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The trades of CP Lee and Vic Martinez, among others, over the past few weeks have left the Indians' organization in a state of flux in terms of what players fit where and trying to figure out where all of the "HELLO MY NAME IS" tags are in the clubhouses throughout the organization. The biggest area of change has come in terms of the pitching ranks and the departure of Lee from the rotation for 2010 certainly throws conventional wisdom out of the window as to what can be expected from any and all spots in the rotation going forward. The return on the trades resulted in a number of arms coming into the organization that became embarrassingly bereft of pitching talent in a short amount of time as the starters posted a 5.24 ERA, 2nd worst in MLB in 2009...and that was with Clifton Phifer Lee. With the idea that the trades of Lee, Martinez, Garko, Betancourt, and DeRosa began to re-stock the Indians' pitching pipeline, both at the upper levels and lower levels, the notion that the short-term future of the pitching staff, and particularly the starting rotation is filled with question marks - players attempting to recover from injury or ineffectiveness or players trying to establish themselves in MLB - up and down the list of possibilities. How full of question marks is the potential 2010 rotation, assuming no other arms are added either via trade or FA? Consider that among the pitchers that legitimately figure into the 2010 plans in the rotation (Hot Carl Pavano and Thomas Ohka need not apply), here are the inning totals as a starter for those pitchers in 2009: David Huff - 80 2/3 IP as an MLB starter Fausto Carmona - 65 2/3 IP as an MLB starter Jeremy Sowers - 65 1/3 IP as an MLB starter Aaron Laffey - 53 IP as an MLB starter Could I throw in Scott Lewis' 4 1/3 IP in 2009 as an MLB starter or Zachson's 4 IP in 2009 as an MLB starter? I suppose, but doesn't it actually make you feel worse about the situation? I know...it discounts the idea that Jake Westbrook is coming back to the rotation next year and doesn't take into account some of the young talent (namely Carrasco and Masterson) who factor into the 2010 rotation. Fine then...how about this little list to show the number of career MLB starts among pitchers who figure into the mix in 2010, in descending order: Jake Westbrook - 160 career MLB starts Fausto Carmona - 74 career MLB starts Jeremy Sowers - 61 career MLB starts Aaron Laffey - 34 career MLB starts Justin Masterson - 15 career MLB starts Dave Huff - 15 career MLB starts Carlos Carrasco - 0 career MLB starts Hector Rondon - 0 career MLB starts Let's say that the average MLB starter, assuming health throughout the year, gets in about 30 starts a season (CP Lee had 31 starts last year) which would mean that three of the Indians potential starters next year (two really, as Sowers is...well, Sowers) have more than two complete MLB seasons under their belt and those two who are thought to "anchor" the top of the rotation are coming back from Tommy John surgery and still trying to find success that has eluded him for nearly two full seasons now. Now, we get into the whole crux of the argument against keeping Lee and Martinez for 2010 and certainly the factors that influenced the Indians' decision to jettison both of them for pitching, both close-to-MLB-ready pitchers and potential impact arms down the line. That is, beyond Cliff Lee at the top of the rotation, the question marks were big and getting bigger with Westbrook's setback in his recovery and without a guarantee that Carmona would ever re-capture the magic of 2007. To me, the Front Office's statement that contention in 2010 was unlikely even with Lee and Martinez (if, in fact, there were no hidden payroll agendas pushing that movement...and there may have been) is the most damning indication of where they felt that Westbrook and Carmona would be when 2010 arrived. If they thought that Westbrook and Carmona could be healthy and anywhere close to their former selves, the 2010 season is certainly in play in terms of contention. Without them performing at past levels though, the rotation looks a lot like the 2009 staff which was Cliff Lee and...well, Cliff Lee. Now with Lee out of that rotation, replaced by a couple of talented, if very inexperienced arms, the Indians find themselves unquestionably in a transition year in the rotation where many options exist, just not many of them looking like sure things from the top on down. In terms of the top, at this point it would seem that Jake Westbrook is the 2010 Opening Day starter if only by the virtue that he's the best looking option among those on the table. Of course, this represents a stark difference from the past few Openers when the Indians boasted reigning Cy Young winners, but what's done is done and Westbrook looks to be the de facto top-of-the-rotation starter for the Indians even if his numbers suggest that he simply doesn't possess top-of-the-rotation stuff. Even during the 5-year stretch from 2003 to 2007, when Westbrook was averaging 28 starts and 184 IP, he posted a 4.11 ERA (107 ERA+) and a 1.36 WHIP. Nothing to sneeze at, but more along the lines of what could be expected from a nice middle-of-the-rotation presence on a team, not the assumed "best" pitcher...when healthy. And there's the caveat with Westbrook as he hasn't thrown a pitch in MLB since last May and has thrown only 34 2/3 innings since the end of 2007 as he's coming back from Tommy John surgery and a hip injury that sidelined him for a year and a half to date. Westbrook is in the final year of his deal, which will see him "earn" $33M from 2008 to the end of 2010 with those 34 2/3 innings being the only return to show on the Indians' investment. Maybe Westbrook comes back like he once did, inducing groundball outs and eating innings in 2010; but even if he does, he'll likely do so at the same serviceable clip that he has established for himself, certainly not in line with what the Indians have enjoyed from their top starter for the past few years...but that's going to be an ongoing trend here when looking at the 2010 rotation. Speaking of the man thought to be the "top starter" in waiting back in 2007, the long, strange trip of Fausto Carmona rolls on. From going to a 23-year-old sinkerballing machine making Torii Hunter feel "hung over" when he faced him to being relegated to the back lots of Goodyear a mere two seasons later looks to be nothing short of the Devil calling in his due on this apparent Faustian bargain. Carmona's descent and problems are well-documented (too many BB, perhaps poor conditioning, an inability to repeat his mechanics, etc.), but over the past weekend, Sandy Alomar Jr. was in the Indians' broadcast booth to talk about his Hall of Fame induction while Carmona was on the mound. One of the broadcasters asked Sandy what he thought of Fausto who was on the mound that night and Alomar mentioned a name that I had nearly forgotten about in terms of comparing him to Carmona - Kevin Brown, that nasty sinkerballer who complemented his nearly-unhittable sinking fastball with secondary pitches that generated some phenomenal years.
