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Possible South Sudan Truce as Fighting Continues
Even as rebel forces once again attacked the city of Bor, seen as a gateway to the capital city of Juba, both the government and the rebels have finally agreed to a ceasefire. Western and regional powers have been increasing pressure to end the fighting – some have threatened sanctions and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni even threatened the rebels with military action if they failed to agree to a ceasefire. Talks will begin today in Ethiopia and the two sides are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the day, although there is still no sign that the fighting will actually stop. The rebels have taken control of nearly all of Bor.
Syria Misses Chemical Weapons Deadline
Norwegian and Danish cargo ships waiting to escort Syria's most dangerous chemical weapons have returned to port in Cyprus after the hazardous containers failed to arrive for collection. An official from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that bad weather and the bureaucracy of the multinational procurement effort for equipment have delayed the operation. Damascus was supposed to transport the "most critical chemicals" – including around 20 metric tons of mustard nerve agent – out of the Mediterranean port of Latakia by December 31st. They would then be destroyed via hydrolysis in international waters. It is unclear when the ships will make a second trip back to Syria.
Last 3 Chinese Guantánamo Detainees Freed
The last of 22 ethnic Uighur detainees – Chinese Muslims captured after the invasion of Afghanistan – have been freed and sent to Slovakia today. Authorities recognized that they posed no terrorist threat ten years ago and a federal judge ordered them freed in 2008. Although China had requested their return, the US refused to repatriate them for fear they would face persecution and torture (China has a history of mistreating Uighurs). Many countries had refused to accept them for fear of angering the Chinese government.
Guantánamo now holds 155 prisoners – down from over 750. Many of been there for over a decade, and dozens were cleared for release years ago. 56 detainees from Yemen have been cleared for transfer and despite the US lifting its moratorium on Yemeni transfers earlier this year, none have been released.
China's Pollution Threatens Food, Soil
One-sixth of of China's arable land (nearly 50 million acres) suffers from soil pollution from the factories that dot its agricultural heartland; more than 13 million tons of crops harvested each year were contaminated with heavy metals; and 22 million acres of farmland were affected by pesticides. A 2010 soil survey by the government to assess contaminants in the food chain has been locked away as a "state secret."
Nevertheless, a Chinese government official announced today that about 8 million acres of China's farmland is too polluted to grow crops. Current farming on the land will be halted and rehabilitated. It is unclear whether food already grown on that land would be recalled.
Argentina Heatwave Protests
Argentina is facing its worst heatwave in decades and residents have taken to the streets in Buenos Aires to protest power cuts that have left some people without energy for two weeks. Argentina's aging power grid has struggled to keep up with demand as temperatures topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit. 11,000 people were still without electricity over the weekend, and hundreds of thousands have been affected over the preceding weeks.
City officials held emergency meetings on Sunday to coordinate help for those left without power. Nevertheless, protesters have blockaded the main roads into the capital and set garbage bags and tires on fire over the lack of service.


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Breakfast with the Cubs
The Angels edged the Cubs 8-7 in AZ Instructional League action this morning at Fitch Park Field #3 in Mesa, in what was the final 2009 Instructs game for the Cubs.
Because it was the last game and several players were scheduled to depart home from Sky Harbor Airport at mid-day, the game started at 9 AM, and was called after eight innings.
Only 11 Cubs position players and five pitchers were dressed for the game (others left town last night or early this morning, while a dozen more left a week ago), and two of the players in today's starting lineup (Jovan Rosa and Richard Jones) had to leave for the airport at 10:30 AM, so the Cubs used a nine-man batting order (only one DH today), and played with no extra men available in case of injury once Rosa and Jones left.
20-year old RHP Trey McNutt (Cubs 2009 32nd round pick out of Shelton State CC, who got over-slot money to sign) got the start for the Cubs today, and threw three shutout innings. He did allow five hits (four singles and a double) in those three innings, but he didn't issue any walks, and he picked a runner off 2nd base to get out of one jam, and benefiited from a baserunning gaffe by the Angels to get out of another.
RHP Thomas Diamond followed McNutt to the hill, and had his best outing since being acquired from Texas off waivers last month, throwing three innings of one-hit shutout ball, while striking out five in a row at one point. The 26-year old Diamond (the Rangers 1st round draft pick in 2004 out of the University of New Orleans, who underwent TJS in 2007) was absolutely dominating today, throwing hard and pitching with a lot of confidence. .
The game was scoreless going into the bottom of the 6th, but Logan Watkins led-off the frame with a sharply-struck single through the box to CF, followed by a D,. J. LeMahieu RBI triple smashed off the RF fence that scored Watkins from 1st base. Brett Jackson then lined an opposite-field single to LF to score LeMahieu with the second run of the inning.
However, the Cubs lead was short-lived, as the Angels pummeled RHP Tarlandus Mitchell and LHP (ex-OF) Drew Rundle to the tune of eight runs on seven hits (five singles and two triples), two walks, and a WP, in a nightmare top of the 7th.
The Cubs did come back in the bottom of the 7th to score four runs and cut the Angels lead to 8-6, as Sergio Burruel led-off with a bloop single to CF, advanced to 3rd on a Rebel Ridling double that was crushed off the Green Monster "batter's eye" in dead CF, and then both runners scored on an opposite-field two-run RBI double lined into the RF corner by Brandon May. D. J. LeMahieu lined a one-out RBI single to center to plate May, and, after taking 2nd on the throw to the plate and advancing to 3rd on a WP, LeMahieu scored on a Brett Jackson sac-fly to left.
The Cubs came close to tying the game in the bottom of the 8th (which was understood by both teams to be the last inning). Ryan Flaherty and Justin Bour walked to open the frame, and advanced one base each as Sergio Burruel bounced out 4-1 (2nd baseman to the pitcher covering 1st). Then Flaherty scored and Bour (representing the tying run) moved up to third when Rebel Ridling reached base on an RBI E-6 (errant throw to 1st base by the SS). However, Brandon May struck out swinging for the second out, and then Logan Watkins was retired for the final out of the game (and the final out of Instructs) on a spectacular diving catch by the Angels right-fielder on what looked like a sure-fire game-tying (or possibly even game-winning) bloop hit into right-center.
Several of the Cubs who attended Instructs at Fitch Park will be playing Winter Ball in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic, and eight more will be en route from Phoenix to the Cubs Dominican Academy in Boca Chica for six weeks of Dominican Instructional League, where the American kids will get a chance to see how their Latin brothers live and play ball at Baseball City.
Last year, Matt Cerda, Brandon Guyer, Nate Samson, and Josh Vitters spent a month at the Cubs Dominican Academy after attending AZ Instructs, and it worked so well that Player Development Director Oneri Fleita decided to expand it and send even more U. S. kids down there this year. (The Dominican Instructional League runs through November).
Meanwhile, Fitch Park will continue to be used throughout the off-season by players rehabbing from injuries.
Here is today's abridged box score (Cubs players only): .
