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Twins go from near contraction to All-Star host
MINNEAPOLIS -- Harry Crump may no longer be a full-time judge, but he'll forever be a folk hero in these parts, helping save the Minnesota Twins with a historic decision.
Detroit Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter is no longer a Twin, but easily recalls his resentment toward Major League Baseball 13 years ago - and also the overwhelming joy when a stay of execution enabled the 2002 team to craft an underdog narrative into the playoffs.
Twins president Dave St. Peter, peering out from a conference room at gorgeous Target Field, is praying the record-low forecast is wrong for Tuesday's All-Star Game, but it sure beats worrying about the prognosis his team was about to be eliminated from baseball.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, sitting in his downtown Milwaukee office overlooking Lake Michigan, recalls those dark days when owners wanted two teams contracted, only to see the 85th All-Star Game played in downtown Minneapolis.
He calls it one of his proudest achievements in 45 years in baseball, only wishing that late Twins owner Carl Pohlad, his closest friend among baseball owners, were alive to see it.
The Twins, mortified their proud franchise would be taken away 13 years ago, will be hosting their first All-Star Game in nearly 30 years Tuesday, and on this night, crying in baseball will be quite acceptable.
"I can tell you this,'' says St. Peter, who has been with the Twins for 25 years, "there's nobody that works for the Twins who lived through that period of time that takes a single day of this for granted.
"Everything literally vaporized in front of us. It's going to be a very emotional day.''
And it certainly will bring back memories of Nov. 6, 2001, the day Twins employees and players gathered around TV sets, wondering if they would have a team the next day.
"We were so mad,'' Hunter tells USA TODAY Sports, "we kept hearing on TV we were going to be contracted, and they were going to have this dispersal draft. Major League Baseball was just going to get rid of us.
"ESPN called us the best Triple-A team in baseball. That's what ESPN called us, and I'll never forget that.''
Just two days earlier, the Arizona Diamondbacks stunned the New York Yankees to win a seven-game World Series, but now 30 owners were gathered in Chicago at their quarterly meetings, and the hot topic was contraction.
Franchises were losing money in baseball, and owners were ready to downsize. The two that appeared doomed were the Twins and Montreal Expos. The Expos weren't being supported in Quebec, and Pohlad was frustrated he couldn't get public funding for a new ballpark, stuck in the Teflon-roof covered Metrodome.
"The owners really wanted contraction,'' Selig told USA TODAY Sports, "but for different reasons. The economics of the sport was brutal at the time. They looked at (contraction) at the time as one of the better solutions to it.
"Did I necessarily agree? No. But I understood the logic.''
Selig insists no specific teams were targeted for contraction in the meeting, but everyone realized that if two teams are going, the Twins and Expos were the logical choices. Jim Pohlad, son of the late Twins owner, even had a meeting with the Twins' front office, telling them there were no assurances the team would survive.
"That was the darkest day,'' St. Peter says of the Nov. 6 ownership meeting. "To my knowledge, we were never officially named, but people knew. Obviously, they were talking about Montreal and us.
"There was a significant feeling of hopelessness about the future of baseball here.
We were preparing employee transition plans and things of that nature.''
It was that night, or maybe the next day, St. Peter says, when his phone rang. It was Hall of Fame slugger Harmon Killebrew.
"The most difficult phone call I ever had,'' St. Peter says, "was taking that phone call. Harmon just had an incredibly difficult time fathoming it. I'll never forget it.
"Just the thought of the Twins franchise, in essence, being wiped off the map, was tough to accept.''
Twins fans were incensed. They blamed Pohlad, believing that a man worth close to $3 billion should build his own ballpark without public funding. Government officials listened to the fans. If a new ballpark was going to be built, Pohlad realized he would have to sell.
There were no viable buyers. And hostilities extended right into the commissioner's office.
"We didn't want to go out of business,'' says Jim Pohlad, the Twins' CEO. "We live here. None of us wanted to see the Twins leave.
"But there was an awful lot of frustration.''
Selig, who says he spent more time in Minnesota lobbying for a new ballpark than any team but Miller Park in Milwaukee, says that no team was going to be contracted without their consent. And never once, he said, not even in private conversations, did Pohlad volunteer to extinguish the franchise.
"It's a historical myth,'' Selig says. "Never in the meetings, informally or formally, did we ever talk about any specific cities. Minneapolis is a marvelous city. It's the 14th-largest market. Why would anyone want to leave there?
"I didn't want them go to. Neither did Carl. But he was just getting so frustrated.''
If there were any immediate plans for contraction, they vanished 10 days later. Harry Seymour Crump, the Hennepin County district judge, ordered the Twins to play their 2002 home schedule in the Metrodome. Roger Magnuson, an attorney for Major League Baseball, immediately said there would be an appeal. The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld Crump's decision in January.
"To me, it was an easy decision,'' Crump tells USA TODAY Sports, sipping a hot chocolate at a Starbucks in suburban Savage. "Really, it took me only 20 minutes. It was just another day of work. But of all of the tens of thousands of cases I've had, people still bring it up all of the time.''
Crump wrote in his four-page ruling: "The welfare, recreation, prestige, prosperity, trade and commerce of the people of the community are at stake ….The vital public interest, or trust, of the Twins substantially outweighs any private interest."
Twins fans were elated. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune honored Crump as their sportsperson of the year. The Twins even orchestrated a Crump bubblehead day, only for Crump to stop it, calling it "a violation of ethical standards."
Crump, 76, still is recognized in the community, mostly by his name, and not his face. When recognized, he is always thanked for his role in saving the Twins. He even tells the story when he helped chaperone a class of middle-school kids on the bus, including 12-year-old Kiki Pohlad, Carl's granddaughter. Yes, she thanked him too.
If not for that ruling, are the Twins still around, with an international spotlight on the city Tuesday night?
"Probably not,'' Crump says. "Baseball was pretty set on contraction.''
Says St. Peter: "We'll never know for sure, but I'm sure thankful for that ruling. It was really the first signal that we were going be around.''
Still, even after Crump's ruling, the Twins never received an official word they were going to play. Manager Tom Kelly, who led the Twins to World Series championships in 1987 and 1991, had announced his retirement. Yet, there was so much uncertainty, the Twins waited until Jan. 4 - six weeks before spring training - before hiring Ron Gardenhire as his successor.
"Personally, I didn't put much stock in all of that contraction talk,'' Kelly said. "It was like the replacement players (during the 1995 lockout). I didn't put any stock into that either.
"If that had happened, I would have been devastated.''
Still, instability was evident. The Toronto Blue Jays moved to lure Twins GM Terry Ryan for their vacancy, a job that likely doubled his salary. Ryan wouldn't even interview and leave everybody behind.
"What Terry did will never be forgotten here,'' says Jim Rantz, the Twins' former farm director, who played for the franchise starting in 1961 and joined the front office in 1965. "We were all kind of down, thinking we would be contracted. But when Terry stayed, it gave everyone hope.
"If he wasn't jumping ship, then why should anyone else?''
There wasn't a single front-office defection, St. Peter says.
"When we got to spring training,'' Hunter says, "we wanted to prove the world wrong. We said, 'Let's have one more push. If this is going to be our last year, let's make it a good one.
