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May 6, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013 Jeff Chen
56 comments:
- Barry G. said...
Morning, all!
Almost awake this morning, but not quite...
Fine and fun puzzle. No nits to pick, although I'll admit I couldn't figure out what BOA had to do with posers at first. I associate BOAs with cabaret dancers for some reason, but I obviously need to get out more (or watch more TV, I guess).
- May 6, 2013 at 5:47 AM
- Lemonade714 said...
What a nice combination, Jeff Chen and Argyle. The theme escaped me until the reveal, but all in all very doable Monday.
Congratulations JC on the book, I am sure you dealt us some grand slams.
- May 6, 2013 at 5:59 AM
- thehondohurricane said...
Hello everyone,
Nice start to the week with a easy, fun puzzle. Had a couple of momentary slowdowns, but resolved them quickly. 19A started with Hex, but ELVIRA got me to VEX. Had Day in 45A. INVAIN took care of that goof. DIY new expression for Hondo.
See ya!
- May 6, 2013 at 6:17 AM
- Hahtoolah said...
Good Morning, Argyle and Friends. Fun way to start off, what I know will be an otherwise stressful, week.
I really wanted Slice instead of SIXTH for that piece of the Trivial Pursuit pie.
I mis-read and did a double take on that Dog Stretching Out in the Heat!
O. HENRY is the pen name of William Sidney Porter. He lead an interesting life.
QOD: Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~ Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 ~ Sept. 23, 1939)
- May 6, 2013 at 6:18 AM
- desper-otto said...
Good morning!
Yup! Another hand up for missing the "the." So SPRAWL didn't seem right. Otherwise, no problems today. It was a speed run top-to-bottom.
I figured the theme was clothing, so was mystified when SECRET SERVICE showed up. NO NO NO straightened me out.
Have a great Monday!
- May 6, 2013 at 7:03 AM
- Yellowrocks said...
It's so nice when an easy Monday puzzle is also fun, like this one.
I was sure we had a clothing theme, too, until I came to SERVICE.
I liked SODA jerk. It reminds me of the old 1940's movies. We still had malt shops in the early 50s.
HACKER- I have just finished the Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. The "girl" was an expert HACKER. Larsson planned 10 books in this series, but died after writing 3+ books. I enjoyed this action packed series. I think most series become formulaic after 4 or so books, so I'm glad Larsson stopped at3.
We do a line dance to Elvira.
Link Elvira
- May 6, 2013 at 7:44 AM
- Spitzboov said...
Good morning everyone.
WEES. Fun puzzle; snappy theme. No lookups, no nits.
@ 58d, TEN, for CED that's four bells.
Have a great day.
- May 6, 2013 at 7:49 AM
- Mari said...
Good morning everybody - happy new week!
I had SLICES instead of SIXTHS for the Trivial Pursuit pieces in 13D. Otherwise everything went well. Not much else to say - no nits here.
Have a good day.
- May 6, 2013 at 7:53 AM
- desper-otto said...
YR, I read that trilogy about a year ago. I also enjoyed it. She doesn't get mad, she gets even. I haven't seen the film, though. (Anybody?) I understand there's a problem with the second film. It apparently won't be released until sometime next year.
- May 6, 2013 at 7:59 AM
- Abejo said...
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Jeff Chen, for a fine Monday puzzle. Thank you, Argyle, for the swell review.
Went through this pretty quickly after not finishing Sat or Sun. I was too busy to concentrate on those.
DIY was not on my map. I got it with perps, but still did not get it, until I read Argyle's comment. Actually, I am one of those. I do most things myself, to my wife's chagrin.
I see the SHAH made it again. At least he was not called a tyrant or despot this time. He was an autocrat, I'll give him that.
I've heard of Big BERTHA, the gun. Cannot remember which side she was on.
Theme was clever.
Off to the dentist this morning and then off to selling onions.
See you tomorrow.
- May 6, 2013 at 8:00 AM
- Argyle said...
I think I'll add this video of Big Bertha to the write-up. LINK(1:59)
- May 6, 2013 at 8:22 AM
- Jeff Chen said...
Thanks for the book mention, Argyle! It was a fun endeavor to put together. I love bridge (Rich and I play once a week) so the idea of writing a book of 52 bridge-themed crosswords tickled me.
Happy Monday!
- May 6, 2013 at 8:42 AM
- Montana said...
Good Monday morning to all.
Thanks Jeff and Argyle for a great start to the day!
Have had a 10 day stretch of medical/dental woes, but seem to be good today. Plus, I am back in my own home.
I did not 'waltz' through this puzzle, but it fell together quite nicely. CruciVerb wasn't working early, so I got up and printed it from my online newpaper, crawled back into bed, and solved it.
Started with HEX, changed to VEX. Some clues were very blury so waited on 29A & 55A. Couldn't figure out what a MRT was until I read the expo and Mr. T popped out. Duh! Also didn't see a connection between poser and BOA until I read Barry's comments. Got DIY immediately. Maybe because of DIY magazine subscription.
Fun start to the week.
I am off to a retired educators luncheon 70 miles east today. Usually a nice visit with others from NE Montana.
- May 6, 2013 at 9:02 AM
- Anony Mouse said...
Thank you Jeff Chen for a very nice and delightful puzzle. I really enjoyed it. I saw your book at the Amazon page, but I can't understand one thing ....
The new book, Bridge Crosswords, is listed for $12.95, now down to $ 11.54. Ooh-Kay. The resales are at $ 8.51 .... BUT, there are 4 used ones at $ 27.51 ! - and no free shipping !
Now, how does this thing work ? As an ardent, potential market arbitrager, I am 'always' interested. Do I buy, say, a dozen books, mar them somewhat, dog-ear them, and put in a few highlighter points, and then resell them at more than twice the original price ?? What gives ?? The last time I came across a deal like this, was in the 1970's - before 'wear-out, stone-washed' machines were 'invented' - you could buy a new pair of jeans, say Levis, wear them out, cut holes at the knees, and 'sell' them back at a 40% premium. ( I hear, some hobos made a 'fortune' at this, which proved to be their eventual demise ! lol ). If it were today, they'd probably hire some Bangladeshis to do the same thing.
Thank you Argyle, learnt something new and interesting from your commentary - about Goody-2 shoes and 'Jam tomorrow !' .... who knew ? Lewis Carroll - Charles Arthur Dodgson was a very good mathematician. He was also the ultimate puzzlist. His stories may have been a fantasy for kids, but the puzzles within them, between the lines, are worthy of serious mathematicians and intricate logicians.
