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On Tuesday, Canada's Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, achieved its first parliamentary majority since the 1980s. It won 167 of 308 seats, trounced the Liberals (led by prominent
American Canadian intellectual Michael Ignatieff, they came in a distant third to the National New Democratic Party), and held the Bloc Québécois to four seats (a far cry from the power it was once predicted they would achieve in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment).
Throughout his previous term, Harper hammered his the Liberals for alleged anti-Israel positions in an effort to pull more votes from the generally Liberal-favoring, 350,000-strong Jewish community. And it appears to have worked: The Conservatives held several seats and even won some more in heavily Jewish districts, including ones in which the incumbent Liberals were Jews (two of these went down to Jewish Tories). Even Liberal Irwin Cotler, probably the highest-profile Jewish politician in Canada—who represents Montreal's Mont Royal neighborhood—escaped only with the closest victory of his career.
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Stephan B. Tchividjian (July 29, 1939-January 23, 2010)
My dear father passed away tonight at 6:46 pm at the age of 70. He had been in the hospital since having liver transplant surgery on September 8th. He fought long and hard but tonight his fight is over. We loved him. He will be missed. We are crying. He is rejoicing. As God sweetly reminded me last night, for those who are in Christ, the best is yet to come.
Tonight ended with me singing a hymn over and over in my mind-a hymn that my dad is singing louder now than ever before: "It is not Death to Die"…
It is not death to die
To leave this weary road
And join the saints who dwell on high
Who've found their home with God
It is not death to close
The eyes long dimmed by tears
And wake in joy before Your throne
Delivered from our fears
It is not death to fling
Aside this earthly dust
And rise with strong and noble wing
To live among the just
It is not death to hear
The key unlock the door
That sets us free from mortal years
To praise You evermore
Original words by Henri Malan (1787-1864).
What a comfort to know when staring in the face of death that, for those who have placed their trust in the finished work of Christ, it is not death to die.
Thank-you all, my friends, for your prayers over the last few months. They have been answered!

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Depression and Self-esteem in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
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SubjectAdult children of alcoholics--Evaluation; Adult children of dysfunctional families--Evaluation; Depression, Mental; Self-esteem
The problem. The purpose of this study was to assess whether ACAs have specific characteristics or problems directly related to parental alcoholism or whether they are simply a subset of a larger group of adult children from dysfunctional families. It was hypothesized that participants from dysfunctional families would have more depression and less self-esteem than participants from functional families, regardless of parental alcoholism, and that females would have higher levels of depression than males. Procedure. The sample was composed of 201 participants (73 males, 127 females, 1 no gender available) assigned to one of four groups according to parental alcoholism and family functioning. Findings. Adult children of dysfunctional families reported more depression and lower self-esteem than the adult children of functional families, regardless of parental alcoholism, with adult children from dysfunctional: families having similar levels of depression and self-esteem. No gender differences were found for depression or self-esteem. Conclusions. The findings of this study indicated that family dysfunction predicted psychological distress (i.e., higher levels of depression and lower self-esteem), regardless of parental alcoholism. Recommendations. It may be more beneficial to focus research efforts on the effects of family functionality, rather than on a particular population (e.g. Adult Children of Alcoholics).
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Imprisoned graft suspect spotted at tennis tourney
JAKARTA, Indonesia The man at the center of Indonesia's most closely watched corruption scandal was supposed to be behind bars.
Instead, Gayus Tambunan was photographed at a tennis tournament on the resort island of Bali, clumsily disguised in a black wig and glasses. In the days that followed, police accused wardens of accepting bribes of up to $40,000 so he could regularly leave his cell during the course of his trial.
The case - which has dominated Indonesian newscasts, headlines and social networking sites for more than a week - has touched nerves like few others in the sprawling nation of 237 million.
That's because, more than a decade after the collapse of Gen. Suharto's 32-year dictatorship, many believe the greatest threat to democratization and development is not terrorism, a weak education system, poor infrastructure or even poverty.
"It's graft," said Agung Kumoroyekti, a 32-year-old computer salesman who is not alone in thinking Indonesia should follow the lead of China and punish the worst offenders with death.
"Otherwise nothing will change in this country," he said. "If you're rich or powerful, you'll always be able to do what you want."
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who became the first directly elected leader in 2004, has made fighting Indonesia's reputation of being one of the world's most graft-ridden countries a top priority.
But the body set up to do just that has been beset by scandals of its own - some allegedly fabricated by tainted police, businessmen and politicians to undermine its credibility - and high-ranking officials have largely been left alone.
Even so, Tambunan, a midlevel tax official with a salary of just $1,300 a month, has turned out to be a dream for a frustrated public and corruption watchdogs.
Tambunan, 31, who had been tasked with addressing tax-related complaints, is charged with pocketing at least $2.7 million from dozens of big companies to help them avoid paying taxes, said Pia Nasution, his lawyer.
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When we use the phrase "digital business," many people assume that we're talking about companies that operate mainly on the Internet -- companies like eBay, for example. Or else they figure we're referring to companies that use a lot of gee-whiz technology: computer-aided design, video email, or handheld personal organizers.
Both ideas are beside the point. It's true that the Internet is an amazing new space for business, and it's also true that other new technologies are revolutionizing one business process after another. But none of this describes what we mean by digital business, nor does it capture the profound impact that the advent of digital business will have on your industry, whatever it may be, over the next three to five years.
Digital business isn't just about communicating a little faster, selling products through electronic channels, or storing information in a new and handy form. It's about expanding your company's strategic options through the use of digital technologies.
