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1 King Josiah told all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem to come and meet with him.
2 He went up to the Lord's temple. All the people who lived in Jerusalem and in the rest of Judah went with him. They included the priests, the prophets, young people and old people. Everyone went to the temple. They all listened while the king read to them all the words in the Book of God's Covenant. That was the book that Hilkiah had found in the Lord's temple.
23:2'He went up' because the temple was on a hill.
3 Then the king stood in his place beside the pillar in the temple. He promised the Lord that he would obey the covenant. He agreed to serve the Lord faithfully and to obey his commands, laws and rules. Josiah agreed to obey what was written in the Book of God's Covenant. All the people also promised to obey the covenant.
4 Then the king gave a command to Hilkiah, the leader of the priests, and to the other priests and the temple guards. He told them to bring out from the Lord's temple everything that people used there to worship false gods. People used those things to worship Baal, Asherah and all the stars in the sky. King Josiah burned those things outside Jerusalem, in the fields of the Kidron Valley. Then he took all the ashes to Bethel.
23:4He took the ashes to Bethel because of what he would do there. See verses 15-18.
5 He removed the priests who served false gods. The kings of Judah had chosen those priests to make offerings at the altars on the hills. They were on the hills in Judah's cities and all around Jerusalem. These priests offered sacrifices to Baal, to the sun, to the moon and to all the stars in the sky. 6 He also removed the Asherah pole from the Lord's temple. He took it outside Jerusalem, to the Kidron Valley. He burned it there. He made its ashes into dust. He threw the dust over the graves of ordinary people.
23:6They buried ordinary people at a place outside the city in the Kidron Valley. Rich or important people had their own special graves.
7 King Josiah also destroyed the rooms in the Lord's temple where the male prostitutes lived. Women also made clothes there for the idol of Asherah. 8 He brought from the towns of Judah all the priests who served false gods. He destroyed the altars on the hills where those priests offered sacrifices. He did that everywhere in Judah, from Geba to Beersheba. He destroyed the altar that was on the left side of one of Jerusalem city's gates. It was called the Gate of Joshua. Joshua was an officer who had authority over the city. 9 The priests who served at those altars did not have authority to serve at the altar in the Lord's temple in Jerusalem. But they could eat the same flat bread that the other priests ate.
10 King Josiah destroyed the place called Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. After that, nobody could burn his son or his daughter there in the fire as a sacrifice to Molech. 11 He removed the images of horses that the kings of Judah had put beside the entrance to the Lord's temple. He also burned the chariots that were there. The kings had put the horses and chariots there to give honour to the sun god. They were in the temple yard near the room of Nathan Melech, a palace officer.
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23:11They used the horses and chariots when they worshipped the sun.
12 King Josiah knocked down the altars that were on the roof of the palace. The kings of Judah had built the altars there, above the high room of King Ahaz. He also knocked down the altars that King Manasseh had built in the two yards of the Lord's temple. Josiah broke the altars into small pieces. He threw the bits into the Kidron Valley.
13 King Josiah also destroyed the altars that were on the hills east of Jerusalem. Those altars were on the south side of Mount Trouble. King Solomon had built them to worship these false gods:
23:13Mount Trouble may be a name for the Mount of Olives, on the east of side Jerusalem. The hill was called this because there were many altars for false gods there.
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14 Josiah broke the stone pillars that people worshipped into small pieces. He cut down the Asherah poles. He covered the ground where they had been with human bones.
23:14People would not go where there were dead bodies, or human bones. See Numbers 5:2.
15 Josiah also destroyed the altar at Bethel. It was an altar for false gods that Nebat's son, King Jeroboam had made. King Jerobaom had caused the people of Israel to do bad things. Josiah completely destroyed that altar. He broke its stones into small pieces so that only dust remained. He also burned the Asherah pole.
16 Then Josiah looked around and he saw graves on the hill. He sent someone to bring the bones from them. He burned them on the altar, so that people could not use it again. The Lord had said that this would happen when King Jeroboam was standing beside the altar. A man of God had spoken God's message to Jeroboam during a festival.
