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Buffalo, N.Y. (WKBW) - It's called "Success Looks Like Me," a program that offers an inspirational message for students in Western New York.
"Our mission is to provide access to people, places and experiences for students living in low-income places," chair for the Cultures of Giving Legacy Initiative Jennifer Parker said.
The kickoff program at the Buffalo Academy for the Visual Performing & Arts featured playwright and Tony Award winning Actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who is originally from Lackawanna.
"I'm blessed to share my journey with these kids to let them know that it's all possible," Santiago-Hudson told Eyewitness News.
Santiago-Hudson also stared in the hit ABC-TV show "Castle." He said it is all what you put your mind to.
"It's all possible through character, and who you are," Santiago-Hudson said.
Mr. Santiago Hudson said he is even more proud of his successes off the stage.
"I think my greatest achievements are not what I achieved as an actor, but what I achieved as a human being. I think I'm more proud of that. I hope to be a good father every day, and a good citizen every day," Santiago-Hudson said.
More than 100 students from Lackawanna and Buffalo Public School District attended.
Mr. Santiago-Hudson also got a taste of they what they had to offer. Santiago-Hudson said no matter how talented a person is, success takes time.
"Your greatest dreams and goals are possible, but it's attained step by step. You don't leap from where you are to your goal. You have 100 small victories to get to the big victory," Santiago-Hudson said.


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- Synaptic boutons sizes are tuned to best fit their physiological performances (2013)
- Poster presentation: Twenty Second Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2013. Paris, France. 13-18 July 2013. To truly appreciate the myriad of events which relate synaptic function and vesicle dynamics, simulations should be done in a spatially realistic environment. This holds true in particular in order to explain as well the rather astonishing motor patterns which we observed within in vivo recordings which underlie peristaltic contractionsas well as the shape of the EPSPs at different forms of long-term stimulation, presented both here, at a well characterized synapse, the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) of the Drosophila larva (c.f. Figure 1). To this end, we have employed a reductionist approach and generated three dimensional models of single presynaptic boutons at the Drosophila larval NMJ. Vesicle dynamics are described by diffusion-like partial differential equations which are solved numerically on unstructured grids using the uG platform. In our model we varied parameters such as bouton-size, vesicle output probability (Po), stimulation frequency and number of synapses, to observe how altering these parameters effected bouton function. Hence we demonstrate that the morphologic and physiologic specialization maybe a convergent evolutionary adaptation to regulate the trade off between sustained, low output, and short term, high output, synaptic signals. There seems to be a biologically meaningful explanation for the co-existence of the two different bouton types as previously observed at the NMJ (characterized especially by the relation between size and Po), the assigning of two different tasks with respect to short- and long-time behaviour could allow for an optimized interplay of different synapse types. We can present astonishing similar results of experimental and simulation data which could be gained in particular without any data fitting, however based only on biophysical values which could be taken from different experimental results. As a side product, we demonstrate how advanced methods from numerical mathematics could help in future to resolve also other difficult experimental neurobiological issues.
- On functional module detection in metabolic networks (2013)
- Functional modules of metabolic networks are essential for understanding the metabolism of an organism as a whole. With the vast amount of experimental data and the construction of complex and large-scale, often genome-wide, models, the computer-aided identification of functional modules becomes more and more important. Since steady states play a key role in biology, many methods have been developed in that context, for example, elementary flux modes, extreme pathways, transition invariants and place invariants. Metabolic networks can be studied also from the point of view of graph theory, and algorithms for graph decomposition have been applied for the identification of functional modules. A prominent and currently intensively discussed field of methods in graph theory addresses the Q-modularity. In this paper, we recall known concepts of module detection based on the steady-state assumption, focusing on transition-invariants (elementary modes) and their computation as minimal solutions of systems of Diophantine equations. We present the Fourier-Motzkin algorithm in detail. Afterwards, we introduce the Q-modularity as an example for a useful non-steady-state method and its application to metabolic networks. To illustrate and discuss the concepts of invariants and Q-modularity, we apply a part of the central carbon metabolism in potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum) as running example. The intention of the paper is to give a compact presentation of known steady-state concepts from a graph-theoretical viewpoint in the context of network decomposition and reduction and to introduce the application of Q-modularity to metabolic Petri net models.
- An erasure-resilient and compute-efficient coding scheme for storage applications (2013)
- Driven by rapid technological advancements, the amount of data that is created, captured, communicated, and stored worldwide has grown exponentially over the past decades. Along with this development it has become critical for many disciplines of science and business to being able to gather and analyze large amounts of data. The sheer volume of the data often exceeds the capabilities of classical storage systems, with the result that current large-scale storage systems are highly distributed and are comprised of a high number of individual storage components. As with any other electronic device, the reliability of storage hardware is governed by certain probability distributions, which in turn are influenced by the physical processes utilized to store the information. The traditional way to deal with the inherent unreliability of combined storage systems is to replicate the data several times. Another popular approach to achieve failure tolerance is to calculate the block-wise parity in one or more dimensions. With better understanding of the different failure modes of storage components, it has become evident that sophisticated high-level error detection and correction techniques are indispensable for the ever-growing distributed systems. The utilization of powerful cyclic error-correcting codes, however, comes with a high computational penalty, since the required operations over finite fields do not map very well onto current commodity processors. This thesis introduces a versatile coding scheme with fully adjustable fault-tolerance that is tailored specifically to modern processor architectures. To reduce stress on the memory subsystem the conventional table-based algorithm for multiplication over finite fields has been replaced with a polynomial version. This arithmetically intense algorithm is better suited to the wide SIMD units of the currently available general purpose processors, but also displays significant benefits when used with modern many-core accelerator devices (for instance the popular general purpose graphics processing units). A CPU implementation using SSE and a GPU version using CUDA are presented. The performance of the multiplication depends on the distribution of the polynomial coefficients in the finite field elements. This property has been used to create suitable matrices that generate a linear systematic erasure-correcting code which shows a significantly increased multiplication performance for the relevant matrix elements. Several approaches to obtain the optimized generator matrices are elaborated and their implications are discussed. A Monte-Carlo-based construction method allows it to influence the specific shape of the generator matrices and thus to adapt them to special storage and archiving workloads. Extensive benchmarks on CPU and GPU demonstrate the superior performance and the future application scenarios of this novel erasure-resilient coding scheme.
