| Pushing green envelope
Eric Ritz has a big meeting with executives at an action sports network, and he's all dressed up: His plaid shirt isn't tucked into his jeans, his dirty-blond hair pokes out from under his cap and most grandmothers would say he needs a shave. The Fuel TV executives Ritz is meeting with aren't fazed. They're looking for someone who can help them both go green and appeal to the youth market. And Ritz, a 35-year-old former advertising executive, is someone with the kind of track record that draws attention. At the Coachella Music Festival, Ritz is the guy who brought the popular Jiffy Pop "tree," which sports branches adorned with packages of the iconic treat and an environmentally friendly ethanol-powered hibachi grill for cooking them. At dozens of other events, he has set up attention-grabbing bits of environmental performance art, including a green-themed chess game with human pieces and bicycle-powered cell phone charging stations.
Alligators seized from home
Belisle's problem last year was one bad inning, one big inning, that sank so many of his starts, something he plans to rectify to solidify his spot as a starter for the Cincinnati Reds. "This guy has potential to be a big winner for us," said Baker. "I've talked to him and he has confidence. He knows he can do it and it is frustrating when you're not doing it and know you can. Hopefully, last year really helped him. "I know he was (8-9) in 175 innings — a pretty good workload for a guy who hasn't done that before," Baker added. And his one-inning walks into Dreamland? "A lot of times that's a phobia you can get over," he said. "It's like a pitcher who says, 'I know I'm going to give up a homer pretty soon,' then he gives up a homer.
Wayne Henning: Stadium's future rests in hands of city, residents
Roberts Stadium has served our community well for more than 50 years. However, it has become dated and is no longer competitive with similar venues. We have a difficult decision to make about the future of the stadium, and it is a decision that will be made with deliberate thought. .
2006 Mazda5 Touring Review
It could be confusing. There a Mazda MX-5, and there is a Mazda5. But place the two side by side, and confusion evaporates. The MX-5, also known as the Miata, is the best-selling two-seat roadster in history. The Mazda5 is a... ??? Taxonomy fails at times like this. From a distance, a Mazda5 looks like a minivan. Its one-and-a-half box shape, with sliding doors on each side and a liftgate at the rear, says minivan. But doesn't Mazda already have a minivan in its MPV? Indeed it does, and a closer look at the Mazda5 shows it to be noticeably smaller than the MPV, which is already one of the few current minivans that doesn't aspire to be a full-size van. With sport-compact styling clues like clear plastic covers over colored taillights, and, optionally on the Sport model or standard on the premium Touring model, lower cladding and a hot hatch-style rear visor wing, the Mazda5 is obviously not being aimed at your basic soccer mom.
Is Homeland Security Too Focused on “Guns, Guards and Gates”?
September 11th was a brutal reminder that there are people out there who have the desire and means to kill us in a mass attack, and we have to stop them. "The best defense is a good offense", we like to say, but in this case it's a little trickier than that. We need an offense mindful of long-term gains and a defense more nuanced than smash-mouth football. "Guns, guards and gates," our bulwark against external threats, remains an essential part of our defense. Yet consider this: attacks attempted or carried out in the UK involved insiders, young Brits willing to kill their fellow citizens. It's hard to employ a simplistic "us vs. them" strategy, when "they" are living and working alongside us. To better understand this quandry, I recently caught up with Juliette Kayyem, Undersecretary of Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a former adviser with the National Commission on Terrorism.
Our view: Topsfield should get on rail-trail bandwagon
Wonder whether those who proposed laying down the first street grids had to deal with the same fears that arise anytime someone proposes turning an abandoned rail line into a bike trail? Probably not, or else we'd all still be walking everywhere. Topsfield is the latest focal point in the debate over rail trails. Creating such pathways makes sense for several reasons — encouraging people to ride their bicycles rather than get in their car whenever they need to get someplace, is good for the environment; providing people with a place to ride, run or walk is good for their health. Yet inevitably the cry goes out that such trails will attract hooligans and predators. Such protests usually come from those whose homes abut the abandoned rights-of-way. They certainly wouldn't want trains running along those old tracks again, but they'd prefer they not be used for any other purpose either.
Exclusive: Brett Morgen's Chicago 10
Let's say that works out to a hundred twenty paged script double spaced, when you break that down to single spaces you're talking about forty-five pages, that's like Cliff's Notes to history and I didn't want the film to be like a Cliff's Notes to history. Sometimes, I'm asked if I'm an activist filmmaker and I always say, "Well, I did the Bob Evans film. What was my cause, the Irving Thalberg award?" If I'm an activist, my primary cause is nonfiction filmmaking and trying to make films that stretch out the boundaries of nonfiction, I don't think I'm a documentarian because I think that culturally, we like to think of documentarians as journalists and I'm anything but a journalist. Nonfiction film is going further and further away from the static image. Digital tools have now entered the vanguard and we now as filmmakers have all these technologies to visualize the past and the present and those ways are completely subjective.
Council nixes zone change
LAFAYETTE — The City-Parish Council voted down a zoning change 7-2 Tuesday that would have allowed Mello Joy Coffee to build a new corporate headquarters, distribution facility and coffee roasting plant on Moss Street. Also Tuesday, as part of Black History Month, the council recognized the first black elected officials in Lafayette Parish. Mello Joy Coffee was seeking to rezone the property from general business to light industrial so that the coffee roasting plant would be allowed. The property is just south of Interstate 10, with Schilling Distribution on one side and a neighborhood on the other. A private school’s property line is about 300 feet away. The presence of that neighborhood is what many councilmen said drove their decision not to allow the zoning change.
Michael Pointer: Purdue Q&A
Question: When will the Purdue quarterback actually look off his primary receiver and go through his progressions? From what I saw Saturday, come-heck-or-high-water, Curtis Painter is going to throw to his primary, even if there is a crowd. And, on two of those interceptions, no Boiler receiver was in the area. I haven't seen anyone say that a receiver zigged when he should have zagged. Were those interceptions all on Painter? Quotes from coaches and Painter seem to suggest so. (Mike from Kokomo)
Answer: Mike, I have covered four quarterbacks since I've been on the Purdue beat: Brandon Hance, Kyle Orton, Brandon Kirsch and Painter. (I missed having the pleasure of covering Drew Brees.) I heard that complaint about everyone of them, including Orton, who had 31 touchdown passes and just five interceptions as a starter.
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