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No one told Raul
Nobody must've told Raul Ibanez that the Orioles were 76-0 this year when leading after seven innings. Before he stepped up to the plate for Alex Rodriguez in the bottom of the ninth with one out, they probably didn't mention to him that the Baltimore closer, Jim Johnson, led the league in saves with 51.
Ibanez came out of the batting cage, to the on-deck circle, and eventually the plate; the Yanks trailing 2-1. The 40-year-old, notorious for being a low-ball hitter, took Johnson's offering deep over the right field wall, a solo home run to dramatically tie the game up, 2-2.
In the bottom of the 12th, they once again probably forgot to tell Ibanez that the Orioles had previously won 16 consecutive extra-inning games, because Ibanez caught lightning in a bottle twice. He pounded the first pitch he saw over the wall in right and into the second deck – a shot that traveled even further than his game-tying home run – for a walk-off homer and a 3-2 Yankee victory in Game 3 of the ALDS.
Just like that, the Yankees lead the series, two games to one.
Rodriguez has been in a serious playoff funk: 1-for-12 out of the three hole in the lineup with no RBIs and seven strikeouts.
Manager Joe Girardi looked like an absolute genius, pinch-hitting for him in that spot.
"I went to him {A-Rod} and told him 'you're scuffling a little bit right now' and we got a low-ball hitter and a shorter porch in right field, and left field, obviously," Girardi said to the media after the game.
"Raul's been a great pinch-hitter for us and I'm just going to take a shot."
What's perhaps funny is the first thought that entered my mind after Ibanez tied the game in the ninth. I remember covering a sectional high school baseball game in the spring, and the Head Coach made a similar move that paid dividends. The team wound up winning the game because he chose to pinch-hit one kid for another – and the pinch-hitter knocked in what turned out to be the deciding run with a sharp, RBI single to left field.
Afterward during my interview, I asked him if there was any rhyme or reason to making the move, and he simply told me,
"I figured I'd give it a shot and it worked out well…it made me look good."
With the huge, dramatic hits, I'd say it's a safe bet Ibanez will be in the lineup tonight. Having spent the past two games on the bench without starting, and coming up huge in two key spots, I think he's earned it; perhaps Girardi should let Nick Swisher take a day, allow Ibanez to patrol left field tonight, and move Ichiro to right.
That would be my move, anyway.
Really though, an unsung hero of last night's win was Hiroki Kuroda. Aside from two mistakes – pitches he left up for Orioles rookies Ryan Flaherty and Manny Machado to hit out for home runs – he was about as solid as they come.
Kuroda pitched into the ninth inning and let up only those two runs on just five hits. He only walked one batter and struck out three, giving the Yankees a stellar performance from a number three postseason starter.
Derek Jeter also deserves a fair amount of praise, knocking in the Yankees' first run in the third with an RBI triple. The Captain also fouled a ball off his left foot in the first inning, giving himself a bone bruise – yet stayed in the game, valiantly, until the ninth inning when he was lifted for Jayson Nix.
You'd have to kill Jeter to keep him out of a postseason game, because he was adamant about playing today; shrugging off his foot pain and declaring he'd be ready for Game 4 tonight.
Phil Hughes (16-13, 4.23 ERA) will take the ball for the Yankees, hoping to close out the ALDS on a high note. Hughes has struggled mightily this year with command, serving up 35 home runs to opposing hitters, which was second most in the league.
The Orioles roughed Hughes up on Sept. 2, shellacking him for five earned runs in five innings on eight hits. The key for him tonight will be to keep his fastball moving and to not hang his breaking pitches. If his fastball has tailing action on it and his off-speed pitches drop, he'll be fine. If not, the 26-year-old righty – and the Yankee bullpen – will be in for a long night.
He'll be opposed by lefty Joe Saunders (9-13, 4.07 ERA) who beat the Texas Rangers in Baltimore's Wild Card play-in game last Friday. Saunders also handed the Yanks a loss on Sept. 8.
However, quite a few Yankees have enjoyed a strong amount of success vs. Saunders in their respective careers. Last night's hero Ibanez has homered off Saunders, the struggling Curtis Granderson has a home run off him, and the goat of this postseason thus far – Rodriguez – has even taken Saunders deep twice.
Don't be surprised to see Nix in the lineup tonight: he has gone yard off Saunders three times in his career. If the Bombers are swinging the bats the way they have vs. Saunders in the past, it'll be a good night to be wearing pinstripes.
Much like it was last night.


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On Earth, I had the dream to create life.
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First, I weaved grass – they served a purpose.
They held onto the skin of my Earth.
Then chiselled trees with a different purpose.
I gave them fruit, knowing that someday
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Just wondering how much of a following Calvinus's game still has.
I'll certainly buy "To End All Wars" when it comes out, both to support AGEOD and because I'm genuinely curious to see what the game is like, and I have no doubt it will be fun. Still, I wonder if it will dethrone WWI Gold as my "go to" Great War strategy game. My gut instinct tells me, "No."
WWI Gold truly merits that much-overused and carelessly used description: unique. It really is one of a kind. A lot of that is due, of course, to the fact that it's a port of a boardgame, and preserves (for better and worse, but mostly for better) many boardgame mechanics.
As some weird hybrid of computerized boardgame and AGEOD game, "La Grande Guerre" should probably be a complete disaster. And I'm aware that, when it was first launched, it was. But in its current state, this is by far one of the best strategy games I've ever played, in any genre or historical period. For me, it is absolutely one of the "10 Games You'd Take With You To A Desert Island".
