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When talking about the best value in baseball, Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout is the runaway choice. Trout not only was among the game's best players (if not the best) in 2012, he made a rookie wage that put him among the lowest-paid.
But what about those players who have been around long enough to be making the mad money? I'm talking players who are owed $100 million or more. Guys such as Barry Zito, Johan Santana and Cliff Lee no longer qualify since their deals have been paid down to eight figures, but the $100 million club is still 18 members strong.
Ranking these 18 players by value was far more difficult than anointing Trout as the top value. I combined production with average salary, length of deal and, of course, a healthy dose of subjectivity. There was one obvious call, though, at No. 18.
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When talking about the best value in baseball, Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout is the runaway choice. Trout not only was among the game's best players (if not the best) in 2012, he made a rookie wage that put him among the lowest-paid.
2 18. Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York Yankees
Age: 37
Believe it or not, he is the only Yankees player still guaranteed nine figures (CC Sabathia is due $99 million and Mark Teixeira $90 million over the next four years).
Of course, that only adds to the sorry state of Rodriguez's deal. If you're looking for a positive, this is about it: His salary will decrease for the third consecutive year in 2013. But at $28 million, he remains the game's highest-paid player and won't even play much.
A-Rod is expected to miss at least half of the season because of impending hip surgery.
Learn more— A-Rod stats, vitals | Yankees team page
3 17. Ryan Howard, 1B, Philadelphia Phillies
Age: 33
He has done little to ease criticism aimed at the Phillies when, out of nowhere, they gave him a five-year, $125 million extension in 2010. Still, you can expect Howard to do better than the 14 homers and 56 RBIs he managed in 2012 after returning from Achilles' tendon surgery.
Not even the Phillies, however, believe he will return to his MVP form of 2006 when he led the majors with 58 homers and 149 RBIs and hit .313.
Learn more— Howard stats, vitals | Phillies team page
4 16. Carl Crawford, LF, Los Angeles Dodgers
Age: 31
Another season like the past two and Crawford could pass Zito as the owner of the worst contract of all-time. Heck, some say Crawford already has earned that distinction. But let's see how he fares now that he is healthy (we think) and out of Boston.
Learn more— Crawford stats, vitals | Dodgers team page
5 15. Albert Pujols, 1B, Los Angeles Angels
Age: 32 (turns 33 Jan. 16)
He is one of only two players with $200 million coming his way. He is also third-oldest player on this list. Not a good combination, especially considering his homers have dropped for three consecutive seasons and his batting average for four.
Pujols rebounded after an awful April to hit .285 with 30 homers last season. That isn't quite Arte Moreno was hoping when he made Pujols the second-highest paid player in history.
Learn more— Pujols stats, vitals | Angels team page
6 14. Zack Greinke, SP, Los Angeles Dodgers
Age: 29
His average annual salary is No. 1 all-time for a pitcher on a multi-year deal. But you don't have to think long to come up with 10 other starters around the same age or younger you'd rather have (Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander, David Price, Felix Hernandez, Stephen Strasburg, Jered Weaver, CC Sabathia, Cole Hamels, Matt Cain, Chris Sale).
One factor in Greinke's favor is an easy delivery that projects well for his durability.
Learn more— Greinke stats, vitals | Dodgers team page
7 13. Joe Mauer, C, Minnesota Twins
Age: 29
In the second year of his franchise-record contract, Mauer bounced back from his worst season to lead the majors with a .416 on-base percentage and play in a career-best 147 games.
But Mauer caught in only 74 of those games and hit just 10 homers, making him not much more than a middle-of-the-order singles hitter.
At least he is a great singles hitter.
Learn more— Mauer stats, vitals | Twins team page
8 12. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B, Los Angeles Dodgers
Age: 30
Just as he promised after his sluggish start last season, Gonzalez finished with his typical numbers, notably a .299 average and 108 RBIs. Still, his best days appear to be behind him. Gonzalez's homers and walks have dropped for three consecutive seasons, from 40 and 119 in 2009 to 18 and 42 in 2012.
Learn more— Gonzalez stats, vitals | Dodgers team page
9 11. Ryan Zimmerman, 3B, Washington Nationals
Age: 28
He is no more than the third-best player on his own team and lacks Evan Longoria's range and power. But Zimmerman is a career .287 hitter with 25-homer pop and has a Gold Glove. He earned high marks for toughness last season, too, when he played with a sore shoulder for much of the season.
(In case you're wondering, teammate Jayson Werth's seven-year, $126 million deal is down to five years and $99 million.)
Learn more— Zimmerman stats, vitals | Nationals team page
10 10. Cole Hamels, SP, Philadelphia Phillies
Age: 29
He is more accomplished than Zack Greinke and has a smaller deal, which means the Phillies did OK when they extended Hamels last July. Hamels' 3.24 ERA since 2008 ranks 15th in the majors and he is 10th in innings over the past five years. He also has proven himself to be one of the game's best in October.
Learn more— Hamels stats, vitals | Phillies team page
11 9. Joey Votto, 1B, Cincinnati Reds
Age: 29
Because he is owed the most of any player in the game and has the longest deal, he would need to be a 50-homer guy to rank higher on this list.
