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Air Astana Now Flies Twice Weekly To Kuala Lumpur
04 November 2010
Sepang, 4 November 2010 - After a year serving KL International Airport (KLIA), Air Astana, the national carrier of Kazakhstan has increased its frequency by adding another flight to Kuala Lumpur. Effective today, the airline serves Kuala Lumpur twice weekly, on Sunday and Thursday.
Air Astana started flying to Kuala Lumpur in October last year, introducing one flight weekly for the Almaty - Kuala Lumpur vice versa route, utilising Boeing 767-300 ER with 220 seating capacity. The flight from Almaty to Kuala Lumpur takes approximately eight hours.
Y. Bhg. Dato' Azmi Murad, Senior General Manager Operation Services Malaysia Airports said: "The introduction of twice weekly flights to KLIA by Air Astana proves that Malaysia has a very good appeal in the Kazakhstan market. This shows the great potential for the Malaysia - Kazakhstan market."
The service to Kuala Lumpur was originally launched on a seasonal basis, but increasing demand resulted in year-round operations commencing in March 2010. "Kazakhstan and Malaysia have strong economic, trade and tourism ties, which continue to steadily grow. Both countries enjoy a mutually beneficial partnership, with Air Astana pleased to support this strengthening cooperation. We hope that passengers will enjoy the comfort and Skytrax award winning cabin service of flying Air Astana," said Peter Foster, President, Air Astana.
In today's welcome reception, the 136 arriving passengers of Flight KC935 from Almaty were greeted and presented souvenirs by Y. Bhg. Dato' Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, Director General DCA Malaysia, accompanied by Dato' Azmi Murad; Dhanwanthrie Goonetilleke, Regional General Manager Far East and Australia for Air Astana; Y. Bhg. Datin Normarsila Musa , Director of International Marketing, America, Europe and Oceania and His Excellency Beibut B. Atamkulov, Ambassador of Republic Kazakhstan in Malaysia.
Air Astana is a joint venture between Kazakhstan's JS Company "Sovereign Wealth Fund SamrukKazyna" (51%) and BAE Systems (49%). Air Astana is the only airline in Kazakhstan to maintain its fleet to audited EU EASA 145 standards. In 2008 it was admitted to the register of the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) - one of the few airlines in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to have achieved this.
Today the airline operates a fleet of 22 western aircraft with an average age of 7 years for its jet aircraft, close to 50 domestic and international routes. For more information, please log on to: http://www.airastana.com

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St. John's Hoops Extends Win Streak To Five Games
St. John's basketball won their fifth straight game Wednesday night with an 85-64 win over Macalester.
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Lumberton middle school students meet 'Surgio'
Lumberton Middle School students had an opportunity to try out one of the most innovative and advanced computer-assisted surgical systems in the world Thursday, May 1, as they visited Christus-St. Elizabeth Hospital for an exclusive look at "Surgio," the hospital's sophisticated da Vinci Si robotic platform designed to expand surgeons' capabilities and offer a state-of-the-art minimally invasive option for major surgeries.
Fourteen students from Lumberton Middle School robotics class learned how surgeons control Surgio's arms with telemanipulators through joystick-like devices and foot pedals and how the da Vinci enhances surgeons' capabilities. Guiding the lesson were Beaumont urologist Dr. Steven Socher; Matt Amos, senior clinical representative for Intuitive Surgical, the designer and manufacturer of the da Vinci; and surgical robotics clinical coordinator Michele Stone.
"This machine has a lot of advantages. During a surgery, it is very difficult to see inside the body. With this … you can see better," Socher told the students, referring to the system's high definition, three-dimensional video. "It is also somewhat of an improvement over our hands. When surgeons get older, they get shaky hands," he said. "This robot actually takes that shake out of the hands. It's almost as if the robot is operating on (the patient), but … it is still a human doing it. This only does what we tell it to do. When you start using it, you'll see you are in total control."
Each student had a chance to sit in the surgeon's console and try his or her hand — or the robot's hand, that is — at picking up small rubber bands, manipulating them throughout the test field.
"It's actually really simple to move," said eighth-grader James Newmas, who wants to be an engineer. "It's really neat, but it feels different afterwards, moving your actual hands after moving the robot's hands. It's like a really high-tech video game."
Seventh-grader Hannah Alexander said if she had to choose whether to perform a surgery with traditional surgical instruments or the da Vinci, the answer is elementary.
"With the robot you can spin (the hand). If you did it with your hand, you may have a place where you need to spin it but you can't,"Alexander said, referring to the robot's 360-degree, wrist-like rotations. "If we just use our hands and don't use the robot, it might be more difficult."
Robotics and mathematics teacher Karen Glenn said Lumberton Middle School has offered a robotics club for the past 10 years, but 2013-14 was the first school year an actual robotics class was offered to students. In the class, students build and use Lego Mindstorm NXTs and EV3s, Glenn said.
"They learn how to make the robots respond to sound, touch, distance — using an ultrasonic sensor and light," she said. "They solve problems and simulate tasks like in the real world. For instance, I built a makeshift cave, and they would go in there and take readings, come out and display them. We watch a lot of videos and read a lot of articles about real life robots. We actually read about the da Vinci robot, and we're grateful to St. E for setting this up. This is such a great experience for them."
The students, some of whom recently competed in state competition with their robots, also had an opportunity to meet 55-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Ruben Victores, who advocated for the hospital to purchase the approximately $2 million da Vinci Si. Victores was one of the first surgeons in Southeast Texas to use the system and the first Christus-associated surgeon to perform 50 operations with the da Vinci robot. The hospital presented Victores with a plaque May 1 prior to the students' visit to commemorate the milestone.
"For hundreds of years, we used to do hysterectomies either with a vertical incision or a transverse incision," Victores said. "The recuperation was longer, and the incisions were not particularly pretty. Now, as I did yesterday, we are doing the single-site surgery through one small incision in the belly button … cosmetically, a lot nicer because there's really no scar."
What are the advantages to single-site surgery with the da Vinci? Several, Victores said.
"The recuperation is really the key," he said. "Instead of being out of work for four to six weeks, most patients are going back to work within one to two weeks. The pain level is significantly less; the patients require much, much fewer narcotics, an added benefit to the patient. Less drugs, less side effects from those medications."
Victores, who has practiced medicine for more than 23 years in Beaumont, realized — after speaking to some of the parents of the Lumberton students that had come along for the field trip to St. Elizabeth with their children — that, as an OB/GYN, it wasn't the first time he had met the students. Some of them he had actually met before — in the delivery room.
"It was a very neat experience," he said of the discovery.
Victores said that it is not only important to stimulate these students' interest in the medical field, as they are perhaps future doctors and surgeons, but it is also crucial to introduce them to innovations such as the da Vinci to encourage their creativity, something needed in the field of robotic engineering and other career fields.
"The goal in my mind is to pass your interests forward," Victores said. "I am glad we actually have some kids who are interested in science."
"I think it helps them decide what they want to do in the future," Glenn added, regarding the students' opportunity to use the da Vinci system. "It gives them some options. They get a real experience of what it's like to do the things they might want to do. It's very different reading about it in a textbook than actually seeing it. They may be the next to develop this (technology). It's great for them to be exposed to it."


