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My, how times have changed
That headline could refer to any number of things, but a few of them are top of mind this afternoon. The first is the Viva los Dodgers event going on in the parking lot right now, which started out 10 years ago as an event that drew about 500 people and now brings almost 10,000 out to the stadium. It's a really enjoyable event, even if you don't speak Spanish or listen to Spanish music. Just being at a cultural event like that is pretty cool and helps us all understand the melting pot that is our city.
Also, the changes in modern technology continue to amaze all of us, I'm sure, but in reading the L.A. Times Letters to the Editor today, I noticed that often there seems to be a distinct difference in opinion of those who use newspapers as their primary source of information (and write in to them) or those who are primarily Internet users (and post comments and thoughts here or on other forums). While many online blogs like Dodger Thoughts seem to have a lot of people who believe in building this team through the farm system and a longer-term view, there are many who write into the editor or Bill Plaschke (as he mentioned in his last column) who think we should have traded away all the kids for talent that might have made us better this year.
I guess I just wonder whether it's an age thing (older fans, who might somehow prefer quick fixes, are more likely to be reading the papers, though we've got plenty of older fans that post here) or a sabermetrics thing (more of them online than in the papers and they follow the minor leagues more closely) or maybe it's neither. This is hardly a scientific experiment, but it's something I seem to have noticed in tracking Dodger coverage over the last few years. One of those things that make you go hmmm…
And while I hate to point out a single letter to the editor, I found the very first one today quite odd – the belief that only Ned "made the trade" for Hendrickson and that he "wants [Grady] to keep him in the rotation." First off, the idea that these two don't consult one another on everything is absurd, as I watch them interact all the time and share their thoughts with one another. Grady (and his entire coaching staff) was very involved in the Hendrickson trade and Ned is consulted regularly on on-field issues, too.
But going back to my technology point, a letter like that is out-of-date and looks silly when it appears in the paper the day after Eric Stults replaced Hendrickson in the rotation with a stellar start. Or when one of the letters refers to going to see a "fourth-place team" when the team moved into third place last night. These are hardly egregious issues, but with the ability to choose letters (or emails) that are more current, it strikes me as strange when that never happens. After all, every single letter that ran today was completely negative and the team has reeled off three straight wins.
Which I guess, brings me to the final way to look at the headline of today's blog. Three days ago, there was no hope (at least according to most fans) that we would turn this around. Three days ago, people were writing off the team completely and starting to focus on football (and fantasy football). But today, with three consecutive victories, the team is within 2.5 games of the Wild Card and the playoffs are very much within reach. Remember that age-old cliche, it's a marathon, not a sprint, and just because you trip and fall at Mile 20 doesn't mean you can't finish the race in front. It's just going to take a lot better effort in the final 6.2 miles.
Here are the Dodgers' marathoners for today:
Furcal, SS
Pierre, CF
Kemp, RF
Kent, 2B
Saenz, 1B
Martin, C
Gonzo, LF
Hillenbrand, 3B
Billingsley, P
225 Comments
Ethier should bat 5th
saenz before martin? and before gonz for that matter? ****, even before hillenbrand? I know a few of u think this is silly nit-picking and whining… but i dont get how u justify that.
Bill Plaschke has always been a Dodger hater. His opinion couldn't mean any less to me.
By the way, Saenz batting 5th makes my chest burn.
I still don't know why Ethier doesn't get to play all the time. He's hitting well. And why isn't Loney at first base? At least Kemp is well enough to play, so that's something. Did everyone watch the game last night??? It was great. I think a lot of you guys were upset about the lineup and didn't plan on watching. I kept telling you guys that the Dodgers would turn it around. Grady has put together lineups that seem weird but somehow they have worked. And how about Stults??? And thank goodness that Derek is back to form. Let's try to be positive now that the Dodgers are winning. Go Dodgers.
nice right up Josh, half the fun is the drama of how everything unfolds! IMHO
Do not know much about this left hander Franklin Morales, but his control is an issue. I have confidence that Ace Chad will arrive tonight. Ethier will get his AB's tonight late and with the day game tomorrow will probably start against Francis. Lets get four!
You're right Alex. I forgot tomorrow is a day game.
Is Loney hurt ? That's the only excuse I can find for him not playing. Especially since he didn't start yesterday either! I mean, Grady is not that dumb. Right ?
Saenz? How come he's still with the team? He hasn't shown he still belongs. Here we go again Either should play everyday sit Gonzo. If you're going to keep the kids play them. Stults should be given every chance to stay in the rotation like Tomko and Hendy have. If Grady and Ned make these decisions together and we don't make the playoffs then they should both go.
Roberto- Wrong
Amen to your comments about Ned/Grady!!!
i hope kemp's knee is ok. i love that he is batting third. should see some good pitches to drive.
less than 2 weeks til we get to see more kids play… definitely will welcome the addition of abreu, laroche, meloan!
let's go dodgers. connect four!
Yeah where's Loney? Two days off in a row for a guy in his twenties?? I don't get that. Is he hurt?
From a defensive standpoint Loney should play everyday, but he's in a tough stretch offensively (2 for 16 with no walks), so with two lefties back to back I don't have a problem starting Saenz one of the games. It's not that big of a deal to me. Besides once the lefty is gone, Loney will replace him anyway.
I'm sure Grady Gump has Saenz in because of LH pitcher starting for Colorado….. And, of course, a .180 hitter should always bat 5th (yuk, yuk)….. Any good manager would tell you so…
Either (our best hitter) out for Gonzo makes alot of sense also… Anybody with any baseball knowledge at all should know that………
I think fans who use the internet and interface through blogs tend to more informed about the players in both the majors and minors because of the myriad of information available through the internet. Therefore, they tend to be more involved in wanting the team to do well in both the current and future years.
The fans that get their information only through the newspapers tend to be influenced by the opinions and bias of the newspaper "sports writers". This tends to stifle individual creative thought concerning the team.
People – You had better get use to the FACT that with Ned & Grady running the show the young players will never get to play on a consistent basis…….
Martin is the one exception, and they are playing him to death….
After the call up on Sept.1st we will have alot more young players up from the minors and I gurantee you that they will sit on the bench most of the time… Just wait and see…
Ned & Grady just prefer old worn out vets… That is the way it is, and that is the way it will always be with them….
For our young players to get a chance to develop & be the stars that they can be, Ned & Grady must go… Otherwise they will be in limbo for a very long time….
What surprises me is how people can be lulled after a 3 game winning streak.
Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed it. However, the facts are that this team is still starting Tomko and while he had a nice performance last night, does anyone think that was really Eric Stults? Meanwhile, Hillenbrand is still starting at 3rd, Pierre is getting the 2nd most amount of PAs with an OBP below the league average while providing little to no power and they're an IF injury away from Ramon Martinez.
I'd love to see it happen, but this team isn't equipped to leapfrog 2 teams in the division and 3 in the wild card. It's not Little's fault, it's the poor decisions made by this front office.
Loney hurt his knee when he slammed into a wall catching a ball. Grady said that the knee just looked ugly but no structural damage. He did bat yesterday. Maybe it's still a little sore. I was watching the Yankees-Tigers game. Where did they get this 20 year old Cameron Maybin?? His first major league at bat was a base hit, the second was a homerun. Wow!!! They said he could get to first base in like 3.3 seconds.
Sangabrielad..such negativity with 3 consecutive wins. So we're lulled. We're Dodger fans. Go Dodgers.
Russell: You're confusing Loney with Kemp.
oh they can spin it all they want. the fact is we are 6 1/2 games back on a team that is younger than our team.
Our 2007 self created payroll is twice that of AZ team so obviously we don't understand how to judge talent.
I as glad as anyone we have one three straight after loosing 13 of 19 don't get me wrong, but sorry for not jumping up and down at the possibility we may win a wildcard spot.
Josh is a very good PR man and good at what he does but PR people are skilled in words not Maths. He poses the point that we've turned things around and I hope to God he's right but even down here in Australia I can see that not only do we have to keep winning (and that to my way of thinking is putting your best team on the field) but our opponents have to start losing. We've won 3 in a row and have hardly moved. I want us to make the playoffs as much as anyone but I want Dodger Management to play their part as well.
And I should have added I'm one of the "old guys" ..
