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Toxic gas sensors
Toxic gas sensors
Keywords Gas, Sensors
Following the success of its electrochemical oxygen sensor range launched at the beginning of 1998, Alphasense is now pleased to announce the launch of a range of toxic gas sensors for detection of gases such as carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) (see Plate 7).
The new toxic gas sensors are available in two formats, B-series which is 32.2mm in diameter and A-Series which is 20.4mm in diameter. Both sensor models are pin-configured and directly interchangeable with existing competitor products in terms of size, electrical output and connection. This means Alphasense sensors can be used in existing gas detection equipment without any hardware or software alteration.
The range will be further increased with sensors for chlorine (Cl2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and other more exotic gases under development.
A high quality plastic housing is used that is leak, corrosion and shock resistant. So much so, that Alphasense sensors have a leak-free guarantee. Also, the housings are colour coded for ease of use.
Plate 7 Alphasense have launched a range of toxic gas sensors
In addition, each sensor is passed through the ATAV (Alphasense Test and Validation) system; and advanced, computer controlled system for sensor performance testing. The test program can be specified by the customer to produce a customised sensor performance report. All Alphasense sensors are loaded onto stabilisation racks which monitor sensor condition continuously before final testing. This ensures complete stabilisation prior to validation, a common complaint of competitor sensors.
For further details contact Gavin Boorman at Alphasense Ltd, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1371 878048; Fax: +44 (0)1371 878066; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org


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In a move of both sheer genius and utter depravity, Walmart announced last week that they are bringing 4,000 new jobs to South Carolina after leading a coalition of small business owners against a proposed Amazon distribution center in Lexington.
Now, what kind of jobs are these you ask? Well, Walmart plans to open dozens of new stores across the state, new stores that will be in direct competition with small businesses — you know, the very same folks they had convinced that Amazon was a threat.
You’ve got to give them credit. This is backstabbing at its finest.
Just think, a few weeks back, Frank Knapp, president and CEO of the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce, praised the vote to deny Amazon a sales tax exemption. According to a Greenville News report, Knapp “said the House vote established a new principle ‘for the state’s big business recruitment efforts — do no harm to our existing small businesses.'”
Meanwhile, Rep. Bill Taylor (R-Aiken) said the Amazon deal was “a back-room promise” and “corporate extortion,” according to The State. Um. I don’t know about you, but I’m guessing that the state’s deal with Amazon wasn’t the only back-room deal going on.
And I’ve got a feeling it wasn’t the only bit of extortion going on either, judging by what one Walmart higher-up said about the Amazon exemption. According to The State, Walmart Regional Manager Noah Johnson had a message for legislators, telling them, “There are things in our pipeline that could more than make up for what [Amazon] would bring. [The tax break] could alter those plans.”
Although Gov. Nikki Haley did little to publicly push the state House one way or the other on the Amazon vote, she celebrated the outcome and Amazon’s decision to move a proposed distribution center from South Carolina to Tennessee. She even went as far as to suggest that the kind of jobs Amazon would offer are the kind of jobs the Palmetto State doesn’t want.
According to the Charleston Regional Business Journal, Haley proclaimed, “Retail by nature has a high turnover. Retail by nature is a lower-priced job. And retail by nature is not solid and invested. It is not a Boeing. It is not a BMW. Manufacturing, high technology is very different.”
Hmm. I wonder what made Haley change her mind about retail jobs; after all, she was pleased as punch during the press conference announcing Walmart’s 4,000 new jobs.
The governor wasn’t the only person who seemed to do an about-face. Like many of you, I thought that Knapp would be more than a little pissed off that Walmart had seemingly used an alliance of small business to do their bidding. I was wrong. Apparently, Knapp isn’t worried that Walmart’s plan to build a dozen or so stores in the state will hurt small businesses.
According to an AP report, Knapp “said that small business owners wondering how to compete in areas where the retail giant is expanding need to remind their consumers of perks they can offer that bigger stores perhaps cannot.
“ ’Small businesses have to learn how to compete with them on other things,’ Knapp said. ‘It’s either service, convenience, something that the small business can do that maybe the big box store cannot. … Now they have to either die or get creative and come up with another reason why people should shop with them.’ ”
Wow. Get creative or die. What a choice. I’m sure that makes South Carolina’s small business community feel so much better.
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Wary of stiff competition, Prajnesh Gunneswaran plans to reclaim ATP Bengaluru Open title
Aware of higher-ranked players causing trouble for Indian tennis stars at the ATP Bengaluru Challenger, Prajnesh Gunneswaran is raring to win the title again, after 2018.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran is keen to regain the Bengaluru Open title which he won in the 2018 as the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association gears up to host back-to-back ATP Challenger events starting Sunday with the qualifiers.
"I have great memories of Bengaluru. I practised at the KSLTA for a fairly long period and I have had a good outing at the Challengers," Prajnesh said.
"I have many titles here and it is like a second home for me in India other than Chennai. I am looking forward to coming back to the city which is very familiar to me and winning would definitely add to my joy," said the 32-year-old in an interview from Pune.
Currently ranked 228 in the world, Prajnesh who got into the main draw of the Bengaluru Open on Tuesday, expects stiff competition during the weeks to come.
"Definitely, it is going to be tough. I'm sure there a lot of good players, especially because it's right after Pune and then the two Challenges are in a row," he mentioned.
"So a lot of the higher-ranked players end up staying, which is not necessarily good for the Indians, but it is good to have an event with quality players. It's always nice to watch and be a part of it," he said.
Prajnesh, who has two ATP Challenger titles and nine ITF titles to his credit, was not in the best of shape during last year which also saw COVID-19 curtailing most of the efforts of the players across the world.
"It was surely not a fun year. Just having visa was not enough as there were new updates about regulations and measures every week. I was difficult travelling which was hectic and stressful," said the southpaw.
"I have not had a great year in terms of my results as I have been carrying some injuries. I could not train much but over the last two months I have gotten past that and I am raring to go," said Prajnesh.


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The committee would examine the drug procurement system and suggest guidelines to ascertain that all drugs.
Mumbai: The Bombay high court has directed the state government to constitute a committee under the chairmanship of the joint director, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to check whether city-based MCGM-run hospitals are procuring medicines from authorised manufacturers, and storing them as per prescribed specifications.
A division bench of Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice Bharati Dangare was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in 2014 by Ketan Tirodkar, pointing out incidents at Bhabha Hospital (Kurla) and Rajawadi Hospital (Ghatkopar) where 18 children and over 25 women suffered adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The petition sought action against those responsible under section 304-A of the IPC.
While hearing the petition last week, the court said, “Not only finding out the cause of ADRs but also offering a solution for the same is important.”
A mechanism needs to be worked out so that incidents of ADR to antibiotic injections, normally administered in civic-run hospitals, are not repeated, the court said. In order to examine the causes and suggest possible solutions, a joint committee comprising senior officers and experts needed to be set up to determine whether standard ADR protocol was being followed and how hospitals should cope with such cases, it said.
The committee would examine the drug procurement system and suggest guidelines to ascertain that all drugs, and equipment obtained by civic-run hospitals were of standard quality.


