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1. This pertains to the list of Applicants who successfully passed the PCGABT held last November and December 2015.
2. Applicants who successfully passed the PCGABT shall undergo Physical Fitness Test (PFT), Dental Examination, NP Test and Medical Examination which part of the Recruitment Process.
3. Guidelines for PFT are as follows:
a) Applicants shall secure a copy of Processing Form from O/CG-1. For applicants in PCG Districts, Processing Form can be downloaded from www.coastguard.gov.ph
b) PFT to all Manila Applicants will be scheduled by the Special Service Office in coordination with the Recruitment Branch. Only 100 applicants per day will be accommodated for PFT by the SSO. First to undergo the PFT will be the first 100 applicants, followed by the next 100 applicants, and so on.
c) PFT to applicants from PCG Districts will be scheduled by the District Athletic Officer and shall be posted on the PCG Official FB Account, www.facebook.com/pcgrecruitmentbranch
d) All applicants should have a duly notarized Physical Fitness and Release of Liability (PFRL) Form before conduct of PFT. NO PFRL, NO PFT shall be strictly implemented. PFRL can be downloaded from www.coastguard.gov.ph
e) Applicants shall ensure that their processing will be signed by the Athletic Officer after the conduct of PFT.
f) Applicants who will not appear on their PFT schedule, shall be re-scheduled on a later day.
g) Applicants from PCG Districts who opts to process their application in Manila shall be scheduled for PFT after finishing the PFT of all Manila Applicants.


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On Friday we tabbed the Bucs, Rams, Titans, Cardinals and Cowboys as teams that might surprise us by taking a quarterback high up in next week's draft. Time to add another squad to that list.
ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported Saturday morning that the Cincinnati Bengals loom as a "surprise" candidate to select a signal-caller. Their target? Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater.
Despite needs at the cornerback and defensive line positions, the Bengals potentially see what we do: That Andy Dalton is a tough sell as your long-term answer under center.
Entering the final year of his contract, Dalton told SiriusXM NFL Radio in March that "there have been talks" with the team about a new contract. Coach Marvin Lewis told reporters at the NFL Annual Meeting that he was "hopeful" the Bengals would work out an extension. However, owner Mike Brown must decide if he wants to hand more than $15 million annually to a passer who inspired NFL Media's Chris Wesseling to dream up the "After Dalton" scale -- meaning, if you rank below Dalton, you are a problem.
His numbers look promising on paper, but Dalton's pocket presence and field vision are inconsistent -- sometimes maddening. Three of his most dubious performances have come in the team's trio of playoff losses dating back to Dalton's rookie campaign.
Behind closed doors, the Bengals face a dilemma: Do you overpay to keep a quarterback who isn't growing? Dalton looks and feels like a passer already bumping his ceiling. He's far from a disaster, but it's tempting to ponder what the Bengals could become with a firestarter under center.
The Bengals thinking about other options at the position tells us that Cincinnati is serious about becoming more than Saturday morning wild-card fodder for more complete teams.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" breaks down draft news and rumors and plays the popular prediction game, "Go Get My Lunch!"

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Lady Gaga Says Born This Way Ball Tour Represents 'The Kingdom of Fame'
As photos and fan-filmed footage of Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball world tour rolls in, the Mother Monster herself has shared the details about the stage and the storyline behind it. We've commented that it looks like a castle that can't be easy to transport from gig to gig.
In a press release, Gaga called the tour "the tale of the Beginning, the genesis of the Kingdom of Fame," which would explain why it looks like a castle!
The BTW Ball stage was constructed by Tait Towers, which has previously built stages for the likes of Madonna. It's also a record-breaker. "The stage set for the Born This Way Ball is the largest scenic structure that's ever been built to tour," said James "Winky" Fairorth, CEO of Tait Towers.
The structure and its architectural detail were not altered in order to make it easy to move from show to show, either. Which means it's a chore to disassemble and re-assemble. Remembrer, Gaga did share a photo of her with a drill, working on the stage!
Now about this stage. It has 30 active windows and doors, with a custom, scenic, painted roll drop to reveal different scenes from rooms within the castle, which is 50 feet tall. There are 620 feet of custom LED Lights and automated gates that open and close.
So the stage doesn't look like a castle or act like one. It is one!
Moving it to and fro requires 15, 53-foot long tractor trailers and there are approximately 200 set carts that all of the elements travel in.
What does all these mean, in a nutshell? That the castle and the stage are epic and majestic, just like the pop star who performs on them.
Gaga's is dressing in fashions from Italian designers, like Versace. The toast of the Italian fashion world, Donatella Versace, gushed about her client, saying, "Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring. I can't wait for everyone to be surprised by what we've cooked up together!"
Additional dates for the Born This Way Ball Tour are expected to be announced soon.
Below is a photo from the kick off of the tour.


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I was shocked to find out that minors can buy electronic cigarettes in the state of Massachusetts.
But not for much longer, if a new piece of legislation has its way.
The bill, released today by state Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Public Health, seeks to fix the loophole that allows the free sale of electronic cigarettes and other nicotine delivery products. Though cigarettes are tightly regulated under the Tobacco Control Act of 2009, the FDA and other federal organizations do not currently regulate the sale of alternative nicotine delivery products.
The current state of disarray is caused in part by the development of new tobacco products since the passage of the 2009 act. According to a press release and accompanying fact sheet, Sanchez's bill would define existing and future tobacco and nicotine delivery products, such as e-cigarettes, ensuring that future products would also be subject to regulation. It would restrict sales of any of these products to minors under the age of 18. And it would prevent the use of electronic cigarettes everywhere that smoking is banned, including in the workplace.
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Is the Fuji X Pro1 a Leica replacement?
Is the Fuji X Pro1 the next Leica? A recent trip to Australia with the camera and 18-55 lens left me very impressed, and makes me wonder. It's the first time I have ever gotten consistently professional results from any camera this size that wasn't a Leica.
|Fuji X Pro1 with Fujinon 18-55 lens - John Elder Robison
At the same time, the X Pro1 delivered images under conditions where the Leica would not have worked at all, and it did so with far greater usability. It makes me wonder what a rangefinder really is or should be.
When it appeared the Leica was a revolutionary concept – a camera that could return quality images from a small indestructible package that would work anywhere, under any conditions. Leica became the Rolex of the camera world – a rugged professional tool that everyone wanted.
Time passed and electronics came onto the scene. Just as Rolex was elbowed aside by the new quartz and silicon watches, electronic cameras from Nikon and Canon pushed Leica into more of a niche role. SLR cameras came to dominate the world of action shooting but a place remained for the Leica, just as people still buy Rolex watches even when Swatch and Casio are displayed alongside.
For many years I have carried Leica rangefinders and Nikon SLRs for my professional work. I've used the SLR's with long lenses to capture performers in the ring and on stage. Then, in quieter times, I've used the Leica to capture candid moments backstage, and to shoot discreetly on streets and midways.
The SLR and long lens is powerful, but bulky. There is nothing subtle about it. You can't photograph unobtrusively with a rig like that, but at the same time, nothing less will bring home performance images under tough circumstances.
Today I'm on my fifth or sixth generation of heavy-duty SLR. They get better and better, and the best now is very good indeed. A D4 or D3S can capture images that print life size with detail that was never possible with film. They shoot in the rain and deliver amazing images in the dark. They lock focus on cars coming at me at 150 miles per hour. They do things that were unheard-of, ten years ago.
The Leica excels at a different kind of photography. For many years I've used Leica cameras (first film; now digital) to capture people on the street, and people relaxing in natural settings. I've also used Leica cameras to capture sports and action with a different eye. In an age where published action imagery is dominated by long lens close-ups the wide shots from a rangefinder are a refreshing change.
|UMass Basketball - Leica M8
|Leica M8 / 35 1.4 ASPH
I've also used the Leica when I wanted superior travel images, because the lenses are second to none and the package is small enough to carry on a plane. You can take an M9 and three lenses anywhere; it all fits in your pocket. And you never have to worry about quality. If you use the Leica correctly, the images are second to none.
|Leica M9, 35 1.4 lens at f8
|Dead Trees in Winter - Leica M9
|Radio City seen with a Leica M9 and 35mm 2.0
|John Sebastian captured onstage with a Leica M8, 50mm 1.4 lens
But that is the rub – "used correctly." The Leica system consists of superior manual focus lenses, a body with a good (but not the best) digital sensor, and a primitive metering system. You get beautiful results by taking your time to deliberately focus the camera, set the aperture, and judge the exposure. The lack of automation in the Leica causes you to think through every element of your picture, and if things are not moving too fast, and you have the skills, you get excellent results.
