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European ink market faces another challenging year in 2003. (European Report).
Some ink leaders are hoping that there will be an economic revival in the second half of the year. But even they concede that they may have to wait until well into 2004 or even beyond before business returns to the levels prior to 2000.
"The best we are hoping for this year is that we can achieve the same volumes as last year, which were themselves lower than 2001," said a senior executive at one European ink company. "We are expecting that things will brighten up in the second half of this year, but even that might be too optimistic."
Demand in the European printing sector has been sliding since GDP growth levels started to dip last year.
"Once GDP starts to slow down, it has an immediate effect on printing sales," said John Birkenshaw, printing business manager at Pira International, the U.K.-based printing and packaging consultancy.
"Growth in the European printing sector has now probably dropped to zero," he added. "While printing tends to suffer the fastest from a downturn, it also tends to recover quite early once the economy improves. We are not expecting printing demand to return to the more normal levels of the 1990s until 2004 at the earliest. It would probably be more realistic to wait until 2005."
Printers have been cutting back purchases of inks and other consumables but have also been reducing their capital investment, particularly in new technologies including digital printing.
"Investment is static at the moment," said Mr Birkenshaw. "Probably only sales of computer-to-plate (CTP) and digital proofing equipment have been doing reasonably well, because printers are getting a rapid return from them."
While the European printing market has been sliding into a depression, European ink companies have also had to contend with a stronger euro against the U.S. dollar, making their exports more expensive. The euro has appreciated by nearly 25 percent against the dollar since the middle of the year.
"Our margins have gone down in countries where products are priced in dollars," said Erwin de Keyser, president of Trenal, a Belgian ink maker. "On the other hand, we are paying less for some imported raw materials so the overall effect is probably neutral."
European Economies Slump
Ironically, while the euro has been steadily rising on the foreign exchange markets, storm clouds have been gathering over the European economies.
There had been hopes of an upturn in consumer spending and economic activity in Europe in the second half of last year after signs of accelerated growth earlier in 2002.
Instead, consumer confidence weakened across much of the region because of concerns about the outbreak of war in Iraq and worsening economic conditions.
By the beginning of this year consumers were becoming even more pessimistic about the outlook for unemployment and their own expectations for household savings.
In Germany, Europe's largest economy, the government is expecting only 1 percent growth this year. Industrial production registered its steepest decline in four years in the country in December, helping to increase unemployment to more than 11 percent.
The U.K., whose economy has been among the most buoyant in Western Europe, has been struggling with its biggest manufacturing slump in a decade.
The Frankfurt-based European Central Bank issued a forecast in February of GDP growth in the 12 countries in the euro zone of only 1.4 percent in 2003, whereas only three months previously it published a prediction of growth for the year of just under 2 percent.
The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), to which the European paints and printing inks association (CEPE) is affiliated, was predicting late last year 3 percent growth in chemicals output this year, the same level as in 2002.
But within a few weeks, chemical industry forecasters were taking a more cautious view because of the mounting economic gloom.
"After the dip in chemical growth in the fourth quarter of last year, there will be a further weak performance in the first quarter," Ralf Gronych, BASF's chief economist, told the annual business outlook conference of the U.K. Chemical Industries Association (CIA) in London in January.
Mr. Gronych predicted only a slow recovery in demand in the first half of this year. But prospects would change substantially for the worse in the event of a war in Iraq. "There will be an immediate negative effect on private consumption and investment," Mr. Gronych said.
The threat of conflict in the Middle East has already pushed up crude oil prices which in turn have been increasing prices of pigments, resins and other oil-based raw materials for ink producers. Hence, in the short term, there is a prospect of a further squeeze on margins in the ink sector.
At the same time printers are finding that a combination of poor demand and overcapacity is continuing to hit their profits, making it more difficult for them to accept higher prices from their suppliers.
If the war in Iraq is short, pressure on raw material costs should ease considerably later in the year, while the European economies should be revived relatively quickly.
"From the experience of the Gulf War in 1991, there will be a pronounced retrenchment in demand and production for two quarters, after which there will be a recovery sparked by the catch-up effect," said Mr. Gronych. Nonetheless, he predicts that growth in output in the chemicals sector for the whole year will slip to 2.7 percent.
Advertising Makes Slight Gains
While predictions for chemicals suppliers to the ink sector have been getting grimmer, analysts have been more optimistic about expectations for some end-user markets served by the printing sector.
The advertising sector, which is a major influence on printing output in publishing, has been depressed for well over a year. But now advertising agencies and media groups are claiming they are seeing a glimmer of a revival.
News Corporation, a leading newspaper publisher in the U.K., reported a 6 percent rise in advertising in its papers in the country in the fourth quarter of last year.
JC Decaux, Europe's largest outdoor advertising group, recorded a 3 percent rise in sales in the last quarter, although Jean-Charles Decaux, the company's chairman, warned that market conditions in the early part of 2003 would be "challenging."
Some top media executives in Europe are still stressing that advertising revenues are unlikely to return to their pre-slump levels until next year at the earliest.
