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If Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidency on Election Day, he will probably have the heartland to thank. Mr. Obama today holds a solid lead in Iowa, a slim lead in Missouri and barely trails Republican Sen. John McCain in Indiana - three states that backed President Bush in 2004 and represent 29 electoral votes, more than enough to make up Republicans' margin of victory last time.
The Washington Times logged more than 1,100 miles driving the Midwest to gauge voter sentiment before the Nov. 4 election and found deep discontent with the nation's course, severe economic woes and discomfort with the possibility of the first black president, all of which may sway the results.
In Missouri, where the campaign has more than 40 offices and an army of grass-roots volunteers, some of Mr. Obama's support comes from fed-up Republicans such as John Lindsey, 28, a restaurant server in Columbia who said he regrets his vote for Mr. Bush in 2004.
"Obama and Biden, more than McCain's party, they represent change and not just rhetoric," Mr. Lindsey said. "It feels like enough people want change and they may think, like I do, that the country really needs the other party this time."
The Show Me State has an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent, its highest in 17 years, and nearly 800,000 people are living at the poverty line.
A car dealership employee from Jefferson City said she sees more McCain voters in town, but thinks Mr. Obama might win Missouri because "they are for the people, for the workers."
Both voters attended an event starring vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the capital city's Memorial Park, where a supporter enthusiastically responded to campaign promises with "Get 'er done!"
However, along Missouri's rural roads near the Ozark Mountains, there are troubling signs for the Democrats.
A mysterious billboard along Highway 63 in West Plains highlights Mr. Obama's middle name, Hussein, and includes a drawing of the candidate wearing a turban, a takeoff on the inaccurate rumors Mr. Obama is not a Christian. It charges the Democrat would increase "abortions, same-sex marriages, taxes [and] gun regulations."
A shop owner said he was appalled by the sign, which appeared one morning and has generated spirited discussion in the local paper the Daily Quill.
"It's like the KKK. Someone put it up and no one will say who did it. I guess it's well within your First Amendment rights, but you should own up to it," he said.
Not far from the Obama billboard, another sign declared: "Had enough? Vote Democrat."
Missouri has chosen the winner of the presidential election every cycle since 1956, and before that, every cycle since the turn of the century.
Mr. Obama, who declined to accept public funding and the limits it places on campaign spending, is dominating the heartland airwaves. Obama ads portraying the Democrat as the moderate on health care, attacking Mr. McCain for his health care plan and for proposing big spending are running more regularly than McCain ads across the Midwest.


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Palouse Prairie Charter School held its annual enrollment lottery on Friday, March 27th. We have a few openings this fall and you can find a post-lottery application below.
Applications are accepted over the counter on a 'first come, first served' basis. Seats are offered to prospective students for grades with open seats and names will be added to our waiting list for grades with no current open seats.
Before School Care
Palouse Prairie Charter School offers before school care from 7:30-8:10 am. During this time, students can get support for homework, read, or play some games. The cost is $50 a month, approximately $2.75 a day. If you are interested in enrolling, please download the form below and turn it into the office.
Student Supply Donation for the 2015-2016 School Year
PPCS asks for a school supply donation between $30 and $50 per child, towards the purchase of school supplies. We ask for this donation instead of having families shop for school supply items as we recognize that often shopping for school supplies is burdensome on families. Please submit checks along with enrollment paperwork so the school might be able to purchase materials prior to the students' first day of class.
Checks can be made payable to Palouse Prairie Charter School or PPCS, and mailed to our PO Box.
*If the purchase of these supplies creates a hardship for your family, please contact the school Director.
Free and Reduced Lunch Applications
Free and Reduced Lunch Applications for the 2015-16 school year have been released and are available HERE.
If you are eligible, please fill out a form and turn it in to the office with your enrollment paperwork. This is a form that needs to be turned in every year to receive free or reduced lunches. If your family is eligible and will not use the lunch services please complete a form anyway, as grants and funding use data about lunch status and the school needs current numbers. Detailed information from this form is confidential.

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As the first shot rolls on Tomorrowland, we see Clooney's Frank Walker talking to the camera about his pessimistic predilections towards the future. Once he is done telling his story, the camera pans over Britt Robertson's Casey Newton, someone self-dubbed as an optimist as she smiles into the camera while Frank grunts.
It would be fair to say that watching these two ideological agendas play out amongst a swath of beautiful CGI would be fun, to say the least. Unfortunately, that's not the case here. Brad Bird's newest …


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Welcome to Bedlam Heights, a hip newly converted apartment building on the edge of a British metropolis. The high quality rental apartments offer stylish 21st century living, but behind the facade lie unimaginable horrors. For this former pre-Victorian asylum is haunted by the ghosts of its dark and violent past. Kate, who lives and works at Bedlam Heights, thinks anyone who believes in ghosts is a fool. Overly self-confident but ultimately self-destructive, she is surprised by the unexpected arrival of Jed - her adopted cousin. Jed has a history of mental illness and sees visions of the dead, the past and ghosts. He's convinced Kate is in danger from the spooks of Bedlam, but unbeknown to him, Kate and friends Molly and Ryan, the truth will be far more terrifying.
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Quirky, charming, spooky
This show is just out there enough to keep you guessing as to what comes next. The ensemble cast works together in very interesting ways - they're distinct, but they bring out the best (and sometimes worst) in each other's characters.
If you're looking for smart fun with some chills, this is your show.
Not captivating, but interesting. Characters on the most part are pretty one dimensional, but well acted. Setting is eerie, as is the whole tone of the piece. The plots are pretty straightforward and make sense in a ghosty sort of way :-) All in all, I'll keep watching. It is entertaining if you are into quirky, spooky stuff at all.
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Jen Bunney wed Taylor Dunphy last weekend, and her best friends Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were on hand for a mini-reunion of The Hills!