- Virtual machine scheduling in dedicated computing clusters (2012)
- Time-critical applications process a continuous stream of input data and have to meet specific timing constraints. A common approach to ensure that such an application satisfies its constraints is over-provisioning: The application is deployed in a dedicated cluster environment with enough processing power to achieve the target performance for every specified data input rate. This approach comes with a drawback: At times of decreased data input rates, the cluster resources are not fully utilized. A typical use case is the HLT-Chain application that processes physics data at runtime of the ALICE experiment at CERN. From a perspective of cost and efficiency it is desirable to exploit temporarily unused cluster resources. Existing approaches aim for that goal by running additional applications. These approaches, however, a) lack in flexibility to dynamically grant the time-critical application the resources it needs, b) are insufficient for isolating the time-critical application from harmful side-effects introduced by additional applications or c) are not general because application-specific interfaces are used. In this thesis, a software framework is presented that allows to exploit unused resources in a dedicated cluster without harming a time-critical application. Additional applications are hosted in Virtual Machines (VMs) and unused cluster resources are allocated to these VMs at runtime. In order to avoid resource bottlenecks, the resource usage of VMs is dynamically modified according to the needs of the time-critical application. For this purpose, a number of previously not combined methods is used. On a global level, appropriate VM manipulations like hot migration, suspend/resume and start/stop are determined by an informed search heuristic and applied at runtime. Locally on cluster nodes, a feedback-controlled adaption of VM resource usage is carried out in a decentralized manner. The employment of this framework allows to increase a cluster's usage by running additional applications, while at the same time preventing negative impact towards a time-critical application. This capability of the framework is shown for the HLT-Chain application: In an empirical evaluation the cluster CPU usage is increased from 49% to 79%, additional results are computed and no negative effect towards the HLT-Chain application are observed.
- Long-term potentiation through calcium-mediated N-Cadherin interaction is tightly controlled by the three-dimensional architecture of the synapse (2013)
- Poster presentation: Twenty Second Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2013. Paris, France. 13-18 July 2013. The synaptic cleft is an extracellular domain that is capable of relaying a presynaptically received electrical signal by diffusive neurotransmitters to the postsynaptic membrane. The cleft is trans-synaptically bridged by ring-like shaped clusters of pre- and postsynaptically localized calcium-dependent adhesion proteins of the N-Cadherin type and is possibly the smallest intercircuit in nervous systems [1]. The strength of association between the pre- and postsynaptic membranes can account for synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation [2]. Through neuronal activity the intra- and extracellular calcium levels are modulated through calcium exchangers embedded in the pre- and postsynaptic membrane. Variations of the concentration of cleft calcium induces changes in the N-Cadherin-zipper, that in synaptic resting states is rigid and tightly connects the pre- and postsynaptic domain. During synaptic activity calcium concentrations are hypothesized to drop below critical thresholds which leads to loosening of the N-Cadherin connections and subsequently "unzips" the Cadherin-mediated connection. These processes may result in changes in synaptic strength [2]. In order to investigate the calcium-mediated N-Cadherin dynamics at the synaptic cleft, we developed a three-dimensional model including the cleft morphology and all prominent calcium exchangers and corresponding density distributions [3-6]. The necessity for a fully three-dimensional model becomes apparent, when investigating the effects of the spatial architecture of the synapse [7], [8]. Our data show, that the localization of calcium channels with respect to the N-Cadherin ring has substantial effects on the time-scales on which the Cadherin-zipper switches between states, ranging from seconds to minutes. This will have significant effects on synaptic signaling. Furthermore we see, that high-frequency action potential firing can only be relayed to the Calcium/N-Cadherin-system at a synapse under precise spatial synaptic reorganization.
- Descriptional complexity of cellular automata and decidability questions (2001)
- We study the descriptional complexity of cellular automata (CA), a parallel model of computation. We show that between one of the simplest cellular models, the realtime-OCA. and "classical" models like deterministic finite automata (DFA) or pushdown automata (PDA), there will be savings concerning the size of description not bounded by any recursive function, a so-called nonrecursive trade-off. Furthermore, nonrecursive trade-offs are shown between some restricted classes of cellular automata. The set of valid computations of a Turing machine can be recognized by a realtime-OCA. This implies that many decidability questions are not even semi decidable for cellular automata. There is no pumping lemma and no minimization algorithm for cellular automata.
- Minimizing finite automata is computationally hard (2002)
- It is known that deterministic finite automata (DFAs) can be algorithmically minimized, i.e., a DFA M can be converted to an equivalent DFA M' which has a minimal number of states. The minimization can be done efficiently [6]. On the other hand, it is known that unambiguous finite automata (UFAs) and nondeterministic finite automata (NFAs) can be algorithmically minimized too, but their minimization problems turn out to be NP-complete and PSPACE-complete [8]. In this paper, the time complexity of the minimization problem for two restricted types of finite automata is investigated. These automata are nearly deterministic, since they only allow a small amount of non determinism to be used. On the one hand, NFAs with a fixed finite branching are studied, i.e., the number of nondeterministic moves within every accepting computation is bounded by a fixed finite number. On the other hand, finite automata are investigated which are essentially deterministic except that there is a fixed number of different initial states which can be chosen nondeterministically. The main result is that the minimization problems for these models are computationally hard, namely NP-complete. Hence, even the slightest extension of the deterministic model towards a nondeterministic one, e.g., allowing at most one nondeterministic move in every accepting computation or allowing two initial states instead of one, results in computationally intractable minimization problems.
- On one-way cellular automata with a fixed number of cells (2003)
- We investigate a restricted one-way cellular automaton (OCA) model where the number of cells is bounded by a constant number k, so-called kC-OCAs. In contrast to the general model, the generative capacity of the restricted model is reduced to the set of regular languages. A kC-OCA can be algorithmically converted to a deterministic finite automaton (DFA). The blow-up in the number of states is bounded by a polynomial of degree k. We can exhibit a family of unary languages which shows that this upper bound is tight in order of magnitude. We then study upper and lower bounds for the trade-off when converting DFAs to kC-OCAs. We show that there are regular languages where the use of kC-OCAs cannot reduce the number of states when compared to DFAs. We then investigate trade-offs between kC-OCAs with different numbers of cells and finally treat the problem of minimizing a given kC-OCA.
- On the descriptional complexity of iterative arrays (2003)
- The descriptional complexity of iterative arrays (lAs) is studied. Iterative arrays are a parallel computational model with a sequential processing of the input. It is shown that lAs when compared to deterministic finite automata or pushdown automata may provide savings in size which are not bounded by any recursive function, so-called non-recursive trade-offs. Additional non-recursive trade-offs are proven to exist between lAs working in linear time and lAs working in real time. Furthermore, the descriptional complexity of lAs is compared with cellular automata (CAs) and non-recursive trade-offs are proven between two restricted classes. Finally, it is shown that many decidability questions for lAs are undecidable and not semidecidable.
