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Last chance to nominate someone special in your life…
For those who have not yet heard, MLB and People Magazine have teamed up for the PEOPLE All-Stars Among Us program for the second year in a row. This Friday is the deadline and thousands of submissions are pouring in for everyday people who go above and beyond in their community.
Maybe they mentored disadvantaged children, cared for abandoned pets or started a community garden. You tell us! You can even nominate yourself.
A total of 30 everyday All-Stars (one representing each MLB team) will be honored at the 2010 MLB All-Star Game in Anaheim on July 13 and one will be featured in PEOPLE magazine.
Take a few minutes and think about the people in your life who make an impact in other people's lives. You'll be glad you did (and so will they!)
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All Dodger fans are special for putting up with Frank and Ned for all these years!!!
I am all for Bear :))
I nominate messagebear for "service to the community" for continuing to support Frank selling the team.
I second that nomination!
LOL tru! The last homestand really put us Dodger fans thru some tough tests. I texted back to the number flashed on the Diamond vision "Charlie Haeger is hindering the enjoyment of the game." In the sport sectionof the LA Times, Morning Briefing (last paragraph), I noticed someone else texted the same thing.
I think it was "action beyond the call of duty" that had Jaime fired by Frank.
I hope edwin jackson doesn't have anything to prove to the Dodgers tonight. Our first sweep would be sweet
Since 2005, I've been attending road trips to San Diego and four of those years I've been part of a group. This is the first year that the Padres are saying "nothing with Dodgers in the name when it flashes on the screen" Thi is BS. I am part of a group of 60 and I know the Dodgers Booster club will have a group of 150 there.
Also they are giving out "Beat LA" t-shirts Saturday. Last year it was "Beat LA" towels. I know that like last year, there will be Dodger fans "altering" the words.
Kershaw should be pitching Saturday and Billz on Sunday.
Is Torre managing the bullpen in Washington to? There this guy the Yankees gave up and he's 7-1. He just picked up the win today but however that guy pitch last night after he blew the game and gave up 3 runs on 4 hits in 1/3 of an inning. Clippard has 5 blown saves on the year but honestly it should be 2. In those 5 blown saves he's 4-1.
If you look at the blown save categories they probably think Clippard can't keep a lead but when you have a 1 run lead and the starter give up 2 hits and a walk and get taken out you're going to get screw. If you get a dp at home and 1st and than get another grounded that one on the infielder booted it for an error than the scored would be tied and than you get a cheap blown save that wasn't really you fault because you did your job and the fielder just blew it. There was time when Gagne had to pitch more than 1 inning and you just had a bad feeling Gagne streak was going to end soon. I would hate to have something like that happen to him. I don't like when closer have to come into the 8th innings and have to get 4 outs.
The Cubs has 5 in the top 10 in ba and they?re holding the 5th and 8th spots. Loney in between 2 Cubs players and ranked 9th. Manny would need a lot more PA to be in the top 10. Freeze and Pujols has ranked 11 and 12. lol NL Central is well represent.
From "Chat with Tony Jackson" on ESPNLosAngeles.com
"Earl, I have it on good authority (NOT from Colletti, from others) that if anything, Ned UNDERSTATED the issues with Kemp. This kid is really full of himself, to the point that it is becoming an issue in the clubhouse. I'm not saying they WILL trade him. I still think there is less than a 50-percent chance that they will. I'm just saying that if they do trade one of their core young players, he probably will be the one, not only because of these issues but also because he would have the most value.
Wow, Revolt, very interesting reading. I had to read all of the questions for Tony.
Wow Hoffman just look terrible this year.
Go figure all those runs that the Brewers had against us they should had used them on the Braves.
lol Philles stealing signs. I wonder what Phan have to say about this one?
Phillies made this one to and that would hurt if they have to move.
Personally, regarding whatever Kemp is supposed to be, I'll reserve judgement for a while. Mainly because I don't trust the media to tell the truth. They usually spend most of their time sucking up. Did you notice that there was not one critical word about McCourt, Colletti, Mannion, Torre, Honeycutt? Lots of bad stuff about Kemp though. Even Kershaw and Billingsley were slammed for being too stubborn to take suggestions.
The way that Q & A session reads, Jackson's "sources" are a couple of coaches that he is pals with. And no one on that coaching staff has been too impressive to me.
Hi Everybody
Great game last night everything went our way and it looks like we found ourselves a pitcher.
The only thing left to do against one of our former pitchers is to sweep.
I agree with your assessment, Dodgereric. I wasn't thinking that way when I first read it but, now, what you say makes a lot of sense.
I felt like an idiot who's Mannion?
Dennis Mannion is the – I'm guessing – the CEO?? He reminds me of that bean-counter that the Black Widow Georgia Frontandrearie hired to ruin the LA Rams.
Yep, CEO. It doesn't say it here, but I'm thinking he is Jamie's replacement:
Oh ok
Blake must had made a good catch in the stand and Jackson was awarded 2nd bases for that.
So the Mtes first baseman Ike Davis has nothing on our third base Casey Blake.
That s/b Mets.
Kuroda looked a little wild to the first couple of hitters, but now he's really dealing. Those were some nasty strikes he just threw.
'DRE what else to say..
Alright DRE!!! He puts another one away!!! The K & E boys strike again!!
IIIIIIII…………… MISSED IT!!!! I just walked in from work/school, I knew Andre was up to bat because tru had told me, and I knew the moment my phone went nuts, Andre did it again!!!! Thank goodness for highlight videos :))
Lets do it Manny!
I posted in real time . . . . I don't get it.
All I can say is that's what they get for walking 'Dre to get to Manny – WOW!!
Kuroda was hit hard in the 4th.
WooHoo!!! Andre has truely reached the pinnacle. Intentionally walked to get to Manny. Wow!!! Way to mak'em pay Manny!!! Hey Collie, I also felt a bit sad for Edwin. He was a victom of the crappy Arizona bullpen in this case.
Time warped again. Sigh!!!
Way to go Matt….rbi for you!
Good Job Jamie and Matt!!!!!
Alright MATTY!!!!! Great At Bat!!
I guess we can't expect a homerun everytime Dre comes up to bat. LOL!!!!!
I hope Kuroda settles down this inning.
Look like Manny had a rare k's and he was like something 13/3 in bb/k ratio before the game.
lol Carroll is a walking machine as of lately.
I'll take that back his last walk was May 5 until tonight
Come on Matty! Blow it open here!!
We need to get in the dback bullpen the scored is too close lol.
Well, what do you know………………….Andre gets the IBB to get to Manny. Alright Andre!!!!!!!
Ouch Kemp
Come on Manny!!!!!!!!
Holy Crap they ibb Ethier they scare biw
Alright Manny!!!!!!!!!! Do that to Andre and Manny comes back to bite the snakes in the asssss!!!
Holy Crap they ibb Ethier they scare now
I'm disappointed that it wasn't a GS but this place is awesome. You have to really give it a drive.
It's rare I feel sorry for the other teams pitcher but watching Jackson walk realllllly slowly off the field I felt sorry for him.
Holy crap we produced with the bases loaded we was hitting around .210+
All right Jonathan!
We was the 6th worst team with the bases loaded so we was dued. It not hard to figure those categories out. The 5 is hits 2 GS homeruns and so on.
Los Angeles Dodgers .217 30 5 2 1 0 23 0 .300 .522
Wow Manny was like 1/10 coming into the game vs Jackson to.
Collie – I watched the dbacks post game show after the game. The manager just was beside himself saying how pathetic the bullpen wa last night and has been. So, I can only imagine what tonight's conversation will be like.
Thank you Manny!!! What a lineup!!!!!
Would this be the night that Torre let Kuroda get the CG if Ryal doesn't PH and we all know what happen?
Let's kill that bullpen again tonight.
Well 1 for 12 since his 2nd career hit off of Jackson.
I do remember reading this on here earlier in the week, but I thought you were all joking. Ortiz is starting on Friday? Oh boy!!!
5-2 Padres hard to root for the Giants at this points but I'd rather we sweep the dback and it look good and the Padres sweep them and we sweep the Padres.
I am with you on that Shad. I rather have the gnats get swept and catch up to them first.
I wish we was joking Nelly but it's truth.
Oh since we have a day off no CG tonight and let's see if he can finish the 8th.
The 4th time KURODA has pitched at least 7 innings… 7.1.
Another great outing by Kuroda!!!
Has anyone seen bpb3 aka Crash?
Nelly — while watching the last 2 games before tonight I felt like the D-Backs were playing the way we played earlier in the season (Basically up to last week). They made errors, didn't execute and their bully was horrible. The D-Backs are a weird team. They seem like they have some really great players and good talent but they just aren't consistent. That and they strike out so much.
However the game isn't over yet.
We need the bully to pull through here tonight.
As I write this Belly walks a batter. You're up by 4 don't put runners on dang it!!
Looks like a good move here bringing in Kuo, Beli didn't look to good.
So we've had some good starting pitching the last few days! Who thinks that will continue Friday night?
i have never understandf how you bring in a new pitcher and he walk the first guy
Than another pitcher hit the first guy.
That's rare for Kuo.
i have never understandf how you bring in a new pitcher and he walk the first guy
By sellthetm on May 12, 2010 10:25 PM
Shad — Neither have I!
So, if our bullpen manages to screw this up, will Joe be just as candid as Hinch last night and tell the media our bullpen was pathetic tonight.
WHEW KUO was wild.
I'm giving Kuo a break there no excuses for bring in a Belisario if he was that cold and is not like he pitch last night. Belisario thrown 5 pitches 1 strike hmm. I'm glad to see Ryal make the last out before he hurt Kuroda again.
I'm having a feeling the dback bullpen going to give us no run.
I knew we score too many runs last night lol.
I miss 1 2 3 innings from Broxton and I hope he's not turning into Blownitez. I miss that former Giants Benitez.
Oh come on dp now.
It sure would be nice if Brox could put his foot down here and shut them down. Don't let them off the ropes Brox!! This is a game that if we win could really help us for the season and put a dent in theirs.
Bring on the Madres!!!!
Alright Brox!!!!!!!!!! Scary, but you did it!!!!!! Thank you Andre, Jamie, Matt and Manny for getting the hits and Hiroki, Kuo and Brox for finishing the dbacks off!!!
Good game tonight. First sweep is always sweet 🙂
…………not to mention winning 4 games in a row for the first time too 🙂
Oh, absolutely, Nelly! And let's tack a few more on in SD, too.
Now we need to sweep the Padres.
See what you did Beliasario? You don't get anything from Nelly for walking the 1st guy lol.
hmmmmm Colllie! Very interesting indeed!!!
Well, he would have if Joe had kept him in longer than two batters – LOL!!!!
I'm thinking Kemp might be seeing a new jersey soon.
I wouldn't be happy with that. Unless Lee was signed to an extension. Manny for him would be ok.
I really hope they can keep the core together. I just don't want to see anyone traded for someone like Arroyo or Harang…
I think he was trying but when you thrown 5 pitches when 1 of them strike that's going to be problem lol.
There was a rumor of Kemp for Fisher/Harang I think I posted that 2 days ago.
I am so sick of all this Kemp bashing. Is it any wonder players won't talk to the jock-sniffing media? Unless we get an attributed, non-anonymous, non-gutless quote, Tony Jackson should keep his pie hole shut about his "good authority." It's all crap…innuendo…gossip. Last time I checked Kobe had a pretty big freaking ego. I don't especially like Kobe but so what? Non story, even if he or Kemp DOES have an inflated sense of self. If I'm facing Tim Lincecum, I'd sure as hell better think I'm a pretty damn good player if I'm going to succeed. Can I vomit now? Long after Ned Colletti (talk about ego!) and his ilk have gone far, far away, Matt Kemp will still be bashing. I only hope the cowardly cancers in the front office don't cause Kemp to do that bashing in NY and/or Ethier in AZ.
Yep Shad, and that is why I didn't list him as a contributor to tonight's win. I figure you at least have to get one guy out.
Collie – it would not be good to see any of the outfielders go at this point. We shouldn't have to be back peddling now to come up with starting pitching. Frank and Ned have known we needed quality pitching since the post season last year, and quite possibly the season before that. Once again, Frank was too busy or too broke to worry about that with all the issues involving his divorce and other non-Dodger events he seems to be more passionate about at the moment.
Also, do you know that Andre is leading the entire MLB in Batting Average, RBIs and SLG%, and he will at least be tied for 2nd in HRs with his 11th (depends on if any of the 5 tied with him hit one tonight too).
lol I wish Loney had Konerko homerun total with 13.
Wow what a series between the Flyers and Bruins. The Bruins were up 3-0 and now tied 3-3. Blackhawks and Sharks going to be a good series.
Stadium Chase Field, Phoenix, AZ
Attendance 22,714 (46.7% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
Ethier Projected are sick. 160 610 125 235 50 0 55 185 60 80 0 0 .385 .444 .738 1.182
Ethier on pace to scored 125 runs, 235 hits, 50 dbl, 55 homeruns, 185 rbi, 60 walks and so on.
Teamed up with Ethier, Manny's got a similar situation to the one in Boston. Pick your poison.
Hello, everybody. No game today so, what can we do for fun?
Well, trublu, for fun, I got to thinking about Ned:
"Ned is a term applied to certain people in Scotland, akin to the term chav in England. The stereotypical view of a ned is a white adolescent male of working class background, who wear brand names, gold jewelry, and engage in hooliganism, petty criminality, loutish behavior, fighting, underage drinking and smoking or general anti-social behavior. They are often assumed to be unemployed."
Wow, works for me….
"Los(e) frank"
Ok we swept the snakes, I appreciate that, but I realize that the padres are real and we play 6 times real soon. We come away winning those series then perhaps we have turned the corner. That means hitting, bullpen, starting pitching, fielding all need to be settled, hey not perfect but just consistently good.
Regarding Matt kemp comments by tony jackson, where there is smoke perhaps it is more than a BBQ, perhaps his new GF has filled his head, regardless, one reason JT was hired was to bring the clubhouse chemistry together (remember Grady little), So if kemp is getting prima donna on us, the team, then a chat is in order, when he plays like willie mays, then he won't need the chat, because I trust is demeanor will be like Mays. Team Chemistry is so important to it success. This year has had enough obstacles in the way of success we don't need one on the field.
Many moons ago Garvey seemed to alienate his teammates with his ego, and Sutton ended up calling him on it, in the shower, of all places. A few punches were thrown and it didn't hinder championship runs. What I despise is the "leaking" of all the gossip and innuendo to the media. Who the hell is running the show? Ned? Frank?…well, certainly not Frank, he's completely checked out to Divorce Court. I can't EVER remember this kind of crap under Campanis or Claire. Even if any of this has a shred of truth, an organization needs to be professional enough to keep this stuff in the clubhouse, not in some hack writer's column.