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LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS; BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, NOVEMBER 17, 2004 - Tenneco Automotive (NYSE: TEN) announced today that its Continuously Controlled Electronic Suspension - CES - will be offered in combination with a four corner air spring system as an option on the A6 and the new A6 Avant as of Spring 2005. Specific market introduction dates may vary.
"Our CES business with Audi demonstrates how Tenneco Automotive's superior technology solutions have fueled our growth," said Mark P. Frissora, chairman and CEO, Tenneco Automotive. "Advanced suspension technologies, such as CES, help our OE customers respond to consumer demand for increasingly sophisticated vehicle content to enhance their driving experience. CES delivers a comfortable ride without sacrificing the safety of sure handling."
Tenneco Automotive's CES is a semi-active suspension system that overrides the trade-off between comfort and handling. It continuously adjusts damping levels according to road conditions and vehicle dynamics, such as speed, turning and cornering as well as driver inputs.
CES uses shock absorbers that include dampers developed by Tenneco Automotive and continuously variable electro-mechanical valves, developed by Öhlins Racing. CES valve adjustments occur very rapidly - typically within 10 milliseconds - to produce different damping forces. This adjustment speed provides effective control of wheel resonant vibrations up to 20 Hz. As a result, wheel hop frequency control is achieved in addition to body frequency control.
At the heart of the CES system is an electronic control unit (ECU) that processes driver inputs and data from sensors placed at key locations on the vehicle. The sensors include three accelerometers mounted on the vehicle body and four suspension position sensors, which feed data to the ECU on steering wheel angle, vehicle speed, brake pressure and other chassis control information.
The ECU utilizes control software that processes the sensor information in real time and sends signals that adjust independently the damping level of each shock absorber valve. CES dampers allow a large separation between maximum and minimum damping levels and adjust instantaneously to assure riding comfort and firm, safe vehicle control.
Tenneco Automotive is supplying conventional shocks and struts for the new A6. The company also supplies the Audi A2, A3 and A4.
For the Audi solution, Tenneco Automotive developed the CES damper and algorithm and worked together with Öhlins Racing for the radial valve, Vibracoustic for the air springs and Wabco for software programming. System definition, car integration and tuning work were all done by Audi.
Production for the Audi CES system is at Tenneco Automotive's manufacturing facility in Ermua, Spain.
Tenneco Automotive is a $3.8 billion manufacturing company with headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois and approximately 19,200 employees worldwide. Tenneco Automotive is one of the world's largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of emission control and ride control products and systems for the automotive original equipment market and the aftermarket. Tenneco Automotive markets its products principally under the Monroe®, Walker®, Gillet® and Clevite® Elastomer brand names. Among its products are Sensa-Trac® and Monroe Reflex® shocks and struts, Rancho® shock absorbers, Walker® Quiet-Flow® mufflers, Dynomax® performance exhaust products, and Clevite® Elastomer noise, vibration and harshness control components.
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Would the Boston Celtics trade Kyrie Irving?
Legendary Celtics play-by-play man Mike Gorman believes it’s a possibility.
“Certainly, if you’re going to trade Kyrie you get excited because there’s a whole lot coming back,” Gorman told host Evan Valenti on the Celtics Beat Podcast on CLNS Media Network. “Danny [Ainge] doesn’t like to put the untouchable label on anybody. I do think [Jayson] Tatum is untouchable myself.
“It would take some unbelievable offer to get him away from Boston right now. But I think everyone else is in play, to some degree.”
There have been whispers of the Celtics being linked to Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans. To swing such a deal, Irving is the level of player it would all but assuredly require to make it work.
“Again, if you’re talking about the big guy from New Orleans [Davis] then you’re going to have to be talking about a really really, good player going back the other way,” Gorman said. “And that’s the only other player that the Celtics really would put everyone on the table for.”
Many assume Irving will opt out after next season by declining his player option for 2019-20 and sign a max contract with the Celtics, who could pay him the most money. However, Gorman does not “think it’s a given” anymore.
“I think Kyrie’s record over the course of his career would tell you that injuries have been a problem,” Gorman said. “I think you have to be smart here and look at what the facts are, and understand that they may be a problem going forward, too.”
Gorman cited Irving’s injury history as a reason the Celtics would weigh any and all options with him.
“You’d like to see Kyrie, who’s in a contract year next year, to have the season of his career,” he said. “I think the big measurement for Kyrie going forward is how many games can you reasonably get out of him.”


