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I'm on a plane flying to Boston. The ticket ended up being a fraud but stubhub upgraded my seat and gave me a free ticket. If you'd like to read the story just do a search, there's lots of media outlets that have covered it. More from the World Series later. Follow me on twitter @333greystreet for pics and updates.
It's been awhile since I've update anything on this blog. The blog has become basically useless to me because I can't upload any pictures since I've used 100% of my quota given by WordPress.
One big thing that I haven't written about is the birth of my son, Erik Jr. He's a strapping baby – in the 92th percentile for height and 100th percentile for weight. If you wonder why I never stay at the games, its because I am with my kids at home.
I've been monitoring prices for World Series tickets over the past few days, looking at which games I may possibly want to attend. I was shocked to see that there was a ticket listed for $6 for Game 1 of the World Series when I checked yesterday evening. Within seconds, I purchased it and received the ticket via email from stubhub, which I printed out. I posted my lucky buy on twitter, and from there, the purchased gained some national exposure. Check it out:
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I almost didn't go to this game. The forecast called for a 50% chance of rain. Nick Pelescak decided not to go. So, around 11 AM, Amy and I were sitting talking about what we were going to do for the day, she really wanted to go to Baltimore as she, like I, enjoy traveling. I looked at the hourly forecast one more time before leaving:
I figured if it did rain, I should at least be able to get a ball from an Athletics pitcher with my A's jersey with a gold (pirates) sweatshirt underneath.
We arrived at the stadium at 3:55, and there were literally 20 people ahead of us.
Its a good thing that we got there when we did because 30 minutes later, the line snaked far off into the distance out of view.
Everyone was here to see the unveiling of the Frank Robinson statue in center field and get their replica statue giveaway.
The gate surprising opened a couple minutes early, so I made a mad dash around the stadium into left field. You may be able to see me in the picture below, I'm wearing an orange shirt:
I got on the board early as I caught a Robert Andino home run on the fly here:
I had to run a section and a half to make the catch, but it felt good to get on the board early, especially as I was worried about the stands crowding up quickly. Unfortunately, the ball wasn't a commemorative.
Not long later, an Orioles lefty hit a home run near the bullpen that I ran over and caught barehanded as it bounced off of a seat. Commemorative!
During the Orioles last group, I ditched the left field bleachers because I felt I had a better chance of getting a ball from an Athletics pitcher or two or three.
There weren't many people there, and I had A's gear on, so I was hoping that they'd hook me up. Jerry Blevins did when he was done, tossing me a commemorative ball:
But he was the only pitcher to toss me one, so I returned to left field.
Coco Crisp was hitting some bombs, and one of his liners rolled to the warning track. I had told the folks in the front row that I'd give them the ball if they let me get it, so they let me glove trick. When I pulled it up I noticed it was a brand new white shiny Oriole Park commemorative. I asked the guy who moved to his left for me if he'd accept another ball, since I wanted the Orioles Park one, he said he didn't care, he just wanted a ball, so I gave him one of my decoy ones that I brought from home.
It was only 5:33 and I had 4 balls, not bad for a half hour. But then, the groundscrew came out and put the tarp on, ending the A's batting practice shortly after it had gotten started. It had been lightly sprinkling, but nothing that the A's couldn't have hit through. I was very disappointed. I decided to run over to the dugout to try to get a ball as the A's made their way off the field, but was too late.
At the dugout, I noticed a player sitting in the corner signing autographs. It was Yoenis Cespedes. Yes, THE Yoenis Cespedes – the player who I came all the way from Pittsburgh to see take batting practice.
I joined the small group of autograph seekers huddled in the front row and passed Yoenis the shiny new commemorative that I had just glove tricked in left field moments earlier.
He signed the ball:
He seemed very quiet and humble – Baltimore ballhawk Avi Miller said that he'd been signing each day for every fan that asked.
The trip was not a waste at all, even though 60% of BP got rained out. Not only did I get four baseballs and a Cespedes autographed baseball, I also got four Frank Robinson statues:
Believe it or not, I sold all 4 statues within 12 hours on ebay for $57 each with shipping included. So, I made $200 on those 4 giveaways. I could've made so much more money. As it was raining, I walked around the seating bowl looking for baseballs and came across at least 12 abandoned Frank Robinson statues that I suppose I could've just picked up. I didn't though. I was torn – did the people just forget them? They probably didn't even care if they were just going to leave them there in the rain… Oh well.
Here's today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
The Yoenis ball is #1628, which is unnumbered because I'm no longer numbering glove trick balls with a clean sweet spot for the purpose of getting them signed.
It turned out to be a great trip for Amy, Olivia and I. After BP we went out to eat in Baltimore because we didn't want to stay at the game if there were going to be off an on showers.
One last pic with the Cespedes autograph:
Game: 4 balls
Season: 84 balls
Games: 15 games
Lifetime: 1,628 balls
Attendance: 26,926
It was a Friday at Progressive Field, and it was brutally cold, with temps in the mid 40's. Originally, I had planned to go to Baltimore today and stay overnight and see the Athletics there on Friday and Saturday, but after some consultation with fellow ballhawk Nick Pelescak, we decided to go to Cleveland instead as it was the cheaper option.
When the gates opened, I got on the board early thanks to Indians closer Chris Perez. As I was unsuccessfully looking for an easter egg, Perez fielded a ball in center field. I called out to him and he threw me the ball to put me on the board. It had a BP Gas stamp on it, meaning that I can redeem the ball for a gas card by having a representative cross out the stamp.
My second ball of the day was a home run that took a crazy bounce in the front row and shot right at me. It was over my head, so I stabbed at it with my glove and made the catch on the ricochet. It was a reflex type play.
Ball #3 was a home run to center field that bounced in the aisle and took a large hop towards the Progressive car. There wasn't anyone else around so I scurried up the steps and picked it up.
My fourth ball came from Indians ace Ubaldo Jimenez. Jimenez finished a side session and walked out of the bullpen. Several people asked him for a ball, including myself, but he ignored everyone. Just as he was about to disappear out of view, he looked back. The other fans had turned their attention back to the field, but I hadn't, so I held up my glove – and he tossed me his warm up ball for my fourth of the day.