Kahli- Amen! The media has completely changed since those days, but I agree talking to the media is dangerous. Carlton, koufax and even Manny knows that now. Yea a good team intervention, if warranted, might help. I remember bonds and kent getting in to it in 2001, a struggling team went to the series that year. I like kemp. I hope he likes the dodgers, but I can understand where he wouldn't, in fact, that might be pervasive through out the field mangement. You think JT wants to manage a team that wont go get the pointed piece he needs to go to the WS?
Whoops that was 2002 when that bonds /kent altercation took place.
Thanks for TJ's link. I usually reads his column but had not had a chance to read it before. I was surprised to read what is said about Kemp. The times that I've seen Kemp, he has been nice and friendly to the fans. But I've seen this patttern before where the players are friendly with the fans but not with the media. As long as they contribute on the field, I am OK.
As I mentioned before I will be in San Diego for Sat and SUn games. KCAL is doing the game.
Any ideas on a sign that spells
Kershaw is starting tht game against Correia. Speaking of Correia, my condolences to the Correa family. Kevin Correia's brother fell off a cliff while hiking with his friends, and died.
Has anyone received the next Dodger magazine where Kemp is on the cover? It was at the last homestand but I still do not get it in the mail. I ran into Josh last Saturday and he told me and showed me that I am in the magazine.
You can bet your Ned bobble head that Torre is NOT happy. That's why the "gossip" machine has him leery of signing any kind of extension.
Emma: How about:
thanks! I was thinking of that, only that I put Clayton instead of Casey.
I haven't received my magazine yet either. I did get the Yearbook but not the one with matt on the cover.
Clayton is even better, Emma! Especially since's he's pitching that game!
Meanwhile, I'm still in a revolutionary mode, unless somehow Ramon Ortiz puts in a credible performance as our #5 starter tomorrow.
Wow, Gnats swept at home on a one-hitter. Hope the Pods got winning out of their system. Must be very quiet in the land by the Bay.
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Kahli: Carpetbaggers = Frank + Jamie + Ned
Tru: More to the point! I like it!
Kahli, the Tony Jackson chat piece bothered me as well. Clearly, reporters are supposed to check their sources but since they don't have to reveal them (and in reality probably cannot reveal them for obvious reasons), we are left with unnamed sources not only in the sports world but beyond. But let's ask a question: does Jackson have anything to gain by revealing this information? He specifically eliminated Ned as the source although I believe that can be questioned as well. After all, he wants access to Ned and he certainly won't get it if he "rats" Ned out. He will never name any of his sources for the same reason.
I think I understand your objection: does knowing this make any difference to us, the fans? Has anyone mentioned this before about Kemp? As others have said, he seems to treat the fans o.k. We don't know for sure how he treats his teammates but as fans, all we care about it what happens on the field. Maybe he does not have much use for the media. After all, how would any of us like dealing with the likes of T.J. Simers whose only goal is to get under the skin of his subject, or with other media types whose best question is, "what pitch did you hit for that game winning home run", or "what was your mindset when you went to the plate with the winning run on second base"? It takes a certain maturity to deal with this stuff and maybe Matt does not have that maturity. Does that make him a bad teammate? There are some things we are just not meant to know.
LOL! Tru and Khali. I had to cover my mouth as I am still at work.
If Ortiz bomb he should be gone but knowing Ned he won't do it and might keep him for the rest of this month. The Giants have to played the Padres again on the 17th.
Wow that Ortiz post right on the time and that was my 2nd post but that other post was like 30 mins late.
The Giants should've been sweep in back to back series they got lucky to steal 1 game in NY
Good evening ITD boys and girls!
I know, I know. It's been a long time! Like anything else, I can't stay too long. But hey, did anyone know that they can buy the REAL Field of Dreams???
Nice to see Jim Campanis and one of the news reporter on ch 9 going to the hospital. Since I don't know Jim Campanis as much as you guys do maybe you guys can explain him to me.
This is a little something I put on my FB page. I think I ticked off one of my Giant friends…
Kung Fu Panda has become the Yoga Koala – Don't worry Panda fans … Houston is coming to town!
For the Ethieraholics who can't get enough reading about Everyday Dre, Captain Clutch, Andre the Giant killer, etc., etc., etc., (he has so many names now, it's just crazy!!) , another article from the homepage.
Yes, I think you did make a few gnat fans upset with that comment. My hubby said his hitting flat out sucks lately.
USA Today………….
If Ethier gets a single, he wants a double. If he doubles, he believes he should have homered. A line-drive out is the same to him as a weak popup.
"He's never satisfied," said Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly. "He gets so mad, so emotional, when he doesn't get a hit. He could square up a ball perfectly, and hit a line drive, but he'll be mad because he made an out. To him, he has to be perfect.
"But with that swing, there's not a pitcher in game he can't hit. Nobody."
lol I guess not. I'm just waiting for Molina to come down to earth so Sandoval could hit again lol.
As of this morning, Andre is still leading the NL in all three Triple Crown categories.
When I first started paying attention to baseball as a kid, Frank Robinson won the Triple Crown. Then, the next year, Carl Yastremski won the Triple Crown. The year after that, I was like, hey, how come there is no Triple Crown winner??
Maybe this is the year.
Yet another bit of media hype about Every Day Dre!
Good afternoon everyone! I hope you're all doing well! I am busy with work, but am also sooooooooooo excited about going to the stadium on Tuesday! I think my wife is getting tired of me! 🙂 I'll see you all in a few hours, around game time! Have a great afternoon!
Revolt — Nice link. Thanks.
Also on that page is this video regarding trades. I think the one mentioned would be good.
I wouldn't mind seeing Oswalt in Blue. His contract runs though 2011 vs Lee's that ends with this season.
Saltalamacchia has Gary Bennett disease. I didn't know it was contagious.
Furcal not being activated tonight (per Dodger Thoughts), also lineup (per Dodger Thoughts)
Russell Martin, C
Matt Kemp, CF
Andre Ethier, RF
Manny Ramirez, LF
James Loney, 1B
Casey Blake, 3B
Blake DeWitt, 2B
Jamey Carroll, SS
Ramon Ortiz, P
Stupid time warp!
Shad, you asked about Jim Campanis. Pretty much everything about him is on that Wikipedia page. As you can see, he had a limited pro career and it is a bid sad that his claim to fame is being traded by his father. I am sure there are a lot of Dads out there that would like to be able to trade their sons, lol.
with furcal coming back wouldnt it be nice if GA got a DFA? just a with and a thought…
with furcal coming back wouldnt it be nice if GA got a DFA? just a wish and a thought…
How many runs are needed to offset Ramon Ortiz starting? Ten? Twelve? Fifteen? Twenty-one?
Stupid Stan Conte – Why say Furcal is coming back when he's not ready?
Hi Everyone!
I need a break! I've been so busy at work trying to get stuff done but is almost quitting time (5) and I thought Josh would have a new thread.
Jim Campanis works for the Dodgers. I took a picture with his W.S. ring last year. Ahhh, that was the first time I tried one of those rings. Jim was one of our coaches last year during the Women Baseball clinic. Wonder if we will have another one this year. I know now the group is called "Women in Blue"
Have a great weekend everyone and GO DODGERS!
I can't wait to be at Petco Park tomorrow and wooof wooof for the Dodgers!
We have a good thing going Boy's………..
Rememeber Fun……..
Enjoy the game everyone………..
Revolt ~ I'd say at least 10 runs will be needed tonight 🙂
I think ortiz is gonna surprise us tonight… going 5 while only giving up 2-3… dodgers win 7-4
Hello Everybody
This Padre lineup looks scary but we faced them all before -no unfamiliar faces.
Ramon Ortiz, Torre's choice over Monasterios, I don't know.
I like to see Kemp hit one out, the spell, to me, is unbearable.
No Furcal yet, but Jamie is holding his own.
Got to keep the streak alive….Our streak.
Let's score this time!
Watching the Dodgers play in Petco is torture. It's like watching a zebra eaten alive by ants.
Damn that was lousy. We had him on the ropes and was only able to get one run.
Nice thrown out stealing by MARTIN and BLAKE, it save a run too.
Well at least the Padre will forget about Loney's foul ball double.
Are you sure he said that? Just because they said he was ready there is no need to rush Furcal back and we still suck with the bases loaded.
Yep lbirken but knowing me I was just hoping there was much more than that.
Way to go Manny!
That's work 4 singles for a runs.
I don't like that Loney
Look like it was Ely bday yesterday so Happy Belated 24th bday Ely.
How long are they going to keep Ortiz in there?
ANDRE' Strikes again.
lol when do we played the Astros?
-B. Molina walked, A. Torres scored on wild pitch
– N. Schierholtz singled to first, B. Molina scored, J. Uribe to third
– J. Uribe scored, N. Schierholtz to second on wild pitch
Interested scoring for the Giants but Molina scored from 2nd bases with singled by Nate.
Actually Nate singled to first.
The Astros can't be this bad they swept the Cards of all teams.
Not much of a surprise Ramon failed to go 5, now heeeere's George.
What no Weaver geez?
I wish it were heeer's Johnny!
Sherrell did a good job.
To bad the led off walk hurt.
Should had did that with the bases loaded Blake with 1 out.
I didn't see emma comment but I bet you had a very good time to.
Sherrill only had 7 pitches in that innings and I would love to see him pitch another inning.
Good evening all! Glad to see the boys are hanging in there, even though down one. Hopefully we can get back even and squeak this out.
I guess it was too much to ask for should've try to get 2 innings from Weaver and should've double switch with Carroll.
And the DROUGHT ENDS.
About time Kemp
I still can't believe Torre took out Weaver and bring in Sherrill in that game when it was still 4-1 and it ended up as a blowout.
I notice old called Kemp homerun.
Come on Belli….a 1,2,3 inning!
Tony Gwynn Jr. almost took that HR away from Kemp. It deflected off his glove on the other side of the fence. He was so mad he punched the wall causing almost as much shaking as the earthquake we had a little over an hour ago nearby.
Dang that pesky Ex Angels/Cards.
I hope KUO can shut down Adrien.
Come on Kuo
We had an earthquake? I was at a bar at Little Tokyo and then I took the Gold line for one stop then a bus to take to where I leave my car. I am at home now but I did not feel a thing. lol.
Nice job Kuo!
Nice job Kuo!!!
I wish we could've save Kuo for the 8th. If some how it get to his spot which is 5th coming up Torre should let him hit.
Gonzalez made Kuo work with those 9 pitches 6 strikes.
The earthquake was at 8:19 and was just a jolt that lasted less than a second. It was centered near Port Hueneme about 15km from my house.
Rookie running mistake. It's nice to be aggressive but it hurts when it ends the inning. Live and learn Dewitt.
Excellent job, Kuo!
Very nice work Kuo, you can have the rest of the night off! 🙂
I think he did that on purpose surely I don't want to see Kuo pitch to 1 batter what a waste and Troncoso has been overused already and knowing Torre he probably would had GA up to bat.
Speaking of the Devil let's see what GA do this AB's?
Well he got on with Gonzalez error and his batting average would still drop.
Make them pay Manny!!!
That's 2 in a rows that Kemp didn't overslided. Wow make them pay Manny I knew that was going ibb Ethier.
Come on JLo!!!!
Kemp took the the bat out of Ethier's hands.
Com'on BIG JON.
Let's go Jon, let's turn out the lights and go home!
Oh great I'm watching the news 32and53 was right that was a gift homerun to Kemp.
What's Johnny say?
FU'Q Y'alll!!!!
Boy, I wouldn't want to be Gwynn with a 98 mph fastball coming at my chin.
Alright, back over .500, picked up a game in the division. Woo hoo!
I surely hope our bullpen is back.
To bad those Giants won.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Maybe see you tomorrow!
best win of the year so far. imagine if the same standings were in august. instead of 6 back it's 4..come from behind with solid bullpen action. me likey other than loney crapping all overhimself it was solid
Oh man they just shown Ortiz bunting with the bases loaded and that was awful.
Wow what a comeback for the Flyers I thought they was going to get eliminated.
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04 May 2015
(HONG KONG) Dragonair today announced the continuation of its partnership with Hugo's, the fine-dining restaurant at the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, to offer First Class and Business Class passengers an exclusive inflight menu featuring a selection of classic European dishes. The latest menu resulting from this collaboration is being served on selected Dragonair flights from Hong Kong to Beijing and Shanghai from now until mid-April 2016.
The new menu has been exclusively designed for Dragonair by the culinary team of the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, and features 20 dishes including soups, appetisers and main courses. The combination of high-quality ingredients with traditional cooking techniques helps to make this a unique dining experience for passengers.
Dragonair General Manager Inflight Services Brian Yuen said: "Our catering team takes pride in delivering the best inflight dining experience possible to our passengers. We are delighted to work with Hugo's for the second consecutive year to offer a range of classic European dishes on board with an innovative twist. Creativity and meticulous preparation are the guiding principles of this inflight menu – from dish design to ingredient selection – and we hope our passengers will enjoy the fabulous dishes we have on offer."
Signature dishes include "Braised waygu beef cheeks in red wine sauce with creamy polenta and seasonal vegetables" and "Pan-fried US prime beef tenderloin and prawn with chicken jus and seasonal vegetables" highlight the use of choice ingredients. The black wagyu beef is sourced from Australian cattle that have been grain-fed for up to 500 days to increase marbling, while the USDA Prime steaks are renowned for being delightfully tender and juicy with an enticing buttery flavour. Of all the beef produced in the United States, less than 2% is certified as USDA Prime.
Other highlights on the Hugo's menu include "Baked confit duck leg with Lyonnais potatoes, spinach and carrots" and "Veal consommé with oxtail ravioli". The former dish highlights the benefit of slow cooking, with the duck marinated and refrigerated for 36 hours, then slowly poached for four hours at a low temperature until meltingly tender, and finally pan-fried to get the skin nice and crisp. For the soup, veal bones are simmered for four hours to extract the maximum flavour and provide a rich and satisfying taste for the clear broth.
The mouthwatering menu is the result of a close collaboration between the Dragonair and Hugo's catering teams, demonstrating a quest for excellence and innovation together with a passion for offering an exciting and rewarding inflight dining experience.
About Hugo's at Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui
Hugo's at Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui is a fine-dining restaurant offering authentic European cuisine under the auspices of its fictional Bavarian host and namesake, Hugo Ludwig Wilhelm von Gluckenstein. Armed with an impressive array of traditional serving apparatus, including walnut wood Christofle hors d'oeuvres trolleys from the 1960s, Hugo's revives the craft of table-side preparation for dishes such as lobster bisque, steak tartare and cherries jubilee. Roasted US rib of beef, served from the silver carving wagon, is also one of its signatures. Diners can also enjoy a wide variety of imported items and world class steaks from the show kitchen's open grill prepared by the chefs.


