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Tag: workplace injury
Amazon makes tiny tweak to 'time off task' policy following report on high injury rates
Posted on June 2, 2021 June 2, 2021 by Workplace Fairness
Immediately following a report that Amazon's workplace injury rates were significantly higher than those of its top rivals, the online retail giant announced a tweak to its notorious "time off task" metric, which workers and advocates say is responsible for the punishing pace that leads to many injuries. The Washington Post looked at Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) data and found that Amazon warehouses have a rate of 5.9 serious injury incidents per 100 workers, which is nearly double the rate of other retail warehouses and more than double the rate for Walmart warehouses. This despite a decrease in serious injury rates at Amazon warehouses after the company paused performance tracking to allow workers time to wash their hands and sanitize work areas during the pandemic.
In response to the Post's questions, Amazon detailed an array of efforts to improve injury rates at its warehouses, including "ergonomics programs, guided exercises at employees' workstations, mechanical assistance equipment, workstation setup and design, and forklift telematics and guardrails—to name a few," a company spokeswoman told the newspaper. What those efforts notably did not include was relaxing the speed requirements placed on workers that lead to so many of those injuries, at least outside of pandemic safety measures.
But on Tuesday, via a blog post by Dave Clark, CEO of its worldwide consumer division, the company made two announcements clearly designed to garner good publicity: It will stop testing employees for marijuana except for those in positions regulated by the Department of Transportation and will support federal marijuana legalization, and it's changing how "time off task" is calculated. The time off task metric "can easily be misunderstood," Clark claimed, insisting that its primary goal "is to understand whether there are issues with the tools that people use to be productive, and only secondarily to identify under-performing employees."
This is not how Amazon employees experience that, and in any case, constantly finding ways to make the "tools that people use to be productive" go faster is another way to make the workers go faster. "Starting today," Clark announced, "we're now averaging Time off Task over a longer period to ensure that there's more signal and less noise—reinforcing the original intent of the program, and focusing Time off Task conversations on how we can help."
That's not a big enough change, said Christy Hoffman, general secretary of UNI Global Union, in a statement: "After months of intense worker activity at Amazon workplaces everywhere, the giant tech is acknowledging that it must at least tweak its management system to soften the blow on workers who have the occasional 'bad day'. But the basic system remains the same. This small step is welcomed but insufficient. What workers need is a real seat at the table and their voices heard."
Let's circle back to the top of this post and remember, we're talking about a business with a serious injury rate nearly twice that of the industry as a whole and more than twice that of Walmart (which is not exactly known as a great employer). A small tweak is not going to do it.
Amazon's injury data also points to the need for stronger government enforcement. A DuPont, Washington, Amazon warehouse sported a serious injury rate of 23.9 per 100 workers in 2020, up from an already high 7.2 serious incidents per 100 workers in 2017. For those conditions, Amazon was cited by Washington State's Department of Labor and Industries, which specifically identified the following: "There is a direct connection between Amazon's employee monitoring and discipline systems and workplace MSDs [musculoskeletal disorders]." But the fine was just $7,000. Why would Amazon take the need for change seriously if that's how much it costs? Instead, the company is trying to deal with its high injury rates as a public relations problem by announcing the smallest possible change to its policy.
This blog originally appeared at DailyKos on June 2, 2021. Reprinted with permission.
About the author: Laura Clawson has been a Daily Kos contributing editor since December 2006 and a full-time staff since 2011, currently acting as assistant managing editor.
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Tesla Swears It's a Fair Employer—Yet It's Trying to Dodge a Law That Protects Workers
Posted on June 15, 2018 June 18, 2018 by Michael Arria
Since 2013, Tesla has fought unfair-labor-practice complaints from the NLRB, insisting it's not a union buster and that it maintains a safe factory. However, just a week before the company went in front of a judge to face some of these accusations, Tesla petitioned the state of California to get around a new labor regulation that would require the company to be certified as a "fair and responsible workplace."
On June 11, Michael Sanchez, a Tesla employee who is currently out on medical leave, testified before an NLRB administrative law judge, claiming that he was asked to leave the company's Fremont factory by a supervisor and security guards in February 2017 after he attempted to hand out pro-union literature. The hearing is part of a wider complaint that was originally filed against Tesla by the NLRB last August.
Tesla has denied these allegations, insisting that the company is being unfairly targeted by labor groups looking to sow division among workers.
However, just one week before Sanchez's testimony, the company sent a letter to the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency asking to be exempt from a new state rule that would require the company to be certified as a "fair and responsible workplace" in order for Tesla customers to receive state rebates for buying electric cars. Those rebates are viewed as key enticements in Governor Jerry Brown's plan to put 5-million zero emission cars on California's roads by 2030.
Governor Brown stuck the rule into his cap-and-trade legislation from last year, in a move that was perceived as a win for organized labor. However, Tesla believes that the provision effectively means that the state has picked a side in the company's labor battles and is unfairly singling them out.
"To be sure, Tesla is not perfect–no company is," reads the letter, dated June 4. "But any objective analysis of our workplace, as opposed to the selective use of unrepresentative anecdotes in a company of almost 40,000 employees globally, demonstrates we are a leader in the workplace. There should be absolutely no question that we care deeply about the well-being of our employees and that we try our hardest to do the right thing."
On May 23, the state put out a concept paper for public comment, which detailed how the new rule would potentially be enforced. As part of their application process for the customer rebates, companies would have to submit information about their workplace practices to the state. This would include information about the company's illness and injury prevention program, the recordable worker injury rates, nondiscrimination measures, and policies for investigating workplace complaints, wage violations and safety concerns. Manufacturers would also have to submit a list of citations and charges brought against them by government agencies and any criminal charges that have been brought against them for workplace issues within the last five years.
The concept paper will be revised with the accepted comments, and then the unions will push for the final document to become law. The government agencies have suggested that full certification commence in two years, but the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which has been pushing to unionize the company's factory, wants it to take effect by July 2019.
In addition to the aforementioned NLRB complaint, which encompasses a number of different accusations, Tesla is also facing several discrimination lawsuits from former employees. Last November, a former African-American worker named Marcus Vaughn sued the company claiming that coworkers and supervisors consistently referred to him by the n-word. Vaughn alleges that when he complained about the treatment, he was fired for not having a positive attitude.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly defended the company's safety record publicly. In May, he went on a lengthy Twitter rant attacking the media for covering Tesla negatively, focusing specifically on a Reveal report that detailed how the company left workplace injuries off their books. Musk also criticized the UAW and declared that his employees didn't actually want a union. "Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union," Musk tweeted. "Could do so [tomorrow] if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare."
When asked to explain what he meant by the stock option comment, Musk shifted to an observation about the Revolutionary War: "US fought War of Independence to get rid of a 2 class system!" Musk wrote, "Managers & workers [should] be equal [with] easy movement either way. Managing sucks [by the way]. Hate doing it so much." Musk's net worth is estimated to be about $18.2 billion currently.
The new rule and the NLRB hearing comes amid additional bad news for Tesla and its employees. After misjudging the speed at which they could produce their Model 3 vehicles, the company laid off more than 3,000 people—about 9 percent of their workforce. "We made these decisions by evaluating the criticality of each position, whether certain jobs could be done more efficiently and productively, and by assessing the specific skills and abilities of each individual in the company," Musk wrote to the company in an email. "As you know, we are continuing to flatten our management structure to help us communicate better, eliminate bureaucracy and move faster."
The rule could be codified as early as July.
This article was originally published at In These Times on June 15, 2018. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Michael Arria covers labor and social movements. Follow him on Twitter: @michaelarria
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package com.google.testing.i18n.sanitycheck.parser;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Tests the {@link Parser} class functionality.
 */
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class ParserTest extends TestCase {