It oozes character and atmosphere. I absolutely love its unique visual presentation, and the way it does not hide the fact that "I'm essentially a boardgame." For some strange reason, that doesn't kill the realism for me. It strangely adds to the immersion. The user interface is, without question, the most quirky, idiosyncratic, cranky UI I've ever seen. It is frustrating and unintuitive. And yet, once you get the hang of it, it's kind of endearing. I actually kind of like it.
Anyway, all this is just to say: it's hard for me to imagine To End All Wars topping this. I'm sure EAW will be very good, to judge by the excellence of Civil War II. But it's very striking that EAW is pretty much using WWIGold's map and appears like it will lean heavily on other aspects as well, like the Events. I question whether EAW will really be able to compete with the unique feel of WWIGold, or, as another poster put it in another forum, it will essentially be "Civil War II with pointy helmets." I guess we'll see.
Anyway, I hope some other WWIGold die-hards out there will chime in with thoughts.


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The Obama administration challenges at least $1 billion in subsidies Chinese provinces gave to domestic car companies and parts makers from 2009 to 2011.
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Going after an unfair trade advantage China may have on the United States may be good politics in an election year, but The New York Times says the case will have no immediate impact on U.S. jobs and results over the long term are likely take more than a year to resolve and are likely to be limited.
"And unlike anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases, which can result in steep tariffs on imports that stay in place for years, the trade organization cases often end with the losing country simply abandoning the offending policy," the Times said in an analysis.
The U.S. trade deficit in auto parts with China grew to $10.5 billion last year, from $3.2 billion five years earlier, The Detroit News reported, as imports of Chinese-made auto parts grew 700 percent over a decade to more than 10 percent of all U.S. imports.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called the trade complaint "too little, too late for American business and middle-class families." He vowed to take on China's unfair trade practices if he is elected and "ensure a level playing field where our businesses can compete and win."
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The United Auto Workers was supportive of the filing but Ford and General Motors took a wait-and-see attitude saying they hoped the matter would be resolved quickly.
China, which doesn't sell any cars in the United States yet, fired back in its own complaint with the WTO claiming the United States had unfairly calculated new tariffs on artificially cheap Chinese exports.
Shen Danyang, a spokesman for China's Commerce Ministry, said China opposes protectionism and always meets WTO rules, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"We can clearly see the political objectives of this move," he said.
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The watchdog National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it would crash test 54 models, including the new Ford Fusion Electric, Ford C-MAX hybrid and plug-in hybrid Fusion Energi.
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Howard Stern largely has been out of sight – and, for many fans, out of earshot – since taking his show to satellite radio in 2006.
Now with his $500 million Sirius XM Radio contract expiring at the year's end, there are rumblings Stern could be returning to the free airwaves.
John Hogan, head of Clear Channel's radio division, told Bloomberg BusinessWeek the company might be interested in Stern. The shock jock, meanwhile, said someone made him an offer, even as he pooh-poohed the idea working for Clear Channel.
But Stern, who likes to talk, might want to give Clear Channel a listen: a return to the terrestrial airwaves, for all his past, bitter battles with the FCC, could be good for radio, fans – and for him.
Stern would get to re-establish himself as a major pop-cultural force – reclaiming a mass audience as he secures and builds upon his legacy as a maverick who changed radio and comedy.
More fans would get to hear him. There are a lot of great things about satellite radio: channels dedicated to artists and genres, a lack of commercials and quality sound. But while Stern boosted subscriber rolls, a lot of folks still aren't willing to pay for radio, especially with iPods and Internet services like Pandora providing the soundtrack to many lives.
Commercial radio, meanwhile, could use the breath of funny, fiery air. Talk radio these days is generally a mix of lame Stern imitators and political commentators pandering to listeners' worst instincts.
On the left, Air America is gone, while on the right, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh thrive. Stern is no liberal – he flirted with running for New York governor on the Libertarian line in 1994 – and he can be crass and reactionary. But he's no politician – he's an entertainer whose often brutally honest version of what he sees as truth makes many laugh and others cringe.
Stern will stand out amid other radio hosts who are at best, unintentionally funny, and at worst, dangerous.
Stern, of course, would have to again clean up his act after finally getting to say whatever he wants on satellite radio. His strongest appeal, though, never derived from cursing or the sometimes infantile and degrading in-studio stunts. His greatest moments come in his lambasting of the celebrity-obsessed culture – often skewering stars in person – and in his own stream-of-consciousness introspection, that at its best, is like listening to a radio version of "Portnoy's Complaint."
Stern has enough money to never have to get up at some ungodly hour again for a morning show. Anything could happen: Stern could stick with Sirius XM (probably for a lot less money), strike out on his own with an Internet subscription show or just walk away from the business.
But even as the media landscape changes, commercial radio remains the biggest platform for the self-proclaimed King of All Media to reclaim and expand his reign of bababooey.
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Beat the Streak Report: Monday, April 18
Public service announcement: The Red Sox and Blue Jays play absurdly early today for Patriots Day, so grab your muskets and make sure your picks are in by 11 a.m.
To the joy of sunglass aficionados everywhere, Gottaweartheshades has outlasted all challengers and remains our only original Streaker at a full 18 games. Don't call us, we'll call you. Well, we'll probably email (or Tweet!) — phone conversation is soooo 1999 — but we will be in touch.
