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DualShock 3 Oz date has no bearing on Euro launch, says SCEE
SCEE has just told videogaming247 that the Australian date and price for DualShock 3 has no bearing on the European launch for the controller, which remains unannounced. "The date in the Australian press release refers to the Australian market only," said a rep. "Whilst DS3 will come to all SCEE territories at some point, at […]
DualShock 3 dated and priced for Australia
This Gamespot report confirms that DualShock 3 will be released in Australia on April 24 for A$99.95 (£47 or $92) and in New Zealand on May 9 for NZ$109.95 (£44 or $86). In the US, the controller retails for $54.99. No announcement's been made for Europe yet, but you can expect one imminently. We're just […]
That was the news – Week 15, 2008: Announce the 80Gb PS3 SKU and DualShock 3 for Europe, SCEE, or risk damage later this year
The Americans were pulling little colon-"o" emoticons, but the news was greeted with surly derision in Europe. SCEA announced last week that the MGS4 gunmetal PS3 was to launch in America in limited quantities, the pack to include a 40Gb PS3, a DualShock 3 and the game itself. America, it seems, is blessed by Sony. […]
Euro MGS4 PS3 pack and DualShock 3 dated on Bartsmit schedule
A supposed PS3 schedule from Dutch retailer Bartsmit has shown what appears to be dates for DualShock 3 and a Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 pack for Europe. DualShock 3 is dated at May 2 on the list, the the MGS4 pack apparently launching on June 12, the same day as the game itself launches […]
DualShock 3 shipping in US now, Sixaxis discontinued
DualShock 3 is now shipping in the US, according to this. The controller will completely phase Sixaxis out, apparently, with rather rapid effect. "Sixaxis will no longer be offered after it's completely sold through at retail (likely by the summer timeframe)," said a SCEA rep. Can we have it in Europe now, please?
SCEA releases DualShock 3 compatibility list
Here Sony's last generation rumbling controller releases next week in America, so now's probably a good time for US people to find out what it actually works with. Still no European date for this.
May 2 release date rumoured for DualShock 3 in Europe
According to this Dutch PlayStation site, DualShock 3 will be released in Europe on May 2. The site references "a reliable source" but no more information is given. As rumours go, this one's plausible due to the fact that MGS4 is released a month later and uses the new pad's funtionality, but don't go holding […]
America in wanting DualShock 3 non-shock
DualShock 3 has gone to second place in the Amazon.com charts prior to is release on April 15. There's still no date for the rumbling controller in Europe, and there's unlikely to be one particularly soon considering the upcoming GT5: Prologue bundle – dated March 28 – comes with a Sixaxis. So, logic dictates, if […]
Satin Silver PS3 out in Japan now
And here it is. £217 to you, provided you can get someone to post it to you. Play-Asia won't ship them to anywhere in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway. We're sure you can find a way around that. It'll be faster than waiting for SCEE to release it over here.
SCEE clams on Euro DualShock 3 price and date
Following the announcement last night that DualShock 3 is to be released in America on April 15 – alongside GT5 Prologue – for $55, SCEE has said that the controller's passage to Europe is still out there in Q-something. "Release date and price for the DS3 in Europe is still to be confirmed," said a […]
SCEE: "No plans for silver PS3 in Europe"
SCEE has just confirmed to VG247 that European gamers aren't going to be seeing that lovely satin silver PS3 any time soon. "SCEE currently has no plans to release a satin silver PS3 in Europe," said a spokesperson. The machine is launching in Japan next month for the equivalent of £189, with a Sixaxis controller, […]
Dualshock 3 not packaged with Japanese silver PS3 bundle
And eagle eye award of the day goes to Blerk, for spotting that the "satin" silver Japanese PS3 bundle announced this morning doesn't, in fact, come bundled with a Dualshock 3 controller. It's got a Sixaxis in it, so it says here. If Japanese people want a Dualshock 3 they have to buy it separately […]
No plans for PAL 120Gb PS3
SCEE has no plans to release a rumoured 120-160Gb PS3 SKU, GI's reporting, reponding to persistent rumours that the (maybe) ditched 80Gb US SKU is to be replaced by a package with a bigger hard drive. "We do not currently have any plans to release a 120GB PlayStation 3 in the UK," said a SCEE […]
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By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Near the conclusion of many workouts at the Reds' spring complex, first baseman Joey Votto will be on a side field in his socks and doing what many kids would like to do each summer.
Votto is doing a slip and slide -- only without the cheap plastic tarp that can be purchased at most toy stores. A grounds crew worker instead has the hose out, spraying the grass to make it wet and very slippery.
"It's for little kids that don't know how to slide, which is perfect for me," Votto joked Wednesday.
It is not for fun, however. Votto is trying to come all the way back after he tore meniscus cartilage in his left knee sliding into third base on June 30. A first surgery repaired the injury, but a second procedure was needed when Votto reinjured the knee while practicing his slide.
In a break from instinct, Votto has been learning to slide on his other leg all spring. He works one-one-one with rookie-level Billings manager Pat Kelly on the technique.
"He has a reputation for being one of the great sliders all-time," Votto said of Kelly. "I'm sliding, and my knee feels good. It's been fine."
Reds manager Dusty Baker did not appear concerned whether Votto slid during a game.
"He's probably nervous; I won't be," Baker said. "I saw him slide about a month ago. I could tell he had been working. He wasn't a very good slider before. He would slow down to slide. He would be safe and make himself out. Now he's working on it because he doesn't want a weakness in his game. He's accelerating to slide, which is what you should do, not deaccelerate, which is what he used to do."
After he returned from the disabled list in September, Votto avoided doing any slides, as his knee was not 100 percent. That is not expected to happen this season.
"My goal is to play baseball, and I don't want to stand out," Votto said. "You don't stand out when you slide into bases, taking guys out, sliding into home plate, avoiding tags and doing whatever you can do to just fit in. That's the way I would like to play, and that's what I'm working towards."
This spring, Votto is batting .348 (16-for-46) with four home runs and 12 RBIs -- including a two-run homer to left-center field vs. the Padres on Wednesday.
The performances are not quite to Votto's satisfaction, but he has never appeared to have any lingering knee issues at the plate or in the field. He feels 100 percent ready for the regular season.
"I know I have good numbers, but I haven't hit very well," Votto said. "I'm headed in the right direction."
As spring winds down, Hanigan playing catchup
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Reds catcher Ryan Hanigan lags behind in at-bats this spring compared with other lineup regulars.
Hanigan, who is batting .333 (8-for-24), was out from March 1-9 with a strained left oblique muscle.
"I had a little spell with my side, but that feels good," Hanigan said. "It took a little while to get that back. I'm still working on it. I've had the chance to get Minor League at-bats. I haven't had a ton of big league at-bats. I made up for it by getting some ABs down there. I think things are coming together at the right time. My body feels good. My swing feels good. Hopefully I can use the rest of these games to get as many at-bats as I can and keep at it in terms of getting everything real consistent."
The injury interfered with Hanigan in pretty much all facets of the game.
"It wasn't knifing pain but consistently annoying," said Hanigan, who batted .274 in 112 games last season. "To get rid of that, I'm keeping with my preparation to make sure it doesn't come back."
Transactions leave Reds with 34 players
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- The Reds made two more cuts Wednesday morning by sending right-handed pitcher Clay Hensley and left-hander Wilkin De La Rosa to the Minor League camp.
Cincinnati's spring roster has 34 players remaining, which means nine more transactions are needed to reach the 25-man limit for Opening Day.
