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To uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 completely on Mac, you have a lot to do. It is not so simple as you think to completely remove applications especially the security software from Apple Mac OS X system. Technically, anti-virus applications are more complicate than other type of software because of the powerful functions including scanning the whole system, detecting suspicious files, analyzing infections, removing malware, etc. Therefore, it has never been an easy task to completely uninstall Anti-virus or other third party security software from Mac. We don't recommend you uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 on your Mac because Mac OS X operating system would be infected by viruses, Trojan, and spyware although the Apple company claims that the OS X operating system is the most safe and powerful system on the earth. Mac security applications can protect against various malware and detect out the suspicious files, documents or other potential risk on the Mac. Furthermore, some of the security software is able to find out the system vulnerabilities and alarms users to fix these problems immediately. User's important documents, financial information, bank account records would be very safe under the protection of Mac security software. But if you need to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 on your Mac for some specific reason, you are suggested to read this article at first to learn how to remove it with different methods.
We provide you with the best SecuritySpy 3.4.10 removal guides of 2016 to help you uninstall the software safely and completely. Please be patient to read this article from the beginning to the end and you would learn every detailed information about how to remove SecuritySpy 3.4.10 from Mac OS X system.
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Anti-virus applications will generate a great number of associated files once they had been installed and run frequently on the Mac OS X. It is quite hard to remove those junk files left on the computer. Most of the Mac users would like to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 with Mac Trash or SecuritySpy 3.4.10 built-in uninstall tool. Both Mac Trash and app self-uninstaller are convenient for users to remove third party software on the Mac. "Just with a few of clicks, the applications would be removed completely from the system" ------ It is what the users always think about when they try to uninstall software on the computer. However, we have to tell you the truth that neither Trash nor self-uninstaller can completely uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 for you. They are able to remove main part of the executable file but can not delete the associated files for users. Usually, the leftovers are located into different folders: /Library/Preferences/, /Library/Application Support/ /Library/Caches/. Leftovers of security applications includes supported files, caches, preferences, plugins, binaries, library and other junk files. Too many junk files will occupy the system space then your Mac would become more and more slow and meanwhile you probably receive error messages or conflicts on the Mac when trying to install other application or to have some software run. The most important thing which users have to do is to delete all the leftovers remained in the those folders after the removing of main executable file. If you want to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 or any other third party applications from your Mac, remember that remove all of the components of the software which will help you avoid further potential problems and free up more space for your Mac.
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Here we are going to discuss how to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 and remove its leftovers completely. MacUtility.com introduces you two methods about how to thoroughly remove it from the Mac OS X. Please follow the SecuritySpy 3.4.10 removal instructions and execute every step to delete this application easily and effectively.
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Everyone including you must know how to remove SecuritySpy 3.4.10 with the Mac Trash function but we still start from the very simple steps to make sure you will not miss any detailed of the instructions. If you have no more patient for the traditional method or you have done it previously, please skip this part to leftovers removal guides directly. Mac Trash is able to help you uninstall the applications from Mac OS X however, it does not have the ability of removing associated files of the apps so that you have to clean up all of the junk files yourself. That is the key point to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 completely.
Before start the removal steps, we highly suggest you backup your important files and OS X system firstly in order to avoid any miss deleting or unexpected problems. There is a built-in backup tool called Time Machine of Mac OS X system which will help you save copies of all your files, applications, and system files automatically. If you run out of disk space, Time Machine will also erase the oldest version of the files to release more space for the new ones.
Brief tips to backup your files on Mac.
Step 1. Attach an external hard drive to your Mac. You would be asked that whether you want to use the disk to backup
Step2. Once your external drive is plugged in, go to System Preferences > Time Machine and toggle the switch from "Off" to "On."
Step 3. Follow instructions in Time Machine preferences to accomplish the backup work.
You can restore the entire system and get your information back if there is anything ever happen such as computer crash, virus, accidentally deleted file, or another common tech catastrophe on your Mac.
Now, let's get continue to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 with the traditional methods.
You need to close down SecuritySpy 3.4.10 and terminate all processes of it in order to make the uninstall procedure run smoothly.
* Please click "Go" menu on the top of your screen and then select "Utilities" option in the list.
* You will see "Activity Monitor" icon after you enter the "Utilities"; Launch "Activity Monitor" by double clicking the icon.
* Now there must be several processes running in the system background. Please find out the active process of SecuritySpy 3.4.10 and then end up those processes by clicking the "X" button to close this application.
Or you also can try another easier method to launch "Activity Monitor". Press "Command+Option+Esc" on your keyboard then you will see the interface of "Activity Monitor" ; select the process and then choose "Force Quit" to terminate it.
Confirm your operation in the following pop-up window by clicking on"Force Quit" button.
As mentioned before, Mac OS X Trash function could help you remove the main executable file of SecuritySpy 3.4.10. It is an effective way to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 from the Mac but you still need to finish more things.
* Please click on "Go" menu and select "Applications" from the list.
* Find out the icon of SecuritySpy 3.4.10, right click on the icon and then select "Move to Trash" ; Or just drag it to the " Trash" .
* Empty the Trash to remove the main files of SecuritySpy 3.4.10 from the Mac. You will receive dialog window asking you if you are sure to remove the items. Please click"Empty Trash"to delete the executable files of this application.
You are almost there to finish the whole removal procedure on Mac. You should know that applications like SecuritySpy 3.4.10 will generate lots of associated files, junk files and other types of traces when installed on the Mac. For instance, the application support files, caches, plugins, binaries, library, preferences, Dock icon, saved states, etc, all of them could be called additional files. Generally, the leftovers are located in these three folders ( /Library/Preferences/, /Library/Application Support/ /Library/Caches/ ) then you need to find them out and clean up the associated files of the application you just removed previously.
* Please click on"Go"menu at the top of the screen and select "Go to Folder".
* Type "~Library" in the blank to get into the library interface.
* Please open "Preferences" folder and then search the related files of SecuritySpy 3.4.10.
* Remove all of the junk files you find out in this folder to the Trash directly.
* Turn back to "Library" tab, get into "Caches" folder and search all caches of SecuritySpy 3.4.10.
* Clean up the caches of SecuritySpy 3.4.10.
* Turn back to "Library" tab, get into "Application Support" folder and search all supported files of SecuritySpy 3.4.10.
* Delete the supported files associated with the application.
* Right click the Trash icon and select "Secure Empty Trash" to totally erase the useless files right away.
* Confirm the operation when receiving pops-up Windows as below.
* Finally, please restart your Mac OS X system for the changes to take effects.
SecuritySpy 3.4.10 contains built-in uninstall program itself to let users uninstall it easily. Thus you can utilize this uninstall program to remove SecuritySpy 3.4.10 from your Mac. Please follow the brief instruction to uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10.
* Launch "Finder" and the enter "SecuritySpy 3.4.10" to search out the package.
* Double click on the .dmg file and you will be see the uninstall program there. Double click on "Uninstall"to launch it.
* You will receive message asking you to open the uninstall application.
* Enter your administrator account password to confirm your operation.
After you uninstall SecuritySpy 3.4.10 with its built-in uninstall program, do not forget to remove the leftovers of it. Just turn back to the junk files removal method and follow the instructions.