From the LA Times' letters, there was one that took aim at the Dodger youth movement. At one point, he claims the Dodgers have "no proven arms coming up."
Great logic. If they were "proven," what would they be doing in the minor leagues? As you point out Josh, Eric Stults, a minor leaguer, just pitched a great game against a division rival. Meloan and Kershaw are two highly touted prospects we'll see on the Dodgers soon. None of them are "proven," but sometimes "proven" equates to damaged goods like Schmidt and Wolf.
Josh – I started following the Dodgers in 1952. The outfield at that time was Furillo, Snider and Pafko. I have had the pleasure as a Dodger fan to have lived through all of our world series championships and many other wonderful evetnts – Koufax, Wills, Fernando, Hershiser, etc. Perhaps that clouds my perspective and I have had what young fans want. I have miantained for years that the only way, with very few exceptions, is to build from within and add a few pieces as needed. The core we need is a core of born and bred Dodgers, as our system is now producing. It takes time but is fun to follow and will make us competitive for years. Buying high priced, long term contact players has been a risky business for most teams.
I commend Ned for hanging on the kids and I do believe they will play. The pressure to trade kids for Dotel or others must have been enormous and hard to resist. Sometimes the best moves made are those that are not made.My take is that the veterans brought on board were to protect the kids and allow them to mature without having to shoulder the pressure of the big league team. Unfortunately, some of the guys have broken down physically or their skills have diminished a bit so they cannot carry the load expected.
The older fans with whom I keep in touch all feel the same way, as do the younger ones. Protect the kids. Build a team around them. I also commend former GM Dan Evans for his input in re-establishing the Dodger farm system and Logan White and his staff for superb drafting. I know some folks are upset that during the past two years we could not sign Hochevar and Blair. The whole draft thing is a gamble. You win some, you lose some. Logan's team has won many more than they have lost. But, going with the kids is far less of a gamble than bringing in the high priced, long term contract, aging players. eg. A-Rod.
GO DODGERS!! Let's keep this rolling. The best is yet to come. This year and down the road with the kids.
Saenx should be batting 4th………………………………in Vegas.
Today's Oldtimer: Mark Belanger
Mark Belanger must have been one heck of a fielder. Despite being one of the worst hitters in baseball history (.228 career BA, 20 career HR) Belanger spent significant portions of 15 years in the major leagues. Along the way "The Blade" collected eight Gold Gloves at shortstop, fewer than only Ozzie Smith, Omar Vizquel, and Luis Aparicio. Surely, Belanger along with Brooks Robinson and Bobby Grich deserve much of the credit for the superb Baltimore pitching of the 1970s, with the trio combining for 28 career Gold Gloves. Belanger spent the final year of his career with the 1982 Dodgers.
Don't look for another Mark Belanger; you'll never see the likes of him again. For better or worse, a player like Belanger will never again make it out of "A" ball.
Someone asked where the Tigers got Cameron Maybin. Answer: He was the 10th pick in the 2005 draft.
Also, today was not his ML debut; he went 0-4 yesterday.
What song does Andre Either come up too?
dr. J
mica owings is 3-3 with 2 HR and 5 rbi's.
the d-backs might not lose again this year.
make that 4-4 with 6 rbi's
Saenx should be batting 4th………………………………in Vegas.
Posted by: email@example.com | August 18, 2007 05:37 PM
And take away valuable ABs from Andy LaRoche? I dont think so. He should be batting 4th for a beer league softball team.
my bad dr. dre scurtis
cool thanks, u know the title of the song? i forget it!
You forgot about Dre, Scurtis, how dare you…
forgot about Dre
i think
ethier has 2 songs: still and forgot about dre
sweet thanks, im putting in a ring tone for the new phone. couldnt remember the song.
I hope we can knock this rookie pitcher around tonight.
does anybody have any stats on this guy
Baseball America has compared tonights starter for the rockies, Franklin Morales, to our very own Scott Elbert.
Their fastball/curveball combo's are very similar. He has what they call "swing and miss" type stuff.
I get my news from the LA Times AND the internet. Yep that's right, I'm 22 years old and I actually read the newspaper, what a concept? In fact, I've read the LA Times sports section every single day for about seven years. I actually read the other sections too….I know you probably just fainted.
Morales is a tough pitcher. This is not going to be an easy win tonight. In the futures game he was throwing 95-97 mph and his curve made my jaw drop….it's a HUGE curve ball, more side to side break than Zito's, but equally as impressive.
The Dbacks are spanking the Braves..HARD! I'm hoping they cool off sometime soon so the Dodgers can gain some ground in the standings. Wild card chances still look good though at this time.
Game thread comments on blogs can be so knee jerk that some commenters can't see the forest for the trees. So you get reactions that turn into comments regarding an error, strikeout in a clutch situation, or a groundout on the first pitch during a single game expressing that the team is hopelessly doomed to failure.
It's not a bad thing, you just have to see it and take it in for what it is, knee jerk reactions from fans that want their team to win every single night. Impossible and unrealistic, but also the mark of a fan true and true.
Just FYI for everyone the dodgers record last year on this day was
2006 Aug 18 64-58
2007 Aug 17 63-59
…and we did all right last year.
"…the Dodgers are in the middle of a pretty bad losing streak I see not much difference between the '06 and '07 dodgers as far as their ability to make the playoffs. I see a three win differential. The dodgers will start winning again, the big question is will it be too late when they do." 8/15/07 from
Anybody else hear we're starting Penny tomorrow on three days rest?
Morales is no ordinary rookie pitcher – he's got a dominant 94-95 MPH fastball from the left side and a nasty curve.
where are you heraing that
From Rotoworld:
Rather than start Brett Tomko, the Dodgers will use Brad Penny on three days' rest Sunday against the Rockies.
A risky strategy, especially given Penny's tendency to wear down as the season goes on. The Dodgers have Monday off, so Tomko might not start again until next weekend.
Diamond Leung is reporting that Penny starts tomorrow. Tomko pushed back to Tuesday.
More control problems for Chad. ******.
He got out of that unscathed. Bills REALLY needs to throw more first pitch strikes.
Wow nice Kemp!
Matt Kemp!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to go Kemp! Welcome to the bigs Morales.
Matt Kemp is my hero.
houston 2-0
I know when Bills has "it" or not. Tonight he doesn't.
If Kemp keeps this up he will be back in Vegas in no time.
nice jungar. i got a real laugh out of that on.
saw that coming he can swing
Not good!
Sure hope Chad settles down, and throws strikes.
Without Gonzo and Furcal that inning would have buried us…Bad Chad
Shea is awful. He is useless on this team.
I feel bad about this game tonight! UGH!
way to go all out and NOT dive for that ball 3 feet away from u Hillenbrand… lame
We need Abreu back up to send HillenBLAND down.
Sorry, you're right.
Sorry guys. I'm usually sleeping this time of day. My info was faulty. Maybin was pretty awesome today considering it was his second appearance. Are we splitting hairs here?
this guy might go 9 strong. hope he doesnt think he' shutting down the 27 yankees here.
Here we go again.
GREAT CALL! Shutup **** HURDLE!
Chad has been ridiculously lucky tonight, quite the catch from Kemp which definitely hit the glove not the wall
bad play turned great play turned bad call turned right call… now how about some runs
This rookie is making mincemeat out of this lineup so far, other than the mistake to Kemp earlier. C'mon bats wake up! Score some runs. Don't want to go 7 plus back.
No guts Hurdle?
Just got back from Keyspan "crazy" Park with all it's shenanigans, Brooklyn lost to the S.I. Yankees 12-3 Looks like we're having trouble here, SO LET'S GO DODGERS
Wow, Saenz just missed that.
God he is pathetic. That was an awful pitch to swing at.
Well this one is over. Later!
Pffffffffft! Saenz!
Fat, slow, and worthless – that's why Saenz should never start, pinch hit, or be on this team.
what do you guys think about that poll question.
I realize Grady likes the vets, but Saenz is not doing squat any more. He needs to go.
saenz for president….
he *****…
And it gets worse.
looks like the only way we can go to the playoffs is the wild card…
We need to get rid of the tomado. he's old fat and can't really hit anymore.
Isn't that a record for Martin for steals by a Doger catcher?