Hensley, who was signed to a Minor League contract Feb. 11, had a 4.50 ERA in eight games, a decent spring where he walked two and struck out 15 with two home runs. De La Rosa spent most of 2012 at Double-A Pensacola and posted a 9.31 ERA in nine spring games with nine walks and 15 strikeouts.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I mean, perhaps those guys who write in aren't just jealous haters after all, maybe we need to run two-page spreads of pictures like these. I'm sure kids would be stoked if after mowing lawns for weeks to pay for their subscription, they got the first issue and this was on the cover. I know I would be. Look at that shit, do you have any idea how much fun those guys are having? They aren't worried about "getting the shot" or any of that stupid bullshit we deal with.
But, at the same time, if we didn't have all them pretty shots of people going huge and blue skies and yatayatayata, we wouldn't have any advertisers, and without them there's no magazine-since we can't pay for it ourselves. And without the magazine, I couldn't afford to go snowboarding on days like this with my friends who don't even read it. So pipe down.


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When Perez came to Sauber two years ago he brought with him backing from telecommunications giant Telmex, and companies related to it feature heavily on the car. But Sauber CEO Monisha Kaltenborn said she has had assurances from Telmex board member Carlos Slim Domit that his company will remain committed to supporting the team and its young driver programme, Escuderia Telmex.
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Weapons? Check. Food stores? Check. Impenetrable shelter? Well, I'm working on it.
With the world ending Friday, I've done what any self-sufficient bookworm would do, I checked out all the survival books. I've heard the Mayans weren't very clear on how we're going to go, but with all our advances in science and technology, I'm betting on an undead apocalypse.
My guide of choice became "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From The Living Dead" by Max Brooks. I read "World War Z" a while ago, and I figure the guy knows what he's talking about.
Skip over all the "how the zombies are actually going to happen" stuff (once we're running like hell and fighting them off, do we really care?), and there is a very helpful guide that starts with weapons and combat techniques. Now I know a lot of you here in Texas are pretty well prepared with guns, but I'm going to stick with machetes, crossbows and blunt weapons like axes and sledgehammers.
I won't need to find bullets to put into those. As long as I keep them clean, polished and protected from rust, I've got a weapon that'll last me a while. Brooks puts us through a few questions to help us pick our ideal defense weapon. "1. Can it crush a skull in one blow? 2. If not, can it decapitate in said blow? 3. Is it easy to handle? 4. Is it light? 5. Is it durable?"
Remember, once we're all living in the woods or in the rubble of our great cities, we won't have that many resources. So make your weapons as simple and durable as possible. They might have to last you a while.
Next, armor. Brooks gives us a few suggestions here. Chain mail. Plate mail. I went for the shark suit. Although it is made to protect against shark bites, he lets us know that it can also "stand up to the toughest undead jaws." Thanks, Brooks! I'm so glad these things come with a guarantee. When I'm hacking at a zombie chewing on my leg, I want to make sure it won't get through my protections. Whew.
Of course, the next step is shelter. This is pretty important because just barricading your windows and doors (if you live in an apartment, like me) won't work when thousands of undead are trying to force their way in. It's just logic, they're eventually going to overwhelm your paltry defenses.
Personally, I'm going to wait until the undead take out one of those mansions on the other side of town and then set up my base there. For those of you not willing to make someone else's home into your shelter, other options can be supermarkets, malls, churches, police stations and office buildings. Just be careful. Where there are a lot exits/entrances, there are a lot of ways for the undead to get you.
Once most of the world has been overcome with the undead but your careful preparation has led you to survival (kudos!), it may be time to relocate and start over. In the forest, tall trees can be the perfect place to hole up and defend yourself. In the plains, you have great visibility in open areas but in tall grass, the undead could come at you like those raptors in "Jurassic Park." I, personally, prefer the jungle, lots of foliage for cover and plenty of plants and animals to survive off of. I'm not even going to approach a swamp, I saw what happened to Artax in "The Neverending Story." You get a little bit sad, and you're going down.
Thanks to Brooks' survival guide, I feel ready for the whole end-of-the-world thing Friday. Maybe I'll see a few of you readers afterward, if you've followed my (and Brooks') words of wisdom. But then, maybe not. It's everyone for themselves once the undead rise.


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Not sure how many of you guys are iPhone users, but today is a big day. iOS5 comes out, and it's going to change the iPhone completely. Very excited.
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Not sure how many of you guys are iPhone users, but today is a big day. iOS5 comes out, and it's going to change the iPhone completely. Very excited.
Cruise one over to Apple.ca for a full list of the 250+ features they're adding.
I'm going to pass. My iphone 4 does everything I need.
I mean, my 4 does everything I need as well .. but it will now be able to do everything I need even easier.
I mostly just love being able to use the Volume-Up button to snap pictures like a real camera.
And the new notification screen.
Annd the Wireless PC-Free Syncing.
There's a few others. I'm pumped.
Annd ya me too! I didn't know they released 4.3.5 until a couple days ago.
Still 5.0.0 will be a nice change. It's like getting a new phone! (if you haven't already Jailbroken your phone. Pretty sure all of the new features were available by jailbreaking anyway.)
but i do miss free apps... downloading torrents directly to my phone... accessing my home computer through VPN.. accessing CCTV cameras all around the world.........
frig... i should probably jailbreak again
so i upgraded last night..
at first i was horribly underwhelmed... it looked the same plus a few extra bells and whistles..
but after playing around with it for a day... im extremely impressed.. the small improvements and tweaks are what did it..
everyone is talking up iMessage like its the new BBM.... but its NOT... not at all... its integrated into the already existing messages.app and basically what it does is when you send a text, it scans the phone number/apple id of the person to see if they'tre on iOS 5, and if they are... its sent via 3g or wifi instead of as a text message... its alot smaller deal than people make it out to be, but pretty awesome anyways
the tweaks to the camera are awesome.. accessing it from the lock screen, on screen grid, using the volume button to take a pic, minor image editing... all little things, but make the process of using the phone so much more friendly
the notification centre is awesome.... but clearly an android rip-off... so im not giving them any credit
wireless syncing... makes life so much easier....
twitter integration in damn near everything
going to screw around with iCloud tonight... im not completely sold on it yet
the 3-4 hour upgrade time because of the slow ass apple servers was friggin painful though
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I like it after a days use though.
I just found the Pull-down window not to long ago. Slide down from the very top of the screen, and you'll get another Notifications type screen with tons more info.
Or how now in the text message screen, if you scroll down the keyboard automatically goes down with it. Little things make a big difference.
Going to try out the reminders a bit more. See what I make of it.
OO and you can now create and edit Seperate Albums for Photos. That ones HUUGE.
the reminders thing seems cool... im old school though... i still put post it notes in my pocket, or write down what i need to do on my wrist.. lol
i'm avoiding the "where are my friend" app.. or whatever its called.... i REALLY dont like the sound of that app... sometimes i like to not be found
the seperation of music and video into seperate apps i like too.. really minor thing, but clears up a ton of clutter
it took me AGES to figure out how to get to the notification center... would be nice if it was integrated into the lock screen
Ok so I got the new 4S about a week ago. This is my first iPhone (first smart phone for that matter). Tbh I am just a little overwhelmed with the phone. I've been playing around with it, figuring out what it can do, how it works etc.
I didn't realize there was so much involved. Like I had to set up an itunes account to listen music. I thought I could just upload my music/vids to a sim card like before. Haha yeah right.
