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The small town of Beit Jala on the outskirts of Bethlehem is home to the only vineyard in the West Bank. The vineyard is run by Roman Catholic monks belonging to the Salesian order.
For over 150 years the monks have been growing grapes to make the West Banks 'Cremisan' wine, surviving off the costs they earn from the sale of the wines. Around the vineyard the community of Salesian monks and nuns has flourished. The slopes of Walajeh, the Palestinian village where the Cremisan Valley lies is home to the Salesian Sisters of Cremisan's convent, the Salesian monastery, a school, 58 families and the Cremisan Cellars.
The Salesian sisters of Cremisan have run the school since it was built in 1960. Today the school educates around 400 children, mostly from the nearby town of Beit Jala.
But the sloping verdant Cremisan vineyards of Carpesian Valley and the peaceful lives that the Salesian community lead is likely to be destroyed forever if the court appeal against the building of the Apartheid Wall through the valley's land is unsuccessful.
In 2006, the nuns were first informed that the Apartheid Wall's planned route would dissect the Valley's land. After objections to the separation of the sisters from the West Bank the Israeli Ministry of Defence proposed that the convent remain on the West Bank side of the Wall whilst the monastery will be moved to the Israeli side. This will divide the 150 year old Salesian community.
The final court hearing in the Special Appeals Committee against the Wall for the Cremisan Valley case took place on Tuesday, February 12th. Following this hearing, the court adjourned to consider all the documentation and testimonies put forth in the case that has lasted 7 years.
The issue is that the Cremisan Valley is situated between two illegal Israel settlements; Har Gilo and Gilo. They house a combined total of 35,500 Jewish settlers. The case's attorney argues that Israel's desire to connect the two settlements lies behind the plans to build the Apartheid Wall, not the security concerns currently being used to justify the move.
With the addition of the Apartheid Wall, the total loss of land in Beit Jala will be 6674 dunums, which is 47% of the total land in the town.
Photo by Lazar Simeonov.
The differing voices of the community
The battle against the Wall has already created divisions even from within the Salesian community. Originally the monks were not opposed to being on the Israeli side of the Wall due to the economic opportunities that would open up from the sale of the wine to Israeli markets.
However the nuns who did not want to be separated from the children their school provides education to strongly opposed the notion of being placed on the Israeli side and made their disagreement with the monks public.
Originally the monks were not opposed to being on the Israeli side of the Wall due to the economic opportunities that would open up from the sale of the wine to Israeli markets
Originally the monks were not opposed to being on the Israeli side of the Wall due to the economic opportunities that would open up from the sale of the wine to Israeli markets
"The monks make wine, and for them it's great. They're interested in producing wine and this enables them to send it to Israel, where their customers are located," said the Mother Superior, Sister Adriana.
"For us it's not good at all. If the fence passes here and they put us on the Israeli side, the children won't be able to reach us. There's only one road to the monastery. The fence will create a checkpoint here with soldiers."
"We and the monks have very different opinions regarding the fence here," said Mother Adriana to Haaretz
To quell the disagreement the Monastery administration commented, "The monastery never asked to move over to the Israeli side."
After much pressure from the Catholic hierarchy the monks joined the case against the Wall. The sisters and the monks issued a joint statement in 2012 saying "there is no discord among them whatsoever and that their positions with regard to building the 'wall' do not differ."
The Cremisan Valley case in the context of international law
The building of the Wall violates a number of human rights. Firstly it must be remembered that the route of the Apartheid Wall was ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004. This illegality can be applied to numerous places in which the Wall goes beyond the Green Line. B'Tselem claims that if completed as planned, 85% of the barrier will fall in the West Bank, and 9.4% of the land in the West Bank will be isolated between the Wall and the Green Line. The settlements that surround the Valley that may be the reason for the construction of the illegal Wall are also deemed illegal under international law.
Specifically in the case of the Cremisan Valley the separation of the school from the children who attend it infringes the children's right to education. If the school is placed on the Israeli side it would militarize the children's route to school, as they would have to pass through a checkpoint just to reach their lessons.
The Convention for the Economic and Social Rights ensures the protection for minority communities; as Israel is a signatory to this convention it remains Israel's duty under international law to adhere to this. The planned route of the Apartheid Wall runs the risk of destroying the Christian minority Salesian community, physically and economically.
Alongside these infringements on international recognized rights, environmental expert Professor Judi Green's report on the historical, environmental and agricultural importance of the land was submitted during the case. It demonstrated the negative effects the wall would have from an environmental perspective.
Father Ibrahim Shomali celebratig a "protest mass" in the Cremisan valley. Photo by Lazar Simeonov.
Beit Jala brought to international scope
Aside from the internal voices of the Salesian community, the case of the Cremisan Valley has bought the small, peaceful village in Beit Jala into the forefront of a global debate.
The Archbishop of Westminster, England's most senior Catholic, joined the battle against the Wall after a visit to Beit Jala in November of 2011. He offered prayers including to help village with their "legal battle to protect their land and homes from further expropriation by Israel."
William Hague, Britain's Foreign Minister, sent a letter to the Archbishop expressing his shared concerns over the after of the community.
In addition to Hague's personal intervention, the British consulate in East Jerusalem is supporting the community and the Department for International Development (Dfid) provided indirect funding for the legal challenge.
Father Ibrahim Shomali, Beit Jala's parish priest said, "When people suffer, the Church must be near them. This is not politics. This is human rights and this is Christians who must be defended."
It seems the small Christian community of Beit Jala has awakened the international community to issues facing so many in Palestine today. The case has gained wide coverage on both local and international news bringing the violation of Palestinian rights to the global public. Hopefully the international support for the Cremisan Valley case will extend beyond the Christian community and encourage people to look at Israel's policies of land confiscation across the whole of the West Bank.
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Many for-profit enterprises have added a nonprofit division to their work, enabling them to use their private economic resources for public good.
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1. Kraft Foods Inc.: As one of the world's largest food companies, Kraft Foods Inc. produces dozens of familiar brands, including Oreo, Nabisco, Kraft, Cadbury, and Maxwell House. Through its community involvement initiatives, Kraft Foods Inc. has donated more than $770 million worth of cash and food in the past 25 years and has also partnered with organizations such as Feeding America, INMED Partnerships for Children, and the National Latino Children's Institute to bring about programs that encourage healthy lifestyles and community service. These programs include Salsa, Sabor, y Salud (Food, Fun & Fitness), a program that teaches Latino families about the importance of healthy food choices and physically active lifestyles, and Kraft's 2010 Delicious Difference Week, in which Kraft employees in 56 different countries partnered with nonprofit organizations to plant community gardens, build playgrounds, serve the hungry, and more.
