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City Attorney Pete Holmes disagreed with this revision, according to Kimberly Mills, a spokesperson for his office.
A sentence included in an earlier version of the voters' guide statement said that the governing body "may choose to dissolve" the district at the city's request, or if faced with a petition from 10 percent of voters asking them to do so. This original language, Mills said in an email, "correctly advised voters of their right to petition to dissolve the District, whereas the revised sentence could be read to suggest — inaccurately — that voters have no say in the continued existence of the District."
The brief filed by the City Attorney's Office also notes that City Council members are "directly answerable to Seattle's voters."
Wayne Barnett, executive director of the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, pointed to a 2011 initiative related to the Highway 99 tunnel project as an example of another ballot measure where the wording in the voters' guide was appealed. The commission sided mostly with the city in that ruling.
"It is not uncommon for the commission to take a look at these explanatory statements," Barnett said.
City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, who chaired the Select Committee on Parks Funding, expressed support for the revisions to the voters' guide language and the initiative title.
"Ultimately I'm very pleased that the changes to the ballot title and the explanatory statement clarify the previous versions," she said. "It gives the campaign an opportunity to show individuals what they're going to get for their money."
Bagshaw added, "You don't want voters to be confused."
Disclosure: Councilmember Bagshaw is married to Crosscut Board President Bradley Bagshaw.
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Posted Wed, Jun 4, 11:27 p.m.
"The City Attorney's Office argued that Thaler and his allies were not acknowledging the effect of an "inter-local agreement" between the city and the parks district, which Mayor Ed Murray has already signed."
I'm confused. If the district does not yet exist, how can the Mayor have already signed an inter-local agreement with it?
Posted Wed, Jun 4, 11:46 p.m.
Thanks for your comment. From the City Attorney's Office brief: "The Mayor has already signed the [inter-local agreement]. But the ILA cannot yet be executed by the Park District, which would not exist unless its creation is approved by the voters."
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 6:29 a.m.
What happens to the money that the city puts toward park operations now? Is it all funded from the existing levy, or is some funded from the general fund? Would this new agency take over the entire Seattle Parks @ Recreation department, including all of the community centers, the aquarium and the Zoo?
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 9:09 a.m.
I know I haven't been paying attention, so I have to ask. Has an audit been done? This MPD proposal sounds like a spinoff. The private sector would have done an independent audit early on. Has the city done this? Or are they depending upon Parks employees for numbers such as the maintenance backlog? And are all parts of the Dept. doing their jobs effectively and efficiently?
If an outside audit has not been done and the city acted upon its results, then it shouldn't even be on any ballot.
Secondly, can someone tell me if Parks employees will still be city employees as far as benefits like healthcare and retirement are concerned? If this is correct, then the MPD really sounds like a scam to get around existing rules.
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 11:40 a.m.
The City Neighborhood Council last fall asked for an audit of the Parks Department, and that request has been ignored.
The Parks Dept has NEVER been fully audited by an outside auditor (an "internal" auditor was let go in 2008).
We already are at the top nationally for park employees per capita and parks funding per capita, and have dozens of employees making over $100K per year. Yes the department cuts workers on-the-ground that do the maintenance and upkeep work.
The $267M "backlog" is questionable, with many projects already funded or are far less than critical in nature. And the hand-picked "citizens commission" went to the public to identify MORE items to fatten up the needs from Parks. It is unclear what the additional funding is for in the general legislation being offered as we would with a levy.
And just last year Councilmember Bagshaw and the Parks department paid out over $7M for a "public/private partnership" at Magnusson Park that went belly-up. A sweetheart deal concocted by our highly paid parks professionals.
We all love our parks and their programs, but real accountability and oversight has been lax and now we are looking for far more funding capability without understanding what we are paying for...
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 9:29 a.m.
Audits: I believe the last internal audit was 6 yrs ago.... there has been NO external audit (financial or performance, both of which SHOULD have been done at the beginning of the process)
Employees: According to the companion piece, all work for Parks will be done by City employees.
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 10:40 a.m.
So what is the new taxing authority funding if not labor? Is it reimbursing the city for labor expenses? Or is it just doing an end run around tax limits and allowing Seattle to continue to keep taxing its citizens for park operations? Where does the revenue generated by the athletic fields and the Zoo go - to the park district, or does some of it go to the city to offset the cost of labor that it is providing?
This seems pretty opaque and there are a lot of questions that they don't seem to want to answer.
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 9:51 a.m.
"voters should understand what would actually happen if the MPD is approved"...... the legal document (Interlocal Agreement) that the mayor has signed, that the attorney's office references, allows the Councilmembers, sitting as the MPD Board, to change or even terminate all the operational details, that are missing in the proposed creation of this taxing district. All the promises regarding oversight, regarding supplantation of general funds money, regarding citizen input, etc. could be nullified by the MPD Board or the Mayor just by giving 180 days' notice (see item 6.1 of the ILA). So, according to the proposed documents, all rules for governance (promises) could be nullified before the City could even begin collecting the new tax. Opponents believe that the basic rules for governance should be as permanent as the MPD itself which lasts forever (forever, unless City Hall decides it has surplus funds and doesn't want this funding source...and how likely is that?)
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 10:03 a.m.
This is a real win for good-government advocates who despaired at the opacity & incompleteness of the City's proposed ballot language and explanatory note. Some voters may choose to support a Metropolitan Parks District for Seattle, but at least they will be clear that this is a separate new municipal corporation (the City of Seattle is itself a municipal corporation) with its own taxing authority to raise taxes independent of the City of Seattle's levy lid. Not only does the ballot measure as enacted by City Council double the amount of revenue to Parks over the existing levy which expires 12/31/2014, it does so outside of the City's taxing capacity.
Does anyone think that the "vacuum" created by migrating the current levy to this new entity, the Metropolitan Parks District (AKA the "Seattle Park District") will result in a lowering of the City of Seattle portion of their property taxes by the amount they've been paying for the existing levy?
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 10:21 a.m.
I still have yet to hear from anyone how we can be guaranteed that this won't result in the amount of parks funds in the general budget going to $0 eventually. Is that because we in fact have no iron-clad guarantee?
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 11:43 a.m.
come on, Benjamin. swallow the Kool-Aid. We are protected by the ILA! and as everyone knows, what is legislated stays that way permanently...
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 11:48 a.m.
Bagshaw added, "You don't want voters to be confused."
Perhaps Councilmember Bagshaw, who has also asserted that this whole deal has been thoroughly vetted from a legal stand point, will allow the hundreds of redacted pages of discussion about the MPD with the legal department to be made public.
Or would that confuse the voters?
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 12:59 p.m.
I think I can answer some of the questions posed above:
1. I do not doubt the intentions of the City to follow the provisions of the Interlocal Agreement (ILA). However, since the Park District doesn't exist yet, the ILA cannot actually be executed until some time after the primary election. And it will be subject to changes before execution because it needs to go through more review at the City Council and the new District (the same nine individuals!). I do not think the Mayor can bind the City at this time, but I'll let other lawyers argue about that.
The bigger concern for me about the ILA is it is subject to change at any time, upon notice by either the District or the City. Remember, the District is governed by the nine members of the council sitting ex officio--they have no "checks and balances" by either the Mayor or the voters.
Moreover, the specific spending allocations promised by the City only go out five years. After that, everything is subject to *recommendations* by a citizens committee with *decision authority* solely by the council sitting as the District's board of commissioner. In addition to how the revenue is spent, those decisions include whether to continue and how much to raise (or lower) the property tax.