The rangefinder camera, by its very nature, uses wide to standard lenses. So the images you get are close to natural in their perspective. You won't get striking macro shots nor will you get closeups of distant birds.
That strategy works very well for much travel photography where you are shooting scenes with wide lenses, small apertures, and most everything in focus. It works well when you shoot sports or performance with a wide lens that's been distance focused using the scales on the focus ring. It works well when you shoot people, carefully focused, in intimate settings with big apertures. Nothing renders the background like the fast Leica lenses.
Yet those are all "hard" things to do. You need to be concentrating on your photography all the time, to get decent results. Otherwise, you get junk. There's no such thing as P mode on a Leica. You can't pop it out and shoot. That means some opportunities will be missed. The Leica has other limitations, too. You can't use long lenses, except with difficulty. You can't shoot digital at high ISO like an SLR, and it's not well suited to flash. Leica purists will say those are not things Leica photographers do, but the fact is, photographers (whatever they use) find themselves in those settings and it's advantageous to have a camera that performs.
The perfect camera would have the flexibility and performance of an SLR, the size and build quality of a Leica, and the smooth lens performance of Leitz glass. And it would have the weight of a pocket point-and-shoot.
Knowing that camera does not exist, I'd found a place for my various devices. My SLR camera does the heavy lifting. I had a place for the Leica, and I carried an inexpensive small camera on trips (something like a Canon G12 or Nikon V2) I accepted the compromises inherent in each and used them where they worked best.
Then Fuji introduced the X Pro1 - a pocketable camera that delivers professional quality images that print up to two feet wide, shoots up to ISO 6400 with excellent quality, has the discreet size of a Leica, and handles easily under most any conditions.
Fuji has a Leica lens adapter, so I can use the Leitz glass and focus by the distance scale, just like a traditional Leica street photographer. But I can also use Fuji's excellent autofocus lenses and the camera will focus for me, and do it right most of the time. It will also meter correctly, and there is a compact snap-on flash.
I can still think about my images, but the camera will do quite a lot more of the work if asked. That means I can be slow and deliberate, but I can also choose P mode and snap a quick picture if an opportunity presents itself.
|Sydney Harbour, Fuji XPro1 18-55 lens
The image quality is this camera's most striking feature. Fuji says its 16MP sensor gives sharper results than other similar sized sensors because the RGB cell arrangement is different, and the camera does not need a filter in front of the sensor. While I agree the sensor renders sharp images I think its best feature is the depth it captures. Using Lightroom 5 I can pull good image data from farther into the light and dark areas than most any camera I've seen.
|Cape Byron Lighthouse Fuji XPro1 18-55 lens hand held
That dynamic range finding is borne out by a number of online reviews. It's quite impressive in real life. These images show what I am talking about. In the first, the late day sun was shining on the back of the Cape Byron lighthouse. The rocky cliffs were in deep shadow. But I was able to pull up that data while still holding onto the sky. The following morning I was able to capture tremendous range in the moments before sunrise. I do not know of any other pocket size camera that could have done this.
|Australian flowers captured with my Fuji XPro1 18-55 lens
Another neat thing it will do – thanks to the electronic finder – is a macro mode. These flowers would have been very hard to capture with a traditional rangefinder because of the parallax in the finder window up close. The camera works like an SLR in macro mode for shots like these
The Fuji has an interesting viewfinder arrangement. It's got a switchable optical or electronic finder in the place you'd expect it to be on a rangefinder camera. If you choose optical mode the camera makes rangefinder frame lines electronically and you get the traditional rangefinder benefit of seeing all around the frame. If you choose the electronic finder you see the frame as it will be captured, just as you would with an SLR.
With the addition of autofocus and an electronic viewfinder the rangefinder limitation on lens length goes away. And indeed Fuji has a 55-200 (300 35mm equivalent) lens. So you can now carry two pocket size short lenses and a long zoom, with which you can photograph most anything a traveler will find.
When this camera came out it had a set of short prime lenses, but Fuji introduced a high grade 18-55 zoom, and that's actually the lens I took with me to Australia. The idea of a zoom seems incompatible with a rangefinder but this Fuji camera copes just fine, especially with the electronic finder.
|Amherst Swamp - Fuji XPro1 with 55-200 Fujinon lens (c) John Elder Robison
This camera will do an outstanding job of travel photography. It will capture quick images in P mode, and allow deliberate rangefinder style shooting in manual mode. Then you can fit that long zoom and capture birds, animals, and other distant things. You can't catch action like an SLR because the focus speed is too slow, other readers may have their own favorites, but I think this Fuji is a step beyond anything else on the market today.
It also automates traditional street photography and captures those intimate wide-aperture portraits the Leica always excelled at. Now that I have it, I actually think it will get more use than my Leica bodies. All in all, it's a very impressive camera. For $1,200 the body is truly a bargain, especially when compared to an M9 or the new M. Lens adapters allow the fitment of a wide range of lenses, and Fuji's native offerings are quite impressive.
John Elder Robison is an autistic adult and advocate for people with neurological differences. He's an award-winning photographer and the author of the bestselling books Look Me in the Eye, Be Different, Raising Cubby, and the forthcoming Switched On. He's the Neurodiversity Scholar in Residence at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The opinions expressed here are his own. There is no warranty expressed or implied. While reading this essay may give you food for thought, actually printing and eating it may make you sick.
John Elder Robison is an autistic adult and advocate for people with neurological differences. He's an award-winning photographer and the author of the bestselling books Look Me in the Eye, Be Different, Raising Cubby, and the forthcoming Switched On. He's the Neurodiversity Scholar in Residence at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The opinions expressed here are his own. There is no warranty expressed or implied. While reading this essay may give you food for thought, actually printing and eating it may make you sick.


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National Weather Service searching for volunteers, especially in rural areas
NEWPORT � North Carolina is looking for a three-peat.
There�s a March Madness competition going on that has nothing to do with basketball, and North Carolina currently runs a close second behind Texas in its effort to keep its title.
For the past two years, North Carolina has led the way in recruiting volunteer weather observers for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS) program.
Volunteers are welcome to join the network at any time, but each March there is a competition among the states to recruit new volunteers.
North Carolina edged past Texas last year with 138 new recruits to their 133. As CoCoRaHS March Madness nears a close, North Carolina is down by 30 new volunteers.
�We�re currently running behind,� said meteorologist Andrew McKaughan with the National Weather Service forecast office in Newport.
The competition is a light-hearted one, but McKaughan said having volunteer weather observers is important to their work. The information the volunteers collect supplements what the NWS is able to collect.
Volunteers are invited to join the network no matter where they live, but the greatest need is in the more rural areas of the state.
�The more observers there are the better,� McKaughan said. �But it�s definitely where the area is not as populated where the gaps are.�
Observers report rainfall, snowfall, hail and drought information that is shared with the National Weather Service and used by researchers, farmers, emergency management officials and a variety of others.
�An additional benefit of the program to the National Weather Service is the ability to receive timely reports of significant weather, such as hail, intense rainfall and localized flooding, from CoCoRaHS observers that can assist forecasters in issuing and verifying warnings for severe thunderstorms,� said David Glenn, state coordinator for the program and a meteorologist with the NWS office in Newport.
Volunteers may register by going to the program website at cocorahs.org. From there they may obtain an official rain gauge for about $27 plus shipping and also take a simple online training module.
Volunteers submit reports of their observations online, and the information becomes immediately available over the website.
North Carolina CoCoRaHS can also be reached on Facebook and through Twitter @NC_CoCoRaHS.