- On two-way communication in cellular automata with a fixed number of cells (2003)
- The effect of adding two-way communication to k cells one-way cellular automata (kC-OCAs) on their size of description is studied. kC-OCAs are a parallel model for the regular languages that consists of an array of k identical deterministic finite automata (DFAs), called cells, operating in parallel. Each cell gets information from its right neighbor only. In this paper, two models with different amounts of two-way communication are investigated. Both models always achieve quadratic savings when compared to DFAs. When compared to a one-way cellular model, the result is that minimum two-way communication can achieve at most quadratic savings whereas maximum two-way communication may provide savings bounded by a polynomial of degree k.

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Ragga Scum - Kill Dub vol 1
Posted by: Migration in News on 7.22.2009
60 minutes of grimey dubstep choons.
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PLUSH004D - Blueprint - Rhodes at Night b/w Cosmology - Theres a Saying
Posted by: Migration in News on 8.09.2009
PLUSH004D - Blueprint / Cosmology
Blueprint - Rhodes at Night b/w Cosmology - Theres a Saying
Plush brings two new artists from the woodwork. Cosmology followed by the one like Blueprint with two soulful bits. This is just a start for these two! Horns, Piano, Liquid. More coming soon!
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Ragga Scum (Scenefucker) - Kill Dub vol 2
Posted by: Migration in News on 9.03.2009
Budd Intro
Borgore - Ice Cream - dub
Borgore - Love - Shift
Borgore - Foes (16bit Remix) - dub
Borgore - Ina Trouble - dub
Borgore - Cry Me A River - dub
Borgore - Sunday Morning - Shift
DZ - End Dub - Aufect Recordings
Borgore - Premature Ejaculation - dub
Unknown - Me Want Cookie - dub
Borgore - Kinder Suprise - dub
Borgore - Kill A Man - dub
Borgore - One Step Ahead - dub
Borgore - Mamas Boy - Shift
Borgore - Saturday Night - Shift
Joker & Ginz - Watch The Sun Come Up - Data Records
Reso - Spooky - Civil
Pitbull - I Know You Want Me - dub
Shivaree - Goodnight Moon
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Knowledge Magazine Goes Digital
Posted by: Migration in News on 9.18.2009
Underground electronic music magazine Knowledge ended its 15-year run in print in June, announcing plans to move to the web. After a long summer of testing, phase one of the site www.kmag.co.uk is finally ready.
The new website features exclusive monthly podcasts to replace the ever popular cover CD's, the first podcast mix now on the site comes from Kubiks.
You'll also currently find coverage of Ink & Perpetuum, Darkestral, Zero T, D-Code & Nerm, Syncopix, Blame, Bop, The Burbs, DFRNT, Adam Freeland, Toddla T, Engine Earz, Willie Isz, Critical, Tali, Drone Audio, MC Wrec, Sigma, MC DRS, Tim Healey & Deekline, Beat Assassins, Flore, Ant-Pop Consortium and Black Canvas...
Plus, check out the remix competition exclusive to Knowledge members, in association with Simon Bassline Smith and Drumsound, the winning track will be release on their Technique Recordings label.
Check out the Feeds section which has links to interesting audio, video and articles to be found elsewhere on the world-wide-web. There are 17 different blogs from respected music journalists covering everything from music technology to video games, music, art and fashion from around the globe.
Knowledge's extensive back issues and cover CDs from their print days are also available as digital publications and downloads.
Also check the competitions section where you can enter to win an exclusive Carhartt Handytrax portable turntable, �265 worth of sample CD's from Time + Space or �700 worth of Addict clothing vouchers.
"Fifteen or so long and illustrious years as the most reliable and respectable source for news, views and reviews" FabricLondon.com
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Scenefucker - The Party Rock CD
Posted by: Migration in News on 10.01.2009
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Mad Dem Sound - Soldiers In The Streets (2009)
Posted by: Migration in News on 10.05.2009
Exclusive CD from Mad Dem Sound (Twinhooker & Paulie Walnuts) off of their 2009 European Tour.
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Black Tomorrow Out Now!
Posted by: Migration in News on 10.14.2009
01 Zero Frequency "Nihilsm"
02 Q- Brick "She Cried"
03 Livewire "Let's Roll"
04 Mik "The Journey of Alexei"
05 Blueprint "Soundscape"
06 Mik "The Death of Alexei"
07 DeepFocus "Open"
08 Acoustiks "Into the Unknown"
09 Blueprint "Flying Lotus"
10 T Thoughts "Another Dimension"
Bonus Track Apok "Noctis"
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Release Date: Oct1 2009
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FREE TRACK - Blueprint - Oberon (320 kbps):
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EOB - 10.16.09 - IZL, Q-Trax ADDED
Posted by: Migration in News on 10.17.2009
IZL (aka MC Precision) opening the show, with a monster tracklist full of goodies, with a good variety of DnB. In the last hour Q-Trax follows up with a brilliant chilled/liquid DnB set
Kenny Ken - Everyman (Benny Page remix) - Nu Urban Music
Drumsound & Simon Bassline - Killer - Grid Recordings
Bassline Smith & Drumsound - Lazor Razor - Technique Recordings
Rekoil & Mindmachine - Falling Down - Invader
Gridlock - Fifth Dimension - Violence Recordings
Spor - The Eyes Have It - Renegade Hardware
Spor - Dreadnought - Renegade Hardware
Optimus Prime - Minge Vice - Grid Recordings
Bulletproof - Double Dutch - Cyanide Recordings
Dj Zinc - Invisable Ink - True Playaz
Dj Zinc - Casino Royale (remix) - True Playaz
26 Bass - Scorpio - Full Cycle
Dylan & Facs - Somebody - Biotic Records
Unknown - Unknown - Unknown
John B - Forever (Hard 12" Remix) - Beta Recordings
John B - 5 Times In One Night - Beta Recordings
Dylan & Friction - Inner Sense - Outbreak Promo
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Catacomb - Technique Recordings
Bassline Smith & Drumsound - Ghost - Technique Recordings
Bionic1 - Beach Bug
Dirrrty B - The Unexpected - Original Mix
Zero T & Beta 2 - Bizzy Time (Break Remix)
Lenzman - Lose You feat Cliff
Klute - Trust Me
Dave Owen - A-Dave Owen-On Point
Er.IC - Aware
Soulmatic - Self Belief
Hidden Agenda - Daylight (Original Mix)
Human Factor - Diggin' Deepa
A. SubSid & L-Side - Strange Moments
Command Strange - Don't Move Down
Zero T feat. Steo - Refusal (Calibre Remix)
C-Kel - I Know
Technicolour & Komactic - Preacher
You can always get more drum and bass mix sets and Elements of Bass show archives in the music section.
