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I have 5 tables that I changed on my development server (laptop) that I'd like to upload to my test server. I can export just those tables from PhpMyAdmin but on import it drops all of the other tables first. Short of editing the SQL before I upload it (finding the drop and deleting it) is there an easy way to uncheck a box and change that behavior that I am just not seeing?
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When exporting databases/tables PHPMyAdmin does provide a wide range of options. Make sure you have unchecked any options which could end up truncating/dropping the table on import.
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I have had the Palm Treo 750v for around a year now. It was provided by my company as a work phone, so I can't comment on price or individual data plans.
Originally the phone was provided to me as it said on the Palm website that Blackberry connect would work on it and I need to get my work emails on my phone, unfortunately it subsequently became apparent that this is not the case with this specific model. I have since found free software called Emoze which works fine with my work emails but I was disappointed with Palm for providing false information on their website.
That issue aside, I have been very impressed with the phone. The camera is not great compared with similar phones and if the camera is a feature you would use more than occasionally I would recommend considering another phone as you will probably find the quality is not good enough. However it's fine for taking photos of people to add to your phone book etc.
The general interface on the Treo is nice and easy to use and i like being able to use either the stylus or the buttons. The keypad is very good - I have no trouble typing on it although if you had very large fingers you my find you would occasionally hit the wrong key. It's great being able to type texts with a qwerty keypad, although I work in IT so I type constantly all day long.
I have the SPB phone suite which allows you to change the layout of the today screen and have a more detailed battery life indicator which is very handy.
The Treo came with Microsoft Office Mobile on it which is very good - easy to use, especially with the full qwerty keypad.
Battery life seems to be acceptable - bearing in mind my email software is constantly connected I get around two days from a full charge with say four or five short calls per day.
The Treo is small enough to fit into a pocket and not overly heavy. I recently felt the weight of an newer HTC phone and was surprised how much heavier it was than the Treo, although I'm not sure how the weight compares to a Blackberry which I think would be the closest competitor. It fits in the hand very nicely and holding it and typing with one hand is no problem. I know I've mentioned the keypad a few times but it's proved to be a real bonus for me and I'd now rather have that than a phone with complete touch interface rather than a real keypad.
It also seems to be fairly resilient to bumps and scrapes - I've dropped it a few times and I have two small kids so it's been tested a few times and so far survived well.
There is some great software available for the Treo as it runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 so there's plenty of choice.
There are a couple of minor niggles I have found -
1) The headphone socket is 2.5mm not standard 3.5mm. fine if you're happy to use the generic earphones that come with the phone, not so great if you want to use your own. I assume adaptors are available though.
2) Using the OK button to close an application (the standard way to close one according to the manual) seems to leave the application running in the background more often than not. Using the stylus to click the X in the top right hand corner closes it properly. The SPB phone suite I use fixes this issue and you can just hold down the OK button for a list of running programs to close them down so it's not a massive issue.
Other than those two issues and the camera quality, if you're looking for a good phone with a full qwerty keypad, Bluetooth, internet etc and don't plan to use Blackberry connect I would recommend it highly. When I get and upgrade option I will probably stick with the Treo and go for the Treo Pro.

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This man who supposedly isn't doing anything with anyone besides me. So, I said, "did u trim your hair?" He said yes. I asked when he did that. Oh last week sometime and hey, we should get out of the shower now or we might be late!
It just burns me! He has never done that our entire 16-year marriage even though I have asked him to. He didn't even say he did it for me or asked me if I liked it. He just couldn't get out of the shower fast enough !
He is really careful about his cheating activities and very tech savvy. I haven't been able to prove anything concrete but I've come close . That's for another post. But this hair trim and acting all guilty. I haven't even brought it up since because I will either be gaslighted or smooth talked. Like the time I could smell a certain scent on his breath and broached the topic and he flat out said I was crazy which sent me on a downward spiral that took a long time to get out of.
There is a special place somewhere for people who treat their loved ones like this
he also spooned her a lot but never spooned me?
I know don't want those things because they are tainted
"It was easier for him to hurt me than it was for him to turn her down"
A few months before DDay, I noticed he had shaved, and it actually looked like it had grown in somewhat, and he made no big deal of it. I thought it was weird, and it was just another red flag I missed.. Caring about his appearance was definitely something I noticed him doing more, but it never seemed like it was for me..
I would be upset too if I were you.. Hugs..
The only pleasure I take from it is remembering the small yelps of pain when I ripped the strips off him (it was my first go with at home waxing)
"Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel". Maya Angelou
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The old adage, "A picture speaks a thousand words," was at play in The Writers Circle's latest Speaker Series workshop, Graphic Novels, Comic Books & the Art of Visual Storytelling, held on Sunday afternoon, January 15, at Sages Pages Bookstore in Madison, NJ.
