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Brian Watson has seen better days.
On this particular Saturday, stopping by the Wanda Alston House, D.C.'s only transitional residence for homeless LGBT youth, Watson is busy planning two funerals and a vigil.
The vigil and one of those funerals is for Lashai Mclean, gunned down July 20 in Northeast D.C. The 23-year-old transgender woman was a client of Transgender Health Empowerment (THE), which runs the Wanda Alston House, where Watson has worked as director of programs for the past five years.
During his time at THE, Watson's triumphs, which include working with others to launch the Wanda Alston House, earned him a 2009 Metro Weekly Next Generation Award. Opened in 2008, and named after the first permanent mayoral liaison to the LGBT community, the house remains the District's only transitional home specifically for homeless LGBT youth, ages 16 to 24, and one of only a handful in the country.
And while Watson, an Oklahoma native, admits that conditions have improved for members of the transgender community in D.C. since he came onboard, it's hard to talk about anything else but the recent homicide of Mclean and the impact on the community.
Watson's main frustration is with the Metropolitan Police Department. Watson and others have criticized the MPD for the way in which it reported Mclean's murder to the larger community, originally using Mclean's male birth name, and for using a police mug shot of Mclean in the flier seeking information about her killers.
An hour or so before hundreds gathered at the site of the fatal shooting, at 61st and Dix Streets NE, Watson sat down with Metro Weekly to talk about THE's latest loss, the impact it has had on the community, and why it's important to return to the scene of the crime.
METRO WEEKLY: What are you hoping to accomplish today, gathering at the site of Lashai's shooting?
BRIAN WATSON: We want to honor her life. That's the biggest aspect. This was a young, 23-year-old girl – just turned 23 in April – who was shot down. She had a boyfriend, who wanted to marry her. She was living her life out and proud and you have to honor where she was. You have to honor her strength. And that's by going to the place where someone took that from her. Somebody took away her light. Also it's about taking a stand as a community to show that we're not just going to take this type of thing happening.
MW: Since Lashai's death, what contact have you had with the Metropolitan Police Department?
WATSON: They really haven't been in touch with me. I think [THE's] Earline Budd has had some contact with them, but there definitely seems to be somewhat of a disconnect. The only person I've talked to since Wednesday has been [MPD Assistant Chief] Diane Groomes, who did call me on my cell phone, which shows me that they have access to my number and email and everything, but nobody reached out except for the assistant chief. At that time I expressed to her my concern with the fact that the only picture on the flier that the police had put out was basically Lashai's mug shot picture, and was that a process that they had to do? Couldn't they have used a regular picture for somebody who had been murdered? It wasn't like it was a wanted poster.
MW: You say there appears to be a disconnect between the police and THE. Is that because there was a time when MPD worked with THE to solve crimes involving transgender victims?
WATSON: Exactly. Throughout the years and dealing with the [MPD Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit], it usually had been that we would have been contacted when there was a crime. If they had information about the victim, they would tell us who it was. Or sometimes when they didn't know who it was they would come to us and ask. In the case of Nana-boo [Mack], they asked us [if we knew] who it was, because they didn't know. They would come to us in certain situations and ask, do we know who lives in this area, or describe this person to us, or give us their ID and ask if we know who they are. This time, the crime happened at 4 o'clock in the morning and the first time an email went out was about 11:30 a.m., 12 o'clock, on the next day. By that time, there was already word out on the street and a lot of THE clients were asking us, "Do you know if somebody was shot?" There was a time where as soon as it would have happened, we would have known. Especially in a situation like this, because I not only live in this area, but I'm on the neighborhood listservs and everything else. But nobody reached out at all.
I had kind of stepped away from dealing with the issues of the GLLU. People had their issues with how it should be restructured – should it be taken back to the same [format it was before]? – and I just kind of stepped away from it and tried to focus on other things, because you have people like [Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence] and the DC Trans Coalition who are working on issues like that. But when something comes out like this, it's like, "Okay, I need to get back involved because there's a disconnect." You're not reaching out to us as a transgender organization in D.C. and you're also not being sensitive to the needs of the community because you're putting mug shots on a poster announcing that someone was murdered.
After all of this sensitivity training, it doesn't make any sense. I mean, the DC Trans Coalition is going in and doing trainings with every MPD recruit class that comes through, but obviously there's still a lot that we need to do. This is not about the officers who are on the street level. This must be more upper management and the communications department of the Police Department. I'm definitely looking forward to talking with the chief and the GLLU about how we move forward from here.
MW: Police have said Lashai was with another transgender individual who fled the scene on foot. Has THE had any success in determining who that is?
WATSON: We've been trying to find out, but nobody knows. Lashai had a lot of friends, she kicked it with a lot of different girls and guys, so we're not clear exactly who it was that she was hanging out with. I do want to know who the other transgender was and if there's any support that we can provide from THE.
And I do want to know what's going on. Again, it's not just because I work at THE, or I'm a member of the LGBT community. I live maybe 10 blocks from where this happened, so I'm in this neighborhood. I want to know as a resident, what's going on, have you found this person, am I safe? Are my kids safe? Because they have to walk to the Metro every day. They have to get on the bus every day. I want to know, is anybody in the community safe? As an advocate for the community, I want to know what the police are doing. How can they assure us that they are investigating this? How can they assure us that when something happens, that the person will be arrested? What if this happens again? How will it be addressed? If another transgender is attacked, are you going to put out his or her mug shot just because they happened to be arrested for writing checks, or got arrested for a speeding ticket and they went to jail? I mean, what's the process? What's going on, not just here, but in the long term? I think Earline and a lot of other activists, like Ruby [Corado] and all of them, thought a lot of this stuff was taken care of when they did the sensitivity trainings, when the Tyra Hunter incident happened. But there's still things going on that are just not sensitive and we don't understand why.
MW: What suggestions would you have to rectify this disconnect?
WATSON: I think [MPD Chief Cathy Lanier] is sure about what she wants to do. I don't know if what she wants to do is what's best for the community. I say that as someone who is the director of several programs. I surely don't supervise as many people as the chief does, but when you're not a member of the community, you make decisions that are more strategic or that are more practical in your mind. I think the chief's decision to do everything she has done with the GLLU is probably practical in her mind, but at the end of the day, when you have a community such as the LGBT community, when you have issues that are so unique to our population, there are certain things that you can do and you cannot do. A big part of that is you have to keep the public engaged in the process so you don't have issues like right now.
Very easily a call could have been made to us, where we could have given [the police] a picture of Lashai. There's a critical-incidents team that's comprised of GLOV, THE, the DC Trans Coalition, SMYAL and The D.C. Center, all of these different groups, where in these meetings we could talk about issues like this, where someone is attacked or murdered. Or in the case where we put out a bulletin, how should we word the bulletin? If the GLLU could have more dialogue with the critical incidents team around the protocols, a lot of stuff could be prevented.