"We played mad at the world all year. I don't know how many fights we almost got into. We didn't care. We were angry. We weren't going to let baseball just get rid of us.
"And we proved the world wrong.''
The Twins ran away with the American League Central with a 94-67 record. They wound up dominating the division the rest of the decade, winning the title six times in nine years. The fans came back. Interest soared. And, in 2006, the Twins finally received approval for their $522 million ballpark.
"If we don't win that year,'' says retired Twins closer Eddie Guardado, "there is no stadium. Maybe there is no Twins. That's the most special group of guys I've even been a part of.''
The players from that 2002 team - a group that includes Jacque Jones, A.J. Pierznyski, Johan Santana, David Ortiz, Kyle Lohse, Mike Jackson, Corey Koskie, J.C. Romero, Doug Mientkiewicz, Denny Hocking and Joe Mays, still remain close, some vacationing together.
"For us, it was so gratifying,'' says reliever LaTroy Hawkins, who bought a seat from the old Metrodome, Seat 32, Row 1. "I always thought there should be other teams contracted before us. We wanted to show the world that, hey, MLB, Minnesota is a great baseball town.''
Says Hunter: "We understood how important it was going to be to win. We told each other, "Let's play so well, they can't get rid of us. We're not going to let MLB do a thing to us.'
"And if we had a horrible year that season, well, we knew there may be no Minnesota Twins today.''
The Twins, who have had three consecutive 90-loss seasons, are sitting in last place again. Yet, there are plenty of fans, with 18,000 season ticket holders - 7,000 more than their record total in the Metrodome.
And there is a future.
"I give a lot of credit to that 2001-2002 team,'' St. Peter says. "They were able to rekindle a spirit, not just externally, but inside our organization. They played such an important role in where we are today.''
If the Twins wanted to be picky, sure, there are days they wish they had a retractable roof. The forecast high of 67 degrees Tuesday would be the lowest for an All-Star Game in at least 35 years. It could be worse. The temperature is expected to drop into the low 40s on Wednesday.
Yet, after being on death row, man, it sure feels good to be alive.
"The world,'' St. Peter says, "looks a whole lot different today.''


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A decade and a half before it blew apart in a hydrogen blast that punctuated the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, the number three reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant was the scene of an earlier safety crisis.
Then, as now, a small army of transient workers was put to work to try to stem the damage at the oldest nuclear reactor run by Japan's largest utility.
At the time, workers were racing to finish an unprecedented repair to address a dangerous defect: cracks in the drum-like steel assembly known as the "shroud" surrounding the radioactive core of the reactor.
But in 1997, the effort to save the 21-year-old reactor from being scrapped at a large loss to its operator, Tokyo Electric, also included a quiet effort to skirt Japan's safety rules: foreign workers were brought in for the most dangerous jobs, a manager of the project said.
"It's not well known, but I know what happened," Kazunori Fujii, who managed part of the shroud replacement in 1997, told Reuters. "What we did would not have been allowed under Japanese safety standards."
The previously undisclosed hiring of welders from the United States and South-east Asia underscores the way Tokyo Electric, a powerful monopoly with deep political connections in Japan, outsourced its riskiest work and developed a lax safety culture in the years leading to the Fukushima disaster, experts say.
A 9.0 earthquake on March 11 triggered a 15m tsunami that smashed into the seaside Fukushima Daiichi plant and set off a series of events that caused its reactors to start melting down.
Hydrogen explosions scattered debris across the complex and sent up a plume of radioactive steam that forced the evacuation of more than 80 000 residents near the plant, about 240km north-east of Tokyo. Enough radioactive water to fill 40 Olympic swimming pools has also been collected at the plant and threatens to leak into the groundwater.
The repeated failures that have dogged Tokyo Electric in the three months the Fukushima plant has been in crisis have undercut confidence in the response to the disaster and dismayed outside experts, given corporate Japan's reputation for relentless organisation.
Hastily hired workers were sent into the plant without radiation meters. Two splashed into radioactive water wearing street shoes because rubber boots were not available. Even now, few have been given training on radiation risks that meets international standards, according to their accounts and the evaluation of experts.
The workers who stayed on to try to stabilise the plant in the darkest hours after March 11 were lauded as the "Fukushima 50" for their selflessness. But behind the heroism is a legacy of Japanese nuclear workers facing hazards with little oversight, according to interviews with more than two dozen current and former nuclear workers, doctors and others.
Since the start of the nuclear boom in the 1970s, Japan's utilities have relied on temporary workers for maintenance and plant repair jobs, the experts said. They were often paid in cash with little training and no follow-up health screening.
This practice has eroded the ability of nuclear plant operators to manage the massive risks workers now face and prompted calls for the Japanese government to take over the Fukushima clean-up effort.
Although almost 9 000 workers have been involved in work around the mangled reactors, Tokyo Electric did not have a Japan-made robot capable of monitoring radiation inside the reactors until this week. That job was left to workers, reflecting the industry's reliance on cheap labor, critics say.
"I can only think that to the power companies, contract workers are just disposable pieces of equipment," said Kunio Horie, who worked at nuclear plants, including Fukushima Daiichi, in the late 1970s and wrote about his experience in a book Nuclear Gypsy.
Tokyo Electric said this week it cannot find 69 of the more than 3 600 workers who were brought in to Fukushima just after the disaster because their names were never recorded. Others were identified by Tepco in accident reports only by initials: "A-san" or "B-san."
Makoto Akashi, executive director at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences near Tokyo, said he was shocked to learn Tokyo Electric had not screened some of the earliest workers for radiation inside their bodies until June while others had to share monitors to measure external radiation.
That means health risks for workers — and future costs — will be difficult to estimate.
"We have to admit that we didn't have an adequate system for checking radiation exposure," said Goshi Hosono, an official appointed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan to coordinate the response to the crisis.
'Broad is the road that leads to destruction'
Fujii, who devoted his career to building Japanese nuclear power plants as a manager with IHI Corporation, was troubled by what he saw at Fukushima in 1997.
Now 72, he remembers falling for "the romance of nuclear power" as a student at Tokyo's Rikkyo University in the 1960s. "The idea that you could take a substance small enough to fit into a tea cup and produce almost infinite power seemed almost like a dream" he said.
He had asked to oversee part of the job at Fukushima as the last big assignment of his career. He threw himself into the work, heading into the reactor for inspections. "I had a sense of mission," he said.
As he watched a group of Americans at work in the reactor one day, Fujii jotted down a Bible verse in his diary that captured his angst: "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter through it."
The basis for nuclear safety regulation is the assumption that cancers, including leukemia, can be caused years later by exposure to relatively small amounts of radiation, far below the level that would cause immediate sickness. In normal operations, international nuclear workers are limited to an average exposure of 20-millisieverts per year, about 10 times natural background radiation levels.
At Fukushima in 1997, Japanese safety rules were applied in a way that set very low radiation exposure limits on a daily basis, Fujii said. That was a prudent step, safety experts say, but it severely limited what Japanese workers could do on a single shift and increased costs.
The workaround was to bring in foreign workers who would absorb a full-year's allowable dose of radiation of between 20-millisieverts and 25-millisieverts in just a few days.
"We brought in workers from South-east Asia and Saudi Arabia who had experience building oil tankers. They took a heavier dose of radiation than Japanese workers could have," said Fujii, adding that United States workers were also hired.
