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Building a Savings Factory
Incremental Savings Are Fine, but If You Are Looking for Breakthrough Triple Digit Savings Results, It's All about Having a Cost Management System
Robert T. Yokl, Chief Value Strategist
No corporation in the 21st century can continue to do the same things and get the same so – so results related to their cost management efforts without questioning their commitment to building a "Savings Factory". To my thinking, only through massive savings innovations will corporations survive and thrive in the new millennium. Drip, Drip, Drip isn't going to make a dent in your bottom line!
Why? International competition is brutal; do I need to say the names China, India or Vietnam to get my point across? As a good friend of mine likes to say, "Once a new product or service becomes popular it quickly becomes commoditized and then all of the profits are squeezed out of it". There is even a parent's revolt over the high cost of education that is constricting private and public school's bottom lines. Even non-profits are finding they need at least a 6% to 8% bottom line for sustainability. Just inventing a better widget therefore doesn't seem to be the answer to making certain that your corporation's profitability, productivity and prosperity will be maintained in the uncertain years to come.
That's Why Just Good Enough
Isn't Good Enough Any Longer!
We must do better than just grind out a few percentage points each year in profits just to keep our heads above water. Especially, when you take into account how an unplanned and unforeseen crisis can arise like 9/11, and the Katrina and Rita hurricanes, or there can be a spike in energy costs that can completely wipe out your bottom line.
If you are sitting back comfortably and hoping (which by the way isn't a strategy at all) that the "Winds of Change" will blow in your favor, think again! New competitors of yours are on the horizon, and you are losing customers to rivals that you don't even know about. Brash new startups with better ideas than yours are breathing down your neck. I really don't think you can afford to sit back and just let stuff happen to you!
Where Are Your New Profit Margins Coming From?
If you think your new margins are coming from new products and services –you're missing my point – since 80% of new product and services launches fail! If you think they are coming from increased sales of your existing products or services then you must be counting on your competition to be asleep at the wheel, because they aren't going away.
A Much Better Way! Since it requires almost two dollars in new sales revenues to generate one dollar in profits vs. only $1 dollar in savings to have the same effect on your bottom line, focusing on savings innovations is a much better way to quickly increase your profit margins.
Case in point! By simplifying, consolidating and re-specifying their parts, Toyota saved one-trillion-yen or 30% of their procurement costs that went right to their bottom line. But just this year, Toyota's Chairman decided, even though Toyota is the cost leader in the automotive industry, to chop off another trillion-yen because he wants to stay the cost leader over the next decade.
The Law Of Diminishing Returns
If you want to be smart about saving money, you need to understand the effects of "The Law of Diminishing Returns" on your organization's efforts to save money. This law states that the more resources you expend on a specific target the quicker your overall return-on-investment will decline in effectiveness after a certain level of results have been achieved.
In fact, our studies show that organizations who are targeting their price oriented costs save less than 1% annually, while progressive organizations that target their products, services and technologies utilization, conformance to requirements and value mismatches are averaging 3%, 6% or even 9% savings annually.
What's The Bottom Line? You need to refocus your efforts with new innovative savings solutions and eliminate what we call your "invisible costs". As Jerry Sienfeld would say, "Not that there is anything wrong with ( price oriented savings)", but you should only be spending 20% of your time on these price oriented projects to obtain acceptable ROIs for your organization, instead of 80% of your time and resources.
Breakthrough Savings Innovation
Is All About System
Amazon, Starbucks, Proctor and Gamble, E-Bay, WalMart and IBM don't wait for new savings innovations to just happen willy-nilly, they have a management system in place to connect and develop new savings ideas by design. So, too, should your corporation have a system in place that holds fast to these five basic rules:
1. Risky Goals Matter
You must be able to think big and tackle risky goals that will set your corporation light-years apart from your competitors. For example, setting a financial goal, as one of our clients has, to have a 4% increase in their profit margin within two years. This will certainly stimulate your management team's juices to start innovating, because very few corporations have ever managed to meet this goal.
2. Size Matters
When establishing teams to search for innovative savings ideas, Amazon's President, Jeffrey Bezon says that, "To the degree that you can get people in teams small enough that they can be fed on two pizzas, you'll get a lot more productivity" and savings ideas too! Large teams stifle innovation, hold back needed change and are risk adverse.
3. Discontent Matters
The most successful innovative organizations like General Electric have promoted a "culture of discontent" or a restless desire that there is always something better than what they are doing now. They are always striving to find faster, better, more cost-effective and smarter ways to revolutionize, reinvent, modernize, originate, transform, update, renovate, renew, retool and remodel their work and their products, services and technologies. You need to be discontent too!
4. Diversity Matters
Establishing homogeneous teams with like minded members won't give you the diversity or heterogeneous atmosphere that is necessary to connect and develop new savings innovations. Successful savings innovation teams look like a well made "salad" with a mixture of dissimilar and varied ingredients served with an appetizing dressing.
5. Creative Friction Matters
Consensus is good when resolving routine operational problems or issues, but if you want to produce breakthrough innovative savings ideas you need "creative friction" to do so. By creative friction I mean employing new structures, new rules and new ways of doing things to stimulate original, inventive, and imaginative thinking patterns.
For example, one new rule that we bring into play with our client's value teams is that their project managers can't have any ownership on the savings project they have been assigned. This then virtually eliminates "we've always done it this way". This rule, among many others that we establish for our client's value teams, gets our client's creative friction machine humming.
As you can see by these five basic rules for savings innovation, when it comes to building a "Savings Factory" having the desire to do so is only the starting point. What really works is having a defined management system that consistently produces unique and unusual savings ideas that produce huge savings for you.
Measure Almost Everything!
Decisions on where to find supply, purchase service or system savings opportunities are easy when you measure almost everything you do. Conversely, they are the most difficult and fraught with errors when you don't have a "culture of data"!
For example, a client of ours called the other day to say that he thought that there was big savings in his boiler room chemicals because his chemical purchases had increased $129,000 over the last year. But when we benchmarked his chemicals usage we found that his actual utilization (adjusted by volume and intensity) saving opportunity was only $4,000 compared to his prior year's usage.