If you follow the instructions step by step, you have uninstalled SecuritySpy 3.4.10 on Mac completely now. The manual method introduced above does work and has been tested by the Lab of MacUtility.com already. It is the most economical removal method for users however, it is also a time consuming way to uninstall unwanted applications from Apple Mac OS X. We don't actually recommend you remove software manually unless you have extensive experience in computer technology. Any miss deleting will cause problems and errors on the Mac. In some cases, Mac users have to pay much money to the repair station to recover important data which has been removed by mistake. Therefore, inexperienced Mac users had better do not clean up the various associated files of the applications themselves. We will continue to discuss how to remove unwanted applications from Mac safely and easily.
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There are a few of uninstall tools designed for Mac available on the Internet market recent years. You can choose any one of them to help you uninstall unwanted applications like SecuritySpy 3.4.10 on the Apple Mac OS X system. Professional uninstaller will automatically display all applications installed on your Mac. Just select the application you want to remove and let it analyze all associated files of the app. Click the "Remove" button then you will uninstall the program completely. The whole procedure only takes you a couple of minutes. Moreover, Mac apps uninstaller also can detect out and remove additional files including preferences, caches and support files easily and thoroughly. You have no need to search and delete them one by one.
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Alaska senator again proposes renaming Mount McKinley to Denali
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JUNEAU, Alaska – Alaska's senior senator has once again introduced legislation to rename Mount McKinley, Denali.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in an interview Tuesday that Denali might not be the name that people in the Midwest recognize "but it has long been the name in really the place that matters, which is the state that this incredible mountain sits."
"I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state," Murkowski said in a release. "This is the tallest mountain in North America and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name."
Ohio is the birthplace of President William McKinley, and for years, members of that state's congressional delegation have filed measures or included language in bills to retain the name Mount McKinley. One such bill was introduced last week by Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who said in a release Tuesday that the name must be retained "in order to honor the legacy of this great American President and patriot."
Debate over a name change goes back decades. According to a National Park Service history, McKinley was the name bestowed on the peak by William Dickey in 1896, and it stuck because of his "'discovery' account" in a newspaper in 1897. Alaska Natives, Russians and American visitors had offered names of their own for the mountain over the years.
The name Denali is an Athabascan, or Alaska Native tribe, word meaning "the high one." Mount McKinley is located in Denali National Park and Preserve.
Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced a version of her bill during the last Congress, and said she heard from people all over Alaska, thanking her for the effort. "This is important to Alaska and quite honestly, it's important to the Native people, it's important to all indigenous people that we respect and honor the names and traditions," she said in an interview.
She said she expects some opposition from those who have only known the mountain as Mount McKinley but said that opposition might be softening.
One of the most vocal opponents of a name change was Ohio U.S. Rep. Ralph Regula, who fought the idea through measures or language included in bills until his retirement in January 2009.


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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
2010 Top Prospect List: #1 Yonder Alonso, 1b/lf
Height 6-2, Weight 210, B/T: L/R, DOB: 4/8/1987
2009 Redlegs Baseball Prospect Ranking: #1
The Reds selected Yonder Alonso with the 7th overall pick in the 2008 draft. When a team drafts a first baseman in the first round, they are doing it primarily for his bat. To justify drafting a player with minimal positional and defensive value, the player must have an outstanding bat to drive his value. Yonder certainly fit the bill coming out of college, but has yet to really establish that level of performance in the professional ranks.
Still, the Reds are in need of impact offensive talent and Yonder Alonso could ultimately fit the bill...if they can only find a defensive position for him to play.
Yonder spent the 2009 season bouncing around three levels of the minor leagues.
For high-A Sarasota, Yonder played 49 games and piled up 201 plate appearances. He hit .303/.383/.497/.880 with 7 homeruns and a 30/24 K/BB ratio. His BABIP was .333, which seems until you check his strong line drive rate of 29%, which is more than high enough to support such a BABIP. It was also more than enough to earn him a promotion to double-A.
For double-A Carolina, Yonder logged 29 games and compiled 121 plate appearances in which he posted a .295/.372/.457/.829 with 2 homers and a 15/14 K/BB ratio. Once again, Yonder posted a higher than normal BABIP of .330, but once again it was supported by a stellar linedrive rate of 25%.
Yonder was holding his own at double-A when he offered at a pitch, but ended up with a fractured hamate bone instead. He missed roughly a month-and-a-half with the injury and when he returned he took his first hacks in the Gulf Coast League. He had 18 plate appearances in the GCL and posted a .133/.278/.133/.411 with 2 hits and no extra base hits.
Overall, Yonder posted a .292/.374/.464 in 2009. It was solid production, but for a collegiate prospect and one of the most polished hitters in the draft, it was mildly disappointing, especially in light of the performance of fellow draftees Gordon Beckham, Justin Smoak, and others.
Yonder is patient and utilizes a very effective approach at the plate. He controls the strikezone very effectively and shows the rare ability to work deep into counts. His ability to minimize the number of times he forces consequences to at bats on "pitcher's pitches" enables him to effectively tip the probability of success in his favor. He waits for a pitch he likes and makes sure that he doesn't miss it when he gets it. His pitch recognition skill is very strong, as indicated by his remarkably strong K/BB ratio. In addition, he has very good hand-eye coordination, which enables him to make consistent, hard contact.
At the plate, Yonder utilizes a fairly quiet stance. He doesn't have much excess movement while waiting for the pitch. While the stance matters far less than hitting position when the pitch enters the hitting zone, I still prefer a quiet approach.
Yonder is another player who utilizes a very small stride. His stance is wider than shoulder width, so his stride doesn't entail much forward movement. However, it does involve movement towards home plate. Yonder uses a slightly open stance, so his stride operates to close up his body and get into better hitting position.
While waiting for the pitch, Yonder holds his hands a bit higher than most, actually up behind his left ear. This position results in the bat being essentially horizontal to the ground, rather than pointing to the sky like most hitters. He also uses a high back elbow and utilizes a small bat waggle which raises the bat straight up from horizontal towards vertical. The combination of his higher hand position and his high back elbow gives him a bit of additional length to his swing, as it takes him slightly longer to draw his hands back into hitting position so he can properly fire his swing.
When coupled with his higher hand position, Yonder's stride in towards home plate makes him more comfortable driving pitches that are middle away. When a hitter steps towards homeplate to close up his stance, it's often possible for a pitcher to be successful working in on the hands, especially when the hitter has a bit of additional length in the early stages of his swing. Striding in towards the plate and the delay in getting his hands back into hitting position makes it difficult for him to be quick to the ball on pitches on the inner half.
If Yonder can shorten his swing path on inside pitches, it should help unlock his pull power. Regardless, his bat speed and slight uppercut swing generate substantial power. He fires the hips to generate power and gets good extension through the ball.
Yonder's well-rounded hitting skills made him one of the top talents available in the 2008 draft. You can access his draft video here.
Here is a video clip of Yonder at the plate during the Arizona Fall League:
Another thing evident from the video clip is Alonso's physical build. He has a stocky build with heavy, thick legs and something of a barrel chest. He lacks quickness and agility, which shows in his heavy feet and will preclude him from making an impact with his legs.
In drafting Yonder, the Reds selected the best player available, despite the fact that they already had a good young first baseman locked in at the MLB level. He was an interesting draft pick for the Reds in that they had focused primarily on the premier defensive positions in recent drafts, including Drew Stubbs and Devin Mesoraco. In drafting Yonder, they targeted an impact bat, despite lacking a position for him to play.
So far in his professional career, Yonder has played first base. While holding down first base, Yonder has consistently posted "Runs/150" numbers of between +1 and +3 at each stop, which rates him as an average first baseman.