However, the decline in ad spending at least seems to have bottomed out in many European countries. In its latest quarterly survey of marketing budgets, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) in the U.K., which is one of Europe's largest advertising markets, found a continued fall in planning spending but also a level-ling out of the downward curve.
Furthermore, budgets for the whole of 2003 indicated a growth in expenditure, with twice as many companies reporting an increase in budgeted spending as those that reported a decrease.
Expenditure on direct marketing will be rising even faster, with three times as many U.K. companies reporting an increase in their marketing budgets over the current year than a cut. In sharp contrast to the trend in advertising spending, budgeted expenditure in the fourth quarter on direct marketing went up for the fifth quarter in succession.
Printers have been taking advantage of the dynamism in European direct marketing by setting themselves up as full-service specialists in direct mail, which has been opening up opportunities for ink suppliers to broaden their product offering.
Instead of just providing the leaflets or brochures for direct-mail campaigns, printers are also doing the printing work for the envelopes, running databases for customers and running the mailing.
"They are providing a full service, and we are able to provide a full service to them by supplying them with sheetfed offset inks for the printing of the brochures and flexo inks for the envelopes," said Wim van Maastricht, sales and marketing manager at Van Son, Netherlands.
"We've been successful with this combination in the U.K., which is a big direct mail market, and also in Spain and France," he added.
While the expansion in direct marketing is helping to boost sales among some commercial printers, the continued rapid growth in online advertising in many parts of Europe is taking sales away from the printing sector altogether.
In the U.K., which is a pioneer in Europe in the development of online advertising, Internet advertising spending is predicted to increase by 43 percent this year.
Although total online ad expenditure lags well behind that of the main media, it has already overtaken cinema advertising spending in the U.K., according to the country's Interactive Advertising Bureau.
"Many believe that this will be the year when online advertising really comes into its own as a mainstream medium," said the U.K. Association of Online Publishers (AOP).
Although large sections of the print media suffered falls in advertising last year--and look likely to do so again for much of 2003--magazine and newspaper publishers have been able to raise circulations.
Average net circulation of U.K. consumer magazines rose by 3 percent in 2002, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). The biggest increases by sector were for TV listing, home interest, pets and motoring publications.
In a reflection of the increase in direct marketing, all except one of the top 10 magazines in terms of circulation were free magazines, including publications for TV channel subscribers, supermarket customers and members of motoring organizations and leisure groups.
Packaging Market
While parts of the publishing and commercial printing sectors have been able to buck the downward trend in consumer spending, segments of the packaging market have also withstood the severe economic climate.
Packaging volumes have been curbed by regulatory restrictions, particularly those relating to recycling and limits on the use of plastic bags in some Western European countries. On the other hand packaging sales by value in some segments have been going up. This is especially the case in markets like OTC medicines, cosmetics, drinks and confectionery where manufacturers are demanding more visually attractive packages as well as more informative labeling.
At the same time, there is a continued switch to plastic substrates. Analysts believe that demand for polyethylene and polypropylene--the two main plastic packaging materials--will rise at a rate well above GDP rates in Western Europe over the next few years.
Despite the relative resilience of the packaging sector, many packaging companies have been suffering from a tight squeeze on margins. This has led to increased concentration within the European packaging sector as companies look to improvements in profitability through economies of scale, particularly through the creation of Europe-wide operations.
Opportunities in Eastern Europe
The economic slowdown, particularly in Europe's consumer sectors, has, in fact, accelerated trends towards a pan-European market in the printing industry as a whole. Companies in the printing sector, including suppliers like ink makers, are having to expand beyond their regional and national markets in the search for new business.
Barriers to trade in printing products and consumables have progressively been dismantled within Western Europe over the last two decades. The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe has led to the emergence of a Europe-wide market.
The large multinational ink manufacturers, like Sun Chemical, have been relatively quick to establish both production and distribution operations in Eastern Europe, including Russia. Medium-sized producers such as Swedish-based Akzo Nobel Inks have made Eastern Europe into one of their main European markets after being active in the region before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Eastern European printers, particularly those in countries like Czech Republic and Hungary with a tradition of quality printing, are becoming major exporters into Western Europe.
As a result, Western European ink producers are now finding that they need a presence in Eastern Europe, particularly since there are few domestic producers of quality inks in most Eastern European countries.
With Eastern and Western Europe becoming increasingly integrated, the bigger ink producers are giving priority to the creation of pan-European distribution networks.
Flint Ink Corporation established last year a strong base in Germany after merging its European operations with the German ink manufacturer Gebruder Schmidt GmbH. The U.S.-based company had only a limited presence in Germany, despite it being Europe's largest printing ink market.
The merger has also made Flint a stronger force in Central and Eastern Europe, where Schmidt has facilities in Austria, Poland and Hungary.
"Together we will concentrate on serving all our customers with a special focus on the Eastern European region, where we see considerable opportunity for growth," said Jim Mahony, CEO of the new enlarged company Flint-Schmidt GmbH & Co, which is now one of the largest ink producers in Europe.
