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December 20, 2004
by Irwin Stelzer
One nice thing about the falling dollar is that it makes oil cheaper for European and other consumers who are complaining that the rise in their own currencies is hurting their competitiveness. When the euro and the dollar were at about parity, and oil was selling for $40 a barrel, it took €40 to buy a barrel of oil. Now, it takes a mere €30 to purchase the dollars needed to buy that same barrel of oil.
But for the oil producers, who are paid in dollars that buy fewer pounds for use in Harrod's and Asprey's, and fewer euros to fund vacations in the south of France, a weaker dollar is a disaster. Well, not a quite a disaster. Oil producers have been compensated for the dollar's fall with record-high prices, and the OPEC cartel has decided to raise its four-year old target price of $22-$28 per barrel to something like the $32 per barrel that Iran's petroleum minister, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, has commended to his counterparts. True, Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, told the press in the run-up to the OPEC meeting in Cairo earlier this month, "Our price band is still $22-$28." And Kuwait's oil minister, Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Ahmad al-Sabah, is undoubtedly grateful to the U.S. for allowing him and his family a pleasant stay at the Dorchester while American soldiers drove Saddam Hussein out of his country.
But it is what they do, not what they say or feel, that affects the price of oil. The Kuwaiti minister took the lead in urging his OPEC colleagues to cut output so as to lift the price his American saviors pay for oil. The Saudis quickly obliged, and cut output to keep prices closer to $40 than to the old range they had pledged to maintain.
Here is how the oil markets seem to be shaping up, at least in the view of some major oil companies. The head of one of the world's largest told me that the world is unlikely to see sustained periods of prices above $50 per barrel, or below $30. In appraising the profitability of drilling prospects, he is using $25. That is the middle of the range that Dave O'Reilly, ChevronTexaco's CEO, last week told analysts his company would henceforth use as its planning price. So the major oil companies have decided that the recent growth in demand from America's resurgent economy, China's explosively (perhaps in more ways than one) growing economy, and the economies of other developing countries is no transient phenomenon, and that they can safely raise their former target price of $15-$20 to about $25.
Meanwhile, OPEC is not quite so optimistic, fearful that prices might collapse, as they have in the past. It has decided to protect against such a contingency by managing production to prevent a build-up of inventories in consumers' hands. That means cutting output by about one million barrels per day immediately, and probably another million barrels early in the new year. This policy of keeping inventories low will deny consumers a buffer against any production cutbacks that the cartel decides are necessary should prices weaken.
Of course, the United States has 700 million barrels stored in its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). But neither the U.S. nor its European allies has ever worked out a coherent policy for using these reserves. On the few occasions that oil has been withdrawn from America's SPR, the withdrawals have had little or no durable effect on oil prices.
The Saudis say that consumers need not worry about price spikes as they are planning to increase their production capacity so as to remain capable of pumping more oil should prices get out of hand. By remaining the world's supplier of last resort, the Saudi royal family knows it can count on America to protect it should any enemies attempt to unseat it, whether they be the home-grown supporters of Osama bin Laden, or democratic reformers weary of repression and the excesses of the thousands of Saudi princes who treat the public treasury as a private piggy bank.
Should the promise of keeping the oil flowing not provide America with a good enough reason to protect the Saudi regime, the royal family provides another: support for the dollar. Despite the decline in the dollar, the Saudis and their OPEC colleagues have refused to denominate oil prices in any other currency, or in a basket of currencies in which the euro would feature prominently. Moreover, like other producing countries, the Saudis have continued to invest heavily in government securities, offsetting some of China's reduced buying. In the first nine months of this year, eight Middle Eastern producing countries that were net sellers of U.S. securities in the past two years were net buyers to the tune of $15 billion.
One thing the Saudis know they can count on is the inability of America's politicians to fashion a policy that will reduce American dependence on foreign oil. Both President Bush and his challenger, John Kerry, promised to make America independent of foreign oil. So did Richard Nixon, Gerry Ford, Jimmy Carter and Bush's other predecessors. None could figure out how to accomplish that goal without raising taxes on petrol and other oil products, a move considered a sure ticket to early retirement by all save Bill Clinton, who tried but failed to wring a significant increase in petrol taxes from a reluctant congress. Bush, who is unidirectional when it comes to taxes, has no such move in mind. So the increased amounts that Americans are laying out in this new era of higher oil prices will end up, not in the U.S. treasury, but in the treasuries of Middle Eastern governments, some of which are financing the terrorists whom the president has pledged to defeat.