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The Sydney Morning Herald’s Kate McClymont has been nominated for the Graham Perkin Australian journalist of the year award for her coverage of allegations against broadcaster Alan Jones.
The nomination is part of the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Awards for which work by journalists, photographers, artists and designers at the Herald and The Age generated 44 shortlisted entries across 22 categories.
The Age’s Nick McKenzie has also been nominated in the journalist of the year category for a portfolio of work that included his revelations of failures and alleged corruption in the immigration system and coverage of the Ben Roberts-Smith trial. His work included collaborations with Nine’s 60 Minutes. Including the Perkin nomination, McKenzie is a finalist in four categories.
“The nomination of both Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie as the Graham Perkin journalist of the year is a tribute to their outstanding work on major investigations over the past year,” Herald editor Bevan Shields said.
“Kate’s work on allegations against broadcaster Alan Jones and Nick’s body of work on Ben Roberts-Smith and alleged corruption in the immigration system are outstanding examples of public interest journalism.”
Herald sports reporter Tom Decent has been nominated for the Harry Gordon sports journalist of the year award alongside The Age’s Michael Gleeson and Jake Niall.
Judges recognised The Age and Herald’s journalism across numerous categories.
Charlotte Grieve is nominated twice for the Grant Hattam Quill for investigative journalism, once for her series on issues in immigration detention and again, with Amelia Adams from 60 Minutes, for an exposé on podiatric surgery. Grieve is also a finalist for her reporting on disability issues.
McKenzie is also a finalist in the category with Chris Masters for their work on the Ben Roberts-Smith trial.
Michael Bachelard is shortlisted in the feature writing category for his Good Weekend feature Talking Trans as are Melissa Fyfe and Jacqueline Maley for Rethinking Rape, which also ran in Good Weekend.
Natassia Chrysanthos is a finalist in the reporting on disability category for her work on the NDIS. Also nominated for journalist of the year are The Australian Financial Review’s Ed Tadros and Neil Chenoweth.
For the best coverage of an issue, The Age’s crime team was recognised for their work on Melbourne’s new underworld war, while Clay Lucas and Sophie Aubrey were also shortlisted in this category for their investigation into the Maribyrnong River flood disaster. Lucas and Aubrey’s work was also recognised in the best news reporting in writing category.
In the artwork category, Matthew Absalom-Wong, Richard Giliberto and Jim Pavlidis were all nominated. For cartoons, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert and Pavlidis were short-listed as finalists.
The Age’s top shelf sports coverage saw Gleeson and Konrad Marshall recognised in the sports feature category, Daniel Brettig and Ben Schneiders in the sports news category and Carla Jaeger, Marnie Vinall and Greg Baum for their coverage of women in sport.
Jaeger’s work on Netball Australia also garnered her a nomination at the young journalist of the year. The Age’s Visual Stories Team was shortlisted for their interactive explaining of the offside trap during the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The Age is also a finalist in the breaking news coverage category for its coverage of the resignation of former premier Daniel Andrews.
The business award category is dominated by journalists from The Age and the Herald with Sarah Danckert, Samantha Selinger-Morris, Ruby Schwartz and Tammy Mills nominated for their podcast on the collapse of the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme, alongside a series of exclusives on foreign bribery by McKenzie and David Swan’s work on TikTok’s privacy breaches.
Leading the tally for The Age’s photographic team is Eddie Jim with three nominations, two for features photography and one for sport. Also shortlisted are Justin McManus for best features photography as well as Penny Stephens and Marta Pascual Juanola in the sport and news categories respectively.
Jackson Graham and Sherryn Groch are each shortlisted for the science, medical and health reporting award.
A number of awards highlight the collaboration between The Age and Nine’s broadcast journalism. McKenzie, Natalie Clancy and Erin Pearson are finalists in the Indigenous affairs reporting category for their work National Disgrace for The Age and 60 Minutes. Paul Sakkal is a finalist with A Current Affair’s Sam Cucchiara for Senator Six-Pack in the TV feature category.
“This list of nominations is a ringing endorsement of The Age’s relentless pursuit of public interest journalism and commitment to providing a truly Victorian perspective on news, sport and life in this state,” The Age editor Patrick Elligett said.
Read the full list of nominees here.
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Five years after his self-titled debut captured the hearts and minds of Irish and international audiences alike – Andrew Byrne returns as Hozier on his second full-length album, the highly anticipated Wasteland, Baby!. The songwriter’s second LP was preceded in September with the Nina Cried Power EP, a diverse 4 track preview that hinted at a more drastic shift in tone for Byrne’s sophomore outing. However, by comparison, Wasteland, Baby! is a relatively tame affair, featuring a subtler change in direction for the Irishman.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but the results on display here are mixed as Byrne trades the electric, effortlessly catchy blues-rock energy of Hozier for a gospel-infused, choir-backed sound on Wasteland, which follow the template of the songwriter’s breakout hit Take Me To Church almost to a fault. On the other hand, the tracks that employ a hypnotic folk approach are certainly Wasteland’s best moments and provide a stellar reminder of Hozier’s undoubted power when at his best, exemplified by the likes of Shrike and Movement – two intimate standouts.
Ultimately, Wasteland, Baby! won’t win any new followers and certainly doesn’t come close Hozier’s tremendous debut, but there are enough moments of beauty here to remind audiences why they started listening in the first place and satisfy die-hard fans for now.
Words: Andrew Lambert
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First off, thank you so much to everyone who entered my Skin Regime Giveaway and congrats to Kaylyn for winning! So exciting! :D I didn't think doing a giveaway would be that exciting so I'm definitely considering doing more.
Today I wanted to do a lesson/how-to type of post and explain the difference between bronzing and contouring. I've inserted pictures below to visually show you the difference between the two.
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By Holliann Hartman
That morning, I stared at my reflection for what seemed like hours, unable to recognize myself. I felt 90 years old. I still looked nine years old. I was nine. A family member raped me the night before, and I was never the same.
I remember my fourth-grade teacher telling me to remember her when I was famous. She saw me when I felt safe at school.
I never grew up to be the next pop star everyone expected. I believe the reason may be that I was born into an environment devoid of consistent love and care.
I entered my adult life unaware of the damage the abuse had caused.
Luckily for me, my personality comes with a big mouth and a brewing volcano inside. I believe in equality and justice. When I realized I was a rape victim at age 15, I plotted my move to California. At 18, I moved to Los Angeles.
I wanted to use my story to motivate other victims. I did not care about my career, so long as I had a voice for survivors. I also put 3,000 miles between “he” and I.
I began to tell my story, which led me to motivational speaking; often finding survivors asking ‘when?’ — ‘when will it stop hurting,’ ‘when will it stop affecting our behavior?’
I always start by explaining everyone is different. In my case, I had to accept the abuse and the neglect. None of it was my fault, but I had to accept it.
“So, am I just a victim forever?”
No. You are a survivor the moment you make that decision — when you accept that person in the mirror — past and present included.
Children who grow up with a fight-or-flight mentality enter adulthood with this same pressure. The isolation this creates continues into adulthood. I know I struggle with loneliness but the abuse inadvertently bestowed wisdom, compassion and empathy for other survivors.
I finally found a solution. I was able to proudly speak out about sexual abuse to anyone who would listen. Childhood friends reached out on Facebook to tell me that simply by sharing my story, I had given them the courage to stand up to their own abusers.
Learn to love the gift the experience of being a victim has given you. This is where the power lives: To make a difference and become a survivor. And just like a phoenix rising from its ashes, you too, will find your identity as a survivor and rise from this trauma.

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that performers like Bowie, Prince and Carrie Fisher were, in that well-worn phrase, ‘taken before their time’. But for Ritchie Valens it really is true: he was only 17. The plane in which he was travelling in 1957 crashed, also killing his fellow performers the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly – three stars of the early days of rock’n’roll. This was the event that inspired singer songwriter Don Maclean’s expression ‘the day the music died’ from his hit ‘American Pie’.
Valens (born Valenzuela) and his family are poor Mexican-American fruit pickers when the film opens. Then they up-sticks for LA to start anew. Ritchie (a winning performance from Lou Diamond Phillips) and his brother (an intense Esai Morales) don’t see eye to eye – one has talent as a musician and the devotion of his mother (Rosanna DeSoto) and the other is a motorcycle-riding no-goodnik. A lot of the old pop star scenarios are here: the pushy mother, manipulative producer, temptress fans, dashed true love… But this is not just a movie of quiffs and convertible coupes. It has real heart.
As his record producer (Joe Pantoliano) attempts to ditch the other band-mates he asks Valens: ‘what’s more important, your friends or your music?’ The singer answers: ‘my family’. Ritchie – a performer and a composer – was one of the good guys whose shocking, sudden demise was all the more tragic.
This is a well-remembered and likeable film although the constant premonitions of the star’s early demise are overdone. And the story might be too saccharine for some viewers. There are some pleasing performances and director Valdez is always on sure ground. Valens’s hits like ‘Donna’ and ‘La Bamba’ and the atmosphere of Chicano LA are captured with brio. Los Lobos acts as Valens’ band. It’s debatable, however, whether the film, 30th anniversary of its release though it be, quite belongs under the Masters of Cinema banner on this Blu-ray release.


