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This blog reflects on attendance at a recent event organised by ESRC, Cardiff University and the EU Hub to provided informed answers to questions about the upcoming EU Referendum. The speakers included economists, lawyers, and political scientists, including the head of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative Professor Anand Menon, economist Professor Angus Armstrong, regional policy expert Professor Fiona Wishlade and commercial law specialist Emyr Lewis and Cardiff School of Law and Politics' Dr Jo Hunt.
By Philip Kitchen who attended the event
I have been disappointed in the so-called debate about the EU referendum so far. What I have seen amounts to little more than glorified name-calling and fear-mongering. Is it possible to hear something of substance about the choice we are being asked to make? This event set out to provide 'informed' answers to questions that the audience posed. The panel of invited experts were largely academics with specialist interest in areas relevant to the upcoming referendum. The driving force behind the session was UK in a Changing Europe who with Full Fact produce an informative booklet Leave/Remain: the facts behind the claims.
Chaired by Owain Phillips, a political reporter from ITV Cymru Wales, the questions covered different aspects of the EU. Particular things that struck me from the discussion included the way in which the principle behind the 'single market' is not something we currently have access to – it is something we participate in. There is a distinction which is important.
When it comes to legislation, the approach taken by the EU is to ensure that we treat members of the EC no differently to the way we treat our own nationals when they are in the UK. On this point the question of benefits that immigrants claim is seen to be a product of our non-contributory system. We treat visitors the way in which we treat ourselves by sharing the non-contributory system. It is in essence a result of the UK legislation more than EU legislation. This aspect is clearly now coming under review by all EU governments as benefit systems are subject to stresses that were never anticipated when first set up. It was pointed out to that there are different ways such support is termed and used within EU member countries which does not help the comparisons that are made.
Wales we learnt is a net beneficiary from EU finance. Questions surrounding devolution have not been well considered and present significant issues should we elect to leave the EU. What border controls will be put in place in Ireland between the north and south? If Scotland goes for independence would we see border controls put in place on the UK mainland? What happens to devolved powers if we leave and EU inspired legislation is revisited and Wales takes a different view to the UK government. Remember devolution happened after we joined the EU. Much UK legislation is mixed in terms of EU inspiration and UK sourced and will present much room for debate and discussion in the future should we leave the EU.
Sovereignty was described as a rather 'plastic' issue by one speaker. Another suggested that we might reasonably focus on issues of power and influence. Especially whether we are best served in that regard from being in or out of the EU.
In all it seemed clear that the 'experts' usual answer to 'what happens if we come out of the EU to ….?' was 'We do not really know'. It certainly seemed clear that the people who will benefit most from leaving the EU will be lawyers of various types.
I went in to the meeting believing that we should remain in the EU. I heard no compelling argument to change that viewpoint. I did hear a number of questions asked that suggested if we stay in there are many reasons to keep questioning and challenging the ideas that politicians keep throwing around. One panellist said that in his experience students in the UK had a very low level of knowledge about the EU and how it worked – I would have to put myself in that same camp. The nature of the 'arguments' in the public sphere that I have heard from politicians from all camps suggest that many of them should attend question and answer sessions like this one.
Reference was made to Norway who have to endure the 'EU regulation' and its costs but with no influence within the the EU. Yet apparently some 75% or so vote not to join the EU. Maybe we should all ignore the facts and go with a gut feeling!
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14 July - 21 August
Destiny Deacon, Fiona Foley, Leah King-Smith, Tracey Moffatt, Christian Bumbarra Thompson.
Curator: Max Delany
Texts: Anne Marsh, Lynette Russell
The title Blackspot situates the idea of an Indigenous photography in the context of recent history debates (the black armband and white blindfold...), whilst also identifying the process of reconciliation as unfinished
business in contemporary Australian culture.
Through the photographic medium, the exhibition explores the ways in which Indigenous artists represented in the Monash University Collection have reclaimed representations of Aboriginality. Through their engagement with diverse artistic, photographic and cinematic genres and traditions – from colonial representations; documentary and ethnographic photography traditions; pop and media culture; to amateur snapshots and home movies – the participating artists achieve indelible, poetic and haunting images, whilst at the same time reworking and redefining cultural stereotypes, myths and representations.
Blackspot presents a focused selection of contemporary Indigenous photography from the Monash University Collection, with additional selected loans. It features works by leading Australian artists Destiny Deacon,
Fiona Foley, Leah King-Smith, Tracey Moffatt, and Christian Bumbarra Thompson.
The exhibition highlights the power and complexity of contemporary Indigenous photography, and the way in which Indigenous artists draw upon a rich mixture of history, personal experience, blak humour, as well as
postmodern and postcolonial theories, in order to generate new perspectives and understandings of the social, political and cultural conditions faced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
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Ozone Depletion Contributes to Ocean Acidification in the Southern Ocean
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Forty percent: That is the share of annual oceanic carbon dioxide uptake accounted for by the Southern Ocean. Given that oceans comprise Earth's largest carbon sink, that is not an insignificant figure; indeed, this sole region is responsible for absorbing a staggering amount of anthropogenic emissions -- close to 1 petagram (1 Pg = 1,000,000,000,000,000 grams) per year. Which makes it all the more worrisome that ocean acidification is rapidly weakening its capacity to take up our excess emissions, something I discussed last month. Now we hear that ozone depletion, already a long-standing problem in itself, could be worsening the situation. Nature's Anna Barnett (sub. required) reports on the findings of new research linking the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica to a deterioration of the Southern Ocean's buffering capacity. According to Andrew Lenton, a marine biochemist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, ozone damage and the associated climatic effects of rising GHG emissions are strengthening winds in the region, intensifying the Southern Ocean's upwelling system (the movement of cold, nutrient-rich deep waters to the surface).
Though upwelling stimulates primary productivity by making more nutrients available to phytoplankton, it also has the nasty tendency of causing more carbon dioxide "outgassing" -- basically, letting more CO2 escape to the atmosphere. Lenton and his colleagues built several simulations that coupled the ozone hole's effects on winds to currents and dissolved carbon levels.
Comparing the results of simulations run both with and without ozone depletion since 1975, Lenton found that the presence of the ozone hole helped explain the weakening of the Southern Ocean's buffering capacity; from 1994 to 2004, it contributed to a drop in surface seawater pH of 0.01 units, which is worse than it sounds (this seemingly infinitesimal drop represents one-tenth of the change in seawater pH since pre-industrial times).
Not all oceanographers agree with Lenton's findings, however. While acknowledging that his model may accurately reflect the sink's deterioration, critics dispute the notion that ocean currents in the region are changing -- saying that local observations and measurements simply don't bear the theory out. Better models, which include physical processes like eddy formation and current movement, could elucidate the role of currents in ocean acidification, they argue.
