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Thursday, June 11th to Sunday, June 14th, 2015
See the Events Schedule for more detailed information on the daily activities for the sailors.
The mission of the Neill Advanced Sailing Clinic is to provide accomplished high school sailors with intense, high quality sailing instruction by top collegiate coaches.
Three and a half days of intense, on the water coaching, by successful college coaches followed by personal debrief sessions. This program consists of lectures and on-the-water drills including tactics, strategy, sail trim, boat speed, etc. Coaches utilize video footage, archival footage, chalk talks, land demos and on-the-water exercises. Additionally, our coach to boat ratio is low with one coach for four boats and attendees have the opportunity to work with all of our coaches.
WHAT ACTIVITIES ARE PLANNED FOR THE EVENINGS? (2015 TBA Shortly)
- THURSDAY: Casual dinner with coaches discussing all aspects of college sailing with a Q&A session.
- FRIDAY: TBA, in past years, attendees have had the opportunity to learn about and experience match racing on the Tom 28's at the Chicago Match Race Center (CMRC).
- SATURDAY: Banquet with speaker (TBA) at Belmont Station. Previous speakers have all been accomplished members of the competitive sailing world such as Buddy Melges, Bora Gulari, Ken Read, etc.
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This clinic is for sailors who have not yet attended college and are at least 13 years of age.
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Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive TurnoversFrancois BrochetBoston University - Department of Accounting Lucile FaurelUniversity of California, Irvine Sarah E. McVayUniversity of Washington June 2, 2011 Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 49, No. 5, December 2011 Abstract: We investigate how managers contribute to the provision of earnings guidance by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs are involved in the formation or discussion of guidance. Among firms that historically issued frequent guidance, breaks in guidance following CEO turnovers are relatively permanent and are potentially attributable to firm-initiated changes in guidance policy. Breaks following CFO turnovers, however, likely reflect uncertainty on the part of the newly appointed executive - they are concentrated in the two quarters following the turnover, are associated with the background of the newly appointed CFO, and extend to the relative precision of the guidance. Among firms that did not issue guidance historically, we find some evidence that newly appointed externally hired CEOs increase the likelihood of providing guidance. Number of Pages in PDF File: 51 Keywords: Earnings guidance, Management guidance, Managerial expertise, Managerial knowledge, Executive turnover, CEO turnover, CFO turnover JEL Classification: M41 Date posted: September 12, 2007 ; Last revised: May 7, 2013Suggested CitationContact Information
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Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez admits he's gutted for Scott Carson, but is confident the goalkeeper will bounce back from his nightmarish England performance.
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Most realist pundits have faulted the Bush administration for promoting "nation building" in Iraq as opposed to just securing U.S. interests in Mesopotamia. But some of those who have called on the administration to abandon its Wilsonian scheme still insist that Americans should "stay the course" in Iraq to ensure that it doesn't fall under the control of another tyrant or degenerate into a civil war.
But these realists need to turn their narrative of the Iraq war on its head. The U.S. invasion of Iraq wasn't part of a nation-building scheme. Ironically, beginning with the First Gulf War and ending with the ouster of Saddam Hussein, U.S. policies interrupted and eventually ended a process of nation building led by Saddam. Idealist pundits who in recent years have compared nation building to a holy mission to be undertaken by the United States and its league of democracy crusaders, would probably take issue with the notion that the Evil Tyrant of Baghdad was a, well, nation builder. But to suggest that a bloody tyrant like Saddam and his fascist Baath party were engaged in nation building is only to affirm that they were following in the footsteps of some of the most brutal but effective nation builders of the Twentieth Century: Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
In fact, since "Iraq" was nothing more than a geo-political invention of the British imperialists, and the "Iraqi nation" was a fictitious entity, the only way to bring together the mishmash of tribal, ethnic (Arabs, Kurds, Turkomans), and religious (Sunnis, Shiites, Christians) groups and turn them into a viable nation state was through an authoritarian centralizing political power in Baghdad. Previous attempts at holding together the Iraqi state involved applying a variety of phony and authentic identities (Arab, Muslim, Assyrian) to unify these rival groups against real and imagined outside threats (Iranian, Israeli, American).
Through the control of the military and the security services, and by nationalizing the economy, Hussein and his tribal and political cronies were pursuing the Middle Eastern modus operandi of nation building favored by other autocrats such as Kamal Atta Turk and the Shah of Iran.
There are only two realistic choices open to the "Iraqi people" in the post-Saddam era: either restart nation building or take the road towards self-determination along ethno-religious lines (the Kurds, Arab Shiites and Arab Sunnis). It's difficult to make an argument why either of these two alternatives does or does not reflect American values or squares with U.S. interests.
Americans cannot deny any people the right to decide whether they want to live together or separate. Figuratively speaking, the English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians are still married, but the Czechs and Slovaks got divorced. We can certainly hope that that decision over whether to separate or remain together would be made through peaceful means (e.g. Czechoslovakia) and not war (e.g. Yugoslavia).