1. Logan Watkins, 2B: 1-5 (2-3, 3-2 FC, 1B, 4-3, P-9), R
2. D. J. LaMahieu, SS: 2-4 (6-3, 4-3, 3B, 1B) 2 R, 2 RBI
3. Brett Jackson, CF: 1-3 (K, K, 1B, L-7 SF), 2 RBI
4. Brandon Guyer, RF: 0-4 (F-8, K, L-5 DP, F-8)
5. Ryan Flaherty, 3B: 1-3 (L-9, 2B, E-4, BB), R
6. Justin Bour, 1B: 0-3 (E-6, 4-3, K, BB)
7a. Jovan Rosa, C: 0-1 (L-8)
7b. Sergio Burruel, C: 1-3 (4-3, 1B, 4-1), R
8a. Richard Jones, DH: 1-1 (2B)
8b. Rebel Ridling, PH-DH: 1-2 (BB, 2B, E-6), R, RBI, PO
9. Brandon May, LF: 1-4 (6-3, F-9, 2B, K), R, 2 RBI
1. Trey McNutt - 3.0 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 PO, 4/2 GO/FO, 43 pitches (26 strikes)
2. Thomas Diamond - 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K, 1/3 GO/FO, 44 pitches (27 strikes)
3. Tarlandus Mitchell - 0.2 IP, 3 H, 5 R (5 ER), 2 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 28 pitches (13 strikes)
4. Drew Rundle - 0.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R (3 ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 1/0 GO/FO, 19 pitches (16 strikes)
5. Corey Martin - 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R,0 BB, 1 K, 1/0 GO/FO, 8 pitches (5 strikes)
CATCHERS DEFENSE: No SB attempts, PB, or errors involving Cubs catchers.
OUTFIELD ASSIST: Brandon Guyer
WEATHER: 90's & sunny
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AZ Phil
Thanks for all the reports from instructs. When does your flight to the DR leave so you can report on the Dominican Instructional League? Can't wait for more Cubs minor league news from you
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AZ Phil
Can you post a list or where can I find a list of where Cub Minor leaguers went for Winter ball so I can continue to follow my favorites?
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just finished watching "Sugar"...one of the best non-comedy baseball flicks i've seen in a long time.
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Glad it's good, I have it sitting right here waiting to be watched.
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Finally watched it, and Crunch is right, Sugar is a good movie.
Guess we can put to rest...
the Arod isn't clutch storylines....
Re: Guess we can put to rest...
this game...and most of the post-season...has been pretty damn awesome.
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Lookie, lookie...E-Man's favorite lefty (he of the 55 ft curveball) is once again a free agent:
The Dodgers made the first decision of an offseason that hasn't even started yet on Friday by declining the $2.2 million 2010 option on left-handed reliever Will Ohman and instead paying a $200,000 buyout that makes him a free agent.
...undergoing surgery on Sept. 29 on the acromioclavicular joint, where the clavicle meets the shoulder blade at the top of the shoulder. He is expected to be ready for Spring Training.
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Wow, with that kind of money the Dodgers could steal Rudy Jaramillo away from the Cubs.
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Ernie the Laureate?
Tribune editorial:
But Banks said he wasn't talking about baseball. "I always had a bigger goal when I was 15," he said, "and that was to win the Nobel Peace Prize."
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Ernie doesn't qualify because he actually did something.
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I like Obama. I voted for him. And I think that comment was damn funny...
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Trib article on Cubs in the AFL; mostly Cashner, also Vitters and Castro.
Welcome to Cubbery: "I thought I threw the ball well except for one pitch," said Cashner
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Instead of throwing money at Rudy Jaramillo in a lame attempt to fix the offense, maybe Hendry would be smarter to be chasing down this man
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quite a quote by Lee...
fwiw, Pirates exercised his 2010 option and would have to release him from his contract and it seems they are not interested in that...
"We exercised the option to protect our club's interest," Huntington said
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I think you dropped the last letter off the link:
That's some endorsement from DLee!
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10-15 wins? lol, okay D. Lee. They better hold on to him, without those 15 wins this year the Pirates would be 47-114 (.292) =)
...But yeah, you like the guy. Got it.
And it took an Izturis...
For those of you who did not stay up late enough, Macier IZTURIS' error allowed Jerry Hairsrton, Jr. of all people to score the winning run for the Yanks last night.
Macier and Izzy are half-brothers. so, obviously there is some family heredity of ineptitude going on there.
As for Hairston, he will be the beneficiary in all probability of an AL Pennant ring, going from one of the worst NL teams, to the Champion of the AL.
What a lucky guy.
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Luck? No, he put them over the hump.
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Our judges also would have accepted "The Breakfast Cub."
Thanks, Phil.
I know when looking at A and AA ballplayers it's important to note the player's age. Must we discount Diamond's because of his relative seniority to other Instructs player? Was that stat line as impressive as it seems? Dominating at Instructs might be cannon fodder at Iowa, right?
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Kenjii Johjima opts out of the final 2 years of his contract to go back to Japan, supposedly leaving $16M on the table.
Doubt it has any Cub implications, but it makes you wonder...
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early christmas for seattle.
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Quote from the above article:
"With the emergence of younger catchers Rob Johnson and rookie Adam Moore."
Nice sentence fragment there, buddy. The Tacoma News Tribune doesn't have a grammatical checker in their software? A better proof reader?
Reminds me of the NWI (previously Hammond) Times here in NW Indiana.
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Why does everybody assume that because one Japanese player had an opt-out clause, then other Japanese players probably have an opt-out clause?
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Probably just a bunch of racists that think all Japanese contracts look alike.
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CNN SI says the Cubs are on the verge of signing Jaramillo at around $800,000 a year, multi-year. Could wind up being the highest paid coach in major league baseball.
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Is Ricketts in charge yet? He should be beating Hendry with a yellow wiffle ball bat.
Hendry leaving a message to Ricketts" The good news...Uh we need some more bullpen help, a second baseman and maybe a shortstop. Oh yeah a lefthanded bat to play RF, a back up third baseman and that's it. Oh one more thing we will probably need to eat $ 21 million of Bradley's contract. And the new hitting coach at nearly a million a year will be okay?
Bad news the Wrigley Field foreman just mentioned that the upper deck will colapse if there are more then 25 people on it next year and Mayor Daley said you need to grow ivey on all the walls of the park, so no more ads.
Can't wait to get Rudy to work with Aaron Miles!!!"
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Pretty sure that Ricketts would be approving any new contracts at this point.
Oh... and contrary to what Marriotti said, Bruce Miles on next year's payroll: "I think it will grow only slightly this off-season"
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Interesting link in comments, Muskrat says Castro could be SS as soon as next season.
Keep Lou away from him.
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I'd be more concerned if I didn't think Muskat was just pandering to a crowd that wants to hear that we have some wunderkind in the minors.
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The club isn't going to 'give' Theriot's job to a rookie with no AAA experience, so that's not really a concern to me.
There's not much not to like about him, going by the age and the stats he's put up. There's a lot of errors, but a major league infield and throwing to Derrek Lee would probably cut those in half, and practice should help cut them down further.
Kevin Goldstein at some point this year called him a 2nd basemen... but he seems to be in the minority opinion on that.
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well damn.
also...do we REALLY need to rush another guy? it's not like castro projects to be a RBI middle infielder.
keep developing his contact, strengthen the consistency of the glove and arm, and bring him up as needed.
it's not like he's a potential utley/arod/etc. kicking around down there no matter how good his early returns on contact and defensive tools are.
