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Pitch or Ditch for Tuesday, April 30
Humber @ Kuroda – OTOH I am picking **against** Humber in Beat the Streak😉
Halladay @ McAllister – tough matchup for McAllister but I'm a fan
Lester @ Morrow
Worley @ Verlander
Hefner @ Slowey – you read that right
G. Gonzalez @ T. Hudson
Quintana @ Darvish
Volquez @ Jackson – indecisive on Jackson, but might as well
McDonald @ Estrada – indecisive on McDonald, but passing this time
Cobb @ Shields
Arroyo @ J. Garcia
Bumgarner @ Cahill
Richards @ Parker – bench but don't cut Parker, he's pitching for his job
Hammel @ Maurer
De La Rosa @ Ryu
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Who do you see getting more saves this year Madsen or Fujikawa? Both are on the WW and I have an empty DL spot. Also should I stash Beachy?
Thank you.
Big Mike
Alex Cobb is available. To start tomorrow, I need to drop Bailey or Hanrahan. Which one do I drop?
What do you see as Pujols' final numbers? I'm about to trade for him, but nervous. Thanks.
Hi Zach, I just got proposed this trade in a 14-team 10×10 HTH-league (extra cats: batting hits, BB, assists, errors and SLG%, pitching: ip, losses, BB, TB, GIDP): I get Headley, Adam LaRoche and Vogelsong, and have to give up Rizzo and Jordan Zimmerman. I've got Ryan Zimmerman on the dl, with Juan Francisco filling in for him at this point. I would probably drop Ruggiano to make room. At first glance, I don't really like this trade, but I'm really not sure. Should I make this trade or not?
Hey guys, just wanted 2 thank u all 4 the great advice & run a trade ? by ya… I'm in a ten team h2h points 3 keeper league and was offered Giancarlo "I'm still callin him Mike" Stanton 4 Chris Sale. Hitters get tiered bonus points 4 extra base hits but lose a point for K's & E's while Sp's get 3 pts/K & .33/out but lose a point 4 wp… everything else is standard scoring so slight edge goes 2 Sp. My outfield consists of Cespedes, Choo, Marte, Trumbo & Chris Davis, but latter 2 are often used in utility spots or @ 1st. My Sp after Sale (who was a keeper) are Harvey, Moore, Holland, Bailey, Burnett, Lose, Big Erv, Cahill & got Weaver(K) on dl. Should I make this deal???
What is the deal with Colvin? I've been waiting for Helton to go down to see him called up, but no such luck. I thought he could put up some nice numbers for a deep NL only with 400ab's or so, but I'm starting to think he may just clog up a ML spot. At least the Rockies called up Arenado just in time to replace Adams at CI on my ever growing all DL team (Hill,H-ram,Hart,Ramos,Fujikawa,Liriano, H. Alvarez…).
Hey Zach,
14 team H2H, somebody just got scared I guess and dropped Brandon morrow. I was debating putting a waiver claim in for him but not sure if its worth it and who I would drop. My rotation consists of:
Jason hammel
Jaime Garcia
W Chen
What are your thoughts about my options and rotation in general?
hey well I dropped Didi to make room or Hanley, also had Peralta and E Cabrera for SS….you think dropping Didi is the right choice…..also dropped Moustakas or Arenado? any thoughts on him as he had a big night and already has more numbers than Mouse had all season…..still have Middlebrooks and C Pena for CI
What is going on with Matt Cain? He got crushed again tonight by Arizona. 3 Homeruns!!
On the bright side Scherzer,Latos and Gallardo all had decent nights.
Also I was wondering if you think its worth playing Ellis at 2B instead of Weeks or Rutledge? My team AVG is around .260 right now and Ellis is on the wire. I would be dropping Gyorko to pick him up.
would you ever sit McCutchen in a daily league?
What kind of return do you think is reasonable for Matt Harvey? I'm looking more towards trading for another starter, hoping to sell high on him. Or do you think it is best to hold on to him ROS? Also I believe he had an innings limit last year, so he should be good all the way through the season. Have you heard any talk of shutting him down late in the year?
Hey Zach,
What are your thoughts on BJ Upton? I totally understand the upside and potential for the rest of the season but one month has passed and there doesn't seem to be any improvement. I also have Pagan who has been marginal after a fast start. Would you ever consider dropping any of them for someone like Marte (I know you gave your comments on him above this post)? Moss, Vernon Wells, and Parra are still available.
Rich D.
11 team mixed 5 x 5 keeper. Need help with offense, specifically HR, RBI, and steals. Have good pitching depth. Evaluate this trade:
I get:
Jean Segura
Todd Frazier
John Axford
I give:
J.J. Putz
Tom Wilhelmsen
Tony Cingrani
I would still have Grilli, Betancourt, Valverde, and Fujikawa as potential closers, plus Axford.
Question #2: It seems that Joel Hanrahan is back but will not be reclaiming his closer role (unless injury hits). I'm pretty good with RP (Paps, Rodney, Addison, Mujica) and my SPs are Ryu, Masterson, Morrow, Shelby Miller, Garza (DL), and Greinke (DL). Would you drop Hanrahan and pick up Cingrani, Correia, Kendrick, Cahill, or Guthrie?
Rich D.
follow up….I dropped Moustakas over Pena cause Pena is my only back up or 1B….quick one do you think Betancourt will continue to play when Ramirez returns? Think the Brewers would ever sit Weeks for him


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NOLA's next big thing? Chefs Rick Tramonto and John Folse want their French Quarter debut to be sensational, the Chicago Tribune's website reports.
What is to become Restaurant R'evolution is still under construction at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street; there are gaping spaces for equipment yet to arrive and rubble yet to be removed. But chefs John Folse and Rick Tramonto can look through the dust and see their vision coming to life, the story says.

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Fellow editor Jonathon Seild said to me this morning "Is it just me or are Apple's 'amazing' Black Friday sales…. well, insulting?" To which my initial response was "The fact that Apple is even having a sale is amazing."
Apple's sale has been highly publicized. Why? Because they never have a sale. The Daily Mail calls it a "highly unusual move for the company, which famously never reduces prices."
But then I got to thinking. Are they really good enough for Black Friday? Electronics on Black Friday can often be up to 70 percent off and customers expect higher than usual discounts, otherwise it wouldn't be worth the 3 a.m. alarm clock ring, two hour stand in the cold and potential for being pepper sprayed.
Apple is offering 10 percent off most products as well as some other discounts like $11 off Nanos and MacBook Air's dropping $101 to $898. And while these discounts are at least something — definitely an improvement on the usual no sale on traditionally more expensive brand — it's still not much.
The Daily Mail continues:
"Even getting money off an Apple product is amazing,' says Mark Wilson, Features Editor of Britain's Stuff Magazine, 'Although British shoppers won't be familiar with the idea of Black Friday — which is, let's face it, a very odd name – it's a good way to pick up bargains, even if the cuts aren't THAT deep."
Apple describes it as "the day you've waited 364 days for."
GeekOSystem calls the event "mildly discounted" and "barely constituting a sale."
For a full list of the sale, check out 9to5Mac's site.
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can someone let me know which credit bureau discover n citi pull? am in california.thankss
06-15-2011 03:53 PM - edited 06-15-2011 03:53 PM
ld81 wrote:
can someone let me know which credit bureau discover n citi pull? am in california.thankss
I recently had HP from Discover on CLI. They pulled my TU ... in CA also.
most likely TU but they could pull any random report they want or all 3 if they choose ymmv
In Bay Area, CA, Citi pulls EX while Discover pulls TU.
06-19-2011 11:40 PM - edited 06-19-2011 11:42 PM
ld81 wrote:
can someone let me know which credit bureau discover n citi pull? am in california.thankss
they both pulled eq for me here in arizona
The pull database over at Creditboards shows they pull a mix of all 3 in California.
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Thanks for pointing me to that site. Will start contributing to and utilizing it.
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DENVER -- On a day when the Detroit Red Wings found themselves in the unfamiliar position of standing pat at the NHL trade deadline, they ascended to a familiar spot -- first overall in the standings.
