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*Beanie Sigel is still in critical condition Monday following a shooting last week, according to reports. Though he was not the intended target, Sigel, 40, whose real name is Dwight Grant, was shot outside a New Jersey home on Friday after he had just returned from dropping his kids off at school, authorities say. "Apparently, … Continue reading Beanie Sigel Remains in Critical Condition after Shooting
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By Bill Coats
Of the Post-Dispatch
Sunday, Nov. 28 2004
The capricious nature of life in the NFL is hitting home for the Rams' Arlen
Harris. A year ago as a rookie, he was a key contributor in a 34-24 victory
over the Packers, rushing for 85 yards and his first pro touchdown.
But unless catastrophe suddenly strikes the backfield, Harris' only chance to
touch the ball Monday night in Green Bay will be lugging back kickoffs. That's
his primary duty - he's averaged 20.6 yards on 33 returns - now that he's the
Rams' third-team running back.
"That's the way the NFL is," said Harris, 5 feet 10 and 212 pounds. "But at the
same time, you've still got to be prepared. Like last year, I wouldn't have
thought I'd have that much playing time, with Marshall Faulk and Lamar
(Gordon). But things happened."
When the Packers arrived at the Edward Jones Dome on Oct. 19, 2003, Faulk was
out with hand and knee injuries. Gordon went down early in the first quarter
with a sprained ankle, and Harris was the next option.
He started the following two games before Faulk returned.
For an undrafted rookie who sat out his senior season at Hofstra and came to
camp as a long shot to make the roster, Harris had came a long way in a short
He called the Green Bay game "the start of it all. It gave me a lot of
confidence. I got a chance to run the ball a whole lot, with Marshall and Lamar
down. I'll always remember that game."
Harris got only two carries over the last half of the schedule. And when the
Rams took Oregon State running back Steven Jackson in the first-round (No. 24
overall) of the draft last April, Harris knew that he was headed back for the
bottom of the depth chart. He's yet to line up in the backfield this year.
"It's just common sense," he said. "(Jackson) was the first back taken, and
that's just the way the chips fell. You want more of it, but it's not hard to
accept at all. ... So I just have to be ready and do my best on special teams."
All the while biding his time until his next chance comes.
"Everybody has to have that mentality; no one's excluded from getting their
spot taken or getting hurt," he said. "A lot of people have to wait five, six
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This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in the German service sector, we find some evidence that high-productivity employers support minimum wages. We further show that minimum wage support is higher in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying collectively agreed wages are more strongly in favour of minimum wages if union coverage is low and the mark-up of union wage rates is high.
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- Antonczyk, Dirk & Fitzenberger, Bernd & Sommerfeld, Katrin, 2010. "Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap," IZA Discussion Papers 4911, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Shingo Ishiguro & Laixun Zhao, 2009. "Raising Wages To Deter Entry Into Unionized Markets," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 60(4), pages 435-445.
- Gernot Nerb, 2006. "Mögliche Auswirkungen der geplanten EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie auf die Wirtschaft Deutschlands," Ifo Schnelldienst, Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 59(05), pages 19-24, 03.
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How freaking nice that Apple is generating boatloads of cash. The company is getting rich but the shareholders are getting shafted. I'd like to take every independent analyst and put them out on a boat somewhere in the middle of the the Pacific ocean. Hey, Apple indies, don't quit your day jobs that you probably don't even have. This is an absolutely earnings fiasco for Apple shareholders thanks to all those fictitious numbers you guys pulled out of your behinds.
I don't want to hear another word about Apple stores being packed for the rest of this year. Apple does not have the makings of a trillion dollar company. It can barely be a half-trillion dollar company from what I see. The company lost everything for shareholders. Goodbye, high target prices. Goodbye, $600. Goodbye, Apple.
Funny, yet true comment from MoneyGone; so painful for i-investors...
Hopefully, iMiss is not made in china
It doesn't matter what people say apple should make or the fact that it didn't make what they wanted it to make. Apple projected lower than the numbers given, maybe people should listen more. Worse than that is the simple fact that people ie investors are the ones driving the stock down, stop listening to all the idiots and do your own research and things will play out better for all involved.
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Carlos Morales
- Time with NOVICA: 16 years 1 month
"What I paint is unique and original. A lot of hard work goes into each of my paintings and I do them with a lot of love."
Morales defines his work as something unique to him. He is inspired by a desire to represent the immortal essence of life. He intends to transmit the experience of being human and the concomitant psychological tendencies. Morales admits his biggest challenges have been first as a father, second moving to Lima from the Andean highlands and thirdly, to be able to exhibit his work abroad, especially in the United States.
Morales prefers to paint with acrylics or oils, pencils, brushes or palette knife. To Novica clients he wishes to say "What I paint is unique and original. A lot of hard work goes into each of my paintings and I do them with a lot of love."
Morales has exhibited his work collectively and individually since 1979 in Peru as well as in Bolivia and the United States including Texas, Washington and New York. Among the awards bestowed upon Morales, the following are particularly significant to the artist:
1985 Honorable Mention in the Peruvian National Watercolor Contest sponsored by INDELCA
1988 1st Place in the I Expo of Oeschle Art, Lima
1988 1st Place in the XVIII National Watercolor Contest sponsored by the North American Peruvian Cultural Institute (prize included the opportunity to exhibit in San Antonio, Texas).
In addition, Morales is an accomplished weaver.
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Carlos is a master at capturing the human spirit in his artwork. My framer tells me he uses ""very"" high quality paper which will insure many years of enjoyment. His ""old man on the street"" now graces my family room. Thank you Carlos for sharing your talents with us.
