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I am the manager of $20 million restaurant supply and equipment company. The company helps restaurants and other commercial kitchens (schools, universities, catering, etc) with the supply and equipment needs. The company also provides design and specification services. The company currently has a web presence that is inadequate in describing our offering to the customer. The company has numerous online and brick-and-mortar competitors that are more effective at converting visitors to customers. Our focus is to service local customers.
Target market is local and regional restaurant owners and managers as well as general contractors and architects that build/design restaurants. Geographically they live in South Carolina and Central Texas, and have a mixed demographic (age, ethnicity, country of origin, sex, etc.). The company currently has over 8,000 customers that purchase on frequency range from weekly to annually.
Customers are looking for restaurant/kitchen equipment and supplies. Ranges, refrigerators, ice machines, knives, spoons, forks, glasses, pots, pans, etc. Customers may also be looking for design and layout assistance with new projects.
Many online sell directly to those customers online via their website. The goal of our website is to generate interest/leads for our store. A successful website visit leads to a phone call, an email enquiry, or a store visit.
1. Clean, crisp layout.
2. Website should be simple to understand, program, and maintain. Module based layout might be helpful.
3. Main menu should include tabs for:
Stores, Design, Products, Specials, Contact Us
4. Output should be a layered .psd file.
5. Declare all stock images.
6. Similar content as the current site.
7. This is NOT an e-commerce site.
8. Establish a clean way to show the link/relationship with other company websites:
e-commerce website (in development) similar to: http://www.shortorder.com/
used restaurant equipment (in development) http://www.commercialrestaurantequipment.com/
Restaurant Equipment review site (in development) similar to this: http://www.restaurantequipmentreview.net/
Page 1. Store-specific Home/Landing page for Search Engine Marketing and SEO which leads the visitor to:
1) explore the site
2) pick up the phone and call
3) go to the products page to select products and place an order
4) visit the store (bricks and mortar)
This page will be copied for each of the companies 4 stores (Austin, Temple, Dallas, Columbia)
Page 2 will be a template for inside pages (about us, store policies, contact us, design install, specials). Layout will also be used for a B2B store which is hosted offsite (see http://catalog.sefa.com/category_in…r_id=10113
Two (www.acemart.com, http://www.missionrs.com) local competitors who's online presence is focused on national customers. Sell to everyone, everywhere. We compete with these companies every day. However, our goal for the site is NOT e-commerce. We are looking to control local customers.
Good example of a site that is primarily focused on local customers but also has product search capabilities. (http://www.denverrestaurantequipmen…320b5d664b) At the moment, we are NOT able to integrate the product search with the rest of the site. It is limited to offsite integration (http://catalog.sefa.com/category_in…r_id=10113)
Example of companies (non-local competitors) which are focused on local business but does not have an online store: http://www.bestrestaurant.com and http://www.brequipment.com. Design is poor, but content is relevant.
Example of company offering similar services (http://www.restaurantdesign.com), but does not offer the equipment and supplies, which is a the majority of our business. I hate the music.


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Two leading ladies of the big screen – Amanda Seyfried and Zoe Saldana – and one of the small screen's fiercest fashionistas, Leighton Meester, top Glamour magazine's "50 Most Glamorous Women of 2010" list, the mag's third annual countdown.
The Hollywood lovelies each get their own cover for the magazine's April issue, where they dish about style and their glam lives – but "Dear John" star Amanda Seyfried said she doesn't play into the material side of Hollywood.
"Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars—but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be part of my life," she told the mag. "A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier… I have to feel good on the inside to look glamorous."
The actress also revealed that she's not the most outgoing starlet.
"It's sad, actually," she told the mag. "Because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age."
"Avatar" and "Star Trek" beauty Zoe Saldana, on the other hand, is enjoying her fabulous time in the spotlight.
"I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life," she said. "I love women. I worship women. Don't want to be any other woman but myself."
And when it comes to style inspiration, "Gossip Girl's" Leighton Meester looks to the leading ladies of music – plus her sex life and her BFFs.
"I'm inspired by fashion and sex and my friends," she explained. "I love strong, awesome, hot women – Debbie Harry, Gwen Stefani, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna."
As for trading her glam life for the married life, Leighton, who is dating fellow "Gossip Girl" star Sebastian Stan, said she's not ready to settle down just yet.
"If [marriage] was important to somebody I loved, maybe I'd think about it, but I don't think that I'm the type. It's not for me," she said. "I wouldn't mind living together. [But] eventually I'll have to get a separate house for my shoes!"
Glamour readers cast approximately 120,000 votes to create the list, that also includes Kristen Stewart, Emma Watson, Taylor Swift, Blake Lively, Rihanna, Freida Pinto, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Megan Fox. Glamour's April issue hits newsstands on March 9.
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Hey Intuition,When you said that UVa is "by no means amazing", what did you base your conclusion upon? Do you think UVa and its students are similar to state schools, such as UF? I always thought public schools like Berkeley, Michigan, UVa, etc, were far superior than their public counterparts.
I don't know much about FSU or UF except that they are both under-rated law schools at under grad party universities. Since I am going to UM in the fall, I thought I should add my two cents. Miami is undoubtably better respected up here in the Northeast. That's why I applied in the first place. A few people have attributed the large(ish) number of UM alumni in the Northeast to the fact that a sizable portion of it's student originally hails from NY. I don't doubt that this is largely true, but I don't think that means it's placement data is deceptive. Loads of kids go down to Miami for school and come back up for work. This really gets the name out there. I think something similar happened with Tulane. This is how reputations are built. I think that you will see more and more UM grads working in the Northeast. It also helps that a decent number of major firms have offices in Miami. As for being in the top 1%, well, I imagine you would do quite well coming from any of these 3 schools. Being in the top 1% is impressive, and I think you would hands down do better than an average or even many above average students from 'Dozo or Brooklyn.
i was a 'noles fan growing up really for no reason. i went to UF undergrad and transformed into a huge gator fan. like huge. they rejected me and FSU is at least still considering me. am i allowed to switch back if FSU takes me? all i know is F uck the Canes. hey, what's the Nova Southeastern mascot?


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I think this article was very instructive.
When Tim Nielsen was appointed (and not through a proper process, but because he was previously the assistant and Ponting wanted him as coach) we were ranked number one in both ODIs and Tests. Under his watch, we have slipped to number five in Tests. Where is the expertise with Nielsen? His coaching record is ordinary, and he was a work-aday player.
