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Often, I come across great genealogy sites and don't know where to keep the links, usually, I just store them in a miscellaneous file, where they get forgotten or just hard to locate when I need them. Recently, I've discovered some really good, free blogs or free pages, and decided to make it easy on myself by posting here. These aren't just for me, but for others to see and use as well. Only the areas where I have ancestors will be posted, and I intend to leave comments about them.
From the Weekly Genealogist, New England Historic Genealogical Society's free newsletter of July 11, 2012, two very useful sites:
Genealogy Book Links http://genealogybooklinks.com/*
Wisconsin County Histories
Vital Records of Simsbury, CT Cemetery Records***
A History of Rochester and Monroe county, New York, Volume 2 by William Farley Peck (google book)
*Mollie Lynch of Clarkston, Michigan:
As a retired librarian, I needed a hobby and wanted to assist people doing genealogical research so I started genealogybooklinks.com. I began locating and providing links to freely available digital books, focusing on American biographies, genealogies, and history books. Today there are over 30,000 links from more than 35 sources (only the top sources are listed on the site). The current focus is on surnames, directories, vital records, and identifying smaller sites with local area-specific books." What a great site!
**Dee Grimsrud, a retired Wisconsin Historical Society archivist from Madison, Wisconsin:
"The Wisconsin Historical Society has numerous county histories scanned, searchable, and free." My 3rd great-grandfather, Maj. George Anderson died in Madison, Wisconsin.
***"This record has been compiled using the following resources: Simsbury Cemetery Gravestone Inscriptions, Simsbury, CT. 1688-2000 compiled by Joyce Cahill (names and dates only, these are not the exact transcriptions." I used this site quite a bit prior to my visit to this cemetery. I have 151 names who have lived in Simsbury.
****My 2nd great-grandfather, William Frederick Poole was married in Rochester, New York.
My blog has been changed to make it more appealing for those who have New England ancestors and want to see the area through photos. Things I'll include are typical white New England churches, libraries showing their genealogical collection, historical societies, cemeteries, war memorials, in general, anything to do with history.
For four years I've blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can't forget my own roots.
Please check out the labels on the right side for articles. The header tabs at the top are a work in progress.
Friday, July 13, 2012
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After toying with Eric Gagne and Russ Springer, the Twins have settled on the 31-year-old right-handed Luis Ayala, offering a one-year, $1.3 million contract (which could be worth $1.8 with incentives) pending a physical. Ayala has further increased the depth of the bullpen, a component that the team was lacking in 2008. In 81 appearances split between the Nationals and the Mets in 2008, Ayala threw 75.2 innings with a 50/24 K/BB ratio and a 6.32 Runs Allowed Average.
At 41, the Athletics signed a similar type of pitcher in Springer to a contract worth twice as much ($3.3 million). Gagne is still seeking a contract that smart GMs will laugh at. Fangraphs recently calculated that the Fair Market Value for Ayala would be $2.8 million, so the actual contract signed could wind up a bargain for the Twins. What can the Twins expect from Ayala in 2009?
P. Humber......87.5%
L. Ayala........86.5%
J. Crain.........80.0%
M. Guerrier.....77.1%
B. Bonser.......76.2%
C. Breslow......74.5%
J. Nathan.......70.0%
J. Nathan........28.3%
B. Bonser........23.3%
C. Breslow.......21.4%
MLB Average........19.1%
J. Crain..........18.6%
M. Guerrier......17.1%
L. Ayala..........14.9%
P. Humber.......12.0%
As you can see from the chart above, Ayala doesn't make too many bats miss. He does not come equipped with an out-pitch -- his most successful pitch at making batters miss was his changeup (.179 WHIFF) that he throws with a seven mile-per-hour difference from his fastball. For comparison's sake, every one of the Twins bullpen staff has at least one pitch that has a WHIFF higher than .300. Ayala is a standard fastball/slider pitcher. His slider is thrown to contact (.157 WHIFF) coupled with a sinking fastball that incites groundballs (48.5% GB% career). Ayala's success is contingent on the eight other guys on the field, provided that the ball remains in the field of play. If you subtract Humber from the Contact Percentage and Strikeout Percentage chart above (considering he only threw 11 innings in 2008 anyways), you can see clearly that Ayala, more than anyone else in the bullpen, requires his defense to convert the outs for him.
So what about those balls in play? In addition to having a high contact rate, Ayala's opponents made fairly solid contact: almost 23% of those balls put into play were line drives (only Boof Bonser was the only other member of that list to have his LD rate over 19%, the AL average). With a larger than normal amount of balls scorched on a rope it is no surprise to see that Ayala's BABIP was .320. On the flip side, fundamentally Ayala is a groundball pitcher. His career 48.5% groundball rate means that Nick Punto and Alexi Casilla will be busy up the middle. With a better defensive tandem at second and short, Ayala will watch his BABIP drop closer to league average.
One indication that Ayala will improve in 2009 is his strand rate -- his ability to leave runners on base -- was absurdly low (60.2%), leading to his ERA over 5. This statistic has the tendency to fluctuate but typically from year-to-year. The possibility is strong that it will rebound to a higher Left On Base rate in 2009 and see his ERA shrink as a result. According to Inside Edge's scouting report, in spite of Ayala's high line drive rate, batters were not punishing the righty, so the suggestion is that the runs crossing the plate were a factor of bad luck rather than being knocked around the ballpark.
Reliever........Well-Hit Average
C. Breslow.......152
J. Crain..........216
J. Nathan........218
L. Ayala...........232
M. Guerrier.......235
MLB Average.......267
B. Bonser.........271
P. Humber.........318
So even though Ayala doesn't necessary fit into the prototypical 8th Inning Guy mold, they did acquired a genuine workhorse with high leverage experience, two areas that needed addressing. What wore down the Twins' bullpen in 2008 was the lack of bullpen dept. Ayala's presence will drop Guerrier back to his lower leverage situations wear he is better suited and he will be a safety net for the Twins if Jesse Crain is unable to emerge as the dominate set up man.


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Mark Slouka, "Crossing."
In his comment on the origins of this story, Slouka says that the event on which it is based happened fifteen years ago when, in what he calls "an act of near-biblical stupidity," he was fording a river with his five-year-old son on his back and found himself in serious trouble: "There are few things more excruciating than realizing you've put your child's life in danger."
The story begins as a straightforward account of a man who takes his son to a remote area where he remembers similar experiences with his own father. He carries their packs across a shallow but fast-moving river and then goes back and carries his son across. They spend one night exploring the area, but the next day when he recrosses the river, he knows that because of some melt runoff the current is a bit stronger than the day before. When he takes the boy back across, he loses his footing and, although he does not fall, he is moved downstream four or five feet to a point that makes it seem impossible to move forward or backward. The story ends with the man in the middle of the river, telling his son that they are o.k. and just to "hang on."
Slouka says that over the years he thought about the event often and knew he wanted to write about it, but that he could not find "the release, the spring, the image or phrase or note—often dissonant, almost always unexpected—that brings a story to life.' Slouka adds, "Though the organic symbolism of the thing appealed to me, it felt too easy, too finished, inert." So he let it be until he came across an anecdote that he has the man recall when he thinks with remorse and shame that he cannot get out of this dilemma—about a medieval priest who takes the torch from the executioner and goes down a line of victims tied to stakes and kisses each one tenderly on the cheek before lighting the fire under them. Slouka says this anecdote made him realize that he had to leave the man there in the stream, 'tricked by life, prey once again to his old fears and insecurities. A man poised between his past and his future, between the impossibility of going on and the necessity of it."