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23:18See 1 Kings 13:1-5, 31-32.
19 King Josiah removed the altars on the hills in all the towns of Samaria. The kings of Israel had built those altars and that had made the Lord angry. Josiah destroyed all of them, in the same way that he destroyed the altar at Bethel. 20 He punished with death all the priests who served false gods at those altars. He killed them on their own altars. He burned human bones on all the altars. After he had done that, he went back to Jerusalem.
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24 Josiah did other things to obey the rules that were written in the Book of God's Law. That was the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the Lord's temple. Josiah removed the people who spoke to the spirits of dead people and the other magicians. He destroyed the images that people worshipped in their homes. He destroyed all the other idols that people had started to worship in Jerusalem and in all Judah.
25 Josiah turned to the Lord and he served the Lord faithfully with all his strength. He obeyed all the Law of Moses. No other king was like Josiah, either before him or after him.
26 But the Lord continued to be angry with the people of Judah. The wicked things that King Manasseh did had made him very angry. 27 So the Lord said, 'I will also send Judah away from me, as I sent Israel away. I will refuse to stay in Jerusalem and in my temple. I chose the city to be my home and the place where people would worship me. But now I will leave there. '
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The most important foreign policy issue for the next American president will undoubtedly be relations with China. Unfortunately, neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden have an approach grounded in reality, with a clear-eyed view of our national interests.
Ever since economic reforms were launched by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1980s, the bipartisan consensus was that the best approach to China was engagement. As China grew more prosperous and less insulated, the thinking went, economic liberalization could lead to political liberalization as well. Or, at a minimum, China could be a non-threatening participant in the world's economy and affairs.
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►First, insulate the American economy from China to the maximum extent possible. Among foreign policy boffins, this is referred to as "decoupling."
►Second, increase the military and diplomatic capacity of China's neighbors, so every regional conflict involving China doesn't automatically become a conflict with the United States. Our current role as the de facto security guarantor in the region isn't in our best interests.
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Tariffs are one tool that could be used in decoupling. Trump has famously declared himself to be Tariff Man. And his administration currently has tariffs in place on roughly $370 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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The principal problem with Trump's approach, according to Biden, is that it is unilateral. Biden promises to create a coalition with allies to pressure China to change troublesome behavior in trade. But to continue cooperation with China on things where, as Biden puts it, "our interests converge." He specifically mentions climate change, nonproliferation and global health security.
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Trump's instinct is to reduce the exposure of the U.S. to regional conflicts elsewhere. But he has no strategic vision about getting from here to there.
In his essay, Biden doubles down on the commitment to be the region's security guarantor, a role whose risks vastly exceed the benefits to the United States.
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(Laddered Portfolio) — A portfolio of bonds with staggered maturity dates. Suppose you had $100,000 to invest in bonds. By using the bond ladder approach, you could buy five different bonds, each with a face value of $20,000; however, each would have a different maturity date. One might mature in one year, another in three years and the remaining bonds might mature in five-plus years. If interest rates go up, you can take advantage of it when your one-year bond matures. But, if rates go down, the effect on your portfolio will be minimized because the other bonds in your portfolio will continue earning higher interest.


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A former British ambassador has published government documents he says prove that Britain knowingly received intelligence extracted under torture from prisoners in Uzbekistan.
Craig Murray, who was removed as ambassador to Uzbekistan after he went public about his concerns, defied a Foreign Office prohibition on publishing the internal memos Friday on his website, www.craigmurray.co.uk. The documents include memos to Foreign Office chiefs in which Murray expressed his concern over the use of "torture material."
In one memo, Murray said he was told by Foreign Office legal advisor Michael Wood that it was not illegal to use information acquired by torture, except in legal proceedings. Intelligence officer Matthew Kydd had also told him the intelligence services sometimes found such material "very useful indeed, with a direct bearing on the war on terror," he said.