Jen Bunney wed Taylor Dunphy last weekend, and her best friends Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were on hand for a mini-reunion of The Hills!
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt say their hit series The Hills was fake, which is old news by now, but they say it was worse than you even know.
The gruesome twosome visited Bethenny this week to set the record straight, with Spencer Pratt claiming he went along with the scripts for the money.
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag shared the story of their rise and fall from fame in an E! special Monday, and there were some interesting revelations.
How do you blow through a staggering $10 million in a few years' time? The Hills stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag can tell you from experience!
"We were immature," Pratt says. "Every time we'd go out, we'd order $4,000 bottles of wine. Heidi was going to the mall and dropping $20,000, $30,000 a day."
To THG, it feels like 2008 all over again.
To the United Kingdom, most of which had no idea who the hell Heidi Montag was until she showed up on Celebrity Big Brother ... it just feels like 2013.
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, who are apparently still alive somewhere, recently dropped a BOMBSHELL revelation about their former MTV hit show The Hills:
It wasn't all what it appeared to be. Spoiler alert!!!!!
Ever since the first reports of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt splitting up, Hills fans understandably assumed wondered if it was another big PR hoax.
Looks like it isn't.
Spencer Pratt is out of control. We've known this for some time at THG, but now it has gotten to the point where even his friends and family see he is losing it.
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Harrodsburg, Kentucky (map) | (859) 748-5252
Sites: 70 | Latest Rate: $35.00 | 4 Reviews
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Sep 2015 - $35.00
We stayed here for our visit to the wonderful Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill just 9 miles away. The park is well-maintained. It is on the cliffs over looking Lake Harrington, and crammed full of seasonal guests. We arrived late in the day and got a back-in spot that was a little short for our 30 feet, but we parked at an angle and were able to keep our nose off the road. There is a marina a short walk down the road. We swam our dog there. We were surprised to see the sign saying that the marina charges for launching kayaks and canoes as well as power boats. That area of Kentucky has mostly narrow windy roads, and the road into this campground is no exception. - User3302
Sep 2009 - $30.00
This park is under new ownership and the new owners will be adding stronger Wi-Fi and cable TV next year. It's in the hills, on terraced sites and quiet. Lots of seasonals stay here as the marina is very close. A beautiful, man-made lake setting. Cell phone service is spotty due to the mountains. TV reception was good for our rig, as was the internet. If I lived closer I'd look into a seasonal site here. Nice place with friendly staff. We were here for a family reunion so spent several nights. - diamondg
Jun 2009 - $30.00
Campground is actually near Bergin and difficult to get to. We stayed here because we could not find anything else in the area. There are new owners are are cleaning up the campground but it is full of seasonal rigs on the water. There are a few spots for overnighters and all backin. Sites are wide and lots of room for slideouts but much too short for anything over 25 feet. We had much difficulty getting our 32' rig backed in and there is only the narrow road to jockey back and forth in because the side opposite the site is hilly. You must back in next to a fence. My rig actually stuck out onto the road a little and no place to park tow vehicle unless there is an empty site next to you. It is very muddy after a rain. Very difficult to side level and required 3" on one side to get level enough to where I didn't feel it would be an issue with the fridge. Wi-Fi is very weak and you much drive next to the owners trailer to receive. No cell phone coverage. - Tigggerdad
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First, and most impt, the road in is difficult to say the least. The first 75% is a narrow 2 lane road with no shoulder. The last 25% is one lane. Two RVs cannot pass. An RV and a truck can't pass. Highly suggest that if you have a tow vehicle, unhook before you take access road and let tow vehicle lead the way. Once you get there you will be greeted by the wonderful owners/mgrs. They are proud of their campground and in many ways show it. Grounds are well kept. This is essentially 3 CGs. The sites that back up to the river (actually on hill 40' above). They are spacious and level, but the asphalt pad is short so you may have to put your rear wheels on the grass as we did. The center sites are long pull thrus. But some are far from level and you may have trouble leveling. The further away from the office, they become almost level. The sites that back up to the woods also are far from level and short. Suited for TTs. There is no cable. River and pull thrus can get satellite signals. No Verizon service. They do have a phone you can use. The dumpster was .4 miles from our MH and they don't offer pickup as they should. Beautiful pool, office, bath house and laundry was .25 miles from our MH. Despite these negatives this is a beautiful place to stay. Make your Rez far in advance since the riverfront sites are mostly taken by seasonals. Very quiet. We would definitely stay here again. - Scott Charlton
Jun 2013 - $35.00
Stay here if you must, but we warned. The road leading to this park is a very narrow two lane highway. It is approximately 5 miles off the road. The last quarter mile is a one lane highway. The laundry does not dry the clothes using $1.00 worth of coins as indicated. It is not opened 24 hours. It is not a big park, but settled in next to a river, surrounded by trees which makes for nice camping. A good spot if you are not touring the area. Low water pressure. Great if you want to launch a boat, they have a launch ramp. There is barely cell phone reception, however, we did have a booster antenna and that gave us three bars. They keep referencing to use their Wi-Fi, which we would hardly ever connect to. They do have a land line phone at the office and are more than accommodating to allow use without charge. Pull through sites are curved and not friendly for 5th wheels. Using this campground to tour the area wasn't our first choice and probably wouldn't stay again to be coming and going. Very nice to just stay put and camp. - Badge
May 2013 - $35.00
Great park, very well manicured. Previous posts about steep road are true, but trees are trimmed and our 40' 5th wheel made it down. Right on the river with docks available. Very nice owners, always there willing to help out in any way. Would definitely stay here again. - dj4pres


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MEXICO CITY—The JW Marriott Hotel Mexico City has completed a nearly yearlong renovation and is set to introduce its refreshed guestrooms, lobby, Xanat Bistro & Terrace, health club and executive lounge.
