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Fair Trade USA is in Anaheim this week, and no, we're not Space Mountain at Disneyland. We're at Natural Products Expo West, the largest natural, organic and healthy products show in the world. It's an exciting gathering of the most innovative brands in the industry, many of which release new Fair Trade products every year. Today I got to walk the show floor to meet with our enthusiastic partners and talk about how we can work together to build the Fair Trade movement and bring more impact to the farmers and workers behind their delicious products. At the same time, I was also lucky enough to sample many of these delicous products. Here's a glipse:
These guys are the coolest. Matt and Mark Seiler are brothers who started Maine Root because they simply wanted to make a better root beer: One that tastes better and also does good for the people and the planet. Their line of delicious and unique sodas features Fair Trade Certified cane juice from Paraguay. Today I got to sample their newest product: Fair Trade lemonade. I have a feeling it's going to be a big hit this summer!
This is one of my favorite new products of the year: vegan cookie dough. Best part: you can eat it raw (no eggs!) or you can bake it. And it comes in six lovely flavors: Chocolate Chunk, Gluten-Free Chocolate Chunck, Oatmeal Raisen, Peanut Butter and Giner. To learn more about this fun, new company, check out this video:
One of the highlights of my day was meeting Issac from the Naranjillo Cooperative in Peru. The cooperative that he respresents has more than 5,000 members who produce high-quality Fair Trade Certified cocoa and coffee. Take a look at this video to see how Issac feels about Fair Trade (hint: we think he likes it!).
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Cat Scan dye/pepper Allergies
years ago i had an alergic reaction to cat scan dye after an auto accident, since then ive found myelf to be allergic to all types of peppers, from blacvk pepper to just holding a pepper in my hand causes a reaction. Is this a common combination? What treatments if any are available besides benadryl after the fact? many times i have reactions from eating out and if i ask about peppers used in the food and have often been served food with peppers anyway
There is no relationship between IV contrast dye reactions and reactions to peppers. I would see an allergist to determine if the reactions you are experiencing are IgE mediated (immediate), delayed type or irritant. For now the treatment of choice is avoidance. However, an allergy consultation should clarify any issues pertaining to these reactions.
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Touted just last year as the key to unlocking Mare Island's potential as an economic driver, its train service provider is being run out on a rail, its operators say.
Mare Island Rail Service (MIRS) officials say Lennar Mare Island (LMI), which owns most of the track, canceled its contract early and won't accept an offer to provide rail service at no cost to Lennar or the city.
"We've gotten notice to be out by the end of the month," vice president Rydel Peterson said.
Washington-based Tri-City & Olympia Railroad, doing business as Mare Island Rail Service, still has the 20-year agreement with the city to use the tracks through town, but has been warned that after year's end, setting wheels on the island would be trespassing.
Lennar Mare Island officials say they are all for rail service on the island but can no longer subsidize it. A similar scenario played out in 2008, when California Northern Railroad lost its contract with Lennar.
"LMI has always supported rail service on Mare Island," company spokesman Jason Keadjian said. "A LMI subsidy has helped make rail service on Mare Island possible."
Keadjian said LMI's contract with the rail service ends at the end of 2012 and that only three businesses on the island -- Alstom Transportation, Inc., Alamillo Rebar, Inc. and XKT engineering, Inc. -- use it.
Peterson and Alamillo Vice President Joe Alamillo said they think Lennar hopes to rid the island of rail service for good.
"Lennar's trying to close it out. That's their goal," Alamillo said. "They have a different type of development in mind."
Lennar officials, however, say they tried offering to renew the MIRS' contract with "substantially the same terms," as it has now, and sees the firm's counter offer as being "in significant conflict with existing Mare Island agreements and entitlements and would have far-reaching impacts on economic development," Keadjian said. "MIRS' proposal in effect would prioritize its business model over other land uses, businesses, jobs and economic development on Mare Island. LMI repeated its offer to amend the contract that has been in effect for two years," including a continued subsidy.
Peterson makes the case that access to rail and water transport is among Mare Island's most important draws for industrial commerce and losing rail service would eliminate their rail customers' competitive edge.
When Mare Island Rail Service inked its deal with Lennar nearly two years ago, Peterson said company officials envisioned increased use of the island for exporting goods by ship. By combining access to trucking, rail and ship transportation, Mare Island could become a regional commercial hub, he said at the time.
But if an agreement with Lennar isn't reached soon, rail service comes to a screeching halt Dec. 31.
At least one business is already going to plan B.
"We're already looking for other means," Alamillo said. "We got a letter from Lennar saying they're shutting (the rail line) down. We have to go elsewhere. It will increase our costs, but we had to make other shipping arrangements. Life is what it is."
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'Mike Robitaille, a former Sabres player and current hockey analyst on Buffalo's Empire Sports Network, said the Sharks were getting "an honest player'' who should be able to contribute 15 to 20 goals a season. Brown won't provide all the offense lost when Sturm was injured, Robitaille said, but he should become a better player in San Jose than if he stayed in Buffalo, where he had hit a wall. "What Curtis needs is to just go to a good hockey club,'' Robitaille said.'
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You can purchase a pre-made bird bath or make your own. Simple bird baths can be made from garbage-can lids placed on drainage pipe sections or flue pipes. You can also place large plant saucers or ceramic bowls on tree stumps, logs or on large plant pots (filled with soil for more stability). If you have an artistic nature or kids looking for a craft, painting ceramic plant pots is a fun activity.
To entice small birds to jump in, a bath should be no more than 3 inches deep. To allow birds to get a foothold while bathing, the interior surface should be textured. If you have a container that is a little too deep and too slippery, line the bottom with gravel or stones.
In order for birds to be attracted to your bird bath, they need a quick escape route if they sense a predator. The American Bird Conservancy says to set them up close to windows so that if a bird does take off and fly toward a window, they will not gather much speed before bouncing off the glass. Learn more about avoiding bird collisions in the tips on Decorating Your Windows.
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THE Shaina Taub TRIO, featuring Jake Cohen and Mike Brun, has been honing a repertoire of intimate, acoustic arrangements bursting with three-part harmony. The trio is about to head into the studio to record an EP, to be released in January.
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March Madness means lots of celebrities popping up at basketball games.
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Caring staff at a Keighley motor dealership are moving up a gear in their charity fundraising.
Colin Appleyard Ltd has pledged to coin in £12,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
The firm has already raised more than £7,000 during the past year, with activities including a sponsored 24-hour 'commute-a-thon' on a 125cc scooter, street collections and raffles, and by taking part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning with Nuffield Health Shipley.
Hayley Cooke, fundraising manager for Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "The continued support from Colin Appleyard during 2014 will be invaluable to us, and we're really excited to be working with all their dealerships.
"Every day 29 people in West Yorkshire are told the devastating news they have cancer, and every penny Colin Appleyard raises will help us reach out to more people."
Events planned by the company this year include a sponsored cycle ride, a promotional weekend and runs.
Appleyard's marketing manager, Karen Halifax, said: "No one should have to face cancer alone, which is why we want to raise as much money as possible so Macmillan can continue to meet the needs of people affected by cancer."
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I'm surprised we were still in it after turning it over 2,000 times.
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I'm surprised we were still in it after turning it over 2,000 times.
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Regardless of how the rest of the season plays out, defense HAS to a priority in the offseason. This is just pathetic.
But, then again, that's what we've been saying for a while now.
I didn't know this was the Super Bowl game......
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I wouldn't really be ashamed of losing to the Cowboys. They have been in nearly every single game this year ever since Romo took over.
On a positive note, the Colts run defense showed signs of improving. On a negative note, your running game was basically shut down. Addai or Rhodes is really going to have to step it up when the playoffs role around.
At least we didn't get blown out.
We had chances to win. Now the media circus won't be all over us about going undefeated. That's a good thing.
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Hopefully the Giants will beat Jacksonville tomorrow!