Tokyo Electric would admit five years later it had hid evidence of the extent of the defect in the shroud from regulators. That may have added to the pressure to finish the job quickly. When new cracks were found, they were fixed without a report to regulators, according to disclosures made in 2002
It is not clear if the radiation doses for the foreign workers were recorded on an individual basis or if they have faced any heath problems. Tepco said it had no access to the worker records kept by its subcontractors. IHI said it had no record of the hiring of the foreign workers. Toshiba, another major contractor, also said it could not confirm that foreign workers were hired.
Hosono, the government official overseeing the response to the disaster, said he was not aware of foreign workers being brought in to do repair work in the past and they would not be sent in now.
Now retired outside Tokyo, Fujii said he has come to see nuclear power as an "imperfect technology."
"This is an unfortunate thing to say, but the nuclear industry has long relied on people at the lowest level of Japanese society," he said.
Since the late 1960s, the Kamagasaki neighborhood of Osaka has been a dumping ground for men battling drug and alcohol addiction, ex-convicts, and men looking for a construction job with few questions. It has also been a hiring spot for Japan's nuclear industry for decades.
"Kamagasaki is a place that companies have always come for workers that they can use and then throw away," said Hiroshi Inagaki, a labor activist.
The nearby Lawson's store has a sign on its bathroom door warning that anyone trying to flush a used syringe down the toilet will be prosecuted. Peddlers sell scavenged trash, including used shoes and rice cookers. A pair of yakuza enforcers in black shirts and jeans walks the street to collect loans.
The centre of Kamagasaki is an office that connects day laborers with the small construction firms that roll up before dawn in vans and minibuses.
Within a week after the Fukushima disaster, Tepco had engaged Japan's biggest construction and engineering companies to run the job of trying to bring the plant under control. They in turned hired smaller firms, over 600 of them. That cascade brought the first job offers to Kamagasaki by mid-March.
One hiring notice sought a truck driver for Miyagi, one of the prefectures hit hard by the tsunami. But when an Osaka day laborer in his sixties accepted the job, he was sent instead to Fukushima where he was put to work handling water to cool the number five reactor.
The man, who did not want to be identified, was paid the equivalent of about $300 a day, twice what he was first promised. But he was only issued a radiation meter on his fourth day. Inagaki said the man was seeking a financial settlement from Tokyo Electric. "We think what happened here is illegal," he said.
Nearby, several men waiting to be hired in Kamagasaki said they had experience working at nuclear plants.
A 58-year-old former member of Japan's Self Defence Forces from southern Japan who asked to be identified only by his nickname, Jumbo, said he had worked at Tokyo Electric's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant for a two-month job. He knows others who have gone to Fukushima from the hiring line at Kamagasaki, he said.
"We've always had nuclear work here, and I would go again," he said.
Abandoned spa
In Iwaki, a town south of the Fukushima plant once known for a splashy Hawaiian-themed resort, the souvenir stands and coffee shops are closed or losing money. The drinking spots known as "snacks" are starting to come back as workers far from home seek the company of bar girls.
"It's becoming like an army base," said Shukuko Kuzumi (63) who runs a cake shop across from the main rail station. "There are workers who come here knowing what the work is like, but I think there are many who don't."
Each morning, hired workers pile into buses and beat-up vans and set out from the nearly abandoned resort. More men in the standard-issue white work pajamas pour out of the shipping containers turned into temporary housing at the Hirono highway exit where residents have fled and weeds have overgrown the sidewalks.
They gather at a now abandoned soccer complex where Argentina's soccer team trained during the 2002 World Cup to get briefed on the tasks for the shifts ahead. They then change into the gear many have come to dread: two or three pairs of gloves, full face masks, goggles and white protective suits. More than a dozen Fukushima workers have collapsed of heat stroke, and the rising heat weighs more heavily on the minds of workers than threat of radiation.
"I don't know how I'm going to make it if it gets much hotter than this," a heavyset, 36-year-old Tokyo man said as he stretched out at Hirono after a day of spraying a green resin around the plant to keep radioactive dust from spreading.
The risks from the radiation hotspots at Fukushima remain considerable. A vent of steam in the number one reactor was found earlier this month to be radioactive enough to kill anyone standing near it for more than an hour.
Tokyo Electric has been given a sanction-free reprimand for its handling of radiation exposure at Fukushima. Nine workers have exceeded the emergency exposure limit of 250-millisieverts. Another 115 have exceeded 100-millisieverts of exposure. The two workers with the highest radiation readings topped 6000-millisieverts of exposure.
For context, the largest study of nuclear workers to date by the International Agency for Research on Cancer found a risk of roughly two additional fatal cancers for every 100 people exposed to 100-millisieverts of radiation.
But several Fukushima workers say they have been told not to worry about health risks unless they top 100 or near 200-millisieverts of exposure in training by contractors.
Experts say that runs counter to international standards. The International Atomic Energy Agency requires workers in a nuclear emergency to give "informed consent" to the risks they face and that they understand danger exists at even low doses.
Tokyo Electric spokesperson Junichi Matsumoto said the utility could not confirm what kind of training smaller firms were providing. "The subcontractors have a responsibility as well," he said. "I don't know what kind of briefing they are getting."
Kim Kearfott, a nuclear engineer and radiation health expert from the University of Michigan who toured Japan in May, said authorities needed to ensure that safety training was handled independently by outside experts.
"The potential for coercion and undue influence over a day laborer audience is high, especially when the training and consent are administered by those who control hiring and firing of workers," she said.
Tokyo Electric has been challenged before on its training. Mitsuaki Nagao, a plumber who had worked at three plants including Fukushima, said he was never briefed on radiation dangers, and would routinely use another worker's dosimeter to finish jobs. Some doctors worry that the same under-reporting of radiation could happen at Fukushima as well.
Nagao sued Tokyo Electric when he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer, in 2004. His lawsuit, one of two known worker cases against a Japanese utility, was rejected by a Tokyo court, which ruled no links had been proven between his radiation and his illness. He died in 2007.
Some doctors are urging Japan's government to set up a system of health monitoring for the thousands of workers streaming through Fukushima. Some also want to see a standard of care guaranteed.
"This is also a problem of economics," said Kristin Schrader-Frechette, a Notre Dame University professor and nuclear safety expert. "If Japan wants to know the true costs of nuclear power versus the alternatives, it needs to know what these health care costs are." – Reuters

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Don't panic! Yes, Bovada (formerly Bodog) released the latest odds on there ever being a '12-'13 NHL season, and no, it's not comforting.
Will the NHL cancel the 2012-2013 Season?
Yes -200 (1/2)
No +150 (3/2)
But remember that today saw the third day of negotiations between the players and owners, and the location is being kept secret with no post-talks updates for the media. This is a good thing, and even if it doesn't lead anywhere, the future is brighter than it was last week.
And this: Bovada's odds aren't necessarily a prediction of how likely the lockout is to end: they're just trying to bring the money in evenly. Just because bettors are pessimistic doesn't mean you should be.


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So when we met again for the second year in New York for Vino2011 I knew we were going to have dinner together. Anyone who read the entry from last year, My Dinner with Carmen, might already know a little about the guy. But this year, we aimed to blow it out. And blow 2010 away. And we did.