Of course the question the reader wants an answer to at the end of the story is: "Did the man get himself and his son across?" Slouka says that in real life he, of course, did get across with his son, who is now big enough to carry him across the river. But in the story, the man and boy do not get across, for they are still there in the middle of the river where the story leaves them. Slouka says: "Fiction, I remind myself, is an act of trespass on the territory of the past, and those who have no stomach for it, whose reverence for apparent truths, as opposed to created ones, is too great, probably shouldn't play. Both are equally true: We made it. And we're still, all of us, hip-deep in the current."
To convert this simple, albeit terrifying event, into a piece of fiction, Slouka inserts several minor suggestions that the narrator, recently separated or divorced, is in an in-between place in his life, e.g. "he hadn't been happy in a while," "he hadn't wanted her back, hadn't wanted much of anything really" "when he looked at her she shook her head and looked away and at that moment he thought, maybe—maybe he could make this right, "Sometimes it wasn't so easy to know how to go, how to keep things alive."
When the narrator is in the middle of the river with his son on his back, he thinks "My God, all his other fuckups were just preparations for this." "He couldn't move. He was barely holding on. There was no way." And as he feels the 'hot, shameful fire of remorse and the unending pity," he recalls the anecdote about the medieval priest who takes the torch from the executioner and goes down the line of condemned witches or heretics and kisses each one on the cheek before setting the torch to the tinder under their feet.
Why and how this anecdote transformed an event into a story for Slouka is up to the reader. The anecdote is a reference to the so-called "kiss of death," originating in that act of betrayal when Judas kisses Jesus on the cheek, therefore identifying him for the soldiers. Perhaps the event became a story for Slouka when he knew that the man and his son would neither escape nor would they die, but would remain there, suspended between past and present, between safety and death, between the impossibility of going on and the necessity of going on. Who knows what went on in the mind of Judas when he betrayed Jesus with a kiss? Is the priest's kiss in the anecdote an admission of betrayal or a kiss asking forgiveness of the condemned?
Slouka's placing the man in a position wherein he cannot go on, but must go on recalls the final lines of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable:
You must go on.
I can't go on.
You must go on.
I'll go on. You must say words, as long as there are any - until they find me, until they say me. (Strange pain, strange sin!) You must go on. Perhaps it's done already. Perhaps they have said me already. Perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story. (That would surprise me, if it opens.)
It will be I? It will be the silence, where I am? I don't know, I'll never know: in the silence you don't know.
You must go on.
I can't go on.
I'll go on.
I do not know if Slouka had this passage in mind when he knew he had to leave his narrator and his son in the middle of that river. However, it is the one thing in the story that elevates it from simple visceral danger to an image of the universal human condition.
Lynn Freed, "Sunshine"
Lynn Freed says little about this story, except that it has been with her for a long time. A. M. Holmes, who picked it as her favorite in the collection, has much to say. Holmes suggests that one is initially deceived by the apparent simplicity in the story: "Something exceptionally artful in the way the author manages the balance between what is said and what is left unsaid. Enormously complex information and emotion is invisibly conveyed; this works because what is being said carries the fullness and weight of collective archetypal imagery, classical themes of mythological root, literary references, albeit barely spoken, ad psychological theories—all adding up to the very essence of one's moral life and responsibility."
The story begins with the discovery of a feral female child in the bush, who is turned over to a man named Julian de Jong, the wealthy master of an estate. It seems clear that this is not the first time that a native girl or "wild child" has been brought to de Jong. Indeed, the women Grace and Beauty, who he orders to clean the child up, have once been such foundlings. For four weeks, the two women try to "tame" or "civilize" the young girl, and each night de Jong talks quietly to her. The title comes from the fact that at one point, Grace begins to sing the song "You Are My Sunshine," which somehow charms the girl, allowing her to be coaxed into putting on clothes. Although Grace thinks the girl still retains more of the baboon than the human, de Jong orders that she be brought to him.
De Jong waits for the girl, as he has done with the others before her, naked in a pool of water. His rape of the girl is recounted in some detail, but afterwards when de Jong dunks her head under the water to make her stop moaning, she breaks away and begins to bite him, sinking her teeth into his neck and hanging on like a wild dog until he dies and she rips away the flesh, swallows it, and escapes out an open window. The girl never returns, and eventually the story becomes a village legend of a baboon girl who kills a demon. The villagers even begin to doubt the existence of the demon himself, thinking that surely someone would have reported him to the authorities, that one of the girls would have told her story to the newspapers.
Holmes calls attention to what she terms the Freed's "deft summoning of the complexity of slave/master relationships, the struggle of women for legitimacy, beyond man's object or possession, and question of economic power and domination…are part of what gives this story its resonance." Holmes ends her discussion by saying that in the story she celebrates "the dark art" and applauds the "gruesome, the transgressive, the thing that does not let us escape from the side of ourselves that we would rather not see."
My reaction to the impact of the story is similar to Holmes' reaction. It is a horrifying tale of exploitation in which every one is guilty. However, I am not so sure that it has a feminist message. The wild child could just have easily been a boy as a girl. The story fascinates me because it reminds me that we are all animals and only a thin, temporary veneer of civilization keeps us in line. Conrad told the same story in "Heart of Darkness" with a great deal more complexity. Still, the story kept me riveted until the bloody end, becoming, as all stories do, a timeless legend.
Matthew Neill Null, "Something You Can't Live Without"
According to his faculty profile for the Department of English at University of Iowa, "Matthew Neill Null was born and raised in West Virginia, where his family has lived for generations. He received a B.A. in English (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Washington & Lee University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has worked as a carpenter, a road crewman, and a grant writer. His fiction has appeared in The Oxford American, Gray's Sporting Journal, and Shenandoah. He's finishing a novel...and slowly, slowly, accruing a collection of stories."
Manuel Munoz, who chose this story as his favorite in the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, says:
The central character's "attempt to pass on a cheap piece of goods to the poor farmer McBride is as straightforward a plot as anyone could ask, and the surprise comes in the story's largely silent battle of pride and comeuppance, two men thinking of the single way to emerge the better in the bargain. The real pleasure—and certainly not the only one—is in the sentences, as complex, deliberately assured, and lethal as Flannery O'Connor's. What an authentic, confident story this is, soaked through with deceit and menace and the distinctly abrupt strain of American violence. Add in a startling ending—an unforgiving embrace of the nature of time and history, if not the devouring jaws of myth—and you've got a work ready to prove that short stories and short-story writers are the most sprawling and unruly of all mythmakers."
I have to admit that part of the appeal this story has for me is its setting in a rural area of West Virginia, which is very similar to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky where I was born and raised. Null is a young man in his twenties who says he wrote the story as a self-conscious challenge to himself to try to write a "drummer tale" that would be more than a cliché, admitting that he knows that many great writers—Faulkner, Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud—have written very fine travelling salesman stories, which are actually versions of the so-called "biter bit" stories, in which a con man gets conned.
