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The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is planning to add an Arabic language and culture degree program, which will be conducted fully online.
There are over 200 million Arabic speakers in the world. It goes without saying that the numbers are much smaller in the state of Pennsylvania. However, many students are eager to learn Arabic, as it's spoken in many areas of political interest at the moment. Institutions also feel as though they needed to diversify their language offerings.
The one thing standing in the way are budget cuts. Proposing an Arabic degree at a time when languages are often the first programs to go isn't be easy. But with the demand still present, California University of Pennsylvania managed to set up a time- and cost-saving 100% online degree in Arabic language and culture. Although it's only offered at the California campus, PASSHE plans to make the program available at all 14 campuses in their system very soon.
Although the program is in it's beginning stages, the overall plan is for students to participate in online courses using various communication tools (webcams, audio files, etc.) and finally ending their degree earning their final credits abroad in an Arabic-speaking country.
With the technology available now, learning a language online is significantly easier than it would have been a decade ago. Still, many argue that there are certain aspects of language learning that simply cannot be taught online. It will be interesting to see where this program goes, as it could be a great model for colleges and universities who are on a tight budget, yet wish to offer their students a broad range of courses.

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by Tom Utescher
Several athletes who were featured in last week's LOCAL have made their mark on the national level; Germantown Friends' Sarah Walker and Germantown Academy's Sam Ritz in track, and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy's Kitty Morrissey in lacrosse.
A day after the LOCAL's deadline last week, it was learned that Morrissey was selected as an Honorable Mention All-American by the national governing body of the sport, U.S. Lacrosse. Morrissey, who had already committed to Duke University during her junior year at SCH, led the Blue Devils in scoring as a senior, with 69 goals.
The only other Girls' Inter-Ac League players to receive the honor (also Honorable Mention) were Kristen Hinckley and Lindsey Reder, who both play for league champion Episcopal Academy.
The national spotlight found Walker and Ritz as a result of their performances at the John Hay Memorial Pa. Distance Festival on May 31.
Although Walker is only a freshman, her personal best time of 2:08.55 in the 800 meters turned out to be the fastest time produced by any Pennsylvania runner, regardless of grade, during the 2013 outdoor season. It was also the best time run by a ninth grader anywhere in the United States so far this year.
In the men's mile run at the Distance Festival, Carlisle High School sophomore Zach Brehm's winning time of 4:09.27 made him the top-ranked 10th-grader in the country this spring, while GA's Ritz, also a sophomore came in second. Hitting the line at 4:11.73, Ritz vaulted into second place on the national list of 10th-graders, with his time exactly one second faster than the previous standard bearer, who hails from Michigan.
Local track aficionados were looking forward to seeing some more noteworthy performances last Friday at the 2nd Annual Philadelphia Area Invitational, but the event at Germantown Academy was called off due to the monsoon-like conditions. Distance runners, in particular, are known to compete in any type of weather, but the rapid rising of the Wissahickon Creek, which runs right through GA's property, caused local authorities to evacuate the campus. At present, it's not certain whether it will be possible to reschedule the meet.


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I've been recently obsessed with the idea of making a papercraft from Battlefleet Gothic: Armada particularly with the Retribution-class battleship of the Imperium. I tried using Ninja Ripper but after opening it with 3DS Max, something really long was jutting out of ship so I ditched using it. I ripped the ship while it was lost in the Immaterium.
I managed to extract the contents of .pak file with Haoose's "UE4 pak-file unpacker" but I don't know what to do with those uasset files. Then I used "Umodel" to find the ship model and texture but all I found was a 3d model of a fucking teapot. I'm not even sure where the ship is exactly located. I'm guessing that it was in the "Dreadnought" folder. What should I do?
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Here you will see a crow feeding a cat and a dog.
(Doesn't the dog look all "Oh God, that awkward cousin is here again! Maybe if I go to my room, Mom won't notice.")
I discovered this video via an absolutely fascinating post at io9, Corvids: The Birds Who Think Like Humans, which in turn reminded me of this equally fascinating article from the New York Times a few years back, Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems. Go! Read!


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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya said it was determined to complete the count on Friday in a tight presidential race that has put Uhuru Kenyatta ahead of his main rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga and in with a chance of outright victory.
Kenyatta, deputy prime minister and son of Kenya's founding president, has led since results started trickling in after polls closed on Monday. But he has swung above and below the more than 50 percent-mark needed to avoid a second round runoff.
If he wins, it would pose a dilemma for Kenya's big Western donors because he is due to go on trial at The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity linked to the violent aftermath of the last election in 2007.
Results from strongholds loyal to Odinga have closed some of the gap, but the outcome is still unclear with almost a fifth of constituencies still to report. Odinga could yet secure a runoff, provisionally set for April.
Technical problems slowed down the count, which has been questioned by both sides but considered broadly credible so far by international observers. Kenyans have had to wait four days already and the result is likely to go down to the wire.
"We are dedicated and determined that this process must end today," James Oswago, chief executive of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, told a news conference.
The poll is seen as a critical test for Kenya, East Africa's largest economy, after its reputation as a stable democracy was damaged by the bloodshed that followed the 2007 election. Much will rest on whether the final result is accepted, and whether any challenges take place in the courts or on the streets.
By 9.15 a.m. ET on Friday, with 10,312,347 total votes tallied, Kenyatta had 5,159,344 votes or 50.03 percent, to Odinga's 4,516,660 or 43.80 percent, according to a display by the electoral commission. That was based on votes reported from 239 of 291 constituencies.
The Kenyatta and Odinga camps have both raised concerns about the process, so legal battles could delay any run-off, heightening tensions in the divided nation. But this time, both sides have promised to turn to legal channels and keep the peace.
International observers have said the vote and count have been transparent so far, and the electoral commission has promised a credible vote. Yet Kenyans are still in the dark about the outcome.
The United States and other Western nations, big donors that view Kenya as vital in the regional battle with militant Islam, have already indicated that a victory by Kenyatta would complicate diplomatic relations.
Kenyatta, son of former president Jomo Kenyatta, and his running mate, William Ruto, face trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of unleashing death squads after the 2007 election. Both men deny the charges and have said they plan to clear their names.
At this stage of the count, turnout is running at 72 percent of eligible voters, roughly the level election officials had suggested it would reach, but there is still no clear picture of how many more votes have yet to be tallied.
Reflecting how voting tends to run along ethnic lines rather than ideology, constituencies in tribal strongholds of the leading hopefuls often report results that show more than 90 percent or more of votes going to one candidate. That means the remaining constituencies to report could have a big impact.
