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Versalles Hotel
Hotel Versalles is, to the east of the city, surrounded by harmonious tranquility. Recommended for families and groups.
Hotel Versalles on a hilltop in the residential section of Versalles, on the southern outskirts of Santiago, was refurbished at the end of 2007. A major draw is the lovely views north and west over the city and bay, and it gets the breezes. It's also quite handsome.
The driveway curls up to a gracious glass-walled lobby with Modernist peaked roof and handsome furnishings, setting a welcome tone. And the contemporary style restaurant is an elegant spot and has tremendous views through a wall of glass decorated with stained-glass.
The 72 guest quarters are in motel-style one-story units and bi-level villas arrayed in a quadrangle around a huge swimming pool and sundeck with separate kid's pool. These units are of red-brick, with walls of glass and sliding glass doors opening broad shady balconies and patios.
Interiors have terra-cotta tile floors, functional wooden furnishings, and modern bathrooms. Take an upper room for the raised ceilings. As with most tourist hotels, this one comes with satellite TV, phones, and refrigerators in all rooms, which are kept clean. And recently remodeled bathrooms have shower-tubs with modern fixtures.
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Conference halls & rooms
Evening entertainment - cabarets
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Nightclub, disco or dance hall
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Telephone - national & international calls
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TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Superior rooms with air conditioning, private bathroom, balcony or terrace, safe deposit box, 110 and 220V, minibar, radio, telephone and satellite TV.
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Standard rooms with air conditioning, private bathroom, safe deposit box, 110 and 220V, minibar, radio, telephone and satellite TV.
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More Hotels in Santiago de Cuba City:
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Academy have signed dancer-turned-director Remi Laudat to their roster for representation.
US animation studio Psyop have joined Riff Raff Films for representation in the UK and the Netherlands.
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Filmmaker Simon Hunter will now direct commercials and branded content under the 76 Ltd banner.
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If you get not one, but two Lamborghini Aventadors to play with for a day, you really are a lucky bastard.
690 horsepower from an Italian V12, all-wheel drive grip, a 'corsa' mode that will try to break your neck and bad iPhone connectivity. That's exactly what you want. Not more, not less. And for $488,000, you can get it. Or, in case you work for Autocar, for a bit of gas money.
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SEATTLE -- The Seattle Mariners will not retain hitting coach Chris Chambliss for 2013 after another season during which their offense was among the worst in baseball.
The Mariners made the announcement on Thursday. The rest of Seattle's coaching staff will return next season.
Chambliss was Seattle's hitting coach the past two seasons. The 63-year-old previously was the hitting coach for the New York Yankees and Mets, St. Louis and Cincinnati.
The Mariners finished last in baseball this season in batting average (.234), on-base percentage (.296), slugging percentage (.369) and on-base plus slugging (.665). They were also last in baseball in most major offensive categories in 2011 as well.
General manager Jack Zduriencik says the search for a new hitting coach will begin immediately.


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The psychology of women as conceptualized within traditional psychological as well as feminist theory. A survey of findings on women from various fields: personality, cognition, physiological, social, developmental and abnormal psychology.
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Sidibe at Casio's Shock the World 2010. (Getty Images)
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Elle magazine is under fire for allegedly lightening the skin of actress Gabourey Sidibe on its October 2010 cover, Yahoo and the Telegraph report.
See the Elle cover in question here.
In an industry dominated by thin, Caucasian models and actresses, news that fashion heavyweight Elle would be featuring Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe on the cover of their 25th anniversary issue was a welcome respite.
Sidibe, the full-figured African American actress who was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her 2009 performance in Precious, appears along side actresses Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried and Lauren Conrad on individual Elle covers.
The Elle cover, compared to the actress's recent red carpet and magazine appearances, like her February 2010 photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar, has led to speculation that the magazine has retouched Sidibe's photograph to make her skin appear lighter.
Elle has released a statement in the wake of the controversy, claiming that "nothing out of the ordinary" has been done to Sidibe's photograph.
"We have four separate covers this month and Gabby's cover was not retouched any more or less than the others" The magazine's statement to Yahoo read.
According to CBS News, the magazine is also accused of cropping Sidibe's photo to hide the actress's curves, as the other three covers feature full length photographs of Seyfried, Conrad and Fox, while Sidibe's cover is cropped close up.


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Five-time and reigning GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Cars Series Champions (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011) Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) will travel to Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) for the inaugural Super Weekend at the Brickyard, fielding two entries in the Brickyard Grand Prix on July 27, which airs at 4:00 p.m. ET on SPEED.
Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, who enter the event first in Rolex Sports Car Series Standings, will pilot the No. 01 TELMEX Dinan-Prepared BMW Riley for the first time on the 2.534-mile road course. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) teammates Juan Pablo Montoya and Jamie McMurray will make their second GRAND-AM appearance of the season in the No. 02 Chevron Dinan-Prepared BMW Riley, joined by two-time Indy car Champion and the 2008 Indianapolis 500 Winner, Scott Dixon, also making his second GRAND-AM appearance of the year.
CGRFS looks to earn another victory this season at IMS. Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti won the 96th Running of the Indianapolis 500 in May, with teammate Dixon finishing second. Franchitti's victory in the event gave Ganassi his fifth win in the Indianapolis 500 as an owner. Overall CGRT have earned five victories, 21 top-five finishes and led 1,435 laps in 30 races at IMS.


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Ford Field – music swells.
Two teams – spot lights on teams.
Two quests – cue video montage of highlights from season.
One Shining Moment. – Crowd roars – Cue music and explosions.
Add own confetti for added flair and mess.
Now we are all in the right state of mind to look at the last game of the 2008-09 Men's College Basketball Season. I will not "breakdown" these teams, we all know them well. Instead, I will highlight a few aspects that could change the outcome or guarantee victory, or do neither.
