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"The problem was that the country was in transition, but it didn't seem to be transiting to anywhere…"
Evgeni Dainov is one of the leading thinkers in Bulgaria's rich civil society community. He is also a rock musician. Holding degrees in modern history and Russian from Oxford University, he has published many books and articles, in particular about civil society, politics and reform. Dainov leads the Centre for Social Practices, whose origins date back to the early nineties:
"In 1993, a group of us started meeting together twice a week in the evenings to discuss where the country was going. The problem was that the country was in transition, but it didn't seem to be transiting to anywhere (…) The reform government had just been toppled and the gangsters were running the country."
Besides Evgeni Dainov this group included Bogdan Bogdanov, who then was chairman of the Open Society Institute and had just founded the New Bulgarian University, which he is still leading today; Ivan Krastev from the Centre for Liberal Strategies; Vasil Garnizov who later became deputy minister for regional development and now teaches at the New Bulgarian University; and Dejan Kuranov who was one of the opposition figures of the late 1980's.
Intellectual thinking in the mid-1990s, even in circles like Dainov's, was very pessimistic and gloomy. Looking back to this time also shows how much Bulgaria has changed in the meantime:
"The discussions were as I expect discussions in Russia are at the moment [2007]. What can we expect of Bulgarian society? There were several view points. One was that Bulgaria is a primitive society and the only way it can function is as a satellite of the Russians, because we are not Western people. Or that it can become like a Middle Eastern country. It sounds really ridiculous these days, but we really didn't know which way the country was going.
One of the positions was that this country will never make it. The other position was the idealist position, that this country has a unique opportunity of starting from zero and producing the perfect society – of perfect brotherhood and perfect law, and perfect everything – which I never believed in.
My personal expectations were very modest, I was thinking this society has some potential to become something like a very primitive version of Portugal or post-war Greece. A free, poor society, where there would be no boutiques, no expensive restaurants, but there would be everything in small, little shops. I was expecting a kind of European Bangladesh. Freedom, but no prosperity. And certainly never a member of the European Union."
It was against this background that Evgeni and his friends, inspired by the philosopher Karl Popper and his concept of "open society", decided to take the initiative and provide a direction and a vision for Bulgarian society.
"What we particularly liked about the concept of open society is Karl Popper's idea that any society at any given stage can decide to become an open society and go and make it. History doesn't matter, historical inheritance doesn't matter, it's all a matter of decision. And any society can decide it. In those days, the prevalent thinking was: Bulgaria will never become a modern European country, because it has a certain kind of history. And we were saying, you know: that's nonsense. We can decide what we want to be at every given second. Which gave us a kind of, you know, energy to do things. (…)
We discovered that all these different viewpoints could be submerged into this concept of open society: We can decide at every given stage to go in any given direction. So let's try and move this society towards deciding that it wants to become an open, free, European society – which is what ultimately became the national agenda. But it wasn't just us, there were all sorts of other groups thinking along the same lines. (…)
And then we decided that the group would not survive for long on the basis of meeting twice a week. And so we put together an organization that would continue – together with others – to work on the agenda of the transition, as we then called it. That was 1994. It was my idea to call it "practices". In those days, all sorts of other discussion groups were becoming think tanks or policy tanks. We decided that if we did this, we would fall into a trap of divorcing analysis from action. I thought it would be very frustrating, if we just did analysis and then delivered them to governments who would not enact them."
In the years to come, Dainov's Centre for Social Practices would work in very different areas. Initially a big focus was placed on conflict resolution in Bulgarian society, particularly between the wider public and governmental institutions, leading to the creation of ombudsman institutions at different levels of government. Environmental issues were prominent and the Centre played a big role in the establishment of river bed councils. Much work was also done on minority issues, especially in relation to Roma and Roma children, and on municipal development.
But the overall political environment had not yet changed. In fact, in the early years of the centre's existence it changed for the worse. Before the vision of Evgenii Dainov and his colleagues became first a credible perspective and later a reality, Bulgaria hit rock-bottom. In the winter of 1996/97, the banking system and the national currency collapsed, triggering a dramatic economic crisis with hyperinflation, wiped-out savings and soup kitchens in the capital. Despite Evgeni's laconic descriptions, it also hit the Centre for Social Practices:
"During 1995-1997, during those troubled years, there were many many projects we were doing. A lot of them were American foundation projects. Our richest period was 1995/1996. Then, unfortunately, the currency collapsed, the financial system collapsed, and all our project money disappeared. That was the end of the autumn of 1996. Suddenly, because, under the rules of that time we would get the money in Dollars, but we had to keep it in the banks in Lev, which means the hyper-inflation just blew everything away.
However, 1996/1997, prior to Vasil becoming deputy minister, we had a wonderful time. I was getting some real money, Deutsch Marks from Radio Free Europe. It was like 22 Deutsch Marks a week. And Vasil was getting some Dollars from somewhere else, like 60 Dollars a week or something. This made us very very wealthy, when people were getting like 3 Dollars monthly wages. So we were basically supporting everybody here [in the Centre], on like 20 Dollars a week.
