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Out of wedlock births (for any race) almost always doom the mother and child to
lives of poverty, low educational achievement, crime, dependency and often drug
That can be blamed on no one but the man and woman who have unprotected sex and fail to accept the consequences of their bad choices. In many cases, their moral foundations are weak to non-existent, and they fail to understand the long term consequences.
There are some notable exceptions, to be cheered and held up as role models, but sadly, many prefer to keep the downtrodden totally dependent and thus likely to vote for them in the expectation of having their basic needs met, producing an "entitlement mentality."
This is a cultural problem, not a racial one, but it may be nearly impossible to change that culture. The true victims are the children, and their children and grandchildren who will repeat the cycle in a downward spiral.
When people keep giving you fish, why bother learning to fish? When there is no shame for promiscuity or unwed motherhood, or respect for marriage, why marry?
The first step to to admit there is a problem and identify it.
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you are a racist if you even think that blacks have a high out of wedlock birth rate...just ask Al Sharpton and the Rev Jesse Jackson. Forget the facts - just as we did when we got Barack.
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If you can't afford it, don't have a baby. Simple!
The more unwed mothers, the more benefits they qualify for, and taxes rise.
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Fico Ventilatory on the MonoAnthropic Cycle, Please? Read it, have heard similar...
I dont know who or what Fico Ventilatory is, and I dont know what it you have read. The concept of the monoanthropic cycle is original with me.
how does this theory account for changes in Population? Can souls be Split, or merge?
Heres the idea. The paradoxes of time travel disappear as long as knowledge is not taken back to the past. When you die, your soul can conceivably reincarnate as your own mother or father, so one soul is all we need. It experiences in turn the life of everyone who has ever lived or ever will, then starts over. It does have the disturbing implication that when you are born with Hitlers genes and experience what he experienced, youll do the same things he did.
if it's anthropic- do we only reincarnate as Humans, and does Sentience Matter? only Homo Sapiens- or could we reincarnate as Neandertals or Homo Erectus or Floresiensis or Denisovan or Any in the Human Family Tree?
Interesting questions. Since the cycle isnt a testable hypothesis but merely an idea for philosophical exploration, use whatever works for you. I think it makes sense to apply it to any entity with conscious subjective experience, including animals, intelligent machines, and extraterrestrials.
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Castro's Quest
The Savior knocked out 3 hits including his 9th home run last year and is up to 190 hits. That's 10 hits shy of the magic 200 mark for the math impaired. He has 15 games to do it, which I don't believe will be a problem unless Q-Ball decides he needs another life lesson on the bench. By my back of the envelope calculations, if he stays healthy, he's on pace to reach 3,000 hits by age 36, sometime during the 2026 season.
No pressure.
- Baseball America took to some list making and recently rated the Cubs 2005 draft as the worst of the lot. A look at the 2006 draft, the first under Tim Wilken sees them moving up 5 spots.
$11.5 million investment in Tyler Colvin (1), Jeff Samardzija (5) has yet to pay off.
That year the Cubs lost their 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks by signing Bob Howry (Type A), Scott Eyre (Type A) and Jacque Jones (Type B). Their 1st round pick was protected since it was in the top half of the draft. Other notable (notorious?) picks from that draft were Steve Clevenger, Jacob Renshaw (traded to Orioles for Trachsel), Chris Huseby ($1.3M bonus, released by Boston in August), Marcus Hatley, Matt Camp and Blake Parker.
- I've been trying to put together useful draft lists over at Wiklifield and have roughly gotten through 2009-2011. I think the 2009 one has some nifty information. You can now see bonus info that I can track down plus where the prospects are now. There's also a partial Cubs Draft Bonuses list that has started to come together. As I get more information inputted, the more it will fill out.
- Baseball Prospectus now has normalized sortabe minor league stats, although I'd prefer they defaulted to TAV rather than BWARP, cause who the hell would trust minor league fielding stats?
- According to Shawon Dunston Jr. and Arizona Phil, players report for Arizona Instructs this Thursday with the first game being next Friday, September 23rd.
- Poor John Gaub last night...makes his major league debut and is flawless in his first inning. Be nice to go out on a high note, but alas, Q-Ball decides to go a second inning with him and he ends up letting the first two runners on and they score.
