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The Peter Principles (Ch. 11) – Letting The Moose Loose in pinstripes
Posted on 22 January 2019 by Nestor Aparicio
(Author note: This is Chapter 11 of my book "The Peter Principles," which I was working to finish in March 2014 when my wife was diagnosed with leukemia the first time. I will be releasing the entire book for free online this summer – chapter by chapter. These are the true chronicles of the history of Peter G. Angelos and his ownership of the Baltimore Orioles. If you enjoy the journey, please share the links with a friend.)
11. Letting The Moose loose in pinstripes
"We're not in the business of making arrangements with baseball players that border on economic insanity. We are in the business of putting a first-rate team on the field which is composed of athletes who are generously compensated. But when the demands of any one player or more than one player exceed what we believe to be reasonable, we are prepared to go in another direction. If we're not able to do that, then we become the prisoners of the respective ballplayers. We aren't going to do that. We don't operate that way. We play fair. We pay generously. We pay what is generous and proper. I think $72 million to Mussina is plenty of money to Mussina."
Peter G. Angelos
WBAL Radio
THE PETER G. ANGELOS OBSESSION WITH INJURIES and medical reports was in full swing every offseason following the Xavier Hernandez incident in December 1998, when the journeyman pitcher walked away with $1.75 million of orange and black money without ever having to pull a jersey over his head. Angelos wasn't just outraged and angry. He felt the Orioles had been fleeced and was once again feeling just how powerful the Major League Baseball Players Association was in the sport. In many ways, they employed even dirtier legal tactics then the word salad filth he was accustomed to with tobacco companies and asbestos cases in building his wealth.
The Orioles needed pitching heading into the 2000 season and big right-hander Aaron Sele was on the marketplace as a free agent. Thift and the Angelos boys, who were clumsily heading up the baseball evaluation for the Orioles, both liked his solid makeup and track record with the Boston Red Sox and then the Texas Rangers. He had won 37 games the past two years in Arlington and, at 29, was hitting the peak of his career. He finished strong at 10-3 for the Rangers and helped lead them – along with former Orioles manager Johnny Oates and GM Doug Melvin – to the American League West title in 1999. This was his first big chance to cash in on free agency and the Orioles were considered a prime suitor. Other starting pitchers Andy Benes, Omar Olivares and Darren Oliver were also on the market, but Sele would be a perfect fit for the No. 3 spot in the rotation behind Mike Mussina, who was entering his final year under contract to the Orioles, and Scott Erickson, who struggled in 1999.
On Jan. 7, 2000, Roch Kubatko of The Sun reported that Orioles had agreed with Sele on a four-year deal worth $29 million, with the veteran turning down a four-year deal for $28 million to remain in Texas. Thrift, who was only negotiating a portion of the club's deals because Angelos always had his hands on the phone as well, told the newspaper, "There's always the possibility of something not happening."
Thirft's words were prescient.
After agreeing verbally to the deal with the Orioles, Sele was administered a physical that the team said raised questions regarding the strength of his arm. Angelos demanded that two years be taken off of the deal. Angelos said that Orioles doctors believed that Sele only had 400 innings left in his right arm.
One of Sele's agents, Tom Reich, told The Associated Press there was a difference on interpretation with the Orioles on medical tests. Sele had never undergone arm surgery, but missed most of 1995 with an arm injury. But that was five years earlier.
"The dealings with Baltimore were very cordial from beginning to end and it just didn't work out," Reich said. "To me, Peter Angelos is a good guy." This was after his client lost $14 million in guaranteed money and was branded in MLB circles as "damaged goods."
Two days later, Sele signed a two-year, $14.5 millon deal to pitch for his childhood hometown team, the Seattle Mariners. Once again, a former Angelos employee was involved.
"This thing is like a star falling out of the sky," said new Mariners general manager Pat Gillick, who felt he got a bargain. "We're satisfied Sele is as healthy as he was when he finished the season with the Rangers. He underwent a physical on behalf of us with another physician, and our physician talked with that doctor and is satisfied. There is going to be normal wear and tear. You really have to rely on your medical people. They know which bumps along the road you have to watch for and which you can work through."
Of course, Gillick got in a nice shot on Angelos to the media at the Sele press conference 3,000 miles from Baltimore.
"I'm not aware of exactly the concerns were with Baltimore," Gillick said. "I think there were some differences of opinion there. I think this is a business where timing is very important. You only have a very small window. You have to react very quickly. Those who hesitate, as they say, are lost."
By now, the complaints about Angelos were long and varied from any of the long list of qualified baseball
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Being Thrift with mounting debt and wringing the Belle with an insurance policy
Posted on 16 August 2017 by Nestor Aparicio
12. Being Thrift with mounting debt and wringing the Belle with an insurance policy
"I've been very productive in my life in baseball. I'm not going to be taken as some amateur or semi-pro trying to build a resume to get a job somewhere else, like a lot of my colleagues have done over the course of time. We really have had a plan of where we're going, how we're going to get there, what we're going to do. And so far we're very pleased with the progress that we've made with this team."
Syd Thrift
THE LOSS OF MIKE MUSSINA in November of 2000 came as a massive blow to the fans of the Orioles, whom by and large, were still loyal to the team and more so even to Cal Ripken who was clearly coming to the end of the line of what had been a legendary career.
The Orioles not only missed the playoffs the previous three seasons but really never spent a day anywhere near contention despite the many contentious vibes the team had been casting off in the shadow of an owner who had lost his way and was getting attacked on every front in the public eye.
Peter G. Angelos bought the Orioles in 1993 because he was nouveau riche and starved for attention and the power that came along with controlling a civic trust for the local sports community. He wanted to be important. He wanted to be famous. He wanted to be loved.
Now, he had the eyes of the metropolis on his every move and was wilting under the pressure of trying to follow through on his promises to make the team a winner every year. There was little doubt that Angelos wanted to win. He just had no idea how to do it and simply throwing money at players wasn't the answer to chasing down George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees, who were the reigning champions and winners of four of the previous five World Series. And now, the damned Yankees took the only thing the franchise had left that was worthy of pillaging – ace pitcher Mike Mussina, who led the evening news in a pinstripe uniform and a dark NY hat because Angelos had essentially botched the negotiations and demeaned him publicly.
Angelos refused to pay Mussina the going rate.
It was never brought to light or reported – mainly because after being transparent regarding the finances of the Orioles in the early days of his ownership, Angelos went silent and became evasive – but the team began truly hemorrhaging money during this era of ineptitude on the field. Angelos admitted that the team wasn't making money in 1996 and 1997, when wins on the field didn't translate to profit for the club. The Orioles had the third highest payroll in Major League Baseball in 1997 and led the sport in 1998 and were still massive spenders vs. the marketplace in 1999 and 2000.
Angelos inherited a team with a $27 million payroll in 1993. By the turn of the century, the Orioles were spending $84 million per year despite seeing revenues dropping sharply over the previous three seasons when losing affected everything about the bottom line for the team. Fans who had tickets through corporations began not using them. Concession sales suffered. And attendance was falling because it had nowhere to go but down after the halcyon days of Camden Yards as the stadium approached the decade mark and many other cities had seen their own new stadia and downtown renaissance.
Angelos was quietly writing checks, privately, to fund the tens of million of dollars of losses of the Orioles. He acknowledged to other investors that it was his decision-making – and his alone – that had guided the team into a predicament where it wasn't profitable and was bordering on dreadful on the field.
And as much as Mussina was one check that Angelos refused to write for $14 million per year, he had another similar check with three more years on the line and $39 million of team payroll still committed to Albert Belle, who struggled mightily during the summer
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Orioles, Nats and MASN Money for Dummies: A complete primer on how Peter Angelos has lied and pocketed your dough
"What you can expect, though, that those that comment – putting aside the fellow you mentioned (Nestor Aparicio), who you know is not even worthy of getting into that (chuckles), it really makes no sense to respond to him – the responsible people, who know baseball and who are baseball fans – the writers like you (Stan Charles) – if they want to criticize, they better look at the economics. They owe it to the public to explain to whoever is interested that the problem is disparity in revenues. Now, I have heard some of them mention that this MASN development might really generate some real funds, which would permit the Orioles to spend more money. That's a pretty strong acknowledgment that the key to all this, to get off the losing years and so on, is more money invested on the field. And obviously, with that becoming available, that's exactly what we're going to do. We're going to do that because we are hometown and we are sensitive to what the public is thinking. I know a lot of Baltimore fans, and, just personally, I want them to feel like I am responding to their wishes."