Thank you Yellowrocks, for 'Elvira' - loved it. I was reading about some 'Ryokans' ( bed & breakfast cum spa ) in the US ( See Berkshire shirakaba) in yesterday's travel section, with tatami mats, and yukata robes and futon beds - and thought of you. Hope you are coping well.
- May 6, 2013 at 9:12 AM
- HeartRx said...
Good morning Argyle, C.C. et al.
Fun puzzle from Jeff today - thanks for stopping by! I "got" the theme when I saw SOCKS / SHOES / SERVICE, but had filled in the downs in the SE corner without looking at the acrosses. So I had to go back and actually look for the reveal!
Have a great start of the week, everyone!
- May 6, 2013 at 9:19 AM
- kazie said...
Fast run today with no hesitations, despite not really looking for a theme. I thought at first it might be old fashioned expressions, but then forgot about checking again when it was all done.
I wouldn't have known O'HENRY or SIXTHS connections without perps getting them before I really had to think about them.
The SPRAWLing dog made me think of the Oz expression: "flat out like a lizard drinking" which is used to enhance the phrase "flat out", as in "He escaped by running flat out".
- May 6, 2013 at 9:40 AM
- Anony Mouse said...
Thank you Argyle for the Big Bertha link. Very interesssting ! (Hogan's heroes - ). I would have suggested to Abejo, the 'Arms of Krupp' by William Manchester (preferred - ) and the 'House of Krupp' by Peter Batty.
I used to think of Big Bertha as the massively long cannons, railroad hauled, concrete embedded, that were used to blow away Paris - but those were the 'Paris guns', but still 'made by' Krupp ... with a range of 75 miles.
The Germans have always been ahead scientifically and technologically to any other country, other than the US, in the last 150 years. If only they had better political leadership, without the hatred and racial fanaticism and xenophobia, and appreciated their jewish citizen contributions - instead of killing them, they could have easily ruled the world economically.
.... as they do right now ( other than the US - ), if dominating, herding, and managing, a bunch of half a billion plus EU people who are work avoiding, pension loving, spendthrifts is an ambition, to be desired. The EU GDP is 12% larger than the US.
Thank you, Hahtoolah, for showing that Freud got his sex-obsessed theories of dreams and other motivational factors - by watching cats.
Who would have thought of it ? lol. ( ^ r ^ )
Argyle, if you think this is a political diatribe - feel free to delete it.
Have a happy day, you all.
- May 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM
- JJM said...
Stieg Larsson's trilogy was a made for Sweedish TV a few years back. The first made for TV film is verrry similar to the Daniel Craig/Rooney Mara version. I bet you can get the other movies on Amazon.
- May 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM
- Lucina said...
Hello, Argyle, C.C. and all.
WEES especially about the "dog in THE heat" which I also misread and it took me a long time for SPRAWL/COLDER. I had COOLER.
But on rereading the clue it all worked out.
This was SHEER delight so thank you, Jeff Chen for an easy but entertaining puzzle. And congratulations on the book.
Consarn it? That really made me laugh.
Nice play on pose (ASK) then poser (BOA).
All three DVDs of "The Girl" series are available in Swedish with English subtitles. I'm not sure about the American version.
Have a lovely Monday, everyone!
- May 6, 2013 at 10:42 AM
I love a speed run on a Monday morning: makes me feel smart! Well, not totally. I stupidly spelled KEISER wrong and so assumed a BOE was some sort of new neckwear I hadn't encountered yet. Duh! And mind you, I'm from Austria, once the land of KAISERs. But this was total fun, Jeff, and congratulations on the new book!
Loved your Elvira pairing, Argyle. What's a CLECHO again? I've forgotten.
Have a great week, everybody. We're having house painting done (once the rain stops) and need to arrange substitute caregivers, but otherwise are hoping for a good one ourselves.
- May 6, 2013 at 10:49 AM
- CrossEyedDave said...
Hmm, speedrun today, but not enamored to the theme, because there are exceptions to every rule.
I thought the teachers on the Blog might get a kick out of this...
&,, I wonder what Sigmund Freud would think of this cat video.
Note that the sound starting at 0:20 is not the cat "inside" the box trying to get out.)
& Spitzboov @ eleven minutes before 6 bells, what if you slept thru the forenoon set of bells & got them mixed up with the afternoon bells???
- May 6, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Hi Y'all! Good one, Jeff! Congrats on your book. I was too dumb to catch on to bridge though when someone wanted to teach me. This puzzle was a 12 minute solve which is very fast for me. Fun!
I noticed we had both ORSON and ARSON. And under TORAH we had an anagram +"s" Oh RATs. Always some hidden things in Jeff's games.
Thanks, Argyle!
Another gloomy day. I'm off to the grocery store to hopefully find something really delicious to cheer me up.
- May 6, 2013 at 11:24 AM
- Chickie said...
Hola Everyone, Hands up for Hex to start with, but that was easily resolved when Elvira was entered.
A quick easy solve today. Just right for a Monday. When I saw Jeff Chen's name on the CW today, I thought that I might have a Wed. or Thurs. puzzle on my hands, but it all came together, nicely.
Thanks to Argyle, the Monday solve was complete with his usual erudite writeup. I didn't "get" the theme until he 'splained it.
Have a great day, everyone. Off to a busy week ahead.
- May 6, 2013 at 1:09 PM
- Lucina said...
C.C., thank you for clarifying about the UNDERWEAR drawer (from yesterday). They looked pretty enough to be yours and I imagined you would like those vibrant colors.
I really liked the links you posted, but then, I always do.
- May 6, 2013 at 1:12 PM
- Husker Gary said...
I played golf at 8 am this morning, came home and am now subbing with HS Jrs. so I did the puzzle online while they are working.
-Theme was fun but took Argyle to point it out
-I wonder who wants the SHAH back
-Have you ever TAXIed out and waited for an hour? Me too
-Somehow I don't see Chefwen in a muumuu and a LEI
-Link to a race not decided by NOSES (no html on this machine) http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site513/2012/0626/20120626_092228_27allysonfelixdeadheat_500.jpg
-Big BERTHA was the first of the oversized drivers
-I had to RECITE the Gettysburg Address and "Friends, Romans and Countrymen…" in school
-Gotta go talk about Watergate. Read y'all later.
- May 6, 2013 at 1:36 PM
- Jayce said...
Hello everybody. Wonderful puzzles yesterday and today. Thanks to the constructors.
Bok Choy is great stuff, good in almost anything. Stir-fried with prawns is good, with just the tiniest splash of soy sauce, plus, of course, finely chopped ginger root and garlic. We also use a lot of bok choy in zhou.
Best wishes to you all.
- May 6, 2013 at 1:39 PM
- Irish Miss said...