This is not the first time that we've sat at this table where there's been a murder. I've been at THE just five years – actually last week – and several times we sat at the table with Chief Lanier, and we've talked about these issues. Don't just have the meetings to have the meetings and to say that you're keeping us engaged. Have the meetings and actually put protocols in place so that you don't have issues like this, where people are upset. When you put up a male name [for a transgender woman], when you put up someone's mug shot, you're stigmatizing that population, that community, that person. Me, being a young black man, you put up a mug shot of me and people will look at that as a stigma. There are certain populations of certain communities that you have to ask, "How's this going to look?" I don't think the people who are under the chief are necessarily thinking about the outcome.
MW: How would you describe the collaborative relationship between MPD and THE?
WATSON: It got better, but then it got worse.
I know everybody is sounding like a broken record, because everybody from GLAA to the Stein Democratic Club has been like, "Brett, Brett, Brett." "When former GLLU supervisor Brett Parson was here it was better."
I'm very aware that Brett is not there, but they need to do whatever they can do to clone someone to be that engaging. Really, that's all it is. It's attending all the community events, the meetings, getting to know who people are, getting to know who the stakeholders are in the community and keeping them engaged. If a crime happens at 5 o'clock, we're not asking them to call us at 5:05 and tell us what happened. We're asking that in the appropriate amount of time, that we know what's going on. This is a very small community and we don't want there to be hysteria. That's what happened in this instance. Someone was shot. Someone was killed, walking down the street. That could make anybody scared. Especially a community, a population, that's already at a higher risk of being attacked.
MW: How did Lashai's homicide impact THE clients and residents at the Wanda Alston House?
WATSON: There isn't too much of a change here in this house. Our kids have to move forward with getting jobs, going to work, going to school and things like that.
Lashai was never a resident in the house, but she did come to THE's drop-in center a lot. There was a time when she came to our drop-in center every day or every other day. So it affected our younger clients, like 24 and under, really uniquely. Because a lot of those girls do still engage in sex work, they may still be addicted to drugs, or maybe they haven't talked to their family, they're just disconnected from their family, and so we had a lot of people come to the drop-in center on the day she was killed saying, "I don't want to work 'the stroll' anymore. I don't want to go out and prostitute. I don't want to use drugs anymore." You know we had things like that. Whether they stay on that right path, I don't know. But as for today it has changed the drop-in center a lot. We had about 25 people who came to the drop-in center on the day that she was killed. Many of those people knew her and they gathered there to talk about it.
One thing that I've learned since I've been at THE is that of everybody on that LGBT spectrum, I've gained so much more respect for transgender individuals. It takes a whole lot to get on a bus if you're not as feminine or as masculine as you would hope to be. You get on that bus and someone can tell that you're dressing a way in which you were not born. That takes a lot of nerve. That takes a lot of heart. Because depending on where you live in this city, you are playing with your life. I give a lot of respect to the transgender community who embrace their lives and who they are at whatever age, and decide, "I'm going to walk out of this house and I'm going to live my life, and I'm going to live in my identity."
MW: In addition to Lashai, THE is also mourning the loss of another client?
WATSON: We had another one of our clients, Rene Wyatt, who passed away. It's just another aspect of our agency. It's funny because Lashai was so young, and I think Rene was probably in her late 40s or 50, and she had been sick for a while, in and out of the hospital. She died the day before Lashai. We knew she was going to go at any time. So we've been running around trying to get her funeral arrangements taken care of, and getting everything paid for, because a lot of times with our clients they don't have insurance or things like that. When I talked to Earline yesterday, we probably got everything paid for but about $600. So it's like, okay, we're trying to brainstorm around what else to do to get the $600 to pay for this. Of course, we'll be attending Lashai's funeral and then right after Lashai's funeral, Earline and all the staff at THE, we're all working on Rene's funeral. All of that and then you have the day-to-day operations of the agency: keeping the house open, keeping the drop-in center open, keeping all the programs going. That's what my job is in the middle of this economic time. I don't think we're going to get a lot of the funding next year. It's a battle.
MW: What makes you think Transgender Health Empowerment and the Wanda Alston House won't get funding?
WATSON: As things are changing, the CDC's guidelines are different now around HIV. It's more about people living longer and things like that, so I think some of our programs are going to be cut, because we have a such a unique population. Transgender is a smaller population, so I don't know if the drop-in center will continue to be funded. That was money that we got through the city for years. I don't think we're going to get our counseling and testing program next year at THE.
The last HIV/AIDS Administration grant was three grants that went out for all of the community-based organizations in the city, and we probably have about 10 to 15 agencies that test for HIV. This is – I hate to say competing – but this is THE now going up against organizations like Us Helping Us, the Women's Collective and Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, who have much longer relationships in the community. And they test populations that are a little bit bigger.
We're fighting for every dollar and we're looking at new initiatives. We're trying to do more with LGBT youth who are in foster care, and doing trainings and trying to recruit foster parents for that population. And then we have the other housing program, which is just for adults. And we have a good history when it comes to serving the LGBT population.
MW: What will happen to the Alston House and THE if you don't get funding?
WATSON: The funding for the house I'm hoping – because we're the only ones working with LGBTQ youths specifically – I would hope that would stick around. I think that it would. But it's the other programs that I'm more worried about. Like I said, the focus around HIV is changing. Nothing is set in stone. We don't have a grant right now that says you will be here for another year. We basically have been going month to month for the last year. Every day it's been about looking for an email or a call to say that you're not going to get funded next year.
MW: How does THE work with the DC Trans Coalition in improving conditions for the trans community in D.C.?
WATSON: DCTC is more of an advocacy group. They can get out there and do a lot of the testifying. They're volunteers, so they can say and do a lot more of the things that THE can't. But that's not really our role anyway. THE is about providing services, providing housing, providing HIV services, providing meals, getting people off the street, getting people into care, getting people to substance abuse and recovery programs. We go into the jails once a week and try to provide services. We provide sensitivity training to organizations. We did that with the Department of Corrections and homeless shelters. That's what we do.
DCTC is about structural change. How can we change this policy? Or move this agenda forward? And we work with them a lot. A couple of DCTC members are staff members at THE. They see a lot of things that our clients go through. That actually helps us in what we're trying to do, because we can focus on the clients, we can focus on individual health and well-being and DCTC focuses more on going to the City Council and trying to change laws and things like that. '
MW: How does the recent DCTC transgender needs-assessment survey help THE?