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Another thing is that nobody could have predicted is how well the Dallas front 7 would play today. They haven't played this good all year..Manning was out there running for his life.
You have to give Dallas credit...they put alot of effort towards it...but I think this loss helps the Colts in the long run. To be honest, If I was a die-hard Colts fan, I'd want another loss towards the end of this season to wake the team up right before the playoffs.
From what I took out of that game, yeah we lost BUT our run D gave up about 40 some yards in the first half is what they were announcing at halftime that's Fantastic compared to what we've dealt with ALL season long we can at least come away from this and know that was good, but good god our O-Line had a huge meltdown today I'm just glad it's now and not the Playoffs
Things that ticked me off about this game, no challenge by dungy...? it's like he just got cocky and knew manning was going to win the game for us anyways. Another thing that just ticked me off in general was they said that if the colts win a game in November they get TWO DAYS OFF...great plan their coach it's getting closer to the playoffs you do everything possible to make sure we're rusty when the playoffs come here it's worked perfectly thus far.
I'm sorry Dungy is a great coach and he obviously knows more than me about football, but that kind of work ethic hasn't exactly worked out for us in the past. He needs to grow a pair and push this team over the hump.
Next week sssshhhoouullllddd be an easy game. Donovan Mcnabb is done for the season we contain Westbrook and force whoever it is they have to fill in for Mcnabb to pass and we should have a great showing in the national television game next week.
It's better that we lost now instead of later imo.
Maybe this will bring them back down to earth so now we know that we aren't invincible before the playoffs.
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
Dallas was the first team that stuck to the game plan and didn't do something stupid chasing points against the Colts. They didn't let the Colt mystique (of the offense) cause them to overthink anything. Even with the Colt defense seemingly playing better, they didn't make one of those bonehead calls that play into the Colts' hands. The one flag in the EZ on the Colt defense was critical too because it didn't appear to be a factor in the interception that would've stalled their scoring drive. So it's not like the Colt defender had to do that to stop a 'sure' Cowboy TD otherwise.
The bad thing is that the Cowboys have just given the rest of the NFL a blueprint on how to beat the Colts. Not that the blueprint didn't exist before but now coaches and players can see it can work if they just stick to it. Coaches have video proof that they can sell the players (and themselves on). They can now say "The Colts don't always have an answer and you can still get in Peyton and the offense's head. We just have to stick with the gameplan and play solid, physical foorball".
Of course there's also the some potential good coming from it if it serves as a wakeup call to the players and the coaches that they've played with fire all year long and when they faced a team playing playoff style football, with discipline, this time they got burned. It was the Colts who got impatient and chased the points. And that is part of what burned them.
And it goes without saying that you can't be turning the ball over in the NFL. You can't force it into double coverage. And you have to hang onto the ball.
And lastly... if you do go for the EZ and not the first down on 4th and 2... How about forcing one into somebody there rather than basically throwing it away? (Altho I'm not convinced we shouldn't have kicked the FG there and put the pressure back on the Cowboys to hold onto a 4 point lead while we play defense... and we would have had the option of an onside kick too).
Soooo it was same ol Colts when the pressure was on. Just what we thought we were over last year, but in the end haunted us, we just got a glimpse of if this year. While initially I think last year's Steeler game might not have had to do with this, the end of the game had everything to do with it. We were throwing 'hero' balls when we should've been trying to get a first down and/or get the kicker closer for a tying FG.
We need to keep that 'hero' ball tucked away a while longer in games where every play, every possession, are so vital.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
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The thing is, they said they had practiced every one of our passing schemes 150 times each before they showed up to play us. We had a day off on Monday showed up for a short film session on tuesday and really didn't get into putting whatever plan we were going to use against them in motion until Wednesday, and yet one call bounces our way or we don't turn the ball over nearly as much and we still win that game handily I believe. Lets also not forget we have not had stokely since forever to have the entire playbook at our disposal and the defense DID do well until I believe it got disheartened and had given up mentally after we couldn't convert on just 4th and 2 but it will only get better once we get Sanders back and right now it's not like we're awful. Go read the article on Indy Star they had only 77 yards for 21 carries in the first 3 quarters which is 3.6 yards per rush which is leaps and bounds better than the 4.5 we were giving up prior to that
The blueprint on how to beat the Colts has been out there for a while but the Colts have gotten a little better about it but when it comes right down to it they still need to play better within themselves to not get caught in the trap.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
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I have no qualms about the defense. They played very well. They got killed in the 2nd half, becuase they were out on the field all the time. Since they are built on speed, they DO need rest. The offense underperformed.
One thing, man do we have protection problems against 3-4 defenses. If we play SD in the playoffs, I don't see us winning. I think we can beat NE, mainly because of personnel. But SD, they will eat us alive.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
I am actually glad the Colts lost.
They are not a good enough team to go undefeated. There is no shame in that. It is better to lose now because we will have time to get over it more and the loss means less. Unlike last year, when it seemed that only the record mattered, then Dungy's son died, and then we lost, we fell and we fell long and hard. Our season was downhill after that first loss.
I thought the team played well. We didn't have Stokley or Sanders again but I still felt like we played well. IMO the Colts were in control of the game, they just didn't pull away and that allowed the Cowboys back into it.
I just hope that we can be healthy and playing well come playoff time. That is all I care about because that is all that is important.
Umm, the Texans was supposed to be an easy game.
However, the last time the Colts played the Eagles they pwned them....
A little too late in this thread for me, as a Cowboys fan, to gloat so I'll use this as a Thanksgiving post.
First, let me thank Indy for playing such suck football for the 1st 3 quarters that we were still in it and Romo had a chance to bring us back.
Second, Thank you to Tony Dungy for forgetting what that red flag is for.
Third, Thank you to Parcells for finally bringing in Romo a few weeks back.
Thank you to TO for mostly shutting up the last 3 weeks.
Above all, Thank you for a game we can really use to build our season on - the Tampa Bay mauling showed what this did for us.
And finally - you guys thought you could sabotage us by leaving Vandercrap out there for some poor idiots to gobble up - but Nooooo - try as he might, he's only lost one game for us in the last 4 weeks!
Looking forward to watching you stomp the Eagles to a bloody pulp tonight.
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With his driver behaving rather recklessly years ago, the car owner Roger Penske said this about Paul Tracy, "I can teach him to slow down. But I can't teach someone to speed up."
John Gibbons laughed when he heard the anecdote, knowing the Penske logic can apply to his dealing with third baseman Brett Lawrie. And it has been a fascinating meeting of the minds thus far at spring training watching the low-key Gibbons and high-strung Lawrie forge a relationship: Dealing with Lawrie, everyone told Gibbons, would be among his greatest challenges in the new job as manager.
So far, he hasn't seen it that way. Lawrie has become something of a team project for the Blue Jays, trying to harness all that talent while not running away with matters. But it starts with the manager, who didn't go looking for information on Lawrie before spring training began. The information went looking for him.
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That's a nationally televised game that was supposed to draw a lot of fans because it would be a derby between two contenders. However, the schedule made sure that one of the two teams wouldn't be able to compete.
Pop had every right to protest the fact that his team was not given an equal opportunity in this game (the fact that this game was nationally televised does matter).
Also, the game that the Spurs are playing in 2 days is much, much more important than the one they played together.


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Two teams of University of Colorado law students captured first and second place in a regional moot court competition on trademark and unfair competition law in San Francisco.
The winning team will proceed to the 1997 national finals in Washington, D.C., on March 22.
Placing first and winning the best oralists and best briefs awards were Nancy Fogle of Boulder and Kirstin Stoll of Thornton.
Second place went to Marco Chayet of Boulder, Brad Hattenbach of Westminster and Kate Wingard of Boulder.
This is the fourth year in a row that CU law students coached by law Professor Art Travers and Associate Professor Curtis Bradley have won the 13-state western regionals of the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition.
