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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The passing of Jim Fregosi hit especially hard in the Royals' front office, where his son, Jim Fregosi Jr., is a special assistant to the general manager.
"Our heart obviously goes out to their family, and Jimmy is a part of our organization and a number of us had the honor of working with big Jim," general manager Dayton Moore said. "He's going to be a tremendous loss. He was a bigger-than-life personality and could tell a great story and had a deep love and passion for the game and just a whole lot of fun to be around."
Fregosi and Moore worked together for a time with the Braves.
"He had so many wonderful experiences that he was always eager to share, and he's meant a lot to many, many people in this game. He's been a great mentor to a lot of people," Moore said.
Fregosi not only was an outstanding player, but he also made his mark as a manager for four teams, taking the Phillies to the 1993 World Series, and most recently as a super scout for the Braves.
"He was a great baseball guy, he could talk all aspects of the game," Moore said. "He was somebody very special. He broke into the Major Leagues, I believe at 19, and he never left the Major Leagues. That's obviously a rarity and speaks to his skill and his ability to get along and work with people and bring energy and value to everything that he did. He's going to be missed."
Royals manager Ned Yost, a long-time coach with Atlanta, remembered when the Braves were taking on Fregosi's Phillies, and later saw the results of Fregosi's front-office efforts with the Braves.
"He was a great manager, an old-school type manager, and he was a great scout," Yost said. "A lot of the great things that the Braves have done over the last couple of years have Jim Fregosi's fingerprints on them. It's a big loss to the baseball community."
Fregosi seemed to materialize everywhere in baseball, often holding court in the press box or lunch room before a game.
"That's what a good scout does," Yost said. "Good scouts seem like they are everywhere, and they've got answers for all your questions. They know players -- they've that internal little voice that allows them to evaluate players to a high degree, and he certainly had that."
Mike Arbuckle now is senior advisor to Moore in scouting and player development for the Royals, but in 1993 he joined the Phillies as scouting director when Fregosi was managing the club.
"I was the new guy on board, but I thought he was an excellent manager. He really knew how to handle people and he really handled all the different personalities with the club. I thought he was exceptional at doing that," Arbuckle said. "That '93 club was a classic, with everybody from Lenny Dykstra to Mitch Williams and on and on. It was a piece of cake for him, and he got the most out of every guy, even though their personalities and their approaches to the game and to life were completely different."
Arbuckle also admired the way Fregosi operated during a game.
"He could really run a game. He had a good feel for running a pitching staff. A very good all-around manager, period," Arbuckle said.
Arbuckle brought Jim Fregosi Jr. into the Phillies' organization, where he worked for 10 years as a scout, and three years ago recommended that Moore hire him in Kansas City.
"What a lot of people probably don't realize about Jimmy Sr. is that he was as good a dad as you would ever find. He took care of all his kids, grandkids, he just loved all of them," Arbuckle said. "He was just a good, good person, and the baseball world and a lot of people from a personal standpoint as well are obviously going to miss him."
Moore found that the elder Fregosi was not only talented but a lot of fun.
"It was always a better day when you got a chance to be around Jim," he said.


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- Hydonian said...
Great comparisons there, Tom! How long has Ashton House been there,approximately? I feel sure I remember the row of houses ,albeit ready for demolition! The Duke actually looks as though it's grown in size over the years. I agree with you though,chimney stacks make building look better! What date is the first shot from?
- Thursday, 24 June, 2010
- Tom said...
I wish I knew the 'time line' of these shots Nancy... I would have thought the first picture is from around 1900... would you..
I don't remember the houses being where Ashton House was but again I will need to speak to my Aunt as she lived and worked here for many years as Caretaker/Warden..
I remember when I was in my teens I worked for Allotts Removals.. we packed all this couples stuff into the van and set off to Ashton House to drop it off... the old dears told use to set the place up 'nice' as they were going shopping in Hyde.... can you imagine that happening now... We did our best for them and the Warden at the time was pleased.
You mentioned chimney stacks as well Nancy... I hate to see these 'new build' houses with no chimneys.. what would happen if you asked a small child to draw a picture of their house... Most likely it would be a door in the middle with windows either side... two windows upstairs. a nice roof and of course it's topped off with a chimney... There is also a picket fence with flowers and the odd toy in the garden and of course the sun is shining...
The thing is it's not 'their' house as such.. it's how they think their house should look...
Well Nancy call me a child but I'd still draw and make houses like that if I had my way... ha! I think the kids could tell the town planners a thing or two.
- Thursday, 24 June, 2010
- Hydonian said...
Right,Tom, I've asked around and apparently the photo of the row of houses where Ashton house is was taken approx the early 1960's. As the houses are still inhabited on the picture then there's a distinct possibility that I do remember them as boarded up property a few years later! (Showing me age now haha ).
- Thursday, 24 June, 2010
- Ex Hydeonian said...
One of the few pubs in Hyde that I cannot recall having a few cooling glasses of water in. Must have been in there once but really don't remember. Probably years of alcohol abuse playing havoc with my memory! Changing the subject slightly, I think you have both mentioned that the motorway ripped the heart out of Hyde, and I have to agree majorly. Although I am not totally aware of all the streets around the motorway area, I do recall many times going down Cheapside which had the old cobbles and there were lots of terraced houses and streets around there. Do you guys remember the Turbine Service Station which was on Mottram Road where Morrisons is now? I remember my dad bought a Triumph 1500 from there and I seem to recall that there was a mural of birds on one wall, and down the side of the building, there was a tram shed and old tram lines still there. Opposite was Pomroys Antique Shop and Doreens novelty & sweet shop. Also a good deli and Mr Hollands fruit and veg shop. Mrs Holland used to live next door to us on Tom Shepley Street. In those days when you went 'Down Hyde' you stopped in at the butchers and then went to the bread shop, then called in a few other shops and it was a real community. Now you just get in your car, head down, fill the trolley and then pack up and piss off! Impersonal but convenient. On a tangent, last time I was in Hyde I went into the Market Hall and down the steps on the right hand side is a pet food shop and I reckon the bloke there must have been there for at least two hundred years....which is strange coz he still looked like he did when I used to buy rabbit food for Pixie, my beloved rabbit and Bonios for Patch the dim as anything beagle that did a runner down the hacking knife. I love that about Hyde....there are still some old timers from way back who might just remember how it used to be before supermarkets and motorways.
