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President Obama Faces Pushback Over Stimulus Plan and How Michelle Obama Is Carving Out Her First Lady Role
This is a rush transcript from "The Beltway Boys", February 7, 2009, that has been edited for clarity.
FRED BARNES, FOX CO-HOST: Coming up on "The Beltway Boys," President Obama shows massive pushback on the stimulus plan. We'll tell you how he lost control of the message and how he plans to get it back.
MORT KONDRACKE, FOX CO-HOST: The new president is forced to do damage control over the Daschle debacle and tax troubles with other nominees.
BARNES: Obama's being tested overseas, too, with Iran and Russia among others making threatening moves.
KONDRACKE: Michelle Obama has carving out a decidedly hands-on role as first lady.
BARNES: All that's coming up on "The Beltway Boys" right now.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: These Americans are counting on us, all of us in Washington. We have to remember that we're here to work for them. And if we drag our feet and fail to act, this crisis could turn into a catastrophe.
KONDRACKE: I'm Mort Kondracke.
BARNES: And I'm Fred Barnes. And we're "The Beltway Boys."
KONDRACKE: We are. And the first hot story of the day is sales pitch. Barack Obama's approval ratings are holding steady at 65 percent in spite of Tom Daschle and the other appointments snafus. But support is cratering for his — for a stimulus package. The latest Rasmussen poll shows 43 percent oppose the plan, 37 favor it, a reversal from two weeks ago when 45 percent favored the plan and only a third had doubts.
Now, Obama, instead of being bipartisan about the fashioning of this plan, let Democratic liberals write the plan in the House, write the plan in the Senate, and then he's done a terrible job of defending its contents. The only thing that anybody knows about what's in these bills is what the Republican opposition has been saying about all the pork that's in it. And there is a lot of pork.
But Obama is getting busy to defend now. And he spoke to House Democrats on Thursday — this weekend. He's had a speech Monday. He had a speech at the White House on Friday. And there will probably be an Oval Office address when it gets pushed in. But along the way, he is drifting away from partnership. Watch.
OBAMA: In the past few days, I've heard criticisms of this plan that frankly echoes the very same failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis in the first place. I reject these theories and, by the way, so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted out the same.
(APPLAUSE).
BARNES: That's the old, "We won! I can do anything I want."
But, look, Mort, you're right. Losing his post-partisan edge is putting it mildly. Who is the most relentless speaker of bipartisan compromise in Congress but — particularly in the Senate? You know who that is. His name is John McCain. That's why so many conservatives like myself have gotten mad at him so many times.
Listen to what John McCain says about Obama's stimulus bill. "It will not stimulate jobs. It won't stimulate the economy. To pass legislation which is $1.2 trillion, and doesn't achieve the goal, no bill is better than that." No bill. Now, the truth is the Obama has no tax incentives at all that would spur investment and economic growth. Even the spending measures are not going to produce anything quickly at all. It's all Democratic stuff they wanted for years and years.
And spending is really what the bill amounts to. Spending is all it is and Obama is quite happy with this. Watch.
OBAMA: Then you got the argument, well, this is not a stimulus bill, this say spending bill. What do you think a stimulus is!
That's the whole point. No, seriously. That's the point.
BARNES: I would say Barack Obama is more Keynesian than John Maynard Keynes was.
KONDRACKE: I don't think so. John McCain, it's true, is a bipartisan figure and has always striven for that. But all during his presidential campaign, what was his first answer for dealing with the economy? Cut spending. That does not work in a recession.
BARNES: It did for Reagan.
KONDRACKE: Reagan did not cut spending.
BARNES: Yes, he did.
KONDRACKE: Reagan raised defense spending, big time. That was Keynesian, by the way. Now, Obama is going to say, and it's quite true — if you're not scared about it, I am — 7.6 percent unemployment, 3.6 million jobs lost so far.
You know, not only liberal economists but some conservatives too are scared to death that we are on the edge of a precipice, global depression. We've got to do something big and fast to get us out of it.
I agree there's a lot of junk in the Democratic packages and stuff like that, but it seems to me that what we ought to do is we ought to do both, what the Keynesians say, that is to spend and spend fast and get — you know, get projects out there that create jobs. I would help out the states as well, which the conservatives don't want to do. But I would also lower taxes and try to get a bipartisan bill going.
BARNES: Mort, if there were a President Kondracke that advocated this, you would get the 80 percent-plus vote in the Senate and House than Obama initially said he wanted. But the truth is he won't compromise. Democrats won't compromise — I won't say serious way, but even any trivial way they won't compromise. It's as simple as that. The bill's big but it's not fast. It's going to increase inflation and interest rates over time.
A guy like McCain, who really — I know what he said in the campaign — but he really is available for compromise, always. Not much was offered to him at all, in fact, nothing. We're left with no bill — which I favor, and McCain favored — or this monstrosity of a bill.
And here's why no bill may be the best thing in particular rather than that. There's already a lot of stimulus in place. We have had gasoline prices that dropped like crazy, helping the poor and the middle class. Rich people don't get much more for that. Gas for their limos maybe doesn't cost as much. We've seen the Federal Reserve pumping all this money into banks, another $150 billion to go out. As we know, because there's a problem, there will be billions more after that. Look what the Federal Reserve is doing, it's buying up tens of billions of these mortgage securities. They're increasing the money supply. They're buying treasury bonds. There's a lot of stimulus out there. If you added some tax cuts, plus some spending to ease the pain of the recession, I think it would be great shape.
KONDRACKE: All that's being done and the economy is still cratering.
Coming up, what's up with President Obama's nominees not paying their taxes? And the president has major headaches overseas too. We'll tell you how these guys aren't exactly rolling out the welcome mat.
(FOX NEWS BREAK)
BARNES: Welcome back to "The Beltway Boys." Hot story number two, testing Obama. I'm not talking about the college boards here, Mort. We all remember what Joe Biden said during the campaign, that once President Obama came in, because he's inexperienced, he would be quickly tested by America's adversaries. Guess what, he's being tested by some.
Here a list of just some of the countries that are making trouble for President Obama.
First, Iran. President Obama reaches out. Iran responds by launching a satellite showing off its missile technology. It barred the U.S. badminton team from competing in a tournament there.
KONDRACKE: Obama is offering to talk to the Iranians, so what is the first step in the process, Iran tries to veto, ahead of time, the person who has not been announced but is supposed to be the chief negotiator, Dennis Ross, because he was involved in the Middle East peace process, and is allegedly pro-Israeli. You know what the Obama administration should do, name Dennis Ross tomorrow.
BARNES: What would happen if they backed away from Ross?
KONDRACKE: Then it would be a cave-in.
BARNES: It would be a cave-in.
Second, Russia, took over the U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan that we've been using to supply our growing military presence in Afghanistan.
KONDRACKE: The Russians are saying, if you want to supply Afghanistan, all you have to do is stop expanding NATO and give up missile defense in Eastern Europe. In other words, collapse. What Obama's trying to do is find alternative routes into Afghanistan.
BARNES: He will. It will be a little harder. Kyrgyzstan doesn't want to do this, but when the big, bad boy comes and tells them they have to, they have to do it.
Third, India. India, now on of our best allies actually in South Asia. New Delhi warned President Obama this week that he is "barking up the wrong tree" if he tries to broker Pakistan and India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
KONDRACKE: The chief negotiator for that region, Richard Holbrooke, was supposed to be the envoy for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. And the Indians got in there and whacked themselves out of the picture. It's now Afghanistan and Pakistan. But Holbrooke is going to India regardless and he's going to talk about Afghanistan. but I bet he talks about other stuff, too. Richard Holbrooke with not be restrained.
BARNES: One of the great achievement going back, first, to the Clinton administration, but especially the Bush administration, were America's new ties to India during the Cold War. Remember the Indians were unallied or they backed to Soviets and so on. Now, they're a strategic ally. All I can say, Obama and Holbrooke better not screw it up.