Ball #5 was a ground rule double that I fielded in center field. I just shuffled through an open row and caught it as it bounced off of the warning track.
That was it for the Indians. When the Angels came out, I was expecting a lot of home run balls to be hit to center field, since they are a right handed heavy line up. That really wasn't the case though. The Angels didn't hit much of anything to center field that had home run distance.
As BP got underway, I tried to get a ball from a pitcher, but the last place Angels, who have been in turmoil were pretty unfriendly when it came to tossing up baseballs.
After a long drought, I caught a home run on the fly in center field off the bat of who I believe is Mark Trumbo after looking at his batting stance on mlbtv. I caught it here:
Ball #7 was a home run ball that landed in the trees in Heritage Park.
That was just before 6PM. At 6, the whole stadium opened, and I made my way over to left field. An unknown righty hit a home run to my right that I tried to catch, but couldn't quite get to. In left field there are steep steps and bleachers all over the place, so its difficult to navigate quickly. The ball landed here:
Luckily, it rolled underneath the riser that the seats are on, so I just reached underneath and grabbed it.
I could tell that batting practice was about to end, so I hustled to the Angels dugout, the Angels finished before I got to the dugout, but I got there just in time to yell out 'DINO!' towards one of their coaches. It was Dino Ebel, their third base coach. He looked at me and smiled, and then turned away to put a few baseballs away. He then turned back and tossed me ball #9. Luckily I looked over the coaches list when I made my roster. Dino is unmistakeable because he's rather gaunt. Seems like a cool guy though.
I only needed one more for double digits, but we didn't hang around, we made the drive back to Pittsburgh with plans on heading to Baltimore the following day.
Here are today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
2012 Stats:
Game: 9 balls
Season: 80 balls
Games: 14 games
Lifetime: 1,624 balls
4/27 Attendance: 12,597 (for a Friday!?)
It was a Wednesday in Cleveland, and there were only 10,552 fans to attend this game. There were maybe 100 people there during batting practice. You'd think it would be a good day.
The wind was blowing in pretty well from center field, so home runs would be few and far between.
During the Indians batting practice I got three balls.
One from Chris Perez, who's the friendliest pitcher in the major leagues:
One was a home run by Carlos Santana that was over my head and I nearly caught, except that it tipped off my glove as I jumped for it. No matter, there was no one else around, so I merely picked it up.
And a third ball was a ground rule double that settled in the second row that I beat out a gloveless fan for.
When the Royals came out, I expected to be able to catch a few homers from their lefties and get a few tossups since there was only one other fan in the park wearing Royals gear.
I went over to the bullpen and watched coach Chino Cadahia warm up with Steve Foster. When they were done, I asked Foster for the ball, but he ignored me and put the ball in the ballbag. Chino saw the snub and went to his bag and pulled out a baseball and tossed it to me.
When the Royals pitchers were done throwing, Jose Mijares tossed me ball #5.
The Royals lefties hit 2 home runs the entire BP. None came close to me. To make matters worse, it seemed that most Royals pitchers, except for Bruce Chen were in a terrible mood. The Royals you see, had lost 12 in a row heading into this game, so they weren't feeling too generous.
By the way, this is what the stands looked like near the end of the Royals BP:
I figured that I could head over to left field or the dugout to try and get a ball, but the Royals cut their BP short, running off the field at 5:51. Fans are restricted to right field only until 6PM on weekdays. So, when the whole stadium opened, the Royals were long gone, and so were all the easter eggs thanks to Cleveland's staff.
Five baseballs is alright, but I was hoping for a few more based on the low crowd. Oh well. This was game one of two in Cleveland this week…
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
2012 Stats:
Game: 5 balls
Season: 71 balls
Lifetime: 1,615 balls
Games: 13 games
4/25 Attendance: 10,552
This was the Pirates first game against the Rockies of the season, as the previous night had been rained out. I was looking forward to this game because 49 year old Jamie Moyer would be pitching for the Rockies, and I had purchased a ticket directly behind the Rockies dugout.
Batting practice got off to a slow start for me. In fact, I didn't snag anything for the first 20 minutes. After coming up short on three different balls, I ranged to my left on a Michael McKenry home run ball and caught it on the fly here:
It was a milestone ball as it was my #1,600th.
Later, I called out to Evan Meek, who tossed a ball in my direction. Fellow ballhawk Ian Weir, who was two rows in front of me had it tip off of his glove, and it bounced right to me.
Ball #3 was a clean catch on the fly of a Yamaico Navarro homer here:
My fourth ball of the Pirates BP was a ground rule double hit by light hitting infielder Josh Harrison near the foul pole:
That was it for the Pirates BP, as they wrapped things up shortly after 5.
When the Rockies began hitting, the pitchers still were warming up in right field, so there were no players to shag balls. I used this time to make their job a little easier by glove tricking ball #5.
Carlos Gonzalez wandered over and tossed about 9 balls into the stands. I was about to glove trick an easy ball when he began walking towards it. Since he was making an effort to retrieve it, I didn't use the glove trick, even though I could've quickly and easily snagged it and saved him the walk over. CarGo came over, picked the ball up, and handed it to me for ball #6.
Ball #7 was another simple glove trick in left.
When the pitchers finally made their way over, Rex Brothers tossed me ball #8, and motioned to me to give it to a little kid standing a few feet to my left, so I did.
Ball #9 was a foul ball hit by Troy Tulowitzki. He yanked it down the line into the lower seats. It was already like 5:35, and there were no fans over there. No one seemed to notice or care. So I ran over into foul ground and grabbed it.
I was on a hot streak. I had nine balls and Rockies BP was just getting underway. But, weirdly, I didn't snag anything else during batting practice, even though this was the crowd shortly before 6 PM at the end of BP:
Before the game started, I waited by the bullpen for Jamie Moyer to come out. There, I asked catching Coach Jerry Weinstein to toss up a ball that was sitting in the bullpen, and he obliged for ball #10.