Jannette Pippin can be reached at 910-382-2557 or email@example.com.


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1. The close corporation exception recognized in Richards v. Bryan, 19 Kan. App. 2d 950, 879 P.2d 638 (1984), only applies when an oppressed minority shareholder brings suit against majority directors, officers, or directors for breach of a fiduciary duty. Under the facts of this appeal, the close corporation exception does not apply.
2. K.S.A. 1-402(a), discussing liability parameters of a certified public accountant for professional negligence, is considered and applied.
Appeal from Johnson District Court; WILLIAM O. ISENHOUR, JR., judge. Opinion filed September 22, 2006. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Tim J. Moore, of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, of Wichita, and Frances Floriano Goins, of Ulmer & Berne LLP, of Cleveland, Ohio, for appellants.
David L. Marcus, of Bartle & Marcus, LLC, of Kansas City, Missouri, for appellee Robert B. Sparks.
Before RULON, C.J., McANANY, J., and KNUDSON, S.J.
KNUDSON, J.: Robert B. Sparks, a former minority shareholder of Alexico Corporation (Alexico), alleges CBIZ Accounting, Tax & Advisory of Kansas City, Inc., and its director, Kevin Winters, (collectively referred to as CBIZ), committed malpractice while handling Alexico's accounts. Sparks filed a derivative action pursuant to K.S.A. 60-223a. CBIZ filed a motion for partial summary judgment, alleging Sparks lacked standing to pursue his derivative claim because he was not a stockholder when the lawsuit was commenced. Sparks filed a motion to pursue his case as a direct action under the close corporation exception recognized and applied in Richards v. Bryan, 19 Kan. App. 2d 950, 965, 879 P.2d 638 (1994). The district court granted Sparks' motion, denied CBIZ's motion for summary judgment, and authorized an interlocutory appeal by CBIZ. See K.S.A. 60-2102(c).
CBIZ contends: (1) the close corporation exception recognized in Richards applies only when an existing minority shareholder files suit against a majority shareholder for breach of a fiduciary duty, and (2) the plaintiff did not directly engage CBIZ to perform professional accounting services and K.S.A. 1-402 precludes liability. For those reasons, CBIZ insists the district court erred in denying the defendants' motion for summary judgment and granting Sparks' motion to maintain a direct action against them.
We reverse and remand with directions that summary judgment be entered in favor of the defendants. Sparks admits his claim of professional negligence against CBIZ is derivative; that is, his injury, if any, is mediated through Alexico; therefore, Sparks is precluded from bringing an individual damage claim for the defendants' breach of duty owed to the corporation. See Richards, 19 Kan. App. 2d 950, Syl. ¶ ¶ 7, 8. It is uncontroverted Sparks is prevented from pursuing a derivative claim under K.S.A. 60-223a because he was not a shareholder when the suit was filed and his petition did not make the averments that are specifically required in the petition. Consequently, Sparks moved to maintain a direct action against CBIZ under the close corporation exception recognized in Richards. Unfortunately for Sparks, the close corporation exception only applies when an oppressed minority shareholder brings suit against majority directors, officers, or directors for breach of a fiduciary duty. See 19 Kan. App. 2d 950, Syl. ¶ 10. It is a mischievous suggestion that the exception should be extended to permit litigation by a minority shareholder against a third-party not owing a contractual duty to the shareholder. Such an exception would disregard the distinct nature of a corporation as a legal entity and allow an individual shareholder damages that rightfully belong to the corporation.
We have carefully considered all of Sparks' arguments and the published and unpublished cases he presents to support those arguments and are not persuaded the close corporation exception should be extended in Kansas to permit litigation against a third party for professional negligence in the performance of a duty owed to the corporation.
Our conclusion makes unnecessary consideration of CBIZ's concern that, in any event, Sparks cannot maintain a direct action under the close corporation exception because he was not a shareholder and, thus, has no standing to pursue the action. Although we find this contention to be persuasive, we recognize the issue is not easily resolved if Sparks was forced out as a shareholder. Rather than wade into that thicket, we deem the issue moot because regardless of its resolution Sparks cannot prevail.
There is in our view a second compelling reason why Sparks cannot proceed against CBIZ. Even if we are in error and the close corporation exception were held to be applicable to litigation against a third party, K.S.A. 1-402 provides:
"No person, proprietorship, partnership or registered firm authorized to practice as a certified public accountant . . . , or any employee, agent, partner, officer, shareholder or member thereof, shall be liable to any person or entity for civil damages resulting from acts, omissions, decisions or other conduct amounting to negligence in the rendition of professional accounting services unless:
(a) The plaintiff directly engaged such person, proprietorship or registered firm to perform the professional accounting services; or
(b) (1) the defendant knew at the time of the engagement or the defendant and the client mutually agreed after the time of the engagement that the professional accounting services rendered the client would be made available to the plaintiff, who was identified in writing to the defendant; and (2) the defendant knew that the plaintiff intended to rely upon the professional accounting services rendered the client in connection with specified transactions described in writing." (Emphasis added.)
Sparks makes no claim that subsection (b) of the statute is applicable. That leaves us with the unambiguous and clear language of subsection (a) and Sparks' acknowledgment there was no direct engagement and his damages, if any, are mitigated through the corporation.
To avoid application of K.S.A. 1-402, Sparks suggests that if CBIZ had a direct duty to a shareholder, "there would be no need for a derivative lawsuit and no need for the close corporation exception." This is circuitous reasoning that does not provide a legal rationale for avoidance of the clear and unambiguous prohibition against a shareholder maintaining a direct cause of action against CBIZ for breach of a professional duty owed to the corporation. Sparks did not directly engage CBIZ, Alexico did.
Accordingly, the judgment of the district is reversed, and the case remanded with directions to enter judgment in favor of the defendants.
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Raising the most money doesn't always determine the winner in politics, but a candidate does have to have enough money to get his name out there and be taken seriously by the voters. And I don't recall meeting too many candidates who wouldn't like to have more money than their opponent.
Raising the most money doesn't always determine the winner in politics, but a candidate does have to have enough money to get his name out there and be taken seriously by the voters. And I don't recall meeting too many candidates who wouldn't like to have more money than their opponent.
So, with just over a week to go in this exhaustive election year, it's a good time to take a look at the cash ledgers. There are Web sites to help you; the Federal Election Commission and the Illinois State Board of Elections.
Click on fec.gov and you'll find a plethora of contribution and spending information for presidential and Congressional candidates, in an easy-to-navigate format that features maps of the U.S. Just click on the state you want and get busy.
In the U.S. Senate race in Illinois, examining the donations reveals the uphill climb faced by Republican challenger Steven Sauerberg, who is running against Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, a Democrat seeking his third term. Sauerberg, a LaGrange physician, raised $1,934,547 from Jan. 1, 2007 through Sept. 30, 2008. It sounds like a lot of money, but $1.3 million of that was in candidate loans.
By contrast, Durbin has amassed $7,705,715, none of it from candidate loans. The fund imbalance and the relatively low amount of money being raised, even by Durbin, tells you that this race is not considered one of the close ones this year, even though Sauerberg is a good candidate with some decent ideas, especially about health care. But in politics, clout trumps all, and donors are putting their money where the Whip is.
When a Senate race is close, cash gets sucked in like dirt into an Electrolux. Take Minnesota, where Republican Norm Coleman is a first-term incumbent trying to win a second term. His challenger is Democrat and comedian Al Franken, formerly a writer and performer on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." The race is neck-and-neck.
Although Minnesota's population is just 5 million — Illinois' is 13 million — the money raised in the Land of 10,000 Lakes Senate race is more than three times what's been raised here in the Land of Lincoln.
Franken has raised a whopping $16,121,483; Coleman has raised $14,021,787. So, if 3 million Minnesotans vote, that's $10 per voter.
The Illinois election board Web site, elections.state.il.us/, is more difficult to navigate than the U.S. site, but it's where you'll find campaign disclosure information on local, legislative, statewide and judicial races. Click on "campaign disclosure," and when you get there click on "committee," or "candidate."