Kraft Foods Inc. in action: Kraft's Health in Action (Ação Saudável) program (formed in 2010 through a partnership between Kraft Foods Foundation and INMED Partnerships for Children) is based in Brazil and plans to ultimately reach approximately 675,000 people by creating school gardens, helping families grow their own fruits and vegetables, and educating people on nutrition, hygiene, and active play. Nicole Robinson, vice president of the Kraft Foods Foundation, calls the program "truly transformative," as "it empowers children, teachers, and the entire school. And it reaches into the community to help people address the issues around hunger and healthy lifestyles for themselves."
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4. TNT Express: TNT Express, an international express and cargo delivery company headquartered in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, serves more than 200 countries and employs more than 160,000 people. This corporation uses its specialization in transport to aid the WFP.
TNT Express in action: Through its Moving the World program, TNT Express donates its skills, knowledge, and resources to the WFP. Since 2003, TNT has supported the WFP with $83 million worth of cash, in-kind contributions such as airlifts, and staff deployment to help make food transport missions more efficient. The company has also deployed 12 airplanes to Haiti, Pakistan, and the Philippines in times of emergency.
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Cargill in action: As part of its "Nourishing People" challenge, Cargill donated $3.3 million to combat hunger around the world, and on World Food Day it challenged its businesses to reach out and assist local hunger relief organizations. The businesses rose to the challenge and participated in activities ranging from restocking food bank shelves in the US to building school kitchens in Honduras. Cargill's six-year, $5.5 million commitment to the WFP also brings "food, medication, improved hygiene, and new drinking water wells to more than 30,000 children in 130 schools in Indonesia."
• Eleanor Fausold is a research intern with the Nourishing the Planet project.
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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, August 17
And the beat goes on.
An Ichiro Suzuki fourth-inning single catapulted Geoff Croke ("gfc2112") to a 41-game streak.
For those scoring at home but don't know how, this means two things:
(1) Croke is only a 16-game streak away from $3,000,000.
(2) Croke is only a three-game streak away from displacing the oh-so-lovable Dick George and (likely) taking home $10,000.
Glad I could clear that up.
And don't think I forgot about the rest of you streakers, as Ichiro's
single also pressed the forward button on 25.8 percent of the entire
I'd never forget about the rest of you guys. Come on!
The first commandment of streakdom is that all streaks are created equal.
Just, ya know, some are more equal than others.
Time for Tuesday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? Placido Polanco: .800 AVG (8-for-10) since '05 vs. Giants starter Barry Zito
? Miguel Cabrera: .636 AVG (7-for-11) lifetime vs. Yankees starter CC Sabathia
? Michael Cuddyer: .488 AVG (20-for-41) lifetime vs. White Sox starter John Danks
? Ichiro Suzuki: .405 AVG (30-for-74) lifetime vs. Orioles starter Kevin Millwood
? Asdrubal Cabrera: .458 AVG (11-for-24) lifetime vs. Royals starter Zack Greinke
? Hanley Ramirez: .500 AVG (6-for-12) lifetime vs. Pirates starter Zach Duke
? Derek Jeter: .389 AVG (7-for-18) lifetime vs. Tigers starter Justin Verlander
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Gerald Laird: .467 AVG (7-for-15) lifetime vs. Yankees starter CC Sabathia
You'll thank me later …
? Mark Teixeira: .071 AVG (1-for-14) lifetime vs. Tigers starter Justin Verlander
? Torii Hunter: .111 AVG (1-for-9) lifetime vs. Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz
? Evan Longoria: .111 AVG (1-for-9) lifetime vs. Rangers starter Tommy Hunter
? Josh Hamilton: .167 AVG (2-for-12) lifetime vs. Rays starter Matt Garza
Leaderboard time!
"Jeabullseye" now stands alone in second place after successfully riding Miguel Cabrera to a 26-game streak.
"Jeabullseye" is only 31 games away from taking home the $3,000,000.
Wait, what's that?
Oh, sorry, let me try that again.
"Jeabullseye" is only 31 games away and needs Croke to spontaneously combust in order to take home the $3,000,000.
Much better.
Top MLB streakers
? Alexei Ramirez: 10 games
? Bobby Abreu: 8 games
? Jose Lopez: 8 games
? Logan Morrison: 8 games
? Ian Stewart: 8 games
? Dan Uggla: 8 games
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What's up everybody. Been a crazy couple of days but I still feel the leader is going to fall. You can't get by on 1 hit for too many days. As for today I have Pujols in BTS and HR BTS. I was watching MLB Network and they said he gets better as the year goes on so I figured why not. Lost my Survivor streak but still have time and chose the Cards.
BTS and HR BTS- Pujols
Good luck to all today.
Minimum current streak required, entering today, to have a chance at the prizes (assuming season ends Oct 3rd)
Abbreviations: DL=Deadline, CS=Current Streak needed, TS=Target Streak
(*) Playing for a tie? add 1 to DL and minus 1 from CS & TS
BTS Countdown
Top Prize ($3M): CS:9, TS:57, DL:Aug 8th
*Consolation ($10K): CS:0, TS:44, DL:Aug 21st (pending)
Survivor Countdown {tickets are for 2011 All-Star Game & Homerun Derby}
Top Prize (2 tickets+travel+hotel+$10K): CS:0, TS:37, DL:Aug 28th
*Consolation (2 tickets only): CS:0, TS:30, DL:Sept 4th (pending)
Chicago Report:
Derrek Lee of Cubs took Monday night off and had "treatment" for a bulging disc – Stay away – one wrong twist and he is on the DL and your streak is at zero.
ChiSox and Twins = too close to call, I'm staying away.
BTS – Ichiro
HR BTS – Sir Albert v. Brewers
Survivor – Cards at home v. Brew Crew
Future tip: Watch for Troy Tulo in next Rockies day game.
I really hope all you guys picking the Cardinals are right. In fact, a sweep sounds pretty good to me after losing a disappointing series to the Cubbies. Oh and Vinny? You're right about Albert. August has historically been his hottest month and this August has been no different. He's really getting hot at the plate.
– Tiffany
I was in the Ichiro party last nite and don't want to be "caught" with the leader again. I was in the "take one for the team" with Joe Mauer earlier in the year when someone fell and I got reset and don't want to be in that spot again.
Top 5 Most likely players that I think could be picked by the leader "gfc2112".
1.Albert Pujols
2.Joe Mauer
3.Miguel Cabrera
4.Ichiro Suzuki
5.Placido Polanco
I'm going to stay away from that stack and take Omar Infante for BTS, Paul Konerko for HR BTS and the Braves for survivor.
Here is hoping the leader and everyone else who got by on Ichiro yesterday go for it again today. Millwood burned Ichiro once this year. I was a victim of that. I can't reacall if it happened again later. But Ichiro has not been hitting Millwood that well even last year when he was lot hotter. His #s against Millwood used to be hight .400s I recall.
@yanksgiantsdevils33: Don't play that game, you could be sorry. I've played it and was. I would intentionally not pick someone because the leader or everyone else probably would pick him and went with another. What happens at times? The leader moves on & you get reset. You just have to pick who you feel has a good chance of hitting. If it's the same as the leader, then so be it.