But even civil war along the lines of what took place in Yugoslavia shouldn't confront us with a moral obligation to intervene on behalf of one or more parties in such a conflict in Iraq. Indeed, U.S. experience in the Balkans demonstrated the moral ambiguity involved in taking sides in a civil war.
Forget morality, respond some realists. U.S. interests would be served by maintaining the territorial integrity of Iraq since the disintegration of the country into two or three states would lead to intervention by the Turks, the Iranians, and the Syrians, who are opposed to Kurdish independence. Equally important are considerations about how a breakup of Iraq would benefit Iran, and could lead to the emergence of another Shiite state. Indeed, proponents of a long-term occupation often argue that the collapse of Iraq would ignite a general Middle Eastern war.
Such nightmare scenarios assume that U.S. military power in the region can help maintain the balance of power and can forestall these events. But it was an American-led war that ended up threatening the status quo in the region and making such scenarios possible.
The United States should permit the regional players to protect their respective interests and reach accommodations by using a mix of diplomatic influence and military force, on the understanding that the United States retains its authority and ability to protect our security and vital interests. Such an approach would force the Kurds to consider the interests of the Turks, and leaves open the possibility that Iran may or may not emerge as regional hegemon. Realists favoring a long-term military presence in Iraq will then have to explain why core U.S. national interests would be harmed by such developments.


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April 27 (Reuters) - A deli manager at a Walmart store has started an online petition calling for the resignations of the retailer's chairman and chief executive officer in the wake of allegations that top management squelched an internal probe into bribery allegations.
Venanzi Luna, who works at the Walmart in Pico Rivera, California, near Los Angeles, started the petition on Thursday and had more than 4,300 signatures as of Friday afternoon. Luna, who has worked at Walmart for seven years, said she wanted to get 10,000 online signatures or more.
The petition calls for the resignation of Wal-Mart Stores Inc Chairman S. Robson Walton and CEO Mike Duke as well as for "a thorough and independent investigation by a highly-respected external organization."
In an interview, Luna said that after she got the signatures, she wanted to bring the petition to Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to show management that this was what employees wanted.
"Nobody should get away with bribery, and they should be held accountable for that," Luna said.
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The New York Times reported last week that Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) made suspect payments totaling $24 million last decade to expand rapidly in the country, where it is the biggest retailer.
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A Wal-Mart spokesman declined to comment on the petition. The company this week disclosed a group of high-profile lawyers and accountants it has brought in to help with an internal investigation into the matter.
The demands in the petition mirror those called for on Wednesday by Joe Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
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Jewish World Review Jan. 4, 2013/ 22 Teves, 5773 Shootout on the Second Amendment By Dave Weinbaum
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Despite what you hear from the President, the MSM and a gaggle of actors, the US
founders were right-on when they wrote and supported our right to bear arms. Their
concept was that an armed citizenry would be able to stop the government from
becoming a tyranny. Here are a few quotes from some of the Founders:
New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo recently said that he was willing to go as far as the
house-to-house physical confiscation of guns from New Yorkers. If I were him, I'd
Clearly the premise of the Founding Fathers who prevailed in the enactment of the
Second Amendment, guaranteed individual gun ownership as an inalienable right. They
prophesized the necessity of defense of average citizens over a tyrannical government;
one that would exploit its unarmed citizens up to and including their murders.
As to the argument that citizens shouldn't have assault weapons with large magazines, I
have a counterpoint. Clearly our Founders thought it wise that individual citizens could
maintain any gun or rifle in light of a presumed attack by their own government. Therefore
it's imperative that US Citizens shall own any caliber of weapon they want as long as they
pass a screening.
Let it be noted that Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws on record, yet it had 292
deaths from guns in the last six months while war-torn Iraq had 221.
The Soviet Union under Stalin confiscated arms, and farms. It forced state planning on
growers and stole their crops, creating starvation and disease that caused millions of
deaths from people who had no weapons for defense. Pretty soon, just owning a gun
became a capital crime. Russia was efficient in some ways. They shunned formality and
shot gun owners right on the spot. Then they grabbed their guns.
There's one news source from outside of the United States that we ought to pay attention
to. After publishing an article labeling our President a "Communist" this outlet warned
about the impending battle our government is about to foist upon us.
The writer, Stanislav Mishin warns Americans of what his country did to its citizens: "One
of the first things (they) did was to disarm the population. From that point, mass
repression, mass arrests, mass deportations, mass murder, mass starvation was all a safe
game for the powers that were."
That article was published in November of this year in our old nemesis, Russia's former
propaganda rag, Pravda. Can there be any doubt that we are going to be battling for the
very existence of our Republic if Congress is in the process of legislating away our right to
bear arms?
Yes America, don't kid yourself, it can happen here!
