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Mobile Phones Suck... But Isn't It Amazing That They Exist?
from the everything's-amazing-and-nobody's-happy deptBy now, hopefully, you've seen that clip of comedian Louis CK on Conan O'Brien's show (the old, old one) which went kinda viral, where Louis talks about how "everything is amazing and no one is happy":
When I was a kid in the 1960s and we came back from a visit to my grandmother's, my mother used to call my grandmother, let the phone ring twice, and then hang up. It was important for my grandmother to know that we'd arrived home safely, but long-distance telephone calls were too expensive to indulge in unnecessarily. When I entered Vanderbilt University in 1971, my parents had to decide whether to pay for a telephone in my dorm room. They decided to do so, but most of the thoroughly upper-middle-class students on my floor did not have phones. Phones cost real money back then. Then came the breakup of the AT&T monopoly in 1984. Phone technology and competitive service provision exploded. In 1982, Motorola produced the first portable mobile phone. It weighed about 2 pounds and cost $3995. Within a very few years they were much smaller, much cheaper, and selling like hotcakes.But the point of the post is to question why some are now putting together an event about "Why Your Cell Phone is So Terrible," pointing out that it's a bit silly to complain when you compare it to what we had.
Today there are some 4.6 billion mobile phones in the world, and counting, or about 67 per every 100 people in the world. The newer ones allow you to carry in your hand more computing power than the computers that put Apollo 11 on the moon. You can cruise the internet, find your location with GPS, read books, send texts, pay bills, process credit cards, watch video, record video, stream video to the web, take and send photos -- oh, and make phone calls from just about anywhere. Unimaginable just a few years ago.
It's a really good point -- but I have to admit I can see both sides to this argument. It's the very fact that, even when we do amazing things, we can still see the faults with it and that drives us to keep improving and to keep innovating. It's the very "culture of improvement" that drives growth and innovation. So, while I can agree that it's sometimes a shame how much we feel a sense of entitlement towards making things better when those amazing things didn't even exist just a few years ago, it's hard not to sympathize with the feeling of wanting things to be even better.
And, by the way, I'm not alone in seeing both sides of all this. That Louis CK video at the top? The one where he mocks the guy sitting next to him on an airplane for getting upset that the WiFi in the sky suddenly stopped working? Yeah, he later admitted that it wasn't someone sitting next to him, but himself getting pissed off at the WiFi not working, even though he didn't even know in-flight WiFi existed until he got on the airplane. So yes, everything is amazing, and no one's happy... but maybe that's a good thing.
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LIO provides a basic implementation of gates, useful in providing controlled RPC-like services where the client and service provider are in mutual distrust.
A service provider uses
gate to create a gate data type
given a computation of type
Gate d a
d -> a. Here,
d is a privilege
description (type variable for an instance of
PrivDesc). Gates are
invoked with
callGate, and as such the service provider has the
guarantee that the client (the caller) owns the privileges
corresponding to the privilege description
d. In effect, this
allows a client to "prove" to the service provider that they own
certain privileges without entrusting the service with its privileges.
The gate computation can analyze this privilege description before
performing the "actual" computation. The client and server solely
need to trust the implementation of
A Gate is a lambda abstraction from a privilege description to an
arbitrary type
a. Applying the gate is accomplished with
which takes a privilege argument that is converted to a description
before invoking the gate computation.
Create a gate given a computation from a privilege description.
Note that because of currying type
a may itself be a function
type and thus gates can take arguments in addition to the privilege
Given a gate and privilege, execute the gate computation. It is
important to note that
callGate invokes the gate computation with
the privilege description and NOT the privilege itself.
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functions other than
callGate when wishing to call a gate. This
function is provided by LIO since it can be easily inspected by
both the gate creator and caller to be doing the "right" thing:
provide the privilege description corresponding to the supplied
privilege as "proof" without explicitly passing in the privilege.
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service provider provides
addGate which adds two integers if the
gate is called by a piece of code that owns the "Alice" or "Bob"
principals. Otherwise, it simply returns
import LIO import LIO.DCLabel import LIO.Privs.TCB (mintTCB) -- | Add two numbers if the computation is invoked by Alice or Bob. addGate :: DCGate (Int -> Int -> Maybe Int) addGate = gate $ \pd a b -> if pd `elem` (dcPrivDesc `map` ["Alice", "Bob"]) then Just $ a + b else Nothing alice, bob, clark :: DCPriv alice = mintTCB . dcPrivDesc $ "Alice" bob = mintTCB . dcPrivDesc $ "Bob" clark = mintTCB . dcPrivDesc $ "Clark" main = putStrLn . show $ [ callGate addGate alice 1 2 -- Just 3 , callGate addGate bob 3 4 -- Just 7 , callGate addGate clark 5 6 -- Nothing ]


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Celebrate Earth Day by Connecting with the Arctic Environment
By Erin Robertson on April 22, 2017
Happy Earth Day! It's always exciting to celebrate occasions that unite Americans with people around the world and help draw our attention to important causes.
Every person on the Earth relies on the environment for something, be it food, transportation, natural resources, recreation, or energy. Those who celebrated the first Earth Day nearly 50 years ago knew this, and today we know it more than ever.
This year, Earth Day is about educating our global citizenry with knowledge that can inspire action. In honor of Earth Day 2017, I invite you to learn more about one of the most important regions on Earth: the Arctic. Not just about the environmental challenges the region is facing due to rapid change, but about the deep connection that those who live in the region enjoy with the Earth, especially the indigenous peoples who have inhabited the region for millennia. Antarctica may have penguins, but the Arctic has people. Four million people live above the Arctic Circle, spread across eight countries. And whether through its rapidly changing physical state, its harsh weather, its bounty or simply its beauty, the environment plays a large role in each of their lives.
The United States became an Arctic nation when we acquired Alaska 150 years ago from Russia. And thanks to the fact we have land above the Arctic Circle, the United States is part of the Arctic Council, the preeminent international forum for addressing issues in the circumpolar region. Since April 2015, we've been the chair of the Council. Holding the two-year rotating Chairmanship of the Arctic Council—an opportunity which only comes along once every 16 years—provides us the chance both to draw attention to this fascinating region and to explore our own Arctic identity.
One way we did this was through the State Department's Our Arctic Nation blog initiative. Each entry—51 in total—examined the ways in which each of our U.S. states plus the District of Columbia are connected to the Arctic. We learned through this initiative that America is an Arctic nation not only because of our geography, but because of our rich, unique, and exciting historical, economic, artistic, and cultural ties with this singular region at the top of the Earth.
