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By Daniel ҬMitchell
When the state legislature spends time in the midst of a major budget crisis debating about whether to ban shark fin soup, you know we're in trouble.
The current focus on soup is not because legislators don't know about the dire budget situation. Rather it means they don't know what to do about it. And that is bad news for UC and its state funding. But there is something the state can do for UC, despite the fiscal crisis.
First, some background: In January, when Gov. Jerry Brown took office, he faced an immediate problem. State taxes had been raised in February 2009 on a temporary basis, slated to expire at the end of June 2011. Even if voters could be persuaded to extend the taxes, there would be ongoing budget deficits. Without tax extensions, those deficits would be much larger.
The only practical way to put the extension issue to voters by June was through the legislature where a two-thirds vote is required. To obtain all the necessary votes, a few Republicans would have to go along with the vote extension.
Brown presented the legislature with a budget back in January that assumed he could negotiate successfully with the Republicans and get those needed votes. In the end, however, the strategy failed.
Even if the votes were now obtained, it is unlikely a special election could be called before July. Once we are in July or later, the tax "extensions" become tax "increases" which voters are more likely to reject. As a discretionary item in the state budget, UC's funding is especially vulnerable to the turmoil in Sacramento.
So what can UC ask from the governor, given these unfortunate circumstances?
More cash is not going to be on the table. But if the governor were willing, the state might do what it did in 1984 and 1990 when cash was also in short supply. UC needs to contribute to its now-underfunded pension plan.
UC's pension became overfunded in the early 1990s and the state stopped contributing. Before then, however, the state routinely made the annual employer pension contribution.
Now that contributions are needed again, the state is refusing to resume paying its share, placing an added burden on UC.
In 1984 and 1990, however, the state gave UC an IOU to put in the pension in lieu of scarce cash. The IOU was essentially a promise to pay interest and principal on the state contributions due for those two years over the subsequent three decades rather than upfront. If the state simply followed this earlier precedent, it would alleviate some of the pressure on UC's operating budget. No immediate cash would be needed.
Would the state be willing to help UC absorb whatever budget cuts are coming next fiscal year by providing a pension IOU?
There is only one way to find out: Ask the governor.
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Lactose Free Ice Cream Recipes
Coconut Peach Popsicle Recipe
Here's a refreshing, healthy treat for you to enjoy this summer. We made coconut peach popsicles using peaches from our garden and fresh coconuts. The popsicles are made out of a blend of puréed peaches, diced peaches, coconut milk, fresh coconut water, fresh shredded coconut, freshly squeezed lime juice, honey and vanilla beans.
You can't go wrong with these frozen treats. Plus, they're vegan! Depending on what fruit you have available, be creative and combine the fruits and spices you like.
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Frozen Dessert Ideas
According to Wikipedia, Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month in 1984. He also appointed the third Sunday in July as National Ice Cream Day. Reagan recognized the popularity of ice cream in the United States (90% of the nation's population consumes ice cream).
Mother Nature is finally smiling on us in Northern California, let's hope she'll continue to supply us with a good excuse to consume our favorite frozen treat.
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Coconut Milk Ice Cream Recipe with Chestnut Swirl
This recipe proves that vegan doesn't always mean healthy. Coconut cream, coconut milk, sugar, pure vanilla extract, chestnut purée and stabilizers combine to make a vegan ice cream recipe that tips the scales at about 3000 calories per quart (that's 375 calories per serving). But there aren't any eggs or dairy products!
I recently received a request for a vegan ice cream recipe from Leslie. It was the first time I tried making a vegan dessert. I made use of the same combination of stabilizers I use in other egg-free recipes, namely soy lecithin and xanthan gum. I increased the quantity to improve mouth-feel though. Xanthan gum in particular inhibits the formation of ice crystals, which create a more pleasing texture.
After tasting the final product, everyone in the house agreed that the ice cream strongly resembled chè, a very popular Vietnamese dessert. I hadn't anticipated that at all. Since I swirled the ice cream with chestnut purée, I thought it would have a more French flavor to it, but that was not the case. That's one of the things I love about cooking. I really enjoy experimenting, and the results of these culinary adventures can add completely new recipes to my repertoire.
My husband Lulu has decided to leave the ice cream maker on the kitchen counter until the end of summer to encourage us to make ice cream more often this year. I'll post our concoctions on here all summer, so at least some good can come out of my impending weight gain. Stay tuned!
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The grocery store looms large. And larger. So large that it comes with road map, rest stop and radio station. Which fills the rotisserie-scented air with the chipper pitch for the weekly special and the downbeat rock standard. Generally U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."
Which is the grocery store theme song. Many a market nomad, wearily pushing her cart, wanders, listlessly seeking red wine vinegar or golden beet. Of course, the same frustration drove her to the grocery store in the first place. Back home, she can't locate the cumin.
Not that she's out of cumin. Who drains a whole jar of the nubby, nutty seed? But cumin tends to wander off, probably to mess around with the other backbench spices. Where's cumin when you need it? At the grocery store. Where neither shopper, nor Bono, can find what she's looking for.
She has heard of the household manager who stocks the pantry in alphabetical order. She has heard of the shopper who unloads the cart by category, so that each grocery bag corresponds to a particular kitchen shelf. She files these fantasies under as-if.
She bags her fresh jar of cumin, drives it home and twists off its plastic collar. She shakes the tan curls into a skillet and toasts them dark and fragrant. She casts them onto a heap of glistening roasted beets, breathing in earthy, earthly pleasure. Then she shoves the jar onto the spice shelf, belly to belly with a half-filled canister of ground cumin, an unopened pillar of cumin seed and a small bowl of crushed cumin. Smirking, all.