Kenyatta, 51, comes from the Kikuyu tribe, Kenya's biggest ethnic community accounting for about a fifth of Kenya's 40 million people, and Odinga, 68, is a Luo. Neither can rely solely on their own tribal supporters to win and both have running mates from other tribes to beef up their support.
Odinga's camp raised the strongest challenge to the process on Thursday, calling for counting to be stopped saying it lacked integrity and some results were "doctored."
In Odinga's heartland of Kisumu city in western Kenya, residents gathered in restaurants, bus stations and shopping centers to follow election proceedings on television, anxious to see if their man could take the vote to a second round.
"We are hoping to go for a runoff," said Joel Otieno, 42, businessman without giving reasons. "I believe Raila stands a better chance in the runoff."
Analysts said a run-off would also be a close call as it would prompt a reshuffling of alliances.
Chris Mandumandu, a senior official in Odinga's coalition, said the group was considering a legal petition to challenge the count, reflecting confidence in recent reforms to the judiciary that have made it more independent.
When Odinga lost in 2007, he said he did not pursue a legal route because the judiciary could not be trusted. Resulting tensions spilled over into bloodshed.
Many Kenyans say this vote has been far more transparent. One international observer told Reuters: "I have seen nothing to indicate that the election is not credible."
The Kenyan shilling has swayed against the dollar, gaining on reassurances of a smooth counting process and buckling on concerns that delays in announcing a winner would prompt rivals to challenge the election outcome. Analysts said a run-off would unnerve markets by prolonging the uncertainty.
Kenyatta's Jubilee coalition has complained about delays in the count and challenged the commission over its decision to include rejected votes in calculating the final tally.
Rejected votes are for now running at more than 90,000 and could help tip the balance in favor of an outright win for Kenyatta if they are excluded from the final calculations.
Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy and George Obulutsa in Nairobi and Hezron Ochiel in Kisumu; writing by James Macharia and Edmund Blair; editing by Philippa Fletcher


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I have just read an article on the Royal British Legion's blog that says recent research suggests that British school children are severely lacking in British historical knowledge. Not surprising given the wide spectrum of curriculum modern schools are supposed to cram into term time, and the never ending surge of political correctness that means these children spend a dis-proportionate amount of time studying the history and beliefs of far flung countries rather than the history and beliefs of their own…
The legion suggest that some teachers out of a survey of just over 2000, admitted to only dedicating 1 hour of teaching time to the subject of the holocaust. To me this is unbelievable.
How can we expect future generations to avoid the mistakes of the past if we do not make them aware? And I dont mean watching a one hour documentary, or colouring in a few yellow Stars of David…they need to truly understand how a seemingly civilised country such as Germany accepted the systematic slaughter of over 10 million people as 'something that needed to be done'.
Surely such study is important? In a recent article in the Guardian it argues that this so called more flexible curriculum is less challenging to pupils and there is concern that subject matter such as Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and Ghandi are no longer compulsory.
No longer compulsory? Are they mad? At a personal level, almost every child in British classrooms today will have family stories from the first and second wars, surely it is their right to know what happened to the grandfather, and great greatgrandfather? Surely they should know that they fought to make the world a better place, that they werent killers, but proud fighters that wanted to protect their country and their families.
The only way to learn is to learn from mistakes, but are we not allowing the future of our country learn? The Holocaust must never happen again, but how will our children know if they are not taught properly?


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Sophomore Jansma led the team with 24 assists in the team's 3-0 victory against Emmanuel College, Wednesday night. (Gil Talbot)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's volleyball team defeated Emmanuel College, 3-0, at the Malkin Athletic Center, Wednesday night. Harvard was led by senior Matt Jones who recorded 14 kills, helping the Crimson to improve to 8-2 in 2012.
The Saints and Crimson battled hard through the first set as there were five tied scores in the set's first 16 points. With the score 8-8, Harvard began to pull away off a kill by sophomore Nick Madden and a service ace from junior Derek Jansma, pushing the score to 10-8. Those kills sparked a 10-4 run for the Crimson highlighted by three kills from freshman Caleb Zimmick, which put Harvard up 20-12. Harvard was able to close out the set, scoring five of the next eight points to win 25-15.
The two teams traded points through the early part of the second set as an Austin Cockerill attack error and a service error by sophomore Will Chambers evened the score at 6-6. Harvard gained some distance going on a 12-3 run, sparked by the offense of Jones, Madden and freshman DJ White, making it 18-9. The Saints attempted to fight back scoring the next two points off a Madden service error and a service ace from Nick Updike, but Harvard outlasted Emmanuel, scoring seven of the next 11 points to close out the set, 25-15.
The Saints came out motivated in the third stanza taking control early. With Harvard leading 3-0, Emmanuel scored eight of the next nine points to take the advantage 8-4. Harvard stormed right back scoring four-straight points, evening the score at 8-8. The two teams jockeyed for the advantage as there were five lead changes in the matches next 18 points. With the score set at 17-17, Jones slammed down a kill along with an attack error from Zach Whitermore, which gave the Crimson a 19-17 lead. Harvard didn't relent scoring six of the next 10 points, to close out the set, 25-22, and the match 3-0.
Jones paced the Crimson with 14 kills, while White followed behind with eight. Jansma tallied 24 assists while sophomore Michael Owen, Jones and Chambers all tied for the team lead in blocks, with two apiece. Ashanti Jackson and Tom McCaffery paced the Saints with six kills. Updike dished out 18 assists while Zachary Caron led the team with four blocks.
Harvard will finish out its homestand this weekend when it takes on Sacred Heart, on Saturday Feb. 25, at 2 p.m.


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Richard Pybus appointed new coach for Bangladesh Cricket Team with two-year contract
Richard Pybus, the former Pakistan coach, has been named Bangladesh coach, taking over from Stuart Law who resigned in April. Pybus, 47, has signed a two-year deal with the BCB and is expected to join the Bangladesh side before their tour of Zimbabwe next month.
"I am delighted at the opportunity of coaching Bangladesh," Pybus said. "I am looking forward to getting busy with the boys.
"We have an active schedule ahead of us and for me the next few months will be about building relationships with the players and the coaching staff and ensuring that the progress made up to the Asia Cup continues."
Pybus hasn't been in charge of an international side since 2003 but had flown to Bangladesh earlier this month to interview for the national coach's role. He will be Bangladesh's third coach in a year as Law had been in the post for only nine months after succeeding another Australian Jamie Siddons last July.
Pybus was appointed Pakistan coach for their 1999 World Cup campaign, while he was with Border, before returning to the South African provincial side. He coached Pakistan again until the 2003 World Cup and had stints with Titans and Cape Cobras (South Africa), and Middlesex. He was with Cobras until March 2012 and was also linked to the South Africa job last year.
