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The story is hilariously sexy. DOUBLE DARE has its serious parts too. But seriously, ladies, I just can't say enough about Simon, my green-eyed cop hero. His sense of humor and his patience with the uptight Katrina have won me over ten times over. He's just so damn sexy, I can' stand it. Seriously, he's THAT sexy!
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In addition, any time a major service using email addresses, such as eBay, is hacked, it leaves those email addresses open to phishing attacks. Be ever watchful for phishing scams. Always hover your mouse over the link in the message provided. If the link is not actually going where the text indicates it is, do not click it. Should you receive an email from what appears to be eBay, and they provide a link for you to change your password, it is recommended that you not follow that link, but instead browse directly to eBay and follow their procedures to change your password.


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TIME WAS, Massachusetts seemed to undergo alternating periods of fiscal famine and feast. The economy would slump, revenues would tail off, and state government would struggle through a couple of lean years. That often meant budget reductions, and sometimes spelled tax hikes.
But when recovery came, it was generally a strong one. Then revenues would come flowing in again.
That's not the way it has seemed in the last decade or so, and particularly not in this slow-moving recovery. As we saw this week, when Governor Patrick announced a plan to close an estimated $540 million hole that has emerged in the current budget, fiscal problems persist.
You see it in this financial fact from Administration and Finance chief Jay Gonzalez: On a real dollar basis, the state will realize about $2 billion less in revenue in this fiscal year than was the case in fiscal 2009 — and that's factoring in an additional $1 billion from the sales tax increase.
Cities and towns, meanwhile, are feeling the same pinch, in part because pain is passed down from the state.
Unrestricted local aid, state-sent dollars that localities can use for whatever they like, is down $416 million, or 32 percent, since 2008, reports Geoff Beckwith, executive director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association.
Nor are the budgetary challenges likely to end anytime soon. Or to put it another way, those expecting a return to the sort of revenue riches Massachusetts saw in the mid-1980s and then again in the mid-to-late 1990s — inflows so strong they allowed for both tax cuts and program expansions — are apt to be disappointed.
One can see the problem through a different prism on the employment front. Moody's Analytics predicts that the state won't return to its 2001 employment peak of about 3.4 million jobs until 2015. After that, an aging population will make job growth a problem.
"Federal deficit reduction, a more slowly growing national economy, an aging workforce, and several other factors will produce a new permanent reality of tight state finances even in good economic times," says Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
Indeed, here's what passes for long-term budgetary optimism in the Patrick administration. "If we manage responsibly and address our biggest fiscal challenges, we will be able to maintain the level of programs and services we have today," says Gonzalez.
Which means that policy makers can't afford to take their focus off cost savings. The state has had some important successes on that front in recent years. In particular, granting municipalities the same power the state has to modify their health plan offerings has led to very significant savings.
A similar issue that must now be addressed is the cost of health care benefits for retired public employees. In this state, the public sector pays a generous amount for both Medicare supplemental plans for retirees and for health plans for those who retire before they are eligible for Medicare. What's more, public employees, including part-timers, qualify for those post-retirement benefits after just 10 years on the job. All that has led to a huge unfunded liability for cities and towns; as with municipal health care reform, any realistic solution will require legislative action.
It's also time to look again at competitive service delivery. That is, letting private companies compete to deliver services now performed by public-sector workers. On the state level, that would mean repealing the so-called Pacheco law, which essentially shut down efforts at privatization.
Deep-sixing Pacheco would obviously be anathema to the public employee unions. But until you know how much the private sector would charge to deliver a service, you don't really have an accurate idea of what it really should cost. If the state can get a job done or a service performed more cheaply by contracting out, it can use the savings to bolster services in other areas.
Finally, regionalization is ripe for exploration. Some communities are already sharing public works resources. More significant savings could likely be achieved if neighboring communities consolidated their fire departments.
Mind you, these are politically thorny endeavors. Yet with fiscal difficulties stretching into the middle distance, voters may increasingly come to appreciate political leaders determined to give them maximum bang for their buck.
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Votes were tabulated yesterday for a Service Employees International Union election, the same group that was behind the "home health care dues skim" that took more than $34 million from the elderly and disabled in Michigan.
Barring potential legal action, the SEIU Healthcare Michigan election will determine whether Marge Faville keeps her post as union president. However, some have raised questions about the election's legitimacy.
Faville and challenger Johnnie Jolliffi, who is the union's secretary-treasurer, are pitted against each other in the race. At issue in the election was Faville's plan to allow the home-based caregivers to vote in the election held on the eve of them leaving the union. Tens of thousands of home-based caregivers in Michigan were forced into the SEIU in 2005 after a mail-in election occurred. However, most of the people who received ballots didn't vote and didn't know they'd been unionized.
After years of trying by some in the union to end the forced unionization scheme, and a failed ballot proposal pushed by the SEIU to lock the scheme into the state constitution, the union contract ended and workers were freed from the union on March 1.
However, before the contract ended, Faville prevailed and the caregivers were eligible to vote. Ballots were supposedly sent out on Feb. 21. The mailing was significant because the SEIU Healthcare Michigan has about 55,000 members and about 44,000 of them were home-based caregivers. Though most probably weren't going to vote, those who did likely supported Faville, or at least recognized her name.
Union elections previously had been held at selected locations.
"There are two candidates running," said Tyrone Thurman, a Detroit Medical Center employee and union steward. "But one of those candidates is involved with how the election is being conducted. Marge [Faville] is right in the middle of that and Jolliffi isn't."