If you'll remember, Brown was nothing short of dominant for those years with the Marlins, Padres, and Dodgers. Interestingly however, Brown didn't become that dominant pitcher until he was 31 years old and while most people remember THAT version of Kevin Brown, he actually struggled somewhat to get to that point as he didn't strike a lot of batters out and walked a number of hitters in his early career to the point that perhaps this is relevant to point out: Kevin Brown - first 4 full seasons in MLB 9.0 H/9, 3.4 BB/9, 4.5 K/9, 1.32 K/BB Fausto Carmona - first 4 full seasons in MLB 9.2 H/9, 3.9 BB/9, 5.5 K/9, 1.40 K/BB Obviously, Carmona's numbers look better when looked at cumulatively because of his 2007 season balancing out a lot of the ugliness since then as his K/BB ratio has been UNDER 1 in both the 2008 and 2009 seasons; but I bring it up if only to assert that maybe Carmona achieved too much, too soon. Perhaps his 2007 was an aberration in that he jumped to the head of the class without taking the proper steps to get there and with the lessons learned by taking those proper steps not there to fall back on, he regressed quickly and frightfully. What does 2010, much less the future, hold for Carmona?
It's certainly possible that he's a one-hit wonder, never to come close to achieving the success he found in 2007; but it's just as possible that he works his way back by taking the long road to the destination instead of the easier path.
We're going to find out with him in an Indians' uniform, for better or worse, as he's guaranteed $4.9M next year and $6.1M in 2011 with the club holding options on him for 2012 for $7M, 2013 for $9M, and 2014 for $12M. Thus, he's "only" guaranteed $11M for the rest of his contract at numbers that look far too high for what he's been putting forth in the past two years. However, if he rebounds to even find some semblance of his 2007 form through a new evolution, his contract looks palatable and even attractive going forward. Whether Carmona, who was thought at one time to be the heir apparent to Sabathia, even makes it to the next stretch of contention (if that's going to happen in the 2011 or 2012 season), is certainly one thing that could tip this rotation from being average to very good in a shorter timeframe, but could also tip the rotation from average to below average if he continues to struggle. OK, now how does it feel to be through the "known" quantities of the equation of the 2010 rotation? Yeah, I know... Before getting into some of our shiny new pieces however, let's take a moment to attempt to quantify one of the in-house options prior to the Lee/Martinez deals that should factor into the rotational mix just as prominently as the young arms - the Babyfaced Bulldog, Aaron Laffey. After Wednesday night's game, Laffey now sits as a 24-year-old with 208 1/3 career IP, a 4.10 career ERA (110 ERA+), and a career WHIP of 1.40. While his groundball tendencies and low K totals often force him to be overlooked in terms of potential, realize where Laffey stands among AL pitchers with more than 60 innings pitched and at least one start: 3.58 ERA (15th in AL) 3.71 FIP (16th in AL) Pushing aside the nonsense that Laffey could eventually slot into the bullpen because he "warms up quickly", there's a certain point that gets reached with him when the Indians need to start putting him in the "definite" category in terms of future starters based on what he's accomplished. Assuming the consistent health that has eluded him since he's arrived in the Bigs, Laffey's done nothing but perform in whatever role the Indians have asked him to fill. Whether that means he evolves into a Jake Westbrook-type innings eater or a Derek Lowe-type top-of-the-rotation starter eventually remains to be seen, but his numbers are getting hard to ignore, particularly when you consider that he's 6 months younger than Dave Huff, a year-and-a-half younger than Scott Lewis, and two years younger than Jeremy Sowers. Perhaps some want to push the out-of-options-after-this-year Laffey into that soft-tossing lefty column based on his handedness and his high hit rates, but Laffey might represent more of a fit with what Westbrook and Lowe put forth for all of those years as groundball-inducing presences, whose readiness for a full-time spot in the 2010 rotation shouldn't be questioned. If the idea that Westbrook, Carmona, and Laffey (all assumed to be healthy) are likely to handle 60% of the rotation for next year, how about the odds that the MLB-ready pitcher netted from the Red Sox, Justin Masterson, also has a pretty good chance of breaking camp next year in the Tribe rotation which would suddenly "boast" four groundball-inducing starters? Masterson, as we have all now seen on the field for the Indians, is a big RHP with a low-angle arm-slot who as a reliever has mainly thrown his sinking fastball and his slider with much success in the pen and as the Indians have stated that he will make the transition back to the starting rotation, the development of his secondary pitches, and the refinement of his changeup in particular, are going to go a long way in Masterson's success as he moves back into a starting role. He is still very young (one month older than Laffey) and has experienced success against MLB hitters, even coming in 14th in FIP in the AL (3.67) using that same criteria that we did with Laffey, having pitched 60 or more innings and having started one or more games, moving up to 10th in FIP if we use 70 innings as the threshold. The impressive K numbers that he's posted (8.52 K/9 this year) may drop as he transitions back to the rotation, but his talent as a pitcher is substantial. The question as to whether Masterson's future lies in the rotation or back in the bullpen as a late-inning option is probably going to begin to find an answer starting in a couple of weeks as the Indians stretch him out and transition him into the 2009 rotation with the idea that there are plenty of innings to be had for him as a starter in 2010 to assert himself as a viable middle-of-the-rotation starter. As for the other new option for the Tribe's 2010 rotation, the jury is out as to what Carlos Carrasco projects as due to conflicting schools of thought as to where Carrasco fits in. His three pitch mix may simply slot him into being a middle-of-the-rotation starter, while the possibility exists that his high K rates certainly portend front-line stuff; unfortunately just as likely is the idea that his propensity to let innings snowball on him may force him to become little more than a tantalizing project, never able to break out oft the frustration as an organizational filler. Carrasco was certainly highly-thought-of throughout his MiLB career, sitting as the #1 prospect in the Phillies' organization to start both 2007 and 2008, dropping to #2 this year prior to the year according to Baseball America. While his 2009 season has certainly taken some of the short-term luster off of his star, Carrasco remains a 22-year-old strikeout pitcher who has been a fixture in Top 50 Prospect lists for a few years now. With the caveat that the list of pitchers who appear in said Top Prospect lists, then never make any kind of a dent in MLB is long and undistinguished, the Indians should go about finding out how Carrasco translates to MLB once the trade of Hot Carl Pavano comes about (and now would be a good time after his last outing) or the Indians decide to cut ties with Tommy Ohka. The idea that Carrasco figures prominently into the 2010 rotation means that Carrasco should be facing MLB hitters soon, if only to take his lumps in MLB the way that one of his competitors, Dave Huff, for a 2010 rotation spot currently is. As for the "lump-taker", Huff finds himself adjusting to MLB as a young pitcher experiencing some success (4 starts of 7+ IP), some real struggles (5 starts not making it to or out of the 5th inning), and some results in the middle (5 starts of exactly 5 IP) against MLB hitters. Huff certainly put himself squarely into the