Richard Pybus Profile
Born and raised in the north-east of England, Richard Pybus's own sporting ambitions were cut short by a succession of injuries, and so he took up coaching while in his mid twenties. He coached Border in South Africa before being poached by Pakistan ahead of their 1999 World Cup campaign. But a change of leadership meant he lost his job – he had described the interim chairman, at the time the side's manager, as a "bumbling old idiot" who he had had to treat for old age! He returned to Border but took charge of Pakistan for a second time until after the 2003 World Cup and from 2005 to the end of the 2006-07 season he was with the Titans. He was appointed coach of Middlesex in February 2007 but five months later quit citing personal reasons.
A right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler, Richard Pybus' cricketing career was threatened with injuries and hence, Pybus could not continue with his dream. He played just one List A game, and in his twenties, took up coaching as his profession. He first coached Border in South Africa in 1998-99, during which the team reached the finals of the SuperSport series for the first time. He was later appointed as consultant to the Pakistan national team, when they reached the finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup. Although he returned to Border after the stint, Pybus took charge of Pakistan until after the 2003 WC and then progressed to the Titans, where he was the head coach between 2005-06 and 2008-09. The Titans did very well under his tutelage as they clinched six titles in four seasons. A short stint with Middlesex followed in 2007, but Pybus stepped down after five months due to personal reasons. He left the Titans in 2009 and a year later, was appointed coach of the Cape Cobras for the next three years.
Full name: Richard Alexander Pybus
Born: July 5, 1964, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
Current age: 47 years 330 days
Major teams: Suffolk
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm fast-medium
Current Profession: Coach (Bangladesh National Cricket Team)
Richard Pybus's Overview
- Current
- Owner Optimal Performance Coaching System
- Head Coach of Bangladesh Cricket Team
- Past
- Head Coach – Professional Cricket Manager at Titans Cricket / Cobras Cricket
- Education
- Normanhurst Boys High (Sydney) – Ulverston Victoria Grammar School ( Cumbria)
- Portsmouth and Greenwich Universities – Hons and Post Grad, Media, Lit, EducationFirst Hons Degree in Lit, Media and Comms from Portsmouth Uni, PGCE from Greenwich Uni
Richard Pybus' Experience
Owner: Optimal Performance Coaching System, Cape Town – (March 2012 – May 2012)
Head Coach – Professional Cricket Manager:
Head Coach Of Titans Cricket 2005 – 09
Head Coach of Cobras Cricket 2010 – May 2012
Head Coach of Bangladesh Cricket Team 2012-current
Richard Pybus' Honors and Awards:
- South African Cricket Coach of the Year ( Runner Up ) 2005-6
South African Cricket Coach of the Year ( Runner Up ) 2006-7
South African Cricket Coach of the Year ( Runner Up ) 2007-8
South African Cricket Coach of the Year ( Winner ) 2008-9
On Holiday 2009-10
South African Cricket Coach of the Year ( Winner ) 2010-11


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A scenic and cultural jewel on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon shares borders with Syria and Israel, has a sometimes contentious multiethnic population, and is an unintended haven for a major terrorist organization. Because of the foregoing, Lebanon has for 50 years served as a recurrent battlefield, often for other nationalities' proxy wars.
As this is written — following six years of relative peace since the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict last laid waste the country — someone else's violence once again threatens this small nation. In late March, the Syrian civil war spilled across Lebanon's northern border as Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's air force began bombing raids on alleged rebel encampments and training grounds in Lebanese territory.
No one knows how this will ultimately play out, whether the Syrian government's incursion into Lebanon will galvanize Western nations — specifically the U.S. — or the U.N. to intervene in the conflict on the side of the Syrian rebels or whether Lebanon will once again be a victim of the ravages of another country's war. The choices are complex with a panoply of risky ramifications in a region that has come to be characterized as a powder keg. And there's no telling what effect yet another conflict on their soil will mean to the Lebanese people, their safety, infrastructure, business activity and economy.
An irony that distinguishes Lebanon is that despite the violence that has taken place within its borders over decades, the republic — whose area is about the size of Connecticut — not only endures but remains viable as a financial force in the Middle East. Furthermore, its largest city and capital, Beirut, often characterized as "the Paris of the Middle East," has been able — like a fiercely determined phoenix — to pull itself out of the ashes of war, reconstruct itself and be open for business and tourism. Lebanon's primary industry is finance, and Beirut has remained through peace and war a destination for business.
And at least until this spring, business aviation operators have been routinely flying to Lebanon. Last September, Steve Ragland crewed a Gulfstream IV operated by PepsiCo on a trip to the country. "We landed at Beirut . . . and there were five U.S.-registered aircraft sitting on the ramp there," he related to BCA.
But the war in Syria has taken its toll on regional operations. Before the recent fighting, according to Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) founding chairman Ali Al Naqbi, Beirut ranked fourth as the region's most popular business aviation destination in terms of movements. "A lot of Arabs go there to do business and take vacations," Al Naqbi observed, "but the war has restricted the number of visits. Now they fly to Turkey and come into Lebanon by sea or other means."
As a result of the war, MEBAA rescheduled a regional meeting and conference at Beirut originally to convene in April and moved it to September. "After my meeting with the Lebanese prime minister [Najib Miqati]," Al Naqbi said, "we decided to move it to after the summer elections."


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Chiang Yee and understanding China
I have been reading a bit about Chiang Yee lately. If any of our readers know him it is probably as the author of Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique which he wrote as a professor at Columbia, which was his third or fourth life. He's one of those people where its hard to count how many careers he actually had. He was born in China in 1903 and worked as a soldier, journalist, teacher and government official. At one point he was probably best known for his Silent Traveler series of books which he wrote/painted after moving to England in 1933. The combination of Chinese-style paintings of English sights
along with wry observations of the foibles of the foreigners proved to be very popular and he became one of the best-known interpreters of China in the West. Yee is credited with the translation 可口可乐 for Coca-Cola1 The Silent Traveller books are written in a style that sometimes seems like interwar faux-oriental stuff and sometimes like a real Chinese literati writing about his travels. The latter is not surprising, given that his first published work was an account of a trip to Hainan that he published in 东方杂志.
Not surprisingly, what I found most interesting was Chiang's problematic relationship with modern Chinese nationalism. On the one hand he had a fairly rosy view of the Old China, and spent much of his life in self-imposed exile from Chinese corruption, working as a guide to China's timeless tradition to foreigners. On the other hand, he was a chemist, regretted his arranged marriage, served in the Northern Expedition, strongly supported China in the War of Resistance and returned to spend the last days of his life in China.