We could use that hitting of Hillenbrand.
ALRIGHT! Lets see if we can keep this rally alive, and kicking.
yeah that's a record…martin is awesome
Josh, It's nice to talk about three victories in a row and it's a marathon, not a sprint, but that doesn't address the real problem with the Dodgers. That is, they are badly mismanaged! Grady might be an acceptable manager for a team of veterans, but he is the wrong person for a team whose talent is in the younger players. That, along with Ned's roster moves and trades that blocked the younger players, is why the team is where it is today. The sooner both of them get over their fascination with less talented veterans, the sooner this team will produce. In the meantime, let's lay the responsibility for the team's standing where is rightfully belongs – at the feet of management.
MARTIN's 20 still is a Dodger record.
wouldn't this be a great time for your 1st home run of the year
wishful thinking
Sorry that should be 19 for Martin.
BEIMAL has been getting hit lately, hasn't he.
I wonder why our offense struggle's? Would this game be different if Loney was hitting fifth? Why is the fatty tomato batting fifth?
Let's hope they make that out that Proctor got a big out.
.181 batting average for Saenz. Worthless. Mindless and reckless of grady to bat him in front of Martin. As soon as LaRoche gets healthy, I fully expect Saenz to be shipped out, and The Roach to be brought in.
since the all star break.
.130/.214/.130/.345 tomato
.259/.302/.379/.681 loney
.240/.265/.313/.577 gonzo
.330/.390/.534/.924 ethier
enough is enough. We are heading towards 7 1/2 back in our division and were at least in a wild card race and these bozo's roll out these two guys over guys who are at the very least better baserunners and better defensive players and of course better hitters.
why should we care anymore?
great Olmedo is on deck!!
lets get some runs while we have julio in.
Loney PINCH HIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is horrible!!!!!!!WHO DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING!!!!!
Betemit? Anderson? Nope. Saenz.
yeha makes sense… that the only way he can get a run in. a sac double play???
The "Rally" Killer Tomato
Forgot to throw Loney in there
who would have figured Martin would keep a rally going. Is Grittle awake?
I wish Ethier was up.
now don't swing at a crappy pitch
Hat's off to Russ for his 20th.
Now it's 20.
Come on Shea
Could someone explain to me again how Grady Little is an asset to this team?????
Seems we can play this game in spite of his moronic moves.
New ball game! Thanks Shea!
My gosh… I think Olmedo Saenz let out a belch from the dugout to wind that ball passed Tulo's glove… atta boy tubby tomato, way to do your part!
come on big game james. be worthy
Relying on Hillenbrand is like Wile E. Coyote relying on an Acme parachute.
Shea has come up huge this game. Anyone for dfa Saenz and recalling Laroche letting Shea be our righty ph
Sorry, I can NOT explain how Grady Little is an asset…
Big Bad John
gosh we just take broxton for granted don't we? man is he good
here we go RAFFY!!
Brox is one big corn fed boy! Listed at 290, but bigger. Good job!
shut the door kemp… come on!
If you tell me how snide comments followed by five question marks help in any situation, I'll try to help you with Grady.
If I had told you before the season started that Schmidt would make 6 starts and be 1-4, that wolf would make no starts after July 4th,that kuo would make 6 starts and be 1-4,and that the Dodgers would neither make a trade for pitching or bring any significant additional pitching up from the minors what would you have guessed our record would be in mid-August.
my above post directed to rodmky.
I'm glad you're a Grady fan .. but even from down here I can see his limitations … it's a shame you can't .. and btw I never make snide comments… it's just the way you read it.
So what does that have to do with all the dirt line ups he throws out there. We have injuries but what team hasn't? What about the Dbacks the lost Johnson, D.Davis barely came back from injury. Point is every team has to deal with injuries that's why we went into spring training with 7 starters and it still wasn't enough. What do hurt pitchers have to do with benching Loney two staright days, batting sweeney third, tomato fifth. grittle hurt the team more than he helps it.
Not to come to anyone's defense, but the question referred to Grady's assets. Grady is a nice man, very patient, two qualities that may or may not make for a great major league manager. He also likes to run a little bit, which I applaud. Other than that, I don't like the way he handles pitchers, and I certainly don't like his pitching coach, though I don't know if he actually picked Honeycutt. And I REALLY don't like his line-up cards.
speaking of coaches is their a worst third base coach?
Raffy way to not give up on the play!!
Helton made JON work but that was a brilliant play by FURCAL.
Nice Play Raffy! Dumb move to try running on him.
Why rag on Honeycutt? He's doing all he can with what he has to work with. He doesn't make out the lineup cards.
hit a bomba Martin!
Even Vinny some times rags on Honeycutt…ala, "…whatever Honeycutt just told him, don't tell him that again.." after some monster hit.
sure would be a good time for a walkoff from Martin
or Gonzo
Why in the **** you ragging on Honeycutt?
What is this, the Rick Honeycutt fan club. What has he DONE to put him in your top echelon of pitching coaches?
how about a walk off double
Running out of options here……
Last time I looked, I saw a fantastic young pitcher named Chad Billingsly and this guy just can't turn the corner. Too many wasted pitches leading to high npitch counts…problems with mechanics. Eddie Murray committed far less sins and he's goneeeeeeeeeee. Honeycutt? Give me a break.
That throw to third was a bit iffy, Loney.
if we didn't give a run away already we would have won the game. let alone what is going on right now. defense is huge in all sports but gets no respect.
thats the one thing i have noticed about loney his throws always seem to be a bit off. i don't know if he gets excited or what.
Chad always have problem with control not Honeycutt fault.
Rudy! Rudy! Rudeness!
Then I guess anyone can be Dodgers pitching coach. Can't expect a coach to teach, now can you?
nice pitch
oh **** yeah
amazing… i don't know how much longer i can last. lets just get it done here
Just your everyday 6-2-5 double play! HOW DID WE GET OUT OF THAT ONE???
Wow nice a 6-2-5 dp instead of the 6-2-3.
OMG That Was FREAKIN HUGE!!!!!!!!!Great job there keeping it together and working outta That Jam!!!!
After that 625 DP it should give us some momentum eh wat da say?
Whew! Rudy you scared us.
4/5 who????
If I hear one Shea is worthless post in the next week I'm going to revert to this game.
whew 2nd chance for Loney!
Dang Shea you got such a bad jump.
hmm…shea is…lol..j/k. he basically replaces wilson -a little more contact a little less power..about the same defense and running the bases that play withstanding. nice battle james. lets fo furcal, it's getting late…
Way to battle Loney! Great AB!
Hope those poor people out in the lf pavillion loaded up on water before the 8th inning.
oops rf pav
C'mon Pierre! How about an RBI!
Who's gonna blink first?
When you put 5 question marks on a question you have made up your mind about I think that an indication of a snide point of view. If you say it's me projecting I think your playing games.
The question I asked you seems like a good one to me.The problem as I'm sure you know I believe is with Colletti and injuries. I don't study any other teams on a day-to-day basis to comment on how they were able to overcome injuries better than we have.
we are really gonna need a good one from penny tomorrow. imagine if we had tomko going…
ggreat bounceback innning
wow score some runs for rudy
we need great pitching from everyone now Penny-Tomko we are too far out to waste any games now. Great Job by Rudy!
hey pierre are still hanging in there?
Boy that Helton tires me out. RUDY had a good inning.
Great job Rudy! Hope we score here. Rudy can't go another inning, and all that's left is Blowberto, and Saito.
Grady is motivating the offense by getting Hernandez up.
1 great moment for libby as a Dodger?
None that I know of.
to bad for him cause grady was actually gonna let him play tomorrow if he got a hit…oh well i guess he'll have to wait for the next 12 inning game.
Thar she blows!
Pushed to the very end only to come up short…throughly exhausting game in every possible way…our pen gave us 5 innings to win the game with a walk-off and our offense didn't get it done. We have the bottom of this inning to catch what the Rockies did, so I'll hold out hope till it's over. Great effort from the pitching staff tonight, the offense while it battled to get us back in the game could not push over that final run.
u just got to figure something out besides going with roberto for 3 innings
It's just a shame when you run out of pitchers .. poor old Roberto just ran out of puff ….
Oh well, I hope we win the rubber game later today to win this series.
