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Yankees obtain 3 more prospects for Beltran
On the day of the first Subway Series game in 2016, the best position player of those who spent time with both the Yankees and the Mets was on his way out of New York again. Carlos Beltran, the Yankees' most productive hitter this season, followed the path of relief pitchers Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Miller and was traded for three prospects.
Beltran was a major trade chip for the Yankees, particularly to American League clubs that could use him at designated hitter as well as in the outfield. The Rangers have been in need of added punch at the plate since Prince Fielder was lost for the remainder of the season due to a neck injury that required surgery.
Beltran will certainly provide that for Texas. At the age of 39 and despite nagging leg issues, Beltran hit .304 in 359 at-bats for the Yankees and led the team in hits (109), home runs (22) and runs batted in (64) and was tied for the club lead in doubles (21). He was an All-Star for the ninth time in his career and the first time as an American Leaguer.
Earlier this season, he reached 20 homers for the 12th time in his career (1999, 2001-04, '06-08, '11-13 and '16), tied with former teammate Mark Teixeira for the fourth-most 20-homer seasons all time among switch-hitters. Eddie Murray had 16 such seasons, and Mickey Mantle and Chipper Jones 14 apiece. Beltran also became the second switch-hitter in major league history with a 20-homer season at age 39-or-older, joining Murray (21 homers at 39 in 1995 and 22HR at 40 in '96).
Beltran was a five-time National League All-Star during his seven-plus seasons with the Mets. Only Darryl Strawberry rivals him as a major position player on both New York teams. The best pitcher who was on both clubs was David Cone, with Dwight Gooden a close second.
Of the four players the Yankees received in return for Beltran, the most promising is pitcher Dillon Tate, a righthander who was the Rangers' selection in the first round (and the fourth overall pick) in the 2015 First Year Player Draft. The Yankees also got two other right-handed pitchers, Erik Swanson and Nick Green.
Tate, 22, was 3-3 with a 5.12 ERA (65.0IP, 37ER) in 17 games (16 starts) and 65 innings with Class A Hickory this year. He made his professional debut in 2015, posting a 1.00 ERA over six starts and nine innings with Hickory and short-season Class A Spokane. Entering the 2015 draft, Tate was tabbed by Baseball America as the top pitcher and third-best prospect overall. Following the 2015 season, the Claremont, Calif., native was ranked by the publication as baseball's 69th-best prospect.
During his collegiate career at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Tate was named a 2015 Louisville Slugger All-America and UCSB's first-ever Golden Spikes Award semifinalist after going 8-5 with a 2.26 ERA and 111 strikeouts in 14 starts and 103 1/3 innings as a junior. In 2014, he earned a spot on USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team, recording three saves while posting a 0.79 ERA in 11 appearances. The highest selection ever out of UCSB, Tate is a product of Major League Baseball's Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif., where he played in tournaments across the United States and Japan as a teenager.
Swanson, 22, was 6-4 with one save and a 3.43 ERA (81.1IP, 31ER) in 19 games (15 starts) and 81 1/3 innings with Hickory in 2016 and was a South Atlantic League mid-season All-Star. The Terrace Park, Ohio, native was originally selected by the Rangers in the eighth round of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft. Over three minor league seasons, he has combined to go 8-6 with two saves and a 3.52 ERA in 44 games (15 starts) and 120 innings.
Green, 21, was 2-2 with a 4.98 ERA in seven starts totaling 34 1/3 innings with Spokane in 2016. Originally selected by Texas in the seventh round of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft out of Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, Green has posted a 6-8 record and 5.15 ERA in 31 career appearances (21 starts) and 108 1/3 innings over three minor league seasons. The Fountain, Colo., native was previously drafted by the Yankees in the 35th round of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft but did not sign.
In another transaction designed towards the future, the Yanks traded pitcher Ivan Nova to the Pirates for two players to be named. The Yankees added relief pitcher Tyler Clippard, who they acquired from the Diamondbacks Sunday, to the 25-man roster and recalled pitcher Nick Goody and outfielder Ben Gamel from Triple A Scranton/Wilkes Barre.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi did not say who would replace Nova in the rotation. The candidates are Luis Severino and Chad Green. The manager was also unclear how he would replace Beltran.
"We lost the most important hitter in our lineup," Girardi said. "This is a chance for young players to step up. I believe we can still win with the players in that room."
Pat Summerall, 82, thorough pro & class act
I just learned about the passing of Pat Summerall, 82, while recovering from hip surgery at a hospital in his hometown of Dallas. This is sad news. It was my privilege to have known Summerall, even though I never covered pro football all that much. But that was part of the beauty of Summerall in that his broadcasting career was not limited to football. He was as much a voice of golf and tennis as he was of the sport in which he had exceled as a player.
I got to know him a little bit when I was covering tennis in the late 1970s and early '80s for the Bergen Record in New Jersey. Pat was a fixture at the U.S. Open in those days. He also did play-by-play for the Westchester Classic, the annual PGA tour stop in New York that I also covered on occasion.
So why all this about Summerall on a blog devoted to the Yankees? Well, he had a connection to them. After all, he spent many a Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium when he was an end and place kicker for the football Giants back when they played home games in the Bronx. In the early 1990s, Summerall underwent alcoholism treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and was influential during his recovery in getting fellow Dallas resident and long-time pal Mickey Mantle to go there as well. Pat and Mickey played an awful lot of rounds of golf together over the years.
A moment of silence was observed before Tuesday night's game at the Stadium in honor of Summerall, who had taken part in the Giants' landmark, sudden-death loss to the Baltimore Colts in the 1958 NFL championship game at the original Stadium.
My fondest memory of Pat Summerall was an episode of my career that was nearly a blown assignment. When the Giants were preparing for their first Super Bowl appearance after the 1986 NFL season, The Record planned a special section on the event. I was a baseball writer by then covering the Mets, who had won the World Series that year, and was assigned to do a couple of features for the section, including a piece on Summerall, who was to do play-by-play for CBS' telecast.
On the afternoon that a conference phone hookup with Summerall was scheduled with local media writers, a story broke on my Mets beat, that Darryl Strawberry was arrested and charged with spousal abuse. I ran down the story and even got Darryl on the phone. I was so excited about getting the scoop that I was taken aback when after handing in the Strawberry story an editor said to me, "So, how did the interview with Summerall go?"
Oh, man. I forgot all about it. I phoned a friend of mine in CBS' publicity department and asked him if he could provide me a tape of the conference call. He said he would get back to me within the hour. When he phoned me back, he said, "Where are you going to be for the next 20 minutes?" I told him I would stay in the office until I heard back from him.
About 10 minutes later, an editor called out, "O'Connell, pick up extension 23."
I grabbed the phone and heard a voice on the other line say, "Hi, Jack, this is Pat Summerall. How can I help you?"
Talk about class. I apologized profusely about having missed the conference call. He said he understood that I was working on another story and asked me all about Strawberry. He gave me a solid hour's interview on his own time. I have never forgotten that kindness. Summerall was known throughout our industry as being a true professional. How lucky I was to find that out first-hand.