He appears quite May-4th-y in Men of the Burma Road, (羅鐵民) a book he published in 1943 to tell the stirring story of the building of the Road by the Chinese masses. He of course did the illustrations, and while they are good.
I can't help but think that something more along the line of a woodcut might show the toil and suffering better.
The story is quite interesting, since with only a very few changes it could be a Mao-period story about building communes or something. The main figure is Old Lo, a Chinese peasant who is attached to his land. That is in fact the only thing he cares about, like a stereotypical Chinese peasant. He sees no point in education for the likes of himself, and he objected to his son joining the army and to his neighbour's children getting educated. Like a good Pearl Buck peasant he respects learning but thinks it is not for him.
All this changes with the Japanese invasion. At first, he is unwilling to give up his land to allow the Burma Road to be built to help the war effort. His neighbours and family members, who are up to date and members of a rural co-0p urge him to change, but he is immovable as….well, an old Chinese peasant. Even his best friend's daughter is is giving speeches in public to support the war effort as the society around him is transformed.
The Japanese kill most of his family, however. His daughter "did not fall into the tiger's mouth and bring the black spot on our family" because she drowned herself rather than being raped by Japanese soldiers.2 All this causes him to give up his land and work heroically to build the Road, which is, of course, made (and illustrated) with traditional Chinese methods. Chinese workers
Using only their hands, they erected 289 bridges, including two big suspension bridges with a load bearing capacity of 10 to 15 tons, and 1,959 culverts. The road-bed is sixteen feet wide, has a maximum grade of eight in a hundred and a minimum curve radius of fifty feet.3
As if that's not enough, we also get pictures of Natives in Native dress and a scathing portrait of Mr. Wood and Mr. Coward, an English and American journalist who make up stories about Old Lo that will better fit the ideas westerners already have about China. The pictures of natives seem to be the author buying into stereotypes about minority nationalities, and the journalist parts seem like a sophisticated critique of just those sorts of stereotypes. I doubt there will ever be a critical edition of this book, but if it ever goes up on Google books, you could cover almost everything you need to cover in a Modern China class through this.


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The pictorial bookplate on the left was engraved by Josiah Allen for Joseph Priestley, the chemist around 1810 while the armorial plate was used by one of his descendants.
The James Fenimore Cooper bookplate shows up on Ebay from time to time and is quickly purchased .The problem is that it did not belong to the famous author.It was used by his son or grandson, I forget which one it was.
When I was in Brooklyn the other day I went to the Unnameable Book Shop at 456 Bergen St. and got this bookplate for W.H. Annenberg . My educated guess is that it was used by Walter Annenberg , the publisher and philanthropist.
Recently an Ebay seller listed a book with the bookplate of Edward Bellamy. His underlined caption was clear "Famous Owner's Bookplate" . He included biographical information about Bellamy along with his photograph. If this was a bookplate from Bellamy's library , I wanted it and was prepared to bid aggressively in order to obtain it. I checked five or six references and was unable to verify anything so I contacted the seller for more information.This was his response:
"I can't be positive obviously, but no one else can either, I purchased it from a dealer from around where the author lived years ago, and on the assumption of the type of book, usually only the wealthier people had well conditioned books such as this."
No way was I going to bid on the item. Let someone else gamble. It's one thing for a collector to let wishful thinking override facts but it is very annoying and unprofessional when done by a dealer .
Here is an interesting book shelf blog
If you do frequent book searches this one should be bookmarked :
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2, by Edward Gibbon, [1781], at sacred-texts.com
III. The edict of Milan secured the revenue as well as the peace of the church. 101 The Christians not only recovered the lands and houses of which they had been stripped by the persecuting laws of Diocletian, but they acquired a perfect title to all the possessions which they had hitherto enjoyed by the connivance of the magistrate. As soon as Christianity became the religion of the emperor and the empire, the national clergy might claim a decent and honorable maintenance; and the payment of an annual tax might have delivered the people from the more oppressive tribute, which superstition imposes on her votaries. But as the wants and expenses of the church increased with her prosperity, the ecclesiastical order was still supported and enriched by the voluntary oblations of the faithful. Eight years after the edict of Milan, Constantine granted to all his subjects the free and universal permission of bequeathing their fortunes to the holy Catholic church; 102 and their devout liberality, which during their lives was checked by luxury or avarice, flowed with a profuse stream at the hour of their death. The wealthy Christians were encouraged by the example of their sovereign. An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favor of Heaven, if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious; and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic. The same messenger who carried over to Africa the head of Maxentius, might be intrusted with an epistle to Caecilian, bishop of Carthage. The emperor acquaints him, that the treasurers of the province are directed to pay into his hands the sum of three thousand folles, or eighteen thousand pounds sterling, and to obey his further requisitions for the relief of the churches of Africa, Numidia, and Mauritania. 103 The liberality of Constantine increased in a just proportion to his faith, and to his vices. He assigned in each city a regular allowance of corn, to supply the fund of ecclesiastical charity; and the persons of both sexes who embraced the monastic life became the peculiar favorites of their sovereign. The Christian temples of Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Constantinople &c., displayed the ostentatious piety of a prince, ambitious in a declining age to equal the perfect labors of antiquity. 