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7. Brett Lawrie
Brett Lawrie was the Brewers #1 prospect in 2010 and never saw the light of day in Milwaukee, so we can't really blame him for what happened on the field. However, his refusal to play in the Arizona Fall League because he didn't want to was a pretty douche-y move; and then we unearthed these pictures,and let's just say we're glad he's gone.
Thanks for the hits, though.
I'm so jealous of this guy!!!! AHHH!!! My jealousy is killing me!!!!
6. LaTroy Hawkins
Like Jeff Suppan and Doug Davis before him, Latroy Hawkins really didn't play enough games to really ruin things for the Brewers, but his lack of contribution earns him a place on this list. Signed before the season at 2 years and $7.5 million to be Trevor Hoffman's primary set-up man and backup closer, Latroy didn't do any of that.
It started off well with LaTroy allowing zero runs in his first four games, but then bad in his next seven, before realizing that - hey! - maybe he was giving up all these runs and had a slower fastball, because there was something wrong with him, and he headed to the DL for three months. He pitched in just five more games, before heading back to the DL and calling it a season. That's something like $234,000 per inning pitched with an 8.44 ERA.
Suppan-esque in every way.
Born in Gary, Indiana LaTroy serves as further proof that Indiana sucks.
5. Dave Bush
Of all the bad Brewers in 2010, Dave Bush was arguably the best. Let me explain.
Dave Bush was 8-13, not good. His ERA+ was 87, not really that good. His ERA was 4.54, not good, but respectable. He gave up 1.5 homeruns per 9, that's pretty bad. Dave Bush also put up a career best 18 Quality Starts, and that has to count for something right? His starts were of quality, right? Right?
Wrong. Good riddance.
Remember that game he gave up all those homeruns? Oh wait, that was every game.
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Deputies say they do not believe Monica Helberg is in danger. They believe she is with Logan Moncada, 23, and they have evidence including text messages that point to the two being in love and running away together.
"I want to see her. I want to talk to her. I want to hug her. I want to hold her. It's hard to see her face," said Monica's mother Lisa Helberg as she looked over pictures of her missing daughter.
On January 8th the Helbergs say they went to check in on their daughter in her bedroom but she was not there. The window was open and 16 year old Monica was nowhere to be found.
"Wednesday night she went to bed and I haven't seen her since." Her mother tells us Monica is a happy person and there were no signs leading up to her disappearance.
When the Helberg's gave us a tour of Monica's room they showed us the window, her phone charger, purse and even asthma medication all left behind. They did not mention finding her bed with pillows formed in the shape of a body to appear as if she was still asleep. The sheriff's office says that's just one clue that leads them to believe she ran.
"She hasn't talked about him to me in the past year. She hasn't mentioned his name. I had no reason to believe that she would be going anywhere with him whatsoever like this."
Deputies tell us the pair had been talking all along. While abduction is a possibility, they say it was unlikely.
"Not one member of her family or her friends has heard anything from her whatsoever. Whatsoever," said Lisa, but the Undersheriff tells us Monica's mother has in fact received messages from Monica's phone. After tracking his vehicle using GPS, Moncada was spotted in Albuquerque, New Mexico in a motel where razor blades and black hair dye had been left behind.
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Monica was officially listed as a 'missing and endangered person.' While her parents are not sure if this was an abduction or the case of a young runaway, regardless they say they are worried, have not slept or eaten much and they want their little girl back.
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Police in Crystal City, Texas are on the lookout for the two. Officers believe that is where they could be headed because Moncada has family there. The sheriff's office also tells us family members have spoke to Moncada. They say they could even hear Helberg laughing in the background of those calls.
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Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowoutBy SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
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Motel signs are seen in Lake George, N.Y. Airlines, hotels and campgrounds are expecting to see more customers in 2013 than in the previous few summers.NEW YORK This summer, high rollers are flying to lavish hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are driving to less luxurious places like nearby campgrounds.
The good news: At some U.S. campgrounds these days you get live bands, air guitar contests and chocolate pudding slip n slides.
Americans plans for summer travel mirror the current state of the economy. Rising home prices and a soaring stock market are encouraging those at the top of the income ladder to take more extravagant trips. But large segments of the population are staying close to home because wages are stagnant, rents are high and the end of the payroll tax holiday has shrunk their take-home pay.
For a travel industry still stinging from the Great Recession, that likely means another summer of steady, but slow, recovery.
AAA, one of the nations largest leisure travel agencies, isnt expecting a resounding start to vacation season this Memorial Day. Citing the up and down economy, AAA expects 31.2 million Americans to hit the road this weekend, virtually the same number as last year. Throw in planes, trains and buses, and the number of travelers will drop about 1 percent, AAA says.
As vacationers set out this summer, heres what they can expect:
n Gas prices about the same as last year. The national average price of gasoline was $3.65 a gallon Friday, 1 cent higher than during last years Memorial Day weekend. Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at GasBuddy.com, expects prices to drift lower after the holiday and fall close to last summers low of $3.33 per gallon before hurricane season starts to drag them up again.
n More expensive hotel rooms. The average hotel will cost $112.21, before taxes and any other add-on such as resort fees. Thats up 4.4 percent from last years $107.52, according to hotel research firm STR. Hotels are also expected to be slightly fuller, with occupancy rates climbing from 69.3 percent last summer to 70 percent this year.
n Packed planes, steady airfare. Airlines for America, the industrys lobby group, expects 208.7 million people to fly, up 1 percent from last year. About 87 percent of airplane seats will be filled with paying passengers. Domestic fliers will pay $421 on average for a round trip ticket, down $6 from last summer. International fliers will pay $1,087, up $8, according to the Airlines Reporting Corp.
n Amtrak expects to meet or exceed the 8.3 million passengers it carried last summer. But the taxpayer-backed railroad wouldnt disclose how fares compare with last summers average one-way ticket of $66.39.
