are sophistcated yet on the cutting edge of research and original thought. A logo that catches your eye without being too flashy. We need a logo that will withstand the test of time, one that communicates our rich heritage as the "Harvard of Chiropractic" but yet lets the readers know we are not riding on the coattails of our past or tradition. The newspaper is the voice of the students of Palmer College and it is largest student newspaper of any chiropractic college.
- It must contain "The Beacon" which is the name of the newspaper.
- I would like it to contain the bi-line "The Student Newspaper of Palmer College of Chiropractic"
- Before designing please visit the following links to view the actual beacon that sits atop one of the most visible buildings on campus.- Link 1
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- This white structure in the photos is the beacon symbol. I am not going to say the logo must have this symbol, but those that do will be given the highest consideration. Nevertheless, take a chance, we may like what you have created better.
- Final version of logo must be rendered in a vectored format that can be opened and manipulated by Adobe Illustrator.
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Q. Obviously a good performance given the other night, talk about your performance a little bit and coming back tonight.
TIM WAKEFIELD: Oh, I just tried basically to just keep us in the game as long as possible. I didn't know how many innings I would be able to go. After the second inning, they asked me how I felt and I said, "I'll give you what I've got." So I got through the third inning clean, and David did a great job, again, with a clutch hit to win the game for us.
Q. Can you just take us through the at-bat with Sierra if you could; what's going through your mind when the balls are going by?
TIM WAKEFIELD: I don't remember. It seems like -- we knew the situation. I think the first one, or the first ones got away from me when Posada was up that advanced -- I forgot who was on -- Matsui and we intentionally walked Posada to get to Sierra. I got ahead of him, two-strike pitch got away and I just looked at him, he looked at me, I said, "let's go," we've got to bear down and I trust Jason's hand more than anybody else besides Doug. But we just gave a look to each other and said, "it's okay," just have to get an out here and I was lucky enough to get a strikeout?
Q. But in spite of all that, you strike the guy out, can you talk a little bit about with all of these distractions going on, what it's like to bear down and forget about whether he can catch it, just throwing strikes --
TIM WAKEFIELD: Exactly.
Q. No, you need to say it though.
TIM WAKEFIELD: Just that look, that Tek and I gave each other, that's okay. It's all right, I'm all right with it, he's all right with it, you've got to bear down and get an out the best way we know how. He did a great job catching the third strike.
Q. Terry was in here talking about how good of a feeling it was to have everybody just doing whatever they could to help this team win. After tonight and last night, kind of being the same, extra innings, walk-off, how does that make you guys feel, like "why not us?"
TIM WAKEFIELD: Yeah, it's huge for us. Coming home down 2-0 and losing Game 3 the way we did and being down 3-0 and being down the last two nights shows the depth, the character, the heart, the guts of our ballclub. And it took every ounce of whatever we had left to win tonight's game, and to win last night's game. I'm proud of every one of those guys in there. It's just, it's nice to be able to be going back to New York for Game 6 and Game 7.
Q. Could you have gone a fourth inning if you had to, and does this in any way ease last year's heartbreak?
TIM WAKEFIELD: Last year is last year. I'll answer your first question. I would have gone out there, I don't know how good I would have been, but I'd have gone out there. I think Terry and Wally both agreed that that was my last inning, no matter what, because we kind of have a tendency, you have to look to tomorrow a little bit, but you have to win tonight, too. So, you know, I think I'll meet with Tito and Wally tomorrow to assess the situation for tomorrow night's game and Game 7 if we get to that point.
Q. Can I just take you back to yesterday, too, you warmed up yesterday from what I heard from Wally you were doing anything you could to get into the game yesterday. Can you just talk a little about that?
TIM WAKEFIELD: They called down and told me I had -- I think it was the 11th or 12th. So I got up and got loose and they called back down and said Leskanic is going to go out there, if he gets into trouble we'll bring you in. I warmed up, I don't know how many pitches I threw, 45, 50 pitches down there to get ready for the game and obviously David hit the home run, I was ready coming into last night's game, if the score had stayed the same.