  private final String lnSeparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");
  private final Parser parser = new Parser();

  @Test
  public void testParser_Simple() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens = parser.parse(
        "te{st test_date, test_time, test_datetime and locale. "
        + "{unknown_placeholder} and some tex}t.date",
        "te\\{st {ignore}, {ignore}, {ignore} and {ignore:{param:'anyparam'}}. "
        + "{unknown_placeholder} and some tex}t.{ignore}");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 5.", 5, tokens.size());
    assertEquals("test_date", tokens.get(0).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_time", tokens.get(1).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_datetime", tokens.get(2).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("locale", tokens.get(3).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("date", tokens.get(4).getActualContent());
  }

  @Test
  public void testParser_Regex() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens = parser.parse(
        "test (.*?) test_date, test_time, test_datetime and [0-9]+ locale. "
        + "{unknown_placeholder} and some text.date",
        "test (.*?) {ignore}, {ignore}, {ignore} and [0-9]+ {ignore:{param:'anyparam'}}. "
        + "{unknown_placeholder} and some text.{ignore}");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 5.", 5, tokens.size());
    assertEquals("test_date", tokens.get(0).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_time", tokens.get(1).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_datetime", tokens.get(2).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("locale", tokens.get(3).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("date", tokens.get(4).getActualContent());
  }

  @Test
  public void testParser_SkipablePlaceholder() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens = parser.parse("test test_date, test_time, {ignore} and locale. "
        + "{unknown_placeholder} and some text.date",
        "test {ignore}, {ignore}, {ignore} and {ignore:{param:'anyparam'}}. "
        + "{unknown_placeholder} and some text.{ignore}");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 4.", 4, tokens.size());
    assertEquals("test_date", tokens.get(0).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_time", tokens.get(1).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("locale", tokens.get(2).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("date", tokens.get(3).getActualContent());
  }

  @Test
  public void testParser_MultilineStaticText() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens = parser.parse("test test_date, test_time, test_datetime and locale."
        + lnSeparator + "{unknown_placeholder} " + lnSeparator + "and some text."
        + lnSeparator + "date",
        "test {ignore}, {ignore}, {ignore} and {ignore:{param:'anyparam'}}."
        + lnSeparator + "{unknown_placeholder} " + lnSeparator + "and some text." + lnSeparator
        + "{ignore}");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 5.", 5, tokens.size());
    assertEquals("test_date", tokens.get(0).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_time", tokens.get(1).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_datetime", tokens.get(2).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("locale", tokens.get(3).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("date", tokens.get(4).getActualContent());
  }

  @Test
  public void testParser_MultilinePlaceholderContentSingleVal() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens =
        parser.parse("a" + lnSeparator + "b" + lnSeparator + "c", "{ignore}");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 1.", 1, tokens.size());
    assertEquals("a" + lnSeparator + "b" + lnSeparator + "c",
        tokens.get(0).getActualContent());
  }

  @Test
  public void testParser_MultilinePlaceholderContentManyVal() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens = parser.parse("test test" + lnSeparator
        + "date, test_time, test_datetime and locale." + lnSeparator
        + "{unknown_placeholder} " + lnSeparator + "and some text.",
        "test {ignore}, {ignore}, {ignore} and {ignore:{param:'anyparam'}}." + lnSeparator
        + "{unknown_placeholder} " + lnSeparator + "and some text.");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 4.", 4, tokens.size());
    assertEquals("test" + lnSeparator + "date", tokens.get(0).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_time", tokens.get(1).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("test_datetime", tokens.get(2).getActualContent());
    assertEquals("locale", tokens.get(3).getActualContent());
  }

  @Test
  public void testParser_RegexCurvedBracketsEscaped() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens =
        parser.parse("* ? + [ ( ) { } ^ $ | \\ .", "* ? + [ ( ) \\{ \\} ^ $ | \\ .");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 0.", 0, tokens.size());
  }

  @Test
  public void testParser_RegexCurvedBracketsNotEscaped() throws ParserException {
    List<Placeholder> tokens =
        parser.parse("* ? + [ ( ) { } ^ $ | \\ .", "* ? + [ ( ) { } ^ $ | \\ .");
    assertEquals("Size of parsed array should be 0.", 0, tokens.size());
  }
}