The European Union and Canada registered their, "displeasure, with the buy-Americans provision in the stimulus plan, that Mort liked so much, and could sparked a trade war.
KONDRACKE: You know that I do not like the buy-American. And the Europeans and Canadians have it exactly right, and Obama knows this. The last thing he should do in the middle of a deep recession, is close off world trade. He's saying that will be pulled from the stimulus bill. And the next thing he should do is call leaders all around the world and get them to stop closing their markets, which they've been doing.
BARNES: If Barack Obama knows that, how many the Democrats who wrote the bill, and the bill in the Senate, how come they didn't know that? I know that, you know that, Barack Obama knows it. Don't they know that?
KONDRACKE: They're not free traders.
BARNES: Isn't it a violation of the World Trade Organization rules that we're a member of? Wouldn't it lead to retaliation by these countries all over the world? Some of these big businesses, like Caterpillar in Peoria, Illinois, which bid for all these contracts around the world, they're not for this kind of protectionism.
KONDRACKE: Exactly.
BARNES: Did we hammer home the point.
KONDRACKE: Yeah.
BARNES: And lastly, North Korea. There's concern it might begin testing long-range ballistic missiles possibly over Japan.
KONDRACKE: No matter what Obama does, no matter what Bush did, you can be sure the North Koreans are going to act up. That's the only way they get attention. The problem would be if they actually did something aggressive. So far, they haven't done it.
BARNES: Isn't there a lesson here that our new president, Barack Obama, should be learning.
KONDRACKE: Yeah, don't cave in.
BARNES: Yeah, that's one. But there's another lesson, and that is sweet talk and agreeing to negotiate with people and talk with the bad guys doesn't necessarily lead anywhere.
KONDRACKE: But I think it changes America's image in the world to try — you try to talk to these people. And when you fail, if you fail, then you say, we tried. And you got the moral high ground.
BARNES: Look, let's be tough. These are bad guys in the world. What we've got to do is combat them and prevent them.
KONDRACKE: Talk, talk and use leverage.
BARNES: ... the moral high ground.
Coming up, does first lady Michelle Obama want a policy role in her husband's administration? And what about the personnel drama in the Obama White House? We'll do a damage assessment, next.
KONDRACKE: Welcome back to "The Beltway Boys." It's time for the "Ups and Downs."
Down, Tom Daschle. The former Senate leader withdrew his name from consideration as Health and Human Services secretary after embarrassing tax issues came to light. And he's not the only one. It seems Obama's Cabinet nominees have a purity problem.
But Obama says the buck stops with him. Watch.
OBAMA: Every approach that we're taking here, going to be perfect? No. Have we set a very high bar, higher than any president who has ever been in this office, and are we generally meeting that very high standard? I think the answer is absolutely yes.
BARNES: That was encouraging. Mort, I would like to associate myself with the comments by the gentleman from Wyoming, Richard Cheney, the former vice president. Here's what he said, "You have Daschle with his tax problem. You have Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner with his tax problems. You have Charlie Rangel, who is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. He doesn't understand the tax code. Chris Dodd, who got alleged special terms on a mortgage. I would start to worry about it if I were a Democrat. There's nothing more dangerous, politically, than hypocrisy. At some point, here, we're going to get critical mass."
I think it's pretty close to critical mass when you add in things like Hilda Solis, the nominee for labor secretary, husband had to pay off a bunch of tax liens.
Jay Leno says Obama has a formula. If he slowly just nominates every American citizen to some job in his administration, they'll pay off the back taxes and get rid of the deficit. By the way, the late night comics are all over that one.
But, look, in picking Daschle, here's the problem for President Obama. He is — Daschle is the epitome, the symbol of everything he campaigned about, about the pictures and people doing well in Washington and so on. I think our friend Charles Krauthammer is right, the magical mystery tour that Obama was on, a new way of doing business in Washington, it's over.
KONDRACKE: Look, nobody ever said that Dick Cheney was post partisan. It would have been good manners on his part to keep his mouth for at least a month and give Obama a chance.
I must say, there's a lot of excess glee going on among Republicans about the travails of Barack Obama. I'm not denying Democrats weren't all over George Bush in the beginning and right at the beginning of the administration and they never gave him a chance. But one would hope that, in this moment of crisis, that there would be some cooperation.
But, in any event — the public, according to a recent Gallup poll, shows that only 21 percent think that stability has improved since Obama has taken office and 23 percent actually think it's gotten worse.
Look, Obama has set, I think, an astronomically high standard. He went on a jihad against lobbyists and so on.
BARNES: He hasn't hired a lot.
KONDRACKE: He actually, clearly, did not meet that standard and he is gone large by because of his taxes. Obama did say I screwed up. Normally speaking, when a leader takes responsibility for a mistake, that endears them to the public. JFK did it after the Bay of Pigs and Janet Reno did it after the Branch Davidian thing. And it usually helped them, helped their popularity. I don't see that happening with Obama.
BARNES: It was utterly meaningless when he said that. Look, that's not going to help him. He's the guy who picked these people. You know why there's glee out there to the extent there is, it's because anybody who's been around Washington who could tie his shoes knew that Obama had a lot of hot air about new politics and changing how business works in politics. And Obama campaigned on it. Mort, you knew, I knew he couldn't deliver on that, please.
Look, one thing he did right, Judd Gregg, the Senator from New Hampshire, making his commerce secretary. I was surprised Judd took it, but maybe he can help Obama on entitlement reform. Gregg knows a lot about that.
KONDRACKE: He does.
BARNES: Up, First Lady Michelle Obama. It's early, but it's clear she's adopting the Hillary Clinton model in her role as first lady, embarking on a listening tour of all the federal agencies.
Here's Mrs. Obama this week at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: The Department of Housing and Urban Development is going to play a critical role in implementing elements of the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that will help our communities. This investment will allow us to put people to work, weatherizing at least two million low-income homes. It will also save working families on average $350 per year in heating costs.
KONDRACKE: You know, I don't think she's fitting the Hillary Clinton model. It's more like late Laura Bush. What Michelle Obama is basically doing is cheerleading her husband's program and thanking everybody who works in the various departments. And she's going to tackle children's issues. That's going to be her specialty. She's not going to sit in on senior staff meetings and run the White House council's office the away Hillary did. Or throw laughs (ph) for that matter.
BARNES: Mort, there is nothing more tedious than taking a listening tour of the departments of government.
KONDRACKE: You know, thank the bureaucrats all the time.
BARNES: I have nothing against her having a policy role in the administration. Just be transparent about it and let people know that's what she's doing. Unlike the Reagan administration, where Nancy Reagan played a big role and denied it.
KONDRACKE: Down, Wall Street fat cats. President Obama is reining in the pay, of executives of companies who get taxpayer money. He's putting a $500,000 cap on annual compensation for senior executives, limiting so- called golden parachutes for departing big wigs and he's requiring corporate boards to limit such luxuries as corporate jets and lavish parties.
Our pal, Dave Smidt (ph), the editor of International Economy magazine, one of the wisest people around on what's going on in the national economy, says that — or fears actually that this is cover for what Tim Geithner and — is up to as to the banks. That they're going to pour more money into these banks without adequate safeguards, without the guarantees that they're going to lend money. Without guarantees that — that the public, if they get out of this mess, will share in the profit generated by the risk the taxpayers are taking.
BARNES: Well, they recognize how unpopular the bailout of the banks is. It's necessary but it's unpopular. They do need to have transparency in this as well.
KONDRACKE: OK. Don't move a muscle. "The Buzz" is up next.
BARNES: Mort, here's your big chance. What's "The Buzz"?
KONDRACKE: Two big foul-ups on the Iraq front. One, retired General Anthony Zinni was offered the job of U.S. ambassador to Iraq and then had to read in The Washington Post that somebody else, Christopher Hill, got the job.