The SEIU mail-in election in 2005 was the first by-mail election ever allowed under the Michigan Employment Relations system. "I received three different ballots," Thurman said. "The third one I got was finally the right one. I talked with someone I know at [another facility]. They told me that tons of people over there hadn't even gotten their ballots."
Thurman said the union members who were having trouble getting their ballots were those who work in hospitals and other facilities, not the home-based caregivers.
Jolliffi earlier this year sued to try and stop the mail-in election. The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation separately filed a legal action with the Michigan Employee Relations Commission in an effort to recover $3 million in dues. That case is pending
Zac Altefogt, spokesman for the union, did not respond to a request for comment.
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Michigan Capitol Confidential Coverage of the SEIU 'Dues Skim'
SEIU Election Battle Hinges On Home-Based Caregivers
Voters Reject Forced Unionization Scheme
How the Forced Unionization of Day Care and Home Health Care Providers Took Place
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Preparing the bird: Experts talk turkey for Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving coming up Thursday, we turned to the people at Butterball (butterball.com) for answers about turkey, the centerpiece of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Q: How long will it take to thaw my turkey?
A: We recommend thawing your turkey in the refrigerator in its original wrapping. Place it on a shallow tray on the bottom shelf and allow one day for every 4 pounds of turkey.
Q: I don't have days to thaw my bird in the refrigerator. What now?
A: If you don't have time to thaw in the refrigerator, use the cold-water method — completely submerge the turkey, breast side down, in cold water. Change the water every 30 minutes to hasten thawing and allow about 30 minutes per pound of turkey.
Q: How much time should I allow to roast my turkey?
A: Using a flat rack in a shallow open roasting pan, 325° conventional oven, you can expect the following cooking times: For a 7- to 10-pound unstuffed turkey, it will take about 2½ to 3 hours. For a 10- to 18-pound unstuffed turkey, it will take about 3 to 3½ hours. Stuffed turkeys will require additional time.
Q: How do I know when my turkey is done?
A: The best way to tell if your turkey is ready to eat is with a meat thermometer. A perfectly done turkey will reach 185°F in the thigh, 170°F in the breast and 165°F in the stuffing, if you stuff your turkey.
Q: How long can I keep my turkey once it is cooked?
A: If you've cooked a turkey, wrap leftovers and refrigerate within two hours. Finish the leftovers within two to three days of refrigerating.
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public int RottenTomatoesId { get; set; } public string Title { get; set; } public int Year { get; set; } public string MpaaRating { get; set; } public int? Runtime { get; set; } public string Synopsis { get; set; } public List<ReleaseDate> ReleaseDates { get; set; } public List<Rating> Ratings { get; set; } public List<string> Genres { get; set; } public List<string> Directors { get; set; } public List<CastMember> Cast { get; set; } public MovieLinkCollection Links { get; set; } public PosterCollection Posters { get; set; }
So the main object returned is basically a list of these Movie objects which contains multiple lists of strings and lists of objects. The main point of all this is just to let you know that there are some interesting things that can be done even with complex objects using the WebGrid.
So I started by declaring the main object as the Model for my page, and then set the Model as the datasource my WebGrid. I'm not going to go into the whole controller side of this as this is a tutorial for the WebGrid and not on using the CherryTomato library.
@model CherryTomato.Entities.MovieSearchResults @{ ViewBag.Title = "Movie Search"; Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; string title = string.Empty; var grid = new WebGrid(@Model, canPage: true); }
This is a very basic setup. I have set the model as the datasource for the webgrid and I've told it that I want paging to be enabled. Nothing too fancy. To get a WebGrid to display it's contents you can use one of two methods, either GetHtml() or Table(). From what I've seen so far they both provide the same results and are interchangeable with one another. So let's see what the result of this looks like so far. At this point my entire page looks like this.
@model CherryTomato.Entities.MovieSearchResults @{ ViewBag.Title = "Movie Search"; Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; string title = string.Empty; var grid = new WebGrid(@Model, canPage: true); }
 <form action="" method="post"> <input type="text" name="q" value="" /> <input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" value="Search" /> </form> @if (@Model != null && @Model.Count > 0) { @grid.GetHtml() }
and the results look like this...
Besides the total lack of formatting, the first thing you might notice is that the WebGrid is only displaying the simple properties for each of the movie items and not any of the List items. For some circumstances this might be fine, but what if you want to display the cast members for the movie as well? Do we need to create another WebGrid and display them separately by somehow linking them to the primary table or can we display them within the current WebGrid? Well, you can do either but right now I'm going to show you how to display the list within the current WebGrid.
Alright, so the nice thing about the WebGrid is that it also allows you to customize each column, from specifying the header text to the format of each cell that gets displayed in that column. We're going to take full use of this ability to format the cells to display a table of of cast objects, containing the name of the actor and the character(s) they portray, within the cell of the WebGrid.
So to get our feet wet with formatting a cell lets start by making sure our title column doesn't stretch all the way across the screen if a movie title is longer than average.
@grid.GetHtml( columns: grid.Columns( grid.Column("Title", "Movie", @<text>
@item.Title
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Ok, quick explanation. With the WebGrid we can make use of named parameters to specify which property we are wanting to set. In this case we're working with the columns property as indicated by putting "columns:" before grid.Columns. Next we pass a grid.Column object into the grid.Columns and tell it the name of the column, the header text, and then we specify the format of the data cells. In this instance each table cell for the title column will contain a div element that is 10em wide that contains the title for the movie. This is a very simple example of formatting a cell. The nice thing about the format parameter in the grid column is that it can also take a lambda expression, which allows us to a lot more complex things such as using foreach loops to loop through a simple list or even creating another WebGrid within the first WebGrid, which is what we're going to do here since we're dealing with a list of objects with multiple properties we want to display, one of which is also a List of strings. For simplicity I'm only going to work with the Title column and the Cast column in the next example.