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Aid to Egypt: Realism over idealism
Some in Washington, including U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, have responded to Egypt's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by insisting that the United States suspend aid to that country. That would be a blunder.
Ayotte says that Egypt's military rulers have ignored our advice while taking our money. If we suspend our aid, maybe they will start to take us — and our entreaties to move quickly to restore an elected government — more seriously.
The United States gives Egypt $1.5 billion a year in aid (less than we spend on Job Corps; see editorial below. Since the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi last month, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE have given Egypt $12 billion to ensure that Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is kept out of power. Our small amount of aid has been replaced (though our weapons and parts cannot be replaced so easily, which Ayotte thinks gives us considerable leverage).
By the way, Israel supports the Egyptian army's efforts to marginalize the Brotherhood, saying it helps in the fight against terror.
Egypt is not a nation that will become a tolerant, liberal republic if only free elections are held. It is a nation in which factions are fighting to see which one gets to impose its views on everyone else. Easing the Muslim Brotherhood's path back to power is not in our best interests. That is the likely result of suspending aid on the condition that the military take its hands off the Brotherhood and rush to hold new elections.


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While singer/guitarist Alan Sparhawk generally has gravitated towards a slower, quieter sound in Low--the Duluth, Minn., trio he's fronted for nearly two decades alongside his wife Mimi Parker--he lets it all hang out in Retribution Gospel Choir.
The band's third album, simply titled "3," is an absolute monster, swinging from shaggy, Crazy-Horse-worthy guitar dirges to more blissfully spaced-out, hypnotic passages.
"When we started working on these songs, it was a shot in the arm for us, because we wanted to present something a little more extreme," said Sparhawk, who even in his early 40s shows no sign of mellowing. "We really took it as a challenge."
In a recent phone interview, the longtime Minnesota resident opened up about Retribution's misleading album title, his Wilco connection and the only high that equals the one he gets from performing.
It seems a bit misleading to name the album "3" and only include two songs, both of which clock in around 20 minutes.
[Laughs] Well, we wanted to make it very clear this was a full-length and that it was definitely the next step for us. We had our [self-titled] debut record, then we had "2" and we thought naming the new album "3" would just reiterate that it was more than just this side thing or this weird little experiment. It really is, in essence, where we're at right now.
People always refer to Retribution as an outlet for your noisier urges. Is that how you see it?
Well, the more boring explanation would be it's because I'm playing with different people and we give each other different license and different inspiration. There's a little bit of a different approach, but it's still me. When I'm writing songs I don't sit and think, "Where is it going to go?" You write, and certain ideas work better with certain people, and sometimes they work with both.
Do you ever run into people who are disappointed to learn you're not actually a gospel choir?
Man, we almost changed our name a year ago over that. I think every time we get a mention in the paper or in the press it gets kind of subconsciously overlooked. Then every few shows someone will say, "Oh, there were some old women here who walked out after the first 10 seconds and said, 'This is not a gospel choir.' " [Laughs]
Have you learned anything working with Retribution that you've been able to apply back to Low?
Oh sure. There are things you learn about the guitar. When you open it up and let it be loud the guitar reacts differently and you have to play differently and you hear things differently. It helps you be a better player. There are more times in Retribution Gospel Choir where I'm right at the edge of my physical abilities.
You have a number of ties to Wilco these days. Nels Cline plays with Retribution on this record, and Jeff Tweedy produced the new Low album, which is due out this March. Have you guys talked about taking all three bands on the road together?
[Laughs] Oh, I don't know. I think that would probably be a little self-indulgent. My longtime friendship with Nels is where that began and where it's based, but it's been cool. Those guys have been great to us, and we had a good time at their studio recording this Low record.
Obviously Jeff's kids have picked up his musical inclinations. Have your kids shown a similar aptitude for music?
Yeah. They both play piano. Hollis is actually pretty good at it, and she writes songs and plays drums as well. We played "Powderfinger" together the other day, so maybe she'll be like a Crazy Horse drummer or something. Cyrus is a little more interested in Minecraft right now, but I think that's pretty typical of 8-year-old boys.
I've heard you're a bit of a runner. Do you have a go-to soundtrack when you're on the trail?
Well, it's usually the sound of the birds or the snow falling. I've never been able to deal with headphones while running. And my brain's usually loud enough to keep me company.
Is there really such thing as a runner's high?
Oh yeah. It's weird. When you first start to run it's hard to go more than a mile or two, but once you can get past that first 10-15 minutes it gets a lot better.
How does it compare to the high you get from performing?
It really is similar. It's an ecstatic, slightly enlightened feeling, like there's a little sun shining right over your head.
Retribution Gospel Choir, 10 p.m. Sat. Feb. 9 at Schubas, $10-$12.


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Peter Shaffer's masterpiece "Amadeus" might be more appropriately titled "Salieri." The problem is that we all know who Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is, but most of us had no idea who Antonio Salieri was until we saw Shaffer's 1979 play or the 1984 film that he adapted from it and went on to win eight Academy Awards.
Peter Shaffer's masterpiece "Amadeus" might be more appropriately titled "Salieri." The problem is that we all know who Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is, but most of us had no idea who Antonio Salieri was until we saw Shaffer's 1979 play or the 1984 film that he adapted from it and went on to win eight Academy Awards.
Salieri was in fact the court composer to Joseph II, the Emperor of Austria, although Salieri's music ended up in the dustbin of history. In Shaffer's mythologized version of characters and events — based on a play by the 19th century Russian writer Alexander Pushkin—Salieri is jealously obsessed with Mozart's genius and the fact that Mozart could compose circles around him.
And so "Amadeus" is not so much about Mozart, though he has a large role in the play as does his wife, but is more about Salieri and the destructive jealousy of a mediocre but highly ambitious composer.
This is a big play — three hours long — with some big ideas and lots to keep the audience engaged at a lesser level, too, most notably Mozart's sexual dalliances with his wife, the artistic stupidity of the court, and Salieri's efforts to destroy Mozart. In other words, it has all the juice of a contemporary rag.
It's an ambitious play for the New Repertory Theatre to take on, but they do a masterful job of it, with Jim Petosa, who's the artistic director of the company, directing the show. He and his talented cast give it a great deal of life.
The play starts with Salieri (Benjamin Evett) begging the long dead Mozart to be his confessor. In fact, as the audience enters the theater, Evett is sitting on stage in a long white wig and tapping the floor with a cane as he mumbles to himself. The play is primarily a long flashback showing us how the younger Salieri became obsessed with Mozart's skills and plotted to block him at every turn.
Early on Salieri makes a deal with God that he will be chaste and live an honorable life if God will give him great musical talents. Just see how long that deal lasts.
In one of the more compelling scenes, Salieri describes an exquisite piece of Mozart's music that we hear in the background, and he tells how it torments him. The music in the show is recorded. While being a mediocre musician, Salieri has the ability to recognize Mozart's genius more than many people of his day.