And we spent months and months eating out in restaurants. Because, when I was young, I had read Erich Maria Remarque's novel on German hyper-inflation in 1923, and what I remembered was that you have to spend it in restaurants, because the restaurants can never work out, the restaurants always underestimating the level of inflation. (…) So they are always at a loss, and for us it's cheaper to eat in restaurants than go and buy the things and cook it at home."
But the thinking and the conceptual struggle with the problems of the time was not futile. After the 1997 elections were won by the reformists and a government was formed under Prime Minister Ivan Kostov, the ideas developed by the rich variety of think tanks that had sprung up in the first half of the 1990s became an important source for the government to draw on.
The think tank scene also included the Centre for Liberal Strategies (CLS), the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and the Institute for Market Economics (IME), to just name a few of the most prominent ones. The Borovec seminars (named after the mountain resort where they took place) illustrated the influence of independent institutes and think tanks at the time:
"In July 1997 until mid-1999, around every six months we invited the government, the parliamentary majority of the UDF, all the regional governors, and the UDF coordinators, something like 700 people who would then run the country. We would invite them to a big hotel in Borovec for a three-day brainstorming session on what the government needed to do the next six months. We would come up and say for the next six months we think these would be the issues and we think this is the way they should be resolved. It was like the peak of any influence on the government, because it was not the government getting together to think inviting outside experts, which happens all the time. It was us, the outsiders, inviting the government. And they came."
After two years, Kostov turned the tables around, having the government organise events and invite specialists and experts. The importance of these events decreased, however, as did the extraordinary influence of these institutions on policy making. While some see this as a negative development, it reflects the normalisation and maturity of Bulgarian democratic structures. Bulgaria still boasts one of the richest think thank communities in Europe.


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World History
Keynes's Malthusianism indicates that he had a defective understanding of the division of labor and the law of returns. Beyond that, his population policies reveal the totalitarianism inherent in the Keynesian vision.
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Kamala Harris has promised to rule by decree if elected president. For her, Congress is little more than an advisory committee. The average voter, of course, ranks even lower than that.
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By advocating an increased monetary role for the state, Keynes has made the credit cycle considerably worse and more destabilising.
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A couple of stormchasers caught the formation of this amazing "supercell" in Wyoming and the footage is breathtaking.
Basehunters, out of Norman, Oklahoma, posted the video of the thunderstorm, called a supercell because of its rotating updraft.
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Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
The Power of the Witch
If they came and took you away today, who do you think they'd come for tomorrow?
Your family, of course.
Because any family with a witch in it ipso facto becomes a witch family, whether they like it or not. One witch is enough to transform—some would say to taint—an entire lineage.
Not everyone in a witch family is a witch. In most witch families, most aren't. But in most generations there's generally at least one clanking around in the kitchen somewhere, and we remember our witches.
Centuries later, people in the family still talk about the witch. "Oh, she was burned at Salem," they say, with pride if not with accuracy. Stories grow as stories do; no story ever lost in the telling. What they remember may not be what happened, but memory of the witch herself endures.
A family with a witch becomes a witch family, whether they like it or not, whether they even know it or not, and so great is the power of the witch, that this power extends both into the future and into the past as well. One witch is all it takes.
People remember witches. While memory endures, they will remember.
They will remember you and your life. Make it worth remembering.
Friday, 23 May 2014
Well said Steven, I think one thing which helps with this "tainting" if you will, as you well know, us pagans, now and before, have always been story tellers. Not only do we tell stories but we see the world much more vividly I feel, we can turn seeing a tree on a simple walk, into a journey and awaken to the presence of a land ancestor.
One story I have always remembered came from Arthur Hinds, which I heard him tell one warm summer evening at a PSG. He was telling a group of us how he had been building a stone circle on a friends land, using as much human effort and old methods as could be used. But alas the central stone was far too big to safely or successfully place. So his friend, (will call him Joe) decided that they would use his bob cat with chains attached to it to pull it up. Joe sat upon the rock as it went up. This would be a non-pagans telling, but he was quick to point out that not a few hours later he was hearing the story being told again. But Joe didn't just sit and do some tending as our modern technology lifted this stone. No, Joe saddled the stone, like a great steed and rode the stone to its rightful place.
Now that has always been a wonderful image in my mind!
You want the boring facts, talk to a non pagan. On the other hand you want the TALE talk to a Pagan.
Friday, 23 May 2014
That's a great one, Grant: I'm adding it to the repertoire.
Years ago my friend Tanith went to talk about the Craft at a local elementary school. "It's all in the intent," she told them during first period. "If you really wanted to, you could walk through a wall."
By third period, of course, the kids were already talking about the witch who had walked through walls. Some had even seen it.
Every people lives by its stories: they're our intangible treasures. An athame or a Book of Shadows can be taken away, but they can't take away the stories.
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Told I may be preamture on John Farrell , that Alex Anthropolous last night still considering Demarlo Hale. Decision very soon
Peter Gammons says the Blue Jays are set to name Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell as their manager for 2011, but Toronto General Manager Alex Anthopoulos says "we haven't made any decision".
On Thursday, Gammo tweeted: "Three GMs today insisted John Farrell will get the Toronto job".
