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Massive delay does not sit well amid falling earnings
Waterloo, Ontario-based Research in Motion, Ltd. (
) tried to put on its most cheerful face reporting its fiscal Quarter 3 2012 earnings (calendar quarter 4 2011). The numbers weren't great, but they weren't worse than expected either, living up to analysts' somewhat grim predictions.
I. RIM Can't Find an LTE Chipset to Save Its Life
The biggest story was not the earnings itself, but the earnings call in which RIM announced its BlackBerry 10 OS would be delayed half a year.
Canadian brokerage firm National Bank Financial, "RIM confirmed the BlackBerry 10 smartphones will be delayed until the latter part of calendar 2012. This could be game over for the BlackBerry franchise."
Nomura analyst Stuart Jeffrey in a research note to investors concurred that this could be the end for RIM or at least was a huge hit. He writes, "We see a high risk that this is too late to turn around RIM's position and believe the risk of further delays is meaningful. Even in the best case, however, it seems unlikely RIM will have large volumes of its BB10 devices on sale within 15 months."
BBX -- or should we say "BlackBerry 10" -- has been delayed half a year.
[Source: RIM]
RIM's co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, defend the decision to push the future of the company, well... into the future. They said that RIM would "bounce back" from "some of the most difficult times in the history of this company".
In the conference call Mr. Lazaridis blamed the delay partially on RIM's inability to find an LTE capable chipset, a somewhat astounding excuse given the volume of LTE chipsets. He
As I said on the last earnings call, we are focused on delivering a high quality, fully featured user experience when these products are launched. This means having a well-developed ecosystem of publications and services both in the hardware specifications, industrial design, and application features that will meet the expectations of consumers in the competitive US market. To achieve this goal, we need a highly integrated dual core LTE platform. The processor we selected offers industry-leading power and efficiency, and also allows us to deliver the industrial design that we believe is critical to the success in this market segment.
This chipset will not be available until mid-2012
, and as a result of this and certain other factors, we now expect our first BlackBerry 10 smartphones to reach markets in the latter part of calendar 2012.
For their failure the pair of co-CEOs have agreed to take pay cuts down to a $1 USD/year salary, effectively immediately.
II. "I find your lack of confidence disturbing"
Investors' patience with the pair is waning. Several high profile investors have put together plans advising the company to revamp its bizarre management structure. They also suggests
exploring the option of a sale
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie may be all laughs and grins, but his company's increasingly abysmal U.S. sales outlook has given investors little to crack a smile about. [Image Source:
To recap the latest developments:
Oct. 10-13
RIM experiences
a major service outage
, leaving customers without messaging.
Oct. 17
RIM offers
free premium apps as apology
Oct. 18
unveils its great OS hope
, "BBX", a new smartphone OS based on QNX.
Oct. 21
News arrives that
RIM has been sued
for scooping the name from an American software company's trademarked and active product.
Nov. 30
security is breached
allow jailbreaks, and raising concerns about BBX
Dec. 2
RIM announces
it will miss its Q3 2012 revenue outlook
due to poor QNX (PlayBook) tablet sales.
Dec. 7
More flaws in QNX's security are revealed,
hackers defeat
RIM's feeble patching attempt.
Dec. 8
RIM is barred from using the trademarked "BBX", is forced to rename operating system to "BlackBerry 10".
Dec. 14
The NPD Group reports that RIM is fading fast in sales and only has an
8 percent market share
in the U.S., down from its peak of almost 50 percent.
It's hard not to be skeptical of RIM's future given its increasing abysmal string of misfires and embarassments in the last three months.
All this seems very ironic given Mike Lazardis's 2009
-- "Sometimes we have to put the brakes on. We've shown that we can handle annual 100% growth. I'm not sure we could handle more than that."
It's certainly done a remarkable job putting the brakes on its growth, that can be said for it.
III. The Financials
Now back to the financials themselves.
For the revenue RIM cheerfully highlights, "Revenue of $5.2 billion, up 24% from last quarter."
That $5.223B USD (GAAP adjusted) is a far cry from RIM's original outlook of $5.3B-$5.6B, which it was forced to adjust downwards just weeks ago, in an effort to soften the blow. It's also down 4.95% from the company's
reported revenue
$5.495B USD in fiscal Q3 2011, a year ago.
Why compare to fiscal Q2 2012 only, when Q3 revenue has always been higher than Q2 revenue for RIM? Such quarter-to-quarter comparison are not unusual, but companies typically put both the quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year numbers in the highlight, if they differer substantially.
RIM reports a "GAAP net income of $265 million or $0.51 per share diluted; adjusted net income of $667 million or $1.27 per share diluted."
This is down from a net revenue of $877M USD ($1.67 USD/share) in Q3 2011, a plunge in profits of 22.7 percent.
About the only hopeful numbers for RIM come in its subscribe counts, which rose 35 percent on a year to year basis, hitting "almost 75 million", with 14.1 million BlackBerry smartphones sold in Q3 2012. But that optimism is tempered by the fact that the global smartphone market is growing is
to have grown 55-57 percent in 2011.
In other words, the comprehensive picture from the earnings report is that RIM may be growing its subscribers, but it's falling behind its competitors in growth and is seeing its profitability plunge.
[Image Source: LihPao]
Perhaps most telling is the fact that RIM has only $1.5B USD in cash on hand. That means that just one or two quarters in the red could sink the veteran firm. For that reason, it's hard not to agree with the analysts at the NBF -- this could be "game over" for RIM.
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The $1.3 billion Elevations Credit Union Foundation in Boulder, Colo., has launched a fundraising initiative to raise $100,000 to help victims of the Colorado flood disaster.