There have been reports of further consolidation initiatives within the European ink sector with some leading and medium-sized producers offering deals involving the swapping of assets.
Generally, companies in the European ink sector have been reluctant to invest money in takeovers at a time of deep economic uncertainty.
U.K. oil company BP found a buyer for Sericol, the leading producer of screen printing inks, when Saratoga Partners, a New York investment firm, agreed to buy the business along with the company's management in January. It had been up for sale for three years after BP took over its parent Burmah Castrol to gain control of its global Castrol lubricants operation.
Saratoga is paying [pounds sterling]74.5 million ($121 million) for Sericol, which some analysts believe is a good bargain but acknowledge that the price is a reflection of the poor state of the printing ink market. Sericol had sales of [pounds sterling]130 million in 2002, while prior to BP's takeover it was achieving operating margins of close to 30 percent.
"We believe this deal reflects the true value of the business and will provide a good future for Sericol and its staff," said Gordon Souter, BP's business unit leader at Castrol Chemicals.
The internationalization of the European printing market has encouraged printing companies, especially those in high volume segments like gravure printing, to spread themselves out more across Europe.
Large German publishing/printing houses, like Burda Publishing, Munich, and Heinrich Bauer, Hamburg, which operate their own gravure equipment have expanded into Eastern Europe where they print regional mass-circulation magazines on their own presses.
Germany, which accounts for the majority of gravure capacity in Europe, has now established itself as a European center for the printing of bulk publications.
The rising competition from German printers has prompted printing companies in other European countries to invest in gravure capacity to win back business. In the U.K., where 60 percent of gravure work is done outside the country, mainly in continental Europe, Polestar and John Howitt Group have both announced plans for new gravure presses.
Suppliers Are Also Active
While there are signs of growing concentration among ink makers' customers, their suppliers have also continued to consolidate, both vertically and horizontally.
UCB, the Belgium-based producer of resins and additives for printing inks, has just taken over the resins, additives and adhesives activities of Solutia. These include the waterborne resins business of German-based Vianova, which was part of the former Hoechst group until the late 1990s.
As a result, UCB is now able to combine its expertise in UV resins and binders with Solutia's know-how in ingredients for waterborne inks.
The Belgian company is expecting that the combination of its and Solutia's operations will help it develop new technologies for products which are safer for human health and the environment.
UCB has now merged its chemicals and films activities to form a business with [euro]1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) in sales covering resins, binders and other ingredients for printing inks as well as packaging films.
The company aims to extend its activities downstream by marketing more pre-coated films to customers such as label printers.
"Our objective is to become a one-stop supplier," said an official at UCB, which has R&D alliances with pigment makers and ink producers. "Our chemicals and film businesses have the same customer base so it makes sense to bring them together into the same unit."
Other major suppliers to the ink sector have also been reorganizing to be able to present a single face to their customers.
Clariant has restructured its pigments and additives divisions along customer lines so that it has a printing industries business unit as well as ones covering coatings and plastics. As a result, the marketing of pigments and additives such as light and UV stabilizers and waxes to ink makers is done by a single entity.
"This new structure will make us much more efficient and will enable us to improve our services to the customer by having a one-stop shop," said Alexander Sieber, head of Clariant's printing industries unit.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has been combining its expertise in dyes, pigments, binders, dispersants and other additives to expand into digital inks, although only in textile printing.
The company has put itself in the forefront of the growing market for digital inks for textiles by providing an ink which enables the speed of textile inkjet printing to be increased 10-fold to 150 square meters per hour.
The ink was developed in partnership with Reggiani Mecchine, an Italian printing equipment manufacturer, and Aprion Digital, an Israeli maker of ink jet printheads.
"This is a sort of project which requires a cooperative relationship between companies specializing in different areas," said Christoph Biedermana, Ciba's executive vice president, textile effects. "It also fits in well with our strategy of providing integrated solutions because the ink contains specialist dyes and chemicals."
Ciba, which is a leading supplier of pigments, light stabilizers, UV absorbers and photoinitiators for inks, is aiming to extend the expertise built up in textile digital inks to ingredients in other inks.
"We are setting up a joint research team in ink jet inks with people from both our textile and coatings effects sectors," said Hermann Angerer, head of Ciba's coatings effects operation, which supplies the printing ink market.
"The textile effects business has had a lot of experience working with print-head manufacturers and in combining pigments, dyes and binders for ink jet inks," he said. "We don't see any reason why we ourselves in the coating effects business should start making ink jet inks as well. We want merely to use the company's experience in the textile printing area to bring more value to our customers in coatings effects."
The present harsh economic climate could lead to radical changes in the structure of the supply chains for ink and other printing materials. One result could be a greater overlap between suppliers and their customers in the provision of both products and services.
European Editor Sean Milmo is an Essex, U.K.-based writer specializing in coverage of the chemical industry.