It's not just that though. Our fielding has markedly slipped, batsmen seem incapable of adjusting to the conditions, and we rarely stick to any pre-game bowling plans.
A coach should be the team's conscience. As in this article, Nielsen is a mate, a 'yes man', and a sounding board. Listen to one of his press conferences, and he just spouts corporate rubbish.
For him to be awarded a three year extension, beggars belief and really typifies much of which is wrong with Australian cricket - complacency, lack of accountability and a real boys club mindset. The same mindset that saw Justin Langer appointed as the batting coach.
You contrast that to England - clear plans, plain language, a maked improvement in fielding, and a very cricket focussed coach in Andy Flower, and I think we're getting flogged in the coach's box as well as on the field.


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Posted 12 January 2009 - 10:20 AM
For the period between my errant Catholicism and when I began to practice Druidry, I was actually anti-religion...believing it to be a "crutch" of sorts, for people who can't seem to cope with their lives. I don't feel that way now; since I've begun the path I've been on for the past 30 or so years.
There are plenty of people who seem "militant" or confrontational about their beliefs...that all other faiths are just out-right wrong, because they don't worship the same god (or, even the same way) as they do. I can talk with JWs and/or Mormons about their faith (both groups have knocked on my door), as long as they understand that my faith is different from theirs...and nobody's converting anybody. The first time the phrase "you're faith is wrong" comes out of anybody's mouth, the door gets closed. It's as simple as that. I won't lecture to anybody about my faith. It's the path I've chosen, and I'm happy with it. If you choose another path, fine. If you choose the path I'm on, good. But we all have our own path to choose.
I guess the main thing is to respect each other, and don't think someone's going to attack you because of your faith. Once you get defensive and argumentative about it, respect is lost. You don't have to agree with someone's faith...but you should respect their right to choose whatever path they want to travel. Just know that you have to choose the path yourself...you can't have somebody point it out to you. Where's the joy in that?
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I follow my father in the Roman Catholic faith
קפציאל Angel of Temperance.
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Posted 23 March 2009 - 01:53 AM
what and why,or I can just say "pagan".
I was raised Catholic,but I moved away from it early on.I got involved in Wicca at 16,and I am
Initiated in both Welsh and Gardnarian traditions.I would be considered a High Priestess,but the politics of Wicca in my neck of the woods,completely made me walk away from all of that before I was 25.
I considered converting to Buddhist,but I am far too involved in other
practices to be pure,so I just say pagan.
I have long practiced various rites of Santeria,Palo Mahyombe and Voodoo/Hoodoo.
Yet,I am a follower of both Amachi/Amma,and the 17th Karmapa,and I do regular hommage to a few Egyptian,Tibetan,and pre Christ deities ....
Complicated....I know.
I firmly believe that there is one God,that this god is seen in a different light by each culture,so therein
lies the reasons for variation religion to religion.
Some religions are more enlightened than others,but
that doesn't make any religion "right",or better than another...
So yah,I am pagan.
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Posted 25 March 2009 - 11:17 PM
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Sorry for OT,but how does one delete a post on here.I keep getting a double post glitch
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Posted 17 April 2009 - 02:35 PM
I basically practice my own beliefs in the way of namaste yoga and meditation.
Posted 14 July 2009 - 12:32 AM
I came to my atheist ways after my oldest brother died in 1996 (the ghost stories connected to that will be posted later). I basically said to myself "Life is too short to deny your true beliefs. Jump the religion ship, go overboard and wait for the sharks of critizism to attack." Well, some attacked, others just bumped me. I've been comfortably floating in that sea ever since with all of my digits intact; even "that" one.
I can get along with almost anyone, religious or not. Hell, I was a Cub Scout leader, I used to help out in my wife's church, even going as far to play an apostle in a Palm Sunday play (yes, they knew of my beliefs, but they need a warm body to fill a roll that none of the church-going folks came forward to fill). I even love Christmas along with the accompanying decorations. One Christmas I was probably the only atheist Santa Claus at midnight services in a Methodist church anywhere in the world. All this as an atheist. No hard-BAD_WORD here. I guess one could say I'm the kinder, gentler atheist.
I find some religions cooler than others and will sometimes read up on them, but I just don't have use for any of that, mostly. Not to insult anyone, but I have a clear mind on how I think it all came about (non-creator involved big bang, evolution, blah-blah-blah). I'm comfortable with my path. My wife, even though she's a hard-core science teacher and believes in all things scientific, she's Christian. Needless to say that we get into discussions (arguments) about the subject from time to time.
So where is this going? Well, it's just to state that even atheist can believe in ghost. If there is an afterlife, there's no proof that it's of one particular religion or another, and the image of Jesus in a tortilla isn't proof. Mmmmm; tortilla.
My father-in-law once asked me if I wanted any nude pictures of my mother-in-law (I had some). Then he asked how I could believe in ghost if I'm not a Christian? I ansered that ghost or spirits are not peculiar to Christianity, that many religions and and non-Christian cultures have them pre-dating Christianity. He was silent for a moment and then said "I guess you're right." My mother still says I'm not an atheist.
So just to say that I want to be right in there with believers, non-believers, and those in between when it comes to the belief of spirits/ghosts/afterlife discussing this thing and exchanging ideas. And when it's time for me to find out the real story, I think I'll be prepared for whatever comes. I've been a good person. If the other side of the coin is true, then I hope St. Peter has a good sense of humor and lets a brother in on merit rather than lack of faith (okay, I'm not a brother, but I hope he lets me in anyway). Doesn't matter; it will be too late then. Maybe hell will have a doorman position open.
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Posted 15 July 2009 - 10:02 PM
I agree, Laurie. And storms are cool. I love bad weather. We haven't had many lately in Texas. A high is parked over us, thus no rain. That's supposed to be changing later this week.
~Ya know...I voted 'other' because even though I was baptised Lutheran, I have really no religion that I follow. I respect the Earth, absolutely love storms (the bigger, the better), I like alot of things in different religions. But there are some things in other religions I think are ridiculous...but hey, to each his own & I could care less. Doesn't mean I'd like or dislike you any less. It doesn't make sense, I'm sure. But it does to me.
And you do make sense. The former pastor at my wife's church used to kid me "We'll get you yet." And I enjoyed his ribbing about me being an atheist. It was in good fun. I like a lot of the people there and would do anytning for them.
