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$17,605 Base Price MSRP
$25,019 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: Volkswagen Jetta S ($17,605); SportWagen S ($19,510); SE ($20,395); SportWagen SE ($23,240); SEL ($23,280); Wolfsburg Edition 2.0T ($22,165); 2.0 TDI ($22,830); SportWagen 2.0 TDI ($24,615); TDI Cup ($24,990).
Standard Engine: 2.0-liter DOHC 16-valve turbocharged 4-cylinder
Engine Options: 170-hp 2.5-liter dohc 20v inline-5; 200-hp 2.0-liter dohc 16v turbocharged inline-4; 140-hp 2.0-liter dohc 16v turbocharged diesel inline-4
Standard Transmission: 24/32
Transmission Options: 5-speed manual; 6-speed automatic; 6-speed manual; 6-speed DSG automatic
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
Assembled In: Puebla, Mexico
Model Tested MSRP: Volkswagen Jetta Wolfsburg Edition SE ($22,165)
Standard Equipment: leatherette upholstery, air conditioning, power windows, power locks with remote, power heated mirrors, cruise control, electronic stability and traction control, 6CD/MP3/Sirius satellite radio sound system, eight-way manually adjustable heated front seats with lumbar support and power recliners, split folding rear seat, manual tilt-and-telescope leather-wrapped steering wheel, power sunroof, A,/FM/ audio with 6-disc in-dash CD/MP3 changer and Sirius satellite radio, Bluetooth connectivity, variable intermittent wipers with heated washer nozzles, body-colored bumpers and mirrors, 225/45HR17 tires on alloy wheels
Options As Tested: rear wing spoiler ($395); lip spoiler ($360); ground effects kit ($1999) includes front air dam, side sill extensions, rear valence, exhaust tips
Standard Safety Equipment: dual-stage front airbags; front passenger side-impact airbags; front and rear curtain-style head protection airbags; safety belt pre-tensioners with load limiters for the front seats; emergency locking retractors for every belt; electronic stability control; four-channel ABS, with electronic brake-force distribution and brake assist; traction control
Optional Safety Equipment: rear side-impact airbagsDestination Charge: $750
For 2010, the Jetta line is basically unchanged. A SportWagen joined the sedan in late summer 2008 as a 2009 model, adding flexibility without a larger footprint or any compromise in efficiency. The performance-oriented GLI model has been dropped, and replaced by the TDI Cup Street Edition, a street-legal version of VW's Jetta TDI Cup race series cars.
The 2010 Jetta lineup includes TDI versions of the sedan or wagon, featuring a turbocharged clean-diesel engine and superior mileage. (The diesel was absent from VW's lineup in 2007 and 2008, due to stricter emissions controls, but a redesigned edition reappeared in 2009, with more power and certification for all 50 states.) Electronic stability control and a cold weather package with heated front seats and steering wheel are standard on all 2010 models. The standard stability control system comes two years ahead of a federal mandate requiring all vehicles sold in the U.S. to have some sort of standard stability control feature.
The 2010 Volkswagen Jetta lineup offers three engine choices: a 170-hp 2.5-liter inline five-cylinder (the standard base powerplant); a turbocharged 2-liter, 200-hp four-cylinder (employed in a number of different VW and Audi models); and a 2-liter, 140-hp turbocharged diesel four-cylinder, dubbed the TDI (for Turbo Direct Injection). EPA figures run from 21 mpg city on the gas engines to 41 mpg highway for the thrifty TDI.
We found the Jetta responsive around town and comfortable on long trips. It carves through curves precisely, but rides comfortably.
Inside, the Jetta is roomy and nicely finished, benefitting from Volkswagen's attention to detail. The driver enjoys excellent visibility and ease of operation, with logical controls and instruments. Finish quality is good, inside and out. The trunk is larger than in many sedans costing much more. The basic warranty has been shortened by a year but now includes all scheduled maintenance; the longer roadside assistance and powertrain warranty periods remain.
The Jetta was redesigned and re-engineered from the ground up midway through 2005. It still seems fresh to us, and the wagon model adds an element of flexibility. We find its styling more pleasant than exciting. If you like the idea of a solid four-door and are ready to try some European flavor, the Jetta is the best deal in town, a combination of price and German character that's made it the bestselling European car in the U.S. market.
The 2010 Volkswagen Jetta comes as a four-door sedan or SportWagen in one of four trim levels. S and SE models use the basic 2.5-liter inline five-cylinder engine. A five-speed manual transmission is standard with the 2.5; a six-speed manual is standard with the 2.0T and TDI; a six-speed automatic is optional ($1100) with any of the three engines.
Jetta S sedan ($17,605) and wagon ($19,510) come with velour cloth upholstery, air conditioning, power windows, power locks with remote, power heated mirrors, cruise control, electronic stability and traction control, CD player, eight-way manually adjustable heated front seats with lumbar support and power recliners, split folding rear seat, manual tilt-and-telescope steering wheel, and 205/55HR all-season tires on 16-inch steel wheels. SportWagen models add an intermittent rear wipe/wash and cargo compartment details. Options include metallic paint, sunroof ($1,000), panoramic dual-glass sunroof on wagons ($1,300), alloy wheels ($450), rear side airbags ($350), and iPod interface ($199).
The Jetta SE sedan ($20,395) and wagon ($23,240) add alloy wheels, more chrome, a sunroof on sedans, 6CD/MP3/Sirius satellite radio sound system, V-Tex (imitation leather) upholstery and door panel inserts, a rear seat/trunk pass-through and a fold-flat front passenger seat for long items. Options mirror the S model plus 225/45R17 tires on alloy wheels ($450) and a navigation system ($1990).
The Wolfsburg Edition sedan ($22,280) comes with the 200-hp 2.0T engine and six-speed manual or six-speed DSG automatic, essentially with SE content plus 17-inch alloy wheels and dark exterior trim. Options are limited to rear side airbags ($350) and iPod adapter ($199).
The Jetta SEL sedan ($23,280) features the 2.5-liter engine and six-speed automatic. Jetta SEL gets 17-inch alloy wheels, body-color front and rear trim, dual-zone climate control, multifunction steering wheel and trip computer, premium sound, HomeLink, a 115-volt rear outlet, and leather trim for the steering wheel and handbrake. SEL options include a sunroof ($1,000), panoramic sunroof for the wagon ($1,300), rear side airbags ($350), and navigation ($1,990).
Jetta TDI sedans ($22,830) and wagons ($24,615) use six-speed manual or DSG transmissions and are equipped much like SE sedans, minus a sunroof. TDI options include rear side airbags ($350), 17-inch ally wheels ($450), sunroof ($1,300), iPod adapter ($199), and navigation ($1,990). The U.S. government is offering a $1300 U.S. federal income tax credit to those for the diesel Jetta.
Safety features that come standard include front airbags, front passenger side-impact airbags for torso protection, and curtain-style airbags for head protection front and rear. Rear side airbags, which are not recommended with child seats and small occupants, are optional. All Jettas have anti-lock brakes with electronic brake-force distribution (EBD), brake assist, traction control (ASR) and electronic stability control. Roadside assistance is included in the Jetta warranty package.
Walk Around
The Volkswagen Jetta is a small mid-size sedan. It was completely redesigned for the 2005 model year, and has had a number of minor detail changes since. The SportWagen joined the lineup for 2009.
Technically, Jetta belongs among compacts like the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic, but in the real world it slots between compact and mid-size offerings from other brands. It tips the scales at 3200 pounds and more, but that mass is reflective of excellent structural rigidity, as well comprehensive safety equipment, and the dimensions include a large trunk, plus a usable rear seat.