Still, he will always be an "offense first" type player and he likely won't age well, as his body type will slow him down further as he continues to fill out and add weight. Overall, his range will always be limited and playing at any position other than firstbase will likely be unworkable.
Interestingly enough, the plan for Yonder in the 2010 season is for him to shift to leftfield for double-A Carolina. It's too soon for any early returns, but his body type and limited defensive abilities make it a somewhat dubious proposition. Ultimately, Yonder profiles best at firstbase and attempts to shift him to a different defensive position will cut into his total value.
For some reason, the Reds seem hesitant to trade Yonder for a player of similar value, but one who better fits the needs of the organization. If Yonder if forced to play out of position, then his defensive limitations will drag down the value of his bat. To justify playing Yonder in leftfield his bat would have to generate so much production that it would offset the runs given away by his shoddy glove work.
Overall, the Reds would likely be better off playing a better defensive player in left, even if his bat was somewhat less productive than Yonder's.
Alonso remains the most well-rounded hitter in a farm system suddenly flush with pitching prospects. His bat is intriguing and Alonso is just the type of hitter lacking in the Reds lineup. The Reds need more hitters who are disciplined and willing to work deeper into the count. Unfortunately, his main position is already occupied, which ultimately could necessitate a trade.
Given his likely struggles to play a competent leftfield, a trade is probably the best solution. However, that may have to wait until Yonder rebuilds his trade value after the hamate bone fracture sapped his power and production.
For now, his offensive skills are sufficient to land him at #1 on the list.
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i see you made a 0 for chapman lol good idea.ReplyDelete
If Alonso can handle left i think it would actually up his value... IF he can play it close to avg. so far reports have been mixed but he is a hard worker and is really focusing on it
still i cant help but hope for a trade, or to go back and draft smoak instead. who would you target in a trade lark?
- AnonymousApril 29, 2010 at 1:01 PM
I'v only heard good things about Alonsos defense in left feild. I also heard that the reason Alonso is playing left and not Votto is because the orginization does not belive Votto has enough arm strength for the outfeild.ReplyDelete
I had no choice. I had to add a "0" to the list. I already had my list created and the bottom half of the write-ups complete when the Reds signed Aroldis. So, to accommodate another guy I had to add a spot.
I can guarantee that Aroldis will land in either the 0 or 5 spot. ;)
As for Yonder, I'm not optimistic about his chances in left, but time will tell.
I haven't heard anything great or terrible about Yonder's defense. It's just too early to draw any conclusions.
I've got my concerns, as from what I've seen Yonder simply doesn't move very well. He doesn't seem to move well laterally or have good speed/quickness. I just don't see it working, but I'd love to be wrong.
As for Votto, I just don't think you mess with him. He had an amazing offensive season in 2009 and shifting defensive positions could derail his offensive game.
Frankly, I'm not convinced either Votto or Yonder can handle leftfield at a competent level. If I had to bet on it, I'd wager on Votto. Still, I'm a believer in defense and run prevention, so I'm not convinced that the added value Yonder would bring with the bat would make up for the additional runs he would allow on defense.
Anyway, time will certainly tell.
Thanks for the comment!
I'm not sure who I would target for Yonder at this point. I'm a big Michael Taylor fan, so he's the guy I'd probably go after. Also, Yonder's on-base skills might be of interest to the A's. In addition, Taylor would be a better value in leftfield than Yonder would be playing out of position. Not to mention, Taylor's righthanded bat would work better in a lineup that already features Bruce and Votto.
So, I'd definitely kick the tires on Taylor, but the A's may be reluctant to part with him.
Another guy I'd target, though not with Yonder, would be Chris Iannetta. The Rockies just demoted him, so he's probably priced to move. I've always liked his well-rounded hitting skills and a change of scenery could help him get back on track. He's only 27 and could be a nice bat at a premier defensive position.
Anyway, thanks for the comment!
- smittyMay 1, 2010 at 3:30 AM
Id be interested in Taylor, do you think they would take Alonso straight up for him?ReplyDelete
Would you slot Taylor in the 4 hole in between Votto and Bruce?
Iannetta would be a steal if we could get him, ive always liked him alot.
I really don't know. The ship might have already set sail on Taylor. I'm sure Beane would love Yonder's approach at the plate, but I'm not sure he fits in to their 25-man roster as well as Taylor. They already have a hulking slugger limited to 1b/dh in Chris Carter. Unless they have soured on Daric Barton, they probably wouldn't want to have yet another 1b type in the mix.
Still, Taylor is a guy I would have gone after when he was with the Phillies and I'd still go after him now that he's with the A's.
I think he'd be a great fit in leftfield and the 4th spot in the order. A 3-4-5 of Votto/Taylor/Bruce would be pretty special.
As for Iannetta, I think he'd be a great fit for us. We don't have a catcher of the present. Mesoraco is ripping the ball in the minors and is working to reestablish his prospect status in the eyes of the mainstream media.
Still, give me a guy like Iannetta, who understands how to control the strikezone and has some good pop in his bat.
Anyway, adding both those guys to our roster would pay significant dividends.
Thanks for the comment!
- AnonymousMay 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Good stuff as always Lark although I didn't see anything in there with regards to hitting LHP which he hasn't done real well with yet. He seems to see the ball ok from that side as his BB rate is fine but he hits an inordinate amount of GB's vs. them (45.6%) resulting in a .212 BA (.268 BABIP). My guess he is topping the low and away fastball and/or slider an awful lot.ReplyDelete
As far as LF is concerned I'd agree with Lark on this as well. Neither is ideal for LF Votto would be better I think and don't know why his arm wouldn't be adequate given some of the arms in MLB at that position and his history (former catcher). However like Lark I don't mess with Votto his offense and his defense is more than fine.
As far as a trade goes at one point (before the Chapman acquisition) I was thinking an Alonso for Wade Davis of the Rays deal made some sense (and it still wouldn't hurt). However I think we have enough depth that we could honestly look at offense for offense. I also like Alonso for Desmond Jennings as a starting parameter. Jennings is a guy who can be that CF/leadoff hitter or with Stubbs being here you could put Jennings in LF and have him leadoff. I'd also find some way to include Reid Brignac in that deal, perhaps an arm like Ondrusek/Bray/Fisher (preferably Ondrusek for me) would level out the deal nicely.
Also in addition to that deal the Rockies do make some sense as well. I like the Ianetta idea and I might go Alonso and Brandon Phillips for Eric Young Jr (2B/leadoff) and Ianetta. They may get a bit better value overall but BP will soon be making quite a bit of money and Alonso is already on a major league contract as well. Maybe we could slip Barmes/Spilborghs in there as well for depth at SS/CF. Lots of ways to go about things but these deals make some sense to me.
- AnonymousMay 9, 2010 at 11:09 AM
whats up lark? been a whileReplyDelete
- smittyMay 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM
Lark what do you think about bringing kearns back? His defense in left would be nice and he is killing the ball this year. Id much rather have him than nix or gomes even with the drop in power, and with laporta needing a spot for the Indians we could get him cheap. Would you be interested?ReplyDelete
I didn't break Yonder's performance down by his splits in part because I'm not sure the sample size is really large enough to be indicative of anything concrete. But, you did post some interesting stats. I do expect him to struggle against southpaws, as that is pretty commonplace for lefthanded hitting prospects. Yonder has been a bit up and down in his career, especially with the hamate bone fracture, so he's not the easiest grade.