Fifteen teams competed in the Feb. 22 regionals including the University of Oregon and the University of California campuses at Davis and Berkeley.
Each team consisted of two or three students who prepared briefs and argued a complicated case involving the use of two registered trademarks in a comparative ad by a competing company.
The national finals will be in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., the premier trademark court in the United States. The finals will be judged by two panels of federal judges and top trademark administrators.
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PHOENIX — It was here last February at the Maryvale Baseball Complex that Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun stood in front of a group of reporters and denied that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Here again just 357 days later, Braun was again facing reporters and again trying to squirm his way out of the PED spotlight. This time the link was less damning, but it again put Braun's name, reputation and believability under suspicion.
Also, it did nothing to dissuade his skeptics, the ones who believe his positive test for synthetic testosterone was real, the ones who believe his appeal was won on nothing more than a technicality and the ones who believe his name showing up in the notes of a suspected PED peddler is more sinister than Braun would like everyone to believe.
On Friday morning just outside the Brewer clubhouse and about one of his prodigious home runs distance from where he did this song and dance last year, Braun did not address his link to the Miami-area clinic, Biogenesis, or PEDs other than saying he stands by the statement he made last week when he said clinic founder Anthony Bosch was only a consultant in his appeal and there was a dispute about the fee for those services. That is why his name appeared in the clinic's records, he stated.
"I stand behind that statement," said Braun, chin up, chest forward and hands wringing behind his back. "I'm not going to address that issue any further. As I stated, I'm happy to cooperate fully with any investigation into this matter."
Major League Baseball is investigating Biogenesis along with Braun and several other players who were linked to the clinic in reports by the Miami New Times and Yahoo! Sports within the last two weeks. It was Yahoo! that revealed Braun's name—the New Times elected to redact Braun's name in the initial Biogenesis report—and prompted MLB to include him in the investigation nearly a year after Braun beat a 50-game suspension and sent the league into fits because the testing program's integrity took a major hit.
And just hours after Braun spoke with reporters Friday, ESPN revealed another Biogenesis document that again had Braun's name on it. This time, unlike the document obtained by the New Times and Yahoo!, Braun's name was written next to the figure $1,500 on a list with Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and Francisco Cervelli. This list, a source told ESPN, was one that had names of players who received PEDs.
But even before the latest report came to light Friday, Braun's name was already transforming into mud. His silence in the days before the Yahoo! report, his statement hours after it surfaced and his words Friday have led to only more questions and, in turn, skepticism.
Why would Braun or his lawyers consult a man who is not a doctor and had already been linked to a PED scandal—Bosch and his father were involved in Manny Ramirez's s 50-game suspension in 2009—to strengthen his appeal? For a guy who MLB already believed to be a doper, why go to a dope dealer to help clear your name?
Why wouldn't he get out in front of the Yahoo! report by commenting when the outlet attempted to contact him and his lawyers? Declining to give his reason for his name being on the document until after it became public made Braun look reactive rather than proactive.
Finally, if there is nothing to hide and Braun really telling the truth, why not stand up and answer questions Friday? Not addressing the issue outside of those 27 words just leaves too much to the imagination for the entire smelly scandal to be forgotten.
After beating the appeal last winter and producing another MVP-level season in 2012, Braun did a lot to alleviate the suspicion stepping on his once-good name. But since his name has been linked to Biogenesis, he has done nothing but create more of that suspicion instead of dissolving it with believable reasoning.
Brewer manager Ron Roenicke is on the record as saying he believes it is unfair that Braun's name came out in the Biogenesis reports despite there not being any specific PED connection on the documents. He reiterated that Friday, but when asked if he thought it was fair since Braun was part of MLB's investigation, Roenicke had no answer.
"I don't know. I don't really know what to feel about that," Roenicke said. "All of the information I know is from (the media). So I don't know enough to really answer that."
The manager is not alone there. The only thing anyone knows for certain about this case is Braun tested positive and he beat the suspension without challenging the test's results but rather the chain-of-custody process.
Other than that, nobody knows anything for sure. No one except Ryan Braun, of course.
The problem with that is whatever Braun is saying is the truth is becoming less and less believable a year after he first denied being a cheater. And at this point, until something rock solid clears his name, not even another stellar season will change that sentiment.


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Dad has been home on Hospice exactly one month. The last 2 days he has become more "out of it" just staring off, quiet. Yesterday morning he got the Rigors again then started to become agitated. The hospice nurse came over & checked him out. His blood pressure was low 90 over 56 & Heart rate up over 90. She gave him some Ativan & liquid morphine that seemed to calm him down. We gathered the whole family to the house and just stayed with him throughout the rest of the day..he seemed to be doing better late afternoon, we all watched the Angels baseball game & told stories, dad became animated & involved. It's as if he had this new spurt of energy ! He woke up from a long nap than around 9:00 pm he started to become agitated again. We gave him more Ativan & liquid morphine but it got worse. He then soiled himself & was talking gibberish & hallucinating. Hospice came over around midnight ( they are so great) and gave him more drops. They said his agitation was a sign of pain & discomfort. He had a temperature of 101 so she gave him a Tylenol suppository. Also ended up putting a diaper on him. His bp was even lower & heart rate up very high. She said she thought he would pass this weekend. We are all just so scared. He seemed to be doing fine then so suddenly turned the corner. As much as I don't want him to go, I hate seeing him suffer like this. How long will this stage last? We all gathered in his room telling him we loved him what a great father/ husband is & that its ok to go. This is all just so hard


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text: Politics 21 February 2013 We are in danger of loving the NHS to death Universal healthcare is the least citizens should expect. To make the NHS better for patients, politicians, press and public alike need to cultivate a healthly scepticism towards it, not give it unlimited adulation. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML When Gary Walker broke the terms of a non-disclosure agreement to reveal the impact on patients of excessive target-setting at the United Lincolnshire Health Trust over which he used to preside, he revealed a great deal more. Most obviously, he lifted the lid on a culture of fear of that still pervades much of the NHS, a culture in which whistle-blowers stand to lose reputations and careers, in which silence is commonly bought through the use of legal gagging clauses that break the spirit and perhaps the letter of the Public Interest Disclosure Act. It's significant that when the BBC put Walker's allegations to the NHS, the response of the trust's lawyers was to write to the former manager threatening him with the loss of his £500,000 severance package, rather than to deal with the substance of his allegations. But what's equally striking is that the story was presented as one about whistle-blowing, about the morality and legality of non-disclosure agreements, rather than about the horrendous overcrowding and patient neglect that caused Walker to blow his whistle. The fact that United Lincolnshire is one of fourteen NHS trusts currently under investigation for hundreds of excess deaths seemed of less significance than a debate about management practices. And of course it is important. A corporate culture that discourages and punishes whistle-blowing is one in which failures and abuses go unchallenged, one that breeds complacency and in which those responsible are rarely held to account. What is truly shocking, however, is that vulnerable people in our hospitals are spending their last days in squalor and dying needless deaths through dehydration and neglect. At least it should be shocking. But perhaps, following years of revelations about dirt, mistreatment and neglect in hospitals - elderly patients left wallowing in their own waste, deprived of food and water while staff are sitting in offices filling in forms, beds parked in corridors while their occupants are treated with contempt - such tales have ceased to shock. It's now two weeks since the release of the second report by Robert Francis into Mid Staffordshire hospital trust, where almost 1,200 excess deaths occurred between 1996 and 2008, years when the Labour government was pumping unprecedented amounts of cash into the NHS and boasting loudly about having transformed standards of treatment. By any standards, this is one of the biggest scandals of recent years - bigger than Savile, bigger than MPs' expenses, certainly bigger than the horsemeat saga that has largely relegated Mid Staffs to the inside pages. Bankers can steal your money, the press can invade your privacy, but only the NHS can kill you. Yet no-one has been forced to resign, and at this stage criminal charges seem an unlikely prospect. Yes, there have been ritual expressions of regret. But where is the outrage, where is the raw anger? The Labour party, which was in government