Looking at the Jetta, the eye is immediately drawn to its big, chrome-framed front grille. Chrome is also used in the eyebrows atop the air inlets in the front bumper and, on the SE and SEL, for the side-window surrounds. SportWagen models have been freshened for 2010 with a new front end treatment that includes a double-bar grille just above the bumper and wider lower fascia.
The next most striking design element is the aggressive thrust and slope of the hood and snout. Compared to other recent nose-forward designs, the Jetta's composite halogen headlights and various inlets and grilles are well integrated into the raked rearward flow of its form. A striking vee, created by the slant of the headlamps and sloping hood lines, is carried strongly toward the rear by the steeply raked windshield and character lines running along the flanks.
Big tail light clusters, divided between the trunk and rear fender, help widen the proportion of the car's hindquarters in relation to its height, giving it a more substantial, less boxy-looking stern. The round tail lights and brake lights have been singled out as the new Jetta's most derivative design statement. Critics claim they make Jetta look bland and too much like Japanese sedans.
SportWagen hatches don't have the round-light issue and carry a small spoiler at the top of the roof and a rear wash/wipe system that clears every part of the glass you might look through. Tail lamps wrap well into the rear side panels but no lights are in the hatch so rear visibility is not compromised loading in the dark.
Volkswagen interiors are noted for their quality and value, combining expensive-looking materials with simple, attractive styling and excellent ergonomics. The result tends to be inviting cabins that are comfortable, pleasant places to be as the miles roll by.
The contours of the bucket front seats provide a high degree of support. The seats are easy to adjust with manual controls, and the steering column, adjustable for both rake and reach, and height-adjustable safety belt help drivers of all sizes get comfortable. The sporty thick-rimmed, three-spoke steering wheel frames a gauge cluster dominated by separate, large dials for the tachometer and speedometer, well shaded from ambient light by a curved cowl. In daylight the graphics read white on black, at night changing to white on soothing swimming-pool blue, with lighted red pointers. In either case, the data are easy to comprehend at a glance. Within the tachometer and speedometer are warning lights and advisories about secondary functions, including one thoughtful warning that the fuel filler door was left open after refueling.
A large electronic message pad sits dead center, just over the coolant temperature and fuel gauges. In addition to more warning and diagnostic symbols, on upper-trim models this display includes trip computer readouts.
Trip computer data are accessed by one of three levers mounted on the steering column (or with the available multi-function steering wheel buttons). Jutting to the right, this lever also operates the wiper/washer system. To the left are the levers for the turn signals/headlamp flashers and cruise control. Though easy to use, the levers feel flimsy and are one of the few interior elements that have a cheap, plasticky look. The headlight switch is mounted on the dash to the left of the steering wheel.
Stereo control buttons surround the audio display screen in the center stack and are in full view, a setup we prefer over hidden controls. Unfortunately, the display's graphics are not easily discernible in daylight. At night, though, the display reverts to the trademark VW blue backlighting and is easily read. The steering wheel buttons on high-line models can be used to operate a cell phone, mute the radio, or toggle between the various modes of the sound system.
Just below the stereo, the manual Climatic heating and air conditioning is operated via a rotary dial on the left for temperature, one in the middle for fan speed, and a third on the right for directing the air in the cabin. Dual-zone climate control is used on SEL models.
The adjustment switch for the outside mirrors and the power window switches are on the driver's door armrest, within easy reach and sight. The windows feature anti-pinch protection and one-touch up or down. As a further convenience, they can also be opened or closed, along with the sunroof, with the master key in the driver's door lock.
The center console extends between the front seats and includes a covered storage bin, two cupholders, a power outlet and climate system vents for rear seat passengers. A small overhead console, just aft of the rearview mirror, holds a pair of reading lights, sunroof controls, interior light switches, a sunglasses bin and ambient lighting elements that softly illuminate the dash area at night. Other nice touches include sun visors that slide on rods to extend their reach over most of the side window, and well-lighted vanity mirrors.
The rear of the cabin provides seats nicely contoured and raked for comfort. A six-foot-tall driver still leaves room behind for a similarly sized passenger, and there's enough headroom to accommodate someone much taller, especially on wagons. Still, there's no way an adult will fit comfortably in the center rear seat if there are adults on each side. A 60/40 split folding rear seat is standard across the line. Rear-seat SportWagen riders prone to claustrophobia will appreciate the panoramic sunroof option, which features glass panels all the way back to the rear headrests and an opaque shade to minimize solar intrusion.
The trunk seems larger than is possible in a compact sedan (at 16 cubic feet). When the trunk lid is opened, it rises to a completely vertical position, out of the way of any loading or unloading. Completely carpeted, the trunk also has a storage cubby wall and four tie hooks.
Cargo space in the SportWagen reaches almost 67 cubic feet with seats dropped; even with the rear seat in place there is a 40-inch square load deck level with a folded rear seatback. To each side behind the wheels is a four-inch deep bin for stowing extra washer fluid or loose items, and under the floor is a three-inch deep, almost one foot by full-width well behind the seats. Aft of that there's a two-foot long section of similar depth; the cargo floor/compartment cover folds and can be locked into various notches to make a wall for segmenting heavier items. Two conventional cargo loops at the forward end floor are complemented by two much stouter steel loops at the back corners. At cargo cover level are a pair of pop-up D-clips for securing grocery bags.
Driving Impressions
Turn the key in the Volkswagen Jetta S, SE, or SEL sedan and you're greeted by the raspy growl of a five-cylinder engine. Although VW's powertrain engineers have made recent modifications to reduce vibration, it's still a little more audible than many small car engines, an in-your-ear sound that will find favor with those who appreciate mechanical sounds. We like it, but it might be annoying to drivers who'd rather talk on the phone.
The 2.5-liter reaches 0-60 mph in about 8.5 seconds (the manual is quicker) and records EPA figures of 21/29 mpg. Jettas with the gasoline two-liter turbo cut 1-1.5 seconds off acceleration time and the DSG automatic is the quicker of the two; EPA ratings are virtually identical to the 2.5 liter. The new 2-liter turbodiesel will take longer to reach 60, in the nine second range, about what you'd expect from a car this size with these EPA figures: 29-30 city/40-41 highway.
There has been some controversy about the diesel's EPA ratings. In third-party testing AMCI produced results of 38/44 mpg and in a December 2006 study the EPA concluded their miles-per-gallon labels underestimated diesel mileage by double digits and overestimated gasoline and hybrid-electric figures. From early drives we anticipate the Jetta TDI capable of mid-30 to mid-40 mileage. It should also be noted that the Jetta TDI does not need fuel additives at refueling or maintenance intervals that some diesels require, and IRS tax credits offset its extra cost.
As soon as the Jetta pulls away from the curb, there's a feel of solidity, and a sense of high quality. Volkswagen invested in structural rigidity, and it paid off in ride quality and handling.
The five-cylinder engine is tuned for instant gratification, and we like it. It is all about usable midrange power here, with a relatively low 5800 rpm redline and no need to explore it. Stand start throttle tip-in is aggressive, especially when the automatic transmission is in Sport mode so you may want to avoid it for commuting. The engine provides little compression braking while driving downhill, however, and we'd prefer that it did for the control it provides.
Regardless of gearbox, the 2.5-liter never felt underpowered in a week of testing on freeways, over mountain passes and around town. Its rasp can be a bit strident when the accelerator is fully applied, but it's more a syncopated growl of power than a whine of discontent. We can attest that the Jetta will cruise all day long at 90 mph and, given an autobahn or race track to explore, will reach almost 130 mph at its top end. The 2.5 is a very flexible engine, and it delivers power when needed, no matter the gear.
Raw speed is not what this five-cylinder does best, however. If speed is the objective, the 2-liter turbo, which powered our Wolfsburg Edition test car, is a much better bet.
