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Economy and Trade
Mexico is the second-largest economy in Latin America. It is highly dependent on the US economy, which accounts for around 80% of the country's exports. Furthermore, millions of Mexicans work in the United States and the remittances they send home are a vital source of foreign exchange. Indeed, remittances are the second-biggest source of foreign-currency inflows, behind oil exports, and comprise around 3% of the country's gross domestic product. Mexico's integration with the United States has deepened since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA, covering the United States, Canada and Mexico) in 1994. Trade between the three partners has increased by more than 10% a year since the agreement, which paved the way for tariffs to be cut on key products. The service sector is the largest component of GDP (70.5%), followed by the industrial sector (25.7%). Agriculture represents 3.9% of GDP. Mexico is the fifth-largest oil producer in the world (3.8 million barrels per day), although its reserves are declining.
Economic Policy over 12 Months
Mexico is considered one of the better-managed emerging economies and has enjoyed relatively stable economic growth during the current decade—growth averaged 3% each year between 2000 and 2007. However, there are stark divisions between rich and poor. In 2008, the OECD ranked Mexico bottom of 30 developed and developing countries in terms of economic income inequality. The wealthiest 10% of Mexicans earn more than 25 times as much as the poorest 10%. Around 40% of the population are poor and 18% are considered to live in extreme poverty, according to official estimates.
The global economic slowdown is exacerbating these divisions and the authorities have been very active in adopting measures to calm financial markets and counter the impact on the domestic economy. In October 2008, President Calderon unveiled a revised budget for 2009, which will result in the first budget deficit in several years. The budget includes a 13% spending increase on infrastructure and other projects to stimulate growth and prevent job losses.
The government plans to use 145 billion pesos (US$10 billion) saved in three stabilization funds to help cover the costs of the increased spending and to compensate for falling tax income as the economy slows. In 2008, Mexican officials at Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly, also bought options to sell 330 million barrels of Mexican crude for US$70 a barrel—which guarantees the country at least US$9.5 billion in extra income if oil prices stay below that level.
Also in October 2008, the authorities announced various measures aimed at easing the liquidity squeeze in domestic financial markets. Critically, the Treasury announced that it would favour short-term paper over long-term bonds in order to ease constraints on long-term funding availability. In addition, and along with the central banks of Brazil, Singapore and South Korea, the Mexican authorities announced the establishment of temporary reciprocal currency swap lines with the US Federal Reserve.
The currency swaps provide each of the foreign central banks with up to US$30 billion to lend to banks in their jurisdictions to ease dollar funding conditions. The arrangement, which is set to remain in place until 30 October 2009, signals the Federal Reserve's commitment to supporting large, well-managed emerging markets that have been suffering severe contagion from global financial-market turmoil despite solid domestic fundamentals.
The Mexican central bank, Banco de México (or Banxico), has kept a tight rein on monetary policy in order to contain inflation. The central bank cut interest rates by 50 basis points in January 2009, to 7.75%. It was the first fall in borrowing costs in nearly three years. The central bank is expected to cut the key interest rate aggressively in 2009 to help the economy.
Economic Performance over 12 Months
The global economic slowdown and the credit crunch have had a significant impact on the Mexican economy, choking exports and investment. The economy expanded by 1.5% in 2008, according to the central bank, after recording 3.2% growth in 2007. Conditions worsened markedly in the fourth quarter of 2008, when the economy shrank by 1%. Despite the government's measures to stimulate growth, the central bank forecast in February 2009 that it expected the economy to shrink by 1.16% in 2009. The economy last contracted for a full year in 2001, when it shrank by 1.6%.
The recession in the United States is hitting remittances and exports. Money sent home by Mexican emigrants, mostly in the United States, fell by 3.6% to US$25 billion in 2008—the first drop on record, according to the central bank. The fall is thought to have been caused by a crackdown on illegal immigration and migrant job losses as the US recession leads to widespread layoffs.
Meanwhile, the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives' manufacturing index fell to 42.9 in January 2009, from 43.8 in December 2008—its seventh straight month below 50, reflecting a sharp drop in demand for exports to the United States. A slump in the price of oil has also hit export revenues. However, the decision to hedge against declining oil prices (see Economic Policy) and the government's cautious fiscal policy mean that the country has fared better than less prudent oil exporters.
Mexico has also avoided the housing speculation seen in the United States. Mexico's financial system has been stringent in extending credit. The IMF reported in December 2007 that commercial banks were well capitalized, profitable and liquid, and non-performing loans remained low.
A sharp depreciation of the peso in the latter half of 2008 fuelled inflation, which reached an eight-year high of 6.53% in 2008, above the central bank's 6.0% target. The falling peso offset the impact of a sharp drop in oil and non-oil commodity prices in the fourth quarter of 2008. Inflation exceeded the central bank's target of 6% in 2008. By February 2009, the central bank had spent nearly US$16.6 billion from its reserves to defend the peso since October 2008. Between August 2008 and February 2009, the peso lost 30% of its value.
Support for Inward Investment and Imports
Mexico is open to foreign direct investment (FDI) in most economic sectors and has consistently been one of the largest recipients of FDI among emerging markets. ProMexico is the federal entity charged with promoting Mexican exports around the world and attracting foreign direct investment to Mexico.
The Economy Ministry maintains a bilingual website (www.economia.gob.mx) that provides information and downloadable application forms for import/export permits. Interested parties can also make online tax payments and communicate with online advisors who can answer specific investment-and trade-related questions.