Since the world got wind of the new Aaliyah album, fans have been extremely divided over its release. In a recent interview with That Grape Juice, the man behind the album and uncle of Aaliyah, Barry Hankerson speaks on the controversial project.Hankerson, who is the CEO of Blackground Records spoke on Timbaland, Missy Elliott and DMX’s complete and utter issue with the album being done without Tim and Missy’s involvement. He said that it’s unfortunate that they won’t get on board with the LP, but said that he wanted to take her work in a new direction with Drake and Noah “40” Shebib. He added that they’re still open to work with her past collaborators, citing Dame Dash’s support as evidence.”Due to circumstances, we can’t control the emotional toll of healing of her legacy like others,” he said. “The intent is not to disrespect the family, nor do Blackground Records want to shed any bad light around Aaliyah’s legacy. We’d like to go in a different direction with the 16 tracks and have been more than open to work with past collaborators. So, Damon Dash ““ her ex fiance- is more than willing to assist Drake and Noah in producing the album.”We want to know what you think… Does Blackground have an obligation to work with Missy and Timbaland?


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Andrew it will be real easy to run alot of this information together.First of all it was supposed to have been Duncan and David arriving ca 1739.I personnally have never seen anything on this arrival except as reported ina book written in 1916 saying they were sons of Lord Ochiltree of Jura.There is a Duncan about 30 years later very well documented in NC but where he came from not sure we know.
Hugh and Daniel, sons of Margaret Mc Glashan.Margaret was married to a John Ochiltree.Have not actuall seen a passenger list on them.The information came from a book by David Dobson. (You need to make it a point to meet him one day).I believe that Margaret was a young woman when deported because she had a daughter born in 1794.Could Duncan and David be later children of hers?
The three brothers Mathew, Michael and Alexander are fairly well documented on both sides of the pond.At least two of them are. I could never find records on Alexander in Ulster.Cliff had published information that they were Presbyterian officials in Ulster.
Really interested in your find about the David being "discharged".Since he was deported do you think he was being discharged from prison.
Financial status?The first Ochiltrees seemed to have been merchants while our first Ogletree was a farmer.Then we have a William who did not seem to work at all.

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If its first show back in the late 1960s had been successful, Blood, Sweat and Tears never would have gone on to become one of the top rock bands of the era. According to founding member Steve Katz, the impetus for the seminal elements of the groundbreaking band's debut, featuring fellow Blues Project alumnus Al Kooper and musical friends like Bobby Colomby and Jim Fielder, was to raise funds to enable Kooper to move to England. "We put together a show to raise money for him to get to England, and we raised enough to get him a cab to the airport," recalls Katz 40 years later in typically self-deprecating humor. "We had been throwing the idea around of putting a band together and incorporating a horn section, so we said to Al, 'Why don't you just stay here and let's try doing this?' So Blood, Sweat and Tears was born." Those were rather unlikely beginnings for a group that went on to leave an indelible mark on the world pop scene, as the most successful band to fully integrate a horn section and incorporate elements of jazz into its string of Top Ten hits, including "You Made Me So Very Happy," "And When I Die" and "Spinning Wheel." But then again, guitarist-harmonica player Katz was never a conventional rock star. Raised in Schenectady, New York, the Jewish youth was reared in folk, bluegrass and blues music, which acted for him as a magnet toward the '60s music mecca of Greenwich Village. After learning washboard in lieu of competing against the superior guitar players around, Katz joined jug bands featuring future stars like The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian and "Midnight at the Oasis" singer Maria Muldaur. But his career really gained focus when he dropped out of college, returned to the guitar, fell in with Kooper - who had already made a name for himself playing the organ on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" - and formed the all-Jewish Blues Project in 1965. The band was seen as "a foray of young white middle-class musicians into the amplified world of Chicago blues." Its three albums - though commercial flops - are considered minor '60s classics, epitomizing the era's musical experimentation and synthesis of styles and foreshadowing the burgeoning popularity of counter-culture album-oriented radio. Katz said that there was never a conscious attempt to make it a "Jewish only" band, but rather it reflected the strong Jewish element of the mid-'60s New York music scene. "We never got together because we were all Jewish. I guess it happened because there were so many Jewish musicians in New York. I don't think there was anything Jewish about our music, but we had our share of Jewish in-jokes," the 63-year-old Katz told The Jerusalem Post from his home in Connecticut. WHEN KOOPER and Katz formed BS&T, however, some gentiles finally broke the glass ceiling. Influenced by groups like the Electric Flag and The Buckinghams who toyed with sophisticated horn sections in rock settings, BS&T released its debut Child is Father to the Man to huge critical success, but received indifferent reactions in the record stores. "We really did have a great sound, and there was no resistance from the very beginning from rock fans, who weren't used to horns and arrangements. Even though other bands were using horns within the context of rock and roll, we took it to a different level," said Katz. But internal dissension over turning toward a more commercial, less free-form sound led band leader Kooper to bolt the nest after the album, throwing the band's future into limbo. "We knew we needed a new lead singer who had more of a hit record kind of voice than Al did, who could interpret his songs. But we wanted Al to stay in the band," Katz added. Katz and band member Bobby Colomby started looking for singers, considering luminaries like Stephen Stills and Laura Nyro before deciding upon David Clayton-Thomas, a Canadian singer born in Surrey, England. He possessed the powerful, gritty voice that the band was lacking. Its self-titled second album, released in 1969, was a monster, spawning three hits and winning an Album of the Year Grammy. "To me it was a shock having a big hit single. When I dropped out of college, I thought I would be struggling for the rest of my life. Then all of a sudden, you have a hit record and everything is yours. Then when it's all over, you're back to struggling for the rest of your life," laughed Katz. While BS&T never repeated the highwater mark of that album, the band continued to be one of the top rock draws for years afterward. By mid-1973, Katz, who was growing increasingly uncomfortable with the group's leaning toward jazz fusion and tiring of touring, decided to leave the band and try his hand at record production. "I had wanted to produce for a long time, and I didn't have much say in BS&T. At the same time, I was looking to get more into rock and roll," said Katz. Having befriended another New York Jewish rocker, Lou Reed, Katz suggested that the Velvet Underground alumni release a live album which featured his powerhouse early '70s live band. It proved to be a smart suggestion. "He had just come off the Berlin album which didn't sell well, but his live band sounded great. So we did Rock & Roll Animal, which became a live rock classic," said Katz, who also went on to produce Reed's next studio album, Sally Can't Dance. FOLLOWING A brief stint in a supergroup country rock band - American Flyer - with Eric Kaz, Craig Fuller from Pure Prairie League and Doug Yule from The Velvet Underground, Katz moved behind the scenes full time. Joining Mercury Records as an artist developer and later company vice president, he became enamored with Irish music, producing three albums for the Irish band Horslips and spending considerable time in Ireland. "My background was in country and bluegrass, so listening to Celtic music was something I had never done much of before," said Katz. By 1987, Katz had become managing director of Green Linnet Records, the foremost record label of traditional Irish music in America, a position he held for five years. He also got married during this time to Alison Palmer, a ceramic artist, and began to take up photography. Between running Palmer's thriving business and taking photos, Katz was happily out of the music business. Until he received a phone call. "Earlier this year I got a call from the BS&T management - they asked me if I wanted to sing a song with them for a show they were doing for the band's 40th anniversary. I was astounded at how great these guys sounded," Katz recalled. While no original members were left in the band, and the group's alumni could fill an Egged bus, Katz said that it wasn't just a case of pick-up musicians out to cash in on the band's name. "There's been something like 130 people in the band over the years, but it's not like an oldies band, it's more like a master class of musical education, like the Woody Herman band of the 1940s. A lot of great musicians have graduated from the ranks," he said. After Katz performed with the band following a 35-year gap, he couldn't believe the feelings he had. "They asked if I wanted to do more shows, and I jumped at it. This band is better than the original band was. I started coming out at shows and telling stories of how we got together, I sing 'Sometimes in Winter' [his best-known BS&T song] and play some harmonica," he said, adding that he hoped to add some guitar to the mix in upcoming shows. "I think we're bringing new life to those songs; it's surprising how eternal they are. They still hold up after all this time. And the guys get to stretch out every show." Katz still remembers the first time BS&T performed in Israel in the early '70s and looks forward to returning here when the band plays two shows - September 22 at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv and the next night at the Shoni Amphitheater in Binyamina. "It's very significant for me to come to Israel," said Katz, who defines himself as a cultural Jew. "It was very moving last time. I could really relate when I looked at some of the kids then who were my age - my grandparents and their grandparents just went to two different places," he said. Regardless of time and geography, Katz has returned full circle to one of the high points of his life - playing with Blood, Sweat and Tears - and he's not planning on giving it up again any time soon. "My God, I was one of the founding members 40 years ago - and people are still just loving it. The music is like an American institution."