DTF roberto
yeah there was "little" he could do.
i mean DFA haha
We lost this game about 10 times and lo and behold we got another half inning to watch and see if we can come back.
This is a night we could say we almost prevented a loss.
Hernandez made over 50 pitches, there was nothing to be done, we had 5 innings to win the game before Hernandez's second inning. I would say this wrecked our bullpen, but we have Penny going tomorrow and a day off Monday. I'm about ready to put the West to bed, Wild Card is very much in play though and anything can happen in October when you get there. And I'll be at Dodger Stadium in 12 hours, good night.
Give me Meloan or Give me death!
im glad im a little buzzed. Really needed it for this one.
Game effort by Roberto Hernandez, and he shouldn't be blamed for losing this game. Billingsley again could only give us 5 IP, and our 1-4 hitters went a collective 3 for 24.
That said, there's no reason for Hernandez to be on this team. Why is Meloan still down while we run Hernandez out there in crucial games?
Colletti is asleep at the wheel in this case.
By the time Hernandez came out for his second inning for just the first time he's gone more than 1 in more than 2 months, I had to wonder, "Where's Sammy?" Research provided the answer. Only twice this year has Saito pitched on more than 2 consecutive days, and one of those two occasions was the three days before this game.
In looking at Broxton, the same is true of him so I am led to believe that this is a Grady policy. It may even be a good policy, but there is a time to violate the policy and the 14th inning of a crucial game is that time.
Josh was a prophet calling today's starters "marathoners".
Games like these is what frustrates me with Little. Saenz batting fifth coming up in key situations all night and couldn't get it done. How do you keep a guy hitting .180 more than halfway done with August.Grittle bad incosistent line ups are going to kill us. At least play the kids and give them some experience in a pennat race.
Several mistakes were made last night.
1. What the **** was Hildenbrand thinking, he killed any moementum we had after getting out of the jam in the top half of the inning.
2. Relief pitching, need I say more. Beimel, 10 pitches, Proctor 1 pitch!! I know hind sight is always 20/20, but come on, we burned 2 innings of relief pitching and were forced to use blowberto in the latest innings.
3. Defensive substitutions. First of all, how many starts does Olmedo need to get "hot" again. He needs to go. Using Ethier for one at bat when he could have had at least two more could have provided the offensive edge we needed. Gonzo better not be in the lineup if Martin is resting today, as well he should after catching 14 innings.
Its **** like this that forces me to have so little faith in Grady. Last nights game was full of managerial mishaps and **** poor decisions. IF we make the playoffs, dont expect too much from Grady to get us through the first round.
Release Roberto!! Call up Meloan!!! Hendrickson is next on my list.
I realize that Bad Chad showed up again last night, but the kid is young and he's got some learning to do. But we've seen what he's capable of with that complete game, 8 2/3 innings shutout against houston a few weeks back. A little early run support and maybe not starting against the Rockies would do him some good, they seem to have his number.
DFA Grady while youre at it.
Is the game still going?
Yeah and Roberto just gave up six more runs, dont know how our offense is going to keep up with this. I think we're going to start using an 8 man squad on the field and have Pierre pitch, the throw isnt as far that way.
Right now the Rockies are a better team then us because of their offense. If it wasn't for numerous late inning melt downs by their bullpen they could be leading the wild card right now. As much as it pains me to say it we are the fourth best team in our division right now because of our weak offense.
I wouldnt say we're the fourth best team, we're just playing like it. The problem is that we have a manager who is about the 10-12th best in the league, and some people on here may say that that is giving him too much credit.
I'll take our pitching staff Penny,Lowe,Bills and Beimel,Brox,Saito over Dbacks and Rocks staff. I'll take our offense with the right line up over the padres. That does not make the them fourth best team in the division what we do have is the worst manager in the division.
Give me Boche over Little. And the thought of Boche makes my stomach turn, and one of the biggest reasons for that is because he is a Gnat.
Having Saenz over Loney didn't cost us a win yesterday. There is no excuse for playing the fatty tomato over Loney and batting him fifth ahead of Martin. Not to mention Ethier on the bench. So frustrating how can you not be mad at grittle!


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In California's Cap-and-Trade Program, Utilities Benefit
The state's utilities have been placed in a special class that effectively cushions companies and their ratepayers from the cost of reducing carbon emissions.
Most businesses say California's new cap-and-trade program, designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions, is a job killer that will suck billions of dollars out of the economy.
But you won't hear too many protests from some of the biggest businesses of all: California's electric utilities.
From SMUD to Southern California Edison, the state's utilities have been placed in a special class that effectively cushions companies and their ratepayers from the cost of reducing carbon emissions.
"It will hold their rates neutral," said Scott Murtishaw, an energy adviser at the Public Utilities Commission.
Customers of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District shouldn't expect higher costs from the cap-and-trade program "for at least five years," said SMUD spokeswoman Dace Udris.
Ratepayers of the investor-owned utilities, such as Pacific Gas and Electric Co., will even get a small "climate dividend" under a mechanism that's expected to be ratified today by the PUC. It could be as much as $30 every six months, but the amount will really depend on the market price of carbon, Murtishaw said. It will come in the form of a rebate.
The dividend is in addition to rate stabilization. It is supposed to help compensate California consumers for the higher costs they'll be paying for other goods as a result of cap and trade, Murtishaw said.
By contrast, most industries subject to the cap-and-trade program say the carbon restrictions will cost them plenty -- more than $1 billion a year. The California Chamber of Commerce is suing to dismantle the whole enterprise, saying it's an unconstitutional tax.
Utilities, though, say they're comfortable with cap and trade.
"We think this is the right thing to do," Brad Neff, manager of cap-and-trade implementation at PG&E, said in a recent interview.
Why the special treatment for utilities and their customers? The answer lies in AB 32, the state's landmark climate-change bill, which requires Californians to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Enacted just five years after the energy crisis, the law says utilities should be spared "duplicative" regulations.
Already, electric companies and their customers are bearing the cost of using more solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, which are generally more expensive than traditional sources. Fully one-third of their power must come from renewables by 2020.
State officials "feel like they're already getting a lot out of electricity," said Dallas Burtraw, an energy economist with the Washington think tank Resources for the Future. "The electricity sector is already out front."
The cap-and-trade market was designed by the California Air Resources Board, and the agency opted to be gentle with a group that is essentially a captive audience.
"Ratepayers can't shop around," said agency spokesman David Clegern. "This is a way of giving them some relief."
Buffering ratepayers from higher costs is a little unsettling to economists and some environmentalists, who argue that price signals are the most effective way to spark conservation.
But keeping costs low is seen as an effort by state regulators to make the controversial program more palatable to Californians. The program has already survived a failed 2010 ballot initiative that would have overturned AB 32.
"The program was not meant to put people out of business or put families in jeopardy," said Tim O'Connor, director of the California climate initiative at the Environmental Defense Fund. "(The cost) can't be too high or you quickly lose the public." Cap and trade is an attempt to inject market forces into the fight against global warming.
The state has placed a ceiling on the amount of carbon that can be emitted by more than 400 manufacturers and other big companies; the cap will decline slightly each year.
The state wants companies to reduce emissions as much as they can, perhaps by investing in green technologies. Otherwise, if they need emissions allowances they'll have to buy them from the state or on the open market. The point is, there's now a price for carbon pollution -- it was trading Wednesday at $13.75 a ton.
Most companies get 90 percent of their emissions allowances for free, from the state, and have to buy the rest. The first state-run auction was held in November and raised around $290 million; another is set for February.
The mechanism has brought protests from business groups, which say the cost for emissions credits will run upward of $1 billion a year. It's the reason the California Chamber is suing the state. Electric utilities aren't exempt from cap and trade. They have to keep their emissions below a certain threshhold, just like everyone else.
But unlike cement-makers, refiners and other industries, they're getting all of their emissions allowances doled out for free. As a result, state officials believe there will be no impact on their rates from cap and trade.
For a utility like SMUD, which has an abundance of hydroelectricity and renewable energy and doesn't rely heavily on carbon-emitting fossil fuel plants, the result is a surplus of emissions allowances.
"We're below the emissions cap," Udris said. "We have the credits we can sell. We won't be buying."
