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Darren Bernier is a former NASCAR driver from Minot, ME. In his brief career, he competed in two Nationwide Series events.
Bernier made his debut in 1987, competing at Oxford Plains. Bernier made the field with a 34th place effort. Bernier would complete all but five laps and ended up in 27th.
Bernier returned to Oxford in 1988, having much better results. After staring 28th, Bernier steadily made his way up the running order. He finished 6th in the event, his only career top-10. Bernier has not raced in NASCAR since.


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SICKNESS rates of council workers helping vulnerable people in Worcestershire average two weeks off every year, according to shock new data.
Your Worcester News can reveal how front-line staff working at Worcestershire County Council's adult social care department take 9.8 days off with illness.
It compares to an average of seven days off sick for back office county council workers, and less than five in the private sector.
The elected politician in charge of adult care has admitted staff are "under great pressure" but has vowed to try and bring it down.
The front-line workers deal with 6,000 vulnerable adults across the county, including elderly people and those with disabilities.
Figures show how sickness rates averaged 10.1 days in 2012/13, and it fell very slightly to 9.8 in 2013/14.
Conservative Councillor Sheila Blagg, the cabinet member for adult social care, said: "The field workers are the ones who have the highest sickness rates and they do feel pressurised.
"The pressure they face is always going to be different to those who do form filling.
"I've seen situations personally where (vulnerable) people don't like change, they end up linking to a particular member staff and like that person so much, that they become almost like a friend with that person.
"That in itself puts real pressure on the staff, but it's unavoidable because it's part of the job."
She also said the council's leadership also puts pressure on them to get results.
"We are all guilty of putting pressure on to them, but again it can often be unavoidable if we want to get to the bottom of something or help change things," she said.
She said "there will always be a discrepancy" between field workers and those in office-based roles at the council.
Her comments were made during a full council meeting in response to questioning from Labour Councillor Graham Vickery, who asked her "what are you going to do" to reduce it.
Cllr Blagg said they will "never get to the stage" where adult social care field workers take the same sick days as other staff.

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BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — "Monday Night Football" will air on ESPN through the 2021 season under an eight-year contract extension between the network and the NFL.
The previous deal went through the 2013 season. After 36 years on ABC, the package moved to ESPN in 2006.
The contract announced Thursday includes rights to simulcast the games on tablet devices and expanded international rights.


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NC dealer with a wide variety of antique furniture,decorative and fine art,jewelry,art glass, silver
About Antiques by CR KingOur Service Pledge To You: Please remember that a lot of the pieces that we have inside shops are in our retail shop in North Carolina. We will do our best to make sure that all pieces are available as you have interest, but in the case that a piece should sell the same day that you inquire, we are sorry. If this should happen, we will try to find something similar for you. We are willing to deal with our on line customers the same as we do with our local customers. Please feel free to call us.
We will always do our best to picture and describe accurately. Your order will be taken care of ASAP. Please contact us on any and all questions before you purchase. Please respond in the same fashion so that any items we have marked SOLD or HOLD for you can be shipped to you without delay. This has been a full time business for us for the past 27 years, and we are serious about our business and customer relations. Thank you for shopping with us.
Pieces that we have pictured in our shop are just a very small amount of the inventory we have on hand. Other than our local retail shop we have a 35' by 70' two story warehouse on our property that is filled with other stock. We also have a large amount of antique garden furniture, concrete, and architectural pieces. Please contact us if you are looking for something that we do not have listed.
Dear Mr. King - The plates just arrived in perfect packing condition, for which I am highly appreciative. They are absolutely stunning and certainly will make a wonderful heirloom collection for us. We shall treasure these plates wherever we go. Many thanks for carrying these on Ruby Lane, my favorite online shopping venue where I have always received excellent service, choices, and knowledge that vendors, like yourself, have been properly vetted for their professionalism and quality inventory. Graciously, Meg McDonough President, Luxury Hospitality Consultants, LLC (Sarasota) Dear Randy This quick post to thank you for the very fast shipping of my two wonderful birds ! These are magnificents and in mint conditions .Perfect; the parcel arrived safely ,and as it was perfectly and carefully wrapped nothing bad happened ... Thank you again Randy for your excellent service and very nice items ,will save your store as a favorit ; Kind regards, jean-Louis Coupe
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Justin Bieber Forced To Admit That He Isn't Dating Kim Kardashian
After Kim Kardashian tweeted about receiving death threats from over zealous Justin Bieber fans, Biebs felt compelled to calm his fans down and admit the truth: he and Kim are not dating.
Yes, it might come as a shock to some of you that an underage pop sensation is not dating a female celebrity who is 13 years older than himself; but you see, Justin and Kim are just friends.
From Justin's Twitter (via PopEater):
Ladies calm down. [Kardashian] is a friend. A very sexy friend but a friend. No need 4 threats. Let's all be friends and hang out often.
It doesn't surprise us that some Bieber fans can go a little nuts when it comes to the Bieb (he's caused how many teen riots? 50?) but we do sense some disappointment in Bieber's tweet that he and the beautiful Kim are just friends. Not that we blame him for being sad about it.
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By Rose L. Thayer
Killeen Daily Herald
FORT HOOD - The race is officially on to close Fort Hood's landfill by 2020.
Leaders and volunteers met at Club Hood Thursday for a kick-off workshop for the installation's Net Zero Waste Program.
"I'm excited about closing the landfill in 2020 and not spending the $3 million a year to collect and maintain it," said Brian Dosa, director of the Directorate of Public Works.
Fort Hood was one of six installations selected by the Army for its zero-waste pilot program earlier this year. To reach that 2020 goal, it will take everyone on post, said Jennifer Rawlings, sustainability coordinator with the directorate's environmental division.
The effort has been divided into four working groups: reduction, repurposing, recycling, and marketing and outreach. Each group is composed of a cross section of Fort Hood's population, including soldiers, civilian employees and contractors, said Dosa.
"We all buy products and throw them away. We have to make people aware of what they are doing with products when they are done with them," said Rawlings, adding there will be challenges along the way.
"Education is the hardest part, but it's also the most important," she said.
Nick Johnsen is the goal leader for marketing and outreach efforts, and said he agrees that changing a culture isn't easy.
"The biggest challenge is trying to change people's behaviors. We've done some studies and we know that you can't change people by punishing them. But if you change the windows of which people view their life and environment, then there will be success in making them want to do the right thing," he said. Johnsen is a volunteer for the Net Zero program and serves as the director of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation at Fort Hood.
Dosa agreed that it starts with an individual's choices. "It starts with me and it starts with you," he said. "It starts with changing behavior in your own house. No one can change all of Fort Hood, you can only change the people around you."