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- Police reported an incident of disorderly conduct at an area school.
- Police received a report about counterfeit money from an area business.
- Police reported a dog was locked in a vehicle on Lowe’s Drive.
- Police reported two dogs allegedly chased someone on Rails to Trails.
- Police reported a burglary that occurred at the Florian Banquet Hall on Mill Road. The investigation is continuing at this time.
- Police reported an incident of harassment and stalking.
- Police reported a disabled tractor-trailer that blocked the roadway. Fire police assisted with traffic control.
- Police reported damaged property on Montgomery Run Road.
- Police executed an arrest warrant in the parking lot of an area business. Richard Gilbert of West Decatur was taken into custody on charges of impersonating a public servant and related offenses. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Richard Ireland with his bail being set at $100,000. Gilbert’s preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 18.
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SecondMuse's digital youth wellbeing program takes its mission to heart by prioritizing the wellness of entrepreneurs
Dani Bicknell, program manager for Headstream at SecondMuse, has a long history of working with social impact-focused startups and business accelerators. But her experience at the digital youth wellbeing program, where she works closely with entrepreneurs in its accelerator, stands out to her as something special. “We practice a sort of radical transparency and authentic relationship building I have never seen anywhere else,” she says.
This month, the Headstream Accelerator welcomed its second cohort of innovators working to make digital places more positive and inclusive for teens. To sustainably scale their apps, devices and other products geared toward youth from communities innovators tend to overlook, they will spend five months working with mentors and experts to finetune their products and business plans. But as they focus on fostering wellbeing for teens and young adults, Dani explains that the accelerator’s unique culture will prioritize their own wellbeing too.
“When I worked in business accelerators before, I felt the MO was that entrepreneurs must always be ‘on,’ and even talking about failures with others must be carefully crafted,” she says. “What was so beautiful about the first cohort is that a lot of entrepreneurs were comfortable speaking openly about their anxiety or insecurity.”COVID hit just as the first accelerator was getting started. The timing caused plenty of anxiety, and prompted the Headstream team to be intentional about addressing founder mental health and wellbeing.
“We took the mission of Headstream and turned it on ourselves,” she says. “If we had a meeting with someone and that person seemed distraught, we would not just push through the discomfort and talk about budget and marketing plans. We spent a lot of time on issues of confidence, insecurity, imposter syndrome.”
It was a natural shift to make, considering Headstream’s larger mission, which is ultimately about improving lives. The SecondMuse program, launched in 2018, is dedicated to improving the lives of every young person in the U.S. It is pursuing this goal by working to understand and shape the burgeoning economy around digital innovation and youth wellbeing.
It’s a massively underdeveloped space, which has required the Headstream team to take a humble and inquisitive approach. David Ball, Director of Headstream at SecondMuse, describes an intensive nine-month effort to build a community and learn about the digital youth wellbeing innovation landscape before even launching the first accelerator earlier this year.
“2018 and 2019 were years of learning for Headstream,” he says. “We spent the better parts of those years exploring with our community exactly where innovation could transform the experiences young people were having as they were growing up online.”
In its ongoing research, the team has found, for example, that most social technology on the market is not designed to serve the unique wants and needs of teenage women — especially those from Black, Indigenous, Latinx and LGBTQIA+ communities. They also discovered gaps in the existing market for technologies that support meaningful relationships or critical skill building in non-traditional settings. The Headstream team has been working to fill this void in technology and information through ongoing research initiatives, including a recently-launched gamified survey that uses the wisdom of the crowd to uncover the keystone factors to impact youth wellbeing and make the internet “a more beautiful place.” It is also doing this through community-building initiatives, programming specifically for teenage innovators, and an accelerator dedicated not only to traditional business outcomes, but to the values necessary to build a just and inclusive economy.
“When we sat down with the 10 entrepreneurs in this newest Accelerator cohort, I wanted them to know that their success is tied to one another, and that the communities of young people we support are dependent on them. One or two of them succeeding by themselves will not catalyze the change that is necessary for us to transform the way we support the wellbeing of young people in this country,” David says.
Innovators selected for the second cohort are already doing important work to improve the lives of teens. They are developing solutions ranging from a smart voice journal that builds self-awareness and emotional resilience, to a platform that helps people in the LGBTQIA+ community find and book queer-competent therapists at affordable rates.
The ongoing pandemic — with all its grief, gloom and logistical puzzles — has brought new urgency to these sorts of wellness-focused innovations. Dani, David and the rest of the Headstream team are filled with optimism as they look ahead to the next cohort and to other work planned for 2021.
“2021 will be the year of scaling our work to shape an economy around digital solutions for youth wellbeing,” David says. “That means orchestrating the learnings from both our research initiatives as well as our innovation and youth programs to accelerate the development of the sector. We will support more innovations, amplify the leadership of young people, influence policy, craft a narrative for the sector, and create blended funding approaches for novel innovations.”
The work will be rooted in the same human-centered approach that has made the Headstream Accelerator stand out so much to Dani. As she puts it: “We never look at people or their ideas as just commodities to shape; we treat them as whole human beings.”