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By Richard Justice / MLB.com
The Marlins lost 93 games. They were 24th in runs and 21st in ERA. Even after a $200 million offseason spending spree, they weren't close to being a good baseball team.
Did anyone envision Miami making the playoffs in 2013 even with Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, etc.?
Besides, this trade might look a lot different a year or two from now. From a baseball standpoint, it's perfectly defensible.
The Marlins took some chances last offseason, and those chances didn't work out. Once they realized they'd put a bad mix together, they began trying to change it.
What were they supposed to do? Refuse to admit a mistake? Go on another $200 million shopping trip?
If you want to rip the Marlins, you can argue they should have kept the band together and added to the original roster. Once they dealt away Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante during the season, they'd taken a giant step toward rebuilding.
Again, if you want to second-guess the Marlins, do it here. If you thought they were on the verge of being really good before trading Ramirez, raise your hand.
No hands in the air, right?
So they followed the Billy Beane model. He's one of the few executives in baseball who has had the guts to look at his roster and see it as it actually is instead of how he'd like it to be.
Beane has been ripped through the years for getting rid of guys too quickly. On the other hand, his A's have been to the playoffs six times despite having one of the lowest payrolls in baseball.
The Marlins are dumping a massive amount of salary, around $164 million in all, and this isn't sitting well with some people, because it comes seven months after the opening of that new ballpark that was supposed to allow them to spend enough to at least compete with the mid-revenue teams.
Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria is taking heat for cutting payroll, but I'm betting there are plenty of people among his baseball staff that are thrilled to have the opportunity to start over. They've been given a clean slate.
Miami acquired five young pitchers in the three trades. If two or three of them end up having long careers, this deal will look different.
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If Nathan Eovaldi and Jacob Turner anchor the rotation for the next five years, if Donovan Solano and Brantly are solid everyday players, Miami has a chance to put a nice team around Giancarlo Stanton.
It's not how most people thought things would work out when the Marlins added manager Ozzie Guillen, Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and Heath Bell last winter.
Plenty of us thought it would play out differently when Marlins Park opened last spring. It's a splashy beautiful place with a dizzying array of fan comforts.
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Nintendo today announced that the company will replace some
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IMO, Jeremy Lamb will be a massive mistake. For Dion Waiters, Syracuse players just don't impress me that much in the league, which leaves us with a guy from Duke. As much as I hate Duke, we do need a point guard, just not sure Rivers is the one, but with the #8 pick it's worth to take a chance.I don't believe the Raptors promised to pick Waiters at No. 8; most signs point to the Suns making him that promise at No. 13. However, Toronto is the only team that has worked him out and really needs a guard who can get to the basket at will.
Jeremy Lamb and Austin Rivers are also possibilities here, but from everything I can gather, Waiters is in the lead.
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A Visit to Mozzarella House: An Italian Classic Made in Massachusetts
It's a rare day on the cheese counter that we mongers don't dip into our bucket of fresh mozzarella from the Mozzarella House at least a couple of times. This small operation in Everett supplies Formaggio Kitchen with most of its fresh cow's milk mozzarella and burrata. My fellow cheesemonger, Jess, and I recently dropped in for a visit to their cheese room. While we never pass on a chance to match faces, places, and processes to our products, we had an additional motive behind this visit to Mozzarella House. Jess, who's worked as a cheesemaker in France and Washington, is teaching a series of cheesemaking classes in February. Our time with the pros at Mozzarella House gave her a chance to refine the mozzarella technique she'll use in the course. Mozzarella House owner, Giuseppe, was kind enough to let us have a look around the facility, as well as share some background on their process.
Mozzarella House sources all of its milk in a raw state from local farms, located mostly on the North Shore. Upon arrival, it goes into a large vat for what could be called a kinder, gentler pasteurization. The milk is heated to a lower temperature than it would be for regular pasteurization, and then kept at that point for a longer period of time. This, as Giuseppe explained, kills any harmful bacteria that might be lurking, but allows beneficial flora that provide flavor and nuance to survive.
Next up for the milk is time in another large heated vat, where it mingles with a bit of rennet enzyme and starter culture—a process called setting the curd. The rennet causes the milk proteins to coagulate and expel moisture, forming a soupy mix of solids and whey. Up to this point, the mozzarella-making process is quite similar to most other cheesemaking methods. However, instead of draining and molding the fresh curd, as for other cheeses, the next step is where mozzarella diverges sharply from its milky brethren.
We watched as Rosa, an experienced mozzarella maker, shuttled baskets of curd from the vat to a giant kettle, followed by several pitchers of hot water. The water needs to very warm (about 175 degrees) to make the curd pliable enough for the next step—stretching. She stirred the mixture until the curds softened, forming an elastic mass that came off the sides of the paddle in large sheets as she lifted and mixed.
Once the curd was properly unified, she reached into the hot water, yanked up a sizable strand, and nimbly started tucking, folding, and pinching. With a few quick movements of her thumb and a squeeze of her forefinger, she tossed ball after ball of perfectly smooth, lemon-sized chunks of mozzarella into a tub of cold water beside her. After a bit, she slowed down her process enough that Jess and I could try to mimic her. We got to try our hand at standard mozzarella balls, as well as their decadent, cream-filled cousin, burrata.
Let's just say I'm quite a few pieces of cheese away from being as dexterous as Rosa—my chunks went into a "special" tub since they weren't quite up to snuff aesthetically. On the bright side, we ended up with a decent collection of lopsided but otherwise perfectly tasty mozzarella and burrata to bring to Eduardo, Formaggio Kitchen's head chef.
Many, many thanks to Rosa and Giuseppe for their hospitality, tutelage, and patience!