About 9,000 tons of materials were recycled last year at Fort Hood, generating between $1.3 million and $1.5 million, according to the environmental division's recycling team. That was 41 percent of the waste created on post, which was diverted from the landfill.
Earlier this week, Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment, toured the recycling center and was briefed on the beginnings of the zero-waste pilot program.
Col. Mark Freitag, garrison commander, was briefed at the end of the workshop on the ideas generated during the group's brainstorming sessions, which ranged from creating a "soldier's list" - similar to the website Craigslist - to reusing furniture and installing hand dryers in bathrooms in place of paper towels.
"You made a difference here, and you got us started on the path to Net Zero," Freitag said.
The volunteers will flesh out their ideas into action plans and present their efforts quarterly to Lt. Gen. Donald M. Campbell Jr., commander of III Corps and Fort Hood.
"This is important to (Campbell)," Freitag told the room of volunteers. "It's going to be important for your commanders and your leaders. ... This is the way of the future and this is where Fort Hood is moving."
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In Review: Favorite Theater Experiences of 2011
Though it's been a wild, wonderful year of theatergoing, and the very best shows were better than ever, I found it unusually easy to narrow the best down to fewer than 20. For what that's worth.
Also, let's acknowledge that we're talking about live, ephemeral art here. Unfortunately, if you missed any of these productions while they were running, you can't use our glowing reviews to guide you to enjoy them now.
I hope you got to see some fabulous stuff that I'm sorry to have missed. And that you'll spread the word when you come across a gem in the months to come -- word of mouth is the best, srsly, and our artists need it.
10. The Borrowers
Childsplay's faithful but innovative version of the classic children's books was anchored by a super cast, especially longtime co-stars Jon Gentry and Debra K. Stevens as heroine Arrietty's tiny little parents.
9. Ten Chimneys
Exceptional production values across the board transported Arizona Theatre Company audiences to a rarefied atmosphere of creativity, dignity, and love. This partial imagining of the lives and careers of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, a couple of the last of the old school of bona fide stage stars, was as fascinating for the outsider as it was for the rabid fan.
8. This
Actors Theatre presented this deceptively superficial urban drama, with tasty direction from Stray Cat Theatre's Ron May, that turned out to be about what it takes for us to go on -- and how amazing it can be that we do.
7. Head: The Musical
It was a big year for young actor Eric Boudreau, and playing the grotesque Frankenstein-style monster in this adorable locally grown musical version of the dreadful old horror film The Brain That Wouldn't Die was a big step on his journey. Meanwhile, the rest of the cast just about shook Soul Invictus to the ground with their joy and energy.
6. The Unhappiness Plays
Space 55 scored big-time coolness points for Phoenix when they premièred Greg Kotis' group of short plays here and then took them to the New York International Fringe Festival, but the watchability came from Bob Fisher's direction of the spittingly funny vignettes.
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There are no blueberries in Betty Crocker Blueberry Muffins.
You won't find any in Blueberry Pop-Tarts or Special K Blueberry Fruit Crisps either, and Total Pomegranate Blueberry Cereal is missing the blueberries and the pomegranate.
Instead of real blueberries, some manufacturers create little berry-shaped clumps of various sugars, starches, gums, and oils, and coat them with (often petroleum-based) blue food dye. They're usually labeled as blueberry-flavored bits or particles. For its Blueberry Muffin Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal, Kellogg's concocted an entirely new food classification, identified in the ingredient list as crunchlets.
The labels don't lie.
Food marketers have gotten away with the blueberry bait-and-switch by complying with FDA nutrition labeling requirements. The box can be decorated with lush photography of plump berries, and the product's name can trumpet berry goodness—it never needs to cross paths with an actual berry as long as the dirty details are all revealed in the fine print of the packaging.
The labels might not lie, but they sure do skirt the truth.
The consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest plans to put an end to these dishonest and deceptive practices. Attorneys from the CSPI have filed a complaint in federal court against General Mills, one of the biggest practitioners of this form of marketing. The complaint contends that General Mills misleads the public about the healthfulness of its products when it depicts fruits that they don't contain, and in doing so, the company violates various state laws governing deceptive advertising and fraudulent business practices.
You can follow the lawsuit's developments on the Center for Science in the Public Interest website.
The attorneys from the law firm Finkelstein Thompson are seeking public input from consumers who may have been misled by these products. If you purchased any products that you believed were made from real blueberries but actually contained derivatives or no blueberries, you can contact them about joining the class action—they expect potential plaintiffs to number in the millions.
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How To Source Apparel Fabrics for Price Sensitive Categories
I blog a lot about current events in our industry, important initiatives that are in the news, and tips/techniques/processes that I use that I believe my readers will find useful.
In this post, I'm sharing a case study with my readers that I hope you'll find very helpful in your own departments in your own fabric development and sourcing efforts.
Case Study Background
Often clients come to me when they have specific projects they need help with, and this client needed help to develop new fabrics for a category of the business that was particularly price sensitive. In my prior work with this long-term client, I worked closely with the team that was responsible for developing all the fabrics for the mainline categories, and this team would soon be responsible for the more price sensitive categories once additional head count was approved.
However, head count had not been approved and allocated yet, and while that usually is taken care of before work is started, the Brand President was keen to get the fabric development started for this category to support some aggressive business plans. So, the client brought me in to handle the new categories development requests while the head count approvals were being sorted out.
My client needed help to source apparel fabric needs for a specific period of time in order to: 1) break new ground- how were the two teams going to work together and interface moving forward, once the headcount was approved, and 2) achieve meaningful cost reduction on 2 core, high-volume fabrics.
The process I used to source apparel fabrics saved my client $50,000/ year for a single fabric. Below, I'll detail step-by-step the process that I used.
I don't often "pull back the curtain", so to speak, to give my readers all the details of HOW I help my clients…… But this time, I thought I'd share with my readers the step-by-step processes I use to get my clients the results they need. Maybe this 4- step process will help you gain 5 digit yearly savings, too.
So how do you develop fabrics for extremely price sensitive categories?
Step 1: Understand exactly what fabric you are developing from the start.
You have to insist on having a fabric target up front, including a cuttable fabric sample of about 1/2 linear yard in length. The fabric face and back must be clearly labeled, with all labels stapled to the fabric, even if they are sticky. The most important label on your fabric will always fall off during handling and be lost forever, so be ready for that by stapling everything. You must also know the following details of the fabric:
Weight (gsm)
Filament or yarn size
Yarn density
Cuttable width or tube size
Finishing type
Dye type required
Target price
MOQ (Minimum order quantity)
MCQ (Minimum color quantity)
Areas of flexibility- Are you ok with a slightly rougher or softer handfeel than the sample you are providing? Are you fine with a fabric weight that is less than the target- if so, by how much? This is EXTREMELY important to include up front. You do not want the supplier believing that all you will take is exactly the fabric you have. In price sensitive markets especially, the customer will not notice many differences in fabric that the brand will notice. The brand has the advantage of comparing and studying details of the fabrics side-by-side for minutes on end, while the customer simply will not be in a position to study for minute differences.
