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A pre-Ashes training camp is just days away for Derbyshire's uncapped left-arm seamer Mark Footitt. ecb.co.uk's Bibhash Dash caught up with the 29-year-old to find out what makes him tick, his cricketing idols and which Australia wicket he would most like to claim.
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25th June 2015
Chris Rogers and Shaun Marsh continued their battle for a place at the top of Australia's order for the Investec Ashes with impressive displays on the opening day of their first tour match against Kent at the Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence.
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England international Sam Billings will return for Kent in the four-day tour match against Australia at the Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, from Thursday.
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Kane Williamson's first Lord's century cast England into trouble after three days of the first Investec Test against New Zealand at Lord's.
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England's batsmen have been warned to expect a searching examination from Mark Footitt in the Lord's nets this week.
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New Zealand snatched a stunning 15-run win over Worcestershire to ensure they will head into this week's first Investec Test against England in high spirits.
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Worcestershire left-hander Ross Whiteley struck an unbeaten 103 to ensure New Zealand's bowlers were put through their paces on the third day of their tour match at New Road.
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15th May 2015
England all-rounder Moeen Ali steered Worcestershire to stumps with an unbeaten 20 after taking two wickets against New Zealand ahead of the first Investec Test at Lord's next week.
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14th May 2015
The opening day of New Zealand's tour match against Worcestershire was rained off without a ball being bowled.
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James Hildreth's third century of the summer could only delay the inevitable as New Zealand warmed up for the Investec Test series against England with a 66-run victory over Somerset at Taunton.


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"Draft Day" isn't just a football flick - 04/25/14
Over the weekend I saw the movie "Draft Day" starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner. On the surface, it appears to be a movie only for sports nuts. But it's actually more than that.
Of course, the movie explores football topics, but it also touches on the range of emotions that athletes, coaches, and general managers experience on such an important day of the season.
I couldn't help but root for the character named Vontae Mack. He seems like a good guy who takes care of business on the field, but also his responsibilities off of it, caring for his two nephews whose mother passed away.
I won't give anything away. But I think you'll be rooting for Vontae too if you see this movie.
Hope you get chance to see the flick. It is excellent, in my opinion.
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Stephen Colbert is exploring a run for president of the United States ... of South Carolina.

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The comedian and Charleston native announced on his show Thursday night that he is forming an exploratory committee and is handing over control of his super PAC to fellow "Comedy Central" host Jon Stewart.
The name of the new organization?
"The Definitely Not Coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC."
Colbert's move comes days after a poll by Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, which conducts automated surveys, showed him taking five percent support in South Carolina That's one percentage point higher than that for former Utah governor Jon Huntsman (R), whose name, unlike Colbert's, will be among those appearing on the state's Jan. 21 GOP primary ballot.
It also comes weeks after Colbert made an unsuccessful attempt through his super PAC to fund the South Carolina Republican primary. He had offered $400,000 in exchange for a deal that would have renamed the contest "The Colbert Super PAC South Carolina Republican Primary," a proposal that state GOP officials ultimately rejected.
Colbert's his super PAC was approved by the Federal Election Commission in June. But the comedy host missed the deadline for qualifying for the ballot, and South Carolina election rules do not allow write-in votes in party primaries or in the presidential and vice presidential races.
As Colbert announced to viewers Thursday night:
"For over a day now, the people of South Carolina have been crying out for someone who can restore our nation's former greatness to its current perfection. Well, America, that someone is now. I am proud to announce that I am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for the president of the United States of South Carolina. I'm doing it!"
"And with your help, and possibly the help of some sort of outside group that I am not coordinating with, we can explore taking this country back. Thank you! God bless you all! And God bless Citizens United!"
Citizens United, of course, is the 2010 Supreme Court decision that paved the way for the formation of super PACs, the "independent expenditure-only committees" that can accept donations of unlimited size but are prohibited from directly coordinating with political parties or candidates.
So far, those committees have been responsible for nearly half of all TV ad spending for the 2012 presidential cycle.
With names such as "Make Us Great Again," "Restore Our Future" and "Priorities USA," most super PACs give little outward indication as to which candidate's campaign they're supporting.
For a test of your super PAC knowledge, take our quiz, and see if you can match up the name of the group to the candidate it supports. (As of press time, the Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC had yet to be added.)
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We just met pastry chef Hsing Chen a few weeks ago during our shoot at The Lobby at the Peninsula Hotel. Her souffle in which you plunge a spoonful of white chocolate ice cream into the heart of a warm passionfruit was a spectacular end to the lineup of dishes we shot, and we were impressed to learn that she produced a full slate of desserts for all three of the hotel's restaurants, each tailored to the restaurant's personality (including the Asian Shanghai Terrace). Well, now Chen will be producing a full slate of desserts not for restaurants, but for you the customer: she has left the Peninsula and is planning to open her own (as yet unnamed) patisserie this summer. Chen, who owned a shop in New York called Sweet Chick as well as working in restaurants such as The French Laundry and for Jean-Georges Vongerichten, will offer cakes, French macarons, seasonal pies and other pastries, as well as wedding cakes and dessert tables. Two more things to know about Chen: she's married to RPM Italian chef Doug Psaltis, and she was a food writer before she found her love for chocolate and pastry while on assignment.
