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Dave Matthew's band Summer Concert Tour Hits Shoreline, Kia Forum

enzo2go — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:53:17 +0000

The Dave Matthew's band has announced its spring/summer tour 2025 and comprises two stops in California.

In the Bay Area, the newly built -in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Act will appear on Mountain View on August 23 within the Shoreline Amphitheatre on Mountain View.

On August 22, the group may even return a long-awaited return to the Kia Forum in Inglewood and marks the primary appearance of DMB on the venue since 1998.

According to reports, these spring/summer data shall be the one Dave Matthew's band GIGS from 2025.

Tickets shall be sold to most of the people on February 21 at 10 a.m. www.davematthewsband.com. The pre -sale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is currently underway, https://davematthewsband.com/warehouse.

Dave Matthew's band – Spring/Summer 2025 US tour data

Date of the town of city/state/province
April 27 New Orleans, La New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
May 4th Charlotte, NC Lovin 'Life Festival
May twenty fourth Bethel, Ny Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
May twenty fifth Boston, MA Boston Calling Festival
May 27 Syracuse, NY Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater in Lakview
May thirtieth Cuyahoga Falls, Oh Blossom Music Center
May 31 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 3 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
7.-8. June Sao Paulo, Brazil Best of Blues & Rock Festival
June eleventh Wantagh, Ny Northwell in Jones Beach Theater
June thirteenth Cincinnati, oh Rivanbend Music Center

Originally published: January 28, 2025 at 3:14 p.m. PST

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Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp brings urgency to Jeff Bezos' space company

enzo2go — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:58:24 +0000

Dave Limp had only one query for Jeff Bezos when he interviewed last 12 months for the position of CEO of Blue Origin, the billionaire's space company.

“Jeff, is Blue Origin a hobby or a business?” Limp asked.

After 14 years as a senior Amazon Chief Executive Limp told CNBC that he made it clear to Bezos that he had no real interest in running Blue Origin if the nearly 25-year-old company was not intended to be a legitimate business.

“I don’t know how to have a hobby,” Limp said, adding, “If it was a hobby, it wouldn’t be right for me.”

But he said Bezos was adamant that Blue Origin needed to be an organization.

Limp admitted that Bezos needed some convincing to maneuver into the space sector. “My first reaction was: This isn’t the right job for me because I’m not an aerospace engineer,” he said. But he decided to take the leap of religion.

“Jeff felt that [Blue Origin] required manufacturing expertise; it took determination; “It takes a little bit of energy,” Limp said.

Limp has been CEO of Blue Origin for nine months now. He took over leadership from previous leadership, which had greatly expanded the corporate's workforce and infrastructure but had fallen behind for years on several major programs and lost competitions for key government contracts.

Blue Origin has been flying tourists and researchers on short trips to the sting of space for years, including Bezos himself. And for the past 20 years, Bezos has spent billions of dollars annually to construct Blue Origin right into a space powerhouse. The company's projects range from rockets and spacecraft to space stations and lunar landers.

But within the orbital mission industry, Blue Origin has not yet entered the intense rocket business, because the US launch vehicle market continues to be dominated by SpaceX, followed by United Launch Alliance. Rocket Lab and Firefly Aerospace.

But the corporate said it’s closer than ever to the long-awaited debut of its New Glenn rocket. At a height of about 320 feet, the launch vehicle is predicted to give you the chance to lift as much as 45,000 kilograms (or over 99,000 kilos) to low Earth orbit – twice as much because the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX's workhorse.

Like Falcon 9, New Glenn is partially reusable. Blue Origin goals to return and land the launch engine, the biggest and most precious a part of the rocket, to realize the sort of cost and time savings that SpaceX guarantees with its rockets.

New Glenn's first launch attempt is scheduled for November. Blue Origin is in the ultimate stages of compilation, including conducting a A vital test firing of the rocket's upper stage recently took place last month.

The company originally aimed for the audacious feat of flying NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars in New Glenn's debut. But because the launch window became increasingly narrow, the agency postponed ESCAPADE to a later launch. In lieu of the mission, Blue Origin will conduct an indication of its spacecraft Blue ring at New Glenn's first launch.

Cultural change

Headquartered within the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington, Blue Origin employs greater than 10,000 people there and at half a dozen other key locations across the country, including in the commercial hotbeds of Texas, Florida and Alabama. In plain language, Limp said Blue Origin has been “in a sort of research and development phase for a long time,” a side of the corporate's culture that he’s trying to vary.

