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The 32-bit V850ES/Hx3 microcontrollers are ideal for applications requiring high performance and multiple peripherals and capable of executing up to 66 Dhrystone MIPS at clock speeds up tp 32MHz.Devices in this lineup use a 5V power supply.
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- Max. frequency: 24 MHz
- ROM capacities: 64 to 256 KB
- RAM capacities: 4 to 16 KB
- 16 KB data flash memory
- Package: 48-pin plastic LQFP(fine pitch) (7 x 7), 64-pin plastic LQFP(fine pitch)(10 x 10), 80-pin plastic LQFP(fine
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- Minimum instruction execution time can be changed from high speed (42 ns: @ 24 MHz operation with
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- General-purpose register: 8 bits x 32 registers (8 bits x 8 registers x 4 banks)
- On-chip single-power-supply flash memory (with prohibition of chip erase/block erase/writing function)
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Herbalife is a U.S. company—formally named Herbalife International—which sells weight-loss, weight management, personal care, health, food/dietary, and nutritional supplement products. The company uses network marketing, also called multi-level marketing, which is a type of marketing plan that uses direct marketing along with franchisers and/or independent contractors to sell its products. According to the company's Website, "Herbalife's innovative products have been developed by scientists, doctors and nutritionists with your personal wellness goals in mind."
Herbalife is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with about 3,500 employees worldwide, as of 2006. The company is part of the nutrition and skin care products industry. Its website is http://www.herbalife.com
The company sells a wide range of herb-, botanical-, and other such health-based products including Male Factor 1000, 21-Day Herbal Cleansing, NiteWorks, HeartBar, Shapeworks, MentalBalance, Health & Fitness Bulk & Muscle Program, Dermojetics skin-care products, Cell-U-Loss supplement, and Nature's Raw Guyana. As of 2006, Herbalife sells products in 63 countries, and has annual retail sales of $3 billion. Over one million (qualified and unqualified) independent distributors are associated with the company.
Botanical— Relating to plants.
Doxepin— A psychoactive drug characterized with helping treat depression and anxiety.
Macronutrient— Any carbohydrate, fat, or protein.
Micronutrient— Essential elements needed for human life such as minerals and vitamins.
Pyramid scheme— A fraudulent act in which per-petrator(s) recruit other people to pay money to those above them in a structured hierarchy with the expectation that they will get a portion of that money.
According to information contained in the Herb-alife website, the company sells its products to consumers so they can manage and control their weight, add nutritional supplements to their diets, and provide personal care items to their daily body regimen. Weight management and weight-loss products include protein snacks, enhancers for energy support, enhancers for appetite support, and enhancers for digestive support. Nutritional supplements sold by the company include herbs, minerals, and vitamins . Some of its nutritional supplements are devoted to specific body parts such as the heart and digestive system, and on certain physical and mental conditions such as stress, energy/fitness, and aging. Its personal care products emphasize nutritional and herbal ingredients such as aloe vera and vitamin C , and deal with such matters as skin essentials and skin revitalizers, anti-aging, body essentials, hair essentials, and fragrances.
The Herbalife mission, according to its website, is to "change people's lives by providing the best business opportunity in direct selling and the best nutrition and weight management products in the world." The company states that it provides safe weight control products that supplement a balanced low-calorie diet and a regular exercise program. Its weight management and nutritional products use macronutrient and micronutrient food formulas. Macronutrients include carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, which together provide most of the energy needed by humans. Micro-nutrients are essential elements (minerals and vitamins) that are needed in minute quantities for a healthy body. Such essential elements include chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, and zinc .
As part of their advertising and marketing strategy, Herbalife relies on testimonials from health professionals. Customer testimonials also appear on the company's website.
The company was incorporated in 1979, but essentially started operations in February 1980 when its first distributor, Mark Hughes, began selling Herbalife products from the trunk of his automobile. As his customers tried and liked the products Hughes' business quickly grew. He rented an office and a warehouse in the Beverly Hills, California area, and soon developed a network of distributors.
Within two years, the company had grown to over two million dollars in sales through its distributorships in the United States and its sole distributor in Canada. Vehicles all over the United States were seen with the company's slogan: "Lose weight now, ask me how!". At this time, the Herbalife plan recommended only one meal each day, which was supplemented with protein powders and nutritional pills.
By 1985, Herbalife was listed on INC. magazine's fastest growing private companies. Its five-year profits from 1980 to 1985 went from $386,000 to $423 million. More than 700,000 distributors in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia had total gross sales of about $500 million.
In 1994, Hughes started the Herbalife Family Foundation in order to help children worldwide. In 1996, Herbalife reached one billion dollars in sales. However, four years later, Hughes died from an overdose of alcohol and doxepin (a psychoactive drug with antidepressant and anti-anxiety properties).
Today, signs posted on telephone poles, fences, mailboxes, newsstands, vehicle windshields, and other public structures and locations state such slogans as: "Lose Weight Now—Ask Me How", "Have a Com-puter?—Work from Home", and "Lose 30 lbs in 30 days!". These and other advertising means are often seen promoting a way for people to earn cash. When people call the toll-free number or browse the listed website they are directed to Herbalife.
Historically, there has been controversy with Herbalife due to the way the company operates its business. This controversy, specifically, has been directed to potentially dangerous ingredients in some products, perceived inaccurate marketing claims, and unconventional distribution methods. Company supporters stress that Herbalife is a profitable and reputable business that is a member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Critics state that the company is run like a pyramid scheme, its independent distributors use improper customer methods, and the company has poor organization and management of distributors.
Some of the early products sold by Herbalife consisted of ma huang (Ephedra sinica). The herb contained ephedrine (EPH), which is one of the active ingredients in the plant genus Ephedra. Ephedrine was used widely as an appetite suppressant, asthma and hay fever aid, decongestant and cold reliever, and hypotension treatment. Eventually, Herbalife eliminated ephedrine after consumers complained of adverse reactions and its insurance premiums were increased. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of all ephedra-contained supplements beginning on April 12, 2004.