Evett is terrific in this scene as he is throughout the play, which makes huge demands on him, including going from old age to a much younger man, and from being composed and civilized to revealing his torments. He's on stage much of the time and in addition to the darker scenes has some very funny ones, particularly when he's caught in a room in which Mozart (Tim Spears) and his wife-to-be, Constanze Weber (McCaela Donovan) think they're alone as they play their little cat and mouse sex game, innocent by today's standards, or are having a fight.
Spears is good at playing a Mozart who giggles frequently and doesn't hesitate to offend stuffy courtiers who have power over his musical career. Donovan gives a wonderful spark and beauty to Weber as she spars with Mozart, plays a game of "Love and Forfeit"— similar to today's "Spin the Bottle," and tries to resist Salieri's blackmail.
This is a costume drama that includes pompous courtiers, several of whom are in control of music in Austria, even though they are musical Philistines. Russell Garrett is deliciously amusing as the Emperor of Austria, with the way he never takes anything very seriously and once he's announced his decisions, he simply says, Well, there it is," as if it just appeared. Paul D. Farwell as Johann Kilian von Strack is hilarious with his mumble-speak.
News, rumors, and the word on the street are conveyed with great life by Michael Kaye and Paula Langton as the "Venticellis," who each carry and occasionally step behind a gorgeous mask on a stick.
Cristina Todesco's abstract set is stunning with a huge sheet of gold foil in the background and a large curved plastic sheet with a hole through which characters occasionally appear and slide down from. Frances Nelson McSherry's period costumes are equally beautiful.
Shaffer's play is brilliantly written, but it can feel a little overwrought at times and a bit long, especially now that the material and conceit are well known.
WHEN: Through May 19
WHERE: New Repertory Theatre, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown
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According to TwitchFilm.net, which first reported on Van Damme's condition, the star was briefly admitted to a hospital, where he was joined by his wife, Gladys Portugues. The duo reportedly flew back to Belgium after his release, and he is expected to make a full recovery. Get well soon!
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Jan 28, 2010 at 1:10 am
well been a while since i last visited the site sold the nova to a friend and got more mopars and gm's lets see 1973 challenger 1973 dart sport 1970 olds 442 w30 1987 grand national and a lot of eagle talon turbo awd's i think like 4 and some parts cars its crazy how owning one of these things snowballs into owning a fleet of them before you know it oh also got a 1 of 1200 mazda 10th AE RX-7 and another 2 turbo II RX-7's im not just a muscle car guy i like my imports too well the eagles were made by chrysler so thay dont count go......mopar hahaha
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Aug 23, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I like the Nova too. I had a green '69 2 Door with a 230 Six and a power glide. I built a strong 350 for her so she could finally spin the tires in something other than wet grass LOL! Anyhow, nice project cars. Like your backyard buddy lift!
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Do you ever wonder why some wineries get more attention and press than others? It could be the way you are delivering you message, whether in print, with photos or through video clips. Wineries are invited to submit marketing videos for critical review and counsel on how to maximize messaging and reach through extremely impactful video channels.
Wine Industry marketing panelists will offer critical feedback as well as best practices tips:
Mimi Gatens, Winery Marketing Consultant, Moderator
Michael Duffy, Principal, Michael E. Duffy & Associates and WineryWebsiteReport.com
Laura Levy Shatkin, President, L Squared Productions
Lisa A. Walter, Principal, Adams Walter Communications
Upload videos to the YouTube Green Wine Summit Channel by November 15, 2011
Info and tickets for the Green Wine Summit can be found at www.greenwinesummit.com
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Just 15 hours before I wrote this, I left my house in Oakland, rode to the airport, got a plane to LAX and then took a taxicab to Torrance so I could be one of the first USA moto-journalists to ride Honda's all-new CBR250R. Why did I go to such lengths to ride this bike? Is it because I live but to give you, dear reader, the latest tidbits of moto-data? Not really. I could say it's because it's my job, but there are plenty of motorcycles I won't suffer the indignities of a jam-packed Southwest flight to ride. But this bike, though a mere 250, could be one of the most important models Honda has imported for decades.
Why? Well, this is a lead-in to my main story, so you'll have to check back in a few days when we bring you the full Monty. For now, here are some appetizers:
The main question I had in my mind while riding in the cab from the airport was if this bike would be competition for the Kawasaki 250 Ninja. Would it be as good-looking, comfortable, easy to ride, and most importantly as fast as the little green machine? Reports were horsepower was in the low 20s (10 or 20 percent less than the Kawi), which is a big deal if you're riding a small-displacement motorcycle on big, fast divided freeways in California and other places where the flow of traffic is 80 mph and up. We don't need to go 180, but on the other hand, we'd like to go half that speed without feeling like our motorcycle is about to spin a bearing. Also, would the bike's suspension, chassis and brakes be just as sportbike-serious as the trackworthy Nin-genie?
Without giving away too much detail, the answer is a resounding…probably. Freeway cruising is fine, the suspension works well enough, and the brakes and tires are every bit as good as the Kawi's. In fact, the IRC Road Winner (they are every bit as good as they sound) tires are actually identical to the Kawi's (if 10mm wider in back).
Bottom line is we're going to have to do a serious quarter-liter shootout: street, touring and track between this bike, Hyosung's all-new fuel-injected GT250R, and the Kawasaki. I'll write more about our first impression soon.


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The Mobile Broadband Data Pricing Conundrum
from the encouraging-data-usage dept
While this article paints a somewhat simplified view of the state of the Japanese mobile phone service market, it is accurate in stating that US mobile operators should be watching carefully how things are changing in Japan. Last year, as it was struggling to get subscribers to its 3G data service, NTT DoCoMo moved to offer flat-rate data offerings, which helped the service finally take off. However, competitive pressures have driven the price of service down -- to the point that it's cheaper than voice, encouraging users to use more data than voice to communicate with people. This has cut into revenues for the Japanese mobile operators, and DoCoMo has even said they wished they never introduced flat-rate pricing, even though it's questionable if the company would have been able to keep signing up as many new subscribers without it. The situation in Japan is only going to get trickier, now that up to three new entrants are expected in the market -- with one being Softbank, who shook up the broadband market in Japan with its very cheap YahooBB service. So, how will this impact the US? The mobile operators here have a standard pricing scheme they like to use -- with early offerings costing a prohibitive $80/month -- but that price drops as other services get more competitive. With more offerings about to hit the market, it's likely that Verizon, Sprint and Cingular will all be forced to drop their prices on wireless data somewhat -- and the situation may eventually mimic the Japanese one. Of course, the flip side of this, is that operators have a fine balancing act that they need to figure out. They want to encourage more usage, with cheaper prices, but they also don't want to overload capacity constrained wireless networks with too much usage. So, the operators are likely to try to lower prices slowly as they make sure their networks really can handle the usage. Unfortunately, once they offer flat-rate pricing, it's tough to back down -- and the amazing thing about high speed mobile data networks, is that people will come up with applications and services for them that no one ever expected. There's a good chance those apps will be bandwidth intensive and that could be a real problem for mobile operators who just can't handle the traffic, but promised it with their flat-rate "unlimited" data plans.


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Lamar Construction Co. announced Friday it has completely shut down its operation following Fifth Third Bank�s decision to pull the Hudsonville-based firm�s line of credit
The move affects all of the company�s 280 employees and stalls multiple construction projects nationwide.