To show what we mean, let's consider two apparently similar businesses: Compaq and Dell. Both sell PCs and other technology products; they're comparable in terms of quality, reliability, and pricing. But Dell is a digital business, while Compaq is not. What's the difference?
Like most other PC companies, Compaq relies mainly on retail outlets to sell its computers. These outlets have to be stocked with products for customers to look at and choose. Therefore, the marketing process begins with Compaq guessing about what kinds of computers customers are likely to want over the next few months. Compaq manufactures those machines, fills warehouses with them, and then tries to sell them to customers through distributors. Some sell, some don't. What happens to the ones that don't? They end up as fodder for low-margin discount sales or even get junked -- pure loss both for Compaq and for the distributors and store owners who make up Compaq's retailing chain. Dell Computer operates differently. Most of Dell's sales occur on their web site, where customers use an online tool we call a Choiceboard. It lets the customers browse electronically among various PC models, offering basic information about the specifications and capabilities of each. Once the customer picks a basic model she likes, she then answers a series of questions that enable Dell to configure a computer that fits her preferences exactly. Do you want a little more memory, a larger monitor, a DVD drive instead of a CD-ROM, a different software package, a better set of speakers? No problem! The configurator captures your choices with a few mouse clicks. Only then does an order go to Dell's manufacturing plant. The computer is built according to your specs and shipped to you within a few days.
It's difficult to exaggerate the significance of this new way of doing business. Among other effects, the Dell business model:
Dell was one of the first companies to create a Choiceboard, and Dell's Choiceboard remains one of the best in any industry. Furthermore, Dell has introduced a host of other strategic innovations using digital technology in other areas of its business, from manufacturing to finance to human resources to customer service. No wonder Dell has been a remarkably successful business in an industry where profits have been increasingly hard to come by. Over the past three years, Dell's average profit margin has been about 11% (versus one percent for most competing PC companies), while its revenues have grown by an average of 48 percent per year (versus 14 percent for the competition).
Dell is one of a handful of companies we call the digital pioneers. These are companies that were among the first to recognize the transformational power of digital technologies. Some are well-known as high-tech powerhouses: for example, Cisco Systems, the leading manufacturer of routers, switches, and other electronic gear for computer networks. Others will come as a surprise to all but a very few.
For example, consider Cemex, the leading supplier of cement and concrete in Mexico. It's a (literally) gritty, commidity-based industry plagued by unpredictable demand and sudden changes in business conditions, whipsawed by everything from interest rate hikes and labor unrest to weather and traffic conditions in Guadalajara. Probably not the kind of company that comes to mind when we speak of digital business.
Yet Cemex has revolutionized the cement industry -- and achieved nearly incredible rates of growth and profitability -- by using digital technologies to tame their worst problems. After studying how the FedEx shipping company, Houston 911's emergency response system, and Exxon's worldwide oil shipping network had tackled similar challenges, Cemex created a communications system called CEMEXNET. Every Cemex plant and delivery truck is now linked via satellite to a computer system that continually tracks customer demand and Cemex supplies of various grades of cement and concrete. Dispatchers at Cemex's Monterrey plant always know the location, direction, and speed of every delivery vehicle and can reroute shipments instantly as needed.
As a result, Cemex has reduced the industry-standard three-hour delivery window to twenty minutes. Is that a big deal? You bet it is. When you're the manager of a construction crew with three hundred workers standing around a big hole in the ground, waiting for the cement you need to start pouring a new foundation, every hour lost costs thousands of dollars. You'd be foolish not to do business with the digital pioneer in the cement industry.
So both Dell and Cemex are examples of digital businesses. What do they have in common? Both companies are certainly technologically savvy. Their brilliant business innovations wouldn't have been possible without electronic tools like Dell's Choiceboard and CEMEXNET.
But it would be wrong to focus on the technology alone, as if an infusion of computer gear is the cure for what ails any lagging business. The success enjoyed by Dell and Cemex comes, first, from their deep knowledge of customer needs; then, from their readiness to apply the new capabilities made possible by digital technologies to meeting those needs better, faster, more accurately, and more economically.
We've studied Dell, Cemex, and the other digital pioneers, as well as a number of companies that are moving rapidly to join the ranks of digital businesses. (Jack Welch's GE is one example.) We've found that going digital enables companies to:
Today, being a digital business offers a distinct competitive advantage -- often one that will allow a company to dominate its industry for the next several years. Tomorrow, it will be the price of admission to the game. The sooner you learn what it's all about, the better.
