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Royals calling up Johnny Giavotella … for a part-time role
May 9, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT
Last week when Yuniesky Betancourt got hurt and the Royals replaced him with career minor leaguer Irving Falu rather than 24-year-old prospect Johnny Giavotella it seemed … well, let's be nice and say odd.
And now Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star reports that the Royals have decided to call up Giavotella after all–apparently that extra week at Triple-A really did wonders for him–but they're not doing so with the intention of actually playing him every day. You know, because that would make too much sense.
Instead, according to Dutton, he's being called up to serve mostly as a platoon player versus left-handed pitching. Giavotella is a 24-year-old prospect who's hit .331 at Triple-A this season after hitting .338 there last season, and yet the Royals would rather give the bulk of the playing time to 28-year-old Chris Getz and his .630 career OPS.
In completely unrelated news, Kansas City is 10-19.
UPDATE: To make room for Giavotella on the roster the Royals placed Jonathan Sanchez on the disabled list with biceps tendinitis.
- The Baseball Idiot - May 9, 2012 at 12:51 PM
I'm not trusting the process.
- El Bravo - May 9, 2012 at 12:59 PM
In case anyone wasn't clear, this entire post was written in sarcastica font.
- randall351 - May 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Did they ever say what roster move was made to free up a space?
- bleedpurplenblack - May 9, 2012 at 1:49 PM
Speculation is that Jonathan Sanchez will be headed to the DL (bicep tendinitis).
- js20011041 - May 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Despite having a once in a generation level of talent in the farm system, Royals fans must have an inevitible sense of doom. I don't even think the Pirates could screw things up as badly as this franchise. Sucks too. I'd like to see them competitive.
- sportsdrenched.com - May 9, 2012 at 2:08 PM
I know Allard Biard works in the Red Sox front office, and I know the Red Sox are in town. Coincidence now that Dayton Moore is making Allard Biard type moves? Probably not, but it makes for good snarky comments on HBT.
Either way, Like I said in the Falu thread: If the Royals make a desicion, odds are that it is WRONG.
- mianfr - May 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM
It's only a matter of time before they send Alex Gordon back down to Triple-A for more conditioning.
- tedwmoore - May 9, 2012 at 3:26 PM
As a fan of both AG and of mocking the Royals front office, I am disappoi nted in this piece, which is rather poorly researched. Yes, calling up Gio for a part-time role makes little sense, but not because they should be sitting Getz, who is actually playing fairly well this season. He is no all-star with the bat, but his current OPS of 762 is well above the career 630 mark that AG notes, bolstered by a stronger-than-normal .136 ISO. And from watching him play this season, it doesn't appear flukey. Sure his BABIP is at 315, 25 points above his career mark, but that is not much of a surprise given that he has cut his GB% from a career 50.2% to 34% and increased his LD% from a career 19.7% to 34%. Coming into the season a bit of fuss was made about Getz's new stance and approach at the plate, how it would lead to a shorter stroke and more power…and as someone who mocked that line of reasoning, I fully admit that he does look considerably better at the plate this season, and his early results, both in the stat line and the peripherals, back that up. Consider also his 342 wOBA, which would be 8th among qualified second basemen, if he had enough PA to qualify.
Combine the improved batting line with what looks like good defense (something no one thinks Gio offers) that also is well received by UZR, and Getz has already managed to amass 0.6 fWAR in 68 plate appearances. If that production holds for the entire season, and I am not certain it will, then Getz will be among the top 5-to-10 most valuable second basemen in baseball. Maybe at some point in the season Getz will falter, at which point it will make sense to give Gio a stronger look at 2B, but for now Getz is more than productive enough to warrant his starter's job.
- wlschneider09 - May 9, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Psst, you're not supposed to point out anything that makes it seem rational to not play a prospect. HBT commandment #12: Prospects are ALWAYS better.
- groundruledoublebourbon - May 9, 2012 at 3:53 PM
I know Getz has played well enough, but we know what he is. Career numbers over that span of time don't lie. Thanks for pointing out Getz will falter, because all signs point to him playing over his head right now.
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If the Rams win next week, I'll be happy... regardless.
At this point in the season, given all that has happened, I'm happy that the Rams still have a shot at the playoffs. I hope things work out and they make it, but if they beat the Jets, who will be motivated and are a tough team, I'll be happy. Even if it doesn't work out so the Rams make the playoffs, I'll be happy to end the season on a positive note and move on to the offseason.