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Questions about Fleurco - PXTP59-11-40R-MC-79
The plumbing professionals at Luxe Home By Douglah Designs are available to assist you with your selection of Fleurco products.
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Fleurco specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of a full range of high end glass shower doors and bathtubs. We rely on the latest technology to offer you top quality products. In the industry, we are recognized for our superior know-how and customer service.


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Bears are Fond of Honey
Bears, famous for their shaggy coats and eating honey, have a very poor sense of sight and hearing. So, how do they find honey, you will ask? Well, by means of the long noses Allah has given them. Their noses, that is, their keen sense of smell ensures that they find the best honey around.
You probably know that bears have a very awkward appearance. But don't think for a moment that they are slow. Indeed, they can run at 48 kilometres (30 miles) per hour. We also need to mention that they are very strong. With their two to three metres (6.5 to 10 feet) long bodies, some bear species climb the top branches of trees and spend time there. Bears, who usually feed on plants, even climb up to 30 metres (100 feet) high to find food.
Once a bear finds a beehive, it strikes it a few times with its paws, which causes all the bees in the hive to escape. Then they eat the honey with appetite. But you should never try this! Because, bees will sting you all over and make you sick. But, the coat our Lord has given to bears protects them against the bees. So, they can easily reach honey without any trouble.
Bears that hibernate in autumn never leave their secure dens where they lie covered with dry branches and grasses until spring. Before hibernation, they eat a lot, especially cones and chestnuts, so that the fat layer underlying their skin thickens. They have to store fat in their body. That is because before spring they will lose so much weight. If a man lost so much weight, he would die outright. But bears can survive even though they lose so much of their weight.
Delivery is another reason that bears spend time in their caves. Bears usually give birth to three cubs, and they feed them with milk until spring. During that time they never leave their caves. Bear cubs are born blind, toothless and hairless. Once the cubs are out of the cave, the mother bear must protect them. Otherwise, they might be killed by hunters or male bears.
Our Lord, Who is the All-Compassionate and Merciful, meets the needs of all creatures and protects them. Likewise, He has provided cute bear cubs with everything they need to survive and not be hurt. He has secured their protection by means of their strong mothers who never leave them