Murray said that even after he alerted his bosses to his concerns, they continued to use material allegedly gained under torture "on the grounds that the U.K. could not prove that individual detainees were tortured to extract information."
"I have dealt with hundreds of individual cases of political or religious prisoners in Uzbekistan, and I have met with very few where torture, as defined in the U.N. convention, was not employed," he wrote.
A Foreign Office spokesman said Friday that although Britain condemns the use of torture, it would be "irresponsible" for the intelligence services to reject information that might protect British citizens from a terrorist attack.
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Chicago's Teachers Are Making History. Again.
By Jane McAlevey
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The beginning of a resurgence of strength among America's unions today can be traced to two seminal events: the September 2012 seven-day strike by Chicago's teachers, and the less-noticed June 2010 internal union election at the Chicago Teachers Union. That was when a slate of progressive, forward-thinking educators won all the top seats inside their union, ending nearly three decades of do-nothing unionism at the third-largest teacher's union in the country. Jackson Potter, a teacher and one of the architects of that victory—and the subsequent strike—told me back in the fall of 2013, "Our ability to connect with the community has been key for us. But I worry about our ability to have much success over the long run if there aren't other worker-led insurrections."
Potter and 26,000 coworkers helped set the stage for the Chicago strikes, but they couldn't have predicted the ensuing string of successes toward rebuilding a high-quality public school system, driven by educators from West Virginia to California. The strike that many people regard as the kickoff—the February 2018 West Virginia teacher's strike—can also be traced back to Chicago. Despite a four-decade general assault against workers and unions, and a specific and especially vicious two-decade attack against America's teachers, when the Chicago teachers walked in September 2012, the public sided decisively with them—and against Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Suddenly, expectations were raised that workers could fight, even strike—and win. Now with a strike date set for October 17, the focus returns to Chicago's educators.
Much has changed since 2012, but one factor is refreshingly constant: The teachers' union remains bottom-up, democratic, resilient and strong. Two other groups of workers in two different units, represented by SEIU local 73, have also voted to authorize strikes on October 17. These additional workers include an important group in the Chicago Public Schools, the 7,500 special-ed classroom assistants, security guards, bus aides, custodians, and parent workers, and a second group of 2,500 workers in the Chicago Park District. That group, which has never authorized a strike before, is comprised of supervisors, attendants, lifeguards, landscape laborers, and instructors. Taken together, that's 35,000 workers whose day jobs are about empowering children—not to mention allowing the 180,000 parents of Chicago's nearly 400,000 public school students to go to work. All this has set the stage for a massive crisis in America's third-largest city.
Gone is the right-wing anti–public education, anti–teacher union billionaire governor, Bruce Rauner (though, given the preposterous nature of campaign finance laws in the United States, the new governor is also a billionaire, albeit a less hostile one). But in the driver's seat sits Mayor Lori Lightfoot. "I think there are a ton of differences, not the least of which is I'm not Rahm," she recently said.
Perhaps more important, there's more money on the table for these contract talks. In large part, that's due to the diligent efforts of the CTU itself, which won a substantial change in state education funding. The funding formula now puts more money into the poorest school districts, a reversal of the formula in force the last two times the CTU's contract expired, Potter told me. The teachers also added to the schools' budget by winning state and local funding for their long-neglected pension, as well as local funding for future increases. Combined, Potter said there's now over $1 billion more a year for Chicago's schools. The CTU is demanding restaffing Chicago's schools with nurses and guidance counselors, and more robust social services to help the poorest students in a school district that primarily serves students of color.
"We feel it is our responsibility to figure out how to get the nearly 20,000 homeless students in our schools housed," says Stacy Davis Gates, a high school social studies teacher and the current vice president of the union. "There is no way in the world you can expect the students to keep it together in a classroom, to take a test in a classroom, to complete homework in a classroom, if they don't have what they need in terms of a stable home environment." Although Lightfoot likes to point out she's "not Rahm," she's actually retained the same chief contract negotiator as Rahm and many mayors before him. In fact, the current chief negotiator for the Chicago Public Schools, Jim Franczek (of the private law firm Franczek P.C.) has been the lead negotiator against front-line educators for decades. "I understood from an early age that it is management that makes things happen," Franczek said in a 2015 interview, "and I wanted to make things happen." Which just underlines the fact that it will be the mayor whose actions will ultimately determine whether the strike happens on the 17th.