A version of this article appeared in The Sunday Times (London).
Irwin Stelzer is a Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies for the Hudson Institute. He is also the U.S. economist and political columnist for The Sunday Times (London) and The Courier Mail (Australia), a columnist for The New York Post, and an honorary fellow of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies for Wolfson College at Oxford University. He is the founder and former president of National Economic Research Associates and a consultant to several U.S. and United Kingdom industries on a variety of commercial and policy issues. He has a doctorate in economics from Cornell University and has taught at institutions such as Cornell, the University of Connecticut, New York University, and Nuffield College, Oxford.
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© Jim Herrington
Beware, this story drops more names than a drunk mailman.
I was in Los Angeles shooting an album cover for a Russian bluegrass band… really… and after the photo shoot I was invited to their gig at the Roxy on Sunset Blvd. I went, and afterwards there was a big party for them next door at the infamous Rainbow Bar & Grill. There were people I knew from Nashville there, Tony Brown from MCA Records, he'd played piano with Elvis Presley in the '70s, and some others. At one point Tony spun me around and said, "Jim, have you met Joe Strummer?" Well, no I hadn't, and hello Joe. The night wears on and by the end of the evening it was just Joe and I left sitting at the bar drinking. I was living in Nashville at the time and Joe was digging whatever country music stories I was spewing out, he really liked old country music. I finally asked him, "So Joe, why are you in town?" He responded with, "Oh man, you won't believe it… I'm in town to do sing a duet with Johnny Fucking Cash! In fact I did it earlier today already, up at Rick Rubin's house." Joe was beside himself, couldn't believe his good fortune, thought he'd died and gone to heaven. We kept talking and drinking and finally Joe said, "I'm going back up there tomorrow, you want to come?" I said well sure and Joe proceeded to draw a "map" on the tiny corner of a napkin. I still have it, by the way… it looks like a chimpanzee tried to write the letter "Y" on the back of a postage stamp. Useless as maps go, but I feel now that it's a cartographic oddity worth saving.
The next morning I arrived at the front gate of Rubin's house a bit hungover, rang the intercom, "Jim Herrington for Joe Strummer", and the giant iron gate slowly swung open and I drove in. The driveway circled around your typical Hollywood Hills 1920's Mediterranean-style mansion, owned at some point by this or that silent film star, I forget which one, and I arrived at the back of the house where Joe comes strolling out of the garage with a big grin saying, "Hello mate, you made it!" Maybe he remembered the map and was surprised I'd actually found it.
I went into the garage with Joe and every horizontal surface was covered with large sheets of 13 x 19 sketching paper filled with song lyrics written in black Sharpie. On tables, on the floor, all across Rubin's yellow Corvette, lyrics everywhere. I asked what he was up to and Joe said, "Well, I've really already done my bit with Johnny yesterday, I'm not even supposed to be here… now I'm just trying to write a song to pitch to him." He rolled a joint, we smoked it and he started telling me about the song… that maybe it could be about Johnny Cash, or a guy like him… but Johnny could sing it. Kind of autobiographical. Lots of Southern imagery. Then he says, "You're from the South, help me out." So I threw out some lines and he liked one, "King Cotton's down the road" and he wrote it down. At that point, Cash, who'd been inside recording with Rubin, was leaving and he came out through the garage, looking a bit more frail than when I'd last seen him. We said hello, I'd met him a couple of times before. After Cash was gone Joe and I took some photos then went to Rubin's kitchen to make some tea - Joe: "Fuck, does he ONLY drink green tea?" and then went down to the studio and I met Rubin and Smokey Hormel, who was playing guitar on some of the tracks. The day goes on, we do some more photos, Joe records a demo of the song, finally it's late afternoon and I have to leave.