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We should only be so cynical about young love, but young love should only give itself so many insufferable personalized nicknames and offer so many reminders that the young people in question—the Wozz in "Wozzilroy" is 21 years old and the Ilroy is 22—hold the best and second-best world rankings in their respective sports. (McIlroy moved up to the No. 2 spot this past weekend.) One tweeted photo, we think, might be too many reminders.
That said, the true sign of enduring gender equality is surely McIlroy's willingness to hold a No. 2 in the air next to his superior girlfriend. Good for you, McIliacki.
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adventure, Amanda Seyfried, animation, Beyonce Knowles, Blue Sky Studios, Christoph Waltz, Colin Farrell, Epic, fantasy, Josh Hutcherson, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, William Joyce
Relative newbies to the animation game, Blue Sky Studios have long shown unfulfilled potential. Their Ice Age series managed to capture people's hearts without ever producing a truly acclaimed film. Their best film to date, Horton Hears a Who! benefited from the talents of a literary creative. Epic, an adaptation of William Joyce's The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, is their most ambitious project to date. Is this the moment the Connecticut-based outfit arrives as an animation studio to be reckoned with? Continue reading


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I have been writing daily about the case, Poland, Belarus and what have you.
Go ahead and scroll down a bit. There's a lot to see.
For today though, I have nothing new to add.
A (semi) daily post spot about living 'the life' in modern Belarus and what has happened since Poland.
This page is the heart and soul of the Being Had blog.
posted by BEING HAD at 8:27 AM
I am an American and have been living in Belarus (Poland not withstanding)for a bit more than five years. I am a writer, having completed so far one book (Being Had), many articles and essays, an ongoing Blog and 11 plays for theatre (including Pod Kablukom, a play in Belarusian, Russian and English languages). I am a lifetime bicyclist and a supporter of global ecology. While in Belarus I have worked as a teacher of English and an editor of Russian/English translations. I have also worked in support of the school bike racing team here in Pinsk. To learn more about the BEING HAD web project, please click HERE
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21 januari 2013
MONDAY SNAPSHOTS /// the process
8 kommentarer:
Nice Annaleena! Great to see a glimpse of the making of your products.SvaraRadera
XO Miranda
incredible photos.. inspired to work tomorrow alreadySvaraRadera
For a design student those kind of pictures ar always intresting :) I had to stop for a while to take a look at the first picture.SvaraRadera
xxx Peeta from
It's nice to see the behind the scenes shots, in some ways it can be more interesting to see the path to the final result. Really simple but fantastic photos.SvaraRadera
Always addict to your mondays snapshots I wanted to congrat you regarding the wonderful products you design now... And those processes are just inspiring!SvaraRadera
Bravo et bon mardi!
Annaleena, this is amazing. Inspirational and truly unique. Thank you for that post, I have been waiting for it :)SvaraRadera
- Anonym22 januari 2013 22:40
Så fint!SvaraRadera
Glæder mig til at modtage min clothing rail <3
Pernille Z
So lovely. So perfect!SvaraRadera


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New Nexus 10 to debut with Android 5.0 in the near future?
Could a new Nexus 10 be on the way this fall? According to Google's Sundar Pichai, we'll be seeing one in the near future.
After today's Android and Chrome event, the Wall Street Journal's Amir Efrati, who has a good track record with Google news, was able to get some information out of Pichai on the future of the Nexus 10, and Google TV as well. According to tweets from Efrati's account, Pichai said new Google TV devices are coming soon (they won't be replaced by Chromecast), and a new Samsung manufactured Nexus 10 will be available in the near future.
This fall, October to be specific, is when we expect to see the next Nexus phone and Key Lime Pie, rumored to launch as Android 5.0. This would be the perfect time to launch a new Nexus 10 and a new version of Android along with it. The last Nexus 10 was released in November of 2012, so an October release would put the tablet on a yearly release cycle.
The Nexus 10 didn't see quite the success the Nexus 7 did, and with the new Nexus 7 sporting an HD display, the Nexus 10 is going to continue to be a hard sell. With the $35 Chromecast launching today as well, Google TV sales could remain lackluster too. If a new Nexus 10 really is right around the corner, we should know more shortly. In the meantime, what do you think, would you buy a Nexus 10 over a new Nexus 7 now that it has an HD display?


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Program outline
Trust or Bust is an engaging activity themed as the customs area of an international airport, complete with customs officials, arriving passengers and contraband items. Participants are guided through a series of fun experiential activities to learn about the role of facial expressions, body language, congruity of speech and eye assessing cues in relation to trust and communication.
These skills are then put to the test in a hillarious, memorable activity as teams adopt the roles of arriving passengers or the customs officials aiming to detect contraband items. The exercise is reviewed with the content translated to a business context.
Learning and development outcomes
Give your team the techniques and skills to detect truth, establish rapport and become more flexible communicators. No boring lectures guaranteed! Trust or Bust is a hands-on activity in a fun context. This unique program is packed with learning and enables better trust building and more productive business relationships.
The ability to identify both truth and deception allows you to build better business relationships based on trust and confidence in others. It helps in any decision making process which involves other people and leads to a competitive business advantage. This sophisticated business simulation provides the bedrock for understanding trust, fundamental to corporate social responsibility. Encourage your staff towards better communication with Trust or Bust!


