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Injury Notes: Holliday, Odorizzi, Morrow
The Cardinals tonight placed left fielder Matt Holliday on the disabled list with a quadriceps injury, the team announced. It's not known what type of timeframe Holliday will need to recover, but Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Holliday has a Grade 2 tear of his right quad and will be reevaluated two weeks from now (Twitter links). Losing Holliday would be the second blow to the middle of the Cardinals' order, as St. Louis has already lost Matt Adams for the remainder of the season to a similar injury, though Adams had a complete tear of his quad that required surgery. Unlike that scenario, however, the Cards do have a plethora of internal replacement candidates for Holliday. Randal Grichuk, Jon Jay, Jason Heyward and Peter Bourjos are all on the big league roster, and well-regarded prospect Stephen Picsotty is waiting in the wings as well.
A couple more injury-related notes…
- Rays right-hander Jake Odorizzi landed on the 15-day disabled list tonight as well, thanks to a left oblique injury. Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Times writes that Odorizzi feels the injury is less serious than the oblique issue that sidelined teammate Alex Cobb for five-and-a-half weeks last year. However, Odorizzi also isn't sure how long he'll be sidelined and doesn't have a timetable for his return at present. Odorizzi called the strain "mild to moderate" and said he'll play catch later this week.
- Padres right-hander Brandon Morrow's return to the mound has been slowed, as a setback in his recovery means he'll be shut down from throwing entirely for the next two weeks, via the San Diego Union-Tribune (Twitter link). Odrisamer Despaigne has stepped into the rotation in Morrow's absence, but he's been incredibly hit-or-miss in his past six outings. Despaigne yielded eight runs in his return to the rotation in early May, and he's surrendered seven, two, zero, one and four runs, respectively, in five subsequent start. The outcome for Despaigne has been a 5.82 ERA over six starts. San Diego also has Josh Johnson rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, but it seems unlikely that the team would bank on Johnson taking the ball every fifth day through season's end upon his return; Johnson has long struggled with injuries and has not thrown a pitch in the Majors since Aug. 6, 2013.
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NL West Notes: Dodgers, Gaudin, JJ, Morrow, Myers
Here's the latest out of the NL West, with a focus on several injury situations and how they impact two expected division contenders:
- It's no surprise to hear that the Dodgers rotation is thin at the back end, but as MLB.com's Steve Bourbon writes, the recent bombing of Carlos Frias brings the matter into focus. (Of course, Mike Bolsinger remains a surprising success story thus far.) While bigger moves are probably still months away, the immediate need for depth is evident. Joe Wieland is one internal option, says Bourbon, while the club will also hope for continued progress from the rehabbing Erik Bedard and Brandon Beachy.
- While he has been more a swingman than a regular starter over most of his career, righty Chad Gaudin could also be a possibility for the Dodgers as a spot starter or pen piece. As MLB.com's Ken Gurnick reports, Gaudin is about a month away from beginning to throw after undergoing carpal tunnel release surgery on his pitching wrist.
- Another rehabbing starter, Josh Johnson of the Padres, is experiencing nerve issues in his neck and will put his throwing program on hold, MLB.com's Corey Brock reports. The issue "doesn't sound serious," per Brock. Johnson has gone nearly two years since his last MLB appearance, and a scuffling San Diego outfit would surely welcome a chance to put a vintage JJ on the rubber.
- The Padres are also hoping for a return from Brandon Morrow, who was pitching well before shoulder issues put him down. Brock says that Morrow is set to throw a sim game later this week. It seems that Morrow is on track with his recovery, though he surely still has a number of boxes to check before returning to action.
- Of even greater concern for the Padres, in the long run at least, is the status of Wil Myers and his injured left wrist. As Brock reports, Myers has yet to be cleared to take swings and will obviously not be ready to come off the DL when first eligible tomorrow. Instead, he is headed back for another look at the wrist to see how it is healing.
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Pitching Notes: Richard, Masterson, Morrow, Hochevar
Spring Training will always involve unfortunate news of injuries, but it also represents an opportunity for players making a comeback — whether from injury or otherwise — to reestablish themselves. In addition to restoring their own career trajectories (Scott Kazmir, anyone?), such players can deliver immense value to the teams that give them another chance.
Let's take a look at a few situations from around the league, focusing on pitchers:
- When lefty Clayton Richard signed a minor league deal with the Pirates, everyone's first thoughts went to the hurlers whose careers have recently been revived in Pittsburgh. (A.J. Burnett, Francisco Liriano, and Edinson Volquez being the prime examples.) As Travis Sawchik of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports, that is essentially what Richard was thinking about, too. "I was able to talk to [Volquez] a little bit and see what he thought of the organization," said Richard. "It was positive. Just in talking with [GM] Neal [Huntington], [manager] Clint [Hurdle], and [pitching coach] Ray [Searage], I got a good feel of what they are all about. it made sense for me that this was the place." The non-roster invitee is said to be hitting the gun in the low-nineties, where he previously has worked, and says he is "loosening up my entire body through my delivery" after having seen his motion limited in the past by shoulder troubles.