Your pick has no bearing on the leader obviously. In Mauer's case, it was just that dreaded 20% BTS failure rate catching up with you; that's all. If you do play that game, ensure your pick is as good as the one you are avoiding, don't settle for someone much weaker.
Yesterday, I played that game avoiding Ichiro/Cabrera and picked Wright (3-4 last nite). I felt he was a great pick against a so-so lefty & was rewarded. But Ichiro/Cabrera also got hits. There's no such think as a jinx!
Check the numbers; Dan Uggla looks like a lock tonight. I wish I could say the same for the Reds. They apparently struggle against teams which also wear red uniforms, like the St. Louis Little *******.
?Professor Pete
Sip y'all.
BTS: Jon Jay
HR: A-roid
Surv: StL.
GL to all. Hopefully top2500 will be posted shorty after lock, as long as MLB.com isn't messed up again.
Well, the leader took a big, risky gamble today taking Hanley. He hasn't hit in 2 games and is absolutely horrible against lefties this year. Though he has hit PIT Duke well in the past. So will his lefty-slump continue tonight? Leader hopes not, the rest of us hope so.
A couple big-name players back in the lineups: Prado, Utley, Pedroia
I like these 1 AB hits, where were they before I was mathematically eliminated for a chance at $3M? Ugh! Oh well, Posey moves me along today.
BTS: Joe Mauer (0)
HR BTS: Carlos Pena (2)
Survivor: Indians (1)
Hanley Ramirez: 0 for 2!
So much for Hanley having an 0-fer tonight. Single to centerfield in his 3rd AB.
Ichiro 0-3, Hanley just singled.
LaV's List
Tuesday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 129 Batters picked overall.
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Ichiro Suzuki 553 22.34(3RD & 5TH)
Miguel Cabrera 269 10.87
Hanley Ramirez 216 8.73(1RST,2ND & 4TH)(GOOD)
Joe Mauer 166 6.71
Albert Pujols 160 6.46
Matt Holliday 152 6.14
Dan Uggla 132 5.33(GOOD)
Omar Infante 84 3.39(4TH)(GOOD)
Placido Polanco 50 2.02(GOOD)
Derek Jeter 45 1.82
Michael Cuddyer 39 1.58
Andre Ethier 39 1.58
No Selection 35 1.41
Joey Votto 29 1.17
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset was ??% with R. Cano killing(5.4%) the most hopes and dreams.
Highest "No Selection":Pg# 7 with a streak of 15 back to zero.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
forcook, 16, pg 4, 84, I. Suzuki
jpaul74(bullfrogs), 14, pg 9, 189, M. Stanton(2X in TOP2500)
baseballgirlie13, 12, pg 22, 530, I. Suzuki
gamara21, 9, pg, 73, 1275, A. Pujols
GL to all
Mini-drama ends again on 3rd AB. Dick George will be pretty anxious to see if leader ties him tomorrow — and so will we.
The leader is a solid picker. This guy is going to go far……
Wow. He moves on!
Professor Pete – A big tip of my Cub hat to you for the info on Uggla today. I switched to him from Ichiro. Your "lock" picks are always well thought out and accurate!
Lets go Cardinals in Survivor.
Omar Infante is 2 for 3, Paul Konerko has homered and the Braves are up 4-2.
Highest No selection on survivor levs1989 on page 1 with a winning streak of 10 now reset to 0.
STL lovers in Survivor are not surviving. 3 straight losses by STL is clearing the leaderboard; that & the NYY loss last night. Pretty soon, and at this rate, single digit streaks are going to be atop the 1st page in Survivor.
Highest no selections;
Home Run Beat the Streak: willis0022 on page 3 with a HR streak of 3.
Beat the Streak:arnon420 on page 7 with a hit streak of 15.
No selections are now back to 0.
My bong just took me to 10. Thank you Suzuki for another multiple hit game. Seven out 10 games are multiple hits games. I am justing waiting for the leader to fall off the top. No way he is gonna get to 57 with his one hit per day approach. He croaks before the weekend. That is what my bong hit says.
Dave at a meeting or did he perhaps he got bit by a tsetse fly when he took that weekend safari trip to Africa and now has sleeping sickness?
Speaking of sleeping sickness – the Cub bats – except for my favorite Cub – Starlin Castro!
BTS- Starlin Castro
Ozzie Guillen – please stop batting Alexi Ramirez 8th
HR – Sir Albert the Great
Survivor – Cards with Wainwright on the hill in a home game.
Lost my 8 game survivor streak on Cards yesterday so today go go Cards!
Anybody know where today's blog is? I keep refreshing but nothing is up yet.
Not posted yet. Dave must be in meetings again.
As long as you're blogging on this one, let me ask you a question. You've been playing this for 10 years now.
Let's say Leader ends BTS with streak of 48. One doesn't want to necessarily stop playing if they can get close to 48 just in case the leader is disqualified for having multiple accounts or another reason. Has any leader ever been disqualified that you know of? If so, how did they inform the BTS world?
Well Pony, no leader has ever been disqualified yet but they didn't come back the next year either. It has happened every year for ten years so far that I remember. The leader the previous year didn't play the next year. I don't know why that happened but it's interesting.
How do you know the leader from one year didn't play the next?
"… The leader the previous year didn't play the next year. I don't know why that happened but it's interesting."
Would be nice if this year's leader posted back and told everyone whether he was allowed to play again or not. Maybe something to do with accepting the prize? Don't know. Maybe Dave Feldman (blog writer) can answer the question?
Oh, and if you forfeit ability to play again by accepting the prize, makes the decision of accepting the consolation prize difficult IMO. If that was the agreement, then accept $10k (minus taxes) and not play again? Or tell them to keep it so you can take your chances for the millions next year.
Hey all, Ive got the top2500 all done and ready to post but i think that i will wait till Dave posts todays blog.
Starlin Castro bounces a "seeing eye grounder" up the middle for a single in the 8th inning at Wrigley Field.
yanksgiantsdevils33 – Don't give up on the group. We all have rough stretches. You joined later in the year and missed my MVP post. Never take Mauer, Pujols or Votto (MVP) in BTS. OK to take them in HR only. I have the Cards today too— remember: Sh– happens!
I am getting out of the bloggers group! That group has been nothing but a curse to me.
Before joining the group I had 3 double digit streaks with the longest being 17. I started typing on the blogs before the 17 streak so I know it's not the blog that's bad it's the "blog group curse."
Since joining the best streak I've had is 7 in that group and twice within the last 2 weeks i may end up getting reset @5 as Pujols is 0 for 3 with 1AB left and might get walked.