Mike Klopp, a commercial insurance salesman in Irvine, Calif., is starting to feel better about the economy. He and his wife plan to take their three kids on a vacation up the coast to Monterey in August a trip they skipped last year.
But Klopp says local trips are the limit because theyre cheaper. Like many others, hes not yet willing to splurge on a dream vacation.
The kids would love to go to Hawaii, but theres no way Im going to do that. Weve been hunkering down, money is tight right now, he says.
Im not sold that things are better, he says.
Other Americans likely agree. Although the unemployment rate has dropped to 7.5 percent, compared with a post-recession high of 10 percent, the Federal Reserve doesnt see it falling below 7.3 percent this year. And economic growth still isnt as strong as it has been after previous recessions. The economy grew at an annual pace of 2.5 percent from January to March. Economists expect the rate to slow to 2 percent from April through June, partly because of the federal budget cuts that started taking effect March 1.
Those with higher incomes never stopped traveling, but thanks to new highs in the stock market they now feel secure enough to take longer vacations.
Patrick Veling, the owner of a California real estate data analysis and consulting business, says hes taking his most expensive vacation ever this year. Instead of the normal one-week vacation, he and his wife Susan are taking their two adult kids on a three-week vacation through northern Europe that will include a 12-day cruise. Theyll see Denmark, Norway, the Shetland Islands, Ireland and the Netherlands.
My confidence in the economy and my business is now strong enough that my wife and I have pretty much insisted we make this trip, says Veling.
Others are benefiting from rising home prices and low interest rates. Their homes are finally worth more than they owe on their mortgage, and they are finding it easier to refinance. That leaves them more money to spend.
The improvement in confidence is all in the upper income brackets, says Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.
During the worst days of the recession, travelers mostly stayed home. Hotels desperate to fill rooms started marketing staycations to families who couldnt afford to drive or fly somewhere. Summer air travel fell by nearly 8 percent in two years, from 217.6 million passengers in 2007 to 200.3 million in 2009. Luxury hotels saw their occupancy levels plummet during that period from 72.5 percent to 59.3 percent. More than half the rooms at economy and midscale hotels sat vacant.
There has been a slow and steady climb back, but not all parts of the recovery have been equal.
Luxury hotels such as Four Seasons, Park Hyatt, Ritz-Carlton and Mandarin Oriental are filling 73 percent of their rooms on average, surpassing their pre-recession peak, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from hotel research firm STR.
But budget hotels like Days Inn, Econo Lodge and Motel 6 are still below their 10-year occupancy average and more than 3 percentage points below their peak.
The same pattern holds for fliers.
Domestic traffic is projected to grow 0.7 percent this summer, while the number of people buying more expensive international tickets will climb 2.6 percent, according to Airlines for America.
Expect luxury travel to continue to rebound consistent with luxury across all industries while the rest of summer travel will be flat as the economy still weighs heavily on middle-income families, says Adam Weissenberg, who heads the travel and hospitality consulting group at Deloitte.
But some less-expensive destinations are seeing a recovery.
Campgrounds fared well during the downturn because they are relatively affordable. Some are now doing better business than ever because the operators have retooled their facilities to entice visitors beyond the typical outdoor types.
Steve Stafford, general manager of North Texas Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in Burleson, Texas, has attracted a broader swath of people with homesteads. These are recreational vehicles that look like cottages. Now the camp can accommodate campers with tents who only have to pay $32 a night for an empty patch of ground and those who want to stay in the comfort of the largest homesteads for $209 a night.
The 37 existing homesteads were booked solid last year. So Stafford is adding a dozen new ones. Those are already booked, even though they are still being installed.
In recent years, the campground has added activities such as arts and crafts, live bands, laser tag, outdoor big-screen movies and theme weekends to try to lure people back. On the schedule for Memorial Day weekend: A chocolate pudding slip `n slide.
The moves appear to be working.
The way its looking so far, we are going to be way up, Stafford says. No matter how bad things get, people are going to take a vacation.
The hunt for inexpensive vacations is helping companies that recreational vehicles, too. Traveling by RV means families dont need to pay for hotels and can cook most of their meals. Families may not be ready to buy one sales are only up slightly but more are choosing to rent one this summer for as little as $100 a day, or $300 during peak weeks.
At El Monte RV, one of the countrys largest RV rental companies, summer bookings from domestic customers are up 20 to 25 percent compared with last year.
It has stunned us, says marketing director Joe Laing. Were looking forward to this year. We think its going to be a good one.
Businessmen and state officials on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi are also hoping for a good summer. The tourism industry there was devastated by the BP oil spill of 2010. As part of a settlement, BP has been financing large advertising campaigns to get tourists back to the region.
This is going to be the best summer season weve ever had, predicts Tish Williams, executive director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce in Mississippi.
Williams has spent $962,000 in BP grants to market her county and a new science center there to tourists in northern Mississippi and neighboring Louisiana.
In Florida, the Pensacola Bay Area Convention and Visitors Bureau says lodging tax revenue is up 7.5 percent this year. The tourism industry has spent BP money as far north as Chicago a 14-hour drive away to lure new visitors.
But the most pampered vacationers this summer might not even be human.