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Re: If the Rams win next week, I'll be happy... regardless.
Like I said last week, it's like a p-season game if they do! This team is spent and they need to rebuild hard in the off-season. Big coaching changes possibly. Don't kid yourself, the coaching is a big problem!
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Re: If the Rams win next week, I'll be happy... regardless.Originally Posted by theodus69
Our FO members are not exactly the best economists and are cheap in all the wrong places. Although I dislike Steinbreiner, I do like his win at all costs mentality to some degree.
Hoping for some positive changes but I remain realistic considering the personnel in the decision making department.Socrates: Surf to live! and Live to Surf!
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Re: If the Rams win next week, I'll be happy... regardless.
I'd also like to see the Rams come out and play hard against a talented Jets team and make the playoffs. If it doesn't happen, well, sometimes it doesn't happen - it's the nature of the sport - and we can start looking full time to next year.
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Re: If the Rams win next week, I'll be happy... regardless.
I want the Rams to beat the Jets this week. It may not mean that they get to go to the playoffs, but it will leave me with a big smile if they win their last game.
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Irrespective of the method chosen by you to cut back your monthly expenses, using them will definitely help you to avoid overspending and save you a lot of money, as a result of it. This is because it will help you to visualize the exact amount of money you are spending in a given month which in turn will reduce your impulse to overspend.
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- Some studies of American families find no differences at all between the children of single mothers and the children from other household types. For example, in a nationally representative study of children from different kinds of households (2-parent biological, adoptive, step-father, step-mother, and single-mother), the type of household did not matter. Children's grades, and their relationships with their siblings and their friends, were about the same.
- There are factors that are more likely to put children at risk than living in a single-parent home. An important review of risky families concluded that children become vulnerable if they are raised in families "characterized by conflict and aggression and by relationships that are cold, unsupportive, and neglectful."
- A similar conclusion comes from a study of 39 nations: Children were better off if they were raised by a single mother than by two married parents who were arguing all the time. The children also did better when raised by one divorced parent than by remarried parents.
- There are ways in which the American children of single parents report more positive experiences than the children of married parents. For example, in a study in which 10- to 14-year olds were paged at random times and asked to describe (when they were with someone else) how friendly that other person was to them, the children of single parents described friendlier interactions with their parents than did the children of married parents.
- International research on the children of single parents – which gets little attention in the U.S. – puts American single-parenting in perspective. For example, a study of 5 Asian nations found that in only one of them, Japan, did the children of single parents show a disadvantage in reading skills compared to the children of married parents. In two countries, Hong Kong and Korea, there was little difference, and in two others, Indonesia and Thailand, children of single parents did better. Why? Maybe because extended family members stepped in to help.
- In a study of math and science achievement across 11 countries, the two countries in which the children of single parents were most disadvantaged were the United States and New Zealand. There were no differences between single-parent and married-parent homes in Austria and Iceland. (The in-between countries were Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Scotland.) Why the differences? The authors showed that children of single parents were less likely to be disadvantaged "when family policies equalize resources between single- and two-parent families."
- The bottom line was best stated by the authors of the research described in #4: "It is not enough to know that an individual lives within a particular family structure without also knowing what takes place in that structure."
I'm not trying to minimize the challenges of single parenting. But I do want to caution against statements declaring that the children of single parents are doomed. They are not. And as for that supposed "disorder that is common to single-parent homes": Seriously, have you never walked into a married-parent home that was disorderly?
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Bella DePaulo (Ph.D., Harvard; Visiting Professor, UC Santa Barbara), an expert on single life, is the author of several books, including "Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After" and "Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It." Dr. DePaulo has discussed singles and single life on radio and television, including NPR and CNN, and her work has been described in newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and magazines such as Time, Atlantic, the Week, More, the Nation, Business Week, AARP Magazine, and Newsweek. Visit her website at www.BellaDePaulo.com.
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Very interesting and helpful information on an important topic. Since single parent households are becoming almost as common as traditional families, it is important that we understand them and how to help them.
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Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Metro AG said it's discussing the sale of its Kaufhof department-store chain with both Signa Holding GmbH, an Austrian real-estate company backed by Greek billionaire George Economou, and the owner of rival Karstadt.
Metro is holding preliminary talks with both potential buyers and there's no agreement, said a spokesman for Dusseldorf-based Metro, who declined to be identified.