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Pets Tips for The Average Joe
How to Keep Your Dog Healthy
Dogs are wonderful creature in human life. Who will not want the healthy Dog and clean dog? therefore providing suitable environment is very important in rearing dogs. Keeping dogs happy and healthy require some proper plans, ones must provide adequate shelter and very clean with dry bedding, this will enable to protect the dog from elements of coat.
It is necessary to provide your dog drinking on daily basis and ensure the place is not anyone ways to interrupt with her during drinking. Dogs require high quality food and its takes one’s some months to realize which kind of food is good for your dog because of the difference taste.
Making a dog happy requires some voluntarily because you have to make friends with different vet to enable to examiner your dog whenever they have problem. Dogs suffer from flees and tick can be checked through loss of hair or scratching.
If we give our dogs good care then they will be of tremendous importance to us and our homes for they offer security and protection. When you examine issues such as family’s budget, family’s attitude, and family’s livelihood before deciding which kind of dog to have in your home it will, therefore, bring a happy and a fulfilling life to all the parties involved.
When a stranger or thief steps foot in your home your dog will see and bark at the stranger, and this keeps you feel safe alerted and reduces stress, so it is very vital to have a dog in your home. If someone has depression matters then having a dog in his or her home will aid relieve depression symptoms and will also motivate the depressed one to take life easy and be more positive.
It is good to frequently be checking on your dog’s health life to find out if the dog is experiencing some health problem and how you can treat them. Some of the issues that can result in ear infections in a dog can be as a result of allergies, ear mites, yeast or hair growth deep in the ear canal. Symptoms that can help you know if your dog has ear problems include ear odour, redness of the ear canal, vigorous scratching, lack of balance, swelling of the outer portion of the ear, head shaking or head tilting and unusual back-and forth eye movements.
Some conditions like poisoning intestinal pests and renal failure can cause vomiting in a dog, and it’s a frequent health problem in a dog that needs to be treated by the veterinarian.

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Tyche (gr. Τύχη Týkhē) or Fortune (lat. Fortūna) stands in an unusual position among the gods. She ranked as one of the most widely worshipped deities for many centuries, central to civic cults, and had an established iconography known to everyone – yet she was all but absent from the poetry of the archaic and classical periods (8th–4th cents. BCE), and there were virtually no myths attached to her. In consequence, modern commentators have often seen in her a kind of break with the “traditional gods”, as a deity that smacked less of unbelievable myths, and was more relevant to the vicissitudes of the post-classical (so-called Hellenistic) period.
This does not hold water. For one thing, the classical period did not see fewer vicissitudes than later times; nor did people of the Hellenistic period away from the gods of earlier times. It is true that the attitude to mythology had become more complex and sceptical, but this did not entail a rejection of the mythical. Tyche was represented in anthropomorphic manner, just as the so-called “traditional gods”, and she appeared as such in some Aesopic fables. Her hymns too reflect a no more and no less anthropomorphic image of the goddess. In short, Tyche is different among the gods, not from the gods.
The absence of an easy developmental explanation makes the rise of Tyche to cultic importance all the more interesting. There was also a fascinating debate about whether fortune could be considered divine, and reflections on the history of her worship, in the works of ancient polytheists. So, let us turn to these.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tracy Letts’ newest Broadway play Linda Vista didn’t start out as a play at all. “It started with a little free writing,” he says. “I was surprised by the voice of this guy.”
Letts followed his curiosity and found Wheeler, a 50-something divorcé living in Southern California and re-entering the dating scene when he meets age-appropriate Jules and, in a different way, young-and-in-trouble Minnie.
“What drew me right away is Tracy’s ability to write fly-on-the-wall experiences that are deeply human, funny, raw, scary, but they’re all that because they’re very true,” says Cora Vander Broek, who plays Jules.
“He has great powers of observation about human behavior,” adds Ian Barford, who plays Wheeler, “and as actors it’s great to feel like there’s real dimension to your character.”
Those dimensions are a result of Letts’ introspection as he contemplated the ways in which he was similar and dissimilar to Wheeler. “I started to think about the ways in which, when it comes to my views on politics and culture, I think of my opinions as unimpeachable,” Letts explains. “And at the same time I’ve lied, cheated, not always conducted myself with integrity in personal relations. I started thinking about the dichotomy of that and thought that was worthy of exploration and then it grew into a bigger picture about the way we see ourselves and the way we see other people.”
But the fact that Wheeler is not clearly a hero or anti-hero is exactly the point. And Letts makes an argument that how we treat people is more about us and less about them. “I would hope that [audiences] would think about treating people with compassion, even people who don’t deserve it,” says Letts, “because it’s easy to give compassion to people who deserve it, it’s harder to give it to people who don’t.”
So Wheeler became a collection of contradictions. “He’s so complicated. He’s hilarious, he’s despicable, he’s noble, he’s awful. He’s very bright but he’s maybe not very evolved,” says Barford. But through Linda Vista, Barford sees a “spiritual awakening” through his character—evidence that maybe he is capable of change.
Wheeler’s story, according to Vander Broek, leads us to wonder: “Are you ever too old to come of age? That’s the question this play is asking.”