Although they're far too cool to admit it from behind those mirrored Oakleys, 18 games puts Gottaweartheshades more than 31 percent of the way to our $5.6 million grand prize. Just think of all the eye protection you could buy with all that cash — starting with these (retail price: $383,600), of course.
Anyway, strap on your Ray-Bans and hold on tight. We have a brand new week of Streaking ahead of us …
Monday's picks
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Alex Rios: .636 AVG (7-for-11) since '06 vs. Rays starter David Price
• J.D. Drew: .450 AVG (9-for-20) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero
• Michael Young: .364 AVG (20-for-55) since '06 vs. Angels starter Ervin Santana
• Asdrubal Cabrera: .389 AVG (7-for-18) since '06 vs. Royals starter Kyle Davies
• Matt Kemp: .417 AVG (5-for-12) since '06 vs. Braves starter Tim Hudson
Feeling kinda spicy?
• Nate McLouth: .500 AVG (6-for-12) since '06 vs. Dodgers starter Ted Lilly
• Ryan Ludwick: .421 AVG (8-for-19) since '06 vs. Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano
You'll thank me later …
• Adrian Beltre: .175 AVG (7-for-40) since '06 vs. Angels starter Ervin Santana
• Johnny Damon: .190 AVG (8-for-42) since '06 vs. White Sox starter Edwin Jackson
• Carl Crawford: .143 AVG (2-for-14) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero
• Andre Ethier: .176 AVG (3-for-17) since '06 vs. Braves starter Tim Hudson
Leaderboard time!
Special shoutout to Torah613, whose 17-gamer finished second to Gottaweartheshades in the original Streak contest. May your next eight days be both breadless and hit-filled.
Top MLB streakers
Andre Ethier: 14 games
Alex Gordon: 11 games
Rickie Weeks: 10 games
Six players: 9 games
(Make a BTS pick)
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That is me above this. Don't know why it came up as n.com
I am dejected I lost my streak with Theriot yesterday. I thought he was going to continue his streak since he hit Billingsley so well but Billingsley showed what he can do with that performance. Theriot went hitless but it's ok as I will be back up there. Also the 18 gamer will end sooner rather than later like all the rest. I have Ellsbury and hoping to get back on track.
Another ballsy pick. #9 batter at home. GL.
Ells just homered. Congrats
That surprised me, too. Looked like a sure pick and was one I almost took. Good luck with your new streak!
I'm going with Matt Kemp today. I wanted to go work Dustin Pedroia, but for some reason I just can't. GL everyone!
Lol, should say "with". Stupid Swype anyway.
Morning all. I've got Starlin locked and loaded for tonight. GL all.
Good morning I'm taking Kemp also, have to wait all day for a 10:10 start so I hope it's worth it.
Highest no selection, page 1 with a streak of 16, back to 0.
LaV's List
Monday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
140 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Dustin Pedroia 226 9.04
Miguel Cabrera 221 8.84(Leader)
Joey Votto 195 7.8
Asdrubal Cabrra 181 7.24
Matt Kemp 114 4.56
No Selection 94 3.76
Ichiro Suzuki 94 3.76
Prince Fielder 93 3.72
Ryan Braun 84 3.36
Denard Span 82 3.28
Yunel Escobar 72 2.88
Michael Young 72 2.88
Starlin Castro 66 2.64 (my pick)
Billy Butler 65 2.6
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 1 with streak of 16 back to zero.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
'www.jew, 9, pg 55, 825, Prince Fielder, (PICKED 93X)
dave55, 8, pg 56, 1373 , Denard Span, (PICKED 82X)
smoron015, 7, pg 99, 2301, Denard Span, (PICKED 82X)
_em_, 7, pg 100, 2301, Denard Span, (PICKED 82X)
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
vinny1979 RESET BY R.Theriot
yanks22442 RESET BY D.Pedroia
GL to all
And just like that 10% of top2500 and 15% of entire field move on with a 2nd inning single by Pedro.
I'm surprised that Jed Lowrie wasn't a more popular pick, but I managed to overlook him as well.
lol, may your next eight days be breadless?
why would that be a good thing?
Glad my switch from Miggy to Pedroia didn't kill me. I'm up to 4 which is my season high. I got to 3, 3 times and I guess the third time is the charm. GL everyone who is waiting for the later game.
well, my streak was reset to ZERO yesterday thanks to Pedroia. so my 5 game is now a zero again,. Michael young tonite
i posted at 12 19 yet this thing says 5:19. whats up with this?
Greenwich Mean Time?
The weird thing is sometimes the blog uses Greenwich time, sometimes it uses Eastern time, and sometimes it just makes up a time system to use.
There is no pattern to the time marks.
I've seen it 3 hours and 45 mins difference from eastern time. It's messed up.
Well, my pick is a west coast game and since I'll probably be up watching it on gameday, might as well follow DET and break out my bad luck hex charms. No offense to any bloggers that happened to pick Miggy also, you may become hexed collateral damage 😉
Need to find some better quality bad luck charms. Miggy 1-1.
Ahhhh, taxes done. Now I can get caught up on a little baseball 🙂
Starlin just singled to move me on.
Fielder also just doubled so 'www.Jew moves on too.
Span pickers not looking so good. 0-4 in the 9th and he's due up 6th
And Span gets another bat but proceeds to strike out. Here's hoping for you guys for a Baltimore rally to tie it up.