Tax Exemptions
The 1993 Foreign Investment Law governs foreign investment in Mexico. The law is consistent with the foreign-investment chapter of NAFTA. US and Canadian investors generally receive national and most-favored-nation treatment when setting up operations or acquiring firms. The Mexican Federal Government has eliminated direct tax incentives, with the exception of accelerated depreciation.
GDP growth: 1.5% (2008 est.)
GDP per capita: $14,400 (2008 est.)
Key interest rate: Commercial bank prime lending rate 7.56% (31 December 2007))
Exchange rate versus dollar: Mexican pesos (MXN) per US dollar—11.016 (2008 est.)
Unemployment: 4.1% plus underemployment of perhaps 25% (October 2008)
FDI: US$278.9 billion (2008 est.)
Current account deficit/surplus −US$13.45 billion (2008 est.)
Population: 109,955,400 (July 2008 est.)
Source: CIA World Factbook except where stated


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--Description: 20th C, Masefield J., Contentment, Joy--
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden time.
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of
His mirth
The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth.
So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky,
Join the jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by,
Laugh, and battle, and work, and drink of the wine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of the Lord.
Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin,
Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn,
Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends.
Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends.
John Masefield
--Did You Know: (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) John Masefield was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and many memorable poems, including "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon after following a mental breakdown. After an unhappy education at the King's School in Warwick (now known as Warwick School), where he was a boarder between 1888 and 1891, he left to board the HMS Conway, both to train for a life at sea, and to break his addiction to reading, of which his aunt thought little. He spent several years aboard this ship and found that he could spend much of his time reading and writing. It was aboard the Conway that Masefield's love for story-telling grew. While on the ship, he listened to the stories told about sea lore. He continued to read, and felt that he was to become a writer and story teller himself. Read more at: John Masefield
--Word of the Day: junket \JUHNG-kit\, noun: 1. A trip, usually by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information. 2. A sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet. 3. A pleasure excursion, as a picnic or outing. verb: 1. To go on a junket. 2. To entertain; feast; regale.
Yeah, well, there's a lot more of them on the operation, fellows in the control room, women too. They all decided to go to California together on a junket. Whooping it up, you know?
-- Patricia Highsmith, Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
--Quote of the Day: A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
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SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan school district that says it can't afford to pay its teachers has decided to lay off employees and canceled classes for the day.
The Buena Vista School District, located just outside of Saginaw, said in a posting on its website that school is closed Tuesday and a community meeting is Tuesday night. The Michigan Education Association says the district's board voted Monday night to lay off employees.
Buena Vista Education Association President Joe Ann Nash said in a telephone news conference Monday that the district's 27 teachers would work this week in the hopes that the state and the school district can come up with a plan to keep classes in operation.
The district announced last week that it won't be able to make payroll on May 24.
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This is how many webmasters, bloggers, and internet marketers feel after the latest Google algorithm change, aptly named the Google Panda update. Google Panda Update You may get a rant coming from me later this week about the Google Panda update, and Google in general, but it won't be here. I wanted to share with you a neat little "Easter Egg" that...Read More
As you may know, I am a strong proponent of search engine optimization. In fact, it is one of my key focus areas. When I consult with businesses and entrepreneurs, one of the first things we analyze is a website's On-page SEO as well as Off-page SEO. I not only perform SEO services, but I also teach people how to do their own SEO. Your internet marketing...Read More
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Straight from our Cageside Features Section, we bring you the results for our fourth CSS Pro Wrestling Championship Series of tournaments here at Cageside Seats. Our second round of voting in our tourney is under way, and now we have results in for our latest tag team match up.
Yesterday, (Mon., Mar. 25) our number two-seed The Fabulous Freebirds cleanly defeated the seven-seeded Terry & Dory Funk, bringing Freebirds one-step closer to being crowned the Greatest Tag Team of All Time.
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Be sure to vote today (Tues. Mar. 26) as the second round of the CSSGTTT continues with: (3) Steiner Brothers vs. (6) Money Inc.. Voting will be open in the comments section of the new match thread from 6am-ET/3am-PT, right up until midnight-CT; as we continue narrowing down our bracket to determine who CSS believes to be the Greatest Tag Team of ALL TIME.


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By James Clark - email
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - KCBD NewsChannel 11 has learned of an out-of-court settlement between City Hall and Texas Tech Hockey. In November, the City reached an agreement with former Coach Paul Fiorini for $20,000. The City claimed that the coach had not paid rent and electric bills for use of the Municipal Coliseum.
The hockey team was evicted in December 2008, and no longer plays in Lubbock.
The city says the hockey team was not incorporated so it ends up being the coach who is personally responsible for the money. Fiorini says the money came from the sale of an ice plant and a zamboni (ice smoothing machine).
The Tech hockey club functioned as a student organization, and not part of the athletic department. Just in the last week or so the money was paid and City Council was given official word on the settlement.
The city originally sued for nearly $34,000.
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From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo's dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams.
David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister's death and his mother's breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father's identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name.
About the Author
David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell co-translated from the Japanese the international bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
Praise for Number9Dream…
Praise for David Mitchell's Ghostwritten
"Mitchell . . . has a gift for fiction's natural pleasures—intricate surprises, insidiously woven narratives, ingenious voices."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Mitchell is a fabulous ghostwriter fueled by a brilliant imagination and buoyed by beautifully descriptive writing. Ghostwritten is a brave new book for a brave new world."