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I acquired the young girl 2008 portrait not long ago. The original is even more beautiful on my wall than I thought it was in the online picture. The detail is so exquisite, I feel I can reach out and touch her windblown hair. Spectacular water color!


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Looks like a head crab found its way into my home. With Pinkie's fast reflects, she grabs our wall sword, and prepares to do battle with our little un-invited guest!
Kill that headhumper Pinkie!
I can never be safe from head crabs
Get em pinkie !!!
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Everything I love...
So cute BTW. Pinkie gon win fo sho.
So cute BTW. Pinkie gon win fo sho.
My bet on Pinkie Pie!
who is winning?
She should be using a crowbar... more effective against head crabs... one of these days, I'll get a plushie like that... >_<
crowbars do work pretty good c:
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Appearing on Mutt & Merloni on Wednesday afternoon, ESPN baseball analysts Buster Olney discussed strategies the Red Sox can implement for the injured Dustin Pedroia. He said the Red Sox have the leisure to let Pedroia rest until he is completely healthy, and manager Bobby Valentine's big-picture style emphasizes letting Pedroia heal.
Pedroia's torn adductor muscle in his thumb is expected to keep him out 3-4 weeks if he cannot hit with a device protecting the thumb.
"I've got to believe that the fact that the Red Sox have now pulled themselves back in at 3 1/2 games [means] there's no sense of urgency, the whole division is banged up, there are issues with every single team and this thing is going to play out down the stretch," Olney said. "They're going to want to do everything they can to get Dustin Pedroia completely healthy. He's always going to be the guy who wants to go out there and play and feel like he can play."
Added Olney: "However they do it, however they plug in the hole, whichever way they go, especially with how they're playing that they can feel like, 'Let's ride it out and give ourselves the best chance.' "
Olney said the idea to rest Pedroia will come from Valentine, a manager who has opted to keep players healthy for future success.
"[The Red Sox will] eventually take a look at it in a big-picture form," Olney said. "I remember when I covered Bobby in 1997 and he tended to be someone who would err on that side of it. When he would say, 'You know, I want to give the player the best chance to stay healthy and be productive over the course of the long haul. And if it means giving guys rest then I'm going to do that.' And that's what I would expect that they would do, regardless of whether they can do that with a DL stint or just giving [Pedroia] time off within that time frame."
Pedroia's injury also concerns infielder Kevin Youkilis, whom the Red Sox are said to be shopping for a trade. Pedroia's injury should lead to more playing time for Youkilis, something Olney said teams considering a trade need to see.
"This is not going to be a short-term thing," Olney said. "Teams are going to want to see him over the course of a long period of time. And 24 at-bats, which is what he's had so far, isn't enough to give them that type of information, especially given the amount of money involved with Youkilis' contract."
Appearing on Dennis & Callahan on Wednesday morning, NESN Red Sox analyst Jerry Remy discussed the various position battles going on in Boston, including the inevitable fight between Carl Crawford and Daniel Nava for left field. To hear the interview, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page.
Nava has filled in for Crawford in left by batting .276 with 15 RBIs in 19 games, while last season Crawford batted .255 for 56 RBIs. Remy said the starting job belongs to Crawford and he will get it once he returns from the disabled list.
"If Carl Crawford were healthy, Carl Crawford would be playing. To be honest with you, I was very anxious to see Crawford play this year. I expected to see the same guy we saw in Tampa Bay. I think last year was a total adjustment for him that brought him in a little bit uncomfortable. It's the first time he's been in a big market like Boston, it's the first time he's not a big star on a team, and a lot of things had an effect on him last year. [He had] time off in the offseason where he had a chance to think about it, and you know he was getting himself prepared for this year. We're going to see the Carl Crawford that we had seen in Tampa Bay.
"If he was ready to play today, Crawford would be in there. It's just that simple. I mean, he's their left fielder, he's the guy they paid big money to get and he would get every opportunity to get that job and it would be his job and Nava would be back to being a part-time player."
In preparation for Crawford's eventual return, the team is fixing Crawford with a new throwing motion that will help his elbow. Remy said this isn't something to be alarmed by, as the Red Sox are testing his arm and reconditioning it.
"For example, if he was a pitcher and he was out for a long time, what do they do? They work on the mechanic," Remy said. "That's basically what it is."
|Red Sox pregame notes: Bobby Valentine prepares for life without Dustin Pedroia
|05.29.12 at 6:27 pm ET
Through the first 48 games of Bobby Valentine's managerial tenure with the Red Sox, there had been a constant. Dustin Pedroia had been a lineup certainty at second base.
That ended Tuesday, when Valentine made up a lineup card without Pedroia's name in it. Instead, Nick Punto will play second and bat ninth. The fact that Pedroia will be sidelined is a decision of necessity rather than choice, after the three-time All-Star underwent an MRI for his injured right thumb.
Pedroia, Valentine said, has been dealing with some discomfort in his thumb for a matter of weeks. But in his third and final at-bat on Monday, when he popped out, the handle of the bat jammed into Pedroia's thumb. The pain became more acute, and after Pedroia made a diving play to end the top of the fifth inning, he came into the dugout and made clear that he could no longer stay in the game.
'I've gone through a lot of different situations here in the last couple of months. This will be different, not having him in the lineup," said Valentine. "When he sat down next to me on the bench, I knew he wasn't going to go back out on the field. He wanted to. It was serious enough for him not to go back. It's serious enough, obviously, for him not to be in the lineup tonight — and maybe more than tonight. I'm not sure."