- After good vibes at the opening of Red Sox camp, Justin Masterson had a less-than-promising outing yesterday, as Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe writes. A scout called Masterson's work "awful," while manager John Farrell said the righty "started to flash some better stuff into the fourth inning" but lacked "late action" on his pitches from "inconsistencies and when the velocity drops." That group of issues — i.e., mechanical struggles and waning fastball velocity — were perhaps the two most-cited underlying difficulties that led Masterson to fall from his early perch near the top of this year's free agent class to a one-year, $9.5MM deal with Boston. Of course, there is still plenty of time for Masterson to rebound this season.
- Brandon Morrow of the Padres also signed a make-good, one-year deal but was guaranteed much less than Masterson. But he is off to a strong opening to his year, having posted nine innings with one earned run and seven strikeouts against two free passes thus far. In post-game comments today to his counterpart, Cubs skipper Joe Maddon said that Morrow showed "real stuff" in his four scoreless frames, as MLB.com's Alyson Footer tweets. It seems at this point that the fifth starter's role is Morrow's to lose.
- Royals reliever Luke Hochevar made his way back to competitive action today, throwing a clean inning, as Andy McCullough of the Kansas City Star reports (Twitter links). Working his way back from Tommy John surgery, Hochevar nevertheless landed a $10MM guarantee (over two years) to return to Kansas City. He was throwing in the 92 to 93 mph range in his work today, but despite that successful first appearance still seems likely to start the regular season on the DL.
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NL West Notes: Olivera, Morrow, Federowicz, McCarthy, Sandoval
Current Diamondbacks GM Dave Stewart is a good friend of Kevin Towers, the man he replaced in that role. As Bob Nightengale of USA Today writes, Stewart really did want Towers to stay on as a special assistant, and Towers truly felt he owed it to his replacement to go against his wishes so as to avoid any difficulties down the line. It's a fascinating story, all the more so since Stewart is currently rooming with Towers at the latter's Arizona home during Spring Training.
- The Padres, like the Braves, are not expected to spend up to the $70MM level that Hector Olivera is said to be seeking, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports. San Diego is a great fit, as Rosenthal notes, but that is quite a price tag to tack on after an offseason of additions.
- Brandon Morrow is hoping to break the Padres rotation and reestablish his career trajectory, as ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick writes. Morrow, who has battled numerous and varied injuries in his career, is battling with Odrisamer Despaigne for the fifth starter's spot.
- Padres backstop Tim Federowicz has suffered a lateral meniscus tear in his knee, MLB.com's Corey Brock tweets. Surgery appears to be all but a foregone conclusion, which could sideline Federowicz for some time. Veteran Wil Nieves probably has the inside track to step into the backup role behind Derek Norris, though one wonders whether top prospect Austin Hedges could eventually get a look.
- Newly-minted Dodgers righty Brandon McCarthy says that he believes in his ability to provide value over the life of his four-year, $48MM deal, as Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register reports. "I would kind of hope my 30s are where my career really begins," says McCarthy. "As dumb as that sounds. I've spent a long time figuring [things] out — health being the biggest thing — and transforming as a pitcher." President of baseball operations Andrew Friedman cited McCarthy's inning load last year and "changes in his workout regiment" — along with his quality offerings from the mound — as reasons for optimism. A training program in his Dallas neighborhood improved McCarthy's overall strength, aiding his return to form.
- Pablo Sandoval says that he "knew early in Spring Training last year I was going to leave" the Giants, as Scott Miller of Bleacher Report writes. The one-time San Francisco favorite did not mince words, accusing GM Brian Sabean of not respecting his representatives in discussions at that time. "The Giants made a good offer [in free agency]," said Sandoval, "but I didn't want to take it. I got five years from Boston. I left money on the table in San Francisco. It's not about money. It's about how you treat the player."
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Padres To Sign Brandon Morrow
9:23am: Morrow gets a $2.5MM guarantee, Brock tweets. He can earn up to $5MM in incentives if he starts, and up to $1MM extra working from the pen.
8:29am: The Padres have agreed to a one-year deal with free agent righty Brandon Morrow, Corey Brock of MLB.com reports on Twitter. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reported recently that the Friars had an offer on the table for Morrow, and he now tweets that it was included about $2.5MM in guaranteed money, while cautioning that he is not sure if the offer was upped.
The 30-year-old Morrow has had a roller coaster of a career. He first saw big league action with the Mariners, working mostly in relief. The Blue Jays acquired him in a trade for Brandon League and moved him to the rotation, where he showed immense promise. Even before Morrow's earned run numbers finally caught up to his peripherals, the Blue Jays signed him to a three-year, $21MM extension that included a $10MM option for 2015.
That contract seemed destined to be a bargain when Morrow began the 2012 season with 124 2/3 innings of 2.96 ERA pitching. But he was derailed by an oblique injury, and has not been the same since. Morrow struggled with finger and forearm issues in each of the last two years, ultimately throwing only 87 2/3 innings and compiling a 5.65 ERA in the process.