future of this team with his 2008 in the minors (2.52 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 8.8 K/9, 1.8 BB/9, 4.93 K/BB), but 2009 has shown that he is far from a finished product. Whether that finishing needed to take place in AAA and whether the fortunes of the parent club cut that finishing short will never be known, but Huff is working out the kinks against MLB hitters and paying the price for it from time to time. With the names ahead of him, it's likely that Huff closes out 2009 with the Indians (at least until he hits an inning total), then goes into Spring Training fighting for a spot in the rotation but could just as easily represent the first depth option from AAA. The mixed success that he's experienced in 2009 has shown flashes that Huff belongs, with his numbers in 2008 backing that up...it just might not be right now. If Huff is likely to represent the 6th starter in 2010 based on his success in the minors last year and his performance in MLB this year, where does Hector Rondon fit into this mix? Rondon has put forth a similarly impressive year in AA and AAA as Huff did last year, posting a cumulative 2.76 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 9.3 K/9, 2.0 BB/9, 4.73 K/BB line, doing it as a 21-year-old compared to Huff's season last year as a 23-year-old. Rondon has burst onto the prospect map this year and likely would have factored into the Indians' 2010 plans more substantially had the likes of Masterson (already in MLB) and Carrasco (more time in AAA) not entered the organization. It's not inconceivable that Rondon makes his MLB debut in 2009 depending upon what happens with some of the aforementioned arms and he'll likely go to Goodyear next year with the chance of winning a spot in the rotation, but will more likely head to Columbus to start the season, if only to allow him to finish off his repertoire of pitches. That would allow him to enter the rotation when (not if) one of the names ahead of him falters or is injured and puts him squarely in the mix for the 2011 rotation without unnecessarily allowing him to accrue service time on a team going nowhere. If that's thought to be the top seven starters going into next year, let's at least mention Jeremy Sowers, who is out of options after this year and can't conceivably be thought of to stay in the rotation to start 2010 and to remain effective enough to be there all year without a deserved demotion. Nothing against Jeremy Sowers, who certainly looks to be an MLB pitcher with some merit, it's just not as a member of this 2010 rotation. So, rather than letting Sowers simply walk at the end of the year and realizing that the idea of slotting him in as a long man is not a radically new concept (but a sound one based on his numbers each time through a batting lineup), how about a practical suggestion to begin that transition? Seeing as how the Indians are in the process of "stretching out" Justin Masterson in relief with the idea that he will begin starting soon, but on a likely limited pitch count, how about using some sort of defined combination of Masterson and Sowers in starter and relief role to accommodate Masterson's transition to the rotation and Sowers' transition to the long man? Allow Sowers to start games until Masterson is ready, then have Masterson take Sowers' spot in the rotation with the idea that Sowers will come into relieve him after 4 or 5 innings. Sowers goes the rest of the way, or turns it over to the bullpen, getting used to the routine of pitching out of the bullpen while keeping Masterson on a limited pitch and inning count doesn't overly tax the rest of the bullpen. It almost makes too much sense to actually happen though, you know...with the foresight to look ahead to the role of each in 2010, with the idea that Sowers needs a spot on the 25-man after this year or another 1st round pick goes away. Nevertheless, if I were forced to venture a guess on the 2010 rotation right now, I think that you're looking at it looking like this: Westbrook Masterson Laffey Carmona Carrasco If that looks like a lot of middle-of-the-rotation starters with the hope that one of the pitchers can re-capture top shelf stuff or one of the youngsters can evolve into a top-of-the-rotation starter...well, welcome to 2010 in the Cleveland pitching staff. The depth at AAA starts with Dave Huff and Hector Rondon as legitimate replacements for the first five and with names like Chuck Lofgren and Jeanmar Gomez a little further down the developmental ladder. If you want to throw Scott Lewis in there as an option, have at it, although the doctor's orders that he needs to learn to "pitch through pain" and his injury history doesn't have me too optimistic on his health, much less his effectiveness. After those names, the depth breaks off into two directions in terms of guys being older, lower-ceiling "prospects" like Ryan Edell and others who may factor in at some point as organizational depth or relievers and not much else as Edell is older than Laffey, Masterson, Carrasco, and Huff and just made it to AAA. The other group of depth going forward would be those young, high-ceiling arms like 19-year-old Alexander Perez, a healthy Kelvin De La Cruz, 2009 1st Round Pick Alex White and the newly-acquired Nick Hagadone, Jason Knapp, Bryan Price, and Scott Barnes all of whom have the potential to fill out an MLB rotation, some of them perhaps slotting higher in the rotation than others as they progress. Of course, some of those arms are a long way from Cleveland but with what we've seen this year and knowing that the Indians made their trades this year to fill that pipeline of arms for now AND for the future, the sense that the Indians can never have too many arms certainly finds some footing. As for the arms that figure into the 2010 rotation, it certainly be full of question marks - either shaped like pitchers trying to re-capture success lost to injury or ineffectiveness or young pitchers trying to establish a toehold in MLB as a legitimate starting pitcher. Whatever the answer to the questions may be, the 2010 rotation is certain to be full of answers, both good and bad.


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A tournament record four players, including University of South Carolina alum Mark Anderson, share the lead after the first round of the 22nd BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation.
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|Zack Miller
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|Ben Martin
In addition to Anderson, the quartet of professionals matching 9-under-par scores includes Web.com Tour rookie Franklin Corpening from Texas Christian University, Stanford's Zack Miller and University of Georgia grad Hudson Swafford.
Six more players are knotted in fifth place, two strokes off the pace – including Clemson's Ben Martin and Furman graduate Matt Davidson, who had the low round of the day at Greenville Country Club's Chanticleer course.
All four of the leaders posted bogey-free rounds on Thursday with Anderson and Swafford carding their 9-under 63s on The Reserve at Lake Keowee course 35 miles west of Greenville. Corpening and Miller matched 9-under 62s at The Thornblade Club in nearby Greer, the host venue for the event.
For Anderson and Corpening, today's rounds were easily Web.com Tour career bests while Miller's and Swafford's score was one stroke off their career-low number on the circuit.
Swafford birdied half of the holes on The Reserve at Lake Keowee course while Anderson strung together seven birdies and an eagle on the same layout. Miller used a pair of eagles, making a three of Nos. 5 and 15 at The Thornblade Club, en route to his 62.
"I had a really good day. I didn't get too overly aggressive and did all of the little things," said Swafford. "I've really been trying to work on my course management more so than every aspect of my game."
Corpening's round at Thornblade was near perfect as he hit all 13 fairways and missed just one green in regulation.
