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Sales Recruiters: How to Hire Top Sales People
By: Landy Chase
Most of us are familiar with the Pareto Principle. More commonly known as the 80/20 rule, its basic premise is that 80% of any output will be generated by only 20% of the total input utilized.
If you have ever hired and managed sales people, you also know that the Pareto Principle holds true in sales recruitment. Twenty percent of the sales people really do produce eighty percent of the business. They also, by producing excellent results, get the lion's share of the promotions, job perks, clients, work satisfaction, and, of course, the income.
If 20% of the sales people produce 80% of the business, then the remaining 80% of new hires, collectively, make only 20% of the sales. The conclusion? 80% of all hiring decisions made involving salespeople are mistakes.
Sales Recruiting: Top Seller Traits
Obviously, when it comes to hiring top talent, you only want to recruit sales people who are either in the top 20% category already, or have the potential to get there. The question for sales recruiters that begs to be answered is this: what separates the high achievers from the mediocrity of the masses?
The Harvard Business School recently conducted an in-depth study in this area, and they found that top sellers possessed the following character traits:
- 100% acceptance of responsibility for results
- Above-average ambition and desire to succeed
- Above-average willpower and determination; self-discipline is a key;
- Intensely goal-oriented
- High level of customer empathy
- Impeccably honest
- Does not take "no" personally
- Has the ability to approach strangers, even when it is uncomfortable to them
The only problem with this data, of course, is that these traits are very difficult to ascertain in a job interview. How can you determine whether the smooth talker in front of you is a future star performer?
Most sales managers require a person to have industry experience as a prerequisite for the job. The translation of "experience required" is "we're too lazy to train you." Remember, product knowledge can be learned; soft skills count as well.
Employee motivation, on the other hand, comes from the heart. The self-discipline and desire to be the best isn't something that you can teach, cajole, or bribe. It is a part of the person's character, and if it isn't there, nothing you can say or do is going to produce results. So what you are looking for is a candidate who has a strong work ethic, has a burning desire to succeed, and will make the effort to become a valued, integral part of your work force.
Therefore, drop "experience" from your list of sales recruiting requirements and look for motivated people who can come into your organization and find an environment in which to excel.
Knowing Where to Find High Sales Achievers
Finding qualified candidates isn't difficult, if you know where to look:
– Go to where the high achievers congregate. Interview talk is cheap in candidate interviews. Everyone you interview will tell you that they have a great work ethic. To see it in action, you need to get out of the office. For example, go to your local Chamber of Commerce monthly breakfast meetings. Look around the room. You will find yourself surrounded by people who, by their very presence, are demonstrating a personal commitment to self-improvement.
In fact, any sales person who is in attendance at a 7 a.m. business breakfast for purposes of networking is demonstrating, clearly, that they are motivated to succeed. The same applies to public seminars on sales topics. Network diligently. When you meet someone who makes a strong first impression, ask for a business card. This will come in handy later.
- Ask clients for referrals. This referral group has the benefit of personal experience as the buyer. Ask your clients regularly if they have met any sales people who, through their professionalism and attention to detail, stand out from the crowd. There is no better measure of a sales person's performance than the way in which service their customer base.
- Build a database of salespeople. All sales managers have had "Warm Body Syndrome" — that sense of panic that prompts them to hire the next person who walks through the door. This is an act of desperation born of poor planning. This is where recruiting by networking in the community pays big dividends. By "redshirting" – building a database of salespeople that you met when you were not interviewing — you can have a stable full of candidates at the ready for a staffing emergency.
As the person making hiring decisions, it pays to remember that 80% of your organization's sales performance depends on your hiring skill. The other 20% is up to you.
Author Bio
Landy Chase, MBA, CSP, is an North Caroline-based expert who specializes in speaking to corporations and associations on advanced professional selling and sales management skills. His new book, Competitive Selling, was published by McGraw-Hill in July 2010. For more information visit his website at Landychase.com or call (877) 370-8026.


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Jerad Getter admits he and his staff at the Mills County Conservation Office are not only proud, but "pretty darn excited" about their new conservation and nature education building on the grounds of Pony Creek Park.
"We're thrilled to be in here and we're excited about getting the public out here," Getter said.
A new Mills County Attorney will be in place later this month.
Naeda Elliott, who's worked the past six years in Iowa City with the Johnson County Attorney's Office, has been selected by the Mills County Board of Supervisors to fill the position to replace Tricia McSorley, who resigned earlier this year to take a job with an Omaha insurance firm. Elliott, an Underwood native and University of Iowa graduate (undergraduate and law degree), was chosen from a pool of eight candidates.
Mills County is contracting with the Pottawattamie County Attorney's Office to provide interim county attorney services until the county can hire a permanent replacement.
The county has been without its full-time county attorney since April when Tricia McSorley resigned her post. James Burger, the assistant Mills County Attorney had assumed many of McSorley's duties but he too submitted his resignation earlier this month. Burger's last day is Friday.
The city of Glenwood is receiving two grants totaling $15,000 to assist with the start-up of the Glenwood Aquatic Center and city council members heard last Tuesday night how that money will be spent.
They also heard about pricing for the coming season, which is expected to begin about July 1 and last for half a normal season.
Mary Gunderson of the Glenwood Aquatic Center Committee made a presentation regarding the grants. One was for $10,000 from Ash Grove and the other was for $5,000 from Casey's, which is paying $1,000 per year.
The field of county candidates has been set for the June 7 primary election.
The Republican Party has candidates running for all three "county courthouse" positions on the ballot in the primary - auditor, sheriff and board of supervisors. There are no Democratic candidates seeking the county offices.
Incumbent county auditor Carol Robertson of Glenwood is running unopposed in the Republican primary, as is county sheriff Eugene Goos of Glenwood.
The Glenwood City Council approved its preliminary budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year following a 34-minute public hearing at City Hall last Tuesday, April 12.
City council members unanimously approved the $4.1 million budget, despite a projected shortfall of up to $300,000 in its general fund account.
Mills County is in the market for a new county attorney following the surprise resignation of Tricia McSorely.
Less than half way through the four-year term she was elected to serve in November 2014, McSorley has tendered her resignation to take a position with an insurance firm in Omaha. Her last day on the job will be April 22.
"It's a good move for my family," McSorley said. "It's a job opportunity that came up that I really couldn't pass up."
The Glenwood City Council will be asked to approve a budget next week with the understanding that the deficit in its general fund account will be prolonged for at least another year.
A public hearing for the 2017 fiscal year budget and a vote for council approval will take place Tuesday, April 12, 7 p.m., at City Hall.
The Mills County Board of Supervisors has approved the county's $18.5 million budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
Next year's county budget is up slightly from the 2015-2016 fiscal year, which ends June 30, but does reflect a second straight year of decline in the tax levy, from the current rate of 9.633319 (per taxable $1,000 valuation) to the proposed 9.40932 in rural areas of the county. Residents living in incorporated areas within the county would see their tax rate dip from 6.41855 to 6.19468.
It appears the Glenwood City Council is content on putting off the hiring of a new city administrator for at least six months while the services of an interim financial manager are utilized.
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The American Diabetes Association Diabetes Comfort Food Cookbook not only makes classic comfort foods healthier and diabetes friendly, it makes them a snap to prepare.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines has canceled dozens of flights as it scrambles to fix seats that could pop loose during flight.
The airline said Thursday that it has come up with a fix, and it began pulling planes out of service to make repairs.
Airline officials say the work will be done by Saturday.
Seats came loose on three recent flights involving planes that had been recently refurbished. Seats had been removed and reinstalled as part of the overhaul.
American inspected 48 planes earlier this week but returned them all to flying after fixing problems with seats on some of the planes — officials didn't have a precise number.


