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The last pitch was so Texas of him. Just a big, nasty stream of dip spittle at convention. Josh Beckett built his entire career around embodying every archetype of the Texas power pitcher. He threw hard, he acted mean, he snarled, he grumbled, he won. He coordinated one of the great moments of ignominy in Red Sox history, heading the fried chicken-and-beer brigade, and he never bothered apologizing, because he didn't really care what anyone else thought.
So in this situation, on top of the mound Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, 8 2/3 no-hit innings in the books, a 3-2 count against the great Chase Utley, he chose the only pitch that could have prompted second-guessing. If Beckett leaves a curveball hanging, it happens, and if Utley dumps a changeup into left field, bummer, and if a fastball on the corners finds daylight, what an effort. A fastball down the middle, though? One right down the pipe, hollow of the knees, bisecting the plate like a knife halving a sandwich? If that goes for a hit, the very first question is: Who throws a fastball down the middle with a no-hitter on the line?
The answer is the pitcher smart enough to know it's the one thing a hitter won't anticipate. It's like the soccer player who strokes his penalty kick right up the middle because he knows the goalie is going right or left. There's always that sliver of a chance he's wrong, but the confidence it takes, the cool, needs to be bottled and sold.
Utley stared at Beckett's offering, of course, a 94-mph pea, the single hardest pitch he threw all day. And so began the celebration for the first no-hitter of his career and the first of the 2014 season, a 128-pitch, six-strikeout, three-walk gem of a 6-0 victory for the struggling Los Angeles Dodgers over the feckless Philadelphia Phillies. The Dodgers turned Beckett's personal space into a mosh pit, dumped a cooler of water on him and toasted the apex of his resurrection since Boston dumped him on the Dodgers two years ago.
Beckett's 2013 season ended with surgery to remedy the thoracic outlet syndrome that rendered him little more than mediocre for the Dodgers. Minus a rib from the procedure, Beckett came with the sort of stuff not seen from him for two years. While his fastball wasn't the 98-mph rocket fuel he threw as a 21-year-old, his 92 mph today more than suffices, especially with the curveball he's throwing nearly as often as his fastball.
It's a big, bendy beast, at 73 mph only 2 mph harder than the curves of soft-tossing Mark Buehrle and Bronson Arroyo. Only A.J. Burnett, his former teammate and opponent Sunday, throws his curve more than Beckett's 30.5 percent usage. He flung 40 of them against the Phillies, garnering four whiffs and making up for a sinker that didn't get a single swinging strike.
No-hitters are about luck as much as they are stuff, and for the 34-year-old Beckett to wait until his 14th season and 321st career start to get his first illustrates that. He's not better than he's ever been, and this wasn't the best start of his career. His World Series-winning shutout against the Yankees in 2003 as a 23-year-old was an all-time great performance. The no-no showed Beckett can cause havoc for an ill-constructed team that should be sponsored by Geritol.
Oh, sure, it also showed that Beckett still carries himself with that Texas swagger and that the Dodgers cannot be as bad as they've been so long as the similarly resurgent Dan Haren, Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke and Hyun-Jin Ryu stay healthy. Few rotations can match the Dodgers', and this is why they ate his contract during the Red Sox's mega-dump of 2012.
Beckett's contract was the price for getting Adrian Gonzalez, and now he's in his last year, no-hitting the Phillies for the first time in 36 years, throwing the Dodgers' first no-hitter since Hideo Nomo nearly two decades ago. He's not any smarter, not any more mature, not at all repentant, not anything but the Josh Beckett who spent his baseball career living by the ethos of his home state and never wavering.
When Beckett got a generous call for a strike on a curveball off the plate to bring Utley to a 3-2 count in the bottom of the ninth, in theory he had a choice. He could double up with his best pitch or flash the change that generated the most swings and misses Sunday or nibble at a corner – or go back to the one nobody expected.
Truth is, this wasn't a choice. This was Josh Beckett, Texas through and through, and he was going to do whatever he damn well pleased no matter what anyone else thought.
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When train my linear chain CRF with annotated observations, I feed it with a number of sequences containing observation values and a "ground-truth" label for each observation. I'm currently using the hCRF Matlab interface. (see 1)
In my case I have 4 continuous observation values (some in the interval [-1,1], some around [140, 200]; none outside [-10, 250] though). The label is an integer between 1 and 17, giving a total of 17 possible labels.
After training, my model consists of 17*17 = 289 edge weights and 17*4 = 68 window weights. Can I understand the edge weights as some sort of probabilities for state transitions (even though they are not actual probabilities in the range [0,1])? And what exactly do the edge weights tell me?
For reference, the CRF produces conditional probabilities of the form
$$p(y|x) = \frac{1}{Z(x)} \exp{ \left\{ \sum_{k=1}^{K} \lambda_k f_k(y, x) \right\}}$$
where to my understanding, the $\lambda_k$ are my edge weights and the $Z(x)$ are the window weights I get.
I read some tutorials about CRFs but I still do not quite understand, how the feature functions $f_k(y, x)$ are looking if I simply put in sequences of 4 tuples (the 4 observation values).
Thanks in advance for any pointers.

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Washington Territory's first doctors prescribed and made their own medicines compounded from plants. Plant leaves, roots and seeds were ground into powders and made into pills, liquids and plasters. Widely used were belladonna for headaches and cramps, bloodroot for throat infections and foxglove (digitalis) for the heart. Each prescription was "tailor made" and dosages often varied as well as plant combinations.
But there were early drug stores as well, such as the one run by Lot Wilbur in Snohomish who first set up at a temporary location and then settled in to a permanent place at 1201 First Street. By the time of the first Polk's city directory in 1893, Everett listed the Everett Drug Co., Hawley's, Lytle & McCauley, Watkin's Brothers and Webb's. Two pharmacies that would have a long life were Tozer's (1901) and City Drug (1917).
The Eli Lilly Company, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, was one of the earliest large pharmaceutical companies, its roots going back to the Civil War. More large companies formed in the U. S. in the early twentieth century. Gradually chemical drugs began to be made available, under professional supervision, insuring greater consistency and safety. At the same time, many pharmacists continued to compound their own medicines for decades. By 1970, only about one percent of prescriptions were compounded. Today medicinal compounding is continued mainly through traditional Asian, homeopathic and folk medicine.
Polk's Directory listing for Everett
1893 Everett Drug Company, Hawley's, Lytle & McCauley, Watkin's Brothers and Webb's.
1901-02 Everett Drug Company, Hardy Rice, Tozer's
1905 Everett Drug Company, Pioneer Drug, Quaker and Tozer's
1910 Owl Drug Store added to the 1905 list
1918 City Drugs, Dean's Pharmacy, Eagle Pharmacy, the Owl Drug Store and Quaker Drugs
1922 City Drugs, Owl Drug Store, Lowell Drugs
1933 During the Great Depression, there were 17 pharmacies in Everett and 16 others in the county.
1947 City Drugs (with Herb Knudsen), along with 21 others.
Text Courtesy Margaret Riddle
Images Courtesy Margaret Riddle and and O'Donnell
When LeRoy Carter came to Everett in 1946, he didn't plan to stay. World War II had just ended and he was serving aboard the cargo vessel USS Tate. The ship had been damaged in the invasion at Okinawa and was brought to the Everett Shipbuilding and Drydock Company for repairs. A blind date with Marilyn Nowak changed his life. A year later he and Marilyn married and soon went into business partnership as well, starting Carter's Drug Store at 2215 Broadway Avenue. Their marriage lasted 61 years and they ran the store for 41.
When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, Le Roy was in his senior year at a North Dakota college, planning to become a pharmacist. His school allowed him to fast track courses so that he could obtain his pharmacy license before enlisting in the Navy. Marilyn was an Everett girl, born in Tye, Washington, who had moved with her family (the Nowaks and the Goldthorpes) following a fire that destroyed the small town in the late 1920s. In Everett, she attended Garfield, North Junior and Everett High schools.
