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Economic Growth and Political Survival
AbstractUsing data for 162 countries for the period 1962-2006, this paper examines the importance of the national economic growth rate for the ability of a national leader to retain his or her position. To address the potential endogeneity of economic growth, I use commodity prices, export partner incomes, precipitation, and temperature to instrument for a country's growth rate. The results indicate that faster economic growth increases the short-run likelihood that leaders will remain in office. The results are robust to controlling for a host of leader-, party-, and country-level variables. The effect of growth on the likelihood of leader exits appears to be generally similar across both democracies and autocracies. Economic growth has the largest impact on the likelihood of regular leader exits rather than irregular exits such as coups. Evidence is also presented on whether economic growth affects the likelihood that leaders employ oppressive tactics against opponents.
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- Paul J Burke, 2011. "Economic Growth and Political Survival," Departmental Working Papers 2011-06, The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.
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- O40 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
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We used a mix, one sweet potato and one baking potato. Took less than 30min. to bake. Liked the mayo dip. Served with CL's companion Smothered Steak Burgers. Pretty good.
Shoestring Fries with Garlicky Dijon Mayo
carolfitz Posted: 03/18/09
Krawdad Posted: 02/18/09
Tast great but cut the baking time to 25 min.
shemes Posted: 01/28/09
I would have to agree. I tried this and mine were way past done at 30 minutes. Will try again and shorten baking time or cut fries thicker.
ChetandTanya Posted: 01/18/09
I think there's a mistake in this recipe. Roasting as called for is way too long at the temperature stated. 20 or 25 min. might be more like it. My first try resulted in way overbaked shoestrings - brown & dried out. I'll be trying again with shorter cooking time.
swhiteca Posted: 02/01/09
I cut potatoes into 1/2-inch pieces (larger than called for in recipe) and the timing was fine. I won't ever fry potatoes again....my family was very happy with these baked fries.
Naturalmom Posted: 02/20/09
Wish I had read the reviews before cooking. Fries were borderline burnt after 35 min.
echarest Posted: 04/01/10
I guess I am still a traditionalist and like ketchup with my fries. I want to try the mayo on a sandwich
KMartinez Posted: 05/04/10
We love this recipe! I've made it at least four times already.
JIMMIC Posted: 03/11/10
Great taste, I added a little extra salt. I lowered the oven temp to 435 because I was also cvooking the Buttermilk Oven-Fried Chicken at the same time. The chicken was right on the money, the fries were not crisp, however they had a great taste, with the Dijon Mayo.
jact9799 Posted: 03/22/14
I have made this recipe for years and always receive compliments. The aioli sauce is what takes it to the next level. We love garlic so sometimes I'll be generous with the garlic. Yummy!

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A few days late, but oh well. This is the last you'll hear from me for about 10 days, as I'm going on vacation next week, but I suspect somebody else will post something while I'm gone. Or…they won't. Either way, with the Yankees and Phillies playing in their respective League Championship Serieses, I can think of no better time to get away, other than maybe the following week if they wind up playing in the World Series. Here are the Mets' pitchers grades, and if you thought the hitters grades were ugly, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Archive for the 'Oliver Perez' Category
Grading the Mets pitchersFriday, October 16th, 2009
The Chris Wilcox's BlueAndorange.net Plan for 2010 – The RotationWednesday, October 7th, 2009
Fifth part of a series. For my plan for catcher, the infield, the outfield, and the bullpen, click on over.
The last on-field part of this series will look at what might be the most difficult area to fix this offseason on the cheap, the rotation. I've listed ways to fix first base, catcher, and the outfield without spending a ton of money, but because other teams overvalue the cost of starting pitching, it artificially raises the cost of obtaining a good pitcher. That's why it's so important that the team work on developing pitching from within, with the hopes of churning out cheap starters year after year, and converting failed starting prospects into relievers to avoid offering closers $17.5 million vesting options. Alas, I digress.
Grading the pitchers' first halfTuesday, July 14th, 2009
Yesterday I did the hitters, today I'm tackling the pitchers. Yes, this remains incredibly hacky. I'm going to be taking a closer look at players, meaning I'm not using ERA alone (or really, at all) to look at how well they've performed; I'm going to look at their rate numbers (K/9, BB/9, etc) as well as some advanced statistics like FIP (again, if you aren't hip to FIP, go to Amazin Avenue, where Sam Page, I have to say this again, wrote the best thing written on any Mets blog in 2009) to figure out who has made the grade and who hasn't.
The Mets get worked overTuesday, February 3rd, 2009
The more I think about the Oliver Perez signing, the more convinced I become that the Mets were utterly worked over by Scott Boras. Think about it: was there ever really a market for Oliver Perez? He was a Type-A free agent, meaning any team that signed him would have to give up a first round draft pick in order to do so. Throw in Boras as his agent, who was clearly gunning for an eight figure per season deal, and the cost was prohibitive to just about every other team in baseball. There was no market for Oliver Perez. All of the teams that supposedly had interest, teams like the Cardinals, Rangers, "maybe the Rangers," never even made an offer.
So why did the Mets offer so much money per season? Omar got played by Boras. Right from the start, when the Mets were negotiating with Derek Lowe. If the Mets had signed Derek Lowe, that would be the worst thing for Boras' bottom line, because even if the Mets had offered Lowe the exact same package the Braves had offered, no other team out there would have offered Perez the 3 years/$36 million offered by the Mets. Boras had to find another team other than the Mets to take Lowe, and caught a break when the Braves became desperate when John Smoltz signed with the Red Sox. That gave him the opening he needed to set this up to be a lucrative postseason even before Manny Ramirez signs.