Q. Sometimes in cold weather a knuckler can be impossible or sometimes it can do what you want, how good was it tonight?
TIM WAKEFIELD: The hitters will tell you how good it was, basically. I felt confident in the way I threw tonight, and you know, I felt confident this whole month. So, you know, people say the cold weather bothers me; only certain situations bother me. If it's raining and it's really cold and dry out, it's really hard to hold onto a knuckleball with your fingertips when it's that dry, but I haven't had a problem the last two outings I've had.
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Anything by Boston Acoustics.
Quick question. What would you recommend for good quality for the price 5.1 PC speaker system?
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Anything by Boston Acoustics.
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What's your budget?
Loved my Boston Acoustic system I had years ago. They've really cut out their current offerings for computer systems lately.
Logitech makes quite a few good models.
Klipsch makes some really potent ones too....typically they have great RMS power (the type of wattage rating that really matters, unlike "peak" watts)
On a budget, there are some good Creative Labs Inspire models
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I was wanting to stay around $100. I found this one, but have never heard of them which makes me skeptical. I want good sounding, hard hitting speakers, but being a computer and all I do not want to spend a lot of money. It reads that they were regular $229.00.
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That looks like what is often referred to as 'white van' speakers. If on a budget of $100 I would find the best Logitech has for that price and jump on it.
I have heard many Logitech speakers over the years and even the not so expensive ones sound pretty decent.
Looks like you can get the same package at their Yard Sale page for half the price!!!!!
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I've been pretty happy with Logitech's PC speakers.
I had Boston Accoustics when I first got my computer. Blew the Subwoofer. Tried some Logitech systems, but none even came close to those BA's. I ended up getting the Klipsch Promedia 2.1 system. This about blows my home theater away! http://www.klipsch.com/promedia-2-1-computer-speakers
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I've been using Boston Acoustics BA790 for almost 13 years. Recently, I dropped the right satellite speaker and it stopped working. Took it apart, saw no damage or loose connections, put it back together and shortly thereafter it worked again. I was devastated, there's nothing on the market that comes close to these speakers in their original price range. I paid about 75 bucks for them new somewhere around the turn of the century.
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Those Boston Acoustics BA series were excellent...had a pair myself for my gaming computer back in the Win9X/early XP days. Loved 'em! Mine weren't the 790 model...I think they were the 650 model.
Loved Boston Acoustics anyways...had some for my home stereo system, and car.
But these days...good luck finding some computer speakers from them.
For 70 bucks..check out the Logi Z series..think there is a 506 model or something like that.
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Thanks to all for your input.
I bought these, but I am going to give them a test run and go from there. I will review all the info and send those others back if I don't like them. Again, thanks for all of the information.
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Tony T, Thank you so much. I am calling them and getting half my money back! I checked the yard sale site when on there the other day, but those were not available.
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This temple, which preserves remains from the 13th century, was built between the 17th and 18th centuries.
It was built over an earlier Roman-Visigoth temple. This is a building divided in three naves by square pillars. The main front which faces the square comprises a first flat body on which a vaulted niche is superimposed with the image of Our Lady of Guidance. Inside, there are the tombs of the expert Don Alonso de Cárdenas and of the Duke and Duchess de la Roca. The front of the foot is Neoclassic.
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Dr. Sandra Hiortdahl
Class of 1985
Major/Minor: English
The 1985 Sophie Kerr Prize Winner
I've been writing for as long as I can remember because it helps me to figure out how the world works and also allows me to reorder the world when I don't appreciate how it works. Great writers from the past have changed my life with their images and characters and worlds-come-to-life, particularly the late John Gardner. I've won several awards for my writing, including Washington College's Sophie Kerr Prize and the Governor's Award for Excellence in the novel (Maryland). For the foreseeable future, I'm teaching English at Northeast State Community College in East Tennessee.
