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California High School has ushered in a new era, with Sarah Wondolowski moving in to the principal's office to begin her tenure as head administrator at the San Ramon campus.
"I feel amazing. I love this school," Wondolowski said during a recent interview. "I just, I love where I'm working, and it couldn't be a better group of staff and parents and students that I get to work with."
The 30-year-old Pleasant Hill resident was selected last month as a replacement for longtime principal Mark Corti, whose retirement from Cal High was announced in late June. She had served as one of Corti's assistant principals for the previous two school years.
"Sarah is a rising star in our district, and has shown great leadership potential," said Mary Shelton, San Ramon Valley schools superintendent. "She has already established herself in the Cal High community and has a fabulous rapport with the staff and students."
"I've always tended to do things young," Wondolowski said, referring to being selected as swim team head coach as a teenager, graduating from college early and making the jump into upper administration at a young age.
"I've learned a lot from the wisdom that surrounds me," she added. "I've always felt prepared for jobs earlier than people would typically find me to be, but what is really unique about my situation is I've always had people willing to take a chance on me and not let my age stand in the way."
The San Ramon Valley school board certainly didn't let age get in the way when it appointed Wondolowski as Cal High principal on July 22.
"Sarah has already proven herself as an exceptional educational leader in our district, and she will be a great fit as the next leader of California High School," school board president Rachel Hurd said. "I am confident that the students and staff at Cal High will continue to thrive under her leadership."
Her appointment occurred amid a whirlwind stretch for Wondolowski, who got engaged to boyfriend John Cranford -- a San Ramon police officer -- just a day before being named principal and then celebrated her 30th birthday seven days afterward.
"It's been a big week for me," she said, smiling.
Raised in nearby Lafayette, Wondolowski graduated from her hometown's Acalanes High School, where she starred in the pool as a swimmer and water polo player.
She completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley in 2005, earning a bachelor's degree in political science and a minor in education. She is a fifth-generation Cal grad.
Wondolowski's career goal took her about an hour north, to UC Davis, from which she obtained a teaching credential in 2006. She finalized her Masters of Arts in education from Davis the following year, writing her master's thesis while concurrently experiencing her first year as a teacher, at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek.
Wondolowski taught history for five years at Las Lomas in addition to coaching swimming and girls' water polo and serving four years as activities director, which included teaching the leadership class. The latter role, she said, helped expose her to school administration in a new way.
"It kind of gave me the chance to work with administration more closely than I would have as a teacher," she added. "In doing that, and having that whole-school perspective where I got to do something for the betterment of the whole school, I realized that it was administration that I was meant to go into."
Her pursuit of an administrative opportunity led her to look beyond the Acalanes Union High School District -- which includes Las Lomas as well as her childhood high school, Alacanes.
An ideal position, according to Wondolowski, opened up before the 2012-13 school year: assistant principal at Cal High.
"I wanted to be here for the potential for growth in my job," she said. "When you are in a smaller district (like Acalanes), there are less places to go. And here I knew that this was a place where I could take on things I was really interested and excited about, and then grow professionally."
The Cal Berkeley graduate landed the Cal High job, and spent the next two years doing a little bit of everything as assistant principal.
Wondolowski said her duties included overseeing students, professional development and working with technology, athletics, special education, the social studies department, the Student Recognition Project and implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
Additionally, Wondolowski said her experience working under Corti, who served as Cal High principal for 15 years, helped her learn some valuable lessons that she'll use in her time in the head office.
"The biggest thing that he taught me was that, when there's someone passionate about something, you've got to let them run with whatever they're passionate about," she added. "Give them the support, and they'll do something great for you. And he did that with me all the time."
Corti this week called Wondolowski "a superb choice" to lead the school of more than 2,600 students.
"Her relationship with the students, staff and community during her first two years as an assistant principal will create a seamless transition," he said. "Her ability to collaborate with stakeholders will naturally continue to enhance learning, improve programs and encourage innovation."
Wondolowski said her main goals include continuing effective implementation of the new state educational standards.
"We need to get to a place where we are really living and breathing the Common Core every day," she said. "Where our students are actually learning differently, and they're learning in different ways and they're learning different material. We've got to be preparing our kids for what's out there in the global community, and have them be prepared to go and enter that."
She added, "My goal is to provide opportunities for teachers to learn new ways and then the support that they need to implement that."
Wondolowski said she'll also focus on encouraging growth for students at all levels by "supporting our lower students and bringing them up to our expected level, pushing our middle students to strive to be the best that they can be, and really challenging and having the rigor for our top-end students."
As for significant challenges, she said she doesn't really foresee any at the outset of her tenure.
"Normally, when a principal comes in, the challenge is to learn the school, and I feel like I know the school. And I feel like we can keep things moving without this transition causing any hiccups in the progress that we were making," Wondolowski added.
"I feel just really thankful to have the support that I have here, and I think I'm very fortunate to be able to step into this position at a school I know with staff that I believe supports me," she said. "It absolutely feels like the right fit for me."


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Angels, Yanks ready with an eye on sky
With rain in the forecast Saturday, ALCS may be delayed
By Mike Bauman / MLB.com
"If the rain comes,
They run and hide their head.
They might as well be dead ..."
That, of course, is "Rain," yet another composition credited to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, although the lyrical flavor is much more Lennon than McCartney.
The weather or a discussion of how bad the weather might become is dominating the first weekend of play between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Yankee Stadium. The forecast for Game 1 on Friday night included cold and windy conditions accompanied by precipitation. It was cold and windy, but the amount of precipitation was thankfully small and completely manageable.
It wasn't an ideal night for baseball, but at this latitude in mid-October, how many nights actually are? Still, the forecast for Game 2 on Saturday night was considerably worse. It was not as bad as the forecast that God gave Noah, but it was not a good baseball forecast, with a 90 percent chance of precipitation, and a long, steady rainfall predicted.
So it was all relative. What looked like truly crummy weather on Friday night might have been the best baseball weather of the weekend.
If there is a postponement, Game 2 tickets would be good whenever it is played.
A postponement could wreak havoc with the delicate postseason television schedule, but this is not of particular personal concern to the vast majority of baseball fans. Now that the long-awaited postseason is finally here, people want to experience the daily rhythm of the thing, the hopes and dreams -- even when they are interspersed with the occasional crushing defeat. Rainouts don't give you much of that.
A postponement could work against the Yankees, because it could force them to jettison plans to pitch Game 1 winner CC Sabathia on three days' rest. The Angels' rotation plans would not be significantly altered, because they are going with a four-man rotation for this series.