She snaps the cupboard shut. She has things to do. Like look for the sea salt.
Leah Eskin is a Tribune newspapers special contributor.
Sweet beets
Prep: 25 minutes
Cook: 70 minutes
Makes: 6 servings
4 medium red beets
4 medium golden beets
1 1/2 teaspoons cumin seed
3/4 cup orange juice
3 tablespoons butter, cubed
1 teaspoon red-wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1 Roast: Scrub beets, trim stems to 1 inch, leave tails intact. Settle red beets in one ovenproof pan and golden beets in another. Add enough water to just cover the bottom of the pan. Cover with foil. Slide into a 400-degree oven and roast until easily poked with a fork, 60 minutes.
2 Slice: When beets are cool enough to handle, snap on surgical gloves. Lop off tops and tails, slip off skins. Slice into 1/4-inch-thick half-moons. Pile red beets in one half of a serving bowl, golden beets in other.
3 Simmer: Cast cumin seeds into a small, dry skillet. Toast over medium-high heat, shaking frequently, until darkened and fragrant, 3 minutes. Reduce heat to medium. Carefully pour in juice; let bubble until thickened, 8 minutes. Stir in butter until melted. Stir in vinegar.
4 Dress: Pour sauce over beets. Do not toss. Sprinkle with salt. Let stand 10 minutes. Serve warm.
The grocery store looms large. And larger. So large that it comes with road map, rest stop and radio station. Which fills the rotisserie-scented air with the chipper pitch for the weekly special and the downbeat rock standard. Generally U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."


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Game 105: Toronto at Oakland
It was obvious that the Blue Jays were thrilled with the two pitchers they received in the trade that sent Scott Rolen to the Reds. It's been hard to find anyone that disagrees that Toronto got two talented arms in Josh Roenicke and Zach Stewart.
As for that other piece to the deal? Well, Edwin Encarnacion doesn't come with glowing reviews. He has shown some power potential (26 homers in '08), but his defense needs some work, something bench coach Brian Butterfield will tackle for the Jays.
The trade was more about the arms than about acquiring Encarnacion. That being said, there's always the chance that a change of scenery could do the third baseman some good. When Encarnacion found out that he had been dealt to Toronto, he said it hardly came as a shock.
"I was not surprised," Encarnacion said. "They've been talking about a trade and I'm ready. I know how this game is and I was ready. I was waiting for it and I figured they were going to make a trade. Now, I'm happy I'm here with my new team, Toronto, and I'm going to enjoy it."
Encarnacion's numbers this season leave something to be desired: .209 with five homers and 16 RBIs in 43 games. Consider, though, that he missed May and June with a chipped bone in his left wrist. In July, he hit .276 with four homers and 10 RBIs over 24 games.
Encarnacion, who spent the past five seasons with the Reds, said he feels like he's back at 100 percent and he agreed that a new team might be just what he needed. He noted that he already knew Jose Bautista, Marco Scutaro and Alex Rios, as well as a few other Jays, so getting used to his new surroundings shouldn't be too difficult.
"I'm going to miss those other guys," he said. "But we're going to have fun here."
DOWNS TO DL: The Blue Jays placed closer Scott Downs on the 15-day DL with the same left big toe injury that shelved him for 19 games between June and July. As for when Downs will be back? "It won't be any time soon," said manager Cito Gaston. Jason Frasor steps back into the ninth-inning role and Jeremy Accardo is recalled from Vegas — not that he ever made it to Nevada after being optioned just two days ago.
SCOOT RESTING: Gaston kept shortstop Marco Scutaro on the bench on Sunday in order to allow the infielder to rest a sore right heel that's been bothering him for a while. With an off-day on Monday, Gaston felt it was a good time to give Scutaro some time to recover. This might explain why Scutaro was pulled early in Friday's game.
Today's lineups:
Fourth place AL East, 12.0 GB
1. Jose Bautista, LF
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Adam Lind, DH
4. Lyle Overbay, 1B
5. Vernon Wells, CF
6. Alex Rios, RF
7. Edwin Encarnacion, 3B
8. Rod Barajas, C
9. John McDonald, SS
Starter: LHP Rickey Romero (9-4, 3.59)
Fourth place AL West, 18.5 GB
1. Adam Kennedy, 3B
2. Rajai Davis, CF
3. Kurt Suzuki, C
4. Scott Hairston, LF
5. Jack Cust, RF
6. Tommy Everidge, DH
7. Bobby Crosby, 1B
8. Mark Ellis, 2B
9. Cliff Pennington, SS
Starter: RHP Vin Mazzaro (2-7, 5.16)
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Scott Rolen left Sunday's game in the seventh inning after he was hit in the helmet with a pitch by Rockies right-hander Jason Marquis. Rolen walked off under his own power and appeared OK as he left the field.
Hope he's ok.
Nice start by Romero who didn't have his best stuff but toughed it out for 7 innings for the win.
Romero goes to 10-4 and lowers his era to 3.53, putting him in the group of top 3 elite left handers in the American League.
Romero: 10-4, era of 3.53
CC Sabathia:11-7, era of 3.95
Mark Buehrle: 11-5. era of 3.79
Ricky has 10-11 starts left in the season, if he keeps this up, he could end up the season as the left hander in the AL with the best win-loss record and era. Not to shabby considering the salary difference between the 3. ( Buehrle-14 Mill, CC-17 mill, Romero-400k).
Roenicke has one nasty slider to go with the heat. Nice addition to the pen.