Ibanez finished what he did not start
All that concern before Game 3 of the American League Division Series about where Alex Rodriguez was batting in the order obscured the fact that Raul Ibanez was not in the lineup against a right-handed starter. Yankees manager Joe Girardi decided to have Eric Chavez play third base and use Rodriguez at designated hitter and keep Ibanez on the bench.
Oh, man, did that hunch pay off for Girardi and the Yankees. Ibanez, who only eight days earlier became the first Yankees player to hit a game-tying home run in the ninth inning and a walk-off RBI in extra innings in the same game, trumped that Wednesday night. This time, he not only homered to tie the score in the ninth but also in the 12th to win it.
This one will have the Elias Sports Bureau researchers up all night in their Fifth Avenue office trying to determine if what Ibanez did in the Yankees' 3-2 victory over the Orioles was unprecedented in the history of postseason play. My guess is they will discover that the answer is yes. We already know that Ibanez is the first player to hit two home runs in a postseason game that he did not start.
Orioles manager Buck Showalter had identified Ibanez as a threat off the bench he had hoped to avoid when discussing his late-inning pitching maneuvers in Game 2. Ibanez's performance in Game 3 justified Showalter's concern. Ibanez, pinch hitting for A-Rod yet, sent the game into extras with a ninth-inning home run off Orioles closer Jim Johnson, whom the Yankees continue to rough up.
The Yankees mugged Johnson for five runs in the ninth inning of Game 1 at Baltimore in a non-save situation. This time it was a blown save for Johnson, the major-league leader in saves with 51 in the regular season.
Ibanez's drive into the right field stands off a 1-0 fastball (at 94 miles per hour, no less) took a potential losing decision away from Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda, who deserved a better fate after allowing only two runs (on solo homers by Ryan Flaherty and Manny Machado, the O's 8-and 9-hole hitters) in 8 1/3 strong innings. Ibanez was the Yankees' best pinch hitter this season with a .320 average, two home runs and seven RBI in 25 at-bats and kept that distinction intact with Wednesday night's feat.
Not even having to face a lefthander, Brian Matusz, fazed Ibanez in the 12th. He didn't even wait as he swung at the first pitch – a 91-mph cut fastball – and thrust the Yankees into a 2-games-to-1 lead in the best-of-5 series.
Pinch hitting for Rodriguez was a gutty decision for Girardi, although one that could hardly have been second-guessed. A-Rod was 0-for-3 with two strikeouts in the game and is 1-for-12 (.083) with seven punchouts in the series. Ibanez is now 3-for-5 (.600) with two home runs in the ALDS.
Girardi looked at Ibanez the way Casey Stengel once did at Johnny Mize and Joe Torre once did at Darryl Strawberry. Mize and Strawberry were left-handed sluggers whose aim at the cozy right-field porch at Yankee Stadium gave many opposing managers cause for alarm, the same feeling Showalter had when thinking about Ibanez.
As unusual as it was to see Derek Jeter sitting in the Yankees dugout as his teammates took the field in the ninth inning, the more amazing aspect was that he was able to play at all after the third inning. The Captain aggravated a nagging bone bruise in his left ankle running out a triple in the bottom of that inning.
He gutted his way through the eighth before Girardi decided to keep a hobbling player on the field was too great a risk in what was then a one-run game. In his eighth-inning at-bat, Jeter nearly fell down when landing on his left ankle on the follow-through of a swing and miss.
The startling finish was something the Orioles are not accustomed to. Extra innings have been joyful ones for the Orioles, who had won 16 consecutive such games before Wednesday night. The only two extra-inning games Baltimore lost in the regular season were against the Yankees on back-to-back nights April 10 and 11 at Camden Yards.
In the April 10 game, the deciding hit was a two-run double by Raul Ibanez.
HOPE Week: Children's Alopecia Project
The Yankees concluded HOPE Week 2012 Friday by celebrating the Children's Alopecia Project (CAP) and the group's founders, the Woytovich family. The Yankees' contingent that surprised the CAP kids at a picnic at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx featured manager Joe Girardi; pitchers Freddy Garcia, Ivan Nova, Rafael Soriano and Cory Wade; outfielders Andruw Jones and DeWayne Wise; third baseman Alex Rodriguez; bullpen coach Mike Harkey; former Yankees players Darryl Strawberry and David Wells; former Rutgers football player and HOPE Week ambassador Eric LeGrand and Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson.
Events included face- and head-painting, a scavenger hunt, lunch and games. After the picnic, CAP kids and their families were invited to the Stadium for the game against the White Sox. The Woytovich family and the children of CAP watched batting practice from the field and were part of pregame on-field ceremonies. Madison and Jeff threw out the ceremonial first pitches.
In October 2003, while Betsy Woytovich was undoing the braids of her 5-year-old daughter Madison, hair began coming out in clumps. A doctor confirmed that Madison had alopecia, an auto-immune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicles, leading to hair loss on the scalp and elsewhere in varying degrees, a condition that affects approximately four million Americans.
Madison's father, Jeff, searched for a support network, but learned that there was no organization that focused on children with alopecia. Betsy and Jeff wanted to make sure that Madison and children like her maintained their confidence and self-esteem heading into their teenage years. So in August 2004, they created the Children's Alopecia Project which focuses on three goals: to build self-esteem, provide support and raise awareness.
There are now 15 CAP Kids Support Groups around the country working with families from 30 states. Additionally, there are associated groups in Hong Kong, Canada, South America and Russia. More than 1,000 families are registered members of CAP, while at least 10,000 families have received information or been counseled by members of CAP.
First timers enjoy Old Timers' Day
I have come full cycle with Old Timers Day, one of the great traditions at Yankee Stadium where it all began with a day to honor Babe Ruth in 1947. The first one I attended was in the late 1950s and getting to see Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Lefty Gomez, Tommy Henrich, Red Ruffing and other stars of my parents' generation's youth. My father was actually a Giants fan when they still played in New York, but my mother's family was all Yankees fans.
When I started covering the Yankees in the 1980's, Old Timers' Day was a favorite because I would not only get to see the Yankees stars of my youth such as Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Hank Bauer and Moose Skowron but also to talk to them. Bauer was one of the best interviews ever; blunt, outspoken, colorful.
One of my favorite stories came from Bauer's old platoon partner, Gene Woodling. (Bauer, by the way, was not crazy about Casey Stengel, who platooned him early on in the outfield before he became the regular right fielder.)
Back to Woodling; he talked of a time when players were so worried about keeping their jobs that he played for about a week with a broken bone in his heel. It swelled so much, Woodling said, that he cut out the back of his cleat and spread black shoe polish on the heel so no one would notice and stayed in the lineup. Finally, Dickey, the Hall of Fame catcher who was then Casey's first base coach, saw Woodling's shoe with the big hole in it in his locker and told him that he needed treatment.
Think of something like that happened today when disabled lists are almost as big as rosters!
At Sunday's Old Timers' Day, I was reminded of the passage of time when I encountered so many players whom I covered when they broke into the majors – Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden and David Cone in my years on the Mets and Bernie Williams, Pat Kelly and Kevin Maas during my time with the Yankees. I had them as rookies, and now they're Old Timers, so what does that make me.