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Good comment, crunch, rational as always. Let the kid play, let's see. Also, I was amused at your Brant Brown comments. Would he specialize in teaching the play-by-play people to scream "Noooooo!!!" when he drops the game-winning fly ball? Seriously. though, he seemed like a good guy, who might be able to teach a patient approach.
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hope Hendry throws in a Japanese version of Rosetta Stone software in Jaramillo's contract package
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anyone else find it funny brant brown might be the rangers new hitting coach, btw?
he's got a lot of positive momentum as a hitting coach in the TEX minor league system...AA this past year.
Stubhub trick or treat?
I just got this e-mail from Stubhub...Someone's idea of Taunting?
Where do you want to sit?
Hey Cubster,
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and this followup e-mail:
Hi Cubster,
Earlier today, an email promoting Chicago Cubs postseason tickets was sent to you. This, unfortunately, was a mistake. We regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused.
The StubHub Team
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that's about the only thing regarding the Cubs making the playoffs that I've not got.
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Topprospectalert.com has their 2010 Top 10
#1 Josh Vitters (21)
#2 Andrew Cashner (23)
#3 Starlin Castro (19)
#4 Hak Ju Lee (19)
#5 Brett Jackson (21)
#6 Jay Jackson (21)
#7 Chris Carpenter (23)
#8 D J LeMahieu (21)
#9 Chris Archer (21)
#10 Jose Valdez (22)
My own personal thoughts are that 1-7 and 9 are undoubtedly top Cubs prospects. Anyone think any of the following should have been included: Dae-Eun Rhee (20), Wellington Castillo (22), Ryan Flaherty (23), Tony Campana (23), John Gaub (24), Blake Parker (24), Casey Coleman (22), Jose Rosario (20), Jeffry Antigua (19), Christopher Huseby (21), Kyler Burke (21), Austin Kirk (19), Tyler Colvin (24)?
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How can Kyler Burke, the minor league player of the year this past year, be left off the list?
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well, 09 was his breakout season.
schwartz is a guy who has traditionally gone on coach hype and praise from club/scouts to rank his guys...not a bad start, imo. going by numbers as a starting point can really screw up projections vs. tools/ceiling.
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Maybe it will simply take the Cubs saying "I hope you enjoy Daytona, because until you're going to be there until you learn to field." Not that they've ever shown that restraint, but with Lee, Ramirez and Soriano all slotted for first base over the next five seasons, rushing him up to the bigs to be the next Jake Fox doesn't make much sense.
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Castro when 4/5 today with 2R, 1RBI --- so he has 12 hits in 23 AB in the AFL -- If he is not playing in the majors by the end of next year, something is wrong with the system.
AZ Phil do you think he could be a lead-off hitter or more of the prototypical #2?
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Remember when Sam Fuld was Albert Pujols in the AFL? Good times.
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Fuld was 25 at the time, which make Castro's performance all the more impressive.
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it's nice and all, but take the mystique of the rookie away and you got a faster version of theriot with more upside on his D (though it seems his D has some work to be done with it).
he's a very legit prospect for a guy with no power, but he's not looking like a super-speedster ob% guy or anything. he's swinging for almost every trip to 1st base he takes.
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I'm not saying he isn't a good prospect or that I'm not excited about him. But why should he be in the majors in 2010? Probably not good for him, probably doesn't improve the team. I could be wrong, but for now offensive success at AA and the AFL doesn't make him done with the minors.
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Second time today you said Castro has no power.
Wilken on Castro:
Wilken enumerated Castro's tools as above-average power potential, baserunning abilities and defense.
"In his hitting action, he's got about as good wrists as I've seen in quite some time," Wilken said. "Very supple, and he'll have opposite-field power because he lets the ball travel."
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yeah, maybe he'll develop some. he's still got another growth spurt to go. it's not out of reach.
right now he's got a fast swing and his game is contact. he don't walk...he's gonna swing. he's not turning that contact into anything resembling power yet.
he's got a ways to go before he's in soriano's league.
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Having no power, and having power potential, are not mutually exclusive.
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Crunch -- I agree that he appears to be a faster version of Theriot at this point, but consider that it wasn't until 25 years old that Theriot hit over .300 in the minors and regarding power, Theriot has a career SLG .337 of in the minor while Castro has a .414
Charlie -- I agree he needs more seasoning at the minor league level. I would imagine he starts the year at AA and if his good hitting continues, could earn a mid-season promotion to AAA. The questions is whether he will play for the Cubs in September, which I believe he has a shot at.
AZ Phil -- maybe you can compare his defense as a prospect to Theriot
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Thanks Phil!
The comparison to Cedeno is actually pretty encouraging, as you point out. It seemed like Cedeno's problems stemmed primarily from his attitude, and secondarily from some problems with his swing (I thought he relied too much on his wrists, failed to get his right arm behind the swing and thus impaired his ability to control the bat vertically, which I thought was why he had such a big hole in his swing up in the zone).
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Cedeno is also missing 40% of his brain....little known fact.
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Is it that unreasonable to think that Castro could develop a bit more power (15-20 HR) -- Hanley Ramirez had a SLG of .430 in the minors through age 21. While I like the comparison to Cedeno, Castro does seem to be way ahead and far superior (at least as a prospect)
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Yes, it's unreasonable. Ramirez was a fluke, and he's got more lower body strength that Castro looks to develop.
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the guy has plenty of room to grow.
my only arguement against him coming up any time soon revolves around that growth not happening yet...and he swings, not much on walking or selecting his perfect pitch...and he's not a super speedster.
if he already had his power that'd be another thing. right now he's slapping singles around at a very good rate.
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...little known fact.
also Cedeno stops dead in his tracks and grows antlers when car headlights flash at his eyes
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Isn't that an interesting?
The signing of Jaramillo does not signal a thawing in the Cubs' relationship with Bradley, who is expected to be traded this offseason after spending the final 15 games on the suspended list. But Hendry is unlikely to be willing to eat most of the remaining $21 million on Bradley's contract, so if he can't unload the outfielder, it will be Jaramillo's job to fix him.
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lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
Mark Gonzales @MDGonzales
Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.


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CALCUTTA - The Bulldogs did their part.
The Poland football team scored 42 points through the first three quarter en route to a 42-7 victory over Beaver Local Friday night at Fighting Beaver Stadium to spoil Senior Night for the Beavers.
With the win, the Bulldogs improve to 7-3 on the season, and Poland must wait and see if it has done enough to qualify for the playoffs in Ohio Division III Region 11. The Bulldogs entered play Friday night
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Beaver Local's Dan Lattanzio runs the ball Friday against Poland. (Photo by Aaron Petchal)
ninth in the standings.
Beaver Local ends the season at 2-8 with the loss.
"Hats off to Poland," first-year Beaver Local head coach Jeremy McElroy said. "They are a solid team. They play hard. They are a physical football team."
The game was the final one for Beaver Local as a member of the All-American Conference.
"We broke our AAC losing streak," McElroy said. "We would have liked to accomplish more. We would have liked to have reached more of our goals."
Both teams ran 50 plays in the game. Poland finished with 348 yards and six touchdowns. Beaver Local ended up with 186 yards and one touchdown.
The Bulldogs ran the ball 39 times for 270 yards. Poland scored all six touchdowns came on the ground.
Running back Ross Gould rushed for 113 yards and two touchdowns to lead the way for the Bulldogs. Quarterback Jake Wolfe ran for 14 yards and two touchdowns. Wolfe also completed 8 of 11 passes for 78 yards.