Erin Carlman Weber is a cheesemonger, charcuterie alumna and the classroom coordinator at Formaggio Kitchen Cambridge. She is currently pursuing a Masters in the Food Studies program at Boston University.


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You may recall that you met with Sanjiv Ahuja about a year ago, with Phil Falcone … as Phil & Sanjiv were finalizing their plans for a new wireless broadband network…. Sanjiv will be at a fund-raiser dinner with the President on September 30 and would like to visit with you … and Aneesh Chopra…
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General Motors' 2011
Chevy Volt is the first EV from an American automaker to debut under $50,000
USD. Priced at $40,280 before $7,500 tax credit, demand for the EV is
very high. Despite increasing production in response to demand, GM will
likely only be able to ship 25,000 of the vehicles this year. While it
promises more
production next year, some "green-minded" customers can't wait to
get their hands on the vehicle.
Dealers are looking to take advantage of this
situation by offer the scarce Volt vehicles at anywhere from a modest
markup to a giant one.
One Michigan dealer listed a "Buy It
Now" Volt on eBay Motors for $46,923 USD -- a markup of $6,643 USD [1].
Another North Carolina dealer actually tried to resell a Volt it bought
from a Maryland dealer. That Volt was marked at a cool $49,900 USD -- a
markup of $9,620 USD [2].
Neither of these vehicles sold (note: links will expire in about a
But these examples pale in comparison to a Florida
dealer's incredible asking price of $65,590 [source].
We'll save you the math -- that's a markup of $25,310 USD.
We've been following the Volt since its
days as a concept and we absolutely give GM praise for following through and
delivering on its ambitious design. That said we're not sure who would
shell out an extra $25K for a Volt. If current auctions are any
indication, most people aren't interested in buying the vehicle at that high a
price. But if P.T. Barnum is to be believed, the dealer may eventually
find someone out there who would be willing to pay that much
for it.
Currently a third Volt auction ends Saturday on
eBay [3].
That Volt, located in California, is offered for $47,700 USD, a markup of
GM will be building 60,000 or more Volts next
year, so if you don't want to pay a markup, you could always wait.
The company claims it isn't happy with the
markups. But Chevy Volt marketing director Tony DiSalle tells Ward's
Auto in an interview,
"there isn't a mechanism to prevent that from happening."
Price markups are nothing new, but on EVs and
hybrids they're an especially sore spot as customers already are paying a
premium for the fuel-efficient technology.
The Chevy Volt's price markups are similar to
markups that some Toyota dealers were placing on Prius hybrid vehicles back in
2009, when the new third generation models first were shipping. While the
Prius markups were a bit subtler in that most Toyota dealers didn't blatantly
post them to eBay, they were occurring nationwide. We did a report on
this practice and caught
one dealer in the act. While the 2010 Prius was a much higher volume
vehicle, its similar respective demand per volume offers parallels to the Volt.
The Volt's key competitor is the 2011 Nissan LEAF
EV, which went on sale in early December. The Volt's key advantage is
that it has a backup fuel take, greatly extending the range. The 2011 Nissan
LEAF EV is optimistically rated to deliver 100 miles on a charge under good
conditions. Another disadvantages is that Nissan is only selling and
service LEAF EVs in a handful of "green" states -- California,
Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and Tennessee.
The LEAF's big advantage is that it is priced a
$32,780 USD before tax credits in the U.S. Nissan has been less specific
about its production plans, but it says it will fulfill all reservations placed
in 2010 by September. Given that it claimed
20k reservations and that only
4 in 10 of those who placed reservations are
reportedly following through with a purchase, this would indicate -- with the
inclusion of conquest sales -- shipments of anywhere from 10,000-15,000 by the
end of the summer. This places Nissan's production slightly above GM's
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If we won't get 1st 2nd or 3rd draft pick, i would be not against trading our pick to land star player for example Josh Smith. Atlanta should be given up on him and the team lack of motivation, they need changes, so we could offer our pick and maybe Jose, ED/Amir and/or JJ for Josh, and after that sign Nash as free agent
Bargnani/Amir (or ED)
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are like traditional
magnetic storage based hard drives in that data still resides on
the drive after it has been deleted by the OS. That data block is
overwritten by new data when the amount of fresh unused storage is
depleted. On most SSDs, data is erased in 512KB blocks even though
data is written in 4KB pages. This means that if a single 4KB page
needs to be updated, the whole block must be erased and rewritten,
slowing down the drive significantly. This is particularly true for
random write operations.
TRIM synchronizes the operating
system's view of deleted files with those that are deleted, but not
yet erased on the hard drive. SSD controllers are good at managing
data, but they have no optimization for different file systems. TRIM
lets the controller know that data has been deleted so that it can
wipe the entire block when it is not busy with other operations. This
significantly speeds up write operations, especially when the drive
is nearly full.
Intel's second
generation X25-M series SSDs have been selling very well, and the
company has been promising TRIM support to its many customers. It is
releasing new firmware to the public that will enable the use of
TRIM, but only with its latest generation of mainstream SSDs using
NAND flash.