To a packed room of kids, teens, parents and adults, Mark explained how he became a comic book artist. After starting at the bottom and working for minimum wage, he is now a well respected professional. drawing for both DC Comics and Marvel, two of the greatest comics publishing houses, on iconic series like Batman, Xmen and Stars Wars.
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The choice at the checkout: Quantifying demand across payment instruments
Dramatic changes have occurred in the U.S. payment system over the past two decades, most notably an explosion in electronic card-based payments. This shift has led to a series of policy debates driven in part by consumers' choice of payment instruments. Using a new nationally representative survey, we transform consumer responses to open-ended questions into product rankings and estimate a characteristics-based rank-order logit model in order to quantify consumer substitution among payment methods. Our estimates are then used to conduct supply-driven and demand-driven counterfactual experiments in order to estimate market share and cost effects. From a counterfactual experiment in which merchants stop accepting credit cards, we predict merchant costs to decline substantially. Because merchants accept credit cards nonetheless, we regard our finding as evidence either that the credit card networks hold market power, or that merchants experience unmeasured intangible benefits from credit card acceptance. We also predict that contactless debit will take market share from cash, checks, and credit, and that the age/cohort effect alone is unlikely to cause debit card use to increase substantially over a 10-year period.
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HATFIELD, Pa. -- President Barack Obama argued yesterday that allowing taxes to rise for the middle class would amount to a "lump of coal" for Christmas, while Republican House Speaker John Boehner declared that negotiations to avoid the looming "fiscal cliff" are going "almost nowhere."
Obama took his case to an audience in a Philadelphia suburb, saying that this move would present a "Scrooge Christmas" for millions of wage earners. Speaking at a toy factory, the president said Republicans should extend existing Bush-era tax rates for households earning $250,000 or less, while allowing increases to kick in for the wealthy.
On Capitol Hill, Boehner argued that Obama's latest offer -- to raise revenue by $1.6 trillion over the next decade -- would be a "crippling blow" to an economy that is still struggling to find its footing. The Ohio Republican told reporters he would continue working with Obama to avoid hundreds of billions in tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect beginning in January if Washington doesn't act to stop it, but gave a gloomy assessment of the talks so far.
"There's a stalemate. Let's not kid ourselves," Boehner said. "Right now, we're almost nowhere."
Obama's speech came a day after his administration proposed $1.6 trillion in new taxes, new spending for the unemployed and struggling homeowners and savings of about $400 billion in entitlement programs such as Medicare. The proposal amounts to requests already in Obama's fiscal 2013 budget plan. Republicans rejected the offer as unreasonable.
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Outrighted C-R Ken Huckaby to Ottawa. [8/13]
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Recalled LHP Cliff Bartosh from Buffalo; placed INF-R Lou Merloni on the 15-day DL (inflamed elbow). [8/11]
Released OF-R Alex Escobar. [8/12]
This would have been a lot more difficult to deal with before they picked up Josh Phelps, but now that they have him, they can worry less about spotting Merloni in the lineup at first base against lefties. He should be back off of the DL shortly, at which point you have to wonder if he'll be pressed into action out in the outfield a little more often. Jody Gerut and Matt Lawton aren't doing so well against lefties, so it would make sense. However, it might make even more sense to spot Merloni at short for Leetle O, since Omar Vizquel might be the worst bat in the lineup against portsiders, and it isn't like he's playing for his defense these days. It won't ever really become a formal platoon, of course; Merloni's versatility will keep him moving around the diamond. But if it's a must-win game against Mark Mulder or Kenny Rogers, why not?
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Released RHP Danny Patterson outright. [8/11]
Activated RHP Gary Knotts from the 15-day DL; optioned RHP John Ennis to Toledo. [8/13]
Knotts may be back, but it's only back and into his old mop-up role, not the rotation. Wil Ledezma is earning his keep and has a place in the future, after all, and despite all the hijinks involved with this year's reclamation-of-dignity project, there's next year to start wondering about, after all.
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Placed OF-L Dee Brown on the 15-day DL (rib-cage); recalled OF-L Aaron Guiel from Omaha. [8/11]
Claimed RHP Matt Kinney off of waivers from the Brewers; designated C-R Mike Tonis for assignment. [8/13]
Placed RHP Nate Field on the 15-day DL (torn oblique). [8/14]
Kansas City is as good a place for Kinney to get another chance as any. The need, after all, has basically been permanent since the Floyd Bannister trade. At any rate, whether he's plugged into the rotation or left in the pen as a long reliever, you can be sure he'll get work.
Good news? Guiel seems to be entirely recovered from his vision problem, having hit .310/.438/.621 at Omaha. Since it seems pretty much certain that Dee Brown will join a lengthening list of Royal prospect flops (he can take a seat next to Mike Tonis), the Royals are better off evaluating David DeJesus and Abraham Nunez among the future-minded kids, and Guiel and Ruben Mateo from the retread pile, and see how many of them earn any consideration for 2005.