In 1981, the FDA began receiving complaints from Herbalife consumers with symptoms of constipation , diarrhea, headaches, and nausea from various products. Initially, Herbalife officials informed distributors to tell customers that such symptoms were the result of the removal of poisons and toxins from the body by the use of such products. The FDA acted against Hebalife in 1982 for making claims that its Herbal-Aloe drink helped to treat bowel, kidney, and stomach ulcers , and that its Herbalife Formula ndash2 should be used to treat bursitis, cancer , herpes, and impotence. Consequently, the FDA required the company to eliminate the ingredients of mandrake and poke.
The Canadian Department of Justice filed numerous criminal charges against Herbalife for false medical claims and misleading advertising practices in 1984. The California Department of Health, California Attorney General, and FDA brought a civil lawsuit against the company in 1985. The company was charged with making misleading consumers, improper product claims, and operating an illegal 'endless-chain' scheme. Herbalife reached an out-of-court settlement by paying $850,000 in costs, fees, and penalties.
In 1986, Herbalife expanded into other countries, including Israel, Japan, Mexico, and New Zealand, after U.S. and Canadian sales declined due to negative news stories. In order to raise cash, the company merged with an Utah-based public company, and called itself Herbalife International.
In 2001, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provided to interested parties, in response to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), numerous customer complains against Herbalife International. The customer complaints are listed in the following FTC website: http://www.ftc.gov/foia/herbalife.pdf
Still later, the company was cited by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for numerous violation involving is business practices. Herbalife officials promised to fix their managerial problems. In 2006, the company reported to the SEC that it now annually re-qualifies distributors as a way to better manage its independent contractors. As of the first-quarter of 2006, Herbalife stated that it has 240,000 qualified distributors worldwide, with about 80% outside of the United States and Canada.
Information gleaned from various sources indicate that it is often difficult for Herbalife distributors to make a profit. Initially, they must pay large amounts of money to become a distributor. For example, according to interviews and research performed by Rob Cockerham (whose website is considered a well-known anti-scam site for Herbalife) between March and July 2002, potential distributors must purchase an informational packet for $36 and, later, an International Business Packet for $195. After completing a distributor's application, the new independent distributor receives a catalog, order forms, sales and marketing manuals, product samples, and other such literature.
The distributor then signs up for Herbalife Advantage Program, which costs $80 each month for informational brochures and Web pages that describe products. In addition, the company recommends that distributors buy a Herbalife diet and skin product website for $315 and a Herbalife business promotion website, each for $315. Furthermore, Gold and Platinum E-Commerce Business Packages cost between $952.90 and $1,994.22.
There are many websites on the Internet that advertise Herbalife products, both on the corporate and individual distributor levels. Distributors, according to Herbalife, can earn up to $250,000 annually. However, the average earning per distributor is estimated at only around $1,500. As independent contractors, distributors do not earn salaries nor benefits from the company.
Parental concerns
Herbalife, as do many other companies, sells products that are not under FDA regulatory protection.
The FDA, under the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for the regulation of foods, drugs, dietary supplements , biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. With respect to dietary supplements, the FDA, under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, can only take action against manufacturers if their dietary supplements are proven unsafe. Manufacturers can legally claim their products have health benefits, however, they cannot claim these products diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.
Cosmetics are regulated by the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Cosmetics are generally not approved before they reach the marketplace. However, color added to cosmetics must be FDA approved before being sold. The FDA does regulate cosmetic labeling. According to the FDA, cosmetics that have not been thoroughly tested must advise so on its label.
Network marketing, or multi-level marketing, is legal in most U.S. states under the stipulation that a company's sales force receives earnings from customers other than relatives. In the Herbalife network marketing plan, new distributors buy products up front at 25% off the retail price. Once a distributor buys $2,000 to $4,000 of products, the distributor becomes a supervisor, at which time they get 50% off the retail price. Distributors also become supervisors by bringing other distributors into the network. Distributors then get a percentage of each recruit's sales, generally about 8%. As supervisors increase in rank, they gain the potential to earn more money. This pyramiding of earnings often is criticized as being a pyramid scheme.
In addition, Herbalife sponsors many sporting events that are especially attractive to children and young adults. For instance, the company is a regular sponsor of AVP Pro Beach Volleyball, at times being the event's Official Nutritional Advisor. It has also been the sponsor of the JPMorgan Chase Open WTA tennis tournament, the Los Angeles Galaxy, the Tour of California bicycle road race, the Michelob Ultra London Triathlon, the Nautica Malibu Triathlon, and the Thai Airways International Laguna Phuket Triathlon. Parents need to be especially concerned that children do not associate products with sporting, entertainment, or other such events, thus, thinking they are safe to use based solely on sponsorship in such events.
Before parents give children any unregulated FDA products such as nutritional supplements— whether it be from Herbalife or any other company—they should consult their family doctor. Any company or individual can make, market, and sell nutritional supplements, for instance, without adhering to quality control requirements from the FDA. They also are not required to perform research to prove the safety or effectiveness of such products. Only products under FDA regulation are required by their manufacturers to perform such activities.
In addition, parents need to be aware that some medical conditions that children may have (and which any human can have) may be adversely affected when used with unregulated products. Even though a product is advertised as being natural, this does not mean it is necessarily safe to use in all situations and with all people. Also, since nutritional supplements, for instance, are not regulated by the FDA, there is little way to determine if each dosage is identical in quantity and quality with the advertised labeling. In fact, in 2004, the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health (CSMMH) formally requested that the FDA require manufacturers of herbal remedies and dietary supplements to insert label warnings on products that have been associated with adverse health reactions in consumers.
PDR for Nutritional Supplements Montvale, NJ: Medical Economics Company, 2001.