Peter G. Angelos, May 2006
(as told to PressBox via Q&A)
PETER G. ANGELOS DOESN'T WANT YOU to know about the billions of dollars he has collected, dispensed and quietly usurped from local sports fans from six states via your cable television bill. It's time for someone who is "responsible" to do the math on where all of that money has gone over the last 10 years as the Orioles. and its spinoff cable TV partner the Mid Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), have become a virtual annuity for the owner here in Baltimore.
Clearly, given the dozen years that he's fought with his Major League Baseball partners, Bud Selig, Rob Manfred and now Ted Lerner and the Washington Nationals over this incredible sum of "found" money, surely there must some large pot of gold somewhere? The Washington Post wrote that it was $298 million in dispute from 2011 to 2015 after the New York Supreme Court hearing in early November. But that's just the tip of the financial iceberg – a small number compared to all of the money that's been flushed through MASN since it was berthed as a olive branch to Angelos by then-commissioner Bud Selig for allowing baseball back into the nation's capital in 2005.
Over the last decade, I've been portrayed as a liar or a heretic by Peter G. Angelos and his media partners. After 21 years with a Baltimore Orioles media credential, my access was taken away by the club in 2007.
However, my track record still stands as unblemished heading into 2016.
I always tell the truth and write the truth. (That's why you're here.)
As you'll see, I've put in all of the work for you – a little "term paper" for you oldtimers who spent time with microfiche in a lonely library – so you can learn about this history and realities of how the Nationals came into existence and what it's meant for Baltimore and Washington baseball and the fans.
This series of facts is presented with two educational goals:
Track everything that was said – and very openly in the "mainstream" media – a decade ago when Angelos began this power struggle for the future money of Washington, D.C. and what he considered his market
Document everything that has happened since he began this trail of lies in search of all of the money that was designed and originally earmarked to improve the Baltimore Orioles
Everything presented in this series will be linked to major media entities like Forbes, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, ESPN/Grantland, Sports Illustrated, USA Today and various reports with financial annotations. I've always been accountable in my work. Meanwhile, accountability is always completely absent from the mind and spirit of Angelos and his …
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Part 3: Which Baltimore sports media entities suck? Here's my report card…
Posted on 23 October 2012 by Nestor Aparicio
It's been nearly three years since I started publicly examining the "State of Baltimore Sports Media" at WNST.net. As I predicted, the way you get your local sports news, information and analysis has seamlessly changed and now sits in the palm of your hands.
Three years ago when I wrote this in depth look at where the Baltimore sports media universe was heading, Twitter was truly at the dawn of its existence. The ability of mobile devices was far more limited and far less distributed. And the access to the genie of instant information in the palms of our hands that we've quickly become accustomed to will never go backward into the narrow bottle of the limited access of newspapers, television and radio waves.
Today, I will examine the current state of the Baltimore sports media experience and as much as many local journalists like to give "report cards" on the Ravens every Sunday night and Monday morning, I'm sure some folks will get their feelings hurt today.
I'll tell you what I think about our competitors and the intentions of their bosses and their corporate, money-making media machines. Honesty. Candidly. Openly. As usual…
And, we'd love to hear what you think here in our "2012 State Of Baltimore Sports Media Survey" here.
One lucky survey entrant will win a trip next weekend to Cleveland on our Miller Lite Orange Roadtrip powered by Jiffy Lube.
As I've said over the past month, we're trying to make WNST.net better every minute of every day so that we can be your primary source of Baltimore sports news and information on your mobile device.
Examining the Baltimore sports media business is the most important thing I do on a daily basis and while I rarely write about this stuff, it's been my life's mission to improve your experience as a local sports fan.
I find it almost hilarious and/or pathetic that anyone would listen to the radio station that calls itself "The Fan" when the entire concept was drawn up in a board room in New York and never factors the actual "fans" into the equation when they assembled their corporate radio station team.
But competition is good. It sets the bar. At WNST.net, we've never ducked the obvious or taken Baltimore sports fans for granted – we know you're judging us and comparing us every day because you utilize more than one outlet for your sports media consumption on a daily basis in 2012.
But we're always striving to the be the FIRST place you go to get Baltimore sports information on your IPhone, Droid or mobile device.
In an effort to encourage you to give your feedback on the local Baltimore sports media scene, it's only fair that I file my own report card.
So, who are the competitors and players on the local scene and where do you turn when breaking news happens in Baltimore?
My general overview of this is candidly clear: Baltimore is a lazy market on the new media end. I know how hard we work at WNST.net and I know what our resources are. I know the strengths and weaknesses of all of our competitors in the marketplace and many of the assembled group of "journalists" in the market have either been on my team, interviewed to be on my team or have cross-pollinated in something I've touched because I've been doing Baltimore sports media longer than virtually anyone in the marketplace.
My journey began almost 29 years ago in January 1984 at age 15 when Baltimore had three newspapers, three TV stations and a handful of AM radio stations that did local sports of any kind.
In 2012, there has been a mass fracturing in the way and convenience in which we consume media so many of the entities have "loose ends" in their coverage or holes in the strategy. Some of their portals to garner attention, feedback and building a trusted community of information are very old world and "lazy" for my tastes.
And before I begin defecating on all of our competitors – and that will be prevalent below – no less than two of these fossilized radio stations have the arrogance to call themselves "the only station that matters."
It's hilarious. And the truth is that WNST.net is kicking all of their asses in the only place that really matters – the internet and on your mobile device via instant access.
Here's a report card from two weeks ago via Twitter:
Some will get their feelings hurt, but if you click to Page 2 you'll see what I think of our "competition" at WNST.net…
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Here's what you think about WNST…so far!
Posted on 19 September 2012 by Nestor Aparicio
For being a radio station that no one can hear and that no one listens to according to Arbitron, our 2012 Great Baltimore Sports Media Report Card is garning huge hits and many folks trying to win the trip to Cleveland.
The final question on the survey asks: "What would improve WNST.net & AM 1570 in 2013 to make you visit more often?
SO FAR HERE ARE THE RESPONSES:
precisely updated "morning newspaper" Seems like some of the stuff is repeated and not updated
9/19/2012 2:29 PMView Responses
change to fm. am dosen't seem to get here without static
Have Peter write more article, he does a great job with the business of things, but I miss hearing his thoughts in the blogs. Tell Drew to tone it down a bit especially with his predictions, when a game is way in doubt. I understand Nestor dispute with Angelos, but give it a rest. No one is more passionate about Baltimore sports than he is, but saying the same thing over-and-over again gets old. Luke does a great job, I'd like to see him do more Orioles stuff when it conflicts with preseason football though. All-in-all, WNST does a great civic job and love the trips idea, and hope to go on one soon when I get more $$$.
WNST.net: improve some of the functionality. It's sometimes hard to maneuver through the site when you want to jump from page to page. AM1570: Although I know this can't happen, signal strength. Also, get better midday talent. I like Drew and Glenn, but Yaffe and Mittermaier are awful (They always have been. I'm still trying to figure out how they have a job). Thyrl is only slightly better.
More of Thyrl, Peter DiLutis and especially Luke Jones… much, much less of Drew Forrester, for the love of God.
On air, have to say the loss of Rob and Bob hurt. Drew is solid. Glenn is decent. Can't handle Thryl…its like he is trying to hard. Web site is good. I probably should really lean on it more than the sun. Old habits i guess.
More of Nestor on the radio.
I turn off the station at 10 a.m. when I am at work. I can not listen to Damon Yaffe.. I want sports information, not negativity and sermons about how the sports world should be and every single thing that is wrong in the sports world and what he would do about it. He may be the worst radio personality ever on WNST. It would be better if you had more expert guests and hear more from the people like Alan Mcallum. Sometimes, the ramblings of callers gets a little old on WNST. If I wanted to hear average fans opinions about what happened in yesterday's game or what the Orioles should do tonight, I could just listen to my co- workers . Thanks
Access to Orioles players and manager (not your station's fault). BTW, how did you get McClouth interview on the air last week?
9/19/2012 12:53 AMView Responses
Hire Bob Hainey back. Get rid of Thyrl Nelson.
stronger signal, when i travel WNST is what i tune to but it seems beyond a certain point i loose the signal, i travel I-70 frequently but roughly 10-15 the signal is gone
If you were Live&Local weekend mornings, while the other "Sports Talk" stations run info ads, you'de Kill It! I know there are different shows different times during the yr, I miss the concept of a 52 week SatAM "Ravens!" show…where the 1st caller every week was from Cali!