That is the second time Downs has tried to come back too quickly from a small injury, this time it cost us 3 wins and puts him on the shelf for probably a month at least. . I hope he's learned a lesson.
Hill now tied for 2nd place in the AL with 26 home runs. If the MVP was awarded today it'd probably be between Hill, Morneau and Tiexiera. Nice company.
Seems like the reaction to the Encarnacion part of the deal has been underwhelming. I think media and fans need to be careful not to turn this into a self-fulfilling prophecy. A chance of scenery can turn around a player and we should give Encarnacion that fresh start. Otherwise, if he's already got knocks against before he even gets a chance here to make an impression then that's bound to work against his performance.
Like what I saw from Roenicke. Looked like he was throwing a knucklecurve to compliment that hard slider. The guy has good stuff.
Felt bad for the Mazzaro. That got ugly, reminded me of Cecil in Fenway early this year. I hope he bounces back like Cecil did.
Back luck for Rolen … and the Reds. That team has had no luck this season. They signed Ramon Hernandez and Wily Taveras, hoping to have a impact. Both have had terrible career-low years. Also, Votto was also out for a big chunk. Encarnacion was also struggling … oh well for him, our problem now.
And I thought the Jays were having bad luck. A little reassuring seeing those guys.
Just for interest's sake, Josh Roenicke's younger brother Jason is toiling for the Jays minor league affiliate, Lansing. Drafted by the Jays in the 19th round of the 2008 amateur player draft, he has pitched 9.1 innings with an ERA of 2.89 and an opposing BA of .212. If Josh hangs around with the big club, in a few years we could have Roenicke, Roenicke in the bullpen. The year Josh was born, 1983, his father Gary was helping the Baltimore Orioles win a World Series.
Snider's first at bat tonight resulted in a 3 run homer. Next up was Dopirak who also homered. Get these kids up here already…………………….
When I jotted Roenicke's name on MILB.com. I first thought "the Jays sent him to Lansing????" Then I looked closer, as I should have.
Having a baseball related family never hurt. Prince Fielder, Tony Gwynn Jr. (playing very well for the Pads now), countless others I can't think of right now…
I should have mentioned that Gary Roenicke's brother Ron also played in the Majors. If Jason gets a call to the majors sometime, you would have 2 brothers in the majors, the offspring of 2 brothers who also played. I wonder how often that's happened?
I recall a family called Ripkin that did pretty well, and another one called Griffey. Tony Fernandez's son was drafted by the Jays this year, but he will have to go some to overtake his dad.
I see David Purcey has crept into the winning column. He is now 5-4, with an ERA of 4.31 and a WHIP of 1.5. In 100.1 innings, he has struck out 83, walked 57, and allowed only 3 home runs. That's pretty good, considering how the ball flies in the hot desert air.
Maybe we should just have a homer and rbi update for Dopirak and Snider each day, since it appears neither is slowing down. Last night Snider hit a monster to center field which is 433 feet to the wall. Dopirak drilled two line drive home runs to left field and ended up going 4 for 5 with 2 hr's and 2 singles.
In the last 5 games, Dopirak has gone 11 for 23 with 1 grand slam, 4 other hr's, and 12 rbi's. Snider has gone 9 for 18 with 6 doubles, 6 walks, 2 hrs and 11 rbi's.
Vegas have a radio station that broadcasts the games. In listening to the last few games, I have became more and more impressed with Dopirak, just like the radio announcers and color commentators of the games.
He is not just a hr hitter, he hits hard line drives to all fields. This kid will hit here just as well as he is in Vegas, none of his hits are cheap ones, they're all drilled. He hits what the pitchers give him, to all fields, if they make a real mistake it's gone. He could be the best hitter we have.
This team is crazy if they don't trade Overbay, bring this kid up immediately and play him every day. Not only do we save 7 million per year, but Dopirak is a lot better hitter than Overbay. In fact, he could end up being the best hitter we have.
I was going to say that home runs are cheap in the high desert, but 433 to straightaway centre makes up for a lot of tough air. I hope we get to see Dopirak in September to see what he can do against major league pitching. It is very nice to dream about a Delgado like bat at first again BUT:
I would be cautious about replacing Overbay just yet because: a) we would likely have to pick up most of his salary anyway, so we might as well keep him. b) he is one of the best defensive first basemen in the league, and c) Dopirak has never played above AA until this year, and there is a huge jump between hitting AAA pitchers and hitting major league pitching on a consistent basis. If he plays well enough out of Spring Training to make the club next year, I would use him to replace Kevin Millar, and have a righty-lefty switch off with Overbay at first, Lind at DH, and Snider, with Lind playing left field.
Snider will play LF over Lind. Snider has a stronger throwing arm and is more athletic than most think.
Dopirak currently is leading the PCL in BA at .375 and slugging at .625 for an awesome ops of 1.012. In addition, Dopirak hits both left and right handed pitchers well.
As a right handed hitter he's currently hitting .433/.436/.683 against right handers and although his current stats against left handers are low because he's faced few in AAA, his split stats over the last few years show how complete a hitter he is.
To platoon Overbay and Dopirak makes little sense since Overbay doesn't hit right handers as well as Dopirak does and Overbay's stats against lefties is dismal. In addition, Dopirak brings significantly more power production than Overbay.
Overbay is ranked 23rd by CBS, a rating system which includes offensive and defensive stats in their rating. Although, Overbay's fine on defense, we give up too much on his offense production. If we have to pick up some salary as you suggest, it simply means other teams don't rate him very high either or they'd be clamoring to get him at the salary he's at. So why should we keep him, if we want to win.