The Red Sox have neither a confirmed diagnosis nor prognosis. For the time being, the team is saying only that Pedroia won't play tonight and that the team won't be making a roster move for today's game.
"He got jammed about three weeks ago. He started wearing the little protection, and I know he took some batting practice using a little bit of a different grip. There wasn't anything on the medical reports or anything for the last couple of weeks," said Valentine. "Probably the situation is that it's weak enough or bruised enough that if something reoccurs, if the same situation reoccurs, maybe then it could get very serious.
"I'm optimistic that ligaments and tendons aren't involved, but I don't know," added Valentine. "I don't know how to classify it. We don't have a diagnosis. I don't know how I'm talking around the non-diagnosis, so don't take any of this as verbatim." Read the rest of this entry »
|Pregame Notes: Bobby Valentine on Mark Melancon, Junichi Tazawa and Andrew Miller
|04.18.12 at 6:55 pm ET
Mark Melancon needed to go down to the minors to rediscover the form that inspired the Red Sox to trade for him in the first place. That much was apparent to all parties.
There was no injury ("We asked; he said absolutely not," said Sox manager Bobby Valentine) to explain the pitcher's catastrophic start to his Red Sox career, in which he has achieved both team and major league history with the depths of his struggles. Even Melancon seemed to recognize that his best chance of returning to the form that led him to forge a 2.78 ERA in 74 1/3 innings last year with the Astros was in Triple-A.
Melancon did not have a single 1-2-3 appearance in nine exhibition games during spring training, and quite clearly, after that slow start, he was unable to flip the switch once the regular season got underway. His 49.50 regular season ERA in four appearances, culminating in Tuesday's yield of six runs on three homers without retiring a batter, made it clear that he needed to work to restore his command in the minors.
"He was anxious to get an opportunity to work more regularly so that he could get back to where he belongs," said Valentine. "Mark just has to be the pitcher that he is. He struggled with his command. He's a great command pitcher and thus far, he hasn't had it. Don't feel that he'd have the opportunity really here to work through it."
And so, the Sox made the decision to option Melancon. In his place, the team decided to bring up Junichi Tazawa — who has minor league options remaining — rather than left-hander Andrew Miller, who is five appearances into a rehab assignment as he works his way back from a hamstring strain suffered in the middle of spring training. Miller does not have minor league options, and so once called up, the Sox have to keep him in the majors or risk exposing him to waivers. Right now, the team felt that he needs at least one more appearance during his rehab assignment.
"There was consideration [to calling up Miller]," said Valentine. "It was determined he just would benefit most from getting at least one other good performance in Triple-A. He's coming off of a good one [in which he struck out the side on 15 pitches on Monday]. He's going to pitch again [Thursday].'
With Miller not quite ready to come up, the Sox elected to have Tazawa join the bullpen. The right-hander has pitched in four games in Pawtucket this year, tossing seven shutout innings while striking out nine and walking two. Read the rest of this entry »
|Source: Red Sox actively exploring outfield market, but pickings slim for now
|04.15.12 at 1:36 pm ET
The Red Sox are still trying to determine with greater precision the severity of the subluxation suffered by Jacoby Ellsbury on Friday. Manager Bobby Valentine said that the injury would be treated with ice to reduce the swelling for 48 hours; once the swelling subsides, the outfielder will be re-evaluated to get a more precise determination of the possible course of recovery.
Even so, the team is planning on spending a not insignificant chunk of time without the runner-up in last year's AL MVP balloting, and so it should come as little surprise that one major league source said that the Red Sox are "actively" exploring the market for available outfielders to determine whether the team will be able to shore up an area where there is limited organizational depth.
However, because it is so early in the season, the idea of identifying a legitimate starting center fielder remains far fetched. Teams aren't exactly rushing to make All-Star-caliber outfielders available at this time of year.
Two American League talent evaluators wondered whether there eventually could be a potential match between the Red Sox and A's regarding Coco Crisp, given that Crisp — who was re-signed by the A's to a two-year, $14 million deal this offseason — was pushed from center field, where his value is greatest, to left field by Oakland's signing of Yoenis Cespedes and based on the fact that the A's like several prospects in Boston's system (a notion reinforced not only by the trade of Andrew Bailey to the Red Sox, but also by the fact that the two teams came close on a deal that would have brought left-handed starter Gio Gonzalez to Boston).
Crisp has been one of the better defensive center fielder's in the game since his emergence as an elite glove in center with the Sox in 2007. Though off to a slow start offensively this year (.176/.222/.176/.399 in 36 plate appearances), his offense is more than adequate for a center fielder. He's a career .274/.329/.404/.732 hitter, and last year, playing in a home park and division that tends to kill offensive numbers, he hit .264/.314/.379/.693 along with an AL-leading 49 steals.
However, it's probably premature for there to be traction between the Sox and A's (or, for that matter, the Sox and virtually any other club) on a trade as both teams must figure out more about where they stand for the season. In particular, if the Sox are going to be without Ellsbury for six to eight weeks, they may prefer to explore internal options (or identify role players in a trade) rather than giving up a significant prospect (perhaps one of the impressive lower level outfielders who now comprise a strength of the system — with Bryce Brentz, Brandon Jacobs and Jackie Bradley Jr. all representing players who have impressed other clubs) for an outfielder who would be little more than a place-holder until Ellsbury's return. Read the rest of this entry »
|Friday morning with Bobby Valentine: Excitement for opener, bated breath for Beckett
|04.13.12 at 12:56 pm ET
"Any nerves?"