I also had him in Home run and the Cardinals in survivor so I maybe reset in all three games with St. Louis losing 3-0.
yanksgiantsdevils33: superstitious? When you pick the best players on the team, you have to expect limited amount of quality pitches to get hits with. If he comes up to bat with bases empty or bases loaded, then your pick has best chance of being pitched to. This is probably more true during 2nd half of the season. And regarding Survivor, just bad luck.
Anyway Pujols just doubled in last AB, so your BTS streak is safe for one more day. But keep picking from the A-list and you'll get burned eventually, as we all do.
Me and my bong are flying high on Byrd this afternoon to 11. My bong said Scott Rolen is broken today. I hope he is correct.
Bong-free. TB & Longoria move me along in Survivor/BTS.
Guess it's safe to say no new blog page today.
So… Leader is forcing us & Dick George to wait deep into the night to see if the streak continues. No matter to the rest of us really. If it continues tomorrow, that effects all of us as it drops the deadline for $10K prize. The deadline is the date you can no longer get reset. Each day the leader's streak continues, starting tomorrow, the deadline moves back a day. Currently it's this Saturday!
Appears Ian updated BTS but forgot to post a blog page.
@yanksgiantsdevils33. Here's a tip for Survivor. I've been doing this for 2 weeks now & it really works well. Don't rely on a team just because their Ace is pitching. Ace's have bad days too.
1) Look at the BTS page to get an idea of a starting lineup's average against opposing pitcher. If majority of team hits very well against him, probably a good pick.
2) Go to Rotoworld.com every day and make notes of who they say is not in the lineup. Adjust your picks based on that information
For example. After gathering data, yesterday I changed my pick to ATL because Prado was added to a good lineup. Tipped the scales for me. Today I changed my pick to TB because I saw Adrus, Young, Cruz (DL) wasn't in the TEX lineup. Also tipped the scales for me
Using this "strategy", I'd be in double digits today if I didn't get reset with KC 2-hitting NYY Sunday. So…
3) Don't pick against a pitcher the team hasn't seen before.
"Soft line drive to center field" and Rolen creates a tie between the leader with Dick George. Now 57 games and $3M are just 14 days away; though that is still significant. The question o'day is, "What will the streak end at?" Guess we'll just have to wait & see.
Another "soft" hit for the leader. This nonse has to stop soon. How many more days will he go on 1 hit per day? Those 1 hits are barely hits to begin with. If someone is gonna win this, I want someone who does it with more conviction that Rolens barely getting a bat on the ball or Ichiro beating out a cheap grounder to second base. Everyday is like this with this guy. At least, when Dick got lucky, he got a solid hits on the last ABs.
This nonse stops tomorrow!
I know everyone wants the leader to fall because they want to win the money themselves. But either way, a hit is a hit and it doesn't matter if it barely gets out of the infield or Ichiro beats out a grounder. Ichiro does that a lot so it's normal for him anyway. I wouldn't care if my guy got one hit everyday and I broke the streak by getting 57 hits in 57 days. Luck is part of this game, which is why nobody has won it yet. If you want to root against the guy, do it because you want to win, not because you think it's nonsense or ridiculous that he gets one hit a couple days in a row. I for one want him to win because I want someone to prove it can happen. Sure I wish it was me but if I can't win it then someone else might. Anyway, I moved to 14 with Pujols today (last at bat hit) and hope to tie my best tomorrow at 15. GL everyone.
"Luck is part of this game, which is why nobody has won it yet. If you want to root against the guy, do it because you want to win, not because you think it's nonsense or ridiculous that he gets one hit a couple days in a row."
Yeah but not if it happens almost everyday. His one hit game has been going on for awhile already. And many of them are barely hits to begin with. This is not just last 2 days. There were countless others. Actually, its a rare exception when that does not happen like Tulo 3 days ago. How would like to have the kind of Pujols luck you had today happen to you 2 out of every 3 days?
1 hit a day is no problem as long as you get through, and goodluck to my fellow townsman geoff croke althought I want to win haha
I wouldn't mind at all if I had that luck every day . A hit is a hit and it doesn't matter how it happens. I didn't mean to start an argument, I was just saying that as long as I get a hit that is all that matters. Nobody in their right mind would say that they would rather go hitless than get one hit everyday. All it takes is one and right now he is getting it. GL Geoff!!
Hey everybody. I wasn't around earlier as I was working but I chose Asdrubal Cabrera today. He hits lefties well and Chen struggles against righties and Cabrera is on a hitting streak so the pick looked good and he went 3 for 5. I really think leader is going down by Friday as you can't squeeze by on one hit a day. I want somebody to win it myself to prove it's possible and it will happen but not this year I don't think. Also I know that the leader the year before never played the next year as I remember the name they used and I doubt they would change it the next year in order to play that year and never saw that name ever on the leader boards so I think they don't want you playing every year if you win something which would bite.
Hmmm…. No post from Dave or Ian today, hope all is good. I'm going to bed but will post today's top2500 tomorrow along with tomorrows numbers. Congrats to mr. Croke and I as well would like to see someone win this just for the sake of someone winning. I'd rather see one of us bloggers win( but I myself am eliminated ), we have 3 bloggers left with a chance at the big bucks. GL to my fellow bloggers and talk at y'all in the morning.
What number do you need to be at as of today(august 18th) to be eligible for the 3m grand prize? I realize Croke controls his own destiny, but by the odd chance he falters within the next two weeks, what number is needed as of today?
@bretzky26: I post the current streak needed on every blog. The one for Wed is at the top. Just add 1 more for Thurs.
@btsplayer & all: Regarding a hit is a hit argument. A hit, is after all, a hit. Whether a cheap swinging bunt or bloop single to a line drive to the wall or over the wall, a hit is still a hit.
I like many others, don't want anyone to win except of course, me. I gripe and silently curse the cheap hits of our leaders' picks too. And if I'm honest with myself, I'm griping cause either I made a bad pick or I perceive the luck to be unfair.
Come President Obama, if we're headed towards a socialized society, force Dick George, Geoff Croke and all other super-lucky players to spread the luck-wealth to us less fortunate! I want others to pay for my misfortunes.
"@bretzky26: I post the current streak needed on every blog. The one for Wed is at the top. Just add 1 more for Thurs."
Misspoke: Tues streak requirement is posted at top & add 1 for Wed. Thursday (today) should have a new blog page & I'll post the updates there.
Here's yesterdays list since Dave didnt post a blog. Will post todays list on todays blog.
LaV's List
Wednesday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 155 Batters picked overall.
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Albert Pujols 284 11.36(4TH)
Vladimir Guerrero 273 10.92(6TH)
Joey Votto 202 8.08(3RD & 4TH)
Ichiro Suzuki 189 7.56
Joe Mauer 108 4.32
Dustin Pedroia 87 3.48
Miguel Cabrera 86 3.44
Adrian Gonzalez 80 3.2
Robinson Cano 77 3.08
Victor Martinez 73 2.92(2ND)
Josh Hamilton 71 2.84
Martin Prado 62 2.48
No Selection 48 1.92
Scott Rolen 21 0.84(1RST)
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset was 23% with killing the most hopes and dreams. And 4.5% paused.