I mean the phone is capable of so many things I kinda just don't know where to start. I'm hoping you guys who have experience with the iphone can help me out some. I wanna get the most out of this phone. Any tips, hints cool, apps etc. would be greatly appreciated-I iz noob. Thanks.
ive had iphones for years... so, alot of it is just sort of automatic for me at this point... but i'll throw some things out
you can drag your app icons on top of each other, and it will group them tgether.. sorta like folders.. saves homescreen space... organizes your apps... and you dont have to riflle through multiple pages..
play with the Settings app.... sounds boring, but all the little personalizing tweaks for almost everything is in there
the maps app is AMAZING... and its google maps... so you know what that means? you can look up an address, and STREETVIEW it
The Score's app is actually pretty bad ass... and my favourite of all the score tracking apps
If you're a public transit taker... you want to go to Nextbus.com on your iphone browser... and bookmark it to your homescreen... by bookmarking it, you make it a webapp.. and its a MUST... it GPS tracks EVERY bus and streetcar to the minute
your bank mot likely has an app... i do all my banking from my phone these days
The weathereye app is a thousand times better than the generic weather app built into the phone
in the Settings/Accessibility... or Setting/General/Accessibility... cant remember.... there are a few neat tweaks... ie/ you can customize your vibrations
google how to create your own ringtones... its actually REALLY easy..
There are a some really cool lifestyle apps... Lose It! for tracking your caloric intake and exercise.. Nike+ GPS for tracking your running.. Allrecipes when you want to pretend you're a much better cook than you really are.. The Pizza Pizza app is AWESOME... and you win free stuff for your next order everytime you order on the app
Photoshop Express is a must... Camerabag too (but i dont think that's free)
if i think up more, ill post them..
i've actually fnally decided to turn my back on Big Brother Apple... and just placed a reservation for the Motorola Droid RAZR... but the years on the iPhone were awesome... its a great phone
Thanks for the input Heinz. Yeah I'm slowly getting the hang of the iphone. Figured out how to group apps, played around with the settings, notifications, etc.
I just figured out how to access the camera from the lock screen! I still can't figure out how to use Siri without holding the home button??? Any suggestions?
I agree the google maps app is AWESOME! The Score app is one of the first things I downloaded, I gotta get my sports fix.
The phone has a sensor, that when covered (by your ear) triggers the screen to turn off. So I'm guessing it's maybe tied to that?
Heinz covered most of the stuff you should know, but a couple other things you might care for:
-Make sure you Double tap the Home Screen and clear out your "Running Apps" every once in a while.
-There's a couple programs called "Free Video to iPhone Converter" and "CloneDVD 5", that you can put on your PC, and they do exactly as advertised. Put any of your DVDs on your phone, and convert any Video files you have to iPhone format. I did this for my plane ride, and was great for killing time.
And some Cool Apps to try out:
-"iTorch4" turns the Flash-bulb from the camera into a Flashlight. Very handy sometimes.
-"Dropbox" has a great app, and you get 2 gigs free Cloud Storage. Very good for backing up your pictures you take on the fly.
-"Remote" allows you to control your Computer based iTunes from your Phone. Very cool app.
-"TuneIn Radio" allows for Real-Time FM/AM radio for ANY station in the world. Incredible App.
-"Evernote" is a much more advanced Note taking Tool. Very handy if you're a working man.
-"Microsoft Photosynth" is THE BEST panorama App I've ever seen. Hands down.
-"Guitar Toolkit" is $10, but if you're a guitar player, it pays for itself alone by being the best Tuner I've ever used. It has like 50 other Amazing tools as well. Best App I've ever bought.
if you have a good sense of humor, passable photo editing skills, and the desire to put all your friends faces onto gay porn... i highly suggest getting "Juxtaposer"... it's basically photoshop layers for the iphone... i have the paid version because i'm THAT dedicated to embarassing my loved ones.. but i think there is a free version as well
I'm gonna check out some of the apps you mentioned.
Oh yeah, I found TuneIn Radio probably the 2nd day I had the phone and it's very cool. All the music I want. Good quality audio.
They just released 5.0.1 today. First over-the-air update! Very exciting ... haha
It fixes some bugs with that were killing the Batter Life. Which I am grateful for. It got me a few times.
I'd go to bed with like 70% left in the tank, and wake up and it'd be dead. With no apps running. Thought someone was sneaking in and playing games all night or something! haha
So far I'm diggin' the new Update features.
I don't really notice much of a difference with the Notification-Unlock screen, but I use the pull-down notification tab all the time. It got me to switch back to the Native weather app! I was a missionary for the WeatherEye for the longest time, but I'm converted back. The Native App isn't so bad anymore since they've added the in-app Hourly breakdown and "My Location" (which uses the GPS) as the Location of analysis.
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This week, staff writer Paul Oberjuerge spoke with Bill James, baseball analyst, sabermetrician and famed author of "The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" (1985) and "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" (2001). James, now senior baseball operations advisor with the Boston Red Sox, will be inducted into the Pasadena-based Shrine of the Eternals next Sunday. Paul O's column on James appears in Sunday's edition. The following excerpts are an online exclusive from his interview with James.
QUESTION: Where did your first thoughts about discovering what really matters in baseball originate? How was it you began asking questions about what we all "knew" to be true?
ANSWER: I don't know for sure, but I know that I began thinking about these issues by the time I was in my mid-teens. There was a time in 1965 when I read in "The Sporting News" that Wes Parker of the Dodgers was such a great fielder that he probably saved the team a hit a game over another first baseman, but his bat was so weak the Dodgers didn't know whether they would be able to keep him in the lineup. I figured out if Wes Parker was an average fielder but got one more hit per game, his batting average would be .504. Figure it out.
Therefore, the Dodgers apparently were trying to figure out whether it was smart to keep a .504 hitter in the lineup. I would have been 15 then, so I was trying to figure those things out by age 15.
Q: My impression is you were considered something of a crank by baseball traditionalists (GMs, journalists) for quite some time. Do you recall when you felt that changed?
A: It was just a gradual thing. There wasn't any time when it changed.
Q: Is there any aspect of your research of which you are most proud? A particular thought or statistical device? Runs Created, Win Shares, the defensive spectrum, the value of on-base percentage, etc.?
A: Win Shares are a sort of end point, a culmination of the research that goes before them, so they were important in that way. Runs Created and Pythagorean Wins are practical contributions that everybody sort of uses. I suppose it's like asking which of my children I like best.
Q: Are baseball executive, baseball writers, fans even, approaching the game more intelligently now than they did 30 years ago? Is the level of discussion higher?
A: People are people; human nature doesn't change very much over time. Baseball being competitive, it moves forward all the time, not only in the last generation but in every generation. So ... certainly the discussion is more sophisticated now than it was a generation ago, but not that much of that is related to me. More of it is related to baseball being a bigger business that has more specialized executives.
Forty years ago, you had general managers who negotiated radio and TV contracts and ran the gift shop, as well as trying to keep the baseball team together. Naturally enough, they weren't very good at certain elements of the job. Modern front offices are very different, in that we have people with specialized knowledge and special skills.
Q: Is there a Last Bastion of Stunning Ignorance out there? Something you believe is obvious? That bugs you?
A: Well, there are many of my ideas which have been spinning their wheels for 25 years, perhaps because I haven't advocated them well or perhaps because they're just not true. Who knows. Perhaps 20, 30 percent of the ideas that I advocated years ago have been widely accepted, but probably 70 or 80 percent of them haven't. So I couldn't pick out one thing that's held out.
Q: I was re-reading your thoughts about the decade of the 1990s in "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract," and I was struck by how you did not mention performance-enhancing drugs. At all. If you do another revision at the end of this decade, will you talk about the Steroids Era?
