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An expanding network of Deeksha centres to ensure students don't have to waste time in commute every day. Quality of teaching is uniformly maintained across all Deeksha centres.
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JEE Advanced, previously known as IIT JEE, is the qualifying examination for admissions to IITs. It is one of the most competitive and toughest examinations in the country. Students from across the country commence preparation roughly about two years before they plan to take up the examination. More than 5 lakh students attempt the exam competing for a spot in about 10000 IIT seats every year.
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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts just announced the stellar lineup for the 2013-2014 Broadway Las Vegas series running August 2013 to July 2014. The upcoming season, sponsored by Southern Nevada Ford Stores, brings many of Broadway's most beloved and famed musicals and plays to Las Vegas for the first time.
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Heralded as one of the most moving musicals of all time, "LES MISERABLES" is an epic and uplifting story that captures the survival of the human spirit. Called "an unquestionably spectacular production from start to finish" by The New York Times, "LES MISERABLES" is the winner of eight Tony Awards and has been seen by nearly 60 million people worldwide. The musical features its original famed scores including "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," "Stars," "Bring Him Home," "One Day More," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" and "Master of the House." Since opening at the Barbican Theatre in 1985, "LES MISERABLES" has been adapted into 21 different languages in more than 40 countries. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the musical features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery.
The Wizard of Oz
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An enchanting adaptation of Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the timeless 1939 MGM screenplay, "The Wizard of Oz" is an Andrew Lloyd Webber production entirely reconceived for the stage. Featuring the classic songs from the Oscar-winning movie score, including "Over the Rainbow," "We're Off to See the Wizard" and "If I Only Had a Brain," "The Wizard of Oz" opened in March 2011 and features character favorites Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion and Toto as well as new songs from Webber and Tim Rice.
War Horse
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Winner of five Tony Awards, "War Horse" is the stage play based off Michael Morpurgo's namesake novel which inspired Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated feature film. Hailed by The New York Times as "theatrical magic," "War Horse" is the powerful story of a young boy's beloved horse, Joey, who has been enlisted to fight for the English in World War I. What follows is a remarkable tale of courage, loyalty and friendship, filled with stirring music and songs and told with some of the most innovative stagecraft of our time. The play premiered at the National's Olivier Theatre in 2007 and has been seen by more than one million people worldwide.
Sister Act
Tuesday, Oct. 15 - Sunday, Oct. 20
Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, Stage Entertainment and Troika Entertainment, "Sister Act" tells the story of disco diva Deloris Van Cartier's journey in protective custody after witnessing a murder. Stuck in a convent and disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and an uptight Mother Superior. The hilarious comedic musical was nominated for five Tony Awards and the Associated Press says, "In a word, divine. This is a musical that hits all the right spots, achieving something close to Broadway grace."
Tuesday, Nov. 26 - Sunday, Dec. 1
One of the most adored Broadway musicals of all time, "Evita" follows the life of Eva Perón as she rises from the slums of Argentina to the president's mansion as first lady. One of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famed musicals, "Evita" captures Perón's journey to becoming one of the most powerful women in the world while her greed, ambition and fragile health create a tragic tale. Winner of seven Tony Awards, "Evita" features some of Broadway's most beautiful songs including "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" and "High Flying, Adored."
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The story of "Mamma Mia" follows the life of a mother, daughter and three possible dads. Seen by more than 45 million people worldwide, "Mamma Mia" is an ultimate feel-good show written by Catherine Johnson. The musical, a five-time Tony Award nominee, tells the story of a daughter's quest to identify her father on the eve of her wedding, captured best by the story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs.
Flashdance - The Musical
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Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the pop culture phenomenon "Flashdance" tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel mill welder by day and a bar dancer by night with dreams of one day becoming a professional performer. When romance with her steel mill boss threatens to complicate her ambitions, Alex learns the meaning of love and its power to fuel the pursuit of her dream. Featuring a score that includes the biggest hit songs from the original movie, the stage musical also features 16 brand new songs with music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Robert Cary and Robbie Roth.