"I really didn't miss a shot. I've been playing well but I was definitely surprised to get it to 9-under," said the 28-year-old Corpening, who is conditionally exempt this year on the Web.com Tour.
This week's BMW Charity Pro-Am uses a unique three-course celebrity pro-am format and the tournament cut will come after 54 holes on Saturday instead of the normal 36-hole cut. The low 60 and ties will play on Sunday at Thornblade Club as will the low-16 pro-am teams.
First-Round Notes
— Thursday weather: Perfect scoring conditions with partly cloudy skies and highs in the low-80s with little wind.
— The BMW Charity Pro-Am is the ninth of 25 events on the 2013 Web.com Tour schedule. This week's purse is $650,000 with $117,000 going to the champion.
— Two-time BMW Charity Pro-Am winner Shane Bertsch shot 6-under 29 on his opening nine holes at The Thornblade Club, matching the lowest 9-hole score on the Web.com Tour this year.
— Mark Anderson on his round today: "I went to U.S. Open qualifying last week and I shot 7-under there so it wsa nice to get a competitive round under my belt and go low, which I knew I needed to do here at Lake Keowee. The swing feels good. If I can keep driving the ball well, which I haven't been doing very well earlier in the year, I should be in good shape. This is one of my favorite tournaments on the Web.com Tour. I love the town and all of the golf courses up here.
— Prior to today, the BMW Charity Pro-Am had three players tied for the opening-round lead in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The last time four or more players shared a first-round lead on the Web.com Tour was at the season-ending 2012 Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch.
— Just two of the previous 21 BMW Charity Pro-Am events have been won by first-round leaders/co-leaders – Russell Beiersdorf (1992), Tripp Isenhour (2003). Only one of the first eight events on the 2013 Web.com Tour has been won by a first-round leader (Brendon Todd – Stadion Clasic at UGA).
— Matt Davidson and his pro-am partner, Frank Luk, combined to shoot a net score of 14-under-par 58 and they lead the pro-am portion of the event after the first round.
— Amateur Walt Dennis, a participant in the 2013 BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation, won a new BMW 325i when he made a hole-in-one in the first round of the tournament.
Dennis aced the 154-yard, 9th hole at the Thornblade Club, which serves as the host course in the three-course rotation being utilized for this week's unique Web.com Tour event.
Dennis, President of HFI, LLC – an automotive interiors supplier in Columbus, Ohio – was paired with professional Adam Crawford when he knocked a 7-iron in to become the first amateur to win an automobile since BMW took over sponsorship of the tournament 13 years ago.
"I knew I hit it pretty good but I didn't think I hit it hard enough," said Dennis, who plays to a 2-handicap out of Scioto Country Club in Columbus and now has five career aces. "The car never entered my mind. I was giddy because my wife (Jane) was there, Ash (Hall) was there, my partner was there. I've been in events where there are cars given away but it's got to be the right hole, it's got to be the right temperature and it's always somebody else that does it. I didn't see a sign and so it would probably be for Sunday and the finals, that's when they have a car. This is pretty special. This is just huge."
Dennis and his partner Crawford posted a team score of 8-under 63 while Crawford carded a 4-under 67 on his own ball.


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If you or your family will be in the Seattle, Washington area, this is a sight to see and experience. Created and designed by a Seattle artist, Dan Corson, this whimsical grouping of interactive lights is amazing. The sculpture is composed of five gigantic sunflowers and it is part of Seattle's City Lights greenup movement.
Not only do these amazing lights light up but they interact with a person's movements. Movement triggers the lights and the 40' high flowers set off a chorus of interactive harmonic tones. Each individual flower has its own distinctive set of notes, which simulates a singing chorus. When several people are present, it is possible to compose and conduct music together, or just by walking through you can randomly set off a harmonic sequence. The amazing musical sounds work during the day and the night.
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The folks over at Phandroid have gotten a hand on a Radioshack circular (check it out in the gallery below) announcing the release date of HTC's flagship Evo3D on Sprint. Those of you wishing and hoping for an early June release will be slightly disappointed, as you won't be able to get your hands on the Evo3D until June 24th.
Sprint has not yet announced the availability of the Evo3D from their stores. It's possible they'll release it a day or two earlier, but for now we'll assume the 24th is the final date.
Though not necessarily the best of news, June 24th will be here before you know it, and 3 weeks is just a short time to wait for this awesome device.
Who's going to be waiting in line on the 24th when these beast hits stores? Or are you holding out for the Photon 4G or Galaxy S2? Sound off in the comments below.


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Former NYC mayor Koch moved to intensive care, spokesman says
NEW YORK – The spokesman for Ed Koch says the former New York City mayor has been moved to intensive care.
Spokesman George Arzt said Thursday that Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, who's Koch's cardiologist and lead doctor, wanted to monitor the former mayor more closely.
The 88-year-old Koch was readmitted to NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital on Monday. He'd been released two days earlier after being treated for water in his lungs and legs.
Arzt said on Tuesday that doctors were still trying to reduce the fluid. Koch also was showing an iron deficiency.
On Tuesday night, a new documentary about Koch's career premiered at the Museum of Modern Art.
Koch initially went to the hospital on Jan. 19. He also was hospitalized in December with a respiratory infection and in September with anemia.


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Pat Nakata often tells me that his sensei, Choshin Chibana, said that timing is more important than speed.
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William H. Rabacal advised me to learn how to juggle in order to gain better timing. It was hard at first, but within a couple of weeks I learned how to juggle three objects. Rabacal Sensei was right! Juggling teaches good timing. You cannot juggle the balls faster than they fall. You have to be in rhythm with the balls -- just as you have to be in rhythm with punches.
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14 December or
21 December 1503
2 July 1566 (aged 62)
Apothecary, author, translator,
astrological consultant
Known for:
Michel de Nostredame (14 December or 21 December 1503
2 July 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties ("The Prophecies"), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events. The prophecies have in some cases been assimilated to the results of applying the alleged Bible code, as well as to other purported prophetic works.
Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus's quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.
Student years
Marriage and healing work
Final years and death
Nostradamus' sources
Alternative views
Nostredame's claimed birthplace
before its recent renovation.
Born on 14 or 21 December 1503
in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the south of France, where his claimed birthplace still exists, Michel de Nostredame was one of at least nine children of Reynière de St-Rémy and grain dealer and notary Jaume de Nostredame. The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism around 1455, taking the Christian name "Pierre" and the surname "Nostredame" (the latter apparently from the saint's day on which his conversion was solemnized).
Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I (c. 150777), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II (born 1522) and Antoine (born 1523).
Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy
a tradition which is somewhat vitiated by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.
Student years
At the age of fifteen the young Nostredame entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic, rather than the later quadrivium of geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy/astrology), he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors in the face of an outbreak of the plague. After leaving Avignon, Nostredame (according to his own account) traveled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, he entered the University of Montpellier to study for a doctorate in medicine. He was expelled shortly afterward when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, a "manual trade" expressly banned by the university statutes.
The expulsion document (BIU Montpellier, Register S 2 folio 87) still exists in the faculty library.
However, some of his publishers and correspondents would later call him "Doctor". After his expulsion, Nostredame continued working, presumably still as an apothecary, and became famous for creating a "rose pill" that supposedly protected against the plague.
Marriage and healing work
In 1531 Nostredame was invited by Jules-César Scaliger, a leading Renaissance scholar, to come to Agen.
There he married a woman of uncertain name (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), who bore him two children.
In 1534 his wife and children died, presumably from the Plague. After their deaths, he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy.
On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician Louis Serre in his fight against a major plague outbreak in Marseille, and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence. Finally, in 1547, he settled in Salon-de-Provence in the house which exists today, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children three daughters and three sons.
Between 1556 and 1567 he and his wife acquired a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project organized by Adam de Craponne to irrigate largely waterless Salon-de-Provence and the nearby Désert de la Crau from the river Durance.
Nostradamus's house at
Salon-de-Provence, as reconstructed
after the 1909 earthquake.
After another visit to Italy, Nostredame began to move away from medicine and toward the occult. Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinizing his name from Nostredame to Nostradamus. He was so encouraged by the almanac's success that he decided to write one or more annually. Taken together, they are known to have contained at least 6,338 prophecies,
as well as at least eleven annual calendars, all of them starting on 1 January and not, as is sometimes supposed, in March. It was mainly in response to the almanacs that the nobility and other prominent persons from far away soon started asking for horoscopes and "psychic" advice from him, though he generally expected his clients to supply the birth charts on which these would be based, rather than calculating them himself as a professional astrologer would have done. When obliged to attempt this himself on the basis of the published tables of the day, he always made numerous errors, and never adjusted the figures for his clients' place or time of birth.
(Refer to the analysis of these charts by Brind'Amour, 1993, and compare Gruber's comprehensive critique of Nostradamus horoscope for Crown Prince Rudolph Maximilian.)
He then began his project of writing a book of one thousand mainly French quatrains,
which constitute the largely undated prophecies for which he is most famous today. Feeling vulnerable to religious fanatics,
however, he devised a method of obscuring his meaning by using "Virgilianized" syntax, word games and a mixture of other languages such as Greek, Italian, Latin, and Provençal.
For technical reasons connected with their publication in three installments (the publisher of the third and last installment seems to have been unwilling to start it in the middle of a "Century," or book of 100 verses), the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh "Century" have not survived into any extant edition.
The quatrains, published in a book titled Les Propheties (The Prophecies), received a mixed reaction when they were published. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite thought his quatrains were spiritually-inspired prophecies as, in the light of their post-Biblical sources (see under Nostradamus' sources below), Nostradamus himself was indeed prone to claim. Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus' greatest admirers. After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them and to draw up horoscopes for her children. At the time, he feared that he would be beheaded,
but by the time of his death in 1566, Catherine had made him Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to her son, the young King Charles IX of France.
Some accounts of Nostradamus's life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell in this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practiced magic to support them. In fact, his relationship with the Church as a prophet and healer was excellent. His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree.
Final years and death
Nostradamus' current tomb in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent,
Salon, into which his scattered remains were transferred
after 1789.
By 1566, Nostradamus' gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into oedema, or dropsy. In late June he summoned his lawyer to draw up an extensive will bequeathing his property plus 3,444 crowns (around US$300,000 today) minus a few debts to his wife pending her remarriage, in trust for her sons pending their twenty-fifth birthdays and her daughters pending their marriages. This was followed by a much shorter codicil.
On the evening of 1 July, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive at sunrise." The next morning he was reportedly found dead, lying on the floor next to his bed and a bench (Presage 141 [originally 152] for November 1567, as posthumously edited by Chavigny to fit).
He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel in Salon (part of it now incorporated into the restaurant La Brocherie) but re-interred in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent during the French Revolution, where his tomb remains to this day.
In The Prophecies he compiled his collection of major, long-term predictions. The first installment was published in 1555. The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but now only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. This version contains one unrhymed and 941 rhymed quatrains, grouped into nine sets of 100 and one of 42, called "Centuries".
Given printing practices at the time (which included type-setting from dictation), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same. Certainly there is no warrant for assuming as would-be "code-breakers" are prone to do that either the spellings or the punctuation of any edition are Nostradamus' originals.
The Almanacs: by far the most popular of his works, these were published annually from 1550 until his death. He often published two or three in a year, entitled either Almanachs (detailed predictions), Prognostications or Presages (more generalized predictions).
Nostradamus was not only a diviner, but a professional healer, too. It is known that he wrote at least two books on medical science. One was an extremely free translation (i.e. a "paraphrase") of The Protreptic of Galen (Paraphrase de C. GALIEN, sus l'Exhortation de Menodote aux estudes des bonnes Artz, mesmement Medicine) , and in his so-called Traité des fardemens (basically a medical cookbook containing, once again, materials borrowed mainly from others) he included a description of the methods he used to treat the plague none of which, not even the bloodletting, apparently worked. The same book also describes the preparation of cosmetics.
A manuscript normally known as the Orus Apollo also exists in the Lyon municipal library, where upwards of 2,000 original documents relating to Nostradamus are stored under the aegis of Michel Chomarat. It is a purported translation of an ancient Greek work on Egyptian hieroglyphs based on later Latin versions, all of them unfortunately ignorant of the true meanings of the ancient Egyptian script, which was not correctly deciphered until the advent of Champollion in the 19th century.
Since his death only the Prophecies have continued to be popular, but in this case they have been quite extraordinarily so. Over two hundred editions of them have appeared in that time, together with over 2000 commentaries. Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as "hits" (see Nostradamus in popular culture).
Nostradamus' sources
Copy of Garencières' 1672 English
translation of the Propheties, located in The
P.I. Nixon Medical History Library of The
University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio.
Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology the astrological assessment of the quality of expected future developments but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl
for incompetence and for assuming that "comparative horoscopy" (the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events) could predict what would happen in the future.