I enjoy the mssage of Christmas; presents and gimme, gimme, gimme. Seriously, it's the message of love and giving. And the pagentry is beautiful. When I see people complaining about decorations and such, it annoys and angers me. Lighten up, people. No one is going to force you to give some one a present or eat fruitcake. Or even Easter. Just look at how much fun these celebrations are for kids.
Like this woman with whom I used to work; she wouldn't let her son go trick or treating because of the evil costumes and anti-Christian image it invoked. She did say that she used to go when she was a kid, but that she was raised differently and that she was born again. I felt sorry for the kid.
So unless someone is trying to shove religion down your throat, people should just relax and let people worship as long, within reason, of course.
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Posted 10 August 2009 - 11:03 PM
I was born and babtized methodist. But i always kinda had my own beliefs, I believed in the afterlife and spirits but without a god or diety, and i kinda had the whole chi/ life energy thing down two. About a year ago i looked this up and my closest match is eccentric wiccan. I see the god and goddess not as dieties but as the masculine and femine sides of life, and i dont pray or worship at all. If there is a more specific name for this belief i would gladly appreciate it.
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Hawaii's Public Art
On the Hunt: See the city with fresh eyes via this article, an artistic scavenger hunt of Honolulu's best public art.
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A strong community of local artists? Check. World-class European and American and pieces? The work of Native Hawaiian artisans? Definitely. A practically required-to-be-taken-seriously-as-a-city Monet? Oui. Not to mention that Hawaii was the first state to establish an Art in Public Places Program, in 1967, which sets aside 1 percent of construction costs for the acquisition of art. We're swimming in terrific public art. But when was the last time you went out and enjoyed this visual wealth? Take a field trip into the great gallery that is our cityscape. To help you, we've assembled a list of 10 must-see Honolulu artworks. You can't call yourself local without having seen these pieces at least once.
1. "Father Damien"
Marisol Escobar, 1969
State Capitol, Beretania between Punchbowl and Richards
Father Damien's boxy frame stands in front of the State Capitol Building, with cars buzzing by as he looks past a colonnade of trees to Punchbowl Crater. Marisol Escobar's creation—winner of a competitive commission to honor one of Hawaii's true heroes—inspired controversy from the start. Damien's bloated face and gnarled hands reveal the ravages of Hansen's disease. Rather than idealizing the man now known as Saint Damien, Escobar created an arresting image of suffering, strength of character and compassion.
2. "Water Lilies"
Claude Monet, 1917/1919
Oil on Canvas
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Gallery 10
Enter Gallery 10 and Monet's "Water Lilies" is straight ahead, dominating the room with its woven brushstrokes of pinks and greens. Purchased in 1966, the painting is typical of Monet's late period. This Impressionist superstar attempts to catch the fleeting effects of light, capturing flowers, sky and water as their relationships shift and flicker. Monet's inspiration came from his own lily ponds in Giverny, France.
Herb Kane
Earlier this year, the Islands lost one of its most notable artists, Herb Kane. To read more about him and see some of his work, see John Heckathorn's piece, "Herb Kane: The Last Interview," in our June issue, archived at honolulumagazine.com.
3. Ahuula (feather cloaks)
Hawaiian artisans, 18th century
Iiwi, 'o'o, mamo feathers, olona netting
Bishop Museum
On the ground floor of Hawaiian Hall opposite the pili hale, stunning, yellow-and-red feather cloaks stand as regal and imposing as they did in ancient times. Fashioned over many years by master craftsmen working thousands of brilliantly colored feathers into bold, geometric patterns, they hold great beauty as well as powerful mana. "In Hawaii, the art forms achieved the highest level throughout the Pacific," says Noelle Kahanu, the Bishop Museum's project manager. "Here you can really see the legacy of excellence."
4. "Upright Motive No. 9"
Henry Moore, 1979
Tamarind Park, Bishop Square
British sculptor Henry Moore's abstract female figure surveys downtown Honolulu from her elegant perch above a reflecting pool. Cast as an edition of six toward the end of Moore's career, Honolulu's "Upright Motive No. 9" was installed in 1983 in the space designed by landscape architect Jim Hubbard. "It's always been a favorite of mine," says Mike Schnack, owner of Cedar Street Galleries. "It's a gorgeous piece and the placement and setting were really well thought out."


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Members of the Matanzas High School American Sign Language Club are challenging others to eat an entire meal without talking during a Silent Dinner planned for Friday night.
PALM COAST — Frankie Short and her teacher Michelle Czarnecki turned a recent trip to a local grocery store into a social experiment.
The two shopped without using their voices because they wanted to experience the errand as if they were deaf. While picking up doughnuts in the bakery department, a couple asked Frankie if she'd tried the treats before. The 17-year-old didn't respond, and the couple called her "rude."
"I felt bad for deaf people because they don't even know if people are talking about them behind their back and people probably do it all the time," she said.
Now Frankie and other members of the Matanzas High School American Sign Language Club are challenging others to eat an entire meal without talking. People are asked to sign or pass notes to converse during a Silent Dinner planned for Friday night.
They're hoping the exercise will help people become more aware of deaf members of their community. Frankie points out that signing can be an invaluable skill, even for people with perfect hearing. Nine of 10 deaf children are born to hearing parents, for example.
"You could go deaf any day when you get older and you could have kids who are deaf," she said.
During her sophomore year, Frankie traveled with the Matanzas choir to Disney World and noticed someone signing the words to their songs. She's now considering a career as an interpreter.
"At first I took it because I needed a foreign language for school," Short said. "After halfway through my first year, I really started liking it."
Frankie is not alone. Czarnecki's ASL classes are maxed out with about 160 students studying the language. The teacher sometimes catches her students signing along with their favorite music or using their hands to communicate in a noisy hallway.
Deafness is relatively rare: Between two and four of every 1,000 Americans are "functionally deaf," though most lose their hearing later in life. Less than one in 1,000 become deaf before age 18, according to the Gallaudet Research Institute at Gallaudet University, a Washington, D.C., school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
There were 11 deaf students in Flagler County schools and 54 in Volusia during the 2011-2012 school year, according to data from the Florida Department of Education.
Though deaf students are small in number, their opportunities are growing, thanks in part to the No Child Left Behind Act. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students may no longer be left out of state and district level testing systems and must have access to the same curriculum as hearing students.
Some students considered deaf may have some hearing ability and communicate using hearing aids or systems that transmit the teacher's voice into a receiver in the student's ear. Others are provided with interpreters, said Wanda Vega, executive secretary to the director of Flagler's Exceptional Student Education department.