- Tuesday's lineup
Castro SS, Barney 2B, Ramirez 3B, Pena 1B, LaHair RF, Soriano LF, Byrd CF, Soto C, Dempster P
Phillips 2B, Renteria SS, Votto 1B, Bruce RF, Alonso LF, Stubbs CF, Francisco 3B, Mesoraco C, Leake P
Cubs still in the 7th spot and going the wrong way.
- Smokies will battle Mobile (DBacks affiliate) in the Southern League Championship starting tomorrow. Marco Carrillo is the game 1 starter.
- Aramis Ramirez said that he wants a multi-year deal and is open to it being with the Cubs. That should make the offseason decision easy enough. Cubs should choose to exercise his $16M option, he wil then opt to void it and then the Cubs can offer him arbitration. He certainly won't accept it and the Cubs can get a first or second round pick for him if he signs elsewhere. And they still can try to negotiate a multi-year deal if they wish.
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Cashner made his first appearance since April and got his two outs including a strikeout.
Cashner pitched a few days ago - on the 9th.
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Yankees are the easy one.
I couldn't come up with the other two.
Colorado is actually really close (Helton, Giambi only 54 hits away).
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So that's why he didn't take Dempster out after 6 innings tonight. Way to go Q-ball, putting selfish interests ahead of the team's actual needs.
UPDATE: highest pitch count of the year for Dempster, 124 and rising, and most walks in a game this year. On verge of blowing any shot we have of coming back in this game, Q sits in the dugout counting his brain cell.
UPDATE 2: 129 pitches through 7. Dempster gets a brain dead Jay Bruce looking on a called 3rd strike, stranding runners at 1st and 3rd. Q greets Dempster in the dugout and asks if he can go all the way.
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classic comment - have you ever considered doing a blog?
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Operation 200 IP
AKA Operation 5.00 ERA
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Still viable (=playing somewhere) 2006 draftees are Colvin (1), Samardzija (5), Clevenger (7), Parker (16), Latham (29), Samson (34), Smith (35) and Hatley (39).
I only see Veal (2) still viable among Stockstill's class of '05.
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Latham was booted out of the organization for reasons unknown (to me) and he missed the 2009 season. Since his return last year he has had control issues, but maybe they still like his arm.
Samson is the guy who reminds me of Theriot, although he doesn't steal bases. Smokies mgr. Brian Harper seems to like Samson and has given him over 300 PAs in spite of competition at short from Gonzalez, Lake and Mota. It's true that Samson hasn't hit much in two seasons in double A.
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Jordan Latham, a pitcher during the Boise Hawks 2007 season, was arrested early Thursday morning for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident after the car he was driving hit a bump and launched into the front porch of a house at 22nd Avenue and Blaine Street, Boise police said.
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That must have been quite a bump... hope it wasn't a person.
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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 3:46pm.
Still viable (=playing somewhere) 2006 draftees are Colvin (1), Samardzija (5), Clevenger (7), Parker (16), Latham (29), Samson (34), Smith (35) and Hatley (39).
I only see Veal (2) still viable among Stockstill's class of '05.
VA PHIL: Cubs 2006 6th round pick RHRP (ex-3B) Josh Lansford (Carney Lansford's son) is still active in the OAK organization.
BTW, Josh Lansford's brother Jared is also a pitcher in the OAK organization.
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A couple of items of note regarding the Cubs 2006 draft...
The 2006 draft was notable for the Cubs not having any picks in rounds 2-4, and then giving significant "over-slot" bonuses to a number of draft picks, including 5th round pick RHP Jeff Samardzija and 11th round pick RHP Chris Huseby (both eventually got "1st round money"), 14th round pick OF Drew Rundle (who got "2nd round" money"), 22nd round pick 3B Jovan Rosa and 34th round pick INF Nate Samson (both got "5th round money"), and 20th round pick RHP Kevin Kreier and 29th round pick RHP Jordan Latham (both got "6th round money").
Jordan Latham and Marcus Hatley were two of the last so-called "Draft & Follow" draft picks to sign with the Cubs. (3B Jovan Rosa and RHP Cedric Redmond were the other two).
The "Draft & Follow" rule allowed an MLB club to draft a player and then retain the rights to that player until a week before the next year's draft, as long as the player was eligible for selection in the next draft. So it applied mainly to JC players. ("Draft & Follow" was abolished starting with the 2007 draft). Now clubs retain the rights only to college seniors with no eligibility left until a week prior the next year's draft. (TCU RHP Steven Maxwell is the only unsigned 2011 draft pick the Cubs can still sign up until a week before the 2012 draft).