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Petra Kralickova divides her time between creating her own artwork and working as a Director of Exhibitions at Ohio University School of Art Galleries, and a curator at Kennedy Museum of Art. Her most recent curatorial projects were exhibitions such as Jim Dine: Sculptures and Large Prints (2011), Phantoms, Shadows and Phenomena (2011), collaborative exhibition with Mark Dion entitled Collections Collected: The University Collects and Athens Collects Miniatures (2009), catalogue publication and exhibition of ceramic artist Sunkoo Yuh, titled Cultural Order, Natural Chaos (2010) and Buttress, an outdoor large-scale site-specific installation by artist DeWitt Godfrey.
Kralickova exhibited her sculptural installations at galleries such as Black and White Gallery (Brooklyn, NYC), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NYC), Tacoma Contemporary (Tacoma, WA), and Sculpture Center, (Cleveland, OH). Kralickova's work was selected for juried and invitational group exhibitions, such as the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, IN; Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University in Durham, NC; Outworks Gallery in Winnipeg, Canada and the Majestic Galleries in Nelsonville, OH.
As an independent curator, Kralickova will present a lecture on Collections and Student Engagement at the 2014 Association of Academic Museums & Galleries Conference in Seattle, WA and was invited as a juror for the Ohio Art's Council 50th Anniversary Exhibition at Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH (2015). Kralickova was a guest curator for exhibitions such as the 2007-2008 exhibition season at the ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, and a juror for the first annual 2007 Height x Width x Depth exhibition at the Rosewood Arts Center Gallery, Kettering, OH.


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Cervicogenic and cranial neuralgias are specific types of headaches that may arise from impingement or entrapment of the occipital nerves and/or the upper spinal vertebrae.
Some medical experts now suggest that compression of this nerve along its path can be a cause of cervicogenic headaches, which can mimic classical migraines. Cervicogenic headache is similar to migraine headache due to the ipsilateral pain and the typical migraine-like symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and ocular problems. Variant of migraine is the term applied to migraine, which exhibits itself in a form other than head pain.
The trigeminocervical nucleus is a region of the upper cervical spinal cord where sensory nerve fibers in the descending tract of the trigeminal nerve (trigeminal nucleus caudalis) are believed to interact with sensory fibers from the upper cervical roots. This functional convergence of upper cervical and trigeminal sensory pathways allows the bidirectional referral of painful sensations between the neck and trigeminal sensory receptive fields of the face and head.
Microvascular decompression involves microsurgical exposure of the affected nerves, identification of blood vessels that might be compressing the nerves, and gentle displacement of these away from the point of compression. "Decompression" may reduce sensitivity and allow the nerves to recover and return to a more normal, pain-free condition. Microvascular surgical decompression may be an option for patients when the pain is chronic, severe and does not respond to conservative treatment. These patients are thought to be candidates for surgical intervention if they have tenderness over the nerves (greater or lesser occipital, supraorbital/trochelar, zygomatico/auriculo-temporal nerves). The tenderness is thought to correspond with sensory nerve compression and the anatomical structures surrounding the nerve.
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSMT) considers surgical treatment* for cervicogenic headaches, cranial neuralgias (eg., occipital neuralgia), or variant of migraine experimental, investigational, and unproven.
*Surgical treatment (microvascular decompression) may include but is not limited to:
Guille et al. (2004) evaluated a new surgical treatment for greater occipital neuralgia consisting of neurolysis of the greater occipital nerve and section of the inferior oblique muscle. All of the patients had pain exacerbated by flexing of the cervical spine. Mean follow-up was 34 months. The results of the treatment were assessed based on: degree of pain on a visual analog scale (VAS) before surgery, at three months, and at last follow-up; and the degree of patient satisfaction at follow-up. Anatomic anomalies (i.e., hypertrophy of the venous plexus around C2, nerve penetration of the inferior oblique muscle, and degenerative C1-C2 osteoarthritis) were found in three patients. The mean VAS score was 80/100 before surgery and 20/100 at last follow-up. The majority of the patients were satisfied or very satisfied with the operation. Patients reported a decrease in analgesic consumption.
Bogduk (2004) reported that, although liberation of the greater occipital nerve initially results in pain reduction in 80% of patients, the relief is not long-term, with a median duration of only three to six months. Excision of the greater occipital nerve provides relief in approximately 70% of patients but has a mean duration of only 244 days. Dorsal rhizotomy at C1–3 or C1–4 has provided some patients with complete relief for one to four years; however, there is recurrence in some patients.
The available evidence published in the peer-reviewed literature is inadequate to conclude that surgical decompression is an effective treatment for cranial neuralgias, cervicogenic headache or variant of migraine. The limited scientific data suggest that some patients may obtain a short-term benefit; however, the long-term benefit to the patient remains unknown. Early diagnosis and management by way of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary pain treatment program can significantly decrease the prolonged course of costly treatment and disability that is associated with this challenging pain disorder.