The six-speed automatic with Tiptronic does just about everything an automatic transmission should do. In full automatic mode, the transitions between gears are quick and slip-free. Slam the gas pedal down and downshifts are crisp, and the transmission holds the chosen gear until redline before swiftly shifting up to the next gear. Switch to the manual mode by moving the shift lever into a gate to the right. Pushing the lever forward in the manual mode chooses a higher gear, while pulling back selects a lower one.
Handling is rewarding, inspiring confidence on curving mountain roads. The Jetta carves through a corner with precision, and body roll is well controlled. It's more apparent in the base models, but regardless of trim level and suspension tuning the car's responses are precise and wholly predictable.
Entering a corner too quickly is easily corrected with the excellent four-wheel disc brakes. ABS helps the driver maintain steering control while braking, while Brake Assist ensures maximum brake force during emergency stops. Get everything wrong and stability control will do better than most drivers at returning to normal operation. The Jetta's high-tech traction aids provide a greater envelope of safety yet do little to diminish the driving experience.
We think this is one of the best-handling front-wheel-drive cars Volkswagen has produced. The lighter Golf is perhaps more tossable, particularly the GTI version, but American buyers still seem to prefer a formal sedan to a hatchback. The Jetta benefits from its multi-link rear suspension, instead of VW/Audi's traditional twist beam, along with a carefully designed MacPherson strut front suspension. Sedan or wagon, it's a well-balanced car, with little or no sense that the front end is doing the work of both pulling and steering the car.
The steering is sharp and communicative. It not only adjusts to speed, providing more assist at low speeds and higher effort on the open road, but through electronic control of the steering column it automatically corrects the car's direction when such external forces as crosswinds threaten to move it off track. It's a bit disconcerting at first for the car to do something a driver expects he or she will have to do, but in short order the self-correction becomes a welcome improvement.
For slippery conditions, Jetta's anti-slip regulation (ASR) and electronic differential control (EDL) team up to make the best of available traction; with a good set of winter tires all-wheel drive is not needed.
Although the sporty GLI model has been dropped, the Wolfsburg Edition, equipped with the four-cylinder turbo, delivers similar performance. The 2-liter four-cylinder is smaller in displacement than the standard five-cylinder, but it's turbocharged and develops a flat curve of usable torque, with 207 pound-feet available from 1800 to 5000 rpm. This means good response on the highway and around town. Step on the pedal and it goes not matter what. Yet this engine will gleefully rev to 6000 rpm in pursuit of its 200 peak horsepower. It can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in about 6.7 seconds. We easily reached the electronically limited top speed of 130 mph on some deserted roads in New Mexico, where the roar of the wind clawing its way past the car was the sole intrusion on the peace inside the cabin. The same engine powers the SEL SportWagen.
The 2.0-liter turbocharged engine and VW's terrific dual-clutch DSG auto-manual transmission make a sweet combination. It really makes two cars in one: smooth cruiser and performance bruiser. On a long trip, the DSG six-speed automatic exploits the economies of its fifth and sixth gears. Yet a dash across town perks it up, and it stays in lower gears longer for better acceleration. It downshifts directly from fifth or sixth gear to third if passing power is needed right now, skipping the gears in between. The driver can shift manually by sliding the gear lever into the DSG slot, which initiates touch-shifts through the gear lever itself; or via steering-wheel-mounted paddles on the Wolfsburg Edition. It's a brilliant system, crisp and smooth, and operation is direct and intuitive, as well as quicker in manual operation than a standard transmission.
TDI marks the return of Volkswagen diesels to the U.S. and this 2-liter four-cylinder is a derivative of the best-selling diesel in Volkswagens and Audis sold in Germany where they demand performance and fuel economy. It delivers 140 hp but the horsepower lost to the 2.5 and 2.0T (30 and 60, respectively) is made up for by the diesel's superior torque of 236 lb-ft from just 1,750 rpm. That grunt makes itself know in the form of a well of elastic urge, so relaxed you often find yourself cruising along at speeds more appropriate for Germany than the Interstate. Beyond ultra low sulfur diesel fuel (stations are plentiful and you'll get 400-500 miles from a tank) the TDI makes no special requests; it starts quickly even if cold, is frequently quieter than the 2.5, disappears into the background at speed and most of your passengers will never know if you don't tell them.
The Volkswagen Jetta blends German-bred engineering and technology, good materials and build quality, and solid performance in a value-priced package. The Jetta S model comes well equipped, with a decent CD player and a host of safety features. Its 2.5-liter five-cylinder was bred for American tastes, with lots of low-rev torque, and makes for both a snappy runabout and a comfortable long-distance cruiser. The turbocharged Wolfsburg Edition attains Audi-like sports sedan status without the cost and the 2.0T lends real sport to the SportWagen. Diesel models deliver the driving precision of the Jetta with fuel economy near that of hybrids, and only one hybrid SUV comes close to the price, mileage and practicality of a TDI SportWagen. At the high end, a loaded-to-the-max Jetta can push through $30,000.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent G.R. Whale reported from Los Angeles, with Greg Brown reporting from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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She also had herself a chuckle at Tedder's assertion of her quiet dominance. She said, "Isn't that funny? 'Quietly.' Because I keep my head to the dirt and I just f--king pound the pavement. And I'm in a stable of show horses, of prized ponies, and I learn from the best. You can't compare anybody to the Tina Turners and the Chers and the Sades and the Janet Jacksons — yet. And to me, they're touring artists, they're lifelong legendary touring artists. Bette Midler — these are my gods."
Pink also shared what a day in her life is like, saying, "Typical day is wake up, Papa takes Willow to breakfast, then we go to the park. It's basically all about Willow. I go to the gym. Then we play for a little while, then we go to yoga and Willow comes. We do family yoga here with the dancers and some of the band and some of the crew here. And then we do sound check and then we eat. Then I do hair, I get my makeup done. Then I do my vocal warmups, I do my physi warmup, I do my prayer with the band and crew and then we go onstage. Then we get on the bus, go to sleep. Willow gets a bed, I go to the bunk. Then we wake up and do it all over again."
And all of this amounts to the multiple reasons Pink is the Woman of the Year.
We can't just give her a reason, like her hit single. There are many reasons we lurve Pink.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Even Charlie Crist's most ardent naysayers concede he's one of the country's best retail politicians.
He's got charm, charisma and a Bill Clintonesque-appeal, they'll admit. He loves the camera, and the camera, with his shock of white hair and George Hamilton tan, loves him. On the street, at airports or in line at the grocery store, Crist --- the self-appointed "People's Governor" --- works the room with relish, shaking hands, patting backs and handing out his cell phone number like candy.
Gov. Rick Scott couldn't be more of a contrast. He appears awkward on camera and in person. He jets around the country courting corporate honchos to bring their business to the Sunshine State. His staff's attempts to humanize the former health care executive by dressing him in button-down shirts with the sleeves rolled up failed. Instead, they've turned to tweeting pictures of Scott and his wife Ann with their grandsons.
Research shows that the more likeable a candidate is, the better his or her chances of getting elected.
But will Crist's affability be enough to offset the $100 million Scott's backers have pledged for the campaign, much of which will go to tear down Scott's presumed challenger in the battle between two Florida chief executives?
"As much as we like to think of ourselves as very rational people who look at all the evidence, a lot of times what we end up doing is making very emotional reactions to people," said Lee Budesheim, a psychology professor at Creighton University in Nebraska whose research includes the role likeability plays in elections.
Elections aren't just personality contests, Budesheim said.
"But a big part of it can be who do you think will serve your interests, and that comes across through a person's warmth and through a person's perceived intelligence," he said.