Votto is more of a 30-homer type whose No. 1 strength is getting on base; he is the majors' best candidate to post a .500 on-base percentage. He finished at .474 last season while leading the NL with 94 walks, despite missing 51 games.
Votto is a career .316 hitter and .553 slugger and has made himself a Gold Glove defender.
In the clubhouse, Votto is the type of leader who has learned to speak Spanish so he can better communicate with all of his teammates.
Learn more— Votto stats, vitals | Reds team page
12 8. Troy Tulowitzki, SS, Colorado Rockies
Age: 28
His durability is a concern because he hasn't played 150 games since 2009. Tulowitzki didn't play after May last season because of a groin injury. When healthy, though, he has proven to be the game's top shortstop with 30-homer power and Gold Glove defense.
Learn more— Tulowitzki stats, vitals | Rockies team page
13 7. Josh Hamilton, RF, Los Angeles Angels
Age: 31
No player in the majors has his combination of size, power and speed, which helps explain why his 2012 season seemed somewhat disappointing even though he hit 43 homers and drove in 128 runs.
Of course, the Angels wouldn't be disappointed with such production. It would mean Hamilton remained healthy, which remains the primary concern. But age isn't the only reason he has the shortest deal of this group.
Learn more— Hamilton stats, vitals | Angels team page
14 6. Prince Fielder, 1B, Detroit Tigers
Age: 28
Who knows what kind of deal he would have scored if Victor Martinez hadn't blown out his knee last offseason? Teams weren't exactly lining up to give Fielder a $200 million-plus deal. But the Tigers couldn't have been disappointed with Year One and can find comfort in Fielder's consistency.
He has missed only one game in the past four years while hitting at least 30 homers and posting an on-base percentage over .400. That Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown with Fielder hitting behind him wasn't mere coincidence.
Learn more— Fielder stats, vitals | Tigers team page
15 5. David Wright, 3B, New York Mets
Age: 30
Wright seemed to have lost his place as one of the game's top third basemen after the Mets moved to Citi Field, but he regained that status in 2012. He hit .306, played in 156 games and tied for sixth in NL MVP voting.
Still, he ranks this high mainly because his average salary is fourth-lowest among this group.
Learn more— Wright stats, vitals | Mets team page
16 4. Matt Kemp, CF, Los Angeles Dodgers
Age: 28
In his first season after signing a mega-extension, Kemp was being hailed as the game's best player, and deservedly so. Then he battled hamstring and shoulder injuries and never returned to form. After hitting 12 homers in April, Kemp managed only 11 more after his return.
As long as he can stay healthy, Kemp should in the top-player conversations. He is a slugger with speed and excels at a premium defensive position. Despite his issues last season, he isn't prone to injuries, either. Kemp played in at least 155 games for four consecutive seasons before being limited to 106 in 2012.
Kemp's deal can be viewed differently, too, because his team spends differently. The Dodgers have four players who are owed at least $100 million, and that doesn't include Clayton Kershaw, who is on track to become the first $200 million pitcher.
Learn more— Kemp stats, vitals | Dodgers team page
17 3. Matt Cain, SP, San Francisco Giants
Age: 28
Ranking a pitcher this high is risky but Cain is different: He has remained injury-free through his first seven full seasons, and his smooth delivery bodes well for future health. He has made at least 30 starts in each season and hasn't finished with an ERA higher than 3.14 in the past four.
Year One of his six-year deal couldn't have gone any better. Cain won a career-best 16 games with a career-low 2.79 ERA and he pitched a perfect game, started the All-Star game and started the decisive game of each postseason series for the World Series champs.
Learn more— Cain stats, vitals | Giants team page
18 2. Ryan Braun, LF, Milwaukee Brewers
Age: 29
Braun erased doubts that his success was chemically driven when he hit .319 with 41 homers in the season that followed a controversial dustup with the PED police. In so doing, he has allowed the Brewers to come out ahead by keeping him and not Prince Fielder.
Braun is almost as durable as Fielder, he isn't a defensive liability and he is a career .313 hitter. Over the past three years, Braun has hit just one fewer homer than Fielder (100-99) while driving in 15 more runs.
Oh yeah, Braun will make considerably less than Fielder over the next eight years (the length remaining on each of their contracts).
Learn more— Braun stats, vitals | Brewers team page
19 1. Evan Longoria, 3B, Tampa Bay Rays
Age: 27
He is the youngest player and his average salary is the lowest on this list. And if Longoria isn't the best player here, he belongs in the conversation. All he needs to do is stay healthy, which hasn't been easy the past two seasons.
Longoria's six-year, $100 extension doesn't kick in until 2017. Until then, he'll remain on what is considered the majors' most team-friendly deal (he will make $6 million this year). Another reason he is our No. 1: He is one of only three players (Ryan Braun and Ryan Zimmerman) whose salary doesn't reach $20 million in any year of his deal.


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October 25, 2011 - LM Editorial
In a move signaling future rate pressure in the nation's most robust ocean cargo trade lane, Horizon Lines, Inc. announced it will discontinue its Five Star Express (FSX) trans-Pacific container shipping service between the U.S. West Coast, Guam and China.