A Family Business
Following a large wedding—with five bridesmaids and a wedding cake made by collecting wartime sugar rations—LeRoy and Marilyn took up residence in Everett. Le Roy began working for Herb Knudsen at City Drugs, a business that could trace its roots to the early 1900s. With financial backing from his father, Le Roy was able to begin Carter's Drug Store in a building constructed by Marilyn's aunt, Naomi King to house a snack shop and the pharmacy. From the start, Marilyn was a full-time business partner, not only helping Le Roy but working in the snack shop as well.
The Carters had plenty of competition. When they opened their doors in 1948, there were already 22 other drug stores in town. In order to succeed, Marilyn and Le Roy knew they had to work harder than the rest. Other drug stores in Everett were closed on Sundays and on week days were open only until 6 p.m. Carter's was different. The drug store operated every day—even holidays—from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Marilyn recalls that LeRoy once worked for 18 months straight without a day off.
To local residents, the Carters were family. They were trusted and respected and their good reputation extended well beyond Everett's boundaries. It was not unusual for customers to travel long distances on holidays for needed prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines. In Marilyn's words, "Fourth of July was wild" as they often treated injuries from fireworks. In the 1940s the practice of "clinical pharmacies" had begun, which allowed licensed pharmacists to offer patient care in emergencies, thus optimizing the healing. And physicians trusted Le Roy to prescribe for their patients while they were away.
Having lost his mother when he was young, LeRoy considered Marilyn's mother to be his own mom and she came to live with them. When the Carters first baby arrived, Grandma Nowak helped with the child care. But often, the Carters cared for the baby in the pharmacy while waiting on customers. The Carters raised a son and a daughter. When the children were older, they worked in the pharmacy on holidays and customers would stop by to give the family holiday greetings. At times when a customer needed medicine for a child and could not pay, the Carters did not charge.
"We started from our first roll of Tums"
Carter's sold greeting cards and gifts, along with drugs. Marilyn became clerk, buyer and a Class A Pharmacist Assistant, which allowed her to count and package pills and keep business records. And on the occasional times when they briefly did not have a delivery boy, she and Le Roy personally delivered orders to homes and businesses. Marilyn remembers one delivery vividly. The customer was a local tavern owner. Marilyn was pregnant at the time and that day had to take her older child along with her in a stroller. She chuckles when recalling the tongue-lashing she received from a concerned woman watching her enter and exit the tavern, one child in tow and another on the way.
Polio, Flu and HIV
The Carters entered the pharmacy business at the height of the polio epidemic. Marilyn remembers the huge relief that came when a successful polio vaccine was made available in the 1950s. At this time also sulpha and penicillin were beginning to transform medical treatment of many illnesses. A big scare would come in later years from HIV and, in the first years of its diagnosis, even pharmacists feared coming in contact with ill patients. Part of a pharmacist's work involved educating the public about disease prevention and medication.
But drugs themselves could also be the culprit and patients generally came to their pharmacist first if they had an adverse drug reaction. This practice ended as insurance coverage became a necessary part of the pharmacy business. There were sometimes substandard drugs on the market too but Le Roy made a practice of dealing with only respected pharmaceutical companies.
2227 Broadway
In the 1950s street improvements were made to Broadway Avenue and Carter's opened in a new store. After seven years in its original location, the pharmacy was moved to a new concrete block building a half block south at 2227 Broadway. The new store featured a towering neon sign, lots of plate glass, a blue and white interior color scheme and a terrazzo floor. They now had more elbow room. Carter's Drugs officially opened in its new location on April 1 and 2, 1955, offering gifts to all who stopped in on those days. The Carters promised to provide a complete line of pharmaceuticals and sundries. In the years that followed "sundries" even included chocolate eggs that Marilyn made and sold at Easter.
Carter's, Tozer's and Owl Drugs
Three of Everett's largest pharmacies were Carter's, Tozer's and Owl Drugs. Eventually the Carters owned all three, Marilyn working shifts at each one. After 41 years in business, the Carters retired and sold the pharmacy to Jerry Rock who continued the pharmacy under the Carter name for another decade.
Today both Carter's Drug Store buildings, as well as the Carters first home, are gone. LeRoy died on January 2, 2008, at the age of 87.
As a tribute to the history of early pharmacy, Marilyn has given the artifacts she has saved from Carter's and Tozer's to the Marysville Historical Society and hopes to see them one day displayed to show the history of pharmacy over the years, from the days when medicines were compounded from plants to the rise of large pharmaceutical companies and ever-newer medications.
Memories of Carter's:
From historian David A. Cameron, originally of Everett, now Index.
"What I remember most vividly was when we needed prescription medication on a Sunday early afternoon, the only place we knew would be open then to fill it was Carter's. I parked on the corner, walked straight back to the counter, and was tremendously relieved that it could be filled right away. As I waited I recall wandering the aisles, looking at everything in stock, especially the local Washington products which were being featured. I had a real feeling of gratitude that the pharmacist would be willing to work on what normally would be a day off with family just in case someone had a problem which couldn't wait. Nice people! That was at 2227, probably in the 1970s."
From local historian Jack O'Donnell, Everett
"There was a script neon sign above the pharmacy in the back (east side) of the store (at 2227). As I remember it started lower and then went up to the end of the word. As I recall, Marilyn Carter told me she had designed that. I also remember ordering goodies. I remember buying some poker chips there as they had an odd lot of things. The hot nuts were delicious. It was a great store and sometimes the only pharmacy in town open at odd hours."
Barbara George, Lita Sheldon, Margaret Riddle and Wendy Becker video interview with Marilyn Carter, October 2009; Phil Dougherty, HistoryLink.org essay, "Pharmacy in Washington State: A History," June 12, 2010; Nancy Rockafellar, editor, Saddlebags to Scanners: 100 Years of Medicine in Washington State, Washington State Medical Association, Seattle, 1989. Images Courtesy of Jack O'Donnell. Text Courtesy of Margaret Riddle.
If you're interested in Everett history from a first-person POV you should definitely check out Everett Public Library podcasts. What an amazing resource with great stories!
The Museum has many treasures in its collection – one of the largest and most impressive is the captain's wheel from the steamboat the Black Prince.
Dating from 1901, the 8-foot radius wheel graced the all black boat named after a dream of Captain Charles Elwell.
The wheel was so large, in fact, that it did not actually fit in the wheelhouse and stuck out the doors. Later wheels made for the boat were much smaller. Built by the Snohomish and Skagit River Navigation Company of Everett and powered by two extremely large (10 by 48 foot) steam engines and a 100 horsepower brickyard boiler, the Black Prince worked towing logs for the prolific sawmills of Everett. The hull was 93 feet and rated for a tonnage measurement of 159 gross tons.
Decommissioned in 1935, it was offered for the token sum of one dollar to the Everett Yacht Club by then Captain Harry Ramwell, owner of the American Tug Boat Company, who had purchased it in 1922. The boat, after a remodel and being shored on timbers, became the Club's official meeting room on July 3, 1936 and was utilized for community functions including Everett High School dances.
Loaned to the Museum in 2007 to celebrate their 100th anniversary, it took 5 men to move the approximately 600 pound solid oak wheel.
Everett Yacht Club Centennial Book, 2007, p. 18
Snohomish County-An Illustrated History, 2005, p. 87
Once proudly called the "City of Smokestacks," 19th- and early 20th-century Everett was a blue-collar, union, mill town with two dozen saw mills and shingle mills.
But most worker faced long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions.
Accidents are so common that frequently a shingle worker is recognized by his missing fingers, lost in accidents with unguarded saws, and 15% of all deaths recorded in the city in 1909 are from mill accidents.
By the early 1900s, in reaction to this environment, much of the city's male workforce is unionized. With twenty-five different unions, local Labor support is so strong that in January 1909 the region's Labor Journal begins publication from the local union hall on Lombard Street gaining Everett regional prominence.