According to members of the union's negotiating team, Franczek's style is to try to force victory for his side by holding back on serious settlement options till the very last minute. His strategy, repeated over many contracts, is to force a narrowing of the subjects that will get addressed by the educators, and then, with hours to go to a strike deadline, suddenly make a "take it or leave it," offer—frequently with some things educators want—but far less than students or the broader education community needs and deserves. When you read mainstream press coverage of the dispute, it's worth remembering that it's management playing brinkmanship with the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, not the union.
A nearly identical management strategy failed this year in the Los Angeles teachers strike. After four days of robust picket lines, an outpouring of parent and community support and an all-out strike, Mayor Eric Garcetti summoned the head of the teacher's union, Alex Caputo-Pearl, and, the LA Schools superintendent, Austin Beutner, to his office. Beutner told them to "narrow the topics to settle," Caputo-Pearl told me. Instead, Caputo-Pearl insisted, "This strike won't end until you expand the issues to include our proposals such as ending random searches, a green new deal, contractual provisions to help parents of students being threatened by ICE deportations, and, more."
In Gates's view, despite the media's obsession with the mayor and other individuals exchanging often heated comments to the media, "This is not about the people who are in charge as much as it's about the systems of white supremacy that persist in every American institution and that must be dismantled in order for real justice and real equity to take place. And what we are seeing in this moment is that the institution is reluctant to release the resources that a school district with over 90 percent students of color deserve."
There have been last-minute offers: negotiations this past Saturday that resulted in management moving slightly on some core demands of the educators; they have also promised what sounds like big numbers—$2 million over the next five years for school nurses. Mayor Lightfoot repeatedly stresses that she's made an offer for large raises—16 percent over five years—but wages aren't the key issue in this contract fight. They rarely have been, in the education strikes that have rocked the nation for the past two years. Educators—along with nurses and health care workers—have been walking off the job in record numbers, demanding that the superrich and corporations begin paying their fair share of the cost of democracy and keeping Americans in good health.
And while Mayor Lightfoot believes she's got a mandate for her actions, she has said over and over that she can get a deal done. Her chief negotiator's tactics might just bring an end to the honeymoon she's still enjoying post-election, because a strike would likely result in a recently empowered Chicago City Council pouncing on her every move should the popular educators and their allies at SEIU be forced out onto the streets.
The strikes that spread from Chicago across the nation are happening because energetic, smart rank-and-file workers are finally taking back their own organizations—their unions—after too many years of risk-averse leaders whose unwillingness to use the strike weapon contributed to the downfall of the working class. Many teachers in Chicago are stellar educators: After an eight-year stint as a full-time leader of the union, Potter has returned to the high school classroom to teach eleventh-grade classes on "the theory of knowledge, civics and modern world history." But it's not just students at his school in the Back of the Yards neighborhood who benefit. Perhaps the most important lesson Chicago's educators have taught us is that to build a country where policy makers favor the supermajority rather than the 1 percent means a return to massive, supermajority strikes. It is only through such strikes that we can rebuild the solidarity desperately needed among workers—and between workers and the broader society. Strikes are to democracy what water is to life: not a distraction or a disturbance but the foundation.
Correction: This post has been updated to correct a quote that was initially attributed Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti during a meeting with the head of the LA teacher's union. According to a source who was present at the meeting, it was actually said by Austin Beutner, the LA Schools superintendent.
