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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13: Fame and Strategy Expansion
Cerebral Chinese warfare, now expanded and ready to eat up even more of your precious free time.
Written by: Cory Galliher | May 4, 2017
Publisher: KOEI TECMO
ESRB Rating: E10+
For all the complaining we see about franchises overstaying their welcome, people generally seem pretty cool with the Musou and Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. These ancient Chinese beat/strategy mash-ups continue to provide what is ostensibly the same experience time and time again, but at this point everyone seems to be a little more accepting of the whole thing than something like Call of Duty. Far be it from me to try and understand the thought process of the gaming public, of course – I'm one of those jackasses who liked Mass Effect: Andromeda, after all.
In any case, we've got another content-packed iteration of Romance of the Three Kingdoms here to check out with Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13: Fame and Strategy Expansion pack.
As always, RottK is all about conquering ancient China as the leader of one of several factions. You've got a series of scenarios to complete that take you through various conflicts throughout Chinese history; many of these are likely to be familiar to Dynasty Warriors fans, like the Yellow Turban rebellion. Rather than smashing dudes by the thousands, though, here your victories will stem from successful strategy, resource management and even diplomacy. 13's most unique feature might be the ability to do all this as a character of your own design; it's some of the best self-insert Chinese history fanfiction I've seen, and believe me, that's a genre I spend a whole lot of time with.
There's no review long enough to go into every aspect of how RottK13 works; there's a massive amount going on at all times. You have to manage your cities, keep your allies happy by assisting them in both a military and civil sense, placate your officers where need be, recruit soldiers and move them about…it really just never ends. You can go as deep into this one as you want. Successful play, of course, revolves around doing just that. I was rarely all that successful, but hey, effort counts, right?
We're focusing on the new Fame and Strategy expansion here, though. The name pretty much says it all; the new Fame system allows your officers to gain accolades called Prestige Titles for various achievements, It's essentially a skill tree system added over top of RottK13's already-convoluted mechanics. More depth added to a game that's all about depth is always good, and Prestige Titles are powerful enough that it's worthwhile to focus on them rather than just ignoring the concept entirely. Combat, meanwhile, has seen various enhancements, including Tactics that behave like special abilities placed onto the battlefield before combat, Strongholds that provide buffs to nearby troops and the War Council where Tactics are discussed and upcoming battles are planned out.
The core of RottK13 remains intact, though, and that's hardcore wargamer strategizing of the sort that's not going to appeal to everyone. I'd certainly rather be on the battlefield unleashing Musou Attacks and eating pork buns. The seemingly endless litany of diplomacy, city management, army maneuvers, Prestige management and so on can grind you down if you aren't prepared to devote some serious time to studying up on what makes the game tick. At least it's a relatively pretty game, not to mention fairly easy to control (even on consoles like Xbox One if that's your poison).
At the same time, the appeal is obvious; good planning and careful maneuvering can win battles just as effectively as a fully-leveled spear, after all. This is ancient Chinese warfare on a grand scale; it's a game that rewards patient, studious players. If you'd rather think than mash buttons…and, well, if you're willing to put in a LOT of time reading…you ought to give this one a shot. As for those who've already battled through the original RottK13, there's no question this Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13: Fame and Strategy Expansion will appeal since they survived the difficult learning stages of that game. At $35, it's certainly not cheap, so if you're not sure you'll definitely want to check out the original game first.
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Cracked LCD- Too Much Ogre
December 19, 2013 September 2, 2022 Michael Barnes Featured, Reviews, Tabletop
Last week I took delivery on a copy of the Ogre Designer's Edition, the 28 pound monstrosity that Steve Jackson crowdfunded through Kickstarter to the tune of almost a million bucks. No, don't be silly. Of course I didn't back it. I bought a copy through a retailer for a cool $65. I'll take a savings of $35 over a couple of extra counter sheets, not to mention retaining my anti-Kickstarter party line regardless of the fact that this was one of the better justified and better run campaigns that I've seen. Ogre is one of the all-time great games, one of the seminal titles in the hobby spectrum, and after being out of print for years I should be thrilled to pieces to have this massive, supposedly "ultimate" edition of the game.
But I'm not.
I feel like I had a 28 pound fruitcake dropped on my porch. Can't really sell or trade it because it's so big and heavy, and that means mail is going to be too expensive. Don't really have anywhere to put it because it's the size of an end table. I've seen all the oohs and aahs online as people react to the size and component density of the game, but I can't help but feel 28 pounds of disappointed with it. I'd be happier with my old VHS box edition with all of the expansions, but I've somehow lost it. I had promised it to one of my online buddies who was shrugging off the unnecessary bulk of this new edition. I think he was right about it.
Sure, the cardboard clip-together models of the Ogres are really cool and so are the 3D buildings. But do I really need so many of them? I've been playing Ogre since I was a kid and I don't think I've ever played a game where we've fielded six Mark IIIs. The big counters and large, mounted maps are definitely an improvement from the old cut-out chits and flimsy paper maps, that's for sure. But what's the point of having extra sheets of mercenary units that- again- I'll likely never use. The maps are awesome, but I've never really cared anything about terrain overlays. But here I am with sheet after sheet of them. One of the greatest things about Ogre in the past was how simple, tight, and contained it all was, even with all of the expansions. This sixth edition set makes it all seem sprawling, excessive and cumbersome. It's almost enough to trick you into thinking that Ogre is a lifestyle game.
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The larger size of everything makes it easier to play with a group than the classic editions and really kind of puts it more into line with the Ogre Miniatures game. I appreciate that, and already my group is eager to get a multiplayer game going over the holidays. That's something we could never do reasonably with my tiny set from the late 1990s But I can barely fit this damn thing through the door to where I store my games and I had to clear a shelf for it. It's just massive, and it's one of those things that seems like it's always in the way.
It's really kind of silly to complain about the component quality and product design given that it's only $100 retail (and Jackson claims that it would normally cost $300 under standard development, production and distribution processes), but I'm pretty disappointed that the game looks nowhere near as distinctive as it has in the past, particularly with the original retro-future counters. It looks and feels about like a Steve Jackson game from the mid 1990s- just blown up to massive size. Some of the art and design looks straight out of that era. I'd rather the whole thing look either out of 1977 or 2013 than 1995.
But oh, you can buy a $25 set of day one DLC "classic counters" along with a number of exclusive counter sheets made available to backers who pledged into the thousands of dollars. One of them, if you're a completist, is going to be a pain in the ass to get because it was only available through ACD Distribution. That means that if you bought a retail copy from a seller that uses Alliance, Blackhawk, or another distributor then your copy doesn't have them. It's like retailer-exclusive content in the video game world.
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But here I am complaining about not having extra counters and units in a game that already really has too many. It's strange to feel this way about a game, but there's just too much Ogre. Yet there are scenarios and content from the Ogre Book, Scenario Book, and other expansions that aren't in the box. There is no historical content- I'd have loved to have had a booklet showing the different versions of the game, some history, and maybe some of the classic articles or fiction written about it. Nope. All of that is available elsewhere, but this was a chance for this to be all of Ogre in one box and I feel like that was kind of missed.
Regardless of the lack of documentation, the new rulebook is great. It condenses the main material that was previously available in different places into one booklet. Even better is the free IOS/Android game aid app that the Kickstarter campaign also helped finance. It's outstanding, putting all of your Ogre record sheets on the phone and calculating odds for you. It makes the game easier to play overall- even if you're just using an older set.
I don't doubt that Steve Jackson's heart was totally into this and it is very clearly both a labor of love and a reciprocal appreciation of Ogre shared by both the people that backed it and the designer. One thing's for sure, you can't complain about the game itslef. It is still, in my opinion, one of the starkest and most simply effective wargames ever made. The original Ogre scenario is grim and ruthless, with infantry being ground into dust under the treads of a monolithic cybertank. The GEV part of the game brings in more diverse terrain and slightly more detailed rules that make it one of the most fun ground war games ever made.
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Maybe I'm just being extra Scrooge-like this holiday season. Maybe I'm the Ogre Grinch, complaining about what is, regardless of my bitching, likely the most complete and highest quality version of the game to date. When I'm playing the game and the box is out of sight (meaning that it's out in the garage), all of this doesn't' matter. Because it's still Ogre/GEV, and therefore it's one of my all-time favorite games. But did it have to be so damn big? I guess when it comes down to it, I have tremendously mixed feelings about the new furniture in the house.
The punchline to the "size matters" sixth edition of Ogre is that the Kickstarter campaign also guaranteed another Ogre release. A reprint of the original 1977 edition- the one with the awesome Winchell Chung artwork and classic styling that is nowhere to be seen in the Designer's Edition- is due in the summer of next year. It will retail for $2.95, the prices that was on the original Microgames edition of the game.
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Games writer Michael Barnes is a co-founder of Nohighscores.com as well as FortressAT.com. His trolling has been published on the Web and in print in at least two languages and in three countries. His special ability is to cheese off nerds using the power of the Internet and his deep, dark secret is that he's actually terrible at games. Before you ask, no, the avatar is not him. It's Mark E. Smith of The Fall.
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ccTheToph says:
I'll be honest… I like having it, but more as a work of art than as a game.
OGRE Deluxe Edition is a prestige game, like those odd duck solid gold or black onyx chess sets, pieces of sandalwood Go furniture or custom Crokinole tables — only cheaper, ya know, for us regular folks.
I treat it like a coffee table book. I may flip through it here and there (i.e. play a few games), but mostly I just like seeing it on the top of my shelf.
Even in my collection of a thousand games, it stands out. That's saying something.
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package com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.Druid;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.collections.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Areas.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Behaviors.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.CharClasses.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Commands.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Common.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Exits.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Items.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Libraries.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Locales.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.MOBS.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.interfaces.*;