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Abstract: | In the year 2000, a paper entitled A Heat Transfer Model for Firefighters Protective Clothing was published in Volume 36, No. 1, of Fire Technology, and it received the 2001 Harry C. Bigglestone Award for Excellence in Written Communication of Fire Protection Concepts from The Fire Protection Research Foundation. Since the publication of this paper, there has been additional development of the heat transfer model. The radiant heat transfer element has been refined, and the model can now address predictions of heat transfer through wet protective clothing materials. Additionally, there has been an extension of the thermal properties database for fabric materials used to manufacture firefighters protective clothing. These improvements have significantly expanded the capabilities of the model and provide users with a more robust tool for economically predicting thermal protective clothing performance. |
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The company I worked for in Japan was typical enough. Imagine I am your manager at a Japanese company and you are a new hire. The following rules apply to the Japanese staff and their management:
If you have a problem with the way your manager does his or her job, complain about it in the bar after hours. Never do it in the office. If you do it in the office, then you do not belong at this company.
If you have a problem with the way your manager does his or her job and you go over his head, you are being childish and unreasonable and the big boss will agree with me.
If you don't do your job, you get fired--no excuses, no appeals.
If you are a sales manager and you don't meet expected monthly sales figures, you will be removed from that position the next day. You may not get fired, but you will be moved and placed in a lesser position.
If you are caught taking personal calls in the office, you will be given a warning. If it happens again, you're fired.
If an angry boyfriend or girlfriend ever calls this office and anybody else gets wind of it, you're out fast.
Turn off your personal cel phone in the office or it will be confiscated. If you have a problem with that, then you do not belong at this company.
Hair color. If you change your hair color and your manager tells you to change it back to your natural color, do it or you're out. If you get a perm and your manager says to undo it, undo it or you're out. The same goes for nails, excessive makeup, colored contacts, jewelry, and anything else they we can think of.
Follow the dress code or you don't get in the door. Don't even think about setting foot on company property if you are not fully dressed--that means your tie better be on and tied properly before you get to the office--none of this standing in the office toilet to finish doing your tie. Skirts will be a specified length and you ladies will wear only the type of hose specified in the code.
If one single yen is not accounted for at the end of the day, you will stay in the office and account for it before you leave--even if you have to pay for it yourself.
Tattoos will not be visible. If you have tattoos on parts of your body that cannot be covered by business attire, you probably will never be hired in the first place.
If someone is harassing you and you can't deal with it like an adult, request a transfer to another branch or resign and seek life elsewhere.
We don't simply believe the customer is always right. We believe the customer is God.
Don't get romantically involved with customers. If you do and it goes bad, you will be fired if your ex-sweetheart causes us any trouble at all.
You can be fired for no reason. We will usually give you a reason but we don't have to.
These are just a few of the rules the Japanese operate under. Mind you, the Japanese were a bit more forgiving with us western foreigners because, of course, we are ignorant barbarians. They had other bi-lingual western foreigners manage us on a day to day level but the Japanese management had ultimate power over them, of course.
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Hello all, I have recently put enough information together to discover that my recent thought patterns have been the cause of the Pure-O form of OCD. I always knew something was up and that I was different from others in some way (flipping a lightswitch over and over to save my parents life when I was 8). Finally my OCD has reared its ugly head in my adult life. I have done a ton of research (obsessivly) on what could be causing my brain malfunctions to find out how to combat this interesting miss-wire. Now that I have enough information on the matter I feel that most of the time I fully understand what is happening and why. My goal now is to re-wire myself so that I can really enjoy life and all the great things that it has to offer. I am the proud father or a beautiful 2 month old boy, his name is Miles, hes the man. Now that I know about my OCD and the science behind it I have really turned things around for myself. Yeah sure, I freak out sometimes, wonder if I'm crazy.... we all do I think, infact I think if you thought you were perfectly sane and had OCD you'd be crazy...lol. Anyways sorry for the rediculusly long post.. just excited to be a part of the community and help support others with this silly disorder.
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2. Re-do the steps for the steps for alpha and beta feeds as per WebOS Internals page 3. Re-install Preware 4. Enable the feeds in Preware That should do the trick |
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But I am wondering, because some things do not work. For example as shown in the video here (webOS Community Edition gets card stack management that makes sense | webOS Nation) you can put cards together or seperate them again...that is not working on my TP, althoug everything is switched on in Tweaks... |
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I have been holding back from installing the Beta feeds necessary to install the current release of LunaCE because I don't really meet the prerequisite competence requited in the Wiki instructions.
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note, I have no reason to say it will or won't just trying to be very clear that I cannot speak in any form of absolutes and am not trying to take credit or put words in any developers mouth. at this point the last I have seen is talk of a possibility in the public feeds at some time
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I do come across the occasional glitch, but I do not expect support as I am not running as instructed (I have a handful of additional patches on my daily driver TP). I am not encouraging you or anyone else to do anything other than follow instructions as given, but there are those of us that bend (okay break) the occasional rule.