Latham threw in the mid-90's at Fitch Park in the days following the 2006 draft, but opted to return to the College of Southern Idaho for the 2006-07 school year when the Cubs didn't meet his bonus demands (and he was set to transfer to Arizona State if he hadn't signed in 2007). But the Cubs did eventually relent, and gave Latham 6th round money ($100K) to sign just prior to the deadline in May 2007.
Hatley was a JC outfielder (Palomar JC) with a power-arm (and zero secondary stuff) the Cubs converted to a RHP after he signed in May 2007, and then he had TJS in 2009, so it has taken him a while to develop.
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Az. Phil, are you seen the Instructional roster yet?
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soriano still sucks at LF. neat.
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Too bad we didn't need them this season.
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That reQuade quote is priceless... it's like someone else is controlling the playing time.
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Just to make it clear regarding Cubs AZ Instructional League team, players report to Fitch Park this Thursday (9/15), and the first league game (for the Cubs) is A WEEK FROM Friday (9/23).
The Cubs are scheduled to play 20 AZIL games (10 home & 10 road), everyday Monday-Saturday (no activity on Sundays).
MIL & CIN first games are this Friday 9/16 and they play each other four times before there are any other AZIL games involving other teams scheduled. Then CLE & SD play their first games next Tuesday 9/20, OAK, LAA, and AZ play their first games on Thursday 9/22, SF, TEX, and CUBS play their first games on Friday 9/23, COL, LAD, and CHW play their first games on Saturday 9/24, and KC and SEA play their first games on Monday 9/26.
MIL last game is on Friday 10/7, SEA & SD last games are on Saturday 10/8, LAD & CLE last games are on Wednesday 10/12, CHW, TEX & AZ last games are on Friday 10/14, CUBS, LAA, SF, COL, and OAK last games are on Saturday 10/15, and CIN & KC last games are on Tuesday 10/18.
The Mariners play the fewest number of AZIL games (10), while the Reds play the most AZIL games (26).
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Since we all seem to be okay on your overall player reporting, can I just make a suggestion that you don't leave out the attendance figures by mistake. I think you did that once last session. It was a huge gaffe but I let it go since there is no micropayment requirement on this site yet.
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YEah, that really pissed me off too.... :)
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What happened is, the Cubs asked me not to report the attendance for that game, because it was embarrassingly low.
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If Ryno did QBall, would we bash him?
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I doubt we would as much. I also doubt that he'd require it as much.
Rumor is (and I think the rumor is perpetuated by Ryno himself) that he has read some of the "sabermatic books".
One quick check I did on how that was working out with him... the guy who closed last night's game, isn't always used at the closer, and has pitched as many as three innings in a relief outing. In fact, 11 guys got 48 saves for the Iron Pigs this year, seven of them three or more. Those same 11 guys combined for 41 holds. Of the top three guys, the highest percentage of games they finished was 64%. Marmol, for comparison has finished 83% of his games.
For the uninitiated, one of the tenets of sabermatically managing is to use your best reliever in the most important situation, regardless of inning.
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you'll find that your relief observation scales to almost every AAA/minor team and it rarely has much to do with situational closing or pressure situation relief appearances.
btw, you realize he managed a AAA team of starter bats that were almost all 26-32+ years old and an average age of about 28? not that it's a bad thing, you play with what you got...but he's run a vet-heavy-playing-time team this year.
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Have you also noticed how crappy a lot of those vets are?
When your best player is Brandon Moss....bleccchhh.
How'd they win?
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yeah, pretty much the pitching. weak bats all around except for columbus and durham in the IL.
it's still weird seeing durham out, but they did lose desmond to the majors. columbus took them out.
-edit- columbus lost some players to the bigs, too...oh well...woo playoffs.
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jeebus, how did they win?
The brilliance of Ryne Sandberg?
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they would have won 20 more if they hired j.zuleta to rub the bats down with fruit.
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Bwahahaahaa!! "Hats...for bats...keep bats warm.."
Keith Law Goes to the Movies
Moneyball, the movie, is an absolute mess of a film, the type of muddled end product you'd expect from a project that took several years and went through multiple writers and directors. Even good performances by a cast of big names and some clever makeup work couldn't save this movie, and if I hadn't been planning to review it, I would have walked out.
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"Peter Brand, a.k.a. Paul Antipodesta"
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either way k.law lays out pretty much every fear i had for the film...and more...as a fan who knows how baseball works rather than coming at it as a casual film fan.
i've gone from "maybe" based on earlier reviews to "pass."