First, the other players:
Guy Stout- Master Sommelier and long time friend and colleague. Legendary in Texas and sommelier circles. He also blogs, called The Stout Report on the Blend.
Kristina Kelley- Carmen's colleague and partner in crime. She is also a Communications director for EJ Gallo.
Ben Weinberg- Columnist, Rocky Mountain News with lots if positive and high energy.
Doug Cook- Search technologist, entrepreneur, and wine geek.The wizard behind Able Grape and Twitter Search.
Tony May – The Wizard of SD26. One of the seminal figures for Italian food in America.
|Carmen, in the back, on the phone, as usual.
The next night was a breeze in the rock star "stretch" limo. Good times.
|Tony May, aptly suggesting apps
And then there was Carmen.
|Love 'em? Hate 'em? Ipad, meet the wine list of the 21st century
There we was- attacking the Ipad wine list with a vengeance. Tap – Franciacorta. Tap – Soave. Tap – Cesanese. Tap – Timorasso. We were hitting the Ipad like it was a slot machine. But this time everyone won.
|Culatello di Zibello with burrata: "Does ham & cheese get any better?"
|Beef tartare with black truffles
|Menaica anchovy filets-Crostini covered Lardo-.Zeppola di Baccala
Tony disappears and food started showing up. Wonderful food. Culatello di Zibello with burrata, shades of my recent trip to Emilia. "Does ham and cheese get any better?" my friend Chris Zimmerman wrote. If it does, I don't want to know. Plates of Menaica anchovy filets with crostini covered with Lardo. Sopressata. Sicilian Caponata. Zeppola di Baccala. Beef tartare with (real) black truffles. Oy! Such happiness tonight (such pain tomorrow?).
|The famous "uovo"
|Linguine di Gragnano al fumo with clams
Then pasta rolls across the table like a North Texas tornado in April. The famous "uovo" soft egg yolk raviolo with (real) truffled butter. Linguine di Gragnano al fumo with clams, charred grape tomatoes and parsley. Sea urchin raviolini with peperoncino. I am officially going into a food coma. So very happy.
|Bistecca Fiorentina for two, or one very hungry Texan
Ben is giddy. Great wine, great food, great place and not only one, but two, three, more storytellers. He's having a journalgasm in his seat. And we all applaud him with our furtive eye gestures of recognition that this is one Big Night.
And in the catbird seat is the master blaster, the man of many tales, the liquid historian. Carmen regales us with one story after another from his early days as a young man setting up umbrellas on the Jersey Shore in summer ("Al Martino always gave me a fifty cent tip"), to stories of working the mean streets with Ernie Gallo. And say what you will, those of you who think the sun rises and sets on a world with only small, artisanal, garagiste wines – we all live in a world better suited to all kinds of wine expression because Ernie Gallo hit the streets hard while his brother Julio rode horseback on his early vineyards working to improve technology so that more people in America would have access to simple, sound, affordable wines. I grew up in one of the Italian-American families in California. I didn't grow up drinking German Riesling. Or Lambrusco. Or Moscato. I grew up drinking Hearty red wine. And millions like me did. So a huge shout out and grazie to the Piedmontese brothers who had a vision for America. They changed - hell - they invented the wine game in America. And yes, there is room in this great country for everyone's wine. From Chardonnay to Timorasso. From Merlot to Cesanese. From Cold Duck to Franciacorta. Think: gateway…
|Bea San Valentino
|Cesanese DOCG
|Timorasso - rare everywhere except in NYC
At the end of the meal, when coffee and amari were passed around, I was beaming. I have dear friends, old and new, and we all were elated to sit at the table of the master storyteller. Man, I love that guy. And not because he bought me dinner, but because he sees wine through the eyes of someone to whom everything is new.
The great 20th century sculptor Constantin Brancusi nailed it: "When we are no longer children we are already dead".
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The Guinness World Records have just admitted this heavy weight into its book of records. This is Muhammad is a book that weighs over 1500 kilos (3,300 lb) i.e. more then a ton, despite which it has a mere 420 pages but costs Dh11 million ($1.32 million USD).
The book was worked upon by one hundred people at a time which allowed the 5 metre long and 4 meter wide creation to become a reality. The book is made from paper and leather in collaboration with the Awassem International and The World Body of the Definition of the Holy Prophet.
Other books related to Islam that have been showcased on the Rich Times are the Worlds largest Quran (that comes with the obligatory 120 kilo gold and silver cover) as well as the worlds smallest Quran (which comes with a diamond encrusted cover).
Unveiled by Shaikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance; the This is Muhammad showcases the simple lifestyle of Prophet Muhammad and Islam. The book is written by Dr Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Muslih, Saudi author and Secretary General of the Complex for Islamic Fiqh Research in Riyadh.


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Your webinar is all wrapped up, attendees are leaving, and you're breathing a sigh of relief, knowing that you did a great job. But what do you do now?
Delivering valuable content doesn't have to end on the final slide — you can still reach out to your attendees through post-webinar email funnels.
What's a post-webinar email funnel?
Simply put, this is a series of emails that are sent out to attendees after the webinar that contain information to further educate them on the webinar topic. Content of these emails can include, but is not limited to:
- A recording of the webinar
- A copy of the slideshow (if applicable)
- Links to additional educational resources
- Call-to-action to sign up for your service/buy your product
- Link to a schedule of upcoming webinars
The main objective of these post-webinar emails is to deliver a recording of the presentation to attendees, so they can watch it again at their leisure and really absorb the points covered. However, these emails also give us the chance to:
- Promote related webinars that our attendees should register for. This increases webinar attendance and creates more opportunities to deliver value to customers and prospects.
- Generate sales. While some attendees are already customers, many are not, and attended the webinar just to see what you have to offer. Your post-webinar emails should encourage prospects to start a trial of your product or service. These emails and calls to action can consistently generate new orders that likely would have slipped through the cracks without proper follow up.
Webinars + Email = Results
So what's next? Well, first make sure (if you haven't already) to record your webinars. The best case scenario would be to record them before the actual webinar takes place, that way attendees have a minimal wait to get that recording.
Then you'll want to set up a series, maybe 2-3 emails, that include not only that recording but also any other content that would help your attendees better understand the material that was presented and make that decision to buy your product or sign up to your service.
Finally, it's a good idea to track some of these actions. Set up a simple spreadsheet to track the number of attendees, along with the number of sales that you record through those post-webinar emails. Using these stats will help you identify what works, what doesn't and where tweaks can be made in those post-webinar emails to make sure you're providing the best content possible to your attendees.


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NPPA Submits Comments Regarding Orphan Works
January 26th, 2013 by and tagged Alicia Calzada, copyright, copyright small claims, journalism, journalist, law, Legal, Mickey Osterreicher, national press photographers association, NPPA, orphan works, photographer, photographers, photography, photojournalism, photojournalist, u.s. copyright office, Visual Journalists
The National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA) has, in response to a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) by the Copyright Office, submitted comments on the issue of orphan works and mass digitalization. The Copyright Office has solicited comments for use in advising Congress on how to address current issues involving copyright and orphan works.
These official comments, written by NPPA attorneys Mickey Osterreicher and Alicia Calzada, with contributions from board member Greg Smith and NPPA intern Joan Blazich, discuss the issues currently facing visual journalists regarding copyright and propose solutions for creating a system which would treat copyright holders and users of orphaned works fairly and efficiently.