Then, somehow he leverages the Mets into offering Perez $12 million a season despite a lack of interest from other clubs. Seriously, who out there was going to offer Ollie Perez eight figures? The economy is killing baseball's middle class right now. The Cardinals and Brewers could use another starting pitcher, but only if Perez became available at a discount. Both would have had to forfeit a first round pick to sign him. The Rangers were mentioned at one time as a possibility, but they are always mentioned when a Boras client is involved, and they seem to have zeroed in on Ben Sheets. Who else was seriously pursuing a starter? So why did the Mets even budge off of 3 years/$30 million?
They even tried to leverage the situation by entertaining the idea of pursuing Sheets. But was this ever seriously discussed? There was never even any talk of bringing Sheets or his agent to town, and you would think that if the Mets were really looking to sell Sheets on New York, they would bring him in, take him to a show, maybe a basketball game, maybe out to the suburbs. They never did any of this. As far as I know, they never even really spoke to his agent. I mean, I can't even tell you who his agent is, because I don't ever remember reading anything about Sheets where his agent was mentioned. If he was a serious option, don't you think they would have had serious dialogue with his agent, something that would have been reported somewhere?
Knowing Boras, he probably saw through all of this. After all, if there is one person who knows how to leverage through the media, it's Boras. Nobody seem to buy for one minute that the Mets had been shaken off of their pursuit of Perez, even with pitchers available who are as good, or in the case of Sheets, better (but injury-prone). Perez ultimately got his money. It reminds me of a Steve Phillips move, where the Mets paid top dollar for a mid-level player. One thing Omar had always been good at doing is avoiding high-priced mistakes for mid-level talent. Under Omar, the team's credo seemed to be, if you are going to overpay, overpay for the best. The Mets overpaid for Perez, but are only getting a mid-level talent in return.
This is all just speculation on my part, of course. I could just be a paranoid fan. But the way I see this scenario, Scott Boras played the Mets to perfection, and got what he wanted. And hey, good for him. That's why he's the best at what he does. I don't hate him as a result; in some small way, I admire what he does, because he gets results that other agents don't. Sadly, it came at the expense of our beloved Mets. And that is unfortunate.
Mets and Oliver Perez are closeMonday, February 2nd, 2009
Looks like I made a good assumption last night, huh? To be honest, ever since the Mets made little movement in their initial offer to Derek Lowe, it looked like they preferred Oliver Perez. They also seemingly had a set amount of money that they wanted to spend on a starting pitcher: 3 years, $36 million, or around what they paid for K-Rod. And if they plan on going out and adding a nice power outfield bat from the remaining pool of Manny, Dunn, and Abreu, I'm glad that they were able to get their guy for their dollar amount. If they don't, though, then they are basically saying that they feel their only needed improvement this offseason was in the bullpen and that they will be able to finally avoid collapse in 2009 with an improved bullpen, and I'm not so sure that's the best way to look at this.
I guess I like the signing, though I'm not sure if I'm ready for another three years of Good Ollie/Bad Ollie drama. The fact is, game to game, month to month, season to season, Oliver Perez is often a completely different pitcher. You never know which Ollie Perez will be taking the mound, how many innings you're going to get, whether he has his control or not, whether he can keep the ball in the park. At times, he is a dominant starting pitcher, a potential ace, but he doesn't appear to have the makeup to be anything more than rotation filler. Giving a guy like that three years…I just don't know. I would have been pretty content letting Ollie leave, picking up the first round pick for him, and bringing in a guy like Sheets or Lowe, a guy who would be a marked improvement.
I think we are now at a point where Mets fans just aren't that excited about this season. The K-Rod and Putz acquisitions were nice, but they feel like so long ago, and while the bullpen should be better than last year, there are still problems with the composition of this team, problems that have not been resolved. Second base and catcher are still disaster areas. Ryan Church is still being counted on to start, when his past performance indicates he's a platoon guy. The team is hoping to squeeze another miracle out of Fernando Tatis and Daniel Murphy.Â
Signing Oliver Perez is nice, and hopefully we will see more Good Ollie than Bad Ollie this year, but the problem with bringing Ollie back is that it makes the rotation exactly the same as a year ago. There just feels like an overriding feeling of sameness to the 2009 Mets, and considering that the past two seasons have ended in heartbreak for the Mets, it is hard to get excited simply for an improved bullpen. I think Mets fans were hoping for a more sweeping change, with a better #2 to back up Johan or an impact bat to help cover for expected declines out of Delgado and the corner outfield platoons. Other than Johan, Putz, and K-Rod, what has really changed from the team that ended the 2007 season and the team that opens the 2009 season? This team could use a small shakeup, with a new base around the core, but this team has been loathe to do so, and with what has happened the past two seasons, I am wondering why.
How the Mets bungled their postseasonTuesday, January 13th, 2009
The Mets had done everything well up until this point. They handled the bullpen situation as smartly as one could hope, bringing in the best available free agent closer, and then trading for another closer without giving up anything of real value. The bullpen was one of their biggest problems last season, and in two nicely done moves, they solved both of them. Nobody can take that away from them. This was an excellent way to kick off the offseason, and Mets fans were suitably pumped up, as the team seemed intent on paving a road to a championship caliber ballclub.