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My Favorite Demo 2012 Apps and Sites
Every year after Demo, I try to pick a few stand-out products.
My favorite group of products helps to bring you closer to your contacts by tying in with social networks. The one this year that really stood out to me was CallApp, which reveals more information about a phone number. It looks pretty simple to use and lets you see things like the insides of a restaurant or recent posts from others on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. I've used it a bit and so far, it looks pretty good.
Others in this area include LifeBeat and InTooch.
There were a couple of video applications I really liked.
Givit is an iPhone app that makes it easy to pick out the small snippets of video that you want to share and combine multiple clips with music to make really good-looking videos.
Another interesting solution, aimed at family users who have multiple accounts, is Vilynx. It has an interesting way of summarizing videos through a set of four thumbnail images.
I was fascinated by how many very specialized social networks there were at the show, most of which typically use mobile phones to manage social connections for a specific purpose.
Of these, two really shined. Apparent is an iPhone app for planning activities for your children.
RecBob for helping manage recreational sports teams.
I also think Social Bet's Youbetme, a mobile way of creating and tracking bets, could be fun.
Blipboard is a good way to discover interesting things that are around you, but it depends on finding a lot of your friends posting those links. It's a tough market in a world of Facebook and Foursquare, but if it catches on, it could be big.
I was impressed by a number of companies with solutions for managing cloud-based applications. Of these, the one that most stood out was AppEnsure, which offers an application-centric view of monitoring and provides a "heat map" showing where the issues are on your applications.
Tools from Nubefy and OmniCloud also look good.
In a world where lots of people are looking for work, I am interested in Barrel of Jobs, which gamifies the job recruiting process, promising to pay everyone along the chain who helps find a suitable candidate.
I like the idea of Flinja, a college-centric job-finding service built to connect alumni of particular college networks.
Of the various infrastructure products at the show, I am intrigued by the Eco-Green Data safe from H2Tran. This uses water-cooling to help reduce energy use and create a disaster-proof safe for standard rack mounted computers
For businesses, I also like the idea of Opal Brainstorms to help a group within a firm collect and harness the concept of brainstorming.
For some connecting with celebrities or similar kinds of businesses, I like how Oncam lets up to a dozen people to participate in a video chat while letting many more watch. I think small businesses or franchise operations might like Givingtrax, a cloud-hosted site for tracking business donations. Finally, everyone likes saving energy, so Greenqloud's idea of offering cloud-hosting at an Iceland location completely powered by geothermal and hydroelectric energy is certainly entertaining.


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Mr. Ford, your accusation of a vendetta is, to use your word, ridiculous. Toronto is entitled to straight answers to straight questions, and here are a few being asked in your city right now over this holiday weekend:
- Do you understand why this damning videotape requires a proper and thoughtful explanation?
- Have you ever smoked crack cocaine?
- How well do you know the men in the photograph that appeared on Friday's front page? Did you know the man who was subsequently shot dead?
- Did you refer to Justin Trudeau by a homosexual slur?
- Did you refer to your football team as f------ minorities?
- Will you call for a police investigation into these latest allegations?
So many questions. No real answers.
In what has become a long list of questionable incidents involving your behaviour, does it ever occur to you that you have a problem and it isn't the Toronto Star?
So to sum up: A decades-long record of fuckups, vulgarity, buffoonery, drunkenness, ignorance, racism, homophobia, entitlement, laziness, lawlessness, denials, lies, avoidance, playing the victim, blaming other people, paranoia, and above all, Zero Effort to Take Responsibility For His Own Behaviour. And then we have a substantial proportion of the electorate who excuse, identify with, and enable this, and even see it as evidence of leadership ability.
To paraphrase Michael Cooke: Does it ever occur to you, Toronto, that you have a bigger problem, and it isn't Mayor Crackhead?
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The predominantly Muslim nation of Egypt might be celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, but there's nothing peaceful about this year's spiritual fasting. Instead, Egypt is experiencing bloodshed on the streets in the aftermath of a military coup.
It has been two years since the Arab Spring transformed this Middle Eastern nation. Mass protests brought down President Hosni Mubarak, and Mohamed Morsi became the country's first democratically elected leader. Morsi and fellow members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement were unable to expand either Egypt's economy or political representation amongst minority factions -- and last week the military staged a coup d'état.
We can't categorize what took place in Cairo in any other terms. Using force to remove the ruling party and suspend the constitution, both of which the majority of Egyptians had voted in favor of, seems to fit the classic definition of a military coup.
The Obama Administration doesn't see the events in Egypt in the same light.
"There are millions of people on the ground who do not think it was a coup," said State Department press secretary Jen Psaki.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the administration still hasn't determined if the apparent coup d'état was indeed a coup, and that the U.S. will "take the time necessary to review what has taken place."
At stake is U.S. law that requires all non-humanitarian aid to be cut off for "the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup d'état or decree or, after the date of enactment of this act, a coup d'état or decree in which the military plays a decisive role."
Currently, the U.S. has committed $1.5 billion to Egypt for 2013. Approximately $1.3 billion of that is direct military assistance. If the coup is declared a coup, that money disappears. And the White House has stated cutting off funding to this long-time ally would not be in our "national security interests." In fact, the U.S. is preparing to deliver four F-16 fighter jets already promised as part of the 2010 aid package.
Not all of Washington favors the continuation of aid. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., all have called on President Barack Obama to cut off funding. While these long-term lawmakers might be in the minority, we support their position.
It is a position based on the law of the land.
"I don't believe it's in our security interests to go along with the overthrow of a democratically elected government," Levin said earlier this week.
We fully understand the precarious tightrope the president is walking. Egypt represents an extremely important strategic partner in the Middle East. And the Muslim Brotherhood is nowhere near our top choice in leading democratic reform in the volatile region.
But they were elected by the people. For the military there to override the results of the ballot by removing Morsi, arresting other party leaders, and gunning down their supporters in the streets does not speak well of the democratic process.
The U.S. message is equally conflicting: We support democracy, except when we don't like the results. That will be a tough sell for others we're attempting to influence.
Our foreign policy was much easier when we merely supported stability, not democracy. It led to the country being allies with a lot of thugs around the world. But we made the switch, and we need to be consistent.
And we also need to adhere to our own laws. If they need amending, so be it. But as it stands, we should not be sending arms or military assistance to Egypt. A coup is a coup. The White House and Congress need to uphold what previously has been negotiated.
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In addition to pressing numerous shirts, pants, suits and dresses, as well as delivering laundry and doing clothing alterations, Donna Rosiere had time to iron the wrinkles out of an American flag on Thursday. The flag will be given to a deceased veteran's family as part of a funeral.
"We do it to honor any veteran who served in a conflict," Rosiere said. "It looks nicer."
For the last eight years, Rosiere has ironed flags for bereaved families as a small token of gratitude for their loved ones' service to the country.
She receives orders from funeral homes in the county and a couple outside the county in Herington and Council Grove. She said she doesn't receive the names of the deceased veterans.
"When we receive the flags, they come folded up in little boxes," she said. "I let them sit out for a day to let the fabric breathe before I press them."
Before she irons a flag, she makes sure to lay a clean sheet on the ground as a sign of respect, so that when she drapes the flag over her ironing board, it never touches the ground.
She irons both sides. When she finishes a flag, she folds it just enough to hang it observing proper flag etiquette.
"When I was in fifth and sixth grade we learned how to raise and lower the flag at school," she said. "We also learned how to fold it. The stars should always be on top."
She said the flags are made of cotton fiber and over the years, that fiber has gotten lighter and easier to iron.
Rosier lives in Florence with her husband, Bill, who served in the Navy for four years during Vietnam. She and Bill have owned Marion Dry Cleaning and Laundry for about 10 years.
"Bill is part of the Color Guard with the legion, "she said. "He's in the Labor Day parade in Florence. We also volunteer to put up the flags at Labor Day and take them down for Memorial Day at Hillcrest Cemetery."