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DJ Nero of EOB - LOVE HZ - 10.09.09
Posted by: Migration in News on 10.20.2009
DJ Nero returns to Dedication Crew's Bassdrive show LOVE HZ, which airs every Friday 8-10p CST @ www.bassdrive.com
Blocks + Escher - Heart Shaped - Horizons Music
31 Recs 038 - Side D
Triad - Fiasco - Deep Soul Music
DJ Fresh - Heavyweight - Digital Soundboy
Bulletproof, Teknik + Nymfo - 3 Of A Kind - Cyanide
Code3 - Escape Hatch - Shogun LTD
Rufige Kru - Sometime Sad Day - Metalheadz
>>>Alix Perez - Melanie - Shogun Audio
31 Recs 039 - Side B
Break - Now It's Going - Shogun Audio
Soul Intent - Jus Vibe (Survival Rmx) - Blindside
Stakka + Skynet - Hold It Back - Under Fire
S.P.Y. - Asbo - Soul:r
Spectrasoul - I Was 10 - Shogun LTD
Data - Blowpipe - Lucky Devil
>>>Data - Delicate - Influence
Henree + Hiten - Naked City - Deep Kut
Survival - Pray - Audio Tactics
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Ragga Scum Exclusive CD for Methods NYC Clothing
Posted by: Migration in News on 11.03.2009
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Lindsay Lohan used her time behind bars to brush up on one of her favorite hobbies ... writing -- and TMZ has learned she plans on turning her work into a profit.
Sources connected to the jailbird tell us Lohan filled up several notebooks during her incarceration ... documenting "every single thing about her life" in jail ... in the hopes that she can eventually turn the "journal" into a book.
We're told Lohan wrote about everything from her relationships to her family -- and even scribbled about her dreams.
It's not the first time Lindsay's tried to get her writing published ... just ask Judge Revel.
Ughhhgh. What a loser. Lindsay's favorite word "C U N T" - so classy! Yes, we all want to be you Lindsay! Remember that load of crap that spewed from your vile mouth?! Karma's a b i t c h, remember?! :)
Jesus, like anyone would read your drivel. As if you could actually string two intelligent sentences together without using the words C U N T or W H O R E or "Everyone's wants to be me, you're just jealous!" hahaha. Who has the last laugh now?! LOL, felon!
thats gonna be a small boook.heck she didnt spend but 13 days in jail who cares thats nothing.
Typical speed freak behavior.
I have seen many of these epic tomes. Make no sense whatever.
She will need three ghost writers on a par with Earnest Hemingway.
Could be interesting to read how she is studying for her upcoming, much publicized movie role.
Maybe that person, whom I decline to name, will buy several copies.
Lindsay Lohan, the next Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with her own version of The Gulag Archipelago! Who knew she was going to be our generations next literary genius?
The book might have interested more people if she'd actually done the 90 days, or 60, or even 30.
No one writes a book after less than 14 days, what a joke.
@InTheKnow- You're making about as much of an ass out of yourself as Miss Lohan. "lol felon"? She's not a felon, Einstein. Better brush up on those law books before making those kinds of "insults". This chick disgusts me all the way, but that's not a reason for being ignorant.
I thought you can't make money on your crimes????
I think we all (including TMZ) needs to STOP putting Ms.Lohan in the spot light. TAKE IT WAY!!!! What little talent she has, I have seen more in others more worthy. What the media needs to do is STOP writting about her. I mean after all..IS THIS THE KIND OF ROLL MODEL you want your little girls to be going after. Wasn't enought to watch the down spiral of Ms.Spears n family. (and we all can thank Ms Hilton & Ms.Richy for this EXCEPTED behavior).
Now I tell you KIDDIE of the world, when are you going to Stop behaving like TRAMP/Sluts and become a REAL role model. Come on PEOPLE OF THE WORLD....PLEASE LET'S CLEAN UP YOUR ACT!(Manners,Politeness and Kindness...when was the last time you said Please and Thank you?) ..I'm just saying. Thank you...if you do
At least, there's something provocative about her "future book". She will use the money for blow and alcohol. Linds will be a literary legend.
Its not like she was in jail for years... She was in there for what, 2 weeks? Maybe she wrote really big or drew illustrations..
#9 -- I got a kick out of your snarky comments about Lohan, Spears, and Hilton, and then your your advise for people to have "Manners, Politeness and Kindness." lol
I think it will be a good read her courtroom notes were meticulous.
At least, she is expressing herself in a harmless outlet. Better than taking drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.
TMZ (and others) are already making money just writing about a "possible" book.
now think about this, people: see the hypocrisy here?
look at the "tone" of the editorial .. and they ARE making money with it...
pathetic. while I am with LiLo 100% . if I write about my life then nobody cares but if she does .. then....
well done, girl .. make some money and make also the industry (including TMZ) rich (don't worry about what they say... they want da money , always).
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The first three painters in Matt's Old Masters - Titian, Rubens and Velazquez - stand for the highest that painting can go. The last one - our own William Hogarth - didn't weigh in quite so heavily. He's usually considered to be an early cartoonist, a satirist who attacked social hypocrisy, and whose medium was line not so much brush strokes. But in the last episode of the series Matthew concentrates on Hogarth's paintings rather than his etchings.
Episode 4
The first three painters in Matt's Old Masters - Titian, Rubens and Velazquez - stand for the highest that painting can…
Episode 3
A fresh look at Velazquez's great masterpiece Las Menias, his early life in Seville and his gradual assent from…
Episode 2
Matthew Collings examines the work and legacy of Rubens, a man who was a diplomat as well as an artist who painted…
Episode 1
Matthew introduces Titian's 'painterly' style, with 'its melting touch and suave effect', which he invented at the…
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Matt Collings drags the Old Masters out of the rarefied, hallowed atmosphere of the museum, blinking into the light of the 21st century and asks: what do they have to offer us now?


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Biggest clue the Pebble design team is from Canada: the solid rubber band that doubles as a wrist-based sweat lodge in New York.
