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What is the best single thing you can do for your children? Send them to Asia for school so they can get a good education and learn Mandarin.
Or so says a thinker and investor Jim Rogers.
Some investors achieve the status of being legends, their opinions on all matters of economics and politics sought by everyone. Rogers is an example of that in our time, and for good reason.
His life began in rural Alabama. Then he became an intellectual and professor. Enticed by Wall Street, he tried his hand at the markets and won. He then became a world traveler who set world records, and then became a best selling author.
It was my pleasure to be invited to moderate a private forum in Atlanta, Georgia, at which Rogers was the guest of honor. I got to ask the questions in front of an audience of financial professionals I've always want to ask him. We had lots of fun.
Rogers's big picture forecast is that the U.S. and the dollar are in the process of relinquishing their dominant position in world affairs to Asia. All throughout Asia, people are saving money, working long hours and asking for more work not less. In the United States, we are racking up more debt, saving less, working less, complaining more, and asking only for more goods and services from government.
Me and Jim Rogers in Atlanta, GeorgiaI was struck by how his analysis is so influenced by cultural observations. He pointed out that the Fed has contributed mightily to the wrecking of entrepreneurship in the U.S. Its low-interest rate policies are actively punishing savings. Its tax policies are punishing profitability and income earning. Its fiscal policies are encouraging dependence. Its educational practices are socializing another generation into laziness and dependence.
What a picture! As a result, he is urging young people to consider getting out. Get your passport, seek your education online, and find a position in Asia. Our great great grandparents uprooted themselves to seek a better life, and our children should consider doing the same. Travel is the first step. It opens up the world and helps us see new opportunities.
As for learning Mandarin, that's what he is doing with his two daughters. He lives in Singapore in order to make sure this happens.
It's radical stuff but he is walking the walk.
On the dollar, he is bearish. The Fed has been busying for five years trying to destroy the future of the dollar. Its policies have benefitted only insiders but made a mess out of the rest of the economic infrastructure. He thinks that 2008 was a mere warmup for what is coming down the line. What will replace the dollar? He is mildly optimistic about the Euro, temporarily bullish on the Russian ruble, and he is also feeling very good about precious metals like gold and silver.
On commodities, he is sticking by his known love for real stuff over fancy financial products. To his mind, the world food supply is not as plentiful as people believe. Farmers are in a more secure economic position than Wall Street stockjobbers. As for the legions of MBAs that the U.S. is producing, he finds them mostly worthless. A better credential to have is evidence that you can drive a tractor and get stuff to grow.
On bonds, he sees the end of the long bull market coming to an end. The yield curve only looks like it does due to massive intervention by the Fed. This artificiality cannot last. It won't take much beyond a slight change in the pricing of long-term debt instruments to set off a chain of events that will blow up the Feds balance sheet and utterly wreck whatever stability that exists in the debt outlook for the U.S government. The debt cannot be paid now, but when the world decides that holding the debt is too risky and expensive, the bond bubble will explode, destroying many portfolios in the process. The new crisis will cause new policy panics and bring about a series of catastrophic decisions that will make 2008-2013 look like a mere prelude to the real action.
As for oil, he is bullish but not concerning the U.S. productive capacities. He is not very impressed by the predictions that shale and fracking change much at all, and sees many other regions of the world friendly to the whole industry.
As for technology, he sees the action leaving the U.S. and the world center of innovation emanating from Asia. In fact, he is not very impressed at all but much of the technological production of the U.S. over the last ten years.
A pretty dark picture? It would seem so, unless you speak Mandarin.
The moment of the evening that stands out to me the most really amounted to a brief musing on the whole subject of forecasting. Before offering his forecasts, he eloquently defended the whole enterprise of making predictions.
Predictions can never before scientific, he said. The future is always uncertain and subject to an infinite number of changing variables. Those who presume to have found the magic key to knowing the future — whether they are using high-powered mathematical models or the old-fashioned crystal ball — will be humbled. Human affairs are just that way, and there is no technology that can fix that.
Rogers said that he has been plenty wrong many times in his life.
At the same time, he continued, forecasts are unavoidable. It is not just stock pickers and economists who make forecasts. We all do. We must. We have to act now with the presumption that we have some inclining of what is around the corner.
Riffing on what he said, we go to school hoping to use our education later. We save money hoping to find things later on which we will spend it. We choose our personal associations based on the presumption that people won't suddenly become different next week.
We all make choices anticipating the future, knowing full well that we could be wrong. We can't be disabled by the knowledge that the future is essentially unknowable. If we fear that we are wrong to the point of inaction, we doom ourselves as acting persons. In this sense we are all investors, whether we are betting on stock symbols or not. We seek to make judgements that pay off down the line.
How do we make the future slightly less uncertain? How can we work toward making the best predictions? We seek out information. We try to make sure it is the highest quality information. We find many sources for our information. We evaluate it in light of our own education, experience, and intuition. Sometimes this information makes all the difference. Even so, there is no perfect foresight. We can be spectacularly right ten times, and calamitously wrong one time. Or it can be the reverse.
Having said that, he moved on to make the predictions above.
Somehow his small talk gave me a bit of boldness of my own. Having been heavily schooled in the Misesian tradition against statistical prediction making, I love headlines that make fun of economists and how often they are wrong.