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text: Small Business Management http://lists.repec.org/mailman/listinfo/nep-sbm Small Business Management 2015-07-25 João Carlos Correia Leitão Innovation, Reallocation and Growth http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed015:188&r=sbm We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US Census micro data on firm-level output, R&D and patenting. The model provides a good fit to the dynamics of firm entry and exit, output and R&D, and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of a range of micro estimates. We find industrial policy subsidizing either the R&D or the continued operation of incumbents reduces growth and welfare. For example, a subsidy to incumbent R&D equivalent to 5% of GDP reduces welfare by about 1.5% because it deters entry of new high-type firms. On the contrary, substantial improvements (of the order of 5% improvement in welfare) are possible if the continued operation of incumbents is taxed while at the same time R&D by incumbents and new entrants is subsidized. This is because of a strong selection effect: R&D resources (skilled labor) are inefficiently used by low-type incumbent firms. Subsidies to incumbents encourage the survival and expansion of these firms at the expense of potential high-type entrants. We show that optimal policy encourages the exit of low-type firms and supports R&D by high-type incumbents and entry. William Kerr, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, Daron Acemoglu 2015 The impact of student loan debt on small business formation http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedpwp:15-26&r=sbm Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy and account for approximately one-half of the private-sector economy and 99% of all businesses. To start a small business, individuals need access to capital. Given the importance of an entrepreneur's personal debt capacity in financing a startup business, student loan debt, which is difficult to discharge via bankruptcy, can have lasting effects and may have an impact on the ability of future small business owners to raise capital. This study examines the impact of the growth in student debt on net small business formation. We find a significant and economically meaningful negative correlation between changes in student loan debt and net business formation for the smallest group of small businesses, those employing one to four employees. This is important since these small businesses depend heavily on personal debt to finance new business formation. Based on our model, an increase of one standard deviation in student debt reduced the number of businesses with one to four employees by 14% on average between 2000 and 2010. The effect on larger firm formation decreased with firm size, which we interpret to mean that these firms have greater access to outside capital. Ambrose, Brent W., Cordell, Lawrence R., Ma, Shuwei 2015-07-01 Student loans; Small business finance; Debt capacity How does Part-time Work Affect Firm Performance and Innovation Activity? http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bsl:wpaper:2015/05&r=sbm This paper analyzes how part-time work affects financial and innovative firm performance. Moreover, it provides a detailed examination of part-time work by defining three different forms of part-time work (large, medium and small part-time work) depending on weekly working hours. Considering human capital theory, I expect part-time workers to have lower work experience and to accumulate less human capital. Thus I hypothesize that part-time work affects both, financial and innovative firm performance, negatively. For the empirical investigation I use a large German firm-level data set. The analysis shows that increasing part-time work has a significant negative impact on financial firm performance. Specifically, there are differences with regard to the considered categories of part-time work. Part-time workers having the fewest working hours per week have the strongest negative impact on financial firm performance. However the negative effect of part-time work does not remain for innovative firm performance. The results show no significant difference between part-time and full-time workers in their impact on innovative firm performance. Kira Pauka 2015 part-time work, financial firm performance, innovation Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:10699&r=sbm This paper studies the event history of business foundation and distinguishes between transgenerational entrepreneurship and self-made start-ups. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time in the decision process to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have been interviewed three times during their lives in 1952, 1983, and 1993 allows testing theoretical hypotheses that state clear differences between these two paths towards business ownership. Empirical results show that the base-line hazard of individuals without self-employed parents increases with time, while people with entrepreneurial parents become self-employed at an early age. Moreover, social capital is a better predictor of enterprise than human capital. Blumberg, Boris, Pfann, Gerard Antonie 2015-07 entrepreneurship; occupational choice; self-employment; transgenerational mobility Can Firms with Political Connections Borrow More Than Those Without? Evidence from firm-level data for Indonesia http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eti:dpaper:15087&r=sbm Using unique firm-level data for manufacturing sectors in Indonesia, we examine how political and economic connections of firms affect their access to finance. We identify the political connections of a particular firm by whether the government owns its shares, whether politicians are on its board of directors, and whether its highly-ranked manager knows any politician personally. We find that politically connected firms are more likely to be able to borrow from state-owned banks. Moreover, being connected to the government raises the probability of being able to borrow as much as needed without any credit constraint. The financial benefit from political connections is more prominent for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) than for large firms. Furthermore, the benefit mostly comes from personal connections with politicians, rather than more formal connections as measured by government ownership or politicians on the boards of directors. FU Jiangtao, SHIMAMOTO Daichi, TODO Yasuyuki 2015-07 Deindustrialization and tertiarization: structural changes in North West Italy http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bdi:opques:qef_282_15&r=sbm