To be helpful, Lenton counters, they would have to scrutinize CO2 levels -- something which most of them fail to consider. Either way you look at it, it's a bad situation. Whether caused by current alteration or a combination of processes, it is clear that more CO2-rich deep waters are rising to the surface, releasing copious amounts of the greenhouse gas to the atmosphere in the process. As ocean acidification proceeds apace, further weakening the Southern Ocean's declining buffering capacity (and thus its ability to store CO2), we can expect to see a major surge in atmospheric CO2 levels.
Via: Nature News: Ozone hole weakens oceanic carbon sink
More about ozone depletion
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It can be tricky orchestrating 20 different levels of conceptual understandings and skill awareness amongst children in our classes so I've been experimenting with this strategy of flipping our classroom to enquire into multiplication strategies and now tried with division strategies.
For home learning ( a much more positive term than homework- why do we call learning work?!? ) students were given the following Google doc showing a list of different levelled division strategies I found on YouTube:
Enquiry into Division Strategies Google Doc- Feel free to copy and use :)
Division Strategies
Choose two strategies to learn.
Record on the paper provided.
Teach your Mum or Dad the strategy and ask for feedback about your teaching method.
More Challenging
They were asked to select two division strategies from the list of YouTubes by self-assessing whether they feel they might be at. The columns range from easier to more challenging. We use this column strategy quite often in class and the children are really great to selecting a level that is suitable for them.
The process for their home learning enquiries is:
1. Select a division strategy to enquire into from a column you feel is at your level (easier to more challenging)
2. Watch the YouTube at least twice to gain a good understanding of how the strategy works.
3. Explain how the strategy works visually or in written form.
4. Test the strategy by creating 4 questions and attempt to solve them using that strategy. (This might sound simple, but actually requires deep thinking. For many of these strategies, the children really need to think about what type of numbers will work for the strategy or not in order to by able to apply them. The trial and error strategy is often applied and this helps deep the child's awareness of number sense and the strategy)
5. Teach your Mum or Dad the strategy.
6. Ask for feedback from parent/s about your teaching communication skills and record the feedback to share with us in class.
Some samples of recorded enquiries:
The children remark on how much they enjoy teaching their parents the strategies. Some explain how proud they feel when they know something Mum or Dad doesn't. Others say it helps them to really understand the strategy because they need to think of what to explain first and so on.
Today, it was time for us to share the strategies we had enquired into.
We grouped in trios or partners depending on the numbers and recorded an explanation of one of the strategies we particularly found interesting on a communal chart paper. This served three main purposes: firstly it freshened the strategy in the child's mind by revisiting how it works and secondly it gave them a opportunity to perhaps improve how they could explain it more effectively on paper than they had done the first time at home. Thirdly, they could use this explanation as a teaching tool should they want to.
Some samples:
After the groups recorded, they created a way to peer-teach those in their group the strategy in any way they felt would be the most effective. Some chose to use manipulatives like cubes etc. Most chose to use mini whiteboards to explain. After explaining how the strategy works, they then gave questions for their peers to try to solve using that strategy and would offer help if needed.
A lot of excited questioning and mathematical reasoning skills and debating were generated whilst this peer-teaching took place of up to 8 different division strategies being explored at the same time in the room. You can't get this type of student engagement and buzz from typical chalk-n-talk style teaching practices.
To help improve our communication skills, the children in the group gave feedback on the peer teaching by completing a rubric based on some PYP Learner Profile attributes. Using these attributes in situations like these helps the children to internalise with direct experiences what the Learner Profile really means and why we discuss our development of them.
Peer-Teaching Division Strategies Peer Feedback
Learner: __________________
Feedback from: _________________
Understanding of how the strategy works
Ability to clearly explain the strategy on the chart paper
Ability to clearly teach the strategy
Making regular eye contact body language positioning & whilst teaching to engage the listeners
To wrap up, in groups we discussed 'big picture' understandings we felt we gained from this enquiry and sharing. Some ideas included:
° Some division strategies are easier than others.
° The best strategy is long division because you can do it with any number no matter how big.
° Some strategies are not helpful.
° Some strategies for division are quick and some take longer time.
° Division is easier when you can recall times tables well.
° Division can include decimals!
° Halving can make division a lot easier.
We used a few of these to play 'The 5 Whys'
We started with one big picture idea.
Student gives an answer.
Student gives an answer to that answer
etc etc
If the player can continue with 5 whys they succeeded.
Here is our sample we did before playing with a partner using a different big picture idea generated:
It is a really fun, deep thinking and challenging game that had us really thinking about numbers and division. :)


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In a town known for glitz and glamour, it's kind of ironic that Los Angeles-based chef Alan Jackson has found success with his back-to-basics approach to food. A longtime caterer to the stars, Alan knew how to serve a variety of food to huge numbers of people, so he decided to translate that into a restaurant concept called "Lemonade."
"I describe Lemonade as a modern cafeteria that serves Southern California comfort food," said Alan, owner and executive chef.
With Lemonade now in seven locations, each day for Alan begins at the central location in downtown Los Angeles. Here, he and his staff prepare all the Lemonade dishes and then deliver the food to the other locations throughout Southern California.
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Happy Wednesday everyone! How has your week been? I am feeling so much better after my bout of strep. This week's letter for the ABC challenge in the Facebook group, Llama Nails, is J. I decided that I would do a jelly sandwich mani today. If you aren't sure as to what a jelly sandwich mani is, don't fret. It is pretty much what it sounds like. Glitter sandwiched between a jelly finish polish. A jelly finish polish is a very sheer polish that looks like jelly, for lack of a better term. This is not to be confused with a sheer finished polish. If my lame description confuses you and you want a far better one you can check out this blog.
I have done three or four of these manicures and this is the first one that I have really liked. The hardest part of this mani was photographing it. I took almost 200 pictures and think I got some good ones. I am hoping to be able to purchase a new camera with my Christmas bonus, but I do have to pay my bills first. Here's hoping they feel sorry for me this year and give me a little extra! :-)
Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier
Base color: Daddy's Girl from Sinful Colors
Glitter: Let Me See Your Peacock from Claire's
Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat
I did two coats of Daddy's Girl, a layer of the glitter, and one more layer of Daddy's Girl on top of that.
Have you tried a jelly sandwich mani? Do you like doing them? What kind of camera do you think I should get?


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U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Congress to investigate his unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him during last year's election.
Trump took to Twitter this weekend to insult Obama, accusing him of wiretapping the Trump Tower during the final stretch of the election without providing any evidence.
"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" tweeted Trump early Saturday morning.