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Recalled RHP Bret Prinz from Columbus; optioned OF-L Bubba Crosby to Columbus. [8/11]
Optioned RHP Bret Prinz to Columbus; recalled INF-R Andy Phillips from Columbus. [8/14]
I'm being generous and listing Phillips as an infielder, out of consideration for the prospect he once was. He's spent most of this year at first base, and while he's hit well enough to earn a spot, it's a case of the Yankees cranking out another solid organizational soldier. At Columbus, he was hitting .294/.368/.537, but having a Rice-like talent to hit into rally killers (18 GIDPs) isn't something that's going to play well on a slow, OBP-driven Yankees team.
As much as it has to be a bit frustrating for Phillips that he isn't considered a prospect, let's face it, the system is sexier than when Kevin Jordan and Andy Fox were supposed to be stars. Not better, mind you, just sexier, with token expensive third-worlders sprinkled about the system like so much tinsel. Robinson Cano? Ferdin Tejeda? Chien-Ming Wang? Kat Maeda? (Oops, too late on that last one.) They're all just so exciting! Props to the Yankees publicity department, of course. You can't make an omelette without painting some rocks to look like eggs and trading them for an omelette, right?
Anyway, to get back to Phillips, I suppose it really doesn't matter. It isn't like Torre is going to sort out who he is or what he can do. He's "new guy" until somebody Torre has heard of is ready to come back from Tampa and A-Rod's suspension comes to an end.
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Optioned 2B-R Esteban German to Sacramento; activated OF-L Billy McMillon from the 15-day DL. [8/11]
I'm always going to be happy to see Billy McMillon in the big leagues, but it's hard to see where he'll get playing time. Other than pinch-hitting for the catchers or second basemen, or a spot start every couple of weeks in either outfield corner, he's going to be hard-pressed to get much in the way of at-bats. As the lefty bat off of the bench, he might represent some insurance for Erubiel Durazo or Scott Hatteberg, but if something happened to either one of them, turning to McMilllon wouldn't make nearly as much sense as summoning up Dan Johnson, or perhaps Nick Swisher.
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Optioned RHP Jeremi Gonzalez to Durham; released 1B-L Robert Fick; recalled 2B-R Jorge Cantu and purchased the contract of RHP Franklin Nunez from Durham. [8/13]
Placed CF-R Rocco Baldelli on the 15-day DL (strained quad); recalled OF-L Joey Gathright from Durham. [8/14]
Joey Gathright will help the Devil Rays get that Jason Tyner fix they always seem to be jonesing for. Although you might wonder if they just need to dial up a few Marlins games, watch Juan Pierre do his thing, and get it out of their system, it isn't like Gathright is going to claim a full-time job. Once Baldelli comes back, Gathright will get to drift into the fourth outfielder's role he seems suited for.
I'm much more glad to see Cantu back. Yes, there's still sorting out what to do with having Cantu and B.J. Upton and Julio Lugo around for the middle infield, but with Upton getting significant playing time at DH, Cantu's presence still means less Rey Sanchez and less Geoff Blum, and that's progress. A very first 70-win season for the D-Rays? It seems so likely that perhaps even they can't find a way to avoid it.
The pen is also getting something worth watching, as Franklin Nunez completes his comeback from the shoulder surgery that derailed his career in the Phillies' organization. He's still throwing hard, having struck out 84 batters in 58 2/3 innings. Although everyone in the pen has been handy, the opportunity is there for Nunez to pitch his way past Travis Harper and Lance Carter if he does well now. If anything, it's surprising that the Rays haven't shown much interest in peddling a young veteran like Carter or Harper now, when contenders and pretenders are busily fussing over the back end of their bullpens.
Finally, I'm glad to see them cut Fick loose. First, I figure he's probably done enough penance for last season's bad baserunning idea, and second, I like to think that the Rays slowly came to realize that Fick needed the gig much more than they needed or knew what to do with Fick. I don't think he's as useless as he looked this year, and although his DT card will show you a downward arc as he tumbles downslope from his age-27 2001 season, he ought to be more useful than he was as another one of Vince Naimoli's rubbery minions. He'll make an interesting pickup for somebody down the stretch, assuming the stigma of his recent past has been forgotten.
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Recalled LHP Erasmo Ramirez from Oklahoma; optioned RHP Nick Regilio to Oklahoma. [8/12]
Purchased the contract of INF-R Manny Alexander from Oklahoma; designated LHP Mike Bacsik for assignment. [8/15]
Placed DH-R Herbert Perry on the 15-day DL (sore knee); activated RHP Mickey Callaway from the 15-day DL. [8/16]
What's really interesting about this is the ease with which the Rangers rely on the knowledge that, beyond Kenny Rogers and Ryan Drese, their starting pitchers are entirely interchangeable. So Mike Bacsik, even if he is probably more useful than Mickey Callaway or Scott Erickson, is recognized as not really all that likely to be significantly more useful than them. With Chan Ho Park and R.A. Dickey on the way back, we're really talking about giving names to assorted crash-test dummies, before the Rangers move on to the business of trying to outscore whatever total of runs it was that today's starting pitchback spotted the other guys. It may seem crazed, but given that the state of Rangers pitching is really no different now than at any point in the previous five years, it makes for an interesting adaptation.