import java.util.*;

public class Chant_SummonChum extends Chant
{
	@Override
	public String ID()
	{
		return "Chant_SummonChum";
	}

	private final static String	localizedName	= CMLib.lang().L("Summon Chum");

	@Override
	public String name()
	{
		return localizedName;
	}

	@Override
	public int abstractQuality()
	{
		return Ability.QUALITY_INDIFFERENT;
	}

	@Override
	protected int canAffectCode()
	{
		return 0;
	}

	@Override
	protected int canTargetCode()
	{
		return 0;
	}

	@Override
	public int classificationCode()
	{
		return Ability.ACODE_CHANT | Ability.DOMAIN_WATERLORE;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean invoke(final MOB mob, final List<String> commands, final Physical givenTarget, final boolean auto, final int asLevel)
	{
		if((!auto)&&(!CMLib.flags().isWateryRoom(mob.location())))
		{
			mob.tell(L("This magic will not work here."));
			return false;
		}

		if(!super.invoke(mob,commands,givenTarget,auto,asLevel))
			return false;

		// now see if it worked
		final boolean success=proficiencyCheck(mob,0,auto);
		if(success)
		{
			final CMMsg msg=CMClass.getMsg(mob,null,this,verbalCastCode(mob,null,auto),auto?"":L("^S<S-NAME> chant(s) to the waters.^?"));
			if(mob.location().okMessage(mob,msg))
			{
				mob.location().send(mob,msg);
				Food newItem=null;
				final int fishType=RawMaterial.CODES.FISHES()[CMLib.dice().roll(1,RawMaterial.CODES.FISHES().length,-1)];
				for(int i=0;i<((adjustedLevel(mob,asLevel)/4)+1);i++)
				{
					newItem=(Food)CMClass.getBasicItem("GenFoodResource");
					newItem.setName(L("some @x1 bits",RawMaterial.CODES.NAME(fishType).toLowerCase()));
					newItem.setDisplayText(L("@x1 are here.",CMStrings.capitalizeAndLower(newItem.name())));
					newItem.setDescription(L("It looks delicious!"));
					newItem.setMaterial(fishType);
					newItem.setNourishment(150+(10*super.getX1Level(mob)));
					newItem.setBaseValue(1);
					CMLib.materials().addEffectsToResource(newItem);
					newItem.setMiscText(newItem.text());
					mob.location().addItem(newItem,ItemPossessor.Expire.Resource);
				}
				if(newItem!=null)
					mob.location().showHappens(CMMsg.MSG_OK_ACTION,L("@x1 start floating around here.",CMStrings.capitalizeAndLower(newItem.name())));
				mob.location().recoverPhyStats();
			}
		}
		else
			return beneficialWordsFizzle(mob,null,L("<S-NAME> chant(s) to the waters, but nothing happens."));

		// return whether it worked
		return success;
	}
}

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Build a pumpkin 2 stencil. Pumpkin is 1.75" x 1.75". Faces are all approximately 1". Later the faces over the pumpkin, or use the faces alone on smaller pumpkin shaped cookies or cupcake toppers. The faces will also fit inside any of our monogram stencils. PINK sections in image are the open sections. Stencils are 5mil Food Grade plastic, washable and reusable.


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February 1, 2022 February 17, 2022 Peter Masters
Australia's First Campaign: The Capture of German New Guinea, 1914
January 28, 2022 January 25, 2022 Peter Masters
The Battle for Shaggy Ridge: An extraordinary struggle
December 16, 2021 December 7, 2021 Peter Masters
Operation Pedestal: New book from Max Hastings
Platoon Commander: A national serviceman from Tamworth
December 9, 2021 December 7, 2021 Peter Masters
New book on Australia's role at Passchendaele
December 7, 2021 Peter Masters
Malice Aforethought: The History of Booby Traps
November 1, 2021 October 22, 2021 Peter Masters
Quiet Courage: Forgotten Heroes of World War Two
October 21, 2021 Peter Masters
The Battle of Passchendaele: No 28 in the Australian Army Campaign Series
October 19, 2021 October 14, 2021 Peter Masters
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
Australian POWs: The untold stories of WWI (updated edition of 'Crossing the Wire')


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Пізнє Середньовіччя  Відродження   Реконкіста Ганза  Столітня війна      Ацтецький потрійний союз    Імперія інків

Геополітична ситуація

Османську державу очолює Мурад II (до 1444). Імператором Візантії є Іоанн VIII Палеолог (до 1448), королем Німеччини — Фрідріх III. У Франції королює Карл VII Звитяжний (до 1461).

Апеннінський півострів розділений: північ належить Священній Римській імперії,  середню частину займає Папська область,  південь належить Неаполітанському королівству. Деякі міста півночі: Венеція,  Флоренція, Генуя тощо, мають статус міст-республік.

Майже весь Піренейський півострів займають християнські Кастилія і Леон, де править Хуан II (до 1454), Арагонське королівство на чолі з Альфонсо V Великодушним (до 1458)  та Португалія, де королює Афонсо V (до 1481). Під владою маврів залишилися тільки землі на самому півдні.

Генріх VI є  королем Англії (до 1461). Норвегію, Данію та Швецію очолює Хрістофер Баварський (до 1448). Королем Угорщини та Богемії оголошено Ладіслав Постума. Королем польсько-литовської держави є Владислав III Варненчик (до 1444). Його також проголошено королем Угорщини.  У Великому князівстві Литовському княжить Казимир IV Ягеллончик (до 1492).

Частина руських земель перебуває під владою Золотої Орди. Галичина входить до складу Польщі. Волинь належить Великому князівству Литовському.  Московське князівство очолює Василь II Темний.

На заході євразійських степів від Золотої Орди відокремилися Казанське ханство, Кримське ханство, Ногайська орда. У  Єгипті панують мамлюки, а  Мариніди — у Магрибі. У Китаї править  династія Мін. Значними державами Індостану є Делійський султанат, Бахмані, Віджаянагара. В Японії триває період Муроматі.

У Долині Мехіко править Ацтецький потрійний союз на чолі з Монтесумою I (до 1469). Цивілізація майя переживає посткласичний період.  В Імперії інків править Панчакутек Юпанкі.

