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Yanks in 'aggressive' mode heading into Meetings
NEW YORK -- The Yankees know they have needs to fill, but they are announcing that they have money to spend and are open for business, which could create some terrific shopping opportunities when baseball's Winter Meetings kick off next week in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said that his family has had a good track record over the years of reinvesting "found money" into the ballclub, and an early $238 million spending spree to lock up catcher Brian McCann and outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury helped prove the point.
NEW YORK -- The Yankees know they have needs to fill, but they are announcing that they have money to spend and are open for business, which could create some terrific shopping opportunities when baseball's Winter Meetings kick off next week in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said that his family has had a good track record over the years of reinvesting "found money" into the ballclub, and an early $238 million spending spree to lock up catcher Brian McCann and outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury helped prove the point.
The Yankees may have needed a few moments to regroup after second baseman Robinson Cano agreed to a 10-year, $240 million deal with the Mariners on Friday afternoon. But New York has been speaking all offseason about the possibility of losing Cano, compiling contingency plans to prepare for that chance.
Now, the Yankees say they are ready to strike at whatever opportunities come their way, and did just that on Friday night, coming to terms on a three-year, $45 million deal with outfielder Carlos Beltran, according to multiple reports.
"We're being aggressive," general manager Brian Cashman said. "We're trying to sign and or trade for anything that can help us improve and fill the voids that we've got, because we've got voids."
Here is a quick glance at the Yankees' situation heading into the Winter Meetings, which return this year to the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort:
Club needs
Rotation: Cashman said that he needs to import 400 innings to slot behind CC Sabathia and Ivan Nova. Hiroki Kuroda's return figures to solve half of the problem. The in-house rotation candidates include David Phelps, Adam Warren and Michael Pineda. The Yankees would love to bid on Japanese standout Masahiro Tanaka, but the posting process with Nippon Professional Baseball is still up in the air. Free agent Matt Garza has been mentioned as a fallback option.
Bullpen: David Robertson is the favorite to serve as Mariano Rivera's replacement, but he is not a lock. A closer is low on the Yankees' list of priorities, but they might still get serious with one -- Grant Balfour -- perhaps. There are also holes to fill in the late innings; Cashman said that he would like to retain left-hander Boone Logan, while the Yanks expect to have Shawn Kelley and Preston Claiborne playing a role in the mix.
Second base: Manager Joe Girardi said that it is too early to fret about the hole at second base, quipping, "If it was February, I'd be concerned." The Yanks finished a one-year deal with Kelly Johnson, but he's not their ideal fit. More likely, they'll negotiate with free agent Omar Infante or talk about a trade for the Reds' Brandon Phillips. Some fans have suggested moving Alfonso Soriano back to second base, but the Yankees do not consider that to be an option.
Shortstop: At the moment, Derek Jeter is the Yankees' starting shortstop. But that brings great question marks, after he was limited to just 17 games by injuries last year. As insurance, they have re-signed defensive whiz Brendan Ryan, which is a nice support option, but Ryan doesn't offer much pop at the plate. The Yankees have talked with Scott Boras about Stephen Drew, who may be able to fit in the budget now that Cano is in Seattle.
Third base: Cashman has said that until he is told otherwise, the Yankees are operating as though Alex Rodriguez and his $25 million salary are on the books for 2014. Even if arbitrator Fredric Horowitz shreds the entire 211-game suspension, A-Rod's recent injury history suggests that the Yankees should prepare for an extended absence. Mark Reynolds seemed to be a nice fit late last season and could be among the options considered.
Who they can trade if necessary
Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki: Adding Ellsbury and Beltran to the mix figures to bump Brett Gardner to left field, with Soriano seeing more time at designated hitter. Suzuki has one year remaining on his contract at $6.5 million, and while he would be a strong fourth outfielder with added marketing value, the Yankees might entertain moving him under the right circumstances.
Outfielder Vernon Wells: Since a dash of financial wizardry has Wells actually not costing the Yankees anything against the luxury tax in 2014, it's possible he could be deleted from the roster long before Opening Day. The Yankees would be open to listening to a deal; otherwise, he'll attend Spring Training and compete for a bench job.
Gardner: The Yankees say that dealing Gardner is not on the table, but stranger things have happened. There is something appealing about having Ellsbury and Gardner in the lineup as a dynamic duo, and that's apparently what the team is planning on. You can be sure that won't stop teams from asking about Gardner, who is projected to be quite affordable next year at about $4 million and is looked at as an Ellsbury-lite type of player.
Catchers: The Yankees have pushed all of their chips in on having McCann behind the plate for most of the next half-decade, so any competition in the spring will be to serve as his backup. Francisco Cervelli, Austin Romine and J.R. Murphy all figure to be in that mix, and Cervelli should have a leg up on that fight since estimates show he'll be earning close to $1 million as an arbitration-eligible player. Romine and Murphy are young and got some big league time last year, so if a team needs catching help, they'll probably be checking in.
Infielder Eduardo Nunez: "Nuney" had a good shot to show the Yankees what he could do as an everyday shortstop with Jeter's injury problems in 2013, and it's unlikely he'll have the same opportunity next season -- for a variety of reasons. The Yankees only really see him as a shortstop and are reluctant to give him much of a crack at a utility role, but his athleticism may tempt another club to gamble. As much focus as his spotty fielding has received, Nunez owns just a .692 OPS in 752 big league at-bats.
Top prospects
The Yankees' top 10 prospects, per MLB.com, are catcher Gary Sanchez, outfielder Mason Williams, outfielder Tyler Austin, right-hander Rafael De Paula, infielder Eric Jagielo, outfielder Zoilo Almonte, outfielder Slade Heathcott, left-hander Manny Banuelos, left-hander Ian Clarkin and right-hander Ty Hensley.
Cashman always talks about the farm system as being a collection of chips, either to be used by the Yankees for themselves or in trades to get pieces that they need. That's not uncommon around the game, but dealing some of those chips might figure more into the plans now that the Yankees have resumed their trademark of filling needs with big free-agent commitments. This also calls to mind another favorite quote of Cashman's: "Prospects are suspects until they make it."
Rule 5 Draft
The Yankees' 40-man roster is at 38 players, but they will eventually need three slots for players with whom they have agreed on contracts but not officially added: Beltran, Ellsbury and Kuroda. The Yanks did not select or lose any players in last year's Rule 5 Draft; in 2011, they took pitchers Cesar Cabral and Brad Meyers.