A: Perhaps, but a) I don't think people were talking much about PEDs at the time that I was writing that book; b) Even if they were, I really don't know much of anything about them, and I'm reluctant to write about things that I don't know much about; c) The fact that everybody else may regard that era as the steroid era doesn't necessarily make it true in my eyes. So, I don't know how I'll feel about it when the dust settles. I'm trying to figure it out.
Q: Should players known to use (or strongly suspected to have used) performance-enhancing drugs be treated differently in history? Was the Baseball Writers Association of America electorate correct in not voting Mark McGwire to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot? Are you cheering for Barry Bonds?
A: I'm not cheering for Bonds, but then, I didn't much like (Henry) Aaron, either. I look at it this way. There's a rule in basketball against traveling but the NBA has pretty much stopped enforcing it. Well, they still call traveling but they will allow you to take about five steps without dribbling as you are running toward the basket. There was no "decision" not to enforce this rule; they just kind of lost track of it. They started not calling one step and progressed to not calling two steps, not calling three steps, and eventually they just kind of lost track of the rule. Should the players who took advantage of this failure to enforce the rule be banned from the NBA Hall of Fame? After all, aren't they cheating? They're not obeying the rules. Julius Erving, out. The Hall of Fame doesn't need cheaters like you. Kobe, Michael, get out. If you don't play by the rules the way Elgin Baylor did, you're not deserving.
Or it is, rather, the responsibility of the LEAGUE to enforce the rule? It seems to me that it might be the responsibility of the league to enforce the rule rather than the responsibility of the media to punish those who didn't obey the rule that wasn't being enforced. I won't name any players, but there are a whole bunch of superstars who are now or are going to be involved in the PED accusations. We CAN'T start picking and choosing who we honor on that basis. It's hypocritical, and it's impractical. And it diminishes the game.
Bonds has hit more home runs than anybody else, or will have in a few weeks. That's kind of the end of the story as far as I'm concerned.
Q: Do you sense a shift back toward "small ball"? Home runs are down; is that good?
A: I think there is a shift back in that direction, yes.
Q: In the "New Historical Abstract," you seemed quite pessimistic about the future of "small market" franchises. Any change in thinking?
A: I don't think that's true, to begin with. I've never been pessimistic about the future of small-market franchises, I don't think. But in any case, there has been some quite significant progress on that issue within the past five years. The income disparities never entirely will go away, but they are starting to contract.
Q: Which players, despite your efforts to clarify these things, continue to be overrated? Underrated? Do a few of each come to mind?
A: I don't know. I never use the terms "overrated" and "underrated" because I'm never sure where players are rated to begin with. Over the weekend, somebody was talking about Curtis Granderson (of the Tigers) being tremendously underrated, which is true, but he's only been in the league two years. In that sense, the young players are always underrated and the veterans always overrated. Pat Burrell has a .390 on-base percentage and a .500 slugging percentage every year but has played his whole career to a chorus of boos, so in that sense he is underrated.
But ... it's an awkward concept. I think it is hard enough to say who is good and who is not so good without getting into who is better than everybody else says they are or not as good as everybody else says they are.
Q: What do you think of the Shrine of the Eternals? Is it fun to belong to the same club as (outspoken 1960-70s slugger) Dick Allen and (catcher-turned-U.S. spy) Moe Berg?
A: I'm very flattered.
Q: Final thoughts on the steroid issue?
A: The steroid debate is, in a sense, very much like the immigration debate, in that at their essence is this problem: 1) Rules weren't enforced in the past; 2) What do we do now?
Perhaps we could solve all of our problems by offering a general amnesty to steroid users but banning undocumented immigrants from the Hall of Fame. Baseball at least has figured out this much: That we can't solve the problem unless we start enforcing the rules going forward. It's really impractical to start punishing people after the fact for rules violations that were ignored at the time.


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It's BRINE TIME for Mr. Turkey.
I went a little over the top this year and got a 17.46 lb free-range bird from a local butcher shop (there are still a few left). I think one of the biggest advantages to this bird is that it is 100% fresh so there is no defrosting and no accumulated ice that often shows up in even "fresh" birds from the supermarket.
The next step: BRINE. I am using a recipe that is a modification of some other recipes I've seen floating around:
Main active Ingredients:
3 gallons of water (as you'll see below, some of this water can come from ice cubes)
3 cups of salt
2.5 cups of brown sugar (I used dark but I don't think it matters that much)
Fun extra ingredients:
1.5 tablespoons of black peppercorns (whole)
1.0 tablespoon of Allspice berries (whole)
3-5 Bay Leaves (mine are dried so there are smaller than fresh bay leaves)
3 Lemons
1. Get water into a large pot. I have a big 2Gallon pot and I ended up prepping the brine in 2 stages, so be prepared to break up the recipe. I highly recommend leaving a generous gap at the top of the pot for tossing in ice later.
2. Heat water over medium to high heat. (Boiling is not the goal here, but heating the water is useful for dissolving)
3. Dissolve the salt at a rate of 1 cup / gallon and the sugar at a rate of ~0.75 cups / gallon (2.5 cups is technically 0.8333/gallon).
4. Add in black pepper corns, allspice berries, and Bay leaves to hot water.
5. Let the water steep almost like you are making tea, but don't let the water boil. Stir until the salt & sugar are dissolved or mostly dissolved.
6. Remove the pot from the heat and add in ice cubes to accelerate the cooling process, you never want to put hot brine on Turkey!
7. Lemons (haven't forgotten them!): Wash the lemons first, then slice in half and squeeze the juice out into the cooled brine. Some people zest the lemon skin, but I just score the skin with a knife and then throw the lemon halves in whole to accompany the brine.
8. Make sure that turkey is cleaned and that liver/gizzards/giblets/etc. are removed from the bird.
9: Put turkey in a large, food-safe bag with the breast (white meat part) facing down since the breast is usually the part that needs brining the most.
There are overpriced "brining bags" out there, but I have found that the Ziploc XL bags do a great job and are not too expensive. I recommend opening the bag up a day before brining to air out the plastic smell, but it is still safe to use straight out of the box. (http://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Double-Zip ... =Ziploc+XL)
As you can see from the pictures below, I put my bag in a cooler with ice packs surrounding the bag to keep the turkey at a safe temperature. While not shown in the photos posted below, I put a layer of ice over the top of the bag to 1. help keep it cold and 2. help weight down the turkey to keep it submerged.
10. Slowly pour the brine over the turkey. You really want the bird to be submerged as much as possible. Seal up the bag (no mess!) and let the bird sit overnight (I would give it a bare minimum of 12 hours, with 16 - 18 hours being better. Some people even go over 24 hours).
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Early reports
showed that retail box sales of Windows
7 were up a whopping 234% compared to sales of Vista over the
same time period. A new report has now been published by Net
Applications that shows Windows 7 has significantly increased its
share of the overall PC market since its launch. As of November 9
7 has 4% of the OS market.
The adoption rate among users
is much higher than the adoption rate of Vista over the same period.
Since its launch, Windows 7 has grown 84% in marketshare. It took
Vista six months to claim 4% of the OS market when it launched. Net
Applications reports that Windows OS' of all flavors own 92.5% of the
OS market, a slight decline from 93.06% that it owned in August 2009.
Linux owns 0.96% of the OS market with Mac owning 5.27%.
is aggressively pushing the new operating system with discounts and
promotional offers with retailers like Best Buy. The software giant
is also trying to make upgrades from legacy operating systems like XP
to Windows 7 easier since there is no direct upgrade path between the
two OS'.