There's Juicing in Every Arena: Pitch Inflation
In competitive cultures, actors will seek out untapped opportunities in the system to gain an edge.
Sometimes these opportunities are systematic inefficiencies. Once they're identified, everyone jumps on. In baseball this was sabermetrics and Money Ball. Once Beane consistently took an underfunded team to the playoffs, everyone took note an adopted the system.
In other cases, these opportunities threaten the sustainability of the culture, either by doing harm to the participants or by preventing other required participants from keeping up. Once the advantage is taken, the culture evaluates its contribution versus its detriment. If its detrimental, the system attempts to shut it down. In contemporary baseball this is steroids and HGH.
My favorite example of a detrimental efficiency is that of pitch inflation, as in musical pitch:
During historical periods when instrumental music rose in prominence (relative to the voice), there was a continuous tendency for pitch levels to rise. This "pitch inflation" seemed largely a product of instrumentalists' competing with each other, each attempting to produce a brighter, more "brilliant", sound than that of their rivals. (In string instruments, this is not all acoustic illusion: when tuned up, they actually sound objectively brighter because the higher string tension results in larger amplitudes for the harmonics.) This tendency was also prevalent with wind instrument manufacturers, who crafted their instruments to play generally at a higher pitch than those made by the same craftsmen years earlier.
On at least two occasions, pitch inflation had become so severe that reform became needed. At the beginning of the 17th century, Michael Praetorius reported in his encyclopedic Syntagma musicum that pitch levels had become so high that singers were experiencing severe throat strain and lutenists and viol players were complaining of snapped strings. The standard voice ranges he cites show that the pitch level of his time, at least in the part of Germany where he lived, was at least a minor third higher than today's. Solutions to this problem were sporadic and local, but generally involved the establishment of separate standards for voice and organ ("Chorton") and for chamber ensembles ("Kammerton"). Where the two were combined, as for example in a cantata, the singers and instrumentalists might perform from music written in different keys. This system kept pitch inflation at bay for some two centuries.
The advent of the orchestra as an independent (as opposed to accompanying) ensemble brought pitch inflation to the fore again. The rise in pitch at this time can be seen reflected in tuning forks. An 1815 tuning fork from the Dresden opera house gives A = 423.2 Hz, while one of eleven years later from the same opera house gives A = 435 Hz. At La Scala in Milan, the A above middle C rose as high as 451 Hz.
Something to keep in mind while we wait for the Biogenesis and A. Rod scandal to conclude.
Google Glass is Just Like the Segway – and Similarly Doomed
The Segway was an achievement. It was nimble and simple, balanced on two wheels, and moved with barest of intents. The Segway delivered on its lofty technical goals. It was magical.
But the Segway was doomed. After summiting its technical challenges the Segway hit a brick wall of cultural challenges. It was too fast for sidewalks and too slow for roads, a liminal mode of transportation that mowed down pedestrians and held up cars. To ride a Segway is to be antisocial, to implicitly admit to not being of the culture one glides through1.
Google Glass faces the same roadblock as the Segway. Both products focus too heavily on their users while ignoring the societies users exist within. Both products are (and will be) significant technical achievements brought down by the cultural challenges encountered.
For the purposes of this discussion, let's assume Glass works perfectly. Information is delivered smoothly, image capture is instinctual, notifications are subtle yet effective and the display is balanced and clear.
"We created glass so you can interact with the virtual world without obstructing the real world," explained Isabelle Olsson, who is leading the design efforts for Google glasses. "We don't want technology to get in the way."2
The imporant question to ask is for whom the technology doesn't get in the way. We should note the Segway was intuitive and welcoming to it's users only, a fluid means of removing the distance between A and B, but cars and pedestrians were apparently never considered. Glass is similar in that it's product design is focused on purely the user, never on those around it.
Glass' screen is visible only to it's user and it's camera looks out documenting everything except the user, storing content to be shared at the user's discretion. I believe that these always on, core functions of Glass will prevent it from being welcomed in social settings. Those around the Glass users must implicitely trust the Glass wearer, for they have no idea where the Glass user's current attention lies and cannot visually confirm whether or not they are currently being captured by Glass.
Google is working so hard to keep technology out of the way that they're forgetting why it's important to see technology when it's present.
If someone holds a cellphone sideways to frame a shot, we can assume we're being photographed. If a conversational partner starts fidgeting with their phone, we can read into that as well. With Glass all these options are constantly on the table because their functioning is imperceivable to anyone but the user, creating a feeling of unease among all present.
In an article on Mashable yesterday, Chris Taylor makes the case that all personal technology starts with a wave of handwringing like my own. Eventually, he says, the tech becomes the norm and we forget to protest. Headphones, cellphone cameras, and even PCs started this way.
While this acceptance cycle does exist, the always-on but never-apparent nature of Glass is unlike any the cases Taylor cites. Headphones can be taken out and cellphone cameras pocketed or checked at the door. This awkward dance can go on for a year or two without sacrificing the benefit to the user, affording the new tech and culture time to understand each other. But Glass is all or nothing. I'm certain they'll be occasionally placed on table tops or cases for the first couple years, but because they're active at most times (and this is largely the selling point) these explicitly 'off' periods will be the exception, not the rule.
Glass is doomed because of social imbalance, an ignorance of culture. Glass empowers it's users technologically for social situations that don't exist yet, just as the Segway deployed to a world filled with ill-suited sidewalks and roads. I believe non-users will begin to shun Glass just as the masses shunned the Segway. We will see restaurants, gyms, and bars banning the device to keep their patrons at ease. Offices will fear a world where all conversations are on the record, especially large corporations, doctor's offices and legal firms. Social settings will not emerge for Glass and its usage will be confined to places where it was never an issue to take out your cellphone in the first place.
It's no coincidence that the last vestige of Segway use is confined to tourists and security guards, two groups explicitely outside of their current social setting. They're observers and referees, respectively, not participants. ↩
Nick Bilton, in the New York Times, emphasis mine. ↩
Cultural Variations on "Have one's cake and eat it too."
Know the idiom, know the culture:
- Bulgaria: "Both the wolf is full, and the lamb is whole."
- Denmark: "You cannot both blow and have flour in your mouth."
- France: "To want the butter and the money from (selling) the butter." (The idiom can be emphasized by adding, "and the smile of the female buttermaker")
- Germany: "Please wash me, but don't get me wet!"
- Switzerland: "You can't have the five cent coin and a Swiss bread roll."
- Greece: "You want the entire pie and the dog full."