The Barkley Pet Hotel & Spa in Westlake Village, Calif., is booked solid this Memorial Day. After a recent 18,000-square-foot expansion another doggie day camp area for small dogs, another grooming salon and spa and another wing of luxury suites there is now room for 250 pets.
This summer, they can attend ice cream socials, surf in a beach-like pool or play in the day camps, which are shaded by cabanas and cooled by misters.
Some might say the pets have it better off than their traveling owners.MORE IN National / World BusinessNEW YORK Worries about the outlook for growth in China and a slide in the price of oil pushed... Full StoryWASHINGTON Fewer Americans bought homes in August, as investors retreated from real estate and... Full StoryMONTPELIER Lets not call this a beer run. That has such a Friday night frat boy connotation. Full Story
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George Price has a long family history with Maiden Choice School on Shelbourne Road in Arbutus.
The lifelong Arbutus resident attended the public elementary school in the 1960s with his brother, and, after a brief stint in the business world, returned to the school in 1985 as an instructional assistant.
The school had changed since he had been a student there: Since 1981, it has only accepted students with severe physical, intellectual and behavioral disabilities.
The students at Maiden Choice range in age from 3 to 21. There are 18 teachers at the school, according to the school website, and each class usually has only six to eight students.
"It's all children with significant disabilities," said Nancy Briganti, the principal, of the student population.
Price — whose wife, Susan Price, and son, Steven Price, also work at the school — became a full-time teacher at Maiden Choice in 2000. Next month, he will be honored as Teacher of the Year by the Baltimore County Commission on Disabilities for his 13 years of work as a full-time teacher at the school.
"Some of our kids are extremely physically disabled," Briganti said, referencing students who are permanently wheelchair bound or unable to feed and clothe themselves. "He [Price] celebrates with them and involves them and finds out what will get them to participate.
"They're awake, they're alert, they're laughing at him, they're following his every move to see what he's doing next," she said.
Maiden Choice School is one of three public schools in Baltimore County — Ridge Ruxton School in Towson and Battle Monument School in Dundalk are the others — for students with severe disabilities. Each school has about 100 students.
Price said those schools, and the teachers who work there, are rarely considered for public recognition.
"I think the word I used was dumbfounded," Price said of his reaction to receiving the news. "I didn't know what to say. Nobody here had ever been recognized.
"We weren't aware that there was such a thing as Special Ed Teacher of the Year," he said. "We are so often overlooked in the county."
Price will be honored with about 15 other award winners at the Commission on Disabilities' annual Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Oct. 16 at the Sheraton Baltimore North hotel on Dulaney Valley Road in Towson.
"He's a phenomenal teacher," Briganti said. "He willingly takes on challenges and does fabulous work with kids and families."
Price's humble mindset inspired fellow Maiden Choice teacher, Elizabeth Kartal, to nominate him for the award.
"He's highly adaptable," Kartal said. "He can get a new child, and really get down to the root of the problems and some of the things that are really positive in their life.
"He is excellent with children with behavior [problems]," she said. "He's a big lovable guy, but he can adopt that suit of, 'We're going to follow the rules.'
"But then, at the end, you'll get that wonderful warmness of Mr. George," Kartal said. 'Even though every single day presents a new challenge."
Briganti said Price sets a great example for her staff with his dedication to his students.
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Oscar Pistorius has been found not guilty of murdering Reeva Steenkamp.
The stunning development was revealed as Judge Thokozile Masipa read her summation of the evidence Thursday in front of a packed courthouse in Pretoria, South Africa, and a worldwide television audience.
Masipa has yet to hand down her final decision, which will come Friday. She did reveal in the waning moments of Thursday's summation that she determined Pistorious to have been "negligent," which means he could still be found guilty of culpable homicide, a conviction that comes with a maximum of 15 years in prison but carries no mandatory jail sentence.
"He acted too hastily and used excessive force," Masipa said.
Pistorius also faces gun charges that carry potential prison sentences.
But a murder charge is out, for the time being anyway. The prosecution can appeal the decision and, if they do, Pistorius could still be convicted of murder, according to legal experts contacted by Yahoo Sports.
Oscar Pistorius breaks Twitter silence, quotes Austrian psychiatristJay Hart at The Turnstile2 mths ago
Oscar Pistorius broke a recent Twitter silence Sunday, tweeting for the first time since Feb. 14, 2014 – one year to the day after he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Three tweets, arriving in succession …
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And a passage from an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor:
The passage comes from Viktor Frankl's book "Man's Search for Meaning," written after his time served in Auschwitz, in which he lays out his concept known as Logotherapy. One of its basic principles is that "life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones."
Tonalist spoils California Chrome's bid for the Triple Crown; Chrome owner cries foulJay Hart at Yahoo Sports3 mths ago
The longest wait in sports is not over.
California Chrome's bid to become the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978 fell short in Saturday's Belmont Stakes.
After winning both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes by a length and a half, the mile-and-a-half Belmont proved to be too much for Chrome, who finished fourth to winner Tonalist.
And with that, the longest drought in Triple Crown history continues.
Since Affirmed's sweep 36 years ago, 13 horses now have gone to Belmont Park with the Derby and Preakness in hand only to falter somehow, some way. Real Quiet was nipped at the wire in 1998; War Emblem stumbled out of the gate in 2002; Smarty Jones faltered down the stretch in '04; and I'll Have Another was scratched with an injury the day before the race in '12.
Now add Chrome's fade down the stretch to the list.
The loss brought out a bitter reaction from Chrome co-owner Steve Coburn, who was upset by the fact that the winner of the Belmont once again did not race all three legs of the Triple Crown.
