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Standard Liege youngster Michy Batshuayi has said he wants to move to Arsenal or Borussia Dortmund as soon as next summer.
The Belgian is among the hottest prospects in world football at the moment and his arrival in the Premier League would add another Belgian to the ranks that already include Eden Hazard, Marouane Fellaini, Moussa Dembele, Thomas Vermaelen, Jan Vertonghen, Vincent Kompany, Romelu Lukaku and Christian Benteke.
Arsenal are also interested in the player, admitted club president Roland Duchatelet.
"Arsenal are not the only club interested, but Michy isn't going anywhere next month," Duchatelet said.
The striker has already scored 12 goals in 17 appearances this season, following the path laid by Benteke before his transfer to Aston Villa in 2012. The striker has taken the Premier League by storm following his arrival and is an inspiration fo the 20-year-old who believes that the time has come for him to make a big move abroad.
"I don't think I think will be playing in Belgium next season. My parents, especially my dad, think I'm ready for the next step. This summer there was some interest, but I decided I didn't want to leave Standard without leaving a trace - being champion or being top scorer. I've two dreams clubs in Europe - Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund. Borussia because of their mix between quality and spirit, Arsenal because they give opportunities to young and talented players," Batshuayi said.
The Gunners are in the market for a striker and were looking at a loan move for Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid. Olivier Giroud is currently the lone striker at Arsenal and an injury to the frontman would mean that Arsene Wenger would have to rely on Nicklas Bendtner, who scored his first goal this season against Hull City.


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'Trojan Horse' school defends segregation
Boys and girls choose to sit separately at a school linked to the "Trojan horse" Islamic extremism inquiry, a teacher has claimed.
Golden Hillock School, in Birmingham, is expected to be put into special measures next week after inspectors labelled it inadequate and warned that students were not being protected from extremist views, according to a leaked Ofsted report.
Bikram Singh, a maths teacher, admitted that the fact that the majority of students were Muslim had influenced the school's culture but insisted that it wasn't imposing values on young minds.
"The school's responsibility is to tread carefully and respect the values [pupils have] been brought up with at home," he said.
Mr Singh said that pupils typically chose to sit with their own gender during

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Huan Hsu, a first-generation Chinese-American and award-winning journalist, was raised in Salt Lake City. Armed with mere strands of a family legend, Hsu returns to China to discover the fate of his great-great-grandfather's long-buried porcelain collection. In the process, he unearths the key to understanding his family's history over the past one hundred years of Chinese history and comes to terms with his own hyphenated identity.
In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Hsu's ancestral hometown of Xingang, the family was forced to bury their valuables, including a vast and prized collection of antique porcelain. They then fled on a decades-long trek that would splinter the collection over thousands of miles and countless upheavals. Melding memoir, travelogue, ethnography, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief takes readers along with Hsu on his journey throughout mainland China and Taiwan, discovering the great-great-grandparents and estranged aunts and uncles he never knew. It provides a personal glimpse into understanding the bloody, tragic, and largely forgotten events that defined Chinese history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hsu currently teaches creative writing in Amsterdam.
6:30 p.m. Enjoy a tour featuring Asian porcelain at the Crow Collection of Asian Art and the DMA.
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Martin Dihigo started his career as a second baseman.
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Hall-of-Famer Johnny Mize also said Dihigo was the best player he ever saw and recalled how, as teammates in the Dominican Republic, opponents would intentionally walk Dihigo to pitch to Mize.
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Off the field, former teammates described Dihigo as an impeccable dresser, a kind, humorous person and a magnificent cook.
Tall and lanky, the right-handed hitter's talents were displayed early while with the Cuban Stars. His first season was in 1923 -- also the first year of the newly organized Eastern Colored League -- and he led the league in home runs in 1926 and tied for the lead in 1927. All this while hitting .421 and .370, respectively.
In 1928, Cum Posey secured the then 23-year-old to play for the Homestead Grays. He was traded to an American Negro League team called the Hilldale Daisies a year later with Chippy Britt for Jake Stevens and Rev Cannady. After finishing second in the league with 18 home runs, he returned to the Stars for the 1930 season, before ending up back in Hilldale in 1931.
During his second tour with Hilldale, he was credited with a 6-1 pitching mark, possibly the earliest record of his mound prowess. While managing himself, he transitioned to the mound in 1935 with Santa Clara of the Cuban League, and reeled off four seasons of 11-2, 14-10, 11-5 and 14-2. Reports say his control wasn't exceptional, nor was his strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Pitching didn't cause him to lose his stroke. He won a batting title in 1935-36, hitting .358, playing a different position on days he didn't pitch. This would be a regular occurrence for the natural superstar, as he would often lead his team in most hitting and pitching categories.