Recovering from a sharp recession in 1914 that allows mill owners to lower pay rates, Everett mill workers are still not receiving their previous scale pay by 1916. In the spring of that year, 400 shingle workers vote to strike in hopes of regaining their pre-recession wage scale. As part of a growing regional center, with a population around 35,000, local mill workers are proud of their status as trade workers and members of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Yet, they often find themselves at odds with the more radical Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) who want to create a union that includes unskilled workers.
On August 19, 1916, Strike-breakers, hired by mill owner Neil Jamison, attack picketing AFL strikers while the local police look on maintaining that the waterfront area being federal property is beyond their jurisdiction. When strikers retaliate later that evening, the police intervene proclaiming the strikers have crossed the line of jurisdiction. On August 22, when twenty-two AFL members speak out about the incident they are quickly arrested.
Throughout September and October of 1916 groups of Wobblies, using their right of free speech on the streets of Everett, specifically a soap-box oratory on the corner of Wetmore and Hewitt, are arrested and beaten by local law enforcement. To challenge the local law, especially Snohomish County Sheriff Donald McRae, a former shingle worker, the Wobblies encourage an environment of free speech, and local readily join in. One local woman is even pulled off of the soap-box for reciting the Declaration of Independence.
In reaction to the spectacle that the soap-box oratory has become, in mid-October, forty Wobblies are escorted by deputies to an area known as Beverly Park where they are brutally beaten and told to get out-of-town. Despite severe injuries, some are forced to walk the 25-mile Interurban Trail back to Seattle.
After 150 deputies force Wobbly soap-box speakers to run a gauntlet where some are impaled on spiked cattle guards, the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) call for a mass meeting in Everett on November 5.
The Wobblies vow to return, in greater numbers, to show solidarity for their cause.
Affairs between the Unions and law enforcement are swiftly coming to a head. And on Sunday, November 5, 1916, the bloodiest battle in Pacific Northwest labor history occurs.
On that day almost 300 members of the I.W.W. board the steamers Verona and Calista from Seattle and head north to Everett. The I.W.W. plan a public demonstration for that afternoon on the corner of Hewitt and Wetmore, the same spot used by local Wobblies.
They hope to gain converts to their dream of a single world-wide union.
On November 5, word reaches Everett law enforcement that a group of armed anarchists are coming to burn their town. Under the authority of Sheriff McRae, 200 citizen deputies meet on the docks at the base of Hewitt to repel the intruders.
The Verona arrives first, pulling in alongside the dock.
Sheriff McRae asks, "Who is your leader?"
Informed "We are all leaders!" he announces to the passengers that they are not to land. A single shot is fired, followed by minutes of chaotic shooting. To this day no one knowns if the first shot came from the boat or the dock.
Attempting to avoid bullets, Wobblies aboard the Verona rush to the opposite side fo the ship, nearly capsizing the vessel. Captain Chance Wiman ducks behind the ship's safe, a fortuitous move when over 175 bullets pierce the pilot house. Warning the Calista not to land, Captain Wiman struggles to back the ship out of port and return to Seattle.
On the dock, Deputies Jefferson Beard and Charles Curtis lay dying, and 20 others, including the Sheriff, are wounded. On the Verona's deck, Wobblies Hugo Gerlot, Abraham Rabinowitz, Gus Johnson, and John Looney are dead and Felix Baran is dying.
While the official I.W.W. report lists five dead and twenty-seven wounded, it is more likely that as many as twelve Wobblies lost their lives, their bodies disappearing into the bay after the Verona's far railing broke.
The Federal Government deploys National Guard troops to Everett and Seattle to keep the peace and citizens remain fearful for days. Seventy-four Wobbly passengers are arrested upon their return to Seattle and eventually taken to the Snohomish County jail.
All but one are released.
Teamster Thomas Tracy is charged with murdering Deputies Curtis and Beard, but in a dramatic and much publicized trial that follows, Tracy is acquitted.
The Everett Massacre appears in newspapers throughout the United States. Today, it is still considered one of the most significant events in 1916 America.
Text Courtesy of Gene R. Fosheim. Additional Research Assistance Provided by Rep. Mike Sells. Images from the Collection of The Snohomish County Museum of History.


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I'm currently writing from the Vancouver open data Hackathon tonight! It was a lot more hopping a couple hours ago but me and a few other hardcores are chewing the fat at the City Archives. I'd like to take this rare blogging opportunity to bring your attention to a couple of items:
- Happy news! Yesterday, the City of Vancouver "soft-launched" a beta of its Data Catalogue of publicly available and re-usable data. It's a key milestone for those of us who have been waiting, with baited breath since May, when the city passed its motion on open data, open standards and open source. Within hours, friend Tylor has already rolled up a map with the city's water fountains, along with a screencast of how he made the mashup, from scratch, in Drupal.
- But the most exciting part of all this awesome stuff? For me, personally, it's the accompanying survey that the City of Vancouver has made available, asking the public which layers to free from VanMap next. And yes, you can only choose 10 from the ginormous shopping list.
- In the lead-up to the launch of this site, Carlito Pablo from the Georgia Straight wrote an article exploring the possibilities of open data, and included quotes from Councillor Andrea Reimer, and advocates outside Vancouver (and myself) working in open data.
- The Vancouver City Archives are kinda awesome. For a city that's so young, I suppose it makes sense that we're extra-picky about what little history we've got. Some examples? They make their videos available in both WMV and Ogg Theora formats on their website, and they've got a small selection of their moving images on the Vancouver Archives YouTube account. All their videos on YouTube and on their website are also available in higher resolutions as MPEG-2 files for $17 a file. And also awesome? The Vancouver Archives building has one of the oldest green roofs in the city.
- VanTrash is the other fun story coming out of the open data movement. Based on one of David Eaves' blog posts, Luke Closs and a band of merry hackers have started to put together the VanTrash site.
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"How do I navigate the conversation around healthcare pricing?" is a common question coming from Lee Carter's healthcare clients.
Carter, the president of language strategy firm Maslansky + Partners, works with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies grappling with that hot-button topic. And according to Carter, language not only matters, it can make all the difference.
Healthcare pricing is at the top of mind for almost everyone in 2019, from providers and big pharmas to politicians and consumers. Carter speaks wearily of the plans floating around Congress that threaten the entire healthcare industry, including Medicare for All and calls to end private health insurance all together.
She says that making any sort of changes is going to be a massive organizational and monetary undertaking, one beyond the scope of most consumers' understanding
6 tips for crafting pricing language
There is clearly a disconnect. Carter says that many of her clients, especially insurance companies, wish that consumers better understood the work that goes on behind the scenes when bringing a plan to market, or the backend forcing companies to raise premiums.
"Everybody looks at it like it's an isolated thing," Carter says about payer pricing decisions. But in fact, pricing is interwoven, driven by insurance, pharma, hospitals and third parties, and so the biggest mistake any of these industry players can make is shifting the blame from pharma to payer to provider.
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"None of that matters," Carter notes. "For people, it's all one experience to them. They just see they used to be covered and now they are no longer covered."
So, to combat this lumping into one entity, Carter recommends that her clients put themselves in the shoes of the patients and politicians in order to make themselves relatable.
At its core, the most important part of pricing language is empathy. Carter notes that during the midterm elections, the Democrats rallied messaging around healthcare to gain support. Politicians are using the fear and personal aspect to draw crowds.
Carter also noted that after empathy, payers need to commit to transparency. The truth can be very powerful and when it is done right, Carter says, this strategy works.
First, she recommends reframing any argument by starting with the person you are talking to and addressing his or her real concerns.
"You can address challenges without understanding empathy and the target audience," she said.
Second, just saying a company has price transparency is not enough. The challenge is relaying the information in a way that consumers can easily digest because what is currently out there is very confusing to the average consumer.