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Israel PM, comedians and Hollywood stars mourn the death of Joan Rivers
Celebrity colleagues and admirers of Joan Rivers share their reactions Thursday to her death at age 81:
"I first met Joan Molinsky, that was her real name, when I was 17 years old and we were both in a off, off Broadway show called 'Driftwood.' She was a real character then and now. I am so upset by her passing. She was too young and had too much to do still." — Barbra Streisand in a statement.
"Joan Rivers brought laughter to millions around the world and was proud of her Jewish heritage and a vocal supporter of the State of Israel. We will miss her deeply and we send our heartfelt condolences to her family." — Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement.
"I'm completely heartbroken by the loss of my beloved Joan. Not only was she my boss, she was and will always be my teacher, therapist, closest friend, inspiration and the only grandmother I ever knew. She was family and I will never forget her. Laughter will be difficult for a while but when I'm sad, lonely or upset all I will have to do is think of Joan and a smile will cross my face. ... I will miss you deeply and will always hear your voice in my head saying, 'My darling get out there and be you!'" — Rivers' fellow "Fashion Police" panelist Kelly Osbourne in a statement.
"Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable, just where you would have to swallow pretty hard . but it was hilarious .. The force of her comedy was overpowering." — Host David Letterman from the taping of Thursday's "Late Show."
"Our dear Joan is gone. Knowing her, working with her and enjoying the fun times of life with her was special. She will always be in our hearts. ... Joan we will miss you." — Comedian Don Rickles in a statement.
"A legend, a friend, a mentor, an icon, and wildly funny. One of a kind. RIP ..." — Comedian Kathy Griffin in a tweet.
"I never saw someone attack a stage with so much energy. She was a controlled lightning bolt. She was a prolific and unpredictable, joyful joke writer. She loved comedy. She loved the audience. She was a great actress and should have done that more. She loved living and working. She was kind. She was real. She was brave. She was funny and you just wanted to be around her. I looked up to her. I learned from her. I loved her. I liked her. And I already miss her very much." — Comedian-actor-writer Louis C.K. in a statement.
"What a full life. Every woman in comedy is indebted to her. She was there at the beginning and funny to the end. RIP Joan" — Comedian-actress-writer Amy Poehler in a statement.
"No one loved life, laughter, and a good time more than Joan. We would have dinner and laugh and gossip and I always left the table smiling. She was a brassy, often outrageous, and hilarious performer who made millions laugh. In private, she was the picture of elegance and class. I will miss her." — Newswoman Barbara Walters in a statement.
"My heart is torn in half. She wasn't done." — Comedian Sarah Silverman in a tweet.
"Joan Rivers was a pioneer in the entertainment industry. Fearless, tireless and brilliantly funny. I will forever look up to Joan. She was a true friend." — Talk-show host Kelly Ripa in a statement.
"She was one of the best comedy guests Johnny (Carson) ever had." — Comedian-director David Steinberg in a statement.
"Joan Rivers will always be a pioneer. She paved the way for a lot of comedians. I'm very sad she's gone." — Comedian-host Ellen DeGeneres in a tweet.
"First Robin (Williams). Now Joan. The world just became a less funny place. RIP Joan Rivers." — Comedian Gilbert Gottfried in a tweet.
"RIP GODDESS: Hail Hail, a GENIUS has vacated this realm: Joan Rivers has died." — Comedian Roseanne Barr in a tweet.
"We lost a great one in Joan Rivers — she was funny all the way to the end." — Talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel in a tweet.
"Watching Joan Rivers do standup at age 81 was incredible: athletic, jaw-dropping, terrifying, essential. It never stopped. Neither will she." — Actress-director-writer Lena Dunham in a tweet.
"I was lucky enough to have Joan rivers critique my style! I will miss seeing and most importantly hearing her humor on TV!" — Auto-racing star Danica Patrick in a tweet.
"Goodbye my friend Joan Rivers. You were a huge part of my professional life and you brightened up the horizon with your Chutzpah! Sad!" — Musician Boy George in a tweet.
"She was trailblazing. Hysterical. Thoughtful. We'll miss you immensely Joan." — Host-producer Ryan Seacrest in a tweet.
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"Should I run, I will have to give up my House seat. But I love this state, I love its people and I really want to see Wisconsin flourish again. It would be an amazing opportunity."An amazing opportunity for Republicans to pick up another Senate seat. And maybe even the House seat she's held so strongly since 1999.
"I am well-known now in south-central Wisconsin," she says. "I win handily across that area. That basically describes the rest of the state. It's just that I have not introduced myself to folks across the state yet and look forward to that opportunity."The Madison area "basically describes the rest of the state"? That sounds absurd, but her point is that her district contains urban, suburban, rural, and small town areas.
In her fund-raising appeal, Baldwin spoke of "cynical voices," the ones "doubting me from the very beginning." She wrote, "They said, 'You're a woman. You're a lesbian. And you're too outspoken.' "I think the problem is that she's too liberal. But I understand the strategy of disparaging those terrible voters by calling them homophobic and sexist instead of facing the reality that they aren't as far left as she is. Speaking of "cynical voices."


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Banana Republic's Retro Ladylike Anna Karenina Collection Is Now Available to Shop!
Banana Republic's Retro Ladylike Anna Karenina Collection Is Now Available to Shop!
Just in time for the holiday dressing season, Banana Republic's complete Anna Karenina collection is now available to shop online and in stores. The retro, ladylike collection, inspired by the heart-wrenching 19th-century Russian romance, features lace sheath dresses, elegant pencil skirts, shimmery tops, and, of course, gorgeous faux-fur accompaniments to complete the moody Winter feel. To add even more shine to your holiday look, the accessories from the collection show gorgeous vintage-inspired baubles like crystal chandelier earrings and metal-tipped pumps. With price points ranging from $25 to $198, there's plenty of room in your budget to nab one or two pieces to add to your party season artillery. See our top picks below, then flip the slideshow to check out the complete collection.
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Elkhead State Park in the beautiful Yampa Valley of Northwest Colorado is an oasis in the high desert. This 900 acre reservoir provides endless recreational opportunities. They include, but are not limited to, boating, swimming, jet skiing, skiing, picnicking, wildlife watching, hiking, camping, meeting friends and neighbors, bird watching, biking, horseback riding hunting and fishing and many photo opportunities. The newly built campground at Elkhead (Bear's Ears) has been a long awaited camping opportunity by many locals. Because Elkhead is the only water recreation area in Moffat County, many people use the park as a mini vacation get-away. The campground sits majestically over the reservoir and offers convenience for boaters, skiers and fisherman not ready to end their day.
Easy walk and a nice view. We saw plenty of wildlife including fox and mule deer.