Toronto shifted Morrow back to the pen last year, and ultimately made him a free agent by declining the club option that once seemed nearly certain to be exercised. The Padres will take a chance on his injury and performance struggles and hope that he can regain his prior form. As Rosenthal noted in his report, some clubs have pursued Morrow as a reliever, while his preference is to work from the rotation.
It remains to be seen precisely what GM A.J. Preller has in mind. But Brock notes on Twitter that the signing could well be a precursor to a Padres trade of an in-house starter for a bat. To an extent, of course, pitcher-friendly Petco Park offers some of the same challenges and benefits, in the inverse, that Coors Field offers the Rockies. Having already dealt for Matt Kemp, Preller may be looking to take advantage of his stock of attractive arms to deal for offense while using the ballpark as a lure to Morrow (and, perhaps, Josh Johnson).
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Padres Among Teams With Offers Out To Brandon Morrow
The Padres have made a one-year offer to free agent righty Brandon Morrow, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports (Twitter links). The offer includes significant incentives.
Other teams, too, have offers on the table for Morrow to weigh. Several teams are pursuing him as a reliever, while others would sign him as a starter, as is his preference.
Morrow, 30, became a free agent when the Blue Jays declined a $10MM option. Once one of the more promising young rotation pieces in the game, Morrow struggled badly with injury and performance over the last two seasons. In total, he managed only 87 2/3 frames of 5.65 ERA ball, with 7.4 K/9 against 3.7 BB/9. But he remains an intriguing talent, and there is apparently a good deal of interest in seeing if he can work past his various arm issues.
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NL West Notes: Front Offices, Ellis, Morrow, Rox, Hellickson
The front office shuffling of the NL West continued today with another pair of moves. The Dodgers will hire Scott Bream away from the Tigers to be their new pro scouting director, tweets Mark Saxon of ESPN Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the Padres announced that they've promoted regional supervisor Mark Conner to director of scouting. The 38-year-old Conner joined the Friars in 2010 as an amateur scout and was the scout responsible for signing the highly touted Matt Wisler.
Here's more from the NL West…
- New Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi declined to give a firm answer when asked by Dylan Hernandez of the L.A. Times whether or not the team will tender a contract to A.J. Ellis. However, Zaidi offered strong praise for Ellis' leadership and relationships with the pitching staff. "…it's clear he's a big part of this team and a big part of the preparation and comfort level for the pitchers," Zaidi told Hernandez.
- In a second tweet, Saxon notes that Brandon Morrow is a name to keep an eye on for Dodgers fans. As Saxon points out, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman has had success turning starters with dynamic arms and transitioning them to the bullpen. Of course, it's not clear if he is open to 'pen work. Morrow indicated late in the season that his preference was to be a starter.
- Rockies GM Jeff Bridich tells Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post that the team "absolutely, 100 percent" needs to upgrade its rotation. Bridich said the club is keeping all avenues open to acquire pitching talent. One possibility that may intrigue Rockies fans is Jeremy Hellickson, whom the Rays are said to be discussing with an NL club. However, Saunders hears from a Major League source that the Rockies aren't targeting Hellickson at this time, although they have shown past interest.
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Blue Jays Exercise Thole Option, Decline Three Others
The Blue Jays have announced that they've exercised their option on catcher Josh Thole and declined their options on first baseman Justin Smoak and righties Brandon Morrow and Dustin McGowan. Smoak is still eligible for arbitration and will remain in the organization. Ben Nicholson-Smith of SportsNet.ca was the first to report on Smoak's status (via Twitter), while Chris Cotillo of MLB Daily Dish was first on McGowan.
Thole will make $1.75MM next season after hitting .248/.320/.278 in 150 plate appearances last season. He'll continue to serve as the Jays' catcher when knuckleballer R.A. Dickey is pitching.
The Jays will pay the newly acquired Smoak a $150K buyout rather than picking up his $3.65MM option. They'll gamble that he'll make less in arbitration. With Adam Lind headed to Milwaukee, the lefty now has a clearer path to a role with the Jays in 2015.
Morrow will receive a $1MM buyout on his $10MM option after missing much of the season due to a finger injury. He still throws hard, however, and his intriguing track record (including an excellent 9.4 K/9 in a career mostly spent as a starter) will make him a free agent to watch. McGowan, who posted a 4.17 ERA in 82 innings split between the rotation and the bullpen last year, will receive a $500K buyout rather than a $4MM option.
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AL East Notes: Hague, Morrow, Castillo, Orioles
The Blue Jays are set to place corner infielder Matt Hague on waivers, tweets MLBTR's Zach Links. Hague, who just turned 29, was recently designated as part of Toronto's roster-clearing for September call-ups.
Here's more from the AL East:
- Blue Jays righty Brandon Morrow has shown recently that his stuff can play up in a bullpen role, as Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca writes. While his $10MM club option for next year is still unlikely to be exercised, the 30-year-old could revive his career by returning to the pen, where he spent some time previously. Of course, as Davidi notes, Morrow still may be intriguing enough as a starter that he could look for an opportunity to stay in that role, where he thrived in 2012 (2.96 ERA in 124 2/3 frames). Saying that he still hopes Toronto will exercise the option, Morrow said he will otherwise "see what offers come in" and choose "which option you feel like is your best opportunity." Morrow emphasized that he still thinks he can bring more value as a starter.