CSNE's Sean McAdam says the list of possible managers is down to three: Farrell, Red Sox bench coach DeMarlo Hale, and Cleveland first base coach Sandy Alomar Jr. Jays third base coach Brian Butterfield may also be a candidate.
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However, "to p*ss off" means two things. 1) To make someone else angry 2) to leave
I was p*ssed off with his behaviour. Correct.
Don't p*ss off - this doesn't make any sense. It effectively means "Don't leave" but we wouldn't use it in this way.
Don't p*ss me off - Don't make me angry.
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Pirates can't back Liriano, blanked by Reds' Cueto
Lefty gives up three runs in seven innings as Bucs drop rubber game
CINCINNATI -- One could say that the Reds stole one Wednesday from Francisco Liriano and the Pirates, and one would not be wildly wrong.
"Steal" and "wild" were the operative words of the first-inning run that was enough for Johnny Cueto to beat the Bucs.
Billy Hamilton, who gives batterymen the shakes, went hitless but scored two of the runs in the Reds' 4-0 victory.
With the victory, Cincinnati chalked up its first series win of the season and sent the Pirates home with a 3-6 record on their first road trip.
From the 5:30 p.m. ET Tuesday resumption of Monday night's rain-suspended game to Wednesday's 2:57 p.m. ET final out, the Pirates and Reds played to three decisions within 21 1/2 hours at Great American Ball Park.
It marked the first time in 94 years that the Bucs officially played three games in one day. On Oct. 2, 1920, they participated in a formal tripleheader -- against the Reds.
The unstoppable Hamilton's partner on Wednesday was the irresistible Cueto, who threw a three-hitter with the icing of a career-high 12 strikeouts.
That's Cue-to! to you fans in Pittsburgh.
"I never think too much about those things," Cueto said of his loss in last October's National League Wild Card Game at PNC Park, where fans serenaded him. "That was 2013. This is 2014. That year is already over."
"I'm sure he was a lot more comfortable here than he was with 45,000 people chanting his name," noted Pirates catcher Tony Sanchez, who had been the straight man for Liriano's first-inning capers.
It was a loopy beginning for Liriano, leaving the impression that as soon as Hamilton had shown up, batting leadoff, the Pirates went to pieces, like hens in the henhouse when the fox appears.
The veteran lefty, though, blamed the arid conditions.
"It was too dry. The ball was slipping in my hands," Liriano said. "I couldn't get a feel."
Liriano walked Hamilton to begin the game. Hamilton stole second on the first pitch to Joey Votto -- which actually was to a third-base camera well, slicing right through Sanchez. Liriano continued making cricket pitches to his catcher, bouncing them every which way. One wild pitch sent Hamilton to third, another brought him home.
"Half of his first 12 pitches, the balls were just slick on him. He said he couldn't get a very good feeling for them," manager Clint Hurdle said.
Hamilton finally out of sight, back in the dugout, Liriano gathered himself and retired the next three men.
"To be able to finish the inning [that had begun so badly] with 19 pitches and only one run … I thought he did a very, very professional job," commended Hurdle. "And he had no more issues after that."
"I started sweating a little bit more," Liriano said simply, "and making more secure pitches."
In the seventh, Votto treated Liriano to another odd sensation: A two-run homer, the first the southpaw allowed to a left-handed batter as a Pirate, the prior one having come July 23, 2012 (Adam Dunn).
"I tried to go down and away, and wound up middle-in. Another mistake, and [hitting them] is what hitters get paid for," said Liriano, who showed rare on-field emotion when Votto's drive settled in the right-field seats, pounding a fist into his glove, punctuating an afternoon of frustration.
Cueto could have made good on the daily ration of one run the Reds have been giving him all season. But after treasuring a 1-0 lead since the opening inning, he welcomed the breathing room provided by Votto.
Without hostile fans chanting his name, as they did in PNC Park during last October's NL Wild Card Game, Cueto authored the 18th complete-game shutout in Great American Ball Park's 12-year history and the first since Homer Bailey's no-hitter last July 2 over the Giants
Then again, neither the fans nor the opponents were the same as on that Oct. 1 night that will forever be memorable in Pittsburgh. Cueto that time was undone by home runs from Marlon Byrd, who is in Philadelphia, and Russell Martin, who was in the dugout, taking a day off.
"I'm sure glad that night we didn't see this Cueto," said Sanchez, who watched the Bucs' 6-2 playoff victory from the dugout. "He had every pitch working. He threw me two different sliders, he had a fastball with a lot of giddy-up … and my last at-bat he threw me a splitter I had no clue he had. Well, I knew he had it, but he didn't show it to me until the end."
Everyone in the Pirates' lineup struck out at least once, with the exception of Jordy Mercer and, oddly, Liriano. Pedro Alvarez struck out twice, and Cueto picked up four Sanchez strikeouts -- two each of Gaby and Tony.
"I felt really strong the whole time and confident," Cueto said. "At the end of the game, I was really confident that every single pitch was good."


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Each week, after important golf events, we have a top PGA Professional view and analyze the action and determine what golf tip can be gleaned from watching the world's best players that can be easily applied to your game. The following article is one of the best from our 2011 archive.