Bobby Valentine, at Fenway Park for his first regular season game as Red Sox manager, was asked that question as he was nearing the end of his pregame session with the media. In response, he held out his flat hand in front of the mic, before breaking into a grin.
"There's nerves. There's anticipation," he said. "It's a beautiful day. Let's go do it."
Yet while enthusiastic about what he described as a "special day," Valentine also acknowledged some anxiety, foremost for the health of starting pitcher Josh Beckett. Valentine said that the right-hander's right thumb has been a non-issue in the training room, but even so, he conceded that the Sox are carrying a whopping 13 pitchers on their roster as a direct reflection of the fact that he wants to make sure that Beckett — who saw two specialists about his thumb last week — can get through his second start of the year with a clean bill of healthy.
"After today's game, [the 13-man pitching staff] could be more of a resolvable situation, but I'm still holding my breath making sure Josh is fine," said Valentine. "I was happy one time through the rotation, I was happy with the health and the ability of the starting staff. The extra pitcher was really protection against that situation."
That said, asked whether that meant that the thumb is an active cause of concern, Valentine tried to downplay the notion that the pitcher's health is in concern.
"It's a moot point, but it's a situation that was out there, right? He has not even blinked an eye in the training room or in the clubhouse about the thumb being anything other than a historical fact," said Valentine. "He looked good this morning. He had a bounce in his step. He was ready to go. I'm looking forward to a quality pitcher pitching a quality game."
Beckett was shelled for seven runs and five homers in 4 2/3 innings in his first start of the season. His velocity was also down that game. However, Beckett dismissed the idea that the thumb was responsible for his poor outing, and GM Ben Cherington said on the Dennis & Callahan Show that Beckett is continuing to build arm strength, suggesting that his diminished stuff in the start against the Tigers was not cause for concern.
— Andrew Miller is reaching the latter stages of his rehab assignment in his return from a hamstring injury suffered midway through spring training. The left-hander logged 1 2/3 shutout innings on Thursday for Triple-A Pawtucket, recording two strikeouts and three groundball outs while allowing no hits and two walks (a runner also reached on an error). Read the rest of this entry »
|Crisis averted? Bobby Valentine 'totally' expects Josh Beckett to be ready for start of season
|04.02.12 at 12:48 pm ET
Shortly after Alfredo Aceves told reporters in Fort Myers that he was on call in case the Red Sox needed to fill in for Josh Beckett's first two starts of the season, manager Bobby Valentine suggested that, while the team has made some contingency plans for a "situation" with Beckett's right thumb, he does not anticipate having to seek an alternative starter for the team's second game of the year.
Asked if he expected Beckett to make his scheduled start on Saturday against the Tigers, Valentine responded, "Totally."
Valentine told reporters that Beckett had an impressive 100-pitch bullpen session on Sunday, and that he felt good and commanded well. The manager suggested that Beckett will have the thumb — an issue that has been mildly bothersome since late-March — examined in San Antonio "just for peace of mind."
"Just been a little situation. I think I might've mentioned it 10 days ago that there's a situation that we've been dealing with," Valentine told reporters. "I feel really right now '' as in all cases you have to be prepared and I think we are. I think we're covered with whatever happens. The good news is in his 100 pitches yesterday, he felt terrific."
The thumb injury notwithstanding, Beckett had a very strong spring, with a 0.95 ERA in five Grapefruit League starts and a .117 batting average against, along with 10 strikeouts and eight walks, in 19 innings.
— Valentine said that closer Andrew Bailey's thumb is being examined on Monday and perhaps Tuesday. Until the Sox have the results of his exam, they won't be ready to finalize their roster, particularly their pitching staff. Read the rest of this entry »
|Tom Werner on D&C: Rumors of Bobby Valentine front office feud 'overblown'
|03.27.12 at 10:24 am ET
Red Sox chairman Tom Werner joined the Dennis & Callahan show Tuesday morning to promote the third annual Run-Walk to Home Base and to discuss the state of the organization with just a few weeks remaining before the start of the season.
Werner spoke at length about new manager Bobby Valentine, who has become the face of the organization throughout spring training. Valentine has already made a name for himself in Boston as a strong manager by banning beer in the clubhouse, mandating that players take the team bus to away spring training games, and generating rumors of a rift between himself and general Ben Cherington over roster decisions. Valentine dismissed those reports as "lazy journalism," and Werner also denied the existence of any real issue between Cherington and Valentine.
"I think it was overblown," Werner said. "It's appropriate for these guys to debate who should make this squad and who should be the starting shortstop. That's healthy."
Werner also detailed some of the reasons as to why he thought Valentine was the best choice to replace former Red Sox manager Terry Francona, who stepped down in the wake of the team's historic September collapse. Werner said he was impressed by Valentine after sharing a private dinner with him sometime during the managerial search, and he noted that Valentine's intelligence played a role in his hiring.
"He had the analysis of what he would do if he came in that related to everything from how he might be able to help Carl Crawford's hitting style or how he might be able to help a certain pitcher," Werner said. "I don't think there's any doubt that of all the people that we met, Bobby was the most intelligent. I was really impressed with him."
Werner also spoke reluctantly about the team's plans for commemorating Fenway Park's 100th anniversary on April 20, when the Red Sox will face the Yankees in an afternoon matinee just as they did 100 years ago. Although Werner was very tight-lipped about the team's plans, he did mention that the players will wear throwback uniforms and gave Red Sox Nation a hint as to who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
"Mayor [John] Fitzgerald threw [the inaugural first pitch] out [100 years ago] and sitting next to him was his daughter, Rose Kennedy," Werner said. "Wait and see, you guys can come to the park. We'll have a great time."
|Tim Kurkjian on The Big Show: 'There's going to be some issues' with Bobby Valentine, Ben Cherington
|at 5:25 am ET
ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian joined The Big Show Monday to discuss a series of issues and topics currently surrounding the Red Sox, including the team's pitching staff, the potential for a bounce-back season for Carl Crawford and whether the team will be able to make it back to the playoffs for the first time since 2009.
