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News flash: America's rich are getting richer; America's poor are getting, well, you know.
And in other news, the sky is blue and the sun will set tonight in the West.
OK, so you probably had guessed that gazillionaires such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison were doing, well, better than most in this "sluggish" economy. But on Monday, Forbes magazine made it (more or less) official; it released its list of the richest 400 Americans. (Side note: Wonder why they stop at 400?) As my colleague Ricardo Lopez wrote:
Five years after the financial crisis, the mega-rich have regained all the wealth they lost during the recession, setting a new record value for combined net worth….
The annual report showed that America's wealthiest have a combined net worth of $2.02 rillion, the highest value ever recorded by Forbes. That's up from $1.7 trillion a year ago.
Now, nothing against Forbes, but if you want a truly in-depth look at the changes that have produced today's economic winners and losers in the United States, you must read Tom Petruno's excellent analysis in Sunday's Times, "5 years after financial crash, many losers -- and some big winners."
Warning: You'll actually have to, uh, read for a while. So, for those with short attention spans, I'll give you the Twitter version: "The gulf between the post-crisis haves and have-nots isn't likely to narrow significantly soon."
What's interesting to me, though, is the flip-side of this equation, as reported Sunday by The Times' Emily Alpert: "Amid slow economic recovery, more Americans identify as 'lower class.'"
As she wrote:
Chris Roquemore once thought of himself as working class. But it's hard to keep thinking that, he said, when you're not working.
The 28-year-old father said he sparred with his supervisors at a retail chain about taking time off after his mother died -- and ended up unemployed. Since then, Roquemore has worked odd jobs and started studying nursing at Long Beach City College, trying to get "a career, not a job." All those changes, in turn, changed the way he thought of himself.
Roquemore is among the small but surging share of Americans who identify themselves as "lower class." Last year, a record 8.4% of Americans put themselves in that category -- more than at any other time in the four decades that the question has been asked on the General Social Survey, a project of the independent research organization Norc at the University of Chicago.
And here I thought it was just me feeling blue because it was Monday.
Apparently, despite howls from conservatives and the Republican Party, President Obama hasn't been that successful in his efforts to turn America into a socialist Utopia. Remember the old "spread the wealth" tape of Obama that Fox News ran on a 24/7 loop? To borrow a Sarah Palinism, "How's that workin' out for ya, poor folks?"
Because things are working out pretty well for rich folks such as Palin.
Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, we all have to be concerned about a society with such a yawning economic divide. Some, like Rebecca Solnit, who wrote about the Occupy movement in Sunday's Opinion section, believe grass-roots activism can make a difference.
Even former political rivals such as Sens. Bob Dole and Tom Daschle acknowledge that today's political climate has become too partisan, too slanted against the poor, as they argued in their Monday Op-Ed, "Stop playing politics with hunger."
And California's Legislature has taken a small step to help, voting to raise the state's minimum wage.
That may help some of those Wal-Mart workers out there, but they're still going to be "lower class" in this economy.
And speaking of Wal-Mart, take a look at the Forbes list, and note this little tidbit:
Four of the top 10 spots were held by the Walton family, which include Christy Walton, the richest woman in the world. She inherited her wealth when her husband, John Walton, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, died in a 2005 plane crash.
That's the American way to make money: Inherit it!
Now, I'm not saying these folks have to spread the wealth around. But sometimes, if people aren't willing to change, well, the world -- like France in the 1790s and Russia in 1917 -- has a way of changing things for them.
Let them eat cake, indeed.
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You don't have to be in Hollywood to need a script. In fact, all businesses that deal with clients need a script for their employees. So if you have clients, and I hope you do, this means you.
I had one of those "As a client, I am going to fire this business and find someone else to patronize" moments yesterday. (The name of the business will be omitted to protect the guilty.) I have gone to this business on a regular basis for years.
I was trying to fill out the required paperwork, working with a receptionist who apparently was so engrossed with her computer screen that she could not take 5 seconds to look up and acknowledge that I was in front of her. When I raised a question about one form, she told me, "Well, you're going to have to …."
Nope, clients do not have to do anything. Clients are why we are in business.
Clients are not always right, of course. They may need to be given more information or directed to another resource within the business or asked for contact details so the business can find the correct answer to their problem and respond at a later date.
And of course, sometimes clients can be jerks.
But regardless of what category—uninformed, misinformed or jerk—the client falls into, the employee dealing with the client ("client-facing," as my company likes to say) has to respond in a professional manner that makes the client feel valued. If your employees do otherwise, you may lose the client—and you as the owner will never know why.
This usually means that unless your employees are especially sensitive and graceful in dealing with people, you will need to give them a script. The phrases "you are going to have to" must be replaced with "let me get that information to you" and the like.
Call your business and see how the phone is answered. If you can, go incognito (or get a friend to do some reconnaissance for you) and see how check-in staff at the event talk to arriving guests.