Big contracts they might unload
Every year, we note -- mostly as a pre-emptive strike against the email link at the bottom of this page -- that Rodriguez's contract will not, and cannot, be moved. That's never been more true than this year. Wells ($24.6 million) qualifies as a big contract, and the Yankees would certainly talk trade, but because he doesn't count against their luxury tax bill, they also could freely consider releasing him if necessary.
Soriano is earning $19 million, but only $4 million of that is charged to their bill; still, after his red-hot second half last year, there's little reason to think the Yankees are looking to deal him. At $6.5 million, Ichiro's deal qualifies as one that the Yankees would think about moving.
Payroll summary
You might have heard that the Yankees have a goal of knocking their payroll below $189 million in 2014. It's not an absolute mandate, and club officials have been adamant that it will not come at the expense of fielding a championship-caliber club.
"The first and only directive is a championship-caliber squad," Cashman said. "After that, the goal is, if you can stay under $189 [million] when doing it, go ahead. We'll see how it all plays out."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.


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Joe Palooka will return to the ring later this year in what IDW Publishing bills as the first-ever full-length MMA comic book.
The classic comic-strip boxer was resurrected last year by ring announcer Joe Antonacci, who purchased the rights to the character and reimagined him as a Mixed Martial Arts fighter in a six-issue online series by writer Mike Bullock and artists Fernando Peniche and Matt Triano. Adding letterer Josh Aitken and colorist Bob Pedroza into the mix, IDW will release those comics in print.
Created by cartoonist Ham Fisher, the Joe Palooka comic strip appeared in newspapers from 1930 to 1984, following the adventures of a good-natured (if not overly bright) boxing champion. The character proved so popular that he starred in radio serials, feature films, comic books and a syndicated television series.
The new version centers on an MMA fighter who travels the world trying to clear his name while competing to earn a sport in the legendary Legion of Combat fight series.
"This represents a huge moment for me, and is a culmination of a real team effort," Antonacci said in a statement. "To sign on with a tremendous publisher like IDW and to have the opportunity to bring Joe Palooka to comic book and MMA fans worldwide is a tremendous opportunity. We're also proud to have sponsored many UFC fighters and plan to expand our relationship with them by having UFC fighters appear in the comic book as well."


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The Other Brothers is an upcoming game, aimed initially at the iPhone, that's "a pixelated family fun adventure" featuring stuff like "running, jumping, collecting, racing against the clock..."
All of which sounds familiar, but the developers - which include the talents of artist Bjorn Hurri, who we've featured on Kotaku previously — promise there's a twist!
No idea what that could be, as I'm too busy just looking at this wonderful pixel art.
The developers tell Kotaku that alongside the side-scrolling action there'll also be a healthy dose of comedy. If you like what you see, you can keep abreast of The Other Brothers' development at the game's site below.
The Other Brothers [Official Site]


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There are many fads that come and go in Hollywood, but one that will never disappear is the spy thriller. From James Bond to Jason Bourne To Jack Ryan, audiences have spent decades watching their favorite male stars kick ass and shoot people. Brad Pitt has had some experience playing the character type, having played in movies such as Mr. And Mrs. Smith and Spy Game, but now it's his turn to go hardcore.
Deadline has learned that Pitt is now in negotiations to star in The Gray Man, an adaptation of the Mark Greaney novel that is set to be directed by James Gray. In the film, Pitt would play Court "The Gray Man" Gentry a former CIA operative who becomes an elite assassin. When the life of Gentry's handler is put in jeopardy, however, he must travel across Europe and take down special forces operatives in order to save him. Pitt was first mentioned in connection with the project back in January, but it wasn't clear if the actor would be available (he and Jolie don't do projects at the same time so that one of them can be with the kids). The script was written by Adam Cozad, who also wrote the upcoming Jack Ryan reboot starring Chris Pine.
It's fairly surprising that Pitt has never really played a character like this before. He does have action experience and the strong jaw looks of a professional spy-turned-assassin. Considering that Court Gentry is part of a series of novels, perhaps this could be a brand new franchise. Needless to say, this is long overdue and should the negotiations go through, we could be in for a fun ride.


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Nashville Season 1 Episode 1 recap
"If you ever get a facelift, I'm gonna leave you…just kidding." This is something Rayna's husband says to her, and man, there's no line that encapsulates more what this show threatens over our heads, no?
I am less delighted than I am relieved. Plenty delighted, that is, but still more relieved.
Do you know what a big undertaking this was? To create a world (the Nashville Music Scene, which is virtually unknown on the TV scene); to show us all these intersecting families, professional and otherwise; to introduce not just the two female stars, Rayna and Juliette, but all the men and women whose lives are centered around their careers -- it could so easily have gone wrong, been boring, been bland. But it was engaging and compelling and there are at least a couple of songs I've been singing since I watched it – even one by the dreaded Juliette.
So let's start with the songs. Can you watch the show if you don't like country? Of course you can. I'm not going to join the chorus of comparisons to Friday Night Lights, but you didn't think you were a football fan either now did you? Besides, country music is so straightforward in its pain, there's no way you can't relate.
And Lord there is pain. Let's see, just in the very beginning here, Rayna's husband isn't her equal, her Daddy wants her to show up to things when it's convenient for him, but obviously doesn't support her career and thinks it's all due to him. Oh, and he's implied one of her daughter's daddies is not the same as the other. She's about to be dumped for a younger star if she doesn't suck it up and say that Juliette's the greatest thing going and she's happy to support her. She might lose her band leader Deacon too.
Oh, but she might lose Deacon anyway – Deacon whose songs are all about Rayna, Deacon who can't help mentioning that Rayna's "a great overnight", Deacon who didn't take long at all to wind up in Juliette's clutches rather literally. I wanted to like him because he's Rayna's confidante, and probably her real love, but how could I when he's so easily swayed? Especially when he's spitting lines about how the one thing that's going to make him happy was gone a long time ago? How can he say garbage like that with one side of his mouth and kiss Juliette with the other?
I don't want to tar all these men on the show with the same brush, but damn, there are many of them, aren't there? Deacon, Teddy the husband, Randy the songwriter, Wyatt the producer, Lamar the father, Bucky the tour manager – not to mention Gunnar over at the café and Avery, boyfriend of Scarlett. Yes, I did have to google all those names. I know they'll come clearer, but on a show like this where everyone wears a button-down shirt and has the same haircut, it's hard to distinguish exactly who's who to whom…
I have to confess that though that song at the end was absolutely haunting, I thought Scarlett's wide-eyed eagerness was kind of over-the-top but I thought that when I read the script, too, so maybe it will be tempered in future episodes especially since she clearly has some stories of her own.