The comments state that "NPPA is gravely concerned that in seeking to address the frustration of 'good faith users' of Orphan Works in order to cure their potential liability and 'gridlock in the digital marketplace,' the Copyright Office may create a far more serious problem for authors/owners of visual works." The comments also note that "As visual journalists, our members are squeezed from every side by onerous contracts seeking all rights for little compensation, the proliferation of user generated content by publishers and the widespread infringement of visual works by individuals and organizations. While we understand and appreciate the concerns of those in the copyright community who need to use Orphan Works, we believe it is crucial to protect the copyright of recently created visual works that, for whatever reason, appear to be orphaned when, in fact, they are not."
NPPA attorneys Osterreicher and Calzada plan to attend the Copyright Office's public hearings on orphan works once dates and times for those hearings are announced. As more visual journalists face situations in which their images are misappropriated under an "orphan works" claim, the NPPA proposes that if any legislation is enacted, it must include language that protects authors from predatory practices by those who would infringe upon our members' work with impunity under the protection of a new law.
"Photographers are lucky to have advocates like Mickey, Alicia, Greg and Joan, who spend a great deal of time examining these issues and and how they will affect our members and all those who create content," said NPPA President Mike Borland. "The orphan works issue won't be resolved soon and it certainly won't be resolved properly without our voice being heard," he added.
In accordance with that goal, the comments recommend significant limitations on what works qualify as orphans and which users would be entitled to such protection. In addition, the NPPA advocated for registration of any uses of orphan works, along with a bond or insurance requirement to protect rights holders' financial interests in the event they come forward to make a claim.
To read the NPPA's comments, click here. To read the Copyright Office's current NOI, click here. To read about previous Copyright Office inquiries on the subject of orphan works click here.
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I often end up on campus in early morning hours or late evening as I am responsible for the network infrastructure - meaning lots of hands on time, and usually off-hours. I think for myself, to be able to carry, isn't even a question. My job requires these times, I should at least be given the chance to provide my own personal security.
We have one location in a not-so-great area - off Corinth near Akard in South Dallas. I told my boss if she wants me there after dark I'll be packing at least 2 pieces and one will be an assault rifle at the low ready.
Needless to say, she's never asked me to show up there after dark.
Higher Education shouldn't be off limits.......
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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.
The challenges and promise of big data are front and center for CIOs and other business leaders. The initial applications that have leveraged big data have provided organizations with significant returns and given a glimpse into the power of big data and how it can be used to disrupt their competitive landscape.
These business leaders are beginning to recognize that by better leveraging a variety of data sources -- everything from transactional data to trading data, genomics, smart meter output and sensor data -- they can dramatically change their organization's market position and profitability.
For example, telecommunications companies are looking to exploit big data to target market content to set-top boxes, target rate plans and bundles, improve quality-of-service and offload expensive data warehouses. What's interesting about these examples is that, while big data is being used for new applications with new data, it is also possible to use big data to transform existing applications and use cases.
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One of the drivers for big data solutions is the need to harness fast-growing data. In the past, a telecom billing application dealt with one phone per customer and something in the neighborhood of 100 calls a month. Today, telecom billing applications must deal with an explosion of devices, voice, text and data plans.
In his 1990 book, "Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology," George Gilder wrote about how technology was changing business, economics and even the very nature of how markets function through the introduction of ever smaller, more powerful yet affordable, microchips and computing systems.
Gilder followed up with the book "Telecosm," which discusses how the telecommunications revolution, including broadband, would connect people, computers and businesses in entirely new ways. Each of these waves predicted how exploiting the increasingly abundant and "free" resource (microprocessors in "Mircocosm" and bandwidth in "Telecosm") would be an engine of change and wealth creation.
We are now on the cusp of a third wave -- a "Datacosm" -- that will enable organizations to exploit abundant and fast-growing data. To be ready to leverage big data, enterprises need the best and latest tools in order to analyze and exploit all of their unstructured and structured data. Hadoop, a framework that enables the analysis of vast amounts of structured and unstructured data on a cluster of commodity servers, has emerged as the most important technology for the Datacosm.
When talking about big data, we are really talking about new architectures -- in essence, a paradigm shift that's needed to process all that information. In the Datacosm, it doesn't make sense to store data separately from the processing. Rather, users of big data need to simplify how they handle and scale data. So what's required is an architecture that can scale linearly and easily. That's really what Hadoop provides.
Hadoop is the software that stitches together these commodity servers into a big data platform. With Hadoop, a single node in the cluster is capable of having 16, 3 terabyte (TB) disks or 48TB of data per node in a cluster. Instead of enterprise storage solutions costing between $10,000 and $125,000 per TB, Hadoop delivers an analytic and storage platform for a couple hundred dollars per TB. If more processing or data capacity is needed, simply add additional nodes to the cluster. The MapR distribution for Hadoop, for example, provides an enterprise grade platform. Some examples of this power include the ability to:
- Create target marketing applications that leverage transaction data and customer interactions with content recommendations to develop significant new revenue opportunities
- Improved accuracy and timeliness of fraud detection, operation analytics and quality management
- Scale operations with at least 10-to-1 cost efficiencies over traditional servers, NAS or SAN alternatives
Any one of these examples could be the basis of a competitive advantage and increased profitability. That's why many organizations have started to deploy Hadoop or are actively investigating its use.
The year 2012 brought important big data advancements and demonstrated success in large enterprises and small organizations, both on-premises and in the cloud. But there is more to come in the future. Hadoop is about to become even more powerful and capable. No longer do enterprises need to limit their Hadoop usage to batch processing. Now they'll be able perform analytics using batch or real-time processing, which will expand use cases and applications.
We're going to see these kinds of real-time capabilities emerge across the whole Datacosm in 2013, as well as the ability to integrate NoSQL processing directly into the Hadoop framework to provide new capabilities for integrated data analysis. All of these advances will help businesses as they work to refine and improve their own uses of their massive stores of customer, transactional and machine-generated data.
The Datacosm has the power to transform the competitive dynamics of entire industries. Gilder has documented two successive waves that brought tremendous change and opportunity. Datacosm represents a third wave.
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1. Re: Port 1098 is takennlsurfman Jul 22, 2005 8:44 AM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
On Windows XP type on a prompt: netstat -a -n -o
The output will include the Process ID. Use the task manager to find out what process that is....
2. Re: Port 1098 is takenplnarayana Aug 26, 2005 4:14 PM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
How I tell Jboss server to use a different port
3. Re: Port 1098 is takensubhash_bhushan Oct 2, 2005 11:26 AM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
I too am a newbie to JBoss, but came across the answer to your question.
jboss-service.xml file, present in the conf directory of your server mode (Ex. default), has a section called JNDI. The ports have been specified there. You probably will be able to change the ports there.