What we should do is immediately release Millar and promote Dopirak, and give him time between now and the end of year to settle in, so Overbay becomes excess baggage and we can trade him over the winter.
To keep Millar here for the balance of the year and keep Dopirak in AAA is stupidity. Millar has been toast for a while and if we do want a chance to compete in 2010, we'd better get these kids up here now and send the non performers like Millar and others out to pasture..
Randy Ruiz is also having a nice year down in Vegas. You know the PCL is a hitters league when Ruiz jacks 24. Both Ruiz and Dopirak deserve to be up here instead of Millar. Millar is probably just too likable to release or send down. That is the only explaination I can come up with.
Good ones yerouttahere, that is awesome that we drafted Fernandez's son! I forgot about that. Todd, Mel Jr. and Mel Stottlemyre also combined for some good arms, and coaches. Then there is the flip side … Kolby Clemens and Josh Barfield don't look to have what it takes.
Ruiz has had a nice year, but I do understand why he's not being called up. He's now a 10 year minor league player who's been through 11 organizations and 31 years old, probably either at the start of his declining years or close to it. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to promote him to build the future.
Funny thing about Ruiz, he's put up some great numbers throughout his career and never really got a sniff at the MLB level, so it looks to me like a number of organizations didn't see much future with him.
The book on Ruiz was always that he could hit over .300 with consistantcy, but not provide a lot of power (with the exception of this season hitting in the PCL). The other thing was that he was a terrible On Base guy, so he got treacheous label of 'lacking plate discipline' by most scouts. His on base is up to .396 this season, so maybe he seemed to turn a corner there.
I'm sure that we could get a lot more from him, than we are getting from Millar now. Ruiz finished the season last with Twins batting .274 in 62 at bats.
I'd much rather see Dopirak, as he may mean more for the Jays in the future, but I bet that Ruiz could come in and contribute as well. Both of them deserve to be on the team rather than Millar.
Wow, Dopirak hasn't missed a beat in AAA. We better call him up before he becomes labelled a minor-league journeyman as well.
Ruiz was signed as an amateur free agent, so teams would put less worth in him than in their high draft picks that they paid high signing bonuses to. He played 22 games for Minnesota last year and hit .274 with a jack and 7 rbi, which isn't too shabby, but they released him in December. Toronto is his 11th team since 1999. He must wonder what he has to do to get somebody's attention, but he must really love baseball to stick it like he has.
I am not going to argue with you about Overbay gsjays, but trust me–Overbay will be here in 2010, or if they trade him they will be eating most of his salary. If they trade him and the other team picks up his salary, then he is worth MORE than the $7 mil they are paying him.
Well, for sure we all agree on one thing. Millar should be gone and someone called up to replace him. I look forward to the day when both Dopirak and Snider are here instead of Millar and Inglett.
IMO, Dopirak got labeled when he got injured and virtually wrote off 18 months. I guess he's probably fortunate someone in Dunedin decided to give him one more chance when the Cubs left him go. He has, however made the most of the opportunity.
Actually, Ruiz is a career .305/.378/.532 hitter with 191 home runs, 306 doubles and 23 triples over the 11 seasons including this one, so power has never been a problem, neither has obp. To be frank, I'm not sure what the problem is because when one reviews his minor league stats, the guy looks great. Maybe it's defense and range, I don't know, but yeroutaheah is right, the guy must love the game to hang in there so long.
Double header in Vegas last night.
Game 1:
Snider: 1 for 4, 1 rbi
Dopirak: 2 for 4, 1 hr,1 rbi
Game 2:
Snider: 3 for 3, single, double, hr, 2 rbi's
Dopirak: 1 for 3 with 1 rbi
Past 10 games:
Snider: .526BA, 8 doubles, 5 hr's, 19 rbi's
Dopirak:. .416BA, 6 hr's, 14 rbi's.
Interesting comment on Snider's power from the color commentator on the broadcast. He stated two of Snider's home runs in previous games were hit over the batter's eye in dead center field. Center field is 433 feet and I have no idea how high the batters eye is. In any event, he went on to say that he's never seen one ball hit that far in all the time he's been broadcasting 51 games and Snider did it twice in back to back nights.
I thought the Jays might fly them into Toronto on the off-day. The fact that they are played a DH yesterday probably means they aren't getting the call today. There is always Thursday though.
I agree whole-heartedly with the idea of bringing Dopriak up and replacing Overbay. If he is ever going to be given a chance, it should be now when he is hot. Remember Arencebia? He had similar numbers to Dopriaks and did we give him a sniff? No. We did not. The very next year he is struggling. I say let the kids who are having career years have their shot. However, there is a problem: Cito Gaston. As much as I like Cito, he is more interested in the feelings of his major-league players than he is about these kids or us fans. There are a few guys (maybe in the outfield) who should only be playing a handful of games throughout the remainder of the season due to their abysmal performance. They should be replaced with young kids who are hungry. However, it is not going to happen. Not only do we have to watch these under achievers, game in and game out, we are not given any hope for the future. Did anyone see Oakland's lineup? Yes it was crap! But the kids were getting their feet wet. Not only that, when Oakland gets a top 5 pick next year, they will be able to re-tool with a star. What will we get? The best player available at 14th overall. You see, Oakland has a strategy for getting better. Trade talent before you loose it, acquire good young talent in return, play that talent and draft high. Then win a division title every now and then. The Jays have no strategy. They only have tactics. A trade here and a trade there. If this guy returns healthy..or if this guy has a career year. You never, never start with tactics. Why? Because you always miss something. You leave something out. You always start with a strategy and the Jays have no such strategy. Hence, we are doomed to watch more crap for years to come on the old tube! Oh well!