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Welcome to AHEYM
The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories explores Jewish life in Eastern Europe before, during and after World War II. The archive consists of nearly 400 interviews, conducted primarily in Yiddish, and mostly in small towns throughout Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. The interviews focus on language, religious customs and beliefs, songs, and Holocaust testimony and present a variety of perspectives on how ordinary Jews experienced the twentieth-century. Recorded in situ, or on the site of memory itself, these testimonies bring to life the story of those Jews who not only survived, but rebuilt their lives in the very places where some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th century occurred.
For curated video clips, explanations, and analysis of some of the collection highlights, see our Online Exhibits. You can search by person, location or subject.The complete archive will soon be available for public access.
Quotes from the Interviews
"I wrote in Yiddish. I studied at a Yiddish school. I finished six grades, in Yiddish. I can write in Yiddish. I love Yiddish"
"Our children's children's children's children must know"
"And this is my autobiography"
"And Hitler took and murdered these people"
Yosl Kogan performs the song "Aheym," about his hopes for the Jewish future. He explained that he wrote the song during World War II, when he was a prisoner in the Bershad ghetto under Romanian occupation.


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Previously on GeekTech, we featured a Virtual Cinematography project that overlaid Kinect depth-sensing maps with HD video from a DLSR. It was an incredible feat for quick-made 3D models that only a crack team of professional videographers and programmers could pull off.
Now, the same team has posted just how they did it with their RGBD Toolkit, so you can make your own HD Kinect videos at home too.
The RGBD Toolkit website has information on how to calibrate your DLSR to work with the Kinect. You can also download the video stitching program to fuse the footage together.
The video quality is still pretty rough, with raged edges and lots of depth noise, but it's a start. It also looks really badass in terms of space-hologram-looking virtual 3D-video.
[RGBD Toolkit via Gizmodo]
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Save your money. I'm only giving this one star because I cannot post this unless I give it something! Awful! I would be terribly upset if I had spent a lot of money and had to stay there a week!??????We looked at the Resort online prior to booking a resort for a day pass and thought this would be really nice from the photos. When we arrived the resort was extremely run down and dirty. The pass for the day was all- inclusive of you could stomach it- the food was gross and the drinks were not any better. The swimming pools had a lot of debris and film floating on top- so you could get in if you would dare, but there they were not handing out penicillin shots. So please be advised to keep your money and say NO! The taxi ride cost $20 each way- so not only were we out from the bad experience, another $40 because we could not take the bus jitney due to their Labor Day parade. By the way- the photos on online are most likely 25 plus years old, definitely not current. A better choice we have heard would have been the Atlantis or Sandals!


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● A first-of-its-kind system that continuously monitors bus and truck tire pressure and temperature via sensors placed inside the tire
● An increasing number of vehicles have been equipped with ContiPressureCheckTM since its global launch in 2013
● Suitable for integration in almost all existing telematic fleet management systems
Middle East, January 25, 2018. Continental, the leading automotive, tire and technology company, has announced the Middle East launch of ContiPressureCheckTM, a first-of-its-kind tire pressure and temperature monitoring system for buses and trucks. Redefining the tire market with this new innovative technology, and highlighting their commitment to providing tire solutions, Continental Middle East aims to reduce overall fleet costs and improve road safety by ensuring the proper usage and maintenance of tires.
The ContiPressureCheckTM system is designed to take the daily hassle of monitoring truck and bus tire pressure and temperature away from drivers, so that they can focus on safe driving. The regional roll-out of the system comes in line with recent regulations issued by the GCC authorities to achieve maximum safety, preserve the lives of road users and reduce injuries from vehicle accidents, especially trucks.
In the UAE, a mandatory phase for the installation of remote monitoring devices to detect faults in heavy trucks that have completed more than 20 years' service, was recently announced by Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and put in action from July 2017. Actively championing road safety, the UAE government is working to reduce traffic fatalities under Vision 2021, a policy which targets safer driving conditions and improved road user behaviour. Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organisation (SASO) released technical regulations for owners and drivers of foreign trucks and trailers, pertaining to protective devices in their vehicles while crossing into the Kingdom.
"We work in co-operation with the authorities in the region to provide innovative technologies that contribute to the overall driving safety measures set in the local markets. As we also aim to give our customers a boost in performing their daily jobs, we present to them the innovative ContiPressureCheckTM system that looks out for their safety and is an added reassurance for them on the roads," said Juan Uruburu, Head of Sales, Commercial Vehicle Tires, Continental Middle East.
Uruburu continued, "Continental is steadfastly committed to bringing our customers solutions that not only help their businesses run more effectively but also allow them to contribute towards being more socially responsible."
Under-inflated tires lead to higher operating costs. The new ContiPressureCheck system continuously measures the pressure and temperature of all tires on vehicles - even when driving. This helps to save fuel and increase mileage. It also significantly reduces the risk of tire failure, whilst maintaining the value of the casing, and thus the re-treadability.
1. TIre Sensors – Mounted on the tire inner liner inside a rubber housing (tire sensor container), the sensors continuously measure tire temperature and pressure.