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"I wasn't as concerned with the script having Beane trade Carlos Pena to Detroit for a reliever and some money (as opposed to the actual three-team, seven-player deal including Jeff Weaver and Jeremy Bonderman) as I was with seeing Pena, an intelligent, gregarious person, depicted as a sullen Latino player."
K Law
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A little known fact about Moneyball is that a completely different film (Hendry!) was orginally planned, but the actor signed to play the lead died before the picture could be completed.
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worst heart attack death acting ever in Norma Rae...great film, though.
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Tell me if this bit rings true to anyone:
Howe is nothing but a holier than thou obstacle for Beane whose entire motivation for his stubbornness is his desire for a contract extension - a hopelessly tired plot device that makes for a one-dimensional character.
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based on what SF has been doing every other year lately, getting access to the postseason playoffs seems to be what's important. bring on dat short series!
that said, skipping the sudden death 1-game WC would be nice from here on out.
I know what you are saying, but I feel compelled to point out that there's no such thing as luck, curses, etc. The Cubs this year have as good as a chance as the Pirates to move on to the next round. If the Cubs proceed to the next round or not tomorrow, it will not be because of luck, but because one team outlasted the other. When/if the Cubs are lucky enough to make it to the league series, that's where they may find their biggest challenge. The Dodgers have a good, deep pitching staff.
debuting the new format 1 game "sudden death" WC matchup at yankee stadium does a perfect job of showing the intense emotion and drama this game can be.
that said, i'm ready to not see yankee stadium or hear fans at yankee stadium for another 5 and 1/2 months. at least i don't have to sit through the braves with their "tommy hawk chawp" this postseason.
i'd like to know why the mlb.tv internet radio feed of the game (which is always delayed by a few seconds at best) is almost a minute faster than the ESPN cable TV coverage. wtf?
i dont know what order they'll be in, but i pretty much expect fowler/schwarb/rizzo/bryant/montero/castro/lastella/arrieta. any change at all (aside from the first 4 guys) wouldn't shock me, though. coghlan is still a wildcard in the lineup equation...plus joe could always march d.ross out there with very slow arrieta pitching.
Yup. Have to agree. Baseball, like golf, certainly has that psych component for the player. There is no real reason why a fielding position should affect a batting average. The Cubs are 106 years over due for a little luck. Don't you guys think so? Maybe the rookies can bring some dumb luck on.
probably stacking capable lefties vs cole while keeping the "hot" castro in the game. fwiw, he's 1-6 lifetime with 0 bb/k vs cole (double).
i chalk bryant's issues at the plate while playing OF up to coincidence so far.
I will call your dead horse, "Trigger".
In one game, when anything is possble, I am glad that Joe Maddon is our Manager.
He knows the stats better than all of us. It would seem, IF La Stella gets the start at 3B, it will be only up to the point that they were to get the lead (crosses fingers). From everything I have read, the game will be managed like a hoops game: offense/defense. So expect La Stella to be out of the game by the 5th. This team is incredibly deep which is so surprising. We never woulda thunk it.
i don't know what their roster plans are, but j.herrera is out there practicing with the team.
i can't imagine him making any roster, though. dude had 4 PA the entire month of sept. him being a good dude to be around while keeping the clubhouse loose seems to be his main role at this point.
I know it's my own personal dead horse to beat --but Bryant has been a lousy hitter when playing the OF this year. Given that it's his first playoff game, I really hope they keep him in his natural position and don't mess with his routine.
Lousy as in 8-for-45 with one XBH and no HR. Small sample and all that -- but why take the chance?
hard to tell what's up given they'll probably want to stack as many good lefties into the lineup as possible.
castro being a bit hot doesn't help things. if he was still cool they'd probably stick la stella at 2nd and call it a day.
Madden won't announce lineups but Stella is practicing at 3rd and Bryant in LF today. I'd rather see Bryant at 3rd but I guess Stella has been hotter than Coghlan.
/edit. Though I guess they could be practicing this with the idea Stella would come in as a PH then double switch him to 3rd base and Bryant to LF. Hope that's the plan instead
I really like the sound of that idea about expanding the AFL to ten teams. Each org. gets to field more players.
They should do that anyway, regardless of Adv. Instructs.