The state set up a complicated mechanism to deal with investor-owned utilities like PG&E. The system is designed to ensure there is a healthy market with lots of allowances for sale.
The utilities get all of their allowances for free -- but are required to sell them off. Indeed, most of the allowances sold at the state's inaugural auction in November belonged to them.
It doesn't end there. They then have to purchase whatever allowances they need to comply with the emissions ceiling. The revenue they get from selling their free credits is supposed to offset their costs.
The revenue must go to ratepayers -- 85 percent to residential customers and the rest to businesses -- to hold down rates.
"This will be a full buy-down of their costs," said Murtishaw of the PUC.
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Sometimes, the best way to learn from the Tour professionals is to take a moment and consider that these players are the best in the world. Sounds simple, but really, we all forget that from time to time.
I've heard it described that the difference between a professional and an amateur golfer is that the amateur makes a shot of skill look spectacular while the professional makes it look routine. That makes a lot of sense.
Consider the one area of golf that we can theoretically do as well as Tour players: Putting. There is no great feat of physical strength or incredible dexterity needed to putt. In fact, all golfers have made a long putt before, just like the Tour players we see every week.
As I watched the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club, it was obvious to me that there IS a difference. These guys on TV are unbelievable! In fact, now that the PGA Tour literally measures each and every shot by laser, the Shotlink System shows exactly how amazing these guys are -- as they go about making it look routine.
Consider Phil Mickelson on the final hole of regulation. Even CBS's Jim Nantz warned his birdie attempt was a length of putt "not holed very often." But from 26'9", Mickelson made the tough putt and earned his way into the playoff. This was reminiscent of the putts he made last week at Pebble Beach when he went on to win. Then on the second playoff hole, Bill Haas drains one from 45 feet! Stats show Mickelson's putt had a 9% liklihood of going in based on Tour statistics. Haas' putt had a 3% chance of going in. This is against the Tour average. Big-time players come up big when it matters!
Now for the rest of the golf world. Instead of looking at the putts made, consider the putts missed! 91% of Tour players miss from Mickelson's distance, 97% miss from Haas' distance. So what are the odds you'll make these?
I like to stress to amateur players that speed is critical in making you a better putter. One thing Tour players are great at on the greens is avoiding the three-putt. On average, they have about one every two rounds. If you work on your lag putting, get the ball to tap-in distance from anything more than 10 feet and your scores will drop.
On TV, we see highlights of long bombs dropping on the greens and great saves or birdies pouring in from all over. But that's not the reality. Not even for the world's best. They know the secret to good scores is not necessarily making the long putts, it's making good long putts that leave you with "gimme" tap-ins instead of grinding over 3- or 4-footers for par.
Work on your lag putting skills for awhile, your scores will reflect it very soon.
John Reger Jr., has been a member of the PGA since 1982 and has served in a variety of roles in the golf industry that includes golf professional, tournament announcer, golf course owner, tournament player, broadcaster, consultant, golf manufacturer, promoter, golf course developer and student of the game. John is the Founder and President of Briefcase Golf, Inc. based in Gainesville, Florida and co hosts a weekly syndicated radio show on ESPN stations across the state of Florida. For additional information visit www.briefcasegolf.com
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Our favorite new series of 2013 is definitely the post-apocalyptic western EAST OF WEST and we couldn't be more excited to get to celebrate the launch of the collection with the book's amazing artist… Nick Dragotta!
Nick's art has dazzled us for a few years now with mystic arts and high mutant weirdness on X-STATIX PRESENTS: DEAD GIRL (with Isotope favorite Peter Milligan), explored the uncomfortable underbelly of the Marvel Universe on VENGEANCE (with another IsoFave Joe Casey), dazzled our poor little minds on FF (with yet another favorite 'round these parts Jonathan Hickman), transported us back to yesteryear on CAPTAIN AMERICA: FOREVER ALLIES (with comics legend Roger Stern), and always always brings a smile to our faces with his awesome site HOWTOONS.
Come celebrate with us! Our beloved Kirsten Baldock is crafting up a palette-stunning cocktail list based on Nick's work in honor of the evening. Mister Dragotta promises a sketchbook-filling Four Horsemen styled evening… and we're hoping he'll bring in some original art for us to buy as well!
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For those there to listen (Brad, Rick, Dan)...What did you listen too when performing the listening test?
We went through the gambit. Rock, jazz, blues, folk, techno, and just a bit of classical but it was parts of non classical songs so not a good comparison there. I can't remember the exact titles, but now that you ask, I will take notes next time. Cheers.
I pulled the back cap off one of the borrowed 2445 drivers to check the Be diaphragm and was greeted with a ton of mold. I quickly took the whole mess outside to the detached garage and will deal with it tomorrow when I get home from work. It was a real show stopper. After I clean it all up with some bleach I'll probably replace the felt in the cap with the JBL foam.
I'll pull the other 2445 apart when so motivated and check it too.
I finished all the 2441 measurements. I guess I'll post the results in a different thread at some point.
Hey 4313B, that is really strange about the mold. Have you ever seen that before....I've not.
I will anxciously (bad speller) the results of the 2441 as that is what I have.
Not sure if you meant equipment or music, but someone else asked about the electronics and the rest of the system, and I didn't see an answer. It was a two-way with a TAD 1601a in a ~7 cu. ft box tuned to low to mid 30s. The system was bi-amped with DeHavilland Aries SE A2 845 mono amps on the bottom, and Larry Moore's UltraFi SE 845 on top, with crossover at 700 on (somewhat noisy) Heathkit X0-1 crossovers. Crossovers have since been replaced by 650hz units built around the Steve Bench PCB design using 6DJ8 as cathode follower and carefully matched parts (quieter and much cleaner, better imaging). Volume was set with an autoformer unit using the Intact Audio/Dave Slagle units.
For at least part of the time the HF was my Yuichi S-290 wood horns (built by Woody Banks -- credit where it's due!) with TAD TD4001. For a part of the time for round two we had a new pair of Lambda/AE TD-15M woofers in the same cabinets. Great setup -- just about 8 t-nuts short of perfect.
I've been promised a chance to live with JBL drivers using the Truextant diaphragms in swap for my 4001's for a week. I think a week with my system and my wood horns (much overlap with what we listened to at Brad's) will really give me chance to learn the differences. I have my suspicions, and I suspect differences will be slightly more pronounced when crossover frequency is say 500 rather than 800. Or maybe I was picking up on the special damping qualities of the mold. It was a lot of fun to try out different combinations, but I'm not much for definitive judgments under these circumstances.
--Rick aka tubino
However, I glued in the padding on one of them with Arlene's tacky glue, when I dropped in the TrueXtents. I'll bet I trapped moisture in the cap from the glue.. and where there is moisture...
I immediately suspected the felt or glue. I wish that I'd snapped a picture of it. Very smelly cotton candy stuffed inside the back cap is as best as I can describe it. It's even growing on the Be diaphragm ( evidently Be isn't toxic to mold )
So what are the names of these horns I am testing? Edgar and Yuichi?
I was talking with JBL last week and these TrueXtent diaphragms came up (didn't have anything to do with this thread). I relayed the story to Brad the other day and he can fill you in at the next meeting you guys have.
JBL probably doesn't like the idea of TrueXtent coming out with 1.75" and 3" versions either. Oh well. It's obviously a tough world we live in.
I really dont think it matters much as JBL has not been pushing its drivers to EOM s for over a decade now, favouring to push branded fully built ranges to various pro segments. As I recall they did not have control of what the OEM s were using once RCF and Beyma and few others moved in after the QA issues in the 90s.
Diyers will always need motors and crossovers and diaphragms but that will never support the commercial side of a business case.
But if the recent publicity popularises Be in the eyes of the consumer audio press then compression drivers might capture the imagination of the well healed audio public who need bigger, louder but accurate sound.
I really doubt Brush-Wellman's business plan is counting on DIYers. I think they are after the pro market for replacement diaphragms, and that's why they emphasize durability as much or more than extreme fidelity.
There are a bazillion pro sound guys blowing up diaphragms on a regular basis, and then there is a handful of home audio fanatics who can live off a pair of diaphragms for the rest of their natural lives. As a consumer group we're not even the tail on the pro audio dog. We might be the pimple on the flea on the tail of the dog. I bet 90% of the people who use 2" compression drivers in their homes in the US are in the cumulative contacts lists of readers of this and maybe 2 other forums. Add one more degree of separation and we'd get most of the rest of the world too.