The paper analyzes the recent evolution of the economies of the Italian North West, focusing on the phenomena of de-industrialization and the transition to a service economy. The comparison is made with a group of European regions defined as "advanced industrial." Results show that the sluggish economic growth of the North West (which has worsened in the last decade) has taken place in a context of heavy economic structural changes. Some of these, which are specific to the North West, seem to have further hampered the competitiveness of the area, such as a too slow transition towards technology-intensive manufacturing sectors and to knowledge intensive services. The international comparison shows persistent gaps regarding important factors for growth and innovation; among these, the small firm size, delays in the human capital accumulation, the weakness of the economic and financial situation of enterprises. Even in the long recession, we observe signs of dynamism, like some highly competitive firms and territories, which are able to compete even at international level. Antonio Accetturo, Luciana Aimone, Enrico Beretta, Silvia Camussi, Luigi Cannari, Daniele Coin, Laura Conti, Roberto Cullino, Alessandro Fabbrini, Cristina Fabrizi, Giovanni Iuzzolino, Alessandra Mori, Elisabetta Olivieri, Andrea Orame, Anna Laura Mancini, Elena Mattevi, Paolo Piselli, Davide Revelli, Paola Rossi, Diego Scalise, Alessandra Staderini, Giulia Martina Tanzi, Valerio Vacca 2015-07 growth, structural change, innovation, human capital, financial structure. Does Creative Destruction Work for Chinese Regions? An Empirical Study on the Articulation between Firm Exit and Entry http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:1522&r=sbm Creative destruction is a key driving force behind industrial development. The continuing process of creative destruction provides an impetus to regional industrial renewal. Our analytical framework that emphasizes the ways in which firm exit creates a stimulus for firm entry, resulting in incremental innovation and productivity increase is complementary to the process of technological change and industrial renewal articulated by Schumpeter who pays attention to how new entrants bring in radical innovation and new products, making incumbents' products and technologies obsolete and force them to exit or catch up. Using firm-level data of China's industries during 1998-2008, this paper seeks to argue that the articulation between firm exit and entry has been constantly shaped by an assemblage of various factors, including firm characteristics, industrial linkages, regional institutions and geographical proximity. Yi Zhou, Canfei He, Shengjun Zhu 2015-07 Creative destruction, Firm Exit, Firm Entry, Industrial Dynamics, China Aid and Growth. Evidence from Firm-Level Data. http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bfr:banfra:563&r=sbm This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on firm growth for a panel of 4,342 firms in 29 developing countries, 11 of which are in Africa. Using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys data and controlling for firm fixed effects, we find a positive impact of foreign aid on firms' sales growth. This result is robust to several checks, notably to the instrumentation of aid and to estimations on various sub-samples. We then provide evidence that the positive effect of aid is especially strong for firms operating in sectors that are intensive in infrastructure and external finance, suggesting that aid may improve firm performance through the alleviation of infrastructure and financing constraints in developing countries. L. Chauvet, H. Ehrhart 2015 Foreign aid. Firm growth. Infrastructure constraint. Financing constraint Access to Credit among Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:21726&r=sbm Oya Alper, Martin Hommes 2013-08 Finance and Financial Sector Development - Microfinance Small Scale Enterprise Private Sector Development - Small and Medium Size Enterprises Banks and Banking Reform Finance and Financial Sector Development - Access to Finance Industry Choice of Enterprise Form: Spain, 1886-1936 http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egc:wpaper:1049&r=sbm Economists have long neglected study of an important contractual decision, a firm's choice of legal form. Enterprise form shapes the relations among a firm's owners as well as many features of a firm's interactions with the rest of the economy. Using unusual firm-level data on Spain 1886-1936, we estimate nested logit models of the determinants of enterprise form choice. In 1919, Spain introduced a new enterprise form that compromised between partnerships and corporations, and displaced larger partnerships and smaller corporations. This Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada was especially important for small and median-sized enterprises whose owners were not related. Timothy Guinnane, Susana 2015-07 Law and finance, law and economics, legal form of enterprise, Spanish economic history, limited partnership, limited-liability company Cluster Evolution, Regional Innovation Systems and Knowledge Bases. The Development and Transformation of the ICT Cluster in Southern Sweden http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:lucirc:2015_024&r=sbm This paper extends research on long-term cluster evolution with a context sensitive conceptual framework that highlights how configurations of regional innovation systems (RIS), their knowledge base specificities and policy actions can shape cluster development and transformation. By doing so, we redress the neglect of regional context specific factors by current accounts of cluster life cycle models. The empirical part of the paper deals with the evolution of the ICT cluster in Scania, southern Sweden. The emergence of the cluster in the early 1980s was enabled by a strong analytical and synthetic knowledge base in the region, and the subsequent growth was driven by intense collaboration between industry and academia. The changing geography of the ICT industry in the past decade brought along new challenges for the existing companies and led to a transformation of the cluster towards a new growth trajectory. Cluster transformation was facilitated by policy actions that promoted symbolic knowledge activities in the region. The strategy was to combine existing competences in mobile communication with new competences in media and design, and to develop new industrial activities around the theme of New Media, which integrates analytical, synthetic and symbolic knowledge. In the case of Scania, the endowment of the RIS of a variety of