BAL brought in Kevin Gregg who can't find the plate. Span will bat again. What he does with the opportunity is up to him now.
Votto is done for the night, 0-fer
well, Span let us down. At least I was in good company.
solid single in the seventh inning by Wilson Betemit sends me to 2 games!
That was quick! Up to 4!
Kemp singles in the 1st, I'm up to 6.
Now to make tomorrow's pick. This is so hard!
the leader stayed at 18, did anyone beside me notice this. Now there is a seven way tie for first
That is because the game was not over when you posted that comment, so it was not updated yet.
He should be at 19 by now.


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Spread the wealth. Close the income gap. The Robin Hood effect. Take from the rich to give to the poor. On the surface this seems most admirable, but I am not entirely convinced raising taxes on the rich will do the American people one iota of good. Let me explain.
I work for a consulting firm that earns millions by exploiting the shortcomings of our tax system. There is no perfect system and anyone who has accumulated any amount of wealth has a team of tax professionals finding the "dreaded" tax loop holes for their clients. It's not immoral either. It is the fiduciary duty of any corporation to do this – to maximize the value of the stakeholders investments. It would be ignorant to believe that any system can be devised in which this can be avoided.
Fact: The best way to eliminate poverty is via capitalism. We want to bring wealth and jobs to this country and keep it here – not drive it away. The only way to do that is to make it advantageous for businesses to do business in America. We do not want our wealthiest citizens to move their wealth off shore, to invest in countries like China and India, to keep foreign bank accounts, or to move their money and jobs away from the people who desire that capital and employment here. Increase taxation aimed at the rich in the name of the social good is counterproductive.
There is a hole in our bucket:
We are a nation in debt. Not because we do not have enough tax revenue, but because we spend too much. We have a variety of social programs and the largest military in the world. The truth is our tax rate is as high as any country in the world – even highly socialized countries (~ 2.5% GDP). An increased tax on the rich will not solve our debt problem, it won't even slow it down. We have to reevaluate the way we run this country from top to bottom. You can try to fill a bucket as fast as you can with tax dollars, but when the bottom of your bucket is a hole you can never fill it.
The Government Does not Create Wealth:
The Government does not create wealth and it usually does a poor job of transferring it. I think of the Government like a pipe transferring warm water. The water starts out hot, but as it travels loses heat before it reaches its destination. Similarly, when compared to businesses, because of inefficiency and ineffectiveness, the Government loses wealth during the transfer from the top to the bottom. Sometime the deserving never even see the money and those willing to exploit the system abuse it. Businesses' sole purpose is creating wealth through innovation and production, thus it is the most efficient method to create and spread wealth. Taxation hinders the creation of real wealth.
We Should do a better job managing what we have before asking for more:
If a bankrupt person request a personal loan would you concede? Would you give a horrible co-worker more responsibility if they had already filed multiple times? Would you promote a person not ready for additional responsibility? No.
Similarly why do we advocate giving a Government, already trillions in debt, more of our hard earned money. Our Government has proven time and time again our tax dollars are used to fund foreign wars and pay for services that do not benefit our citizens. When you ask for more of our tax dollars – however noble the gesture – I just can't agree.


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I wrote a little article on this subject back in 1994 called "Who's to Blame for Law Reviews?" 70 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 81. I was disagreeing with people who blame the student editors, who, I said were mainly following the lead of lawprofs:
[L]aw review editors have a sense of what a Law Review Article is supposed to look like: a proper ratio of text to footnotes, a reassuring stolidity to the prose, a predictable structure studded with signposts that advertise the existence of that predictable structure, transition paragraphs before every paragraph that contains the approximation of a new idea, transition sentences before every sentence that ventures into the semblance of new territory, transition phrases parasiting on every sentence that might otherwise contain no reminder of what we have been discussing all along, confidence-inspiring, tiny elevated numbers appearing with the frequency of punctuation marks.I really believed, back then, that the short essay form could take over. But in fact, law reviews got longer and longer and more and more unreadable. I'd have been sad if I had known that then, but I'd have been elated if I'd known that blogging would come into being.
If you give these students your attempt at imitating the law review articles that have gone before, they will quite naturally undertake to help you succeed at what it appears you are trying to do - to produce a textual object that really looks like that article stereotype they have in their minds. Chances are they do not have a terrible lot of respect for the form either and they, too, ridicule its pomposity, its leaden seriousness, its circumspect proposals, and its compulsive footnoting. Yet, just as the author sought a job, tenure, a raise, or (for the more lofty-minded) reputation, the students have extrinsic goals in mind. It is their own future, and not the general advancement of legal literature, that tends to motivate law students to add the work of editing a law journal to their already heavy workload. If the law professor has not challenged the limitations of the genre, why would they?
When you see your article after their editing, you are going to be appalled at what they've done. It's going to come back insipidly neutral in tone, deadened into law reviewese. You hate it. Why did they do this to my prose?
Perhaps they have done it because your work seemed to be moving in that direction in the first place. You were writing what was in essence a parody, and they reacted by shifting into an even higher gear parody. It is a joint venture: what we do suggests to them that they ought to do what they do - even though when we see it we find it appalling. We are like the parents who are aghast when their children lash out at them with anger, sarcasm, or words meant to humiliate. Those parents resist perceiving that it is their own manner of speaking that the children have adopted. The children return their interpretation of the language and intonation they have heard. The parents are aghast because they are now on the receiving end. The children are showing them how it looks from the other side. The parent is not the victim but the teacher. Likewise, we, the law review writers, can fancy ourselves the victims of the students, but we are, most assuredly, the teachers.