However, I have my doubts when Null begins to talk about what he calls his central theme—"the crisis of people who love the land, but are faced with the prospect of selling or destroying some aspect of it to translate the landscape into dollars." He says this is West Virginia' story of the land having been sold and sold again for timber to coal mining. "Despite our common myths and party rhetoric, extractive industry has failed to improve the lot of West Virginians. For me "Something You Can't live Without" is a middle chapter in a long, fraught history."
I did not like Null's story because of its so-called social message about the rape of Appalachia any more than I liked Lynn Freed's story "Sunshine" because of its so-called social message about the exploitation of women. I think Null's story is a straightforward, well-told tale about a travelling salesman who begins his career with a dead man's sucker list and finally meets up with a sucker who gets the better of him. The salesman, Cartwright, on his buckboard wagon, riding up a holler to try to con honest Sherman McBride into buying a new plow, creates an irresistible image for me. And the language Null puts in the mouths of his characters sounds familiar to my ears. "Whoever cut this grade, Cartwright aid to the horses, must have followed a snake up the hollow." (Although one of my folks would have said "holler.') Still talking to his horses, Cartwright says, "It's hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock." I have never heard anyone say this, but it's funnier than any of the "hotter than" lines I have ever heard. When he tells McBride that he has something that will triple a man's harvest yield with half the effort, adding "you can't beat that with a stick," I am ready for a sales pitch of the one tool he says a man cannot afford to be without.
When Cartwright makes the sale, but McBride does not have enough money to buy the plow, we know we are in for another con. One of McBride's sons takes Cartwright deep into a cave to show him a fossil of a petrified bear that the Smithsonian Institute is willing to pay big money for. However, when Cartwright tries to chip the fossil head out of the cave wall, it shatters. Things go from bad to worse when they discover Cartwright's sucker list which characterizes McBride as "among the country's daft, drunken, gullible, and insane."
The story ends abruptly when McBride shoots Cartwright with a shotgun, and they cover the body with pine boughs. The history of the body is summarized quickly as bears and foxes tear it apart and scatter it and rodents chew off the drummer's belt and boots. Five years later a hunter finds his belt buckle. Twenty years later a bear hunter pries off Cartwright's gold tooth, and an old woman gives his rib cage a Christian burial after a dog drags it into her yard. The McBrides use the Miracle plow, but their yield is no better than it was before. When they tell the next drummer this, he hightails it out of there.
I like how the story sets up a comic "biter-bit" story that becomes legend with the body of the drummer being salvaged for whatever it might be worth. I thought the story was funny and familiar and well told. I just do not see it had a social message about the raped Appalachian land. And I do not think it has the complex human significance that Eudora Welty creates in "Death of a Travelling Salesman" or Flannery O'Connor creates in "Good Country People."
Null says "Something You Can't Live Without" is his attempt to write a drummer story that would "outdo the established demigods of fiction." As much as I enjoyed his story, in my opinion, not many can equal the mastery of Welty and O'Connor. However, I look forward to reading more stories by Matthew Neill Null in the future. I trust they will not lean too heavily on social messages about downtrodden Appalachia.


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Occupy Portland demonstrator files lawsuit against cops
A photograph of an Occupy Portland demonstrator blasted with pepper spray as she opened her mouth to shout at a police officer became a defining image of the monthlong encampment.
Now, the woman in the photograph is in court to seek $155,000 in damages from the city of Portland, the officer who sprayed her and another she said put a baton to her throat.
Jury selection in a lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Evon Nichols began Tuesday. The trial will address whether Sgt. Jeffrey McDaniel's use of pepper spray was within bureau policy, and whether the officers' actions were reasonable.
The officers' defense team responded to the suit by saying Nichols was menacing the officers, and they reacted appropriately.
Nichols "actively, physically resisted lawful police instructions to move off of the sidewalk," the attorneys wrote in a motion. They said Nichols "aggressively moved as if to attack" the officers, whose actions were reasonable under the circumstances.
Nichols was among thousands of protesters who gathered in Portland on Nov. 17, 2011, in a demonstration against foreclosures by major banks. Protesters lined sidewalks as police vehicles warned them to stay off the pavement. Nichols was among several people who shouted at police from the sidewalk.
She said in the lawsuit that police officer Doris Paisley held a baton to her throat. When she protested, the lawsuit states, McDaniel sprayed her open mouth with pepper spray.
Nichols "was so overcome by pain that she flinched and spun away from (McDaniel)," according to the lawsuit. "She hunched over with her hands on her face. After a moment she felt her legs collapsing and sat down on the sidewalk."
Nichols said Paisley dragged her by her hair to a different spot where she was charged.
Last year, Nichols was convicted in Multnomah County Circuit Court of interfering with police officers. She was ordered to pay $130.
Now 22, Nichols says in the suit that officers McDaniel and Paisley violated her right to free speech and impeded her right to freedom from unreasonable seizure with excessive force.
Oregonian photographer Randy Rasmussen took a photograph of Nichols at the moment when she was pepper-sprayed. The photo played on newspaper front pages and won a National Headliner award.
The incident occurred a week after the Occupy Portland camp downtown was broken up by police. The Portland camp had lasted a little more than a month, before it was ordered closed because of deteriorating sanitary conditions.
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The Telegraph rejoices at another paean to theocracy from "Baroness" Warsi.
Baroness Warsi will defend the right of Christians, Muslims, Jews and others to publicly practise their faith insisting that "people who do God do good".
Her comments come in a speech in London marking the first anniversary of a landmark visit to the Vatican by a delegation of ministers in which she claimed that British society is under threat from the rising tide of "militant secularisation".
Lots of work done in two sentences.
Warsi will "defend the right" – that's not under attack. Nobody is taking away anyone's right to publicly practice a religion, unless (of course) the "practice" is against a law or a set of local rules or the like. If someone's religion requires her to scream under my windows at 3 in the morning, then I'm going to summon some cops to interfere with her right to practice in that way. If someone's religion requires her to beat the crap out of her children then social services need to interfere with her right to practice in that way.
"People who do God do good." Not necessarily. Some do, some don't. Some do harm. Some do appalling harm.
How was Warsi's junket to the Vatican a "landmark"? Who cares that it was exactly a year ago? Why is a delegation of government ministers visiting the Vatican – a religious institution, not a real state, despite its status as a pretend state courtesy of Signor Mussolini – at all? And what business does a government minister have attacking secularism? What business does a government minister have promoting or even demanding theocracy? Secularism doesn't threaten the right to publicly practice a religion. It threatens only religious interference in or replacement of this-world government.
Lady Warsi, who combines a ministerial role in the Foreign Office with being Britain's first minister for faith, will say that she went to meet Pope Benedict last year "to tell the world that Britain does do God".
She will say: "There is one big reason why I made the case for faith that day … and why, I have made freedom of religion and belief a priority, and that's that people who do God do good."
Why does Britain need a "minister for faith"? For that matter why does "faith" even need a minister for faith?
Warsi is spectacularly clueless if she doesn't realize that freedom of religion and belief depends on secularism.
H/t Roger.