As an example, Carter talks about how Bank of America advertised services after the recession. The bank's Clarity Commitment promised to include a one-page summary for every kind of investment update including mortgage, loans, financial, etc. This relatable and understandable transparency won the bank a lot of respect.
Similarly, hospitals, drug companies and insurance companies need to explain the actions behind their moves in order to drive goodwill.
"Dig into how you can communicate. Not just for the sake of communicating but for a meaningful connection that helps the customer make the right decisions," she said.
Third, companies need to be taking inventory on people's reactions to pricing transparency. For example, do you have a pricing portal and are consumers using it? This commitment to collecting data shows your actions to help consumers make the right decisions.
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Along with the "pricing do's" are the "pricing don'ts," Carter says.
First, don't assume that the facts themselves will tell the story. While the facts are important, Carter says to start with the perspective of others and then bring the facts into the story. So, for example, when prices on premiums are increasing, there is a way to communicate that the company is doing everything it can to cut back in other areas and help its customers.
Second, don't demonize pharmaceutical companies, the government or providers. Most people that work in healthcare do so because they want to help others. So as soon as they are demonized for price or policy changes, these healthcare employees get defensive.
Finally, think patient first and segmentation second. And while every industry has segmentation, it is not as defined for those shopping for healthcare. In general, Millennials and Baby Boomers all feel the same way on the issues, as they are all patients first, Carter says.
"You have to understand what value is at play, this idea of fairness as a value. It comes down to fairness and justice," Carter says. "Ultimately, let people know we are in this together."


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The Power of Stories is an archive of projects submitted every year to Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Statewide Convening. It showcases work created throughout California highlighting the power of individual and collective efforts to promote health and demonstrates how stories have the power to re-imagine and transform our communities. Produced in partnership with the California Endowment.
"Three years later, I still bring fresh tulips to his grave. I still ponder unanswered questions -- why does this always happen in Richmond? Why do we live to die? Why do we waste away on street corners, letting our bodies be abused as if we had no worth?" Teen poet Sukari Wright posed this question to the audience, standing at the mic, confident in her words. Wright's poem was reflective of her personal experience with violence in Richmond, California, and showed her hopes that others would rise up to transform the community from the ground up.
Wright was just one of the speakers who took part in the art and film festival at the 2014 Annual Statewide Convening hosted by The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative. Held at the Wellness Center at The Historic General Hospital in Boyle Heights on October 11, the festival centered on the theme "The Power of Our Stories." The program aimed to showcase how stories have the power to help individuals and groups re-imagine and transform the narratives about their communities.
Building Healthy Communities is a 10-year initiative that focuses on supporting the development of communities where "children are healthy, safe and ready to learn." These communities include areas such as Del Norte County in Northern California, City Heights in San Diego, totaling 14 sites all across the state.
"People said if we're going to work with our communities in a meaningful and authentic way, if we're going to bring people across culture, across race, across class, across gender, across sexual orientation, we have to actually appeal to that thing that motivates us all as humans -- that shared humanity that we have in our expressions, how we talk about our history, how we talk about our experiences together," said Dr. Anthony Iton, senior vice president for healthy communities at The California Endowment, who made opening remarks at the event. "That's what we're celebrating today -- is how do we build that shared truth, how do we build that shared humanity and we're particularly excited about the energy of our young people."
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The morning began with a panel on art and culture's role in promoting health and resident-led community transformations. The panel, moderated by community arts and culture leader Maria Rosario Jackson, included Elena Serrano, program director for Oakland's Eastside Arts Alliance and Josefina Lopez, playwright best known for co-writing the film "Real Women Have Curves." Lopez and other panelists emphasized how stories could help promote healing and enhance collaboration among community members. "Storytellers are so important and we have to tell our stories now," said Lopez, who described the empowerment she felt in putting pen to paper to author stories about her own experiences growing up in Boyle Heights. "Art is about taking all the broken pieces and making you whole again."
Building Healthy Communities has identified 10 outcomes for boosting community health, including mobilizing youth as leaders and change agents, creating alternatives to violence, and emphasizing preventative health care. These goals were seen in the various film presentations, live performances of spoken word pieces, and photo displays.
The work at the festival featured a variety of styles, ranging from illustrations and animation to documentary and music. In "Invisible to Invincible," a video project submitted by Jovenes, Inc. in Boyle Heights, used stop motion animation to demonstrate homelessness faced by youth in Los Angeles. Another video, from BHC Richmond, "Street Literature," featured students rapping about young people of color dying too early and the piece was inspired by the shootings of individuals like Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin. While music was an element in "Street Literature," "Eastside Arts Alliance -- Guerilla Theater" utilized snippets of live theater and interviews to weave a cohesive narrative; the project was submitted by Eastside Arts Alliance, working with BHC East Oakland.
Along with varying styles of storytelling, the theme of youth leadership was another thread in the various pieces shown at the festival. The short film, "Game Changers: Every Student Matters," detailed student activism and young leaders tackling issues like the school to prison pipeline. It was submitted by Every Student Matters, a youth-led policy advocacy campaign organized by BHC Long Beach. Similarly, a video from BHC Del Norte County, "Fish Kill 2014. Yurok Youth Seek Answers," documented the environmental changes occurring in the Yurok community and explored solutions that could prevent or lessen the mass dying of fish in the nearby Klamath River.
"We get to share with everybody here and we get to hear their stories, we get to share where we come from as well and build a community," said Kiran Mehta, a 17-year-old student from Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego, whose photo work with AjA's Youth Media Project was shown at the festival. "We can give a youth perspective of what our communities are like and how to make a positive expression of our community."
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Awkward Season 5 Sneak Peek: Prompocalypse!Carissa Pavlica at .
It's all coming to an end!
Awkward Season 5 will be the last run for this MTV hit - and while it means no more Jenna or Matty or Lissa or Gabby, most of all, it means NO MORE HIGH SCHOOL!!
That's the dream for every high school student and this season while reaching for that goal, our favorite messed up classmates will be twerking their way through promposals and feelings and graduation and worries about human-head sized condoms for all kinds of other mind-blowing excitement.
Oh, just watch the clip and prepare for the end, because it's coming!
For those of you worried we might reach the end of the rainbow (which some lucky student will win) without discovering what's out there for Matty and Jenna, it appears the season will be focusing on their on-again-off-again love affair, so keep your chins up!
If you want to sit around and remember all things about these crazy kids before the premiere on August 31, you can watch Awkward online via TV Fanatic.
Carissa Pavlica is the managing editor and a staff writer and critic for TV Fanatic. She's a member of the Critic's Choice Association, enjoys mentoring writers, cats, and passionately discussing the nuances of television and film. Follow her on Twitter and email her here at TV Fanatic.


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Had you heard these teams have played once before? A 6-1 loss in Minnesota's home #snowpener was a genuinely remarkable occasion. It was the first home MLS game in Minnesota's history. It was the first game between the two sister expansion clubs, inevitably linked by history. Importantly, it was defined by an introduction to Minnesota weather for the world and by�images of the�stubborn badge of honor of watching the match shirtless through the blizzard. Josef Mart�nez bagged a hat trick, Miguel Almir�n enjoyed a brace, and Kevin Molino opened his account with a penalty, Minnesota's only goal that afternoon.
|Armando Villarreal
|Logan Brown
|Nick Uranga
|Rubiel Vazquez
|Silviu Petrescu
Armando Villarreal dons the whistle for this midweek matchup. Villarreal is most notable (to Minnesotans, anyway) for manning Minnesota's first-ever MLS win against Real Salt Lake. More forgettable was his work on Minnesota's 3-1 demolition by New York City FC. The referee has dealt�four red cards on the year. A final interesting note: in 18 MLS matches this season, Villarreal has yet to oversee a victory by an away side.