Blackhawks extend epic series, setting up Game 7 showdown with KingsJay Hart at Yahoo Sports3 mths ago
LOS ANGELES – The moment was there to crush the Chicago Blackhawks along with their quest to solidify themselves as hockey's newest dynasty.
Oh that word can be thrown around too often, but three Stanley Cups in five years would, at the very least, make for a compelling conversation. But to win the third they still have to get by the Los Angeles Kings, their equal in these playoffs, and Friday night the Kings had the defending champs on the ropes in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals.
The scoreboard showed the Kings up 3-2 with under nine minutes to play, and really all the momentum was in their favor. They'd scored twice in the third to retake the lead, sending the sellout crowd into a tizzy and Dustin Brown on a mission to drill anyone in his way.
The Kings could taste the Stanley Cup Final, where the New York Rangers await, while the Blackhawks, well, time was simply running out on them.
Lose and it's the Kings moving on, to play for their second Cup in three years. The dynasty talk would be over, at least in Chicago.
And so yes, the weight of the moment was there to crush them, except that Patrick Kane wouldn't let it.
Teemu Selanne's career ends with standing ovation
ANAHEIM, Calif. – With the clock winding down on the Anaheim Ducks' season and, by extension, Teemu Selanne's career, Bruce Boudreau walked over to the future Hall of Famer and told him to hit the ice for the game's final shift.
With about a minute to go, No. 8 climbed over the boards and, as he did, the crowd came to its feet.
"Let's go Teemu!" they sang in unison. "Let's go Teemu!"
It was one of those goose-bump inducing moments, made even more so when scanning the crowd to see who was doing the singing: Ducks and Los Angeles Kings fans.
Oh, the outcome had long since been decided, the Kings putting it to the Ducks on Anaheim's home ice, blitzing them with a three-goal onslaught in the first period en route to a 6-2 victory. Still, visiting fans paying tribute to a hometown player during Game 7 of a playoff series is, well, reserved for someone special.LiveArizona4 - 0AnaheimFollow Game
Kings' fast start leads to Game 7 victory, conference final berth
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Forty seconds into this decisive Game 7, the Los Angeles Kings had already peppered a pair of point-blank shots on Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibson.
He saved both.
The same can't be said about three of the next 14 shots he faced in the first period, or the second one fired at him in the second. Those goals helped lead to a 6-2 rout that sent both teams packing – Anaheim for summer vacation, the Kings for a trip to Chicago where they'll face the Blackhawks in the Western Conference final.
This was an anticlimatic ending to what had been an excellent series. To this point, four of the six games were decided by a single goal, the others by two, and both teams were even on the scoreboard at 13 goals apiece.
Having staved off elimination in Game 6, the Kings ventured 30 miles south and made themselves right at home, scoring three times in the first 15 minutes. By the time Mike Richards knocked home a rebound with under five minutes to play in the opening period, the fired-up away crowd was chanting, "This is our house." And who could argue with them?
Sixteen to six, the shot total read at the end of one.
Kings beat Ducks to force Game 7, a California showdown charged with Stanley Cup expectations
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles will forever be the Lakers' town, but that doesn't mean expectations for the Kings are any lower. Not anymore, anyway.
Things changed two years ago when Dustin Brown hoisted the Stanley Cup toward the Staples Center rafters, where 16 yellow-and-purple championship banners hung. Soon a black-and-silver one would join them, the long-suffering franchise's first.
And with that one came a new expectation: Stanley Cup or bust.
No longer was a berth in the playoffs a consolation, not with a core that includes one of the game's best centers (Anze Kopitar), best defensemen (Drew Doughty) and best goaltenders (Jonathan Quick).
That the Kings won it all in 2012 was surprising only in that they did it as an eighth seed. Their talent was better than that, and it finally showed. And when it did, well, it was clear: the team was built to win, and not just once.
So here they are again, on the cusp of moving on or going home – a lame consolation prize that will end up in the circular file or a shot to dethrone the defending champs.
California Chrome wins 140th running of the Kentucky Derby
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The favorite who was also the longshot won the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby.
California Chrome may have been the 2-1 favorite entering Saturday's Run for the Roses, but his appearance at Churchill Downs was nothing if not a minor miracle. He's no Kentucky blue blood, born to an $8,000 dam; is trained by 77-year-old Art Sherman, who never before trained a Derby horse; had never raced outside of his home state of California; and is owned by a couple of guys who call their stable Dumb Ass Partners.
And yet he won the Kentucky Derby going away, sprinting away from the field down the stretch, winning in a time of 2:03.66.
Commanding Curve was second. Danza was third.
Chrome, with its reputation as a speed horse, was the heavy favorite entering the race, with Wicked Strong (6-1), Danza (8-1) – yes, named after actor Tony Danza – and Intense Holiday (8-1) garnering attention, too. None presented Chrome with any sort of challenge.
The biggest question mark regarding the favorite heading to post time: How would he break from the gate?
UConn vs. Kentucky: the most unlikely NCAA tournament final everJay Hart at The Dagger5 mths ago
Hyperbole stinks. This is not hyperbole: The 2014 NCAA tournament has produced the most unlikely final since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
The result: millions upon millions of busted brackets.
Consider this: Of the millions who filled out brackets on Yahoo Sports, only 486 picked the correct final – 7th-seeded UConn vs. 8th-seeded Kentucky (a 74-73 winner over Wisconsin). Since 1985, at least a No. 1, 2 or 3 seed has been in every single final. Before this year, the highest combined total of seeds in a final was 11 in 2011: UConn (3) vs. Butler (8).