Don't answer that.
This was Bernie's first Old Timer's Day, and he was one of the big hits of the afternoon. He got a rousing ovation from the crowd during the introduction ceremonies. Fans were on their feet again when he doubled to the warning track in left-center in the two-inning Old Timers' game. Then the Stadium really exploded when Bernie's old teammate, Tino Martinez, popped a two-run home run to right off Cone, another old teammate.
I teased Bernie around the batting cage before the game after he had told writers that he still did not consider himself retired. "But I think that's closer now," he said.
I told him that the Baseball Writers' Association of America was in the process of putting together the 2012 Hall of Fame ballot that will go out to voters in December, and that he would be on it; in other words, like it or not, Bernie, you're retired.
He was asked during the press conference what his favorite memory from his playing career was. Williams could not limit it to just one and gave a very thoughtful answer.
"I would say that three things stick out – winning our first World Series championship in 1996, winning the batting title in 1999 and being on the field before the last game at the old Stadium," he said. "I got announced after Yogi, which was pretty cool."
Bernie officially joined the pantheon of Yankees legends Sunday, and he sounded proud of it.
"It's a really big thing for me," he said. "If you take the word 'old,' I think I'd be a little uncomfortable with it. But when I was playing, I looked forward to these days. To me, it was a reminder of the fact that we're part of a family that has been going on for 100 years, and thinking I was part of something that was bigger than myself. And now I'm on the other side, being in the same situation, so it's good. It's great. I'm just really proud of this organization. When I chose to stay and have my whole career as a Yankee, it was one of the best decisions I ever made."
Also back for the first Old Timers' Day appearance were former managers Lou Piniella and Joe Torre. "Sweet Lou," who served the Yankees in nearly every category there is (players, coach, manager, general manager, broadcaster) put on the pinstripes for the first time since 1988. He had been busy elsewhere after that, winning a World Series with the Reds in 1990 and helping to build the Mariners into a viable franchise.
The pinstripes looked good on Torre, too, even while wearing a sling after recently undergoing right rotator cuff surgery. The man who won six American League pennants, four World Series and had the Yankee in post-season play all 12 of his seasons as manager had been invited before but was unable to attend because he was managing the Dodgers. Joe is now vice president for baseball operations in the commissioner's office, but it is not really a desk job as he gets to spend a lot of time in ballparks.
With Jack McKeon (Marlins) and Davey Johnson (Nationals) back in big-league dugouts, I was curious if that gave either Lou or Joe the itch to return.
"There comes a time when you have to walk away, and I knew last year was that time for me," Piniella said. "It was the same when I was a player. I was never one who wanted another at bat."
"I was shopping with my wife recently," Torre said, "and she told me how strange it was that here we were in the middle of a baseball season together and I wasn't stressed out. I don't miss all that stress."
Both proudly wore rings linking them to their Yankees careers – Lou the World Series ring of 1977 and Joe of 1996. Those were the first championships for each.
"You never forget the first time," Joe said on a day at Yankee Stadium that never gets old.
Gates for Sunday's Old Timers' Day open at 10 a.m.
Fans planning to attend Sunday's 65th annual Old Timers' Day are encouraged to get to Yankee Stadium early. Gates will open at 10 a.m. with the Old Timers' Day ceremonies to start at 11:30 a.m., followed by the traditional, two-inning Old Timers' Day game. The regularly scheduled inter-league game between the Yankees and the Rockies will have a first pitch of 2:20 p.m. The entire day's activities will be cablecast on the YES Network.
Bernie Williams and former managers Lou Piniella and Joe Torre will be making their Old Timers' Day debuts. "Sweet Lou" will be putting on a Yankees uniform for the first time since 1988. Torre, whose Yankees teams defeated Piniella's Seattle Mariners in the 2000 and 2001 post-seasons, is still active in the game as Major League Baseball's vice president for baseball operations.
They will be among 50 former Yankees on hand for the ceremonies. Other headliners among returning Old Timers will be Hall of Famers Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson and Goose Gossage, plus the perfect game trio of Don Larsen, David Wells and David Cone. The Yankees will also hold a special tribute honoring long-time team trainer Gene Monahan, who will retire at season's end after 49 years of service to the organization.
In addition, players and coaches from Yankees championship teams of the past will include Dr. Bobby Brown, Jerry Coleman, Moose Skowron, Luis Arroyo, Homer Bush, Brian Doyle, Cecil Fielder, Joe Girardi, Dwight Gooden, Ron Guidry, Charlie Hayes, Graeme Lloyd, Hector Lopez, Tino Martinez, Lee Mazzilli, Ramiro Mendoza, Gene Michael, Jeff Nelson, Graig Nettles, Joe Pepitone, Mickey Rivers, Charlie Silvera, Darryl Strawberry, Mel Stottlemyre and Roy White.
Joining the Hall of Famers and other former Yankees on the baselines will be the widows of five legendary Yankees – Arlene Howard (Elston), Helen Hunter (Jim "Catfish"), Jill Martin (Billy), Diana Munson (Thurman) and Kay Murcer (Bobby).
Bernie an Old Timer? He will be June 26th
Are you ready to consider Bernie Williams an old timer? Well, get used to it. Bernabe will make his first appearance on Old Timers' Day when Yankees alumni gather for the 65th annual event Sunday, June 26, at Yankee Stadium.
Also making their Old Timers' Day debuts will be former managers Lou Piniella and Joe Torre. "Sweet Lou" will be putting on a Yankees uniform for the first time since 1988. Torre, whose Yankees teams defeated Piniella's Seattle Mariners in the 2000 and 2001 post-seasons, is still active in the game as Major League Baseball's vice president for baseball operations.
They will be among 50 former Yankees on hand for the ceremonies that begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by the traditional, two-inning Old Timers' game. The current Yankees will play the Colorado Rockies in an inter-league game starting at 2 p.m. The entire day's activities will be aired exclusively on the YES Network.
Other headliners among returning Old Timers will be Hall of Famers Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson and Goose Gossage, plus the perfect game trio of Don Larsen, David Wells and David Cone. The Yankees will also hold a special tribute honoring long-time team trainer Gene Monahan, who will retire at season's end after 49 years of service to the organization.
In addition, other players and coaches from Yankees championship teams of the past will include Dr. Bobby Brown, Jerry Coleman, Moose Skowron, Luis Arroyo, Homer Bush, Brian Doyle, Cecil Fielder, Joe Girardi, Dwight Gooden, Ron Guidry, Charlie Hayes, Graeme Lloyd, Hector Lopez, Lee Mazzilli, Ramiro Mendoza, Gene Michael, Jeff Nelson, Graig Nettles, Joe Pepitone, Mickey Rivers, Charlie Silvera, Darryl Strawberry, Mel Stottlemyre and Roy White.
Joining the Hall of Famers and other former Yankees on the baselines will be the widows of five legendary Yankees – Arlene Howard (Elston), Helen Hunter (Jim "Catfish"), Jill Martin (Billy), Diana Munson (Thurman) and Kay Murcer (Bobby).