Ah the good old days. As my Gran always used to say...'There might have been a war on but you could go out at night or leave your door unlocked'. Mind you, she did get robbed four times so I question the validity of her sage advice. Bless her!
- Thursday, 24 June, 2010
- Tom said...
1960s it is then for the houses Nancy well done for admiting that ha! ... lets see if we can come up with something for the frontage on the Duke..
Great comment, I hope that in time we can come across pictures of all the shops and sights you mentioned... your memories are very good and enjoyable to read...
- Thursday, 24 June, 2010
- Hydonian said...
Hi Graham, the bloke on the Pet stall in the Market hall is called David - he used to have a stall on the outdoor market too which his sister ran for him. He told me he started work on there at around 14 and he's approx 55 now so yeah you could say he's been there forever (almost)!
I used to like shopping in the market hall with my Mum as I always got free samples of cheeses ,bread and fruit off the ladies in there ,especially Croziers the fruit stall and Parkers the cheese stall. They must have thought I looked undernourished ..haha...
It was nice to be able to go out without fear of being burgled though - no-one did that cos no-one had anything worth nicking!
Yeah I do remember the old Turbine garage and Pommies "Antique" shop. He used to sell air rifles which he let you try out in the back of his shop on targets - wouldn't be allowed in this PC day and age!
Tom, Im comfortable with my age - I've got to be lol x
- Thursday, 24 June, 2010
- Ex Hydeonian said...
Hi Tom and Nancy, thanks again for your excellent posts. Was remembering the market hall after the pet man thoughts I had....we used to go there for lunch sometimes from Greenie. (Market Hall that is, not the pet food stall!)I recall there was a small shop on the right as you went down the steps to David's pet food stall which I think was a dressmaker or alterations place....never really did work that one out, then as Nancy mentioned there was Croziers and Parkers, excellent shops, and I remember a little cafe right around the back. Like the place time forgot, tea and toast for lunch hidden from view of prying eyes of teachers. Amongst the fag ends and smoke of various Hydeonians! A luggage, hardware and shoe stall in close proximity. I also remember a little kiosk place round the other side that sold bacon butties and the smell of frying bacon used to be awesome at lunchtime. Cookies roundabout was near there for a while next to the underground public toilets. Why do I remember all this! I also remember that when it was cold, we used to stand around the loading bay area opposite the Bricklayers, cant remember the name of the street, but there used to be ventilation fans there that blew out hot air. We knew how to have a good time in those days....don't get me started.
- Friday, 25 June, 2010
- Tom said...
I recall a story I was told by a police dog handler.. The alarms had gone off in the market hall and the police turned up.. the caretaker was sent for, then a lot of shouting for the culprits to give up and come out of hiding fell on deaf ears so it was decided to send in two police dogs... What a fight then took place.. one dog came back whimpering with blood over one eye... The dog handlers then moved in to make an arrest and were met with a big old cat sat on top of a stall hissing and spitting at the remaining police dog..
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"Arthritis is severely underdiagnosed in cats, which is really sad because the vast majority of older cats have arthritis and only a fraction get treated," Price says. "People think, 'Well it's an older cat, he sleeps, he's OK.' Would you think same about a dog? No."
It's no secret that cats are losing their battle of the bulge, just like dogs. While the American Association for Pet Obesity Prevention considers eight to 10 pounds the ideal weight for most domestic cats, a recent study found that 55 percent of the country's cats are considered overweight or obese by their vets. But Pointer says that sudden weight loss can cause liver failure.
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"Don't give up on that stuff you used to do when they were kittens," says Pointer, who has two senior cats of her own named James and Dr. Furr. "They still have prey drive and want to chase stuff. Don't put away toys and things you used to do just because they reach their golden years."
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Supplied with 5 sets of aluminium loading blocks which are grit blasted and hard clear anodized.
Upper fiiting and lower fittings: Type Dm (1.25 inch connection with 1/2 inch clevis pin).
Max. Static Load: 30 kN (3,000 kgf, 6,600 lbf)
Temperature range: -70 to +250 °C (-94 to +482 °F)
Specimen size: 50 x 50 mm (2 x 2 in)
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The FBI and local police in Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas are seeking a serial armed bank robber dubbed the "Loan Ranger Bandit."During the robberies, the armed man, who does not attempt to disguise his face, displayed a note demanding 20s, 50s and 100s and received an undisclosed amount of money. To date, no one has been physically harmed.
The robber is described as a white male in his early 30s, approximately 5'7" to 6'0" tall, approximately 200 pounds, with a medium build. He has short light brown hair, wears glasses, and has a small mole or mark just above his right eye on the lower part of his forehead. His varied clothing styles have included: athletic wear, jeans, and business attire. He was dubbed the "Loan Ranger Bandit" for the blue Texas Rangers baseball cap he has worn while robbing banking institutions where loans are offered.
The suspect may drive a maroon Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck with a thin white pinstripe around the truck bed.
The suspect is considered armed and dangerous. A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of this robber. If you have any information concerning this case, please call the FBI at: 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip online at: http://tips.fbi.gov.
The suspect is believed to have committed the following robberies:
January 16, 2009 - Summit Bank, 1114 Highway 35 South, Benton, Arkansas
June 30, 2011 - Summit Bank, 1114 Highway 35 South, Benton, Arkansas
July 21, 2011 - Citibank, 3701 Fairway Boulevard, Wichita Falls, Texas
August 31, 2011 - Altra Federal Credit Union, 5523 Troup Highway, Tyler, Texas
October 4, 2011 - Temple Santa Fe Community Credit Union, 1750 West Avenue A, Temple, Texas
January 4, 2012 - Union State Bank, 902 Palm Valley Boulevard, Round Rock, Texas
May 17, 2012 - BBVA Compass, 6910 South Broadway Ave., Tyler, Texas
July 9, 2012 - First State Bank Central Texas, 50 South Main Street, Salado, Texas
August 17, 2012 - FedStar Credit Union, 701 Harvey Road, College Station, Texas
October 26, 2012 - BancorpSouth Bank, 2174 Main Street, Madison, Mississippi


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Angel Heart
A New York private eye (Rourke) is hired by a mysterious man (De Niro) to locate a missing crooner named "Johnny Favourite." But as every new piece of the puzzle falls into place and voodoo works its magic -- things get more dangerous and unnerving.