Trump also referred to Obama as a "Bad (or sick) guy!", comparing his new allegations to Nixon's Watergate scandal.
FBI Director James Comey has asked the Department of Justice to publicly renounce the assertions made by Trump, officials claim, because the assertions falsely insinuate the FBI was complicit in illegal activities.
This rebuke by Comey constitutes a rare situation in which top intelligence officials are publicly disputing the honesty of a sitting president's statement.
Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for Obama, also dismissed Trump's claims in a statement.
"A Cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," Lewis said. "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."
During the 2016 election, Obama was aware of the alleged ties between Trump's campaign staff and various Russian officials, yet did not speak on it publicly as it was part of an ongoing investigation.
Trump's public accusations towards a former president are completely unprecedented. They are made all the more shocking by his decision to make the allegations without substantiating them.
The conspiracy reportedly emerged from a conservative talk radio host, Mark Levin. On his show last Thursday night, Levin accused former President Obama of using "instrumentalities of the federal government" to wiretap various republican nominees for president.
The allegations, presented by Levin without any evidence, were soon picked up by Breitbart.
The question remains, how did a fringe conspiracy by a radio show host manage to capture the imagination and conviction of the world's most powerful man?
Obama ordering such a wiretap would have required the Justice Department to gather enough evidence to convince a federal judge that Trump had likely committed a crime or was working as an agent of another country.
Trump's comments come following a article, published on Friday, that claimed there were "known steps taken by President Barack Obama's administration in its last months to undermine Donald Trump's presidential campaign and, later, his new administration." The article cited an Internet news website, which in turn cited anonymous sources "with links" to intelligence communities.
Trump's aids declined to comment on whether Trump's information came from internal intelligence, such as the Justice Department, or from what he had seen on the news.
Former top national security aide to Obama, Ben Rhodes, tweeted in response to Trump that "no president can order a wiretap," and that "those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you."
Trump's apologists believe the assertions are part of a carefully conceived plan to turn media attention away from the Trump-Russia scandal.
The continued reports of contact between members of the Trump administration and Russian government officials have been a continual source of frustration for the President.
Trump's attorney general Jeff Sessions recently recused himself from overseeing the ongoing investigation into the ties between Trump and Russia. Sessions decided to withdraw from the investigations after both Democrat and Republican members of congress called for him to remove himself from the investigation, an unusual display of bipartisan support in an often divided legislature.
The calls came after Sessions was found to have lied during his confirmation hearing.
"I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in the campaign and I did not have communications with Russia," said Sessions. It was later revealed that he did in fact meet twice with the Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, which Sessions has since confirmed.
Earlier in the year, the F.B.I. revealed that conversations took place between the Russian ambassador and Michael T. Flynn, Trump's former national security advisor. Flynn was fired after it was reported that he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of the calls, which involved the lifting of sanctions which the Russian economy has struggled under.


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Radio on the Edges can mean a number of different things, depending on one's perspective. For me, at the moment, it means distance. It means reaching the edges of where a signal can go. One of the more intriguing aspects of radio is just how far a signal will travel. I have been a DX chaser for years, starting with AM Broadcast signals when I was a kid. The further the station, the cooler the signal in those days. Then of course there was Shortwave radio. Now that was cool! That was real DX! Hearing countries from around the world


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My, how times have changed.
It seems like it was just yesterday that radical Rep. Maxine Waters was telling Congress that, "No one should be so big, so important, so powerful that they can violate the rules of this House and the laws of this country without suffering the consequences."
Rep. Maxine Waters:
"Well, it's about time. Believe me. The American public does not believe in double standards. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. No one should be so big, so important, so powerful that they can violate the rules of this House and the laws of this country without suffering the consequences. Newt may be Speaker but, he too must account for any and all wrongdoing. It's about time let's get on with the business of finding out who Newt Gingrich really is."
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Right back at-ya, Maxine.
Today embattled far left socialist Maxine Waters put on a bizarre display on Capitol Hill to try to clear her name for allegedly improperly using her position for personal gain. The arrogant democrat is even trying to blame on the Bush Administration for her ethics problems.
FOX News reported:
Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems — saying she had to intervene with the Treasury Department on behalf of minority-owned banks seeking federal bailout funds — including one tied to her husband — because the Treasury Department wouldn't schedule its own appointments.
The California Democrat said in a Capitol Hill news conference — an event rarely held during a congressional recess — that she reached out to then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in late 2008 when his department failed to respond to the National Bank Association's request for a meeting.
"The question at this point should not be why I called Secretary Paulson, but why I had to," she said. "The question at this point should be why a trade association representing over 100 minority banks could not get a meeting at the height of the crisis."
But the House ethics committee, which is investigating Waters for allegedly improperly using her position for personal gain, says in its report of charges that when the meeting was held, the officers of only one bank came — OneUnited.
That's a problem for Waters since her husband, Sidney Williams, served as a member of OneUnited's board of directors from January 2004 until April 2008, and was a stockholder in the bank.
OneUnited eventually got $12 million of the $50 million in bailout money it requested, enough to keep the bank afloat. The ethics panel says that kept Waters' family stock from becoming worthless, which the committee says shows that she personally benefited by using her office.
Michelle Malkin has more on Mad Maxine's shameless display today.


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Stripping off to raise £20,000 for testicular cancer cause
PUBLISHED: 20:48 23 November 2018 | UPDATED: 20:48 23 November 2018
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A group of colleagues have stripped down in support of a Norwich man who has been diagnosed with testicular cancer.
The men from Scott Timber Buildings, in Horsford, have shed their clothes for a 2019 calendar to raise £20,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support and It's On the Ball charity, following the diagnosis of their friend and colleague Nathan.
Tristan Scott, of Scott Timber Buildings, who organised the calendar, said: "When Nathan, one of our team leaders, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in December 2017, at only 20 years old, we wanted to do something which would raise the awareness of testicular cancer to others.
"A group of us decided to do the calendar and with the help of Rachel Greengrass, local photographer, we have put together a fun calendar which we hope will help highlight the importance of knowing your body and checking it often."
Local fundraising manager for Macmillan Cancer Support Alexandra Haswell said: "On average, approximately 16 people are diagnosed with cancer every day in Norfolk, and we are so grateful for the fantastic fundraising done by Nathan's friends and colleagues as it is vital to help us provide more services, more support and reach more people in communities throughout our county."
A Christmas fair is being held at the Scotts site in Longwater Business Park, Costessey, on Saturday and Sunday December 1-2 between 9am and 5pm.
Visitors will be able to buy the calendars at the free event and buy gifts made by local artists and craftsmen.
Vince Wolverson, chairman of It's On The Ball, said: "We are most grateful to all of the Scott's staff and the companies that have supported the calendar.