2. Central Control Unit (CCU) – Receiving tire sensor signals directly or via the additional receiver, this evaluates the data and sends the status of all of the vehicle's tires to the driver's display screen.
3. Driver Display – Positioned inside the vehicle, this shows tire pressure, temperature and provides the driver with warning alerts.
4. Telematics Integration (optional) – Gives drivers the option to be linked with local telematics systems for live monitoring.
1. Easy - Quick and easy to install, mounting inside the tire guarantees high data accuracy. ContiPressureCheck is compatible with all tire brands.
2. Economical - Driving with the correct air pressure can lead to significant fuel savings, increased mileage and maintain the value of the tire casing, thus making your fleet more economical.
3. Reliable and safe - The ContiPressureCheck system helps prevent tire-related breakdowns that can lead to costly downtime, late fines, negative publicity, danger to other road users and loss of sales or profits.
4. Eco-friendly - Running the correct inflation pressure lowers fuel consumption, reduces tire wear, decreases CO2 emissions and consequently protects the environment.
5. Connectivity – The system can be integrated in the vast majority of telematic fleet management systems, providing fleet maintenance managers with a real-time status of each and every tire on a vehicle.


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Joe Jackson Gibbs (November 25, 1940) is a former American football coach, NASCAR Championship team owner, and two time NHRA Pro Stock team owner. He was the 20th and 26th head coach in the history of the Washington Redskins. Well known for his long hours and work ethic, Gibbs constructed what Steve Sabol has called, "The most diverse dynasty in NFL history," building championship teams with many players who have had mediocre to average careers while playing for other NFL teams. During his first stint in the National Football League, he coached the Redskins for 12 seasons and led them to eight playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowl titles.
After retiring at the end of the 1992 season, he switched focus to his NASCAR team, Joe Gibbs Racing, which has won three championships under his ownership, one with former driver Bobby Labonte and two with Tony Stewart. On January 7, 2004, Gibbs came out of retirement to rejoin the Redskins as head coach and team president, signing a 5-year, $28.5 million contract. On January 8, 2008, Gibbs resigned as Redskins' head coach and team president. Overall, during his 16 years with the team, Gibbs had only three losing seasons and led the team to 10 playoff appearances. He remains with the organization as "Special Adviser" to the team owner Daniel Snyder.
Born in Enka, North Carolina, Joe graduated from Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe Springs, California, in 1959 where he was the star quarterback. Gibbs attended Cerritos Junior College and then San Diego State University (SDSU), where he played tight end, offensive guard and linebacker on the football team, coached by Don Coryell. Gibbs graduated from SDSU in 1964 and earned a master's degree in 1966.


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Islam its Origin and Teachings
About 600 years AD i.e. after Christ, came Hazrat Mohammad. He was born in Mecca in 570 AD. All those who consider Mohammad as their prophet and believe in Allah (God) are known as Muslims. To begin with his teachings had annoyed the people of Mecca. Many Muslims were 'prosecuted' as his followers grew in numbers and "rejected idol worship". So, in 622 AD Mohammad and his followers emigrated to Medina. His and his followers emigration to Medina is known as Hijra and Muslim calendar starts from this year. When Mohammad and his followers had become strong they returned to Mecca victorious and "destroyed all the idols" in the shrines of Mecca, known as Kaaba. The inhabitants of Mecca accepted Mohammad as prophet and accepted Islam as their religion. Thereafter Islam spread to Arab and adjoining countries like Iraq, northern Africa and even some areas of Spain. Muslims encouraged learning, in medieval times, as part of their religious duty. The Muslims of those days translated into Arabic, the ancient knowledge of ancient world available only in Greek and Syriac languages.
After Mohammad died in AD 632, Abu Bakar his close companion was elected caliph (successor).
However the basic tenets of Islam, which have been ignored by many Muslims and others, are for harmony with followers of all religions and their prophets as the following extract from Quran will elucidate:
Say, we believe in Allah and in what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Issac, Jacob and the tribes of Moses and Jesus and the other prophets. We make no destination between them and to Allah we have surrendered ourselves (2-BC)
"O mankind, we have created you from a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that you might get to know one another. The noblest of you in Allah's sight is who is most religious. Allah is all knowing and wise (49,13)
Christians are living in Christian or Christian dominated countries in peace and harmony with followers and worshipers of all religions, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jewish religion. To this day there are insignificant number of non-Muslims in Muslim dominated countries of Arabia, Iran and North Africa. There are millions of Hindus Sikhs and Muslims in USA, Canada, Britain and virtually in all the so called Christian or Christian dominated countries including Australia and New Zealand and now in Latin America, too.
For the peace in ever –changing world, which is now worried about climate change, all people of this planet must join hands, irrespective of their religions, to save this (planet) or the world otherwise entire humanity and all living beings on earth, in rivers oceans, and in air will suffer.
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- Background info
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- The process of catalog compilation
Background info
What's a catalog?