Microsoft has maintained that sales of Windows 7 will
be largely tied to the sales of PCs moving forward, which have
slumped due to the poor economy. The good news for Microsoft is that
PC sales are currently growing with a 95% increase in the weeks
before and after Windows 7 launched. This is the one spot where Vista
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Changes to Daylight Savings Time continue to plague IT companies across the country
Daylight savings time (DST) is probably one of the most annoying inventions of the human race. Each year people spend a week or so adjusting to an hour forwards or backwards causing all sorts of erratic behavior and poor sleep while people adjust. Last year the U.S. Government decided to take it a step further and cause IT professionals and IT vendors to spend plenty of time and money to satisfy a few politicians with a not so brilliant idea.
The reason the last few transitions were different than any other change was because of the U.S. government mandated move for the start of DST to the second Sunday in March and a return to standard time on the first Sunday in November. This change required multiple computer systems and servers to be patched to change how they handle the traditional switch to DST. While this isn't such a big deal for the lone computer sitting on your desk at home, for an enterprise with hundreds of computer workstations and servers the issue is huge.
When this change first went into effect I wanted to throttle the U.S. Congress for the headaches of changing over countless software systems and applying patches. You also have to deal the small eventuality of IT, that not everything works or patches exactly as intended, resulting in some manual changes and hacks to get everyone on the same page. The
coup de grace
in this whole ordeal was the fact that its estimated that we didn't save a penny in electricity, yet we spent tons of money making the change. What's even worse is that by Congresses' own admission if the change didn't save them anything they might revert back to the old system in 2008 forcing us again to change everything back to the way it was. This would cost IT professionals and IT vendors again.
An article at
during the original change last year outlines the rough costs of the change back in early 2007 to be in the neighborhood of $300 million. This amount is a very conservative estimate based on labor costs alone. This does not account for the time and money spent on developing, testing and distributing DST patches by the various IT vendors. It also does not take into account the headache and manual pain of having to change older systems by hand or troubleshoot modern systems that fail to patch correctly.
According to the
Wall Street Journal
a researcher observed India while making the switch from standard time to a DST system. The change to DST resulted in an increase in electricity costs of nearly 9 million annually. The article also points out that past studies have shown no cost savings by switching clocks in the U.S. each year.
Wall Street Journal
reports that in the spring of 2006 when the Indiana Legislature mandated that all counties in the state had to participate in DST, as opposed to only 15 of the 92 counties that participated before, it gave Matthew Kotchen, a economics professor from the University of California-Santa Barbara the chance to actually see if DST saves money in the United States. According to Kotchen, his numbers (taken from actual meter readings in Indiana counties) showed that Indiana residents spent an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills after the change to DST.
I dislike DST as much as the next guy and after dealing with the initial impact of the switch in March 2007, I wanted to wash my hands of it and never speak of it much like the Y2K debacle. The problem is that with DST the problems seem to rear their ugly head every time we change the clocks, resulting in a few loose screws falling out and causing headaches for IT teams across the country.
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Sheriff John Montgomery said Thursday that 47-year-old Johnnie Carl Baker of Salesville shot Dennis Franklin Chapman in the face with a rifle, but claimed it was accidental.
Montgomery said prosecutors charged Baker with second-degree murder after investigators disputed Baker's claim that the rifle discharged without the trigger being pulled.
Baker told investigators that he'd tossed Chapman a soft drink bottle and told him he was going to shoot the bottle and the rifle then fired.
Montgomery says the 30-30 lever-action rifle must be manually cocked and the trigger pulled for it to fire.
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Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel
$30m (or more) to net smaller fish
The appetite for cloudy infrastructure expertise continues apace in 2012. Managed-hosting and colocation services provider Internap has bolstered its position in the cloudy infrastructure peddling market by acquiring sometime-competitor Voxel for $30m.
Internap was founded in 1996 in Seattle, Washington, but now calls Atlanta, Georgia its home. Publicly traded on the NASDAQ, it initially focused on accelerating IP network operations for companies deploying Web sites, but eventually expanded into hosting and colocation services through acquisitions in the wake of the dot-com boom.
The company now has over 2,700 customers and approximately 370 employees, and generated $244.2m in 2010 – the last year for which data is available, since Internap has not yet reported its Q4 2011 financial results. Internap builds its own data centers and offers colocation services in Seattle, Atlanta, Santa Clara, New York, Boston, Houston, and, starting last month, Dallas-Fort Worth.
Voxel, founded in 1999 and based in New York, is privately held. The company does not build its own data centers, but rather rents space from Equinix in New York, San Jose, Amsterdam, and Singapore, and from these facilities sells dedicated hosting and cloudy infrastructure on demand services.
Interestingly, the company has over 1,000 customers, but only 50 employees supporting them.
Raj Dutt, Voxel's founder and now senior vice president of technology at Internap, said in a conference call discussing the deal that about 80 per cent of the servers deployed by Voxel are located in the New York facilities because the company's people were nearby, but with Internap being more globally distributed and running its own data centers, it would be cheaper to deploy infrastructure via Internap than Voxel could have done by itself.
Eric Cooney, president and CEO at Internap, said that Voxel would exit 2011 with an annual run rate of around $14m in sales, and is growing at 25 per cent – which is much faster than the hosting and cloud markets at large and therefore justifies the premium that Internap is paying.
Under the terms of the deal, which closed on December 30 but which was only announced on Tuesday, Internap is shelling out $30m in cash to get its hands on Voxel, and has agreed to pay out an additional $5m to Voxel's owners over the next two years if certain sales and operational targets are met.
One thing that makes Voxel attractive to Internap is its ability to mix physical and virtual server-hosting through its VoxStructure line, which includes VoxServer managed hosting and VoxCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS). These services have homegrown tools to rapidly provision and scale infrastructure and automation to remotely manage it, which is what Internap is keen on getting its hands on.
OpenStackers unite
Both Voxel and Internap are contributors to the OpenStack cloud fabric project that was started by NASA and Rackspace Hosting in July 2010. Dutt said that Voxel has been watching OpenStack to see how it's developing, and is contributing code to the project here and there. The VoxStructure management tools, by the way, are available for completely controlling physical and virtual servers through APIs, a desktop portal, or an iPhone app.
Internap, on the other hand, sells cloudy server instances based on VMware's ESXi hypervisor, but launched a storage cloud based on the "Swift" storage service portion of the OpenStack code in January 2011 called XIP Cloud Storage, and debuted a compute cloud (based on the "Nova" compute service portion of the OpenStack code) called the Open Public Cloud in October 2011. This cloud is aimed at enterprise customers, and can be thought of more like virtual server hosting or a semi-private cloud as opposed to the full-on public, utility-style cloud that Voxel, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and others are peddling.
Given that Internap already was neck deep in OpenStack, you might be thinking: why does Internap want or need anything from Voxel at all?
While company executives danced around this a bit in the conference call, the answer is that Voxel knows how to support customers who spend under $10,000 per month on hosting, and has built the tools to do it – perhaps profitably, perhaps not, since Voxel is not public and doesn't report its financials.
Internap, on the other hand, has customers who typically spend $10,000 to $1m per month on hosting. Internap can make Voxel more profitable by hosting in its own data centers and Voxel lets Internap go downscale and merge its OpenStack efforts for public and semi-private clouds with the expertise embodied in the VoxStructure stack that Voxel has cooked up on its own.
"This isn't about one product or one piece of code as much as it is about stitching together the right kind of fabric," Dutt explained on the call.
It is also about going global. Internap also now has presence in Amsterdam and Singapore through the Voxel deal, and – given its history of building data centers – you can bet that in the long run Equinix will lose some business as new customers are brought up inside an as-yet-unannounced data center to service customers in Europe and Asia that Internap will no doubt build as its customer base grows in these regions.
However, you don't just pick up physical and virtual servers and move them wholesale to a new data center – not if you don't want to lose a lot of customers – because things do go wrong in most server migrations.