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A search of peer reviewed literature was conducted through October 2011. Williams et al (2010) reported on nine cases of unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) syndrome and short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with cranial autonomic symptoms (SUNA) that were unsatisfactory to medical management. All underwent microvascular decompression of the ipsilateral trigeminal nerve for intractable pain. Immediate and complete relief of SUNCT and SUNA symptoms occurred in six of nine (67%) cases. This was sustained for a follow-up period of 9-32 months (mean 22.2). In three of nine (33%) cases, there was no benefit. Ipsilateral hearing loss was observed in one case. Authors note this demonstrated that these patients may benefit from microvascular decompression.
Different surgical procedures continue to be investigated for the treatment of occipital neuralgia and cervicogenic headache. However, the studies are small and remain to be validated by prospective randomized controlled studies with larger study groups required. Therefore, the experimental, investigational, and unproven coverage position of this medical policy remains unchanged.
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Director Krishnan Jayaraj says that his film Sonna Puriyathu, scheduled to release this week, has humour built into a romantic script. "In real life, Shiva is an easy-going person with a terrific sense of humour. His character in the film is close to his real self and the humour in the script is an integral part of the story. There are no forced or contrived comic situations and the viewer will feel good throughout the movie. I think this is something that Shiva has not done so far," says Krishnan Jayaraj who has gained tremendous experience as an associate of C. S. Amudhan. Playing Shiva's love interest is Vasundhara Kashyap, who was last seen as Maari in Porali, which won her the Vijay Award for Best Supporting role. After Thillu Mullu this will be an interesting outing for Shiva who has two more films coming up in quick succession — Ya Ya and Vanakkam Chennai.
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Two films under production, one by director Vishnuvardhan and the other by Siva, have not yet been titled. Vishnuvardhan's film is almost complete, except for a song sequence, and is likely to be released before this Diwali. Meanwhile, director Siva is working towards a Pongal release for his film. According to Vijaya Productions, the producers, Siva's film is nearing completion with the recent filming of two beautiful songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad, in Switzerland. Tamannaah is paired opposite Ajith in this film, a commercial entertainer, while in Vishuvardhan's film, Ajith is paired with Nayantara.
Interesting exercise
Kavaathu, a colloquial term that refers to the weekly exercise regimen that policemen undergo, is based on the trials and tribulations of a police officer. Though the film's story is serious in nature it has many light moments too. After screening several actors for the lead role I chose Nitish impressed by his performances in films such as Pudhupettai, Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, Haridas, Nandi, Onbadhu Roobai Nottu and Sindanai Sei. I thought he deserved to do a lead role and my character suited him well. The climax of Kavaathu is something I am excited about and I am sure people will love it too," says director G. V. Bala, who comes with a 25-year-experience and has worked as an assistant and co-director with several prominent directors.
Fit beginning
When actors are fixated about getting six-pack abs, new face Aadhavan sports an unusual eight pack. He says it's the result of an intense 106-day workout of eight hours each. In his upcoming film Minnal, he is paired with Angana while Navya plays the second heroine. Producer-Director Siraj's Minnal is a romantic action thriller. Talking about the storyline, Siraj says, "The hero is a playboy who falls in love and turns into an action hero. The interesting aspect is the character of the heroine, which is a split personality, one of which is scheming to kill the hero. The climax is where the suspense element comes in — will love prevail or will the heroine succeed in killing him."
Keywords: Krishnan Jayaraj, Sonna Puriyathu, Shiva, Aadhavan, Minnal, Kavaathu, Ajith


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im having my 3 ton goodman gas pack 17 years old replace tomarrow with the same goodman 3 ton 90,000 btu gas package unit ducts still in good shape so just replacing the unit $3200.00 is this a fair price?
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What ever price the contractor charges, and you agree to, is fair.
They generally don't like pricing questions on this forum.
90000 btu is a lot of heat did your contractor do a load calc to verify this is the proper size for your house or is just guessing that what is there is what it needs
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Who doesn't love a homer?
A bearded Greek epic poet who takes us on an odyssey or a balding, banana-colored father from Springfield constantly craving doughnuts and beer?
Father of the shining bolt, dark misted, what is this you said? D'oh!
My favorite? It's the league member reaching three rounds too early for their favorite player in the draft. The one stacking their squad with players from their favorite team. The one you can always make a trade with if you're in a pinch, as long as your players wear the right uniform.
Value and rankings be damned, you have to love homers.
We all have one or four in our league. With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy (Google him): If you're not nodding your head right now, you might be a homer.
There is a flip side to the "homer" coin.
No one should know your favorite team better. If there is fantasy gold to be mined in your backyard, it would be a shame for it to end up on a competitor's team. The key is knowing when to strike and tempering your expectations.
Remember, fan is short for fanatic. The love of our favorite teams and players can blind us, much the same way no one wants to admit Homer Simpson has a drinking problem and Child Protective Services should have been called long ago. We gloss over the flaws in our family and teams.
Most publications have the Padres finishing last in the National League West. Barring a repeat of 2010, not all is lost. There's still plenty of fantasy potential on this retooled roster.