Skidmore-Roth, Linda. Mosby's Handbook of Herbs and Natural Supplements St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 2006.
Talbott, Shawn M. The Health Professional's Guide to Dietary Supplements. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007.
FOIA Request No. 2002-324 Herbalife International Federal Trade Commission. [Cited April 19, 2007].
Index to Information about Herbalife International Dr. Stephen Barrett, MLM Watch: The Skeptical Guide to Multilevel Marketing. [Cited April 19, 2007].
Work from "Home". Rob Cockerham, Cockeyed.com. [Cited April 19, 2007].
Herbalife Family Foundation, Herbalife International. Home Website of Herbalife Family Foundation. [Cited April 18, 2007] .
Home Website of Herbalife. Herbalife International. [Cited April 18, 2007].
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6:38pm PT by Alex Ben Block
Ruling Opens Door to Recovering Millions From David Bergstein Movie Companies
A federal judge Tuesday approved five identical motions filed by the trustee in the nearly three-year-old bankruptcy case involving Capitol Films, ThinkFilm and three other now defunct movie companies — despite vehement opposition from David Bergstein and Ronald Tutor, who formerly owned those entities.
The motions represent an agreement between trustee Ronald Durkin and David Molner, a hedge fund manager who represents a group of creditors that includes the Aramid Entertainment Fund, Molner's Screen Capital International and two law firms who represent them. The ruling allows Aramid to "step into the shoes" of the trustee to sue insiders (primarily Bergstein and Tutor) and others who siphoned money from the companies before and after the involuntary bankruptcy was declared in March 2010.
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The deal has been in the works since last fall and marks a significant shift in the bankruptcy case. Until now Durkin and his legal team have battled unsuccessfully to take control of the companies and recover assets on behalf of creditors with minimal success. At every turn, Bergstein and Tutor have caused delays by failing to file required documents, extending court deadlines, filing related lawsuits and appealing loses to higher courts. In a legal case against Bergstein's former lawyer Susan Tregub last year, Bergstein and Tutor testified they had spent more than $15 million on legal fees as of last summer.
In the federal case, Judge Barry Russell compelled Bergstein and Tutor to disclose who was paying the legal bills. Most of the bills have been paid by Tutor, who is CEO of Tutor Perini, a large construction company, and was part of an investor group that bought Miramax. Tutor is selling out his interest in the film company.
Bergstein won a judgment of about $51 million in the Tregub case in Los Angeles Superior Court. He personally was to get $13 million, but that has proven to be uncollectable as Tregub has filed bankruptcy and appears to have no assets.
Bergstein has tried to use the results of the Tregub case in the federal bankruptcy case, claiming the bankrupt companies should sue Aramid because she worked for them as a freelance contractor for several months when Molner was building the case that led to the involuntary bankruptcy.
The trustee has said the Tregub case should not matter in the bankruptcy and Tuesday, Judge Russell agreed with him. He said that the Tregub case is "irrelevant" in his case. However, at the request of the bankruptcy trustee in the Tregub case, the settlement specifies Durkin isn't releasing any rights that don't belong to the bankrupt companies.
One argument made in Bergstein's opposition was that there are still appeals awaiting judgment by the U.S. District Court, so "the settlement is unwise."
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In his response, Durkin writes: "It is clear now that the Tutor parties' primary weapons in their arsenal are delay, expense, and obfuscation. Waiting on this settlement for the outcome of future litigation is an exercise in futility. The Tutor parties and Bergstein will always have appeals pending in the hope that creditors, the Trustee, or the Court throw in the towel from despair or fatigue."
"It is important now," continued Durkin, "to put the (bankrupt companies) in a position where, notwithstanding considerable harassment and obstruction, an entity with considerable experience in dealing with Bergstein and Tutor undertake litigation with their eyes wide open and incentivized to do battle."
That is where Aramid comes in. Originally one of the creditors in the case that Molner helped bring to the bankruptcy court, it now takes a new role doing what the Trustee admits he can't do – trying to claw back money that seemed to disappear from the bankrupt companies. Molner has estimated that there may be as much as $300 million in recoverable claims.
"The insiders have spent tens of millions to thwart the bankruptcy process itself – and nearly succeeded," Molner told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement Tuesday. "Certainly they've outdistanced the Trustee. But simply put, other than our proposal, there is no avenue to recovery for true creditors. I believe our proposal aligns us squarely with all legitimate creditors – either we all benefit to some degree or none of us do – and we feel the court should see it that way, too."
The deal Molner and Durkin made last fall, which was approved by the judge Tuesday, doesn't take the trustee out of the picture completely, but it does turn over the most important role of finding the money to Aramid. If Aramid can recover the money, it gets paid off the top for its expenses (including legal fees), and then the rest is split with 50 percent going to Aramid and 50 percent to the other creditors. In return Aramid agrees to fund all the litigation and is dropping its claims as a creditor.
Durkin also will have a priority position to claim his expenses and legal fees. The trustee works without any payment until money is recovered. According to court documents, Durkin already is out between $4 million and $5 million.
One effect of that is to subordinate the secured claims by Tutor that he is owed more than $100 million, making him the largest creditor in the case. If Tutor is ultimately declared an insider in a legal sense, he could lose all of his claims and investments in several movie libraries he owns through subsidiaries such has Library Asset Acquisition Corp., TLC and Zelus.
Even before the ruling on Tuesday, Aramid has begun acting on behalf of the trustee, with court approval. Since last November, Aramid has filed about 90 "placeholder" lawsuits against not only Bergstein and Tutor and their many companies, but also against others who got money from the bankrupt movie companies including Bergstein's mother, Sarah, and various Las Vegas casinos such as Mandalay Bay, which received payments to cover Bergstein's debts. Each of those companies and individuals will have to prove the bankrupt companies got fair value for the money, or they will be required to pay it back.