Art Duran led the Bulldogs with two catches for 31 yards.
Poland amassed 16 first downs in the game. The Bulldogs were penalized nine times for 79 yards. Poland fumbled three times, losing one.
The Bulldogs only punted one time in the game. The fourth-quarter punt traveled 28 yards.
The Beavers ran the ball 37 times for 144 yards. The Beavers lone score was a rushing touchdown.
Daniel Lattanzio tallied 52 yards on 12 carries to lead the way for Beaver Local on the ground. Justin Osbourne ran for 55 yards and a touchdown on seven carries.
Austin Brooks and Trevor McLaughlin combined to complete 6 of 13 passes for 42 yards. Brooks was 5 for 12 with 33 yards. He also threw two interceptions.
Osbourne led the team with four catches for 24 yards.
Beaver Local picked up eight first downs in the game. The Beavers committed nine penalties for 87 yards. Beaver Local punted four times with an average of 19.83. The hosts held the ball for 23:50.
The Bulldogs broke the game open with three touchdowns in the second quarter.
Poland opened the scoring in the first quarter. Nick Meris ran in from the 3 to put Poland up 6-0. Conner McFadden made the extra point to make the score 7-0 with 2:59 left to play in the quarter.
In the second stanza, Gould rumbled through the Beaver defense en route to a 46-yard touchdown. McFadden's PAT made the score 14-0 with 11:38 left to play before halftime.
Next, quarterback Jake Wolfe scampered in from the 6, and McFadden's conversion kick split the uprights to put the visitors up 21-0 with 5:13 to play before halftime.
Finally, Wolfe tacked on his second score of the game - this one from 4-yards out - and McFadden's extra point made the score 28-0 with 41.6 seconds still showing on the scoreboard clock.
The Bulldogs added two more touchdowns in the third quarter.
The first came on a 20-yard run by Gould. Bob DeVito tallied the extra point, and Poland led 35-0 with 11:11 to play in the stanza.
Poland's last score of the game came on a 34-yard run by Austin Wilson. McFadden put the ball through the uprights on the extra point to increase the Bulldogs lead to 42-0 with 5:34 left to play in the quarter.
Beaver Local's lone score came on a 2-yard run by Osbourne in the fourth quarter. Justin McCoy converted the extra point making the score 42-7 with 7:45 left to play in the game.
The game was the final one for Beaver Local's 17 seniors.
"Transition is always toughest on the seniors," McElroy said. "They worked hard to get his off on the right foot in the summer, and they did."


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RICHFIELD - A historic building in Richfield has gone from a store to a "shack."
The Sugar Shack, a cafe, opened its doors Dec. 8 in downtown Richfield. The building had formerly been a general store under various ownerships since 1925. Another building used as a general store had existed in the same location from the mid-1800s until Paul Leitzel rebuilt and reopened the business in 1925.
Crystal Huffnagle is the owner once again, after running the store in the late 1990s into the early 2000s. The business than became Jennie's Corner Store until it closed in the spring of this year.
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Manager Katlyn Huffnagle, left, and owner Crystal Huffnagle have opened the doors to The Sugar Shack, a cafe in Richfield that was formerly a general store for many years.
Huffnagle, who had owned the Richfield Country Store with her mother Barb Hoover, is now owner of the Sugar Shack and her daughter, Katlyn Huffnagle is manager.
This is the first time, the business has existed as a cafe and not a store. Most previous owners of the store offered some made-to-order items and a grill was later added to the store to make burgers in addition to the typical store items.
Crystal's business now offers soft-serve ice cream year round as well as pies and other baked goods. There are subs, deep fried broccoli and cheese sticks and french fries, fountain soda and angus beef burgers and hot dogs.
Patrons will come to the counter and place an order. They then have the option of sitting in the newly refurbished dining area or ordering for takeout.
Crystal said the new adventure is a "comfortable" one. The atmosphere of the store has been turned into that of a whimsical cafe complete with pea-green walls, ceiling fans and original hardwood flooring from the 1920s.
"It's just awesome," she said as she sat in the dining area and scanned the room's changes.
New coolers, a new grill and some tables and chairs have livened up the cafe feel.
Crystal is trying to keep the history alive as one wall has been dedicated to framed newspaper clippings about the store and its various ownerships and changes.
"I want to make it like that throughout the cafe," she said of hanging historic clippings on the walls. "I want people to see the history of Richfield."
Hours of operation are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, Monday through Saturday, except for Wednesday when the business is closed. Sunday hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information or for takeout, call 694-3216.


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LISBON - Several parts of a lawsuit involving Chesapeake Exploration were dismissed last week, including parts of the lawsuit against a local man accused of notary fraud and slander.
Roger, Carolyn, James and Bruce Starkey of Mechanicstown in Carroll County filed a lawsuit against Patriot Energy Partners of Lisbon, PEP Leasing of Lisbon, Andrew and Thomas Blocksom of Lisbon, and Robert Dickey of Lisbon. The lawsuit alleges they are involved in some fashion with Patriot Energy and/or helping secure mineral rights leases from the Starkeys on behalf of Patriot Energy.
Also named as defendants are Buckeye Oil Producing Co. of Wooster, Bass Energy of Fairlawn, Wimsatt Family of Paris, Sonata Investment Co. of Columbus, and Chesapeake Exploration because all may have an interest in the leased property.
The lawsuit alleged the company engaged in questionable business practices to obtain the leases for only a fraction of what they were really worth and then sold the leases to other companies for significantly more money. The Starkeys also wanted more than $1 million in damages.
In the ruling by Judge Richard D. Reinbold Jr., visiting judge in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, several parts of the lawsuit were dismissed. First, any claims of notary fraud or notary irregularities were dismissed, except for the rights of the plaintiffs to challenge whether Dickey properly notarized or had the right to notarize the plaintiff's leases. The ruling declares the plaintiffs may not argue any notary improprieties is in itself fraud.
Additionally, any assertion of slander was dismissed as well as any assertion Dickey committed fraud by not having a license. The claim of unjust enrichment was also dismissed. Finally, the question of quieting the title was dismissed.
The case will continue with a trial on Oct. 9 with several claims still to be determined including those dealing with fraudulent concealment and inducement, as well as civil conspiracy. Additionally the claim of a breech of contract by Chesapeake Exploration will continue.


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Suspected drunken driver arrested, spotted driving on 3 wheels
Wauwatosa police made the arrest Sunday
Published 10:48 PM CDT Mar 20, 2013
It wasn't hard for Wauwatosa police to catch a suspected drunken driver, he was driving a car with only three wheels.
Police said they pulled over the 23-year-old Brookfield man on Sunday as he was driving down the Menomonee Rivery Parkway near Tower View Boulevard.
The man told the officer he didn't know his front driver's side tire had fallen off.
According to a police report obtained by 12 News the man's breathalyzer test reading showed him at .28.
It was the man's first offense.
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Patty Aleman-Chavarria
KVIA Art Director Patty Aleman-Chavarria came to ABC-7 knowing she had attained one of her dreams.