—USA Today
"To complement its heady themes, Ghostwritten is also elegantly composed, gracefully plotted, and full of humor. . . . [It] recall[s] Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in its emotional scope and its ambitions. Like the great Russians, Mitchell makes us feel that more is at stake than individual lives, although it's by individual lives that pain and loss are measured."
—Los Angeles Times
"An intricately assembled Fabergé egg of a novel, full of sly and sometimes beautiful surprises. . . . In an era in which much literary fiction is characterized by unearned ironies and glib cynicism, it's hard not to be impressed by the humanism that animates Mitchell's book. . . . Worth a dozen of the morally anorexic novels that regularly come down the pipe."
—Daniel Mendelsohn, New York magazine
"Reminiscent at times of DeLillo, Murakami, and science fiction, especially in its continual probing of what is real and what is not, this book remains very much its own thing. . . . It is a thrill to read a piece of fiction this engrossing, challenging, urgent, and ultimately, so very new." —Booklist
"Unlike so many other chroniclers of the twenty-first-century pastiche—an industry dominated by ad men and feature-writers, not novelists—Mitchell has set out to craft actual characters, not archetypes. The result is a dazzling piece of work."
—The Washington Post
"This is one of the best first novels I've read for a long time. . . . I read a proof of this on a transatlantic flight. When I got off in Atlanta, I couldn't put it down. I pulled my luggage in one hand along corridors and escalators, and held David Mitchell's last chapter up to my nose with the other. I finished at the carousel. It seemed appropriate. And it's even better the second time."
—A. S. Byatt


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Article about Madden from Yahoo. I hope you guys enjoy.
Some quotes from the article
"I'm not backing off on this one because I'm going to get fined on that, so screw 'em. But I'm telling you, that's the kind of call that can cost you a pennant right there."
"It's much easier to watch on the field than on TV," said Maddon, who after being ejected in the sixth inning joined baseball's living Buddha, Don Zimmer, in the back of the Rays' clubhouse.
This was the Rays' 35th come-from-behind victory and the eighth in games they've trailed after seven innings.
Maddon introduced a slogan for that in spring training: 9=8. Play nine innings a night, every night, and you wind up being one of the eight teams playing in October.


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About the AuthorAlisha Hollman
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I'm just a graduate student in an entirely tangent field from photography, who actually secretly loves photography! I love working with photos building blurb books as well as traveling, which makes for a perfect marriage.
Publish Date June 01, 2008
Dimensions Large Format Landscape 124 pgs Standard Paper
Category Travel
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In 1899, Leach would spend the lion's share of his season with the Colonels, hitting .288 over 106 contests, playing third base, shortstop, and second. His 57 RBI ranked him fourth on the squad, despite his limited playing time. When the season concluded, most of the Louisville team was traded to the Pirates, including Leach, Honus Wagner, Fred Clarke, Deacon Phillippe, and Rube Waddell. Louisville would not field a team in 1900.
1900 would mark the beginning of a Golden era in Pirates baseball, a period which would see Pittsburgh finish with a winning record in each of the next 14 seasons. For his part, Leach was mostly a utility infielder off the bench, appearing in only 51 games during his first season with the club. He hit an anemic .213 with 16 RBI and 20 runs scored for the second place finishing Pirates. The 79-60 club would end up 4.5 games behind the Brooklyn Bridegrooms.
1901 would see Leach more involved in the Pirates gameplan, hitting .305 over 98 games with 64 runs, 12 doubles, 13 triples, 44 RBI, and 16 stolen bases. Defensively, he ranked with the NL leaders at third base with 122 putouts (NL fifth), 196 assists (NL third), and nine double plays turned (NL fifth). The Pirates 90-49 record would see them earn the NL pennant, 7.5 games ahead of the second place Philadelphia Phillies.
In 1902, Leach led the National League with 22 triples and with six home runs. He hit .278 with a .426 SLG (NL fifth) over 135 games with 97 runs (NL fourth), 14 doubles, 85 RBI (NL second), 45 walks (NL ninth) and 25 stolen bases. He finished the season with a 5.9 WAR rating (NL seventh, second amongst position players). As the Pirates starting third baseman, he led the NL in dWAR, with a 1.8 rating, with 170 putouts (NL fifth), a league leading 316 assists, and a .926 fielding percentage (NL third). Despite his offensive outburst, he ranked second on the team in most significant categories to teammate Honus Wagner. The team finished with a franchise best 103-36 record, a .741 winning percentage. They were 27.5 games ahead of second place Brooklyn. Unfortunately, the World Series would not be held that season, so a matchup against the AL Champion Philadelphia Athletics would never come to fruition.
1903 would see Leach play 127 games at third base. He scored 97 times (NL eighth) with 16 doubles, 17 triples (NL third), seven home runs (NL second), 222 total bases (NL eighth), 87 RBI (NL fourth), 40 walks, 22 stolen bases, and a .298 batting average. Defensively, he made 178 putouts (NL third), 292 assists (NL second), and turned 16 double plays (NL second). He also led the league with 65 errors at the position, for an .879 fielding percentage. Pittsburgh won the pennant by 6.5 games over the New York Giants, with a 91-49 record. They would play the World Series against the AL Champion Boston Americans, losing the best-of-nine in eight contests. Leach went 9-for-33 (.273) with three runs, four triples, and seven RBI.