Horizon is implementing an orderly transition plan, beginning October 31, 2011, and will work aggressively to mitigate any supply chain disruptions for its customers. Discontinuation of the FSX Guam and China services will have no impact on the company's domestic ocean services in Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico.
The move comes in the wake of Matson's announcement that it would eliminate one of two deployment strings in the transpacific.
"This has been a very difficult decision in light of the tremendous contributions from our associates, and our organized labor and vendor partners, who have worked so hard to make the FSX service a success," said Stephen H. Fraser, president and CEO. "Our decision to exit this highly volatile market will allow Horizon to focus on our core domestic ocean shipping services, and provide the opportunity to produce a more profitable and stable financial performance over time."
Shippers told LM that they expect the rate structure in the trade lane to remain stable, and with fewer players to choose from, that may be the likely scenario.
Tom Brossart, director of global logistics and trade compliance for W.R. Grace & Co. – a leading global supplier of catalysts and other products to petroleum refiners – told LM that shippers would have to realize that capacity can be withdrawn at any moment.
"That's why companies like ours have different shipping and sourcing strategies in place," he said.
The last voyage of the FSX service from China is scheduled to depart Shanghai on November 2, 2011. Horizon Lines also will suspend ocean services to Guam and surrounding islands effective with the last sailing from the U.S. West Coast on November 10, 2011.
The company expects to cease all operations related to the FSX service during the fourth quarter and does not expect to have significant continuing involvement in the operations after the termination. Therefore, the company will classify the FSX service as discontinued operations and as a result, expects to record a pretax restructuring charge of between $105 million and $110 million in fiscal fourth quarter 2011. The charge includes estimated costs to return excess rolling stock equipment, facility closures, severance, and vessel charter expense, net of estimated sub-charter income. Losses associated with the FSX service produced a negative adjusted EBITDA impact of approximately $43.7 million for the nine months ended September 25, 2011, with additional losses expected through the end of the year.
Following their last voyages, the five Hunter-Class D-8 vessels operating in the FSX service are currently planned to be laid up, after dry-docking of the remaining four vessels. The vessels are leased from Ship Finance International Limited through 2018 to 2019. Horizon Lines is exploring sub-chartering the vessels and other solutions to partially mitigate ongoing charter expense and maintenance costs.
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DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — A leadership vacuum may be partly to blame for the troubled relationship between Miami Dolphins offensive linemen Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito, which has left both players sidelined and the team in turmoil.
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StarCraft® II: Heart of the Swarm™ global launch party details announced
Day-long launch broadcast to feature "King of the Beta" matches between top pro gamers, community-created content, & live event coverage
IRVINE, Calif.—February 25, 2013—Tune in or turn out and be absorbed into the hive mind at the global StarCraft® II: Heart of the Swarm™ launch party! Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today shared its plans for the official Heart of the Swarm launch events taking place in the US, France, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico starting in the evening of March 11. At each of these events, Blizzard developers and key retail partners will host gamers from around the world who want to be among the first to join Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, in her quest to reunite the zerg Swarm.
In addition to the nine official launch events, thousands of stores worldwide will be open at midnight to welcome players and help roll out the next chapter in the epic saga of StarCraft II. (Check with local retailers for hours and availability.)
To kick things off and follow the celebration as it spreads across the planet, Blizzard will be cohosting a special 21-hour launch broadcast with noted eSports personality and commentator Sean "Day[9]" Plott, in conjunction with Twitch.tv, at http://www.StarCraft2.com/SwarmLaunch. Starting at 3:00 a.m. PDT on March 11, the stream will give viewers around the world the opportunity to watch the Australia, South Korea, France, and US launch events live. Viewers will also be treated to additional exclusive content, including community-created videos and "King of the Beta" tournament matches between top pro gamers, hosted by Day[9], who'll be transmitting from a bunker deep inside Blizzard's Irvine HQ.
"The StarCraft community has been anticipating Heart of the Swarm for a long time," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "I believe you will find it was worth the wait. We're looking forward to celebrating the release by hosting an awesome global launch party in two weeks and delivering our best StarCraft content to date."
In the US, the official launch event will be hosted by Blizzard and retail partner GameStop at:
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71 Fortune Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Local festivities will start at 9:00 p.m. PDT on March 11, and will feature special guest hosts from the StarCraft II and eSports community, including commentators Day[9] and Mike "Husky" Lamond. Live eSports show matches will be played by top pro gamers from the US and South Korea, and demonstrations will introduce the crowd to some of the powerful new features included in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. A series of epic prize giveaways will round out the celebration, and when the clock strikes midnight, gamers will be able to pick up their copies of the expansion as well as have them autographed by members of the StarCraft II development team.
Attendees at the official StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm launch events will have the opportunity to purchase† the standard edition of the game (suggested retail price $39.99) as well as the retail-exclusive Collector's Edition (suggested retail price $79.99), which contains the following bonus items in addition to the game disc:
Heart of the Swarm picks up the story of StarCraft II where Wings of Liberty® left off, focusing on Kerrigan's quest to reunite the Swarm and exact revenge on Arcturus Mengsk. Over the course of 20 campaign missions, players will follow Kerrigan as she sweeps across the galaxy, incorporating a variety of distinctive zerg species into her brood. Kerrigan will grow in strength from mission to mission, and players will be able to customize her with powerful new abilities, as well as evolve various zerg strains into fearsome new subspecies to suit their play style.