2008 Ph.D. in English
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Dissertation: "John Gardner's Grendel: Reinventing Beowulf" passed with distinction
2000 MA in English
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Thesis: "James Joyce's Exiles, The Influence of Ibsen"
1991 MFA in Creative Writing
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Thesis: In Certain Seasons, a novel
1985 BA in English, with honors
Washington College, Chestertown, MD.
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2008 Digital Innovator Award, for Support of Digital Media Literacy, Washington College
2006 Teacher of the Month, Alpha Kappa Gamma, The Catholic University of America
2002 Evaluative Ranking, Distinguished Member of the Faculty, West Chester University
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Still Up To No Good: That Kid Who Threatened To Kill Bush Is Back! This Time Threatening To Destroy "BEP" "Stop Making Fun Of Rappers" (The Famous Cartoon Animators Who Diss Celebrities)
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The next DJ Hero game will be out this fall with a whole bunch of new options, including new multiplayer modes, microphone support for singing and/or rapping and, well, I think they want you to possess two turntable controllers.
The official word from the game's publisher today is that DJ Hero 2 is all about "two turntables and a mic," though that phrase so often associated with hip-hop shouldn't make you think DJ Hero 2 is a rap-centric game. The Activision press release puts hip-hop third as it attempts to pump you up about the big sequel:
"DJ Hero 2 spins together the hottest tracks blazing up the charts and legendary club anthems from the biggest artists in pop, dance and hip hop including Dr. Dre, The Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Metallica, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and over 85 others."
The music for the game will be mash-ups again, the first of which is actually available today — yes, months before the game is out. The preview track is a mash-up of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" and Deadmau5's "Ghosts 'n' Stuff." It will be available for DJ Hero 1 players for a week as a download on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The first DJ Hero game shipped with a single turntable controller and was used more as a single-player, pass-around experience than a multiplayer jam like Guitar Hero or Rock Band. The DJ Hero sequel, however, seems to be tailored more in the manner of those more popular music games. According to Activision's press release about the game, the game will support DJ battles as well as co-op rapping and singing. To emphasize just how serious they are about making sure DJ Hero 2 is a multiplayer experience, Activision is going to sell a "party bundle" that includes two turntables, a mic and a copy of the game.
The sequel seems to be backwards compatible with the first DJ Hero turntable controller, as the publisher recommends that those who have the original settle for either just buying the new DJ Hero 2 game disc or a bundle that contains just one new controller.
DJ Hero 2 is slated for release in the fall on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii.
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Today's class of "green" coatings depend on light stabilizers to protect against UV degradation. By Yung-Chi Yang, Steven Lee and Dr. Yao-Hsing Huang, Everlight Chemical Industrial Corporation High solids, powder, waterborne and UV curable coatings—the "green" coatings—have been developed to replace conventional high VOC and solvent-based coatings. Although the latest technology has overcome the disadvantages of traditional solvent-based coatings, light stabilizers in green coatings still play an important role helping to avoid degradation from sun light exposure and improve weathering stability. Everlight has developed several products specifically for green coatings. Green coatings and light stabilizers Green coatings can be as diversified as high-solids, powder, waterborne and UV curable coatings and so on. They are designed to eliminate the release of VOCs from conventional solvent-based coatings. The cause of coating degradation such as discoloration, delamination, loss of gloss, cracking and chalking is due to the chromophores, or impurity content, found in the material triggered by UV light, which is damaging. Therefore, UV absorbers and light stabilizers are both recommended in order to prevent coating decomposition. Light stabilizers can be divided into two groups: UV absorbers (UVA) and the hinder amine light stabilizers (HALS). UVA's function is to absorb UV light and transform it into heat; HALS is best known to capture free radicals and prevent material degradation. Light stabilizers recommended for green coatings High-Solids Coatings The objective with high-solids coatings is to reduce the requirement of organic solvents and increase solids content. Most coating systems need to use acidic catalysts to improve film hardness during