More breaking news and unique insights to Ravens/Orioles. Less of Nestor taking unprovoked shots at Angelos and the O's – its fine when warranted and topical but no need to in almost every web post.
Can't visit/listen more than I already do.
Absolutely love the station, the radio hosts, the web site, the text service.
Nestor on the air more.
Add traffic and weather reports during morning and evening commutes.
I know this is something you hear a lot but it bears repeating: Due to the times I can listen to the radio (and I don't have a smartphone with the apps) which is in the car, WNST's signal makes it tough to listen to the station. Don't worry though, in Westminster 105.7 the Fan gets constant interference as well, in fact during the day 1570 has a clearer signal.
In regards to Twitter and Facebook, nothing. Nobody touches WNST when it comes to Twitter and Facebook. My only complaint about WNST. net is the fact that the webpage is a little cluttered. It is not something that prevents me from checking the website daily but I do find it to be a little cluttered which I think can be a distraction for some visitors.
stronger signal
Your website is poorly designed. I would look at making the site more visually appealing. It has all the basics, just could be so much better. SI.com is a great example of what a sports page should look like.
On air- less of those stupid top 10 lists and more talk on Mondays about Ravens as opposed to golf or other NFL teams. On line more Blogs by on air hosts maybe multiple times a day as needed with breaking sports news.
More compelling hosts – Drew is the only one really interesting. Lack of weekend programming is a problem. Limited Ravens pregame and postgame.
What really makes me against WNST(I only listen to Drew) is the trashing of EVERY other media entity in the area. It just is disgusting to keep hearing the same old mantra of "they suck" and we are the experts. The trashing of the O's management(it's personal, not business) is just so old. The hypocrisy of making note of other hosts "from some other town" and not Baltimore and yet having a constant stream of "out of town" experts to comment on Baltimore sports???? It just doesn't fit what you proclaim as your model as LOCAL. Being proud of "firing" people is just so low brow and classless. That they are able to secure jobs on your competitors should be a testament to the training they get from the station… not a talking point that the other station sucks. You can look at your station as a good training ground for the Major Leagues. I know the radio business(as an advertiser, salesman for media and printed critic) and no matter what is stated, the station is widely considered MINOR. I can never stomach people who speak ill of competition, it is so juvenile and speaks to a inherent weakness of where it comes from. So how in good conscious can I believe that Honesty, Integrity are really the bedrocks of your mission? Trashing other people and companies does not garner a sense of Integrity. And I may be an older skew for what is sports talk radio today, but I could care less about "breaking news", I don't need to be aware of EVERYTHING happening at every moment. Part of the problem with our "plugged in" society is everyone looking at their phones 24/7. Speaks to the incivility, rudeness and narcissism of our time. Watch what is going around you and not your phone, catching up on the news(either on the web or TV) is something that I enjoy. Don't need to know things before everyone else.
stronger radio signal
9/19/2012 9:57 AMView Responses
I think the service is great so I can't think of anything to suggest at this time.
More nestor
I do lose your radio signal when I go north of shawan road, and i can't get you in very clear at all up in hampstead, frustrating because I like your station a great deal.
I think you already do a great job. The only complaint I have is the TuneInRadio stream is unreliable. Don't know if it's the app or what, but since I can't tune you guys in on the radio before sunrise, I depend on the stream.
More articles related to the Orioles, I feel this year that with the team being a winner for the first time in 14 years that the blogs related to the Orioles are lacking while anything dealing with the Ravens is written almost daily during September and even months prior to that.
Easier to navigate and find information (like events)
Although I really like the morning show witgh Drew, I wish he had a more interesting partner. At times things seem to get flat.
WNST.net—more timely info. Some headlines stay up for days (NHL lockout enters 2nd day). Also, some late scores are not available in various sports–especially baseball. Improve on the quality of the links. Too many times I have a link go somewhere other than the headline notes.
Live streaming from your weekly shows , catching it next day is good but would be nice to catch it during event , Dennis Pitta show in Perry Hall is a good example I saw on Facebook that it was packed and so I got in my car and went the bad part is they wouldn't let me in due to size of place anyway it would have been Kool to catch the show as it was happening ..
More weekend stuff
Your live stream is getting more reliable but at times it is still problematic
Too much time on small local college sports but I understand the reasoning. I would like more national major sports news discussed instead – I turn off certain very bad callers – you figure it out. My listenting habits are mainly opening of shows where I get good summary and commentary on the game by the hosts but then turn off when i hear most opinions by listeners – prefer to hear "experts" so I turn on ESPN or certian 105.7 hosts that I thinka re very knowledgeable. For example I lover Billick segmnets and segments with out of town reporters/broadcasters etc.
Even though I understand the situation with the Orioles ….Sometimes the constant trashing can get to be to much. I do like that you dont just say what homer fans want to hear though. Also during the interviews with players/coaches after the games 1570 asks the best questions. Some outlets are embarrassing with stupid questions to athletes.
If it's possible to improve on what you already do better than anyone else, is to continue to be very local. Your station makes a person feel like they are not just a listener, but a personal friend. This is so rare today in radio and nobody does it better than WNST.
replace Theryl and Glenn keep Nestor off the radio
More web content. Better writers/more research done to support opinions (like drew's blog about the nationals suing the orioles. One of the most informative peices I've read). MOst of the time bloggers just spout their opinions with ZERO RESEARCH done.
More local High School sports coverage
I liked the old morning show with terry, Jeremy and drew
Not much. Everything is great.
More Ravens talk
a little more national news. a little more epl coverage. maybe an hour show once a week. maybe brent could do it for you.
sports specific shows?
You have got to get a section for the Wizards going!!!!!!!!!!! I love WNST but the only problem is that it acts like the wiz don't even exist!!! Meanwhile they pay alot of attention to the Capitals, a team which has never played in Baltimore, while denying the former and still close to home Baltimore Bullets!!! I know many people who see this as the only glaring problem with WNST, other than that great job. But seriously guys let get some Wiz coverage Baltimore is a hotbed for future NBA players and its a shame to see the number one name in Baltimore sports not even covering our own NBA team. Just need a section for the Wizards and WNST will be pure Bmore sports perfection.
More frequent updates, better O's relationship though Angelos sucks & needs to sell the team
My only complaint about WNST is Drew held a contest a few yrs ago for kids to wire a survey about their favorite teacher and he would give them free tickets to an O's gm. Well she did it and was excited but she never got to go. This was about 3 or 4 yrs ago. Every time she hears his voice she remembers. Other then that no issues with the station.
Free stuff Keep up the good work
Honestly, there's not much that I can think of other then that sometimes the text alerts seem to be delayed. If you can fix that everything else is great!
FM station for the car.
A better signal. Talent besides Drew.
You guys have a great knack of finding radio talent, id try to hold onto it a little but with that said i dont know a lot about running my own business so im sure nestor had his reasons.
I liked the top of the hour national sports news updates but realize that WNST is no longer affiliated with SNR(yahoo!radio) or FoxSportsRadio. Also, wish you could find weekend programming that actually sticks. Otherwise, bravo on jobs well done.
The radio has got to get better hosts. First Nestor took off to handle admin stuff, then Jeremy, Haynie, Long and Ray were gone. After Drew in the AM I shut the station off until the next day. If Drew ever left I would never listen again.
9/18/2012 11:54 PMView Responses
trips news more info on texting
More fan events and trips to College Park for basketball games.
Get rid of Bull Dog
Nestor, I grew up in Severna Park and went to college at UVA. I'm 46 years old. In 1994 I moved to Baltimore County. I want to thank you. I feel like you and your station introduced me to the customs and culture of Baltimore. I have never stopped listening. I applaud you for keeping Angelos honest. I listen in the car driving to work every morning for Ravens coverage. Keep innovating.
Wouldn't change a thing
Make the home page less busy and not so blog dominant.
Not much…it's on the radio on the way to work then .net when I log into my computer. Lose the signal in the evening on the am radio on the way home.
Signal strength. I travel Balt dc metro territory. More caps coverage.
Nothing – you guys have great content
Difficult to address but the radio signal strength on west side of baltimore is frustrating and is primary reason I tune out. Website has so much content difficult to quickly consume. Occasionally hosts pet peeves become repetitive.