2. If you look at the contributors to the Yes campaign, you will find both the Zoo and the Aquarium as significant donors. The District's five year plan (Council Bill 118056, Ex. A) gives a million *per year* to the Aquarium and a couple million to the Zoo. It also allocates over $7,000,000 in the last two years for maintenance of the new waterfront park.
3. I have done extensive digging for audits of the Seattle Parks Department. I cannot find any comprehensive outside audit at either the City Auditor's site or at the State Auditor's page. I believe south_downtown's comment is accurate.
4. Current funding: The City promises not to reduce funding for Parks. In fact, the Charter requires "ten percent of the gross receipts of the City from all fines, penalties and licenses" to be allocated to Parks. Article XI, Section 3. I have not compared the money generated from that source to the overall Parks allocation in the City Budget.
5. City Parks Department employees: The arrangement envisioned by the City is that the District would just be a source of revenue, and the current Parks Dept and all its employees would be retained on contract (ILA) to manage the parks and other assets like community centers. If that is the case, Parks Dept employees would remain under current City employment, retirement, and other laws.
An important legal question does arise: RCW 35.61.135(1) starts, "All work ordered [by the District], the estimated cost of which is in excess of twenty thousand dollars, shall be let by contract and competitive bidding." If applicable to the District, this law means the City could not automatically be chosen to operate all of the current Parks Dept functions. The City Attorneys Office claims the competitive bidding provision doesn't apply because the ILA is covered by the Interlocal Cooperation Act; they argue that law allows governments to contract with each other without going to competitive bidding.
Public contracting is not an area of law I am very experienced in. However, a document created by Seattle's purchasing agent and available at the Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington (www.mrsc.org/subjects/pubworks/pb/interlocal_cooperatives.ppt), cites a series of state attorney general opinions and general legal principles, and appears to conclude that the District may *not* avoid competitive bidding.
Opinions by experience counsel on this last question would be greatly appreciated to further public dialogue concerning possible impacts of passage of Proposition One on August 5.
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 2 p.m.
Great post, thank you.
So if the city is still fully responsible for parks operations, the function of the new taxing authority is to act as a funding mechanism outside of the city budget and outside of direct voter oversight?
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 2:12 p.m.
And to get around reaching the ceiling beyond which the city cannot ask for more money via a real estate levy. Remember there is also a proposed real estate levy for universal preschool in our futures. Who knows there may be others, as well.
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 3:02 p.m.
You're welcome. Your statement is accurate.
The primary publicly stated purpose for creating a Seattle Park District is to increase the revenue stream for City Parks by setting up an MPD that is not subject to the City's levy lid.
In response to concerns about the lack of accountability of the legal structure, the (easily revokable) ILA provisions include an obligation by the District to levy taxes as agreed and to work closely with the City on Parks Dept budget, not to hire anyone except Parks Dpt (questionable in light of the competitive bidding issue mentioned above), and to have a Community Oversight Committee to "advise" the City and District.
I think everyone who wants to learn more about this deal should read the ILA. It's available at Clerk's website: clerk.seattle.gov/~public/CBOR1.htm and pull up Ordinance 124468.
Posted Thu, Jun 5, 4:53 p.m.
And I'd like to clarify "this law means the City could not automatically be chosen to operate all of the current Parks Dept functions."
It should say, "this law (RCW 35.61.135(1)) means the City can not be selected in advance by the District to provide services in exchange for receiving revenue raised by the District; the District would have to put purchase of those services out for competitive bid."
Posted Sat, Jun 7, 1:37 p.m.
Another question. Does anyone know if the Grand Waterfront Park would come under the Parks Dept. I seem to remember that - as envisioned - it would soak up beaucoup maintenance dollars.
Posted Sat, Jun 7, 10:51 p.m.
The funding plan adopted by the Council with the ordinance approving the Interlocal Agreement (ILA) in advance of the August election is here: clerk.seattle.gov/~ordpics/118056b.pdf
Maintenance of the waterfront park is listed as about $3.8 million/year for 2019 and 2020. Total $7,654,269. Presumably that amount would continue (or increase) indefinitely.
Posted Mon, Jun 9, 11:55 a.m.
Thanks. Very informative discussion.
One question. Who in their right mind would vote for this open-ended proposition?
Posted Mon, Jun 9, 5:12 p.m.
Answer: Low information primary voters. "Parks" by itself is a winner and that's what proponents are counting on.
Please get the word out.
Posted Thu, Jun 12, 6:41 a.m.
"Are we giving up too much when we upzone areas of the city, such as South Lake Union, without asking anything from developers?" This was a question asked of a consultant to the Parks Department in this video: http://youtu.be/XBYTChvfzSE
Posted Fri, Jun 13, 1:53 p.m.
The sound at that video clip is not good. The full session is here:
Posted Sat, Jun 14, 12:13 p.m.
On principle, using property taxes to fund parks makes sense, in that adjacent property values benefit from well-maintained and broadly used parks. A growing population and increased density argue for park expansion. It can be argued that both the Aquarium and the Zoo have languished - if we want to continue as a world-class destination city, we need world-class destinations.
Perhaps some of the freed-up property taxing authority could be utilized to help find housing alternatives for the homeless currently camping in our parks.
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- The Marlins have outrighted utilityman Jordany Valdespin, according to the MLB.com transactions page. Valdespin, 26, slashed .214/.280/.347 last year after joining Miami on a minor league pact. He had been non-tendered by the Mets before reaching arbitration eligibility. Over parts of three seasons in the big leagues, Valdespin has spent time all over the outfield as well as at second base, in addition to a handful of appearances at short.
- The Phillies announced that outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. has elected free agency after refusing an outright assignment. The 32-year-old slashed a meager .152/.264/.190 over 127 plate appearances on the year. He has seen big league action in parts of eight seasons, and at his best added value through stellar defensive ratings in the outfield.
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Minor Moves: Hill, Gwynn, Berry, Rangers, Reds
Here are today's minor transactions from around baseball, with the most recent moves at the top of the post…
- Lefty Rich Hill has been outrighted to Triple-A by the Yankees, according to the International League transactions page. Hill was designated to make room for fellow southpaw Josh Outman. Though he has seen little time at the MLB level this year and posted an unsightly 6.28 ERA last year, the 34-year-old has historically been quite tough on same-handed hitters and could make sense as an extra lefty specialist on an expanded roster. Having previously been outrighted, Hill will have the right to elect free agency.
- The Phillies announce that they have selected the contract of outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. To make room on their 40-man roster, they transferred Cliff Lee to the 60-day DL. The Phillies outrighted and then released Gwynn earlier this summer, only to re-sign him to a minor league deal. He's a career .239/.310/.311 hitter in parts of eight big-league seasons.
- The Orioles will select the contract of outfielder Quintin Berry, Rich Dubroff of CSNBaltimore.com tweets. Berry had a good season for Triple-A Norfolk, hitting .285/.382/.367 in 432 plate appearances, and did his usual good job on the bases, stealing 25 of them while being caught six times. In his brief big-league career with the Tigers and Red Sox, Berry has stolen 24 bases without being caught, making him an ideal September promotion candidate for a team seeking speed.