Importantly, the blog also revealed that one of America's strongest connections to the Arctic is environmental. Our Arctic Nation unearthed (no pun intended) an astounding number of individuals in the United States who are working specifically to better understand, raise awareness of, enhance humanity's relationship with, or protect the Arctic environment.
For example, there's Betty Carvellas, a high school biology teacher from Vermont who took part is eight scientific research cruises on Russian and Canadian icebreakers in order to study the Arctic marine environment. There are scientists from both New Hampshire and New Mexico who conduct field work in the Arctic, battling hordes of mosquitoes while collecting soil samples on the Alaska tundra, or battling the hordes to study the mosquitoes themselves.
Visual artist Megan Berner visits the Arctic as part of an artist residency, only to find herself reminded of the deserts in her native state of Nevada. As she says in her entry:
"The dramatic rises of the ranges in the Arctic were reminiscent of home. As foreign as the landscape was to me, it was strangely familiar. Although they seem like worlds apart, being in the Arctic made me feel that that landscape was intimately linked to my desert home, both shaped over millennia by the powerful elemental forces of ice, wind, and tectonics."
And no discussion of the Arctic and the environment would be complete without mentioning Olaus and Mardy Murie. As the Wyoming entry explains, their passion for Alaska, combined with their scientific and conservation work, led to some of our country's most important legal protections of wilderness in America's Arctic and elsewhere.
Each of the Our Arctic Nation authors has a special connection to the Arctic, just as each person living on this planet has a special connection to the Earth. And while these connections might all be different, they are all to be celebrated, especially on Earth Day.
About the Author: Erin Robertson serves as Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Demeipartment of State.
Editor's Note: This entry is also published on Medium.com/StateDept.
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Why Business Needs Government Action on Climate Change
By James Gustave Speth
When Ronald Reagan famously said that "Government isn't the solution to our problems; government is the problem," many in business cheered. But what if Reagan had it wrong? What if business is shackled by forces far more powerful than government and, in fact, needs government to free it to do the job it increasingly knows must be done?
Business leaders know better than anyone that they are trapped in a system, constantly hemmed in by imperatives shaped by market competition, consumer preferences, investor behavior, and other factors. These imperatives often preclude attractive options. When the gap between the required answer and the right answer gets too wide, government action to provide new norms and rules of the road becomes imperative.
Why Business Needs Government
If business and governments don't get their act together soon on global warming, the extraordinary economic machine we have created is going to wreak such havoc on the Earth's systems, both natural and social, that today's disruptions by terrorists will look like child's play. The result will not be good for business, or the rest of us. In short, business needs government action on climate, now.
Our world is now a "full world." Whatever slack nature cut us is gone, and we are affecting natural systems and cycles on a scale rivaling nature's. We have increased the carbon dioxide concentration of Earth's atmosphere by a third and begun the process of warming the planet; we depleted the Earth's ozone shield without knowing it; we fix nitrogen at a rate equal to nature's; we consume or destroy 40 percent of nature's net photosynthetic output annually, leaving too little for other species. We have spread persistent toxins to the far corners of the globe and into each and every one of us. Whether we like it or not, we are at the planetary controls.
The principal actors on the world stage are business units. Negatively, corporations are responsible for a huge share of the appalling environmental deterioration now under way. Positively, corporations have the technology, access to capital, and managerial discipline essential to the transition to sustainability. The corporate sector thus has both a profound interest in promoting the transition to sustainability and a responsibility to do so. How then should it respond? The historical transformation now needed is one in which corporations rise to their new responsibility and accept the need for positive collaboration with government and citizens in adopting the far-reaching climate measures that are now essential.
Rising to this occasion requires, first of all, some hard rethinking about friends and enemies. More than Greenpeace and the anti-globalization activists, business should worry about two true impediments. One is what I would call, not originally, market fundamentalism. As political analyst Benjamin Barber has noted, this strange religion, which worships the unfettered market and seeks to "starve the beast" of government, in the end "robs us of the civic freedom by which we control the social consequences of our private choices." It leaves business ensnared in the clutches of the old imperatives, with no possibility of transcending them to reach a higher level of corporate citizenship, which can only be achieved in partnership with government and civil society.
The other impediment facing business is more subtle but more prevalent in enlightened corporate circles. Progressive corporate leaders often say they do not want government actions "at this time" because they want their companies to be first to stake out a claim on the future-to get there first and thus establish competitive advantage in the world that is coming. Such thinking would not be dangerous if we still had the luxury of time, but we do not. There is only so far companies can go on their own, and it is not far enough.
Three Paths Into the Future
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a leading international group of major corporations, has sketched three illustrative scenarios depicting different approaches to environmental governance. One they playfully call FROG: First Raise Our Growth. The FROG philosophy is to meet economic challenges first and worry about the environment later. FROG is thus a business-as-usual scenario leading to huge environmental costs. FROG leads not just to a wrecked global ecosystem but to a wrecked global society as well. It is a path to failure even in the eyes of the business-orientated WBCSD.
In the WBCSD's other two scenarios, environmental sustainability is successfully pursued but the approaches are very different. Under GEOpolity, people turn to government to focus the market on environmental and social ends, and they rely heavily on intergovernmental institutions and treaties. GEOpolity is the world of international environmental law and other global agreements. Under Jazz, the third scenario, people and business create a world full of unscripted, voluntary initiatives that are decentralized and improvisational, like jazz itself. In the Jazz world, information about business behavior is abundant, and good conduct is enforced by public opinion and consumer decisions. Governments facilitate more than regulate, environmental and consumer groups are very active, and businesses see strategic advantage in doing the right thing.
Employing this useful framework, we can say that the initial international response to global challenges-our first attempt at global environmental governance-has tried to move the world from FROG to GEOpolity. It has not worked well, yet. Nations have not yet genuinely embraced GEOpolity, and where GEOpolity approaches have been used, they have been too weak to be successful. This problem is not weak compliance with international agreements; the problem is weak agreements.
Getting serious about global environmental governance requires new action on two mutually supportive fronts: pursuing a very different approach to GEOpolity, and taking Jazz to scale, enlarging it until it is a major part of the solution.
What does it mean to pursue GEOpolity differently? Basically, we need very different international institutions, procedures, and core understandings. We need a World Environment Organization as much as we need a World Trade Organization. Business should put its weight behind making GEOpolity succeed rather than lobbying against it, as is most often the case today.
What about taking Jazz to scale? For my money, green Jazz is the most exciting arena of ongoing action today. Private businesses, environmental groups, consumer groups, state and local governments, foundations, religious organizations, investors, and other are behind a remarkable outpouring of initiatives that are the most hopeful things happening. Scores of major international corporations, for example, are voluntarily reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and taking other climate friendly initiatives. They are doing it because they anticipate they will be regulated one day, because of shareholder pressure, because of public image campaigns and consumer pressure, because of lawsuits or the threat of liability for damages, because of pressure from insurers and lenders, and in many cases because they know it is the responsible thing to do.