I'd just like to say that I agree with you on that one GS. The sooner the better as far as i'm concerned.
I agree with you on that one GS. The sooner, the better as far as i'm concerned.
Yes, I'd have loved to see both Snider and Dopirak go against Pettite tonight instead of Bautista and Millar, which is who we'll probably start. Overbay hits .083 against Pettite, Millar is .273 career but 0 for 4 this year and Bautista is .200.
The thing is, these two kids whacked a pretty good LA Angels AAA pitching corp over the last 4 games. Neither of them had ever seen any of the pitchers they faced in the series and LA have some nice pitchers in AAA, a bunch of which have appeared at the MLB level. Sort of tells me, they're more than ready.
I realize some will say leave them down so we add a year onto their arbitration qualification and in some ways that's a reasonable strategy. However, my view is the sooner they get here, the sooner we compete again and these two kids, imo, will be critical to us winning.
A point of clarification on Dopirak. Since he recovered from his injury and was signed by the Blue Jay organization, his record has been consistently improving.
2008-Dunedin/New Hampshire: .304/.368/.550 with 29 hr's, 31 doubles and 101 rbi's in 128 games. He led the fsl in hr's and rbi's. Post season all-star first baseman.
2009-New Hampshire/Vegas: .322/.377/.590 with 25 hr's, 32 doubles and 86 rbi's in 106 games. He led the Eastern AA league in both hr's and rbi's while he was in AA and although he's out of AA for the last 19 games his hr numbers still place him 2nd, his doubles are still 2nd and his slugging average is still 1st.
Dopirak is the real deal, he can just plain hit.
This has got to be a serious concern, only 1 of our top 8 draft picks from this year has been signed and playing. Traditionally, all these kids are signed by the end of June or worst case mid July and playing at either Auburn SS or the Gulf Coast Jays, so they can get their feet wet and evaluated for which team they're placed on the next season.
With minor league seasons only 30 days from being finished, these kids might all lose a year. Maybe JP should stop talking to the press about Halladay and get his real job done.
Stephen C Jenkins RHP
James A Paxton LHP
Jake T Eliopoulos LHP
Jake D Barrett RHP
Jacob S Marisnick CF
Ryan M Goins SS playing at GC Jays
Ryan M Schimpf 2B
Kristopher C Hobson RF
Maybe this is the reason none of these kids have been signed.
MLB asks teams to cut bonuses paid to draft picks
By LIZ MULLEN, Staff writerPublished June 22, 2009
Major League Baseball is recommending to clubs a 10 percent reduction in the signing bonuses paid to players who were selected in the first four rounds of this month?s amateur draft and even steeper reductions for players selected in the fifth round or later, multiple sources said.
One source said MLB?s recommendation for the slots for the upper rounds represents a decrease of more than 15 percent over last year?s slot numbers.
Rob Manfred, MLB executive vice president in charge of labor relations, would not comment, except to say, ?Since we started the [slotting] program in 2002, the vast majority [of players drafted] signed at or below slot.?
MLB Players Association officials did not immediately return calls for comment. Agents said clubs were citing the downturn in the economy as the reason for the decrease in the slot recommendations.
?For the first round, they are saying the slot is 10 percent down, and that is consistent with the offers I have received,? said one prominent agent. ?The teams definitely use the commissioner?s office as an excuse. They say, ?We love the player. We love the slot, but the commissioner?s office won?t let us [sign above slot].??
Another agent said he had dealings with at least one club that was playing ?hardball? by making a first offer significantly below slot, but others were showing a willingness to go above slot.
?I think there will be some clubs that will not honor the slots,? this agent said. ?They want their guys signed and they want to treat them fairly.? Agents asked for anonymity for fear their comments could potentially hurt their relationships with clubs.
MLB for years has made recommendations about how much drafted players should be paid and maintained that the league is not prohibited from reducing the amount of the recommendation. MLB reduced the recommendation in 2007 by about 10 percent but increased it last year by about 10 percent.
Schimpf is signed. Has been playing at GCL.
I read somewhere that the Commishioner's Office has actually rejected a couple of contracts because the amount was too much above slot. Lower round players though; I think it was like the 10th round. Not sure how credible it was though.
Some of what I've read is that a lot of agents what until comparable picks/players sign to set the value before they even really start negotiating in good faith with the teams; especially for players that have other options available next year.
Apparently, The PA isn't too happy with some of the amounts being signed because they are making more than established MLB players. Think about it, it is possible Strasburg will make more than a guy like Cliff Lee this year without throwing a pitch in the majors.
It's about time the Toronto press start pounding JP for his creation of the Halladay trade circus as Griffin does in this article today. http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/article/675715
Personally, I'm not all that surprised about JP's performance which was the absolute worst, most unprofessional attempt in memory of trading a player in any professional sport-not to mention the best player there is in the field as Halladay is.
I personally felt sorry for Halladay having to deal with this circus at the all-star game. It's a real privilege to start at the all-star game and Roy didn't have the opportunity to enjoy it, thanks to JP.
And JP continues to babble to the press as noted here http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tom_verducci/08/04/bluejays.halladay/index.html?eref=T1
I'm not surprised at JP's approach, he's always been a incompetent blabber mouth and has caused this franchise a lot of embarrassment whether it be on Dunn, Halladay or admitting he lies.
A number of posters on this blog including myself expressed serious concern about JP being the guy trading Halladay. I guess we were right to have that concern.