I stayed in touch via email with Joe until his sad and untimely death less than a year later. I sent his wife a print of one of the photos I took of Joe, Smokey and Joe's daughter, which she apparently displayed somewhere in their house because later on I got a call from Damien, a family friend who had seen the photo there and was touched by the picture of his friend and inquired if he might be able to buy a print for himself. Seeing as it was a family friend, and due to the circumstances involved, I charged a very nominal fee, basically the price of printing and shipping it over to England. A few weeks later he gave me another call to say he'd received it and thanks. He was calling from his house in Jamaica this time and I learned that "Damien" was, in fact, Damien Hirst, who with a net worth of around $300 million dollars is the richest artist in the history of art. And to think that I rounded off the FedEx charges in his favor.
More time goes by and I'm tucked into a booth in a crowded coffee shop one day, having lunch. A guy I vaguely know walks in and as he's walking past my table looks at me and mumbles, "Your song's on that album."
"My song.? What song, what album?"
"The one you wrote with Joe Strummer."
I'd apparently told him the story at a party one night and he'd remembered it. And sure enough, the song in question, Long Shadow, had shown up on a posthumous release of Joe's last album with his band The Mescaleros. Now, I never claim I "co-wrote" a song with Joe, but I did go out and get the record and sure enough, there's that line.
But years later I still can't help wondering, did Johnny Cash ever record it, as Joe had intended, and did he sing my line?
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Yes, that's right, these are the only choices. Deal with it.
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Cholula is clearly the correct answer.
Agreed, but, WE MUST LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE.
Fui quod es, eris quod sum. I once was what you are, you will be what I am - epitaph carved on Roman gravestones.
What a ridiculous thing to force people to decide. There is no single hot sauce for all occasions. Having tacos or eggs? Great, have Cholula. Having a bloody mary or stir fry? Sriracha. Want something to match your computer/hot sauce tie? Tabasco. Picture of your food won't load properly? Whatever the third one is. This isn't a one-hot-sauce reality we're living in. Do you only drink one kind of beverage? Do you only eat salad with ranch? You know who only likes one kind of thing? Children. Children only like one kind of thing.
This poll was very well done. Dicking around with other sauces will just water down the message that cock sauce is the most overrated hipster spread on the planet. My only problem with Cholula is that it goes too fast…but that's what Costco is for.
My grandparents buy sriracha, Wes. You're mistaking "hipster" with "a thing people like."
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I signed in just to vote.
Idol snake, get out of that skin.
I'm a Cholula fan, but the Vietnamese in me will also dabble in with some Sriracha.
I'm starting to wonder if they're only square in an ironic way.
But more to the point, I'm pretty sure it's a lot hipster-ier to worry about who else likes what else when declaring the things you enjoy than it is to like something a lot of people like because it's worthy of that affection.
You're misunderstanding my point. I'm not saying I liked it first. This has nothing to do with what I like. I'm saying reenforcing your favorites by declaring that something else is liked by too many people is about as hipster as you can get. You're being what you're condemning purely through the method by which you condemn it.
Everybody needs to worry less about what other people like and more about whether or not they're standing in anybody's way.
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By Rachel Lee Masters of Korean traditional dances are set to deliver rare performances showcasing skills gained after decades of practice. "Masterpieces of Korean Dance," hosted by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation, will take place at LG Arts Center in southern Seoul on June 9. The evening's entertainment will center around Lee Mae-bang, 84, known for "Seungmu," the monk's dance and "Salpuri," a soul-purifying dance, and Kim Baek-bong, 84, famed for "Hwagwanmu," a floral coronet dance and "Buchaechum," or fan dance. The two prominent dancers will grace the stage with other artists including Kim Mal-ae, 62, Kim Mae-ja, 68 and Guk Su-ho, 63, known for his performances of "Ipchum," meaning basic dance. Director Jin Ok-seop described the upcoming event as "the best of Korean dance," at a press conference held in Seoul on May 21. "This performance is designed around the two dancers who have spent their entire lives becoming accomplished in different types of Korean dance," said Ryu Chan, an organizer. Lee began to learn dancing when he was seven years old. His reinterpretations of the two dances are registered as the 27th and 95th Important Intangible Cultural Properties respectively. Kim Baek-bong used to be the best pupil of the late Choi Seung-hee (1911-1967), the greatest Korean dancer of her time. Baek-bong garnered acclaim for her sensational creations, the floral coronet dance and the fan dance performed at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Due to old age, the two artists will only perform for some five minutes each. Lee will demonstrate the monk's dance, then accompanied by his wife, Kim Myung-ja, 69, and Kim Baek-bong will dance the first half of the fan dance with the other part to be performed by her daughter Ahn Byung-joo, 51. The performance comprises traditional dance, contemporary dance forms in a traditional vein and new choreography. "It was previously impossible to see the two masters dance on the same stage because they have so much pride in their individual specialization," Ryu said. "The performance will take audiences right into the history of Korean dance." "Masterpieces of Korean Dance" will be held at the LG Arts Center, Seoul on June 9 at 5 p.m. For more information, call (02) 3011-1720. |


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The Barclays Center is the brand new sports and entertainment complex in Brooklyn that will be the home of the Brooklyn Nets come next season. In a recent press release, Jay Z announced that he was adding his club, 40/40, to the list of venues in the complex.