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Tuesday, April 15 - Sunday, April 20
Winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" features stunning new staging and includes such legendary songs as "Summertime," "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "I Got Plenty of Nothing." Praised by the New Yorker as "A great achievement!," the classic story is set in Charleston's fabled Catfish Row, where the beautiful Bess struggles to break free from her scandalous past that can only be rescued by the crippled but courageous Porgy. Threatened by her formidable former lover Crown, and the seductive enticements of the colorful troublemaker Sporting Life, Porgy and Bess' relationship evolves into a deep romance that triumphs as one of theater's most exhilarating love stories.
Tuesday, May 20 - Sunday, May 25
Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, "Once" is a truly original Broadway experience featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage. "Once" follows the story of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights, but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and more complex than your everyday romance.
The Book of Mormon
Tuesday, June 10 - Sunday, July 6
Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century." Entertainment Weekly says it's "the funniest musical of all time." From "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it's "The Book of Mormon," winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical. Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" calls it a "crowning achievement. So good it makes me angry."

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Windows 8 launched with a ton of fanfare a few weeks ago, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said later the company had sold four million Windows 8 software upgrades in its first four days. However, just how many new PCs with Windows 8 have been sold to the general public?
Investors.com posted some mixed signals on that front, based on reports from two different financial analysts. On the one hand, Pacific Crest Securities analyst Brendan Barnicle reports that, in his own survey of retailers in the US, Canada and Germany, 75 percent of them said that Windows 8 PC sales have met their expectations, while 25 percent have actually exceeded expectations.
Barnicle adds, "In our third round of retail checks, Windows 8 and Surface continue to meet expectations, with Surface actually slowing from prior weeks."
But will that trend continue? Cowen & Co. analysts Robert Stone and James Medvedeff wrote a note to investors this morning based on the results of a survey of 1,225 US residents. The results show a full two thirds of them don't plan to purchase a new PC anytime in the next 18 months. The analysts state, "Windows 8 does not appear to be spurring an upgrade cycle."
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– I attended this show live and will be spending the rest of the day driving home from New Orleans. The plan is to write up a little bit about the weekend in a separate piece, but I wanted you to have this report before I'm figuratively "stuck on a plane" and you're enjoying the best Raw of the year.
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This section describes message-driven beans and explains the requirements for creating them in the GlassFish Server environment. This section contains the following topics:
This section addresses the following configuration topics:
A message-driven bean is a client to a Connector inbound resource adapter. The message-driven bean container uses the JMS service integrated into the GlassFish Server for message-driven beans that are JMS clients. JMS clients use JMS Connection Factory- and Destination-administered objects. A JMS Connection Factory administered object is a resource manager Connection Factory object that is used to create connections to the JMS provider.
The mdb-connection-factory element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file for a message-driven bean specifies the connection factory that creates the container connection to the JMS provider.
The jndi-name element of the ejb element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file specifies the JNDI name of the administered object for the JMS Queue or Topic destination that is associated with the message-driven bean.
The container manages a pool of message-driven beans for the concurrent processing of a stream of messages. The sun-ejb-jar.xml file contains the elements that define the pool (that is, the bean-pool element):
For more information about sun-ejb-jar.xml, see The sun-ejb-jar.xml File in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
You can control the following domain-level message-driven bean settings in the EJB container:
Initial and Minimum Pool Size - Specifies the initial and minimum number of beans maintained in the pool. The default is 0.
Maximum Pool Size - Specifies the maximum number of beans that can be created to satisfy client requests. The default is 32.
Pool Resize Quantity - Specifies the number of beans to be created if a request arrives when the pool is empty (subject to the Initial and Minimum Pool Size), or the number of beans to remove if idle for more than the Idle Timeout. The default is 8.
Idle Timeout - Specifies the maximum time in seconds that a bean can remain idle in the pool. After this amount of time, the bean is destroyed. The default is 600 (10 minutes). A value of 0 means a bean can remain idle indefinitely.
For information on monitoring message-driven beans, click the Help button in the Administration Console. The Monitor tab is accessible from the Application Server page.
Running monitoring when it is not needed might impact performance, so you might choose to turn monitoring off when it is not in use. For details, see Chapter 8, Administering the Monitoring Service, in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Administration Guide.
This section discusses the following restrictions and performance optimizations that pertain to developing message-driven beans:
The message-driven bean pool is also a pool of threads, with each message-driven bean instance in the pool associating with a server session, and each server session associating with a thread. Therefore, a large pool size also means a high number of threads, which impacts performance and server resources.