What you want to see first is in the "pre-election report," which shows contributions from July 1 through Oct. 5, and the "A-1" filings, which list contributions of $500 or more made within 30 days of the general election.
By studying the amount of money that people, corporations, unions and political action committees are donating to the candidates, you'll get a good idea of who is buying access to the candidate and how the candidate will vote if elected. Financial disclosure information tells you much more about a candidate than TV commercials and campaign postcards. Be an informed voter. Follow the money.
Chuck Sweeny can be reached at (815) 987-1372 or email@example.com.


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Volkswagen's Golf-sized electric hatchback due in 2020 will closely resemble the show car that previewed it: the ID concept rolled out in 2016 at the Paris auto show.
The information was revealed by VW brand design boss Klaus Bischoff in an interview with Autocar published Tuesday.
"The proportions, the design cues and the wheel size are the same as the concept," he said. "It looks like the show car."
It won't be an exact match, he stressed, explaining that regular side mirrors will replace the camera-based system of the concept due to legal reasons, and that regular door handles will replace the show car's electric mechanism due to cost reasons.
Crucially, the production version of the ID will be the first VW designed from the ground up to be an electric car. All previous VW electric cars have been conversions of internal combustion models.
According to Autocar, the first prototypes started testing on public roads last month.
VW already sells some electric cars, including the e-Golf here in the United States. Its next-generation electric cars will ride on a dedicated platform called the MEB. The platform features batteries located in the vehicle floor and an electric motor featured at one or both axles.
At the reveal of the ID concept, VW said the vehicle had a single electric motor at the rear axle generating approximately 167 horsepower. VW also said the vehicle will be able to offer anywhere between 250 and 370 miles of range, depending on the battery selection, and be capable of an 80 percent charge in just 15 minutes.
Following its diesel scandal, VW's Volkswagen Group parent is out to clean up its image by focusing on electrification, specifically pure electric cars. The automaker has committed to launching 30 electric cars by 2025, of which a minimum of five will come from the VW brand. They should include the production ID, a passenger van possibly reviving the Microbus name, a commercial van, a crossover, and a sedan.
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Jamaa Fanaka, who emerged as a dynamic black filmmaker with his gritty independent 1979 film "Penitentiary" and later made headlines with his legal battles alleging widespread discrimination against women and ethnic minorities in the film and television industry, has died. He was 69.
Fanaka was found dead in his apartment in South Los Angeles on Sunday, said his daughter Tracey L. Gordon. The cause of death has not been determined, but she said it probably was the result of complications of diabetes.
The Mississippi-born Fanaka was still enrolled in the UCLA film school when he wrote, produced and directed his first three feature films, financed with competitive academic grants and funds from his parents: "Welcome Home, Brother Charles" (1975), "Emma Mae" (1976) and "Penitentiary," which was both a critical and box-office success.
In his review of "Penitentiary," The Times' Kevin Thomas wrote that Fanaka "has taken one of the movies' classic myths, the wrongly imprisoned man who fights for his freedom with boxing gloves, and made it a fresh and exciting experience."
What "Penitentiary" says, Fanaka told The Times in 1980, "is that no matter what kind of situation one is confronted with, within each of us is the wherewithal to triumph."
Fanaka went on to write, produce and direct two "Penitentiary" sequels, in 1982 and 1987. His sixth and final film was "Street Wars," a low-budget 1992 action-drama set in South L.A.
"It's kind of a coming-of-age story about a kid trying to decide whether he's going to become a gangster or lead a normal life, which was basically Jamaa's choice too," said Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
"He loved to tell the story about coming out of the Air Force and then hanging around Compton, where he lived, and a friend of his wanting to set up some kind of crime and him seeing a recruiting office for UCLA and walking in there instead," said Horak.
Fanaka was born Walter Gordon in Jackson, Miss., on Sept. 6, 1942, and moved to Compton with his family when he was 12.
After he transferred to UCLA from Compton College, he changed his name to Jamaa Fanaka, which is based on the Swahili words meaning "together we will find success."
He graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1973 and earned his master's from the film school in 1979.
Three of Fanaka's films were screened late last year in "L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema," a UCLA Film & Television Archive film series featuring movies by African American and African former students who attended the UCLA film school in the 1970s and early '80s.
Horak, who was one of the curators of the film series, said Fanaka's films are "extremely interesting because they navigate a path between basically Hollywood-style filmmaking and independent filmmaking — very low budget, but at the same time very close to the community. He used amateur actors in secondary roles and shot in the community, and the stories came out of that community."
One thing Fanaka "complained about a lot is that the 'Penitentiary' films — and even the earlier films — were picked up by a video distributor and distributed as blaxploitation films," Horak said.
"He did not like that moniker because he said even though they're made like blaxploitations — cheap and all of that — his goal was not to exploit anyone, and they were a more serious intent than most blaxploitation films."
Fanaka was the outspoken founder of the Directors Guild of America's African American Steering Committee.
In 1999, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court's decision to dismiss Fanaka's race-discrimination lawsuit suit against the Directors Guild in which he claimed it was part of a "conspiracy" to keep women and minorities out of the industry.
And in 2002, the 9th Circuit upheld a district court decision to dismiss Fanaka's race discrimination lawsuit filed against the major film studios and networks.
Fanaka continued to feel strongly about the issue, Horak said, "and he was very much an advocate not only for himself but for a younger generation of African Americans trying to break into the industry."
Besides his daughter Tracey, Fanaka is survived by his other children, Michael, Katina and Twyla; his parents, Robert Gordon Sr. and Beatrice; two brothers, Robert Jr. and Joseph; a sister, Carmen Sanford; and nine grandchildren.


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The abundant waterfowl at Oldham Pond, Plymouth County, Mass., has long been a lure for hunters. During the nineteenth century, both hunting and recreational shooting of geese and ducks grew in scope throughout the Commonwealth, with the development of at least two formal hunting camps at Oldham.
The Oldham Camp records contains a detailed tally of waterfowl shot at Oldham Pond, along with an "Ancient history of Oldham Pond" by Otis Foster, 1906, chronicling changes in hunting practices and the advent of blinds and decoys. These records include annual summaries of geese taken at the camp (1876-1895) and summaries of both geese and ducks (1896-1919). More valuable are detailed records of "daily bags," 1905-1915, providing daily kill totals for each species (primarily ducks). An addendum by Edgar Jocelyn, 1927, provides additional historical detail on the hunting stands at Oldham Pond and changes in methods of attracting ducks. There are, as well, narrative annual summaries of the hunting seasons, 1905-1908 and 1912. Tipped into the front of the volume is a typed letter from the renowned Cope Cod decoy maker A. Elmer Crowell (1852-1951), July 2, 1926, reminiscing about hunting at Wenham Lake and promising to begin work on the decoys.


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The primary module in Progression; contains methods that you can use as the
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SEATTLE -- The Washington, DC, metro area was named the fittest among the 50 biggest cities in the United States by the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) 2009 American Fitness Index (AFI) report.
ACSM released the report Wednesday at its annual meeting in Seattle. The report was produced in conjunction with the WellPoint Foundation.
Rounding out the top five fittest metro areas were Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, Boston and San Francisco.
The AFI data report considered a number of factors for its decision and compiled a composite score based on preventive health behaviors, levels of chronic diseases and health care access, as well as community resources and policies that support physical activity.
People who live in the Washington, DC, metro area were more likely to eat five or more fruits and vegetables per day and were less likely to smoke, researchers said.
In addition to publishing a data report, AFI is designed to help communities identify opportunities to improve the health of their residents and expand community assets to better support active, healthy lifestyles.
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Blood and Bone - comes with a product warning. I'm not sure if that means one is supposed to bring out a scotch warmed with the flavours of peat and all things Scottish before reading or... But I digress, only because Dawn has been kind enough to tell us about Scotland.
So without further ado - here is Dawn Brown on the first day of her virtual tour with her recently released book, Blood and Bone.
Dawn's first sojourn into storytelling began when she was nine. She would rather invite neighborhood kids into her garage and regale them with ghost stories, believing even then that atmosphere played an important role in a good story.