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Great job with LunaCE. I love the changes in the Beta. Any idea when the new cursor may move into the Beta? I would love to see it and try it out but I am not willing to become one of the initial test rodents. I prefer to be tested on after most of the kinks have been worked out. No rush. Even if it gets no better than what I have I will never go back to regular vanilla Luna.
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I love physical keyboards... but there is two devices that would make me consider a slab, one is something running a full version of Open webOS. The other is an iPhone!!!! HA HA just kidding (about the iPhone that is)... |
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hello. a possible new tweak feature would be that card switching "gestures" could have an option "left side only", in order not to interfere with scrolling. example: when that is off, you can perform bezel gestures from both sides, but when it is on you can only left side switch between cards
11/22/2012, 07:15 AM | #756 (permalink) |
I installed the Beta about a week ago. I like it. It runs smooth. I decided not to put the password back.
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Works best when they are stacked. All cards in the stack are from the same project. Slide the focused card over from the side bezel and the other cards in the stack are view-able for selection/focus. I agree there is not much to be done with them minimized on the main wallpaper screen and never do that except by accident. I think what you are looking for is more like turning the main screen into a launcher page. If you have several cards open and you want to switch between them you don't even have to exit from App view to Card view. You can still slide one maximized App over and get the next one into focus... The only purpose I can see to the request is aesthetic. Is their a functionality component I'm missing???
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11/23/2012, 02:55 PM | #759 (permalink) |
No, I think it goes beyond that. If I have a lot of cards open and I want a quick glance over them to see whats open, Mini Cards is helpful. Also, making stacks with Mini Cards is a lot easier in a grid view, because you can simply drag and drop the cards over each other (like making folders in iOS or Android, only its with cards and open applications), and while you can do this with a row, it's much easier in a grid.
And its not so much a grid. This is what Expose' looked like on Mac OS X http://mac101.net/files/2009/06/2009...t_73451_pm.png |
11/23/2012, 02:59 PM | #760 (permalink) |
if the views were ever going to get insane/indepth views like the one suggested you could even argue the psp xmb style view to be useful, left<>right the diff cards, up<>down thru the stacks, it would be at least webOS intuitive esp on a phone, still useable with 1 finger/thumb.
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OKC Thunder to make cuts in the coming days | News OK (Didn't know if this was posted or not. I hope that Garrett can stay-on with the OKC Thunder.) It appears the final spot will come down to forward Ryan Gomes and point guard Diante Garrett. Gomes has the advantage of being a seven-year veteran, but Garrett plays a position at which the Thunder currently lacks depth due to the injury to starter Russell Westbrook. If preseason playing time provides any indication of which direction the Thunder is leaning, Garrett had appeared in all five contests prior to Tuesday night, logging 38 minutes, while Gomes had appeared in only one game, playing 12-first half minutes. "It's coming down," Brooks said of cut day. "The next three or four days. Just get by these next couple of games and then we make a decision shortly after." With Garrett, a 24-year-old Iowa State product who appeared in 19 games as a member of the Suns last season, Brooks said he's mostly looking to see how he commands the floor.
That article is from the 22nd, so they will probably be making the cuts today from what I read.
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Think someone will pick him up again? The Suns? Why did they move him in the first place?
dang when did phoenix send him packing?
Is there a taxi squad in bball or is this a move to the D League if he is under contract? Celtics have 15. 2013-14 Roster | The Official Site of the BOSTON CELTICS Knicks have 20 2013-14 Roster | THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE NEW YORK KNICKS Thunder have 16: 2013-14 Roster | THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER http://www.nba.com/sixers/roster/2013 Sixers have 20. Looks like their websites are run by the feds.
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Startribune.com digital sports editor Howard Sinker used to cover the Twins and now shares season tickets with friends in Section 219 of Target Field. He blogs about baseball from the perspective of a long-time fan who loves the game, doesn't always believe the hype and likes hearing what others think. Howard sometimes talks about sports with Cathy Wurzer on MPR's Morning Edition.
I covered the firings of the two managers before Tom Kelly was hired by the Twins. Billy Gardner was cut loose in 1985 and conducted a one-liner filled exit interview with me 'n' Patrick Reusse, who was working in St. Paul at the time, in the Super 8 motel room in Roseville where he lived during the season. Little more than a year later, Ray Miller waxed bitter about his firing in the downtown Minneapolis high rise where he lived during his brief and flawed stint with the Twins.
You could see those coming too, even if both of them were in some denial about what led to their job loss.
Ron Gardenhire went out differently. I really think that every word he spoke on Monday afternoon, after Terry Ryan announced the change, was from the heart. For him to stay on as manager of the Twins would have been the wrong thing on many fronts. This is a team that needs a new voice, especially if that voice is intended to be heard for as long as Gardenhire's and Tom Kelly's were. This is a voice intended to be heard in 2025 as well as 2015, if Ryan and the Twins make the right choice.
I was among the first to write this season that a change of manager was needed. If you think I was happy to write that, you're mistaken. I was as happy to make that case as Ryan was to tell Gardy that he was gone.