With their 3-2 victory Wednesday against the Colorado Avalanche, the Red Wings leapfrogged over San Jose and Boston. They have 94 points, one more than the Sharks and Bruins. San Jose, however, has played three fewer games.
Still, the Red Wings have come a long way, gradually chipping away at San Jose's lead while battling a Stanley Cup hangover, goaltending problems and defensive deficiencies.
"It's been a battle,'' Red Wings center Kris Draper said. "San Jose doesn't give you much room to work with. We lose a game, they win a game, create that three- to five-point gap.''
Valtteri Filppula, Johan Franzen and Draper scored for Detroit, which had lost its three previous games on the tail end of playing on back-to-back nights.
"You don't want to get used to losing (on back-to-backs), you don't want to let yourself off the hook when your legs don't feel good,'' Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "We got good effort from everybody. We made sure we rolled our guys. I was impressed with the way our team played. We did a lot of good things.''
Said goaltender Ty Conklin: "You don't have your legs quite as much as you'd like to sometimes, but we feel if we play smart, within our system, and keep our shifts short, we can still win a lot of those (back-to-back) games.''
Conklin made 25 saves, rebounding from his shaky performance on Saturday, when he was pulled 10 minutes into an 8-0 loss at Nashville.
"That kind of game affects me a little bit less than if we had lost 5-4 and I really needed to stop a couple of more shots,'' Conklin said. "That was just one of those nights that happens once in a while. I've been feeling good lately, feeling I've been on top of my game.''
It was the Red Wings' first win against Colorado this season (1-1-2). The Avalanche returned home following a 1-5 road trip, riding a five-game losing streak and saddled with the worst record in the Western Conference.
But it wasn't easy for Detroit. Milan Hejduk scored with 1:41 to play in the third period to cut the lead to 3-2. The Avalanche pressured the Red Wings in the final seconds but came up just short.
The Red Wings ended the first period with a huge momentum boost when Filppula scored with 19 seconds remaining to tie it at 1-1. He picked up a rebound, spun and fired the puck in the net for his second goal in as many games, after an 18-game goal-scoring drought.
"Feels good to get a couple of goals the last two games,'' said Filppula, who missed part of the second period after cutting his finger. "I think I've been getting more shots. The last two games the puck's been going in. I've been getting chances. Hopefully it starts going in better now.''
"(Filppula) has been coming on,'' Babcock said. "The other guy who's been playing outstanding is (Tomas Kopecky). The other guys is Draper, he's been playing great. The last five games he's been excellent.''
They carried that momentum into the second period and took control of the game on goals by Franzen and Draper.
Franzen snapped a 1-1 tie by corralling the puck along the boards, after a dump-in by Brett Lebda, and taking it to the net. He made a couple of moves to pull goalie Andrew Raycroft out of position and score his 26th goal, one short of his career-high from last season.
Draper scored for the second consecutive game at 13:33. Strong forechecking by Aaron Downey led to a turnover. Derek Meech then made a nice backhand pass to an open Draper in the slot, who buried the shot. Draper has six points (three goals, three assists) in his past six games.
"Downey was great there because they got a little nervous and gave Meechie the puck,'' Babcock said. "I thought Downs did a great job for us on back-to-back nights. Keeps the flies off and (provides) good energy.''
John-Michael Liles opened the scoring at 2:57 of the first period on a long blast through a heavy screen.


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They are going lighter with their EBAY shares, holding long just less shares, with the money that was in EBAY shares they are buying EBAY puts just in case AMZN really hurts EBAY listings as so far experts agree Amazon is doing everything right in some cases to simplify the personal auction listings. The big boys are buying Ebay puts as insurance for a big fall. (in this case 10-15 points) and AMZN calls as big boys see a move above Amazons 52 week high this week, (an 87% probability) the target was raised to 314 and Amazon has a habit of reaching targets very quickly. I saw 3 separate 50,000 US dollar sales of EBAY stock and immediatly 300 of the Jan 250 amzn calls and 170 of the Jan 285's then 25 of the 290's and 25 of the 295's immediately following the 150,000 shares of EBAY dumped. Then 200 of the 50.00 and 52.50 puts of EBAY then if that wasn't enough 265 270 275 Jan Amzn calls 150 contracts each. Listen I am long Ebay shares, I'm just smart enough to protect them with 10 times my long shares in EBAY puts and 100 times my AMZN shares in calls. A 100 or 200, wish I had 100 of the Jan 310 calls, we are talking new E350 Benz when Amazon reaches its target of 314 by Jan 19th. Not only is everyone long Amazon and fighting over shares but the 20% of Hedge Funds that are down on the year will all pile in AMZN for the ride north of 300 by Jan 15th. It can change a losing hedge funds year from being down and having redemptions to being up 5-7% on the year.
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Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno delivered the news at the 2010 Governor's Conference on Tourism in Atlantic City Thursday.
Guadagno said New Jersey can't afford to fund tourism for the rest of the fiscal year that ends in June.
Guadagno apologized because a scheduling conflict kept the governor from attending. The lieutenant governor said it was a "rookie mistake" and said Christie would attend the conference next year.
New Jersey funds tourism through a 5 percent hotel-occupancy tax. The state Travel Industry Association said that will generate about $9 million in the next fiscal year.


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- Dates:
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- Berlin, ESMT, Berlin campus, Germany
- Subject:
- This conference is designed to provide a forum for debate on how to achieve sustainable financial stability. The discussion will focus on the long-term effects of changing economic conditions, additional regulatory requirements and new macro prudential policies on the financial system.[gem?_?? den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information]
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Slow Scan to Moscow
Joel Schatz has wire-rimmed glasses and an Old Testament-sized beard. A big head of curly black hair flecked with gray adds a few extra inches to his sixfoot-two frame. "This trip we're about to take," he says enthusiastically, "is so important that I've even gotten a haircut." Its effects are not noticeable.
Joel is sitting in the study of his San Francisco apartment, where most of the furniture consists of pillows on the floor. The largest thing in sight is an enormous reflector telescope, which can be pivoted around on its pedestal and aimed out a high window, Joel explains, "to remind me of my place in the cosmos. We're all voyagers out there.
"If I had millions of dollars I'd build neighborhood observatories all over the world. And at each one I'd have good conga drums, so people could drum together as well as observe."
The object of Joel's attention at this moment, however, as it is much of the time, is his four-pound, briefcase-size Radio Shack Tandy Model 100 portable computer. "I bought this machine for $399. For $1.82 a minute - $1.82! - I can send a telex message to Moscow. This technology is going to revolutionize human communications! Think what it will mean when you can get thousands of Americans and Soviets on the same computer network. Once scientists in both countries begin talking to each other on these machines they won't be able to stop. And we'll be taking a running leap over the governments on both sides.
"I'm not a scientist," Joel adds. "I've only owned a computer for four months. I don't understand how they work. I'll leave that to other people. I'm just interested in how they can improve communication on this planet."
Joel has already made three trips to Russia in the last year and a half to work on two types of U.S.-Soviet electronic exchanges. One has been large screen two-way TV broadcasts, known as "space-bridges." The other has been a link between a Moscow apartment and a southern California radio studio, in which an odd assortment of people ranging from TV mogul Ted Turner and an Oakland, California, fireman to poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and a Moscow faith healer have talked to one another live, over U.S. and Canadian radio stations. In a few days, Joel is leaving for Moscow again. Intrigued by the novelty of his various missions, I have invited myself along. A day or two before our departure, I stop in at Joel's apartment again, and find him staring at the display screen of the Radio Shack computer. He is stumped by the latest message to appear in his "electronic mailbox": LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU. PLEASE BRING SLOW-SCAN TV EQUIPMENT AND TECHNICIAN.
"Slow-scan television!" says Joel. "Jesus! Where are we going to get one of those!"
Slow-scan television is an inexpensive technology that has been used by American scientists for 20 years or so. Basically it allows you to send a still picture over a telephone line. This means you can send visual images long distances without buying time on a space satellite, which costs thousands of dollars an hour.
"Well," Joel scratches his head, "if they want slow-scan, we better give them slow-scan. "
During the next day Joel arranges for the loan of a slow-scan from a Colorado manufacturer who is interested in world peace (and would also doubtless like to sell some of his machines to the Soviet Union). The manufacturer assures him that the equipment is simple to operate, and that all the instructions are in the box.
