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The Common Law of Federal Question Jurisdiction
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University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law
May 21, 2009
Alabama Law Review, Vol. 60, 2009
The Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed that the role of the judiciary interpreting statutes is to declare the law as intended by Congress. But the Court historically has not followed that practice in interpreting the statute conferring federal question jurisdiction. The most notorious example is the well pleaded complaint rule, which the Court developed based on its own policy determinations about the appropriate role of the federal courts. In recent terms, the Court has developed various new doctrines expanding and contracting federal question jurisdiction without regard to Congressional intent. This Article contends that these recent developments reflect that, contrary to its statements about the proper role of the judiciary, the Court increasingly perceives itself as the primary regulator of federal question jurisdiction. The Article also contends that this practice has resulted in a highly manipulable and unstable law of federal question jurisdiction.
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the smallish wild species of bearded Iris from Europe have purple on the base
of the leaves, and sometimes the same ones, sometimes different ones, may have
purple on the spathes. In fact it is quite common to have purple leaf
coloring with yellow flowers, as most I. variegata have purple leaf bases, and
the yellow coloring in hybrid bearded Irises often comes from I. variegata
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have most often white to purple flowers, but some are sometimes yellow too,
and the yellow-flowering plants may have purple coloring on the spathes.
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number of bearded cultivars that are not purple. I have a TB that is
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tuber is purple). I've recently heard "purple-ringed" rhizomes too,
which is slightly more accurate. This is common in some of the dwarf
bearded species, and is not correlated with flower color either. It is
commonly seen in dwarf bearded hybrids, and is moderately common in
intermediate bearded cultivars as well. The purple coloring occurs below
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Desert Botanical Garden appointed several local leaders to the Garden's Board of Trustees, which include: John Burnside, an attorney with the Phoenix-based law firm Snell & Wilmer LLP, has been appointed to the Desert Botanical Garden Board of Trustees. He is rejoining the board of trustees following six years of service from 2009 to 2015. His… Read More →
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Gertrude's introduces summer menus
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2015 Positively Powerful Women Awards on June 5
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Bubba Watson hugs his mother, Mollie, after winning the 2012 Masters golf tournament.
- Southern stereotypes have persisted
- Region identified as "Bible-thumpin'" and "gun-totin'," despite complexity
- Movies such as "Deliverance" have played a role in spreading image
- Media and politics somewhat to blame, says singer -- but with reason
(CNN) -- His name is Gerald Lester Watson Jr., but he goes by Bubba.
The newest Masters champion is a proud Bulldog, a graduate of the University of Georgia. He owns the General Lee, the Confederate flag-emblazoned car from "The Dukes of Hazzard." And he loves God and his momma: He thanked the former and hugged the latter at the tournament's final playoff hole.
How much more Southern can you get?
"Bubba's name echoed as much through the pines on Sunday as the roars. He was embraced in this Southern town as if he drank, smoked, hunted and fished," wrote the Augusta Chronicle's Scott Michaux, before adding, "In truth, Bubba doesn't do any of those things."
That's the thing about the South. It's got all those stereotypes, but it confounds you at every turn.
Eatocracy: Why it's different in the South
Never mind that Dixie can be as polyglot as any other part of the United States, with rising Hispanic and south Asian populations, the world's busiest airport and a thriving movie and television business. Never mind that Lowcountry South Carolina has little in common with the Florida Panhandle or Tennessee foothills, or that there's a growing purplish tinge among what's usually seen as a collection of dyed-in-the-cotton red states.
A century and a half after the Civil War -- and more than a generation after the presidential election of Jimmy Carter was supposed to herald the awakening of a "New South" -- the lower right-hand portion of the U.S. of A. is often pigeonholed as a tobacco-spittin', Bible-thumpin', gun-totin' (and worse) backwater. So go ahead, fry up the buckwheat cakes, spoon out the grits and cue the mockery. It's nothing new.
Stereotypes "are very longstanding," says David Davis, a literature and Southern studies professor at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, observing that they predate the American Revolution.
Like most stereotypes, he points out, they're based on people from one group or class judging people from another group or class, then generalizing based on those judgments -- in this case, wealthier, more urbanized Northerners looking down upon poorer, more rural Southerners. Though African-Americans were a major subject of Southern stereotypes a century ago, in the last few decades "African-American caricature has become less acceptable and white Southern caricature has taken its place," Davis says.
Why do the stereotypes persist?
Because they're constantly in play, Davis says. "We have one [group] that is imagining the South as an alternative space within the United States -- less modernized, less educated, more racist. It's America's Jekyll to its own Hyde," he says. On the other side, he says, there are Southerners who take pride in everything they consider disparaged, from the Confederate flag to country music.
Davis, a native of Butler, Georgia (population 2,000), observes the word "Southern" has come to be associated with opposition to the American norm. He teaches Southern studies, so students often ask him, "What is Northern studies?"
" 'Northern studies' is American studies. 'Southern' is the opposition to that," he says.
Or, as the North Carolina author Clyde Edgerton put it, "Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being."
The South and the movies
Sure, other regions of the country have their own labels -- New England is full of flinty Yankees, Southern California is sunny and vapid, the West has rugged, outdoorsy types -- but the South, above them all, remains another country.
"Deliverance" explored the tensions between old and new South -- and is remembered for scenes involving stereotypes.
It was another country, for one thing -- the breakaway Confederacy of the Civil War. Its past is still romanticized, even as it has become as suburban, chain-stored and wired as the rest of America.
The tension between rural and urban, past and present looms large in many works about the South, particularly the film "Deliverance," which came out 40 years ago this year.