Usually with the station i just get out of signal range and cannot hear it anymore when i want to listen. In terms of social media and social media interaction its top notch and the website is top notch. Its the only station in town where you know you can take trips to see Baltimore teams on the road and that is fantastic as a fan. I feel like even though the Orioles are doing well the station still wants to beat the team up at times and i get that i truly do but it turns you off as a fan. I also get the chest out we are the best mindset, any person in any field should have it , but that as well becomes a bit trying after awhile as a listener and supporter. Other than that its the best in town for Baltimore sports and keep up the fantastic work.
Bring back Bob and Rob
any way to get a stronger signal
Considering I am an avid listener to the program and follower via twitter, facebook, ustream, you name it. WNST is by far greater than any other media outlet in town. With that said, I know Nestor and company are always looking for ways to grow. So I will provide a few suggestions… Since I work 8-5 I rarely get to listen live although I do one my way to work tune into Drew and Luke. But, I am on the audio vault MORE than anyone. It is by far one of my favorite features and I love the "search" tool. Having said that, I would suggest if possible to keep even older links in the audio vault. I know time to time I like to show friends and family certain encounters that may have happened a while back that no longer are available on the audio vault. Maybe a "Best of Drew" or "Best of Glenn" section could work or just keeping old old links. For example, I would like to hear the Angelos interview that you guys play frequently, but I can't find that if I search "Peter Angelos" in the audio vault. Overall, WNST does a fantastic job. Whether its the text service, the knowledge of sports talk hosts, the MANY trips Nestor puts together to various sporting events. Its just fantastic and I couldn't be happier or luckier to have grown up all these years listening to WNST. I am 23 years old and i have been waking up running to turn on WNST on my way to Pikesville High School, I even got my New York roommates at College Park enjoying WNST with me. Thanks Nestor and crew for all the great coverage you provide to all Baltimore fans around the world. Keep up the good work. -Sam Bruck
Expand the time given to Damon and Paul program, give less time to Thryl. Damon and Paul are a strong follow-up to Drew in the a.m. Only my opinion but I listen ALMOST everyday, even when out of town. The website is the best in town, not even close.. The content is legit, but the design could improve somewhat. Anyone who is not subscribed to the text service is missing out. Will be honest, I jump over to Haynie often, Dude is the best in my opinion. Drew is fantastic and a step up over the clowns on the FM side in the a.m. He owns the morning as far as I can tell.
A few shows repeat throughout the day, making them outdated when they repeat. Other than that, great job!
On air longer hours.
Improved nighttime signal, but you know that. I liked Haynie, but I know that was tough. Liked him better on your station than on WJZ. Website design could be better. Sometimes content hard to find. You're doing fine overall–I love that you're locally owned–so rare in radio.
Nothing. If I had more time I would listen more.
The radio reception in the car in Baltimore is very spotty which tends for me to switch to 105.7 and stay there more times than not.
WNST IS AWESOME!
I find the quality of the audio in the audio vault on the site to be poor sometimes.
Better radio signal.
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It's time for a WNST "report card" & we need your help!
As the owner and C.E.O. of WNST.net since 1998, I believe the most important trust in running Baltimore's longest-running sports information company is listening to the needs of the marketplace.
It's the fans of the Orioles, Ravens, Terps, Caps and other issues of Baltimore sports concern that put us in business and keep us growing and healthy in 2012.
As has been our custom over the past two decades, I'm always available to receive emails at nasty@wnst.net concerning any issue at WNST.net. (Or as Peter Angelos famously lied to me in 1997: "I'm a very available individual…")
Today, I'm asking you to give me a report card on how we're doing here at WNST. We'd sincerely appreciate an honest appraisal of the way you use Baltimore sports media in 2012 and the way you view WNST.net, our competitors and, hopefully, some helpful suggestions on ways we could improve what we're doing.
As an incentive, we'll take one lucky winner and a friend to exotic Cleveland, Ohio for a weekend of football and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in November on our WNST Purple Football Roadtrip, courtesy of Jiffy Lube.
And we'll never sell or share your information. So, take a few minutes if you can and perhaps you'll be our big winner!
TAKE THE 2012 GREAT BALTIMORE SPORTS MEDIA REPORT CARD HERE
Do we suck? Are we awesome? What are we missing? How can we better service you? What do our competitors do that you like? What do you love about WNST? What do you dislike about WNST?
Every two years we do a major survey to gauge how we're doing. But the media world changes and evolves at a frightening speed in 2012 with mobile devices, tablets and the instant distribution of thoughts, news, observations and information.
Many, many things have changed in the Baltimore sports media scene since I began working at The News American in January 1984. As a kid who saw that hot metal type line up on newsprint and then watched and learned at The Sun from 1986-1992 to doing sports radio locally and nationally, I've picked up many hints and plenty of help along the way to create a company that is boldly local, proudly independent and enduringly honest.
I've dedicated my entire life to Baltimore sports and to the journalism, information and analysis that goes with it. This is the only thing I've ever done with my life and I want WNST.net to be the best and biggest media company in the marketplace.
We want to be the media organization that serves you the best. Unlike our "small" AM radio signal, you can now take WNST.net everywhere in the world you go…
We're always looking for a deeper level of engagement with the fans we already have via Baltimore sports. And more so than any other voice on the internet bringing you Baltimore sports reaction and analysis, we are striving for perfection and your attention at WNST.net.
In the old days, you had to go to your radio to get your WNST fix. Now, via mobile devices, we're in your pocket everywhere you go, every hour of the day.
We're hoping to connect with you in a more meaningful way and to better serve Baltimore sports fans as mobile grows and your tastes evolve. Over 21 years of doing radio and now almost 15 years of WNST as an entity, we'd like to strengthen our relationship with Ravens, Orioles, Terps, Caps, lacrosse and local high school programs.
Unlike morning shows with guys from New York and Boston and "experts" from the Washington suburbs and parts of upper Michigan and St. Louis, the crew at WNST.net is always local and has lived the history of Baltimore sports.
Now we're asking you: has WNST.net done a good job of this?
Judging from every measurement we can find on the internet – Twitter, Facebook, Google Analytics, reaction to our posts and opinions, we're doing a damned fine job.
But we can always be better.
In our market, quite frankly, it's been about authenticity and credibility.
WNST builds our audience through quality programming, content and distribution. And then we build relevance for local marketers and businesses who keep us in business because of your support of their sponsorship of our programming and information.
When you support a WNST sponsor you directly affect our ability to improve and keep bringing you the best Baltimore's best sports coverage divinely possible.
So, as Bruce Springsteen might say, bring on your Wrecking Ball and give us some feedback. We're thick-skinned. Any constructive criticism or feedback is always welcome at WNST.net.
Once again, here's a link to our report card and survey…
Tags: caldwell, gold, Lochte, London, nbc, nbcfail, olympics, phelps, sarah, swim, swimming, tape delay, WBAL
NBC & WBAL should be ashamed of lame tape delay Olympics coverage
For those of you who have followed my radio career since 1991, you know that I'm a patriotic fan of American sports and the Olympics always seems to capture my attention in at least some small way.
This year, with local hero Michael Phelps back in the daily consciousness, it makes sense that I'd be interested in a Baltimore guy who has already made plenty of history but is trying to nab these three medals to be the most decorated athlete in the history of the world.
He's from Towson. WNST is in Towson. I've attended two parades in his honor. As I said on my Facebook page, he's kinda a big deal around here.
On Saturday, I began my morning after the Opening Ceremonies at 4 a.m. Immediately, I saw live tweets coming Andrea Kramer and others from London regarding Michael Phelps being in the pool for heats. I turned on NBC before sunrise and watched some early morning pool action. Phelps wasn't strong but made the finals and I was intrigued by a Lochte vs. Phelps showdown "later tonight." I downloaded the NBC schedule and saw that the finals were actually happening around 1:30 p.m. our time. The website even has a "your time" vs. "London time" setting.
I literally built my day around watching Michael Phelps swim for a gold medal.
Sometime around 2 p.m. I realized that NBC's main feed was strangely nowhere near a pool and was more in "female pitch" time, doing feel good pieces on the gymnastics team and showing the already-tired Youtube girls swim team video of "Call Me Maybe" for the fourth time. I thought maybe the schedule on the web was wrong.
Sometime around 2:20 p.m. I became a little suspicious and I had the audacity to open my laptop on Facebook and Twitter and found out within 20 seconds of the end of the race that Ryan Lochte had defeated Michael Phelps soundly.
Within minutes, the global assault on NBC – via #NBCFail — had begun and I was among the millions who were duped into thinking that the biggest sporting event of the day – held in the middle of a sports Saturday in America no less – would be suppressed and embargoed by the network that paid billions of dollars to have exclusive "live" coverage of the London Olympics.