"There is no better home for another 40/40 Club location than the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn," stated Jay Z. "The 40/40 Club has revolutionized restaurants in a way I anticipate Barclays Center to transform the arena watching experience."
And the Nets to revolutionize B-Ball? Well, we'll see about that, but for anyone heading to the Center, this club opening is good news. There are eight 80" TVs over the bar, as well as views of the B-Ball court below. The food is supposed to be great, the atmosphere even better.
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Obviously got standing.
You know we weren't trading for a couple of days and then it would finally resumed today.
It was -- Mayor Bloomberg was there.
Along with Doug Duncan -- of a man who runs.
The NYSE Euronext as it's called.
It was a lot quieter Bom -- -- but they got through it did we really need.
To go through all of this sort as you know are on Charlie Gasparino.
Has questioned the impact PR -- this is that on us this global bastion of capitalism was -- its markets were were sidelined for a storm of bad storm.
But disarmament talks and that's about -- CEO mark rats and now that's what do you think job that that this.
Didn't look good for us to be is too -- put it does shut down.
And just quieted in the middle of a storm for two days of us.
I think it was actually the right thing do you remember these guys these market makers and traders on Wall Street.
They make their money when there's actually going back and forth -- -- -- -- showed done a tremendous restraint.
Secondly you know the average investor needs to be looking.
1020 years down the road with building their portfolio so given any two day period I think that that's not -- -- -- would need deal breaker.
And thirdly I think that.
You know as far as having respect the United States I think we lose more respect by having massive deficits structural forty cents on every dollar borrowed that's what's causing us to lose respect globally.
Not these two days with the storm.
You know that is brilliantly put I wish when I was argue with Charlie earlier I had framed it that way.
But that's what makes you the big expert in May be great teleprompter reader but I am letting you know -- Harris -- idea that is a very good point.
Did there was also the human safety issue and and I know others and explained it debt.
Look you can do this a lot of the stuff on computers are you and I know you can't do it really it's easily -- -- -- people doing stuff I guess.
There's an -- -- -- would have in -- -- in downtown New York in harm's -- The what do you make of that argument that next time -- there will be a next time we we get our act together so that we can resume trading regardless of the calamity.
Or is it that important to resume trading during climate in my argument as you know it isn't human beings -- more than -- sector.
Yeah it sure does it hurt us guys had gone back to work early.
You know we had eight flash crash where a trillion dollars was lost in the market in ten minutes.
And luckily it was -- by the -- today I mean investors have lost faith.
In the markets they've lost faith in equities in the last thing we need need is people going back to work at risking safety and at the same time risking another technique technological.
Crest which could -- even more damage to the yacht the psyche of the main street investor.
That is very well -- mark on Iowa's senator -- Your mouth in my brain earlier today -- thank you meant very good having you.
Our president yet then again I've raised -- before -- this earlier but I I don't.
Covering capitalism here but I got -- -- you got a storm you have people harm's way -- people who could potentially die in drown.
Is it worth it for the nickel and IBM is really.
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The Lady Mocs softball team went 20-2 in the SoCon last year, yet they didn't win the league title. As UTC prepares for their season opener next week, they'll have to rely on several new faces, and a few extra pitchers.
Taylor Deason is the only returning pitcher for the Lady Mocs. Then again, there were only two pitchers on the team last year, which had everyone holding their breathe. Said infielder Kasey Tydingco,"Taylor tripped on somebody's bag and fell down or she tripped over a piece of rope or something, and all of us went, no!" Said Deason,"It was tough work, but this year we have five pitchers. A good staff this year. A lot of cushion, so we can rely on each this year. We have a great pitching staff."