Republicans began beating up on Crist, who left the GOP in 2010 to unsuccessfully run for the U.S. Senate with no party affiliation and registered as a Democrat in 2012, long before he officially launched his campaign for governor in the fall.
This year's fight between Crist, if he wins the Democratic nomination, and Scott will be a typical one in which candidates spend a lot of money to improve their images and throw out even more to pull down their opponents.
GOP consultant Rick Wilson, who's not affiliated with Scott's campaign, noted that efforts to shrink Crist's popularity are already working, especially among Republicans.
"The battleground of likeability will be a lot more level than people thought it would be in a few months," Wilson said. "The likeability that Charlie had on paper is a declining asset."
Scott and Republicans aren't alone in trying to convince voters that Crist is a turncoat who can't be trusted.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich, a former Senate minority leader and lifelong Democrat, and her allies are also piling on.
"The question is trust. Do you trust someone who's got a record, a 12-year record, representing those core Democratic values or do you trust someone who says now, 'I've changed?' I think people have to prove themselves," Rich said recently at an appearance in Tallahassee accompanied by former National Organization for Women president Patricia Ireland.
But the anticipated negative campaigning isn't likely to sway voters very much, predicted Florida Atlantic University political science professor Kevin Wagner.
"Despite the vast amounts of money people will spend, it's hard to move the numbers because people are pretty well informed on these two guys. There's not a whole lot new to learn," Wagner said.
As it is for most incumbents, this year's election is more likely to be a referendum on Scott, whose popularity has hovered below 50 percent since his election in 2010.
"And that makes it a little bit harder for Rick Scott because at the end of the day it's people's judgment of him and not their judgment of Charlie Crist" that will determine how they vote, Wagner said.
Scott rode in on a tea party wave in 2010 and defeated former state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, whose campaign, critics said, was poorly run, by just 1 percent.
Scott won't have either of those advantages this year. Crist's campaign team is loaded with President Barack Obama's campaign aides, including former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who helped boost Obama into the White House, both times with Florida's help.
Scott backers are using his record of lower unemployment, more jobs and a statewide economic comeback to persuade voters to give him another term.
"While likeability is important, the bottom line is going to be is this guy going to be better for my family on the economic front," Wilson said.
And money will help Scott on both fronts, Wilson predicted.
"The fact of the matter is that when Rick Scott comes to play he is bringing the heavy artillery and outside groups are bringing the heavy artillery into this thing," he said. "Charlie is going to have to fight back against an awful lot."
But Steve Schale, who ran Obama's campaign in Florida in 2008 and is one of Crist's chief aides, argues that Crist will have ample resources to hold his own, especially in a year when Democrats are fired up to unseat the incumbent.
"There's this perception that there's going to be unlimited money. It's not like it's going to be only a Rick Scott negative campaign against Charlie Crist and Charlie Crist is just going to have his name on the ballot," Schale said. "It's going to be a conversation. It's not going to be like Pepsi and Tab or Ford and the Malaysian Proton."
But GOP operative J.M. "Mac" Stipanovich, who's backing Scott, disagreed, saying he'd rather have more money than be the candidate voters would rather have a beer with.
"If I've got $100 million and you've got $50 million, I can spend $50 million with my foot on your face and I can spend $50 million on pictures of me and my grandchildren," Stipanovich said. "If you've got $50 million, you're probably going to have to go further with your foot on my face than with pictures of the grandchildren you don't have."
A "race to the bottom" will ultimately hurt Scott, Schale said.
"If their plan is to make this a race about who is the least desirable person to be in public office, I don't think that's the winning strategy for them. If people are forced to pick between the lesser of two evils, that's not necessarily a good place for Scott," he said.


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The Double Front Cafe surpassed their goal of 2,000 chicken dinners to celebrate their 51st anniversary on Tuesday. I spoke with Jason Herndon of the family-owned and operated cafe on Wednesday afternoon. That interview is attached. There were 2,107 dinners served from 11 a.m. until about 9 p.m.


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This is part two of a two-part piece. Part one can be found here.
By JOEL HANS, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
Q: When it comes to day-to-day manufacturing operations — the plant floor — how does PLM fit in?
A: We see two or three genres of interaction between PLM and manufacturing systems. On the very advanced end, some companies basically feed iterated or updated design information to the MES and CNC machines. As you release the latest bill of material, you're also releasing all the tooling and manufacturing instructions and so forth with it. Most of our clients, at the very least, are looking at being able to basically push a button and then publish or feed a bill of material into their manufacturing systems. That's becoming very common, and almost every set of requirements I see from somebody who's looking at PLM has that on the list.
A little more mundane opportunity is that most manufacturing companies have a series of procedures and policies and standards. They also have quality systems or document management systems that their plant floor people can access. That can be for quality procedures or testing procedures, as well as the latest print for a product. Some companies are looking to PLM to replace or augment those types of applications. If the latest print is available out in the PLM system, why would you need to add it to a separate system that may or may not actually have the latest print in it? Why don't you just access the PLM system directly?
The other thing we're seeing is that even beyond manufacturing, there is this desire to tie quality-related information and quality processes like problem reporting and corrective action processes back to the actual core data. Oftentimes, a problem with a product in the field isn't necessarily a manufacturing problem. Manufacturing might have built it right, but the design of the product didn't actually live up to expectations out in the field. That's one of the impetuses you're seeing right now around wanting to integrate the quality lifecycle processes with product development and PLM.
Q: Where do you see the PLM marketplace heading in the near future?
A: From a pure PLM technology standpoint, we're seeing two things that are interesting. The natural evolution of PLM that we're seeing is that it needs to become an enterprise-class application, and the software vendors need to continue enhancing the core platform to make it as capable as ERP is to fit into their IT landscape. As an example, there are some packages that are pretty popular in the market today that aren't certified to work in virtualized IT environments. In the longer term, as more and more companies choose to use things like VMWare, you almost have to have your application certified to work in that environment. That's just part of the natural evolution of the platform.
The other thing we're seeing is that there are other types of platforms becoming available. For example, there are more cloud-based, or on-demand type, PLM capabilities available in the marketplace. That is providing different types of solutions and different types of platforms, that companies looking to use PLM can take advantage of. These come with different trade-offs of functionality and price points that I think will continue to expand the types of use-cases that PLM can be applied to and the types of companies PLM can be applied to.
We're also seeing that while PLM has been traditionally focused on the product data, the technology is being applied to different types of use cases. For example, we help companies use PLM technology to facilitate improvements in the order management process, or the quality management process, taking advantage of the collaboration and the document/knowledge management capabilities that are inherent in PLM.
If you think about ongoing business operations, there's a whole lot of 'management of change' processes that a company needs to execute effectively, and some companies are using PLM technology to help manage a whole suite or a whole spectrum of business change processes — not just engineering change, but capital projects, new product launches and so on.
What that would imply to me is that in the next 5-10 years, you're going to see more and more use of PLM technology in those types of cases, but you'll also see the platforms of these packages being expanded or made more flexible to accommodate a wider variation of use cases beyond just traditional product development and engineering.
Q: And in your opinion, what does Kalypso bring to the PLM table that others might now?
A: As we've discussed, PLM is becoming a cross-functional tool. It is becoming another wave of enterprise applications for companies — it's not just an engineering tool, it's not just a departmental tool. It's really a business system that could provide broad capability and benefit to the company, sitting alongside ERP and CRM and other types of enterprise applications.
Kalypso thrives in helping companies improve their innovation capability and their new product development processes, and in that regard we don't focus exclusively on the technology, but are trying to help companies to find what the best business models and business processes are that could take advantage of that technology and meet the goals of that business with the technologies being just one of the levers in that process.
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I've been reading through the media coverage of the U.S. House Intelligence committee report on Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE, and it seems like a lot of folks who have criticized its negative conclusions for not containing any "hard evidence" or a "smoking gun" are missing the point.