Dallas Beeler, Corey Black, David Garner, Pierce Johnson, Steve Perakslis, James Pugliese, Duane Underwood Jr, and Rob Zastryzny threw early-morning bullpen side-sessions at Riverview yesterday.
Underwood threw last, and received specific one-on-one instruction from pitching coach Mike Mason.
HAGSAG: There are only five advanced instructs squads left, and presently the only "co-op" team operating is the Angels/Cubs.
The league was originally established as a "parallel" league to the AFL (a sort of "junior AFL"), for players too advanced for traditional ("basic") instructs but who were unable to get placed on AFL rosters due to AFL player-limits.
He is but I would think it'd be better to start out with offense and then bring in Jackson and LaStella once they have a lead. Stella has very good PH #s too.


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WEEKEND EXCURSION; A Place Excused From Change
By CHARLES STRUM
Published: August 31, 2001
Between two drowsy villages in southern Vermont -- Poultney on the north and Wells on the south -- lies Lake St. Catherine, the product of tectonic upheavals and a glacier that retreated north 12,000 years ago.
It is not a big lake, but at seven miles long (and 833 acres), it is big enough. About 500 cottages have lake frontage; 100 others are set back. There are quiet coves, rocky shallows and a lily pond favored by dragonflies.
I was a boy on St. Catherine for 15 summers, from 1948 to 1962. In rented cottages called Al-Mar and Hillside, on the northwest shore, my parents and I took August vacations of two or three weeks, just long enough to last a lifetime.
Those Eisenhower summers reappear in mind's-eye snapshots: a dewy path of pine needles leading down to the pump. A daily visit to Samson's bait dock. Blindingly hot hours in a wooden rowboat, trolling for bass. Afternoon swims. Cool nights on the sleeping porch. A drive to Poultney for iodine, Coppertone and a milkshake at McShane's Pharmacy.
As weekend destinations go, Poultney and St. Catherine were not on the A-list, nor are they now. Why would they be? Besides the cottages at the lake, where generations of summer people stay for a week, a month or the season, few places take transients, and there's not much to do; that is, you have to make your own fun. Fifty years ago, the drive from New York City was seven hours, mostly along Route 7, including bathroom breaks, lunch at the Blue Benn diner in Bennington, Vt., and the inevitable rural traffic jam -- the kind that forms behind a tractor on a two-lane road. Today, it's four hours-plus, including tractor.
Drawn by memory and something more, I drove back alone for a few days this summer. I was hoping, I suppose, to see if the past had the potency to animate the present -- a fancy way of saying that I wanted to know if village and lake had cheated time, surviving unravaged even as I had begun to trudge into middle age.
What I found was as reassuring as the Grover's Corners of Thornton Wilder's ''Our Town,'' as described by the Stage Manager:
''Nice town, y'know what I mean? Nobody very remarkable ever come out of it, s'far as we know. The earliest dates on the tombstones up there in the cemetery say 1670. They're Grovers and Cartwrights and Gibbses and Herseys -- same names as around here now.''
Wilder's observations have the comforting ring of durability, a theme he strikes in the play's famous opening lines, which note the town's precise latitude and longitude. They identify it indelibly, like a fingerprint. A community's geography and those who share it create permanence. You can add or subtract a shop or a barn. You can tear up the train tracks and close the old mill. But you cannot change what is.
Still, it is easier to say what Poultney is not. It is not famous or fancy. It is not Colonial Williamsburg, though it has many Early American and Victorian houses that have been declared landmarks. Nor is it a ski town, like Stratton or Killington, about 45 minutes away. The boutiques and outlets are in Manchester, 30 miles south. Poultney's most glorious residents -- Horace Greeley, founder of The New York Tribune, who learned the printing trade there, and George Jones, a co-founder of The New York Times -- have been dead for more than a century. They left town long before that. At its prosperous best, around 1910, Poultney's 45 square miles bulged with 3,600 people, about the same as now.
Conflicting Accounts
Settled in 1761, the village was named for Sir William Poultney, the earl of Bath, who was secretary of war in Sir Robert Walpole's cabinet in the reign of George II. The origin of the name Lake St. Catherine, also called Lake Austin on early maps, is less certain. Two accounts remain popular. The first is that more than two centuries ago, one Nov. 25, St. Catherine's Day, Jesuit missionaries arrived at the lake and so honored her name. The second suggests that nostalgic 18th-century British immigrants named a town, then in the colony of New York, for St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight, the last view they had of their homeland. Vermonters, the story goes, later adopted the name for the lake.