Alan Parker (Pink Floyd's The Wall) directs a film on a tight-wire, fusing Raymond Chandler with the world of the Faustian supernatural. With simple, but confident strokes, he brings such gravity to a tale that becomes otherworldly. Taking many liberties from the source material novel Falling Angels by William Hjortberg, Parker's screen adaptation expands the scope of the reality, while doing justice to the way people really speak in the Big Apple and the Big Easy.Continue Reading
Broken English
There is a moment in this film when Parker Posey is so vulnerable and desperate and beautiful that one remembers why we loved desperate crazy women in cinema before all this feel-good-about-yourself hullabaloo started.
She clutches her leaving lover, face wet with tears, slip bunched around limbs longing to fling themselves at him and loathing herself for it. Such a romantic image recalls French New Wave and American Noir as you witness an inevitable breakdown. Her love and her crazy are startling and translatable. This chemistry with herself is part of why Posey's Nora is one of the best character studies I've seen in a long time. Posey explores and exposes throwing away the funny femme characterizations she's begun to play with in bigger, less indie films and shatters herself into so many facets - sparkling like a jewel. Brilliant. Complex. Fragile, flawed and unique. The story and stories around her are just the stuff off indie romantic comedies and ultimately fill in the background of what can only be her in a focus so sharp we truly understand the phrase lovable neurotic.Continue Reading
Double Indemnity
If you know nothing about film noir, start with Double Indemnity. This classic by director Billy Wilder was among the first bona fide pictures in the postwar genre, and it contains all the essential elements – lust, greed, violence, betrayal – that animated this wondrous American style during its great epoch of the 1940s and '50s.
Based on a novel by hardboiled fiction forefather James M. Cain, the biting script was co-authored by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, creator of detective Philip Marlowe. The brutal, sleazy tale is recounted (in traditional voiceover style) by canny but weak-willed Los Angeles insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who is ensnared by the scheming trollop Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). The pair hatch a complicated plot to murder her wealthy husband and collect a large double indemnity insurance policy. But they don't reckon on the acute intuition of Neff's friend and co-worker, claims investigator Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), whose "little man" in the pit of his stomach tells him something isn't quite right.Continue Reading
Kiss Me Deadly
In the world of noir a good mystery is so much more about the journey than the destination. I couldn't really explain to you what was happening through every scene of Mulholland Dr. or who did what in The Big Sleep but those films are such superb examples of atmosphere as a blueprint for understanding the director's vision that nothing is lost by not understanding every last scene or plot twist contained within. A first rate noir is more than the sum of its double crosses and knifed backs. In fact without that brilliantly unnerving atmosphere it's just another run-of-the-mill whodunit. Noir is atmosphere certainly more than it could be called a kind of plot which is why films as conceptually different as Sweet Smell of Success and The Killing are both considered to be part of the noir canon. Kiss Me Deadly is director Robert Aldrich's adrenaline charged mystery set in a mid-'50s Los Angeles of sun-seared nuclear paranoia. It's a detective story but it's also about an era of America defined by its paranoia over the possibility of impending nuclear holocaust.
Mike Hammer (played by Ralph Meeker) is a hot shot Private Investigator who makes his living snooping around and catching people with their pants down. He's the one that the jilted wives of L.A. go to when they want proof that their husbands are cheating. It's a dirty way to make a living or so he is constantly told but he doesn't seem to mind. He's out for his own gain. He likes cocktails, race cars, women, and his unbelievably cool apartment. If he had a code of ethics it probably boils down to "the ends justify the means." A woman on the run winds up in Mike's car one night and before too long he is embroiled in a mystery that ensnares gangsters, the FBI, a murderous blonde, and pretty soon the fate of the entire world. Everyone is after what Hammer's girlfriend terms, "the great whatsit." When it's found it takes the fatalism of noir to a whole new realm.Continue Reading
L.A. Confidential
In 1950s Los Angeles, three cops with very different styles, try solving a multiple homicide. Along the way, they face off against each other, as well as the corruption that runs rampant in the City of Angels.
The screen adaptation by Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (Payback), beautifully translates a very complex multi-layered story, based on the crime novel by James Ellroy. The characterization is very strong, the dialogue is razor-sharp, and the plot structure is intricate, but aptly realized. The two men won an Academy Award for their efforts.Continue Reading
Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford grabbed at life the only way she knew how—by the balls, baby. She fled a hard scrabble childhood full of the horrors to become the reigning queen of Hollywood. She defied so many odds put in front of her and she almost always came out on top. Joan was many different versions of herself throughout her life: gold digger, jazz baby, Pepsi hawker, perennial MGM shop girl, terrible, terrible mother, the greatest star the world has ever known, poster woman for mental illnesses, bizarre recipe creator, transgender identity pioneer, role model to the uneducated, black market baby taker, dubious advice giver, enemy of slovenly hippies, the world's most famous neat freak, world class fashion don't… she did it all. Her crazy life was her greatest work of art.