Is there a link between GEOpolity and Jazz? One reason we are hearing so much Jazz, especially from the business community, is because of all the classical music being played over in GEOpolity Hall. And what do you get when jazz and classical music are brought together? It's called Fusion, of course, and we are beginning to see it as well. Jazz and GEOpolity are not mutually exclusive; they can reinforce each other. GEOpolity actions, proposed or actual, can stimulate Jazz, and successful Jazz can pave the way for further GEOpolity initiatives that create a framework where individual initiatives can flourish.
The high point of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg was a joint press conference convened by WBCSD and, yes, Greenpeace. They came together to call upon governments to provide the framework-the goals and the means to measure progress towards them-within which the creativity and drive of both the corporate and the NGO sectors could be unleashed to get the job done. It was a remarkable moment. And a brave one, too.
To transcend the confines of the old imperatives, we need not only to strengthen the treaty world of GEOpolity and multiply Jazz initiatives manyfold, we need also to bring Jazz and GEOpolity together. And that is what WBCSD and Greenpeace were seeking at Johannesburg.
James Gustave Speth is Dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment.


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Friday's men's basketball game between the Detroit Titans and Temple Owls, which was scheduled to be held in Philadelphia, has been postponed due to prevailing weather conditions.
According to the Gazelle Group, which was sponsoring the contest as part of
its Gotham Classic series, Detroit was unable to safely fly to the Northeast
because of snow conditions in the Midwest combined with heavy winds in the
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- All-cash offer of $2.50 per common share
- Significant premium to Western Wind's closing prices prior to the announcements of its sale process and Brookfield Renewable's initial investment in Western Wind
- Provides certainty to sale process
- Allows all shareholders to realize immediate liquidity and certainty of value
- Offer not subject to due diligence or financing conditions
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Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. (TSX:BEP.UN) ("Brookfield Renewable") today announced its intention to commence an offer (the "Offer") to acquire all of the issued and outstanding Common Shares of Western Wind Energy Corp. ("Western Wind" or the "Company") for cash consideration of $2.50 per share ("Price").
The Price represents a significant premium of 110% to the $1.19 per Common Share closing price on the TSXV on July 27, 2012 (the last trading day prior to Western Wind's announcement of its sale process) and 20% to the $2.09 per Common Share closing price on the TSXV on August 28, 2012 (the last trading day prior to Brookfield Renewable announcing the acquisition of 16.2% of the outstanding Common Shares of Western Wind for $2.25 per share).
Background to the Offer
On July 30, 2012, Western Wind announced that effective immediately it was commencing a sale process for the Company. On August 28, 2012, Brookfield Renewable acquired 16.2% of the outstanding Common Shares in a single transaction and approached Western Wind regarding participation in its sale process. Since that time, no offer has been presented to Shareholders of Western Wind and Brookfield Renewable could not reach agreement with the Company for participation in the sale process. Accordingly, after discussions with a number of other Shareholders, Brookfield Renewable decided to make the Offer.
While Brookfield Renewable has completed a substantial amount of analysis based on Western Wind's public disclosure, the Offer is being made without the benefit of detailed due diligence or negotiations with the Board of Directors of Western Wind regarding the terms on which the Board would recommend the Offer to Shareholders. Brookfield Renewable would welcome the opportunity to work with the Board of Western Wind and its advisors towards a Board-supported transaction.
Other Benefits of the Offer
The Offer is not subject to due diligence or financing conditions. The other key benefits of the Offer are:
Brookfield Renewable is a well-capitalized, experienced operator and developer of renewable power assets with approximately 5,300 MW of generating capacity, nearly 800 MW of which is wind power. Brookfield Renewable is uniquely positioned to assess the value of Western Wind's assets.
Terms and Conditions of the Offer
Under the terms of the Offer, Brookfield Renewable would acquire, through WWE Equity Holdings Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, all of the issued and outstanding Common Shares of Western Wind (excluding those it already owns) for $2.50 in cash per Common Share.
Brookfield Renewable owns and controls 11,004,609 Common Shares of Western Wind, representing approximately 15.9 percent of the issued and outstanding Common Shares, and 319,741 warrants that, if exercised, would represent approximately an additional 0.5 percent of the presently issued and outstanding Common Shares.
The Offer includes Common Shares that may become issued and outstanding after the date of the Offer but before the expiry time of the Offer upon the exercise of options granted under Western Wind's stock option plans or upon the exercise of Western Wind's share purchase warrants.
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Brookfield Renewable has retained Canadian Stock Transfer Company Inc. as its Depositary and CST Phoenix Advisors as its Information Agent in connection with the Offer.
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A movie that many have expected me to review is The Expendables 2, which opened in theaters around the United States on August 17th. Truth be told, I was looking forward to reviewing it far more than I was looking forward to actually seeing it. I wasn't particularly fond of the original, and felt it was little more than an easy paycheck for the stars involved. If I wanted to see an action-packed film with one-liners and some cheesy humor sprinkled in to accent the shallow plot, I would prefer to watch any of the movies that made these guys famous in the first place. It wasn't an homage to 80s & 90s action films so much as it was a lot of noise and mindless action. All The Expendables needed was a few robots and Michael Bay, and it could have been a new Transformers sequel.
But I digress.
I will not be reviewing The Expendables 2, nor will I be seeing it in theaters. I made the decision to opt out of this movie after learning some very interesting information about events that occurred during filming. While in Bulgaria, in addition to being fined for destruction of plant life (shrubs and trees were removed), a cave where bats hibernate was heavily disturbed. This might not seem like a big deal at first. "So what if a few bats were disturbed?"
The cave in question is where over 30,000 bats hibernate annually. During filming, the bats were exposed to construction, extremely loud noises, and large groups of people, which led to undue stress and restlessness during a time when they should be able to hibernate in peace. After filming was completed in late 2011, a count of the bats was taken and only 8,000 bats were found. That's approximately 22,000 bats unaccounted for, either driven away by all the disturbance (and hopefully still alive elsewhere) or dead in the cave. The cherry on top of this is that many of the species are endangered.
The people behind Expendables 2 did get a permit to film in the area, though earlier this year a court in Bulgaria decided that the company had violated the laws surrounding the permit and what crews could actually do in the area. From what I have read, it appears that these violations should have been investigated by Bulgarian authorities, but someone dropped the ball. While this leaves those people partially responsible, the brunt of the blame rests on the shoulders of the movie crew.