This example should demonstrate why you need to measure almost everything so you won't be mislead, misinformed or mistaken when making those big (and little) savings decisions. Otherwise, you will expend a lot of unnecessary energy and resources pursuing savings opportunities that don't exist.
What this means to you is that you must have a culture of never-ending benchmarking so you can identify the best savings opportunities with the highest ROIs, before you ever consider assigning a value team to investigate any and all savings opportunities.
The one message that I'm hearing loud and clear from CEOs, COOs, and CFOs that I talk to almost every day is that they don't have the time, money or resources to burn up on wasteful and inefficient exercises, or savings opportunities that are "dry holes". Savings managers should hear this message from your bosses loud and clear!
Tearing Down Your Corporate
Walls, Pillars, and Silos
I have found that one of the critical tasks that a corporation's executive management team has to do as a fundamental requirement to stimulate innovative savings is to tear down existing corporate walls, pillars and silos that have been holding back new innovative savings ideas for decades.
A case in point! I recently ran into this same challenge when we installed a Strategic Value Analysis® System (VAS) for one of our clients. We found out a month or so later that a senior management executive (who had gained power by isolating his division from the company's four other divisions) had incorporated his old methods and practices into our new VAS system. This happened because his management was afraid to tell this executive that "the times are a changing" and he needed to abandon his old ways for the new ways that were being introduced by my company in order to produce better results. In time we won this executive over to our ways of thinking, but it would have been much better for his management to tear down his impregnable walls before we arrived on the scene.
If your corporation isn't up to the challenge of tearing down your corporate walls, pillars and silos of resistance and opposition to change, then no innovative savings solutions are possible. Your corporation will just keep on operating with your old ways and old traditions that they have been employing for decades and hope that no one will notice that they are operating with aging, tired methods, practices and results.
Preparing the Way for Your Own "Savings Factory"
To achieve a state where savings innovation becomes a natural way for your organization to do business, you need to prepare your organization by:
1. Creating a Business Case for Change
I was just talking to a client of ours who is trying to convince his board of directors that they need to change their operating practices before their revenues shrink or dry up all together. I told my client that he needed to create a "business case" to convince his board that now is the time for change, not next month, not next quarter, not next year. I told him that a good theme for his presentation to his board would be, "It wasn't raining when Noah built his ark", to get his board focused on the future, not just today.
You need to do the same thing before you launch or re-launch your own Innovative Savings Program. Build a "business case" for change with your senior management or you will never get your program off the launching pad.
2. Developing a Shared Vision that's Logical
You need to develop a mental picture or visualization for your senior management that is logical and makes sense to them if you want to have a sustainable Innovative Savings Program.
For example, you could ask them to imagine how it would to look 18 months from now when your value team(s) has "wrung the towel dry" in savings for your organization, then would hold those gains going forward! I'm sure that this could be developed into a shared vision for your organization without too much arm twisting.
3. Building your foundation on teamwork
Innovative savings is "everyone's business", not just a supply chain or a performance improvement manager's business. Therefore, you must organize your department heads and managers in teams to make meaningful and significant savings happen. This then would give you a foundation of teamwork that would share the workload with many vs. just a few at your organization.
4. Arming your project managers with the Right Tools and Training to Manage Change
You wouldn't send an army to fight a battle without the right equipment, tools and training. It's the same with saving money! You don't want to send your project managers into battle to save money without the right tools and training to manage change. If you do, you can expect a lot of lost battles because your department heads and managers will be better prepared to hold on to their old practices, than your team members are to fight change.
We are all are looking for that magic bullet that will make our saving program successful – right from the get go – but in reality there is no magic bullet. Just well thought-out strategies, tactics and techniques that will prepare your senior management and department heads and managers for the journey you will be taking them on when you launch or re-launch your own Innovative Savings Program.
Building A "Savings Factory"
Isn't A Sometime Thing!
Building a "Savings Factory" at your corporation that can spew out thousand or even millions of dollars in savings for you every month, every quarter and every year, won't just happen unless you have a defined management system in place to do so. Saving money isn't a one time event, done in one or two initiatives every few years or even in a campaign, it is an ongoing management system to "wring the towel dry" on all of your expenses (salary and non-salary) every day, every week and every year. It is almost like a religion — you never stop believing that there is still more money to be saved in your corporation one bite at a time.
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In a recent campaign ad for President Obama, actor Morgan Freeman intones, "Every President inherits challenges. Few have faced so many." This excuse, repeated for four long, grueling years, is untrue. Too many of us have forgotten that numerous Presidents faced challenges similar to if not greater than those Obama faced.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison. James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, U.S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt amd Woodrow Wilson all governed during major panics, recessions or depressions before the Great Depression. The 10 Presidents from Jackson through Lincoln faced serious threats of secession, and Andrew Johnson, Grant and Rutherford Hayes had reconstruction to manage.
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Obama's excuse-making is intended to distract from the obvious fact that his policies have failed. They did not fail because of circumstances or because Republicans held one third of the elected branches of government for half of his presidency. They failed because they were bad policies.
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The holiday break is over, and a break from tough competition for the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team is over too.
The Skylights (7-4) will be on the road for two tough games this weekend, starting with a Friday afternoon affair against 14th-ranke
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MSU-N last took the floor Dec. 15 when the Skylights throttled Walla Walla College for the second time in three days. So with some rest in tow, Northern now turns its attention to a much more difficult pair of foes.
"These next games are going to be especially difficult," MSU-N head coach Chris Mouat said. "The Master's is a top-ten caliber team and will be a huge challenge for us. And Hope international is much-improved from when we saw them last. So this trip is going to be a real test for us."
The Skylights are have history with both opponents this weekend. The Master's is the team which ended Northern's dream run at the 2005 NAIA national tournament, while MSU-N has hosted Hope International in Havre before.
And with just these two games left before Frontier Conference play kicks into high gear next week, the Skylights will certainly use these games as a final tune-up for the league play which lies ahead.