WHAT NOT TO SHARE: Trade secret information from current supplier or other suppliers, current supplier name and price charged. Just not cool.
You could try to begin development with a fabric sample only, but if the whole point is to develop and source the fabric as cost effectively as possible, then why waste time up front figuring out crucial details you need?
The technical information above is usually found in the FDS, or fabric data sheet, that the current supplier or your company maintains. If your company doesn't have an FDS, or if the FDS is outdated, you can always send the fabric to a 3rd party testing facility like BV, SGS, or Intertek to have the fabric fully evaluated for the fabric composition and construction details.
Step 2: Send the fabric out to your mill partners who can help you with developing fabrics for low cost channels.
This is referred to as "initiating development", and you'll want to make sure you do the following to ensure the development has been initiated properly from the beginning. Now, some people in the industry will say this is not "true development", that this is simply "resourcing". My thoughts? Fine– Call it resourcing if you like. You can call it whatever you want if it's saving your company $75,000/year.
For each supplier you initiate development with, include:
A large swatch of the fabric- an 8.5" X 11" is ideal, stapled to a swatch card.
All details above in Step 1, listed on the swatch card.
Assign a unique development number to the specific development that you are initiating so that you and the supplier have a development number to refer to during development. For example, "Development #101". You will refer to that unique development number when communicating with all the suppliers you work with on that fabric. For example, if you are resourcing a 90/10 Nylon/Spandex Single jersey with 5 suppliers, and the development number for that fabric opportunity is "#101", you will use development #101 with every supplier who is developing the fabric for you. In other words, that development number is "fabric specific", not "supplier specific".
Who to send it to:
1) The current fabric supplier. They should always be given the opportunity to submit for the fabric first. They could have new resources that could allow them to offer the fabric at a lower cost than before.
2) Core or partner mills. They should always be given the opportunity to submit for the fabric, due to their core status.
3) Any mills that are known to utilize lower cost supply channels than other mills should be submitted to as well.
Step 3: You sent everything out, are starting to get responses and samples back, and everything is still TOO EXPENSIVE. Now What?
Fabric suppliers will always come back with fabrics more expensive than what you asked for- that is the way it works.
Step 4: Ways to decrease the quoted price.
Weight decrease-
Less weight usually means less cost, so decrease weight to decrease price.
Optimize cuttable width–
Are there specific widths that this supplier uses that will be cheaper than other CW? Find out if there is an optimum CW based on the available machinery the fabric mill has. If you are asking for a CW that has to be run on a set of machines with less capacity, your cost will be driven up.
Optimize filament/ yarn size–
What are the popular filament sizes that fabric mill buys or that vertical supplier produces? Most fabric mills purchase certain filament sizes more often than others due to their current order-based product mix, so find out which filament sizes they order larger quantities of to see how much that will drive the cost down.
Increase filament size-
If there is no existing filament size that would be cheaper due to larger purchase volumes at the fabric supplier, then all other variables being equal, a thicker filament or yarn size will be cheaper. So, increase the filament or yarn size to reduce the price. Make sure to hold the fabric weight constant, thus expect the construction to change.
Upon increasing the yarn/filament size, you will likely notice a change in handfeel. It will likely stiffen, become warmer, may become more rough. Investigate whether a finish or surface treatment will soften the handfeel to more closely match the original. Finishes to consider include: microsand, backside microsand,sueded, silicone, aero-wash finish. The finish will influence the cost of the fabric, so as with everything, this increased finish cost plus the fabric cost must be less than the price you are trying to beat by increasing the filament/ yarn size. Also know that certain finishes will cause colorfastness to worsen, so make sure to understand the reduction in expected colorfastness and whether or not your fabric end-use will allow for colorfastness to be worsened.
Change order quantity/order frequency manipulation-
Once you have worked to decrease cost as much as possible without sacrificing handfeel and aesthetics, look to find pricing decreases due to increased order volumes. Increase the MOQ so that you can realize increased cost savings.
Change development process requirements-
Once you have reduced cost using all the ways mentioned, now look to your regular internal sampling processes to determine how you can reduce quoted cost. If you typically have a highly complicated sampling process, with several fabric rounds along with several colors lab dipped, work to reduce that process for these special low-cost fabrics and have a serious conversation with the fabric supplier to find out how much this reduction in development work can be passed along as cost savings to you. Trust me- if your normal sampling processes are complicated, the cost of that complication is being passed along to you in any quote that supplier gives you. So as a final step in the negotiations, severely reduce the amount of development work you require and work to reduce costs.


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Mitt Romney is gripped with fear about releasing his tax returns
Flashback to this claim by Abby Huntsman, Jon Huntsman's daughter:
In fact, according to people close to the situation, Romney would drop out of the presidential race before ever releasing further tax returns.
On edit, Mitt's own comments certainly add credibility to the claim:
Romney Suggests Releasing Additional Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging
What the hell is Mitt hiding?
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Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 06:59 PM
ProSense (116,464 posts)
1. Kick! n/t
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:03 PM
Celebrate2012Victory (3 posts)
2. 100 days or less to go!
Time to stop gloating about this dumby losing and focus on getting out the vote!
If you haven't already talked to your local Senator/Congressperson running for office, give them a call today.
We need boots on the ground to canvas, work the phones, etc.
I'm in Massachusetts, Ms. Warren deserves a fighting chance.
Response to Celebrate2012Victory (Reply #2)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:06 PM
CaliforniaPeggy (122,629 posts)
3. Welcome to DU, Celebrate2012Victory!
I'm glad you found us!
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:33 PM
blkmusclmachine (16,149 posts)
4. What's he hiding??
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:40 PM
sa2968 (38 posts)
5. The slow motion death of this campaign is ...
...pretty enjoyable! I cannot WAIT for the first books, around the middle of Obama's second term, providing an "insider account" of the failed Romney campaign and who's at fault and how out of touch he really was behind the scenes, as his lifelong megalomaniacal obsession for the ultimate position of power was slowly, excruciatingly ripped from his grasp.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:44 PM
lobodons (1,290 posts)
6. Its all about his Planet
Its not about Privacy, the Presidency or even politics. Its all about his Planet. Romney knows if he releases his tax returns he loses his Planet. (Unless of course he can retroactively regain compliance with the Elders.)