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Tigers Trade and Jacob Turner Loses In Debut
July 31st, 2011 | Brian
Tigers top prospect Jacob Turner made his major league debut while the Tigers shuffled their roster after their trade with the Mariners. He took the loss but you can't be too disappointed with how he pitched. He started off with four shutout innings before he gave up a run in the fifth then got charged a run in the sixth before getting pulled out as he came up to around 100 pitches. In all, he gave up two runs on three hits and three walks with six strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. Phil Coke was hit hard and he gave up three runs in 2 1/3 and then Dan Schlereth pitched 1 1/3 shutout innings to close out the game.
The Tigers made their trade yesterday. They traded Casper Wells, Charles Furbush and Francisco Martinez to the Mariners for starter Doug Fister and reliever David Pauley. This isn't a bad deal because none of the guys the Tigers gave up were true blue chip prospects. Casper Wells looks decent but he doesn't have a spot and while Furbush has looked solid, the team didn't seem to want to commit to him as a rotation guy. Fister is having a solid season but the low strikeout numbers worry me. He has been fairly consistent (in a good way) the past couple of months despite not getting a win but everytime I think of this deal, I also think of the trade we made with the Mariners a couple of years ago for Jarrod Washburn. David Pauley looks like a solid addition to the pen but again, I'm not quite sure how he's doing it because he also has lower strikeout figures.
Of course the Indians drew Ubaldo Jiminez so that makes the race a little more interesting. It's interesting seeing teams like the Indians and Pirates on the buying side. The Indians did win yesterday so that lead is now down to 1 1/2 games. Today is a treat because it's a battle of Cy Young contendors. Justin Verlander goes for the Tigers and the Angels throw Jered Weaver. Should be a fun one to watch.
Turning the Corner
After getting hammered by the Mets on June 28, Rick Porcello has had five straight solid starts in the month of July and he appears to be turning the corner in his development. He won all five of his starts, pitched at least six innings in all but one of those starts and he gave up three or fewer runs. He was just about lights out last night when he pitched eight innings and struck out six with walking anyone. He's pretty much a lock to set a career mark in strikeouts this year. His rate per nine is up almost a full strikeout and while his walks are up, they're only up a hair.  If Porcello finishes strong, fifteen wins is pretty much a lock and if he keeps up what he started in July, you could see 17 wins. Not too bad for a guy that is effectively a senior in college.
I was listening to the game on the way home and Dan Dickerson and Jim Price made a big deal about how good of a hitter Victor Martinez is with two strikes. They definitely did their homework because Martinez is batting .317 with two strikes on him in 2011. Even more impressive, he's hitting .308 after he goes 0-2. He's actually hitting better when the pitcher is ahead (.347) then when he's ahead (.296) in the count. Just looking at his splits some more, after he goes 3-0, he's only hitting .222 but he has a .650 OBP. After 3-1, he's hitting .360.
The Tigers now have their biggest lead of the season with a 2 1/2 game lead over the Indians. They're three ahead of the White Sox. There's still a lot of games within the division so these last couple of months should be interesting.
Brandon Inge is off to a nice start for the Mud Hens. In eleven games, he's hitting .286 with three home runs. My guess is we'll see him in September. The Tigers affiliates aren't doing well this year. The only team with a solid chance at making the playoffs is Connecticut and even they have a losing record.
This afternoon it's Duane Below going up against Dan Haren. I was hoping to get down to the game tomorrow to see the awesome pitching matchup between Justin Verlander and Jared Weaver but I don't think I'm going to be able to pull it off.  The Tigers are on Fox at 4 pm.
100 Games In
The Tigers played their 100th game of the season in a loss to the Minnesota Twins. That loss snapped an eleven game winning streak over the Twinkies after really solid starts by Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer extended the streak. Brad Penny wasn't horrible, but the Tigers ran into a fresh Scott Baker and while he was on a pitch count, he shut the Tigers down in the five innings he pitched. In all, Penny lasted seven innings and he gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts. The loss drops him to 7-7 on the season.
The big news this week was the Tigers designating Brandon Inge and trading for Wilson Betemit. What was nice was seeing Inge take his minor league assignment. To call this season a struggle would be an understatement and something needed to happen. Betemit is a solid fill in for now, but since joining the Tigers he's gone just two for twelve so we'll see how this one pans out.