And when the champion is crowned Monday night, no more than 0.7 percent of Yahoo Sports users will have picked the correct winner.
Try these stats on for size:
To make the final …
• 66,196 picked Kentucky – or 1.4 percent of all entries.
• 14,053 picked UConn – or 0.3 percent of all entries.
To win the tournament:
• 31,655 picked Kentucky – or 0.7 percent of all entries.
• 7,602 picked UConn – or 0.2 percent of all entries.
No more perfect brackets as Dayton ends Brad Binder's magnificent runJay Hart at The Dagger6 mths ago
A day after emerging as the one person in America with a perfect bracket through two rounds of the NCAA tournament, Brad Binder became a pseudo-celebrity across social media.
He gained thousands of new followers on Twitter, received invites to appear on network television and was asked his advice on "the secrets of life."
And who wouldn't want his advice? Millions filled out brackets and entered challenges – on Yahoo Sports, on ESPN, on CBS Sports – but only Binder's entry in Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick'em went 32-for-32 through the round of 64. (His bracket was not entered in the Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge.)
"It's crazy!" he told Yahoo Sports late Friday night. "Still can't believe it!"
The 15 minutes of fame for the 23-year-old from Buffalo Grove, Ill., continued Saturday as his perfect bracket rolled on.
Florida won. 33 for 33.
Louisville won. 34 for 34.
Michigan won. 35 for 35.
San Diego State? Yeah, it won, too. 36 for 36.


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Is iPhone the world's worst phone?
The handheld computing part is awesome, critic says. It's just the phone part that flounders.
Pretty harsh words, but I can see the point. Cnet doesn't take issue with the phone's Web surfing or media-playing abilities. And the apps are pretty great. In fact, the iPhone is the best handheld computer out there, according to the site.
It's the phone part that blows, writes Flora Graham. Call quality is pathetic, she adds, mostly because the tiny speaker has to be perfectly aligned with your ear canal to work.
OK, I'm willing to hear her out at this point. Here's the rest of her case:
Headphones. The earbud headphones that come with the iPhone are "tinny and weak as a kitten," she writes.
Microphone. The microphone picks up all kinds of background noise. At least the 3.0 version of the iPhone supports Bluetooth, so you can use headsets, Graham writes.
Dropped calls. I've heard from plenty of Top Stocks readers on this subject. The iPhone drops calls, can't connect or doesn't even ring at all sometimes, Graham writes.
And the opposite of dropped calls isn't much better: Some people say their phone calls random people by itself.
Ignoring calls. Graham says that the worst iPhone problem is its tendency to ignore incoming calls and send callers directly into voice mail.
Battery life. "A couple of hours of Google Maps over 3G and you'll be lost in the woods without even the possibility of phoning for help," Graham writes.
Graham makes a good case, but I disagree. The iPhone isn't the worst phone in the world. The phone may be getting blamed for some problems that lie with the carriers (AT&T in the U.S.).
The iPhone is also a victim of its own hype: Its price tag is so high and expectations are so great that any flaws are going to be magnified.
I had an iPhone, once. I thought it was a good phone. Steve and Apple said it was.
When AT&T would drop a lot of my calls, I didn't think it was the phones fault, until Steve and Apple finally came clean with the antenna issue. They tried to blame it on me - said that "I" was holding it wrong..?
Then my battery would only last less than half a day. Steve and Apple said that it was my fault. I was using the internet too much and playing too many of those sweet apps from iTunes.
Then everyone kept asking, "Why do you keep calling me..?"
"I didn't call you... Did I?"
My phone went on a calling spree every few days a month and would just call people - even people I didn't know!
I figured, maybe it's the software? So I downloaded OS4. Now my battery life sucks even more!
The worst part of this story is that I've missed out on a job that I put several months of my time, interviewing and testing for... The iPhone did not ring (as it has done this before) and sent several of my callers straight to voicemail. One of the calls was for the new position - but I missed out - they thought I wasn't interested in the job anymore or found something else in the meantime. By the time I found out and called back, they called the next in line.
Now that I'm broke and jobless - getting ready to lose my house and everything else, I wish I had a different phone. This 3G has been the death of me! I would sell it on eBay but can't even afford to do that...
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Nikon 1 V1 review
Performance and value
Nikon 1 V1 review - Performance
The V1 performs its party tricks very well and is
impressive in these modes. Focusing is fast and accurate,and its ability
to lock onto moving subjects is probably better than any other CSC
we've used. The addition of the electronic viewfinder makes it so much
easier to follow action than the J1 too. The EVF, which offers 100%
coverage, switches on automatically as you put your eye to it and the
resolution is among the best we've seen, with a good refresh rate too,
though it isn't in the same league as the new 2.4m-dot Sony OLED as
found in the NEX-7.
Where the V1 starts to fall down is when
you want to take more control of the settings, at which point the need
to keep plunging into the menus becomes a nuisance. The lack of any
quick access to even the ISO or white balance is disappointing, and many
of the other features that many serious hobbyists would expect are
missing too - for example, there's no auto-bracketing (which would be
very useful with that fast burst mode), no control over the dynamic
range other than D-Lighting on/off and no highlight clipping display.
are some annoying operational quirks too, such as the camera's
inability to shoot video in any mode other than movie mode, despite the
presence of a separate movie record button implying that it should.
troubling for many will be the fact that the smallish sensor makes it
harder to create shallow depth of field effects than with almost any
other system camera, except for the Pentax Q.