The JW Marriott Mexico City rises 26 stories above the Polanco District with 283 rooms and 29 suites. The hotel is located in the business and entertainment sector at Andres Bello 29, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
The Mexico City hotel's guestrooms, which have marble bathrooms and floor-to-ceiling windows, received fresh paint and new carpet and draperies. The room's modern technologies include high-speed wireless Internet access and 37-in. LCD flat-screen TVs. Minibars, chairs with ottomans, lighted makeup mirrors and 24-hour room service are among the other amenities.
The newly renovated lobby at the Mexico City hotel is designed to make visitors feel welcome. Guests can unwind in private comfort zones and receive individualized attention at check-in and check-out thanks to semi-private pedestals. The new dining addition to the renovated hotel is Xanat Bistro & Terrace. The gastronomic restaurant utilizes national ingredients with a modern interpretation.
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2013 Honda CR-V LX 2.4 from North America
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We have had some problems with the recalled park brake. The sound is apparent when first braking and we took it into the dealer. They fixed it and it worked fine for a while, but then began making noises again.
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We love it because it does everything real well. There are no surprises and we don't worry about it breaking down or needing lots of work done.
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Sadly, Leigh lost her battle with her brain cyst. We will miss her terribly!
Shortly after Leigh's brain surgery, she had started showing signs that something was wrong. We brought Leigh back to the doctor and a second MRI revealed fluid building in her cranial cavity. The doctors were confident that the fluid could be removed and the problem could be found with a second surgery. We decided that Leigh deserved that chance and went forward with the second surgery. Leigh did amazing and returned home - improving a little bit each day. However, Leigh again started showing signs that there was a problem and the incredibly difficult decision was made to let Leigh go.
We are so humbled by the outpouring of love, support, donations and prayers from so many of you. The words "Thank You" seem so inadequate.
We would also like to give a special thank you to Leigh's doctors and the entire staff at Red Bank Veterinary Hospital for their dedication, compassion, love and care they gave Leigh.
And to Michelle, Leigh's foster mom, you are a special woman who did so much for Leigh. Your strength, courage and determination leaves us in awe. You truly were Leigh's guardian angel and she loved you. We had so hoped and prayed for a better outcome for Leigh. Before Leigh passed, Michele officially adopted Leigh so she did not leave this world as a "homeless" dog. She was surrounded by love. Rest in peace Leigh. You are now whole and strong and free.
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|TELESCOPING TUBE SYSTEM FOR A VACUUM CLEANER - A telescoping tube system for a vacuum cleaner, with an inner jacket tube, an outer jacket tube, an inner suction tube and a cable, the inner jacket tube having a smaller cross section than the outer jacket tube so that the inner jacket tube and the outer jacket tube form a telescoping jacket channel, the inner suction tube being located inside of the jacket channel, and the cable being guided within the jacket channel and outside of the inner suction tube. In the telescoping tube system, losses of suction force by the intake of secondary air are reduced to a minimum and reliable cable routing is ensured by there being an outer suction tube, the outer suction tube and the inner suction tube forming an essentially closed suction channel within the jacket channel.
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"We traveled here as extended family. The layout was great...master, then 2 twins on basement level (with full bath), main floor had another master, then 2 twins (and full bath), upstairs was kitchen and living quarters. Wonderful to have A/C in all rooms!!! We saw the local chickens (children named them Royal, Raisin, and Grape) and monkeys (Plumeria, Richard, Strawberry, and Nut) from our house and balcony. Supermarket is right down the street, though, if you have transportation, I recommend Massey grocery stores inland...prices are better and shopping is much more modern. Beach close to the property is very rocky...recommend water shoes for this beach. LOVED Boatyard beach and Pebbles Beach...so kid friendly! Wonderful unit, everyone was so friendly...if we get to come back, we will want to stay there again!!!"Guest: Beth H. Date of Stay: March 2015 Review Submitted: April 3, 2015View listing
"This was our second holiday at Beautiful Shutters. It is such a lovely friendly place, relaxing and spacious. My partner and I - and our 3 teenagers, who made friends with the locals and had some great times. We bought freshly caught fish at the end of the rd, yummy barbeque. Snorkeling with the turtles on reeds bay was amazing. Jennifer the owner has always been very helpful and keen for us to have a fantastic holiday. Once again Jennifer - thank you"Guest: caroline g. Date of Stay: July 2015 Review Submitted: August 3, 2015View listing
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The hotels location is prime. It is right in the city center and there is a lot going on around it for such a small area. The rooms are pretty small, but standard to European style. Clean, friendly, and very pretty. The only downer is that wifi is only located in the lobby, not hotel rooms unless you want to pay.
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NEWARK -- Thursday was the type of game that had popped up from time to time -- the type Granville baseball coach Vince Ghiloni knew his team could produce on a more consistent basis.
But it also couldn't have come at a better time.
The Blue Aces touched up sixth-seeded Utica and starter Michael Sandman early, and Granville ended with a 6-2 Division II second-round tournament win at Don Edwards Park.
"We played liked we're supposed to," Ghiloni said. "I told them if we played good baseball, we win. That's how we felt. But the plan is to be not done yet."
Granville (17-9), which has reversed its record from a year ago, gets that chance Monday when it plays seventh-seeded Canal Winchester at 2 p.m. at Grove City. The Indians upset second-seeded Buckeye Valley on Thursday.
The Blue Aces also wouldn't mind a repeat performance of Thursday's game, when they jumped out to a 6-0 lead and got a strong pitching performance from Russell Seidell.
The first five Granville batters reached base against Sandman, with four recording hits. The big blow was a two-run single from Reece Thompson, who lined a fastball to center field to give Granville a 4-0 lead.
"It's always great to start with a bang," Thompson said. "We just wanted to give Russell some run support. We knew he was going to pitch a great game. We wanted to be aggressive and hit the fastball, and we did."