1. Pace – MSU has a more control tempo and chooses it's spots to fast break. While UNC throws it in fifth and punches the pedal the whole game putting the opposition in tough positions.
2. Rebounding – More specifically, offensive rebounding.
3. The Referees – If the refs call it tight, the advantage goes to UNC. If the refs let them play, Michigan State will have a chance. Either way, I would rather see it called a little looser.
4. Raymar Morgan – Morgan must continue to be aggressive and affect play like he did against UConn, even if he is not scoring.
5. Coaching – Roy Willams is a great coach, but Tom Izzo is very Bill Belichick in his game planning.
*Fashion conscious side-note– Izzo is a much better dresser than Belichick.
6. Three point shooting – Both teams jack-up alot from distance. MSU averages 15.2 shots from three a game and UNC 16.4.
7. Share With The Other Kids – Out the six loses MSU has lost this season, five times their opponent had more assists.
8. Home Court Advantage – The game is in Detroit but UNC will not be scared. It could give MSU a needed lift.
9. Mascot – The Spartan carrys more fear and more of the "I'm going to kick your ass" factor than the Tar Heel. I still have no clue what a Tar Heel really is. I don't think it is a ram. Anyone?
10. Who I Want To Win – I would like to see Izzo and Michigan State complete this season "tie to legend", with Bird and Magic in '79. Much like Kansas did last year with the anniversary of "Danny and the Miracles".
Even though I am an admitted Duke fan, I think I will feel a little bit of sympathy to UNC and the players that came back to win a championship and did not. You rarely see that kind of dedication in the One and Done Era. I have great respect for the talent of those players and for Williams.
11. UNC in Close Games – UNC has not won a tournament game by less than double-digits. In the regular season, the Tar Heels had only ONE win that was fewer than eight points. That was a 69-65 victory on the road at Miami in mid February.
12. Point and Counterpoint – Ty Lawson or Kalin Lucas. Both players are the main reason their teams are still playing. Who ever plays better, their team will win. Speed vs. Speed.
13. Bench Production – MSU's bench score 28 points per game, UNC's scores 13.2 but even fewer in closer games. Izzo expects production from the bench no matter how close the game.
14. Foul Trouble – Obvious I think.
15. Annoucer – There have been a ton of combo's with ESPN and CBS, but for all the is holy, Gus Johnson needs to calls this game! PLEASE!
That covers it, everything that could possibly shift this game to either side. I mus say that this is the best breakdown/preview I have done, EVER. So much in depth details and just filled with vital data.
Enjoy the game.
I almost forgot – Prediction: UNC 74, MSU 81


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As California continues to plummet toward complete financial collapse, lawmakers in the State Assembly this month put aside a slew of important issues and devoted precious legislative time to pass a resolution that would make the first week of March "cuss-free" in the Golden State.
ACR 112, as it is known, will likely face fierce opposition from Humboldt County's Senate representative Pat Wiggins, whose staunch defense of her First Amendment rights emboldened her to launch the infamous "bullshit" remark aimed at an African-American pastor from a Sacramento-area church during a televised committee hearing in 2008.
While Wiggins' increasingly erratic behavior has attracted widespread media attention and concern in political circles over her "outbursts, odd displays of affection and apparent inability at times to focus or remember" that some say is evidence of her stunningly rapid mental decline, staffers have adamantly maintained that the senator is competent and fully capable of fulfilling her duties. Wiggins' most recent outburst a little over a week ago was a screaming tirade at an empty water container that lasted for several minutes and ended with what witnesses said was her moving threateningly toward a fellow senator that caused security and staffers to intervene. Wiggins' press aid David Miller acknowledged to the media that the 69-year-old senator has a medical condition she's being treated for, but Miller has routinely downplayed her "irritable" behavior as a byproduct of a hearing problem.
The resolution, which was co-authored by Assemblyman Wes Chesbro (D-Arcata), could mark the latest move by Democratic leadership in Sacramento to distance themselves from Wiggins. Cal-Channel, which televises the legislature's proceedings, already pulled the plug on televised hearings that Wiggins chairs.
According to the text of the "No Cussing" resolution, any profane outburst from Wiggins during the first week of March would encourage the Santa Rosa-based Democrat "place money in a jar…and donate collected funds to charity." Perhaps Wiggins, who is paid more than $116,000 annually by taxpayers and may not actually know who she is or where she is at any given moment, should send any collected money to the state's coffers to help chip away at the ballooning budget deficit.
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BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team placed five players on the 2014 USILA All-America Team it was announced today. Senior defenseman Jack Reilly (Niskayuna, NY/Christian Brothers Academy) and junior long stick midfielder Michael Pellegrino (Oakdale, NY/Connetquot) both earned second team honors, while junior attackman Wells Stanwick (Baltimore, MD/Boys' Latin), sophomore attackman Ryan Brown (Sykesville, MD/Calvert Hall) and sophomore midfielder Holden Cattoni (De Winton, Alberta/West Island College) all earned honorable mention status. This is the 11th time in head coach Dave Pietramala's 14 seasons that Johns Hopkins has produced five or more All-Americans.
Reilly and Pellgrino anchored a Johns Hopkins defense that held 11 of 16 opponents to nine goals or less and surrendered an average of 8.94 goals per game. Reilly started all 16 games on close defense for the Blue Jays and totaled 20 ground balls, six caused turnovers and one goal. This is the first time Reilly has been selected as an All-American and he routinely drew the assignment of covering the opposition's top attackman. He was the only returning starter among JHU's goalie and three close defensemen this season.
Pellegrino, the first Johns Hopkins junior to serve as a captain since Jake Bryne in 2006, played in all 16 games at the pole and had 27 ground balls, a team-high 13 caused turnovers, three goal and two assists. Pellegrino was the only non-senior long stick defensive middie to earn first, second or third team honors and one of just two non-seniors among the six LSMs honored.