A published report at hometownlife.com indicated Lamar filed for bankruptcy earlier this week.
Lamar, led by President Carl Blauwkamp of Holland, released a statement Wednesday saying it was closing the construction management portion of its business and idling much of the 180-person workforce in West Michigan.
It also announced plans to continue operating its structural steel division and finish existing projects, including a $2.75 million expansion at Big Dutchman in Holland Township.
Instead, it closed locations in Colorado, Kentucky and elsewhere in the wake of its credit being revoked. Fifth Third Bank officials could not be reached for comment Friday.
The principal of Canton Preparatory High School in suburban Detroit told hometownlife.com that his charter school, scheduled to open Sept. 2, would not be affected greatly by Lamar�s closure. He said preparations were made to take over management of the project once he learned that Lamar had filed for bankruptcy protection.
�It won�t have much of an effect at all on our project," Principal Matthew Chesney told the website. �It was a disappointing turn of events, but it was something we knew could be a possibility.
�We created some backup plans and put them in place,� he added. �We took control of the subcontractors ourselves and are handling the construction.�
A report Thursday in the Denver Business Journal indicated Lamar had shut down work on three projects and reassigned work on four more to other contractors in the area.
The projects in Colorado included a 172-unit apartment complex in Golden, Colo., which broke ground in March; a $6 million industrial project in Mead, Colo.; and a 12,000-square-foot office building in Greeley, Colo.
�It�s one of those bumps you have to deal with,� developer Jeff Wikstrom of Evergreen Devco Inc. told the Denver Business Journal about the apartment complex. �We�ll get it solved and will complete the project.�
Big Dutchman President Clovis Rayzel, who provided a statement to The Sentinel on Thursday, expressed confidence that a 12,000-square-foot addition to the company�s local plant would be completed. The worksite, however, was idle Thursday.
�The impact should be minimal, considering we are very close to completion,� he said.
In the initial statement announcing the closing of its Hudsonville headquarters, Blauwkamp cited �economic conditions� as the reason for pulling the plug on the firm.
�Closing our doors is disheartening, and we give my sincerest thanks to all of the employees and customers of Lamar Construction Company for their loyal service and patronage over the years,� the statement read. �Today is a very sad and difficult day for us.�
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Lamar Construction Co. announced Friday it has completely shut down its operation following Fifth Third Bank�s decision to pull the Hudsonville-based firm�s line of credit


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'We're not in the business of buying everything that comes through the door," says Marc Watson, chief executive of BT Vision. "We have a strategy, and we're being very selective. We're building a sustainable brand."
Watson's disavowal of a scattergun approach to sports rights acquisition is made from his office on the "leadership" floor of the telecoms giant. On the same day BT announced its second-quarter results. There are reasons for some cheer among investors. Although second-quarter revenues may have fallen by 2pc, to £4.4bn, cost-cutting has enabled the group to maintain full-year forecasts for earnings, and profits are up 7pc before tax to £608m.
But while the figures speak for themselves, what remains a matter for conjecture is BT Vision's game plan. It is the division that has overseen BT's surprising scoop – for £738m – of the broadcast rights to 38 live Premier League football matches from 2013 to 2016, as well as the rights to Aviva Premiership Rugby for £152m from 2013 to 2017.
Then came the announcement of more deals: French, Italian, Brazilian and North American football leagues have also been signed up by BT, taking its total outlay on sports rights to date to an estimated £1bn.
Last week, BT also announced a distribution deal with the Eurosport channels, which will bring tennis, cycling and snooker coverage to its customers.
Acquisition of the Premier League rights, especially, is a watershed moment in British sports broadcasting. "It's the first time that anyone other than BSkyB has got the first pick of games sold by the [Premier League]," Watson says.
But slick as the out-manoeuvring of Sky may have been – BT's bid, let alone its victory, only became public knowledge on the day the Premier League revealed who had won its rights auction – the essence of BT Vision's vision is, to outsiders, unclear. Does it intend to supplant Sky, for example? What will it do with its range of newly acquired sports content? Are other major sports, such as Formula One, in Watson's sights?
I should declare an interest here. Some 14 years ago, Watson and I worked together. Back then, I was Richard Desmond's head of legal at Northern & Shell. I hired Watson, a barrister, to work with me on deals for OK! such as a $1m (£627,000) contract for images of Michael Jackson's first baby.
We also dealt with the full range of legal issues arising from Desmond's publishing and broadcasting interests. Exotic as some of those interests were, we found ourselves written about in the legal trade press in a feature headlined "Some Like It Hot". Watson says he "learnt a huge amount from Richard. He's a great businessman".
Now, though, while I ply a trade as a writer, Watson is at the helm of BT Vision. At first blush, he has not changed. Always dapper – he was once described by a client in his Northern & Shell years as "the best-looking man in London" – Watson is trim and immaculately dressed. He is all smiles and bonhomie as we shake hands, and ebullience itself as he sets about giving me a demonstration of BT's new YouView set-top box, which was formally launched on September 20.
"I've been involved in YouView since the conceptual stage," says Watson, who joined BT in 2007.
"I wouldn't claim ownership of it. Its development was an iterative process and very much a team effort. But I am very proud of it." Watson flicks through YouView's programming guide, enthusing that "users can go back in time and watch shows from last night or the week before".
"They can record, pause and rewind live TV," he continues. "And there's also a search facility that allows them to find on-demand content by programme or genre. It's early days but feedback from industry and consumers has been brilliant."
We get to the central question. The sports rights that have landed on BT's books are a signal of intent, but of what?
"It's more about BT's vision than BT Vision's vision," replies the 42-year-old who, prior to being headhunted
by BT, worked as a director with London-based sports rights consultancy, Reel Enterprises.
"BT operates in over 170 countries globally and has a big retail business in the UK. The UK business is the one the public knows, and it's a vital part of the BT Group.
"Our programme of sports broadcast rights acquisition is intended to drive revenue and deliver profits for the UK business, and sport is a great way to do this. Sport really matters to people. It arouses passion in a way that other content can't. It has a real impact on decision-making, because it creates an appointment to view."
Watson's appointment to view is not, though, dependent on people being tied in exclusively to BT Vision.
"We will be making our sports rights available on satellite, and we're open to wholesaling if the terms are right," he says. "People won't have to swap set-top boxes or subscribe to BT broadband to watch our football matches."
That said, the rights are intended "to drive our own platform. Subscriber numbers are currently 750,000 but we expect that number to increase significantly. We're looking for retail relationships, which includes deals with bars and clubs, too."
The newly created BT Sport will host two dedicated sports channels – BT Sport 1, its flagship channel, and BT Sport 2. Its Premier League rights are for Saturday lunchtime, midweek and bank holiday games (and include the first game of the 2013-14 season), so these, along with English rugby games and overseas football leagues, will populate Sport 1.
"It'll be a must-have channel for sports fans," says Watson, while Sport 2 will be used for scheduling conflicts.
Other sports are being sought – indeed, announcement of another deal is imminent, "certainly before Christmas", Watson reveals. Could it be cricket, or Formula One? "Those rights are tied up for years to come," says Watson. He says he can't reveal what's coming because "the ink isn't dry on the contract yet". However, market rumour suggests that tennis could be the next sport in the BT stable.