WATSON: It helps because we're able to get an idea of the population. That's something that we can use when we go to write grants. It's actually good that they're finishing it around this time, because like I said with funding looking the way it is, we can say this is a reason that we shouldn't be cut. We have all these needs in this population and we're the only transgender organization in this city providing for these needs. We have the only housing program for homeless gay youth. We have the only housing program for individuals who are HIV-positive who are LGBT. We have the only drop-in center that's open five days a week for the LGBT population that provides showers and provides food. We have kids who are in school and go to Howard University and places like that, they have to come to us for a meal. We have people who are 60, 70-year-old transgenders who come to our support groups, our "Diva Chat" group on Friday nights. So we are providing very unique services. That's why I've always loved THE. We provide very unique things and that's what keeps us going.
MW: What keeps you going?
WATSON: I turned 30 this month. I also celebrated five years at THE this month. I'm just really trying to decide what more I can do at THE, or maybe it's time for me to go.
I want to do more advocacy. I want to do more trainings. I love doing trainings on LGBT sensitivity and trans sensitivity and talking to people about the Wanda Alston House. I see myself doing something in the future around advocacy and training organizations to work with the LGBT population. I'm just playing it by ear. When it's time for me to go, it's time for me to go. I don't want to be here so long that the program can't move forward.
MW: Does the current climate at THE make you more inclined to want to leave, or stay and continue the fight?
WATSON: A little bit of both. It makes me want to stay because there's so much still to do. It makes me want to go because you get tired of hearing it. You get tired of planning funerals. You get tired of planning vigils. I was thinking today, I get tired of pulling out my Transgender Day of Remembrance candles. I hate pulling that stuff out in the middle of the summer. I'm pulling out candles that I shouldn't have to pull out until November. Which goes back to why I love to do the trainings and things that I do. Because there's still so many people who don't understand transgender, they don't understand LGBT, they don't understand that we're just people who want to live our lives like anybody else and that nobody has the right to take someone's life.
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Richard Falk
26 December 2008
Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. Israel had strongly opposed his appointment as Special Rapporteur based on his previous writings on crimes against humanity occurring in Palestine. On 14 December 2008, he was denied entry into Gaza and the West Bank when he arrived to prepare a report within his UN capacity and mandate.
() The Israeli blockade has kept supplies of food, fuel and medicines entering Gaza at bare survival levels. Recent studies report 46 percent of Gazan children suffer from acute anemia and 80 percent live in abject poverty, with less than $1 a day of purchasing power. With the borders closed, Gaza is a prison, but in some respects worse. At least a normal prison includes an administrative apparatus that accepts responsibility for feeding the prisoners and providing for their health care. The situation is worse in other respects, as well. Israel feels itself free to use military force via air and helicopter attacks at times and places of its choosing within Gaza, keeping the entire population on edge and at risk, day and night. ()
The blockade serves no legitimate Israeli function. It is allegedly imposed in retaliation for Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets that have been fired across the border aimed mainly at the town of Sderot, and occasionally at the bigger city of Ashkelon. These rockets are primitive and have done little damage, but they do target civilians and cause understandable fear for Israelis potentially subject to these attacks. The launching of these rockets on the Palestinian side of the Gaza border is unlawful and immoral as they are used as weapons of terror. Yet this in no way justifies Israeli indiscriminate and disproportionate measures being taken against the entire civilian society of Gaza. It also seems that the Israeli leadership feels that since the citizenry of Gaza voted for Hamas in free elections back in January 2006, it has been a reasonable reaction to blame and punish the whole population of Gaza to the extent of imposing this life-threatening and health-denying regime of occupation in the form of a siege. ()
The truce period has now expired and there are strong rumors that Israel is considering a major military incursion in Gaza, which could intensify greatly an already unfolding humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the blockade. Such a sequence of events if it causes major death and destruction will immediately challenge the new Barack Obama presidency to take a stand by demonstrating that it is prepared to stand up to Israel to protect the vulnerable civilian population of Gaza. At this point, there is little reason to be hopeful that the more basic United States policy toward the Israel/Palestine conflict will change considering that all of the major Obama appointments in the foreign policy area are strong Israeli supporters, but there is some chance that Washington will use its leverage, at least behind the scenes, to discourage any major escalation of violence in Gaza.
The United Nations, as well as the United States, is challenged by these deteriorating conditions to exhibit greater concern and responsibility for the protection of civilians in Gaza. Its own role as the major provider of food for the people of Gaza has been severely constrained by the stiffening of the blockade in recent weeks. Beyond this, the Palestinian territories as part of historic Palestine were from the earliest days of the United Nations seen as a special responsibility of the world community. It was the UN that split the British controlled Palestinian mandate into two parts back in 1947, a "solution" tragically rejected at the time by the Arab world. In the last several years, the UN Security Council has endorsed the idea of humanitarian intervention under the rubric of "a responsibility to protect" (also known as R2P), and no world circumstance combines the misery and vulnerability of the people more urgently than does the situation of the people of Gaza living under occupation since 1967. Surely the present emergency circumstances present a compelling case for the application of this protective response under UN auspices. If this does not happen, it will again demonstrate to the people of the world, especially those in the Middle East, that geopolitics trumps international law and humanitarian concerns and leaves those victimized with few options. Under these conditions, it should not surprise us that extremist methods and reliance on violence wins many adherents.
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He may be the hard-partying NASCAR driver everyone's talking about, but today everyone's talking about how Brian Vickers connected with Matt Kenseth, got perpendicular to the field and took out a crapload of cars.
When the smoke cleared, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Burton, Clint Bowyer, Regan Smith, Bobby Labonte, David Ragan, David Reutimann, Andy Lally, and Travis Kvapil, among 13 total, had been caught up in the Talladega-like tangle, which happened on restart after a crash in which Kyle Bush connected with Karl Edwards while a chain reaction occurred further back, when Kevin Harvick ran into the back of David Ragan and was hit from behind by Mark Martin. Earlier, Daytona 500 wunderkind Trevor Bayne spun and crashed hard into a wall.
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Sales Get the Glory but Retention Gets the Gold
Aug 2, 2013 5:00 AM PT
If you want glamour, status and prestige within your company, go out and get new customers. If you want to stay in business, specialize in keeping the ones you have happy and loyal.
Customer retention isn't flashy, and it doesn't earn extra pats on the back from executives or big promotions -- which is a shame, because it's usually more profitable over the long term than hauling in new accounts.
It can be a lot more profitable. Acquiring a new customer is six to seven times more costly than retaining a customer, according to Frederick Reichheld of Bain & Company.
Hanging on to customers is hugely profitable. A business that retained all of its customers for just one additional month could achieve an additional 3 percent of annual growth, according to Karl Stark and Bill Stewart of research firm Avondale. Retaining its customer base for four additional months could create double-digit growth without the need to acquire a single new customer.
The Long Game
Despite the reality of retention, most businesses don't emphasize it.