I then watched Jamie Moyer toss 75 mph heaters:
And then watched him do it later, in the game from my seat.
This was my section:
And the view:
I was just a few rows behind where all the players enter the dugout when they run off the field. The location was perfect, because in the third inning, Casey McGehee chopped a ball in front of the plate that Chris Nelson fielded and threw to Todd Helton for the third out. When Helton ran off the field, he spotted me in my bright Rockies jersey and tossed me ball #11.
It had a nice dirt spot on it from where McGehee had pounded it into the ground. I also noticed a little bit of scuffing. Was Moyer doctoring the ball? Its tough to say, but he kept the Pirates off balance all night, pitching 6 innings and giving up 1 run. Not bad for a 49 year old.
The game itself was probably one of the more exciting ones of the year, as the lead exchanged leads several times in the late innings before the Pirates prevailed.
Here are today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
2012 Stats:
Game: 11 balls
Season: 66 balls
Lifetime: 1,610 balls
Today was a Sunday, which has become the worst day to attend a baseball game at PNC. Fans aren't allowed into the stadium until 11:30 AM, and even then, they must remain on the outer outfield concourse aka the Riverwalk until noon. No one can enter the seating bowl before noon.
I stood above the bullpen and watched as the Pirates pitchers warmed up. I watched as an overthrow sailed over Evan Meek's head and into the seats. However, the ball didn't last long, as an usher who was sitting in the upper lower seating bowl walked down and pocketed it.
Luckily, when Jason Grilli finished his warm up throws, he looked out at the fans behind the bullpen and made a subtle motion like he would throw the ball up. I raised my glove and then pointed back towards the concourse. There's a ten foot chain link fence, so he obviously would have to loft it over that to get it to the fans.
I broke back behind the fence and flags and waved my arms. Grilli heaved a long toss towards the bullpen, but it fell short and landed in the bullpen. He luckily had another ball, and he put a little extra on it. It easily cleared the bullpen and all of the fans there, and landed in my glove on the fly as I was way behind everyone else.
At noon, when the gates opened to the main seating bowl, this was the view:
No batting practice. Not a good day.
All of the pitchers had already thrown, so there was no opportunities to get baseballs until the starting pitchers came out to warm up. I picked a spot near the bullpen and watched Erik Bedard warm up:
After he was done, I noticed that Cardinals coach Dyar Miller had a ball. I yelled, "Coach, could you toss that ball up?" He looked at me and threw up a wild overthrow. It ended up bouncing off the back wall, where I raced over and picked it up for ball #2:
I had hoped to get one more ball today to get #1600 out of the way, but it didn't happen.
Here's today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 2 balls
Season: 55 balls
Lifetime: 1,599 balls
Rain would wash out batting practice today, making it a struggle to get baseballs.
However, sometimes in the hobby of ballhawking, you'll have luck on your side. I had a lot of luck today. Upon entering, I went to the main seating bowl and found ball #1:
and #3:
They were likely overthrows from the Pirates warm up session before the gates opened.
The Cardinals came out soon after and I was able to get JC Romero to toss me ball #4 when he was done:
And Fernando Salas threw me ball #5:
I decided to get out of the way so that fellow ballhawk Zac Weiss should get a ball or two. I went halfway up into the empty seats to sit down and number my baseballs.
Just when I sat down, about 20 some rows back, I noticed Lance Lynn had finished throwing, so I stood up and help up my glove. He fired a perfect strike at me for ball #6.
Moments later, Mark Rczepzynski randomly fired his ball into the empty seats, so I just had to walk over and pick it up for ball #7.
When Kyle McClellan finished his warm ups, rather than give in to the polite request from the two Cardinals fans for a ball, he turned and fired his warm up ball into the right field seats, which were off limits until 5:30. Since I couldn't get over there, I went into the upper deck on a scouting mission so I could see down into the right field seats so that I could know exactly where the ball was in case someone else was also going for the same ball. Can you spot it?
At 5:30, I ran up to the exact spot where the ball was waiting for me and snapped a pic. It was ball #8:
At 5:35, I went into the upper deck and found a Mark Rzepczynski ball that he had randomly just thrown into the upper deck.
There was no BP, and yet after about an hour, I had already snagged 9 balls. There wasn't much action for the next 90 minutes, so I took a pic of the field:
Took a pic of this fan's Cardinals jersey:
And watched AJ Burnett warm up before his first Pirates start:
I sat for a few innings in right field, but couldn't snag another baseball. After a few innings, I went home to my family and watched the rest on TV.
By the way, today was fittingly umbrella night.
Here are today's baseballs:
2012 Stats:
Game: 9 balls
Season: 53 balls
Career: 1,597 balls
The Pirates returned home to start a six game home stand. Looking at this stretch of 6 games, I expected to put up big numbers. First, all of the games except for Sunday would have 4:30 gate opening times, giving me more opportunities to snag baseballs. Second, the Penguins had a win or go home playoff game, and since seemingly everyone is a Penguins fan, most Pittsburghers were likely to attend that game or watch it on tv. Also, perennial top 3 mygameballs ballhawk Nick Pelescak will not be in attendance as he is attending a wedding out of the country. So, more BP, decreased competition = more balls. That wouldn't be the case though.
Also, imagine the look on my face when I was driving to work Friday morning and checked the weather for this homestand.
What a rough break. Hopefully the patterns chance. I'm really looking forward to Monday and Tuesday…
Wait, they got worse, now Pittsburgh may get 6 inches of snow Monday.
So, today was important because it was likely the only BP I would get for the entire home stand. There's no BP Sundays usually, Monday's game will get snowed/rained out, forcing a double header on Tuesday, which would eliminate BP, and Wednesday is a day game, so likely no BP.
Anyway, this is what happened for the first half hour:
And this:
And don't forget this:
Nothing happened! It was brutally slow. Andrew McCutchen and Rod Barajas, the two best righties for BP homers must've hit in the first group before the gates opened. I only had one chance for a home run, off the bat of Michael McKenry, but completely lost it in the sun and didn't end up close to it. If you come to BP at PNC Park, bring your shades. I had glasses and they still didn't help:
Bullpen coach Herbie Andrade must've felt bad for me, because he graciously threw me a ball as the Pirates ran off the field at the end of their BP at exactly 5:00.