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Placed CF-L Ken Griffey Jr. on the 60-day DL (torn hamstring); purchased the contract of OF-L Darren Bragg from Louisville. [8/12]
Placed RHP Paul Wilson on the 15-day DL (sore back); recalled RHP Joe Valentine from Louisville. [8/14]
Optioned INF-R Tim Hummel to Louisville; recalled RHP Luke Hudson from Louisville. [8/15]
Scratch two starting players, as if the Reds' season required any extra premature punctuation. I guess the locals can seek solace in the news that at least both injuries aren't serious. Wilson should rest for a couple of weeks, then go into September looking to make a few starts to prove he's still the big dog in a big-league backwater. (Apologies to Cincinnatians: it's a lovely city, but it doesn't seem much larger than Sacramento.)
Far less reassuring is this latest ruined season for Griffey. This injury begs the question of what the Reds were thinking when they pressed him back into action when he was hurt, and why they took so long to sort out the seriousness of the injury. Given how much they have invested in him, I don't care how disappointing the previous three seasons have been, you don't roll the dice with a player's long-term health because of potential reasons ranging from his being targeted by people griping about his absences to his desire to play, and everything in between. This season was already over, so what was to be gained from pressing Griffey into action?
In their absences, you'll see two solutions. First, Hudson will step into the rotation, the latest retreaded former prospect being tried out in a rotation built on other organization's sources of despair, disgust, or disinterest. In his first season back from shoulder surgery, Hudson has pitched well, posting a 108-29 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 105 2/3 innings while allowing just 86 hits; opposing lineups between the two leagues were scoring 3.7 runs per nine against him. He joins Brandon Claussen and Josh Hancock in a rotation that has only Jose Acevedo left from season's start; it's still an improvement from having to rely on Cory Lidle or the incorrigibly unreliable Jimmy Haynes. How many A's discards does one team need, anyway? Where's Gil Heredia?
Which retread is next, you may ask? I'm betting on Brian Rose, who's had an equally brilliant little comeback tour through first the Southern and now the International League. Even if he might not be able to dent bread, it has to beat another Todd Van Poppel interlude.
Second, with Griffey now really out of the equation, the Reds are being creative, turning center field over to Wily Mo Pena. Who knows, maybe he'll rise to the challenge. As is, Austin Kearns won't be back soon, and somebody has to play center from amongst the club's four occasionally simultaneously active outfield regulars. If Pena can be the guy who can handle center and stay healthy, that gives the Reds a pair (counting Three True Outcomes god Adam Dunn in one corner), leaving only the other corner to really wonder whether they can get 150 starts combined between Griffey and Kearns.
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Acquired LHPs Luis Martinez and Chris Narveson from the Cardinals to complete the Larry Walker trade. [8/11]
Outrighted RHP Travis Driskill to Colorado Springs. [8/12]
Recalled SS-R Clint Barmes from Colorado Springs; optioned RHP Adam Bernero to Colorado Springs. [8/14]
Activated LHP Brian Fuentes from the 15-day DL; optioned Barmes to Colorado Springs. [8/15]
Two things worth noting here: I don't know what's worse, the fact that Barmes is being touted as a prospect, or that, even on the strength of his modest credentials (.318/.366/.487 at sky-high Colorado Springs, 23 unintentional walks in 544 PA), he isn't being considered for a look over Royce Clayton and the other Luis Gonzalez. Like the random preference for Aaron Miles over Juan Uribe, or the fascination with Matt Holliday, it's just another aimless exercise, movement for its own sake with no obvious goal in sight.
I suppose there's the swag from the Walker deal, except that Martinez was available for free last spring, after the Brewers freaked out about an incident involving Martinez, a firearm, and uncivil society. He pitched his way into shape belatedly after spring-training time lost to Juan Law in the Dominican, while showing the same control problems that have consistently plagued him. He didn't dominate in his third year at Double-A before being promoted. He and an A-ball reliever don't really add much to the organization beyond ballast; ballast with potential, but just that.
Where the deal really has to turn out to be more than a salary dump is by getting Narveson. A four-pitch lefty with heat, he's a Tommy John survivor who seems to have outlasted last year's shoulder tendonitis. This is his first full season at Double-A, and his second since the year derailed by injury, and he's been effective: just 114 hits and 11 home runs allowed in 127 2/3 innings, with a 121-51 strikeout-to-walk ratio. If it weren't for his end destination, you ought to be excited if you're a Rockies fan. Considering the Rox only acquired pitching, and how unlikely any pitching is to work out well for them, it's hard to see how they're going to win this deal.