Based on a 1970 novel by James Dickey -- himself a well-off Atlanta boy -- the story concerns four businessmen from the big city who head to north Georgia for a canoeing trip through land about to be swallowed up by a dam project. They get more than they bargain for, grappling with challenging rapids, set upon by suspicious locals and fighting for their very lives.
But though "Deliverance" explores a variety of themes, the lasting images of the movie remain its stereotypes: the inbred-looking Banjo Boy (Billy Redden) who plays "Dueling Banjos" with Ronny Cox's character, and the mountain men who rape Ned Beatty's character, demanding he "squeal like a pig."
In that respect, says University of Tulsa cultural studies professor Robert Jackson, the film is "powerful and pernicious."
"It's had a tenacious hold on people's imaginations, establishing the hillbilly as a kind of menacing, premodern, medieval kind of figure," he says.
Even at the time it was made, the film's portrayals weren't thought of highly by residents of Rabun County, Georgia, where the movie was shot.
With rare exceptions, "every character ... was portrayed as very limited," the wife of one local actor told Atlanta magazine in an oral history of the film. "And that didn't make us feel good."
That feeling hasn't changed in 40 years, says Sarah Gillespie, a Rabun County native whose family has deep roots in the community.
The Southerner (1945): "The great French director Jean Renoir was enamored with the South, which reminded him of rural areas and cultures of his homeland, and this lovely, simple film tells the story of a family's attempt to establish their own small farm in the face of povery, ignorance, and the unforgiving elements."
The Sun Shines Bright (1953): "In this film, set around the turn of the 20th century, the alternately humorous and unsettling goings-on of a small Kentucky town are seen through the eyes of the alcoholic Confederate veteran Judge William Pittman Priest, a figure of considerable charm and peculiarity whose inability to abide hypocrisy in all forms threatens his chances of re-election. Directed by John Ford."
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960): "A wonderfully buoyant documentary capturing one day at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this film features no narration or dialogue, but expresses the South's vital musical heritage through the performances of Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry, and others."
Harlan County USA (1976): "This Oscar-winning documentary by Barbara Kopple details the effects of a coal miners' strike on their isolated Appalachian community, and demonstrates the struggle to maintain a sense of humanity despite escalating violence and economic ruin."
Prom Night in Mississippi (2009): "This documentary explores complicated racial dynamics in the Mississippi Delta town of Charleston, where actor Morgan Freeman, a resident, offered in 2008 (after his 1997 offer was refused) to fund the town's high school senior prom if the school would end its long-standing tradition of holding segregated proms."
"There are still a lot of people here locally who have hard feelings about the stereotypes the movie represented," she says.
Even today, Hollywood tends toward clumsiness when showcasing the South, engaging in broad cliches and broad accents with such films as "Steel Magnolias" and "Sweet Home Alabama." Last year's hit, "The Help," included a number of prissy, upscale female characters, the kind of Southern women who say "Bless your heart" as a way of inserting the knife, and was criticized for its sanitized look at the civil rights movement.
"The movie would have us believe that the racism of the time was the stuff of bridge clubs," wrote the Boston Globe's Wesley Morris.
'History without all the baggage'
Such criticism really comes to the fore when the subject turns to "Gone With the Wind," the 1939 blockbuster that gave the Civil War a sentimental sheen, as critics such as Roger Ebert have pointed out.
And yet, that nostalgia is key to understanding the fascination with Southern stereotypes, says Elizabeth Cook, a singer/songwriter and DJ for SiriusXM's Outlaw Country channel.
"People are all so romantic and nostalgic about the culture. People everywhere think of 'Gone With the Wind,' " she says.
Popular culture has a way of oversimplifying everything, says Tulsa's Jackson. He observes that television's representations of the South -- Andy Griffith's Mayberry, "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- seldom delve into the challenging issues underneath.
"Mainstream network television is basically designed for 12-year-old viewers, so it's designed to be toothless and fun," he says. "What that means is that there's an invocation of history without all the baggage."
That's the kind of thing that drives Patterson Hood crazy.
Hood, the leader of the Athens, Georgia-based band the Drive-By Truckers, has thought about Southern images deeply. A number of Truckers' albums, including "Southern Rock Opera," "Decoration Day" and "The Dirty South," have been devoted to "bucking the myths" of Southern stereotypes. A series of songs on "The Dirty South" took an alternative view of "Walking Tall" sheriff Buford T. Pusser -- a determined foe of the gamblers and moonshiners in his Tennessee county -- while the title cut of "Decoration Day" was about a longstanding family feud.
He blames the persistence of Southern stereotypes on the twin bogeymen of media and politics -- but admits that both reflect certain truths.
"I think the decisions my fellow Southerners make in the voting booth makes us look like dumb-asses. We vote like stupid rednecks, so it's easy to pigeonhole us there," he says.
A fan of Bill Maher, Hood finds himself with mixed feelings when the "Real Time" comedian takes a shot at the region: "I'm tired of the constant barrage of his Southern stereotype jokes, but he's covering politics, and when he sends [Alexandra Pelosi] to Mississippi to interview people, she doesn't have to travel very far to find the dumb-ass to talk about our Kenyan Muslim president, so of course he's going to air that."
Cook, the DJ, makes herself into the joke, as she did during an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Her background could be easily mocked -- her father served time for moonshining, and she's one of 11 kids with a family of half-siblings -- but she understands the humor in the situation.
"[My family has] always been very open and honest about our sordid past and our sordid present," she says. And the judgment of others doesn't bother her: "I embrace who I am. Everybody experiences prejudices."