Alumni of both teams in the house
Yankees relief pitcher Luis Ayala and catcher Gustavo Molina, who started the season with the Yankees but is now at Triple A Scranton/Wilkes Barre, brought to 111 the total of players who have spent time with both the Yankees and the Mets. Several of those former players were on hand Friday night at the first Subway Series of 2011 at Yankee Stadium.
David Cone and Al Leiter, who wore both uniforms during their career and opposed each other in the 2000 World Series, were in the YES booth working the cablecast with Michael Kay. Lee Mazzilli, coordinator for special projects with the Yankees, was also on duty as he is for every home game. Enjoying the game in one of the suites were Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden.
Vanishing Vazquez
The pitching mound at Yankee Stadium may as well have been a nudist colony as far as Javier Vazquez was concerned. That's how naked he was out there Saturday.
The struggling righthander was armed with a fastball that barely reached 87 mph, no breaking ball to speak of and a full arsenal of changeups. The problem with having changeups only is that there is nothing to change off of. So the batters just wait and crush, which the Mariners did at will against Vazquez. Ichiro Suzuki hit two home runs, for crying out loud.
An announcement came in the press box that this was Ichiro's fifth career multi-homer game, which may surprise some people but not the ones who have ever seen him take batting practice. Ichiro is just like Wade Boggs, who put on some of the best BP displays this side of Darryl Strawberry. "Same pitch, same location," Boggsy used to say of why it was so easy for him to crank bombs during BP.
One year, Boggs decided to prove he could hit the long ball if he put his mind to it. He hit 24 home runs in 1987 and then basically said to everybody, "Okay, leave me alone now so I can go back to hitting .350."
Vazquez just played into Ichiro's hands or, rather, swings. You want to throw changeups, watch me trot, Ichiro, the successor to Boggs as the Singles King of the major leagues, might have said to himself. In Japanese, of course.
On a serious level, the Yankees need to find out if they can solve Vazquez's problems. He is winless in five starts since July 26 and is 0-2 with a 7.43 ERA during that span and lucky to have three no-decisions.
In 23 innings, Vazquez has allowed 35 hits, including 8 home runs, with as many walks as strikeouts, 17 apiece. His ERA for the season has swollen to 5.05. The home run Russell Branyan hit off Vazquez in the first inning went into the right field upper deck, heretofore territory that had been unreachable at the new Stadium.
An old pal, Dom Amore of the Hartford Courant, just came over and told me that the fan who caught Branyan's ball refused to FED-Ex it back onto the field.
Chad Gaudin supplied three scoreless innings of one-hit relief in what might have been an audition for a start five days from now. Clearly, the Yankees have to think about that, although Yankees manager Joe Girardi is not one to tip his hand.
Despite Vazquez's ineffectiveness, the Yankees were still in the game, thanks to the four-run assault of Seattle starter Jason Vargas in the first on a run-scoring double by Mark Teixeria, an RBI single by Robinson Cano, who has gotten the hang of this cleanup stuff with Alex Rodriguez out of the lineup again, and a two-run home run by Jorge Posada.
The Yankees wisely chose to place A-Rod on the disabled list and give that nagging left calf a chance to heal. He would not have been available Sunday anyway. With the Yankees going on to Toronto Monday, it makes sense for them to keep him off the artificial surface at Rogers Centre.
Vargas settled down and retired 15 batters in a row into the sixth before the Yankees threatened in the seventh on one-out singles by Austin Kearns, who has a 10-game hitting streak, and Curtis Granderson, who is having a strong homestand (.368). Eduardo Nunez's first major-league hit, a bouncing single to right, also resulted in his first major-league RBI and gave the Yankees the lead. Pad-on runs followed on a single by Derek Jeter and a sacrifice fly by Teixeria.
This time Vazquez was not around to give up the lead. The question is: How long will be he around in the rotation?
The Yankees plan to call up Ivan Nova from Triple A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to start Monday night against the Blue Jays and push all the starters back one day. With an open date Thursday the opportunity is there to skip Vazquez altogether. We'll see.


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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
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|Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan, Ido Mosseri, Rob Schneider, Dave Matthews, Michael Buffer, Charlotte Rae, Sayed Badreya, Sayed Badrey
|Comedy superstar Adam Sandler is back - and funnier than ever - as The Zohan, the finest counterterrorist agent the Israeli army has. That is, until he fakes his death and travels to Manhattan to live his dream...as a hairdresser! Now this skilled fighting machine who used to clip bad guys is out to prove he can make the cut as a top stylist. All goes silky smooth until his cover is blown when he's recognised by a Palestinian cab driver (Rob Schneider). Now, The Zohan must fight to live a peaceful new life in New York in this razor-sharp, action-packed comedy from Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, Judd Apatow and Dennis Dugan.
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Main cast: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Zohan Dvir works as a Special Agent and lives with his orthodox parents in Israel. He wants to give up this life full of dangerous encounters with Palestinians. While in the process of apprehending a Palestinian activist known simply as the Phantom, he fakes his death, hides in a dog-kennel on a plane bound for New York, and decides to try his hand as a hair-stylist. He is refused employment initially, but when he offers to work for free, Dahlia hires him as a cleaner. When a hair-stylist named Debbie quits, Zohan replaces her, winning over elderly female clientA"'A?€LlA"Ä…A'¤le, and falling in love with Dahlia herself. Before Zohan could propose to her, Dahlia's landlord, Walbridge, who has been raising rents regularly, hires skinhead goons to terrorize the neighborhood, creates misunderstandings between Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians, and drives them out, so as to enable him to construct a new building which is topped by a roller coaster.
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First a helicopter passes low over the temple, then comes the motorcade. Two big black Mercedes, soldiers, a huddle of party-workers in luxury SUVs and, at a discreet distance, a large armoured vehicle covered by a green sheet.
With a clatter of temple drums and clarinets, the president, smiling beatifically, strides across the dusty courtyard and strips to the waist as is customary in many such places of worship. After combing his impeccable black bouffant, he disappears into the temple.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, 64, is on the campaign trail for the second time almost in as many months. For his first public meeting he has chosen the place where he has least support: Jaffna, the northern Sri Lankan port city dominated by the nation's largely Hindu Tamil minority.
The next stop is a nearby Buddhist temple, and then the local sports stadium, where the president speaks and asks a modest crowd for their votes in next week's parliamentary election.
His bouffant unaffected by the 38 degree heat or the breakneck pace of his tour, Rajapaksa pledges development, tells the audience that all Sri Lankans are "children of the same mother" and is gone. Another crowd and another meeting 50 miles away await.
The president cannot have expected a particularly effusive welcome. Jaffna is the economic and cultural capital of Sri Lanka's Tamils and suffered terribly during the 30-year conflict that pitted the separatist fighters of the Tamil Tigers (or LTTE) against Sri Lankan – and for a period Indian – troops. Thousands were forced from their homes, abducted, conscripted or killed. Much land around Jaffna remains occupied by the Sri Lankan military. Resentment runs deep.