in the period covered by the Francis reports, prefers to talk about the Coalition's forthcoming reforms (or about horsemeat). The Conservatives, for whom Mid Staffs ought to represent an open goal, if only as evidence that their radical measures are needed, have been if anything even more reticent. David Cameron has contented himself with expressing his full confidence in Sir David Nicholson, the bureaucrat who presided over the Mid Staffs debacle and who now runs the entire NHS, dismissing calls for his resignation as "scapegoating." For both main parties, where the NHS is concerned there's a fear of treading on sacred ground. It's especially acute for the Tories, fearful of detoxifying the brand by saying anything that might be construed as critical of the NHS. For Labour, meanwhile, the NHS is the great shibboleth. The Labour attitude is an unfortunate combination of sentimentality and a defensive sense of ownership. Its problems can be acknowledged only as unrepresentative and untypical; the only possible cure, more funding. As for the public? The picture here, I suspect, is rather more mixed than often assumed by politicians or the press. The NHS regularly tops surveys of the things that make people proud to be British. At the same time, whenever the topic of hospital treatment features on a radio phone-in there's a huge response from people with bad experiences to share. A talk by Christina Patterson on Radio 4 about the poor quality of nursing care she experienced while in hospital resonated hugely with audiences. Last summer, even as Danny Boyle brought a patriotic tear to many an eye with his vision of dancing nurses a survey recorded the biggest ever drop in public satisfaction with the NHS. Few, though, are yet willing to contemplate any alternative. The former chancellor Nigel Lawson once said that the NHS was the closest thing this country has to a national religion. And indeed, the reverence with which the NHS continues to be treated is not entirely rational. Its devotees believe in the NHS despite all the evidence to the contrary, because to do so is an act of faith. The idea of state provision, "free at the point of need" (even while, much of the time, it isn't) is a powerful sustaining myth, a moral ideal whose purity negates the inconvenient fact that the provision itself is frequently worse than it is in countries with mixed systems. Belief in the goodness and inevitability NHS persists alongside the grumbling, alongside the equally widely held belief that the NHS is "failing", underfunded and fraying at the seams. Universal healthcare isn't just a noble ideal, it is the least that citizens of an advanced society should expect. But there are many ways of providing it. When it was first established after the Second World War, the NHS one of the world's first experiments in nationalised medical care. It's still often said that the NHS is "the envy of the world"; but few other countries have copied it, and while it compares well with other systems in terms of cost efficiency it does much less well in terms of outcomes. Cancer survival rates, for example, are among the worst in the developed world. What other countries took from the pioneering British example was the idea that universal health coverage was possible, and desirable; and they proceeded to build their systems in their own way, usually by mixing private insurance with public provision, ensuring that the most vulnerable didn't slip through the net. All systems have their drawbacks. With the NHS, the main problem is lack of transparency, which allows abuses such as those in Mid Staffordshire and United Lincolnshire to fester. I see a direct connection between the lack of transparency and the NHS's sacrosanct place national life, certainly in political debate. Other countries may provide more of the people, more of the time, with better healthcare; they may protect the vulnerable more effectively, and be less unequal; they may keep more patients alive. But they will never be loved, as the NHS is loved. People who can see a connection between their financial contribution and the care they receive don't have this same superstitious reverence for their healthcare system, so in other countries it has been easier to introduce reforms. "Each man kills the thing he loves," as Oscar Wilde once wrote. The NHS is in danger of being loved to death, by politicians, press and public alike. We should not love the NHS, any more than we should hate the NHS. We should, rather, cultivate a healthy scepticism about the NHS. We should appreciate that, however great the NHS's achievements in the past, it was built for a different age, an age of far greater social conformity and far less sophisticated (and thus expensive) medical care, when "one size fits all" represented a liberation not a straightjacket. 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I can only use IE6 at work. Soon as I try to log in it freezes. I assume IE6 is no longer supported?
You're right, we no longer support IE6, it accounts for about 2% of our traffic so isn't "worth" the effort.
However it shouldn't freeze, I'll try and remember to get some coal on the way into work and fire up the old machine that uses it and see what we can do...
Considering that Microsoft themselves are trying to kill IE6 usage http://ie6countdown.com/ I would ask your company to allow an upgrade, (or at least install a secondary browser). You will find large parts of the internet not working and it will only get worse for you.
Im well aware of the fact it would be 'nice' if they upgraded. But its a massive company and they even use a varient of XP designed specifically for the company.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire still believes Danny Santana's position of the future is shortstop, so he plans to keep finding time for him to start there moving forward this season.
Santana, who has been serving as the Twins' starting center fielder due to the club's lack of depth there, made his 19th start of the year at shortstop on Thursday. It was his third start there over his last six games after starting in center for 25 straight.
"I want him to get time in there playing," Gardenhire said. "He's played a lot of center field. But he came up through our system as a shortstop and we think he's going to be a good shortstop. So I want to give him time there."
Gardenhire, though, said there's no firm plan in place for how many starts Santana will get at shortstop down the stretch, especially because the Twins like the way regular shortstop Eduardo Escobar has handled himself this season.
"[Escobar] has played a great shortstop, but I need to Santana there because he needs to be aware he's a shortstop," Gardenhire said. "We'll go day by day and get a feel for it. But we only have a three-man bench. So we're trying to mix guys around. So he'll be a part of it, and I definitely want to get him in there."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Yeah, I think Sandy was jealous of the WrestleMania 29 location .. but Dallas might get it in 2014! WrestleMania 30, hopefully a heel Orton, high mid-card or top card feuds for the likes of Cody, Dolph, Barrett and maybe even Sandow, and well developed stars in Ambrose, Rollins and Reigns. I apologize for the run-on sentences .. I never wrote a blog, without further waiting .. my thoughts on paper .. or your computer/phone screen.
First .. RAW, what can I say .. Aj and Cena in a story line together .. atleast its a way to keep them busy away from the main event scene, right? Punk is by far the main reason I never tune out, because anything involving him or The Shield is worth taking note. I hate to admit it, but I think Sandow might end up floating around without Cody. I believe he's a great talent, but what else can he do now? Kane and Bryan, I can't say I was excited when they first formed, but atleast they're making it work. I for one didn't expect Cesaro to be so .. noticeable, I mean his mic work isn't the best, but his in-ring capabilities being able to hold up against Sheamus .. that's commendable. R-Truth, I like him, but lil' Jimmy needs to have a lil' accident at a lil' hotel room in a certain state that legalized marijuana so he can be lil' traumatized to never be mentioned again. The Prime Time Players are incredible, maybe if I like how the reception of this blog goes I can go more in depth considering the tag team division. Sin Cara and Rey Mysterio are better together than apart, I just wish talents wouldn't .. decrease "in-ring work output" so that Sin Cara can look good. I like the new Three Man Rock Band or whatever, but only Drew is keeping me interested, he just has that look more than the others and he used to be pretty big deal like Barrett and Sandow.
Second .. TNA, I'm sorry .. but certain parts of this product blows me away like a thick Latina when I lost my virginity. I swear, Austin Aries is the change I've been waiting for since The Rock left! He's a great mic and ring worker and he had matches with a lot of my favorites nowadays. I think only he can make this new angle with the Hogans and Bully Ray actually bearable, that table joke had me rewinding my DVR atleast three times. I haven't even mentioned Christopher Daniels yet, but at this point I find him more relevant and better than AJ Styles at the moment atleast. I don't want any hate for that comment, just my opinion. I don't like that new "gangnam" song, but seeing him do the dance for it during a match just cracks me up, both him and Aries take "showing off" to a limit even Ziggler hasn't reached. I hope they get the tag titles soon because the tag champs weren't even on the show! Wussup Wit' Dat?! The Ace's and Eight's did nothing this week, kind of a let down .. I was enjoying the beat downs. I even watched some cowboy movie with that title before the show. I love the women's division on this show, the knockouts are atleast worth mentioning. Gail Kim and Mickie James had a great bit of action and counters, I can't wait to see Tara again, but she's still Victoria to me! Rob Van Dam is proof you can still live your dreams with the high life. I'm not to fond of Jeff being champion, I feel Aries would still have it doing great feuds, if it wasn't for Hardy's contract expiring. Bobby Roode, I guess is just meant to be Hardy's first successful defense. James Storm .. why did he lose his #1 contender shot right after he won it, I think he's next in line to win it and it would be too soon for Hardy to lose it.