Події
 Митрополитом Київським із осідком у Москві став Іона Одноушев.
 Війська Альфонсо V Арагонського захопили Неаполь. Він приєднав Неаполітанське королівство до своїх володінь.
 Янош Гуняді завдав поразки турецьким військам у Трансильванії поблизу Сібіу.
 Влада II Дракула усунуто від влади у Волощині. Його тимчасово замінив Мірча Дракул, якого потім змістив Басараб II.
 Фрідріха III Габсбурга короновано королем Німеччини в Аахені.
 Хрістофер Баварський змістив з трону Норвегії Еріка Померанського й об'єднав під своїм правлінням Данію, Норвегію й Швецію.

Народились

 28 квітня — Едуард IV, перший король Англії (1461-1470, 1471-1483) з династії Йорків.

Померли

1440-ві

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Sugar was our little woman, our "Su-Su".
15, and I will miss her forever.
months old and weighed in at 3 lbs.
kidney stones and bladder stones.
I was diagnosed with "GLOMERULAR NEPHRITIS" in February of 2005.
This is where protein is lost in my urine and not absorbed by my body.
passed peacefully in his mother's arms.
missed by all. I love you Rambo.
So He put His arms around you and whispered, "Come with me."
Although we loved you dearly we could not make you stay.
A golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands set to rest.
A million times we've needed you and a million times we've cried.
A heart of gold stopped beating; Two smiling eyes closed to rest.
became really sick on Monday, throwing up violently.
always had her favorite spots to sit and sleep.
wouldn't go - like behind the toilet, staring at the wall.
tough decision, and one that I always hate to make.
time. She was 15 1/2.
Heaven, and I know she's much happier there.
I could tell you had been mistreated, for there was no disguise.
It was then that I knew, you were the one for me.
I kissed your little head and welcomed you through our door.
That's why I named you "tucker" on that first day.
We all were blessed to have you, you were a gift from up above.
You comforted me through some bad times, and licked my tears when I cried.
The look in your eyes said, I love you mommy.
And I know that you will watch over us, from the heavens up above.
I know that your pain is gone now, and you can begin again.
And I will see you again some day, when my life ends.
Watch for me, my little tucker, and greet me when I get there.
So once again…. Our lives we can share.


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San Vito Lo Capo est une commune italienne de la province de Trapani dans la région Sicile en Italie. C'est une importante station balnéaire.

Géographie

La réserve naturelle de Zingaro est située au sud-est de la commune.

Histoire

Économie

Culture
Le monument le plus important est le Sanctuaire de San Vito.

La ville héberge le festival du couscous (Cous Cous Fest) qui a lieu chaque année au cours du mois de septembre.

Administration

Hameaux

Communes limitrophes
Castellammare del Golfo,  Custonaci

Jumelages

Notes et références


On June 15, 2018 after a courage battle (kidney failure), Gary Pendergraph passed away peacefully. Born April 15, 1958, Gary was the beloved son of Earl and Glady Pendergraph. Gary was born in Washington D.C. attending school in Washington D.C. and Seat Pleasant Maryland. Gary was devoted to his parents and leaves to cherish his memory, his mother, Glady Pendergraph, cousins he grew up with like siblings--Arnold Wayne Hubbard, Lawrence Avery Hubbard, Jamarr Lawraine Hubbard, Jacqueline Rose Sewell (Hubbard). Gary also has a host of other cousins, uncles, aunts who will miss him. Gary was an avid Washington Redskins fan. He spent countless Sunday afternoons watching the games with his beloved parents. His other great love was music.


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https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-bond-market-outlook-is-dismal-this-manager-is-still-finding-opportunity-51605108593
Mutual Fund Profile
The Bond Market Outlook Is Dismal. This Manager Is Still Finding Opportunity.
Lewis Braham
Mark Egan has deftly managed the Carillon Reams Core Plus Bond fund during a tumultuous year.
Photograph by Anna Powell Denton
The bond market outlook is especially dreary these days: Interest rates are near zero and the 10-year Treasury note yields a paltry 0.8%. High-quality corporate bonds of similar maturities yield around 2% on average, but a hunt for higher yields can lead to weaker companies—fraught with default risks in a coronavirus-stricken economy.
To navigate this kind of bond market you need an expert hand, and Mark Egan is just that. The 60-year-old lead manager of the Carillon Reams Core Plus Bond (ticker: SCPZX) fund has 35 years of bond investing experience, 30 of which he has spent at this fund's advisor, Reams Asset Management. He has been running this $1.3 billion fund since 1996. In the past 15 years, Core Plus Bond has beaten 98% of its peers in Morningstar's Intermediate Core-Plus Bond category, with a 6.5% annualized return. It also boasts a below-average 0.40% expense ratio. This I share class has a $10,000 minimum investment, but investors with $1,000 can get into the fund's Y share class (SCPYX), which carries a higher 0.80% expense ratio.
Egan notes that the widely followed benchmark for bond returns, the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, has returned roughly an annualized 8% since 1981 "because interest rates have declined from 15% to essentially zero." (Bond prices move inversely to yields.) "A lot of managers…think 8% looks pretty great," Egan says. "But that's not going to be the case going forward." Given ultralow rates, he warns that the best-case returns for the benchmark in 2021 are "between 0% and 1%. There's a possibility of negative returns, without question."
Carillon Reams Core Plus has the flexibility to handle this kind of market. It can invest as much as 25% of its assets in below-investment-grade, high-yield debt. Egan, however, is currently cautious, with only a 4% position as of September 30. He can also hold cash—12% of assets now—when he can't find enough opportunities. That cash enables him to pounce and buy when markets fall, and provides sufficient liquidity to process shareholders' redemptions—something a number of other bond funds struggled to do during the March crash. The fund is also flexible when it comes to duration, or sensitivity to interest rates.
Egan's biggest moves in 2020 have been in investment-grade corporate bonds rated BBB or higher. At the end of January, the fund had only 20% invested in corporate bonds , but by the end of April that percentage had leapt to 66%. Egan went on a buying spree during the March Covid-19 market crash. All but 1% of the corporate bonds that the fund bought were investment grade. As of Sept. 30,the fund's corporate exposure shrank to 42%. As bonds have rallied, Egan has trimmed his positions and raised cash. These savvy moves have given the fund a strong 15.3% return this year.
"It was around the bottom of the equity market in March when a lot of investment-grade companies started issuing debt at what previously would have been junk bond [yield] levels," Egan says. "I'm not talking about sketchy credits, but companies like Walt Disney (DIS), United Parcel Service (UPS), General Dynamics (GD), Deere (DE), and McDonald's (MCD)."
Carillon Reams Core Plus Bond
Note: Returns through Nov. 9; five- and 15-year returns are annualized. Weightings as of Sept. 30. Benchmark is Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.
Sources: Morningstar; Carillon Tower Advisers
There are now pockets of opportunity in securities that aren't as controversial as they seem, according to Egan. He cites General Electric (GE) bonds as an example. Some investors have avoided GE in recent years, after the company built up a large—and seemingly unsustainable—debt load. On top of that, its aviation division this year has suffered from pandemic-related travel declines. GE's stock is down 22% in 2020, but Egan highlights the company's continued turnaround, and applauds CEO Larry Culp and his goals to significantly reduce the company's debt burden.
"He's been doing all the right things, taking the difficult steps to sell assets to pare back debt and cut the dividend," Egan says. "The debt has troughed in terms of its credit quality, and the risk/reward is compelling." The coupon payment on a 10-year GE bond issued this April, which the fund owns, was 3.6%, and the bond recently yielded 3.4% compared with investment-grade debt's average 2.1%.
Bonds of banks— Wells Fargo (WFC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC)—were favorites of the fund before to the pandemic and remain so. They "still have somewhat of a stigma from 2008 [the financial crisis], even though their credit quality is so much better than it was back then," Egan says.
Another opportune pick is aerospace company Boeing (BA), which has also suffered from this year's sharp decline in travel and the worldwide grounding of its 737 MAX jet because of safety issues. Egan predicts air travel could pick up as soon as next year.
"We believe that the recovery in air travel and the economy, the recovery of all things prepandemic, will be shockingly quick. And that will be in the back half of 2021," he says. "The idea that hundreds of years of human nature are going to be reversed because of a pandemic, which we've had before, is something to be taken advantage of [as an investor]. So, we will take the opposite position."
Yet Egan is cautious when investing in more controversial companies, and generally opts to buy debt that is most senior in companies' capital structures; if a company goes bankrupt, the most senior creditors are paid first during a liquidation. He is especially averse to junk bond credit risks in today's weak economy: "Defaults in high yield have been significant. And the recoveries [on high yield debt in bankruptcy] have been really quite disappointing."
This conservative approach also means Egan closely considers the collateral provided for bonds. For instance, the fund holds Ford Motor (F) auto-loan debt, collateralized with its vehicles, and senior debt for American Airlines (AAL), United Airlines Holdings (UAL), and Delta Air Lines (DAL), secured by physical airplanes. "The airplanes are key in terms of airlines' ability to generate revenue going forward," Egan says. So, the companies will do whatever is necessary to pay back debt linked to those planes. "We've been through bankruptcies with all three of these companies before," and they all paid their airplane-backed debt, he adds. Yet many Covid-frightened investors are selling, so some airplane-backed debt yields in excess of 6%.
Thankfully, with 35 years of experience, Egan can keep a cool head when others are losing theirs.
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The bond market outlook is especially dreary these days: Interest rates are near zero and the 10-year Treasury note yields a paltry 0.