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The authors Slywotzky and Morrison are renowned for their inspiring bestseller 'Profit Zones' in which they elaborate on 22 different profit models for businesses. In this book on digital business design they explain how to design the 23rd profit model. Digital Business Design is the art of using digital technologies to expand a company's strategic options. It is not about technology for its own sake; it's about serving customers, creating unique value propositions, leveraging talent, radically improving productivity, and increasing profits. It's about using digital options to craft a business model that is not only superior, but also unique. Until recently, the probability that any organization would enjoy long-term success was determined by a single factor: the quality of its business design. Today, the multiplication of digital technologies has introduced a second crucial competitive factor: the degree of its relevant digitization. FOUR-QUADRANT 'MAP' Any organization can be mapped into a four-quadrant 'map' based on its level of digitization and its business design: * Low digitization, bad business design (Southwest quadrant - 'Weak Business Designs'). * High digitization, bad business design (Northwest quadrant - 'The Dotcoms'). * Low digitization, great business design (Southeast quadrant - 'Business Design Reinventors'). * High digitization, great business design (Northeast quadrant - 'Digital Business Design'). YOUR DIGITAL RATIO One important aspect of moving from a conventional to a Digital Business Design involves shifting many of your company's key activities from paper-based processes to digital (usually on-line) processes. To obtain at least a partial measure of how digital your business is, complete a simple exercise referred to as estimating your Digital Ratio. The authors suggest that you measure the following processes [0-100% digital]: selling, delivery, supply chain, customer service, billing, buying, recruiting, training, finance, R&D, manufacturing, and marketing. Moving towards 100% digital is not an end in itself. Any decision to move a particular activity toward the right, and how far, depends on your key business issues, what is required to improve your value proposition for your customers and employees, and the capital and process efficiencies of your business. On the surface, Digital Business Design indicates how many of your business processes are conducted on-line. At a deeper level, it tells whether you've transformed the way you do business by taking advantage of the new strategic options enabled by digital technologies. THE DIGITAL BUSINESS DESIGN BENEFITS SCALE Figuring your Digital Ratio is a useful exercise; for many companies, it will be a sobering one. But it only scratches the surface of what Digital Business Design really means. The experience of the digital innovators shows that Digital Business Design can fundamentally change the way you do business. It enables you to make a dramatic, positive shift toward implementing the benefits: 1. FROM GUESSING TO KNOWING. The basis of your business decision-making shifts from guessing to knowing. 2. FROM MISMATCH TO A PERFECT FIT. The value proposition you offer to your customers shifts from a mismatch (great or small) to a perfect fit. 3. FROM LAG TIME TO REAL TIME. Information flow within your company shifts from lag time to real time. 4. FROM SUPPLIER SERVICE TO CUSTOMER SELF-SERVICE. Your customer service model shifts from supplier service to customer self-service. 5. FROM LOW VALUE-ADDED WORK TO MAXIMUM TALENT LEVERAGE. The use of your employees' time shifts from predominantly low value-added work to maximum talent leverage. 6. FROM FIXING ERRORS TO PREVENTING ERRORS. Your processes shift from a focus on fixing errors to preventing them. 7. FROM 10% IMPROVEMENT TO 10X PRODUCTIVITY. Your productivity growth pattern shifts from a norm of 10 percent improvement to 10 times prWas this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted March 25, 2001
This is not a book about E-Commerce or how to develop an electronic business. It is not a book about the Internet or the latest technologies. This book is about a specific business approach ¿ Digital Business Design (DBD). As the author stated, ¿DBD is not about technology ¿ it¿s about serving customers, creating unique value propositions, leveraging talent, radically improving productivity, and increasing profits.¿ Through out the entire book, the author uses numerous real life and up-to-date examples to illustrate the concepts, deployment, strength, benefits and the marketing effects on DBD. Case studies included companies such as GE, IBM, Dell, Cisco System, Charles Schwab and a number of Dot-Coms (eBay, Yahoo!, etc). The author provided in-depth analysis of these companies on their ¿digital¿ business strategies and how DBD helps make these companies leaders in their industry. Most examples used in the book are recent and the latest statistics covers the period up to the first half of 2000. The author also uses an interactive and practical approach by using worksheets, checklists and questionnaires on sections where new concepts are being introduced. This approach encourages readers to actively participate in the discussion on DBD and helps readers to analyze their business based on DBD. Aside from the discussion on DBD, the book is factual. This book is suitable for all readers interested doing business in the digital age.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted March 27, 2001
This book does a great job of clearly defining a Digital Business while providing case studies to help the reader understand the business models and strategic concepts. The authors help you to understand the importance of going digital as well as the importance of knowing why you need to go digital. Even though profit is the underlying reason for a company's existance, there must be a product or service needed by others. As the authors point out, it is good to try to be unique, offer something that no other company offers but customers will want. The book won't tell you what to use to turn you company into a Digital business but it will give you the basic tools to make your own evaluation. The audio version of the book is great for those who telecommute.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted March 27, 2001
HOW DIGITAL IS YOUR BUSINESS, in its own way, explains the broader implications of the Information Age. The manipulation and transfer of knowledge is now the defining feature of success or failure in business and life. This genre of literature is a must read for today's manager, as well as anyone who wants to be aware of their surroundings in the world of business. HOW DIGITAL IS YOUR BUSINESS is a well-written guidebook in the genre for those interested in modern commercial success. It draws strength from arguments grounded in the basics of business theory. I would disagree, though, with the authors' contention that previous business movements were narrower footnotes in history than digital business is likely to be. On the contrary, they are invaluable precursors. The case studies chosen were well thought out and exemplified the broadly applicable benefits to what they call 'Digital Business Design.' One weakness is the one-sided support of some of the technology presented, without any discussion of shortcomings. An example would be on-line education¿ its actual successes aren't that well documented in the book, only the potential. Overall, I would recommend this book to any student of Electronic-Commerce and more importantly to anyone who doesn't think they need to be.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted April 6, 2001
This title of this book is misleading to the detriment of the book's sales by understating the book's focus. The subject matter is really how to create new business models for outperforming competitors by taking advantage of the potential of computers and electronic communications. You can become more digital and not differentiate yourself in the eyes of customers, and that will be a losing strategy, as the authors make clear. In fact, almost all companies fall into that trap now. I found this to be by far the best book that the authors have written. The ideas are immediately applicable, the concepts are clear, and the writing is especially transparent. This book will be valuable to CEOs by making them more aware of how to redesign a business model, and to bring them up-to-date on the potential applications of information technology for this purpose. The book will be valuable to CIOs by making them aware of business model redesign as a discipline. Companies usually make computer investments because the old system can't be kept running any more, or because of some potential for incremental cost savings. By contrast with those approaches, the authors' concept of Digital Business Design is 'about using digital options to craft a business model that is not only superior, but unique.' So before you spend all that money to put in all kinds of new data processing capability, consider this book. It will be your best investment. But realize that the book is also not focused on technology, per se. So if you want to learn specifically about which digital technologies you should be applying, look elsewhere. The book is made practical by a four quadrant approach to help you diagnose the quality of your business model's design and how digital you are. Most companies will find themselves in the weak business design quadrant. The dot coms are highly digitalized, but usually have weak business models. Some innovative companies have great business models but are slow to put in computer technology. In a series of case histories, the authors make the case for having much more rapid revenue, profit, and stock price growth from using Digital Process Design. The examples include Dell versus Compaq, Cemex's computer-based dispatch of roving cement trucks in Mexico, Charles Schwab versus Merrill Lynch, Cisco Systems versus 3 Com et al, GE, IBM, AOL, eBay, and Yahoo! I enjoyed the way the authors posed the next set of business model challenges these companies face today. The benefits of this new approach include improvements in knowledge, better fitting with customers, operating in real time to get results faster, customers happily servingWas this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.