The Tigers are 4-4 since the break and they still sit in first place, a game ahead of the Indians (although they're tied in the loss column). This afternoon it's Rick Porcello against Francisco Liriano with the White Sox on deck this Monday.
The first half of the Tigers season is in the books and the All Star Break is upon us. The Tigers didn't have a great week leading into the break but they still sit a half game ahead of the Cleveland Indians despite being a loss back because they've played three more game then Cleveland. The White Sox had a rough week as well and they're five back while the Twins have slowly put themselves back into the mix and they sit 6 1/2 games back. At this point, I still don't think the Indians are what they were in the first half and I don't think the Twins have enough in the tank to make up the difference so I see the second half being between the Tigers and the White Sox.
One of the reasons for the Tigers success is they have a better record within in the division then any other team. At 18-8, they've been able to make up ground especially after their lackluster interleague performance. They're also getting it done at home once again. Still, they're on pace for just 86 wins but it's looking more and more like whichever AL Central team gets to 85 first will probably walk away with the playoff berth.
Of course the big story in the first half is Justin Verlander. His ERA is now down to 2.15 and he leads the league in strikeouts (147), WHIP (0.874) and innings pitched (151). It's been 20 years since the Tigers had a 20 game winner (Bill Gullickson) and they've only had seven in the past 40 years.
It's also time to eat a little crow. Back in March I posted some predictions and here's how I've done so far.
1) The Tigers are competing for the division. One for the good guys.
2) Brandon Inge is having a career year, it's just horribly so. Even if Inge has a solid second half it's going to be hard for him to even hit .250.
3) Ryan Perry has been hurt and mediocre. Another blown call.
4) This one also wasn't very tough. I predicted Austin Jackson would hit right around .250 and here he is at .245. His walks are up though.
5) I knew I had heard the "whoever 85 first wins the division" line before. I wrote that above before I went back and looked at this.
6) Jacob Turner hasn't been called up yet but he's having a solid season for Erie as a 20 year old. Not sure if we'll see him as a September call up but if the Tigers are in the mix they could use all of the good arms they can get.
7) The Tigers are on pace to win exactly 86 games. Hopefully they come closer to 90 though and break the string of poor season halves they've had.
So all in all, not too bad. Blew the Inge and Perry calls, but was at least close on everything else.
I'll also throw in this in because it's become an annual tradition but it's disappointing what the All Star Game has become. When I was a kid, the All Star Game was a big event. Now you have players bowing at left and right and the roster morphs over a weeks time. Of course it was also one of the few times you go to see all of the NL stars out on the field because back then, baseball on television wasn't as prevalent.
I hope I did my math right, but the number in the title has some significance. The Tigers sit at 45-41 right now and with six games left in the first half, they need just one win to finish going into the break with at least a .500 record. Since Jim Leyland took over the team in 2006 and the Tigers got "good" their combined record in the second half of the previous five years is 170-200.
So, while the Tigers have given us some hope in the first half in most of the last six years, they've also left us wanting in most of those years as well after mediocre to poor second halfs. Hopefully this year is the difference. Here's some interesting facts I dug up while putting the numbers together. All of these are since 2006.
The Tigers have never had a losing record in the first half. Their worse was 47-47 in 2008. Their best was 2006 when they started 59-29. They've never had a winning record in the second half. Their best record is 38-38 which was 2009. Kind of along these same lines, the Tigers have had at least 47 wins in the first half (this could be broken this year) and they've never had more then 38 in the second half.
What is an Ace?
July 1st, 2011 | Brian
The term "ace" is thrown around way too much these days. Of course this is my opinion but I don't think an ace is a team's number one pitcher. While guys Luke Hochevar and Wandy Rodriguez are probably their team's best pitchers and are good in their own right, I don't consider them aces. Aces are the best of the best, the guys you want on the mound and they're the reason your team rarely, if ever, has an extended losing streak because they put a stop to the losing. Prior to the last few years, the last guy I consider an ace for the Tigers was Jack Morris. He was a guy you wanted on the mound when you needed that win.