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During the height of the Kargil War, an act of Insaniyat (humanity) defined the moral character of the Indian Army. After a beleaguered Pakistan refused to accept the bodies of 11 soldiers who were killed during Kargil War, Muslim soldiers of Indian Army recited Suras from the Holy Quran and buried the enemy soldiers with full military honours with the help of Naik Ikraj Nabi from 16 Grenadiers. This is what makes India different from Pakistan.


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Gary North on central banking, gold, federal debt, and Keynesianism
I have never met Gary North and probably never will.Yet, through his writings he has had a far-reaching influence on my thinking, especially with regard to government and economics.He runs a membership website, GaryNorth.com.For $14.95 a month you get access to everything on the site, including four daily articles that he writes six days a week and posts while most people are still asleep.Members can ask questions in the forums to which he and other members will post replies. North wrote what
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The origin of cycles
It was Karl Marx who was among the first believers that cyclical behaviour was endemic to free markets.He lived through a time when there was a regular cycle of boom and bust, with phases of economic expansion followed by contraction. Workers were employed and then unemployed, and the only way this could be stopped, in Marxian economics, was for the workers to acquire the means of production, or more correctly, the state to do so on their behalf.Other economists, such as Jevons and Wicksell, rec
Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze
America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks
"Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty) Many prominent Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson have argued and fought against the central banking polices used throughout Europe. A note issued by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve Note, is bank currency. These notes are given to the government in exchange for an interest-bearing g
John Butler - Goldmoney
Financial crisis dynamics, the 'shadow' gold demand, and Mene
The study of financial crises is as old as the economics discipline itself. One of the most prominent theorists of financial crises ever to hold a senior Federal Reserve policy position was John Exter, vice-president of the New York Federal Reserve during the 1950s. Several years ago I co-wrote a series of essays on Exter's theories together with his sonin- law, Barry Downs. In this paper, building on Exter's work, including his eponymous 'pyramid', I introduce a new 'hourglass' framework for un
Robert P. Murphy
The Gold Standard Did not Cause the Great Depression
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 101–111[The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression by Scott Sumner]The Midas Paradox is an impressive piece of scholarship, representing the magnum opus of economist Scott Sumner. What makes the book so unique is Sumner's use of real-time financial data and press accounts in order to explain not just broad issues—such as, "What caused the Great Depression?"—but to offer commentary on th
Frank Shostak
There Are Two Types of Credit — One of Them Leads to Booms and Busts
In the slump of a cycle, businesses that were thriving begin to experience difficulties or go under. They do so not because of firm-specific entrepreneurial errors but rather in tandem with whole sectors of the economy. People who were wealthy yesterday have become poor today. Factories that were busy yesterday are shut down today, and workers are out of jobs.Businessmen themselves are confused as to why. They cannot make sense of why certain business practices that were profitable yesterday are
Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan
New Survey Shows Just How Hard It Is To Make Ends Meet: 'Half Of People Need Credit Cards Just To Make It To Their Next Payday'
A new survey was done in the United Kingdom and it shows just how hard it is for young people to survive paycheck to paycheck. Almost half of those surveyed admitted to needing credit to make ends meet until they get paid again. More than half of young women have to borrow to make their funds last to the end of the month, highlighting the impact of stagnating wages, insecure work, and rising prices like taxation on millennials. A survey of 4,000 people aged 18-30 shows that 51% of young women an
Dan Popescu - GoldBroker
According to Mises, money's function as a medium of exchange is thus the central one, while its store of value and unit of account functions are merely subordinate functions. I would say store of value and unit of account is what makes the medium of exchange marketable. The medium of exchange has to be simple to understand, not only by educated people but also the most uneducated. It has to be easily accessed, not only in ideal circumstances but also in difficult ones. Many things have been trie
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5 Things I Look for in Exploration Companies
Three months ago (April) we covered the reasons we primarily invest in junior exploration companies. We promised to follow up with some criteria we follow in attempting to pick winners. Here are five things we look for when evaluating and selecting junior exploration companies. Management has a track record and experience.
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The Life Cycle of Money
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, governments throughout the world have fostered a tenuous recovery predicated on massive increases in money supplies and debasement of currencies. Note however, that monetary debasement is not a recent phenomenon; it is simply the natural life cycle of money.There are six well-defined stages in the life cycle of money. This progression has occurred in every dominant civilization
Technology Detox: The Health Benefits of Unplugging Unwinding
Recent studies have shown that 90% of Americans use digital devices for two or more hours each day and the average American spends more time a day on high-tech devices than they do sleeping: 8 hours and 21 minutes to be exact. If you've ever considered attempting a "digital detox", there are some health benefits to making that ch
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Is the Economic Summer Coming
Cycles, cycles everywhere. We've already discussed the current state of the U.S. business cycle, arguing that the expansion should last for a while, although it is more advanced than in Europe. However, business cycles aren't the only creatures living in an economic zoo. They are simply the most popular within the modern macroeconomics. The post-war business cycles lasted, on average, almost 6 years. But economists distinguished also shorter cycles, called Kitchin inventory cycles, which are bel
The egregious errors of static statistics
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Lord Macaulay wrote this nearly two hundred years ago. His aphorism is particularly apposite of modern politicians, and also of the modern state itself, which is meant to be selfless in the interest of the common good. We can be certain that when a person moves from outside to inside the machinery of the state, he or she changes from representing the people to representing the state. Presumably ther
Are We Going to $1,120 or $1,510 No Matter What, Own Some Gold!
Who will win: bulls or bears? The LBMA published its annual forecast survey for precious metals prices in 2018. Gold prices range from $1,120 to $1,510. Where is the price of the yellow metal headed? Summary of the Survey The views of about 30 analysts in the 2018 forecasts are strongly divergent. The average price of gold is projected to be $1,318, so it is expected to be around the current level, but almost 5 percent higher than the last year's average of $1,257.12. However, the average gold p
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DERIVATIVES – A RECIPE FOR DISASTER SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE
Gambling is according to Wikipedia the wagering of money (or something of value) on an event with an uncertain outcome. Three elements are required for gambling, Consideration, chance, and prize. Thus, you make a bet and if you are lucky you win a prize but you can also lose it all. Gambling has been around for thousands of years and maybe longer. The first 6-sided dice dates back 3000 years. Eventually gambling became more organised as casinos were established. The first well known casino was s
Jack Chan's Weekly Precious Metals Update
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts recent movements in the gold and silver markets. Our proprietary cycle indicator is down. The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term. The gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term signals can last for days and weeks, and are more suitable for traders. Speculation is in bull market values.
Is Energy Bottoming
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts energy and finds that a tradable bottom is in place. $OSX is on a major sell signal. Our proprietary cycle indicator turns up this week. New buy signal New buy signal New buy signal New buy signal Summary Energy sector is on a major sell signal. The cycle is now up, suggesting a tradable bottom is in place. We have taken some trading positions with a multi-week outlook. Jack Chan is the editor of
Are We in Late Cycle Implications for Gold
In the previous edition of the Market Overview, we explored the fascinating history of bull and bear cycles in both the U.S. dollar and gold. Since then, the idea of cyclicity doesn't lead me to drop off, disrupting my sleep cycles. Let's then dig into the topic. We start with the business cycles, as in the recent Gold News Monitor we wrote that "we are in the late stages of the economic cycle – as the cycle matures, volatility increases and investors start to buy more gold as a hedge." Why do w