- The Rangers have announced that they will select the contract of lefty Michael Kirkman as a September call-up tomorrow. Also, they will select the contract of fellow pitcher Spencer Patton on Thursday. Kirkman has posted a 4.47 ERA with 10.3 K/9 and 4.8 BB/9 while pitching 54 1/3 innings of relief this season at Triple-A Round Rock. The Royals outrighted him in April. Patton has posted a combined 3.90 ERA with 12.3 K/9 and 3.6 BB/9 in 62 1/3 innings with Round Rock and the Royals' Triple-A affiliate in Omaha. The Rangers acquired him for reliever Jason Frasor in July.
- The Reds have selected the contracts of outfielder Jason Bourgeois and lefty Ryan Dennick, MLB.com's Mark Sheldon writes. They have also cleared one spot on their roster by transferring Homer Bailey to the 60-day DL. The veteran Bourgeois hit .278/.329/.364 in 595 plate appearances this season for Triple-A Louisville. Also at Louisville, the 27-year-old Dennick posted a 2.36 ERA with 7.1 K/9 and 3.3 BB/9 in 49 2/3 innings of relief.
- The Giants will select the contract of pitcher Brett Bochy, John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle tweets. Bochy, the son of Giants manager Bruce Bochy, has had a solid season in the bullpen at Triple-A Fresno, posting a 3.57 ERA with 8.0 K/9 and 4.1 BB/9 in 53 innings. The 27-year-old was a 20th-round draft pick out of the University of Kansas in 2010.
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- The Athletics have selected the contract of catcher Bryan Anderson, according to the Pacific Coast League transactions page. The A's acquired Anderson in a minor trade with the Reds late last month, apparently in a bid to acquire more catching depth due to John Jaso's injury. The 27-year-old Anderson hit .320/.397/.538 in 293 plate appearances in the minors in 2014. He's played briefly at the big-league level with the Cardinals and White Sox.
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- The Rays have released Erik Bedard and Juan Carlos Oviedo, according to MiLB.com. The Rays had designated both pitchers for assignment earlier in the week.
- The Phillies have announced that they've re-signed OF Tony Gwynn Jr. to a minor league deal. He will report to Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Gwynn hit .163/.281/.204 in 119 plate appearances for the Phillies this season. They released him last week.
- Instead of electing free agency, infielder Tony Abreu has accepted his outright assignment to Triple-A by Giants, tweets Chris Cotillo of MLBDailyDish.com. Abreu was designated for assignment Tuesday after appearing in only four games. The 29-year-old owns a .280/.329/.428 slash line in 259 plate appearances this season for Triple-A Fresno.
- The Giants announced infielder Nick Noonan has cleared waivers and will be outrighted to Triple-A Fresno. The 25-year-old was designated for assignment July 25. Noonan, the 32nd overall selection in the 2007 draft, made his MLB debut last season slashing .219/.261/.238 in 111 plate appearances, but has struggled this year with a .239/.281/.302 line in 340 plate appearances between Triple-A Fresno and Class-A Advanced San Jose.
- The Marlins tweeted left-hander Donnie Joseph has been outrighted to Triple-A New Orleans. The 26-year-old was designated for assignment Thursday after the Marlins acquired Jarred Cosart from the Astros. Joseph was picked up from the Royals for cash considerations June 30 and has spent his entire time in the Marlin organization at Triple-A posting an 11.05 ERA, 6.1 K/9, and 9.8 BB/9 in six relief outings covering 7 1/3 innings.
- The Diamondbacks have acquired outfielder Blake Tekotte from the White Sox for cash, per the MLB.com transactions page. Tekotte, who made 36 plate appearances for the White Sox in 2013 good for a slash of .226/.306/.355, will report to Triple-A Reno. The 27-year-old posted a .251/.324/.438 line in 318 plate appearances for the White Sox's Triple-A affiliate.
- The Padres have released right-hander Billy Buckner from their Triple-A affiliate, according to the Pacific Coast League's transactions page. The 30-year-old made one spot start for the Padres on May 24 allowing three runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings. In 15 appearances (14 starts) for Triple-A El Paso, Buckner has posted a 5.80 ERA, 6.2 K/9, and 4.7 BB/9 in 63 2/3 innings.
- Also from the PCL transactions page, the Angels have released catcher Luis Martinez from their Triple-A affiliate. The 29-year-old, whose last MLB action was with the Rangers in 2012, hit .262/.329/.403 in 212 plate appearances for Salt Lake this season.
- Martinez didn't stay unemployed very long as he was signed by the A's and assigned to Triple-A Sacramento. The roster causality is catcher Luis Exposito, despite producing at a .303/.410/.394 clip since Oakland signed him June 26 after being released by the Tigers.
- Ten players find themselves in DFA limbo, as tracked by MLBTR's DFA Tracker: Dan Uggla and Tyler Colvin (Giants), Jeff Francis and Brian Roberts (Yankees), Josh Wall and Dean Anna (Pirates), Ryan Feierabend (Rangers), David Carpenter (Angels), Nick Christiani (Reds), and Pedro Hernandez (Rockies).
Charlie Wilmoth contributed to this post.
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Phillies Release Tony Gwynn Jr.
The Phillies have released outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr., the club announced. Gwynn had been designated for assignment last week.
The 31-year-old outfielder hit .163/.281/.204 in 119 PA this season and saw time at all three outfield spots. Gwynn signed a minor league deal with the Phillies this past offseason after spending the previous three seasons in the Dodgers' organization. Gwynn's father and namesake, Hall-of-Famer Tony Sr., passed away in June.
Eight players remain in 'DFA limbo' according to MLBTR's DFA Tracker: Darwin Barney (Cubs), Matt Guerrier (Twins), Jim Johnson (A's), George Kottaras (Cardinals), Juan Carlos Oviedo (Rays), Esmil Rogers (Blue Jays), Jose De Paula and Nick Noonan (both Giants).
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Phillies Outright Koyie Hill, Designate Tony Gwynn Jr.
The Phillies announced that they have outrighted veteran catcher Koyie Hill off the 40-man roster and designated center fielder Tony Gwynn Jr. for assignment. The team also announced that Cesar Hernandez has been optioned to Triple-A Lehigh Valley. The series of roster moves creates space for Cliff Lee, Wil Nieves and Reid Brignac to be activated from the disabled list.
The 35-year-old Hill appeared in 10 games and collected 22 plate appearances this season with Nieves on the disabled list. He hit .238/.273/.286 in that brief sample. As a player who has been outrighted in the past, he will have the ability to reject the assignment in favor of free agency, though Hill is no stranger to playing at the Triple-A level, so he may simply accept.
The 31-year-old Gwynn batted .163/.284/.204 in 119 plate appearances and played his typical brand of solid defense in center field (a few misplays in left field appear to have created some negative defensive marks for his brief, 33-inning sample there). It's been a rough few weeks for Gwynn, who tragically lost his father — Hall of Famer and Padres legend Tony Gwynn Sr. — to cancer last month.
Lee will come off the disabled list to start tonight's contest, meaning that he should be able to make at least two starts in the trade deadline (his third start would currently project to fall on the day of the trade deadline, though he could make one earlier than that if he pitches on short rest). The Philadelphia ace last pitched on May 18 and has been sidelined by a left elbow strain. He's posted a 3.18 ERA with 8.1 K/9, 1.2 BB/9 and a career-best 49.1 percent ground-ball rate in 68 innings this season. If you subtract a disastrous Opening Day outing, he's been even better this year, pitching to a 2.29 ERA in 63 innings (nine starts). Though Lee can block trades to 20 teams, some reports have indicated that he'd be open to waiving his no-trade rights in order to move to a contending team. His name figures to be heavily discussed in the coming 10 days, though he could also be an August trade candidate.