"Fast and reliable access to data is
critical for our SSD users," said Pete Hazen, Director of
Marketing for Intel's NAND Solutions Group. "The latest firmware
and toolbox upgrade for Intel 34nm SSD users provide a host of new
management, information and diagnostic tools to help SSDs retain
out-of-box performance. We are encouraging our 34nm customers to
download the new firmware update today. Not only will Windows 7 users
receive the performance enhancements of the Trim command, but so will
our Windows XP and Vista
Owners of second
generation 160GB X25-M drives running Windows 7 will also see a 40
percent performance boost to sequential write speeds. The firmware
update allows the drives to write data at up to 100MB per
Backing up data before the firmware update is highly
recommended, but existing data on the SSD will not be erased. Intel
also cautions against using the firmware utility over RAID, as each
drive must be flashed individually. The firmware update is available
TRIM has been implemented in Linux 2.6.28 since
December of last year. All older solid state drives will need
firmware updates to enable TRIM support, otherwise the new command
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In what is likely a knife through the
heart for a lot of tech enthusiasts out there, Gizmodo is
reporting that Microsoft has killed plans for its Courier tablet. We
caught wind of Courier back in September of 2009 and were quickly
intrigued by its innovative user interface and dual-display "book"
It should be noted that Microsoft never
officially announced that it would build Courier or said that the
tablet was anything more than a extremely
promising design concept. So it shouldn't be too surprising that
we won't see a finished product on store shelves.
Apparently, Microsoft has more pressing
projects on its mind (namely, getting Windows
Phone 7 out the door on schedule). Gizmodo
received the following statement from Microsoft's Frank Shaw on
the cancellation of the Courier program:
At any given
time, we're looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating
them. It's in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user
interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project
is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in
future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this
With Microsoft seemingly out of the
"slimmed-down OS" tablet market, Apple is left to take
on all rivals with its iPad. Google is working on an
tablet of its own, and we know that HP
is going to milk its purchase of Palm for all it's worth and
develop a tablet running webOS.


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An outbreak of spruce beetles exploded across the forests of Southwest Colorado last year, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday.
The outbreak will erase some of the regions high-altitude stands of trees for many decades.
The forest is ripe for the beetle to move through, said Bob Cain, a U.S. Forest Service entomologist.
The drought, dense stands of mature trees and warm winters all make for ideal conditions for the beetles, which bore into trees to feed and lay eggs.
The size of the active outbreak more than doubled in a year. The annual study found spruce beetles active on 311,000 acres, including 183,000 acres that werent detected in the 2011 survey. The outbreak has covered more than 1,400 square miles since it began in 1996.
Even our acre numbers we get from the aerial survey dont really capture it, Cain said.
Infected trees often take a couple years to die, so the infestation will look even more widespread by next year, Cain said. Beetles grow to adulthood inside trees and then take off to infect new trees. The flight in 2012 was enormous, according to the aerial survey report.
On the bright side, Cain said, many spruce forests are mixed with subalpine fir, which are not affected by the spruce beetles.
But spruce trees regrow slowly. Where the beetles hit stands of pure spruce, most people wont live long enough to see mature trees return to the site.
Although Colorado has several pockets of spruce beetle outbreaks, the hardest-hit areas are in the Rio Grande, San Juan and Gunnison national forests. The most visible outbreak is along Wolf Creek Pass, but there are even bigger infestations in the Weminuche and La Garita wilderness areas and around the town of Creede.
The U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State Forest Service cooperate on the annual survey. Officials from both agencies used the surveys release to promote increased logging in beetle-infected areas.
The spruce beetle epidemic in our high-elevation forests demonstrates the breadth and complexity of issues affecting Colorados forests, said Joe Duda, director of the Colorado State Forest Service, in a prepared statement. Active forest management and a viable forest products industry will allow landowners and land-management agencies to expand forest treatments on lands available for management while reducing wildfire risk and protecting important natural resources and infrastructure.
But logging remains controversial. Environmental groups including Rocky Mountain Wild won a lawsuit in early 2012 to prevent logging on 3,500 acres of spruce in Rio Grande National Forest.
Josh Pollock of Rocky Mountain Wild said the beetles are a natural part of the ecosystem, and land managers need to carefully pick the areas they will log, with an emphasis on protecting human settlements.
Lets be cautious about having an increase in beetle-killed trees be a reason for harvesting trees deep into the backcountry, Pollock said.
Elsewhere in Colorado, the mountain pine beetle outbreak slowed noticeably in 2012.
The pine beetle has claimed 3.4 million acres of lodgepole and ponderosa pine since 1996, but the infestation expanded by just 31,000 acres last year, mostly near Fort Collins.


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As a wrestling team, there isn't much of a roster for Montezuma-Cortez High School.
The Panthers that do hit the mats, wrestle pretty well for coach Eric Smith.
An undermanned M-CHS squad went 0-5 in duals last Friday and Saturday. But Ryan Daves, Seager Oliver, Trenton Gustafson and Levi Gross all posted 5-0 records last week.
Daves did what he does at 138 pounds - win. The senior upped his season record to 22-0, preserving his No. 1 4A ranking.
However, the most pleasant surprise came from Gross at 120 pounds. The sophomore dropped down from 126s and had two days of great wrestling. Gross recorded two pins, a major decision and two wins by forfeit.
Oliver continues to wrestle strong in his sophomore season. He competed at 160 pounds and recorded four pins.
Gustafson was the only Panther to pin his way to a 5-0 mark last week. The 182-pounder is indeed wrestling with a chip on his shoulder his senior year.
Celestino Fernandez and Justice Ramos picked up two wins apiece at 106 and 145, respectively.
M-CHS will be in Ignacio on Saturday morning for the Butch Melton Invitational beginning at 8.


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Competitive Balance Lottery pays out 12 Draft picks
Marlins get first pick of Round A, followed by Rockies, Cards, Brewers, Padres, Tribe
By Teddy Cahill / MLB.com
The order of the 2015 First-Year Player Draft began to take shape Wednesday when the Competitive Balance Lottery was held at the Commissioner's Office in New York.