Patty made up her mind years ago to find a way to make a career out of designing. While she was pursuing that dream, she stumbled upon a job in television, and fell in love with the broadcast industry. She was at a crossroads. How could she be a designer, yet not give up on the invigorating environment of news, deadlines, and stress? (to be continued)Patty was born in Ciudad Juarez Chih. Mexico and moved to El Paso with her family when she was a child. She dappled in the design arena as far back as she can remember.
While attending Socorro High School, Patty landed a job in television and put her interests in design on the back burner, temporarily. She learned to operate studio cameras; she trained to edit; she familiarized herself with broadcasting design equipment; and if those three areas weren't enough, she decided she wanted to learn to direct news. She learned to direct news all right. Patty was a director for news at KTSM Channel 9 for four of the seven years she worked there."Paying your dues" is a standard mantra for rookies in the news industry, and Patty was no exception. Patty pulled the early morning news shift for a while. Waking up at 3 a.m. presented her with a challenge. A breakfast challenge. A splash of coffee in a mug of hot chocolate that turned cold within minutes was the solution. Oh, and doughnuts.
Between newscasts, Patty found herself spending more and time shadowing her colleagues responsible for all the graphic elements in the newscasts. She discovered a need for graphic designers in the television industry.
According to Patty, "that's when the light bulb went off in my head and I realized I could have a career in the field I love, graphic design, and not have to leave a new industry I had also grown to love."Patty stayed with KTSM for seven years and joined KVIA as Art Director in February of 2003. She is finished her degree in Graphic Design at UTEP with a minor in Painting. She is happy to be at KVIA, and we are very happy to have her.


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Skating accident ends future with Ice Capades
My career with the Ice Capades ended before it began when I broke my leg while ice skating on Presque Isle Bay.
That's probably good, because the Ice Capades died out a decade or so later, and I would have been left unemployed. Plus I'm not sure how I would have looked in those short skirts and sequins.
But that childhood accident did have some negative repercussions for me.
I know it's why I fear walking on ice or other slippery surfaces, and I'm pretty sure it's why I don't like going to a doctor or the hospital.
Living in Erie, especially in winter and during cold and flu season, it's hard to avoid those circumstances. But I try.
Ice is something I used to love being on.
When my father and grandfather went ice fishing on the bay, I'd go along and skate. They'd take a broom to brush off the snow so my skates wouldn't stick and also to reveal any holes left by previous people out fishing. While my dad and grandfather fished, I did figure eights and even attempted small jumps.
I liked skating so much that if I couldn't get on the bay, I'd do it on my city street. This was back when we were lucky if snowplows passed our house twice in the same winter. So there was usually packed snow and ice on the street. Conditions weren't the greatest for skating, but my friends and I did it anyway.
Then came the day when I broke my leg in a freak accident. We had actually finished skating and were on our way off the bay when I slipped and fell, twisting my leg beneath me.
The result was a trip to the emergency room and a cast that covered me from my thigh to my toes and was bent at the knee. After six weeks, the doctor took the cast off and told me to straighten my leg. When I couldn't, he yelled, I cried, and the male nurse or attendant in the room started making fun of me, calling me "Miss Ow Ow" because that was the sound I made when the doctor pushed down on my knee.
Ever since, I've avoided ice and dreaded doctor offices.
Normally a fast walker, I take baby steps when traveling across a frozen parking lot and am likely to grab onto the arm of anyone nearby if I feel myself slipping.
Usually not one to get sick, when it does happen, I put off going to the doctor until the symptoms become unbearable even though I've come across plenty of nice and caring health-care professionals in the years since.
Most recently was during a visit to a hospital to have a test done. It wasn't particularly scary or painful, but I was glad to have a wonderful woman in the room with the two doctors. She set everything up, explained what would be taking place and stood by my side, talking to me and patting my arm.
Her kindness, calm and concern had me completely at ease and thinking that hospitals aren't so bad after all.
But I'm still not ready to lace up skates and risk another visit to the emergency room.
The skaters with Disney on Ice, a successor to the Ice Capades, have nothing to worry about. I won't be auditioning for any of their show spots.
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Breaking News
Oscar Pistorius to Be Released on Bail
Pistorius will be released on U.S. $114,000 bail, CNN reports.
Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair announced his decision in a packed Pretoria courtroom Friday afternoon. Over the past four days during the bail hearing, both authorities and Pistorius's legal team agreed that he killed Steenkamp, 29, but the athlete says he killed her accidentally after he mistook her for an intruder.
In final arguments Friday morning, prosecutor Gerrie Nel, having called the accused a flight risk, told the judge that Pistorius, 26, didn't deserve bail. CNN reports. "He must realize that long-term imprisonment is almost guaranteed," said Nel. "He might think he'll be acquitted."
The prosecutor also said: "We all know that a lot of important people were granted bail and they stayed in the country. But lots of very important people have escaped."
"What kind of life would he lead if he were to flee?" asked the magistrate.
"A life of freedom," Nel replied.
The judge later said in lengthy remarks leading up to his decision Friday that he did not find that it had been established that Pistorius posed a flight risk. Nair also said that he was aware that releasing the accused could lead to "shock and outrage" in the community.
Entering the courtroom Friday, Pistorius bowed his head, and later appeared to be holding back tears when Nel recounted Steenkamp's plight on the fateful night, reports The New York Times.
"I am not saying the planning of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp happened weeks ahead, days ahead," said Nel, according to the newspaper. "I am saying the planning to kill Reeva Steenkamp happened that night."


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Sources: Bloomberg, The New York Times
quote: If this $100k car can't handle being driven at speeds alot of Americans drive on the highways it's a glorified golf cart.
quote: This evaluation was intended to demonstrate its practicality as a "normal use," no-compromise car, as Tesla markets it. Now that Tesla is striving to be a mass-market automaker, it cannot realistically expect all 20,000 buyers a year (the Model S sales goal) to be electric-car acolytes who will plug in at every Walmart stop.
quote: This is why plugin hybrids are the future.
quote: I'd not count out fuel cell vehicles in a slightly longer timeframe though
quote: Perhaps just a minor hassle if you own a home, not so minor if you're cruising the highways or live in an apartment. To that end Elon has chosen his market more wisely than Nissan has.


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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Malaysia's Economic Stagnation, A Symptom of Its Politics
Politicians and policy makers have largely remained superficial, racist and prefer style over substance.
Despite a long list of slogans, BTN courses and official programmes, the nation is continuing its spiral decline. It does not take long for Malaysia to look behind its back and finds no one else. Recently, an analyst said he would not be surprised to find the country exporting maids in the next 20 years.
Husni said Malaysia's economy has been stagnating for the past decade and is now trailing badly behind its neighbours, calling for "urgent" and wide-ranging reforms.
He added that Malaysia is trapped in a low-value-added, low-wage and low-productivity structure.
While Singapore and Korea's nominal per capita GDP grew within the last three decades by 9 and 12 times respectively, ours grew only by a factor of four.
In a withering assessment, Ahmad Husni said the services sector is underdeveloped, private investment is half the levels before the 1997-98 Asian crisis, and the manufacturing sector is suffering from lack of investment.
There are several worrying signs in the country:
1) Najib administration may have started the ball rolling on NEP liberalisation but his government does not seem to have a comprehensive and convincing post-NEP strategy to address the shortfalls of this policy.
2) Complacency, wastage and incompetency are still the main pillars of the civil sector. Companies, institutions, agencies and departments run by civil workers are not innovative, motivated or service oriented despite endless of courses, programmes and incentives given to them. Most of the government's policy flip-flops are caused by those officers who are not well-versed with public policy initiatives.
