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Lunar New Year celebration focuses on traditions
Around the world, celebrations will be kicking off during the next several weeks to help the dragon make way for the snake.
In this area, the Chinese Language School of Connecticut will be celebrating the new lunar year with a "Year of the Snake" festival at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center on Sunday, Jan. 27.
This is the 11th year that the organization will be showcasing the traditions of the Chinese New Year. Based on the lunar cycle, the holiday arrives sometime between late January to mid-February. This year it falls on Sunday, Feb. 10.
As is tradition, each year is associated with one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, which in addition to the dragon and snake includes the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
Katy Myers, who is the school's art and culture director, said the school's celebration arrives a bit early this year, but its mission remains the same. The event serves as a way for the school to have some fun, bring the community together and share holiday traditions.
In China, and other countries around the world, the holiday actually lasts for 15 days and is full of longstanding traditions and practices.
Myers said the Jan. 27 event will feature singers, dancers and other performers, as well as an art show and a Chinese banquet. Guests can expect to see a traditional dragon dance and lion dance, and may peruse an Asian market, too.
"I think families will enjoy it," she said, adding that it is important to reserve a spot in advance, as the event tends to fill up quickly.
Myers said she also expects people to enjoy the art, which was created by some of the students at the school, which was launched in 2002 by a group of parents, including Myers. It offers weekend and afterschool courses in Mandarin Chinese to children of every background, from ages 18 months and older, in two locations in Greenwich.
Known as the "Red Thread Project: Connecticut the Past, Present and Future," it called on students to work with fiber, paper and ink.
"The students' work is really phenomenal," she said. "For this project, we worked with printmaking, sewing and embroidery."
Myers said there also will be special activities for children, including arts and crafts events, a scavenger hunt and tai chi demonstrations.
Visitors may opt to show gratitude for the previous year and ask for good fortune in the next, by offering up gifts to the Chinese gods and other deities at a miniature temple.
"It's really about the tradition of how one prepares for the end of one year of, hopefully, a good harvest ... and how to appease the gods so we have a fruitful new year," Myers said.
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Gibson bounces back from back issue, beats Royals
KANSAS CITY -- With the way the Twins played during their 10-game homestand, they knew how important it would be to start off well on Tuesday night in the first game of their six-game road trip through Kansas City and Chicago.
Minnesota went just 3-7 during the homestand, falling behind early in several games, and needed a strong start from Kyle Gibson, who was going up against Royals ace James Shields.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- With the way the Twins played during their 10-game homestand, they knew how important it would be to start off well on Tuesday night in the first game of their six-game road trip through Kansas City and Chicago.
Minnesota went just 3-7 during the homestand, falling behind early in several games, and needed a strong start from Kyle Gibson, who was going up against Royals ace James Shields.View Full Game Coverage
Gibson did just that in his return from missing a start with lower back stiffness, as the right-hander tossed seven scoreless innings to lead the Twins to a 2-1 win over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
"Gibby was fantastic for us," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We had a lot of chances against Shields, but he always finds a way to stay in there. He kept us from getting a pretty good lead by making some pitches on us, but our guy matched him and upped him this time."
Gibson, who hadn't started since July 18 after feeling back tightness in a bullpen session on July 21, scattered just two hits and two walks to get his first win since July 9. The right-hander also struck out seven and faced the minimum through the first four innings. He improved to 9-8 with a 3.94 ERA on the year.
Gibson credited a tweak in his grip for his success, as it was something he worked on with pitching coach Rick Anderson during his last bullpen session on Saturday.
"The one thing I worked on was loosening my grip a little bit and letting my fingers work," Gibson said. "That seems to be the key, especially with my sinker."
He outdueled Shields, who was also solid, but needed 124 pitches to get through six innings. Shields gave up two runs on six hits and four walks to get stuck with the loss, which left him frustrated after the game.
"We got out-pitched and out-played," Shields said. "That's about all I've got to say about it. I didn't have my best stuff today."
The Twins got on the board against Shields in the third inning on a sacrifice fly from Josh Willingham to take an early lead. But the inning ended in controversy, as Gardenhire challenged a sliding catch from Alex Gordon. It appeared he trapped the ball, but the play stood and Gardenhire was ejected for arguing with home-plate umpire Ted Barrett.
Minnesota added another run in the fifth with Brian Dozier coming through with an RBI double to score Danny Santana. Sam Fuld was awarded third on the play due to interference from second baseman Omar Infante, which caused Royals manager Ned Yost to argue the decision to no avail.
The double snapped an 0-for-18 skid for Dozier, who said that Shields threw mostly offspeed throughout the night.
"I don't know the percentages but he threw a lot of offspeed," Dozier said. "It seemed like every pitch he threw to us was either a curveball, cutter or changeup. The fastball was kind of for show. He didn't really command it early in the game and relied on his offspeed, so after we saw it a bunch, we put some good swings out there."
But the Twins left the bases loaded that inning, as Chris Parmelee grounded into a 4-6-3 double play. Minnesota went just 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position against Shields, but still pulled out the victory thanks to Gibson's strong start.
The Royals didn't have many chances with runners in scoring position against Gibson, and went just 0-for-2 in those situations with Gibson getting strikeouts to end the fifth and sixth innings.
"I'm not out there going for strikeouts but when I get into a situation where one's available, I try to go after it," Gibson said. "I just had a lot of confidence tonight. I think I had my best fastball command all year."
Closer Glen Perkins gave up an RBI single in the ninth to Eric Hosmer, but was able to get through the rest of the inning unscathed to pick up his 26th save. It also gave the Twins consecutive victories for the first time since July 12-13 against the Rockies.
"The first game on the road in a series is always important," Dozier said. "And it came against a good pitcher in Shields. So have to get after it tomorrow because the next three pitchers are all really good."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.

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Adult Protective Services
Patricia Brownell and Joanne Marlatt Otto
Adult Protective Services (APS) are empowered by states and local communities to respond to reports and cases of vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, and self-neglect. While incorporating legal, medical, and mental health services, APS programs are part of the social services delivery system and incorporate principles and practices of the social work profession.
Aging: Practice Interventions
Lenard W. Kaye
Social workers address older adult issues at all levels of service planning, policy-making, and delivery and across a wide range of community and institutional settings. While various models of practice intervention with older adults exist, more recently the focus is on the integration of micro and macro strategies with an emphasis on strength-based perspectives to geriatric social work practice. The older adult population will expand dramatically and become increasingly culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse in the future and social work services will need to be sensitive to the variety of issues faced by a more heterogeneous and sophisticated older adult population.
Aging: Services
Nancy Morrow-Howell and Leslie Hasche
Despite high levels of functioning among older adults, chronic health conditions lead to impairment and the need for help. Family members provide most of the assistance; yet formal services such as in-home personal and homemaker services, congregate and home-delivered meals, adult day services, employment and educational services, transportation, nursing homes, assisted and supportive living facilities, legal and financial services, and case management are available. Even with the growing number and type of services, unequal access and uneven quality persist. In these settings, social workers develop and administer programs, provide clinical care, offer case management and discharge planning, and contribute to policy development.