As for a trade with the Rays, they certainly have a lot of quality talent. I agree with your assessment that we don't really need more pitching at this point, as remarkable as it is to say that about the organization.
I, too, like Desmond Jennings, but I'd be amazed if you get Desmond Jennings for Yonder Alonso. Desmond is just the more intriguing prospect all the way around. He's got more positional value, more defensive skills, and better speed. I just don't think the values of the two are equivalent, especially with Yonder's less than overwhelming early professional career.
Interestingly enough, I read a chat with one of the Baseball America guys (Jim Callis, I think) who suggested that a Yonder Alonso for Reid Brignac would be fair and beneficial to both sides. I think that speaks somewhat to Yonder's trade value. It's just not as high as we might hope, as he really hasn't been dominant with the bat and he will always be an offense-first prospect. Additionally, Desmond will likely be making his debut in Tampa very soon to help with the playoff push. Not sure how Yonder would help them win THIS year.
As for the Rockies, I still really do like the Iannetta idea. Spillborghs has also intrigued me for the last couple of seasons. He's got a nice, well-rounded offensive game and solid defensive skills. He'd be an interesting fit for us in leftfield and could add a tough out to a lineup that is short on them.
Iannetta and Spillborghs? I could live with that.
Anyway, thanks for the comment!!
Yeah, I'm almost done with my Chris Heisey write-up. A heavy workload at work, some massive computer problems, and a touch of writer's block have conspired against me as of late. But, Heisey should be up tomorrow.
Man, I had high hopes for Kearns back when he was in our farm system. I thought he had a chance to be a .300+, 30 HR, 100 RBI kinda of talent. Less power, but more well-rounded at the plate than Dunn.
Unfortunately, injuries seemed to derail him completely. Ray King sat on his shoulder and constant hand injuries seemed to rob him of his hitting skills. In fact, his swing seemed to change to the point where he had a hitch and more holes than he had in years past.
I haven't seen much of him this year, but his performance has been ridiculous. He is hitting line drives at a 31.5% clip, which is ridiculous. His BABIP is an equally absurd .442, which may actually be rather sustainable if you are hitting line drives at such a high rate.
Personally, I'm just not sold on Kearns to the point where I'd be willing to give up much to get him. The Tribe will probably want something of value for him, but I'd need a larger sample size before I'd be willing to trade for him.
I'd rather just go with in-house options for left at this point. I wish Kearns well, but I'm not ready to welcome him back to the organization.
Of course, if he keeps hitting...
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I think heard that Callis idea before as well. My thinking on the subject though is #1 you always aim high based on the current state of things so I'd offer Alonso for Desmond now telling TB that this offer will not be there when his power comes back (the great equalizer in this deal) which it should around mid to late season. I think he can help them this year with that bat (assuming his power does come back, I think it will). And more importantly the always cost conscious Rays will see the potential value beyond this season. At years end both Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena are FA's IIRC, I think being able to afford to keep Crawford while having Alonso would trump the alternatives. In essence I wouldn't make an Alonso for Brignac deal and would request more for an Alonso for Jennings deal.
Power is always at a premium in baseball and I would sell the idea that Alonso is a potential .300 BA, .400 OBP% 30+ HR guy. He may not ever reach those heights but he has the talent and skillset to potentially be that guy. And if he does Jennings would have to be a pretty dynamic guy to match his worth to a team. He also has the potential to be that dynamic guy but he too has his question marks (one being his swing mechanics are a bit funky). Right now I think an Alonso + a young relief arm is a fair offer for Jennings and Brignac IF it's sold right. It probably won't be quite enough to get it done but I think it's close enough that we could come to an agreement eventually for not much more than that. And if they don't believe Yonder has that kind of value well I'd hold off and expect him to raise his value later on. Ya just don't want to sell low unless you can get what you want.
On Kearns I agree with ya his BABIP and LD rates are ludicrous at this point and I don't expect those trends to continue. I liked him at one time but I think in this case the phrase "You can't go home again" applies. Not sure it would work out to bring him back to Redsland.
P.S. Keep an eye on those LH splits for Yonder and keep an eye out for his power to start to return/improve about mid to late season.
Interesting thoughts. I have no problem with offering up Alonso for Jennings. I'd love to see the Rays jump on it. I just don't think they will. I really don't think Alonso will be ready to help anyone at the major league level this season, especially a team in the AL East contending for the playoffs.
Still, you make a good point about impending free agents Carlos Pena and Carl Crawford. However, you can also make the argument for keeping Jennings, letting Crawford walk, and resigning Pena to play first. It works either way.
On Alonso, I must admit to being a bit worried. I'm just not wild about what he has done to this point. I'm holding out hope that it was just a slow first half followed by a subsequent hamate bone injury that is holding down his production. But, he hasn't hit the ground running quite like I expected. Still, I suppose it's unfair to expect him to produce like Smoak or G.Beckham, but given his polished hit tool that is probably what I expected from him.
I'll keep an eye on the splits and hope the power emerges at some point.
As for Kearns, as I recall the fan base wasn't all that pleased with him when he was finally dealt out of town. Personally, I'm just not ready to roll the dice on him being back on his projected career path. He may well be, but the chances that he'll turn back into a pumpkin are too much for me to want to risk it.
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By Mike Earley
SeniorNet's Headquarters recently relocated from California to Herndon Virginia.
As a welcome to the east coast, SeniorNet@FSL, the Don Weidman Computer Learning Center in Huntington hosted a get-acquainted visit on Feb. 20.
Visiting were Sheila Alger, John Alger, and Jerry Alger, joint operations directors for the new headquarters facility. Among the Huntington SeniorNet hosts were Slava and Eric Vero, Otto Niebler and Fred Atkin and representing Family Service League was the newly elected President and CEO Karen Boorshtein.
The highlight of the meeting was a PowerPoint Presentation by Otto Niebler, detailing the new Homebound Remote Learning Project, currently in late testing mode. This project is the brainchild of SeniorNet@FSL Huntington volunteers Niebler and Jim Burke, who is resident lab coordinator with the support of the Family Service League. Nicknamed "Virtual Classrooms," the objective is to conduct remote classes in an interactive fashion from SeniorNet Learning Centers with homebound seniors.
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Carpenter drives in three to lift Cardinals over Cubs
Peralta, Craig deliver on offense to snap out of slump at the plate
ST. LOUIS -- Sometimes a win is more than just a positive tally on a team's win-loss record, and the Cardinals may have experienced such a thing on Sunday.
In dispatching the Cubs, 6-4, before an announced crowd of 44,135 at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals not only survived a rain delay, won the series and took some momentum into a long road trip, but two sluggers who started the season in prolonged slumps showed signs of breaking out.
Allen Craig and Jhonny Peralta combined to go 3-for-7, reached base four times and scored three of the team's runs. Craig and Peralta entered the game a combined 6-for-70 to start the season.
Peralta matched his season hit total entering the contest by going 2-for-4 after getting the day off Saturday.
"He's not a guy that gets too worked up, but you could tell it was getting to him just like it does with everybody sooner or later," manager Mike Matheny said. "And he just wanted to come in here and have an impact with his bat. He had a couple good at-bats today in big situations; we needed it. You can tell when he gets going, it's going to be a fun bottom of the lineup to watch."
Matt Carpenter benefited the most from Craig and Peralta's resurgence, driving in three and scoring the team's other run from his leadoff spot.
"Finding a way to get those runs in when you get up there in those situations, just trying to put a good at-bat together," Carpenter said. "So it felt good to get it done."