First the code:
@grid.GetHtml( columns: grid.Columns( grid.Column("Title", "Movie", @<text>
@item.Title
</text>), grid.Column("Cast", "Cast", format: (item) => { string temp = "
"; var sub = new WebGrid(item.Cast); temp += sub.GetHtml( columns:sub.Columns( sub.Column("Name", "Name"), sub.Column("Characters", "Characters", format:(subitem)=> { string temp2 = string.Empty; foreach (var member in subitem.Characters) { temp2 += member + "
"; } return new HtmlString(temp2); }) )); temp += "
"; return new HtmlString(temp); }) ) )
The main difference when using lambda syntax is that you need to return the HtmlString at the end of the expression. This is the reason I create a string variable named "temp". I then append everything to this variable to create the html string I want to return to the page. I then create a new HtmlString object using the temp variable containing the html as a parameter and return the HtmlString object from the expression.
As before I start out by creating a stylized div to keep the size of the cell reasonable. Since one of the properties of the Cast object is a list I also needed to make sure I set overflow to auto to prevent the rows from getting too tall. When I create the lambda expression I need to specify a parameter to pass into it. This parameter, named item, represents an instance of a Movie object and we can use the Cast object from it as the datasource for the child WebGrid. I created "Name" and "Characters" columns in the sub WebGrid. The "Characters" column contains a list of strings I once again use a lambda expression to format the cells which allows me to use a foreach loop to loop through each character. You could also create an ordered or unordered list, or anything else your imagination can come up with.
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The Portable Atheist
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer is a 2007 book edited by Christopher Hitchens. It is a collection of writings concerning atheism and philosophy written by many authors including Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, with introductions for each selection written by Hitchens himself.
Covering a wide range of counter-apologetic arguments, these selections also show that there truly is nothing new under the sun when it comes to these questions. Religion could have been put out of our misery a long time ago if it weren't for it's abuses of power. Even the oldest work selected from contains more clear thinking than current creationism.
- Introduction by Christopher Hitchens
- Chapter 1: Selections from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) (1st century BCE) by Lucretius
- Chapter 2: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (ca 1100 CE) by Omar Khayyám
- Chapter 3: Of Religion, from Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes
- Chapter 4: Selection from Theologico-Political Treatise (1670) by Benedict De Spinoza
- Chapter 5: The Natural History of Religion (1757); Of Miracles, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) by David Hume
- Chapter 6: An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq. (1777) by James Boswell
- Chapter 7: Extract from A Refutation of Deism (1814) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Chapter 8: Moral Influences in My Early Youth, from Autobiography (1873) by John Stuart Mill
- Chapter 9: Introduction from Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
- Chapter 10: Evangelical Teaching (1855) by George Eliot
- Chapter 11: Selection from Autobiography (1887) by Charles Darwin
- Chapter 12: An Agnostic's Apology (1893) by Leslie Stephen
- Chapter 13: Miracle, from Le Jardin d'Épicure (The Garden of Epicurus) (1895) by Anatole France
- Chapter 14: Thoughts of God, from Fables of Man; Bible Teaching and Religious Practice, from Europe and Elsewhere and A Pen Warmed Up in Hell by Mark Twain
- Chapter 15: Author's Note to The Shadow Line (1917) by Joseph Conrad
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By Kenneth D. Miller
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I've heard the whispers of this young man Prophet Walker for some months now, so much so that I took it upon myself to track down the novice Assembly candidate for the 64th District.
Associates had told me about this fresh faced symbol of hope who hailed from the housing projects in Watts.
So, on a windy Friday I was fitted into his busy appointment schedule and met with him at his apartment complex in Carson.
After ringing the electronic bell affixed to the wall of this just built luxury-housing complex, he arrived.
Wearing a casual shirt and blue jeans, he graciously greeted me and then asked if he could be excused to go upstairs and change.
The transformation took roughly 15 minutes. I can't do anything in that short of time.
However, there he was now outfitted in a deep navy suit with a white shirt and peppermint-laced necktie.
He was sharp, but modest. One could say this young man looked electable. Don't they all when dressed the part?
Walker barely allowed for me to position and turn on the tape recorder before he began.
"I grew-up in South Central-Watts. My mother abandoned me in the Nickerson Gardens Housing Projects along with my sister. She was addicted to heroin. Then my dad stepped up and did the best he possibly could," Walker explained solemnly.
There was little hesitation in his delivery, nor was there sustained sorrow. That would come, but this is the introduction.
He was a young boy at the time, around second grade and the years that would unfold after his mother went to get that fix was a duration of close to a decade but seemed like 100 years.
Navigating through the wilderness of an environment besieged with drugs, gangs and primed for criminal activity, Walker survived until the age of 16 when he was then arrested. He had a young daughter along the way.
"I got in trouble and kept getting into trouble through the years and then at 16, I got into more trouble that I could bargain for and fractured a guy's jaw," he explained.
That's when he was arrested and sentenced to six years for robbery and great bodily injury and harm. He was sentenced as an adult.
If this sounds like a story that you are all too familiar with, I understand, but the significant difference to its conclusion can't be written yet.
At the moment he was sentenced he was sitting in the courtroom that felt like his mortuary and the orange jumpsuit that he was wearing was his casket.
"Where do I go from here," he pondered. "One of the things that I could stand on was that no matter how tough the circumstances were before me and no matter how degrading, this was not the end."