Care Transitions, Patient Health, and System Performance in the United States
June Simmons, Sandy Atkins, Janice Lynch Schuster, and Melissa Jones
Transitions in care occur when a patient moves from an institutional setting, such as a hospital or nursing home, to home or community, often with the hope or expectation of improving health status. At the very least, patients, clinicians, and caregivers aim to achieve stability and avoid complications that would precipitate a return to the emergency department (ED) or hospital. For some groups of vulnerable people, especially the very old and frail, such transitions often require specific, targeted coaching and supports that enable them to make the change successfully. Too often, as research indicates, these transitions are poorly executed and trigger a cycle of hospital readmissions and worsening health, even death. In recognizing these perils, organizations have begun to see that by improving the care transition process, they can improve health outcomes and reduce costs while ensuring safety, consistency, and continuity. While some of this improvement relies on medical care, coaching, social services and supports are often also essential. Lack of timely medical follow-up, transportation, inadequate nutrition, medication issues, low health literacy, and poverty present barriers to optimal health outcomes. By addressing social and environmental determinants of health and chronic disease self-management, social workers who make home visits or other proven timely interventions to assess and coach patients and their caregivers are demonstrating real results. This article describes care transitions interventions, research into barriers and opportunities, and specific programs aimed at improvement.
Counseling Older Adult Victims of Ageism in the Workplace
Margo A. Jackson
Despite the significant life and work experiences that a growing number of older adults have to contribute to the workforce, pervasive ageism operates in overt and covert ways to discriminate against older workers in hiring and workplace practices. This article provides a current overview of definitions, prevalence, types, and effects of ageism in the U.S. workplace. For social workers counseling older adult victims of workplace ageism, this article discusses theories, foundational knowledge, and ongoing self-awareness and training needed for bias awareness. Counseling strategies and resources are highlighted, including coping and resilience strategies to counteract ageist stereotypes and discrimination, facilitate job-seeking support, and advocate for older workers by promoting awareness and serving as a resource for employers to reduce workplace ageism.
Family Services
Katharine Briar-Lawson and Toni Naccarato
Over the decades, family services have been one of the overarching features of social work practice, education, and research. Efficacy studies help to reinforce the focus on serving individuals in the contexts of their families and to address intergenerational family systems. Families provide the bulk of services to their members but require tailored resources, effective services, and supports. The growing diversity in families compels more cross-cultural competence, responsive policies, and evidence-based practices. Family service practitioners must increasingly address the social exclusion of many families while integrating economic and employment supports with counseling, skill training, and other interventions.
Gay Men: Overview
James I. Martin
This entry explains who gay men are, how gay identity constructions have evolved since their inception, and how they continue to evolve. It also describes the health and mental health problems that gay men may present to social work practitioners. In addition, it identifies several social policies that are relevant to gay men. The entry argues that a systemic perspective that takes into account the social, political, and cultural influences on gay men is necessary for understanding the problems that such men commonly experience.
Health Care: Practice Interventions
Lois F. Cowles
Social work in health care emerged with immigration and urbanization associated with industrialization, and the resultant shift from physician visits to the patient's home and workplace to hospital-centered care. This change is alleged to have resulted in a loss of the doctor's perspective of the psychosocial influences on physical health. Originally, some nurses were assigned the function of addressing this loss. But eventually, the function became recognized as that of a social worker. From its beginnings in the general hospital setting in the late 1800s, social work in health care, that is, medical social work, has expanded into multiple settings of health care, and the role of the social worker from being a nurse to requiring a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from a university. However, the broad function of social work in health care remains much the same, that is, "to remove the obstacles in the patient's surroundings or in his mental attitude that interfere with successful treatment, thus freeing him to aid in his own recovery" (Cannon, 1923. p 15). Health care social workers are trained to work across the range of "methods," that is, work with individuals, small groups, and communities (social work "methods" are called "casework", "group work" and "community organization"). They work to assist the patient, using a broad range of interventions, including, when indicated, speaking on behalf of the client (advocacy), helping clients to assert themselves, to modify undesirable behaviors, to link with needed resources, to face their challenges, to cope with crises, to develop improved understanding of their health-related thought processes and habits, to build needed self confidence to do what is required to help themselves deal with their health problem, to gain insight and support from others who are in a similar situation, to gain strength from humor, or from a supportive environment, and through spiritual experience, and from practicing tasks that are needed to deal with their health-related problems or from joining forces with others in the community to modify it in the interest of improved health status for all, or to gradually restore a sense of stability and normalcy after a traumatic experience. Most important of all, perhaps, is the "helping relationship" between client and social worker, which needs to be one of total understanding and acceptance of the client as a person. A sizable portion of the U.S. population lacks financial access to health care, where health care is regarded as a privilege rather than a right, as it is seen in all other industrial nations (except South Africa). Current trends in the U.S. health care system reflect efforts to control rising health care costs without dealing with the "real problems," which are: (1) the lack of a single-payer health care system and: (2) the lack of focus on "public health."
Home-based Interventions
Susan F. Allen and Elizabeth M. Tracy
Home visiting and home-based intervention are two strategies used by social workers when working with individuals or families in direct practice. The basic rationale for home-based work is the benefit to social workers' assessments and understanding of clients, as well as the benefit of more relevant practice with families who are seen in the setting where difficulties are occurring. Home-based interventions have been shown to be effective in improving health and decreasing family discord. When visiting the home, the social worker has the added responsibility of respecting the privacy of families as a guest in their homes.
Life Span: Older Adulthood/Seniors (From Ages 60 to 75)
Nancy P. Kropf
Although the terms older adult and senior citizen are commonly defined as individuals 60 years and above, later adulthood contains various life-course phases and developmental periods. The "young-old," defined as individuals in the age range of 60–75 years, often experience various health, social, and economic transitions. Both the individual and family systems must negotiate some of the concomitant changes that accompany the journey into later life. Therefore, this first decade of older adulthood is one that can simultaneously be enjoyable, exciting, demanding, and stressful for aging persons and their family.


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Morgan Frazier - MORGAN FRAZIER, 'YELLOW BRICK ROAD' - SONG REVIEW
June 10, 2013
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Morgan Frazier plays Dorothy to the men she comes upon in her major label debut single 'Yellow Brick Road,' but she's hardly the shy, nervous character from the famous narrative. The 'Wizard of Oz' metaphor that drives this rocker is a clever way for the 19-year-old to get noticed, but the power of her voice is what will ultimately impress country music fans.
Frazier is the type of singer who will have to learn how and when to rein in her vocals when the time comes. It's not just the strength, it's the confidence behind each note that's captivating. The blonde hardly seems like the type of woman who'd waste much time with the foolish scarecrow, cowardly lion or no-good tin man, but her performance is anything but insincere.