“We were very, very good at building shiny factories and very good at building high-fidelity prototypes. And some of those prototypes even flew… but that's not what we want to do to become a world-class manufacturer,” Limp said.

“We need to be able to build a lot,” he added.

But he said he sees an actual passion for space amongst Blue's workforce, calling that zeal the inspiration of a “missionary culture.” In Limp's view, Amazon's customer-centric principles drive the tech giant's culture – but Amazon doesn't have “the vehement mission that Blue does.”

“People's eyes light up, almost to the limit. They grew up thinking about space, they always wanted to work in the space industry, and here at Blue they are working on space,” Limp said.

Now he's trying to establish Amazon's customer-centric focus as an important part of Blue Origin. While Blue's customers – including NASA, ULA and suborbital astronauts – are significantly different from the consumers Limp previously focused on, his message to Blue's employees is that serving his customers is a top priority.

“Even if the technology is really nice and fun… the focus has to be on the customer,” Limp said.

To further transform Blue's culture, Limp highlighted a number of key leadership additions: Allen Parker as CFO after previous finance leadership roles at Zillow and Amazon; Jennifer Pena-Leanos as chief people officer after leading human resources on Limp's previous Amazon Devices team; Ian Richardson as senior vice president of manufacturing operations after a long stint as SpaceX production manager; and Tim Collins as vice president of global supply chain, having previously led global operations for Flexport and Amazon.

Limp also made a change by moving a larger portion of the company's workforce to the factory.

“You can go into a factory and know when it's running well and when it's not,” he said. “It doesn’t matter how much capital expenditure you make, what kind of machines you have, if you don’t use them properly. It's like having a shiny new car just sitting in the driveway – what fun that is.” ?”

2024 top priorities

Limp has two main goals for his first year as CEO: getting New Glenn launched and Blue's engine production up and running.

“We can’t get anywhere without engines, and we had to figure out how to build high-speed engines,” Limp said.

Blue Origin's BE-4 engine powers both ULA's New Glenn rocket and Vulcan rocket. The latter requires two engines per takeoff.

With ULA targeting four Vulcan launches this year – two canceled and two remaining – Blue has delivered eight flight-ready BE-4 engines to ULA, as well as seven BE-4 engines for its first New Glenn launch. In the first two Vulcan launches, the BE-4 engines performed as expected.

“We would like that [be delivering] about one engine per week by the end of the year. I'm not sure if we'll make it exactly a week, but it will be less than 10 days… [and] We have to be faster by the end of 2025,” said Limp.

Limp is “very confident” that New Glenn will be on the market before the end of the year. And Blue plans to quickly increase the frequency of New Glenn missions, aiming to conduct up to 10 New Glenn launches next year. However, there is still a long way to go to rival SpaceX, which is aiming for almost 150 Falcon rocket launches this year.

Perhaps even more optimistically, Blue aims to land New Glenn on its very first launch, cheekily calling the booster “So you're telling me there's a probability.” No company has managed to land on its first attempt at an orbital rocket booster, and New Glenn is aiming for a 200-foot-wide platform Ship named Jacklyn in the Atlantic.

“It will be adventurous. It will be fun. I'm looking forward to it…but if we [don’t] Stick the landing the first time, that's okay. We have another booster right behind it. “We’re going to build more,” Limp said.

It seems almost inevitable that New Glenn's future will include a manned spacecraft – especially given Blue's long-standing mission: “We envision hundreds of thousands of individuals living and dealing in space for the advantage of Earth.” Currently, that's all SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft approved by NASA to fly astronauts into orbit and back Boeings Starliner suffered another setback this summer.

But Limp pushed back when asked about developing a New Glenn Crew capsule: “There's nothing to say about that.”

Blue Origin has gained experience in the lower-risk, suborbital realm of human spaceflight with its New Shepard rocket and capsule. Limp noted that Blue Origin is working to “get New Shepard back to a daily flight rhythm,” with both crews and research cargo flying.

It has completed two New Shepard missions this year, and this is the case I'm aiming for a third next week. This mission will also include a new rocket booster and capsule to add a second vehicle “to raised meet growing customer demand,” the company said after losing a booster in a cargo flight failure in September 2022.