Third .. SmackDown, now I'm sure some of you thought why not do both WWE shows together since they're basically the same S#$% ... I don't know why. I started watching when there was two brands, so I try to keep it that way and hopefully I can atleast remember how the roster should be ... anyways ... I know what you're thinking. Why haven't I mentioned Ziggler as a subject instead of side disses and notes. SmackDown, that's why, don't use Sandow, Rhodes, or others against me, they aren't carrying a big blue suitcase all the time. Dolph is great, I hope he cashes in or something soon, he has great matches .. I just think he's missing something. Wade Barrett, I didn't get the big fuss about him at first, but this guy can hold his ground against many top stars. Sheamus, okay random but I named my dog after him .. they were both super white and fiesty, he was originally "Wee Baby Sheamus" but my sister cut it short. I like him as a heel, but his rivalry with Big Show is better with him as a contender just like my first favorite wrestler. Randy Orton, but I stopped caring when he turned face, I want The Legend Killer back, I guess he had no other choice once his punt kick was banned and lack of notable legends to kill. Kofi Kingston, I'm sorry I don't like him, he's great in the ring, but once I found out he had no accent I lost all interest in him. Finally, Albertoooooooo Del Rioooooo, Ricardo is worth more, but 'chu already knew that. Del Rio, he needs something, Ricardo is good but when Berties starts talking I start to zone out, I actually enjoyed him at first when he debuted, but atleast Orton was entertaining with the "Destiny" gimmick.
I am a long term fan, back since I played "No Way Out" on Nintendo 64. I am not that old, but I atleast saw the ending of the Attitude Era. I don't hate the product or love it, but I'm not gonna complain about what's not in my control. The way I see it, if I don't like something I make a story on the create a story mode on my 360. I have many stories if that's any insight on how I view the product. I missed out on a year or two, solely because I was going through my mom's second divorce and got into many regrettable activities that would disappoint family members. I never had anything else as consistent in my life like wrestling. I miss Eddie he was all I ever talked about and Benoit is okay in my book, maybe his whore of wife cheated again and said the kid wasn't his, women say things to make a man mad, trust me I went through it hearing those kind of arguments growing up, he's still alright to me and I only regret not taking notice of him earlier in his career with WWE, I love his theme song.
I'm also working on my own Dream Federation of all the wrestling promotions, or atleast WWE, TNA, WCW, ECW and RoH I have my own standings and it's just a hobby of mine when I'm not busy or bored, but if anyone would like to help me place them correctly on how you think they should be placed .. kind of like a power ranking, I would appreciate an email or message so we can network on Facebook because I don't like the way forums work on here especially since I can only use this through my old galaxy prevail phone, you can't imagine the difficulty I had making this. I don't log on much, I mostly read other blogs, and I've read worse blogs than this so I gave it a shot. Sorry, especially if you expected a blog about The Hurricane. I personally was a fan until I noticed he had an overweight reject double, who I personally thought was Matt Hardy due to matching hair, weight and moves.
I have way more opinions and insight on how I feel about certain stars, plus some I didn't mention. I wasn't trying to give a full blown critique of anyone especially if no one would even consider reading this. I don't want sympathy for anything, so leave that out the comments. I hope you all have a wonderful day, and you're welcome for the enlightenment I have brought to you today, g'day mate, if you wanna pronounce that right say (good eye might) to yourself out loud a couple times.
P.S. I watch TNA and WWE, I'm unable to view NXT, RoH and Main Event .. so if anyone can atleast make a good weekly blog on Ring of Honor I would deeply appreciate it. I just hope it can be well put together, sometimes I read blogs that make the show sound more dull than an overused crayon in the second grade. The sad part is the second grader can actually make it sound exciting .. Just Saiyan.


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text: STYLE: High-Visibility: Style.Pages High Visibility: Eyewear Companies Score Basketball Star Partnerships By John Sailer Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:00 PM High Visibility features companies, products and collections that are raising brand awareness through strategic partnerships, sponsorships, consumer advertising campaigns and tie-ins to prominent events, etc. To be considered for inclusion please contact senior editors, Deirdre Carroll or John Sailer. With so many basketball players going for the geek chic look, it's no surprise that eyewear and eyecare companies are tapping NBA stars to promote their brands and sport their own styles. VSP Vision Care has adopted Tyreke Evans' hometown of Chester, Pa., with a commitment to provide uninsured , low-income residents with free eyecare and eyewear. Evans kicked off the collaboration by spending a week in Chester with the VSP mobile eyecare clinic working with local VSP eye doctors to provide comprehensive eye exams and glasses to community members who do not have access to eyecare. Over 1,000 residents were provided a comprehensive eye exam or a gift certificate redeemable at a VSP doctor's office. VSP will work with public health commissioner Ieasa Nichols to ensure eyecare is provided year round to those in need in Chester. "It means a great deal to see one of our own come home with a resource that has a positive impact on so many," said Chester Mayor John Linder. "Chester helped make me who I am today, and I won't ever forget it," Evans said. Jordan Brand commissioned 9five Eyewear to help welcome NBA point guard, Russell Westbrook, to their team with a customized set of 9five x Jordan Brand reader frames and sunglasses. Known as much for his progressive off-court looks as for being one of the youngest point guards, Westbrook celebrates both distinctions with this collaboration. While the 9five x Jordan Brand collaboration frames are exclusive at this time, stay tuned for further news on a follow-up project. To celebrate the extension of its partnership with Al-Farouq Aminu, LBI's Geek Eyewear introduced the Style 'Rouq '03. It combines the bold plastic front Geek Eyewear is known for with a double bar metal side piece that extends to conjoin a wide temple. "We took strong pre-orders of this style," said Robert Perry, Geek Eyewear's executive vice president. "This was the first frame I picked up to launch my line," said Aminu. "I love to Geek it up and wear this frame." "Rouq caused a sensation at the NBA draft," Geek Eyewear creator Alena Lehrer said. "He was wearing one of Geek Eyewear's most popular styles. The image of Al-Farouq Aminu wearing Geek Eyewear blew up over the internet, and our phone lines were buzzing." Within days, a deal was struck with Aminu's agents, and he has been the official spokesperson of Geek Eyewear ever since.


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No, it's not about Jean Renoir's 1939 classic, The Rules of the Game, though the society in collapse that the film depicts resonates eerily in our contemporary era.
It's about a report by Tricia Duryee in the Wall Street Journal, announcing Google+'s new video games policy; instead of taking a 30% cut of the action as Facebook and Apple do, Google+ will only take 5%, and leave 95% for the game manufacturers, although this is an introductory offer, and once they get market share, who knows what will happen?
As Duryee reports, "Google+ Games Product Manager Punit Soni explained that initially Google will share 95 percent of the revenue from virtual goods sold with the developers and keep only five percent for itself. That confirms what I originally reported hearing from sources last month.Soni said it could change in the future, but pricing today will be based on the company's new in-app payments platform, which charges five percent for microtransactions on the Web (unlike the 30 percent Google charges on Android)."
Let the games begin!