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Need for Speed Franchise Passes 100 Million Sales
"The main thrust of the sales has actually come in the last six years, where we've averaged over 12 million units per year," said Need for Speed VP of marketing Keith Munro to Gamasutra. Munro posits that the series' recent trend of featuring more accessible cars is a key reason for its recent success. "Our consumers might actually own these cars, or parents might have one in the garage," he said.
"The older Need For Speed games were more of the exotic supercars on the Italian countryside," he said, pointing to 2003's Need for Speed: Underground as a turning point for the series.
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Tomorrow night, comedians, friends, roommates and ragtag group of rapscallions Alex Grubard, Joey Dougherty, Lou Misiano and Tommy Touhill bring you three shows in one: Comedy Bonfire at The Fire. For seven greenbacks, you get a stand-up showcase hosted by Alex (featuring Ryan Shaner, Mary Radzinski and Dave Topor); a live taping of the Trailer Trash Podcast (with Joey and Tommy as guests); and to close the night, the ComeDIYorDIE open mic hosted by Lou. Here they are answering some questions about Comedy Bonfire, comedian-produced comedy shows, and living together:
WitOut: Alex, you used to do a different show at The Fire, right? What's bringing you back?
Alex Grubard: It was called All Ages Comedy. Why you gotta bring up old shit? The Fire is a simple, solid rock venue so their showroom is separate from the bar. We thought Northern Liberties could use more comedy. Also it's down the street from the house we live in so it's easy to get to for all of us. What Joey doesn't understand is that some of us don't have bikes.
WO: Is this going to be an ongoing show? And if it is ongoing, will you always do the three-shows-in-one format?
Lou Misiano: March 26th is a one-off show to start out, but the idea is to keep the three shows for $7 aspect. It's a comedy night at a rock venue. The shows could change, sure. We'll likely first play around with the 11PM time slot, but who knows what kind of unique but done-to-death show it could wind up being? What Tommy doesn't understand is that there are plenty of open mics and no one will miss one that doesn't exist yet.
WO: You live with the other three producers of this show. What's it like living in a house full of comedians? Do you think working with the people you live with will put any stress on your home life?
Joey Dougherty: Living with comedians is great as long as you're also a comedian. Non-coms are always like, "Why does every 'touring comedian' seem more like a 'homeless person crashing on our couch for two weeks?'" What Lou doesn't understand is that comedy is hard, shelter is harder.
WO: The open mic portion of the show is called "ComeDIYorDIE." Can you explain why/how you feel a DIY aesthetic/attitude lends itself to stand-up comedy? What do you like about independent comedy and comedian-produced shows?
Tommy Touhill: There's pros and cons to doing things yourself. There are four of us running Comedy Bonfire so it's more like just a great pun to call it an open mic. Stand-up comedy does have the benefit of making comedians feel like individuals and a part of a community at the same time. Writing and performing stand-up comedy is about as DIY as you get, but finding people who you work well with is important. A comic's ability to bounce around projects and try different things with different people besides performing alone on stage is a powerful resource. What Alex doesn't understand is that it's more than an image; it's a business model.
WO: Please pick a soundtrack for the evening using only songs that have the word "fire" in the title and/or lyrics written around the theme of "fire."
"Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash
"We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We All Have Stumps For Arms and No Eyebrows" by NOFX
"If You Love Someone Set Them On Fire" by Dead Milkmen
"Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis
"Firestarter" by Prodigy
"Light My Fire" by The Doors
"Fire On The Mountain" by The Grateful Dead
"Lake of Fire" by The Meat Puppets
"I'm On Fire" by Bruce Springsteen
"Sleep Now In The Fire" by Rage Against The Machine
"Sex On Fire" by Kings of Leon
That Billy Joel song.
"Into The Fire" by Bruce Springsteen
"Fireflies" by Owl City
"Dig For Fire" by Pixies
"My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" by Willie Nelson
'Comedy Bonfire' is this Tuesday, March 26th at The Fire (412 E. Girard Avenue). Show starts at 8PM. Admission is $7.


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Curried potato pasties
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- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per pasty
- kcal480
- fat26g
- saturates10g
- carbs53g
- sugars4g
- fibre0g
- protein11g
- salt0.86g
- 300g potato, peeled and cut into small chunks
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- 100g frozen pea
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 onion, sliced
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- 1 tsp black mustard seeds
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Heat a large pan of water, add the potatoes, then cook for 8 mins until just soft. Add the peas 1 min before the end of cooking time. Drain, then set aside.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan. Fry the onion until soft and slightly coloured. Add the curry paste and mustard seeds, then fry for a few mins more until the mixture smells fragrant. Carefully stir in the potatoes and peas, trying not to mash them. Add the lemon juice and coriander, then leave to cool.
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Unroll the pastry rectangle, place on a floured surface with the long side towards you and roll it out a little more to make it into a square shape. Cut into 4 squares, then cut each one in half so you have 8 long rectangles. Place 4 of them onto a baking sheet, brush the edges with beaten egg and place a quarter of the filling down the centre of each. Top with the remaining pastry, then pinch the edges together to make a sealed parcel. Brush with more egg, then bake for 20 mins until puffed and golden. If cooking from frozen, bake for 30 mins. Serve with fresh green salad and a spoonful of chutney.


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Syria to hold presidential election on June 3
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syria announced Monday that presidential elections will be held June 3, setting the stage for President Bashar Assad to win a new, seven-year term in the midst of a civil war that has torn apart the country and makes it impossible for millions to vote. The opposition dismissed the election as a farce.
The move to hold elections reflects Assad's determination to show he is the legitimate leader of Syria in the face of the revolt. In recent months, government forces have intensified their push to take back strategic rebel-held areas with new assaults on urban areas, likely hoping to have them under government control before the vote is held.
The conflict, which began as demonstrations against Assad's rule in March 2011, is now a civil war that has killed 150,000 people and forced one-third of the country's population from their homes.
Anti-Assad activists immediately said they would boycott the vote. World leaders have denounced Assad's intention to hold elections with the country still engulfed in violence.
"Absurd announcement from #Syria regime that it will hold elections in June. Parody of democracy. No credibility," Edgar Vasquez, a U.S. State Department spokesman, wrote on his Twitter account after Monday's announcement.
The government has presented the elections as the solution to Syria's conflict: If the people choose Assad in the election, the fight should end; if Assad loses, then he will leave. But Assad's opponents have said it's ludicrous to think an election would reflect popular will. Voting will be in possible in parts of the country under rebel control, and will be difficult in other areas where fighting rages. In government strongholds where balloting would be possible, there would be deep questions over the fairness of any vote.
Highlighting security concerns even in areas under firm government control, the elections announcement Monday came just hours after a pair of mortar shells stuck some 100 meters (100 yards) from the parliament building in central Damascus, killing five people, according to state TV.
Parliament Speaker Jihad Laham said candidates seeking to run for president may register their candidacy from Tuesday, April 22 until May 1.
"I call on the citizens of the Syrian Arab republic, inside and outside (the country) to exercise their right in electing a president," Laham said from parliament in comments broadcast live on state-run television.
Syrians living outside of the country may start voting earlier, from May 28, Laham said. It was not clear whether he meant that to include more than 2.5 million refugees in neighboring states -- an unlikely scenario due to logistical and political considerations.