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PHILADELPHIA If Jonathan Toews has a hockey checklist, there might not be a whole lot of boxes remaining after this amazing season.
The 22-year-old Chicago Blackhawks captain is a Stanley Cup champion, a Conn Smythe Trophy winner, and an Olympic gold medalist. And he earned all those things in the past five months.
"What's left?" asked teammate John Madden, now a three-time Stanley Cup champion. "Incredible hockey player, mature beyond his years. It's been an absolute pleasure to watch him work. It's hard to believe he is only 22. His future is so bright."
Toews was held to only three assists in the finals, but the last of those got Chicago going in Wednesday night's 4-3 overtime win over the Philadelphia Flyers that finished the series in six games.
It's been quite a ride for the rising star, who fell one point shy of the playoff scoring lead. That didn't matter a bit when it came time to pick the Conn Smythe winner that honors the top player in the postseason.
"There are so many guys on the team that deserve that trophy," Toews said. "Nobody is worried about that one. It was the big silver one we were after. It's awesome. We work hard for each other, and it paid off."
He is the second consecutive young captain of a Stanley Cup champion, following the path paved last season by Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby who did it at 21. Toews turned 22 a little more than a month ago.
Toews finished second in the scoring race with 29 points. Only a three-point night by Philadelphia's Danny Briere in the Cup clincher kept Toews from an impressive hat trick of hardware.
"I'm exhausted now - more tired than I was during the game," he said. "The last couple of nights have been torture, not being able to sleep, being so excited every moment of the day. It's everything it was hyped up to be."
Throw in the Olympic gold medal Toews earned with Canada at the Vancouver Games, and it's been one whirlwind year for the Manitoba native.
"They're both special in their own way," said Toews, the third player to win Olympic gold and the Stanley Cup in the same year. "To represent your own country, especially Canada, at the Olympics and your home country, that's something you'll probably never experience again in your lifetime as a hockey player. That's pretty cool.
"On the other hand, everything you go through, the tough times over a long season like we had this year, with such a great group of guys like we have in this locker room, nothing compares to that camaraderie and what you go through as a team."
Toews helped set up Dustin Byfuglien's power-play goal in the first period, giving him a Blackhawks playoff record-tying 29th point and franchise-best 22nd assist in 22 postseason games. Denis Savard posted 20 assists and 29 points for Chicago in 1985.
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Mark Tewksbury knows something of the nervous energy Olympic swimmers in Sydney will feel as they take their marks, as they wait for the signal to start the race to their life's dream--a gold medal.
Tewksbury also knows something of the distracting ache closeted Olympic athletes in Sydney will feel as they hide who they are in the glaring spotlight of international attention.
"When you compete, you need to focus on your strength," says Tewksbury, the 1992 Olympic backstroke champion who created a tidal wave of excitement when he came out in 1998. "But when you're in the closet, what you focus on is fear and vulnerability."
Tewksbury was 24 on July 30, 1992, when he dove into a pool in Barcelona and swam the 100-meter backstroke in 53.98 seconds, edging out American Jeff Rouse to win an Olympic gold medal and set a world record.
Now 32, he says he first dreamed of winning the gold 24 years earlier, watching the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games on television. East Germany dominated the pool that year, winning 11 of 13 women's swimming events. Kornelia Ender, just 17, won four gold medals and one silver.
"Something about those big butch girls appealed to this little fem boy," he says. "Swimming seemed a way I could fit in. I was called a `fag,' and I don't even think I knew what it was."
The pool became a sanctuary for the 8-year-old. "When you are excellent at something, you get respect," Tewksbury says. By the time he'd turned 10, he was breaking records. At 17, he was ranked fourth in the world.
"I was good early," he says. "It came naturally to me. There really is a flow to swimming. You become one with the water. There's a real high that is so therapeutic and peaceful."
Canadians had high hopes for Tewksbury at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, but the gold he sought eluded him--he took home a silver. "I self-destructed, and it was partly because of the sexuality," he says. "I was so distracted. My hormones were going crazy. I was 20 and surrounded by some of the world's sexiest guys. In 1992 it was different."