It's just thrilling and fabulous to see big shots laid low by the relentless surprises of real life. Nothing gives me a kick more than to see a model blow up. To see arrogant know-it-alls — especially bureaucrats and politicians — explode in the face of reality that refuses to conform to their outlook restores my faith in prospects of human liberty.
But we can go too far with this line of thinking. We can't just decline to forecast.
Education and learning improve our ability to forecast, certainly qualitatively but even quantitatively.
As just one example — one that Rogers returned to several times — was the believe on the part of the Fed and the Treasure through two presidential administrations that their stimulus was bring higher economic growth and low unemployment. It hasn't happened. Rogers hasn't been surprised by this, and I haven't either. Anyone who has read deeply in the classical and Austrian traditions of economics could have seen this coming.
Our predictions have been better than theirs.
The beauty of having access to a great investor with a proven record is that you can know that his skills are likely to be more finely honed than the average person on the street. No one is infallible but some predictions — we can predict — are likely to be true more often than other predictions.
I said earlier that his soliloquy on forecasting inspired me. So let me forge ahead with some of my own. I don't see any of the food problems that he sees. With massive federal subsidies and vast technological improvements in farming, we have far too many, not too few, farmers. Many dismiss the technological innovations over the last years as superficial, but I disagree. I think Facebook, Twitter, Google, and smartphones as some of the greatest productive capital ever created.
As for the the coming Asian century, that could be right. But unlike the 19th and 20th centuries, the age of the superpower is over. One region's prosperity doesn't come at anyone else's expense. Everyone can win in a world without borders and wars, and that is the world I believe is being born today. As for the dollar and the fiscal disaster, I'm a Rogerian in most every way.
The beauty of investor-intellectuals is that their ideas are tested in the real world. That's what makes them different from the tenured professors running the universities. A man like Jim Rogers might not be right on all things; no one can be. But in the balance, I would take his forecasts over a thousand econometricians without nothing at stake in the outcome.
Jeffrey Tucker
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Do know nothing about american farmers. In Europe/Germany many can't survive without money from Brussel. Many "investments" are made extra for getting more subventions from EU. In some EU countries subventionsfraud is a branch of economy. There are hardly one branch of business more perverted then farming.
…and Facebook and Twitter.. how are they productive tools? To whom? I burn to know!
Jim Rogers is great.
Learn Mandarin like a billion other people on the planet? Why? So you can work in a filthy factory for low wages with no freedom of religion, speech, association, etc.? China is a shooting star, once the US gets its act together, together with other freedom loving people, she will re-ignite the world. Unless, of course, the US follows the failed socialist models, then there will be no place to hide.
It's amazing how many people think that just because you learn Mandarin that somehow that is a one way ticket to success, there are billions of people that speak Mandarin natively and most are learning English from a very young age. For a native English speaker learning Mandarin while a good skill to acquire, you must put emphasis on real world skills that an industry needs and if you can supplement that good Mandarin it will give you an edge. The world is in competition with China and should be doing everything it can to gain an edge against them and at the same time doing everything it can not to help them to become better competitors against themselves. You don't help your enemy to be able to defeat you better.
Unless you know how to lie, cheat, trick, and bull-shit in Chinese, learning Mandarin is useless.
Learning Mandarin is of no value in China without street smarts.
SInce the US and those Freedom loving people are already being out numbered in their "free" country by socialist & leftist that shooting star is already landing on Earth.
WOrking in a filthy factory with low wages is still better than having no Job with humongous debt that is supported by the likes of the Unfree world. The fact is the "Free" world is more & more unfree and socialist with each passing day while the opposite is happening to the "unfree" world. Today does not equal to tomorrow, did you see it coming 40 years ago that the land of the free will be in billions & trillions of debt and with a significant portion being owned by the Communist Chinese? Maybe another 3 decade even North KOrea will be holding US Debt, well of course the US can always self implode during that time.
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Jim Rogers is the best. I've been a big fan of him since the late 1990s. Most recently he said, "North and South Korea will merge within five years and then Korea will be the most exciting country in the world for a decade or two. No one else will agree with that, but I will remind you that if someone said in 1985 that Germany would be unified in five years they would have the same reaction you did."
I was in North Korea, in a town called Rason. Rason is the Northern-most ice-free port in Asia. The Russians have just built a new dock there.
I saw the new docks that the Chinese and Russians are building.
This is all new stuff that Americans are not talking about because they don't even know it's happening.
It takes a while for American bureaucrats to catch on to what is going on in the world. It is exciting; unfortunately since I am a citizen of the land of the free there is nothing I can do.
Peter Schiff reports on the broken spell of confidence surrounding the dollar, and how it may also reverse the fortunes of other beaten down currencies...
Jeff Desjardins explains how harnessing the rapid surge in data can create big opportunities...
Bill Bonner explains why you can count on central banks to exaggerate the commodities cycle with more cheap credit...
Charles Hugh Smith wonders if the markets can be saved an eighth time, a ninth time, or tenth time this year... and what about next year? Read on to find out...
First, we're dealing with the tightest real estate market in a very long time. Homebuilders haven't been building for the past decade. And the rental market? Crazy. Rents are sky-high and the rental market these days is tight as a snare drum. I reminded you back in June that the average rates for rental houses have risen by more than 13%.