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"We knew if we could jump out early we could demoralize them," Seidell said. "It just kept us on a high level, and having that kind of cushion is great as a starting pitcher. You can't ask for much better than that."
Thanks to two errors in the bottom the third, Utica (18-6) crept back in. With two outs, Sandman and Ben Wheeler had singles, with Wheeler driving in a run. The second error in the inning made it 6-2, but Seidell got a strikeout to escape further damage.
But unlike previous games against top teams, Granville didn't let the damage escalate. Only two batters reached against Seidell the rest of the way, and the Redskins finished with just three hits.
He also was helped by an oustanding diving catch from Masters in the sixth that saved a run.
"We know we can stay in it," Ghiloni said. "We just had to shake it off, and that's what we did."
Sandman finished with four strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings of work, but the loss marked a disappointing end to what Utica coach Bren Henderson thought would be a long tournament run.
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Age-appropriate coaching has been cited as extremely important in player development. The Youth Soccer Insider begins a series on this topic with a look at the challenges faced by female players as they transition into their teen years by checking in with Tad Bobak, one of the most experienced and successful girls coaches in American youth soccer.
Bobak, who served almost three years as U.S. U-15 girls national team coach, is currently in his fifth cycle of coaching a team from U-11 to U-18 at the So Cal Blues, an all-girls club in the soccer hotbed of Southern California. Bobak is also co-director of the Blues, which have won four U.S. Youth Soccer national titles and sent scores of players to the higher levels.
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These are very sensitive topics, because, to me, boys growth is different than girls', says Bobak. Were talking about the mental and physical.
Bobak defines the physical part as speed and strength.
If theyre fortunate to keep the speed they had when they were young, thats already a big success, he says of girls moving into their teens. In many cases, that speed does not move up through the years the way it does with guys. Many times the speed of females drops through the years, unlike guys.
The physical strength of a player can increase through the years as the body evolves and gets more mature, but it can also decrease.
The physical changes happen at different times for different girls, but in general, says Bobak, Everything kind of comes together at about 14. Its a very emotional process from 11, 12 and 13. Those are very commotional years on the soccer field, especially here in the States where theres so much screaming, so much competition, so much [focus on] winning and so much hype wound up.
Its a storm and I feel for these kids to go through such pressures. Year in and year out, I see that continuously on the soccer field and its not a healthy arena for the girls because theres so much pressure on them in competitive club soccer.
If they are able to survive that and things are kind of kept in healthy way, then at 14 I kind of want to see them perform their best.
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But girls often struggle as their bodies change and Bobak has seen players who were dominant in their pre-teen years no longer make the impact on the game that they used to. The ones who manage to come through the difficult transition period are those who have a solid skill base and a high level of mental aggressiveness and competitiveness in them.
If a player body-wise is light in her frame and gets knocked around a lot, but she still puts herself into 50-50 situations, even though she ends up on the ground, because she has aggressiveness that player, when her body fills out, regains her productivity, he says.
But if from the beginning shes a more passive player mentally, and she gets knocked around, the confidence level drops a lot where many times it cannot be regained.
Bobak says that hes come to the conclusion that mental aggressiveness cant be taught.
Thirty years ago, I found the girls needed to be more mentally aggressive in this competitive arena, so I used to work out drills where theres a lot of 50-50 battles, a lot of physical confrontations, to bring out mental aggressiveness in the players, he says. I believed that I could extract that mental aggressiveness. But I found out in this 30-year process that I cant draw mental aggressiveness if they dont have that makeup.
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Now the ones who have it, I notice what Im doing is Im polishing what they have. But if theyre not able to have that aggressiveness, Im not able to bring it out. I cant polish something that doesnt exist. I havent seen anything out there to bring it out.
I can only keep aggressiveness going in a positive direction in the ones who have it.
SKILL BASE IS KEY. Players who are technically sound can persevere when their athleticism lags.
The key thing is the skill base, Bobak says. If they have good body form when they pass the ball, when they collect the ball, when they dribble the ball, when they shoot the ball it might get shaky a bit during those tumultuous years but when everything catches up, when their bodies fill out they regain in their impactfulness. The base is still there and that base can even be shined.
But if the base is not there, its never going to be there later on.
These are very sensitive things, because theyll say, Youre giving up on a kid already. But what Ive seen is that players who are 11, 12, 13 and are very helter-skelter in their base of skills, I havent come across a player whos found those skills later on in my 40 years of coaching. So I have to go with what Ive experienced. Now people who havent gone through that experience are hanging me from a tree.
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A problem in youth soccer is that the very young players who are endowed with physical strengths and mental aggressiveness are not allowed to refine technically and tactically, says Bobak, because theyre winning games with those attributes.
We have players who have an incredible mental, physical strength, but their ability to handle the ball is choppy and inconsistent, he says. Our arena doesnt allow the ball-handing to be refined because they relied so much on the mental and the physical, and our arena kept rewarding them. Oh dont worry about your skills out there because youre getting the results we want you to get.
STRENGTH AND SPEED. Bobak is skeptical about the strength and conditioning coaches, and all fitness centers that promise to help kids become more agile, quicker, speedier, stronger.
"These centers profess they can make a major impact on these players, because obviously they want your money, says Bobak, who cites a scale of measuring strength and speed from 0-50, and considers the 40-to-50 zone that of an elite athlete. What they do, is they can add 5 steps. Thats the most that they can add in physical speed and strength. If youre 30 on that scale and youre adding 5, youre at 35.
Have you added to your speed? Yes. Are you in the competitive zone? No. Your speed has improved, so theres merit to their work. But its a very small merit. If they were 33 in their strength, now theyre 38, but theyre not in the competitive zone.