Here is the listing that I have in jboss-service.xml:
<!-- ==================================================================== --> <!-- JNDI --> <!-- ==================================================================== --> <mbean code="org.jboss.naming.NamingService" name="jboss:service=Naming" xmbean-dd="resource:xmdesc/NamingService-xmbean.xml"> <!-- The call by value mode. true if all lookups are unmarshalled using the caller's TCL, false if in VM lookups return the value by reference. --> <attribute name="CallByValue">false</attribute> <!-- The listening port for the bootstrap JNP service. Set this to -1 to run the NamingService without the JNP invoker listening port. --> <attribute name="Port">1099</attribute> <!-- The bootstrap JNP server bind address. This also sets the default RMI service bind address. Empty == all addresses --> <attribute name="BindAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute> <!-- The port of the RMI naming service, 0 == anonymous --> <attribute name="RmiPort">1098</attribute> <!-- The RMI service bind address. Empty == all addresses --> <attribute name="RmiBindAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute> <!-- The thread pool service used to control the bootstrap lookups --> <depends optional-attribute-name="LookupPool" proxy-type="attribute">jboss.system:service=ThreadPool</depends> </mbean> <mbean code="org.jboss.naming.JNDIView" name="jboss:service=JNDIView" xmbean-dd="resource:xmdesc/JNDIView-xmbean.xml"> </mbean>
Subhash Bhushan.
4. Re: Port 1098 is takenrgrantitt Oct 6, 2005 1:28 PM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
Often Outlook will take this port prior to starting jboss. Shutdown Outlook, or reboot your computer without Outlook running on startup, start your jboss server first then start Outlook. If you are not running outlook on the same machine then I can't help you.
But I have run into this issue with outlook
5. Re: Port 1098 is takensubhash_bhushan Oct 20, 2005 7:24 AM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
I encountered the same problem on my machine, and found that Oracle services were using the port 1098.
If you are using Oracle, then try stopping those services, and restarting jboss.
Subhash Bhushan.
6. Re: Port 1098 is takenntableman Oct 27, 2005 3:03 PM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
I am having the problem as well in Windows 2000 pro and XP
here is my chain of events
I start JBoss
1098 is in use, by JBoss
I stop JBoss
1098 is NOT IN USE
I start JBoss, it fails telling me 109 is in use.
When I move it to 10098, it then get 8083 in use errors.
JBoss isnt cleaning this up.
7. Re: Port 1098 is takendrhok Dec 9, 2005 5:22 AM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
"kannaiyanbalaji" wrote:
java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 1098; nested exception is:
java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind
You don't need to move JBoss to a different port. It is sufficient and maybe even better to reserve some ports using regedit. It is described here (in the reply by fbiaggi):
Port range 1098-1099 works for me.
8. Re: Port 1098 is takenanilit99 Mar 3, 2008 3:24 PM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
There is a very quick solution to this.
In the server/xxx/conf directory there is jboss-service.xml
Search for the tag: ServiceBindingManager.
Now Uncomment the whole mbean. Opposite to serverName you can find ports-01. In most of the cases it can remain the same.
Just restart the server. If you are interested you can open and see the sample-bindings.xml where all the ports are configured. This is a fail proof way to get over the ports problem.
9. Re: Port 1098 is takenjasonlevinsohn Jul 27, 2010 3:21 PM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
Hello everyone,
This would be my first post, but I found a solution I don't think anyone has tried yet. For me the problem was that there was another process called alg.exe running using port 1098. It is a windows program which allows other clients needing ports to be able to have one dynamically in windows or something like that. If you have that process running check the TCPViewer to see if it using that port and shut that thang down. I hope this helps someone.
10. Port 1098 is takenakayender Feb 16, 2011 10:46 AM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
Hi Everyone,
With EAP 5, editing conf\bindingservice.beans\META-INF\bindings-jboss-beans.xml file with respect to following element:
<bean class="org.jboss.services.binding.ServiceBindingMetadata">
<property name="serviceName">jboss:service=Naming</property>
<property name="bindingName">RmiPort</property>
<property name="port">1112</property>
<property name="description">Socket Naming service uses to receive RMI requests from client proxies</property>
is the neat solution that I found. Bold number is what you need to change.
11. Re: Port 1098 is takenwdfink Jun 17, 2011 5:26 AM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
lot of answers... but
First what JBoss do you use,
JBoss4 => you need to activate the ServiceBindingManager within the server/.../conf/jboss-service.xml
you can use ports-0? configuration
JBoss5 => there is a active configuration you can use it, it will shift the ports wit an offset.
You should read http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ServiceBindingManager for detailed information.
12. Re: Port 1098 is takenmcc99 Jun 16, 2011 10:33 AM (in response to kannaiyanbalaji)
Just want to mention that the jboss-service.xml file needing editing in conf\ is in install_path\server\default\conf\ Be forewarned that port 1099 is also used by JNP. Basically, search on '1099' in the file and then replace it with some port like '2000'. Then find '1098' and replace it with a port like '2001'. Doing exactly this worked for me, cleared up all my startup problems in one fell swoop.
13. Re: Port 1098 is takenwdfink Jun 17, 2011 5:26 AM (in response to mcc99)
I recommend to use the binding manager, here all ports are changed with one configuration.
Editing different files will mess up and you have to edit the files each time if you install a newer JBoss version.


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Communal irrigation systems known as acequias that have sustained farming villages in the arid southwestern United States for centuries are struggling because of dwindling snowmelt runoff and social and economic factors that favor modernism over tradition, a Dartmouth College study finds.
The results reflect similar changes around the world, where once isolated communities are becoming integrated into larger economies, which provide benefits of modern living but also the uncertainties of larger-scale market fluctuations. The study appears in the journal Global Environmental Change.
A PDF of the study is available on request.
Acequias evolved in the Middle East and Roman Empire and were introduced into the Americas by Spanish colonizers in the early 1600s. The term acequia refers to both communities of farmers as well as engineered irrigation canals that carry snowmelt-driven runoff to farm fields as a way for the agricultural communities to share a scarce resource in arid regions. The acequias system, which is common in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, provides a model of communal ownership that governs water rights, distribution, disputes and other issues.
Dartmouth Assistant Professor Michael Cox, the study's author, examined the acequias of the Taos Valley in northern New Mexico. He found the acequias are declining in terms of their agricultural productivity and have mostly lost their common property-based livestock pasturing system. The changes stem from a declining amount of snowmelt and a host of socio-economic factors, many resulting from population growth in the nearby city of Taos. The factors include state-level public policies that grant private water rights to individuals, which conflicts with the acequias' water sharing traditions; newcomers who are increasing demand for what water remains; increased tourism and land use development; and declining reliance on traditions in favor of modern, highly integrated economies.
Researchers typically focus on successful examples of community-based common-pool resource management systems, but Cox's study, which used a mix of interview, survey, remote sensing and census data, is among the few to explore the deterioration of such systems.
"While some of these changes can be attributed to declines in water availability, much of the change results from social drivers, including demographic changes, regional-to-global market forces and public policies," Cox says. "It thus seems quite unlikely that the acequias in Taos will return to their historical situation, meaning the acequia farmers must adapt to the current conditions."
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The research was supported by the National Science Foundation.
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Victoria Moule in Fulbright program
June 22, 2004
This June, Victoria Moule will depart for Tokyo, Japan as a participant in the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program. Moule, who teaches at Colfax Elementary School and resides in Beltzhoover, was selected from a national pool of more than 2,000 applicants by a panel of educators. The program allows distinguished primary and secondary school educators in the United States to travel to Japan for three weeks in an effort to promote greater intercultural understanding between the two nations.