He went to prison to serve his time, but ironically the time served him well because of what he did while incarcerated for five years and three months.
It was an ominous great beginning.
"I focused on education. Educating myself, first. I began working on college courses and what I began to quickly see was there were a lot of men around me who had untapped potential."
While incarcerated he established a program that would allow for inmates to earn their two year accredited college degree.
Upon his released he continued his education journey at Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, studying engineering.
A day after being released from prison in 2009, Walker had an appointment with the dean of LMU engineering and against all odds he was granted an opportunity and thus two months from that dark place, a new light was burning.
"It was tough, not only was I a broke starving student like many others. I quickly learned that I didn't have the same support that some of my peers had enjoyed."
His mother had since died from her struggles, the grandmother who gave him the name Prophet would succumb as well.
He figured it out, obtaining one school loan after another. Struggling to keep a roof over his head. Coming from where he came it seemed like not much of a struggle at all, so Prophet Walker endured.
He was more than humbled at 22-years of age, but also more than grateful that he had another chance.
While he was in prison he was involved in a creative writing program funded by a non-profit organization, and when released he was reunited with the alumni program.
A by chance meeting with one of the teachers in the program changed his life forever.
The teacher had a nephew who had a construction development firm.
The nephew examined his resume for more than two months and subsequently sent Walker an email to inform him that he did not have a position for him.
However, Walker had yet to meet with Raymond Miller and when the two did get together, Miller told him that the company could not afford NOT to hire Walker.
Today as an accomplished engineer, Walker maintains his focus, toward where it all began for him — in Watts.
He co-founded a program Watts United Weekend that brings residents of the housing projects together to show them how to work together instead of turning to drugs and violence.
He is also a founding member of the Anti Recidivism Coalition, which offers young people a fresh start after being incarcerated.
He has since forgiven his mother who had no choice in determining the outcome of her powerful addiction.
His little sister is now a mother and he is in both their lives and his only child's as well.
For those who don't believe that hope is real, here is Prophet Walker. He is living proof that hope is not just real for those in the housing projects and beyond, it is internal if one just sniffs at it.


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Thursday, March 4, 2010
More on The Bullpen Gospels - The Book Review Saga Continues
We haven't played baseball in a competitive, organized setting in more than 20 years. In fact, aside from a lost summer as an obnoxious softball guy and a few years of chasing tail around ultimate frisbee fields, our sporting life has generally been limited to the role of an observer. And yet, there was a lot in Dirk Hayhurst's The Bullpen Gospels to which we could relate.
Sure, Gospels is a baseball book, and most of us will be drawn to it as such. We'll dig in to uncover what happens behind the scenes, and in the clubhouse. (Which, so far as we can tell, involves a lot of video games and naked tomfoolery.) But what really draws the reader into Hayhurst's account of his whirlwind 2007 season through three levels of minor league ball is the author's honesty about himself. There are many athletes who would gloss over anything resembling weakness, or frame their own emergence as a player in the rote, glorified clichés that are plentiful in the sports world: That they triumphed over adversity by being so goddamned gifted and awesome, and that God shone his special light down upon them so that they might offer their great gift to all. (The sort of story we saw repeated throughout the Olympics.)
But Hayhurst's story is so much more complex - and ultimately, rewarding - than that. While there are aspects of his life that seem anything but ordinary (Grandma and her firearms, for instance), the underlying story of Bullpen Gospels is really about two very universal things: Hayhurst's struggles with self-doubt, and his difficult transition from an extended adolescence into manhood.
The period covered in the book starts as Hayhurst is about to turn 26. It's a point in the life of many young men where, if they're at all sentient (and in spite of his out-there Garfoose tweets, Hayhurst does seem to be that), he starts to get a little more serious about who he is and what his place in the world might be. For Hayhurst, this transition and the uncertainty that goes with it are magnified by his chosen profession: If he's not about to make it, or to take a step forward, then he has to find another path.
The struggle, which is implied but never entirely stated outright, is that given the undeniable draw of a life as a professional athlete, how could anyone ever let that dream go? Especially after they've already made it past the point where so many others drop off? And yet, faced with a fourth consecutive season in High-A ball, Hayhurst spells out vividly the thought processes - both rational and irrationally emotional - that played into his decision to stick with the game. (Given his spot on the Jays' roster, we're probably not giving much away there.)
While it would seem that someone as clever and young and bright as Hayhurst would have no problem integrating himself back into civilian life, the real surprise of the book is how much the game has served as an escape. Without going to far into his motivations and background, suffice to say that Hayhurst did not have the comfortable fall back alternatives that one might expect.
(It's a narrative that, if we're being honest about how we understand race and sports, we might have expected if Hayhurst were African-American. It was an uncomfortable thought for us that we've so internalized the idea of "playing to get out of the poverty/strife" that we had a hard time rationalizing the same narrative about a blue-eyed blondish player. But that's our problem to resolve.)
Following Hayhurst's progress through that crucial 2007 season is a rich experience, and is truly the strongest element of The Bullpen Gospels. Certainly, there is lots of fun to be had as well (what with the "SpiderMan-ings" and the unwanted animal visitors in the bullpen), but the heart of this book is walking alongside Dirk as he conquers his internal demons, and subsequently seeing his life and career take a crucial turn for the better.
We sports fans and amateur analysts often reduce those positive changes in a player's career path rather glibly ("he flipped a switch", "he made an adjustment", "the player's development"). But beneath the player (and the counting stats and the rate metrics) is a human, who has to understand their weaknesses and evolve themselves beyond them. That whole idea of transcendence is, as Steve Earle once said, a painful thing. The reader of The Bullpen Gospels is privileged to share that moment with a player who has the self-awareness to understand the process, and the humility to work through it.