However, nothing surrounding the Red Sox was a bigger story than a report stating that manager Bobby Valentine and general manager Ben Cherington, both in their first year with the club, are at odds with each other.
It was a claim that Valentine dismissed today, noting the report as nothing more than "lazy journalism," but Kurkjian said that there is certainly the potential for prolonged tension between the two.
"We have to understand that there's going to be some issues here where there's a manager in his 60s who has done the things that he has done, not just in this country but in Japan, and you pair him with a first-time general manager who's trying to feel his way," Kurkjian said. "There's going to be some issues along the way, whether it's who's our shortstop and is this guy going to pitch the eighth inning or is he our fourth starter? Those are big questions that have to be answered.
"Sometimes, the manager wins those battles. Sometimes, the GM wins. In the end, Bobby is going to insist on doing what is right and in his heart, he thinks he's going to be right 99 percent of the time and I can tell you, hopelessly biased, he's right an awful lot."
Along with the new personnel, another major question that will face the Red Sox this season will be whether Crawford can rebound from a disappointing 2011 season in which the high-priced free agent acquisition batted a career-worst .255. Kurkjian said that there may be some major internal problems plaguing Crawford, but that Valentine should be able to find a way to fix what went wrong last season.
"I checked very closely last year with the Rays when Crawford was struggling thinking nobody knows him better than the Rays, and I was assured that he will be fine as long as he has two things going for him ' comfort and trust," Kurkjian said. "He has to be comfortable in where he is and he has to trust the people who are making the decisions around him.
"I don't know if he didn't trust or wasn't comfortable or whatever, but that was a really down season for him and I worry that they're going to find that level of trust and comfort that's going to make him play like he did with the Rays."
Kurkjian said that, for now, he has the Red Sox making the playoffs as a wild card and that a big reason for that decision will be the positive effect that Valentine will have on the team.
"I think a smarter, wiser, older Bobby Valentine from, say, the Ranger days in '85 is going to take a look and say, 'Look, I'm going to do my part, but in the end, we're going to win with those guys," Valentine said. "If Carl Crawford is more comfortable hitting second and he's going to be a better player hitting second, then I'm going to hit him second.' That's how smart Bobby is ' 'What button do I have to push to get this guy to play?' He always finds the right buttons."
|Video: Injury Report on Carl Crawford
|03.23.12 at 3:13 pm ET
In the latest edition of the Injury Report, Rob Bradford was joined by Dr. Evan Schumer MD, who practices hand and orthopedic surgery at Newton Wellesley Orthopedic Associates, to talk about Carl Crawford's wrist injury. For more on Carl Crawford's injury and his 2012 expectations, check out Bradford's recent column: Carl Crawford's new look on life (and the Red Sox).
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I live at Michigan and I want to pursue some major industrial design programs. Any recommendations for colleges with good industrial design programs? I have searched for some industrial design programs but I was not able to differentiate that which are best and which are not. Please suggest thanks in advance.
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We are always a bit confused while choosing the most appropriate institution for further study. When it comes to Industrial Design, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, is definitely the best option. It was founded in 1930 and has been top ranked school for industrial design in many surveys conducted by different media houses. Industrial Design program of this college includes research, design projects and theories i.e. ergonomics, marketability and function. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, RI is the second best option that you can choose. Established in 1877, this college in known as home to a Museum of Art. This top class college provides undergraduate and graduate degrees in Industrial Design. Here you will be taught to identify and solve design issues, like usability and ergonomics. Moreover, I can suggest Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, as the third best option for this course. You can have sound knowledge of electronics, environmental design, prototyping, human factors and transportation design while studying here. Apart from these, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA and Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA are few other good options from where you can do this course.


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Definición de acclaim en inglés:
verbo[with object]
- Then they would be publicly acclaimed as role models for the loyal opposition.
- They are some of the most committed people i know and should be publicly acclaimed.
- This as their visiting fans acclaimed their team with a volley of applause that would have done justice to a rookery of seals.
sustantivo[mass noun] Volver al principio
- Barbarian Invasions has won plaudits and critical acclaim in Canada and elsewhere.
- Since then he has won much acclaim and has had many public commissions, often on a large scale.
- He has achieved it without sponsorship, riches or public acclaim.
Early 17th century (in the sense 'express approval'): from Latin acclamare, from ad- 'to' + clamare 'to shout'. The change in the ending was due to association with claim. Current senses date from the 17th century.
claim from [Middle English]:
Latin clamare 'to call out' is the base of English claim. It also gives us acclaim (early 17th century) from ad- 'to' and clamare 'to shout', and reclaim (Middle English). This was first used as a falconry term in the sense 'recall'. The sense 'make land suitable for cultivation' is recorded from the mid 18th century. Clamour (Late Middle English) comes from the same source.
Palabras que riman con acclaimaflame, aim, became, blame, came, claim, dame, exclaim, fame, flame, frame, game, lame, maim, misname, name, proclaim, same, shame, tame
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Source: Wandering
Contributed by: Zaady
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
If you hate someone, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Perhaps you seek too much...as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding mean: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Copyright © 2016 Gaiam, Inc.