But to think that addressing the bullpen alone would bring this team a championship is foolish. The starting rotation last year was thin outside of Johan Santana, and to a lesser degree Mike Pelfrey. John Maine is coming off of an injury, and was not particularly effective before the injury. Pedro Martinez was pretty bad last year, although he is a free agent. And Oliver Perez was maddeningly inconsistent, going from looking like a worldbeater one game to getting destroyed in another without any rhyme or reason. He was also a free agent, and a Type A free agent at that, a free agent that will bring the Mets back a first round pick should he sign with another club.
There is also a problem with the offense. Carlos Delgado probably isn't going to repeat his 2008 again; he is more likely to resemble first half Delgado than second half Delgado. Luis Castillo and Brian Schneider were two of the worst everyday players in the majors last year, combining terrible offense and lousy defense. Between Ryan Church's recovery from a serious head injury and the planned Fernando Tatis/Daniel Murphy platoon (which should be good, but it is likely neither will be close to as good as they were last year), the corner outfield spots are far from certain. While the team should rely on continued good seasons out of players like David Wright, Jose Reyes, and Carlos Beltran, every other position has at least a question mark, and some have both a question mark and an exclamation point. And the bench stinks.
So what have the Mets done to improve in these other areas since solving the bullpen problem? Well…um…nothing. Absolutely nothing. This team remains as flawed as it was after the J.J. Putz trade, where they were improved but certainly no lock to play October baseball, and with Derek Lowe signing with the Braves today, it appears unlikely that the team will make those necessary moves towards a World Series. Add this to the Wilpons' refusal to even consider bidding on Manny Ramirez, an impact bat that would instantly make the Mets' lineup the best in the National League, and it appears as though the team the Mets take to war next year will once again fall short of expectations.
The move to make was sign Derek Lowe. I have gotten over the fact that the Mets simply will not sign Manny; that's fine. Twenty million dollars for a late 30's slugger probably wouldn't be the best investment by year 3 anyway. But Lowe was different. The Mets simply needed to sign one of the three best starters on the market. CC Sabathia was always a pipe dream, since the Mets are already paying Johan Santana the kind of money Sabathia would want, and Santana is better. AJ Burnett was the next best starter available, and considering the years he would want, he probably wasn't the best investment for the Mets.
That leaves Lowe. As I discussed last week, he's good at getting ground balls, and above average at striking batters out. He avoids walks. He's fairly unspectacular, but that is exactly what the Mets needed in their rotation! They didn't need somebody who was going to wow you with his power; they needed a guy who avoids mistakes, pitches 200 above average innings a season, and gives the fanbase little to worry about. That's what you get out of Lowe. There is a real value in what he gives his teams. For the Mets, he fills out their rotation perfectly. Even being a Type A, which would require giving up a first round pick to the Dodgers, the Mets could recoup that pick by letting Perez sign with another team, giving the Mets two picks in the top 50.
The problem is, the Mets tried to dictate the pitcher's market to Scott Boras. You can dictate the market to an agent like Paul Kinzer; you can't dictate the market to Scott Boras. The moment John Smoltz signed with Boston, Boras saw an opportunity to get the Braves involved for Lowe and pounced. By sitting back and letting Boras work the market, the Mets allowed the opportunity for another team to get involved in the starting pitcher's market. By doing so, it cost them the best starter still looking for work after the winter meetings, a guy who would have slotted in perfectly.
Where does this leave the Mets? It leads them back to…Oliver Perez. Think about this; isn't this EXACTLY what Scott Boras would want? The last thing Boras wanted was for the Mets to sign Lowe; they were his biggest suitor for Perez as well. Lowe signing with the Mets for $12 million a season (Carlos Silva money, by the way) hurts his market for Perez too. The smart money was to get the Mets involved, but not too involved, on Lowe, use them to drive the market up for another team, and then have the Mets sign Ollie at an inflated rate. Boras played the Mets like patsies.
The thing is, this could have been avoided. The Mets needed to make a stronger initial offer to Lowe; they knew as well as anybody that three years and $36 million was not getting this deal done. Three years, $42 million with a vesting option for a fourth year…that is at least in the ballpark of where Lowe and Boras were looking. By lowballing Boras, they allowed the opportunity for another team to get involved. They have nobody to blame but themselves for letting Lowe not only slip out of their own grasp, but to go to a division rival no less. But hey…at least they have Tim Redding to round out the rotation!
So now the Mets are going into 2009, at best with a rotation that will see an upgrade from Pedro Martinez to Tim Redding in the 5th spot (and that disgusts me to write that we now live in a world where Tim Redding is a better pitcher than Pedro Martinez), and is otherwise unchanged from last season. John Maine's health is a question mark, and even before his injury, he didn't look particularly great on the mound. Mike Pelfrey will be back, and it could be a mistake to assume he will be as good as he was last season; he needs to start striking more batters out before we can assume he's going to use his tools to their fullest.
And Oliver Perez, in the best case scenario, will now be back for another four years. Four more years of maddening inconsistency…four more years of walks and fly balls…and to be fair, four more years of high strikeout numbers, but still…four more years of Good Ollie/Bad Ollie drama…and that's the best-case scenario. That assumes Boras doesn't figure out a way for Ollie to wind up on another team, with the Mets forced to explore the Ben Sheets/Randy Wolf "severe injury problem" market. The Mets' best case scenario as of right now involves four years of never knowing which Oliver Perez Mets fans will see on the mound. Does this get anybody else excited?