Leach hit .257 over 146 games for Pittsburgh in 1904. He scored 92 times (NL fifth) with 15 doubles, 12 triples (NL sixth), 56 RBI, 45 walks and 23 stolen bases. Defensively, he placed fourth in the league with a 1.9 dWAR rating, leading the NL with 212 putouts, 371 assists and finishing second with 18 double plays turned. His .907 fielding percentage was the fourth best figure in the senior circuit. Pittsburgh's 87-66 record, enviable by today's standards, was a full 19 games behind the pennant winning Giants and only good enough for fourth place.
In 1905, Leach played all over the place, with 71 starts in the outfield (with only two errors and a .988 F%), 58 at third base (with a league fourth best 13 double plays turned), and two starts each at second base and shortstop. In 131 games, he duplicated his .257 average from the prior season, scoring 71 times with 10 doubles, 14 triples (NL seventh), 53 RBI, 37 walks and 17 stolen bases. Pittsburgh again finished behind the Giants in the pennant race, at 96-57 and nine games behind.
1906 would see Leach hit .286 over 133 contests at third base (65 starts), outfield (60 starts), and shortstop. He scored 66 times with 39 RBI, 33 walks, 21 steals, and 16 sacrifice hits. Despite his generally unremarkable season, he placed 10th in the NL with 118 singles while leading the league with 25.1 AB/K. The Pirates finished 23.5 games behind the Chicago Cubs, at 93-60 and in third place.
In 1907, Leach boosted his average to .303 (NL fourth) with a .404 SLG (NL sixth) over 149 games (NL eighth) with 102 runs (NL second), 131 singles (NL third), 19 doubles, 12 triples (NL sixth), four home runs (NL sixth), 43 RBI, 40 walks, 43 stolen bases (NL fourth), and 29 sacrifice hits (NL fifth), finishing seventh in the NL with a 5.3 WAR rating (third amongst position players). He started 111 games in the outfield (posting an NL second best .980 fielding percentage), 33 at third base, six at shortstop, and once at second. Pittsburgh finished 91-63, in second place 17 games behind the Cubs.
1908 would see Leach hit .259 with a .381 SLG (NL 10th) in 152 games (NL 10th), with 93 runs scored (NL third), 24 doubles (NL ninth), 16 triples (NL third), five home runs (NL sixth), 41 RBI, 54 walks (NL 10th), 24 stolen bases, and 27 sacrifice hits (NL 10th), finishing with an NL ninth best among position players 4.8 WAR. He started 150 of his games at his old home on the hot corner, making 199 putouts (NL second), 293 assists (NL second), turning 19 double plays (NL second) with a .937 fielding percentage (NL third). On a personal level, Leach suffered the loss of his first wife to illness. The Pirates gained on the Cubs, but still finished in second at 98-56, just one game back.
In 1909, Leach appeared in 151 games (NL eighth), leading the NL with 126 runs and hitting .261 with 29 doubles, eight triples, six home runs (NL second), 43 RBI, 66 walks (NL sixth), 27 stolen bases, and 27 sacrifice hits. He started most of the season in the outfield, making 13 starts at third base. He ranked third in the NL with 333 outfield putouts. The Cubs finished at 104-49, 6.5 games behind the Bucs awesome 110-42 record for the pennant. Leach played well in his second Fall Classic, appearing in each of Pittsburgh's seven games and hitting .360 (9-for-25) with four doubles, two RBI, and eight runs scored. The Pirates were victorious over the Detroit Tigers, four-games-to-three. This concluded a run where Pittsburgh posted their five best ever seasons (by won-loss record) over a nine year period.
In 1910, Leach played 135 games for the Bucs in the outfield, at shortstop, and at second base. He posted a .270 average with 83 runs scored, 24 doubles, 52 RBI, 38 walks, 18 stolen bases, and 20 sacrifice hits. His only top 10 rankings on the season were with 352 outfield putouts (NL fourth), and (unfortunately) 62 strikeouts (NL eighth). Pittsburgh finished at 86-67, 17.5 games out of the pennant and in third place in the NL.
In 1911, Leach appeared 108 times, batting just .238 with 60 runs scored, 12 doubles, six triples, three homers, 43 RBI, 19 stolen bases, 46 walks, and 12 sacrifice hits. His play may have been impacted by the loss of his second wife, again to illness. The Pirates went 85-69, 14.5 games behind the pennant winning Giants and seven games behind second place Chicago.
Leach began 1912 by hitting .299 over his first 28 games, with 12 walks and 19 RBI. The Pirates, clearly surmising that Leach's best years were behind him, traded him with pitcher Lefty Leifield (7-3, 3.13 over two seasons with the Cubs) for pitcher King Cole (2-2, 6.43 with Pittsburgh) and outfielder Solly Hofman (.246 with nine RBI in 48 Pittsburgh games) to Chicago.
In two and a half very productive seasons as a member of the Cubs, Leach hit .267 over 366 games, with 57 doubles, 22 triples, 15 home runs, and 110 RBI. He later played with the Cincinnati Reds for one season, hitting .224 with 56 walks and 20 stolen bases in 107 games. Leach played with the International League's Rochester Hustlers in 1916, hitting .244 for the "AA" level franchise. He played with the Kansas City Blues the following season, a "AA" level outfit with the American Association, again hitting .244.
1918 would see Leach resurface with the Pirates, hitting .194 with 19 walks in 94 plate appearances for a .363 OBP over 30 games. He would continue to play minor league ball, retiring at the age of 44 after hitting .326 with the "C" level Tampa Smokers in the Florida State League in 1922. His 49 inside-the-park-home-runs rank him second all-time in the major leagues.