"If the Soviets want a technician," says Joel, "we're going to have to bring him in by TV.
The slow-scan apparatus is sealed in a waist-high cardboard carton. We are to change planes in London, but at the San Francisco airport, Joel checks the box directly through to Moscow. He then squeezes into a phone booth, connects his Radio Shack computer to the receiver, and dials his electronic mailbox to check for messages one last time before we leave the country. On the flight to England I ask Joel, who is 48 years old, about his life before he started doing U.S.- Soviet electronic exchanges.
"I was energy advisor to the governor of Oregon for five years. Before that, one job I had was at a mental health center in Colorado. Once I handed out a questionnaire to all the psychiatrists working there asking them what they did to cope with being depressed. There were a variety of answers: they listened to music, they had love affairs, they took a few days off work, they went camping. I pointed out that none of these services, absolutely none, did we offer to depressed patients coming to us for treatment. We just offered them talk. The psychiatrists didn't like my attitude at all.
"How did I get into the peace movement? I'm not. The peace movement is mostly people who sit around and talk about how terrible it is that the U.S. and the Soviet Union aren't talking to each other. That's a waste of time. What you've got to do is to do it: to go out and start talking to the Russians. It can be done. That's what I'm going to do this week, with the help of people like Joseph. "
"Who's Joseph?"
"Joseph Goldin is our key Soviet contact. If I accomplish anything on this trip, it will be because of him. You'll see."
After a change of planes, we are finally descending toward Moscow's Sheremetevo airport. On his landing card, in the space for occupation," Joel puts "Futurist." On his visa application, he has listed himself as "Cultural Repairman."
We get our passports stamped, and go to collect our bags. Joel's suitcase and mine are there, but no box of slowscan equipment. Further-more, the British Airways people seem to have gone home for the night. "It will come next plane maybe," a Soviet official suggests doubtfully.
We are met at the exit from customs by a stocky, smiling, round-faced man in a black wool cap. He is Joseph Goldin. "My cosmic brother!" Joel calls out, embracing him.
That night we have dinner at our hotel, the Metropol, a marvelous relic of pre-Revolutionary times. Under a high, wide stained-glass roof, Joel and Joseph, who have worked together now for nearly two years, talk about space-bridges, global town meetings, and other electronic schemes. Joseph has no official connection to any institution, a fact that has apparently sometimes gotten him in trouble with the authorities. But clearly he is Joel's counterpart in the Soviet Union, another cultural repairman.
After dinner Joseph rises to head home to his apartment and says, "OK. I go back to my headquarters now. I see you in the morning. "
Later, in his hotel room, Joel considers what to do about the missing slowscan box. It is now Friday evening. Joel has a business guidebook to Moscow with five phone numbers listed for British Airways, including, allegedly, the home numbers of the resident manager and his assistant. But four numbers don't answer and at the fifth a Russian voice vigorously denies any connection to any airline.
"Obviously we're not going to find this thing over the weekend," says Joel, as we part for the night. "Well, that will give you a chance to get to know Joseph."
Most Americans who go to the Soviet Union end up meeting certain types of Russians: In-tourist guides with their grammatically perfect English; welldressed smiling officials at the Soviet Peace Committee who sit across a green baize table laden with mineral water and explain how much the Soviet Union wants peace; young people who come up to you on the street and want to buy your blue jeans; Jewish refuseniks who have been denied permission to emigrate.
Joseph Goldin fits into none of these categories. He wears nondescript corduroy pants, a skull-fitting black wool cap, and a thick blue denim work shirt. A thin fringe of beard surrounds his face. In his lapel he wears a tiny silver dolphin-shaped pin-a token of his friendship with Igor Charkovsky, a Moscow theorist who believes in human communication with dolphins and whose followers practice underwater childbirth. And in a country where all professionals have business cards in the same format-last name, first name and patronymic, academic degree, title, address-Joseph has stationery showing a drawing of a man's head: the lower half is a face gazing at you intently, the top half is a partially completed, many-floored Tower of Babel. Around the edge of this head scrolls the Russian inscription: EXPEDITION TO HIDDEN HUMAN RESERVES.
"The thing you have to understand about Joseph," says Joel, as he waits, Saturday morning in his hotel room, for Joseph to arrive, "is that Joseph is single-minded. Everything he does is aimed at bringing into being one great plan he has."
"What's the plan?"
"Better let him explain it to you."
A short time later, Joseph arrives, with a brisk, purposeful stride that has successfully carried him past the dezhurnaya, the vigilant woman who sits at the stair landing of every floor of every Soviet hotel and shoos away nonguests. Joseph is just as stumped as Joel is by the missing slow-scan box. He says, "I will get my people working on this problem. "
A little while later we go down to the hotel restaurant for lunch. Joseph brings a briefcase full of papers, and Joel his Radio Shack computer. Tapping away on the keyboard under the eyes of curious waiters, Joel plans the week's activities. He and Joseph schedule various meetings in the days ahead, for although the slow-scan exchange is at the top of the agenda, Joel still wants to talk to Soviet officials about his computer-networking plan. He is also juggling a dizzying variety of other U.S. Soviet exchange projects: he is distributing copies of a peace poster; he is talking to Soviet children's book editors; and he and Joseph are gathering articles by Soviets and Americans and various other people (they have invited the Dalai Lama and the Pope to contribute) for an anthology on peace.
But all this is prologue, in Joseph's mind, to Joseph's central project, an idea he has called Mirror for Humanity. When he and Joel are finished with their business, I ask him about it.
"Humanity-sense all peoples share that they belong to same humanity does not exist. Yet. That we must create. How? Use radical new means of communications: large-screen TV."
Joseph outlines his plan: Mitsubishi/Diamond Vision, a Japanese-American joint venture, has manufactured about 30 giant television screens, some as high as a three-story building.
The screens cost several million dollars each. So far they have been installed mainly in U.S. and European sports arenas. Joseph's Mirror for Humanity plan is to create a network of such screens, linked together by satellite TV transmissions, in cities everywhere. The screens would be placed in squares and parks; people in each city would be able to see and talk to people in the others. And, Joseph explains, because you could place TV cameras to take in each screen, as well as people in front of it, people watching elsewhere would be able to see themselves in other cities.
"This is what I mean by creating humanity," he concludes. "The kingdom of words is dead. Atomic weapons have created a new kind of silence. We must see each other. The last times we looked at the earth, we discovered great things- whole continents, geography. Now we must discover nations. We must reach new level of consciousness. When you see yourself in the other city, we no longer have just exchanges of representatives of populations, but of entire populations themselves. "
That evening we have dinner with a foreign correspondent friend of Joel's, his family, and some Russian friends of theirs. The friends speak no English, and Joel no Russian, but he is not the least bit handicapped. I know a little Russian, and translate their questions to Joel:
"You are a follower of Reagan?"
Joel shakes his head and frowns: "Absolutely not."
"You are a Democrat then?"
"No. Completely independent."
"Ah . . . there was a man named Anderson who ran for president in your country several years ago. An independent also. You are a follower of Anderson?"
Joel shakes his head again, and gestures at his place setting. "Reagan-here," he points at the knife; "Anderson-here," he moves his finger a few inches to the plate; "Democrats-here," he moves his finger a few inches more to the fork; "Me- there," he raises his whole arm and points at the ceiling.
In the evening of the following day, we are with Joseph again, walking in an old district of central Moscow. "Come. This way," Joseph says. "I want to show you. Now. Stop. Right here. This is where we will have Diamond Vision screen for Moscow. "
We are looking down a picturesque, 19th-century street called Stari Arbat, which is being turned into a pedestrian mall.
"Very important to have the screens where there is no traffic," says Joseph. "You know, on certain holidays, Gorky Street, our main street, is closed to traffic. It is incredible experience! To see people moving. A flow, a flood of bodies, a liquid of bodies! Feeling themselves liberated to go where traffic is expected to be. So Diamond Vision must be where there are no cars."