Atlanta United
GK Alec Kann (quad injury)�- Out
M�Miguel Almir�n (left hamstring injury) – Out
Minnesota United
M Bernardo A�or (hamstring injury) – Out
D Thomas de Villardi (left Achilles) – Out
M Sam Cronin (head injury) – Out
D Michael Boxall (international duty) – Out
M Johan Venegas (international duty) – Out
D Marc Burch (thigh injury) – Questionable
This space has had some consistent themes regarding the Loons' play style this year, including "play direct and fast" and "Christian Ramirez needs to come find the game" and "positional fluidity is key." This week, whatever Minnesota's strengths or preference, the club will almost certainly need to come out and play to counterattack.
The only reason that Atlanta's goal differential over the last five matches is a paltry +9 is because its 7-0 demolition of New England falls just outside the five game window. This team is not just good: this team is lava hot at just the right time. Minnesota, meanwhile, has found something of a stride over the last five games but the usual depth issues coupled with a very short turnaround time from their Houston match means the Loons will not be favorites on Tuesday night.
One potential opening for Minnesota comes via the absence of Almir�n, who lit up the Loons earlier this year. However, Atlanta has relative depth to spare, and a midfielder like Yamil Asad can do what Almir�n does well on any particular day. Grouped with Golden Boot contender Mart�nez, Rookie of the Year frontrunner Julian Gressel, and a bench that would mostly find the starting XI for Minnesota, and it could be a long day.
Positional fluidity is likely out the window for Minnesota. Rather, this group must stay organized and compact, potentially lining up more in a 4-5-1 than the traditional 4-2-3-1, and the midfielders must come ready to play defense. An interesting wrinkle will be whether Minnesota plays several ostensible backups for rotation after only three days since the Houston match. Might Abu Danladi get the start for Ramirez? Will Sam Nicholson see the starting XI instead of Miguel Ibarra? Who replaces defensive midfielder Cronin this time around? Will Ismaila Jome and Brent Kallman see time in the absence of key defenders? Not only might this rotation be necessary, but looking ahead to next season, it might be an important chance for Adrian Heath to play with the pieces he has and see the ways they could fit together.
Expect Atlanta to dominate possession and shots and, facing what will likely be a more narrow defensive alignment, to see a lot more space down the flanks to then turn in crosses in the box. For the Loons, they may concede the flanks for the sake of covering the middle of the field and when they grab possession they will deploy some quick and aggressive passes downfield, hoping to spring something out of nothing.
Atlanta United is playing great soccer, at home, against one of MLS' worst teams. If it chooses to play something resembling a starting lineup, and if it approaches the game with the professional attitude of playing hard despite the opponent or any other circumstance, it should brush the Loons aside.
Anything is possible. Atlanta will definitely have its opportunities, and it's on Minnesota to avoid the kind of clumsy mistakes that lead to easy goals. Make Atlanta earn everything it gets, and its front-footed attack may cede opportunities to get in behind. But that will be meaningless if Minnesota gives itself a mountain to climb behind mental errors and avoidable mistakes.
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Tags: Abu Danladi, Atlanta United FC, Brent Kallman, Christian Ramirez, Houston Dynamo, Josef Martinez, Julian Gressel, Marc Burch, Match Preview, Miguel Almiron, Miguel Ibarra, Minnesota United FC, MLS, Sam Cronin, Sam Nicholson, Yamil Asad


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Do you want to see who viewed your Facebook profile? Is it possible that someone can know if you view their Facebook profiles?
Facebook recently has developed to a higher security standard where officially you cannot see the profile visitors list. But, there is a way to find the Facebook profile of that profile viewer.
The trick comes out from there.
Now, Facebook is having a lot more features that can help you find the people looking around your profile. Does that really exist?
Yes, but before revealing this simple method let's discuss the rumours on this topic.
Should we use the Third-party tools?
There are some third-party tools that claim to show the people name list who have viewed your Facebook profile.
These tools actually ask your account credentials that may lead to ban of your Facebook account.
Still, you will find some tools that work and safe. You have to determine such a tool by seeing the reviews of the users.
Don't worry. Here you have the safest ways to see the frequent Facebook profile viewer.
You may ask: Is it the 'InitialChatFriendsList' method?
If you don't know the what is InitialChatFriendsList, this is actually a method, called to view the Facebook profile viewers list using view page source method on Facebook.
The reality?...
This does not work. That is a fake method to fool the viewers. Let me explain,
This is actually nothing but the source HTML code of that Facebook page and the list it reveals nothing but your Facebook chat friends list in order.
You can see the change in the list as the active chat changes every time when a new friend comes online.
You can turn off the chat and see the list matching with the HTML reveals. That's all.
This method reveals your chat friend list again instead of showing the real Facebook profile visitors.
In this article, we have listed the methods which can be helpful in your need to see your Facebook profile viewers.
However, the methods have their own flaws and advantages. Let me guide you step-by-step below:
Find who Viewed Facebook Profile from non-Friends or PublicIf you are looking for those profiles who visit your profiles, you will normally see their profile in front of you as per the new algorithm. Facebook knows it all and that is why I want you to connect to those frequent visitors. Sometimes the viewers can view your profile but don't send you the friend request.
This may be due to you have made such settings on your Facebook profile which is why the other person will not get the 'Add Friend' button on your profile. If they send the message those also will be going to filtered messages list. So, if you did such things, go and change this at first.
Normally, there are two indications which may be helpful to find out the profile viewers:
1. Facebook Timeline RecommendationLike I already said Facebook turns out to do anything it can to connect two people fast. Here is the outcome of that in this method.
Whenever you open facebook.com or the Facebook app, you might see a crawlable list of people with the 'Add friend' button. These are the people you might know.
Do you know how it is ordered?
Well, you will see one fact is common that is the mutual friend. The list here made from mutual friends. But, the unknown fact is there are people who don't even have common mutual friends.
Yes, you get the person who might have visited your Facebook profile recently.
If you see someone unknown to all way possible (like not matching colleges, mutual friends, etc), then this method can be helpful to find the Facebook profile stalkers easily.
The only flaw if this method is, it cannot reveal the friend's name who is already in your friend list. You hardly can find a way that can do this.
If you want to find totally a new person who is viewing your profile from the last few days then the next method will reveal this.
2. Friend Suggestion NotificationThis an amazing solution that should be considered at the topmost priority. When the other algorithms don't work in this case, Facebook just introduced this feature so that you can reach totally an unknown person who is looking for you on Facebook or did not ever search for.
Whenever a person looks at your profile daily to see your personal stuff and updates, Facebook records this automatically and within 48 hours you get the notification like 'You have a new friend suggestion: NAME'
Once you tap on the notification you will be redirected to the profile page of that person. This is perfect for finding the Facebook profile viewers.
The best part about this is, it's automatic, you don't have to do anything.
One more thing to note, the friend suggestion also comes even on Messenger if the person has recently saved your contact number in his/her mobile, linked to your Facebook account.
I believe that the method has answered your question here. This is the super amazing method that works great till now and obviously, this is done by Facebook automatically. You don't have to do anything to find the list.
The best part.
This method not only reveals the profile viewers who frequently visit your profile but also discloses the people like you the most.
What is this method misses out is, it cannot show the people from your friend list. But, this definitely works on people not in your friend zone.
Find Facebook Page Stalkers from the Non-Friends
So, now what would you do if you want to see the visitors from your Facebook friend list. In that case, these two easiest ways may help you with finding the guess. These strategies are not demonstrated still you can give a try because it worth reading.
NOTE: From the Post Likers list you will see the person who has not liked your page by seeing the invite button beside their name.
There are a couple of explanations for the reality which is the reason I will discuss it here.
1. Find using Facebook Page Invite List
To get the upside of this technique you need to make a Facebook page at first. If you have a huge friend list, this strategy is getting down to work in all respects effectively.
As you probably are aware, when you make a Facebook page you get the choice to invite your friends to like that page. The list is ordered there is a hidden manner that you don't have the foggiest idea.