These suckers have dragged down the entire market for months. It's been a tale of two Dows. The Dow Jones Transportation Average has dropped more than 8% on the year. But the Dow Jones Industrial Average has just about broken even over the same period. That shows you just how bad the trannies have been.


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If you buy green bananas and they take a day or so to ripen....maybe, we do not have that time left. Better buy ripe ones because you may be dead in a few days. The world is suppose to end on 12 12 12...this is the tenth...
Yeah I knew it and forgot it again. Oh my these canadian winters have frozen my little grey cells.
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* Colleen Brady lived in Galway Ireland.
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Past: Novice - nun
Colleen Brady is the older sister of Shawn Brady Sr. She was a novice at the Irish Church, where she met Santo DiMera, a traveling salesman from Italy. Santo was accidentally hit on the head by a pub owner and brought to Colleen, at the Irish Church. Colleen nursed his wound and the two became attracted to one another.
Stefano DiMera claims that Shawn Brady Sr. killed Colleen, and Shawn has said the same of Stefano. Her family has thought she was dead but she did not. Her 'death' is said to have started the Brady/DiMera feud.
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Wall Street is where poker and modern finance and the theory behind these "games" clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.
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Aaron Brown is an executive director at the investment bank Morgan Stanley and a serious lifelong poker player who has played with Wall Street tycoons and world champion poker pros. He holds degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard and finance from the University of Chicago. He has been a finance professor and a trader as well as a portfolio manager and risk manager for Prudential Insurance, JPMorgan, Rabobank, and Citigroup.
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Named one of BusinessWeek's top 10 paperbacks for summer reading: "The Poker Face of Wall Street is a sprawling, idiosyncratic, and sometimes poker-obsessed work filled with nuggets about American history and finance."
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Praise for The Poker Face of Wall Street "Playing high-level poker, trading options, marketing bonds, and being a professor of finance--Aaron Brown has done them all." --Edward O. Thorp, author of Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One and Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System "The first attempt to help individual investors profit from a better understanding of the art of gambling. There may be few individuals better suited to take on such a controversial argument with such authority." --Stephen Schurr, Financial Times "Brown's model is instantly graspable, but contrary to the conventional wisdom on both economics and gambling." --Publishers Weekly "The author provides investment professionals an immensely valuable benefit by challenging them to consider familiar issues from new angles. His book is not only entertaining, but also full of provocative ideas that merit lengthy and serious engagement." --Martin Fridson, Financial Analysts Journal "How to be a poker pro and much more . . . a delightful journey through risk concepts with a Wall Street derivatives trader. A great read and a good manual for understanding risk." --Dr. William T. Ziemba, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Although you probably don't want to think of your broker or investment bank as playing games with your hard-earned money, the fact is that gambling lies at the heart of economic ideas and institutions. Not surprisingly, the game most like the financial markets-- poker-- is hugely popular with financial professionals. Financial professional and lifelong poker player Aaron Brown knows how fine the line is between risk-taking and ruin. Now, in The Poker Face of Wall Street, Brown enlightens and bedazzles serious risk-takers about the odds and skills underlying their mercurial crafts and shows how the cultures of poker and Wall Street are so easily intertwined. Whether you're walking the walk on Wall Street or talking the talk on the Vegas Strip, this entertaining book reveals why the modern game of poker and modern finance have more similarities than differences, and what those similarities mean for players at each kind of table. The Poker Face of Wall Street also: Delves into the psychology of finance and the economics of poker Explores some of the cutting-edge work being done in these fields and some of the dangerous nonsense to avoid Reveals how America's passion for gamblingat poker and in the markets has shaped the country's economic success and national character Includes author flashbacks in which Brown candidly recalls his triumphs and disasters in high-stakes finance and poker The Poker Face of Wall Street is a one-of-a-kind book that will show you the real meaning of risk and reward. Financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a must-read, as will poker players searching for an edge byapplying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.
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Foreword. Preface. Chapter 1. The Art of Uncalculated Risk. Chapter 2. Poker Basics. Chapter 3. Finance Basics. Chapter 4. A Brief History of Risk Denial. Chapter 5. Pokernomics. Chapter 6. Son of a Soft Money Bank. Chapter 7. The Once-Bold Mates of Morgan. Chapter 8. The Games People Play. Chapter 9. Who Got Game. Chapter 10. Utility Belt. Annotated Bibliography. Index.


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When Brandon Knight scored 30 points in Kentucky's NCAA Tournament win over West Virginia, he became the third different freshman player to score 30 or more in a game this season.
UK's research thus far indicates that has not happened anywhere since the 1997 season, and chances are they won't find any instances in college basketball history when that feat occurred.
For the second straight year, Kentucky has achieved a top four seed in the NCAA Tourney while starting three rookies. That certainly speaks to John Calipari's ability to find and procure talented players, but what doesn't get enough credit is what he and his staff do with them once they arrive.
"I think he's probably as good as there is in the college game at (developing players)," ESPN analyst Jimmy Dykes said in a recent appearance on The Leach Report radio show. "He had to do that at Memphis as well. When I'm around him in practice, he has a great way of communicating with kids, just how he gets his points across to them. Not everyone can take that highly talented player and get them to play hard and I think he does that as well as anyone. That sounds simple, but it isn't."