"In particular, I'd like to thank all of the guys who bravely agreed to appear in the photos.
"We're always looking for ways to raise awareness and hopefully the calendar will encourage men to check themselves every month for the signs of testicular cancer."
The calendars are being sold for £10 each via www.scottsheds.com.
For more information on the support available to those affected by cancer, visit www.macmillan.org.uk and www.itsontheball.org


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The Ancarrow's Landing and historic Manchester Docks have long been thought to have excellent potential for Riverfront attractions and greater public use. The location, lack of through traffic, and limited flood protection had largely slowed efforts to improve the site over the years. The work will contribute to the City realizing the site's potential and historical value.
Although conditions on the site do not pose any risk to users of the park areas, in order to improve the quality of the site and further ensure public health, a Remedial Action Work Plan was developed and approved by VDEQ to address select soils. Approximately 5,000 cubic yards of soil will be removed during the remediation process. Clean soil backfill, topsoil, gravel and vegetation will be imported onsite and used to restore the removal areas in accordance with the restoration plan.
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South Florida is joining the rest of the world in honoring the International Day of Peace.
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text: College of Labor & Employment Lawyers in the Class of 2018By Danielle Wasem Posted August 12, 2018 In Company NewsCollege of Labor & Employment Lawyers in the Class of 20182018-08-122018-08-12http://www.employmentpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Asset-12.pngEmployment Practices Grouphttp://www.employmentpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Asset-12.png200px200px 0 0 June 2018LEADERSHIP FOR GREATER PURPOSE In This IssueThe Secretary's SceneCongratulations to the Class of 201823rd Annual Induction DinnerAugust Happy Hour for Fellows in ChicagoSpotlight on FellowsIn MemoriamCLEL LogoThe Secretary's SceneThe College just recently completed one of its most important projects, electing 72 new Fellows to be inducted at the annual dinner in San Francisco on November 10, 2018. These new Fellows will join over 1400 Fellows currently in the College, elected over the years based on same high standards applied to this new Class of 2018.We want to take this occasion to thank all the many Fellows who participated in this process. Fellows identified the most exemplary labor and employment lawyers from among their peers and then served as Nominators. Each new Fellow required not one, but two, Nominators from among the ranks of the College, and each Nominator had to complete a Nomination Form and work with the nominee to prepare a complete nomination package for review by the applicable Circuit Credentials Committee, the Board Credentials Committee, and then by the full Board of Governors at their June Meeting in Washington, DC. The Nominees themselves had to prepare a comprehensive application package, including the submission of a resume and a list of references. We want to thank all those who served as references as well as those Fellows who served on the Circuit Credentials Committees around the nation and in Canada. In particular, we want to thank the Circuit Credentials Committee Chairs who had additional leadership and administrative responsibilities in making sure that the nominees were fully vetted based on a review of a fully compliant nomination package. We also want to thank all the Fellows across the country who reviewed the list of proposed new Fellows and who submitted comments (both favorable and unfavorable) which informed the evaluation of the nominees by the Credentials Committees. This is also an appropriate time to thank our tireless staff, Susan Wan and Jen Motley, who organized this entire process, kept it on schedule, answered everybody's questions along the way, and brought the process to a timely conclusion. Finally, we must thank John Runyan, who served as the Chair of the Board Credentials Committee, and who dedicated countless hours to making sure the process worked according to our rules and that each nominee got a thorough but fair vetting. Without the participation and hard work of this small army of Fellows, the College could not have been assured that the new Fellows met our exacting standards for membership.Based on this extensive review process, as established by our By-Laws and as reviewed and refined each year by our Board of Governors, we can be confident that each new Fellow represents the highest standards of our Labor and Employment Law community. First, we require a full twenty (20) years of practice in the field of labor and employment law. These twenty years of labor and employment legal practice may include government service (with the NLRB or a state agency), service to the employer community (with a large or small law firm), service advocating for workers' rights either as union lawyers or in plaintiffs' law firms, service in academia as a labor or employment law professor, or service as a neutral (usually either as an arbitrator or a mediator). A Fellow may work in one "constituency" an entire career, or may, over the course of a long career, work in various capacities. The one common thread is that the legal work must be predominantly in the labor and employment law field and must demonstrate the highest level of character, civility, ethical conduct, professional expertise, and leadership. The evaluators are looking carefully for evidence in each file for service to the bar and the community, scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and sustained exceptionally high quality of professional services rendered to their clients. Typically, we anticipate that Fellows will have outstanding reputations not only in their local legal communities and within their own constituencies, but beyond those confines so that they have regional or national reputations as well as the highest respect of their adversaries.While we thank everyone involved in the process of electing the Class of 2018, we ask each Fellow (new and old) to begin working on our next admissions cycle. Start thinking of who among your colleagues meets the highest professional standards as described above (and on our website). Reach out across the aisle, and seek to encourage the nomination of an outstanding adversary who has demonstrated not only exceptional legal work product, but whose civility has impressed you, who accommodated your requests for reasonable continuances, who went the extra distance in working for the resolution of a difficult employment dispute, and who did all that while making your life more pleasant rather than unnecessarily stressful. While thanking all our volunteers for their hard work on the 2018 admissions cycle, and while celebrating our incoming Class of 2018, let's start now in finding the best and the brightest members of our practice area (and those whose conduct we admire and seek to emulate) for admission in November 2019 in New Orleans.David Borgen SecretaryCongratulations to the Class of 2018Please join the Board of Governors in welcoming the following distinguished lawyers who were elected Fellows of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers in the Class of 2018.Michael V. Abcarian, Dallas, TX Daryl S. Landy, Costa Mesa, CAJennifer A. Abruzzo, Washington, DC Amy L. Lieberman, Scottsdale, AZRobert G. Ames, Washington, DCLouis M. Marlin, Orange, CATheodore C. Anderson, III, Dallas, TX Dennis M. McClelland, Tampa, FLAllison Beck, Washington, DC Kristin Glennan McGurn, Boston, MAPatrick L. Benaroche, Montreal, QC Donna M. Melby, Los Angeles, CA Michael L. Blumenthal, Kansas City, MOCarole G. Miller, Birmingham, AL Daniel L. Bonnett, Phoenix, AZ Robert Millman, Los Angeles, CA Keith J. Brodie, Grand Rapids, MI Karen M. Morinelli, Tampa, FL Barbara Eckert Buchanan, Detroit, MI D. Lynn Morison, Detroit, MILloyd B. Chinn, New York, NYSusan Motley, Denton, TX Hugh A. Christie, Toronto, ON Robert C. Boisvert, Jr., Minneapolis, MNVincent A. Cino, Morristown, NJMark T. Phillis, Pittsburgh, PAGraham J. Clarke, Ottawa, ONJ.J. Pierson, Short Hills, NJ William R. Corbett, Baton Rouge, LA William E. Pilchak, Birmingham, MI Robert L. Corrada, Denver, COBrett Rawitz, Rosemont, ILChristopher