I caught it here.
Then, there was a lull as the Cardinals didn't start hitting until 5:15-5:20. When they did, I used the glove trick in left field to snag ball #2.
When the rest of the park opened up, I headed over to center field and cleanly caught a Carlos Beltran home run on the fly here:
And a few minutes later caught another home run on the fly in the same row. The only difference is that this time I had to jump to make the catch:
On a side note, most of the Cardinals pitchers were being complete a-holes. I think they like playing the 'heel,' or bad guy. Jaime Garcia for example, snagged a ball near the warning track and acted like he was going to toss it up. He went back and forth pointing at two sections in center field to elicit noise so he could decide where to throw the ball. After getting the crowd to be rather noisy he approvingly shook his head yes, then turned and fired the ball in towards the field. On my way back over to left field, I heard one of the ushers mutter, "What a jerk!"
I spent the last 15 minutes of BP in left field. Look how crowded it was at the very end of batting practice:
Anyway, we decided it was too hot for Olivia and left before the first pitch (78 degrees and sunny was the game time weather conditions). We did come away with a few nice shirts though:
Here's today's baseballs:
2012 Stats:
Game: 4 Balls
Season: 44 Balls
Lifetime: 1,588 Balls


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IBM's Big Bet on Cloud Analytics
Mar 8, 2013 5:00 AM PT
A growing number of established and emerging software and technology vendors are seeking to take advantage of the convergence of Big Data and the cloud. None has made a bigger bet than IBM.
Since 2005, IBM has spent more than US$16 billion on 35 acquisitions to boost its analytics capabilities. The company is hoping that this investment will generate approximately $20 billion in annual sales analyzing business data by 2015 -- a $4 billion jump from its current level.
The company isn't being coy about its goals. IBM's new chief executive officer, Ginni Rometty, publicly announced them to investors and customers last week. Its original goal in 2010 was approximately $10 billion. Last year, IBM's business-analytics revenue grew 13 percent, offsetting the relatively modest revenue growth of other segments of its business.
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Business unit managers and corporate end-users are also hungry for data that can help them do their jobs better. They want that data at their fingertips via their mobile devices in easier-to-use applications, so they can act on the data without having to waste a lot of time analyzing it.
A new generation of cloud-based analytics tools and services are beginning to fulfill these needs, where the previous generation of business intelligence applications fell short. The new tools are easier to deploy, but they still need to be properly configured and successfully integrated into existing systems and a widening array of data sources to be effectively utilized.
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IBM wants to help its customers determine their analytics requirements and integrate their solutions into their ongoing operations to meet their needs.
Even IBM's CIO, Jeanette Horan, is getting into the act. When asked in an interview a year ago what would be the next big thing for IT industry, Horan responded, "the pervasive use of business analytics to leverage big data."
She used analytics extensively to help IBM undergo a company-wide business transformation program, which included re-engineering its business processes in conjunction with IBM's Global Business Services team. Now she's helping to sell IBM's customers on the same ideas and showing them how they can also leverage analytics to achieve their objectives.
Lou Gerstner helped transform IBM from a technology-driven company to a services- oriented provider. Sam Palmisano led the company's shift from hardware to software. Ginni Rometty is hoping to make her mark by turning IBM into the leading provider of business analytics solutions that enable IBM's customers to succeed.

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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company [AKRON, Ohio] (NASDAQ: GT) announced that Laura K. Thompson, executive vice president and chief financial officer has informed the company of her intention to retire in the first quarter of 2019 after 35 years of dedicated and distinguished service. Thompson joined Goodyear in 1983 and served in a wide range of key finance and business roles of increasing responsibility culminating in her appointment as executive vice president and chief financial officer in 2013. Prior to that, she played a key role in the turnaround of Goodyear's North America business as vice president of finance. Earlier, she led business development and investor relations for the company.
Mondelēz International [DEERFIELD, Ill.] (NASDAQ: MDLZ) announced that Luca Zaramella, Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and a 20-year veteran of the company, will become EVP, Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Zaramella will replace Brian Gladden, who is leaving the company. Over the past four years, Luca has assumed a range of responsibilities, including Corporate Controller, Treasurer and global head of Financial Planning & Analysis. Zaramella has served as Mondelēz International's Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance since 2016 and was the Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller from 2014 to 2016. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Finance of Mondelez Europe. He began his career with the company in Italy before holding positions of increasing seniority in Latin America, Europe and North America.
Frontier Communications Corporation [NORWALK, Conn.] (NASDAQ: FTR) announced that R. Perley McBride, its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be resigning from the company for personal reasons, and to return to Atlanta where his family resides. Mr. McBride will remain in his position until August 31, 2018 to help transition responsibilities.
International Paper [MEMPHIS, Tenn.] (NYSE: IP) announced that Timothy S. Nicholls has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Glenn R. Landau who is leaving the company for personal reasons. Mr. Nicholls, who currently serves as Senior Vice President – Industrial Packaging the Americas, previously served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company from December 2007 through November 2011. Mr. Nicholls has served as Senior Vice President – Industrial Packaging the Americas since November 2014. His previous positions have included Senior Vice President – Printing & Communications Papers the Americas, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He joined International Paper in 1999 through the Company's acquisition of Union Camp Corporation, where he held a series of finance and business planning positions.
Graco Inc. [MINNEAPOLIS] (NYSE: GGG) has named Mark W. Sheahan Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Sheahan joined Graco in 1995 and has held senior management positions including Vice President and General Manager, Applied Fluid Technologies Division, since February 2008; Chief Administrative Officer from 2005 to 2008; and Vice President and Treasurer from 1998 to 2005. He was named Treasurer in 1996. Prior to Graco, he was a Senior Tax Manager at KPMG.