There are 14 newcomers on the team this season, including nine freshmen. So don't ask head coach Frank Reed for his starting lineup. "We're going to try to get our best nine hitters in the lineup, and then figure it out from there. Hopefully, they'll be able to plug them into the defensive positions."
Slugger Michelle Fuzzard is back. Only she's a coach now. So the Lady Mocs must replace her team leading 16 homers from 2012. Said Tydingco,"We thought the same thing with Tiffany Baker when she was the homerun queen. She broke a bunch of records. And everybody was kind of freaking out about what we were going to do without her. But then last year we had Sarah Beth Roberts and Cheyenne Willis. Freshmen that stepped up with homeruns." Said infielder Sara Poteat,"This team is going to scrap. You may not see as much power or homeruns, but we're going to scrap for some runs."
Sara Poteat is back with her SoCon leading .437 batting average. But Poteat believes she can hit even better. "I want to hit .500 this year."
On top of her lofty average, the senior is still looking for her first career homerun. "It's a joke with me hitting and stuff. I'll just grunt a lot. It's funny. I'm going to hit a homerun though. I'll probably cart wheel around the bases."
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Ya no kidding, though in the US it's supposed to be $1300 ($1500 for the 256GB) http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/asus-taichi-pricing-availability/ Still pretty expensive, though I would get it over a MacBook Air any day. Done good sir. Nice! You running the Pro version? @ Everyone.....If I missed adding you as a member, or I put you under the wrong heading, send me a PM and I'll correct it (check the OP).
Get a hold of the Release Preview. It is free but I don't know if it still is available and can still be upgraded. I had RP installed, ran the upgrader it checked and then it took me to the store where I bought the upgrade for 30 Euro. Download, burn ISO, did a clean install over the RP and everything is fine. It is the cheapest way but I can't guarantee it works now (I had the RP installed clean 2 months ago over a Vista OEM)
Just a quick question. If you upgrade from Win7 OEM to Win8 and for some reason you don't like it anymore can you reinstall and activate Win7 or you are stuck with Win 8?
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W7 key doesn't go away you can revert anytime. Actually before installing a new OS it's good to create an image of your previous OS so if you won't like next OS you can just restore the image and it's ready to go.
Yeah I knew that wasn't totally "true" and should have commented as to such. Compare this to what everyone (rightly) thought of Vista... Or make an image of your 7 install first (unless it was time for a clean anyway).
W8 desktop review And here's some unhappy rant by extremetech This graph has drawn my attention to it:
It's for a friend. He doesn't have a problem doing clean install afterwards if necessary. Me, I'm already a believer in Win 8.
That's why we have the choice of doing it in either desktop or metro. Metro is for the average Joe who wants things to be big, simple, and linear. Desktop is for everyone else. Though most metro apps look beautiful on my 50" plasma
Veddy intahesting... Makes sense though what with XBox integrations and what not as well as the general direction of the platform.
Exactly my thoughts. One click and you're on the desktop. But it's cool to have a radio streaming app running on the left of the screen. Win 8 is more fun and I'm sure it will be polished. And I also use an LCD TV as a monitor, though it's only 32" and it looks great.
Exactly, snapping programs to the side is AMAZING! (more so on my Surface). Plus the clean look of the Start screen and of most Metro apps suits TV's more than it does monitors.
I like it a lot, just a little slow for me (since I'm not always on Steam). I agree though, looks great on a TV! Well considering Gabe hates Windows 8, I doubt it. EA might be too cheap to make one, but you never know. Great review, very thorough and not judgmental while going through the features. One of the few reviews that don't immediately jump to negativity because it's ARM based. Love it when she talked about the keyboard "Pretty much like Apple's smart cover only this one actually does something" Found it funny too when she said she uses the trackpad quite a bit instead of touching the screen, especially in desktop mode. Totally opposite for me, I almost forget about the trackpad. I love my Surface so far. It does everything I need it to do and the battery lasts all day.


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The clarion call from Republicans: Fraud! Using fear in promoting selfish and ultimately destructive policies has become the GOP methodology -- the b...