Hi everyone:
Late again due to appointments and chores. Tried to do the puzzle last night but Cruciverb was down again so I just finished the one in the newspaper.
Great job, Jeff. After filling in One's shirt, and Two shoes, I expected a Three something or other. Secret Service sort of threw me until I got to the unifier and then it all made sense. Clever theme and cluing for a nice start to the week. Nice expo, Argyle, as usual.
Enjoy the rest of the day.
- May 6, 2013 at 1:58 PM
- Yellowrocks said...
I doubt I would like to watch the Trilogy in Swedish which I don't understand. Unless I have at least some acquaintance with the language, I grow impatient with English subtitles. And sometimes even when I do get a little of the language, I prefer to listen in English. I accidentally ordered a Netflix movie this weekend without realizing it was in English subtitles. I couldn't watch it.
- May 6, 2013 at 2:49 PM
CED, you the man ! Thanx for the t-test video yesterday. Explained everything just about right. People have no right to be ignorant in this day and age - if they got access to a computer.
- May 6, 2013 at 3:06 PM
- Virginia said...
Fun and fast puzzle today for me, thanks for that and Argyle's write up. Wondering about the juxtaposition of "pairing" and that picture of Elvira ;-)
The last of Larsen's books was piblished posthumously, if he wrote 3+, does that mean there's another? They were so great!. I really wish he had lived to do all ten, they were rivetting! And amazingly, Rooney Mara was fantastic in the movie. The scene where Lisbeth is getting even with the guardian makes one a little fidgety, but all in all, fantastic! See it if you can Yellowrocks!
- May 6, 2013 at 3:27 PM
- Spitzboov said...
CED @ 11 past 6bells said "what if you slept thru the forenoon set of bells & got them mixed up with the afternoon bells???"
Here you might run afoul of the UCMJ Art 115 - Malingering, or even worse. If learning this special time system becomes problematical, I would recommend the Army or perhaps remaining a civilian. The food is good asea, so I would not take this decision lightly. Hope this helps.
- May 6, 2013 at 3:30 PM
- Yellowrocks said...
The Fourth book.
Link text
- May 6, 2013 at 3:45 PM
- CrossEyedDave said...
Spitzboov @ 7 bells (Oh, I hope I got that right...) Malingering? (Oh if they gave out awards for that, I am sure I could win it!)
As much as I love boats, I get terribly seasick. So the Navy's good food would be wasted on me. The Army? no way, I have herniated disks & a bad knee! No, It has to be the Air Force for me! Oh to be a pilot! But I would probably wind up being a mechanic for being chronically late... (would you let me work on your plane???)
Anywho,,, That brings me to my personal WWII hero! Maynard Harrison Smith (aka Snuffy Smith.) The Wiki is woefully incomplete. He won the Medal Of Honor because other crew members of his squadron were able to see his act of bravery because there were so many bullet holes in his plane, they could see him running from fire to fire, extinguishing them with the only liquid he had left, (he pissed on the fires) & then aided the remaining wounded.
And, when they came to pin the Medal Of Honor on him, Generals waited, the crowd waited, but he could not be found! (He got in trouble again, & was on KP duty...)
Ah,,, My hero!!!
- May 6, 2013 at 4:23 PM
- Bill G. said...
Ah, a pleasant Monday puzzle. I did figure out the theme after the NONONO and before coming here. Thanks Jeff and Argyle.
Nobody else commented on ASEA yesterday for "Befuddled." It seemed like a mistake to me instead of AT SEA. Two online dictionaries seemed to confirm it.
I've just started watching Foyle's War on PBS; the second half of The German Woman. I think I'm going to like it. I think it will be easier to get into late as opposed to Downton Abbey. It doesn't seem to have any continuing story line or a large cast of important characters to figure out like DA does. Are any of you watching it? What do you think?
- May 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM
- Bill G. said...
The previous several posts reminded me (for some reason) of this cute little WW II puzzle: Saving the RAF's bullet-ridden planes.
It was a dark and stormy night at a secret airfield somewhere in England during WW II. The Royal Air Force had summoned one of England's most noted mathematicians to help them solve a problem. German anti-aircraft fire based on the ground was inflicting heavy losses on the Brits. Their planes were being shot down right and left. The RAF had to do something to diminish their losses.
Clearly, they could put armor plating on the bottoms of the fuselages and the wings but there were several problems with that idea. Their range and their ability to carry bombs would be considerably reduced because of the additional weight. They had to be very selective!
A nameless mathematician crawled underneath the planes and looked at where the bullet holes were on the underside. They were all over the place as you might expect -- in the wings and the fuselage, and seemingly distributed randomly on the undersides. He studied hundreds of planes, took pictures, drew a number of sketches -- and then he made his recommendation.
The question is, where did he recommend putting the armor plating on these planes -- and why?
My actual Captcha just now: {rypoop}
- May 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM
- Lucina said...
When Foyle's War was originally aired I watched it every Sunday and loved it. Michael Kitchen is excellent in the lead road. And no the episodes are not connected. Each one stands alone.
Thank you for linking the 4th book information. I knew that Steig Larsson had written a large chunk of it and that his partner wanted to finish it but was obstructed by Steig's father and brother who claimed ALL of his estate since Steig and Eva were not married. I truly hope it can eventually be published.
Time to get ready for my speech which I have to deliver to the graduating ESL class from SMCC where I taught for 26 years.
- May 6, 2013 at 5:05 PM
- Lucina said...
Oops. "leading role" not leading road.
- May 6, 2013 at 5:07 PM
- Pookie said...
Thanks Jeff, fun puzzle.
Thanks Argyle for your informative write-up.
DNF today had STiNG instead of STUNG.
That gave me iNIT instead of UNIT.
No time to check answers this morning
'til now. Tired from driving in the driving rain today.
- May 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM
- Manac said...
Hmmm... Dogs in THE heat
Some dogs just know how to live!
- May 6, 2013 at 6:13 PM
- 61Rampy said...
Zoomed through todays puzzle with only one major WAG- the E in ADESTE/ ECO.
Like others, I had to do a double take on "like a dog in THE heat".
I could easily LEER AT ELVIRAs pairings.
I watch DIY network all the time.
WHOO HOO, I am on vacation for two weeks!
- May 6, 2013 at 6:13 PM
- HeartRx said...
Bill G. @ 4:36, my gut reaction would be to put plating to protect the pilot...
- May 6, 2013 at 6:14 PM
- Bill G. said...
Thanks Lucina. I am about halfway through the conclusion of "The German Woman" episode.
Marti, that makes sense. The expected answer has two parts; the location of the armor and why.
1) The mathematician's conclusion was to put the armor on all of the places where the shot-up bombers had NO holes.