knowledge bases and their combination has led to successful cluster development in spite of challenges resulting from changing socio-economic conditions. Martin, Roman, Trippl, Michaela 2015-07-20 Cluster evolution; knowledge bases; regional innovation systems; innovation policy; ICT; New Media; Sweden Intra-sector and inter-sector competition in a model of growth http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:ifwedp:201549&r=sbm The role of patents is threefold: first, they are important to state the property rights of an invention; second, they are necessary to secure financing for starting a new venture; third, they are fundamental to recoup R&D investments. The main difficulty in preventing unauthorized use of an innovation is in the establishment of ranges and contexts of patents applicability. Noting the imperfections of the patent legal system, the authors are in a position to consider an economy with two levels of competition under different market structures: the inter-sector monopolistic competition and the intra-sector Cournot oligopoly. The explicit consideration of strategic interactions in a model of endogenous growth produces interesting results. Considering the sectorial market share as the indicator of patent system enforcement, the authors find that growth takes place, if and only if, there are some property rights of private knowledge produced by R&D activities. In turn, the patent system translates into a low degree of competition among firms. Its influence on the growth rate goes in a single unambiguous direction. As competition rises, few resources are available for R&D, so the growth rate goes down. Di Cintio, Marco, Grassi, Emanuele 2015 product differentiation,endogenous growth,market structure,R&D Innovation, Deregulation, and the Life Cycle of a Financial Service Industry http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedrwp:15-08&r=sbm This paper examines innovation, deregulation, and fi rm dynamics over the life cycle of the U.S. ATM and debit card industry. In doing so, we construct a dynamic equilibrium model to study how a major product innovation (introducing the new debit card function) interacted with banking deregulation drove the industry shakeout. Calibrating the model to a novel data set on ATM network entry,exit, size, and product offerings shows that our theory fits the quantitative pattern of the industry well. The model also allows us to conduct counterfactual analyses to evaluate the respective roles that innovation and deregulation played in the industry evolution. Hayashi, Fumiko, Li, Grace, Wang, Zhu 2015-07-20 Board Size and Firm Value: Evidence from Australia http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:uts:wpaper:182&r=sbm We study the effect of board size on firm value in Australia. Using a large sample of Australian firms over the period 2001-2011, we find strong evidence of a negative relationship. We show that firms with a large board are associated with CEO compensation that is sensitive to firm size, but not to firm performance. This incentive to accumulate assets is congruent with the fact that firms with a large board also exhibit lower operating performance and higher operating costs. Furthermore, we find that the effect of board size is stronger in small firms. This result might explain why earlier studies, which focused on large Australian firms, found board size to have little impact on firm value. Pascal Nguyen, Nahid Rahman, Alex Tong, Ruoyun Zhao 2015-07-01 board of directors; corporate governance; firm performance; CEO compensation Institutions and the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process for Smart Specialization http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:1523&r=sbm Smart specialization approaches to regional innovation policies have attracted, and in all likelihood will continue to attract, considerable attention. With this attention has come significant interest in one of the approach's defining features: the 'entrepreneurial discovery process' (EDP). While this interest has yielded substantial progress in the development of a comprehensive collective understanding of the EDP, several important, even vital, aspects of the EDP remain 'under-' or even 'unaddressed'. This essay aims to fill what we consider to be two prominent gaps in the aforementioned collective understanding by, first, identifying the actors who are responsible for the EDP, investigating their respective roles, and exploring how they should be engaged, and, second, by dissecting the relationship between the EDP and the institutional context within which it occurs recognizing that institutions can exercise tremendous influence on the effectiveness and outcomes of the EDP. Four prominent conclusions emerge from this exercise – each of which is made explicit in the final section of the paper – that will hopefully contribute to the more effective implementation and execution of the EDP across diverse socioeconomic and institutional contexts. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Callum Wilkie 2015-07 Smart specialisation, entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), innovation, innovation policy, institutions, Europe. Family-related employment interruptions and self-employment of women: Does policy matter? http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:ifmwps:0315&r=sbm This paper analyzes how statutory entitlements to maternity or parental leave affect female entry into self-employment after childbirth. For our estimations we use comprehensive panel data for German adults born between 1944 and 1989. We find that utilization of statutory parental leave decreases women's probability to switch into self-employment. This effect is statistically significant for start-ups in highskilled occupations. In contrast, start-ups in low-skilled occupations are not significantly affected by statutory parental leave. Suprinovič, Olga, Schneck, Stefan, Kay, Rosemarie 2015 family policy,parental leave,women's self-employment


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Prince Fielder trains mixed martial arts with his kids
Feb 28, 2013, 12:48 PM EDT
Within a ClickOrlando.com story about the increasing number of kids getting into mixed martial arts is an interesting little tidbit about Prince Fielder, his kids, and being bullied:
"It happened to me as a kid, and it happens to them as well," says Prince Fielder, the All-Star first baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
Even a pro athlete like Fielder knows the painful realities of bullying. He and his two sons train at The VI Levels. And Fielder says that MMA is already turning his kids into men.