thermo-curing processes. In choosing light stabilizers for high solids coatings, it is necessary to consider the pKb of the coatings; therefore, NOR HALS become very important in some cases as to work with a low basicity system. Also, solubility is another key element for coatings. A liquid type light stabilizer is a better choice, which has no dispersion problem and is easy to use. Before and after exposure of delta Y measurements (as shown in Figure 1) of adding UVA and NOR HALS, coatings would receive different degrees of protection according to its use level. Evidently, UVA mixed NOR HALS was proven to provide a better protection as seen in this test. Figure 1. UVA and NOR HALS with acrylate clear resin for high solids coating after 2,000 hours QUV-313nm exposure. Results show UVA mixed NOR HALS was able to minimize discoloration to the coatings. (See Figure 1 above) Powder Coatings Powder coatings are applied by high pressure and static electrostatic spray. The resin and additives are formed and attached to the surface of the object and then cured by high temperature heat to form a durable coating. This process results in a solvent-free coating. Particle size is crucial in powder coatings. It is very difficult for light stabilizers to reach good homogenous dispersion in a short time due to the small dosage. UVA-H and HALS-H, both are novel micron grades, and developed for effectively overcoming the obstacle of dispersion. Before and after exposure of delta Y measurements (as shown in Figure 2) and adding UVA-H and HALS-H, coatings would receive different degrees of the protection according to each consumption level. Evidently, UVA-H mixed with HALS-H was proven to provide a better protection. Figure 2. UVA-H and HALS-H with polyester resin for powder coating after 2,000 hours QUV-313nm exposure. Results show UVA-H mixed with HALS-H was able to minimize discoloration to the coatings. (See Figure 2 above) Waterborne Coatings Waterborne coatings are an eco-friendly coating system based on water-soluble or water dispersed resins. They are non-toxic, odorless and nonflammable. Liquid light stabilizers in many cases are known to not easily disperse in water-based coatings. Adding UV stabilizers directly to water-based paint systems will cause condensation in coatings and make it difficult to spray without filtration. Everlight offers a series of new high-performance liquid light stabilizers that works with waterborne coatings. They can be used directly and homogenously disperse in waterborne coatings. Before and after exposure of delta E measurements (as shown in Figure 3) and adding UVA-W, coatings would receive different degrees of the protection according to each consumption level. Evidently, a higher use level provides a better protection. Figure 3. UVA-W is with polyurethane clear resin for waterborne coating after 1,000 hours QUV-313nm exposure. Results show UVA-W was able to minimize discoloration to the coatings. (See Figure 3 above) UV Curable Coatings UV curable coatings require energy directly from UV light to initiate monomers and oligomers. Through this process, it will then convert the liquid coating into the solid film. One thing that makes UV curable coatings become more and more popular is they reduce energy costs and drying speeds during production are faster. Photoinitiators and light stabilizers usually are in conflict with one another in the UV curable system. UR series are high-performance liquid-based light stabilizers and they do not affect curing speed. Before and after exposure of delta Y measurements (as shown in Figure 4) and adding UR series, coatings would receive different degrees of protection according to its use level. Evidently, a higher use level provides a better protection. Figure 4. UR1 is with epoxy acrylate UV curable clear resin for metal coating after 100 hours QUV-313nm exposure. Results show UR1 was able to minimize discoloration to the coatings. (See Figure 4 above) Conclusion Environmentally friendly coatings are the trend for future development in the coatings industry. In this article we highlighted the benefits of using light stabilizers in various coating systems. Coating manufactures may still need to run the experiments to confirm their coating systems are compatible. The company who can offer tailor-made UV absorber and light stabilizer products will have the key to providing UV protection in the manufacturer's coating products. Source: coatingsworld.com
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Guillermo Barros Schelotto hasn't played for the Columbus Crew since 2010, but even three years after his departure, his influence on the club is strong as ever.
When the Crew were looking to sign Argentine forward Federico Higuaín in the middle of last season, for example, technical director Brian Bliss sought Schelotto's opinion. And in turn, Higuaín wanted insight from Schelotto, an iconic figure in Argentina, about playing for the Crew and living in Columbus.
Higuaín signed with the Crew in late July, and went onto win the MLS Newcomer of the Year award.