And then we come to our two leading ladies...
Dudes, there is no love lost between Hayden P and me, but boy-damn is she good at being the overdone spoilt bitch who knows exactly what she's doing and feels entitled to all of it. I really liked her in the smaller moments, not just when she's cutting down Rayna in the scenes you'd expect, but when she's talking to her assistant like she doesn't understand why she's the only one who can talk sense. "I can't pick the bottle if I don't know what it smells like." Juliette really thinks she's the smartest, the best, the most talented (that line about autotune was there from the script, but she really didn't sound like she needed it, did she?). You can't be successful if you don't believe you should be, so I kind of…couldn't get mad at her, beyond her being an obnoxious twit.
Also, I don't have a huge understanding of country music repertoire or it stars, but when we're talking about "thank God for autotune" and "biggest crossover artist in years" and "you're just a girl [pretending to be a woman]" and "what she's doing isn't really country"….you tell me, y'all, am I supposed to be thinking of someone else, other than the person I so obviously am thinking about? Another blonde girl whose teardrops are on her guitar?
Then there's our girl Connie Britton. Let's be clear that despite some southern-girl clothes and hair – and a twang that is simultaneously the same and different – this is not Tami Taylor we're watching. She is, of course, as gorgeous, and that's part of Rayna's appeal – she is at once a star and the girl next door -- but this woman is bigger by far. She's less polite, she has "diva dips", she's not above screaming at her father and she loses control. Rayna is a performer, yes, but she might not be a singer (Britton has said she's been challenged by the musical aspects of the show but I don't mind it as a character trait) and that doesn't matter, does it? When you've sold out stadiums for years and won nine Grammys, you are an unmitigated success, right? So if you have edges that are less polished, or moments when you burst in on your songwriter, seeming a little desperate, well, those are understood. For those who are looking for Mrs. Coach, there's not that level of control here. Rayna is louder and rougher and a little more full of herself. When she asks Watty, with a hair toss, whether Juliette's just a flash in the pan, she's willing him to say yes. When he doesn't, she doesn't catch her face falling as quickly as it should. Nor does she smile with the same delighted conviction as Tami Taylor did when she stepped out beside Coach.
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Team Garmin-Transitions, Team HTC-Columbia and USA Cycling today announced the American Pro Tour squads will auction seats in their team cars to benefit the USA Cycling Development Foundation. The auction is now live at www.usacdf.org. Participants can win the chance to ride in a mechanic's car to view the cobbles of the Classics up close.
Team HTC-Columbia is offering two seats for the Tour of Flanders on April 4th and Team Garmin-Transitions has two seats available for Paris-Roubaix on April 11th. The auction will be live on eBay from February 9th, 2010 to February 19th, 2010. The highest bidder for each auction will not only experience race action from a team car but will also have the opportunity to meet the riders and stay the night at the team hotels.
Teams Garmin-Transitions and HTC-Columbia are significant advocates of development initiatives and have a strong history of supporting young American riders. The auction marks the next step of the teams' partnership to continue helping USA Cycling produce future generations of international cycling stars. Details of the packages follow:
Parlez vous Pave?
2 seats in a Team HTC-Columbia mechanic's car where winners will catch Pave action up close
1 night at Team HTC-Columbia hotel
Meet-and-greet with Team HTC-COLUMBIA
Signed team jersey
2 seats in a Team Garmin-Transitions mechanic's car where winners will catch Pave action up close
1 night at Team Garmin-Transitions hotel
Meet-and-greet with Team Garmin-Transitions
View the finale inside the Velodrome
Signed team jersey
"Teams Garmin-Transitions and HTC-Columbia have long been committed to helping develop young American talent," said Steve Johnson, USA Cycling's CEO. "So we were thrilled when they came to us together with the idea of an auction to benefit USA Cycling's Development Foundation. To us, it is another example of the top two American teams working as one to continue to benefit the sport."
"This is one of the best days of the racing season and the viewing experience is superb. We at Slipstream Sports are very happy to partner with High Road in supporting USA Cycling in this way," said Doug Ellis, Chairman, Slipstream Sports. "Team Garmin-Transitions was founded to foster the next generation of American cycling champions and several of our athletes, including Christian Vande Velde, David Zabriskie, Danny Pate, Timmy Duggan, Steven Cozza, Kirk Carlsen, Peter Stetina and Tyler Farrar have had the benefit of working with USA Cycling's National Team programs as young Americans. That is a tradition we want to continue with new programs such as this auction."
"Team HTC-Columbia is focused on developing young athletes into the future leaders of the sport. ," said Bob Stapleton, owner of Highroad Sports. "More than half of the athletes on Team HTC-Columbia are under 26 years of age and are enjoying personal growth and success. The majority of our 85 victories in 2009 come from our youngest athletes such as Mark Cavendish. We look forward to working with USA Cycling in their mission to guide young American athletes to grow from aspiring amateurs to top-level professionals."
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Feds: Iowa lawyer has been fugitive for 2.5 years
Federal prosecutors are seeking the public's help in apprehending a disbarred Iowa lawyer who is wanted on mail and tax fraud charges.
Dennis Bjorklund has been a fugitive for 2.5 years and prosecutors are hoping that unsealing the indictment against him will help lead to his capture.
Bjorklund made a name for himself by falsely marketing himself as the nation's pre-eminent lawyer in drunken driving cases.
Prosecutors said Bjorklund underreported his income for years to avoid paying taxes on it and duped clients in various ways.
Among other things, prosecutors said Bjorklund encouraged clients to donate to a fake charity he controlled by promising it would lead to a lighter sentence in drunken driving cases.
The state Supreme Court disbarred Bjorklund in 2006 after determining he "lies with reckless abandon."


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I always dreamed of being a rock star, like my daddy was. (Not a famous one, unless you're from Delaware in the 80's, so don't bother googling him). In a lot of ways, we do much the same thing, I think. We both write things for a living, though I don't get to write a few versus and then repeat a chorus, so I guess I win this round. We both have pretty buff fingers, though you don't need to trim your nails or develop callouses to type, so I guess he wins that round. We both had to learn other languages (music/HTML) and we both had to just embrace the fact that to do what we love best, we had to learn to drink.