104 The form of these religious edifices was simple and oblong; though they might sometimes swell into the shape of a dome, and sometimes branch into the figure of a cross. The timbers were framed for the most part of cedars of Libanus; the roof was covered with tiles, perhaps of gilt brass; and the walls, the columns, the pavement, were encrusted with variegated marbles. The most precious ornaments of gold and silver, of silk and gems, were profusely dedicated to the service of the altar; and this specious magnificence was supported on the solid and perpetual basis of landed property. In the space of two centuries, from the reign of Constantine to that of Justinian, the eighteen hundred churches of the empire were enriched by the frequent and unalienable gifts of the prince and people. An annual income of six hundred pounds sterling may be reasonably assigned to the bishops, who were placed at an equal distance between riches and poverty, 105 but the standard of their wealth insensibly rose with the dignity and opulence of the cities which they governed. An authentic but imperfect 106 rent-roll specifies some houses, shops, gardens, and farms, which belonged to the three Basilicoe of Rome, St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. John Lateran, in the provinces of Italy, Africa, and the East. They produce, besides a reserved rent of oil, linen, paper, aromatics, &c., a clear annual revenue of twenty-two thousand pieces of gold, or twelve thousand pounds sterling. In the age of Constantine and Justinian, the bishops no longer possessed, perhaps they no longer deserved, the unsuspecting confidence of their clergy and people. The ecclesiastical revenues of each diocese were divided into four parts for the respective uses of the bishop himself, of his inferior clergy, of the poor, and of the public worship; and the abuse of this sacred trust was strictly and repeatedly checked. 107 The patrimony of the church was still subject to all the public compositions of the state. 108 The clergy of Rome, Alexandria, Chessaionica, &c., might solicit and obtain some partial exemptions; but the premature attempt of the great council of Rimini, which aspired to universal freedom, was successfully resisted by the son of Constantine. 109
IV. The Latin clergy, who erected their tribunal on the ruins of the civil and common law, have modestly accepted, as the gift of Constantine, 110 the independent jurisdiction, which was the fruit of time, of accident, and of their own industry. But the liberality of the Christian emperors had actually endowed them with some legal prerogatives, which secured and dignified the sacerdotal character. 111 1. Under a despotic government, the bishops alone enjoyed and asserted the inestimable privilege of being tried only by their peers; and even in a capital accusation, a synod of their brethren were the sole judges of their guilt or innocence. Such a tribunal, unless it was inflamed by personal resentment or religious discord, might be favorable, or even partial, to the sacerdotal order: but Constantine was satisfied, 112 that secret impunity would be less pernicious than public scandal: and the Nicene council was edited by his public declaration, that if he surprised a bishop in the act of adultery, he should cast his Imperial mantle over the episcopal sinner. 2. The domestic jurisdiction of the bishops was at once a privilege and a restraint of the ecclesiastical order, whose civil causes were decently withdrawn from the cognizance of a secular judge. Their venial offences were not exposed to the shame of a public trial or punishment; and the gentle correction which the tenderness of youth may endure from its parents or instructors, was inflicted by the temperate severity of the bishops. But if the clergy were guilty of any crime which could not be sufficiently expiated by their degradation from an honorable and beneficial profession, the Roman magistrate drew the sword of justice, without any regard to ecclesiastical immunities. 3. The arbitration of the bishops was ratified by a positive law; and the judges were instructed to execute, without appeal or delay, the episcopal decrees, whose validity had hitherto depended on the consent of the parties. The conversion of the magistrates themselves, and of the whole empire, might gradually remove the fears and scruples of the Christians. But they still resorted to the tribunal of the bishops, whose abilities and integrity they esteemed; and the venerable Austin enjoyed the satisfaction of complaining that his spiritual functions were perpetually interrupted by the invidious labor of deciding the claim or the possession of silver and gold, of lands and cattle. 4. The ancient privilege of sanctuary was transferred to the Christian temples, and extended, by the liberal piety of the younger Theodosius, to the precincts of consecrated ground. 113 The fugitive, and even guilty suppliants,were permitted to implore either the justice, or the mercy, of the Deity and his ministers. The rash violence of despotism was suspended by the mild interposition of the church; and the lives or fortunes of the most eminent subjects might be protected by the mediation of the bishop.
V. The bishop was the perpetual censor of the morals of his people The discipline of penance was digested into a system of canonical jurisprudence, 114 which accurately defined the duty of private or public confession, the rules of evidence, the degrees of guilt, and the measure of punishment. It was impossible to execute this spiritual censure, if the Christian pontiff, who punished the obscure sins of the multitude, respected the conspicuous vices and destructive crimes of the magistrate: but it was impossible to arraign the conduct of the magistrate, without, controlling the administration of civil government. Some considerations of religion, or loyalty, or fear, protected the sacred persons of the emperors from the zeal or resentment of the bishops; but they boldly censured and excommunicated the subordinate tyrants, who were not invested with the majesty of the purple. St. Athanasius excommunicated one of the ministers of Egypt; and the interdict which he pronounced, of fire and water, was solemnly transmitted to the churches of Cappadocia. 115 Under the reign of the younger Theodosius, the polite and eloquent Synesius, one of the descendants of Hercules, 116 filled the episcopal seat of Ptolemais, near the ruins of ancient Cyrene, 117 and the philosophic bishop supported with dignity the character which he had assumed with reluctance. 118 He vanquished the monster of Libya, the president Andronicus, who abused the authority of a venal office, invented new modes of rapine and torture, and aggravated the guilt of oppression by that of sacrilege. 119 After a fruitless attempt to reclaim the haughty magistrate by mild and religious admonition, Synesius proceeds to inflict the last sentence of ecclesiastical justice, 120 which devotes Andronicus, with his associates and their families, to the abhorrence of earth and heaven. The impenitent sinners, more cruel than Phalaris or Sennacherib, more destructive than war, pestilence, or a cloud of locusts, are deprived of the name and privileges of Christians, of the participation of the sacraments, and of the hope of Paradise. The bishop exhorts the clergy, the magistrates, and the people, to renounce all society with the enemies of Christ; to exclude them from their houses and tables; and to refuse them the common offices of life, and the decent rites of burial. The church of Ptolemais, obscure and contemptible as she may appear, addresses this declaration to all her sister churches of the world; and the profane who reject her decrees, will be involved in the guilt and punishment of Andronicus and his impious followers. These spiritual terrors were enforced by a dexterous application to the Byzantine court; the trembling president implored the mercy of the church; and the descendants of Hercules enjoyed the satisfaction of raising a prostrate tyrant from the ground. 121 Such principles and such examples insensibly prepared the triumph of the Roman pontiffs, who have trampled on the necks of kings.