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Added To The 40-Man Roster: Saturday
Between now and Opening Day, several minor league signees will win jobs with their clubs and earn 40-man roster spots. Here are today's additions:
- The Angels have purchased the contract of infielder Ian Stewart, Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times tweets. The former top prospect, now 28, was brought in on a minor league contract in January.
- Ryan Rowland-Smith will make the Diamondbacks' Opening Day roster, GM Kevin Towers disclosed (via Steve Gilbert of MLB.com). Rowland-Smith was in camp on a minor league deal. The 31-year-old hasn't pitched in the majors since 2010 but was excellent last year for Boston's Triple-A club.
- The Giants announced that right-hander J.C. Gutierrez and infielder Brandon Hicks have been chosen for the Opening Day roster. Hicks had been competing with rookie Ehire Adrianza for a backup infield job, but both have made the team.
- The Braves announced via press release that pitchers Gus Schlosser and Ian Thomas have been added to the Opening Day roster.
- Reds manager Bryan Price announced that reliever Trevor Bell and outfielder Roger Bernadina have made the club's Opening Day roster, according to a tweet from the team's Triple-A affiliate. Bell hasn't pitched in the majors since 2011, but threw very well this spring in 8 2/3 innings.
- The Mets are set to add Omar Quintanilla to their Opening Day roster, tweets Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com. Quintanilla figures to serve as the back-up at short. He rejoined the club on a minor league deal after being non-tendered.
- Xavier Nady will break camp with the Padres, tweets AJ Cassavell of MLB.com, and thus will be added to the 40-man roster. The 35-year-old had a solid spring, and will fill in while Kyle Blanks and Cameron Maybin work back from injury.
- The Tigers have purchased the contract of Tyler Collins, the club announced. The 23-year-old, left-handed-hitting outfielder has not played above the Double-A level, but now grabs an Opening Day roster spot for a Detroit club that is without Andy Dirks to start the year. In 530 plate appearances at Double-A last year, Collins put up a .240/.323/.438 line with 21 home runs (and 122 strikeouts against 51 walks).
- The Rangers will add minor league free agent Daniel McCutchen to the roster, according to a tweet from his representatives at Sosnick Cobbe Sports. Texas will need to add the reliever to the 40-man roster in order to activate him.
- Yangervis Solarte will make the Yankees Opening Day roster, tweets Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. Fellow utility infielder Eduardo Nunez, meanwhile, will be optioned to Triple-A to start the year. Solarte earned the position after a torrid spring.
- The Phillies have announced their Opening Day roster, which includes three players — Tony Gwynn Jr., Mario Hollands, and Jeff Manship — who must be added to the 40-man. Meanwhile, Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez has been put on the 60-day DL to create roster space while infielder Reid Brignac and reliever Shawn Camp have been reassigned to Triple-A, reports MLB.com's Todd Zolecki (Twitter links).
- The Athletics have selected the contract of infielder Hiroyuki Nakajima and optioned him to Triple-A, according to the MLB transactions page. After failing to see MLB action in the first year of his two-year, $6.5MM deal with Oakland, Nakajima was outrighted and ultimately re-signed to a minor league deal.
Aaron Steen contributed to this post.
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Phillies Sign O'Sullivan, Sappelt, Gwynn, Marson
The Phillies announced that they've signed right-hander Sean O'Sullivan, outfielders Dave Sappelt and Tony Gwynn Jr. and catcher Lou Marson to minor league deals with invitations to Spring Training.
O'Sullivan, 26, posted a 3.96 ERA in 25 innings (three starts, four relief appearances) for the Padres last season. However, the former Angel and Royal also walked more batters (14) than he struck out (12) in that time. O'Sullivan has struggled overall at the Major League level, pitching to a 5.89 ERA with 4.2 K/9 and 3.5 BB/9 in 218 2/3 innings. The former third-round pick has a 4.40 ERA with 6.1 K/9 and 2.7 BB/9 in 486 1/3 career innings at Triple-A.
Sappelt, 27 in January, batted .240/.269/.280 in 78 plate appearances for the Cubs in 2013. One of three players acquired by Chicago in the trade that sent Sean Marshall to the Reds (the others were Travis Wood and Ronald Torreyes), Sappelt is a career .251/.301/.343 hitter in 274 big league plate appearances. He's been much better at Triple-A, batting .279/.332/.402 in 1356 PAs.
Gwynn spent the bulk of the 2013 campaign with the Dodgers' Triple-A affiliate, where he batted .300/.393/.384 with a pair of homers and 12 steals in 391 plate appearances. The 31-year-old is an outstanding defender in center field, making him a nice depth piece for the Phils.
Marson, 27, was drafted by the Phillies in the fourth round of the 2004 draft. Philly traded him to the Indians along with Jason Knapp (who is attempting a comeback), Carlos Carrasco and Jason Donald in the 2008 blockbuster that netted Cliff Lee. Marson spent most of the 2013 season on the disabled list with right shoulder inflammation. Yan Gomes' breakout with the Indians displaced Marson as the team's backup catcher. He is a .219/.309/.299 career hitter in 882 Major League PAs.
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Outrighted To Triple-A: Conrad, Kelly, Gwynn
The latest outright assignments…
- The Rays outrighted Brooks Conrad to Triple-A Durham according to the International League transactions page. Tampa Bay designated the infielder for assignment earlier this week. Conrad, 32, hit .172/.213/.362 in 61 plate appearances with the Rays. He also spent some time with the Brewers earlier this season.
- The Tigers announced that they outrighted Don Kelly to Triple-A Toledo (Twitter link). Detroit designated the utility player for assignment six days ago, after he posted a .175/.267/.243 batting line in 116 plate appearances at a variety of positions.
- The Dodgers outrighted Tony Gwynn Jr. to Triple-A Albuquerque, the team announced on its website. Gwynn, who was designated for assignment three days ago, accepted the outright assignment, according to Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times (Twitterlinks). Hernandez suggests Gwynn will return to L.A. when rosters expand next month.
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Dodgers Designate Tony Gwynn Jr. For Assignment
The Dodgers announced that they designated outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. for assignment. Los Angeles recalled outfielder/first baseman Jerry Sands from Triple-A in a related move.
Gwynn, 29, hit .232/.276/.293 in 277 plate appearances this season while missing some time with a shoulder contusion. He saw lots of action in center field while Matt Kemp was on the DL and is considered to be a strong defender in all three outfield spots by the various advanced metrics. Gwynn is in the first year of a two-year, $2MM contract.


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Now this is interesting!
BBC One have announced the actor to play the Doctor after Matt Smith leaves the show later this year.
And the Doctor is........Scottish actor Peter Capaldi.
BBC One made the announcement in a 30 minute special called Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor which aired on both BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US
This is awesome, Nightline recently aired a special call Why We Need Heroes which centers on Man of Steel. The first half focusses on interviews with the main cast and the second half explores why we need heroes.
Both me and MiniGeek are huge fans of Phineas and Ferb. The humour caters to young and old alike and the adventures tap into that primal aspect of every boys dreams.
So what happens when one of your favourite cartoons meets one of your favourite franchises?....epic awesomeness is what!!
So check out hte trailer for an upcomin episode of Phineas and Ferb where they have to help Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Hulk and Thor regain their powers.
I love this, a fan made epic rap battle set at a 10 year old's birthday party.
Some people have way too much time on their hands lol.
Anyway, watch and enjoy, but note, very NSFW (crude language warning)
Okay, first off, if you haven't seen Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 9, then look away now (doubley so if you haven't read the books).