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Facebook users spend most of their time in the News Feed, the river of information about your friends, and comparatively very little (just 10%) using apps according to a comScore report on how people use Facebook.
This is interesting because the biggest app company, Zynga, filed to go public, and more generally because tons of Facebook apps are getting zillions of VC money all the time.
If people spend so little time on Facebook apps, why the excitement?
First of all, 10% of usage on Facebook, the second biggest site in the world, is still a huge market.
And also almost certainly because those who do use apps, use them a lot. Social games are a perfect example: not everyone plays them, but those who do, play them a lot. And a smaller minority pay for virtual goods in those games, but that minority pays enough to fund a thriving social games industry.
It's definitely possible to build big businesses on the Facebook platform. But those numbers are a useful reality check: Facebook isn't becoming a new internet, with Facebook apps replacing websites, as some fear. People still overwhelmingly use Facebook for what it's designed for: knowing what our friends are up to.
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The Westlake Porter Public Library Foundation Endowment Fund provides ongoing financial assistance to the WPPL Foundation and its programs. The Fund is held and managed by the Cleveland Foundation, which invests these gifts for greater return on investment and prudent growth.
The mission of the WPPL Foundation is to ensure long-term support for the Westlake Porter Public Library, so that current and future generations within the local community may benefit from the library's many programs and services.
How can I help the Westlake Porter Public Library Foundation?
Giving Now
Cash or stock gifts are simple to make and immediately effective. All cash contributions are tax-deductible (up to 50% of a donor's adjusted gross income.) Appreciated assets can include stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real property, and are tax-deductible up to 30% of adjusted gross income.
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Bequest - An outright bequest to the WPPL Foundation is the simplest way to provide for a future gift. The WPPL Foundation can assist with specific bequest language that can be included in your will or trust.
Charitable Gift Annuity - This is an irrevocable gift that returns a stream of payments to the donor or beneficiary. The donor qualifies for a charitable tax deduction for part of the gift, while payments may receive favorable tax treatment.
Life Insurance Policy - Unused life insurance policies make excellent charitable gifts. Please contact the WPPL Foundation for more information.
Charitable Remainder Trusts - These allow donors to make gifts using payment options that best meet their needs. Remainder Trusts are flexible enough to permit use of a variety of assets including cash, securities and real property. The payments also may have some tax benefit to the recipient.
Charitable Lead Trusts - Through these lead trusts, donors can support the charitable needs now, and the remaining assets can be transferred to other individuals or even to themselves at a future date. Assets in the lead trust would come to the WPPL Foundation for a fixed number of years or over a donor's lifetime.
For more information about the WPPL Foundation, please contact Andrew Mangels at (440)871-2600.


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The following have been undertaken to enrich the program offerings:
- Increased units on course audit
- Outcome based syllabuses and grading system (CMO No. 46)
- Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction - Climate Change Adaptation (DRR-CCA) in BS and post-graduate programs
To further enrich the program offerings in the University system, the management invited two Filipino scientists, namely, Dr. Abigail P. Cid-Andres and Dr. Ginno L. Andres, as short-term experts under the Balik-Scientist Program of the Department of Science and Technology. Orientation meeting with the experts was conducted on July 17, 2016 at ISU Cauayan.
Dr. Abigail P. Cid-Andres earned her doctoral degree in Chemistry from the Kyoto University in Japan. She is currently affiliated with Hydrospheric Environment Analytical Laboratory, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. Her specialization includes chemistry, environment, hydrosphere, oceanography, and limnology. She constructed her own solid phase extraction preconcentration set-up, clean boot, and established expertise on clean trace analysis using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS).
Dr. Cid will conduct lectures, seminars and workshops to faculty members, researchers, students, and/or general public and produce modules and manuals on the following topics:
Theoretical and technological approaches on climate change studies
- Biogeochemical cycle of nutrients
- Trace elemental analysis of sea water
- Environmental analysis
- Constructing solid phase extraction preconcentration set-up, clean booth
- Clean trace analysis using (ICP-MS)
- Topics for the workshops:
- Solid phase extraction
- Construction of improvised solid phase extraction (SPE) manifold for trace elemental analysis in water samples
- Construction and assembly of clean bench
- Scientific writing and submission of articles to international journals
- Field sampling technique
Dr. Ginno L. Andres is a Doctor of Engineering who is currently connected with Combustion Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. Dr. Andres, whose expertise is Tribology Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering, has been developing activated charcoal-based electrode using polymeric material and a solvent to utilize for Capacitive Deionization (CDI). He developed carbon electrode with high mechanical strength, high rate of hydrophilic property and high ion adsorption capacity.
Dr. Andres will lead a research on water purification system based on the capacitive deionization technique.


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So going to Moscow Russia was at the very bottom of my international travel bucket list. To be honest, I never thought I would go there nor did I really care to go. However as most addicted travelers such as I will tell you, "We are the type of folks who will go anywhere, anytime, anyhow if at all possible". A 5-night stay in Moscow, Russia was being auctioned off at a benefit dinner in my local town. And my faithful readers will never guess who won a 5-night stay at a very nice hotel at the edge of the Red Square overlooking all of Moscow's hotspots. The winnings DID include an awesome daylong city tour with a drop-dead gorgeous Russian lady, but DID NOT ...Read More »
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I'm Sarah and I'm 25. I've been suffering with pain problems since I had whooping cough and pleurisy followed by glandular fever, so from about 17/18 years old. I've always been fobbed off with the usual it'll go away and get over it sort of thing from doctors and my family. Even when the pain increased at the age of 21, the GP again told me it was nothing, gave me pain gel and told me it'd get better in a couple of weeks. Ever since then it's just slowly deteriorated further.
Luckily for me last year I found a GP who would listen to me and told me that it looked likely I had Fibromyalgia but they'd rule out MS. I had no idea what Fibromyalgia was so I googled it (as you do) and just went down the list of symptoms realising how many of them matched all the medical issues I'd been having for years.
So that's the up-to-date. I'm on 50mg amitriptyline, 15/500mg co-codamol, eye drops, stemetil for dizziness. I feel like I rattle sometimes! I'm also profoundly deaf and have autistic spectrum disorder. I have an appointment with rheumatology next wednesday for confirmation of fibromyalgia. I'm absolutely terrified about it in all honesty.
I'm currently out of work due to being forced to move house, which I thought would help my pain levels but due to moving of course it hasn't. My family do not know I have fibromyalgia, but my boyfriend does and is incredibly supportive.
I am a turtle and bee nut due to certain nicknames. I think I'm rambling a bit much so I'll shush now, but hi :)


text: With its streamlined silhouette and smoothly curved edges, the Canon PowerShot A495 has the compact sophistication and relaxed simplicity that make it a natural for beginners and everyone else who craves style and convenience. The 10.0-megapixel resolution and 3.3x optical zoom make it easy to capture the action in dazzling color and brilliant detail. The DIGIC III Image Processor keeps it all looking sharp. To help you make the most of your creativity, new Scene Modes make your photographs standout. A bright, bold 2.5-inch LCD makes shooting and playback a genuine pleasure. Plus, choose from any of three dazzling colors.


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Multiple Galaxy Collisions
Astronomers have interpreted the oddly shaped objects in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots as strong visual evidence for multiple galaxies crashing into each other. These smashups create a tangled clump of matter and trigger a burst of new stars.
The photo at upper right, for example, appears to possess the nuclei of several galaxies. In another picture [bottom row, center], a three-galaxy collision has ripped several streamers of stars from their homes. The galaxies are converging into one central spot.
The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 pictures reveal a surprising amount of complexity and structure in these galaxies, called ultra-luminous infrared galaxies because they glow fiercely in infrared light. The bright, infrared glow is caused by a firestorm of star birth triggered by the multiple-galaxy pileups.
These images are part of a three-year study of 123 galaxies within 3 billion light-years of Earth. The study was conducted in 1996, 1997, and 1999. False colors were assigned to these photos to enhance fine details within these merging galaxies.
Credit: NASA, Kirk Borne (Raytheon and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.), Luis Colina (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain), and Howard Bushouse and Ray Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.)


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Minority Depository Institutions Program
Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) often play a unique role in promoting the economic viability of under-served communities. The FDIC has historically taken steps to preserve and encourage minority ownership of insured financial institutions. On April 9, 2002, the FDIC Board adopted a Policy Statement Regarding Minority Depository Institutions.
The Policy Statement addresses changes in certain regulations and expanded the FDIC's Minority Depository Institutions Program. Enhancements to the program included increased communication with Minority Depository Institutions, better coordination with trade associations that represent Minority Depository Institutions, definitions of the roles of a national program coordinator and regional coordinators, and more opportunities for institutions to request technical assistance.
As noted throughout this website, the FDIC offers a variety of resources and activities for MDIs. Please review these resources and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact one of the Regional Coordinators or provide feedback via the "Tell Us How We Are Doing" section of the website.