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Refer to Chapter 8, Administering the Monitoring Service, in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Administration Guide for information on how to get message-driven bean pool statistics.
Message-driven beans, like other well-behaved MessageListeners, should not, in general, throw runtime exceptions. If a message-driven bean's onMessage method encounters a system-level exception or error that does not allow the method to successfully complete, the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v3.0 provides the following guidelines:
If the bean method encounters a runtime exception or error, it should simply propagate the error from the bean method to the container.
If the bean method performs an operation that results in a checked exception that the bean method cannot recover, the bean method should throw the javax.ejb.EJBException that wraps the original exception.
Any other unexpected error conditions should be reported using javax.ejb.EJBException (javax.ejb.EJBException is a subclass of java.lang.RuntimeException).
Under container-managed transaction demarcation, upon receiving a runtime exception from a message-driven bean's onMessage method, the container rolls back the container-started transaction and the message is redelivered. This is because the message delivery itself is part of the container-started transaction. By default, the GlassFish Server container closes the container's connection to the JMS provider when the first runtime exception is received from a message-driven bean instance's onMessage method. This avoids potential message redelivery looping and protects server resources if the message-driven bean's onMessage method continues misbehaving. To change this default container behavior, use the cmt-max-runtime-exceptions property of the MDB container. Here is an example asadmin set command that sets this property:
asadmin set server-config.mdb-container.property.cmt-max-runtime-exceptions="5"
For more information about the asadmin set command, see the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Reference Manual.
The cmt-max-runtime-exceptions property specifies the maximum number of runtime exceptions allowed from a message-driven bean's onMessage method before the container starts to close the container's connection to the message source. By default this value is 1; -1 disables this container protection.
A message-driven bean's onMessage method can use the javax.jms.Message.getJMSRedelivered method to check whether a received message is a redelivered message.
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I'm currently traveling in Germany, and I need to use the internet. I'm able to find internet hotspots almost everywhere, but I'm not interested in paying 3-5 euro to access each hotspot. The curious thing is that many of these hotspots are setup such that port 80 is closed (i.e. HTTP traffic) for non-paying customers, but all other ports are open. This means that without paying, I'm able to get an IP address with DHCP, SSH into my remote server (on port 22), and send email (on ports 25 and 587, depending on the mail server). So, that's useful, but what about viewing web pages on port 80? The solution to this problem is to use SSH tunneling. It's rather simple. I found these instructions to be useful: https://www.pcworld.com/article/197725/how_to_set_up_a_secure_web_tunnel.html?page=1
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BBC Knowledge and Learning is exploring a wide variety of topics from social history to science in a series of three-minute online Explainer documentaries, and commissioned Territory Studio (territorystudio.com) to produce an animated film on the subject of DNA.
Three minutes is a short time to explore a subject where most doctorates only scratch the surface, so writer Andrew S. Walsh teamed up with molecular biologist Dr Matthew Adams to distil the script down to the most fundamental elements required to understand not only DNA's form and function but how our understanding of these discoveries has affected the wider world. While this length may feel restrictive, the team found that this limitation acted as a lens, focusing the piece on the essentials.
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This website provides information on the human mammary epithelial cell (HMEC) resources developed in my laboratory and that of Mark LaBarge at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. Many of these cell types are made available for distribution. Information is provided on the cell types available, the derivation of these cells, appropriate procedures for cell culture, and some data and models obtained using this HMEC system.
As part of my ongoing research program since 1976, my laboratory has developed and stored frozen a variety of normal, benign, tumor-derived, and in vitro transformed cultures of HMEC. To facilitate scientific investigations using HMEC, our laboratory makes these cells available to other researchers. Descriptions of the cell types available can be found in "Human Mammary Cell Types Generated". A brief introduction to the derivation of these cultures, including our current models of how these HMEC overcome senescence/tumor suppressor barriers to become immortal and malignant can be found in "An Overview". The "Review" section contains more details of our long-term program; however, this section has not been updated since 2003. I may send personalized PowerPoint file to investigators with more current information. The "Procedures" section contains detailed protocols for how to grow these cells.