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. [EXTON, Pa.] (NYSE: WST) announced it has appointed Bernard J. Birkett to serve as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Birkett will succeed William J. Federici, who announced his intention to retire later this year. Mr. Federici will remain at West in an advisory capacity to oversee a smooth transition. Mr. Birkett joins West from Merit Medical Systems, Inc., where he most recently served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Birkett served in a number of senior global leadership roles, including Controller for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Vice President of International Finance. Mr. Birkett began his career as an accountant, and has experience working for additional manufacturing and medical device companies, including Inamed Corporation, Strix Limited and SPS Unbrako International.
Community Health Network [Indianapolis] announced Kyle Fisher, its former chief retail and innovation officer and chief executive officer for Visionary Enterprises, Inc. (VEI), has been named the network's chief financial officer. Fisher joined VEI in 2008 as chief operating officer and assumed the role of CEO in 2009. Prior to joining VEI, he served as executive vice president at Goelzer Investment Management, where he was responsible for new business development and client services. He also has held senior-level leadership positions in the banking industry in the Southeast and here locally with Fifth Third Bank.
GovernmentCIO [WASHINGTON] announced the appointment of Steve Hughes as chief financial officer. Hughes most recently served three years as executive vice president and CFO at Schafer Corporation. Prior to Schafer, Hughes held various roles at SRA International, Inc. Hughes joined SRA as a systems analyst and spent 15 years at the company before he was promoted to CFO in 1999.
NCI Building Systems, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: NCS) announced that Mark E. Johnson, the Company's Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer has informed the Board of Directors of his retirement from his position with the Company.
Spring-Green Enterprises [Plainfield, IL] announced that Jeff Kastelic has accepted the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Kastelic started his financial career in 1991 with Price Waterhouse and went on to become the CFO of a privately-held, family-owned window company in 2000. In 2005, he became the CFO of Strive Logistics.
Maxor National Pharmacy Services, LLC [AMARILLO, Texas] announced the appointment of David G. Wheeler as Chief Financial Officer. Wheeler brings decades of executive leadership experience to Maxor, including more than fifteen years of experience as CFO and Board Member of other leading Prescription Benefit Managers. Wheeler formerly served as CFO and board member of MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc. In addition to other Director roles, he contributed his industry expertise as a member of WellDyneRx's Board of Directors after leaving MedImpact.
Comstock Holding Companies, Inc. [RESTON, Va.] (NASDAQ: CHCI) announced that it has named Christopher Guthrie as Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer. Mr. Guthrie will succeed Christopher Conover as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Guthrie has served as Chief Financial Officer of Comstock Partners, LC, since 2013 and brings over 15 years of accounting and finance experience, previously working for Red Zone Capital Management. He has also previously served as an audit and transaction services manager at PwC.
Integrated Risk Solutions [WAUKESHA, Wis.] announced that John McGee has joined its leadership team as Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer. McGee most recently served as Chief Financial Officer for Damage Control, Inc.
Level Access [VIENNA, VA.] announced the appointment of Saul Gates as the company's chief financial officer. Gates previously served as CFO at companies including Telarix and INRIX. Gates also held a number of finance leadership roles at publicly traded companies including Coinstar, Microsoft, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Alkahest, Inc. [SAN CARLOS, Calif.] announced the appointment of Michael Byrnes as Chief Financial Officer. Michael joins Alkahest from Ocera Therapeutics where he was Chief Financial Officer prior to Ocera's acquisition by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals; and he held previous positions of increasing responsibility with Maxygen, NeurogesX, Lipid Sciences, and ADAC Laboratories.
Pharmatech Associates [HAYWARD, Calif.] announced the addition of Michaela Mueller as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. Joanne Zongus, who has served as CFO and Vice President of Human Resources, will assume full responsibility for the HR function as VP HR.
Crimson Wine Group, Ltd. [NAPA, Calif.] (OTCBB: CWGL) announced that Karen Diepholz has been named Chief Financial Officer. Diepholz comes to Crimson from Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), where she was the Chief Financial Officer. Prior to VWE, Karen was the Chief Financial Officer of Equinox Payments, and the Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis for Hypercom Corporation. Karen also served as the Vice President, Corporate Controller at Fender Musical Instruments and spent her early career in the consumer products industry in a variety of financial and leadership roles at The Dial Corporation, now Henkel U.S.
FIRSTIME DESIGN LIMITED [NEW BERLIN, Wis.] announced the appointment of Nicole Van Den Heuvel as the new Chief Financial Officer of FirsTime and its subsidiaries. Ms. Van Den Heuvel joins FirsTime from Ernst & Young, where she spent the last eight years in accounting and auditing within the manufacturing, retail and consumer products industries. Ms. Van Den Heuvel will succeed Julie Kren, who has served as FirsTime's Chief Financial Officer since 2013. Julie will continue as a valuable member of the FirsTime team, with alternative duties and responsibilities.
NantKwest, Inc. [CULVER CITY, Calif.] (NASDAQ: NK) announced the elevation of Sonja Nelson, chief accounting officer for the company, to the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Nelson first joined NantKwest in 2015. Nelson succeeds Rich Tajak, who had served as the company's CFO since January 2016. Prior to joining NantKwest in 2015, Nelson served as Vice President & Corporate Controller at AltheaDx, Inc. from 2014 and as Senior Director & Controller at Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2012 to 2014. Nelson also served as Director, General Accounting at Cricket Communications, Inc., between 2008 and 2012.
Stimwave LLC [POMPANO BEACH, Fla.] announced the appointment of Steven Amelio to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Amelio is a senior financial executive with 30 years of experience in the medical device industry, with over his 20 year career with United States Surgical Corporation, Tyco Healthcare Group LP and ultimately Covidien, PLC. Most recently, Amelio was CFO of Paradigm Spine, LLC.
XebiaLabs [BOSTON] announced that Stephen Gregorio has joined the company as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Stephen Gregorio has served as Chief Financial Officer for several successful software companies. Most recently, he held the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Black Duck Software, which was recently sold to Synopsys.
Merz North America [RALEIGH, N.C.] announced the appointment of Alana Sine to Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Merz North America. Sine has served as interim CFO since March 2018. Prior to joining Merz, Sine held accounting and finance roles at Ernst & Young (now EY) and Lowe's Food Stores.