- Recent Red Sox signee Rusney Castillo is now just one step removed from the majors, as Tim Britton of the Providence Journal writes. The big dollar Cuban free agent is expected to play in a playoff series for Triple-A Pawtucket and then debut with the big club sometime next week.
- Yesterday, I asked MLBTR's readers to weigh in on the Orioles' slate of possible qualifying offer candidates. With over 12,000 votes recorded, outfielder/DH Nelson Cruz proved the most popular option as a potential recipient, followed by shortstop J.J. Hardy and outfielder Nick Markakis. It will be interesting to see how executive VP Dan Duquette handles the trio, especially with rising arbitration salaries for position players like Chris Davis, Matt Wieters, Alejandro De Aza, and Steve Pearce. Given Cruz's big season and Hardy's consistent production, it would seem quite enticing for both to turn down a QO if it is made. Given their respective ages, however — Cruz recently turned 34, while Hardy just turned 32 — draft compensation could prove a significant hindrance to their markets.
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AL East Notes: Middlebrooks, Sox, Teixeira, Martinez, Morrow
The Red Sox are planning on having Will Middlebrooks play winter ball this offseason in an attempt to get him back on track, and they're telling teams that they won't simply give the soon-to-be 26-year-old away, tweets ESPN's Buster Olney. Middlebrooks may seem a good buy-low candidate, as the former top prospect has followed a strong rookie campaign with a .213/.264/.375 line over a pair of injury-plagued seasons in 2013-14, but it sounds as if the Red Sox aren't ready to give up on him.
Here's more from the AL East…
- Red Sox GM Ben Cherington spoke with reporters before tonight's game, and Sean McAdam of CSNNE.com has some highlights from the session. Cherington says that "barring something unforeseen," Rusney Castillo will join the Major League club this month. He also said that the club will continue to have Mookie Betts focus on center field, noting that having three plus center fielders isn't a bad thing if Castillo, Betts and Jackie Bradley all pan out. "We believe we're better off having more than one major league center fielder," said Cherington. "In the long run, in terms of long-term control, hopefully we have three at the upper levels."
- While there's been an unthinkable amount of ink dedicated to the Phillies' Ryan Howard problem, Joel Sherman of the New York Post writes that the Yankees have a similar issue on their hands with Mark Teixeira. Sherman reports that while the Phillies have aggressively shopped Howard, the Yankees haven't even tried to move Teixeira, knowing that he would be nearly impossible to jettison due to his injuries, his no-trade protection and the $45MM he's owed in 2015-16. Teixeira, who turns 35 next April, has batted just .213/.316/.404 in 493 plate appearances over the past two seasons.
- Rays bench coach Dave Martinez is interested in the Astros' managerial opening, writes MLB.com's Adam Berry. Martinez, who was on a short list of candidates for the last Astros managerial search, called the opening a "great opportunity" but made it clear that his current focus is on helping the Rays. "I interviewed for them a couple years ago, and they had good baseball people, very creative minds over there, and I kind of like that whole situation over there," said Martinez. "Right now, my concern is being the bench coach for the Tampa Bay Rays and hopefully we win as many games as possible this month." As Berry points out, Martinez is a good fit with the Astros after watching the way in which longtime Rays manager has Joe Maddon has built a rapport with an analytically inclined front office. Martinez noted that he got along well with Astros owner Jim Crane and GM Jeff Luhnow in his previous interview, adding that he thinks Houston has a very bright future.
- Brandon Morrow wants to pitch in the rotation in 2015 and beyond, he tells MLB.com's Gregor Chisolm. As Chisholm notes, Morrow may soon have the opportunity to dictate where that could happen, as his $10MM club option is likely to be declined by the Blue Jays after another injury-plagued season. Morrow doesn't seem to fit into Toronto's rotation moving forward, with R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, Drew Hutchison, Marcus Stroman, Aaron Sanchez and Daniel Norris all at the Major League level.
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The new issue of Quarterly Conversation is now online, and, as can be expected, filled with great stuff.
One of the lead pieces is Scott Esposito's article about the similarities in the writings of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Franz Kafka:
In his Prologue [to The Invention of Morel, Borges calls on writers of the 20th century to prove that "if [the literature of] this century has any ascendancy over the preceding ones it lies in the quality of its plots." Kafka and Bioy are two writers who responded to, and perhaps proved, Borges's declaration. For all the differences in their lives, contexts, and ways of meeting Borges's challenge, their fictions exhibit remarkable convergences. So clear are the similarities that one might follow William H. Gass, who once declared "that Schopenhauer has read Borges and reflects him, just as Borges reflects both Bioy and Borges." If Schopenhauer can read Borges, then Kafka has clearly read Bioy, and the two reflect each other like two mirrors, except what's multiplied in their midst isn't a person but a world: our very own, skewed as images caught between mirrors tend to be, but seemingly contained in both at once and, as the reproductions trail off to infinity, slightly but clearly bending in the same direction.