Beyond New Glenn and engine production, Blue is making further progress: Last year, the company won a $3.4 billion contract from NASA to build a lunar lander for the agency's astronauts. In the spring, Blue gained access to the Pentagon's lucrative National Security Space Launch program, a turnaround after missing the previous phase of NSSL in 2020.

Limp spends his time on a “little return trip between” Blue Origin facilities every two and a half weeks. He visits headquarters in Seattle, meets with customers in Washington, DC, checks out engine production and testing in Huntsville, Alabama, and finally tours New Glenn's work in Cape Canaveral, Texas. It's all part of his interest in running a real space company, rather than a billionaire's hobby.

“Let’s have the financial discipline to build a company we love, and let’s make decisions quickly, knowing we’ll make some mistakes. But let’s not make the same mistakes and fix them quickly,” Limp said.

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Can Dave Aranda recuperate from Baylor's last-second collapse against Colorado?

enzo2go — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:34:53 +0000

Nearly three years ago, with a conference title on the road, Baylor's defense was a wall of silence.

In the ultimate minute of the 2021 Big 12 Championship Game, Oklahoma State had 4 attempts to realize 2 yards and rating a touchdown to take the lead. The Bears allowed just 1 3/4 and Baylor won the Big 12 crown in coach Dave Aranda's second season.

On Saturday night in Colorado, Baylor needed one other game-winning stop in the ultimate minute with less on the road (the teams' opening game within the Big 12) and so much more room to play: 45 yards to defend and just two seconds for the Buffaloes to cover. But in a scene paying homage to that of Kordell Stewart and Michael Westbrook 30 years ago, Shedeur Sanders and LaJohntay Wester pulled off a miracle that sent the sport into additional time, where the Buffaloes eventually won 38-31.

These two finals, 33 months apart, highlight how far Baylor has fallen from its peak under Aranda, who now has a 25-27 record with this system.

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“I have never seen the game at the end of regular time,” Aranda told reporters.

This could be a spontaneous postgame exaggeration, however the Bears executed their defensive plan so poorly that it was reasonable to assume Aranda had never seen a game-winning Hail Mary.

Quarterback Sawyer Robertson and the Baylor Bears are 2-2 after their loss in Colorado on Saturday. (Christopher Hanewinckel / Imagn Images)

Aranda was once the highest-paid assistant in college football, revered for his defensive genius. In his fifth yr as head coach, he began the season on a rough patch, and the Bears' crushing loss to Colorado looks like a possible turning point. Can he bounce back?

Since the 2021 season, when Baylor went 12-2 with the Big 12 title and a Sugar Bowl win, this system is 11-18. The offensive and defensive teams have modified, which has been a difficulty during Aranda's tenure.

After this system appeared to hit all-time low last yr with a 3-9 record, Aranda vowed to make more changes. He would focus more on the transfer portal, place more emphasis on name, image and likeness compensation and establish himself as a playmaker on defense for the primary time since becoming LSU's defensive coordinator in 2019.

The first three weeks of the season showed lots of promise. The Bears looked more talented and played with a grit they looked as if it would lack last yr, and Aranda's switch to a more lively defense worked well.

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Even against Colorado, there have been encouraging signs. Sanders had eight sacks and plenty of more pressures, a few of which got here from Steve Linton, who transferred from Texas Tech. Quarterback Sawyer Robertson and receivers Monaray Baldwin and Hal Presley had great offensive plays. The entire team exuded a competence that was often absent a yr ago.

But the way by which Baylor lost on Saturday was embarrassing. The Bears gave up a 24-10 lead and wasted several opportunities to tie the sport in regulation time.

After back-to-back sacks by Sanders led to a punt on fourth-and-31, Baylor — which led 31-24 with 3:58 left — took control on the Colorado 26-yard line with a likelihood to take a two-point lead. The Bears ran the ball thrice and settled for a 46-yard field goal attempt by Isaiah Hankins that went wide right with 2:16 left.

On Colorado's final drive of the fourth quarter, Baylor had the Buffaloes in trouble once they faced a second-and-24 at their very own 31-yard line with 55 seconds left. But the Bears gave up all of those yards on the subsequent three plays and kept the Buffs alive.

And before Wester's catch to tie the rating, Colorado had flirted with a game-winning rating on the previous play when receiver Will Sheppard dropped a pass from Sanders on the 2-yard line after getting behind Baylor cornerback Caden Jenkins.