New weapons of war also debut in Heart of the Swarm's multiplayer, including new units such as Terran Hellbats, Zerg Swarm Hosts, and Protoss Tempests, while certain existing units from Wings of Liberty will be updated with new capabilities. New features will enhance the game experience, including group and clan systems; unranked matchmaking; Global Play, enabling players to battle others in different regions around the world; additional stat tracking; user interface improvements; an enhanced physics system, for more visceral looking battles; multiplayer replays, to watch replays with friends; a leveling system that gives Heart of the Swarm players a new way to earn customization options for their online profiles; and much more.
Learn more about StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm at http://www.StarCraft2.com, and for further details on the global launch events and the 21-hour broadcast, visit http://www.StarCraft2.com/SwarmLaunch. With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous positions currently open—visit http://jobs.blizzard.com for more information and to learn how to apply.
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The grandmother says one of the boys confronted the child on Tuesday, so the 8th grader stayed away from school today.
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Texas City, TX (KSDK) - The two most important sports in Texas City, Texas are football. And spring football.
The high school doesn't have a field; it has a stadium that can hold 10,000 people. But even if it could hold 10 million, none of them would likely have a story like the two people here on this day.
"We obviously share something that not many people can understand," said football coach Rick Wallace.
Wallace is a long time football coach and Tyrese Williams was one of his players. They first met more than 20 years ago, about four hours from Banquete, Texas.
"I didn't like him," Williams said. "I was scared to death of him. I really was."
Like a lot of football coaches, Wallace is a yeller.
"People laugh, when he's coaching on the sidelines," said athletic director Tim Finn. "You can hear him across the county."
Years later, his booming voice still echoes on this field. But he knew Ty Williams could play.
"Very, very good," said Wallace. "He started at tailback and also at cornerback."
At the age of 16, Williams lived on the outside of town when his divorced father was offered a job in another town.
"He gets a job working for the government running apartments for the government," Williams said.
But Williams didn't want to leave. Though he was the only black student at Banquete High School, he felt a part of something. That's when, to his surprise, Coach Wallace and his wife agreed to take Williams into their home, for the rest of high school, as his legal guardians.
"He needed a family," said Sissy Wallace, Rick's wife. "He needed someone to guide him through school. And I'm a teacher and I work with kids every day and there are many I would bring home if I could,"
"He seemed like a good person," said Coach Wallace. "He seemed responsible. He was very, very respectful."
And for Ty, fear soon turned to affection.
"At first he was like a big brother," he said. "And then he became like a father. We did everything together."
Ty graduated high school went into the army and later came home to start his own business. He was living his dream, but then the dream turned into a nightmare. In 2008, after feeling ill for months, Ty was diagnosed with stage four renal failure.
"I had a first opinion, I had a second opinion. I had a third opinion," said Williams. "And the third guy said "you're kidneys will shut down."
By this time, Williams had four children and was on dialysis. What he needed however was a kidney transplant.
"At the time, I thought I was going to die," he said. "I didn't want to leave them. Who is going to take care of them, right? Who is going to support them? Who is going to be there for them when they need their dad around?"
Twelve people were tested as possible donors including family and friends but none of them were a match. But Rick Wallace was lucky number 13.
"Even the doctors were stunned," Williams said. "They could not believe our markers matched. It was unbelievable. Just fell out of the sky unbelievable."
He was on a camping trip hooked up to a dialysis machine when he got the call from Wallace.
"My comment was, 'I am very, very mad at you. I can no longer be a Sports Illustrated swim model,'" Wallace said.
"And I just started crying. It was a very emotional time for me," Williams said.
Shortly after the operation, the two men dressed in hospital gowns were walking the halls of the hospital together.
"It was humbling that I was able to give an organ to him and for him to now be able to walk with me. Which before he could not," said Wallace.
"You know he's making smart remarks about hurry up. You're dragging behind," said Williams.
The road to recovery has been a long one for both Wallace and Williams but they seemed to have turned a corner.
"We tell each other that we love each other every time we talk," said Wallace.
On high school fields across the country, football coaches give the gift of time and knowledge to players every day. Rick Wallace gave the gift of life.
"If you're his friend, you're his friend for life," said Finn. "And he would do anything to help you and look what he's done for this young man."
"He's back to being a family man, a dad, a friend, you know a hard worker and I was able to give him that. And for that, I'm thankful," said Wallace.
This may be a story about one man giving a kidney to another but what he truly gave was his heart.
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Upcycled Sweater Hot Water Bottle Cozy
7 comments:
- House Mother said...
What a wonderful idea!
I think I saw a hot water bottle once or twice growing up in New York. I had the idea that they were only for little old ladies.
Now that I'm in Ireland (cold, damp, a little old fashioned) I see them everywhere and all of the stores sell hot water bottle covers. The covers come in every style imaginable including Disney themes, satin, and faux fur.
With old sweaters in abundance, and hot water bottles everywhere, this is a really practical idea for me, and I may be wrong but it looks fairly easy. Even for me.
Thanks so much for the ongoing inspiration.