About 29 percent of respondents to a March 2013 study by MarketingCharts couldn't quantify their spending in terms of acquisition vs. retention, and 28 percent said the split was 50-50.
However, 37.3 percent said that the majority of their marketing budgets went to acquisition, while only 5.7 percent said the majority of their budgets were geared toward retention.
In 2009, the No. 1 goal of B2B marketers was new customer acquisition -- 62.2 percent of them said it was their top priority. If it's not the most profitable activity they can engage in, why is it commanding so much attention?
Part of it is cultural. A salesperson at a software company is going to be celebrated internally and rewarded financially for landing a new 10,000-seat customer. How much reward goes to the team that keeps five or eight or 10 similarly sized customers happy, satisfied and contributing to the bottom line for another year? Not much. They're just doing their jobs, or so some would say.
This is one of the sticking points for CRM: It's useful in achieving those flashy new customer wins, and that's usually why CRM is purchased. However, it's better at keeping customers happy by understanding who they are and their experiences with your business over time.
The detail that can be collected and added to prospect records is far richer once they become customers and you begin to develop a mutual history. Often, CRM success is based on the business's success at acquisition, and retention is ignored. Using acquisition as a sole criteria is not useful in judging a CRM system's effectiveness -- but it is good at exposing other failures in an organization. Sadly, those failures are often attributed to the CRM technology, and systemic problems remain and thrive.
The Big 'R'
How do you get past this? First, your management must realize that we're in a retention economy, and that sales in a B2B environment must be repeat sales in order to be truly profitable and productive. Next, there must be a recommitment to the "R" in CRM -- relationships.
Customers have no motivation to keep buying from businesses that neglect the buyer-seller relationship and neglect the customer as a result. Building those relationships requires better understanding of who each customer is in the context of the buyer-seller relationship, and that understanding should be drawn from the information collected in CRM.
New customers are important -- they give you business to retain, and that means that salespeople are still very important to your survival. They're just the first runners in the relay of the customer lifecycle, though. If you don't bring the retention players up to speed -- specifically, customer support and marketing -- there's no way you can win the race.


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Caterpillar Names a 2013 Silver Edison Award Winner
Company recognized for innovative hydraulic hybrid technology, which dramatically increases fuel efficiency for the company's excavator equipment customers
Caterpillar Inc. is bringing home the silver for its first-ever commercialized machine that uses hydraulic hybrid technology. The Cat® 336E H hybrid excavator earned the prize in the Energy/Transportation category at the 26th annual Edison Awards, which were announced April 25 in Chicago, Ill. The new Cat "hydraulic hybrid" technology captures and reuses swing kinetic energy to help lower customers' owning and operating costs. Namely, the 336E H uses up to 25 percent less fuel compared to a standard 336E and is up to 50 percent more efficient compared to a 336D excavator.
The Edison Awards, named after world-famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison, recognize game-changing innovations that are at the forefront of new product and service development, marketing and human centered design, and are one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of successful innovation. Not only is this the first time Caterpillar has won an Edison Award, it is also the company's first nomination.
"At Caterpillar, we do not create new technologies just for technology's sake, or simply to prove that we can," said Rob Charter, vice president of Caterpillar's Excavation Division. "We are squarely focused on supporting our customers' success. Caterpillar engineers developed the hydraulic hybrid technology, which is a ground up, fully integrated design, which will benefit our customers with lower fuel costs, reduced exhaust emissions and a smaller carbon footprint—all without any compromise in production or reliability. We're honored to receive an award that helps validate Caterpillar's innovative technology."
More than 300 patents were filed on the new technologies incorporated in the Cat hybrid. Caterpillar defines a hybrid machine as one that is equipped with a device to collect, store and release energy during machine operation. The 336E H captures energy when the machine slows down or stops, and then releases it as the machine accelerates. On a typical job site, an excavator may repeat the same cycle every several seconds, which represents a significant energy savings opportunity.
The Cat 336E H was unveiled in October 2012, and is now being sold and serviced exclusively through the Cat dealer network.


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The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has cut its growth forecast for the country's economy, anticipating a bigger drop in consumer prices as well, and is holding firm on its cap on the franc's growth against the euro.
Reuters reported Thursday that at its quarterly meeting the central bank revised its forecast for the Swiss economy downward from 1.5% for the year to only 1%, and said that it now expected consumer prices to fall 0.6%. It also declared again its intention not to allow the franc to rise beyond an exchange rate of 1.20 against the euro, saying that it would take additional steps to preserve that rate if it had to.
The SNB cited the effect such an increase would have on prices and growth as reasons for its determination. In its statement, it said in part, "Downside risks to the Swiss economy will also stay high in the near term."
In June the SNB's quarterly statement referred to risks faced by the Swiss economy because of "uncertainty about future developments in the eurozone." However, in this latest statement, it instead referred to the global economy's weakness, saying, "Growth prospects are being dampened by the euro area crisis, on the one hand, and the uncertainty surrounding forthcoming fiscal policy decisions in the U.S., on the other. The situation on the financial markets is also fragile."
The Swiss franc was capped last September, after safe-haven-seeking investors drove its value up by 20% over the course of just a few months. Despite the calls of trade unions and some exporters in the past year urging the SNB to weaken the franc further, towards 1.40, it has stood its ground.
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SearchMerge: Real-Time Social Search With a Splash of Google
This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
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Quick Pitch: Search multiple websites such as Google, Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr and YouTube all at once.
Genius Idea: With OneRiot speeding up their Twitter Search, and Tweetmeme showing off impressive real-time search results, we know that real-time search of the social web is a hotbed for attention and innovation. SearchMerge tries their hand at Twitter search but adds Google, FriendFeed, YouTube, and Flickr (Last.FM is coming soon) results to the mix.
Like any search engine, you can input your query to return results, but with SearchMerge you can select from multiple popular social sites to merge real-time search results. Your search results include rich media content. So text, images, and video will all appear inline and you can watch YouTube videos in the results timeline, or click to enlarge Flickr photos. With tweets, however, you can reply, retweet, or view the full tweet.
You might be wondering what makes SearchMerge different from social search sites like Social Mention and WhosTalkin. On the surface there aren't too many differences - it's a social search engine. Some cool enhancements include the real-time refresh of SearchMerge results and the timeline view, but a search engine is only as good as its results, so play with SearchMerge and let us know what you think in the comments.
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What is the origin of fill one's shoes (idiom)?
Posted by Smokey Stover on December 10, 2006
In Reply to: What is the origin of fill one's shoes (idiom)? posted by Smokey Stover on December 10, 2006
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: ✪ The problem with searching for this idiom is primarily the fact that one has a variable between the verb and the noun. Fill his shoes? Fill one's shoes? Fill your boots? If you search the Archive with "fill the boots" you will get about as much as with "fill the shoes (of)," since boots and shoes are used pretty interchangeably in this idiom.