Dykes says a player thinking only about getting himself to the NBA after one season can screw up a team's chemistry, so he's impressed by how Calipari manages to avoid those kinds of personalities.
"A lot of coaches are scared of them, but there's no reason to be as long as you do your homework," Dykes said. "John has never brought a guy into his program that is going to be a selfish teammate. There have been some guys that have come through the college game recently that haven't (been that way). Cal does a great job in his evaluation, making sure they understand that, 'If you come play for me for one year, it's going to be how I want you to do it,' and he holds them to it. He'll be the first to tell you that the biggest mistake you can make is bring a guy into your program that has a one-year agenda and you can't get him out of it. It can destroy your team."
Said CBS college basketball analyst Greg Anthony: "I don't think anybody does a better job of bringing what's inside out than John Calipari. The players are going to have to trust Coach Calipari. The one advantage you have with him if he's going to do what's in the best interest of the player. That's why he's been able to do such a good job recruiting, because it's about the players - it's not about him."
Big Blue Sports Network radio analyst Mike Pratt brings a good perspective to this story, too. He played at UK in the late 1960s when freshmen were not allowed to play for the varsity their first season. But as first-year starters as sophomores, Pratt, Dan Issel and Mike Casey led the Wildcats to the brink of the Final Four (they lost in a regional final to Ohio State on a last-second shot).
Pratt later coached in college and scouted and coached in the NBA, so he has kept a keen eye on how the game has evolved. But Pratt also says the Calipari way is reminiscent of an old school coach who often went against conventional wisdom.
"If you have ever been to one of Coach Calipari's practices or really looked closely at how he deals with his players, it reminds me of Al McGuire," Pratt said. "I have said this before: Al would not be up in someone's face but he would certainly do a good chewing job when he had to, but he loved those guys and put his arms around them.
"I talked with Al and had the privilege to talk with him after his coaching days, and he wanted to talk about coaching at Rupp and the Kentucky days. Al would always say, 'I had to do what I had to do with any player I had so I would love on them a little bit, kick their butt and put my arm around them,' and he said, 'sometimes I didn't put my arm around them.' He said, 'I did all sorts of weird things and they knew I cared in my own way,' and that is what Cal does. He is pressing the buttons and doing what he can to get the best out of you and then he can always say, 'Look at my track record of guys getting their degree, guys getting to the NBA.' Those two things are the bottom line. Cal talks about trust, and there is trust between player and coach. You have to do it with your own personality, and that is how Cal is."
Pratt says while Calipari preaches the message about Kentucky being a program that focuses first on players, the coach also subtly sells them on the idea of the importance of team goals, too.
"As hard as he communicates his care for them individually, he also communicates that the betterment of the team is our number one goal," Pratt said. "It is like one and one-A. I care about you both. Kids are different now as far as their perception of things and what he says is, 'That is not the way we do things here.' He will say that this place isn't for everybody and this is a special place, so be appreciative."


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Pretty Little Liars Season 3B Spoiler Roundup: Who's Coming Back This Winter?
Pretty Little Liars has a huge cast, and not everyone is back every season. Yes, there are the series regulars who are always around, but there are plenty of other characters who flit in and out as the story requires.
So which familiar faces can you expect to see during the Season 3 winter season? We've gathered what we know.
Read spoilers at your own risk! For more on Wetpaint Entertainment's philosophy on spoilers, click here.
The series regulars: All four Liars, Sasha Pieterse (Alison DiLaurentis), Janel Parrish (Mona Vanderwall), Ian Harding (Ezra Fitz), Tyler Blackburn (Caleb Rivers), Holly Marie Combs (Ella Montgomery), Laura Leighton (Ashley Marin), and Chad Lowe (Byron Montgomery) are all series regulars, and will of course return.
Toby Cavanaugh (Keegan Allen): Um, duh. The newly revealed A-team member will have a lot to do this season.
Brendan Robinson (Lucas Gottesman): We're also going to be learning a lot about Lucas.
Paige McCullers (Lindsey Shaw): You can expect to see much more of Emily's (Shay Mitchell) girlfriend, as well.
Jason DiLaurentis (Drew Van Acker): Jason's definitely around (and hanging out with Emily and Mona for some reason).
Melissa Hastings (Torrey DeVitto): Spencer's (Troian Bellisario) older sis is back, and Torrey DeVitto told us she has a lot stuff coming up.
Wren Kingston (Julian Morris): More adorable accents and inappropriate flirting coming your way!
Dr. Sullivan (Annabeth Gish): The good (or not so good) doc is back. You can expect to see her in Season 3, Episode 18: "Dead to Me."
Detective Wilden (Bryce Johnson): Will this guy ever leave the Liars alone? No, probably not. Sigh.
Wesley Fitzgerald: Hottie Wesley (Gregg Sulkin) is back for at least Season 3, Episode 18: "Dead to Me" and Season 3, Episode 19: "What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted." We won't say no to more Fitz(gerald) family drama.
Ms. Fitzgerald: Ezra's evil mom is back, too (we think in Season 3, Episode 20).
Pam Fields (Nia Peeples): Nia Peeples has tweeted things that suggest she'll be back.
Shana (Aeriel Miranda): New girl Shana, from the Pretty Dirty Secrets web series, is supposed to make an appearance.
Brant Daugherty (Noel Kahn): We haven't heard much about Noel and the winter season, but we hope to see him around.