All-Time Statline: 14 seasons, 1574 games, 1603-for-5910, .271/.332/.373, 1009 runs, 192 doubles, 139 triples, 43 home runs, 626 RBI, 271 stolen bases, 516 walks, 486 strikeouts, 34.1 WAR.
For more about this unassuming prodigy, check out his SABR bio, by Mark Armour.


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Update: "Skyfall" co-writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (they share this Bond credit with John Logan) are tapped to write Nicolas Winding Refn's TV series, "Barbarella." Pervis and Wade also penned Bond's "The World Is Not Enough," "Casino Royale," "Quantum of Solace" and "Die Another Day."
Earlier: Nicolas Winding Refn will bring "Barbarella" to the small screen. That's an exciting combination of the "Drive," "Bronson" and "Only God Forgives" director and the comic-book character (created by Frenchman Jean-Claude Forest in 1962) that spawned Jane Fonda's 1968 film (watch the sexy as hell--and rather ridiculous--opening credit sequence at Art of the Title). Refn will helm the project for Gaumont International Television, the Los Angeles based arm of the French studio. Refn states, "I'm excited for the opportunity to re-invent 'Barbarella' with my friends at Gaumont and Martha DeLaurentiis," and adds he's looking forward to bringing the character to a new generation of fans, "I believe she is one of the ultimate counter-cultural characters."
Which actress could possible fill the shoes --nay, spacesuit--of Fonda as the sexually liberated planet-hopping Barbarella?
DeLaurentiis and Gaumont is also behind the upcoming TV series "Hannibal," which will star Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelson for NBC. [Variety]
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I've never seen a movie with movie sexual innuendo and imagery than Barbarella. Look at the penis looking outfit she's wearing in the picture haha.
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Will Duran Duran music be used?
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Shakespeare saved his best for last: his final play, The Tempest, is his most magical and engrossing tale. It follows the adventures of Prospero, an exiled duke who lives as the master of an enchanted isle abounding with fantastical creatures, mystery, music and romance. When a shipwreck delivers Prospero's enemies to the island, the plot thickens as his beloved daughter falls for one of the castaways. Bring a lawn chair and a picnic basket and enjoy this outdoor production from the Olney Theatre Center at the Root Family Stage. In celebration of the 65th anniversary of the National Players -- OTC's touring company of young professional actors -- celebrated National Player "veterans" will compose half the cast while current company members will take the younger roles. See event description for more details. Learn More
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Play was done with a modern twist to Shakespearre, so if you are looking for the traditional this is not for you. This version was done to include much modern day music and humor. Not a "heavy" version. One to just relax and enjoy the evening!
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What a great experience watching the "Shrew" being tamed! It was a beautiful cool July evening! The cast was fantastic and all the music and funny "sideshows" were great. I have been attending Summer Shakspeare for a number of years and the...continued
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'African Queen' editorial uses white model
French fashion magazine features white teen model painted in blackface.
The fashion world has been known to push the boundaries of what's socially acceptable and without a doubt, stir controversy.
In the March 2013 issue of Numéro magazine, 16-year-old white model Ondria Hardin appears drenched in a very deep bronze for a fashion spread called "African Queen," reports Jezebel.com.
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Hello! This would have been the perfect opportunity to hire a black model, as there are fewer job opportunities for non-white models. Eighty-two percent of the models at New York Fashion Week this season were white, cites Jezebel.
More than 150 people have commented on author Laura Beck's article, including this one from "fashionlady"
"Can I just say as a young black model (I'm a girl) having worked my ass for the past 3 years, this hurts my soul. I'm happy for Ondria as a person but the amount of times I have been told 'oh sorry we already have a black girl that looks like you' or 'most of our clients dont hire black girls, sorry' and then I see THIS, it pisses me off! There are so many beauitful black models out there working TWICE as hard for barely half the recognition and the only time they give a shit about us is when they need our dark skin for some 'ethnic' photo shoot and in this case with Ondria, they couldn't even be bothered. Can I see a black girl do SCANDANAVIAN PRINCESS please? Hmmm?"
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This is not the first incident a magazine has caused a cultural stir.
In 2009, Vogue was accused of racism for using photos of white model, Lara Stone, with her face and body darkened in brown make-up.
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With visions of a goat, Bartman and a fat man, the Cubs traded for Rich Harden. The Cubs are so my neighbor that bought a Prius after I bought my Saab. Seriously, Cubbies, why don't you build a bigger extension onto the side of your house too?Please, blog, may I have some more?
When James Shields swung and missed his haymaker yesterday during the Sawx/Rays brawl, Coco should've totally spun him around and gave him a springboard splash to the solar plexus. Then once Shields was down, Coco could've laid him on top of the Spanish Announcer's table and dropped the big 'bow.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Halladay is the vet who averages 10 innings a game. AJ Burnett is the high-paid free agent with filthy stuff. McGowan is the prospect that's on the verge of greatness, but Marcum has the best ERA, WHIP and K rate. That's right, Shaun Marcum!Please, blog, may I have some more?
Straight from Girardi, "The process has started, converting Joba to a starter, and tonight was the first [step] of extending him a little bit and we'll continue to do it, getting him up to where he can throw enough pitches." The Yanks stretching out Joba to get him ready to start by pitching 2 innings in a blowout?Please, blog, may I have some more?
Cliff Lee threw nine innings of shutout ball to lower his ERA to 0.67. Seriously, he's not Bob Gibson. He wasn't even the best pitcher in his game last night. Shaun Marcum got him there. If someone's buying into Lee's early season performance, can you command a high offensive guy in a trade?Please, blog, may I have some more?