When configuring a node, Puppet agent uses a document called a catalog, which it downloads from a Puppet master server. The catalog describes the desired state for each resource that should be managed, and may specify dependency information for resources that should be managed in a certain order.
Why is it used?
Puppet manifests are concise because they can express variation between nodes with conditional logic, templates, and functions. By resolving these on the master and giving the agent just a specific catalog, Puppet is able to:
- Separate privileges: Each individual node has little to no knowledge about other nodes. It only receives its own resources.
- Reduce the agent's resource consumption: Since the agent doesn't have to compile, it can use less CPU and memory.
- Simulate changes: Since the agent is just checking resources and not running arbitrary code, it has the option of simulating changes. If you do a Puppet run in noop mode, the agent will check against its current state and report on what would have changed without actually making any changes.
- Record and query configurations: If you use PuppetDB, you can query it for information about managed resources on any node.
What about Puppet apply?
Puppet apply compiles its own catalog and then applies it, so it plays the role of both Puppet master and Puppet agent.
Information sources
Puppet compiles a catalog using three main sources of configuration info:
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- External data
- Puppet manifests (and associated templates and file sources)
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Agent-provided data
When agents request a catalog, they send four pieces of information to the Puppet master:
- Their name, which is embedded in the request URL. (e.g.
/puppet/v3/catalog/web01.example.com?environment=production) This is almost always the same as the certname.
- Their certificate, which contains their certname and possibly some extra information. (This is the one item not used by Puppet apply.)
- Their facts.
- Their requested environment, which is embedded in the request URL. (e.g.
/puppet/v3/catalog/web01.example.com?environment=production) Before requesting a catalog, agents will ask the master which environment they should be in, but they will use the environment in their own config file if the master doesn't have an opinion.
External data
Puppet can use external data at several stages when compiling, but there are two main kinds to be aware of:
- Data from an ENC or other node terminus, which is available before compilation starts. This data arrives in the form of a node object, which can contain any of the following:
- Classes that should be assigned to the node, and parameters to configure the classes
- Extra top-scope variables that should be set for the node
- An environment for the node (which will override its requested environment)
- Data from other sources, which is accessed as needed during compilation. It may be invoked by the main manifest or by classes or defined types in modules. This kind of data includes:
- Exported resources queried from PuppetDB
- The results of functions, which can access arbitrary data sources including Hiera or an external CMDB
Puppet manifests, templates, etc.
This is the heart of a Puppet deployment. It can include:
- The main manifest, which might be broken out into per-node
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The process of catalog compilation
This description is simplified. It doesn't delve into the internals of the parser, model, evaluator, etc., and some items are presented out of order for the sake of conceptual clarity.
For practical purposes, you can treat Puppet apply nodes as simply a combined agent and master.
This process begins after the catalog request has been received.
Step 1: Retrieve the node object
Once the Puppet master has the agent-provided information for this request, it asks its configured node terminus for a node object.
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The next most common node terminus is the
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ldap node terminus, which will fetch ENC-like information from an LDAP database. See the page on LDAP nodes for more information.
Finally, it's possible to write a custom node terminus that retrieves classes, variables, and environments from any kind of external system.
Step 2: Set variables from the node object, from facts, and from the certificate
- Any variables provided by the node object will now be set as top-scope Puppet variables.
- The node's facts are also set as top-scope variables.
- The node's facts will also be set in the protected
$factshash, and certain data from the node's certificate will be set in the protected
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- Any variables provided by the Puppet master will also be set. See the page on facts and built-in variables for more details.
All of these variables will be available for use by any manifest or template during the subsequent stages of compilation.
Step 3: Evaluate the main manifest
Puppet now parses the main manifest. The node's environment may specify a main manifest to use; if it doesn't, the Puppet master will use the main manifest from its config file.
The main manifest can contain any arbitrary Puppet code. The way it is evaluated is:
- If there are any node definitions in the manifest, Puppet must find one that matches the node's name (see agent-provided information, above). See the page on node definitions for information on how node statements match names.
- If at least one node definition is present and Puppet cannot find a match, it will fail compilation now.
- Any code outside any node definition is evaluated. Any resources are added to the node's catalog. Any class declarations cause classes to be loaded from modules and declared (see Step 3a below).
- If a matching node definition was found, any code in it is evaluated at node scope. (This means it may contain variable assignments that can override top-scope variables.) Any resources are added to the catalog, and any class declarations cause classes to be loaded and declared.
Step 3a: Load and evaluate classes from modules
It's possible for the main manifest to contain class definitions, but usually classes are defined elsewhere, in modules.
If any classes were declared in the main manifest and their definitions were not present, Puppet will automatically load the manifests containing them from its collection of modules. It will follow the normal manifest naming conventions to locate the files it should load.
The set of locations Puppet will load modules from is called the modulepath. The modulepath can be influenced by the node's environment.
Once a class is loaded, the Puppet code in it is evaluated, and any resources are added to the catalog. If it was declared at node scope, it has access to any node-scope variables; otherwise, it only has access to top-scope variables.