Mike Montgomery (Cody Christian): We might see Mike this season.
Jenna Marshall (Tammin Sursok)? It's unclear if we'll see Jenna again this season. We definitely won't see her again right away.
Garrett (Yani Gellman): Poor Garrett is dead and gone, and in a recent conference call Marlene King confirmed to us that we won't be seeing him in flashbacks, either.
Find more Pretty Little Liars spoilers here.
Catch the return of PLL Season 3 on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family.
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On Thursday, March 25, the Greenwood Senior Center will host a symposium for male caregivers, Finding Strength While Caring for Others. The symposium will include a keynote speaker and a panel of men who are or have been in a caregiver role. [Read More]
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How the wind whispers to the weeping willows.
Nearby the lark sings her song of sweetness
And the walnuts and apricots drop onto
The leafy ground. The man sits with his muscles
Glistening in the sea's mists. He stares upward
Toward where the emerald seas meet the blue skies.
Today I touched and tasted the bark
Of the cinnamon tree. The lioness reached out
To pat at me as I passed by, then rolled over
For a belly rub. I nearly stepped on
That little green snake curled up
Under the apple tree, the bounty
Of the mother earth. The man misses
So much. I think he needs his freedom.
I see it in his eyes. I like the sound
Of the word, full and round, freedom.
Silly little snake basking in the sun
Under that tree. Those bright red
Apples. Tonight with the cinnamon
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2013 MLB Free Agency: The Broken System of Qualifying Offers
By Bryce Dugar
During last year's MLB amateur draft, it occurred to me that the qualifying offer system was ridiculously broken. This observation rested on the fact that the New York Yankees ended up with three of the first 33 picks in the draft, all of which came before the first competitive balance round. The last thing the Yankees need is more draft picks; they've already got every conceivable advantage, and acquiring young, cheap talent is typically the domain of smaller-market teams.
Qualifying offers, for those unfamiliar, are one-year contract offers of a certain value that varies depending on the average salary of the top 125 highest-paid players in the sport. The average annual value of those contracts is the QO price – this year it was $14.1 million, up from last year's $13.3 million – and a team can offer any player a one-year deal at that price. If the offer is accepted, the player returns to the team for a year. If it is declined, he becomes tied to draft pick compensation, so whichever team signs him forfeits their highest draft pick (unless it is in the top 10 and therefore protected), while the team that lost the player receives a pick at the end of the first round.
It's a reasonably complicated set of rules, but it basically boils down to: sign a qualified free agent, lose a high pick. Lose a qualified free agent, gain a high pick. Purportedly, this system exists to compensate small-market teams for the loss of a prominent free agent. In an attempt to promote competitive balance, the loss of a high-value baseball player to a larger market team due to budget restrictions should be compensated. That makes a lot of sense.
The only problem is it doesn't seem to be working that way. This year, 13 players received qualifying offers:
2013 Qualifying Offer Recipients
2013 Opening Day Payroll
|Carlos Beltran
|$116 million
|Robinson Cano
|$228 million
|Shin-Soo Choo
|$106 million
|Nelson Cruz
|$125 million
|Stephen Drew
|Red Sox
|$154 million
|Jacoby Ellsbury
|Red Sox
|$154 million
|Curtis Granderson
|$228 million
|Ubaldo Jimenez
|$80 million
|Hiroki Kuroda
|$228 million
|Brian McCann
|$90 million
|Kendrys Morales
|$84 million
|Mike Napoli
|Red Sox
|$154 million
|Ervin Santana
|$81 million
You'll notice that not only is that a list of high-payroll teams, but just three players on it (Cano, Ellsbury, and McCann) are homegrown. On the other hand, four (Beltran, Drew, Kuroda, and Napoli) were signed as free agents. So much for rewarding teams for developing their own players.
The MLB average payroll is somewhere in the $105 million range, which by itself is largely insane. But that list is not one of the smallest-market, most helpless teams in baseball. Only four of the 13 qualified free agents are leaving a team with a below-average payroll, and the Yankees and Red Sox sport three qualified free agents each. Counting teams with multiple qualified free agents more than once, the average payroll of the above table is $140 million, substantially higher than average. Even counting just once it comes it at $118 million, quite a bit higher than average.
Shockingly, this is a little better than last year. 2012's average payroll was about $98 million, yet of the nine players who received qualifying offers, the average payroll came in at $142 million, nearly 50% higher. That's again with multiple counting (the Yankees led baseball with three qualified free agents, the only team to have more than one), but even just counting each team once the average payroll was $123 million. The Rays were the only team to have a payroll under $90 million and present a qualifying offer, while the Braves and Nationals joined them as the only teams under a $100 million payroll.
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This is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, hand-written by Charles Dodgson for Alice Liddell between 1862 and 1864. The tale was first told by mathematician and pioneer photographer Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) on 4 July 1862 to the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, on a river boat trip. Dodgson published his story in 1865, with illustrations by John Tenniel. It has since become one of the most popular of all children's books.


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- Does the Omega Juicer model VRT330 also juice wheat grass? Does it do what the 8005 juicer does?