My question, though, is where the hell has Beeston been during this circus presentation of the franchise's most valuable asset. Why hasn't Beeston taken JP to the woodshed and whipped him into shape, put a gag in his mouth or fired him?
I do realize the intent to hire a new president and let him clear house and bring in his own guys, but frankly, JP represents The Toronto BLue Jays and right now, he's making us into the laughing stock of baseball.
Enough is enough already, Beeston grow a pair and fire this *******.


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There is a multi-billion dollar business built around selling PC and Mac cleaning software. They come in all shapes, sizes and prices and tout the necessity to clean, tune, and fix your computer so that it runs smoothly and efficiently. I've even written about many of these programs myself on Help Desk Geek and Learn fb Tips.
But do you really need all that software? Are there any real gains or is it just a bunch of fluff? Well the answer is, it depends. Sometimes a third-party program can provide a valuable service if you know how to use it. However, I have found that most of the utilities recommended on the Internet are full of options and settings that can end up harming your computer more than helping. Not only that, but many big name sites
like PC World have lots of articles on tools to "clean" your computer which are absolutely horrible.
When you talk about cleaning up a computer, whether it be a Mac or a PC, it could refer to any number of things. Let's break down what each of those categories are and see if it makes sense to use them or not.
Registry Cleaners Four years back, I wrote a typical 10 best registry cleaners and basically doled out a list of popular and semi-popular registry cleaners without really explaining anything. What does a registry cleaner actually do? Well, it basically (and theoretically) is supposed to remove unused or old entries, thereby "speeding" up your computer.
Even if you remove only those entries that are not needed, the performance impact is minimal. If you try to do a search for actual performance tests done before and after using a registry cleaner, you'll find that there are very few actual tests and in the actual tests, there is basically zero difference in performance.
So that's point one. The second issue is that a lot of registry cleaners will clean out the wrong entries. The only one that I have used and continue to use is CCleaner. It's one that will not break your system. There is really not another one I can vouch for completely.
At the end of the day, registry cleaners can break your computer, offer no real increase in performance and waste your time. If you want to speed up your computer, read my articles on how to speed up Windows 7
and speed up Windows 8. Also, uninstall useless programs on your system.That does a lot more in terms of performance than cleaning your registry.
File Cleaners
File cleaners are tools that will do their best to remove junk or unused files on your computer. This includes temporary files, cookies, Windows hot-fixes, cache files, history files, log files, clipboard data, etc, etc. In my view, there are only two decent programs for this that you would ever need: CCleaner and PC Decrapifier.
CCleaner does a great job of cleaning out files that you may no longer need. Again, I've never really saved a significant amount of space from using the tool, but if you really want to be super neat and tidy, that's all you need. On average, I save about 1 GB in space when I run it every few months. Not going to give you back half your hard drive and with hard drives being so large today, it's not really a big deal if you never do it.
PC Decrapifier is a program that helps you uninstall crap software that comes with new PCs you buy from Dell, HP, etc. I personally recommend just doing a clean install first and then using your computer. Here's my guide on doing a clean install of Windows 7 and a clean install of Windows 8.
If you install a lot of software on your PC, you can easily uninstall it yourself. However, there is a whole category of software to help you uninstall programs. Is this necessary? Kind of. I personally try not to install anything on my main PC that I won't be using every day. If I want to try something or my kids want a game to play, etc, I use a secondary machine and install all the junk. That machine then gets wiped every few months and starts all over again. I also use a virtual machine and load other software there.If you don't have a second PC or don't know how virtual PCs work, you might have software on your system that you don't want anymore. Most software will have uninstallers to properly remove all the files, but a lot of times they leave stuff behind. On top of that, some programs simply do not come with uninstallers, which is really annoying.
In those cases, I only suggest Revo Uninstaller. It's been around for a long time and does the best job. It's not free, so I would only spend the money if you have a lot of programs that didn't come with proper uninstallers. Otherwise, you can uninstall them and then run CCleaner to clean out any old or unused entries from those programs.
Also, like with most of these tools, it comes with some other utilities that you really don't need. However, it's still ok in my book for some users as uninstalling programs is not necessarily a smooth experience in Windows.
Startup Cleaners
Startup cleaners are the really useless programs if you ask me. Windows has built-in tools to see all the startup programs on your system and there is really no need to see the startup drivers, DLLs, etc, etc that some of these programs tout. Beyond simple programs, it really makes no difference unless you're a tech geek.
A lot of the programs claim they will give you descriptions and details on each of the programs and while this may be true, you really don't need a program for that info. Just read my article on how to change startup programs in Windows (and startup programs in Windows 8, since it's in a new location), then do a Google search on any startup item you're not sure about!
I definitely do not recommend installing a startup cleaner as it's something that can be done by the user with a little bit of time and research. Now can disabling startup programs make a difference? Yes! Startup programs can really slow down your PC, so it is a good idea to disable any you think you won't need. Again, it's like the registry because if you disable the wrong item, your computer may not work properly. Just do a little Googling before you disable something and you'll be fine.
Duplicate File Finders
Another set of tools are geared towards removing duplicate files. I would have to say that this can be useful. I've had a lot of occasions where I copied the same photos or videos off my camera and then had a bunch of extra space being used because of that. A duplicate file finder can save your some disk space if you have a lot of photos, videos, or music that might be duplicated.
For photos, I've used Picasa to find duplicates because it looks at the actual picture to make sure it's a duplicate, rather than just the file name. For videos and music, there are a lot of programs out there and I suggest you just Google it. Make sure you run the EXE file through VirusTotal before you install it. I would only download a tool that finds just duplicates rather than those all-in-tools that do X, Y, Z, etc.