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Ruth’s Hemp Pesto|
Makes approximately 1 ½ cups.
- 2 cups fresh basil leaves
- ½ cups SoftHemp™
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Kent has been placed on alert after fuel tanker drivers voted
overwhelmingly in favour of strike action.
More than 60% of the 2,000 drivers nationally backed
The government has placed the Army on standby to help carry fuel
to forecourts to prevent shortages or panic-buying.
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This April 1988 picture shows Ronald A. Gray in handcuffs and chains, escorted by military police leaving a Fort Bragg, N.C. courtroom. (AP)
by Katie Fretland
For the first time in 51 years, a United States president has affirmed the execution of a member of the military. President Bush yesterday decided against commuting the death sentence of former Army cook Ronald A. Gray, who was convicted of raping and killing multiple women.
"While approving a sentence of death for a member of our armed services is a serious and difficult decision for a commander in chief, the president believes the facts of this case leave no doubt that the sentence is just and warranted," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
"The president's thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous crimes and their families and all others affected," she said.
Bush's decision comes just a month after the Supreme Court debated the constitutionality of the death penalty. At the end of June, the court narrowly decided that imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child is unconstitutional, the Chicago Tribune's James Oliphant reported. In April, the court upheld lethal injection as a method of capital punishment.
"It's interesting, because there is still some debate on the Supreme Court about the constitutionality of the death penalty itself," said Northwestern University legal history professor Stephen Presser. "At least on the surface (Bush's decision) is a reaffirmation by one person in the federal government that the death penalty is constitutional ... It's a really interesting question about who determines constitutionality, whether only the court or other branches also ought to have something to say about it as well."
Gray, 42, was stationed at Fort Bragg in 1986 and 1987 when a spree of four murders and eight rapes struck the Fayetteville, N.C. area. He pleaded guilty to two murders and five rapes in North Carolina courts, before facing a military court-martial. In 1988, the military court convicted him of; raping and killing Army Pvt. Laura Lee Vickery-Clay of Fayetteville; raping and killing taxi driver Kimberly Ann Ruggles; and raping and attempting to kill an Army private in her barracks at Fort Bragg. The military court sentenced him to death.
Gray appealed the case, and in 2001, the Supreme Court declined to hear it.
The Associated Press reports that just 10 members of the U.S. military were executed by approval of the president since 1951 - the year when the military's legal system, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, went into law. In 1957, President Eisenhower approved the execution of Army Pvt. John Bennett, who was convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl. Bennett was hanged.
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CHARLESTON – Yorkville senior Kyle Clabough threw the top shot put mark in Friday’s Class 3A preliminaries, leading the area’s finalists at Eastern Illinois University.
The finals are set for Saturday.
Clabough, the defending state shot put champion, tossed the shot put 18.03 meters on Friday.
In other field events, Oswego senior Caleb Wright is in third place in the triple jump and fourth place in the long jump after Friday’s preliminaries. Wright, a medalist in both last year, soared to 13.85 meters in the triple jump and 6.74 meters in the long jump. Oswego senior Christian Sobecki also advanced to Saturday’s finals in the pole vault, clearing 4.35 meters.
On the track Yorkville senior Josh Pugh advanced to the finals in the 400-meter dash, his time of 49.97 seconds the fourth-fastest time in Friday’s prelims. Oswego’s Balin Doud ran the ninth-fastest time of 4:14.87 in the 1,600.
Oswego’s 4x800 relay team ran the 12th-fastest time of 8:04.04.


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Meguiar's G1016 Smooth Surface Clay Kit Auto Detailer
I had never even heard of "clay bar" or it's use in auto detailing, but one use made a believe out of me. Clay bar is a non-abrasive compound that feels like the tacky putty that elementary school teachers use to put posters on the wall. You spray your car with the quick detailer solution, then gently rub the clay bar across the area. It picks up any oxidation or impurities and keeps those things from embedding in your paint job. I was told to put my hand in a ziploc bag and rub it across the hood of my car before and after using the clay bar. WOW. The "Before" feeling was rough, the "after" feeling was as smooth as glass. Try it. You'll like it.


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Anyway, yeah I am only working on a couple of streaks. My main one is no animal food, and the other one is the time on the elliptical.
I have a bunch of goals on my check sheet too. But I am all for starting small. My favorite other thing I really try for is a raw salad. I am up to eating one whole head of romaine. So how about a streak of eating a small salad everyday? 8 days ago


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2015 has arguably been the YEAR OF THE PONCHO in the MLB. This bid is a pretty good effort but still nothing compared to the G.O.A.T. down in Washington DC; dude is STILL trying to put it on right now..
At least the Nationals also have actual baseball to watch at their stadium. Struggling to put on a poncho at Fenway is 100x better than struggling to watch what’s occurring on the field with Red Sox players. The struggle is realer than it could ever be.
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Chinese swimmer with no arms earns four record-breaking gold medals at Tokyo Paralympics
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A Chinese swimmer who lost his arms as a child has won four gold medals, all with record-breaking times, at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Zheng Tao was champion in the men's 50m butterfly, 50m backstroke, 50m freestyle and the mixed 4x50m freestyle relay. The pandemic-delayed Games held August 24-September 5, 2021, were the third Paralympics for the 30-year-old. His impressive performance in Tokyo has earned him the title "armless flying fish" among Chinese netizens.
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by Catherine Smith
Google announced that it will remove its global lead for diversity strategy and research, Kamau Bobb, after a 2007 blog post in which he’d made antisemitic comments surfaced, Fox News reported. Bobb will be reassigned to a STEM research role.
The reassignment comes after revelations that Bobb had previously authored a blog post that contained antisemitic statements.
In a 2007 blog post by Bobb titled “If I Were a Jew,” he wrote that Jewish people had an “insensitivity” to suffering and stated “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.” The post has since been removed, but is recorded here.
A spokesperson for Google announced that Bobb would “no longer be part of our diversity team going forward.” Bobb has apologized for his remarks.
“We unequivocally condemn the past writings by a member of our diversity team that are causing deep offence and pain to members of our Jewish community,” the spokesperson continued. These writings are unquestionably hurtful. The author acknowledges this and has apologized.”
According to Fox, Bobb reportedly sent a private apology to the “Jewgler” Employee Resource Group at Google.
“Let me first apologize. what I wrote crudely characterized the entire Jewish community. what was intended as a critique of particular military action fed into antisemitic tropes and prejudice. I think we can all agree, there is no easy solution to this situation. But that’s beside the point. the way I expressed my views on that conflict were hurtful,” Bobb wrote in the email, obtained by the New York Post.
Several Jewish groups, including human rights group Simon Wiesenthal Center and Stop Antisemitism called for Bobb to be fired.
“Google must fire this antisemite,” Simon Wiesenthal Center tweeted.
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Catherine Smith reports for American Greatness.


