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The Somali Spring
Is the poster child of failed states finally getting its act together?
- By Ken MenkhausKen Menkhaus is a professor of political science at Davidson College, a specialist on Somalia and the Horn of Africa, and a senior fellow at the Enough Project, a project at the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.
After the twin suicide attacks that killed 14 people in Mogadishu last week and an assassination attempt on the president a little more than a week before that, predictions of a Somali Spring would seem to be, at the very least, premature. But buried beneath the grisly headlines of the last few weeks was some unexpectedly good news: The newly appointed Somali parliament elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to serve as the first post-transition head of state. This is a seismic event in Somalia — but not for the reasons many observers presume.
Mohamud's election does not signal an end to Somalia's 21 years of state collapse. Nor will it bring a quick end to the country's systemic political violence. The new president is taking the reins of a failed government that exercises only nominal control over the capital, Mogadishu, and faces a real, if diminished, threat from the al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab. Even in a best-case outcome, it will take years for the government to extend and deepen its authority. And though it brings to a conclusion Somalia's deeply flawed, eight-year political transition, Mohamud's new administration must still take on a host of difficult, unfinished transitional tasks.
The real significance of Mohamud's election — as well as the election two weeks earlier of Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Osman Jawari — is that it demonstrates that Somalia's civil society is alive and well, after years of political violence that forced many of Somalia's best and brightest to flee the country or withdraw from public life. The election constituted a well-executed civic mobilization against the corrupt, illegitimate government of transitional President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the mafia that surrounded him. According to U.N. investigations, 70 percent of foreign aid and other revenues flowing to Sheikh Sharif's transitional government in 2009 and 2010 went unaccounted for, earning Somalia the top spot on Transparency International's 2011 ranking of the world's most corrupt governments.
This may be the start of a Somali version of an Arab Spring, with all the uncertainties that entails. It has involved no street protests and no bullets, just ballots — and a lot of commitment, savvy, and collective action by a coalition of professionals and civic leaders who jumped into what looked like a fixed game and beat the incumbent.
Practically no one saw this coming. The last year of the Transitional Federal Government was grim. Key transitional tasks — like the drafting of a constitution — were rammed through, circumvented, or only partially completed; the transitional government was paralyzed by infighting and corruption; and the country was emerging from a serious famine. Desperate to produce a sitting parliament, U.N. diplomats engineered what became known as an "appointocracy" — appointees appointing appointees. Understandably, the process had little legitimacy in the eyes of Somalis.
Most observers were convinced that appointed members of parliament would be in the pockets of Somalia's "moneylords" — a quarreling, dysfunctional coalition of political entrepreneurs who have used control over transitional-government finances to rent allegiances and enrich themselves since 2009. Instead, a combination of nationalists, moderate Islamists, business people, and cross-clan interests outmaneuvered Sheikh Sharif and his supporters. Mohamud, a civil society leader, educator, and peace-builder, emerged as a finalist in a runoff vote against Sheikh Sharif and won resoundingly.
Critics of the vote argue that money was passed around by both sides, and they are probably right. But what matters is this: In a power struggle between two rival coalitions, the "constructive elite" — the group known and admired for having built universities, hospitals, charities, and businesses in the country during the long civil war — defeated a parasitic elite coalition that had devoted all its energies to diverting public funds.
Mohamud's victory electrified Somalis and both surprised and relieved the international community. Only two groups emerged as losers: the moneylords and warlords who sought to maintain the status quo, and al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab has taken a big hit with this election. For years, the corruption and misbehavior of the transitional government was one of the jihadi group's biggest recruiting tools. Many angry and disaffected Somalis passively supported al-Shabab, in part because the alternative was so uninspiring. Now that support could evaporate as Somalis rally behind the new government. Mohamud's government thus poses an existential threat to al-Shabab, which, though weakened, is still capable of carrying out devastating terrorist attacks. As a result, we should expect al-Shabab to take desperate actions to attack and discredit the government, including widening its terrorist campaign into neighboring countries.
But Mohamud's government must also wage a rear-guard battle against the mafia of marginalized warlords and moneylords. They have demonstrated a willingness to resort to intimidation and political violence, and they could end up being as great a danger to the new government as al-Shabab.