The Yankees are on a roll, winning four consecutive postseason games. Would a rainout break their momentum? Manager Joe Girardi noted on Friday night that the Yankees had a significant layoff after their ALDS victory, but they came back and "played extremely well" in the ALCS opener. At least, Girardi said, one game had been played, and won.
In Game 1, the Yankees were better in the marginal climate than the Angels were. No matter what anybody says, logic would dictate that the team from New York would fare better in these conditions than the team from SoCal.
The Angels tried to diminish this factor, with mixed results. Manager Mike Scioscia suggested that mastering the weather was a question of mind over matter.
"I think that's what weather is, really, it's a distraction that needs to be filtered out," Scioscia said. "You need to go out there and bring your game onto the field under any circumstances, whether you're in a visiting ballpark or you're playing in a little drizzle or you're playing when it's cold or you're playing when the guys behind you maybe have missed a couple of plays."
The Angels' Game 2 starter, lefty Joe Saunders, a likable fellow who has gone 33-14 over the past two seasons, wanted to give testimony that he was acclimated to the cold weather.
"I grew up in Washington, D.C., I pitched at Virginia Tech for a long time," Saunders said. "The cold weather, I'm used to it."
No, Joe, with all due respect, you didn't find out about the cold growing up in Washington, D.C., and going to college at Virginia Tech. If you had grown up in International Falls, Minn., and then attended Bemidji State University, you would really know something about cold weather. The District of Columbia, that is in the low Minors of coldness.
But Saunders said something very good on the subject of playing baseball in bad weather: "For me, it's just another bad day, but a great day to play baseball."
That is well said. In fact, that is something that we might be able to turn into a slogan for postseason baseball, particularly as October turns into November.
As the postseason moves ever closer to winter, this issue will not be disappearing from our, you know, radar maps.
For the moment, the richly anticipated ALCS between the two teams with the best records in baseball is threatened by a bleak, grim, damp, soggy, heartless weather forecast. But the thing is, everybody who lives north of the old Confederacy knows that the weather could be a lot worse than this.
Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Here are some of the notable quotes from around Major League Baseball this week:
"I know you probably think I'm a little bit different. But [Australia is] not that much different. It's pretty similar to the States. Pretty much my dad and I were walking around one day in a park and saw the game being played. It was T-ball actually."
-- Grant Balfour, Tampa Bay pitcher, about how life in Australia isn't that different from the United States and his introduction to baseball. (Raysbaseball.com)
"It's great. He's an amazing hitter. He can help any offense out, no doubt about it. I'm glad to have him here. He puts up some amazing power numbers. You know he's going to hit some home runs, and he brings us some excitement to the game as well."
-- Chris Young, Arizona center fielder, commenting after the Diamondbacks acquired outfielder Adam Dunn from the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday. (dbacks.com)
"He consistently comes out and pitches like you would expect a veteran to. It's not like he has a chip on his shoulder, but there's a little bit of that. He's been working so hard that many of us thought he should have been here already. He's fun to watch. The demeanor of a knuckleballer is so laid back. They just go at it, slicing and dicing."
-- Boston's Justin Masterson commenting on Charlie Zink, who was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket to take the spot of injured pitcher Tim Wakefield. (Boston Herald)
"I've never felt this good in my career at the plate. I believed I was going to help [the team] to make a comeback and do the best for the team, but now I'm out."
-- Carlos Lee after suffering a broken left pinky Saturday night. The injury required surgery from which it will take Lee six-to-eight weeks to recover. (Astros.com)
"If all goes well, hopefully I'll be there soon. My arm is feeling great, but I need to throw innings."
-- Newly signed Detroit pitcher Freddy Garcia, who hopes to be able to help the Tigers in 2009, if not by the end of this season. (Detroit News)
"I'm not there yet, but I feel like I can be. It's just a matter of me doing it. I want to be that guy to go eight and possibly complete the game."
-- John Danks, Chicago White Sox pitcher, expressing his desire to be a pitcher that can regularly go deep into games. (Chicago Tribune)
"I couldn't even feel my legs. I was floating."
-- White Sox rookie Chris Getz after getting his first Major League hit on Tuesday night. (Chicago Tribune)
"I got something that just came about so unexpectedly. It was something I never thought I'd get a chance to do -- play in the Olympics, represent my country and win gold."
-- Ryan Franklin, Cardinals pitcher, who was a part of the gold-medal-winning United States Olympic baseball team at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
"It'd be great. What day did [Lou Piniella] say? Sunday? It'll be hot."
-- Jeff Samardzija, Chicago Cubs pitcher, on the possibility that he may make his first Major League start on Sunday. (MLB.com)
"It's an indescribable feeling. I literally had no words, no thoughts going through my head -- just, 'Holy cow!' It didn't start sinking in until he told me to go home and start packing. When I started looking at all my stuff and actually packed my bags, my heart started to race a little bit."
-- Rookie outfielder Chris Dickerson, who had a hit in four at-bats in his debut on Tuesday, on being called up to play for the Reds. (MLB.com)
"I feel a lot more comfortable up there at the plate. I'm not saying I'm perfect by any means, but I feel a lot more confident, yes."
-- Adam Everett, Twins shortstop, on his increasingly high level of comfort at the plate. (MLB.com)
"I've got to pitch either way, so it's not really relevant how I feel. If it's 50 percent, I'll go out there. It's a lot better now than it was."
-- Scott Olsen, Marlins pitcher, announcing his intention make his start against the Cardinals despite a sprained ankle that keeps him from doing normal between-start running. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
"Garrett has shown flashes of brilliance. Whether he ends up a third starter, a fourth starter or in the bullpen, he has quality Major League stuff, and he'll keep getting better."
-- Nationals general manager Jim Bowden on pitcher Garrett Mock. (Washington Post)
"It's always pretty fun when you walk the Dodgers off the field. They've done it to us a lot in the past. They did it to us in '04 [to knock the Giants out of the playoffs]. It was kind of good to give it back to them. This was a big series for us to keep our confidence going. Obviously, for those guys in contention, if they're going to do it, they're going to have to go through us. We're going to have to push them."
-- Pitcher Matt Cain on the Giants' second walk-off win in two days against the Dodgers. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Jose is gaining experience every day and doing a good job now, and sometimes young talent without experience outplays veteran talent with experience just with stuff. You have to be in tune with that, also. Jose doesn't have a lot of experience, but his stuff is electric, and in every situation, he's done a good job."
-- Angels manager Mike Scioscia on rookie reliever Jose Arredondo. (Los Angeles Times)
"The difference that I see in Felix now is, tonight, he clearly didn't have his best stuff, and he's still into the eighth inning. He didn't try to strike everybody out. He was pitching to contact, for sure. So, a legitimate ace."