Columbus added Argentinean midfielder Matías Sánchez this year and have scoured other countries in South America – Uruguayan midfielder Agustín Viana, Brazilian defender Gláuber and Venezuelan midfielder Bernardo Añor are also on the roster – but it's Higuaín who has wetted their appetite to go back to Argentina.
"We consciously have been looking in Argentina over the years," Bliss told MLSsoccer.com. "It's a matter of finding the right guy at the right price to make it work."
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A factor in the Crew's success in that part of the world is assistant coach Ricardo Iribarren, who originally came to Columbus from Argentina as a defender in 1996.
"He speaks the language. He played for Estudiantes," Crew coach Robert Warzycha said, referring to the Argentinean club that also produced Sánchez. "The transition is easier because of him. He and his wife and family help tremendously if you're looking for an apartment, you need a car or find a doctor. "
Sánchez, for one, has seen the benefit of having countrymen pave the way with the Crew.
"I'm very comfortable," he said. "My teammates, the staff, all the people have made it easy for me to play here."
Not all acquisitions have panned out, but the list of Argentineans to wear black and gold over the years include Marcelo Carrera, Mario Gori, Nicolás Hernández, Sergio Miguez, Silvio Rudman and defender Gino Padula, who started with Schelotto on the 2008 championship team.
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But none had greater aura than Schelotto himself.
Viana, born in Chicago but raised from an early age in Uruguay, told MLSsoccer.com after his signing in January that he wasn't very familiar with Columbus or MLS.
"Columbus I know of because Guillermo Barros Schelotto won the championship," Viana said. "In my country of Uruguay, there is a lot of Argentinean soccer on TV. That championship made a great impact. He is a great star like Beckham or Thierry Henry that made an impact on the league."
Bliss has made clear that with the success of Schelotto and Higuaín, he's eager to head back to Argentina to mine for talent.
"That Argentine league is a tough league to play in and you can see it in the character of the people themselves," he said. "Whatever their DNA or background, they're rugged in terms of not only playing in this league with its physicality but also the general travel and way of life.
"Historically, Argentineans travel well, meaning that they go outside the county and play well. They adapt better outside their country than some others."


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Imbibe readers may remember Dr. Cocktail's challenge in his Rototo column in the Nov/Dec issue. He tantalizingly offered up a sumptuous cold-weather cocktail of his own creation, but pulled it back at the last second because of a long unavailable ingredient. He would reveal the recipe, he said, plus the formula to make the unavailable ingredient, if readers requested it—as they have!
Here's Doc:
This is a drink I named the Addams' Apple in honor of Chas Addams, creator of the Addams' Family and author of some of the funniest (and darkest) cartoons ever to appear in the New Yorker. It's a holiday drink. Thus my humor also trends to the dark side. But here's the deal: it tastes like a cold cocktail of hot apple pie.
2 oz. Applejack
1 oz. apple cider
1/2 oz. pimento dram
2 dashes orange bitters
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker loaded with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and if you want to do it up right, garnish with an apple slice that's been soaking in brandy (Calvados is best) for a week, but no more. Drink the cocktail, chew on the apple.
Here, though, is the worm in the apple: It's been a long time since pimento dram has been readily available in the U.S. What is pimento dram? It's a Jamaican liqueur (both homemade and commercial) with a rum base flavored with the pimento berry. Hmm. Pimento berry. Is that the red wadded-up thing stuffed into a pickled cocktail olive? Nope, that's something entirely (and blessedly) different. The pimento berry was encountered by seafaring British explorers in the 18th century. The natives called it "pimiento" (anglicized to pimento.) Once they tasted it, however, the English gave it a new name based on its flavor. They called it "allspice" because it seemed to encapsulate the flavors of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove—all it one. It remains a favorite in Jamaica, but the current sole producer, Wray & Nephew, steadfastly will not import it to the States. They are missing out on a good bet though, especially in the winter.