: I'm assuming that Angie doesn't mean something like "fill one's shoes with mud," but rather something like: "I'm sorry to see you leave; no one will be able to fill your shoes," or "No one will be able to fill Jim's boots," or "If she goes, who'll be able to fill her shoes?" In these instances, the message is: when you, he, she or Jim is gone, will his replacement be able to measure up to your, his, her or Jim's abilities? It can be used in the indicative, but this idiom is frequently used with the interrogative mood.
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If you wanted something like "first use" or first appearance in print, I can't help. Uses like "fill the position" or "walk in someone else's shoes" have their own histories, which probably intersect with "fill someone's shoes," but I have no chronological information.
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Were thrilled the audience watching us sprint around the globe each week will continue to witness the breathtaking landscapes that serve as our backdrops, only now in high definition. Whether were racing alongside the crystal-white peaks of the Arctic Circle, the neon-lined skyscrapers of Japan, or the color-drenched domes of the Russian Kremlin, fans will enjoy a heightened viewing experience as we bring the world to their couch every Sunday night, said Executive Producer and co-Creator Bertram van Munster."http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-amazing-race-set-to-return-in-spring-in-hd-at-last/
Phil is in a "top secret location"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/12/phil-keoghan-loves-that-girl-power-dominates-the-amazing-race-season-finale.htmlhttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/12/phil-keoghan-loves-that-girl-power-dominates-the-amazing-race-season-finale.html
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Nat, 31, and Kat, 35, have impressed viewers with their unflappable natures. While some partners have been abusive toward their teammates -- Chad Waltrip and Nick DeCarlo, we're looking at you -- these two women have behaved admirably toward each other every step of the way."My daughters enjoyed watching them," Keoghan said. "Theyre two very strong women, obviously very smart. To me, the best thing about 'The Amazing Race' has always been about being able to watch relationships that are strong, functional, and that actually are inspirational. "Of course, weve seen the other side of that. Weve seen all kinds of relationships over the years that for some reason havent worked. When theres a great connection, if you remember when the cowboys were on, or you think about the connection between Nat and Kat, when you see that kind of connection and how they operate under pressure, and were able to capture that with a camera and share that with an audience, I think thats pretty cool."After 17 seasons, Keoghan has developed an interesting theory about same-sex teams and why they tend to communicate better during the race. This season, viewers have noted on message boards and Twitter that the men have not treated the women in their lives well, especially Nick who berated his girlfriend, Vicki Casciola, mocked her, and eventually stopped helping her finish a challenge."Its almost like a mid-football game mentality where some of the guys are playing a game of football with their guy friends and they forget that theyre actually out there with their girlfriends or wives or partners," he said. "They start yelling and screaming like theyre in the middle of a game. Its always surprising to me."It always reminds me of the book 'Men are From Mars, Women From Venus' which outlines exactly the difference between men and women," he continued. "And I think male/female teams have more of a challenge on 'Race' than same-sex teams just because of that fact that when youre communicating and trying to work together under pressure, men and women just are wired different. I'm into equal rights and everything, but at the end of the day, men and women are just different and the way that two men will talk to each other when theyre competing as opposed to, say, the way two women talk to each other, its so uniquely different."
Preview is on YouTube.
Quote from: gl14 on December 13, 2010, 08:41:01 AMPreview is on YouTube.here is the link. I hope it is legit (Sorry I posted it in a couple of other threads before I saw this one. probably posted it in wrong spot somewhere along the way... too many categories!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ojqlhIF4g
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Quite a few locals were excited yesterday at the news that contestants and crew from the US TV reality show 'The Amazing Race' were in the city as part of their Australian leg of the show.The production crew and 11 American couples arrived in the city on two Rex chartered planes yesterday morning from Sydney, and were picked up by several four-wheeldrives.The show has couples race across the globe, doing crazy things at each destination. Rotary and St Johns Ambulance were at the old Junction Mine yesterday with the crew and contestants while they filmed a sequence for the show.Many locals drove up to catch a glimpse of the proceedings. When the BDT approached the production crew for an interview, a spokesman for the show worked on the basis of little to no publicity.But locals gave regular updates on their sightings of the groups on Facebook. According to posts on the site later in the day, the contestants had to go to Memorial Oval where they found an envelope telling them they had to dress up as Kangaroos and hop to Mercury Street for their next clue before they made their way to the Junction Mine.Mayor Wincen Cuy took part in filming at the Junction Mine, but couldn't give the BDT any information as to what his role was."I had to sign a declaration of confidence," Mayor Cuy said. "I was involved, and it will be fabulous for Broken Hill."City Council's media adviser John Casey said council would not comment on any projects filmed "in and around Broken Hill without theexpress permission of those companies and individuals involved."At this time we have been asked to keep details of projects currently in development in Broken Hill confidential and do not have permission tomake any further comment".
In other announcements:Tassler told Postmedia News that the new seasons of Survivor and The Amazing Race will feature twists based on fan reaction to past seasons. Survivor: Redemption Island will allow castaways voted off the island a second chance at returning to the game, and will feature the return of past players "Boston" Rob Mariano and Russell Hantz. The new Survivor premieres Feb. 16, on Global TV.The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business will feature returning teams that came up short of the finish line in past Races. The new Amazing Race premieres Feb. 20, on CTV."When you do these kinds of shows, in the beginning you don't really know what you're dealing with," Tassler explained. "Then, as the seasons go on, you start to see what the fans respond to, and you respond accordingly. It's not something we would do all the time, but both these programs have been on a long time now, and that's given us an opportunity to think things through as we move ahead."Read more: http://www.canada.com/entertainment/hasn+lost+Sheen/4111037/story.html#ixzz1B34pZLaP
THE 11 TEAMS Amanda Blackledge and Kris Klicka, engaged; Season 14. Amanda, 25, and Kris, 27, now live in Pismo Beach, Calif. Kent Kaliber and Vyxsin Fiala, dating; Season 12. Kent, 35, and Vyxsin, 32, live in Los Angeles. Jaime Edmondson and Cara Rosenthal, former NFL cheerleaders; Season 14. Jaime, 32, lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cara, 28, lives in Boca Raton, Fla. Mel and Mike White, father/son writers; Season 14. Mel, 70, is from Lynchburg, Va. Mike, 40, lives in Los Angeles. LaKisha and Jennifer Hoffman, sisters/coaches; Season 14. Both from Chicago, LaKisha is 30 and now lives in the Bronx, N.Y. Jennifer is 26 and lives in Louisville. Jet and Cord McCoy, brothers/cowboys; Season 16. Jet, 31, lives in Ada, Okla. Cord, 30, lives in Tupelo, Okla. Margie and Luke Adams, mother/son; Season 14. Margie, 53, and Luke, 25, are from Colorado Springs. Gary and Mallory Ervin, father/daughter; Season 17. He's 53, she's 25, and they hail from Morganfield, Ky. Herb Lang and Nate Lofton, Harlem Globetrotters; Season 15. Herb, 34, lives in Brinkley, Ark. Nate, 29, lives in New Orleans. Ronald and Christina Hsu, father/daughter; Season 12. Ronald, 61, lives in Tacoma, Wash. Christina, 29, lives in Washington, D.C. Zev Glassenberg and Justin Kanew, friends; Season 15. Zev, 28, lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Justin, 31, lives in Los Angeles.