Northern hope to be one hundred percent this weekend, after not having Kylee Denham for the last four games because of ankle injury. The Skylights are led by Nikki Tresch, who's averaging 16 points per outing, while Jordan Bruursema has come on strong of late, averaging 13 points and seven rebounds. Laci Keller is back to full strength as well, and MSU-N's bench is playing the best it's played all season.
But the Skylights will have to play even better if they want to contend with The Master's on Friday. The Mustangs just trounced a much-improved UGF team by 40 points earlier this month, and they also have a win over the Frontier's top team, Westminster College last month. The Mustangs (10-0) are led by Theresa Brown and Jaquelyn Marshall, but they also have seven other players who average between seven and nine points per game.
Things won't get much easier for the Skylights on Saturday. Hope International is 7-6 on the season, and has already played a very tough schedule.
But for as difficult a road trip as this weekend will be for the Skylights, Mouat said it's just what his team needs with Frontier play less than a week away.
"These games, especially against The Master's will be a great test for us," Mouat said. "They (Mustangs) are as good as any team we'll face in our league and they've already beaten some of the best teams in our league. And Hope International will play us tough too. So we're up against a lot on this trip, but it will certainly make us better."
The Skylights will take on The Master's College at 2 p.m. on Friday, and Hope International at 12 p.m. Saturday in Santa Clarita, Calif. Northern will re-open league play next Thursday at home against Dickinson State University.


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The COLD WAR III: GUERILLA WARFARE Mid-Atlantic Team Competition Early Bird Registration goes live on Monday, 15 April, 2013 at 1100 a.m! http://www.coldwar3.eventbrite.com.
This year's competition will be a team only competition and will include three (3) divisions of Rx, Scaled and a new Master's Team Division. We have added additional team slots this year, making this the largest competition in the region. Teams will be comprised of four members and must include at least one male and one female. How you compose your team is up to you, but we caution you to choose wisely…
Does your team have what it takes?
Questions: contact firstname.lastname@example.com
A heartfelt thank you to everyone that participated in the 2nd Annual Cold War Mid-Atlantic competition this weekend It was truly an amazing weekend of athleticism. Congrats to all of our winners and sponsors and an even bigger thanks to all the hardworking volunteers and judges who worked their butts off this weekend despite the cold. You truly made the event special
The full WOD descriptions have been posted the WODs page. Stay connected with us on Facebook and this website for more recaps, photos, and updates for Cold War 3. We look forward to seeing you all for next year's COLD WAR!
Scaled Team Results
1st: Crossfit South Arlington
2nd: Crossfit Goldsboro/One Lucky Bastard
3rd: Trident Crossfit #2
RX Team results
1st: Crossfit Krypton
2nd: Crossfit Syndicate/BWI
3rd: Crossfit Blue and Gold #2
Men's Competitors
1st: Jacob Heppner
2nd: Chris Martirano
3rd: David Cooper
Women's Competitors
1st: Lynsey Kokal
2nd: Kim Ebbert (tie)
2nd: Courtney Modecki (tie)
Great work by all the athletes this weekend!
Competitors, the declassified Cold War 2: Modern Warfare WOD details are now posted on the WODs page. Note that some WODs and mini-events remain confidential and will be released throughout the competition.
Scoring rules and information can be currently downloaded here: COLD WAR 2 SCORING GUIDE.
Please check back here for further mission details as they develop. And as always, good luck athletes.
The Cold War 2 is excited to announce an equipment presale, sponsored by Cold War 2 sponsor, Sorinex. Sorinex has generously provided these items for use in the Cold War 2 competition, and we are now offering them for discounted purchase in advance. Purchased items can be picked up at the end of the competition.
Item inventory and price list is below and includes the weight levels.
If anyone is interested in purchasing, please indicate what items you are interested in ordering, and quantity. All equipment will be sold on a first come first serve basis. Please send order requests and item inquiries to email@example.com.
Price List
Nakeds: $250
All Terrain/Nickels: $275
Diamonds: $250
90lb: $110
70lb: $85
55lb: $67
35lb: $40
55lb: $49
35lb: $42
30lb: $99
25lb: $90
20lb: $85
14lb: $75
45lb: $59
25lb: $29
10lb: $19
We are T-minus 15 days from the Cold War 2.
The WOD details will be posted on the WODs page on Thursday, November 29.
In the meantime, athletes, you have roughly two weeks left to prepare yourselves physically and mentally. The emphasis now should start to transition into recovery (rest and diet), mental readiness (sleep is crucial), and fine-tuning the team dynamics for those of you registered as teams.
We are still looking for Judges and Volunteers, register here if you are interested in helping out. Volunteers/Judges will receive a free event t-shirt as well as food throughout the day.
Spectator tickets are still on sale online and will also be available at the door for both days.
Registration for Individual Male and Female competitors ends this Wednesday, November 7. With the current lineup, both categories are sure to be intense competitions. Don't miss out on your chance to test yourself against the greatest!
Scaled Team registrations will end on November 10. This is a great opportunity for newer Crossfitters, competitors, and athletes to experience the rush of competition and test their mental and physical endurance.
And ofcourse, fantastic prizes await for our winners across all categories.
Don't panic yet! You still have a few more hours to register for the premier competition in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Registration for the COLD WAR II: MODERN WARFARE closes TONIGHT 10/31/12: http://www.thecoldwar-midatlantic.com
We still have some individual male and female competitor slots available. RX Teams are nearly sold out, but we have also opened up a Scaled Team Division!
Happy Halloween!
There are 4 days left to register for the biggest and most comprehensive CrossFit competition in the entire Mid-Atlantic Region. Get registered before your power or internet goes out!
Scaled and RX teams, and Individual Male and Female categories still available: REGISTER NOW
And now, a fond look back at last year's Cold War mini-game: "Bay of Pigs":
The COLD WAR II: MODERN WARFARE has just opened a new Scaled Team Division! Ticket Registration is Now Open…


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with poll: 9 questions and answers about Ann Arbor's proposed tax for art in public places
One of several ballot proposals Ann Arbor residents will vote on Nov. 6 is a question of whether the city should have a dedicated millage to fund art in public places.