Stanwick is Johns Hopkins' only repeat selection to the All-America team as he makes his second appearance on the honorable mention listing. He led the Blue Jays in scoring with 23 goals and 44 points for 67 points. His 44 assists are the fourth-highest single-season total in school history and the most by a Johns Hopkins player since Jack Thomas had 45 in 1973. In addition, his 67 points are the most by a Blue Jay since Terry Riordan had 69 in 1995 and are tied for the 11th-highest single-season mark in school history.
Brown made the seamless transition back to his natural position of attack this season. He tied for the team-lead in goals (40), finished second in points (54) and fourth in assists (14). His 40 goals are the most by a Johns Hopkins sophomore since Terry Riordan had 47 in 1993 and he is just the fourth sophomore in school history to score 40 or more goals in a season. He netted a career high eight goals against Syracuse early this season; that is the second-highest single-game total in school history, surpassed only by a nine-goal effort by William Logan against Virginia in 1927.
Cattoni rounds out Johns Hopkins' All-Americans with his nod to the honorable mention listing. He scored 29 goals and added six assists for 35 points to rank third on the team in goals and fourth in points. He led all Johns Hopkins midfielders in goals and points. Cattoni, the only player on the team to score at least one goal in all 16 games this season, had eight multi-goal games and nine multi-point games to his credit this season. His 29 goals are the most by a Johns Hopkins midfielder since Brian Christopher had 30 in 2009.
Johns Hopkins posted an 11-5 record and made its 42nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament this season. The Blue Jays advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals before being eliminated.


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They say that children learn languages the best. But that doesn't mean that adults should give up. We asked some of the polyglots in TED's Open Translation Project to share their secrets to mastering a foreign language. Their best strategies distill into seven basic principles:
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- Make language-learning a lifestyle change. Elisabeth Buffard, who in her 27 years of teaching English has always seen consistency as what separates the most successful students from the rest. Find a language habit that you can follow even when you're tired, sick or madly in love.
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Standing on the convention stage with an empty chair, Eastwood carried on a sometimes rambling conversation with an imaginary President Barack Obama.
The actor and director talked about Oprah Winfrey, Obama's unfulfilled promise to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and lawyers.
At one point, Eastwood talked about letting Obama go and making a change.
"When somebody doesn't do the job, you gotta let 'em go," Eastwood said. The tough-guy actor of "Dirty Harry" fame drew a finger across his throat.
The crowd cheered Eastwood's entrance and shouted his famed catchphrase, "Go ahead, make my day." But backstage, stern-faced Romney aides winced at times as Eastwood's remarks stretched on.
On a night where virtually every moment was scripted, Eastwood was among the only speakers not reading from a teleprompter as he spoke.
The Oscar-winning director of "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby," Eastwood criticized Obama for failing to turn the economy around and for wanting to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects.
Eastwood says Obama has failed to deliver on his promises and it's time for Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, to take over.
He entertained the audience with a mock interview with Obama, posing questions and pretending that Obama had told Eastwood to shut up.
Eastwood endorsed Romney earlier this month at a campaign event in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Makes 1/2 cup
Black olives absorb the flavor of wine and rosemary in this appetizer that also makes a quick-to-prepare accompaniment to special meals and Italian-inspired dishes.
1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives
1/4 cup Cabernet Sauvignon or other full-bodied red wine
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
2 sprigs of fresh rosemary, divided
1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Combine the olives, wine, garlic, 1 sprig of rosemary, and the olive oil in a small baking dish. Bake, uncovered, for about 20 minutes or until the olives are heated through. Cool slightly, then remove the rosemary.
Transfer the olives and wine mixture to a small bowl. Serve warm or at room temperature garnished with a fresh sprig of rosemary.
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The infamous "grandparents scam" or the "emergency scam" is on the rise. And experts warn if you don't know the red flags, you could become a victim. Eleanor Reimer knows all too well.
"I got a phone call from someone who said he was my grandson, sounded exactly like him and said he was in Mexico and had some trouble and needed some money," she said.
So she went to the post office with $5,800 in cash. She prepared an express mail envelope and the postal worker at the counter gave her advice.
"He looked at me, you make sure you call before you send this," she said.
Reimer tried to call her family but didn't get an answer. Because she was told time was of the essence, she sent the package.
"The victim was very sweet and worried about her grandson's well-being and making sure he got home safely," said US Postal Inspector, Michelle Brooks.
But, it was all a scam. Hours later, Reimer learned her grandson was not in trouble.
"I felt like I was a real idiot when I found out," she admitted.
She then went to police. US Postal Inspectors used her tracking number and were able to intercept the package before delivery.
"We were glad to help her get the money back," said Brooks.
Reimer's good fortune comes with a warning.
"Before you send any cash to anyone make sure you verify the story. Assume it is a scam until you know better," warned Brooks.
According to recent FBI reports, the "Grandparent Scam" has been around since 2008, but there has been a surge recently.
So here's what you do: The Better Business Bureau says if a grandparent receives a call from someone claiming to be their grandchild in distress, saying something like, 'I've been arrested" or "I've been mugged" or "I'm in the hospital," don't give any information before confirming it really is your grandchild.
And, if a caller says "It's me, Grandma!" Don't respond with a name, but instead let the caller explain who he or she is. One easy way to confirm the identity is to ask a simple question that the grandchild would know - such as what school he or she goes to or their middle name.
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Great news! The Fold3 databases are now available through the Largo Public Library and the Genealogy Center.
For those of you not familiar with Fold3, it consists of over 60 million pages of historical documents, most of which have been digitized in partnership with the National Archives.
It offers collections of city directories, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and more. But its specialty is really military records...from the Revolutionary War to the present day. It includes such records as rolls, rosters, compiled service records, and pension applications.
With Fold3 you can search, view, print, and save any of the images in the collections.