The PGA Grand Slam of golf was held this past week in beautiful Bermuda. This is the toughest tournament in the world to qualify for, though there is only one entry requirement. Win one of golf's major championships and you are in. Sounds simple enough, right? If only.
This was the 29th Grand Slam of Golf and it featured four first-time major championship winners. I always enjoy watching and talking to golfers after their first major championship win, it's great to hear their excitement and enjoyment, knowing their place in golf history is secure. Their lives are forever changed with that victory, but their drive and determination hopefully do not. And to have four first-time major champions multiplied that enjoyment for everyone.
Even more, though each golfer represented a diffrent major, and have unique and different backgrounds and histories; I couldn't help but notice they had one important trait in common as we all convened in Bermuda. But we'll get to that in a moment. First, let's remember what brought them there.
Charl Schwartzel, of South Africa, represented The Masters. Last April, he made tournament history when he finished his run at Augusta with four straight birdies to earn the famed green jacket. Scwhartzel also made Grand Slam history when he showed up at a couple of evening functions this week wearing that famous green jacket. That jacket is seemingly as famous as any golfer that wears it. It was a treat for us for Charl to bring it to Bermuda.
Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, represented the U.S. Open. His torrid play in June at Congressional Country Club was even hotter than the blistering Washington D.C. heat. McIlroy fired a 72-hole Open record of 16-under par as he lapped the field and beat the previous scoring mark by 4 shots. It was a sweet victory for the curly haired Irish kid after his heartbreaking Sunday at The Masters, but more on that later.
Another native of Northern Ireland, 42-year old Darren Clarke, scored the most shocking major championship victory of 2011 as he held off Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson to grab the British Open title at Royal St. George's. Clarke appeared to be on the downhill side of his career before he battled through tough weather to win the Claret Jug in July. Clarke had seen his career slide after he lost his wife to breast cancer several years ago and because of that, he probably stands as the most popular major championship winner of the year.
Keegan Bradley, the PGA Champion, certainly was a surprise winner as well. He was on the sidelines as a spectator during The Masters as well as the U.S. and British Opens. And though Bradley did not qualify for the year's first three majors, he did make the field at the PGA Championship and took advantage of it by winning the famed Wannamaker Trophy. And with his victory at Atlanta Athletic Club, he became one of only three players to ever to win the first major he ever competed in. Bradley was five shots behind with four holes to play and pulled off a stunning playoff victory over Jason Dufner.
So how do these things tie in? Stay with me, I'm getting to that.
One of the best parts of the PGA Grand Slam is the fireside chat that takes place between the four major champions and Jim Huber, Emmy Award winning essayist for Turner Sports and PGA.com. Huber interviews each of the men and his style exposes the human side of these great players.
Many will remember the 2011 Masters for McIlroy's final round 80, including a 43 on the back nine. Schwartzel began the final round four shots back. He chipped in for birdie on #1 and then holed his second shot for eagle on #3 and was all of a sudden tied with McIlroy for the lead.
"I knew it was going to be my day when I made that 2 on the third hole. Then when Rory went looking for the loo (term for British bathroom) on the 10th, things really started going my way. That changed everything," laughed Schwartzel.
McIlroy acknowledged the story with a grin and wave. It was on the 10th hole when Rory snapped hooked his drive between the cabins on the left of the hole and proceeded to make a triple bogey. This was the start of his demise. As Schwartzel finished his chat with Huber and exited the stage, it was McIlroy who arose first to give the Masters champion a standing ovation. The Irish kid gets it.
Huber summoned McIlroy to the stage and talked about what happened in the weeks that followed The Masters.
"It was apparent at Augusta that I wasn't ready to win a major," said McIlroy. "I went to Haiti a few weeks later for Unicef. When I saw the devastation and destruction in Haiti it put losing The Masters into a proper perspective. It meant nothing compared to what those people were going through."
And Huber asked Rory about the best part about his record breaking U.S. Open championship?
"No doubt, it was walking down the last fairway and spotting my dad. He was wearing a green shirt. I walked by him and gave him a nod," said McIlroy.
Clarke talked to Huber about how bad he was playing early in the week at Royal St. George's.
"I really thought about withdrawing, it was so bad. I played a practice round with Rory early on Wednesday. We caught Charl and Louis Oosthuizen (defending British Open champ) on the 13th hole, they always play dreadfully slow," chuckled Clarke. "I said let's play a game, Ireland versus South Africa. Rory birdies the next couple of holes.
"I am still slogging it around and I walk off the tee about ten feet in front of the other three and Rory says, 'Hey Old Man, where is your major?'...I showed him on Sunday," smiled Clarke who actually brought the Claret Jug to the Grand Slam and let people pose for pictures with it later that night.
When Bradley made a triple bogey on the 14th hole during the final round of the PGA it looked like his run at a major was over. He revealed something very insightful to Huber.
"I chipped that ball across the green and into the water. I had a bad lie, but hit a poor shot. It really shook me up. So much so, that I walked across the green right through Scott Verplank's line of putt. He was still in contention to win the tournament," said the St. John's University grad.