11 'Amazing Race' teams return to finish what they startedBy Gary Levin, USA TODAYThey're not exactly all-stars. None has won the competition. But 11 teams of fan favorites will compete again in CBS' 18th edition of The Amazing Race, Unfinished Business, due Feb. 20 (8 ET/PT).Among those at the starting line: Oklahoma cowboy brothers Jet and Cord McCoy; Kentucky goths Kent Kaliber and Vyxsin Fiala; and Harlem Globetrotters Herb "Flight Time" Lang and Nate "Big Easy" Lofton.Five of the teams appeared in the show's 14th season, including sisters LaKisha and Jen Hoffman, stymied when one stopped to urinate just before reaching the finish line; Margie and Luke Adams, the strong-willed mom and her deaf son; and actor/screenwriter Mike White and dad Mel."We thought it was a very unique season," says producer Bertram van Munster. And all of the racers competed since the 12th season in 2007: "If we're digging too far back, people might not even remember who they were."Each has a compelling story of thwarted ambition: a lost passport, a taxi ride from hell, a penalty for failing a task involving dozens of ringing phones."There was a lot of 'would've, could've, should've' angst going on, so the energy right at the start was just extraordinary," says host Phil Keoghan, and the season embraces the idea that "everybody deserves a second chance."The new season of the seven-time Emmy-winning reality series kicks off in Palm Springs, Calif., where the teams must sort through hundreds of paper airplanes to find one of a handful that say "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services," figure out it's a little-used acronym for Qantas Airways, and board one of two flights to Sydney.Other stops on the journey, filmed in November and December, include Japan and tiny Liechtenstein, a first-time destination, where racers had to measure the precise length of the country on mopeds.Did the returnees use experience to play dirty? Although some contestants did, Jet says, "we don't feel a need to trick somebody to beat them."But, Cord says, "they named this season of Amazing Race after us, because we definitely had unfinished business."
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The US regulator has asked AT&T to provide documented proof of the forthcoming spectrum crunch, given that shortage justifies provides much of the justification for its merger with T-Mobile.
As part of its investigation into the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA the FCC has requested "all plans, analyses, and reports" relating to how the combined operation will use its radio spectrum. Specifically the document (pdf, not as daunting as it first appears) asks AT&T to provide "any spectrum capacity constraints the Company is currently facing or the Company is projected to face in the future" - asking for proof that great efficiency is needed.
AT&T wants to merge with T-Mobile USA to create the largest operator in the USA, knocking Verizon Wireless off the top spot. AT&T argues that the merger will create "thousands of jobs" and enable "efficiencies in the use of spectrum" which are essential to a company that "faces severe spectrum and capacity constraints and cannot simply wait for the next major auction to address them".
The FCC wants to see the figures behind those statements, as well as information about how long the T-Mobile USA brand (and tariffs) will last and just how efficiently the merged company will be using its radio spectrum.
Despite the lack of supporting evidence the forthcoming "spectrum crunch" has become an accepted reality, and dictates government policy on both sides of the pond. Mobile operators regularly claim their customers have an insatiable demand for bandwidth, and the US and UK governments have both responded by making a commitment to release 500MHz of prime spectrum in the next decade or two, though quite what customers are going to do with that spectrum isn't clear.
For network operators the motivation is clear - the more spectrum that's available on the market the cheaper it becomes. The cost of infrastructure is high enough to keep new players out, so the existing operators can be expected to always argue that they need more radio spectrum even if they've no use for it.
There is an old adage that one can never have enough bandwidth (or processing speed, or storage), but there is a limit to how much bandwidth one can consume. Even in the fixed world headline connection speeds are topping out with customers taking more interest in data caps and reliability these days.
LTE (4G telephony) scales well, so a connection can ramp up for a download and quickly scale back down again when completed, so the spectrum can be used by someone else. More radio spectrum will make things faster, but we look forward to seeing if AT&T can really demonstrate that a lack of radio spectrum could lead to the collapse of civilisation, or even the collapse of AT&T. ®


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YP App Adds Menu Search, Makes Finding Your Favorite Dish Easier
Looking for your next burrito, slice of pizza or cupcake just got a little easier with an update to AT&T Interactive's YP app. Now in addition to searching for types of restaurants around you, you can look up specific items on the menu.
"We believe local is evolving from 'search' to a deeper experience that's helpful in actually making a decision," says David Williams, VP of Consumer Products at AT&T Interactive. "Adding menu item search is a simple, yet powerful new option for smartphone users. It empowers them to express what they're looking for and leads them to restaurants offering what they crave."
To do those searches by the dish AT&T Interactive is working with SinglePlatform, which allows restaurants to update their menus instantly on the mobile app, web and even their Facebook page simultaneously.
YP has an advantage over other restaurant review apps because it is searching the actual menu for a restaurant rather than reviews written by previous restaurant goers. For instance, if someone writes "I wish I had gotten a burrito" in a review on some other sites, then that restaurant and review may show up when searching for burrito. Since YP has the actual menu data, it's searching only for menu items that are currently available – so you won't wind up at a restaurant that no longer serves what you're interested in, or never served it in the first place.
"This is the first mobile app to use our restaurant menu content and empower the user to search at the dish level, getting them one step closer to a merchant's doorstep," says Wiley Cerilli, CEO at SinglePlatform. "With the YP team, we're making finding food extremely simple and giving restaurants another way to connect with customers hungry for what they have to offer."
The YP app has a database of more than 13 million menu items located across 300,000 restaurants in the U.S. In addition to finding out what's on the menu, you can also check out photos of the business, find business hours, and check out ratings and reviews. You can also search for menu items based on price, and select restaurants by ambiance.
You can register for a YP account with Facebook Connect to submit reviews and upload photos of restaurants yourself to the app. YP can also be used to find discounted gas prices and find local coupons.
The YP app is available now for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
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On a recent episode of "Dancing With the Stars 2" (Korea's Dancing With the Stars), actor Lee Hoon threw out hilarious and ludicrous remarks while comparing himself to Big Bang's G-Dragon.