Kaufhof could be sold to Signa, which was founded and is managed by investor Rene Benko, in a few weeks, Handelsblatt reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. Separately, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on its website that Karstadt owner Nicolas Berggruen wants to buy Kaufhof and has already made an offer.
"There are talks taking place," Dietmar Hofreiter, a Vienna-based spokesman for Signa, said by telephone today. He declined to comment on the nature of the discussions.
Metro was up 1.7 percent at 33.64 euros at 1:38 p.m. in Frankfurt trading, after rising as high as 34.36 euros. The stock has fallen 38 percent this year, the fourth-biggest drop in the benchmark DAX Index.
Metro has been seeking a buyer of Kaufhof since 2008 and said in August it may sell the chain or form an alliance for the unit. Chief Executive Officer Eckhard Cordes said last year that he values Kaufhof at 2 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to 3 billion euros. Bidders will only gain access to the data room with bids of at least 2.4 billion euros, Handelsblatt reported yesterday.
Cordes, 60, said last week he wouldn't extend his contract beyond next year following media speculation that he had lost the backing of some supervisory board members. Newspapers including Financial Times Deutschland reported that Cordes faced opposition on the retailer's board, prior to shareholders approving the extension of his contract last month.
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The global financial crisis has finally hit Canberra, the wealthiest city in Australia. And besides the fact that prices are the lowest they have been in six years, we know because there are too many bedrooms.
In 2009 Australia built the largest new homes based on average floor area in the world… in some estates exceeding 120 square metres
The global financial crisis has finally hit Canberra, Australia. The wealthiest city in one of the most prosperous countries in the world at the beginning of the 21st century has felt a pinch in the hip pocket. As the capital of Australia, Canberra has enjoyed the dual benefit of a public servant economy and a healthy take of disposable income courtesy of a well-paid workforce with not much else to do but spend dollars on themselves and their kids. This flow of capital goes towards keeping the city in a comfy 'immune from the global downturn' state that has also happened to prop up the local real estate market rather well. But that is all over. The housing market is taking a dive. And besides the fact that prices are the lowest they have been in six years, how do we know this? Well, partly because there are too many bedrooms.
The long boom saw the real net disposable income in Australia rise continuously between 1992 and 2009. It fuelled a speculative real estate market that, with the benefit of favourable fiscal policies, drove a construction industry fed on the drive for big homes.
While even Australians love to join in the global sport of pointing the finger at the US for demonstrations of excess, we only need to look in our back yards to find out who comes out on top when it comes to building big. In 2009 Australia built the largest new homes based on average floor area in the world. Guess which city in Oz was building the biggest of them all, yep, the Capital. So much so that in new greenfield estates on the edge of the city, the average floor space per person exceeded 120 square metres.
To put that in perspective – it is like only letting nine people swim in an Olympic sized pool at any one time. Most of the rooms in these new homes (yes we call them Mcmansions in Australia too) were bedrooms.In an effort to capitalise on our own little piece of Australia, we have found ways to squeeze as much bricks and mortar onto a suburban block of land to make the most of the investment opportunity. From a design perspective, you can have only so many kitchens, lounge rooms, bathrooms and garages.
This leaves the home building companies two options – to design smaller homes or extra bedrooms- and the latter has prevailed. Over the last twenty years the average floor area of new houses in Australia has increased by 30% and the corresponding reduction in block size is about the same. This has created a very different urban form to the sprawling suburban layout created in the post war period and derided so compellingly by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s.
The difference is that, in the post war version of the suburb, there was at least some semblance of a useable landscape space in the back yard. Today that has gone – replaced by bedrooms and too many of them. But how do we know that there are too many bedrooms and what is wrong with a few extra spaces for the in-laws when they visit for the summer holiday season? From a sustainable city perspective there are two problems that come to mind. The first is that these empty bedrooms sit on top of landscape spaces that could be better used as gardens, lawns, play areas or a chook run, or just left alone, for shrubs, bugs and grubs to multiply. The second is that since the bubble burst in the real estate market, people are buying houses with fewer bedrooms in an effort to reduce their exposure to risk, so houses and units with too many bedrooms aren't selling.