Not so different that he felt he could come out of the closet, though. He did, however, confide in a coach in 1992, which he says relieved some of the pressure.
"I was in a good place," he says. "On race day I asked myself a question: Somebody has to win tonight--why not me?"
Six years after his gold-medal swim, Tewksbury made a splash to rival his athletic feat in Barcelona. He stepped onto a theater stage in Toronto and came out, describing himself as a screaming queen. "The response," he says, "was bigger than my winning the Olympics."
A catalyst for his coming-out was the loss of a six-figure deal with a financial institution because, with his hair bleached at the time, he was told he looked "too queer." There was another factor more difficult for Tewksbury to discuss publicly--the pain of hiding his love for actor Benjamin Kiss.
"Here's an actor who lived his whole life openly [and is now] living with a guy who's closeted," Tewksbury says. "I had to ask, Do I want to be true to this guy I love more than anything in the world? But it was a long process. The fear of losing everything for me was terrifying. The more you get, you know, the more you get caught up in that false notion of what's valuable. I had the house on the golf course and the BMW, and I spent three hours a day sitting on a kitchen floor thinking about killing myself. Finally I just had enough."
He had had enough of swimming too. Tewksbury, who is now busy building a chain of juice bars called Skweeze, hasn't returned to a pool since winning the gold. "It just doesn't get any better than that," he says of his win in 1992.
With coming out, Tewksbury says, his life has, in a way, come full circle. After the storm of publicity surrounding his announcement, the seven-time world record holder says being openly gay isn't much different from being in the pool. "It's very therapeutic," he says. "So peaceful."
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Was there any cash involved in this deal? I haven't heard mention of it.
Was there any cash involved in this deal? I haven't heard mention of it.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
Maybe I'm just being a contrarian, but I kind of like it. Bray is a 23-year-old former #1 pick with nasty stuff; he's worth FeLo by himself, IMHO. He could be the pitcher we thought Wagner was going to be. Wagner for Thompson seems to be a wash, so you've got Kearns for Majeski and Harris. That ain't so bad.
Clayton? Stop stressing about him. In the grand scheme of things he's a dragonfly; he'll flutter across the Reds landscape for a brief period and then be gone.
"In baseball, you don't know nothin'"...Yogi Berra
This is why I said the Reds need to sale, sale, sale. They would have gotten better prospects and talent if they traded to teams that are in the race, instead they over pay avg. players to try and fix holes and try to win this year. Wayne should of and could of done alot better than this.
But it's not. It's not at all.Originally Posted by danforsman
And it's not that Majewski and Bray can't help this team. No one's saying they can't. The question is, was the talent the Reds gave up equal to the talent they received? The answer to that is an unequivocal no.
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
Majewski, Bray and Coffey give us 3 good young set up men who throw hard. I'll give this deal that much.
As far as Harris goes we need more utility IF like Custer needed more indians. If Kriv sprinkles some Ross/Phillips/Arroyo dust and he turns into something then fine.
Thompson is getiing killed in A ball so I fail to see any worth there and Clayton, no more need said.
All in all, I thought AK and FeLo would fetch more. Thats my only heartburn with this deal. I did however want both gone in a big way.
Alright... when you get beyond that we didn't get the value of what we thought our players were worth... this trade isn't that bad (in other words, strictly looking at what we got back and not what we gave up to get it)
The line up looks like
RF Freel/Denorfia
2B Phillips
CF Griffey
LF Dunn
3B Encarnacion
1B Hatteburg
C Ross/Larue/Valentin
SS Clayton
that line up does not have that much less pop. In my world, i'm thinking Clayton is going to play SS 4 to 5 days a week and we'll get freel denorfia and phillips in the same line up with Phillips at SS freel at 2B and Deno in RF. THe only way that happens is if Deno forces Jerry to play him every day.
The big key is the pen is much better
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That's SIGNFICANTLY better. Now a guy who was our best reliever is our 3rd to 4th option.
I am by no means excited about this trade but I think it does make us a better TEAM.
boss, or GIK can do that for you I believeOriginally Posted by 2844
Disagree. This trade doesnt look on paper like it will benefit the Nats as much as it is being played.Originally Posted by edabbs44
Keep in mind both Kearns and Lopez are going to RFK. Kearns is going from All-Star potential to Brady Clark. Felipe Lopez might have the most impact in that park, but I wouldnt count on him ever hitting 20+ HR a season if he stays there.
Could the Reds have done better? Definitely. But I think many people on this board have seriously overrated Kearns and Lopez.
Originally Posted by johngalt
Lopez and Kearns would never have been here for seven years. Lopez could walk after this year - and at 6 million+ - he would have priced himself out of Cincinnati.
You never know if he would regress back to 2004. In fact, there were members of this board crying over Lopez's regression. Plus, with Scott Boras on the hill, it would have made it more likely that Lopez was gone.
Kearns still has Ray King nightmares, IMO. I feel Dunn will be affected the most with the loss of his wingman.
Something else is brewing - but I am not sure what.
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
So you want to argue that the defense/offense runs created/allowed of Lopez/Phillips isn't better than Philllips/Clayton or Phillips/Harris (if he ever learns how to hit)?Originally Posted by westofyou
Not much use stopping runs if you aren't scoring any yourself.
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That's part of the point. Who will replace him? Phillips? Then who plays second in the future?Originally Posted by chicoruiz
You had Encarnacion, Lopez and Phillips as your infield set for the next 5-6 years and you blow it all up just so you can get a couple bullpen guys.