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If you would like to obtain HMEC from us, you are welcome to contact me for assistance in determining which cells might be the most appropriate for addressing your scientific questions. Contact me (not Tech Transfer) first, by email; further discussions by phone may follow. Please look over the "Human Mammary Cell Types Generated" and "An Overview" sections prior to discussion about cell types to use.
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Phone-Jim Garbe, [email protected]: 510 486-6390
Phone-Mark LaBarge, [email protected]: 510-486-4544
Human Mammary Cell Types Generated
An Overview of Growth, Aging, Senescence, and Immortality
Review of the Human Mammary Epithelial Cell (HMEC) Culture System
(last revised January 2003)
Additional Websites of interest for mammary gland biology:
Biology of the Mammary Gland provided by the National Institute of Health
LaBarge Lab Website
Komen Tissue Bank
This web site was developed with support from the Department of Defense (94MM4530). Additional support has been provided by NIH grants CA24844 and CA112970, and the Director, Office of Science, Office of Biological & Environmental Research, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.


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Of course the very day after Eleanor insisted that she could not possibly wear the button covers with anything other than her purple stripped tights, I found her rummaging through her drawers looking for her "heart buttons"! Apparently it finally sunk in that I don't do the wash daily and she had settled on a different pair of tights. And here I was thinking I had found the solution by putting the shirt aside to wait for the tights to be cleaned. Nope. Once we put all the clothes back in her drawers, dressing commenced and I ended up with a very happy girl.
I did find out that it doesn't pay to ignore the directions on which way to place the button slit and that said slits should be made on the small side. As I mentioned yesterday, it took me less than 5 minutes to make the 7 little hearts. Well, it took me even less than that to redo the 3 front hearts so that they wouldn't pop off every time her little belly rubbed against something. Now they're on there snugly and all is going well. Personally, it's the french cuffs on a 4 yr old that slays me.
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Quotations about Baseball
Related Quotes Sports Summer Teamwork Football Basketball
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Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. ~Norm Cash, on his 1,081 strikeouts
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970
Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound. ~Jim Murray, on Sandy Koufax
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. ~Casey Stengel, 1967
Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. ~Saul Steinberg
The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays. ~Lawrence Ritter
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. ~Don Drysdale, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1979
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974
A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. ~Arthur Daley
The woods smell like spring. I know it's too early, but I've reinstalled the Phillies baseball icon on the home page of my phone. ~David J. Beard (1947–2016), tweet, 2010 January 15th
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~Bill Veeck, 1976
A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves. ~Brendan Francis
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played — in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. ~Alvin Dark
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. ~Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 13 April 1990
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. ~Bill Veeck
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. ~Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970
I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead. ~Richard Gilman
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. ~Tallulah Bankhead
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. ~Pat Conroy
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. ~Pete Hamill
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports
Baseball? It's just a game — as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business — and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. ~Mickey Mantle
I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990
Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. ~Mark Kramer
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. ~Roger Kahn
[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there. ~Ray Miller
Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ~Author Unknown
All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother's funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin's wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game. ~Traditional gag notice hung in offices and factories at a time period when all games were played during daylight hours
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. ~Dick Gregory
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. ~Sharon Olds, This Sporting Life, 1987
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. ~Robert Benchley
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base — in both senses — greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles
It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL! ~Herbert H. Paper, in Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 April 1989
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day. ~Gabe Paul
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide — these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin. ~Branch Rickey, May 1960
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ~Sandy Koufax
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ~Warren Spahn
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~Woodie Held
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. ~Duke Snider
Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel. ~Roger Simon, 1988
You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. ~Bob Sarlette
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. ~Andre Dawson, on Montreal
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. ~William C. Feather
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith
It ain't nothin' till I call it. ~Bill Klem, umpire
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. ~Casey Stengel
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. ~Author Unknown
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. ~Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard, New York Times, 2 November 1975
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. ~George F. Will, 1990
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made. ~Cy Young
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. ~Harry Caray [Strikethrough, 2016.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~Duke Snider, 1975
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. ~Charlie Lau, 1982
It actually giggles at you as it goes by. ~Rick Monday, on Phil Niekro's knuckleball, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 1 August 1983
The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. ~Bob Uecker
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. ~Jimmy Cannon
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983
Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? ~Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. ~Author Unknown
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. ~Steve Hovley, 1969
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook
A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978
Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko, 1981
Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack. ~Adam Morrow, quoted in Bill Simmons, "Letters from the Nation," 20 October 2003
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ~Ty Cobb
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport. ~Philip Wrigley
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian
Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease. ~Walter F. O'Malley
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~Joe Garagiola, Baseball is a Funny Game
Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." ~John McSherry
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. ~Robert S. Wieder
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~Bill Veeck
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Greg, age 8
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. ~Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. ~Leo Durocher
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. ~Neville Cardus, A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981, referring to cricket
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. ~Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. ~Denis Norden, 1977
To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. ~Geoffrey Boycott, 1989, how a cricket batsman feels when facing a fast bowler
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ~Barry Switzer
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Tydskr. geesteswet. vol.54 no.4 Pretoria dic. 2014
Constancy and Change, Historical Types and Trends in the Passion of the Western Mind
B.J. Van der Walt
Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Africa, 2014, 140 pp.