What a strange, stupid decision the folks at NBC made – a mandate to embarrass virtually everyone associated with anything "news" for their whole company.
Then, keeping with the rank and file mandate of some NBC exec in New York, on the 6 p.m. newscast WBAL-TV opted to "pretend" that the race hadn't happened yet, speaking of it in the future tense. They even did a live shot at Meadowbrook and asked the reporter to drum up "people can't wait for the race" rhetoric when every 15-year old who swims at the club had known the result for four hours.
Just monumentally embarrassing, especially for a local television station that uses "Live, Local and Latebreaking" as a trite mantra to attract people with gray hair who still think news doesn't happen until 6 p.m.
God bless Sarah Caldwell (who I like a lot) but if some suit in New York told me to do the nightly "news" and then asked me to stare into the camera with integrity and pretend I didn't know who won four hours after it was over?
Does anyone over there have a brain?
Twenty minutes later an almost contrite Gerry Sandusky offered to give the result only after pleading the viewership to turn the station off for a few seconds if they didn't want the result.
Where is Dan Joerres or someone on TV Hill to call "bullhockey" on these goofy local news embargoes, especially when the Baltimore local news leads without giving the Michael Phelps result on the network that had the live rights to it?
The equally corrupt jokers next door at WJZ-TV and the CBS Locals must've been howling with laughter in the newsroom.
It's 2012. There's this little thing called the internet that allows us to share information in a free society.
But this isn't as much about the embarrassment of WBAL-TV – heck the AM 1090 radio side proved their mettle as a news organization back during the 2006 "Free The Birds" walkout when the audio broadcast was essentially a 75-minute chant without nary a word of a protest of the Orioles that day – it's really amazing that anyone associated with NBC's news operation would bless this style of "journalism" regarding sports.
I guess nothing shocks me anymore – at the local or national media level — especially when a bunch of suits in New York smell freshly printed green money without regard to the customers.
But who exactly are they trying to appeal to by withholding the live events and pretending that anyone would tune in at 9:40 p.m. to watch a swimming race that everyone in the world had access to the result of if they cared enough to care about who won the race more than seven hours earlier?
Yesterday NBC Sports got what it deserved – a failing grade and a 2012 new media spanking in real time called #NBCFail.
In 1968, it was called "Heidi."
In 2012, it's called trending.
When will these guys learn they're not really in control of information anymore?
The world – from wars to storms, from swimming results to the corruption of corporate money in our society to guys dressed up as The Joker on shooting sprees in Aurora – goes on in real time.
Not in tape delay.
Tags: 105.7, adam, alfonso, Arrieta, brian, buck, cbs radio, cole, dan, Duquette, earl, garza, grienke, Hamels, hunter, jake, jones, MASN, matt, matusz, showalter, soriano, sosa, sun, the fan, Thome, tommy, Vladimir Guerrero, WBAL, weaver, zack
Season of "Moneyball" begins for Angelos, Duquette, Buck & Orioles of 2012
The second half of the Baltimore Orioles' re-awakening 2012 season is about to begin and the local baseball fans are a bit befuddled by it all.
As a Baltimore sports fan, I'm never allergic to exciting wins and a 12-game over .500 start to any baseball season. We've seen a manager who not only channels Earl Weaver in his size, stature and mannerisms but also with shrewd use of role players and borderline big leaguers. It's been three months of watching guys who are trying hard no matter who is called up from Norfolk or who hits the disabled list. We've witnessed the blossoming of a true superstar in Adam Jones, who signed a record contract in mid-May against all previous precedent given by the Angelos family.
And, for the first time since 1997, this version of the Baltimore Orioles has stirred fans' awareness – if not necessarily their emotions or beliefs – that this could be a dog-days-of-summer presentation that will bare watching as the fellows in the purple sweaters practice in Owings Mills in two weeks.
But here's the problem: the 2012 Baltimore Orioles roster — as currently assembled on July 13th — is either in parts of tatters, simply unproven or just flat-out stinks.
I've been watching baseball for 40 years and I can't think of any situation that compares to this.
The 2012 Baltimore Orioles are 45-40, now just five games over .500. However, if the season ended today they'd be in the playoffs. It's officially the second half of the season – I watched the All-Star Game on Tuesday night even if none of the rest of you did – and the Orioles have a legitimate chance to play at least one postseason baseball game in October.
In the new Bud Selig fantasy world of more October baseball and profit, the Orioles are truly contenders in a way we couldn't have imagined in March and haven't seen since the Clinton administration. And no one else in the American League East looks to be galvanized to go on a tear, either.
Meanwhile the young guns of Jake Arrieta, Brian Matusz and Tommy Hunter are all in Norfolk after repeated self-inflicted shots into the bleachers after a series of "Ball Ones" and long, hot innings of ineffectiveness and blown leads.
The now-rested bullpen will attempt to continue to atone for the sins of the many failed starts over the past eight weeks.
The offense is in tatters. Despite the trade for a post-40 Jim Thome – yet another acquisition a player who is in the December of his career ala Sammy Sosa and Vladimir Guerrero — the Orioles are at least making some attempt to get to October after such an encouraging start.
Will Brian Roberts be a factor in the second half? Is Nick Markakis fully healed from his hamate bone injury? Can J.J. Hardy and Matt Wieters provide more offense in the second half? Is Xavier Avery a star or just another so-so-outfielder from the Orioles' depth chart?
There are far more questions than answers heading into the second season of baseball.
The Orioles have been irrelevant for 15 years. This year it appears we'll have the first-ever Ravens' training camp opening where the orange team will be the ones making summer headlines.
Will they trade? Who will they trade? What will they get?
One thing we know: trades for legitimate pitchers and hitters who can help the Orioles will not only cost some prospects but will involve large sums of money to pay these proven
Tags: angelos, Baltimore, gary, MASN, Media, peter, Sports, walker, WBAL
Here's what your local "sports media personality" needs to know in 2012
Posted on 15 June 2012 by Nestor Aparicio
It was so much easier when I was growing up, this sports media thing. First, you learned how to write and then you went to some journalism or "communications" college or university, you did an internship and then sent resumes out and you got your dream job and lived happily ever after.
And maybe you got a gold watch if you hung around at the newspaper or TV station for 25 years or more?
Here at WNST.net this summer, we're extending an open offer to any Baltimore sports fan who wants to be the next Baltimore Sports Media Superstar via our competition. All of the info is here…
The harsh reality of media and new media in 2012 is that it's an all-encompassing commitment of time, experience and continuing education that makes a local personality or entity relevant as breaking news, information, analysis and the games themselves fly by in real time with your mobile device with you at all times.
And that's just the content side.
Here's a speech I gave to a Loyola Sports Marketing class in May 2012. This is Part 1 in a series about my current thoughts on the state of Baltimore sports media and the industry as a whole:
If you can't sell your own personal brand – by bringing in audience, engaging them, adding value to their life experience and adding expertise or analysis that people care about – you will NOT be successful in the new media world.
If no cares to be your audience – or in this era that would be "opt in" or "follow" or "subscribe" — then no one will be available to stimulate the commerce necessary that ultimately will pay your salary via local sponsorship dollars..
In the old days it was easy – there were three TV channels, a few radio stations and a newspaper or two. Whoever the local program director or editor hired was all that the public got and all that you'd ever get from the "inside" of a sports team. The competition for those scarce jobs and the outstanding pay via expensive local television news ads fueled by automotive dealers and local advertisers was all coveted. And the public in Baltimore essentially had three choices for the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news – WBAL, WMAR and WJZ. There were two newspapers – The Sun and The News American. And sports radio didn't exist except for Charley Eckman screaming bloody murder about some local issue on the Johnny Walker show on WFBR.
That was the entire world of Baltimore sports media in the 1970's and 1980's.
And the only ones who really did it the "new world" way were Coach Eckman and Tom Davis, who bought and sold their own "in-show" advertising and made far more money than most radio "talking heads" did and certainly more than the folks at The Sun or The News American.
All of the TV and newspaper people were part of a larger ensemble and staff. The radio sports talk guys needed to fight for audience and those radio stations needed hosts who garnered real traffic and real new business for local sponsors and advertisers.
This is the world I lived in on local AM radio from 1992 until 2006, when tens of thousands of you crashed my webpage and my email with traffic from all over the world after the initial "Free The Birds" walkout and showed me a new world of WNST.net on the internet.