Gardenhire's spring training tryout with the Twins came in 1987, the last year I covered the team, and he lost out on a reserve's job (as did Ron Washington) after the Twins traded for Al Newman. Gardy played in 10 games that spring. He made five errors and didn't hit much. Kelly made no secret that he was looking for a glove more than a bat -- and Gardy was cut at the end of camp (on the same day the Twins traded with San Francisco for Dan Gladden).
I saw a lot of those fringe guys come through spring training. None of them came back and made an impact, other than Gardy. When the curmudgeon Kelly resigned, Gardy was the folksy, cheerful replacement. He was a voice the Twins needed and he was the right manager to guide the group that he took over, which is a very different group than the one that led to Gardy being thrown overboard.
This group needs a voice more strident than folksy. If you want a leader for a core of self-starters who are going to demand the most from each other, Gardy is among the best choices to manage. That's not a description of the current Twins, who act way too content with being on the periphery of other teams' success. As constructed by Ryan, this wasn't a team good enough to contend -- and I got the sense that didn't bother players as much as it should have.
So why not sack Ryan, too?
Well, if that happened, whom in the organization would you trust to find his replacement -- much less a new manager? Starting pitching isn't the only area in which the Twins have little depth.
The choice of a new manager and the revisions made to the current roster will, basically, be a referendum on Ryan. He has done some things for the minor-league organization to help it recover from the fraying that took place between his general manager stints. But the real challenge is whether that will soon pay off at Target Field.
In addition to hiring a new manager, I hope Ryan hires a top assistant to work with him. The next year or two will be a test of his abilities to construct a winning major league team, and if the troubles continue, his job should be the next on the line. So I want the coming changes to include someone who could well be the Twins' next general manager.
Worst case is that change needs making in a year or two.
Best case for the Twins is that the right moves are made and Ryan is replaced when he damn well pleases -- and well down the road.
The Twins regular season starts on Monday in Chicago and the excitement is underwhelming. I can tell you what I think, but my question to you is whether there's been a year when the start of the Twins season has been met with the amount of dread or apathy or whatever it is I've been sensing?
When I checked the Twins' web site this morning for Home Opener tickets, you could buy a pair 13 rows up -- in the section behind the Champions Club -- and pretty much right behind home plate. In other words, we're even further past the period when people will come to Target Field just because ownership (and the taxpayers) built it.
Even management is sounding more than a bit like frustrated fans -- or bloggers, even. Assistant general manager Rob Antony told Phil Miller in today's paper: "Who's had a great spring, of the position guys? I mean, has anybody really impressed? I read some of the clips on other teams: 'Guy hits his fifth homer of the spring.' We usually have a guy who does some of that too. We've been awfully quiet."
For context, Antony said he believes things will be better when the nine starters are on the field for nine innings. But based on last season's anemic statistics and the total lack of significant changes made to the offense, Antony is believing in something he hasn't seen. I can do that with a Higher Power, but not with the kind of power Antony is hoping to see.
The Twins have scored 23 runs in their last 10 games -- games when the regular-season roster is starting to take shape and regulars are getting more playing time. I wish I could offer you something to grab on to right now, but if that's the best Antony can do, I can't do any better.
Wait, here's one! Joe Mauer is batting 81 points higher than the departed Justin Morneau is with Colorado. Of course, they're tied in home runs (zero). Seriously, even taking into account anything that resembles power and the game-losing fumble he made at first base on Wednesday, Mauer is one of the few things I'm not worried about. If I turn out to be wrong on that, the 162 games will either drag on forever if you're still paying attention, or fly by if you choose to ignore them.
Those who care about the Twins should dread that the arc of their season will imitate that of the Timberwolves: Hope at the start while fans were watching for something better than they'd seen in recent years, followed by game after game that become easier and easier to ignore.
I haven't watched every inning this spring -- far from it -- but my eyes (and the eyes of others who have watched more closely) haven't seen anything that foreshadows a return to when the Twins were known for doing things the right way. I feel like every time I watch for a couple of innings, Jason Bartlett (3 for 35) or Josh Willingham (2 for 36) is making an out. I am puzzled over the debate over who should fill the last few spots on the roster, knowing that none of the candidates would be taken seriously on a team with serious expectations.
Bartlett vs. Escobar? Parmelee here and Herrmann in the minors? Spare me. The inability to upgrade the offense is a giant fail for the front office.
I'm hopeful but that I'm wrong about some of this. Bearing gloom is something I don't enjoy. But I don't want to hear Dick'n'Bert, Danny'n'Cory and the others talking "the fine work of the starting rotation that doesn't show up in the win-loss records." Ricky Nolasco and Phil Hughes and other others could have fine seasons based on many metrics-- and still lose twice as many as they win if the offense continues to rot.
So is this going to be another season when even more people shrug their shoulders at mention of the Twins, another season that will fall short of putting a competent team on the field? Can you build a case for hope in 2014?