"He was a down home cutie with a farm boy smile / Big blue eyes like the Kansas sky / He sat down beside me and we talked a bit / I told him my dreams, he told me his / It became so clear with every word he said / That boy didn't have a brain in his head," she sings to open the song. The production is somewhat generic, with only a slow saw from a fiddle stepping forward to catch one's ear.
Lyrically, Frazier has found a new way to tell a familiar story. Nothing about 'Yellow Brick Road' comes across as campy or cartoonish. Instead she paints vivid pictures of each guy she meets, and in just a few words, describes his deficiency.
"He had long blonde hair and a souped up Ford / Pulled up in the drive with a mighty roar / He played a good game, acted so tough / Had me believing that it could be love / But he tucked his tail between his legs / When it came to commitment he was scared to death."
Morgan Frazier is a newcomer to country radio, but you'll find she's far from green after viewing her meet-the-artist video. 'Yellow Brick Road' isn't the type of song that will leave a deep impression for years to come, but it's a fine professional effort from a singer who's sure deliver many more creative expressions.
Taste of Country Rating : 4 out of 5 Stars


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CULTURE-STRATEGY FIT® today announced the launch of its Culture Resource Center, an online platform dedicated to providing cutting-edge, research-based culture surveys, tools and activities to help organizations strengthen their unique organizational cultures to deliver on strategy and goals. The Culture Resource Center will provide culture tools in five areas: Know Your Culture; M&A and Culture; Welcome to Your Future Culture; Define Your Values, and Change Your Culture.
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Assignment #39: Fall Color
In the Sierra Nevada, the fall color is just about to peak right now, and I've been getting reports from several readers that it's a magnificent display this year. Over the next couple of weeks, much of the U.S. should be erupting in red, orange and yellow. For this week's Assignment, show us your best fall color shots. I'll be keeping a close eye on this Assignment as I look for images to run in the 2011 fall color issues of the magazine. Enter by midnight, October 19. —Christopher Robinson, Editor


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Now entering the week in which baseball that matters will be played, the 2011 season is so close that the butterflies are fluttering for most baseball fans. Opening Day is finally this Friday and, though my general disdain for the Opening Day crowd is well-known (more people looking for a reason to party than to watch a baseball game) and given that I prefer Game #2, which includes "real" Tribe fans, the opportunity to attend Opening Day with The DiaBride and The DiaTot, will have me heading down to the corner of Carnegie and Ontario this Friday afternoon. While I had to pass on the invitation to attend the Indians' new Social Suite (which looks pretty great) for the Home Opener, the fact that I'll be going down with my boy and my wife have me excited to head down there to enjoy all of this Feller hoopla will be occurring prior to the game and an actual…you know, Indians' game has the juices flowing on this cold Sunday morning. However, we are still about 5 days away from that first pitch being thrown and the analysis of the off-season and Spring Training being just that – analysis, with the questions that we've been asking for months now hopefully finding some answers as the days, weeks, and months roll on in 2011. That's why this is always a bit of an odd time to think about (or write about) the Indians as most of the pieces that emerge at the end of Spring Training examine how the final roster spots will shake out as the arguments over the 23rd to 25th spots on the roster are overanalyzed to impossible levels.
As the shocking news that Buck AND Duncan have made the team (I know, buckle up…) may seem compelling at some level, there are far more important questions facing this team that are unrelated to the 5th OF, the backup catcher or the final three spots in the bullpen. Looking at any or all of those "battles" is all well and good, but the outcomes or the "winners" in those situations are going to have a slightly higher impact than you or I will on the win total for the Indians this season. Rather, let's take the opportunity to use this last Sunday prior to Opening Day to take a bigger picture of the situation in front of the Indians with a kind of a "where the Indians stand" as an organization and what is necessary for them to accomplish to show that there is, in fact, a light at the end of this dark tunnel that we've been traveling through for the better part of the last two years. Certainly, this isn't the time to re-hash what happened from the beginning of the 2008 season to now (contracts were given out to players that regressed or were injured, poor drafting dried up the pipeline, and veterans were moved for younger players) as those topics have been beaten to death and the Tribe fans that are unable to move past the last two seasons are the same ones that still think that any lineup that doesn't evoke memories of that 1995 batting order is substandard. What every Spring is about is looking forward with some hope (and you should read this if you haven't already from Jonathan Knight) – which is something that most Indians' fans oddly have trouble doing, despite the fact that most of those same fans look forward to the NFL Draft more than any other day on the NFL calendar and are counting the ping-pong balls that they hope will lead them to Kyrie Irving or Derrick Williams – and there should be no shortage of hope on the North Coast. However, that hope is largely tied into the individual performances of particular players (who aren't the 5th starter, the backup catcher, or the 5th OF) going forth this season, because the Indians are at the point in their developmental curve where the production (or lack thereof) from certain young players are going to tell us a good deal about the future of this franchise, both in the near-term and long-term. To start off on that, Paul Swydan at Fangraphs had a very frank piece about the Indians in the context of Fangraphs' rankings of each MLB franchise from bottom to top. Swydan looks very honestly at the strengths and weaknesses of the organization and while he's not overwhelmingly positive about the outlook for the franchise, he does put forth some concepts very clearly in terms of what the Indians are trying to do this year and beyond:The talent on hand still needs to make the jump from paper champions to producing on the field – something evidenced by the fact that they felt compelled to sign Orlando Cabrera to man second base this season – but you can see how the pieces of the puzzle should fit. The best way to compete long-term is to have a core group of players that mature at the same time, and this group of Indians fits that profile as well as you possibly can. --snip-- The Indians payroll has regressed to 2005 levels, and the ballpark might not be chock full of Tribe fanatics like it used to be, but there is promise there. The team on the field this year may not be good, but it is largely cost controlled, has more reinforcements that should arrive in the near-term, and the front office is smart enough to determine who among this group of players should be there long-term. While the whole piece is worth a read, the two bolded sentences are what caught my eye as it represents about as good of a one-sentence-only explanation of the Indians' strategy and the application of that strategy that I've seen. It shouldn't be a new concept to you if you've been hanging around these parts and realize that the Indians made many of their trades with an eye at acquiring talent that would arrive and mature around the same time, with the idea of assembling a similar "core group of players" that they did from 2003 to 2005, when Victor, Hafner, Sizemore, CC, and Westbrook all emerged together to form the base for the 2007 team. Of course, if that's the plan, the question needs to be asked as we sit at the precipice of the 2011 season as to which of the current Indians (on the parent club or beneath) can make up this next "core group of players"? The most obvious candidate was profiled by Hardball Talk's Aaron Gleeman, who had some pretty glowing things to say about The Axe Man:Because excellent plate discipline is such a big part of Santana's game and not everyone appreciates the value of on-base percentage relative to, say, homers and RBIs, his numbers may not scream