Highest "No Selection":Pg# 6 with a streak of 16 back to zero.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
forcook, 17, pg 4, 68, V. Guerrero
baseballgirlie13, 13, pg 17, 392, A. Pujols
gamara21, 10, pg, 65, 972, M. Prado
jpaul74(bullfrogs), 14 RESET BY M. Stanton
GL to all
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Most maid cafes aren't exactly visually striking. The decor lacks pizzazz. Japanese maid cafe chain Maidreamin has pizzazz out the wahzoo. The cafe is Mario meets maids, while guzzling electric Kool-Aid. It's a trip.
Maidreamin has locations throughout Tokyo's Akihabara, but its Shibuya establishment and its new Osaka locale are stunners. They aren't your standard maid cafes, with young women playing paper-rock-scissors and severing rice omelettes. These are "digitalized cafes".
Much like Nico Nico Douga's new Roppongi club Nicofarre, Maidreamin embraces technology and nerd culture. With maids.
The level of Japanese gamer nerd detail on display here is intoxicating. The walls are covered with what look like moé Mario pixelated stage. Upon closer examination, they are made, no pun intended, from little Japanese emoji and icons.
Hanging from the ceiling are Mario style blocks, illuminated like Japanese lanterns. When maids jump up and hit the blocks, they change color, while 2D video game versions of maids come to life with cutesy animations and Nyan Cat style music after hitting the blocks. These mini-maids are even standing on Mario pipes. When orders go out, the little 2D maids say things, like "Your cream soda is ready!", "Whose? Whose?" and "I can't wait."
It doesn't stop there. When maids jump on the "digitalized" trampoline, it emits a "nyan" (meow). And when maids storm the leaf-shaped stage, the 2D anime maids on displays through the cafe begin waving their hands around, while waving their little anime hands.
That's what this cafe is, really—the interplay of our 3D world and the 2D game world. In Japan's otaku subculture, this isn't just where they intersect, but where they serve melon soda and jump on digitalized trampolines.
All photos courtesy of Japanese website Gigazine.
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Making waves: Saga buys Eure stations
Over the past decade, local radio listeners have heard munching noises. That was the sound of $18 billion media behemoth Clear Channel Communications gobbling up six of Charlottesville's nine commercial stations.
The other three commercial stations– WWWV, 97.5FM; WQMZ, 95.1FM; and WINA, 1070AM– are owned by Eure Communications, a family business headquartered on Rose Hill Drive.
So when Saga Communications, a Michigan-based broadcasting corporation valued at roughly $350 million, last week announced the planned purchase of all three Eure stations, local ears pricked up: This purchase, after all, marks the end of locally owned commercial radio in Charlottesville. Will it spell the end of 3WV's Big Greasy Breakfast and other homegrown fare?
An unequivocal "no" is the answer, says owner Brad Eure.
"Saga," he says, "allows all the decisions to be made in each individual market."
Not only will the stations' staff remain, says Eure, but he himself will also stay on.
That, says Saga spokesman Samuel Bush, was the most important consideration in the decision to purchase the stations.
"We would not have bought it except that Brad agreed to stay on as president and general manager," says Bush. "Far be it for us to come in and say we can do a better job than Brad."
Indeed, Eure has kept his stations afloat in the battle against Clear Channel– though he endured a few setbacks in the process. In the late 1990s, the Justice Department, in an anti-monopoly maneuver, requested that Eure sell two little AM stations, WCHV and WKAV, in order to assemble his current powerhouse roster of three. Ironically, the Justice Department's slap at Eure wound up helping Clear Channel, one of America's biggest radio conglomerates, gain control of those six local stations.
But today, Eure says that ended up being a good thing.
"We're doing very well with three," he says. "It may have been a blessing, instead of having five or six."
Mike Friend, founder of noncommercial WNRN, now the lone locally owned station, says he doesn't expect any changes listeners will notice as a result of the Saga sale, which is slated to be complete sometime in first quarter 2005, following FCC approval later this fall.
"This is a company that has a little more sense than Clear Channel," says Friend of Saga, which has made Forbes' list of top 200 small businesses for the past three years. "Saga's not going to screw with things just for the sake of screwing with things," adds Friend.
Clear Channel market manager Hank Kestenbaum says it's unfair to say his company hasn't supported local programming while Eure has.
A significant number of WINA's shows are syndicated, he says, while Clear Channel has popular local programs, including the Thomas and Thomas show on country station WCYK, and the Vinny Kice morning show on 102.3, WSUH.
"You get into this local and syndicated ballyhoo," says Kestenbaum, "and most of what is done at Clear Channel is done locally here in Charlottesville. Most of what's done at Eure is done locally in Charlottesville."
Saga's Bush believes his company's purchase of Eure will make the three stations even more competitive.
"We can bring significant resources financially, program wise, operations wise," he says. "We'll be advisors to Brad as he continues to grow what he and his family have already accomplished."
Indeed, Eure's stations have succeeded in attracting a broad listener base, says Friend. That, in turn, attracts advertisers.
"They do a pretty good job over there of getting adult men and women who buy cars and drink beer," says Friend. "They get the husbands with 3WV, the women with 95.1, and the nursing home crowd with WINA."
That may be the sweetest music for Saga's ears.
"It all works together," says Friend, "like a money-making machine."
(From left) 3WV's Max Hoecker and Rick Daniels with owner Brad Eure


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Hey Chris, awesome, those times work for me too. Any weeknight this week except Tuesday is good for me if you're up for it.
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Rob Lowe Says Justin Bieber Makes Good Music But His Fans Don't Care About It [VIDEO]
Rob Lowe is a Belieber. Kind of.
The actor, himself a teen heartthrob in the 1980s who has enjoyed plenty of career ups and downs in the public eye, is not a screaming, shrieking Belieber, obviously. He clearly doesn't fit the teenage girl profile. Instead, the actor spoke to Oprah Winfrey about how he empathizes with Justin Bieber, since his fans aren't really all that interested in his music.
"I have tremendous empathy," Lowe said. "He makes really good music, but I think he knows the dark secret, and the dark secret is 80 percent of his audience doesn't give a s---t about the music. And he knows it. It bums him out."
Wow, Lowe thinks The Biebs' music is good? That's more shocking than the dark secret reveal.
But you know, Lowe has somewhat of a valid point. We are sure that there is a healthy amount of ladies in the Belieber Nation that love his music, but there is also a good-sized amount that is more interested in his looks and the idea of him than anything else.
Lowe further offered his opinion on Beliebers, saying, "They care about lemming-think, and their girlfriends and oohing and aahing and screaming, [and] it has nothing to do with what he's doing as an artist. He is the guy who is standing in front at a moment that they're going through a developmental thing… If it wasn't him, it would be somebody else, like it was me."