- Italy: "To have the barrel full and the wife drunk."
- Russia: "It's hard to have a seat on two chairs at once."
- Spain: "Wishing to be both at Mass and in the procession."
Ah, Italy… (Via Wikipedia)
Ignore the IPO noise for a moment: the criticisms, the estimates of earnings, and other buzz. These pale in comparison to Facebook's largest achievement, which is worth putting into context.
Facebook has organized roughly 1 in 7 people on earth, or 900 million people.
They've built a design and interaction system used across the world by a massive amount of cultures. Mandarin, with its 1.1 billion speakers, is the only language or medium with more native participants than Facebook. Other companies certainly fill out this club: Ikea, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, and Apple come to mind. But none of these live so closely to their participants, acting and reacting with them.
You may be over Facebook, but Facebook's cultural impact has yet to peak. Facebook itself is a tremendous feat of design and engineering, no matter what network is on top in 5 years.
" If you look at what we're rooted in, it's kind of obvious what we're looking for….The most challenging problem we have right now is discovery of video, that's the most challenging problem on the web. Social is one enabler, tagging is one enabler. It's not like we need to solve social for YouTube, we need to solve discovery on YouTube and social is a natural enabler"
David Lawee, Google VP of corporate development and M&A chief, interviewed by Business Insider.
One large problem the web has yet to crack is the sorting, valuation, and distribution of culture –– point to point. Parts and pieces have been taken on, but none have done it on a dependable scale. People are messy and fickle, which is hardly ideal for automated systems.
And so I look to you, Tumblr. Anyone can sell ads. No one has developed, or is in a position to develop, a flexible yet predictable (a handful of post types, tags, reblogs…) system for addressing culture at scale. Pinterest, and sites like it, are––at best––socially edited catalogues, arbiters of shopping not culture.
" What lessons can we draw from the Facebook flameup? Lifecycle changes can trump generational change and cultural values perceived as crucial at the age of 13 can be very different at 20. A business founded on the values of a generation, such as Facebook, has to keep up with, and respect, evolving lives and needs."
Bruce Nussbaum.
Perfectly said. I haven't seen this observation yet: digital change spurred cultural change at a rate faster than lifestage change. In doing so, we tripped up when the digital generation became adults, undoing some of the cultural trends bleeding-edge companies had been banking on. Fascinating. (Via Harvard Business Review)
" The trouble with tradition, they'd found, is that it can be remarkably thickheaded. Ignore it, and your shiny new stove may get turned into a flowerpot. Cater to it, and you may end up with a new version of the same old problem."
" But I guess where I was originally going is that nobody wants to write endings in television. They want to sustain the franchise. But if you don't write an ending for a story, you know what you are? You're a hack. You're not a storyteller. It may not be that you have the skills of a hack. You might be a hell of a writer, but you're taking a hack's road. You're on the road to hackdom and there's no stopping you because stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end."
David Simon. Vice has an absolutely huge interview with Simon online. If you're done with The Wire, go read it now.
A few months back I was talking trends with a colleague and we started talking about death. The question we asked, and I'm not even sure it can be answered, is whether a society has ever been more detached from death and dying than contemporary America. Even are wars are mediated and detached, background noise for a slow news day. Celebrity deaths remain our one shared grief, and we both agreed that the fracturing of channels and the emergence of digital has created a world where more celebrities can exist at once so we can look forward to more Celebrity death summers in the coming years.
But Simon inadvertently raises an interesting point with the quote above: is our cultural distance from death the result of years of syndicated television programming? Characters don't die because you need each episode to end exactly where it began, so it can start from ground zero next week. Perhaps the emergence of larger narratives in television (The Wire, The Sopranos, Lost, etc) combined with a steady diet or reality TV (where people die because they're real) will start to shorten our cultural distance from death.


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When do I actually go to 2.0 with this numbering system? What if I just kept going past to 1.10, would that be OK? Anyway, the Giants win the Super Bowl and are the last pick in the draft and the Patriots right before them to settle in the draft order.
Each Bolt Beat Report mock draft is featured in the DC Pro Sports Report, WalterFootball.com, Sports Jabber, hailredskins.com and fftoolbox.com mock draft databases. Each site keeps track of a huge number mock drafts all over the web.
Also be sure to check out NFL Mocks and With the First Pick for comprehensive NFL draft coverage year-round.
Here is our latest Mock Draft:
1. Indianapolis Colts
Andrew Luck
QB, Stanford
2. St. Louis Rams
Matt Kalil
3. Minnesota Vikings
Justin Blackmon
WR, Oklahoma State
4. Cleveland Browns
Robert Griffin III
QB, Baylor
5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Quinton Coples
DE, North Carolina
6. Washington Redskins
Morris Claiborne
7. Jacksonville Jaguars
Jonathan Martin
OT, Stanford
8. Carolina Panthers
David DeCastro
OG, Stanford
9. Miami Dolphins
Alshon Jeffery
WR, South Carolina
10. Buffalo Bills
Courtney Upshaw
LB, Alabama
11. Kansas City Chiefs
Riley Reiff
OT, Iowa
12. Seattle Seahawks
Luke Kuechly
LB, Boston College
13. Arizona Cardinals
Bruce Irvin
LB, West Virginia
14. Dallas Cowboys
Peter Konz
C, Wisconsin
15. Philadelphia Eagles
Devon Still
DT, Penn State
16. New York Jets
Michael Floyd
WR, Notre Dame
17. Cincinnati Bengals (from Oakland)
Trent Richardson
RB, Alabama
18. San Diego Chargers
Nick Perry
19. Chicago Bears
Melvin Ingram
DE, South Carolina
20. Tennessee Titans
Mark Barron
S, Alabama
21. Cincinnati Bengals
Kendall Wright
WR, Baylor
22. Cleveland Browns (from Atlanta)
Mike Adams
OT, Ohio State
23. Detroit Lions
Dre Kirkpatrick
CB, Alabama
24. Pittsburgh Steelers
Alameada Ta'amu
DT, Washington
25. Denver Broncos
Dwayne Allen
TE, Clemson
26. Houston Texans
Kelechi Osemele
OG, Iowa State
27. New England Patriots (from New Orleans)
Janoris Jenkins
CB, Northern Alabama
28. Green Bay Packers
Fletcher Cox
DT, Mississippi State
29. Baltimore Ravens
Vontaze Burfict
LB, Arizona State
30. San Francisco 49ers
Dwigh Jones
31. New England Patriots
Andre Branch
DE/OLB, Clemson
23. New York Giants
David Wilson
RB, Virginia Tech
With the new hiring of former USC linebackers coach, Joe Barry, onto the team, we could be leaning toward selecting his pupil Nick Perry. Perry played defensive end while at USC, but he would be asked to stand up and line up opposite of Shaun Phillips in the 3-4 set.