- January 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Val in the Rose Garden said...
Oh I love it! The critter warmies have been like that for us. The kids just love them! They are such a comfort.
Adorable as always. :)
- January 28, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Jen said...
This has been on my to-do list all winter. Our hot waters bottles have been in constant use, too. Get well soon!
- January 28, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- e.m. said...
Hi! I am de-lurking and wanted to chime in! I love the heart shaped water bottle! We only have the regular kind :( but we are also in the process of giving them some sweater love! Have a great weekend!
- January 28, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Melissa: Mother to 3 Little Sprouts said...
Very cute blog! I love arts and crafts, and you have some great ideas! Thanks for sharing!
- January 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- Jen said...
Okay, that tummy bug is here in the Wild West as well. We have managed to avoid it. Thank goodness. I love the heart-shaped hot water bottle and your upcycling is DIVINE. The felty goodnes makes it superb. Hope you all are feeling better soon.
- January 29, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- Angie@treasures for tots said...
Thank you for sharing your awesome project at Thursday's Treasures last week! Come share your crafty projects in this week's Thursday's Treasures too!
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more one-sided than the final score indicated.
Westbrook scored 27 of his 33 points in a first half that saw him drain a
career-high five 3-pointers. Westbrook also handed out eight assists, while
Durant totaled 36 points and nine rebounds in Oklahoma City's seventh straight
Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard kept the Lakers somewhat competitive. Bryant
finished with 35 points on 11-of-24 shooting, while Howard added 23 points and
18 rebounds in the loss, LA's sixth in nine games.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Josh Morgan is a local guy. An HD Woodson graduate, the Redskins wide receiver frequents the community possibly more than any other player on the roster.
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WASHINGTON – Star tennis player Caroline Wozniacki is under fire after stuffing towels in her bra and the rear-end of her shorts to do an impersonation of fellow tennis star Serena Williams.
Critics have assailed the act as racist, saying such an impersonation was not "harmless fun," reports the Daily Mail.
Wozniacki, 22, was on the court for an exhibition game against Maria Sharapova in Brazil when she made the joke. In a press conference after, she was reported as saying, "I really love the crowd here, they're open and they have a lot of fun."
The Daily Mail quotes an article on Feministing.com about the incident: "Given the history and current-day context of racialized standards of beauty, and the hypersexualization of people of color, when a white woman makes fun of a black women's body, especially in a way that hypersexualizes her and draws on the stereotype of black women's big butts, it's racist,"
Serena Williams has been known to make comments about her figure. In July, the Daily Mail reports she tweeted a photo of her rear-end and asked, "Hummm. I think this onzie makes me butt look TOO big. Ugh. #BigButtproblems."
Wozniacki and Williams are said to be friends.
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27th Annual Quest for Quality Awards
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August 13, 2010
The editorial staff of Logistics Management (LM) is thrilled to offer the shipping community the results of the 27th Annual Quest for Quality Awards. This year, 108 providers of transportation and logistics services have received the ultimate vote of confidence, posting the highest scores across our lists of critical service criteria.
For more than a quarter century now, LM's Quest for Quality has been regarded in the transportation and logistics industry as the most important measure of customer satisfaction and performance excellence.
And considering the environment in which carriers and 3PLs found themselves operating over the past year, the staff agrees that walking away with a Quest for Quality Award in 2010 just may be one of the greatest accomplishments a transportation and logistics provider has ever achieved.
The Great Freight Recession—which began in December of 2007 and continued into late 2009—had a negative impact on every single segment of the global logistics system as shipment volumes plummeted. And while many carriers struggled to keep their heads above water, the savviest shippers continued to put more pressure on the carrier and 3PL community, demanding closer partnerships and deeper service commitments as they restructured distribution networks to maximize efficiency and minimize miles.
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The Mopar Las Vegas Meet - Mopars At The StripWritten by Johnny Hunkins on December 1, 2008 Chryslers Of All Colors Converge On The Strip At Las Vegas For America's Most Magnificent Mopar Meeting.
"I've got another one in the car if you want it," says John Clark, Chrysler's head of the Mopar Performance Division. Just when I thought March 28, 2008, couldn't get any better, Clark offers me contraband-a Cuban Monte Cristo torpedo. These haven't been legal to bring into the U.S. since the Kennedy administration. I fire up 5 inches of heaven and become infused with all that's good in the world. My Las Vegas experience-Mopars At The Strip-has now exceeded all my expectations and then some, and it's only Friday, with two more days left of the event.
I nurse the wonderful stogie, admiring the cars in front of the Mopar Performance trailer. Car builder Matt Delaney has once again assembled another work of art-a '70 Challenger with Viper running gear-over which I am now drooling. The audio track to this total immersion in Mopar fantasy is just as impressive. The wail of yet another max-effort Hemi sings like Robert Plant as it hits a high note in the burnout box. Time trials for the Hemi Super Stock Challenge are under way, and the smell of high octane and tire smoke intertwines with the delicate Cuban smoke.