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Osterley Park is well known as an architectural and decorative masterpiece by Robert Adam, but the role of the Child family which owned the house has not been so obvious. From 1 March a group of portraits and other paintings will go on display at Osterley which will bring various members of the family and their personalities and tastes back into the frame.
The pictures are being lent to Osterley for a ten-year period by the trustee of the Earldom of Jersey Trust following consultation and backing from the 10th Earl of Jersey. The house and grounds of Osterley Park were given to the National Trust by the 9th Earl of Jersey in 1949, and the furniture in the house was purchased by the nation. However, most of the paintings were retained by the family, so it has been more than sixty years since these portraits were last on display in the house.
The most important picture from an art-historical point of view is undoubtedly the self-portrait by William Dobson, the first native English painter of major stature, in its exuberant baroque frame. It was bought by Sir Francis Child the elder (1642-1714) in 1712, together with the Van Dyck self-portrait which I featured earlier.
Sir Francis Child the elder was a goldsmith, banker and property developer who became Mayor of London and a Member of Parliament. He acquired Osterley shortly before his death in lieu of an unpaid mortgage. The Child banking premises were based at 1 Fleet Street, next to the gateway called Temple Bar, and can be seen in the painting attributed to John Collett which will now be on display at Osterley. Indeed, Child & Co, now part of Royal Bank of Scotland, are still there today.
Sir Francis the elder's sons Sir Robert Child (bapt.1674-1721), Sir Francis Child the younger (1684-1740) and Samuel Child (1693-1752) continued the family firm and also participated in the flourishing East India trade. The loan to Osterley also includes a number of lacquer and japanned items of furniture which were acquired by this generation of the family.
Francis Child (1735-63, sometimes called Francis Child III to distinguish him from his uncle and grandfather) commissioned Robert Adam to remodel Osterley. Following his early death his brother Robert (1739-82) continued to employ Adam, giving the house the appearance it still has today.
Robert and Sarah's only child, Sarah Anne (1764-93), eloped with the 10th Earl of Westmoreland. Robert changed his will so that the family fortune and posessions would devolve on the couple's second child, bypassing the Westmorelands. This daughter, Sarah Sophia (1785-1867), married the 5th Earl of Jersey in 1804 and held such sway over Regency society that she was known as 'Queen Sarah'.
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October is here and so is the chilly weather! We had lows in the mid-30s the other night! Nice layer of frost on the ground when we got up. I actually covered up my basil plant outside to protect it from freezing. I need to harvest those leaves and make some pesto this week.
Hockey conditioning started this weekend. Hockey will now go through March and into early April and then the recreation 3-on-3 league that Jon plays on starts up and lasts through June. Couple that with Jon refereeing hockey now and Hannah's gymnastics & skating and you have one crazy set of parents!
On top of the busyness, I have been feeling very blah for the past few days. Not sure what is going on, but my head has been killing me. It feels like it is sinus related, but none of my usual tricks are helping. I also have no energy. My half-marathon is 2 weeks from today, so whatever the issue is, it better stop! LOL!
Onto the week.
Sunday – Rotisserie Chicken, red quinoa, asparagus & salad
Monday – Grilled Chicken Breast, roasted kabocha squash, broccoli & salad
Tuesday – Spaghetti with marinara, green beans & salad
Wednesday – Burgers (veggie or turkey for me), sweet potato fries, carrots & salad
Thursday – Herb roasted pork (didn't make last week), parmesan potatoes, veggie & salad
Friday – Leftovers or breakfast for dinner
Saturday – boys are on their own…Hannah & I having a secret girl's night. 🙂
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Helping Countries Develop : The Role of Fiscal Policy
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Helping Countries Develop
- 1 Fiscal Policy for Economic Development: An Overview
- toggleI Macroeconomic Policy in Developing Countries
- 2 Fiscal Policy, Expenditure Composition, and Growth in Low-Income Countries
- 3 Persistence of Fiscal Adjustments and Expenditure Composition in Low-Income Countries
- 4 Growth, Governance, and Fiscal Policy Transmission Channels in Low-Income Countries
- 5 External Debt, Public Investment, and Growth in Low-Income Countries
- 6 A Framework for Fiscal Debt Sustainability Analysis in Low-Income Countries
- 7 Experience with Budgetary Convergence in the WAEMU
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If we search Great Lake Swimmers on Youtube, click the top result and scroll down to the highest rated comment, we find user 'itoastyourpants' making the pithy remark 'Thank god for Indie Folk <3'. Which is odd, because I'd always assumed that Indie Folk was musically equivalent to a big bag of sweaty bollocks. Folk's heritage jetissoned, cunning exenterated, subtlety sandblasted. Dig up old turf, plant the mediocrity seed, water it down and watch it writhe, drying out the soil and climbing the ancient drainpipes of dead eyed piffle.
Especially considering folk is, by definition, kind of the opposite of indie, the genre could hardly fail to attract these awfully confused herberts, crying yesterdays and wiping snotty noses on mass-produced cardigans. Such is the transcendental nature of Indie Folk, for which we should thank the same lord almighty that gave us Travis, the rest of Ryan Adams' career and bellwethers of insufferability Noah and the Whale, before slicing our genitals from the flesh and sallying forth into a dark and ignoble middle age.
Of course this is all a bit harsh on poor old Great Lake Swimmers, a humble troupe of rousing do-gooders that recently made their mark on the mainstream, wafting in during a tender juncture of American Idol, and New Wild Everywhere sounds like a maturing band preparing their smooth sliding into the jacuzzi of adult contemporary.
Recorded in a vintage analog studio, the Torontonians' fifth album marks a countrified, janglier departure to the shores of, say, a mellowing Wilco. Tunes like 'Think That You Might Be Wrong' and 'The Great Exhale' are gently plucked, plaintive ruminations on compromise, family and comfort. They stroke you behind the ear and swell where they should swell, and to the less weary of stripe this presents the nub of the problem. These songs are suited - which crucially, is not to say tailored - to the closing scenes of a pretty domestic drama, spreading their inherent appeal thin over Swimmers fans of old and those who probably just aren't too fussed about whether or not Neutral Milk Hotel are all they're cracked up to be.
It's fine. It's well-rounded. It's cosy. And on 'Ballad of a Fisherman's Wife' it's succinct, direct and affecting, addressing the 2010 BP oil spill with vitality and a subtlety of humour. And there's no use fannying about with righteous rambling in the imperative, when the truth is we might be better served pulling our fingers out of our arses and admitting that, yes, mediocrity is or at least kind of can be, you know, alright. If nothing else, New Wild Everywhere is a symbol of inclusive respect for a hard-fought, potentially broadening audience, demonstrating that ambition in the least fashionable sense remains a valuable virtue that's probably worth getting used to.