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:47 PM
RC (25,592 posts)
7. The Republican Convention could be a game changer.
Do they have someone in the wings to replace Romney? Some unknown we will not have time to fully vet before the elections?
I would not put it past them.
Response to RC (Reply #7)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 10:50 PM
CK_John (9,621 posts)
11. Think Gov Pataki NY already vetted. nt
Response to RC (Reply #7)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:17 AM
cbdo2007 (7,670 posts)
15. There is absolutely no chance Romney will make it past the convention....
I'm guessing he'll either drop out of the race or will be removed by the powers that be.
Response to RC (Reply #7)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:37 AM
Volaris (4,061 posts)
16. Anyone they could put up as a "known" name, can bet their ass
that Axelrod already has a file on them, with more pieces of paper being added every day. Anyone NOT well-enough known to merit an oppo.research file, will be so inadequate to the task of pulling this out that Team Obama will finish this with their EYES CLOSED.
Coulter was RIGHT. (and yes saying that with a straight face makes me feel all weird inside)
It occurs to me that MAYBE Ron Paul could pull a party nomination out of this. He won't win (he's too much into the idea we should leave Iran the hell alone for way too many neoCon wannabee Republicans to feel comfortable voting for him) but it WOULD make for very interesting debate topics, that COULD serve to drive the Democratic Party back to the left on issues of PERSONAL liberty (the failed Drug War, Due Process, etc.). It would be a debate I would PAY money to see, because I think we would get to see the difference between Obama the Constitutional Law Professor, and Obama the President (who, at times and by necessity, makes policy decisions based on POLITICAL calculations), and the line that the man has decided to draw between the two, based on not much more than what he considers to be his own good judgment, and the judgments of people he trusts. I know others here will disagree with the above assessment, and that's fine, but I would consider it a very useful intellectual exercise that I kind of think the Party needs to have with itself.
Response to RC (Reply #7)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:47 AM
yellowcanine (31,204 posts)
17. There is no "knight in shining armor on a white horse" to save the Republicans.
They are stuck with the little man on the wedding cake.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:54 PM
klook (6,301 posts)
8. Married filing joint with 5 wives?
"Aw, c'mon Willard, cantcha take a joke?"
Response to klook (Reply #8)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 09:23 PM
Stooge (6 posts)
9. their angle
GOP still wants to see BO grades...lol
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 09:28 PM
hifiguy (33,688 posts)
10. A catacomb's worth of skeletons.
Paying next to nothing or getting huge refunds, for one. Taking advantage of the amnesty for Swiss accounts for another. Bank on it.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 10:52 PM
lonestarnot (77,097 posts)
12. Perhaps he's a fraudster?
Response to lonestarnot (Reply #12)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:18 PM
klook (6,301 posts)
13. Or maybe his charitable donations included Planned Parenthood
during his "RINO" days.
Response to lonestarnot (Reply #12)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:08 AM
ProSense (116,464 posts)
14. That's highly
"Perhaps he's a fraudster?"
The point is that Romney's returns will be revealing.
Response to ProSense (Reply #14)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 11:14 PM
lonestarnot (77,097 posts)
18. Those pugs are always pissing their pants out of some fear. He's already tried to start a war.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 11:45 PM
CRH (1,553 posts)
19. The Focus on the returns could come from a different angle, too ...
In ten years of returns, focus could also be placed on what his specific investments were.
In the world of global finance and investment, it could be some foreign investments could be either embarrassing or even violate some US embargoes and sanctions. If he invested in a French or other european firm that supplied nuclear technology or centrifuge parts to Iran. Or violating the embargo to Cuba, or North Korea. There are any number of possibilities of investments that would appeal to a global investor, that would be very unattractive if you were running for president.
Though it could be monetary concerns like paying little or no taxes, it could also be in what, and where he was invested, if the money was repatriated or stashed, and at what time he was invested in foreign companies, in relation to past foreign policy. The possibilities are endless, and could conceivably include trading with the enemy in a convoluted fashion. That has been known to happen in the past, Prescot comes to mind.


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Superintendent finalists interviewed
by Dennis Dalman
The choice for a new superintendent in Sartell was expected to be announced as early as Friday, Feb. 7.
As of Newsleader press time Wednesday morning, only one of the three finalists has been interviewed – Paul Neubauer, director of curriculum and instruction in St. Francis, which is in Anoka County just north of the Twin Cities.
The other two candidates were expected to be interviewed mid-week and later. Candidate Debra Lechner was scheduled for Wednesday, and candidate Jeff Schwiebert was slated for Thursday.
Lechner is director of teaching and learning in the Brainerd School District, and Schwiebert is superintendent of the North Scott Community School District in Eldridge, Iowa.
Lechner has worked for the Sartell-St. Stephen School District previously. She was director of teaching and learning before taking the job in Brainerd about 12 years ago. Her late husband, Leon Lechner, was activities director for Sartell schools.
Each of the three candidates was scheduled to spend an entire day touring the school district; meeting students, staff, administrators and teachers; and later in the day meeting with community members. After the busy days, each was slated for yet another interview by the school board.
The three were selected by the board from seven candidates, who were interviewed in late January.
Selecting a candidate does not automatically mean that person will definitely be the new superintendent. The final selection means only the board is authorized to begin contract negotiations with the candidate of their choice.
The new superintendent, if he or she agrees to take the job, will replace former superintendent Dr. Joe Hill, who resigned last year. Mike Spanier has served since then as interim superintendent.
Dennis Dalman
Dalman was born and raised in South St. Cloud, graduated from St. Cloud Tech High School, then graduated from St. Cloud State University with a degree in English (emphasis on American and British literature) and mass communications (emphasis on print journalism). He studied in London, England for a year (1980-81) where he concentrated on British literature, political science, the history of Great Britain and wrote a book-length study of the British writer V.S. Naipaul. Dalman has been a reporter and weekly columnist for more than 30 years and worked for 16 of those years for the Alexandria Echo Press.
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A Survey On Investment Performance Appraisal Methods With Special Reference To Data Envelopment Analysis
This paper offers a review of investment performance appraisal methods. The review starts with an exhaustive coverage of various methods ranging from early measures of risk-adjusted return to more recent methods including the rating given by ASSIRT, a financial services organisation that assess managed investment in Australia. We then extend the discussion to performance evaluations based on the concept of production frontier estimation. Primarily, there are two competing theories of frontier estimation, known as stochastic frontier estimation and data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA enables the inclusion of many factors in the analysis in addition to the usual return and risk measures and therefore is widely used in empirical studies in finance. The DEA methodology and its application in the finance sector are discussed in detail.
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Rovers agree Pavone deal
Blackburn Rovers have agreed terms with Argentine ace Mariano Pavone, skysports.com understands.