"There will not be any voting centers in areas controlled by the gunmen," Syrian lawmaker Sharif Shehadeh told The Associated Press. He said the Syrian army was present in many provinces across Syria, "and this will make up for the areas outside of government control," he added.
Assad has not publicly said whether he would run, but in recent months he appeared to be in campaign mode, visiting areas recently retaken by his forces. State media have broadcast images of seemingly ecstatic residents welcoming the president during such trips.
On Sunday, Assad visited the ancient Christian village of Maaloula, where he projected the image of a protector of Syria's religious minorities, many of whom feel threatened by the majority Sunni rebels.
In the chaos of the conflict, there are no official statistics on public support for Assad. But it appears Syrians are cleaved between those who support Assad and those who seek his overthrow, with many more mistrustful of all the country's warring parties.
The armed rebellion is dominated by Syria's Sunni Muslim majority, while Syria's mix of Christian and Muslim minorities, including Assad's own Alawite sect, tend to support the president, fearful of their fates should hard-line Sunni Muslims come to power.
The announcement raised questions on how the vote would be held, logistically, with hundreds of thousands of Syrians living either in rebel-held areas, contested areas, or under blockade by pro-government forces.
"Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately, in the elections on June 3, Bashar Assad would be holding elections over the blood of Syrians," Ahmad Alqusair said via Skype from a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border. "If we are being blockaded from even eating bread, how can I vote?"
The announcement was expected since Syrian law says the vote must be held between 60 and 90 days before Assad's seven-year term ends on July 17. Earlier this month, the Syrian parliament approved an electoral law opening the door -- at least in theory -- to potential contenders besides Assad.
The law states that any candidate running for president must have lived in Syria for the past 10 years and cannot have any other citizenship, apparently to prevent opposition figures in exile from running.
Hilal Khashan, a professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, said the election date was likely set for June 3 to give pro-government forces time to seize back key rebel-held urban centers in the northern city of Aleppo and the central city of Homs.
Aleppo is Syria's largest city, while Homs is third largest. Parts of both cities are under rebel control. Assad has a firm grip on the capital, Damascus.
Syrian activists in Homs have said they expect blockaded rebel-held areas to fall, because fighters have been badly weakened by the surrender of hundreds of fighters, a lack of food, clean water and medicine, and after the government cut their key supply line on the Syria-Lebanon border in March. But Syrian fighters in Aleppo appear to be routing government forces in some contested areas.
"If the regime can control them, then it can claim to control the three largest cities in the country, which will give them a measure of legitimacy," Khashan said. "That's why they are waiting until June, hoping they can change the realities on the ground between now and then."
He said elections were unlikely to lead to any real reforms -- it was more of a move to show Assad was truly in power.
"Even the most despotic regimes want to give the image that they are the true representatives of their people," he said. "Assad is no different."
Hadid reported from Beirut.


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Thom Browne
Date: born 1965
Biography: The most revolutionary menswear designer working in American today is Thom Browne. From the beginning of his design career, his distinctive suits, with their "shrunken" jackets and tight pants with exposed ankles, have shaken the fashion world. Yet even though Browne has thoroughly reworked the standard suit silhouette, he nonetheless consistently relies on traditional suiting materials and workmanship. A native of Pennsylvania, Browne was born in 1965. He earned a degree in economics from Notre Dame and tried his hand at acting before becoming a salesman at the Armani showroom in New York. He went on to lead the creative development teams at Club Monaco and Ralph Lauren, then launched his own label in 2001. In 2006, Browne signed a contract with Brookes Brothers to design a high-end collection for both men and women and in 2008 he designed a menswear collection for the Italian sportswear firm, Moncler Gamme Bleu. Most recently, Browne launched his eponymous women's line, for fall 2011. Browne's distinctive silhouette is not his only contribution to tailoring. He often reconstructs the traditional suiting canon by taking garments apart, and then reconfiguring those disassembled parts in new ways. Some versions of his gray flannel, three-piece suits, for example, have the arms of the jacket relocated to the waistcoat, or vest. Browne also embellishes his menswear with elements from women's clothing—and vice versa. Browne abides by conventional tailoring aesthetics and yet embraces contemporary techniques, such as reconstruction. By so doing, he pushes the perimeters of male dressing.


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Llewyn Davis, Inside Out
November 10, 2013
I just read The Mayor of MacDougal Street, a memoir of the Greenwich Village folk scene of 50 years ago, written by the late Dave Van Ronk with engineering by Elijah Wald.
I bought my copy when it was published in 2005, and began the long process of moving it from one stack of books symbolizing my various intellectual ambitions to another. Now that a Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, has been loosely inspired by it, the book moved to the stack symbolizing "read the book already, Einstein."
To my surprise, I laughed my ass off reading Mayor — my wife was happy I finally read something funny. I want to repeat certain of its stories the rest of my life, but several are chapter-length psychodramas that start funny, and build and build with running gags and all the trimmings.
A story about absinthe smugglers is one of those stories that's almost too good to be told, never mind whether it's true. A chapter about Van Ronk's cross-country trip to California certainly seems smarter and funnier than anything in On the Road … maybe it's me.
And then there's that brief anecdote about a Greenwich Village rat. Similar stories helped end my fantasies of having been there for the Golden Age. (I can't remember how I know a story about Mike Seeger scrawling "roaches roaches roaches" on the wall in John Cohen's apartment.) But Van Ronk's vermin story is the best yet, maybe owing to his matter-of-fact delivery.
In essence, Mayor is an oral history of the mid-century Folk Revival.
The book shows just how good oral histories can be as literature, and how important they are to reviving the past as lived reality. Robert Shelton's role in booking acts at Gerde's Folk City, and John Mitchell dodging bullets from all directions … those stories reorganized my understanding of that time and place, and they could only have come to me through oral history.
And Van Ronk's memories constitute arguments about the past that some readers will find challenging.
At some point over the past 20 years, I realized that there wasn't one Folk Revival, but instead an ongoing, rolling revival impulse running through American culture, changing shape and location and agenda. New revivalists keep being born, always with fantastic notions in their heads about the past:
They all seemed to go to Music and Art High School, and their parents all seemed to be dentists. I remember once coming across a covey of them sitting cross-legged around a bespectacled banjoist who struck a dramatic chord and earnestly explained "This is a song the workers sing when they're oppressed."
Van Ronk's street-level memories, refined over some very eventful decades, would make a great education on what it was really like, what people were really thinking about, and which romantic ideas you should abandon and which you should hold on to.
Not that Van Ronk couldn't be full of it, or that Elijah Wald's handiwork doesn't occasionally shine through. But the quality is such that these function as layers of complexity a wise reader will appreciate.
Here Van Ronk is the stereotypical New Yorker feeling superior to fly-over country, but there he's marveling at the depth of talent flowing into the Village from Hibbing and Detroit.
Here he insists that song lyrics need to make literal sense on the page ("along" a watchtower?), but there he praises Francois Villon specifically for using slang that no longer means anything.
Here he rolls his eyes at the insipid tourists who associated Greenwich Village with the horror genre (both were weird, he guessed), but there he argues that science fiction was a perfectly natural association (both are weird, I guess).