You'll find yourself rooting for him all the more by the book's end. (Speaking of which: Get well soon, Dirk.)
In our next episode: We'll focus on the monkeyshines. There are scooters, dramatic cases of the scoots, pressed hams and pleas for nudity made from moving vehicles. Good times.
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As someone who got a lttle annoyed at all the garfoose's silly Twitter updates, I hadn't planned on reading hayhurst's book. Your reviews, however, have opened up my eyes to what appears to be a more substantial side of the man. It sounds like a good read! I shall order my copy tonight b
- March 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM
I might order this book, but I doubt it. If he wants to be wealthy one day, he better hope he does better as a writer than he is likely to do as a pitcher. I don't mean to be an asshole, but it's not looking good for his pitching career right now.
- March 4, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Ty said...
You know, the words 'I don't mean to be an asshole' aren't really of any substance if they're immediately followed by something assholey.
- March 4, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- Ty said...
I'll definitely be picking up the book. I haven't read a single negative review, and effusive praise like this coming from people whose tastes I generally respect are just further motivation to get it. BTW, Dirk's going to be signing books at Chapters on opening day in case anyone wasn't aware.
- March 4, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Unknown said...
An independent (note the spelling) bookstore may not stock the book, but I'd attribut that more to issues of square footage than aesthetic principles. Ask them to order a book, any book, and they'll probably do it gladly.
- March 4, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I'm sorry, what's and "attribut"?
(That'll learn you to correct me spellin'!)
Point taken on ordering from your local business, though. If you have a bookseller that you like, and you want to support them and your neighbourhood, then given them your business.
- March 4, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Funny, how when you're calling out people for spelling mistakes, you can't help but make one yourself.
- March 4, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Anyone have the details for the autograph signing?
- March 5, 2010 at 12:44 AM
So, "it's not looking good for his pitching career" said about a 29 yo career minor leaguer on the 60 day DL makes a person an asshole?
What about when I say Barry Bonds broke records while taking steroids? Or Sarah Palin would not make a good president? All assholey?
- March 5, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- brainiac said...
I think what makes it "assholey" wasn't necessarily the validity f what you said but that you felt it was necessary to actually say something negative and unknowable at that juncture. You could have of course added that he was going to die someday too but held back to not appear too "assholey" I suppose..
- March 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- Darren Priest said...
Dirk Hayhurst seems an unlikely sacred cow.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:23 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I don't know precisely what the tone of the comment was as it was being typed out, but it seemed kinda assholey to me.
I guess I feel a bit defensive when speaking about Dirk because I think it was pretty brave of him to open up his life in the book. It's not at all a cynical move on his part to capitalize on his career...it's an incredibly earnest and honest thing.
Like Stephen Brunt said in his Olympic piece: Cynicism is easy. If anonymous wants to be cynical about this book, then that's his thing. I suppose.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:54 AM
- Darren Priest said...
Yeah, cynicism is very easy, just ask Jeff Blair.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Brad Fullmer Fan said...
You were pretty cynical about Vernon Wells and his comments last week, no?
- March 5, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Yeah, but Vernon made like 18 million last year and Dirk only made 400K. He's practically one of us -- give or take a few hundred thousand.
- March 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
That wasn't cynical at all. I was expressing genuine surprise that Wells had only just begun to recognize that he had a leadership role to play.
It wasn't that I was cynical at his statements...It's just that I thought that they were a day late and a dollar short.
Sorry if that sucks the fun out of your little hypocrisy gambit, BFF.
- March 5, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- Brad Fullmer Fan said...
You criticized the guy because you perceived that he "never stepped forward and claimed a leadership role" in the past (whatever that is supposed to mean).
Of course, this was ignoring the fact that you've never actually seen how the guy conducts himself with the other players on the team, nor the fact that being the longest tenured player/employee at a job can seriously put things into perspective for anybody.
You also proceeded to knock him for having a website centered around his charity, and insinuated that he doesn't care enough about baseball.
Basically, you didn't give him much in the way of the benefit of the doubt because he's Vernon Wells, a guy who has become the designated doormat for Jays fans. And yeah, that's all rather cynical. But don't let me keep you from being a fun-sucking hypocite, Tao.
- March 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Stedron said...
Dude, none of these Jays blogs are really scooping anyone. We all visit the ones we do based on the host's style. If you don't like the way Tao does it, why exactly are you here? Unless it's just to be an annoying little prick, in which case, par for the course.
Please start your own blog so you can see just how much no one gives a shit about your opinions.
- March 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- Brad Fullmer Fan said...
I read many Jays blogs, and comment when I think it is appropriate. Sometimes my comments are negative (as Stoeten and Tao can attest) and sometimes they are positive. I don't have it out for any one individual, here, Stedron, like you do.
We should really plan our steroid-infused boxing match at some point. I was in Columbus last summer, we missed the chance.
- March 5, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Stedron said...
Saying I "have it out for you" is definitely giving yourself too much credit. I mostly find you ignorable, but when I see you whining on one site about an author's style, and then see you turn around and start posting on said site....well it just gets the eyes rolling.
I was in St. Louis 3 weeks ago. Is that not in your neck of the woods? I would be absolutely giddy if we set something up. I'll even spring for the ring rental.
- March 5, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- Brad Fullmer Fan said...
It's not his style that I'm criticizing in this instance, just the blog post itself.
As for you, it just seems like you are always right there whenever I post any kind of criticism of anybody (which isn't that often, really). You make me out to be worse than I actually am.