2) What was his reasoning?
- May 6, 2013 at 6:24 PM
- Manac said...
Because those bombers survived and made it back home.
- May 6, 2013 at 6:32 PM
- TTP said...
Good stuff. Thanks Jeff. Thanks Argyle.
- May 6, 2013 at 6:49 PM
- Anony Mouse said...
Funny, Yellow rocks, my attitude towards English subtitles - especially SDH ( for the hearing impaired - ) is the exact opposite. I love English subtitles even of english language movies, because I don't miss a thing, can 'read' all the lyrics to the - Rap and Hip-hop songs ( yes, they actually have words in them which, are supposed to, - try to make sense - ) and I can follow the dialog, word for word.
God bless, subtitles - what would I do without them.
I read all the 3 Larson novels - they were somewhat violent, for my taste, but thrilling stories, and the Salander character had a dark, but very efficient and a strong feministic appeal. Some women think the author was a misogynist- but I disagree. Unfort. most of the sex, is accompanied with violence - but some of the characters attitudes and behavior is uniquely Swedish. The good guys are very, very honest and upfront - and there is an understated decency in their behavior. The average Swede behaves like an upper class Englishman or lady - with impeccable manners.
Bill G. regarding the patching or reinforcing of the bomber planes, with no holes, this story has been attributed, (like everything else - ) to Winston Churchill.
- May 6, 2013 at 7:33 PM
- TTP said...
Manac, I just noticed the consecutive GSDs in the posts.
She was such a pretty girl. Are you thinking of another ?
Just gave my boy a marrow filled cow bone. Keeps his teeth clean and his breath fresh.
That's something I might need if I can find out where Abejo is selling those Vidalia onions.
- May 6, 2013 at 7:37 PM
- Bill G. said...
I found the armor-plated bomber puzzle on Car Talk. Manac had the right idea. The bombers with holes made it back so their damage wasn't critical. The mathematician noticed that there were a few spots that all of bombers had in common that had no bullet holes. He had to assume that the planes that hadn't returned had bullet holes in those locations. They were in the English Channel someplace.
- May 6, 2013 at 7:40 PM
- chefwen said...
Husker Gary - Maybe a tank top, board shorts and a Lei, never a muumuu.
- May 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM
- Manac said...
TTP, Yes, she was a sweetheart. I think CED would have liked her. I believed I mentioned before that I was starting to look for another but said I refuse to go to a puppy farm.
I will wait for the right opportunity.
They really are so much fun!
- May 6, 2013 at 8:04 PM
- TTP said...
Manac, well... that didn't take long. The marrow is pretty much gone and the perpendicular cuts from the butcher's band saw across the bone have been replaced by erose edges.
We got this boy from the local animal shelter. He just needed a good home and a little bit of interpersonal skills training. Like that bone, he's still a little bit rough around the edges, but the loyalty and protection instincts are unsurpassed.
- May 6, 2013 at 8:20 PM
- Bill G. said...
Matt Lauer's joke on Ellen:
Two ten-year-old boys were in the shower together. One points down below the other's waist and asked why he looked different down there. The other boy said it because he was circumcised. The first boy said, Whoa! Didn't it hurt? The second boys says it sure did! I couldn't walk for a year!
- May 6, 2013 at 8:23 PM
- Manac said...
TTP, I had to chuckle at that post.
I once gave her the bone to a prime rib we got for Xmas and in 30 minutes
it was gone, meat, marrow and bone!
I check the shelters frequently.
- May 6, 2013 at 8:31 PM
- TTP said...
Manac, I could tell you a story about the previous boy and what he did to a thawed freezer-burnt T-bone that was too aged for human consumption. Is rancid a good puzzle word ? He didn't care. Gone in 60 seconds was probably a description that was 45 seconds too long. But I won't tell you about it.
Over and out. All, have a good evening.
- May 6, 2013 at 8:58 PM
- Bill G. said...
Lucina, I finished one installment of Foyle's War. I enjoyed it. I like the main character too.
NBC had a poll asking people what the most stressful number of children was; One? Two? Three? Four? More than four? The result of their survey agreed with my own opinion. What do you think?
- May 6, 2013 at 11:40 PM
- Lucina said...
Bill, I'm glad you enjoyed Foyle's war.
I read that poll and I believe the most stressful number was three.
Have a good night.
- May 7, 2013 at 12:28 AM
- Ol' Man Keith said...
First time I actually thought I might score a DNF on a Monday! Naturally, I didn't in the end. I mean I completed it in reasonably short time. But there was something about OH RATS and IN VAIN that slowed me to the point of despair. I can't explain--other, I guess, than that I wasn't expecting two word answers.
I detected a mini-theme with the coincidence of KAISER and Big BERTHA.
- May 7, 2013 at 3:16 AM


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Replacing little items like chewed up promotional pens, stacks of manila file folders, and plastic pen holders are a great way to make a change, without costing you an arm and a leg. Your desktop can still be professional (not boring!) while reflecting your personality.
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One of the biggest challenges that we have in getting advisory firms on the right track to financial stability and growth is changing the mentality of owner-advisors. Perhaps the most crucial step in the growth curve of independent firms is when firm owners make the transition from thinking about their practice as a "great job" to seeing their firm as a "successful business." While there are a number of ways this happens, the most important is for owner-advisors to stop viewing the role of their employees as "supporting " them and start seeing them as "business builders."
Most independent advisory firms start out as one, or sometimes two, advisor shops, with an employee or two to answer the phones and enter client data, so the advisor(s) can spend his/her time working with clients and attracting new ones. The next step is usually adding someone to interface with the firm's custodian or B/D, executing and confirming trades, downloading data for client reports.
In a firm at this stage, the advisor is the business, with the employees there to take busy work off the advisor's desk, so he/she can spend time generating revenue. But as advisory firms grow beyond this point—adding more clients and more employees—a funny thing happens: the business becomes less about the advisor and more about the overall experience that clients have with the firm, which increasingly depends on the employees.
Don't get me wrong: at this point, the advisors are still the most important folks in the firm. Yet the business isn't "all about" the advisors anymore, it's about the client service that the whole firm delivers—which increasingly depends on the employees. The point is that relatively soon in the growth curve of independent advisory firms, the whole team becomes "the business," with everyone in the firm playing an important role on that team. The owner-advisor(s), then, need to make the mental transition from viewing him/her self as the firm and the employees as "helpers," to seeing everyone in the firm—including themselves—as having essential roles upon which the firm's success (the delivery of high quality client service) and growth depend.
In our experience, this isn't an easy transition for many owner-advisors to make.