And finally, the Voxel deal is about catching small startups and moving them from the cloudy infrastructure that they typically start on and towards the managed hosting and colocation services they tend to gravitate towards as their businesses grow and mature. Cooney said that the combination of the Internap and Voxel would allow Internap to capture those enterprise customers who are looking to move certain applications from inside their data centers to the cheaper public cloud while Internet startups are moving in the opposite direction.
Credit where credit is due
In addition to doing this deal, Internap has boosted its credit facilities with Wells Fargo, Royal Bank of Canada, Silicon Valley Bank, Fifth Third Bank, and Sun Trust Bank. As you can see from its 8K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Internap was able to bump up its credit facilities by $40m to $119m. The banks gave Internap a $59m term loan facility, which was fully drawn to make the $30m payment to acquire Voxel. Internap didn't need the loan to make the deal, since it had $34.3m in cash in the bank as its third quarter ended in September. But Internap didn't want to burn its cash.
Internap's data center services and IP services business grew steadily in the early 2000s, but were impacted by the Great Recession. Internap grew 29 per cent to $234.1m in sales in 2007, but booked a $5.6m loss. The following year, sales were only up 8.5 per cent to $254m, and losses expanded to a whopping $105m after Internap booked a $101.4m charge for "unusual expense."
In 2009, sales were only up nine-tenths of a point to $256.3m, and the company had another of those unusual expense charges weighing in at $54.7m, pushing the company to a $69.7m loss. These charges are related to goodwill impairments against its content delivery network (CDN) and IP networking services businesses. Internap paid $214m to buy the VitalStream CDN business in February 2007, originally valued it at $154.7m, and has written most of that off. In 2010, sales dropped by 4.7 per cent to $244.2m, but Internap cut costs enough to only book a $3.6m loss.
In 2011, the numbers for Internap have not been much better.
The company's data-center services business fell by 6 per cent in Q1 to $31.5, and IP services fell 6 per cent as well to $27.9m. Total sales came to $60.3m, and the company had a net loss of $1.5m. In Q2, Internap's data center biz grew 4 per cent to $32.5m, IP services fell 5 per cent to $27.9m, and the company booked a net loss of $2.6m on that $60.4m in revenues. Q3 was quite a bit better on the revenue, with data-center services up 8 per cent to $34.1m and IP services off 3 per cent to $27.9m; total sales rose 3 per cent to $62.4m, but the company had a net loss of $1.8m.
The question now is will Voxel help Internap's profits over the short haul as well as the long haul? Internap, like many hosting providers, thinks that the cloud is the answer to its problems. It makes sense on some level, given that clouds mean getting people to share more infrastructure than they otherwise might not have.
But as far as profits go, it all depends on if the savings go to the hosting provider turned cloud fluffer or to customers who simply want to pay less for a place to run their apps. ®
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Practiced his dangerous
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Started a blaze
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Read about Wakefield, and
Swallowed it whole
Choose not to vaccinate,
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They've stricken him off!
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Cognitive dissonance
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Context: I was reading the (quite predictable) reactions here. By the way… if you have not yet voted there, please do so. The case itself is not terribly interesting to me–the man acted monstrously, and has been officially slapped down. Sadly, it probably will boost his income. No, the interesting part is the familiar pattern of responses–like the hybrid offspring of Festinger's "When Prophecy Fails" and an Oliver Stone movie. Conspiracy belief is sustained, not weakened, by disproof.


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The Bushman Way of Tracking God: The Original Spirituality of the Bushman People
The Bushman Way of Tracking God: The Original Spirituality of the Bushman People
BY Bradford Keeney
The Kalahari Bushmen are the keepers of the world's oldest living culture. In spite of colossal challenges and never-ending crises, they have survived for over 60,000 years with joy and peace--yet their spiritual teachings, the source of their enduring wisdom, have never been fully presented.
For the first time, these ancient oral traditions have been put down onto paper by a researcher so unique, he was featured in American Shaman: an Odyssey of Global Healing Traditions, which won a Best Spiritual Book award from Spirituality & Health magazine. Bradford Keeney takes the reader through the veil of original spirituality, connecting the fragments of world religions to a source that is unlike any other. Through this wisdom, readers can find the deepest meaning, fullest purpose, and highest joy in life.
There is a river, and it is everywhere. There is a wind, and it is everywhere. They are the same except when they are different. There is a god in the sky and a god on the earth that keeps changing. They are the same except when they are different.
That's how bushman elders talk and think. We can begin to see why some missionaries and anthropologists feel a bit disoriented when they try to understand or communicate with the Bushman. The original people don't have straight talk; they speak in circles. However, their way of knowing is not simple. It is far more complex than how the rest of the world thinks.
Feeling the River Inside
Since |Kunta |Ai!lae passed, N!yae has become the strongest n|omkxao, the ablest holder of n|om in the Kalahari. It should be no surprise (to women) that the strongest healers and spiritual teachers among the Bushmen are often women elders. More often than not, women are less distracted by power in favor of a relational presence that is inspired by reasons and passions of the heart. The desire for power, whether you think you have it or not, distorts the track to God, even bends it, so you are led astray. The temptaion of fire, as the Bushmen call it, makes us believe we can conquer our enemies and not be burned by flame, killed by lions, or harmed by the forces against life. Each Bushman sacred tracker must walk past the power-based delusions of fire and be lifted into the relational heart of the ancestors. This is where they experience the acquisition of new eyes and ears, among other enhanced ways of sensing the world. With spiritual sight, hearing, smell, and touch, they are able to find the tracks to God.
They tease N!yae and me, and call her my n|om wife. Yes, that's correct- she and I are a n|om pair. Together we can bring forth the n|om in a way that old timers claim is like it used to be in the days of their grandparents asnd ancestors.
Bo, my identity in the Kalahari, is also considered to be the strongest n|om-kxao in the Kalahari. N!yae and Bo together constitute what the other n|om-kxaosi dream about. Literally dream about: they see us dancing with them when they are asleep, entering the realm of the ancestors and the medicine. In dreams as well as the community healing dances, we give them n|om- that is, we shoot it inside them.
In the original world of spiritual mystery... anything is possible and impossible, sometimes at the same time.
There you have it: spirituality speaking, I get down with powerful grannies in the Kalahari. This kind of dancing is free from naive eroticism- it is pure and simple joy, the highest form of tender loving care. In this ecstatic dancing, or shaking, we tap into a magical mysterious force of energy- n|om- that is an entry to a world the rest of us have heard very little about. I am speaking of the original world of spiritual mystery. There, anything is possible and impossible, sometimes at the same time.
In the Kalahari, we enter a river, a current, and a mystery that flows inside us. As Rumi poetically said, "You feel a river moving in you, a joy." This movement that takes you into spiritual mystery is inseperable from n|om. You can't say it is n|om, for n|om is more than that. In fact, you never can say what n|om is. No definition can capture it. You can't even say the word "n|om" when it is moving within you; that would be dangerous. The n|om might get too strong.
Like the Hebrews who refused to utter the name of Yahweh, the bushmen have long known the wisdom of having respect names. These are words for holy names. N|om has a respect name, and so does God. When you feel a holy presence nearby, you respect its power and do not allow a word to set up an illusory (and potentially arrogant) knowing of something that goes past the limit of our mind's ability to understand. You use another word to distance yourself from the mirage of knowing. In other words, the respect names help keep everything a mystery.
"Bo, come on down to the river. I want to drown now," N!yae says in a kind of singing voice.
"N!yae you are greedy. You can never get enough n|om. I can assure you that you won't be able to walk home tonight."