After ten or so years, Rudy and I managed to agree on a trade. Melky Cabrera for Zach Greinke in a ten team mixed league. A fair enough trade in my estimation, but I still waited a day before pulling the trigger.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Wow, that's an exciting title, huh? I'm sure it will be a big seller for Google searches. Right after the search bukkake + carved pumpkin faces. Whatever, it's boring to talk about fourth starters for your fantasy baseball team, right? What do Oliver Perez, Randy Johnson, Aaron Harang and some other schmohawk who didn't pitch well yesterday have in common?Please, blog, may I have some more?
These are the players you want to drop, add or simply hold onto for your fantasy baseball roster.
Every Baltimore Oriole not named Nick Markakis, Ramon Hernandez or Brian Roberts – This team looks atrocious. Millar's best is behind him, and he was never that good, shortstop is a black hole, Mora is mediocre and will get injured soon, forget Adam Jones for now, I don't even like Luke Scott anymore as a deep sleeper.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Martin Prado is about to become Kelly Johnson's platoon-mate. I saw it happen to Johnson last year with Yunel grabbing at-bats and I watched Matt Diaz never get a shot against righties. This is how Bobby Cox do. Bitch and moan all you want that Johnson just has a knee injury.Please, blog, may I have some more?


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After the emotional turmoil in my season after that Card-megedon week of losses, I am beginning to think more clearly with Card history as my guidebook.
We just took two "Denny Crum" losses.
As anyone familiar with our history knows, Denny used to schedule difficult games early in the season, and we always took our lumps. He did it to toughen the team, humble them so their minds would be more open to the need for improvement, and because our Conference schedules back then were not like the Big East gauntlet we have faced since 2005. That is why Denny's teams seldom generated 12-0 starts, like a few of Pitino's teams have done.
Obviously, Denny's strategy worked. The fans accepted this logic-- in large part because of Denny's sheer brilliance in March. (He took us to a Final Four his FIRST year here, and to other ones every 2.5 years on the average through 1986. )
So...what am I saying here about this year's team? Here's my take thru less emotional lenses: 1) We have beaten some pretty decent teams this year during the streak. Ohio U. , Long Beach St. , and Vandy were no slouches. That alone showed some talent and grit--to keep the winning streak alive. Particularly in light of the injuries; 2) We finally played two top-notch, ranked teams. We lost but we had a chance to win in both games, and certainly were not blown out. Again-- a show of more talent and grit even in the losses.; 3) Now that we have taken our lumps, I guarantee the team's minds are more open to needing to improve. Maybe even Chane's mind and mouth will be tempered. We have been measured against some of the best, and come up lacking--but only at this moment. I believe that same talent and grit we have shown throughout will now serve us well in striving to improve for the future.It least it SHOULD.
We are in my mind a top 10-15 ranked team... with upside.... as Siva, Buckles, Van Treese, and Blackshear all get healthier, and as we now doubly focus on the areas we have now clearly know need improvement.
We lost both those games because of two things that have plagued us since the beginning of this season: Lack of rebounding and scoring droughts. Again, these can be improved as injuries hopefully minimize, and as full practices can become the norm.
We may never be a great rebounding team and possibly not even a great scoring team. But...if we can minimize those weaknesses, and build on our strengths we can be a legit top 5-10 ranked team. And if we can get to that point, believe me, anything can happen come NCAA tourney time. Remember history again: the 1980 squad was not favored to win the title even with Darrell, and certainly the 1986 team was a surprise winner.
We are not far away from putting us in a strong position to be a legit contender. And that's about all you can ever ask for, come time for the Dance...


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By Rick Teverbaugh
The Herald Bulletin
ANDERSON, Ind. — There isn't much need for Anderson product Troy Lewis to have a humbling experience.
The former Indians Mr. Basketball already possesses one of the smallest egos of any player to graduate from one of this area's high schools. But a recent experience would certainly have done the trick anyway.
The Big Ten Network picked Lewis as the topic of its program Forever B1G. The episode will air Friday at 7:30 p.m.
"They followed me around for a couple of days. It was like being on a reality show," said Lewis. Part of that included tagging along as he went to Springboro High School where he is the boys varsity assistant basketball coach. It was there that he discovered that fame perhaps doesn't always age well.
"I had to get all of the kids to sign releases to be on the show and one of the kids said, 'Oh, is this a show about Maverick?'" said Lewis. Maverick is Maverick Morgan, who graduated from Springboro and is a freshman on the Illinois University team.
"I told him that no, the network was doing a profile of me," said Lewis. "He said, 'I didn't know you were that famous.' Those things will keep me grounded."
But that grounding has been a lifelong process.
"I had two older brothers that could kick my butt," said Lewis. "I was shocked they were doing a program about me. I never saw myself in that light. I never played in the pros like Brad Sellers or Irving Fryer."
Besides just following him around on his work days as a sales representative for Victory Wholesale Group, they also used old photos from his playing days and taped some interviews with him.
"They asked permission from The Herald Bulletin to use some of my high school photos and they had all of the film from my days at Purdue," said Lewis. "I talked a lot about my time growing up in Anderson."
Lewis hasn't yet seen the finished product.
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(02/10/14) - There's plenty of Olympic pride being felt this week at Midland Civic Arena.
"We're glued to the TV. Absolutely," said Don Smith, speed skater.
The Midland Skating Club is now in its fifty-first year, and in recent weeks has seen its membership jump to more than 40 short track speed skaters.