I ask how he envisions people being able to communicate with one another, city-to-city, on these giant screens. "Will there be audio channels too?"
"Oh yes! Many of them. You will be able to come up to the screen and see somebody and say, 'Hello! How are you? This is my child-look! Will you write letter to me?"'
Joseph's enthusiasm is so infectious that I haven't the heart to ask why he thinks the Soviet government, which does its best to discourage even international phone calls, would ever permit such a thing. Joel also has little concern for such obstacles. "You know," he says, gazing down the empty street, "you could even use these screens to have a teleconference banquet. Seattle and Tashkent sit down to have dinner together. Why not?"
Joseph is 44. In his youth, he says, he studied music, then biophysics. He also wrote movie scripts, worked as a sailor on Arctic Ocean freighters, and worked with a Bulgarian psychologist who believed that if people act the role of Russians, Americans, or whatever, they can learn a totally new foreign language in three weeks.
"But I always felt not complete. That this was not me. I knew all the time: real musicians should be a little different from me. Real scientists should be a little different from me. It was only when I met people in your human potential movement that I heard people say: 'Trust your vision. Follow your instincts.' This is explanation of my strange way of life.
"I want to do such things here, to explore our hidden human reserves. All the time people are telling me: 'Joseph! You have forgotten in what country you are living. You cannot do that here. You should leave for America.' I know the difficulties. I said goodbye at airport many times to many people who decide to leave. And of course I had bad time-they put me twice in psychiatric hospital. I tell you about that another time. But this is my country. I went to Academy of Sciences. Finally they were interested, they let me set up a committee to study hidden human reserves. I said to them 'Look! There are waves of interest, curiosity, love moving to us from seashore of America but nobody here can receive such signals. We must make instruments to receive these waves and send reflections back."'
On Monday morning, Joel and Joseph are hard at work in Joel's room at the Metropol Hotel, planning the first U.S.-Soviet slowscan TV exchange, which is to happen on Friday. Overnight several telexes have come in from people Joel is working with at the Ark Communications Institute in San Francisco, a new foundation that promotes electronic exchanges and world peace, which is financing this whole project.
"Tremendous," says Joel, passing the telexes to Joseph. "Look, they've lined up two Nobel Prize winners to appear, Don Glaser and Glenn Seaborg, who used to be head of the Atomic Energy Commission-he's a real catch. And I called Gerard Piel at Scientific American before I left. Now all we have to do is get that damned box here. Time to call British Airways. Somebody should be there now."
Joel takes out and installs another piece of electronic equipment he has brought along, a sort of portable speakerphone-a small, battery powered loudspeaker that fastens onto a telephone receiver.
Out of this little gadget comes first the sound of a phone ringing at the other end of the line, and then the calm, very English voice of John Burley, Moscow station manager of British Airways. He says that he is terribly sorry to hear of the lost slow-scan and that British Airways will do everything in its power to locate it.
"Please hurry," says Joel. "We've got to find that box. There's a lot riding on this. We've got two Nobel Prize winners ready to go on the air Friday."
"Jolly good," says Burley, very politely, "I'll do what I can. I better ring off now."
Joseph pulls out some photocopied papers from his briefcase, and gives them to me. "About Mirror for Humanity. I brought it for you. Read."
Joseph seems to be the only person in Moscow with easy access to a photocopier, an instrument strictly off-limits to most Soviets.
"I have friends," he explains.
The typed manuscript, in English, is headed HOW TO ADDRESS ONE BILLION PEOPLE. It is an outline for a grand opening ceremony for Mirror for Humanity on Hiroshima Day:
"As the documentary film prologue of the Global Town Meeting draws to a close somewhere on the Globe day will break.
"As the Sun rises above the horizon the montage film crew will take the Sun up over the Earth through the network of space bridges, switching the image from one enormous video screen to another in a smooth glissando, changing with the landscapes and different populations. In some countries we see yesterday's twilight, in others the dark of night....
"People in the seven countries will see seven 'wonders of the world', sakura (flowering cherry) in Japan at the foot of Mount Fuji, the Bronze Age observatory at Stonehenge in England, the Sistine Chapel in Italy, a view of the Moscow Kremlin from the Moskva River, the Zwinger in Dresden and the dolphinarium in Hawaii."
When I finish reading, Joseph adds: "The sunrise we will show from megalithic observatory on the island of Malta. They have ancient sunrise ritual there, at Hagar Qim, one of oldest observatories in the world. People watched sunrise there thousands of years ago. This we must use to show humanity we can watch sunrise thousands of years from now."
The next morning Joel and Joseph are to meet again in Joel's hotel room. This time Joseph is not successful in getting past the dezhurnaya on our floor, who sternly marches him down to the front desk. Only after 20 minutes of arguing is he finally allowed back up. The speakerbox is still on Joel's phone; the room is now strewn with papers, notebooks, a nearly empty bottle of lemon-flavored vodka, and several collages of sketches and photographs brought by Joseph. Without pausing to take off his everpresent black wool cap, he explains:
"This is what we are preparing for the slow-scan conference Friday. This," he gestures at one of the sheets, "is Academician Raushenbakh. Famous Soviet scientist. He designed equipment that photographed dark side of the moon, 25 years ago. And here," he points to some sketching beside the picture, showing fines receding to a horizon, like a diagram about how to draw in perspective, "is where we are showing how Raushenbakh, like every scientist, must create his own space in which to work. These are images that represent his space. It is like Cezanne had his own conception of space. The geniuses of every culture distort space, which is why all artists at all times are always right.
"Music can be involved also. And three screens can be used, not only one! Also we can split this image, and make many Raushenbakhs. He will be here, there, maybe over there."
The phone rings. Over the loudspeaker box comes the voice of Rick Lukens, a collaborator of Joel's in California:
"We think we've got a vice president of AT&T to be on the hookup. We're going to have people in four different cities at this end: Berkeley, New York, Washington, and Boulder."
"Rick, that's tremendous," says Joel. "But we can't do anything if we don't get the damned box. Any word on that?"
"We're working on it. British Airways can't find it anywhere."
Joseph gets on the phone: "Rick! Each of the scientists participating must bring images to transmit that show creation of his own space. His space in which to work. We will create space for Raushenbakh. We will create space for Goldansky, who discovered molecules in cosmic rays. We will do it! "
Joel takes the receiver away from Joseph. "But this whole thing's irrelevant if we can't get the box. We have to get the box!"
The irony of all this is that neither Joel nor Joseph cares much about slow- scan television. Joel's dream project is his U.S.-Soviet computer-conferencing network. Joseph's is the Mirror for Humanity. But-it has taken me several days to figure this out-the Soviet Academy of Sciences has given permission only for a slow-scan TV test, while officialdom here is still wary of the other, more dramatic projects. So Joseph maneuvered to get Joel invited to demonstrate slow- scan TV. The two of them, who share a sixth sense of how bureaucracies work, have decided to go all out with this project in order to get their feet in the official door. Thus, each hopes, their grander visions will be made easier to realize.
Heading out the door, Joseph turns back with one final burst of inspiration:
"We must do slow-scan in color! We must find ways of making it three- dimensional! And we must call it something special, this new link. When film was invented, they called it motion pictures. Here we have no movement, so why don't we call this motionless pictures? First motionless-picture link between the U.S. and the Soviet Union!"
Joel is proceeding on the assumption that the slow-scan equipment will get here by Friday. Therefore he must secure a location for the Soviet end of this performance. He is now striding purposefully down a long corridor with doors to offices on either side. Joel's pace accelerates as he approaches the office he is aiming at, that of a Soviet agency that provides conference facilities for foreign business people. He comes through the door practically at a run. The receptionist is startled by the sight of this tall bearded American in a purple shirt, carrying his portable computer in a purple cloth case.
She scurries off and reappears in a moment with a frowning man in a brown suit. He listens in increasing bewilderment to Joel's talk about AT&T, slow- scan TV, Gerard Piel, ". . . and two Nobel Prize winners ready to go on the air."
"Low scan?" he asks. The proper message obviously has not gotten here from the Academy of Sciences.
Joel explains everything anew. "This event is vital for the planet! We're set to go on Friday. We're going to need two open phone lines to the U.S., a TV set, a video technician, a good audio amplifier, and facilities for the press."