I don't consider myself an animal rights activist, and I probably wouldn't consider this to be a big deal had only a small number of bats been affected. With a number as high as 22,000 however, I simply cannot ignore what the negligence of the people behind a movie has caused. 22,000 bats, many of which were endangered, and many of those could be dead as the result of having their hibernation disturbed. The fines alone, which could cripple an independent or smaller film venture, are a drop in the bucket for the film's budget. The information on the bats didn't come out until much later after filming completed however, so what do they care?
For a movie like this, many people already know whether they are going to see it or not. It's like a Twilight movie or Star Wars: the fans are going to see it anyway. Sure, some people might be influenced by friends to either see it or not, but this is just "one of those movies". All I can say is that my money will not be going toward their bottom-line, and I refuse to see a film from a company that could be so negligent in regard to endangered species in such large numbers.
I've provided links to sites that contributed to my research for this, and I hope you will read them before making a decision to see The Expendables 2. If you do see the movie, I honestly hope that it is much better than the original and is an enjoyable film. As for me, I'd rather see a movie without a massive real-life death toll.
I'm Papa Kenn, and come back next Wednesday for the next real review: Paranorman!
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White House suggests Russia behind leak of bugged call
Two American diplomats in Kiev had their phone conversation bugged and posted on the Internet complaining in frank language about the European Union's stance in Ukraine — a move the White House suggested Russia was behind.
The call between Victoria Nuland, assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, took place as the Obama administration is in Kiev working with Europe to broker a power-sharing deal between the pro-Moscow government and Ukraine protesters who want greater ties to the West.
Russia has accused the United States of meddling in the affairs of a country on its border, but anti-government protesters blame Russia for trying to derail closer ties to Europe.
An aide to Russian deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, was among those who tweeted about the YouTube video, identifying the female voice as Nuland.
In the audio, Pyatt tells Nuland of an issue with the EU's position, to which Nuland replies: "F--- the EU." The two also discussed their assessments of various opponents of the Ukraine government.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not dispute the authenticity of the recording and said that Nuland had apologized to European Union officials for her remarks. Psaki said Moscow's role in publicizing the video was "a new low in Russian tradecraft."
"All department of State Blackberries have data encryption, however they don't have voice encryption," Psaki said Friday.
Discussion of classified matters is prohibited on personal data assistants, she said.
The White House and State Department did not accuse Russia of recording the call.
Russia may have wanted to publicize the conversation to claim that the United States is being dishonest in its dealings with the parties in Ukraine, according to the White House.
"I would say that since the video was first noted and tweeted out by the Russian government, I think it says something about Russia's role," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
The YouTube video was posted Feb. 4 and is titled the "Marionettes of Maidan" in Russian. Maidan is the name of the main square in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a center of opposition protests.
The State Department insisted Thursday that despite the content of the bugged conversation the United States remains an impartial mediator in Ukraine.
"It is no secret that ambassador Pyatt and assistant secretary Nuland have been working with the government of Ukraine, with the opposition, with business and civil society leaders to support their efforts," Psaki said. "It shouldn't be a surprise that at any points there have been discussions about recent events and offers and what is happening on the ground."
"Of course these things are being discussed," she said. "It doesn't change the fact that it's up to the people on the ground. It is up to the people of Ukraine to determine what the path forward is."
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Taking Risks
Feel the fear and do it anyway is a commonly used phrase when trying to persuade someone to try something new. It may seem like a cliché but taking risks can actually bring great rewards.
A friend of mine has recently returned from volunteering in Asia. Someone who is normally afraid of spiders at home chose to live and work in the middle of the jungle. She slept in a hammock, had to regularly check her sleeping bag for scorpions and lived side-by-side with a whole host of dangerous insects and animals with only 12 other people around her. The task was not only physical but mentally very challenging as well.
I'm pleased to report that she survived, and not only that, she loved it! She wasn't the only one taking on the new challenge, people from several countries and all walks of life chose to volunteer and work together as part of a team. They went into the unknown, becoming friends with people they would never normally meet back home and putting their all into whatever work was presented to them. The results, my friend says, were remarkable and the experience will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Of course it wasn't easy to begin with – we all have pre-determined ideas about people from different cultures, backgrounds and of different ages. But, by opening their minds to these preconceptions and challenging their fears, they found that their peers surprised them and that they themselves were capable of almost anything.
Now I'm not suggesting that everyone needs to trek off to the jungle to challenge themselves but when you take risks and work outside your comfort zone, the possibilities are endless. There are so many options open to you. If you think outside the box and try something new who knows what could happen. So next time the opportunity presents itself, why not volunteer to be part of a project that's outside of your comfort zone or work with people you wouldn't normally work with, more than that be open to new perspectives and approaches.
As with all risks mistakes may be made but as every mistake is a learning experience anyway the end result can surely only be positive.
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I think we need to take more risks within our jobs/ activities that we normally do. That could be the first step to taking further risks like the ones you mentioned in your post. No doubt, change in surroundings does bring the best out of us – but we need to apply those learnings in our regular atmosphere..


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- If you do your homework, follow the news and put your money to work, you can make money in the markets, Jim Cramer told his "Mad Money" TV show viewers Wednesday as he outlined how he would've played a few key earnings releases back in his old hedge fund days. Cramer said that had investors listened to the Walt Disney ( DIS - Get Report) earnings call, they would've heard about that company's fantastic quarter as well as CEO Bob Iger talk about how he's a big fan of Netflix ( NFLX - Get Report) as a content delivery partner. Anyone who bought into Netflix on that news would've made a quick bundle in today's trading, noted Cramer. Cramer said that last night's "Mad Money" interview with the CEO of Allergan ( AGN - Get Report) was another opportunity. This traditionally conservative company offered guidance that was above Wall Street estimates, then confirmed in the interview it will have not one, but two, blockbuster drugs debut this year. Shares of Allergan shot up 2% as a result. Then there's Chipotle Mexican Grill ( CMG - Get Report), which fell after investors chose to focus on mediocre same-store sales. But Cramer said the metric that matters for Chipotle is whether the company can raise prices to combat rising food costs, something company execs said they plan on doing with ease. That news made savvy investors a quick $17 a share. Cramer gave other examples, from 3M's ( MMM - Get Report) surprise dividend boost and buyback, to Cummins ( CMI - Get Report) following the lead of Caterpillar ( CAT - Get Report) and seeing its shares rise, even on disappointing results, on the hopes that the second half of 2013 will be booming. Investors just need to do their homework and follow along closely, Cramer concluded. If they do they can make money practically each and every day.


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Gustaf Dymov needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
The present design is too amateurish, so the site needs to be redesigned.