There are also a number of reviews of interesting titles, including pieces on All One Horse by Breyten Breytenbach, on Boxwood by Camilo Jose Cela, and The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig, which has a great opening paragraph:
Reading The Post-Office Girl is like trying to hit a slow-breaking curveball. You know the break is coming—you can intuit that the seemingly conventional story is going to drop on you in some way—but it hangs high for so long that by the time it does break, you've already swung blindly, thinking you knew how to read the book.
There are also reviews of Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya—one of my favorite books of 2008, which Scott Bryan Wilson also praises:
ike a lot of the great Central American novelists, Moya started out with aspirations of becoming a poet, and though Senselessness is full of really miserable, gruesome stuff, it's exactly the ugliness, as well as Moya's sense of language, compassion, and his healthy dose of pessimism), that make Senselessness a phenomenal read and an incredibly important work.
And finally, there's an interesting review of Basrayatha: Portrait of a City by Muhammad Khudayyir:
Muhammad Khudayyir's Basrayatha has no need for maps. Although the book is tagged as a travel memoir, it has little to offer the would-be (if-it-were-possible) tourist to Iraq. The narrative doesn't pause to orient the reader—to remove our blindfolds and point us in a particular direction—and most of its landmarks are erased and rebuilt, renamed, and then erased and rebuilt again. The book's only visual guides are not maps but slightly blurred, century-old photographs. These uncaptioned photos, like the images of a W. G. Sebald novel, obscure as much as they illuminate.
But just as Khudayyir does not present us with the pseudo-clarity of a CNN report, neither does he bring us a fuzzy, pre-invasion paradise. Basrayatha is nearer kin to Calvino's Invisible Cities and Sebald's Rings of Saturn. Khudayyir takes us into a story-reflecting-a-city, a series of memories and mirrors that point us toward what the book's narrator calls "actual, defective reality." This is not because Khudayyir has fled the land of his birth and must construct things, board by board, from faded recollections. He names himself a permanent citizen of Basra, and says that he has rarely left the city in forty-some years, his age when the book was published in Arabic in 1996.
In addition to all of these great articles, there are also interviews with Horacio Castellanos Moya and Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
Overall, a great issue.
Founded in 1960 by such creative pioneers as George Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, the Oulipo, shorthand for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, came about in when a group of writers and mathematicians sought constraints to find new structures and. . .
There's little to say about a series of prose poems that willfully refuse to identify pronoun antecedents. Or perhaps there are a million things. The poems in Morse, My Deaf Friend— the chapbook by Miloš Djurdjević published by Ugly Duckling. . .
The Crimson Thread of Abandon is the first collection of short fiction available in English by the prolific Japanese writer and all-around avant-garde trickster Terayama Shūji, who died in 1983 at the age of 47. This collection would be important. . .
Last year, NYRB Classics introduced English-language readers to Catalan writer Josep Pla with Peter Bush's translation of The Gray Notebook. In that book, Pla wrote about life in Spain during an influenza outbreak soon after World War I, when. . .
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The prolific Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós wrote his short novel, Tristana, during the closing years of the nineteenth century, a time when very few options were available to women of limited financial means who did not want a husband.. . .
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Re: [peditors] Re: automate Find/Filter Text in Datebk
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- Quoting Paul Nevai <nevai@...-state.edu>:
> # >> {find1::/&tap i [030,030]}Yes. the "0x1F/0x1F/xn" is better cause it doesn't need taps and can
> Not all versions of OS 5 work with the /&tap[] function. Palm is
> "improving"
> the OS all the time. All=my=best, Paul
be used with full screen writing on......
- Quoting JimBoling <jimboling@...>:
>Interesting. That must be a difference either between the TE and TX
> John - forgot to mention one thing.. I was curious why it was
> necessary to do the page downs if the Tap call is using absolute
> coordinates. So I tried dropping the page downs, and sure enough, it
> still works.
> - Jim
(likely), or maybe DB5 vs. DB6 (unlikely), or you have full-screen
writing off (most likely). In my case when the find/filter text screen
is first deployed the OK button ( and the others) is not highlighted.
Doing the page-down four times serially highlights down to the OK
button. Doing "&tap" on the *un*-highlighted OK, the button flashes
briefly but does not activate - instead the punctuation shift happens.
This is often the result with "&tap" in OS5, especially with fullscreen
writing on. But with the OK button highlighted, it responds to "&tap"
correctly. That was the "breakthrough", finding out from Paul that
"page down" mimics the 5-way down button. See if the version of the
script that omits the page-downs works if first you make sure you have
full-screen writing turned on.