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From our Home to yours...wishing you a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving! - The Wall Team Just curious....what is your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
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With this year being The Wall Team's 15 year anniversary in business they decided to make it a little special by taking the annual client appreciation party to the Crosstimbers Winery in Grapevine! It was a very beautiful fall evening to gather with some of their most special clients and friends. A delicious barbeque dinner was served while being entertained by a great country and western duo.
Of course, the traditional Christmas gift card drive for single moms was kicked off at this event. Over $1,000 in gift cards were donated by the guests. They will be given to the single parent ministry at Gateway Church to distribute this Christmas season. Great door prizes were donated by Texas Secure Title Company. The lucky winners took home spa certificates, movie night passes and the grand prize was an iPad Mini! Oh and the Walls donated a weekend stay at their Hot Springs Village lake retreat.
The Walls look forward to this event every year. They love to see many of their repeat clients and meet some of the new ones they haven't met yet who have worked with their team members. It's a great way to express their gratitude and invite their clientele to participate in a charitable cause too.
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Today was an exciting day at The Wall Team office. Larry and Laurie surprised the team by announcing they had already reached the 2014 goal by August! Along with this news the Walls presented the team with an award trip to Cancun along with their spouses at the brand new Secrets Playa Mujures Golf and Spa Resort.
The team award trip has become a very important tradition that not only serves as a great motivator throughout the year, but also adds to the culture of the team. For Kevin Holmes, the Wall Team's longest standing team member of 10 years, this will be his fifth trip. The memories of fun times spent together build a special bond that strengthens this team and breeds unity.
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Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu last week gave a very informative interview to Andrew Finkel of the Taraf daily. The media has focused on Kılıçdaroğlu's comments about the theoretical profile of the CHP's future candidate for the 2014 presidential elections.
The person Kılıçdaroğlu described is an independent and popular personality, capable of challenging Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This electoral strategy has naturally monopolized the columns, and no attention has been paid to Kılıçdaroğlu's answers to Finkel's questions regarding the CHP's approach to the economy.
Now, these answers deserve careful analysis, since the performance of the CHP in the next elections will depend heavily on the credibility of its economic policy.
Let me state at the outset, it is my sincere opinion that Kılıçdaroğlu's comments about the economic performance of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) reveal the CHP's lack of understanding as to how the ruling party managed to increase its voter support from 34 to 46 percent in 2007, and further to 50 percent in 2011. As long as the CHP is unable to comprehend the reasons for this increase in popular support, it will be unable to formulate a consistent economic policy. Without such a policy, it cannot convince floating voters of its capacity to secure Turkey's stability and growth. Without the support of these floating voters -- indeed, free-minded voters who place importance on economic stability -- the CHP may see only a limited increase in votes as a consequence of setbacks faced by the AK Party due to domestic and international issues. It cannot hope to challenge the AK Party's incumbency.
In the interview, Finkel pointed out the 8 to 9 percent economic growth over the past two years, and asked how Kılıçdaroğlu saw fit to challenge the economic policy of the ruling party. Kılıçdaroğlu responded that the average growth rate for Turkey between 1923 and 2002 was 5.5 percent, as compared with 5.7 percent during the AK Party's leadership. This, he said, is not an impressive performance. However, Kılıçdaroğlu is mistaken here. Firstly, you cannot compare these two time periods, for the simple reason that the rate of growth declines in the long run due to capital stock deepening. This is the rule of thumb in growth theory. Secondly, the average population increase was much higher between 1923 and 2002 than in the last decade, and consequently 5.7 percent growth yielded higher per capita income than the older 5.5 percent growth. This factor has a major impact on poverty, as I will discuss below.
If Kılıçdaroğlu's argument was that Turkey's 8 to 9 percent growth is unsustainable as it has been based on domestic demand and fueled by external borrowing, reaching now a period of decline, this would have been fair criticism. But, rather, he argued that there are millions of people unemployed in this country, and meanwhile Turkey imports agricultural products. I do not want to spend a long time proving that these are totally irrelevant matters in judging the health of the economy. Let me simply say that Germany also imports a high quantity of agricultural goods, and that the unemployment rate in Turkey is currently lower than it was in 2002.
Finkel was unsatisfied with this answer, asking, "According to you, how has the AK Party succeeded in increasing its electoral support from 34 percent to 49 percent?" The CHP leader began to state that there is no internal democracy in the AK Party, while it flourishes in the CHP. "But," Finkel insisted, "how have they increased their votes?" Kılıçdaroğlu's answer is so absurd that it would not be out of place in an Ionesco play. This fact, he said, is yet to be sociologically analyzed, and further, the AK Party promised a new prison in Diyarbakır and did not see a decline in voter support -- this is not possible in a democracy!
To my mind there is no mystery in the AK Party's success. Rapid economic growth, with some interruption during the most recent economic crisis, helped to decrease poverty and lessen financial inequality by increasing wage employment and per capita income. An implicit proof of this assertion is that the AK Party lost 8 percentage points, going from 46 percent to 38 percent, in the March 2009 local elections, a time when unemployment was at its peak and gross domestic product at its lowest.
To convince the public that they are capable of implementing a successful economic policy, the CHP must first recognize the realities of the current situation. As I have always argued in this column, given the limitations of domestic demand-led growth, the Turkish economy risks becoming trapped in low growth if the government fails to implement productivity and cost-reducing reforms.