The study of the history of philosophy is an important part of doing philosophy. It has been said that philosophy only has its history left as more and more of its original domain has been captured by the special sciences. This, of course, is an exaggeration. Yet, as Van der Walt shows, the history of philosophy is important, and not only so for philosophers, for I think indeed that Constancy and Change, succeeds in showing the relevance of this subject for issues we face in everyday life - no less in Africa than in Europe. Without guidance we - Christians hardly less than seculars - easily fall prey to false dilemma's such as Empiricism or Rationalism, Modernism or Postmodernism. It is altogether fitting for an Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Africa to publish such a book.
The protagonist of the story is D.H.Th. Vollenhoven (1892-1977), who assumed his task at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in 1926, and after WW II dedicated his time entirely to the development of a methodology for dealing with the history of philosophy. He did so because of serious misgivings about current methodologies. These tended to narrow their scope to a restricted number of philosophies. Also, their maps depended on a limited number of criteria. Vollenhoven however, developed no less than sixty different types. Their constancy (see Van der Walt's title) is that they are applied to the whole of history, from early Greek philosophy to 20th C. thought.
The Passion of the Western Mind in the subtitle refers to the unrest that characterizes Western civilization. Vollenhoven's time-currents chart this ongoing seeking of renewal by disrupting continuity. To be sure, human passion is not the sole cause of historical change (as a Buddhist would hold). All important is that God makes the times serve the fulfillment of His purpose. Without any claim to lay bare the roots of change, Vollenhoven's methodology does try to register its effects in the realm of philosophical thought.
Van der Walt is rightly fascinated by the combination of constancy and change. What he shows is that viewed from the angle of Vollenhoven's typology a passion for change, no matter how radical, in the end presents "merely" a shift from one type to another. This assumption that even radical change does not break typological constancy bespeaks the Calvinist's conviction that God's law holds for all times.
Of course, the introductory character of this book made it impossible to discuss specific type and currents at length. It may seem a shortcoming, but in fact this open-endedness greatly enhances the accessibility of the texts (certainly compared to Vollenhoven's own writings). Students who want more than is offered here, can easily find their way, as the bibliography contains titles of more detailed studies in this field. In still another aspect this book is open-ended: Van der Walt's final chapters deal with subjects that Vollenhoven neglected, viz. the relation between male and female and gender differences and relationships. He shows that also here Vollenhovian categories are able to shed light on the controversies surrounding these subjects. I think this should encourage philosophers of the special disciplines to do something similar with debates in their own fields.
All chapters were published before as separate articles, all of them in Afrikaans. Given the introductory character of the book I don't see this as a disadvantage. Another positive point in this regard is the use of metaphors inspired by African nature. Ch. 3, Flying on the wings of Vollenhoven 's radical worldview, even starts with a hike in Kwa-Zulu Natal. So, although the protagonist of the story is a Dutch philosopher, the texts are embellished by African imagery.
I count it as my duty to put my finger on a few mistakes, mostly minor, but in at least one case of a more serious nature. Examples of minor mistakes are "fables" on p. 36 ( instead of "anecdotes"), and on p. 45 dating the heyday of the worldview-idea around the 1840's (half-a-century too early). Ch. 3 is plagued by a category mistake: Vollenhoven's distinction of three historical eras - pre-synthetic, synthetic, and anti-synthetic - is lumped together with an (attempted) classification of worldviews: in contradistinction to the former, the latter has to proceed both diachronically and synchronically. Put more generally, the book lacks clarity as to the differences between philosophy and worldview. Nevertheless, this chapter does contain many interesting topics relating to its purpose to replace H.R. Niebuhr's classification of "Christ against culture", " - above culture", etc., by something better.