Also, make sure you don't buy anything. There are a lot of great free programs that can find duplicates, so don't get suckered into purchasing something just to remove duplicates.Browser/History Cleaners
Unless you can't type and search in Google, you really do no need browser and history cleaners. I mean it's a fairly easy thing to do.
Don't get tricked into thinking that the program can securely wipe or completely delete or any other useless hype they give you. You can delete your history just fine and make sure it can't be recovered.Most people end up buying this software because they have some shady browsing they need to hide and they get scared that someone will find it unless they use one of these tools that claim only their program can really delete your browsing history. Complete BS. Here are some previous article I wrote on the topic:
Delete Browsing History in FirefoxClear Google Search History How to Remove and Delete CookiesBasically, you want to delete your browsing history using the browser and clear the cache. That's it. You don't need any fancy tool to do that. No one has ever been able to recover my history. I even tried to recovery my own history to see if this was good enough and it was.
Internet Speed Boosters
Internet speed boosters are another useless category of software you should never install. These programs are more likely to break your Internet connection or slow it down more than speed anything up. You want a faster Internet connection? Get a faster wireless router, clear up interference on your wireless network, and boost your Wifi signal.
There are some occasions where changing some TCP or network settings can speed up file write/read performance over the network, but that is usually for LAN traffic and not your Internet connection. Call your ISP and increase your download speed, but don't install a speed booster!
As you can see from above, I don't recommend installing too many so-called optimizers and tune-up utilities for your PC. There are a few good programs out there, but the majority suck. Try to do as much as you can by yourself and then only use trusted programs like the ones I mentioned above. What are your thoughts about clean up utilities? Do you use any? Let us know in the comments. Enjoy!
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CU to face at least six newly hired head football coaches in 2012
That's half of Colorado's 12-game, regular season schedule.
Sunday's firings of Colorado State coach Steve Fairchild and longtime Fresno State coach Pat Hill brought the number to six.
Previously let go were Arizona's Mike Stoops (replaced by Rich Rodriguez), Washington State's Paul Wulff (replaced by Mike Leach), Arizona State's Dennis Erickson (job yet to be filled) and UCLA's Rick Neuheisel (job still open).
Colorado's opponent for a Sept. 8 CU home game has been reported to be Sacramento (Calif.) State, a member of the Big Sky Conference (Northern Colorado is a member). Sac State is an NCAA FCS (formerly I-AA) team.
It remains to be seen whether facing all those new coaches will benefit Colorado. But this much is certain: it means more work this summer for Buffs coach Jon Embree and his staff during their preparations.
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Lifetime Stadium Pass
There's a metal gold and red lifetime stadium pass in our kitchen junk drawer about the size of a credit card. It reads: "American/National Major Leagues of Professional Baseball present this LIFETIME PASS to KENNETH SINGLETON AND ONE in appreciation of long and meritorious service." It's signed by then American League president Lee MacPhail Jr. and then National League president Charles S. Feeney (leagues no longer have presidents, according to Ken).
The pass is scratched up, bent, and very tarnished – after all, it's old. Ken retired from the field 25 years ago. He saw the pass sitting on my desk in my office as I'm writing.
"I was looking for that," he said.
"You were?" I laughed. "Why? When would you ever need this?"
Hard to imagine stadium personnel would require Ken to show his permanent metal pass to get into a Major League ballpark, nor can I imagine him attending as a fan in the first place to watch a game. (Why should he when he can view sports on his High Def TV from a choice of nine brown La-Z-Boy recliners in our theater room?)
Besides in the stands at Oriole Park at Camden Yards during Cal Ripken's 2,131st consecutive game in 1995, where Ken had been invited to participate in a postgame ceremony, I've only seen him sitting in press boxes (not counting the bleachers at our three sons' Little League and Minor League games).
Wouldn't it be comical to see the look on a front gate attendant's face when we tried to push through the turnstile using Ken's metal lifetime pass?
"What IS this antiquated thing?" I'd imagine s/he would ask us. "Hold on, I better get my supervisor."
My guess is that no stadium staff member has ever laid eyes before on a Major League Lifetime Pass.
"I think once you play 10 years, you get one," said Ken. He cracks me up – he thinks he might use it "years from now."
Guess I'll be the "AND ONE" he takes along.
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What a great momento to have! I think it's pretty cool that they gave those out. It's nice to see that baseball in some small way tries to take care of its retired ballplayers and keep them attached to the game. You really do need to get Ken to spring that on some unsuspecting gate attendant to see what the reaction is though! 🙂
That is a terrific memento, and I agree, Ken will probably not have to use it for a long time, if ever. However, I suspect some stadium staff have seen such a pass, possibly some very young gate guard bornin 1982, meeting an aged ballplayer who started his career right after WW2 and toiled in honorable but obscure service for a team that didn't go the World Series, rendering his face not too recognizable.
The other big mystery is…once a guy gets in with that pass, where do the ushers seat him? It's a pass, not a ticket.


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Vulnerability of indigenous tribes in Brazil (REPORT)
|By Gabriel Elizondo
According to workers at the Brazilian government-run national Indian foundation, FUNAI, late last week a group of men from a paramilitary faction from Peru, armed with rifles and machine guns, entered Brazilian territory and encircled a remote jungle guard post used by FUNAI researchers to study and protect isolated indigenous tribes near the border with Peru.
The incident happened at a FUNAI post known as Xinane, a very remote monitoring location in Brazil's Acre state that serves as a small, five-person research base for the study and protection of isolated indigenous tribes in the region.