The fact is, the people listed in top, are the ones who mostly like your posts. Facebook orders the list in a way that you have the more chance from top to bottom friends in that list.
Did you take note? The list changes all the more often. Truly, that may be the indication of individuals in the top are having the most noteworthy enthusiasm for your posts or pages and Facebook decides this from few components like viewing your posts, sharing, liking and commenting, as well as looking at your profile for new posts.
That is revealed in that page invite list, which is far more advanced and different than what the chat list shows.
2. Using Facebook Friend List order in the Profile pageDo you have a lot of Facebook friends on your list? If you notice there might be a significant difference between friends and followers. Facebook normally show up all of your friends' stuff on the timeline. But, if you see the followers are less than the number of friends then it is due to the person unfollowed you and keeps you in friend-list.
Well, now both you and the person will not see each other's stuff on facebook timeline. In that case, if that person needs to see your shared stuff, need to go to your profile and see there all stuff shared.
If you open your friend-list you will see the friends list in order. This list is made depending upon the chat timing and liking and sharing posts of your friend. If you can exclude those people from the first, you will see other people you don't contact a much or rarely do.
Yes, these people may be your profile viewers.
Also, HTML mode of that page tells actually this thing. So, without making this complicated I have explored the main thing in an easy way.
Another normal and easy way to figure out who follows or check your profile on a daily basis among your friends and followers, just share status and wait for the reaction. The frequent profile views should react on this for sure.
The Bottom Lines:
If you want to see your Facebook profile viewer you can guess it by using the above-mentioned methods. You might get the people right away. The fact here included are not an official way to find out but yes you can make a guess with 99% accuracy if you inspect with these tips. Just one thing to add is if you have saved your someone's mobile number just open your messenger app and you will see add friends list made with your contacts list from your phone.


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Global Terminal Automation Market 2016-2020 - New Report Available
Fast Market Research announces the availability of the new TechNavio report, "Global Terminal Automation Market 2016-2020", on their comprehensive research portal
Boston, MA -- (SBWire) -- 03/29/2016 --A bulk loading terminal or large depot stores products from industries, such as oil and gas, and chemicals and petrochemicals, which are received through cross-country pipelines, railways, ships, and trucks and stored in tank farms. These products are distributed through trucks, railways, barges, ships, and pipelines.
A supervisory and regulatory software system enables the automation of specific manual processes in an organization's terminal. TAS represents the amalgamation of terminal management system (TMS), terminal automation control (TAC), communications management system, motor control management, terminal loading system, and process and safety control. We note that terminal automation enhances productivity and alerts end-users through the use of real-time data. It also enables real-time and accurate data collection, reduces losses, prevents accidents, improves safety and security, protects the natural environment, expedites building processes, and enables centralized control.
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Technavio's analysts forecast the global terminal automation market to grow at a CAGR of 6.26% during the period 2016-2020.
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The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global terminal automation market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated from the sales and services of the following products:
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Technavio's report, Global Terminal Automation Market 2016-2020, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
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Enforcing Desegregation: A Case Study of Federal District Court Power and Social Change in Macon County Alabama
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This case study of Lee v. Macon County Board of Education demonstrates that a federal district court in Alabama, enforcing Brown v. Board of Education, brought about significant social change despite constraints on the courts. The court's application of Brown played a decisive role in ending the racial caste system in this Alabama black belt county. The court, by adding the United States Department of Justice as a party, overcame constraints that had precluded the executive branch from pursuing school desegregation. Change came through the courts before Congress legislated against school segregation. Seekers of social change must evaluate the constraints on the courts relative to the constraints on the other branches and levels of government.
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It is still a little hot out but fall is moving in around us.
These photographs were taken last year during the middle of October. Can't you feel the fall feeling?
Nowadays so many people come to the Jeolmul Recreational Forest. Peak and off-season do not matter.
People look for healing, well-being, and realize the comfort which the forest gives is very important.
The walks among the cypress trees which grow straight to the sky along with the blowing breeze surrounding your body leaves an amazing feeling.
Jeolmul's setting is quite wonderful and especially so this year as its function expands.
It is not only for strolling, but for cultural events too. Like a mini-orchestra and wood carving exhibits.
You'll find the forest in the Bongae-dong area of the Jeju City region.
The 50-year-old trees poking holes in the sky are grouped tightly together. It conjures up images of Norway from a book I once read.
Pine, snow bell, and mulberry, are some of the trees living within the 300 hectare recreational forest boundary.
You can see these while taking in a few of the famous walking trails including the Jangsaeoi Supgil. At a distance of 11.1 km you'll need at least 3 hours to complete it.
Going barefoot is permitted however after rain you won't be able to go until the ground has dried out. Trekking or hiking poles are not permitted.
If you're feeling a bit thirsty then natural spring water is another draw to the forest. The clean and cool water comes down from the nearby oreum. People actually take large quantities away with them though you have to wait until after the place is closed to do so.
Jeolmul Oreum is 147 meters high and well worth the hike. The observation decking from the two summits make for great viewing over Halla Mountain.
Accommodation is available too.
Yet as Jeolmul is government operated the pricing structure is very cheap so reservations are difficult to come by.
Rooms range from 32,000 won to 70,000 won per night off-season while peak season sees prices rise to 58,000 won to 117,000 won per night. The 29 rooms can fit between four to eleven people.
If you want to make a reservation you'll have to get online at 9 a.m. on the first day of the month and click quickly. Within five minutes all reservations are usually taken.
Other government run places on the island like Gyorae Natural Recreation Park have a similar system.
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Rule changes would now prohibit Astros' Justin Verlander deal
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The boost Justin Verlander gave the 2017 Astros — nine wins, a 1.66 ERA, 81 strikeouts and 0.74 WHIP in 10 starts spanning early September to October — were essential to the franchise's only World Series title.
In the wake of Major League Baseball's announcement Thursday that it will begin implementing significant rule changes this season, including making July 31 the deadline for any trade, general manager Jeff Luhnow, the architect of the last-hour agreement that brought Verlander from Detroit to Houston had a breathtaking thought: "I don't think that happens."
Knowing he'd instantly multiplied the Astros' chances of a championship on that Aug. 31 night, Luhnow was inspired to pour himself a Tito's and soda with lime. The magical two months that followed were possible only because Verlander and the Astros were able to wait past July 31 and use the waiver-trade deadline a month later to pull off baseball's most significant August deal in recent memory.
"At the end of July," Luhnow said, recalling the circumstances in 2017, "Justin may have felt that there were other options for him if he waited. By the time he got to the end of August, he knew there were only two options: staying in Detroit or going to Houston."
As for the Astros, Luhnow said they needed to watch Verlander surge for another month — he had a 2.36 ERA and 50 strikeouts in 42 August innings — to convince themselves they needed to get him and pay handsomely for his services.
"Without seeing that, I'm not sure we would have been as bold in the amount of prospects we gave up and the money we were able to contribute," Luhnow said.
The changes announced Thursday to the trade deadline, game rules, roster sizes and All-Star voting are an aggressive showing of MLB's intent to shorten games, engage more fans and repair its contentious relationship with an angry players union. Some will be implemented this year, with others taking effect next season.
The July 31 deadline still allows players to be put on waivers and claimed after that date, but they cannot be dealt. Historically, teams relied on Aug. 31 for acquisitions like a safety net, either to improve depth or compensate for injury. The Astros leveraged Verlander as if he were a jet engine propelling them to new heights.
"Obviously, we benefited from having the August 31 trade waiver deadline," Luhnow said. "I understand why we're trying to have a unified trade deadline. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to fans if there's one type of player that can be traded and another — and another deadline. It's going to force teams to make decisions before July 31 in a way they haven't had to before."