Pro audio is an industry. We're a little club. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I just don't think we are in the marketing equation for the manufacturers.
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It's rough for robots in the armed services lately. Lack of funding is forcing the United States military to end the Army's Future Combat Systems program and eliminate many robotic soldiers, including autonomous helicopters and mine-sniffing transport vehicles.
The good news is that some of the remaining funds are being used to upgrade existing programs in an attempt to integrate the technology "in a fiscally responsible manner." I say we just plain need to start working on a way to call some Autobots in for help. [The Hill via Wired via PopSci]


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The Jewish Temple in the First Century A.D.It is interesting that in the Middle East certain places have remained holy throughout the centuries, even if another religion may have taken possession of them. Today the Moslem Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is the prominent building where the Jewish temple once stood. When Jesus came to Jerusalem, the Temple had just been marvelously rebuilt by Herod the Great. The Temple area had been enlarged to a size of about thirty-five acres. Around the Temple area were double colonnades. The Jewish historian Josephus describes the colonnades: "All the cloisters were double, and the pillars to them belonging were twenty-five cubits in height, and supported -the cloisters. These pillars were of one entire stone each of them, and that stone was white marble; and the roofs were adorned with cedar, curiously graven. The natural magnificence, and excellent polish, and the harmony of the joints in these cloisters, afforded a prospect that was very remarkable; nor was it on the outside adorned with any work of the painter or engraver. The cloisters -(of the outmost court) were in breadth thirty cubits, while the entire compass of it was by measure six furlongs, including the tower of Antonia; those entire courts that were exposed to the air were laid with stones of all sorts" (Jewish War 5. 5. 2). The eastern portico was named after King Solomon and the part to the south, which overlooked the Valley of Kidron, was called "Royal." On the east side the high corner was possibly the pinnacle of the temple, mentioned in the story of the temptation of Jesus (Matthew 4:5). There were eight gates leading into the temple. There were the two Huldah Gates or "mole" Gates from the south, which passed underneath the Royal Porch. To the east was the Gate of Susa, still visible as the Golden Gate which was walled up by the Byzantines. In the western wall was the main gate named the Gate of Coponius after the first procurator; it was decorated with the golden eagle as a sign that the Temple had been placed under the protection of Rome. Anyone was allowed to enter the outer area, which was therefore called the Court of the Gentiles. The actual Temple was enclosed by a balustrade, and at the entrances to it were warning notices, one of them is now in a museum in Istanbul. It says that foreigners have freedom of access provided they do not go beyond the balustrade which went all around the central edifice and which no uncircumcised could cross without incurring the death penalty. Fourteen steps led through the Beautiful Gate to the Court of the women where the poor boxes were, into one of which the poor widow cast her two mites (Luke 21:1-4). Another fifteen steps led up to the famous Gate of Nicanor, to which Mary had brought the child at the time of his presentation; this led through the Court of the Men to that of the priests, which had in its center the altar for the burnt offerings and to the left of it a large basin called the Brazen Sea resting upon twelve bulls cast in bronze. Further steps led up to the actual temple, a comparatively small building. A priceless curtain, embroidered with a map of the known world, concealed from view what lay beyond, and none except the priest on duty was allowed to go farther. It contained the golden altar at which incense was offered and next to it the seven-branched candelabrum and the table with the twelve loaves of shewbread, which were replaced by fresh ones every sabbath. Beyond it, behind another large curtain, lay the Holy of Holies, which none except the high priest was allowed to enter, and he only on the Day of Atonement. A stone designated the place where once the Ark of the Covenant had stood. Jesus came to the Temple at a very young age and in Solomon's Porch the boy argued with the rabbis, astonishing them with his questions and with his answers. He remained behind when his parents left, and when his worried mother at last found him he said to her enigmatically: "'Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"' (Luke 2:49). It is one of the most original sayings of Jesus, in which he speaks of God for the first time as "avi" (My Father) which was an expression reserved for the Son of God. Today the Western Wall, the so-called Wailing Wall, is all that remains of the ancient walls of Herod's Temple; one can still see the pilaster and the beginning of Robinson?s Arch, which was part of a large viaduct leading to the upper city. Excavations in 1967, led by the well-known archaeologist Benjamin Mazar, revealed the cornerstone. Adjacent to it on the southern side remain traces of the road from which the pilgrims entered the gates. Archaeology
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For years, Laurel Klein has been dreaming of opening a combination restaurant, bar and performance space where Jewish young adults could gather to eat, socialize, learn and then "take their Jewishness back home with them."
Now, the 31-year-old Philadelphia transplant has a litmus test of whether others want that, too. Klein's proposed "Cafe Olam" is among a handful of startups seeking support on Jewcer.com, a new Jewish crowd-funding platform.
Modeled after the secular Kickstarter, Jewcer serves as a venue for anyone, anywhere, to pledge financial support to innovative projects related to Judaism or Israel.
"It's kind of a test bed for ideas," explained Naomi Leight, 28, who founded the site along with four friends in Los Angeles. "Our generation doesn't just want to donate money where it goes to a pile and you don't know what it goes toward. They want to give to projects they are passionate about and they want to give directly."
There have been at least two other Jewish attempts at crowdfunding, though neither appears to be active. Mitzfunder.org came out of PresenTense, a nonprofit that runs business-training fellowships and seminars in several major cities, but no projects are currently listed. A private company in Tel Aviv launched Jcrowd.com last August, according to a blog post. However, the site is blocked without a password.
While Jcrowd was aimed at attracting more observant or Israeli populations, Leight said, Jewcer targets 25- to 45-year-olds in cosmopolitan U.S. cities.
Like Kickstarter, the site is set up so that donors get something in exchange for their level of support, whether a shout-out on the venture's Facebook page, a personal thank-you card, merchandise, advertising, tickets to an event and so forth. But they only get these "rewards" if the project reaches its stated goal within a maximum of 75 days. If the funding falls short, nobody's credit cards are charged, and the project organizer isn't obligated to move forward without a sufficient budget. Ideally, this all-or-nothing model encourages those who care about a project to convince others to feel the same way so that it succeeds, Leight said.
"It's not, 'I'm asking you for money;' it's 'I want your participation,' " Leight explained.
Leight and her co-founders pooled their own money to develop the site, which officially launched in late March. Since then, they've posted 14 projects seeking anywhere from $1,500 to $15,000. Aside from Klein and another Philadelphian, Adam Oded, who's pitching a podcast of Israeli music, the rest of the initiatives are rooted in Los Angeles.
So far, the site has drawn more than 10,000 unique visitors and 500 pledges totaling $22,000. An Israel Ambassador Program for teens just obtained its goal and two other projects are more than halfway. But time is running out. Most of the projects expire by June 1. Leight said she expected a slow start because many people still don't understand the concept, but she's confident that at least a handful of the projects will make it. Jewcer also relies on the projects succeeding because the site is set up to sustain itself by taking 5 percent of the money raised.
"If the funding doesn't come together, then it's a sign that I need to retool the project and set it out again," said Oded, a 44-year-old DJ and newly appointed communications staffer at Moving Traditions, a Jenkintown-based nonprofit that promotes Jewish identity.
Oded is seeking $2,000 on Jewcer, which he estimated would be enough to produce four "Round Trip Radio" podcasts along with an accompanying website featuring links to Israeli artists' sites, free downloads and more.
Oded has previously teamed with PhillyIsrael to host talk shows with various Israeli DJs and performers. With this funding, he said, he'd be able to build that concept into a more professional online magazine.
"This is a labor of love for me," he explained. "No one's going to get rich by promoting Israeli alternative music, but I think it's great music and I want to share that."
As of earlier this week, Klein had more than $4,700 pledged toward Cafe Olam — almost 60 percent of her $8,000 goal. The funds would be designated for legal costs, web development, architecture renderings, branding, strategic planning and a kick-off "BrewHaHa" event on Oct. 13.
Ideally, Klein said, the BrewHaHa will be the first official event in a yet-to-be secured Cafe Olam space, but she's not making promises considering how long it's taken her to get this far.