Cooking something new?
There are other signs that the stereotypes are being turned inside out and used in unusual ways.
Rabun County's Gillespie is among those spearheading the Chattooga River Festival this June. The event, which was created to help preserve the river where "Deliverance" was shot, is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the film with appearances by actor Ronny Cox and a variety of other musicians. She notes that the film was key to making Rabun County a tourist draw and helping the Chattooga snare a "Wild and Scenic" designation protecting it from development.
"The movie put the area on the map," she says.
Patterson Hood, second from left, and the Drive-By Truckers have delved into Southern history in their albums.
Hood points out that Southern cooking has become nationally known -- not just the kind popularized by Paula Deen, but inventive versions created by such restaurants as Husk in Charleston, South Carolina, and 5 & 10 in Athens, Georgia. And, he adds, Florence, Alabama, fashion designer Billy Reid has made a national splash.
Then, of course, there's literature and music, of which the South has a rich history. Authors William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers, among many, dealt with the South's contradictions in thoughtful, universal ways; their tradition has been carried on by Ron Rash, Jesmyn Ward and Daniel Wallace.
And musicians such as the Alabama Shakes, OutKast and Dead Confederate have broadened the idea of Southern rock, funk and soul.
That's the thing about stereotypes. In the end, they're too glib, too shorthand-quick to summarize a region -- or an individual. That should be obvious from Bubba Watson himself.
Yes, he's from small-town Florida, and he's already been described as a good ol' boy. But he's also a man who doesn't drink, smoke, hunt or fish, as Michaux noted. He carries a pink driver in honor of his father, who died of lung cancer. He's married to a native Canadian; the two recently adopted a child. Not exactly ... stereotypical.
And don't expect to see cheese grits on next year's Masters menu.
What is southern food?
According to Sports Illustrated, when asked what the new green jacket holder will serve at next year's champions' dinner -- the traditional honor for a new Masters victor -- Watson's wife, Angie, predicted In-N-Out burgers.
They won't find those in Augusta. In fact, the nearest location of the California-based chain is in Texas.
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Movie lore is full of stories about great American writers being chewed up in Hollywood. William Faulkner and F Scott Fitzgerald are among those who famously endured the Barton Fink experience at the hands of the studios.
The Counsellor is a curiosity in that a celebrated novelist from a later era, Cormac McCarthy (whose original screenplay this is), wasn't working to the demands of disdainful executives. He did this all by himself, with full artistic freedom. And he has still come up with a script as convoluted and derivative as one fed through the studio system mincing machine.
At times, The Counsellor seems like a Sam Peckinpah movie done in the style of Basic Instinct. It has the dusty Mexican settings and picaresque violence you expect from films such as Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Michael Fassbender's "Counsellor" even dresses like Warren Oates' anti-hero in Alfredo Garcia). However, when Cameron Diaz's villainess Malkina is shown with her legs open, grinding her pelvis on the windscreen of a sports car as Javier Bardem's drug baron sits at the steering wheel below, it's as if we've been transported to the world of Paul Verhoeven at his seamiest. "One of those catfish things, one of those bottom feeders you see going up the side of the aquarium, sucking its way up the glass," is how Bardem memorably describes the sight from his point of view.
McCarthy's intentions with The Counsellor are hard to fathom. At times, his script hints at a socio-political agenda, as if he is trying to address the ongoing warfare between drug cartels in Mexico. There is plenty of macabre humour. The film has the quality of a morality fable in which all the characters are punished for their extreme greed. It seems intended, too, as a Wages of Fear-style thriller, but whenever the tension is cranked up, there will inevitably be a joke or piece of surrealistic imagery thrown in which changes the mood. A pet cheetah will nestle the corpse of a dead body or a man in fear for his life will suddenly start chatting up a woman whose mobile phone he wants to use.
Ridley Scott is as famous for his commercials as he is for his features. The Counsellor is full of sleekly shot set-pieces demonstrating his visual flair. Many could work as short films in their own right. The opening, in which we first see the shapes of the two lovers (Fassbender and his girlfriend Penélope Cruz) moving beneath white sheets like animated alabaster statues, shows him in tender and intimate groove. There is a brilliant sequence later on in which a killer ("the wireman") stretches wire across a deserted highway at just the height of a motorbike rider with entirely predictable results. The problem is that none of these bits and pieces fit very well together.
The film-makers are keen in general on their garrotting and beheading. The film, which has a detached tone, explodes from time to time into garish and extreme violence. Overall, though, the emphasis is more on dialogue and and on keeping the wheels of a very complicated plot turning than it is on action.
The last time Fassbender worked with Scott, he played a robot in Prometheus. His role here is almost equally one-dimensional. The "counsellor" is a lawyer in cahoots with drug dealers and gangsters. He is going to marry Laura (Cruz) and wants money. That's why he becomes embroiled in a drug deal hatched by his friend Reiner (Bardem). The "counsellor" behaves in a rational enough way but, in melodramas about Mexican drug cartels as in Greek tragedy, when the fates turn against a character, he is powerless to protect himself.
The Counsellor provides some incidental pleasures along the way. Among them is another of Brad Pitt's colourful character turns. He plays the amoral Westray, a shady womaniser in a cowboy hat who delights in telling Fassbender what the cartels will do to him if he betrays them or the deal goes wrong. Westray is similar in temperament to the assassin for hire he played in Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly. That is to say, he is jaded, cynical and sleazy – and as far away from Pitt's usual leading man type as can be imagined.