At this strategic moment in the conversation, Joel pulls out his card. The Soviet Union is very big on business cards. Joel's reads:
U. S. -Soviet Special Projects Division Joel Schatz, Director
The Director looks impressive, even if Joel himself is the entire Special Projects Division.
"Wait a minute. Please!" The official appears more and more agitated. He is probably trying to decide whether this crazy American was let into the country by accident, or if there is some $50 million computer deal riding on his being treated properly. "Please. Wait here. "
He takes us to a conference room in the same suite of offices. He shoos out three Russians having a meeting there, then heads off to make some phone calls, trying to figure out who we are.
"There are two rules for dealing with bureaucracies," says Joel, while we wait. "One is to come in fast, faster than anyone can see, like an unguided missile. The second is to give them credit for the results."
The bureaucrats in this office are now conferring out of our earshot. They do not seem to be able to decide what to do with us. Finally they tell us to come back tomorrow.
That evening I question Joseph some more:
"What about those times they put you in the psychiatric hospital? What happened?"
"Well," says Joseph, "January 1983 came big Andropov campaign for everyone to be at his job. You remember? January 22d I was invited to police-local police, not KGB. They ask me to bring documents showing I am employed somewhere. 'Well,' I explain, 'I am doing my business. Spacebridges. Hidden human reserves. What is problem?'
"'Joseph,' they say, 'it is new time and new reality. We are just doing our job. We give you a month. If you need facilitation to find a job, we help. But on 22d of February, you can expect us.'
"So a month later police knock on my door. 'Month passed,' they say. 'Where is document that you are working?'
"'I am working,' I say to them.
"'I take part in two international competitions. With Mirror for Humanity project. One is international architects contest for new communications center in Paris. I design spacebridge terminal.'
"'But Joseph,' they say, 'Where you paid?'
"'Easy to explain,' I tell them. 'Look, here are the list of prizes. If I win, I paid by jury.'
"'But if you not win?'
"'That's my problem. I try next time.'
"'Joseph,' they say, 'Why you making trouble for us? Why you not working?'
"'I am fully employed,' I say, 'by myself!'
"Then they put me in hospital. For examination. Anyone who is not employed, you see, they think he is psychiatrically sick. Finally they take me to court.
"'What are you doing?' the judge asks me.
"'Are you really interested?' I ask. 'I am making researches about hidden human reserves.' I make this testimony into one-hour lecture.
"Finally the judge opens the court door to me. 'I wish you good luck, Sir,' he says, 'but please bring to court all documents proving you are working.'
"Then again they come to put me in hospital. This time psychiatric hospital, much worse. First time was only psychiatric ward of regular hospital. Twelve days I was in second hospital. I was working all time, writing draft of Mirror for Humanity proposal. I write letters to people, to Central Committee, to America, to Academician Velikhov [vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences] all from hospital as if it were my headquarters. Other patients very interested. Academician Velikhov was out of country; when he got back, he call up to somebody, explain that I am doing major work, and they let me out of hospital. Nurse said: 'This has never happened before."'
Although Joseph is too discreet to mention it, others in Moscow believe it was the state radio-TV authorities who got him arrested, since his work with the space-bridges to America encroaches on their territory. Opposing them have been Joseph's patrons, two powerful scientists: Boris Raushenbakh, the dark-side-of- the-moon man, and Yevgeny Velikhov, who heads Mikhail Gorbachev's drive to widen the use of computers in the USSR. Joseph claims he was not mistreated in the hospital, or forced to take drugs the usual Soviet routine with hospitalized dissidents. But friends who saw him after he was released said he was deeply shaken and that it took him some months to recover his energy.
Unfortunately, we are not privy to the tug-of-war between Joseph Goldin's jailers and the people who managed to get him released. But in that argument, obviously, was summed up a major tension in Soviet life today: between the centuries-old Russian censorship of contact with the West and Gorbachev's drive to catch up to Europe and America technologically - for which scientific exchanges are essential.
For Joseph, however, the aim is not Soviet technical progress, but something grander.
"Joseph," I ask him finally, "are you sure it won't get you in trouble, my writing about how they put you in the hospital?"
"My friend," says Joseph, "only one thing gets me in trouble, big trouble. Atomic war. That I work to prevent." He places his palms together and shoots his hands forward, like a diver. "I am like a bird with single destination."
Wednesday. In the morning, Joel is elated. A telex has come from California overnight: BOX LOCATED AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT. THEY WILL SHIP TO YOU SOONEST.
"Istanbul!" says Joel. "How the hell did it get there? They must have put it on the wrong plane at Heathrow."
While we are waiting for further word, Joseph arrives, full of news about additional Soviet scientists who have agreed to participate on Friday.
'Me phone rings. The voice of John Burley at British Airways is talking to Joel on the speakerphone, sounding rather disturbed:
"Mr. Schatz. Do you ... uh ... have any influence with the Turkish government?"
"Nobody's ever asked me that before. Why?"
"Well, uh ... it seems that Turkish customs has impounded your equipment. Our chap there says he can't get it released."
Joel holds a council of war. How can he get the box sprung?
He first considers calling the American embassy here in Moscow: surely they could put pressure on the Turks? Then we reject this idea: the U.S. government doesn't know about this whole venture to begin with, and, if it did, might not like it. Joseph remembers that he knows an American correspondent here who knows the Turkish ambassador. He reaches for the phone.
Joel fires off a telegram to the United States, BOX IMPOUNDED BY TURKISH CUSTOMS ISTANBUL AIRPORT. BRING MAXIMUM PRESSURE TO BEAR. URGENT.
There are more phone calls, all fruitless. Joel looks ever more disheveled. In precisely 48 hours' time two Nobel Prize winners, one prominent editor, a vice president of AT&T, and several of the most famous scientists in the Soviet Union are scheduled to be electronically linked together by a box of TV equipment now under lock and key in Istanbul.
"They can't do this," Joel says in despair. "They have no right to. That box wasn't even going to Turkey. "
Again the phone rings, and the voice on the speaker is John Burley's. This time he is more cheerful: he has just had a telex from British Airways' man in Istanbul, saying the box is freed and will be put on the first plane to Moscow.
Once again, the whole venture seems possible. Joel and Joseph drink a vodka toast and make plans.
Late that afternoon, Joseph and Joel head for Sheremetevo airport to meet the box. And there it is, coming off an Iraqi plane, with COLORADO VIDEO Still on the side. They let Joel through the customs barrier so he can pick it up. However, when he tries to get back through customs it becomes clear that his mission is meeting with less than complete success. He can get the box into Soviet customs today, an official tells him, as if that's a big accomplishment, but he cannot get it out of Soviet customs without an authorizing letter. The box is trundled away on a baggage cart by a workman in a blue smock, by Soviet customs.
The next day is Thursday. After a morning of frantic phone calls and another trip out to the airport with the necessary papers, Joel gets the box released at last.
Several hours later, with about 18 hours to go before the demonstration with the Nobel Prize winners, we are back in downtown Moscow, in a conference room with a Tass news ticker in the corner clicking out stories about fraternal visits of Soviet delegations to Czechoslovakia. We eagerly take the slow-scan parts out of the box. Reportorial objectivity has vanished; have somehow been conscripted into this madcap adventure and am trying to plug cables into sockets and studying I diagrams to see where Wire A attaches to Input B.
While Joel and I are trying to figure out how this unfamiliar equipment works. Joseph, who can never stay still for a moment, is searching for photos of great moments in human communication to transmission the slow-scan link. He is now on the phone to friends at the Moscow film studios, asking for pictures of Watson and Bell. Meanwhile, several Soviet officials who have just arrived have noticed Joel's Radio Shack computer. He cannot resist stopping everything to show it to them.
"Three hundred ninety-nine dollars! And for $1.82. I can send a message to the United States. See this outlet here?" He points to the back of the machine. "Through this I can talk to any city in the world. With only four AA batteries! This is going to revolutionize communication on the planet!"
The Russians cluster about, fascinated, and play with the computer while Joel resumes trying to assemble the slow-scan.