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"Where are your kids from?"
When you are a pale-skinned mom with two brown-skinned children, you get asked this question on a surprisingly frequent basis in casual conversations in all kinds of settings. In adoption circles, we refer to these people as "supermarket strangers," people who don't know us or our children but ask rather invasive and personal questions without much preamble.
Occasionally, someone reveals their own back story first before asking about yours and your children's. Other times, people feel a need to connect with a family that looks like their own. Once a woman told me about her now fully-grown son because seeing me with my oldest in a sling at the grocery store made her nostalgic. I imagined how much more difficult it must have been for both her and her son being an interracial family 25 years ago in Vermont. Another time, a man in his seventies told me how beautiful my kids were and that he had grandkids who looked "just like them." In some circles, of course, this would be code for "they all look alike," but I knew that this proud grandpa was letting me know that he, too, has a multiracial family. He may never have imagined that he would one day be so closely related to brown-skinned people, but it was clear that he fully accepted them as his own kin.
Hardly anyone assumes that I am my children's mother until they hear my children calling me "mama," and that can cause awkward social situations and unwanted questions or comments that suggest to my young children that they are less my children. For example, I have been asked, in front of my children, "Couldn't you have your own kids?" to which I always reply, "These ARE my own kids." Once, in September, someone asked if my kids were Fresh Air Fund kids — after the school year had started. In our family, my husband and I make a conscious effort to stress to our children that we all belong together as a family, because we know that so often in the larger world we are not perceived that way, at least not initially, and sometimes not at all. Adopted kids can sometimes share the status of step- children in adults' minds, with their "real" parents hovering somewhere in the background.
But usually when people ask the question, "Where are your kids from?" they are already operating from unspoken assumptions. And it's been a real eye-opener to learn what those assumptions can be. The number one assumption in most social settings is that my children are from an African country. International adoptions can cost more than twice domestic adoptions, but have the advantage of allowing older and single people to adopt more readily than most United States agencies allow. If I am someplace that suggests I am of certain socioeconomic means, like the Middlebury Food Co-op, or conducting professional development at a school, people are more likely to assume I adopted internationally. This despite the fact that I am married and was younger than 40 when I adopted my first child (40 is the cut-off age for many states in allowing infant adoption).
Statistically, it is unusual for upper-middle class married white people in the United States to adopt African American children. For a whole host of reasons, many adoptive parents want kids who "look like them," or at least won't draw immediate attention to the fact that they are a family formed by adoption. It can be difficult living in a fishbowl, and many parents don't want that for either themselves or their children. In addition, many people in America live a fairly segregated life from an early age. They simply don't have the same level of comfort that my husband and I have around all kinds of people. We were both raised in diverse suburbs of metropolitan areas, by parents who were explicitly antiracist in their values, and went on to have close friends and romantic relationships with people who were of different religions and ethnic and racial backgrounds than ourselves, including black people.
And then there is the unspoken "white elephant" in the room: the persistence of racism against dark-skinned African Americans in this country among whites. Surveys reveal that half of all whites in the United States think racism has basically disappeared, but adoption preferences tell a totally different story: Among parents who are willing to create an obviously multiracial family, far more are willing to adopt Hispanic or biracial American-born babies than African American children. In international adoptions, Russia, China and Guatemala topped the list for years before those countries began restricting their policies.
But I was startled yesterday when a friend of my oldest son's was visiting for a play date and asked him where he was born. He told her, Pennsylvania, but she didn't believe him, so she came and checked out his story with me. Turns out, the kids at school think he was born in Africa. As I already mentioned, this is a fairly common assumption among adults who may have clues about our socioeconomic status or who know other kids adopted from Ethiopia (the one African country that is truly open to international adoption at this point). But coming from a third-grader at Neshobe, who would be naïve about these first two factors, I guessed that something else was at work: the citizenship slander against President Barack Obama.
My son had informed me some weeks earlier that a classmate's mother did not believe Obama should be President because he was born in Africa. Brandon is definitely a far more conservative town than Middlebury, with a lower educational attainment level and, I am sure, a higher proportion of FOX News viewers. The deliberate confusion about Obama's birth (yes, Hawaii is a state, and no, it is not in Africa), like the mispronunciations of his name (Osama for Obama) that were pervasive in the campaign continue to thrive as gospel truth among some residents of Brandon, and this has trickled down, in its own innocent way, to my son's world. So my husband and I are preparing him, as we do for all of his encounters with ignorant or racist people, with a come back: "I was born in Pennsylvania. Don't you know where Pennsylvania is?" After that, most kids want to share where they were born too, or to lay claim to it themselves: "I've been to Pennsylvania. My grammy lives there."
And my husband and I decided not to discuss the push to delegitimize Obama's presidency by the far right with our kid. Instead, when we ask him why he thinks kids ask if he was born in Africa, he says, "Because there aren't that many browned-skinned people in Vermont. But the rest of the world is different."
To which I give silent thanks that Vermont is becoming "different" too.
Rebecca Reimers is a native of the New York City suburb of Teaneck, N.J., and a refugee of Westchester, N.Y. She has been living in Vermont for more than 13 years, in New Haven, Burlington, Middlebury and now in Brandon. She is a retired high school social studies teacher raising her three young sons with her husband, a native of the Boston area. Her thoughts on her community, and the surrounding towns of Leicester, Goshen and Forestdale, appear in "View from the Borderland," an online feature at the Addison Independent Web site.


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Rigger – Digital Domain Vancouver
Job Title: Rigger
Department: Animation
Reports to: Status: Non-Exempt
Classification: Full Time, Project
Purpose of the job:
We are currently seeking a Rigger/Character TD to work alongside our talented crew of riggers at Digital Domain. Assignments will include creating efficient animation controls, setting up cloth and hair dynamics, implementing sophisticated mechanical rigging and applying realistic surface deformations.
The role requires strong technical and communication skills, as well as a firm understanding of character design, animation, rigging, tool development, and production workflow. This position requires 2-3 continuous years of production rigging experience and reports to the show's Rigging Lead.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
• Generate a variety of realistic creature, hero, digital double, vehicle and prop rigs
• Produce custom rigs, implementing a variety of modular components (biped/quadruped limbs, wings, mechanics, etc.)
• Develop and maintain realistic facial rigs using a combination of proprietary and 3rd party toolsets
• Utilize and extend DD's existing Python-based rigging tools
• Develop utilities to optimize department workflows
• Work with the Animation Department to ensure the successful handoff and execution of character rigs, including in-scene troubleshooting and rig optimization
• Assist in the design and maintenance of the studio's rigging pipeline
Qualifications- Education and/or Experience Required:
• Degree in computer science, art, animation, engineering, or equivalent experience that would equal that level of professionalism, problem solving and analytical skills
• 2-3 years experience with production-level character rigging, scripting and tool development
• Strong knowledge of Maya's rigging toolset, including: skeleton placement, skinning techniques, IK/FK setup, corrective blendShape workflow, expressions, utility nodes, and Maya deformers
• Experience with nucleus and Maya Muscle dynamics
• Familiarity with mocap ingestion & retargeting (motionBuilder, humanIK)
• Strong comprehension of anatomy and articulation (human and creature mechanics)
• Keen artistic eye to drive the look of realistic and appealing surface deformations
• Production experience with Python scripting
• Good modeling and animation skills
• Working knowledge of linux, linear algebra, texture/UV layout & compositing
• Passion for creating convincing digital characters a must!
Working Conditions and Environment/Physical Demands:
• Office working environment
• Hours for this position are based on normal working hours but will require extra hours pending production needs
• Walking/bending/sitting
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities associated with it. Digital Domain Vancouver management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs.
To apply for this position submit an application at www.digitaldomain.com/careers/
Please select Vancouver from the drop down location menu
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Conversation Skills You Needed Yesterday
Today's preparedness post comes to us from Cecile Andrews, author of Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre; Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness with Wanda Urbanska, and the upcoming Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community and the Common Good.
No one knows better than Cecile that communication is critical to successfully pursuing a sustainable lifestyle, and yet it may be the one skill that we are most lacking. In this post, she leads us through four key components of real conversation.
Sometimes you come across a piece of information that just blows you away. Robert Putnam, in his book, Bowling Alone, says that if you are not in a group now, and you join one, you will cut your chance of dying this year by fifty percent!
Of course maybe your chance of dying was really low anyway, but the percentages do seem to be going up for all of us, what with climate change and weather disasters. But whatever, the research shows that the importance of social ties is huge! Social ties are the biggest factor in health and happiness for societies as well as individuals. (For instance, wealth inequality is the biggest predictor for declining longevity because it destroys social cohesion.) So, if there any skills we need, it's social skills! In particular, conversation skills. It's pretty hard to relate to people if you can't talk with them. And obviously we have to talk together in a disaster. So why not learn conversation skills now and maybe we can even avert some disasters. There are four aspects of conversation skills we need to learn: to be proactive, positive, collaborative, and egalitarian.
You need to learn to be shameless. Talk with everyone, everywhere, all the time. You be the one who says hello, who introduces yourself at a party, who turns and starts a conversation at the bus stop. Yes, even bus stop conversations are apparently good for you! The book Consequential Strangers by Melinda Blau shows that casual conversation not only boosts the individual's morale, it creates a community where people feel like they belong! Good for the citizen and good for the democracy. So start reaching out.
I hate mentioning the word positive, because it sounds like we just want people to go around with a smiley face ignoring all the problems and injustices. But it's become pretty clear that you don't change things by complaining all the time. John Gottman of the University of Washington, an expert on relationships. says that we need to avoid a "crabby habit of mind." It's easy to get started complaining because there are so many things wrong. But I've learned to say to my husband, when he starts on one of his familiar rants, "Rant #24! Duly noted! No need to continue!" Instead of talking about what's wrong — which we all know anyway— tell stories about what's going right — people tackling the problems. It's inspiring and more interesting and you won't turn into an old crank.
The most basic skill we need to learn is to work together. Conversation is a perfect place to practice this. Just remember that conversation is a barn raising, not a battle. Of course we've been taught that everything is a competition and that we always need to win. Even in our daily conversations we try to prove we were right! (You did leave the milk out last night!) When you have a good conversation you affirm what the other person says; you listen with fascinated interest; and respond with something like " I know what you mean! "That happened to me too!" "I agree!" "That's an interesting point!" Too often people argue, and sometimes even attack in anger! No, conversation must be collaborative -- you're working together to make connection, explore a new idea, or make a decision. Conviviality is one of our most important gifts.
Earlier I said that wealth inequality destroyed social cohesion. Any kind of inequality does that. We just don't feel comfortable with status difference. But they're present in our society anyway. We can't avoid them, but we can learn to resist them. What we need to do is learn to act equal, to create opportunities where people can experience being equal. Places where we don't show deference or subservience. Where we don't put someone else down or be dismissive. Where we make sure everyone has an equal time to talk. Whenever you can, create opportunities for people to experience being an equal. Have lots of potlucks! Or garden together. Or sing together. Anything where the status differences can disappear as people get together.
In fact, if you're an activist or in an organization, give people the opportunity to practice all these social skills: being proactive, positive, collaborative, and equal. Set up lots of events and always make sure that people introduce themselves and get a chance to talk together and have convivial, congenial conversations instead of competitive discussions. You're whetting people's interest in being an equal among many and to understand the value of conversation. In particular, set up community conversations or study circles. These are ways we can structure conversations that make sure people enjoy themselves, get to know each other, collaborate, and experience being equals. (For information on these, contact me at cecile [at] cecileandrews [dot] com).
For yourself, make sure you're in a group. You'll not only have a chance to live longer, you'll be happier. Denmark has been rated the happiest country in the world and 95% of its citizens are in some kind of group. So it doesn't matter if it's the Sierra Club, a turtle group, or a ukulele group. Anything will do. Just make sure it encourages conversation. No more evenings in a group where you sit silent. Drop out of that one and join another one or start your own. Any place you can have good conversations!
Don't forget that John Dewey said that "Democracy was born in Conversation."
Links to the rest of the series:
Day One: It's the End of the World as we Know it...or is it?
Day Two: It'll all turn out in the end. Or will it?
Day Three: Collecting Rainwater
Day Four: Building Awareness of your Surroundings
Day Five: The Beginning of the Gaian Calendar