Moule is the only Pittsburgh Public School teacher selected for this June session.
The program is sponsored by the government of Japan and was launched in 1997 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. government Fulbright Program, which has enabled more than 6,000 Japanese citizens to study in the states on Fulbright fellowships for graduate education and research.


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A vibrant museum and art gallery housing collections of contemporary, fine and decorative arts, plus an expansive temporary exhibitions programme and fifteen centuries of Nottingham history. All housed in a magnificent 17th century ducal mansion built on the site of the original Medieval Castle with spectacular views of the city.
Home to WFR Sherwood Foresters Regimental Museum - an informative museum charting the history of a local regiment, who are now part of the Mercian Regiment.
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I like Allan, he interacts with fans, he blogs, he shares, he is trying hard.He is no Phil, but I don't mind him!
it hurts me to say this *sarcasm*, but I think TARA is officially dead, it's obvious TARA3 had a MASSIVE budget cut, it's obvious, really, and we had to wait nearly 2 years for the next season, which seems to run on the same budget as TARA3. Now apparentely there's no season this year, they can't keep making seasons every two years, the gap is too large.I predict TARA's death
This might be a bad news for the fans of TAR Asia. It seems that AXN Asia will not renew their season for TAR Asia and they'd already franchised another hit reality show in the US called The Apprentice and this might be a replacement on TAR Asia. And here's the website: http://www.axn-asia.com/programs/theapprenticeasia
Hmmmm...is there any new news? Seeing some things that make me think there could...maybe...be some signs of life!
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By 2025, we're on track to be housing one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish in the World's oceans. The plot thickens – we now know this plastic gets broken down into 'micro-particles', tiny pieces small enough to be ingested by fish and marine animals. Over time, our animal friends find their digestive tracts have built quite the collection of these plastic micro-particles. It's not yet clear exactly what the effect of this is, but it seems to be stunting their growth, interfering with reproduction and ultimately, increasing mortality rates (No surprise here - plastic is often toxic, after all!).
Truth is, we don't even need to know the science to logically see that this outcome is B – A – D. What's more – we're filling the bellies of the very animals we love to eat. Let's not forget, around 17% of the world's population's food intake is made up of fish. We're damaging the Oceans, and we're ultimately damaging ourselves too.
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Let's imagine we kept hold of the plastic we use, rather than throwing it in the bin.
Especially for us city folk, the big one here centres around food & drink. Coffees, water, sandwiches and salads…. Many of us will get through enough packaging to fill our backpacks on a daily basis. Times that by 7 and we'd be carting around a huge volume of throw-away plastic by the end of a week.
So let's reel it in, and take a few basic steps to totally sideline the issue: Re-usable Coffee cup, Tupperware, pocket-shopping bag and a bottle (ideally with a built-in filter). We've heard it a hundred times, but if we all make this simple change, together we'd be saving a HUGE volume of rubbish from landfill.
In the UK we use around 7 million disposable coffee cups every day. The House of Commons alone is said to bin 650,000 of them each year (We hope our friends over the pond aren't sitting too smugly… you guys are saying goodbye to around 146 billion cups each year). This (briefly) handy little vessel takes around 30 years to break down – you get our point. It's bad, but totally avoidable. You can't walk down the street these days without spotting a re-usable coffee cup for sale. If you don't have one… GET ONE! They're not just a marketing ploy – these things do make a difference.
An important point to make here is that, when it comes to making durable, easily cleaned products, plastic can be a great material – we just need to change our relationship with when using it is appropriate. The next time you consider a plastic product, lend it a little respect and pause to ponder – will I keep using this product? Do I need it? If the answer is truly yes, then you're good to go. If not? Well, you know what to do.
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Ex-Lehman Bankers Get the Band Back Together
Three former Lehman Brothers "house bands" will take to the stage Tuesday evening at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in Manhattan to headline a five-year reunion that will bring together alumni of the failed investment bank. Julie Steinberg reports on MoneyBeat.
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The secession of the Confederate States was a libertarian/decentralist political process. It was also unviolent, until a then foreign unit of troops were told to keep their presence-- in a country that had asked them to leave.
I don't think there is a more famous traitor during wartime than Akechi Mitsuhide. Had he not killed Nobunaga, the country would most likely have been unified much sooner.


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DOVER — Tim Granfield, who grew up on Mineral Park Drive in subsidized housing, will soon be the Dover Housing Authority's newest commissioner, hoping to give thanks to the community that led him to achieve his dreams.
According to May Glovinski, Deputy Director at DHA, as a commissioner, Granfield will set policy, monitor the performance of the agency and establish long-range goals for the agency, while approving operating budgets, contracts and purchases.
When he is appointed on Feb. 18, Granfield will sit on the board, overseeing the agency which owns and manages 458 residential dwelling units under the Development of Housing and Urban Development Public Housing Program in eight locations throughout the city, in addition to assisting 347 low-income families throughout the Section 8 housing choice voucher and managing 45 apartments at Addison Place, a low-income housing tax credit development and managing 26 apartments at Covered Bridge Manor, an elderly residential complex.
Granfield will join members Marjorie W. Briand, Barbara A. Caron, vice chair Mark S. Moeller, Esq. and Chairman John E. McCooey.
"It's a light commitment, but it is what you make of it," Granfield said, who will be replacing John E. Pike, Ph.D, who resigned in November. "I'm really looking forward to it."
Granfield, 29, now a University of New Hampshire graduate and Manager of Operational Analytics at Liberty Mutual, said his family struggled while he was growing up and is appreciative of what the DHA gave his family.
"I had a single mother who had three boys," Granfield said. "She was doing the best she could, but didn't make enough for us to have our own place or a 'nicer' place in a different neighborhood."
Granfield said the assistance his family was given through the state went to the DHA, which covered their rent and their heat.
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Granfield's family moved to Dover from Nashua when he was in eighth grade. Up until he left for college, he lived in housing through the DHA. He wants to make sure people at DHA have the same opportunities he had to be able to make the best of their lives.
"I was very familiar with the area and a lot of the circumstances in the housing authority," he said about why he accepted the position as commissioner. "I was given a lot of opportunities to move past that and make myself a better person, and be able to, through assistance, go through college and be able to have the life that I have today."
Granfield still lives in Dover, but no longer through the housing authority. His wife, Brittany, teaches at Dover Middle School, and the two of them keep busy with their sons, 2-year-old Kelton and 10-month-old Callan.
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Single of the Week!
Pushy Parents - 'Secret Secret' (Elefant)
Pushy Parents are dirty cheats and magpies - in actual life they are a) dead old and b) Swedish musicians Amanda Aldervall, Roger Gunnarson, Daniel Jansson and Johann Emmoth. But for the purposes of pop presentation they are teenagers, gaily gidding about pretend-playing instruments and singing to you about how they 'gave you the truth,' but 'you don't know what it means'. As it is unlikely that such a grave thought would occur to youths as youthy as the ones in the video – much less provoke them to dance in front of pastel graphics, you must not be fooled. Nor must you ignore the fact that this single is so very like a modded DeLorean with no ambition; dials set for 2006, when 'Young Folks' and 'You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve' both found their home in the hearts of those too old for hairslides, but too young to throw their hairslides away. And though all three share the deliberate, self-conscious air of distilled laboratory pop; and though it is easy – especially if you are feeling cynical – to spot the strings, all are rather affecting. I am convinced that in 'Secret Secret's case, this is due to the power of the now oft-overlooked key-change-chorus; a musical trick that still works on me, even though it is capriciously silly.