VI. Every popular government has experienced the effects of rude or artificial eloquence. The coldest nature is animated, the firmest reason is moved, by the rapid communication of the prevailing impulse; and each hearer is affected by his own passions, and by those of the surrounding multitude. The ruin of civil liberty had silenced the demagogues of Athens, and the tribunes of Rome; the custom of preaching which seems to constitute a considerable part of Christian devotion, had not been introduced into the temples of antiquity; and the ears of monarchs were never invaded by the harsh sound of popular eloquence, till the pulpits of the empire were filled with sacred orators, who possessed some advantages unknown to their profane predecessors. 122 The arguments and rhetoric of the tribune were instantly opposed with equal arms, by skilful and resolute antagonists; and the cause of truth and reason might derive an accidental support from the conflict of hostile passions. The bishop, or some distinguished presbyter, to whom he cautiously delegated the powers of preaching, harangued, without the danger of interruption or reply, a submissive multitude, whose minds had been prepared and subdued by the awful ceremonies of religion. Such was the strict subordination of the Catholic church, that the same concerted sounds might issue at once from a hundred pulpits of Italy or Egypt, if they were tuned 123 by the master hand of the Roman or Alexandrian primate. The design of this institution was laudable, but the fruits were not always salutary. The preachers recommended the practice of the social duties; but they exalted the perfection of monastic virtue, which is painful to the individual, and useless to mankind. Their charitable exhortations betrayed a secret wish that the clergy might be permitted to manage the wealth of the faithful, for the benefit of the poor. The most sublime representations of the attributes and laws of the Deity were sullied by an idle mixture of metaphysical subleties, puerile rites, and fictitious miracles: and they expatiated, with the most fervent zeal, on the religious merit of hating the adversaries, and obeying the ministers of the church. When the public peace was distracted by heresy and schism, the sacred orators sounded the trumpet of discord, and, perhaps, of sedition. The understandings of their congregations were perplexed by mystery, their passions were inflamed by invectives; and they rushed from the Christian temples of Antioch or Alexandria, prepared either to suffer or to inflict martyrdom. The corruption of taste and language is strongly marked in the vehement declamations of the Latin bishops; but the compositions of Gregory and Chrysostom have been compared with the most splendid models of Attic, or at least of Asiatic, eloquence. 124
VII. The representatives of the Christian republic were regularly assembled in the spring and autumn of each year; and these synods diffused the spirit of ecclesiastical discipline and legislation through the hundred and twenty provinces of the Roman world. 125 The archbishop or metropolitan was empowered, by the laws, to summon the suffragan bishops of his province; to revise their conduct, to vindicate their rights, to declare their faith, and to examine the merits of the candidates who were elected by the clergy and people to supply the vacancies of the episcopal college. The primates of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Carthage, and afterwards Constantinople, who exercised a more ample jurisdiction, convened the numerous assembly of their dependent bishops. But the convocation of great and extraordinary synods was the prerogative of the emperor alone. Whenever the emergencies of the church required this decisive measure, he despatched a peremptory summons to the bishops, or the deputies of each province, with an order for the use of post-horses, and a competent allowance for the expenses of their journey. At an early period, when Constantine was the protector, rather than the proselyte, of Christianity, he referred the African controversy to the council of Arles; in which the bishops of York of Treves, of Milan, and of Carthage, met as friends and brethren, to debate in their native tongue on the common interest of the Latin or Western church. 126 Eleven years afterwards, a more numerous and celebrated assembly was convened at Nice in Bithynia, to extinguish, by their final sentence, the subtle disputes which had arisen in Egypt on the subject of the Trinity. Three hundred and eighteen bishops obeyed the summons of their indulgent master; the ecclesiastics of every rank, and sect, and denomination, have been computed at two thousand and forty-eight persons; 127 the Greeks appeared in person; and the consent of the Latins was expressed by the legates of the Roman pontiff. The session, which lasted about two months, was frequently honored by the presence of the emperor. Leaving his guards at the door, he seated himself (with the permission of the council) on a low stool in the midst of the hall. Constantine listened with patience, and spoke with modesty: and while he influenced the debates, he humbly professed that he was the minister, not the judge, of the successors of the apostles, who had been established as priests and as gods upon earth. 128 Such profound reverence of an absolute monarch towards a feeble and unarmed assembly of his own subjects, can only be compared to the respect with which the senate had been treated by the Roman princes who adopted the policy of Augustus. Within the space of fifty years, a philosophic spectator of the vicissitudes of human affairs might have contemplated Tacitus in the senate of Rome, and Constantine in the council of Nice. The fathers of the Capitol and those of the church had alike degenerated from the virtues of their founders; but as the bishops were more deeply rooted in the public opinion, they sustained their dignity with more decent pride, and sometimes opposed with a manly spirit the wishes of their sovereign. The progress of time and superstition erased the memory of the weakness, the passion, the ignorance, which disgraced these ecclesiastical synods; and the Catholic world has unanimously submitted 129 to the infallible decrees of the general councils. 130
101 The edict of Milan (de M. P. c. 48) acknowledges, by reciting, that there existed a species of landed property, ad jus corporis eorum, id est, ecclesiarum non hominum singulorum pertinentia. Such a solemn declaration of the supreme magistrate must have been received in all the tribunals as a maxim of civil law.
102 Habeat unusquisque licentiam sanctissimo Catholicae (ecclesioe) venerabilique concilio, decedens bonorum quod optavit relinquere. Cod. Theodos. l. xvi. tit. ii. leg. 4. This law was published at Rome, A. D. 321, at a time when Constantine might foresee the probability of a rupture with the emperor of the East.
103 Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. l. x. 6; in Vit. Constantin. l. iv. c. 28. He repeatedly expatiates on the liberality of the Christian hero, which the bishop himself had an opportunity of knowing, and even of lasting.
104 Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. l. x. c. 2, 3, 4. The bishop of Caesarea who studied and gratified the taste of his master, pronounced in public an elaborate description of the church of Jerusalem, (in Vit Cons. l. vi. c. 46.) It no longer exists, but he has inserted in the life of Constantine (l. iii. c. 36) a short account of the architecture and ornaments. He likewise mentions the church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople, (l. iv. c. 59.)
105 See Justinian. Novell. cxxiii. 3. The revenue of the patriarchs, and the most wealthy bishops, is not expressed: the highest annual valuation of a bishopric is stated at thirty, and the lowest at two, pounds of gold; the medium might be taken at sixteen, but these valuations are much below the real value.
106 See Baronius, (Annal. Eccles. A. D. 324, No. 58, 65, 70, 71.) Every record which comes from the Vatican is justly suspected; yet these rent-rolls have an ancient and authentic color; and it is at least evident, that, if forged, they were forged in a period when farms not kingdoms, were the objects of papal avarice.
107 See Thomassin, Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. iii. l. ii. c. 13, 14, 15, p. 689-706. The legal division of the ecclesiastical revenue does not appear to have been established in the time of Ambrose and Chrysostom. Simplicius and Gelasius, who were bishops of Rome in the latter part of the fifth century, mention it in their pastoral letters as a general law, which was already confirmed by the custom of Italy.
108 Ambrose, the most strenuous assertor of ecclesiastical privileges, submits without a murmur to the payment of the land tax. "Si tri butum petit Imperator, non negamus; agri ecclesiae solvunt tributum solvimus quae sunt Caesaris Caesari, et quae sunt Dei Deo; tributum Caesaris est; non negatur." Baronius labors to interpret this tribute as an act of charity rather than of duty, (Annal. Eccles. A. D. 387;) but the words, if not the intentions of Ambrose are more candidly explained by Thomassin, Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. iii. l. i. c. 34. p. 668.
109 In Ariminense synodo super ecclesiarum et clericorum privilegiis tractatu habito, usque eo dispositio progressa est, ut juqa quae viderentur ad ecclesiam pertinere, a publica functione cessarent inquietudine desistente; quod nostra videtur dudum sanctio repulsisse. Cod. Theod. l. xvi. tit. ii. leg. 15. Had the synod of Rimini carried this point, such practical merit might have atoned for some speculative heresies.