The Bats
Cameron Maybin (OF, Average Draft Position: 12th-13th round): Although the hype has been muted, people forget Maybin was compared to Ken Griffey Jr. during his early developmental stages. Playing half his games at Petco isn't going to help him develop his power stroke, however, 15 homers wouldn't be shocking. Coupled with 30-40 steals, a decent average and 80-90 runs? We're talking a true fantasy asset. A player who helps everywhere and hurts nowhere.
Carlos Quentin (OF, ADP: 17th-18th round): Quentin's 2008 campaign (36 HRs, 100 RBI, 96 runs, .288 average in 130 games) helped me finish in the "money," so if you see me around town, Carlos ... first round on me. There is risk here. He's missed 170 games the past four seasons. But the power isn't in question. Even with injuries, he's managed 20-plus homers over the same time frame. Also, we all witnessed how playing in your hometown can revive a career (see: Aaron Harang).
Chase Headley (3B, ADP: 19th-20th round): Position scarcity alert! If you miss out on Jose Bautista or Evan Longoria, Headley will be solid. Double-digit steals three years running and a career .303 hitter on the road. If you play head-to-head, Headley is a must-start when away from home. His road slash line of
.330/.399/.465 last year was elite. If he figures out Petco, he's a steal from the late rounds.


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Hagel supports nuclear arms cuts, then elimination
Tuesday - 1/29/2013, 6:56pm EST
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Chuck Hagel, the likely next secretary of defense, would be the first to enter the Pentagon having publicly advocated for sharply reducing the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, possibly without equivalent cuts by Russia. He supports an international movement called Global Zero that favors eliminating all nuclear weapons.
That puts him outside the orthodoxy embraced by many of his fellow Republicans but inside a widening circle of national security thinkers _ including President Barack Obama _ who believe nuclear weapons are becoming more a liability than an asset, less relevant to 21st century security threats like terrorism.
"Sen. Hagel certainly would bring to office a more ambitious view on nuclear reductions than his predecessors," said Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "While he would likely take a less dramatic position in office, it might not be a bad thing to have a secretary of defense question what nuclear deterrence requires today."
Pentagon press secretary George Little said Tuesday that Hagel does not support unilateral nuclear cuts "and, if confirmed, would not as secretary of defense. Suggestions to the contrary are inaccurate."
The customary stance of defense secretaries in the nuclear age has been that the weapons are a necessary evil, a required ingredient in American defense strategy that can be discarded only at the nation's peril.
Hagel, 66, takes a subtly different view _ one shared by Obama but opposed by those in Congress who believe disarmament is weakness and that an outsized American nuclear arsenal must be maintained indefinitely as a counterweight to the nuclear ambitions of anti-Western countries like North Korea and Iran.
Hagel argues for doing away with nuclear weapons entirely, but not immediately and not unilaterally.
In a letter to Obama two months after his former Senate colleague entered the White House in 2009, Hagel wrote that Global Zero was developing a step-by-step plan for achieving "the total elimination of all nuclear weapons," but with a "clear, realistic and pragmatic appreciation" for the difficulty of realizing that goal.
Dozens of prominent politicians, diplomats and retired military leaders signed the letter. One month later Obama spoke in Prague of "a world without nuclear weapons," while saying it might not happen in his lifetime. Obama declared that "as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act. We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it."
Hagel, a Republican whose nomination has drawn heated criticism for his past statements on Israel, Iran and gays, is likely to also face questions on nuclear issues at his Senate confirmation hearing scheduled for Thursday. A Vietnam War veteran, he served in the Senate from 1997 to 2009.
The questions actually began last week at the confirmation hearing for John Kerry, Obama's nominee for secretary of state. Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican, said he found Hagel's affiliation with Global Zero "very concerning," and he worried that Hagel's views appeared to make him "very different than previous defense leaders."
Kerry said he believes Hagel is a realist on the topic of nuclear arms reductions. But he also acknowledged that when he first heard about Global Zero's central vision _ the elimination of all nuclear weapons - "I sort of scratched my head and I said, `What? You know, how's that going to work?'" But then he came to see this as nothing more than a long-range goal _ "it's not something that could happen in today's world."
Hagel, indeed, is thinking long term.
"Getting to global zero will take years," Hagel wrote in the March 2009 letter to Obama on behalf of Global Zero. "So it is important that we set our course toward a world without nuclear weapons now to ensure that our children do not live under the nuclear shadow of the last century."
Hagel stands out in this regard in part because history _ first the demise of the Soviet Union, then the rise of terrorism as a global threat _ has changed how many people think about the deterrent value of nuclear weapons. For decades after the birth of the atomic age in the 1940s the chief concern was controlling the growth, and later managing the shrinkage, of nuclear arsenals without upsetting the balance of power.
Today the thinking by many national security experts has shifted as the threat of all-out nuclear war has faded and terrorist organizations with potentially global reach, like al-Qaida, are trying to get their hands on a nuclear device.