Sander Griffioen
Prof. em. Wijsbegeerte van de Sociale wijsbegeerte
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In the big scheme of things, Vermont Electric Power Company's project to string up a new set of 345Kv transmission lines through Addison County could have been delayed another year or two without (in all likelihood) depriving consumers of an adequate supply of power. It certainly seems reasonable, therefore, to ask VELCO to work around a Middlebury Christmas tree farm during the farm's peak season between Thanksgiving and Christmas. To proceed with the erection of gigantic poles within the next two or three weeks, when it means that the poles would be placed right in the midst of the Werner tree farm (see story Page 1), seems like a slap in the face to a fellow Vermont business. It's almost an affront that VELCO wouldn't have foreseen the dilemma earlier and made the overture to avoid work there for this one five-week period.Could they do that? Of course. The new power lines won't be turned on for months, until, that is, the last segment of the line (which goes from Rutland to South Burlington) is installed. It would be plenty easy for the firm to simply leap-frog past the Werner's farm and come back to install the poles post Christmas. Alas, the firm missed a wonderful public relations opportunity. With plenty of Addison County residents already upset by the enormity of the project and by VELCO's minimal effort to mitigate some of the most offensive blights on the landscape, here was a script that could have read like a touching Christmas story — a story of concern for another, sacrifice and corporate duty not to harm others who are far smaller and more vulnerable to economic whims.It's not too late. Being insensitive and out of touch is always forgiven if, at the end of the day, the offense is mitigated. It's the Christmas season, after all, and it'd be nice if corporate America started realizing that its community relations were as important as its bottom line.Angelo S. Lynn


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James Franco is a man who needs no more introductions, having already introduced so many iterations of himself to the public. Whereas most actors as famous as Franco are perceived by audiences as a composite of the roles they play and media-constructed non-ish-fiction, Franco filters himself through many forms of expression: he's an artist, an author, a teacher, a director, a creativity preacher. He's the godfather of the Millennial generation: those who never take no for an answer, feel their feelings as much or as little in whatever way they want to at any given moment, then hold them up for the world/Internet to see, or don't. Whatever. It's like, fuck you, but as a sentiment of unity and identity and love. Here, artist Douglas Gordon speaks with Franco on the nature of celebrity, audience, expectation, and murder.
DOUGLAS GORDON Do you remember when we met?
JAMES FRANCO Was Avignon the first time we met?
DG No. We met in a café and you were introduced to me by Harry.
JF Yes, yes, the Scottish heir.
DG Right, who lives right around the corner from me in Berlin.
JF That's right. He moved to Berlin.
DG And you know, so we eat and we have a nice lunch, and after that it gets hazy for me.
JF Oh, no. I remember. I fucking remember. You were in the back buying a bunch of Andy Warhols.
DG I was trying to buy a bunch of Andy Warhols; I didn't get all of them.
JF Why?
DG I don't know. I think they had some better clients. But there was one photograph that really struck me, which was a photograph of Andy Warhol, Brad Davis, and Fassbender. And I wanted it, and I got it eventually. So if you ever come to visit me in Berlin, you can come into my ramshackle fucking mess of a house.
JF That's the first thing you see when you go in your house?
DG Yeah. And the picture opposite that is a burnt portrait of Jayne Mansfield—tits are still there, head is off.
JF So I thought you were getting some of those Warhols for a show that you were doing.
DG No. I was trying to buy them.
JF But did you not do a show around that time that somehow combined your work and Warhol's work?
DG Yeah, I mean roundabout that time I was planning this big show in New York, and there was this weird compulsion to exorcise something, which is another thing I'd like to speak to you about—I don't know whether I should really call you an actor…
JF Okay.
DG You know what I mean? I think this is also one of the good things about what you do outside of Hollywood. I think that you're pushing it, because you know that when you push it, people want it. You push it, you push it, you push it. Your short film, not the first one I saw, but the second one, which was the rape of the girls? I have to say, that's a fucking difficult thing for me to watch.