Aramid is sorting through more than 800 transactions involving more than 200 bank accounts, dozens of corporate shells and a number of individuals to seek out the money that was moved from the bankrupt companies into accounts where it could not be seized on behalf of creditors.
They are "placeholders" because the statute of limitations was about to run out, so the suits were filed to keep the clock ticking until they can move forward on the road to recovery. Now with Russell's approval, they will do that and more.
On Feb. 15, Aramid also filed the first in what is expected to be an additional series of lawsuits on behalf of ThinkFilm, the once successful Canadian-American indie distributor that won an Oscar in 2008 for the documentary Taxi To The Darkside. Aramid is seeking the return of $25 million the company believes was improperly taken from ThinkFilm alone.
The ThinkFilm suit against Bergstein and his companies goes into detail about Bergstein and Tutor's alleged improper behavior throughout the case, which includes allegedly filing false financial documents with the court, backdating documents, providing misleading information about what assets were in the bankrupt companies, withholding computer files and more.
"The proposed settlement is fair and equitable," Durkin said in his legal filing. "Indeed, it is designed to promote reorganization, settle disputed and dubious claims, and to address the scorched-earth opposition by (Bergstein and Tutor) whose claims likely merit subordination."
Lawyers representing Bergstein and Tutor did not respond to requests for comment.
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2012 Previews: A.L. Central
It will be one of those freaks of baseball nature, not unlike the year the St. Louis Browns won the pennant because all their players were just physically bad enough to not be drafted for World War 2, or the year the Reds won the most games in the National League yet did not make the playoffs. The Detroit Tigers, with probably the worst defensive starting line-up in the majors today – and one of the worst of all-time among serious contenders – will likely blow through the American League Central and could easily start the playoffs as the odds-on favorite to win the ALCS and even The Series.
Consider them, and leave your images of them at bat, back in your mental dugout:
— Prince Fielder at first base: Decent forward motion for a man of his size, and unexpected ups, too. But going after a liner to either side should be accompanied by a public address system announcement of "timber."
— Ryan Rayburn at second: You need to see the video again of him doing the Jai-Alai bit in left field to send Miguel Olivo's fly ball over the fence? Here's the link.
— Jhonny Peralta at short: This is an ex-shortstop turned third baseman and reconverted to short. And he's the infield stalwart.
— Miguel Cabrera at third: No.
— Delmon Young in left: This will make you hanker for Raburn.
— Brennan Boesch in right: Immobile.
— Alex Avila catching: He's a gifted receiver but, without Victor Martinez to help him out, the temptation for Jim Leyland to play him 133 more times behind the plate will be huge. His exhaustion down the stretch last year was ultimately disastrous.
You'll notice I left out Austin Jackson. Obviously he is one of the best centerfielders in the game, not just fast but instinctive on balls off the bat, and in his throwing. But between Young and Boesch (or any of the alternatives) in that of all ballparks, they are asking him to cover a lot of ground.
But of course this is academic. When Salvador Perez and Joakim Soria went down, they postponed any chance of a KANSAS CITY uprising until next season. The Royals needed everything to break their way to offer a serious challenge, and we already know it won't. They can live without Soria but pulling either Greg Holland or Jonathan Broxton out of their set-up pool will wind up overburdening the rotation. I still think the Royals could manage a second-place finish, but it'll be distant behind a Tiger offense and pitching staff that are each 50% better than anything else in the division.
CLEVELAND is beginning to understand that if Ubaldo Jimenez did not hit his high water mark at the 2010 All-Star Game, he did so in the "Zander?" commercial with Jorge De La Ros about the bicycle license plates. How they could not see that he had lost command and speed suggests the Indians need to sign up for cable or a dish. That he cost them Drew Pomeranz and Alex White may come to haunt the Indians the way the Mike Napoli deal haunts the Angels. Manny Acta will get everything out of this team, but exactly who is going to make the decision to pull Jimenez out of the rotation?
Sometimes rebuilds can be fun. Consider the rookies and sophomores in CHICAGO: closer-in-waiting Addison Reed, relievers Hector Santiago and Nate Jones, third baseamn Brent Morel, rightfielder (well, hitter in right field) Dayan Viciedo, and, the most intriguing prospect of them all, Manager Robin Ventura. The White Sox will struggle to see .500 but Ventura's extraordinary equanimity, devious humor, and quiet command will set a tone for quick recovery. Whether the White Sox have enough coming up through the pipeline to make them contenders in the near term is another thing all together.
Before you cast stones at MINNESOTA – be honest. Did you cry "no" when they gave then-recent-MVP Justin Morneau the big money? Did you say it was ludicrous when they gave Joe Mauer his $184,000,000 or did you extol the virtues of the small market team that could somehow afford to keep its hometown hero? You didn't warn, I didn't, the fans didn't, and Twins ownership didn't. And now we're all on a possibly-irreversible trip to an AL Central version of the current events in Houston or Pittsburgh: exquisite new ballpark, faithful fans, and a team that can't even afford to retain a Delmon Young during a season or a rehabbed Joe Nathan following it. It's grim and it's a reminder that Cincinnati is one blown-out kneecap away from having to give 51% of the franchise ownership to a suddenly-retired Joey Votto in lieu of paying a suddenly-retired Joey Votto.
Tigers, with or without a Statuary Defense, should win this division by double digits. The Royals and Indians will fight for second (and fight to stay over .500) and the White Sox will likely come in a few notches under. The Twins may be bad enough for the team to have to put up twelve-foot high fences to keep their most loyal fans from throwing themselves into the Fire Pits at Target Field.
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Oh Keith, you do have evidence of all the times she drove you to school. You are brilliant! She was a wonderful, beautiful mother, like mine. This is also Dr. King's anniversary of his death, I believe. I enjoyed what you wrote about baseball, but it didn't make me cry. Hugs.