It's fascinating/horrifying watching the global neoliberal establishment walk in lockstep behind Guaidó. This morning my own goberment joined the mob..
Playing around with email aliases. Seems to work!
So I've been catching up with the @forktogether wiki, and the gist seems to be to run a project like a Swedish förening. This is fairly common in larger free software projects, and potentially a good way to avoid some issues Mastodon currently has (namely the very poor truck factor). Or perhaps it's just overkill bureaucracy, who knows.
There are some things in the list of requirements may not be possible, given how both OStatus and ActivityPub work. Blocking federation for certain instances is potentially one of these, modulo authentication stuff.
Accessibility sounds good. Probably requires a UI written from scratch to be maximally compatible (not relying on JS for example).


Dearest Readers, I am about to reveal to you one of my most favorite tricks for creating a flawless face.
This small fan is part of a simple little trick I learned years ago that helps perfect your makeup application and ensure that your made-up face doesn't have a powdery edge, and also lasts all day. This involves spritzing water-based substances on your makeup just as you've finished applying your foundation and setting powder.
The mere description of that act is counter to everything you have been taught about makeup application – I mean, why throw water at your face right after you've spent time and energy putting on makeup?
The secret all goes back to the contents the setting spray you are using. Different that merely using a spritzer full of water, setting sprays contain an ingredient with a slip. When misted over your face after you've completed makeup application, the spray melts your makeup just enough to make it look more natural. You can let the spray air dry, but if you use them in conjuction with a fan, the results are fantastic.
The best part about all of this is that there is no need to invest in expensive tools! The fan can be electric or hand held – even a piece of paper will work. As far as the setting sprays go, you can use a store-bought brand, or even make your own at home. It's super simple, super easy, and the results are great. I have oilier skin, and this technique doesn't make my face oily at all, but I do definitley get a bit of a glow going on.
My favorite commercial setting sprays are MAC's Fix +, Josie Maran's Argan Oil Spray, and Glo Mineral's Fulvic Mineral Mist (which smells so good!).
If you'd like to make your own version, the most simplest recipe comes down to two ingredients: glycerin (a vegetable-based oil) and water. According to the amazing makeup artist Koren, mix 3 parts water to 1 part glycerin in a water mister, shake, and store the the fridge. You can add more ingredients if you want, but the glycerin is what really makes the magic happen.
If you end up using this trick, please report back!
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I'll have to try this out! I use Fix+ at the moment so my face doesnt look too powdery but have been letting it airdry.
I want to try this. My skin is oily — VERY oily. Does this affect oil control throughout the day — make it worse?


Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog! This is the beginning of a new series I'm starting called Sydssentials! From clothing to magazines, I'll be featuring what I've been loving each week. Please bare with me, I'm still trying to figure out the best time for me to post and also how many items I should feature. Without further a do, here's my first week of sydssentials!
1. Dainty Hand Earrings – these gold beauties have been my nonstop earrings of choice. They are super light, I almost forget that I have them on. Nevertheless, they are the perfect accessory to add an extra something to my outfits. The great aspect of these is that they can be dressed up or down. During the week, I pair them with a t – shirt and jeans and on the weekends they complement any and all of my dresses!
2. Aesop Body Balm – this lotion is honestly a miracle worker. I have been using it practically everyday since I first purchased it. Needless to say it makes my hands feel amazing. Aside from that and the fact that it's aesthetically pleasing, it smells phenomenal. The combination of tangerine rind, vanilla, and sandalwood puts me in a relaxed mood and the scent lasts a long time. This has definitely become a staple for me.
3. Linen Overalls – these bad boys are from Urban Outfitters and they have been a favorite for me this summer! They feel light when I'm out and about and since they have a wide leg, they are extremely comfortable. I love how I can wear these with a tank top or t – shirt and they still look chic either way. As fall is getting closer, I am going to start pairing these with some of my favorite sweaters. This piece has great versatility when transitioning seasons!
4. Cereal Magazine – I purchased this magazine around mid – August and I have not been able to put it down. This issue is particularly my favorite because it's their travel issue. I love reading about the different cities they showcase and their photos are great for inspo! Another great feature is that it's great for flat – lays!
5. Amber & Vanilla Candle – I always feel so cozy in my room when I have a candle lit. This week's scent that I've been loving is this candle I actually got from TJMaxx! It reminds me of fall which is perfect considering it's just around the corner. I've found myself lighting it almost everyday and it leaves my room/apartment smelling fantastic!
I want everything on your list of Sydssentials!!


Owens English 9 14 April 2013 Rough Draft 1 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns Lenhoff. Meanwhile another shock arrives for Elizabeth when Charlotte Lucas tells her that she is engaged to Mr. At 12 or 13 he started writing his own pieces. Beatty's knowledge of the subject implies that he at one time shared Montag's concerns and researched the subject, even if he ultimately chose to remain a fireman. He was always a big reader throughout his childhood. Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Fahrenheit 56K 1423 Words 4 Pages Symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, perhaps one of the best-known science fiction, wrote the amazing novel Fahrenheit 451.
The pump is also equipped with an Eye, a device that allows the machine's operator to clean out of the melancholy from a patient. He studied science at Eton, but a problem with his eyes left him partially blind and he had to leave after three years. Setting Significance of opening scene Montag is brainwashed up until the point where he meets Clarisse and then his new curiosity blossoms. Shaken, Montag escapes to the second floor. Knowing oneself is a great journey with endless self-discovery. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda, Fahrenheit 451 1372 Words 4 Pages escape reality, a way to be inspired, a way to become more knowledgeable, and even a way to gain a new identity Storm. New York: Vintage International, 1995.
Montag thinks about something he has hidden behind the ventilator grille at home. Du Maurier was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1969. We provide copy of fevre dream in digital format, so the resources that you find are reliable. He lives in a world of people that are not allowed to read books, enjoy nature, think independently, spend time by themselves, or have meaningful conversations. One night while he is walking home from work he meets a young girl who stirs up his thoughts and curiosities like no one has before.
Mildred refuses to have a real discussion about it. Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag 658 Words 4 Pages Symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, perhaps one of the best-known science fiction, wrote the amazing novel Fahrenheit 451. Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell 2143 Words 6 Pages Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, was written at the onset of the fifties as a call to the American people to reflect on how the dominant social values of their times were effecting both the lives of individual Americans and their government. This novel is about a world that is so structured and censored that even a common fireman exist not to fight fires, for all buildings are fireproof, but instead to burn books. The painful exchange is interrupted when Captain Beatty unexpectedly arrives.
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Taliban Create Lashkar-e-Khorasan to Hunt Predator Spies
Via The Long War Journal (March 28, 2011) -
The Taliban have created a group assigned to hunt down tribesmen suspected of providing information to the CIA that enables the Predator campaign to target terrorist leaders in Pakistani tribal areas.
The group, known as the Lashkar-e-Khorasan, or Army of the Khorasan, was established in North Waziristan last year by both the Haqqani Network and Taliban forces under the command of Hafiz Gul Bahadar, The Express Tribune reported. The creation of the group was confirmed by Pakistani intelligence officials, tribesmen, and members of the Taliban.
The Pakistani government continues to maintain that Bahadar and the Haqqani Network are "good Taliban" as they do not attack the Pakistani state. But both Bahadar and the Haaqani Network shelter al Qaeda and also various Taliban groups that do conduct attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Lashkar-e-Khorasan was first established as a "loose network with members casually going out and trying to find out who is providing information to the US," but has become an "organized" unit that is "scientifically on the counter-intelligence line," a Taliban member associated with Bahadar's group told the The Express Tribune.
The unit is estimated have more than 300 fighters and to operate primarily in the Datta Khel, Mir Ali, and Miramshah areas. These three areas are strongholds of the Haqqani Network and Bahadar's Taliban forces, as well as for al Qaeda and allied terror groups, and have been heavily targeted by the CIA.
The Taliban's usage of the term "Khorasan" indicates that they are working in conjunction with al Qaeda in the effort to hunt down the spy network in North Waziristan. Al Qaeda's forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan are known as Qaidat al-Jihad fi Khorasan, or the Base of the Jihad in the Khorasan. It was in North Waziristan that the US killed Mustafa Abu Yazid, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Khorasan, in a Predator strike last summer.