So, what is to be done? Well, a couple of other serious (and estimable) doctors of the cocktail have developed formulas that re-create this genuinely superb cordial. I advised, and both Chuck Taggart of gumbopages.com and the team of Chad Solomon and Christy Pope (celebrated New York City bartenders and owners of Cuff & Buttons Cocktail Catering) have devised two turnkey pimento dram formulas. Remember, it was originally a homemade "folk" liqueur, so nuances of flavor varied anyway.
Chuck's Jamaican Pimento Dram (Allspice Liqueur) No. 3
2-1/4 cups 151-proof Demerara rum
1/2 cup whole dried allspice berries, crushed
3 cups water
1-1/2 lb. brown sugar
Crush the allspice berries in a mortar and place in a 1-liter jar with a rubber seal. Cover with the rum and allow to steep for at least 10 days, agitating the maceration daily.
Pour through a fine strainer, pressing on the solids to extract as much liquor as you can, then pour the strained liquor maceration through another strainer lined with a coffee filter (this'll take a while).
Make a simple syrup with the water and brown sugar; heat until dissolved, then allow to cool. When cool, combine with the rum maceration and allow to age for at least one month. Decant and enjoy.
This will almost fill two 750 ml. bottles (we use the ones they sell fizzy French lemonade in, because of that nifty resealing rubber-lined ceramic stopper), so you can cut the recipe in half to makes less, unless you want to give some away.
Chad & Christy's Pimento Dram
2 cups Lemon Hart 151 Demerara Rum
1/2 cup Myer's Dark Jamaican Rum
1/2 cup whole allspice berries
3 cups water
1 1/2 lbs. granulated white sugar
1 oz. Angostura bitters
1 oz. burnt sugar
Crush the allspice berries with a mortar and place in a glass jar. Cover with the rum and seal tightly. Let the mixture steep for 14 days, agitating daily. Pour the mixture through a fine strainer (like a chinois) pressing on the solids to extract as much of the spiced rum as you can. Pour the liquid again through a coffee filter.
Make a 1:1 simple syrup using your sugar and water, using gentle heat and stir the mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved. Let the syrup cool, then add it to the infused rum along with the Angostura and the burnt sugar. Bottle the mixture in two clean/sterilized 750 ml. bottles and let it rest for 1 month. After that, go crazy with it.
Both of these versions are simply excellent, and though they are preparation-intensive, the resulting liqueur is incredibly versatile and well worth the effort.
Let me know how you like the Addams' Apple!
This is Doc, returning you now to your regularly scheduled program.


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Allan H. (Bud) Selig is the Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball. After being named to the unprecedented position by Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. on December 19, 2014, Selig assumed the role on January 25, 2015, when Manfred became the 10th Commissioner in the history of Baseball. As Commissioner Emeritus, Selig serves as an adviser to Manfred and assists him with special projects.
Allan H. (Bud) Selig was named the ninth Commissioner of Baseball on July 9, 1998, by a unanimous vote of the 30 Major League Baseball club owners. Prior to his election as Baseball's Commissioner, Selig served as Chairman of the Executive Council, making him the central figure in Major League Baseball's organizational structure dating back to September 9, 1992.
Selig led the way toward implementation of many of the game's structural changes, including the expanded Wild Card Postseason format, Interleague Play, realignment, restoration of the rulebook strike zone, consolidation of the leagues' administrative functions and instant replay, which was first available for potential home runs beginning in 2008 and then for nearly all plays starting in 2014.
In August 2002, Selig engineered an historic labor agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association that avoided a work stoppage for the first time in 30 years and included meaningful revenue sharing among the clubs. In October 2006 and again in November 2011, MLB and the MLBPA continued the groundbreaking era of labor peace by reaching new five-year collective bargaining agreements. By the end of the current agreement, baseball will have gone at least 21 years without a strike or a lockout, the longest period of uninterrupted play since the inception of the collective bargaining relationship.