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Your a big fan of the show ... i really don't want to watch it.Are they still in Fortaleza?
At Kukukaya they dance for 20 minutes. There's got to be something more with this task that I don't get.
I just read on another site that the 5th season will also only be Brazilian teams. Can anyone else confirm this.
The first time there's a 100% equalizer and it's the final leg.
They are really the worst winners, they arrived last in a NEL in 9TH PLACE!Mauricio and Carlos were unlikable too, but at least they were a good team.
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Pilot settles lawsuit with Nashville company
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nashville trucking firm has settled its lawsuit over rebate fraud by the Pilot Flying J truck stop company owned by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jim Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Western Express has withdrawn its lawsuit filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court in Louisiana that alleged the company had lost more than $75 million over rebates withheld by Pilot, including $68 million in expenses related to additional debt obligations it was forced to take on.
Paul Wieck, the president of Western Express, told the newspaper Thursday that the lawsuit had been settled, but declined to disclose terms of the deal.
"We never stopped our relationship with Pilot, and they're a great partner," he said. "They had some issues within their organization that they got worked out and it's our plan for that partnership to last a long, long time."
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Western Express was among several companies that declined to participate in Pilot's $85 million class-action settlement with 5,500 customers in November.
The company featured prominently in a 120-page FBI affidavit that included the transcript of a secret recording of John "Stick" Freeman, Pilot's vice president of sales, boasting of being caught withholding $1 million in rebates to Western Express.
Freeman said Pilot agreed to pay Western Express $1 million for a broken airplane to make up for the money it owed, but that the truck stop chain still came out way ahead. Freeman told a colleague that Jimmy Haslam was aware of the deal.
"He knew it all along. Loved it," Freeman said, according to the transcripts. "We were makin' $450,000 a month on him — why wouldn't he love it?"
"Did it for five years, cost us a million bucks," Freeman said. "I mean, we made $6 million on the guy, cost us a million bucks."
Jimmy Haslam has denied any prior knowledge of the rebate scheme and has not been charged in the case. Seven other former members of the Pilot sales team have pleaded guilty to federal charges, and two others have agreed to cooperate with investigators.
Aubrey Harwell, an attorney for Pilot, has said the plane transaction "is not as some are trying to make it," but declined further comment because of a grand jury investigation.


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Fifty years ago, the world was at our doorstep, celebrating the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and brimming with space age optimism. Boeing was flying high. Seattle appeared to be the capital of the world. And the 21st Century was a science fiction vision of wonder and anticipation. In the midst of that excitement and confidence, residents in Snohomish and Island County took a big leap into the future by unifying two county rural library districts into Sno-Isle Libraries.
Fifty years later, technology has evolved and many customer needs have changed. Yet, our two-county library district continues to be an essential community doorway to reading, resources and lifelong learning, as well as a center for people, ideas and culture.
So we're celebrating the millions of children and adults, over the past 50 years, who've benefitted from library early learning efforts for children and lifelong learning materials and classes for adults. Imagine how your children, grandchildren and community will benefit as Sno-Isle Libraries provides access to information, learning, entertainment, recreation, economic regeneration and promotes public dialogue opportunities, over the next 50 years.
1961 and earlier: Island County residents requested rural library service. Snohomish County Library officials worked with the Washington State Library, Island County, town and town library officials to respond to these requests.
At the time, approximately 19,477 people lived in Island County, and there were town libraries in Coupeville, Langley and Oak Harbor.
April 3, 1961: The Island County Library Demonstration project went into effect, when official word was received that the State Legislature had taken necessary actions to provide funds for the project.
April 19, 1961: Edward Jones, Chair of the Library Board and Emily Wilson, Executive Director of Snohomish County Library, applied for $57,854 in grant funds for a library demonstration project with Island County. Initial locations for service were in Coupeville, Langley, Oak Harbor, Freeland and Stanwood (on behalf of Camano Island residents).
October 1961: Community service and bookmobile service began.
December 1961: By the end of December, almost 800 adults and 758 children had become card-carrying library customers. And they had borrowed over 30,000 books, records and films within the first 3 months of service.
August 1962: By the end of the next August, over 125,000 items had been borrowed by more than 6,000 customers (about 1 in 3 Island County residents).
November 6, 1962: A vote passed for the formation of a rural library district in Island County. No voters residing in Island County towns were allowed to vote on the ballot question, only rural voters.
December 1962: Island and Snohomish County Councilmembers met and jointly formed an intercounty rural library district. Sno-Isle Regional Library became the name for the new two-county regional library district.
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Cameron Estates is an equestrian-friendly community located between Shingle Springs and Cameron Park in El Dorado County. A former ranch, it is now comprised of more than 200 parcels spread over 1600 acres. Homes on average sit on five-acre lots, which are organically dispersed over gently rolling hills.
The 16 miles of private residential roads have horse-friendly easements and there are a numerous creeks running through the wide-open spaces, making leisurely rides even more serene. A private, gated community, Cameron Estates offers unparalleled country living. The neighborhood is located in the Buckeye/El Dorado Union School Districts, with two public and two private elementary schools, two middle schools (one public, one private) and a public high school, all located within ten miles of the front gates.
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Bo Reichenbach is a 25 year old Montana native from Billings. He joined the Navy in 2008 and became a member of Navy Seal Team 2 in 2010. He was deployed to Afghanistan in January of 2012. In July of that same year he stepped on an IED. Here's how he described what happened; "I hit the ground and was awake immediately," "My left leg was completely gone; my right leg was damaged pretty bad. I just knew I had to stop the bleeding. I tried getting a tourniquet on and I couldn't because my right arm was pretty mangled."
Bo is married and has a 5 year old son. A group called America's Fallen Heroes is working to establish a trust fund so an accessible home can be built for Bo. Several fund raising events will be held here in Missoula starting Friday. Craig & Al from the KYSS FM Morning Show will be emceeing the BBQ Friday night at McCormick Park. I'll also be at Bitterroot Ford that morning helping hand out free coffee and good eats. Bo will be at both events. He'll also be at the Griz game on Saturday. Some of his fellow Seals will be parachuting into the game as a show of support.This whole weekend series of events are our opportunity to stand up and show our support. Try and get to one of them and make a donation.
EVENT :1 Friday August 30, 2013 Tandem Parachute Jumps with Navy SEALs and former Navy Leap Frogs, #10 spots are available to jump at approximately #13,500ft with a Navy SEAL combat veteran in Missoula, $5,000.00 each jump, Charity 501(c)3 donation, the funds go to Bo's trust account.