3) Low quality and poorly informed policy makers or politicians in the ruling government.
4) Over politicized education system. More students are scoring distinctions but less are capable of critical thinking. Worse, all the government sponsored students are required to attend the controversial BTN courses.
5) Most of us are living and acting like zombies! We do our job without a sense of pride and admiration of our own products and services. We need to put quality, excellence and creativity at the forefront, not just doing the job. Why some companies or government agencies are so unpopular? Its because their people JUST DON'T CARE. Do you?
6) Both corruption and racism must end if Malaysia wants to surge ahead of the rest. It is not easy. It will not be a stroll on the park. Alone, Husni is not enough to change the nation. We need to work together as a society who want to make Malaysia a more competitive economy.
I know Straight Talkers have a lot to complain but can we hear some suggestions from you? What can we do?
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The root cause is the NEP. It breeds corruption and racist politicians who back it to the hilt to reap the economic benefits.
We are well on our way to exporting maids, that's for sure.
Goverment servants that can't perform/lazy,sack them regardless of race.Those that have the ability to perform in whatever sector must be given the chance to move up.
Competition can improve ability.
- Gemini said...
Look at the performance of our government servants! Most of the time, they just "buat-buat sibuk" only.
Slogans are being displayed at every corner of the government offices, but do they serve the purpose?
- rightan said...
even if we overhaul the whole system tomorrow,abolish NEP,quota,open tender...ect, we still need one generation to make thing right bocoz we have been culturally embedded with all sorts of bad habits over the past 30 yrs.can we do it?
once a while, someone in umno will come out with some smart quotes, and then the umno propaganda machinery, ie the press and the rtms, will go into full blast and trumpet how only umno knows what ails the country and umno is the only party that can cure all. sure, there are some smart people in umno, but almost all carry a baggage that prevent them from doing the right thing. you dont join umno to save the country. you join umno to eat the cake.
kkp, you also cannot save the country with an efficient civil service. the usa and most of europe also have a "lazy" government machinery. however, they have equal rights and freedom of expression. and in the case of the usa, they have a very powerful document called the bill of rights, which guarantees anyone who is a citizen/resident, no matter color of their skin, equality. it is no accident that the usa produce so many inventors and innovations, because what you create and make, you are rewarded.
however, in malaysia, if you invent something, or come out with a great development idea, umno will steal it from you. so do you wonder why malaysia has made no significant inventions, and even a malaysian who invented the thumb drive prefers to do it in taiwan?
so what do i suggest? give zaid and his team time to draft up malaysia's version of a bill of rights, and make this into a checks and balance system such as exist in uk a 2-party system. when political abuse stops, the economy will grow.
The present government is caught between a rock and a hard place with regard to the economy. Malaysia is suffering from the Dutch disease aka the resource curse.
Formerly, Malaysia was the top global producer of tin, rubber and palm oil. Both tin and rubber is history, leaving palm oil only. Our petroleum resource is fast depleting.
FDI is bypassing us for China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore etc.
We have no surplus for a rainy day and there is no world class company exporting made in Malaysia products.
Unless and until radical progressive changes are made in our economic, educational and social policies with the political will to see it through, the consequences are dire.
Uncle Khoo,
You missed out on one major reason :- our judiciary and MACC which are puppets of the executive.
With such gomen arms behaving like Zimbabwe copycats, no right minded FDI will want to invest their $ here.
Better be safe than sorry!
Unccle koo, one more reason, the minorities r too big and demand everything at expense of majority
The only solution is change the government in GE13!Let the alternative govt some few years to rule to see results.Afterall, we have endured BN for more than 50years, so why not a chance to the alternative govt?
What can we do? We can analyze and criticize endlessly but in a top down administration, only the decision maker counts. Each of us have only one vote, exercisable once every 5 years and we need to make that vote count. We really need a 2 party/coalition system to keep politicians reasonably honest, or it will soon be a 3rd world Malaysia.
- Khoo Kay Peng said...
Boy 9.57am, since u called me uncle,
Yes, the minorities are too big. These UMNO puteras are taking everything and demanding for everything at the expense of the majority normal people. I hope you will not grow up to be associated with such a group.
Be a good boy and help the poor and oppressed. God bless u!
What policys..?
Wasn't our budget set oredy for 2010..??
So fast they see that it won't work, that's why they wanna change..??
Mmm.... Slap the right, then slap the left face...!!!!!
All they can ever do is....
"It's our rights. It's all mine..! Don't question our rights..!!!"
Don't they work hard for the money..????
1) The opposition parties should consolidate their powers and strength and come together as an effective alternative party.
They must also look into their weaknesses and turn them into their advantage and strength.
Call for united forums on important and urgent issues regarding Human rights; Economy; Corruptions; Nepotism and Cronyism; Demoracy; Local government; National resources and energy; our National Education Policy; Judiciary; and the coming 13GE, etc, etc, etc.
2) Voters must exercise their rights to vote and vote intelligently.
3) NGOs should voice their non partisan views of the present government and advise your members accordingly.
4) Religious bodies could also advise the members to maintain a discerning attitude towards any untoward actions of the government and pray for peace and harmony in the nation.
my 2cents worth of suggestions.
Malaysia have actually lost considerabl grounds a decade ago.The Government of the day and even the think tanks failed to realise or choose to ignore.Export of skills & professionals and Import of unskilled workers!The failures of massive projects headed by the Government!The absence of an excellent education system and educationist from primary to tertiary!The latter is the backbone of any modern society.
Malaysia is not short of governing policies,processes,campaigns,slogans,etc.It is the people who executes and manages.As even the ex-PM admits,which he is to be blamed too, that the norm is to hire someone less capable in the Government Service.You can imagine the domino effect fro the top to the bottom!Even if BN is voted out, does the opposition PKR have a solid team to take over? I have my doubts.
Dear Khoo,
If u're really interested in some serious suggestions, pls get a copy of iCapital newsletters dated 19/11/09 and 26/11/09 which reproduced articles written more than 10 years ago.
The former issue contains 2 detailed proposals for our Government to improve the country's economy while the latter issue contains worrying trends and issues for the Govt to take note of and to act on. Both articles highlighted the fact that if the Govt wants to improve the country's economy, it needs to focus on 3 major areas - Productivity, Efficiency and Productivity (PEC). The 2 proposals and the trends and issues were originally written between 1994 and 1999 (yes, that's between 10-15 years ago, a few years even before the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis) by the author, Tan Teng Boo of Capital Dynamics, a well-known and successful investment fund manager.
can someone find one who can realyy really perform their work right in all government sectors and/or GLC companies? i fully doubt it...... perhaps, the next generation, it means another 50 years....
Those blindly supported BN in the past elections were partly to blame. They know the BN with so many corrupted, racist and incompetent leaders yet they still voted for them to be their goverment!
I am wondering why Husni is talking so frankly. Every time when one of these creature talks like this, something funny will happen. So let us watch.
In order to solve this problem, the first thing we got to do is to vote out BN in next GE, so all youngmen and youngwomen ,please register yourself as a voter first, otherwise, all remain as empty talk only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- lleekh said...