In fact, some advisors never do make that mental change: resulting in their firms never growing beyond their own working capacity, and their businesses never creating what the B-school guys call "enterprise value," which means "something someone else would want to buy." There's nothing wrong with that decision by the way, as long as it's a conscious decision about a result the owner-advisor really wants.
For firm owners who do want to build a business larger than themselves (which, in our experience, includes most advisors), we suggest thinking about employees not as support staff, but as team members who can each make substantial contributions to the success—and growth—of the firm. The owner-advisor's role, then, shifts away from being the star, to being the team owner and coach: with responsibility for providing firm employees with the training, tools, environment and motivation to maximize their contributions to the firm
We've found that once firm owners make this mental shift, the changes in their firms is nothing short of dramatic. When employees start to feel that the owner of their firm views their job as important, they start to view their job as important. Once employees do that, their job performance—and their overall contribution to the firm—will skyrocket. They'll work harder, take more responsibility, become more innovative, take more initiative, be more cooperative and feel that sense of ownership—of their job and their firm—that all great managers try to instill.
It's a transformation that's fun to watch, and even better to be a part of.
It all starts from the top: by seeing every employee as an important part of your firm's success.


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Founded in 1854, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a 343-acre cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The entrance and the grounds run along a part of chemin Côte-des-Neiges and up the slopes of Mount Royal.
The cemetery shares the mountain with the predominantly English-speaking and originally Protestant burial ground, the Mount Royal Cemetery.
In 2007, a lock out was imposed by the maintenance workers, represented by the "Syndicat des travailleurs et des travailleuses du cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges".
While the cimetery was left completly unattended for quite a while, some families were forced to wait up to 5 months to bury their loved ones.
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by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. and Deana Ferreri, Ph.D.
Usually, when we think about foods that increase diabetes risk, we think of white flour-based processed foods, sugary sodas, and desserts, since these foods are known to produce dangerous increases in blood glucose. Also, many diabetics are under the impression that that they should avoid carbohydrate-containing foods, and eat higher levels of protein to keep their blood glucose levels in check. However, dietary factors associated with diabetes are not a simple question of carbohydrate vs. protein. Whole food sources of carbohydrate, like fruit and whole grains, are protective.1 On the other hand, several studies have now confirmed that high intake of meat, which contains no carbohydrate, increases the risk of diabetes.
A meta-analysis of 12 prospective cohort studies has revealed that high total meat intake increased type 2 diabetes risk 17% above low intake, high red meat intake increased risk 21%, and high processed meat intake increased risk 41%.2
All the reasons behind these associations are not yet clear. One possibility is the pro-oxidant properties of heme iron (found only in animal products), the primary source of which is red meat. High dietary intake of heme iron and also high body stores of iron have been previously associated with increased diabetes risk in multiple studies3,4, whereas dietary nonheme iron (found only in plant foods) was protective. Heme iron from fish and poultry was also associated with diabetes risk. Oxidative stress, which may be brought on by excessive iron, plays an important role in the production of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which contribute to both insulin resistance and diabetes complications.5 Also meat is a concentrated source of calories, it has a high caloric density and people can get a good blast of fat and protein, easily exceeding the body's requirements for macronutrients. Meat eating is also associated with weight gain and of course, excess body weight is the most important risk factor for diabetes. Like most other chronic diseases that plague Americans, diabetes is a consequence of a high-calorie, low-nutrient diet-style that is deficient in protective unrefined plant foods.
1. Bazzano LA et al. Intake of fruit, vegetables, and fruit juices and risk of diabetes in women. Diabetes Care. 2008 Jul;31(7):1311-7.
Kastorini CM, Panagiotakos DB. Dietary patterns and prevention of type 2 diabetes: from research to clinical practice; a systematic review. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2009 Nov;5(4):221-7.
2. Aune D, Ursin G, Veierød MB. Meat consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. Diabetologia. 2009 Nov;52(11):2277-87.
3. Rajpathak SN, Crandall JP, Wylie-Rosett J, et al. The role of iron in type 2 diabetes in humans. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2009 Jul;1790(7):671-81.
Luan de C, Li H, Li SJ, et al. Body iron stores and dietary iron intake in relation to diabetes in adults in North China. Diabetes Care. 2008 Feb;31(2):285-6.
4. Rajpathak S, Ma J, Manson J, Willett WC, Hu FB. Iron intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes in women: a prospective cohort study. Diabetes Care. 2006
5. Reddy VP, Zhu X, Perry G, Smith MA. Oxidative stress in diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2009 Apr;16(4):763-74.
Schalkwijk CG, Brouwers O, Stehouwer CD. Modulation of insulin action by advanced glycation endproducts: a new player in the field. Horm Metab Res. 2008 Sep;40(9):614-9.


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The Power of Co-op Membership
In 1935, Pella Cooperative Electric and electric co-ops across the nation were constructed with lines, poles and the foolhardy notion that we all prosper by helping each other.
Cooperatives like ours operate differently than most businesses. We are consumer-owned businesses, which means that you and your neighbors actually own your electric utility. You're a member, not a customer. And as your cooperative, we strive to deliver safe, affordable and reliable electricity.
Pella Cooperative Electric provides electricity to more than 3,000 members on 634 miles of line across five counties. Cooperatives have their roots in their local communities and the employees at Pella Cooperative Electric are no different. We are proud to live in the communities we serve, to support our hometown businesses and share the values of rural Iowa.


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We all know an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but there are other fruits out there that help keep us healthy. Butternut squash is actually a fruit; it is actually linked closely with the pumpkin! It is full of heart-healthy vitamins, a lot of fiber, and is a natural way to get folate. Folate is important for women in their child-bearing years, as it prevents birth defects. You will find it added to many baked goods in the supermarket, but natural accumulation of vitamins is always recommended. Luckily, this soup has butternut squash AND apples, so you can feel good about taking seconds (or thirds!) of this soup.
With immersion blenders a staple in everyone's kitchen these days, it's become really easy to whip up your favorite pureed vegetable soup. I got the idea to add apples to butternut squash soup from Ina Garten, but decided that her soup was too sweet and needed something to pack some extra punch. Halve the pepper if you are going to serve this soup to kids. Either way, this soup will take your taste buds for a ride!
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 2 large spanish onions (or 4 smaller yellow onions)
- 1 carrot
- 2 celery sticks
- 1 large butternut squash
- 2 Macintosh apples
- 1 cup vegetable stock
- 1.5 cups water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 5 clicks of freshly ground pepper (or 1/4 tsp)
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- Heat up a large stockpot on medium low flame with the olive oil.
- Meanwhile coarsely chop the onion and add it to the stockpot. Let it sit and caramelize on a low flame for about twenty minutes.