Watson reveals that BT will establish its own state-of-the-art broadcast studio. Its anchor man for football coverage is known – BBC Formula One presenter Jake Humphrey.
Other hires include award-winning sports director Grant Best as senior channel executive producer. Simon Green, the chief executive of the Boxnation boxing channel, will have day-to-day control of BT Sport. Both men formerly worked for Sky.
"We're hiring the best in the business," says Watson.
BT Vision's ambition is clear, but does Watson regret recent comments to the effect that BT was pleased "to own" English rugby? "I didn't say that," he says. "What I said was that we were pleased to own exclusively the broadcast rights, not rugby itself." The misquotation drew much ire from the rugby community, which Watson says he fully understands.
"I'm a rugby fan. I go to Gloucester when I get the chance. We've put the biggest deal in rugby's history on the table, and we want to see the game grow. We hope rugby people will greet our arrival with an open mind. I can well understand why the idea that I said I was happy to 'own' it would cause annoyance, but our aim is to democratise sport, to make it more accessible, and do so in an innovative, entertaining way."
Watson himself wasn't sporty at Hull University, where he read law, but keeps in shape today through boxing, playing squash and running. As I recall from his crestfallen demeanour when, years ago, we met at Loftus Road for a QPR game, he is also a passionate Luton Town fan. Watson's team lost 1-0, but he admits that, if the opportunity ever arose, he "would love to get involved with the club. My great-grandfather was a director at Luton in the 1950s".
I try one last time to tease out a concrete declaration of strategy. After all, it has been alleged that BT was prepared to pay £2bn to acquire all the Premier League broadcast rights put out to tender, rather than the two of the seven bundles they obtained; that this failure has led to a "buy whatever's available" policy to plug the gaps.
"Not at all," says Watson. "We had a strategy, and would have bought more if the price had been right. The bottom line is that you don't give your competitors advance notice of your strategy by telling everyone what it is."
As we part, I notice a photograph on Watson's desk of four footballers celebrating. They are Mal Donaghy, the Stein brothers, Brian and Mark, and Andy Dibble; the occasion is Luton's improbable victory over Arsenal in the 1988 League Cup. "I was there," says Watson. "It's the greatest sporting event I've ever attended."
It might be some time, if ever, before Watson gets to see his beloved Luton in the Premier League, but whether it happens or not, BT will have to ensure that its sports vision is clear.


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This Georgia Tech project will improve the state-of-the-art understanding of turbulent flame propagation characteristics of high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. The turbulent flame speed has a leading order influence on important combustor performance metrics such as flashback and blow-off propensities, emissions, life of hot section components, and combustion instabilities limits, including operating limits required to prevent harmful combustion dynamics. This research specifically addresses three of the combustion topic areas identified by Department of Energy (DOE) as of great importance for HHC systems: (1) turbulent burning velocities, (2) flash-back, and (3) exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) impacts. The results of this effort will also enable advances in several other combustion topic areas; e.g., predicting combustion dynamics (which requires flame shape predictions) and improving large eddy simulation capabilities by providing turbulent burning rate sub-models for HHC fuels.
The project involves both experimental and modeling efforts. Prior work used optical flame emission in measurement of global turbulent consumption speeds of hydrogen (H2)/carbon monoxide (CO) fuels. For this project, researchers will extend these previous efforts to a broader reactant class, including mixtures diluted with CO2, water (H2O), and nitrogen (N2). Depending upon the degree of dilution, these mixtures will simulate both gasified fuel blends and systems with EGR. This data will be used to further the development of physics-based, mixture-dependent models of turbulent burning rates and to guide selection of conditions for determining more localized measurements of turbulence/chemistry interactions. Specifically, high-repetition-rate particle image velocimetry and hydroxyl radical planar laser induced fluorescence systems will be used to determine local flame speeds under realistic turbulent conditions. This is necessary for developing an improved understanding of strained flame statistics, and for testing and refining propagation models based on leading point concepts. The work plan will initially focus on uniform, premixed reactant mixtures, and then expand in focus by investigating turbulent burning rates in inhomogeneous premixed flows. An example would be obtaining measurements of turbulent propagation speeds in mixtures with stratified fuel/air profiles.
Project Benefits
This project will improve the understanding of turbulent flame propagation characteristics of high hydrogen content fuels. Improved knowledge of flame propagation enables predicting combustion dynamics and improved large eddy simulation capabilities which will lead to hydrogen combustor designs that produce less emissions at higher heating rates. Specifically, this project will gather data using optical flame emission for mixtures that simulate syngas fuels and systems using exhaust gas recirculation that will improve physics based models of turbulent burning rates.
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Investigator: Copper thieves charged in Wilmot house explosionStaff Report
December 14. 2017 7:27PM
WILMOT — Two men have been indicted in connection with a house explosion that left a man with severe burns to his face, hands and knees last May.
"The joint investigation into this incident revealed that Shane Fortier and Adam Dalton went to the residence at 543 Route 4A to steal copper from the home," state Fire Marshal's office investigator Adam Fanjoy said Thursday in a news release. "They were confronted by the victim and fled the property.
"Upon entering the residence, the victim discovered copper piping missing from the home and an explosion occurred when a light switch was turned on by the victim."
The victim has not been identified by police or the Fire Marshal's office.
Fortier, 29, and Dalton, 25, were both indicted Thursday on burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, second-degree assault and conspiracy to commit second-degree assault, mechanical licensing penalties, conspiring to commit falsifying physical evidence and falsifying physical evidence.
Fortier was also indicted for possession of a controlled drug. In addition, Dalton was indicted for tampering with witnesses and informants.
Anyone with information is asked to contact state Fire Marshal office investigator Adam Fanjoy at 603-223-4289.


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According to Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News:
I've heard free-agent C Evan Dietrich-Smith could sign quickly tomorrow. Giants are the favorites, from what I can tell. #NYG
— Ralph Vacchiano (@RVacchianoNYDN) March 10, 2014
In free agency, otherwise known as the NFL's silly season, it's sometimes difficult to tell what's real and what's a smokescreen from an agent trying to get top-dollar for his client.
That being said, Dietrich-Smith to the Giants makes sense for several reasons.
For one, the Giants appear to be letting go incumbent starter David Baas as part of a cost-cutting move, but they'll also be letting go of a player that's missed most of last season due to a variety of injuries.
Then there's the connection between former Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo, now the offensive coordinator of the Giants. McAdoo knows that Dietrich-Smith is a capable starter, and the player known as "EDS" knows that he'd be joining a team that will be running a familiar offense.
Dietrich-Smith cannot sign a contract with another team until the start of free agency officially opens at 3:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday, but he could re-sign with the Packers at any time. In essence, the Packers have less than 24 hours to make a last-ditch effort to keep their starting center, if they're so inclined.
Should Dietrich-Smith leave, the Packers would be entering a season with their fourth starting center in as many seasons. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has advocated for keeping Dietrich-Smith on his own radio show in the past.