"Hopefully, they'll keep calling, but yeah, usually in the Olympic year, we do get a big surge of people interested and coming out. We invite everyone to come out and try it at least once," said Joe Rohraff, Midland Speed Skating Club coach.
Fueling that interest, the club's connection to Alex Izykowski, an Olympic Bronze medalist out of Bay City. Izzy's now an assistant coach for Team USA.
"I knew Alex. I've been on the ice with him before. In fact, these blades are Alex's. He skated world competitions with the blades I have on my boots, and I love it," Smith said.
Club members also consider team USA's Chris Krevling one of their own. He's from Pennsylvania, but has spent plenty of time in Midland.
"We met him in Marquette, Michigan at the USOEC, and since then, he comes here three or four times a year, practices with us, helps the kids out, and we've kind of adopted him," said speed skater Tom Schiel.
"It's really exciting knowing that we have someone from the club going into the Olympics. It's getting a lot of skaters in," said speed skater Grace Trosin.
That excitement is inspiring a whole new wave of kids to start skating toward their own Olympic dreams.
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Distributional Consequences of Airport Congestion Pricing
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This paper investigates the distributional impact of airport congestion pricing on commercial, commuter, miscellaneous, and general aviation. It extends Daniel's (1995) stochastic bottleneck model in three significant directions by allowing for non-homogeneous aircraft operating and time costs, differentiation in preferred times of operation, and elastic demand. The model also includes endogenous, intertemporal traffic adjustments in response to queuing delay and fees. The relative costs of queuing and schedule delays are estimated using data from Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Simulations show equilibrium traffic patterns, queuing delays, schedule delays, congestion fees, airport revenues, and changes in surplus for each category of aviation.
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Nothing but sky and a couple of pines, climbing the road up to Hurricane Ridge. This is my friend "Dirk." Going on trips solo can be loads of fun, and frequently bringing companions is too tough to accomidate, however, I was lucky enough to go on numerous trips with "Dirk," all over Washington state and have an awesome time while also learning and sharing a lot. Miss ya' buddy.
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During the summer months, students need to continue reading. Research has revealed to us over and over again that students lose 3 months or more of the knowledge they gained during the school year if they don't participate in some form of reading activity during the summer. In an effort to prevent this loss of knowledge, we have come up with a summer reading incentive for our students in grades K-5. Guidelines and forms for this incentive can be found here. This summer reading incentive carries a pirate theme, and it will prove to be quite rewarding for our students.
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The Dragon Kenpo Creed
The classical martial arts present themselves as rivals. One a "hard" style, the other "soft". This one emphasizing kicks, that one specializing in punches, the other takes each opponent to ground and wrestles. Yet the underlying premise is the same for each, in that a narrow system is presented as not only superior but holy. A shrine to the fixed knowledge is created, complete with ceremonies, rites and masters. None may transcend, or even question the institution's unbending view of reality because of its sacredness.
The Dragon Kenpo way, however, is the way of never ending learning and discovery. The techniques taught are guides that develop greater skill, not boundaries that no one may cross. Greatness, after all, is not achieved by thinking within limits prescribed by convention. Greatness requires engaging the unknown. It is there, in the mystery, that new discoveries are found.
The traditional arts are in the business of setting limitations. Their primary task is the creation of an imposed order and the production of conformity. Yet to adopt that order is to close out everything not included within it. By banishing the unknown the traditional martial artists advance by learning more and more about less and less. To the "masters" of the traditional styles, an unlimited mind is a dangerous thing. A lot of folks have a lot invested in the status quo. Those who choose growth and expansion should not be surprised to find resistance from those devoted to tradition. Choosing to cross boundaries, or even erase them, means coming into conflict with the imposed order.
There are no rules in total combat, so the Dragon Kenpo way is the path of free expression. The methods taught begin the process of endless discovery. We have only two choices as martial artists and as human beings : to be ordinary or to be explorers; to be followers or leaders.
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Ed Hutchison, founder of Dragon Kenpo Karate
The Dragon Kenpo Story
By Ed Hutchison
I founded Dragon Kenpo for two reasons:
I believe almost everything about mainstream martial arts education is either unintentionally or intentionally wrong. About half of what they claim is traditional isn't. And about half of what they teach that is traditional doesn't work anymore, if it ever did. Let me give you a handful of examples:
Shopping mall karate schools do not represent "traditional" martial arts instruction
When the U.S. occupied much of Asia in the aftermath of WWII, American soldiers were exposed to martial arts of all kinds. Although those arts were taught and passed down within the family in Asia, the returning U.S. soldiers adopted the method they knew best to teach their new subject: Basic Training. So, the average shopping mall karate school today is set up amazingly like basic training was 50 years ago. An instructor in front of a group barking orders. Rows of trainees, wearing uniforms, doing exercises and practicing drills. The colored belt system used in America today is no more Asian than French fries. It's a knock off of the then U.S. military rank structure: White = private, Yellow = corporal, Orange = sergeant, etc. The reason average schools have high drop out rates is not that they attract bad students, it is because U.S. military basic training is a bad teaching method for most people. It is a system designed to create uniformity when the subject matter screams for individuality. It is a method for teaching masses of people at the same rate when it is a subject matter that no two people learn at the same rate. It is a method designed to produce the same end result for everyone when the martial arts take each student to unique new abilities and accomplishments. If you have ever left a martial arts school don't feel bad. You were set up in a system which is designed to fail.