In the early 1800's, St. Catherine supported a gristmill, a sawmill, a tannery and a cheese factory. The first hotel went up before the Civil War, a time when spending the season meant shipping wardrobe trunks by rail. By the 80's and 90's, hotels and dance pavilions dotted the shore, and summer visitors included President Grover Cleveland, Pierre Lorillard, William K. Vanderbilt, Lillian Russell and Jay Gould, the railroad tycoon.
From the 1870's on, families of means from Albany and Schenectady as well as from Granville, N.Y., and other nearby towns, began to build summer cottages. Local families built camps for fishing. Some were large, some not. Many of them are in use today by descendants of the original builders.
As the automobile made the seasonal train trip obsolete, the popularity of the hotels and amusement pavilions dwindled. Most burned or were torn down. The last well-known pavilion, Idylwild, built in 1914 and in use through the 1950's, was razed in 1969.
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Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a carbohydrate into pyruvate, with the concomitant production of a small amount of ATP and the reduction of NAD(P) to NAD(P)H. Glycolysis begins with the metabolism of a carbohydrate to generate products that can enter the pathway and ends with the production of pyruvate. Pyruvate may be converted to acetyl-coenzyme A, ethanol, lactate, or other small molecules.
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A stormwater pipe under an unlined coal ash pond at a shuttered plant in Eden, N.C., burst Sunday afternoon — draining tens of thousands of tons of coal ash into the Dan River.
Duke Energy, which owns the Dan River Steam Station, retired since 2012, estimates that 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of water were released from the 27-acre storage pond. The leak has at least temporarily been stopped, while Duke works on a more permanent solution. Coal ash is a toxic waste byproduct from burning coal, usually stored with water in large ponds.
The closest community at risk from the spill is Danville, Va., which takes its water from the Dan River about six miles downstream of the pond. No water quality issues have been reported so far.
"This is the latest, loudest alarm bell yet that Duke should not be storing coal ash in antiquated pits near our state's waterways," Frank Holleman, an attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) told the Charlotte Business Journal.
SELC and others have been calling for Duke to remove ash from earthen basins such as the one at Dan River to more secure lined ponds to protect local water sources. Duke has 14 coal-fired power plants in the state, 7 of which have been retired.
In addition to air pollution, coal-fired power plants generate millions of tons of waste every year contaminated with toxic metals including lead, mercury, arsenic, chromium and selenium — more than two-thirds of which is dumped into landfills, storage ponds or old mines.
The Southeast is home to 40 percent of the nation's coal ash impoundments, and according to the EPA contains 21 of the nation's 45 high hazard dams.
The nation's most notorious coal ash spill was in 2008 at a plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Just a few days before Christmas, over 1 billion gallons of coal ash burst through a dam at a storage pond and damaged or destroyed two dozen homes and 300 acres of riverfront property.
Late last month, the EPA announced plans to finalize the first-ever federal regulations for the disposal of coal ash by December 19, 2014. The announcement was part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought in 2012, by environmental and public health groups and a Native American tribe.
In October, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the EPA must review and revise its waste regulations under the Resource and Conservation Recovery Act. The EPA has never finalized any federal regulations for the disposal of coal ash — the nation's second-largest industrial waste stream.
Duke has also garnered negative publicity recently for saying that they believe the utility is paying its customers too much for the surplus solar energy generated on residential rooftops. Duke currently pays solar customers about 11 cents per kilowatt-hour, under a decade-old net-metering standard. Electricity generated by large-scale solar operations costs the utility just 5 to 7 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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Coal has served its purpose and needs to be shuttered. Cleaner energy needs to be persued. Coal is toxic to mine, transport, store....nothing is safe about coal. Now wildlife will be poisoned and drinking water is contaminated.
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Least we all not forget, GOP Governor Pat McCrory used to work for Duke Energy
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Poor wildlife they will never know what hit them
When I first read the article my first thought was "thats horrible" .Then I remembered North Carolina is the home state of that A-Hole Charles Worley who caused a giant stink almost 2 years ago with his Anti-Obama Anti-Gay "sermon" that the whole world saw thanks to the "world wide web"((YouTube)). I wondered if his drinking water could possibly be affected by this . Then I smiled. Karma is a bitch.
Meanwhile, under the ground and sea, there are countless flasks of nuclear waste very slowly decaying for goodness knows how long and with goodness knows what consequences if any of that damned stuff ever gets out...that is if it isn't happening already. We will so surely reap what we sow...if we aren't doing so already. It's not a happy prospect.