Until this year, deaf Flagler students attended "cluster sites" with other deaf students, but because their abilities varied widely, the district moved them back to their neighborhood schools.
"Every student might be functioning at a different level, and based on every student's particular need, it was in their best interest to cater to every individual need (and their home schools)," Vega said.
However, there's still not enough access to education and jobs for deaf children and adults, said Amy Barber, a deaf advocate for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, part of Easter Seals of Volusia and Flagler counties. A common problem is schools and employers who don't want to hire interpreters, especially because not all deaf people can use notes to communicate, Barber said.
"A lot of deaf get Social Security and disability (benefits) and they really don't want to do that," Barber said. "They want to work, but they're just stuck — no one will hire them."
Barber, who is deaf, used a video relay service to talk with a reporter by phone.
"People need to realize that we have no choice and we can't speak or hear — they can learn to sign," Barber said. "I wish all people could sign."
Frankie echoes her sentiment.
"A lot of people stare at you when you're signing," she said. "When we're signing at (the store), people stare at us like they've never seen it before."
During a different silent shopping trip, she used her phone to type a message asking staff in the bakery department to write "Happy Birthday," on a package of cupcakes. The man simply started talking louder.
She typed "never mind" and walked away.
If you go
WHAT: Silent dinner
WHEN: 5-8 p.m. Friday
WHERE: Ruby Tuesday, 60 Garden St., Palm Coast
DETAILS: 20 percent of sales from diners who have a flier will go to the American Sign Language Club at Matanzas High School


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Looking for the John WalterVance family of Kentucky/Tenn./No.Carolina
Looking for the John WalterVance family of Kentucky/Tenn./No.Carolina. His wife was Judy Elizabeth Turner none of my Aunt and Uncles or my Dad remember what year she was Born!?
Only that her birthday was January 1st and that she died in October 1953 after being hit by a train saving her youngest daughter who was playing on the tracks. I am having no luck with her parents as I have no idea about
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It's been about three years since The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction rumbled onto the videogame scene and showed the world what a superhero videogame is supposed to be -- namely, true to its source material.With a summer blockbuster of the same name looming in the distance, The Incredible Hulk and SEGA are out to continue the green one's legacy.We already knew that the game would be shipping this June, but for the first time, we have screens and solid info on what to expect when Bruce Banner lands on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, PC as well as the DS and creates an impact crater on our soul.
The first thing to expect: destruction. SEGA claims that players in the Edge of Reality-developed console version will tear down buildings with their bare hands, use these blown-out structures as access points to previously unreachable areas, and even pick up the chucks of concrete or passing cars to use as weapons. All of this chaos will feed the Hulk's rage, which he'll use to learn powerful new moves, cause more damage and upgrade his existing abilities.A third-person action game, The Incredible Hulk will feature key moments from the film as well as plotlines and characters pulled from the comics. As you take Hulk through the open-world representation of New York City, you'll be able interact with the city's towering skyscrapers as Bruce battles foes such as Bi-Beast and the Abomination but you'll also be able to explore and find sub-quests and minigames.
The DS version, which is being developed by Amaze, is going to have its own take on Banner's tale. A brief synopsis from SEGA had Bruce scouring the planet for a cure; being drawn back to the love of his life, Betty Ross; and dodging the bad guys who are hoping to misuse his power. Plus, when the Hulk gets back to the states, the Abomination is hot on his tail. The side-scrolling action also focuses on destruction and will feature 30 levels that span Alaska, Central America and the continental United States.


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Improved command aids McAllister's high fastball
DETROIT -- Indians starter Zach McAllister lives and dies with his fastball. It is the right-hander's most important pitch, and it has been a key to the success experienced during his past two turns in the rotation for Cleveland.
One aspect of McAllister's approach that was especially effective in Wednesday's 3-2 win in Detroit was elevating his fastball at times. Pitchers are instructed to pound the lower half of the strike zone and, when McAllister is doing that consistently, he can then use the upper portion of the zone to his advantage.
"When he elevates by design, it's good," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "Part of that is, when he's throwing the ball down and he changes their eye level, that's when you see the swing and miss."
One example came in the fourth inning on Wednesday night. With runners on the corners and two outs, McAllister sent a 93-mph fastball up in the zone to Detroit's Alex Avila. The Tigers catcher swung through the pitch for an important strikeout in a critical situation.
McAllister has a 2.04 ERA through three starts, and he has only allowed one run with 11 strikeouts against two walks in 13 2/3 innings in his last two outings. In his season debut on April 2, McAllister struggled with his fastball command, walking four and laboring through 86 pitches in only four innings at Oakland.
"My first start, you could tell I was up [in the zone] the whole entire time," McAllister said. "Those balls get fouled off if you just live up there. For me to be able to get the ball down was a big adjustment for me. I'm definitely happy I was able to make it and that I'm able to elevate it when I need to."
Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway has also been encouraged by McAllister's recent turnaround.
"I think it's huge, because he's such a fastball guy," Callaway said. "I thought the biggest adjustment the last two games is he's pounding the zone, but he's doing it down in the zone. So, when he leaves the ball up, he gets a swing and miss or maybe it eats them up. That makes that high fastball effective."