Kudos to the Minister. The first step is an acknowledgement of the problem. Wonderful and refreshing to read that here is somebody with eyes wide open. Wonder if the mamak 2nd finance minister is aware? I assume that there are officials in the Ministry who has alerted the Minister of the dire straits we are in. If the PM were to follow suit, then something can be done. But if they are still in denial and say like the BTM Chief then we are all bungkus!


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How Important Is Metadata To An Information Management Strategy?
By Ian Thomas on Aug 31, 2013
It's been a while since my first post and a lot has happened. I have now formed an Information Management Architecture team within our European Data Integration Solutions team to engage more strategically with our customers and partners around helping them to develop their information management strategy.
I'll be discussing aspects of information management strategy in this blog along the lines of the first blog posting. Let's start with a subject that always starts an interesting debate - metadata.
What is Metadata?
Metadata is 'data about data' and can be divided into four basic classifications:
- Business Metadata - the business meaning of data. It includes business definitions of the objects and metrics, hierarchies, business rules, and aggregation rules.
- Operational Metadata - Operational metadata stores information about who accessed what and when.
- Technical Metadata - Technical Metadata describes the data structures and formats such as table types, data types, indexes, and partitioning method.
- Process Metadata - Process Metadata describes the data input process.
Typical Use Cases
- Introspection - discovering and harvesting of information into a metadata repository
- Impact Analysis - analyse dependencies across the architecture. Requires end to end view of interdependencies
- Data Lineage - description of the origins of a piece of data and the proves by which it arrived in the database. The 'provenance' or 'pedigree.'
Why Is Metadata Important To An Organization?
Accurate and comprehensive metadata enables the evaluation of an architecture's efficiency and eases the process of changing or evolving the architecture. For example, when you want to change a particular component then what is the impact on other components in the architecture?
Metadata can have a key part to play in regulatory compliance initiatives or certification processes to clearly demonstrate what components exist in the organization's architecture, their capabilities and interdependencies.
Information and data management initiatives such as common reference data across an organization as part of an Master Data Management strategy. A clean, accurate view of corporate reference data requires clean, accurate metadata.
Enabling cost savings and efficiency through better insight and more efficient troubleshooting and impact analysis and helping to avoid data duplication.
What Approaches Do Customers Take?
Shared Metadata Repository
A common repository used by different tools to share metadata across the toolsets. This is seen as the 'nirvana' of data integration and has many advantages but has some practical limitations that need to be overcome:
- There are many different roles involved in an integration strategy from business users, Data Stewards, ETL Developers to report builders. The tool needs to cater for all these types of users or each individual tool needs to provide a specific interface into the metadata repository.
- Common naming standards and definitions need to be defined, so all users understand they are addressing the same underlying data.
Individual product innovation should not be stifled by having to adhere to a common metadata repository such as having to wait for a new release of the repository before releasing a new version of the tool or not being able to release new functionality because the common repository won't support it.
Metadata Bridge
A common view of metadata across different tools holding metadata about the individual metadata repositories. This is a more loosely coupled approach than a common repository and allows flexibility in introducing new tools and technologies and a more agile approach to data integration as well a single point of reference for regulatory reporting, for example.
There is an overhead in administration and making sure there is an up to date view of metadata information in a timely manner.
Specific Metadata Repository Integration Between Tools
Where tools have their own individual metadata repositories for describing functionality and capability within their tool set, specific points of integration can be developed or the metadata repository extended where it adds value to the business.
For example, sharing metadata between an ETL tools and a reporting tool would achieve a level of data lineage from report to data sources if the reporting tool could interrogate the ETL tool's metadata or import metadata from the ETL tool. A specific development is needed between the tools in this case.
What is Oracle's Approach?
The Oracle technology stack is driven by metadata and all the types of metadata mentioned above from metadata within the business applications to technical metadata within the database and Fusion Middleware products. A 'one size fits all' approach is not viable across the whole stack but there are some standards being used and some specific points of integration. Let's take a look at some of these:
Oracle Metadata Services (MDS)
MDS is a metadata standard across the Fusion Middleware stack and can be used as a central metadata store for multiple Fusion Middleware components such as SOA Suite, Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) and Oracle WebCenter. It is described in detail in the following article Storing SCA Metadata in the Oracle Metadata Services Repository.
Oracle Enterprise Repository
Oracle Data Integration Solutions and Metadata
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is a metadata driven tool and has its own metadata repository, which is extensible via FlexFields and has a Smart Export/Import utility to easily exchange data with other tools. A specific integration between ODI and Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) has been done to share metadata for data lineage and impact analysis. this is described in the white paper Managing Metadata With Oracle Data Integrator.
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) also has its own repository but can share metadata with ODI via Export/Import functions and EDQ functionality can be directly included within ODI process flows.
ODI and Application Adapter for Hadoop
ODI builds Hadoop metadata through it Knowledge Modules and the Application Adapter for Hadoop. Map Reduce jobs can be created, orchestrated and coordinated through an easy to use interface and information loaded through to an Oracle relational database using ODI and the Oracle Loader for Hadoop. This enables shared metadata between Hadoop and Oracle and a bridge between the two types of technology as part of an overal information management strategy. For more information see Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop.
Metadata Bridging Technology
Third party tools are available to act as a bridge or central point for multiple metadata repositories. An example is the Meta Integration Model Bridge (MIMB) from Meta Integration Technology Inc., which is the foundation technology for several vendor's metadata solutions such as IBM and Informatica.
Here's a few key points to finish with:
Take a Pragmatic Approach - Specific metadata solutions for specific use cases based on defined business benefits
Integration at a Product level Where Possible - Look for specific points of integration at a solution level to reduce development effort and overall product maintenance
Metadata Sharing Promotes Operational Efficiency - Share metadata between data structures as well as with SOA and Middleware components will help with troubleshooting and impact analysis
Better Insight and Cost Savings - Insight into relationships between data structures to analyse the cost of change and make it easier to know how the data structures have been derived
Bridge the divide between structured and unstructured information - As part of a Big Data strategy to gain a better understanding of your overall information architecture through a standardised metadata approach.
I hope this has given an insight into how important metadata can be to an information management strategy and how Oracle take a pragmatic approach to metadata management. Watch this space to see how Oracle will continue to develop this strategy.
Special thanks to Stephen Bennett of Oracle's Global Enterprise Architecture team for some of the definitions around metadata from his soon to be published Information Management Reference Architecture white paper.


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I sat down at Rotary on Tuesday beside a longtime Penn State fan who told me, "This whole thing has been like a family member died."
Three days later, another season-ticket holder said he and his brother will be going to the opener "and we'll both probably be in tears."
Such is the plight of the Penn State fan these days.
Bill O'Brien has done his best to distance himself from the scandal while somehow keeping the majority of his team together.
A football season that - finally - begins in two weeks should help mercifully shift the focus from Jerry
Sandusky, the firing and death of Joe Paterno, the Freeh report, the harsh, over-the-top NCAA sanctions and the daily ESPN crawl.
But we also have to get used to the fact that the past will be part of the future, certainly the foreseeable future.
For example, Joe Paterno's authorized biography, "Paterno," written by Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski, who had inside access and got way more than he bargained for, will be released this week.
Excerpts published in Gentlemen's Quarterly talked about Paterno crying "uncontrollably" after learning of his dismissal.