~ John
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This property allows you to book online with a credit card. After submitting a reservation request, the owner or manager has 24 hours to accept, at which time your card will be charged and you will receive an email confirmation
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"We (my wife, daughter, and myself) were very happy staying in this two-bedroom apartment near the NIH campus. We live in Bethesda, but our condo was undergoing construction and we needed a place to escape the mess and noise. The rental was perfect for us: close to Bethesda on a very quiet, lovely neighborhood. The beds were comfortable, the wi-fi was good, the kitchen was fully stocked, and the owners (who live upstairs) extremely welcoming. All in all, a comfortable stay. If you need a base of operations in Bethesda, I'd recommend this apartment."Guest: Anonymous Date of Stay: October 2014 Review Submitted: November 5, 2014View listing
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Can't Afford Em Crafts describes itself as "two people with a passion for finding clever ways to reduce waste creatively." A part of me finds this Atari abuse horrifying, but let's face it: most of their arcade conversions sucked. Product Page [CantAffordEmCrafts Geeky Gadgets via CrunchGear]
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…and Asteroids is never all that good when it's not done in true vector graphics.
It hurts to hear so it must be true. Although I did play the ever-living fuck out of pac-man on 2600 back in tha day.
Asteroids was one of the more playable Atari 2600 arcade ports, even if the graphics were significantly different from the original version.
That's the catch-22 of a conversion like this; if you take an unwanted game, put the clock in it, it won't sell since nobody liked the game in the first place.
However.. since most Atari home games were shadows of the licensed game, people who liked the arcade version will get the cart. Deja vu all over again.
At this point in time, there's bound to be more cartridges out there than working consoles. Even Goodwill/Salvation Army would toss old systems since they wouldn't sell.. that was many years ago, before they were old enough to be 'retro'.
I can't believe they didn't use ET.


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Europe and Central Asia
Long Live The Internal Market! (But How Competitive is the EU?)
Collectively, the 10 indicators in Doing Business 2014 are a great tool for assessing the ease of doing business in countries and measuring the quality of their regulations.
The results can be surprising for some countries in the European Union (EU): Would you ever consider that the most difficult country to start a business in the EU is Austria? That Italy is the worst place to pay taxes? That one of the top countries in protecting investors is Slovenia? Or that Poland is the global runner-up in providing information about credit?
Boosting Budget Transparency in Moldova
Did you know that funding Moldova's Parliament costs each citizen on average $2 per year - the country spends double the share of its public budget for the cost of its Legislature when compared to Finland, Lithuania or Ireland. Or that the cost of passing a law in Moldova in 2012 was twice what it cost in 2011? These are just some of the many interesting facts I recently learned about my country through an Open Data initiative.
Budget Stories is an Open Data initiative which originated as a grassroots idea among the "think-tank" community in Moldova and has quickly developed into a popular and useful online tool for citizens, primarily by digesting raw budget execution numbers and presenting them as visually-engaging infographics.
What Policies Will Allow Russia Achieve Environmentally Sustainable Growth?
The Russian Federation's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is an event of exceptional importance. On many levels, there are concerns that the environment in Russia will be negatively affected by trade liberalization. A growing body of research looking at economic and physical linkages between trade, environment and development shows that these linkages are often complex and interdependent.
Scientists have implicated that from an economic perspective, trade liberalization and environment are related because most economic output is based on input from the environment, including the energy for processing them, and waste released to environment. However, the effect of trade liberalization on the environment would vary depending on sector, country policies, markets, technologies and management systems. Changes in environmental quality as a result of potential expansion of "dirty industries" (e.g., ferrous and non- ferrous metals, chemicals) could be mitigated by effective and transparent enforcement mechanisms. Russia's economic gains from trade liberalization are estimated at about $49 billion annually. For these gains to be environmentally sustainable, it will be crucial to implement complementary "do-no-harm" policies tailored to address environmental concerns. This will be pivotal in sustaining the sources of gains from WTO accession in the long run.
So how does trade liberalization affect environmental quality?
Creating Jobs in Armenia
Tim Richards, Mine Manager of the Amulsar Gold Mine explains the mine
lay-out to Chris Sheldon, Sector Manager of Mining at the World Bank.
Until recently, Armenia was not only landlocked, but also policy locked: a restrictive aviation policy limited options and increased prices for passengers and cargo coming in to or leaving Armenia's Zvartnots airport outside of Yerevan, the capital. The government had granted exclusive rights to a private, Armenian-owned airline, Armavia, for ten years starting in 2003, and therefore restricted competition from foreign airlines. So, even a regular holiday sometimes started with a long road trip to Georgia's capital Tbilisi to connect with cheaper flights there.
Annual Meetings: World Bank Group Strategy Approved; Gender Equality Agenda
The World Bank Group got the go-ahead on a new strategy aimed at repositioning itself to better tackle its two goals: ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The strategy aims to more efficiently and effectively leverage finances, technology, and talent to provide customized development solutions for client countries. In a communiqué at the close of the Annual Meetings, the Development Committee said it "strongly endorsed" the plan. The committee said the Bank Group has an important role to play "in delivering global development results, supporting countries with their specific development challenges, and helping them eradicate poverty and build resilience to future financial, economic, social, and environmental challenges." Read the communiqué and article.
A new paper updated the Development Committee on the gender equality agenda at the World Bank Group. In the past year, all of the Bank's country assistance strategies were "gender-informed," and the total share of gender-informed lending rose from 83% to 98% between FY12 and FY13. This translates into a dollar figure of almost $31 billion, notes the paper.