When people talk about Joan's essential artifice (and likewise the supposedly superior talents of her chief star rival, Bette Davis) I don't understand why they mean it in a bad way. Her artifice was the whole picture and it was riveting. It gave her a unique kind of depth. It set her apart. She didn't want to be liked; she demanded to be worshiped. Whether in a black market stag film early in her career (as was rumored) or any number of MGM prestige pictures or in her obsessive assembling of her bizarre family set up, Joan's way of life was to attack. Her ambition was her identity. This can be either repulsive or, if she was in the right film, it can be put to very compelling use.Continue Reading
The Big Knife
I get a real kick out certain big, strapping, "man's man" actors: Heston, Mitchum, Lancaster, Hayden and, most importantly, Jack Palance. Palance could work his way through those 50s monologues of seine-styled verbiage like Rosalind Russell on meth. If the modern-day film audience has trouble with his histrionic delivery, it's surely because of the contemporary bias for realism within acting. To me, he's like the artist who manages to find the perfect curved line when representing action. Cartoonish? Maybe, but any comic book fan can tell you about the pleasure of a broad stroke. I prefer to look at that old-style melodramatic acting in which Palance excelled as the representation laid bare, a modernist nod to the fact that what's going on isn't real, but the emotions and thoughts are. He is the brutal signifier. And he was never better than in Aldrich's The Big Knife, a more masochistic film pleasure you'll not likely find. The script is by James Poe, based on the play of the same name by Clifford Odets, whose work, when properly adapted as it is here, makes the more famous Tennessee Williams adaptations look like Sundance productions.
Palance plays a big-time Hollywood actor who's had his dreams replaced, piece by piece, with factory-line assembled product. Unfortunately for him, he knows what art is, but the Factory, in the body of Rod Steiger (one of the few actors who could go toe-to-toe with Palance up the tower of babble), has something on the actor, namely that he killed a child while driving drunk. Palance makes too much money for Steiger's hack producer, so he's forced to sign another 7-year contract of servitude. Due to his infidelity to both his art and their relationship, the actor's wife, played by noir-babe Ida Lupino, is living separate from him with their child, and has threatened to leave for good if he signs on again. The misery becomes even more turbid when, like a pig to mud, Shelly Winters, playing the girl who was with Palance on that drunken night, threatens to reveal his dirty secret to the gossip columns. Steiger, not wanting to lose his golden goose, tries to get Palance to help kill Winters. The screen threatens to implode each time Palance and Steiger take a breath before launching into another tirade. With the aid of a bunch of booze, a lascivious harpy draining Palance's moral center (played by barrel-browed Jean Hagen), and a whole slew of master-servant dialectics between the royalty (Palance, Steiger) and their hanger-ons (the great character actors Everett Sloane and Wesley Addy, among others), the film reaches its moribund conclusion.Continue Reading


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Okay. So I sat down this evening with the specific intent of not watching tonight's episode with dread, not using the term "sludge pump," and trying to honestly give this series a chance.
My reward, you may ask? A charming little vignette where I got to watch a genuinely innocent black inmate brutalized by prison management and his peers, then subjected to a sick Clockwork Orange experiment by Doctor Beauregard (yes, Hauser's present day buddy) that turns him into an actual killer. But on the plus side, Diego Soto got a date with the cute coroner. So there's that.
We open with Clarence Montgomery having fun with a young lady. He slits her throat and positions her on a golf course to a montage of psychotic imagery and unpleasant lighting. Yep, if I had been blindfolded in solitary for the last four weeks and suddenly exposed to a TV screen with no channel indication, I'd instantly know it was 9:00 P.M. on a Monday and this was Alcatraz. No other show has such a brazen lack of charm.
Clarence goes to the apartment of a crippled black man who was a former Alcatraz inmate. The man tells Clarence he was innocent. Meanwhile, Diego sees the body of the most recent victim on his Bat Computer and instantly pulls out a photo of another dead woman on a golf course from 1958. It's the Penguin! Quick, to the Bat Poles! And our big twist follows: the coroner can tell just by looking at the picture of the 1958 victim that she and the current victim were killed by different people.
The Alcatarz back story is as follows. Clarence Montgomery was a cook sent to Alcatraz for murdering his girlfriend, the aforementioned 1958 victim. Only he didn't. He really didn't. He's the one innocent man on Alcatraz. The warden picks him to be the new cook and he makes a delicious meal of ribs. Of course, the white prisoners won't eat it. A riot ensues, in which Clarence is beaten. The warden seemed to expect this. For extra laughs, the deputy warden directs thinly veiled racial insults at Clarence on two occasions. Finally, Clarence is taken to some basement where Doctor Beauregard draws blood, straps Clarence down, tapes his eyes open and forces him to watch a grisly film to an accompaniment of electroshock therapy. Later, Clarence kills a fellow inmate. Brainwashing images play as he does so, the same as when he kills women in the present. For added fun, we see Beauregard and the warden chuckling about their little experiment in the final close.
In the present, another woman gets killed. Rebecca, Diego and Hauser track Clarence down to the apartment of his crippled friend. He shoots at our intrepid trio to hold them at bay. Clarence tells his friend that he did the most recent crimes, that he can't go on like this or let himself be taken back. He begs his friend to kill him. The friend shoots him as Rebecca breaks in. To make the whole thing as wretched as possible, we're also treated to the sight of the crippled old friend being taken away by the police for the crime of being the only decent person in the entire show. Can't have that.
Welcome to snuff television, folks. It's as bad as it sounds.
I couldn't possibly care less what the answer to any of these mysteries are. I wish John Carter and a big, super-fast Martian dog would jump in and beat Hauser to death. With a copy of Scriptwriting 101.
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Nobody has improved the violin since the Golden Age of Cremonese making, so I try to get close to the qualities of those instruments.
I use Classic Models and as nearly as possible the Classical Methods, employing European timbers (maple, spruce and willow) which I select for sound not just figure, and an oil varnish which I cook up from Australian amber. This substance looks just like rosin but isn't; it's not Pinus or Picea but probably from the Araucaria family (Norfolk Island, Bunya and Woolamai Pines, indigenous to this country). The amber comes from the opencut coal mines in Yallourn, Victoria, and I can achieve a range of colours from a golden yellow/brown to orange and quite a deep brown with touches of orange. Our climate is variable and harsh, and in summer we may have 40 Deg C+ for 2 or 3 weeks on end followed by frosts in winter, so the varnish must neither soften nor go hard and brittle.