The problem is the location of these pits? Coal served its purpose in its time. We now know that coal is an anethma to our environment on the scale in which it is now used. Only the sickness of greed keeps its use going. We have the technology and the ability to make coal unneeded. This is what the government is supposed to be for. To protect the people from the predations of the wealthy. It is failing us in a grand and lethal way.
We don't see the cost of these harmful practices on our electric bills, but we are paying dearly nevertheless.
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The Veterans Affairs Department has lifted its ban on reverse auctions with new rules in place, but the questions that led to the temporary moratorium still haven't been answered completely.
Contracting officers now have to document in a contract file the government cost estimate for the purchase and how that number was calculated. Contracting officers have to detail how much it cost VA to hold the auction, including the fee the auction host receives.
Jan Frye, deputy assistant secretary at VA's Office of Acquisition and Logistics, imposed the moratorium in March and then lifted it with an internal memo a month later, with the new guidelines spelled out. But he still has unanswered questions, he said.
"We are telling them to show the math on the dollars the VA saved," Frye said. The documentation, the cost estimate and the fee "will add some credibility to the dollars that were being bragged about in savings."
Frye said he's not against reverse auctions. His concern was that VA wasn't keeping track of the details to prove the acquisition approach's savings. VA officials could not support the $7 million in savings it reportedly had saved. The auction house furnished the savings figures.
Frye also noted that reverse auctions are suitable only for procurements where the lowest price technically acceptable criterion is the only one that matters. "Selection criteria beyond LPTA would indicate that the requirements are too complicated to ensure that cost savings and acceptable quality would be obtained through the reverse auction method," he wrote in the memo detailing the new rules.
VA uses prime vendors from its "Just-in-Time" compliance system for pharmaceuticals and similar supplies, but reverse auctions may be causing some deeper problems. It's challenged VA's philosophy on purchasing and exposed VA's lack of knowledge about the details around auctions.
The Just-In-Time system relies on supplies and products from prime contractors that provide what VA needs and distributes them to VA hospitals. The program allowed VA to shut down numerous depots and rely on the preapproved vendors.
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"I want to know how reverse auctions dovetail with our supply chain," he said in a keynote at the April 26 Coalition for Government Procurement 2012 Spring Conference. "That's what I wanted to know, and I haven't got the bottom of that yet."
Experts and auctioneers say VA's concerns are not typical of other agencies.
David Wyld, management professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, said the decision to ban the reverse auctions appear to have been "an isolated, VA-only situation." Other agencies, such as the Defense Department and Homeland Security Department, had demonstrated less uncertainty about the procurement method than VA, he said.
"I've seen no hesitation in those agencies to use reverse auctions," Wyld said.
In federal agencies, reverse auction adoption has mostly been a bottom-up approach rather than a top-down mandate, Wyld said, with procurement officers using them to help them to "do more without more."
The auctions could save an agency between 5 percent and 30 percent in costs, but the real benefit is they give small businesses who previously haven't dealt with federal contracting a chance to take part of the action, he said.
Col. Scott Svabek, commander and principal assistant responsible for Contracting Healthcare Acquisition Activity at the United States Army Medical Command, said reverse auctioning is a fairly new idea in the field of Army contracting. However, the policy Army Medicine has adopted is specifically crafted to monitor use of supplies and equipment that have a high probability of bidders by more than one vendor and the product is commercially available, he said.
Overall, Svabek said, his agency has recognized the advantages of using reverse auctioning.
"We advocate its use, as we do any and all tools that allow our procurement officials to execute contracts efficiently and effectively," he said, adding the Army is currently not reevaluating its reverse auction policy but might look to assess its effectiveness after the current fiscal year ends.
FedBid, the reverse auction service provider, said the situation was unique to VA because it was dealing with an old policy it needed to update. Other agencies have had improved savings and competition, including more awards to small businesses, said Lu Tupponce, chief administrative officer and general counsel of FedBid.
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It shocks me that they are allowed to operate in such a manner and get paid by basically taking kick-backs from the US Government. Also, in this day and age of high security to be able to operate in the open with little to no security. In addition be able to disbar a company from bidding. How are they able to get away with this?