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Cantilever chairs have always occupied a privileged position in modern design history. It is their visual lightness, their relative lack of materiality (look Ma, no legs!), which made them such a fascination for Bauhaus greats Marcel Breuer, Mart Stam and Mies van der Rohe. Swiss manufacturer de Sede has recently reissued two iconic cantilevers from the late 1950s, the originals of which have long been sought after by collectors.
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NBC has ordered three comedy pilots from Will Ferrell, Jason Katims and Dan Mazer, TVGuide.com has learned.
Set in 1962, Mission Control is a workplace comedy in the tone of Anchorman that examines what happens when a strong woman butts heads with a macho astronaut during the race to land on the moon. David Hornsby will write and executive-produce with Ferrell and Adam McKay.
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Ellen More of Less tells the story of an average size woman reinventing herself in life and love after losing 100 pounds. Parenthood's Katims will executive-produce with J.J. Philbin, who will write the project.
When her newly divorced brother moves in, a wife and her husband start to see their marriage in a whole new way in the comedy Love Is Relative from Sacha Baron Cohen's long-time producing partner Mazer. Mazer, whose credits The Dictator and Borat, will write and executive-produce with Tom Werner and Tom Lassally.
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Daniel Howell contributes BigRedKitty, a column with strategies, tips and tricks for and about the Hunter class, sprinkled with a healthy dose of completely improper, sometimes libelous, personal commentary.
"Dude, I've got two almost identical pieces of chest-armor, one has more Crit and one has more Armor Penetration. Which of these should I equip: the Gilded Ringmail Hauberk or the Razorstrike Breastplate?"
"Dude, you need the Armor Pen! Grab the Hauberk, the Armor Pen-chest!"
"Seriously, you think Arm Pen is good?'
"Dude! It's so sweet! It reduces the enemy's armor so it totally ramps-up your DPS!"
"Sweet! I'm totally down with the Hauberk."
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Daniel Howell contributes BigRedKitty, a column with strategies, tips and tricks for and about the Hunter class, sprinkled with a healthy dose of completely improper, sometimes libelous, personal commentary.
An enemy's armor protects him from physical damage. If we can reduce that armor, our physical attacks will inflict more damage. Any problems with that? Sounds pretty simple, yes?
Blizz permits us two mathematical ways to reduce an enemy's armor: we can reduce a flat amount or a percentage.
Warriors use Sunder Armor to reduce a flat amount of armor. If a warrior is able to stack five Sunder Armors, he will reduce the enemy's armor by 3925; a flat amount. If the enemy has 4000 armor before the attack, he'll only have 75 armor to reduce incoming physical damage. Nice.
Hunter use Armor Penetration to reduce a percentage of armor. At level 80, a hunter requires an Armor Penetration rating of 15.38 to reduce an enemy's armor by 1%. If a hunter has an Armor Penetration rating of 154, and he attacks a different enemy that also has 4000 armor, the hunter will reduce the armor by 10% -- 400 -- and leave the enemy 3600 armor to reduce incoming physical damage.
Warrior have it easy; nerf warriors, right? Don't worry, we're going to dislike them even more later.
But let's pretend our enemy has a lot more armor, like 13,000. Now a warrior still reduces that by 3925, leaving 9075. Our hunter faces a different mob whose health armor is also 13,000, so the hunter reduces it by 10% -- 1300 -- leaving 11700.
Notice that previously we said the warrior and hunter were attacking two separate enemies. Well that's not how we raid, is it? The warrior and the hunter are usually attacking the same mob. And this is where a hunter's armor penetration takes it in the keister.
Armor Penetration is calculated using the mob's acting-armor, not his base-armor. Sunder Armor is calculated upon the mob's base-armor, not his acting-armor. What this basically means is that Sunder Armor is calculated first.
We grab our mob with 13,000 armor. We know that the warrior's Sunder Armor reduces it by 3925, leaving 9075.
When the hunter attacked his own 13,000-armor mob, the 10% armor penetration reduced the armor by 1300. But when the hunter attacks the mob that the warrior is attacking, the armor penetration is calculated on the post-Sunder Armor value of 9075. Our Armor Penetration is going to reduce that value by 10% -- 907 -- leaving the mob with 8168 armor.
Well that's not bad, but it's certainly not what we wanted. We wanted 3925 from the warrior and 1300 from the hunter. But since Armor Penetration is calculated on the mob's acting-armor, we only reduced the armor by 907, not 1300. Our Armor Penetration rating, which we worked so hard to raise, has had its value reduced from 10% to just 6.98%, (907 / 13000 = 0.06979 or 6.98%).
6.98% instead of 10%? That's more than a 30% decrease in value from our armor penetration gear! And that, frankly, stinks. Even worse, there is another component to this debacle, and that has to do with the squishiness of the enemy. Observe, again.
For a mob with 13,000 armor, our 10% Armor Penetration was reduced to 6.98%. But what if we're fighting a mob with just 6000 armor?
The warrior still reduces that by 3925, leaving 2075. Now the hunter's Armor Penetration is applied, where 10% of 2075 is 207, reducing the enemy's armor to 1868. But reducing 6000 armor by only 207 is a reduction of only 3.45%!! (207 / 6000 = 0.0345 or 3.45%) Geebuz, that's a positively massive decrease from the 10% armor reduction we see on our tooltip.
The bigger the warrior's Sunder Armor, the less effective our Armor Penetration is. The squishier the enemy -- i.e. the less armor he has -- the less armor-reduction-efficiency our Armor Penetration returns. Basically, the more Armor Penetration rating we hunters stack, the less value we get for our efforts. Stinkin' warriors...
So now we return to our choice of armor: the Armor Pen chest or the Crit chest.
Crit is Crit, right? There's nothing anybody in our raid can do can decrease how effective our Crit is. When a hunter crits, he does more damage and generates Focus for his pet, thanks to Go For The Throat. Crit rocks and that's all there is to it. Crit-damage, pet-damage, it's all yummy. Unlike if we chose Armor Pen:
- Armor Pen can, and will, have its effectiveness immediately nerfed due to the warrior in the party throwing Sunder Armor
- The squishier the mob, the less effective our Armor Penetration will be
- Because we chose the Armor Pen-chest, we reduced our Crit by the amount we would've had, had we chosen the Crit-chest
Armor Penetration is not a bad stat, it's just the least-effective one we hunters have when we factor our party members interfering with our Armor Pen's efficiency. Adding Armor Penetration rating isn't a terrible thing, just remember to never sacrifice Agility or Ranged Attack Power or Crit to take Armor Pen.
And now you know why you should always look at your warriors with a crooked glance; they're in ur party, stealin' ur stats...
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Barack Obama's transition site, Change.gov, is now under a Creative Commons license—specifically, the highly permissive Attribution 3.0 Unported license, which allows unfettered copying and remixing of content, subject only to an attribution requirement. Lest anyone worry that they're wild-eyed radicals, though, the copyright policy makes sure to assert the site's conformity with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
TechPresident's Nancy Scola calls this a "major coup" for copyright reformers—and it's certainly a nice bit of publicity for Creative Commons—but to my mind it just underlines the weird hybrid status of the site, which despite the ".gov" TLD apparently falls outside the rules that normally place publications of the federal government in the public domain.