I concentrate on sound first - all the style and technique being employed to that end. I often discuss model and arching with customers, either face-to-face, by phone or by e-mail, which works very well. Arching is important as it, in conjunction with the model selected, largely controls the character of the sound and I find I can "tailor make" the instrument to a degree. It is a very useful guide if the customer can indicate their preferences – which particular players' sound they admire. This often gives me somewhere to start from.
So far I have made to order almost exclusively but any noncommissioned instruments sell quickly and I seldom have anything in stock for more than a few weeks. I have quite a large list of owners including professional musicians, amateurs, Universities and Orchestras both in Australia and overseas.
Because I was a sculptor, I like to see the evidence of tools that are quite apparent in Guarnerius del Gesu and Gasparo da Salo scrolls and I therefore use quite a bit of freedom in this area myself. I do however like precision in rib building and arching (inside as well as out) both for acoustic and artistic reasons.
So many makers concentrate on symmetry in their instruments but I find that when I copy the proportions and outline of an old Italian violin closely (they are always very slightly asymmetrical and I believe this was done intentionally), I get better results. Acoustic Architects will always avoid perfect symmetry as it causes cancellation of soundwaves.
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — In what figures to be a tough sell, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is going to Capitol Hill to make the case for President Barack Obama's request for $3.7 billion to help deal with a flood of unaccompanied child immigrants that has overwhelmed the Border Patrol in South Texas.
Johnson's scheduled appearance Thursday before the Senate Appropriations Committee comes a day after Obama met with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a staunch critic of the president's handling of what Obama has called an "urgent humanitarian situation" at the border.
During his fundraising trip to Texas, Obama also met with faith leaders and other Texas officials to discuss the wave or more than 57,000 children, mostly from Central America, who have been caught crossing the border without their parents since Oct. 1. At the same time, immigration officials have arrested more than 39,000 immigrants, mostly mothers and children, traveling as family groups.
In a preview of what Johnson may hear Thursday from senators, some Republicans made it clear Wednesday that Obama's budget request would be a hard sell.
"I cannot vote for a provision which will then just perpetuate an unacceptable humanitarian crisis that's taking place on our southern border," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on the Senate floor, where he was joined by fellow Arizonan Jeff Flake and Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. They took take turns blaming Obama's policies for causing the border crisis.
In the House, Speaker John Boehner was noncommittal about bringing the spending measure to a vote.
"If we don't secure the border, nothing's going to change," Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters. "And if you look at the president's request, it's all more about continuing to deal with the problem."
Republicans blamed the president's decision to relax some deportation rules for fueling rumors circulating in Central America that once here, migrant kids would be allowed to stay.
"We're trying to stop human trafficking. Are we actually increasing it?" Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., asked several Obama administration officials during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat who chairs the Senate Appropriations homeland security subcommittee, said she wanted to be careful about approving the president's emergency spending request.
"What I'm going to be focused on is accountability, who's in charge, what the plan is, who's going to be held responsible before we spend, you know, $3.7 billion," Landrieu said. "So we've got a lot more questions to be answered before I think we run too far ahead."
The president's emergency budget request includes funding for the Justice Department to hire 40 new immigration judge teams and about $1 billion for immigration enforcement efforts within the Homeland Security Department to help speed removal of immigrant families traveling with children, in addition to about $295 million to support repatriation, reintegration and border security efforts in Central America.
The Justice Department also announced Wednesday that deportation cases involving families and unaccompanied children would be moved to the top of court dockets. That means lower-priority cases will take even longer to wend through a system where there's a backlog of more than 360,000 deportation cases.
Emerging from the highly anticipated meeting with Perry, Obama said he was open to suggestions from the Texas governor and others that he dispatch National Guard troops to the border but warned that such a solution would only work temporarily. He urged Republicans to grant his emergency spending request so the government will have the resources to put a variety of ideas into action.
"The problem here is not major disagreement," Obama said in Dallas. "If they're interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved. If the preference is for politics, then it won't be solved."
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BALTIMORE – More than 400 student-athletes, faculty, staff and family members were in attendance on Monday, May 6 at the RAC Arena as UMBC honored its student-athletes for another successful year both on the playing surface and in the classroom. Junior Pete Caringi III (Perry Hall, Md./Calvert Hall) joined second-year honorees, sophomore Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) and junior Mohamed Hussein (Cairo, Egypt/Victory College), as the Retrievers' Most Outstanding Athletes for the 2012-13 academic year, an honor that was renamed the Dr. Charles R. Brown Outstanding Athlete Award to recognize the Athletic Director, who will retire in June, for his 24 years of dedication to the department and school.
Men's Lacrosse four-year letterwinner Scott Jones (Port Coquitlam, Brit. Columbia/Terry Fox) earned Outstanding Senior Male Athlete recognition, while track & field's Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) and women's lacrosse's Jamie Fahey(Baldwin, Md./Loch Raven) shared the Outstanding Senior Female Athlete Award.
Women's Basketball's Raven Harris (Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne/American) and men's soccer's Liam Paddock(Worcestershire, England/Chase Technology College) received the prestigious Matt Skalsky Scholar-Athlete Award, given to the department's top academic honorees.
Caringi III authored a breakthrough season for the men's soccer program, and was the offensive force that propelled the team to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, earning several post-season honors. He was cited as the America East Striker of the Year, the ECAC Offensive Player of the Year and he was selected to National College Soccer Coaches' Association All-Northeast Region Second Team.
An America East First Team selection and the league's Fans' Choice Player of the Year, he scored 14 goals and recorded 32 points to place 13th and 15th respectively in the country. The local Calvert Hall product also tied a school single-game record by scoring four goals in a resounding victory over league foe Hartford.
Jackson pushed past her record-setting freshman campaign and continued to make history both inside and outside, as she garnered her second consecutive Athlete of the Year recognition. Already the school-record holder in the 60-meter and 200-meter dash events indoors from last year, Jackson ran past both marks during the 2012-13 indoor track season, including a personal-best time of 7.34 in the 60-meter event to become just the fourth UMBC track athlete ever to advance to the NCAA Championships. In Fayetteville, Arkansas, she placed 13th and earned a spot on the All-America Second Team.