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Overall, my wife and i really like the juicer. The mesh/wire basket has a rather thin piece of plastic wrapping the perimeter. Recently it has began cracking in several places. If the plastic 'band piece' were to have approximately 3 ribs molded into it (in the direction opposing the outward force during operation) the piece would become much stronger. There is also room to add the 1 - 1.5mm tall ribs and the only resultant change would be to the 'rubber' vertical flaps that already have a cutout. Once this durability change would be made, i would highly recommend this juicer to everyone. thanks for the opportunity to write this review, Dave (Posted on 8/20/10)
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Cisco Systems this morning said it has agreed to buy privately held BNI Video for $99 million in cash, plus certain retention-based employee incentives. Cisco says that BNI, based in Boxborough, Mass., makes "two major video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network analytic capabilities." The company said the deal will advance the capabilities of its Videoscape TV platform, "which allows service providers to deliver compelling video experiences to any device over any Internet Protocol network."
(Cool little background video on the BNI Video Web site, which you might want to check out.)
Investors in the company included Cisco, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, plus Castile Ventures and Charles River Ventures.
The deal is expected to close in Cisco's fiscal second quarter ending January 2012.


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Report: Cardinals shopping Kyle Lohse to make room for Mark Buehrle
Dec 5, 2011, 11:35 PM EDT
Here's an interesting one.
Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune was told by a source that the Cardinals are trying to shop right-hander Kyle Lohse in an effort to make a run at free agent left-hander Mark Buehrle.
Buehrle is from Missouri, so many have long speculated about him potentially winding up with his hometown Cardinals. They don't appear to have an opening in their rotation right now, what with Chris Carpenter, Jaime Garcia, Jake Westbrook, a rehabbing Adam Wainwright and the aforementioned Lohse all under contract for 2012, but things could change if the veteran southpaw is willing to give them some sort of hometown discount.
However, considering that Buehrle one of the most coveted pitchers on the free agent market, he would probably be turning down a lot of money elsewhere. We learned earlier today that he has received offers from three teams believed to be in the three-year, $36-39 million range.
Lohse, 33, is owed $11.75 million next season in the final year of a four-year, $41 million contract. While he's coming off a solid bounceback year, a trade could prove difficult, especially when you consider that he has a no-trade clause.
For what it's worth, when asked by B.J. Rains of FOX Sports Midwest about the possibility of adding another starting pitcher, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said, "I don't really think so."
- spudchukar - Dec 5, 2011 at 11:46 PM
This scenario doesn't surprise me. I was hoping it would be Westbrook to go, but maybe they can ship him out too and latch onto Berkman's buddy Oswalt. That would make quite the starting rotation. It does make some sense if Buehrle and Oswalt would sign for 3 and 2 years respectively. Then the Cards could ease in Miller and Martinez as the others age. A pipe dream sure, but hey crazier hopes have already been realized in 2011.
- paperlions - Dec 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM
Lohse is more tradeable, he had a good year last year. If he was a FA, a 1 yr deal for $11M would be seen as team friendly, since a pitcher in his situation would be looking for 3 years.
Westbrook was beyond horrible last year (though I forgave all of that when he pitched a scoreless 11th in game 6 of the WS) and has no trade value whatsoever.
I would also pass on Oswalt, old pitchers with bad backs are to be avoided….the odds of such a beast being healthy in the playoffs is near zero.
- stex52 - Dec 6, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Might not be a bad gamble, depending on the money. He is only 34 yet. His WHIP took a bad beating last year, but he was hurt a lot and the other stats were pretty good. He has bounced back from back and groin problems in the past. I would offer him #2-#3 money for one year with an option to come back. He will probably turn it down, but nothing lost.
The man likes to win. Hate to give up on guys like him when they might have a couple of years left in them.
- cup0pizza - Dec 6, 2011 at 2:48 AM
No thanks on Oswalt for the Cards. Dude sucks now and is 400 yeas old.
- cintiphil - Dec 6, 2011 at 10:37 AM
How much are the Cards going to get? they have the pitching they need to win now!
- mojosmagic - Dec 6, 2011 at 10:45 AM
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Boggs' manager charged with embezzlement
Juan Pablo Guarda, a former project manager with Boggs Paving, Inc., was arrested last week and charged with obtaining property by false pretenses, larceny by employees and conspiracy to commit a felony.
Guarda's wife, Elisa Marie Guarda, was also arrested and charged with obtaining property by false pretenses and conspiracy to commit a felony.
The arrests were made on Thursday, Nov. 29, following an incident report filed by Boggs Paving, Inc. on Monday, Nov. 19.
The report stated that $888,680.82 had been embezzled. The report also shows that general building materials valued at $1,745.87 were taken.
Guarda had worked for the company since 2005.
"Juan Guarda has been permanently terminated from his position as Project Manager at Boggs Paving and has been arrested," Chief Executive Officer Drew Boggs said in a statement. "These actions were based on substantial evidence that we discovered, revealing that Guarda has apparently been involved in a very large embezzlement scheme against the company."
The case is currently under investigation. The Monroe Police Department are working with the Union County District Attorney's office as the investigation moves forward.
"Boggs Paving has a system of financial checks and balances that allowed us to uncover this crime. We immediately brought the issue to the attention of authorities. Over the last few weeks, we have been working closely with the Monroe Police Department and the Union County District Attorney's office to conduct a thorough investigation, assemble the facts and build a strong case," Boggs said.