Classes can also declare other classes; if they do, Puppet will load and evaluate those in the same way.
Step 4: Evaluate classes from the node object
Finally, after Puppet has evaluated the main manifest and any classes it declared (and any classes they declared), it will load from modules and evaluate any classes that were specified by the node object. Resources from those classes will be added to the catalog.
If a matching node definition was found in step 3, these classes are evaluated at node scope, which means they can access any node-scope variables set by the main manifest. If no node definitions were present in the main manifest, they will be evaluated at top scope.


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I'm off to Toronto for a few days to attend to some family matters. I'll be back at the ballpark on Sunday and will be blogging and tweeting again at that time. Until then, you're just going to have to survive without me. One of my fellow dotcomers, Anthony DiComo, will be pinch hitting in my absence. Hopefully the frozen tundra doesn't serve as a shock to my system after getting accustomed to this lovely Florida weather. Back in a few…
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By Jon Heyman, SI.com
Nationals general manager Jim Bowden says he's innocent of any wrongdoing.
Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden's job is in jeopardy, according to people familiar with the situation.
The Nationals are said to be seriously considering firing Bowden in the wake of the Esmailyn Gonzalez debacle. SI.com reported last week that the Nationals prospect who received a $1.4 million signing bonus is not actually a 19-year-old named Esmailyn Gonzalez but rather a 23-year-old named Carlos Alvarez Daniel Lugo, a major embarrassment to the Nationals organization.
According to the SI.com report, Bowden pressed his bosses to sign Gonzalez, whose next best offer was $700,000 from the Texas Rangers. Nationals executive Jose Rijo, the former pitcher and a longtime associate of Bowden's, has taken a leave of absence in connection to the case. Rijo reportedly recommended the Gonzalez/Lugo signing.
Rijo and Bowden are being looked at by MLB investigators in the scout skimming scandal. But whether or not Bowden is implicated in that scandal, the Gonzalez/Lugo signing is a fiasco for Washington, which has been mired with troubles under Bowden's leadership.
It isn't known who might take over should Bowden be let go. Baseball Prospectus also reported that Bowden could be at risk.
Nationals president Stan Kasten could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.
**So Bowden pays him double what the next best offer is. I wonder how much the kid actually got. In this release it's stated MLB investigators are looking into the case, in previous ones "the feds" were. If it's MLB, I'd expect they sweep it under the rug like roids, if it's the fed this is not going away anytime soon.
Congratulations to Travis Snider who hit the Jays first HR of the year in the 5th inning today.
Hope all is well Jordan and you may find this out before you read this but it's actually warm this weekend :).
It's be great, if you could give us a bit of an overview on Cecil, Romero Mill's and any other young pitcher who is impressing. Particulary Mills who just went two innings today and only gave up one run. About all I can find about him is he has a very deceptive delivery. It'd be great to know what they have in their arsenal, how fast they bring it and what their strentghs and weaknesses are.
Well so much for the warm weather.
I second what GS has to say about the young arms on this team it would be great to know.
Nice to see the young arms doing well.I know it's early and they will have bumps along the way.It must be encouraging for Doc to see the future of this rotation looks strong.All that talk this week of trading Doc although interesting to see what they'd get would be wrong at this point.He loves Toronto but wants to pitch in the postseason.Watching these young guys come up and do well must make him feel good about where the club is going.Lots of upside and with someone like Doc as a role model for pitching and work ethic,these kids may come along faster than anyone expects.
It's a balmy 10F today…temperature dropped about 25 degrees over night. At least a whole lot of snow melted. Hope all goes well at home for you.
Is Marcum recovering well? It would be nice to let Doc have a shot at the post season without being traded, but the Jays are in a very tough division. Anyone know if they are still wearing retro blue for Friday home games again this year?
Overall – Brad Mills profiles as a No. 5 Starter or Middle Reliever. His control and velocity are above average, and his fastball is a plus pitch. Both of his curveball and his changeup are only average pitches so he might need to develop another off speed pitch to use as a strikeout pitch.
Average – N/A
Fastball – Mills' fastball is an above average pitch, usually clocking around 92 mph. It has a little bit of movement so that's one thing he might want to work on so he progresses farther.
Field – N/A
Curveball – Mills' curveball isn't anything great. It clocks in the mid 70s and has good spin, which gives it a nice, sharp break. It'd be nice to see Mills add a little more velocity to his curveball and use it as a strikeout pitch.
Speed – N/A
Changeup – Mills has your major league average changeup. There isn't much to say about it other than it consistently clocks in the mid 70s. Mills' changeup has been hit hard throughout his college career and he should start locating it in the strikezone better.
Arm – N/A
Control – Mills has plus control on all of his pitches, other than his changeup. If he wants to excel in the majors he should really work on developing some control over his changeup or else he won't make it far in Baseball.
Power – N/A
Velocity – Mills has good, solid velocity on his fastball, which clocks in the low 90s, topping out at 95 mph. His curveball and changeup just have average velocity, which makes his changeup even more hittable.