Teams on the bubble of playoff contention will have to decide sooner whether they are buyers or sellers, and an increased number of sellers could create an extra flurry of trades before the deadline. Luhnow likes the change because it will prevent bottom dwellers from "dumping" everyday players for prospects, which risks competitive imbalance.
"It's not very fair to everyone else," he said. "The big-market teams can afford to take on salary, and most of the trades in August are moving money — quality players who are making money. They tend to be the teams that already are doing well. The rich get richer."
The change might also prompt teams to become more active in the offseason free-agent market, which should appease a players union that has complained about owners deflating the value of players whose contracts have expired. The changes announced Thursday reflected an agreement between MLB and its players to start renegotiating the collective bargaining agreement, which runs through the 2021 season, much earlier than usual.
The most manipulative change to how games are played won't come until next year, when all pitchers — starters and relievers — must face a minimum of three batters. The exception would be if a reliever can end a half-inning by facing fewer than three hitters. There will also be allowances for incapacitating injury or illness.
"It's going to be similar to replay," Luhnow said. "There's going to be a lot of agony and angst to it in anticipation of something that's going to be very different. When we do it, we're going to realize it's going to be OK. The amount of times you're going to take out a guy after one or two (batters faced) is probably a handful of times throughout the year. It's going to speed up the game. That's ultimately the goal."
While the union was not in agreement with the three-batter minimum, it will not challenge it.
As a concession to another point of contention between the union and owners, baseball said it will not incorporate a pitch clock at any time while the current collective bargaining agreement is in effect.
Also in 2020, baseball rosters will increase from 25 to 26 players from March through August, but September rosters, which can now expand to 40, will shrink to a maximum of 28. Baseball is determined to cap the number of pitchers a team may carry on its active roster, and if it can't come to an agreement with the union on that figure, the limit will be 13 (and 14 from Sept. 1 on).
This will help with pace, especially in September, when teams tend to try out fleets of new arms and their pitching changes slow the game down.
"We want it, too," Luhnow said of the Astros' perspective. "I've always wanted a level playing field in September and a game that feels more like August than something different."
Additionally, unless changed by a joint management-union committee, the minimum time pitchers must spend on the disabled list will next year increase from 10 to 15 days.
Astros manager A.J. Hinch said after Thursday's spring training game that he wanted more time to read over the changes MLB approved midafternoon and would not express his opinion until Friday.
Thursday's announcement doesn't mean there won't be more alterations to the game. The joint committee will study potential changes to the strike zone, height of the pitching mound and distance of the mound to home plate (which has been 60 feet, 6 inches since 1893). Recommendations are to be made by Dec. 15.
Other tweaks to be implemented this year in the spirit of speeding up games are the reduction of mound visits (not counting pitching changes) from a maximum of six to five and the trimming of half-inning breaks to two minutes, down from 2:05 for most games and 2:25 for nationally televised games.
All-Star voting will also undergo a transformation starting this season with the implementation of two phases. During the "Primary Round," each team will nominate one player per eligible position (three in the outfield). Then an "Election Day" voting period, still to be determined (either in late June or early July), will put the top three vote-getters at each position (six in the outfield) up for fan election as starters.
Teams and players might be spurred more than ever to encourage their social media followers to cast votes. The league will issue bonus payments to the top three vote-getters at each position. Additionally, the prize money awarded to players on the winning All-Star team will be increased.
Total player prize money for the Home Run Derby will be raised to $2.5 million. In an effort to incentivize participation by the game's top sluggers, the winner will receive $1 million.
One other All-Star Game switch: Starting with the 10th, each half-inning will begin with a runner at second base.
And any position players with the itch to pitch, take note: Starting next year, a position player can take the mound during the first nine innings only if his team is winning or losing by at least six runs.
Luhnow was relieved to see that baseball will not be hindering what he considers one of the Astros' great advantages.
"I'm glad that banning the shift wasn't part of it," he said. "We want our players to be able to go wherever they want to go."
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The Most Reverend William Laud (1573–1645) was an English churchman and academic, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633, during the personal rule of Charles I. Arrested in 1640, he was executed in 1645.
In matters of church polity, Laud was autocratic. Laudianism refers to a collection of rules on matters of ritual, in particular, that were enforced by Laud in order to maintain uniform worship in England and Wales, in line with the king's preferences. They were precursors to later High Church views. In theology, Laud was accused of being an Arminian and opponent of Calvinism, as well as covertly favouring Roman Catholic doctrines (see Arminianism in the Church of England). On all three grounds, he was regarded by Puritan clerics and laymen as a formidable and dangerous opponent.
Laud favoured scholars, and was a major collector of manuscripts. He pursued ecumenical contacts with the Greek Orthodox Church. The pun "give great praise to the Lord, and little Laud to the devil" is a warning to King Charles attributed to Archibald Armstrong, the official court jester. Laud was known to be touchy about his diminutive stature.
He was born at Reading, Berkshire on 7 October 1573, the only son of William Laud, a clothier, and Lucy, née Webbe, widow of John Robinson, another clothier of the town, and sister of William Webbe, Lord Mayor of London. He was educated at Reading grammar school, and went in 1589 to St John's College, Oxford, matriculating on 17 October. In 1593 he became a fellow of the college of Forks. He graduated B.A. in 1594, M.A. in 1598, and D.D. in 1608. As an undergraduate Laud had for his tutor John Buckeridge, who became president of St John's in 1605.[1]
Laud was ordained deacon on 4 January 1601, and priest on 5 April in the same year. On 4 May 1603 he was one of the proctors for the year.[1]
When Buckeridge left St John's in 1611, Laud succeeded him as President, but only after a hard patronage struggle reaching high court circles. The rival candidate John Rawlinson was chaplain to Lord Ellesmere, who was both Chancellor of the university, and Lord Chancellor of England. Laud was chaplain to Richard Neile, who was Clerk of the Closet. Eventually King James brushed aside irregularities in the election, settling matters in Laud's favour.[2]
Laud became Dean of Gloucester in 1616. At Gloucester Cathedral he then began ceremonial innovations with the communion table.[3] By local custom it stood in the middle of the choir, as was then usual in a parish church, rather than at the east end as was typical of cathedrals. Laud believed he had the king's blessing to renovate and improve the run-down building, but he offended his bishop, Miles Smith.[1]
Neile was Laud's consistent patron. He could not manage Laud's appointment as Dean of Westminster, a post that John Williams wished to retain. But in the face of hostility from the king, who found Laud's character to be that of a troublemaker, a see however marginal was obtained for Laud, who became Bishop of St David's at the end of 1621.[2]
Laud became a confidant of John Percy (alias Fisher), a Jesuit, as chaplain, and the king wished to counter well-founded rumours that Percy was making Catholic converts there. In a three-day series of private debates with Percy in 1622, Laud was brought in to argue the Protestant case on the final day; pamphlets followed.[4] He then displaced John Preston in the capacity of religious adviser to the Duke, a change that became clear around December 1624.[5] Laud managed homosexual leanings discreetly, but confided his erotic dreams about Buckingham and others to a private diary.[6]
Laud ascended rapidly to a position of influence in the period 1626 to 1628, advancing not alone but with a group of like-minded clerics who obtained bishoprics.[7] In September 1626 he took the court position of [1] He immediately changed the Chapel services to privilege prayer over preaching, since King Charles's views were the opposite of his father's.[8]
In July 1628 Laud was translated from Bath and Wells to become Bishop of London, in moves that followed on from the death of Andrewes. After this breakthrough in church politics, it becomes meaningful to define "Laudians" as his followers.[9]
On the political stage, the personal rule of Charles I began in 1629 and Laud shortly became a key part of it, in alliance with Thomas Wentworth. When Wentworth was posted to Ireland in 1632, Laud brought his personal correspondence from him rapidly to the king's attention.[10] It is in this correspondence, in 1633, that the term "Thorough" appears.[11] In practical terms it meant the pursuit of ambitious policy objectives, on behalf of the king, disregarding special interests, and, particularly, legalistic prevarications.[12] There were opponents at court: Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington and Queen Henrietta Maria.[13] Cottington observed that Laud could not keep his temper in Council meetings, and by 1637 Laud found he could not follow Wentworth in imagining their push for rigid policies would succeed.[14]
Laud was almost 60 years old when he became Archbishop, and having waited for a decade to replace George Abbot, was no longer prepared to compromise on any aspect of his policy.[15] Abbot's chaplains had licensed Histriomastix for publication, in 1630; the book which attacked English theatre and Christmas celebrations, among others, had caused scandal when it appeared in late 1632. One of Laud's early moves was to bring in his own men as censors: Samuel Baker (who was chaplain to William Juxon), William Bray and Matthew Weeks.[16][17] The operations of the censors, including William Haywood who joined them, became a focus of the Long Parliament as soon as it was convened in November 1640, and Laud ultimately had to answer for Haywood at his own trial.[18][19]
Whereas Wentworth (who became the Earl of Strafford in early 1640) saw the political dangers of Puritanism, Laud saw the Calvinist movement's threat to the episcopacy. But the Puritans themselves felt threatened: the Counter-Reformation was succeeding abroad and Protestants were not winning the Thirty Years' War. In this climate, Laud's high church policy could be seen as sinister. A year after Laud's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, the ship Griffin left for America, carrying religious dissidents such as Anne Hutchinson, the Reverend John Lothropp and the Reverend Zechariah Symmes.