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Red Hot Millions Means Scorching Pockets For Genesee County Man
Written By Julie Walker on September 21, 2021 - Last Updated on September 22, 2021
The 2021 list of million-dollar lottery winners in Michigan just grew by one.
A man from Genesee County rolled a lucky streak into a big win via the Red Hot Millions scratch-off game from the Michigan Lottery.
The winning Red Hot Millions ticket came from a Shell gas station about 20 miles out of Flint in Clio, Mich., netting a $1M prize to the lucky man who spent $10 on the ticket.
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Early numbers were good luck omen
When the million-dollar-prize winner began scratching his winning ticket, two numbers popped up that inspired hope. The 50-year-old, who chose to remain anonymous, explained why to the Michigan Lottery.
"I have been pretty lucky on the Red Hot Millions game, so I've continued playing it," the player said.
"I started scratching the ticket and saw the numbers '09' and '19' in the Hot Numbers section and thought: 'I am going to win big on this ticket,' because those are my lucky numbers."
Big-money news gets winner all worked up
The winner couldn't believe it when he saw the numbers.
"When I revealed a '19' and '$1MIL' symbol, I freaked out!" he said. "My wife was at work, so I started driving to her office, but had to pull over to calm down because I was so worked up."
After visiting the lottery headquarters in Lansing, the Genesee County man chose to take his winnings the way many winners do: in one lump-sum payment of $634,000, rather than 30 years of payments for the full amount.
The player said he had many feelings when he won and that he plans to use the prize money to buy a new home and truck.
"I have so many emotions about winning $1 million, but relief is the biggest one," he said. "We can finally do the things we have been wanting to do."
Odds of a meaty Red Hot Millions win are dwindling
The remaining big-money prizes for the instant game are decreasing. Tickets cost $10 and offer a prize range from $10 to the $1 million.
According to the Michigan Lottery, just one $1 million dollar prize is left and players have just a couple dozen chances to score a $2,000 prize. The next biggest prize is $500, with more than 200 still out there.
Michigan Lottery list of millionaires closing in on 2020 total
The Sept. 9 win for the Genesee County man made him the 41st million-dollar-or-more winner in the state this year. His lucky buy came a week after a Sterling Heights man won $4 million playing Diamond 7s.
A player with good luck bought the first $1M Red Hot Millions prize from a party store in Taylor on June 8.
In 2020, the Lottery reported 48 Michiganders bought winning tickets worth $1 million or more.
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Julie has written, edited and designed words at five Michigan newspapers and websites. She's worked on two sports desks, including at The Oakland Press and most recently at The Detroit News. Julie has contributed to stories on many big sports moments, from the NFL's 100th season to Super Bowls to Justin Verlander's trade to the closing of the Palace of Auburn Hills. Julie loves lakes, bonfires, Dachshunds, coaching Little League and carrying on her Dad's fantasy football legacy that he started in 1987 — before there was an app for that.
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We first started thinking about a personal website a few months ago, with a preliminary version being secretly published online on April 14th. Since then, many things have changed, with an improved layout and many new contents! Of course we are not done yet, with some new features which will be published online soon.
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EFFECTIVELY MANAGING DISCOUNTS IS CRITICAL TO DRIVING CUSTOMER LOYALTY.
Offering discounts is an age-old marketing tactic used to get people interested in and affiliated with a product, in the hopes that they will return as a loyal customer. We see this across all industries—from retail stores to movies and even in the sharing economy, where companies offer free trials or discounts to bring on new users.
But do these same techniques translate to success for the restaurant industry? If so, how can restaurants—particularly independent restaurants—leverage deals to get more people in the door?
Big chain restaurants with expendable cash often and easily take advantage of discount opportunities. For example, Chipotle recently offered free guacamole to anyone who could guess the unnatural ingredients in their food. Another recent example comes from popular sandwich shop Jimmy Johns, which held a promotion for $1 subs in honor of customer appreciation week.
It may seem daunting to an independent restaurant owner to invest in these kinds of deals and promotions, but when done thoughtfully, discounts have great potential to bring in additional revenue and retain customers.
For instance, our team at CAKE recently pulled data from 400 independently owned bars and found that those who offer a happy hour saw 33 percent more transactions than those without. Despite this, only 30 percent of all CAKE-enabled independent restaurants or bars offer any discounts to customers at all, and the average of these discounts totals to just 3 percent of overall revenue.
Discounts do not need to be reactive: Offering treats or deals to first time customers can make them feel welcomed, appreciated, and connected to your establishment.
Create loyalty programs: Loyalty programs are an easy way to engage with customers, build relationships, and reward them for repeated business.
Offer meaningful holiday discounts: Giving moms a free meal for Mother's Day or teachers a discount during Teacher Appreciation Week can be a unique and targeted way to drive traffic to your business for special occasions.
Data from CAKE has shown that holidays bring in a great deal of extra revenue across the board, with Valentine's Day increasing revenue by 67 percent over an average day and Saint Patrick's Day by 23 percent over a comparable day. Capitalizing on holiday promotions can ensure your business enjoys consumer preference.
Take advantage of technology: Platforms like Yelp and Groupon are powerful and accessible ways to promote your discounts and reach a larger base of consumers. Nearly 100 million people use Yelp, and the majority do so to search restaurants.
Social media is also a great channel to share promotions with an audience that is already connected to your restaurant in some way.
Look at the back end: Make sure your discounts are effective by monitoring on the back end of your business. Point of sale and guest management technology can track sales and give you insight into the data you need to create targeted discount programs based on historical customer purchase habits.
Using data, restaurant owners can see their most and least popular items and create unique promotions around what customers are demanding.
Restaurants can also use back-end technology to see when their busiest days and hours are, so they can leverage discounts to get more people in the door during slow times.
Offer gift certificates: While not exactly a discount, gift certificates are a great way to allow your customers to give their friends and family the gift of a free, delicious meal at your restaurant.
Don't overdo it: While discounts can be a great way to get people in the door, it's important to be selective and strategic about what promotions you offer. This is an area where back-end technology can be especially helpful to track and refine your discount strategy.
Running a restaurant is all about offering a great experience and building meaningful relationships with customers, so they feel a connection and want to come back again and again. The most important goal in offering any discount program is to build these relationships with your customers and foster loyalty. While discounts are not the only way to do this, innovative technologies in the restaurant space have made it significantly easier for restaurants to build and maintain discount and loyalty programs that are effective for business.