Secondly, the Iraqi had this enormously successful democratic election. And what does Barack Obama say? That it was good for U.S. soldiers and their families. It was good for them, but it was also the Iraqi people. And it was a vindication of George Bush. He could be been generous.
BARNES: But he was begrudging them instead. I was glad to see Barack Obama is continuing George Bush's faith initiative, run by this 26-year-old guy from his campaign, Joshua Dubos (ph). They're going to be working more in the neighborhoods than in the past. My fear is it will be less faith- based and just another social program funded by the federal government. I hope not, but that's my fear.
That's all for "The Beltway Boys." Join us next week when the boys will be back in town!
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Two Weeks Trapped in SUV – Women Survive Eating Girl Scout Cookies
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Two women, missing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, were found safe Friday. | Photo NBC News
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Trapped in their SUV in heavy snow, two sisters survived Michigan's Upper Peninsula for thirteen days on family love, melted snow and Girl Scout cookies.
Leslie Roy, 52, and Lee Marie Wright, 56, were spotted by a police helicopter in Luce County MI after they disappeared earlier this month.
"Through the days and nights while in the woods, we survived using love and hope in our families," they said in an emailed statement, according to HuffPost News. "Our faith in God held our confidence that we would eventually be found. We took note of circling aircraft, available water resources, the supplies we had with us. These factors eased our mind and allowed us to stay alive for thirteen long days."
According to HuffPost News, Roy, of Valley, Nebraska, and Wright, of Depew, Oklahoma, got stuck about 3 miles from Crisp Point Lighthouse along Lake Superior. They had been visiting relatives in Ishpeming, near Marquette in another part of the peninsula. The sisters had planned to head south on April 11.
They didn't arrive at their Mackinaw City hotel where they had reservations, being trapped in snow on a little-used road until the helicopter pilot noticed a reflection off their Ford Explorer on Friday. There was no cell service in the area and the vehicle eventually went dead.
According to HuffPost News, state police Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker told The Associated Press that Roy and Wright wore layers of clothing to stay warm, melted snow to drink and ate Girl Scout cookies and a bag of cheese puffs.
They were taken to an area hospital Friday and released after examination.
"Lee and I would like to thank everyone. Friends, family, strangers from afar for all of their thoughts and prayers," they said in the statement.
Much respect for these two tough ladies.
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Australia is famous for its huge swathes of untouched wilderness and for the unique, often deadly animals that wander there. You wouldn't expect that a nation with the likes of the platypus and the killer box jellyfish would need to invent a new creature to add to its allure, yet reports of a mysterious, massive creature lurking in the waters of Australia abound. This creature, the Bunyip, is as much a part of Australian culture as any of its other fantastic beasts. The Bunyip (translated in Aboriginal Australian to mean devil or evil spirit), also known as the Kianpraty, is a creature of Aboriginal mythology. It lives in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes all over Australia. The Bunyip has many descriptions. Some say it has a dog-like face, dark fur, a horse-like tail, flippers, walrus-like tusks, and a duck-like bill. Others think the creature has an appearance similar to a snake with a man and a beard. Some even think that the Bunyip is actually the prehistoric marsupial, Diprotodon australis, that managed to escape extinction. But the figure of the Bunyip was part of traditional Aboriginal beliefs and stories throughout Australia, while its name varied according to tribal nomenclature. In his 2001 book, writer Robert Holden identified at least nine regional variations of the creature known as the Bunyip across Aboriginal Australia. Europeans recorded various written accounts of Bunyips in the early and mid-19th century, as they began to settle across the country.
When Europeans first arrived in New Holland (as Australia was originally named), they were the latecomers. Indigenous Australians arrived in Australia 40,000 years earlier and it is suggested that Indigenous Australians have the longest continual cultural history of any people on the planet. The cultural history of Indigenous Australians is integrally connected with the Australia landscape and customs, wisdom and tribal laws are passed down the generations through story telling. Indigenous Australians are a diverse group of peoples with their own languages, legends and norms based around the tribe's territory (known as 'country') and this means the Bunyip tales vary from tribe to tribe. The British formally settled Australia at Botany Bay in 1788 and as the British and the Indigenous people made contact, the stories of the Bunyip were passed from one culture to another. Coming from Britain, the new world of Australia was an alien landscape for the colonists, a land filled with weird and exotic animals. Over half of the First Fleet were convicts, with little experience of the world outside English cities and towns. Imagine their first reactions to seeing a kangaroo, an echidna or a platypus? No wonder the tales of the Bunyip were accepted by the settlers. The Bunyip was obviously another unusual animal in this strange new land, although a little harder to catch.
No one knows exactly what The Bunyip looks like — but they know to stay away. Facts about the Bunyip are a little harder to come by – what is known is largely fragmentary and of dubious origin. For instance, it is said that the Bunyip lurks in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. The most frequent reports of Bunyip sightings came from the southeastern colonies of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia in the 1840s and 1850s. In these reports, the Bunyip is an aquatic mammal. It has smooth skin, 'apricot' eyes, and a bellowing cry that it releases before pouncing on its victims and devouring them. Aborigines have differing opinions on the Bunyip. Some believe it is a bloodthirsty murderer, but others have called the Bunyip a punisher sent to Earth to bring justice to anyone who commits evil acts and to protect the wildlife. In 1851, a newspaper called The Australasian published a report about a Bunyip being speared after killing an Aboriginal man. The creature was eleven paces long and four paces in width. Aboriginal people used to visit the sight of the creature every year and outline its form, but those outlines have been lost over time. Witnesses have trouble describing the appearance of The Bunyip. The most popular description is that it looks like an enormous starfish. However, some people claim it looks like a snake with a beard. Others argue it has a dog-like face, a crocodile-like head, dark fur, a horse-like tail, flippers, walrus-like tusks, and a duck-like bill. The Bunyip darkened the folklore of Australia's Aboriginal people for centuries before it made its debut in the written records of European settlers, who bought into the legend wholeheartedly. Originally, the monster went by a different name in each indigenous tribe: the Wowee-wowee, the Yaa-loo, the Kianpraty, the Dongu, and more. When Europeans got their hands on these various monsters, they united them under the single most popular name: Bunyip.
The earliest documented evidence of the Bunyip is a set of huge, mysterious bones found by the famous explorer Hamilton Humes in 1818. Humes didn't name these bones as the Bunyip, instead believing that they might have come from a manatee or hippopotamus. However, the scholars who heard about his discovery couldn't help but think of the monster described by Aborigine people, and the Philosophical Society of Australasia offered to pay Humes to return the lake where he had found the skeleton and transport it to their headquarters. Humes declined. In 1830, another set of bones were unearthed in Wellington Cave. The anatomist Sir Richard Owen identified these bones as belonging to a giant, extinct marsupial species, at the same time noting that the surrounding tribes had a tradition about a similar giant creature living in nearby waterways. In 1845, the Geelong Advertister announced yet another fossil discovery, this time claiming that the fossil had been identified by an Aborigine man as belonging to a previously unknown species: the Bunyip. This story kickstarted a firestorm of monster sightings across Australia. In 1847, a bizarre skull was found and attributed to the now extremely popular monster. Although experts identified the skull as belonging to a deformed fetal calf, it was accepted into the Australian Museum in Sydney, where it was displayed as evidence of the Bunyip. The display was wildly popular, until the skull was mysteriously stolen from the museum. Another slurry of sightings followed in the wake of the museum's display, but by the end of the 1850s, the monster's fame had entered a slump.