EVENT:2 Friday August 30 , 2013 Barbecue 5pm McCormick Park, Missoula, MT., Cregg Ln & Orange Streets. Outback Steakhouse serving Food, water, pop, beer, music with proceeds going to Bo's Charity Trust account. $10.00 donation for dinner.
EVENT:3 Saturday August 31, 2013 7am-10am: Pancake Feed American Legion 825 Ronan Street, Missoula, $8.00 donation breakfast, all you can eat, benefiting Bo.
EVENT:4 Saturday August 31, 2013 Grizzly Football Game: 6 Navy Leap Frogs will parachute into Grizzly Stadium to honor and recognize one of their injured brothers and the campaign to help raise funds to build his home.


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- "Among those who claimed to have invented this revolutionary spell was the German warlock Garvin Lügner, who insisted that he had invented it as a side-effect of his discovery of Instant Darkness Powder."
- —Miranda Goshawk, Book of Spells.[src]
Garvin Lügner (fl. 18th century) was a German warlock who invented the Instant Darkness Powder, presumably intended as a variant of Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder. However, unlike the true substance, which provides absolute darkness, Garvin's powder merely slightly dimmed the lights.
However, this did not discourage Garvin from falsely claiming he had invented the Wand-Lighting Charm, Lumos, to remedy the effects of his powder. The Wand-Lighting Charm was actually invented in 1772, by Levina Monkstanley, a British witch.[1]
- "Garvin" is a name of Old English origin, and its meaning is "spear-friend". Lügner is also the German word for "liar".
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|Nomenclature Committee (NOM)
What is the NOM?
The NOM Committee is composed by 10 nomenclature sub-committees dedicated to specific areas of nomenclature. Their misssion is to establish a universal and consistent nomenclature for both molecules and cells of the immune system.
Why do we need a NOM Committee?
Clearly, the molecules and cells of interest for the studies performed by immunologists are also relevant for studies in many other scientific areas outside immunology. Furthermore the functional abilities of these molecules and/or cells may not be unequivocal and may vary with the system studied. Therefore, a common language becomes of the utmost importance to integrate all the relevant information. Where would biological knowledge in biology stand without English as its common language?
NOM SUb-Committeees
The IUIS Sub-Committees have been establiching the nomenclature of different molecules of the immune system during more than 20 years. More recently, new committees have been also created for the nome and cellular subset. There are presently 10 nomenclature sub-committees approved by IUIS/WHO: Allergens, CD molecules, Chemokines, Collectins, Complement, Immunoglobulins and T cell receptors, Interleukins, KIR, MALT, monocytes, and DC.


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Courtesy of Food 52
Author Notes: Let's be honest -- short ribs are great in any incarnation. I wanted to use them in a ragu that had a little more oomph than the typical braise so I went into umami overdrive with porcini mushrooms, Worcestershire sauce and anchovy paste.
Food52 Review: This is a hearty, earthy ragu that we're confident would be just as satisfying over pasta as it is over polenta. The mushrooms, which get pureed with the rest of the sauce once the short ribs are fall-apart-tender, make the liquid cloaking the shredded short ribs nice and meaty, and the wine, anchovy, tomato paste and mustard make it sing. Gremolata is an nice, bright touch at the end. On a frosty winter evening, this would be perfect with a big, green salad and the other half of that bottle of red wine.
Serves 8-10
Short Rib Ragu
- 5-6pounds bone-in short ribs
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1tablespoon bacon fat, lard or oil
- 1large onion, diced
- 2medium carrots, diced
- 2stalks celery, diced
- 2large cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2tablespoons tomato paste
- 1tablespoon anchovy paste
- 1/2bottle big red wine
- 14ounces fire-roasted whole tomatoes and juice
- 1tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3-4dashes Worcestershire sauce
- 1ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 1teaspoon dried thyme
- 1teaspoon dried oregano
- 1large sprig rosemary, leaves chopped
- 2bay leaves
- Chicken stock or water
- Gremolata, recipe follows
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Soak dried mushrooms in 2 cups boiling water.
- Season ribs well with salt and pepper. Heat oil in large, heavy pot (I used a 5-qt. enameled cast iron dutch oven) over medium heat until shimmering. Brown ribs in batches for 2-3 minutes per side, then set aside. Pour out all but 1 tablespoon of accumulated fat from pot, then sauté onion, carrots and celery until soft. Add garlic and stir until fragrant.
- Create a hot spot in the pot by moving vegetables aside and leaving about a 3-inch radius bare. Add tomato paste and anchovy paste to the hot spot and stir vigorously until caramelized, then stir into the vegetables. Add red wine to deglaze and cook until liquid is reduced by half. Add tomatoes, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, mushrooms and soaking liquid (minus the last 1/4 inch to keep sediment out of your dish), plus herbs.
- Add ribs to pot and fill with chicken stock or water until ribs are nearly covered. Bring liquid to a boil, then cover tightly and braise in oven for at least 3 hours or until ribs are fall-apart tender.
- Remove ribs from liquid and set aside until cool enough to handle. Remove bay leaves and discard. While ribs cool, purée the braising liquid with an immersion blender until thick and set over medium-low heat to reduce if the sauce seems thin. When ribs have cooled down, discard bones and large pieces of fat, then shred the beef and return it to the pot. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature, skimming any large pools of fat from the surface.
- Refrigerate overnight. The next day, remove additional fat from the surface before reheating. Serve over polenta, sprinkled with gremolata.
- 1large clove garlic, minced
- 1large lemon, zest only
- 1/4cup parsley, finely chopped
- 1/2teaspoon salt
- 1teaspoon olive oil
- Mix ingredients in a small bowl and let sit at room temperature for an hour before serving.


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Road to the World Series: Oct. 19, 2013
One storied franchise has navigated the Road to the World Series yet again, pulling up to baseball's pinnacle event in style with a dominant clinching performance Friday night.
Another will be there soon. But for now, only one has reached the destination all 30 teams hoped would be on the itinerary when they entered the 2013 season.
One storied franchise has navigated the Road to the World Series yet again, pulling up to baseball's pinnacle event in style with a dominant clinching performance Friday night.
Another will be there soon. But for now, only one has reached the destination all 30 teams hoped would be on the itinerary when they entered the 2013 season.
For the 19th time in franchise history, the St. Louis Cardinals have claimed the National League pennant -- an eclectic club carrying that precious banner into the Fall Classic the way Enos Slaughter, Stan Musial, Bob Gibson and Ozzie Smith once did. The focus now shifts toward a potential 12th World Series trophy ringed with pennants.
Wearing a "6" on their sleeve in honor of the late, great Stan the Man, the Cards took Game 6 of the National League Championship Series in a 9-0 landslide. They're headed to the Fall Classic for the fourth time in the last 10 years -- their opponent remains unknown, pending the conclusion of the American League Championship Series this weekend in Boston between the Red Sox and Tigers.