This, I am sure about. When she is full of n|om, N!yae looks intoxicated. Her eyes are dilated, and she can't walk a straight line. We always get drunk on n|om when we shake together.
"Come on, Bo! The river is not going to wait, and I'm thirsty!"
N!yae knows there isn't a river anywhere near the Kalahari. Yes, there are dry riverbeds, and when it does rain, they may turn into a mighty current of water. But that is a rare and momentary thing. What N!yae means is that there is a spiritual river, and we don't have to walk anywhere to find it. We step into it by allowing our hearts and souls to be in charge rather than our minds. We allow our feelings to be stirred and awakened. When this happens, we are in the river, in the wind, in the n|om.
Rumi, who seems to have been a lot like a Bushman, once advised that we should "reach for the rope of God." This directive is actually the most important advice a Bushman n|om-kxao can give, and Rumi voices it with the same exact words used in the Kalahari: reach for the rope of God.
Rumi knew that purposeful will is an obstacle to be removed so that the river can move inside out heart. When will power, reason, or conscious mind takes front and center stage, there is no room for the free movement of one's heart. That is when the highest emotions stop. "Because of willfulness, people sit in jail, the trapped bird's wings are tied, fish sizzle in the skillet," Rumi wrote. The Bushmen knew this wisdom from the very beginning, as have awakened poets and muses of the heart, whether expressed or performed through song, dance, poem, or play.
Our heart dives into this dynamic current whenever it is allowed to unashamedly feel the full joy of being alive.
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Developing Countries Eye Renewables
World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecasts
Spanish Housing Prices Decline
Greek Unemployment Climbs Again
Fresh Demand For Petchem Products
Iran Crude Exports Up 66%
China Yuan Rises
Developing Countries Eye Renewables
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Globally, despite a 12-percent decline in investment, more renewable energy went on stream in 2012 than in any previous year, the main reason being a 30-to-40 percent drop in the cost of solar energy.
"Around the world, there is a shift to clean energy," said Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Political Complications
Investors understand that clean energy no longer costs more than fossil energy. As such, there is a lot of excitement about the potential of large-scale projects in a wide range of countries.
Nevertheless, investments in clean energy in 2013 would have been higher had governments in Europe and North America not abruptly pulled back from green energy policies.
"No industry has been treated as badly as the clean energy sector, particularly in Europe," Liebreich said in an interview.
"Frequent and sometimes wholesale changes in renewable energy policies create market uncertainty, so investors hold back, waiting for clarity and stability."
Such changes are being driven by polarized politics and a fact-free debate about future energy choices, particularly in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Canada. These countries are going to be five years behind the shift to low-cost, clean energy.
Liebreich highlighted Canada's obsession with its tar sands as good example of a government's failure to comprehend that future economic success will be based on clean energy sources.
"They are not serving the public interest," he said.
New Energy Records
In 2012, China, the United States, Germany, Japan and Italy were the top five investors in renewables. Globally, solar photovoltaic installations reached a record 30.5 gigawatts (GW), while installed wind installations topped off at 48.4 GW--both new records, according the REN21 Renewables 2013 Global Status Report.
In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan is shifting from a nuclear-dependent energy policy and investing significantly in solar, geothermal and wind power.
In the Indian state of Gujarat, a 605 MW photovoltaic solar park, completed in April 2012, is expected to save about 8 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. An amount of nearly $1 billion was announced to go towards a 396MW wind project in Oaxaca State, Mexico.
"More and more countries are set to take the renewable energy stage," said Achim Steiner, UNEP executive director.
Only last week, the global host of World Environment Day, Mongolia, invited me to tour its first 50-megawatt wind farm."
Mongolia has ambitious plans to harness wind and sun to power its future and supply clean energy to China and the region, Steiner said in a press conference in Nairobi.
"Like many other nations, it has seen the logic and the rationale of embracing a green development path," Steiner said.
A Growing Industry
An estimated 5.7 million people worldwide worked directly or indirectly in the renewable energy sector in 2012. The bulk of these jobs were in Brazil, China, India, members of the European Union and the United States, with employment rising in other countries.
Selling, installing and maintaining small solar panels in rural Bangladesh, for example, employs 150,000 people directly and indirectly.
The transition from brown to green energy is gaining momentum as more countries, regions and cities realize that the shift is in their best economic interests, offering energy security, among other benefits.
"Even the currently stalled UN climate talks won't slow this shift," said Steiner, "and a strong global climate treaty in 2015 could spur an increase in investment."
The financial sector has factored in the glacial pace of the UN climate talks.
"Nothing that happens in that forum will reduce investment now," said Liebreich.
World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecasts
The World Bank cut its forecasts for this year, citing a deeper than expected recession in Europe and a slowdown in China and India.
Renewing fears about growth, it said the global economy was likely to grow by 2.2 percent this year, a downgrade from its January forecast of 2.4 percent, Guardian reported.
The downbeat forecasts helped to drive a wave of selling in Japan, where the Nikkei index tumbled 6.35 percent amid fears that central bank stimulus measures--led by the US--might be withdrawn.
The World Bank also cut its forecast for growth in 2014 to 3.1 percent from 3 percent, but maintained its prediction that global GDP would increase by 3.3 percent in 2015.
While there are markers of hope in the financial sector, the slowdown in the real economy is turning out to be unusually protracted, said Kaushik Basu, senior vice-president and chief economist at the bank.
This is reflected in the stubbornly high unemployment in industrialized nations, with unemployment in the eurozone actually rising, and in the slowing growth in emerging economies."
There were also heavy losses on European stock markets in morning trading. although the FTSE 100 recovered by mid-afternoon.
Michael Hewson, senior market analyst at CMC Markets UK, a financial spread-betting company said, European markets have plunged on the open in the wake of the 6.35 percent decline in the Nikkei overnight as investors continue to worry about the longevity of central bank stimulus measures, while another global growth downgrade from a global organization, this time the World Bank, has prompted investors to question current stock market valuations.
The bank is now predicting the eurozone economy will shrink by 0.6 percent this year, compared with an earlier forecast of a 0.1 percent decline in GDP. The currency bloc's economy is then expected to grow by 0.9 percent in 2014 and 1.5 percent in 2015.
The World Bank highlighted slowing growth in China, as authorities there seek to rebalance the economy, and said India's annual growth had dropped below 6 percent for the first time in 10 years. It said there was concern that the US might begin to ease its support of the world's largest economy by withdrawing quantitative easing, or the use of central bank cash to buy up sovereign debt in the hope that financial institutions will reinvest the windfall in the wider economy.
The bank added that austerity programs, high unemployment, and weak consumer and business confidence would continue to impede growth in higher-income countries.
It downgraded its forecasts for developing countries' GDP to 5.1 percent this year from an earlier forecast of 5.5 percent. Growth in 2014 and 2015 is expected to be 5.6 percent and 5.7 percent respectively.
Spanish Housing Prices Decline
The housing prices in Spain fell by 14.3 percent in the first quarter of 2013 in comparison with the same period of 2012, the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) reported on Thursday.
In annual terms, this is the third biggest drop of housing prices since 2007, after falls of 14.4 percent and 15.2 percent in the second and third quarter of 2012 respectively, Xinhua reported.
Second-hand houses have been the most affected by the fall in prices, experiencing a 15.3-percent fall since the first quarter of 2012, while prices of new houses saw a 12.8-percent decrease, said the INE.
Meanwhile, on a quarterly basis housing prices experienced the biggest drop since 2007 as they decreased by 6.6 percent from the last quarter of 2012 to the first one of 2013.