In the new media world, if you can't sell your own brand as a sports media expert then how can a local sponsor or business owner trust that you can help them sell pizza or cars or beer?
The reality is that I'm in college every day at WNST.net. The college of life, emerging media and business in 2012 and how it relates to the changing ways of sports fans' consumption of information via mobile devices in real time.
It's taken two decades but I've finally figured out why I went to college back in the 1980's. All of those beers at Jay's off campus at the University of Baltimore and all of those evening classes about Marshall McLuhan — it's all finally paid off. All those classes with Julie Simon and discovering the roots of communication and theory of how the "medium is the message" and emerging "global village" has changed the world in the last decade since the internet has extended our FCC towers at what was formerly a "little AM radio station" at WNST-AM 1570 and brought video and words and statistics and instant feedback into the realm of the palm of our hands via mobile via WNST.net.
I've finally figured out the value of my University of Baltimore education and Corporation Communications degree – it just took me 20 years!
While I'm not going to be donating to UB anytime soon – or anytime that the name of Peter G. Angelos
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Part 2 of 5: How does WNST measure up to other Baltimore media?
This blog was originally published two years ago. We'll be revisiting this with a three-part series and updating these thoughts with a new WNST "State of Baltimore Sports Media" survey next week while we broadcast live from Indianapolis all week. This is Part 2 of 5: The State of Baltimore Sports Media (circa 2010).
A friend of mine in San Franciscio has an awesome bar called Tommy's Mexican Restaurant on Geary Street in the Richmond District. It's one of my favorite places on earth. Full of chips, salsa, guacamole and stiff margaritas, the night before the AFC Championship Game in 2001 we hung out there with more Ravens fans than the place can hold. I was there three weeks ago and have shot several video segments for wnsTV from Tommy's Mexican Restaurant over the years.
Over the Bay Area's largest tequila bar, my pal Julio Bermejo (the U.S. Ambassador & world expert on 100% agave tequila) has a bunch of fun signs with slogans and axioms.
Here's my favorite:
"Tommy's encourages you to visit our competitors!"
I just love that. Because it's exactly how we feel at WNST.net. Go ahead and scan the dial, surf the web, Facebook and Twitter away with our competitors – you'll come back to us.
It's our solemn goal and daily mission to make it mandatory that you come back to WNST.net every day for your Baltimore sports news, information and conversation because we think our content and observations are the best in the market.
The sign at Tommy's is a symbol of excellence and the ultimate statement of self-confidence in one's own product/expertise/value. It ain't bragging if you can back it up, right?
It says we're so good, you'll remember us — and you'll be back because we have the best information, the most accurate information and the most informed opinion, analysis and insights in the marketplace.
Oh, and unlike the others who are being paid "hush money" to cough and look the other way by the teams that they're ostensibly asked to assess, evaluate and analyze with "integrity," you always know you're always going to get the truth from us.
For the first time in the history of WNST as a company dating back to 1998, we're finally getting a fair shake on the measurement of our product on the web to know just how many people really are "coming back" each day.
I've been doing sports radio for 18 years. I have never read an Arbitron report that says we have more than 500 listeners. Most times, it lists us as the 52nd radio station in the market and sometimes we've fallen to ZERO listeners in their antiquated and useless monthly surveys. One local advertising agent has spent the past two decades calling us a "little station with a 'cult' following." (After 18 years, nothing could be more insulting or further from the truth.)
And if you check the latest Arbitron numbers – we lovingly call them the "arbitraries" – you'll see that once again NONE of you seem to listen to WNST.
Yep, we're back at "zero point zero" – kind of like Bluto in "Animal House."
But to the amazement of everyone in the Baltimore media world, suddenly, we're so far ahead of the pack in every WEB measurement that it defies all of the "millions of dollars of research" that Arbitron has invested in proving that places like WNST-AM 1570 and brands like WNST.net aren't effective.
But somehow, we have well over 40,000 people in our sphere here in Baltimore (at least that's how many we've been able to account for so far) and displaced local sports fans across the country who've been kind and trusting enough to give us their email, mobile number, Facebook or Twitter access. We've got over 10,000 on our registration to the website and more 12,000 in our Facebook sphere alone! And there are certainly thousands of other folks who just "lurk" in our sphere, reading but never commenting, registering or playing any of our games for cash and prizes. Just like the thousands of you who have been listening to WNST-AM 1570 for years and have never received a dairy to fill out.
Every day thousands of you are coming regularly to WNST.net – via our website, Twitter, Facebook or a myriad of other connections — for any of the variety of media and information we offer.
Against the marketplace over the past dozen years, WNST has been cheated out of millions of dollars of market revenue but the game is "fixed" — at least as far as radio is concerned. Arbitron's reporting is so fundamentally flawed and skewed that it'd be laughable if it didn't cause me to fire people and lose money on a measurement system that is so antiquated I find it hard to believe that anyone could take it seriously.
For the first 17 years of my radio existence and as recently as last spring, Arbitron was sending out a paper diary in an envelope with a stamp via snail mail and the USPS to various (and random) home mailboxes with a $1 bill (and later $2) inside asking you
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A prolific shoplifter, who threatened shop staff with needles infected with Hepatitis B, has been jailed.
Police said John Nicholas William Larkin, of Willingdon Way, St Leonards, was sent to prison for six months and made the subject of a criminal behaviour order for two years.
Sentence was imposed by Hastings magistrates after Larkin, 32 and unemployed appeared before them and heard how he threatened shop staff with needles infected with Hepatitis B if they approached him.
Police said Larkin pleaded guilty to numerous thefts, including stealing five cosmetic gift packs from Morrisons supermarket, Hargreaves Road, Eastbourne, on December 27, 2018; stealing meat and alcohol worth £136.50 from Aldi, Lottbridge Drove, Eastbourne, on the same day, stealing six bottles of whisky worth £130 from Asda, Battle Road, St Leonards, on December 26, stealing 11 bottles of Ariel Gel worth £56 from the Co-op, Devonshire Road, Bexhill on December 2, and being concerned with others stole nine tins of coffee worth £45 from the Co-op, Western Road, Bexhill, on the same day.
Police said Larkin also admitted assaulting Glen Birch at Morrisons, Eastbourne, on December 27, assaulting Fabio Defraitus at Aldi, Eastbourne, the same day, assaulting Paul Bell at Asda, St Leonards, on December 26, causing £200 damage to a door lock at Hastings Law Courts on July 2, 2018, threatening Michael Borrer at Hastings Law Courts on July 7, and failing to surrender to custody at Hastings Law Courts on December 18.
Police added that the criminal behaviour order against Larkin prohibits him from possessing any needles or pointed objects in public for two years.
His guilty pleas were taken into account when imposing sentence.


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For sale: Co-op Bank looks for buyers
February 13, 2017 subhadip	Bank, Buyers, Co-op, for, looks, sale
The Co-operative Bank has put itself up for sale – four years after it nearly collapsed and had to be bailed out by US hedge funds.
Amid persistent speculation over its long-term future, the bank said its board had decided to look for buyers, and also at other ways of bolstering its financial position.
Dennis Holt, the bank's chairman, said the bank continued to meet its capital requirements set out by the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority.
"At the same time, since we began work on the Bank's turnaround, the board has always been clear that we would need to build capital for the future. We are now commencing a sale process, alongside other options. The Bank's ethical heritage and customer proposition will be a central consideration in this," said Holt.
When problems at the Co-op bank started to emerge in 2013 it was discovered that the bank – then majority owned by the Co-operative Group of supermarkets and funeral homes – needed £1.5bn. Paul Flowers, its former chairman, was later fined for possessing cocaine, crystal meth and ketamine and was dismissed as a minister by the Methodist church earlier this year.
The troubles at the bank, which has 4 million customers, left a cloud over the co-operative sector. The Co-op Group now owns just 20% of the bank, with the rest owned by bondholders, largely the hedge funds that participated in the 2014 rescue.
Liam Coleman, the chief executive, said the attempts to turnaround the bank had been slowed down by the impact of low interest rates and the "sheer scale" of the transformation, in part required after the bank's merger with the Britannia Building Society just as the financial crisis was getting under way.
The PRA said it welcomed the actions announced by the Co-operative Bank. It added: "We will continue to assess the bank's progress in building greater financial resilience over the coming months."
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text:
Q: How to determine if insert or update Whenever INSERT is happened in the CUSTOMER table,I need to call the "StoredProcedure1"and
UPDATE is happend in the  CUSTOMER table,I need to call the "StoredProcedure2" in the Trigger.