Minus Dietrich-Smith, the competition for the starting center position would become an open competiton with second-year player J.C. Tretter perhaps being the front-runner.
The Packers would be taking a major risk in relying on an unproven player like Tretter to fill Dietrich-Smith's shoes. Last season, the Packers learned a lesson in hoping that Jerron McMillian would emerge as a starting safety, and Tretter has even less of a body of work than McMillian, haven't played so much as a single down in his rookie season and coming off a broken ankle that forced him onto the team's Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list.
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Kudos to the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy for creating a public record.
Kudos to the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy for creating a public record.
A woman who had submitted a public-records request seeking contact information for pharmacy board members contacted The Dispatch today.
She complained that the pharmacy board denied her request, saying it did not "have a document that is directly responsive to your request."
The board's staff has to have some way to contact board members, right? Surely they have records of some sorts, an email list, something laying around with the requested information. But then, law does not require a record to be created in response to a request.
However, our questions to Tracy Nave, the pharmacy board's director of legal affairs, prompted the board to create a public record -- a list of board members' contact information.
What could be easier? Well done.


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SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian newspaper says it had access to a businessman's testimony linking the nation's popular former president to a massive cash-for-votes corruption scheme.
Brazil's top court found 25 people guilty in a landmark trial that ended recently. While top aides of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were found guilty, Silva himself was never implicated.
The Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reports Tuesday that businessman Marcos Valerio, a key figure in the case, sought out prosecutors and gave them the testimony in September, after he was already found guilty. He was later sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Valerio reportedly told them Silva knew and approved of the scheme, and used some of the cash involved for personal expenses.
Silva has denied knowing of the scheme. He is in Paris, where his political disciple, President Dilma Rousseff, is on an official visit. As he was leaving meetings in France, Silva told Brazilian reporters that the allegations "are lies."
Rousseff, during a press conference with her French counterpart Francois Hollande, said that "I consider as pathetic these attempts to damage Lula's image in Brazil."
Hollande himself added: "President Lula has a great image, as a man who has always defended principles of justice and solidarity, and ensured Brazil an exceptional economic development."


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Wewers, MD
Professor of Pulmonology, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep
Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics
Environmental Health Sciences
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University
Mark D Wewers, MD is Associate Director of the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute and holds the John A Prior Professorship in the College of Medicine where he is a member of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Wewers has appointments in the Departments of Internal Medicine, of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics and in the Interdisciplinary Program in Biophysics. He is also a member of the Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program. He joined the Ohio State faculty in 1986 after research training in the Pulmonary Branch at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. Mark currently is the recipient of NIH funding from the NHLBI and is director of an NIH training grant to study the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Inflammation. He has served on the NIH Lung Biology Pathology A Study Section and is a frequent reviewer for the NIH.
Selected Publications
Bitterman PB, Rennard SI, Keogh BA, Wewers MD, Adelberg S, Crystal RG. Familial idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: evidence of lung inflammation in unaffected family members. N Engl J Med 1986; 314:1343 1347.
Wewers MD, Casolaro MA, Sellers SE, et al. Replacement therapy for alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency associated with emphysema. N Engl J Med 1987; 316:1055 1062.
Wewers MD, Diaz PT, Wewers ME, Lowe MP, Nagaraja HN, Clanton TL. Cigarette smoking in HIV infection induces a suppressive inflammatory environment in the lung. Am. J. Resp. Crit. Care Med. 158:1543-1549, 1998.
Fahy RJ, Lichtenberger F, McKeegan CB, Nuovo GJ, Marsh CB and Wewers MD. The acute respiratory distress syndrome: a role for TGF-?1. Am.J.Resp. Cell Mol Biol 2003; 28(4):499-503.
Wewers MD, Lemeshow SL, Lehman A, Clanton TL and Diaz PT. Lung CD4 Lymphocytes predict survival in asymptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection. Chest 2005;128(4):2262-2267.


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A dad gave his wife the ultimate Mother's Day gift after helping to deliver their baby girl on the floor of their home.
Jonathan Plant and his wife, Robynne, of Bakewell Road in Matlock were not expecting a quick labour when they started to get ready to go to hospital at about 4am on Mothering Sunday.
"Our three–year–old son, Harrison, was born after 14 hours of labour so I thought it would be the same this time around," Jonathan, 45, said.
Robynne, 29, had complained of feeling a bit strange at around midnight. Over the course of the next few hours the couple tried different ways of making her feel comfortable, such as using a Swiss ball and running a bath.
"I rang up the midwifery department of the hospital but we'd got contractions about every ten minutes so it wasn't an emergency," Jonathan, who works for Derbyshire County Council, said.
He then rang Robynne's mother, Ruth, to come and take care of Harrison so they could go to the hospital.
Contractions got quicker, and when Ruth arrived, Jonathan started to load the car up, but his mother–in–law shouted to him that the baby was crowning.
"I came back and I could see the head," he said.
"I said 'Robynne how are you feeling?' and she said 'I just want to push'."
After 15 minutes or so, baby Charly Grace was born on the kitchen floor at 4.18am weighing six pounds and ten ounces.
"I got on the phone to the midwife and I was like 'you're not going to believe this, we've just had a baby on the kitchen floor, what do we do?'" Jonathan said.
He and Ruth got blankets and towels for mum and the new arrival and made sure the baby was dry. Luckily the on-call midwife was based in Matlock so she was with them within 20 minutes.
"She said 'this is incredible'," Jonathan continued.
"It was all so surreal.
"Luckily God smiled down on us and the baby was alright."
Jonathan was formerly in the RAF so is trained in first aid ... but more the casualty side of things rather than midwifery.
"The best thing was when our son woke up in the morning I said to him 'mum's got something to tell you'," he added.
"We went to see her and it was like a stalk had dropped the baby off overnight.
"He was full of it and he kept saying 'I've got a little baby sister'."
Robynne, a logistics officer for the RAF, was fine after the birth and is now settling into her role as mother of a new born baby.
"It was just an incredible Mother's Day present to have, with mother, baby and grandmother there," Jonathan said.
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Billingsley, who is dealing with a potential elbow issue, also is dealing with an injured fingernail on his pitching hand. He was slated to start the second game of the season after Zack Greinke had his Dodger debut pushed back because of a spring training elbow injury.
Instead, Billingsley will be out for a little bit, meaning Capuano will likely be in the Dodgers' rotation -- if Billingsley is out long enough, as the Dodgers won't need a starter for the two weeks of the season.
The Dodgers' rotation sets up like this for the first two weeks (barring anything unforeseen):
- April 1: Clayton Kershaw
- April 2: Hyun-Jin Ryu
- April 3: Josh Beckett
- April 5: Zack Greinke
- April 6: Kershaw
- April 7: Ryu
- April 9: Beckett
- April 10: Greinke
- April 11: Kershaw
- April 12: Ryu
- April 13: Beckett
- April 14: Greinke
I've yet to mention Aaron Harang because I doubt he's still a Dodger by Monday. He'll either be traded to one of the teams that have scouted his starts (Mets, Orioles, Brewers, Mariners) or he'll be designated for assignment. Harang, who's made six relief appearances in his 11-year career, would not fare well out of the bullpen. He needs to be a starter on a team that needs a guy capable of throwing 160 or more innings. Harang is that guy.
