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For years, the Milwaukee Brewers were criticized for not bellying up to baseball's cash bar and paying top dollar to keep or acquire top-level talent.
The Brewers heard the moans and groans last season when they traded slugger Carlos Lee to Texas rather than pay what it took to keep him. Never mind that Lee eventually signed as a free agent with Houston at the exorbitant price of $100 million over six years.
Such criticism was not the driving force in the Brewers' dogged pursuit of free-agent pitcher Jeff Suppan, who eventually was corralled for $42 million over four years, and possibly $52.75 million over five years. But it did prove their willingness to pay the going rate for what they considered the missing piece to their puzzle for 2007.
You can debate all you want as to whether the going rate was advisable for a pitcher with a career record of 106-101 (Suppan's 44-26 record over the past three seasons is more relevant). But when the price of gas goes up, you either pay at the pump or become a hitch-hiker.
"We felt it was a huge decision but the right decision for the organization at this time," said general manager Doug Melvin, who had the full backing of owner Mark Attanasio in courting Suppan.
Why was it the right decision at this time? Because the Brewers correctly surveyed the landscape of the National League Central, which was won with 83 victories by eventual World Series champion St. Louis in 2006, and concluded that with a bit of good health and the addition of an established starting pitcher they could make a run at the division crown.
Club officials remember all too well what happened when starting pitchers Ben Sheets and Tomo Ohka were lost for extended periods last season. The Brewers went 6-17 in games started by assorted fill-ins, one of the main reasons they finished with a disappointing 75-87 record.
"None of us want to go through what we went through last year," said manager Ned Yost.
The Brewers now have five established major-league pitchers in Sheets, Suppan, Chris Capuano, Dave Bush and Claudio Vargas. History proves you need more than five starters to get through the season, but young right-hander Carlos Villanueva provides a sixth option and top prospect Yovani Gallardo should be ready in the not-so-distant future.
Attanasio, Melvin and Yost are big on acquiring players who not only are productive but also good fits in the clubhouse. Suppan said team chemistry had a lot to do with the Cardinals' surprising championship run last season, and Brewers officials hope some of that rubs off.
"He's not only going to win games," said Attanasio. "He's going to teach us how to win games. This is something, up and down the organization, we wanted to do.
"It's a significant commitment and hopefully it tells everyone, not only fans but everyone in the organization, that we're committed to winning. We're going to do everything we can to put a winning team on the field."
How much of an impact Suppan makes over the next four years remains to be seen. But you can't accuse the Brewers of going on the cheap, at least not in this instance.
"Our expectations are high," said Melvin. "We shouldn't go into any baseball season if they're not. We do want to talk about winning, not reaching .500 or getting to that .500 level. That's not the result that we're looking for.
"If everything goes right and we can win ball games, we can add free agents in following years. This might be the start of where we get recognized as a club that did step up and pursue free agents to add to our younger players."
As an additional cost, the Brewers forfeited their second-round pick in the June draft to St. Louis for signing Suppan, a Class A free agent. Had their 2006 won-loss record been among the top 15 teams, the Brewers would have surrendered their first-round pick.
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Beyond the addition of Suppan, the Brewers feel much better about their starting pitching because Sheets is in good health after missing much of last season with shoulder issues.
When Sheets returned home after the 2005 season, he was still recovering from a torn muscle behind the shoulder that led to subsequent problems last year. But he was throwing well at the end of last season and club officials have no reason to expect anything but a fully healthy pitcher when spring training begins.
"Everything we've heard is that he is feeling fine," said assistant general manager Gord Ash, who directs the club's medical program.
Sheets had back surgery to correct a bulging disc before the '05 season and reported some minor discomfort earlier this winter. Ash said trainer Roger Caplinger went to Dallas to visit Sheets, and it was determined he merely needed to focus more on exercises to keep the back strong.
"He cannot allow himself to sit for two months and do nothing," said Ash. "He's got to stay active and prepared. If he continues to do his strengthening and stabilizing exercises, he'll be fine."
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Many of the players who had to face reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage during his prime are surprised he hasn't been elected to the Hall of Fame. But after eight misses on the ballot, 2008 could be Gossage's year.
Unlike this year, when Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn were sure-fire first-ballot electees, there are no cinch newcomers next year. The best is Tim Raines, who certainly is no shoo-in on his first try.
Gossage didn't miss the required 75% vote by much this year, coming in at 71.2%. Thus, it's easy to see him getting the additional support necessary to be elected.