A. D'Angelo, New York, NYMitchell E. Roth, Springfield, ILLuc Deshaies, Montreal, QC Catherine S. (Casey) Ryan, Pittsburgh, PAAndrew L. Eisenberg, Boston, MALaura Sack, New York, NY Gary S. Fealk, Bingham Farms, MIJennifer B. Salvatore, Northville, MI W. Gary Fowler, Dallas, TXRobert A. Sar, Raleigh, NC Michael J. Frantz, Cleveland, OH Karen M. Sargeant, Toronto, ON Thomas E. Gausden, Norwalk, CTAndreas N. Satterfield, Jr., Greenville, SC Joseph P. Girolamo, Detroit, MI Mark Theodore, Los Angeles, CA Gail A. Glick, Santa Monica, CATanja L. Thompson, Memphis, TNSamantha C. Grant, Los Angeles, CACharles O. Thompson, San Francisco, CA Brian S. Harvey, Washington, DC Teri Guttman Valdes, Coral Gables, FLLaura L. Ho, Oakland, CAWilliam J. Wahoff, Columbus, OHStephen J. Holroyd, Philadelphia, PAJames D. Waide, III, Tupelo, MSBetsy Johnson, Los Angeles, CADavid K. Watsky, Dallas, TX Brian G. Johnston, Halifax, NSBurt H. Whitt, Norfolk, VAJoshua Karsh, Chicago, IL Marni Willenson, Chicago, ILMarie-Joelle C. Khouzam, Columbus, OH Sheryl J. Willert, Seattle, WAPaul R. Klenck, Chicago, ILKendall B. Williams, Grand Blanc, MIJames G. Knight, Hamilton, ONPatricia A. Wise, Toledo, OHStephane Lacoste, Laval, QC Sheree C. Wright, Nashville, TN23rd Annual Induction Dinner In the past several years, room blocks have been secured as a courtesy for those Fellows who were not attending the ABA Labor & Employment Law Section's CLE Seminar. Unfortunately, a city-wide convention this year in San Francisco has made it impossible to contract for a room block of any reasonable size. You are encouraged to start your hotel search now, if you do in fact, plan on attending the dinner, and although we haven't identified any hotels able to give us a block at this time, we are continuing to look for a hotel (or two) close by the dinner venue and will keep you apprised of any such plans.Hotels within walking distance of One Market are listed below:Hyatt Regency Embarcadero (4 stars) Hotel Vitale (4 stars) Hotel Griffon (3 stars) Hotel Harbor Court (3 stars)A Save the Date has been mailed and dinner Invitations will be mailed in mid-August. Any information on room blocks and hotel arrangements, including the San Francisco Hilton, site of the Labor and Employment Law Section's CLE Conference, will be shared as soon as it is received.August Happy Hour for Fellows in ChicagoMark your calendar and plan to attend the 7th Annual Fellows Happy Hour!Friday, August 3rd from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm in ChicagoThis annual event takes place during the ABA Annual Meeting and has become the place to be for those attending ABA events as well as for those Fellows who live and work in the host city. This year's happy hour will take place at the Loews Chicago Hotel's rooftop bar, Streeterville Social.An email invitation will be sent in early July.Spotlight on Fellows•Newly elected Fellow Jennifer Abruzzo is one of the recipients of the Peggy Browning Award, presented annually to social justice champions who have distinguished themselves with passion and dedication to the rights and needs of workers and their families.•Fellow Bernard F. Ashe was the 2017 recipient of the Arvid Anderson Public Sector Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year Award.•Fellow Allan Bloom participated in a podcast for The National Law Review titled Recent Developments Regarding Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. Read the transcript here.•Fellow James W. Carroll, Jr. was nominated to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy by President Trump.•Fellow Parker Denaco (photo right) received the Outstanding Law Alumnus Award from Washington and Lee University for exceptional achievements in his career and unselfish service to his community and his alma mater.•Following the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Fellow Charles Fischbach was acknowledged by the University of Wisconsin for having advocated, and then successfully negotiated with Baltimore City government management, for the adoption of the first Dr. King Day in a major municipality (or state). Long before it became a federal holiday, Mr. Fischbach convinced Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer to sign a proclamation naming January 15, 1974, as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the city. Congress passed a law creating a federal holiday nine years later, but it wasn't until 2000 that the holiday was observed in all 50 states.•Fellow Keith Frazier will be honored by the Tennessee Bar Association at a reception on August 4 for his service to the bar.•Fellow Angelo J. Genova was named to Lawdragon's 2018 Top 20 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers and his firm, Genova Burns was ranked in Chambers USA as a Top Labor & Employment Law Firm.•Fellow David Lopez has been appointed as the next Co-Dean of Rutgers Law School in Newark.•At the Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Alumni Association on May 26, Fellow Megan Norris was one of six alumni who received Distinguished Alumnus Awards. Megan received the Outstanding Service Award.•Fellow Emeritus Jay Siegel has been appointed as a Neutral Public Member of Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker's Advisory Committee on Labor Relations.•Fellow Don Slesnick (photo right) was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by The Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Section for his contributions to the profession at The Florida Bar's Annual Convention.•Fellow Susan Ursel will serve as the Constitutional-Litigator-in-Residence at the University of Toronto's David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights.•Fellow Barry Winograd was elected President-Elect of the National Academy of Arbitrators at the Academy's annual meeting. He will succeed current President Edward Krinsky when his term expires in May 2019 at the Annual NAA Conference for Labor and Management Practitioners in Philadelphia, PA. Others elected include Alan Symonette as a Vice President and Daniel Zeiser as a Governor.In MemoriamThe College mourns the recent passing of Fellow David E. Jones, who passed away on June 20th, after an 18-month battle with cancer. A member of the Class of 2011, he was a shareholder at Ogletree Deakins for twenty-five years and a nationally recognized expert in workplace safety law who is credited with establishing Ogletree's Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group. In addition, he was an active member of the ABA's Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee, having served as an Employer Co-Chair. His experience in occupational safety and health law included practice in virtually every state which made David a dynamic public speaker and a caring mentor to many attorneys. His distinguished forty-year practice in both the public and the private sectors was outdone only by the highest level of character, integrity, professional expertise and leadership that he demonstrated in his everyday life. A link to his obituary can be found here.Members of the College strive to promote achievement, advancement and excellence in the practice of labor and employment law. David distinguished himself as a leader in the field, and the College was proud to have been able to call him a Fellow. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.CLEL LogoFellows are encouraged to include the College logo on their website. Please contact Susan Wan for a downloadable file or download the logo.The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers1997 Annapolis Exchange Parkway Suite 300 Annapolis, MD 21401 (410) 972-4711 Telephone (410) 972-4701 Fax www.laborandemploymentcollege.orgThe views expressed herein are not necessarily those of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Inc.This newsletter contains graphics, so if you don't see them, view it in your browser College of Labor & Employment Lawyers, College of Labor & Employment Lawyers in the Class of 2018, Employment Law, Human Resources, Julie A. Moore, Marcie Vaughan, SHRM Danielle WasemRecommended PostsAICPA Women's Global Leadership Summit35th Annual CLE Conference PanelResponding to Sexual Harassment Complaints in the Post-Harvey Weinstein World35th Annual National CLE & Ski Labor & Employment ConferenceLeave a Comment Cancel reply


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Mandy Richard is dressed neatly and wears thick glasses over her brown eyes below her dark hair with blondish highlights.