The thing about a bad baseball team is that you take a week away this time of year and don't miss much. I watched the Twins stumble through their half-speed loss to the Mets last week and then pretty much took a vacation break.
Kyle Gibson 1.0 ended, Joe Mauer got concussed by a foul tip from Ron Davis' kid and the team somehow won two out of three from Detroit. Let's assume the latter was a result of Detroit's disinterest, Justin Verlander's struggles and the good fortune to miss Max Scherzer. The Twins reverted to all that ails them over the weekend in Cleveland.
This feels like a good time to offer thoughts on an assortment of topics. So here goes with 10 of 'em:
The Mauer concussion and position discussion. The "how much should he catch debate" has restarted with vigor. To me, it's simple. If catching 100 games per season is going to hamper Mauer more and more as his career continues, then it's time to turn him into a 6-foot-5 first baseman who does some catching on the side and is one of the best (count of fingers of one hand) hitters in the game. There's an opposing opinion saying Mauer wouldn't provide the same value at first base as he does catching. I say he's already provided a ton-and-a-half of value behind the plate. Plus, value to whom? Are you more concerned that the owners get some kind of perceived "value" or that a healthy Mauer is in better position to be an offensive force, maybe for another decade, while evolving into a solid first baseman? I'll take the assumption of added offense and better health, which should mean a better chance to win.
Morneau's future. Speaking of first base, the chatter about Justin Morneau's future continues. Bless Morneau for all he contributed during a prime that is now three seasons past. Now? Let's never have anyone else wear No. 33 for the Twins and wish him luck on his future endeavors, especially when there's a logical heir to the first-base job. Money spent to keep him with the Twins is better spent elsewhere. If he goes somewhere else and does well, toques off to him.
Josh Willingham. There's a touch of revisionist history at work about how the Twins should have traded him after the best season of his career – and a two-year run in which he had 64 home runs and an .851 OPS. As the Twins plot 2014, it makes sense to turn Willingham into a full-time DH who can play the outfield only if needed – and rarely. Let's a presumed outfield of Oswaldo Arcia, Aaron Hicks and someone else play the field. Willingham has never had two subpar seasons in a row, but if 2014 feels like the start of a permanent decline, the Twins can part ways with him.
Starting pitching. In the post-Johan Santana era, the Twins went to the postseason twice (and Game 163 another year) with a rotation of No. 2 and 3 starters. Since then, Twins starters have been a collection of fours, fives and guys who shouldn't be in the majors. One of Terry Ryan's challenges is to sift through this year's group of free agents, see who may be available in trade and simply do better than the Twins have been doing these last few years. Prevailing wisdom is that teams need to overpay for starting pitching, but (again) that's not an issue for a fan to worry about. (Even less so when Jim Pohlad told Phil Mackey on Saturday in an ESPN 1500 interview that Ryan can increase the payroll significantly.) Find an ace, find a couple of starters more solid than Mike Pelfrey and Kevin Correia and let the others battle for the back end of the rotation.
Bring back Johan? I'd try it … but not at the expense of anything else. In other words, an interesting sideshow when there are more important things to do. (I'm assuming the Mets aren't going to pick up his option for next year.)
Adding the "right" veterans. When the Twins tried to explain their 2011 flop as a "perfect storm" of problems instead of recognizing the cliff jump that had taken place, the Twins brought in Willingham, Ryan Doumit and Jamey Carroll. All were useful; none, however, came from winning-team backgrounds. I made that point back then, contrasting them to the worst-to-first additions the Twins made between 1990 and '91 (Jack Morris, Chili Davis, Mike Pagliarulo). In 2014, if Morneau doesn't return, the core of Twins with winning backgrounds will be Mauer and … uh… pretty much nobody. I like numbers as much as most of you, but team building is a multidimensional task. Veteran players with skills – in the clubhouse and on the field – need to be part of the build.
Bring back A.J. Pierzynski? Let him catch 100-110 games and help whip the pitching staff into shape. It's called "adding the 'right' veterans."
The middle infield. If you'd asked me in April if I thought a middle infield of Brian Dozier at second base and Pedro Florimon at shortstop was a major league combination, I would have dismissed the query as rhetorical. Now, I'm pretty much sold. Ever since pulling his average above .200 at the end of May, Dozier has been a .265/.343/.488 offensive performer and a fine defensive second baseman. (Morneau's numbers in that time are .241/.309/.439, by the way.) Florimon does what shortstops should do – field. Using Ultimate Zone Rating to judge, Florimon is second among American League shortstops. He makes plays that other shortstops don't. His presence also allows the Twins not to worry as much about defense at third base, which could be an issue when Miguel Sano is ready for promotion. (Trevor Plouffe is second from the bottom is UZR among AL third basemen, ahead only of Miguel Cabrera, who brings a different set of superhuman skills to the ballpark.)