The Mets blew it. We all know they aren't going to make the big addition to their lineup that could give them the help they need. This is a team in need of a big righty bat, that they aren't going to sign. They are stuck with their current unsatisfying solutions at second base and catcher. The bullpen is better, and should blow fewer games, but that was merely a nice step in the right direction. There was more work to be done, and the team does not seem intent on doing what they need to do to put them conclusively over the hump for 2009. Mets fans today should feel disgusted that their team could have made the big move to put them into the playoffs for 2009, but instead chose to play hardball with the toughest agent in baseball, and then acting surprised when everything blew up in their face.
Mets Starting Pitcher Options – Pro/ConWednesday, January 7th, 2009
With rumors flying over who the Mets might be signing to fill out their rotation for 2009, I thought it would be a good time to look at what each man out there brings to the table. Here is a list of guys who have been linked to the Mets offseason plans in some form or another over the past few weeks.
Derek Lowe
Pros: Sinker ball pitcher, does not allow many home runs, shoulders heavy workload year after year (having thrown 180 or more innings a season the past seven years), a solid but unspectacular six strikeouts per nine innings, low walk rates, sinkerballers tend to age well, probably the best pitcher remaining on the market right now.
Cons:Â Scott Boras client, currently about $12-16 million difference between perceived value and the contract offer made by the Mets, seeking contract that will pay him until he turns 40, Type A free agent will require first round compensation pick to whomever signs him (which will actually be a second round pick, meaning the Mets won't pick until the third round of the draft)
Lowe has dominated the headlines for the Mets ever since the J.J. Putz trade was consummated, as he has become their main target. Most of the concerns surrounding Lowe center around his age and his contract demands, as right now the two sides seem to be $4 million apart per season, and the Mets seem unwilling to go beyond three years. He is probably the most likely option for the Mets, and I suspect a 3 year/$42 million plus an option year which could be obtained through reaching innings pitched minimums would be the likely ending point should the Mets sign Lowe.
Oliver Perez
Pros:Â Youngest pitcher on the market, offers the upside of a #1/#2 starter, high strikeout totals, left-handed in a division with big left-handed bats
Cons:Â Also a Scott Boras client, looking for a long term deal, has been extremely erratic (to say the least), even in good seasons, will walk a bunch and allow a lot of home runs, does not eat up a lot of innings due to early exits, which are a big part of the Oliver Perez Experience, a Type A free agent who would net the team two high draft picks if he signed elsewhere
That last point might be the most important; had Oliver Perez only been a Type B free agent, I think the Mets might be making more of an attempt to resign him, since he would only net the team a sandwich pick if he signed elsewhere. But with the Mets having already lost a draft pick for signing K-Rod, allowing Perez to sign elsewhere would bring back two high draft picks in return. That is the reason why the Mets haven't aggresively tried to bring back Perez. Then there is the massive inconsistency from start to start, and Perez's general flakiness, and it would seem to make more sense to let another team deal with all of this, even acknowledging that he could emerge as a #1 starter elsewhere.
Randy Wolf
Pros:Â Not a Scott Boras client, left-handed, good strikeout pitcher
Cons:Â Last year was the first time since 2004 where Wolf had even as many as 136 IP, moderately high walk rate, high home run rate (which could be depressed greatly at Citi Field)
Randy Wolf would be a decent option for the Mets as their #5 starter. Unfortunately, he was just good enough last year to where he seems to be establishing a market above that of a low end starter, despite years of injury problems. At one point, Wolf looked like a safe bet to emerge as a very good pitcher, but injuries have kept him from realizing that potential. I'd like him more if the Mets sign either Lowe or Perez, but not as a fallback option if they fail to sign either. But as I said, his good few months in Houston have likely priced him out of that market.
Tim Redding
Pros: Would be cheap filler for the back of the rotation, solid strikeout rate, ate 182 IP for the Nationals last year, would keep Jon Niese in Buffalo for a little while longer
Cons: High number of home runs allowed last season while pitching half of his games at Nationals Park, high walk rate, wants a two year contract (and might get it)
Tim Redding is not a good pitcher, but for a #5 pitcher, you could certainly do worse. He was underqualified to be a #1 or 2 in Washington, but slotted against lesser pitchers with a good offense behind him, he would probably have a nice year in New York. Personally, if I were his agent, I'd want him to sign a one year deal with the Mets, where a good offense and defense behind him will artificially inflate his win totals, making him a good bet to get a 2-3 year deal worth more money next year, where the free agent crop is thinner. Redding ultimately isn't anything to get excited about, but would be a good option to fill out the rotation.
Pedro Martinez
Pros: Mets fans still love the guy
Cons: He was really, REALLY bad last year, and is not at all durable
I think a lot of Mets fans would love to see Pedro back in blue and orange, and hell, if he learns to adjust his approach to match his current skillset, he could still be an effective pitcher. But I think at some point, it's time to move on. We are now three full seasons removed from Pedro's last good season, and expecting him to be that Pedro at this point simply is not realistic. With Pedro, it's always a major question of whether he'll be healthy enough to get through another season, and I don't really care to go through that again. I love Pedro, I love his personality and I love what he brought to the 2005 Mets. But it's time to move on.
Jon Niese
Pros: Has pitched very well in the minors, will be a future solid starter for the Mets
Cons: He isn't ready to be that in 2009
The Mets made a mistake in hoping Mike Pelfrey would be ready to give the Mets good innings in 2007, and paid for it with growing pains. He didn't really fully develop until the middle of last year. The team likes to rush their prospects along, so it wouldn't surprise me to see Niese pushed as a potential low end starter next year, but he isn't ready for the role and would be better off spending the year in Buffalo honing his pitches a little more, and only pitching in Queens if there is an injury to another starter. Eventually, I think Niese is going to be a part of what the Mets want to do, but he isn't ready yet.