Lets start with the evidence. The Australian Bureau of Statistics have in recent years begun to collate information on the number of bedrooms on properties as well as the standard population statistics concerning the number of residents per dwelling. What we know is- not only that we are experiencing an increase in house size, largely fuelled by a flourishing of bedrooms, but we have also seen a drop in the number of people per house hold. To put that big statistical story into perspective, 40% of all bedrooms designed into these new homes are not actually used as bedrooms. Studies perhaps, spare rooms for the in-laws maybe, craft rooms, spiritual retreats, media centres possibly, but they are not used for the nightly activities usually associated with bedrooms. These extra rooms are also squashed between the side and back fences, leaving a residual strip of landscape. A ribbon of pebbles, pavers and strappy leaved, space saving, architecturally astute rows of plants that offer nothing more than a reminder of just how close we are to our neighbours (spatially not emotionally).
These residual landscapes are not big enough to grow a tree that, one day, might offer shade from the 40 degree celsius (100 in the old scale) afternoon sun. Nor are they square enough to host a lawn, or possessing vege garden worth investing in. Society sometimes seems to tell us that we don't need these backyard spaces, we no longer 'go outdoors' – this shift really reflects a parenting shortfall rather than a cultural phenomenon.
Worse still the environmental impact of too much pavement, hot tiled rooves, and the loss of nature's bio-filters – we call them trees – is significant from an economic, social as well as environmental perspective. Finally the market fundamentals used to argue for houses with surplus bedrooms and asserted that this was a financially astute decision for the home owner.
Recent evidence suggests this is also coming to a grizzly end. Recovering the cost (both environmental and financial) of building unused bedrooms, far from snaring a tidy profit, is becoming harder as the market for six bedroom homes dries up. That said, this argument was always dubious as the fiscal advice was more akin to share trading; you buy now and sell some time into the future.
None of that investment advice included the operational cost of heating and cooling, the cost of maintenance and renovation were not factored in. The laws of supply and demand provide two elegantly simple explanations as to why there are now too many bedrooms in Australia – the first is that there are not enough families with enough kids to fill them.
Secondly is that if the logic of building unused rooms was for the purpose of investing in brick and mortar, then the market forgot that those families least likely to be able to afford these houses are those with enough kids to fill those rooms. Ergo those who are most likely to be able to afford a six bedroom don't need them. Something went wrong there. A bit like the sub-prime led crash in the US, we are experiencing a surplus bedroom led collapse of the housing market.
Fortunately, we are only seeing the rise in vacant bedrooms not the wholesale retreat of entire neighbourhoods. Perhaps it serves as a canary in the coal mine and we should take notice.


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Because America is a country of laws. Read the Bill of Rights.
This is deeply offensive for several reasons. Are you saying California turned him into a killer? Build a fence so Californians can't leave? What about that kid from around Verona who moved to Boston and lured a woman to her death using Craigslist? She someone build a fence around NY to keep us all from leaving? Right now we know very little about the shooter, so passing judgment on his family is disgusting.
"Dropout" is one word. Those in glass houses...
Your first sentence lacks a subject.
If they have saved it and will ultimately restore it it then it was good stewardship. The building is ugly now, but at least it is restorable. At least it hasn't suffered the fate of the Levi Chapman house on Westcott.
Even a hot summer day is partisan. Seems like an extreme analysis to me. Contrary to what feminists and conservatives think, not everything is always political.
Shill or not, you can't do much business without insurance. If fracking is safe make to frackers liable for everything themselves, and don't put limits on damages. Do not limit the liability of the individual members of the company, and don't allow them any bankruptcy protection. It's perfectly safe--they have nothing to worry about. Make require senior members of the company to live on that they are drilling and make them drink their water.
Nice article. Typical negative whining in the comments.
Are you drunk or something? This rant doesn't make sense.
Canceling is such bad etiquette. Shame on him.
Judging from you're writing I gather that you are an immigrant and not a native speaker. One of the nice things about our 4th of July celebrations is that they bring communities together. John Adams once wrote that he hoped communities would commemorate Independence Day. Barry Park serves as an anchor to the community and brings people from diverse backgrounds together. Remember that the organization for the American Revolution started at local level. This is a great patriotic way to celebrate our most important national holiday.
Time to take your happy pill, Gloomy Gus.
She's learned the talking points well. She's pretty good reciting the party line. I'm sure the Koch Brothers will reward her handsomely.
Let's start with you, Mr Nice Guy.
We all agree to abide by policies. Do your job according to the rules and you'll do fine. If you want to create policy run for office.