The prospects for holdovers Jim Rice (63.5% this year) and Andre Dawson (56.7%) aren't as promising. Each saw his vote total decrease from the previous year.
As for Mark McGwire's chance of going to Cooperstown, it's anyone's guess. Hounded by suspicions of steroid use, McGwire fared badly in his first attempt, getting only 23.5% of the vote.
Others have overcome poor first showings to be elected, including Duke Snider (17% the first time), Don Drysdale (21%) and Billy Williams (23.4%). But none faced the suspicion McGwire does.
McGwire responds
In his first public comments on the Hall of Fame voting, McGwire had little to say about being left out of Cooperstown.
He talked briefly to the Cal State Fullerton newspaper, the Daily Titan, during a charity event Friday in Tustin, Calif. The paper published the remarks Saturday.
"I had an absolutely wonderful career that I am very proud of," McGwire said as he signed autographs at the event. "I'm not in control of what happens; I was in control of hitting the ball."
McGwire has made few public appearances since he appeared at a congressional hearing on steroids in baseball two years ago. At that time, he repeatedly dodged questions by saying he wasn't there to discuss the past.
The usual suspect
If the report is true that Barry Bonds failed a test for amphetamines last season - and no one, including Bonds, has stepped forward to deny it - you have to wonder what goes through the guy's head. Assuming he's not stupid, you are left to believe his arrogance level is unprecedented in big-league history.
Of course, Bonds didn't expect the test result to leak out. And he denied he threw teammate Mark Sweeney under the bus by telling Major League Baseball officials he got the amphetamines from Sweeney's locker.
It's no secret that baseball officials are dreading Bonds' imminent passing of Hank Aaron's home run record. Did someone from the management side leak the failed test to the New York Daily News as an attempt to further discredit Bonds?
No matter how that information was leaked, the fact remains that Bonds has been accused on many fronts of using steroids and other performance-enhancing substances, and now reportedly flunked an amphetamine test.
Bonds is the one player who could least afford to fail a drug test. Not now, not ever. But when it comes to bad deeds, it's always the same guys, isn't it?
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A Filipino Mennonite pastor, concerned at how coffee processing corporations had long short-changed indigenous people in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, has launched a Fair Trade initiative.
Church activists participating in the World Council of Churches' United Nations Advocacy Week meetings in New York delved deeply into the tragedies and injustices of the current bloody conflict in Colombia. Mark Beach tells the human story behind the politics.
The governing body of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has approved a statement that prepares for a significant action of reconciliation with churches of the Mennonite and Anabaptist families, apologising for past persecution.
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Among the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Judaica collection is an English silver "Lord Mayor's dish".
The exhibit precedes sales of the Judaica collection that will be conducted by Sotheby's in New York in April.
Former hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt told The Wall Street Journal that his love of Jewish culture led him to amass his large collection of Jewish ceremonial art over more than 30 years.
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To honor those men and women who have been lost to addiction, Into Action Treatment will assist with the sponsoring of the NOPE (Narcotics Overdose Prevention and Education) Annual Candlelight Vigil. The event is scheduled to take place on October 24, 2013. The vigil will be held at the Gosman Amphitheatre at the Kravis Center from 6 to 7 p.m. Into Action is one of several sponsors of the event. The vigil is especially meaningful to us because we have lost clients to the disease. Our CEO, Andrey Rossin, has himself overcome overdoses and coma in the past.
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Photoshop CS5 for Photographers provides comprehensive Photoshop training targeting the needs of photographers. In this course, author Chris Orwig demonstrates the fundamental skills used to enhance digital photos, including managing and correcting color, sharpening, making selections and adjustments, retouching, and printing from Photoshop. In addition to teaching the techniques that enable photographers to refine and publish their photos, the course includes live-action segments that encourage thinking photographically and shooting with Photoshop's capabilities in mind. Exercise files are included with the course.
Let's have a little bit of fun here and take a look at a mini project, which will help us to learn a handful of things. In particular, it will help us to learn how to use the Polygonal Lasso tool in the context of a little project. All right. Well, over here in the Layers panel, you can see that we have a Background layer, this photograph that's hanging in the gallery. Above this, we have this photograph that I captured of Jack O'Neill. Now, if your surfer, Jack O'Neill is a pretty significant guy, because he invented the wetsuit. He is just a really fascinating and intriguing character.
Well, let's say that what we want to do is we want to include this portrait inside of this area of this photograph that's hanging in the gallery. Well, how can we do that? Well, the first thing that we need to do is we need to select and then copy the photo of Jack O'Neill. The easiest way to do that is this. On a Mac, if you hold on the Command key, on a PC the Ctrl key, you can then click on the layer thumbnail icon. Now, when you do that it will activate that as a selection. Next, we need to copy what we selected.