superstar. However, he's capable of becoming an elite offensive catcher and is also no slouch defensively behind the plate, giving him MVP-caliber upside. "MVP-caliber upside" is something that I'm not sure anyone would have asserted about Victor back in 2003 or 2004, yet Santana is universally lauded as "capable of becoming an elite offensive catcher" and his presence (plus the fact that keeping him in Columbus until July of last year keeps him under club control through the 2016 season) in the lineup for the coming years certainly constitutes his inclusion as one of the potential "core" players going forward for the current Tribe. Past the obviousness of Santana, there is Choo (who remains under club control through 2013, despite every attempt by national writers and Jim Ingraham to ignore this and try to figure out when he's going to get traded), who Gleeman calls, in a later piece, "one of MLB's best, most underrated players" and probably Chris Perez (who had the 8th best ERA+ in MLB last year among players with 60 or more IP), even if the newly-minted closer still needs to prove that he can continue his dominance of the 9th inning as saves aren't granted to anyone on the basis of hair, beard, Twitter presence, or self-confidence. That would be three that would be obvious as cornerstones going forward for the Indians and having them in the middle of the lineup and at the back end of their bullpen is certainly a nice start. However, given the inexperience that Santana and Perez have at the MLB level, they still have quite a bit of proving to do over the course of the 2011 season and beyond to establish themselves as players that don't just project as difference-makers, but who actually do make a difference between wins and losses. In that column, they are not alone as the Indians' roster is flush with players that may have some level of prospect pedigree but who need to prove that they are not just capable MLB players, but players who can contribute on a winning team. How that plays out is what bears watching this season as Swyden asserts in the aforementioned Fangraphs piece, "the team on the field this year may not be good, but it is largely cost controlled, has more reinforcements that should arrive in the near-term, and the front office is smart enough to determine who among this group of players should be there long-term." There are segments of the fanbase (and large ones at that) who would challenge the assertion about the intelligence of the Front Office, but in that piece in which Gleeman called The BLC "one of MLB's best, most underrated players", he finishes the piece with, "my guess is they'll show some relatively modest improvement from last season's 69 wins to somewhere in the mid-70s while having some very interesting decisions to make at the trading deadline." Since I'm going to dismiss the trading deadline decisions out of hand (as nobody seems to realize that Sizemore's club option for 2012 becomes a player option if he's traded, that Choo is under control for three more years, and that Carmona is working on a contract that includes club options for the next FOUR years), what if the Indians finished the season in the mid-70s in terms of wins? Would that be a success or a failure of a season? That's a hard answer to come to, although that largely depends how they would come about that win total, in terms of contributions from particular players. Specifically, what contributions come from players who are ostensibly paid the league minimum and who are a few years away from even sniffing arbitration. Speaking of those league-minimum salaried players, since this is the time of year that everyone moans and wails about the payroll of the team (and I wonder why, given the headlines coming from the PD), can we please remember how the tear-down and ramp-up of the Indians (by this very Front Office) happened from 2002 to 2005 as the Indians pared back payroll while they loaded up on cost-controlled, similarly-aged players that would…wait for it…arrive and mature together with the idea that they could peak as a playoff team? Lest you forgot, just to look at that tear-down and the beginning of the ramp-up, here is the Team Record and Payroll from 2002 to 2004: 2002 – 74-88 / $78.9M 2003 – 68-94 / $48.5M 2004 – 80-82 / $34.3M Very quickly, compare those to what we've seen the last two years (in terms of records and payrolls) and what this year's payroll figures to settle in at: 2009 – 65-97 / $81.6M 2010 – 69-93 / $61.5M 2011 – ??-?? / $48.4M Back in 2004, the Indians began to identify which of their league-minimum salaried players were worthy of receiving long-term contracts and began to lock those players up accordingly, buying out years of FA in exchange for financial security. As those players accumulated more service time and as their salary numbers escalated, the Indians have had sequentially higher payrolls, but that doesn't mean that the team jumped from a $34M payroll to a $70M payroll as the team record improved. To wit, that 2005 team that finished with 93 wins had a $41.5M payroll (or lower than this year's projected payroll) and that 2007 team that was one game away from the World Series? It was a $61.7M payroll or about $200K more than last year's 2010 team…seriously. While it may seem like I'm getting sidetracked, it actually speaks to the strategy at hand here - load up on the youngsters, identify which ones are going to be "core" players and sign them to deals that buy up years of their FA. That's what the Indians did in the early-to-mid-1990s, it's what they did in the early-to-mid-2000s, and it's what they're attempting to do in the early-to-mid-2010s. Back in 1993, nobody knew what Jim Thome or Manny Ramirez or Al Belle or Omar Vizquel were going to become just as nobody knew who Victor Martinez or CC Sabathia or Grady Sizemore would turn into when it was 2003. Sure, there were hopes and aspirations, but short of being able to look deeply into the future, any assertions of "sure" things were folly because of how much can go right or wrong with prospects in baseball. Perhaps Manny was a generational talent and CC was an obvious ace, but it took a while (for CC at least) to establish himself as a consistent presence for the Indians and the answer as to whether he was ever going to "figure it out" didn't come quickly. Not many people care to remember this while CC pitches for the Evil Empire, but if you combine the numbers for CC's 2004 and 2005 seasons, you come to a 4.07 ERA (105 ERA+) as CC had not yet realized how to pitch, something that would come about around the middle of June of 2006 (he had a 4.18 ERA in mid-June of that year) and lead to his evolution into the dominant frontline starter. Of course, it's fair to ask whether there are players on the Indians' roster that generate the kind of excitement that CC did back then? Probably not (although Pomeranz is certainly generating some heavy breathing), but the point to injecting CC's numbers from 2004 and 2005 in there is to assert that the answers aren't going to come quickly for the current batch of Tribe youngsters, although 2011 should start to provide some answers. If we're starting with Santana, Choo, and CF Perez as potential "core" members based on their 2010 performances, what the Indians need is for other players to emerge here as more than complementary parts and to show some sort of potential as elite players. If you'll remember that mid-to-late-2000s team was built, the team that emerged in 2007 was ostensibly built was around a couple of elite players complemented by pieces and parts, young and old. Arguments could be made with the pros and cons that Asdrubal could become a "core" player and an argument could be made that Asdrubal should have already established himself as more than a complementary piece, but injuries and inconsistency have plagued him. Perhaps 2011 is the year that he actually flashes the leather that earned him his "slick-fielding" reputation and can replicate the success that he enjoyed at the plate in 2009, but Cabrera (who, like Choo, is club-controlled THROUGH 2013…as it stands right now) is far from alone in having potential, if not consistent production. The once high hopes for Matt MaTola have taken a considerable hit, something that hasn't been lost on a couple of hacks as well as Terry Pluto, who all pointed out the importance of MaTola on this team going forward. Maybe MaTola shows why he was a universally well-regarded prospect when he was moved or maybe he moves into placeholder (or worse) territory. Honestly, you could go up and down the roster and see a glass half-full and a glass half-empty situation for most of these young players, just as easily as you can see