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The Old Man and the Fish
A couple of hours before the Florida Marlins are to play the Colorado Rockies on a mild Friday evening at Dolphins Stadium, outfielder Juan Pierre stretches his hammy beside catcher Matt Treanor, himself mere minutes removed from watching TV in the clubhouse while pensively raking his goatee with a fork. First-baseman Carlos Delgado rolls on the ground behind the batting-practice backstop, stretching his legs with an elastic band and laughing with 24-year-old wünderkind Miguel Cabrera. A few feet away, in the shadow of the dugout, sits manager Jack McKeon. Smoke trickles out of both the wet and burning ends of his Padron cigar. He wears rimless glasses, a hearing aid, and a Marlins uniform held together at the waist with a thick, black belt fastened on the innermost hole.
When it is suggested to the skipper that his players might themselves manage someday, his response is swift: "They'll never have the fun that I had."
It's unclear who in baseball is having more fun than McKeon these days, let alone during the rest of his long career, which has -- no kidding -- spanned seven decades. After he signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization in 1948, McKeon slogged his way playing and managing in such baseball backwaters as Missoula, Fayetteville, and Omaha. Then in 1973, he got the call to take the helm of the Kansas City Royals, making him one of the few to manage in the majors without having played in them. If his heart is in the big leagues, his soul remains in the minors, because he believes that is where a manager can teach, and that is whence the best stories come, not that it matters much as long as it's baseball. McKeon could make a Little League team's Kool-Aid break sound like Exodus in the retelling.
"You really got to teach in the minor leagues," he says. "And you got to really feel good about maybe helping someone accelerate... to get to the major leagues."
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With this, he is off. He tells of the time he bet a steak dinner that a minor-leaguer would make the bigs in two years, only to see the kid ascend in six months; he boasts of drafting future Hall-of-Famer Tony Gwynn with the San Diego Padres; and he roars about the minor-league player who hid the prosthetic leg of a roommate on the road. All the while, he taps a listener on the leg to punctuate what he considers the very best parts.
"People don't understand some of the funny things that happened," he says of the minors. "Like the gal calling me up, wants to know where her boyfriend was that gave her the ring. Said he came over with the ring that night, but he wanted to take it back and get it sized. Next day, he gave it to her girlfriend. And she wanted to know where I could get ahold of the S.O.B. I didn't know -- this is the wintertime. And she paid for the ring. Oh no."
He pauses only a moment: "Got a call, one guy wants to jump off a fuckin' bridge because his girl dissed him, and I'm out all night looking for this guy."
Still, he hurtles along: "Then the time one of my players one night had a bed check. Went to find him, his car was gone, so I went out to Pattee Canyon in Missoula, like Lover's Lane. Spotted this guy's car. And we parked away from him. I wanted to go see who was in the car. Well, I was walking up along the weeds, in the bushes. And I was with another guy, and the bushes were rustling. I say to him, 'Would you quit making so damn much noise?' And proceed another 25 feet, and the bushes are at it again. 'I ain't doing anything,' the guy says. Just about that time, a big black bear comes up. Ho-leee shit. If they'd have had a record for how fast you could run, you bet your ass I'da broke it."
To illustrate the precise flavor of terror that McKeon felt that night, he gathers his full five feet, eight-or-so inches and 200-odd pounds, stands on the floor of the dugout, and raises his hands above his head, arching his fingers in the universal pose of a monster. Less than an hour before game time, Jack McKeon, who is 74 years old, is imitating a bear that by any reasonable estimate probably died 40 years ago in the hills of Montana but could have, were it not for the skip's record speed, meant his premature demise. Instead, McKeon has survived long enough to prove himself impervious to toil, firings, cigars, Yankees, retirement, carnivorous mammals, what have you, and, most important, can relive every daft second of it any time he pleases.
More than any other unscripted cultural phenomenon, baseball has produced quotesmiths. Yogi Berra said that if you come to a fork in the road, take it. After Casey Stengel managed the Yankees to victory in the 1958 World Series, he said he couldn't have done it without his players. Author Bruce Catton wrote that baseball is the greatest conversation piece America has ever produced and, in so doing, unnecessarily confined his statement to a single nation.
It helps a great deal that the pace and quantity of games allow ample time to jabber. At this playful art, McKeon is a master. Usually without revealing much of true gravity, he fills reporters' notebooks and microphones with names, dates, quips, quotes.
The rapport between McKeon and South Florida baseball writers is like something out of an early radio comedy routine. There was the time in a post-game interview that a reporter's cell phone rang, and McKeon defused an awkward moment by saying: "I'll get it -- the president's calling. Tell him I'm busy with writers."
Then there was this, in late April, when the Miami Herald's Clark Spencer asked McKeon about a young-looking 30-year-old pitcher:
Spencer: He said he still gets carded.
McKeon: He does?
Spencer: He looks like he's 14.
McKeon: I got carded once.
Also that day, the Herald writer inquired after an injured pitcher:
Spencer: "Stress fracture. I know you're not a doctor..."
McKeon: "No, that's true. But I will be soon."
Here's what his players say about McKeon:
"It's kind of like playing for your granddad, in the regard that you don't want to do bad because you feel like you're one of his grandkids." This is Todd Jones, one of the Marlins' top relievers. "If you pitch bad, he won't say nothing to you that day. But he'll come up to you the next day and he'll pat you on the back and say, 'Ah, kid, I'm sorry. We'll get 'em tomorrow.' You're just like, 'Thanks. '"
"He wants you to be a man." This is Juan Pierre, the outfielder who elevates scrappiness to an art, shortly after a game in which he was hit in the leg by a pitch so hard that he fell to the ground and, in pain, rolled several feet along the first-base line. McKeon stepped out and told Pierre to rub some tobacco juice on it. "If you go about your business the right way, you won't have any problems with him. If you dog it or don't be focused or something, he'll get on you."
"He's the most storytelling guy I've ever met in my life." This is Dontrelle Willis, standing in front of his locker before a game on Mother's Day. Willis has had a better 2005 than perhaps any other player in the major leagues, starting the year 7 and 0 (he's now 8 and 2). And while the 23-year-old ace's perpetual good cheer gives his success the appearance of providence, he, perhaps more than any other Marlin, works hard on days off and in the offseason, largely at McKeon's urging. "He keeps it loose, and we stay fired up," Willis says of McKeon.
As Willis talks, an impromptu game of hackey sack springs up. Jeff Conine's 7-year-old son, Griffin, brought the little foot bag, and some players -- Mike Lowell, A.J. Burnett, Matt Perisho, Miguel Cabrera -- have formed a circle to keep the thing aloft. They are pro athletes, and even at this kids' pastime, they are adept. The bag makes a couple of rounds before someone pops it into a wire laundry cart. "It's still in play! It's still in play!" Burnett says. He grabs the cart, dumps the bag out, and manages to kick it a couple of times before overreaching and knocking it to the ceiling.
Watching this, Willis asks: "See what I mean?"
Minutes later, in the dugout, a reporter asks how McKeon's wife, Carol, is enjoying the holiday. McKeon replies that he hasn't spoken with her yet but offers, "Happy Mother's Day to all you guys" and adds, "Ya bunch of mothers."
Writers like to quote McKeon, and McKeon likes to quote his dad, who would say, "Your attitude determines your altitude." Bill McKeon owned taxis, tow trucks, and a Ford dealership in South Amboy, New Jersey, just across Raritan Bay from Staten Island. (McKeon writes in his 1988 autobiography, Jack of All Trades, that he drove his date to the prom in a cab.)
"When I was a young kid in high school, I was a pretty good player," McKeon says. "Scouts came to the house; they wanted to sign me. My father wouldn't let me sign. He said, 'No, I'm not going to let you guys sign' -- me and my brother -- because, he says, 'I only had a seventh-grade education, and I don't want you kids to have to work as hard as I do. I want you to have an education. '"
As McKeon talks, again in the dugout, again on a beautiful day, the sounds of the stadium throb around him, with loudspeakers echoing in the seats and the first trickle of fans through the turnstiles crying for autographs.