Here, we'll go to Edit and choose Copy. Now, once we've done that, we now need to deselect. We can do that by navigating to the Select pulldown menu, and then by choosing Deselect. We could, of course, also use the shortcut there. But let's go ahead and choose it this way this time. All right, great! Well, now that we've selected this, what I am going to do is turn off the Eye icon here. Eventually, we are going to paste that into a new context, in particular, into the space where the current image actually is. Let's go ahead and click on the Polygonal Lasso tool.
You can select that here. What you do with this tool is you simply click to set your first point, reposition your cursor, click again, reposition, click again, reposition, click again, and then your final click, you want to go back to right where you started. You'll see a new circle icon will show up right next to the tool there, Click, and that will then activate this area as a targeted selection. Well, how then can we paste that other portrait into this context? It's actually really easy.
Let's go ahead and turn on the Eye icon, so we can see this image in the background. Then navigate to the Edit pulldown menu and select Paste Special. What we are going to do is choose Paste Into. This is actually really quite interesting, because what it will do for us is paste this image into a new layer into this exact space. Well, let's turn off the Eye icon of that photograph there of Jack O'Neill. Here, you can see the photo is now in the correct position. Well, let's say we want to move the photo a little bit. No problem.
Simply select the Move tool and then go ahead and click and drag to reposition. Another thing that might be kind of fun would be to add an inner shadow on this image. Pretty easy as well. Simply navigate to your Layers panel. Click on fx, and then from there, what we can do is choose Inner Shadow. This will then add that little inner shadow from the outside in. Let's decrease the Distance, so it's all the way around the edge there. It's just a subtle, little shadow, but it makes it look like the maid is perhaps sitting on top of the image.
Let's lower the Opacity. We don't want too much of that, but just a little bit. It kind of creates that nice sense of the dimension there. Then click OK. Well, now at this juncture, we have successfully replaced the photograph. Here, you can see the before and after by clicking on your Eye icon. Here is the before and then the after.
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Faking numbers became a way of life
Jeffrey Conway was worried.
After telling Wall Street that Rent-Way Inc. was equipped to handle its major merger with Home Choice Holdings Inc., Conway learned the company was falling short of its earnings expectations during the last three months of 1998.
Click here for yesterday's article from the 'Anatomy of a Fraud' series
If Rent-Way missed its targets only a few short months after being listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Conway fretted over what investors would do to the company's stock.
So he hatched a scheme.
He approached Rent-Way's controller, Matthew Marini, to discuss the problem.
Saying their jobs were on the line if the company failed to deliver, Conway told Marini "to do whatever needed to be done to meet the company's earnings targets."
That meant fraud.
Misreporting a company's financial performance to shareholders is a federal crime punishable by jail time and fines.
But Conway and Marini saw another risk if they went ahead with reporting Rent-Way's real quarterly numbers — deflated share prices, lost wealth and possible unemployment.
"To meet those earnings expectations and to exceed it would not only benefit the company, but also benefit him," U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said of Conway's motivation. "His true desire was to improve the price of the stock."
Conway was convinced the need to fake the numbers was temporary — he simply needed to make some organizational changes to help improve Rent-Way's bottom line long term.
Marini did the dirty work, manipulating the company's recording of expenses and assets on its general ledger.
Conway, meanwhile, didn't want to know what Marini was doing to fudge the numbers.
As a result, Conway took steps to maintain "plausible deniability" — or the ability to deny any knowledge of Marini's illegal actions, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in its final report on Rent-Way's accounting fraud.
The alterations were small at first.
Instead of inflating revenues, Marini made minor changes to some of the company's accounting for hard-to-track expenses.
During the company's 1999 fiscal year, for example, he inflated rental merchandise and construction inventory accounts, according to the SEC.
Rather than accounting for vendor rebates over time, he prematurely booked those rebates as income.
He understated expenses for insurance premiums and improperly accounted for the expenses of equipment and other property.
For a company that had doubled in size in less than a year and was posting quarterly revenues of about $125 million, these small changes were difficult to detect, especially for Rent-Way's chief executive, William Morgenstern, its board of directors and external auditors, according to interviews.
The adjustments inflated Rent-Way's earnings in the quarter that ended Dec. 31, 1998, by about $6 million.
During its next quarter, those adjustments totaled about $1.3 million.