Joel is hoping to test the equipment with a transmission to the United States tonight; two phone lines have been ordered for 10:00 P.M. But after five hours of waiting, the phone connections never materialize, and the test is postponed until tomorrow.
Joseph leaves us at the hotel. "I go back to my headquarters," he says. "Call me any time of night if there are developments. Don't hesitate."
At midday the next day (midnight in California), we reassemble in the same room we were in last night. This is our last day in Moscow but our first chance to even test the equipment, and so the slow-scan meeting of the Nobel Prize winners, et al., has been regretfully postponed. Joel is planning to leave the equipment here, and arrange the gathering of scientists from back in the United States.
There are some 20 people in the room now. Joel has his two telephone lines at last. One of them is soldered to the TV set, the other to a phone Joel is holding. Joel walks back and forth across one end of the room, shouting into the phone: "Rick! Can you hear me?" Finally, out of an amplifier comes the voice of Rick Lukens in Berkeley, 11 time zones away. A troubleshooter from the slow-scan factory in Boulder was supposed to be on the line too, but has evidently gone to bed. The TV screen is completely blank.
"If Joseph's Gorky Park boys were here, we'd have this damned thing fixed in a minute," Joel confides exasperatedly. Joseph has friends who run the discotheque in Gorky Park.
"We're transmitting again, Joel," says the disembodied voice from Berkeley. "Can you see anything?"
Suddenly an image begins to appear on the TV set, formed by a rapidly moving dot traveling from left to right across the screen.
"Richard!" says Joel in delight, recognizing the face of his associate Richard Civille in California. "This is a great moment for the planet!"
The picture leaves much to be desired, however. Although vaguely recognizable as a human figure sitting in a chair, it looks as if black icicles were dripping down from the top of the screen, and as if the whole thing were viewed through a web of herringbones.
Joel explains the problem on the phone, and then says, "OK, now I'm going to send you something." He aims the video camera at a painting on the wall, and pushes the button. "Can you recognize this guy?"
Thirty seconds later comes a voice from Berkeley: "Lenin!" A buzz of excited whispering in Russian runs around the roomful of Soviet bureaucrats. A visual image from this room has just traveled almost halfway round the world, over the phone. Several of the men stand up, to get a better view of the TV.
"We're still getting all that black stuff, Joel," says the voice from Berkeley. 'And the herringbones. Send us another picture and we'll try sending the same picture back to you."
"OK, Rick," says Joel, "I'm going to send you Joseph."
He points the camera at Joseph. With his blue denim shirt and silver dolphin pin, Joseph is the only man in the room not wearing a coat and tie. A minute later, with a double row of black icicles, one acquired going, and one coming, a barely recognizable picture of Joseph appears on the Soviet TV screen.
Aha!" says Joseph, who has never been allowed to travel to the West. His round face beams triumphantly at the roomful of Soviet bureaucrats: "I have been to America and back!"
However, after two and a half hours, nothing has been able to get rid of the black icicles. The people in Berkeley, where it is now 2:30 A.M., sound increasingly groggy, and say they're going to have to do some research on this problem. Joel puts the slow-scan equipment back into its box and leaves it on loan with the Soviets. We head back to our hotel to pack.
On the drive out to the airport the next morning, Joel is ebullient. "Look what we've accomplished!" he says. "We made the first-ever link between the U.S. and the Soviet Union with this technology. And we've got their commitment to go ahead. And we've left the stuff here. In fact, we've left only half the stuff here, that's the great thing: they can only use this box to communicate with the U.S. This will be catching. You know, there's a guy named Sheidrake, an Englishman, who postulates that the universe doesn't have laws: it only has habits. That's the approach I take. We've got to change those habits, shift the paradigm. I think we made a start."
Joseph is also happy. From the taxi's front seat, he leans over and brandishes today's sheaf of photocopied papers. "I have here already plans for first four uses of slow-scan! One: Academician Raushenbakh and your NASA people transmit images about peaceful uses of space. Two: Soviet and American authors talk to each other. Three: 25th anniversary of invention of the laser is celebrated by Soviet and American scientists. Four: global town meeting about higher consciousness research."
It is clear Joseph sees slow-scan as a step closer to the Mirror for Humanity project. We can use it, he says, to prove that his larger vision can be done. "Joel!" he concludes. "I think you must talk to Armand Hammer about funding Mirror for Humanity."
At the airport, Joseph accompanies us to the head of the customs line. Finally a guard puts out his arm to prevent him from going farther.
"Remember!" Joseph calls across the widening space between us, his briefcase in hand and the black woolen cap on his head. 'Age of religion is over! Age of politics is over! Age of communication has begun!"
Do electronic exchange efforts between the United States and the Soviet Union do any good? It is so much fun being around Joel Schatz and Joseph Goldin that one hesitates to spoil the party by even asking such a question. Nonetheless, a skeptic might point out that ultimately technology alone does not decide what gets communicated between peoples: governments do. For the entire 69 years of their two countries' troubled coexistence, Americans and Soviets have had the use of the two great communication technologies of modern times: the mail and the telephone. But both nations have at tunes interfered with the delivery of mail from the other, and the USSR several years ago cut off the direct dialing of international phone calls. If two-way TV and other such exotica depart too far from the bland fare they have been used for so far, the Soviet authorities could cut them off as well.
"OK," says Joel impatiently to such arguments, "but why do people get transformed when they participate in a space-bridge? Why do people who go to the Soviet Union for the first time come back on a high, even when they see refuseniks and the KGB and all the rest of it? It's because they've seen that there are human beings over there. That's a revolutionary thought today. Do you see it in Rambo? Tell me that."
Undaunted by any doubts, Joel, after his return from Russia, plunges ahead with his various ventures. Many telexes to various Soviet officials requesting another slow-scan TV link are unanswered, but Joel remains optimistic: there now are signs that the Soviets are interested in the project most dear to him, the computer network.
Some three months after our trip together, Joel returns to the Soviet Union. A blizzard of telexes from him pours back to San Francisco: a birthday telex to his son, love telexes to his wife, instructions to travel agents and to a wide variety of electronic co-conspirators. Then finally a message: AMAZING BREAKTHROUGHS. DETAILS ON RETURN.
After he gets back, I go to Joel's apartment. Sitar music drones on the record player. Piles of telexes are stacked on his floor. Joel proudly demonstrates his latest electronic gadget, a tape recording of holophonic sound: "It's three-dimensional—a quantum leap beyond conventional stereo." He is full of new plans. About a delegation of California business executives he is taking to Russia in a few months. About using slow-scan TV to demonstrate medical equipment. About a new technology called "compressed video."
"Plus," he says, "we're going to get kids talking to each other. In Moscow I talked to the principal of High School number 45, that's an elite school where they have most of their courses in English. I'm going to do a computer link between them and a high school in San Francisco, where the kids can talk to each other. And we'll throw some slow-scan in there, so they can see each other too.
"Also, we're going to link up alcoholism researchers in both countries—there're people at Berkeley hot to do this—and economists who want to talk about converting arms factories to civilian use. And this trip I got in to see Velikhov, at the Academy of Sciences. We talked about a joint U.S.-Soviet trip to Mars, and about setting up communications teleports in Moscow and San Francisco. It was fantastic."
Over the weeks that follow, Joel begins to be worried that his messages to Joseph Goldin go unanswered.
"I bet they want him out of circulation during the Youth Festival that's going on now," says Joel. "They're rounding a lot of people up. Too many foreigners around."
Joel sends urgent telexes to two foreign correspondent friends in Moscow, and the next day one replies: JOSEPH WAS PICKED UP BY LOCAL POLICE ON WEDNESDAY. . . AND TAKEN TO A PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC. . . . A MOVE HAS BEEN LAUNCHED MAINLY BY RAUSHENBAKFI TO GET HIM RELEASED.
Two days later comes another message: JOSEPH IS STILL NOT FREE. WE ARE DOING ALL WE CAN… UNFORTUNATELY, ALL THE TOP PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH JOSEPH ARE ALSO OUT OF TOWN.
"Dacha time," says Joel. "Velikhov and all Joseph's other supporters are off at their summer dachas. That's why the police were able to put him in the clink now. He'll he there until they're back from vacation."