The thing that separates the boys from the men in our situtation is 'the road'. My dad did his very best work on when he traveled but I...well...I suck when I travel. I take a million notes on tissues and cocktail napkins. I write opuses in matchbooks. I write up my arms if I have to because, like my dad, traveling inspires me but unlike him, I don't do a damn thing about it. I blow my nose on the tissues and roll my gum in the cocktail napkins and burn the matchbooks because, um, burning things is fun, shut up, and nothing I write when I travel ever sees the light of day.
I was in China in September and have yet to write about the culture, the history or the squat toilets. Last night, I returned home from Boston which is an extrememly cool city filled with history and vibrancy and art and I found myself utterly inspired, doodling furious notes on every scrap of paper I came across.
Of course, all I have to show for it is a video of kids playing songs with their noses.
I can't even imagine how proud my father must be right now.


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VANCOUVER — It's been a while now, going on 14 years actually, since Brian Burke pulled off his draft-day coup that saw him net both Daniel and Henrik Sedin for the Vancouver Canucks.
The twins are destined to become the two greatest scorers in Canucks history and Henrik was quick to note Wednesday that it wouldn't have happened without Burke's dealing.
Burke was eventually fired by the Canucks in 2004, then moved to Anaheim and won a Stanley Cup there before taking over the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2008. In a stunning development Wednesday, the bombastic Burke was dismissed by the Leafs.
"Yeah, of course, we have to thank him for drafting us," Henrik said. "I mean, he was the one who pulled it off. We didn't think it was going to happen and for him to do that and believe in us. We don't know what would have happened otherwise so we're really pleased we are where we are."
Henrik recalled that Burke remained a fan of the twins even though their early years with the team were hardly all-star stuff. Henrik never had more than 42 points in four seasons under Burke while Daniel reached 54 points in 2003-04 after three mediocre campaigns with 34, 32 and 31 points.
"He was always great to us," Henrik emphasized. "He had patience with us and I think a lot of GMs maybe would have pulled the trigger earlier and maybe we would have been somewhere else. Brian was always supportive and that's something we should be thankful for."
Henrik also played for Dave Nonis, the new Leafs GM, who was Burke's successor in Vancouver. Nonis was himself fired in 2008 and replaced by Mike Gillis.
"I think Dave Nonis and Burkie are very similar in the way they want to build their teams but they have different personalities," commented Henrik, understating the case somewhat. "I mean, Nonis is really low key and very soft-spoken while Burkie maybe likes to be in the spotlight a little bit more. So I think that's the biggest difference."
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Yes. I believe Fender has been pretty good about having the MIM roll out with the classic specs on the necks.
Why am I missing? My G&L ASAT Special has a 12" radius, 1.75" nut and ebony fretboard. My favourite spec!
Build bridges, not walls.
My fav neck ever is AVRI 64' tele. I might need another one like that for my partcaster, so I'm looking on Reverb, especially Stratosphere store where you can buy necks and bodies separate, and all they list those new Fender necks with nothing like what I'm looking for. I'm all for variety, but doesn't seem like Fender cares about their own tradition!
The G&L 12" radius 1.75" nut is THE modern recipe. It's what the modern player prefers. Check out Umphreys McGee at their next concert. (Those guys can really play, by the way.)
I was just having a nostalgic moment above for the Fenders from the 50s-70s that had the narrower nut and very curved neck radius. I grew up on them (two Stratocasters an Esquire and a Telecaster--a '65, a '68, a '57, and a '69, respectively). Those guitars sounded great and were wonderful for country, Western swing, blues, rock, and even jazz.
Compared to those guitars, all other guitars have necks that look like classical guitars--especially my '65 Stratocaster, which feature a B-neck. It was 7.5" radius with a 1-5/8" nut. (The A-neck actually had a 1-1/2" nut!) My Esquire and Telecaster were also B-necks. The '68 Stratocaster--which I kept for 45 years--featured a C-neck (1-3/4" nut).
As I gravitated more and more into rhythm playing, I noticed some guitars made my left hand cramping. I still didn't make a connection, but once I got my first hollowbody Guild x-175 RI, it was such a breakthrough in playability! I wondered why no Gibsons ever felt that good, and thats where I found out narrower necks and smaller radius is the perfect match for me.
I also found out that majority prefers the opposite, ha. I keep talking about it on forums and whatnot so whoever wants to know might notice there are people who do prefer different specs. Looks like I'm very much in minority though
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Very sweet! How does she play?"I'm opposed to picketing, but I don't know to show it." --Mitch Hedberg
+1 Love my teles! I have a 60 and 63 Fender CS Reissues. They are light and resonant - both with rosewood boards (Lake Placid Blue/Tortoise/Rosewood and 3 Color Sunburst/White/Rosewood + Double bound). Nothing like them!
I just received last month this Hahn 'Model C' (designed in collaboration with Jim Campilongo). A limited-run, no-frills guitar with a basic, thin finish, Fralin pickups, pine body and compensated radius fretboard. Can be strung through the body or as a top-loader. It's just a great T-style guitar.
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This thread helped me make the jump to jazzish guitar. Still working toward actual jazz. Found a good used deluxe, hated the N3 so gutted it and replaced all electronics vintage style with fender 52s. Sounds great. Compound fretboard is nicer than I expected 10-14. I can get the sound I want from round 9s and my 5 watt Ampeg.More gravel truck than Coltrane
Here's mine. It's a partscaster. Assembly as follows:
1. Body - Daphne Blue Deluxe Nashville Telecaster
2. Neck - Warmoth
3. Pickups - Fender Vintage Noiseless Tele with a Strat pickup
4. Tuners - Fender Vintage look locking
Finally got my first telecaster (and I wonder why I have waited for so long before buying one), a baja 60s with pau ferro fretboard. Now I'm a believer.
Here it is fresh out of the store:
Great guitar, love the sound and playability, can't put it down. The fret edges however need to be limed a bit.
Anyone had a play of the new Performer series? Looks interesting - getting tempted by the HS model and am going to seek one out to try when I am in London next month.
New to the world of jazz guitar, but I've been playing rock and reggae for 40 years. This is my 2015 Classic Vibe by Squier. I love the jazz tones it produces. It's stock except for an ElectroSocket jack cup. I don't like to over-think something as basic as a Telecaster, buy a good one and just play the hell out of it. It's an amazing invention.