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Last Updated: 15/07/11 9:29am
Blackburn Rovers have agreed terms with Argentine ace Mariano Pavone, skysports.com understands.
The 29-year-old striker arrived in England on Monday and skysports.com confirmed talks were under way.
Pavone has now finalised his deal after also passing a medical at Ewood Park and is now set to put pen-to-paper on a three-year deal.
It is expected that Blackburn will now confirm the deal in the coming days before officially presenting him on Monday.
His British representative Barry McIntosh confirmed that the deal was in place.
"Mariano is delighted to get his chance in English football, he has spoken to several clubs but he was particularly impressed by Steve Kean," McIntosh told skysports.com.
"Steve made him feel very welcome and explained his plans, and Mariano was delighted with what he heard.
"He is now looking forward to the next chapter with an ambitious club like Blackburn."
Pavone, who does not need a work-permit as he has EU citizenship, arrives as a free agent.
He spent last season playing at River Plate, on loan from Spanish side Real Betis.
But he bought out the remaining year of his deal with Betis - who he originally joined in 2007 - which freed him to make the move to England.


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COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- For three years, kids at an apartment complex in College Park have watched as their new school was built across the street.
College Park Elementary School is now finished, but the 80 kids who live at College View Hills apartments won't be able to walk across the street to class for another year. Instead, students from another area will be bused in.
Fulton County Schools officials say this was the plan all along even though, on the surface, it doesn't make sense. Officials say it was all part of a one-cent sales tax plan set years ago.
The students from the area attended College Park Elementary when it was closed three years ago to make way for a new school. The kids were sent temporarily to three different schools, including Conley Hills Elementary, which is three miles away.
Now, Mt. Olive Elementary is under construction, so the district decided to keep everyone from that school together and move it to the new building for one year.
"I sympathize for them, but they will not be able to attend due to the fact that we have Mt. Olive students there," said Gondola La Cava, area superintendent at Fulton County Schools.
Parents who believe their apartment complex should be allowed to join the Mt. Olive group staged a protest on Monday afternoon.
"What we're asking is for our 82 children who live here in College View Hills Apartments to be able walk there across the street to school," said community activist Clara George.
But the district says adding those 82 kids would push Mt. Olive's enrollment to 810, and it's unfair to let the apartment kids go and not all the kids who are temporarily at other schools.
The parents also say the district is wasting taxpayer dollars by busing the kids. The district says it would cost more to bring in portables, more teachers and supplies. They say for one more year, sending the kids to Conley Hills is the only option.


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Baltimore (Jun. 5)
Calling for a united effort by all Jews in the building of Palestine, the Independent Order Brith Sholom of Baltimore, at the closing session of its thirty-second annual convention last night at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, adopted a resolution indorsing the work of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.
Several additional resolutions received favorable action. One condemns the Hitler regime in Germany and pro-Nazi activities in the United States. Another provides for three annual prized to Baltimore school children for the best original essays on a topic relating to Baltimore or Maryland history.


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First Cruise on the Westerdam we're hooked!: Westerdam Cruise Review by sassymom4
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First Cruise on the Westerdam we're hooked!
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Seattle
Next morning, embarkation was smooth. We were on the ship by 11:30. The ship is elegant and stately, however not as modern as some of the newer lines. Our room More was a standard ocean view stateroom and was pretty cramped for our family of 4.There were some drawers under the bed that came in handy, though.Room was very clean and had comfortable linens. Elegant decor. Room staff was extremely efficient and went out of their way several times. Did not feel like they were begging for tips, either.
The public areas are very nice and well equipped with what you need. Giant chess pieces and ping pong on the Lido deck were fun to use. They had a nice kids program for our kids' age groups. Teens had a cool, modern area to hang out in and are only mildly supervise(my daughter liked this!) My son had fun in his program, they had a few theme nights like pajama party and talent show. They had a wonderful library with a beautiful view from the front of the ship. Had a coffee/pastries bar in it and internet stations.(fee) They had several areas for families to gather, play cards, hang out, etc. Staff was always very polite and especially accomodating to our children.
Dinner was in main dining room every night. It was very elegant and the wait staff superb. Food was good, and they were very accomodating to our requests. We had several picky eaters, and my daughter is a vegetarian but this never was a problem. They let them order off of the lunch menu, or kids menu even! The dinners were nice, although we had the early seating and it seemed too early. We had to stop what we were doing every day and start getting ready for dinner about 4:00. There were two formal nights, which ended up being nice because they took so many nice photos of the whole family while we were all dressed up. I have to say that while the pictures were expensive, they were fantastic! They have many opportunities to have pics taken throughout the ship and are very good with poses.
Ports of call were fun! Juneau was beautiful and we took a tram ride to the top of a mountain and hiked for a while. It was cold, but beautiful. The temperature was actually cooler that we expected so we had to buy gloves in the gift shop.
Sitka was very nice, too. We walked around the town and enjoyed the history. The ship never seemed crowded even during lunch. In Ketchikan, my daughter and husband did a zip-line adventure and they had a ball.
The entertainment on the ship was great. The "house" singers/dancers were okay, but the Elton John impersonator was outstanding! It was a great, high energy show. The food on the ship was diverse & satisfying. There were several places to eat on the ship and all were wonderful. We loved the huge taco/nachos bar on the Lido deck. There was also a grill with burgers, fries, etc. They seemed to be open all the time. There was a buffet open most hours, too.Some of the best food was at the mostly made-to-order stations at the buffet. Even a late night snack was easily accessible. Room service was very prompt & efficient. There was a late night dessert buffet up on the main deck one night, and I have to say I have never seen or tasted anything like it! It was spectacular. They had ice sculptures & food carvings out of every kind of edible imaginable. Disembarkation was smooth and we had prompt transportation to the Seattle airport. All in all, it was a very enjoyable, relaxing cruise. We are now hooked! Less
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A watch from the city of Toronto, skis, and medals from Canada, Britain and France are among the "extraordinary collection" of the lone Canadian on the Scott expedition to the Antarctic that are going up for auction at Christie's.
"It is only due to this Canadian that we know the story of Scott's expedition," Nick Lambourn, director of Exploration and Travel collections at Christie's, told the Star on Friday. "He played such a full part."
The "extraordinary, wonderful collection" belonged to Sir Charles Seymour Wright, Toronto-born and University of Toronto-educated who, at the age of 23, joined the tragic British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 to the South Pole.
A gold watch presented in 1913 to their local hero by the city of Toronto is part of the Sept. 22 auction trove. Wright seldom used the finicky watch — "the cost of new springs was so high I used my old dollar watch," he said — "but he never threw it out, so he must have liked it," said Lambourn.