Here's a sample from an Op/Ed in Foreign Policy:
[I]t's clear the Chinese government holds tight control over two of the countries' most successful private companies, and Huawei and ZTE executives have numerous ties to the government, like all companies in China in sensitive industries. The United States is also undoubtedly the victim of a huge volume of cyberattacks originating from the Chinese mainland.
Although the report — at least the unclassified version — is full of sound and fury, it is almost devoid of anything conclusively connecting Huawei and ZTE with the charges levied against them. The 11-month investigation, which Huawei requested, starts from the presumption of guilt and works backwards from there: All its conclusions are based on the suspicion of wrongdoing. As 60 Minutes reported two-thirds of the way into its segment on Huawei this past Sunday, almost as an afterthought, "[T]here's no hard evidence" that any of the espionage allegations are true.
It seems that the House intelligence committee's response to potential cybersecurity threats has been to circumvent the Bill of Rights using "national security" as an excuse[.]
I've seen this basic argument many times now, both in foreign and Chinese media. Their facts are right, but their conclusions are all wrong.
Some people seem to think that the House investigation was a judicial process. It wasn't. One commentator writes in terms of "innuendo, supposition and guilt by association." Since when was this about guilt or innocence? This was not a trial, or an arbitration, or an administrative hearing subject to judicial review and appeal. No, this was an investigation by a group of legislators who drew up recommendations at the end of the process. That's it.
I have no idea what the reference in that above quote to the Bill of Rights refers to, nor do I understand why some other commentators keep repeating different versions of the principle of presumed innocence, a standard in criminal law. Please stop that, it's annoying and irrelevant.
The Foreign Policy article I quoted is worse than most I've read because it starts off stipulating that the Chinese government maintains tight control over Huawei and ZTE and that the PRC is responsible for many of the cyberattacks against the U.S. Hell, I wouldn't even stipulate to all that. Indeed, I have no idea whether China has tight control over Huawei and/or ZTE. Everything I've heard about these companies, in fact, leads me to the opposite conclusion.
The critics of the House report don't seem to care about the relationship between these companies and Beijing. To them, the only important thing is direct evidence of wrongdoing. In their minds, if Huawei and/or ZTE have done something wrong, then they should not be allowed to do business in the U.S. telecom sector. However, if that evidence is lacking, they should go about their business.
A careful reading of the House report, though, tells us that the committee was not just looking at evidence of wrongdoing. Indeed, in many ways that was a secondary concern and, I would argue, its findings of wrongdoing are weak and unconvincing. However, the committee's investigation was actually forward looking, as the following quote from page iv of the report's introduction shows:
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (herein referred to as "the Committee") initiated this investigation in November 2011 to inquire into the counterintelligence and security threat posed by Chinese telecommunications companies doing business in the United States. Prior to initiating the formal investigation, the Committee performed a preliminary review of the issue, which confirmed significant gaps in available information about the Chinese telecommunications sector, the histories and operations of specific companies operating in the United States, and those companies' potential ties to the Chinese state.
Most importantly, that preliminary review highlighted the potential security threat posed by Chinese telecommunications companies with potential ties to the Chinese government or military. In particular, to the extent these companies are influenced by the state, or provide Chinese intelligence services access to telecommunication networks, the opportunity exists for further economic and foreign espionage by a foreign nation-state already known to be a major perpetrator of cyber espionage. [my emphasis]
As the words in bold above suggest, the committee was looking at threats and the potential for future harm. Again, this was a risk assessment, not a trial to determine wrongdoing.
As I've said before, the ability of the committee to make a determination here depended on the receipt of certain information from Huawei and ZTE. The committee says there were gaps in their information, and that the investigation would help to fill them in. However, as not all questions were answered and not all documents were handed over, the investigation was never really completed. In other words, there was no way that those risks, the same ones that the Foreign Policy Op/Ed stipulated to, could be discounted.
Let me try out a dramatic analogy for you. You've been having a steamy, illicit affair with Ms. X. Late one night, the doorbell rings. You look through the window and see that the person outside is the husband of Ms. X. He is holding a gun, looks upset and maybe a little drunk. Do you let him in? Before you answer, let me tell you that Mr. X has never killed anyone before, and in fact is a perfectly law-abiding citizen.
Not a perfect analogy, but hopefully you get my point.


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I link up with some awesome parties during the week. Here are a list of some of the best!
Monday: Singing Three Little Birdies, Add a Pinch, I should be Mopping the Floor, Polly Want a Crafter?, Cherished Bliss, The Gunny Sack, Skip to my Lou, Craftomaniac, It's so Very Cheri, Keeping it Simple, Creating Really Awesome Free Things, Between Naps on the Porch, Alderberry Hill, Its A Blog Party, A Pinch of Joy, Making the World Cuter, Mad in Crafts, Moms By Heart, Sew Can Do, Bringing Beauty, Sugar Bee Crafts, Tip Junkie, New Nostalgia, Ladybug Blessings, Permanent Posies, My Favourite Finds, Jillify It, How to Nest for Less, Watch Out Martha, Clairjustinexoxo, Inspired By Felicity, THe Gunny Sack
Tuesday: Coastal Charm, Today's Creative Blog, Not Just a Housewife, A Bowl Full of Lemons , DIY by Design, Funky Polkadot Giraffe, Home Stories A to Z, Hope Studios, My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia, Organising Homelife, Raising 4 Princesses, Celebrating Family, Carolyn's Homework, The Blackberry Vine, The Kurtz Corner, Sassy Sites, A Little Tipsy, Gingersnap crafts, Time Warp Wife, These Creative Juices, The Thrifty Home, Its a Very Cherry World, Reason to Skip the Housework, Mommy by Day, Crafter by Night, Rook No.17, Cornerstone Confessions, Naptime Delights, Type A Decorating, A Diamond in the Stuff, Rae Gun Ramblings, Northern Cottage, Clean and Scentsible, Creatively Living , Kathe with an E, Ivy and Elephants, Romance on a Dime, Tales of a Trophy Wife, Creatively Living, The Real Housewives of Riverton, DIY Dreamer, Chronic Christian Crafter, Primp, JAQS Studio, MercyINK
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Meet the Producers
A small team of dedicated Headquarters staff and a vast team of City Producers bring the 48HFP to our cities each year. This group of individuals come from many different backgrounds and from many different countries but share the commitment to make the 48HFP fun, fair and creatively invigorating.Be a City Producer
Mark Ruppert Creator / Executive Producer
Mark came up with the idea for the 48 Hour Film Project back in 2001. As a filmmaker in his own right, Mark's belief in the power of creativity led him to challenge filmmakers to see what they can do in a single weekend.
The results have been phenomenal as the 48 Hour Film Project has found a place in 130 cities around the world--with more than 325,000 people having participated to date, creating more than 25,000 films.
Mark heads the international organization that runs the 48 Hour Film Project, coordinating more than 110 producers around the world. Mark's producing experience includes films, theater and special events. He has emceed award shows, international forums and his own talk/variety show.
Christina Ruppert Director of Operations
Ruppert manages the day-to-day operations of the 48HFP, helps our City Producers manage their cities, documents and improves procedures, updates our website, and manages projects that involve the rest of the HQ staff. She lives with her husband Michael and sons Patrick and Charlie in Washington, DC.
Laura Schlecht Director of Web Operations
Laura is an actress, director and producer - having worked on numerous projects for both stage and screen. She currently resides in Houston and is involved with many local arts organizations.
Laura maintains the 48 Hour Film website and assists the rest of HQ with the day-to-day operations of the project.