Recent research suggests that much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies (mainly Bible-based), supplemented with references to historical events and anthologies of omen reports, and then projects those into the future in part with the aid of comparative horoscopy. Hence the many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla, Gaius Marius, Nero, and others, as well as his descriptions of "battles in the clouds" and "frogs falling from the sky." Astrology itself is mentioned only twice in Nostradamus's Preface and 41 times in the Centuries themselves, but more frequently in his dedicatory Letter to King Henri II. In the last quatrain of his sixth centurie he specifically attacks astrologers.
His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart. Many of his astrological references are taken almost word for word from Richard Roussat's Livre de l'estat et mutations des temps of 154950.
One of his major prophetic sources was evidently the Mirabilis liber of 1522, which contained a range of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others. (His Preface contains 24 biblical quotations, all but two in the order used by Savonarola.)
This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions (see External links below for facsimiles and translations) but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations. Nostradamus was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French, which may explain why they are credited to him. It should be noted that modern views of plagiarism did not apply in the 16th century. Authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgement, especially from the classics.
Further material was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of 1504 by Petrus Crinitus,
which included extracts from Michael Psellus's De daemonibus, and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (Concerning the mysteries of Egypt...), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th century Neo-Platonist. Latin versions of both had recently been published in Lyon, and extracts from both are paraphrased (in the second case almost literally) in his first two verses, the first of which is appended to this article. While it is true that Nostradamus claimed in 1555 to have burned all of the occult works in his library, no one can say exactly what books were destroyed in this fire. The fact that they reportedly burned with an unnaturally brilliant flame suggests, however, that some of them were manuscripts on vellum, which was routinely treated with saltpeter.
Only in the 17th century did people start to notice his reliance on earlier, mainly classical sources.
This may help explain the fact that, during the same period, The Prophecies reportedly came into use in France as a classroom reader.
Nostradamus's reliance on historical precedent is reflected in the fact that he explicitly rejected the label prophet (i.e. a person having prophetic powers of his own) on several occasions:
Although, my son, I have used the word prophet, I would not attribute to myself a title of such lofty sublimity Preface to César, 1555 (see caption to illustration above)
Not that I would attribute to myself either the name or the role of a prophet Preface to César, 1555
[S]ome of [the prophets] predicted great and marvelous things to come: [though] for me, I in no way attribute to myself such a title here. Letter to King Henri II, 1558
I do but make bold to predict (not that I guarantee the slightest thing at all), thanks to my researches and the consideration of what judicial Astrology promises me and sometimes gives me to know, principally in the form of warnings, so that folk may know that with which the celestial stars do threaten them. Not that I am foolish enough to pretend to be a prophet. Open letter to Privy Councillor (later Chancellor) Birague, 15 June 1566
His rejection of the title prophet also squares with the fact
that he entitled his book
Detail from title-page of the original 1555
(Albi) edition of Nostradamus's Les Propheties
(a title that, in French, as easily means "The Prophecies, by M. Michel Nostradamus", which is precisely what they were; as "The Prophecies of M. Michel Nostradamus", which, except in a few cases, they were not, other than in the manner of their editing, expression and reapplication to the future.) Any criticism of Nostradamus for claiming to be a prophet, in other words, would have been for doing what he never claimed to be doing in the first place.
Given this reliance on literary sources, it is doubtful
whether Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation and incubation (i.e., ritually "sleeping on it"). His sole description of this process is contained in letter 41
of his collected Latin correspondence.
The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on a naive reading of his first two verses, which merely liken his efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles. The first of these is reproduced at the bottom of this article: the second can be seen by visiting the relevant facsimile site (see External Links). In his dedication to King Henri II, Nostradamus describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility", but his frequent references to the "bronze tripod" of the Delphic rite are usually preceded by the words "as though" (compare, once again, External References to the original texts).
Most of the quatrains deal with disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles all undated and based on foreshadowings by the Mirabilis Liber. Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of persons. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries. A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from further east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen (that is, Arab) equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber.
All of this is presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the world even though this is not in fact mentioned
a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, not least an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus.
Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, by way of the rise of Napoleon I of France and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center,
but only ever in hindsight. Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as "retroactive clairvoyance." There is no evidence in the academic literature to suggest that any Nostradamus quatrain has ever been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.
Alternative views
A range of quite different views are expressed in printed literature and on the Internet. At one end of the spectrum, there are extreme academic views such as those of Jacques Halbronn, suggesting at great length and with great complexity that Nostradamus's Prophecies are antedated forgeries written by later hands with a political axe to grind.
Although Halbronn possibly knows more about the texts and associated archives than almost anybody else alive (he helped dig out and research many of them), most other specialists in the field reject this view. At the other end of the spectrum, there are numerous fairly recent popular books, and thousands of private websites, suggesting not only that the Prophecies are genuine but that Nostradamus was a true prophet. Thanks to the vagaries of interpretation, no two of them agree on exactly what he predicted, whether for our past or for our future.
Many of them do agree, though, that particular predictions refer, for example, to the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler,
both world wars, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is also a consensus that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986,
to the events of 9/11: this 'movable feast' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.
Possibly the first of these books to become truly popular in English was Henry C. Roberts' The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus of 1947, reprinted at least seven times during the next 40 years, which contained both transcriptions and translations, with brief commentaries. This was followed in 1961 (reprinted in 1982) by Edgar Leoni's comprehensive and remarkably dispassionate Nostradamus and His Prophecies. After that came Erika Cheetham's The Prophecies of Nostradamus, incorporating a reprint of the posthumous 1568 edition, which was reprinted, revised and republished several times from 1973 onwards, latterly as The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus. This went on to serve as the basis for Orson Welles' celebrated film The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. Apart from a two-part translation of Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus: historien et prophète of 1980, the series could be said to have culminated in John Hogue's well-known books on the seer from about 1994 onwards, including Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies (1999) and, most recently, Nostradamus: A Life and Myth (2003).
With the exception of Roberts, these books and their many popular imitators were almost unanimous not merely about Nostradamus's powers of prophecy, but also about various aspects of his biography. He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I.35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel; he had examined the royal children at Blois; he had bequeathed to his son a 'lost book' of his own prophetic paintings;
he had been buried standing up; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.
From the 1980s onwards, however, an academic reaction set in, especially in France. The publication in 1983 of Nostradamus's private correspondence
and, during succeeding years, of the original editions of 1555 and 1557 discovered by Chomarat and Benazra, together with the unearthing of much original archival material
revealed that much that was claimed about Nostradamus simply did not fit the documented facts. The academics
[29] made it clear that not one of the claims just listed was backed up by any known contemporary documentary evidence. Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours retailed as fact by much later commentators such as Jaubert (1656), Guynaud (1693) and Bareste (1840), on modern misunderstandings of the 16th century French texts, or on pure invention. Even the often-advanced suggestion that quatrain I.35 had successfully prophesied King Henri II's death did not actually appear in print for the first time until 1614, 55 years after the event.