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Cleveland Indians Payroll In 2013: And Contracts Going Forward
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Sunday Feb 24, 2013
By Larry Myers (Indians Correspondent): Follow @TribeFanz1969
The Indians finished the 2012 season as a huge disappointment. The Indians had a strong first half before falling apart in the second half. The Indians the 2013 season with many new faces after a busy winter.
GM Chris Antonetti and President Mark Shapiro decided to make some major moves to improve the team for the 2013 season. The first move the Indians made was replacing Manny Acta with Terry Francona as manager. The Indians then traded Shin-Soo Choo & Tony Sipp in a 3 team trade to pick up Drew Stubbs, Matt Albers. Bryan Shaw & Trevor Bauer. The Indians signed a few Free Agents with the four biggest names being Nick Swisher, Mark Reynolds, Brett Myers, & Michael Bourn. The Indians showed that with the moves they made they are ready to contend now & in the future.
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Why Terry Francona As The Manager Of The Cleveland Indians Makes Sense
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Tuesday Feb.5, 2013
By Larry Myers (Indians Correspondent): Follow @TribeFanz1969
Terry Francona was hired as manager of the Cleveland Indians on October 6, 2012 – and officially took over the team on October 8th. He will be returning to the dugout after a one-year hiatus of managing in baseball and doing sports broadcasting duties. After Manny Acta was let go as manager of the Indians, only two candidates were interviewed. Francona was picked as manager over Sandy Alomar Jr, who has stayed on as Bench Coach under the veteran skipper.
Before we decide if Francona was the right choice as manager of the Indians, we have to look at who the man is. Francona was born April 22, 1959 in South Dakota to former MLB player Tito Francona, (who played from 1956 to 1970). Tito 'Jr' played in the Majors himself from 1981 to 1990, including one year with the Indians. During his ten years, Francona played in 708 Games – with a BA of .274, 16 Home Runs and 143 RBI as a utility player . After Francona's playing days were over, he went on to become a Minor League coach, before finally becoming manager of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1997. During his four years in Philadelphia, his team never finished above fourth place, but Francona helped develop some young players into stars that have turned the Phillies franchise into the winning seasons in 11 out of the 12 years since his departure.
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Nick Swisher is the latest free agent player the Cleveland Indians have signed this off-season. Nick Swisher is the son of former MLB catcher Steve Swisher, who played for a few National League teams back in the 1970's and 1980's. Swisher was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in West Virginia. Before his professional career, Swisher played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 2002 MLB Draft, Swisher finally made his MLB debut with the Athletics in 2004.
During the 2004 season, Swisher played in only 20 games. In 2005, Swisher went on to hit 21 HRs and 74 RBI in 131 games. He finished 6th in the American League Rookie Of The Year Voting. During his 4 years in Oakland, Swisher hit 80 home runs and 255 RBI – while playing in 458 games. Not known as a player with a high average, he became a leader on a young Athletics teams. Swisher showed a great amount of durability during his time in Oakland compared to his teammates who spent a large portion of time on the Disabled List. Swisher made his Post Season debut in 2006. While sweeping the Twins, Swisher got 3 hits and an RBI in that series. Losing to the Tigers in the ALCS, Swisher hit .100 with only 1 hit.
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Major League: Revisiting One of the Greatest Baseball Movies of All Time
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Thursday January 3rd, 2013
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This is my first (and hopefully not my last) article on the MLB Reports. Growing up as an Indians fan and also a fan of movies, I have always wanted to write a baseball article. One day I was chatting with Jonathan Hacohen (Founder of MLB Reports), about baseball movies. He told me to write something about it, so here I am. Major league the movie changed my life and many others. It is a timeless classic that deserves to be revisited again today.
1989 was a very good year for me and many other people, as two great baseball movies came out that year. Once was the classic Field Of Dreams with Kevin Costner. Then there was that other movie, Major League. Being a lifetime Cleveland Indians fan, I had to go see this movie when it first came out. I wasn't expecting too much considering the cast and the plot of the movie. This was the type of movie that critics hated, but fans of baseball would love. I felt that it would turn out to be a cult classic, which it has. After seeing the movie for the first time, I consider Major League one of the finest baseball comedies of all time. Plus, it does have a great cast.
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LONDON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Britain must quickly accept Syrian refugees, Britain's top refugee group said, as London said it planned to let hundreds of vulnerable Syrians into the country.
"It's encouraging to hear that the government is listening to calls for it to accept resettled refugees from Syria," said Refugee Council Chief Executive Officer Maurice Wren, whose group supports refugees and asylum seekers.
"The government must act without further delay to secure safe passage for the people who are struggling to survive in the harsh conditions in the region," he said in remarks quoted by Britain's Daily Telegraph.
British Home Secretary Theresa May, whose office oversees immigration policy, told members of Parliament the government of Prime Minister David Cameron was drawing up plans for Britain to take in "vulnerable" refugees from war-torn Syria.
Vulnerable refugees are often women and girls at risk, people with serious medical conditions, torture survivors or others with special needs, U.N. Refugee Agency spokeswoman said.
Cameron's government is expected to announce the refugee policy Wednesday, before the House of Commons debates a response to a U.N. Refugee Agency appeal for Western countries to take in Syrian refugees, Britain's Independent newspaper reported.
U.N. agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said accepting vulnerable refugees truly saves lives.
The agency, formally known as the Office of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, estimates some 2.5 million Syrian refugees are living in camps in neighboring Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
The European Union, of which Britain is part, has taken in 50,000 Syrian refugees since the civil war broke out three years ago. Most have gone to Sweden, Germany and Italy.
Fewer than 100 Syrian refugees are in the United States, aide groups say.
The Cameron government's plan to admit Syrian refugees is a turnaround from its position as late as last week, when Immigration Minister Mark Harper said accepting refugees would be a "token" move.


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Game 2 recap
In Game 1, # 34 for the Phillies silenced the Yankees offense. Last night, # 34 for the Yankees did it to the Phillies. Got to give A.J. credit, he was sharp, especially that sharp-breaking curve ball.
Pedro gave us a chance to win the game. He put on another clinic of how to pitch.
Check out these numbers: Pedro, 107 pitches, 72 strikes; Burnett, 108/68.
As usual, the Phillies battled to the end. Mariano has been nearly perfect in his brilliant postseason career and we had our chances against him. He threw 39 pitches in two innings, the most in his postseason career.
Winning the first game and losing the second is a pattern the Phillies have followed in their last four postseason series.
Phillies' AMTRAK charter train pulled into 30th Street Station at 2:45 this morning. A couple of TV crews and a couple dozen fans were still awake and there.
Both teams will work out at Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies in mid-afternoon with the Yankees to follow. The media interview room will feature Charlie, Cole, Girardi and Pettitte.
MLB has approved 1,571 credentials for Games 3, 4 and 5. That number includes the radio and TV rightsholders . . . Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt will throw out the ceremonial first ball tomorrow night. Assisting Boys and Girls Club members in placing the game ball on the mound will be Greg Luzsinki . . . "We feel good" says Scott Eyre in his blog.
Postseason Memories
Von Hayes played with the Phillies from 1983 to 1991. He's just one of five players in Phillies history that played regularly at three different positions, right, center and first base. His postseason career with the Phillies was 1983, the NLCS vs. LA and WS vs. Baltimore. The 51-year-old resides in Florida.
What is your favorite memory of October baseball as a child?
"Growing up a Red Sox fan my best memory of the post season was when Carlton Fisk hit his home run down the left field line to beat the Reds in the 1975 World Series."
As a player, what was the biggest change between the regular season and postseason?
"The biggest change was the media crush around the batting cage during batting practice. It made it difficult at times to stay in your daily routine."
What is your fondest personal postseason memory?
"Celebrating after beating the Dodgers for the 1983 NL Pennant and earning a chance to play in the World Series."
Where were you when the Phillies won the World Series last October?
"I was in Iowa hunting for white tail deer and enjoyed watching the game from our hunt camp. I'm looking forward to the same scenario this fall."
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Does anyone know if there is an option in nnbackup for dump mode that will delete files on the destination that do not exist on the source? I am using dump mode exclusively (0 through 6) and the problem I am having is that my destination disk (external 250gb usb2 drive) is filling up after a month or so because I cannot remove old files when backing up. I have to manually remove files/folders to free up enough space to backup.
I am not against combining dump with sync or using sync exclusively if anyone has that suggestion. I just want to be sure that I'm not missing any parameter for dump mode that will do what -delete-before does in sync mode. I tried -delete-before in dump mode but nnb seems to ignore it.


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Russian pullback from Ukraine border may have eased tensions, but not security concerns
Russia's withdrawal of troops from its border with Ukraine has eased fears in Ukraine and the West that President Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale invasion.
But the risk of war has not receded, only shifted in a different direction. Daily clashes, one involving 300 armed separatists attacking a border post, signal that the low intensity conflict that began in March has moved into a higher gear.
Ukrainian officials charge that Russia is training, arming and dispatching irregular forces, many of them Russians, including a surprising number of Chechens, to the troubled eastern region to keep Ukraine permanently destabilized.
"They are sending in an irregular army," Anton Gerashenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, told McClatchy. "They want this to become another Somalia."
Perhaps the best proof of this was that at least eight of the rebels killed in the battle over Donetsk airport Monday and Tuesday were put in red coffins and transported to Russia for burial, Gerashenko said.
Denis Pusilin, the head of the high council the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, had put the number higher, telling McClatchy that 34 felled militants were transported to Russia for burial.
The new phase in this war began just after the assault on the airport, when Pusilin sent a public plea to Putin to send in military help.
That night, a convoy of cars and vans approached one border crossing, where border guards engaged in a firefight and blocked them. But at another point, some 40 truckloads of armed insurgents made it in, allowing as many as 1,000 militants to cross in. Guards were apparently bribed to open the gates.
That number is "about right," said Egor Pavlovich Firsov, a young member of parliament from Donetsk, the biggest city in eastern Ukraine.
The biggest clash occurred Thursday, when border police reported that nearly 300 militants stormed a border crossing at Stanychno, just northeast of Luhansk, firing rocket-propelled grenades and small weapons.
On Friday, about 80 militants, equipped with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms attacked a border post at Dyakovo, about 50 miles south of Luhansk, firing some 50 mortar rounds, wounding three, one seriously, border police said.
There were other signs of Russian involvement. On Wednesday, Ukrainian forces downed an unmanned Russian-made Orlan 10 surveillance drone over one of their checkpoints. The Orlan 10 is capable of providing 3-dimensional maps _ a sign that Russia now is willing to provide advanced technology to the rebel movement.
On Thursday, rebel forces shot down an Mi-8 helicopter near Slovyansk, the rebel's main, killing a major-general in the Ukrainian National Guard as well as six elite servicemen and five others, and bringing to more than 50 the number of soldiers and officers killed since mid-April.
Russia is not the only source of discord. Ukrainian government officials said they believe that the country's richest oligarch, industrialist Rinat Ahmetov, who had been credited with stanching separatist sentiment just two weeks ago, may have switched sides again and now is working with one of the anti-government armed factions.
Ahmetov had been widely credited with easing tensions by urging his 300,000 employees to join him in opposing the "Donetsk People's Republic," which he said was "in a fight against our region." But after leaders of the DPR threatened to nationalize his holdings and sent a mob to attack his residence in Donetsk on Tuesday, he shifted his position once again.
"I know that last Sunday, when they went to destroy the Ahmetov residence, he paid a lot of money to terrorists not to do it," a senior security official told McClatchy under the condition of anonymity because he was discussing intelligence information. He said the beneficiaries of Ahmetov's payment were the "Vostok" separatists' battalion, which is under the command of Russian-born Igor Girkin, whom the government here says is an officer of the Russian GRU intelligence service.
On Tuesday, the Vostok battalion seized control of the 11-story regional administration building from the rag tag group of pro-Russian separatists who had been occupying it. That, too, was at the demand of Ahmetov, said the senior Ukrainian official said.
"He did it to show that he can do something," the official said. "So he bought one group of terrorists to battle other terrorists."
After the building came under Girkin's control, the "People's Republic" announced it was establishing a government, and named Girkin as its defense minister.
The government in Kiev appears to be deeply troubled by Ahmetov's apparent flip-flops. The senior security official said the wealthy businessman was moving to protect his business interests. "About 30 per cent of his business is with Russia," the official said.
Vostok's takeover of the building in Donetsk, in fact, created new difficulties for Kiev government, which had been planning a major military operation to seize the building and capture or kill its occupants.
But a Tuesday deadline for separatists to vacate the building passed and it's not clear when an operation to retake it might begin. The senior security official said the government won't act until it has assembled enough special forces troops "to make the terrorists life dangerous."
Neither Ahmetov nor his spokesman would comment on the government allegations.
McClatchy special correspondents Kateryna Dereguzova in Kiev and Kira Zheleznyak in Donetsk contributed to this report.