How to determine if insert or update in the trigger  from SQL Server 2008.
Some one can please help me how to solve?
Code:
CREATE TRIGGER Notifications ON CUSTOMER
FOR INSERT,UPDATE
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @recordId varchar(20);
set @recordId= new.Id;
    //if trigger is insert at the time I call to SP1
        EXEC StoredProcedure1 @recordId
    //if trigger is Upadeted at the time I call to SP2
        EXEC StoredProcedure2 @recordId
END

A: Since it's only UPDATE,INSERT you can say:
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM deleted)
  -- update
ELSE
  -- insert

You have a bigger problem, though. There is no such thing as new.Id, and an insert or update can affect multiple rows (in some platforms, triggers fire per row; in SQL Server, they fire per operation). So you need to either:

*

*Use a loop to call the stored procedure for all of the RecordId values in inserted.

*Stop using a stored procedure for this and perform whatever logic it does inside the trigger, as a set-based operation.

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1. I love how we all go around telling each other our stories. Weather stressful or loving they are all just stories. Question the stressful ones and come to the realization that you can simply drop the story. Then where is the problem?


The culture in Puerto Plata is very different to the rest of the country, here it is a way of life. Here we have seen men like Eduardo Brito, who although unable to read or write had the ability to sing Rigoletto, and do so very well, but then self education will often come as a surprise to the more developed and educated countries.
The atmosphere of freedom, the passage of people with different opinions, of musicians, poets, artists, businessmen and adventurers who chose to live here, made this a really "enchanted" town.
The richness of the town's history is portrayed in it's monuments, the Victorian houses, it's bohemian customs and nightlife, it's patriotic exploits and in the character of the people who created this miracle in less time than in any other part of the world. This was helped, of course, by the beauty of the area's beaches and the investments made there.
In Puerto Plata many of the most important citizens were not born here, for example José Dubeau and Mary Lithgow. But they spent all their life here and are buried here too. Others, like Colson and Brito, chose to come and go, travelling the world and returning here to rest and eventually to be buried in the place of their birth to remain here throughout eternity.
The Puerto Plata of Masonic Lodges, Orfelos, Commercial Clubs, Faith in the Povernir, Ladies Clubs, Renovation, Union Puerto Plata, Tennis Club, prepared an atmosphere that people, who now form the basis of the current society, see dying killed by termites and negligence.
The residents today have the good fortune to live in a city where the culture is the most interesting of the whole country but they still face the challenge of receiving, as they have always received, the outside world and its invaders without being overcome or subjugated.
There is an obligation to continue to allow the enrichment of the local culture with the contributions of those who arrive here but without allowing these to destroy the basis that defines the true character. And one day, when the residents are in the position to do so, we will rebuild the city for the fifth time, as already in the seventies began the fourth and because the current generation does not have regard for the history from which theyare the beneficiaries and have allowed their heritage to be corroded by negligence.


Since its creation in 1966, the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) has continually marshalled its resources and efforts to promote agricultural and rural development in Southeast Asia.
On the 50th year of its establishment, SEARCA is proud to tell its story—a story that highlights its evolution, major milestones and accomplishments through the years. A story of building capacities of Southeast Asians, of generating knowledge through cutting-edge research, of delivering research findings through knowledge resources and learning events, all the while adapting to the constantly changing agricultural landscape at the national, regional, and global levels to consistently reaffirm its position as SEAMEO's center of excellence in agriculture.
To commemorate its Golden Anniversary, the Center is proud to present "SEARCA's First Fifty Years: Pushing the Frontiers of Agricultural and Rural Development."
"The book marks our golden year with swatches of defining moments in the Center's first five decades, and how we view its future," said Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit, Jr., SEARCA Director, at the book launch held on 6 December 2016 at Fairmont Hotel in Makati City, Philippines.
The coffee table book chronicles SEARCA's journey, starting with its birth and formation to its growth and expansion amid changing contexts to how it has soldiered on to become one of Southeast Asia's leading institutions and window to ARD and the Center's aspirations for the future.
Though not a full detailed historical account, Dr. Saguiguit said the images in the book "honor and portray the collective efforts and contributions of a multitude of people and entities who have joined SEARCA in its noble objectives and mandate—a tribute to the Center's past and present leaders and staff, many of whom have silently and devotedly worked behind the scenes."
In much the same way, the book is a celebration of regional cooperation and friendship. SEARCA recognizes that without its strong community of partners, it would not be the Center it is today.
"Although this book has already been printed, set, and bound, it marks the beginning of a new phase in the Center's continuing efforts in the service of our host country and the 10 other countries in the region," Dr. Saguiguit said.


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Panama Canal expansion sets up battle of the ports
by Brad Racino July 12, 2012 August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource
The YM Bamboo, owned by Taiwanese shipping company Yang Ming, is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles this year. A widening of the Panama Canal will make it easier for giant cargo ships to go from Asia to ports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. photo | Brad Racino
For the first time since its completion a century ago, the Panama Canal is being widened, setting up a long and costly battle among U.S. ports for the business of handling supersized container ships filled with goods from Asia.
When the project is completed in 2015, ports on the East Coast and Gulf Coast will be able to compete for business that until now has been dominated by West Coast ports.
At stake are thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in federal and local investment.
The case of the MSC Fabiola — a hulking mass of steel and containers nearly as long as the Empire State Building is high — illustrates what those stakes are.
When the Fabiola pulled into the Port of Long Beach on a foggy Friday morning this spring after a 13-day trip across the Pacific Ocean from China, it was a major event, although it received little attention. The ship's arrival marked the first time in history that a ship of its size had docked at a U.S. port.
Khalid Bachkar, a professor at the California Maritime Academy, said the shipping industry is shifting toward megaships. "This is the new trend," he said.
Massive vessels like the Fabiola carry two to four times the number of containers as older vessels, which means fewer trips for shipping companies and bigger savings for manufacturers and importers.
What happens in the future of the shipping industry will affect millions of working Americans, as well as the economies of states throughout the country — with the strongest consequences affecting California.
The Fabiola represents the highly competitive, highly secretive and highly lucrative business of international shipping. Ocean-faring transport companies such as the Fabiola's Mediterranean Shipping Company constantly seek to establish themselves as a shipper's best choice for moving a product from Point A to Point B. The battles they wage on land and sea can ripple out to affect secondary industries across an entire continent.
The thousands of points they travel between are called ports of entry. The United States has 329 official land, sea and air ports that compete with one another — just like the shippers — for their piece of a market valued annually in the trillions of dollars.
The West Coast has reaped the benefits of container traffic in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, led in no small part by California's giant neighboring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Ports on the East and Gulf coasts, with their more limited water depths and rail connections, haven't been able to keep pace.
Yet a development occurring now in the heart of Central America will crack this solid foundation in a few short years — as it once did in 1914 — affecting global trade routes and the economies of states and countries worldwide.
On Oct. 22, 2006, Panamanian voters across the country voted overwhelmingly to approve a plan presented by then-President Martin Torrijos for expanding their canal.
Such a plan had been undertaken before. In 1939, the U.S. began construction on a new set of locks that would have allowed for larger ships to pass through the canal — which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The outbreak of World War II brought a halt to those construction efforts, and it wasn't until Sept. 3, 2007— after the vote and approval — that the work began once again.
An estimated $5.25 billion is now being spent to deepen and widen the Panama Canal's Pacific and Atlantic entrance channels, to raise the water level of Gatun Lake — through which all ships must pass — and to install new locks on both sides of the waterway. It's due to open in April 2015.
The project is a response to a problem.
The canal is reaching its maximum capacity. It's carrying more traffic than it was designed for and is unable to handle the Fabiolas of the world. Termed "post-Panamax" vessels, these huge ships carry more than a quarter of the world's containerized maritime shipments.
Today, cargo crossing the Pacific bound for the Midwest and Eastern United States must offload at a U.S. Pacific Coast port if the ship carrying it is too large to pass through the canal's 50-mile waterway. These goods are then routed across the country using the U.S. "land bridge," the network of highways and railways linking East and West.
Once the widened canal is navigable, many megaships will no longer need the land bridge. Instead, they will pass through the canal's wider locks to offload their cargo at a Gulf or East coast port, such as Houston, New Orleans or New York.
"Trade will shift," Bachkar said. "Instead of coming to the West Coast, it will go directly to the East Coast and on to Europe."