I know from Lewis Erenberg that theme restaurants like the spooky Cafe Bizarre had been features of Greenwich Village at least as early as 1915. It raises the question of just how important selling "a version of Greenwich Village that never existed" has always been to the existance of Greenwich Village. Much of it was created by landfilling with garbage in the 1700s — its very ground was established by Clydes.
Rigorous peer-review might have cleared and screwed all of this up completely. Visions like Van Ronk's — both observation and misperception — were driving forces behind the Greenwich Village Folk Revival and, for that matter, all historical events, past, present, and future. The fog of war *is* the real war, not a veil that obscures it.
As for my own fog, Dave Van Ronk had been one of those people I'd had a recurring appointment with, and I never managed to keep it. I knew his face, his voice, and his rap sheet, but he always was mostly the guy Dylan stole the "House of the Rising Sun" arrangement from.
Indeed, because I knew he was a key figure in a key time-and-place (maybe the in the), it meant there was no hurry. His story and music would always be around when I was finally ready for them. That attitude is one reason I'm not good at collecting oral histories.
Now, after Mayor, I have what feels like a relationship with the guy, and I get why people's feelings about him are often profound in a full sense of the term.
His music seems urgent to me now, and I see the mark of his music and mind on a lot of people who understood him long ago. For example, his friend Dakota Dave Hull is a friend of mine, and I've always nodded sagely when he talks Van Ronk, which is often. Probably, I'll do less nodding and closer listening in the future, when I get the chance.


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Weekly religion rail, with items on new saints, a church receiving criticism for its sermons about sex, getting to know the new archbishop of St. Louis, and more.
Pope Benedict XVI named five new saints Sunday during an audience in St. Peter's Square, praising each as a model for the faithful.
The five new saints are:
- The Rev. Arcangelo Tadini, who lived at the turn of the last century and founded an order of nuns to tend to factory workers. Tadini also created an association to provide emergency loans to workers experiencing financial difficulties.
- Nuno Alvares Pereira, who helped secure Portugal's independence from the Spanish kingdom of Castile in the late 1300s. He dedicated himself to the poor, never taking the privileges that would have been afforded to him as a former commander.
- Bernardo Tolomei, a nearly blind monk who founded the Benedictine Congregation of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto in the 1340s. He died in 1348 along with 82 of his monks after leaving the safety of his monastery to tend to plague victims in Siena.
- Gertrude Comensoli and Caterina Volpicelli, 19th-century Italian nuns who founded religious orders.
Church might lose home because of sex sermons
A church in Melbourne, Fla., could lose its spot in an elementary school because of its sermons about sex.
According to wire reports, the Brevard Public School District's risk-management department has received complaints about New Hope Church, which holds services in Sherwood Elementary. The church is conducting a worship series called, "Great Sex for You."
Church leaders mailed 25,000 fliers, asking residents "Is Your Sex Life A Bore?" The director of risk management said the mailers generated complaints and were not appropriate for elementary school children, and the church's lease contract is under review.
Survey Says
Among the 56 percent of the population that currently belongs to the same religion as the one in which they were raised, 1 in 6 (16 percent) say there was a time in their life when they had a different faith than they have now. -- Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
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"Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Eric Swanson
The teachings of Tibetan meditation master Yongey Mingyur has touched people of all faiths around the world. His first book, "The Joy of Living," was a New York Times bestseller. His new book, "Joyful Wisdom," addresses the timely and timeless problem of anxiety in our everyday lives.
Divided into three parts like a traditional Buddhist text, "Joyful Wisdom" identifies the sources of our unease, describes methods of meditation that enable us to transform our experience into deeper insight, and applies these methods to common emotional, physical, and personal problems.
The result is a work at once wise, anecdotal, funny, informed and graced with the author's irresistible charm.
Get to Know … Robert J. Carlson
On April 21, Pope Benedict XVI named Most Rev. Robert J. Carlson the ninth Archbishop of St. Louis. He will replace Archbishop Raymond Burke, who was appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in the Roman Curia in June 2008. As Archbishop, Carlson will be the spiritual leader of 566,000 Catholics in eastern Missouri.
Prior to his appointment to the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Carlson was installed as the fifth bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw in 2005 at the direction of Pope John Paul II.
A native of Minneapolis, Minn., he was ordained to the priesthood in 1970 for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He was later ordained as an auxiliary bishop for his home archdiocese in 1984 and went on to serve as Bishop of Sioux Falls, S.D., from 1994 to 2005.
Carlson survived stage-four bladder cancer in the 1990s. He has underwent a total of seven cancer-related procedures, and partly credited a trip to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal for his recovery, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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This is the first official trailer for Tsurugi no Machi no Ihoujin, a first-person dungeon crawling RPG coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, and Windows in Japan. Developed by Experience, who's best known for the upcoming Demon Gaze, as well as the Generation Xth series, Tsurugi no Machi no Ihoujin places you in the shoes of a passenger on a flight that mysteriously crashes and subsequently wakes up in Escalio, a mysterious town besieged by perpetual night. As the chosen Stranger, it becomes your job to deal with the impending Extinction that looms over the land and take on the Successors, immortal creatures that only you can put down for good.
Huge fan of Dungeon Crawlers. The game looks great. Wonder if the images are mirrored or if the artist is left handed. Two of the characters seem to be left handed as well as one of the monsters. The Dwarf may be as well. Not sure as it looks like a two handed weapon. Yay for the lefties! Aww, just looked at the linked pictures and the first one seems to be right handed
It looks nice, but I'd have preferred less detailed sprites if it meant that they were animated. It bothers me that most of these dungeon crawlers have largely static battles - Phantasy Star had animated enemies back in 1987, but these enemies just seem to wobble up and down a bit.
Traps, yes. I'm curious about the maps too. I've played Generation Xth(and tested the translation no less), and the maps in that were pretty fun.No need for a DC to reinvent the wheel, IMO. The little things are enough, and I really favor this art style over anime. EO is an exception.This looks like a trap in action:


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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
All Undervalued Team 2009
Anyway, here are a few guys I like for 2009 and beyond.
C - Taylor Teagarden
In Texas, Jarrod Saltalamacchia is the catcher of the present, but Teagarden is the catcher of the future. It'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out, but I'd be surprised if Teagarden doesn't supplant Salty sooner rather than later.
Teagarden's current problem is contact rate. He strikes out a great deal, which will likely prevent him from posting any .300+ batting averages. However, he has very good offensive upside, as he features plus power and controls the strike zone very well. He also has a very smooth, effective swing for a righthanded swing.
On defense, Teagarden is very strong. He has good footwork, which gives him good lateral movement behind the dish and helps quicken his release against would be basestealers.
At this point, his ability to make contact will determine his career path at the MLB level. If he can improve on it, then he could prove to have a few All Star seasons in him. Even if he doesn't, he should prove to be a very solid MLB backstop for years to come. It'll be interesting to see if can supplant Salty or if the Rangers trade him away for much needed pitching. Either way, it shouldn't be long before he is strapping on the "tools of ignorance" full time at the MLB level.
1b - Kila Ka'aihue
Kila had a massive 2008 season in which he slugged .600+ at double-A and triple-A. Kila is not a very athletic player and lacks foot speed. However, his calling card is skill at the plate, as he has plus power and strike zone control. Last year, Kila jumped three levels, starting at double-A moving to triple-A and finishing out the year with a cup of coffee in the Majors.