the overflowing glass and the completely empty cup for guys like Carrasco and Masterson, just to name a couple. But the only way that the answers will come on some of these guys is through their performance in MLB and, even then, there's no guarantee that they become the cornerstones that the Indians hope so badly they will become. However, it's important to remember that the 2004 team had an infield of Broussard, Belliard, Vizquel, and Blake with an outfield that included both Matt Lawton and Jody Gerut, so the emergence of players in 2011 doesn't have to be unilateral and overwhelming. Very simply, the Indians need one or two players to emerge as pillars of the lineup (other than Choo and Santana) this year to at least show that a bright future is ahead for the offense. Let's all remember that Victor and Hafner established themselves in 2004 with Sizemore not arriving for a year after those two to form the troika that would pace the Tribe's offense at its peak in the late-2000s. With that knowledge, isn't it more obvious that the Indians need a just a couple of other players (and it could come next year if you want to use the Sizemore 2005 comparison…ahem, The Chiz and Kipnis), as they could have two of the more effective hitters in MLB this year in the middle of their lineup. If you think that's hyperbole, realize that in the Marcel Projections for the 2011 season, The BLC has the 11th highest projected wOBA with Santana not far behind with the 28th highest projected wOBA in all of MLB. Those are cornerstones that you could build a lineup around. In the near-term Sizemore is a question mark as it is fairly obvious that the Indians will cut ties with Hafner when his contract runs out at the end of next season (if not earlier), but one (or both) of those players re-capturing some level of their past success would go a long way to an easier transition to seeing some of those players establish themselves into legitimate contributors for the next decade. Already I can hear it – sure, Choo and Santana look great, but that mid-to-late-2000s team was built on starting pitching, and that just isn't on this roster. You're not going to hear an argument here that those teams were built on a strong rotation, but the recent performances of CC and Lee have colored the memories of those players as those 2004 and 2005 teams emerged. The truth is that CC and Westbrook were the best starting pitchers of those teams as they matured and represented the only two "core" pitchers from 2004 to 2007. You could say that Lee was a "core" player from 2004 to 2007 if you'd like, but you'd be wrong as he posted a 4.76 ERA (92 ERA+) over those four seasons and really only had one excellent season among those four, a body of work that Westbrook (4.07 ERA, 108 ERA+ over 4 seasons) far outpaced over the same timeframe. Regardless (and back to this team), the questions remain as to whether Carmona continue to rebound with Carrasco emerging going to be a pleasant (if inconsistently pleasant) surprise this year. If they're able to do that it provides the Indians with some level of stability at the top of the rotation…but it's just as easy to see Carmona hitting a plateau and CarCar being done in by home runs. Hope may exist that Masterson can evolve into a innings-eating middle-of-the-rotation starter, but fear is just as prevalent that he's going to end up in the bullpen, even if it strengthens the back-end of a burgeoning bullpen. In a piece on the Indians' rotation from Anthony Castrovince, he takes a clear look at the Tribe starters going forward and this comparable for Al White caught my eye: A more applicable expectation would be for him to emerge as a Jake Westbrook type who can give you a ton of quick innings and routinely deliver double-digit wins. While it's a little less sexy, there is, obviously, a lot of value in that type of talent. As AC writes, there is "a lot of value in that type of talent" and if White projects as that groundball specialist who sits in the middle of the rotation, that proved to be an important role filled by Westbrook in the mid-to-late-2000s and as much as people want to see White as a 1st Rounder heading to the top of the rotation, if he could settle into a Jake Westbrook-type role going forward…the Indians would welcome it. At this point however, it's all projection with "answers" coming from opinions and not from actual MLB innings pitched…and you know what? If the Indians come out of 2011 with Carmona, Carrasco, and White as potential "core" players, then 2011 is a rousing success, win-loss record be damned. That being said, I'm not going to sit here and say that Player X or Player Y – position player or pitcher – is going to emerge in 2011 because the roster is flush with guys that could (operative word) accelerate their development and establish themselves, but who could just as easily get stuck in neutral or go in reverse. I'd love to say that C. Perez and Sipp are poised to lock down the 8th and 9th innings for the next few years, but I've learned enough about bullpens in the last few years to know that I know nothing about predicting the effectiveness of relievers. All told, what the Indians need this season is a couple of players to emerge as legitimate "core" players and some level of advancement needs to be seen because, as Swydan adroitly pointed out in the Fangraphs piece, the Indians need "to make the jump from paper champions to producing on the field" which is something that group of young players did in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. While every fan remembers the tear-down of 2008 and, more acutely, 2009, the build-up has somehow slipped everyone's mind and the evolution from a team that "featured" Broussard, Lawton, Jason Davis, and others into a 93-win team in 2005 came when the potential of certain players became legitimate production for those players. Entering this season, that's the thing to watch all year as the potential within this current group needs to become production that can be counted on going forward. 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PHOENIX – Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 will pay $148,092 and furnish other relief to settlean age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's suit, the school district utilized an early retirement incentive plan and a normal retirement plan which granted greater economic benefits to younger employees based solely on their age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).
The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
As a result of the EEOC's investigation and litigation, the school district recently revised its retirement plans to comply with the ADEA. The agency obtained all the actual damages it sought, together with interest. The school district agreed to pay employees who retired after April 3, 2008 the difference between what they were paid for their leave payouts and what they should have been paid for those payouts had there been no unlawful discrimination.
In addition to the monetary payments totaling $148,092 to 49 class members, the consent decree entered by the court today requires anti-discrimination training for all employees and review of all policies and practices to ensure a work environment free from age discrimination. The decree also orders that the school district shall not reinstate the unlawful policy or adopt policies that violate the ADEA.
"Early retirement incentive plans and normal retirement plans which are facially discriminatory need to be changed," said EEOC Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill. "Discrimination on the basis of age is simply illegal. People in their 60s should not be penalized merely because they want to continue working. A retirement plan which states, for example, that employees 52 years old will receive a greater economic benefit than an employee 61 years old for retiring early is discriminatory on its face."
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There are 240 lagoons in Sun City and nearly all of them have the potential to make a fisherman's day, especially April 19-21 during the fresh water fishing tournament for members of the Fishing and Hunting Club.
Don Field, club vice president and fresh water expert, and former club president Jim Nagy, also an experienced fresh water angler, shared their experiences with the lagoons during a fishing workshop at the pavilion on Lake Somerset. They discussed a variety of plastic worms, beetle spins, twirly tail jig heads, storm lures, baby bass lures and floats. About 12 people and one very large alligator who swam out from under the Pavilion to listen took an interest in the information and demonstrations.