The @Cardinals win the pennant! http://t.co/1msmgaxy35 pic.twitter.com/VB3Xf3E0AC- MLB (@MLB) October 19, 2013
For the Cardinals, this trip comes courtesy of a unique mix of players that includes several veterans, who still felt the pain of last year's near-miss against the Giants, and an amazing array of rookies thrown into the October fire. At the top of that list of rookies: Game 6 winner Michael Wacha, who became the youngest rookie to win a postseason Most Valuable Player Award. At 22, Wacha is a few months younger than Livan Hernandez was in 1997 with the Marlins.
Starting with a one-hitter in his final regular-season start, Wacha has skyrocketed to mound stardom in October -- and the Cardinals hope his work continues.
"We just don't talk about it much because we don't want it to change," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny deadpanned postgame. "We want to see it a few more times, a couple at least. We just want him to think that this is normal and this is expected."
In the new normal, Wacha outdueled Clayton Kershaw once again. Meanwhile, postseason genius Carlos Beltran contributed three hits, two RBIs and one stellar catch in the right-center-field gap. Trevor Rosenthal shoved one last 100 mph fastball down the middle of the plate for strike three and the 27th out.
This will be the first World Series appearance for all three of those players, but Beltran has waited 16 seasons and more than 2,000 regular-season games for it -- not a matter of months like his young teammates.
"This team has been on a mission to get me to this point, and I really appreciate that," Beltran said.
In a postseason powered by pitching, Game 6 went off the script with a superstar starter in Kershaw struggling and crooked numbers lighting up the scoreboard. And it all began with an 11-pitch at-bat in the third for Matt Carpenter, who fouled off six two-strike pitches before lacing a double to right.
"That was such a battle," Carpenter would say afterward. "I know he was as locked in as I was throughout that at bat."
It was clear the battle took its toll on Kershaw, who gave up a single to Beltran for the first run of the game, and the merry-go-round kept going from there.
"You're optimistic coming into this game, hoping to look at a Game 7," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "You've got Clayton going, so it's funny how the season, everything you do, comes to a screeching halt."
It was the third time in the last six years the Dodgers have lost the NLCS, the loss extending the franchise drought of missing the World Series to 25 years.
Dodger Nation: I am so proud of our @Dodgers players! Thank you for a great season!- Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) October 19, 2013
As they head to the game's highest peak, the Cardinals are 2-1 against both the Red Sox and the Tigers in the World Series. They beat the Red Sox in 1946 and '67, losing to them in 2004. They also beat Detroit in 1934 and 2006, losing in 1968.
For now, they're content to wait it out to see which of those two AL clubs they'll face. For now, the 2013 Cardinals can savor bringing another NL pennant to St. Louis.
Your Cardinals are headed to the WORLD SERIES! pic.twitter.com/ytkjr0LksF- St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) October 19, 2013
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The Red Sox won 28 more regular-season games in 2013 than they did the year before, their 97 victories and 53 at home leading the American League. Now, they just need one home win -- that's it.
One win at Fenway, and the Red Sox will be headed to the Fall Classic for the 12th time in franchise history.
But there's the matter of defeating the defending AL champions, a Tigers team that continues to claw and scratch to make it back there, a team that is up against the wall as the two teams prepare for Saturday's Game 6 at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.
"We've got to feel positive," hobbled Tigers star third baseman Miguel Cabrera said. "We've got to feel ready to play. We have been here before, down 3-2, and we don't know what's going to happen. We've got to think we can win Saturday. We've got to fight."
It'll be Max Scherzer taking the mound for Motown, making his third postseason start after a regular season that saw him win a Major League-high 21 games with a career-low 2.90 ERA. It'll be Clay Buchholz, absolutely brilliant during the regular season when healthy, hoping to set the tone for a third Red Sox pennant in 10 years.
With those two pitching and four one-run games out of five thus far -- tying an ALCS record -- chances are this one won't turn into a slugfest, either.
Heading in, the Red Sox are 5-0 all-time in Game 6s at Fenway, including the World Series classic that ended with Carlton Fisk's blast caroming off the foul pole. More to the point, the Sox have been strong all year in their home park, and this is the biggest home game to date.
"It's a mixture of the crowd, it's a mixture of a lot of guys who haven't played here before, they're getting that Boston atmosphere for the first time and are just kind of thriving on it," said catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
Congrats to the @Cardinals on advancing to the World Series. Our ALCS Game 6 vs. Tigers will now be Saturday at 8:07pm on FOX. #WinToday- Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) October 19, 2013
Saturday's League Championship Series game
Tigers (RHP Max Scherzer 2-0, 2.25 ERA postseason) at Red Sox (RHP Clay Buchholz, 0-0, 6.17 ERA), 8 p.m. ET (FOX) Preview >
Wild Card: Rays 4, Indians 0
Division Series: Red Sox beat Rays, 3-1 | Tigers beat A's, 3-2
Championship Series: Tigers vs. Red Sox, Boston leads, 3-2
Wild Card: Pirates 6, Reds 2
Division Series: Cardinals beat Pirates, 3-2 | Dodgers beat Braves, 3-1
Championship Series: Cardinals beat Dodgers, 4-2
2013 postseason schedule
NL Division Series
Game 1: Cardinals 9, Pirates 1
Game 2: Pirates 7, Cardinals 1
Game 3: Pirates 5, Cardinals 3
Game 4: Cardinals 2, Pirates 1
Game 5: Cardinals 6, Pirates 1, Cardinals win series, 3-2
Game 1: Dodgers 6, Braves 1
Game 2: Braves 4, Dodgers 3
Game 3: Dodgers 13, Braves 6
Game 4: Dodgers 4, Braves 3, Dodgers win series, 3-1
AL Division Series
Game 1: Red Sox 12, Rays 2
Game 2: Red Sox 7, Rays 4
Game 3: Rays 5, Red Sox 4
Game 4: Red Sox 3, Rays 1, Red Sox win series, 3-1
Game 1: Tigers 3, A's 2
Game 2: A's 1, Tigers 0
Game 3: A's 6, Tigers 3
Game 4: Tigers 8, A's 6
Game 5: Tigers 3, A's 0, Tigers win series, 3-2
NL Championship Series
Game 1: Cardinals 3, Dodgers 2 (13 innings)
Game 2: Cardinals 1, Dodgers 0
Game 3: Dodgers 3, Cardinals 0
Game 4: Cardinals 4, Dodgers 2
Game 5: Dodgers 6, Cardinals 4
Game 6: Cardinals 9, Dodgers 0, St. Louis wins series, 4-2
AL Championship Series (All games on FOX)
Game 1: Tigers 1, Red Sox 0
Game 2: Red Sox 6, Tigers 5
Game 3: Red Sox 1, Tigers 0
Game 4: Tigers 7, Red Sox 3
Game 5: Red Sox 4, Tigers 3, Boston leads series, 3-2
Game 6: Tigers at Red Sox, Saturday, 8 p.m. ET
*Game 7: Tigers at Red Sox, Sunday, 8 p.m. ET
* - if necessary
Game 1: Cardinals at AL champion, Wednesday, airtime 7:30 p.m. ET, game 8:07, FOX
Game 2: Cardinals at AL champion, Thursday, airtime 7:30 p.m. ET, game 8:07, FOX
Game 3: AL champion at Cardinals, Oct. 26, airtime 7:30 p.m. ET, game 8:07, FOX
Game 4: AL champion at Cardinals, Oct. 27, airtime 8 p.m. ET, game 8:15, FOX
*Game 5: AL champion at Cardinals, Oct. 28, airtime 7:30 p.m. ET, game 8:07, FOX
*Game 6: Cardinals at AL champion, Oct. 30, airtime 7:30 p.m. ET, game 8:07, FOX
*Game 7: Cardinals at AL champion, Oct. 31, airtime 7:30 p.m. ET, game 8:07, FOX
* - if necessary
John Schlegel is a national reporter for MLB.com.