Today, the Bunyip is largely regarded as no more than a charming bit of folklore. He is usually portrayed as a gentle giant, and he has even starred in children's books and television series. The Australian tourism boom of the 1970s brought a renewed interest in Bunyip mythology – in 1972, for example, a coin-operated bunyip was built by Dennis Newell at Murray Bridge, South Australia, at Sturt Reserve on the town's riverfront. In 1996 Australian children's author Jackie French wrote several Bunyip tales, including the short story Bunyip's Gift, collected in the anthology Mind's Eye. An Australian horror movie titled Bunyip is about a group of city folk who decide to hike in the Australian wilderness but end up getting lost and have to survive against the legendary creature. Another Australian horror movie titled Red Billabong pits two brothers who uncover their family's secrets and realise that their friends go missing but don't realise that the legendary Bunyip is to blame and now is stalking them. Bunyips even recently appeared as the focus cryptids in an episode of The Secret Saturdays; however, they were depicted as small, troublemaking creatures instead of monsters. Interestingly, the monster's name has also picked up some political connotation. It can be used as a derogatory term to belittle political movements that are made up of "imposters" or "humbug." During the 1850s, it was used to mock "the bunyip aristocracy," a group of European settlers who aspired to create a new class in Australian society. In the 1930s, the word was used again as an attack on the Liberal Party of Australia. Whether real or imagined, the myth of the Bunyip is nothing if not flexible – as well as surprisingly resilient.
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Next Xbox Live Sessions will feature Forza 7, professional drivers Tanner Foust and Josef Newgarden
September 27, 2017 by Arif Bacchus
Microsoft has announced that the next Xbox Live Sessions will feature professional drivers Tanner Foust and Josef Newgarden. The two drivers will be playing Forza 7 and will be going head to head in the game, putting their racing talent to the test.
As usual, the session will be hosted on the Mixer Xbox Channel, and fans who tune-in will be able to submit questions and have the chance to win some prizes. Xbox's Major Nelson will be hosting the session, and Forza Community Manager, Brian Ekberg will also make appearances.
For those unfamiliar, Josef Newgarden was just crowned Verizon INDYCAR champion, and Tanner Foust is a former Global Rallycross and Formula Drift champion. The two drivers both reflected excitement for being a part of Xbox Live Sessions.
"Forza has always been one of my favorite games on Xbox, so I can't wait to play Forza Motorsport 7 against Tanner on Xbox Live Sessions..."This should be a ton of fun, but I'm definitely going to bring my A-game and play to win."- Josef Newgarden
"I'm looking forward to getting behind the wheel in Forza Motorsport 7 for some friendly competition against Josef. I can't say I will be going easy on him when it comes to speeding towards a victory!" - Tanner Foust
DJ Khaled, Marlon Wayans, and James Corden were other famous figures who were a part of past Xbox Live Sessions. The Session is sure to be fun, so be sure to tune in! And remember to pre-order Forza 7 to have your own chance at enjoying the Xbox exclusive racing title when it launches!
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Pro Football Hall of Famer Claude Humphrey dies at 77
By Jacob Lev, CNN
Updated 0135 GMT (0935 HKT) December 5, 2021
Former Atlanta Falcons player Claude Humphrey celebrates his NFL Hall of Fame induction on September 7, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia.
(CNN) Longtime Atlanta Falcons defensive end and Pro Football Hall of Famer Claude Humphrey has died at the age of 77.
Humphrey passed away on Friday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced on Saturday.
"The entire Pro Football Hall of Fame family mourns the passing of Claude Humphrey," Pro Football Hall of Fame President Jim Porter said in a statement. "His humble spirit guided him on and off the field. Our thoughts and prayers are with Claude's family during this difficult time. The Hall of Fame will forever guard his legacy. The Hall of Fame flag will be flown at half-staff in Claude's memory."
Claude Humphrey in August 1970.
Humphrey was selected third overall in the 1968 AFL-NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons out of Tennessee State and was named AP Defensive Rookie of the Year that season.
Humphrey played a total of 13 seasons in the league, including 10 with Atlanta and three with the Philadelphia Eagles before retiring in 1981. During his time in Atlanta, Humphrey earned All-NFL or All-Pro honors eight times. He was named All-NFC seven times and played in six Pro Bowls.
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"Known as a hard worker and a reliable teammate, Humphrey was always willing to help the team out wherever needed and knew success was achieved collectively," Porter said.
Humphrey was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2014 and was credited with 130 sacks, placing him 24th on the NFL's career leader list, according to the Hall of Fame.
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"We are saddened by the passing of Claude Humphrey and send our prayers out for his family and friends in this difficult time," said Arthur M. Blank, Atlanta Falcons' owner and chairman.
"Claude made an indelible impression on so many from Memphis to the Falcons and across the NFL with his leadership and tenacious approach on the field. His Falcons legacy was cemented as a forever memory with induction into our Ring of Honor and he will be greatly missed. May he rest in peace."


A bottle of Chateau Latour displayed in a wine shop in Paris, France. A boom in fine-wine demand has lead to more innovative ways of trading and investing in the top vintages. (Photographer: Antoine Antoniol/Bloomberg News).
Premier Cru or Grand cru classé? Well, I'll confess that I do like a good bottle of Bordeaux having worked on the vineyards of southern France. And, while most of us don't possess the nose of top U.S. wine critic Robert Parker, we can still appreciate the merits of investing in wine.
Now given where the traditional financial markets are trading right now - from the FTSE 100 to the S&P 500 as well as gold - it would seem appropriate to consider alternative asset classes - if only for protection. Besides fine wine investment, one could include art and luxury cars in the mix.
My interest in wine was also recently whetted during a visit this summer to Slovakia, where I paid a visit to Wine Not? bar in Bratislava that is stocked with a massive thousand bottles and the ELESKO wine park and museum nearby at Modra for wine tasting with a sommelier. More recently, just last week I attended a wine tasting event led by Finnish wine expert Juuso Hämäläinen at the Humble Grape hosted by CommsCo PR agency at London's Liverpool Street.
History shows the Romans brought the first vines to France in around 500 BC and planted in Bordeaux around 50 BC. While the drinking and worshipping of wine dates back longer than written history itself and is said to have emerged with civilization itself from the East, investing in wine is a more recent phenomenon - but not entirely new.
That said, only recently have IFAs (Independent Financial Advisors) been comfortable to include wine in their standard selection and investment choices. Returns for some fine wines produced in very limited quantities over the past few years have been pretty stellar - driven by an interest in exotic assets generally. But if one wanted play the investment-grade wine market, the typical entry level is around the £10,000 (c.$12,700) mark.
Just over a decade ago in March 2006, Latour and Lafite Bordeaux reds from 2000 were fetching the highest auction prices in London since the landmark 1982 vintage, while the 2000 Margaux, Haut-Brion and Cheval Blanc were the most expensive at the point in time since 1990.
More recently in October 2014, 114 bottles of Romanée-Conti Burgundy went under the hammer at Sotheby's in Hong Kong for £1,035,000 (c.$ 1.314,450) - equivalent to around £9,800 (c.$12,500) a bottle. At the time it was the most expensive lot of wine ever sold. Technically the highest price ever paid for a bottle of wine was $500,000 for a Screaming Eagle Cabernet 1992. However, the price paid was for charitable purposes.
In 1855 Napoleon III effectively kick started the origins of the "Fine Wine Index", when he classified the wines of Bordeaux on a scale of 1 to 5. His decisions were based on the quality and prices realized at each of the Chateaux wines over the previous hundred years.
And, apart from a sole change in 1979 - when Chateau Mounton-Rothschild was promoted from a second growth to a first growth wine - nothing has ever changed. The laws Napoleon put in place 163 years ago are stringently upheld now and controlled by the Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO), which is charged with regulating French agricultural products with protected designations of origin.
Fine wine outperformed the FTSE 100, S&P 500 and gold in 2017. (Source: Liv-ex. Data as at December 31, 2017).