The Joint Corp. [SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.] (NASDAQ: JYNT) reported CFO John Meloun will resign effective July 20, 2018.
Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. [PORTLAND, Ore.] (NASDAQ: BREW) announced that Joseph K. Vanderstelt, chief financial officer, will be departing the company, effective July 13, 2018.
Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Eric Schmidt as Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Schmidt comes to Allogene from Cowen and Company, where he served as Managing Director and Senior Biotechnology Analyst since 1998. Prior to joining Cowen in 1998, Dr. Schmidt was a Vice President and Research Analyst covering the biotechnology sector for UBS Securities. Before joining UBS, he co-founded Cambridge Biological Consultants.
F+W Media [NEW YORK] announced that Kenneth S. Kharbanda has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mr Kharbanda is an executive with more than two decades' experience, with most recently as CFO of the Daily Racing Form. His prior positions include senior financial roles BizCredit, KGB, Inc., Time Warner, Inc.-AOL, Reed Elsevier, PLC-Lexis-Nexis Group, and GE Capital.
Simon Property Group [INDIANAPOLIS] (NYSE: SPG) announced that Brian McDade will succeed Andy Juster as the Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on October 1, 2018. Brian has been with the Company for 14 years, serving in various senior finance and accounting roles with increasing complexity and responsibility, most recently serving as the Company's Senior Vice President and Treasurer.
PolarityTE, Inc. [SALT LAKE CITY] (NASDAQ: COOL) announced that Paul Mann is the new Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mann has nearly 20 years of financial industry experience, most recently as the Healthcare Portfolio Manager at Highbridge Capital Management. Prior to Highbridge, Mr. Mann held positions with Soros Fund Management, UBS Investment Group, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. Notably, Mr. Mann began his career as a scientist at Proctor and Gamble and is named as an inventor on patent applications for skincare compounds and technologies.
Data Intensity [BEDFORD, Mass.] announced that Karl Stubelis has joined Data Intensity as the new CFO. Paul Hausback previously acted as interim CFO. Before joining Data Intensity, Karl served as senior vice president and CFO/COO at Arcadia, and prior to that he was CFO of athenahealth. Karl was also Vice President, Corporate Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer at SapientNitro Corporation.
Quick Base [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Doug Wendell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Quick Base, Wendell was a managing director in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Jefferies LLC. He also spent 13 years at Citigroup, where he was a managing director in their Technology Investment Banking Group. Additionally, he served as a trust officer at Northern Trust Corp. in the firm's International Client Services Group.
GEE Group Inc. [NAPERVILLE, Ill.] (NYSE American: JOB) announced that it has appointed Kim Thorpe as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GEE. Thorpe joined the Company as Vice President of Finance on May 1, 2018. Prior to joining GEE, Mr. Thorpe served as a senior executive and chief financial officer of both publicly traded and privately-owned organizations. Two of his past positions of note include having served as the CFO of a publicly traded specialty insurance group, and as the CFO and a senior leadership team member of a large insurance and financial services business unit of GE Capital. Mr. Thorpe also was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Thorpe replaces Andrew J. Norstrud, who is resigning his position as the Company's chief financial officer to pursue other interests.
Liberty Tax, Inc. [VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.] (NASDAQ: TAX) announced that Michael Piper became the Company's Chief Financial Officer. Additionally, former Chief Financial Officer of the Company Mark Baumgartner will return to the Company to serve as an outside strategic advisor and consultant. Most recently, Piper served as Chief Financial Officer of CDYNE Corporation. Before that, Piper served as the Company's Vice President of Financial Products and in other roles at the Company including Director of Finance and Director of Financial Products. He worked for the Company for 13 years before moving to CDYNE Corporation. Piper also served in senior roles in accounting and finance with three publicly traded companies, and he worked for a time at Ernst & Young. Baumgartner spent more than 10 years with Liberty Tax as the Company's Chief Financial Officer before retiring in 2014. He currently serves as Audit Committee Chairman of the privately held Business Financial Services, Inc.


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Ashley Judd hit back at her detractors again in an exclusive interview with "NBC Nightly News" Wednesday night, two days after she decried criticism of her looks in a high-minded feminist essay.
"There was an incredibly nasty, vitriolic and gloating tone about it," she said of what had been said.
The star of ABC's new show "Missing" had faced withering criticism for looking Ashleypuffy-faced — and, according to critics, Botoxed or operated-on — at public appearances last month. Judd later said it may have been because she was on a few rounds of steroids for an illness.
And in her column published Monday for The Daily Beast, the actress said the scrutiny seemed troublingly antifeminist and rooted in the notion that women's bodies are part of the public domain — a belief she elaborates on in her "Nightly News" interview.
"I think it's hatred of women that invites the criticism. I think it's the objectification of girls and women and this hypersexualization of our society that invites the criticism. It doesn't have anything to do with me, really, and how I look," Judd told "Nightly News."
She said the discourse on her looks and the speculation that she had undergone surgery — although no journalist ever called her simply to ask if she had, she said — left her in a "double bind": Whether she looked good or ugly, people would attribute it to surgery.
"There was no presumption of goodwill," she told NBC.
After attracting all the criticism for her puffy face, Judd — who holds a Master's degree in public administration from Harvard and is actively involved with several women's advocacy organizations — penned an essay arguing the sniping, which she said was "pointedly nasty, gendered, and misogynistic," was symptomatic of patriarchal patterns.
"The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about," she wrote.
The piece bemoaning how normalized that objectification had become faced its own fair share of criticism — and praise.
While one writer for the Los Angeles Times called the story "elegant, impassioned and meticulously crafted," another writer for the same paper wrote that Judd as an actress seemed not to "understand how the game she signed up for, and has prospered from, is played" and said such objectification was hardly cause for feminist outrage. The Washington Post published a similar opinion piece.
For Judd, such reactions might seem to prove her point that objectification is all too normalized — and she told NBC she wasn't buying the claim that as an actress she should expect such criticism.