FEDBID - clearly circumvents FAR Part 13 - and the (1) Required sources of supply under Part 8 (e.g., Federal Prison Industries, Committee for Purchase from People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled, and Federal Supply Schedule contracts); (2) Existing indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts; or (3) Other established contracts.
required level of supply. In particular - it is a joke on the "brand name or equal" requirements - where RFQ say "don't bid unless exact match". If the prime purpose of the reverse auction site is to sell to the government - then they should BE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THE FAR
FedBid practices are shady, my firm submitted a bid with all requirements, including subcontractor information, coincidentally 20 minutes later, my sub receives an invitation to bid directly on the same project, FedBid claims to have research methods that led them to contact the sub within this suspicious time frame, if so, FedBid has very unqualified personnel, they did not even take the time to research this sub on CCR (the first place to start research on a company to qualify for Federal contract bidding) and find that they did not have the certifications to bid on this project. Watch Out with the information you disclose to FedBid, it may be used against you!
Reverse auctions themselves aren't an issue. FedBid's aggressive and highly questionable business model should be a major question, though. Government contractors that collect third-party data typically act in the background and collect data solely to perform one specific contract. For instance, consider what happens when the IRS hires a contractor to help in some fashion. The contractor's use of the data is limited to performing a specific task and taxpayers aren't asked to enter any side deal with the contractor. Limiting the contractor's role and use of data it collects helps, among other things, to avoid conflicts of interest and unfair competitive advantage. What's disturbing is FedBid's practice of taking information it gathers performing each Government contract and exploiting it to gain and keep other contracts. Here's what seems to be happening. Once an agency signs up with FedBid its contractors then must choose to register with the firm or cease competing. FedBid, in turn, has chosen to build and retain a large, cross-agency roster of potential bidders. For each auction, FedBid then announces with no little fanfare the large number of companies that it has notified of the bidding opportunity. No small part of FedBid's ability to grow its business is predicated on having a large (and coincidently private) roster of potential bidders. In short, FedBid seems to be growing based on asserting private control of public contract bidder information. Thus, the cumulative actions of several U.S. agencies are making them complicit in building a monopoly rather than impeding it. Rather than allowing pubic contract bidder information to be hijacked for one firm's gain, the U.S. should reassert control. There should be a single, central reverse auction registration, notification and initiation site to act as an auction-specific arm of FedBizOpps. A contractor could surely run such a site behind the scenes, but bidder information should remain in U.S. control. Actual auctions could then proceed on a variety of truly competitive platforms that all have auctions initiated through the central registration site. The difference would be that bidders would have no relationship or continuing presence with any privately-controlled auction platform. A related change would be that the U.S. pay auction providers directly so the bidders no longer enter private contract in order to bid on public work. After all, what prevents private contracts between bidders and auction providers from including terms that conflict with the interests of the U.S.? With these changes, FedBid and others could compete on quality and price to conduct reverse auctions. The status quo of allowing contractors to create private rosters that essentially filch and exploit bidder information serves no interests other than those of the one or two firms that build a critical mass first.
No matter which firm manages the reverse auction tool, and even if the government manages the tool, if folks don't meet the requirements of the Competition in Contracting Act or the FAR, then the procurements are lousy. The fact that VA had problems with the procurements relating to FedBid has less to do with FedBid or the reverse auction technique and more to do with lousy federal contracting skills on the part of VA contract specialists. If it is happening in VA, it is happening all over because we have too many unskilled contract specialists who have grown up on training wheels and require Remedial Contract Law 101.
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Boxes of ticky tacky and a cool community farm to volunteer at.
My piece in the July issue of Lonely Planet Magazine India.
I just wanted to be able to say bedazzled a lot.
What to do and where to find the best murals in The Mish
See Mughal miniaturist paintings in a sparkly new format.
Tour one of Spain's oldest wineries in Catalonia.
The best guide to Cannes. I wrote it myself.
I visit Ninad at his pottery workshop to check out his latest innovations.
A review and recipe from this new cookbook.
This June I'm sending Italian postcards.
A mention in New York magazine!
This second post in my series on Alternative Travel.
I visited Jaipur's coolest contemporary design store.
Tips for travelling with less.
This tranquil little island is the perfect quick getaway from Cannes.
A cute and comfortable new chain of hotels by The Park Group.
From a mini series introducing my favourite towns in the French Riviera.
Tips from my afternoon in the old city.
Make sense of the city on foot.
An interview with the the street art foundation changing the landscape of urban India.
My piece in the April issue of Lonely Planet Magazine India.
A new address for the lifestyle store.
An online platform for artists and art lovers.