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Brett Cecil -Scouting Report
Fastball – sits at 91 or 92, getting to as high as 94. A heavy pitch that induces a lot of ground balls. He also has a four-seamer.
Slider – sharp biting mid-80?s pitch that is very tough on left handers. He can get it to act more like a cutter when he throws it with a higher velocity.
Curveball – slower of the two breaking pitches, not much more than a show-me pitch
Change-Up – another still developing pitch that he?s improved on over the past year?didn?t need it as a reliever at Maryland, so he hasn?t been throwing the pitch very long?should improve with experience
Cecil is still working to build up his endurance as a starter. He rarely made it into the 6th inning last year and when he did, the quality of his stuff would dip slightly. He?s shown the ability to get out both left handed and right handed pitchers and works well from both the stretch and wind-up.
Apparently, the Jays have worked with Cecil to better hide throughout his delivery and make his release point harder to pick up (Source: Baseball America).
From a peripheral standpoint, Cecil combines the ability to miss bats and generate ground balls with solid control. You really can?t ask for much else.
Best Case Outcome – Strong No. 3 starter?depending on the defense behind him, you could see his numbers play up to No. 2 starter level. More Likely Outcome – Borderline No. 3 or strong No. 4 starter
An interesting blog which provides an overview of Jays prospects at each level.
J.P. Ricciardi is MLB?s Worst General Manager
Published by Chris Melito
Tyler Hissey recently wrote a very good article on the poor work of Jim Bowden and his General Managing of the Washington Nationals. While I agree with Tyler that Bowden has made some tremendously bad choices, he is not the worst GM in the league. I would also say that Bowden is setting himself up to be as bad a General Manager as the man I would put on the top of the list, J.P. Ricciardi.
Thomas Wayne followed up Hissey?s article by compiling a list of the five worst GMs in MLB from a number of Dugout Central regular writers. I noticed that J.P. Ricciardi did appear on some people?s lists, but I thought not nearly enough.
So, why is J.P. Ricciardi the worst GM in baseball?
VIERA, Fla. — Jim Bowden resigned Sunday after four seasons as the Washington Nationals general manager, leaving under the cloud of a federal investigation into the skimming of signing bonuses given to Latin American prospects.
He has maintained his innocence in the matter, but said Sunday, "I've become a distraction." No replacement was immediately announced.
Bowden is the only GM the Nationals have had since the franchise moved from Montreal to Washington before the 2005 season, overseeing a team that went 81-81 in that debut season but has been below .500 ever since. Last season, the Nationals were a majors-worst 59-102.
His tenure with the club was marked by such moves as the trade for Alfonso Soriano, the failure to re-sign Soriano, free-agent busts such as Paul Lo Duca and reclamation projects such as Dmitri Young.
Bowden also drew unwanted off-field attention, including in 2006, when he was charged with driving under the influence after failing a field sobriety test while in Miami.
"Like anyone else, I have made mistakes in all areas of my personal and professional life, but I leave here with the true belief that I have done nothing intentionally to harm the Washington Nationals or Major League Baseball," Bowden said in a statement released by the team Sunday.
He met last year with FBI investigators looking into allegations of skimming of signing bonuses and it was reported last weekend by SI.com that Bowden's actions are being looked at as far back as 1994, when he was GM of the Cincinnati Reds.
"I am disappointed by the media reports regarding investigations into any of my professional activities," Bowden said in his statement. "There have been no charges made, and there has been no indication that parties have found any wrongdoing on my part."
Bowden's resignation came two days after Jose Rijo, a special assistant to Bowden, was fired by the Nationals.
That was fallout from a Major League Baseball investigation that determined a top baseball prospect from the Dominican Republic who received a $1.4 million signing bonus from the Nationals lied about his age and name.
"We all believe it is imperative that we honor the integrity of the game and that fans be able to concentrate their attention and affections on the game and players on the field," Nationals president Stan Kasten said. "Jim has maintained his innocence, but recognized that he had become a distraction, and with great grace determined to do what was best for the team and his players."
**This is only the tip of the iceberg on this scam. I'm sure if Bowden felt no charges were imminent, he wouldn't have resigned. The feeble attempt of spin and cover up by the Nationals, as instructed by MLB, in their firing of Rijo, their abrupt change of DL training facilities and staff along with Bowden's resignation won't hold any water with the FBI.


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With 80 taps of beer and wine and signature cocktails, Short or Tall is the place that has perfected the fine craft of fun. A menu including appetizers, craft burgers and fries, flatbreads, pizzas and salads offers a something for everyone. Be sure to stop by the hotel front desk for a coupon before you walk across the parking lot to SOT. M thru Th 3p to 11p F thru Sa 11a to 1a Su 11a to 11p HH Su thru Th 3p to 6p 21 and up after 3p everyday Online ordering available at www.shortortall.com
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Soka University of America offers a respected undergraduate degree with concentrations in Environmental Studies, Humanities, International Studies and Social and Behavioral Sciences. A new concentration in Life Sciences will open in Fall 2020. SUA is ranked in the Top 50 National Liberal Arts Colleges and Top 10 Best Value Colleges by US News & World Report's "Best Colleges 2017." The dialogue between teacher and student is a key element in cultivating the type of wisdom and intellect that fosters global-minded individuals. At Soka University of America, we are committed to creating a better future for humanity. We hope that you find here all the elements that you need to give full play to your special talents and to make the world a better place.