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Eminem Disses Boris Johnson And We Hear About The Music Collaboration Of The Summer
The THIRD full episode is here, and it features a lot of good stuff. Eminem gives the new British Prime Minister a rap beatdown, there's another bit of great advice from 'Alexa', an opportunity to learn some more street, we go Inside A Man's Head, and we're still really glad Dave has gone. What you waiting for?...
Excitement For The Movie Event Of The Summer, and Inside A Woman's Head
The second FULL episode is here, and it's only gone and become better than the first, innit?!
There's another social media 'Drama!', 'Alexa' gets in on inappropriate coffee drinking and there's a brand new movie coming out, and we have the 'exclusive trailer'!!
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Енн Марі Ріос (;  5 вересня 1981 року, Санта-Кларита, Каліфорнія, США) — американська порноакторка.

Кар'єра

До дебюту в порноіндустрії у віці 19 років закінчила академію у Голлівуді.

У 2003 році підписала контракт з компанією «Metro Interactive», а в 2004 вже випустила свій перший фільм під назвою Babes Illustrated 14. Повернувшись до порноіндустрії в 2005 році, додала до свого імені «Ріос». У липні 2009 року стала президентом компанії «Erotique Entertainment».

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Monstab é um município da Alemanha localizado no distrito de Altenburger Land, estado da Turíngia.  Pertence ao Verwaltungsgemeinschaft de Rositz.

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Apoptygma Berzerk (; commonly abbreviated to APB or APOP) is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synth-pop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apoptygma Berzerk has over 30 releases and won awards and Top 10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia. Apoptygma Berzerk has toured Europe, North America, South America, Israel and Australia with bands such as VNV Nation, Beborn Beton, Icon of Coil and Unheilig.

Formation
The band was formed by Stephan Groth and Jon Erik Martinsen in 1989. One of the songs they wrote together, "Ashes To Ashes" would later be released as a 12-inch single on the Norwegian label Tatra Productions in 1991. Martinsen left the band due to creative differences. The name "Apoptygma Berzerk" has no particular meaning; frontman and founding member Stephan Groth claims that it was randomly picked out of a dictionary (the first word being derived from the Ancient Greek word ἀπόπτυγμα meaning "piece of a tunic").

Influences and style
Groth has cited influences including Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Jean-Michel Jarre and John Carpenter. The first two albums, Soli Deo Gloria and 7, were a similar style of electropop and EBM. Welcome to Earth eschewed the dark themes of 7 for a lighter, less aggressive sound, and included a few experimental tracks. Harmonizer featured a softer, more synthpop-oriented direction when compared to previous albums, and their 2006 album, You and Me Against the World, represented an almost complete change in style for the band. It featured a more mainstream, indie rock-oriented sound, and the complete departure from the band's traditional electric synthpop and EBM roots that started with 7. With the release of latest album, Rocket Science, Apop is still going on the rock vibe while keeping synthpop sounds like its predecessor, YAMATW.

Many albums feature a hidden track that can be accessed by fast forwarding through many minutes of silence on the last album track. For instance, on 7, one can hear a remix of Nonstop Violence after Love Never Dies (Part II).

The band also features cover songs on several of their albums. For example, on the American version of 7 a cover of "Electricity" by OMD is featured; similarly, Welcome to Earth features a cover of Metallica's "Fade to Black".  You and Me Against the World has a cover of "Cambodia"  by Kim Wilde and "Shine On"  by The House Of Love. They have also recorded covers of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence", Suede's "Trash", Keane's "Bend and Break", Kraftwerk's "Ohm Sweet Ohm" and Marilyn Manson's "Coma White". Most recently, they have covered Peter Schilling's Major Tom (Coming Home).

Members

Current members
Stephan Groth (STP a/k/a Grothesk) – vocals, programming, guitar, samples (1989–present)
Ted Skogmann – drums, additional guitar (1999–2002, 2011–present)
Jonas Groth – keyboards, production (2009–present)
Audun Stengel (Angel) – guitar (2002–2009, 2013–present)

Former members
Geir Bratland – keyboards, backing vocals (1995–2009)
Fredrik Brarud – drums (2002–2009)
Brandon Smith – guitar (2009)
Jon Erik Martinsen – keyboards (1989)
Per Aksel Lundgreen – keyboards (1990–1994)
Anders Odden – guitars (1992–1999, 2003–2006)
Fredrik Darum – live guitar (1999–2001)
Thomas Jakobsen – drums (2009–2011)

Live members
 Leandra Ophelia Dax – keyboards (2010–present)

Other collaborators
Vegard Blomberg of View
Pål Magnus Rybom of Echo Image
Claudia Brücken of Propaganda
Benji Madden of Good Charlotte
Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls
Emil Nikolaisen of Serena Maneesh
Håvard Ellefsen of Mortiis
Kurt Ebelhäuser of Blackmail
Anneli Drecker of Bel Canto
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Line-up changes
Per Aksel Lundgreen joined Apoptygma Berzerk in 1990, and remained an active member until 1994.  He has since pursued numerous other musical projects, most recently joining Rossetti's Compass as a permanent member in March 2013.

Anders Odden has been the most reoccurring member of Apop, joining in the live lineup in the early 1990s, and reappearing several times during the next 15 years, both live and in the studio.

Geir Bratland also joined in the first part of the 1990s.

In 1999, Fredrik Darum and Ted Skogman joined the band for the Welcome To Earth album and world tour.

In 2001, Fredrik and Ted were replaced with Fredrik Brarud and Angel. The 2006 release You And Me Against The World and 2009's Rocket Science, are the only albums to feature other persons than main man Stephan as part of the band (Geir Bratland, Angel, Fredrik Brarud and Anders Odden on You And Me Against The World, and without Anders on Rocket Science).