During his time in the minors, Kila posted a combined line of .314/.456/.628/1.085 with 37 homers and a stellar 104/67 K/BB ratio. It's rare to see a power hitter who walks more than he strikes out in the modern game, but Kila certainly has that ability.
Critics have pointed to the high percentage of his extra base hits that are homers, thinking that the low number of doubles indicates that his power surge isn't for real or sustainable. It remains to be seen whether 2008 established a higher baseline of performance or was more of a Chris Shelton type fluke season. At this point, it's difficult to say which, but it's difficult to ignore a player with such a high walk rate and moderate strikeout rate, especially when he packs the kind of power that Kila possesses.
2b - Jason Donald
Donald is a personal favorite of mine. He's the type of player whose production outpaces his tools. The type of player who almost seems to will himself to success.
The Phillies selected him in the 3rd round of the 2006 draft out of the University of Arizona. He uses a patient approach and controls the strike zone, but is aggressive when he gets the count in his favor. He has a good line drive stroke that produces sneaky power and he plays an intelligent game.
Donald has defensive versatility, but would likely be stretched at shortstop. He profiles best at second, but he will likely hit enough to hold down the hot corner as well. Unfortunately, he is currently blocked in a major way by Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, and Pedro Feliz. It'll take a trade to land him a full time job, but he should be very solid when he gets one.
3b - Matt Tuiasosopo
Tuiasosopo seems to have figured it out. He comes from a very athletic family, but like many pure athletes he has struggled to translate that athleticism into production. However, he seemed to turn the corner in 2008. He posted a line of .281/.364/.453 for triple-A Tacoma, but finished up strong with a .303/.380/.538 line in the second half.
He has a good work ethic and a strong defensive skill set. He also has the ability to control the strike zone, but until recently he lacked any pull power and utilized an inside-out swing. Now that he is more adept at turning on the ball, he is driving it with greater authority. He'll never be a big time homerun hitter, but his well diversified skill set still gives him good value. Incumbent Adrian Beltre is a free agent after the 2009 season, so Tui should be in line for the starting 3b job in 2010.
ss - Jed Lowrie
Lowrie was going to be my choice here, so I'll stick with it despite his wrist injury. He's got a very well-rounded game and a high baseball IQ. When he gets healthy, he should be a very productive offensive shortstop who is no slouch with the leather. If the BoSox are unwilling to make room for Lowrie at short, then I'd love to see the Reds acquire him.
That said, since his injury will knock him out for much of the season, I'll offer up a replacement nominee. I'm still a fan of Paul Janish and think he could be a sneaky valuable shortstop. His offensive game projects as being potentially valuable enough to warrant making him a starter. An above average defensive shortstop who can get on-base is a valuable commodity.
lf - Chris Dickerson
Yes, despite the slow start, I'm sticking with Dickerson. Obviously, he's still a bit raw, but all the tools are there. At this point, he needs to make an adjustment or two, but I find it difficult to believe that someone with his skill set and beautiful swing can't hit .260 at the MLB level.
If he can hit .260, then his power, speed, and ability to control the strike zone would make him a very valuable player. At this point, it's unclear whether he will ever reach his potential, but hopefully the Reds will give him a big enough sample size to prove it one way or the other.
cf -Ryan Spilborghs
Spilborghs may get squeezed out of the crowded Colorado outfield, but he is certainly deserving of a starting job. He can capably handle all three outfield spots and provides solid offensive production. He hits line drives at a good clip and gets on-base at a good clip. He lacks elite power, but he would like mighty good in leftfield for the Reds.
rf - Shin-Soo Choo
Choo is an interesting player and one that has flown almost completely under the radar. This is the season where he is getting a much bigger opportunity to show what he can do. On his career, Choo has a slash line of .286/.381/.484/.865 and a line-drive rate of 23.3%.
He seems a likely candidate to have something of a breakout season in 2009, as his production is about to meet with greater opportunity. He struggles a bit against southpaws, but most young lefthanded hitters do.
sp - Ricky Romero
It's time for a confession, back in 2005 the prospect that caught my eye the most in the draft was Ricky Romero. In the 2005 draft, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting an impact prospect in the first round, but Romero was not among them. That draft class included Jay Bruce, Cameron Maybin, Ryan Braun, Ryan Zimmerman, Chris Volstad, and others. Still, Romero was an impressive southpaw at Cal State Fullerton. He seemed polished and ready to move quickly up the ladder, but his progress has been slowed by injury and ineffectiveness.
However, that seemed to change when the Blue Jays kept him in spring training to work on his mechanics. After some mechanical adjustments, Romero seemed to be the pitcher of old. He features a fastball that sits at 90-91 and touches 94, but his best pitches are a power curveball with a sharp, tight break to it and a very deceptive change-up.
His 2009 season has been impressive to date, but unfortunately he was put on the DL with a strained oblique. It'll be interesting to see which Romero shows up when he returns from the DL, but he may finally be ready to reach his unrealized potential.
rp - Ryan Perry
Perry was drafted out of the University of Arizona in the 2008 draft. He has a huge arm, which produces a fastball that can touch 100 mph on the radar gun. He also features a power slider that at times can be a put away pitch. The Tigers continued their practice of being very aggressive in promoting their prospects, as Perry made the team out of spring training after only throwing 14.0 innings at the minor league level in 2008.
Perry could quickly take over the closer role for the Tigers, but for now he is being used carefully by skipper Jim Leyland. Still, if he continues to develop his secondary pitches and refines his command, Perry should be a very effective reliever who can work high leverage innings.
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- AnonymousMay 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Looks like Dickerson has already been relegated to the bench in favor of Laynce Nix.ReplyDelete
Guess the guys in charge are not nearly as high on the guy as you, Lark. Kind of a shame since Nix cannot figure to be any type of long term solution to our lf needs.
Any chance of getting Spilborghs and a young pitcher for Arroyo?
- AnonymousMay 11, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Maybe a Connor Graham.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Or Arroyo for Teagarden and Kasey Kiker (need a LHP).ReplyDelete
Hey Roc,ReplyDelete
Thanks for the thoughts!
I couldn't agree with you more on Nix. He's not the answer long term, so I think it's almost a waste to be running him out there. The more playing time he gets, the more his numbers are likely to regress to his career level of performance.
I still believe in Dickerson and would like to see him get a lengthy look. I think his tools are too impressive and his swing too sweet to NOT give him a lengthy look. That said, he's certainly not showing much of anything, so I suppose it's an understandable, if somewhat shortsighted, decision by management. Regardless, I think it would be a shame NOT to see what Dickerson can do over the long-haul. Unfortunately, time is running out, as the Reds have Yonder, Frazier, Stubbs, and others advancing up the ladder and eyeing the leftfield job. Which brings us to your Ryan Spilborghs comment.
I like Spilborghs and he was a guy I thought the Reds should have considered this past offseason. However, at this point, I'm not sure how wise it would be to pay the price to get him. The Reds REALLY need to start sorting out their farm system. They need to start consolidated the value into fewer players. To do so, they need to figure out who is in their future and who is not.