City Council Member Christopher Taylor, D-3rd Ward, has been busy fielding questions about the proposal since he first introduced it last month.
It will appear on the ballot as Proposal B. If approved, the city will levy a new 0.1-mill tax to pay for public art the next four years, raising an estimated $459,273 in the first year.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
Putting the controversial issue of public art to a public vote is a move endorsed by both supporters and critics of the city's current Percent For Art Program, and was unanimously supported by the City Council.
The current program, which siphons off a percent of the money the city spends on capital projects to pay for art, would be replaced with a new millage-funded public art program if voters approve Proposal B.
The tax would cost the owner a $200,000 home about $10 a year. Taylor says the tax has been endorsed by prominent Democrats, Republicans and business leaders.
A campaign committee called Citizens For Art In Public Places formed on Aug. 28 . The group has launched a website at www.bforart.com and is actively campaigning now.
So far, no formal opposition has come out against the proposal, but many people still have questions about its implications. In his most recent email newsletter, Taylor took a stab at answering some of them. Here are his answers to nine questions posed by residents.
Q1: Will the Proposal B support regular arts organizations?
No. Proposal B will not provide operating funds to arts organizations such as UMS, the Michigan Theatre, the Performance Network, or The Ark. These organizations (plus so many others!) are tremendous assets to our community and they will still need your support!
Q2: What sort of art would Proposal B fund? Proposal B will only fund art in public places — sculptures, murals, temporary installations, and performance art.
Q3: If Proposal B passes, what can I expect to see? What will change?
Proposal B will eliminate the current obligation to link art with capital projects and so the city will be able to place public art where it makes sense, based on public benefit alone. In other words, you should see a greater amount and diversity of art in Ann Arbor.
Q4: Will passage of millage decrease Police/Fire funding?
No. There is no connection whatsoever between Police/Fire funding and the Arts in Public Places millage.
Q5: I know that Proposal B will cost the average homeowner less than $1/month. Will this amount be increased?
No. Any increase to the millage would require a new vote of the people.
Q6: How will the city decide what projects to fund?
The Public Art Commission will work with the City Council to develop guidelines to allocate funds between permanent art, temporary art, and performance art in public places. It could be 33/33/33 or 100/0/0 — the decision making can't begin until Proposal B passes. Have an opinion — let me know and get involved!
Q7: What will happen to the One Percent for Art program if Proposal B passes?
Proposal B suspends One Percent for Art funding during the term of the millage.
Q8: What will happen to the One Percent for Art program if Proposal B fails?
Nothing immediately, although I suspect that there would be an effort on City Council to terminate the program.
Q9: Why didn't Council suspend the One Percent for Art program before the vote in November?
Reasonable minds can differ on this issue. For my part, I had several residents speak out against the millage, but in favor of the One Percent for Art program. This response from constituents led me to believe that it is too simplistic to say that opposition to the millage absolutely equates with opposition to funding art in public places.


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Does Evolutionary Psychology Explain Why We Believe in God? Part 1
When we look across times and cultures and find very similar beliefs concerning the nature of physical, biological, and psychological reality, those similarities cry out for some explanation. Since these different individuals have a very diverse range of experience, something other than common experience alone just might account for the similarities of belief. In some cases we can fairly conclude that there is a common nature – some fundamental similarity in how human cognition works – that underlies broadly shared beliefs.
Series: Understanding Randomness
In this series, Kathryn Applegate addresses the concern that randomness implies the absence of God's activity and involvement in the natural world. She begins by clearing up some common misconceptions about the concept of "randomness", and later focuses on the mechanisms of the immune system to demonstrate that God works through random processes to preserve life. Far from being an indication of a "godless" universe, one might conclude that randomness is one of God's favorite mechanisms for creating and sustaining life!
Series: God and Creation
In this four part series, David Opderbeck explores the interesting relationship between God and his creation. He first looks at his transcendence over the material world. In one respect, God is completely distinct from all creation, yet he is also immanent, or present within all creation. Another aspect of God reflected in creation is his Triune nature. Just as love, fellowship, and delight exist within the Trinity, so these characteristics are present in the world, and experienced by humans. He completes his thoughts with a discussion about God's interaction with humans.
Series: The Human Fossil Record
In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
Series: Shaping the Human Soul
In Washington DC, Church of the Advent teamed up with The Trinity Forum to offer a series of lectures exploring the synergy between modern science and Christian Faith. This presentation by psychiatrist Curt Thompson and philosopher James K.A. Smith addressed the process of Christian discipleship and spiritual formation through the lens of neuroscience.
Denisovans, Humans and the Chromosome 2 Fusion
The Denisovans, an extinct hominid group that interbred with modern humans, made the news again lately with the publication of a more detailed study of their genome. One of the many interesting findings was that the Denisovans share the same chromosome 2 fusion that modern humans have.
Did David Hume "Banish" Miracles?
"I flatter myself," Hume triumphantly proclaimed, "that I have discovered an argument . . . which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures."
Series: Divine Action in the World
In this talk, Professor Plantinga addresses the fact that many contemporary thinkers—including many theologians—believe that God cannot perform miracles, providentially guide history, or interact in the lives of people, as these activities would be contrary to science. Plantinga, on the other hand, makes the case that this popular view is mistaken; excluding divine action in the world is not a central feature of natural science itself, but a philosophical or theological preference that has been added on to science (and can just as readily be removed). Plantinga concludes that it is completely logical to accept the miracles of the Bible and support contemporary science.
The Randomness Project
It is not uncommon to hear voices proclaiming that biology and physics have shown us that—at fundamental levels—nature is random, hence meaningless, purposeless, and without a creator. But how might God work providentially through indeterminate processes? The John Templeton Foundation has provided a generous grant of $1.69 million to support a new research initiative on the theme of Randomness and Divine providence.
Dispatches From the Physicalist Frontier, Part 1
I'm a physicalist when it comes to human persons. I believe, in other words, that we are wholly physical objects. I don't believe there are non-physical souls in the natural world. So I don't believe that we are or have such non-physical souls as parts. I believe we are through-and-through physical.