The subscription invested in by the library includes some special archive collections in addition to what has been described. Those collections are most notably the Native American , African American, and American Revolution Archives.
Fold3 offers an enhanced search interface with filters, as well as two levels of viewers to make searching for documents and managing search results easy.
Fold3 is accessible from any computer in the library as well as from home if you access it through the Largo Public Library website and log on with your library card number.
If you use the computers in the library Genealogy Center, there are volunteer consultants who will help get you started and demonstrate use of the site. Printed instructions are also located next to each of the workstations in the Genealogy Center.
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LCWR assembly Day 3: High Expectations
Day three of the LCWR assembly brought high expectations here, for most people thought we would hear how the membership had decided to respond to the "Doctrinal Assessment" issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
As I wrote yesterday, the LCWR leaders had been sending mixed messages about which way they were leaning all week. By this morning, however, we media folks had concluded that there probably would be no dramatic announcement at this afternoon's press conference. We were right.
LCWR's president, Sister Pat Farrell, read a prepared statement to the press conference: "The members charged the LCWR officers with beginning a conversation with Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, the apostolic delegate appointed by CDF to oversee LCWR. Their expectation is that open and honest dialogue may lead not only to increasing understanding between the Church leadership and women religious, but also to creating more possibilities for the laity and, particularly for women, to have a voice in the Church."
Archbishop Sartain meets with the national board of LCWR for two hours on Saturday, we were told, and then the board will meet for two more days. However, there was no indication that any more announcements were imminent.
The LCWR statement also reported that the LCWR members wanted to maintain the LCWR official role in the Church, and "while acknowledging deep disappointments with the CDF report, the members proclaimed their intention to use this opportunity to explain to Church leaders LCWR's mission values and operating principles."
I asked Sister Pat if LCWR's expected dialogue with Archbishop Sartain would be different than the several years of dialogue the sisters had with the CDF already. And I noted that Cardinal William Levada, who was prefect of the CDF during that dialogue, had characterized the experience as a "dialogue with the deaf."
Sister Pat said that the LCWR had not yet had substantial dialogue with Archbishop Sartain, who is charged with implementing the assessment. She said that the sisters would not begin by talking about doctrine, but, rather, they would start by talking about the nature of dialogue and about their own lives and their understanding of religious life, as well as how the CDF document is "a misrepresentation of that."
One reporter asked Sister Pat what the LCWR wanted out of the process. She said, "What we want is to finally, at some end stage of the process, be recognized and understood as equals in the Church, that our form of religious life can be respected and affirmed. Really, we do want to come to the point of having an environment not just for us, but for the entire Catholic Church: of the ability to … search for truth together, to talk about issues that are very complicated."
Sister Pat also was asked to share her perception of the bishops and if they were being fair. She said that "there is a power differential between the bishops and ourselves, and there is not right now a climate of openness and dialogue in general in the Church," but the LCWR hoped to contribute to moving the Church in that direction.
In her presidential address earlier in the day, Sister Pat had said that she thought a "prophetic response" to the assessment would be "humble, but not submissive; rooted in a solid sense of ourselves, but not self-righteous; truthful but gentle and absolutely fearless."
Further, "it would ask probing questions. Are we being invited to some appropriate pruning, and would we open to it? Is this doctrinal-assessment process an expression of concern, or an attempt to control? Concern is based in love and invites unity. Control through fear and intimidation would be an abuse of power. Does the institutional legitimacy of canonical recognition empower us to live prophetically? Does it allow us the freedom to question with informed consciences? Does it really welcome feedback in a Church that claims to honor the sensus fidelium, the sense of the faithful?"
She said that there had been an "immense groundswell of support" from men religious and from laity: "Clearly, they share our concern at the intolerance of dissent, even from those with informed consciences, the continued curtailing of the role of women."
So, as you can see, the saga continues.
This has been an intense but fascinating three days, and on my train ride home tomorrow, I will have a chance to think more about the assembly as a whole and will share those impressions in another blog post.
UPDATE: Archbishop Sartain made the following statement Aug. 10:
The Holy See and the bishops of the United States are deeply proud of the historic and continuing contribution of women religious to our country through social, pastoral and spiritual ministries; Catholic health care; Catholic education; and many other areas where they reach out to those on the margins of society.
As an association of women religious, the LCWR brings unique gifts to its members and to the Church at large. This uniqueness includes sensitivity to suffering, whether in Latin America or the inner city; whether in the life of an unborn child or the victim of human trafficking.
Religious women have made a lasting contribution to the well-being of our country and continue to do so today. For that, they deserve our respect, our support, our thanks and our prayers.
Along with the members of the LCWR, I remain committed to working to address the issues raised by the "Doctrinal Assessment" in an atmosphere of prayer and respectful dialogue. We must also work toward clearing up any misunderstandings, and I remain truly hopeful that we will work together without compromising Church teaching or the important role of the LCWR. I look forward to our continued discussions as we collaborate in promoting consecrated life in the United States.


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At first glance Mathias Kurras has a job like everybody else – at least in terms of office hours. Working as a project manager at Linde's Advanced Technology Centre in Vienna, with a focus on hydrogen mobility, it's fair to say his interest in the subject goes far beyond daily business.
Having graduated in mechanical engineering in 2012, he joined Linde in 2016. While Mathias is involved in many different projects, there is one where his enthusiasm and his not-so-distant student days really shine: the Shell Eco-marathon (SEM).
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Hope that you are all having a fabulous, gluten-free Valentine's Day! Aaron and I went out last night for our special dinner and I think that I may have gotten glutened! ACK! It has been a long time since this has happened and I don't miss it one bit! We often eat at the restaurant we went to last night, so I don't know exactly what went wrong. I think not knowing what made me sick is worse than being able to pinpoint it. I did have something different, so I would love to assume that it was the new entrée so that I can just stay clear of that next time. I am finally starting to feel a little bit better- 18+ hours later.