The 25-year-old's smile lights up the room.
Today, she's quietly celebrating two years – and counting – of sobriety.
The third-year communications and public policy student at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., took her last drink on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.
She shared a pitcher of beer with friends while playing pool at Dooly's Billiard Room that night.
The previous weekend, she had been blackout drunk. The day after the beer at Dooley's she paid a visit to her counsellor at STU and admitted she had an alcohol problem and needed help.
She knew that visit was long overdue.
"I walked in, and I was a mess where I was reflecting on everything," said Richard.
For Richard, it was a desire to clear her mind that led her to seek help.
Much like in her previous struggles with addiction and substance abuse, it was a desire for education that led Richard to sober up and head down the gradual path of putting her life back together.
"I stopped giving a f–k about school," she said. "That was my trigger point, as it was back in high school when I was a teen using drugs.
"So this isn't my first rodeo."
Richard marked the two-year anniversary of her sobriety on Nov. 17, almost five months after her 25th birthday.
By the time she turned 16, Richard had started snorted everything from cocaine and ecstasy to painkillers such as oxycontin, morphine, Dilaudid and Percocet.
At the time, she was struggling to deal with a breakup with her first love and an alleged sexual assault. The two events happened to coincide, although the sexual assault never made it to court.
To make matters worse, Richard had been raised in the Ontario foster child system since she was nine after experiencing what she said was an abusive first few years.
On a more positive note, Richard said, she was one of the few foster kids who got to live with her sister – although she has five siblings – before aging out of the system in 2012, at age 21.
"My childhood was taken away from me, and I had to learn to be an adult really fast," she said.
It was a combination the trauma Richard faced as a child and everything else she endured by being bounced around between homes while growing up in Wikwemikong First Nation in northern Ontario that led her to experiment with drugs and liquor.
"I decided to try drugs just to see what the hype was all about, and I have a very addictive personality."
She first began drinking alcohol at the age of 14. Two years later, she started attending parties regularly.
Richard then quit drugs cold turkey – or without receiving any proper rehabilitation – in 2009, shortly before she turned 18. She went through some pain caused by withdrawal symptoms and even tried whatever drugs were available as her drinking problem escalated.
At her Ontario high school, Richard was a straight-A student who was involved in several extra-curricular activities, but for the most part, she gave up the drugs after finding out she wasn't likely to graduate on time if she kept travelling the path she was on at the time.
"That was my fall six feet under point," she said. "So I got ahold of my social worker, and I asked to be moved off that reserve for a fresh start where I couldn't keep doing this anymore.
"I stopped going to classes, and I didn't have that guilty, knot in your stomach feeling that you have a paper due tomorrow and you haven't started it. That was the alarm going off in my head where I've always cared about my education."
Although Richard earned her diploma and studied print and broadcast journalism at Canadore College in North Bay, Ont., from 2010 to 2013, she continued drinking – largely because it's seen as socially acceptable.
"At first, I didn't think of what I was doing as something that was wrong," she said.
"It took me a while to realize I had a problem with it, and I got depressed and kept turning to the bottle, which is why I got so I didn't care about my education and I reached out for help."
Richard isn't alone in a journey that has at least involved alcohol and substance abuse in the past. The federal Chief Public Health Officer weighed in on alcohol consumption in Canada in a 2015 report that said risky drinking is currently on the rise in women, especially those who are aged 35 or older.
Three years ago, 56 per cent of women aged 15 years or older reported binge drinking – or four drinks or more in one sitting – at least once in the previous year, up from 44 per cent in 2014.
The report said the rate at which females are being charged with impaired driving has also increased since 2005. As well, there's a correlation between heavy drinking per occasion and major depression, particularly in women.
"Women are more likely to drink to cope with social anxiety than are men," the report said.
While males tend to start drinking and taking alcohol-related risks at a younger age than females, the report said, women often progress from abuse to dependence and treatment for issues at a faster rate than do men.
The report said alcohol is also a concern for some of Canada's Aboriginal communities because of factors like high unemployment, poverty, limited access to education and health services, the decline in First Nations language and culture and due to those populations being economically and socially marginalized.
After she got off drugs, Richard said, her alcoholism continued for the next five years before she fell into a deeper depression than she had experienced before and lost a friend to alcohol poisoning.
"I wasn't that person that needed it in my system all the time, but when problems would come up or I'd be upset, that's when I would drink where I used it to cope with what I went through without actually coping with it."
In a span of a couple months in 2014, during her second year at STU, Richard stopped worrying about her studies. She had previously gone to class while still drunk or hungover and completed assignments nonetheless, but her way of dealing with those hangovers only got worse.
"I would be in bed with a hangover until nine o'clock the next night, then I'd feel OK, get ready and go repeat," said Richard.
"A big reason why I didn't see it as a problem until two years ago was that it never affected my everyday social interactions or anything."
When Richard admitted to having an alcohol problem, she said her counsellor had known there was an issue, but that she needed to accept that.
"I asked her, 'Why the hell didn't you tell me that?' She said, 'Well Mandy, you are super stubborn, and I could have told you, but other people have tried to tell you,'" said Richard. "My dad was one of them, but I didn't believe him.
"I'm one of those people you could tell not to put their hand on the stove, and I'd put my hand on the stove."
Through her sobriety, Richard hasn't only had to find other ways to cope with many of the issues from her past that still face her, but she has realized that the only thing she can control is her education after growing up without having much say in anything else.
When Richard first sobered up, she considered attending a holistic treatment centre, but she was wait-listed where she didn't get her application submitted on time.
She then took the rest of her second year at STU off before resuming her studies in the fall of 2015.