- Add the carrot and celery (both coarsely chopped) to the pot and let sit another ten minutes. meanwhile, peel the butternut squash and apples, remove all seeds, and cut up into chunks.
- Add them to the pot and mix around with the other vegetables.
- Add the stock, water, and spices. Bring to a boil and then cover, letting it simmer for about an hour.
- At this point, all of the fruits and vegetables should be soft. Turn off the flame, let it cool for a little bit, and then immersion blend everything together. If you don't have an immersion blender, you can pour the soup into a regular blender or food processor and puree in that. However, you must cool down the soup for a longer period of time if you are going to transfer to a blender otherwise you run the risk of burning yourself!
- At this point, I return everything to the pot and taste it. I usually add salt, pepper and thyme until it tastes right to me. I usually add more cayenne pepper until there is enough heat to my liking. If you like your soup creamier, you can also add 1/2 cup skim milk or soy milk and gently reheat the soup.


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Although organisations have taken measures to increase security, advanced attackers continue to use tried and true techniques to access critical business data. An effective defense strategy calls for a new approach to security – one that leverages forensic analysis to detect existing and emerging threats.
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'Ere we go, a tribute to how much I suck at drawing things.
I almost bonked out a bad Mike as Kazuma too, his upper torso and scarf were like, perfection. But his legs...god, one of his legs was a twig and the other was a branch.
I just wanted to get this out there, I hadn't seen this comic and the series Kaze No Stigma compared before, but thinking about it there are a lot of parallels in the characters. Lucy as Ayano, Mike as Kazuma, I suppose you could stretch it and say Sandy would be Tsui Ling, and Sam fits perfectly with Kazuma's father.


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I was in a lengthy meeting recently and one of the male participants would not stop ogling my chest. No matter how hard I tried to hold his gaze, his eyes kept travelling south. The guy wore a wedding ring and certainly didn't come across as a creep, aside from this very offputting behaviour.
I don't know what caused him to do this or whether he was even aware he was doing it. But every other woman in the room sure was. I emailed one of my female colleagues who was present at the meeting afterwards to make sure I had not worn a top that was too revealing. I wrote, "Did my top show too much? Be honest." She wrote back (her capitals): "NOT AT ALL!!! He was staring at Jane, too."
During the meeting I internally debated whether I should call him on it, even in a light-hearted way. But he was a client of my client, and I didn't feel it was appropriate for me to ask him to stop staring. It would have embarrassed everyone in the room.
So what was the appropriate course of action? I tossed up returning the favour by staring at his crotch, tit for tat, so to speak. But that would merely bring my behaviour down to his level and I didn't want to do that. Also, I don't believe I've ever stared at a man's crotch before and I certainly don't want to start now.
I could have raised it with my client afterwards. But as a male of the baby boomer generation, I doubt he would have seen the situation in the same light I did. What would he have said to the guy anyway? "I saw you copped an eyeful of the girls' breasts today. Don't do it again." I can't hear these words coming out of his mouth.
Ultimately, I doubt my client would have wanted to raise it, as he wouldn't want to lose the business. It's that dynamic that's at the crux of this problem. Basically, if you pay for someone's services, you hold the balance of power and you call the shots. Which includes ogling women inappropriately. I feel dirty just thinking about it.
If the situation were reversed, if the guy was providing a service to me, I would have terminated the arrangement on the spot.
I doubt I'll ever run into this bloke again, which is lucky, because if it were a situation in which I had to work with him closely on an ongoing basis, I would not be able to continue to do so without addressing this.
I hazard a guess no one has raised this with him before, because if they had done so, he may well have changed his behaviour by now.
That's a sad indictment on the business environment, as I very much doubt my colleagues and I are the only women at whom he's stared. One of his workmates, or someone from his HR department, should take him aside and say something like: "Mate, I'm not sure if you realise it, but you need to make sure you look women in the eye when you're talking to them. Don't look at their top."
He might be momentarily embarrassed by this comment, but I have no doubt it would solve the issue. Because as long as everyone around him remains silent about this behaviour, the problem will continue, and everyone who chooses to remain mute, myself included, is complicit.
What would you do in the same circumstances? Have you faced this problem too? Post a comment below and share your story.


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In the 10 years that my dog Rex and I have been together (and that constitutes nearly the entirety of his life and a quarter of mine), we have moved 10 times. The reasons for this had more to do with indecision than instability, but I admit it wasn't ideal. We went from a farm in rural Nebraska (Rex's first place of residence, hence my ongoing guilt that his life has been all downhill from there) to a friend's house in suburban Nebraska and then to Los Angeles, where we lived in a studio apartment in the Santa Monica Mountains for four months and in a sublet near Venice Beach for three months. Then we went back to Nebraska and lived briefly on another farm before moving to a house in town. After several months, we moved back to California, where we lived in another sublet in the Hollywood Hills and then a rented house in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. Finally, I got serious and bought a house. It was tiny and lacking in many amenities, but it was near the dog park.
Throughout all these moves, Rex never wandered off, had an accident, chewed on anything he shouldn't have or refused a meal. Docile to the extreme and a nonbarker (at 12 weeks old, he barked nonstop for an entire day and then gave it up completely), he's more than just a good traveler — he's a canine Zen master. He can lower your blood pressure simply by leaning against your leg. He can saunter past a yard of frothing, gasping, yapping Chihuahuas and not so much as glance in their direction. Despite some well-meaning advice early on in my moving adventures, I never for one second entertained the thought of not taking him along.
I have, however, occasionally allowed myself to think about how many more housing options would have been available to me sans pet, especially an 85-pound yak-like sheepdog like Rex. As any dog owner who's ever been in need of a rental knows, it's not the house that matters, but the area that surrounds it. You need some form of yard — a strip of grass, a cluster of bushes, a patch of dirt. Ideally, this area is fenced. The neighborhood needs to be relatively pedestrian-friendly, since it's nice to be able to walk the dog without butting up against a freeway or a crack house. Moreover, you need a landlord who isn't going to look at a shedding, slobbering yak/dog and tell you they'd rent to a high school punk band before letting that beast walk on their newly refinished floors. In other words, you have to rent from other dog people. And dog people tend to have dog properties.
How can you tell a dog property? If you're more concerned about where your dog goes to the bathroom than where you go to the bathroom, chances are you'll wind up in such a place. If it's a stand-alone house, the floors will be scuffed and the grass will be brown. If it's a multi-unit situation, most of the neighbors will have dogs themselves, and while this may at first seem like an asset — "We all pet-sit for each other when we go out of town!" — the place will inevitably come to feel like a combination of kennel and psychiatric institution. The woman with three small dogs will be crazy in a nervous way. The woman with three large dogs will be crazy in a politically strident way. There will probably be a guy with a parrot.