IN the meantime, Joel's longtime dream of a computer network linking U.S. and Soviet scientists is finally starting to take form.
"This is a breakthrough because an ongoing computer conference is a very un-Soviet kind of thing," he explains. "You see, in the Soviet Union, all official communication is up-and-down. But the essence of computer networking is that it's sideways communication. In leaving and getting computer messages, people are equal partners in an exchange of information. The Soviets don't have anything like this. I think it's a potentially revolutionary form of communication—far more so for a top-down society like theirs than for one like ours."
After Joel makes the arrangements, the half-dozen Soviet scientists and half-dozen American scientists in the conference take to their computers, introduce themselves, and begin to trade messages, mostly about computer languages and programming techniques. But, in reading over their messages, my eye always travels to the more personal ones. For example, a message from one Soviet scientist refers to Murray Turoff, an eminent American computer expert at the conference.
ALL this time, Joel is shooting off telexes to Joseph in Moscow. No answer. Then one day a message comes from a correspondent friend: JOEL: BIG NEW—PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED SOVIET GIANT SCREEN ANALOGOUS TO DIAMOND VISION ARE FUNDING FILM ENTITLED "MIRROR FOR HUMANITY" BASED ON JOSEPH'S SCRIPT. JOSEPH IS COMPLETELY ABSORBED IN THE PROJECT. SPACE-BRIDGE SEQUENCES ARE ENVISAGED.
"Incredible," says Joel, interpreting this new data. "From the nuthouse to this in a few weeks. Things are looking up. "
THE computer conference continues. At one point Murray Turoff describes visiting his ill, 98-year-old father—a man who came to the United States in 1905, one step ahead of the czar's police. I WOULD LIKE SOMEHOW TO CONVEY TO HIM THAT I LEAVE HIM AT THE HOSPITAL AND GO TO THE MOTEL ROOM AND HOOK UP TO RUSSIA, reports TGroff to the network a bit sadly. HOWEVER, EVEN IN HIS MORE COHERENT MOMENTS HE HAS NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHAT I WAS DOING.
After several months in which the computer conference participants talk to one another with increasing familiarity about hardware, software, and the prospect of conferencing bilingually, Joel suddenly calls me up, alarmed and indignant:
"They've done a computerectomy on us!"
"What? How?"
He explains: "The Department of Commerce told the New Jersey Institute of Technology [site of the mainframe computer on which the U.S. and Soviet scientists have been talking to one another] this may be illegal. So the conference has stopped. This is insane! We're not breaking any laws. I'm getting a lawyer. I'm getting the ACLU into the act. This is free speech! Planetary communication among consenting adults!"
Over the next several weeks, he keeps me posted. "It seems." he reports a week or two later, "that since there's no regulation saying that you can do this kind of computer conference with Russians, they're saying we can't."
Finally, with Joel on the phone as well, his lawyer manages to get through to the right person at the Department of Commerce. The man has something to do with export licenses. "This was unreal," says Joel, describing the phone call. "'Export!' we told him. " We're not exporting anything except words! The same things you export in a book or a magazine article or a first-class letter. Are there laws against that?'"
This argument wins the day, and, after an interruption of three weeks, the New Jersey Institute of Technology gets a written go-ahead from the Commerce Department, setting a precedent for future U.S.-Soviet computer links.
AT the end of 1985, Joel decides to go public. To celebrate the past year's activities, he and Joseph plan "Midnight in Moscow" parties in San Francisco and Moscow for New Year's Eve. Because of the 11-hour time difference, the new year will arrive in Moscow when it is lunchtime in San Francisco.
"Now we'll really put the slow-scan to work," Joel explains to me. "We've ironed out the bugs now—no more black icicles. Joseph's going to get his scientist friends, Arkady Raikin, the great Soviet comedian, some folk dancers, and maybe Yevtushenko. We'll get some equivalent people at this end."
At last, it seems, there will be an event like the one Joel was trying to arrange in Moscow, a long-delayed climax to the saga of the slow-scan. A sympathetic San Francisco businessman has loaned Joel his office, and on New Year's Eve about 100 people assemble there for a buffet lunch. Joel steps before a microphone and explains that Joseph and his friends are already now assembling with a slow-scan in a Moscow cafe. Everyone applauds.
The room grows more crowded. The appointed hour comes and goes. A phone rings, and there is a sudden hush.
Joel picks up the receiver with a booming "Hello!" Then he grimaces and tells the crowd: "Wrong number."
A few minutes later there is a buzz of excitement from his end of the room. Eight different TV crews surround Joel, jostling for position, pointing microphone booms at his face. He is talking on the phone. A few minutes later he takes the microphone again to tell the crowd—which by this time has swollen to 150 or so—"We can't even get through to the international operator in Pittsburgh. And if we can't get through, the Russians can't. It's electronic gridlock."
Reporters scribble down the phrase in their notebooks. The crowd applauds. Joel sits down with his Radio Shack computer on his lap and fires off some telexes to Moscow. One after another, the various people who were scheduled to send slow-scan images to Moscow perform for the crowd, to ever-greater applause. Poet Michael McClure reads a poem, "partly in English and partly in an invented language, so there's no translation problem." He reads another poem, about gravity, "something universal for all of us." Someone else takes the microphone to introduce an audiotape of whale calls. Another person announces a videotape of Eskimos doing a peace dance on the ice of the frozen Bering Sea. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart speaks about how he has seen the earth from space and it's all one planet. The mayor of San Francisco phones in. Jazz singer Bobby McFerrin does a few songs. At the side of the room, tall and august but tapping his foot in time with the music, is Glenn Seaborg, Nobel laureate and former Atomic Energy Commission chair. When his turn at the mike comes, he makes an impassioned plea for a comprehensive test ban treaty.
At the side of the room, Joel is on the phone again. He shrugs helplessly.
"Try Sprint!" someone calls, to great hilarity.
But the press is happy: they've got good food, free drinks, a Nobel Prize winner, singers, poets, astronauts, and even a live Russian, a Tass correspondent who cheerfully gives interviews to all comers. Furthermore, the press has one another: the presence of so many reporters and cameras is tangible proof that this is a certified news event. After two or three more hours of drinking champagne, everyone seems to have forgotten that the TV screen is blank and that no calls from Moscow have gotten through.
The next day, astonishingly, the party is on the front page of the Los Angeles Times: "U.S.-Soviet New Year's Eve Party Gets Signals Crossed." "Busy Signal for Peace Call," reads the headline of an equally friendly story in the San Francisco Chronicle. "Schrnoozing Between Superpowers," says another San Francisco paper. "The revellers sipped wine, nibbled on hors d'oeuvres and talked of peace," reports Reuters to its subscribers worldwide. Joel is at first amazed, then delighted: "Fantastic! I think we're even more successful when we don't get through."
Meanwhile, the various exchanges continue. A recent telex from Joseph urges Joel: KEEP UP PRESSURE IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
Joel adds: "You know, there's only one problem in what we are doing, tying the world together electronically. We're still missing one billion people. I need to find a Joseph Goldin in China. I have some feelers out."


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The viral Kid Rock/Sean Penn collaboration will be discussed tonight on ex-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm's "The War Room."
There are lots of Michigan connections in the new public service video, which has a message that Democrats and Republicans need to respect each other. That's a little different tone than Granholm has taken in her tweets lately.
The humorous, sometimes even touching video shows conservative Michigander Kid Rock and the liberal Sean Penn finding common ground (see below). It has gone from 42,000 views Thursday to more than 158,000 as of 8:30 p.m. Friday.
It starts with a chance meeting in a bar between Hollywood actor Penn and Michigan's own Kid Rock, who just performed at a Paul Ryan appearance in Rochester, Mich. on Monday, where he told 5,000 people he wished President Barack Obama had done a better job.
The two trade insults - if you watch the video, be forewarned the language is rough. But then an immigrant scolds them for not being appreciative of their American freedom and a news alert reports on more U.S. casualties in Afghanistan.
To the music of "Smile" by Uncle Kracker, another Michigander, the two go car shopping for a Toyota Prius for Kid, (it's OK, Detroit, because he mounts a deer rack on the grill), share drinks, exchange gifts, and walk together on the beach.