The Proper Ornaments - 'Who Thought' from 'The Proper Ornaments' EP (No Pain In Pop)
Anyone who has spent a fruitless minute deciding whether it would be better to be 'beautiful and stupid' or 'clever and ugly' will doubtless have examined that further – and much more sinewy - philosophical quandary; 'If you are stupid, do you know?'. And I am put in mind of this when listening to The Proper Ornaments, who make naïve, shuffly pop that someone, somewhere believes it is helpful to mention in the same breath as The Byrds. And whose single it is possible to glean a great deal of pleasure from, if you will only suspend your critical faculties and flipping well go with it. As all these important questions lead on to the greatest of all; 'Does endlessly thinking about stuff to the point of dementia lead to wisdom or even make you happy when surely not thinking is sometimes quite good?'; and as I cannot answer this question because I am too busy thinking about thinking, you might want to sling 'Who Thought' on the stereo and enjoy the good bits until I go away. It's very pretty and has nice singing.
Pampidoo- 'Ghetto Rock' (Meeuw Muzak)
Now we all have the power to control our own bubble and let into it the exact things we please at all hours, it is amusing to see you humans careen in horror when your shells inevitably break. So I like the artifice of the modern world; how 'they' (people who: buy music in supermarkets / have never been to Wagamamas / have never considered themselves involved in an issue simply by writing something inane about it on Twitter) have been so spectacularly ring-fenced from our lives, that we often completely forget They exist. And I like how this column can be like that if I am not careful, because it means records like this one by Pampidoo, re-fashioned by a fiddler of secret synths who calls himself Tapes, can smash it all down. Insistent to the point of me wishing they were a physical thing I could swat away, the beats on 'Ghetto Rock' are tinny, irksome. But this single also serves as a delicious reminder that not all of music revolves around BLOODY BANDS; it can remind a person that a whole other world is out there, if you will FOR ONE MINUTE stop trying TO CONTROL EVERYTHING as IF CONTROLLING YOUR ENVIRONMENT could ever EVEN BE POSSIBLE with THIS MANY PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. Basically 'Ghetto Rock' is like being trapped in a jar with a bluebottle. But such is its sheer zeal, you find yourself falling in love with it, offering to lick its eyes if it will only take you away from bands like HOWLER.
Howler - 'Back of Your Neck' (Rough Trade)
Quick, everyone! Howler have a new single out and it's got guitars on it and everything!
Oberhofer - 'Gotta Go' (Glassnote)
I will go with Brad Oberhofer on his amiably distorted, jangly jaunt; and I will let him tell me about this girl who wanted to leave when he didn't want her to; because even though that is an old subject it is universal and will never, ever die until people stop leaving people who don't want them to. I mean, I will go with him until about the 1:40 mark when there is a not very good talky bit. And then I will say I have just remembered something I put in the oven. Which will be my loss, because then I will miss the bit after the talky bit when 'Gotta Go' gets good again.
MF Doom - 'Rhymes Like Dimes' from 'Dime Box' (Metalface Records)
'Rhymes Like Dimes' from Doom's 1999 debut is being re-released with its incredibly jolly Quincy Jones wibble-synth sample, and I am pleased to say it sounds still very vital. What is not particularly vital is that it is being released in a package that includes an MF DOOM jigsaw puzzle - although maybe if you think jazz tobacco is really amazing like what Doom does then it could keep you busy for ooh, a good hour.
Pulled Apart By Horses - 'V.E.N.O.M.' (Transgressive Records)
The good thing about Pulled Apart By Horses is that they are strangely out of time, playing rock from their no doubt busy groins and making no apologies for same. What is jarring - especially after spending over a year teaching Young People Who Like Classic Scuzzy Rock And Think 'Indie' Is Mostly A Load Of Pretentious Arse – is how much it reminds me of A Classic Scuzzy Rock Band As Started By Young People At College Who Think 'Indie' Is A Load Of Pretentious Arse. Especially if their dads have bought them expensive guitars and are 'helping' them quite a lot. Albeit: A Classic Scuzzy Rock Band As Started By Young People At College Who Think 'Indie' Is A Load Of Pretentious Arse Whose Dads Have Bought Them Expensive Guitars And Are 'Helping' Them Quite A Lot, Who Also Happen To Have Surmounted All Critical Obstacles And Ended Up Being Very Good. By all of which I mean, being a pretentious arse who likes pretentious arse music, I feel the need to write something entirely smart-arsed to explain why I can't get my head around why I like Pulled Apart By Horses as much as I do. They're going to kick my head in.
Standard Fare - '051107' (Melodic Records)
As regular readers will know I am keen on Standard Fare, they have an appeal that is mostly down to the delightful Emma Kupa and her incredibly loud voice that is plain without being functional; heartening in a way that doesn't need adornment to make its point. Anyway, even though '051107' is a rubbish name for a single it is still excellent; not as good as 'Suitcase' or 'Fifteen', but it does have a peculiarly plaintive brass section that makes it sound all the more achey.
AU - 'Solid Gold' (The Leaf Label)
Colin Stetson is playing on this single by AU, which is good news for those of us who like impenetrable sax sounds that no one will ever write internet How-Tos for because the only person who can make those sounds is called Colin Stetson. What it accompanies is a ranging exercise that starts off sounding spectacularly (and perhaps too) yearny as Luke Wyland sings a refrain of 'Her eyes' (oh Crikey) before galloping off and forgetting it is even a song at all. Essentially 'Solid Gold' is more journey than single, employing so many percussive strands and time signatures, and all so energetically, that it inevitably seems a little tangled. The first 30 seconds are earnest, bombastic rock of the sort I cannot be getting on with because it is liked by the sort of men who think a beard automatically makes them interesting. And then it goes totally hatstand and I like not knowing what the fuck is going on.
Also out this Week!
Aleph - 'From Chaos To Cosmos' EP (King Deluxe)
Foxes – 'Youth' (Neon Gold)
War Of Words - 'Panic' / 'Battleground' (Popjustice Hi-Fi)
The Ghosts - 'Enough Time' (Pocket Records)
Anomie Belle - 'Machine' EP
Florence & The Machine - 'No Light No Light' (Universal)
Union Starr - 'I Know About Art' (Woodenhouse)
Polinski - 'AWaltzOfLight' (Monotreme)
Jim-E Stack - 'Come Between' (Good Years)
The Rifles - 'Sweetest Thing' (Nettwerk)
Gomma All Stars feat. Peaches - 'The Casablanca Reworks Project' (Gomma)
Projectionists – 'Projectionists' EP (Joyeux Anniversaire)
Spam Chop - 'Cuckup' EP (Mimm Recordings)
Artifact - 'Archaic Line' (Deadplate Records)
LAL - 'LAL' (Urbnet)
Halls - 'Fragile' EP (The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing)
Secret Rivals - 'Once More With Heart' / 'I Know Something' (A Badge Of Friendship)
Dog Ears - 'Mrs Winchester' (Proper Songs)
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Puzzling thoughts for H. M.: can new semantic information be anchored to old semantic memories?
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