Outside, the sophomore has continued her bristling pace, winning the 100m and 200m dash events in record-breaking time at the America East Outdoor Championships. Her victory in the 100-meter race broke an eight-year old conference record, while her win the 200-meter snapped her own conference and school-record times. For her efforts, she was named the Most Outstanding Female Track Performer.
A year after breaking onto the scene at UMBC with three individual gold medals at the 2012 America East Championships,Hussein, also a back-to-back honoree of Most Outstanding Athlete recognition, pushed even further this season, leading the Retrievers to just their second-ever undefeated dual meet season. In Orono, Maine, he once again won three individual events and was named the Most Outstanding Male Swimmer for the second-straight year, as he helped guide the Retrievers back to the top of the conference with a meet-record 1,075 total points at the America East Championships in Maine.
Following the America East meet, the junior claimed Top Male Swimmer accolades at the ECAC Championships and became just the third Retriever in program history, and first male swimmer, to make the cut for the NCAA Championships. In Indianapolis, against a national field, he set personal-records in the 200-yard individual medley, 200-yard freestyle, and the 200-yard backstroke, breaking his own school record with each swim.
Jones has been the men's lacrosse team's offensive leader for the past three seasons. He has earned three all-conference honors, including first team recognition in 2012, when he finished eighth in the nation in goals scored per game. Earlier this season, he became the 30th player in school history to record 100 points and currently stands 20th with 117 career points. Jones has served as team captain of the Retrievers for the past two season and earned all-tournament honors at the 2013 America East Men's Lacrosse Championships.
Deller has won the shot put all eight times at the America East Championships, earning a gold medal in the event indoors and outdoors, all four years of her career. In addition, she has won the weight throw at the indoor meet to be named the Most Outstanding Female Field Athlete each of the last two years. Last year, she added the discus championship to her career haul and this season at the conference championships at Binghamton, she repeated in the discus to bring her career haul to 12 America East titles.
Fahey received conference honors all four season with the Retrievers, including three straight selections to the America East All-Conference First Team. Additionally, she has earned national recognition on the IWLCA Mid-Atlantic Region Second Team, as well as garnering a spot on the womenslacrosse.com All-Rookie Squad. The four-year letterwinner eclipsed the century mark for draw controls with 115 and ground balls with 105 for her career this season, in addition to recording her first career point with an assist in a 15-12 victory against American.
Harris emerged as one of the elite point guards in the America East in her senior season, setting a new school record with 109 steals on the season, ranking fifth all-time in takeaways in a campaign for the America East, and ended the year ranked third in the country in steals per game. An America East All-Conference Second Team selection, and a member of the America East All-Defensive team, the senior guard tripled her scoring production from a year ago, averaging 12.4 points per game and adding 3.8 helpers. The America East Honor Roll member earned a bachelor's degree with a major in media and communications studies in May 2012 and has posted a 4.0 GPA since starting her master's program in early childhood education.
Paddock became just the second UMBC student-athlete ever to receive a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, which he is using to pursue a master's degree in the management of aging studies. He earned his undergraduate degree with a 3.92 GPA, completing a double-major in psychology and sociology and was the 2012 ECAC Division I Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
A team captain at UMBC, Paddock was named 2012 America East Defender of the Year and was a repeat selection to the America East All-Conference First Team. The two-time America East Scholar Athlete in the sport of men's soccer, he started all 72 games that he dressed for in his four-year tenure in Baltimore.
The Leon Upshur Memorial Award, establish in 1994 to honor a student volunteer that contributes to the mission of the athletic department in capacities other than participation, was given to fourth-year student trainer Mariah Cheaves.
Juniors Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) of track & field and Klara Pavelkova (Prague, Czech Republic/Gymnasium Pripotocni) of women's swimming & diving wrapped up the major award winners as the recipients of the Retriever Club Scholarship Award, which will be used for their senior seasons of competition.
Below is the list of UMBC's most valuable athletes, most improved athletes and unsung heroes for each sport, chose by that' team's coaches, as well as the winners of the third annual Gritty Awards:
2012-13 UMBC Award Winners
Men's Soccer
Most Improved Athlete: Jordan Becker (Pocomoke City, Md./Pocomoke)
Most Valuable Athlete: Pete Carinigi III (Perry Hall, Md./Calvert Hall)
Most Valuable Athlete: Phil Saunders (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall)
Women's Soccer
Unsung Hero: Melissa Hummel (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East)
Most Improved Athlete: Stephanie Smith (Severna Park, Md./Archbishop Spalding)
Most Valuable Athlete: Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas)
Unsung Hero: Robbin Lee (Olney, Md./Sherwood)
Most Improved Athlete: Mallory McIntyre (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada/St. Mary's Academy)
Most Improved Athlete: Krystal Mlemchukwu (Baltimore, Md./Western Tech)
Men's Cross Country
Unsung Hero: Tommy Eldridge (Rocky River, Ohio/Rocky River)
Most Improved Athlete: Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley)
Most Valuable Athlete: Brandan McGee (Hiram, Ohio/Crestwood)
Women's Cross Country
Unsung Hero: Nicole Dawson (Jessup, Md./Hammond)
Most Improved Athlete: Julie Gessler (Ellicott City, Md./Institute of Notre Dame)
Most Valuable Athlete: Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll)
Men's Basketball
Unsung Hero: Malik Garner (Philadelphia, Pa./Chestnut Hill Academy)
Most Improved Athlete: Brian Neller (Red Bank, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy)
Most Valuable Athlete: Ryan Cook (Laurel, Md./St. Vincent Pallotti/Chestnut Hill College)
Women's Basketball
Unsung Hero: Kristin Coles (Charles Town, W.Va./Notre Dame Academy/American)
Most Improved Athlete: Kim Browning (Mechanicsville, Va./Hanover)
Most Valuable Athlete: Raven Harris (Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne/American)