Oh so much to do, and so little time to do it in. I thank Clark for the cigar and jump back in my golf cart. My friends Kenny, Robert, and Kristen jump in, and we make a beeline for the swap meet. We're on a mission to find some Valiant badges and a better set of Duster taillights. The search would turn out fruitless, but I doubt we could've had more fun if we found exactly what we were looking for. Life's about the journey, not the destination. We run into Jeff Hild, a 21-year-old engineering student at Cal Poly Pomona. He's there with his dad, Tom, who helped him resuscitate a Sassygrass Green '71 Duster 340. It runs bottom 12s, and we strike up a conversation. I dig the Duster's buck's-down vibe and crazy street performance. Kenny likes it because it's a Duster like his. We're off before they even realize we're from the magazine.
The car corral was overpriced, as per usual at any all-Mopar event. That's not to say it's without humor. We saw what must've been the '66 Coronet in that famous Foster Farms chicken commercial, because it looked like it came right out of the barnyard. The hood was up, the intake manifold was gone, and my impression was that chickens had roosted there. The asking price was through the roof. We weren't biting. In all seriousness, c'mon guys, what's with the price gouging on Mopars?
Next stop, the car show, and a familiar face. Last year, I snapped a shot of 20-year-old Katie McDonald, a business major at UNLV. We had posed the stunning blonde next to her dad's '04 Dodge Cummins diesel, and ran it in last year's coverage as a full page back in December. She hadn't seen the spread, but Robert had a copy with him. You'd have thought she won the lottery, jumping up and down, squealing like, well, a school girl. A big round of hugs for everybody.
The Mopar hobby is diverse. Its purveyors range from poor to rich, from diminutive A-body to hefty C-body, and from American to everybody else. Everybody else, in this case, turned out to be a member of the Arab royal family. He's so important, he doesn't have a name that can be uttered to mere mortals, and he doesn't even have to be at MATS, so he sends the official royal family muscle car builder. The royal Saudi's steed is a '73 Challenger, swilling high-octane brew at a state-subsidized 11 cents a gallon. The satin black g-Machine terror packs a Hemi, and will no doubt see some late-night street racing in the Saudi capital, and possibly even at Dubai's new state-of-the-art dragstrip. We'd show you a picture, but we'd probably be visited in the middle of the night by ninjas. The scene is creepy. We putter off in our insignificant little golf cart.
Trundling through the car show, conversation turns to mid-'70s Mopars. If there's a final frontier in the Chrysler hobby, this is it, and we're game. Kenny starts gushing about his '72 Charger. "I wanted a '73 SE, but the front suspensions are totally different, and nobody makes stuff for them," says Kenny. Then we spot Nick Villiger's black '73 Charger. Kenny's on it like white on rice before the cart even comes to a stop. Villiger, a retired 65-year-old production manager from Mountain Home, Arkansas, explains that the triple-black B-body is possibly the only non-SE '73 Charger ever built with bucket seats, a 400 big-block, and a slap-stick shifter. It's obvious that Kenny and Nick will be engrossed for a while, so I mosey over to an attractive woman by a '67 GTX, one of my all-time favorites. I say, "You're really cute. Can I take your picture?" Big mistake. Those eyes burned in me like lasers, and her face turned red. "I'm a happily married woman," she says in the most old-money voice she can muster. "You just can't come up and say something like that!" Well, actually I can.
I hightail it out of there. Robert and Kenny are grinning and shaking their heads. For the next hour, they harass me about the incident in the way that only good friends can. Later that night around the pool at the Golden Nugget, we light off the last three Cuban Cohibas my brother gave me. We watch the sharks circle lazily in the glass tank as our smoke mingles with the cool desert air. We laugh one more time about the uppity blonde and my lack of social skills. Life is good, and it's only Friday.
The Supercharger Store: Twin ProChargers & Direct Drive
We just couldn't leave out this dual gear-driven ProCharger F2 setup. When we saw it at The Supercharger Store's display, we had to bombard employee Bob Woods about the details. This one happens to fit Mopar B, RB, and LA blocks, but The Supercharger Store makes them for big-block Chevy, small-block Chevy, big-block Ford, small-block Ford, Buick, and Olds applications, too. The unit bolts directly to the block, and the gear case bolts to the crankshaft, thus eliminating all belts, and improves hood clearance. The dual-blower unit seen here typically costs $12,600, and includes the geardrive, two F2 blowers, and the race relief valves. A single blower geardrive runs about $4,200. For more info, call The Supercharger Store at 520-456-9706, or log onto www.thesuperchargerstore.com.
Gear Vendors Overdrive For Highway Haulin'!
If you've got a 727 TorqueFlite and you hate $4-a-gallon gas, meet your new friend, Mike McCarthy of Gear Vendors. Mike showed us the new Gear Vendors overdrive unit (PN 3DFS0727, $2,495), which fits all 18.5-, 15-, and 8-inch TorqueFlite tailhousings. It's got a .78 overdrive ratio (just multiply your highway cruise rpm by .78 to get your cruise rpm with the overdrive on). Mike told us that with a 3.54 rear gear ratio, the overdrive unit makes it behave like a 2.77 gearset. To get more info, you can e-mail Mike at firstname.lastname@example.com, or log onto www.gearvendors.com. Or just use the phone and call him at 619-562-0060.