Rediscovering Human Beings, Part 1
That we are animals is something we hardly needed Darwin to tell us. It is obvious from the fact that, like other animals, we have stomachs and skin, eyeballs and ears, limbs and teeth, muscles, brains, and other organs. Yet it doesn't follow that we are mere animals.
Body and Soul, Mind and Brain: Pressing Questions
"Bit by experimental bit," writes philosopher P. Churchland, "neuroscience is morphing our conception of what we are." For many, this includes dispensing with the "soul" in favor of biologically anchored processes.
Being Human (Infographic)
The BioLogos Forum is pleased to present this infographic about the current anthropological understanding of human evolution, which takes into account research into both physiological and cultural developments among our ancient ancestors.
Hominids Lived Millions of Years Ago, but How Can We Tell? (Videocast)
This BioLogos videocast addresses the age of recently discovered hominid fossils and how scientists are able to obtain those dates.
Southern Baptist Voices: A Response to John Hammett, Part 1
The Scriptures teach that we human beings have been created in God's image. What does that mean? I am in substantial agreement with Dr. Hammett on this question.
Randomness and Evolution: Is There Room for God? (Videocast)
This BioLogos videocast addresses the idea of randomness as a part of natural selection, and whether it challenges the possibility of God using the evolutionary process as a means of creation.
Series: The God Who Acts: Robert John Russell on Divine Intervention and Divine Action
Does God need to supernaturally "intervene" in order to bring about the diversity of life that we observe today? Is that kind of action different from God's ordinary action? We begin our three-part series with Robert John Russell's description of how views of divine action have changed throughout history, excerpted from his book Cosmology: From Alpha to Omega. Part 2 addresses why "intervention" in the natural world is a problem philosophically, theologically, and scientifically; and Part 3 explains Russell's own theory of divine action in the natural world.
Series: Randomness and God's Governance
In this three-part series from Pruim's chapter in the book Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church, mathematician Randall Pruim explains what scientists and mathematicians mean when they speak of something being "random". He also addresses God's use of apparent randomness in creation as a part of his sovereign rule.
Adam's Dream
While the specific "how" of our being made into the image of God will probably always remain a mystery, the Bible and creeds are clear on the "why" of our creation: we were made to worship the Lord, and be in relation with Him and each other.
Chance Creation
It should not be surprising that John Cage asked the stuff he used to make paintings to take part in the process—to contribute its own identity to the intentional, purposeful, and determined work of creating "based on chance."
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he would advise Mitt Romney to "be yourself" on the campaign trail, as the presumptive GOP nominee fights perceptions he is unable to connect with voters.
"There's no perfect candidate," Giuliani said on CNN's State of the Union. "All of us have our strengths and weaknesses. It's no secret that Gov. Romney's problem during the primary was that idea of making a personal connection.
Polls consistently show that while voters are receptive to Romney's message, in particular on the economy, he faces a likability gap against President Obama.
The Romney campaign has tried to counter the perception of Romney as aloof or out of touch.
Romney's wife, Ann Romney earlier this month insisted that the narrative was untrue, saying of her husband, "there's a wild and crazy man inside there."
"I think in politics this is what always happens — there's a narrative and sometimes you like to put people in a box and keep him in that box, and for me, I love the opportunity of letting people see the side of Mitt that people have mischaracterized," Mrs. Romney said in an interview with CBS.
Giuliani, on Sunday, said he expected voters, who were focused on the economy, to see Romney as "very intelligent, very engaged, very committed… the perfect choice for a period of time when we need to recover the economy."
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FREESTYLE STORM AT IT'S FINEST!! With sunshine and mulled wine, the freestyle community was celebrating the Blue Tomato Plan P on the Planai last Sunday!
Finally, snowflakes are falling from the sky and they are bringing us the biggest pre-Christmas present the Blue Tomato Plan P is save with the arrival of the white splendour!
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01 Mar 2012
Mobile World Congress 2012 Review
Our editor visited Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona to find out what is happening in the mobile / cellular communications field.
This year's Mobile World Congress took place in Barcelona between 27 February and 1st March - a couple of weeks later than normal.
However the event was busier than ever. Not only were more halls and marquees used than in previous years, but thee seemed to be even more people in the halls, out on the Avenue or in meeting rooms.
The event is the largest in the mobile or cellular industry calendar bringing in people from all over the globe. Set in Barcelona, it is a meeting place for everyone in the cellular industry.
Not only does it provide a networking event, but companies are able to showcase their latest products. It is possible to find out where technology is moving to, and also by a little more investigation it is possible to find some of the problems and issues that are occurring.
In addition to the exhibition, the event also has a conference programme featuring many of the industry leading figures. With the by-line "Redefining Mobile", topics about the direction, technology and business behind mobile telecommunications were discussed. Industry leaders including Vittorio Colao, CEO Vodafone, Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, Stephen Elop, President and Chairman of Nokia and many many more were present.
Event figures
The figures for attendance were well up on 2011 when attendance topped the 60 000 visitor mark, with over 1400 exhibitors, 2900 press who were representing over 1500 media outlets. For 2012 67 000 people attended from 205 countries.
General View of Mobile World Congress
There were more than 1,500 companies exhibiting at the Congress and they occupied 70,500 net square metres of exhibition and business meeting space.
More than 3,300 international print, online and broadcast media attended the event to analyse and report on the many industry announcements made at the Congress.
Major themes
There are very many exhibitors and delegates an event of this nature, each with their own agendas to push. However there are a number of major themes that come out.
Some of the major themes this year were:
LTE deployments and resulting issues
Small cells
These developments are set against an ever growing cellular ecosystem. The number of connections has now exceeded the 6 billion mark, and it is anticipated that by 2015 there will be 9 billion which corresponds to 1.3 connections per person on the planet.
4G in the form of LTE is taking off and will provide the levels of mobile broadband people are using. With the Internet usage steadily sifting to mobile away from desktop computers, mobile broadband is an essential enabler.