"I immediately apologized to Scott. He was great and didn't make a big deal out of it. Many players would have and Scott could really have thrown me off my game, but he didn't. I would never have come back and won if not for the way Scott reacted. I will never forget that," said Bradley, the son of a PGA pro.
Throughout the week, these four players demonstrated the characteristics that we, as golfers, would hope to see from a major champion. But even more, they showed the characteristics of determination, a hard work ethic, the ability to overcome adversity, persistence and patience. In other words, things we should all expect of ourselves as golfers also.
All four golfers seemed genuinely appreciative of the week, as not only a chance to compete on this stage but to celebrate their year. I hope that's the case because that's what it was meant to be. But just as much, the Grand Slam of Golf celebrates golf. Of setting goals and reaching them. Of overcoming odds and being recognized for great accomplishments. Schwartzel, McIlroy, Clarke and Bradley will always be remembered for winning this year's majors. But spending time, enjoying and learning from them this past week - tells me that all appropriately wear the title of "Champion" just as well.
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Go West Young Man – with Jean-Charles Boisset
Jean-Charles Boisset was born into the world of wine. His parents, Jean-Claude and Claudine, had founded the family winery in 1961 in one of the most traditional winegrowing regions in the world – the village of Vougeot, in Burgundy. Born in a room above the family cellars, he grew up within view of the centuries-old vineyards of Château du Clos Vougeot. His involvement began early, accompanying his grandfather to the vineyards, playing in the barrel rooms and, as a teen, working several summers in the winery and cellars.
Jean-Charles completed his studies at the University of London, and moved to the U.S. for graduate studies in business and finance. He soon began work with Boisset's American operation, and successfully developed a domestic portfolio of wines, while building a sales and marketing arm for the U.S. and Canada. He then joined the family management team back in Burgundy as Vice-President, and began to expand the Boisset holdings to become the third largest wines-and-spirits concern in France. He also ramped up the quality level by focusing on small-production wines from vineyards with very low yields that relied on organic or biodynamic farming methods.
However, having been exposed to American culture at a young age by both his parents and grandparents, Jean-Charles headed West again – ultimately to the vineyards of California. Continuing his search for premium New World terroir for Pinot Noir, Boisset added DeLoach Vineyards to its portfolio in 2003, followed by the 2009 purchase of Raymond Vineyards, and the 2011 purchase of Buena Vista Winery. The family had now also firmly planted their roots in California. Today, the Boisset family collection includes wineries that share more than 18 centuries of combined winemaking heritage and tradition in some of the world's most prestigious terroirs, from Burgundy to the South of France, and to California's Napa Valley and Russian River Valley. As if this weren't enough, Jean-Charles would also find amour, marrying Gina Gallo in 2009, thus creating an immediate royal wine-family.
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PHOENIX -- Taiwanese left-hander Wei-Chung Wang knows his current undertaking will not be easy. It is not every day that a pitcher makes the leap from the Rookie level Gulf Coast League to the Major Leagues.
"I know a lot of people spend [so much] time to make a team. It's hard. I understand how hard it is," Wang said Saturday through translator Jay Hsu. "The feeling is like swimming from Taiwan to here, swimming in the ocean."
Wang also knows he is uniquely positioned to give it a shot. The Brewers selected the 21-year-old in December's Rule 5 Draft from the Pirates, and will have to keep him in the big leagues all season or offer him back to Pittsburgh. Brewers scouts love Wang's poise and his change-up, so they spent $50,000 and a 40-man roster spot for the right to evaluate him in Spring Training for a spot in the bullpen.
"I am still surprised," Wang said. "It's like a lottery."
Does he think he can win?
"I can do it," Wang said.
At first, he believed he'd been traded. A friend who pitches in the Baltimore system called Wang at about midnight in Taiwan after the Brewers had called his name at the Rule 5 Draft in Orlando. Eventually, a "shocked" Wang was filled in on the details of the draft, which offers opportunity to players left unprotected on their teams' 40-man rosters.
"The first couple of days, I could not sleep very well," Wang said.
He originally agreed to a lucrative international deal with the Pirates in 2011, but the contract was voided after a physical exam revealed a torn ligament in his pitching elbow that required Tommy John surgery.
Wang did not pitch at all in 2012, then went 1-3 with a 3.23 ERA in 12 games, 11 starts, in '13 for the Gulf Coast League Pirates. The Brewers loved the fact that Wang throws strikes -- 42 strikeouts versus four walks in 47 1/3 innings while holding opponents to a .209 batting average.
His fastball mostly sat at 91-93 mph, Brewers pro scouting director Zack Minasian said in December, touching 95 mph, with a change-up that is Wang's best pitch and a curveball that is developing but projectable. He throws from a high three-quarters arm slot.
Beyond his stuff, Minasian believes Wang will be bolstered by his experience pitching in Taiwan, where Wang was technically a professional.
Wang is feeling more comfortable now, in his fourth week of workouts at Maryvale Baseball Park. Wang has already thrown at least one bullpen session under pitching coach Rick Kranitz's watch, and expects to throw again Monday during the Brewers' first official workout.
As a bonus, Wang's older brother, Yao-Lin, pitches in the Cubs system and will soon be in Arizona for Spring Training.