This year, the Marlins won the lottery and will receive the first pick of Competitive Balance Round A, which is held immediately after the Draft's first round. The Marlins will be followed by the Rockies, Cardinals, Brewers, Padres and Indians.
The Reds won the top pick in Competitive Balance Round B, which is held after the second round of the Draft. Following the Reds in Competitive Balance Round B will be the A's, Mariners, Twins, Orioles and D-backs.
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Introduced when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement began in December 2011, the Competitive Balance Lottery gives teams that have either one of the 10 smallest markets or 10 smallest revenue pools one of six additional choices after each of the first and second rounds. Additionally, any other clubs that receive revenue-sharing funds are eligible for the supplemental second-round selections.
There were 15 teams eligible to receive a pick in this year's lottery -- the Twins and Mariners were eligible for a Round B selection only, by virtue of having received revenue sharing. The Pirates, Rays and Royals were not selected.
The first Competitive Balance Lottery was held in 2012 and was won by the Royals, who ultimately used the pick to select left-hander Sean Manaea. He is now pitching for Class A Advanced Wilmington and is ranked No. 94 on MLBPipeline.com's Top 100 Prospects list. The Rockies won last year's Competitive Balance Lottery and used the 35th overall pick of the 2014 Draft on Orangewood Christian High School (Fla.) second baseman Forrest Wall. He is now playing at Rookie-level Grand Junction and is hitting .362/.431/.431 in his first 13 professional games.
As the first two Drafts held under the rules of the Collective Bargaining Agreement have shown, the Competitive Balance picks take on added importance under the revised Draft rules, which assign bonus pools for each club to cover the first 10 rounds and impose the loss of future Draft picks if the allotments are exceeded by more than 5 percent. In 2013, picks in Competitive Balance Round A added an average of $1,484,500 to each team's pool, a number that increased to $1,781,400 in '14 and could rise again in '15. Picks in Competitive Balance Round B augmented the each club's pool by an average of $790,350 in 2013 and '14.
The Competitive Balance Round picks are the only Draft selections permitted to be traded, subject to some restrictions. Each lottery pick can be traded only once and cash can't be involved in the transaction. The choices can be dealt only during the regular season, up until 5 p.m. ET on the first day of the Draft.
Several picks have changed hands under those rules in the past two years, and some of the picks assigned in Wednesday's Lottery could be included in deals leading up to next week's Trade Deadline. Last year, the Orioles included a pick in Competitive Balance Round A in the package they sent to the Astros in exchange for Bud Norris at the Deadline. That pick eventually netted University of Virginia outfielder Derek Fisher for Houston in last month's Draft.
Teddy Cahill is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @tedcahill. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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IFPI, RIAA, MPAA, and their international allies have led a crusade
against copyright infringement over the last decade, which has
seen record
million dollar verdicts handed down against citizens for
essentially petty theft. Now, even as they continue
their lawsuits, they eagerly await gaining new sets of
legislated tools thanks to the lobbyist money they've been pouring
into governments worldwide. We previously detailed
how the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, set to be debated by the
U.S. Congress later this year, currently contains a new crime called
"imminent infringement", which is essentially
copyright thoughtcrime.Now courts in the Netherlands have
added speechcrime to that list, essentially ruling that is illegal to
even talk or write about piracy. The case began last year when
Dutch movie studio Eyeworks sued a Usenet community FTD for "making
public" their film Komt
een vrouw bij de dokter (A
Woman At The Doctor).Typically "making public"
means you uploaded a file and shared it. In some cases, the
definition has been extended to posting links to infringed material.
However, in this case FTD's users neither posted copyrighted material
nor links to it, they merely would "spot" locations of
various films on Usenet and post them to the group (sans-links).In
May, in Dutch Federal court in the Hague FTD was handed a defeat.
The court issued an "ex parte injunction" banning the
site's users from "spotting" under threat of
punishment.The FTD's lawyer Arnoud Engelfriet filed an
objection (appeal) to the court order. That objection was heard
last week and FTD lost yet again when Dutch court essentially ruled a
second time that free speech did not cover talking about or writing
about piracy.Speaking
with TorrentFreak Engelfriet
voiced his frustration, stating, "I am flabbergasted by the
court's reasoning. It is established case law that publishing
hyperlinks or torrents (Mininova, Pirate Bay) is *not* the same as a
publication. FTD does less than
what Mininova or Pirate Bay does, but according to the court we are
more liable than they are?"The Judge supported his
decision citing a case in England involving a Usenet service called
Newzbin. Engelfriet describes, "They say that FTD is doing
the same thing, and since the English courts held Newzbin liable for
infringement, FTD must be liable too. This completely ignores
the technical differences between Newzbin and FTD. Newzbin is an NZB
search engine through which you find codes to directly download from
Usenet. FTD is a forum where people 'spot' movies using messages
in ordinary Dutch."The FTD's unsuccessful defense was
that it did not control the servers the material was hosted on and
hand no control over potential downloaders and thus was not "making
available". The court said this was inconsequential and
that guilt would be determined by establishing "whether the
behavior of FTD allows users to download copyrighted files (in an
easier manner) and thus makes such files available to the public."
And the court found they did.Tim Kuik, director of Dutch
copyright protection group BREIN cheered the decision, stating, "This
is a collaboration between FTD and its users where they knowingly
provide access to unauthorized files. It's clear that this is
more than just talking about files like FTD wants people to
believe."Brein is suing the FTD in a second court case.