But if votes for Rajapaksa – who came to power in 2005 with support from hardline Sinhalese nationalist parties and adopted an uncompromising line on Tamil rights – are thin on the ground in Jaffna, they are not elsewhere. No one doubts that his party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and coalition partners of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance, will win the coming polls.
Rajapaksa won easily with 57.8% of the vote in January's presidential elections and the only question is whether his alliance will obtain the two-thirds majority needed to push through wide-ranging constitutional changes on polling day itself. The former small-town lawyer looks certain to remain in power until 2017. In Colombo diplomats talk of the "Rajapaksa phenomenon."
To critics, Rajapaksa owes his continued hold on power to the misuse of state resources during the presidential campaign and to the systematic intimidation of any opposition. General Sarath Fonseka, the former army chief who stood for president in January, is in jail on charges of sedition and corruption, having been arrested soon after his defeat.
Critics also allege the president has improperly appointed his family members to senior office; one brother is his senior adviser, one the top defence official, one a minister, and his son is now standing for parliament.
A series of assaults on journalists – one was killed last year – have been attributed to the government. Recently the pressure has become less intense, journalists in Colombo say, though they remain very careful. "We self-censor heavily," said one. There is criticism of the government in the media but civil rights groups are cautious and analysts keep "well below the radar," one said.
Rajapaksa has also been attacked for condoning or overlooking human rights abuses during the military campaigns which ended the Tamil Tiger separatists' rule over much of the north and east of the country. The EU suspended trading privileges following charges that in the final months of the conflict civilians held as human shields by Tamil Tigers were killed by indiscriminate military shellfire. The president's supporters deny allegations. And for the moment, they can afford to ignore them.
In places like Parakandeniya, a village 20 miles outside Colombo, no-one is really bothered by the allegations of human rights abuses or a free press. Here there are paddy fields and coconut palms and a slower pace of life than in the increasingly wealthy capital.
Prasad Kumara, the village shopkeeper, says he is one of the few locals who support the opposition. He does so out of historical loyalty and because they are "clean-handed" people.
For most others, Rajapaksa is the man who won the war against the Tamil Tigers and who is bringing development. "The main thing is the war is over," said Nanda Warnakulaarachchige, a social worker in Parakandeniya. "We were far from the front but we were scared even to go on the busses [after bombings]. Now there is security."
For Nuwarapaksage Ranthilaka, a day labourer who chops wood for timber dealers, there is not just the "great military victory" but "the roads and the subsidies for farmers".
"There is a wrong impression in the west. There have not been any abuses. Only bad people have been killed or intimidated," said Ranthilaka, 40. "Once we were stuck in our homes out of fear. Now it is relaxed. And look at how much better the roads are too."
Rajapaksa's heartland stretches in a broad swath through the populous Sinhalese-dominated western and southern coastal and rural inland areas, from above Colombo down past his hometown in Hambantota district on the southern coast and on. It is a constituency he has cultivated assiduously over a 40-year career.
Those who have watched Rajapaksa in action speak of his talent – remembering names, joking with ordinary people, co-opting potential enemies by bringing them into his 130-strong ministerial team. He is also one of the very rare successful Sri Lankan politicians to come from beyond Colombo and its immediate surroundings.
Though from a longstanding political family, Rajapaksa plays on his "small town" image, preferring homely Sinhalese to English, wearing a trademark brown scarf and local robes and never Western clothes. When Ranthilaka the woodchopper declares that "the president understands the common people. He is the poor man's friend", his three colleagues nod their agreement.
Helped by a weak opposition and – according to local analysts – by western criticism which allows his supporters to promote him as defender of a small misunderstood nation against foreign governments and the local English-speaking "liberal elite" who are their allies, Rajapaksa knows how to play a crowd.
But some crowds are harder to play than others. In Jaffna, the two or three thousand who had braved the sun are quick to leave once the president has gone, stopping only for the ice-creams being handed out by a local politician. Many are party workers, brought in from outlying districts. Others are curious, wanting to see the president in person.
Some are slightly apologetic. They say simply that as the president is going to be in power for a "very long time" they might as well be on the winning side.


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In 2012, I had a question: where are the skateparks in Accra? I didn't get a satisfactory answer. 5 years later, this question might just be answered. If we successfully fund a proper skatepark in Accra that is.
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Where Are The Skateparks?
I believe we've all seen the movies, and read the blogs, and heard the news about different lifestyles across the world. Any Ghanaian I'm sure would gradually admit that in Ghana, there are basically three sports: football, boxing and the rest.
Even the great game of basketball seems to be the reserve of those with satellite television, or basically, the rich. It's really sad though; especially in my shoes considering I really am not into football, basketball really is what catches my fancy. I pray Oklahoma defeat the Heats, though thanks to them, the Lakers didn't make it. –>this was written way before the game, so yea, its old, forgive me.
Quite recently however, I have developed a new obsession; am I obsessed with basketball? Not quite as my "football-for-life" brothers and sisters. This new obsession however is just that, an obsession! I am becoming quite the aficionado though.
Skateboarding that's what; my new obsession! Not only does it look really cool, I bet if offers one hell of a rush no other sport (on the ground/floor) can hope to offer; ok maybe car races?
Anyway, I've been thinking, it's bad enough that basketball and many other sports tend to be hard to come by, television wise, and I really wonder about skateboarding. I mean, I know I can access the internet, but you know, it'll be quite the spectacle to watch it on television, without having to worry so much about my data bundle.
In the case of basketball, I could simply go to the courts around, they aren't great but that should suffice for now. Now my question is, are there any skate parks in Ghana?
as rudimentary as this
I hear there is one around the Trade fair. I have a pretty avid image of the location in reference, but really though?
I believe there is something of the sort around Maamobi, which I have seen. But this one is just one strip of pavement and is really small, way smaller than the park at the Trade fair. Then there's the
half mini half-pipe at KauKudi. I also stumble upon something about a park at Labadi.
that is the one over at labadi(is this the only one?)
Thankfully, I know where to purchase the boards, though I'm not too sure about pricing. I bet they're seriously over priced, knowing Ghana. Well at least, if and when I do purchase one, I could skate around the house, or around; after all, airport west is just my backyard and there are tarred roads that aren't too often frequented by cars.
Wish me luck!
But really though, are the skate parks in Ghana?


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Tired of having no free time for your family, friends and hobbies? Does managing your team feel like you are dragging a cart (and its horse) up a hill? Look no further.
What if the key to trying to get your team to be more proactive lied in children's games? Wouldn't that make managing a team much easier, lighthearted and fun?
Interested? Then you need to read this.
Here are five ways to motivate your team into action:
1. Playing Puzzle
Asking your team to help you out on a new project without explaining to them why doing it is important (for them, for your department, for your company) is like asking someone to put together a puzzle without showing them the picture of what it should look like when it's finished.
Think about it. Would you REALLY want to dedicate the next 960 hours of your life (the equivalent of 6 months of work) implementing your boss's next big shiny plan when you don't understand how it fits into the overall business strategy?
You will do it, yes. You will try hard, maybe. Will you be 100% committed to making it work?