According to the investigation report, Boggs had identified several inconsistencies in the billing of materials on job sites. His chief financial officer compiled the transactions in question and presented them to the Monroe Police Department. A certified public accountant reviewed the claim and agreed there is enough evidence to support it.
"Even in the face of this significant financial crime committed against our company, we are still strong. The bad actions of one person cannot threaten the good work we do. As we move forward, we are reviewing how this crime happened and are taking appropriate steps to establish even stronger safeguards to ensure something like this never happens again," Boggs said in a released statement.


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Jennifer Rubin draws attention to the elephant in the room — that is, the GOP's unfortunate posturing toward immigration, of which John McCain has lately become the embodiment.
It should be of some consolation that before he could find someone to cast in the nativist role he sought, McCain had to do quite a bit of fruitless searching and, in the end, resort to "synthesizing" his ad from the scenery of a border town and the commentary of a sheriff from a different county. Indeed, the sheriff who enthusiastically confirms McCain's bona fides as "one of us" — whatever that means — hails from Pinal county, not even on the border, while the ad is shot in Nogales, a border town in the county of Santa Cruz, whose sheriff, Antonio Estrada, has blasted the Arizona immigration bill in no uncertain terms:
"Local law enforcement has a great relationship with the Hispanic community, and something like this is really going to scare these people," said [Sheriff] Estrada. "They're going to look at us as immigration officers every time they see us."
Clarence Dupnik, the sheriff of Pima — another county in Southern Arizona, which shares with Mexico the longest border in the state — has called the bill "disgusting," "racist," and "unnecessary."
The ad merely reveals McCain to be a politician, evidently less principled than his supporters took him for in 2008. His presidential ambitions now thwarted, in order to at least not lose his Senate seat, he has gone to great lengths — as far as to endorse the anti-immigration bill of Arizona after having supported the pro-immigration bill of President Bush. But no matter that a politician should flip-flop. Most troubling is the fact that McCain judged this ad expedient because it can find a sympathetic audience among the GOP base.
Incendiary as some of them might be, it is hard to dismiss the complaints against the Arizona immigration bill, for it …
makes it a state misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents required by federal law, and obligates police to make an attempt, when practicable during a "lawful stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official," to determine a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal alien. Police may arrest a person if there is probable cause that the person is an alien not in possession of required registration documents.
Therefore, the law relies for its execution on the discretion of law-enforcement agents, known to misfire even before the bill invested in them so much authority. Take, for example, the detention of a U.S. citizen of Hispanic descent in Phoenix a few months back:
Abdon was told he did not have enough paperwork on him when he pulled into a weigh station to have his commercial truck checked. He provided his commercial driver's license and a social security number but ended up handcuffed.
An agent called his wife and she had to leave work to drive home and grab other documents like his birth certificate. …
Both were born in the United States and say they are now both infuriated that keeping important documents safely at home is no longer an option.
Jackie says, "It doesn't feel like it's a good way of life, to live with fear, even though we are okay, we are legal … still have to carry documents around."
Disgraceful incidents such as this cannot but multiply now in Arizona. And it would be sad to see the fetish for birth certificates spread from the small lunatic band of "birthers," who refuse to believe that President Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen, into the broader base of the GOP, which seems to support the Arizona bill.
As a legal alien, I would shudder if such a bill as this came to pass in New York, where I live — though, on second thought, I'd have little to fear, since I am and look European. Indeed, does anyone think that racial profiling will not guide the application of this law? On what other grounds can one be reasonably suspected of being an illegal alien? It is easy for those Arizonans who can boast a porcelain complexion and a flawless accent to support the bill, for by virtue of such qualifications alone they will never be subjected to any inconvenience from it. Of course, it would be another thing entirely if the bill required that at a lawful stop, detention, or arrest anyone must be extensively probed for documentation. In that case, I'd love to hear the opinion of those who now support the bill and scoff indignantly at the charges of discrimination leveled against it.
Let's not kid ourselves. Independently, even, of this disastrous bill, the GOP's position on immigration needs serious rethinking. At its heart lies the nativist meme Jen mentioned, that of foreigners stealing American jobs — perhaps the only talking point many on the right share with the unionists on the left. Not only is it distasteful and wrongheaded, not only does it repulse immigrants, legal ones too, but it also undermines the right's reputation for economic literacy. True, an immigrant gainfully employed takes a job. But he or she also patronizes other businesses while living in the country, thus creating other jobs — for Americans. A bigger population means greater economic activity and more jobs. Indeed, blaming immigrants for putting Americans out of work is as sound as blaming the young, in a population reproducing above replacement rate, of stealing their elders' jobs. Ironically, the nativists who complain thus about immigrants are often the very same ones (think John Derbyshire, think Peter Brimelow) who, in so many words, lament the impending collapse of Western Civilization due to the white man's failure to breed as diligently as they think he should.
Republicans had better not concede their position on immigration to the few Buchananite elements in their midst.


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baby back pork ribs
salt and black pepper to taste
cayenne pepper to taste
garlic powder to taste
This recipe is definitely a keeper. I made it for the first time last night and everyone loved it - two racks of ribs are GONE. Grilling them in the foil packets covered with sauce made for ribs so tender the meat was falling off the bones. The BBQ sauce and applesauce combination gave just the right sweet/spicy taste. These are definitely going to become a staple in my menu planning.