"I looked at numbers that were meaningful and important to me — the number of rental agreements, customers, were we collecting the money that was supposed to be due to us," Morgenstern said in a July 25 interview. "I saw financial reports every single month. The board of directors saw the numbers every month. The auditors did. The banks did.
"The numbers were wrong," he added. "It was fiction. Someone was writing fiction and giving it to us and telling us, 'This is what happened.'"
That fiction was designed to go undetected by the company's external auditors, said Rent-Way board secretary William Lerner.
"Auditors don't look at every aspect of the business," said Lerner, who headed Rent-Way's audit committee. "They test areas of the business. They have thresholds under which they will not go. A lot of those numbers were under the thresholds."
As Conway and Marini secretly massaged Rent-Way's financial statements, Morgenstern continued the company's buying binge.
In June 1999, Rent-Way snatched up America's Rent-to-Own Center Inc. — an acquisition that gave Rent-Way another 21 stores.
That move was a mere appetizer for Rent-Way's next big conquest — RentaVision Inc.
The $98 million deal in September 1999 added another 250 stores to Rent-Way's rapidly growing stable — pushing its total store count to more than 1,100.
Rent-Way had just 19 stores as recently as 1993.
Little did Morgenstern and the board know it would be Rent-Way's last major acquisition.
Behind the scenes, the accounting scheme was growing like a snowball rolling down a mountain.
Marini conducted monthly meetings with Rent-Way's accounting staff beginning in late 1999 to scrutinize accounts for expenses that could be reduced or capitalized.
Those meetings — called "greaseboard sessions" by Marini — were part of a spiraling plan in which the accounting staff was encouraged to make false entries in the company's ledger for no reason, other than to pad Rent-Way's earnings statements.
Conway, meanwhile, was rewarded for Rent-Way's Wall Street success.
In September 1999, he was promoted from chief financial officer to president.
Marini was also given a new title — chief accounting officer.
And as Conway and Marini were being rewarded with promotions and raises, the fraud grew larger.
During the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1999, Rent-Way reported pre-tax earnings of $30.3 million. Its actual earnings, based on later forensic accounting, were about $9.4 million, according to SEC documents.
The discrepancies were also significant in the upcoming quarters — nearly $10 million in the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1999; more than $14.6 million in the quarter that ended March 31, 2000; nearly $15 million in the quarter that ended June 30, 2000.
Rent-Way's stock was trading at about $30 per share for much of 2000 — bolstered by fake numbers created by executives who knew the company was not as healthy as it seemed.
Conway cashed in 6,500 Rent-Way shares in May 2000 — pocketing more than $161,000 on stock that was trading at $24.90 per share.
The fraud, meanwhile, was starting to veer out of control.
The numbers in Rent-Way's general ledger — the books adjusted by Marini — were growing wildly different from the numbers recorded in Rent-Way's point-of-sale computer tracking system.
Because a large discrepancy between the two systems would likely be a red flag to Rent-Way's auditors that something was wrong, Marini ordered an employee to alter the company's point-of-sale computer accounting system by more than $16 million.
When the employee refused, Marini brought the problem to Conway, who ordered the employee to follow Marini's directions.
In October 2000, Conway learned another employee was ready to tell Rent-Way's new chief financial officer, William McDonnell, about the accounting discrepancy.
The scheme was starting to unravel.
Conway reprimanded the employee and later lied to McDonnell about Rent-Way's accounting practices.
But it was already too late.
Chapter Three: Making the fraud public.
PETER PANEPENTO can be reached at 870-1707 or by e-mail.


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Lindsey & Tyler
painted ceremony wall in lake tahoe
We are in love with this Lake Tahoe wedding with a painted ceremony backdrop to "dye" for ;) Lindsey of Eucca Floral Studio created a masterpiece with her own two hands, including the hand-dyed table runners and phenomenal floral creations. Take a look at the full feature on Style Me Pretty here and the lovely feature in Brides California... VIEW FULL POST
Paige & Justin
Romantic Al Fresco Temecula Wedding
Paige and Justin's First Look is something out of a movie. And don't even get me started on the first look or the groom's face. We love the feature on Style Me Pretty and the happy, whimsical energy throughout their entire day. VIEW FULL POST
Angela & Clayton
Botanical Inspired Marvimon Wedding
From Carissa at JL Designs, "We were so inspired by vintage botanical prints for this wedding...loved using various types of ferns, begonia leaves, hellebore, anemones, parrot tulips and ranunculus for the centerpieces...and the pops of amber orchids and amaranths were just the magic ingredients to add warmth to everything... The place... VIEW FULL POST