"With the baby bass lure," said Field, "fish slow and retrieve it steady. When you use the plastic worm, you might leave it lay on the bottom. That's called dead-sticking. Don't move it. The fish will come to you."
Field said if the weather has been dry, he might sit on the ground by the lagoon he is fishing. Otherwise he'll sit on his tackle box if the ground is wet.
"But you've got to watch the alligators. They're looking for all these old guys sitting on the banks," said Nagy to laughter.
One of the tips Nagy passed on was about line management - not just the line weight but how much to have on the reel, when to reload it, why cut off a length of it after a fish fight and why keep an eye on the condition of the line wound around the reel.
"You don't want to look down and see loops and slack line on your reel," Nagy said.
Anglers can find large mouth bass, crappies and catfish in Sun City's lagoons as well as there may also still be some hybrid striped bass that were placed a few years ago but they are hard to find these days. The stripers are a catch-and-release fish in these lagoons and are disappearing from the lagoons. There are a number of reasons, Nagy said, because not everyone releases them, they don't reproduce, they die out and they're not being restocked.
"They're $10 a fish. That's pretty expensive," said Field. The club will be restocking again later this year and will spend about $5,000 to add to several of the lagoons.
"The lagoons have been stocked over the years and there are lots of big fish, not just because they're stocked but because they move from lagoon to lagoon," said Field.
Fishermen can also work the five lagoons bordering Tide Watch Drive at Riverbend. Blue gills might be found there, said Field.
Field normally fishes late in the day, Nagy fishes in the early morning. When it comes to fishing for crappies, Field said "it's better when it's colder, better when it's raining or there has been lots of rain and it's good by the storm drains."
Another tip Field had to offer was when fishing from the bank, cast parallel to the bank and retrieve it slowly.
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Tranmere manager Ronnie Moore has not given up hope of bringing Jake Cassidy back to Prenton Park.
Cassidy leads the scoring charts for the npower League One leaders with 11 goals in 26 starts this term.
The Wales Under-21 international returned to parent club Wolves last week and started their first game under new boss Dean Saunders - Friday night's 1-1 draw against Blackburn.
"We spoke to Wolves," Moore told Tranmere's official website. "Brian Carey, the assistant manager, phoned me on Saturday morning and said they're going to monitor his work rate and improvement and that he'll keep me up to date on a weekly basis.
"In the meantime we've got a lot of games to play and they're going to have a real good look at him so we're probably looking somewhere else."
Moore is not afraid to enter the loan market in seach of youth once more but would prefer a traditional target man to operate alongside his livewire, pacy attacking options.
"Trying to find them is the hard part. We've got (David) Amoo, (Jean-Louis) Akpa Akpro, (Adam) McGurk, Cole (Stockton) and (Michael) O'Halloran, so it's not like we're short. I'm not going to bring a kid in and try to teach him the ropes.
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Amazon will bring its Android App Store to Europe, tempting more developers to jump on board with a new revenue split, an easier submission process and a pledge to waive annual fees. The Amazon Android App Store will expand its reach to the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, with more countries planned following an initial …
Ayy tell them ah alrady gat waaan
Can we see it?
Of course not. You're English types.
What's the developer making on the normal Android market place?
mainly apps and some freemium games
*the one with the 1908 joke book in the pocket
"What's the developer making on the normal Android market place?"
70% after tax. Furthermore it's 70% of the price the developer sets. So you charge a quid, 58p goes to you, 25p to Google and the other 17p to the taxman.
Amazon's terms mean they can discount your app to any amount they like and give you anywhere between 70% of the sale price or 20% of the list price, whichever is greater. It means your £1 app might sell for 50p and you only see half the profits. You can't even jack up the list price to compensate for this.
On top of that Amazon charge $100 anually to be their developer program vs the $25 lifetime registration for Google marketplace.
So it's really not a good deal unless you know for certain you'll sell thousands of apps to cover the costs.
Thanks, sounds like the smart option is to stay within the garden walls for now.
I'd better get my finger out and actually write something useful.
Cool, Kindle Fires for the UK.
Around the same week as Google release a tablet. Amazon had better knock the price down.
Interesting to see Amazon aligning with Apple on this, but why do they have a completely opposite view when it comes to e-books? Are e-books that different from apps? Especially since you can wrap an e-book inside an app.
So now I could publish an e-book via Amazon Kindle and get 70% of whatever Amazon ends up pricing the book at - minus delivery fees on top and subject to a small selection of territories - or publish my e-book as an app and get 70% of what *I* choose to price the book, no delivery fees and valid in all territories.
Seems awfully arbitrary, but hey I know which one I'd choose.
But I thought one of the complaints of the Amazon app store was that developers found that their app had been chosed for a special "75% off" offer and as a result got 30% of 25% of what they'd priced the app at. So I think you'd still be at risk of Amazon deciding to discount you book-in-an-app idea.
Indeed that was a common complaint and probably why it's changing now to be 70% of list price (as set by the developer), as the article says.
So, with the announced change, the book-as-app idea will offer authors a better deal.
Do you have to allow non-marketplace installs, which also opens you up to all sorts of other malware?
if so, thats rather irresponsible of Amazon.
I also heard the apps are usually very old versions on Amazon, where the developers can't be bothered to maintain them, because it's a dying store.
You visit some Amazon site in your web browser and install their app store's apk. After that it's a case of running their appstore which is presumably curated in some manner.
Unless Amazon can somehow get hold of the device or manufacturer key, then yes, it means unchecking the Marketplace Only box.
I don't see how else it would be done on a non-Fire tablet? Are you going to level the same accusations of irresponsibility at every other app store?
That's how you DOWNLOAD the app. Not how you INSTALL it.
Android prevents installation from non Android Marketplace (Play Store) sources, as a malware prevention mechanism. If Amazon are expecting you to disable this, so they can load stuff on your device from their source, then you are opening your device upto a whole load of hurt.
It seems you do.
That's REALLY irresponsible of Amazon, and someone should be fighting against this....
Wake me up when they're offering Fires coupled with all-you-can-eat TV show steaming from a Prime account....
No thanks, if I want to buy malware I'll stick with the google app store.
Malware gets onto Android because people have disabled the "only allow marketplace apps" and opted for non-Google sources like Amazon, which is the first step to getting Malware on your system...
Would you REALLY trust a PC app-store that asked you to switch off your firewall? Nope.... How is Amazon's offering any different?
No, Google Market arg Play has plenty of malware.


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Christopher Chiswell, 37, was the man found dead Friday morning on the lawn of the First United Methodist Church offices at 40 SE 11th Ave, Ocala police officials said Saturday.
The body found Friday morning on the lawn of the First United Methodist Church offices has been identified as that of a 37-year-old man who lived at a nearby Christian-based fraternity, Ocala police officials said Saturday.
Christopher Chiswell lived nearby at Operation Clean Start, an organization whose mission is to provide an opportunity for men to turn their lives around.