She began researching the viability of a Jewish brewpub as part of class project for her master's degree in social work at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, she said, she felt like she was too old for Hillel and was starting to lose her Jewish community. There were plenty of young adult programs at bars, she said, "but they were all missing the depth — and I really missed that."
She envisions a permanent but flexible place that would be open "to anyone who walks in the door," including interfaith couples looking "to grow Jewishly together." A percentage of revenue from the for-profit bar would go toward an affiliated nonprofit devoted to hosting Jewish programs, which could range from concerts to workshops examining beer in Jewish text.
Armed with data from focus groups and surveys, Klein continued shaping her concept as she went on to study Jewish communal service at the Reform movement's Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and then moved to Philadelphia when her husband, Eli Freedman, became an assistant rabbi at Congregation Rodeph Shalom on North Broad Street.
Last year, she brought her idea to the inaugural class of Tribe 12's social entrepreneur fellowship for innovative programs benefiting the Jewish community and began hosting Cafe Olam events at her home, a rented space or in conjunction with other groups.
After months of searching, Klein said, she's close to signing a lease on a former Jewish vaudeville house in Northern Liberties, provided that a team of lawyers can secure a zoning variance and liquor license. Paying for the building itself will require a separate capital campaign, Klein said, and likely several major donors.
That could be a hard sell because "the people who can afford this idea are an older generation and have a different view of how Jewish communal spaces can look."
For that same reason, she said, micro-grant funding becomes even more important because it can show that people are really invested in something even if they don't have much cash to give.
"If I have 300 donors at $10 or $15 dollars, it speaks to the viability of this project because more people have invested and bought in," Klein explained.
Once the community recognizes crowdfunding "as perhaps the new model for young adults, we'll have no problem with funding, with engaging this demographic," Klein said, "and I have no fear that we'll be able to survive — and replicate."


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[Updated 4:30 p.m. Monday, January 14] Supporters of religious leader Tahir ul Qadri head toward the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Monday to protest the country's political system.
Thousands of people are planning to call for reforms to clean up national politics, which have long been criticized as corrupt. Elections will be held later this year.
"We want change in the establishment and we want to save our country," said a man who sold his bicycle so he could afford to attend the rally, according to CNN affiliate GEO TV.
Qadri, the Muslim cleric leading the demonstrators, returned to Pakistan last month after living in Canada for eight years. He has called for a caretaker administration to replace the current government and carry out election reforms.
In 2010, Qadri gained worldwide attention when he declared a fatwa, or religious ruling, on terrorism and said it "cannot be permissible in Islam." Some have suggested that he is working on behalf of the military, noting his time as a lawmaker under Gen. Pervez Musharraf's regime in the early 2000s. But Qadri denies the allegations, saying he is simply seeking to ensure a corruption-free electoral process.
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- An illegal immigrant mother threatened with deportation was released
- Ruben Navarrette says her lawyer cited new administration memo on her behalf
- He says the memo isn't being enforced and may be a ploy to get Latino votes
- Administration has deported more than a million people since Obama took office
Eulalia Barrientos spent the last four months in a detention cell in New Jersey. After being apprehended by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June, the illegal immigrant was just steps away from being deported back to her native Guatemala.
Then, this week, suddenly, the cell doors swung open, and the married mother of two U.S.-born children was sent home to her family. Barrientos has been granted a one-year stay of removal; after the year, she'll have to go before an immigration judge and plead her case as to why she should be given a green card and allowed to remain in the United States permanently.
There's no explanation for what melted ICE. After all, this isn't a touchy-feely agency. All ICE officials will say is that this was a result of "prosecutorial discretion."
But that doesn't explain why an agency that, for weeks, didn't return the calls of Barrientos' lawyer, Bryan Johnson, suddenly became much more accommodating.
It might have something to do with the call I made this week to an ICE representative to ask about the case or the story that the Spanish-language television network NBC-Telemundo did on Barrientos or the fact that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez took an interest in the fate of a woman who has resided in Newark for nearly 20 years or the fact that, according to Johnson, there may even be a congressional inquiry into whether Barrientos should have been taken into custody in the first place.
Whatever the reason, it had probably had nothing to do with the facts of the case or the letter of the law. Barrientos didn't have either on her side.
She and her husband, Jose DeLeon, came to the United States illegally in the early 1990s. In 1998, they were discovered and ordered deported, but they defied the removal order and continued living in the United States because she had just given birth to their first daughter.
Several months ago, on the bad advice of another lawyer, the couple went to check on the progress of their green card application and again came to the attention of federal authorities.
On June 2, ICE raided the family home and arrested Barrientos in front of her two daughters -- ages 12 and 14 -- while her husband was at work. Authorities haven't arrested the husband, because he's the only parent left at home to care for the children, who are U.S. citizens.
Barrientos was slated for deportation. All that stood between her and a one-way flight to Managua was some media interest and political pressure. Oh, and a memo.
The "Morton memo" is a June 17 in-house memorandum (PDF) from ICE Director John Morton to all field office directors, field agents and chief counsel.
In the document, Morton advised the bureaucrats that they "may" exercise discretion and show leniency toward some illegal immigrants by weighing certain factors. They include the length of time the person has lived in the United States, whether the person was brought as a child, whether the person is pursuing an education, whether the person has a criminal record, whether the person or immediate relative served in the U.S. military, whether the person has a spouse, child or parent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and other circumstances.
When he heard about the memo, Johnson decided to play that card.
"Two days after the Morton memo came out, I sent immigration officials at the local ICE field office a copy of it in along with a statement explaining all the factors," Johnson told me.
"And I asked them: 'So did you change your policy? ... So can she be released, right?' And they said: 'No, we can't do that.' "
In the past few months, I've heard from about a dozen immigration attorneys who have likewise tried to use the Morton memo to spring clients and likewise struck out. As illogical as it sounds, ICE field agents whose job it is to apprehend folks who break the rules for entering the United States seem to be themselves breaking a set of rules laid out by their supervisor.
I have three theories as to what's going on here: The memorandum was written by Morton, or people above him, in a deliberately vague manner to allow local agents to skirt it and continue to rack up deportations; there is massive insubordination within ICE at the local level; or this was a political stunt intended to con Latinos into thinking the Obama administration is being more compassionate and lenient in deportations when really nothing has changed.
I asked Johnson which theory he thought was at work here. All three, he said.
"I think it's a political stunt intended to fool Latinos into voting for this administration," Johnson said. "The whole thing is a farce, at least at the local enforcement level."
In less than three years, the administration, eager to show that it is enforcing the immigration laws, has deported more than 1 million people.
And just this week, in a speech at American University, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano bragged that her department is poised to set another record for deportations in the just-concluded 2011 fiscal year.
Write this down: The Morton memo isn't worth the paper it's written on. Latinos shouldn't be fooled into thinking otherwise, and neither should anyone else.


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Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti is in stores now! I contributed an essay, "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?" to it, and I just got my copies the other day — the book is awesome. (Even though I realize now that I said "fuck" way too many times in my essay. And I say that as someone whose typical response to "Why do you swear so much?" is "Fuck off.") Go buy a dozen copies, please.
You should also check out the Yes Means Yes blog, to which I do not contribute, because — as you may have noticed — I can barely keep up with this blog. Lots of the fab contributors are active over there, so it deserves a spot in your Google Reader.
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Quote from: JBrochu on December 30, 2013, 07:47:51 PMThe article was correct for both Saturday (pre-accident) and Sunday (post-accident).A chance that the avalanche occur saturday at 5h30, if it was at 7 hours in the evening (tweve hours from both advisory) we won't know which advisory is good!!!I understand. They made the post on saturday to sunday morning... and sunday morning, at seven approximately, the condition change dramatically to moderate and anybody would have been able to go in the cliff.I respect the science behind the advisory and it is a good thing to have it. It is just a tool, but knowing the mitigation technique and practice them is a lot safer than a sign.
The article was correct for both Saturday (pre-accident) and Sunday (post-accident).
Are you suggesting that these hikers somehow had a premonition that the advisory would change from considerable to moderate before it was even posted the following morning so therefore they decided to proceed over the headwall without taking due caution?