When the Dodgers need a starter on April 15, let's hope Billingsley is ready to take the ball. If not, I suppose that are worse options than Capuano -- if he's still a Dodger.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Dodgers inexplicably trade away Trayvon Robinson
The Dodgers hooked up with the Red Sox and Mariners on a three-team deadline deal involving Trayvon Robinson.
Early reports have it shaking out like this:
To Boston: LHP Erik Bedard, RHP Josh Fields
To Seattle: OF Chih-Hsien Chiang, Robinson
To Los Angeles: C Tim Federowicz, RHP Juan Rodriguez, RHP Stephen Fife
It's hard to put into words how upset this makes me. Robinson is having one of the best seasons of any Dodger minor-leaguer (a career-year for himself) and is *this* close to the Majors, yet Colletti felt the need to trade him for a mediocre catcher (.275/.337/.397, seven home runs), a 22-year-old Single-A pitcher with a 5.19 ERA (13.4 K/9) and a 24-year-old starter with a decent line in Double-A.
The Dodgers didn't even get the right Double-A catcher! If they felt the need to move Robinson to improve the catching situation, then why the hell not go after Ryan Lavarnway?
Federowicz was ranked No. 21 in the Boston system coming into the season, while Rodriguez and Fife were unranked. Robinson was ranked No. 10 in the Dodgers' system.
In my last post, I wrote how I hoped the Furcal deal was the last in Colletti's tenure as Dodger GM. This is precisely why.
9 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Bad trade Ned.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 8:47 PM
This makes me sooooooo angry! Colleti is a MORON! I can't believe he traded Robinson for some no-name catching prospect. This is HORRIBLE! Way to deplete the minor league system even more. Wow! I'm at a loss of words.ReplyDelete
Hmm. All that being the case, he is a 23 year-old prospect who is in his 7th minor league season. It's hard to say if the continued high strikeout ratio will ever get him above AAA.ReplyDelete
I have to agree with Jeff. Trayvon might already be at his ceiling.ReplyDelete
Jeff: Valid point. However, Robinson's prospect status was in question through the 2008 season. Through his first four seasons, he had a .266/.326/.366 line. It's possible he was just a late bloomer.ReplyDelete
The strikeouts are concerning and the lack of doubles and steals this season could be attributed to him swinging for the fences (also not good). But he still has a chance to be a solid everyday outfielder in the bigs. He still has a solid 12.2 percent walk rate and is just 23 years old.
Jack: If he's at his ceiling, that's fine. And I honestly don't mind the Dodgers trading him, but the return was not enough.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM
Great move, way to stack our need for back up catchers and low level pitching. We have plenty of back up catchers and plenty of pitching depth. I had tolerated Ned up till this F'ing move. Trayvon is 23 years old, does anyone remember what Kemp was doing at 23... the same exact thing as TROB. Even if TROB ends up being just a notch or two below Kemp, that is still a stud.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Somebody better call the cops. The Mariners just committed robery and both the Red Sox and Dodgers were victims all in one move.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 9:25 PM
Ned"Mr.Giants"Coletti, has helped his compadadres in San Francisco ever since he came to the dodgers.Penny pinching frank couldn't afford to hire a real G.M.,so he could spend all that money on himself. McCheap has had a couple of real sad sacks as g.m.'s, when he could have hired someone with expirience,that should have been the first clue of how this Swell head was going to foul things up, for the Dodgers!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 2:48 AM
Trayvon would be a solid outfielder when he makes the majors, but he has more power than most prospects in the system, and isn't that considered a premium for a team without much of it? And besides, even if Sands and Oeltjen make it too, Sands could go to 1B and Oeltjen wouldn't beat him to start every day. And AAA outfield prospects aren't worth a AA/AAA catcher and A/AA pitchers, and are clearly better than older AA outfield prospects.ReplyDelete
As for what Colletti said, WE HAVE 8 CATCHERS BETWEEN AAA AND THE CLUB! What stupid problem is he even talking about with needing catchers? And our top prospects are mostly pitchers, so why not be bold and get someone who at least plays 1B, 2B, 3B, or OF?
This trade should get him fired ASAP.


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TUKWILA, Wash. – The Seattle Sounders are headed to the US Open Cup finals in a big way.
Chad Barrett and Obafemi Martins had a goal apiece, Kenny Cooper and Andy Rose had two of their own, and the Sounders cruised to an epic 6-0 semifinal blowout of the Chicago Fire at Starfire Soccer Complex.
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For anyone fearing that this Supreme Court term might lack the drama of the last one: fear not.
On Monday, for the first time since delivering the explosive health care decision last spring, the justices will take the bench and officially begin a new term. On the docket is a major case regarding affirmative action to be argued in early October, and later in the fall the justices could also vote to hear cases on gay marriage and voting rights.
The justices have had the summer to recover from the grueling schedule of last spring, and the biting dissent from four of the conservative justices aimed at Chief Justice John Roberts, who voted to uphold the health care law as a tax the government has a constitutional power to levy.
Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas did not mince their words, writing that the majority's decision "amounts to vast judicial overreaching."
Over the summer, Scalia and Thomas refuted suggestions that their jurisprudential disagreements would lead to any personal rifts on the court.
"There are legal clashes on legal questions, but not personally," Scalia told CNN. "The press likes to paint us as, you know, nine scorpions in a bottle we're all in. That's just not the case at all."
During a talk at the National Archives, Thomas spoke more generally about the court and praised his colleagues. "I've been there now through a number of members of the court," he said, "and in the years I have been there I honestly come away thinking that every member really wants to make it work."
Here is a look at some of the issues they could decide this term:
Affirmative Action:
On Oct. 10, the court will take on an affirmative action case that could curtail or further restrict race-conscious admission policies at public universities.
It was only in 2003 that the Supreme Court heard a similar case. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor authored the 5-4 decision, known as Grutter, that narrowly upheld the limited use of race as a factor in law school admissions to increase diversity. But O'Connor has since been replaced by Justice Samuel Alito, who is more skeptical of racial classifications and preferences.
Now, in Fisher v. University of Texas, a white student named Abigail Fisher is suing the University of Texas challenging the constitutionality of the school's use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions.
In 1997, the Texas legislature passed the "Top 10 Percent Law," which mandates that Texas high school seniors in the top 10 percent of their classes be automatically admitted to any Texas state university. After the Grutter decision came down, the university added another policy to its admissions program, allowing schools to consider race along with several other factors for admission. Fisher did not have high enough grades to qualify for automatic admission, so she had to compete with other applicants, some of whom were entitled to preference on the basis of race. She was denied admission.
In court papers, her lawyers say in part that that the "Top 10 Percent Law" produced a race-neutral policy that made the University of Texas one of the most diverse public universities in the nation, and that the university should not have combined that policy with one that considers race.
Lawyers for the University of Texas counter that race is only one modest factor among many others that are weighed during the admissions process.
"UT, like many of the Nation's top universities, seeks to assemble a class that is diverse in the innumerable ways -- including race -- that advance its mission of educating students and preparing them to be the leaders of tomorrow," they argue in briefs filed with the court.