Dawn has a diploma in journalism, but found herself pursuing a career in computer leasing. After the birth of her son, she gave up the corporate world to be a mom and write full time, trading in her dreary cubicle for a dreary room in the attic. Now Dawn spends her days creating dark, romantic mysteries with edgy heroes, clever heroines and villains she hopes will keep her readers sleeping with the light on.
I asked Dawn to tell us about a trip that changed her. Any trip, across the globe or just a short jaunt to her local grocery story. Here's Dawn's spin on -
Excerpt from Blood and Bone:
The sucking slop of footsteps in wet mud rose from the surrounding black. The hair on the back of her neck bristled, and a chill tickled along her spine.
Was it Hudson coming back to finish her off? Tic?
What was she doing standing around here anyway? A woman, alone, late at night, on a deserted country road, during a thunderstorm? The scene had slasher flick written all over it.
She started for the driver's side door, but a low moan rose up from the darkness. The wind? Had to be. Still, she picked up her pace.
The moan came again, louder this time. Shayne stopped and turned. A dark, hunched figure staggered toward her.
"Christ." She gripped the door handle and yanked open the door.
The stooped outline lurched in front of her single headlight, and the glare illuminated the ugliest Hawaiian shirt she'd ever seen. Relief swamped her like a tidal wave, turning her muscles soft for the second time in one night. The feeling, however, was short-lived. He might not have been the homicidal maniac she'd imagined, but the jerk had scared the life out of her. And all because he was staggering drunk. Even from this distance, the smell of beer was nearly overpowering.
As he pitched forward, the light cast a ghostly pallor over his face. Dark smudges beneath his left eye, along his lip and circling the edges of each nostril stood out from the stark whiteness of his skin.
He wasn't just drunk, he was hurt.
Are you as intrigued by Blood and Bone as I am? Get to know the author, ask questions, or just leave your thoughts on the book or the author. Each commenter will be entered for a chance to win a prize of a $20 Amazon gift card that Dawn will provide on a random draw at the end of her tour.
And, if you still have questions about Dawn - head over to her website at www.dawnbrown.org
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SABRES RECALL LIEUWEN FROM ROCHESTERby Staff Writer / Buffalo Sabres
|Nathan Lieuwen
The Buffalo Sabres today announced the team has recalled goaltender Nathan Lieuwen from the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL) on an emergency basis. Lieuwen will wear number 50 when Buffalo hosts Montreal tonight at First Niagara Center.
Lieuwen (8/8/91, 6'5", 186 lbs) joins the Sabres for his first career recall since being drafted by Buffalo in the sixth round (167th overall) of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. The 22-year-old Lieuwen has a record of 17-11-2 in 32 games with the Amerks this season, including a pair of shutouts. Lieuwen is also among the AHL leaders in both save% (.922) and GAA (2.34).
Lieuwen spent the majority of his first pro season in 2012-13 playing with the ECHL's Greenville Road Warriors, where he finished 14-10-2 in 27 games. Lieuwen also saw action in four games for Rochester last season, going 1-2-0 with one shutout.
The Abbotsford, BC-native signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Sabres back on May 5, 2012.


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'Vampire Diaries' Creator: Elena's Season 4 Journey 'Won't Be Easy'
Kevin Williamson gives HollywoodLife.com the scoop on Elena's new life. Watch our exclusive video interview!
The third season finale of The Vampire Diaries was a mind screw from beginning to end, and creator Kevin Williamson promises it's only going to get crazier from here. "It's not going to be easy," he told HollywoodLife.com about Elena's (Nina Dobrev) new life as a vampire when we caught up with him June 14 at the Young Hollywood Awards. "It's going to be very emotional."
"I'm loving the journey that the writers are creating for her," he added. I think [executive producer] Julie Plec and the writers are doing a great job."
OK, so we know our favorite little doppelganger is going to have a rough time as a vampire — but how will it affect the ever-shifting love triangle between her and the Salvatores?
"It's really going to open up both relationships between Stefan [Paul Wesley] and Damon [Ian Somerhalder] in a brand-new way," Kevin said. "Her relationship with each of them now takes on a whole new dichotomy. … And more importantly, [we'll see] how it changes things between Stefan and Damon."
Is it October yet? I'm dying to see how everything plays out!
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SAO PAULO — Roger Federer says he won't play as often in the next few years but wants to compete in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The 31-year-old Swiss star intends to be more mindful about the tournaments he plays to make sure he can keep playing at a high level.
"I have to make sure that I take care of my schedule, of my body, of my mind," he said Thursday. "Hopefully, I can still stay on tour for many more years and hopefully play the Olympics here in three and a half years or so, so I have to look far ahead and not just the next six months."
The winner of 17 Grand Slams is in Sao Paulo for exhibition matches involving Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, Serena Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tommy Robredo, Tommy Haas and Thomaz Bellucci. The Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, are also participating. Federer plays Bellucci, Brazil's top-ranked player, on Thursday.
Federer has competed in four Olympics, winning a doubles gold in 2008 and a singles silver this year. He would love to make it to the Rio Games.
"There is a lot of passion for sports here," he said. "It's a hot place to play tennis right now."
Federer, who ended the season ranked No. 2, said this year was difficult because of additional commitments that kept him from practice and his family.
"I've played a lot of tennis. It's been a big challenge, especially with the Olympics and the Davis Cup this year," he said. "I found my way back to world No. 1 and it took a lot of sacrifices. I'd like to be home a little bit more often and in a relaxed fashion."
Still, he said it was a rewarding season.
"I'm very happy that I'm still playing at a very high level," said Federer, who won six titles this year, including Wimbledon. "I had one of my best years on tour this year, and one of the most emotional ones, of course. Next year tournament victories will probably be more important than the rankings, that's why I need to make sure I practice a lot next year."
Federer played 19 tournaments in 2012, two more than top-ranked Novak Djokovic. No. 3 Andy Murray also played 19 and Rafael Nadal, nursing a knee injury, played only 11.
"I'm not going to play 25 tournaments, but every tournament that I will be playing I'll be emotionally attached to it because I either won there before or because I've been there many times or because I love the city or the country and the fans," he said. "Today I've reached a point in my life that I can pick and choose where I want to play and how much I want to play."
One of the tournaments he left off his 2013 schedule was Miami, the Masters event in March he has played since 1999 and won twice.
"Miami was a tough decision for me," he said. "But I have to take some time off, first of all, but most importantly, I need to practice. This year I couldn't practice at all. Something had to go in the calendar and that was Miami, unfortunately."
Federer said he thinks he will need two Grand Slams and five to eight titles in other tournaments to get back to No. 1.
"It's difficult," he said. "But I'm happy to set that challenge and I'll give everything I have."
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By Pat Jordan
He was physically a man at 13 -- big -- 6-foot-2, 185 pounds. In all other ways, he was a child. He has lived a child's fantasy life for 38 years. His older brother, James, said he always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, like Zelig. "He had such a charmed life," said James. "When he played at Oakland, I said, This is as good as it gets. Then he signs with the Red Sox, and they win a World Series, and I knew, That's as good as it gets. [Then] he signs with the best franchise in sports, and I keep waiting for the good times to stop. But they never do."
Johnny Damon was a major league baseball player for 18 years. He won a World Series with the Red Sox in 2004 and another one with the Yankees in 2009, which is why he once said, "Being a baseball player is so great." He said the game "was fun," and winning championships was even more "fun." He learned how to have "fun" with the A's and then taught his teammates with the Red Sox and Yankees how to have "fun." His concept of "fun" was mostly that of a young boy. "I could buy different toys," he said. "Jet Skis, boats, motorcycles, all the stuff that baseball affords you the privilege to buy." His first wife, Angie Vannice, explained that her husband "plays better when he's buying things. He likes to shop more than anybody."
He also liked to play childish pranks. He dropped water balloons from the upper floor of hotels on passing pedestrians below. He and his teammates held down other teammates and poured ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard all over their clean uniforms, which he thought was hilarious. In the clubhouse he performed pull-ups naked, his penis dangling in his teammates' faces. He liked to "party" after games with his teammates, drink booze, smoke pot. He collected women as if they too were toys. Some might say that his sense of "adult fun" was a lot like his sense of childlike fun.