A Little Dash Of Class
Most of the A-body dashes we've seen are slap worn out and could use a little TLC from this man right here, Frank Veloz of Just Dashes. Frank can restore your '68-72 A-body dash (Barracuda, Dart, Duster, Valiant) for around $599 if it's black, or $1,000 for any other color. Dashpad cores are available upon request, and can even be rehabbed with a built-in gauge pod like you see here. Check it out in detail by calling 800-247-3274, or logging onto www.justdashes.com. They're also available for most Mopar B-bodies, too.
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We happened upon this '66 Coronet 500 in the car corral when we heard "buck, buck, buck..." No, it wasn't farm-fresh chickens, although that's what it looked like from that engine bay. It was actually the insane price tag. What's up with stupid money for stuff like this?If you're going on a Vegas road trip, it helps to have your partners in crime with you. That's photographer Robert McGaffin on the left, and guitar slinger Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the right. Our den mother, Kristin Forbes, refused to pose for the photo. We're at the Year One display here.Shannon Hudson, aka "Joe Cool," poses with his '69 Plymouth Valiant. Purchased as a Slant Six for $400, Hudson has worked low-buck magic on the renamed "Violent," scoring a freebie 360 small-block mystery motor that has propelled the A-body to a best e.t. of 12.84/103. Shannon runs Redline Gauge Works (www.redlinegaugeworks.com, 661-259-8891), and is responsible for some of the coolest custom instrument clusters ever seen.Nick Villiger (65) dusts off his '73 Dodge Charger, which is a base hardtop, not an SE like everybody thinks. "It's probably the only non-SE ever built with a 400, slap stick, and bucket seats," says Nick. The car was originally triple black, but Nick put in a white gut because he liked it better. The original black upholstery is in good condition, and sits in boxes at home.
Meet 27-year-old Jennifer Galambos (sigh), an office manager from Orange, CA. She's the wife of PHR October 2004 cover-car owner John Galambos ('66 Charger). We don't know if she can cook, but she sure can tune the 440 in her '69 Dodge Dart. (Yes, she really does wrench it.) She can drive it, too-she's wheeled the little A-body to a best of 10.59/126.It's really fun to see so many luminaries in one place, and this was the case on the occasion of the Hemi Super Stock Reunion on the starting line at The Strip At Las Vegas. Here, Lou Santiago (formerly of Powerblock TV's MuscleCars show, center) chats up Dragon Lady Shirley Shahan, and King of Kustomizers, George Barris.Cab Burge (Bend, OR) reaches for the moon with his '71 Duster. The 63-year-old retired phone company worker has raced NHRA Stock, Super Street, Super Stock, and Super Gas. Did we mention he loves drag racing? The Duster sports a 518-inch 400 with a 10.25 compression ratio. (It's a street car, too-see the plate?) So far, Cab's best is a 10.34/128.Even though your friends might think it's too hard to build a '73 Charger, Gary Licht (48, Westminster, CA) took up the challenge, and hasn't looked back. Gary runs low 13s with his nearly stock '73 (a purple cam and an M1 intake being the main mods). Gary had Collins Wheel build him some 15x8 wheels out of some 14x7s, which he put on the rear with T/A Drag Radials. "I wanna put the same wheels and tires on the front and run it at Willow Springs," says Gary. Right on, man!Sometimes you meet someone that you instantly know is going to be your friend for life. That guy is Ken Kiefer (51), who runs McKinney Motor Co. in Albuquerque, NM. If you live in Albuquerque and need work done on your street car or race car, don't call any other number but 505-298-6734. We spent almost all of Sunday with Ken shooting his '67 Barracuda, and had a blast.


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Sun Apr 22 12:34:24 EDT 2012, Sitka Sound, AK
Thu Apr 19 13:03:10 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
The weather is much nicer now that spring has arrived. While setting sails on a testsail a few days ago, a local motorboat came over to say hello. They kindly took some pictures of us.
The main staysail has a 3-year old Facnor furler. The design makes adjusting stay tension more difficult than the much older Sarma design, and the Facnor seems to have more friction than it should (considering the small size of the sail that is on it), but overall, it functions adequately.
Wed Apr 18 11:57:35 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
Tue Apr 17 0:33:51 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
The easy part was cutting off the old bowsprit with an angle grinder. Then, without the bowsprit in the way, I could see how the anchor could be made secure.
I had some stainless steel pipes bent to the angle of the plates where the bow rollers were, and welded them on (the anchor shank and chain run between them). At first I used my wire-feed ReadyWelder, which is a device that runs on batteries--12, 24 or 36 volts. I welded the first pipe on with 24 volts, and, after doing some hammering, it broke off, as the penetration wasn't good enough. I had better results from adding another battery to get to 36 volts, but even better results when a neighbor on the dock lent me his stick welder (which plugged into shore power). Another neighbor who was a former pipeline welder helped me get the machine setup correctly.
I tried to bend the old pulpit into shape to be able to use it, but was not successful, so put a piece of blue, reinforced plastic hose in place for now.
The anchor is now held in place by the windlass holding the chain, a safety chain hook, and by turnbuckles on either side that attach to shackles in holes drilled into the anchor. I think the anchor will stay securely in place well when the waves push across it.
Final painting is still to be done.