Yet for all the challenges, this is a critical window of opportunity — and the international community must approach it with the right policies. These cannot be the usual gift box of good-governance and rule-of-law foreign aid. More than anything else, Mohamud's administration will need political space. Somalis want to own their government and its policies. They want an end to warlordism and jihadism, but they also want an end to foreign domination. Mohamud will be under domestic pressure to reduce the influence of the United Nations and donor states, and gradually to exert more say in the operations of the African Union peacekeeping forces in Somalia. Outsiders need to respect Somalis' desire to reclaim their sovereignty and need to let the new government take the lead in proposing mechanisms to improve accountability and good governance.
The international community should also anticipate the possibility that Mohamud's government will reach out to "redeemable" wings of al-Shabab with an eye for reaching a negotiated settlement. Now that a post-transition government is in place and al-Shabab is sufficiently weakened, this may be a good moment to attempt that strategy. Mohamud may also have to cut deals with some of the moneylords and warlords to keep the peace.
These and other policies may create anxiety in neighboring states and Western donor countries, but foreigners need to understand and accommodate the complex negotiations among Somalis that will come next. Mohamud is a decent and experienced man who has the respect of Somalis at home and in the diaspora. If ever the stars were aligned for Somalia to emerge from its 20-year crisis of war and state collapse, this is it. Let's try not to get in the way.
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I don't smoke. For me... the smoking allowed in the lobby was obnoxious. Additionally, the lobby has mosquitos. Actually, the lobby is always full of mosquitos. I have no idea why they don't require smoking outside only, and why they don't make it an important point to keep the lobby mosquito-free. As wifi is available only in the lobby... i recommend you were mosquito spray to keep them away!
A very nice hotel
Some of the staff ( Swimming pool ..... Beach .. Bar staff ) give bad comments in Arabic which I understand about the guests . Some of them too , don't help you before you tip them .
Absolutely EVERYTHING about this hotel. Definitely #1 in my book. Location, STAFF, amenities, everything. Wonderful job Marriott. You know what hospitality is all about!
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Townhome, 4 Bedrooms, 3 Baths, 10 Sleeps
Award Winning Regal Palms!!!!
Your beautiful 4 bedroom townhouse is situated just 12 minutes from
Disney World within the luxurious Regal Palms Resort & Spa at
Highland Reserve.
Regal Palms offers all the benefits of a Hotel but with the
comfort, space and privacy of your own lovely home only seconds away
from all the facilities.
All ages(including the adults!), will love the 2 acre tropical pool
complete with lazy river, great water slide, jacuzzi
and much much more.
Pool towels are available from the
poolside Tiki Bar and extensive sunbathing loungers placed all
around the fantastic tropical pool ensures you will have a lovely
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If you feel more energetic, you have a fully equipped Gym,
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Championship Golf Course adjacent to Highland Reserve-if interested
email me for my specially arranged discount)and Sauna,
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are also on offer from the resorts beauty salon.
All this plus excellent food from the Regal Palms Restuarant,a
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overlooking the pool,and various entertainments and attractions
organised by Regal Palms Resort(Poolside Barbeques, live
entertainment, etc)will ensure you have a truly great base for an
unforgettable holiday.
Further facilities include the games room(including air hockey and
video games), Internet cafe(Computer,fax and photocopying
equipment), small children's Adventure Play Area and
24hr Reception - great for answering all those holiday questions.
Discount tickets to all major Theme Parks and other entertainment
can also be booked through our Management Company.
A 4 bedroom home in a luxury setting for an unbelievable price!
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Where do you begin!
Your perfectly placed to enjoy all Central Florida and Orlando has
to offer.
Disney world is only 12-15 minutes away and all other major theme
parks are within easy reach. Universal Islands of Adventure,
Universal Studios, MGM, SeaWorld, Epcot, Blizzard Beach..etc..etc
are all within 25 minutes and you have the added benefit
of only being 35-40 minutes from Busch Gardens(a much loved
favourite of many).