Bardem is entertaining, too, in a role that allows him to wear garish Hawaiian shirts and to upstage the deadpan Fassbender shamelessly. Diaz relishes playing an exaggerated version of the femme fatale type you expect in any self-respecting film noir. It's refreshing, too, to see the motor-mouthed Rosie Perez back on screen, this time playing a young cartel member's imprisoned mom. Enjoyable though they are, these performances all come close to caricature. There is nobody here who projects the sense of unbridled menace and malice that Bardem brought to his role as the hitman Chigurh in the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning McCarthy adaptation, No Country for Old Men (2007).
McCarthy's screenplay is wilfully oblique. He seems determined not to provide much back story: the Counsellor himself doesn't seem to have a name. When a shady character from his past bumps into him and begins taunting him at a polo match, we're not told what connection the two men have. When a beautiful woman is kidnapped by the cartel members, it is left to us to imagine what will happen to her.
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Skating around social and behavioural change in the global response to HIV
Yvonne MacPherson
Executive Director, BBC Media Action USA
Waiting to cross the street outside the International Aids Conference in Washington DC last week, two teenage skateboarders noticed my branded conference bag and asked what it was all about. One asked about HIV testing, the other wanted to talk about how he could protect himself, confiding that he hasn't always used a condom.
Knowing that my conference goody bag included a pack, I asked if he wanted some and handed them over. As I crossed the street, I turned back and reminded them, "Don't forget to use a condom every single time!"
Back at the conference, which was on its fifth and final day, I was struck by the lack of discussion about the role of awareness and behaviour change. With HIV having been around for decades and with most of the seriously affected countries having invested in information campaigns over the years, basic awareness seems to be taken for granted.
But is the job done? What about the next generations and tackling misinformation or denial about risky behaviour? Even in a country like the US, with universal education, and in the city with the highest prevalence of HIV in the country, this skateboarding duo had limited information.
So if the International AIDS Conference wasn't talking about awareness, what was the buzz? The biennial International AIDS Conference is usually dominated by announcements about progress in HIV science, such as advances in medicine to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV or improved drug therapies for treatment. This year, the big topics were treatment as prevention and voluntary male circumcision.
Treatment as prevention is a reference to treating an HIV positive person with anti-retroviral drugs that improve the health of the patient as well as reduce the probability of the virus transmitting to uninfected sexual partners (because treatment reduces the potency of the virus in the infected patient). Studies have also found that circumcised men have a reduced chance of infection than uncircumcised men.
Results from research published on the effectiveness of these two prevention methods offer new and diversified approaches to augment existing prevention efforts. These medicalised prevention solutions are particularly salient in countries where there is a generalised epidemic (where HIV prevalence is over 1% of the population) and in professional contexts (sex work) where risk levels are high.
But equally important to biomedical solutions is highlighting the importance of other major factors pertinent to the global response to HIV – social and behavioural influences on health and the significant role that information and communication can play in addressing these. In order for treatment as prevention to be a scaled prevention strategy, knowing one's HIV status is critical.
Globally, it is estimated that 33 million people are living with HIV, though only 25% are on treatment. Many people living with HIV do not know they are infected, which is one reason why UNAIDS estimates that 7 million people in low- and middle-income countries who are eligible for HIV treatment are not accessing it. It is important to get tested early, though many people are only tested once they have become ill.
It is not enough to address the supply side of testing alone – demand for testing needs to be tackled as well. Mass media campaigns can be effective at promoting testing and addressing the barriers to testing, such as ignorance and fear. For example, 20% of viewers of BBC Media Action's Indian TV reality show Haath se Haath Milaa (Let's Join Hands) said that they ever felt like getting tested for HIV compared to 11% of non-viewers.
Media and communications have been shown to be effective in addressing other influences on behaviour relevant to prevention. From 2007-2009, our condom campaign reached 150 million men across India and helped change attitudes towards condoms across a range of criteria. Based on impact measurement data, embarrassment around purchasing condoms decreased and men were more likely to discuss and use them, compared to men who were not exposed to the campaign.
Although the International AIDS Conference is a good representation of the latest global thinking and approaches to HIV and AIDS, my hope now is for sustained investment in social and behaviour change programmes in addition to bio-medical solutions.
In light of exciting new developments in science, we cannot forget about people like the skateboarders on the streets of DC who lack basic information or the men in India who fear negative judgment from their community if they are seen to be purchasing condoms. What is needed is a mix of solutions to truly achieve UNAIDS' vision of "getting to zero" new HIV infections, discrimination and AIDS related deaths.
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There's not much more to say about Kenjon Barner's performance on Saturday night that hasn't already been said. He was, it was, prolific.
In rushing for an Oregon record 321 yards and five touchdowns -- on a national stage in the biggest game of the year to date for the title-contending Ducks -- Barner also elevated himself from Heisman maybe to New York-bound.
His total was the fourth best in conference history and it surpassed the previous mark of 288 yards, set by LaMichael ... somethingorother. James, that's it, LaMichael James. Oregon's 730 yards of total offense was the most ever allowed by a USC defense. And by the third quarter, Barner, who is from Southern California, had already rushed for more yards than any other USC opponent.
He set career highs in every major rushing category and had 11 rushes of 10 yards or more -- the most by any FBS player in a single game in the past seven seasons, per ESPN Stats & Information. On 50 percent of his rushes he made it at least 5 yards beyond the line of scrimmage before contact (so a tip of the cap to his offensive line for that one). He also had two catches for 26 yards.
For his efforts he was named the Walter Camp National Player of the Week.