JF Herbert White is based on a poem of the same name by Frank Bidart, it's the first poem from his first book of poetry,Golden State. It is a persona poem that uses the mask of a serial killer to talk about deeper things. I saw it as a chance to show the extremity of loneliness that a person might feel if they possessed a secret so dark that they could never tell anyone about it. I am probably more proud of this short film than of anything else I've done. I got to collaborate with two of my heroes: Frank Bidart and the actor Michael Shannon. It was the first time that I felt really pushed to raise my own game as an artist because I didn't want to let down these great collaborators.
DG And of course you make the work for those people and for yourself. This is the other great thing when you make work, in any medium, for anyone, and you actually end up in a temporary confrontation or meeting with those people: you realize that what you've done is actually effective. But that meta-reflection can be…
JF There is a bit of a dichotomy between my work on camera as an actor and off-camera. I am still hired as an actor in commercial narrative films and my responsibility there is to create characters that are believable and entertaining in each given project. I don't see my participation in films like Milk or 127 Hours as anything other than storytelling devices among many such devices for the directors of those films. I am a collaborator, but a collaborator serving a director's vision.
But outside of my role as an actor a different persona has been created—this is the public persona—which has been partly created by me and the career choices I've made, and partly by other entities: the press, the public, the Internet. This persona is now material for much of my work as is the material of film itself. Commercial films are designed to entertain and make back their money, they are expensive and thus they are investments, but once they have served their turn in the marketplace I see them as raw material for more explorative kinds of work. I feel like that's incredibly important because for so long I've been working only in mainstream cinema as an actor and that was basically the only outlet I had. So one of the big things for me is: how can I break out? I want to do something that's based in film, but I don't want to be confined by that single screen or a single kind of person telling the story. I want it fractured. I want to break it up. I want to lose myself in something bigger. So the presentation and the process of making has become extremely important to me—to get out of what I'm used to. And that's something that I think you do too.
DG It's a really curious thing, you know. I mean, I grew up with this idea that everyone's equal and working class, and if you rise above the working class then you can go on and on and on, and of course I'm super lucky that my mum and dad supported me to go to art school. But then when you're at art school, people like David Bowie, who I think is genius, extraordinary, the reception of his paintings ain't that good. There are many examples, and then you realize that there are artists who can make an occasional cameo in a movie and kind of get away with it, but the elevation of art is so strange.
JF I actually talked to Russell Ferguson [chair of The Department of Art at UCLA] about this a lot, because I studied with him, and that was when I first started to make my videos where I was trying to get away from commercial cinema. We talk about that a lot, that actors—especially actors in mainstream film—are gonna bear a lot of that. In my life as an actor, I have this level of commentary, you know—blogs and things that comment on the most base and stupid, stupid level, but that is a level that I have to kind of break through if I want to do anything outside of acting and mainstream film, just something that I always have to face. I mean, I'm not asking people to feel bad for me, I'm just saying that it's the situation I'm in—that people are skeptical of celebrity.
DG Which you clearly enjoy.
JF You know, I've embraced it now. I actually like this sort of superficial criticism of the work, because in a way it becomes this sort of beautiful reflection of
our culture.
DG This may be a terrible question, but what is the work and what is the work? I know what your work is, and I think you know what your work is. I mean, there's the daily work and there's the…
JF I think you are talking about the work as an actor for hire, which is an interpretive kind of work, and work as a director or artist, which is a creative kind of work. I think I've found a way to happily combine both worlds. Even when I need to do the "work," the obligatory work of promoting a big-budget studio film, I have found a way to make this part of my personal practice by trying to be as honest as possible. My public persona has become part of my work, not that I am actually out trying to get tons of attention, believe me, I'd rather not do all the promotion required for a film, but if I do have to do it, then I am going to make it worthwhile. And really I don't have to do too much, I think people are so used to a kind of celebrity mask that people wear to keep their private lives safe that when someone tries not to wear the mask it is disconcerting. Anyway, I am just trying to make all aspects of my life worthwhile and to turn the "work" into material that I can use for my Work.
DG Can I say this is like the first time that we've both actually had quiet time?
JF Very good. To be continued.
DG Always.