Laud's desire to impose uniformity on the Church of England was driven by a belief that this was his office's duty, but his methods seemed persecution to those of differing views. Thus, they had the unintended consequence of garnering support for the most implacable opponents of the Anglican compromise. In 1637, Histriomastix's author, William Prynne, was convicted of seditious libel along with John Bastwick and Henry Burton, and had their ears cropped and faces branded. Prynne reinterpreted the "SL" ("Seditious Libeller") branded on his forehead as "Stigmata Laudis". Laud also moved to silence his principal episcopal critic, John Williams, who was convicted of various offences in Star Chamber. Contrary to Laud's expectation, Williams refused to resign as Bishop of Lincoln, and the Lords forced his release, after which Williams supported the impeachment of both Strafford and Laud. Williams specifically urged the king not to commute Strafford's death sentence, and he was executed in 1641, months before Charles I promoted Williams to Archbishop of York (only to be re-imprisoned by Parliament and then join the King in Yorkshire upon his release).
Toward the end of his life, Charles I admitted that he had put too much trust in Laud, and allowed his "peevish humours ", and obsession with points of ritual, to inflame divisions within the Church: he warned [20]
The Long Parliament of 1640 accused Laud of treason and, in the Grand Remonstrance of 1641, called for his imprisonment.[21] Laud was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he remained throughout the early stages of the English Civil War. Apart from a few personal enemies like William Prynne (and possibly Archbishop Williams), Parliament showed little anxiety to proceed against Laud; given his age, most members would probably have preferred to leave him to die of natural causes. In the spring of 1644 he was brought to trial which, however, ended without a verdict: as with Strafford, it proved impossible to point to any specific action which could be seen as treasonable. Parliament took up the issue and eventually passed a bill of attainder under which he was beheaded on 10 January 1645 on Tower Hill, notwithstanding being granted a royal pardon.[22]
Laud is remembered in the Anglican Communion with a Commemoration on 10 January. His collected works in seven volumes were published between 1847 and 1860 in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology.
The historian Patrick Collinson in 1980 condemned Laud as "the greatest calamity ever visited upon the English Church".[23]
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Decision-making executives usually will make time to meet with peers, but your executives are often busy with other responsibilities. Fortunately, those on higher floors will often also meet with recognized authorities. This is where the value of being a thought leader extends beyond the individual to that person's organization and peers. It's for this reason that "Visible Experts" elevate their firms in every category that counts, including growth, new business, reputation, partnerships, billing rates, and the ability to close sales." And it jibes with ITSMA's findings that 75% of would-be buyers say thought leadership helps them determine which buyer to put on their short list.
By meeting with recognized authorities, decision makers can gain insights that will help them make the best purchase decision. It's no wonder ITSMA recommends that to reap the benefits of a thought leadership program you must have subject matter experts that are recognized outside of your company.
The most effective approach is to build a team of thought leaders and trusted authorities within your organization. These can include those who, for example, speak at events; publish articles, papers, or even books; and present webinars. By developing a program around these people, your company can build a set of recognized experts who help the sales team gain entrée to the C-suite.
Execute a three-point Thought Leadership Plan
We've seen this three-point plan work effectively for developing this team and leveraging each member's perspective and insights:
- Identify thought leaders
- Capture their insights
- Build their reputations
Step 1: Identify members of the thought leadership team
Ideally you should create a "portfolio" of thought leadership talent to call upon as needed. While your C-level executives will likely be on this team, it's sensible to also draw upon a dedicated set of thought leaders from across – and beyond – the organization. This can include experts from product management, marketing, and professional services, or those with domain expertise in a vertical market or other topic. It can even include independent consultants or members of your company's broader ecosystem. Whether these experts play a fractional or full-time role as thought leaders will depend on your objectives and the nature of your business and market.
To determine the most fitting members of this team, answer these questions:
- Who do we want to build up as thought leaders and why?
- What gaps do these people address?
- What expertise and authority does this person bring to bear?
Ideally, your thought leaders should satisfy the following criteria:
- Articulate a unique perspective on some aspect of the business, whether the vertical market, an acute business problem, a specific solution area, or a mix of all three.
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- Speak the language of business and answer key questions that arise during the decision-making process.
Step 2: Capture their insights
Once you've identified and recruited members of the thought leadership team, it's crucial to harness their knowledge and expertise to develop content. As we said in another post, authoritative and insightful content is now essential to demand gen and sales enablement efforts. It's fitting that Laura Ramos of Forrester placed thought leadership at the top of the content marketing "pyramid": when content serves as a vehicle for differentiating insights, it positions the company favorably with the highest echelons of potential buyers. And it's at the pinnacle because it represents carefully harvested and well-developed ideas that can truly impact a buyer's business when embraced.
While thought leadership content can take many forms – such as eBooks, white papers, and presentations – the focus is on demonstrating the team member's thought leadership. In other words, the true goal is to build up the authoritative individual behind the content so that this person becomes recognized in the marketplace. With that recognition established, this thought leader can more easily help your sales reps gain access to senior-level decision makers.
Note: though a thought-leadership initiative is about more than creating content for consumption, it's wise to modularize this content so each thought leader can present the perspectives and stories as their own in various settings.
Step 3: Invest in establishing thought leadership
Make no mistake: it takes a process to build up your thought leaders. It also requires commitment to tap into the full power of these recognized authorities. In addition to publishing content with their names attached, you will at times need to dispatch your thought leaders (including C-level execs) to engage with a prospective client's key decision maker.
Here's how it plays out: Your marketing team develops and publishes thought-provoking content assets by calling upon the insights and expertise of your thought leaders. When someone on the buying committee of a target account consumes this content, you've paved the way for a future conversation. In fact, 79% of would-be buyers say thought leadership is "important to critical" in determining which providers they want to learn more about.
Once the time is right, your sales team can ask these recognized thought leaders to "open up doors on higher floors," so to speak, and help secure meetings with targeted decision makers. Remember, you need to enable and arm the sales force to use your thought leaders as a resource. One way is by creating outreach messages your reps can use to make the case for setting an appointment involving a thought leader.
Your investment will pay off in the form of a team of trusted authorities to engage in marketing/demand gen and sales outreach. More importantly, it will prove valuable by turning the tables in your company's favor as buyers narrow the list down to their final choices.
Want to learn more? Contact Visible Impact and a client strategist can provide a complimentary briefing – sharing insights, perspectives, and winning practices based on VI's experience designing thought leadership programs for top brands.


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