What were the terms of that proposed fight again? Was I the one that was supposed to get on the roids or was that you? And more importantly, which one of us gets to play the role of "Epic Beard Man?"
- March 5, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Well, if either of you are ever in Nova Scotia, you're welcome to drop by...for a drink or three. I'll leave the Uwe Boll-style score settling to others.
Tao was cynical about Vernon and he's too in love with Dirk to recognize nobody writes a memoir just to be brave and earnest. Don't be silly.
So, Tao, when do we get together to settle our hash with some wrestling in our underwear?
- March 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Darren Priest said...
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- March 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM
Hey - just because some guy said cynicism's easy, we're going to start getting all holier than thou? Let's give it a rest. This is the 2010 blue jays we're talking about here. It's gonna be a long season if we can't indulge in a little cynicism!
- March 5, 2010 at 8:51 PM
I loved your blog. Thank you.
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We recently flew with our baby from Nashville to Chicago. We didn't think much of it. It was a short flight, and little Maggs had flown with us several times before. NBD, right?
I had her diaper bag carefully stocked. Bottles, diapers, wipes, snacks, toys, a change of clothes ... I had thought of it all. Or at least I thought I had thought of it all.
Then, as the flight attendant announced that we had been cleared for take-off and we started to taxi down the runway, I reached into my daughter's bag to grab a bottle. One of the first tips we had been given about traveling with a baby was to have a bottle ready during ascent and descent to alleviate air pressure in the ears. This time, however, I had forgotten one little detail. The nipple for the bottle.
Holy crap.
I looked at my husband and said, "Oh my God. I forgot to pack the nipples."
Looking down at our happily cooing baby on his lap, he replied, "She's fine. Don't worry about it." I just looked at him, a knot developing in my stomach. He looked at the sheer panic in my eyes and said again, "She's fine. It's a short flight. Relax."
Cut to about three minutes later, when the baby started to cry. Then, as the pressure in her ears increased, she cried harder. We began frantically trying to find some way to get formula into her. She wasn't yet drinking from a cup, so she brushed off our attempts to let her drink out of the open mouth of the bottle and just screamed louder.
We became more desperate. We asked every passerby and every person on the plane with a child if they happened to have a nipple. None did. The flight attendants told us they do not carry bottles or sippy cups on the plane (I think they should, don't you?).
As the screaming escalated, Mark started trying to MacGyver a nipple out of a pacifier we had in the bag. A helpful woman across the aisle offered him her pocketknife (yes, you heard me), to no avail. We couldn't get anything to work.
After about 30 minutes of exhausting every possible option, we gave up. Hungry and frustrated, Maggie continued to scream and cry. She worked herself up until she was beyond consoling, but never wore herself out. I just held her and continued to try fruitlessly to comfort her. Mark simply looked down at the floor, veins popping in his neck. We couldn't, wouldn't, look at anyone.
(PS. We weren't alone in our row. Some poor chap was crammed between me and the screaming baby and the window.)
It. Was. Awful. I have never felt like such a bad mother. We had become those people, with a vengeance.
When the plane landed, the captain came on the intercom and announced, "It's finally over, people. We're here." And everyone on the plane burst into applause. Everyone except me, my husband, and the man next to me. And of course poor Maggie, who was still screaming.
A parent's nightmare. And a lesson I'll never forget.
So, over the holidays when we embarked on a several-leg cross-country journey with Maggie, I was prepared. Over-prepared, probably, but it paid off. Our flights were incident- and trauma-free. Not that we have it all figured out, but here are some tips and suggestions for traveling with a baby, based on our trial-and-error experiences over the past year.
1. Sit strategically. If you're flying an airline that has open seating, and you haven't purchased a seat for your under-2-year-old, and there are two of you, one of you take the aisle and the other take the window, leaving the middle seat open. Unless the flight is totally full, no one is going to want that middle seat between two parents and a baby.
And if you're flying on an airline with reserved seating and there are two of you, choose seats across the aisle from one another and take turns holding the baby. This will give each of you some peace and quiet on the flight, and will mix things up for the baby.2. Take a well-stocked diaper bag, including diapers, wipes, bottles (with nipples), snacks, a sippy cup, a book or two, and some quiet toys. If the child is old enough, a couple of baby-friendly videos downloaded onto an iPad are great attention-holders for pretty good chunks of time. This being said, be careful not to over-pack the bag, as it will become heavy on those walks (or runs) through the airport.
3. Try to travel during regular nap times or bedtime. If this is not possible, try keep the child awake until after take-off. A sleeping baby is a happy baby (with happy parents and neighbors).
4. Take a baby Bjorn or similar wearable carrier. If you don't want to travel with a stroller (and we typically don't ... it's too cumbersome), this leaves your hands free for carrying bags and helps you get to and from the gate with relative ease. Do not try to carry the baby through the airport on your hip or in your arms. Trust me.
5. Pack as many supplies as possible in the luggage you plan to check (rather than carrying on). And only pack enough bottles and diapers to last a day or two. Buy the rest when you get to your destination.
6. Have all of your liquids -- formula, breast milk, juice, etc. -- out of the diaper bag when going through security, and tell the TSA agent on duty exactly what you are carrying. This will help speed the process.
7. Sit close to other parents with small children if possible. They will likely be sympathetic souls; plus, if one of the babies cries, no one will really know from which aisle it is coming. Safety in numbers.
8. Relax. Try not to stress out about your baby crying. If you've done all that you can do and your baby still cries, accept that there's nothing you can do about it and stressing out will not help matters. In fact, the baby will likely pick up on your rising anxiety and the situation will escalate. If you stay calm, your baby will be more likely to remain calm.