Good news Tiger fans, because while it's been a while, the Tigers have their ace in Justin Verlander. Yes, 2008 was rough but since then he's been one of the most consistent pitchers in the major leagues. This year he's been nothing short of awesome. He leads the league in wins, winning percentage, innings pitched, strikeouts and WHIP. He's third in ERA, this overall in WAR and first in WAR for pitchers. His walk rate is the best it's ever been and his batting average against is .184. His OPS against is .536. That's a lot of numbers that point to Justin Verlander being one of the best pitchers in the league.
Of course he did it again yesterday. The Tigers were humiliated by the Mets in the first two games of their series and Justin Verlander pitched seven innings and gave up just one run avoid the sweep. In June, he gave up five runs in six starts for a 0.92 ERA. The Tigers were 16-12 in June and six of those were Verlander wins.
Next up for the Tigers are the Giants so it's first place versus first place. Tonight it'll be Brad Penny against Madison Bumgarner. Don't let Bumgarner's 4-9 record fool you, this guy is for real. It looks like we're going to miss Lincecum.


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With an eye on clinicians, Atheer Labs raises $8.8M for augmented reality glasses
Mountain View, California-based Atheer Labs, maker of an augmented reality headset that it is working to get into the hands of clinicians (among others), raised $8.8 million in equity, options, and securities, according to an SEC filing.
Streamlined Ventures Founder Ullas Naik was listed on the SEC filing, though he is not listed on Atheer Labs' board or among its advisors. This suggests Streamlined Ventures may have invested in this round. Atheer Labs CEO Alberto Torres was the former SVP of mobility for Hewlett-Packard.
Atheer Labs has developed an augmented interactive reality, or AiR, platform. The company's gesture-controlled platform includes a pair of smart glasses, called Atheer AiR DK2, which is powered by its software program, called Air OS. While wearing the glasses, users can view information overlaid onto the real world. They can then interact with the virtual data "in a natural way," the company explains.
One of the company's suggested use cases for this technology is healthcare.
"Whether the clinician is in the operating room or providing bedside care, having quick access to medical records and vitals without turning away from the patient helps increase care quality," Atheer Labs explains. "Nurses can view medical data from a wide range of monitoring devices, on the go, helping them properly respond to any medical situation."
Other use cases include construction, warehousing, and oil and gas.
In December 2013, Atheer launched an Indiegogo campaign for augmented reality glasses, called Atheer One, which were targeted at consumers. The campaign raised over $200,000, but in July 2014, Atheer canceled development of the direct to consumer glasses to focus on its enterprise version. While the price for the B2B augmented reality glasses are not yet available, the direct to consumer version was expected to retail for $350.
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What a 1940 Novel Can Teach Us About Fighting Trump
We cannot be passive in the face of great peril.
By Glenn W. Smith
Illustration by Adam Maida
If you want to understand the moral circumstances that Americans face in the dawning Trump era, you could do worse than The Ox-Bow Incident, a novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. The book was published in 1940 and a film version starring Henry Fonda was released in 1943. It's no coincidence that these were the years of the fight against fascism.
The story, set in 1885, is this: A pair of cowboys, Gil Carter (played by Henry Fonda in the movie) and Art Croft (played by Harry Morgan), ride into the town of Bridger's Wells, Nevada, just as word is received that a popular local cowpoke has been murdered. The sheriff is, of course, out of town. A posse led by a strongman glory-seeker ignores the pleadings of the town's shopkeeper-with-a-conscience and rides out to the Ox-Bow, a bend in a river, looking for vengeance. Carter and Croft go along.
We expect the story to develop into a conventional "horse opera" in which heroic Western individuality prevails over evil. But author Clark and director William Wellman are all about confounding expectations. And they don't flinch.