I ask again. Isn't Lopez in his walk year? Every is talking like he was going to be part of the team for years to come, but when/if he walks at the end of the year will this deal really be that great for those that think that the Nats just ripped the Reds off?
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I am willing to give Krivsky time before I declare this a bad deal.
In giving up Lopez/Kearns we get rid of two guys who are arbitration eligible. In Lopez, we lose a Boras client who was losing value quickly. Kearns has been healthy this year, but who knows? Kearns is the one I hate to give up...but
We now get to see what Denoforia can do. I'm going to guess he and Freel will split time in RF and add some zing to the lineup. That's not a bad thing.
I just happened to see both Bray and the Majic man pitch on Sunday at RFK. Bray was excellent. Majic got lit up, but I don't think he is a bad pitcher.
All in all, the Reds bullpen has been improved. Will it be enough to win this year--we don't know. And if it doesn't work, the Reds have plenty of salary room to play with in bringing in others in '07 (the year of Homer).
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I don't really care how much--or little--it ends up benefitting the Nats. i think the consensus is if Reds management hadn't felt backed into a corner to pull some deals to stay in the race this year, and instead had decided to be sellers at the trade deadline, they could have gotten a greater return than what they did.Originally Posted by WVRed
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
Lopez was arbitration eligible for the first time this past offseason. Still plenty of time to go.Originally Posted by pedro
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Marc Guggenheim's script is capable and funny, but the film's finest wit is vehicular.
Sarcastic quips and cynical attitudes abound, maybe as a way for the movie's makers to telegraph that they know this is all just so much kid stuff. But if the characters can't muster genuine awe for their adventure, it's a tall order to ask us to do it for them.
It's the odd touch of local color — like the backdrop of an abandoned amusement park, or the arrival of a Civil War steamer crewed by Confederate zombies — that makes these routine acts of derring-do a bit easier to bear.
Aug 7, 2013This "Percy Jackson" is a gentler-spirited, less flashy enterprise, though it still presents a natural world that can morph at the whim of a god. I like that.
Director Thor Freudenthal ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid") finds his groove with a succession of flashy 3-D renderings... They're digitized riffs on the Sarlacc pit from "Star Wars" and the finale of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" — but as with the "Potter" cribbing, when it's done well, it encourages "Percy" audiences to forgive the derivative chunks and thin emotion.
Skippable 3-D aside, it's a serviceable, limber follow-up to 2010's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief."
Here and there, some of this starts to feel a little less like homework and more like fun. Though part one used up many of the good monsters—like Medusa and the hydra—part two is a fleeter entertainment, free of origin-story requirements.
In the films at least, there's something so naked about the Potter/Percy story parallels that's it's hard not to sit there as a viewer and get distracted playing connect the dots.
The big action set pieces fizzle. And that's not good for a fantasy adventure movie, especially when the fantasy component is frequently undercut by sub-standard special effects.
Nathan Fillion is the movie's brightest spot as Hermes, re-envisioned as a UPS manager. He makes a quip about how the best TV series always get canceled, in a nod to Firefly, the iconic sci-fi show in which he starred.
"Sea of Monsters" is diverting enough...but it doesn't begin to approach the biting adolescent tension of the Harry Potter movies.
The quest, which takes our heroes to the Sea of Monsters, aka The Bermuda Triangle, is generic in the extreme. The fights/escapes all lack any sense of urgency and peril.
That first movie was obviously a calculated grab for Harry Potter-type movie success but didn't feel like a rip-off. This one skews younger, to an easier-to-please demographic, closely resembling other fantasies since.
There are plenty of bad films to get riled up about in the summer. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters isn't one of them. This is harmless tween-centric fun.
The little action in 'Percy Jackson' wouldn't be out-of-place in a superhero film, which is to say it's mostly functional, and sometimes quite diverting.
The final showdown whisks up the requisite excitement, but the open-ended coda feels like an optimistic throw of the dice from the franchise showing meagre signs of Harry Potter longevity.
The CG does its part of the bargain, but even more than the brighter, breezier original this is a pale imitation of Potter.
The stakes in this latest, disappointing Harry Potter wannabe never feel as high as they should, or as important as its characters seem to think they are.
What makes mythology so great is its sense of danger, the threat of real loss. This version of "Percy" has none of that.
Despite the usual end-of-world crisis and Mount Olympus MVP characters, there's no sense that anything's truly at stake; rather, it feels as if the filmmakers are coasting on the fumes of teen-angst fantasy and making up their fairy-tale rules (Cyclopes are fireproof!) as they go along.
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters continues a tradition of adequacy that could be described as "epic-ish" or "majestic-esque."
In Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, choosing the dumbest character is a colossal task.
Sea of Monsters most bizarre and apropos-of-nothing moment comes when the half-blood kids find themselves stuck on – I kid you not – what appears to be the Civil War ironclad ship Monitor, captained and crewed by a host of Confederate zombies.
Before it descends into Percy Jackson and the Things That Happen in Movies Like This, the adventure at times clicks into the inventive groove of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson novels, which at their best are touched with the high strangeness of the ancient tales that inspire them.
Even likable actors can't obscure the fact that, holy gods on Mount Olympus, this thing is a slog, a movie that dutifully hits its plot points involving prophecies and fleeces without evoking a whiff of spirit or imagination.