As the team leader you will have a sense of the bigger picture and a good understanding of why something needs to happen. You probably have a good grasp of the vision (or maybe you are the visionary that had the idea in the first place), and therefore it makes absolute sense to you.
But for your team members to really buy into that new strategy, you need to make sure that everyone understands three things: why it is important for the organisation, how it will impact the team (more sales, leaner processes, etc.), and what is in it for them as individuals.
Next time that you're presenting a new project to your team, think of the puzzle.
2. The Smurfs' Village
My favourite. Not just because there's Smurfette!
Have you noticed that they all have very different personalities and roles? They all have distinctive characteristics based on their skills.
Here's a secret. If you really want to leverage your team members' talents, think of yourselves as… er… smurfs.
I use smurfs when I'm facilitating team coaching sessions for my clients. Crazy, I know, but it is very effective.
And here's why: when you have been working in the same team for a while you tend to forget what the other people are good at. You get into a routine and don't take the time to think about what each person excels or is an expert in.
The question is: "What are his/her unique skills and how can they be of most use to the whole group?"
Picturing each other as smurfs helps everyone visualise their colleagues' strengths and capitalise on all the untapped talent. And it will also make one of your team meetings a bit more entertaining, don't you think?
Imagine yourself walking into your next team meeting saying: "Good morning all. Thanks for coming to today's meeting. Agenda point number one: the Smurfs!".
3. The Domino Effect
Remember lining up your dominoes and then knocking the first one down to let it fall? It pushed the next one off balance and whole line of dominoes ended up falling.
When someone in a team fails to reach an objective, this has a domino effect on the whole team.
People come up with the most convoluted explanations to show that they are not the weakest link in their team. You did your best but your colleague just failed to reach his goals…
Too late. You are the next domino in the line. Someone in your company will always remember that you were part of the team that went 50k euros over budget, failed to meet the sales targets or lost that Fortune 100 client.
Install the "if one of us fails, we all fail" mentality in your team. At the end of the day we all want to succeed in whatever we are doing, right? So let's help each other get there and not lose anyone along the way.
4. La Piñata
We have email, we have fax, we have Skype, Facebook, Twitter, conference calls, instant messenger, etc. but for most teams communicating in an effective way is still a problem.
Simply because we have a growing tendency to communicate via email rather than go and see our colleague sitting in the office next door. Or we just forget to pick up the phone for a quick live conversation if we work in different sites.
Have you ever played piñata? It is a very popular game in Mexico and Central America. The Free Online Dictionary describes the game as follows: "papier-mâché figure filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above, especially during Christmas or birthday festivities, so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents".
The other children at the party give the blindfolded child instructions as to where he needs to go with the stick to knock down the piñata.
Hint: they don't send email or a text message.
People have different communications styles: some are direct and others are indirect. Some people like to chit chat and others can't handle getting into personal information territory.
As the team manager, you'll create opportunities for your team members to gain awareness about other people's preferred ways of interacting. And you will encourage more open and direct communication amongst your team members.
5. Showing The Red Card
OK, this might belong more in a sports section, but football (soccer) is still a game.
When a player breaks the rules of the game, the referee pulls up a red card.
How is this relevant to creating collective responsibility in teams?
Well, it is about establishing a set of agreements within the team so that when something goes wrong, people feel that they can blow the whistle. And it is OK to do so.
This technique encourages people to speak up instead of venting out their dissatisfaction around the rest of the office. It also prevents problems from escalating and getting out of hand.
You need to create a safe space for everyone in the team to hold each other accountable. It is about acknowledging that something has gone wrong or someone has gone off-track and rectifying. And it involves being respectful, providing constructive feedback and trusting one another.
To Sum Up
Collective responsibility is closely linked to motivation, camaraderie, self-discipline and alignment.
In the context of today's tough economic climate, not all companies have the luxury of investing in team development programmes.
However, the tips that I've listed in this post will help you to significantly improve your team's dynamics. There's something about working with children's games in an office environment that brings up the playfulness in us, sparks creativity, and breaks down barriers.
Let me know how you get on with the Smurfs.
- Laura
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This post is a follow-up to another one I published last month in which I talked about the danger for team leaders of falling into the trap of to-do lists, and argued that they might be better off adding value to their organisations at a more strategic level. Here it is:


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Anatomy and Articulation of a Horse Skeleton eManual
This is a printabledigital manual that Matt Crockett, an attorney from Dallas, Texas, created after he cleaned and assembled a horse skeleton in 2016. The end result, besides a beautifully finished horse skeleton, was a digital manual in which he documented photographically and in writing, step by step how the skeleton was articulated. The articulation techniques follow methods illustrated in The Moose Manual, but Matt also has invaluable photos on the identification, placement, and siding of the bones specific to the horse which are not covered in the moose building manual. He has offered the manual as an eManual for $25 with $20 of it to be donated to the Pratt Museum of Natural History in Homer, Alaska. Matt visited the Pratt Museum when he came to Homer in the summer of 2016. The Pratt Museum was the origin of my bone building experiences and has several of my first skeletal articulations still on display. The Bone Building Manuals were originally written in response to teachers and educators who saw what we were doing at the museum and wanted to know how they too could do such projects in their classrooms. (62 pages) $25 - After your purchase, you will receive an email with a downloadable link so you can download your eManual to your device.


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Edward O. Thorp is an American mathematics professor, hedge fund manager, and blackjack player. To beat roulette, he and the father of information theory, Claude Shannon, invented the first wearable computer in 1961. Along with applying innovative applications of probability theory, Thorp is also the New York Times bestselling author of Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One (1962), the first book to mathematically prove that the house advantage in blackjack could be overcome by card-counting.The effects Edward's innovations can be seen in gaming today when the State of Nevada banned devices such as his wearable computer from casinos in 1985. He would go on to be a founding member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Defense contractor DRS Technologies drs on Thursday said it would pay $1.97 billion in cash and stock to buy Engineered Support Systems Inc. EASI, +0.03% for $43 a share. The price marks a premium of 29% over the $33.35 closing price of Engineered Support Systems on Wednesday. DRS Tech sees the acqusition addings 20 cents a share in earnings and $1.23 billion in revenue to its 2007 results. Shares of DRS Technologies fell $1.80 to $48 on Wednesday. Engineered Support Systems fell 34 cents to $33.35.
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First, read or listen to NPR Morning Edition's story entitled Job Seekers Find New Rules of Recruitment. The gist: Recruiters and hiring managers don't have much patience with job-seekers lacking LinkedIn profiles, snappy digital resumes, and an established social media presence. "If someone sends us a paper resume folded in thirds, stuffed in an envelope," opines one CEO, "it's hard to take it seriously." And even for job-seekers who communicate via email, the report notes, there are potential faux pas–such as email sent via AOL and husband-and-wife addresses.
Next . . . read the "lively" (not to say vitriolic) discussion of this story. Among the commenters are populists who think Recruiting 2.0 is elitist; sympathists who are concerned for the plight of elderly (i.e, thirty-something) job seekers; cynics who think it's all about HR laziness; and conspiracy theorists who accuse the NPR reporter of shilling for LinkedIn. Also a few people making thoughtful points.