Lots of traditional techniques, even genuine ones, can get you killed
Tradition should serve us, not the other way around. The arts should discipline the body, but set free the mind. Change, after all, is the only constant. Street self defense has changed dramatically over the years due to the influence of drugs, gangs, and a lessening of value of other people's rights. Typical self defense schools have so many outdated methods and erroneous philosophies they just can't help you even if they wanted to. Feeling brave? Try using a traditional reverse punch against a street attacker. You'd better KNOCK HIM OUT! With your left hand useless at your hip, you'll be wide open for a fierce counter right. Our videos, provide demonstrations of traditional upward blocks and kick blocks being countered and even INVITED by attackers, who are looking to set you up with your own dangerously obsolete methods.
Kata is worse than useless
Most karate and kung fu schools teach something called "forms" or "kata". This school does not! Learning to dance is not learning to fight. Pretending to learn how to fight while dancing is a fine way for school owners to drag out the time required to advance, (since it pads time between tests) but that is all that it accomplishes. Former world kickboxing champion Bill Wallace said at a seminar I attended, "I just can't figure out what it's for." Or, as David Carridine said in his book, Spirit of Shaolin, "Presenting the styles as though they were little ballets of combat, makes for grace and prettiness, but this path leads to something soft, almost effeminate and without much depth or substance." I couldn't agree more.
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Whenever I see sparring in a traditional martial arts school, I want to yell, "STOP THE INSANITY!" What they call sparring is having two students (often with wildly different skill levels) put on boxing gloves and punch each other. Pro boxers do something like this, since it is similar to their (my) sport, but I have no idea what those martial arts instructors are trying to accomplish. It is, after all, impossible to execute most martial arts techniques with your hands taped into fists and covered by padded gloves. When you visit your neighborhood self defense school and see sparring, one of three things is happening:
The instructor didn't prepare a lesson for that night and wishes to create the illusion of education while actually killing time.
Do you know why boxers wear gloves? Not to protect the opponents head, because it doesn't. It's to keep the tiny bones in the hands from getting broken. That is a good strategy for boxing as a sport, because fighters who are less likely to break their hands are more likely to get knockouts, and the public loves spectacular knockouts! BUT – practicing fighting with your hands protected leads you to fight in real life as your hand are protected. You launch one of those boxing style head punches on the street with bare knuckles and you are probably finished
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Isiah Whitlock Jr. best known for his work on HBO's The Wire has been cast in a new drama pilot Lucky 7 from ABC Studios and Amblin Entertainment.
Lucky 7 revolves around seven employees of a service station in Queens whose lives are changed in many unexpected ways when they win a lottery jackpot. The series will be written by David Zabel and Jason Richman who wrote Detroit 187. The new hour long series is based upon a British television drama entitled The Syndicate written by Kay Mellor.
The British version had each episode centered around one character and has been re-uped for a second season. The second season however, will follow a new syndicate; workers at a public hospital in a similar situation. There has been no indication whether the version happening stateside will do the same.
Whitlock has been cast as Bob Harris, a gas station attendant who is injured prior to finding out he is one of 6 other lottery winners. Being one of the 7 main characters it wouldn't be a stretch to say we will see quite a bit of Isiah Whitlock Jr..
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CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating after they say a north Charlotte woman was killed in front of six children, before her shooter turned the gun on himself.
Officers were called to a home on the 2400 block of Anna Garrison Road around 1:04 a.m. Sunday morning to a report of two people shot.
Police said 39-year-old Barry Lynndell Leake shot and killed 31-year-old Rebecca Ann Robertson before turning the gun on himself. Robertson's three children and her sister's three children, all under the age of 12, were inside the home during the shooting, police say. Robertson's sister and another person were also there.
A neighbor told WBTV that she heard gunshots and screams and ran over to help. Her first thought was for the children.
"We really didn't know what was going on. We didn't know if he was going to come back out and start shooting," neighbor Lethia Thomas said.
Thomas took the children, all under the age of 12, inside her home and listened as they graphically described what they witnessed.
"It just goes to show you never know what's going on behind closed doors," said neighbor Natasha Richards.
Richards says the couple and children were always friendly.
Police records show that Leake and Robertson had been the subject of previous domestic violence investigations, although no charges were filed.
Investigators say after that previous call, Robertson said she would seek a warrant, but later advised officers that she'd moved out and wasn't going to seek a warrant.
"Domestic violence is not worth it. The kids are the ones who suffer. You are hurting two families," Thomas said.
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Science officer.
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CLOSE on the heels of State Bank of India expressing its willingness to consider taking over UTI Mutual Fund, another sponsor Punjab National Bank has expressed a willingness to scrutinise proposals to offload its holdings in the asset management company in favour of SBI.
Mr S.C. Gupta, PNB's Chairman and Managing Director, addressing media persons at a FICCI-organised meeting in Kolkata, said there was no concrete proposal at present to offload its holdings in UTI MF. Other sponsors of UTI MF are Life Insurance Corporation and Bank of Baroda. Incidentally, like SBI, LIC too has its own asset management business.
PNB recently reorganised its asset management business in association with Principal Mutual Fund. In May last year, it (along with Vijaya Bank), bought a critical stake in Principal MF.
Mr Gupta added that the bank was looking at a 20 per cent growth this year, to be triggered by an increase in advances and deposits. It will soon work out a reorganisation programme with the help of the Boston Consulting Group. PNB is also examining the possibility of performance-linked payment to its staffers.
The bank, which has a capital adequacy of nearly 15 per cent, is not willing to dilute the Government's stake further. The Government now holds 57 per cent, following two public issues, the last of which was floated earlier this year.
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