Lets say theyre 40 in speed and 40 in strength. Theyre in the competitive zone. They go to these people and theyre at 45. So theyre going against an athlete whos 40, and that athlete doesnt do that, obviously the one who did it is going to be 45 and the other one is at 40.
But the information comes back to the layperson that theres these miraculous changes out there, and the changes are only five steps.
Well, I dont recommend this at all for the girls out there ages 12, 13, 14, 15.
What Ive seen when they do that, these girls having private soccer coaching lessons, they have their own club coaches, they go to these centers, they go to these soccer camps, and what I see is girls at 16 burnt out of soccer. Theyre burnt out. They dont want to come to practice or games. Theyre burnt out here in America. I see that over and over.
Going to these centers when theyre young is nonsense. But these parents are driving them in car pools to these things. When theyre older, OK, start doing a little beginning sort of program.
PRIORITIES CHANGE. On the mental side, as girls grow up, their focus on soccer can change and affect their play.
The mental part when it comes to female soccer can change through the years because their interest in the sport of soccer changes a lot, Bobak says. When theyre engaged and very much interested and focused, there is that mental enthusiasm that they display because its sort of the primary thing theyre involved in. But when it becomes secondary and third-place, obviously the mental enthusiasm is not as big now.
Sometimes you see that mental aspect in the female player change because there are other priorities in their lives and their activities start getting bigger.
Their passion for the sport may also diminish if theyre being asked to do too much.
In my case here, State Cup ends for these young ones end of February, beginning of March, he says. Our season starts the middle of July and it goes all the way to the middle of February. Non-stop besides two weeks for Christmas. When it comes to February, we have tryouts. All of March and all of April, I give them off. Parents are upset. Parents go beserk.
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The ego of the parents drives this whole female soccer phenomenon. I want my daughter to be better. I want more. Give me more, give me more because I want to stick out my chest. Thats the mentality of the American culture.
In May, we get together once a week, non-mandatory. And we play in two tournaments, non-mandatory in May, just to get a little bit of team chemistry with the new players. End of May, I give them another six weeks off and parents are going crazy. The kids, when theyre 17, 18, they come back to me and they thank me for those six weeks I gave them off when they were young. Because theyre so burned out.
(Tad Bobak, the co-director of the So Cal Blues, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1950. He spent the first 12 years of his life in Brazil and then lived in Europe for nine years before moving in 1971 to California, where he started his coaching career in AYSO in 1972. He started coaching club soccer in 1974 and helped start, along with Marine Cano, the Cal-South Girls Olympic Development Program in 1982. Bobak coached girls ODP for 18 years. He also coached womens amateur adult club soccer for 15 years, winning a USASA national title in 2002. In 1979, he volunteered to be the L.A. Aztecs' equipment manager so he could observe legendary Dutch coach Rinus Michels train the likes of Johan Cruyff. In 1986, Bobak coached Fram-Culver, which included future Hall of Famer Marcelo Balboa, to the McGuire Cup boys U-19 national title. Bobak also had stints as a mens assistant coach at UCLA and mens assistant coach at Cal State L.A., as well as the head womens coach at UC Santa Barbara. Bobak co-founded the So Cal Blues with Larry Draluck in 1990. Bobak won US Youth Soccer girls national titles in 2000 (U-16) and 2007 (U-15).)
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Prostitution in the Philippines
Prostitution in the Philippines is officially illegal. Penalties range up to life imprisonment for those involved in trafficking, which is covered by the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.[1] Prostitution is often available through bars, karaoke bars (also known as KTVs), massage parlors, brothels (also known as casa), street walkers, and escort services.[2]
In 2013 it was estimated that there were up to 500,000 (Majority female) prostitutes in the Philippines.[3] In her "Anti-Prostitution Act" (Senate Bill No. 2341), Senator Pia S. Cayetano claims that the total number of people being exploited in prostitution in the Philippines could be as high as 800,000.[4]
Karayuki-san (唐行きさん?, literally "Ms. Gone-to-China" but actually meaning Ms. Gone Abroad") were Japanese women who traveled to or were trafficked to East Asia, Southeast Asia, Manchuria, Siberia and as far as San Francisco in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century to work as prostitutes, courtesans and geisha.[5] In the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a network of Japanese prostitutes being trafficked across Asia, in countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and British India, in what was then known as the 'Yellow Slave Traffic'.[6] The main destinations of karayuki-san included China (particularly Shanghai), Hong Kong, the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra,[7] Thailand, Indonesia, and the western USA (in particular San Francisco). They were often sent to Western colonies in Asia where there was a strong demand from Western military personnel and Chinese men.[8] There were cases of Japanese women being sent to places as far as Siberia, Manchuria, Hawaii, North America (California), and Africa (Zanzibar). In Karachi and Bombay there were Japanese prostitutes to be found.[9][10] The vast majority of Japanese emigrants to Southeast Asia in the early Meiji period were prostitutes (Karayuki-san), who worked in brothels in Malaya, Singapore,[11] Philippines, Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. During the American period, Japanese economic ties to the Philippines expanded tremendously and by 1929 Japan was the largest trading partner to the Philippines after the United States. Economic investment was accompanied by large-scale immigration of Japanese to the Philippines, mainly merchants, gardeners and prostitutes ('karayuki san'). Japanese immigrants Davao in Mindanao, had over 20,000 ethnic Japanese residents.
Prostitution in various regions[edit]
Prostitution caters to local customers and foreigners. Media attention tends to focus on those areas catering to sex tourism, primarily through bars staffed by bargirls. Cities where there is a high incidence of prostitution are Olongapo City, Angeles City, Legazpi City in Albay, Pasay City and Subic Bay in Zambales,[12][not in citation given] with the customers usually foreign businessmen from East Asian and Western nations.[12][13]
Prostitution in Olongapo City and Angeles City was highly prominent during the time of the U.S. military in Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base, respectively.[14][15] When Mount Pinatubo, a volcano, erupted in 1991, it destroyed most of Clark Air Base and the United States closed it down in 1992.