The CHP should think seriously about these issues. The only policy suggestions emerging from the Kılıçdaroğlu interview concern decreasing income tax on the minimum wage to 1 percent, and the necessity of improving education in order to produce high value-added goods for export. I do not know if Kılıçdaroğlu is aware of the consequences of a tax rate decrease at the bottom of the rate structure. Decreasing income tax rates is rather a neoliberal policy, and Turkey faces the problem of tax evasion rather than with the rates themselves. Regarding education reform, who would not espouse its importance? But what will you do with a current labor force averaging seven years' schooling, until the reforms take effect, at the earliest, in 10 to 15 years?


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Not only does 36B clearly state that eligibility for the subsidy requires enrollment in an exchange "established by the State," but it also specifically cites 1311, the section of the bill dealing with state exchanges. Federally-run exchanges are authorized by a different section that is never mentioned anywhere in 36B. There is zero basis in the law for the IRS's claim that section 36B authorizes credits in a federal exchange.
Moreover, because employers can be taxed $3000 per subsidy-eligible employee, the IRS is literally attempting taxation without representation. The new IRS Tax will whack companies in states that already opted out and therefore shouldn't lawfully be taxed.
It's an affront not just to principles of federalism but to the very first thing our founders put in the Constitution after the famous "We the People" preamble. Article I, Section 1 states: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
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Fortunately, the Senate is expected to vote on overturning this outrageous IRS dictate and protecting the right of states to opt out of President Obama's new health care subsidies and employer taxes. The vote, under the Congressional Review Act, will be protected from filibuster and will therefore require just 51 votes to overturn the IRS dictate.
This Senate vote will tell us whether each U.S. senator supports the rule of law and our federalist system or believes IRS bureaucrats should be allowed to govern by dictate, even to impose their own taxes. Citizens whose senators are up for election this year should watch closely and consider whether senators who would outsource such power to the IRS deserve to stay in the Senate.
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American Commitment is dedicated to restoring and protecting America's core commitment to free markets, economic growth, Constitutionally-limited government, property rights, and individual freedom.
Washingtonian magazine named Mr. Kerpen to their "Guest List" in 2008 and The Hill newspaper named Mr. Kerpen a "Top Grassroots Lobbyist" in 2011.
Mr. Kerpen's op-eds have run in newspapers across the country and he is a frequent radio and television commentator on economic growth issues.
Prior to joining American Commitment, Mr. Kerpen served as vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. Mr. Kerpen has also previously worked as an analyst and researcher for the Free Enterprise Fund, the Club for Growth, and the Cato Institute.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Kerpen currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Joanna and their daughter Lilly.
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Our relationship with bed bugs is intimate. They share our beds, they feed on our blood at night, and they disappear by dawn, often leaving nothing more than a raised welt on our skin, a token of last night's encounter.
Therein lies the problem—their cryptic nature makes detection and control very difficult.
Bed bugs don't fly or jump. We are solely responsible for their spread.
Bed bugs are flat, so they can hide in cracks and crevices—their harborages—where you sleep. They have grappling hooks at the end of their feet, enabling them to navigate the geography of your bed and body.
Small, flat, flightless bugs? So why is it so hard to prevent and control them?
There is more to solving the problem than you would expect. There is a disparity between the extremely negative and almost phobic public perception of bed bugs and the industry's response. Why don't we have better control strategies?
First, let's look at efforts to control bed bugs through insecticides. Studies from the University of Kentucky have found widespread resistance to pyrethroids, a commonly used insecticide class, in bed bugs across the United States. That means we need new chemistries and modes of action to avoid problems with resistance. But it's easier to tweak existing chemical architecture than to design novel chemistries.
That's why we don't see new insecticides: the investment is too great, the risk too high, and the time-to-market too long.
Insecticide toxicity is another concern. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documented 111 cases of bed bug-related insecticide misuse from 2003 to 2010. These illnesses were the result of excessive insecticide application. In one fatal case, the husband of a woman suffering from hypertension and depression applied a lawn-and-garden insect killer to their mattress and box springs, followed by nine cans of an insecticide fogger in the same day. Two days later, they reapplied insecticide to the bedroom and nine MORE cans in the house. On that day, the woman also applied insecticide to her arms, chest, and hair. She died 11 days later.
Heat treatment is another, less toxic option for controlling bed bugs. Heat treatment is basically "cooking" a room or furniture with steam or air heated to 120oF to 140oF for up to 4 hours. While heat treatment is effective at killing bed bugs in a room, it might also force bed bugs to migrate into adjacent rooms. Heat treatment can be expensive —up to $1,000 per treatment—and has no residual activity (that means it kills whatever is there at the moment but will not prevent a re-infestation.) Heat treatment can also melt candles, warp CDs, and kill your houseplants.
A third control option is a very fine, silica-rich dust that's used as an abrasive in toothpaste, an absorbent in cat litter, and a binding agent in dynamite. Diatomaceous earth, or DE, as it's also called, is an effective insecticide for bed bugs and other domestic pests. The silica absorbs and abrades the wax layer on an insect's exoskeleton, and the insect dies of dehydration. However, DE leaves obvious white dust, advertising that you have a pest problem, and it could take weeks to kill an infestation.
Even with these three different control strategies (toxic chemicals, heat, or silica dust), infestation rates are rising.
Why is this the case?
Pesticides used to treat infestations of pests that carry diseases harmful to humans only account for less than 2% of global pesticide sales. And bed bugs aren't vectors!
Because bed bugs make up such a small share of the overall market for pesticides, and they don't qualify for vector biology funding by the NIH, there's not much financial incentive to control them.