The dazzling chestful of medals is also for sale, but Ottawa has refused to issue an export permit for them, said Lambourn.
"The authorities are trying to keep them in Canada," he said. If they are sold to a private collector, Canada must issue an export permit by November."
Then a scholarship physics student at Cambridge University, Wright was first rejected from the field of thousands of hopeful explorers who tried to join Robert Falcon Scott. He changed Scott's mind by walking the 80 kilometres from Cambridge to London, while subsisting on a few boiled eggs, to make a personal appeal.
Schooled in frigid temperatures by hiking trips to the Canadian north, the "strong young man" from Rosedale flew maple leaf and beaver designs from the flags on his sledge.
That sledge went on Scott's first expedition to the western mountains near Cape Evans, producing hundreds of candid pictures Lambourn himself covets for their startlingly fresh view and meticulous annotations of that tragic exploration. A day later, Wright volunteered for another gruelling sledge trip and would join Scott's first foray to the pole.
"These are images of going up the glacier. You get the impression of what it would have been like," said Lambourn. The official expedition photographer, Herbert Ponting, couldn't cart his cumbersome equipment on the trip.
"Some of those images raise the hair on the back of your head."
Scott and four companions would carry on without Wright and never make it back from the South Pole. It was the young Canadian, weary and hungry, who would find the six-inch green tip of the tent 10 months later, on Nov. 12, 1912, that would enable the world to know and see what happened.
"This is the last great collection of this era," said Lambourn, who has handled the Scott family's and fellow explorer Ernest Shackleton's artifacts.
They fell into Christie's hands from Wright's grandson, Victoria Times-Colonist political cartoonist Adrian Raeside, who published a book, Return to Antarctica: The Amazing Adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's Journey to the South Pole (Wiley $34.95), and filmed a documentary about his grandfather.
"Granddad realized Scott's plans wouldn't actually work," Raeside told the Star. "But you couldn't contradict him directly, and Scott had a terrible temper." Wright sent the message up through the ranks and Scott ignored it.
Raeside, who had two great-uncles on the Scott expedition as well, discovered a much different man than the one he knew from reading the diaries and letters of Wright and his contemporaries.
"He had a reputation among the expedition members of being able to swear for 10 minutes at a time and never repeat himself. They were in awe."
Wright came back from Antarctica and went straight to war, serving with the Royal Engineers in France during World War I.
Like so many of his generation, "very few seemed to have talked about it, the exploration or the war," said Lambourn. "He kept these things to himself or his family. They were gruelling times full of tragedy. This collection allows us to tell those stories."
For the rest of his life, Wright would abhor the cold and hate the smell of fish cooking, thanks to all the penguins the explorers had to consume, Raeside said.
Wright retired to Salt Spring Island in British Columbia in 1969, having also served in World War II, been knighted in 1946 and finally reaching the pole himself in 1960 on a flight with the U.S. Navy. He died in 1975, the last surviving member of Scott's polar expedition.
Christie's hopes the sale will fetch from $245,000 to $490,000, as institutes and private collectors seize on the opportunity "of touching history," Lambourn said.
The medals, which may or may not stay in Canada, are listed for $20,000 to $30,000.


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On a mission to rescue his runaway sister from the lure of flowery compliments and a useless lot of satin-clad scalawags disguised by their snooty titles, Ranulf MacLawry, Marquis of Glengask, has roared into British society like a storm across the Highlands. But he's about to find out that satin has its appeal, especially when it covers the curves of Miss Lady Charlotte Hanover-- whose tongue is as sharp as her skin is soft...
Lady Charlotte Hanover has had her fill of hot-headed men, having lost her fiance in an utterly unnecessary duel. When did brawn ever triumph over brains? And yet there is something solid and appealing about the brash Highlander who's as dangerous in the ballroom as in battle. Sometimes bigger really "is "better...
About the Author
A lifelong lover of books, Suzanne Enoch has been writing them since she learned to read. She is the author of two well-received Avon Regencies, The Black Duke's Prize and Angel's Devil, and five Avon Romances: Lady Rogue, Stolen Kisses, By Love Undone, Taming Rafe and Reforming a Rake. Born and raised in Southern California, Suzanne lives a few scant miles from Disneyland with her collection of Star Wars action figures and a Cairn terrier named Katie (after the heroine of her first Regency). She's still looking for her own hero, and hopes he will be handsome, titled, and just a little wicked. Meanwhile, she's currently at work inventing him in her next historical romance.
4 1/2 Stars! A new series begins with a touching, humorous love that the talented Enoch pulls off with panache. RT Book Reviews Suzanne Enoch has proven once again why she is a romance reader's favorite - The Devil Wears Kilts is simply divine! Reader to Reader Suzanne Enoch is a powerful voice in the historical romance genre. Night Owl Reviews 4 1/2 Stars! A new series begins with a touching, humorous love that the talented Enoch pulls off with panache. RT Book Reviews"
Series: Scandalous Highlanders
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 26th November 2013
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Country of Publication: US
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Terrorism & U.S. Foreign Policy
Program #CHRB-CHRK001. Recorded in Boulder, CO on October 08, 2002.To hear Washington tell it, terrorism happens in a vacuum. "They" attack us because of our freedoms, because our way of life is just so much better. The explanation and remedy sound rather like an indulgent father, "They hate us because we're beautiful. Now you don't worry, just go shopping and we'll bomb the evil doers." Information not carried in the mainstream media paints a different picture. According to a State Department report issued before September 11th, U.S. involvement overseas increases the chances of terrorist attacks. Could Washington's foreign policy and the Bush administration's march toward full spectrum dominance have anything to do with the resentment toward the U.S.?
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Maple Grove Police have now identified the name of the pedestrian killed in an early morning accident on Aug. 23.
The female has been identified as Trina Renee Kincaid, 42, of Maple Grove. She was identified with the assistance of the Hennepin County Crime Lab and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.
Around 1:36 a.m. Aug. 23, Maple Grove Police received the phone call of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle on Weaver Lake Road just east of Main Street.
According to Maple Grove Police, "when officers responded to the scene they found a pedestrian victim deceased."
The 40-year-old driver of the vehicle that struck the victim stopped at the scene. According to Maple Grove Police Capt. Tracy Stille, the driver was "pretty shaken up."
He added, "The driver has been cooperative and there is no recommendation for charges."
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You might remember that the other day accessory maker Anymode put out a release stating that it had been chosen by AT&T as the OEM manufacturer for accessories for the Samsung GALAXY Note. Anymode might just have well put an exclamation mark on the statement by adding that the device would be available in the U.S. in the early part of 2012 through AT&T.