Like some hybrid beast out of Greek mythology, this young-adult sequel has the body of a "Harry Potter," the head of a "Twilight," the feet of a "Hunger Games" and the tail, oddly, of a "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
There's really nothing to recommend 'Sea of Monsters': the young cast are smug and forgettable; the action sequences barely get going before they're over; and the whole affair is riddled with product placement and pop cultural references – one girl even seems to possess a magic iPad. Keep the kids at home
Aug 6, 2013There isn't even an actual sea of monsters in "Sea of Monsters," unless you count some fish guts.
I'll tell you what's insane: the probability that folks will go easy on this dreck because it's aimed at younger viewers, who are being distressingly trained to expect little from their art.
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Aug 7, 2013Freudenthal's Sea of Monsters is a step down for the Percy Jackson franchise in nearly every single way imaginable. The scale is smaller, theFreudenthal's Sea of Monsters is a step down for the Percy Jackson franchise in nearly every single way imaginable. The scale is smaller, the characters are less interesting, and the film makes poor use of its rich book and Greek mythology source materials. Young movie (and book series) fans will likely find enjoyment in watching their favorite heroes and actors back on the big screen for another Percy Jackson adventure but the movie provides next to nothing for anyone outside of that core demographic. As mentioned, the film spends a significant amount of time planting seeds for the next entry in the series, but it's hard to imagine that many moviegoers will be as anxious for part three, The Titan's Curse, after sitting through this Sea of Monsters.… Full Review »
Aug 9, 2013I can easily give a 10 beacuse it's BETTER than the first in so many ways that i can't explain in 5000 characters. It's very nice, fun. It's aI can easily give a 10 beacuse it's BETTER than the first in so many ways that i can't explain in 5000 characters. It's very nice, fun. It's a good movie for the summer.… Full Review »
Aug 8, 2013The thing with this one is that it missed a lot key points. Tyson doesn't appear like that. Why isn't Clarrise fat. Where the golden fleece isThe thing with this one is that it missed a lot key points. Tyson doesn't appear like that. Why isn't Clarrise fat. Where the golden fleece is at, there in not part of the book was there an amusement park on the island. Where are the man eating goats. Where is the hamster woman. Chiron looks old while it only takes place one year later. Percy in the book is 13 while in the movie he is 16. I am very disappointed in the movie. I somewhat enjoyed it though.… Full Review »


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Howell carries North past Bosse with 202 yards rushing
Blake Howell was shocked.
Not about the 202 yards the North High School running back unofficially rushed for on Friday night. Not about the three touchdowns he scored to help the Huskies beat Bosse 55-33 in the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference season opener for both football teams.
He was surprised he was the first person to score a touchdown in the first game ever played at North's new football field, Bundrant Stadium.
"Wow," said Howell. "I didn't realize that."
The 5-foot-10, 185-pound senior accomplished the feat with 9:50 left in the first quarter when he took a pitchout from quarterback Max Mooney and raced around right end. No Bosse tackler was within 15 yards of him as he sprinted untouched 38 yards into the end zone.
North never trailed after that, although the Bulldogs did make it interesting to start the second half. A 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Arius Carter sliced North's lead to just two points, at 28-26. But the Huskies responded on Bosse's next possession when Brock Underwood recovered a fumble in the back of the end zone following a snap over the head of Bosse quarterback Ian Nunley.
That was the first of four unanswered touchdowns by North.
The Huskies wound up with 414 rushing yards, with Howell piling up almost half that.
"My line put the blocks there for me," he said. "I just read my blocks. I didn't try to outrun them."
In fact, he took almost no credit for his performance.
"It was the line," he said. "I can't talk about my blockers enough. It's the way we condition."
Tight end Drew Watters got special mention from both Howell and North coach Mike Wilson.
"He's a really good blocker," said Howell.
"He was really good at caving in their line on the right side," said Wilson.
But Watters wasn't alone. Almost every time a running back touched the ball, a hole suddenly appeared.
After Bosse cut North's lead to 7-6 on an 80-yard run from scrimmage by Carrington Crutcher on the Bulldogs' first play of the season, North marched 71 yards for its next TD. Howell picked up 19 yards on the drive, with the big run coming from sophomore Chase Whitler — a 30-yard gain around the end that got the Huskies to the Bosse 2. On the next play, fullback DuVante' Lane crashed in for the score.
After Bosse got within a point on Nunley's 1-yard TD run — the result of the Bulldogs blocking a North punt — the Huskies ran off a 15-play, 50-yard drive that consumed 7:39.
Howell gained 27 yards on five more carries, with Lane eventually scoring from 4 yards out.
Howell added a 19-yard scoring run with 33.2 seconds left in the half. Bosse then scored right before the end of the first half on a 2-yard run by Crutcher, who finished with 140 yards on 17 carries.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Pati Gallagher remembers hearing a splash in the Willamette River several hours before daybreak, silence, and then a little girl screaming.
"At first it was, 'Help me,"' Gallagher said of the screams. "Then it went to anguishing horrible screams."
Gallagher and her husband live along the banks of the Willamette River, a wide, powerful waterway that flows through Portland.
The screams they heard apparently came from a 7-year-old girl who was either pushed or fell -- along with her 4-year-old brother -- 75 feet from a bridge over the Willamette as most people were sleeping early Saturday.
The brother and sister were found together in the Willamette. The brother died of drowning. They had floated downstream before they were pulled out of the water during a nighttime search and rescue effort.
The mother of the two children -- 31-year-old Amanda Jo Stott-Smith -- was arrested six hours later on the ninth floor of a downtown parking garage. She threatened to jump off a ledge when officers arrived, police said.