Our displeasure with student editing should translate into critique of our own writing. The solution is not to complain about students, but to stop writing these parodies.
Orin Kerr responds to Solove with:
Maybe the answer is more lawprof bloggers. Blogging pushes you to write clearly and simply; the format rewards clarity of expression more than traditional law review articles do.That is so right. Blogging sharpens our taste in writing. It makes us impatient with circumlocution and pretentiousness. It makes us expect to see pithy ideas in every sentence.
And let's not resort to blaming law students. I don't think you need to escape into blogging because law reviews hold you back. As I said in 1994, the students learn from us. As we blog and demonstrate the value of concision and clearly expressed ideas, they are learning that it is legitimate to demand these writing values from the lawprofs whose work they publish. They are tipped off that it's okay to be fed up with windy professorial meanderings. Students can revise and restore their journals -- as I've got to think they want to do -- by infusing them with the good writing values blogging demonstrates.


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Blog Links February 7: Better Graphs, Changes at EDCC, Boring Development, and more…
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- Marcel Fafchamps has taken over as editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change: his opening editorial: "Scientific methods change over time. What was once seen as revolutionary - for example, long panels best exemplified by the Indian ICRISATdata set—was only a few years later seen as inadequate, if not irrelevant, by a new generation of economists seduced by the intellectual elegance of randomized controlled trials, best exemplified by the PROGRESA study inMexico. The only thing we can predict with certainty is that scientific methods will continue to change. As research practitioners, we must welcome new tools for the new opportunities they bring, while at the same time remembering that there never is any silver bullet. No experiment is flawless, no regression is perfect…. Our job is to extract the most accurate and useful information possible from flawed data. Personally, I do not believe I have ever estimated a consistent coefficient estimate: at the very least, my data always had some measurement error. … I do, however, intend to ensure that the journal continues to take advantage of the most current methods of serving our authors and of reaching out to our readers. I have some ideas in this area, one of which is to enable authors to post photographs, short videos, and other testimonial material about their fieldwork on the journal's website…Development economists often differ from economists in other fields in the strong emphasis we put on direct observation. Let us document that."
- In the latest Journal of Economic Perspectives: An economist's guide to visualizing data: Before and After plots from real papers and reports, showing how plots can be made to look nicer and get across the point better.
- A new blog with a great name: The Campaign for Boring Development – "The real work of development is not glamorous. It's not exciting. It doesn't photograph very well", ironically undermining its case somewhat with quite nice photos to make its points that we need to do more of things like building roads, planting hybrid seeds, and other ways to raise incomes.
- Behavioral Economics key concepts presented through Dilbert cartoons on the Psychology Today blog (h/t @RFisman)
- Should you use frequentist standard errors with causal estimates on population data? Yes says Abadie, Athey, Imbens, and Wooldridge as summarized by Cyrus Samii.


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Though Cricket is looked open as a gentlemen's game and is being adored by almost all of the Indians, football has its own tang and recognition among the people of the Himalayan States. The Himalayan states, particularly the North Eastern States of India have been able to provide the greatest football players for the Country. Among them Sikkim has always enjoyed a top position. There is no doubt to ascertain that football flourished into Sikkim with its contact with the British. Possibly, the Colonial Sahibs used to play football during leisure from where the Sikkimese privileged also imitated. Thus, football attained its popularity among the Sikkimese masses which has now become an inseparable part of the Sikkimese society.
We do not have much information about the prevalence of Football Clubs in the initial decades of the 20th Century. Much later in the 40's, few football enthusiasts from Gangtok founded its first ever football club. This very football club was thence known as Kumar Sporting Club. It was established in the name of Crown Prince Late Paljor Namgyal, who was in the Indian air force with the British and died in a plane crash in December 1941 during Second World War in Burma. It has to be mentioned here that the Crown Prince was affectionately nicknamed as Kumar Sahib, a shaded adaptation of the word Maharajkumar Sahib. Hence, the first football club of Sikkim got its name as Kumar Sporting Club. The Kumar Sporting Club won the first cup outside Sikkim in 1948. The Paljor Stadium of Gangtok is named after the late Crown Prince Paljor Namgyal.
|Football is always a favorite to the Sikkimese- Prince Tenzing Namgyal
The Kumar Sporting Club was followed by Gangtok Football and Sporting Association. After 1973, the Gangtok Football and Sporting Association was given affiliation by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). In a national tournament the Gangtok Football and Sporting Association lost its match against Goa by 10 goals which became the crossroads in the history of football in Sikkim. After this humiliating defeat, the Gangtok Football and Sporting Association was renamed as Sikkim Football Association (SFA) in 1976. With the foundation of Sikkim Football Association, Sikkim gave some of its best players to the country like Samdrup Norden, Pem Dorjee (the first Sikkimese to lead the Indian Football team as a Captain) Kul Bahadur Chettri and many other youngsters like Mr Ong Tshering Lepcha (Former Captain India Under 21 Team) Nirmal Chettri (East Bengal and Defender Team India) Sanju Pradhan (East Bengal Midfielder) and many others who have played professionally for various Football Clubs all over the Country. Nevertheless, the biggest contributions to Indian Football from Sikkim have been the annual Governor's Gold Cup, annual Chief Minister's Gold Cup and Padmashree Bhaichung Bhutia (former Captain of Indian Football Team) now the founder and owner of United Sikkim Football Club.