I have no sympathy for people in the suburbs who are worried about access to the city for work or emergencies. If you want the services of the city, live there. People move to the suburbs because they are not the city. Fine, but don't gripe--you chose the inconvenience. You make your bed, now lie in it.
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Having to stay close to a party line is always troubling. One of the things we were proud of during the Cold War is that we were independent thinkers, unlike the Soviets who all had to think alike. I would not vote for a candidate who lacked the ability to think and vote for himself or herself. Conservative political correctness is as objectionable as liberal.


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Ms. Fleming serves as the Chair of the Legal Studies program and as Assistant Professor within the school. She has a Juris Doctorate from the University of Toledo and a M.S. in criminal justice-forensic psychology from Tiffin University. She also teaches criminal justice and sociology for Bowling Green State University. Ms. Fleming has previously worked for the Erie County Prosecutor's Office Criminal Division and for a civil law practice in Cleveland.
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Ted Rose is an instructor of criminology in the Center for Law & Justice. He holds a Juris Doctorate from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University. He has worked in the criminal justice field for more than 30 years as an FBI special agent. During his spare time, Ted enjoys participating in outdoor activities, traveling, and volunteering and is active in his local Fraternal Order of Police lodge.
As an instructor in the College of Business, Dr. Leland has had years of experience in the business world, both public and private. She holds a BBA in accounting from University of the Incarnate Word, an MBA from University of Texas San Antonio, a master of taxation from Florida Atlantic University and a Ph.D. in finance from Northcentral University. In her spare time she enjoys cycling kickboxing, watching movies and spending time with her sons.
As a College of Business professor, Gary Hypes teaches auditing and accounting. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from West Liberty State College and a juris doctorate from West Virginia College of Law. He is currently pursuing a master of business administration. Hypes is a CPA and CGMA and has taught in higher education for almost a decade. In his spare time he enjoys traveling, motorcycles and wrestling.
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Bath martial arts instructor tapped as assistant coach on national team
BATH — Ed Hall is no stranger to major martial arts competitions.
When he travels to Jamaica for a world championship martial arts competition in January, though, he won't be fighting.
Hall, who runs Hall's Olympic Martial Arts at 111 Centre St., will serve as assistant coach on the U.S. National Martial Arts Team that will compete in the Martial Arts World Championships. The Jan. 23-24 event will be held in Trelawney, Jamaica. His team will fight in a mix of Japanese, Chinese and Korean styles.
It will be an unusual take on martial arts competition for the 36-year-old Phippsburg man. With three hall of fame entries – two in the U.S.A. Martial Arts Hall of Fame and one recently in the Action Martial Arts Hall of Fame – the Virginia native invented the globally recognized Jung Tu Do fighting style, a combination of all the martial arts Hall has learned.
He is a fifth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, with six other black belts. Hall missed a bid for the Olympics in 2000, but became a national Tae Kwon Do champion, winning the U.S. Cup and the U.S. Invitational and ranking among the top 30 competitors in the world.
Hall was appointed to the U.S. National Martial Arts team last month. By then, though, he had just retired from fighting.
About a year and a half ago he participated in a season of fighting, and he last two fights brought him up against two men in their 20s who weighed 312 and 315 pounds, respectively. Hall weighs 200. While he beat his first opponent relatively quickly, the second proved far more formidable.
"(He) started off good," Hall said. "And right in round one, I hit him with a good head shot, a roundhouse kick to the head, and he just kind of smiled that off. He was tough."
Hall's opponent won, and they became good friends. Prior to that loss, though, Hall had been thinking of retiring, in part because the intense demand of training caused him to sacrifice much of his time with his family and business.
"To compete with these young guys that are strong and hungry and training, putting in the time, it's a tough road," Hall said.
When he was contacted by team coach Jim Thomas about joining, Hall struggled with the choice of whether to fight once more. Then Thomas offered him the assistant coach position, which Hall readily accepted.
"I've been fighting since I was 14, and it's hard to put that down," Hall said. "But it's funny how the career changes."
He trains as the other fighters do, and his wife Lisa – who he calls the brains and backbone of his business – is his nutritionist. He keeps up with the latest fighting and training systems to ensure that he stays cutting edge and evolves as the sport evolves.
"Coaching is an art that a lot of people don't have," Hall said. "You have to have the ability to connect with your fighter, to have to have the ability, the understanding and the knowledge to be able to read the situation."