Do you have any special plans today? I will be enjoying some Dark Chocolate Truffle Hearts from Trader Joe's later this evening. Baked Ziti would be a great idea for Valentine's dinner –
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Galveston Co. woman sues Sonic over hot coffee
Claiming she was burned by a cup of hot coffee last year, a Galveston County woman has sued the parent company of Sonic Drive-In Restaurant for damages.
Helen Julian was at a Sonic Restaurant in Santa Fe on May 11, 2012, where she bought the cup of coffee, according to the lawsuit filed June 28 in Galveston County District Court against S.M. Watford Group LLC, based in Huntsville.
When the server handed it to her, "it was tendered in a way that made the improperly placed lid pop off, causing the steaming hot coffee to spill onto the lap and inner thighs of the plaintiff," the lawsuit states.
Julian's attorney, Jonathan Kieschnick of The Crim Law Firm in Houston, elaborated.
"The lid was never securely placed on the cup by the Sonic employee," he said. "So when the employee handed it to my client, who grabbed it with two hands, the cup spilled causing the burns."
Julian suffered second- and third-degree burns that resulted in "painful and unsightly" scarring, Kieschnick said.
The lawsuit alleges that the restaurant chain is negligent due to the employee's wrong placement of the lid and "lack of due care" when serving the beverage, and because of management's improper training of employees.
"We've plead for damages of at least 100k, but leave the amount of damages to be awarded solely within the discretion of the jury," Kieschnick said.
The case will be heard before Galveston County 122nd District Court Judge John Ellisor.
Ken Watford of S.M Watford Group could not be immediately reached for comment.


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As educational editor of the 2013 TechLeaders Conference held on March 13–15 in Irving, Texas, Beacon Strategies LLC contributed to the conference's goal of developing thought leadership for broker-dealers of all sizes.
To that end, we designed and conducted the 2013 TechLeaders Survey to evaluate the current state of broker-dealers' initiatives, priorities and relationships with their solution providers. A questionnaire was sent to senior executives at a majority of U.S. broker-dealers with 25 or more investment professionals. It included questions on technology preferences and vendors, social media usage and trends, completed or planned technology initiatives, and technology budget and staff.
The following summarizes the results of the 2013 survey based on an overall response rate of more than 80% of the major independent and insurance broker-dealers in the United States. Through this annual survey, Beacon and our clients are able to monitor significant trends in the industry, as well as important changes in priorities, vendor relationships and resource allocations over time.
The Gathering Cloud
In this year's survey data, we see fundamental changes with long-range implications. Since last year, the broker-dealer mainstream has moved to embrace third-party solution providers in general. Specifically, momentum has shifted markedly toward third-party providers that are leveraging cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) capabilities. This trend has made build-your-own solutions and reliance on clearing firms relatively less attractive, as shown in the table below.
The momentum of cloud/SaaS is sucking the oxygen out of the room. All three of the other models shown above lost mindshare, and their losses contributed about equally to cloud/SaaS's gain of 34%. Under cost and competitive pressures, broker-dealer executives know they must keep pace in the tech race, but they do not wish to become tech development shops. Also, they are starting to see clearing firm solutions as lagging versus the leading third-party vendors in several categories. We believe the popularity of mobile devices and cloud-based apps (e.g., Dropbox) has accelerated acceptance of professional-level SaaS solutions.
Broker-dealers tell us they are turning to the cloud/SaaS model for three reasons. First, it is the fastest and most economical way to deploy the services they offer and stay current. Second, it can support financial advisors who work and engage their clients in multiple locations (e.g., office, home, client site) and who have increasingly adopted mobile devices. Finally, it minimizes the requirements for higher fixed-cost internal technology resources, allowing firms to focus management and financial resources on their core competencies.
Broker-dealers also say that cloud/SaaS solutions are becoming easier to integrate with the software packages they currently use or are considering using, simplifying the conversion and providing greater data portability than in the past.
A Foundation Built on Solid Data
Another strong current running through this year's survey is the continued emphasis on data as a strategic asset and the adoption of data mart/warehouse-type solutions. As illustrated in the graph below, there has been an increase of almost one-fifth of all survey participants who have adopted such solutions since last year's survey.
We often refer to the data mart/warehouse as a "golden source of data" and a "single version of truth." We think this data management strategy establishes the critical foundation necessary for today's broker-dealers to successfully deploy their business application solutions. This foundation, in turn, supports operational efficiencies, improves data integration capabilities, underpins the value of the applications, and increases the returns on investment for software purchases or development.
This year's survey indicates that the message is being heard and is motivating decisions and execution strategies. With a golden source of data to draw upon, broker-dealers can be more confident that applications, such as compliance surveillance systems, will deliver comprehensive, consistent and accurate results.
Social Media Moves Into the Field
In 2012, social media flew onto the industry's radar screen in a big way. In our previous survey, 35% of firms said they planned to permit social media usage over the next 12 months. Therefore, it was no surprise to see social media deployments proliferate this year. Two-thirds of broker-dealers (67%) said they are either in the process of deploying social media in their business or already have solutions deployed, compared to just 55% last year. (See Figure 3, below.)
2012 laid the groundwork for broker-dealer adoption of social media, with initiatives focused on the selection and implementation of tools for maintenance, archiving and surveillance. In 2013, firms are focusing resources on moving social media usage deeper into the field with training, content libraries and integration with contact management tools. Advisors who are in the vanguard of social media usage are producing success stories that are starting to "go viral" in terms of influence and impact. The fear factor about using social media is quickly disappearing.
Technology Fees: Perception of Value
As the dependence on technology pervades broker-dealer cultures, 63% of firms now report that they charge advisors administration, affiliation or technology fees—up from 56% last year. Several firms have reported that their average monthly fees are trending higher to cover increased tech spending in terms of technology acquisition and ongoing support.