That case will go to court in October. Kuik wants to see FTD
shut down entirely and taken off the internet.FTD may soon
have a bit of vengeance, though. Dutch elections are this week,
and due to decisions like this one and the Sweden's multi-million
dollar verdict against the owners of The
Pirate Bay,
the Pirate Party is picking up steam. Writes a
party spokesperson, "When reaching landmark decisions that
overturn years of jurisprudence, neither the judge nor the issue is
served when it turns out that the judge in question is in business
with the copyright-lawyer from the party benefiting from this
shocking verdict. The fact that this joint enterprise mainly offers
courses on 'counter-piracy' at €900 per day, makes the situation
appear even muddier still. If the Netherlands wants to avoid looking
like a banana-republic where the law is for sale to the highest
bidder, it is urgent that parliament takes control of the debate on
copyright-reform, and brings it back into the public arena where this
discussion belongs."It has been established that the
judge serving on The
Pirate Bay case
was a member
of copyright organizations and may have financially
benefited from the decision. The
Pirate Bay admins
are currently appealing
the case, hoping for a more unbiased day in court. Despite
the seemingly liberal nature of the Netherlands it has been leading
the way in copyright enforcement, banningThe
Pirate Bay and
other sites entirely.


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Roger Meiners
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The use and abuse of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory decision-making.
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PERC recently gathered scholars to explore the intersection of property rights and energy development in a special issue of the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources.
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A review of "Simpler: The Future of Government," by Cass Sunstein.
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With central planners promising such extraordinary economic returns from regulation, what could possibly go wrong?
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Coal burning is not the dirty process it was decades ago and restricting sales only hurts our economy.
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I just wanted to know who would be faster since they say Raikage is "Fastest" but I don't think he would go faster than Lee.
Who would win?
8th gate could surpass the 5 kages strengths, but as the Gate of death he will die after using it. Drunken master is when he takes a sip of sake he becomes faster and I believe he has better reflexes.
When he takes of his weights his speed incredibly increases.
Lee is my favorite character but I just wanted to know if Lee can beat Raikage or any Kage in that form?


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I found this really interesting thread on other Naruto forum about Tobi and thought I should share with you.
This guys is so observant, lol.
During one of the filler arcs, Tobi stopped at a Dango shop with Deidara, and said this.
"Ichibi, Nibi, Sanbi, boku wa Tobi!" while referring to the tailed beasts.
It translates to: "Ichibi, Nibi, Sanbi, and I'm Tobi!"
Tobi's plan for world domination is to revive the Juubi, or "Ten-Tailed Beast".
But he also said that he was trying to achieve a complete form of his own.
Here's the neat part:
When counting from one to ten in Japanese, it goes:
Ichi, Ni, San, Yon, Go, Roku, Shichi, Hachi, Kyuu, Juu.
When counting objects, it goes differently:
Hitotsu, Futatsu, Mittsu, Yottsu, Itsusu, Muttsu, Nanatsu, Yatsu, Kokonotsu, To.
The tailed beasts get their names by combining the character for the number of tails they have with the character for "bi".
That means that Tobi's statement to Deidara can actually be translated as:
"One-Tailed, Two-Tailed, Three-Tailed, and I'm Ten-Tailed!"
What do you guys think?


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Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (PNAAPS), 2000-2001 (ICPSR 3832)
Principal Investigator(s): Lien, Pei-te, University of Utah
The purpose of this multicity, multiethnic, and multilingual survey was to provide a preliminary attempt to gauge the political attitudes and behavior of Asian Americans on a national scale. Major areas of investigation include ethnic identity, acculturation, homeland politics, voting and other types of political participation, political ideology, political partisanship, opinions on various social issues, social connectedness, racial integration, and group discrimination. Respondents were asked whether people of Asian descent had a great deal in common culturally, what they thought were the most important problems facing their own ethnic group, whether they belonged to any organization that represented the interest of their group, and their knowledge of the Wen Ho Lee case, the 8-20 Initiative, and other news stories and information about Asians in the United States. Political questions probed respondents' general interest in politics, whether and for whom they voted in the 2000 presidential election, their general knowledge of the presidential election process, the kinds of political activity in which they participated, their feelings about Asian-American candidates, their involvement with political parties, their level of trust in local, state, and federal government officials, self-identity with regard to a liberal vs. conservative stance on political matters, party affiliation, and how active they were in political parties or organizations in their home country if born outside of the United States. Respondents were also asked about their attitudes on such topics as immigration, affirmative action, job training, educational assistance, preferences in hiring and promotion, marriage outside of their ethnic group, and incidents of discrimination that they encountered. Demographic variables include language spoken in the home, religious preference, home ownership, ethnic origin of spouse, level of education, income, employment, age, and sex.
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Lien, Pei-te. Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (PNAAPS), 2000-2001. ICPSR03832-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social [distributor], 2004. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03832.v1
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Subject Terms: acculturation, Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, cultural identity, discrimination, ethnic groups, ethnic identity, immigration, political affiliation, political behavior, political ideologies, political interest, political participation, political parties, political partisanship, political perceptions, social attitudes, social integration, social support
Smallest Geographic Unit: Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
Geographic Coverage: California, Chicago, Hawaii, Honolulu, Illinois, Los Angeles, New York (state), New York City, San Francisco, United States
- 2000-11-16--2001-01-28
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Universe: Telephone households of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Vietnamese families in the five major metropolitan areas of the United States where about 40 percent of the nation's Asian-American population resided in 2000.
Produced by Interviewing Service of America, Van Nuys, CA, 2001.
Sample: Semi-random sample of households occupied by adults from one of the six major Asian-American ancestries selected to approximate the size of the ethnic population among Asian Americans according to the 1990 Census. Telephone households in the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, New York, Honolulu, San Francisco, and Chicago were sampled using a dual-frame approach consisting of random-digit dialing (RDD) at targeted Asian ZIP-code densities and listed-surname frames.