Gardy's future. In Los Angeles, apparently there will be an off-season showdown in which only the general manager or manager Mike Scioscia will be survive. Here, ownership is committed to Ryan as GM. But even if Ryan truly leads the discussion about Gardy's future, it's naïve to think there won't be input from the Pohlads. I'm not getting heavily invested in this discussion because it runs a distant third to acquiring better major league talent and continuing to develop the top players in the minors. For me, it's a "whatever" debate. If that disappoints the Gardy-bashers, so be it.
Sano's future, Hicks' future and the future of the future. I still need to be convinced that anyone in the minor-league system will be ready to make an impact on the Twins in 2014. Miguel Sano, perhaps. But selling Sano without paying attention the organization's other issues is a bit like having a really hot car – and leaving it outside during the Minnesota winter because you don't have a garage. Aaron Hicks should get another shot at owning center field next year, but am I the only one who looks back on the young Torii Hunter's struggles and wonders if it will take beyond 2014 for him to contribute at the level we're expecting? I'm looking forward to the time when the minor-league system starts producing more than end-of-bench talents, but I'm not seeing that being the case in any kind of quantity until 2015.
That's a list of 10 and I don't expect anyone to agree with me on all of them. But these are my chattering points to get through the final few dozen games.
Brian Dozier and Justin Morneau hit home runs Wednesday night and the other side of the infield, Trevor Plouffe and Pedro Florimon, didn't do anything to hurt their team as the Twins beat the last-place White Sox for a second straight game. The home team will go for a sweep today.
It was an interesting game for an infield that's in flux.
All four of Wednesday's starters, which is pretty much the regular cast, are playing for their futures right now -- not bad drama when you don't have standings to watch with any seriousness.
At third base, Plouffe is contending with the shadow on super-prospect Miguel Sano in the long term and Rochester third baseman Deibinson Romero if things blow up (or he doesn't stay healthy) in the short run. When he's been healthy this season, Plouffe has put up numbers that should allow him to fend off short-term challenges. His statistics with runners in scoring position are .295 average/.353 on-base percentage/.432 on base-plus-slugging, compared with .206/.298/.327 in those situations in 2012.
At second base, Dozier simply hasn't put together acceptable offensive numbers, mostly because of an inability to hit right-handed pitchers.
Florimon has provided enough at shortstop to be considered the regular -- for now. But if the infield of the future includes Sano at third base and Eddie Rosario, another top prospect, at second, Florimon will have to grow into becoming their leader. An argument can be made that Terry Ryan should already be looking into the future a year or two for the kind of veteran who will be available to provide that leadership.
The Morneau situation is the diciest -- and probably beyond the Twins control. We were talking about Morneau at Target Field the other night -- the night when the mother-in-law ended up with a Joe Mauer foul ball that found its way to Section 219 -- and these things are clear.
*Morneau is not a $14 million player at this stage of his career. His power has gone missing and his overall offensive numbers are barely above average -- not even close to his prime years from 2006 until his concussion in 2010.
*Morneau has to decide whether he wants to do a Torii Hunter, and make his priority finding a team that considered a serious World Series contender. That's inexact science (See: Hamilton, Josh, among others.) Does Morneau want to be a DH and back-up first baseman for the Yankees, for example. Does he want to play in Canada, where Toronto's first base situation isn't very settled? Will those teams want him?
*There will be free-agent options if the Twins decide to go another direction. Here's the current list of guys who will be free agents after this season. Combine that with Joe Mauer gradually playing more games at first base and you have a murky situation that, right now, probably doesn't bode well for the kind of contract that Morneau will hope to get. And if Plouffe succeeds on offense, is he a candidate for a first baseman/DH role down the road?
Much of this, of course, is subject to change if Morneau goes on a power surge in the next few weeks. That could make him a bigger trade-deadline target for a contender, or change his value for 2014 and beyond -- for the Twins or another team. But it appears clear that Morneau has already gotten the best contract he'll ever sign, with the debate being about his worth over the next year or three.
Whatever the case, if you're a big booster of a Twins infielder or two, it would be wise to watch 'em now.
Sweeping four games from the Brewers gives a lot of Twins fans a little extra dose of giddy because it makes up for Minnesota fans having to look up at the Packers, the Badgers (in football and basketball) and the Bucks (despite their mediocrity) in the standings of those sports. But what does it really mean? That the Twins would go 120-42 if they played only the Brewers, Astros and Marlins?
Mostly, it means that the Twins did not shrivel up and blow away after the wretched baseball they played during their 10-game losing streak -- most of it coming against teams that are in first place in their divisions (Detroit, Boston and Atlanta.) That's not meant to be an excuse or a reason losing 10 in a row, but all teams have valleys during their seasons. It's a bit like life: You're never that good (and you're probably not that bad).
After a month with a rough schedule, the Twins have games in June against teams more their speed. The only teams they play next month with records currently above .500 are Detroit and Cleveland. So it'll take some undoing for the Twins to play poorly enough to restart the 100-loss discussion. And if they play really, really well...