"He was really a nice guy, well-mannered, cordial. I really liked him a lot," said Chiswell's roommate, Michael Stephenson.
Stephenson said Chiswell was very active in OCS. Chiswell was "very supportive" and kept him "on the straight and narrow," he said.
"He would take care of the house," said Stephenson, who works at Good Deal Furniture & Boutique in Belleview.
He said Chiswell took walks in the mornings, but he didn't know if he had gone walking on Friday morning.
Two teachers from the church had pulled into the parking lot at the First United Methodist church office around 7:15 a.m. and found the body. One teacher stood by the car while the other went to get the church school's director.
The director went outside near the man and saw that he appeared motionless. She said she instructed a third teacher to call 911.
Minutes later, an unmarked Marion County Sheriff's Office car pulled up, followed shortly by Ocala Police Department officers.
Chiswell was pronounced dead on scene.
The body was clad in green shorts with white markings, an orange long-sleeve pullover shirt, white tennis shoes and white socks, The body was on the grass, lying next to knee-high shrubs.
Police have not yet determined the manner of death and have classified it as suspicious. Officials said Chiswell, whose body had evidence of trauma, did not die from a gunshot or stab wound.
The investigation is ongoing, officials said.
Chaplain Bill Powlowski — the founder and president of OCS, which was created eight years ago — said Chiswell lived at OCS for nearly a year and had worked at the furniture store that he manages.
Powlowski described Chiswell as one of his "best students," as the organization offers several programs for a minimal fee, such as job placement assistance, financial counseling and Bible studies.
Powlowski said Chiswell experienced some rough experiences recently with the death of his mother from cancer.
Stephenson, the roommate, said Chiswell's mother lived in Clermont and that Chiswell visited the area frequently and had stayed there for nearly two months until his mother's death.
Doug Bonnet, a resident at OCS, said Chiswell "was a good guy" and "always was in good spirits."


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Two items from news around the country come to mind this week.
Two items from news around the country come to mind this week.
From the Associated Press:
Two Good Samaritans are being praised after authorities say they rescued a disabled veteran whose wheelchair rolled into a southwest Florida pond.
Police in Lealman, Fla., say 79-year-old Robert Lunay was sitting in his wheelchair overlooking a pond the night of May 17 when his wheelchair slipped and he fell into the water. Lunay is a double-amputee.
Robert Fields and Norman Steers happened to be nearby and heard Lunay calling for help. They jumped into the water and pulled him to shore.
Lunay was not injured.
Lealman Fire Capt. Larry Thompson says "this could have ended tragically" if the two men had not rushed to action.
Amputee meets dolphin
Also from the AP, and Florida:
Tampa, Fla. | A toddler whose feet were amputated after her father accidentally backed over her with a riding lawnmower had a special meeting with her hero.
Ireland Nugent has often been seen clutching a stuffed animal of Winter, the dolphin with a prosthetic tail, in her wheelchair since the April 11 accident. She even carried the toy with her when she left the hospital nearly a month after the accident.
On May 18, she got to meet the real Winter the dolphin.
Bay News 9 reported she initially cried, but soon reached out and touched the mammal.
Winter lost her tail to a crab trap and has become an ambassador to those who have lost limbs. A major motion picture was made about her story.
Ireland underwent seven surgeries and will be fitted for prosthetic feet in the coming weeks.
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For Mr. L.E.S. 2006, a crown of Buds
By Orli Van Mourik
Saint Reverend Jen Miller, founder of the Mr. Lower East Side Pageant, has been known to call the contest "the thinking woman's Chippendales." But it might be more accurately described as the night thinking women take off their thinking caps and rediscover the Bacchanalian joys of dancing, screaming, and drinking until they puke. Nothing, it seems, gets these ladies out of their heads faster than a parade of disheveled hipsters and local hangers on flashing their testes, dousing themselves in motor oil, and belting out the theme song of television's "Rawhide."
"There are only two things that are going to happen when you go on stage during the competition," last year's Mr. L.E.S., Comedian Jeff Mac, told this reporter. "The audience is gonna scream like you're a rock star or they're going to tear you to pieces like wild dogs . . . It's like Thunderdome." On October 18 at the Cake Shop on Ludlow St., 19 men subjected themselves to such harsh scrutiny, but only one emerged the victor.
An elder contestant known simply as Dave whose talent consisted of standing on the stage, naked and mute, was ejected after only 10 seconds when the crowd erupted into a chorus of boos. "Put them AWAY!" screamed Celebrity Judge and self-described "all around art star" Carmen Mofongo (a.k.a. Michele Carlo), using her pot leaf-encrusted fez to block out the sight of Dave's scrotum. "The ones you actually want to see never get naked," she said, dejected.
What could induce nearly 100 self-respecting women (and a sprinkling of gay men) to participate in such a spectacle? The show was created to "counteract the objectification of the female body in art," says Reverend Jenn, the elfin beauty whose long-running open mic, The Anti Slam, currently held at the Downeast Arts Center, has earned her the moniker "patron saint of the uncool." As for the men, if eleven years as a Manhattan MC has taught Reverend Jen anything, it's that "there are a lot of exhibitionist guys on the Lower East Side."
On Wednesday night, the contestant's talents ranged from doing nude headstands, to reading poetry in their underpants. Contestant number seven, Angry Bob, a comedian and performance artist, who billed himself as the antidote to "useless pretty boy" Jeff Mac, stopped short of taking his clothes off, to the great relief of the audience. Bob, who weighs in at "550 lbs.," chose instead to read a manifesto. If elected Mr. L.E.S. 2006, he promised to visit every retail establishment in the Lower East Side wearing a t-shirt reading: "Give me something for free or I will fart."
After nearly two hours of performances, Reverend Jen and her cadre of helpers retired to the back of the bar to tally the audience's votes. With the AC on the fritz, the Cake Shop's windowless basement had been transformed into what one spectator described as "a Bikram yoga studio with beer." Undaunted, several audience members stripped down to their skivvies and wiled away the minutes before the winner was announced grooving to the raucous tunes of local band The New York Howl.
In the end, the crown festooned with mini-bar sized bottles of vodka, empty cans of Budweiser, and a detachable bong went to the odds-on favorite: Moonshine, a poet-cum-bartender, who's dedication to the pageant was evidenced by the "Mr. L.E.S." tattoo on his shoulder. A tall, broad man, with a flowing (albeit slightly receding) mane of brown curls, Moonshine won over the crowd by donning a red sweat band and re-enacting the climactic scene from 1983's " Flashdance." "I love you all! I'm gonna start crying," said the mincing bruiser. "No. I'm only kidding. I don't cry," he said, proceeding to pop open a fresh can of Bud, down it, and crush it on his forehead. The ladies howled in appreciation.
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Editor's note: Farm Industry News will be attending the SIMA show and will provide coverage here online.