Men's Swimming & Diving
Unsung Hero: Andrew Eckhoff (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford)
Unsung Hero: Pierre DeWaal (Pretoria, South Africa/Tuks Sport/Cleveland State)
Most Valuable Athlete: Mohammed Hussein (Cairo, Egypt/Victory College)
Women's Swimming & Diving
Most Improved Athlete: Corinna Darelius (Rye, N.Y./Rye)
Most Improved Athlete: Faye Hixenbaugh (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery)
Most Valuable Athlete: Jennifer Kotonias (Burtonsville, Md./Academy of Holy Cross)
Men's Indoor Track & Field
Most Improved Athlete: Liam Stott (Carrboro, N.C./Chapel Hill)
Most Valuable Athlete: Dennison Long (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt/FIU)
Most Valuable Athlete: Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley)
Women's Indoor Track & Field
Most Improved Athlete: Mary Katherine Kulp (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal)
Most Valuable Athlete: Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown)
Most Valuable Athlete: Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen)
Men's Lacrosse
Unsung Hero: Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River
Unsung Hero: Ethan Murphy (West Seneca, N.Y./West Seneca East)
Unsung Hero: Jake Zimmerman (Towson, Md./Boys' Latin)
Women's Lacrosse
Unsung Hero: Kendall Mason (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y./Cold Spring Harbor)
Most Improved Athlete: Lexi Bristow (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck)
Most Valuable Athlete: Jamie Fahey (Baldwin, Md./Loch Raven)
Men's Tennis
Unsung Hero: Patrick Geoffrion-Amorim (Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada/American Heritage)
Most Improved Athlete: Daniel Gray (Bowie, Md./The Bullis School)
Most Valuable Athlete: Justin Carter (Randallstown, Md./National Connections Academy)
Women's Tennis
Unsung Hero: Isabel Aldunate (Bowie, Md./Home School)
Most Improved Athlete: Heidi Danielsson (Jonkoping, Sweden/Sanda)
Most Valuable Athlete: Josefin Stange-Jonsson (Vasteras, Sweden/De La Gardiegymnasiet)
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Most Valuable Athlete: Dennison Long (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt/FIU)
Most Valuable Athlete: Vincent Rentzsch (Oranienburg, Germany)
Most Valuable Athlete: Thor Serafenas (Olney, Md./Good Counsel/Clemson)
Women's Outdoor Track & Field
Most Valuable Athlete: Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K. Magnet)
Most Valuable Athlete: Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen)
Most Valuable Athlete: Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown)
Unsung Hero: Robert Hopp (Catonsville, Md./Catonsville)
Unsung Hero: Luke Seppi (Annapolis, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt)
Most Improved Athlete: Jon Cohn (Scottsdale, Ariz./Notre Dame Prep)
Unsung Hero: Danielle O'Neill (Loathian, Md./Southern)
Most Valuable Athlete: Heather Brown (Pasadena, Md./Northeast)
Most Valuable Athlete: Taylor Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby)
2012-13 Gritty Award Winners
Upset of the Year: Men's Soccer victory over Old Dominion
Rookie of the Year: Pat Young (Ewing, N.J./Christchurch School) – men's lacrosse
Record-Breaking Performance: Mohammed Hussein (Cairo, Egypt/Victory College) – men's swimming & diving
Comeback Athlete of the Year: Amy Fay (Haverhill, Mass./Haverhill) – women's swimming & diving
Play of the Year: Brian Neller (Red Bank, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) – men's basketball
Breakthrough Athlete of the Year: Shannon Harkey (Purcellville, Va./Loudoun Valley/Florida) – women's


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Steak and Ale Pie with Mushrooms
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1 1/4 pounds cubed beef stew meat
1 onion, diced
1 (12 fluid ounce) can pale ale or lager beer
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste
2 cups peeled and cubed potatoes
1 1/2 cups quartered fresh mushrooms
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 pastry for double-crust pie
Place the beef stew meat, onion, and ale in a large saucepan. Simmer over low heat until the meat is tender, about 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Season the beef with garlic, thyme, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Mix in the potatoes and mushrooms. Cover and simmer over medium heat until potatoes are just tender enough to pierce with a fork, 10 to 15 minutes. Whisk a small amount of the sauce together with the flour in a small bowl, and stir into the beef. Simmer until slightly thickened.
Fit one pie crust into the bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch pie plate. Spoon the hot beef mixture into the crust and top with the remaining pie crust. Cut slits in the top crust to vent steam and crimp the edges to seal them together.
Bake in preheated oven until the crust is golden brown and gravy is bubbling, 35 to 40 minutes.
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We've all seen the campy trailers for Mirror Mirror, featuring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen. The TV spots, in particular, have looked kind of embarrassing, full of "little people" pot shots and dated gags. But the actual movie? Is surprisingly fun, even if none of the characters is developed beyond the hemlines of their ornate costumes. We managed to get a lot of enjoyment out of this film — even with Nathan Lane's I was a sodomized by a grasshopper one-liner ricocheting around inside our souls.
Spoilers ahead...
Even though Mirror Mirror is just a colorful fart in the wind, compared to kiddie classics such as Iron Giant or Cinderella, director Tarsem Singh's gorgeous style and the cast's doe-eyed earnestness make this the movie the perfect equivalent of a nursery mobile. Just turn it on when you want the baby to shut up.
The first welcome surprise of the movie is animator Ben Hibbon! You may remember his stunning work animating Harry Potter's "Tale of Three Brothers." Hibbon returns to the big screen in Mirror Mirror, animating Snow White's tragic backstory. The characters and style are 100% exactly the same as what you saw in The Deathly Hallows, (not a bad thing) — but instead of animated shadows, Hibbon plays with a collection of slender porcelain dolls. It's stunning, and we cannot wait until it leaks online, because it's something we desperately want to watch again and again.
From there, Tarsem takes the wheel. Some critics have already begun to shake their heads at seeing the "Tarsem aesthetic" forced into this movie — but the day I can't find joy in elaborate castles with moving cloud wallpapers, purple wigs, and 10-foot-long bussles, that's the day I pack it in. When Snow White (Lily Collins) makes her debut in the Swan Hat Wing Dress, it was all you can do to not dump our popcorn on the person next to us and start sloth weeping.