We believe barriers to charging these fees have fallen, mainly because advisors perceive rising value in the tech-related services. In most cases, it is the advisors who are demanding greater technology support rather than being forced to adopt technology. Although many of the initial technology mandates were based upon the need to create a consistent infrastructure, particularly for compliance, the standardization and automation has dramatically increased advisor productivity and enhances their ability to manage their practices. We think the fees have become essential in helping broker-dealers keep pace with these rising technology demands during a period of margin squeeze in the industry. We would not be surprised to see fee adoption rates continuing to increase until leveling off at about 90% of all firms. Eventually, firms that don't charge these fees may be at a competitive disadvantage through their inability to fund and support enhanced solutions for themselves and their advisors.
Top Five Tech Challenges
In 2012, our survey identified the top four tech challenges as straight-through processing (mentioned by 75% as "somewhat" or "most" challenging); investment professional data aggregation (69%); enterprise compliance surveillance (68%); and data management (61%). This year's top five challenges are summarized in the table below.
When we focus only on the most challenging areas, the clear leaders are data management (50%), enterprise compliance surveillance (45%) and data aggregation (43%). However, other areas are creeping onto the list. They include business intelligence computing (36%), mobile/tablet devices (32%) and cybersecurity (26%).
Despite the trend toward cloud-based solutions and increased use of social media, only 14% and 17% of respondents, respectively, listed these as most challenging. This suggests that vendors have been mostly successful in reducing the challenges to implementation in these areas. This success in implementation has led to the emerging problems in cybersecurity and mobile computing. Now that the data warehouse/data mart solutions are starting to produce actionable data, business intelligence is becoming an issue.
[To learn more about broker-dealers' preferred technology providers, click here.]
Allocating Resources
To which tech areas are broker-dealers now allocating their people, time and money? Where are they likely to allocate these resources over the next two years?
In 26 areas, the survey asked participants whether they currently have capabilities already deployed, are in the process of implementation or have specified requirements for future development. This mirrors a basic project development pipeline—i.e., in firms where we see requirements specified, we often see implementations-in-process a year or two later and deployments in place about two to three years later.
One remarkable finding shows how pervasive technology has become in today's broker-dealer industry. In all 26 areas surveyed, more than 80% of broker-dealers said they had projects at some stage in the pipeline, including deployment. (For full results, see the Appendix on AdvisorOne.com.)
To stay successful and competitive, modern broker-dealers must support a broad set of technology solutions, when less than a decade ago many of them relied on a single compensation system with backfill from their clearing firm as their technology platform. Today's firm needs to juggle many tech balls at once, with making smart allocations of people, time and money amongst them. This juggling act became the greatest factor in adopting third-party solutions since virtually no firm has the resources and expertise to successfully develop and support the necessary technology portfolio.
In five areas, 99% of broker-dealers said they had projects somewhere in the pipeline, as shown in Figure 5 (below, left).
These areas have become the price of admission for modern broker-dealers. The vast majority of firms either have them deployed or in process.
While already-deployed tech solutions require resources for maintenance and upgrading, the real heavy lifting for resource-allocation purposes arises during the in-process implementation phase. For example, the survey showed that 65% of firms were in the process of implementing mobile/tablet device and bring-your-own-device support, while 64% were implementing service model support systems. Therefore, these were the heavy-lifts for the industry at that point in time.
If we want to see where the action will be over the next two years, we then need to look at areas where large numbers of firms are now establishing business and system requirements, as shown in the table below.
Financial planning software is one of the most mature third-party categories, with three firms now having more than 40% market share. However, the data suggests we may be heading into next-generation planning software and systems, which creates opportunities for new vendors to rise and existing leaders to reshuffle share. This is especially noteworthy in the context of providing support for mobile devices as well as leveraging data through better integration with data warehouses/marts. Annuity due diligence, marketing services and compensation management are additional growth categories in which third-party vendors have not yet penetrated a large number of broker-dealers.
Comparing Top Tech Challenges with Current Resource Allocations
Earlier in the survey, we listed five areas that at least 78% of survey respondents listed as either "somewhat" or "most" challenging. It's useful to compare these areas with those we listed above as the top five for current resource allocations, as shown in the table below.
Although only one area, enterprise compliance surveillance, appears on both lists we believe there is consistency in the story the results are telling. The complexity of the top technology challenges often require multiple phases that rely on different solutions to eventually incorporate virtually all the processes and activities of a broker-dealer. For example, solving for current client data protection challenges may require the services offered by reliable third-party vendors in cybersecurity, mobile/tablet/BYOD and cloud computing. Executives aren't losing much sleep worrying about how or where they are allocating resources; the allocations are the way they are addressing the challenge.
Beacon's annual TechLeader surveys help to document current trends and year-to-year changes in broker-dealers' adoption of technology. This year's survey shows one inescapable fact: Broker-dealers (as well as their advisors and client-investors) are becoming increasingly dependent on ever more diverse technologies, categories and solution partners. At the same time, reliance on third-party providers is growing, and more broker-dealers perceive third-party solutions as the key to achieving simplicity, economy and speed-to-market. This was a year of dramatic upswing for cloud and SaaS third-party providers. In fact, we can confidently project that for several years to come: "Three is not a crowd in the cloud."
The arsenal of technologies that a modern broker-dealer needs to stay competitive is becoming well-defined. Simultaneously, fewer firms have the in-house resources or diverse tech knowledge base to rely on build-your-own systems and solutions. Although some categories of third-party solutions may appear to be mature, today's environment is ripe for next-generation solutions that offer potential for big productivity gains and long-term cost savings.


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Putin's Public Finger-Wag for Obama
Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed published late Wednesday in The New York Times where he strongly challenged President Barack Obama and the American public against a military strike against Syria, a longtime ally of Russia, warning of the likelihood of exacerbating the Mideast conflict to beyond the Syrian border and undermining the authority of the United Nations Security Council.