ETA: The last time I made these ribs I used a disposable foil pan rather than wrapping them in sheets of foil. Believe me, it didn't affect the taste at all, but was much, much easier to handle on the grill. I just prepared the ribs as directed using the foil pan, which I then covered with foil. Made cleanup a breeze.
Giving this a mediocre review, but the issue could have been me or the recipe. Cooking over "high" heat to me is too vague. My grill goes to 1200 if I let it...is that high? I kept it at 400 and the bottom of the foil was rock hard burned and stuck to the ribs. Do you keep the cover down? That affects the temp so would have been good to know. That being said, the sauce was good, though I would do 3:1 Q sauce to apple. I think this works better if you marinate overnight then either smoke or cook on indirect grill heat.
52 Ratings
First I wanna say that this was the first time I ever cooked ribs. I know how to cook dogs and hamburger on the grill but never ribs. I followed the instructions and by far the best ribs I ever tasted. My wife said that I set the bar for her taste buds. My brother and mother told me that I might have them beat (they are experienced grillers). I used spared ribs instead of baby back which I will try next time. Watching my friends and family licking the bone clean was well worth the time and effort. Thanks for the recipe:)
This was absolutely delicious!! I did a couple things differently but otherwise the recipe was very close to the original. I added liquid smoke and I cooked them in the oven for 3.5 hours at 300 degrees. This was from the frig to the oven. Very very tender, and was a big hit with all. I have a smoker and smoke my ribs very often, while these are not at that quality, with the added liquid smoke, it comes close.
The ribs turned out great. after cooking them on the grill for 1 hour it looked like the ribs where done, i made the exactly to the tee and the only sucestion is that instead after removing the ribs from the foil do not let them sit on the grill fr 30 mins. way too long; next time i will cut the time to 5 mins per side. the sauce in this turned out great and just be careful when you ad the pepper because it ads a kick.
This was wonderful! I just happen to keep applesauce on hand; the ribs were moist and delightful, and my mother-in-law loved it.
I marinaded over night and ended up baking in the oven. I baked them for 3 hours total = 1 1/2 hours at 250* and then turned heat up to 300* and baked another 1 1/2 hours. I baked them in a foil pouch in a pan. The last 10 minutes I added extra bbq sauce and then broiled for 5-10 minutes to crisp them up. They were fall off the bone delish!!! Even my boyfriend who 'doesn't like meat on bones' loved this!
Mt family really liked these. As some other reviewers did, I baked them for 2 hours at 350 and then just finished them off on the barbecuse because I was afraid they would burn if I followed the grilling directions. I also found the half the sauce was more than enough for the full amount of ribs. Thanks!
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Calories: 609
Calories from Fat: 268
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Sphere theorem
In Riemannian geometry, the sphere theorem, also known as the quarter-pinched sphere theorem, strongly restricts the topology of manifolds admitting metrics with a particular curvature bound. The precise statement of the theorem is as follows. If M is a complete, simply-connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature taking values in the interval then M is homeomorphic to the n-sphere. (To be precise, we mean the sectional curvature of every tangent 2-plane at each point must lie in .) Another way of stating the result is that if M is not homeomorphic to the sphere, then it is impossible to put a metric on M with quarter-pinched curvature.
Note that the conclusion is false if the sectional curvatures are allowed to take values in the closed interval . The standard counterexample is complex projective space with the Fubini–Study metric; sectional curvatures of this metric take on values between 1 and 4, with endpoints included. Other counterexamples may be found among the rank one symmetric spaces.
Differentiable sphere theorem[edit]
The original proof of the sphere theorem did not conclude that M was necessarily diffeomorphic to the n-sphere. This complication is because spheres in higher dimensions admit smooth structures that are not diffeomorphic. (For more information, see the article on exotic spheres.) However, in 2007 Simon Brendle and Richard Schoen utilized Ricci flow to prove that with the above hypotheses, M is necessarily diffeomorphic to the n-sphere with its standard smooth structure. Moreover, the proof of Brendle and Schoen only uses the weaker assumption of pointwise rather than global pinching. This result is known as the Differentiable Sphere Theorem.
History of the sphere theorem[edit]
Hopf conjectured that a simply connected manifold with pinched sectional curvature is a sphere. In 1951, Harry Rauch showed that a simply connected manifold with curvature in [3/4,1] is homeomorphic to a sphere. In 1960, Marcel Berger and Wilhelm Klingenberg proved the topological version of the sphere theorem with the optimal pinching constant.
- Brendle, Simon (2010). Ricci Flow and the Sphere Theorem. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-4938-7..
- Brendle, Simon; Schoen, Richard (2009), "Manifolds with 1/4-pinched curvature are space forms" (PDF), Journal of the American Mathematical Society 22: 287–307, doi:10.1090/s0894-0347-08-00613-9, MR 2449060.
- Brendle, Simon; Schoen, Richard (2011), "Curvature, Sphere Theorems, and the Ricci Flow" (PDF), Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 48: 1–32, doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-2010-01312-4.


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"We were very surprised and disappointed by the statements made by Lady Gaga's organization related to her partnership with Target," Target said in a statement last week.
"Target remains committed to the LGBT community as demonstrated by our contributions to various LGBT organizations, our recently established Policy Committee to review our political giving and our respectful, inclusive workplace environment."
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