On top of that, the academics,
who themselves tend to eschew any attempt at interpretation, complained that the English translations were usually of poor quality, seemed to display little or no knowledge of 16th century French, were tendentious and, at worst, were sometimes twisted to fit the events to which they were supposed to refer (or vice versa). None of them, certainly, were based on the original editions: Roberts had based himself on that of 1672, Cheetham and Hogue on the posthumous edition of 1568. Even the relatively respectable Leoni accepted on his page 115 that he had never seen an original edition, and on earlier pages indicated that much of his biographical material was unsourced.
However, none of this research and criticism was originally known to most of the English-language commentators, by function of the dates when they were writing and, to some extent, of the language it was written in. Hogue, admittedly, was in a position to take advantage of it, but it was only in 2003 that he accepted that some of his earlier biographical material had in fact been apocryphal. Meanwhile various of the more recent sources listed (Lemesurier, Gruber, Wilson) have been particularly scathing about later attempts by some lesser-known authors and Internet enthusiasts to extract alleged hidden meanings from the texts, whether with the aid of anagrams, numerical codes, graphs or otherwise.
Nostradamus, Michel:
Orus Apollo, 1545 (?), unpublished ms; Almanachs, Presages and Pronostications, 15501567; Ein Erschrecklich und Wunderbarlich Zeychen..., Nuremberg, 1554; Les Propheties, Lyon, 1555, 1557, 1568; Traite des fardemens et des confitures, 1555, 1556, 1557; Paraphrase de C. Galen sus l'exhortation de Menodote, 1557; Lettre de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, de Salon de Craux en Provence, A la Royne mere du Roy, 1566
Leroy, Dr Edgar, Nostradamus, ses origines, sa vie, son oeuvre, 1972 (the seminal biographical study)
Dupèbe, Jean, Nostradamus: Lettres inédites, 1983
Chomarat, Michel, and Laroche, Jean-Paul: Bibliographie Nostradamus (1989)
Benazra, Robert: Répertoire chronologique nostradamique (1990)
Randi, James, The Mask of Nostradamus, 1993 ISBN 0879758309
Rollet, Pierre, Nostradamus: Interprétation des hiéroglyphes de Horapollo, 1993
Brind'Amour, Pierre: Nostradamus astrophile, 1993; Nostradamus. Les premières Centuries ou Prophéties, 1996
Lemesurier, Peter, The Nostradamus Encyclopedia, 1997; The Unknown Nostradamus, 2003; Nostradamus: The Illustrated Prophecies, 2003
Prévost, Roger, Nostradamus, le mythe et la réalité, 1999
Chevignard, Bernard, Présages de Nostradamus 1999
Wilson, Ian, Nostradamus: The Evidence, 2002
Clébert, Jean-Paul, Prophéties de Nostradamus, 2003
Gruber, Dr Elmar, Nostradamus: sein Leben, sein Werk und die wahre Bedeutung seiner Prophezeiungen, 2003
Guinard, Dr Patrice,
CURA Forum
Lemesurier, Peter, The Unknown Nostradamus, 2003
Leroy, Dr Edgar, Nostradamus, ses origines, sa vie, son oeuvre, 1972,
Lemesurier, Peter, 'The Nostradamus Encyclopedia, 1997
Chavigny, J.A. de: La première face du Janus françois... (Lyon, 1594)
Brind'Amour, Pierre, Nostradamus astrophile, 1993
Benazra, R,
Espace Nostradamus
Nostradamus, Michel, Traite des fardemens et des confitures, 1555, 1556, 1557
Maison de Nostradamus at Salon
Chevignard, Bernard, Présages de Nostradamus 1999
Gruber, Dr Elmar, Nostradamus: sein Leben, sein Werk und die wahre Bedeutung seiner Prophezeiungen, 2003
Mario Gregorio.
"Centuries of Nostradamus"
. Propheties.it. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
Guéraud, J., La chronique Lyonnaise (15361562), cited in Leroy, Dr. E., Nostradamus, ses origines, sa vie, son oeuvre, Bergerac, Trillaud, 1972, p.83
Lemesurier, P., The Unknown Nostradamus (O Books, 2003)
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Savonarola and Nostradamus text comparison
Anonymous letters to the Mercure de France in August and November 1724 drew specific public attention to the fact(Anonyme) Lettre critique sur la personne et sur les écrits de Michel Nostradamus, Mercure de France, août et novembre 1724 (Comment in the French Wikipedia article on Nostradamus : "Relève, dans un esprit rationaliste, des coïncidences entre certains quatrains des Prophéties et des évènements antérieurs à la publication de ces quatrains. Tout n'est pas également convaincant, mais on repoussera difficilement, par exemple, le rapprochement entre le quatrain VIII, 72 et le siège de Ravenne de 1512.")
Garencières, Théophile de:
The true prophecies or prognostications of Michel Nostradamus, 1672.
Preface to César
Letter to Henri II
facsimile of letter
Nostradamus, M., Les Propheties, 1568 omnibus edition
Watts, P.M., Prophecy and Discovery: On the Spiritual Origins of Christopher Columbus' 'Enterprise of the Indies' in: American Historical Review, February 1985, pp. 73102
, Ramkat and
It is true that in several quatrains he mentions the name Hister (somewhat resembling Hitler), but this is merely the classical name for the Lower Danube, as he himself explains in his Presage for 1554. Similarly, the expression Pau, Nay, Loron often interpreted as an anagram of "Napaulon Roy" simply refers to three towns in southwestern France near his one-time home.
. Maar.us.
. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
Actually the 13th14th century Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus in a misascribed version sometimes referred to as the Vaticinia Nostradami
Dupèbe, Jean, Nostradamus: Lettres inédites, 1983
Randi, James, The Mask of Nostradamus, 1993
Wilson, Ian, Nostradamus: The Evidence, 2002
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OCZ PC3-17000 Flex EX 12GB Review
Finding the right system memory for your high-end build can seem like a daunting task. There is a wealth of information out on the Internet about what works best with what system and where to find it. There are many memory companies out there making some really stunning products that work to fill every consumers demand from the mild to the wild, including your basic value memory all the way to the high-end limited production set, equipped with the flavor of the week memory IC. It's all out there.