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Optioned RHP Ben Howard to Albuquerque. [8/11]
Activated RHP Armando Benitez from the 15-day DL. [8/12]
Benitez came back when scheduled, so now the Marlins have little to fuss about. They'll either really push for the wild card, or they won't. (Count me among the shocked if Juan Encarnacion is really part of the reason that they do. I mean, we all know Paul Lo Duca is a can of Instant Team Heart and Soul, does that make Encarnacion… the appendix? The spleen? Maybe that's why DePo had to vent him.)
Anyway, the pen is pretty solid now, and the rotation relies on the three flaky, talented kids to be a little less flaky. I still hope to see Howard get a lot more of an opportunity, but the Fish can't really spare the time to iron him out while they're locked into moving up a couple of rungs in the race for the wild card.
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Purchased the contract of LHP Mike Venafro from Las Vegas; placed RHP Brad Penny on the 15-day DL (strained biceps). [8/15]
The Dodgers are going to be cautious with Penny, perhaps waiting until September roster expansion before working him back into the rotation. It's a caution they can afford with a six-game lead in the West and the advantage of having both Wilson Alvarez and Jose Lima to press into whatever pothole appears on the road to October. Although losing Darren Dreifort hurts, once Penny and Edwin Jackson return, that becomes a temporary problem, akin to wondering whether Hideo Nomo or Paul Shuey will ever help.
Of course, they'll still have to get by with their heart and soul marooned in Miami or Buster Olney's laptop or wherever they're supposed to be. Maybe we need a milk carton to help? Here's hoping that the press can let go of being wrong, and judge the Dodgers on their own terms, and not as Moneyball 2: The Spreading Menace. Unfortunately, I think nothing short of a World Series win will quash the clucking about how the Dodgers would have done more than win the division, they would have cured cancer and won the World Series, if only Lo Duca was still in the same time zone.
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Recalled LHP Jorge De La Rosa from Indianapolis; placed RHP/PH Brooks Kieschnick on 15-day DL (shoulder tendonitis), retroactive to 8/9. [8/13]
Recalled RHP Ben Hendrickson from Indianapolis; optioned LHP Jorge De La Rosa to Indianapolis. [8/15]
Is Ben Hendrickson about to become the new Dennis Tankersley? He's been fine down at Indy, but put him in Miller Park, and it's ugly. Ed Whitson, or perhaps Jeff Weaver, gets all the attention for wilting in the bright lights, so it seems odd to talk about somebody who can't handle the pressure of pitching in Beer City. However, I'm not seriously worried about him. I'd liken the situation to that of Mike Bielecki at the start of his career. Just because Bielecki struggled and the Pirates sucked was no reason to jump to the conclusion that he couldn't pitch.
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Recalled RHP Francis Beltran from Edmonton; placed RHP Jon Rauch on the 15-day DL (strained oblique). [8/15]
From one Chicago pitching prospect to the next. Hand it to Omar, they may all seem like loaners, but at least he re-stocked his toy box. Beltran should be an asset in the pen, while another little setback seems to be the story of Rauch's career. From the "never say never again" file, however, it looks like Sunny Kim will replace Rauch in the rotation. Any takers on the suggestion that the fate of the Expos depends on Klaus Maria Brandauer, evil genius? I suppose I'm not alone when I suggest that any antidote to Roger Moore would rate second, but only a close second, to one for Bud Selig.
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Recalled 2B-R Danny Garcia from Norfolk; placed C/1B Mike Piazza on the 15-day DL, retroactive to 8/7 (left knee injury). [8/11]
Purchased the contract of INF-B Wilson Delgado from Norfolk; recalled RHP Dan Wheeler from Norfolk; optioned RHP Matt Ginter and LHP Pedro Feliciano to Norfolk. [8/12]
Recalled LHP Pedro Feliciano from Norfolk; placed 2B-R Jose Reyes on the 15-day DL (fractured fibula). [8/13]
Recalled 1B-L Craig Brazell from Norfolk; placed SS-B Kazuo Matsui on the 15-day DL (strained back), retroactive to 8/9. [8/15]
Okay, so the Benson and Zambrano deals look like a decision to add a spoiler to your old car just before it loses three wheels in quick succession. To be fair, though, the pickups were dumb of their own account, and losing three-quarters of the infield within two weeks after the deals is nothing more than unhappy coincidence. I guess the Phillies can take heart; at least they won't finish in fourth place.