Perhaps most interesting in the teasers, though, was an exchange between Dan McGinn, a public-relations specialist hired by the Paterno family, and Paterno advisor Guido D'Elia. After the grand jury presentment was released Nov. 5, and following the arrests of Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, McGinn sought an olive branch with the Board of Trustees to negotiate a graceful ending and avoid what ultimately happened.
He asked D'Elia for one member of the board in Paterno's camp.
Amazingly, he was promptly informed there was not a single one - even though the board is comprised of 32 members, and even though Paterno had been revered for many years. In the board's eyes, Paterno obviously had stayed way too long, and he had no allies left - not even, apparently, his former players on the BOT.
"One person on the board, that's all we need," McGinn said.
D'Elia shook his head no.
"It began in 2004," he whispered, referring to an old clash Paterno had with Graham Spanier. "The board started to turn. We don't have anybody on the board now."
GQ will publish the full excerpt Monday at gq.com, and the book's release will follow.
Then there's the NCAA, and there have been conflicting reports on whether Penn State was in fact presented with multiple years of a death penalty - as PSU President Rodney Erickson said - or the sanctions it accepted in the consent decree.
"The overwhelming vote in both the executive committee and the Division I board was not to include a suspension of play or death penalty, and then we quickly moved to the menu of actions [that were imposed]," Ed Ray, Oregon State's president and the president of the NCAA's executive committee, told The Oregonian newspaper. "And we voted unanimously to support that package.
"At no time did we ever have a discussion about, 'If they [Penn State] don't do this, we're going to do that.' ... I can tell you categorically, there was never a threat made to anyone about suspension of play if the consent decree was not agreed to."
Someone - either Ray or Erickson - seems to have grossly misunderstood the other. It's unclear which, but it's difficult to imagine Erickson would agree to the sanctions unless they were the better alternative.
You also have to wonder how much the NCAA further penalized Penn State because Spanier was its president. Spanier was a past leader on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors, a member of its executive committee and a colleague to both Ray and NCAA President Mark Emmert.
Maybe the NCAA didn't appreciate how Spanier presided over a "Success With Honor" program, knowing its closet was full of people - top leaders - who knew about Sandusky's hobby of, at minimum, showering and interacting one-on-one, often at night, with young boys.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General confirmed last week that it has not ruled out criminal charges against Spanier.
In 2001, Spanier ran with the bulls in Spain. Based on what's happened since, he would have been better off had he been trampled then.
Meanwhile, PSU fans, curious whether Emmert will again swing the NCAA's sledgehammer, are keeping a close eye on the academic scandal that has engulfed the University of North Carolina,where student-athletes were given grades for 54 classes in the school's African and Afro-American Studies program that met infrequently or not at all.
The point here is not to make a comparison on which university lacked more institutional control, only to pass along that I got several emails and phone calls about it last week. Rest assured: Eyes are peeled off the field.
To all of this, football season will provide a welcome diversion, but only until the latest piece of news crosses the wire or hits your phone via Twitter.
So when the pigskin fills the air, try to enjoy it - the next nine months have to be better than the last nine.
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From 1937 to 1966, the Hawaiian Room at the Hotel Lexington in New York City featured prominent Hawaiian musicians and hula performers. On Thurs., December 6, from 2–3:00 p.m., six "aunties" who performed at the historic Hawaiian Room will appear in-person at Windward Community College's new Library Learning Commons, lower level, in conjunction with a unique exhibit marking the popular New York City attraction's 75th Anniversary.
Led by TeMoana Makolo, the aunties will share personal stories, their favorite hula and answer questions about their experiences as young people in New York City representing Hawai'i and sharing the meaning of aloha to millions on the East Coast.
The Hula Preservation Society and Windward Community College are celebrating the anniversary with a multi-media exhibit, The Hawaiian Room, Dine, Dance, Romance, The Lexington, featuring photographs, newspaper clippings and oral history segments from the archives of the musicians and hula practitioners who made New York City their home while performing at the Hotel Lexington. Over the course of its 30-year run, The Hawaiian Room productions received rave reviews as an off-Broadway show.
The Hawaiian Room, Dine, Dance, Romance, The Lexington is on view at Hale La'akea (Library Learning Commons) lower level until December 17.
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hey everyone, ill first start off by saying im am from *gulp* chicago and ive always wanted to experience a Blackhawks - Red Wings game in Detroit so Im planning on making the trip out there next week. Ive never been to the Detroit area so any suggestions/tips would be great.
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I was an obsessive child.
I hated not knowing.
I had to know the answers and retorts like, Because Im your mother thats why, or Because I said so, were never acceptable answers.
I was an inquisitive sort. Especially at Christmas.
What I wanted to know: How did Santa Claus do the whole presents thing?
The Christmas stories such as Twas the Night Before Christmas, covered St. Nicks schemes saying he came down the chimney with a bound carrying a sack full of presents.
Thats all fine and good except my house never had a chimney.
I was eight years old and still very much a staunch disciple of the whole Magic of Christmas concept despite my misgivings. I should have been content and satisfied with the fact that I woke up every Christmas morning with presents under the Christmas tree.
But I wasnt.
So on Christmas Eve, I waited.
My siblings were younger and accepted Santas bounty with blissful ignorance. They never questioned the antics of the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny either.
They accepted these with blind faith. I did not.
So I lay there in my bed, staring up at the ceiling as my brother snored in the bunk below. He would not be my partner in crime in this endeavor as he was just three and barely knew he was alive yet.
Neither did I enlist the help of my sisters. One was a blabbermouth and the other I called The Informant.
If I were doing something steeped in malfeasance, she would inform my parents of said behavior and the spankings would commence. This tradition played out for about 23 years and I never learned not to trust my youngest sister.
But I did well this night. My plans to catch Santa were my secret and my secret alone.
So I waited until the house was quiet and dark. I waited while the smiling full moon tracked across the night sky. He knew, but he wasnt telling. I waited well into the night and resisted the pull of sleep.
And then I made my move.
I slid out of the top bunk, careful not to disturb my brother. Then I tippy-toed out into the hallway, pausing to detect the steady rhythmic snoring of my two sisters.
My parents bedroom door was closed.
I crept into the kitchen and family room and turned to enter the front living room where the family Christmas tree stood sentinel and waited for our arrival on Christmas morning.
I heard the tinkle of a tiny bell from beyond and leaped into the room to turn on the lights and announce with righteous and knowing glee, AH HA!
The room was empty.
There was no fat little elf with the twinkling eyes and the dimples so merry, with cheeks like roses and a nose like a cherry, or whose belly shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly.
Nope, just lots and lots of presents.
The presents were all there, neatly arranged under the tree; even a brand new bicycle for me on my side of the tree, a Huffy 26-inch cruiser, just as Id written at the top of my list.
How did he do it?
Somewhere deep in the recesses of my tiny eight-year old brain, a voice answered my query, Your brother and sister have a point, kid. Theres plenty of time to sweat the small stuff. Just enjoy what is today, and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
Like homework.
Okay, I get it, but come Easter, that bunny, and how he comes in possession of all those eggs...
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A patrolman with the Salem Police Department since June 1993, Poage was suspended without pay on Tuesday pending the outcome of the court case. Police Chief J.T. Panezott said he was evaluating Poage's personnel file "to decide if any other action will be taken prior to this being resolved in court."
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