"So he wouldn't let me sign, so I went to Holy Cross College up in Worcester, Mass., on a baseball scholarship," he continues. "And every night I went to dinner, and on the way back, there was a shrine to the blessed virgin. And I'd sit there and pray for 20 minutes: 'Please. Can you help me? Can you intercede with the good Lord to influence my father to let me sign?'
"Well, I went home three months later, Christmastime. The scouts came back in the house. My father called me in the room when he talked to the scouts, called me outside the room, and we talked. He said, 'You really want to play?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'OK, I'll make a deal with you. You promise me you'll get a college education and I'll let you sign.' I said, 'Piece of cake. '"
So it was that a few days after his 18th birthday, the young catcher signed with the Pirates. After two seasons of minor-league ball under his belt and with a war raging in Korea, McKeon enlisted in the Air Force. He wound up running intramural sports and coaching the baseball team at his upstate New York base. The team suffered through a couple of scares on airplanes during the playoffs, McKeon recalls, so after winning the title in San Antonio, the brave Air Force ballplayers took a train home.
In 1953, he was back in the minors, batting in Burlington, North Carolina, when he got into a tussle at the plate with the opposing catcher. The ump tossed McKeon, who showered, dressed, and met his wife-to-be, Carol, in the stands. They married in 1954 and bought a home in Burlington that they still own.
McKeon at the time played for the Fayetteville Highlanders, where management cut him, hired him back as a player-manager, then cut him again when he got hurt. The owner of a team in Missoula got his name from Branch Rickey, the Hall of Fame executive who signed Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Those were the days he remembers as fondly as any: the player who ate a frog for $50; wiring his pitcher to receive radio signals on the mound; smuggling pistols (loaded with blanks) onto the field to make a point with headstrong players. The showman sensibility never left him. In all, McKeon played ten years and managed 17 (some years doing both) in the minors before the 4-season-old Kansas City Royals hired him from their Omaha minor-league affiliate.
McKeon not only spent the summer on the road but managed in Puerto Rico during the winters, so time with his family tended to be short. His wife recalls a year when he was home precisely 92 days. His eldest daughter, Kristi Booker, now 44 years old and living in Elon College, North Carolina, remembers her dad returning home in wintertime with gifts (one year, it was carnival-sized, stuffed animals) and the holiday drives to New Jersey -- her father smoking a cigar in the front seat, the children huddled like hobos under blankets in the back, thankful that the smoke was sucked out the open window.
"He would call home about every night," Carol says of her husband's time on the road. "Of course, I always had complaints -- 'The kids did this; one did that.' He'd say, 'I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear anything negative.' When I had four small kids all the time, there was a whole lot negative."
One of the only times Carol didn't move with her husband was when famed madman Charlie Finley hired him to manage the Oakland A's during parts of the dreadful 1977 and 1978 seasons. Her rationale for staying put was Finley's capriciousness. Sure enough, McKeon managed, was fired after 53 games, was hired right back as an assistant, and wound up a de facto rung below a teenaged vice president whom Finley called "Hammer" -- and who later called himself M.C. Hammer and sold about a zillion pop albums. When McKeon's replacement as manager, Bobby Winkles, resigned midseason, McKeon finished the season as skipper and then left to manage a minor-league team in Denver. Getting fired from the bigs was becoming so routine that upon learning of his dismissal, McKeon says, his wife and kids went to play on the beach.
Of course, these days, it doesn't appear that McKeon will be fired any time soon. Pulled in a dozen different directions, the Marlins skip somehow satisfies everyone. Among the permitted visitors on the field before a mid-May game are a couple of knee-high tykes who ask McKeon to sign a scrap of paper and a Marlins pocket schedule. When he bends down, one of them asks if he could have a ball. So McKeon grabs a couple from the batting practice cart just as an equipment manager wheels it into the dugout. The boys say thanks.
A middle-aged woman in a motorized wheelchair waits at the edge of the field, her scalp a patchwork of wispy hair. McKeon welcomes her, and she beams. He smiles until one of the woman's friends, a redhead, asks McKeon to sign her T-shirt. It's a black shirt with a Marlins emblem over the heart, which means the only place to sign is right over the redhead's breasts. As McKeon scribbles his name on the shirt, he looks tired. The women giggle.
He turns to head back inside when a voice calls from atop the dugout: "Jack! Look up! Look up!" McKeon pauses near the front of the dugout, obliges with a glance up at the voice, which belongs to a young man with a digital camera. "Oh, there you go!" the guy shouts as the manager disappears from view. "He's the man!"
And that is all it takes to be the man when you are Jack McKeon, at least when you are on top. "I look at it this way," he says of autographs. "The day they don't want it, then I'm in trouble."
McKeon's quasi-exile in Denver turned out to be brief. San Diego called in 1979. Then, as now, the Padres were not a free-spending club and thus relied on shrewd trades and drafting. McKeon joined as a scout, overseeing some of the club's farm system. Soon, he worked his way up to general manager. Perks included puffing stogies during games with team owner and McDonald's founder Ray Kroc.
McKeon didn't necessarily make more trades than the next guy, but he developed a reputation as "Trader Jack," a persona that wound up on T-shirts, hats, mugs, and key chains and in commercials, with the GM gnawing a huge cigar and dealing bubble-gum cards of his players. It's rare in the history of baseball that a general manager garners such a cult of personality.
"I would say he was the central figure of our ballclub in the '80s," says Dick Freeman, the Padres president. "To people who weren't here then, it's hard to understand. I try and describe to them the days of Trader Jack. It was a different world."
With McKeon at the helm, the Padres drafted future stars Kevin McReynolds, Tony Gwynn, and John Kruk -- in 1981 alone. The Padres had finished above .500 only once in their 12 seasons before McKeon arrived. In 1984, his players finished first in their division and lost the World Series to a Detroit Tigers team considered among the finest ever. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who had dealt with McKeon, wrote in congratulations: "You made some great moves. You took me to the cleaners."
In 1988, with the Padres at 16 and 30, McKeon ejected Larry Bowa, took over the manager position, and finished the season on a 67-48 tear.
"His meetings were always the same: 'You guys are playing like a bunch of drunken sailors,'" says Tim Flannery, who pitched for the Padres from 1979 to 1989. McKeon's bluntness back then was the stuff of legend. The manager told Flannery that the Padres probably wouldn't extend the pitcher's contract while the two men were in a sauna. "Not many people in baseball are like that," Flannery says. "That's the great thing about Jack. You go away thinking, 'I can't believe what he just told me, but it's the truth. '"
The Padres canned him after the 1990 season, and a couple of years later, McKeon, who always prided himself on his eye for talent, accepted a job scouting for the Cincinnati Reds. When the Reds bumbled in 1997, famed anti-Semitic owner Marge "Money-Grubbing Jews" Schott installed McKeon for the final 63 games of the season. In 1999, the Reds finished 96-67, earning McKeon his first Manager of the Year award -- 50 years after his first season in professional baseball. In 2000, when General Manager Jim Bowden acquired Ken Griffey Jr., the Reds finished 85-77, and that was the end of McKeon in Cincinnati. The Reds haven't finished even .500 since.
Marlins bench coach Harry Dunlop, who has worked for four big league teams with McKeon and who was also ousted from the Reds in 2000, considers himself one of McKeon's closest friends. The lanky septuagenarian has spent so much time with McKeon that Miami Herald columnist Greg Cote recently compared them to "an old married couple." The two attend Mass every day together on the road; it was McKeon, in fact, who introduced Dunlop to Catholicism decades ago, when Dunlop needed a ride to the stadium and McKeon stopped at a church along the way. To Dunlop, the idea of McKeon fired by the Reds at age 70 is grim indeed.