The significant changes to baseball's economic system helped the sport achieve competitive balance, made evident by many developments, including nine different Clubs winning the last 14 World Series and 27 different Clubs participating in the Postseason over the last 10 years. From 2000-2009, MLB produced eight different World Series Champions, which exceeded the comparable figures of the other major American professional sports during the decade, and 14 different Clubs earned the 20 available slots in the Fall Classic in the 10 years, which was also unsurpassed among the results of the other leagues.
In November 2005, MLB and the MLBPA announced an historic agreement to fortify its drug testing policy, making it the most comprehensive in professional sports and highlighting Selig's long-term efforts to try to rid the game of illegal steroids and other performance-enhancing substances. In July 2010, MLB became the first U.S. professional sports league to conduct blood testing for the detection of Human Growth Hormone (hGH) with the start of testing among Minor League players. In November 2011, the program became a part of MLB's collective bargaining agreement with the MLBPA, making baseball the first North American professional sport to adopt such testing. On January 10, 2013, MLB and the MLBPA jointly announced unprecedented anti-doping steps in American professional sports with the addition of unannounced, random blood testing for hGH during the regular season. The pact also included the establishment of a longitudinal profile program. On March 28, 2014, MLB and the MLBPA further solidified the most comprehensive program in American professional sports.
Selig expanded the reach of the sport in numerous ways. Under his guidance in January 2000, MLB took the unprecedented step of centralizing all of the sport's Internet rights under MLB Advanced Media. On January 1, 2009, MLB Network launched as the largest debut in cable television history. In 2006, 2009 and 2013, MLB and the MLBPA staged the World Baseball Classic, the most important international baseball event ever ventured, in which Major League players competed for their home countries for the first time.
Selig guided the game through a significant renaissance. Major League Baseball set its all-time regular season attendance record each year from 2004-2007, culminating in an all-time high of 79,503,175 fans in 2007. The 2008 season marked the second highest attendance total in history with more than 78.6 million fans. With more than 73 million fans again each year from 2009-2014, the last decade (2005-2014) includes all 10 of the best-attended seasons in baseball history. Revenues increased more than sevenfold, from $1.2 billion in 1992 to a record total exceeding $9.0 billion in 2014.
Selig has received many significant honors for his accomplishments, philanthropy and corporate citizenship in recent years. In March 2010, the Jackie Robinson Foundation, which aids academically distinguished minority students, presented him its Lifetime Achievement Award. In May 2010, the Taylor Hooton Foundation bestowed its inaugural Taylor's Award to Selig for his impact on educating American youth on the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs. In August 2010, the Milwaukee Brewers unveiled a statue in Selig's likeness outside Miller Park, honoring all of his efforts for his hometown and for his leadership of the Brewers and the game of baseball. In September 2010, Stand Up To Cancer, dedicated to groundbreaking translational research in the fight against cancer, made its first Named Innovative Research Grant in honor of Allan H. Selig and his wife, Suzanne L. Selig, for spearheading MLB's remarkable industry-wide support as a founding donor.
In August 2011, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled the Allan H. (Bud) Selig Center for the Archives of Major League Baseball Commissioners, a permanent research space within the halls of Cooperstown, dedicated in his honor. In September 2012, the Green Sports Alliance presented its first Environmental Leadership Award to Selig; the Natural Resources Defense Council called Selig "the single most influential environmental advocate in the history of sports." In June 2013, the Commissioner was the recipient of B'nai B'rith International's Distinguished Humanitarian Award. In June 2014, Boys & Girls Clubs of America presented Selig with its Chairman's Award at the organization's Great Futures Gala. In October 2014, he was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. In January 2015, Selig received the William J. Slocum/Jack Lang Award for "long and meritorious service to Baseball" from the New York Baseball Writers and the inaugural "Red Award" – named for Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst – for his "invaluable service to Baseball" from the St. Louis Baseball Writers.
Selig is a major supporter of his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Marquette University. The University of Wisconsin has named several need-based scholarships and a history department chair in Selig's honor. Selig, who has taught at Marquette University Law School since 2009, was named to its adjunct faculty as distinguished lecturer in sports law and policy in 2010.