In 1938 in Mexico, Dihigo really nailed the hitting/pitching thing, hitting a league-leading .387 and topping the league in wins with an 18-2 mark and a 0.90 ERA. Dihigo preferred pitching in the last few years of his career, and, in 1942, his increased focus caused his batting average to slip to .319. The 37-year-old went 22-7 with league-leading marks in ERA (2.53) and strikeouts (211 in 245 1/3 innings).
Records say he went 16-8 the next season. Those same records show Dihigo throwing no-hitters in Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Incomplete records total his career pitching mark at 261-138 in Mexico, Cuba and the Negro Leagues.
Born in a small village near Matanzas, Cuba, May 25, 1905, he also died in his native land in 1971, five days shy of his 66th birthday. His warm, friendly personality, sprinkled with humor, made him popular everywhere and made him a national hero in Cuba. There he served as minister of sports under Fidel Castro's regime. He may also have been the greatest Hispanic player in the Negro Leagues.
He was already a member of the Cuban and Mexican Halls of Fame when he was elected in the National Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously, in 1977.
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MP warns Teesside 'pacer' trains could be replaced with ageing London Underground trains
A Teesside MP has warned that the Government's Transport Ministry may look to replace Northern Rail's Pacer trains with equally ageing former London Underground trains.
Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, Tom Blenkinsop, has joined in calls for improvements on routes served by the trains, which go no faster than 60mph on Northern and Trans-Pennine Express routes.
Easington MP Grahame Morris has called for a firm commitment from the Government on replacing the "outdated, uncomfortable and cramped" trains after Chancellor George Osborne said the re-franchising of the East Coast mainline next year would include "a substantial package of upgrades including new services and modern trains".
Now Mr Blenkinsop, who uses the trains which operate from Middlesbrough and Darlington to Nunthorpe and Saltburn, said:
"The influential railway industry source, the Rail Business Intelligence Bulletin has become aware of a proposal to convert London Underground District Line D78 units – that were already 30-years-old and being decommissioned by London Underground – into diesel engine carriage sets for use on North of England commuter lines like the ones in my constituency."
Mr Blenkinsop said the only winner if a deal was brokered would be London Mayor Boris Johnson "who will get a Christmas present of some cash for trains he was going to scrap anyway".
He continued:
"This worries me as a local rail service user, we don't want to see veteran trains replaced by equally ageing old London Underground trains which will be nothing more than vintage carriages with a diesel engine bolted on to them.
"I have a simple message to coalition transport ministers – just get rid of the Pacers.
"They are an embarrassment to our rail system and the regular commuters who have to be sardined in them on a daily basis.
"Give people on Teesside the longer trains and comfortable carriages enjoyed in the south. Only then will you see passenger numbers really increase on local routes instead of today's steady decay."
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Go forward in time to March 2013.
Today I was working on the Overview of the Gnome Platform, which is written in Mallard. I am a die-hard Emacs user, but a lazy one, and so I haven't kept up with all the relatively new things in Emacs: nxml-mode, the incredible Emacs Wiki, elisp package systems...
I became tired of Mallard documents opening up in plain nxml-mode, with no schema. So I learned how to teach nxml-mode about Mallard files and its RELAX NG schema. And I got to thinking why we don't have a well-known set of Elisp utilities for Gnome developers.
Back in the Gnome 1.x days, we had a wonderful little snippet of Elisp by Michael Zucchi, which would let you press a hotkey to add inline documentation comments for gtk-doc. If you had code like this and the point was at [*]:
GtkSandwich * gtk_foo_make_me_a_sandwich (GtkFoo *foo, GList *ingredients, GError **error) { [*]
Then you could hit the hotkey and this would be inserted before the function's prototype:
/** * gtk_foo_make_me_a_sandwich: * foo: * ingredients: * error: * * Put the description here. * * Return value: **/ GtkSandwich * gtk_foo_make_me_a_sandwich (GtkFoo *foo, GList *ingredients, GError **error) {
This elisp doesn't work anymore, sadly.
And so, I've started a little collection of Emacs stuff for Gnome developers. Let's tweak it to perfection.
git clone https://github.com/federicomenaquintero/gnome-emacs-utils
For the software-development-as-urbanism crowd: "When Tokyo was a slum" is an excellent article. It doesn't talk about software, but the process of construction of cities on a piecemeal basis is very illuminating.
When the war ended, Tokyo's municipal government, bankrupt and in crisis mode, was in no condition to launch a citywide reconstruction effort. So, without ever stating it explicitly, it nevertheless made one thing clear: The citizens would rebuild the city. Government would provide the infrastructure, but beyond that, the residents would be free to build what they needed on the footprint of the city that once was, neighborhood by neighborhood.