FUNAI officials say the armed men were most certainly trying to kill Indians in the area to make way for illegal logging, or new cocaine trafficking routes through the forest from Peru.
Either way, it represents a new escalation of threats of violence against Indians and those serving to protect them in a region along the Brazil-Peru border that has some of the highest concentration of isolated and uncontacted tribes anywhere in the world. (More here from Survial International about the uncontacted Indians of Brazil).
The armed men apparently hid in the forest surrounding the FUNAI outpost. The five workers on site saw it as an obvious threat and reported feeling vulnerable in the jungle area with little protection; the nearest Brazilian town being more than 200km away.
The FUNAI workers on site - which included Jose Carlos Meirelles, an indigenous peoples researcher with decades of experience in the region, as well as Carlos Travassos, the chief of the isolated Indians division of FUNAI – sent urgent emails from a satellite internet hookup to journalists, friends, and family alerting them to the situation.
In one email, according to Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Travassos reportedly said: "We are totally surrounded. They (the gunmen) are divided into three flanks. We have nowhere to run."
Altino Machado, a local journalist in the city of Rio Branco, Brazil and one of the first to report on the incident on his blog and another blog he contributes to Terra Amazon Blog, also posted an email from Meirelles which said, in part: "Time in front of our computer is short. It's not easy keeping one eye on the (computer) and the other on the Peruvian (gunmen)… (The gunmen) are still here…they are monitoring us and we are them."
Late last week, Brazil's federal police with the help of a military helicopter reportedly swooped in to evacuate the workers temporarily. But fearing the indigenous tribes would be massacred without their presence, the researchers flew back a short time later in a helicopter with police escorts only to find their base camp looted, signs that violence against Indians might have occurred.
Tiao Viana, the governor of Acre state, has reportedly deemed the situation so critical that he has asked federal authorities for more security to protect the FUNAI workers tasked with monitoring the welfare of the Indians.
Below: My report from 2008 with Jose Carlos Meirelles, now one of the indian researchers under threat:
The rising tensions come just weeks after Brazil announced a new, nationwide plan, to be led by the military, to beef up security along the16,000 kilometers of border Brazil shares with 10 other countries. The plan calls for 5,000 soldiers from the Army, backed by unmanned surveillance aircraft, to be placed at five strategic points to choke off drug trafficking.
But it's a monumental task. The Brazilian state of Acre, where the most recent incident took place and where the high concentration of uncontacted tribes is located, shares almost 900km of thick jungle border with Peru, a country quickly becoming a world leader in export of drugs, much of which comes through the Brazilian Amazon before being exported abroad.
But there is even more to this story.
Meirelles, one of the men encircled by the gunmen, was the man who led the expedition in 2008 thatcaptured dramatic photos of uncontacted tribes that gained worldwide media attention.
The incident with the gunmen late last week occurred near the same general regional of the Amazon where those photos in 2008 were taken.
Travassos, of FUNAI, has said it's well known that Peruvian 'mercenaries' work for loggers and drug traffickers in the area. He said he thinks the gunmen were conducting "raids" to kill the Indians, which they view as obstacles to logging and lucrative drug trafficking routes. The gunmen likely threatend the FUNAI workers in the post as a way to intimidate the Brazilian authorities to abandon their work.
And the news in June of this year of the photos of other isolated Amazon tribes also was in the same general region (see my video report about this discovery here).
Travassos and Meirelles said they are planning to fly over the areas to get a better sense if the isolated tribes were harmed; but there is real concern some of the Indians might have been harmed.
In 2008, just days after the now famous photos were released, I flew to Feijo, Brazil and interviewed Meirelles in his modest wooden home he lives in while not in the jungle. At the time he told me he was very worried about illegal loggers from Peru encroaching into Brazilian territory, and the extreme risk that put on native peoples.
"There is massive logging on the Peru side of the border and unfortunately the Peruvian Amazon is a 'no man's land' and everything is permitted," he told me. "So the Indians are being displaced into Brazil."
Ironically, back in 2008, Meirelles told me something urgently needed to be done before gangs of armed men from Peru started coming into Brazil to kill the Indians that "got in the way" of logging or drug trafficking.
Based on the worrisome developments of the past few days, Meirelles premonition could, sadly, be coming true.
But despite the apparent dangers, the team from FUNAI seems determined to stay at the outpost. In another email reported by the journalist Machado, Meirelles typed:
"We will remain here…until the Brazilian government decides to resolve this absurd (situation)….Not for our protection. For the protection of the Indians!"
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For starters, it's got some of the cutest character-design ever. The animation may range from flawed to good, the character-designs and imaginative background-art more than make up for it. The music also gives a perfect fairy-tale feeling to the whole atmosphere. Thumbs up.
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Any bad points? Well, the ending. Or episodes 36 and 37 to be exactly. After most of the stories have closed, and only the main storyline remains. Through the course of the series, this anime has done well at keeping its level of cheesiness just low enough for it not to be annoying, but these efforts all fail when it goes and uses some of the biggest clichés in the book. Thankfully, the final episode closes off the series well enough, but the fact remains that these episodes left a nasty thorn in an otherwise excellent series.
Excellent as it may be, I can see a lot of people disliking it. Especially people who believe children's shows are too childish. There's no denying that the series is childish at times, but for me, that was just part of its charms. If you're not bothered by the fact that this is a children's show, then it's definitely worth it to give this a try, as the characters were just amazing.


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I stopped posting regularly in 2013. I don't imagine myself restarting the blog anytime soon, so I decided to take it offline.
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