(maybe it is already addressed in this thread but I'm too lazy to read it all back )
What stings do you use on your Tele? I use .011 Thomastiks Swings (flatwounds). Love the sound that gives!
(My tele is a modern player P90 Thinline body with Squier classic vibe neck with rosewood (or maybe Indian Laurel wood) fingerboard)
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A partscaster I finished recently. It's rapidly turning into my #1.
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<Plug + Bump>.......Jazz Tele Venture"When a wise man points at the moon the fool considers the finger."
I'm a lifetime user/fan of carved body archtops.
But, I am just going to say it: the Telecaster is the greatest electric guitar ever created, by a mile.
Jazzbow-Is that a Lollar CC pickup in the neck? Thanks
Such a great thread with beautiful pictures. I'll contribute with an old clip made with a standard Tele I have.
Thanks for the Tele clip. "Don't Worry Baby" is an absolutely classic Brian Wilson chart. You nailed it. Again, thanks.
My Esquire:
My Thinline:
Both are fantastic guitars. I really really love them.
From a local guitar luthier here in Norway (it did not come with orange strings, but I couldn't resist the temptation)
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Okay I'll admit I have no love for Telecasters. I don't begrudge anyone who does like or love them. What I don't understand is how this thread rates a sticky ?
There are a lot of great teles here! I love the idea of the tele, but I don't care for the 25.5" scale. I started out playing on a no-name Floyd Rose equipped strat copy but once I found a 24.75" I haven't looked back. Thought about a Warmoth conversion neck partscaster but haven't convinced myself I need one yet.Redeemed, Husband, Father, Veteran. Thankful for all four!
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Eastman Kodak (NYSE:EK) is in it deep. While Kodak is is trying to stave off bankruptcy via restructuring, crippling debt and troubles turning a profit mean there isn't much time on the clock. Back in November I wrote that Kodak stock was headed to zero, and at less than a dollar it looks like that prediction could be true before the year is out.
Amid all the mayhem, I got a great note from a reader last week. Floyd, who now lives in sunny California but was an employee of Kodak from 1965 to 1991, passed on an article written about the Rochester, N.Y., company's trouble amid a changing business landscape.
Floyd passed on an article from the Democrat and Chronicle dated Jan. 5, 1998. The headline? "Can Kodak Make Necessary Changes" One excerpt reads, "The solution to Kodak's problems is deceptively simple, but thwarted by a culture of fear in which management cannot afford the risk of 'looking bad.'"
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"Thinking back to the late 80′s when I was a technician in the Copy Products Division, my co-workers and I would have discussions about the future of Kodak's copiers. Back then, the digital age was just coming to light, so of course, we had no idea where that would end up."
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Mr. Tuite's article came out 10 years later and it kind of hit home. Kodak is a wonderful company, and I received three patents during my time in Copy Products, but I believe the thinking was too conservative when it came to pursuing certain new ideas.
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•The cost to business if something goes wrong.
•What you need to monitor: end-user transactions, firewalls, network devices,
physical and virtual servers, cloud, apps and web service, plus big data.
•How to maximize templates for easy deployment and continuous configuration.
•Use cases and how companies are managing incidents.
•Demonstration of deploying Micro Focus SiteScope and achieving ROI within 60
At the end of the webinar, don't forget to set Micro Focus the 60 Minute Challenge in your environment and see how quickly you can achieve ROI with real-time visibility.
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DevOps Tools: Bridging digital transformation
Sep 26 2019
35 mins
Dominic Colson | Stuart Ellershaw | Alan Humphrey | Micro Focus
In the previous webinars, we demonstrated the importance of a combined DevOps and Ops compliance strategy. Now, we'll show you how by combining them, compliant DevOps can help you reduce your meantime to repair.
Watch this live demo of AIOps via Micro Focus OpsBridge and Operations Orchestration to see how these solutions can help you:
- Reduce the Mean Time to Know – using synthetic user transaction to identify real-world user issues to reduce mean time to know by 30%
- Reduce the Mean Time to Identify – using AIOps and machine learning to consolidate and correlate events to reduce mean time to identify issues by 70%
-Reduce the Mean Time to Repair – using operation-efficient automation, reduce mean time to repair by 10%
- Reduce operation efficiency times by 50% – using operational task automation
Examine how the Micro Focus ITOM Suite of Apps can help organisations like yours meet your DevOps goals.
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Avoid DevOoops! Your guide to adopting compliance
Sep 26 2019
25 mins
Dominic Colson | Stuart Ellershaw | Alan Humphrey | Micro Focus
Everyone has heard about Dev, even DevOps – but what about SecOps and compliance?
You probably don't want to face a multi-million fine because of a customer data leak, likely to occur as a result of a lack of protection within an an app - but who is responsible for operational app security? Not Dev, they simply build the application. Not Sec, they simply monitor and alert you if there is a problem. So, it becomes the challenge of Ops!
Join Alan, Dominic and Stuart as they look at how including compliancy as a bolt-on is no longer adequate. Instead, compliancy of your security policies must be built into the complete DevOps workflow. If you are responsible for IT Operations, ensure you come to this webinar and learn:
- The importance of having security compliance built into the Dev process, rather than bolt-on
- How security policies help operations maintain healthy applications
- The importance of, and how to write and implement a response plan to handle potential security breaches.
Don't wait for a legacy fault to suddenly raise its head potentially leading to fines. Join our webinar for the latest SecOp strategies.
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Plan for Ops: The Challenge to DevOps
Sep 26 2019
32 mins
Dominic Colson | Doriane Alba | Mirco Focus
Join our webinar to understand the challenge of combining the Agile Strategy traditionally adopted by Dev, with the goal to develop and release applications within budget, and as quickly as possible, with the contrasting Waterfall Strategy adopted by Ops, which is a step by step approach to maintain a stable IT environment.
The Agile Strategy meets the needs of your organisation, but often the at the expense of the Waterfall Strategy that supports operational reliability. If this is a challenge you face, then attend this webinar and learn how to:
- Plan and develop security driven applications
- Why you need to monitor non-persistent compute using docker and cloud technologies
- Automate development seamlessly into operations using PaaS solutions
Discover how leading with Ops and the provision of an PaaS system for use by Dev, can solve your DevOps challenge.
Watch now
Technical deep dive demo of latest RPA technologies
Sep 25 2019
43 mins
Emiliano Tizzoni, Micro Focus | Alain Salesse, Micro Focus
Discover how to ignite your enterprise productivity by welcoming new robo workers and liberating your employees' brainpower!