Scola also links Tim O'Reilly's call for Wikipedia-style "revision control" on Change.gov, making the alterations to the site over time more transparent. Now, we already have the capability to track changes via sites like Versionista—but embedding that function in the site makes the timeline available to a much larger set of eyeballs. And as any Yochai Benkler fan knows, making participation simple is the key to peer production of any information good—including accountability.


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Hefner's string of strong pitching halted by Phils
Mets right-hander allows eight runs on 10 hits over two-plus innings
NEW YORK -- Jeremy Hefner cruised into the All-Star break on a string of eight strong starts of allowing two earned runs or fewer. He became a model of consistency. That came to a crashing halt in his first start of the second half Friday night, when he ran into the team that continues to knock him around.
The Phillies tagged Hefner with a rough outing and the Mets with a forgettable 13-8 loss in front of 35,021 fans at Citi Field.
"I don't know what it is about those guys," Hefner said. "They're a good team, obviously. They're a veteran team. I know how to get them out. I just didn't execute."
Hefner, who entered the game with an 11.02 ERA against Philadelphia in his career, was hit hard by the Phillies once again. He gave up eight runs on 10 hits over two-plus innings and came out of the game after allowing four straight hits before recording an out in the third. Hefner took his first loss since June 11.
While Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler have drawn plenty of attention, Hefner had pitched brilliantly over the final month of the first half. He entered Friday's game with a 1.76 ERA since June 4.
But on Friday, Hefner missed his spots and lacked the extra velocity on his fastball that he's shown for much of this season.
"I think it was, a little bit, the break," Mets catcher John Buck said. "He was on such a good groove, too. He was a little erratic. I have complete faith he'll get back."
Philadelphia, though, was the one team he struggled against this season. He gave up five runs in three innings against the Phillies back in April, which had been his worst start of the year.
Until Friday.
Hefner needed 38 pitches to get through a four-run, six-hit first inning, which included an RBI triple to center field off the bat of Chase Utley. Hefner retired the side in the second inning, but he fell apart in the third.
Mets manager Terry Collins said Hefner's problem simply came down to a lack of command.
"I don't think he hit a spot the entire first inning," Collins said. "Anything he wanted to throw, he didn't throw it there. He came in the dugout after he got the pitcher out and thought he might be settling in, and we get in the third inning -- he didn't throw a ball when he needed to."
Domonic Brown crushed a pitch into the upper deck in right field to lead off the inning. Hefner gave up three more hits, and Collins took him out of the game and brought in Greg Burke.
By the end of the third inning, the Phillies held an 11-0 lead, as Hefner's dominance before the All-Star break clearly didn't carry over to the second half.
Hefner said having so much time off during the break is no excuse for the way he pitched. He said he had a plan to prepare for Friday's start, and stuck to it.
But Hefner's velocity, which had been reaching 93 mph in his recent starts, was at 90 mph consistently on Friday. Collins said the sweltering 95-degree weather could've affected him. And although Hefner said the break wasn't an issue, Collins pointed to it as a possible factor.
"It could have been the seven days he's been off," Collins said. "I know he's pitched a lot better than he did tonight. We were as surprised as anybody about what happened. He's been throwing the ball so well."
Philadelphia starter Kyle Kendrick did enough to protect the Phillies' large lead, giving up six runs on nine hits over 5 2/3 innings.
"They hung in there with us. I think it was real hot," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "At the end there, I think Kyle got tired and got kind of worn out. I think he was spent. The heat kind of got him."
Marlon Byrd hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning, and the Mets scored in each of the next two frames off Kendrick. David Wright added a two-run shot in the ninth, but there was no coming back in this one. The Phillies had already done all the damage.
Now the Mets have to hope Hefner reclaims the dominance he showed through those eight great starts.
"I needed to be a lot better than I was tonight -- especially coming out of the break -- and set a good tone," Hefner said. "I didn't do that."


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On Good Morning America this morning, former President Bill Clinton had (kind of) kind things to say about GOP presidential frontrunners former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, he said, is "doing a better job as a candidate this time than he did four years ago. [He] comes across as more relaxed and more convicted about what he did do, less willing to just be forced into apologizing for it because it violates some part of his party orthodoxy."
He claimed not to be surprised by the early success of Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, because, "I've been watching her speak, you know, she comes across as a real person. … The story that they tell is pretty compelling, all those foster children she's taken in, and children she's raised and the work she's done."
Not surprisingly, he also had praise for the MSM favorite, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (you know, because, polling at an average of 1.7 percent, he makes a natural addition to any assessment of "the leaders of the pack").
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, he said, "did a very nice, a good job for America as ambassador to China. I think he's quite an impressive man. He's got an impressive family. I had the honor of meeting one of his children once and having a conversation with her. I think that he's refreshingly, kind of, unhide-bound. Just comes across as non-ideological — conservative, but non-ideological, practical."
Earlier in the segment, Clinton highlighted what he's looking for in a GOP candidate. "The ones I liked are the ones that you think are more moderate," he said, "'cause I think they're a little more connected to the real world. And I think they'll be — they'd be formidable. … But I'm afraid if I say anything nice about them, they'll lose, for sure."
Obviously, electability is both tricky and critical: The GOP has to pick a candidate who can win in the general election. But to gauge who can win, I'd rather the GOP look to the electorate and not to somebody like Clinton, the ultimate politician, whose agenda doesn't exactly match the conservative platform.
After all, Clinton's not actually afraid moderate candidates will lose the GOP nomination — he's afraid the GOP will pick someone who can unseat Obama (and that person, I'd argue, is unlikely to be a milquetoast moderate — and very likely to be whichever candidate most clearly articulates a message that resonates with the values of American voters). If Democrats like Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could only pick our candidate, they'd pick whoever will bow to Obama most obsequiously, whoever will surrender most readily.
Interestingly, Clinton said nothing about former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose position in the polls arguably most resembles Clinton's at this point in the 1992 Democratic primaries. Perhaps he kept silent because he knows better than anybody Pawlenty could come from behind and win over the public with solid likability, a consistent message and true conservative credibility.
So, two very obvious ideas Clinton should keep in mind if he plans to comment moving forward: 1) The GOP primaries are for GOP voters to decide and 2) Romney and Bachmann might be at the top, and a Huntsman nomination might be on libs' wish list, but those three aren't the only candidates in the race.


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I saw the stringy moduli space mentioned in a few papers but with little no explanation. I vaguely understand it is supposed to be the moduli space of complex structures on the mirror manifold.
Could you suggest a nice paper/blog post where to read some heuristics about it? Some examples? Connections to stability conditions/curve-counting?


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