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Re: FindRoot with NDSolve inside of it doesn't work
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg111365] Re: FindRoot with NDSolve inside of it doesn't work
- From: Sam Takoy <sam.takoy at yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
Thank you as always. Perfect. ________________________________ From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com> To: Sam Takoy <sam.takoy at yahoo.com>; mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Sent: Wed, July 28, 2010 2:52:56 PM Subject: [mg111365] Re: [mg111343] FindRoot with NDSolve inside of it doesn't work Sam, The difference is that in your last example with exponents the r.h.s of the function does not necessarily involve numerical steps, while when you invoke NDSolve, it does. So, for functions of the former type, you can get away with generic patterns, while for functions of the latter type you can not. This is related to the order in which expressions are evaluated. Inside FindRoot there is f[x0, y0] == {2.7, 5.4}. When this is evaluated, first f[x0, y0] is evaluated. If you have generic patterns x_,y_ in the definition of <f>, then the definition for <f> happily applies at this moment, while x0 and y0 are still symbolic. This is wrong since then NDSolve can not do its job and returns back the set of equations. To postpone the evaluation of <f> until numeric values are supplied by FindRoot in place of x0, y0, we restrict the pattern. Then, evaluation of f[x0, y0] == {2.7, 5.4} just yields back f[x0, y0] == {2.7, 5.4}, since the pattern is not matched by symbolic x0,y0, and then later x0 and y0 are bound to (replaced by) the numeric values generated by FindRoot, which results in correct execution. Cases where one needs to use this trick are interesting since the interaction between built-in functions (FindRoot here) and user - defined ones (f here) mediated by this trick are rather non-trivial. In some sense, we go a little under the hood of the built-in commands here. However they work, we know for sure that they are bound to call Mathematica evaluator on <f> at some point since <f> was defined at top level. And that means that we have all the usual possibilities to alter that part of evaluation that the evaluator normally gives us. Now, since FindRoot holds all its arguments, one may ask why does it not bind equations to numerical arguments right away. My guess is that sometimes it attempts to do some symbolic preprocessing with the equations, a possibility which would be ruled out in the latter scenario. FindRoot does not really care which type the equation is, symbolic or numeric or mixed, but the real problem was in the way you defined <f> - on some (symbolic say) arguments it can produce nonsense, and that means a flawed design of your function. If it makes sense to call it only on numeric arguments (like in your original case), this should be reflected in its definition. In all other cases, it should return unevaluated (this is a general rule for functions in Mathematica), and this is what the pattern-based definition semantics gives you. Hope this helps. Regards, Leonid On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Sam Takoy <sam.takoy at yahoo.com> wrote: Hi, > > >Thanks for the response. > > >I have determined that introducing ?NumericQ alone works and I am wondering >why? > > >How is the "f" that involves NDSolve fundamentally different from > > >f[x0_,y0_]:={x0 Exp[1],y0 Exp[1]} > > >? > > >Thanks again, > >Sam > > > ________________________________ From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com> >To: Sam Takoy <sam.takoy at yahoo.com>; mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Sent: Wed, July 28, 2010 6:03:47 AM >Subject: Re: [mg111343] FindRoot with NDSolve inside of it doesn't work > > > >Sam, > >This modification will work: > > >In[31]:= >Clear[f]; >f[x0_?NumericQ, y0_?NumericQ] := > Module[{sol, x, y}, > (sol = NDSolve[{x'[t] == x[t], y'[t] == y[t], x[0] == x0, > y[0] == y0}, {x, y}, {t, 0, 1}]; > {x[1], y[1]} /. sol[[1]])] > > >In[33]:= > (*f[x0_,y0_]:={x0 Exp[1],y0 Exp[1]};(*Works for this f*)*) >FindRoot[f[x0, y0] == {2.7, 5.4}, {{x0, 1}, {y0, 2}}] > > > > >Out[33]= {x0 -> 0.993274, y0 -> 1.98655} > > >Apart from localizing your variables, the main thing here was to restrict x0 and >y0 >as input parameters to <f>, to only numeric values, by appropriate patterns. > > >Regards, >Leonid > > > >On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Sam Takoy <sam.takoy at yahoo.com> wrote: > >Hi, >> >>I think it's completely self-explanatory what I'm trying to do in this >>model example: >> >>f[x0_, y0_] := ( >> sol = NDSolve[{x'[t] == x[t], y'[t] == y[t], x[0] == x0, >> y[0] == y0}, {x, y}, {t, 0, 1}]; >> {x[1], y[1]} /. sol[[1]] >> ) >> >>(*f[x0_, y0_]:={x0 Exp[1], y0 Exp[1]}; (* Works for this f *) *) >>FindRoot[f[x0, y0] == {2.7, 5.4}, {{x0, 1}, {y0, 2}}] >> >>Can someone please help me fix this and explain why it's not currently >>working? >> >>Many thanks in advance! >> >>Sam >> >> > >


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Hi, my name is Johnn Four and this is my fourth ebook. This one is about helping tabletop roleplaying gamers find other players to game with. It is a super reference full of links and tips and advice, written in a succinct but friendly style.
I run roleplayingtips.com, a website that helps dungeon masters run better roleplaying game nights for their friends. The keystone of the site is the Roleplaying Tips newsletter that is packed full of dungeon master advice.
About 30,000 people currently subscribe to the newsletter or read it via RSS or the website.
The main purpose of my website and newsletter is to keep the RPG hobby thriving and to serve those who are the glue for it - dungeon masters. A secondary mission is to keep people with busy and stressful lives playing games with friends and family to help live more balanced lives and maintain healthy and positive social connections. Life is too short to work all the time.
The ebook is for people who play roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons in person or online. Gameplay style and preferences often make finding the perfect player or group tricky. Fortunately, squirreled away on the internet are a bunch of gamer finder websites, and owners of the ebook will get all these links along with ratings and data about each player finder service.
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I need a cover for my ebook.
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The eBook is landscape orientation, 11" wide by 8.5" tall, full colour with black and white print-friendly version
The idea behind the title is most face-to-face gaming takes place at a table. When a player drops out or must leave the group, that leaves an empty chair at the table to be filled.
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TORONTO, Ont. – Hockey Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Hockey League, announced Wednesday that Dale Hunter (Petrolia, Ont.), head coach, owner and president of the OHL's London Knights, will be head coach of Canada's National Men's Summer Under-18 Team for the 2013 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka tournament, scheduled for Aug. 5-10 in Breclav, Czech Republic and Piestany, Slovakia. Dominique Ducharme (Joliette, Que.), head coach of the QMJHL's Halifax Mooseheads, and D.J. Smith (Windsor, Ont.), head coach of the OHL's Oshawa Generals, will serve as assistant coaches.
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The Battle of Fisher's Hill
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Early's army, bloodied by its defeat at Opequon (Third Winchester) on September 19, took up a strong defensive position at Fisher's Hill, south of Strasburg. On September 21, the Union army advanced, driving back the skirmishers and capturing important high ground. On the 22nd, Crook's Corps moved along North Mountain to outflank Early and attacked about 4 pm. The Confederate cavalry offered little resistance, and the startled infantry were unable to face the attacking force. The Confederate defense collapsed from west to east as Sheridan's other corps join in the assault. Early retreated to Rockfish Gap near Waynesboro, opening the Valley to a Union "scorched earth" invasion. Mills and barns from Staunton to Strasburg were burned in what became known as the "Burning" or "Red October."
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I also made it very clear that haircuts and restructurings were on the table for Portugal.