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The MA Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change answers the need for global leaders with the practical skills and experience, foundational knowledge, and ethical commitments necessary to achieve lasting and effective societal change within the field of education, including but not limited to the classroom learning environment. Education takes place across a multiplicity of institutions—social, cultural, political, and economic—all of which have a profound bearing on our schools and the type of future citizens they produce.


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Virgin Galacticrealize their aspirations over the next 30 years or so. Richard Branson and his children are due to fly in his company ' s spaceship on its first commercial flight currently slated for 2014. But speaking to CNN outside a space conference in the UK last week, the company ' s CEO George Whitesides said their ambitions extended beyond sub - orbital flights for those first customers. " If we can make significant progress on the challenge of reusable space access then I think that opens up all kinds of opportunities in the future, " he said. " One of the directions that might open up is high - speed point - to - point travel on Earth - - so that you could go from London to Singapore in an hour or go from London to Los Angeles in a couple of hours. " We may be able to open up the opportunity for habitats in low Earth orbit, we could make it more affordable to do longer term flights - - even trips around the Moon. I think he[Branson] has high aspirations for a lot of these different activities. " For the moment, Whitesides said the company is focused on completing the test flight program in preparation for the passenger flights that he said Virgin Galactic aims to run on a weekly basis once the service is established. Whitesides later told delegates at theRutherford Appleton Laboratoryspace conference that about 650 people had signed up for the trip, and over the next couple of years the company would double the number of people who have been into space since Yuri Gagarin ' s flight in 1961 which heralded the start of human exploration of space. But Virgin is not alone in developing the space tourism business. It faces competition from other commercial enterprises trying to attract fee - paying passengers - - and many agencies now offer satellite delivery services.Blue Origin, set up by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says it is developing technologies to enable human access to space. And another private company,SpaceX, has alreadydelivered payloads to the International Space Station. So with private companies launching services and national space agencies likeIndia ' s ISROjoining the exploration of Mars andChina setting off to land a probeon the Moon, is a fresh space race emerging? Whitesides suggests there is a new era dawning. " This is a great time, " he told CNN. " There ' s a renaissance in space access - - between us and Blue and SpaceX and all these companies - - it ' s so exciting. " I think there ' s a very good chance that we ' re alive when we actually find another ' Earth ' in another solar system - - how profound is that? " Scientists may get closer to that goal if proposed missions outlined at the UK conference get off the ground. Professor Giovanna Tinetti explained how one of the European Space Agency ' s candidate missions - - a space telescope calledEChO- - would help analyze what exoplanet environments are like and whether they might be suitable for life. Delegates also heard about the plan to send a new probe to the Jovian system. TheJUICE mission (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) aims to explore not only the gas giant but also its three moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Space physicist Professor Michele Dougherty said they were interested in finding out if water really is trapped between icy layers on Ganymede and its implications for "watery worlds" beyond Earth. The search for Earth-like planets is clearly something that fascinates Whitesides too. He believes we will soon be able to detect seasons on other worlds. And he's unlikely to have to wait until 2043 for his first taste of space adventure, having signed up for a seat in his company's spaceship. "I'm actually a customer as well," he said. "My wife and I bought two tickets in 2005. "I think it's important that I fly because just as Richard's flight is such an important signal to our customers that he believes in the system, similarly I need to do that as well."
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It might have ended very differently for BeOS. At one point, it looked like BeOS, developed by Be Inc, might become the operating system for Apple hardware. Instead, Apple ended up tapping NeXT and used its OpenStep as the basis for Mac OS X (in the process bringing Steve Jobs back into the fold).
BeOS debuted in October 1995, running on the PowerPC architecture that was at the time the basis for Apple Macs (although initially BeOS was designed for systems using AT&T's Hobbit CPUs). Be Inc was formed by Apple alumni Jean-Louis Gassée, who exited the Cupertino, California, based company in 1990.
But although BeOS made a splash, Be Inc's final version of the operating system, BeOS R5, was released in 2000. The company's end came in 2001.
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When it was released, BeOS was without the legacy code and designs that many of its contemporaries were stuck with in the interests of backwards compatibility. It was a modern operating system, with an impressive user interface, pre-emptive multitasking, symmetric multiprocessing and a 64-bit journaling file system. Be Inc's BeBox workstation, which debuted in 1995, included dual PowerPC CPUs and extensive multimedia support, as well as the unique GeekPort.