With the victory, the Ducks are third in the BCS standings, improved to 9-0 and 6-0 in conference play. They travel to California this week before closing out the regular season against a pair of ranked opponents -- Stanford at home and then at Oregon State for the Civil War.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Finding themselves competing for the first time in years, the Kansas City Royals have decided to hurry their top prospect to the big leagues ahead of schedule.
Minutes after beating Baltimore 9-1 on Thursday behind Melky Cabrera's four RBI and Bruce Chen's strong pitching, the Royals announced Eric Hosmer was being called up from Triple-A Omaha and would start on Friday night against Oakland. Struggling Kila Ka'aihue goes back to Omaha.
The announcement is certain to boost attendance on Friday night. The 21-year-old Hosmer is Kansas City's most heralded prospect since Alex Gordon was the overall No. 2 pick in 2005.
He's also one of many young players that have made the Royals' minor-league system the envy of most major-league organizations.
"We wanted to wait and give him about 200 at-bats and let him get his feet on the ground," said manager Ned Yost. "But we're playing pretty good baseball and we need some production out of that first-base spot."
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At Omaha, Hosmer was batting .439 with three homers and 15 RBI. He was KC's first-round pick in 2008 and has overmatched the pitching at every minor-league level.
Yost agreed that one reason the Royals are bringing Hosmer up sooner than planned was because the Royals, 17-14 and second in the AL Central behind Cleveland, are contending. They need a boost at first base, where Ka'aihue was hitting .195 with two home runs and six RBI.
"That's the general consensus, yeah. I don't want to say we're playing better than we anticipated because we came into this thing anticipating playing pretty well," Yost said. "The kid's producing there. He's in a league of his own."
Cabrera homered, doubled and singled while driving in four runs Thursday, and Chen allowed one run in seven innings against Baltimore. Cabrera's solo shot came in the eighth.
Chen (4-1) gave up his only run in the first and then pitched shutout ball for the next six innings. The left-hander allowed five hits and one run, walking two and striking out five. He has not lost a start in Kauffman Stadium since Aug. 12, 2010, going 6-0 in nine starts at home.
Chris Tillman (1-3) took the loss, once again getting almost no offensive support. In his last six starts, the Orioles have scored only five runs while he was in the game.
The Royals also kept their streak intact of not losing a home series. They're 4-0 so far this year with two splits. The Orioles are 2-8 when the opponent starts a left-handed pitcher.
With help from Tillman's balk and a sun that kept playing peek-a-boo behind high, fluffy clouds, the Royals scored four runs in the first inning and another in the second, before breaking it open with three in the fourth to take the series two games to one.
"It is disappointing. It's more frustration than disappointment," Tillman said. "The results weren't there. I made some decent pitches early on, but it came down to making that one pitch in the at-bat. It just wasn't there."
Tillman lasted 3 2/3 innings and was charged with eight runs on 10 hits and a wild pitch. Orioles manager Buck Showalter did not seem certain he would remain in the rotation much longer.
"He is going to have to get better," Showalter said. "Our options are him and a few others. The way he started out, I thought he was going to pitch pretty well stuff-wise. He's got to be better than that. We all know that."
Cabrera's RBI single got it started in the first inning. Gordon singled in the second run, moved up on Tillman's balk and then scored on a double by Jeff Francoeur. Wilson Betemit then lifted a popup that fell between third baseman Mark Reynolds and shortstop Robert Andino when they both lost the ball in the sun. It went for an RBI single.
Back-to-back doubles by Alcides Escobar and Chris Getz made it 5-1 in the second.
Cabrera's two-run double made it 7-1 in the fourth and then, after a wild pitch, Billy Butler hit an RBI double.
- The start of the game was delayed 35 minutes by rain.
- Royals RHP Robinson Tejeda (shoulder inflammation) will have a rehab start Friday for Triple-A Omaha.
- It was only the second time in the last nine games between Baltimore and KC that the outcome was not decided by one run.
- The victory moved Chen one game over the break-even mark for his career, at 52-51.
- It took Jeremy Jeffress 14 pitches to get Adam Jones out in the ninth.


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|79592 Rättvik, Rättvik, Dalarna County, Sweden
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Die nostalgische Unterkunft steht am Hof des Eigentümers, dessen private Sauna und Whirlpool man vor Ort nach Absprache anmieten kann. Zum Häuschen gehören auch ein schön geschützter Sitzplatz draußen für Grillabende und ein kleines Boot mit Motor, das kostenfrei für Angelausflüge zur Verfügung steht. Im See kann man Hecht, Barsch und Forelle fangen. Weitere Angelseen in der Gegend, diverse darunter zugänglich mit demselben Angelschein, der für SEK 150,-/Wo. erworben werden kann.
Die reizvolle Landschaft der Region Dalarna lädt zum Aktivsein an frischer Luft ein. Die alte Kupfermine Falu Koppargruva oder das Zorn Museum liegen im Umkreis von ca. 10 Autominuten. Folgt man bei einer Wanderung der Route Siljansleden, erreicht man eines der bekanntesten Ausflugsziele der Region, den Wasserfall Styggforsen. House "Rättvik". From the lake, 150 m from the beach. For shared use: garden furniture, barbecue. In the house: with TV. Grocery 10 km, restaurant 10 km.
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Last season 8th
Players in Paul James (Ospreys), Rob Webber (Wasps), Dominic Day (Scarlets), Horacio Agulla (Leicester). Out: Matt Carraro (Montpellier), Duncan Bell (Clifton), Andy Beattie, Lewis Moody, David Flatman, Pieter Dixon, Scott Hobson (all retired).