The journey of Sikkim's Football enthusiasm which had its start with the small Kumar Sporting Club has now become an immense SFA with its pride Pem Dorji, Samdrup Norden, Bhaichung Bhutia, Kul Bahadur Chettri and many others who are struggling to get their place in the Indian Football Team. The credit of producing these football heroes of Sikkim always goes to the Kumar Sporting Club, the pioneering Football club of Sikkim.


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12. Set foot on all seven continents:
   13. Attend Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque.
   14. Throw worries off a cliff ~ Frank's idea to write "worries" on a rock and let them go.
   15. Live in another country.
   16. Do something I never thought I'd do.
   17. Hike Cinque Terre, Italy.
   18. Go to airport and buy tickets for random flight.
   19. Visit Niagara Falls.
   20. Fly first class.
Growing a garden seems simple enough, right? I've had zero luck in the desert. We had gardens growing up, so I have eaten fresh produce. There is no comparison. One day I'll get a garden to grow. One day...
Continents? Two down, five to go.
The Balloon Fiesta was just this weekend. We booked it last year, but we weren't able to go. What a sight it will be!
"Throw your worries of a cliff watch them as they plummet" inspired by Dirty Head's Day by Day, Frank suggested we toss our worries off our favorite cliff in La Jolla, CA. Last visit, I completely forgot a marker to write on a rock. Next time, for sure!
Living in another country sounds like such an adventure. Moving cross country as worked out for us. I'd love to live in Europe, there are so many travel possibilities nearby. And I'm often tempted to move to Mexico and spend my days on the beach. Last winter while the pond and pipes were freezing, I was thisclose to making it a real possibility. If the desert isn't warm enough for me, I'm not sure where else to go.
Doing something I never thought I'd do. Surprising yourself is pretty amazing. Facing fears (bridges and needles - allergy shots) and being published are a couple of examples of things I'd never thought I'd do. But I've done 'em. I think it's a good ongoing challenge.
Cinque Terre was supposed to be a stop for us on our adventure through Italy, but it had suffered damage from floods and it wasn't fully operational. We scrapped it to keep from wearing ourselves too thin and decided to visit on another trip when we could experience it in its full glory.
Travel Roulette seems so exciting. I'd love to hop on a plane and just go!
Frank has been to Niagara, but I haven't. It seems like it would be so magnificent.
Flying first class is a luxury, I'd love to experience. I get excited enough when we're booked on southwest flight that isn't full and the middle seat is left available.


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If you own an Android phone with an AMOLED or similar screen, there's a great alternative to a front lit e-ink reader like Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo Glo. It's an app called Screen Filter that allows you to apply a transparent black "layer" over the screen, which makes everything on the screen darker. There is a slider that allows you to go as low as 2% brightness, which essentially creates a posterized view of the screen in mostly black.
On an AMOLED screen like the one on my Samsung Galaxy Note, this makes the screen incredibly dim — so dim in fact that if you're using the Kindle Android app and you select white text on black background, my Note shoots out fewer photons into my eyes than the Kindle Paperwhite set to the lowest brightness setting (which is 0 on the device, since you can't actually turn the lights completely off on it). And it's still pretty readable after your eyes have adjusted to it, although you do want to increase the text size a little or you will begin to squint to reduce the glow around the text since your pupils get very large when it's this dark. To be fair, the Paperwhite comes pretty close in terms of dimness, so it probably doesn't make a huge difference. And the Paperwhite does provide a nicer, less disruptive reading experience compared to using your always-connected phone. By the way, I don't own the Kindle Paperwhite, but I was able to test it for a few days. I decided to return it because of a dead ink "pixel".
Screen Filter works on non-AMOLED screens too, but I find that on a normal LCD, the contrast takes a bigger hit. I tested this on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and it wasn't nearly as pleasant to read on with the brightness dimmed. Also, being a backlit LCD, it inherently leaks a lot of light regardless of Screen Filter strength. My Note definitely wins the fewest-photons-emitted contest by a large margin compared to the Tab.
So, why is this awesome? My wife normally complains when I'm using my phone in bed (which is a bad habit of mine I admit) because the brightness makes it hard for her to fall asleep. But with my Screen Filter activated, she can hardly even tell I'm using it. Another nice bonus is that you essentially don't lose any of your dark vision when staring into the screen with the Screen Filter set to 2%.
The downsides of using your phone as a book reader remain though: it only takes one friend to send you a ping, text, Facebook update, or anything else and you'll quickly get distracted. For maximized reading pleasure, be sure to mute the audio and stay disciplined and never context switch out of the Kindle app. And the downsides of reading in bed remain too: try to be wiser than I am and don't read for more than an hour. Otherwise you'll end up like me and stay awake until 3am and complain about having sleep problems when clearly it's your own fault. I should probably follow Rosana's advice and get myself a really nice reading chair and put it outside of the bedroom to reduce my problems of falling asleep. I'll do that some day, I promise.
Happy bedtime reading! Speaking of which, it's already 12:45 am…


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This Reclaim Your Holidays workshop is intended for naturalists, teachers, religious leaders, extension and local food specialists, sustainability coordinators, wellness professionals, solid waste educators and other formal and non-formal educators interested in helping Iowans reduce their environmental footprints during the holidays.