"I just never want them to feel, have their feelings hurt or lose confidence, just because of what someone says," says Fielder.
I'm sure some people will read the article and freak out about kids doing MMA, because people seem to freak out about MMA in general, but it's not much different than kids taking karate classes or wrestling or whatever.
More importantly: At 5-foot-11 and 275 pounds I bet Prince Fielder is a helluva grappler.
Video: Adeiny Hechavarria clubs a walk-off three-run home run for the Marlins
Aug 2, 2015, 10:15 PM EDT
Adeiny Hechavarria prevented the Marlins from getting swept by the Padres on Sunday.
Lucas Duda will homer off of you, and your brother, too
Aug 2, 2015, 9:25 PM EDT
Lucas Duda has no respect for familial ties.
Henry Owens will make his major league debut on Tuesday at Yankee Stadium
Aug 2, 2015, 8:35 PM EDT
Red Sox pitching prospect Henry Owens will debut at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. No pressure, kid.
Dan Haren will "probably" retire after the season
Aug 2, 2015, 7:45 PM EDT
Dan Haren sounds pretty set on retiring after the season, but left open the possibility he'd pitch beyond 2015.
Jose Bautista says he "lost a lot of respect for [Ned Yost] today"
Aug 2, 2015, 6:55 PM EDT
It's safe to say the Royals and Blue Jays won't be getting dinner with each other anytime soon.
Brandon Morrow to get a second opinion on his ailing right shoulder
Aug 2, 2015, 6:02 PM EDT
Brandon Morrow will get a second opinion on his right shoulder, as his injury woes persist.
A.J. Burnett's career may be over
Aug 2, 2015, 5:15 PM EDT
A.J. Burnett is prepared to pitch through an elbow injury if necessary.
The benches cleared in Toronto, too
Aug 2, 2015, 4:27 PM EDT
The Blue Jays and Royals weren't very friendly to each other on Sunday.
The Reds' and Pirates' benches cleared after Brandon Phillips was hit with a pitch
Aug 2, 2015, 3:56 PM EDT
Cincinnati hosted one of two benches-clearing incidents in baseball on Sunday.
The Cubs are considering Chase Utley
Aug 2, 2015, 3:35 PM EDT
Injured Phillies second baseman Chase Utley is a potential August acquisition consideration for the Cubs.
Brad Ausmus says he'll "probably" go with Alex Wilson as the Tigers' closer
Aug 2, 2015, 2:45 PM EDT
Brad Ausmus has a candidate to handle save situations following the Joakim Soria trade.
Giancarlo Stanton's recovery from hamate bone surgery "definitely slower" than expected
Aug 2, 2015, 1:55 PM EDT
Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton might not return in mid-August as originally anticipated.
Red Sox place Rick Porcello on the disabled list with a triceps injury
Aug 2, 2015, 1:01 PM EDT
Red Sox starter Rick Porcello heads to the disabled list with a triceps injury.
Everything you want to know about walkup music
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Here comes the Boom?
Is tonight the biggest game in Citi Field history?
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I think it may be!