-- Raul Ibanez of the Mariners on the pitching efforts of Felix Hernandez. (Seattle Times)
"It's going to be good. He's a guy that produces a lot of runs, he draws some walks and has a good on-base percentage. I don't know where they're going to stick him, but wherever it is, he's going to do some damage."
-- Brandon Webb, describing his feeling about the Diamondbacks trading for Adam Dunn from Cincinnati. (dbacks.com)
"Wow. Maybe I should just listen to [Roy] Oswalt and have it cut off."
-- Carlos Lee joking about his fractured left pinky before surgery Monday when told about the extent of the damage to the finger. (Houston Chronicle)
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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We're excited about hosting the Columbus premiere of the terrific new documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, about the legendary Memphis band and its short, but wildly influential, career.
To get you ready for our two nights of screenings, we've put together a Big Star prize package perfect for the longtime fan or someone who's just dipping their ears in the Big Star waters. Just fill out this form (it'll be quick and painless) and you'll be entered to win a copy of the 33 1/3 book Radio City by Bruce Eaton, the film's theatrical poster, a pair of tickets to one of our screenings, and a copy of the film's soundtrack on vinyl (featuring previously unissued versions of classic Big Star songs). The contest deadline is Thursday, August 8 at 3 pm. We'll notify the winner by email.
And don't forget that the Big Star celebration continues after the Friday screening with a tribute show at the Tree Bar featuring Columbus musicians playing their—and your—favorite Big Star songs. Details on the lineup here.
Thanks, good luck, and if you want to be sure you get tickets for the screenings, reserve yours now.


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Ken Bailey, city building inspector, stood near a merry-go-round in the shade of a 100-foot tall oak tree in Tontitown's Harry Sbanotto Park. A ring of dirt and dead grass circles the century-old tree.
"That's where the path starts," said Bailey, pointing to a strip of dead grass that extends to the next large tree, the next and the one after that.
The dead spots on the ground come from a high-strength herbicide called Spike 80DF. The Arkansas State Plant Board determined the herbicide's identity after the city sent pellet samples to the board. Bailey and other town officials believe someone dumped several pounds of Spike at the base of most of the park's trees during the fall or winter. When the spring rain came, the ground soaked up the herbicide and delivered to the trees' roots a deadly chemical.
Trees can be easily infected because most roots are no further than 4 or 5 inches underground, said David Blackburn, agriculture program coordinator for the Arkansas State Plant Board.
"Once it's in the tree's system, it's just a matter of time before a tree dies," Blackburn said.
Piles of white pellets litter the ground where the herbicide didn't dissolve.
Spike was used to poison 130-year-old oak trees near Auburn University last year in an act that may have been motivated by a sports rivalry between Auburn and the University of Alabama.
Blackburn said many of Tontitown's oak trees are also more than 100 years old, and like Auburn's, they will likely die.
The vandals also dumped pellets in the park's flower beds.
"I just can't believe someone could do that," Blackburn said.
City officials will wait to see if the trees make a miraculous recovery before giving up on the old oaks, Bailey said.
"If they don't snap back next spring, it's over," he said.
Many of the leaves are turning brown and falling to the ground.
The city will have to remove the trees and plant new ones, robbing the park of the shade and natural scenery the patch of land has had since the town was founded in 1898. The project could cost upward of $70,000, not counting how much it would cost to replace the poisoned dirt, Bailey said.
He said it may take a few lifetimes before the park returns to a similar landscape.
Purchasing and spreading the pellets took a level of money, effort and time that showed a measured premeditation, Blackburn said.
Alderman Henry Piazza said he couldn't think of any possible motivation for the crime. Parents often bring their children to the park. Workers eat their lunches underneath the high-hanging branches.
"I don't know who they were trying to hurt," Piazza said. "They hurt the community."
Debbie Mewell sometimes strolls through the park before attending services at nearby Truth Tabernacle Church. She said the park just won't be the same without the trees that follow the walking path.
"Why in the world would someone want to kill the trees?" she said last week. "It's very sad."
Bailey filed a police report in May with the Washington County Sheriff's Office. He's not sure the perpetrators will be caught. Spike can be bought over-the-counter, making tracing purchases difficult, he said.
The police report lists the crime as first-degree criminal mischief, a felony when there is more than $500 in damages.
Police have eliminated several suspects and do not have any witnesses, said Sgt. Josh McConnell with the Sheriff's Office. He said covering the area probably took about 70 pounds of pellets.
Bailey walked the park's path last week, pointing out the dead patches of grass. A man played basketball in the summer heat. Swings, slides and park benches dot the landscape that now represents both the innocence of children playing and the tragic deviousness of whoever chose to kill the trees of Harry Sbanotto Park, Bailey said.
"They knew how to kill them," Bailey said as he trudged through dead leaves on the ground. "It's just a shame."


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CARSON, Calif. – LA Galaxy defender Tommy Meyer has seen the impressive crowds at CenturyLink Field up close, having served as an unused substitute in both LA defeats this season, but on Sunday, the rookie will truly experience their ferocity from the Galaxy starting XI.
OnSunday in the Western Conference Championship Second Leg, Meyer will start alongside fellow center back and backline leader Omar Gonzalez as the Galaxy look to advance to advance to their third MLS Cup Final in four years. Although Meyer has seen the crowd at CenturyLink, he's excited about the prospect of stepping onto the field on Sunday, in front of the largest crowd that he's ever played in front of.
"It something that I look forward to," said Meyer. "You always want to play in front of a crowd like that and it kind of gets you going. It'll be a fun environment to play in."
Although the noise is deafening from the outside, Meyer attests that he does a good job of tuning out the crowd.
"I don't really hear anything; I'm just focused on the game," said Meyer. "Everything tunes out when the game starts."
While the atmosphere promises to be a festive one off the field, but LA understand that it will be a battle on the field as Seattle look to erase a three goal deficit after falling in the first leg at The Home Center. For Seattle to overturn the deficit at home, head coach Sigi Schmid will need greater production from forward Fredy Montero, who was a non-factor in the first leg in large part due to Meyer.
During the first leg, Meyer and Omar Gonzalez stifled Sounders FC's all-time leading goal scorer through consistent pressure, holding the Colombian to a single attempt at goal—a shot from 35-yards-out in the 16th minute that was blocked by Galaxy right back Sean Franklin. For LA to continue to keep Montero under wraps in the second leg, Meyer believes that the Galaxy must follow the same game plan.
"Obviously, we have to do the same way that we did last game, win steps to him and stay tight," said Meyer. "[Gonzalez and I] are good at covering each other just like we've been doing for last two games."
Although the crowd and a motivated Sounders FC will provide a stiff test for the rookie, Franklin and the rest of the Galaxy have confidence that Meyer can help LA silence Seattle.