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A free Reclaim Your Holidays poster and a hardcover book about meaningful giving will be given. "This will be a fun, inspirational and interactive workshop loaded with practical information," said Susan Salterberg, CEEE program manager.
The Reclaim Your Holidays initiative is offered in partnership with the Iowa Association of Naturalists, Cool Congregations, Iowa Interfaith Power and Light, the Iowa Recycling Association and Iowa State University Extension. Support is provided by REAP Conservation Education Program and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Solid Waste Alternatives Program.


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It is said that behind every successful salesperson is someone with a really big shovel. I think they're a bunch of shovels behind Polo but I wanted to look closely at its early history of marketing, advertising and especially photography.
Ralph Lauren's first employee was a clothes loving salesman from Norman Hilton, Anthony Edgeworth. According to Mr. Edgeworth things didn't work out and he was 'politely' fired with this advice from Lauren, "...find what it is in life that's yours. I did. You need to." Edgeworth had a Leica M4 and decided to take classes at the School of Visual Arts while apprenticing for Pete Turner. That was the reality of photography years ago. You could apprentice for the royalty of the art. I apprenticed for a photographer my senior year of high school. He was no Pete Turner. He sure as heck wasn't royalty. He was shooting canned pecans, in B&W, for a Georgia mail order catalog.
So how did he do it? Lauren -- not the guy I apprenticed for...I think he did it with a photographer and stylist. He didn't go with Edgeworth. Not right away. That was to come later. Instead, he hired Bruce Weber. And while I've never understood Weber's bandannas and the whole sailor-soldier thing...I respect his photography. But look at Weber's photography outside a Polo shoot and some thing's missing. And I think that something was Sandy Carlson Tarlow.
The photographer I apprenticed for had two cases of Hassleblad bodies and lenses along with a 8x10 view camera. You couldn't find better equipment anywhere. But he had no idea how to make pecans look good in B&W or in color for that matter. He spread them around a can and I listened to the clunk of the Hasslblad and the pop of the strobe and thought to myself, "...he's in trouble" which is what I think everytime I shoot the Friday belt.
Ms Tarlow may well have been the secret behind it all. Despite more than 30 years having passed -- these images still tell a powerful story. Sure, there's the money, class and inclusion stuff going on -- huge. But these were quality goods. Much of it simple and basic like Shetlands, khakis and oxford button downs. And it was all priced out of this world.
The images above are from Jam Good. A man who knows more about the apparel business and those who work in it than anyone I've ever known. He knows the story behind that Shaker Knit sweater (seamless and made by some guy in a Brooklyn basement), who did the suits in 1977 (Lanham Ltd of Lowell, MA until 1994) and who made the shirts (Ike Behar). Polo eye wear was handmade in France , the Polo blanket was made in Switzerland and Corgi Hosiery made the Shetlands.
I didn't really notice Polo until the late 70's. If I recall, my first love was a pair of khakis. I picked them up and immediately knew they were something special by the heft and finish. Almost like a British sports car. I took a look at the price and couldn't believe it...just like a British sports car. I thought, "Who the hell gets this kinda money for a pair of khakis?" Little did I know. The button down oxfords were next. Perfectly cut and priced for the rich. In college I was lucky and skinny enough to wear a boy's size 20. At $5 or $10 more than a man's Gant I could barely afford them but I had to have them.
The photography did it to me. I was putting myself through college on the GI Bill and I had a Fiat that was keeping me broke. I juggled a college work grant job and two other part time jobs off campus. I was taking out college loans from anyone that would give them to me and still - - I managed to scrape the bucks together for Polo madras trousers, some khakis and a handful of oxfords.
Someone told me a long time ago that people buy two things: Solutions to problems and good feelings. Polo went beyond good feelings. With those carefully styled settings and a talented photographer-- they sold me more than just pants. They sold me Ektachrome visions of an Anglo - American fantasy that I couldn't afford. But toss in the amazing quality and I convinced myself I wasn't a total fool for dropping over $100 bucks on madras pants. I was really buying quality... and slides.


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With all that is happening in Europe and globally, it can be very helpful to get an outlook from an investor who thinks not only about the macro picture, but also focuses intensely on the micro picture, seeking to uncover opportunities to invest when others want—or need—to get out of a sector, region or company.
Such is the case with David Marcus (left) co-founder, CEO and CIO of Evermore Global Advisors. Marcus is a disciple of the legendary value investor Michael Price and the late Swedish billionaire Jan Stenbeck, who mounted an America's Cup challenge and "seeded" Marcus' hedge fund, Marcstone Capital Management, (no relation to Markstone Capital Group) with "$100 million," Marcus told AdvisorOne.
Marcus closed Marcstone after Stenbeck passed away in 2002. After co-founding Stenbeck's family office, Marcus founded and was managing partner of MarCap Investors LP, managing a European "small-cap special situations fund," from 2004 to 2009.
Marcus is now head portfolio manager of two mutual funds he started on Dec. 31, 2009, the "go anywhere" Evermore Global Value Fund (EVGBX) and Evermore European Value Fund (EVEAX). Jae Chung is co-portfolio manager of those funds.