Now there would be nothing wrong with this release at all if only AT&T had first announced that it was indeed planning on offering the 5.3 inch "Phablet". And someone at the carrier must have made a quick call when they saw this statement because the accessory manufacturer quickly went into "defense mode".
In a statement entitled "Retraction of earlier CES announcement", Anymode said that its earlier statement concerning AT&T and the Samsung GALAXY Note contained inaccurate comments and noted that the information was never supplied or approved by Anymode, AT&T, Samsung, and did not have the written consent of Major League Baseball and apologized for printing the information.
And there the story would have ended if not for the release a few hours later of the official press photo of the Samsung GALAXY Note with the AT&T logo right on it. So what was inaccurate in Anymode's original statement? The press photo certainly confirms that there is an AT&T variant of the device coming. The picture hints of a February 14th launch date and the last time we looked, that was still considered early in 2012. Could it be that Anymode jumped the gun about being selected by AT&T as an OEM vendor for many GALAXY Note accessories? Or could it be that the job was theirs until somebody forgot that "loose lips sink ships".
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Accessory maker retracts statement on Samsung GALAXY Note just before press photo is released
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1. JGuinan007 (Posts: 692; Member since: 19 May 2011)
Serves them right you don't leak info about AT&T unless your an offical leaker for them or have their permission
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Retrospective Pulmonary Valve Replacement Imaging
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|Congenital Heart Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Official Title:
|Proposal for Retrospective Review of Imaging Pre- and Post - Pulmonary Valve Replacement
- The first primary aim of the study would be to identify the risk factors for early development of right heart dilation and failure following Tetralogy of fallot repair. [ Time Frame: January 1, 1994 and December 31, 2009 ]
This is a retrospective chart review. The first primary aim of the study would be to identify the risk factors for early development of right heart dilation and failure following Tetralogy of fallot repair.
The goals would be the following:
- Determine the risk factors for early pulmonary valve replacement
- Determine whether there is a positive correlation among the different echocardiographic and MRI parameters
- Determine whether the parameters improve following pulmonary valve replacement
- Determine the effects of pregnancy on the right heart
- Determine the performance of a mechanical valve in the pulmonary position
- Determine whether the late referral for pulmonary valve replacement worsens patient outcomes
- Determine whether there is a time of referral beyond which surgery fails to improve patient outcome
|Study Start Date:
|February 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Congenital heart defects having a component of pulmonary stenosis (narrowing) are often palliated in childhood by disrupting the pulmonary valve. This arrangement can provide an excellent quality of life as these children grow and enter young adulthood. Unfortunately, the pulmonary insufficiency that is created by disrupting the pulmonary valve results in volume overload of the right heart. This may eventually lead to right ventricular dilation and irreversible right heart failure. In addition, volume load of the right heart may affect the inter-ventricular septum and left heart function as well. Placement of a competent pulmonary valve at a subsequent operation, hopefully at a time without the replacement valve size constraints present at the initial operation, is a means to eliminate the volume overload and prevent these further sequelae.
Unfortunately, the optimal timing for subsequent pulmonary valve replacement is controversial. One of the currently used indications for valve replacement includes a right ventricular to left ventricular volume ratio greater than two. However, determining the boundaries of the right ventricle by echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging is difficult in the absence of a pulmonary valve. The boundaries are determined by an arbitrary estimation of where the pulmonary valve should be. Other potential indicators for pulmonary valve replacement may be right ventricular area and right ventricular strain, determined by echocardiography. These measurements are not affected by the absence of the pulmonary valve. They may provide better markers for impending right ventricular failure and a simpler means to follow serial improvement following valve replacement.
While the emphasis after pulmonary valve disruption typically lies on the right ventricle, there is evidence that the left ventricle may become impaired as well. Volume load on the right ventricle causes bowing of the inter-ventricular septum and affects left ventricular function. Echocardiographic imaging of the left ventricle may also be important to follow serial improvement of the left heart following pulmonary valve replacement.
All charts reviewed will be of patients who had their surgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta or Emory University Hospital between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 2006. We will review approximately 125 patients' charts for patients between the ages of 1 and 65 years of age who have required pulmonary valve replacement.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Year to 65 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- history of Tetralogy of Fallot or Pulmonary Stenosis
- Pulmonary Valve Replacement
- Surgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta or Emory University Hospital between 1.1.94 and 12.31.06
- between 1 and 65 years of age
Exclusion Criteria:
- Those who do not meet inclusion criteria
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00446108
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University Hospital
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|Emory University
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|Principal Investigator:
|Brian E Kogon, MD
|Emory University
|Responsible Party:
|Brian Kogon, Associate Professor, Emory University
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|NCT00446108 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|March 9, 2007
|Last Updated:
|November 25, 2013
Keywords provided by Brian Kogon, Emory University:
Pulmonary Stenosis
Right Ventricular Dilation
Right Heart Failure
Tetralogy of Fallot
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
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How can people not be baseball fans? Just look at this week:
Prologue. All prologue, appetizers to prepare the palate for what should be the most dramatic last couple of days to a season in years.
Thanks to these four days, we've effectively got a play-in round to the American League playoffs in Oakland, where the Angels and A's enter tonight's game in a flat-footed tie at 90-69. The A's finally got a respectable start by someone other than Rich Harden yesterday, but still needed 3 1/3 one-hit innings from the bullpen to set up Crosby's heroics.
Mike Scioscia's decision to go to a four-man rotation for the season's last two weeks doesn't look very good so far. While Kelvim Escobar pitched well Tuesday night on three days' rest, neither Jarrod Washburn nor John Lackey has adapted well, neither getting out of the fifth inning. Each will make a second start on short rest against the A's, and whether they can adapt to that circumstance might be the determining factor in the series.
Would the Angels really have been that much worse off plugging in someone like Matt Hensley or Kevin Gregg, allowing Washburn--coming off of an injury--and Lackey--lousy on the road for his entire career, and brutal in Texas--to pitch in turn? Heck, even Aaron Sele isn't that far removed from a good outing. The small loss in having the inferior pitcher starting one game would seem to be more than offset by the gain in having your better pitchers throwing within their routine.
I certainly believe that yesterday's game was the chance to use someone else. As mentioned, Lackey's performance on the road has been poor since he reached the majors, and he's been notably bad in Texas. The difference between Sele and Lackey on short rest on the road might no even bend Lackey's way. Moreover, the Angels had a small cushion; one way to look at their situation is that they had to win three of their last five games, counting a potential playoff, to win the division. A 4-0 or 3-1 record would clinch outright, while 2-2 would lead to a playoff game.
So Bartolo Colon will start tonight on short rest, then Escobar and Washburn will both make their third starts in nine days. It's virgin territory for both pitchers, one of whom is already past his career high in innings, the other three weeks removed from the disabled list.