Right....so only those that have seen it are left? Great.
So the shocking Red Wedding episode was fantastic, even though most of us knew it was coming from reading the books, it was still a shock to watch.
HBO have released a behind the scenes look at Episode 9 (and a second behind the scenes look at just the red wedding scenes). It is awesome to hear the emotion and passion the writers and producers have for the show...enjoy
This has come as a bit of a surprise, the BBC have announced that Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who....and soon.
Smith will be sticking around for the 50th Anniversary and Christmas Specials. No word yet on who will replace him.
Here is the full press release
This brought a tear to my eye.
At the Calgary Comic Expo in April, a new mother asked Wil Wheaton to give a special message to her daughter about why it is awesome to be a nerd.
The new mum recorded the whole thing (and once you hear it, you will forgive the poor quality cinematography hahahaaa).
Seriously, you can tell it is from his heart and it makes me proud to be a geek/nerd.
Doctor Who fans are eagerly waiting for Neil Gaimen's next big installment as writer of a Doctor Who episode. His last (The Doctor's Wife) was outstanding and i can't wait for more from Neil.
Well now the BBC have released the official poster and plot synopsis
Wow, the end of an era is fast approaching. Season 8 of everyone's favourite serial killer, Dexter, is coming to an end.
Season 8 starts on June 30 and the 12 episoded season will be the last. Looking at the trailer, it will all unravel first. This looks so intense, i cannot wait.
We are still waiting for some dates for the new Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Tv series from Joss Whedon and the fine folks at ABC, but in the meantime Clark Gregg (The fan favourite Agent Coulson from the Avengers) was epaking to Screen Rant at the Tribeca Film Festival and has some comments on the series.
Reading this and watching the video, I am even more excited for the show, what do you think?
hmmmm this could be interesting. CBS are teasing their new series 'Under The Dome' based on a Stephen King novel.
Written by Brian K Vaughan it will premiere on June 24th and stars Chad Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Dean Norris, Jolene Purdy, Nicholas Strong, Britt Robertson, Aisha Hinds, Alex Koch, Natalie Martinez and Colin Ford.
Let me know what you think
Here we go, the first trailer for the new Zombieland TV series.
The new series comes from the writers of the original movie Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Produced by Gavin Polone (Curb your enthusiasm) and Directed by Eli Craig (the hilarious Tucker and Dale vs. Evil).
Have a look and let me know what you think
This is fantastic, check out the adventures of Doctor Puppet and his companion Alisa.
As far as fan films go, this one is outstanding! The Doctor Puppet series is a lovingly handcrafted tribute to Doctor Who made by a dedicated team in New York City.
Let me know what you think....Enjoy!!
I am so excited about Joss Whedon's return to TV. Even moreso when you consider it is to bring us the S.H.I.L.D. TV series! Now add to that the return of Agent Coulson from the Avengers (and almost ever movie in the buildup to the Avengers) and i am having a complete nedist breakdown.
ABC have just announced a couple of minor changes to the upcoming series, including changing the title to: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Also we have a new synopsis for the show:
Great (but unsurprising) news for Game of Thrones fans. HBO have announced they have officially renewed the smash hit series for a fourth season.
Series three has just started airing and is already a huge success.
I am really looking forward to the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series from legend Joss Whedon. The cast is really solid and with Joss behind the wheel, it is pretty much guaranteed to be a fan favourite.
Now Joss has added another cast member that will be quite familiar to fans of one of Joss's earlier shows 'Angel'. J. August Richards will be joining S.H.I.E.L.D. in a secret role.
Showtime have given us a sneak peek of the last Dexter season ever and damn it looks dark. Not much happens int he teaser, but the voiceover is creepy as hell and it looks like everything is going to unravel in season 8.
Dexter will be returning on June 30th and I can't wait.
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"I think it's slowed because immigration has slowed down," Franzella said. "For the last 20 years, you've really had a lot of people coming in. Now they're assimilating and moving out of the inner city."
Those families that remain tend to have fewer children, he said.
Women, who once stayed at home to take care of the children, are now working outside the home.
No longer are they going to the neighborhood market every day. Instead, they shop at chains less frequently, loading up on essentials, Franzella said.
A downhill slide
But on the other side of the bay, the outlook isn't as bright. At the Oakland Terminal Produce Market, also known as the Franklin Street Market, a handful of vendors hang on.
During the past decade, some have shut their door while others, such as Bay Cities Produce Co., have moved to newer or more expansive facilities.
The buildings that house the market date back to the early 1900s and have historical status, so any major modifications would have to meet environmental and historical regulations, said Margot Lederer Prado, with the city's Economic and Workforce Department.
The zoning also has changed, and the area near Jack London Square is now designated for light industrial, retail and restaurants, she said.
For more than a decade, there has been talk of the market relocating to part of the nearby former Oakland Army Base.
Any plans are now moot after the Oakland City Council in June approved a proposal by developer California Capital and Investment Group to turn the base into an intermodal and distribution site.
Although the city has plenty of buildings suited to produce wholesalers, Lederer Prado said there have been no takers because the rents in the Jack London Produce District are below market.
She is conducting a food cluster economic study to examine the financial benefits of enticing food-based companies to Oakland. The terminal market will be included.
In addition, Hope Collaborative, an Oakland-based group of community agencies, non-profits and citizens, has received a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to study the feasibility of creating a food hub in Oakland.
The terminal market also will be included, although in what role is unknown since the study is in its infancy.


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Canonical has finally (publicly) positioned Ubuntu as the direct competitor to Microsoft Windows. The Ubuntu home page flashes flashed this message "Avoid the pain of Windows 8". Canonical removed the message as people discussed it on a Canonical engineer Alan Pope's Google+ page. The message was replaced with "Your wish is our command". I am not going to talk about whether that message was OK or not as Mark Shuttleworth clarified "That banner was totally un-Ubuntu and was changed as soon as someone senior saw it. Apologies."
However, the question remains is Ubuntu anywhere close to being a Windows competitor? Which is a better option for a Windows XP or Windows 7 user – Windows 8 or Ubuntu 12.10? Can you really avoid the pain of Windows 8 by using Ubuntu?
It depends on what you use your PC for.
I am a power users and I do use Windows once in a while for strictly 3 things – film editing, image processing for my photography and playing games. I use Windows as an appliance, as a coffee machine, because the FLOSS alternatives for tools I need are not there. I don't use Windows, the OS, I use Windows, the platform, as the apps I use are available only for this platform. Even in that case I am talking about specialized usage which makes a very small user-base. So, from a user's perspective I can see how substantial are Ubuntu's claims against Windows.
Both Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 offer a new UI, both need a bit of learning curve. As I said above, whether you can replace your Windows machine with Ubuntu or not heavily depends on what you do on your system. If you are an average PC user who uses it for internet browsing, checking your mails, doing basic image editing, watching movies (not Netflix), listening to music, creating documents (with LibreOffice), staying connected to friends and don't have plethora of hardware then there is no need for you to use Windows 8. You will be happier with Ubuntu 12.10.
But if you are a high-end gamer, a designer, a photographer who creates HDR or needs more refining of images, if you are into latest and greatest hardware (such as touch screen display) or if you rely on a lot of Windows only applications such as Microsoft Office, Photo Shop, Adobe Premier, or if you own a smartphone or tablet which needs a client to update it then Ubuntu is not suited for you. You will be better off with Windows or Mac.