At Regal Palms you are also well positioned for both coasts with the
Gulf Coast(our favourite)and Atlantic Coast(Kennedy Space Centre)
being about 75 minutes away.
For entertainment and food a 5 minutes drive takes you to the
reknown 192 with its multitude of restaurants(Outback Steakhouse,
Boston LobsterFeast, NY China Buffet, Ponderosa to name but a few.)
and a variety of entertainment to enjoy.
If you've had an exhausting day at the Parks and you fancy something
closer still then the food in the Regal Palms Restaurant(60 seconds
stroll away) is excellent and a great place to enjoy a couple
of drinks(whilst the kids enjoy the nearby Games Room/Internet Cafe
if they wish or of course the pool!). Entertainment nights are also offered in season.
Fancy a take-out or meal in your home? No problem. Your a 5 minute
walk(1 minute drive)from "Berry Town" Shopping area which has a
large Publix Supermarket,providing all your daily provisions and hot food to take away.
There is also a Pizza takeaway, a great inexpensive Chinese
Takeaway(we highly recommend it),a Sandwich Bar, and further restuarants which
include a bistro, a Japanese Restaurant, a Restauarant/take out specialising in Indian
food, an excellent Applebys Restuarant(Go! Its superb!) and 2 further bars(one specialising
in "British Pub" atmosphere and food including Fish and Chips and
Sunday Roast) all within
easy walking distance from Regal Palms and your townhome!
A massive WalMart is a further 5 minutes drive along the 27 and for
fashion and other shopping the popular Florida Mall and Buena Vista
are approx 20 minutes away.
A great location then to enjoy what is truly the entertainment
capital of the World!
Rental rates
- Nightly Rate: $85 - $100
Weekly Rate: $595 - $700
Monthly Rate: $1500 - $2300
Low Season - $85/£55 per night($595/£385 per week)
High Season- $100/£65 per night($700/£450 per week)
High Season: 20th June-31st August, 21st Dec-5th Jan,1st March-30th
April(Christmas eve/Christmas Day/Boxing Day & New Years Eve/New Years
Day $175 per night)
Low Season: All other dates
Minimum stay of 4 nights applies
You'll not get cheaper than above-GAUREENTEED!(if you do we'll lower
our price - just quote your lower offer recieved).
General Information -There is a $10 per day per house(not per
person) Resort Charge payable on check to Regal Palms for use of the
Resort facilities, access to spa facilities, pool towels etc. A $250 damage deposit(credit card)is required and lodged with our Management Company before arrival and is untouched/fully refunded if no damage.
Recommendations from Previous Guests:
"Caroline thank-you for a wonderful stay!!!Your
house was absolutely lovely and Resort facilities awesome!!
Everything was exactly as you said and thankyou for your patience in
answering all my questions-you could'nt have made it easier."
"Ive been to Florida many times and Im happy to recommend Regal
Palms without reservation. We usually stay in a house with a small
private pool(which the kids always got bored with and was'nt the
best for sunbathing). Your house was completely the opposite -
absolutely beautiful(a real home from home)and the kids loved the
pool(and all the other facilities). We honestly could'nt have felt
more spoiled sunbathing and watching them. We gave the kids a
choice between a theme park and staying in Regal Palms on the final
day and they chose the resort!"
"Fab, Fab, Fab!.....thanx again Caroline. Back next year as usual"
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Sports & Adventure Activities
- golf
- 3 Bathrooms
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- 4 Bedrooms, Sleeps 10
- Bedroom 1
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- Now onto your townhouse! We were fortunate to be one of the first to purchase at the Palms so we chose carefully. Situated only 100 yards away from the 2 acre Tropical Pool and 16,000 sq.ft clubhouse facilities, you are right on its door step(no trek around the Resort to get there but set back to provide privacy/little traffic - one of the first to choose on the resort), but just far enough away for privacy and quiet. Beautifully furnished, your immaculate 4 Bedroom home(sleeps 1-10 but we think ideal for 8) has 2 Master Bedrooms(1 with a huge King Size bed/the other with a large queen size) and 2 twin rooms(each containing 2 single beds). You have 3 bathrooms/shower-rooms with both Master Bedrooms enjoying en suite facilities. Your Living Room/Dining Room is again beautifully furnished and we've added a further sofa to give you 3 sofas to relax. The kitchen and utility area are fully equipped with full laundry facility(washer/dryer,iron etc),dishwasher,cooker,fridge- freezer(ice-making compartment),microwave,crockery,cutlery, corkscrew, bottle-opener(important after all!),etc,etc...again everything you'll need. You also have 3 TVs including a huge flat screen TV in lounge,cable TV,DVD/CD player,telephone,air conditioning,ceiling fans, wi-fi connection and all linen and towels provided. Parking space for 2 vehicles is at the front of your townhouse and Patio doors leading to Patio area and lawned are for sitting out are at the rear situated off the living room. Truly a Florida "home from home".