These eastern ports are hoping the canal expansion will signal the end of an era — the end of the so-called West Coast Empire. Ports such as Savannah, Ga., New Orleans, Houston and New York City are preparing for this change by pouring billions of dollars over the next few years into infrastructure development, while the ports of the West Coast walk a fine line between confidence and caution in the face of what may be the single largest threat to their livelihoods ever.
"The West Coast has done well with Asian trade over the last 30 years," said Port of New Orleans spokesman Matt Gresham. "This will make things more competitive."
And in an industry where one port can generate billions of dollars in state and local tax revenues and affect the lives of more than 3 million industry-related employees throughout the U.S., any change is a big deal.
Despite experiencing the worst recession in modern times, U.S. trade has not only recovered since 2008, but has reached record levels. According to an analysis of trade data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division, the values of both U.S. imports and exports in 2011 were higher than any year in history — $2.21 trillion and $1.48 trillion, respectively.
This does not appear to be an aberration. Even the most conservative of analytical forecasts show trade activity — and therefore port activity — booming in the near future. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration expects port container traffic to double by 2020 and triple by 2030. The effects of this increase in trade will inevitably trickle down, creating millions of jobs and billions in tax revenues for states throughout the country.
"Ports are the heart of logistics," Bachkar said. "There are many direct and indirect jobs associated with the activity of the port."
"You're talking about shippers," he explained, "you're talking about freight, you're talking about brokers, you're talking about banks, you're talking about warehouses — and all those stakeholders are related to the activity of the port."
For example, the Port of Los Angeles generates 919,000 regional jobs and $39.1 billion in wages and tax revenues each year, according to the port's marketing division.
The Port of New Orleans claims around 380,000 jobs and $37 billion in national economic output are related to cargo passing through the port each year.
The Port of Houston, according to a 2006 economic impact study, reported that more than 785,000 jobs in Texas and nearly $118 billion of annual statewide economic activity were in some way related to cargo moving through the port.
With numbers like those, it's not hard to understand why port authorities and their respective boards are scrambling to prepare for the potential economic windfall from the Panama Canal expansion.
But the amount of cargo and the ports to which it will be shipped pose multimillion-dollar questions — and they're questions causing a flurry of speculation among ports and billions of dollars in spending.
The first line of "Shifting Trade Routes" — an internal Port of New Orleans PowerPoint presentation from Jan. 19, 2012 — is a simple, declarative statement:
"Know that Panama Canal will have an impact."
The rest of the presentation is an attempt to figure out exactly what that the impact will be, and whether the port's current plan to spend more than $1 billion in short- and long-term projects is justified.
New Orleans, along with other ports on the Gulf Coast and East Coast, is heavily invested in what's coming. With more than $10 billion in development projects planned ahead of the Panama Canal expansion, ports from Houston to Boston are busy lobbying Congress for federal funding while digging deep into their own pockets.
It makes perfect sense for the ports on the Gulf Coast and East Coast ports seize this opportunity to secure federal dollars. It makes even more sense when the ports' district-level data is analyzed.
An analysis of Foreign Trade Division data shows that between 2010 and 2011, 13 of the top 20 fastest-growing port districts in terms of the overall value of imports were either a Gulf Coast or East Coast district. Not one of the remaining seven is located on the West Coast.
To be fair, none of the districts compare to Los Angeles in terms of overall volume — which accounts for around 40 percent of all the container traffic in the country.
Similarly, 12 out of the top 20 fast-growing districts in terms of overall value of exports during that same time period were either a Gulf or East coast district. Only one of the remaining eight districts was on the West Coast; that was Seattle.
The Panama Canal Authority, noticing the potential for increased traffic from Asia, has entered into 22 separate formal alliances with ports along the Gulf Coast andthe East Coast — and only one on the West Coast — the Port of Long Beach.
Kraig Jondle, the director of business and trade development at the Port of Los Angeles, said these alliances "are not anything that's obligatory to anybody," adding that they are "merely public relations.
Other factors appear to favor the shift to the east as well. These include greater land availability for retailers looking for warehouse space and less contentious labor organizations like the International Longshore and Warehouse Union — a West Coast union that, after bringing West Coast shipping to a halt in 2002 over a labor dispute, is widely cited as the reason importers have shifted to a "four-corner strategy," according to Aaron Hunt, the director of corporate relations and media for Union Pacific Railroad.
Jonathan Gold, vice president of the National Retail Federation — the world's largest retail association — agreed that the 2002 labor dispute caused many shippers to sit back and reevaluate their strategies, "so they're not stuck using one port," he said.
But he doesn't think the expansion will have an immediate effect
"I don't think that there are (companies) making immediate changes to their supply chains," he said. "I think it's going to take some time for the issues to work out."
"You've got some serious dredging issues for East Coast ports," he said.
East Coast problems
The process of dredging is an expensive and time-consuming undertaking, and one that East Coast and Gulf Coast ports must deal with if they hope to accommodate the newer, massive ships that will pass through the Panama Canal.
At the Port of Los Angeles, Jondle said that this is a key area where West Coast ports excel.
"If you're not at 53 feet, or at least 50 or more," he said, "then you're going to be really challenged in staying competitive in the port industry."
As of July 2012, only the East Coast ports of Norfolk, Va., and Baltimore can handle the post-Panamax vessels.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has initiated plans to raise the Bayonne Bridge — which connects Staten Island with New Jersey — 64 feet to allow passage of post-Panamax vessels into the ports. As of today, the Fabiola wouldn't clear it.
This is a source of pride for Los Angeles and Long Beach.
"We are far ahead of other ports when it comes to being in a position to handle bigger ships," said Jondle,
Bigger ships
The MSC Fabiola isn't a solitary giant. It has three identical sister ships — the Faustina, the Fillippa and the Filomena — all owned by MSC.
Ships of this size are expected to carry more than half of the world's containers by December 2015, according to fleet forecasts from Alphaliner, a Singapore-based company that monitors shipping data.
Bachkar says using these bigger ships is a more economically efficient and environmentally friendly option than transporting the same number of containers on smaller ships.
"This is a very, very competitive industry," Bachkar said.
"You have to be well-prepared, you have to do your homework pretty well, and you have to predict the future."
And inevitably, in the prediction business, someone is going to be wrong.
Kraig Jondle — seated in a conference room in the Port of Los Angeles' administration building — is a master of his craft. One of Jondle's jobs right now is to reduce any Panama-related apprehensions that current and potential port customers may have
He treads a fine line between downplaying and overstating the significance of the widening of the canal.
"The Panama Canal is really good for this country — we need the Panama Canal," he said. "We're not out to destroy the Panama Canal by any means."
"But certainly," he continued, "we will do all we can to defend the cargo that comes today to the port. We don't want that to go to the East Coast."
"In Southern California, out to Las Vegas and down to Phoenix, there is a 50-million-person population that these ports feed into," Jondle said. "You're always going to have that base of cargo here, and when people want to talk about the Panama Canal, they want to talk about discretionary cargo … bound for Kansas City, Chicago, Columbus, Memphis …"
Los Angeles will spend approximately $1.2 billion on capital improvement projects over the next five years, including the expansion of terminals and the development of hundreds of acres for maritime use. The Port of Long Beach will invest nearly $4.5 billion during the next decade.
However, Jondle admits that despite all of Los Angeles' advantages, the port will lose some business in 2015.
"There's been several studies done," he said. "They range from showing the Port of L.A. losing 25 percent to the Port of L.A. losing 1 percent. So it's such a broad perspective that we decided let's stay on the side and let's fortify our customers … . Let's expand, let's build, and that will keep people here, overall."
Peter Hall, a professor at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University and an expert on port cities, believes that the truth of the matter "is probably somewhere in the middle."
"I don't think there's any reason to think that all of the cargo that's currently coming to the West Coast is going to suddenly follow (the Panama Canal) route," he said.
But, "if there was solid evidence that (the shift) was happening," he said, "there'd be some kind of response from those (West Coast) ports very quickly."
Gresham at the Port of New Orleans, and many others at ports across the U.S., believe that despite the coasts' battles for trade, overall, the Panama Canal expansion is a good thing.
But who benefits most from the canal's expansion will, according to Hall, "be a result of how these guys play the game."
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Brad Racino
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Brad Racino is the assistant editor and senior investigative reporter at inewsource. He's a big fan of transparency, whistleblowers and government agencies forgetting to redact key information from FOIA requests. Brad received his master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri...	More by Brad Racino


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