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Pierce: Koscheck is the Michael Bisping of welterweights
UFC's Vice President of Talent Relations Joe Silva is the organziations matchmarker. But in this the communication age, sometimes the fighters make the fight.
When UFC 143 had an opening, former Division I wrestler Mike Pierce called up and asked to fight Josh Koscheck. He got it.
A surprised Koscheck said he was going to make an example out of Pierce for calling him out with what Kos feels are inadequate skils.
"I hear things from people that used to train with him or used to be involved with him one way or another and they're like, 'That's really him,'" Pierce said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour (see below). "That's not the kind of guy I really like, to be honest. I do like that he is a wrestler. I do respect that. But the attitude and arrogance that come with it, I'm not really keen on that."
"I think you just press the pace on him and wear him down. I tend to think he's kind of got that bully style where if he goes in there and starts beating someone up, he gets that momentum going, and it's kind of hard to stop him. But if you come at him from the opening bell and put the pressure on him, and get inside his head and show him that he's not in the fight, he's just going to give up and break down."
"I want to just press the action on Josh and watch him break down. Nothing gives me more pleasure than watching a guy mentally and physically give up and then having the referee pull me off of him. That's what I want."
In a later interview, Pierce likened Koscheck to the controversial Michael Bisping.
"He's the guy that everyone loves to hate in the welterweight division," said Pierce. "He's like the Michael Bisping of the welterweights. Nobody likes that guy! Ya know, everybody has their thing. I'm not quite like that, I'm not gonna promote myself that way, everyone has their own style and for him that works, it's great, it's done well for him, but that's just not me. I'm gonna speak more inside the cage than out."
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2/1/12 10:48 PM by CRE
I respect Koscheck and worry that there won't be more fighters cut from his cloth in the future, just my 2 cents.Mike Pierce is a tough talented guy with a bright outlook in the sport, but Koscheck is very established I see him winning a convincing UD.
2/1/12 10:39 PM by Blaat
2/1/12 10:35 PM by TOAO
Thiago put him down.
2/1/12 10:19 PM by infestructure
Always like Kos, he is nothing like his stage persona. Go Krusty, send that boy packing.
2/1/12 7:13 PM by Deuce77
I used to hate on Koscheck but he keeps proving how much of a tough motherfucker he is. Will fight anyone and at a moment's notice. I've now become a fan. So Kos by whatever he wants.
2/1/12 6:49 PM by jeff7
Kos via whatever he wants.
2/1/12 6:40 PM by MMAKingdom
I hate Koscheck, but he is gonna drill him.
2/1/12 10:12 AM by epwar
Koscheck is so tough he didn't even give up after Paulo Thiago KOed him.
2/1/12 10:01 AM by ShoeMoney
If he didn't give up after round one of gsp breaking his face I doubt this piker is gonna break him


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Updated: 09/05/2007 - Climate change is topping the agenda at an annual summit for Asia-Pacific leaders held this year in Sydney, Australia.
Updated: 09/05/2007 - Climate change is topping the agenda at an annual summit for Asia-Pacific leaders held this year in Sydney, Australia.
Updated: 09/05/2007 - U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell explained Craig's possible next moves.
Updated: 09/05/2007 - A Republican leadership aide said Ohio Congressman Paul Gillmor was found dead in his apartment Sept. 5.
Updated: 09/05/2007 - A judge has ordered three suspects accused of plotting massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany be held pending trial.
Updated: 09/05/2007 - No one is injured after an accident involving a school bus on the early morning of Sept. 5 in Barren County.
Posted: 09/05/2007 - The man accused of robbing a Citizens First Bank branch in Bowling Green in August of 2006 pleads guilty.
Posted: 09/04/2007 - All nine Warren County Volunteer Fire Departments were called in to battle a blaze on Barren River Rd. and McFarland Ln.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - As your kids begin college this year, their education is probably your number one concern. But their safety should also be on your mind.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - Students have always been told to study hard and make the grade. This year, more than ever, Kentucky students seem to have taken that advice to heart.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - Some central Kentucky business owners are double checking their cash registers, making sure they don't have "funny money."
Updated: 09/04/2007 - After President Bush's unscheduled detour to Iraq on Sept. 3, President Bush finally makes it to Australia.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - After two years of lowering Warren County's personal property tax rate, the Fiscal Court voted to raise it.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - Area firefighters take on a blaze near Nashville Road
Updated: 09/04/2007 - A search is on for a small plane carrying aviation adventurer Steve Fossett.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - A plane crash in northern Kentucky has claimed one life and injured the pilot.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - Smokers won't have to worry anymore about whether they can smoke inside Bowling Green restaurants, as the city commission made its decision on Sept. 4.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - There has been an increased awareness of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the past few decades.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - Western Kentucky University receives a major gift for the study of capitalism at the school's College of Business.
Updated: 09/04/2007 - The furious storm made landfall where not many people live, but Mother Nature has dealt the region a dose of double trouble.
Posted: 09/04/2007 - Ten people died in at least ten different crashes on Kentucky's highways during the Labor Day holiday.