Justice Elena Kagan is recused, having dealt with the case in her previous job as Solicitor General.
Gay Marriage
Later in the term the Court will consider two cases dealing with gay marriage. One concerns the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The second concerns Proposition 8, the controversial California ballot initiative that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Defense of Marriage: There are several parties challenging DOMA. The cases do not concern whether there is a fundamental right to gay marriage, as most of the couples involved are already legally married in their states. Instead, at issue is whether legally married same-sex couples can be denied federal benefits -- such as Social Security survivor benefits and federal health care -- available to opposite-sex married couples.
In 2011 the Obama administration decided it would no longer defend DOMA in court, arguing that it was unconstitutional. In response, Republican Speaker John Boehner moved to intervene and appointed the U.S House of Representatives Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to do the job. Paul D. Clement, who argued against President Obama's health care law last term, is the lead counsel for BLAG.
Prop 8 Challenge: Separately, supporters of Prop 8 -- who are opposed to gay marriage -- are asking the court to reverse a federal appeals court ruling last February that struck down the ballot initiative on narrow grounds.
If the Supreme Court "denies cert" or declines to take up the Prop 8 case, gay marriages in California would almost immediately be allowed to go forward.
It is almost certain that the Court will take up one of the DOMA challenges, not only because one appeals court has struck down an act of Congress, but also because of the extraordinary circumstances. It is rare for an administration to decide not defend a law that it is also obliged to enforce.
Some legal experts believe the court may be less likely to take up the Prop 8 case because the lower court's decision was narrowly drawn around facts specific to California.
Voting Rights
The court could also take on a case dealing with a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The disputed portion, called Section 5, says that certain states with a history of voter discrimination must clear any change to their election laws with federal officials in Washington.
There are nine states covered by the law, mostly in the South, and parts of seven more.
Lawyers for Shelby County, Alabama have filed one challenge arguing that "things have changed in the South" and Congress was wrong in 2006 to extend Section 5 for 25 more years. They say they are being unfairly blocked from passing some laws similar to those in other states not covered by the law.
Should the justices vote to take up the case and reexamine the Voting Rights Act, they would most likely do so after the election.
Liability for Human Rights Violations
The first argument the court hears on Monday morning concerns a case keenly watched by human rights groups, and corporations with subsidiaries abroad.
Last term the court heard arguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum on the question of whether corporations could be held liable in U.S. courts for human rights violations allegedly committed abroad.
The case was brought by 12 Nigerian plaintiffs against a subsidiary of Shell Oil. The Nigerians are seeking to sue Shell for allegedly aiding and abetting human rights violations in Nigeria between 1992 and 1995.
But after arguments, the court took the unusual step of ordering re-arguments and adding an additional question: Whether a federal law called the Alien Tort Statute allows U.S. courts to hear cases of alleged human rights violations that occurred abroad.
Electronic Surveillance
Several human rights groups want to challenge the constitutionality of a 2008 federal statute that expanded the authority of federal officials to conduct secret electronic surveillance of foreign citizens who are in other countries.
The groups say their work requires them to engage in sensitive telephone and email communications with people outside the U.S. and they fear that their communications will be monitored. They say that they have had to take costly precautions to change the way they communicate with those who might be under government surveillance.
The federal government has responded that the human rights groups to do not have the "standing," or legal right, to bring the case. The government says that the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act do not allow the groups to be targeted by the government, and that the groups can't come to court and speculate about the possibility of some potential future injury. In court briefs, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli says the groups have not established that communications involving them have been or will ever be "incidentally collected."
Dog Sniff Case
Someday the court will be asked about the privacy implications of high-tech law enforcement surveillance. Not in this case. Instead, the justices will consider whether the sniff of a police dog on the front porch of a person's home constitutes a search and requires a warrant.
In December 2006, a Miami-Dade police detective brought Franky, a trained drug detection dog, to a suspected drug house. As the dog approached the door of the house, he began alerting his handler to the presence of drugs. Another detective knocked on the front door and smelled the scent of marijuana. The owner of the home, Joelis Jardines, was eventually arrested and charged with trafficking marijuana.
In court, Jardines moved to suppress the evidence seized, arguing that the dog sniff outside his house constituted an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment. While it is settled law that a dog sniff in a public place -- an airport or the street, for instance -- would not require a warrant, this case has to do with the proximity of the dog to Jardines' home.
Lawyers for Jardines say there is a greater expectation of privacy when it comes to the home and that "the use of a narcotics detection dog at the front door of a home reveals details inside a home" and constitutes a Fourth Amendment search.
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If I can't make it to an audition, can I send in a video?
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I've already summarized the Angeleno presence on Monday at the James Beard Awards. Here are some other miscellaneous observations and dish.
I know from seeing plenty of celebs that they're always smaller or bigger than you expect. Martha was, like, a giant. I recognize those gottahavethem Manolo d'orsay pumps; looks like she's a size 40 to me, and has a very high tolerance for stiletto pain. Martha and Lorraine Bracco had a lot to talk about as Ms. Steward balanced herself on the couch arm next to me in the press room before the show started. I don't want to dwell on other starstruck moments, but Grant Achatz up close...Foxy!
After all the orange ribbon medals were handed out and the near-Oscars-length ceremony ended, it was time to eat at the Women in Food themed gala. Yay, finally. I've been to some disorganized, patience-testing tasting events. This was definitely NOT one of those. The food and drink were plentiful and efficiently churned out for a big crowd. That's the way to do it y'all, and thankfully all the pros are there to impress with their A game.
The small bites ranged from the familiar to the uncharted. To wit: Fiore di Nonno burrata on bulgur crackers with artichoke and green olive (Jody Adams of Rialto) vs. Bolinas goat tongue on a thick crisp crouton with Meyer lemon, fenugreek, mint and tomato chutney (Loretta Keller of Coco500) .
Jennifer Petrusky of Charlie Trotter's super seasonal fava bean and onion surprise did leave us wondering what the that mysterious element was. The morels were obvious, but the terrine seemed to have something else to make it dense. Turns out it was all morels in there, topped with the pickled onions, more morels, and duck gizzards. Surprise!
A few desserts required a second round. Green apple sorbet topped with Alaskan king crab and crab butter powder served in little bamboo bowls by Holly Smith of Cafe Juanita
showcased intriguing texture, flavor, and temperature contrasts, even if the sorbet was a little overly sweet.
Danica Pollard's beautiful toasted almost and rose bonet (similar to flan) with rhubarb and candied rose petals and Kate Zuckerman of Chanterelle's warm coconut-cardamom rice pudding with rhubarb and kumquats were both gorgeous to look at and taste.
Green apples in the pink rose and verbena flower arrangement at Pollard's Lidia's Kansas City station is something I'll have to copy in future flower arranging endeavors. Asparagus with white tulips at award-winner Maria Hines of Tilth's table, where the Best Chef Northwest winner set out beef carpaccio with asparagus, horseradish creme fraiche and sorrel, wasn't quite as pretty, but I love these efforts to incorporate food with flowers.
One last little thought. Given the overflowing trash cans full of plastic plates and utensils, I recommend there be a Green Food /Good Habits attempt in future years.