While the accessory
shoe gives the V1 potential for expansion there is currently only a
small (if brilliantly designed) flashgun and GPS unit available, and as
it's different to the ubiquitous hotshoe mount on most other cameras,
forget using your existing speedlights. The omission of a built in flash
would be more forgiveable if the external SB-N5 flashgun was included
in the box, but having to fork out another £130 for it when you've
already paid over £800 for the camera is a bit of an ask.
The V1's
use of a larger DSLR battery (the same as the one used in the D7000)
may make the camera bigger but at least the battery life is a
respectable 400 or so shots, double that of the J1.
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If you tell a lie and it becomes the truth, does it matter that you once lied?
In the way that some people questions whether or not the ends justify the means, I'm wondering if you tell a lie and it becomes the truth, does it matter that you once lied?
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Nov 17 2012: I consider that the lie is "the delivery of an information that is knowingly incorrect/misleading". So it depends of the liar's perception/representation of reality. I you decided to lie, you cannot argue that the information bacame true : you moral decision is in the past and the future cannot change it, that would be too easy : after all, "on the long-term, we're all dead", so no decision matter ? If you provided wrong information while believing it to be correct, it's not a lie.
Now, you cannot make the lie vanish, but "does it matter" is another point. You can consider the outcome of the lie and fell that things are better now than if you had not told it, but that's a strict act-utilitarian point of view. If you are more sensitive to the moral wrongness that to the issue, you'll regret it forever. That said, if you lied, that mean that you allowed it to yourself and you're not in this case...
"You should never lie, except on exceptions." is the paradox for most of us...
Nov 18 2012: Do not mix two things :
- the act of lying
- the consequences of your lie.
The act by itself cannot be undone. You decided to deceive someone, and that decision was yours. So that will stay as a fact in your mind.
Now, the consequences are something else : there may be good consequences that you expected and morally compensate your lie (if you lied to avoid someone's death, I consider it as perfectly ok in my moral system). There may be other consequences like self-interest, that are less morally eligible to compensate the lie. There may be unexpected consequences that you may feel very responsible for because your lie (strangely, we are less guilty about the consequences of speaking the truth).
So to sum up : yes, the only moment that matters is when you tell the lie. After that, it's all about how you can handle it...
By the way, there is a debate regarding lies where you may find some matter too :
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My thoughts as well. So many of these MMO's come and go because they all want to be SOOO different from WOW.
Why not use what works? Personally I get a tad irritated when a new MMO comes out and it has to be SO UNIQUE that the control style feel unnatural, the gameplay seems awkward, and the content is lack-luster. I was really looking foward to trying Spellborn, untill I learned about the play style and the "unique" User Interface. yay...
It's not a bad thing to use WOW as a model. Take the good, avoid the pitfalls, Try a little better for balance, throw in logical (somewhat) and intriguing Lore/storylines and it should do ok.
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September 2009 Archive for Marketing Strategy
Scott Stewart
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Marketing Strategy
Don't Let Emotion Be Your Guide
Sep 28, 2009
My last post on earning the confidence of your lender touched a nerve for some… which confirms yet again what we all know to be true: People get emotional about marketing. And
taking emotion out of your marketing
is one of a few time-tested keys to marketing success.
To be a successful marketer, you need to lay out your strategies in advance in an unemotional way. Imagine all the possible scenarios:
"If the market goes up a little, I'll do A."
"If the market goes up a lot, I'll do B."
"If the market goes down a little, I'll do C."
"If the market goes down a lot, I'll do D."
A strategic approach includes detailed plans to act in each of these scenarios. It's best to do all this groundwork when the market is closed. This helps you focus on the longer-term perspective and avoid the emotions and anxiety of market action hour to hour, or even daily swings. Making decisions during trading hours fuels emotion and causes knee-jerk reactions.
Once you've decided what you want to do, just get it done.
Too often, people spend months planning to use a certain trigger signal to make a sale or a repurchase. Then, when the signal is hit, they look at the market and decide to wait until the next day's open to see if it opens higher or lower. If it's up, they decide to do one thing. Down? They do another. My recommendation: When your sell signal triggers, place your order on the next day's open, at the market. Just get it done!
Think about it. Let's say a sell signal triggers on a Tuesday at close. Wednesday, you're going to go short futures. If on Wednesday the market opens lower, is it a poor place to get short? Or is the market bearish, meaning you should get in immediately? Or, let's say the market opens higher and your plan was to sell. Should you wait? Will it go higher? Is the higher open a temporary gift? You can't know for sure.
The point is, no matter what the open, if you've made a prior decision—in an unemotional way when the market is closed—then execute. Get it done. Statistically, if you consistently place your order immediately on the open, regardless of a higher or lower opening call or opening price, on average you'll get the average.
If you
do this, in the end you should be fine. If you
apply your strategy and try to outguess the market action, emotion takes over. When the market is most bearish (and you need to be sold), you won't sell because you won't like the lower open. When the market opens higher, stalls and then collapses, you'll freeze, waiting for a higher price to return. If the market continues collapsing, you'll keep waiting.
I get all worked up over this because I know this happens all the time. When asked, producers admit to doing it, and they're frustrated. Here's evidence:
Look at
Top Producer's
survey of
Marketing Sins
in the December 2008 issue: Consistently, more than 30 percent of respondents tended toward inaction during market movements because they thought the price would go higher, or lower.
Consider the survey we did at a seminar in Iowa last week. When we asked attendees what they wanted to improve about their marketing, "Adding more discipline" and "Taking out emotion" were the top responses.