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Jerry is one of those rare writers who goes between Hollywood screenplays and novels. He writes dark subversive stories and he somehow continues to get away with it.
A study of social class -- defined by annual income and by education-level -- finds that "Social class rank was positively associated with essentialis...
The Obama administration just rolled out what could be called "version 1.1" of HealthCare.gov. After two months of nothing short of disaster, the White House is now confident that the website is ready for prime time. Mostly.
The Republican National Committee can't help itself. No matter how many times and in how many ways it's amply shown that it can't get it right on race, it still keeps bumbling along.
It seems like every new poll shows President Obama's approval rating slipping lower and lower. The second term slump is nothing new for presidents. What has been striking is how quickly Democrats have started to break away from President Obama.
With all the controversy over the Affordable Care Act and government shutdowns, is it any wonder we have become, for lack of a better term, distracted?
Now that November is history, will the Obamacare website work flawlessly from now on? Or, as the president has said, will it at least work for the "vast majority" of people who need to buy insurance on their own?
I respect, although I don't agree with, citizens who feel public assistance recipients should be drug-tested. But I loathe Washington insiders who have one set of rules for ordinary Americans, and a different set for their friends.
Some political observers believe that if we only had competitive elections throughout the country -- if most congressional districts weren't gerrymandered -- then we would have more moderates in Congress and, therefore, less polarization. Think again. Polarization is the new normal.
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Democracy is a two-way street and, with this website and my blog
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New Mexico's legislature is a part-time operation meeting in the winter months, from Jan.-Feb. in even-numbered years, and from Jan.-March in odd-numbered years. Although legislators in New Mexico are basically volunteers, with no salary and permanent staff, I work year round, developing policies on everything from health care and education to water and environmental protection. I also work to serve my constituents in Senate District 13, solving their problems with government and soliciting ideas on how we can move forward together.
On this web site you will find the letters I send to my constituents every year before and after the legislative session, along with my constituent surveys (and their results) . I will also try to update you regularly on special sessions, how you can take advantage of recently enacted laws and services. The news and views section includes my speeches and articles that have appeared in local newspapers. The updated links and resources page will help you navigate the often-confusing world of government.
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2012 Legislative Session Just Around the Corner
A new year is dawning, and for the first time in three years, there's some good news to report on the legislative front. The New Mexico economy is inching toward recovery, buoyed by increased activity in the oil patch. This means that our revenue is up and we will have over $250 million more to budget in the upcoming session. In the past three years we've cut almost $1 billion in services, starving education and health care, and requiring state workers to take home less.
Now the question will be whether to restore some of those cuts, to continue the austerity plan, or even, as the Governor has suggested, use the new revenue to reduce taxes. Our underlying purpose, of course, is to create more jobs, but there is lots of division on how to do it.
That's why I need your help in filling out the survey you can access here. You can fill it out on line at at http://bit.ly/rzT1GJ, or download it here and then send it back to me at 1821 Meadow View Drive NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, before the session begins January 17th. You can also drop it by my office (Room 300) at the capitol in Santa Fe once the session begins.
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Key Stats: Martin Prado had 18 three-hit games last season. He finished 11th in baseball in total hits despite missing time in August with an injured pinkie and missing the last couple games of 2011 with a hip pointer and pulled oblique. He ended up finishing 9th in MVP voting, but it is conceivable that he would have been a top five candidate if he had stayed healthy. The reason he was so valuable in both fantasy and real baseball last season was because of his versatility. Prado slid right into the third base position once Chipper Jones went down, and this season expects to play the outfield if Chipper can stay healthy. That means in 2011 he will be eligible at second, third and in the outfield. Good luck finding another one of those players who also gets 200 hits.
Skeptics Say: Walks were down, strikeouts were up, and the HR:FB rate were higher than they were in 2009. Three bad ratios. Perhaps the most telling statistic that Prado was in trouble as far as his strikeout to walk rate was that he swung at more than 26% of pitches that were out of the strikezone. In 2009, he swung at under 21% of pitches that were out of the strike zone.
Projection: Despite all the injuries, the 140 games Prado appeared in was a career high. In September he showed signs of wearing down by having his lowest OPS and average month of the season. Look for him to come back stronger and ready to play a full season in 2011.
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