Form An awful lot of greybeard knowhow has departed from the pack – or is it that dead wood has been cut out? A stellar coaching panel led by Gary Gold must uncover the hard edge Bath have lacked for a decade, though there is a ripple of flair from full-back Nick Abendanon through to flanker Carl Fearns.
Key player Francois Louw, back row.
Prediction If the planets align, top six beckons.
Exeter Chiefs
Last season 5th
Players in Alex Brown (Doncaster), Will Chudley (Newcastle), Kai Horstmann (Worcester), Dean Mumm (Waratahs), Carl Rimmer (C Pirates), Damian Welch (Scarlets), Ian Whitten (Ulster), Jack Yeandle (Doncaster). Out: Peter Short, Chris Bentley (both retired), Addison Lockley (Moseley), Bryan Rennie (Bristol), Chad Slade (Oyonnax), Herbie Stupple, Jon Vickers (Plymouth).
Form Rival clubs expect Exeter's rise and rise to end. Coach Rob Baxter has other ideas, naturally, though a squad mostly untouched by international calls will surely have to ease off somewhere, probably in Europe.
Key player Tom Johnson, back row.
Prediction Another top-six finish would be a fine effort.
Last season 9th
Players in Rob Cook (C Pirates), Jimmy Cowan (Highlanders), Huia Edmonds (Brumbies), Sione Kalamafoni (Nottingham), Ben Morgan (Scarlets), Martyn Thomas (Dragons), Billy Twelvetrees (Leicester). Out: Matias Cortese (Colomiers), Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu (WR Sparks), Rory Lawson (Newcastle), Luke Narraway, Alasdair Strokosch (both Perpignan), Lesley Vainikolo (La Rochelle), Tom Voyce (released).
Form Nigel Davies arrives from the Scarlets to coach with a studious air far removed from the fire and brimstone of The Shed. He has Mike Tindall as a novice backs coach, but it is the forwards who need a kick up the backside.
Key player Ben Morgan, No 8.
Prediction Moderate forwards, great backs. Mid-table again.
Last season 1st, play-off champions
Players in Ben Botica (N Harbour), Dave Ward (C Pirates), Rob Buchanan, Charlie Matthews, Joe Trayfoot, Ollie Lindsay-Hague, Will Collier (all Academy), Harry Allen (Saracens). Out: Chris York (Newcastle), Tomas Vallejos (Scarlets), Benjamin Urdapilleta (Oyonnax), Matt Cairns (retired).
Form A settled squad of players and coaches with capacity to develop their spectator-friendly offloading game. But how will Quins cope with the challenge of being the hunted rather than the hunter, and will they make a charge for the Heineken Cup or settle for domestic dominance?
Key player Chris Robshaw, flanker.
Prediction Contenders again.
Leicester Tigers
Last season 2nd, play-off finalists
Players in Robert Andrew (Pau), Miles Benjamin (Worcester), Brett Deacon (Gloucester), Dan Bowden (L Irish), Matt Cornwell (Mogliano), Vereniki Goneva (Tarbes), Adam Thompstone (L Irish). Out: Horacio Agulla (Bath), Calum Green (Leeds), James Grindal (Bristol), Ben Pienaar (Moseley), Alesana Tuilagi (NTT), Julian White (retired).
Form DoR Richard Cockerill has added three more years to his contract and the beaten finalists of last May look as formidable as ever despite back-row injuries. George Ford's continued progression at fly-half will be fascinating.
Key player Dan Bowden, fly-half/centre.
Prediction Strongest club, good signings – yet another final.
London Irish
Last season 7th
Players in Shane Geraghty (Brive), Cai Griffiths (Ospreys), Ian Humphreys (Ulster), Scott Lawson (Gloucester), Tomas O'Leary (Munster), Setaimata Sa (Catalan Dr), George Skivington (Leicester). Outs: Nick Kennedy, Delon Armitage, Guy Armitage (all Toulon), Bob Casey, Kieran Roche, Clarke Dermody (all retired), Faan Rautenbach (released), Shontayne Hape (Montpellier), Jonathan Spratt (Ospreys).
Form Shuddering end of an era as coaches Toby Booth and Mike Catt and others depart. Returning DoR Brian Smith at least has prodigal son Shane Geraghty back at fly-half.
Key player Tom Homer, full-back/wing.
Prediction Utterly unpredictable. 10th?
London Wasps
Last season 11th
Players in Stephen Jones (Scarlets), Ashley Johnson (Cheetahs), Andrea Masi (Aironi), Tom Palmer (Stade Français), James Haskell (Highlanders), James Bailey (Lyon), Fabio Staibano (Aironi), Lee Thomas (Lyon), T Rhys Thomas (C Blues). Out: Ben Broster (Biarritz), Ross Filipo, Riki Flutey (Black Rams), Richard Haughton (Jersey), John Hart, Tom Rees (both retired).
Form New owners in place but coach Dai Young needs better facilities and a better scrum. If luck with injuries improves and Wasps turn round several narrow losses, they can shoot up the table.
Key player Ashley Johnson, back row.
Prediction Dark horses but may settle for 8th.
London Welsh
Last season 4th in Championship, play-off champions
Players in Phil MacKenzie (Esher), Matt Keyte (Bath), Ed Williamson (Leeds), Daniel Browne (Grenoble), Sonny Parker (Ospreys), Tom Arscott (Worcester), Gareth Evans (Plymouth), Nick Runciman (Gloucester), Neil Briggs (Sale), Gavin Henson (unattached), Kirill Kulemin (Castres), Paulica Ion (L Irish). Out: Rob Lewis (C Blues), Mike Powell (Moseley), Saul Nelson (O Redcliffians).