Today about fifteen Chateaux are regarded as the best for investment purposes, with each producing around 10 vintages said to be worth buying. Pundits out there suggest that potential investors should purchase the Bordeaux Grand Cru Classés, which account for the largest part (c.75%) of the investment-grade market for fine wine.
Over many decades, first-growth Bordeaux wines such as Château Lafite Rothschild, Haut-Brion, Mouton Rothschild, Margaux and Latour have generated pretty sound investments returns. Added to that leading Burgundies, Rhones and wines from the Champagne region have performed nicely too.
Finite supply of fine Wine: Like all luxury goods, fine wine is produced by a chateau or domain in finite quantities in specific regions, which prevents supply from fluctuating significantly from year to year. The quantity then diminishes over time as the wine is consumed, which in turn leads to limitations on availability and prices can subsequently rise.
Growing Demand in Emerging Markets: Burgeoning wealth in emerging markets, especially in China, South East Asia and parts of Africa, has driven the market for fine wine higher and will continue to do so in the coming years.
Weakened Pound: With sterling sinking following the Brexit decision and on-going political uncertainty, fine wine, which is priced in pounds, has become more affordable than ever for foreign buyers.
Tangible Asset: Wine is a physical product rather than just a certificate. If the worst happens then the wine can always be drunk.
Potential Returns: If the correct wines are bought at the right time and at a good price the decent returns can be made. As a rule of thumb, 8% to 12% compound.
If you were so inclined you could even buy a hectare or two of vineyards in Bordeaux in the south west of France, depending on how much you could run to. Through prices vary considerably from the most expensive to the least; one thing appears clear in that prices for top Bordeaux vineyards have been rising sharply of late.
Figures released this August by the French government revealed that you could pick up a hectare of an "ordinary" vineyard in the Bordeaux area for less the €10,000 (c.$11,400), but others at the top end were are selling for millions of euros per acre. For instance, in St Emillion, the French insurer Scor paid €178 million (c.$203 million) for a chateau with 29 hectares of vines (i.e. c.€2.5 million (c.$2.85 million) per acre).
According to property consultancy Vineyard Intelligence, that of around 7,300 vineyard estates and producers in the Bordeaux region between 150 and 200 have been acquired by the Chinese. Demand from Asia has been growing from a relatively low base.
Things hotted up this September, when Château Pétrus, one top Bordeaux vineyard, hit the headlines this September following a story in French newspaper Les Echos, where it was reported that Alejandro Santo Domingo, a Colombian-American billionaire, had acquired a 20% stake in the business.
Two-thirds (66%) of financial advisers in Britain believe that investor portfolios have become too heavily weighted towards equities in recent years and three quarters (75%) are concerned that these investors are "over-exposed" to elevated levels of volatility, according to new research by Cult Wines, a leading fine wine investment company.
Given the robust defensive qualities of fine wine versus equities, a recent new report has indicated that 66% of financial advisors believe that certain investors should "consider diversifying" their portfolio by investing through fine wine, citing its "low correlation" to traditional asset classes (75%) and strengthening demand from China and other emerging markets, with limited supply (57%) as key reasons for increasing exposure.
Philip Gearing (seated right), Chairman of Cult Wines, with Tom Gearing, Managing Director of the company. (Source: Cult Wines).
In its recent report, 'Fine Wine versus Global Equities', analysts at London-headquartered Cult Wines, with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore and over £95 million (c.$108 million) of assets under management, also showed that during periods of economic deterioration fine wine compares favourably to the performance of global equities.
Indeed, over a 10-year period from December 2008 to December 2017 the Liv-ex Fine Wine 1000, an index tracking the prices of 1,000 wines from top wine-producing regions around the world, experienced less than a third of the volatility of the MSCI World Index, providing investors with greater consistency and more stable returns.
Over this December 2008 to December 2017 period analyzed, the volatility of the Fine Wine 1000 was significantly lower than the MSCI World Index - at 4.997% versus 16.28% - and the MSCI Emerging Market index. The result showed that the LIV 1000 has a 3-year standard deviation as a low as 4.9%, while the MSCI Emerging Market index has a 10-year standard deviation of 22.28%.
During the period from 2008 to 2010, the Liv 1000 returned a little less than zero, whereas the FTSE All-Share lost about 25% and gold futures fell nearly 5%. On the converse side, during the period spanning 2015 to 2017, the Liv 1000 returned 10%, while the FTSE All-Share returned roughly 9% and gold futures 8%.
In fact, the Fine Wine 1000, seen as the broadest measure of the fine market, increased 11.3% during 2017 - a performance only exceeded by the Burgundy 150-index.
Bar chart illustrating how fine wine can protect investors from suffering greater loss during a period of financial crisis.
According to the research from Cult Wines, nearly 7 in 10 (69%) of advisers expect their peers will become increasingly familiar with the role that fine wine can play in an investment portfolio. However, what will be key to boosting awareness - cited by 82% of advisers - is "greater availability" of credible performance data comparing fine wine to traditional asset classes.
While fine wine has long boasted a reputation as a defensive asset, Cult Wines' study demonstrates the extent to which wine can retain its "diversification benefits" even amid broader economic deterioration. This analysis shows that fine wine remains a viable alternative asset class because of its distinct defensive qualities.
Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects around fine wine investing is that it is characterized and deemed a so-called "wasting asset", which makes it exempt from capital gains tax (CGT). This, under Section 44(1) of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 it because its predictable life is viewed as "not exceed more than 50 years." But here it is probably best to seek advice from a tax adviser on tax efficiency.
Should you also be cold called about wine investing by someone speaking about the merits of wine as an investment and saying they will send you an investment pack, especially if the global equity markets are taking a nose dive, be wary. Such firms have fleeced investors before the authorities have closed them down.
While there are risks of course with any investment, given the niche characteristics and relative size of the fine wine market insulates it from the wider macro-economic factors and safeguard investors from greater loss. And, with the strategic case in terms of an alternative asset class being made - at least by this study – and growing interest from China, Mexico, parts of Africa and south-east Asia, the market outlook remains promising. Kippis! (cheers) as our Finnish wine expert remarked last week.
The full report on fine wine investing from Cult Wines can be accessed via this link.


The lawyers who recovered the accommodation bonds of residents of a collapsed Queensland aged care facility – Australia's first claim under the Bond Security Act – say families of residents affected by problems at a Melbourne aged care home need to be aware of their rights.
The Bridgewater aged care facility at Roxburgh Park went into administration on May 23, reportedly holding $8.5 million in accommodation bonds.
Slater & Gordon lawyer Ben Hardwick says the Bridgewater case is similar to the situation that occurred in September last year following the collapse of Lifecare's dementia aged-care facility at Carrara, Queensland.
In the Lifecare collapse, residents were also forced to find alternative accommodation at short notice. Fortunately this aspect is not the case with Bridgewater residents.
Slater & Gordon was retained by representatives of five former residents of Lifecare when – for the first time – an approved provider failed to repay a bond.
"Ultimately the residents recovered their bonds with the first successful group claim under the Bond Security Act," Mr Hardwick said.
"Bridgewater residents and their families can take some comfort from the announcement by Ageing Minister Justine Elliot that resident's bonds will be protected by the guarantee scheme under the Aged Care (Bond Security) Act 2006.
"But the critical trigger for the guarantee system to operate is the occurrence of an insolvency event as defined under section 6 of the Bond Security Act.
"The fact that the aged care facility has been placed into administration does not fall within the definition of an 'insolvency event' for the purposes of the Act.
"Should an insolvency event occur, recovery of the bonds still requires some vigilance.
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Taliban Promise Peace, but Doubt and Fear Persist
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This month, after outlasting a superpower, the Taliban walked to control on a road paved with mass surrenders. The question now is how magnanimous they will be in victory, and how eager for international recognition and aid — in other words, how different from the Taliban of a generation ago.