Prices of secondhand houses decreased by 6.8 percent in comparison with the last quarter of 2012, while those of new houses suffered a 6.5-percent decrease. Both declines meant the biggest drops since 2007 on a quarterly basis.
Housing prices have been declining for the past 20 quarters in Spain, since the second quarter of 2008 when the housing bubble popped after prices hit a record high.
The contraction of the domestic demand in Spain, mainly caused by lower wages and rising unemployment, is also affecting housing prices as sellers need to lower the prices in order to be more competitive in the market.
Greek Unemployment Climbs Again
Greece's jobless rate continues its steady increase.
Overall unemployment climbed to 27.4 percent of the workforce in the first three months of this year, according to the Greek Statistics Agency.
That was up from 26 percent at the end of last year and 22.6 percent a year ago, EuroNews wrote.
One job-seeker in Athens--an artist--painted a depressing picture.
"There is no light at the end of the tunnel. First of all, wages are being reduced and they will be further reduced. Second, everything continues to be expensive, and third, working for nothing or working for €100 will create jobs, but if this is a recovery, then no thanks, I don't want any part of that."
The unemployment totals are expected to dip in the current quarter. Tourism accounts for almost one in five jobs in Greece and the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has said they are looking for an all-time record number of visitors this year--at least 17 million.
Many of them will come because Greece is now cheap to visit. Alexandros Vassilikos, president of the Attica Hotel Association said, "The crisis affected the destination a lot, because of the fall in demand, we had a fall in prices that was over 40 percent over the past four years, but again we have to look at the positive side of this, which is that today we offer much better value for money."
The only trouble with that is that visitors looking for a bargain tend to spend less.
The jobs created by tourism help bring down the unemployment totals, but only temporarily.
Fresh Demand For Petchem Products
Translated by Katayoon Dashti
New nations have shown their interest for importing Iranian petrochemical products despite Western sanctions, said a senior official of National Petrochemical Company (NPC).
Ali Mohammad Basaqzadeh added that Iran is considered one of the five industrial hubs worldwide in light of its production capacity of 60 million tons of petrochemical and polymer products, Mehr News Agency reported.
Currently, Iran accounts for 24 percent of the capacity of Middle East's petrochemical production.
Based on the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2010-15), Iran's share should grow to 38 percent.
The presence of over 33 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, proximity to giant consumption markets such as China and India, construction of specialized jetties for exporting petrochemicals, expanding petrochemical hubs and diversity of gas and liquid feedstocks are major advantages for promoting this job-generating industry.
Basaqazadeh said northern neighbors are other customers of Iran's petrochemical products.
He predicted that Iran would become a big petrochemical power across the region and the world by the end of the Sixth Plan (2020).
Petrochemical Complexes
The official noted that Iranian petrochemical complexes can meet domestic need by producing various polymer and petrochemical products.
"Asalouyeh (Bushehr province) and Mahshahr (Khuzestan province), as two major hubs of petrochemical production, are active," he said.
"Petrochemical development projects are under completion across many provinces."
Once they become operational, the production cycle of many petrochemical products will be completed domestically.
The petrochemical industry has become an important aspect of Iran's non-oil economy and the basis of its economic diversification.
Investing in Iran's petrochemical industry has competitive advantages of indisputable and exceptional commercial attractions.
Iran's gas reserves, which provide huge resources for industrial activities and the petrochemical feedstock, are added advantages.
The industry also provides other benefits, including a vast local market, diversified petrochemical chains, availability of skilled and cost-competitive workforce and infrastructural developments, especially those that link Iran to its neighboring countries.
The positive impact of these factors will eventually bring to the forefront the comparative and competitive advantages that the industry has for attracting local and foreign investments.
Iran Crude Exports Up 66%
Iran's crude oil exports in May rose by 66 percent compared with the corresponding figure of last month.
Following the recent renewal of waivers on Iranian oil sanctions for China and several other countries, the Far Eastern state boosted its purchases from the Islamic Republic, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported.
In its monthly oil report released on Wednesday, the Paris-based agency said Iranian crude imports rose to the "relatively high" level of 1.39 million barrels a day in May from 835,000 barrels a day in April, ISNA wrote.
According to the report, China imported 715,000 barrels per day of Iranian crude in May, showing a noticeable rise from 370,000 barrels in April.
The IEA said Iran's crude output reached 2.68 million barrels a day in May.
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi earlier said the illegal US-engineered sanctions helped wean the economy off oil-based revenues.
China Yuan Rises
The Chinese currency Renminbi, or the yuan, advanced 5 basis points to 6.1607 against the US dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.


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The Fire head to DC (live coverage at 6pm CT on CSNChicago) on the back of three straight victories after a tough 2-1 win at home against New England on Saturday. DC are entering the game after a fiery match against Philadelphia the following day where controversy and red cards reigned. Both United and the Fire are calling this a "six pointer" and DC will be looking for revenge after last year's incredible "Capital Comeback" at RFK Stadium. Here are some things to look out for from a tactical perspective.
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The Return of Pappa: Who Starts on the Left?
Marco Pappa came off the bench for the last 13 minutes (plus another questionable five minutes off stoppage time) against New England after playing longer than Frank Klopas had liked for Guatemala in a midweek friendly. Pappa's return means it's likely that Patrick Nyarko will begin the game against DC on the bench.
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Having set up Chris Rolfe's 5th minute penalty call and assisted on Sherjill MacDonald's eventual game-winner, Nyarko had a very productive 75 minutes before being subbed out after picking up a slight back injury.
Both players are playing well at the moment but Nyarko's slight knock combined with a well-rested Pappa makes it more likely the Guatemalan will start. Nyarko has excelled in his recent role coming off the bench and could make a big impact if called upon.
DC Defenders: Bare Bones at the Back
With a combination of injuries (Robbie Russell and Daniel Woolard) and suspensions (Emiliano Dudar), DC United are very thin at the back.
One position in particular which is a problem area for Ben Olsen is right-back. Dejan Jakovic played most of the Philadelphia game there and looked very shaky at times before being subbed out. Olsen stated that the sub was because Jakovic needed a breather in order to be ready for Wednesday's match but it is likely that he will play in the middle with Chris Korb moving to the right.
Olsen has also floated the idea of playing Andy Najar in this position but that seems unlikely Wednesday night. Pappa or Nyarko on the left, combined with Gonazlo Segares getting forward in support, has the potential to exploit this DC weakness.
Outside Backs: Beware of Runs in Behind
Though Sega and Anibaba have done a fantastic job getting forward to support in the attack, they must also beware of being caught high up the field. This happened on more that one occasion against New England last week and could cause problems Wednesday.
Fire coach Frank Klopas noted that in the New England match the team had a lot of turnovers and were sloppy at times with their passes and with Jalil and Gonzalo's eagerness to get forward, a bad pass resulting in a turnover can leave the team exposed.
Rolfe vs Kitchen: Holding Mid vs Creative Play-maker
The battle I am most looking forward to tonight is Fire PDL alum Chris Rolfe vs. a much more recent Fire PDL alum Perry Kitchen. Kitchen plays in the holding midfield role for United, sitting just in front of the back four, a position that Rolfe loves to operate in. Against New England, Rolfe was everywhere and his combination play was superb.
After seeing the performance against the Revs, it wouldn't surprise me if DC coach Ben Olsen had Kitchen man-mark Rolfe in an attempt to stop him from creating. What made Rolfe so dangerous was his movement, not only dropping behind MacDonald, but also looking to get in behind the defense. If Rolfe can create space for himself like he did on Saturday night, it could help to unlock the DC defense.
Prediction: 1-1 with Sherjill MacDonald tallying his second goal in a Fire shirt
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