Some Angels players believe C.J. Wilson should try to pitch through his injury
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Reminder: even though the trade deadline has passed, trades can still happen
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Video: Jorge Soler robbed Khris Davis of a home run
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Settling the Scores: Saturday's results
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AFP : After recording images of towns and cities across the world, Google's Street View service was launched in a less likely location -- the vast, sparsely-populated Asian country of Mongolia. The US technology giant used a horse-drawn sled to ...Daily Mirror Sri Lanka, 2 days ago Google Street View takes on Mongolia CNN, 20 hours ago Google rides in: See Mongolia from the back of a horse-drawn sled ABC Online, 6 days ago Scary Armed Robbery In Progress Captured By Google Street View In South Africa Inquisitr, 6 days ago
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Which is faster on Windows 10: Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome? Image: Vicky Leta/Mashable By Raymond Wong 2015-07-29 23:00:30 UTC Windows 10 comes with a brand new web browser called Microsoft Edge . It's got a lighter design, it's blazing fast ...Mashable, 22 hours ago Google to Lose Search Market Share? Microsoft Predicts Huge Gains for Bing by @mattsouthern Search Engine Journal, 18 hours ago Microsoft launches Windows 10: 10 things to know about its features Financial Express, 1 day ago Is Cortana Microsoft's Equalizer With Google? Information Week, 2 days ago
Google is combining still images from Street View to animate real life
(Christian Charisius/Reuters) In the not-so-distant future, a new deep learning algorithm from Google could change the worlds of virtual reality and film. Today, directors and developers can only create a shot based on how many cameras they have ...Yahoo! Finance UK and Ireland, 1 day ago Four Useful Steps That How To Optimize Your Images SEO Point Of View Press Release Ping, 15 hours ago Google combining still images from Street View to animate real life Economic Times, 1 day ago Google's Deep Learning Machine Learns to Synthesize Real World Images Technology Review India, 3 weeks ago
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Product Engineer - PCB to $100K with relocation
Growing Manufacturing firm in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. has a need for a Product Engineer. This is a full time position with a full benefits package and relocation. If you are interested, you can email a resume to us.You will ensure all products are produced in the plant and have high quality at low production costs and on time delivery.Daily work includes printed circuit board design for ...
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Fort Lauderdale
Mechanical Engineer - Designer
MEP engineering company located in Deerfield Beach, FL is seeking an experienced Mechanical Engineer that can provide mechanical (HVAC) design support services on a variety of residential and commercial projects with minimal to no supervision. The Mechanical Design Engineer will oversee all phases of a project, including but not limited to: schematics design, design documents, construction ...
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Deerfield Beach
Field Service Engineer - Turbine Generators - (ID:751)
This position is located in beautiful TAMPA, FL. There is no state income tax in Florida, and they don't even have the Winter season! Relocation assistance will be provided for the successful candidate, if needed, so please apply today.Job Title: Field Service Engineer – Turbine GeneratorsLocation: Tampa, FLCompany: Small, privately held Turbine Generator & Rotating Equipment Maintenance & ...
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Field Engineer
We are in need of a Field Engineer.
The position consists of streamgauging work which will require field measurements of flows in open canals, near pump stations or other water control structures or inside closed culverts. This work will require knowledge of flow measurement procedures, including, but not limited to, use of Index Velocity meters, Acoustic Doppler Flow Meters (ADFM), Acoustic ...
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West Palm Beach
Growing Manufacturing firm in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. has a need for a Product Engineer. This is a full time position with a full benefits package and relocation. If you are interested, you can email a resume to us.
You will ensure all products are produced in the plant and have high quality at low production costs and on time delivery.
Daily work includes printed circuit board design for ...
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Fort Lauderdale
Industrial Design Engineer
Responsibilities of the position include - Define damage mechanism and evaluate residual life time of the service run parts. Develop acceptance criteria of the service run parts and repaired parts. Advise for the repair processes technical evaluation, repair specification generation and repair fixturing and tooling validation. Work with internal / external design and manufacturing teams to ...
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153549 Mechanical Engineer - FL
Rate: $37.5 to $47.50 DOE
Duration: 5+ Months
Description: Chipton-Ross is seeking a Mechanical Engineer in Palm Beach, FL.
Experienced candidate will work as part of a technical team to develop mechanical hardware designs and/or solutions to existing hardware related to Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). Work is performed under general supervision. Tasks may include ...
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Palm Beach
Senior Inspection & Repair Design Engineer
Position title: Senior Inspection & Repair Design Engineer
Business segment: Power generation products / gas turbine
Function: Engineering / Technology / Product design and development
Location: West Palm Beach, FL, USA
The Senior Inspection and Repair Design Engineer will develop Acceptance Criteria, Inspection Criteria, Repair Criteria after serviced or repaired Hot Gas ...
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|Reviews for Red Like Roses
| HpPjGg chapter 18 . 6/29
:O how could you stop there! I have become too emotionally invested in this for you to have stopped! Please for the love of god update! And Steve and Harry better get together by the end of it!
| SuperPotterWhoLock110 chapter 18 . 6/28
WTF! Bae, you can't just end it there! You need to update so my brain won't explode! Although, you are a fabulous writer. All I need now is a HarryxSteve make out session.
| Guest chapter 18 . 6/22
| licha.s chapter 18 . 5/22
im guessing you have now abandoned this fic, i really hope you get a chance to continue it, I've found it very interesting and captivating, and i get stressed by unfinished action (sorry I'm really tired and cannot find the word). hope school/work lets you out for a bit for you to continue this.
| Goldenfightergirl chapter 18 . 5/21
So... where's the next update?
| Psyka chapter 18 . 5/17
| Kashlazy chapter 18 . 5/14
No it did not just end like that!