Takeaways? (a) There are a lot of passionate opinions on this topic. (b) Recruiting 2.0 probably is elitist–but that's the reality of the current job market. (c) Rising unemployment statistics will shine a harsh light on hiring practices.
For another take on this topic, consider Lou Adler's article Recruiting Top Talent 2010 – Are You a Traditionalist or a Web 2.0 Free Radical? Traditionalists, according to Adler's model, may be using niche sites, Facebook, Twitter, and all the other 2.0 trappings–but they are still operating on "the flawed premise that top people will respond to negative, boring, and exclusionary ads if you post them in enough places."
Free radicals, on the other hand, are "talent-driven," and their strategy is "nurturing prospects for future opportunities." The article offers a ten-point test/action plan for assessing/strategizing this shift. For example: "3. Go req-less, using big-target talent hubs," and "8. Convert your recruiters from screeners and sales reps into career advisors."
Food for thought: What will happen if or when all major employers are nurturing talent with social networks and wooing prospects with precisely targeted micro-sites? Will that be Recruiting Paradise–or merely passé?
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From Vacant Light Productions, a feature documentary about a quest to bring electricity to a remote village in Nepal.
After playing various film festivals around the world, the film's broadcast premiere took place on PBS's The World Channel on November 13, 2016.
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From the folks at Brigade Visual Support; a vignette on music, love, and awareness.
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A very adult, feature-length look at D.I.Y. adult content creators.
• Crew: Cass Greener (Producer), Sean Dunne (Director) Kathy Gatto (Editor), Isaac Bauman (Cinematographer), David Nyman (Composer), Evan P. Donohue (Composer)
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A short doc on bartender Steve Schneider. Part of Bacardi's "Untameable" campaign.
• Crew: Cass Greener (Producer), Sean Dunne (Director) Kathy Gatto (Editor), Isaac Bauman (Cinematographer), David Nyman (Composer)
(update) In February 2015, it was announced that this video is a finalist for a British Arrow Award.
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In this documentary short, director Sean Dunne takes us inside the world of the Juggalos – an intriguing American subculture who meet once a year at a music festival called "The Gathering of the Juggalos". As Bob Lefsetz put it, the Gathering represents "an endless carnival of the disenfranchised. An underbelly pushed under the rug, joining together to have a good time." I had the great pleasure of recording the production audio for the film as well as handling the mix in post. Since its release, the film has gone on to become a viral sensation. You can watch the entire documentary below (note: there is a good deal of strong language and instances of brief nudity in the film – it is not appropriate for children to watch).


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So You Thought Your Shower Was Making You Clean? Think Again!BY: Mark Townsend | Category: Health | Submitted: 2010-03-10 08:11:21
Article Summary: "I used to think I was going in the shower to get clean, apparently now thats just not the case with conventional shower heads. I heard about an anti bacterial shower and found an amazing discovery. This new invention not only keeps me cleaner but also saves my water bill, what can it not do......"
I was looking for a new shower head when I stumbled upon a product that made me think twice about shower heads. The page said "This week sees the launch of the world's first anti bacterial and energy saving showerhead. Designed and manufactured in the UK and now available from specialist distributor Eco Promotion"
Whilst we may believe the showerheads in our bathrooms to be clean, recent scientific research has proven quite the opposite. An in-depth study has revealed that over 30% of domestic showerheads tested were dirty, harbouring high amounts of unpleasant and potentially dangerous bacterial slime with the ability to cause serious health problems.
Apparently by simply using a dirty shower head you could be infecting yourself with a daily dose of bacteria, harmful enough to cause extreme sickness. The most common and dangerous offenders typically include Bacteria Fungi, MRSA, E-Coli, Salmonella, Pseudamona, Legionella as well as other dangerous and potentially deadly viruses and diseases.
Although this new Aqui v8 anti-scale shower body and rose are made from ABS anti bacterial plastic. Specially designed with no moving parts this quality product is robust and reliable offering maximum durability and lifespan. Designed and manufactured in the UK incorporating patented volumizer technology these units work efficiently with a reduced water flow whilst at the same time maintaining the high level of performance expected of today's shower systems.
Well needless to say I went out and bought one! This eco friendly world we seem to be becoming actualy benefits my bills!
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Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre Jr. Will Continue To Hurt Those Impunity Lovers!
It can't be denied how he's known as the lawyer who closed his ears in frustration to Miriam Defensor Santiago's tirades. Yet it can't be denied he was also the lawyer who was at his best behavior as Getulio Napenas' lawyer. What can't be denied by now is that he's also the kind of justice secretary that the Philippines badly needs. Considering Santiago herself has already accepted the fact that "justice has been done", it's time to get past the ears covering incident and focus on how he's hurting impunity lovers who thought he may have been their new hero.
With the latest news that Aguirre said. From the Inquirer (an oligarchy-controlled newspaper), here's an interesting excerpt:
Criminals are not humanity. Crimes against illegal drugs, [maybe]," Aguirre said in a text message to the Inquirer, commenting on calls from rights groups to stop the vigilante-style killings of drug suspects, and the possibility of filing charges against Mr. Duterte in the ICC.
From the prison reforms to his current plan to expose what wasn't cleaned up in the Bilibid Prisons, he's definitely not a hero to impunity lovers. Take note that just because he covered his ears during Santiago's tirade doesn't make him one. He even stated at the end of his post-script complementing Santiago's extensive knowledge while suggesting she should tone down her temper. In short, he wasn't dismissing Santiago entirely but only on the basis of her lack of self-control. When he said that a bad attitude throws away your merits that should be proof he's not an impunity lover.
If there's any time to call Aguirre my new hero it's now. You want to know why he's a new hero now? He's cleaning up the Bilibid. He's starting to have everything investigated to make sure corrupt officials of the previous administration don't get away with what they do. He's making sure if you do the crime you do the time. Those are heroic acts not the minor mistake he did during Corona's trial. By doing so, he's also a hero by hurting those impunity lovers. Besides, by not giving himself publicity for his minor mistake, I guess that should have been a clue from the start that he doesn't want to be a defender of impunity.
Sorry impunity lovers, Justice Secretary Aguirre is NOT your new hero.


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Jazz Breakfast @ ParkCafe Sunday 11.09. @ 10.00 (Munich)
ParkCafe is a well-known Biergarten, restaurant, bar & night club and it's part-owned by Christian Schottenhamel, the guy who runs the Schottenhamel beer tent at the Oktoberfest. One of my favourite places is the park like beer garden.
Please join, if you would like to experience "Jazz Frühschoppen with Sir Henry", which means Jazz fun either with "Weisswürste and an early beer" or enjoy one of ParkCafe's superb breakfasts in the nice outside beer garden. In case of bad weather the Jazz band will play on stage inside and we have reserved tables as well.
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The other day when S.T.A.T presented different uses of technology to the faculty and staff at Ashland High School, a very important point was brought up. What would be more efficient for students? Having an in school iPad for each student, or a chromebook for each student?