Alex Lear can be reached at 373-9060 ext. 113 or email@example.com.


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Updated: 04/05/2013 10:34 PM KSTP.com By: Ellen Galles
Even if you're not a sports fan, Friday's announcement is meaningful. Fans, players and media gathered at Williams Arena as Richard Pitino was introduced as the Gophers' new head basketball coach.
This is about more than just basketball. High-profile head coaches often become the face and the voice of the university, and a successful basketball program can be the key to TV deals, alumnae donations and national exposure.
"The University is competing for the best students, the best professors and wants to be as fully funded as possible. Image is important because it goes beyond the sports page," says media analyst John Rash.
Friday, the university basked in the publicity bounce. The story was covered by every outlet from ESPN to USA Today.


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Is it just us, or are we suffering just a tad from Angie-overload? We thought she could do no wrong, what with the rainbow family, Wonder Twins and Clint-Eastwood-baiting beauty, not forgetting His Bradulous himself. But it feels like Angelina Jolie is teetering on the brink of being one of those irritating celebs who like to talk and talk and talk and talk about their fascinating selves all the time. We've had the breastfeeding shot, the nonstop chat about how sexy Brad finds her when she's up the duff and the Shrek-marriage revelation. Now Angelina's given ANOTHER interview with a glossy mag where she tries to make out she's vaguely normal. Again.
"I don't walk around feeling I need to apologize or explain myself," she tells Harper's Bazaar with an unintentional dose of irony. "I am still, at heart — and always will be — just a punk kid with tattoos."
Um, if you say so, petal. This sounds a little bit like the A-list-superstar-doth-protest-too-much if you ask us. Now, please just don't say anything more for a few months and we'll be your slavishly devoted fans once more. [Source: Metro; Photo: WireImage]


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Rep. Steve King's predilection for saying foolish things is well known. The latest shot from the Iowa Republican's hip was his denunciation of those who might be beneficiaries of a bill that might legalize those illegal immigrants who were brought to this country as children. Rather than accept the fact that most of these youngsters are going to college, working, serving in the armed forces, and generally being a credit to their adopted country, King chose to smear them as predators and threats to society in a Newsmax interview:
"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they've got hands the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert," King tells Newsmax. "Those people would be legalized with the same act."
For this outbreak of hoof-in-mouth disease in which he stereotyped Latinos as drug smugglers, Republicans such as Speaker John Boehner as well as Rep. Raul Labrador, who has joined King in opposing the Senate's bipartisan immigration reform bill, spanked King. But the outspoken Iowan was unfazed and doubled down on his slander. King's loose prejudicial talk will become a major headache for Republicans if he is able to rally enough Tea Partiers to help him get the GOP nomination for the Senate next year. Tom Harkin's retirement creates an open seat in Iowa and it is a winnable race for Republicans if they can avoid nominating a loose cannon like King. But the real problem for the GOP isn't so much that a loud mouth like King will be next year's version of Todd Akin as it is the way he is giving voice to a nasty element of the party's grass roots on immigration that threatens to hijack both the debate on the issue as well as the party.
Conservatives may agree to disagree on the virtues of various immigration reform proposals, but the dilemma for Republicans isn't so much the question of who is right about the details of the gang of eight's bill, or any possible alternatives that are probably going to be killed in the House by recalcitrant conservatives. The problem is that the driving force behind this debate isn't whether it will help or hurt the economy or whether it will uphold the rule of law or undermine it. The unfortunate truth is that as much as the adults in the House GOP would like to shush King, his stupid remarks are a fair representation of what many of those baying about "amnesty" and calling conservatives like Marco Rubio and others who support reform "traitors" are thinking.
Lest you think I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, Ramesh Ponnuru, who writes in National Review against immigration reform, agrees with my conclusion when he conceded in response to something I wrote that, "much of the opposition to the legislation is cultural rather than economic." Ponnuru disagrees with my belief that "cultural concerns about immigration are necessarily disreputable or suspect" since he believes America's social cohesion is undermined by having too many immigrants. But such arguments seem to be primarily about putting an intellectual gloss on hostility to newcomers that is a prejudice that is as old as the republic.
There are legitimate worries about whether liberal policies have undermined the natural assimilation process that every generation of immigrants has undergone. But when Ponnuru speculates that polls that show hostility to immigrants are based on the "cultural" concerns he is championing, what he is doing is exposing the ugly underside of a movement that has more in common with 19th century Know Nothings than modern conservatism.