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If you're in a sublet, as I was too many times, the primary tenant's dogs will sometimes come with the deal. Such was the case in the Hollywood Hills house, where a Border Collie and an Australian Shepherd ascended and descended the stairs all night as though they were training for a boxing match. During the day, they hurled themselves in and out of the dog door until I had no choice but to close it, which caused them to whine like toddlers. Rex, naturally, just stood there and stared at them blankly, the canine equivalent to shaking your head in pity.
Which I swear is what he did to me when I uprooted him for the 11th time recently. After I got married (to a man who dreams of moving overseas and imagines Rex is up to it), I sold my house and rejoined (temporarily, we hope) the ranks of the renters. And, yes, this is a dog property. There's no dishwasher but the landlady likes dogs, and that matters more. The yard looks like hell, but all I care is that it's there. I may still be indecisive about my housing, but I know this much about my home: It's where the dog is.


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First utilized in Latin America in response to the mid-20th-century decline of populist economic policymaking in the region, modern neoclassical theory, or neoliberalism, can be generally defined as a market-oriented form of economy policymaking that seeks to decentralize state authority and redefine state administrative responsibilities through deregulation, privatization, and the creation of common markets. Based on principles of classical 19th-century economic liberalism, the economic and political framework of neoliberalism advocates for a dramatically limited role for the state, which should only act to maintain the integrity of contract law and private property as a means of supporting the market. In the absence of state intervention, neoliberalism in Latin America alternatively emphasized the role of multilateral organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development in bringing financial stability and growth to the region through the manipulation of interest rates, the devaluation of exchange rates, and the establishment of free-market pricing of goods. Ultimately, the widespread implementation of neoliberal reforms through the 1980s and 1990s ushered in a new era of transnational economic policymaking that had long-term, mixed results for the environmental, political, and social landscape of Latin America.
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I'd love to see Parker whizzing around the Garden man. That would be sick, wicked and nasty.The wild card in the point-guard market remains Tony Parker. Once source said the Spurs are hellbent on moving him, but that will take time to play out. The Knicks are the most likely destination for Parker, but they need to address their top priority LeBron before they go down that road.
For NY, the best case scenario to obtain Parker's services, would be a non salary matching swap. That's possible for us as a team under the cap. The best of the best case scenario would be losing cheap, young players for Parker.
As far as satisfying the Spurs goes, we'd most realistically have to send Lee for Tony. But that isn't necessarily in SA's best interest.
Here's how I see it. It's pretty out there, but it's dividing all our eggs in to more than one basket.
Spurs owner, Peter Holt, is reportedly unimpressed with the teams cap situation and is looking to reform through youth while he has vets like Manu and Duncan onboard as tutors for the next wave of Spurs.
SA also have the legal rights to go after Tiago Splitter of Brazil this year.
If the Spurs sign Splitter, they'll have a nasty front court backed up by Blair.Splitter, a 2.12 m (6 ft 11½ in) 111 kg (245 pound) center was named the MVP of the Spanish Supercup tournament in both 2006 and 2007. He was also named to the All-Euroleague First Team for the Euroleague 2007-08 season, after leading Saski Baskonia to the Euroleague Final Four. The following year, Splitter reached the Euroleague 2008-09 season playoffs, but failed to win another Final Four participation. His performances earned him a spot on the 2008-09 All-Euroleague Second Team nevertheless.
Splitter was named the Spanish League MVP in 2010.[1]
Richard Jefferson is most likely out:
And with George Hill shining through for them, they're set at the 1 and have 2 years of Ginobili left.Richard Jeffersons decision to opt out of the final $15 million season of his contract might not be a sign hes willing to leave the San Antonio Spurs.
Sources said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has been personally working out Jefferson in San Antonio
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So, bar the SF position, they're practically set, with future cap flexibility in place.
1 Hill
2 Manu
3 - - - -
4 Duncan
5 Splitter
If NY were to offer; Toney D, Chandler and Fields to SA, they'd have to give it some serious consideration, if their goal is to start anew.
The combined salary of the 3 is less than $4M. They're young, Chandler has had a lot of PT experience and a qualifying offer in 2011/12, Douglas has shown promise, Fields as a 2nd round rookie doesn't effect their cap. Result - an instant saving of $10M and a position filled with both a starter and a backup at SF. Douglas, obviously, backs Hill.
NY in effect get Toney Parker for $9.5M after the +/- of the traded salaries. The salary sheet then equates to $24M with a $56.1M cap set in place. > $32M to spend.
So, I'm thinking:
1 Parker - Rautins
2 Walker - someone - please not Korver or Miller
3 Gallo - Giddens
4 Lee - Barron
5 Stat - Jordan
It can be done. Oh yes It can.
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In the real estate market today, it is very tempting to follow through on one of those ads in the local paper or on Craigslist that are practically screaming the great deal of rent 2 own homes in Charlotte NC. This option can be a win-win for both parties, but is it always the best method … Continued


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I'm back from CHA and my head is still reeling with tons of ideas. Well, really - when is it not? I got this fun "phoomph" stuff to play with from Coats and Clark and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it first.
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You may know him as Remus Lupin from the Harry Potter films, but now David Thewlis is set to join another franchise. Thewlis will be a newcomer to Red 2, a sequel to director Robert Schwentke's 2010 actioner. Dean Parisot (Galaxy Queset) is taking the helm this time around, but original stars Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker will be reprising their roles. Other new cast members include Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung-hun Lee, Neal McDonough and Anthony Hopkins. Hit the jump for more on Thewlis' character and a breakdown of the roles we know so far.
Heat Vision reports that Thewlis will join Red 2 as "The Frog," a dealer of information. He got his unusual moniker by reportedly poisoning the Kremlin's water supply with an Amazonian frog. The Summit/Lionsgate action sequel will see Willis return as former CIA operative Frank Moses, with Mirren as Victoria and Malkovich as Marvin Boggs. The sequel will have the team battling new enemies in Europe and searching for a weapon of mass destruction. While there is little information on Zeta-Jones, McDonough and Lee's roles, it looks like Hopkins will be playing the villain, a "genius scientist who was locked up in an insane asylum." I sure hope he's wearing a straight-jacket and Hannibal Lecter mask just for fun.
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian, Red 2 starts production later this fall in Montreal with a release date scheduled for August 2nd, 2013.


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Something Else #18: DLR Vocal Track
In January 2008, an mp3 of David Lee Roth's vocal track for the 1978 Van Halen song "Runnin' With The Devil" popped up online. A post-Chunklet Google search led me here and then here. Several posters at Something Awful had created and uploaded remixes, which I have collected (with the Roth original) here -- the Chariots of Fire mash-up is quite good. (And for those who like poop humour, click here.)