In summary, lay out your marketing strategies in advance and when the market is closed. Then when your buy or sell signal is triggered, get it done. Don't allow emotion to guide your marketing decisions.
You'll feel better about your marketing and position yourself to succeed.
Scott Stewart is president and CEO of Stewart-Peterson, a commodity marketing education and advisory firm based in West Bend, Wis. You may reach Scott at 800-334-9779, email him at
, or visit
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Earn the Confidence of Lenders
Sep 16, 2009
If you are like most producers, the relationship you have with your lender is very important. There certainly are a few producers in a strong cash position who never have to darken the doors of a bank. For many producers, though, bank financing is an integral part of the operation.
If you have not already talked to a banker about financing for hedging, options purchases, or for hiring a marketing consultant, be forewarned. Some bankers are not going to be too keen on the idea. And you know what? You can't blame them.
Your banker's experience has likely shown that people who trade futures and options lose money. Their producer customers don't have a structured, disciplined strategy, they don't implement a consistent approach to marketing, and too many end up speculating. Or should we call it "hedgulating?" Seeing this happen gives bankers reason to be leery.
When you talk to your lender about your marketing (or your spouse or whoever else may be judging you), think about this:
The better prepared you are, and the more comprehensive your approach, the greater your chances of success will be.
Here are some suggestions to help you earn the confidence of your lender:
for your marketing. For example, help your lender understand that you are trying to accomplish a high average return per bushel over time for the sale of your crop. This will help ease your lender's concerns.
Choose a
advisor or consulting team in which you and your lender can have confidence.
The advisor you choose needs to take the time to understand your needs and
the marketing approach to your operation.
Be sure that advisor takes a
, laying out strategies that manage market opportunities and risks in both up and down markets. Avoid outlook-based marketing. (See my earlier posts on the difference between a strategic and an outlook-based approach.)
Once your marketing strategies are laid out in a structured way, have the
discipline to follow that structure
. Do as you plan to do. That will build confidence and respect with your lender.
Be sure to have a
for your marketing. (See my last post on this topic.) Doing so will ensure that you are making good business decisions, not emotional ones based on cash flow.
Marketing can be done well. Your lender can play an active part in the process.
It may not be easy at first. With a
comprehensive structure
in place, however, you can expect to feel more in control and confident in your marketing.
Scott Stewart is president and CEO of Stewart-Peterson, a commodity marketing education and advisory firm based in West Bend, Wis. You may reach Scott at 800-334-9779, email him at
, or visit
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Marketing is an Input Expense
Sep 01, 2009
In my previous post I wrote about ways to cut option costs. What can really be helpful is looking at the big picture with regard to marketing expenses.
The big picture truth is this: Marketing is an input cost, and should be viewed the same way you view other inputs on your farm operation. You can't do without fertilizer or chemicals, and cutting back on these important inputs usually leads to lower yields and reduced revenues.
The same is true for marketing.
Farmers who actually have a budget for marketing free themselves to make better decisions, and they harvest the rewards from this more professional approach.
This has been a year of cost-benefit weighing with regard to input expenses. So let's do a cost-benefit analysis of a marketing situation you may experience:
There are a great many ways in which producers can go about their marketing to better manage risk. One of the most simplistic ways is to use puts to forward price part of the production, and forward contracts to price the remaining percentage of production. Crop covered with forward contracts can be covered with calls to take advantage of a market rally should a substantial price move occur.
Assuming a cost of 16 cents per bushel for puts, 150 bushel-per-acre corn would equate to a $24 per acre input cost. If you capture 50 cents of a price move, the return will be $75 per acre. (50 cents is the minimum December futures move from 1993 to 2003. Recent years certainly have been more volatile and have offered more opportunity, and risk.) That is more than a 3:1 return ratio.
At the same time, if a bull market develops and a substantial price rally occurs, calls could return as much as $2 per bushel, for the equivalent of $300 per acre. That is a return ratio of well over 10:1.
When you consider the escalating costs of all farm inputs, the returns per dollar invested in marketing compare well to the returns of other input costs. Yet many producers find it very difficult to write the check for the marketing expenditure. A field without proper fertilizer or pesticide application is obvious to its owner and all the neighbors. Every day that you drive by that field, you are reminded that you should have done a better job.
For some reason, marketing expenditures seem more optional! That's because there is a chance prices may go sharply higher, and having done nothing will be the best alternative. In the past, if prices went lower, the farm program was there to rescue you. The cost of taking that risk is much greater now, and will be much greater in the future.
Missed price rallies can be just as expensive as pricing and selling too low.
The extra income obtained from pricing properly in a bull market may be critical to the long-term survival of many farms.
It's time to adapt to meet these challenges. Lay your strategies out in advance. Don't try to guess where the market will go. Invest in marketing, and expect a reward for marketing done well
There's also another key benefit to thinking this way
: A marketing budget puts you in control to make good decisions.
Without a budget, cash flow and emotions may control you and limit your ability to follow-through.
Take the emotion out of your marketing. Have a budget, be strategic, and confidently expect to see the rewards for your strategy and discipline.
Scott Stewart is president and CEO of Stewart-Peterson, a commodity marketing education and advisory firm based in West Bend, Wis. You may reach Scott at 800-334-9779, email him at
, or visit
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GENERIC NAME: cerivastatin
BRAND NAME: Baycol
IMPORTANT NEWS ALERT - On August 8, 2001 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Bayer Pharmaceutical Division is voluntarily withdrawing Baycol (cerivastatin) from the U.S. market because of reports of sometimes fatal rhabdomyolysis, a severe muscle adverse reaction from this cholesterol-lowering (lipid-lowering) product. The FDA agrees with and supports this decision. All patients taking Baycol should contact their healthcare providers to discuss treatment alternatives.