What those who try to defend this point of view fail to understand or acknowledge is that their belief that this generation of immigrants is somehow different from every previous wave of newcomers to this nation is far from original. The same arguments about the unsavory impact on American society that will result from importing a large number of low-skilled immigrant workers were made in the 19th century about the Irish, Germans, Italians, and Jews. Like today's Hispanic migrants, those immigrants didn't speak English, tended to isolate themselves in their own communities and didn't have much in common with the WASPs that had preceded them on American shores. They also filled a need for low-skilled labor.
The Know Nothings and their successors didn't believe in the power of American society to assimilate new arrivals. Neither do those who oppose immigration today. While contemporary conditions are different, that basic truth is not. Immigrants always change America, but there is no reason to believe that the impact of this influx will be any less salubrious than the tide of Eastern and Southern Europeans that previous generations of nativists so feared.
That brings us back to King. Though he is less cagey about his articulation of this cultural opposition to the bill than many other opponents, his insults probably are a better representation of the core beliefs of the anti-immigrant crowd than the more presentable views of Ponnuru.
What Speaker Boehner and other responsible Republican leaders must understand is that by allowing King and other knee-jerk anti-reform members to intimidate the GOP caucus into spiking any chance for reform, he is letting the House be governed by the basest instincts in our political firmament. The Weekly Standard's William Kristol and National Review's Rich Lowry wrote earlier this month that, unlike the case in 2006, opposition to the gang of eight's bill had been "responsible" rather than being based in hostility to immigrants. King's outburst is just the latest evidence to show that the "cultural" basis for opposing the legislation (as opposed to the reasoned approach taken by Kristol and Lowry) that is drenched in prejudice is the real driving force behind this debate.
The biggest long-term problem for Republicans isn't the alienation of Hispanic voters. It's that letting people like King call the tune in the House will turn off moderates and conservatives that don't wish to be associated with bigots and their fellow-travelers. No amount of "missing white voters" or other possible solutions to the GOP's dilemma can overcome that sort of image.


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March 13, 2006
WORCESTER, Mass. - The 2006 Atlantic Hockey Association semifinals and championship game will take place at the Hart Center on Friday and Saturday, March 17 and 18. In Friday's first semifinal game, No. 1 seed Holy Cross will take on No. 6 seed Connecticut at 4:00 p.m. Following the Holy Cross-Connecticut contest, No. 2 seed Mercyhurst will face No. 4 seed Bentley at 7:30 p.m. The winners of Friday's semifinal contests will meet in the championship game on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets for the Atlantic Hockey semifinals and championship game are now on sale through the Holy Cross ticket office. Single day tickets are $10.00 for adults, and $5.00 for students, children and senior citizens. To order tickets, call (508) 793-2573.


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For the moment, the Boston Red Sox look like the most complete team in the major leagues.
The Red Sox ended their Division Series in four games with a 3-1 win over Tampa Bay in a game that ended after midnight.
Besides excellent performances, these postseason games are long. The third game of Boston's series with the Rays lasted over four hours.
Anyway, the Red Sox will be a difficult opponent for the winner of the Detroit-Oakland series. After the Tigers tied their series at two, the teams head to the East Bay for the fifth game on Thursday night.
The winner then flies to Boston to start the American League Championship Series on Saturday night. The Red Sox will be favored.
After watching Dodgers manager Don Mattingly use Clayton Kershaw on three days rest in their win over Atlanta and Jim Leyland employ probable AL Cy Young winner Max Scherzer as a reliever on Tuesday, it should have prepared me for Joe Maddon.
The Tampa Bay skipper used what Buck Showalter calls "Johnny Wholestaff." Maddon pulled starter Jeremy Hellickson at the first sign of trouble in the second inning and called on eight relievers. Hellickson's line was 1-plus inning, one hit and two walks.
By the time the bottom of ninth came around, none other than David Price was warming in the bullpen in case extra innings were needed. I guess Hellickson could have started again on Thursday had the Rays forced a fifth game.
Boston proved its worth by handily winning the rugged AL East and had excellent starting pitching and relieving as well as an impressive lineup.
Manager John Farrell was able to set his rotation for the Division Series and take a few days off after the regular season. Now, he gets to do the same for the ALCS.


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