Some of the associated prostitution trade closed with it, but when the mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, closed down the sex industry area of Ermita in Manila during his first term starting in 1992, many of the businesses moved to Angeles, finding a new customer base among sex tourists.[16]
Other tourist areas such as Cebu have also developed a high-profile prostitution industry.
Studies estimate that a large number (40%) of individual male tourists visit the Philippines for sex tourism.[17] Online dating sites have a large role to play in encouraging this trend.[18]
There is no one single reason for the widespread prevalence of prostitution in the Philippines. Poverty is but one reason, as cultural factors and the attitude of people toward money and the social acceptance of prostitution play a major role.[2]
Per the Philippine Statistics Authority,[19] Philippines has a poverty incidence of 24.9%. While this figure has been decreasing over the past few years, this still is one of the reasons why girls and their families turn to prostitution to enable the family to maintain a certain level of lifestyle.[19] A large number of girls who come to Angeles tend to be provincial, especially from Samar, Leyte and Visayas, having seen their friends live a better life because of their job in the prostitution industry. A comparison, however, made with other countries which have higher poverty statistics but do not have such rampant prostitution, reveals that poverty is just one reason given, with the reason below ("Attitude toward money") being equally important.[20]
Attitudes toward money[edit]
Some Filipinos have a carefree attitude concerning income, wherein saving money is given low priority and spending it is given a high priority.[21] Poorer Filipinos often tend to have spending habits not commensurate with their ability to afford items. Hence most Filipinos have a low accumulation of savings; and as a result, when the typical individual experiences a paucity of money, prostitution is seen in many cases as a convenient way out. Many Filipinas in the prostitution business—who tend to be women with families, husbands, and children—work in it temporarily as a means to supplement their domestic income.[22][23]
Social acceptance[edit]
Filipino society in general tends to have high acceptance levels of different behaviour. Gays, lesbians, same sex couples, single mothers, interracial marriages and couples with large age difference (up to 40 years) are openly accepted. Marrying for money, even when obvious, is not always looked down upon.[2] In some provinces, having a foreigner boyfriend or husband (irrespective of age differences) may be seen as a good catch.[24] In some regions, such alliances are seen to elevate to social status of the girl.[25]
Prostitution started around Clark Air Base in Angeles City since the early 1960s, when the base assumed importance because of the Vietnam war. During the 1970s, the main street of Olongapo City had no less than 30 girlie bars catering to the needs of U.S. Navy troops visiting Subic Naval base. The city acquired the pseudonym "Sin City".
The closure of the U.S. bases in these two places did not change the scenario much — it only changed the clientele. Fields Avenue near Clark (Angeles) continued to grow as a center of the sex tourism industry, under the umbrella of "entertainment" and "hospitality industry". The girlie bars at Olongapo were closed down in a major drive by the then governor Jane Gordon; they merely shifted, however, to the neighbouring town of Barrio Baretto which contains a series of at least 40 bars which act as prostitution centers.[26]
Single Unwed Mothers[edit]
Some girls join the prostitution industry after they become single unwed mothers.[27] The reasons for this vary, between the unpopularity of condoms in the Philippines because of a strong Catholic church opposing it,[28] poor / non-existent sex education, lack of a sex awareness legislation and a feeling of machismo among Filipino males. This normally consists of girls in the 17 to 19 years age bracket.[29]
Violence and coercion against prostitutes[edit]
Women and children involved in prostitution are vulnerable to rape, murder, and AIDS as well as other sexually transmitted diseases.[30]
Surveys of women working as masseuses indicated that 34 percent of them explained their choice of work as necessary to support poor parents, 8% to support siblings, and 28% to support husbands or boyfriends.[31] More than 20% said the job was well paid, but only 2% said it was easy work, and only 2% claimed to enjoy the work.[31]
Over a third reported that they had been subject to violence or harassment, most commonly from the police, but also from city officials and gangsters.[31]
According to a survey conducted by the International Labor Organization, prostitution is one of the most alienating forms of labor.[31] Over 50% of the women surveyed in Philippine massage parlors said they carried out their work "with a heavy heart", and 20% said they were "conscience-stricken because they still considered sex with customers a sin".[31] Interviews with Philippine bar girls revealed that more than half of them felt "nothing" when they had sex with a client, and the remainder said the transactions saddened them.[31]
See also[edit]
- ^ Philippine Laws, Statutes And Codes - Chan Robles Virtual Law Library
- ^ a b c McEvoy, Mary. "Gender Issues in the Informal Sector: A Philippine Case Study". http://www.trocaire.org. Trocaire. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Number of prostitutes in the Philippines". September 23, 2013.
- ^ Cayetano, Senator Pia S. ""Anti-Prostitution Act," Senate Bill No. 2341". www.senate.gov.ph. Senate of the Philippines. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ 来源:人民网-国家人文历史 (2013-07-10). "日本性宽容:"南洋姐"输出数十万". Ta Kung Pao 大公报.
- ^ Fischer-Tiné, Harald (2003). "'White women degrading themselves to the lowest depths': European networks of prostitution and colonial anxieties in British India and Ceylon ca. 1880–1914". Indian Economic Social History Review 40 (2): 163–90 [175–81]. doi:10.1177/001946460304000202.
- ^ James Francis Warren (2003). Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870-1940. Singapore Series, Singapore: studies in society & history (illustrated ed.). NUS Press. p. 86. ISBN 9971692678. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
- ^ Books, UK: Google, August 2003, ISBN 978-9971-69-267-4
- ^ League of Nations (1933). Advisory Commission for the Protection and Welfare of Children and Young People: Traffic in women and children committee. Minutes ... The Committee. p. 69. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
- ^ League of Nations; Bascom Johnson (1933). Commission of Enquiry Into Traffic in Women and Children in the East: Report to the Council. Series of League of Nations publications: Social (C. 849. M. 393. 1932. iv. C.T.F.E./ Orient 39). League of Nations. p. 69. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
- ^ Ho Ai Li (Apr 8, 2014). "Tragic fate for the unwanted daughters". THE STRAITS TIMES.