"I've never talked with him about it," he says. "But I suspect those two years he spent out of baseball were some of the hardest of his life."
McKeon describes his retirement thusly: "Now I'm out of baseball in 2000. I get fired with the Reds. I was enjoying doing nothing, seeing my grandkids, working with them. And I'd go to church every morning. I'd pray. 'Course, Saint Theresa's one of my favorite saints, the Little Flower, and she's the prodigy of miracles in the Catholic Church. I kept praying to her, 'Can you intercede with the good Lord and see if there's any way... I don't know what his plans are with me, but I'd like to have one more chance. I don't think my career's been fulfilled. I'd like to have one more chance. '"
In other words, McKeon in 2000 was a great deal like McKeon in 1948.
In a buoyant postgame reporters mob in the manager's office on April 13, with his papal blessing from John Paul II on the wall and the stench of victory cigar blocking the usual bacteria-stink of the post-game locker room, McKeon holds court: "You know why Wrigley made his fortune?"
Someone mumbles: "I think you gave us this one already."
McKeon, undeterred: "By sticking to his gums. Ha ha haaa heh heh!"
Then there's the time, some weeks ago, that the radio guy flubs a question: "Was that a missed sign with [third-baseman Mike] Lowell? On the stolen base? Did he miss the sign?"
"Who?" McKeon asks.
"Was it Lowell who got thrown out at second, or was it [catcher Paul] Lo Duca? Sorry, Lo Duca."
McKeon's voice takes on a harsh edge. "Guy gets thrown out, he misses a sign?"
"Well, he's pretty slow, no?"
"Beg your pardon?" the manager replies, only it comes out more like begrpardn?
"I said, Lo Duca's a pretty slow guy; he misses ..."
"Well, he got a stolen base last night, if you were watching the game," McKeon bites back. "This time, we tried a delayed steal. Didn't work. I should send up signs to you guys in the press box when we miss a sign. 'Hey, he missed a sign! Whoa!' Guys get thrown out. They don't miss signs. C'mon."
Then, to the whole room: "What else?"
All considered, McKeon's retirement from 2000 to 2003 wasn't such bad times. He was back at home in North Carolina, and in a way, he was getting to be the grandfather that he never could be as a father. The man who missed three of his four kids' high school graduations was there to tutor Kristi's son, Zach, who's now a pitcher at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
McKeon threw batting practice at the local high school. He fed the fish in his pond so regularly that they knew dinner was between 5:30 and 6 p.m... to the chagrin of anyone who wanted to actually catch fish there. His kids noticed him watering the fake houseplants but said nothing, knowing he was only trying to help. He would mow the lawn often, even when the grass was too brown to care, even injuring himself at one point when his pants caught the gearshift on his lawn tractor and dragged him along the ground until the mower hit the side of the house. "That was something," says McKeon's 37-year-old son, Kasey, who scouts for the Rockies, "that led us to believe he needed to get back into baseball."
Luckily for McKeon, the Marlins were tanking. Bill Beck, a friend of McKeon's from the Padres and Royals, suggested that new owner Jeffrey Loria take a look at the retired manager. In his recent book I'm Just Getting Started, McKeon writes that he visited Loria to talk shop but clearly didn't think he was interviewing for a job, because he addressed Loria as "Jerry" after the meeting.
The rest of the season became sports lore in South Florida, where only two previous head coaches, the Marlins' Jim Leyland and the Dolphins' Don Shula, have ever won a pro sports title.
When McKeon got the offer, he left for Florida immediately. His bon mots and propensity for calling players by their positions or wrong names endeared him to the media. He told his players that he didn't need the money or the job, that he wanted them to win. Told them to grow up. Guided the team from its 16-22 record down to 19-29, then to 91 wins against 71 losses. Beat the favored San Francisco Giants in the Wild Card, the favored Chicago Cubs in the Division Series, and the New York Yankees in the World Series, gambling in the decisive Game 6 that 23-year-old Josh Beckett, on just three days' rest, could beat the Bronx Bombers. Beckett went out and threw the first complete-game shutout in a deciding World Series game since 1991.
McKeon was not only the oldest manager ever to win a Series but he was the first skipper hired in midseason to win Manager of the Year honors. It was the first time he had managed a big-league team to the playoffs: The Marlins slid in as a Wild Card team, ten games behind the Braves. And for all his success, McKeon (now reportedly earning $1 million per year) has yet to manage a team to first place.
Last year, the Marlins finished third in the National League East, hindered in part by injuries and a spate of hurricanes that mangled the club's late-season scheduling. This year, they're locked in a battle for first place with the Atlanta Braves, who for the past 13 years have won the division, the National League's most free-spending. The Marlins' $60 million player payroll is half of what the rival Mets are blowing on this season, about two-thirds of what the Phillies have doled out for less talent, and less than three-quarters of the Braves' salaries.
Despite their successes -- World Series titles in 1997 and 2003 -- the Marlins don't draw well. Their home attendance has been in the bottom tenth of the major leagues during the past three full seasons. A financing deal for a new stadium unraveled in Tallahassee last month. Two of their best players, Willis and Cabrera, are also the Marlins' youngest and together this year will make less than $750,000, a fraction of the salaries they'll command in their next contracts. When you consider what the organization stands to earn in South Florida and what the players will soon be paid, it becomes clear that the team must win while the winning's good -- appropriate for a manager in the last chapter (shucks, the back cover) of his career.
"They haven't reached where I want them to be yet," McKeon says of his players. "But at least I've got them on the right track. Now it's constantly trying to guide them to stay that way."
With McKeon, it's tough to tell where the awareness begins and ends, when he's kidding, when he's serious, how much is calculated, how much is him channeling Casey Stengel, and how much is him calling up another old episode, another battle story, and how much is just him enjoying the hell out of whatever he's doing.
Example: the day in early May that Barry University gave the clown sage an honorary law doctorate. After the Marlins buzzed through the Colorado Rockies on May 8 and the usual band of scribes jostled into McKeon's office, there was McKeon, wearing a long, white medical coat, dismissing the nitpickers who pointed out that he was actually a doctor of law.
"I'm all kinds of doctors," he said. "Shit, too bad TV wasn't here tonight, huh? But that's OK. You guys can have a laugh."
He held court in the manner of a practiced manager, going through the usual motions, the "we're thankful we've got pitchers who throw plenty of strikes" and so forth. Sound bites, then a pause. And McKeon springs: "Yeah, you guys take two aspirins and get lots of fluids and get some rest," which comes out as high-grade gibberish, what with the huge cigar occupying the center of his mouth and him chortling so much that he can barely talk. "You guys are great -- I love it. You've got to have a couple of laughs, right?"
McKeon arrives a few minutes before the May 21 Sunday Mass at Saint Matthew Catholic Church in Hallandale Beach, sits on the end of a middle pew next to Harry Dunlop, and listens as Father James Quinn delivers a liturgy on the Holy Trinity. "It is impossible for you and I to understand," Quinn says, which is reassuring in a way.
Outside, after the service, an usher takes a baseball from a plastic Publix sack and asks McKeon to sign it. "Guy gives me a ball, and it's a wet ball," McKeon grouses. "God almighty."
He takes a Bic lighter from his pocket and lights a half-cigar. He succeeds in pressing his name into the dingy leather with a pen. "Well," McKeon says, "we gotta go to work."
That afternoon, in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, McKeon gets ejected for the first time in two years after critiquing an umpire's interpretation of the strike zone. He is sent back to the clubhouse in the fourth inning. In the sixth, seven Marlins score, earning the team its first three-game series sweep of the year. And if there's any question as to whether this man McKeon is blessed, consider that he smoked and blasphemed at church, got tossed in the afternoon game, and still wound up extending the lead over the filthy-rich Atlanta Braves to a game and a half, solidifying his hold on first place -- a position that, if the Marlins can so finish, would be one final unlikely first for their manager.
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