- Introducing the Not So Stylish Portuguese Haircut Analysis Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
- The Truth Behind Portugal's Inevitable Default – Arithmetic Evidence Available Only Through BoomBustBlog Monday, December 6th, 2010
- The Anatomy of a Portugal Default: A Graphical Step by Step Guide to the Beginning of the Largest String of Sovereign Defaults in Recent History Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
- The ECB Loads Up On Increasingly Devalued Portuguese Bonds, Ensuring That They Will Get Hit Hard When Portugal Defaults Monday, January 10th, 2011
The last bullet point is the kicker, but before I expand upon that, let's look at what loading up on Portuguese bonds felt like back then. These Bloomberg screen shots provided by Zerohedge tell the story in an instant:
Same thing for Ireland:
And below are the three horsemen of the Eurocalypse. Ironically the bond market is offering a far higher yield for ultra short-term Portuguese than Irish.
I pulled the covers off of the speculation over whether Portugal would default or not. Most of the "experts" declared that a default was not in the cards. I strongly recommended that the so -called "experts" pull out a calculator and run the math. Not only will there be defaults, but the haircuts will look particularly nasty. SeeThe Truth Behind Portugal's Inevitable Default – Arithmetic Evidence Available Only Through BoomBustBlog followed by The Anatomy of a Portugal Default: A Graphical Step by Step Guide to the Beginning of the Largest String of Sovereign Defaults in Recent History (December 6th & 7th, 2010). We find the ECB Throws Portugal a Temporary Lifeline, but just as with Greece and Ireland, that faux lifeline will simply not be enough in the real world.
We consider serial defaults to be a foregone conclusion
The harder question is to determine which direction and it will originate from and when. I will mathematically determine if the European safety net that was formed is even physically possible of containing the threat. On that topic, and back to CNBC:
The toughest item on that agenda is the strengthening of the financial backstops because of German resistance to increasing the size of the 440 billion euro European Financial Stability Facility, EU sources say. Berlin has also opposed allowing it to be used more flexibly to provide standby credit lines or to buy government bonds or fund bank recapitalization before a country hits the buffers.
Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said last Friday his country had no need of outside assistance because it was ahead of schedule in reducing its budget deficit.
Socrates, who heads a minority socialist government, is stubbornly avoiding a bailout, mindful of the traumatic history of Portugal's two International Monetary Fund rescues since its return to democracy in 1974.
The Mathematical Truth Concerning Portugal's Debt Situation
Before I start, any individual or entity that disagrees with the information below is quite welcome to dispute it. I simply ask that you com with facts and analysis and have them grounded in reality so I cannot right another "Lies, Damn Lies, and Sovereign Truths: Why the Euro is Destined to Collapse!". In other words, come with the truth, or at lease your closest simulacrum of it. In preparing Portugal's sovereign debt restructuring model through maturity extension, we followed the same methodology as the Greece's sovereign debt maturity extension model and we have built three scenarios in which the restructuring can be done without taking a haircut on the principal amount.
- Restructuring by Maturity Extension – Under this scenario, we assumed that the creditors with debt maturing between 2010 and 2020 will exchange their existing debt securities with new debt securities having same coupon rate but double the maturity. Under this type of restructuring, the decline in present value of cash flows to creditors is 3.3% while the cumulated funding requirements and cumulated new debt between 2010 and 2025 are not reduced substantially. The cumulated funding requirement between 2010 and 2025 reduces to 120.0% of GDP against 135.4% of GDP if there is no restructuring. The cumulated new debt raised is reduced marginally to 70.6% of GDP from 72.2% of GDP if there is no restructuring. Debt at the end of 2025 will be 104.8% of GDP against 106.1% if there is no restructuring
- Restructuring by Maturity Extension & Coupon Reduction – Under this scenario, we assumed that the creditors with debt maturing between 2010 and 2020 will exchange their existing debt securities with new debt securities having half the coupon rate but double the maturity. The decline in the present value of the cash flows is 18.6%. The cumulated funding requirement between 2010 and 2025 reduces to a potentially sustainable 99.5% of GDP and the cumulated new debt raised will decline to 50.1% of GDP. Debt at the end of 2025 will be 88.6% of GDP (a potentially sustainable).
- Restructuring by Zero Coupon Rollup – Under this scenario, the debt maturing between 2010 and 2020 will be rolled up into one bundle and exchanged against a single, self-amortizing 20-year bond with coupon equal to 50% of the average coupon rate of the converted bonds. The decline in the present value of the cash flows is 17.6%. The cumulated funding requirement between 2010 and 2025 reduces to 100.1% of GDP and the cumulated new debt raised will decline to 52.8% of GDP. Debt at the end of 2025 will be 90.9% of GDP (a potentially sustainable).
We have also built in the impact of IMF/EU aid on the funding requirements and new debt raised from the market between 2010 and 2025 under all the scenarios.
A more realistic method of modeling for restructuring and haircuts
In the previously released Greece and Portugal models, we have built relatively moderate scenarios of maturity extension and coupon reduction which would be acceptable to a large proportion of creditors. However, these restructurings address the liquidity side of the problem rather than solvency issues which can be resolved only when the government debt ratios are restored to sustainable levels. The previous haircut estimation model was also based on the logic that the restructuring of debt should aim at bringing down the debt ratios and addition to debt ratios to more sustainable levels. In the earlier Greece maturity extension model, the government debt at the end of 2025 under restructuring 1, 2 and 3 is expected to stand at 154.4%, 123.7% and 147.0% of GDP which is unsustainably high.
Thus, the following additional spreadsheet scenarios have been built for more severe maturity extension and coupon reduction, or which will have the maturity extension and coupon reduction combined with the haircut on the principal amount. The following is professional level subscscription content only, but I would like to share with all readers the facts, as they play out mathematically, for Portugal. In all of the scenarios below, Portugal will need both EU/IMF funding packages (yes, in addition to the $1 trillion package fantasized for Greece), and will still have funding deficits by 2014, save one scenario. That scenario will punish bondholders severely, for they will have to stand behind the IMF in terms of seniority and liquidation (see How the US Has Perfected the Use of Economic Imperialism Through the European Union!) as well as take in excess of a 20% haircut in principal while suffering the added risk/duration/illiquidity of a substantive and very material increase in maturity. Of course, we can model this without the IMF/EU package (which I am sure will be a political nightmare after Greece), but we will be recasting the "The Great Global Macro Experiment, Revisited" in and attempt to forge a New Argentina (see A Comparison of Our Greek Bond Restructuring Analysis to that of Argentina).