In July 2009 Angel, Geir and Fredrik departed from the Apoptygma Berzerk lineup.

In August 2009, Brandon Smith (frontman from the electronic rock band The Anix) confirmed that he was joining the band on guitar for the US and Canada legs of the upcoming tour. source- www.theanix.com

Brandon wrote on the forum saying, "This is just going to be a test run type of tour, to see how well Apop does in the US, Canada, and South America. I will be playing guitar for them on this tour."

On 3 September 2009, Stephan wrote on the official site:

In 2010, Leandra Ophelia Dax (the only female member of the band thus far) stood in for Jonas during the support tour for German band Unheilig.

In 2011, Thomas Jakobsen was replaced by Ted Skogman, and Angel came back, replacing Brandon (though Brandon has appeared live a few times after this, e.g. in Mexico City 2014).

Discography

Studio albums
 Soli Deo Gloria (1993)
 7 (1996)
 Welcome to Earth (2000)
 Harmonizer (2002)
 You and Me Against the World (2005)
 Rocket Science (2009)
 Exit Popularity Contest (2016)
 SDGXXV (2019)

References

External links

 Apoptygma Berzerk Metropolis Records

  Interview with Stephan Groth of Apoptygma Berzerk on NXLive.co.uk
  Italian Fanbase of Apoptygma Berzerk on Facebook.com

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Josef Haslinger (* 2. August 1889 in Reinprechtspölla; † 7. Jänner 1974) war ein österreichischer Politiker (ÖVP) und Landwirt. Haslinger war von 1948 bis 1949 Abgeordneter zum Landtag von Niederösterreich.

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Now you're cooking with electricity!
By Connie Holland, August 24, 2017
Before Alton Brown, Rachael Ray, and Giada De Laurentiis, there was Louisan Mamer (1910–2005). An early employee of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Mamer traveled around the country teaching farmwomen how to use electricity in their daily lives. Demonstrating how to cook with electricity was a major part of Mamer's job and she developed many recipes during the course of her career.
Born in rural southern Illinois, Mamer grew up on a farm without electricity and running water. Her background resonated with the communities she later interacted with because she was not an outsider; she was one of them. She attended the University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, and received a BA in Home Economics in 1931. Her rigorous training included chemistry classes and laboratory experiments that taught her how cooking changes food. Writing experience with her college newspaper and her rural background helped her land a job with the REA in 1935.
The Rural Electrification Administration was part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Its goal was to bring power and electricity to rural areas, most of which were not served by private utilities. Besides lighting homes and schools, using electrical machines would improve productivity for farmers and make farm life more comfortable. The REA was not a government grant program or a handout. Instead, it made low-interest loans available to locally organized electrical cooperatives. Communities worked together to form a cooperative, applied for an REA loan, and helped build the electrical system they then owned. The REA touched many lives around the country—including those in Charles County, Maryland, where I live. SMECO, the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, is one of many such organizations.
Based in Washington, D.C., Mamer worked in a wide variety of roles at REA until her retirement in 1981. Among her assignments, she drafted recipes for electrical cooking, wrote and reviewed REA publications, and gave conference lectures. On the occasion of her retirement, coworkers referred to her as the "First Lady of the REA."
From 1937 to 1941, Mamer took part in an REA program that traveled to rural communities in many regions of the country. Inside large circus tents, the local residents were treated to electrical demonstrations that included cooking, among other activities. In a program organized along gender lines, men learned about electrical equipment used in fields and barns, such as milking machines, while women learned about household uses of electricity. If the program succeeded, people had a good time and might then decide to organize a cooperative. As America prepared for war through 1941, REA officials transformed the electric circus into the Electro-Economy Tour and Mamer continued her educational efforts. Their aim was to "increase farm production electrically" as part of the war preparations. Ultimately, the REA tours were discontinued one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war. After the war, Mamer resumed touring with a revised REA program.
One of Mamer's main tasks as a Home Electrification Specialist was to demonstrate electric appliances, especially those for cooking such as ovens, refrigerators, hot plates, and waffle irons. Now that your house had electricity, what could you do with it? Since most communities used familiar coal or wood for cooking and heating, Mamer and her colleagues taught their audiences how to get the most out of their new electrical appliances. While her audience was mostly women, on the last day of the show two local men did get involved as part of a "cooking duel" which for Mamer "was a highlight of the whole program."
Mamer's role often involved being a friendly face on stage, but she had done real research and was an experienced writer. In college, she had planned to be a writer but needed "something to write about" and so studied home economics which "satisfied her craving" for writing. Her work for the Daily Illini and the Illinois Agriculturist made her an effective spokesperson for the REA. Major responsibilities in her job included editing and reviewing official publications, especially for cultural content, and teaching classes. She also wrote technical articles and recipes used when touring with the electric circus. In 2003 Mamer donated a variety of objects and a large collection of her papers to the museum. Besides the items pictured, an electric stand mixer she used is on display in our American Enterprise exhibition. In subsequent years her family donated additional objects, including the deep-well cooker pictured here.
Louisan Mamer showed many people that there is more to cooking than tossing ingredients together. In college she learned the real science, which she later used in demonstrations that helped people live better lives. That was her goal in joining the REA in the first place. As with famous televised cooks and chefs today, Louisan Mamer was an early proponent of teaching cooking to everyday people—she just met them under the bigtop instead of in the living room.
Connie Holland is a project assistant in the Office of Curatorial Affairs. A love of cooking and baking fed her curiosity to produce this blog.
The Louisan E. Mamer Rural Electrification Administration Papers are located in the museum's Archives Center.
Mamer's birthday is August 28, 1910. Celebrate by cooking something (with electricity)!
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Too many photos ot the tops of caps here… need more, at least there is one photo of gills and stipe from one here. The gills kinda look like Pholiota, there is some fibrous veil on the stipe there, and this looks kinda black, this might be from spores, so it might also be Hypholoma. Was this one wood? Any other info about it?