Meanwhile, for the Mets, it means we're back to the juggling, cycling through Eric Valent and Todd Zeile and eventually budding softball star Brazell at first base, and seeing if there's any reason to keep Jason Phillips playing ahead of Vance Wilson behind the plate. A middle-infield combo of Danny Garcia and Joe McEwing reflects what this team is now, not the contender it briefly liked to consider itself to be. I won't begrudge Jim Duquette the desire to contend, but he knew he had a slender hand to start off with, and unlike Steve Phillips, he didn't have to slip into a CYA operation. That so much was thrown away on so fragile a team to such doubtful benefit and at such great expense, sadly, was a classic Mets move, consistent with the franchise's aimless existence since the departure of Davey Johnson.
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Outrighted RHP Paul Abbott to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. [8/13]
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Released 1B-L Randall Simon; activated 1B-L Daryle Ward from the 15-day DL; placed LHP Dave Williams on the 15-day DL (strained rib cage); recalled RHP Mark Corey from Nashville. [8/14]
It shouldn't have surprised anyone that this sort of exchange was so easily made, or that it represents an upgrade. Admittedly, that's the free-talent game for you. I guess the real question is whether trading three kids for Simon, then flipping him for Ray Sadler, really helped, but Rafael Novoa is the only one of the three players dealt to Detroit who is doing well, and Sadler's nearly slugging .500 for Altoona, so it looks like a rental-and-flip that worked. That doesn't really defend the decision to bring Simon back this year, but who's to say he wouldn't have fetched more worthwhile bait?
While getting Ward back is a generally good thing because he'd shown good stuff in his playing time earlier this season, the nice thing about Simon at this point was that he didn't have an argument to get into the lineup. That's a problem when you're Lloyd McClendon, and you're trying to play Ward, Rob Mackowiak and Craig Wilson between right field and first base. To McClendon's credit, he's not limiting himself: he's also willing to get Mackowiak more work at third base at the expense of just-acquired Ty Wigginton. That's sensible: July is history and the winds are out of Wiggy's sails, so it's appropriate for the Bucs to appreciate him on the basis of his actual merits as a part-time player. Now, if only McClendon was similarly thoughtful about second base, and would work harder at remembering that Bobby Hill is on the roster, or sharpen up those powers of observation to notice that Jose Castillo really hasn't played well enough to be a doubt-free regular.
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Placed C-R Miguel Ojeda on the 15-day DL (contused wrist); recalled C-R Humberto Quintero from Portland. [8/16]
With Ramon Hernandez back in the saddle and Quintero already a relatively well-known quality, the Pads aren't really in any trouble having to switch from catcher #2 to catcher #2.5 on the roster. Indeed, Quintero could prove to be the better choice for October's bench, should that need come to pass.
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Recalled RHP Kevin Correia from Fresno; released INF-B Neifi Perez. [8/13]
Sometimes, there's no dignity in taking an unbelievably long time to admit you were wrong. Not a little wrong, not sort of wrong, but entirely, completely, indefensibly goofy wrong. If there's one passage into considered, active adulthood that comes later than any other, it's learning to avoid impulse pickups. That new Snickers bar with almonds? Tempting. That framed, limited-edition Paul Wolfowitz trading card? The mood ring for the Aughts, I guess. That Shakira CD? What were you thinking? Frequently, it's a reptilian hindbrain type of choice, where the most frequent reflexive excesses resemble those of Paris Hilton, Tyco execs, and Komodo dragons. Dim needy company the lot of them.
Anyway, Brian Sabean made a similar jaw-snapping move, grabbing Perez on waivers, only to subsequently recognize that might mean having him around. Rather than admit the error, Sabean signed Perez to a two-year deal for considerably more than the minimum, using cash better spent on pitching or a real shortstop or a really good bat in the outfield. Instead, after letting Perez handicap nearly two full seasons of Barry Bonds' career, the Giants have reluctantly acknowledged that not even a yard sale will make this bad bric-a-brac go away; it's straight to the dump, no questions asked.
Anyway, the long and short of it is that the Giants are better off without him. Between Deivi Cruz, Cody Ransom, and Pedro Feliz now and again, they should have shortstop covered in a way that doesn't involve a player with the talent to make his manager consider batting the pitcher eighth. They're in the thick of the wild-card hunt; now's definitely not the time to carry around the extra luggage of mistakes long since made.
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Sent LHP Luis Martinez and LHP Chris Narveson from the Rockies to complete the Larry Walker trade; recalled RHP Jason Simontacchi from Memphis; optioned OF-R So Taguchi to Memphis. [8/11]
The Cardinals aren't in a cakewalk so much as a cake stomp, where various sweetly intentioned Chicago confections get crushed like so many Gallagher props. So can we blame them if they revert back to that comfortable place with having a 12th pitcher? It makes all sorts of sense now, for several reasons. First, they're clearly concerned about the workloads they've placed on their pitching staff, and having Simontacchi back gives them a true long reliever to come in early, mop up, or perhaps log a spot start now and again. That job had been Danny Haren's, but he's already spotting for Chris Carpenter. Second, they can afford the roster space now that they've acquired Walker, because they no longer need all of the components of their cafeteria of outfielders to get by. As long as they don't go into October with a dozen arms, it's a sensible little in-season adaptation to current affairs.