Join RPA solutions experts Alain Salasse and Emiliano Tizzoni as they introduce a new way of doing business with Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation Solutions. You'll discover how they can give you the power to build, secure, and scale automate business processes, from legacy mainframes to the latest SaaS apps.
During this live demo, you will see:
- The easy-to-use design studio – enabling you to record screen actions and design end-to- end workflows
- The implementation of cross-platform connections – combining UI automation with API integration methods
- How to secure robots – using unique IDs and encrypted, role-based
credentials for centralised management
- The flexibility of robots – both resilient, detecting UI changes and automatically adapting as needed, as well as scalable, responding automatically to workload changes.
See for yourself how we have used our 40 years of experience automating legacy applications and modern user interfaces to create this single, purpose-built RPA solution.
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Transform Beyond IT: identifying RPA use cases
Sep 25 2019
41 mins
Gregory Rohmer | David Wallace, Micro Focus
There's a lot of hype about the business potential of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and in the previous webinar, we examined why.
In this webinar, you'll hear about some real-world RPA use cases: How a multi-national telco cut process costs by 40% with selective RPA implementation. How a banking group overcame manual processes through integration between legacy systems and modern applications. And, how an electronics company improved operational efficiencies.
Join Gregory Rohmer and David Wallace as they demonstrate that wherever there's a time-consuming task that involves the use of a legacy application, RPA can help.
Don't be one of those organisations that has employees spending too much time working on mundane, repetitive, error- prone tasks, when they could be adding value to your business!
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Understanding RPA – Your Digital Transformation Strategy
Sep 25 2019
41 mins
Gregory Rohmer | Patrick Kennedy, Micro Focus
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a key driver on the digital transformation journey—which is why, according to Deloitte, 53% of companies surveyed are ready to begin implementing RPA.
Don't get left behind! Join Gregory Rohmer and Patrick Kennedy from Micro Focus as they examine the business challenges that a professional RPA strategy can address—giving companies the power to build, secure, and scale automated processes across any enterprise.
During this webinar, you'll find answers to the most common RPA questions:
- Why do you need intelligent RPA to support your digital transformation journey?
- How do you automate with minimal changes to existing systems and apps?
- What should you be automating across the business and not just within IT?
- How do you plan your automation approach and RPA strategy, and what obstacles should you be aware of?
- How do you identify your business case? Can RPA really help to reduce costs?
Robots are faster and more accurate, and they reduce costs. Can you afford not to investigate the art of what's possible?
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Improve service; Using Analytics-led Automation
Sep 24 2019
51 mins
Scarlett Bayes, Service Desk Institute | Neville Ward | William Morris, Micro Focus
Join us for this final webinar on automation and learn how it can transform your IT Service Desk.
Scarlett Bayes from the Service Desk Institute (SDI) will discuss how AI, Automation, and Machine Learning can transform your traditional ITSM solution into an Enterprise Service Management (ESM) tool that delivers IT efficiency, improves service levels, and speeds up time to resolution. Scarlet will also point out efficiencies driven by automation that can be implemented across your enterprise environment.
This session offers a live demo of SMAX, our Micro Focus Service Management tool, presented by Neville Ward. SMAX automatically routes service requests, finds answers with advanced search, and offers virtual agents, social collaboration, and ChatOps driven by automation to identify patterns in incidents and solve requests quickly.
Register now to gain greater insights into how automation is reshaping service management.
Scarlett Bayes, Industry Analyst, Service Desk Institute
Neville Ward, ITSM Solutions Specialist, Micro Focus
William Morris, IT Service Management Sales Expert, Micro Focus
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Enhance productivity: Recognise Automation Use Cases
Sep 24 2019
50 mins
Marc Bernis | Simon Rogers | Micro Focus
In this webinar, our Automation Strategist, Marc Bernis will present a wide range of key automation use cases that cover your business estate. For example, have you considered HR processes? These are often employee dependent, which is why many companies are outsourcing their HR teams to a location where salaries and overall cost of infrastructure are lower. Yet, you could simply automate these and other processes to reduce costs, improve the accuracy of tasks, and boost efficiency in your organization.
Join Marc & Simon and learn how to recognise mundane, employee-dependent, and therefore high-cost processes that can be automated—from Finance to Administration and, of course, across your IT environment.
Discover today the processes that can be automated and start reducing costs, improving accuracy of tasks and boost organisational efficiencies.
Marc Bernis, Automation Strategy Consultant, Micro Focus
Simon Rogers, Senior Sales Executive, Micro Focus
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Reduce costs: Successful Automation Strategies
Sep 24 2019
49 mins
David Wallace | Marc Bernis, Micro Focus
If you look at the processes within your business, you'll probably be surprised—not only by the number, but also by how many are highly employee dependent. Now stop and consider that you aren't the only one to notice. As the CIO, your CEO is looking to you and IT to make these processes more efficient and lower costs—all while the complexity of the IT environment and the demand for IT resources is increasing.
Before you decide to cut processes, attend this webinar to learn about how to successfully leverage analytics and machine learning to drive automation strategies that blur the lines and replace human participation with technology, enabling consistency and scale.
Join automation experts David Wallace and Ken O'Hagan as they present a guide to creating an automation strategy, including:
- Identifying the processes you have
- Creating a detailed design plan to identify each step within a process
- Using the four-box methodology to prioritize your processes
- What to measure once the process is live
- Launch considerations, from training to awareness
By the end of this webinar, you'll have a step-by-step guide to creating and implementing a successful automation strategy, supporting your first step in the digital transformation journey.
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ALM Octane – Eliminating Waste & Bringing Order to the Chaos of DevOps (Part 1)
Sep 20 2019
41 mins
Rob Stock, Ray Tomany Senior Solution Architects
ALM Octane was built from the ground up to give organisations the ability to scale delivery processes beyond the team level and meet the needs of the enterprise.
One of its core abilities within this is to make sense of the myriad of different systems todays organisations have. Open source, 3rd Party, multiple delivery and development methodologies, not to mention all those test systems – trying to make sense and analyse all this information can be nigh on impossible. Enter ALM Octane.
Join this 2-part webinar to hear how organisations use the many capabilities of ALM Octane to eliminate the daily waste of manually trudging through many different systems, just to do what really should be the most simplest of tasks
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Good Identity Governance – have you adopted a risk informed approach?