Though Cardinals starter Michael Wacha gave up more runs after the first three batters he faced Sunday than in his two previous starts combined, the rookie settled in and pitched 6 1/3 strong innings. He was lifted with Mike Olt on second and one out in the seventh, in favor of Kevin Siegrist, who ended the threat by striking out Darwin Barney and getting Emilio Bonifacio to fly to center.
Siegrist pitched a clean eighth, before giving way to Trevor Rosenthal. For the third time this week, Rosenthal had a rocky outing, giving up a run, before closing the door.
"Everything feels good at this point, just trying to find a good mix and see what's working and keep working with Yadi [Molina]," Rosenthal said. "He has a good idea of what looks good and so you just trust in him."
The Cubs jumped on top after Anthony Rizzo blasted the first pitch he saw into the Cardinals' bullpen in the first inning. The 384-foot shot, Rizzo's second home run of the season, also scored Justin Ruggiano to make it 2-0.
It was the first home run allowed by Wacha this season. He had only given up one run in his previous two starts.
"I elevated a fastball and you can't do that with those types of guys," Wacha said.
The Cardinals capitalized on Cubs pitcher Edwin Jackson's early control struggles in the second. Jackson walked Craig and went 3-1 on Peralta before surrendering a single. A Carpenter single scored Craig and Peralta. Carpenter then stole second and scored on a Kolten Wong single to give the Cardinals a 3-2 lead.
Jackson needed 56 pitches to get through the first two innings. Just 34 of those were strikes.
After a 46-minute rain delay, the Cubs tied it in the fourth when Welington Castillo's single scored Junior Lake.
Peter Bourjos' speed helped break the tie in the bottom of the fourth. Bourjos legged out a triple on a ball hit into the right-field corner and scored on a shallow fly ball off of Carpenter's bat. Bourjos was able to slide around Castillo's tag after Lake's throw went to the third-base side of the plate.
"I know if I just put a decent swing on the ball, get some kind of fly ball to the outfield, whether it's deep or not, I have a good chance to get him in," Carpenter said. "That's no disrespect to other guys on our team, but even if I was at third on that ball, I don't know if I possibly tag on that. But with Bourjos over there, I felt pretty good about our chances. He's a weapon on the bases."
"Not many people are going to score on that ball," Matheny said. "It was a nice at-bat by 'Carp' to be able to give him something to work with knowing that we were going to take a shot with the way that he runs. They made a pretty good throw, just up the line a little bit, but there's not many guys you're going to see score on that as easily as he did."
The rain delay, which started after Molina singled to begin the bottom of the third, seemed to help Jackson, who fell to 0-1. Once the game resumed, Jackson needed just 58 pitches to get through the next four innings.
The delay allowed Wacha, who improved to 2-0, to settle in as well. The righty gave up just one more run after the rocky start.
"I was able to settle down a little bit," Wacha said. "I had some quick innings there and was to get some quick outs, which I needed. Our offense came through and picked me up in big-time ways. Whenever I'd give up the lead, we'd come back and score and it ended up being a pretty good day."
The Cardinals in the eighth tacked on two runs, which ended up being needed after Rosenthal's rocky appearance. Molina and Craig started the rally with singles, Peralta doubled home Molina and Craig scored when Olt couldn't handle a Bourjos smash to third base, making it 6-3 Cardinals.
The Cardinals offense, which has sputtered in the early part of 2014, has now scored 16 runs in the last two days. The team hopes the bats will travel as it takes off on an 11-day road trip through Milwaukee, New York and Washington.
"You kind of feel the offense start to click a little better," Matheny said. "You keep our pitching going and you get that offense going and we're going to have a good trip."


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Twitter, the global network for short bursts of information, is buying a startup, Crashlytics, that tracks when bad code causes apps to fail abruptly.
Notably, it appears to be leaving Crashlytics alone. TechCrunch reports that Twitter is not relocating the team from Cambridge, Mass. to Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, and allowing it to continue to serve other customers like Yelp and Waze.
Twitter uses Crashlytics in its own app, as well as Vine, a recently launched app for sharing short, simply edited videos.
Which brings us to an interesting point: Is Twitter changing its acquisition strategy?
Twitter has primarily bought pieces of its own ecosystem, bringing in-house functions previously developed by third-party developers. Summize, a search engine for tweets, and Tweetie, the basis of Twitter's iPhone client, are prominent examples. Those deals have been largely successful, allowing Twitter users to find tweets and use Twitter-branded mobile apps.
It has also bought startups for their talent. Mixer Labs, a location-software startup; Posterous, a blogging platform akin to Tumblr; and Bagcheck, a list-sharing site, are two examples. Those results have been more mixed:
- Mixer Labs CEO Elad Gil stayed for two and a half years, running corporate strategy. He left in May 2012.
- Posterous CEO Sachin Agarwal played a key role in Twitter's new photo features.
- Bagcheck cofounder Sam Pullara stayed for just a year on Twitter's engineering team.
With Crashlytics and Vine, Twitter is setting a new pattern: Buying startups and leaving them alone to develop products in Twitter's safe nest.
The model here is Google's acquisition of Android and YouTube, which it ran for years as standalone divisions.
Twitter's motives may vary deal by deal. As a Crashlytics customer, it may not have wanted the startup to end up in the hands of hostile rivals like Google or Facebook, who surely wouldn't mind learning about the ins and outs of Twitter's mobile-app code.
Vine, on the other hand, seems to have simply charmed Twitter's leaders with the premise of a new art form, a video version of Twitter's 140-character tweets.
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This week in new hires, F-Squared Investments named Paul Gamble managing director; Sean Curry and Kimberly Palleon moved up at BMO Global Asset Management; Commonfund welcomed back Paul McKiernan; Prequin added George Segulin to its board; Jennifer Putney went to Prudential Retirement; and Highland Capital grew by 13.
Also, Casey Wamsley joined Collins Capital; Dan Cupertino went to Frontier Asset Management; Envision Business Consulting added Alan Arney and promoted Kelly Bolin; Saybrus Partners welcomed D. Steve Shirley and Geoffrey Ward; Scott Schuetz went to The Phoenix Cos.; and Prairie Capital Advisors welcomed Cecilia Loftus to its Philadelphia office.
F-Squared Names Paul Gamble Managing Director
F-Squared Investments announced the appointment of Paul Gamble as managing director, head of retirement solutions. He will be joining the management committee and play a critical part in guiding the firm's overall strategy. As president of retirement solutions, he will be responsible for the firm's full suite of next-generation investment solutions targeted towards the defined contribution and retirement markets, including customized and private-labeled target-date strategies and funds, collective trust funds and subadvisory partnerships in the retirement market.
Gamble has more than 20 years of experience in the retirement industry, most recently serving as executive vice president of distribution and institutional services at Financial Engines, where he spent 13 years. Before joining Financial Engines, he was vice president of institutional retirement sales at Scudder Investments, as well as vice president of institutional retirement sales at Fidelity Investments.
BMO Global Asset Management Advances Curry, Palleon
BMO Global Asset Management announced the expansion of its institutional sales team with the addition of Sean Curry as relationship manager, consultant relations, and of its trust and custody team with the appointment of Kimberly Palleon as manager for trust and custody services. Curry will be based in Chicago, and will provide dedicated relationship management to investment consultants based in the central and eastern U.S., while Palleon will oversee the trust and custody relationship management team.