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Reading boss Brian McDermott can call on the services of Welsh international Simon Church for the visit of Barnsley, a side they have beaten in their four previous league meetings.
Striker Church has trained all week after recovering from a thigh injury and may return to add some much-needed firepower to the side that has been missing since they lost last season's top scorer Shane Long to West Brom.
Veteran full-back Andy Griffin suffered a hamstring injury during the 1-0 defeat to Portsmouth in midweek and is a doubt for the game.
Shaun Cummings is very close to a return and could play if Griffin is ruled out while fellow defender Marcus Williams will again be absent because of injury.
Barnsley manager Keith Hill has concerns over the fitness of several unnamed players for the game.
The Tykes suffered a third successive home defeat in the space of a week on Tuesday and Hill revealed some of his players were struggling with various bumps and bruises.
Striker Ricardo Vaz Te missed Tuesday night's 3-1 defeat to Middlesbrough due to a slight muscle tear and is unlikely to be rushed back as Hill chases his first league win of the season and first since taking charge.
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Whistleblower complaint filed against Clearwater Paper | Business
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According to a news release, the department's complaint alleges that a Clearwater Paper employee was fired in 2010 in retaliation for filing a safety complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Boise Area Office.
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Hello to all, The link that I left on post four was merely my way of trying to help someone out. If you click on the link you will notice that goes directly to e-mail. This is a very helpful site when you have difficult questions or simply just need a wiring diagram. I have no intentions of sending business to anyone else or myself. In the future I'll try not to leave any more links to be helpful. CaptG ps. I am in the business of boat delivery, I do this through my reputation for over 45 years, I am not on SailNet to get business I am here for recreational purposes because I really enjoy it here!!!!!!! since I've been on SailNet I've had one offer to deliver a boat from North Carolina the Chesapeake Bay. I did not take that offer........
It never occurred to me that you were doing anything but trying to help me, and I sincerely appreciate that. However, I agree with Stu in #13, that the value of these forums is that everyone shares ideas and information. If I had something of a personal nature, or that might not be of interest to the Forum, I would have emailed you (though I still wouldn't know how to phrase the question any other way). The "link" in post 4 is a email address, not a link to a website. Enough with the flaming emoticon, you have nothing to be angry about!
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DES MOINES, Iowa A surprising drop in the U.S. corn and soybean crop sent grain prices surging to their highest levels in 2 1/2 years Wednesday. The price increases stoked concerns about higher food prices and tighter supplies of feedstock for food and biofuels.
Wet weather and abnormally high temperatures contributed to lower U.S. corn production in 2010, according to a report from the U.S. Agriculture Department. The report also showed declines in soybean, wheat and grain sorghum production.
March corn futures jumped 4 percent to settle at $6.31 a bushel. Soybean prices jumped 4.3 percent to $14.15 a bushel.
The report confirmed traders' fears that historically low stockpiles of grain and oilseeds could leave little buffer in coming months as demand rises with a growing global economy. Prices reached their highest points since the financial crisis of 2008 caused a collapse in global demand for food and fuel.
"It's just confirming that supplies are lower than we thought, and demand is better than we thought, and when that happens you see prices bidding up," said Chad Hart, an Iowa State University grain marketing specialist.
It can take months for higher grain prices to work their way to the grocery store. Raw ingredients are just a fraction of the cost for processed foods.