Top Free Agents: Who Should the Mets Go For?Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Ben Reiter at SI wrote a very interesting (if pure fiction) article on cnnsi.com earlier this week that ranks the top 50 free agents and predicts where they might end up. According to the author, the Mets will wind up with Oliver Perez, Bobby Abreu, Juan Cruz, Orlando Hudson. Hmm… I'm not too thrilled with this list. So I'm making my own. Here's the top 15 free agents (according to this article) and my opinions about how adamant the Mets should be in their pursuits.
1. CC Sabathia- Imagine a rotation with Santana and Sabathia…. And then put it out of your mind and forget about it. It ain't happening! Granted, I would love to see CC and his .247 batting average against pitching game 2 of the season at Citi Field, but if he wants to stay in the NL he'll go back to the Brewers or off to the West Coast, and if he wants to go East, he'd be dumb to turn down the mint that the Yankees will throw at him. I'm not holding my breath here.
2. Mark Teixeira- If the Mets hadn't picked up Carlos Delgado's $12 million option, I would make the case that he's the most important missing piece to the lineup. But since there's such a small chance that the Mets will deal Delgado and then sign Teixiera that I won't waste my time.
3. Manny Ramirez- Personally, I would LOVE this signing. I know that Manny has had his issues, but 1700 RBIs and 500 HRs… and he's not slowing down at all? I'd be perfectly fine seeing his right-handed bat in the cleanup spot behind or in front of David Wright for the next four years. If Omar can sign him for $20 million per, this would be a big plus for the lineup.
4. Francisco Rodriguez- The pros and cons of Rodriguez have already been well-chronicled on this and many other sites, so I won't bother with the stats. BUT I will say this: if he commands more than $10 million per, spend the money on Brian Fuentes instead. I'm going to assume that he'll want more $12-15 million per, and I'd rather see Fuentes closing games and that extra cash thrown at a bullpen upgrade.
5. AJ Burnett- He's had his health issues in the past but the Mets are losing Pedro and Hernandez, so the health of the starters won't be as much of a worry in 2009. With that said, when he opted out of his Toronto contract, he catapulted above Derek Lowe on my starters wish list. His ERA isn't stellar but his high strike out totals and career .237 batting average against show me a lot of promise. Throw him in as a third starter behind Santana and Pelfrey and before Maine and we'll be watching a really good show. A four-year deal for $12-15 per is the range I'd be comfortable with.
6. Derek Lowe- If (and only if) Burnett is off the table, the Mets must go hard after Derek Lowe. He may not be the guy to get the win in the big game, but he's the guy who can get the team to the big game—and after two straight September collapses, we need a guy who is consistent and experienced. He's been on winners and his offspead stuff would be nice to put behind the power of Pelfrey in a rotation. A three-year deal would be great for $12-14 per.
7. Rafael Furcal- No.
8. Orlando Cabrera- Cabrera is noted as a high character guy, and even if he wasn't he's not Luis Castillo so he'd be welcome in Flushing. But unless the Mets find a taker who would swap a bad contract for a bad contract, Castillo will be the starting 2B on opening day 2009. Oh well.
9. Oliver Perez- I've got no problem retaining Perez, but it'd have to be for the right price. He's shown that he's got a very high upside, but his inconsistency is too frustrating to be truly worth big-time money. He's fine as a forth starter making $8-9 per for three years or so, but not much more than that. And personally, I don't think that that sort of money will get it done. Someone will offer him more and he'll take it.
10. Adam Dunn- So a powerful right-handed bat in right field would be nice. But it seems to me that Dunn is basically a clone of Carlos Delgado. Neither will hit for a high average but they'll both drive in guys and hit long balls. Dunn does get in base a lot, but his high strike out totals will negate any potential for moving guys along—one of the Mets big flaws has been their inability to advance runners and be unselfish, and it seems to me that that is exactly the definition of Adam Dunn. I'd be okay with signing him, but not ecstatic. Maybe a short-term deal for $8-10 per, but no more.
11. Brian Fuentes- Since the numbers are pretty comparable except save totals, I'd rather see Fuentes as the closer than Francisco Rodriguez.  Since he'll command less money to sign, his high strikeout totals will be very welcome at Citi Field for a four-year deal for $10 million per.
12. Kerry Wood- This is a tough one. I don't seem him leaving Chicago, but if he does he could be a big hit in New York. But should he be? He'll strike out a lot of guys and he'll be a good presence in the pen, so if Omar can get him for less than $10 million per, this could be a good signing.
13. Pat Burrell- Though he's toned down his status as a Mets-Killer over the years, he's a strong righty bat that is a touch older than Adam Dunn, though I'm not sure if the age is a positive or a negative. Neither can plan the field well, but with Endy Chavez able to come off the bench as a defensive replacement late in games that may not be a huge deal. So is Burrell a better fit then done? Simple: Yes. He's played in Philly and gotten booed (a lot) over the years, yet he's come alive when it matters. Without him, the Phillies don't make it out of the first round of the playoffs. If Omar can get him for $10-12 million per, this would be a good upgrade.
14. Bobby Abreu- The Mets do NOT need another aging left-handed bat, and since Abreu has diminished from the player he once was in his prime, I have to believe that he'll only get worse. He's not a bad player, but he's also not worth the money he'll command. Leave this one alone, Omar.