Also: Black Cab Sessions -- musicians in the back seat of a cab, one song, one take. ... The Roots cover Bob Dylan's "Masters of War", singing the first part of the song to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner".
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- Rob said...
MLB.com's Jim Molony thinks the Red Sox are busy behind the scenes, trying to add another outfielder, and perhaps another pitcher.
Mark Kotsay has cleared waivers... They also talked to Houston about Darin Erstad but nothing really came of that, apparently.
Kevin Millwood and Vincente Padilla have both cleared waivers and Molony sees them as a "good fit."
- August 25, 2008 at 8:17 PM
- Rob said...
Funny how the Dodgers are such a blast to the past for people in Boston and New York these days. Los Angeles recently called up Tanyon Sturtze from the minor leagues... so here's the tally now of former Sox and Yankees on the Dodgers:
Joe Torre
Larry Bowa
Don Mattingly
Manny Ramirez
Derek Lowe
Nomar Garciaparra
Jason Johnson
Tanyon Sturtze
Scott Proctor (DL)
Hiroki Kuroda is interesting also because he reminds me of Dice-K, but of a much more confident and mature Dice-K. Same delivery, same number, etc., similar types of pitches with some differences... Bottom line is if Dice-K pitched the way Kuroda does, he'd be the ace of the Red Sox staff. He'd dominate.
- August 25, 2008 at 9:29 PM
- Rob said...
Twins leading Seattle in the bottom of the 8th... Here's to hoping the M's can do some good in 2008 and make a little comeback. Twins win puts them 0.5 GB in the wild card (I think they'd actually be tied with Chicago), and a loss would put them 1.5 GB, making this weekend just a tiny bit more comfortable.
- August 25, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- nixon33 said...
- August 25, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- Rob said...
Ha! Seattle rallies in the 9th, ties the game, then wins in the 11th!
1.5 GA wild card.
- August 26, 2008 at 5:52 AM
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Damn, I was going to crack some joke about how the Globe manages to felate the entire Toilet in one try, but the byline is Amalie Benjamin's instead of CHB's.
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The Seahawks finished with an impressive 13-2 mark overall including an 8-2 mark in the Bayside Conference. Decatur loss to Parkside, 3-0, back on September 20, and fell to James M. Bennett, 3-1, on October 17 for its only two match losses of the season. Otherwise, the Seahawks were nearly perfect with 13 match wins including eight 3-0 sweeps.
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It's official. A new world order, aka, the Trump Order, has been set in motion.
Most of us should have been ready for it, since the man had been more than clear about backtracking on America's global trade policies. And now, in one flamboyant gesture, he has overturned his predecessor Barack Obama's decision to join the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
As one of the key members, Japan is up in arms. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed he would continue to try and persuade President Donald Trump.
At the same time, Tokyo appears to be quite ready to face the new threat.
Japan is a country that downplays the number of naval destroyers it has in order to keep its frenemies in check, and to assure them it still has a long way to go in terms of military defense. In reality, Tokyo is armed with seemingly worn-down subs that can actually be made battle-ready at a moment's notice.
The Abe administration has been ready to face off with Trump for a while now, and internal government sources say the foundations have already been laid.
Prime Minister Abe has already put in motion the necessary structural reforms to wean Japan off of the US or make Japanese firms more competitive in the face of high tariffs. Abe is also preparing to enlist the support of high-profile companies such as Softbank, which has been pledging more investment in America.
Further, Japan is looking to cut loose from China, which has made it clear it won't play into US hands.
In contrast to Japan and China, South Korea has a smaller say. But that does not mean it has less on the line.
The country stands as the world's 11th-largest economy in terms of GDP, but it also depends on exports for more than two-thirds of it. So any policy decisions by its chief trade partners are bound to have a profound impact -- even more so now that its internal economic affairs are in a mess due to the ongoing impeachment. South Korea truly cannot afford to have its global partnerships jeopardised.
During his presidential campaign, Trump has already called the US-Korea FTA a failed partnership that has robbed the US of 100,000 jobs. The Seoul government should have long been brainstorming a strategy to keep the deal on track, and must readily communicate its plans with the public before the concerns mushroom into something bigger.
The alliance with the US goes far beyond military issues, and the significance should not be downplayed or tainted in any way if Korea is to continue pursuing its national interests.
The strategy should be laid out in such a way to prevent Koreans from harboring unnecessary ill sentiment toward the US, and vice versa. For this, both governments will have to cooperate seamlessly. Trump must realise the contribution that Koreans and the Korean economy are making in the US. That while it may not be comparable in size to other nations such as Japan and China, there is no going around the fact that in the end, cliche has it may sound, it is indeed a global economy.
Korean firms should take a cue from Softbank and find ways they can offer more support for the Korean economy as it faces the aftershocks of Trump's latest policy move. As for the US, it must remember that Korean companies like Hyundai, Samsung and LG have been seeking cheaper entry into the US for years via countries like Mexico and Vietnam. The change of a regime must not pull the plug on these efforts for the sake of global partnership. And needless to say, the products and services brought into the US also help create livelihoods there, and give Americans what they need.
All of this should not be forgotten or put on a back burner. As already witnessed in the Lehman Brothers meltdown, the intricate web of global trade and finance ensures that the demise of a single company can affect so many more.
But, in a weird and twisted way, I do envy the American people. Sure, there could have been someone better than Trump, who psychologists have branded as narcissistic and delusional.
But for many Americans, Trump is doing what they have only dreamed of doing and saying. To say out loud, that they think America is the best, that they are scared of anyone appearing to infringe upon its beliefs and interests, even at the expense of other nations and peoples. To say that the US won't play the peace-brokering leader who is constantly mindful of others, including rivals. To say, the US will start acting only for its benefit-regardless of how short-sighted this may be.
To have a president, as strange as he may be, who for now, appears so committed in his campaign, does draw an odd contrast with our embattled President Park Geun-hye who now seems anxious only to cover her own tail. In some ways, they are similar in that they seem to prioritise themselves. But at least for now, Trump is giving many Americans the promise they need, as twisted or unorthodox his methods may be.
In a similar fashion, but based on a strategic and acceptable approach, Korea should be ready to protect its interests and its people amid the fast-changing global order. And all other players in the economy must be ready to lend a helping hand.
The writer is the Tokyo correspondent of The Korea Herald. This is a series of columns on global affairs written by top editors and senior writers from members of the Asia News Network and published in newspapers across the region. — The Korea Herald/ANN


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