One of the world's largest farm shows will be held in Paris from Feb. 24 to 28, 2013. Called SIMA, the International Trade Exhibition for Agricultural Equipment and Livestock Farming is held every two years in the famous French city at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center.
During five days, SIMA will bring together 1,300 exhibitors from 41 countries showcasing their products and services throughout six exhibit halls. Show organizers expect more than 200,000 professional visitors from over 120 countries to attend. The agricultural business in France has done very well, in spite of the economic problems in Europe. France's ag business has experienced a 35% growth in 201.
Unique to SIMA's is its attention to agricultural equipment for large-scale and specialist agriculture as well as livestock. SIMA officials also claim it is the most international of the large European farm shows. At the last SIMA show in 2011, half of the exhibitors were from outside France. This percent is expected to increase 12% next year. In 2011, 25% of the visitors were also from other countries.
Innovation focus
The 2013 event will award and showcase innovation in the industry with the SIMA Innovation Awards. Over the last 50 years, robotic milking machines, GPS systems and, more recently, a hydrogen-fueled tractor and vehicle synchronization system have all been awarded prizes by a panel of international experts in the field. This year's judges hail from Belgium, France, Canada, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Germany and Hungary.
Innovation will be at the heart of the 75th edition of SIMA with new features in store such as:
- International meetings covering topics relating to agriculture around the world
- The SIMAGENA Genomics Center shedding light on all of the new advances and discoveries in the fields of genetics and genomics.
- The Innovation Zone that showcases innovations in the show's agricultural equipment sector.
SIMA is a show for trade professionals only and is produced by Paris-based Comexposium, the #1 trade show organizer in France.
For more information on SIMA, visit en.simaonline.com/


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While the clock was ticking down on the trading deadline Tuesday afternoon, Lou Piniella was in his office with his shirt off.
Baseball was not exactly on Piniella's mind.
"I got a massage the last hour before the trading deadline," the Cubs manager said. "I thought that was more important than watching where people went, or didn't go."
As it turned out, Piniella didn't miss anything.
The Cubs stood pat at the deadline, then went out and beat Philadelphia 7-3 to remain one game behind first-place Milwaukee, which beat the Mets 3-2 in 13 innings.
With a raucous crowd of 40,495 on its feet, Bob Howry struck out Ryan Howard and Aaron Rowand with two men on to end it with a flourish.
"Everybody should get to play for the Cubs one time," catcher Jason Kendall said. "This is what baseball is all about."
Jason Marquis allowed three runs on eight hits over six innings for his eighth victory and relievers Will Ohman, Carlos Marmol and Howry combined for three scoreless innings. After allowing six runs in his last start, Marquis wiped it out of his mind.
"Obviously, I'm upset when I come out of the game and things aren't going my way," he said. "But you can't hold onto that. You have to let it go. You can't go back and change it."
After going 17-11 in June, the Cubs went 17-9 in July, their best July since winning 17 in 2000. They're 34-18 since June 3, the best record in baseball.
"If we keep winning games with consistency, things will take care of themselves," Piniella said. "That's really the important thing, whether we're in first place or wherever."
Jacque Jones played both the goat and the hero on a perfect summer night at Wrigley Field. He lost a fly ball in the lights in the fifth and watched it bounce into the bushes in center for a ground-rule double that allowed Jimmy Rollins to tie the game 2-2 with an RBI groundout.
But after Pat Burrell's solo shot in the sixth put the Phillies ahead, Jones made up for his gaffe with an opposite-field double with two on in the sixth, scoring Cliff Floyd. Mark DeRosa, who originally was held at third, took a chance when Burrell bobbled the pickup and also scored.
"Guys are stepping up and picking other guys up," Jones said. "We're just playing real good right now."
Mike Fontenot added a pinch-hit RBI single off Adam Eaton in the three-run inning, and Kendall added a two-run single off Geoff Geary in the seventh to make it 7-3. Marmol struck out three of the four batters he faced in the eighth before Howry finished it off.
Afterward the team settled back in the clubhouse and watched the Mets and Brewers battle into extra innings, knowing they could move into a first-place tie with a Brewers' loss. Piniella said he glanced at the center-field scoreboard "from time to time," but no more than usual, and not just to get the Brewers' score.
"I look at the American League scores as much as the National League scores," he said.
The Cubs will stay the course, roster-wise, a decision telegraphed by general manager Jim Hendry, who had one deal in the works to help out the bench.
"We have a lot of faith in what we have," Hendry said. "The one deal we did pursue didn't get made, and that player didn't get moved."
Piniella lauded Hendry's effort, but said he's completely satisfied with the team he has.
"Jim tried," he said. "He talked to a few different teams, and nothing transpired. He was hopeful that he could do a couple of things to improve our team, but it just didn't work out.
"Am I disappointed? No, I like our ballclub. We just have to go out and continue to grind like we have."


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My friend and her one-year-old son were over on Saturday and she was amazed as she watched JD pop cherry tomatoes into his mouth as a "snack."
"My son eats three things: Pancakes, chicken nuggets and pasta," she sighed.
I don't have this problem. From day one JD always ate a variety of foods and among them, his favorites are fresh fruit, raw and cooked veggies. He LOVES romaine with shredded carrots and olive oil + vinegar.
My friend asked me for some tips to get her son to try new foods. Here's what I said:
- Get a cool plate Use a fun sectioned plate and make it colorful. Add corn, carrots, grapes cut in half—and something you know he'll eat like chicken or pasta.
- It's a family affair Eat with him and be excited about it! I try really hard to eat with JD as much as I can. We count our cherry tomatoes and eat our roasted chicken and steamed green beans like a dinosaur would—ROAR AND CHOMP! (Hey, it works!)
- Shop together Bring your kiddo to the store and get him excited about shopping for wholesome foods. JD and I visit an indoor farmer's market every weekend (the clerks know and love JD!). Not only does he get his own basket, but we also go over colors and items. It makes shopping fun! We talk about making a big fruit salad together and "the rainbow of color" that will magically appear in the bowl. FYI: Farmer's market produce shopping is way cheaper than buying your stock at the grocery store.
- Veggies galore! We order pizza once a week—and I serve it with steamed broccoli and salad.
- Be smart about packing lunch As for daycare/preschool eating: I send things I know JD will eat without push. For example, I don't send leftover steak, meatloaf or grilled chicken for lunch. He'll eat it with me at home, but it takes a nudge and some silly talk. For lunch I pack all-natural, white meat nuggets, veggies, fresh fruit, turkey sandwiches, pasta or soup. I always pay for pizza Friday, too.
- Relax Your child's palate will perk up one day. If you're super concerned, talk to your Ped and make sure you're giving a vitamin (JD will only take gummies, so don't feel bad if you're on the gummy train too! Yum!)
Do you have a picky eater? Share some tips to get picky eaters eating and exploring new foods. PS: Tonight we're having steak, mexican rice w/ peas and salad. What about you?
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