15. Ryan Dempster- His 2008 ERA was nearly a run and a half better than his career average, so I have to assume that his paycheck will be higher than his worth. But he's got experience as a starter and as a bullpen arm, so his value could be big for this team. But if the price is high, Dempster doesn't belong in Flushing. Maybe three years for $8 million per? Beyond that and let him go elsewhere.


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2014 Cabin John Train brochure
Along with the many fine features in this popular park, both children and adults are entranced by a ride on the miniature train. The train is a replica of the 1863 C.P. Huntington, a 4-2-4T steam locomotive purchased by the Southern Pacific Railroad and named in honor of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific Company. A party room at the Cabin John train station is available for rentals.
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Spring Registration Is Underway at Montgomery Parks!
From ice skating and tennis to nature programs and summer camps, you'll find fun, convenient and affordable ways to entertain your entire family in Montgomery Parks! Check out information on sports and athletic classes, nature and outdoors programs, ways to explore History in the Parks, Spring and Summer Camps, and more things to do! Start planning spring fun for the entire family today.
Book Your Party at the Cabin John Train ONLINE!
NEW in 2014! You can now book your party online at www.ParkPASS.org. We're now accepting reservations for spring and summer parties in the Cabin John Train Party Room.
If you already have a ParkPASS account and know your login and PIN number, you're ready to go! If you don't have a ParkPASS account, why not sign up for one right now? It's free and only takes a few minutes. If you sign up on a Friday, it could take up to 48 hours to get your login and PIN numbers emailed to you; turnaround is quicker if you sign up Monday-Thursday, or Sunday. If you have questions about ParkPASS, please call 301-495-2580 M-F 10am - 2pm.
How to Book Your Party Room Online
Go to www.ParkPASS.org and click on the blue "Rental Information and Booking" tab up top, then click on "Book Facility by Location" at the bottom of the page. Then in the "Complex" box, scroll down to find "Cabin John Train." On the next page, click and hold the arrow next to the empty "Function" box, and choose between "Cabin John Train Party Room 2 hours" or "Cabin John Train Party Room 5 hours." Then pick your date, and available options for the Train Party Room will appear. Check "Book" and click "Add," and you're on your way! To make your reservations by phone or in person, see the 2014 Cabin John Train brochure
Now Hiring: Train Operators!
We are hiring seasonal help in the Cabin John Regional Park at the Train Station. Duties include the daily operation of a miniature train and ticket sales for the facility from April through October. Tasks include daily opening and closing duties, safe operation of the train rides, fiscal accountability for ticket sales, handling party room rentals and cleanliness of the overall facility. Ability to deal with large volumes of patrons in an outdoor setting is a must. Qualifications: Minimum age: 18. Weekend work is mandatory. This is an ideal position for a senior adult who'd like to work part-time.
Applications must be made online. To apply, go to http://agency.governmentjobs.com/mncppc/default.cfm and click on the job title: "Montgomery County Seasonal Positions – Winter/Spring/Summer 2014". Apply for Train/Carousel Ride Operators/Program Manager Aide and pick "Cabin John Train" as the location.
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April: 12-20, 26 & 27 ---------------------- 10am-6pm
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Tickets good for one ride are $1.75 each, and children under age 2 may ride free with a paying adult. Get a book of 10 for $15.75 and save 10%!
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The Party Room at the Cabin John Miniature Train is perfect for your child's next birthday party or family celebration. The spacious Train Station Party Room features a fun train motif and can accommodate up to 50 people. As part of the birthday party package during the Regular Season (spring, summer and early fall) you'll get:
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Please click here for the 2014 Brochure with Party Room booking information.
In the winter and early spring, the train is put to bed, but the Party Room at the Train Station is still available for fun from December through March at reduced, off-season rates! The party room is heated with restroom facilities.
There may still be a few off-season (December, 2013- April 11, 2014) dates available; call us for more information. We're now taking reservations for the 2014 Regular Season (April 12-September 30). Weekend dates go fast, so reserve online today or call us!
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The New York City Council has approved the use of municipal identification cards that will provide its nearly half a million undocumented residents with a way to prove their identity. Democracy Now! co-host and New York Daily News columnist Juan González says the progressive initiative is a big step forward for the immigrant...June 27, 2014 | Story
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Luxurious Mediterranean estate situated on 8.4 lush acres. Beautiful white marble floors. Gourmet kitchen, subzero, stainless, media room, multiple wet bars, game room with 4 bowling alleys. Huge master suite. 7 fireplaces. 2 bedroom guest house.Pecan orchards. Private pond. 2 water slides, diving board, bronze dolphin fountains.Outdoor kitchen dishwasher, microwave, refrig, grill, workout room. 2 elevators.Basketball court.10 car garage.
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This picturesque, private European Tuscan style estate w park-like views, offers French-inspired design to make this home truly unique! Dramatic ceiling treatments & arches, distressed hardwood floors, hand-painted wall finishes & bullnose corners accent the sprawling interior, perfect for entertaining & open to the pool & outdoor patio spaces. Arched blt-in bar & wine storage w exposed Old Chicago brick. Separate guest home w full bath & alarm.