But companies like Hormel Foods Corp. have already announced price increases of more than 3 percent this year. Higher grain costs will put more pressure on them to pass costs along to consumers.
U.S. corn production dropped 5 percent in 2010 to 12.4 billion bushels. Still, it remained the third-highest output on record. The record was set in 2009, when 13.2 billion bushels of corn were harvested.
At issue is the amount of grain being carried over from year to year. That surplus creates a buffer for global markets. The report shows that corn stockpiles are among the lowest levels ever recorded, at just 5 percent of the total corn used, said Hart, the Iowa State specialist.
The report shows that just 745 million bushels of corn will be stockpiled by August this year. That's down from about 1 billion bushels in August 2010.
"That's a significant drop," Hart said. "Normally, we like to keep those levels above 10 percent."
Anthony Prillaman, an analyst with the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, said weather was the key factor in the lower production.
"Everything shows that normal or above normal temperatures in August reduced the yield potential for corn," he said. "They were above normal and stressed the crop."
Hart said demand continues to rise, with the ethanol industry the area of fastest growth. The largest overall demand continues to come from the livestock industry.
Lower stockpiles are also evident with soybeans, wheat and cotton, Hart said.
"Things were already really thin with soybeans and have been for the past three years," Hart said.
Soybean stock supplies are at 4 percent, down from 5 percent the previous year.
Soybean production fell just 1 percent in 2010 to 3.33 billion bushels, with average yields of 43.5 bushels per acre. Travis Thorson, a soybean analyst with the USDA, said that was down from about 3.4 billion bushels and 44 bushels per acre in 2009 and was the second-highest output on record behind 2009's.


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RRB recruitment - Questions on Medical Examination
A2 & below means he is fit in all category below A2 including A2. Such categories are A3, B1, B2, C1, C2. These are medical category as per eyesight. A1 is higher than A2.
What do you mean by "repeal"?
If you want to give appeal against the decision you have to prove some condition which was not correctly verified during medical. You can give a doctor s certificate for example as a proof.
You can appeal. But you have to produce a medical certificate with details to prove your medical fitness.
If you are unfit you will not get the job.
You have to apply to Chief Medical Officer with reasons of appeal supported by Another Doctor certificate.
ALP have tough MEdical standards. You can apply for remedical. But it will be permitted only if you produce another medical certificate to prove an error in the first medical.
Only DMO will decide. For Station MAsters, ALP no contact lens, glasses permitted. ALP normally no abnormality including laser will be permitted.
sir, please tell me, what will be the procedure for the medical examination of j.e, which is A-3? what things would be checked? pls reply. iam going to give medical examination for j.e in dmrc. which is A-3
waiting for your reply sir.
will they disqualify for blood sugar for j.e? pls tell
Sir I have been selected for SE(Electrical) for which A3 category is required.
I use glasses of power -4.5.
So can i go thru a laser surgery before going for the medical test.
Please suggest and reply ASAP
See here: http://indianrailwayemployee.com/content/medical-examination-candidates-...
Glasses are not permitted only for A1 & A2. For A3 you can wear glass.
But for A3 category Power should not exceed -2D , and my power is -4.5D......so my question is shall i go for laser surgery before going for medical test rather than getting rejection on the ground of higher power.
Nothing is mentioned in Medical Manual regarding laser surgery. So Doctor only will decide. Refer Medical Manual Vol I here: http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/codesmanual/MMVol-...
sir i have psoriasis and history of small pox which caused scars on face. and i use spectacles too. i want to get job in commercial clerk C1 .. willl i be disqulified? i am preparing for exam. please help.
A2 means physically fit in all respects. Visual Standards - Distance vision: 6/9,6/9 without glasses. Near Vision: Sn: 0.6, 0.6 without glasses and must pass test for Color Vision, Binocular Vision, Field of Vision & Night Vision. If you pass A2 test then you automatically clear A3, B1, B2, C1, and C2 test.
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While I Join As Jr TNC with Medial A3 .
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I appointed to carpenter Grade III as a trainee, through CG Ground ,
i want to change of the department, whether it's possible are not
kindly suggest to me, and My qualification is S S L C and State vocational course ( J O C ) computer technique
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i have applied for RRC but i had eye sight & i want to do Laser (Lasik) Treatment but Laser treatment is allowed or not ???