Back in March, when we were making predictions, I ended up choosing both of these teams to win the AL West. I went back and forth a number of times, and I changed my mind between submitting for staff picks and writing my own preview piece. So no matter what happens, I'll be wrong, except in that I fully expected it to be in doubt heading into this series.
An informal poll of BP staffers shows none of the "groupthink" we're perceived to employ. Five people pick the A's to make it to Tuesday, three the Angels. I'm in the former group, barely, and I think it's going to come down to the A's excellent play at home combined with the Angels' decision to push their starting pitchers just a little bit too far, nullifying the edge they currently have over the Athletics' rotation. It's not the 1964 Phillies by any means, but in a race that will be decided by one game, any mistakes can be seen as decisive.
Speaking of managers...I wrote last October that the Cubs would never get as far as they had last season as long as Dusty Baker was their manager. If, as I've been told, Nomar Garciaparra's 12th-inning bunt with one out and a runner on first base was called from the bench, I have more conviction than ever in that statement. It's a ridiculous idea to bunt in that situation with anyone remotely adept with a bat in their hands. To call a bunt with one of your best hitters at the plate is baseball malpractice.
The Cubs don't need any help losing games right now. They're not scoring runs, always a danger for an offense that's a little light on OBP. When they don't hit homers, they tend to have trouble scoring; that's not about fundamentals or "little ball." It is about low OBP and a lot of double plays for a team that doesn't put runners on first base or hit than many ground balls. They're the trailing team in the Astros/Giants/Cubs mix, with the toughest matchup and needing to make up a game, but also with home-field advantage. They'll probably need at a sweep, given that the Astros are a good bet to win at least two games in Houston, and a sweep is highly unlikely.
Clearly, I was wrong about the end effects of the Cubs/Red Sox deadline trade. I still stand by my analysis and conclusion, but "the Red Sox traded their playoff spot to the Cubs" may end up being one of those things that follows me around for a while.
The Giants are still in this race, but have a tall order, taking on the Dodgers in L.A. with the chance that the Dodgers can not only clinch the division, but replay the last day of the '93 season, when they eliminated their rivals from the NL West race in the season's final game. The Giants can also tie the Dodgers with a sweep, one that would force at least a one-game playoff and possibly a two-game setup. The Dodgers aren't playing great baseball right now, and have to be happy that they only need one win to lock up the NL West.
By default, I guess I'm saying that the Astros will be the wild card. I still have memories of last season's embarrassing finish, but when you look at their standing--tied for first--and their opposition, it's hard to not see them as having things in the palm of their hand. If they make it, it will be one of the greatest comebacks in recent memory. The Astros are 33-10 since a blowout loss to the Expos on August 14 dropped them to their low point, 56-60. With no great teams in the NL--I'll have more on the Cardinals next week--it's not hard to see the Astros going from left-for-dead to the NLCS or even World Series, much as the '03 Marlins did.
It will be frustrating to not able to see all the relevant games on Saturday. Fox's exclusivity rights mean that no part of the country will see more than two of them, and it's only the Southland that's likely to get one. It's a disappointing situation, and one that will turn off more fans than it turns on. That fans in Houston and Chicago won't be able to watch the Giants play--or seamheads in, say, New York, might not see any relevant baseball--is a marketing mistake of major proportions.
Speaking of watching baseball, I'm way past deadline and have to watch the Cubs. Back tomorrow with more on the races.
Joe Sheehan is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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ATLANTA (AP) - An effort to bring a form of medical marijuana to the Deep South is gaining momentum.
Medical marijuana is legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia, but the idea had largely been dismissed in recent years in Southern states led by conservative Republicans.
That appears to be changing, with powerful lawmakers in Georgia and Alabama putting their weight behind bills that would allow for the limited use of cannabis oil by those with specific medical conditions.
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust welcomes National Pollinator Strategy
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) has welcomed the Government's proposed National Pollinator Strategy for England as a "brilliant first step" in getting the issues affecting bumblebees and other insect pollinators on the table.
The Trust, which has worked closely with the Government in drawing up the proposals, said it would continue to play a key role as the strategy moved forward over the next 10 years.
BBCT is currently developing its own five-year strategic plan which is due to be published in the near future. CEO Lucy Rothstein said the development of the National Pollinator Strategy (NPS) was perfect timing for the trust.
"The vision of the strategy accords beautifully with the vision of BBCT," she said. "It enables us to embed the vision of the NPS in our strategy but also use our work going forward to influence what is in the NPS."
BBCT welcomes the proposed investment in science to fill gaps in understanding about the current status of pollinators and highlighted its own work in addressing these issues. BeeWalk, the Trust's national bumblebee monitoring project, will play an important role in contributing to the information available about bumblebee trends.
The Trust is also involved with research into commercial bumblebees being carried out by scientists at the University of Sussex. At the same time, BBCT is actively working to improve habitat for pollinators – a key issue for bumblebee populations.
A few days ago, BBCT launched a Spring into Action campaign which provides resource packs to help people lobby their local authorities to be more bee-friendly and encourage garden centres to promote plants which are beneficial to pollinators.
BBCT is also working closely with organisations such as the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) and Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF) to help farmers manage their land in a sustainable way.
In addition, BBCT is taking forward the development of an ambitious coastal project, which focusses on improving habitats for Kent's wild pollinator populations with particular emphasis on bumblebees and solitary bees.
"We have a lot to bring to the table in terms of initiatives," says Lucy. "The important thing now is to fill the evidence gaps. We have a five-year strategic plan that's going to move this on. It's a brilliant starting point. The next step for us is getting more happening on the ground."
BBCT echoed the NPS's Call to Action by calling on its own members to welcome the strategy and respond to it at: https://consult.defra.gov.uk/plant-and-bee-health-policy/a-consultation-on-the-national-pollinator-strategy
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Watch: Chris Brown's Latest Feud Was Over 10 Bucks
In video obtained by TMZ, the R&B singe is seen yelling at the valet at PINZ bowling alley after he was told he couldn't get his car until he paid a $10 service charge.
Sources tell TMZ Brown — who was there for a charity event — was ticked about the charge because he had stayed at the alley for a mere 30 minutes. Eventually, though, the 23-year-old paid and went about his way.
altercation with Frank Ocean; that scuffle also took place in a parking lot. There was also that time that Brown and his circle got into a bar fight with Drake and his circle; it led to the shutting down of a New York City nightclub.
And then there was the whole Rihanna thing, which we won't even get into right now.
Check out Brown's parking-lot melee in the video, above. Ugh.
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This page is about the phrasal verb pass out (1)
Meaning: to give something to each person in a groupSynonym: hand out, distribute
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