Experience luxury living w a country feel amidst a natural treed setting on a 1.6 acre lot in DWG! Open, relaxed living spaces & kitchen w gorgeous hardwood flrs & tall ceilings made up of exposed white-wash beams & rafters for rustic appeal. KIT w granite, SS appl, prof grade gas stove, blt-in fridge. Sitting area off of kitchen. All Bdrms have own bath, some w blt-ins. Huge GMRM w bar. Mud rm. Amazing private bkyd w diving pool & sports court.
Enchanted Gardens! On almost one half acre, this home offers everything a family wants! Spacious rooms abound! Master bath just renovated! Central living area w- tons of windows looking out to the pool! Huge kitchen open to hearth or breakfast room w- see thru fireplace to family room! Plenty of covered porches! Large diving pool! Big yard! Gated & circle front driveways! 5th bedroom makes a great study w- wood flooring!
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Françoise Bollack Architects made the most of a bizarre space — a tiny top-floor loft with 3 levels and roof access. The design opens up the bulk of the interior and optimizes the space with smartly placed storage…
This loft apartment located in a late 19th century row house presents an interesting challenge: how to recover the graceful proportions of the living room while taking advantage of the possibilities offered by an earlier alteration which had inserted intermediate levels in the building's original high-ceiling spaces. Our design reconfigures the apartment's three levels to take advantage of natural light and the south views to the owners' landscaped deck outside. The apartment is outfitted like the interior of a boat: the stair doubles up as a storage element, the mezzanine railing is a bookcase, there are storage bins within the floor structure, every inch is used throughout. The resulting spaces flow into each other and we made extensive use of computer walkthroughs during the design process to let the Owners see what their home would be.
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Great place! I like the look of the painted white brick FP and the unfinished brick on the adjacent walls and down the stairs.
Also, great built-in book shelves and green space.
yes the brick and the white fireplace are so nice and the wood selected is perfect making this a very warm space..having a rail in the living area would of closed off the space but not having one would make me nervous. I guess no pets or kids allowed here and have your guest sign a release.
Full house tour, please!!!
This is awesome!
Wow. How tall is the building this is in? They've made an elegant oasis out of something others would resign to as a cramped attic.
Beautiful place. I'm clumsy so the staircase scares me a bit but it's lovely aesthetically.
very odd space, ala being john malcovich--they really did the better than could be expected.
I'd have to put some sort of railing up, a mostly see thru cable system would still look great.
The sleek, dark "modern" wainscotting breaks up the high room (in a high house) horizontally and must visually enlarge the space.
Fresh take on the usually traditional wood:)
This is as close to a house tour as you can get for the space: http://www.francoisebollackarchitects.com/projects/index.php?iid=60&cid=6
OOo! Pretty! Don't fall though!
Interesting how we all see so differently...the white fireplace, to me, looks wrong-would look so much sleeker with the mantle and the brick painted out dark grey or black-there's enough wood elsewhere to keep things warm...beautiful space regardless!
Excellent use of the space but I have to agree with the other posters about the lack of railings. It may look great but I know I'd end up in the ER within a week, klutz that I am.
the fireplace seems out-of-time, not nearly modern enough for the rest of the surroundings.
As an architect I'm also baffled at how many people get away with staircases that don't comply with building codes.
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KIEV, Ukraine—"When was the last time you personally experienced anti-Semitism?" I asked the executive director of the organized Jewish community for the city of Kiev. He gave me a puzzled look. "You mean, called me a Zhid or something like that?" "Anything." He thought for a moment. "Back in Soviet times."
I put the same question to a roomful of senior citizens in one of the country's 32 Jewish social-service centers. The group, which was mostly women, laughed out loud. They faced plenty of problems: the standard old-age pension in Ukraine is only about $100 a month, pitifully little even in this poor country. But the Russian claim that gangs of neo-Nazis are roaming Ukraine, threatening its Jewish population, evoked unanimous scorn from every Jewish person I talked to in the country.
On the way out of the center, I stopped to talk to one of the two security guards in the driveway. As in all European cities, Kiev's Jewish organizations take precautions. But this guard was nothing like the well-armed gendarmes you see patrolling Jewish institutions in France or Belgium. A friendly faced, middle-aged man armed only with a walkie-talkie, he told me that in four years on duty he had encountered not a single threat. I asked if the situation had changed in any way since the flight of the Soviet-backed president, Viktor Yanukovych, on February 22. "During the protests [in January and February], we had extra guards," he said. "But now we're back to normal."
The most audacious part of the Russian propaganda campaign against Ukraine is the way it suppresses and reverses the truth about the violence here: It was initiated and sustained by Russian-backed authorities. On November 21, under Russian pressure, the Ukrainian government rejected a trade treaty with the European Union, triggering massive protests across the country, and most visibly in Kiev's central Independence Square, or Maidan. These protests were brutally broken up by plainclothes thugs as police stood by. Then the police joined in, with escalating brutality, including cold-blooded sniper fire against protesters and then against those who aided the wounded.
Central Kiev is now filled with poignant memorials of the struggle: candles, flowers, faded posters of people who went missing—and who are now known to have been killed by the authorities, their bodies tossed without ceremony into communal graves. The city still bears the marks of the violence, especially the torched and empty trade-union building overlooking Independence Square, which police invaded on the night of February 18. The square is still blocked off with barricades of tires, paving stones, and odd bits of trash: the metal balcony of an apartment, a soft-drink refrigerator with the glass front torn off. Men (young and not so young) in military uniforms seized from armories in western Ukraine sit encamped all over the square—unwilling to go home because the story doesn't seem over but uncertain what to do now that the drama has shifted away from Kiev to the country's frontiers, which are threatened by Russian invasion.