Fortunately for the Tigers it has been proven long ago that a strong offense can make up for a poor defense in baseball. The Dodgers of the 1970s showed that (converted outfielders at short and second, a converted third baseman at first base who had no range, and a converted outfielder catching). However, in short post-season series, there often arise situations where an error or a misplay that isn't technically an error (think missed cutoff man or ball just out of reach or a double play that should have been turned) can swing an entire series. That should worry Tigers fans, because they have a lot of softball-type players in their lineup.
Hi Keith, Ok, not a baseball junkie like you, but read through most of lawsuit paperwork. Geez, blackmail? For you to continue under such conditions is just another testament to your character. Sorry to read conditions were so terrible for you and your staff. I am hoping it's just another stepping stone in the right direction. As a loyal viewer for so many years, I as well as others overlooked all the on air mishaps that plagued the show. That night when you lit the candle at the beginning of the broadcast was at least amusing. I do want to thank you for some quality news, especially all of the OWS coverage. Good luck with the lawsuit. Great appearance on Dave's show too. I think this is all some broad scheme to get out of work so that you could go to all those baseball games like you did last spring! Take care, hope you land somewhere soon. In the meantime, enjoy your baseball games. 🙂
As usual, your wit and charm find me rereading your work. But, so harsh about my Tigers? I would love to see what you would have to say about Mark Fidrych if he were still playing.
The Tigers should win the division easily (look out for the "more is less" Twins) but Cab is going to get hurt playing third and I think Leyland's moves will cost them in the playoffs. Plus there's a chance Fister isn' t the "2" in the 1-2 punch of Verlander-blank. The Yanks will finally beat the Tigers in the playoffs, after beating the Angels in the one game wild card. The Tigers also have a recent history of bad luck– something to bear in mind.
im an Australian so as well as my acquired taste for American sports I love our native football code 'Aussie Rules (AFL)'. The reason i mention this is because Keith mentioned above the 'fun rebuild' in Chicago and i want to confirm how much fun watching a rebuilding team can be. My beloved Hawthorn in the AFL are currently title favorites and have been a contender every year since 2008 (when they unexpectedly won the title) but before that there were 3 years full of losses as we traded our best players for draft picks and committed to youth with a rookie coach. now as much fun as he last 4 years have been, as the team racked up wins I still look back fondly on the 03-07 period that was full of losses as it was during this time I got to watch our current superstars develop and improve whilst making their mistakes and often copping humiliating losses. those memories give me a real sense of ownership of the current team as i watched them grow together, and therefore not only does it make todays winning more enjoyable but i also enjoyed the whole process of watching it come together. So my msg to Sox fans or any rebuilding team fans is dont check out during the losing part of the rebuild with a view to becoming re-engaged when they have developed and start winning, if u do your missing out on one of the great fan experiences, namely, embracing a flawed young group watching them make mistakes and take there lumps before a few years later as they do the victory lap you can truly see them as 'your guys' as u got to take the journey with them. Then again maybe im just a dumb sentimental Aussie 🙂
I am rarely rational about my Tigers (or my Spartans) so I am overjoyed to be vindicated! 2012 will be the Year of the Cat!
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Hey Keith,
My name is Eric Pettis and I have written a book like Dirk Hayhurst's (who I know you're a big fan of). "Just A Minor Perspective: Through The Eyes Of A Minor League Rookie" takes readers through my first year in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. I really tried to give people an inside perspective and hopefully readers can feel like they are experiencing everything I experienced in my first year in professional baseball. I would love if you could take a look at it and I would be more than happy to gift you a copy if you're interested.
Here's the link to the book page http://www.amazon.com/Just-Minor-Perspective-Through-ebook/dp/B007OO05A0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1333659282&sr=1-1
Eric Pettis
K, awaiting your assessment of the NL Central…and hoping the baseball gods look favorably upon my Reds. But ye gods, $225 mil for Joey? Ain't nobody on God's green earth worth that kind of money. And besides, with Brandon Phillips's acrobatics and still unsolved contract, um…what's a small city team to do? C'mon Walt, sign Brandon – he's the heart of the D and hits like a heller. Sorry, Joey, I like ya and all but…$225 million? Nope. I wouldn't give that kind of moolah to anybody. This is a kid's game after all and it's a privilege that you guys get to play it as long as you do. Personally, I'd love to still be able to play and I'd do it for a lot less just for the sheer damned pleasure of it all. So Keith, yeah, back to you. What think you? I mean besides the one blown kneecap (fingers crossed that that ain't gonna happen….)
I picked the White Sox to win that division back in spring training, and got laughed at. The only thing I couldn't figure out was why the Tigers were so highly thought of. A team can't just ignore the defensive part of the game and expect to be successful. I wonder wet none of the baseball "experts" were able to figure that out.


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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like Chuck Norris standing in a bucket, trying to lift himself up by the handle."
"I once sat in a chair and lifted myself up off the floor by the sides of the seat. I mean I could do it over and over, but I don't feel like it. I did do it once, though."
" One time I stood in a bucket and my other self lifted me up by the handle~!"
- For Tax (dance move), see Tax (dance)
- For spelling correction, or what happened if not, see Texas
- There's death and there's taxes. This article is about taxes. See also income tax.
Taxes were invented when rich people got jealous of other rich people and decided that they deserved free money from poor people. This dates back a very long time ago but it was originally invented by mother Britain as a method to force Americans to get a job, today taxes are an interesting way to support the poverty-stricken US government. By paying just a dollar a day, you will ensure a small for yourself the following: one (1) 6 x 6 barred, dark, and urine-soaked cage with one (1) urine-soaked Ernie the Serial Rapist, an unspecified number (infinity) of cavity searches daily, and (2) fresh, urine-soaked meals weekly. Furthermore, you will supply one (1) urine-soaked Ernie the Rapist with recreational pleasure to last his short lifetime, which will almost certainly be longer than yours.
Taxes in America[edit]
Taxes is the American government's way to utterly fuck people!