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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.
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Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The stacked organization is proven to be efficient for the management of very large patch sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was designed by and for Linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm branch, is the original author), and its main use by the current upstream maintainer is to manage the (hundreds of) patches against the kernel made for the SUSE distribution.
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BURIEN, Wash -- A family s dog disappeared in Burien days ago, now his family is going great lengths to find him.
He s our kid and we really want him back, we miss him a lot, said Gina Bourdage, the owner.
Aside from hanging signs, Gina Bourdage hired a company to send out a Pet Amber Alert. She paid $150 for a company to call 1250 homes in the area.
I think it s a little preposterous that people can send something like that out for just a pet, said Seth Von Wald, who lives nearby.
The calls started around dinner time Thursday.
People that really care, they re going to look at the signs. People that don t care shouldn t be forced to care by getting calls, he said.
Others disagree.
People love their pets, they re like children, said Winnifred Thayer, who also lives in the area.
I guess whatever works for them, works. I just let it go to the machine, she said.
Bourdage says aside from a few angry responses, the majority of them were positive.
We might have bothered a few people, which I didn t intend. I wish we hadn t but I m really glad for the one person that did call and described our dog to a T, said Bourdage.
That tip led them to the intersection of 8 Ave South and S 136th Street in Burien, where Bourdage is hanging additional signs.
We re going to find him, she said.
I m sitting by the phone every second, holding onto hope, hoping for more, said Bourdage.
G is micro chipped but wasn t wearing tags the day he disappeared. If his trail runs cold, Bourdage is prepared to buy another round of robo-calls.
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PARIS: Hard to say it, but Gonzo a good fit in Dodger blue
LOS ANGELES ---- Adrian Gonzalez, the Dodgers' Adrian Gonzalez, took his position, tipped his cap toward the Padres' dugout and then exchanged fist bumps with first-base coach Dave Roberts.
All in all, that beats the greeting he gave Chase Headley last year when they crossed paths at Fenway Park when Gonzalez was a Red Sox.
"I have a thing about having my ears touched, and he knows that,'' Headley said. "So when I get to first base he sticks his finger in my ear.''
Headley stuck it to Gonzalez and his new team Monday, rifling a two-run blast in the first inning of the Padres' 4-3, extra-inning loss at Dodger Stadium.
Headley didn't loiter when passing Gonzalez on his home-run trot, with the only thing sticking in the former Padres' ears being the sound of Headley's knock.
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"I was just starting to get used to him in a Boston uniform,'' Padres manager Bud Black. "Now seeing him across the dugout in another uniform ---- especially the Dodgers uniform ---- is going to be a different visual.''
Gonzalez, who has struggled since joining L.A. in an Aug. 25 trade, was a difference-maker Sunday, hitting a walk-off double in a victory over Arizona.
Really, Gonzalez in a Dodgers' uniform doesn't offer anything terribly unfamiliar to the team or its fans. That's apparent when he strolls to the plate with Mariachi music filling the holiday air and in the souvenir shops, where you can buy his Dodgers jersey T-shirt resplendent in the Mexican flag's colors for $25.
"It's a perfect connection for him here,'' said Headley, among Gonzalez's closest friends on the Padres. "Obviously he'll be able to connect with the Latin community in the L.A. area, and because he is such a great person off the field, he will be a good role model.''
Gonzalez was never a Dodgers backer during his youth in San Ysidro and Tijuana. But he was a Fernando Valenzuela booster, and just maybe he'll eventually excite the masses here like "El Toro" did.
"I was a Fernando fan, but right now I'm focusing on this year,'' said Gonzalez, who went 1-for-4 with a walk. "The focus right now is trying to help the team get to the playoffs.''
It's still difficult accepting that Gonzalez exited San Diego in the prime of his career. In recognizing that the Padres couldn't afford his future salary, I counter that they couldn't afford to let him go.
But that is dirty water under the bridge. He's a Dodger, like it or not Padre Nation, and will be for a long time.