Unpaved Roads Lead to a Better Future for Moldova's Children
Nearly three years ago, a large delegation was pulling in front of a newly-renovated kindergarten building in the village of Cucuruzeni, Moldova to unveil a long-awaited addition for its 2,000 inhabitants. Newly planted flowers and the fresh smell of paint constantly reminded me that this was more than just a World Bank-financed project -- it marked the beginning of better education for children of the community.
Two weeks ago, as I was driving north of Moldova's capital Chisinau, our driver veered off on an unpaved eight kilometer stretch of road. The dusty, bumpy ride would take me back to Cucuruzeni, after three years.
My anticipation did not go unrewarded. The building was spotless. I stopped in front of a dozen smiling, and curious three- and four-year-olds, excited to see visitors. Three years ago, this would have been out of the ordinary for me. Now, as the father of a 2.5-year-old son, I am in a kindergarten five times a week. This visit, however, was special.
Roma Inclusion: An Agenda for Action
A recent regional study that focused on Roma and non-Roma in nearby communities from five Eastern European countries finds between 28 and 45 percent of Roma children attend preschool in four of the five study countries. However, the Roma preschool rate jumps to 76 percent in Hungary, where targeted policies have been in place; and this is about the average for non-Roma preschool rates across the five countries. Hungary's experience offers promise because surveys show that preschool matters greatly to completing secondary school and staying off social assistance.
Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Same Dish, Many Different Recipes
The debate over how to ensure good health services for all while assuring affordability is nothing new.
However, it has recently acquired new impetus under the guise of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Discussions around UHC are contentious and as Tim Evans recently pointed out, "a lot of the discussion gets stuck on whether financing of the system will be through government revenue, through taxes, or through contributions to insurance."
A New Partnership With Moldova
I landed in Chisinau on a short flight from Frankfurt a mere two years ago. I immediately liked this vibrant and cosmopolitan city built with white limestone and awash with greenery, and remember thinking that it has the potential to attract scores of tourists. But tickets to fly into Chisinau were expensive in 2011.
I also recall so vividly my first trip through the Moldovan countryside shortly after. An amalgam of bright green leaves on walnut trees contrasted the yellow of the sunflowers that grow in fields with some of the most fertile soil in the world. I was immediately struck by the immense potential that Moldova holds in agriculture.
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Lloyds Australia Unit Will Issue Asset-Backed Notes
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- An Australian unit of Lloyds Banking Group Plc plans to issue A$367.5 million ($363 million) of bonds backed by vehicle loans in its second sale of the securities this year.
Capital Finance Australia Ltd. will sell the notes, backed by more than 16,500 auto loans, according to an e-mailed statement from Moody's Investors Service. It's marketing the main class of notes to yield from 155 basis points to 160 basis points more than the one-month bank bill swap rate, according to a preliminary sales document seen by Bloomberg News.
The U.S. subprime collapse froze Australia's securitization markets as investors shunned all but the safest, simplest forms of debt. Even as the number of asset-backed sales rebounded to a record this year, the average deal size is smaller and investors are demanding that transactions be more conservatively structured, Moody's said today.
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Joshua Thorsvik, left, and Jacob Meltzer co-founded Keep It Cut, offering unlimited haircuts and trims for a monthly fee.
The UpTake: Business partners and lifelong friends Jacob Meltzer and Joshua Thorsvik got plenty of positive feedback from friends and family when they floated their idea for offering a subscription haircuts service. But actually opening the business was an arduous process.
J a cob Meltzer and Joshua Thorsvik found that opening a business can be a bit hairy.
Last fall, the duo opened Keep it Cut, a subscription-based haircut business that allows members an unlimited number of visits for a flat monthly rate.
From difficulties with securing funding to finding available retail space, the lifelong friends found opening Keep it Cut was enough to rip one's hair out.
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"We never thought how hard it would be to open," Thorsvik said.
For $23 a month, Keep it Cut members can drop in at 2824 E. Indian School Road in Phoenix for as many trims and cuts as they wish. That includes hair on the head or face.
"We always liked the subscription model," said Thorsvik. The trouble was figuring out something people might want more of, but choose not to indulge in because of the cost.
They decided on haircuts.
"People go a long time between haircuts," Thorsvik said. "It was something we could relate to. But we didn't know anything about hair."
The duo did their homework, crunched some numbers and pushed forward.
Even though friends and family gave the idea a thumbs up, the entrepreneurs weren't sure the concept would work.
"Lots of people think things are great," Meltzer said.
Many entrepreneurs attest to difficulties trying to secure funds or loans to open ventures. Meltzer and Thorsvik found it even more difficult with a new concept and little previous business experience.
"It's challenging to get financing with a new business," Thorsvik said.
In the end, they financed the launch of Keep it Cut with credit cards and personal loans.