110 From Eusebius (in Vit. Constant. l. iv. c. 27) and Sozomen (l. i. c. 9) we are assured that the episcopal jurisdiction was extended and confirmed by Constantine; but the forgery of a famous edict, which was never fairly inserted in the Theodosian Code (see at the end, tom. vi. p. 303,) is demonstrated by Godefroy in the most satisfactory manner. It is strange that M. de Montesquieu, who was a lawyer as well as a philosopher, should allege this edict of Constantine (Esprit des Loix, l. xxix. c. 16) without intimating any suspicion.
111 The subject of ecclesiastical jurisdiction has been involved in a mist of passion, of prejudice, and of interest. Two of the fairest books which have fallen into my hands, are the Institutes of Canon Law, by the Abbe de Fleury, and the Civil History of Naples, by Giannone. Their moderation was the effect of situation as well as of temper. Fleury was a French ecclesiastic, who respected the authority of the parliaments; Giannone was an Italian lawyer, who dreaded the power of the church. And here let me observe, that as the general propositions which I advance are the result of many particular and imperfect facts, I must either refer the reader to those modern authors who have expressly treated the subject, or swell these notes disproportioned size.
112 Tillemont has collected from Rufinus, Theodoret, &c., the sentiments and language of Constantine. Mem Eccles tom. iii p. 749, 759.
113 See Cod. Theod. l. ix. tit. xlv. leg. 4. In the works of Fra Paolo. (tom. iv. p. 192, &c.,) there is an excellent discourse on the origin, claims, abuses, and limits of sanctuaries. He justly observes, that ancient Greece might perhaps contain fifteen or twenty axyla or sanctuaries; a number which at present may be found in Italy within the walls of a single city.
114 The penitential jurisprudence was continually improved by the canons of the councils. But as many cases were still left to the discretion of the bishops, they occasionally published, after the example of the Roman Praetor, the rules of discipline which they proposed to observe. Among the canonical epistles of the fourth century, those of Basil the Great were the most celebrated. They are inserted in the Pandects of Beveridge, (tom. ii. p. 47-151,) and are translated by Chardon, Hist. des Sacremens, tom. iv. p. 219-277.
115 Basil, Epistol. xlvii. in Baronius, (Annal. Eccles. A. D. 370. N. 91,) who declares that he purposely relates it, to convince govern that they were not exempt from a sentence of excommunication his opinion, even a royal head is not safe from the thunders of the Vatican; and the cardinal shows himself much more consistent than the lawyers and theologians of the Gallican church.
116 The long series of his ancestors, as high as Eurysthenes, the first Doric king of Sparta, and the fifth in lineal descent from Hercules, was inscribed in the public registers of Cyrene, a Lacedaemonian colony. (Synes. Epist. lvii. p. 197, edit. Petav.) Such a pure and illustrious pedigree of seventeen hundred years, without adding the royal ancestors of Hercules, cannot be equalled in the history of mankind.
117 Synesius (de Regno, p. 2) pathetically deplores the fallen and ruined state of Cyrene. Ptolemais, a new city, 82 miles to the westward of Cyrene, assumed the metropolitan honors of the Pentapolis, or Upper Libya, which were afterwards transferred to Sozusa.
118 Synesius had previously represented his own disqualifications. He loved profane studies and profane sports; he was incapable of supporting a life of celibacy; he disbelieved the resurrection; and he refused to preach fables to the people unless he might be permitted to philosophize at home. Theophilus primate of Egypt, who knew his merit, accepted this extraordinary compromise.
119 The promotion of Andronicus was illegal; since he was a native of Berenice, in the same province. The instruments of torture are curiously specified; the press that variously pressed on distended the fingers, the feet, the nose, the ears, and the lips of the victims.
120 The sentence of excommunication is expressed in a rhetorical style. (Synesius, Epist. lviii. p. 201-203.) The method of involving whole families, though somewhat unjust, was improved into national interdicts.
121 See Synesius, Epist. xlvii. p. 186, 187. Epist. lxxii. p. 218, 219 Epist. lxxxix. p. 230, 231.
122 See Thomassin (Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. ii. l. iii. c. 83, p. 1761-1770,) and Bingham, (Antiquities, vol. i. l. xiv. c. 4, p. 688- 717.) Preaching was considered as the most important office of the bishop but this function was sometimes intrusted to such presbyters as Chrysoetom and Augustin.
123 Queen Elizabeth used this expression, and practised this art whenever she wished to prepossess the minds of her people in favor of any extraordinary measure of government. The hostile effects of this music were apprehended by her successor, and severely felt by his son. "When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic," &c. See Heylin's Life of Archbishop Laud, p. 153.
124 Those modest orators acknowledged, that, as they were destitute of the gift of miracles, they endeavored to acquire the arts of eloquence.
125 The council of Nice, in the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh canons, has made some fundamental regulations concerning synods, metropolitan, and primates. The Nicene canons have been variously tortured, abused, interpolated, or forged, according to the interest of the clergy. The Suburbicarian churches, assigned (by Rufinus) to the bishop of Rome, have been made the subject of vehement controversy (See Sirmond, Opera, tom. iv. p. 1-238.)
126 We have only thirty-three or forty-seven episcopal subscriptions: but Addo, a writer indeed of small account, reckons six hundred bishops in the council of Arles. Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. vi. p. 422.
127 See Tillemont, tom. vi. p. 915, and Beausobre, Hist. du Mani cheisme, tom i p. 529. The name of bishop, which is given by Eusychius to the 2048 ecclesiastics, (Annal. tom. i. p. 440, vers. Pocock,) must be extended far beyond the limits of an orthodox or even episcopal ordination.
128 See Euseb. in Vit. Constantin. l. iii. c. 6-21. Tillemont, Mem. Ecclesiastiques, tom. vi. p. 669-759.
129 Sancimus igitur vicem legum obtinere, quae a quatuor Sanctis Coueiliis . . . . expositae sunt act firmatae. Praedictarum enim quat uor synodorum dogmata sicut sanctas Scripturas et regulas sicut leges observamus. Justinian. Novell. cxxxi. Beveridge (ad Pandect. proleg. p. 2) remarks, that the emperors never made new laws in ecclesiastical matters; and Giannone observes, in a very different spirit, that they gave a legal sanction to the canons of councils. Istoria Civile di Napoli, tom. i. p. 136.
130 See the article Concile in the Eucyclopedie, tom. iii. p. 668-879, edition de Lucques. The author, M. de docteur Bouchaud, has discussed, according to the principles of the Gallican church, the principal questions which relate to the form and constitution of general, national, and provincial councils. The editors (see Preface, p. xvi.) have reason to be proud of this article. Those who consult their immense compilation, seldom depart so well satisfied.