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In early March, I met Johnny Damon for breakfast at an IHOP near Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., where Johnny has lived most of his life. The restaurant was packed, yet no one seemed to recognize Damon. He said that was because people in Orlando respect his privacy, but no one even glanced his way. Maybe it was because his black hair was cut short, and his face was clean-shaven. For years, Damon's trademark was his wildly flowing hair and scruffy beard, along with his broad, vaguely Eurasian, slanting cheekbones and eyes. (His mother was Thai, his father an American serviceman.) He resembles Drogo, the Kahl of Dothraki on Game Of Thrones. He always had Drogo's muscular body, too, which he liked to flash in tight T-shirts and shorts, just like he was dressed this morning. Damon calls his biceps "my guns" -- without irony -- and says that fans loved his "long, flowing hair, chicks digging it. Hey, what can I say? I'm blessed with good hair … [my] Samson thing. My hair is my strength."
Damon, at 40 years old, had nary a white hair in his coal black mane on this morning. His broad, handsome face was as unlined as it had been in his 20s. His body looked as buff as it had been in his 20s, too, when he played the game with a youthful, reckless abandon, certain that nothing bad could ever happen to him. His fans loved the way he crashed into the centerfield wall to rob hitters of doubles, the way he stole second base with his hair flying behind him. "I did stuff I shouldn't have," he said. Damon speaks softly, hesitantly, searching for his words. "I crashed into walls. I never worried about getting hurt."
He still looks like the same man who "partied" with his teammates all night long after each glorious victory. When Damon signed with the Yankees and learned that Alex Rodriguez worked out every morning at six, Damon told the press that there were a lot of mornings "when I might not have been in at six in the morning." Damon thought that "partying" would never end, but it did. He hasn't partied with teammates in two years. He hasn't played a game in two years, since the Cleveland Indians released him after three months of the 2012 season. Damon's agent, Scott Boras, who once demanded an $85 million contract for Damon, now offered him around both leagues. "One team offered me $50,000 to teach their minor league players how to run bases," said Damon. "Come on! $50,000 for eight months! I won't beg for a job." Which is not quite true. He begged the Yankees for a job last year, when Curtis Granderson got hurt. He told the Yankees, who once paid him $13 million a year, that he would play for the league minimum until Granderson returned. The Yankees didn't want him at any price. "I wasted two years waiting for a call," Damon said. "Now I don't expect one."
It confused Damon, embittering him. The Yankees signed Nick Johnson, who had a reputation for always being hurt, and not Damon, who always played hurt. "And then of course, Johnson got hurt," Damon said. "I woulda been perfect for Tampa, too. I played for the Rays in 2011, and it was fun. Guys kicked a soccer ball in the clubhouse and did cartwheels. On road trips, I cut the sleeves of my shirt to show my guns. But then the Rays messed up and signed Luke Scott instead of me." I asked him who Luke Scott was. "Exactly! Baltimore released him. He's a guy who hits a few home runs when they don't count. I could still play 120 games. Maybe not nine innings, but I could gas it up for six innings and be as good as anybody." If he had only played the last two years, he said, "I woulda got my numbers up, maybe 30 doubles a year, 100 runs scored. Then I woulda' been on the fence for the Hall of Fame. But, hey, a lot of brilliant players aren't in the Hall. Gibson, Mattingly."
"It's not like I need another job," he said. "But you want to keep playing, not just keep taking money out all the time." Damon's pleasures were never cerebral. He joked that the only magazine he ever read was Playboy, and he really just looked at the pictures. His satisfactions were always physical, both at the ballpark and away from it. Baseball, volleyball, jet skiing, women. He missed that regular physical activity of baseball. But even more than that, he missed the simplistic order of the baseball life, the routine that never changes. The pleasures of batting practice, when you could "show your balls, to try to show how much of a man you are" by hitting the ball into the seats. The endless, repetitive card games at the long table in the clubhouse. He had new friends now, who never played in the majors. "I tell them, 'Come on, guys, let's go play cards,'" he said. "But they don't want to." His new friends' lives were, like his, filled with mundane activities. "There's no set schedule in my life anymore," he said. "There's always these little things to do. Pay the insurance. Close on a house. Have a business meeting. Take the kids to school."
When he was a player, Damon said, he couldn't wait to go on the road after an argument with his first wife. They were such trivial arguments, like the time she asked him to go with her to pick out furniture. "I bust my butt playing baseball," he said, and he wanted to "go surfing, fishing, boating. I wanted to live, have fun, not pick out furniture." That's why, he said, most players never wanted the season to end. "They didn't want to start to carpool." They wanted to play baseball and have "fun," like the time they were scheduled to visit the Playboy Mansion, but it got cancelled because of the 9/11 attacks. He admitted that "complaining about not getting to go to the Playboy Mansion sounds ridiculous."
The game has always been an escape from real life for ballplayers, which is why so many dread leaving the game. The game offers a kind of constant certitude; wins and losses are fathomable in a way that real life's problems aren't. Real life's problems aren't clearly defined and don't ever seem to get resolved. They linger, frustratingly. After baseball, nothing in real life will ever be as completely, simply and viscerally gratifying.
When Damon was still playing, he once said, "When I retire, what I want most out of the game is for teammates to call me up, wanting to get together and do things." But now that he was away from the game, his teammates didn't call. He brushed it off, saying, "If it was a big thing, I'd hang out at the park with the guys. The players love to see me. They miss me. They can't believe I'm still not playing. But I'm OK with it. I thought about going to spring training games, but there's really no reason. It would be a shit storm, people coming up to me, Why aren't you still playing? I find it tough to watch games now, not because I don't like it, but because I don't have ties to it." Damon had nothing in common with former teammates who were still playing. They were still living in that childhood fantasy, and Damon would remind them of the real world awaiting them after it's over. Maybe that's why he still held out hope that some team might call him mid-season to pick up a bat again. That's why, after two years, he still had not officially retired from the game. He just floated around in limbo, waiting …
It ate at Damon. He formulated conspiracy theories in his mind, grasping at straws. He'd been blackballed. "Why?" he asked. "My managers, coaches, players always loved playing with me. Even the press liked me, 'cause I always respected the job they had to do. I gave them my time while other players avoided them. They didn't want to be held … what's the word?" I told him. "Yeah, that's it. Accountable."
Back when he was playing, Damon had once said, "Reporters' questions are mostly negative. The press tends to have bad things to say." That's why it was harder for him to play in New York than in Boston: "The Yankees have a lot more newspapers not to read than [the Red Sox] do."
Finally, Damon broached a possible reason why he might be getting blackballed, though it wasn't easy for me to wrap my mind around his logic. He explained, "I mean, guys who were busted for performance-enhancing drugs are still playing with big contracts. Guys like me who have always been clean are sitting at home. For me to get a job again, I'd have to cheat, get my testosterone up so I can have a chance." Damon said that he refused to cheat, because he wanted to be remembered for playing the game "clean." Damon's first wife, Angie, whom he trashed as a nag in his autobiography Idiot, hinted to reporters that maybe her husband wasn't as "clean" as he claimed. She said that his body and personality began to change in 2002, when he became obsessed with putting on muscle fast. She said, "It's all about him, his haircut, his facial hair, [his body]."
During his playing days, Damon was not critical of teammates like Jason Giambi who took PEDs. In Idiot, Damon wrote that, "the character assassination [Giambi was] undergoing … hurts me, because he's the kind of guy who'd never do anything to hurt anyone." Damon claimed that he was not the kind of guy "who looks at guys who take steroids as cheaters" -- especially Giambi, because "I love him like a brother." Giambi had taken the younger Damon under his wing when Damon arrived with the A's in 2001, teaching him to "party" like a major leaguer should. Damon had almost worshipped Giambi, "his long hair" and his "rock star status." In his first spring training with Oakland in Phoenix, Damon, still married, couldn't believe all the girls flocking around him because of his long hair, and he "decided there no longer was any reason not to go out and have some fun."