Taxes is a spade in the United Spades of Amerika.
Or the writers of this article meant Texas, but that's beside the point. They're both nasty things. Be very afraid.
Taxes are a scary creature that eats small children, like a dragon but much worse. They come out of a cave called the IRS once per year to feed upon the unwary.
Like most inventions of foreign nationals, Taxes have proven incredibly popular among the selfless populace.
Taxes were originally prohibited in the United States under the famous chant "No Taxation!" However, once America got involved in some wars, it had to bend the rules a bit. It was "No Taxation without Representation!" then "No Taxation without Representation unless you are a Convicted Felon" and finally "No Taxation without Representation unless you are a Convicted Felon or a citizen of Washington D.C. or you do not live in the United States but instead a conquered territory but if you like you can pay as much taxes as you want so you won't be audited unless you're Halliburton, in which case you can do whatever you want.
Republicans use the tax breaks ensure they win elections despite breaking their promises of giving a tax break (see tax-break paradox or American rip off double bluff for more information) as a platform to win elections. They promise tax breaks for the middle class during a campaign, then win the election from the duped voters. When the tax season approaches and the budget is revealed, the unfortunate suckers earning less than 50K see that they in fact got no tax break. The Republicans explain that the tax breaks went to the rich in order to stimulate the economy as promised.
The Democratic Party endorses the increased use of taxes, and applies them as a form of charitable donation from the poor to the rich. This furthers Trickle-Down Economics, an experiment initially attempted by Bernard von NotHaus in 1992 in Nigeria to test the viability of liquid money. It is a little tricky to deal with large sums, but two litres was enough to get a car, twelve litres would get a house, and ninety litres would fund the production of a decent film.
The real problem with the liquid money was that it was essentially mercury. If it ever got spilled it would tend to sink through the floor and trickle down on the people downstairs. Also, it was measured in the metric system, which is a stupid idea.
Since the rich spending money will help the poor climb out of their predicament, it only makes sense for them to fund their own enterprise. Through increased taxes from the poor, the rich have gained enough money to help many poor persons climb out of poverty, into a career of golf, horseback rides, and eating cake off the back of a Canadian hooker.
Tax revenues in the fiscal year of 2005 exceeded five dollars, in a report by the Gartner group.
Taxes have often been known to make many people yell, and on one occasion caused someone to say that taxes was one of the only things in life you couldn't avoid, along with death and that creepy uncle at Christmas.
Taxes Outside Amerika[edit]
Outside of Amerika, taxes are incredibly popular. They are known to sell out shows wherever they go; this reaches a high in Europe, where people are known to violently hurl their money at governments despite vocal rejection from the government itself. This uneasiness between the populace and the reluctant governments has led to many riots, the worst resulting in the Great Fire of London.
One newly proposed but very unknown - and very unpopular wiv da yoof - tax in the UK is upon a specific socio-economic group, with a distinctive fashion sense. The newly proposed tax is know in the halls of westminister as the chax, or the chav tax. The tax itself is proposed to be set at set at the cost of 10 burberry caps, partly due to the fact that burberry caps are in fact a recognised currency within the chavista community, and partly due to the fact that 10 is the maximum number to which Homo Chavicus may count. In trials of the tax, taking place in certain linconshire towns famous for their ASBO-bound youth population, the results are promising. For example, due to the chav's expenditure of 100% of their income on cigarettes and white lightening, no chav has the fiscal power to pay the tax, deterring them from that lifstyle. If the chav, however, is of the rarer Homo Chavicus Sin-Nicatinae sub-species, and the chav has the power to pay the tax, the fact that they could have bought 10 burberry caps with the tax money makes them think of the real costs of being a chav - and thinking is the first step of rehabilitation for a chav. There are, however, criticisms of the chav tax, but these are easily outweighed by the general positive effect that de-cavification has upon society at large.
Taxes are believed to be so popular in the Olde Wylde because people realise they are worthless, unlike Amerikans, who have a bloated sense of personal importance as they are allowed to carry tanks.
Sweden has the highest taxes in the world and also has the most variants of them. For an example, in Sweden you pay special breathing taxes. This tax is one part of the feared Swedish medical care taxes and it was installed to prevent that someone would get out of air which is an ending resource in Sweden. There are also taxes paid for King Carl XVI Gustaf's hypermodern cars, the ABBA-group members' expensive eating habits, diapers of old people and usage of the Swedish language. Farmers must also pay tithe to the Church of Sweden. The president of the United States of America, George Bush, demanded in 2007 that Sweden must pay taxes to the US and also declared that Sweden further on would be a marionette and play a key-role in his corrupted plans of world domination.
Taxes are also many taxes within Canada. The high rate is due mainly to the fact Canada has a health care system, and a giant moth for a Governor-General, who needs constant feeding. In Canada, taxpayers are required to part their way with their Canadian Tire Money.
In England they now exclusively tax people who stand in water.


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While there still isn't a realease date for the exceptionally bloody movie Knights of Badassdom, we do have a brand new trailer. Could this mean there'll be actual news about this film soon? Everything we've seen from this movie looks hilarious, and wondrously gory. Even this trailer, which starts off fairly PG, ends up ripping off heads and licking hearts. Let's keep our hopes high that one day, we will all get to see Danny Pudi, Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau, and Ryan Kwanten slaughter a bunch of monsters together.
Update: It appears as if this trailer is old (sorry I thought a few of the succubus scenes were new), but we still support the hell out of this picture.
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No-one knows how many children were taken, as most records have been lost or destroyed. Many parents whose children were taken never saw them again. Siblings were taken and deliberately separated from each other. Children were torn from their native nest and thrown into a foreign materialistic world. The government's assimilation plan saw thousands of 'half-caste' children trained as slaves for white families. The children were given utility blankets for their bed in the dorm. This blanket was the children's security from the haunting white society. This is the story of My blanket.