I've been literally reading this nonstop since I found this amazing, freaking beyond amazing story! Just when things get interesting with Harry finally meeting her counterpart, and finally in a fight, omg the romance hasn't even started yet!
| laexdream chapter 18 . 5/12
You know, you are a genius. I just love this crossover, and what you've done with it. This story is really epic - especially this chapter, and its consequent ending. It's been a while since you've updated, and I really hope this gets continued. There isn't a whole lot of fanfics with FemHarry and Steve Rogers as a pairing. In fact, there's rather a lot more of Loki x FemHarry instead, which, although is understandable, upsets me quite a bit. Anyway, what I wanted to convey was: Good job! Keep it up! I love you! xP
| Rori Potter chapter 18 . 5/11
Oh my. What a mess. Update soon.
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Huh. How are you going to handle Garrett, seeing as he's already dead in the MCU?
| YSPM chapter 6 . 5/4
Just real quick: There's a lot of present/past tense conflict with your verbs in this chapter. You tend to use present tense most often when you're describing something, I notice, and past tense everywhere else. While it's semantically correct to say that Person A "is" X in regular conversation, even when you're telling a past tense story, it's generally a better idea to say that Person A "was" X in writing. It's less of a mental break for the reader, and it just sounds wrong besides, y'know?
Anyway, other than that, I enjoyed the chapter. It was sad and painful, but the feeling of closure felt hard-won and meaningful.
| Moony Mercier chapter 18 . 4/28
omg! love this story! i hope you come bacck and update soon!
| blackbloodywolf chapter 18 . 4/21
this is incredible. I hope you continue it soon
| Georgia chapter 18 . 4/17
Harry and hairy is not a homophone in the UK, they're pronounced quite differently!
Great story, I've enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for sharing!
| jesteringKinghood chapter 18 . 3/28
I love love LOVE this story and I sincerley hope you update - whether it be in a week or a year!


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This is the second time this year that Nugent has made such a comparison. Apparently, he really believes it.
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Christian Parenti, journalist who has reported extensively from Afghanistan.
Administration officials say President Obama will unveil his decision on sending tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan next week. Obama is expected to announce the plan in a prime-time address next Tuesday night. At the White House yesterday, Obama said he intends to "finish the job" in Afghanistan. [includes rush transcript]
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AMY GOODMAN: Christian Parenti, you recently returned from Afghanistan. You have covered Afghanistan for a long time. This is switching gears, but to ask you about the leak that came out of the last war council meeting of President Obama, where it is clear he's going to be calling for an expansion of war in Afghanistan, an increase in the number of troops by tens of thousands. I wanted to get your take on this.
CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Well, I think this is utter insanity, along with being, you know, morally reprehensible, when you think about all of the people who will be killed along the way. I think this is political insanity for the Obama administration. I think the fundamental issue driving Obama in Afghanistan is fear of being called a wimp here in the United States by Republicans. And we saw that there was a division within the administration with the Eikenberry leak — Ambassador Eikenberry, who was the general who ran the war for NATO less than two years ago, saying that we should not endorse McChrystal's escalation, and Vice President Joe Biden suggesting that we essentially, I would see it as, rebrand the wars, not as counterinsurgency, but counterterrorism, and essentially withdraw and save face by bombing people using drones from the air. You could see that there are elements within the administration that realize this is crazy. Why is it crazy? Because there is no way the United States can win, "get the job done," as Obama says. What is the job exactly? To rebuild Afghanistan? The country is, you know, one of the most underdeveloped in the world. It's covered with land mines, to pick up on the last guest, and the government there is so thoroughly fundamentally corrupt that it is beyond redemption.
The news that broke recently that Hamid Karzai's younger half-brother Walid Karzai, former governor of Kandahar, was involved in the drug trade was old news in Afghanistan. Everybody knew that, not because some secret report had been leaked, but because if you drove past the man's land outside Kandahar during the right seasons, you could see that it was covered in poppy. The rest of the cabinet are similarly heavily involved in, if not drug trafficking, though many of them are involved in drug trafficking, taxing the production of opium. You know, every ministry in the Afghan government is riddled with corruption. Civil servants pay to have their jobs. Every transaction between the citizens and the state is mediated through bribery. And as a result, people are increasingly embittered, no services are provided, the vast majority of aid is stolen. You know, the most recent example from this week is the ministry of Hajj, where the Afghan minister was stealing money from the Afghan budget, about $70 million, $20 million of it apparently he took, and also shaking down landlords in Saudi Arabia to channel Afghan pilgrims to their accommodations.
So, this is the nature of the government that the Obama administration is going to try and build up. And it's just — it's utterly impossible. And I think they realize this, but I think what Obama wants to do, because he ran on the — you know, getting out of Iraq by winning the good war in Afghanistan, and has performed that myth to the point where he can't back out of it, that he's going to make an effort to sort of show that he's done due diligence. He's going to escalate the war, have more American soldiers maimed and killed, kill more Afghan civilians, and degrade the political situation further in that country so that instability ratchets out further, deeper into Pakistan, deeper into Central Asia, deeper into Iran, and then try and get reelected and, after that, claim victory and withdraw. And it's tragic and totally shortsighted.