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Sleep therapy aids the mind
NEW YORK — Doctors have been looking to improve the effectiveness of depression treatment for decades, and this weekend they got a break from an unexpected quarter: behavioral sleep medicine.
Psychologists reported Saturday that a particular short-term therapy for insomnia could double the likelihood that people recover from the mood disorder — putting a spotlight on a little-known approach to poor sleep.
"I think it's increasingly likely that this kind of sleep therapy will be used as a possible complement to standard care," said Dr. John M. Oldham, chief of staff at the Menninger Clinic in Houston. "We are the court of last resort for the most difficult-to-treat patients, and I think sleep problems have been extremely under-recognized as a critical factor."
For the time being, experts say, the treatment, known as cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBT-I, is not widely available.
Most insurers cover it, and the rates for private practitioners are roughly the same as for any psychotherapy, ranging from $100 to $250 an hour, depending on the therapist. But the American Board of Sleep Medicine has certified just 400 practitioners of behavioral treatment, mostly psychologists, in the United States.
And the need is great. Depression is the most common mood disorder, affecting some 18 million American adults in any given year. Most also have insomnia, and four studies of CBT-I for depression, in combination with medication, are nearing completion.
"There aren't many of us doing this therapy," said Shelby Harris, the director of the behavioral sleep medicine program at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, who also has a private practice in Tarrytown, N.Y. "I feel like we all know each other."
That may change soon. According to preliminary results, one of the four studies has found that when CBT-I cures insomnia — it does so 40 percent and 50 percent of the time, previous work suggests — it powerfully complements the effect of antidepressant drugs.
In the past year, the American Psychological Association has recognized sleep psychology as a specialty, and the Department of Veterans Affairs has begun a program to train about 600 sleep specialists, said Michael T. Smith, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and president of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
Insomnia disorder is defined as at least three months of poor sleep that causes problems at work, at home, or in relationships.
"There's been a huge recognition that insomnia especially cuts across a wide variety of medical disorders, and there's a need to address it," Smith said.
CBT-I is not a single technique but a collection of complementary ideas. One is called stimulus control, which involves breaking the association between being in bed and activities like watching television or eating. Another is sleep restriction: setting a regular "sleep window" and sticking to it.


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Southampton: Australia great Shane Warne has had a stand named after him at the headquarters of Hampshire, the English county where he enjoyed several successful seasons as captain.
"It's a huge moment," Warne told the BBC after the stand bearing his name was officially opened before the start of the one-day international between England and the West Indies at the Rose Bowl here on Saturday.
"I'm very, very proud of this -- Hampshire's been my second home, I had a great time when I played here and to have a stand named after me is pretty special," the 42-year-old added.
Warne, widely regarded as one of cricket's greatest leg-spinners of all-time and a fine tactician, but whose colourful private life helped deny him the Australia captaincy, led Hampshire to English cricket's 2005 one-day trophy.
He also guided the south coast side back to the First Division of the County Championship in his first year in charge and oversaw title challenges in the next three seasons.
Warne left the club in 2007 and earlier this year the suite named after him was taken over by the ground's new sponsors, Ageas. But Warne has now had a permanent tribute paid to him by the club, who on Saturday also named a stand after another former captain, the late Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, who led Hampshire to their first County Championship title back in 1961.
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- Roland Martin: Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel has taken the college football world by storm
- By season's end, Manziel may be the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy
- Martin: "The legend of Johnny Football will only grow"
There are some sports figures who, no matter who else is playing, make you simply want to turn on the television to see what kind of excitement they will bring to the game.
Barry Sanders. Deion Sanders. Michael Jordan. Reggie Jackson. Wayne Gretzky. Pele.
They make up some of the greatest to ever play their respective sports, and when they hit the field, court or ice, all eyes were on them.
Texas A&M University quarterback Johnny Manziel hasn't remotely achieved their level of stardom, but when it comes to being Mr. Excitement in college football, man, this kid can flat electrify the crowd with his play and leave his opponents shaking their heads in frustration.
I don't care about Chip Kelly's offense or Alabama's defense or how Bill Snyder has revived Kansas State's football program. There is no doubt that Johnny "Football" Manziel has taken the college football world by storm, and maybe by the end of the season, he could be the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy.
Yes, the kid is just that good.
When Texas A&M made the decision to leave the Big 12 to play in the Southeastern Conference, fans and the media alike forecasted a tough few years for the Aggies. Everyone said, "Welcome to big boy football," citing the recent national champions that have hailed from the conference.
The critics said the noble men of Kyle Field -- Texas A&M's home stadium -- would be the doormat of the league, languishing at the bottom and following the path of Arkansas, who left the Aggies in the Southwest Conference in 1991 for the SEC and disappeared into oblivion.
All of that changed last Saturday when the Aggies went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for the first time and knocked off the defending national champions and the No. 1-ranked team in the country, the Alabama Crimson Tide.
The one play that will be remembered was the touchdown where Manziel stepped up in the pocket, ran into one of his own players, the ball popped up in the air, he caught it, rolled left and found Ryan Swope in the back of the end zone.
He is a fearless kid. Slide after a big run? Nope. Manziel wants to take the head off a linebacker or a safety by slamming into them. He's not built like a Mack truck in the mold of Tim Tebow. But after the hit, he pops up and runs around the field like an 8-year-old ready for the next play.
The mania around Johnny Football has taken on epic proportions. And it's only going to get bigger, which says a lot in Texas, where football has long been like a religion.
Manziel's emergence is excellent for the ninth-ranked Texas A&M Aggies and first-year Coach Kevin Sumlin. For decades, Texas A&M has played in the shadows of its archrival, the Texas Longhorns. While A&M has enjoyed some successful teams in the last two decades, the Longhorns have long been a national power.
The success of the Aggies with Manziel will no doubt help recruiting. And if the runaway candidate to be the MVP of the SEC continues to meet the Heisman hype, the legend of Johnny Football will only grow. That's good for my alma mater, Texas A&M; good for the SEC; and good the casual fan who desires a mythical figure to root for.