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Response Rates: The average incidence rate for interviews drawn from the listed surname sample is 41 percent, with a range from 14.5 percent for the Filipino sample to 81 percent for the Chinese sample. The incidence rate for RDD interviews is 15 percent, which ranges from 4.6 percent for the Korean sample to 24 percent for the Japanese sample. The average refusal rate is 25 percent, with 34 percent in the listed sample and 3.5 percent in the RDD sample.
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In a rare interview, Stephen Hawking said to the BBC that humans must move to another solar system in order to ensure the survival of the species. "Once we spread out into space and establish colonies, our future should be safe," he said. Hawking made a similar suggestion back in June.
He believes that life on Earth could be wiped out by a nuclear disaster or a massive asteroid hitting the planet causing Armageddon with its Deep Impact. He said that, since we have no similar planets on our solar system, we would "have to go to another star" to find a suitable habitat.
Before humans could even dream of such a move, we would need to develop a viable means of transportation. Hawking proposed "matter/anti-matter annihilation" propulsion. He explained: "When matter and anti-matter meet up, they disappear in a burst of radiation. If this was beamed out of the back of a spaceship, it could drive it forward … It would take a lot of energy to accelerate to near the speed of light."
Even at near-light speeds, it would take six years to reach a new star. While Hawking, 64, may not see our escape from Earth in his lifetime, he still wishes to see the planet from space. "My next goal is to go into space; maybe Richard Branson will help me."
Hawking was recently awarded the Royal Society's Copley medal, their highest honor, for his work in theoretical physics and cosmology leading to classifications and further knowledge of black holes.
Lord Rees, president of the Royal Society, stated "Stephen Hawking has contributed as much as anyone since Einstein to our understanding of gravity. This medal is a fitting recognition of an astonishing research career spanning more than 40 years."
In a statement issued by Hawking after learning of the award he said "This is a very distinguished medal, it was awarded to Darwin, Einstein and (Francis) Crick. I am honored to be in their company."


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Maurer impresses as Mariners top Giants
Morales homers in third straight game to back young right-hander
By Greg Johns / MLB.com
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Right-hander Brandon Maurer continued his impressive bid for a spot in the Mariners' rotation with five innings of one-run ball and Kendrys Morales homered in his third straight game on Tuesday night as Seattle topped the Giants, 6-3, at a sold-out Peoria Stadium.
Maurer, a 22-year-old who was the Southern League Pitcher of the Year last season for Double-A Jackson, allowed just one run on three hits with no walks and four strikeouts in five innings. The last of the Mariners' top pitching prospects still in camp owns a 1.20 ERA in Cactus League play, having surrendered just two runs in 15 innings.
Maurer said he's just trying to have fun with this unexpected opportunity. And part of his thrill Tuesday was matching up against Giants veteran Barry Zito.
"As soon as I was done, I got to sit there and watch him," Maurer said. "It felt like a video game, to be honest. I'd never seen him throw and I was like, 'Oh man, that's the Zito curveball right there.'"
Zito sharpened up for his 14th season in the Majors by limiting the Mariners to two runs and five hits in five innings. Zito, 34, struck out seven in his longest stint of the spring while lowering his ERA to 3.46.
"I wanted to get a feel for it in this game," said Zito, who had struck out six batters in his previous three starts. "My timing was definitely better than it's been, at least for the last couple of outings."
This outing also differed sharply from Zito's most recent appearance here, when he yielded five runs and seven hits in three innings to San Diego last March 31. Of the 69 pitches he threw in that game, just 34 were strikes. That concluded a spring in which Zito posted a 7.91 ERA and allowed opponents to hit .405 off him in six starts. "Certainly I'm much more confident now," said Zito, the Giants' No. 4 starter who will pitch the April 5 home opener against St. Louis.
Morales hit his fifth home run of the spring in the seventh off Shane Loux. It was the 45th long ball of the spring for Seattle, the most of any Major League team and just six shy of the club's Cactus League record.
Giants first baseman Brandon Belt went 2-for-3 with an RBI, raising his spring batting average to .420. Belt's sixth-inning double put the Giants into the lead as they scored twice off Seattle closer Tom Wilhelmsen for a 3-2 advantage.
Young Mariners second baseman Nick Franklin went 2-for-2 with a double, a run scored and two RBIs.
Zito, a three-time All-Star and former American League Cy Young Award winner, gave up a pair of singles to start the game, but then struck out Morales, Michael Morse and Kyle Seager in order.
Maurer, a 23rd-round Draft pick in 2008, hit a batter and gave up a single to Hunter Pence in the first, but got out of his jam with a double-play grounder by Belt.
The Giants crossed the plate in the fourth on a two-out RBI triple by shortstop Brandon Crawford, but right fielder Jason Bay got Maurer out of that inning by tracking down a deep drive to the warning track by Cole Gillespie.
The Mariners got to Zito for a run in the second when young shortstop Brad Miller was hit in the shoulder by a pitch, stole second and scored on Franklin's base hit to left. Franklin then doubled and scored in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Morales.
Seattle regained the lead in the sixth with a pair of runs off Minor League pitcher Daryl Maday, with Miller and Franklin hitting sacrifice flies after the Mariners loaded the bases with no outs.
Up next: The Mariners have an off-day on Wednesday, though veteran right-hander Jeremy Bonderman will pitch in a Minor League game at 1 p.m. PT at the Peoria Sports Complex to get his work in on schedule. Jon Garland then gets a start Thursday when Seattle hosts the Cubs at 7:05 p.m. PT at Peoria Stadium, with Erasmo Ramirez also scheduled to throw in a game that will be televised live by ROOT Sports and available live on MLB.TV.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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We have a pick coming up this year in the 1-10 range, likely 8ish. How much confidence do folks have in Colangelo come draft night?