If you do fall in the category of an average PC user who doesn't have that many specialized needs, Ubuntu will actually make life easier for you. There are numerous advantages that Ubuntu has over Windows. If there is a learning curve with Windows 8, there is a learning curve with Ubuntu as well – though not as steep as Windows 8.
Most popular and open source applications are available for Ubuntu – from Skype to Dropbox so chances are that you will find most of the apps that you need in Ubuntu. Windows 8 is introducing the same Software Center Concept that has been in Ubuntu for ages so installing an application under Ubuntu is extremely easy.
Based on my own experience, as I have converted quite a lot of disgruntled Windows users to Linux distros such as Ubuntu and openSUSE , I can say Ubuntu does pose a serious challenge to Windows in the 'average' PC market.
Thanks to developers like Kluas Knopper who popularized the concept of LiveCDs in Linux, you can very easily test Ubuntu on your PC without installing it on your hard drive. And if everything works fine, and chances are it will, you can go ahead and install it.
There is a huge Ubuntu community – forums like AskUbuntu, mailing lists and sites like OMG! Ubuntu – which will make you comfortable with Ubuntu.
So, if you are sitting at the fence and are willing try out a non-Windows OS which is extremely secure and available for free, you should be downloading Ubuntu now! You won't have to go back to Windows. If, for some reason, you don't like Ubuntu there are hundreds of decent Linux distributions out there to take care of your needs.
It won't hurt to try.


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The early concern was that FTTC performance would end up being very poor, especially for those who live more than a few hundred metres (300-400m) away from their local street cabinet (performance is known to drop off sharply on longer lines).
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This issue became particularly important after BT introduced a new version of FTTC with a 5Mbps fault threshold, which was designed to "increase the footprint" (UK coverage) by allowing longer lines and thus lower speeds. So far most of those fears, at least for now, appear to have been unfounded. The Director of IDNet , Simon Davies , told ISPreview.co.uk: "Most customers get between 30 and 39Mbps. Some customers with longer lines may connect between 20 and 30Mbps. We've not seen any connections below 20Mbps." Zen Internet informed us that their customers had also received a similar average performance of "[approaching] 30Mbps", while Entanet added that they too had "seen an average speed of around 35Mbps with some customers achieving the full 40Mbps". Ofcom's March 2011 survey of national broadband speeds reported that FTTC averaged 31.8Mbps. PlusNet reported a similar figure during some of their recent customer trials. To put that in perspective, most customers receive more than three quarters of FTTC's maximum performance. By contrast Ofcom recently discovered that the average speed for the most common ADSL2+ (20Mbps-24Mbps) based broadband packages was just 6.2Mbps, which is just one quarter of the technology's maximum theoretical capability. In fairness the FTTC rollout is only in its first year and the situation could change as penetration rates grow. Likewise the technology could evolve to reach further and potentially go even faster (more on that later), which would put FTTC under a lot more strain than it is today. However, for the time being at least, the early indications are already extremely positive. It's a historic fact that the quality of content that is available has always improved alongside the growth of higher performance internet access. Back in the 1990's, when slow dialup connections were king and broadband was but a distant pipe dream, the idea of having video streaming sites, such as YouTube or iPlayer, would have seemed radically premature. Today those services are common and the rate at which we use them is increasing. Cisco's Visual Networking Index 2010 (VNI) forecast predicted that global internet data traffic would exceed 767 Exabytes by 2014, which compares with an annual run rate of 176 Exabytes in 2009 when IP traffic grew by 45% in the year. Online video and High Definition TV services are predicted to dominate this growth (see picture - top right). It goes without saying that those who adopt a faster solution like FTTC might also start using their connections more, but do they? A Zen Internet Spokesperson told ISPreview.co.uk:
"Because FTTC is significantly faster, usage has increased dramatically. This is partly due to early adopters of new technology being heavy internet users, but its also a consequence of Fibre Broadband enabling high bandwidth services such as iPlayer."
In my opnoiin its about time. The FCC should out warning label on contracts for overage charges or something. Since I switched to net10 though haven?t seen an overage or a bill. I only have to pay for the minutes I need, just great service.
I got Cricket about 2 weeks ago and have claeld them every single day for help. No help! I cannot load ebay or microsoft, everything else works ok, if slowly. finally I thought to myself maybe those sites are too big for cricket. I am having my cable company hook me up tomorrow and am dropping cricket, what a mess this has been.And you're absolutely right that I will not get one penny of my investment back.
If you're tinryg to view iPlayer after 5pm, BT will be restricting your connection. Ironically, they do this throttling to give "regular users" a bigger slice of the bandwidth, and prevent bittorrent and video watchers from taking it all.I don't think they realise "regular users" are now the ones watching iPlayer and downloading podcasts!
Great article, pertinent to our area(july11) , but FTTC =fibreoptic**cable??PLUS, how about a BTexchange/fibreupgrade web link?


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I have a growing list of things that I am missing thanks to the lockout. The latest occurred to me while I was reading some old blog posts from last season and ran into the Hockey Hugs series over at Puck Daddy, curated by my blogwife, Harrison Mooney. I badly miss high-quality hockey photography, both for the potential hilarity and for the beauty.
There's something about hockey that leads to some of the most fantastic sports photography in the world. Maybe it's the canvas – the crisp white sheet of ice – combined with the vibrant colours of NHL jerseys. Maybe it's the magic of such a fast-paced sport distilled to a single frozen image. Whatever the case, I love hockey photography and miss being able to scroll through Getty Images in the morning for shots of the previous night's games.
There are still plenty of NHL photos available: they're just a little less exciting. Here are 10 of the best photos of the NHL lockout.
10 | Donald Fehr
Hey, remember the days back in September when we could smile and laugh at the possibility of the entire NHL season being cancelled? How preposterous an idea! The NHL had record revenues and was making some inroads into tough US markets. How could they cancel the season?
In fact, everything was so hunky-dory that Donald Fehr used to take time during media availability to test out some of his stand-up comedy material. "…that's when she said, 'but I haven't filed my affidavit yet!" Admittedly, the players seemed to be only laughing out of politeness.
9 | Zdeno Chara and Henrik Lundqvist
Look at those shorts. Just look at them! That's the problem with being a massive, terrifying beast of a man like Chara: no one tells you when your shorts look stupid as hell. Those shorts are so hideous that you don't even notice Lundqvist, the supposed paragon of NHL fashion, is wearing a denim shirt that is the same colour as his pants. What a disaster.
8 | Gary Bettman
"She's got huge…tracts of land."
7 | Jeremy Jacobs
I'm just saying.
6 | Gary Bettman and some other guy
I love this photo. Not because of Bettman, though he's doing a boss job of walking from one place to another, but because of the random dude on the right side of the picture. I don't even think he's at all connected with the lockout. He's just a guy walking down the sidewalk. In any case, it's clear that he's not used to having a member of the media pointing a camera in his direction, because he's instinctual reaction is to look directly into the lens and smile, unlike Bettman, who's a pro, acting like the camera isn't even there.
Edit: I have been informed many, many times that the cheerful looking fellow in this photograph is none other than the Canadian Press's own Chris Johnston. Follow him on Twitter: @reporterchris.
5 | Steve Fehr
If any photo is more emblematic of the media's coverage of the lockout than this one, I don't want to see it. Coming at the end of one of the marathon negotiating sessions, this photo gives us just a glimpse of Steve Fehr. I can just imagine the photographers waiting at the end of the hallway for hours to catch a glimpse of one of the principles in the negotiations.