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Jules: Unless you know that I've watched it, please don't blab on about any good movies, tv shows or books….eh you can have books.
Tom: Oh hello Jules! Um whats going on with your wedding?
Jules: Thanks Tom! I told him to pop up and say that whenever we've gone off wedding talk for too long!
Cougar Town 3x02
Laurie: We could take Trav to the mini golf course that just re-opened. It's not a crime scene anymore….they found the head.
Jules: Windmill?
Laurie: Light-house!
Chick: We could take him to a strip club.
Bobby: I'm in!
Jules: Dad!
Chick: Sweetie, your mom is dead plus there's boobs everywhere.
Jules: Alright, no one is taking my son anywhere ok? I mean, not to the site of the put put murders, and definatley not to a nudie bar.
Group: Fine, Ok.
Jules: And dad, tonight when i'm saying my prayers, I'm telling mom what you said.
Chick: Oh please don't do that.
Jules: It's too late.
Chick: Your mom had the most beautiful boobs!
Jules: She really did.
Cougar Town 2x19
Laurie: Jules! I didn't know you sponsored an African child!
Jules: Oh yeah! Little Imari! He's 10. I gotta say, those letters are getting a little repetitive. It's hot, I'm hungry, there's snakes….
Ellie: Sure Sure.
Cougar Town 2x17
Greyson: I'm feeling good about Jason. That is half Jules half Greyson. See I combined out names like they do with the celebrity couples.
Jules: Jason sucks. It's a real name. What about Grules?
Greyson: That sounds like something orphans eat! Please sir, may I have some grules?
Jules: No! You get back in your spaceship!
Greyson: What?
Jules: I don't know what we're doing.
Cougar Town 2x12
Jules: I don't believe in ghosts, because if they were real, I'd like to think I'd get felt up all the time!
Cougar Town 2x21
Jules: Why are you even up?
Ellie: Because my stupid baby woke me up. Better question is why are you wearing full makeup?
Jules: I'm not ready for Josh to see my morning face so I set two alarms, one at four and one at five and then I get up and do my hair and makeup, I go back to bed, fake a sleep until the next alarm goes off and then he thinks I wake up looking like this!
Ellie: Crafty!
Cougar Town 1x02
Laurie: I call the bed by the window!
Jules: How are you naked already?
Laurie: What? I was changing and got sidetracked by bed choice.
Ellie: Well of course it's your bed now it's got your tramp stink all over it.
Laurie: Jules did you hear her? Bitch! I am a lady!
Cougar Town 1x08
Jules: Has anyone tried frisking Laurie? Sometimes my missing stuff actually ends up in wierd spots on her body.
Laurie: So not true!
Jules: Really? Last weekend, my earring, your armpit. It happened.
Laurie: Yeah it did.
Cougar Town 2x09
Laurie: You know what I loved most about college?
Ellie: Oh Jellybean…are you confusing college with that management training course that you took at the waffle house?
Laurie: Fine, I didn't go to college, but I still like to hang out and pretend I was a student and go to all the awesome parties! I even joined a sorority but the politics drive me crazy. So Kelly Archer gave Suzie Whitley's boyfriend a Wha-Ahh and I'm not supposed to go on her parents boat for Spring Break? That my friends is horse crap!
Cougar Town 2x02
Jules: I don't want to be late for my shrinks appointment. My dad called me drunk again last night.
Ellie: I don't know why you waste your money on therapy when you have me. If I have a problem, I just go to you.
Jules: You don't have real problems! It's always 'my husband loves me too much' or 'I hate my nannies hair'
Ellie: Pigtails at 50?! Really?!
Cougar Town 2x01
Andy: Ok, I put together an album with all the people we're no longer friends with and I just wanna know why.
Ellie: Okay. Missed my birthday party, talked behind my back, oh too happy all the time, said her house was quaint, named her daughter Chessapique, too old for hair that long, always tried to hug me, calls her husband Hurricane Frank, vegan, vegan, vegan - they're all friends, doesn't like Howard Stern, thought it would be funny to squirt me with a hose, husband is a tool, ran a marathon, doesn't drink, oh and the last one is easy because it's your mother.
Andy: Great
Cougar Town 2x12
Jules: Since Travis isn't listening to me, I should tag in one of you.
Ellie: Fine. I'll just -
Jules: Not you.
Laurie: Fine I'll do it. He has a crush on me so I can make him listen. Just give me my parameters. Is middle school style okay - under the shirt, over the bra or are we going full on ninth grade in which case I'm going to need to rent a hotel room or maybe a boat. Ellie. Look at how scared she is!
Ellie: Can you blame her jellybean?
Cougar Town 2x21
Jules: So I called your college and told them you left school because your grandmother has syphilis. It's ok, there's a little truth to that.
Laurie: Woah.
Travis: Nana Cobb?
Jules: We're moving her to a less 'swingy' retirement home.
Cougar Town 2x21
Ellie: When Jules's dad comes to visit, she starts talking all folksy.
Jules: Ellie Torres I'm fixin' to get so mad at you.
Ellie: Really? Are ya fixin'?
Cougar Town 2x06
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Organizations always try their best to temper expectations and avoid getting too excited for the future, but that's become a real challenge for the Boston Red Sox in recent years. Possessing one of the top minor league systems in all of Major League Baseball, the organization is stacked with a number of standout prospects who could potentially step into significant roles for the big league club in the coming seasons – some of them even as early as this season.
One of those prospects is third baseman Garin Cecchini.
Originally a 4th Round selection in the 2010 Draft (#143 overall) out of high school, Boston elected to draft Cecchini despite the fact that he'd sat out his entire senior season due to injury. The Louisiana native had hit .402 with 6 HR and 43 RBI during his junior year, enough to show teams what kind of potential talent he could bring to the table. Boston has seen quick results from that draft class – which also included Bryce Brentz, Anthony Ranaudo, and Brandon Workman (the lone pick who's actually reached the big leagues to date) – and all indications point to Cecchini potentially being the best from the mix.