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After the failure of proposed GOP health care legislation and with rumors of discord among his ranks, Alec Baldwin's President Donald Trump sought out an ego boost from his loyal supporters in Kentucky coal country this week on "Saturday Night Live." Returning from a hiatus, the show had plenty of material to spoof, thanks largely to a busy few weeks in Washington (and Mar-a-Lago.)
Unfortunately for Baldwin's Trump, though, his supporters didn't seem quite as confident with their chosen leader as they once did. While the president touted the airstrikes he recently ordered against the Syrian government, the Americans who voted for him seemed more concerned with the coal-mining jobs he'd promised, which haven't yet materialized, and with the health care reforms he'd promised, which also haven't materialized. Baldwin's Trump responded to their concerns by deflecting blame onto Paul Ryan, Susan Rice and seemingly whomever else he could think of, so his supporters put on brave, hopeful faces — because, as they said, he is their president, and it's too late for them to do anything about that now.
Grateful for their continued support, Baldwin's Trump astutely compared his faithful followers to people who find "a finger in [their] chili," but eats the chili anyway, because they'd talked so much about how they loved chili — and it is their chili, and it's too late for them to do anything about that now.
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Comic Louis CK, the night's host, spent his monologue explaining how he takes advantage of his wealthy-white-male privilege and exploring some mysteries of the animal kingdom.
And in an absurd sketch that seems like it was based on the premise, "Wouldn't it be weird if Louis CK wore false eyelashes?," a prosecutor wields the power of his charm to turn an entire courtroom to his favor.
CK also starred at the center of an ode to a previously unsung modern-day hero: the social media activist. In "Thank You, Scott," cast members Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson and Sasheer Zamata sang of how grateful they are for "Scott" fixing "everything" by posting "Black Lives Matter" on his Twitter bio (for example) from the comfort of his sofa. "Scott" missed the irony, and as a result, he got a little unearned ego boost as well.
Baldwin stepped into a new role on SNL Saturday: Bill O'Reilly, host of the O'Reilly Factor, who in real life saw dozens of advertisers drop off his Fox News show in the past week after word got around that the he and the network had paid $13 million to cover settlements in five cases of women alleging sexual harassment or mistreatment from the host.
Despite the breadth of media coverage on those lawsuits, President Trump decided apparently of his own accord to come to O'Reilly's defense on Twitter. And despite that character defense from the country's highest office, advertisers from carmaker BMW to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to pest control company Orkin quickly pulled their spots from the program. Which is why the "O'Reilly Factor" — the SNL version at least — is now brought to "us" by "horse aphrodesiacs" and "Dog Cocaine."
And there was nothing left to parody of that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad everyone hated, so SNL's approach was to go behind-the-scenes and introduce us to the (fictional) well-meaning, tone-deaf dude (Beck Bennett) who came up with the idea, but realized too late how it'd be received. In the end, the only winner here was the oblivious Jenner (Cecily Strong), who just showed up and got paid.
"Weekend Update" also commented on the O'Reilly scandal and the Pepsi ad, as well as Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation, Stephen Bannon getting dropped from the National Security Council and that widely mocked photo of presidential adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner visiting troops in Iraq. While visiting troops on his trip, Kushner was photographed wearing a preppy blazer, khakis and fashion sunglasses, with an incongruous-looking body armor vest — with a partially-obscured makeshift nametag that ended up reading just "KUSH" — thrown on top. Critics and commentators on social media quickly seized on the image as an indication of the top Trump aide being out-of-touch.
Musical guests The Chainsmokers played two songs: "Paris" and "Break Up Every Night."
Next week, SNL returns with host Jimmy Fallon and musical guest Harry Styles.


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Events listed below are excellent opportunities to read aloud to a child! You'll find events from many different participating businesses and organizations who value reading aloud to children.
Be sure to explore additional opportunities with our founding partners:
Lincoln City Libraries
Lincoln Children's Museum
University of Nebraska State Museum (Morrill Hall)
Nebraska History Museum
Midwestern African Museum of Art
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Pre-school Story Times at the Library
May 28, 2019
Pre-school Story Time is a half hour of books and activities for children ages three, four and five. Gere & Walt, 10:30-11:00 am AND Eiseley, 7:00 pm- 7:30 pm
Read Aloud Lincoln is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and supported by the Lincoln Community Foundation in support of the Prosper Lincoln community agenda.


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'Modern Family' Star Eric Stonestreet's Proud That Kids With Same-Sex Parents Thank Him For Playing A Gay Father
Eric Stonestreet's thrilled to play a gay father on Modern Family! It makes him feel like he is doing something 'worthwhile!' Keep up the good work, Eric!
Modern Family stars Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are looked upon as heroes among the gay community. And, the two who play on-screen same-sex partners, Cameron Tucker and Mitchell Pritchett, know that their roles are important to help the gay community gain acceptance. "Jesse and I get comments and compliments all the time from gay moms and gay dads who watch the show," Eric said at the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday (Jan. 31) in LA.
Sofia Vergara is such a good mom! She stalked Johnny Depp for her son!