Curry has more than 13 years of experience in investment and institutional relationship management. He joined in 2005 and has focused on relationship management for asset management clients in the U.S. In addition, he has played a key role in identifying new institutional opportunities with current clients and national consultants. His past experience includes roles with multiple leading financial services companies.
Joining in 1999, Palleon first served as a relationship coordinator on the retirement services relationship management team. In 2005, she became a relationship manager on the newly-established not-for-profit services team. She has over 13 years of experience administering custody, foundation, endowment and master custody relationships and has extensive experience with securities lending.
Paul McKiernan Returns to Commonfund
Commonfund announced Monday that Paul McKiernan has rejoined its institutional sales team as a managing director. He will focus his efforts on cultivating new relationships, as well as renewing previous client relationships in the midwest region, and will work with mission-based nonprofit institutions and pension plans.
McKiernan previously worked at Commonfund from 2007 to 2012, and most recently was director of U.S. institutional and consultant relationship management at QS Investors, where he was responsible for U.S. institutional business development and consultant relations. Earlier, he held institutional business development positions at Deutsche Asset Management from 2000–2006. George Siguler Appointed as Non-Executive Director of Preqin
Preqin announced the appointment of George Siguler as a non-executive director. He joined the board effective July 9.
Siguler is a managing director and founding partner of private equity firm Siguler Guff. He was a founding partner of Harvard Management Co. in the early 1970s; during this time, he also served as associate treasurer of Harvard University. In 1983–1984, he served as chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Reagan administration. Instrumental in founding Commonfund Capital in 1988, he served for many years as one of its directors. He was president of Associated Capital Investors (formerly Bank of America Investment Management Company), serving as CIO from 1985–1991, and was a managing director and head of PaineWebber's private equity group from 1991 until 1995, when Siguler Guff became independent.
Prudential Retirement Names Putney Head of TRS B2C Marketing Strategy
Prudential Retirement, a business unit of Prudential Financial, has named Jennifer Putney vice president and head of its total retirement solutions (TRS) B2C marketing strategy. In her new role, she will be responsible for the overall marketing strategy and execution for TRS's participant and retiree programs.
Putney joins from Transamerica/Diversified Investment Advisors, where she ran participant communications and strategy for the last four years. Prior to that, she worked in the retirement services division at Pentegra and led Guardian's marketing area for their group pension business. She also has earlier history with Prudential, building out the marketing function in Scranton, Penn., in 1993, and overseeing its C&E program team 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans from 1995-1999.
Highland Capital Adds 13
Highland Capital Management announced Monday that it has hired six regional sales directors in the Pacific Northwest, Florida, North Texas, Long Island, the Midwest and Southeast, and has also expanded its sales team at its Dallas home office.
Anthony Wilson (San Francisco), Derek Andersen (Florida), Kevin Wentworth (Texas), Joseph Kearney (Long Island), Chris Shahda (Atlanta) and Tom Antonovich (Minneapolis) have joined as sales professionals.
Based in San Francisco and covering northern California, Oregon and Washington, Wilson brings two decades of experience as an investment management sales executive. Most recently, he was western division director for Artio Global Management; he previously held similar levels of responsibility at IndexIQ and Turner Investment Partners.
Andersen joins with eight years of experience as a financial adviser and wholesaler, most recently with The Hartford, where he was regional marketing director for south Florida and Puerto Rico. Prior to working in finance, he played professional baseball for the Tampa Bay Rays and coached baseball at the college level.
Wentworth covers North Texas, Austin, Oklahoma and Arkansas. He brings more than 14 years of combined experience in sales, management and service, most recently serving as regional vice president/external wholesaler for Hartford Mutual Funds. Prior to that, he was with JP Morgan Asset Management for 10 years.
Kearney has 16 years combined experience in sales and financial consulting. Most recently, he served as regional wholesaler/assistant vice president for AllianceBernstein. He held similar positions with Prudential Investments and First Investors Corporation, serving as an internal sales consultant for Prudential for four years and financial consultant for First Investors for three years.
Shahda leads external sales efforts in the southeast region, encompassing Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. He comes from Hartford Mutual Funds, where he was an advisor consultant since 2005, working in the DC, Virginia and Maryland area and later in Georgia and South Carolina.
Antonovich oversees sales in the midwest, covering Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas. Earlier he had been an advisor consultant since 2005 for Hartford Mutual Funds, where he served independent, bank, and regional firms in Minnesota. He previously served as regional director for Walls Fargo Funds for six years.
In addition, Highland has also relocated and expanded its internal sales team to its home office in Dallas, adding seven new members to the team led by Justin O'Brien, formerly of Fidelity. His team comes from leading financial services firms, including Hartford Funds, Merrill Lynch, and Invesco.
Collins Capital Appoints New Director to Team
Collins Capital announced that it has appointed Casey Wamsley as director. In his role, he will focus on both the mutual fund and limited partnership sides, and will work very closely with Dorothy Weaver, cofounder, CEO and CIO of the firm.
Wamsley has more than 18 years of experience in the financial markets. He most recently served as founder and president of Phoenician Capital, where he specialized in alternative investment consulting to RIA firms and institutional clients. He also has previously held prominent positions at investment consulting and advisory firms including Schwab Institutional.
Dan Cupertino Joins Frontier Asset Management
Frontier Asset Management announced that Dan Cupertino has joined the firm as vice president, regional director. His primary responsibility will be to cultivate new business relationships with financial advisors for the firm and provide service to existing clients. He will work with advisors in the east.
Cupertino has worked in the financial services industry since 1998, and began his career managing relationships with retirement benefits clients for Northern Trust Retirement Consulting, which later became Hewitt Associates. Most recently he was a regional vice president for Wells Real Estate Funds, where he was responsible for raising capital through financial representatives of selling broker-dealers.
Arney Joins Envision Business Consulting; Bolin Promoted
Alan Arney has been hired as a director by enVision Business Consulting, and Kelly Bolin has been promoted to vice president, client partner. As a director, Arney is involved with developing the firm's business strategy. Bolin now serves on the firm's executive team, managing current client relationships and creating new ones.
Arney is a 25-year veteran of the consulting and corporate management world, delivering consulting projects on four continents for Accenture.
Bolin joined in 2010 as organization and human performance leader. Previously he held leadership positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, North Highland Worldwide Consulting and Ernst & Young Management Consulting.
Saybrus Partners Announces Two New Hires
Saybrus Partners announced Tuesday that D. Steve Shirley has joined the company as managing director, national accounts, and Geoffrey Ward has joined as managing director, business development. Shirley will be responsible for managing key account relationships, helping drive successful sales execution and identifying and securing new institutional partnership opportunities. Ward will be responsible for identifying new distribution channel opportunities for middle market product offerings.
With a career that spans over 30 years, Shirley was previously national accounts vice president for institutional accounts, John Hancock Life Insurance Co., and held senior sales management positions at Merrill Lynch.
Ward, previously national director for MetLife, held senior sales positions at Travelers Life and Annuity. He brings nearly three decades of experience working with registered representatives, investment advisors and independent agents, and has a substantial background in estate, business continuation and retirement planning, as well as ERISA plans including defined contribution plans.
Scott Schuetz Joins Phoenix Cos.
The Phoenix Cos. announced that Scott Schuetz has joined as vice president, growth delivery and operations. In this role, he will be responsible for quality and efficiency of operations for all actively sold lines of business from submission through claims. In addition, he will be responsible for bringing new products to market and improving processes and technology to meet distributor needs cost effectively.