Before I begin I would like to state that I am absolutely against chromebook. I am against chromebook because it is unlike most laptops. Now a days a laptop can do almost anything, on the flip side, a chromebook is very much limited. Chromebook does not allow the user to download any personal programs that the user may like. The user is forced to use the programs provided by chrome. Furthermore most chromebook batteries only last for about three hours. But! For school use, all of these disabilities might be turned into advantages!
For example, students would not be able to goof off and play games they normally play. They would be forced to focus on their projects/essays. Because chromebook is centered around google accounts it makes it easier for Ashland Students to log in with their @ashland.k12.ma.us account and have everything synced to the computer. This would be an ease of access way to work on essays and projects assuming students use their google accounts for these reasons. Chromebooks disadvantage of only using programs provided by chrome is a good thing in this scenario because the only thing students could actually do is use google drive, which connects them, easily, with all of their documents.


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Chinese Bloggers Score a Victory Against the Government
Firings Indicate Growing Power; Exploits of 'Zola'
HONG KONG -- Aggressive Chinese bloggers make an art of challenging Chinese government propaganda. This week, they can claim a victory.
On Friday, Chinese authorities announced that four Communist Party, local government and security officials in Guizhou province's Weng'an county were sacked for "severe malfeasance" over the alleged coverup of a murder, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Initially, police said high-school student Li Shufen drowned, angering people who believe she was raped and murdered, perhaps by children of local officials. Even on Wednesday, the provincial party chief, Shi Zongyuan, had brushed off protests over the incident -- protests that Xinhua said involved some 30,000 people -- as being "used and incited by very few people with ulterior motives."
But with the announcement of the firings on Friday, he said the local officials' "rude and rough-handed solutions" in dealing with local issues had caused the riot, according to Xinhua.
That change in stance appears to be a direct result of pressure brought by journalists and Chinese bloggers such as Zhou Shuguang, a self-styled "personal news station," who didn't allow the issue to drop, posting to the Internet unofficial reports along with photos and pleas from the family of the dead youth. When mainstream Chinese Web sites began deleting posts on the issue, some bloggers turned to technical workarounds, including writing their posts backwards and reposting material that had been taken down elsewhere.
Exposed to online postings that sprout up and multiply before they can be censored, the public has come to expect more transparency and responsiveness from the government. China is home to 223 million Internet users, according to official statistics, nearly as many as the U.S.
- See a YouTube video of rioting after the alleged rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in Guizhou.
Friday's apparent change of heart is the latest sign authorities are aware that old approaches to controlling information aren't working. Even earlier, authorities tried to get out in front of the story: In Weng'an, local officials held a news conference less than two days after the riot to give their version of events. And Xinhua also covered the riot almost immediately, in contrast to past practices of waiting days before reporting such events.
The Web site of the People's Daily on Thursday published an editorial saying the Weng'an incident demonstrated the need for more transparency. "The whole process, from the cause of the incident to various rumors after and then to questions asked in the press conference, revealed that there was no free flow of information," read the editorial.
For blogger Mr. Zhou, providing on-the-scene information about events like a riot is a means to give voice to people whose stories get "overlooked" in a media culture that treats news as propaganda.
By day, the skinny 28-year-old sells vegetables from his house in Ningxiang county, in China's Hunan province. By night, Mr. Zhou becomes "Zola," traveling to places with hot stories to do his own investigations. The motto on his blog http://www.zuola.com/weblog/ reads: "You never know what you can do till you try."
He gained fame in March of 2007 by championing the cause of citizens who refused to allow their property to be redeveloped. In May, he went to the earthquake zone in Sichuan, and spent time collecting evidence about what caused many schools to collapse during the quake.
He flew to Guizhou to investigate the riot on June 30, at the instigation of some of his online friends, who also paid the cost of his flight (about $190). He spent the next day taking photos of the riot's aftermath, and gathering information from the family of the dead student. Through his cellphone, he frequently posted snippets to Twitter, a public instant-messaging feed that delivers information more quickly than censors can block it.
To his blog, he posted an audio file of his interviews around town, and photos of two petitions written by the victim's father. During one 34-hour period starting on July 1, he says his blog was visited by 52,000 people. Although his blog is sometimes blocked inside China, his posts and images were copied and reposted by other bloggers.
Mr. Zhou says he's able to get people to open up by telling them he's a tourist with a personal website, on which he'll share their stories. "Generally speaking, the local people have a belief in the Internet. They believe it can help them to get their voice heard," he says.
Mr. Zhou says that on July 2, he was delayed for six hours by officials from the local press office, who threatened to turn him over to police if he didn't give them his computer. He complied, and the officials deleted several photos and copied other material from his hard drive, he says.
"I told them the truth--I have done nothing illegal, and I've already made phone calls and posted information," he wrote to his blog. He says the officials then offered him 100 yuan (about $15) to get a car to leave the riot zone, which he took.
Mr. Zhou, a college dropout with no journalistic training, has had other run-ins with authorities. He was detained by police in December for writing on his blog about a pyramid scheme that generated another large protest. He also has been criticized for asking for donations for his work, including from the people he writes about. But he revels both in the fame his blog brings and the sense of accomplishment. "If you are famous, you can do a lot of things," he says.
—Sky Canaves in Hong Kong and Kersten Zhang in Beijing contributed to this article.
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Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 | 4:16 p.m.
A Nevada assemblywoman who survived the Oct. 1 shooting joined a group of activists outside a courthouse Friday before a hearing in a lawsuit over Nevada's unenforced gun background check law.
Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui said she thought fireworks were going off when the shooting started at a country music concert on the Strip.
"A group of my friends who we went with, people I've known for years, hit the ground, and I started noticing other people around us hit the ground," she said. "And then when my husband came back and realized it was gunfire, we hit the ground and he jumped on top of me."
A total of 58 people were killed and more than 800 were injured when a gunman opened fire on the crowd from the 32nd floor of a hotel tower.
Jauregui was joined by former law enforcement and gun control activists. They say background checks reduce gun deaths, and the state needs to find a way to implement the law approved by voters.
The lawsuit against Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval and Attorney General Adam Laxalt seeks to compel the governor to implement the law, affirm the law or nix provisions that cannot be enforced, so the initiative's main goal of universal background checks can be effective.
Laxalt's office has said that the law requires the checks to be conducted by the FBI and cannot be enforced without the agency's cooperation. The FBI balked at Nevada's attempt to dictate the use of federal resources. In a statement Friday, the Attorney General's Office said any frustration should be directed at the drafters of the flawed law.
"We stand by our opinion that the drafters of the initiative erred by assuming that the FBI would be willing to run the background checks required by Nevada's initiative," the Attorney General's Office said in its statement.
Clark County District Judge Joe Hardy Jr. made no immediate ruling after more than 90 minutes of arguments.


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DES MOINES, Iowa —
New information concerning a chase Tuesday night in Des Moines.
Police said Gregory Wright had warrants for his arrest when they received a call that he had assaulted a woman in the 2000 block of Capital. Police told KCCI they spotted Wright driving a Mercury Sable at East 25th and University.
A chase ensued until Wright pulled over at East 22nd and Walnut.
Also in the car was 28-year-old Shawn Miller.
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