Brian Bowers Asst. Dir. of Oper. / Newsletter Editor
Brian is responsible for hiring new city producers in the US and internationally. He works with existing 48HFP Producers to help manage their cities, assists with social media outreach, and writes the monthly e-newsletter. He is the Producer for the Cleveland, OH 48HFP.
Camilla Demichelis Marketing Strategist
Alessandro Pederzoli Marketing Strategist
Karen Lin Intern
Frankie Ruppert Administrative Assistant
Liz Langston Co-Founder
Though she's no longer with the 48HFP, Liz co-founded the project back in 2001. (After years as a nerdy researcher she found that making movies was much more fun.)
She helped Mark make the organization what it is today - including launching spin-off competitions such as the Music Video, Horror and the Science Fiction Projects - and stepped down from her position in early 2019.
Liz resides in Albuquerque plans to spend her time traveling and pursuing her next creative endeavor. Though she no longer works on the 48HFP, she remains an advocate of the Project and a strong supporter of filmmakers.


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from Total Film (UK) / by Jonathan Crocker
The star of this month's Little White Lies is France's most alluring export, hopscotching between mindblowing Hollywood blockbusters and Oscar-winning Euro dramas. How did Marion Cotillard get this far without learning to do an American accent?
Fish. Marion Cotillard is thinking about fish. "This is insane," she beams, poured over an armchair in a Paris hotel suite. "Le Duck is a masterpiece of a fish restaurant. Favourite place to eat, definitely. All the people I took there, they are still talking about it." Really? "Reeeeaally. It's so good, it's insane." So there you have it. If you're in Paris and you like seafood, head to Le Duc. If you're lucky, you might grab a table next to the French dish that Hollywood can't get enough of.
Makes sense, really. It was a fish that first hooked Cotillard into Hollywood. A Big Fish. Before she popped up in Tim Burton's fairytale fantasy as Billy Crudup's wife, few could have imagined that they were watching the next big thing in French cinema. Indeed, Cotillard herself had been losing her faith with acting. She was a well-known actress in France, but starring in TV shows like the Highlander spin-off series and films like Luc Besson's Taxi trilogy weren't nourishing her.
"My favourite movies as a kid were almost all American," says Cotillard. "Even though I had no fantasy of going to Hollywood, my imagination was fed by American cinema." As a child growing up in an arty, noisy family home outside Paris, Cotillard watched Singin' In The Rain again and again – rewinding the VHS to learn the songs and dances off by heart. Her idols were Chaplin, Garbo and Judy Garland rather than Bardot, Deneuve or Jeanne Moreau.
But like those irrestistible Gallic exports, Cotillard has pulled the rare trick of seducing Hollywood and Europe at the same time. After going on the lam with Johnny Depp (Public Enemies), razzle-dazzing with Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine) and haunting Leonardo DiCaprio's dreams (Inception), she's now returned to her homeland for tragi-comic drama Little White Lies, written and directed by her boyfriend Guillaume Canet.
Almost without anyone noticing, she and Canet – hotshot actor-turned-director of crossover hit thriller Tell No One, former husband of Diane Kruger – have formed a Euro-cool power couple to match Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. The press in her home country dub them the French Brangelina. But Little White Lies is different dimension to Hollywood fantasies: a two-hour talk-a-thon in which a group of thirtysomething friends go on holiday to laugh, cry, argue, drink wine and be French. A change from the revolving corridors and origami cityscapes of Inception.
"But it was one of my best experiences, I have to say," she explains. "I had never worked with Guillaume before like this. But the relationship we had was…" She drifts off, thinking. "It might have something to do with the fact he is an actor so he knows how it works from the inside. And it brings something more. Because I've worked with directors who didn't understand how an actor functions, how hard it is sometimes."
Terrifyingly beautiful on screen, the 34-year-old is more understated in the flesh. Talking in gently broken English – and often in vague statements – Cotillard carries herself with thoughtful glamour. She takes her time saying things, stretching out her words and sentences, almost as if translating them in her head. "You're otherworldly," Nicole Kidman said to her, while shooting Nine. "It seems like you come from another planet, in the most beautiful way."
Ironically, Cotillard had to cover up her beauty and amp up her Frenchness to blaze a path to Hollywood. After making zero impact with Russel Crowe in Ridley Scott's forgettable A Good Year, it was a French film and a Fench heroine that arrived out of nowhere to blast her to superstar status. Cotillard's transformation into iconic chanteuse Édith Piaf in biopic La Vie En Rose was nothing short of stunning.
She curved her spine to appear a foot shorter than her 5ft 6ins, crunched her voice into a phlegmy crackle, shaved her hairline and eyebrows and rmodelled her face with prostheses and experimental make-up. But the real metamorphosis was within: Cotillard became Piaf, from teenage urchin raised in a brothel to cancer-riddled, morphine-addled 47-year-old. "That's what I try to do," she nods. "To be a 100 per cent this person. Someone who suffers will have very strong emotions. And when you're one person with the character, you will get those emotions, because you drown yourself in those emotions."
Voila. Whatever awards the film world had, it gave them to Cotillard. Bafta, Golden Globe, César and an Oscar for Best Actress. She's only the second French actress to win (after Simone Signoret) and the first to win it speaking French. Tellingly, her speech paid tribute to Hollywood. "Thank you life, thank you love!" she cried. "It's true there are some angels in this city…"
Strangely, it's not the movie that Cotillard believes is the most important of her career. "That's A Very Long Engagement," she says, immediately. Hitting cinema's a year after she met Canet playing his wild-child girlfriend in Love In Me If You Dare, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's curio saw her knock Audrey Tautou off the screen with a performance as a murderous prostitue. It won her another César. "Even though it was eight minutes [of screen time], it changed a lot of things in my career," she says. "It brought me a lot of offers. The role touched people. But the Oscar changed everything too. I would have never done American movies." The phone started ringing? "It rang differently!" she laughs.
Sure enough, Hollywood wasn't offering Cotillard the standard rom-coms that most actresses are forced to do. These were dark female roles she could really sink her teeth into. But as Johnny Depp's gangster-moll Billie Frechette in Michael Mann's hi-def crime opus Public Enemies, Cotillard had one major problem to hurdle. Frechette didn't have a French accent.
She shudders at the memory. "To do an accent that's not your first language is reeeeeally hard," she grimaces. "It's one of the hardest things I had to do on Public Enemies. Reeeeeally." Cotillard worked with a dialogue coach every day for four months to crack the Louisiana Bayou-Cajun accent. During the three-month shoot, she spoke only in English, even to her family and friends. She's still not happy with the result. "It was so frustrating. Because I tried. I worked very, very hard, knowing that it was almost impossible. I'm very lucky to have offer from directors who can deal with my French accent."
And you get the feeling that her French hasn't been much of an obstacle. Did Leo DiCaprio's wife in Inception just happen to be Parisian? Or are Hollywood's biggest filmmakers finding excuses to work with one of the world cinema's most alluring talents? Either way, cotillard's je ne sais quois is exactly what makes her such an electrifying presence in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster. Whatever your first language, Inception must have been confusing on the page. "Yeah… Well it took time," she says. "The first time we met we talked about dreams, he gave me the script and I was fascinated. I had to read it several times. Sometimes on the set I didn't know if things would work. And then, suddenly, it's alive on the screen. I was blown away by it." For Cotillard, the dream had come true. "I feel so lucky to have a very special relationship with American cinema," she says. "That is a dream I didn't dare to have. I'm so welcomed in this country of cinema. It's still surprising to me." Moving effortlessly between Hollywood and Europe, she has the best of both worlds. After all, her American movies with Mann and Nolan have essentially been arthouse experiments with blockbuster budgets. "Even on a big scale movie like Inception, all the actors were very close to Chris," she agrees. "We knew that something special was happening. And then Woody Allen is totally different [Cotillard stars in Woody's new romantic comedy Midnight in Paris, scheduled to open Cannes 2011]." She sighs. "All the people you meet in your career, you learn from them." Like Nine's Daniel Day-Lewis? "Watching Daniel working is the best lesson you could have. You learn… involvement," she asserts. "The way he's involved. His commitment is beyond."