Class A shares of Global Value (without sales charge) returned 17.59% for the one-year period ended Feb. 28 versus the benchmark MSCI All Country World Index, which was up 21.54%
Class A shares of the European Fund (without sales charge) returned 9.00% for the one-year period ended Feb. 28 versus the benchmark MSCI Daily Return Net Europe Index, which was up 14.83%
Both funds search for equities that are "undervalued and that have catalysts for significant positive change," including changes in management or "restructurings, spin-offs, downsizing, recapitalizations, mergers, acquisitions, industry consolidation."
Taking an "opportunistic" approach to value investing, and always looking for a "catalyst," Marcus keeps some cash on hand for times when everyone else is under pressure to sell, and then will selectively pounce. He spoke by telephone with Kate McBride on Wednesday.
Q: Why don't we start with an overview of the lively situation in Europe?
A: Yes, I've been investing in Europe for almost 20 years—there's always something going on somewhere in Europe. In the midst of crises we often get our best opportunities. It doesn't mean buying those stocks that day, [but when] people are selling [because they have to.]
Q: Not to catch a falling knife but find good opportunity?
A: When the vortex started pulling the markets down, people started dumping European stocks—in a panic people retreat home to America. But we're the opposite—we buy when people panic.
Q: You need the stomach to sit it out?
A: Buy in not at the bottom but on the way to the bottom; when rational thinking comes back—[things bounce back]; we've gotten [our] best opportunities that way.
Q: Like the U.S. in March 2009?
A: Yes! In March 2009 it looked like the end of the world, end of Wall Street. [That worked out for] those that had the gumption to move forward, not buying everything in sight but [selectively].
When the crisis hit Greece, stocks were down and we got to add a host of individual companies in sectors—companies that were not affected by the crisis when there was selling to raise cash.
Q: Not to Hell in a hand basket, but opportunity?
A: Now—last week all the markets got hit, we said 'Let's nibble.' We make the distinction between nibbling and gobbling–nibbling meaning using some our cash; gobbling meaning using much of it. We don't know if the markets will be lower, so we nibble so we can come back another day. We have 16% cash in the European fund, and 18% cash in the Global fund.
We started a new position in Germany because a couple of stocks were down 12% in one day—a media company, Highlight Communications—they have the rights to the UEFA Champion's League soccer. Why was it down? People wanted to raise cash. We were waiting, waiting, bought. Within two trading days the stock had recovered all the loss. We always have dry powder—because you never know when a crisis is going to come—be prepared to buy. It's a lesson from Michael Price.
We are focused on value and opportunity—and keep a cash cushion—dry powder. It's critical to look at value with catalysts. We are not buying cheap for cheap's sake. We want to know [what is going on in the company] restructuring, turnaround, new management.
Q: Michael Price was a mentor?
A: I worked for Michael Price—starting in 1987 as a co-op student. I answered phones, hooked up a satellite dish. I learned everything from him. He gave me a chance as a research analyst. [After Price sold Mutual Shares to Franklin Resources in 1996 (now Franklin Templeton), Marcus stayed with the new firm until 2000.]
I started a hedge fund with Jan Stenbeck, a Swedish billionaire and founder of Vodafone and other businesses. [With Stenbeck] I sat in on boards, restructured companies; I bring that to the table now. (See photo of two of Stenbeck's "VictoryChallenge" America's Cup racers at left.)
Q: Getting back to Europe…
A: Germany is generally driving the train. Germany will defend Europe and the Euro, will pump in as much capital as necessary. Don't believe Europe is going to go away.
We are bottom-up investors, find situations that are interesting, so we focus on the micro—but we [look at] macro events—taxes, the political situation—for what could go wrong and factor that into the valuation. How wrong can we be and it still works? It's how we get a cushion—a margin of safety.
We keep the number of companies low, there are 35 in the Global fund today, and 21 in the European fund. We don't want hundreds of names, we want to know companies really well; we want 'A' names—[there's] a compelling, opportunistic set there. If we have to go to 'B' names, I'd rather have the cash. Cash is one of the greatest things we can own—it's not going down by sitting in the portfolio. [So if it's not an 'A' opportunity, I'm] not going to trade my precious cash.


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From our friends across the pond– giving a European view of the New Deal. Also explains how opinion polls were first used to help determine government actions.
23 Feb
23 Feb
Posted February 23, 2013 by scoop2go in Audiovisual and video, Chapter 33. Comments Off on The New Deal
Almost exactly NINE MONTHS from the first day of school– just like a pregnancy! Except this one will absolutely end on time, no matter what.
"Omne solum forti patria est." (The brave find a home in every land.)–Ovid
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." — Winston Churchill
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."- George Santayana


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The Japanese are famed for their love of mobile phones. After all, they can do everything from planning conception to simulating train driving while on a real train.
However, it's not so widely known that the mobile is a popular platform on which to read full-length novels, nor that the first Japan Mobile Phone Novel Awards were held yesterday.
The so-called keitai-shousetsu (keitai means 'mobile' and shousetsu is 'a novel') are wildly popular among the 16-45 age group and are, of course, most often read on train journeys. At yesterday's ceremony in Tokyo the top prize of 1 million yen (£4,434) went to an Osaka woman known only by her pen-name of Towa.
Her story of romance between a schoolgirl prostitute and a nightclub host (yes, it is very Japanese) was ranked first by a panel of more traditional writers and will now be published in print for the non-tech-savvy reading public's enjoyment.
Mobile novels are sold by massive publishing firms, such as Shinchosha or Kadokawa , for a few hundred yen (50p and up) to be downloaded once and read at any time using Java ebook readers installed on most handsets. J Mark Lytle


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