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Applying Connections
|Introduction | Using Hexominos to Manufacture Boxes | Problem Reflection | The Hexominos Problem in Action | Classroom Checklist | Your Journal
Like the other Process Standards, connections is one interlocking piece of effective teaching. Use the Classroom Checklist (an Adobe PDF document) to note things you think are important in Ms. Sepeda's and Mr. Glover's lessons.
You may also want to watch the entire video (duration 17:30), review the segment you watched, or review the lesson presented by Mr. Glover.
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Every couple months, you'll read a story in a major publication suggesting that Apple's next area of growth is going to be in the enterprise.
The truth is, it isn't happening yet and it doesn't look like it will anytime soon.
Scott Abel is the CEO and cofounder of Spiceworks, a free support network for IT specialists.
Spiceworks monitors 110 million enterprise devices, so Abel has a pretty good perspective on which hardware makers are dominating the space and which aren't.
One that isn't: Apple.
At a dinner with Silicon Valley reporters last night, Abel said that Apple devices account for maybe 1 or 2 percent of all those 110 million devices. That number is growing, but not meaningfully.
Despite all the hype about Apple in the enterprise, Abel simply says "We don't see it yet."


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Gartner, Inc. recently highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2011.
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.
A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and/or become suitable for a wider range of uses. It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters or with potential for significant market disruption in the next five years. As such, these technologies impact the organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives.
"Companies should factor these top 10 technologies in their strategic planning process by asking key questions and making deliberate decisions about them during the next two years," said David Cearley, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
"Sometimes the decision will be to do nothing with a particular technology," said Carl Claunch, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "In other cases, it will be to continue investing in the technology at the current rate. In still other cases, the decision may be to test or more aggressively deploy the technology."
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A Laborious Process
In most mosques in Germany, prayers are said in Arabic and the sermon is usually given in Turkish. German is rarely heard.
"We have 2,600 mosques in Germany and I don't know a single imam who has a European education," said political scientist Bassam Tibi, a professing Muslim. "How can they show the Muslims who live here how to live? These imams would probably tell me I shouldn't integrate."
Bulent Ucar, professor for Islamic studies at the University of Osnabrueck, said that it's crucial to the authentic development of Islam in Germany and Europe that imams are educated on the continent.
"Only then can we have religious leaders who are informed about the country and the people and are aware of the cultural sensibilities here in Germany and can act accordingly in their work in the mosque," he added.
To address the issue, the interior minister of Lower Saxony, Uwe Schuenemann, who is also the state's integration minister, has announced a new education initiative for imams.
"A continuing education program should be offered very soon," said Schuenemann. "Imams from Turkey will be able to take courses in the teaching of religion, civic education and German."
The first batch of German-educated imams is set to graduate in Osnabrueck in three years.
Job prospects for new imams
In the past, imams have taken a reverse path: Even German Muslims with Turkish roots have returned to Turkey to complete their training.
Now Schuenemann wants to work together with Schura, a state-wide umbrella organizations for Muslim groups, and DITIB, the national association of Turkish Muslim congregations, to establish an imam training program in Germany.
"There are plans later on to add a masters program to the new bachelors program," said Schuenemann, "so that these imams can also teach courses in the Muslim religion in schools."
In Germany, elementary and high schools offer religion courses, generally in Catholic or Protestant Christianity. Alternatively, students can choose to take ethics. Recognized courses in Islam were approved by the German government earlier this year, but have not yet been implemented in schools.
Hiring the imam graduates as part-time public school teachers would give them a secure income, said the interior minister. Otherwise, imams in Germany are often subsidized by the Turkish state because the mosques cannot afford to pay their complete salaries.
Strong ties to Muslim countries
While other German states are looking to Lower Saxony as a possible trailblazer in the integration project, the state's plan has not been particularly well received by religious leaders in the Muslim community. Around one fifth of the imams who preach in German mosques tend toward conservative fundamentalism, concluded a current study by social scientist Rauf Ceylan of Duisburg.
Many of the imams who are active in Germany are convinced that an acceptable imam must have been educated in the home country's Muslim community.
According to Ceylan's study, integration isn't yet a high priority for the majority of Muslim leaders in Germany.
Michael Hollenbach
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There has to a good reason a large crowd of people will be gathering along the shore of the Hudson on a bitter day in February to watch various brave souls strip to their bathing suits and jump into the river. And there is. It's time for the annual Stony Point Seals Polar Plunge, which takes place on a quiet stretch of road in Stony Point, NY. Each year a huge crowd gathers for the event, which normally benefits a local family or child in need.
In last year's Plunge, you can see a whole lot of crazy people having a whole lot of fun for a good cause.
Every year, the families that live along this quiet road welcome this invasion of happy insanity. But this year, the neighborhood of Grassy Point looks more like a ghost town, with vacant and boarded up homes. Sadly, the homes lining that road, along with so many others in the area, had been devasted by Sandy. So for 2013, the Stony Point Seals are holding the Plunge to benefit these very people, along with many other North Rockland Hurricane Sandy Victims. And this year, my husband will be among those hardy souls making that fridgid leap.
Below, some of these homes, shortly after Sandy. If you're in the area on February 3rd, come on down and lend your support. And even if you can't stop by, you can still donate online and help our local families recover.


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Case Managers are responsible for facilitating and coordinating the care of the patient and family during the hospital stay. They assure that mutual goals and outcomes are established between the interdisciplinary team and the patient and family and assist in preparation and planning for discharge. Since discharge can sometimes be a very involved process, the planning for discharge begins early during the admission phase, driven by the goals developed by the patient, family and the entire interdisciplinary team.
While the ultimate goal is to return home, some patients leave our hospital to continue care and therapy in another facility (sometimes called a sub-acute or skilled nursing facility) and the Case Manager coordinates this process. In addition, the Case Manager is the liaison with the insurance companies regarding financial coverage for the hospital stay and for post-hospital care.
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It still is a bit quiet here on my blog, sorry for that...
Just hope you haven't forgotten me by now!
Update on last post...I was still thinking abc and numbers for the new baby quilt
I immediatly had a vision on how to use these cuties in the baby quilt.
I bought the fabric with the larger birds (above) and this pretty stash (below).
The pastel colored checker fabric is also the fabric that's used as liner for the baby crib.
The finished top is on the hoop and ready to quilt.
Hope I'll be back soon to show you the result!