- ^ a b Empowering Street Children
- ^ Parwel, Tezza (June 27, 1987). "The Victimless Crime," (27). National Midweek II.
- ^ Martin Brass (2004). The Modern Scourge of Sex Slavery. Soldier of Fortune Magazine.
- ^ Lin Lean Lim (1998). The Sex Sector: The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia. International Labour Organization. ISBN 92-2-109522-3.
- ^ Lauber, Sabina (1995). "Confronting Sexual Exploitation". Australian Law Reform Commission Reform Bulletin. Winter 1995 (67). Retrieved 2007-02-07.
- ^ "Who is to blame for sex tourism? - Philippines Inside Story". Al Jazeera. 9 October 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Battling a new brand of pimp". Al Jazeera. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Poverty Studies - 2013". http://www.nscb.gov.ph. Philippine Statistics Authority - National Statistical Coordination Board. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Prostitution in the Philippines - A report". http://feminism.eserver.org. feminism and Women's studies, Campaign against military prostitution. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ Sandoval, Gerardo; Mangahas, Mahar; Guerrero, Linda Luz. "THE SITUATION OF FILIPINO YOUTH: A NATIONAL SURVEY". http://www.sws.org.ph. Social Weather Stations / 14th World Congress of Sociology, Working Group 3 / Sociology of Childhood at Montreal Canada, July 26 - August 1, 1998. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ Perpiñan, Mary Soledad L. (2008). From Darkness to Light – Success Stories of Survivors of Incest, Rape and the Sex Trade. Quezon City: TW-MAE-W.
- ^ "Awareness of poverty is just a fashion statement". http://getrealphilippines.com. get Real Philippines. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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- ^ Reuter, Fr. James. "Prostitution in the Philippines - a time for change (Foreword)". TW-MAE-W: Quezon City: 2008.
- ^ "Child prostitution: case studies of the Philippines, Thailand and Japan - A thesis study". http://hub.hku.hk. The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong). Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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- ^ "The Philippines--Trafficking - A Report". http://www.catwinternational.org. Coalition against trafficking in women. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ Raymond, Janice G. "Sex Trafficking is Not "Sex Work" (Spring 2005). Conscience XXVI:1.
- ^ Paul II, Pope John (2006). Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body. Boston: Pauline Books and Media.
- ^ ""Sex: From Intimacy to "Sexual Labor" or is it a Human Right to Prostitute?"". Coalition Against Trafficking in Women--Asia Pacific.
- ^ Dennis A. Ahlburg, Eric R. Jensen and Aurora E. Perez, Determinants of extramarital sex in the Philippines, Health Transition Review, Supplement to Volume 7, 1997, 467-479
- ^ a b c d e f "Sex industry assuming massive proportions in Southeast Asia" (Press release). International Labor Organization. 19 August 1998.


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I have no understanding of why anyone would bother to pirate anything produced by the entertainment industry. By definition, such a person would be mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Like most fields there are multiple levels of understanding. As an example consider the proposition that 1+1=2. Probably learned by most children before they start kinder-garden. Yet its formal proof is usually not encountered until graduate levels in mathmatics. A fairly short proof (about 50 steps) of this can be found at:
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I don't know the details of Google and YouTube, but a number of well known artists artists of movie and music genres have said they have never gotten a dime from royalties. That creative accounting practices have eaten up every bit of profit made. A couple of people I knew in the business backed up the likely veracity of their claims.
No concept of technology, what it is, what it means, how it is powering the little left of US productivity. Now that manufacturing has pretty much been destroyed, without the ability to export tech, we will be left as a producer of agricultural goods.
The worst part emotionally for me, is that these idiots are proud of what they are doing.
How could Winkler not have known? These "accounting" practices have been standard in the entertainment industry for decades. He may not have known the exact amount, but he had to know what was being done.
This is one of the reasons that I don't watch movies. They seem to be the product of very organized crime.
Because it gives all appearance of being a standard practice, a RICO investigation would most seem to be most appropriate action for the DOJ to take. Not just against the movie industry, but the music groups as well. Not likely though.
I can not say that I find the use of such terminology offensive. But when it, and its ilk, is used as verb, noun, adverb, adjective, punctuation, and every other role of words in the language, I do find it rather boring.
Then it is necessary to remove all books on mathematics from the library. The practice of math leads to cryptography.
Many innocent bystanders are killed by police. Their batons and guns must be taken away.
Many innocent people are improperly arrested and charged by the police. Their ability to arrest and charge must be reduced to finger wagging at possible criminals.
Health and safety inspectors sometimes become corrupt. That entire set of occupations must be eliminated.
There is an endless set of behaviors and actions that the authorities can declare as potentially dangerous.
There is no worse terrorism than exposing the incompetence of elected officials.
The Wall Street whiners ignore the fact that the enduser pays for bandwidth, and Netflix pays for bandwidth. How many times should the bandwidth be paid for?
HIPPA was never meant to provide privacy for patient data, but rather the illusion of privacy. It creates a significant hassle for those who have a reasonable right and need to access patient information, while leaving the door wide open for just about any LEO to gain full access. Sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly.
What is worse, is that in almost all cases, physicians and patients never know about it.
I am currently in possession of the "traditional first bath" pictures that my father took of me 68 years ago.
Should I look at those pictures, am I a paedophile? Am I exploiting my 1 month old self?
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Uber is realistic competition to the politically powerful taxi companies. And the media will be paid in dollars, or favors for thei support. Perhaps it is just fear of retribution that causes these "poor, poor" taxi cab company stories.