Taliban leaders including Amir Khan Muttaqi, a former information minister, are in talks with one-time adversaries, like the former U.S.-backed president, Hamid Karzai, about the shape of a new government, the Taliban said. Mr. Mujahid offered no hint of what would emerge, saying "give us time."
But the involvement of Mr. Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, a former chief executive of the government, who are well known to world leaders, could give some legitimacy to any deal. Mr. Mujahid said the Taliban want friendly relations with the world, including the United States.
"If the Taliban had wanted a one-sided government, they would have already declared an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan yesterday in the presidential palace," said Maulvi Qalamuddin, a former Taliban minister who reconciled long ago with what is now the former U.S.-backed Afghan government. "They would have announced their cabinet. But no, in fact, they were waiting for this."
The mayor of Kabul, Muhammed Daoud Sultanzoy, said in a video message that the Taliban had left him in office — at least for now — and the health minister, Wahid Majroh, also remained in place.
But there has been at least one effort to open a resistance to the Taliban. Amrullah Saleh, the vice president of the toppled government, said he would take up the effort in Panjshir, a northern province that remained a thorn at the Taliban's side the last time they were in power.
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The Orioles' 2011 Rotation
By Ben Nicholson-Smith | September 1, 2010 at 5:42pm CDT
The Orioles' 2011 rotation will likely feature many familiar faces, but the results could be noticeably different if Baltimore's young starters continue adapting to the challenges of the American League East. Because of baseball's unbalanced schedule, the Orioles face four of baseball's top ten offenses on a regular basis. Not coincidentally, Orioles starters rank 26th in the majors in ERA, 25th in innings, 24th in quality starts, 29th in strikeout to walk ratio and 29th in FIP.
For some teams, those results would call for an offseason overhaul, but the Orioles have a young rotation that's capable of improving considerably. Jeremy Guthrie, the team's most established starter, has a 4.10 ERA in four seasons in the AL East, so the Orioles have pencilled him in atop next year's rotation.
Current starters Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta and Brad Bergesen will all be in the mix for starting jobs, but Kevin Millwood hits free agency and could sign in a more pitcher-friendly environment. Even if Millwood leaves, the O's will have a number of internal options, as president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail points out.
"You'd add [Zach] Britton and you'd add [Chris] Tillman and you'd add [Rick] Vanden Hurk, and then there are others that could work their way in there, like [Troy] Patton," MacPhail told MLBTR.
With a month to go in the 2010 campaign and an entire offseason ahead of us, it's still early to predict starters with much certainty, but Matusz will presumably start for Baltimore in 2011. He entered the 2010 season as the fifth-best prospect in the game, according to Baseball America, but has struggled at times. Like AL East lefties Jon Lester, David Price and Ricky Romero, Matusz has taken time to adjust from the minors to baseball's toughest division, but if last month is any indication, he has made some adjustments. Though Matusz's season ERA sits at 4.72, he pitched to a 2.43 mark in August with a 26/7 K/BB ratio.
Jake Arrieta has a 5.10 ERA in 15 major league starts this season with more walks than strikeouts. Those numbers aren't anything special, but the righty placed fourth on Baseball America's preseason list of top Orioles prospects because of his "pure stuff" and potential to eat innings. The 24-year-old posted a 1.85 ERA in Triple A before the O's called him up, so he figures to improve in 2011 as long as he can sort out his command issues.
Brad Bergesen, also in the team's current rotation, has an ERA of 5.55 with 4.2 K/9 and 2.5 BB/9. He doesn't turn 25 until later this month, so he's still young, even if he doesn't have the upside of some Orioles prospects.
Tillman and Britton are among Baltimore's most promising young arms. Tillman, 22, has a 3.34 ERA with 7.0 K/9 and 2.2 BB/9 in Triple A this season, though he has scuffled at the major league level so far. Britton, a 22-year-old left-hander, has a 2.69 ERA with 7.0 K/9 and 3.0 BB/9 in the upper minors. Both will have the chance to break into Baltimore's rotation next spring.
The Orioles acquired Vanden Hurk for Will Ohman earlier in the summer and they consider the 25-year-old right-hander a potential starter. He has a 4.25 ERA with 7.1 K/9 and 3.3 BB/9 in 118.2 Triple A innings this year. Vanden Hurk, Tillman, Britton and current long reliever Troy Patton are not in the rotation now, but they give the Orioles a number of options. Still, if Millwood signs elsewhere, the O's may consider other veteran starters to complement their many young rotation candidates.
"If you have the opportunity to add another veteran innings guy, you might look at that as well," MacPhail said.
Given the group's relative inexperience and the Orioles' division, it would be unfair to expect a San Diego or Oakland-esque breakout from this group right away. Pitchers like Tillman, Britton, Arrieta and Matusz will all be learning on the go, so they'll likely struggle at times. But those arms are promising, so the O's could have a young and effective rotation within a couple seasons.
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As a Yankee fan, I can say that Baltimore will be competitive and postseason contenders by 2014.
Slopeboy
Matusz looks like a keeper. He still needs to learn how to pitch rather than just throw,but has shown flashes of ability. The O's would be smart to nuture and support this guy.
jwredsox
I don't think he is a thrower. He is a low 90s lefty with a good changeup. He isn't a power lefty so while I do believe he is very good calling him a thrower is a little off for me imo.
Sniderlover
Yeah and I'm pretty sure even he knows he is not a thrower. He is a pitcher that has good control and number of pitches and he is finally starting to show his ability. It'll take some time especially in AL East but he's got the pitcher to become one of most dominating lefties in the game. God now that I think about it, AL East will become even more scary by 2012 where all the teams are competitive. heck even right now, Baltimore is pretty good under their new coach. Jays are an above .500 team right now and they have good upcoming guys and could look to contend by 2013, not to mention they have a brilliant pitching staff. Yankees are Yankees. RedSox are RedSox and Tampa is a great team with a very talented and deep farm.
This why I like the 2 divisions (AL and NL) with all teams within their division playing each other in the same number of times with top 4 in each in the playoffs. If you have a super stacked division you could have a deserving team who won't make the playoffs because of a hard division plus wouldn't it make the playoff chase more interesting? Unless you have a vastly superior team the playoff chase should be closer. (and no this isn't because of the Red Sox this season I liked this idea before this season).
I would rather just see them expand to 10 or 12 teams rather than 8 teams.
logicx24
The problem with that is that if every team has the capability to get 90+ wins, then a lot of deserving teams will be left out. If that ever really happens, which it definitely could, then the AL East would have to be split up, to at least give other divisions a chance at the Wild Card. Besides, the Rays are losing Crawford, and Pena after 2010. It will be harder for them to contend, without one of their two power threats. In Crawford, they lose a stolen base threat, and a high average and decent power. They have B.J Upton, but he has not performed to the level he should have.
mstrchef13
He's very comparable to Tom Glavine in both stuff and command. I'll take that in my rotation for the next several years.
basemonkey
One of his primary pitches is his change up and he is a very good command pitcher. That's not a thrower to me. In the last few starts you saw him deal changeups in the 70s for strikes to set up hitters. Pitching backwards is nit what you see in Throwers.
Lookouts400
When you talk about Matusz, do the words crafty lefty mean anything? Marusz is a clone of Glavine and Cliff Lee. They didn't do so bad, did they. Matusz can and will be a top of the rotation starter. He's a bulldog and knows how to pitch.
Do the words wishful thinking and hyperbole me anything? As I said in the post, Matusz has ability and he's a keeper, he has shown flashes that say he's going to be really good but he's still learning his craft. I've seen him pitch well and at times get flustered when there's an error made behind him or lose focus when an ump misses a call. And like many pitchers, lose the strike zone and then come in and get whacked, that's what I meant about him still being a thrower. I don't live by stats, but in this case his numbers seem to back up what I see. And as for being a clone of Glavine or Lee, that's really really a stretch. Lee, aside from his current woes, is one of the top pitchers today, and Glavine is 293 wins and a career removed from Matusz at this stage. Be fair to the kid and wait ten years before you use the words Clone, Lee, Glavine and Matusz in the same sentence.