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You don't have to train like an athlete to stay fit this summer. From our friends at Health.com, try these outdoor activities that burn calories and keep your body toned without hitting the gym.
All activities are calculated for a 150-pound woman performing the activity for 30 minutes.
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If you're lucky enough to live near a beach, this sport is a great way to get your heart rate up, make friends, and tone your legs, shoulders, and core. And because it's harder to move in the sand, you get extra calorie burn.
If you're inland, many parks and even some gyms have sand courts that offer similar benefits.
Calories burned: 272
What you burned off: A 16-ounce Protein Berry Workout smoothie from Jamba Juice
More from Health.com: 25 ways to cut 500 calories a day
Burn calories while making your yard more beautiful. Constantly bending and squatting to reach plants is great for your glutes, and your garden will be the envy of your neighbors.
Calories burned: 136 calories
What you burned off: A serving of Baked Lays with 2 tablespoons of salsa
Simply playing in the surf lets you burn calories even as you cool off. To get a better workout, be sure to paddle hard past the breakers to increase your heart rate.
Calories burned: 102 calories
What you burned off: 1/2 cup sliced strawberries and 1/2 cup fat-free vanilla yogurt
Pick up your racket and challenge your friend, neighbor, or spouse to a game of tennis. Running around the court allows you to sneak in an aerobic workout while hitting the ball is a great arm toner.
Calories burned: 272 calories
What you burned off: Half of a Smoked Turkey Breast on Country Bread from Panera Bread
Biking can be a great way to get around as well as to tone your quads and hamstrings. A light ride burns more calories than walking, and riding up hills will keep your legs jiggle-free.
Calories burned: 204 calories
What you burned off: 1/2 cup of H
Playing Frisbee can be more than just a leisurely activity. A light game can keep you fit, and if you get a team together for a game of ultimate Frisbee, you will burn 272 calories in just 30 minutes.
What you burned off: An ice-cold Miller Light
Break out your roller blades and hit the pavement for a cardio workout that also tones your legs, hips, and glutes. Plus, the faster you go, the better the breeze.
Calories burned: 168 calories (at a leisurely pace of 8 mph)
What you burned off: One ground sirloin slider with relish
Cool off and enjoy this refreshing low-impact activity. And you don't have to be an expert in butterfly to torch calories. Moving through the water even at a slow pace gives you an aerobic workout that tones your entire body.
What you burned off: 33 Blue Diamond Lime 'N Chili almonds
Out of town and no gym? See the sights by walking the streets of whichever city or town you're visiting. When possible, hit the hills to tighten up your hamstrings and glutes.
Calories burned: 129 calories (3.5 mph pace)
What you burned off: A Citrus Shrimp Refresher made with shrimp, cucumber, avocado, and grapefruit
If you're lucky enough to take a tropical vacation, make time for this exciting and eye-opening exercise. And if scuba diving is not your forte, you can go snorkeling. It lets you burn 170 calories in the same amount of time.
Calories burned: 238 calories
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32 men and women from US named Rhodes Scholars
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Rhodes Trust says 32 U.S. men and women have been named Rhodes scholars and will enter Oxford University next October.
The winners were selected from 857 applicants endorsed by 327 different colleges and universities. The scholarships, announced early Sunday, provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the prestigious university in England.
Rhodes scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes. Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential and physical vigor, among other attributes.
The value of the scholarships averages about $50,000 per year.
The American students will join an international group of scholars selected from 14 other jurisdictions around the world. Approximately 80 scholars are selected annually.