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Starting Pitching Key: Ubaldo Jimenez
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It can be seen as the Indians didn't give up much of anything for a former All-Star and third place finisher in the Cy Young Award voting, but now that they're looking to contend, they need the Jimenez from 2010 or, at worst, 2009. He's been awful from 2011 onward with an attitude to match and his ERA has risen by over 3 ½ runs since the end of June 2010 while his velocity has declined by 4-5 mph. Nobody's expecting him to keep up an ERA under two, but over five? 92-94 is plenty enough fastball to be effective. He has a club option for 2014 at $8 million that he can void himself since he was traded mid-contract. If he's as bad as he was over the past two seasons, the Indians will trade him at mid-season or sever ties after the season.
Relief Pitching Key: Chris Perez
Perez's complaints about the Indians fans not caring and the front office not spending any money were assuaged this past winter, but he has to hold his end of the bargain up by getting the job done in the ninth inning. The Indians are better than they were, but they're not good enough to afford blowing games in the late innings. To make matters more precarious, Perez's status for opening day is in question because of a shoulder strain. He could also be traded if the Indians are underperforming and Vinnie Pestano indicates he can handle the job.
Offensive Key: Carlos Santana
For all the talk of Santana being an offensive force and the Dodgers making a huge mistake by trading him to get Casey Blake, he's been something of a disappointment. Santana's productive, but not the unstoppable masher he was supposed to be. If he's able to be a competent defensive catcher then his current offensive numbers are fine; if he has to be shifted to first base, he's a guy you can find on the market.
Defensive Key: Santana
Whether or not the Indians have the depth to contend is not known yet. I don't think they do. Regardless with the new manager and the money they've spent, they have to be competent and that hinges on the pitching. The starting rotation behind Justin Masterson and Brett Myers are temperamental (Jimenez); young, difficult and have already yapped their way out of one venue (Trevor Bauer); and are scrapheap reclamation projects (Daisuke Matsuzaka and Scott Kazmir). Manager Terry Francona might look at Santana's defense and realize he can't win with him behind the plate. Santana at first base would make everyone else move to a different position and force a far weaker offensive catcher into the lineup in Santana's place.
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Meet The Mess Or A Mess To An End?
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There's no spinning an eight run first inning, a 16-1 loss, and rampant humiliation the type the Phillies have inflicted on the Mets over the last three games. Only the Mets could let a Phillies team that's dealing with an embarrassing season of their own do this. The Phillies, with a too little-too late comeback, have made their disappointing season a bit more bearable. But it's still disappointing. That aside, they walked into Citi Field and backhanded the Mets and the Mets took it. Again. No doubt the Phillies were laughing on the bus back to Philly and they had reason to. It can be glossed over through the prism of payroll and preseason expectations or lack thereof, but the Mets participating in the Phillies downfall earlier this season by beating up on them is rendered meaningless by the past three games.
Suggestions that the Mets have quit are inarguable. It's not about talent anymore, it's about incompetence. A big league team cannot allow another big league team—regardless of disparity in talent and money—to treat them like a punching bag and leave them lying in the dirt shrugging as if it's accepted that this is the way things are and will remain. The Mets could've hit the Phillies back for once and ended their playoff hopes. Instead, they gave them a lifeline. Behind the Cardinals by 4 with 12 to play and having to leapfrog both the Dodgers and Brewers make a Phillies playoff appearance all but impossible, but it could've ended this week and the Mets could've been the ones to do the deed. Instead, they chose to lay down.
Are the Mets this bad? No. Were they as good as they looked in the first half of the season when they were one of baseball's most pleasant surprises and talked of buying at the deadline rather than selling (and did neither)? No. But there's no escaping the 9 straight home losses and 14 of 16 since August 19th. Comparisons to the 1962 version of the Mets are based on nothing other than attempts at ridicule and pure numbers—there's no comparison between the situations, but that it's mentioned in this context is bad enough.
No one wants to hear the likes of Michael Kay saying, "I told you so," when he had the team winning 50 games before the season. He didn't tell anyone anything. The end result doesn't prove the prediction accurate. Nor does anyone want to hear Mike Francesa, who earlier in the season repeatedly stated that Mets' manager Terry Collins deserved a contract extension and is now speculating on the same manager's job security. The beat writers have taken to Twitter and other outlets with their passive aggression and self-indulgent agendas.
It's all meaningless.
But this has to be examined logically. Does it make a difference whether the Mets won 81 games? 77 games? Or 70 games? No. The front office is presumably angry about the perception of disinterest on the roster; that the stands are completely and deservedly empty; but in the big picture, they'll take the higher draft pick and get a better player.
What can they do to fix this to avoid the same fate a year from now and have the Mets a more welcoming and inviting destination for prospective free agents as they have money to spend with the expiring contracts of Johan Santana and Jason Bay at the conclusion of 2013?
Collins isn't going to be fired. There are increasing pushes for Wally Backman to take over as manager because he's a feisty and aggressive, in-your-face type that won't tolerate the mistakes that are being tolerated now. Backman will be on the coaching staff in 2013 as the bench coach in part to be feisty; in part to provide a link to the 1980s; in part to prepare as a possible heir apparent to Collins. The only coaches on this current staff that will return are Tim Teufel (he's popular with the Wilpons); and Dave Hudgens (GM Sandy Alderson likes the way he teaches hitting). Apart from that, they're all gone.
As for the players, the Mets have to get some fighter types who aren't going to meekly accept the bullying of other clubs. This current group is too cerebral and passive. No one hits back. How about some mindless tough guys who don't take garbage from other teams?
Jonny Gomes and Kyle Farnsworth are two of the types of players the Mets should consider adding. It's not because they're supremely talented or are drastic improvements over what they currently have. We don't know what Farnsworth will do on the field one year to the next—he's no worse than what they currently have—but he's known throughout baseball as someone not to mess with. Gomes has pop off the bench and walks, but more importantly is always ready to drop the gloves and it was him who sent the message to the Yankees and the rest of baseball in 2008 with a spring training brawl that they weren't going to shove the Rays' collective heads into the toilet anymore.