But what kind of margin does a cab make that a medallion goes for such incredible sums of money?
There are massive class differences and inequality that are evil. That are intensely destructive of not just the poor, but society as a whole. But this is not a significant issue.
So people who spend their day behind a desk can wear a watch that reminds them to exercise. Meanwhile the poor are either out excercising on a basketball court, or running for their lives from cops who would like nothing more than to shoot them in the back, or beat the gut contents out of them.
There is more meaningful technology available today than ever before. The net is the largest library ever available to humankind. The greatest treasure is knowledge, not another phone with a capability that few will ever use.
Further, technology, like shit, rolls downhill. Early models are expensive, but prices drop not just rapidly, but radically. And after all, how many people are truly happier with an 8 core computer rather than a 4 core? How many even know the difference, except that the number 8 was on the box?
A decent education, a proper diet, medical care, fair treatment in the courts (and on the streets), opportunity, and other issues are of real significance -- not the latest piece of techno-bling.
I hope that I missed the /s on "It was legal and it worked."
Do you really believe that law enforcement adheres to the law? Or tells the truth?
It was legal at the time? DOJ and FBI guidelines do not supercede the Constitution. SCOTUS ruled that law enforcement was permitted to lie under certain, limited circumstances. That does not mean that LEOs can lawfully lie to anyone and everyone (including SCOTUS) about everything.
That they get away with it merely demonstrates the power that law enforcement has developed and stolen over the past 35 years.
Right you are. I haven't run Windows in more than a decade, and I have forgotten that. That of course is part of the security problem. Those once knowledgeable depending on their memories.
Because almost all lawyers see law as a game. To see how far it can be stretched, so that they can get what they want (or are paid for.)
There is no choice but to continue to fight the overarching state. Not that I believe that it will make any difference in the final outcome.
It was obvious that civil liberties were headed south since the early '90s. And even then, looking back, it should have been obvious that was the case since the early '80s.
What is most surprising is not that Clapper lied to SCOTUS, but that he was proud to brag about it, and that SCOTUS was willing to accept this crime against the nation as the normal flow of events. In and of itself it is not the worst of all events, but it is a damn good yardstick showing how far we have degenerated.
Who would want to be identified as an FBI agent when they could claim to be anything else?
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How viable is the idea of building your own in-house affiliate solution? There are not many situations where it would be advantageous to do this. One reader indicated an interest in acquiring a large number of members for an opt-in marketing program. Using this as a hypothetical scenario, Joel walks you through the options and the numbers.
A common reader gripe goes something like this...
Honestly? I can't think of too many situations where it would be advantageous to build your own program. Recently someone wrote in to express an interest in acquiring a large number of members for an opt-in, permission-based marketing program. Since this is a desire shared by many, we'll use it as a hypothetical scenario.
Some Quick Math
Assume you were willing to spend $1 per member sign-up. The average affiliate network charges an additional 20 percent, or $0.20 per member sign-up. This means an affiliate marketer could sign up 500,000 members for every $100,000 in network fees it incurred. Now assume you wanted to achieve this volume month after month; that's a total of six million members in your first year.
Where Do Your Affiliates Come From?
How many affiliates do you think you'll need to recruit in order to drive 500,000 sign-ups monthly? If you're not sure of the exact number, a bit of speculation should help. If a typical affiliate web site serves 10,000 page-views monthly and your offer gets a two percent CTR, followed by a ten percent conversion rate, you're looking at 20 sign-ups per affiliate per month on average. That means you'd need about 25,000 active affiliates to generate 500,000 sign-ups. Recalling that the 80/20 rule applies, expect to recruit about 125,000 affiliates in order to net 25,000 actives.
If you're paying $1 per end-user sign-up, how much will it cost you to recruit new affiliates? Maybe $5, maybe $10? After all, if you're not in an affiliate network, how will affiliates find you? How much marketing will be required to attract affiliates directly to your program? Make sure to factor these costs into your "savings" estimates for going it alone.
Other Points to Consider
Does your company write its own payroll checks? If you don't handle your own employees' paychecks, why would you take on the task of writing checks to 25,000 affiliates?
Does your company run its own ad servers? In order to serve affiliate commerce offers, you'll need some type of banner- serving capability. If you already outsource this capability, there's no point in bringing it in-house. Likewise, the better affiliate networks serve your banners and offers as part of their standard commission. That's a far cry from most third-party ad service bureaus, which charge on a CPM basis.
Finally, does your company have an existing customer service organization capable of answering technical questions about HTML code? For most companies this is the final showstopper. Even if you do have a great customer service group, odds are you don't want to take them away from your true end-customer.
What Do Affiliate Networks Provide?
Service levels and pricing do vary tremendously from network to network. What you should be looking to get from your affiliate network depends on your exact situation. For my money, an affiliate network should provide a robust stable of affiliates. Next, an affiliate partner should be capable of handling check writing, 1099s, banner serving and frontline technical support.
Going back to our example, during the course of 12 months you could expect to recruit six million opt-in members for a cost in network fees of around $1.2 million. Then add to this the commissions paid to your affiliates. All told, $7.2 million has acquired you a meaningful base of members.
Not impressed? Consider Lifeminders, which just passed the 12 million member mark in March, a feat that took them a mere 15 months. For better or worse, Lifeminders spent an average of about $5 per member. Hmmm... $1.20 a member doesn't sound so bad, does it?
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Even last weekend in Cincinnati, when Smoltz was going through what seemed like a successful minor-league rehabilitation assignment, manager Bobby Cox never sounded overly optimistic. When I asked about Smoltz, Cox kind of shook his head and said: "I don't know. That shoulder, it's pretty bad."
He was right. That shoulder was pretty bad. Smoltz tried to pitch through the pain, but it just didn't work. Now he'll have surgery, and the Braves will move on.