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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has been so busy a man during the four decades of his public life that he was not around when any of his three children was born. And his wife once had to send him a letter to complain about the new cook at their official residence.
True or false? Whatever, anecdotes about Chandy abound. And now they fill a book that also carries his caricatures. The compilation by his press secretary P.T. Chacko is being made public here Tuesday by Minister of State for Human Resource Shashi Tharoor. The book is being published by DC Books.
The 64 caricatures and the anecdotes lucidly narrated by Chacko reveal Chandy as a man of simplicity, without much thought to sartorial considerations. They also show him as a man always on the move, with little time to spare for his family. Whether at home or in office, he is surrounded by a crowd.
According to one anecdote, even his wife, a retired banker, rarely sees her husband. On one occasion, after she got no chance to speak to him about a cook appointed in their official residence, Mariamma Oommen Chandy wrote a letter to the chief minister.
The book says:"... he spotted a letter bearing a familiar handwriting. It was a complaint against the cook, written and signed by yours truly, Mrs Chandy."
Mariamma reveals that when she gave birth to their three children, her husband was not around. When she delivered their first child, Maria, Chandy was assigned to accompany the visiting Sushma Swaraj, the then Haryana labour minister who now is leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. And when their second child was born, Chandy was drawn away for an urgent party meeting.
His two daughters and a son point out, with a tinge of rue, that it's only when there is a state-wide shutdown that they get to see their Papa at home, the book says.
Chandy contested form the Puthupally assembly constituency in Kottayam district first in 1970, and he has not lost a single election since then.
Another interesting incident the book talks about is an interaction Chandy had with superstar Mohanlal on completing 40 years as a legislator. When the film star asked him about the last film he saw, pat came the reply, "Manjil Virinja Pookal".
A shocked superstar took a while to realise that it was the superstar's first film, released in 1980.
Till the solar panel scam broke out, Chandy could be reached only through the mobile of his close aides, as he did not carry a cell phone. People who know him, know that the only way to speak to Chandy without any disturbance is over phone.
Another incident from the book: Recently when Chandy was accompanying the president of India, a call came to his aide and he replied that Chandy is accompanying the Rashtrapatiji. The caller asked, "Can you please give me the Rashtrapatiji's number?"
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Another game, another double digit margin of victory. The Knicks are 4-0. New York disposed of the previously 3-1 Dallas Mavericks 104-94 on Friday night. Carmelo Anthony was the star scoring 31 points on 22 shots. JR Smith played his best game of the season, chipping in an efficient 22 points on 8/16 shooting. My biggest take away from this game is that the Knicks won despite not playing a particularly sharp game. They gave up 57 first half points before bearing down and giving up just 37 in the second half. Unlike the first three games, the Knicks weren't shooting lights out from downtown tonight. They also got out-rebounded. However, this is what good teams do. The NBA season is a long one. You're not always going to play your best every night, but you have to find ways to win. The Knicks weren't at their best tonight and they beat a very good Dallas team by 10 points. That, my friends, is a very very good sign.
Here are my notes from the game:
- I was going to start off talking about Jason Kidd, but I have to give praise to Carmelo Anthony. I wouldn't say he was particularly sharp tonight. He missed a few layups and had some troubles at the free throw line, but he is absolutely zoned in right now. Defensively he had a few of his cool swiping blocked shots and had a few other instances where he disrupted the Mavericks offense. Offensively, this is the Melo I've been waiting to see. I've criticized him when he deserved to be criticized, but right now he deserves all the praise and acclaim he will surely get. In addition to leading the team to four wins in as many games, Anthony has absolutely been fantastic on offense. Unlike what we've seen in the past, the ball isn't sticking for entire possessions with Anthony. When he gets the ball he's making quick decisions, which has benefited both him individually as well as the team. Rather then settle for jump shots, Anthony has been focused on attacking the rim. Between his quick decisions and his constant attacking of the rim, Anthony shot 14 free throws tonight. He only had 1 assist, but that doesn't really matter. He's not being asked to distribute the ball in a point-forward like role. I think Woodson has done a really great job of not trying to force Carmelo into being LeBron, but rather utilize him to play the best he can as Carmelo. He's a scorer, not a ball handling distributor and playmaker. He's done everything the Knicks have asked. Make quick decisions, don't let the ball stick. If the shot is open, take it. If you can get to the rim, get to the rim. If there's an open guy or if you don't have anything, pass the ball, let offense flow. I tip my hat to Carmelo Anthony as he has just been spectacular in this early season.
- JR Smith was fantastic. He really is just completely focused and zoned in on both ends of the court. Frankly, we haven't seen this from him, not in NY, not in Denver. Given the sort of athlete he is, he can really wreck havoc on defense and he did that tonight. Smith had 4 steals and blocked a shot. He had a silly foul on a OJ Mayo jump shot, but I'm okay with that. It was a bad foul, but he was trying to be aggressive and contest the shot. You'll live with that sort of effort from JR. Offensively, as he has been all year, he was on point with his jump shot. Smith was a perfect 3/3 from downtown. He also attacked the rim and worked more in the mid-range game. He didn't hit many mid-range shots tonight, but its the fact that he's not lazily shooting threes that is a good sign. Here is Smith's shot chart from tonight's game:
- Felton was dynamite to start the game, recording 5 early assists. However, as we've seen before Felton seemed to tired out as the game progressed. I'm not all that worried, as we're 4 games into the season, but it is clear that he's not yet in complete game shape.
- In the third quarter, Novak took a Dallas defender (I can't remember who, might've been OJ Mayo) off the dribble and made a pull up shot over him. It was cool. He only shot 1-4 from downtown. Since the opening night blowout of Miami, Novak has been a bit off with his three point shooting. Tonight, he had the worst three minute stretch ever in the second quarter and basically let Dallas right back into the game after the Knicks won the first quarter. Novak will be fine though, I'm not worried.
- Sheed played 18 minutes and made his first appearance of the game in the first quarter, which was weird. Kurt Thomas saw a goose egg amount of minutes tonight. What does this mean? I have no idea. Thomas hasn't been all that great and Sheed was okay tonight. Whether this means Sheed takes Thomas' minutes, I have no idea. We'll just have to wait and see. Mike Woodson may be in the business of rotating the two players each game. So for instance tonight Sheed played so next game Thomas would play and Sheed would sit. I don't know if that is what Woodson is doing, but it might be. Or it might not be.
- Also, at one point Vince Carter got free throws on a questionable foul. He missed the first free throw and Sheed screamed out 'BALL DON'T LIE'. I enjoyed that thoroughly.
- Marcus Camby played 8 minutes. He isn't in game shape, so I liked that Woodson limited his minutes tonight. Especially with the Knicks being 4-0, Woodson can afford to slowly work Camby in to the rotation. Even in his limited time on the floor, you saw how Camby can help the team. Multiple times, I noticed Camby boxing out his man successfully which led to Knicks rebounds. He also grabbed 4 rebounds in 8 minutes. Camby led the league in rebounding rate last season, and you saw some of his prowess in that area tonight.
- Tyson Chandler was awesome, as always. 11 points, 9 rebounds, +14 in 25 minutes played. He had 5 offensive rebounds and an awesome put-back that made me jump out of my seat and spill some guacamole on my shirt. It was worth it though.
- So… Ronnie Brewer is shooting 55.6% on the season from 3PT land right now. I don't really understand, but I really enjoy it obviously. Dave Hopla, one of the Knicks shooting coaches, has to get some credit for this. In addition to his Novak like shooting streak, Brewer is also grabbing all sorts of rebounds. He had 8 this game, 4 of them offensive. Brewer has been as good as could be expected so far. He is Landry Fields minus the suck and the hot girlfriend.
- MSG was running a fundraiser tonight for charity. John Starks was answering phones. Sitting next to him was Lil' Jon. I almost called in just to try and get Lil' Jon, but I couldn't find my phone so I didn't bother. Would've been fun though.
- Last, but certainly not least, I want to talk about Jason Kidd. He only played 15 minutes tonight, but he made those minutes count dammit. On par with the rest of his early season, Kidd was fantastic once again tonight. I have been so wrong about him, to this point. He has shot well, he has made a plethora of savvy veteran passes and he has been doing a good job of creating havoc in passing lanes. Kidd had 3 steals tonight. He guarded OJ Mayo about as well as you could expect a 39 year old to do, but I thought his effort was good. Dallas has a pretty quick backcourt with Mayo and Collison and Roddy Buckets coming off the pine, so it's understandable why Kidd only played 15 minutes tonight. For the 15 minutes he played though, I thought he was very effective. Jason Kidd also gets a tip of the hat from me tonight.
- Knicks won the turnover battle tonight. Dallas had 20, the Knicks had 9. New York has had the least amount of turnovers in basketball this season. That is huge when you're a defensive team like the Knicks are, you don't want to give the opposition extra possessions. They didn't give Dallas many extra possessions tonight and that was a big part of the win.
- Vince Carter looked mighty stupid with that headband. He also looked stupid constantly jawing with Tyson Chandler.
- Dallas was 1/13 on threes in the second half. Good job, Knicks!
- Someone remind me why Troy Murphy is still in the league? He is god awful. Apparently he had 7 rebounds, although I think the box score is lying to me. I can't remember any of the rebounds he got and he really seemed to have 0 impact on the game. I remember when the Warriors had Murphy and Mike Dunleavy and we used to call them the Dun-Murphy sisters. That still makes me laugh.
Have a good weekend, folks! The Knicks try to go for 5-0 on Tuesday against the
Shaq led Dwight Howard led E'Twuan Moore led Orlando Magic. It should be a fun Tuesday!
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A benefit ride for leukemia patient Jarhya Ussery will be held Saturday, May 18, just one week after Relay for Life. Jarhya, 3, had a stem cell transplant designed to replace her bone marrow and is receiving treatment at Egleston's Children's Hospital of Atlanta.
Money raised at the benefit will help offset medical expenses. Jarhya is the daughter of Chartiaes Jones of Culloden and the granddaughter of Ira Jones Jr. and Betty Jones. She has a brother, Rogers Wooten III, 2.
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Former Bridgecorp chairman Bruce Davidson's $500,000 reparation payment has not been distributed by the High Court despite being collected more than a year ago.
Davidson pleaded guilty in October last year to misleading investors and was sentenced to 9 months' home detention, 200 hours' community work and ordered to pay $500,000 reparation.
The failed finance company's chairman, who is in his 70s, handed a cheque for that sum to the court on the afternoon of his sentencing in Auckland. But this money - with $350,000 paid in by fellow guilty Bridgecorp director Peter Steigrad - is still to be distributed.
The Financial Markets Authority, which brought the case against the directors, said on Friday it hoped the issue would be "resolved shortly".
Although there is $850,000 being held, it is not clear if the money will be treated in the same way as the reparations paid by guilty Nathans Finance directors.
In the Nathans case Justice Paul Heath ordered that nearly $900,000 of reparations from three former directors should go to the failed finance company's receivers, PwC.
Before the judge reached this decision, questions arose over whether the reparations should go to those who put money into Nathans after the company released a misleading prospectus or to the receivers for the benefit of all investors.
While PwC made a push for the money in the Nathans case, the Crown said the court registrar should be responsible to distribute payments to investors.
Steigrad's lawyer, Brian Keene QC, told the Herald last week he was not aware of any dispute over how the Bridgecorp money should be distributed and said the principles applied in the Nathans case appeared to be the right ones.
"If the principle's right in one case, I have some difficulty seeing why it wouldn't be right in another," Keene said.
Bridgecorp's 14,500 investors, who were owed $459 million when the company went into receivership in July 2007, have to date got back 8c in the dollar.
In its last receivers' report, PwC said it was unlikely more than 10c in the dollar would be returned to investors and that future cash flows were "largely dependent on insurance and legal matters".
PwC has launched one of the biggest civil cases in history against three former Bridgecorp directors, Gary Urwin, Steigrad and Davidson.
The civil action is a $442 million claim against the directors for alleged breaches of duty.
If payment is then not received, a bankruptcy will be ordered, leaving it up to the official assignee to reclaim any money by dissolving assets.
Bridgecorp's managing director Rod Petricevic and its former financial controller Rob Roest have been declared bankrupt and are exempt from proceedings.
*Rod Petricevic and Rob Roest were found guilty at trial for misleading investors and were each sentenced to 6 years in prison.
*Peter Steigrad was found guilty at trial and sentenced to nine months of home detention, 200 hours' community work and ordered to pay $350,000 reparation.
*Bruce Davidson, the chairman, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months' home detention, 200 hours' community work and ordered to pay $500,000 reparation.
*Gary Urwin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison.