Even if it's a lateral move talent-wise, the Mets have to get some of the faces that have epitomized their fall over the past 5 years. By that I mean trading Bay for something, anything and eating money if they have to. Chone Figgins and Franklin Gutierrez for Bay and $5 million would match up financially and the change-of-scenery might benefit the players, the Mariners, and the Mets. Shin-Soo Choo is going to be available and so will Chris Perez from the Indians. Maybe two bad teams could come to an agreement for a Bobby Parnell, Lucas Duda deal.
The notion of trading Ike Davis was floated recently. The source was in question and the Mets, as usual, were blamed for spreading the rumor that Davis doesn't listen and parties too much. The truth is that the source in Adam Rubin's piece was referred to as a "baseball source." No one from the Mets was said to be that source other than via uninformed speculation. That doesn't diminish the logic behind the idea. If the Mets can bring in an impact bat at a key position like Justin Upton as part of that deal or in a three-way trade, they have to explore it. I'd try to get Upton or see if the Rangers would want to be creative with Ian Kinsler. That would free the Mets to revisit the proposed trade by the Padres in which Daniel Murphy would've gone to San Diego for Luke Gregerson and perhaps ask for the speedy and versatile Everth Cabrera.
Many good things have happened to the Mets in 2012 in spite of the ludicrous conclusion to the season, but they can't move forward with the roster and coaching staff in its current state. It comes back to the original question of whether this is a mess with an end or a simple mess.
Right now, it's a combination of both. Behind the scenes and without fanfare, the farm system is being rebuilt well with plenty of young talent infusing the organization. Some, like Matt Harvey, are beginning their big league careers, and Zack Wheeler is on the way; but changes—cosmetic and practical—have to be made if only to put forth the perception of doing something. Anyone would've accepted the Mets being outgunned. It was expected. But players who should be happy to have a job can't been seen as giving up. And that's what's happened. Keeping those players who've either quit or can't play—Andres Torres, Josh Thole, Bay—won't help, but dumping them certainly will if only for the sake of appearance.
Appearance is currently all they have left and, right now, it's not particularly attractive. In fact, it's downright ugly.
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American League Central—2012 Present and 2013 Future
I recently looked at the AL East, how they're faring now and their prospects for the future. Now let's look at the AL Central.
There are few baseball executives for whom their statements should be taken at face value, but White Sox GM Ken Williams is one. Because of that, when he says he misspoke about blowing the whole thing up at the conclusion of the 2011 season, then didn't blow the whole thing up and instead made moves to try and win while getting younger and more flexible, I believe him.
The White Sox success can be chalked up to: manager Robin Ventura's calm demeanor in stark contrast to the raving lunacy of Ozzie Guillen; Jake Peavy coming back from injury and pitching like a top tier starter; Chris Sale's development as a starting pitcher; Adam Dunn's and Alex Rios's comebacks; and the parity around the American League.
Ventura and Mike Matheny have become a regular "example" that managers don't need to have managerial experience to be successful. Of course it's nonsense and taken greatly out of context. Ventura's done a good job and his cachet as a former All Star player and popular person in Chicago has helped him greatly, but anyone other than Guillen would've been taken as a welcome respite from the daily haranguing and controversy that surrounded the former manager's big mouth and followed him—with disastrous results—to Miami.
As long as Williams is the GM, the White Sox have a chance to be competitive because he has no patience for long rebuilds and makes aggressive maneuvers accordingly.
The Tigers have been inconsistent in every facet. Their defense, while not being as bad as predicted, still isn't good; the offense is 7th in the AL in runs scored despite having two MVP candidates Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera, plus Austin Jackson having a fantastic year; the bullpen has been shaky; and Justin Verlander has been excellent and is still a Cy Young Award candidate, but has taken enough of a step back from his CYA/MVP of 2011 back to humanity to account for the Tigers fighting for a playoff spot.
There's been talk that manager Jim Leyland, in the final year of his contract, could be in trouble if the Tigers don't make the playoffs. It's silly. Leyland can still handle the egos in that clubhouse and the very last thing the Tigers need to do and, tying in with the concept of a manager with zero experience, is to hire someone young just to make a change.
The Tigers dealt away several prospects including Jacob Turner to get Omar Infante and Anibal Sanchez, but they've held onto Avisail Garcia and Nick Castellanos. The farm system is not barren and as long as they have Fielder, Cabrera, and Verlander, they'll be competitive. Changing managers for the sake of it makes zero sense.
It's ludicrous how those who felt the Royals were going to parlay their loaded farm system into a leap to legitimate contention jump off the train as soon as a rebuild doesn't adhere to the "plan". Young players sometimes hit speedbumps on the way up. Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas are still two players around whom to build; Alex Gordon is a solid presence at the plate and in the field; Billy Butler is emerging as an unknown star; and Salvador Perez and several young pitchers got hurt.
The talent is still there. As long as they don't panic, there's no reason they can't contend in 2013.
They do need to show improvement for manager Ned Yost to keep his job past next May/June; and GM Dayton Moore will probably get one more managerial hire if Yost has to be replaced, then the onus will be on him.
2012 went completely wrong with 2013 not looking much better. They got off to a good start and were hovering around contention through mid-season until they collapsed completely and, since being 50-50 on July 27th, have gone 10-36. Manny Acta has a contract for next season, but since the Indians don't have much money to spend and are openly ready to listen to offers for one of their few marketable players Shin-Soo Choo, there's no point in sending Acta back out there as a lame duck when they have a managerial prospect in the popular former Indians' hero Sandy Alomar Jr. on the coaching staff.
Closer Chris Perez ripped the organization from top to bottom recently and will presumably be shipped out of town for his candor. Considering that Perez is a slightly better-than-average closer, it's not his place to be opening his mouth. The Indians are short on foundational talent. Asdrubal Cabrera is a very good player; Carlos Santana doesn't appear to be an everyday catcher and his skills are less impressive as a first baseman; and their supposed top two starters, Ubaldo Jimenez and Justin Masterson, haven't pitched well.