Initially, she avoided bars and parties until she felt safe to be around them. She has also learned to resist the temptation to take a drink even when there's booze in her immediate presence.
After taking journalism in Ontario a few years ago, Richard decided she wanted to tell people's stories in a way that influences public policy.
Today, she is helping oversee a project on First Nations youth and children as a project co-ordinator at the New Brunswick child and youth advocate's office, and she volunteers with the local Partners for Youth chapter.
Richard also has connections to the Ontario child and youth advocate's office, and she does consulting for the New Brunswick Department of Social Development about training for social workers and foster parents regarding First Nations.
As well, she's a part-time research assistant with the STU social work faculty on a project about women leaving the foster system.
"Sobriety is a rewarding experience," said Richard. "You have to acknowledge or understand that, when you decide to become sober, you're opening yourself up to your most vulnerable position by pulling away from things you were clutching on."


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So recently all I can think about it travelling. Although you could say that recently is only the last few days or the last few years or all my life.
I do tend to blame my love for new places and my dislike for staying in the same place for too long a period of time on my parents, due to them moving me all over the country as a child and of course we had quite a few wonderful – and not all fully remembered – family holidays. I'm not really complaining though, but as I stated in my last post I'm not one to travel alone, maybe that's because I never really have. Sure I've travelled from here to home and trips like that, but nothing really 'bigger' than that and I would like to, although I'd prefer not to have to do it alone.
I want to go to New Orleans the summer after next, mainly because then I'll be able to drink and what not, but I'm also hoping that by then American airport security will have died down a little. American Airport security is one of the many reasons I've never been to American, unless you think that the Caribbean is part of it – which one of friends does.
I've spent the last couple hours trying to work out how much it will cost to go to Japan with my friends next summer, as one of them invited me to come with him and some other people. Although he estimated the trip to cost around £4000, but all the calculations come up with it only costing around £2000, so I'm not sure where he got the extra £200 from, or I'm remembering what he said wrong, because that's a pretty damn big difference. Although maybe it's the time of year that you go that changes the price, but I didn't think it would change that much. So right now I'm sort of thinking about starting to properly save my money for that, but then again my friends have been talking about going to Italy next summer, which I would also really like to do – oh the dilemma – maybe I can earn the money to do both. I'm going to have to diffidently get a job for next semester. Which is another thing I'm going to research and try and find out that I can do, pays alright and can perhaps be related to what I may want to do in the future, because at the moment I'm not really sure what I want to do with my life, which just makes the idea of leaving university even more daunting.
Ah it's times like these that I wish I was a millionaire and I think about playing the lottery more often, in the hopes of becoming one. I'm still playing the postcode lottery, but it's extremely slim chance that I will ever win that one, because not many people around me play it and although the pot is up to £100 a day, winning that couldn't really pay for a trip, although it wouldn't hurt.
Ah I shouldn't complain about money problems when I don't even have a job, as my brother keeps reminding me, whenever I say anything to him. I just don't think I'll be very good at anything really. Maybe a supermarket, stocking shelves and stuff like that, I think I wouldn't do too well on the till, at least not at first – for the first few months.
Quote/saying of the day: We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. – Hilaire Belloc


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Archaeological Survey of the Red Rock Rural Water System, Minnesota
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Tagged: Minor Leagues
Palm Beach's 1-2 bullpen punch
I don't think I've heard anything about Matt Scherer, but combing over the Palm Beach Cardinal stats I'm suprised no one has mentioned his name before. Scherer was drafted in the 16th round out of the 2004 first year player draft. He started 12 games that season for Johnson City, going 2-5 with a 4.03. The next season he started 24 games for the Swing of the Quad Cities, posting a solid 3.96 ERA over 134 innings. That's all solid and good, but Scherer didn't really look like a top tier prospect, just a solid arm who pitched fairly well in the low A ranks that you just hope will continue to develop and perhaps some day really blossom.
But since Scherer has moved to the bullpen for the Palm Beach squad this season, he has blossomed. He's been the set up man for Springfield closer Matt Sillman (who I'll get to in a minute), and he's been dominating the league, posting 89 strikeouts in 66.1 innings pitched. He's also demonstrated good control, walking only 15 batters. That's about double of his K/9 rate as a starter (12.1 verses 6.45) and he's shaved down his walk rate. The scouting report on Scherer says he has a heavy fastball, a slider and throws an occasional split-finger fastball. He's an imposing figure on the mound at 6-5, 230 pounds.
The closer for the Palm Beach Cardinals is Mike Sillman, a 25 year old side-arming righty drafted also in the 04 draft, 21st round. He's had dominating K ratios, 11/9IP at three different levels, but has had trouble with command with over 5 BB/9 through that span. He's toned that down this season, with a 71:17 K/BB ratio in 49.2 innings, 1.09 ERA, opponents are only hitting .185 against and he has 29 saves to boot. Seems pretty old to be in A ball, but he's too raw for AAA and Mark Worrell is entrenched as the closer at AA where Cody Doyne also is pretty good as the set up guy. Without seeing him pitch, I'm guessing Sillman has the chance to be Byung-Yung Kim before he was destroyed, and hopefully not after.
Both pitchers are worth keeping an eye on as they climb up the ranks.
Mark Hamilton and the rest of the night around the farm
Mark Hamilton homered twice tonight for the State College Spikes, his 5th of the year in only 34 at bats. Hamilton was the 76th pick in the draft, and Bryan Smith at Baseball Analysts had this to say about the young slugger.
"Unfortunately for Hamilton, being drafted here means he enters an organization for which he has no future. Fortunately, he immediately becomes the system's best power hitter, and profiles to move quickly. Hamilton would have led the nation in home runs if not for Hurricane Katrina, which kept Hamilton playing in a pitcher-friendly "home" ballpark. Earlier in the year we read about Hamilton's big power showing on Friday nights, indicating he should transfer to the next level better than power collegiate competitors Aaron Bates and Matt LaPorta. Finally, Hamilton was solid in the Cape last summer, so wood bats won't be a problem, either. Expect Hamilton to get more respect in the trade market in 2008, when he is ready for the show."
Smith says he has no future with the Cards, as he's going to be blocked by another 1st baseman, um, what's his name? But in 05 Hamilton did play 32 games in left field as a sophmore, so he's not certain trade bait. If he keeps slugging I'm sure the Cards will find a position for him. Also for the Spikes, first rounder Adam Ottavino pitched 4.1 solid innings, allowing 1 run on 2 hits and a walk, striking out 4.