Cecchini stepped in and batted .298/.398/.500 in 133 PA his first season with Short Season Lowell. He'd only get into 32 games that year after fracturing his left wrist in late July, but that didn't stop him from being bumped up to Class-A Greenville the following season. There he'd continue to show promise, hitting .305/.394/.433 over 526 PA. He'd hit 38 doubles and also steal 51 bases on the year (only 6 CS, an 89.4% success rate) and would rank atop the Sally League's leaders in fielding percentage at third base (.944%).
2013 would prove to be a big season for the right-hander who hits from the left side of the plate. He'd begin the year with High-A Salem before earning a promotion to Double-A Portland following the Carolina/California League All Star Game (he'd go 0 for 2 with a walk). Combined on the year he'd play in 129 games, reaching safely in 120 of them – including a 39 game streak that spanned through July and August. Collectively he'd bat .322/.443/.471 in 557 PA – adding 33 doubles, 23 stolen bases, and more walks than strikeouts (94 to 86).
The year would also include an appearances in the Futures Game (1 for 2 with an RBI for Team USA) and a trip to the Arizona Fall League. Cecchini's .443 on base percentage led all minor leaguers for the 2013 season. His .322 batting average, 144 hits, and 94 walks were all atop Boston's organizational leaders.
Making the jump up to Triple-A Pawtucket this season after being added to Boston's 40-man roster this past winter, the 22 year old Cecchini (he'll turn 23 later this month) has wasted little time getting into the swing of things.
During Thursday's home opener he'd collect a hit in his first at bat, a single, and walked in his second. Defensively he was also impressive – making a running over the shoulder catch up the third base line and later sliding to his right to stop a ball from going down the line, spinning and firing a rocket across to first before the ball could be ruled foul. Friday night he'd add another hit, a pivotal two-run double in the driving rain that broke the scoring open for Pawtucket in the 5th inning.
His first at bat on Saturday was another hit, a line drive single to center field. Cecchini, who had 86 career stolen bases in the minors entering play, was so active off first base that he had both ends of Lehigh Valley's battery pre-occupied with him between throws over from the mound and an almost snap throw from the catcher. It was likely for good reason, as Cecchini didn't waste much time before stealing second cleanly.
Those quick instincts carry over into the field. His first step was so quick in the third that he nearly cut off a routine ground ball to shortstop, before backing off and allowing Brock Holt to make the play. The next inning he'd make a clean diving stop on a ball going to left, popped up, and threw the runner out by a couple of steps at first.
He'd work a walk to get things going in the fourth, only to score with ease a few pitches later on a Dan Butler double to left.
In the fifth he'd come up with two on and two out, only to line a single into right to drive in another run.
His third hit of the day would come in the seventh, another single up the middle.
Third base in Boston is a position with plenty of history and discussions have already started in Boston surrounding the team's future at the hot corner. They come at little surprise given the disappointing 2013 season from current third baseman Will Middlebrooks. The 25 year old struggled mightily at the plate early on, resulting in a demotion to Triple-A and some adjustments to his mechanics before ultimately leading to Xander Bogaerts making his debut late in the season, leaving him to hold down the position through the team's playoff run instead of Middlebrooks. He'd finish the year with a .227/.271/.425 line in 374 PA, with 17 HR but 98 strikeouts. Entering the 2014 season he's combined for 660 plate appearances in his career – about a full season's worth over 169 games – in which he's hit a collective .254/.294/.462 with 32 HR, 103 RBI, and 168 SO. Decent, but not spectacular, numbers.
Middlebrooks admitted during Spring Training that some vision issues seemed to contribute to his struggles from a year ago. New contact lenses appeared to help through the spring, but that hasn't stopped speculation about where he could be moved in order to make room for Cecchini once he's deemed MLB-ready. Much of that speculation has him sliding across the diamond to first base. That, however, is hardly a forgone conclusion.
Mike Lowell. Butch Hobson. Bill Mueller. John Valentin. Each has their place among the fabled third basemen in Boston Red Sox history but none compare to Hall of Famer Wade Boggs (who's #26 has still not been retired by the organization, much to dismay and confusion of many as William Tasker explains). Cecchini could very well be the organization's best third baseman since The Chicken Man held down the position.
Boggs was a 7th Round pick in the 1976 Draft (#166 overall and just 20 selections after another HOFer, Ozzie Smith) and would spent the better part of five seasons in the minor leagues before arriving in Boston for good, including two years (!!) at Triple-A. Collectively Boggs would amass 2,680 plate appearances in the minor leagues during which he'd hit .318/.412/.386. Cecchini, for comparison, has hit .312/.417/.458 in just over 1,200 PA entering this season.
Over the course of an 18 year career, the first 11 of which were spent in Boston, Boggs was a perennial All Star. He'd bat .328/.415/.443 for his career, winning eight Silver Slugger Awards and a pair of Gold Gloves.
Perhaps one of his best known qualities (and there are many) however was his plate discipline, which is where the comparisons to Cecchini truly begin. Boggs walked 1,412 times in his career. He struck out just 745 times. It's an astounding ratio that no current day players can really compare to. His ability to foul off pitch after pitch at will always seemed to astound opposing pitchers. At times he truly seemed as though he was doing so simply to run up their pitch counts, even in an era before anyone really kept track of such numbers.
Naturally it's too early to suggest that Cecchini will have a career similar to that of Boggs. The two have similar batting averages and on base percentages through the minor leagues. Neither brings much power to the table and both are strong defenders.
To call Cecchini the "next Boggs" at this point would simply be irresponsible. If the speculation is going to begin looking towards the future, however, then perhaps there is room to openly wonder just what the organization might have on their hands. Cecchini won't be rushed to the big leagues by the Boston Red Sox. They have the luxury of waiting until he's ready and until there's a need (and room) on the active roster. Should he continue to get on base as he has been thus far at Triple-A he just might force their hand by mid-summer or, at the least, make those speculatory conversations a little more frequent.


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Anthony Siguido was born in San Francisco, California. He started training in martial arts at the age of 9 and received his black belt in karate at the age of 17. After cross-training with both boxing and kickboxing, he competed worldwide in full contact, bare-knuckle competitions with a fight record of 24-6-2. After taking a long break from the fighting world, his physique diminished and he gained 70 lbs. He knew that fight training was the most intense form of exercise. Committing 2 years to his own training program and a healthy diet, Anthony was able to reduce his weight from 235 to 180 lbs. In June of 2007, he signed up at L.A. Boxing San Bruno and lost his last 15 lbs before he was hired as one of their trainers. Knowing the difficult challenges first hand, Anthony continues to dedicate himself to helping others achieve their health and fitness goals.
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