9. Ignore dirty looks. Until I had kids, I used to be one of those people who would sigh and cringe inwardly when I saw an adult with a baby boarding the plane. And I have been known to turn around and give a pointed look to the parent of a screamer. No more. I now know that babies cry and that there is likely nothing the parents can do about it. And that they are more upset than anyone about their child being in distress. Now when I see a parent -- on a plane or anywhere -- with a screaming child, I give them a sympathetic smile.
10. Bribe. Travel with little gift bags containing things like earplugs and candy and gum to pass around to those in your immediate vicinity. Or, if all else fails, offer to buy drinks for everyone around you. (We've actually done this.) Whether or not they take you up on the offer, it will send the message that you are sorry for any negative impact your child may have on the enjoyment of their trip.
Oh, and don't forget the nipple. (Did I say that already?)


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Yahoo Mail has been struck down by regular outages across its network and customer complaints have been rising for the last few weeks, according to reports.
Individuals and small businesses affected by the outages feel they haven't been kept in the loop by the Yahoo Mail team, AllThingsD reported. It also reported that Yahoo didn't respond to requests from AllThingsD for weeks, "perhaps the most astonishing display of PR incompetence I have experienced in a very long time." according to Kara Swisher.
U.S. & World
Instead of informing users or the press, Yahoo has been using a series of tweets which showed up on Dec. 10 and promised fixes. Jeffrey Bonforte, Yahoo's senior vice president of communication products, wrote a short an less-than-detail-filled blog post on Wednesday that claimed the problem started Dec. 9:
We are very sorry for recent difficulties with Yahoo Mail.Some of our users have not been able to access their mail since 10:27 PM PT on Monday night, due to a hardware problem in one of our mail data centers. The issue has been harder to fix than we originally expected.We have dozens of people working around the clock to bring it to a resolution. We believe our current efforts will restore our users' access to their inboxes by 3 pm PT today.
As of Dec. 12, Yahoo said that it had 97% of its users' Yahoo Mail restored and was still working on the problem.
Swisher's outrage is not about Yahoo Mail outages, but about the company's silence on the issue to both its customers and the outside world. Does Yahoo have something to hide, or is it simply hoping that by not acknowledging the problem publicly it can avoid accusations of incompetence? Either way, its handling of this situation has not been good.


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Getting your head shaved is one of those big moments. It's such a bold statement. You can no longer pretend cancer hasn't happened. Some people get it done as soon as the treatment starts but I waited as long as possible.
For most of my chemotherapy I wore an ice cold cap which protected the hair follicles by freezing my scalp. It worked pretty well but was so painful that in the end I had to ditch it. Thats when the hair loss began properly.
I didn't go completely bald. Oh, no. I was left with big freaky tufts of soft fluffy hair. It was a cross between a mullet and a mohican. A mullhican if you like.
I really needed to get it shaved off so it would all regrow at the same length. It's more than five weeks since the chemo ended. Amazingly my eyelashes and eyebrows have already started to reappear. It won't be long before my hair also comes back to life.
It was good to be doing something kinda normal again. The last time I visited Daniel Galvin, my hairdressers in London, it was a few days before my massive cancer operation. I had a cut and a bouncy blow dry. I wanted to go into hospital with it looking lovely. I'm sure the surgeons appreciated the effort.
My friend Angela has been cutting my hair ever since I moved back to Britain. When I was abroad I had plenty of bad hair days – it had been "accidentally" dyed orange and subjected to many dodgy styles. Angela helped to nurse my hair back to good health. It was finally in great condition and I really liked how it looked. Now I was getting her to chop it all off.
As Angela set to work, she kept checking that I wanted it all gone. I certainly did.
It's taken me months to feel okay about losing my hair. Compared to what I've been through it shouldn't have been a big deal but it was. It's bad enough to have to fight a killer disease twice. I didn't want to have another Sinéad O'Conner. However, I slowly got used to being a skinhead again.
Sitting in the busy salon with my tufty mullhican I wasn't upset or even embarrassed. I was ready for my new look.
I'd thought I was going to get a baldy head, all smooth and shiny. I was worried that I was going to look awful. Instead Angela gave me a number three all over. I managed to avoid getting a close shave. I''m really happy at how it turned out.
Hey cancer – look – I still have some hair!!!
Before the drastic cut, I was scared to touch my hair because it would just fall out in my hands. Strands of the stuff got everywhere. It's now very very short but it feels thick and strong.
With my real hair sorted it was time to introduce Candice and Raquel. This was their first trip to the hairdressers. I needed Angela to work her magic on my wigs and she couldn't wait to get her hands on them.
The trouble with wearing a wig is that it can so easily look fake. Like a lump of unnaturally big hair that's been plonked on your head.
After both getting a trim, they looked much better and a whole lot less wig like. Even so, I won't be wearing them all the time. They're far too hot and itchy.
I'm so glad to have finally got rid of the fluffy mullhican. It was actually making me appear a lot sicker than I was. I had started to hate what I saw. This was something that cancer had done to me.
I've taken back control and now when I look in the mirror I see a new start.


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February 26, 2015 - STAMFORD, Conn. and LUCCA, Italy
Tagetik Unveils New Logo and Corporate Identity: "We Get Finance. You Get Results."
New brand philosophy reflects Tagetik's mission to elevate performance management software to the next level by combining innovative technology and deep knowledge of the needs and challenges of the Office of Finance
Tagetik, a visionary leader in global performance management software solutions for the Office of Finance, today unveiled a refreshed logo and corporate identity – "We get Finance. You get Results". The company's revamped brand philosophy better leverages its strong expertise and proven success in addressing the complex performance management processes of finance organizations large and small.