"I don't think that being a public figure makes it legitimate to criticize people the way they are currently criticized in this cultural climate," she said in her interview.
And her article was embraced by plenty of other women — among them Miley Cyrus.
"This article was music to my ears. Beautifully said and beyond inspiring. I hope everyone woman reads this," the pop star, who has faced her own share of snipes about her looks, tweeted.
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Now, however, he is stepping out on a limb in favor of some of the very proposals in Freedom's Vision. Has he finally seen the light? Regardless of his motivations, his thinking is spot on in his latest article and I will gladly use his words to back my own Quixote push for reform. What follows are excerpts from his work, please follow the link to read all his comments including charts:
Bill Gross Investment Outlook 2010
"Question: What has become of the American nation? Conceived with the vision of liberty and justice for all, we have descended in the clutches of corporate and other special interests to a second world state defined by K Street instead of Independence Square. Our government doesn't work anymore, or perhaps more accurately, when it does, it works for special interests and not the American people. Washington consistently stoops to legislate 10,000-page perversions of healthcare, regulatory reform, defense, and budgetary mandates overflowing with earmarks that serve a monied minority as opposed to an all-too-silent majority. You don't have to be Don Quixote to believe that legislators – and Presidents – often do not work for the benefit of their constituents: A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reported that over 65% of Americans trust their government to do the right thing "only some of the time" and a stunning 19% said "never." What most politicians apparently are working for is to perpetuate their power – first via district gerrymandering, and then second by around-the-clock campaigning financed by special interest groups. If, by chance, they're ever voted out of office, they have a home just down the street – at K Street – with six-figure incomes as a starting wage.
"What amazes me most of all is that politicians can be bought so cheaply. Public records show that combined labor, insurance, big pharma and related corporate interests spent just under $500 million last year on healthcare lobbying (not much of which went to politicians) for what is likely to be a $50-100 billion annual return. The fact is that American citizens have never been as divorced from their representatives – and if that description fits the Democratic Congress now in control – then it applies to Republicans as well – past and present. So you watch Fox, or is it MSNBC? O'Reilly or Olbermann? It doesn't matter. You're just being conned into rooting for a team that basically runs the same plays called by look-alike coaches on different sidelines. A "ballot box" pox on all their houses – Senators, Representatives and Presidents alike. There has been no change, there will be no change, until we the American people decide to publicly finance all national and local elections and ban the writing of even a $1 check for our favorite candidates.
"If 2008 was the year of financial crisis and 2009 the year of healing via monetary and fiscal stimulus packages, then 2010 appears likely to be the year of "exit strategies," during which investors should consider economic fundamentals and asset markets that will soon be priced in a world less dominated by the government sector. If, in 2009, PIMCO recommended shaking hands with the government, we now ponder "which" government, and caution that the days of carefree check writing leading to debt issuance without limit or interest rate consequences may be numbered for all countries."
…Germany, in fact, has just passed a constitutional amendment mandating budget balance by 2016. If these trends persist, the simple conclusion is that interest rates will rise on a relative basis in the U.S., U.K., and Japan compared to Germany over the next several years and that the increase could approximate 100 basis points or more. Some of those increases may already have started to show up – the last few months alone have witnessed 50 basis points of differential between German Bunds and U.S. Treasuries/U.K. Gilts, but there is likely more to come.
The fact is that investors, much like national citizens, need to be vigilant and there has been a decided lack of vigilance in recent years from both camps in the U.S. While we may not have much of a vote between political parties, in the investment world we do have a choice of airlines and some of those national planes may have elevated their bond and other asset markets on the wings of central bank check writing over the past 12 months. Downdrafts and discipline lie ahead for governments and investor portfolios alike. While my own Pollyannish advocacy of "check-free" elections may be quixotic, the shifting of private investment dollars to more fiscally responsible government bond markets may make for a very real outcome in 2010 and beyond. Additionally, if exit strategies proceed as planned, all U.S. and U.K. asset markets may suffer from the absence of the near $2 trillion of government checks written in 2009. It seems no coincidence that stocks, high yield bonds, and other risk assets have thrived since early March, just as this "juice" was being squeezed into financial markets. If so, then most "carry" trades in credit, duration, and currency space may be at risk in the first half of 2010 as the markets readjust to the absence of their "sugar daddy." There's no tellin' where the money went? Not exactly, but it's left a suspicious trail. Market returns may not be "so fine" in 2010.
William Gross
Managing Director
I have never agreed more with Mr. Gross than in this article and will be discussing it more in my next Freedom's Vision piece on Political reform. Hey, good song choice, Bill, you are exactly right – "There's no tellin' where the money went!"
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Red Faction has been delivering first-person-shooter flavored environmental destruction since 2001, tasking players with revolution both on Mars and on Earth.
With Red Faction: Guerrilla, players return to Mars to once more stir up trouble in an open-world game promising unheralded destruction from a third-person perspective. Can a third take on the same general concepts deliver a third great game?
Destruction: Plenty of other games have done destructible environments, but never to this degree. Not only is virtually every man-made item in the game breakable, it breaks in detail. When you take your sledgehammer to a wall you break away the outer shell first, then you start digging into the concrete, and finally you hit rebar. Not only is the game's destruction fun to deliver and watch, but it also has a pretty big impact on how you play the game. When tasked with an assassination, you can sneak in and shoot the target or just take down the whole building the person is in. Tired of enemies sending reinforcements over a bridge? Take down the whole bridge. The level of destruction in Red Faction: Guerrilla deepens gameplay in ways I never would have imagined.
Weapons: Besides the trusty sledgehammer, assault rifle and pistol, there are plenty of other fun weapons in the game. I made most use out of the timed charges which let me coat a building in explosives and then take it down with a button push. Another great weapon, the Nano rifle, disintegrates entire structures, cars and even people, one piece at a time. The coolest looking is the singularity bomb which sucks the surrounding area into a small gravity well.
Multiplayer: Multiplayer in Guerrilla involves plenty of running and gunning, but the many of the mode's chief focus is in taking down buildings or protecting them. The new focus, and inclusion of power packs that let you charge through walls, fly and speed, among other things, makes the multiplayer bits of Guerrilla some of my favorite in a shooter.