"Earlier this year, he was not playing many games, so [he didn't] have a lot of confidence, but by getting in the rotation more, you can tell that he's playing with more confidence," said Franklin. "He has no fear out there, he's not afraid to make mistakes and if he does, he forgets about it and goes to the next play and he can tell you that he's growing as a player."


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Reds give Prior another shot at big league return
Baker helps his former phenom join Cincinnati, sign Minor League deal
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Former Cubs pitcher Mark Prior was willing to exhaust any and all avenues to continue a long and arduous comeback from shoulder surgery. Recently, that included placing a phone call to his former manager, Dusty Baker, to ask for a chance.
Prior's wish was granted Friday when he passed a physical and signed a Minor League contract with the Reds. The deal did not include an invite to big league camp and the 32-year-old right-hander reported to Spring Training with the much younger Reds Minor League pitchers and catchers.
"It's always good to be affiliated with somebody, no matter if the status is Major or Minor League," Prior told MLB.com. "I have to prove that I can pitch and win a job. I know the road ahead of me, but it's an opportunity. You don't know how many more you're going to get. "
Prior has not pitched in the Majors since 2006 and had reconstructive shoulder surgery in '07. He did not throw a baseball competitively for the next three years.
The last three seasons have been spent pitching in the Minors or independent leagues, including in the Rangers, Yankees and Red Sox organizations. Last season at Triple-A Pawtucket, Prior had a 3.96 ERA in 19 relief appearances.
"I don't necessarily feel like a martyr or something because I've worked hard and I should be paid with an opportunity, but I'm grateful for it," Prior said. "I don't take it for granted. I'll do everything I can to go out and perform and try for a spot. I enjoy competing, first and foremost. It's always a joy to go out and compete. I'm going to take it day by day. I know that's a cliche, but it's literal for me. I really do have to take it day by day. I was in San Diego without a job on Tuesday and I'm here today."
While pitching for Baker on the Cubs in 2003, Prior was a 22-year-old phenom and All Star who went 18-6 with a 2.43 ERA in 30 starts and 211 1/3 innings. He also led the Majors in pitch-count average with 113.4 in the regular season and 124.3 in that year's postseason.
Baker is keenly aware of the criticism he's gotten over the years regarding his handling of Prior and accusations of overuse. To put it succinctly, many blame Baker for wrecking Prior's career.
Therefore, Baker expected that Friday's news would be an eyebrow raiser around baseball.
"It's going to open old wounds," Baker said. "I told him, 'You know it's going to cause a big story.' I don't care. It's how I feel about the man."
Some Cubs fans never forgave Baker for what happened to Prior, the No. 2 overall Draft pick in 2001, but a grudge never was held personally by Prior. The two have remained friends over the years as Baker eventually moved on to Cincinnati in '08 and Prior kept rehabilitating.
"I have an open and good relationship with Dusty. I hold no ill will against him," Prior said. "By no means do I think it was his fault with how my career has gone. It's no one's fault. I had a good career, I've enjoyed my time playing baseball, I don't feel like I'm done and I still feel like I can make a difference.
"Things happened under his watch that he probably gets unfairly blamed for, like any manager. For me, he's managing his big league team, I'm down here in the Minor Leagues, just working my way, and if I get called up, great. I enjoyed my time with him in Chicago and I'm sure I'd enjoy my time with him now. It's been 10 years and I don't dwell on all that. It's pointless to. I know it's a big deal to a lot of people, but it's a non-issue for me in so many ways."
The bad luck began in 2004, when Prior was limited to 21 starts because of an Achilles tendon injury and a line drive off of his arm in May 2005 broke his right elbow. A strained shoulder marred much of the '06 season, and left him with a 1-6 record and 7.22 ERA in only nine starts. It was the same season that current Reds reliever Sean Marshall broke in with Chicago.
"That's when he was freshly injured with his shoulder," Marshall said. "I was talking with him today. I hadn't seen him for a couple of years and he's been with a couple of different teams. He's exhausting his opportunities and it's good he's still out there. If he makes it up, it would be good."
In April 2007, Prior had massive reconstructive surgery on his right shoulder to repair a torn labrum, rotator cuff and anterior capsule. Baker always felt the blame on him was unfair.
"There's no manager around that doesn't have somebody that has gotten seriously hurt," Baker said Friday. "The more you manage, the more the chance you have guys [who get hurt]. It's like [the blame that] I got Kerry Wood [hurt]. He had Tommy John [surgery] already and pitched six, seven years after."
Prior and Baker remained in touch with occasional phone calls and their wives also kept in contact via email. Updates about children often came up, but baseball? Not so much.
"He never had asked me for anything," Baker said.
Finally, Prior did ask for a shot with the Reds.
"I said 'I would try to make the opportunity available to you,'" Baker said.
Baker brought up Prior to general manager Walt Jocketty, who approved the signing. The manager has admired Prior's efforts to stay in the game and keep trying.
"If I hadn't, I wouldn't have fought to give him the opportunity," Baker said. "I talked to Walt about it. We discussed it. You know all the stuff is going to come up. Walt had no problem with it and I had no problem with it."
"Hopefully it turns out positive for both sides," Prior said. "They're taking a chance like the Red Sox and Yankees before them took chances. If everything goes well, hopefully it gives them a huge plus. Hopefully I can make it back and do that."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. Doug Miller contributed to this article. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The event, sponsored by MANA de Orange County, a Latina advocacy and leadership group, will include experts and an author on human trafficking.
Among the speakers is David S. McCabe, author of "Without Sin," a novel about a sex-trafficking ring in the Oceanside area.
McCabe will appear on a panel moderated by Kim Salter, NOW OC representative on the OC Human Trafficking task force. Other participants are Virginia Isaias of the Human Trafficking Survivors' Foundation; Juanita Lopez, who will speak about domestic violence; and Dr. Ana Nogales, Casa de la Familia psychologist and author.
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FICO: No End in Sight for Rising Student Loan Delinquency Rates
A new report from FICO Labs states U.S. student loan delinquency rates climbed by nearly 22% in the past five years.
The delinquency rate on student loans originated from 2005 to 2007 is 12.4%, while the delinquency rate on student loans originated from 2010 to 2012 is 15.1%, FICO said.
The research, which FICO said was based on an examination of 10 million consumer credit files in 2012, also revealed the average amount of U.S. student loan debt increased by 58% from 2005 to 2012 — $17,233 to $27,253 — while average U.S. credit card and auto loan debt amounts declined.
Additionally, in a quarterly survey conducted by FICO in December 2012, nearly 60% of responding bank risk managers said they expected student loan delinquencies to increase over the next six months and delinquencies on all other types of consumer loans to decrease over the next six months.