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Hi guys, looking for advice on this, yes, I know, its an old board, yes, I should upgrade, etc, etc.
But please indulge an old time amiga user, can anyone here give me a list of what I can use in that PCI slot? What works? what doesn't?
I would love to get USB 2.0 working on it, however reading some old threads, I wasn't able to work out if the problems with the EHCI driver had been fixed to allow USB 2.0 to work.
If it has been fixed, which low profile card would be recommended?
I believe a graphics card is still a no no though, so I am limited there.
SATA/Hard drives Card?
Any advice on this topic, greatly appreciated
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
30 second posts - The briefest of thoughts
John Farrell is good because: Monday, we said hiring Farrell was a good thing, and we got hit with a chorus of "WHY?!" So here's why: He seems smart, he seems to be actually thinking his way through his answers as he gives them, and because he has the humility to note that he wasn't prepared to take a managerial job only a year or so ago. The fool thinks he knows all, the sage knows that he knows nothing.
Having your cake and eating it too: We've always said how much we like this coaching staff, minus The Former Manager. Getting Brian Butterfield to stick with this team after he was passed over for the managerial job is just stupid awesome news. Add to that the Jays keeping Pappy Walton around, and the rumours that Luis Rivera will join the big league staff, and you're looking at a happy Tao. (We're also crossing our fingers that Omar Malave and Dwayne Murphy are back, though we'd respect Farrell wanting to bring in some of his own guys.) We can't actually remember the last time that we felt this good about the instructional resources that the Jays have at their disposal.
Tabby and Farrell?: Pat Tabler and John Farrell played together with the Cleveland Clevelanders back in 1987 and 1988. We're sincerely hoping that Tabby can bust out with some old-timey stories next year about how Farrell used to punch dudes in the bag for making errors behind him. Or something like that.
The World Series: We could bitch about how long it took to get this series off the ground, but those are wasted words. Suffice to say, we're looking forward to what we think will be a great series. Giants in seven.
18 comments:
- mike in boston said...
after listening to his FAN interview i think all the headlines about Farrell preferring a set line-up (OMFG CITO NOOOOOOOOOO) are out of proportion. what he said was that "ideally" everyone performs and you don't have to make any changes. i think everyone can agree about that.
another nice point that came out of that discussion was that players want a manager who played the game, more than they want someone who has managerial experience. this makes a lot of sense to me. i can't imagine a player putting a lot of stock in a manager's minor league managing experience. i can see pitchers respecting a guy who pitched.
finally, the "learning on the job" criticism seems completely out of place for baseball. the in-game decisions are not rocket surgery. off the field, if you're a leader then you'll be able to lead, and if you're a teacher you'll be able to teach.
- October 27, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
The notion that Farrell's going to have to learn on the job is absurd. It's not as though he's been completely oblivious to the game of baseball for years as an executive or a pitching coach.
The thing is that the manager doesn't have a shit-tonne to do once the game is started. He just has to make sure he doesn't screw it up, and Farrell strikes me as the sort who would monkey around with shit just to make his presence known.
- October 27, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Darren Priest said...
What a fool believes he sees/no wise man has the power to reason away...
Try keeping that out of your head!
- October 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM
"old-timey stories next year about how Farrell used to punch dudes in the bag for making errors behind him."
Comedy gold my friend!
- October 27, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- SP said...
That will make you think twice about wanting Murphy back.
""I think on-base percentage is an overrated stat," Murphy said flatly. "Those guys getting on base, most of them aren't getting them in. Give me somebody who drives them in after that. I need guys who can drive the ball."
- October 27, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- The Ack said...
Personally, I'm torn on the Murph conundrum. I can't shake the interview he did on Jays Connected - which, I believe, is where the above quote comes from - where he expressed disdain for OBP, taking walks, "clogging up the basepaths", etc.
On the other hand, the longball is exciting as fuck. Can't it be possible to retain Murph and his swing-from-the-ass philosophy while mixing in (acquiring?) players who just get on base?
.....in other words, the scars of Denbo run deep.
- October 27, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Well, not really, but you know what I mean.
I think it would be wise for the Jays to keep Murphy around. As The Ack points out, it's all about personnel. Bring in guys who get on base, period. The Jays don't have them right now. One of them (Ramirez, Manny) is eager to come and play here.
- October 27, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
Interestingly, over 5200+ career PA's, Dwayne Murphy sported a 14.3% walk rate. So flippant remarks on Connected aside, if he teaches "his" approach, we should be fine.
- October 27, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Until I see the runner on first catching and passing the runner on second, I'll have a hard time understanding the "clogging up the basepaths" notion.
Well, actually, I have seen that, but only in PE class.
- October 27, 2010 at 1:00 PM
I see "clogging up the basepaths" every Wednesday night in my mixed slow-pitch league, when the women are on base. The solution? Hit a home run!
- October 27, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Wait...are we talking about soccer baseball now?
- October 27, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Ty said...
Murphy's approach didn't stop Bautista from walking 100 times last year - when he says "OBP is overrrated" I don't think he means "I'd rather guys strike out than take a walk," but rather that he doesn't want guys trying to get walked, watching good pitches go by, Denbo-style.
Whether or not that's actually the case, who knows... but I actually think Murphy's approach (wait until you get the pitch you want, and then swing at that one) should, in theory at least, improve walk rates rather than hinder them, despite what he might have said about OBP.
- October 27, 2010 at 5:56 PM
It's interesting, because on the one hand you have Bautista who clearly benefited from the more aggressive mantra and then you have Overbay, who was clearly less patient this year, resulting in his OPS being down from last year.
The frustration for me with Overbay, at least in previous years, was that it seemed like walking was his main objective at the plate, regardless of RISP and the different situations that presented themselves. It seemed that rather than squaring up on the 2-0 or 3-1 fastball down the middle of the plate, he opted to take the pitch instead. I think that's one of the things Murphy and Gaston tried to change, but it resulted in a worse year for him.
Just my take on the OBP thing.
- October 27, 2010 at 6:17 PM
As someone who dedicated his entire adult life to soccer baseball, I find it classless that Tao would suggest soccer baseball is not a truly great sport.
- October 27, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Just a trade thought for sh*ts:
B. Mills
Z. Jackson
to San Diego
too much, too little, unreasonable?
- October 29, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Zach Stewart...sorry
- October 29, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I would be loath to give up Arencibia for what could be only one year of A. Gon.
Can't imagine he wouldn't want to try free agency and he will probably get a Tex-like offer from Boston.
- October 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
I think we should assume that any trade for AGon would be conditional on a negotiating window.
And no, Stewart and Arencibia is not enough.
- October 29, 2010 at 11:14 PM


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