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I spent this past weekend finishing The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual–The Biggest Bank Failure in American History, Kirsten Grind's behind-the-scenes look at the decline and fall of what was once the country's third-biggest mortgage lender. While I can't quite say the book is enjoyable—memories of the financial crisis are still too fresh to comfortably re-live in the kind of detail Grind provides—I couldn't help but keep turning the pages with a kind of morbid fascination. It's as if Grind has given us a front-row seat to a massive, slow-motion train wreck, and we simply can't avert our eyes.
That WaMu ended as a train wreck there can be no doubt. Grind (who covered banking for the Puget Sound Business Journal at the time of WaMu's failure and who now writes for the Wall Street Journal) doesn't spend much time telling the story of WaMu's transformation from a floundering thrift back in the early 1980s into one of the titans of the financial services industry. Rather, she focuses on the events that led to the bank's collapse and its aftermath. You won't be surprised to learn that two main factors led to the bank's demise: the nationwide collapse of the U.S. housing market and poor decisions made by WaMu's management, led by CEO Kerry Killinger. Even so, it was never inevitable (in Grind's view, at least) that WaMu was doomed. But the company sure didn't help itself along the way. Let's take a look at some of the places where Killinger and Co. went wrong.
Bad Management
As both a sell-side bank analyst and then as an investor, I've known Kerry Killinger for many years. I was never as close to him as I am to other bank CEOs, but always respected the success he achieved running Washington Mutual. But even well before the company's meltdown, it was clear that he'd become too disengaged from the day-to-day details of managing the business. Given the length of Killinger's tenure, that disengagement might have been inevitable. I've always believed in informal term limits for CEOs; Kerry Killinger is a good example of why. He was named WaMu's CEO in 1989 and remained so until the board finally fired him a few weeks before the company's collapse in 2008. It would have been tough over those 19 years to not have become complacent running the company. In general, I believe CEOs should step down after 10 years.
Here are some specific examples of what I believe were bad management practices in place under Killinger:
1. The company was managed in separate silos. The retail business and the mortgage business at WaMu were run as distinctly separate entities. Bad idea. For starters, the leaders of those two silos didn't work well together because they were vying to be Killinger's successor. Killinger himself ran the company much as Ken Lewis ran Bank of America–without the aid and advice of a small senior management group that was interested in what was best for the company as a whole, rather than individual units. Killinger so hated conflict and confrontation that he didn't force better teamwork among his senior executives. That was devastating in the end.
2. He was obsessed with Wall Street. Killinger spent years complaining about the lack of respect that WaMu got from Wall Street. That in turn led him to spend an inordinate amount of time setting quarterly earnings expectations–and then fixating on beating them. None of this of course did anything to help strengthen WaMu's basic business, and very likely weakened it.
3. He overemphasized market share.Like Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo and BofA's Lewis, Killinger valued size and market share for their own sakes. In lending, that can be a recipe for disaster, since it can often lead to unwarranted price cuts and an imprudent easing of underwriting standards. In 2000, Killinger established a goal for the company to quadruple its market share in residential mortgage loan originations over five years. That didn't work out so well.
4. He switched to a higher-risk lending strategy at the wrong time. To boost profitability, Killinger approved a "higher-risk lending strategy" in 2004. In hindsight, this of course proved to be disastrous. There's no way to know for sure how rigorous the analysis was behind this decision. Then again, since so many other lenders were emphasizing subprime at exactly the same time, it's hard to believe the analysis was very rigorous at all.
5. Killinger had a history of weak risk management.I believe this is an area where he evolved, in a negative way, over time. As WaMu grew over the years with hardly a hiccup, the importance of risk management was consistently deemphasized—in large part because the CEO tended to downplay it or ignore it altogether.
Washington Mutual failed mainly because of the collapse in housing and the resulting loan losses. But Killinger's management style and decisions sure didn't help.
The Mortgage Mess
But besides fraud, much of the blame for WaMu's demise can be laid at plain, old sloppy underwriting–in subprime loans, prime loans, and home equity loans. The company's subprime mortgage unit, Long Beach Mortgage, ran into underwriting problems in the early 2000s, actually tightened a little, and then went back to its old habits, resulting in major loan problems beginning in 2005. An internal audit revealed that 99% of Long Beach's first-payment defaults could have been prevented through sounder underwriting.
But the majority of Washington Mutual's problem loans were in prime mortgage loans and home equity loans. Grind reports that 70% of the option ARM mortgages and 90% of the home equity loans were underwritten on the basis of "stated income" rather than verified income. Good God!
In hindsight, the housing bubble and its attendant bust are obvious and should have been easily preventable. But so many players made so much money in the boom that they totally miscalculated what would happen once the boom ended.
Detail of the Failure
Grind's account of Washington Mutual's final six months is as fascinating as it is sad. One especially interesting part of the story was the epic battle between John Reich, head of the OTS, WaMu's primary regulator, and the FDIC's Sheila Bair. There was clearly no love lost between the two. Grind also suggests that WaMu could have been saved if it had been allowed to participate in the TARP programs. Mark me down as skeptical.
But we'll never know. We do know the company lost $17 billion in deposits in the weeks leading up to its failure and know, too, that it would have suffered massive hits to equity as a result of future credit losses. But other companies did survive, albeit usually via massive dilution to existing shareholders as a result of capital raises. Whether Washington Mutual failed on September 25, 2008 or not, existing shareholders would have taken a huge, huge hit. This movie was going to have a bad ending either way.
A Good Read
The Lost Bank is a great read; it provides background and details to the WaMu saga that will be new to most readers. But as a reminder of the greed and mistakes that created the greatest financial collapse of my lifetime, it's also more than a little depressing. Enjoy it if you can!
What do you think? Let me know!