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D.C. drivers are among the worst in the nation, getting into accidents twice as frequently as motorists nationwide, according to a new report.
Washingtonians get into car accidents every 4.7 years on average, according to insurance company Allstate Corp., which analyzed the company's own claims data between January 2009 and December 2010.
|Travel woes for Labor Day weekend
|Washington-area roads will be among the most congested in the nation this weekend, when residents head out for the three-day Labor Day holiday.
|Washington is expected to be the fourth-worst city to drive in during the three-day weekend, according to INRIX, a traffic information provider. The city jumped up two spots from last year, when it ranked sixth in the country.
|The worst times to travel are between 5 and 6 p.m. Friday afternoon, as residents try to escape the city as soon as possible -- traffic will start to get worse as soon as 2 p.m., according to the report.
|For an easier drive, leave after 7 p.m. on Friday, or wait to drive off until Saturday morning, before lunchtime, according to Jim Bak, spokesman for INRIX.
|Five safest cities
|Average years between collisions
|Sioux Falls, S.D.
|Boise, Idaho
|Fort Collins, Colo.
|Madison, Wis.
|Lincoln, Neb.
|Five worst cities
|City (Average years between collisions)
|Washington, D.C. (4.7)
|Baltimore, Md. (5.3)
|Providence, R.I. (5.5)
|Hialeah, Fla. (5.6)
|Glendale, Calif. (5.6)
It's the fifth year in a row that D.C. motorists have had the dubious honor of placing last in Allstate's rankings, which determines how likely drivers in the nation's 200 largest cities are to crash their vehicles.
Three other cities in the Washington region also rank among the worst in the nation -- drivers in Baltimore get into accidents every 5.3 years, making them a close second to D.C. for the second consecutive year. Alexandria ranked 189th in the nation, while Arlington ranked 184th.
Drivers nationwide get into accidents about every 10 years, according to Allstate.
The report comes as no surprise to those who commute by car in and out of the District, or repair shops that have to deal with the constant collisions on the city's roads.
Drivers in the region don't pay enough attention, according to David Pham, owner of DP Auto Service in Northwest D.C. Motorists confused by the rush hour lane changes on Connecticut Avenue in front of his shop cause at least one accident per week, he said.
"People aren't checking their blind spots, especially at that time of day," Pham said. "And around the city, people are pretty aggressive."
The poor attitude on the road doesn't change when you get into the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, he said.
"Even in Maryland a little bit, especially on the Beltway," Pham said. "People get annoyed, there's so much traffic congestion and people just get in these moods."
"It seems we've got some aggressive drivers and people who are impatient to get where they're going, and those things seem to contribute to why there's so many accidents," said Adam Polak, a regional spokesman for Allstate.
Car crash fatalities are at their lowest level nationwide since 1949, but more than 32,000 car crashes still occur every year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The report doesn't analyze what causes those accidents, but Polak said some causes are common knowledge -- distracted and aggressive driving.


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Well, well, look who's interested in Research In Motion Ltd. : Hedge fund manager David Einhorn, of Greenlight Capital, loaded up on 2.9 million shares in the BlackBerry maker in the fourth quarter.
The disclosure is part of the latest round of regulatory filings made by well-heeled investors, including Warren Buffett and John Paulson. In the case of Mr. Einhorn, he seems to have a thing for technology stocks that have fallen out of favour with investors, given that he also bought shares in Dell Inc. and Xerox Corp. in the fourth quarter.
Clearly, Mr. Einhorn sees some potential in RIM, even though his bet on it isn't exactly massive. The 2.9 million shares have a value today of about $44-million (U.S.), making him merely the 27th largest investor in the company. His stake in RIM is just 0.56 per cent. As well, his RIM holdings pale next to more established technology companies like Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.
Greenlight's Apple holdings, which grew by 150,000 shares in the fourth quarter, are worth about $765-million – meaning that Mr. Einhorn's bet on the iPhone maker is more than 17-times bigger than his bet on the BlackBerry maker. Meanwhile, Greenlight's Microsoft holdings are worth more than $450-million.
Nonetheless, other investors are taking note of Mr. Einhorn's move on RIM, driving the shares up 3.9 per cent on Wednesday.


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Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi. Shaye Areheart Books, 2006, $23, 246 pages.