People love to throw mud at BC and his draft choices it seems ... I personally think some of it is rooted in Raptors draft pains from the Babcock era - and some folks mix in the sentiment. BC didn't lose out on Iggy or Granger ... he drafted well.
Our roster next year will be made up of many key pieces that were BC's draft picks.
-Jonas, Bargnani, Demar, Ed and our pick this year (hopefully a rotation piece)
And as much as there are always talented players passed up, in all cases there were players in the range we chose that would have been much worse picks. Let's see, by looking at the next 5 players in our pick's 'range':
2006: #1 Andrea Bargnani.
Then, in order: Lamarcus Aldridge, Adam Morrison, Tyrus Thomas, Shelden Williams, & Brandon Roy.
Aldridge was a nice pick, but not out of Bargnani's league as a potential all-star PF - or a retired Roy ...
2009: #9 Demar Derozan.
Then, in order: Brandon Jennings, Terrence Williams, Gerald Henderson, Tyler Hansbrough, & Earl Clark.
Jennings would be cool, but wouldn't necessarily give up Demar for him at this point ...
2010: #13 Ed Davis.
Then, in order: Patrick Patterson, Larry Sanders, Luke Babbitt, Kevin Seraphin, & Eric Bledsoe.
Sanders can block shots, but is way behind offensively. Bledsoe has shown signs, but still unrefined ...
2011: #5 Jonas Valanciunas.
Then, in order: Jan Vesely, Bismack Biyombo, Brandon Knight, Kemba Walker, Jimmer Fredette.
Home run! Too early for big judgements on any of these folks - but what we've seen of Jonas since this draft appears to be a player much more developed than this group of rookies, still struggling to pick-up the NBA game ...
So - do you have draft angst towards BC? As a talent evaluator, he seems to outperform his peers in many cases.


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It's "white robes" versus "rambling."
A bit of controversy has arisen from last week's Schwab Impact 2012 conference Chicago, with each side not-so-subtly referring to the other's mental state.
Following a speech to attendees on Thursday, former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson joined commission co-chair Erskine Bowles for a live interview in the exhibit hall with CNBC. When asked about low-tax evangelist Grover Norquist and his "no tax" pledge taken by many Republicans in Congress, Simpson called the position untenable.
"[What] I've always said about Grover Norquist is he's wandering the earth in his white robes," Simspon said.
According to CNBC, Simpson "chided his fellow Republican for sticking to his guns on keeping taxes low and questioned Norquist's ability to force Republicans to toe his line."
"What can he do to you? He can't murder you; he can't burn your house. The only thing he can do to you is defeat you for re-election. And if that means more to you than your country ... you shouldn't even be in Congress."
Norquist didn't take the insult lightly, responding a day later, "Alan Simpson ranting is not news."
He told the network that the latest tax plan would take taxes as a percentage of gross domestic product from 18.5% in full employment—the average over the past 30 years—to 21%, which equates to a $5 trillion tax increase over the next decade.
Norquist told "Closing Bell" growth, not tax hikes, is the best way to raise revenue for the federal government.
"If you grow at 4% a year instead of 2% a year for one decade, the government raises $5 trillion," Norquist asserted, according to the network.


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SAA and Air India sign code share agreement
Johannesburg. 16 July 2009. South African Airways (SAA) and Air India have signed a code share agreement which will improve travel options between their respective countries.
The partnership, which is now in effect, will improve and expand connectivity between the two carrier's networks. The agreement allows Air India passengers to code share on SAA's route between Johannesburg and Mumbai, as well as on the domestic sectors between Johannesburg - Durban and Johannesburg - Cape Town.
SAA in return will code share on Air India's domestic operations between Mumbai and Delhi as well as operations between Bangalore, Chennai, Trivandrum and Hyderabad to Mumbai.
"Adding Air India as a code share partner will provide our passengers with better and more convenient connections to key destinations in India. We are looking forward to working closely with Air India to offer further travel benefits as well as seamless access to even more cities overtime", says Jason Krause, SAA Head of Business Development.
SAA currently operates four times per week between Johannesburg and Mumbai.
"The code share with South African Airways has provided Air India with an opportunity to establish its presence in the South Africa market once again, after Air India had withdrawn its own operations from South Africa in February 1997. We also look forward to expanding this code share eventually to offer as wide an access on each other's network as possible," says Arvind Jadhav, Chairman & Managing Director, Air India.
In Africa, Air India operates only to Nairobi, three times a week.
About SAA:
South African Airways (SAA) is the leading airline on the African continent, and annually, receives awards from numerous top-rated publications and international organisations for Best African Airline. The airline is 75 years old and was one of the first national airlines in the world. The airline carries more than 6,9- million passengers a year on an expansive route network into Southern Africa, the African continent and internationally on a fleet of modern and new aircraft. For more information please visit www.flysaa.com.
About Air India
Air India is the flag carrier of India. Founded on 15 October 1932, the airline operated its first international flight on 08 June 1948 and is in its 61st year of international operations. Having merged with Indian Airlines in August 2007 – a prime domestic carrier, Air India now has the largest international as well as domestic network amongst Indian carriers. Its low cost carrier – Air India Express supplements the international operations in regional countries. In 2008, Air India (along with Indian Airlines and Air India Express) carried 13 million passengers internationally and was the market leader. The airline is also on a modernisation spree – placing an order for a large number of new generation aircraft (which have already started joining its fleet) and new Passenger Service System. For more information please visit www.airindia.com.
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