There is also plenty of development in the "Connected Living" arena. Applications such as mHealth are expected to rise. Cloud computing is also expected to have a major impact with open platforms and users better able to access data wherever they are.
Behind this security is another issue that is beginning to grow in importance. Reported revenues for organised crime through IT hacking were reported by one observer as around a trillion dollars. This places cellular security at the top of the agenda.
LTE deployments and issues
It was interesting to note that deployments in LTE have been quite polarised. In North America many operators are staring to deploy LTE. However the actual deployments seem to be quite limited – often only in city areas where density levels are high and as a result, LTE can be claimed as a sales point.
In Asia the story is very different. Korea seems to have lead the way – operators have set themselves demanding targets which they have exceeded. Japan too has seen some great levels of acceptance.
However speaking to some vendors they said that exactly the same issues are being experienced that they saw with the early deployments of GSM, and then W-CDMA. Insufficient handsets, and also issues such as short battery life are two major issues.
The battery life issue was one that manufacturers seemed to want to hide. Nokia admitted they were fitting a 1800mA hr battery to their LTE handset. It appears that many handsets only have a life of around 4 hours maximum when they are being used. However it must be said that most handsets remain idle for long periods so they are able to shut down and conserve battery.
One area where a lot of work is being done to conserve power is in areas such as improving RF power amplifier, PA efficiency. Envelope tracking company Nujira were showing their technology off, giving figures for the improvements that can be gained.
Another important innovation is that of proper antenna matching. This is technique has been known since virtually the beginning of radio, but often sufficient fixed matching has been incorporated to give reasonable performance. However with increasing numbers of bands, the reducing form factor of the handsets and the need for greater PA efficiency has created the need for more accurate matching.
Antenna Tuning CMOS MEMS
One company addressing this is WiSpry, although there are others in this field as well. WiSpry were showing their small single-chip CMOS RF MEMS. Their demonstration showed the way in which dynamic antenna matching can improve efficiency and help reduce effects such as what has come to be known as the death grip, where holding the handset in a particular way reduces performance to the degree that connections may be lost.
It seems incredible that a form of voice communications was not included in the early standards for LTE – it was only added as an afterthought. At the 2010 MWC, GSMA announced their support for VoLTE, the "One Voice" solution for Voice over LTE.
Since then a number of solutions have started to appear, although one of the major issues is that of operators having IMS compatible networks in place. Currently the LTE handsets appear to be using circuit switched fallback, CSFB, where the phone reverts to the 2G or 3G network for voice.
One of the major issues with VoLTE will be that of voice quality. Users of the premium priced very fast data phones will need to feel that they are receiving a fully premium service, not only for data but also for voice.
To ensure that this is achievable, voice quality will need to be at least as good as that of the 2G and 3G services. To ensure this happens a number of voice quality measurement systems we on view – along with a video quality tester as well.
Small cells
Many people have been talking about small cells, and for a while it appeared that there may have been a battle between the femto community and those using other small cell style technologies. With the renaming of the Femto Forum as the Small Cell Forum a couple of weeks before MWC, all small cell technologies and their associated apps are being addressed by the new organisation.
Ubiquisys G3 Mini – a typical home femto
The technology is now establishing itself as a mainstream technology to address the growing data demands that will be placed upon the industry. What may be termed the traditional femto technology is now being adopted by more companies.
During the week, the Small Cell Forum released the results of an Informa study that predicted that small cell deployments will dominate the base station marketplace and they are likely to grow from a 2012 figure of 2.5 million to 59 million in 2016. Additionally many new operators are signing up for femto technology.
One of the challenges that the widespread use of small cells poses is that of backhaul. One of the keys to small cell technology will be cost reduction. This will need to be in terms of both capex and opex.
Femtos themselves use the home DSL or other link, and enterprise solutions will be able to use the similar data links into the operator network.
Other solutions like small cells deployed on lampposts and general street furniture does not have the benefit of an existing line in place. Several solutions are being proposed.
Nokia Siemens Networks proposed their Flexi Zone system. This system uses multiple, locally managed access points to create a network of interconnected small cells. These are wirelessly interconnected and then use a single backhaul line to the operator network.
Other solutions prosed by companies such as RADWIN use low microwave MIMO links relying on the reflections to provide non-line of sight links. Of course a host of solutions were demonstrated.
It seems like many years since NFC first appeared on the scene – it actually now a very mature technology. Unlike many other technologies it refused to lie down, and now, finally, it being accepted. The time appears to be right in terms of the business case. Banks and others are now in a position to utilise the technology.
1.5 million handsets were sold with NFC live in them, and NFC payment systems are being launched in Spain and Germany. The number of NFC handsets enabled is only small, and this will need to grow dramatically if NFC is to gain a real foothold.
As it does seem that NFC use will start to grow rapidly, methods of fitting NFC to existing phones would enable take-up to be much faster. A number of options have been proposed, but any system will need to be supported by the major banks that will ultimately control the success of NFC. Although there are options where the NFC circuitry could be added to the back of the phone, or into a battery. However the most favoured solution is to add it to the SIM, as this is a more controlled and secure environment. By simply replacing SIM, NFC capability could be added.
This poses a number of technical challenges as the environment is noisy. However a number of manufacturers have solutions that are ready to run, so we could soon see NFC widely deployed.
There is huge money associated with Apps. Not only are they sold in their own right, but they are also used to bring in custom and keep people engaged. As such they are an essential and growing elements within the cellular ecosystem.
This has been reflected in the growth of the App Planet, and the inters tint his area.
On view were many new apps and related ideas. It was a field of innovation in terms of software programming, gaming, and the like.
There were many areas of discussion that people were talking above the concrete developments. Who will succeed in the operating system battle? With Apple and Android leading the field, who will come in third. Will it be Blackberry or Windows? As many feel there is only room for three operating systems, Blackberry and Windows have everything to play for.
Blackberry had a disastrous year both in terms of the huge network issue they had and the lack of innovation in their new phones. Windows seems to be well placed as Nokia seems to have got its act together very quickly under Stephen Elop. They seem to be launching phones that look good and have very high levels of functionality. Where will it all end – only time will tell.