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The 2002 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a Major League Baseball playoff series played from October 9 to 14 to determine the champion of the National League, between the Central Division champion St. Louis Cardinals and the wild-card qualifying San Francisco Giants. It was a rematch of the 1987 NLCS, in which the Cardinals defeated the Giants in seven games. The Cardinals, by virtue of being a division winner, had the home field advantage.

The two teams were victorious in the NL Division Series (NLDS), with the Cardinals defeating the West Division champion and defending World Series champions Arizona Diamondbacks three games to none, and the Giants defeating the East Division champion and heavily favored Atlanta Braves three games to two.

The Giants won the series in five games but were defeated by the Anaheim Angels in seven games in the World Series.

Summary

St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Francisco Giants

Game summaries

Game 1
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at Busch Stadium (II) in St. Louis, Missouri

The Giants struck first in Game 1 off of Matt Morris with two on via Benito Santiago's single to score Kenny Lofton from second. Next inning, Morris struck out the first two batters, then allowed a single to Lofton, who stole second and scored on Rich Aurilia's single. After Jeff Kent singled, Barry Bonds's triple scored two before Bonds scored on Santiago's single. The Cardinals got on the board in the bottom of the inning off of Kirk Rueter on Fernando Viña's groundout with runners on second and third, but home runs by Lofton in the third and David Bell in the fifth off of Morris gave the Giants a 7−1 lead. Albert Pujols hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth off of Rueter, but the Giants got those runs back in the sixth on Santiago's home run off of Mike Crudale. The Cardinals cut the lead to 9−5 on Miguel Cairo's two-run home run in the bottom of the inning, then made it 9−6 on J. D. Drew's home run in the eighth off of Tim Worrell, but Robb Nen pitched a scoreless ninth for the save as the Giants went up 1−0 in the series.

Game 2
Thursday, October 10, 2002 at Busch Stadium (II) in St. Louis, Missouri

In Game 2, the Giants went up 1−0 on Rich Aurilia's home run in the first off of Woody Williams. His two-run home run in the fifth made it 3−0. Jason Schmidt pitched  shutout innings before allowing Eduardo Pérez's home run in the eighth. The Giants added a run in the ninth on Ramón Martínez's groundout off of Jason Isringhausen with runners on first and third while Robb Nen pitched a scoreless bottom of the inning for his second consecutive save. The Giants went up 2−0 in the series heading to San Francisco.

Game 3
Saturday, October 12, 2002 at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco

In Game 3, the Giants loaded the bases in the second with no outs off of Chuck Finley, but only scored once on Rich Aurilia's sacrifice fly. The Cardinals responded in the third off of Russ Ortiz when with runners on second and third, Édgar Rentería's sacrifice fly and Jim Edmonds's groundout scored a run each. They added to their lead on home runs by Mike Matheny in the fourth and Edmonds in the fifth, but Barry Bonds's three-run home run in the fifth tied the game. In the sixth, Eli Marrero's leadoff home run off of Jay Witasick proved to be the game winner as the Cardinals' 5−4 win cut the Giants' series lead to 2−1.

Game 4
Sunday, October 13, 2002 at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco

The Cardinals took an early lead off Liván Hernández, scoring two runs in the first inning on a Jim Edmonds groundout and a single by Tino Martinez.  After being held scoreless for five innings the Giants' bats would answer in the sixth, when J. T. Snow hit a two-run double to score Jeff Kent and Barry Bonds.  In the eighth, Benito Santiago would deliver the key blow for San Francisco with a two-run home run following an intentional walk to Bonds (with nobody on base).  In the ninth, the Cardinals would threaten against Robb Nen, cutting the deficit to 4–3 with a Jim Edmonds single, which put runners at first and third base  with one out for slugger Albert Pujols.  However, Nen struck out Pujols and J. D. Drew to give the Giants a 3–1 series advantage.

Game 5
Monday, October 14, 2002 at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco

Game 5 was a pitchers' duel between Matt Morris and Kirk Rueter as the Giants looked for their first pennant since 1989. Fernando Viña started the scoring with a seventh-inning sac fly, but the Giants responded with a sac fly by Barry Bonds. In the ninth, Matt Morris retired the first two batters before allowing consecutive singles to David Bell and Shawon Dunston.  Steve Kline was then brought in to pitch to Kenny Lofton, who had yelled at the Cardinals dugout earlier after an inside pitch. On the first pitch, Lofton delivered a single to right field, scoring Bell as J. D. Drew's throw was off-line, clinching the pennant for the Giants, their first since 1989.

Composite line score
2002 NLCS (4–1): San Francisco Giants over St. Louis Cardinals

Aftermath
In the Barry Bonds era (1993-2007), the 2002 postseason would be the only October where the Giants would experience a run of success, let alone win a playoff series (winning two). However, it still did not lead to an elusive World Championship for San Francisco. In the 2002 World Series against the Anaheim Angels, the Giants were eight outs away from winning the Series in Game 6, but late game home runs by Scott Spiezio and Darin Erstad, as well as a two-RBI double by Troy Glaus helped the Angels overcome a five-run, seventh-inning deficit to win. A three-run double by Garret Anderson was the difference in the Angels' Game 7 win to clinch the series. The two teams set a record for combined most home runs in a World Series (21), which stood until the 2017 World Series. The Giants did not win a World Series until 2010.

Despite Dusty Baker's success in San Francisco, he had an increasingly strained relationship with owner Peter Magowan, one that even the Giants' first pennant in thirteen years could not mend. Baker and the Giants mutually parted ways after the season. Baker was not out of work for long as he was quickly snatched up by the Chicago Cubs to become their manager. Baker's Cubs reached the 2003 National League Championship Series, but the team famously fell apart in Game 6 when the Cubs were up 3-0 and five outs from their first World Series appearance in almost 60 years. He would experience success managing the Cincinnati Reds (2010-2013), Washington Nationals (2016-2018), and the Houston Astros (2020-present) in later years. In 2012, his Reds faced his former team the Giants in the National League Division Series. Unfortunately for Baker, his team would again fall apart after leading the series 2-0, eventually losing to the Giants in five games. Baker would finally win a World Series as a manager in 2022 with the Astros.

The St. Louis Cardinals would continue to be a perennial playoff team until 2016, winning two World Championships in 2006 and 2011. Meanwhile, San Francisco would begin re-tooling their roster after losing a close NL West race to the Dodgers on the last weekend of the season in 2004. They did not make the postseason from 2004-2009.

The Giants continued their winning ways in the October against St. Louis, beating them in the 2012 National League Championship Series and the 2014 National League Championship Series, on their way to two World Championships in those seasons.