The Indians have a long road ahead of them and may have to restart their rebuild.
The Twins were competitive for a decade after a decade of being so terrible that they were a target of contraction. Now instead of being a target, they built Target Field and spent money to try and win in 2010. To that end, they traded away a top prospect Wilson Ramos for a mediocre reliever Matt Capps; they signed Tsuyoshi Nishioka and repeated the Mets' mistake with Kazuo Matsui, except Nishioka isn't as talented as Matsui was; and they brought back their old GM Terry Ryan who still hasn't had the interim label taken from his title.
Ownership has said that they want Ryan to take the job on a permanent basis. We'll see. If Ryan isn't fully committed or ownership wants to go in a new direction with an outsider, manager Ron Gardenhire could be in trouble as well.
Offensively, they've rebounded from an injury-plagued 2011 with Joe Mauer back to being Joe Mauer; a tremendous year from Josh Willingham; and Justin Morneau finally returning to form after his concussion problems.
They're still severely short in the pitching department and are running into identical issues as the Mets did when they moved into their new park after contending for several years and building a canyon instead of a ballpark. The Mets moved the fences in and started a full-blown rebuild. The Twins have yet to do that, but they're going to have to infuse the organization with more talent to get back to competitiveness.
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The Objective Truth About Luhnow
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Simultaneously searching for a greater understanding through objective analysis, the stat people have taken to using subjectivity to bolster the resumes of the like-minded whether it's accurate or not.
In this NY Times article by Tyler Kepner, the new Astros GM Jeff Luhnow has his work glossed over in such a way to bypass how he got into the game; the issues that surrounded him with the Cardinals; and that he's doled credit without full details nor the assignation of blame.
Luhnow was hired by the Cardinals in the heady days following the publication of Moneyball—before the story was proven to be a skillfully written fabrication. The specific purpose of the book was to prop up the supposed "genius" of Billy Beane and designed to document the antiquated nature of those who hadn't been educated at an Ivy League school, didn't use numbers as the end-all of existence and trusted their in-the-trenches experience and their eyes to assess players.
Immediately Luhnow became seen as a threat to veteran GM Walt Jocketty and manager Tony LaRussa. He had the ear of owner Bill DeWitt and the organization set about altering the draft strategy. In addition to that, the organizational pitching philosophy, which had been designed by pitching coach Dave Duncan, was scrapped much to the chagrin of Duncan, LaRussa and Jocketty.
The front office had broken into factions with the old-schoolers battling the new age thinkers who, like Luhnow, were imported from other industries and whose presence was viewed as interloping on what they'd always done; what had been successful.
Kepner is sort of accurate (albeit with the count slightly off) when, in describing Luhnow's first three drafts, he writes:
"In those same years, St. Louis drafted 24 future major leaguers, the most of any team.
But is it spiritually accurate?
The list of big league players that Luhnow drafted from 2005-2007 are as follows:
2005: Colby Rasmus; Tyler Greene; Bryan Anderson; Mitchell Boggs; Nick Stavinoha; Daniel McCutchen; Ryan Rohlinger (did not sign); and Jaime Garcia.
2006: Adam Ottavino; Chris Perez; Jon Jay; Mark Hamilton; Shane Robinson; Allen Craig; P.J. Walters; David Carpenter; and Luke Gregerson.
2007: Pete Kozma; Clayton Mortensen; Jess Todd; Daniel Descalso; Michael Stutes (didn't sign); Steven Hill; Andrew Brown; Brian Broderick; Tony Cruz; and Adron Chambers.
Apart from Garcia, is there one player that jumps out so you can say, "Wow, what a great pick that was!"?
The drafts were pedestrian. Because 24 of the players drafted in those three years made it to the majors, it doesn't imply "success".
A player simply making it to the big leagues is contingent on a myriad of factors—some of those for Luhnow are that the players were traded away for veteran help; such veteran help generally only comes from a team that is in need of young talent because they don't have the money to keep the veteran players they're dealing away, so they'll be more open to giving prospects a chance in the big leagues.
Just as wins and losses have become a borderline irrelevant barometer in determining how well or poorly a pitcher has pitched in a given season, the number of big leaguers produced in a draft is rendered meaningless as well.
There's little-to-no correlation between a draft being judged as "good" and the players making it to the majors for a token appearance.
Succeeding Jocketty, Mozeliak was placed in a position where he had to assuage his cantankerous veteran manager LaRussa (sometimes "yes-ing" him to death to keep him quiet) while fulfilling the mandate of ownership that became clear when they hired Luhnow in the first place.
This was a subtle and underappreciated accomplishment by Mozeliak.
Were the late round players who made it to the big leagues—some of which became star-caliber like Garcia—the result of change in philosophy spurred by Luhnow's presence? Or was it typical luck that has to be present as it was when Jocketty's operation picked Albert Pujols in the 13th round of the 1999 draft?
The trades that Kepner brings up came as a result of LaRussa's sharp-elbowed infighting to get what he wanted due to his stature and accumulated credibility from years of winning his way. They had nothing to do with Luhnow in a concrete sense.
The perception of a star player like Matt Holliday being available via trade is connected to his contract status; he was not re-signing with the Athletics and the 2009 A's were playing poorly, so they traded him for some players that had been drafted under Luhnow.
One thing doesn't justify the other.
Luhnow is in a less contentious position with the Astros than he was when he entered baseball as an outsider in 2003. With a new owner; a barren farm system; and essentially an expansion roster, he's free to do whatever he wants from top-to-bottom and hire people who are of similar mind and will implement what he believes.
But it's got nothing to do with what he did as a Cardinals executive because his contribution was secondary to having a Hall of Fame manager and a GM who was adept at placating those with differing philosophies that were trying to push him in one direction or another.
If anyone deserves the credit for the Cardinals ability to navigate these issues and still win, it's Mozeliak.
Will Luhnow be a Paul DePodesta? Someone with the knowledge of numbers and solid resume but was unable to deal with the ancillary aspects of the big job? Or will he be a Jon Daniels? One who overcame a rocky start and muddled ownership/managerial situation, but has become one of the best, if not the best GM in baseball?
We won't know until we know.
Luhnow's getting his chance now. He's the boss of the Astros. For better. Or worse.
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