I look forward to a .500 season… it's been to damn long since that sucker in the right field stands at yankee stadium snagged the routine fly away from tony tarasco!
Matusz is the real deal.
Dave_Gershman
So is Britton, Tillman, and Arrieta. So if only they can get those 4 situated and learn how to really pitch, they could be something decent soon.
I'd like those guys to be so, but I don't think you can say that until they pile up MLB innings. Britton hasn't gotten a shot yet. Arrieta needs to manage his pitch count, hold runners better, be more consistent with command, and pitch out of jams. Tillman might have the highest raw stuff in his live fastball-curve combo, but he has significant hurdles to pass to adjust to the majors. His stuff is so good that he's been able to go far just by getting minor-league batters to swing at his stuff, but he needs to pitch with command in the majors. A ton of great prospects end up as major-league fodder because they never make that adjustment.
Thats why I used the word, situated.
Ok. I just can't say they are the "real deal" yet. They all hold promise, but they could all also turn into ineffective pitchers within a few years, for one reason or another.
With Matusz, in spite of not being a finished product himself, I've already seen enough from him to see he is a real majorleague pitcher.
Never said they were the real deal. Just expecting a lot
I can agree with that. I've just seen A LOT of very good pitching prospects amount to not even a fringy career, on the minor league and major league level. So it informs my thinking here.
Mark Rau
MacPhail is the master of illusion. The offer to Tex was phony, knowing he wouldn't take it but at least Andy can say he "tried." You will see this off-season that there will be no free agent signings to talk about AGAIN. Until the fans of Baltimore stop going to the games and stop buying the merch, Pete and Andy will just keep pocketing the MASN money and laughing at the fans as they empty their wallets for an organization who could care less!
ugen64
you know, for a second there I thought I was reading a comment on a conservative blog. you know, "Obama is the master of illusion. the health care bill was phony, but at least he can say he 'tried'", etc….
The_Porcupine
Just stop with the propoganda. Angelos has not been a detriment to the O's for the last 5-6 years. Yes, he ruined the team in the 90's, but we've got to move past that. It's not that the O's won't spend money, they offered big money contracts to Konerko, Vlad, and Teixeira (when they were in their prime). The fact is no one stud player is going to come to Baltimore unless there is significant improvements to the 25 man roster. They need to develop overall depth to get anyone big to come here. Why would they? Even if they get their money, they're going to lose (classic example is Tejeda. Managment thought he could put them over the top, but they couldn't put a lineup around him). So if money is equal, the free agents are going to go elsewhere.
Sockmonkey23
They'll clearly be signing a 1B/DH. I do not expect them to go out an offer Adam Dunn what he deserves, but I sure would love to see it.
NYY92
orioles have some good young talent if there starting pitching steps into its potential next year.they could be the rays champ team
I've watched baseball for over 30 years. This team has the earmarks of a good rising young team. It happens. There's plenty of cynics here, but IM guessing most of them aren't old enough to have seen any balance of power different from what exists today, and surely not when the Orioles were a dynasty. There was once a string of 18 consecutive winning seasons by the Os. To get an idea what that means. After this season there will be only 3 franchises in history to ever do that. The Yankees will join that.
Please, no one should expect the O's to sign Lee. Don't waste your breath. We need to sign/develop a few #2 or #3 starters before an ace will be willing to sign here. We need to focus on developing Matusz, Britton, and Tillman. Bergeson can be trade bait. Arrieta can be a bullpen arm or trade bait. Same with Patton. I don't think Guthrie should be traded because we need someone with a track record to be the supposed "ace." He's relatively cheap and pitched well enough to be the veteran anchor. No more Millwood types! The only way I would trade any of the pitchers would be for a bat that we have control of for more than 2 years (ie. we should waste our breath on Fielder either). I feel we need 1 more year to develop our players before jumping out big in the free agent market (after next year the first base pool will be stacked).
If the Os could add 1 legitimate MLB slugger bat, and, bonafide veteran SP, the Os would have the right mix of talent to allow their young core to make serious noise.
Bergesen looks like a different pitcher now. Who knows if it's sustainable, but it's a hell of an improvement.
Full Season: ERA of 5.55 with 4.2 K/9 and 1.5 K/BB
April: 12.19 ERA; 4.4 K/9; 0.8 K/BB – 3 starts, 10 innings
May: 4.26 ERA; 1.9 K/9; 0.8 K/BB – 6 starts, 38 innings
June: 11.17 ERA; 0.9 K/9; 0.25 K/BB 2 starts, sent to bullpen and then minors.
————–look at the change in strikeouts from here:
July: 6.32 ERA; 6.3 K/9, 2.6 K/BB 6 starts 37 IP
August: 2.72 ERA; 5.2 K/9, 3.0 K/BB 5 starts 36 IP
His velocity is up, his fastball is moving better…remember he was injured in the offseason and never really caught up. Also, remember this is a GB pitcher with a terrible infield defense behind him for most of the year – Izturis and three DHs. It's no mistake that the Orioles ERA turnaround began around the same time as the return of Roberts and the trade of Tejada.
Home runs are a problem for Bergesen – that's how you g0 0-5 with a 6+ ERA in July despite excellent K/BB numbers. Having said that, I'm very excited to see what next year will bring for Bergesen, as well as the rest.
I like a rotation of
Matusz
Bergesen
Tillman/Britton
I really think Tillman belongs in the 5th spot for now


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What makes a classic car valuable?
Nothing conjures up an image of laidback luxury quite like a classic car. But if you're considering buying a Bentley or purchasing a Porsche, it's important that you don't just leap into the driving seat without checking a few things first.
To make sure you're buying a valuable vintage automobile and not a rusty old heap, read on. Otherwise, your purchase may not be the 'Triumph' you'd hoped for.
What is a classic car?
For us, defining a classic car is the million dollar question as it is almost impossible to define a 'classic.' It's as much about the way a vehicle is treasured and loved as it about the age of the vehicle itself.
Whilst HMRC may define a car as a classic for BIK purposes when it reaches 15 years old, in practice, many younger cars (MGTF, MX5 etc) can be insured as a classic car if they are used in the true classic sense.
Another good indication of whether or not a vehicle warrants 'classic' status is if it has increased, rather than decreased, in value since reaching its lowest value.
Good examples would be older Golfs and Ford Fiesta, which have appreciated – as opposed to depreciated – significantly in recent years.
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Q: GraphObject.make requires a class function or GoJS class name or name of an object builder, not: undefined I'm following the tutorial of the library go.js: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyseUD_i6Dw&list=PLOiCuGu6tcUSvKsqFnemvGTfdT97wVLsX&index=3.
I reached this point without problems, but at this point I'm getting this error:
GraphObject.make requires a class function or GoJS class name or name of an object builder, not: undefined

This is my code:
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    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Test</title>

Does anyone know where is the problem? Some version issue perhaps? I've tried with different versions of go.js, but I get always the same problem.

A: You have misspelled go.TextBlock (you wrote go.textBlock)
By the way, in 2.2 (which was released after those videos were made), GoJS has a new way of constructing objects that looks like this:
function init() {
  myDiagram = new go.Diagram("myDiagramDiv");
  myDiagram.add(
    new go.Part("Position")
      .add(new go.Shape("RoundedRectangle", {fill: "white"}))
      .add(new go.TextBlock("some text"))
  );
}

This method chaining like new go.Part().add(someObject).add(anotherObject) allows you to write code that is concise like GraphObject.make, but the errors are more clear. In the case of your typo, instead you would see:
Uncaught TypeError: go.textBlock is not a constructor
And it would point out the specific line:

Ro read more about method chaining instead of using GraphObject.make, see:
https://gojs.net/latest/changelog.html
https://gojs.net/latest/intro/buildingObjects.html

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Q: Can the DXF file format/AutoCAD store custom attributes for primitives? I am currently researching ways to draw primitives associated with data attributes.