Form Wily ex-Ospreys coach Lyn Jones timed Welsh's run just right to win promotion. Now they must take a step up in class and – just as importantly – physical power and conditioning.
Key player Jon Mills, flanker.
Prediction Bottom, by a distance.
Northampton Saints
Last season 4th, play-off semi-finalists.
Players in Luther Burrell (Sale), Sam Dickinson (Rotherham), Ken Pisi (North Harbour), James Wilson (Bourgoin), Gerrit-Jan van Velze (Blue Bulls), Dom Waldouck (Wasps). Out: James Downey (Munster), Roger Wilson (Ulster), Greig Tonks (Edinburgh), Andy Long (retired).
Form Saints are again happy to take the Pisi, North Harbour wing Ken Pisi joining brother George, as they wave goodbye to try machine Chris Ashton and long-serving centres Jon Clarke and Jimmy Downey. The pack, despite losing Roger Wilson, still looks strong.
Key player Soane Tonga'uiha, prop.
Prediction Can Saints finally make a final? Probably not.
Sale Sharks
Last season 6th
Players in Richie Gray (Glasgow), Eifion Lewis-Roberts (Toulon), Danny Cipriani (Melbourne), Cameron Shepherd (W Force), Corne Uys (Newcastle). Out: Andrew Sheridan (Toulon), Iain Thornley (Wigan RL), Scott Mathie (E Province), Wame Lewaravu (Mont de Marsan), Andrew Higgins (Newcastle), Joaquin Tuculet (Grenoble).
Form One international (England prop Andy Sheridan) leaving, four including the Lions prospect Richie Gray arriving, plus a new home ground with a big pitch. Expectation is high, but last season's sixth place may be the limit as a squad radically overhauled in recent years settles into Salford.
Key player Sam Tuitupou, centre.
Prediction Mid-table; may be distracted by Europe.
Last season 3rd, play-off semi-finalists.
Players in Chris Ashton (Northampton), Alistair Hargreaves (Sharks), Lorenzo Romano (Aironi), Nick Fenton-Wells (W Province). Out: Hugh Vyvyan (retired), Michael Tagicakibau (Bristol), Hayden Smith (NY Jets NFL).
Form Only two points off the top last season, despite unprecedented England calls hampering their title defence. Teamwork, pride and Steve Borthwick's grounded captaincy should sustain them, assuming the flame of motivation still burns. Much as Sarries pride themselves on away form and attitude, not having a settled home until February at the earliest must be a distraction.
Key player Schalk Brits, hooker.
Prediction Could regain title – semi-finals at least.
Worcester Warriors
Last season 10th
Players in John Andress (Exeter), David Lemi (Glasgow), Paul Hodgson (L Irish), Nikki Walker (Ospreys), Jon Clarke (Northampton), Semisi Taulava, Rob O'Donnell (both Rotherham), Dean Schofield (Toulon), Josh Matavesi (Racing M). Out: Marcel Garvey (Castres), Adam Balding, Alex Crockett (both Newcastle), Bruce Douglas (Bristol), Dale Rasmussen (retired).
Form Coach Richard Hill has brought Dean Schofield home from Toulon, looking every inch the ideal captain; just as well with stalwart centre Dale Rasmussen and Kai Horstmann departing along with try threats Marcel Garvey and Miles Benjamin.
Key player Jon Clarke, centre.
Prediction Solidly lower mid-table. More precise? 11th.Reuse content


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How Has The Madonna Lift Progressed in 2 Years?
Since the unveiling of Dr. Bruce Katz pioneering Madonna Lift back in 2010, it has been rapidly spreading across the globe. Its purpose is to remove wrinkles and sagging from around eyes, so is it still effective?
Blepharoplasty (upper and lower eyelid reduction) was the main eye rejuvenation procedure up until 2010. Of course there were various creams and salves available but the invasive surgical procedure was seen as the most effective. Dr. Bruce Katz created The Madonna Lift to eliminate the need for surgery, whilst providing exceptional eye are rejuvenation.
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Quoted at the time Dr, Bruce Katz, MD
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Aircel's online brand blunder
While the world is talking about Airtel's new logo, I checked up the competition to do a comparative study. And I came across Aircel's website having
Error 404–Not Found
At first I felt I reached a wrong website and then saw the URL had turned from http://www.aircel.com to http://www.aircel.com/AircelWar/appmanager/aircel/delhi?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pages_home and was defaulting to that everytime. Thanks to the favicon of Aircel, I did recognize the website as that of Aircel – the Telecom Operator (observe on the Google Chrome browser tab header in the picture).
As a Brand Manager of Aircel, I would never tolerate my Web Presence being compromised. With most of my consumers being online today, my online identity's importance is next to none. Pity I am not.
While Airtel is basking under the glory of a revised identity, though not too impressive, Aircel committed a grave mistake by carelessly letting their website sink.
Many many of my readers think, it was a blunder? May I hear you in the Comments?
Reblog: Relevance of Online Branding to Offline Branding (via Brandular)
The expectations from Online Branding by companies big or small is higher than that of Offline Branding. And the reason seems the flaw in positioning Offline Branding itself. While the end result of any expensive exercise is either to reach the brand out to more number of people or convert more people from "Interested" to "Buying", the misconception is going online will translate into exponential sales. Its essential I clarify right here right now.
Expectations from Online Branding initiatives should not be too different to that from Offline Branding exercises with the exception of being able to measure and control faster than traditional media. At the same time, in today's market scenario, either of them cannot individually fulfill your goals.
If you think otherwise, do let me know the reasons for the same, in the Comments below.