With that unfinished thought in mind, here are a few quick observations:
*It's not good that the pitchers we're most excited about, currently, are Samuel Deduno and P.J. Walters. It means the 2013 rotation implants and Scott Diamond haven't given the Twins what they need, which is absolutely true with the exception of Kevin Correia. But here's my challenge to you: Go through the available free-agent pitchers from last winter and find three who would be giving the Twins a significant boost right now. You can use these rankings as a cheat sheet.
When you find three, of course, then you have to be confident in your ability that you would have chosen those three to the exclusion of all others who were available. Here are a half-dozen names that engendered varying degrees of disappointment when the Twins didn't pluck them off the market: Edwin Jackson (1-7, 6.11), Joe Blanton (1-8, 5.94), Joe Saunders (3-5, 5.57) Brandon McCarthy (2-4, 5.00) Brett Myers (0-3, 8.02), Erik Bedard (0-2, 5.32).
[Sarcastic interlude] It's tough all over, and I'm sure all the barstool, basement and blogging GMs would have honed right in on both Scott Feldman (5-4, 2.82) and Carlos Villanueva (1-3, 3.65) as 2013 Twins starters. Absolutely sure. Yeah, I know I would have. And I would have brought back Jason Marquis (6-2, 3.70), too. [End sarcastic interlude]
In no way does this excuse what was allowed to happen to the Twins pitching in recent years. The atrophy was avoidable. But fixing a pitching staff is a tough, tough business. A look through the lists I linked to shows that.
*I'm glad the Twins stuck with Aaron Hicks. Deciding when a player is ready for the majors is as much art as science. You can hurt one player by bringing him up too soon and you can hurt another with too much time in the minors. By season's end, I think most of those who were clamoring from the Twins to return Hicks to the minors will be happy he stayed. And, yes, it may have been the organization's good fortune that nobody in Rochester would have been a reasonable replacement in center field.
I'm anticipating the debate in a couple of years over who plays center field: Hicks or Byron Buxton. That'll be fun.
*I like Pedro Florimon. Sometimes the best answer is gambling on a player that another team (Baltimore, in this case) had no use for and give him a chance. Claiming Florimon on waivers, a month after Terry Ryan replaced Bill Smith, is turning out to be a pretty sweet replacement for J.J. Hardy (and others who shall not be named).
(Update: For some interesting data on Florimon and Hardy, including some numbers that surprised me, check the comments below.)


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This week sees the Scottish Parliamentary election campaign step up a gear with the publication of manifestos.
Today it was the turn of Tavish Scott to launch our manifesto. Among the interesting ideas was an exemption from council tax for pensioners whose income is below £10K. I also welcome the protection of Free Personal Care, the expansion of Telehealth and the support for more self directed support for those requiring care.
While in Edinburgh we probably won't have much call for the "Home on the Farm" scheme to develop rural housing I do welcome the general thrust of the Housing manifesto.
I also welcome the approach to Law and Order. The Lib Dem's are the only party standing up for decentralised policing and the only ones wanting to protect our traditional freedoms.


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Marichamy, R and Rajapackiam, S (1996) Commercial farming of Mud Crab in coastal ponds at Tuticorin. In: The Fourth Indian Fisheries Forum, Proceedings, 24-28 November, 1996, Kochi .
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Mud crab farming is fast developing in shrimp ponds as diversified and alternative system of culture by the entrepreneurs. The resource potentials of seed and feed are highlighted. Fourteen ponds were converted for production of mud crab. Monoculture, polyculture and fattening methods are described. Production results of these trials vary from 1020-2440 kghalcmp, revealing the scope to improve high yield. Fattening of water crabs in a period of 7-8 weeks fetched an attractive revenue. Technology for production of gravid female which fetch a premium price in export trade was evolved. A high profit was realised in polyculture trials with milkfish as compatible species. Feed consists of low cost trash fish and gutted waqtes of squid, rays and chick. The hydrological and environmental conditions were conducive and its requirements are discussed. The growth, survival and production results vary according to the size and number of seed stocked.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | farming; Mud Crab; Tuticorin |
Subjects: | Aquaculture > Farming/Culture Crustacean Fisheries > Crabs |
Divisions: | CMFRI-Cochin > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries |
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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 340 FILED ON: 1/10/2013 HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1762
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts _________________ PRESENTED BY: John W. Scibak _________________ To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: An Act relative to state employment postings. _______________ PETITION OF:
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[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION The Commonwealth of Massachusetts _______________ In the Year Two Thousand Thirteen _______________ An Act relative to state employment postings. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Section 30 of Chapter 7 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended in line 7, by inserting after the first paragraph the following paragraph:- "Every agency and institution of the Commonwealth shall transmit to the human resources division all employment opportunities, notices, and postings, excluding positions subject to section 46D of chapter 30, chapter 31 and chapter 150E, including but not limited to notices of job opportunities, new positions and vacancies. The division shall immediately place all such information in the statewide employment computerized referral system. No position shall be filled without full compliance with this section". of |


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