Schuetz was previously senior vice president, life and annuity operations and services, Aviva Life & Annuity Co., and held senior positions at Wells Fargo Bank and Citigroup. He began his career in business development, sales and marketing at Procter & Gamble.
Cecilia Loftus Joins Prairie Capital Advisors' New Philadelphia Office
Prairie Capital Advisors announced that it has hired Cecilia Loftus as vice president, based in its new Philadelphia office. There she will head up a variety of business development and growth initiatives centered on new and mature ESOP opportunities.
Prior to joining, Loftus was vice president and shareholder at ESOP Economics, Inc., where she was focused on issues involving repurchase obligation planning. She was also responsible for business development, project management and training junior staff members. Earlier, she was a retirement plan consultant for The Standard (Formerly Investmart, Inc.) where she consulted clients on a wide array of planning issues related to all types of qualified retirement plans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for a revamp of the U.S. tax code, a goal shared by his Republican rivals, but the bid to close tax breaks enjoyed by the wealthiest Americans and corporations face familiar roadblocks in Congress.
Lowering the corporate tax rate while scrubbing the code of deductions and asking the richest to pay more were among familiar proposals outlined by Obama in his State of the Union speech to Congress.
"Now is our best chance for bipartisan, comprehensive tax reform that encourages job creation and helps bring down the deficit," Obama said.
The ideas largely mirror those he pitched in his address a year ago. Since then, Obama has won re-election campaigning on what he has called tax fairness, while Republicans have lost congressional seats. But even Obama's backers say they face a tough road in the near term.
"Unless Republicans have a real 'come to Jesus moment,' it is difficult to imagine them supporting many or any of these provisions," said Jim Manley, a former top adviser to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
Before Democrats and Republicans can get to the full-scale revamp of the U.S. tax code that they say they want, they must put out several fiscal fires. The latest stand-off between the White House and congressional Republicans is over automatic spending cuts set to kick in on March 1.
Obama and fellow Democrats back a mix of revenue and tailored spending cuts to avoid what is known as the "sequester," while Republicans oppose any tax increases.
Indeed, Senator Marco Rubio, who is giving the Republican response to Obama's speech, said his party would not agree to new taxes.
"I hope the president will abandon his obsession with raising taxes and instead work with us to achieve real growth in our economy," Rubio said in excerpts of remarks released before he spoke.
A full-scale tax code overhaul is a massive endeavor, and it has been somewhat crowded out by issues like immigration and gun control in recent weeks and months.
Republican Representative Dave Camp, who chairs the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is working on a plan to revamp the tax code. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, is also working on a proposal.
"It is not an issue that has much momentum behind it, but having people like the president and Dave Camp talking about it will help that," said Erik Smith, a former adviser to Obama who now advises companies at Blue Engine Media.
Obama has also called for review of the corporate tax code - including lowering the top corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 35 percent, to be paid for by closing business tax breaks.
Republicans back a lower corporate rate but have resisted the idea of tackling it in isolation because many businesses file taxes through the individual side of the tax code and would be left out.
Obama also again proposed a minimum tax on offshore earnings, aimed at spurring domestic investment and to "prevent a race to the bottom in corporate tax rates."
(Reporting By Kim Dixon; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Eric Beech)


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It's casual and cozy at Fratelli. Come have a seat and enjoy our authentic home cooked meals based on our original recipes. Fratelli offers a very warm and friendly atmosphere for you and your friends.
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Can dreams come true? Brothers Salvatore and Matteo Pocchi always dreamed of opening a restaurant after growing up in the cafe business with their father Gaetano. In April 2005, they realized their dream in the form of an authentic Italian made wood burning oven, and created a very warm and inviting casual family dining experience, named FRATELLI Village Pizzeria.
Fratelli means "brothers" in Italian, so Matteo runs the kitchen, while Sal manages the dining room and father Gaetano lends an all around helping hand. This family owned and operated philosophy extends to the friendly staff, with a promise for exceptional service and a strong community presence and support. Sal, Matteo, and everyone at Fratelli Village Pizzeria strive to provide a warm and welcoming atmosphere in gratitude to its local and visiting patronage.
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By Jemima Garrett for Pacific Beat
Papua New Guinea's biggest palm oil producer has been named as the world's leading sustainable agricultural company by a London-based independent assessment organisation.New Britain Palm Oil, which has farms in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, was ranked number one among agricultural companies.
The FFD Projects director James Hulse says it was the only company to score well in all categories.
"In terms of all of those, it is certified, it is engaging with its suppliers and it is working with the community and within the community to really try and improve best practice as to how it goes about its plantations," he said.
"New Britain Palm Oil are one of the few companies to have a fully integrated, segregated, supply chain that I believe is almost entirely RSPO certified."
The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project ranked 100 companies from every region of the world, including Colgate-Palmolive, Gucci and Heinz, in its 2012 assessment.
Backed by $US 13 trillion in invested capital, the FFD Project engages with smallholders, and works with them to improve yields and reduce the area of land that needs to be farmed.
It rates agricultural companies highly if they have independently verified sustainable certification of their products.
The FFD Project also rates the timber industry, oil and gas, cattle producers and many others.
Risky businessNew Britain Palm Oil was a foundation member of the industry certification body, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, but it has found the process is expensive.
"I think there are financial advantage to becoming RSPO certified," Mr Hulse said.
"There have been a number of studies done that show, yes, there has been an investment but, yes, there has been a return in terms of improved yields and lower input costs."
Mr Hulse says companies need to be aware of the risks of being associated with deforestation.
"There are big reputational risks for companies. There are also legislation risks We are starting to see with logging around the world Europe the US and obviously Australia is now working on its own illegal logging laws, and we've also got operational risk.
"These are food commodities that are operating under increased supply constraints and increased demands, from population growth, from changing diet and also from climate change and it is causing a massive squeeze - you know the world missed the credit crunch but I don't think it is going to miss the commodity crunch.
"It is a well understood theme among investors. So really a lot of what we are doing is about supply chain management for companies. It is about risk management within the context of feeding the world and not expanding into deforested lands."
Carbon footprintOil palm plantations are one of the biggest threats to tropical rainforests.
Deforestation accounts for 15 per cent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions and takes a toll on biodiversity.
Big companies and their investors are increasingly seeing it as a risk to their reputation.
In June 2012 the FFD Project merged with the Carbon Disclosure Project create the world's largest natural capital disclosure system covering the carbon, water and forests.
Mr Hulse says it is important that the issues are understood separately, and that with deforestation there are global supply chains.
"A lot of companies aren't actually aware of what is going on within their supply chains," he said.
"What we would like to do is bring them together to look a little bit more realistically at how companies use natural capital and how they impact on the environment more generally.
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I know, I'm neglecting the Dougalls and Frasers. Best to concentrate on one project at a time, to get the maximum effort into the story and the mechanics. Strike while the iron's hot. Stop delaying and dallying with dreamy thoughts that a visit to the Isle of Coll is in my future and will somehow fuse everything together. Just because I saw the McFadyen homestead in River Denys (Cape Breton), doesn't mean I'll find a heap of stones in Scotland where my ancestors once lived barefoot and ate turnips. It doesn't mean I'll have a huge epiphany or a sea change or something. As I understand it, tourists often fail to grasp local colloquialisms, so they miss the healthy humour of today's Collachs.
Who, by some reports, tend to party away half the night. This is how they raise money for a new community centre so they can have bigger parties. I'd never get any rest if I went.