Yuri Balodis, the hero of Red Weather is an exile from a country he's never seen. He's never been there, yet it dominates much of his life. He is a native-born American, the only child of immigrants who have immersed him in memories of another culture. The recollections are partly his mother's, but especially his father's. Both defected during the Brezhnev era from the Soviet dominated Baltic republic of Latvia. Their angst and anguish inform his young life, their fears direct his politics, and their history haunts his future. In a way, they are living on different planes. His mother never wants to go back. She can't abide the tragedies that befell her there. His father, meanwhile, cannot wrest himself away from his constant longing for the life they lost by leaving. Not that he had much choice. Having insulted the reigning powers, he was imprisoned there and tortured. He and his wife flee years later, risking all in an escape by sea. Yet his every moment is taken up with remembering and lamenting the loss of their former lives, their old world. He is resigned but not reconciled.
Milwaukee is where they've settled, and where their American son is attempting to deal with his heritage. Ironically, neither parent wants their son to speak their language, and he's never been taught it.
Red Weather is spirited and heartfelt, a story of emigration's challenges to identity. It is a deceptively insightful, subtle, and funny.
"A lightning rod of captivating humor, colorful characters and well-crafted prose." -- Seattle Times
"Toutonghi's unflinching and hilarious account summons all the tormented urgency of one's high-school years, when everything feels so fraught with meaning because it actually is.... Toutonghi, himself a first-generation American, renders the family's Soviet-inflected speech and mannerisms with wit and sensitivity." -- Time Out
Pauls Toutonghi is a first-generation American. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright grant, and he is the winner of the first annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Zoetrope, One Story and the Boston Review.
I meet author Pauls Toutonghi at a quiet middle-eastern cafe in Brooklyn, with a serene back garden. Unfortunately, we don't stay, and wind up in a sidewalk Mexican restaurant at a very noisy intersection. The screeches and sirens of the big city will interrupt our conversation constantly. I shout at Pauls: "Your hero, Yuri, narrates the novel, and says at one point, 'So much of my life with my parents had been solitary. We were a small kernel of Latvians, buried deep within the folds and seams of the broader American culture.' Does he speak for you in that instance?"
"Oh absolutely."
"You grew up in Seattle, in a Latvian community?"
"Yeah. My mother is Latvian; my father, Lebanese. I actually spoke Latvian before I spoke English."
"It was your first language? Did your mother speak it to you when you were little?"
"Yes, although when she scolded me for anything she'd do it in English. She didn't want me to develop any negative connotation with the Latvian language. So she would talk Latvian with me exclusively, and of course I spent a lot of time with her when I was small, and I started speaking it with her."
"When you went to regular public school, did you speak English?"
"Yes, I spoke English by that point. I spoke English pretty soon after I learned Latvian from my mom."
"Were you an only child?"
"I have two half-brothers and two half-sisters."
"How large was the Latvian community in Seattle?"
"I would say about four hundred people. My grandfather was fairly prominent and very active in the community. He founded the Latvian summer camp. So I was always expected to partake. I attended Latvian school on Saturdays for 14 years, learning grammar, customs, history, and I developed a real love of the language and culture. My grandfather was a significant presence in the community and they were accepting of me as Latvian. But there was always this tension. Most of the kids I went to school with had two Latvian parents. I felt that I was a little bit foreign, because my dad wasn't Latvian and I didn't have a Latvian name. I mean, I felt like an outsider, having this last name that wasn't translatable, like Berzins (Birch) or Ozols (Oak)."
"How do you pronounce it?"
"'Too tong geey.' It's Turkish."
"Great sound to it." A string of trucks grind past.
"Yeah, I like it. I think it's distinctive"
"How did the Latvian emigres deal with your having a non-Latvian parent?"
"Hmm. Well, you know, they are not the most...ethnically accepting" -- his voice rises, as if posing a question -- "group."
"Really?" I tease. He laughs. "How did your mom's family react to her marrying a non-Latvian?" I ask.
"Not well initially. But they adjusted."
"I take it there weren't any Democrats among the Seattle Latvians."
"Oh, no. My mother was one of the few. She's no longer, but she was one of the only ones back then. She's become more conservative as the years have gone on, but she was one of maybe four or five Democrats. It was and is an extremely conservative group. In part it was because there was this real hatred of FDR for signing over -- relinquishing -- Latvia to Stalin at Yalta. And they [the Latvians] associated Democrats with that. They wanted politicians who would stand up to the Soviet Union, like Eisenhower and Reagan."
"Your narrator and hero is the opposite of you...or you inside out."
"Yes. My hero, Yuri, feels kind of like an outsider in American society, because of his cultural background."
"Unlike you, he doesn't speak Latvian. His mother and father don't want him to speak Latvian. Like many immigrant parents, they don't want their child tainted by their history. They want him to only look to the future. His mother, in fact, never wants to go back. Her experiences in her native country were too horrible. But Yuri's father is obsessed with their homeland. He's working as a janitor [at a car dealership] and has become an alcoholic, but quite a romantic one, and he is always talking about the past and what they left behind. He absolutely envelops Yuri with his longing. He says early on, 'America wants to make you into a pudding.' What does he mean?"


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