"It's going good,'' Gonzalez said before the game. "To get put into the middle of a pennant race, that is good."
What's always grand is seeing old buddies, and despite the roster purge, Gonzalez has a few remaining on the Padres. Still, he downplayed the reunion.


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The long-term performance following dividend initiations and resumptions revisited
- Sheng-Syan Chen,
- Robin K. Chou,
- Yun-Chi Lee
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Previous studies have documented that an announcement of dividend initiation and resumption is associated with an increase in stock price, while Boehme and Sorescu (J Finance 47:871–900, 2002) argue that the dividend anomaly only occurs by chance. However, their sample contains firms listed within 3 and/or 5 years of their respective initial public offering (IPO) dates, as well as regulated firms. We conjecture that the confounding effects of IPOs and regulated firms may interfere with the increase in stock prices due to dividend initiations and resumptions and bias their results. We thus reexamine the long-term stock performance following dividend initiations and resumptions by excluding newly IPO firms and regulated firms. We find no evidence that the non-robust positive price drifts for firms, which initiate or resume cash dividends, is due to the confounding effects of IPOs and regulated firms. Therefore the price drifts after dividend initiation and resumption announcements may be a sample-specific result of chance, even after controlling for possible sample selection biases.
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- Title
- The long-term performance following dividend initiations and resumptions revisited
- Journal
Journal of Economics and Finance
Volume 38, Issue 4 , pp 643-657
- Cover Date
- 2014-10-01
- 10.1007/s12197-012-9243-x
- Print ISSN
- 1055-0925
- Online ISSN
- 1938-9744
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Dividend Initiation
- Dividend Resumption
- IPO firms
- Long-Term Stock Performance
- Regulated Firms
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Sheng-Syan Chen (1)
- Robin K. Chou (2)
- Yun-Chi Lee (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Finance, College of Management, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2. Department of Finance, College of Commerce, National Chengchi University, 64, Sec. 2, Zhi-Nan Road, Taipei, 11605, Taiwan


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My family and I (wife and five kids - aged 16, 13, 12, 7 and 5) just spent four nights at WorldMark of Anaheim by Wyndham. We used Wyndham points for the stay. I don't know if you can pay for a stay if you are not a Worldmark or Wyndham owner or guest.
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The hotel is on Katella next to the Garden Walk. It's less than a mile to the parks. However we did not walk. Also there is an ART stop right infront of the hotel. It is an very easy walk to the Garden Walk.
There is a parking garage onsite. The parking is free and there was an uniformed security guard at the entrance.
There is one elevator in the garage. You had to park and then take the elevator or stairs to the ground level to enter the hotel. We found the higher floor we parked on, the closer to the elevator we could park. We ended up parking on the roof most days. There were few if any cars near us when we did that. And we parked very close to the elevator.
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It's a pretty standard Wyndham hotel. All of the rooms had two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and two full baths. Also each room has a dishwasher and washing machine and dryer. The living room had a queen size sofa sleeper. The pictures below were taken just before we left, so the beds aren't made up. (We always get too excited when we arrive to remember to take pictures)
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There is a pool, four hot tubs (two on the ground by the pool and two on the roof), and an arcade. The roof has a sun deck. From the sun deck you can see the DL firework show. If you are high enough and have a pool facing room, you may be able to see the fireworks from your room. Our room faced Katella....
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The is a 7-11 store less than 1/2 block away. We walked to it a few time to buy milk and other last minute items. There is a Walmart Neighborhood store nearby. Food 4 Less and Target are close.
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Every Sunday at 7 pm: Family Selonding Group Fundraising Performance Series*
January 19: Siwaratri – day of introspection for Balinese Hindus
January 20: eighth new moon – ceremonies held all over Bali
January 22: Sacred Barong dance at Banjar Singgi, Sanur
February 3: ninth full moon – ceremonies held all over Bali
February 18: ninth new moon – ceremonies held all over Bali
February 19: Chinese New Year – Barong Sae parades and dances held all over Bali
March 5: tenth full moon: ceremonies held all over Bali, notably large ceremony at Pura Besakih
March 7-April 5: Mekar Bhuana closed for lessons, workshops and performances.
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