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A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
I want a logo that presents tropical meets techy. :-)
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We are launching a website that enables Home Owners Associations to signup and create their community website online. We will do the design later, but want to start with the logo.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Double misery
We needed to find something more cheerful to do with our life, so we flipped through the PVR and found an episode of Intervention to watch, because observing teenagers destroy their lives before the cameras is really a pick-me-up after that much time spent with the Blue Jays.
We keep telling ourselves that we're going to miss baseball in a month's time, and that we're going to be sad once the season is over. But at this rate, with 75 wins turning into a lofty target, we just want to get to the off season and see this organization make some sort of effort to right itself.
They just need to sort everything out: Sort out the presidency. Sort out the front office. Sort out the on-field staff. Sort out the roster.
Sort all that out, and give us a reason to believe that 2010 isn't going to be a season-long march towards mediocrity.
A second thought or two on September callups
It might have been a bit unfair to rip on yesterday's callups in the manner that we did. We didn't realize that the minor league season had another full week to it, so it is possible that the Jays will eventually find room for a few more bodies on the active roster after this weekend.
Let's hope so.
Also, we should note that we're happy to see Dirk Hayhurst get the call. He pitched well while he was here, even though Cito generally used him only sporadically and in blowouts. We'd like to see him back as a bullpen arm next year. Our frustration comes from seeing the return of the marginal pitching stylings of Brian Wolfe, and the insistence that this team has in believing in magical voodoo of Joe Inglett.
We've grown incredibly tired of Inglett and his spunkiness, and we don't believe as many do that he's some sort of José Oquendo Utility Dude. In our view, Inglett's a second baseman and nothing else. He is more than willing to grab a mitt and play anywhere on the diamond, but he's not suited to play anywhere but second. And we've already got a perfectly capable second sacker.
16 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
30 seconds of waterboarding, or 6 hours STRAIGHT of shitty Blue Jays baseball called by Jamie Campbell and Rance Mulliniks. What are you taking?
- September 2, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Darren Priest said...
"perfectly capable second sacker"
That's fun to say. It sounds dirty. I think I'll add it to my resumé -- even if it isn't true.
- September 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- plaing said...
what do you guys think of taking a flier on john buck for next year?
- September 2, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Tao, your thoughts on Wilner's take re: Rolen.
I'm a sucker, and perhaps it doesn't matter b/c Rolen went out and played his ass off, but he's no longer the GBOAT to me.
- September 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM
From an article in today's Sun, Adam Lind's girlfriend is Lakeyshia Bertie from Richmond Hill:
And here's her facebook picture (with Lind in it):
- September 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- The Ack said...
Nobody's asking me, but you know what I think about the Rolen situation?
I think it sucks to hear that he may have dissed being a Blue Jay/Toronto/Canada/whatever - I mean, we all have some pride, right?....but we were happy when he was doing the same thing to St. Louis, weren't we?
Maybe it's just Scott Rolen being Scott Rolen. I dunno. I usually get worked up about these things, but right now I'm just....meh.
I'm more interested in the Rotoworld sidebar that says Cito has aleady annointed the 2010 rotation as Doc/replacement, Marcum, Romero, Cecil, RZep, with a possible Litsch sighting mid-season.
Thanks for coming out, Scott Richmond. And no mention of the Ghost of Dustin McGowan. That hurts, man.
- September 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Cito's proclamation is particularly stunning coming on the heals of his last proclamation that he wouldn't be managing next year.
As for Inglett, he's capable of not making outs 35% of the time in this league, which is suitable to me if some manager other than Cito wants to take some leveraged at-bats away from E5 or [insert crappy catcher here].
- September 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Bottom line about the Rolen thing is that Wilner is the source.
In other words, pretty worthless
- September 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Wilner's got a helluva lot more access than we do. Rolen could have sucked it up for three fucking months and walked out of town. I think it's bullshit. But, whatever, we've got E5 now. Let's focus on him.
And I saw that rotation as well. I thought the same thing about McGowan. He really is the forgotten man. Poor guy. Poor us. Fuck.
- September 2, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Wilner may have access but he's also a Rogers employee that always defends management.
He's a fucking hack and a mouthpiece.
- September 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- eyebleaf said...
I respectfully disagree. Being unhappy and being an ass is clearly part of Rolen's M/O. I shouldn't have been so surprised about the revelations.
- September 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM
So, you believe it because you want it to be true. You don't question Wilner's laughable integrity nor do you question why it's only him reporting this.
Okay then
- September 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Leaving Rolen's attitude aside, you guys were kidding when you were calling him the GBOAT, right?
- September 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- Torgen said...
McGowan isn't forgotten--I distinctly remember how over his career is.
- September 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Fuck off about shitting on Inglett. He wasn't 100 percent healthy during his first call-up when he was getting over a hamstring injury and he had an 8 game hitting streak when he was demoted last month.
Jesus, Inglett's not the biggest fucking problem on this club. Fuck sakes, do you have cute puppies too?
- September 2, 2009 at 8:05 PM
I meant hate. Ah, fuck it. Look, if I want to read dumb-assed shit, I'll go to that Jays fans for dummies website DJF!
- September 2, 2009 at 8:10 PM


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Click the link to the SAP Cloud Platform sign up page:
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