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Tammy, Hi! Wow, I am floored, this is so kind of you.....Thank You. I am doing better these days since I was promoted to Site Supervisor and since it's my slow time of the year it's not hard to get time off or switch with another Supervisor.....it's so slow this is true even with vacations having been approved. So I'm OK....but Thank You. And I do hope we meet one day - truly we are in each other's backyards and I wouldn't be surprised if we've passed by one another at some point over the years. Rob
PS I came back to add that I could not agree more - even with my takes on America over the years and my dark view of things, even I am floored. This IS catching a lot of people's attention, though, and some people are asking questions such as you and I.......it's not going completely unnnoticed. I don't recognize this country from the hopeful place it was the night Barack Obama was elected in November 2008 - it's a very different place now. Not liking what it's become.......Rob
If you ever miss work because of going to a protest, let me know and Ill cover your missed pay.
The few times Ive done the Heart Walk or something similar Ive had a migraine for the next day or so - because of overheating and the direct sun. So I stay in the shade and dont march. But what I can do is cover your pay so you can march.
I cant believe whats happening on our borders. It makes me so angry. How can this be America?!?
Someday well meet in person. We are living in each others backyards.
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Petrino Will Not Appeal Firing
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The lawyers representing ousted coach Bobby Petrino confirmed in an email to the University of Arkansas athletic director that they will not be appealing his firing.
40/29 News has learned that Petrino will not sue the school.
In the email sent Thursday night to Jeff Long, Russ Campbell and Patrick Strong said, "Consistent with Coach Petrino's previous statement, he accepts responsibility for the events that led to the university's decision to terminate his employment. Although extremely disappointed, he respects the university's decision and will not avail himself of the university's administrative appeal process."
Petrino's tenure at Arkansas began to unravel in the aftermath of an April 1 motorcycle accident, when he failed to report that Jessica Dorrell was a passenger during the crash.
Petrino was fired Tuesday for failing to disclose his relationship with Dorrell. Petrino hired the 25-year-old former Arkansas volleyball player in March without disclosing his relationship with her or that he had once paid her $20,000.


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In a joint statement to mark World Day for Cultural Diversity, High Representative Federica Mogherini and Commissioner Tibor Navracsics stated that on this occasion "we pay tribute to the essential role of cultural diversity in Europe and around the world for fostering dialogue, respect, and contributing to sustainable development and growth. Europe is a continent of cultural diversity. Our societies, institutions and laws are the outcome of centuries of exchanges of ideas, values, traditions and memories."
The EU has a longstanding tradition of cultural exchanges and contributing to the development of the creative industries and the preservation of cultural expressions in Europe throughout initiatives like the European Capitals of Culture, Erasmus+, Creative Europe or DiscoverEU.
The EU is furthermore strongly engaged in cultural diplomacy on the global scene as an investment in peace, conflict prevention, stability, development and reconciliation.
During last year's European Year of Cultural Heritage, the European Union's work to promote cultural diversity worldwide has been especially fruitful. Throughout the year, the EU launched initiatives to foster cultural exchanges worldwide, such as the Cultural Heritage Route in the Western Balkans and the pilot project of the European Houses of Culture.
As culture is also a source of sustainable growth and job creation, the EU finances a series of projects across the world, including Creative Europe projects in countries from the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood; the Ethical Fashion programme employing craftsmen in textile productions in Western Africa; or an annual programme in the Caribbean and Cuba that stimulates the creative industries and mobilises cultural heritage notably through sustainable tourism.
As part of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, we work to protect cultural heritage sites and fight illicit trade in cultural goods in the framework of the Unite4Heritage programme in Syria, Libya and Yemen. In Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran, the Silk Road heritage corridors programme contributes to prosperity, peace and social cohesion.
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Despite it only taking around 20 hours to complete, that feels like a long time and it scares me away. Imagine the dread felt when trying to tackle anything longer, say Earthbound. It's all discussed in my video above.
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#1 For survivalists, the end is always nigh03-10-2009, 06:35 PMTHE end, when it comes, will be swift. A spiralling economy and diminishing oil supplies will lead to power outages, food shortages, a breakdown in law and order, and ultimately, complete societal collapse. "I anticipate that it'll happen quite fast, like the bushfires," says Tony, a 44-year-old ex-stockbroker.
Tony, who lives with his wife and three young children in Baulkham Hills, has been stockpiling supplies including rice, multivitamins, peanut butter and honey - "Stuff you don't need to cook or refrigerate and that is high in calories" - plus plenty of soap and toilet paper. "Sanitation will break down as sewerage [systems] clog because people will be unable to maintain the infrastructure. So we'll see diseases like cholera and typhoid."
Tony (who didn't want his second name used), is part of a new wave of Australian survivalists, a disparate group that includes peak oilers, permaculturalists and "transition teams" that are making plans for what they see as the coming apocalypse. Such people used to fret about nuclear Armageddon or Y2K: today, it's more likely to be global warming, shrinking oil reserves and financial collapse.
"There has been a surge in interest recently," says Simon Beer, whose website, survival.org.au, has practical tips in bush skills, fire starting and food gathering. "Climate change, peak oil, the economic situation - people are seeing we're headed for catastrophic changes." In 2001, he moved from McMahons Point to the Blue Mountains, where he grows his own vegetables and collects tinned food. He says: "When resources become scarce, people fight, nations fight."
Traffic has also been brisk on Aussurvivalist.com, which has a graph showing the group's opinion "as to possible causes and likelihood of a major catastrophe in the next 10 years". Economic collapse rates at 87 per cent. The website's founder, John Monico, would not talk to the Herald but writes of being interested in survivalism ever since watching The Day Of The Triffids and reading John Christopher's post-apocalyptic novel, No Blade Of Grass. "I have stepped up my level of preparedness," he writes, "due to increasing global uncertainty and the needs of my family."