In his remarks, Putin called upon Americans to exercise "caution" when dealing with Syria, advocating for talks instead of military action.
"The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria's borders," wrote Putin. "A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance."
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UnNews:Westboro Baptist wins at Supreme Court
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
2 March 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Westboro Baptist Church, 8-1, in a free-speech case that gives the Church the green light to go on being a dick.
The Church has benefitted from obsequious coverage on Uncyclopedia and from being doted on in the pages of UnNews, and staff in the newsroom (free-speech advocates all) gave a noticeable cheer when the news danced along the chiron at the bottom of an unspecified cable news channel. Some UnNews reporters had taken up a small collection to cover some of the Church's legal fees.
The Church is notorious for staging tasteless political protests in front of funerals and burials, and the Court upheld its right to do so. In the case decided today, Church members turned up at the funeral of soldier Matthew Snyder, who died in Iraq, with their usual picket signs, which said, "The Faggot Had It Coming!" and other equally incisive slogans. UnNews policy prohibits us from disclosing whether Mr. Snyder was gay or whether the Church thinks that he got plugged because someone else is gay. It barely lets us mention that he was a soldier.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the Court. "As a nation we protect even hurtful speech to ensure that we do not stifle public debate. Besides, the faggot did have it coming."
Justice Steven Breyer, clearly channeling Sandra Day O'Connor, agreed with the verdict but wrote a separate opinion stressing its limited effect. "I feel as though I could rule the other way next week. Yes, I believe I saw something in Zimbabwean case law that I could hang such a ruling on."
Justice Samuel Alito was the only dissenter. His opinion read, in its entirety, "What the fuck?" It was an unusual Court opinion--as there were no footnotes. "No one knew that he believed things like this, when George W. Bush nominated him," said one onlooker. Though, that was the point, wasn't it?
Justice Clarence Thomas joined the majority, clearly moved by another sign from a Church protestor, which read, "Side with Us or the Nigger Gets It!"
- Mark Sherman "Supreme Court: Raucous funeral picketers allowed". Associated Press, March 2, 2011
- Justice John Roberts "Snyder v. Phelps". U.S. Supreme Court, March 2, 2011


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At Deloitte's Human Capital practice, the worlds of business, people, and technology intersect to transform the way our clients work. We are a trusted advisor and leading implementation partner working with companies and governments around the world.
In our Change by Design team, we are committed to helping companies achieve the full benefits of their strategy and business transformation. This, by managing change inside of the organization and ensuring that each and every person is part of the transformation journey.
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A new report released this week asserts that the human cost of modern warfare has decreased significantly, challenging both the methods and results of other studies.
For instance, the Human Security Report, produced at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, claims that the widely cited death toll of 5.4 million in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is double what it should be.
The hotly contested report calls into question the larger estimate, made by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and alludes to controversies surrounding death tolls in Darfur and Iraq. It also questions the most general assumptions about conflict, from how deadly war is to whether the number of war dead can even be counted.
"[It's] not just a battle of titans," says Greg Greenough, director of research at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. "It really is [a battle] of philosophies, of how we approach a very difficult question of deaths of people in war."
But it's not just philosophical. Because government, military, and humanitarian officials all take into consideration death tolls and casualty rates, the numbers can play a key role in determining the response to a conflict.
Death tolls, the report argues, are better understood as fundraising arguments aimed at donors than as real scientific estimates of the human cost of war – a contention that has angered experts in the field.
"Many years ago we went out and attempted to report to the world about an unfolding crisis in the Congo. We did it carefully, but as we described at the time, crudely, at great risk to life and limb, and at only a few percent of the cost of this Human Security Report," wrote Les Roberts, a collaborator on former HSR reports and IRC studies, in an open letter to the Center. "It is unbecoming to grab a headline a decade after by tearing down a study with erroneous speculation,"
Criticism of the new report
After the International Rescue Committee published its early findings of the DRC death toll, humanitarian aid to Congo increased 500 percent. Peacekeeping assistance followed, and today the DRC hosts the world's largest peacekeeping mission, with more than 20,000 members.
The IRC conducted five mortality surveys in the country between 2000 and 2007. The limitations of those surveys, the IRC says, have always been clear.
"We've discussed those [limitations], we've published those, and I think there's been generally agreement among many experts that they don't invalidate our findings," says Richard Brennan, who helped write the IRC's last two surveys from Congo.
Dr. Brennan also questions the latest report's own conclusions. "I think there are inconsistencies; there is cherry-picking of data; and they haven't referenced other important reports that would counter what they're saying," he says.
In situations such as Congo, surveys strive to determine the number of people who, if there had never been a war, would probably be alive.
There's never a single number, but rather a scale – which is necessarily based on problematic data.
"You start with the acknowledgment that there's just not good population data during a conflict in most places," says Harvard's Dr. Greenough.
Brennan points out that the IRC studies reveal not a single number, but a scale of violence, with 3 million deaths at the low end of the IRC estimate and over 7 million at the high end. The point, he says, is to understand and prepare to respond to the scale of the conflict.
Disagreements about which data to use and how to collect it have also resulted in rows about the number of dead in Iraq and in Darfur. A similar battle is now being fought about Congo.
"Our point in doing this is not to say we're right, you're wrong," says Andrew Mack, project director for the research behind the latest report. "It was a way of trying to demonstrate that relatively small change in assumptions can produce a huge change in outcomes."
But critics argue, and Mack acknowledges, that such a debate can lead to cynicism. "Were we to do it again – we didn't phrase it quite appropriately," says Mack. "If we were to rewrite it ... we would language it differently."