OCZ is one company that does cater to the enthusiast, offering a set of memory to fill each and every price point. Their FLEX XLC line is one that has been out and fits the criteria of being an enthusiast grade product just based on its design and intended use. This series of memory is put together for the high-end user that uses a liquid cooling solution to cool the seemingly ever increasing thermal loads in these systems.
Water cooling is a niche market that is quickly finding more and more people adopting this cooling strategy as a way to cool that high-end system without the noise factor normally associated with a high-end air cooled system.
Now, in the past, this market was made up of enthusiasts who used what they had available and used a bit of ingenuity to make a solution that worked and found ways to cool down everything from the CPU to the hard drives and power supply. Liquid cooling the memory was a logical progression and one made by OCZ several years back. This new series from OCZ features a new, slimmer heat sink design and comes in capacities from 4GB up to 12GB ranging in speeds from 1600MHz to 2400MHz in both dual and triple channel kits optimized for Intel's P55 and X58 chipsets. This set from OCZ is rated at PC3-17000 or 2133MHz and is 12GB in size and is currently the fastest 12GB kit in the Flex XLC lineup. Even though this set is meant to be incorporated into a liquid cooled loop, it still carries a lifetime warranty, so you have some piece of mind when it comes time to put them in the loop.
Closer Look:
Instead of the traditional blister pack that you normally see memory modules sold in, OCZ has put this set into a full retail box. The front panel has several windows that show off the OCZ Flex EX modules illustrating their dual cooling capabilities. The back panel of the package lists the advantages of using OCZ memory and how this set is deigned to work with and take full advantage of Intel's Core i7 architecture and goes through a "sophisticated binning process". Also mentioned is the incredible customer support OCZ offers to their customers and the enthusiast community, plus a slew of awards that OCZ has earned with their products that include not only system memory, but flash and solid state drives. Further down is an illustration of how the large fin array and liquid injection system cool the memory IC's on this set of memory.
You have to package the modules in something that limits movement in transit to keep the modules alive. Inside the box are two plastic clamshells that hold the modules securely in place so they do not come into contact with another module. There are a total of three modules in this kit.
This set of modules from OCZ are part of the Flex XLC lineup. This series of modules feature heat spreaders that can be used with one of two cooling methods: air, by way of the large aluminum fin array, or with a water cooled setup, using OCZ's Liquid Injection system. Of course, to get the maximum cooling potential you can add a fan blowing over the modules for maximum heat dissipation. The information on the decal shows this triple channel set of modules carries part number OCZ3FXE2133LV12GK and consists of three 4GB modules for a total capacity of 12GB. This set is rated to run at PC3 17000 or 2133MHz speeds using latencies of 10-10-10-30 at the Intel maximum specified voltage of 1.65v.
The cooling solution used on this set of Flex XLC modules consists of large aluminum bodies over the memory IC's that have a dual purpose design allowing the modules to be used both passively and or water cooled by way of the OCZ Liquid Injection system. The large fin array is attached to the main heat sink body. the modules have two barbed fittings so that the memory can be incorporated into your water cooling system. Inside the heat sink are channels that the liquid passes through that are located right above the memory IC's. If you have seen the earlier revisions of this design, you can see that this latest design is thinner, allowing more modules to be used in a system so that increasing your memory capacity is no longer limited by the size of the cooling solution used on these modules. The diagram of the mechanics of the Liquid Injection system is courtesy of OCZ and illustrates how this cooling solution is used and how the heat dissipation happens.
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While SUVs and crossovers continue to gain popularity, there are still some great car choices for drivers who don't need to sit up high, carry a ton of stuff, drive through mud or tow heavy loads. And while it's hard to beat the ruggedness of an SUV or the functionality of a minivan, there's no denying that a traditional car still offers plenty of versatility, typically at a lower cost and with better fuel economy. Best of all, many automakers are advertising impressive deals on cars this month to help boost sales and clear out inventory. We've listed some of the most compelling offers to make it as easy as possible to find a great car at a low price in March.
Chevrolet Malibu
As the midsize Chevrolet Malibu sedan is nearing replacement, now is a great time to get a real deal on the outgoing model. Through the end of April, shoppers interested in purchasing a 2012 Malibu can get zero percent interest rates for up to 60 months or up to $3,000 cash back. For buyers who would rather lease a Malibu, Chevy is offering 24-month lease with just $1,559 due at signing and payments starting as low as $179 per month. Although an all-new Malibu is on the way, we think the current car is still a very competent vehicle, and these deals make it even more appealing.
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The latest Volkswagen Jetta sedan may have grown, but the price has shrunk. Through the end of March, the base-level 2012 Jetta S with a standard 5-speed manual transmission can be leased for just $159 per month after $1,999 due at signing, which strikes us a great deal if you can drive a manual transmission. For consumers who would rather purchase their Jetta, VW is offering interest rates as low as 0.9 percent for up to 60 months on nearly all versions of the sedan - an impressive rate that the automaker hopes will inspire many buyers to abandon more popular compact cars like the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic in favor of German engineering.
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No full-sized lesson this week—we leave for vacation soon, and I'm still sorting out several personal and family issues. But I've been keeping a card file on possible "Quick Takes", which don't take me long to write and which don't require homework on your part. So here are three mini-lessons—enjoy, and mark your calendars for April 12, when I'll have the next real class.
1. Take a look at the following sentence—do you see anything wrong with it?
That cat is definitely staring at me, I thought to myself.
Did you find it? Avoid using the phrase "I thought to myself". Who else could you think to? This is better:
That cat is definitely staring at me, I thought.
OR…since you've got it in italics anyway, get rid of the tag altogether. You've just saved yourself two (or four) words. Now--go feed the cat.
2. Here's another one for you—what's the problem with the following sentence?
Hold on, because I'm about to literally knock your socks off.
It's the word "literally", which means "really, actually, truly". If I literally knock your socks off, your feet will be chilly soon.
What I meant was "figuratively", which means "symbolically, metaphorically". But people don't say...
Hold on, because I'm about to figuratively knock your socks off.
…unless they're even nerdier about words than I am, and truly insufferable to be around. Just leave out the literally entirely.
There's a blog about the misuse of "literally" here.
3. One more sentence for you to evaluate:
I was about to drowned my sorrows in a vat of dark chocolate.
Caught it right away, didn't you? Everyone knows that milk chocolate is the solution to sorrows.
No, I'm kidding…it's that word drowned. I see (and hear) it used incorrectly all the time. The present tense is drown.
That's it for now—see you in three weeks. Feel free to respond here--I'll be in occasionally until Thursday, and then a few times while we're on vacation.
In the meantime, read like a writer!