"Wait, I see one!"
"What, where?"
"I got him, I think I got him!"
"Who, who'd you get? A player? An owner? Bettman? Daly? Who?"
"It's a Fehr! Oh…wait, nevermind…it's just Steve Fehr. And I only got half of him."
"Damn, so close."
4 | Roberto Luongo, aka. Ryan Miller
This photo is hilarious for two reasons: first, it shows Ryan Miller totally falling asleep while Donald Fehr speaks to the media. Second, it identifies Ryan Miller, American Silver Medallist, as Roberto Luongo, Canadian Gold Medallist. Admittedly, it doesn't mention anything about medals, but I just had to add that.
3 | Mike Fisher
On November 18th, Mike Fisher should have been on the road with the Nashville Predators, who had a game scheduled in St. Louis on the 17th and in Montreal on the 19th. Instead, Fisher was attending the American Music Awards with his wife, Carrie Underwood. Not only was he forced to hold her purse when she won Best Country Album, he went out of his way to get a photo with Justin Bieber. That shouldn't have happened, Bettman. I blame you.
2 | Bill Daly
"Oh, you guys actually wanted an NHL season? Whoops. Sorry."
1 | The NHL Podium
Bruce Bennett is a fantastic sports photographer. He shouldn't have to take pictures of people setting up the NHL podium, but on December 5th, the podium was the star. It took a team of four to frantically set up the podium so that it could sit, unused, for hours. Isn't that the quintessential photo of the lockout?


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Are We An Oligarchy Yet?
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Matt Stoller believes that the recent pre-publication release of a study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page doesn't support the idea that the United States is an oligarchy yet. He says:
A lot of people are misreading this Princeton study on the political influence of the wealthy and business groups versus ordinary citizens. The study does not say that the US is an oligarchy, wherein the wealthy control politics with an iron fist. If it were, then things like Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, veterans programs, housing finance programs, etc wouldn't exist.
What the study actually says is that American voters are disorganized and their individualized preferences don't matter unless voters group themselves into mass membership organizations. Then, if people belong to mass membership organizations, their preferences do matter, but less so than business groups and the wealthy.
Well, it's true that Gilens and Page never say that United States is an oligarchy, and perhaps it's also true that they don't believe it. But they do say this:
What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of 'populistic' democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.'
And they're right. Their data refute the idea that the preferences of the majority are, by-and-large, or even frequently, enacted into law in today's United States. Insofar, as that's a necessary condition for having a constitutional democracy, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that right now the United States doesn't have one. That finding has further implications.
First, the US doesn't have either mob rule or constitutional democracy. Nor does the study show that the political system is paralyzed, in spite of all the complaints about excessive partisanship and stalemate in Washington. So someone is ruling. Who is it?
Second, it shows that, mostly, economic elites and interest groups representing them, many of them virtual puppets of the economic elite and corporations, are getting their way. Also, it doesn't show that one individual is getting his/her way. That means there's no King or Queen ruling, and also that there isn't a single tyrant ruling. So, we can conclude that, mostly, the economic elites and their interest groups are ruling. How are they ruling?
Well, third, even though there are legislative and judicial forms specified in the Constitution being followed; there are many elements of current elite rule that are neither constitutional nor legal. For example, is it legal and/or constitutional for the Executive Branch to use prosecutorial discretion as a tool to refuse to go after the big banks for their blatantly illegal behavior leading to the mortgage crisis, the failure of major financial institutions, and the world economy? Is it constitutional and legal for the President of the United States to use drones to kill US citizens without legal or constitutional due process? Is it legal or constitutional for the President to use drones to violate the sovereign territory of other nations through drone strikes without the consent of the authorities of those nations?
Is it legal or constitutional for the big banks to use fraudulent documents to implement foreclosures? Is it legal or constitutional for the Administration to refuse to prosecute officers and employees of the big banks for committing these frauds? Is it legal or constitutional for local governments and the DHS to violate the rights of free speech and free assembly of Occupy protestors across the country in order to protect elite financial interests? Is it legal or constitutional for Justices of the Supreme Court to interpret the 14th amendment as conferring the liberties of biological individuals on organizations whose legal existence is an artificial legal construct? Are the Justices who are doing this not the products of influence previously exercised by the economic elite?
Is it legal or constitutional for State legislatures to enact and attempt to enforce laws to suppress voting rights of minorities and other groups across the country; as well as laws effectively removing the right to choose to end their pregnanicies of women with limited financial resources to exercise that right? Is it legal or constitutional to apply the law harshly to racial and ethnic minorities, and the poor, while refusing to apply it at all to members of the economic elite and their companies?
The answers to all these questions suggest that the non-democratic, non-monarchical rule validated by the Princeton Study is also rule by the economic elite that is a good deal less than constitutional or just. In my book, that makes it rule by the relatively few that is unjust, and isn't that the definition of oligarchy, whether Gilens and Page say so explicitly or not?


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St. Xavier University student Malcolm Lee performs a piano solo at the 2013 Ms. Scarlet and Mr. Grey Pageant. | Supplied photo
Updated: August 8, 2013 6:04AM
St. Xavier University students Malcolm Lee of Chicago Heights and Kara Lightbourne of Streamwood were crowned the winners of the 2013 Mr. Grey and Ms. Scarlet Pageant.
Participants were ranked in four categories: "Talent," which showcased a special skill; "Business Attire," which included contestants speaking about their studies at SXU and their career ambitions; "Night on the Town," which featured personal hobbies and involvement on campus and "Formal Wear," which included students speaking about SXU's core values and how they exemplify those values.
Lightbourne's talent was a praise dance. Lee performed a piano solo accompanied by an interpretive dance.
As winners of the pageant, they will host next year's pageant and are encouraged to speak at local schools and be positive role models for the community.
Both students received $250 book vouchers.
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How To Behave So Your Dog Behaves
Discovering how to behave so your dog behaves might put an end to the undesirable behaviors that make Fido more of a burden than a joy. That being said, there are plenty of dog lovers who pooh-pooh the idea of having to alter anything in their personal habits or even households that would make canine acting out a thing of the past. Sadly, a lot of these pets end up in shelters. So, how to behave so your dog behaves?
- Commit to only using positive reinforcement. Although dogs are sometimes compared to children, they truly are not. Spanking a dog and hitting it are two forms of discipline that are completely inappropriate in any setting. The only reason to ever hit a dog is if a human's life or physical wellbeing is in immediate danger and the physical force is designed to scare away the animal from the person or incapacitate it.
- Identify undesirable behaviors. Sure, there are the blanket rules to observe when discovering how to behave so your dog behaves. Examples include not feeding from the table and not allowing the animal onto surfaces occasionally, if it is not allowed to jump up on them at all times. Aside from these obvious points, consider what other behaviors are objectionable in your particular household. Does it include the times when he barks at every person who walks past the house? Is it the late-night potty run?
- Catalog the occurrences of undesirable acting out. You do see where this is going, don't you? Learning how to behave so your dog behaves requires an honest look at your actions that might just be setting off Fido. For example, have you attempted to train the animal to become a guard dog but gave up halfway through the course because it was too time consuming? The odds are good that the animal now associates barking with praise. Are you accustomed to placing the dishes (after dinner) onto the ground so the hound can lick them clean? It will not understand that this is verboten when Aunt Nancy comes for a visit; as a result, the dog will likely vociferously demand its nightly treat.