Under Giambi's leadership, the A's clubhouse "was like a frat house," wrote Damon. "We played hard on the field and harder off it," he continued, adding that the A's were "cra-zee." Giambi ruled the clubhouse "and took us to dinner … and made sure we had a drink in front of us. He was a tough guy who loved life." Damon "was in awe" of Giambi's lifestyle, his tattoos, his old Porsche, his Lamborghini, his motorcycle, his boat, his full-length mink coat. Other teammates impressed him, too. Eric Chavez was "Mr. Smooth … the way he wore his pants," and Barry Zito had his Zen mysticism and cool hipster lingo. Even the manager, Art Howe, impressed Damon with the way he handled criticism of his players' nighttime peccadilloes. Howe told the press that he'd discipline his players only if they both "messed around at night" and "don't get the job done" on the field.
When Damon signed a $38 million, four-year contract with the Red Sox, after only one year with the A's, he was shocked at the sour attitude of his new teammates, a miserable bunch of guys. One player told him he should have stayed in Oakland. Damon wrote, "No one was having fun. No one wanted to grab dinner. I couldn't believe it." The players went back to their hotel rooms after a game and ordered room service. In Oakland, he wrote, "15 or 20 of us had gone out together … to have a good time. We weren't trying to hide from anyone." So Damon stepped into the role Giambi had served with the A's. He talked a few players into going out to dinner with him, then to clubs. When they hesitated, he told them, "You're major league ballplayers. They expect us to show everyone a good time."
By the time the Red Sox had clinched a wild-card spot in 2003 at Fenway Park, Damon was leading his teammates out onto the street in their uniforms and into bars, where they celebrated with worshipping fans who "were going nuts. It was pretty wild." Within a few short years, the Red Sox' team persona had made a 180-degree pivot, from sullen hermits sitting alone in their hotel rooms to wild men: cowboys and idiots. Damon was proud of his accomplishments with the Red Sox, and not only because he had helped win the team's first World Series in 86 years in 2004. He was also proud to have taught them to party like major league players were supposed to, "to go out and have fun."
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After breakfast, Damon and I got into his big SUV and drove out to his house in Windemere, a wealthy suburb of Orlando. He had stopped talking now, as if his attention span had just reached its limit. I tried to nudge him out of his silence with a funny story about Buck Showalter. Damon did not laugh. He was too busy texting on his iPhone. Then, belatedly, he looked up and gave me a weak grin. Damon was not an easy person to talk to, except when he had something he wanted to say. I asked him to talk about his childhood while we drove. That seemed less stressful, so while he drove and texted, he told me how he'd grown up.
His parents had gotten married in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. His older brother James was born in Thailand, and then Johnny was born in the U.S. Eventually, the family settled in the Orlando area, after his father left the service. His father was a big man, 6-foot-2, 285 pounds. "He was a hard man until he stopped drinking and smoking," Damon said, "and then he softened and just watched his TV shows. He didn't work much, was never an athlete." His father let his son grow up without much supervision. If Damon fell and hurt himself, his father didn't comfort him. When he smoked pot as a 12-year-old, his father told him that he'd smoked pot, too, so who was he to tell his son not to do it? His father's only admonition about schoolwork was, "Just don't get D's and F's, and you'll be fine."
By the time Damon was in eighth grade, he was a big, handsome kid whose only ambition was to smoke pot and chase girls. The following year, as a freshman in high school, he met Angie Vannice, a sophomore who "wowed" him, he wrote in his book. "We hung out and did a lot of things together." One of the things Damon and Vannice apparently did not do was talk a lot. Damon distrusted talk, having had a debilitating stutter as a child. Even now, at age 40, he made a point of talking slowly, pausing for a long moment before he answered each question, putting all his ducks in a row before he spoke. "I thought too much as a kid," he said. "I'd talk without knowing what I was saying. I had to learn to slow my words down." Years later, when Damon and Angie argued a lot, she wanted to talk things out. He didn't.
Damon was the starting centerfielder as a freshman on his high school baseball team. By his senior year, he was considered one of the best amateur players in the country. The Kansas City Royals drafted him in the first round and gave him a $250,000 bonus. He played half a season of rookie ball and then came home and got engaged to Angie. They were married when he was 19. A mistake, he says now, because he didn't realize what he was giving up in his baseball life at the time. All those women who were attracted to the exotic good looks of a young man who "loved women."
I asked Damon if he'd ever visited Thailand, his mother's birthplace. He said he had, with his mother, seven years before. "A lot of Thais knew about me," he said. "I did some clinics. The people were very laid back, hard workers, respectful. Maybe that's where I got it from." When Damon was out of baseball in 2013, he returned to Thailand to play on its national baseball team in the World Baseball Classic. "I just wanted to leave baseball on a positive note," he said, "if this was the end." When Damon went to his first practice with the Thai team, he said, he looked around and thought, "What have I got myself into? The infield grass was two feet high. There were big snakes. The Thais were tiny and not very strong. But it was a great experience. I was like a baseball ambassador."
When we reached Windemere, we drove down a narrow street bordered on either side by old growth, Florida trees and Spanish Moss that blocked out the sun. Damon turned right into his driveway. Looming ahead was his huge, Gothic stone mansion, with a circular turret like the castle of Westeros. We drove under an archway and parked close to the kitchen door. There were about eight bikes in a rack by the door. "For the kids who come to play with my kids," Damon said. He has high-school-age twins with Vannice -- a boy and a girl. He has four younger girls, including another set of twins, with his second wife, Michelle Mangan, who is something of a beauty queen. Damon called Mangan a "wild woman, very passionate, very much in love with me, a great cook and a great mother." Vannice called Mangan "a home wrecker." Damon said that, for all intents and purposes, his marriage to Angie was already over when he met Mangan.
Damon's older brother said that Mangan "seemed to like to party a lot." She was Damon's co-conspirator when they dropped water balloons on pedestrians from a high floor of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston. When confronted by the hotel staff, Mangan said, "It couldn't be us. I was having sex with my fiancé." Once Damon was divorced and engaged to marry Mangan, she got into a verbal catfight with Shonda Schilling, wife of Damon's teammate Curt Schilling. It seemed that Mangan had taunted Shonda by flashing an eight-carat diamond engagement ring in her face. Asked about the incident, Damon said that "Shonda was not a very nice lady," and if you were married to Curt, "you wouldn't be, either."
Damon and Mangan were married in 2004. "She was awesome, like a five-tool player," Damon said. He wanted to have more kids, but she was terrified of the pain of childbirth. Finally, around 2006, Damon began telling everyone that he planned to "knock up" Mangan soon. In 2007, they had their first daughter. By that point, Mangan had begun a metrosexual makeover of her husband, who up until then had dressed like a surfer dude. She got him to start wearing designer suits and convinced him to appear on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. When I asked Damon about his experience on that show, fluttered over by a host of gay fashionistas, he said, "It was a fun show, but I wasn't at my best. I'd gotten bitten by a black widow." I said, "A woman?" He did not laugh. "No, a black widow spider," he said. "I'd gotten bitten in spring training with the Red Sox, when I was chasing an alligator barefoot. My lymph nodes got huge. I spent two days in a hospital, so I couldn't partake of the show as much as I would have liked." How did he get along with the guys on the show? "Obviously, they wanted me as their boyfriend," he said. "Gay guys like my look, my hair and muscles, but I made sure they kept their distance."
We went inside the mansion into a huge kitchen, which led to a living room the size of a banquet hall in Westeros. There were big flat-screen TVs, a massive bar and barbecue, an arcade room, a wrestling mat, a ping-pong table and a painting that mimicked Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" -- Damon takes the part of Christ, and his Red Sox teammates are the 12 disciples. (In Boston, Damon's teammates and fans used to chant, "WWJDD. What Would Johnny Damon Do?") We went through sliding glass doors outside. His five-acre backyard spread out before us like a fantasy playground or amusement park. Tennis court, volleyball net, basketball court, tree house, rock pool, golf-putting course, jungle gym, tiki hut.