In 2021, Dusty Baker and Tony La Russa would face off again in the American League Division Series. By then, the two men were the oldest managers in MLB at a combined age of 149. Baker's Astros beat La Russa's White Sox in four games on his way to his fourth League Championship Series as manager. He proceeded to win the that series, which made him at the age of 72 the second oldest manager to appear in a World Series, with the 19-year gap between pennants being the second longest for a manager in MLB history.

Notes

External links
2002 NLCS at Baseball-Reference

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We love Hog Island oysters! After our first trip to Napa, we were disappointed to find out that you can't buy them outside of California. A few places in Chicago served them when they could get them, but finding Hog Island Sweetwaters was a rarity!
We were overjoyed to find out that Hog Island oysters ships nationwide at Christmas and New Years! Now that we live in San Francisco, we can walk a few blocks and pick up a dozen at a time. Our favorites are the Sweetwaters, which are exactly what you can have shipped to your door for the holidays.
During the holidays, we like to serve oysters with a fine dice of celery and caviar. Grab a bottle of champagne, a jar of caviar, one stalk of celery, and a few dozen Hog Island oysters, and you'll be set. If you don't have a proper shucking knife, you can add it to your Hog Island order.
Our friends at Water2Table sent over some fantastic Browne Trading Galilee Prime Osetra to pair with our Sweetwaters. We paired these oysters with one of our favorite Champagnes, Billecart-Salmon Brut Reserve.
Looking for a gift for a California local? Order a 'Hog Card' gift card. Who wouldn't love this? You can use it to buy oysters, or to enjoy a hot bowl of clam chowder or seafood stew on a cold winter day at the Ferry Building Marketplace or Oxbow Public Market oyster bars.
Add a dash of champagne vinegar to each oyster.
Top with ½ teaspoon of celery and a dollop of caviar.
Do not use a metal spoon to serve the caviar unless it's specifically meant for caviar, otherwise it will react with the metal.
A special thanks to Hog Island Co. for providing the oysters featured in this post.


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THE OFFICE "PDA" Review
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THE OFFICE "PDA" Season 7 Episode 16 – THE OFFICE this week was all about "PDA". Holly and Michael are smitten kittens and can't keep their hands off of each other. Which I have to say, I am THRILLED about.
However, not everyone in the office feels the same way I do, and with Michael and Holly's incessant touching, flirting, and kissing Gabe has to hold an office meeting about PDA. In true Michael fashion, he and Holly end up being talked to again by Gabe, and he brings up some points that Michael hadn't thought about – like Holly having to move back home.
Meanwhile, Jim and Pam went to a Valentine's Day lunch and got WASTED. And Jim and Pam drunk are pretty adorable.
I think I really liked this episode of The Office because I just love Michael and Holly. I know that fans of the show are all about the Jim/Pam relationship, but from the second Holly entered the series, I was in love with Michael/Holly.
While the episode didn't have a lot of laugh out loud moments, I love that Holly decided that the company wasn't going to dictate her and Michael's relationship, and that she was going to move in with Michael, regardless of her location in the company.
YAY Holly and Michael! This just solidifies my idea that they're going to write out Steve Carrell with Holly's help.
I also really, REALLY like Andy and Erin. While Erin is NOT my favorite character on The Office, she and Andy are so adorable together that the writers really need to get on that story line. Gabe is just deeply creepy as solidified by his air kiss to Erin. Creepy!
My favorite parts of "PDA":
Holly: "Do you love me like 'Oh, Holly – I love her!' or… do you LOVE me love me?"
Jim and Pam: "There was bottomless champagne. . we never did find the bottom…"
Kevin's funny faces to cheer up Michael when he thought he'd have to break up with Holly
Oscar: "Would you two just kiss already?!"
Overall I liked "PDA", but again, am an advocate of Holly/Michael, which is pretty much what this episode was about. What say you? Did you like The Office this week?
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Name Martin Lee
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Martin A. Lee is an American author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues, and drug politics.
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Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, and the American University of Paris. In 1994 he was given the Pope Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism.
Lee was a co-founder of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a group formed in 1986 to combat perceived corporate and establishment media bias. He was the first full-time editor of FAIR's magazine Extra!, and later served as the publication's publisher.
Lee's first book, Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion (co-authored with Bruce Shlain), was published in 1985 by Grove Press. Covering LSD's use by both the counterculture of the 1960s and by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in mind control experiments, the book was called by the San Francisco Chronicle "a generalist's history that should replace all others."
Lee's second book, Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media (co-authored with Norman Solomon), was both a distillation and expansion of his work with FAIR. Published in 1990 by Lyle Stuart, The Washington Post called the book "a worthy addition to the library of any student of American news media, social structure and political science."
Lee's third book, The Beast Reawakens, an in-depth examination of the resurgence of fascism, was published by Little, Brown in 1997; a revised paperback edition was issued by Routledge in 2000. Calling it a "compelling, intelligent investigation which reads more like a thriller than a history lesson," Publishers Weekly said it "contributes much toward understanding the politics of hatred." The New York Times Book Review described it as "a vivid survey of fascist resurgence."
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Stay in the EU, or leave? What difference does it make? Not a great deal you might think. I'm sure it won't make much difference to my life, but as someone with an overarching interest in self government, there's simply no way that I would vote to have some far off bureaucrat making decisions about the UK.
But since we're here and talking about it, I'm out. What's the main reason I want to leave the EU? Of all things, it's fishing. Fishing is an industry which sustains the people, like farming it builds economy, it builds communities, and it feeds the people. Fit is food, provided by the ocean and it is an asset that we British have in abundance, at least we had it, until we gave it away to Europe. The Common Fishing Policy, or CFP put paid to our primary industry, and left communities in Britain desolate and on the verge of bankruptcy. That's right, I want us to get back our fishing waters and revive the British fishing industry and reinvigorate the UK's coastline.
We once had a thriving fishing industry in Britain, then along came the EU and the common fishing policy, and the UK fishing industry has been in decline every since. The CPF gives large chunks of the UK's fine fishing waters to countries other than the UK. For example 23% of the English quota is owned by one giant dutch trawler, the Cornelis Vrolijk, registered in the UK fleet, but it actually lands its catch in Holland. To put this into perspective the entire small inshore fishing fleet for the whole England is given 4% of the quota.
I'm not screaming illegality. I'm sure that is all above board, so to speak. I just feel that UK fishing waters, once patrolled by the British navy, should be for the UK to fish, not for other EU member countries to take their share of.
It's a bit like saying that France or Spain have more land than the UK, so we should be allowed to go over to France and harvest things growing on that land. Of course, such a notion seems preposterous. So why is the sea any different? Before it was signed away by politicians desperate to enter the single market in 1972, Britain controlled 70% of the access to fishing waters in Western Europe. That's a lot of fish, and a lot of industry. So what happened? It was given away and those coastal communities which once relied on fishing as an industry started to go into decline. Seems strange to give over your natural resources to others.
That behemoth trawler mentioned earlier is the sort of boat that survives in the corporate world of the EU fishing business. Fishing is a big business like any other, when Bruxelles gets involved. 370ft trawlers which land hundreds of tonnes of fish a year will put much smaller community boats out of business, even though the smaller boats are the sustainable ones. Does Bruxelles care? I doubt it. IT is all about rules, regulations and bureaucracy. It has very little to do with community, sustainability and god forbid Britain.
Of course there are many more ways that the EU damages the UK economy, but for some reason the CFP seems to be symptomatic of the worse kind of nonsense which comes out of Bruxelles. The sooner we give the EU the boot, the sooner we get back our country, our power and our waters. We can spend the money that previously went to pay for EU bureaucrats' pointless activities to reinvigorate the British navy, to protect our fishing waters.
If you want to read about the EU situation, and where Britain sits in it, I can recommend The Trouble with Europe by Roger Bootle.