On Baylor's final defensive play of regulation, dubbed the “Victory Cigar” by Aranda, the Bears pressured Sanders, forcing him out of the pocket to the left before throwing the ball to Wester. Aranda detailed a missed project on the pressure that he said was “inexcusable” considering Baylor had taken a timeout to establish the defense before the play.

“I take full responsibility for that,” he said. “I have to be able to train better.”

Baylor fans in all places nodded in agreement. It is likely to be the Bears' most painful loss since September 11, 1999. That night, Baylor led UNLV 24-21 and had the ball with 20 seconds left and no timeouts by the Rebels. Instead of taking a knee, the Bears ran with the ball and dropped it; UNLV returned it for a 100-yard touchdown and won 27-24.

Instead of returning home with a positive 3-1 rating, Baylor will now need to recuperate from the emotional gut punch with less room for error on this extremely competitive league.

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If Saturday's loss snaps a losing streak, it’ll be a 3rd straight yr of frustration for Baylor fans. The upcoming schedule is unforgiving. This weekend, Baylor hosts No. 22 BYU, which just dominated Kansas State, then back-to-back road games at No. 18 Iowa State and Texas Tech before heading back home to face No. 20 Oklahoma State to shut out October.

If the Bears don't bounce back quickly, Aranda's spot may very well be on fire come November. Although Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades hasn't publicly specified a particular variety of wins for Aranda to survive the season, bowl appearances are a basic expectation. That was made that rather more difficult by Saturday's botched game at Folsom Field.

The season is way from over. Baylor (2-2) is just a 3rd of the best way through its schedule, and if the Bears can quickly rebound and pull out a win over the Cougars, it might go a great distance toward putting Saturday's nightmarish ending behind them. This yr's Big 12 will definitely be tough to navigate, with three of the highest 4 teams within the league's preseason poll losing their conference openers.

But there’s an urgency to flip the script. The 2021 Big 12 championship season is the outlier of the Aranda era. Baylor has had losing records in the opposite three years and is now 13-25 overall in yearly except 2021. The last time Baylor had consecutive winning seasons were the ultimate two years of the Matt Rhule era (2018 and 2019).

Baylor's leadership wants Aranda to succeed. He is well-liked throughout the constructing because he seems thoughtful and real. He isn’t the fire-breathing caricature that is commonly portrayed as a stereotype of a football coach. As a school coach, being nice should purchase you overtime, and that definitely helped Aranda this yr despite declining results.

Whether he gets one other will rely upon how Baylor responds to its latest debacle. The decision won't be made based on Saturday's result. But the way by which the Bears lost will definitely stand out if there’s any uncertainty in regards to the future when Rhoades weighs the choice at the top of the season.

After Saturday's loss, Aranda said the Bears would attempt to get their heart back on top of things and called the loss a “big wake-up call.”

“I know we will respond,” he said. “I know this team. And I know we will come out stronger because of it.”

If they wish to win one other trophy of any kind under Aranda, they higher do it.

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Former SF Giants and Boston Red Sox player Dave McCarty has died in Oakland

enzo2go — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:53:41 +0000

BOSTON (AP) — Dave McCarty, a member of the Boston Red Sox' 2004 championship team who played for seven MLB teams in his 11-year profession, has died. He was 54.

The Red Sox announced McCarty's death in an announcement, saying the previous first baseman and outfielder died Friday after suffering a heart attack in Oakland.

McCarty was in Boston and Fenway Park earlier this month as a part of the club's twentieth anniversary celebration of the 2004 championship team that won the World Series for the primary time since 1918.

McCarty played his final three seasons within the majors with the Red Sox from 2003 to 2005. In 118 games with Boston, he hit .286 and hit five home runs. He appeared in 89 games during Boston's title-winning season, including 25 starts at first base and 6 within the outfield, along with three pitching appearances.

The Houston, Texas native was chosen by Minnesota in the primary round, third overall, of the 1991 draft out of Stanford.

After three seasons with the Twins (1993-95), he played for the San Francisco Giants (1995-96), Seattle Mariners (1998), Kansas City Royals (2000-02) and Tampa Bay Rays (2002). Oakland A's (2003) before ending his profession in Boston.

McCarty batted .242 with 362 hits, 36 home runs and 175 RBIs in 630 big league games.

After ending his playing profession, McCarty was an analyst for the New England Sports Network from the summer of 2005 through the 2008 MLB season.

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