Elsewhere in the farm system: Colby Rasmus hit his 11th HR of the season, but the Swing lost in extra innings 3-2. Ex-Nebraska Husker and power hitting 1st baseman Brandon Buckman hit a double and a homerun in a losing cause for Johnson City. Buckman was selected in the 19th round. (He also took AZ 1st rounder Max Scherzer deep earlier this year.) Nick Webber was roughed up pitching for Palm Beach, giving up 6 runs on 6 hits in 5 innings. Amaury "the Body" Marti went 3 for 4, including a double and a HR, his 3rd of the season, but the Cards still lost at the fins of the Manatees. (Barbara Manatee, Manatee…you are the one for me, one for me!…some of you with small children know what that's about!)
Springfield was off tonight and Memphis, well, honestly who really cares about how Memphis fared? The highlight of the game from my standpoint is that Josh Kinney went had a perfect inning and a third, fanning 3 and Junior Spivey had a pinch hit RBI single. Memphis 5, Nashville 1.
Terry Evans homered again for Springfield, his 7th for Springfield in 50 at bats, and his 22nd homer between Palm Beach and Springfield this season. (Eat your heart out, John Rodriguez.) Evans (25) was drafted in the 47th round in 2001. In his past 4 minor league seasons, he's only hit 40 HR and has hit .239/.303/.394. I don't know what's changed with Evans' approach, but it's working. A few other added bonuses: He stolen 25 bases out of 27 attempts, and he plays corner outfield. He strikes out a bit too much (65 times in 288 at bats) and he could stand to walk a bit more (21 BB's, 1 walk since coming to AA) but with the punchless trio of Timo, Tagu, and Roderwiffle, Evans should be starting to intrigue the F.O.
Tommy Pham
Not sure if anyone noticed or cares, but 16th round draft pick Tommy Pham did sign with the Cardinals and is playing in the Appy League. He's 6 for 13 so far for Johnson City, including a double, a triple, a walk and a stolen base. (And two errors.)
He's a shortstop from Durango High School in Nevada, where he was the 4A Division Player of the Year, hitting .633 with 8 HR. He was considered by a Baseball America affiliate to be the top High School player in Las Vegas (big fish, relatively small pond, I know. But hey, Brad Thompson is out of LV.) BA also named him to their second team 2006 All American. He ran the 60 in 6.84 seconds and can throw 91mph. It looks like the Cardinals will have him play at short for now, but he has the arm to pitch.
Pham had already signed with perennial college powerhouse Cal State Fullerton, but the Cards were able to pry him. Of course it's very early, but he may be one to keep an eye on. Yeah, the draft was very college, but here's a pretty strong high school talent in Pham.
Who are you, Jason Marquis?
WPA graph from www.fangraphs.com
Jason had a good outing last night as he went right after batters, pounding the ball with fastballs on the lower inside and lower outside of the strike zone. His command was good, too, only walking a couple of batters. But he wasn't blowing guys away, striking out 3. I think the roller coaster is what we're going to be left with Jason. He'll have games where the balls in play fall more for hits than usual, and games where they fall less, like this one. The best thing he can do for himself is stay as stingy as possible with the walks.
A few other quickie thoughts on last night's game:
- Am I sick if I derive pleasure from watching Ray King open up the flood gates for the Cardinals in the 7th? Okay, I admit it was wrong but it was even more fun watching him walk Spiezio to score a run. Rockie fans, we know your frustrations.
- Hector Luna continues to swing a hot bat, as LaRussa keeps finding positions for him to play, left field, shortstop, 2nd base, 1st base. The Secret Weapon, Part 2?
- Doubles. Rodriguez doubled, Miles doubled, Marquis doubled, Encarnacion doubled, heck, even Timo Perez doubled.
- The Albert-less offense has been good, scoring 5.25 runs per game. What's even more exciting, Albert's return may be sooner then we originally thought. (Just not too soon, Albert!) The Cardinals are now 7-5 w/o King Albert.
I admit, I panicked when Albert went down. The offense looked mediocre without him but they've really picked it up in his absense. Since June 4 (when Albert went on the DL)
- Rolen is hitting .466/.510/.744
- Edmonds is hitting .297/.366/.459
- Encarnacion .400/.426/.578
- Molina .296/.367/.593
- Luna .324/.375/.405
Last night there was some interesting pitching in the minors. Anthony Reyes didn't pitch his best game, allowing 4 runs in 6 innings, striking out 3, walking none and allowing 2 homeruns. Chris Lambert struck out 8, allowed 2 walks, 2 hits and no runs in 7 innings for AA Springfield. 2005 28th round draft pick Trey Hearne pitched a brilliant game last night, striking out 10 in 6 innings, allowing 4 hits, 1 walk and no runs. In 46 innings, Hearne has struck out 49 and only walked 9, with a 2.74 ERA. He's 22 years old and out of the Texas A & M Corpus Christi. He may be worth keeping an eye on. I'll also note that on the hitting side of things, Colby Rasmus was on base all night last night. He drew 3 walks and had a couple of hits.
A one hit gem
Mitchell Boggs, selected by the Cards in last year's draft out of the University of Georgia threw a 1 hitter tonight for Palm Beach. He struck out 11 and walked no one. How 'bout that?
Marti homers in first game
Remember the 27 year old Cuban the Cards drafted a week ago? He homered in his second at bat for Palm Beach tonight. That Cuban, who's name I'm sure most of you remember is Amaury Cazanos Marti. He went 2-3 with a homerun, a single and a strikeout hitting in the #3 spot in the lineup. Blake Hawksworth picked up the W in a rain shortened 7 inning game. He walked two, allowed 4 hits and two runs and struck out 1. Hawksworth's ERA is now sitting at 2.47.
Also of note:
- Colby Rasmus has homered in 2 straight games, for 7 total for this season. The 19 year old center fielder is now hitting .299/.351/.445 in 238 at bats. He's also stolen 13 bases. Colby recently had a little Q and A session at the forum Gateway Redbirds, be sure to check it out.
- Miami U closer and Cardinal draft pick Chris Perez pitched in the 5th thru the 8th innings last night, striking out 5 and allowing 2 runs. Another Cardinal draft pick, Jon Jay, went 3 for 3 with a key stolen base and scored the go ahead run. The victory ensured the 'Canes a trip to the College World Series where they will face the University of Oregon.


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Lower Desert Waters, Feb. 18 report
SALTON SEA: No fishing pressure and slow action on tilapia. The water level is still so low that launching is nearly impossible except for small boats (boaters should check with the main office at the recreation area before bringing a boat). The camp store is open Friday through Sunday. Information: Camp Store at 760-289-9455 (open Friday-Sunday). Salton Sea State Recreation Area main office at 760-393-3059, or the ranger station kiosk at 760-393-3052 (or mobile phone at 760-331-9944).