Surprising Major Mission Mix: While a bulk of the game is about roaming around the territories of Mars rabble-rousing, taking down buildings and killing people to incite revolution, the game ends each territory's campaign with a difficult and innovative mission. The missions can be anything from riding shotgun in a speeding vehicle, to using a space-based weapon on land targets, to piloting a monstrous tank. While frustratingly difficult at times, they all add a unique twist to the sometimes repetitive gameplay.
Physics: Having destructible environments is fine, but what really makes the game sing is how those environments topple once they take enough damage. It's not just about tearing down a building, it's about figuring out where you can attack to take down an enormous structure with the help of gravity and weight. Slap some charges in the right place on a tower and you can make it topple onto the roof of a nearby building, taking it down too. This could be the entire game for me, the shooting is just a fun addition.
Open World, Massive Scale: Mars is broken down into six sectors, all but the first of which have to be unlocked through play. As you unlock them, the areas you can roam expand. More interesting, though, is how the game makes use of all of that space. There are several moments in the game when the rolling landscapes and cities are teeming with warring factions, everywhere you go people are shooting at each other, buildings crumbling and you can stop, mission or no mission, to help out if you want. Even more impressive are the epic set pieces, things like towering six lane bridges that can be methodically picked apart until they collapse into a mushroom cloud of dust.
Load Times: The load times and poor save point planning for some of the bigger missions in the game can be a torturous combination. Why do I have to, after restarting, still drive for five minutes to start the mission every single time?
What Now?: I ended up spending way too much time trying to figure out what exactly I needed to do next to move the story forward. There were always plenty of things to do, but not every side mission you take on actually moves the plot forward. That can get really annoying after awhile.
Bland Backdrop: For all of its destructive glory and its vast landscapes, Mars' surface is a rather monotonous place filled with browns and way too many shades of pastel red.
Annoying NPCs: Enemies were, for the most, part relatively clever in dealing out death and avoiding my return fire. The non-combatant NPCs, though, were a real annoyance. They'd get in the way of battles, walk in front of hammer swings and clog up doorways with their non-scripted walking. Good thing it only takes a button push to knock them out of the way and create a second door in any building.
In many ways, Red Faction: Guerrilla reminds me of Crackdown. The thing I liked most about Crackdown was its ability to tear things up and create mayhem in a relatively open world. The missions and the campaign were at best distractions. For Guerrilla, it's the ability to neatly demolish entire towns. There is something cathartic about taking a big hammer to a wall, even a digital wall, and seeing it slowly crumble under the punishment. The key difference between Crackdown and Guerrilla is that while Crackdown's missions really didn't add much, Volition did an amazing job of allowing their destruction tech to play a chief role in how you complete Guerrilla's missions.
Red Faction: Guerrilla is a moment generator. The destruction, the physics, the teeming population all combine to create moments you're going to have to tell your friends about. For me, it was when I finally took down that six-lane bridge. It took quite a bit of effort and lots of planning. Once it collapsed, dust billowed into the air, clouding the entire screen. Seconds later, standing under the jagged remains of the bridge, I saw cars that had been moments ago speeding down a highway begin plummeting off into the wreckage, piling on one another until they all exploded. It was amazing.
Guerrilla is a flawed but fun game, one that demands patience but rewards with cinematic destruction you design yourself.
Red Faction: Guerrilla was developed by Volition and published by THQ for the PlayStation 3, PC, and Xbox 360. Released on June 2. Retails for $59.99 PS3 and 360, $49.99 PC. Played the Xbox 360 version. Completed campaign on normal difficulty (though I used a cheat for the final section). Played multiple online matches.
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PHILADELPHIA - Watching video of simple tasks before carrying them out may boost the brain's structure, or plasticity, and increase motor skills, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014. Brain plasticity is the brain's ability to flex and adapt, allowing for better learning. The brain loses plasticity as it ages.
For the study, 36 right-handed healthy adults participated in 40-minute training sessions five times a week for two weeks. Half the group watched videos of a specific task, such as writing with a pen, cutting with scissors or handling coins, then were asked to complete the task themselves. The other half watched videos of landscapes and then were asked to complete the same tasks.
At the start of the study and again two weeks later, the groups were tested for strength and hand skills, and also underwent 3-D MRI brain scans. Scientists looked at brain volume changes in both groups.
The study found that the group who completed the training along with watching the activity videos had 11 times greater improvement of motor skill abilities, mainly in terms of strength, compared to those who watched the landscape videos.
"Our study lends credence to the idea that even as an adult, your brain is able to better learn skills just by watching the activity take place. With a dramatic increase of videos available through mobile phones, computers, and other newer technology, this topic should be the focus of more research," said study author Paolo Preziosa, MD, with San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. "The results might also contribute to reducing disability and improving quality of those who are impaired or who are undergoing physical rehabilitation."
The study was supported by the Italian Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis.
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The "Lonely Street" that David Remsing is standing on? That would once again be the blvd. of broken dreams, in the same vicinity as the Racer X cover. The George Jones pictured above is contemplating a burrito @ Dos Burritos, which was directly west of the Pantages. It's now on the opposite side of the street about a block down. He's actually standing in front of the famous Frolic Room sign. I believe Randy Newman is on a downtown LA overpass...
Aah, two classic Sunset Strip covers, picturing the Whisky a Go Go in its prime along with a nice shot PJ's on the Freddy Cannon cover. The Crusaders take a stroll down Rodeo drive. The next row returns us to the dirty blvd -- not somewhere that I would crawl & writhe around on, but then again I'm not in WASP. To the left of Blackie we have the back of that George Jones record, with a full view of said sign. I'm sure that there was once frolic to be had at the Frolic Room, but the last time I walked in, there were 3 losers and a jukebox blaring Pearl Jam. Instead of rockin out to "Evenflow," I frolicked on down to Musso & Frank. Musso & Frank is Hollywood's oldest resturant, and their sign can be seen in the background on the LP to right of the WASP record.
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