Photograph "Arinagour Sunrise," Welcome to Coll (http://www.visitcoll.co.uk/wallpapers.php?g=1&w=1024&h=768). This is what happy Collachs see on their way home after a successful ceilidh.
But I digress. This was supposed to be about my resolve to shape up my McFadyen family history (Ancestors and Descendants of Donald McFADYEN and Flory McLEAN from the Isle of Coll, Scotland, to River Denys, Nova Scotia). The cards are on the table and the iron is in the fire. I confess: I'm a manual, word-processing, do-it-yourself family history writer. The shaping up means checking every footnote, about 200 at last count, for proper standards and consistency. Elizabeth Shown Mills' Evidence Explained is THE guide, not to mention her QuickSheets for citing online sources. A good footnote/citation checker will pay the greatest attention to each note in sequence. A not-so-good checker, like me, will get distracted by each note and start rummaging through files to see if I missed a nugget or go online to search/add more information or start bugging the relatives again. It gets painful when I find myself subscribing to more databases or waiting for new bits from phone calls and postal mail.
Discipline is absolutely necessary to stop the straying and go with what I've got. Otherwise, as all writers and historians know, the job will never end. We want to research, write and edit forever. And let me tell you, I acknowledge that 200 footnotes are a modest pittance compared to the ambitious projects I see other genealogists undertaking. Sigh. Will anyone in my family ever understand why I'm doing this the way I'm doing it?
Then I must check my genealogical numbering system, including all those superscript numbers and when they should be italic or not. My suspicion is that I may have mixed the Register system with the NGSQ system sometimes. You'd think I would have used Numbering Your Genealogy: Basic Systems, Complex Families and International Kin (authors Curran, Crane and Wray, Special Publication no. 64 from NGS, 1999) from the get-go, avoiding this retro situation. Well, this perfect booklet was published way after I'd started my constructing. Too late to wipe it out and start again from scratch.
You can take a car on the ferry from Oban to Coll, but why bother when you can rent a bicycle on an island measuring about 3 miles by 12 miles. I'm only seeking a driver from Edinburgh to Oban who won't kill us driving on the wrong side of the road. Might as well keep the dream alive.
02 September 2009
McFadyens Part 9: Footnotes and Fantasies
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- Sheri Fenley said...
This is so great to know that even geniuses like you have a problem sometimes getting distracted and led on another path (your footnote review example). It's good to dream but I need to get my head out of the clouds before I float away!
- Thursday, 03 September, 2009
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Miller's woes against Pirates persist in rocky opener
Carpenter hits two-run homer; Cards irked by lack of interference call
PITTSBURGH -- There was a renewal of a blooming National League Central rivalry Friday night along the banks of the Allegheny River, where the Cardinals left the Pirates stunned last October. St. Louis shuttered PNC Park for the winter with a Game 4 National League Division Series win and rode the momentum to the World Series.
But in front of a home crowd of 23,342, the Pirates provided an early reminder that they intend to play challenger again in the Cardinals' attempt to repeat as division champions.
Pedro Alvarez served as the prime nemesis, stinging Shelby Miller with a pair of home runs before adding to the Pirates' lead with a slick sixth-inning slide. The bullpen let the game get out of hand, leaving the Cardinals with a 12-2 loss in the first of 19 games they'll play against Pittsburgh this season.
The Cardinals were also left to wonder how differently the night might have transpired had an interference call been made at a key point in the sixth.
"I don't know if you can put the whole game on that particular play," Matt Carpenter said. "But it certainly had an impact."
That inning opened with the Cardinals trailing by one after Carpenter answered three early Pittsburgh homers with a two-run blast. Alvarez pushed the Pirates' lead to 4-2 by beating out a double play, stealing second on a botched hit-and-run, and scoring on Russell Martin's single to center.
Manager Mike Matheny came out to discuss the play at the plate -- buying time for the club's video coordinator to review the play -- before deciding not to challenge.
He'd soon wish there was something he could do to change what happened next.
With Miller's night done and Randy Choate on the mound, Martin moved to third on another single. He then briefly broke toward home as Yadier Molina pump faked when Neil Walker took off to steal second. Martin, running on the infield grass, started back toward the base and moved into the path of Molina's throw, something the runner can do along the third-base line, the umpires later explained to Matheny and Molina, if he is not intentionally trying to impede the throw.
That conditional clause is what became the focus. Molina and third baseman Carpenter, both of whom saw Martin watch Molina release the ball before turning his head and altering his direction, believed there was intent to get hit.
"In my opinion, he was waiting for the ball to hit him," Molina said. "I don't get it. I don't get that rule. On the first-base side you have to [create a] straight [line while running], but on the third-base side you can move everywhere. That's tough. What else can I do?"
"He was not in the path of the ball until he realized he was in a rundown and he was out," Carpenter added. "As the ball was thrown, he pretty much ran right to where my glove was and got hit by it. I don't know what the rule is, but I thought it was obvious he was trying to get hit by it."
As the ball rolled away, Martin scored and Walker advanced another base. Matheny argued at length and eventually persuaded home-plate umpire Brian Gorman to confer with the rest of his crew. That meeting was brief and nothing was changed.
Under Major League Baseball's instant replay rules, Matheny is not able to challenge an interference call. He was also not as certain that there was intent behind Martin's chosen route back to third base.
"That is a momentum shifter if we get that out, and everything was executed right down to Yadi's throw," Matheny said. "I don't think he jumped in front of the ball or did anything like we've seen guys do where they're trying to intentionally get hit. He just changed where he was and let the ball hit him."
The evening unraveled from there. A two-run deficit turned into four before the inning ended and left Miller charged with five runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings. Now 0-5 against the Pirates, Miller's ERA in those five starts ballooned to 5.93.
"It's not the park," Miller said. "It's not the team. I just pitched poorly today. I don't do anything differently to these guys than I do to anybody else."
He also insisted it wasn't the layoff. Miller's only outing over the previous 10 days came in a Minor League spring game.
Seth Maness, in his first appearance of the season, was later knocked around for a run and four hits. Keith Butler gave up five more, leaving the Cardinals open to questions about the strength of their middle relief corps. In four games, the bullpen has allowed 11 earned runs in 10 1/3 innings.
After having their third straight game delayed by rain (this time a one-hour and five-minute pushback), the Cardinals found themselves behind, 3-0, by the end of the fourth.
Alvarez connected on a two-strike fastball for a solo homer in the second and took a two-strike changeup into the seats in his fourth-inning at-bat. Miller was frustrated by the location of the fastball; not so much by where he threw the changeup.
"I don't know if he was sitting on it or what," Miller said, "but he must have been because he hit it good and it was right where we wanted it."
Alvarez, whose multi-homer game was the eighth of his career, has blasted the Cardinals for 13 homers and 45 RBIs in 205 career at-bats.
"He's been patient, stubborn with his approach, and it paid off for him tonight," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of Alvarez, who came in 1-for-15.
Travis Ishikawa went deep three batters later.
The Cardinals cut into the deficit in the fifth with their first home run by a Cardinals player in a regular-season game at PNC Park since 2012
Pirates starter Gerrit Cole otherwise worked around every other precarious position he had in his seven-inning start. That included one in the fourth inning, which opened with consecutive singles from Kolten Wong and Matt Holliday, then closed with Jhonny Peralta flying out to leave the bases full. The Cardinals finished the game 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
"You can't say enough about how good that lineup is," Cole said. "I'm glad I was able to get this one under my belt."