Interestingly, despite her own immersive commitment to roles, Cotillard refuses to mine private experiences to conjure emotion. "Oh no, no, no, I couldn't do that," she says, shaking her head vigorously. "Because if I have to think about something that hurt me to the point of being in that state, it belongs to me. You can't just run away from this emotion. When the scene has finished, it is still there. It would be dangerous."
When she was alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz and Nicole Kidman in Nine, her status as ambasador of French cinema seemed complete. But with Hollywood's biggest directors queuing up to cast her, Cotillard has announced she's now expecting her first child. We can expect to see less of her for a while but roles in Woody's 34th feature and in Steven Soderbergh's thriller Contagion should keep fans sated.
"Midnight in Paris will be so different from Contagion" she says. "With Contagion, you can expect scary things about a virus." Anything else she can tell us? "Not really…" Not even if Total Film buys you a chocolat chaud and a croissant at Le Duc? She rolls her eyes. "I'm not that French…"
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MLB Season Preview: #25 Toronto Blue Jays
Overview: The Jays are a mess of a team. They traded away the best pitcher in baseball, P Roy Halladay, gave up on OF Alex Rios, and are stuck with the burden of contracts belonging to OF Vernon Wells and 1B Lyle Overbay. After making several moves during the offseason, it is clear that Toronto is in a rebuilding stage, and going with the youth movement.
Offseason Moves: The Jays brought in a lot of young arms this offseason. Top pitching prospect Kyle Drabek leads the group, that also consists of P Brandon Morrow, P Dana Eveland, and P Merkin Valdez. To bolster the bullpen, Toronto brought in closer Kevin Gregg. However, the biggest acquisitions may have come from within for Toronto, for pitchers Shawn Marcum, Dustin McGowan, and Jeremy Accardo are returning from injuries in 2010. On offense, Toronto made nearly no moves, only bringing in light-hitting SS Alex Gonzalez, and top prospect IF Brett Wallace.
Projected Lineups and Pitching Staff:
1. LF Joey Gathright (.267, O HR, O RBI)
2. 2B Aaron Hill (.286, 36 HR, 108 RBI)
3. DH Adam Lind (.305, 35 HR, 114 RBI)
4. CF Vernon Wells (.260, 15 HR, 66 RBI)
5. RF Travis Snider (.241, 9 HR, 21 RBI)
6. 3B Edwin Encarnacion (.225, 13 HR, 39 RBI)
7. 1B Lyle Overbay (.265, 16 HR, 64 RBI)
8. C John Buck (.247, 8 HR, 36 RBI)
9. SS Alex Gonzalez (.238, 8 HR, 41 RBI)
Backup C: Jose Molina (.217, 1 HR, 11 RBI)
Backup IF: John McDonald (.258, 4 HR, 13 RBI)
Backup IF: Randy Ruiz (.313, 10 HR, 17 RBI)
Backup OF: Jose Bautista (.235, 13 HR, 40 RBI)
1. Ricky Romero (13-9, 4.30 ERA)
2. Shawn Marcum (No stats in '09)
3. Brandon Morrow (2-4, 4.39 ERA)
4. Marc Rzepcyzynski (2-4, 3.67 ERA)
5. Dustin McGowan (No stats in '09)
CP: Kevin Gregg (5-6, 4.72 ERA, 23 SV)
SU: Jason Frasor (7-3, 2.60 ERA)
SU: Scott Downs (1-3, 3.09 ERA)
MR: Jesse Carlson (1-6, 4.66 ERA)
MR: Shawn Camp (2-6, 3.50 ERA)
MR: Jeremy Accardo (0-0, 2.55 ERA)
LR: Dana Eveland (2-4, 7.16 ERA)
Player to watch: Top prospect Brett Wallace has been traded twice within the past year. He also has been moved all around the infield, from third base to first base, and also spending time at DH. Toronto has decided that Wallace will be its first baseman of the future, however his road is currently blocked by 1B Lyle Overbay. Don't expect that for too long, as the Jays will attempt to trade most of their veterans to give the young guys a shot. Of course, Wallace's massive power and ability to hit for a high average will help move the process along.
Prediction: 58 – 104, 5th in AL East
The Jays have 2B Aaron Hill and DH Adam Lind to build around on offense. However, there isn't much offense after that. Excluding those two players, the Jays batting average of last season was .251, which is nowhere near the average needed to compete with the pitching in the AL East. Yes, the Jays will be the worst team in baseball this season. However, if it weren't for the division they play in, Cleveland would be the worst team. Toronto has talent coming up. Ps Kyle Drabek and Brett Cecil will be front-line starters in the future. First basemen David Cooper, Brian Dopriak, and Brett Wallace lead the way on offense. It will just take some time to develop the talent, and it's not easy to do in the American League.
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this was real accurate….
Are you on crack! 58 games I Would love to take your money. Young and exciting they will be a force. This year or the near future.
The only thing you said that made sense was about the Doc.
great prediction, too bad you mentioned the jays would have no offensive talent. thats cool bautista just won the hank aaron award. and the jays had the most total homeruns in the al. cant wait for your next prediction.
by the way they placed 4th in the al east with a winning record, which should be considered a great accomplishment.
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Most of the events during Money Smart Week are given by finance professionals. One set of presentations, though, is not being given by a bank officer or a CPA. Northern Illinois University's Financial Cents program employs students to teach their peers what they need to know when it comes to money. Now, during Money Smart Week, they're doing the same thing for the larger community.
Law student Nick Plattos is one of the program's "peer educators." He thinks he and his colleagues will do just fine. "The advantage that we have," he says, "is that when you're in a profession, you kind of learn the jargon, and you may not realize that an audience that doesn't have that background may not grasp the concept as completely as you think you're portraying it, and so I think as students we have to first, make sense of the topic to ourselves, and then portray it to the audience in a way they're going to understand it."
Thurston Booth is completing his Masters in Accounting Science degree. He says managing things like your credit cards or your credit score is something every student should know, and that's why he's involved with Financial Cents. But he knows it's not just students who need help. Booth says, "A lot of people aren't really financially informed, so a part of the outreach program of Financial Cents is to get out in the community, just to make sure these people have the resources and the know-how to make some well-informed financial decisions."
Anne Kaplan is vice president for university outreach at NIU. For her, the presentations by Financial Cents, along with other programs hosted by NIU during the week, are an opportunity for the school to fulfill part of its mission. "NIU is a regional institution," Kaplan says. "We have an enormous interest in connecting with students before they're students, while they're students and after they're students. So anything we can do to be of greater service to individuals in this region is just a natural fit for us."
For Nick Plattos, the important thing is, not to put it off. "Regardless of whether you learn to budget when you're ten or when you're thirty, the fundamentals need to start as soon as you possibly can," he says, "because those fundamentals are building blocks for the rest of your life."
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There are some easy Halloween costume ideas you can put together yourself and it's a lot of fun to make your own costume. If you have never done it before, why not give it a try? You can save money and have a blast production it. Take a look at our unique and fun costume ideas and see if any petition to you.
You can find most of the items you need in your home. Some of these ideas might need a store bought accessory unless you are very creative and find a way to make what you need.
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Homemade Pirate's Costume
One very easy homemade costume idea for Halloween is a pirate. Have you got a red T-shirt and some black sweat pants? If so, you've got most of your costume already. A pirate is such a intelligent idea and you can bring some unique and adventurous characteristics to this costume if it's the one you decree to make.