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Reblog: The Elements of Branding
While most of us find innovative ways of positioning Branding, its essential to learn the widely used terminologies in the domain, so that positioning your pitch for both your team's and client's understanding is clear and well-segmented.
He is a wonderful table of branding elements developed by Kolbrener, a branding firm in New York. A handy tool to quickly segment your Brand Plan into the relevant sections for easy comprehension.
Do let me know of any other you find in the Comments.
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Capitalizing on Typos
While most businesses are striving away and spending sums of money on getting people to come to their website once, there are an intelligent few who capitalize on our typing errors.
It all started when I missed the second "s" in WordPress.com. I suddenly find myself seeing a Sexual Dating website and it was absolutely unintentional. Yes, "wordpres.com" leads you to "fatebook.com" an adult dating website.
While Yahoo was smart to redirect "Yaho.com" to Yahoo.com and Google has covered its base registering "Gogle.com" and "Gooogle.com", Gamil Design, Inc. encashed on the traffic thanks to typos by people wanting to reach Gmail.com (created 1995), by registering "Gamil.com" way back in 1998.
I checked if "ggle.com" also lead to the Google Search home page, and smiled on seeing a charitable interest is providing information about how to achieve wellness through good nutrition, i.e. healthy eating. Seems like another of the HerbalLifes, Kellogs and Horlicks of the world, marketing their Food Supplements in the guise of healthier food. Cant help not believing these efforts as stealth promotions, thanks to overuse of such tactics by even the big brands.
Have you noticed other such websites banking on getting traffic from typing errors? Do let me on in the Comments.
How important is ideation?
While there are quite a few platforms to share and trash out new venture ideas with like minded people or seasoned mentors, there are very few ideas that transform into Ventures.
Most enthusiastic wannabe entrepreneurs think a Big New Idea will change their lives and make them the Ace Businessmen they always wanted to be. Its good to be optimistic, however, if all that was ever needed was just a brilliant thought, there would be more rich men than rodents.
Ideation does involve thinking about new ideas, agreed, however it does not stop at that. The ideation phase starts at identifying a need, and moves onto thinking of inaccessible solutions, ways of achieving the same, working out the stages of implementation, chalking out the phases of development, enlisting the logistical requirements, planning the go-to-market strategies and define all thinkable revenue models. Post this comes sharing the thoughts with close friends and striking off or considering the most logically viable options.
While there is nothing bad in being optimistic about his idea's success, the owner of the idea should also be prepared to scrap the idea and start from the scratch if and when seen less viable.
Where ideation is an integral part of innovation, it does not stop at just that.
Do leave a Comment and share your thoughts on ideation and its importance to you.
Are Discounted prices a trend?
While a few years back we would associate bargains with cheap products, today we are spoilt for choice thanks to even big brands offering rebates on their wares.
When considered the best buys today we not only find the new comers, the established brands also are giving away their products for less.
The reasons the businesses quote are:
1. Cheap competitors have reduced its market worth;
2. Thanks to more vendors, the cost of making the product has come down;
3. Their focus has shifted from niche to mass, thus a price slash was essential,
4. They had to sell away old stocks so that they can make way for new ones.
Come what may there are a few facts, that I see when sieving out the excuses.
1. Their wares were too optimistically priced,
2. The are getting rid of the goods before they go out of fashion or loose their utility value,
3. Their goods are fast reaching expiry dates,
4. They are not able to stand against their competition in the price war,
5. The product was never worth its price,
6. Their products are no more niche.
The reason for price fall, depends not only on the market behaviour, it also relates to how innovatively and well-planned the market lifecycle of the product is. And most fall short right there.
If you have a different opinion, why not we discuss that in the Comments below.
WordPress on BlackBerry reviewed
While its easy to write big posts on my laptop, posting it through my BlackBerry Pearl has its own thrill. I can use it while travelling and not be bothered about time.
WordPress for BlackBerry allows me to post while travelling.So Cool!
A simplified interface and buttons to include Ordered and Unordered lists; the usual Bold, Italics and Underlined and s way to include Media and Links, makes it so perfectly mobile.
If I expect more from WordPress for BlackBerry on a mobile interface, I might just have to bear a rather sluggish software.
Overall a Good Experience. If you differ, do write to me in the Comments and I would love to discuss the same.
Great Collaboration! (SnapDeal.com and Grabbon.com join hands)
I like it when people understand the power of collaboration. And this one is between two leading group buying sites in India. While I evangelize collaboration in all aspects and phases of businesses, I feel the only reason we lag behind or think a hundred times, is because we are too greedy to share success with anyone. When its about money or fame, belief or the lack of it, is what taunts all.
I believe, if we do not trust and shake hands today, the chances of losing the competition tomorrow, with lot more entrants, are higher, especially when its merely a price war.
I so wish this partnership turns so amazing for both. Wish you Success Snapdeal.com and Grabbon.com. May your friendship prosper and help you succeed in winning people's smiles, together.
Innovative Analytics by Cleartrip.com
Analytics have become so important today for website. And one of the most widely used is the Google Analytics for websites. However, this is more a business facing fact report of sorts.
Turn this upside down and what you get is innovation to the end-consumer. And this is what Cleartrip.com has done with the introduction of its graphs.
Note: I have inverted the colors to make it snazzier 🙂
Cleartrip shows the Flights that ply to the destination, their cost forecast for the month and even the comparison between the airlines based on price for every day of the month. Long gaps if any show unavailability of flights on those days.
Overall, a great tool to plan in advance. Sadly, its available for domestic flights only, as yet.