At this point, I think it's fairly safe to draw the inference that the Reds are planning to move Votto to left to accommodate Yonder Alonso. However, that may not occur until 2010, but even so Frazier and Drew Stubbs are soon to be in the mix for the leftfield job. So, do you pay the price for a Ryan Spilborghs when he's likely to be in left for only a few months? Honestly, I don't know.
The Reds are caught in limbo, as they have good prospects on the verge of the majors, but arguably need to improve those positions at the MLB level before they arrive. The Reds have a lot of talent in the system, but I'm not blown away by how they're managing it.
However, there isn't a danger of blocking an impact prospect behind the plate, so I'd be VERY interested in adding Taylor Teagarden. This offseason, Teagarden was a player I had my eye on, but thought the Rangers would more readily part with Saltalamacchia. Surprisingly, they handed the job to Salty, so I'd definitely find a way to take Teagarden off their hands.
Unfortunately, they set the asking price for their catchers rather high and Homer Bailey was rumored to be not enough. So, I doubt they'd be interested in Arroyo, whose high salary drags down his trade value. Still, we have so much talent in the system, there should be a deal there to be made.
Anyway, there are countless ways to improve the team, but I think the Reds really need to start taking advantage of the talent in the system and figuring out how all the pieces fit.
Thanks for the comment!


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As we turn our thoughts once more to the birth into this world of the God-man Jesus, let us consider what God has given us to witness. While His conception at the Annunciation to the Virgin was in secret, His birth reveals Him openly. And what is revealed?
It is that our God, the Maker of all things, eternal, invisible, untouchable and incomprehensible to mortal man has now become one of us, a member of the human race. He retains His eternality while stepping into time. He remains the invisible God while becoming visible. He is beyond touching yet is now touchable. And though His essence as God is forever incomprehensible to us, in His incarnation as man, He has become truly knowable.
How can we therefore do anything but sing joyfully of Him with the angels, come to Him like the shepherds, and worship Him with the Magi? This little Child is the very God of all creation, Who, seeing our broken and fragmented state, has come to this Earth to make us whole. Through His humanity we can access His divinity, and in doing so, we are healed and united to the glorious God before all the ages. What an awesome mystery!
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I was alarmed to read of the apparent conspiracy to oust Meredith Richards from the City Council [February 12: "Upset: 'Stop Meredith' move ousts Richards"]. As a delegate who did not vote for Richards at the Democratic nominating convention, I find myself an unwitting participant in a dark conspiracy.
Or perhaps not, since the only sources in your story to back up this assertion were Richards' own campaign manager and an anonymous "Democratic insider." As one who is not so well connected, please accept my perspective of that day's events.
I was among the majority of vocal dissenters who opposed the motion to accept only the ballots of those delegates who voted for three candidates.
Lloyd Snook expressed my objection best when he pointed out that it is against the Democratic Party's national charter to force people to choose candidates for whom they do not wish to vote. After being impressed by Kendra Hamilton, and unmoved by David Brown, I voted for Hamilton and Kevin Lynch and prepared to stay for a second round of balloting.
Yes, I am one of those dreaded "double-shot" voters, but I am not a single issue voter. I support fiscal and environmental responsibility, economic justice, affordable housing, and sustainable transportation. That is why I vote Democratic. So why could I not vote for Meredith Richards?
It was a painful decision. I admire Meredith; she is a neighbor and a friend. She has been a strong and capable leader, especially on, ironically, transportation matters.
I believe the issue that prevented so many delegates from supporting Meredith was not the Meadowcreek Parkway– about which reasonable people can disagree– but the recent efforts by a cadre of Councilors to cede the Parkway land to the state through an illegal easement. Those efforts, though they'll ultimately be found unconstitutional, reflected poor judgment by the Councilors involved and contempt for the electorate.
Shortly before the convention, perhaps sensing the growing indignation, Richards suggested a public referendum to discuss the Parkway. I think she got her referendum.
These issues, urban development and thoughtful transportation alternatives, are coming to a head quickly and will determine the future of our community for generations. I am hopeful that, once the Parkway issue has been put to rest, a reinvigorated Richards will once again seek public office.
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HAMPTON — — The skinny on Langley Speedway is always the same. Because the 4/10ths of a mile asphalt surface is flat and has only one lengthy straightway, Langley is a difficult place for regulars to get their cars to turn in the corners, let alone visitors.
But numerous out-of-towners challenge the regulars annually, particularly in the Hampton Heat Late Model 200. The lure of a $10,000 first prize and the desire to bag a big-race regional victory is expected to draw close to 10 out-of-towners for the 4th Annual Hampton Heat, set for Saturday night.
Two of the heaviest hitters in town for the Heat are Brandon Butler and Rodney Cook. Butler is a long-time Late Model standout at South Boston Speedway, while Cook has starred at Ace Speedway in Elon, N.C., for about 25 years.
Butler has won five Late Model titles at regional tracks, in addition to a prestigious regional crown, and finished in the top 15 of two of the handful of Nationwide Series races he competed in. Cook won consecutive Late Model championships at Ace, in 2006 and '07, and won the track's signature 150-lap, $5,000-to-win race in the fall.
But both know past history will mean little at Langley, where Butler's third-place finish in the 1998 USAR (formerly Hooters) Pro Cup race is the only appearance between them. So both trekked to Hampton for practice on Friday to get a head start on what they see as a huge challenge.
"I know it's tough to fall in at a track and run with the locals," Cook said. " But if a track has got a big race going, I want to be there."
Said Butler, "I know the odds are stacked against us. Langley has the Edwards brothers (Danny Jr. and Greg), C.E. Falk and five or six other guys who are just as capable of winning.
"But I feel we've got a shot. We've got a Hedgecock (chassis) car, a Danny Cox motor and the Virginia National Guard sponsoring us. Who knows? We've got a really good race car and could get a victory."
Butler and Cook agree on both of the elements needed to win a long race on an unfamiliar track. One part is having a car that is fast and handles well, while the other is just plain luck.
"The scariest part of big races is the first 10 or 15 laps," Butler said. "That's especially true when you're from out of town, because you're at a disadvantage qualifying against the hometown guys.
"If you can miss the early mishaps, it's not that bad."
Said Cook, "Luck has a lot to do with it. I always say I'd rather be lucky than good."
Avoiding pileups is expected to be tougher than usual, because the Late Model field, normally about 20 cars at Langley, is expected to swell to about 30 for the Heat. Other out-of-town or area non-regulars expected to join the fray are Peyton Sellers, Eddie Johnson, Natalie Sather, 2008 Heat champ Nick Smith, 2009 Heat champ Woody Howard, K&N Series regulars Brandon Gdovic and Rick Gdovic, and Dude Gibbs.
Hampton Heat 200
WHAT: 200-lap Late Model race ($10,000 grand prize)
WHERE: Langley Speedway in Hampton
WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday (green flag for Heat drops about 9).
NOTEWORTHY: Heat qualifying is at 4:15 p.m. Three races (UCAR 25, Super Truck 30 and Pro Six 30) will run before the Heat, and the Super Street 50 will run afterward.
HAMPTON — — The skinny on Langley Speedway is always the same. Because the 4/10ths of a mile asphalt surface is flat and has only one lengthy straightway, Langley is a difficult place for regulars to get their cars to turn in the corners, let alone visitors.