Sep 17 2019
31 mins
Steve Garry, Micro Focus & Mick Rutherford, Micro Focus
Often, when organisations attempt to become compliant with privacy policies and regulations, they end up with point solutions that sit on the sidelines because they don't provide the key insights needed to help mitigate ever-present insider threats.
At Micro Focus, we've worked with many different cross-industry corporations to help them successfully implement identity governance solutions. We understand the delicate balance between too little and too much access—and what it takes to get it right.
Join us for this webinar to learn about how proactively managing security and identity risk in a centralized, structured way can help you avoid the most common issues that create risk.
We'll explain how a risk-based approach can ensure that:
- Any changes to access will conform to corporate policies
- Access already granted is appropriate
- Violations can be proactively and automatically detected and remediated
We'll also highlight the tools that you can implement to achieve a risk-informed approach to Identity Governance.
Steve Garry, Identity & Access Management Sales Specialist, Micro Focus
Mick Rutherford, IAM Solution Consultant, Micro Focus
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A Unified Approach to Data Life Cycle Management and Security
Sep 3 2019
14 mins
David Kemp, Business Strategist & Andrew Clake, Pre-Sales Manager in the Security, Risk & Governance division of Micro Focus
Business Information Supply Chain: A unified approach to Data Life Cycle Management and Security
Micro Focus has obtained insights from both Public & Private Sector clients on the key aspects of both data life-cycle management, as well as the security implications when continually managing identities, applications and data across the enterprise.
During this short session, we will be running through a simple planning info-graphic which details the benefits of:
• Having an overall view of the risk and strategy elements involved when managing data from creation to disposition
• Enabling a risk assessment and the prioritization of issues to be addressed
• Consequently deducing the validity of existing technology solutions and identifying gaps for remediation
David Kemp as Business Strategist and Andrew Clake as Pre-Sales Manager in the Security, Risk & Governance division of Micro Focus UK&I
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The Week that Data Privacy Became Personal!
Aug 8 2019
21 mins
David Kemp, Business Strategist, Security, Risk & Governance Division, Micro Focus
The anniversary of GDPR inception on May 25th, 2019 passing without any significant regulatory enforcement in the UK may have provided a false sense of security.
But just when you thought we had all negotiated safely through GDPR, the week of 15th July 2019 developed into the week that data privacy got real!
Join this webinar to take a closer look at:
- The recent GDPR implications
- Why not to take GDPR compliance for granted
- How to optimise compliance to advance your business.
Watch now
How AI and Automation Can Improve Your Service Desk
Jul 24 2019
34 mins
Noel Hopkinson, SMAX Specialist and Solutions Architect, Micro Focus
Join our webinar and learn how AI and automation can transform your service desk.
In this 45-minute webinar with our service management expert, Noel Hopkinson, you will learn how AI, automation, and machine learning can transform your traditional ITSM solution into an Enterprise Service Management (ESM) tool that delivers innovative, enterprise-wide services.
Get ready to see real-world applications that demonstrate how:
•AI and machine learning can improve IT efficiency.
•Automation improves service levels and speeds up time to
•Efficiencies driven by automated support can be implemented by
other departments.
•"Bots" can deliver a self-service catalogue for user-led resolution.
•All of the above can be implemented seamlessly with Micro Focus
Service Management Automation X (SMAX).
Register now to gain greater insights into the latest technologies reshaping service management today.
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Accelerate your SAP Transformation
Jul 15 2019
53 mins
Ahmed Singer & Jonathan Sprake, Senior Solutions Architects, Micro Focus
Meet our Application Delivery Management (ADM) portfolio
In the latest in a series of webinars on Test Automation, Ahmed Singer & Jonathan Sprake, Senior Solutions Architects, presents Micro Focus ADM: Accelerating SAP Transformation.
It is a walk-through of the Micro Focus® Application Delivery Management (ADM) portfolio and how these solutions can help to ensure a successful SAP transformation, at any scale.
With solutions for Service Virtualisation. lifecycle management, functional and performance testing, and service virtualisation the Micro Focus ADM portfolio for SAP is uniquely positioned to help ensure success.
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Rugged Continuous Delivery
Jun 18 2019
37 mins
Rob Stock, Senior Solutions Architect, Micro Focus
Improving pipeline release velocity and security.
Continuous Delivery is the direction of travel for the IT industry – but where does your business meet the buzzwords? And – crucially – how can it improve release times and maintain security in your pipelines?
Find out. Join Rob Stock, Senior Solutions Architect, for Rugged Continuous Delivery: Embedding security and release activities into your Pipelines.
This 40-minute session explains how Micro Focus ALM Octane enables a more rugged approach to Continuous Delivery that can embed security and release activities into your pipelines.
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Creating Digital Experiences for Higher Education
Jun 12 2019
47 mins
Micro Focus experts Neville Ward, SMAX Specialist, and Noel Hopkinson, Solutions Architect.
How to get it right for faculty and millennial students
If you need to support both faculty and digitally savvy millennial students—efficiently and within budget—complete the form opposite to register for our 45-minute webinar on 12 June 2019, at 11:00 a.m. BST, in partnership with WM Promus. Then get ready to learn how the latest release of Micro Focus Service Management Automation X can help you:
•Introduce intuitive self-service portals that expedite time-to-resolution.
•Help students help themselves with smart virtual desk agents.
•Offer peer-to-peer knowledge management support.
•Meet individual department needs with dynamic automated workflows.
•Create your own applications within minutes using our entirely
Codeless Configuration feature.
•Strengthen security with flexible in-cloud and on-premise deployment
With machine learning, analytics, and codeless automation, you can deliver new levels of service and workflow efficiencies to individual departments—transforming your traditional ITSM solution into a modern Education Service Management (ESM) tool.
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Micro Focus Service Virtualization: Quality, not constraints
May 29 2019
52 mins
Jonathan Sprake, Senior Solutions Architect, Micro Focus
Test Automation: Focus on quality, not constraints.
Functional and Performance Testing is easier when using an intuitive web dashboard providing regular updates on who is using what, when, and how it is performing.
So Micro Focus® Service Virtualization enables teams to easily create realistic simulations of service behaviour. It removes development and testing 'wait times' that can delay application delivery.
Join this webinar, Micro Focus Service Virtualization: Quality, not constraints, and presenter Jonathan Sprake, Senior Solutions Architect, will explain how we can make Test Automation as simple as reading this.