Police are not saying whether they believe Stott-Smith threw her children into the river, or whether they somehow fell. But they are holding her responsible. She faces charges of aggravated murder and aggravated attempted murder at her arraignment Tuesday.
Police have not given a possible motive. "There's some psychological issues, obviously," said Sgt. Mike Marshman, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman. "There has to be...Just look at the facts."
The mother has a history of domestic violence and recently filed for separation from the children's father, according to court documents.
What happened early Saturday has unsettled residents who live along the Willamette as well as police who responded and heard the screams.
Pati and Dan Gallagher, both 50, live in a town home near the Sellwood Bridge. They were sitting on their patio, they said, when they heard a splash, and then screams.
Pati Gallagher called 9-1-1, while her husband and a woman out on a river trail yelled out, asking the girl to tell them her location.
The operator on the other line could hear the girl, said Gallagher, who made three emergency calls by the time the incident ended.
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The couple said the splash seem to have occurred near the river's west bank, about a third of a mile from their home.
The brother and sister began to float downstream, the girl yelling for help.
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"It's tough to get the sounds out of my head -- the screaming, the splash," Dan Gallagher said.
A state medical examiner determined that Stott-Smith's son, Eldon Jay Rebhan Smith, drowned. Her daughter, who has yet to be identified, was taken to an area hospital after surviving more than a half-hour in the water.
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Stroll down Main Street in Old Town Lilburn to the Greenway Trail parking lot and discover a wide variety of locally grown/produced products to enjoy. Each Friday from 4-8 p.m. June 7 to Aug. 30, vendors fill the market with seasonal fruits and vegetables, herbs, preserves/jellies, whole grain breads, milk, cheese, meats, salsas, pasta, handcrafted soaps, and tasty baked goodies. The Lilburn Farmers Market is a tasty way to start your weekend. Co-sponsored by the City of Lilburn. Visit www.lilburnfarmersmarket.org for more information.
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Trail to Freedom Committee Announces "The Untold Stories" - Trail to Freedom Symposium
FREDERICKSBURG, VA - The Trail to Freedom Committee,formerly the Fredericksburg-Stafford- Spotsylvania Sesquicentennial Committee, is pleased to announceThe Untold Stories - Trail to Freedom SymposiumonApril 27, 2013. "The Untold Stories" continues to present and interpret the history of the men, women and children who crossed to freedom in the Spring and Summer of 1862 and the choices and realities they faced once they crossed into freedom including the choice to fight in the Union Army.
The weekend of April 27, 2013 will begin with Phase I of the symposium which will include an invocation and presentation of Colors by the 23rdUnited States Colored Troops and an introductory address led by the Mayor of Fredericksburg, Mary Katherine Greenlaw. Phase I will also include a teacher resources session on bringing local stories of Emancipation to the classroom and feature a lecture on Emancipation and the United States Colored troops led by Dr. James K. Bryant, author ofThe Chancellorsville Campaign: The Nation's High Water MarkandThe Battle of Fredericksburg: We Cannot Escape History. Phase I will run from 9:00 am to 11:30 pm at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library on 1201 Caroline Street. Doors open at 8:45 a.m. Free and open to the public, registration required.
During Phase II of the symposium attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy a seated buffet luncheon and join us as we honor the first inductees of the Trail-to-Freedom William H. Carney Award for service to the community and excellence in preserving local history. Phase II will also feature an African American genealogical research workshop led by Dr. Laurenette Lee of the Virginia Historical Society and a theatrical interpretation of the life of Mary Ann Shadd Carry, an African American abolitionist and USCT recruiter during the Civil War. Phase II will also feature a lecture on Civil War soldiers and sailors led by Mr. Burnie Siler, an historian and actor in the moviesGloryand the HBO mini-series,John Adams. Phase II will run from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm at the Courtyard Marriott located at 620 Caroline Street. Phase II is $25, registration is required.
Participants may register and purchase tickets for both Phase I and Phase II sessions at The Museum Store at 215 William Street, Fredericksburg, VA. Tickets may also be purchased online atwww.untoldstoriesva.com. For more information about the symposium or for a complete listing of events please contact Hashmel Turner at 540-371-5180, James Anderson at 540-898-2549 or Tramia Jackson at 540-371-3037 ext. 140 or visit our website atwww.untoldstoriesva.com.
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January 21st, 2009, 9:42 am posted by Sally French
Last week, we reported that Disneyland cut numerous entertainment options at the Disneyland Resort, including Walt Disneys Parade of Dreams and the Princess Fantasy Faire Coronation Ceremony.
Never fear, because Disney has plans for a whole new batch of productions in conjunction with the new What will you celebrate? promotion.
We are always adjusting our shows, Disneyland Resort spokesman John McClintock said. Of course were getting back into celebrate with a new street show at the end of March and a show at the Big Thunder Ranch in Spring.
In the Celebrate Today! street show, music floods the streets, dancing kicks into high gear and the parks become the happiest party on Earth, Disney stated in a press release.
The street show will have 7 units, 90 performers including stilt walkers and a whole series of musical numbers involving swing dancing, rock n roll tunes and conga lines. Similar to the parade of dreams, it will stop at the Small World Mall, Main Street, U.S.A. and possibly another location.
The Celebrate Street Party opens on March 27th and will run daily.
Big Thunder Ranch is once again going to become a barbecue location and a show. Its sort of a country western show with characters, McClintock said.
The ranch closed in 2001 after the opening of Rancho del Zocalo.
Are there any plans for bringing back the old parades and shows?
They are retired, for at least a while, McClintock said."
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