The posse finds three men asleep at a campsite. The surprised campers plead their innocence. Though Carter, Croft, the shopkeeper and a few others protest meekly, the posse is not persuaded. None of the uneasy ones, despite moral misgivings, summon the courage to stop what happens next.
The mob hangs the three men. Later, it's discovered that the alleged murder victim is very much alive. The hanged men were innocent after all.
This bare-bones account doesn't adequately convey the dark theme. The film, reviewer Manny Farber wrote, "shows the failure of liberal men, inspired by justice, when they are opposed by irrational and powerful men of anger."
Wallace Stegner, in his introduction to the Modern Library edition of Clark's novel, calls the story "a probing of the whole blind ethics of an essentially false, imperfectly formed, excessively masculine society."
America has entered an Ox-Bow moment. Trump was dangerous as a candidate and he'll be dangerous as president. This is not politics as usual. He has already named a white nationalist agitator, Steve Bannon, to a top advisory role. His ugly scapegoating of large segments of society as well as his public brags of sexually assaulting women tell us what he thinks of a majority of Americans.
Trump publicly pushed his rally goers to violence against protesters. His assertion, as president-elect, that a president "can't have a conflict of interest" when asked about his business ties to foreign governments also signals the uncharted territory we have entered.
Trump has Republican majorities in the House and Senate. He will get at least one Supreme Court appointment. At the state level, allies like Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick promise to march in lockstep with the new regime. Texas is one of 25 states in which the Republican Party controls the state House, the state Senate and the governor's office.
It's in this context that Americans and their elected representatives need to think deeply about how to respond to what is already a crisis of American democracy. This is not the time for officials to comply with Republican demands so they can get meager pork barrel rewards for the folks back home. Monuments to their service — streets named for them, buildings with their names upon them — are beside the point.
Here in Texas, a stubborn lawmaker risks (gasp!) making Texas Monthly's list of 10 worst legislators if he or she regularly stands on principle to the point of obstruction. But collegiality and a kind of value-free, mediator's neutrality are poor measures of legislative success. Generally, they do little more than improve one's re-election chances. No, without consideration of the moral substance of efforts or achievements, such scales are justice-free.
In his novel, Clark writes that the rumored murder victim possesses "a gentle, permanent reality that was in him like his bones or his heart, that made him seem like an everlasting part of things." A sentimentalist might refer to America's "greatness" in just such an anthropomorphic way.
Like the power-mad leader of the posse in The Ox-Bow Incident, Trump tells us that national greatness has been destroyed. But that's a lie, and we don't have to wait for the end of this terrifying tale to know it. One hopes that real American greatness, the kind we celebrate in the usual tales of the mythic Old West where true hearts always prevail, will arrive just in time. But that's not how the world works.
Clark's story is a cautionary tale about passivity in the face of evil. We all know how hard it is to put it on the line, even when the line is in schoolyard chalk and the risk is minor. When faced with ostracism, ridicule from pundits or physical threats, the temptation to do nothing can be almost too much to overcome.
Here we are at the Ox-Bow. The consequences of passive compromise are not hard to see.
At the end of the book, Carter, the character played by Fonda in the film, has some tough words for himself. "I've thought of all the excuses. I told myself I was the emissary of peace and truth, and that I must go as such. … I was righteous and heroic and calm and reasonable." It was, Gil says, "all a great, cowardly lie."
We have the advantage here, though. Unlike Carter, we know ahead of time what's coming. The rest of the story is up to us.
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Win! The chance to see U2's first ever live in 3D film at an exclusive screening at London's BFI IMAX cinema on February 13, before the film's release nationwide on February 22.
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'U2 3D', the first live action film ever shot and produced entirely in 3D, will only be screened in 3D cinemas and is not likely to see a DVD release after its main cinema release on February 22.
A special preview screening will also be taking place on February 21st at the BFI Imax London.
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See the March issue of UNCUT – on sale January 29 – for the history of U2 on film, from Red Rocks to 3D.