Here is graphical representation of exactly how deep one must dig Portugal out of the Doo Doo in order to achieve a sustainable fiscal situation. The following chart is a depiction of Portugal's funding requirements from the market before restructuring…
This is the same country's funding requirements after a restructuring using the same scenario "4″ described above…
And this is the depiction of new debt to be raised from the market before restructuring…
And after using the scenario "4″ described above… For all of you Americans who remember that government sponsored TV commercial, "This is your brain on drugs. Any Questions?"
The full spreadsheet behind all of the calculations, scenarios, bond holdings and calculations can be viewed online here by professional level subscribers. Click here to subscribe or upgrade.
... Now back to the present day...
So, More Than A Year After I Sounded the Alarm About Insolvent Central and Private European Banks, I See the Following Headlines in the Mainstream News
Look at what's been floating in the news yesterday...
Financial Times: ECB firefight leaves it exposed to Greek shock:
As eurozone politicians scramble to bring Greek public finances back under control, the question of how much the European Central Bank will lose if they fail to avert a default has taken on greater importance.
In the past year, the ECB has bought €75bn ($110bn) in government bonds from the eurozone's weakest economies and provided unlimited liquidity to their banks against collateral of declining quality. The suspicion in eurozone capitals, especially Berlin, is that ECB opposition to a debt restructuring is so vehement because the financial consequences for the euro's monetary guardian would be substantial.
"Hefty losses for the ECB are no longer a remote risk," warned Open Europe, a London-based think-tank, in a report on Monday.
It estimates the ECB has €444bn in exposures to Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland, as well as Greece. "There is a hidden – and potentially huge – cost of the eurozone crisis to taxpayers buried in the ECB's books."
Here's another one - European Banks' Capital Shortfall Means Greece Debt Default Not an Option, as excerpted:
A failure by European regulators to make banks raise enough capital to withstand a sovereign default is complicating efforts to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
The "fragilities" of Europe's banking industry mean a Greek default isn't an option, European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said in New York last week. By delaying a decision some investors consider inevitable, policy makers risk increasing the cost to European taxpayers and prolonging Greece's economic pain.
"European officials are trying to buy time for the troubled economies to get their house in order and the banks to be strengthened," said Guy de Blonay, who helps manage about $41 billion at Jupiter Asset Management Ltd. in London.
While estimates of the capital shortfall vary, the vulnerability of European banks to a sovereign shock isn't disputed. Independent Credit View, a Swiss rating company that predicted Ireland's banks would need another bailout last year, found in a study to be published tomorrow that 33 of Europe's biggest banks would need $347 billion of additional capital by the end of 2012 to boost their tangible common equity to 10 percent, even before any sovereign default.
Here's a newsflash for all of you who are still not grounded in reality. The loss to the banks have already occurred it just hasn't been officially recognized. You see, their bond and debt holdings are already devalued. The value is gone, vamoosed, disappeared. Waiting makes things worse because the excessive austerity measures imposed upon Greece (and every round of negotiations to appease the political gods makes things that much worse) are very recessionary and the debt noose is tightened with every proposed bailout. More debt is being added (problem) when the path to recovery is less debt (solution). It's really just that simple. The longer the asset holders wait under these recessionary austerity measures smothered by increasingly excessive debt, the less said assets will be worth. Those of you who regularly read me know this song, I've been singing it in American English to the stateside banks regarding real estate assets:
- Reggie Middleton's Real Estate Recap: As I Have Clearly Illustrated, It's a Real Estate Depression!!!
- There's Stinky Gas Inside Of This Mini-Housing Bubble, You Don't Want To Be Around When It Pops!
- The Residential Real Estate Week in Review, or I Told You We're In A Real Estate Depression! The MSM is Just Catching Up
- Reggie Middleton's Real Estate Recap: As I Have Clearly Illustrated, It's a Real Estate Depression!!!
- Dexia Sets A $5.1bn Provision For Loss On Trying To Sell The Same Residential Real Estate Assets Upon Which JP Morgan Has Slashed Provisions 83% to $1.2bn from $7.0bn
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So fail to recognize your losses if you wish, you will just have bigger losses to recognize when the European fat lady sings :
- For Those Who Failed To Heed My Warnings On Portugal, Visualize The Contagion That Causes European Bank Failure!!!
- With Greek Debt Yielding 20%+ and Trading at Half Par Value, European Banks Are Trapped!
And from Professor Rogoff of "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" fame, in the FT.com:
Yet if the euro is torn by centrifugal force, perhaps because European leaders are constitutionally incapable of making tough decisions on how to radically trim periphery debt burdens, it could take a great many decades before any other region attempts a similarly ambitious programme. The 1980s and 1990s taught us that for countries with open capital markets, fixed exchange rates are a mirage that cannot be indefinitely sustained. If the euro goes the way of the Argentine currency peg, the noughts and tens – the first decades of the 21st century – will be viewed as teaching the same lesson about more radical currency marriages. Sovereignty and currency co-habitation do not mix.
Oddly, the euro was not at the heart of the recent financial crisis. Only Spain can really be described as an epicentre country, and of course the US and the UK had far greater systemic importance. Rather, the sovereign debt crises that Europe is experiencing today are a typical aftershock of a deep financial crisis. Nevertheless, even if the euro system was not at the heart of the crisis, it needs to be able to withstand two standard deviation shocks.
From Open Europe via ZeroHedge: ECB Has €444 Billion PIIGS Exposure, A 4.25% Drop InAsset Values Would Bankrupt European Central Bank
"The ECB's attempts to paper over the cracks in the eurozone may have temporarily softened the impact of the crisis, but have exacerbated the situation in the long-term. The ECB has dug itself into a hole and now we are seeing that there is no easy way out."
"Huge risks have been transferred from struggling governments and banks onto the ECB's books, with taxpayers as the ultimate guarantor. There's a real risk that these assets will face radical write-downs in future with eurozone governments and banks teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. This amounts to a hidden – and potentially huge – bill to taxpayers to save the euro."
"The ECB's wobbly finances and operations to finance states have landed a serious blow to its credibility. It must now seek to become the strong, independent bank that electorates were promised when the Single Currency was forged."
Requisite video viewing on this topic...