"And, kids of same-sex relationships say, 'Hey, thanks for being a couple that I can point to when kids pick on me at school,'" Eric adds. "They say 'Cam and Mitchell are kind of like my family.'" Isn't it great that such a funny sitcom is helping kids deal which what can be a very serious issue?
Julie Bowen admits that she always wears Spanx!
The fan reactions make Eric's job that much more fulfilling. "Things like that transcend our job," gushed Eric. "We get really great compliments that make us feel like what we do is worthwhile!"
HollyMoms, can you relate to any of the couples depicted on Modern Family?
– Lindsey DiMattina, reporting by Lorena O'Neil
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Johnny Lewis Black, 59 of Dzilth-na-o-dil-hle, passed away May 25, 2010, in Farmington, NM.
He was born to Daniel and Ruth Black on October 3, 1950 in Monticello, UT. He was born to the Notah-Tachii'nii and for the Bit'ahnii clan.
He is survived by his wife, Marie Werito-Black, his children: Tyra Leslie (Ebin) of Polacca, AZ, Brian Joe (Katie), of Kirtland, NM, Shannon Joe (Leander), of Peoria, AZ, Cheri Black-Begay (Bodge) of Bloomfield, NM, "Sonny" (Johnny) Black (Dre), of Dulce, NM, and Marshaun Black (Sheridan, of Dulce, NM. Grandchildren: Amber Naha, Season Black; Dana, Tylar, and Gabriel Tewawina; Kyler & Kyra Joe; Jalen, Kiana, & Devyn Gracia; Lukeise & Kanin Raye; Tylia & Trayo Morgan; Sequoia Begay; Saleisha Black, of Blanding, UT; Sisters Marylou Jones, of Blanding, UT and Arlene (Rodney) Hatch, of Towoac, CO. Foster Family, of Ogden, UT, and various nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by his father (Daniel Black) and his foster parents, of Ogden, UT.
He proudly served as a Vietnam Veteran with the Marine Corp and served from 1969 – 1970. He worked for Williams WPC-I, Inc., Bloomfield, NM for 29 years. Work with Navajo Police, Navajo Nation Aneth Community Boarding School.
A memorial service was held Saturday, May 29, 2010, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 804 Blanco Blvd., Bloomfield, NM promptly at 10 a.m. Burial at the Garden of Freedom at Memory Gardens.
Motorcycle escort from the Church of Latter-day Saints in Bloomfield to Memory Gardens of Farmington. All veterans and non-veterans are invited to ride in memory of Johnny L. Black. A Vietnam Veteran, Branch; Marines.
Was well known, lots of friends in Aneth, Blanding area. Numerous relatives in White Mesa, UT and Towoac, CO and in Monument Valley, Grew up in Blanding area.
Send Condolences to Marie Black, PO Box 695 Bloomfield, NM 87413 or Ruth Black, PO Box 95, Blanding, UT 84511.
Card of thanks
Many, many thank you's to all the people that have donated food, money, love, prayers, words of encouragement, and attendance of the service of our beloved husband, father, grandpa, uncle, brother, and friend. We will miss him dearly. May God bless you!
The Black family


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Colorado ranks 10th in economic benefits from the cruise industry
Anchors Aweigh, Colorado.
You, in all your landlocked glory, rank 10th nationally in state economic impact from the North American cruise industry.
And, no, I am not talking about car cruising. I am actually referring to those giant floating resorts that set sail across large bodies of water, carrying passengers who willingly pay for captivity.
The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) commissioned an independent study that found Colorado's cruise industry expenditures reached $413 million in 2011 in direct spending.
How is it even possible that the cruise industry is spending that much in our state?
"One reason is Avalon Waterways, one of the fastest growing river cruise lines, which is headquartered in the state," said Christine Duffy, CLIA's president and CEO, in a statement.
Tourism-related businesses — such as travel agencies, airlines and hotels — accounted for 4.3 percent or $17.6 million of the cruise industry's direct spending in Colorado.
Robert Polk, chief executive of Polk Corporate Travel Management in Denver, is befuddled by that figure.
"That can't possibly be right. That's not near enough," Polk said. "We will probably scare about $5 million in cruises ourselves, so I don't know where that number comes from."
Hmmm. Either Polk is booking a third of the Colorado's cruisers, or the research is skewed.
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August 08, 2014
ISTANBUL (AP) — For the first time in its history, Turkey is directly electing its president on Sunday in a contest considered a turning point for the country of 76 million people — with its prime minister the strong favorite for a job he has pledged to transform from a symbolic role into one of real power.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's dominant politician over the last decade, is seen by many as aiming to solidify his grip on power after serving three consecutive terms as prime minister at the head of his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party. An absolute majority is needed to avoid a runoff on Aug. 24.
The 60-year-old Erdogan is revered by many as a man of the people who ushered in a period of economic prosperity, reviled by others as an increasingly autocratic leader trying to impose his religious and conservative views on a country with strong secular traditions.
His campaign has been bold and bitter. A gifted public speaker, he has poured scorn upon his rivals, casting doubt upon their Turkish identity and even accusing his main challenger of being part of a shadowy coup conspiracy he says is run by a former associate living in the United States.