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Hit Your NetOps KPIs – Here's How: Webinar Details
May 23 2019
22 mins
Dominic Colson, Senior Solutions Architect at Micro Focus and Stuart Ellershaw, Senior Solutions Architect at Micro Focus
Your NetOps KPIs are probably pretty straightforward — cut IT costs, mitigate risk, and improve productivity. What's not so straightforward is how to meet them. We're here to help.
Attend our webinar to learn all about the latest, most effective automation, orchestration, and secure network operation tools and processes available. We'll cover:
• What NetOps 2.0 is all about.
• The 5 steps to successfully delivering NetOps 2.0.
• How to change by policy and not by chance.
• Reducing your tool chain and increasing release ROI
• How Network Operations Management from Micro Focus can accelerate
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Wisconsin Man Who Duped Father and Brother in $5.3 Million Ponzi Scheme Ordered to Pay $5 Million in Penalties
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it had obtained an order requiring a Wisconsin man to pay restitution and a fine exceeding $5 million for operating a Ponzi scheme that counted his own family among the victims. Eric N. Schmickle, 37, was ordered to pay the penalties as part of a CFTC enforcement action that accused Schmickle of operating a commodity-based Ponzi scheme that raised more than $5 million from investors. Schmickle was also criminally charged in connection with the scheme, and was sentenced to a three-year term last month.
According to authorities, Schmickle promised to trade commodity futures contracts through his companies, Q Wealth Management and Aquinas. Friends and family members, including Schmickle's father and brother, gave him $300,000 to start in 2009, with the understanding that Schmickle would be entitled to 25% of any investment profits. Schmickle promised investors he would achieve substantial gains, which attracted additional investors that subsequently contributed over $4 million. However, these promises of lucrative gains were untrue, and Schmickle was far from the successful trader he claimed to be. In fact, rather than 25% gains, Schmickle instead racked up trading losses that exceeded $3 million. Schmickle also misappropriated investor funds for his own personal expenses, and only several thousand dollars remained when the scheme was uncovered.
Schmickle plead guilty to a single count of wire fraud in July 2012, and his plea agreement called for him to pay approximately $3 million in restitution to victims. While federal sentencing guidelines called for a sentence ranging from 57 to 71 months, the federal judge tasked with sentencing Schmickle chose to make a downward departure from the recommendation.


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Just ran into my first case of blatant discrimination. I was applying for a job helping resettle refugees in the United States. I was excited to apply since I'm quite qualified for the position and it's always been something I wanted to do. There was a mention that I had to be able to work with "colleagues, resettlement partners, volunteers and Churches in the local community" but in my experience this shouldn't be any sort of problem since many people in churches are doing some amazing humanitarian work around the world.
But, at the very end of the application was a "test" asking if I agreed with "values" such as "The Example of Jesus as we serve those who are suffering from poverty and injustice, regardless of color, belief, or gender, as part of God's plan to redeem, reconcile, and restore the world. We seek to follow Jesus by living holy, humble, and honest lives individually and corporately." And other such garbage that had completely been neglected from the detail in their job posting which was grounded in reality. If they would have just said "We seek to live humble and honest lives individually and corporately" I would have been all about that, but that sentence was just a few key words too long.
A little research with a friend showed quickly that this is a federally funded organization which has a history of only hiring people who believe in Jesus. It was quite obvious on their website, not not at all in the job posting I was replying to.
So, I clicked the button that said No, I do not agree with their values, thus promising that I will not get the job. Thankfully there was a box that allowed me to explain my values, in which I typed:
In my studies and experience with the international community, I have seen that the best way to interact with people from other ethnicities is to respect the fact that they come from a diverse range of cultures, languages, and faiths. I feel my successes within people from beliefs different than my own are due to focusing on human compassion and morality rather than on religious belief systems. In this position I would not limit myself to helping people of just one faith, but rather helping people because it is the right thing to do. As World Relief is a federally funded organization, I am sure you must agree.
Anyway, a job like this probably requires me to hand out bibles and pray for people, demanding that they convert to Xianity if they want to receive help. As far as I am concerned, refugees have suffered enough and need all the help they can get...this type "help" only makes things worse.
So that's a job I won't be getting. I'd feel differently if they had been honest in their job posting, perhaps saying that "only people who believe a 2,000 year-old zombie Jew will be returning need apply." Still, I'm in a bit of a mood now as this was the first overt case of discrimination that has occurred to me as an atheist.
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There is a petition on change.org regarding this. I don't know how effective it is, but I signed it.
It's called:
Truly disgusting.
Anyone know if there are law suits attempting to repeal the executive order? It's clearly unconstitutional.
Just read the links. Wow. That's all I can say.
UPDATE: My representative from FFRF contacted me again today and said that it's not an issue they could pursue because it's part of the shitty faith-based-initiatives program (vulgarity mine, not hers). She sent me these links explaining it:
While this makes me sad, I was really impressed with Freedom From Religion Foundation, both in the timelessness of their responses and their professionalism. I can't donate right now since I'm searching for jobs, but this is a great organization to help out.
Makes you wanna click 'yes', accept the job, be handed the bibles, religious propaganda and then just throw away that crap when you're supposed to hand it out. Will make them have to print more (more expenses) plus will save countless refugees from being forced to have religion stuffed down their throats - most likely they have their own beliefs and will toss that crap anyway. THAT's why I throw away ALL bibles that are placed in my hotel room drawers...I do NOT pay to have religion shoved in my face when I open a drawer, ha.
Yes, please share any personal correspondence you have with the FFRF regarding this issue if you don't mind. I joined the FFRF upon learning of the death of Hitchens.
FFRF got back to me remarkably quickly and said that they would look into it. If any organization SHOULD get our tax dollars. I think when I am able to find a job (one that doesn't require me to say I believe in the supernatural) that I will donate a little to them for being so awesome.
I agree, email FFRF all your information. People who use tax dollars for religious beliefs need to be stopped. There are many civil rights that are being abused but go unchallenged. I believe it is the focus of the religious people to take control of government. The Catholic Church has done it and now the Angelicals are trying to do it. They know that the more they help and convert children and unstable men and women, the more control they have over the populous in the future.
@Dogly Exactly. How is it charity if you are only doing it to push your own agenda?
Bigots will never give up their bigotry. They must be forced to obey federal law. I hate that, "Get down on your knees, and I'll give you a piece of bread."
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