The new corporate logo and identity is the first of many marketing and awareness investments designed to drive the significant growth plans for 2015 the company announced recently. "How a company communicates its identity profoundly changes how its brand is perceived in the market," said Marco Pierallini, co-chief executive officer, Tagetik. "The new identity we announced today aligns perfectly with our mission of helping finance executives improve efficiency, control costs, identify opportunities and deliver results. Our brand promise is to empower finance organizations by investing the time and effort to understand the current and future challenges they face, and to then apply innovative technologies, such as cloud and mobility, specifically in the context of those challenges. "We get Finance. You get Results." succinctly communicates the combination of deep finance expertise and targeted innovation that drive results for our customers."
"Our "Performance with Passion" tagline was designed as a play on the passion of our Italian heritage and more specifically our dedication to customer success. That identity been our mantra since 2012 has set us apart from our competitors and has been a driver of our consistent ranking at or near the top of virtually every major customer satisfaction or product capability survey," said Manuel Vellutini, co-chief executive officer, Tagetik. "As we continue on our global expansion, it is important that our corporate identity convey not only our passion and dedication to customer success but also reflects what we do best: address the challenges and needs of modern finance organizations so that they can streamline processes, reduce risk and deliver both tactical and strategic results. That is exactly what Tagetik does at companies across the globe including Henkel, Randstad, Generali Group, SNCF, Timex Group, Laing O'Rourke and Unicredit Group and that is what our new identity, "We get Finance. You get Results." conveys."
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Kevin Youkilis, Tim Wakefield, and Manny Ramirez welcomed Adam Stern back to Fort Myers by singing "O Canada" and presenting the outfielder with DVDs of his sterling performance in the WBC.
Trot Nixon ("Babe Ruth is back! The greatest WBC hitter of all-time!") and Lenny DiNardo ("He made everyone else look like Little Leaguers.") added their praise.
Stern batted .667 (6-for-9) with a home run, five RBI and a .727 on-base percentage. In Canada's stunning 8-6 victory over the US, Stern drove in four runs with a single, triple and an inside-the-park home run.
Stern, who played baseball for Canada in the 2004 Athens Olympics, told Chris Snow of the Globe that he's looking ahead to the 2010 Games in Vancouver -- as a bobsledder.
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Positive Presentation Bias
You Must Have Heard That Beautiful People Get Hired Easier; But Does That Mean Handsome Projects Are More Often Awarded? Learn About The Positive Presentation Bias and How to Avoid It
In judgment and decision making, a cognitive bias is the human tendency to make a systematic decision focused more on on cognitive factors rather than the reality. In the case of Positive Presentation Bias, designs and projects that are better represented, in a design competition, are considered better.The Positive Presentation Bias was discovered due to the statistical inconsistency in the jury scores of design submissions in the A' Design Award & Competition: Normally, entries in A' Design Award & Competition are voted against multiple evaluation criterion, one of the such criteria is the "Presentation Quality" with a relatively low weight on it. However, when a sample of 500 design submissions were analyzed in detail and re-voted analytically, it was discovered that jury members tend to give higher scores to designs whose visual representations were made better, regardless of the intrinsic properties of the design.A' Design Award & Competition featured 3 types of jury members; Academics, Professionals and Focus Group Members. The highest presentation bias occurred for the Focus Group Members in general. Academics & Professionals have the lowest presentation bias, when it came to voting entries in their own expertise areas; however they tended to display also a significant amount of bias when they were voting entries in other categories. The Positive Presentation Bias could be related to other existing cognitive biases such as the "Framing Effect" i.e. drawing different conclusions from the same information, depending on how that information is presented, or the "Focusing effect" i.e. the tendency to place too much importance on one aspect of an event, in any case the presentation bias effects the competition outcomes in a negative manner, and thus it is required to be reduced or removed. There are several ways to reduce this bias.For example, to remove the Positive Presentation Bias, A' Design Award & Competition implemented several tools and approaches: 1. Uniform Submission System, 2. Uniform Jury Presentation System, 3. Preliminary Score and Feedbacks for Presentation, 4. Detailed Presentation Guidelines Book with Hints and Suggestions, 5. Submission Optimizer Software. 6. Showcasing Prior Winner Works, 7. Voting Guidelines for Jury Members. The purpose of all the tools is to push the presentation quality of entries to a uniform, high level such that when jury members would vote on the submissions, the presentation of the entries would be less relevant because they would all be good, and therefore submissions could be judged more on their intrinsic qualities; thus the Positive Presentation Bias could be removed or reduced.To avoid being effected by the Positive Presentation Bias, designers are suggest to make the best presentation they could for their projects, in this case, they could perhaps also utilize the bias to their advantage, or alternatively competitions and awards can implement systems and tools to reduce the bias as seen in A' Design Award & Competition. Designers could also get help from professional photographers or graphic designers to have their works presented better; most designers are in a biased position when it comes to presentation; they tend to overestimate their skills. For example being a perfect furniture designer does not automatically entitle an individual to be a perfect visual communication designer. Being a perfect architect or interior designer does not guarantee perfect photography that is required for a good communication. Exerpt:In judgment and decision making, a cognitive bias is the human tendency to make a systematic decision focused more on on cognitive factors rather than the reality. In the case of Positive Presentation Bias, designs and projects that are better represented, in a design competition, are considered better.The Positive Presentation Bias was discovered due to the statistical inconsistency in the jury scores of design submissions in the A' Design Award & Competition: Normally, entries in A' De..
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