Updated: 09/03/2007 - We headed to a local restaurant and sat down with an employee who's been working there more than 20 years and another who's new to the workforce.
Updated: 09/03/2007 - The continuing drought is taking a toll on farms and orchards across the area. We took a closer look at the damage the drought has caused.
Updated: 09/03/2007 - This may come as a surprise, but people say Lake Cumberland had plenty of water to enjoy this summer despite problems with Wolf Creek Dam
Updated: 09/03/2007 - We've heard this over and over again when it comes to good health that Kentucky often lags behind most of the nation.
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The millennial "New Directors"which introduced Suzhou River, Ratcatcher, and Voyageswill be a tough act to follow. This year's trends? I did detect an emphasis on workers, working, and the workplacea preoccupation befitting a venue that last year saw a major strike. Everywhere in the world, banks, restaurants, and shops are incubating hysteria or ennui. Just look at the two opening movies.
The first feature by musician Jonathan Parker transposes Herman Melville's dark, dank story "Bartleby the Scrivener" to a brightly colored one-building industrial park. The direction is broadbut then the original story is itself less subtle than enigmatic. Parker's major inspiration is casting the supremely eccentric Crispin Glover in the title role as the supremely diffident clerka world-class passive-aggressive who "prefers" neither to work nor leave his office. With his lopsided comb-down, bony face, and desiccated aristo demeanornot to mention his sidelong, offspeed deliveryGlover is an actor whose peculiar looks are matched only by his mannered performances. Bartleby gives him ample opportunity to swan around the set in a state of anxious vagueness, tortuously responding to all questions with perpetual disbelief. Some may well find this excruciating, but Glover's strangeness is more than convincingand aptly contextualized by an oddball showboat cast and a theremin-heavy score. March 23, 24 (JH)
You know you're in Eastern Europe when, two seconds into Dalibor Matanic's droll first feature, a pair of bicycle-riding dustmen have a violent collision in front of the not-too-spiffy "Diskont" convenience store where Matanic's sad-sack protagonist operates the register. As with Bartleby, workplace misery is rendered cartoonish in stridently cheerful colors and iconic symmetrical framing. (But here there's a larger social organisma Croatian town populated largely by drunks and shoplifters, in which the mailman is regularly mugged for the pension checks he delivers.) The movie has a slow fusethe wait for a downtrodden worm to turn against her overbearing boss is justified by an unexpectedly philosophical closer. March 23, 24 (JH)
Fearlessly simplistic, if less politically daring than it might initially seem, this minimalist tractwritten by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and directed by his wife, Marziyeh Meshkiniis a tri-part allegory on three stages of Iranian womanhood (childhood, married life, old age). The movie opens cute and poignant, turns wildly visceral, and ends in a burst of magic realism; the elemental landscape in which the action unfolds is rendered additionally exotic for being set on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf. With its metaphors of female imprisonment, The Day I Became a Woman complements The Circle, the season's other provocative Iranian picture; Shooting Gallery will release it in early April. March 24, 25 (JH)
The hapless but lucky hero of South Korean director Kim Jee-woon's comic second feature escapes the prison of his office job by joining the circus of professional wrestlingor rather by establishing a secret identity as a ring villain who specializes in flamboyant cheating. The matches, fantasy and actual, are high slapstick; the rest of the movie oscillates between rambling and thud-thud-thud. The Foul King has a specifically Korean subtext in its anarchic revolt against an oppressive corporate culture, but it's more than ripe for an Adam Sandler remake. March 24, 25 (JH)
The title translates as Blame Voltaire, but writer-director Abdel Kechiche's first feature might equally be called The Loves of an Illegal Alien. Jallel comes to Paris from Tunisia, passing himself off as an Algerian political refugee to get asylum. Not quite Candide, he supports himself by peddling avocados in the metro. The film is less interested in the mechanics of survival than the development of interpersonal relationsmainly with the two French women who complicate Jallel's life. Overly expansive at 130 minutes, La Faute a Voltaire is shot vérité-style and largely actor-driven. Sami Bouajila is engagingly understated as Jallel; everyone else gets to run wild, particularly Elodie Bouchez (The Dreamlife of Angels) as a simpering, eye-rolling handful who seems to have escaped from the nympho ward in Shock Corridor. The movie is sympathetic toward its subjects if not particularly critical of their society. The family Jallel supposedly supports back home never figures in the equation, while France itself is shown as a land of decent social services, tolerant institutions, and a sometimes alarming degree of fraternité. March 26, 27 (JH)
In Jessica Glass and David Ellenberg's modest documentary, American and German veterans individually recollect their experience of World War II in preparation for meeting in the Huertgen Forest, the site of a horrific battle. As the former enemies struggle to make small talk and maintain a semblance of control over their conflicting, often unexpectedly violent emotions, the film takes life. As painful to watch as these face-to-face encounters are, the documentary would be stronger if there were more of them. March 26, 28 (Amy Taubin)
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