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Gregg Popovich sent his best players home, deciding they reached the end of the road before the trip was over.
For that, and for keeping it a secret, the San Antonio Spurs were fined $250,000 by the NBA on Friday.
Commissioner David Stern said the Spurs "did a disservice to the league and our fans" when they didn't bring Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili or Danny Green to Miami for the final game of the six-game trip.
"The result here is dictated by the totality of the facts in this case," Stern said in a statement. "The Spurs decided to make four of their top players unavailable for an early-season game that was the team's only regular-season visit to Miami. The team also did this without informing the Heat, the media, or the league office in a timely way. Under these circumstances, I have concluded that the Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans."
Teams are required to report as soon as they know a player will not travel because of injury.
The league's statement said the Spurs were in violation of league policy reviewed with the board of governors in April 2010 against resting players in a manner "contrary to the best interests of the NBA."
The Spurs didn't comment on the penalty.
The issue of resting healthy players has been debated before, though usually at the end of the season, not a month into it. And the Spurs have been right at the centre of it, Popovich using the rest strategy for an aging team that could use more time off than the NBA schedule often allows.
They even made a joke out of it last season, the box score listing "OLD" next to the 36-year-old Duncan's name as the reason he didn't play.
Stern wasn't laughing Thursday.
He has a nearly $5 billion a year industry to protect and can't like it when teams aren't willing to put their best product on display in a marquee game televised by national TV partner TNT. Fans and viewers were excited about seeing the Spurs try to complete an unbeaten road trip against LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and the NBA champions, so there was an understandable letdown when they learned of the absences.
But there's never a guarantee that any players are going to play, and Stern himself has previously made it clear he wasn't going to impose rules to change that.
The Cleveland Cavaliers rested a healthy James for four straight games at the end of the 2009-10 regular season. Owners discussed the issue later that week at a meeting in New York, and Stern reported that there was "no conclusion reached, other than a number of teams thought it should be at the sole discretion of the team, the coach, the general manager, and I think it's fair to say I agree with that, unless that discretion is abused."
In the NFL, the Indianapolis Colts rested a healthy Peyton Manning even with an undefeated record late in the 2009 season, and the league eventually started trying to schedule as many division matchups as possible for the final two weeks of the season in an effort to make late-season games matter.
Popovich doesn't wait until the end of the season to start resting players.
He was both praised and ripped for the way he navigated the lockout schedule last season, twice surrendering 11-game winning streaks by playing without his Big Three. Even those who didn't like it conceded that a coach who had won four championships with what's long been considered the NBA's model organization probably knew what he was doing, and more defence came Thursday night.
"Popovich has done this before and he knows what's best for his team," former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal said on TNT. "It's his job to manage his players and do whatever he'd like. He's thinking about the big picture."
Another former player turned TNT analyst, Steve Kerr -- who played for Popovich -- also defended the franchise's actions.
"If the NBA punishes the Spurs for sitting players, it opens up a huge can of worms," he wrote on Twitter. "This is a serious legal challenge for the league."
Celtics coach Doc Rivers didn't think the penalty would keep teams from resting players.
"I don't like it," he said. "It's a tough one. You've got to coach your team to win in the long run and you have to do whatever you need to do. If that's sitting players, you sit players."
That San Antonio -- largely unloved in its championship days but suddenly a plucky underdog cheered by those who felt Stern overstepped his bounds -- nearly won the game before the Heat rallied for a 105-100 victory didn't sway the commissioner.
The league has an expectation that fans paying hundreds of dollars should get what they paid for. On Friday, the Phoenix Suns announced a "satisfaction guaranteed night" next Thursday against Dallas, offering fans a rebate if they didn't enjoy their experience in what the team called a first-of-its-kind promotion in the league.
But nobody buying a ticket can be assured of seeing his favourite players. The Heat occasionally sat their superstars late last season for what the organization termed a "maintenance program," and a late-season matchup against the Celtics included the following DNPs: James, Wade, Bosh and Boston's Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo.
Then there are the neutral-site preseason games the league stages in markets where fans rarely get to see the NBA live. Signs outside the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y. before a Celtics-Knicks matchup in October featured pictures of Paul Pierce and Carmelo Anthony, although neither played despite being healthy.
With Stern reaching in now, does he reach that far? Or are there be a separate set of guidelines depending on the calendar?
The league wouldn't clear that up, not commenting beyond its statement. The Spurs were unavailable Friday after the long trip.
They were resting.
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Yes, I've had some lovely Droins -- Le Clos and Valmur and, for everyday stuff, Vaillons. I find the Le Clos and Valmur oak to be pretty tough if I don't keep my hands off the stuff for a few years, but then that seems to help.
My taste in French whites in recent years has been swinging more and more to the Loire -- Dressner type wines -- and when Parker starts giving them 100 points I'll fall out of my chair laughing.


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Today I met you at Collectormania 16 in Milton Keynes. It was quite exciting. I speak for everybody when I say that you are the most entertaining guest ever, you told hilarious stories and made a memory for everybody. It's rare that you come to these events to pay for an autograph and walk away with an experience. It's something I shall never forget.
When I saw you today you had just signed a Jelly Baby for a nice woman and then I gave you a bag of Bassetts Jelly Babies. You probably receive Jelly Babies all the time but I am curious to know what happened to those, you joked you may be signing more later, so did anybody else walk away with a signed Jelly Baby?
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