Growing up, my mother always told me a parent should never have to bury her child; a somber adage, yet one that carries particular weight in the lives of those who have. "Parenthood: Short Musings on Birth and Death," a compilation of four one-act plays, not only examines the theme of the loss of a child, but also grapples with the various afflictions and tribulations that come with being, or trying to become, a parent.
The plays, written by critically acclaimed contemporary playwrights, successfully take on this challenging topic and do so in only an hour and a half. Taylor Mac's "The Levee" sets the tone, with a couple desperately trying to conceive while burdened with the devastation of miscarriage. In Geoffrey Nauffts' "Baby Steps," a gay school teacher is met with disheartening bigotry when trying to adopt a child in the wake of his partner's death. This is followed by Trista Baldwin's "Falling Up," where two co-workers try to discover love after the loss of the man's son. Finally, the theme of mental health is explored in Michael Griffo's "Cloudy," in which the character Georgia retreats into her own imaginary sanctuary after tragedy befalls her three children.
Jack Lattimore '20 directed and co-produced the performance, drawing inspiration for the production after reading "The Levee" in the anthology "Naked Angels: The Issues Projects." "Parenthood," presented at the Hopper Cabaret from April 25 through 27, marks Lattimore's stellar debut as director. Through a mix of realism and absurdism, he manages to address the myriad perspectives on and repercussions of parenthood with a unique compilation that stands out from most theater at Yale. He reflected on the significance these issues may have on his audience in their not-too-distant future.
The small, yet striking cast of three — Richard Hicks '18, Samuel Lee '19 and Ayla Khan '21 — delivered first-rate performances, taking on the realistic roles as their own while also breathing palpable emotion into their more absurd, delusional characters. Hicks, who laments his impending departure from Yale's theater community, furnished some levity in his role as Robert, the exceedingly nervous gay school teacher at the adoption agency, in "Baby Steps." The back-and-forth between Robert and prejudiced Rosemary (Khan) quickly turns from a humorous stepping-on-eggshells conversation to a more matter-of-fact — and personally gratifying — discourse in which Robert defends his right and reason to adopt a child — an effort which proves futile.
The most powerful moments of the performance are its frequent and interspersed emotional nosedives. One such display of despair was masterfully executed by Khan in her role as Paige in "The Levee"; she no sooner finds out she is pregnant than has a miscarriage. Her hope for the future is quickly dashed, as she relinquishes her wish to conceive and cradles her distraught husband, rather than seek medical attention. Lee gives an equally impressive portrayal of Dan, the still-there husband of his mentally unstable wife Georgia. In a nonsensical, yet gleeful conversation between the two, Dan's joyful countenance is transformed into one of absolute dread, as he realizes his pleas will never fully bring his wife back from the incident.
The actors reflected on the pitfalls of playing such complex characters and how Lattimore's constructive direction made the show and their performances possible.
Although I have no plans on becoming a parent anytime soon, my own role as a soon-to-be aunt brought my viewing of this play and its themes the tangible sense of gravity and pertinence they deserve. Lattimore masterfully combined four different stories to convey, as he put it, "the dynamics of sexuality, of gender expression, of class, of social status and of mental health" within the sphere of parenthood.
Donations collected at the end of the show go to support the following organizations that align with the social issues of the production: Planned Parenthood, You Gotta Believe and the COPE Foundation.


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The Economics of Apps, Social Media and Payment Platforms
piggy August 25, 2020
Most Techies out there should have been following how the Tik Tok saga is panning out in the USA. The US government has essentially forced Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell its TikTok app to an American firm to keep operating in the US. This move by the US government has been informed by several investigations by Think Tanks such as the Peterson Institute for International Economics that described TikTok as a "Huawei-sized problem" that posed a national security threat to the US. This is because of its alleged ability to convey data to its Chinese parent company, which is legally unable to refuse to share data with the Chinese government under the China Internet Security Law. TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based Internet technology. The mobile app allows users to create a short video of themselves which often feature music in the background. ByteDance has however agreed to divest TikTok outright to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries (including Japan, Pakistan and Australia) where restrictions are also being considered because of privacy concerns. On the other hand, Microsoft has confirmed that it has been talking to ByteDance about acquiring TikTok's service in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. However, Oracle has entered the race to buy TikTok's operations as it has been working with US investors, including General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, who own a stake in TikTok already.
We note that as of August 2020, TikTok had more than 2.3 billion downloads worldwide and was recently valued at around USD 30 – USD 50 billion. Meanwhile, Facebook-owned Instagram has released Reels, which is a direct competitor to TikTok. Instagram has the highest number of consumers in the 18 to 34-year-old age group of any digital service presenting free online video. Other TikTok competitors, such as Triller have recently raised capital and are being supported by a number of the major music companies. The question in Piggy's mind is; Why do some apps or platforms gain so much traction while others fail? Why is it that Facebook outperformed MySpace whilst Bitcoin is more popular than Monero? Also, why is EcoCash more dominant than OneMoney and Telecash in Zimbabwe?
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The answer to all these questions could be found in Game Theory, a discipline that aims to address the analysis of strategic inter-dependencies between the actions of different decision makers. Taking social media as an example, the attractiveness of websites like Facebook or Twitter depends on the number of users. The more users these websites have, the more attractive they are. This phenomenon is called a network externality. Network externalities can easily dominate quality differences between the different sites, like user friendliness, transparency or privacy. The point here is that a platform that offers poorer quality may nonetheless survive (and even thrive), simply because it is used by a larger number of customers. In the early stages, there are usually several competing platforms, like Facebook, Friendster and MySpace and it is unclear which one will succeed. In the language of game theory, the game has multiple equilibria: one where the majority of users coordinate on Facebook and others where they coordinate on any one of the other platforms. Objective differences in the quality of the different platforms are a poor predictor for their future success. The number of users, however, is. The fastest-growing platforms are usually the ones that will out-compete the others and, once they dominate the market, it is very hard for new entrants to succeed, even if they offer much better quality. This means that the large quantity of users protects the incumbent against market entries. In Zimbabwe, EcoCash has over 94% market share of mobile money users. This clearly demonstrates that Cassava's EcoCash platform remains the dominant player in the space, processing over 90% of the total value of mobile transactions. Overall, this market dominance in the mobile money space means that investors will continue to have a strong appetite for Cassava on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). The tech company has also been active in terms of rolling out new and relevant Apps and platforms that have been welcomed in different sectors of the economy. Piggy also likes the asset-light strategy that taps into the massive informal sectors.
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Apollo 17 astronauts Dr. H. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan took this image of the Moon's Taurus-Littrow valley. The view shows the lunar roving vehicle near the rim of Shorty crater. In the distance are the mountain-like massifs that define the Taurus-Littrow valley. This region marks the last time - December 1972 - that humans walked and drove on the Moon's surface.


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Bose sound system optimized for the MX-5 Miata
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While there is no way of keeping your hair perfectly sculpted while driving top-down, Mazda has released details of a new convertible-optimized sound system for the fourth generation MX-5 Miata. Bose has updated the Miata's audio technology with two new equalizer settings tailored for both top-up and top-down driving. Bose's 'AutoPilot' technology registers ambient noise levels and compensates for the wind and road noise when the MX-5's top is down.
While there is no way of keeping your hair perfectly sculpted while driving top-down, Mazda has released details of a new convertible-optimized sound system for the fourth generation MX-5 Miata.
Bose has updated the Miata's audio technology with two new equalizer settings tailored for both top-up and top-down driving. Bose's 'AutoPilot' technology registers ambient noise levels and compensates for the wind and road noise when the MX-5's top is down.
While these EQ settings and AutoPilot technologies have been used in other vehicles, Bose claims their new UltraNearfield speaker is brand new and will be making its debut in the MX-5. Instead of using standard speakers, two-inch 'near field' drivers sit inside the headrests so both the driver and passenger can enjoy music while driving top-down.
The four speakers are paired with 6.5-inch drivers in each door and one-inch neodymium tweeters in each A-pillar. A 5.25-inch woofer delivers bass inside of a six-litre enclosure located under the passenger's footwell. All speakers are driven by a seven-channel amplifier located in the convertible-top storage space.
Source: Left Lane News