Damon's amusement-park house and backyard is not only for his kids. It's mostly for him. When he charitably let a young teammate and his family live with him until they found their own digs, he said he did it because "now I had someone to play ping-pong with." Just a few days before I arrived, he said, he and a friend had "played volleyball for hours while we drank 60 beers." Not 59 or 61. Sixty. I said that it must be hard to teach his kids about life in the real world, when they have such a fantasy amusement park to play in. He said, "Oh, I make them help me out here. When Michelle and I are out on the deck at night, I make my kids go get our margaritas."
He led me to a wooden walkway, past sea grass and tall cedar trees, out to the deck overlooking one of the Butler Chain of Lakes. It was a beautiful setting to sip a drink at night with his wife, while the moon shimmered off the waters. Mostly, Damon loved it because he could go kayaking, jet-skiing, water skiing and fishing on the lake. I looked at the water and said to Damon, "Are there alligators?" He said yes, but his yard was fenced off, so it was alligator-proof. We stood out on the deck for a few minutes, admiring the view, while Damon texted on his iPhone. When he was finished, we walked back across the wooden walkway, past the sea grass and cedar trees, and emerged into the sunshine of his amusement-park backyard.
Damon said, "This is my lifestyle. I certainly never had anything like this when I was a child. But this is what I always wanted to be. A kid. I always wanted to stay young at heart." He looked at me, with my white hair and white beard, and said, "Nobody wants to grow old." I remembered the movie Big, starring Tom Hanks as a 12-year-old boy who longed to be a grownup. When his wish was granted, and he became a 30-year-old, his life was not so wonderful as he thought it would be. All those adult "real world" problems that never really seem to get resolved. Damon was a grownup who always wanted to be a boy and still does. His wish was granted for 38 years, until two years ago.
Late in the afternoon, Damon drove me back to my hotel. While he texted, I asked him what he was doing to make money now that he was (unofficially) retired. "I always wanted to run a company," he said. "Or be on a reality TV show. I'm going up to New York City tomorrow to audition for Donald Trump's Apprentice." He said that he and his wife would stay in a Trump Hotel with the other actors, Vivica Fox, Geraldo Rivera and Kate Gosselin. Then he added proudly, "I've matured enough to know how to dress in New York now." Damon said that appearing on Apprentice would be free advertizing for his other companies. He's involved in the kind of businesses that attract many retired athletes, propositions that require little from them other than a name and a face -- no talent, no business acumen, no hard work, no creative ideas. Nothing but their fame and ability to be amiable in front of an audience. He has a small stake in an energy-drink company ("so kids won't die of heat exhaustion during summer football practice in Orlando") and a small piece of a muscle-tape company. Kinesio muscle tape was invented in the '70s by a Japanese chiropractor and is quite the rage among some athletes. Michelle Wie wore it on her calf when she won the U.S. Women's Open recently. It's supposed to alleviate pain, reduce inflammation and relax muscles, enhancing an athlete's performance or rehabilitation. Some medical journals say that it's not clear yet if the tape is anything more than a placebo. Still, its slashing, multi-colored stripes look smashing on an athlete's bare arms and legs, like a colorful tattoo.
Damon pulled up in front of the hotel entrance and left the motor running. It was obvious he'd had enough of talking. Damon seems curiously absent from his own conversations, but it's hard not to like him. He is so purely what he is, like an affectionate puppy, an innocent child. We got out and sat on a bench across from the hotel entrance, in the late afternoon sun. I lit a cigar; Damon texted on his iPhone. I asked him again why he thought no team would sign him. He said again that he couldn't understand it. "My teammates loved me," he said. "I did cool things for them. I was unselfish. I never worried about my stats. I always helped guys who hit behind me. I took a lot of pitches, fouled off balls to tire the pitcher out for them. I always played hard to help the team win."
When he played for the Royals from 1995-2000, Damon said, he did whatever the team asked of him. When the Royals brought up Carlos Beltran and wanted him to play centerfield, Damon's position, he selflessly moved over to leftfield. The next year, at contract time, the Royals told him they could no longer pay him the higher rate of a centerfielder, now that he was a leftfielder. "Naturally, that year Beltran got hurt," said Damon, "and I moved back to center. When it was time to sign a new contract in 2000, I told them I wanted centerfield money, and they traded me to Oakland."
In Oakland, he learned how to be a great teammate off the field as well as on the field. He learned to foster team camaraderie after the game at night in restaurants, bars and clubs. "I knew how to get the best out of people," Damon said. "But times have changed today." Many teams now frown on their high-priced players hanging together after a game. "When I was playing," he said, "I always took the young guys out after a game to have a good time. I felt the kids had a good time hanging out with me, shooting pool, having dinner, whatever. I saw nothing wrong with that. I was just teaching them to have a good time. I taught young kids how to drink like a major leaguer. If they got pounded on a few beers, I told them they needed to practice more in the offseason. But some organizations don't want their players out partying for hours after a game. They worry they might get in trouble. But hey, I'm not a robot, I'm gonna enjoy being a player."
He went silent for a moment, as if a new thought had crossed his brow. Finally, he said, "I guess teams worried that my partying was a bad influence with young players."
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Pat Jordan is a freelance writer living in Abbeville, S.C. He is the author of A False Spring and 10 other books, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, GQ, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal and many others.


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Coach, WBU player traveling with Athletes in Action
As the son of two coaches, Ty Harrelson admits his life pretty much revolves around basketball. As a junior point guard at Wayland Baptist University, Harrelson's talents on the court played an important role in the team's successful season.
Now, those talents will take Harrelson even further, as he spends a portion of his summer in Costa Rica and Mexico with Athletes in Action, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ.
The trip begins in June with five days of training in Cincinnati, Ohio, before leaving for the foreign destinations. Harrelson will be a member of a basketball team that will be competing against national and professional teams in those countries in exhibition games and at various events.
When they're not competing, the team members will share their Christian testimonies at games, lead basketball clinics for children and do other service projects that give them a chance to share the Gospel. Harrelson is excited about the opportunity to use his talents for God's glory.
"This is a way I can relate to people and share my Christian faith through basketball," he said. "I feel like God's called me to do this."
Harrelson said he recalls watching an AIA team play as a child and remembers what an influence that experience was on his life. When an AIA representative who was friends with head coach Todd Thurman came to the campus, his hopes of traveling with the evangelistic group came closer to reality.
"I'm excited about him going," Thurman said. "Ty's one of our leaders. If he comes back with just the excitement and feeding of his faith, it'll strengthen the team, too."
Like most AIA volunteers, Harrelson must raise his own funds in order to make the trip. His total goal is $3,000, which will cover travel, equipment, daily expenses, insurance and other ministry materials.
Thurman will be on the road this summer as well, spending two weeks in Spain coaching an AIA team of adults and European professional players. It'll be the second such venture for Thurman, who toured several years back with AIA to Croatia and Switzerland.
"It's very uplifting. It refuels you and encourages you in your walk," he said. "It's just a positive experience all around."
Thurman said there are definite challenges in leading a team he hasn't even met yet and trying to implement a game system within a week. But he said the experience is beneficial to him as well.
"Anytime you have the opportunity to coach a team you have to organize quickly and try to develop unity, it helps you in your career," he said.
Thurman speaks highly of the AIA experience and said he's encouraged many of his players over the years to pursue touring with the group. He said getting to interact with people and share his relationship with Christ is the highlight of the trip.
Anyone wishing to donate to either Harrelson or Thurman's AIA trips may contact Thurman at 291-1147. All donations to AIA are tax-deductible.


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Posted by Dave Xnet on January 16, 2004
Hello, there was a question in my son's homework
that got me thinking. It's about the city mouse and
the country mouse. The city mouse visits the country mouse at the farm, and the country mouse offers him
seeds to eat, and some straw to sleep on.
But the city mouse complains, asks the country mouse
to visit him a *his* home. There, they eat human
scraps, and sleep in comfort on soft rags. But while
there, they get attacked by the family cat, and the
country mouse is almost caught. He survives, but
announces that he's leaving immediately - "it's better
to eat seeds in a safe place, than to eat cake where
there is danger"
This sentiment reminds me of a proverb or popular
saying, but I can't place it -
any thoughts appreciated.


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