"This situation is simply unsustainable and we're already suffering the consequences," said Andrew Jennings, chief analytics officer for FICO and head of FICO Labs. "When wage growth is slow and jobs are not as plentiful as they once were, it is impossible for individuals to continue taking out ever-larger student loans without greatly increasing the risk of default. There is no way around that harsh reality."
Paralleling FICO's findings is an article in Raddon Financial Group's Raddon Report, which states that while student loan delinquency and default rates are mounting, partially because of an official unemployment rate of 7.8%, the demand for student loans is robust in comparison to other loans.
"The largest banks have recognized the importance of Gen Y (the current generation that attends college) and have made significant inroads with this group, due to both locational convenience and technology," said author Pat Bator, a senior market and product development analyst for Raddon Financial Group. "What this suggests is that the college-age consumer should not be abandoned, but student lending should be engaged in with great caution."


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Cabral Melo Neto was born to a distinguished family of landowners. He had a brief stint as a public servant before he moved in 1940 to Rio de Janeiro. In 1942 he published his first collection of poems, Pedra do sono ("Stone of Sleep"). Although his early work was marked by Surrealist and Cubist influences, his collection O engenheiro (1945; "The Engineer") revealed him as a leading voice of the "Generation of '45," post-World War II poets notable for their austere style. In 1945 Cabral he joined the Brazilian diplomatic service and served in posts on four continents until his retirement in 1990. His poetry, however, was most influenced by his experience of Spain, and especially by the cities Sevilla (Seville) and Barcelona.
Cabral Melo Neto gained widespread popularity with Morte e vida Severina (1955; "Death and Life of a Severino"), a dramatic poem that made use of literatura de cordel, a popular narrative in verse. It was published in Duas águas, one of his more than 30 books of poetry. He was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1968, the year that his Poesias Completascompletas was published.
Cabral Melo Neto received a number of honours and awards, including Portugal's prestigious Camões Prize (1990) and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1992). When he became virtually blind in 1994, Cabral he ceased writing poetry, being unable, he said, to separate his art from visual perception.


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The EditoriaList is the devious brainchild of one Scott Janovitz, who will use this space to summarize, in convenient list form, the best and worst of whatever occurs to him. Anything related to music, anyway. Janovitz claims to be a Boston-based writer, music producer and award-winning singer and songwriter, but according to the research we can piece together is more likely a petty thief. He is highly opinionated but will begrudgingly listen to those who disagree with him in order to explain to them why they are wrong.
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10. Light of Day (1987)
Who in 1987 wasn't waiting for the Michael J. Fox – Joan Jett big screen pairing? The only question was what the vehicle would be. A rom-com? Sci-fi thriller? A Tango & Cash"esque buddy cop action-comedy? A Back to the Future sequel where Marty meets The Runaways in 1977? To everyone's surprise, what we got was an unexpectedly gritty family drama, centering on the relationship between brother and sister Joe and Patty (Fox and Jett), who perform together in a struggling E Street-esque bar band called The Barbusters. I have just told you the worst part of the movie. The Barbusters. This blow is softened by the appearance of the great Michael McKean as a band member"one of McKean's THREE appearances on this list.
Paul Schrader, writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, wrote and directed this film and in fact commissioned a song by Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen came back with Born In The U.S.A. but decided to keep that one for himself. Too bad, it could have been a hit. The Barbusters do a decent job with his alternate effort, the title song Light of Day." And, hey, look, Michael J. Fox can sing. This begs the question"what the hell, Robert Zemeckis? The idea it's Fox' voice singing Johnny B. Goode in Back to the Future is the least credible part of a movie about a time traveling DeLorean that runs on plutonium.
9. 8 Mile (2002)
Everyone said Eminem was basically playing himself in this film about an aspiring rapper from Detroit with a fucked-up mom and few prospects aside from an innate and unique lyrical flow. But it's a mistake to go into this thinking it's the Eminem Story. Em and director Curtis Hanson wisely keep Em's character B-Rabbit sullen and low-key. The rapper is not a great actor, but he plays this one just right, with visibly crippling insecurity and remarkably restrained rage. The cleverness of the impromptu rhymes staged on street corners and at club battles are just short of believable, but (spoiler alert) at the end, when B-Rabbit destroys all comers with Eminem's signature delivery, disbelief is easily suspended. Eminem won an Oscar for the great lead song Lose Yourself.


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The first thing they did was poll each other.
They said the words aloud: five for guilty, three for not.
It was 3:30 p.m. on the afternoon of Aug. 17, as jury deliberations began for the man accused of killing Millard County Sheriff's Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox in January 2010. If the decision had to be made right then, the eight jurors would have been deadlocked and Roberto Miramontes Román would have been retried.
Eight hours and 30 minutes later, everything changed.
In interviews with The Salt Lake Tribune this week, three jurors discussed the deliberations, mapping the path they took to a not-guilty verdict that drew criticism and prompted shock and anger across the state.
"We want to see killers go to jail just like the next person," said Gary Cooper, an Alpine realtor. "But in this particular case, all the stars kind of lined up to where quite possibly a murderer walks."
The origin of doubt • After the first straw poll, the five men and three women took some time to go over their own notes from the week-long trial in Spanish Fork, taking another look at the questions that had formed in their minds as they listened to officers and experts testify to events before and after Fox was killed.
When the forewoman, a recent Brigham Young University graduate named Nicole Kay, had everyone regroup, the confusion began.
"We thought we would go through the events chronologically and talk about if the evidence lined up with one narrative or another," she said. "That spawned into a million conversations."
A few jurors put on headphones and listened to Román's purported confession to police after his arrest on Jan. 6, 2010.
One man, who his fellow jurors would soon learn was a law student, examined the autopsy report and the diagram of Fox's wounds. He didn't believe the trajectory of the bullets as shown in the diagram matched the prosecution's story.
Already, doubts were beginning to bubble.
'Shredding' the evidence • At 5:30 p.m., the jurors took another poll, this time anonymously and to avoid pressure, though some were vocal about their positions.
The law student was the "loudest and most recalcitrant" juror, Kay said. "I don't know if he should have been on the jury," she said. "He presumed himself to be an expert on the law."
Jared Trent, the law student, was vocal early on about his belief that Román was not guilty. But he was not alone: A theater professor with "a very analytical mind" was "shredding the evidence," Kay said.
Trent said he and the professor "were fairly instrumental" in the not-guilty verdict. "I would say we were doubtful at the beginning. I wouldn't say we were definitely not guilty. But we had lot of problems with what we were getting."