Thus I came across CAD and the DXF file format, but I am no CAD user, and the documentation I found so far is confusing me in this regard.
So my question is, can I add attributes to a drawn primitive in AutoCAD? E.g. can I draw a polygon and give it a custom attribute like "material = metal"?
I only know such functionality from GIS programs and file formats like GeoJSON, however, these programs are highly specialized for drawings in a bird perspective, without constructional precision (i.e. angles, length, etc.).
So is this possible to do in AutoCAD, and than save the result as a DXF ASCII?
Thank you for your time, and please excuse me for my ignorance

A: Yes, you can achieve this using Extended Entity Data (xData).
There are various ways to attach xdata to an object: the easiest of which and which requires no programming experience is to use the Express Tools' XDATA command.
Upon invoking this command you will be prompted to specify an application name (App ID) under which the xdata will be attached. The application name can be arbitrary, but avoid anything starting with "ACAD" (these are reserved for use by AutoCAD, for example, to apply Dimension Style overrides) and avoid spaces and symbols.
You will then be prompted to choose the data type for the data that you are attaching to the object. The available data types are displayed as keywords at the command-line.
Finally, upon specifying the data type, AutoCAD will prompt you in an appropriate way to specify the data to be attached to the object, stored under the Application ID specified.
To extract the stored data, you can either use the Express Tools' XDLIST command, or you can access the xData programmatically, as I have described here.


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Sainz had to "completely change" F1 driving style to get on top of 2022 Ferrari
Carlos Sainz has revealed that he has had to "completely" change his driving style to get on top of the characteristics of Ferrari's current Formula 1 car.
Jonathan Noble
Oct 18, 2022, 9:01 AM
The Spaniard had hoped to hit the ground running this year after a strong first season with Ferrari in 2021, in which he had few problems adapting to his new surroundings.
However, Sainz found himself on the back foot in the early stages of this campaign. He could not get as comfortable with the F1-75 as team-mate Charles Leclerc.
That left him a couple of tenths adrift of Leclerc from the off, as he and his Ferrari engineers set about chasing solutions to try to get him more at one with the car.
Despite numerous set-up experiments, no changes delivered the breakthrough Sainz needed. It was only a complete rethink of his approach to driving the car that helped him turn things around.
Speaking exclusively to Autosport, Sainz said the situation he faced in the early races was tough to endure because it was something he had never experienced in his career before.
"It was frustrating after such a strong first year with the team, where I found very few issues with the car," he said.
"I felt like, after the first few races in 2021, I knew where the limit of the car was. I only had to find one or two tenths in a certain type of corner and I was ready to compete. That's why the second half of the season was so strong and I could get on top of it.
"This year was finally a competitive car, finally a car able to battle for wins, and suddenly I find myself in a position in which I've never found myself before, which is being a bit more than two tenths off.
"I've never been more than two tenths off a team-mate, and I'm scratching my head to see where all this lap time is coming from. It was frustrating, because it was the first time I had a competitive car that could allow me to fight for wins."
While Sainz had previously been reluctant to explain how he finally produced a step forward in Canada, prior to taking his maiden pole position and victory at the British Grand Prix, he has finally opened up on how he had to take it upon himself to do things differently.
"I kept it quite secret where my struggles came from," he said. "I think people who understand the sport, and people who do in-depth analysis, more or less know me by now, and know where the issues came from. But just to make it short: I had to completely change my driving style.
"I had to change the way I was driving, in a very unnatural way. I had to change to an unnatural way and make it natural: which takes a long time.
"I also had to try things with set-up. Most of them were in the wrong direction, and then we had to rediscover the right direction. This takes races. There's no testing anymore, so you need to test on race weekends.
"That means sometimes you have to commit to a race weekend with a setup where you basically have it wrong for that weekend. And it means another weekend not performing.
"That accumulated frustration until around the time of the Canadian Grand Prix, where I started to find my way a bit. And since then, I've started performing a little better."
While Sainz did not want to reveal any technical secrets, he said the issues mainly revolved around specific corner speeds where Leclerc was doing better than him.
Carlos Sainz, Ferrari
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"It was a bit everywhere, but it was a certain kind of corner speed and a certain driving style that I wasn't doing well with this car," he said.
"It sometimes happens in the career of a racing driver. You jump in a car, like I did in 2021, and you do nothing: you just drive it, and you are quick straightaway.
"Then sometimes you jump in a different car, you think you've done a good lap time, but then you see it compared to others and it's not that quick.
"It is natural. But it frustrated me that that point of my career had to come when I had a competitive car."
Sainz said the need for him to adapt more to what the car needed, rather than being able to change the setup to suit him, was driven by the technical limitations in the 2022 regulations.
"The team obviously listened to me and knew where my struggles were," he said. "But in a budget cap era, and with such simple car regulations like we have nowadays, they are very simple cars. You have very little freedom to play with set-up.
"It wasn't until very late in the year that we brought a couple of things that have helped me to really find a bit more from the car.
"Everything since Barcelona, which was my lowest point in terms of qualifying speed and race speed, was me pretty much changing the whole driving style and trying to find a car that gave me a bit of confidence."
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Since getting on top of the car, Sainz has seen an uplift in his form – which he hopes gives him the foundations to have a much better 2023 season.
However, despite some very strong performances, he confesses that he is still not as comfortable with the car as he would like.
"There are little things that suddenly raise your confidence and that's where I started to feel like I can also be quick with this car," he said.
"At the beginning of the year, you always have your doubts. Is this car ever going to give me the confidence I had with last year's car? Am I ever going to find the right way to drive this car to the level that I know I can? You have these doubts.
"But then these little details help you to trust the process and trust all that hard work that I had to do - although there were many times that I had got it wrong with the set-up direction, with my driving.
"It's still not a car that I like, honestly, as far as how to drive it is concerned. I still have to think a lot while driving. And I'm not driving fully naturally yet. But at least I know that if I put everything together, I can be there."
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OPINION: With teams outside the top three having struggled in Formula 1 in recent seasons, the rules changes introduced in 2022 should have more of an impact this season. How well Haas does, as the poster child for the kind of team that F1 wanted to be able to challenge at the front, is crucial
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Alpine's signing of Pierre Gasly alongside Esteban Ocon revives memories of a famous all-French line-up, albeit in the red of Ferrari, for BEN EDWARDS. Can the former AlphaTauri man's arrival help the French team on its path back to winning ways in a tribute act to the Prancing Horse's title-winning 1983?
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OPINION: A system to score all the grands prix from the past two seasons produces some interesting results and sets a standard that 2023 should surely exceed
Who were the fastest drivers in F1 2022?
Who was the fastest driver in 2022? Everyone has an opinion, but what does the stopwatch say? Obviously, differing car performance has an effect on ultimate laptime – but it's the relative speed of each car/driver package that's fascinating and enlightening says ALEX KALINAUCKAS
Why F1's nearly man is refreshed and ready for his return
By Adam Cooper
He has more starts without a podium than anyone else in Formula 1 world championship history, but Nico Hulkenberg is back for one more shot with Haas. After spending three years on the sidelines, the revitalised German is aiming to prove to his new team what the F1 grid has been missing
The potential-laden F1 car that Ferrari neglected
The late Mauro Forghieri played a key role in Ferrari's mid-1960s turnaround, says STUART CODLING, and his pretty, intricate 1512 was among the most evocative cars of the 1.5-litre era. But a victim of priorities as Formula 1 was deemed less lucrative than success in sportscars, its true potential was never seen in period
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