Tue Apr 17 0:25:55 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
Last year, friends moved the jibstay off Issuma's bowsprit so the bobstay could be removed (the bobstay was taking a real beating breaking ice). I wanted to test-sail the boat for a while before removing the old bowsprit (which was then just excess weight in a bad place).
It has taken me a while to get around to doing this job. For the Northwest Passage trip, the bowsprit proved a useful place to store the grapnel anchor I carried for use as an ice anchor.
Here is Issuma with the bowsprit still on.
Sun Apr 15 12:08:46 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
This is a similar "dinghy" to the one in the previous post. Note the large propeller and how well it is protected from getting caught in nets.
There are a few of these "dinghies" around here, too (Newport, OR), though I've never seen one at work. They probably transit to Alaska as do many of the fishing fleet.
I've been thinking about your comment that fuel is not expensive enough to force people to fish from sailboats. It's true that these big trawlers make big money and cost a lot to maintain, but I can envision a fleet of smaller boats, employing many more out of work people to do the work by hand. Can't get away from the feeling that by out-sizing and out-competing smaller boats, the fishery has not served the community well. Perhaps there is a driving force more important than money. I know it's heresy to say this today.
Other than Brazil (where fishing boats as small as dugout canoes are quite common), Yakutat is the only place I've seen where they have managed to keep the size of fishing boats down and the numbers up. Yakutat has a lot of little fishing boats fishing Yakutat Bay, and that really seems to keep the community alive.
Sat Apr 14 1:19:17 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
The "dinghy" in the picture has a big diesel engine. It is used for bringing the end of the net back to the bigger boat, which is why it needs a lot of power.
Thu Apr 12 23:46:40 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
Sun Apr 8 11:40:50 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
It was nice to watch this fishing boat, Dryas, sail onto the dock. I didn't get a chance to talk with them. The sailing-fishing boats that I have talked to say they don't really fish under sail, but use sails if the wind is in the right direction, or to reduce rolling, or to go pleasure sailing with.
And what better way to appreciate the sea when it's quiet?
Wed Apr 4 22:37:32 EDT 2012, Sitka, AK
My old anchor chain was showing signs of wear (mostly in the first 10m which gets the most use), so I decided to replace it. This sounds simple, but really isn't :).
I wanted to keep most of the old chain as a spare chain, so I built a new chain locker in the bilge to hold it (can't just put the old chain in the bilge--if the boat ever rolled over, it could come out, so it needs to be held in place securely).
The old anchor chain is 12mm, which I could not find in the USA. So I went with 7/16" chain, which is almost the same size. That meant that the 7/16" chain wouldn't fit the 12mm chain wheel. So I bought both a new chain wheel and a barrel (300'/90m) of 7/16" chain (Grade 43, which means the steel is better quality than "proof coil").
The new chain wheel, shown in the picture, was a different diameter than the old one, so the old chain stripper did not fit. The chain stripper is necessary to strip the chain off the chain wheel, so that it will fall down the hawsepipe. The old chain stripper was cut off the deck (it had been welded in place), and a new one made that would bolt on.
It took a few tries of cutting, then welding back up the chain stripper to get it functioning correctly (the part that strips the chain off the wheel is inside the chain wheel, so not visible in the picture), but it is now working.


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Looking for a little TTC help, it's only been 2 years since we were last TTC but apparently I've forgotten everything. If my cycles are the same as they were last time we were TTC I should have O'd yesterday. But today I have lots of EWCM. I did a little internet searching and it seems mixed on whether or not EWCM indicates that you are about to O of if you've already O'd. In your experiences what does EWCM mean for you? We BD'd Saturday night and hoping to tonight so I think I should have the window covered but just curious!


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CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) -- Police say a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a woman in suburban San Diego while being driven on the hood of her car.
Chula Vista police Capt. Gary Wedge said the agent fired Friday after being driven a couple hundred yards on the car hood. He says he does not have more information about the circumstances of the shooting.
The Border Patrol released a statement that an agent fired a gun while conducting operations in Chula Vista. It did not elaborate.
The shooting occurred about five miles north of the Mexican border.
The FBI and Chula Vista police are investigating.
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Major use: For the relief of pain and inflammation due to osteoarthritis and for the control of post-operative pain. Labeled for use in dogs only; use in any other animal should be under direct veterinary supervision only.
How it works: Rimadyl exhibits pain-reducing, anti-inflammatory, and fever-reducing activity. NSAIDs work by inhibiting cellular production of certain chemicals that trigger inflammation.
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Her story: Scout was diagnosed with hip dysplasia via the PennHip system (The University of Pennsylvania's Hip Improvement Program - one system that grades for hip dysplasia) at six months of age, and her owner was told that she would probably need a total hip replacement by the time she was 5. Even though Scout would eat 24/7 if she had her way, her owner watched her diet, made sure she had plenty of exercise, and made sure she got all the right nutrients. She also gave her a daily
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A majority of TerraClear's customers cannot afford to pay the full upfront cost of the water filter. As a result TerraClear has created a village sales model that will allow groups of customers to pay small installments for up to 11 months. No interest or fees are charged for the first 4 months. All villagers who require more time to repay are charged a small per visit fee on a monthly basis so that TerraClear can cover the costs of providing this service.
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