In the end, they affectionately insult each other again and agree to disagree. A message flashes on the screen: "Don't let politics divide us ... thinking differently is what made this country great."
The video story is credited to both Kid Rock and Sean Penn, who aren't the only political odd couple this week.
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Everything seemed to be going the way of No. 5 (Class 5A) West Des Moines Valley Thursday night at Rogers Park.
And that was exactly what defending state runner-up Johnston and Lauren Thilges wanted.
The top-ranked Dragons plated a run in the eighth inning courtesy a Thilges RBI, sending Johnston back to the state finals with a 6-5 victory over the Tigers in a game that spanned five-plus hours thanks to a lengthy rain delay.
Thilges, the daughter of former Fort Dodge Senior High graduates Denny and Amy (Reiners) Thilges, admitted that late-game rallies and withstanding weather issues were nothing new to the Dragons.
"It just seems like we've had these kind of games all year long, so the delay wasn't an issue for us," Thilges said. "It actually helped in a way because we were able to focus and get settled down before coming back out."
Valley (27-13) jumped out to a 3-0 lead following a home run by Anna Gernant in the first, adding another run in the second. As soon as Johnston plated its run, the game was halted for three-plus hours due to lightning and rain that hit the area.
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Kasey Feldt (L, 15-7, 7 2/3 IP, 14 H, 6 ER, 1 K, 5 BB) and Mackenzie Jones; Haylee Towers (W, 24-0, 8 IP, 9 H, 3 ER, 8 K, 1 BB) and Addy Pender. HR-V: Anna Gernant, Mandi Roemmich. 2B-V: Mandi Roemmich, Hailey Heinen; J: Brooke Wilmes (2), Madison Thilges, Brooke Sandstoe.
The Dragons struck first after the delay, scoring twice in the fourth to tie things up at 4-all. After taking the lead in the sixth, Mandi Roemmich cranked a solo homer over the fence to even the score.
"We just never gave up," Thilges said. "We kept fighting and working to get back in it."
Johnston's Brooke Wilmes doubled in the eighth off Kasey Feldt, moving Sandstoe to third. Valley, which lost three of four to the Dragons during the regular season, opted to intentionally walk Stanzy Snyder.
That loaded the bases for Thilges, who connected on a shot right back up the middle. Valley's shortstop, Brooke O'Hollearn, scooped it and fired to home, getting the second out. However, the Tigers tried to turn the double play, allowing Sandstoe to come all the way from second.
"When I made contact, I thought I had a hit for sure," Thilges said. "But (O'Hollearn) made a great play. I saw Brooke rounding third and knew she was headed home, so I just ran as hard as I could."
Snyder was 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI for Johnston, who will face either Dowling in a rematch of the state finals from a year ago or Southeast Polk tonight at 7 p.m. Wilmes and Addy Pender each had two hits, while Thilges finished with three RBI.
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Evaluation Review, vol. 24, 2000, p. 484-515
Article describes the findings of an evaluation of Collaborative, an initiative launched to improve the quality of child care in low- and moderate- income neighbourhoods in the US by increasing coordination among organizations that locally deliver professional resources to child care providers. Child care providers reported gains in their professional knowledge from using Collaborative resources and rated the resources highly. However, no long-term effects on provider behaviour, knowledge or attitudes were observed.
J. Poertner, T.P. McDonald, and C. Murray
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 22, 2000, p. 789-810.
Paper seeks to stimulate the development and reporting of outcome measures that can begin to serve as the basis for defining success in the delivery of public child welfare services in the US. Incremental progress has been made over the past decade in the measurement and reporting of outcomes in this field. While some broad agreement is beginning to emerge around certain measures, wide variations continue to exist in both definitions and performance standards.
N. Halfon, M. Inkelas and M. Hochstein
Milbank Quarterly, vol. 78, 2000, p.447-497
The health development organization (HDO) is a new approach to the delivery of children's health and social services in the US. The HDO would combine the best features of health maintenance organizations, social services and long-term health promotion strategies. Its mandate would be to develop the health of children in a community. The impetus for creating HDOs is a growing body of evidence that shows that adult health status is determined in childhood. Thus a new kind of healthcare organization is needed to integrate a full range of critical services for promoting children's development.
J. A. Anderson
Families in Society, vol. 81, 2000, p.484-493
Paper presents information about commonly used US federal government definitions of emotional and behavioural disabilities and a description of how variance in definitions and eligibility criteria contributes to the inability of agencies to work together to meet the needs of children and families. Additionally, methods for developing community-level, interagency eligibility criteria for serving children whose needs cross agency boundaries are addressed. Finally a recently created multiagency, community-based project located in Marion County, Indiana, is described.
R. P. Barth and M. Jonson-Reid
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 22, 2000, p.763-787
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Detention center design questioned
As plans for Island Countys Juvenile Detention Center are finalized, one last community board has to give its thumbs up before construction can begin.
To help ensure the approval process goes smoothly, the Coupeville Design Review Board met with project officials in an informal public meeting Tuesday morning. The Review Board ensures all construction projects meet Coupevilles design guidelines.
While no action came from the meeting, it allowed the Review Board to see the Detention Center facility plans and voice any concerns. The county plans to build the facility on the south side of the county jail.
The two-story building provides the county with a facility that gives the county a local, and more effective, way to administer juvenile programs, supporters say. Juvenile offenders currently serve time either in Skagit County or Snohomish County.
The rectangular building, complete with access to the skybridge heading toward the Law and Justice Center, provides a short-term facility to house up to 20 juveniles.
The architect, Peter Alef of KMD Architects in Portland, said the building provides a low-key, functional facility.
Were trying to make this thing not scream juvenile detention facility, Alef said. Its a place where kids in trouble are being taken of.
Nevertheless, several local officials, residents and Design Review Board members were concerned about the buildings appearance.
Those concerns ranged from the mechanical equipment on top of the facility to the surrounding landscaping.
Will Jones, Coupeville resident and former mayor, hoped that the lighting would be minimized and that the equipment on top of the building would be as quiet as possible.
Design Review Board member Fran Einterz questioned whether equipment would be hidden.
Alef said that the rooftop equipment is set back as far as possible and shouldnt stick out from the top of the building.
As far as the lighting is concerned, Alef said that the only outdoor lighting the facility needs is for the parking. The lighting helps address safety concerns.
Another official wanted to see more landscaping to minimize the visual effect of the detention center on North Main Street.
Im a little concerned that were going to have a bunch of modern facades going from the hospital to the courthouse, said Rob Harbour, manager of Ebeys Landing National Historical Reserve. He was referring to the joint fire station and ambulance bay at the hospital that the Design Review Board approved last month.
He wanted to see an aggressive landscaping plan to mitigate the impact of the building. Adding more trees to the south side of the building site would be a way to resolve those concerns, Town Planner Larry Kwarsick said.
Alef said he would be willing to add more trees on the south side of the building just as long as people know such a move would result in the loss of parking spots.
Design Review Board member Millie Fonda advocated heavy landscaping with trees capable of growing as tall as the detention facility.
County officials attending the meeting seemed appreciative of the informal setting.
Public Works Engineer Gary Hess said the comments of the community will be worked into existing plans before the project formally comes to the board for approval.
He said that the county wants to hire a contractor sometime this spring.
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This deal has ended.
BradsDeals readers can take an exclusive $20 off $75 at Smart Bargains via this link through 11:59pm EST tonight. This is the best dollar-off coupon we've ever had for SmartBargains' designer discount fare and it is for both new and returning customers (most of their coupons are new customers only). Best bets (prices after the $20 off): the Cuisinart 21-Piece Cutlery Set for $59.98, the Kate Spade Celeste Sunglasses and the 800 Thread Count 100% Cotton Sheet Set (pictured) both for $69.99, the Bliss Classic Comfort Stripe Hammock for $84.97, the Union Square 12pc Bedding Set for $79.97, Soho Bench and Ottoman Set for $79.98. Shipping starts at $9.95 and there's no sales tax (except CO, KY, MA, NC, NY).No longer available