- Redirect canine energy. A bored, under-stimulated and rarely exercised dog is one that is most prone to becoming destructive, loud and hard to control. Exercise the animal regularly in keeping with its breed and age. Pay attention to the dog at appropriate times, and the odds are good that objectionable behaviors decrease.
- Enlist the help of a behaviorist. When all else fails, a professional animal behaviorist can help identify patterns and assist with changing them. These experts differ from trainers in that they focus not so much on the behaviors but what causes them. It might feel a bit odd to admit to a stranger that you need help with understanding how to behave so your dog behaves, but then consider that this kind of intervention is worth the slice of humble pie in the end, when canine and humans can live in harmony.
Resist the temptation to attempt quick fixes to hide, mask or otherwise downplay the canine's problems. Learning how to behave so your dog behaves makes the animal happier in the long run–and doesn't Fido deserve all the happiness it can get, considering how much the animal loves you?


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Travel journaling, either with a paper journal or electronically on a blog, isn't a new activity, but it is becoming increasingly poplar amongst those traveling abroad. For many, especially those who choose travel blogging, the motive may be to generate an income from their experiences or to gain a sense of community with other nomads. For others, it could be about cementing the memory of the once-in-a-lifetime trip.
If you aren't sure whether you should pick up the pen—or keyboard—on your next trip abroad, check out some of these benefits of travel journaling and blogging and see if they help you make up your mind.
- Journaling may help you notice more during the trip. When you commit to writing about your travels either in a journal or on a blog, you spend your entire trip more aware than you normally would. This is because you're actively seeking things to write about and working to remember them as your mind creates the narrative for each day's journal entry. Not only will this lead to some amazing entries, it will also allow you to get a lot more out of your trip.
- You'll have a way to remember the colorful details. A trip abroad can be an overwhelming experience and, over time, it's natural to forget much of what happened, especially those small details that can add a real texture to the memory. By keeping a written record of your journey, you can remind yourself of some of the smaller, no less important, details even as the years conspire to wash them away from your mind.
- You could earn or save money. As we discussed at the start of this post, some people do earn money by blogging regularly about their travels. They may earn it through ad revenue as traffic visits their website or save it by writing reviews of places they visit in exchange for a free stay or meal. This is not exactly a simple or easy endeavor, but it might be worth exploring if you're taking a long, involved trip.
- You'll have complete documentation in case you become ill. Let's say that you get sick three days in to your trip and have to use your international health insurance policy to visit a doctor. Your doctor will likely ask where you've been, what you've eaten and what wildlife or insects you've been exposed to. It's much easier to whip out your journal and tell them all the details than it is to try and recall off the top of your head—especially if you aren't feeling well. And if you're incapacitated, the journal could give answers that you aren't able to give, allowing the physician to select the right course of treatment. Writing down emergency contact, healthcare proxy and international health insurance policy information in the journal will also be effective in securing the kind of treatment you would prefer.
- You'll have documentation for other unfortunate events. Let's say you misplace your wallet and don't realize it until the next day. Trying to remember every place you went and each stop you made could be a nightmare, but if you have a travel journal, you can completely retrace your steps.
- You can avoid repeating mistakes. If you take another trip abroad in the future, you won't want to repeat any of the mistakes you made on the last trip. With a travel journal to review, you can remind yourself of all the things that didn't work out the way you wanted and avoid them the second time around.
- You'll remember the name and location of that little café. When exploring on your trip, you're bound to find some unique, out-of-the-way business or location that you want to visit again or suggest to others who are taking a trip to that city—but if you don't remember the address or name of it, this becomes impossible. By making a record of it in your travel journal, you can visit it year after year and refer all your friends.
Keeping a travel journal doesn't have to require any great writing talent or creativity. Just give yourself the tools to write information and stories down. Designate a time each day to fill in your notes and you've got yourself a record that might end up much more useful than photos.
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Glenlyon launches new site at town 150 years celebration
The Glenlyon community launched their new CGDN on the weekend as part of a series of activities celebrating 150 years since the formation of the old Shire Council.
The events included a display of historical photographs and memorabilia in the town hall, social gatherings and a BBQ and music day at the local reserve.
The new website, a project of the Glenlyon Progress Association features much information about the small Victorian community situated 10 km from Daylesford a popular spot for weekenders who enjoy the local wineries and day-spa resorts.
The site includes local news, community groups, events, directory and history and demographic information.
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The 8th Annual Brewing Up A Cure.
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of homebrewed beer and entertainment to benefit the cystic fibrosis foundation.
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The 8th annual Brewing up a Cure event will take place on Saturday October 11th 2014 from 7pm-10pm, with a VIP session prior to the event from 6pm-7pm. We are pleased to have the PPG Wintergarden as our home for another year. Last year's event was a tremendous success and we look forward to an even better event this year.
Make sure to watch your email for the ticket link, and make sure to get your tickets early before they are all gone! We are looking forward to seeing all of you at what is shaping up to be the best Brewing up a Cure event yet!
Brewing up a Cure started as a way for the members of Three Rivers Underground Brewers (TRUB) to both promote homebrewing and to support a cause that was close to all of their hearts. Shane Terrick, a member of the club, has a daughter Sadie who was born with Cystic Fibrosis. With this in mind, the original intent of the event was to provide an enjoyable evening of homebrewed beer tasting and to donate whatever proceeds were made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
In this the eighth year, the event has definitely surpassed those original goals. The event now features well over 75 different homebrewed beers made by various club members, as well as beers from great microbreweries from around the Pittsburgh region. In addition to all of the great beer, there is a ton of great food from local eateries, great live music, and some fabulous auction items to bid on. The event has grown to 650 attendees, and the donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has grown to over $142,000
Here are just a few of the reasons why you should attend Brewing Up A Cure.
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What First in Social Media?
A question that I get all the time is "How do I get started in social media? There are a million blogs out there, which ones should I start with?" Since I frequently tell people basically the same answer, I figured I should probably blog about it (although, if they are a complete newbie, they probably aren't reading my blog, so perhaps I'm launching this into the echo chamber, but nevertheless, here we go…)
One of my favorite first stops on the getting your feet wet highway is the Common Craft Show. This site has a myriad of intro/how to/in plain English videos. One of my favorites is Social Bookmarking in plain English. Last summer, my mom asked me what delicious is and why she would ever want to use it. After tripping and stumbling over my tongue for a few moments attempting to figure out how to explain it to her, I turned on my computer and showed her this:
After watching it she said, "ok, I get it" and then she actually started using it! My goal this summer: get her on Twitter.
Now onto blogs:
There are quite a few quality blogs out there. All of them require a newbie to comb a little, but there are definitely nuggets of gold to be found. A few good places to start are Chris Brogan's blog, for microblogging (aka Twitter) Laura "Pistachio" Fittons's blog, Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel is also great. I recently blogged about a list that Viralogy put together of the 10 best marketing blogs by Gen-Yers. If you are interested in affiliate marketing and how to make money from you blog, and about blogging in general definitely check out Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger. If video blogging (or vlogging) is your thing, then Steve Garfield is your man.
Now, before I hurt any one's feelings for leaving them out… I want to state loud and clearly that there are a TON of amazing blogs out there on a TON of topics. Many of which I read almost daily (I definitely don't have time for the newspaper anymore, but with all the great content out there, who needs a newspaper?!) The resources I listed above are simply what I view as a good starting places to begin the adventure that is social media.
With all that being said, what do you think? Is there a blog or a site that you advise people to read when they are dipping their toes in for the first time? I'm always looking to be a better advice giver, so please share :)
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