(We) were not familiar with Mount Washington at all, so when we came to the split between Lions Head and Tuckerman Ravine, we decided to take Tuckerman Ravine because thats where I thought we came from.
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text: Monday, May 05, 2014 Arthritis a 'Significant' Factor in Falls Injury, Rates Adults with arthritis are injured in falls at a rate 2.5 times higher than for those without the disease, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which described this "growing public health problem" as one that can best be addressed through a falls prevention approach that "involves exercise or physical therapy." The findings, published in the CDC's May 2 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, are based on an analysis of falls and falls injury gleaned from the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a phone survey that interviewed 338,734 adults in all US states, territories, and the District of Columbia. Respondents were asked whether they have been told that they have some form of arthritis, gout, lupus, or fibromyalgia; whether and how many times they had fallen in the past year; and whether those falls caused an injury (defined as an event that caused the respondent to limit regular activities for at least a day or see a doctor). The results showed that in almost all cases, rates of falls and falls injuries were "significantly higher" among adults 45 years and older with arthritis than those without, with 13.3% of adults with arthritis reporting fall injury, compared with a 6.5% rate of injury on adults without arthritis (median age-adjusted rates across the US). Other findings of the study: Unadjusted median state prevalence of arthritis among adults 45 years and older: 40.1% Median prevalence of 1 fall: adults without arthritis – 12.1%; adults with arthritis – 13.8% Median prevalence of 2 or more falls: adults without arthritis – 9%; adults with arthritis – 13.8% When adjusted for age, the fall prevalence rate in 46 states was 30% or greater among adults with arthritis, with 16 states having an age-adjusted rate of 40% or higher for this group. Among adults without arthritis, no state had a fall rate higher than 30%. "The projected rapid growth in the population aged [65 years and older] and the increase in adults with arthritis (an estimated 67 million by 2030) … demonstrate the need for increasing fall prevention efforts," the report states. "Effective fall preventions can be multifaceted, but the most effective single strategy involves exercise or physical therapy to improve gait, balance, and lower body strength, which have been shown to reduce fall risk by 14%-37%." APTA provides continuing education on exercise prescriptions for balance improvement and falls prevention and offers other resources for physical therapists, such as how to develop consumer events on balance, falls, and exercise, information on evidence-based falls programs, and a clinical summary on falls risk in community-dwelling elderly. Members can also access an APTA pocket guide on falls risk reduction (.pdf) as well as an online community where members can share information about falls prevention. Research-related stories featured in News Now are intended to highlight a topic of interest only and do not constitute an endorsement by APTA. For synthesized research and evidence-based practice information, visit the association's PTNow website.


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What has been happening at Melrose Primary School?
What has been happening at Melrose Primary School?
Please find French Home Learning resources attached.
The Word document gives ideas on how parent/carers can support pupil Home Learning.
The PowerPoints give useful vocabulary with sound files.Read More »
We are pleased to announce some innovation in parent/carer communication - 'Melrose TV' also known as the 'Learning Hub'. The hub consists of a YouTube channel that we will use to host parent/carer information videos. We are celebrating the launch of Melrose TV with the release of our first... Read More »
We are trying to reinvigorate our Twitter page. We will be trying to share 'snapshots' of some of the events and experiences that take place at our school. Please follow us at: melrose_psRead More »
The latest Parent Council fundraising update is available as a file download on the 'Parent Council' part of the website. A big thank you to everyone who has helped raise funds for our school!Read More »
Melrose Primary School has just taken delivery of 48 new sets of headphones! This will allow us to have a pair attached to each pupil computer in the school. We were able to do this through Languages 1 + 2 funding and with support from our Parent Council. Thank you to everyone involved in... Read More »
At our recent parents information evening some parents had asked for details of programming resources that could be used at home. We would like to draw your attention to a couple of resources that would help support learning about programming.Read More »
P1 enrolment for session 2016/2017 will commence on the week beginning the 23rd of November. Existing Melrose Primary School ELCC children will have forms sent out to them. If your child does not attend our ELCC setting but will be attending Melrose Primary School, please enquire at the school... Read More »
The fantastic sum of over £3100 was raised at ths year's Summer Fayre. A huge thank you and well done to everyone who contributed, took part and helped out.Read More »
Sports Day - Friday 30 May 2014
P4 – P7 10am – 12.00 noon
P1 – P3 1.15pm – 2.45pm
All children should have a packed lunch on sports day.
Parents/carers, family and friends are most welcome.Read More »
Tuesday 25th March and/or Tuesday 1st April, 3.15 – 4.30pm. Help is needed to ensure that the Old School House Garden area is as safe as possible for pupils. We have therefore organised two after school work sessions for parents,... Read More »


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Trainee conductors Trevor Nelson, Josie Lawrence, Craig Revel Horwood and Professor Marcus du Sautoy
Each experts in their own field, the new series will follow Trevor Nelson, Josie Lawrence, Craig Revel Horwood and Professor Marcus du Sautoy as they compete to conduct a complete act of a legendary opera on the main stage of the Royal Opera House.
Each conductor will have a mentor and learn about working with orchestras, soloists, choruses and the complexities of staging an opera. As with the first series of Maestro, the orchestra will have the final say. The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House will decide which three competitors make it through to programme two, in which the competitors will have to conduct an operatic scene, specially staged for Maestro.
"Filming last night and seeing Le nozze di Figaro blew my mind," enthused Trevor Nelson, "meeting the conductor afterwards was like meeting a rock star. I'm excitedly nervous!"
The series will also feature interviews with a number of world-renowned opera professionals including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Lesley Garrett, each of whom will give a personal insight into the world of opera.
Of the new series, Controller of BBC Two Janice Hadlow said: "Having pipped Goldie to the conductor's podium in series one, it's time for Sue Perkins to pass her champion's baton to a brand new set of personalities who face a very different challenge. I look forward to seeing whether their natural musical ability will be enough to help them master the skills needed in the new series, which will take viewers right to the heart of one of the world's greatest opera institutions."
Director of The Royal Opera, Kasper Holten added: "Opera is the most dramatic and powerful of all the art forms bringing together words, music, design and drama – it's the greatest theatrical experience. And standing at the helm on the podium in the orchestra pit is the conductor, the Maestro. This challenge will probably be the most difficult any of the contestants will ever face in their professional lives, but I really hope it will be one of the most fulfilling experiences they ever have."
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Rocky raccoon's incredible Colorado journey
What do you do when your pet raccoon runs away after you've just moved to a new town?
This is what happened to Denny Crites when she moved from Arvada to Grand Junction in the late 1970s. When Crites let Rocky the raccoon out to explore her new home, the raccoon disappeared.
"I was pretty worried. I was afraid she had tangled with a dog or got run over," Crites said.
But four days later, Rocky showed up in her old Arvada neighborhood on the doorstep of a friend. She had traveled 260 miles.
In this March 8, 1978 story, a skeptical veterinarian is interviewed. "They can run, but mainly they amble," he said of raccoons.
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I am trying to build a small OpenGL application where the user can specify a bezier/b-spline curve (as side-view) and a closed bezier/b-spline curve (as top-view).
What I want to do is 'sweep' the top-view curve over the side-view cure to generate a 3D object in the 3rd viewport.
I have set-up the curves correctly, given 8 control points each. But I am unsure how to proceed in generating the control points for the 3D surface.
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These fresh tasting tacos are great for a light meal!
1 medium onion, cut into thin strips
2 large green peppers, cut into thin strips
2 large red peppers, cut into thin strips
1 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped
1 ripe avocado, peeled and seeded, cut into 12 slices
1-1/2 cups fresh tomato salsa (see ingredients below)
12 flour tortillas
Vegetable cooking spray
1 cup tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup onions, diced
1/2 clove garlic, minced
2 tsp. cilantro
1/3 tsp. jalapeño peppers, chopped
1/2 tsp. lime juice
Pinch of cumin
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I am staying in a guest cabin this cruise here on the Carnival Miracle, so I want to start today's blog with an observation, if I may. In the bathroom the stateroom stewards (or "stewarts" as they are sometimes called – FFS!) place three sizes of towels for us to use. There are the big ones used after a shower and there are the medium-sized ones that we use to dry our hands and faces after a wash or a shave and can also be used to wipe away that stubborn toothpaste mark from around the sink. (more…)