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The K ready for College Baseball Hall of Fame Classic
KANSAS CITY -- Twins right-hander Mike Pelfrey left Kauffman Stadium on Sunday evening following a weekend series against the Royals. Aware that his alma mater -- Wichita State -- was next up to play at The K, Pelfrey wouldn't have minded sticking around a couple of more days to see his beloved Shockers perform on the big stage.
Billed as "The National College Baseball Hall of Fame Classic at The K," Missouri and Wichita State will converge at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday to represent the Southeastern Conference and Missouri Valley Conference, respectively. Farmland Foods is the presenting sponsor of the 7 p.m. CT game, which benefits the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in Lubbock, Texas.
"It's a really cool thing for these kids to play in a Major League stadium," Pelfrey said. "I never got that opportunity until I actually made it to the big leagues. This will give them a little taste of it, and I'm sure both teams are excited about this opportunity. For a lot of these guys, the ultimate dream is to play in the Major Leagues. It's going to be a really fun experience for them."
While the Tigers and Shockers will battle for bragging rights in a special venue, the biggest winner on Tuesday will be the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
"We are so honored that David and Dan Glass and the Royals organization have chosen to host this game," said National College Baseball Hall of Fame executive vice president of development Jana Howser, daughter of the late Royals Hall of Fame manager Dick Howser. "We look forward to a wonderful night of college baseball."
Wichita State and Missouri haven't met on the diamond in 10 years. Wichita State leads the all-time series, 6-4, and it grabbed a 3-0 victory when the teams last played in 2004. The game will provide a contrast of the old and new regarding head coaches. Missouri's Tim Jamieson has been guiding the Tigers program since 1995, while WSU's Todd Butler is in his first season after replacing the legendary Gene Stephenson.
Tickets in the BATS Crown Club, which will include a special menu offered at a reduced price, will be available for $25 for adults and $14 for youth ages 14 and under. Fans may also purchase tickets in the KIA Diamond Club for $15 for adults and $10 for youth. In addition, general-admission seating in the lower seating bowl will be available for purchase at $10 for adults and $5 for youth.
Fans may purchase tickets online at www.royals.com/hofgame, by visiting the Kauffman Stadium box office or by calling 1-800-6ROYALS.
Pelfrey expects the hitters to have a lot of fun trying to go deep in batting practice. But once the game begins, Pelfrey knows from experience that the idea is to pitch to contact at spacious Kauffman Stadium and let the defense do the work.
"It's a big park and really tough to hit home runs here," Pelfrey said. "The pitchers will love it as long as their outfielders can go get the ball."


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I read an interesting book recently, "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. He's made a study of morality all over the world and has come up with six categories of "foundations" for morality which tend to be the same the world over, just expressed differently. These are: care/harm; fairness/cheating; loyalty/betrayal; authority or subversion; sanctity or degradation (moral yuk factor); and liberty or oppression. I would introduce another: the control of women's reproductive rights and control of sexuality in general. I think that all of these can be covered by care/harm but that is a very anarchistic way of looking at it.
It's true that there are a number of broad moral systems in operation in the world today. But each one is a system unto itself, whether it only has one follower or has millions. It's also true that most people probably don't think about or examine morality very closely. The ones who do tend to be those people who live dangerous lives.
The practice of female genital mutilation rides roughshod over the care/harm foundation. It's only considered from the male perspective. The man doesn't want his "spear" to be opposed by the female clitoris. (Of course, this screams "insecurity" and "immature selfishness".) But this practice is the norm across large parts of the world. If it wasn't, then people who practice it would be seen as dangerous lunatics by society at large.
How can evil be objective? factual?
I'll tell you how: If some power outside the universe declares what is good and what is bad.
Otherwise, various societies, cultures, tribes, religions declare or legislate right and wrong.
That we have to muddle when it comes to ethics and morals is just part of being an atheist.
Each moral system has to be explicitly defined. There comes a point where people say, we define this as right and the opposite as wrong. A fact/value divide (thanks Kir), an "ought" from an "is". Or rather, these are the consequences of doing "this" (right) and these are the consequences of "that" (wrong).
Then the definition becomes the objective standard.
Yes. It becomes factual in terms of matching a state of affairs to a definition, but not in terms of facticity. The temperature at which water boils doesn't vary geographically the way moral/ethical standards do.
As you've accurately described moral systems, their terminology is exactly as I described it: legislated not discovered. Facts are discoverable. We can match a situation to a law and it becomes a fact that the situation fulfills the legal standard or does not, which means it's determinable rather than discoverable, but that is not a universal fact that cuts across cultures, like the temperature at which aluminum melts.
Evil melts at 36,109 degrees C., it's a fact.


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Did a thread like this for the main site update, figured do one for the Forum update....
1) Entry box text wrap, not wrapping full words in Chrome, (works okay in Firefox and IE) (Originally reported here).
2.1) Thread views not updating - Is same as thread post count. (originally reported here). (only posting a reply will increment the view count.) - FIXED
2.2) Related to above.. Attachment download count is also not updating.. Originally reported here. - FIXED
3.1) Code tagged blocks now have permanent scroll bars, previously Scroll bars only appeared if required.. It just looks untidy on a 'codding' forum.. We should be able to correctly code a text box with scrollers.. (change the CSS overflow from Scroll to Auto) - (Original report here)
3.2) In IE8 , code blocks seem to get an (enabled) horizontal scroll bar only if the longest code line is just a tiny bit (three or four characters at most, AFAICT) longer than the standard code block width. If they're longer than that, the lines get wrapped (Appears fine in FireFox) - (Original report here)
4) Contrasting Icon Color's .. (Original request here).
5) 'Quick Navigation' used to default to current forum highlighted when opening the DDL.. (and the individual items are now spaced out much further apart, requiring much more scroll action to find the relevant entry).
6) Daily Subscribed Email time has changed.. Where can it be adjusted ?? (Original report here)..
7) Post attachment and Upload system has changed and appears to be buggy - (see this thread)
8) Sometimes pressing "Submit" appears to do nothing. When pressing it again get message saying that this post had already been submitted. Not being redirected to new post, after submitting it. (Original report here)
9) 'Rate Post' enabled in Gd/CC and testing forums, Previously these two were not allowed to be rated... (original report)
10) In IE 8, Forum software creating too big container boxes for non-inlined attached images.. (Original report here)
11) Advanced search not working when searching for posts by Username (Original report), also Search results does not display the forum that the post is in..
12) Using the Quick reply option often gives you a MSG "Changes made in the editor may be lost. ....................." and at times causes a duplicate posting.. (Reported here and reported here )
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