The central part of the city is the historical core of Edo, which became Tokyo in the late 19th century. But the periphery grew largely without planning. Tokyo swallowed up the surrounding villages as it sprawled outward [...].
Throughout the 20th century, as surrounding villages were absorbed into the expanding city and rural villages became urban neighborhoods, their inhabitants preserved some of their customs and social organization. But the central government never saw the autonomy of these neighborhoods as a threat.
Does Gnome operate somewhat like that, and if so, what can we learn from the process? Is the center (the core desktop) traditionally the "capital", and has it swallowed little villages in the periphery (apps and libraries that became part of the core, or otherwise became tightly integrated with the core)? How much autonomy (let them be) vs. how much central planning (let's tackle horizontal issues)?
How do we remain civil as the city grows, when it is no longer possible to know everyone who lives there in person?
Jane Jacobs, in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, makes a point that one virtue of a great city is that it allows complete strangers to live very close to each other. A great city gets made through explicitly allowing and nourishing diversity: diversity of uses, so you don't have business neighborhoods which go dead at night; diversity of people, so any minority's needs don't go unmet; diversity of age in buildings, so people can afford a cheap shop or apartment if they need one, or a big and new building if they can.
Jacobs also talks about the "self-destruction of diversity":
[...] the tendency for outstandingly sucessful diversity in cities to destroy itself; the tendency for massive single elements in cities (many of which are necessary and otherwise desirable) to cast a deadening influence; the tendency for population instability to counter the growth of diversity; and the tendency for both public and private money either to glut or to starve development and change.
The purpose of recognizing and understanding [these forces] is to try to combat them or — better yet — convert them into constructive forces. Besides influencing the growth of diversity itself, these forces also sometimes affect the ease or difficulty with which the basic conditions for generating diversity can be introduced. Leaving them out of account, even the best planning for vitality would fall a step back for every two steps forward.
There is a lot of food for thought in all of this. See also, Photoshop is a city for everyone: how Adobe endlessly rebuilds its classic app for a tangible example of a large, old software project, that everyone seems to love and hate. This article also portrays its subject as a world-class city!
The Produce Savant, a wonderful blog about what to do with "unpopular" vegetables. By Sally of the amazing Tools for Working Wood.
2013 Developer Experience Hackfest, Brussels
I'm late to the blogging party about the Developer Experience Hackfest, which happened right before FOSDEM, but here it goes!
We split into four teams: tooling and IDEs, application bundling and sandboxing, development platform, and documentation. I was part of the documentation team.
In the docs team, Allan focused on developer.gnome.org, our main web site for developers, while Meg worked on an introduction to the Gnome libraries. Fred, Thomas, Aleksander, and Jasper worked on documentation tools — DevHelp and documentation generation. I worked on updating our historic Overview of the Gnome Platform document, based on Tuğçe Şirin's analysis of what it lacks or what could be made more clear in it.
That document has a little history that is worth noting. Shaun McCance wrote it on comission from the Gnome Foundation in 2006. It is, to the best of my knowledge, the first time that the Foundation contracted someone for pay to do something related to development of Gnome. Shaun did an excellent job of summarizing the libraries we had available as part of the core development platform.
Over time, however, that document has gotten a bit outdated. People have kept it mostly up-to-date with respect to the libraries, but the document suffered from a bit too technical language at times, and from being a catalog of stuff rather than an introduction on how things work together.
I've been making some changes to the Overview of the Gnome Platform to add the missing platform libraries, to make the descriptions easier to understand, and to add a bit of a better structure to the document.
Practically any high-level, garbage-collected language is much better than plain C, in terms of productivity, once you get used to the idiosyncrasies of the bindings to the Gnome libraries.
So, I'm very happy that we have a high-level language accepted as officially supported for Gnome. I was kind of surprised that Python, our de-facto and historically "best supported binding" wasn't chosen, but if this means that another high-level language can get as much work put into it, then all the better.
Also, for JavaScript we have outstanding tutorials in Gnome Developer Platform Demos mega-document. Taryn Fox, Tiffany Antopolski, and other people who have worked on this have done an excellent job. See also the coordination for this in the wiki page for the Gnome Application Developer's Guide.
My hope is that we will get good tutorials for beginners, and that people will later take care of making sure that the examples are available in all our "good" language bindings, and that the text makes sense regardless of programming language. Gnome is a polyglot project, fortunately, and people will program in whatever language they find the most conveninent — which is perfectly okay.
Cold. Wind. Rain. Wind. Rain, and cold. The streets are littered with the corpses of umbrellas. My own didn't last one minute after taking it out of the backpack.