Next Year
Of course there was a huge amount that went on at MWC in Barcelona and it is impossible to cover it all here. We've picked out some of the headline stories and trends we saw.
Next year, the show promises to be as interesting and exciting. While it remains in Barcelona which has now called itself the "Mobile World Centre", the Congress has moved to another Fira - Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, and the dates are 25 - 28 February 2013.
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BLADEN — The chilly temperatures couldn't dampen the spirits of the No. 3-seeded Silver Lake football team or its fans on Friday when the Mustangs defeated Arcadia 38-21 in the first round of the six-man state playoffs.
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"(…) In 2007 Jibril was made head of the Government Office in Libya for economic development, linked to the U.S. and British multinationals. In this capacity, Jibril warned Washington that the plan to privatize the Libyan economy and form a new pro-Western ruling class had been blocked by Gadhafi, and that competition from China and Russia was increasing. Jibril's victory was already on the drawing board.
On March 30, 2011 (ten days after the beginning of the war against Libya), the New York Times wrote, based on information from the government: "If the American and Western intervention overthrows Muammar Gadhafi, Mahmoud Jibril could be the leader of Libya."
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This video is straight up perfect and my only regret is that it came out too late for me to use it. Like night of and day after Halloween candy trading is a flat out art. Hell it wouldn't surprise me if some of the best sports general manager's started off swindling their buddies out of all the good Halloween candy when they were kids. Like before Ted Thompson was trading 3rd round draft picks into Clay Matthews he was turning Bit-O-Honey into Snickers. So if you're under the age of 10 and you see someone getting a Reese's for a Mary Jane latch onto them and make them your best friend. Pretty good shot they'll be getting you seats on the 50 yard line when you get older. Also if you're under the age of 10 use this blog as a cautionary tale of what can happen if you drink your way through college.
PS: I have an admission to make. First time I've ever said this to anyone. I flat out LOVE the orange and black peanut butter taffy. Like I can't get enough. I'm not sure if that makes me a bad person, I'm certain of it. Now up until this point I've led a pretty normal(ish) life. But I feel like at some point I'm going to be in jail and psychologists are going to Inception my brain and find out my favorite Halloween candy was pb taffy. They'll let out one of those audible 'ahhhhhhhhh's' and close the case.
Double PS: Question, which is better: Kid Halloween or Adult Halloween? Now Kid Halloween is all about dressing up as your favorite super-hero, comic book star or cartoon character and getting as much candy as possible. Adult Halloween is all about dressing up in as your favorite super-hero, comic book star or cartoon character with a slutty twist and getting as much liquid candy as possible. I think I've still got to go with Kid Halloween at the end of the day. Although I will say this; even though you get bills to pay, your metabolism goes down the toilet and you start growing body hair like George the Animal Steele, when you're an adult, any day can be Halloween. And you don't have to go around the neighborhood threatening people to make it happen, just stop off at the grocery store and drown your sorrows in processed sugar any day you want.


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1st Nonjatta Exclusive Bottling: Karuizawa 1996/2013
Post by Stefan of Tokyo Whisky Hub
Today, we're happy to be able to unveil a special bottling selected by and exclusively available through Nonjatta. It is the first in a series of Japanese whiskies featuring artwork taken from the last great ukiyoe artist Yoshitoshi's final series of woodblock prints "New Forms of 36 Ghosts" (1889-1892).
On the nose, you get a wonderfully subtle amalgam of soft fruity notes: strawberry fruiche (a Japanese kind of home-made flavoured yoghurt), apricot butter, melon hi-chew, tinned peaches, dried pineapple and in the background, heather flowers and a hint of marjoram. The palate has some lovely surprises in store: pink grapefruit most prominently, but also apple sauce, peach jam and gooseberries. But there's more: kashiwa mochi (a Japanese sweet rice cake wrapped in oak leaf), baked alaska, pencil shavings, and a hint of sudachi (a Japanese citrus fruit) and pink pepper. The finish is long and lingering… and well, modesty precludes us from raving too much about it, but it truly is a small miracle.
The label, as mentioned above, features a woodblock print from Yoshitoshi's "New Forms of 36 Ghosts". The series captures moments – episodes involving ghosts and/or unnatural events - from Japanese legends and folktales and shows a time when the spirit world was much closer to the consciousness of people. Our Karuizawa 1996 features print no14: "The Enlightenment of Jigokudayu". "Dayu" was a term of respect for the highest rank of courtesan, but "Jigoku" (literally, "hell") was a term for the lowest rank of unlicensed workers in the pleasure quarters of those days. Having abandoned her earlier life and ways, "Lady Hell" is portrayed here sitting in meditation as a procession of skeleton courtesans – including two child skeletons, the courtesan's child attendants – passes by her.
We like to think there is a certain resonance between aspects of the print and the character of the liquid in the bottle. These sort of resonances will be further explored in subsequent bottlings and we invite you to join us in this project. There are 35 more prints, and it's our goal to find the right Japanese whisky to "go with" each and every one of those prints. But let's not get ahead of ourselves - back to our Karuizawa 1996: it's available from our friends at Malt City via this exclusive link. The cask only yielded 140 bottles, so there is a limit of 1 bottle per customer.
We are often placed in a sort of "don't shoot the pianist"-position when we share news of exciting new releases coming out of Japan. Many of them are hard to get for our readers abroad; some are already gone by the time we report on them; others are prohibitively expensive. It therefore fills us with happiness to be able to finally present something that is available, first of all, to you.


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As 2010 comes to a close, I look back and reflect on a year that changed how the National Education Association (NEA) and other national advocacy organizations manage their public relations. For NEA, three key events changed how we manage advocacy communication: passage of health care reform legislation (a win for NEA and its members) and the education jobs bill (meant to save more than 200,000 educators' jobs), and the effects of the midterm elections.
For public relations professionals, what's important about these events — health care reform, the jobs bill and the election — is how public relations demonstrated its value as part of a national member-driven advocacy campaign.