The politics of numbers
Such professional disagreement – one that is often shaded by politics – has real-world consequences, as seen in Congo. It's precisely because policymakers rely on such numbers to make decisions that it's so critical to get them right, says Andrew Mack, project director for the research behind the latest report.
"The problem is – Darfur showed it, Iraq showed it – if policymakers start to get suspicious about numbers this whole issue of population surveys is going to lose credibility, and a lot of people worry about that," he says.
That's because the surveys are used to estimate death tolls also generate attention and funds. But there are different schools of scientific thought about how to craft these surveys; the report essentially discounts the predominate approach.
But numbers and the disputes they inspire can be motived by politics as much as science.
"The famous axiom that the truth is the first casualty of war is unfortunately also true of casualties," says Anthony Cordesman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "There's a tendency far too often to have the casualty estimate track with the NGO's politics ... [and] there's a tendency, if it's the government that's conducting the war, to underestimate."
But Brennan argues that without surveys of the kind the report calls into question such estimates are "plucked ... out of the air and ... propagated." The IRC conducted its first Congo survey in response to an unsourced figure of 100,000 deaths that appeared in a New York Times article, he says.
"In the case of Congo, the scale was completely unappreciated," he says. "That's what death toll estimates can do. They can counter misinformation when noncredible estimates are too high and draw attention to a crisis when noncredible (estimates) are sometimes too low."
The case for and against death tolls
The Human Security Report also casts doubt on numbers from other places. It questions the Darfur estimate and points out that the first comprehensive study on Iraqi civilian deaths, published in 2006 by the British medical journal, The Lancet, faced credibility challenges.
While some say death tolls are an imperfect science, statistician Patrick Ball – director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group at Benetech in Palo Alto, Calif., – disagrees.
In work that Mack calls "the gold standard" of investigations, Ball and his team have estimated casualties for conflicts in Guatemala, Liberia, Peru, and elsewhere.
"Do people make mistakes? Absolutely," says Ball. "Were mistakes made in IRC estimates? For sure. I think that Mack and his collaborators have pointed to some really important errors that need to be corrected.... Does that mean we should just give up on estimation? Absolutely not. It means we need to take the insights that Mack and his collaborators have brought form the IRC study and say, 'How can we build a better study?'"
Today's wars are less deadly
The project found a 70 percent decrease in high-intensity conflict – those wars with 1,000 or more battle-deaths per year – since the end of the cold war, and a 40 percent overall decrease in conflict, according to Mack.
Meanwhile, he says, emergency humanitarian assistance is increasingly effective – in part because those in war-torn areas are healthier when the fighting starts, a fact he attributes to peace-time health projects such as immunization or breast-feeding campaigns.
The number of battle deaths is also going down, he says, from 33,000 a year in 1950 to "just around" 1,000 a year in 2007.
But the costs of war on humanity are still significant.
Florian Westphal, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, sums it up in an e-mail: "War continues to have a devastating impact on the lives of millions of civilians across the world."


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Shouldn't this go without saying? No, no it shouldn't—because anyone not in the military buying smoke grenades is probably a dick to begin with.
So, to reiterate: don't be a dick while using smoke grenades. This includes rolling a smoke grenade into a nursing home, putting one in your professor's pants, giving your girlfriend an active smoke grenade for Valentine's Day, serving a smoke grenade for lunch, throwing a smoke grenade at a baby, etc. [Reddit via BuzzFeed]


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> Doug Melvin has already missed out on multiple opportunities to sign relievers this offseason, the most notable guys being Jason Grilli and Sean Burnett. But, for the first time this offseason, Melvin himself named off a few relievers that the Brewers are currently interested in. Those names included Jon Rauch, Jason Frasor, Kyle Farnsworth, and Mike Gonzalez, all of whom were in my relief pitcher article from a few weeks back.
In my opinion, Frasor is by far the most attractive pitcher of those four. He fits the bill of a power arm the Brewers are looking for, and can pitch the eighth inning (I'm not so sure I completely trust Jim Henderson in the eighth yet). Frasor doesn't have the greatest career numbers, but you have to take into consideration that he's spent the majority of his career with the Blue Jays in the AL East, so a move to the NL might do him good.
The other three options Melvin listed are decent, I suppose. Farnsworth had a breakout season in 2011 as the Rays' closer, but had an injury-plagued 2012. Gonzalez is that coveted lefty the Brewers are looking for (though I'd much prefer J.P. Howell, who I'm surprised Melvin didn't mention), but the competition for him his; same goes for Howell. And I'd stay away from Rauch- he reminds me too much of Kameron Loe.
But if Melvin does decide to go after one of these guys, hopefully he gives him a substantial offer. Not that I want Melvin to overpay for a reliever, but I felt like he didn't go hard enough for guys like Grilli or Burnett. However, the four guys Melvin mentioned today should come much cheaper than Grilli or Burnett.
> The Brewers signed utility infielder Donnie Murphy to a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training. Murphy, who's pretty versatile in the field, isn't the greatest at the plate, as he hit just .216 in 129 plate appearances for the Marlins last year, and is a career .205 hitter. But, he does provide some depth at shortstop,a position the Brewers struggled with last year until the acquisition of Jean Segura. After Alex Gonzalez went down, we saw the tandem of Cody Ransom and Cesar Izturis flail miserably.
Anyway, Murphy should compete with guys like Mat Gamel and Taylor Green for one of the back-up infielder spots.
> Minor moves:
Red Sox: Signed Stephen Drew to a one-year deal.
Athletics: Signed Hiroyuki Nakajima to a two-year deal.
Astros: Signed Carlos Pena to a one-year deal; designated Mickey Storey for assignment.
Cubs: Designated Jeff Beliveau for assignment.
Giants: Signed Santiago Casilla to a three-year extension.
Angels: Signed Luis Rodriguez to a minor league deal.
Royals: Released Ysrael Abreu, Jose Brazoban, Adelso Polanco, and Yerinson Tatis.