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PROCESSOR POWER. HARNESSED. (MixMeister Compatible)
You love the power of software for processing and the convenience of your hard drive for mass-music storage. With a computer rig, you don't need to carry around hundreds of pounds of CDs or vinyl because your entire library can fit on a single hard drive. You can use the computer to calculate BPM, create and store extensive loop and cue points, manage your library, even beat match for you if you want! DJing with software is liberating, and at the same time limiting because – let's be honest – using a mouse and keyboard as DJ tools isn't all that satisfying!
Numark was the first company to recognize this and develop a software controller so DJs could use familiar, hands-on controls to manipulate and harness the processor's power in a DJ-friendly way. OMNI CONTROL continues our innovative tradition in developing cutting-edge DJ-control decks.
Software controllers are nice, but they don't always feel professional and solid. We build OMNI CONTROL from the ground up with nothing but tight, consistent knobs, buttons, and controls, and engineered OMNI CONTROL to live in its heavyweight, heavy-duty metal chassis. This is no plastic lightweight; OMNI CONTROL has the professional feed you demand.
Most DJs hate getting to the gig, running dozens of cables, crouching on the ground in the dark, and then testing levels. That's why all-in-one systems are great. You can just show up, plug in, and you're ready to roll. But with software-control decks and laptops, you still need an audio interface to get the sound out of your computer and out to the PA system, as well as a second sound card for headphone cueing. So we built OMNI CONTROL to not only control most DJ software, but also house high-end, clean, 24-bit audio circuitry. You get two sets of system outputs, a headphone output, and even a microphone input. All you need is OMNI CONTROL. That's it.
One of the tricky points in putting together a computer-DJ system is choosing the right software to compliment your hardware. And once you get your system together, you have to spend tedious hours mapping the two to talk to each other. With OMNI CONTROL, we painstakingly developed our control system to work directly with Native Instruments' Traktor, one of the most popular DJ programs. Oh, and by the way, you get a copy of Traktor 3 LE in the box. You're welcome.
And if you like to go against the grain, we also designed OMNI CONTROL to work with MixMeister Fusion Live software. This production-performance program focuses your efforts on producing your gigs, rather than spending your time counting and matching beats. You also get a free download of MixMeister Fusion Live.
If you think about it, OMNI CONTROL solves the four most-common problems DJ have with using software. We developed a DJ-friendly, hands-on control surface that's laid out just like mixers and two decks. We built it with only professional-grade controls, and housed the unit in a no-nonsense, heavy metal tank of a housing. We built in a complete audio system with inputs and outputs, and made the whole thing connect plug-and-play to your Mac or PC with a single USB cable. We bundled in Traktor LE and MixMeister Fusion Live, pre-mapping the controls for easy, out-of-the-box compatibility.
In OMNI CONTROL, we didn't just decide to play the software-control game; we were there first. We didn't even just come up with a game-changer. With OMNI CONTROL, we took a careful look at the game… and redefined it.
OMNI CONTROL. Total DJ simplicity.
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With the threat of rain remaining in the area for the rest of the day and with better weather on the horizon, the Washington Relays have been postponed until Monday at 4:00. After being postponed yesterday due to the soggy weather, the Washington Relays were scheduled to get underway today at 4:00. Rain remains in the forecast throughout the day and into the evening. Things should clear off over the weekend however and no rain is expected on Monday with a high of 70 degress.
The outdoor track season kicks off today with the Washington Relays. Among the teams traveling to Case Field are Columbus Community, Keota, and Mid-Prairie along with several from all over the state.
"West Delaware is coming down from Manchester. Iowa City High, Cedar Rapids Prairie, Xavier, Burlington, they come from all parts."
Demon head coach Steve Roth needs the weather to cooperate, although it's a slightly different problem than Roth has dealt with in the past.
"Usually I battle snow and it's 40 degrees so this is a little different than we've ever battled (for this meet). Somebody says it's going to be 30% (chance of rain) after 3:00. I don't know, I've watched (the weather) for at least five days. Last week it was supposed to be 69 degrees and sunny (today). It's Iowa, wait for another day, it'll change."
Assuming the rain, and more importantly the lightning, stays away the meet will get underway today at 4:30. A lot of work goes in to getting the track and the field ready for the meet, but Roth says it's something that his staff has been doing for years and they'll be ready, rain or shine.
"I've got a great staff that really knows how to put things together. Some of us have been together for 30 years. There's a lot of communication, a lot of pushing the kids along to get it going."
Other than the local standouts like the Demons' Jake Redlinger, Keota's Casey Sieren, and Mid-Prairie's Jaemin Powell, there will be top talent from all over the state on display.
"(Brandon) Moorman from Mount Pleasant is the state champion in the high hurdles; Fairfield has a state qualifier in the high hurdles too. Iowa City High will bring some kids along that will be very tough and Xavier usually has some tough kids, Burlington too."
The Washington girls' team has a meet today as well. They head to Columbus Community.
Don't forget to tune in to the Coaches Corner Saturday morning starting at 9:00 on KCII Radio when we visit with several area track coaches.


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Frank Daniel is one of a lucky few who have never been struck by the urge to sneeze, twitch or swat an unassuming bug, at least while on stage.
This matters — why?
Daniel, 69, a Laguna Beach native, has, for the past quarter-century, donned the garb, makeup and hairpiece of Jesus Christ before freezing for 90 seconds amid apostles as depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper." This piece marks the yearly finale of the Pageant of the Masters, which honors iconic art in the form of living pictures, or tableaux vivantes.
Currently in its 80th year, the pageant will be hosted nightly July 7 through Aug. 31.
"Every once in a while, I feel like I'm going to sneeze before we're about to go up," Daniel said, laughing. "We're getting loaded and here, I'm thinking, 'Oh no.' I then make the mistake of trying to hold my breath, and you don't want to do that!"
Before watching the show firsthand, Daniel recalled wondering why anyone would want to "sit and watch pictures."
His initial reaction changed, however, when he was introduced to the production in 1969.
"I thought to myself, 'Wow, that's just something else,'" he said.
Since coming across a "Casting Call" sign in 1984, Daniel has been a familiar face at the Southern California tradition.
"We've had so many people in it for long periods of time — it's like an extended family," said Daniel, who, during the holidays visited a former 20-year volunteer who is in ill health. "This experience means a lot. It's where we establish friendships."
For 18-year artistic director Diane Challis Davy, the pageant is akin to "playtime."
Challis Davy, whose first memories of the pageant include volunteering as a high school student in the late 1970s, is presently in the throes of casting the upcoming season. Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, the casting call unearthed hopefuls from Los Angeles, San Diego and all corners of Orange County; the final session was scheduled for Thursday evening.
Themed "The Big Picture," this year's pageant showcases 40 works, ranging from "To Rome with Love" and "The Agony and the Ecstasy" to "Snow White" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," among others. Its two acts have also provided opportunities to celebrate cinematic powerhouses including Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Busby Berkeley and Buster Keaton.
"We've never done a pageant before that featured art which has inspired movies, and we're not talking obscure movies, but those that a lot of people will remember," Challis Davy said. "Movies saturate popular culture. For those of us from California, [they're] a large part of our lives."
A part of the pageant's 80th anniversary commemoration is this acknowledgment of its ties with Hollywood, she said.
Last year's casting call attracted about 1,200 people, allowing Challis Davy, who works closely throughout the process with a scriptwriter, technical director and music composers, to tap 450 members from the casting pool. While Challis Davy calls out theatrical cues for 60 consecutive nights, the volunteers are divided into two groups — 150 per cast — while the remaining 150 comprise a cache of backstage assistants.
After filling out paperwork about body dimensions, each person is tape-measured and photographed. The creative team later returns to these three-by-five pictures and selects people for each painting — from Vermeer to Norman Rockwell, Gerome to Rodin — based on their height and resemblance to the subject at hand.
Weekly rehearsals for the approximately 90-minute show begin next week, as each set piece — the handiwork of 15 full-time employees — comes to life. To date, three sets have been fully constructed, and the rest will be rolled out once they've been fitted with metal armatures that help cast members hold their positions.
"It is challenging to come up with something different every year and to keep everybody happy," Challis Davy said. "But my biggest reward is the great feedback we get during the summer when our shows are well-received."
In 2012, "The Genius" was such a resounding success that the seaside pageant venue was packed nearly every night, with close to all 140,000 seats being sold out at season's end, she said.
A great view of the pageant, followed by a personal tour of the theater, sowed the seeds of interest in Fran Brant and her husband almost 13 years ago.
Keen to become a part of the show, the Whittier resident chased dead-ends on the phone for three and a half hours until she finally "unearthed a human being." When asked if she would be interested in doing makeup, she described her heart going "da-doom!"
"I enjoy the creativity and the satisfaction of a job done right," she said.
During the pageant, Brant and other volunteers follow detailed instructions and duplicate watercolor work already done on mannequin heads, recreating physical characters and shadows from each piece of art. Eventually, it is the lighting, she said, that eliminates the three-dimensional effect and makes it look "flat, like a painting."
"We're not trying to make people look pretty," said Brant, whose husband works all day in Torrance and spends his evenings volunteering at the pageant. "We're trying to make them look exactly like in a painting."
According to Brant, it is the behind-the-scenes camaraderie that encourages the couple to return year after year.
"I've seen little five-year-old kids become 15-year-olds and watched them start with the jewelry and makeup," she said. "It's great to be able to ask how their boyfriends are. There is a real family feeling about this place."
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