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text: Gerard Asserts Control by Commission, Sharply Criticizes Craig, Staffby Leo CoughlinLARGO - Mayor Pat Gerard, in some very compelling and pointed words, recaptured power for the City Commission and sharply reined up the Largo administration and staff, excoriating City Manager Mac Craig. Her comments came in connection with the reported closing of Bonner Park and other expenditure curtailments in the budget for fiscal year 2010 engineered by Craig and the staff without commission discussion. Gerard made clear that the hired hands had overstepped their bounds and had taken actions that had no commission involvement. "The process is backwards. Passing the budget is up to us," she said, keeping her very agitated demeanor under control. "We've seen this more than ever before, the staff making final decisions. You decided jobs to be eliminated before we had a chance to talk about it. That's not the way it is supposed to work." One thing that obviously irked the mayor was that a sign had been placed at the entrance of Bonner Park indicating that the park would be closed in the fall. At one point, on the issue of the supposed closing of Bonner Park, which brought out many protesting citizens to the meeting, Gerard turned toward Craig, who sits next to her on the dais, and said, "You really made us look like idiots. I don't appreciate it." Then she said, "I'd like to know who hung the signs saying the park would close before we (the commission) ever had a chance to talk about it. That's a real question." The hapless Craig chimed in with "We'll find out," indicating, if any further proof were needed, that he heads up a staff that is clearly out of control. At one point, Commissioner Rodney Woods, no doubt attempting to be judicial, opined, "We don't know who did it." Gerard, laughing, waved her hand dismissively toward Woods and said, "Of course we know who did it." "Well, I guess I'm out of the loop then," Woods rejoined. Truer words were never spoken. Comments by a citizen, Curtis Holmes, who will also be a candidate for election in November, challenging Woods, might have been a trigger for Gerard's comments later in the meeting. Holmes pointed out that hanging the "to be closed" signs was a ploy to ignite public protest, a device that has been used before by Joan Byrne, head of Parks and Recreation (a department that includes social services that citizen Geoff Moakley protested against in his comments). Gerard recognized that the staff was trying to be helpful in anticipating moves to be made in budget cuts, but made it very clear that she would no longer tolerate the usurping of the City Commission's function by Craig and his staff. Many observers in the city welcomed Gerard's asserting the prerogatives of the City Commission which for too long, in the estimation of many, has been subordinated by the city staff, meekly giving acquiescence to many issues. "Pat's words have jolted the city manager and staff back to reality. I am so glad that she put them in their place," one observer, a former commission member, said. "It seems like the commission doesn't know how government works. They don't understand that they have the responsibility and they must keep the staff under control." There has been a deterioration in the administration function since Steve Stanton left as city manager in the spring of 2007. Stanton was a thorough professional city manager with many years of experience. Unfortunately, through friendship and cronyism, the commission appointed the elderly and inexperienced Craig to succeed Stanton, a grave mistake in the eyes of many. That came about through the urgings of Commissioner Harriet Crozier a close friend of Craig. Action on the West Bay Redevelopment issue, once hot and controversial, passed without virtually any opposition. What had been strong objections within the plan were overcome. Working in the background with key city officials, modifications were made that overcame what had been presented as big problems. A petition drive by some residents living in the area became moot. Meanwhile, the political pot is a-boiling, with a candidate emerging to oppose Commissioner Gigi Arntzen. Woods already has an opponent in Holmes and Bob Jackson is expected to challenge Gerard in an attempt to get his seat back. Arntzen's opponent is a woman named Heleen Abramson and some brief research shows that she has a public record, advertising herself as a counselor on a web site called Live Person where she describes herself as an "expert in coaching and personal development." Abramson showed up at Tuesday night's commission meeting, her first visit ever to a commission meeting. She asked one person in the audience if "Gigi Arntzen was there?" Of course, Arntzen was on the dais with her colleagues. On Facebook, another Internet listing source, she cites Barack and Michelle Obama, Joe Biden and Ron Paul as among her favorite politicians and NPR as one of her favorite non-profits. She lost in the 2008 election to Rosemary Virgil as committeewoman for the Democratic Party in Precinct 316, 62-40 votes. |


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Founded in 1970 as Floyd Junior College, Georgia Highlands College is two-year unit of the University System of Georgia located in Rome, Georgia, seventy miles northwest of Atlanta. The college was named for Floyd County which is named for General John Floyd who commanded Georgia's forces during the Creek War operations of the War of 1812. He established Fort Mitchell on the Chattahoochee River in present-day Alabama. He was later member of the state and U.S. House of Representatives.
Georgia Highlands College serves students who commute from throughout a large portion of northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Now enrolling almost 4,000 students in academic programs, Georgia Highlands College also offers a large and varied community-education program and operates extension centers in the cities of Cartersville, Acworth, Marietta, and Carrollton. Several divisions of the college, including Health Sciences and Continuing Education, are housed in the historic Heritage Hall site in downtown Rome.
In August 2005, Floyd College changed its name to Georgia Highlands College. This gives the campus a more regional name recognition.
Georgia Highlands College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate of Arts, the Associate of Science and the Associate of Applied Science degrees.
Please see History of Georgia Highlands College for more information.
Compiled from: - Archives of Floyd County see http://roadsidegeorgia.com/county/floyd.html - Georgia Highlands College History see http://highlands.edu/about/history/index.htm - New Georgia Encyclopedia see http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-616 and http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2333&hl=y - Previous AAUP webpage history posted by Laura Musselwhite, History Department


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Relentless Pursuit: Pete Rose's Self-Serving Quest for the All-Time Hits Record - 1983 - 1986
by Kerry Keene
Price: $5.99 USD. 39770 words.
Language: English. Published on April 25, 2013. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Baseball.
Baseball legend Pete Rose has been regarded as the game's "hit king", accumulating more hits than any player in history. Yet, there is an unsavory aspect to the manner in which he attained it. Serving as a player-manager for his final few seasons, he granted himself playing time he did not deserve in order to achieve it. Rose's record will forever be tarnished by the revelations detailed here.