When MC Kim Kyuri asked him where he got the idea to do his hair red, he compared himself to G-Dragon. His confidence when speaking of how he thought this hairstyle suited him well gave the audience a big laughter.
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Diana Serra Cary watched her four-year-old son play in their backyard in 1964.
She thought it was wonderful to see him playing outside and having a childhood. But then she became angry because he wasn�t working.
Cary�s career as a child star made it difficult for her to understand the concept of �childhood.�
Starting her career in 1920 at 18 months, Cary was the family�s bread winner. Before she was 10, she bought her family three houses and a $30,000 Duesenberg for her brother while earning $1,500,000 a year.
�I thought I was a grown-up,� the 94 year old said in the 2012 documentary �Baby Peggy, the Elephant in the Room.� �I knew I was the bread winner and thought I was just acting like a child in the movies.�
Born with the name Peggy-Jean Montgomery, she changed her name when she was older to gain the identity and independence she never had.
Cary�s acting career as a child star ended in 1924 after her father broke her contract with the studio. The same day, the family returned home to find all of their money and valuables gone.
�We came home and my grandmother and step-grandfather were gone. They drew out all of the millions that I had made,� Cary said. �We were flat broke. Everything we lost is what we never talked about.�
The Montgomery family was hungry and struggled for years. Cary�s father, Jack Montgomery, always blamed her for their misfortunes.
Hollywood may seem glamorous, but it is not place for children.
Cary�s only competition was Jackie Coogan, who starred with Charlie Chaplin in �The Kid� in 1921.
The Coogan Bill, which puts 15 percent of what a child actor earns into a trust fund, was created because of Coogan. Earning roughly $3 million as a child star, Coogan�s parents spent all of it and refused to give it to him when he was an adult.
Similarly, Shirley Temple�s parents splurged with her earnings as well. Living like a little princess, Temple�s parents bought a bowling alley and a life-sized play house in her backyard. As her career dwindled; so had her money.
But it isn�t just the financial issues, it�s the psychological issues.
During the 1930s and 1940s, parents and directors would tell child actors that a relative was sick or they wouldn�t get to eat lunch to make them cry in scenes.
Director Norman Taurog and uncle of child actor Jackie Cooper went as far to tell him that he would shoot his dog if Cooper didn�t cry while filming �Skippy� in 1931.
However, in my opinion, one of the worst child star parents was Natalie Wood�s mother, Maria Gurdin.
In Suzanne Finstad�s biography of Wood�s life, �Natasha,� Gurdin would do anything to have her daughter in the movies including:
-Forcing Wood to wear pigtails into her early teens so she could still get child roles.
-When Wood broke her wrist while filming �The Green Promise,� her mother didn�t get the bone set so that she wouldn�t miss out on filming time. This resulted in a lump on her wrist which Wood always covered with a bracelet.
-Encouraging her daughter to date men twice her age, such as Frank Sinatra, to help her career.
Due to the experiences of past child stars, former child star Paul Peterson created the non-profit organization, A Minor Consideration, to support young performers.
Cary, who now visits film festivals and writes books about Hollywood�s history, works with A Minor Consideration.
�Baby Peggy was the elephant in the room. How she got started, how it hurt the family,� Cary said. �But she was never discussed. She ceased to exist.�
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"Possibilities are Endless"
Narconon Graduate
Amanda M.
In high school I was in every single club you could imagine, I was a swimmer, played soccer.
I just never felt like I really fit in and I started hanging out with, like, the wrong crowd. Like, let's go smoke pot. It progressed on to like doing cocaine, and then I started using opiates. And then I just let everything go.
I was just caught in a trap.
All I was doing was selling drugs, buying drugs, doing drugs.
I had gone that far down on the scale of life, that that's who I was.
That's when I arrived at Narconon.
The programme gave me my entire life back.
Piece by piece, through every step of the programme, I gained a little piece that I had been missing. And then, I realized the damage that I created in my past and it was solely because of the decisions I was making.
It was like a huge turning point.
The possibilities are endless, you know, the options I have in life are endless.
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The task of the food processing industry is the transformation of agricultural products into a wide range of foodstuffs. From conveying goods to sorting, picking and storing, Interroll has the right answer when it comes to the needs of the food sector.
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Looking for Ancestors of William FOSTER - LAWRY:born NZ 1881 d.1913_married to Annie (nee GILL)
I am looking for the paternal line of 'William FOSTER' [LAWRY] (my Great Grandfather)b.NZ 1881-d.Karangahake NZ 1913: Miner :William was married to Annie(nee GILL),her mother being Mary GILL(nee BARBER,who came to Nz from Ireland aged 5 as an orphan accompanied by a governess)William's mother Jane LAWRY was born in Cornwall 1847ish. Her parents were Walter LAWRY & Gertrude(nee ROBINS). Walter & Gertrude married in Roche Cornwall 18/10/1841. Walter was a baptist minister and emigrated with his family to Nz from Cornwall on the Queen of Mercy in 1862. They settled in Springston. Jane LAWRY was 3rd eldest of 11 children. The eldest child Elizabeth, married on the eve of the family's departure for NZ and remained in Cornwall. Their youngest child Joseph died on the voyage from measles. Jane was never married and had two sons(who were given the name LAWRY by deed poll); 'Alfred Alexander ROBERTS', 1873-1948, his father was 'Jonathan ROBERTS' - Jane was not allowed to marry him as Jonathan ROBERTS Great Grandmother was also a LAWRY ? ; Jane;s 2nd son, my GtGrandfather, is registered born as 'William FOSTER'. Jane was living in the Hawkes Bay area working as a farm helper when William was conceived, and she spent time in the back blocks in the Mohaka area between Napier and Gisborne with both her boys. Jane died aged 50yrs. She was found dead in the Heathcote River in 1897.
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Datum 2013-04-30
20 years in operation
Piab, a leading supplier of industrial vacuum technology, is proud to announce that the Piab Asia office has recently celebrated 20 years in operation.
The Piab Asia Pacific (PAP) office in Singapore was founded by Peter Tell of Piab AB along with a Singaporean man, Allan Tee, in 1993. There was a need to provide support and to develop Piab's presence in Asia. Soon, a number of local distributors were set up to form a strong network from which to sell Piab's lines of vacuum products and vacuum conveyors.
In 2004, the Piab Product Centre (PPC) was established in Singapore as a satellite unit of Piab's production facilities and to be closer to the suppliers in Asia. Five years later in 2009, the PAP and the PPC merged into a single entity to make efficient use of the resources and in the supply of products to Asian customers. This merged company became known as Piab Asia.
Today, Piab Asia serves as the sole supply unit in Asia for Piab and the main office for the other Piab companies in China, India, Japan and South Korea.