And it's also — you know, it's important to remember the history here. I mean, this is the second round of US intervention. The US helped create the problem by supporting the mujahideen throughout the 1980s to oppose the Soviet occupying troops and the Afghan communist government that was there. And Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who runs a party called Hezb-e Islami, that is allied with the Taliban, was the largest recipient of US aid during those days. The Haqqanis also were US-supported mujahideen. They're also part of the Taliban forces, broadly defined. And ironically, many of the people who now run the — for example, the national security director to the Afghan secret police — are former communists. And the communists, in many ways, in Afghanistan represented the urban classes, who, for almost a hundred years, had been trying to impose the writ of Kabul upon the countryside, and there was a conflict between the urban elites and the rural elites. And at first, the ideology of the day was constitutional monarchy. Then, after the coup in 1973, it was republic — nationalist republicanism. Then, after the communist coup of '78, it became communism. Now, with the NATO invasion, it's liberal democracy and capitalism. And actually, there have been elements of the same population, sometimes the same people, pursuing the same essential project.
And the ideological question for many of these folks in Kabul is, "Does that ideology come with electricity and paved roads? Because if it does, that's what we want." And then, conversely, out in the countryside, you have the warlords/armed landlords who, since the 1920s, have been opposing any kind of modernization. They might approve of a paved road, but they don't want the central state to stop them from taxing traffic on it. They don't want the state to tell them to send their girls to school. They might want wells drilled or other resources, but they don't want to have to pay taxes or relinquish any of their control over their tenant farmers and over their local resources. And so, this is one of the basic conflicts that undergirds this war. There's another conflict, which is the conflict between the Pashtun of the south and the ethnic minorities of the north, the Tajiks, the Hazaras and others. And the Taliban is a —
AMY GOODMAN: Christian Parenti, we're going to have to leave it there.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to have to leave it there, but we will certainly continue the discussion, because next week President Obama is expected to announce the escalation of war in Afghanistan. I want to thank you very much for being with us.
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While taking my first read of New Times' rip-roaring new Juice Blog (check it out) I wondered:
Who in Broward County have been graced with invitations for Charlie Crist's December 12 wedding?
My first phone call went to Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein, who was at his restaurant, Bova Prime, going over his business plan with partners when we spoke. Rothstein has raised hundreds of G's for Crist and the GOP and counts the guvnuh as one of his best buds.
"Yes," Rothstein answered when I asked him if he would be attending the guber-nuptials. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."
Okay, so there's one. Another that I will confidently say is on the wedding list is George LeMieux, Crist's former right-hand man, the maestro himself. No way he's not going. Land baron Ron Bergeron and his lobbyist-lady friend Ali Waldman, I would imagine, are both on the list. My hunch is that the list favors heavyweight contributors and captains of industry over politicos. Wayne Huizenga? Another near sure thing.
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Lindsay Lohan is speaking out following the latest chapter in the actress' dramatic saga, and said there's no reason to worry – she was just tired.
After the actress was reportedly found unconscious at a Marina del Rey hotel on Friday – her rep later told Access Hollywood Lindsay was "fine" and suffering from "exhaustion" and "dehydration" – Lindsay herself took to Twitter to address the incident.
"Note to self.. After working 85 hours in 4 days, and being up all night shooting, be very aware that you might pass out from exhaustion & 7 paramedics MIGHT show up @ your door… Hopefully they're cute. Otherwise it would be a real let down," the 25-year-old Tweeted on Saturday morning.
"Back on set," she added, noting that she was back to work on her Elizabeth Taylor-themed Lifetime TV movie "Liz & Dick."
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"She took a nap before shooting her final scene. Producers were concerned when she did not come out of her room and called paramedics as a precaution," the statement continued. "Lindsay was examined and is fine, but did suffer some exhaustion and dehydration. Lindsay was never taken to a hospital; reports to the contrary are false. She is resting now and is hoping to be back on set later this afternoon."
The actress' father, Michael Lohan, also told Access that his daughter was "fine" following the report.
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The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced Thursday.
The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced Thursday.
It's not every day my Twitter feed is full of people talking about flat-tops, squeezing and injections, but then Wednesday 3 June was not an average day for the Large Hadron Collider.
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The world's largest particle smasher resumed colliding protons Tuesday as it gradually reboots following a two-year upgrade, Europe's physics lab CERN said.
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(Phys.org) —The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 marked an important step toward understanding the origin of the mass of fundamental particles. Since mass plays a major role in gravity, ...


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The Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra gives fans a rare opportunity to help program this final concert. Fans and members can vote online or in-person at CCO concerts. For ticket information, check out CCO's website.
From the time when herds of roaming buffalo carved out the route of Dixie Highway to the bourbon-fueled heyday of the 1920's, Covington has had a dynamic and colorful history. Buffalos and Bourb ...
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