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Regulation of Railroads Complaints of Farmers Many U.S. farmers in the West hated the railroads. Since the railroads were built in part to help farmers ship their products, why would farmers hate them? Farmers were angered by what they called price discrimination, practiced by many railroads. Price discrimination occurs when a seller sells the same product, with the same cost of production, at different prices. Farmers accused railroads of charging low rates in long hauls where there was great competition and charging high prices on short hauls where there was no competition. Farmers also complained that railroads were able to get away with these unfair practices because public officials were corrupt. Were The Complaints Valid? There are examples in U.S. history of railroads engaging in price fixing pools, price discrimination, kickbacks, rebates, and outright bribery. The question of interest is whether the higher prices typically charged to farmers resulted from price discrimination made possible by monopoly power. Another possibility is that the prices were a reflection of the railroads' actual cost of production. Railroad officials argued that it cost more to serve farmers in the South and West. Unlike eastern manufacturing, farming was seasonal. Crops required peak loading at harvest time. Many train cars were required. Also, farm shipping usually involved one–way movement of crops to the East. The cars made the return trip empty, increasing the cost of providing the service. Also, shipping in the East usually required fewer cars in an area of the country where the number of cars available was greater. The number of railroad cars serving the manufacturers in the East tended to be greater than the number of railroad cars serving the West and South. Thus, the railroads were able to charge manufacturers lower prices. Were Trunk Lines Natural Monopolies? When railroads worked together to fix prices, the result was formation of a monopoly or a cartel. A monopoly or cartel has the power to limit production and set prices above competitive levels, increasing its profits. Railroad cartels were sometimes successful in the short run when the number of companies was small. But, as soon as competitors laid track and entered the market, cartels failed. Why were railroads interested in forming cartels or monopolies? The incentive for railroads to form monopolies has something to do with railroad trunk lines. In the days before interstate highways and air travel, railroad trunk lines were examples of natural monopolies. Trunk lines are tracks running between distant points. For example, a railroad track from Chicago to New York would be a trunk line. A natural monopoly occurs when production of the product or service requires extremely large capital investments and when one firm can produce at a lower cost than can be achieved by several firms. This seems to have been the case with regard to the railroad trunk lines. It didn't make sense to run two sets of tracks between distant cities when one would do. Similarly, today it seems to make little sense for each oil or gas company to build its own pipelines when one would do. A Role for Government In the case of a natural monopoly, government regulation is used to try to ensure a fair price to the consumer and a fair rate of return (profit) to the producer. However, the precise form of government regulation may vary. Destroying Natural Monopolies Natural monopolies are often defeated by new technology. For example, new developments in trucking, interstate highways, and air travel all fostered competition with railroad trunk lines. More recently, satellite communications, microwave relays, and optical fiber systems have broken down the natural monopoly once found in long distance telephone services. The Economics of Government Regulation Response to Complaints Many U.S. farmers were convinced that railroads had become their enemy. What could farmers do to change the practices of the railroads? They began to push for political action. Government responded to the complaints of farmers by passing several new laws. 1. Granger Laws set maximum rates for railroads and grain elevators in the 1870s. 2. In 1877, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed states' rights to set rates charged by railroads in Munn v. Illinois. 3. In 1886, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad v. Illinois eliminated state regulation and focused attention on Congress for regulation. 4. The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was passed by Congress. It was the first large–scale effort of the federal government to regulate transportation including the efforts of railroads to reduce competition and charge differential rates. The Act created the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), made up of five members appointed by the President and the confirmed by Senate. Regulation Offers New Incentives In a market economy, businesses expect to increase their profits by improving efficiency or expanding production. Government rules can introduce new opportunities for increasing profits. How? Producers and employee groups in a regulated industry can try to increase profits by seeking favorable rules from regulatory agencies—rules restricting competition in their market. Once legislation is passed and regulatory agencies are established, the public has little incentive to be greatly concerned with regulatory actions. The public tends to believe that the problems in a particular industry are being adequately addressed. And the effects of particular regulatory decisions, spread out over the public at large, may appear to have little impact. Unlike the public, producers in regulated industries have vital interests at stake. Consequently, they pay very close attention to the actions of regulatory agencies. After all, favorable actions can mean increased profits or losses, more or fewer jobs, and protection from competitors. It is not a surprise that special interest groups, business leaders, and employee groups in a regulated industry exert a disproportionately large influence on the political process. Over time, by supporting political campaigns and speaking about their problems to members of Congress and the President, they can succeed in ―capturing‖ a regulatory agency. This happens when regulators, those appointed to be ―watch dogs‖ in an industry, have incentives to establish rules that favor the interests of business leaders and employee groups over the interests of consumers at large. Higher prices are a common result. Was the ICC "Captured"? The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was established in 1887 to regulate the railroad industry. Representatives of the railroads engaged in intense efforts to influence appointments to the ICC. Did the ICC become a ―captured‖ agency? You decide, based on the following steps taken by the ICC: 1. Entry of new railroad companies into the market was limited (which limited competition). 2. Regulation was extended from trunk lines (natural monopolies) to shorter, or branch, lines where there was a greater potential for competition. This extension of regulation limited price competition through price fixing and pooling. 3. The ICC used the stated objective of equalizing rates over different routes to set uniform rates that were above what competitive levels would have been. Higher prices resulted in decreased production and excess capacity.
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