Established in 1951, Piab designs innovative vacuum solutions that improve the energy-efficiency, productivity, and working environments of vacuum users around the world. As a reliable partner to many of the world's largest manufacturers, Piab develops and manufactures a complete line of vacuum pumps, vacuum accessories, vacuum conveyors and suction cups for a variety of automated material handling and factory automation processes. Piab utilizes COAX®, a completely new dimension in vacuum technology, in many of its original products and solutions. COAX® cartridges are smaller, more energy efficient and more reliable than conventional ejectors, and can be integrated directly into machinery. This allows for the design of a flexible, modular vacuum system. Piab is a worldwide organization with subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 countries. Its headquarters are in Sweden.
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Wainwright, Neshek struggle in All-Star Game
Cards pitchers combine to allow five runs in 1 1/3 innings for NL squad
MINNEAPOLIS -- Manager Mike Matheny chose his ace, Adam Wainwright, as starter and his setup man, Pat Neshek, for one of the final spots in the National League bullpen, but neither did the Cardinals any potential postseason favors in the All-Star Game on Tuesday night.
Wainwright and Neshek combined to allow all of the American League's runs in NL's 5-3 loss at Target Field. The result of the game means the AL will hold home-field advantage in the World Series, as Boston did when it defeated St. Louis last year.
"You're not going to be able to make many mistakes in a game like this and get away with them," Matheny said. "But both of those guys had tremendous seasons, and I can't wait to watch them get back there."
Wainwright, who became the ninth Cardinals pitcher to start an All-Star Game, called the assignment "one of the coolest things I can ever say I did." The results, though, did not live up to the anticipation.
He put the NL in an early three-run hole, as he served up an RBI triple to the Angels' Mike Trout and a two-run homer to the Tigers' Miguel Cabrera in the only inning he pitched. Wainwright has allowed as many as three runs in only three of his 19 starts this season.
"If you go look at where the pitch Miguel Cabrera hit of the park was, he's a Nintendo-type player," Wainwright said. "He's so good. The ball is on the white chalk line off the plate. Nobody keeps that ball fair. He's just a very good hitter.
"Sometimes, unfortunately, you tip your hat to these guys that are very good."
The AL's rally against Wainwright started with a leadoff double by Derek Jeter, whose at-bat was delayed by Wainwright's decision to drop his glove on the mound, step back and join in the standing ovation. On Wainwright's second pitch, Jeter lined a double to right field.
Trout drove the future Hall of Famer in on a full-count fastball. Cabrera capped the scoring with a homer into the left-field seats. Wainwright has been the league's stingiest at serving up the long ball, allowing none since May and only four in 138 innings coming into the break.
Wainwright sandwiched the home run with strikeouts of the Mariners' Robinson Cano and the Jays' Jose Bautista. His appearance ended with the Orioles' Nelson Cruz grounding out on Wainwright's 21st pitch.
"I know I can put up a zero against anybody at anytime," Wainwright said. "I've done that many times in bigger situations than that. I'm not going to hang my head too bad. I know there are going to be people who said, 'Why didn't [Dodgers ace Clayton] Kershaw start? He obviously pitched better.' What I do know is I had a great time, and I'll have to pitch a few more All-Star Games to make up for it."
The NL offense took Wainwright off the hook by evening the game, 3-3, with two runs in the second and another in the fourth. Instead, the loss was Neshek's, his first of the season.
"I was actually really relaxed, and I think that might have been the problem," Neshek said. "My stuff was terrible. My fastball was barely breaking 90 [mph] out there. It just felt weird out there. I'm kind of glad to get that out of my system. It [stinks] because there is a lot on the line, but you're going to have those days."
Neshek, who has allowed one run in his last 38 appearances for the Cardinals, gave up two while recording just one out in the fifth. He opened the inning by facing former A's teammates Josh Donaldson (groundout) and Derek Norris (single). Two more hits, including an RBI double by Trout, knocked Neshek from the game.
Though it wasn't the result he had envisioned in his return to Minneapolis, his hometown and the place where his pro career started, Neshek would not let it sour the overall experience.
He was moved by the reception he received during Tuesday's midday parade and again during pregame introductions. Among NL players, the applause rivaled only the one received by Carlos Gomez, also a former Twins player.
"That was pretty awesome, probably one of the highlights of my career," Neshek said. "That made my night. I was overwhelmed. I didn't expect it."
Two-time All-Star Matt Carpenter did not appear in the game. Yadier Molina, the Cardinals' fourth All-Star, was unable to participate due to a thumb injury.


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Valpak to Remain Part of Cox Enterprises
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Red Agate Faceted Stones & Glamour Ball Bracelet
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Red Ruby beads adorn this delicate bracelet set in gold plated sterling silver and accentuated by a dazzling black rhodium plated sterling silver bead charm encrusted by brilliant cubic zirconia stones. 6 Inches long with a 1" extension
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Celebrities to Join Cat in the Hat, Read to Kids at New York Public Library
Actors Uma Thurman, Jake T. Austin to kick off NEA's Read Across America Day
WASHINGTON - February 27, 2013 -
Lights! Camera! Read! The National Education Association is rolling out the red carpet for a star-studded read-in to kick off the 16th annual Read Across America Day on Friday, March 1. Academy Award-nominated actress Uma Thurman and actor Jake T. Austin, star of the Emmy-winning "Wizards of Waverly Place" and ABC Family's "The Fosters," will grab their hats and read with the Cat.
More than 250 children from New York City public schools will gather at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the historic New York Public Library, which will be turned into a reading wonderland to provide some special Seuss-style reading inspiration and deliver an important message: 2 x 2 + 20 = good oral health and literacy habits.
This year, NEA has teamed up with Renaissance Dental to show the direct link between good oral health habits and literacy since American students miss more than 51 million hours of school each year due to oral health problems. Together, NEA and Renaissance Dental are asking children and their parents to brush for two minutes, two times per day and read for 20 minutes each day. That's a daily total of 24 minutes focused on developing good oral health and reading skills.
|Celebrity-studded national kick off of Read Across America Day
|Academy Award-nominated actress Uma Thurman
Actor Jake T. Austin Dennis Van Roekel, President, National Education Association
Rob Mulligan, President and CEO, Renaissance Dental
Michael Mulgrew, President, United Federation of Teachers (UFT)
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|Celebrity readers and hundreds of students wearing red and white striped stovepipe hats to kick off the 16th annual of NEA's Read Across America
|The New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum
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Event run time: 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. EST
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The celebrity-studded national kick off of Read Across America Day is sponsored by NEA and Renaissance Dental. Read Across America, an award-winning literacy program designed to get students excited about reading, was founded by NEA in 1997 through a partnership with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P., and Random House. From coast-to-coast, more than 45 million children are expected to participate—making it the nation's largest reading celebration.
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