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Last week we hosted in our offices at Cleveland State University a shale fact-finding contingent from Ukraine, which was investigating the development of shale in Ohio. My colleague in the Energy Policy Center at CSU, Iryna Lendel, had just returned from a lengthy shale research assignment in Ukraine, and had warned me to expect hostility from this group toward hydraulic fracturing. She was right. Even though our presentation was supposed to be about the economics of shale development, we kept coming back to the environmental risks, and there were plenty of animated discussions. The Ukrainians understand the fundamental issue: balancing environmental risk against economic value. They also understand that it is not enough to simply dismiss fracking as too dangerous without considering what the risks are for alternatives to meet our energy requirements. Studying Ohio makes sense in making this assessment: both regions are dependent upon cheap natural gas to fuel their economies. Both regions have had heretofore a small oil and gas industry, and are not able to immediately ramp up a large upstream service sector. And both regions are densely populated, making environmental problems more troubling. Yet, despite these similarities, Ukrainians seem to have reached a different conclusion in balancing these issues. The shale industry there is struggling to take off, despite an economy that continues to be threatened by the whims of Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom. But in Ohio, it is off and running, with billions of dollars being invested in upstream and midstream oil and gas activities, notwithstanding some nagging environmental concerns.
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So why doesn't shale development enjoy the same public support in Ukraine that it does in Ohio? There are rumors that Gazprom is fomenting distrust among the population with a well-funded anti-fracking campaign. But there is actually a simpler, less devious explanation for this ambivalence: there is no private ownership of mineral rights in the Ukraine. In Ohio, mineral rights are owned privately. It turns out that in the court of public opinion, for the balancing test to work in favor of development, the economic value derived has to have significant local impact. That is because the inconvenience and environmental risk borne are local. In Ohio, local support is generated first and foremost by landowners. The balancing test analysis is pretty straightforward for them: they receive generous lease bonus and royalty payments from the developers, and they can and do put into their leases more environmental protections than are provided by Ohio regulatory law. But this mineral ownership scenario is unique to the United States and Canada. In the rest of the world, the sovereign owns all oil and gas development rights, including those that lie below privately owned lands. This policy, on first blush, makes a great deal of sense. When we purchase land in the United States, we don't expect to acquire the airspace thousands of feet above us. Why should we own the minerals thousands of feet below us? The problem with sovereign ownership, however, is that it does not work in places where a local balancing test is required. Simply, without a local ownership interest in the minerals, there is no incentive for the people who live in the development areas to support the development. They incur all the inconvenience, but get none of the value. This problem has caused some nations, such as Nigeria, to endure massive civil unrest in and around oil and gas production. To be sure, the locals do benefit under this system. Locals, after all, have a strong interest in a well-funded government with low taxes. But this benefit is so far removed from them that they can't see it. And try explaining to someone who has to watch a gas well flaring in his backyard why everyone else is entitled to the same benefit he receives from that well. In the Ukraine, this presents an especially difficult problem: the public has little trust in its government. As with other former Soviet nations, there is risk of public corruption and no sense among the locals who suffer the inconvenience that they will ever see any value whatsoever derived from the development. Post-Chernobyl Ukraine will need to see a clear economic value proposition before it buys into shale development.
So what does this all mean for us here in Ohio? For one thing, it reaffirms the value of the American system for mineral development. Private ownership may seem unfair to those of us who are left out of the boom, but in fact this is the system that has enabled America to be the leader in oil and gas development for the past 100 years, despite steadily depleting reserves. The severance tax appears to be the best way to ensure the public receives some direct value from oil and gas development. But more importantly, it also brings into focus what the oil industry needs to do if it wants to continue to be on the winning end of the "balancing test": employ locals, and lots of them. Landowners are the big local winners in the shale boom. They will continue to support the industry so long as there develops no pattern of environmental abuse. But they comprise a small minority of the folks directly affected by shale development. There remains a great deal of work to do to establish the benefit to local communities who share much of the inconvenience and environmental risk with the landowners, but not the royalty and bonus windfalls.


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Judge: NSA domestic phone data-mining unconstitutional
updated 8:52 PM EST, Mon December 16, 2013
Analyst: NSA ruling only affects two
- Snowden says he knew the surveillance would not withstand legal review
- The limited ruling opens the door to possible further legal challenges
- The NSA data-mining can continue, pending a likely appeal
- Classified leaks by Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the data-mining
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the National Security Agency's bulk collection of metadata -- phone records of the time and numbers called without any disclosure of content -- apparently violates privacy rights.
His preliminary ruling favored five plaintiffs challenging the practice, but Leon limited the decision only to their cases.
NSA phone surveillance unconstitutional?
"I cannot imagine a more 'indiscriminate' and 'arbitrary invasion' than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval," said Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush. "Surely, such a program infringes on 'that degree of privacy' that the Founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment."
Leon's ruling said the "plaintiffs in this case have also shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits of a Fourth Amendment claim," adding "as such, they too have adequately demonstrated irreparable injury."
He rejected the government's argument that a 1979 Maryland case provided precedent for the constitutionality of collecting phone metadata, noting that public use of telephones had increased dramatically in the past three decades.
Leon also noted that the government "does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature."
However, he put off enforcing his order barring the government from collecting the information, pending an appeal by the government.
A Justice Department spokesman said Monday that "we believe the program is constitutional as previous judges have found," but said the ruling is being studied.
Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, a critic of the NSA data mining, said Leon's ruling showed that "the bulk collection of Americans' phone records conflicts with Americans' privacy rights under the U.S. Constitution and has failed to make us safer."
He called on Congress to pass legislation he proposed to "ensure the NSA focuses on terrorists and spies - and not innocent Americans."
Explosive revelations earlier this year by Snowden, a former NSA contractor, triggered new debate about national security and privacy interests in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
Snowden's revelations led to more public disclosure about the secretive legal process that sets in motion the government surveillance.
In a statement distributed by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who first reported the leaks, Snowden said he acted on the belief that the mass surveillance program would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that Americans deserved a judicial review.
"Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many," according to Snowden, who is living in Russia under a grant of asylum to avoid prosecution over the leaks in the United States.
Greenwald said the judge's ruling vindicates what Snowden did.
"I think it's not only the right, but the duty of an American citizen in Edward Snowden's situation to come forward, at great risk to himself, and inform his fellow citizens about what it is their government is doing in the dark that is illegal," the journalist told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" Monday night.
The NSA has admitted it received secret court approval to collect vast amounts of metadata from telecom giant Verizon and leading Internet companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo and Facebook.
The case before Leon involved approval for surveillance in April by a judge at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a secret body that handles individual requests for electronic surveillance for "foreign intelligence purposes."
Verizon Business Network Services turned over the metadata to the government.
Leon's ruling comes as the Obama administration completes a review of NSA surveillance in the aftermath of the Snowden leaks.
CNN's Jake Tapper reported Monday that tech company executives would meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the issue.
Obama plans to sit down with Tim Cook of Apple and Eric Schmidt of Google, as well as executives from Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook, Salesforce, Netflix , Etsy, Dropbox, Yahoo!, Zynga, Sherpa Global, Comcast, LinkedIn and AT&T, a White House official said.
Some of those companies issued a joint letter last week calling on the government to change its surveillance policies in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
Last month, the Supreme Court refused to take up the issue when it denied a separate petition, which was filed by the Electronic Information Privacy Center. Prior lawsuits against the broader NSA program also have been unsuccessful.
Days after the Snowden disclosure in June, some Verizon customers filed legal challenges in the D.C. federal court.
The left-leaning American Civil LIberties Union also filed a separate, pending suit in New York federal court.
Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of the 1970s, the secret courts were set up to grant certain types of government requests-- wiretapping, data analysis, and other monitoring of possible terrorists and spies operating in the United States.
The Patriot Act that Congress passed after the 9/11 attacks broadened the government's ability to conduct anti-terrorism surveillance in the United States and abroad, eventually including the metadata collection.
In order to collect the information, the government has to demonstrate that it's "relevant" to an international terrorism investigation.
However, the 1978 FISA law lays out exactly what the special court must decide: "A judge considering a petition to modify or set aside a nondisclosure order may grant such petition only if the judge finds that there is no reason to believe that disclosure may endanger the national security of the United States, interfere with a criminal, counterterrorism, or counterintelligence investigation, interfere with diplomatic relations, or endanger the life or physical safety of any person."
In defending the program, NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that "15 separate judges of the FISA Court have held on 35 occasions that Section 215 (of the Patriot Act) authorizes the collection of telephony metadata in bulk in support of counterterrorism investigations."
Initially, telecommunications companies such as Verizon, were the targets of legal action against Patriot Act provisions. Congress later gave retroactive immunity to those private businesses.
The revelations of the NSA program and the inner workings of the FISC court came after Snowden leaked documents to the Guardian newspaper. Snowden fled to Hong Kong and then Russia to escape U.S. prosecution.
The case is Klayman v. Obama (13-cv-881).
CNN's Tom Cohen contributed to this report.


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