Sadly, the story itself isn't as inspired as the awe-inducing Swan Hat (what with Once Upon a Time already banging the "bad-ass Snow White" drum). But here's the general gist: Snow White grows from pale princess to pale swashbuckler, with the help of her new dwarf friends and a musical montage. The dwarves themselves deliver a few laughs here and there, but mostly exist to facilitate the bumper needed between the Prince (Armie Hammer) and Snow White. Meanwhile a mad Julia Roberts struts around in her lovely outfits, mean-girling her staff and hiding out in a thatch hut her magic mirror transports her to. Roberts has her moments of fun dickishness, plus a couple great scenes wrapped up in her all-woodland-creature beauty regime (which includes rubbing bird poop on her face, stinging her lips with bees and letting little fishies nibble away her raw skin. But the Evil Queen is only as funny as "Hey look, it's Julia Roberts in a wacky dress" will get you. The real stars are Hammer, and the pair of eyebrows Lily Collins stole from Jennifer Connelly.
In this fairy tale, it's the Prince who becomes the damsel in distress, and Hammer goes full Jason Stackhouse with it. Committed to his dopey charm and immediate lovesick infatuation with Snow White, his dedication to the lunacy makes Mirror Mirror sort of fun, even when he's transformed into a puppy. Every other actor feels the all important need to send the audience the old "wink-and-smile-I'm-better-than-this" nod, but not Hammer. Hell, even Sean Bean is a heartbeat away from mobile banking his Mirror Mirror paycheck on camera, and he's only on screen for maybe 4 minutes.
All in all where the jokes and shallow storyline fail, the costumes and colors soar. The Prince will make you sigh, and the dwarves will make you groan — which is precisely the tradeoff we expected. If you love spectacle singing and primary colors popping on white backgrounds, go see Mirror Mirror — it's really not as bad as the trailer make it out to be.


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Washington State's new law makes it legal for adults to possess up to one ounce of marijuana, but some speculate the federal government will prosecute those who use marijuana on federal land because federal law prohibits marijuana use. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
With marijuana possession now legal in Washington state, and soon in Colorado too, residents face a confusing mishmash of federal and state laws when it comes to whether and where they can get high.
That's because the federal government still bans pot growing and possession, regardless of what state laws say.
Last night, just hours before legislation legalizing pot in her state went into effect, U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan of Washington warned residents that "growing, selling or possessing any amount of marijuana remains illegal under federal law."
Her words could be a buzzkill for Washington's pot-lovers, yet at midnight -- the moment Washington's law went into effect -- marijuana smokers lit up beneath Seattle's Space Needle, reveling in the joy of living in a state that allows possession of pot, even if state law still says it is illegal to smoke it in public.
"It's too good to be just for the young," Pat Edmonson, 67, of Whidbey Island, Wash., said as she smoked marijuana in Seattle's City Center with a crowd of about 100 others who were lighting up, despite the no-pot-in-public rule.
State leaders have appealed to the Justice Department for guidance.
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Pat Edmonson, 67, of Whidbey Island, Wash., was in Seattle with her daughter to celebrate the legalization of the possession of marijuana.
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes encouraged celebrants to enjoy their highs inside closed doors.
"I think that they should acknowledge this newfound right," he told NPR station KUOW. "I think they should celebrate in the privacy of their homes if they choose to do so. And be thankful that we're no longer arresting some 10,000 Washingtonians a year in the state of Washington and spending well over $100 million in law enforcement resources on that."
In Colorado, a measuring legalizing marijuana use and possession for those over 21 will go into effect next month. But one place where federal laws will have an impact: college campuses.
"In order not to lose federal funds, we need to comply with federal law," University of Colorado at Boulder spokeswoman Malinda Hiller-Huey told The Denver Post.
College students on campuses across the state will be issued criminal tickets if they are found with marijuana, The Post reported. Off-campus, however, students of legal age will be able to grow and use small amounts of marijuana, per the new amendment, according to the University of Colorado.
While Colorado's new weed measure doesn't have any provisions about driving under the influence built into it, Washington state will have a zero-tolerance policy.
"We've had decades of studies and experience with alcohol," Washington State Patrol spokesman Dan Coon told The Associated Press. "Marijuana is new, so it's going to take some time to figure out how the courts and prosecutors are going to handle it. But the key is impairment: We will arrest drivers who drive impaired, whether it be drugs or alcohol."
It's unclear whether the Justice Department will try to stop the decriminalization of pot in Washington and Colorado. The laws in both states allow adults 21 and older to possess a small amount of marijuana, which will be sold in state-licensed stores and taxed heavily, potentially bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars a year for school, health care and government needs.
Before the vote passed in his state, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper acknowledged the legal challenges his state would face.
"It's probably going to pass, but it's still illegal on a federal basis. If we can't make it legal here because of federal laws, we certainly want to decriminalize it," he told NBC's Brian Williams.
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia already have laws allowing for the medical use of marijuana, according to the National Council of Legislatures. The measures in Washington and Colorado go a step further, explicitly allowing people to smoke pot for more than just medicinal purposes.
NBC News' Pete Williams, Isolde Raftery and Jim Seida contributed to this report.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Greenland's government wants to make sure the sparsely populated Arctic island doesn't get "ripped off" by foreign companies seeking to exploit its natural resources, the new premier said Wednesday.
Aleqa Hammond, whose center-left Siumut party won a parliamentary election last month, said in Copenhagen that "there is a life after mining" and called for laws that "protect the people, our environment, our health."
The mining industry is looking for opportunities in Greenland, a mostly ice-covered island whose mineral resources are expected to become more accessible as climate change raises temperatures in the Arctic region.
Hammond has called for lifting a ban on uranium mining, but also wants to introduce royalties on the mining industry and revise a law that would allow an influx of foreign labor.
"Our government will in no way slow down the process," she told reporters. "Our government wants to use the time we need so we don't ... get ripped off."
Earlier this month, the government said it won't issue any new licenses for offshore oil exploration, though existing licenses would not be affected.
Greenland is hoping that harvesting the country's mineral wealth will help it achieve full independence from former colonial master Denmark.


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