In the end, their voices helped fell the jury's final holdout, resulting in acquittal.
"I've had friends tell me I'm now one of the most hated people in Utah," Trent said.
The brother's role • The result of the second poll was an even split. So the jury listened to the recordings of Fox and other deputies talking over the radio in the moments before her death.
Fox's sergeant, Rhett Kimball, has testified he saw two vehicles stop briefly on a rural road near the tiny settlement of McCornick. He ordered Fox to follow the Cadillac and gave her the go-ahead to make the traffic stop just outside of Delta.
"10-4," Fox said over the radio at 1 a.m. on Jan. 5. "I'll be over by the ballpark."
Ten minutes after those words, dashboard camera footage from Millard County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Peacock's car showed a sergeant bending over Fox's body in the dark of early morning.
The jurors wondered where Fox's footage was. The video would have made it open and shut, they said, not knowing the camera was broken at the time of the fatal stop.
"We wondered about a lot of evidence," Kay said. "We didn't have any evidence in the 10 minutes between when the drug deal happened and when Josie Fox was dead."
Where were Ryan Greathouse's phone records? Where was his account of that night? Jurors were not told that most of Ryan Greathouse's statement to police had been ruled inadmissible.
Greathouse, Fox's brother, had met with Román on the rural road in McCornick, where the two men smoked methamphetamine together, prosecutors said. Greathouse died months later of an overdose in a Las Vegas hotel room.
Why didn't the deputies immediately pull over Greathouse's truck as it left McCornick that night? Why hadn't they tested his DNA samples against other evidence?
"They had never gone to any sort of effort to eliminate him as a potential suspect," Trent said.
A compelling witness • The recording was bad and that "pissed me off," an exasperated Gary Cooper said.
Cooper, the realtor, is a former professional baseball player who had never served on a jury. After five days of testimony, he walked into the jury room "80 or 90 percent" sure Román was guilty. "But there were question marks," he said.
The lynchpin in the prosecution's case was Román's own words to police at the Beaver County Sheriff's Office after his arrest.
Cooper listened as two detectives testified that Román confessed to becoming upset when Fox started following him, then grabbing the AK-47 Greathouse had given him to help settle a drug debt and firing it out the window, over his shoulder, killing the deputy.
Cooper believed them, but the audio of the interview was bad.
Beaver County officials had put the microphone near an air vent, making the recording inaudible in many parts and the transcript spotty. A couple of jurors "tried to read into what's really happening. Did he get led down a road [to confession]?" Cooper said. "It's so subjective."
Trent and other jurors focused on Román's discussion with police or lack thereof about Greathouse.
During the trial, Román took the witness stand in his own defense. He testified that it was Greathouse who shot Fox, and that Greathouse had threatened Román's children if he did not take the fall for the killing. If Greathouse really had threatened Román into being the fall guy, maybe the story fit, Trent said.
"Going through the confession, some of the parts we could make out, it seemed to indicate that he was denying any knowledge of Ryan Greathouse," he said. "Why would he say he didn't know who Ryan was? Why would he make up that he was smoking meth with a stranger? That lent some credence to his testimony."
Jurors discussed Román's conflicting statements.
Román was "very compelling," Cooper said. "I'm not saying he wasn't lying. I'm saying he did a phenomenal job. If he's lying, he could have won an Emmy or a Grammy or an Oscar or whatever."
What is reasonable doubt? • At 8:30 p.m., there was another anonymous poll.
Now there were five for not guilty.
Others on the jury had experience with firearms and questioned the prosecution's account of the shooting. The jury spent a lot of time "speculating about different theories," Kay said.
Most of the discussions were friendly, but Trent said he felt they took racist turns at times. Someone made a joke about "any time you have a chance to put a Mexican away you should take it," Trent said. "One of the jurors would read Roberto's testimony with a Mexican accent. … That got me up a little more and made it a little more heated."
After the 8:30 poll, Kay wrote to 4th District Judge Donald Eyre, asking him how long they should go if they could not reach a unanimous decision. He wrote back and encouraged them to stay as long as they were making progress.
Throughout the deliberations, Cooper was a "peacemaker," someone who was working toward consensus, Kay said.
For Cooper, it was a "coin flip." Even if Román hadn't pulled the trigger, Cooper thought, he was a bad guy a drug dealer, a drug user, a man with a gun he shouldn't have had, who could have stopped a cop's murder.
"I would have had no problem [voting] guilty and sending him to prison for a long, long, long time. I can sleep with that," Cooper said. "But I told the rest of them, 'If you guys in your minds … at the end of the day are hung up on beyond a reasonable doubt, then not guilty.' "
Some in the room said that eight hours of disagreement was proof enough of reasonable doubt. Kay said she was looking for "one piece of key evidence" to help push her toward finality.
"If you feel like you need something more, that's the reasonable doubt," Trent said. "I certainly don't want at any point to let a cop killer go, but it was frustrating. We just felt like there was stuff we needed that we didn't have."
But even now Cooper is unsure about reasonable doubt. What does it mean? he asks, calling it "bad verbiage." The former BYU baseball player puts it this way: "I know there's a God. Have I ever seen Him? No. If I had to say beyond a reasonable doubt [is there a possibility God doesn't exist]? Yeah, there's a possibility."
The holdout • At 10:30 p.m., the judge wrote to the jurors, asking about progress. At that moment, there were seven for not guilty. And then there was Nicole Kay.
Throughout the deliberations, Kay had worked through the evidence that had been spread over the long wooden table in the small jury room.
From time to time, she looked out one of the room's two windows, onto a lawn where she saw the Greathouse family waiting.
"There were several times I thought how the verdict would affect them," she said.
Over the last 30 minutes of the night, the civility that had marked deliberations was worn down by exhaustion and desperation.
Everyone wanted to go home.
The law student said they had stayed so long he was worried about an older juror driving home safely to Payson, according to Kay.
No one was excited about returning Saturday to deliberate.
"There was a lot of interpersonal pressure," Kay said. "There was intense pressure for me to conform and I wish I would have stayed strong and said we weren't ready."
As the pressure built, Cooper spoke with Kay.
"I said, 'I did the best I could with the evidence I was presented,' " he recalled. "The part that allows me to sleep at night is I believe there's a higher power, God if you will, that will ultimately reconcile the error that we're going to make on this decision if we make an error. The ultimate judgment is going to be made by a higher power."
Disappointment, regrets • Just after 11 p.m., the crowd that had waited around the Spanish Fork Courthouse all night filed back in the courtroom. Kay handed the verdict form to the bailiff, who walked it to the judge.
The verdict was read: "Not guilty."
"We all felt the disappointment," Kay said.