Be's legacy
But the death of Be Inc didn't mean the death of BeOS; at least, not quite. The operating system's legacy lives on thanks to Haiku: An open source project re-implementing and extending BeOS, adding new features such as internationalisation and Wi-Fi and support for modern hardware, while maintaining the original system's speed and simplicity.
"Somehow BeOS resonated very strongly with some people," Haiku developer Stephan Aßmus says.
"Most people who used it will mention how fast and responsive it felt. To me, that's only one aspect. The other is elegance. By that I mean how the system tried to avoid redundancy at all levels and how it tried to figure out clever ways to empower the user.
"It made everything so transparent. Just by looking at the system folder layout, it was easy to understand how stuff worked. The system provided more or less one clear vision of how all the components are supposed to fit and work together from the kernel to applications."
Aßmus has been part of the Haiku project, which began in 2001, for seven years, contributing code and art, as well as representing the project at conferences and mentoring participants in Google's Summer of Code program, which Haiku has been a part of.
The initial aim of the Haiku project is to create an open source, drop-in replacement for BeOS R5. "It's supposed to be binary compatible, so all old BeOS applications continue to run," Aßmus says.
"Ideally, you could replace the contents of the system folder of your BeOS installation with the Haiku system and everything just continues to work."
But although a system compatible with R5 is a "fixed goal" for project participants, Aßmus says that "Haiku is open to new ideas and many BeOS features have already been extended or replaced with modern versions.
"If an idea is too crazy however, we can always say, if it wasn't in BeOS R5, it doesn't need to be in Haiku R1. And it really helped the project stay focused."


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Office of Global Partnerships at FHSU
Internationalization is the process of developing international opportunities, programs, and skills within all stakeholders of the university. Important offices involved with the Internationalization Office include the International Student Services Office (ISSO)the Office of Global Partnerships, the ESL Program, and the Center for Language and Culture (CLC).
International Minors and Certificates - links to application forms for the FHSU Global Competencies minor, Study Abroad certificate, International Studies minor, International Studies certificate, and other programs.
International Recruitment - information for prospective students of all levels.
Education Abroad - education abroad opportunities and scholarship resources. Watch the 2010-11 Internationalization at FHSU video to learn more. Visit the Center for Language and Culture to learn about faculty-led travel abroad opportunities.
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Bow Down, The Village Underground, Shoreditch
Helen Wallace on a gritty evening, courtesy of Harrison Birtwistle and Tony Harrison
Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. When staff staged a six-month strike at the National Theatre in 1977 two gritty northerners Harrison Birtwistle and Tony Harrison stepped in with Bow Down, a 'folk opera' which stuck two fingers up to the paraphernalia of theatre and its artistes. Using six multi-disciplined young actors to tell an old folktale of two sisters who loved the same man, it's an ingeniously structured work in which the distinctions between character, musician or speaker are constantly blurred in a whirl of repetitions and variants around which the central tragedy unfolds.
It was a bold choice for Frederic Wake-Walker in his role as artistic director of the Opera Group. There's barely any actual 'music' (at one point an actor confronts the audience with '…and he thought he was here for an opera!'), but in true Birtwistle style the skeleton and sinew of the drama is built through sound. Each atmosphere is precisely conjured, from the breathy voices of the opening culminating in the sisters' screams, to the formal scraping of spades on concrete which accompanies the first recitation of the story in old English, to the synchronised dropping of chains or rubbing of sandpaper. If it sounds like an afternoon in B&Q, there are musical lines from flute, recorders and oboe too, all the more striking for their sparseness, while many of Harrison's couplets are piercing in their stark beauty. The flautist-lover stalks around each sister with a barbed necklace of menacing melody. The dead twang of an improvised harp evokes the ghost of the dead victim, drowned by her jealous sister more effectively than any aria.
The tension collapses in the middle for a spot of Harrison-ian lewd comedy, involving some explicit necrophilia. It's the greatest test of the male actors to pull off knockabout filth in the midst of such a formally enigmatic work, and they don't quite manage it. In fact, it's at that point one realises what an opera this really is, in which every beat, every nuance, every pitch tells.
Wailing sirens out in Shoreditch wove their way into the soundscape. No doubt the sounds of a forest clearing will enhance performances at the Latitude Festival (12,14 July)
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Brookfield (Mass.) Records
Settled in 1660 and incorporated in 1718, the town of Brookfield (Worcester County) straddles the Boston Post Road, one of the major arteries during the colonial period connecting Boston with the towns of the Connecticut River Valley and New York.
This assemblage of documents from the town of Brookfield consists primarily of warrants for town meetings, many with agendas, issued through the local constable. Concentrated in the 1770s, these warrants provide relatively detailed information on matters of local importance, including town finances, tax assessments, contributions to the poor house, roadways, and property disputes. During the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary years, however, issues of interest to the town were often wrapped up in regional or national political issues. Town freeholders, for example, were called to consider requests to "come into any Vote or Resolve Respecting the East India Company Tea," the encouragement of manufacture of firearms, smallpox inoculation, and pay for the town's Minute Men.