Most Aussurvivalist members are white and male: more than a third are ex-military or serving. There is a lot of discussion about guns, coupled with a lingering contempt for wider society.
However, Russ Grayson, co-founder of Transition Sydney, says: "We can accomplish more by co-operating in groups and communities rather than acting alone and heading for the hills".
Formed last year, Transition Sydney has several hundred members, and affiliates in Brisbane, Adelaide and the Sunshine Coast, who are preparing for a post-oil world by developing local solutions to food production and distribution, clean energy, water harvesting and recycling.
"We develop prototypes that can be scaled up in case of emergency," Grayson says. "Survivalists are usually on the fringe, but this is a mainstream movement. That's the only way [we can] meet the challenges ahead, by working together."
03-10-2009, 06:49 PM"Climate change, peak oil, the economic situation - people are seeing we're headed for catastrophic changes."
Ralph, Moonbats believe the gob\vernment will save them when things go south.
Always be ready when things go south; don't become zombie chow if you can help it.
Every era ends; sometimes a slow decay, sometimes violent crash.
Its best to error on the side of caution, then be the last SOB out of the room when TSHTF.CU's Paranormal Expert.
Keep your powder dry, your sword sharp and your wits intact.
03-11-2009, 08:54 AM"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken
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I did my field work with a county services agency in Kalamazoo, that included Head Start under it's umbrella of services. The wife of an elderly survivalist decided that all the food he had stockpiled was going to waste, because they really were too old to survive an apocalypse, at that point, and made him donate all this dehydrated food. We had a real challenge in distributing it, because none of us knew how to reconstitutue it or make meals out of it, so none of our clients would.
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May 6, 2019 (BBC News) Forty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames just after takeoff from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Dramatic video shows passengers using emergency exit slides to escape the burning Aeroflot aircraft. Survivors suggest the plane was struck by lightning, but Russia's national carrier said only that it returned to the airport for technical reasons. Two children are among the dead. The jet had 73 passengers and five crew. Initial reports suggested the plane had landed on fire, but sources quoted by Russian news agency Interfax said the jet caught fire after a very bumpy landing. The aircraft landed with full fuel tanks because the crew lost contact with air traffic controllers and decided it was too dangerous to dump fuel over Moscow, Interfax added. "There are 37 survivors - 33 passengers and four members of the crew," said Yelena Markovskaya, an official involved in the investigation of the crash. A flight attendant was also reportedly killed in the incident. Five people are in hospital. One witness said it was a "miracle" anyone escaped.What happened to the plane?
The aircraft, a Sukhoi Superjet-100, left the airport on May 5 at 18:02 local time (15:02 GMT), bound for Murmansk. Its crew sent a distress signal when "malfunctions" occurred in bad weather shortly after take-off. After making an emergency landing at the airport, the plane's engines caught fire on the runway, Aeroflot said, adding that the crew "did everything to save the passengers".
RIA news agency has broadcast a video clip shot by a passenger as the plane caught fire on the tarmac. A sheet of flame can be seen through the window, and a cloud of sparks, while people scream in panic and a voice - apparently a flight attendant - is heard saying "keep calm". Video shot from airport buildings shows passengers fleeing the stricken jet via an inflatable slide at the front and running away from the inferno.


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Factors propelling the global market growth include increasing demand for laparoscopic instruments owing to the rise in physician and patient inclination towards minimally invasive procedures, mainly laparoscopic procedures.
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"My fellow Americans," he said, speaking against a backdrop of armored military vehicles and an American flag...The NYT notes the showy backdrop. (By the way, the intro "My fellow Americans" will always, for me, call to mind LBJ.)
... "we've traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of new day on the horizon."Oh, brother. Dark... pre-dawn darkness... light... new day... Not only is light and darkness a hackneyed metaphor, applied clumsily, but it's the very metaphor LBJ used over and over in his effort to manipulate our emotions about the Vietnam war.


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For forty-one years, Nick Hernandez and Texas Tours Entertainment, have been putting on the Tejano Super Car Show at the Ector County Fairgrounds in Odessa, TX. However, this was the first year that the show was sanctioned by Lowrider Magazine. Since the show was sanctioned, it meant that all sweepstake winners at this show would automatically qualify for the 2013 Lowrider Magazine Las Vegas Super Show and a chance to obtain the coveted Lowrider of the year honors. The Lowrider judges were on hand to handle the judging for this huge event.
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Gnocchi Light as Air
On paper, 2012 Atlanta Rising Star Chef Shane Devereux of The Lawrence is not the chef you'd expect to concoct the perfect gnocchi. Devereux's style combines a childhood spent eating Vietnamese food with years of classical French training. But even without the requisite Italian nonna teaching him the art of noodle-making, Devereux has developed a simple, foolproof method for creating light-as-air dough that he pairs with fennel-basil pistou and chicharrónes.
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Gnocchi Technique
1. Put potatoes in medium pot of lightly seasoned water and cook on low heat, barely reaching a simmer, for about 1 hour.
2. Using a butter knife, gently remove the skins from the potatoes and push them through a tamis or potato ricer.
3. Spread the milled potato onto a wooden cutting board and cool for 10 minutes.
4. Season potato mash. Form mixture into a loose ball and make a well in the center. Pour one beaten egg into the center well and evenly sprinkle flour over the mixture.
5. Begin mixing eggs with the potato, starting in the well and gradually working the fork outwards.
6. When the mixture comes together, use a bench scrapper and lightly fold the mixture and knead 6 times. On the last knead, make dough into the shape of a ball and cover with a towel.
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8. Cut the log into 1-inch pieces. Add 3 to 5 pieces to the boiling water to test.
9. Cut remaining dough and keep pieces on a sheet tray. Optional: roll cut pieces on a textured board for patterned consistency. Freeze excess gnocchi.
10. Bring water to a boil, and drop 10 gnocchi in at a time. Once they float, remove from water.
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