Eyre asked if either side would like the jury polled. After a moment of confusion, one of the prosecutors said yes. One by one, the eight jurors were asked if that was their verdict and one by one, they said yes.
"There was a moment when I thought, 'What would happen if I said no?' " Kay said. "'No. I think he's guilty. I'm sorry. I know we want to go home, but we're not decided on this.' "
Instead she watched Deputy Millard County Attorney Pat Finlinson put his head between his hands.
"The utter disappointment and deflation of a man who's been working on something for 2½ years and it's gone in a second," Kay said. "I saw her family crying and they wouldn't look into our eyes. It was awful."
Said Cooper: "I saw more hurt in [Finlinson's] face then I've ever seen in an adult male's face. It broke my heart."
The jurors walked down the stairs, past TV cameras.
"I felt sick to my stomach," Cooper said, "and I had far less confidence in the process than I had going in."
He wasn't the only one.
"The next morning I woke up and just wished we were going to the courthouse with refreshed minds to look at it," Kay said.
She can't say for sure if the verdict would have changed. But she's awakened each morning since filled with regret, and has spent part of each day crying as those eight hours replay in her mind.


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The City Council on Monday officially designated land along Weatherred Drive as a neighborhood park and named it Durham Park, in honor of W.R. Durham and his daughter, Jessie. W.R. Durham began operating a farm in 1910 in the area that contains the park, and Jessie Durham inherited the farm house when her father died. She also operated a shop on Main Street where she started the first library in Richardson in the back of her store.
The Durhams sold all of the land except one acre to a developer in 1954. Their land became the site of the Heights neighborhood and Richardson Heights Shopping Center as the City grew rapidly in the 1950s. Members of the Durham family still live in Richardson and attended Monday's City Council meeting, where they were recognized for their contributions to the City.
Construction of the $1.5 million park, which is funded through the 2010 Bond Program, began in December and is expected to be complete in May. The new park will be located on four contiguous lots from 400 to 406 S. Weatherrred Dr. and will include a playground, pavilion, plaza, open play lawn and butterfly garden. Some of the features will include bricks from the four homes that were demolished to make room for the park.
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Other than Bosh, its better (competitively speaking) for everyone else to stay with their current teams. This team has been gutted and whoever signs here has to accept either a 1 or 2 year period of just being a middle of the pack team before any MAJOR improvement happens.
Any big name FA who signs here will be criticized for it. It just sucks for us that the players we are targeting are already in winning situations. I truly believe Crawford will be instrumental in persuading JJ to stay put.
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State-of-the-Art Engineering. The unique cocking cam system on Kahr pistols provides a trigger stroke unsurpassed in smoothness even by custom pistols. The patented, offset recoil lug design - which puts the shooter's hand close to the centerline of the bore - and the ergonomically designed, grip provides comfort and control comparable to full-sized handguns. And the Elite 2003's low-profile bar-dot sights are easy to see, yet virtually snag-free.
All Stainless Steel Construction. Kahr's patented computer-aided designs are carried out in all stainless steel quality with computer-machined precision to give you defensive firearms you can carry with confidence. All Kahr pistols are U.S.-made for outstanding performance and long-lasting reliability.
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Pioneer corn breeders analyze why products yield better under drought stress
Results from actual on-farm trials in 2011 show Optimum® AQUAmaxTM corn hybrids from DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred provide a yield advantage for growers over competitive hybrids in water-limited environments as well as under more favorable growing conditions.
Field evaluations of the Optimum AQUAmax hybrids also are providing Pioneer corn breeders with an improved understanding of why these products perform better in drought conditions, giving researchers greater confidence as they move forward to develop still better products for producers.
Speaking at a press briefing at the Commodity Classic, Jeff Schussler, Pioneer senior research manager, said these research results show that Pioneer breeders have selected positive native traits to develop Optimum AQUAmax hybrids.
"It's very rewarding to see large-scale, on-farm field testing validate the performance of Optimum AQUAmax hybrids," Schussler says. "And we have begun to gather a solid understanding of the mechanisms of drought tolerance within these hybrids as we advance development of future Optimum AQUAmax hybrids."
Among almost 700 on-farm trials during the 2011 growing season, Optimum AQUAmax hybrids from Pioneer showed a 7.1 percent yield advantage on average over grower-selected checks within water-limited environments. In addition, the products offered top-end yield potential under more favorable growing conditions, providing a 3.4 percent average yield advantage over grower-selected checks in more than 7,000 comparisons.*
"The 2011 on-farm results showed that growers saw a performance advantage with Optimum AQUAmax hybrids," Schussler says.
Further study of Optimum AQUAmax hybrids shows the following advantages among these products compared to susceptible checks, demonstrating why they can yield better in drought conditions:
- Optimum AQUAmax hybrids show a clear advantage when drought stress occurs at flowering.
- The hybrids maintain a higher rate of photosynthesis during drought stress. This consistency can contribute to more consistent yields under stress.
- Optimum AQUAmax products exhibit traits which lead to reduced seasonal water use.
"There are many mechanisms that contribute to improved drought tolerance, and we're confident we're incorporating a broad base of native traits to deliver yield stability to our customers," Schussler says. "As we further understand what improves drought tolerance, Pioneer corn breeders can develop even better corn hybrids for growers."
"Our differentiated approach focuses on total product performance - enhancing yield performance during water deficits, agronomic stability under optimal water conditions, and the on-farm know-how to help manage water with the right product on the right acre," says Monica Patterson, marketing manager for Optimum AQUAmax hybrids.
Optimum AQUAmax hybrids are developed through Pioneer's proprietary Accelerated Yield Technology (AYTTM) system. This suite of tools, including molecular breeding techniques, allows research to rapidly scan and identify genes responsible for increasing yields and other beneficial traits. The AYT system allows Pioneer to bring products with key native genes to market faster. In 2011, the Pioneer research network included eight managed stress testing locations across the U.S. and Chile and more than 8,000 on-farm comparisons, product advancement tests and research trials.
"Drought is a complex issue and can affect crops differently depending on the geography and stress factors of each environment," Schussler says. "There is no single gene or 'silver bullet' solution for the drought complex. Managing crops in drought-stressed environments is critically important to achieving performance results, and Pioneer continues to partner with growers to offer the best management suggestions to help maximize profit while minimizing risk."
Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is the world's leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics, providing high-quality seeds to farmers in more than 90 countries. Pioneer provides agronomic support and services to help increase farmer productivity and profitability and strives to develop sustainable agricultural systems for people everywhere. Science with Service Delivering SuccessTM.
DuPont (NYSE: DD) has been bringing world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace in the form of innovative products, materials, and services since 1802. The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders, we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment. For additional information about DuPont and its commitment to inclusive innovation, please visit www.dupont.com.