"This is a critical juncture for democratization," said Ersin Kalaycioglu, political science professor at Istanbul's Sabanci University. "We are not only voting for one guy over another. We're voting for whether Turkey is going to be authoritarian versus whether Turkey is going to improve on its democratic record."
If he wins, many fear he will appoint a pliant prime minister he can control — and concentrate all true power in his own hands. Erdogan already tried and failed to change the constitution to give the presidency more clout. But he has vowed to activate latent powers he says already exist for the position, such as calling and chairing cabinet meetings.
"He doesn't seem to appreciate that even if you have the majority behind you, that does not necessarily give you power to do whatever you want," said Ilter Turan, professor of political science at Istanbul's Bilgi University. "In the event he wins, which he appears likely to do, he will push this line to dominate the system."
Erdogan's two challengers are Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, a 70-year-old academic who enjoys the support of nearly a dozen opposition parties, including the main republican and nationalist parties; and Selahattin Demirtas, 41, a Kurd who heads a left-leaning party and has already made a name for himself on the minority Kurdish political scene.
A religious man who supports Turkey's deep traditions of secularism, Ihsanoglu headed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for a decade until this year. In contrast to Erdogan's divisive, often abrasive campaign, he has run on a platform of unity and has promised not to engage in party politics.
"I stand for democracy, for secularism, for pluralism and transparent democracy," Ihsanoglu said after the start of campaigning last month. "I am against the accumulation of power in one hand. I think that would lead to more centralized government and an unwelcomed totalitarian regime that Turks don't want to have."
But while he enjoys the backing of several parties, those parties' supporters have not all united behind the political newcomer. "The republicans suspected that he was too much religion, the nationalists thought that he was not nationalist enough," said Turan, the political analyst. "But in fact, this is precisely the type of candidate you actually needed, because … Turkish society is divided right in the middle" between the more pious and conservative, and those with a more secular, Western and liberal outlook.
Demirtas is expected to trail in third place, but could be instrumental in potentially leading the election to a second round by attracting part of the Kurdish vote away from Erdogan. The prime minister has enjoyed support among the minority, estimated at 20 percent of the population, for relaxing restrictions such as the right to be educated in Kurdish or give children Kurdish names.
There have been several incidents, however, that sparked widespread outrage and potentially put Erdogan's popularity with his electoral base at risk. The most recent was the mining disaster in the western town of Soma, where 301 miners were killed in a fire blamed on poor safety standards. Erdogan's response was seen as callous, including a dismissive comment about mine accidents being commonplace; images emerged in the media of one of his aides kicking a Soma protester held down by armed police. Anger at his handling of the disaster led to violent protests and calls for his resignation.
Many were also infuriated by his reaction to demonstrations last year, where an environmental protest against his plans to replace central Istanbul's Gezi Park with a shopping mall spiraled into nationwide anti-government protests following a heavy-handed police response. Several people were killed in clashes with police.
Critics also point to what they say was a massively one-sided election campaign where Erdogan used his clout and the funding he enjoys from his premiership to ensure blanket coverage for himself. "It became a very unfair process from the very beginning," said Kalaycioglu.
Yet Erdogan still commands near adoration from his core supporters — mainly, but not only, the more conservative and religious Turks who feel he has given them a voice and improved their daily lives with better access to health care, education and infrastructure.
Few doubt he will emerge victorious in these elections.


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Many are heralding Chef as the most delicious comedy of 2014! When chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner (Dustin Hoffman), he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife (Sofia Vergara), his friend (John Leguizamo) and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love. (R, 1hr, 55min)
July 14-16, Monday-Wednesday, 7:00PM
Thalian Hall Main Stage
"A colorful, great-looking film, with an infectious soundtrack." - Richard Roeper, RichardRoeper.com


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Child's Dress
Description: Tunic-style dress for a child. Of off-white cotton with an intricate floral motif print in various shades of greens and pinks outlined in a thin line of grey; yoke with shirring at center-back and pin pleats below yoke at center-front; 1" straps with tiny floral print of pinks; yoke is lined in off-white cotton and dress has attached under-layer with 1 ½" hem that matches print on straps; A-line silhouette.
Date: 2010
Creator: Liberty of London
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It is well known that satisfiability of Horn formulae can be checked in polynomial time using unit propagation.
But suppose we relax the condition for horn clauses from at most one un-negated literals to two un-negated literals. Then is it possible to prove that satisfiability of such a formula can be checked in time polynomial in the size of the formula?


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Goats help wetlands area control plants
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Managers of a wetlands area near Davenport are turning to goats to rid the area of invasive plants.
The Quad-City Times reports (http://bit.ly/14zBMiy ) facilitator Brian Ritter decided to give goats a try after failing at other efforts to remove invasive plants that crowd out native varieties in the Nahant Marsh area.
Ritter says the 24 goats that arrived from Wisconsin in late May have made a huge difference.
Naturalist Amy Loving says it takes the goats only hours to clear areas choked with brush.
The goats are kept inside a portable fence and moved every day or two.
Nahant Marsh is a wetland west of Davenport. It's owned by the city.