Bud and Sue have three daughters and five granddaughters.


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Adam Sandler had a moment there where he seemed to have found what made him a great funnyman and showed that he had acting chops. And though he'd been great before, that moment was around 2008 and 2009 when he made You Don't Mess With the Zohan and Funny People, but since then he seems to have regressed. After Funny People didn't work, he's now making the movies he made fun of in Funny People. Sandler churns out a movie or two a year with his crew of regulars (which includes director Dennis Dugan, Allen Covert, Nick Swarsdon, Jonathan Loughran, Peter Dante and a peppering of his old SNL chums), and in Jack and Jill all the familiar faces show up while Sandler plays twins – with one of the twins being a girl! Cross-dressing is an old comic trope, but Sandler and company do little with it. The film's saving grace is Al Pacino playing himself. Our review of Jack and Jill on Blu-ray follows after the jump.
Jack Sadelstein (Sandler) is a successful ad agency guy who's rich and happily married to Erin (Katie Holmes in one of the least interesting female leads in a Sandler film – she has nothing to do). His sister Jill (Sandler) looks like him but a female version, talks in an annoying voice, and doesn't seem to understand how humans interact. Jill comes out from the Bronx to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving, but when Jack can't hide his contempt for her, she insists that she stays (in a way that comes across as pure manipulation) through Hanukkah. Jack needs to land a Dunkin' Donuts account with Al Pacino their wanted spokes, but when he goes to a Lakers game to get close to Pacino, Al unexpectedly gets the hots for Jill. But then Jill goes on a date with Felipe (Eugenio Derbez), who is a plot point love interest that allows her to reject Pacino's advances. How far will Jack go to get the account? Sandler's SNL buds Norm McDonald, Tim Meadows, and David Spade cameo and Johnny Depp shows up wearing a Justin Beiber shirt.
Look, Sandler has gotten exceptionally lazy as an artist, and the runaway success of Grown Ups did nothing but encourage him to make dreck. That said, Jack and Jill is his lowest grossing comedy (that's not Funny People) in fifteen years. Even 1998's The Wedding Singer outperformed this film. Likely it was the appearance of Sandler in drag doing a silly voice, which didn't have the comic energy of – say – Eddie Murphy in multiple characters ala The Nutty Professor. Make no mistake, the 11 Razzie nominations for this film aren't entirely an error. It's not a good film.
Though Sandler doesn't do anything interesting in the movie, Al Pacino is the most awake and interesting he's been in years, and he really enjoys playing a version of himself. All the funniest stuff in the movie involves him, and there's a great running gag about his inability to speak foreign languages. He's so committed to his character that it enlivens a film that barely has a narrative. And Jill is such a terrible, lazy creation that when the film tries to show that she's a decent human being it works against the film. You want the film to have follow through, and not give her some sort of redemptive arc, but the writing is so lazy her best traits aren't shown until it's narratively convenient. And when Jack realizes that he does love his sister, it doesn't make any sense from what we've witnessed on screen. But whatever, it's 91 minutes long.
Though the Sandler machine has supposedly gotten expensive, it's likely that the film made money because there is such a ridiculous onslaught of product placement. From Pepto-Bismol, to ocean liners, to Oreos and Dunkin Donuts, this film is saturated with enough corporate logos to have covered the bottom line.
Sony's Blu-ray presents the film in widescreen (1.78:1) and in DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio. The presentation is as good as theatrical, and the Blu-ray edition comes with a DVD and digital copy. The disc comes with 13 deleted scenes (19 min.), which is followed by the gag reel "Laughing is Contagious" (4 min.). The rest of supplements are featurettes: "Look Who Stopped By" (9 min.) talks about the film's numerous cameos, and it's followed by "Boys Will Be Girls" (4 min.) which talks about the cross-dressing. "Stomach Ache" (4 min.) covers the opening fake commercial, while "Don't Call It A Boat – Royal Caribbean" (3 min.) is basically an ad for Royal Caribbean. The supplements aren't that interesting, but then… this movie.