Like Kiev itself, Ukraine's government institutions also have a battered and broken look—in particular, the now-reviled police. The widespread distrust of the police, who in any case aren't much in evidence, forms the basis of whatever fear Ukraine's Jews do feel. If trouble were to arise, who would they call?
The good news is, there isn't much trouble. Since February 22, there have been six notable anti-Semitic incidents in Ukraine: four involving the defacement or desecration of synagogues and cemeteries, and two involving outright violence. These incidents have alarmed Jewish communities worldwide. In Ukraine, however, they are regarded with unanimous skepticism, if not outright disbelief.
All my conversations on these subjects were off-the-record. The incidents are ongoing police matters, and older Ukrainians have developed a hard-learned caution about being identified in the media. However, I spoke to more than a dozen people who occupied a variety of leadership roles within the Ukrainian Jewish community. And not a single person took seriously the idea that these anti-Jewish incidents had been carried out by "neo-Nazis."
Take the most visually spectacular incident: the daubing of a swastika and anti-Semitic slogans on a synagogue in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea. The incident occurred the night before the Russians invaded, creating convenient photographic confirmation of one of Moscow's pretexts for invasion: the supposed neo-Nazi menace inside Ukraine. The synagogue's security camera recorded that a lone individual, never subsequently identified, was responsible for the graffiti. There had been no previous such incident in the nearly two decades since the local Jewish community recovered the synagogue from communist-era confiscation.
The circumstances surrounding the two violent anti-Semitic incidents are even murkier. The victim of one is a well-known and respected figure in Kiev's Jewish life, who wears his hair and dresses in a visibly Jewish way. He was attacked suddenly from behind at night and stabbed in the leg, never managing to identify who assaulted him. The second incident involved a couple bursting into a local synagogue one night and claiming that they had been surrounded by a gang and physically threatened, but had hailed a taxi and escaped just in time.
In early March, leaders of Ukraine's Jewish community—which today, according to most estimates, numbers in the low hundreds of thousands—published an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which they declared their support for a "sovereign, democratic, and united Ukraine." "Your certainty about the growth of anti-Semitism in Ukraine … does not correspond to the actual facts," they wrote.
There's no denying that the relationship between Ukrainians and Jews has historically been a difficult one. Jews came in large numbers to Ukrainian territory in the 1500s, when the country was carved into estates by the Polish crown. Aristocratic landlords recruited literate and numerate Jews to manage these new estates—to oversee the production of grain and ship it down the Vistula river to feed Western Europe. For the enserfed Ukrainian peasant, the Polish king and his nobles were remote figures. It was a Jewish middleman who typically supervised the peasant's labor, collected rents, and enforced the estate's monopoly on the distilling and sale of vodka. To the peasant, that middleman became the face of foreign exploitation. The hatred this engendered was reinforced by the teachings of an Orthodox church that vilified Jews as killers of Christ who still feasted on bread soaked in Christian blood. These attitudes persist, alas, to this day. One rabbi I met in Ukraine told me that an Orthodox priest had refused an invitation to an interfaith tea-and-cake meeting at his synagogue with the explanation, "I don't eat blood."
One of the worst massacres of European Jews between the Crusades and World War II took place in Ukraine in the 1640s and 1650s. Half Ukraine's Jews lost their lives, and the devastated community would not begin to recover until the 19th century. Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the warlord who unleashed that massacre, appears on horseback in a statue that dominates the square in front of Kiev's cathedral. It was erected more than a century ago by tsarist authorities who appreciated his role as the leader who delivered Ukraine to Russia. It's more than a little disconcerting, however, that his face still decorates the five-hryvnia note of independent Ukraine.
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Singing Circle w/ John Yankee @ John Wesley United Methodist Church
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I wonder who paid for the shirt he's wearing in the photo? This guy is clearly like his shirt. DOPEY!
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Jack Youngblood! What a GREAT player back in the day. I am pretty sure I wouldn't want to piss him off, even today.
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He was already a convicted felon and the punishment is what? Electronic monitoring????? That will teach him!!!!!!!!!
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It was in fact Sanger who represented one of the defendants that murdered Lloyd Hembree back in the 1990's. He also represented Jonathan Childers who brutally murdered both of his parents.
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Welcome to justice in the liberal village of Santa Barbara. The only place on the face of the earth on par with San Francisco for leniency. Between the liberal judges who rule by their feelings and not the law, liberal jurors that wear rose colored glasses, and now Assembly Bill (AB109) that rarely sends anyone to prison any longer. It's a great day folks to be a criminal in the once great state of California. What do you think the intent was of the defendant when there are 16 separate and distinct stab wounds? Apparently he wasn't trying to kill the victim? REALLY?????
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- Naeem Khattak
- Peshawar
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Remote control killing of humans. Is there any way we can justify it?
For the last so many years , one country is involved in using drones to end human life in parts of another country, far away from its geographical borders. Without getting into the right or wrongs of the motives in doing so, is this what human knowledge is for. Has the humanity travelled this far to end human life in such a miserable way , if there is a decent way to end human life at all. Is there an end to revenge ? Can we put limits on the extent a country can go and kill humans in the name of war? Where is our human civilization?
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Mar 20 2012: I don't believe there are any justifications for warfare in general. Using drones is just another way of protecting American soldiers, in that they don't have to go and do the actual fighting themselves. But then, lives are lost in either scenario. It is very sad that human kind have developed technology that would allow for one person from across the world to decide whether someone lives or die with a command or a click of a button.
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