An eye patch and a cutlass sword are all you will need to complete this buccaneer outfit.
Make a present Costume
You can make your own box costume...it's easy. For this homemade Halloween costume you will need some gift wrapping paper, some curling ribbon and a cardboard box. Why not surprise everybody you know this costume holiday...give them yourself as a present! What a wonderful way to say Happy Halloween to everyone.
A Pair of Dice
Dice are other one of my easy homemade costume ideas. Of course, once again, this costume needs two cardboard boxes, some white and black paint and a friend! It's a funny couples costume idea too, so why not get a buddy and get planning. You will be the hit of the party and you might even win a prize for the most creative or unique costume.
Popcorn Costume
Do you like popcorn? Then why not be a box of Popcorn this Halloween. This easy homemade costume is funny too. You might want to hide a few snack bags and hand out some popcorn to your fellow trick or treaters. If it's a costume party your headed for, why not make a bowl of popcorn to bring to your host.
Other easy homemade costume ideas for Halloween are Zorro, a Cowboy, a Tombstone, A Devil, a Bag of Garbage, Static Cling or even a Laundry Basket. You get to be creative, save money and have fun when you make your own costume. Once you take a look at these ideas, you are going to start getting some of your own. The best thing about some of these homemade costumes is they show your sense of humor, after all, isn't Halloween a time for fun?Easy Homemade Costume Ideas For Halloween


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Barclays pledges to fight US energy fine
LONDON (AP) -- Barclays, Britain's second-biggest bank, vowed to fight almost half-billion dollars in fines for manipulating electricity prices in California and other western states, setting the stage for a courtroom battle with U.S. regulators.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday ordered the U.K.-based bank and four of its former traders to pay $453 million in civil penalties for fixing power prices between November 2006 and December 2008.
The U.S. energy watchdog also ordered Barclays to pay $34.9 million, plus interest, for what it described as "unjust profits" made on energy assistance programs for low-income families in Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington.
"We believe that our trading was legitimate and in compliance with applicable law," the bank said in a statement, adding it had cooperated with the investigation.
"We intend to vigorously defend this matter," Barclays said.
FERC has given Barclays 30 days to pay the penalties. If it does not, regulators can go to a federal district court to affirm the penalty amount assessed in the order.
The allegations will mark a fresh blow to the scandal-shaken bank.
The bank's new chief executive, Antony Jenkins, has made a point of saying that ethics matter as much to Barclays as the bottom line. The lender has faced a string of scandals costing it billions of pounds (dollars), and was fined by regulators in the U.S. and Britain for manipulating the London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR, the benchmark for trillions of dollars in loans -- including some home mortgages.
The statement by U.S. regulators said that Barclays and the four traders -- Daniel Brin, Scott Connelly, Karen Levine and Ryan Smith -- took part in an "affirmative, coordinated and intentional effort to carry out a manipulative scheme."
Connelly was ordered to pay $15 million; and Brin, Levine and Smith to pay $1 million each. The traders have since left Barclays.
The traders bought and sold electricity contracts to manipulate energy indexes and help Barclays profit from investments tied to those benchmarks, FERC said in the statement.
The U.S. regulators said that Barclays "traded fixed-price products not in an attempt to profit from the relationship between the market fundamentals of supply and demand, but instead for the fraudulent purpose of moving the Index price."
The fines are the largest penalty imposed by the Commission since Congress gave it broader anti-manipulation authority in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Barclays contests what it described as a one-sided statement, arguing that it strongly disagreed with a FERC assessment "that does not reflect a balanced and full description of the facts or the applicable legal standard."
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Apple apparently is looking for someone to sassify Siri, its iPhone virtual assistant, according to reports.
9to5 Mac spotted the Apple ad on its corporate jobs site, which asked for a job candidate to "refresh and refine" Siri content. From the ad:
We're looking for a uniquely creative individual to help us evolve and enrich Siri, our virtual personal assistant. Siri's known for 'her' wit, cultural knowledge, and zeal to explain things in engaging, funny, and practical ways. The ideal candidate is someone who combines a love for language, wordplay, and conversation with demonstrated experience in bringing creative content to life within an intense technical environment.
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When we searched for the ad on the Apple site, we found a page that read, "Sorry -- this job is no longer available," but apparently TechCrunch and other sites reported the ad did exist as of Thursday. We think that press-averse Apple probably disliked the unwanted attention its job opening received, so it pulled the ad. We will continue to see if it makes another appearance, or if Apple received an enormous amount of applications.


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Take a gander at this iPad Cam-Case design by Chet Rosales. You probably want a case for your iPad anyway, so adding a camera — a swiveling camera, no less — to that enclosure is an elegant way to solve two problems with one sleek product.
Maybe the reason a front-facing camera for videoconferencing wasn't included in the iPad was because it would drain the battery, so there's plenty of room for an extra battery or two in this hard shell case. Either that or slim down that klunky side panel a bit, and then maybe Apple will approve this thing.
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We haven't even said a proper good-bye to 2012, but we are already looking forward to 2013's first shows.
It's hard to beat the Kennel Club of Palm Springs and its limited breed warm-ups for a place to start the doggy new year. The venue combines all the glitz and glamor of Southern California in one of the US' most beautiful areas. In addition to the palm trees, mountains, and the rat pack history, you get a look at some of the most beautiful dogs anywhere. The Desert Empire Terrier Club Of Southern California, the Toy Dog Breeders Association Of Southern California, and the Sand To Sea Non-Sporting Association Of Southern California will kick it off with entries of 372, 356, & 369, respectively. They will be joined on Friday by the Southern California Sporting Dog Fanciers and the Inland Empire Hound Club Of Southern California bringing the total entry to over 2400 in the five groups. This year's two all breed shows have drawn 6500 dogs. Now if you want to play what if games, a dog could walk away with over 7000 points to start the season.
If you are going to Palm Springs for the first time, or if you have never strayed very far from the Indio polo fields on your past trips, we think you should do a DRIVE BY of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, billed as the world's largest rotating tramcar. The ten minute rid takes you up the sheer cliffs of Chino Canyon to the tram's mountain station, 8,516 feet above sea level. Just a half hour from the show grounds on your way back to your regular life, it's worth the time Not for those squeamish about heights and it will be cool in January, but you'll get a view you will remember a lifetime.
We haven't eaten there ourselves, but we hear really good things about El Mirasol, 140 East Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. One of the things we learned in our 25 years in California is that Mexican food can be every bit as complex as our own country's. Put something adventurous in your DOGGY BAG.
There are other options this first weekend. Columbiana County Kennel Club and theRubber City Kennel Club will team up for three all breed shows in Tallmadge OH. The take won't be as large as Palm Springs, but the over 3300 points available could make for a very nice beginning. The North Star Toy Dog Club, the North Star Working Group Association, and the North Star Herding Group Club will open on Friday for the Land O' Lakes Kennel Club's two all breed offerings Saturday and Sunday. We can't think of a better excuse to wear your fur coat.
Texas fanciers will head for Glen Rose TX where the North Texas Non-Sportinng Association will open fot the Nolan River Kennel Club's two all breed shows. Our three remaining options are thoughtfully arrayed from New England to Florida. The Merrimack Valley Kennel Club opens the season with a weekend in Fitchburg MA, the Clemson Kennel Club will do two in Pendleton SC, and the Greater Daytona Dog Fanciers Association will keep you warm for two days in Deland FL.
Remember, you can get your dog's photo and win on Dog Show Poop for free, just become a DSP Contributor and send us in a show report. This week we had to do our own research for a DRIVE BY and DOGGY BAG recommendations. Hopefully, our readers will help us out next week. This is gonna be a great year.


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