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"No otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities in the United States ... shall solely by reason of his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
This Act now falls under the umbrella of the ADA.
The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) makes it unlawful to subject people to differential treatment based on race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex, (including pregnancy), familial status, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for military service, and mental or physical disability, including perceived disability and AIDS and HIV status. The LAD prohibits unlawful discrimination in employment, housing, places of public accommodation, credit, and business contracts. Not all of the foregoing prohibited bases for discrimination are protected in all of these areas of activity. For example, familial status is only protected with respect to housing.
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Just As We Suspected: Pirates Are Heroes
"You are being lied to about pirates," a HuffPo headline declares. They... they didn't talk like Charles Laughton? (Or Keith Richards?) No, he is talking about those nutty Somali pirates!
It is 2009 and the British Royal Navy is going after pirates. The Honourable East India Company will probably be re-founded by London merchants? These Somali pirates keep stealing ships and demanding ransoms and disrupting trade so obvs they are menaces who mut be stopped! But Johann Hari, writer for The Independent, sez maybe the pirates are not so bad! Because Somalia is basically the most failed state ever, and Europeans have been dumping nuclear waste all over the place and also stealing all the seafood. So the pirates originally started out as an unofficial coast guard, and now they've just branched out a bit.
The Somali Pirates are young capitalists, as their ransom riches dissolve the clan barriers that have caused generations of nation-destroying fighting among competing warlords. They're made up of former fishermen, who took to the seas a decade ago to protect their livelihoods as international thugs began stealing their food and dumping in their waters, and armed strongmen, who'd be engaging in yet more destructive inter-clan civil wars at home if they weren't out making money with piracy.
Also they are pirates, and we all know that pirates are very popular on the internet, like cats and bacon, so obviously they need our support.


text: Welcome to TenCate Geosynthetics Americas TenCate Geosynthetics is the global leader in geosynthetics. We offer progressive system solutions for world markets through our global brands, TenCate Mirafi®, TenCate Miragrid® and TenCate Geotube®. As the global leader, our geogrids and geotextiles are engineered with advanced application knowledge to meet project specifications for transportation construction, mechanically stabilized earth, erosion control, water and waste management, and shoreline protection/marine structure construction. TenCate Geosynthetics develops and produces materials that increase performance, reduce costs and enable people to achieve the unachievable. 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Read more TenCate Geosynthetics introduces carbon footprint calculator for water management In response to the increasing awareness of the positive environmental aspects of geosynthetics and geosystems, TenCate Geosynthetics – business unit Water & Environment – has developed the TenCate Geotube® carbon footprint calculator for use with dewatering and breakwater applications. This CO2 footprint calculator provides water management customers with background information on several sustainability aspects. Read more TenCate Geosynthetics Americas receives patent for GEOPORT TenCate is granted a Patent on their innovative rigid, mechanical GEOPORT filling system for TenCate Geotube® containers Within the geotextile tube industry, producing a strong and secure textile injection port system has always proved challenging. Both the sewn attachment and the final closing method of these ports have never been as durable as the textile tube itself. TenCate Geosynthetics Americas has developed a rigid, mechanical injection port system (known as Geoport) which virtually eliminates unwanted stress at this location. Read more TenCate Geosynthetics Americas completes first ever NTPEP on-site audit for Geosynthetics Reinforcement TenCate Geosynthetics announced that the TenCate Miragrid® XT geogrid product line has completed the first ever evaluation by the National Transportation Product Evaluation Program (NTPEP) which incorporated an on-site audit of the manufacturing facility. Read more TenCate Geosynthetics introduces case study video on global projects TenCate Geosynthetics Americas has developed a seven minute video clip "TenCate at Work Around the Globe", featuring several innovative TenCate projects around the globe. These projects illustrate several possibilities and applications using geotextile materials. 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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Embattled Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., left open the possibility he may exit his state's U.S. Senate race but maintained he still can win.
"I'm never going to say everything that could possibly happen," Akin told ABC News Wednesday. "I don't know the future, but I do know this: I know that the party voters took a look at our hearts, understood who we were, had a chance to meet us in many, many different ways and made a decision."
He said he was "uncomfortable" with the possibility of "party bosses" influencing who runs "as opposed to the election process."
Meanwhile, Akin's opponent, incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is using online ads linked to Twitter searches for hashtag #legitimaterape or Todd Akin, Politico reported.
"Don't let Todd Akin get elected. He thinks 'women can't get pregnant from #legitimaterape,'" McCaskill tweets, with a pitch for donations and a link to her Web Site. This follows Google search ads doing the same thing.
Akin has come under heavy criticism from not only women and Democrats but his own party for comments Sunday when asked if abortion should be legal in cases of rape.
"From what I understand from doctors, that's really rare," Akin said during the interview with a St. Louis television station. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Since Sunday, Akin recorded a television ad acknowledging he used "the wrong words in the wrong way" concerning rape and pregnancy, but remained defiant about remaining in the race.
Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan, have lined up to ask Akin to drop out.
Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman, asked Akin not to attend next week's party convention in Tampa, Fla.
Akin told ABC News he would honor Priebus' wishes but insisted he could still win his challenge to McCaskill and would remain in the race.
"We've given this a lot of thought. The fact is that over more than a year period of time, a number of us ran in this Republican primary. Each of us had our messages. I was outspent by a large amount in terms of media," he said. "And yet by standing on principle and putting politics aside and talking about the foundations of this country, the people of Missouri chose me to be their candidate."
The Republican Party's platform committee adopted a plank that calls for a constitutional amendment protecting "human life" but does not say if exceptions should be allowed in cases of rape and incest.
The plank, adopted Tuesday by the 112-member committee meeting in Tampa, Fla., says an "unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life that cannot be infringed."
The platform calls for legislation recognizing the rights of unborn children under the Constitution's 14th Amendment.
The Democratic National Committee quickly accused the GOP of adding an "Akin plank" to the platform.
Romney -- who says abortion should be illegal except in rape and incest cases -- said it was not unusual for the nominee to disagree with some parts of the party platform.


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HR leaders who are aiming to develop and maintain pay ranges can face a bit of a difficult dilemma; if the ranges are too narrow, the organization won't be able to reward long-tenured staff, nor high performers within the role. Too broad, and the pay ranges provide very little support for the compensation philosophy. And worst of all - having no ranges at all can lead to difficulty attracting top talent, or overpaying your current talent.
So, how can you set your pay ranges just right?
In this presentation, Mykkah Herner, a member of PayScale's compensation consulting team, will show you how to build ranges from a market-centered midpoint, and how to use market data to update or create market based pay ranges.
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