It might seem like Baltimore is in the middle of a free-agent frenzy, but the free-agent market has drawn so little interest in certain quarters that some player agents are beginning to suspect that it isn't a coincidence.
No one is ready to go public with accusations, but there have been murmurs about the possibility baseball owners are again making a concerted effort to muzzle the market.
"I've heard a lot of [agents] saying the C-word," said one player representative, referring to collusion. "There are just so many teams that don't even want to talk."
Of course, there are plenty of other possible explanations for the apparent lack of free-agent activity.
It's no secret that a lot of clubs are trying to reduce their payrolls, which is well within their rights under the terms of the soon-to-expire collective-bargaining agreement -- as long as they act individually.
The word is that a number of financially burdened teams are looking to make up for a downturn in television revenues by cutting payrolls the $7 million per year each team is projected to lose under terms of their new television partnership with the networks. It would be easy to prove collusion if all 28 teams did that, but there are enough maverick clubs such as the Orioles and Texas Rangers to keep the heat off.
The prospect of a labor confrontation and the possible imposition of a salary cap also could be cause for constraint with baseball's Basic Agreement due to expire Dec. 31.
The agents have a right to be suspicious. The owners have acted in concert before, and the decision this year to pull out of the December winter meetings was an obvious attempt to alter the impact of the free-agent market on player personnel decisions. But there has been just enough movement among a subpar free-agent crop to allay the fear that the owners are conspiring to restrict salaries and player movement.
First baseman Will Clark signed a five-year, $30 million contract after two seasons of statistical decline. Pitcher Mark Portugal left the Houston Astros for a three-year, $11 million deal after one breakthrough season. Sid Fernandez got three years for $9 million plus an option and incentive from the Orioles.
Several players without free-agent eligibility have been rewarded with megabucks contracts lately, too. American League MVP Frank Thomas signed a four-year extension worth $29.5 million and Detroit shortstop Travis Fryman signed for five yars and $25.5 million.
Do the exceptions prove the owners are acting in good faith? Maybe not. But there is too little evidence to prove they are doing anything more unseemly than trying to get a handle on their expenses at a time when revenues are guaranteed to decline.
The real indicator may come in three weeks, when clubs face a Dec. 20 deadline for tendering contracts to all players under reserve. There has been speculation that scores of players will go untendered to reduce the impact of salary arbitration. The same suspicion went largely unrealized a year ago, but the pending expiration of the labor agreement makes the scenario seem far more plausible this year.
Reynolds still waiting
Free-agent second baseman Harold Reynolds still holds out hope that he'll be re-signed by the Orioles, but the club appears to be moving in other directions.
"They've got Mark [McLemore], so I think I'm second on the totem pole," Reynolds said Friday. "I don't think I'm the guy they are looking for. That's disappointing, because I'd like to come back."
The Orioles adopted a wait-and-see attitude toward Reynolds, waiting to find out whether they would have the outfield depth to move McLemore back to second base. The positive medical reports on Jeffrey Hammonds appear to make that the most likely scenario.
Reynolds has talked to a number of teams. He was rumored to be close to signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers a few weeks ago, a report he says was accurate.
"I thought I was going there," he said, "but then they made the deal for Delino DeShields and that was that. You can't fault them for making that trade."
The acquisition of free-agent first baseman Eddie Murray could have a major impact on the Orioles' fortunes in 1994. If he -- and the fans and the media -- were able to leave the past behind, it probably would be a very positive impact. If not, the Orioles' good clubhouse chemistry could deteriorate in a hurry and affect the club's on-field performance.
Only two players hit more than one fly ball off the right-field scoreboard at Camden Yards last year. One should be obvious, but the other will require a serious trivial pursuit. Can you name both?
Why not Langston?
Reports that the Angels have given agent Arn Tellum permission to negotiate a contract extension for left-hander Mark Langston have been confirmed, but that doesn't mean Langston presents a strong trade possibility for the Orioles.
The reason California is allowing Tellum to look around is because they are not willing to meet his demand for a four-year, $24 million extension. If another team wants Langston, it probably would have to
come up with that kind of money and produce a package of quality prospects to satisfy the Angels.
The Orioles have inquired. So have the Dodgers, but they backed away quickly when they found out what it would cost.
The Orioles didn't exactly dominate the league leader sheet in 1993. The only player to rank in the top five in any significant offensive department was catcher Chris Hoiles, who ranked fifth in on-base percentage (.416) and slugging percentage (.585). The only other hitter in a top 10 was Brady Anderson, who ranked sixth in triples with nine.
There was more of an Orioles presence in some of the lesser-known categories. It should come as no surprise that Cal Ripken led the league in at-bats and games played, or that Hoiles ranked highly in home run and RBI ratio. What is surprising is that McLemore, who had a breakthrough season, ranked highly in a couple dubious categories.
McLemore tied for third place in times caught stealing (15) and ranked third for the 21 times he grounded into double plays. He was in good company in the latter category. Cecil Fielder, Don Mattingly and George Brett also were among the top five GIDP guys.
A policy of containment
Not a single Orioles pitcher showed up among the top 10 in home runs allowed, which has to be considered something of an upset. Ben McDonald nearly won that dubious title in 1992 when he gave up 32 home runs, but he gave up just 17 last year. Rick Sutcliffe led the club with 23 gopher balls, but was saved a place among the dubious top 10 by the knee injury that shelved him for nearly a month.
The "winner" of the American League home run derby was Detroit Tigers right-hander Mike Moore, who gave up 35 homers. Oakland Athletics right-hander Bob Welch ranked 10th with 25.
Orioles left fielder Brady Anderson hit three shots off the right-field scoreboard at Oriole Park in 1993. Strangely enough, only one other player hit more than one, and he wasn't even an Oriole. Minnesota Twins outfielder Shane Mack doubled off the scoreboard twice in two days (July 15 and July 16). No Oriole other than Anderson could match that in 81 home games.
If reports out of Los Angeles are true, second baseman Jody Reed may have miscalculated badly when he turned down a multiyear contract proposal from the Dodgers.
The word is that Reed turned down a three-year deal worth $8.5 million before the Dodgers worked the trade with the Montreal Expos for DeShields.
DeShields will cost more than the $2.8 million per year that Reed was offered, but he probably will be worth it. He batted .295 last year and has stolen 187 bases in his four full seasons in the major leagues. Reed batted .276, drove in 31 runs and stole just one base last year.
With those numbers, will Reed find a comparable salary elsewhere? Probably not in this market.


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Winter Semester BYU 2011
Ken, Alton, Justin and I made a newspaper couch. It was going to be three times as big, but we settled for a third of a couch. I really liked having it. I used it as an extra table for art and when we had guests over they had a place to sit. It did start to get in the way though. Ken didn't like it much after a while.
For my final project in 2D Design I used the couch to make a collage. You can see the process for that piece here:
Justin and I cut the couch up and recycled it at the end of the semester.
R.I.P. Newspaper couch you will be missed.
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