Still, it's worth it once you get to the pretty architecture, which permeates the center of the city. And a waffle warms you up. This is Juan Pablo Ugarte, from the Glade / IDEs team, a marvelous guide and conversation partner from Argentina, recharging his batteries.
Also, churros in Brussels? For 5€? What is this how can they I don't even.
The hackfest took place at the Betagroup Coworking Space. This is a nice place! They have desks and chairs, coffee for which you pay based on an honor system, a kitchen, good networking, beanbag chairs, and it all leads to a very nice atmosphere. This is the first time I visit a coworking space, and it was very nice.
Thanks to the Gnome Foundation for sponsoring my flight/hotel!
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Now Ronaldo has to prove he's the best all over again
Zinedine Zidane might well have been expecting the need to stand up for Karim Benzema ahead of the FIFA Club World Cup final on Saturday in Abu Dhabi.
Real Madrid's undisputed first choice at No.9, Benzema has struggled - not only in La Liga where he has scored only twice all season - but also here in the UAE.
Wednesday night's difficult semi-final against Al Jazira passed without the 30-year-old getting on the scoresheet and to rub salt in the wounds his replacement Gareth Bale scored the winner with his first touch.
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The French forward has been excoriated in the Madrid press for a long time now and in particular since missing those chances on Wednesday.
Hence when the pre-match press conference for the final against Gremio rolled around, Benzema was in the firing line.
"I don't agree with the way he's been criticised," said Zidane, coming out fighting on behalf of his man.
"What's important for me is not only goals. Karim is a different player; he won't score 50/60 goals but he's scored a lot of goals in our shirt. For me Karim is one of the best in this sense as a team player.
"I defend him to the death because he is not only one who could have problems. There are some players who sometimes don't play well, but I defend my players even when they are not doing well - even though this is not the case with Karim."
The message was loud and clear. Benzema is going to play against Gremio and, with precious few striking options besides, he will probably start the Clasico against Barcelona on December 23 as well.
Perhaps a little more surprising for Zidane is the fact that he's having to defend Cristiano Ronaldo's record here as well. Two goals against Sevilla, another against Al Jazira and, don't forget, a fifth Ballon d'Or in his trophy cabinet, Real Madrid's record goalscorer is nonetheless taking the blows.
Comments made by the Gremio coach Renato Gaucho in February have resurfaced in recent days where the former winger claimed he was a better player in his pomp than Ronaldo is.
"He is a monster, a great player, but he works hard on his strength and he doesn't have much technique," he said on ESPN Brasil's Bola da Vez.
"You just have to watch him for Real Madrid, the moments when he leaves the left wing, he produces almost nothing.
"I was more versatile, since I could play on the right wing, in the centre, or on the left."
Unfortunate, perhaps, that Renato's words would be brought under such scrutiny months down the line after Copa Libertadores victory placed his team in Ronaldo's path.
Zidane was as diplomatic as he could be when addressing Renato's comments. Sure, the Brazilian was a great player in his day, was the message, but Zidane couldn't bring himself to say the ex-winger was better than his main man.
Whatever your allegiance, it's incredible that it's even a conversation. It feels a bit like when Amir Khan accuses Floyd Mayweather of ducking him. Maybe on some planet in this galaxy it makes sense but not here.
We don't need to go through the numbers, the trophies – both club and international – to show Ronaldo is the better player. Certainly not with Renato.
However, another South American superstar has also had a pop this week. When informed of Ronaldo's post-Ballon d'Or declaration that he was the best player in history, Diego Maradona inquired as to whether or not the 32-year-old was taking the piss.
The assertion there was that Maradona considered himself the greatest. While it may be true that his form between 1986 and 1989 is unmatched, Maradona cannot come close to matching Cristiano's decade-long consistency.
It seems as though certain individuals are putting themselves alongside Ronaldo in order to remain relevant. Maradona made his statements to AS from his UAE base, where he is coaching second division Fujairah. Don't worry Diego we haven't forgotten about you.
Ronaldo attracts attention wherever he goes, whatever he says. It is clearly beyond doubt that he considers himself the best ever. Well, his words carry weight and it would appear he is challenging himself to prove it all over again.
More goals for Real Madrid, more Ballons d'Or are required for him to stave off the snipes. A good start would be bossing the Club World Cup final in Zayed Sports City against Renato's Gremio, where Maradona will be among the guests of honour.


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A great risk for the relapsing addict is an accidental overdose. Individuals have overdosed during their first relapse just after a sobriety period on countless occasions. There are a lot of factors which point out the reason for a high risk of overdose when relapsing.
Relapse After Abstinence
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Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox
Daniel Case
In honor of the late Daniel Case, PBS Hawaii presents this in-memoriam encore of this episode from March, 2015.
From a childhood spent on a Kauai plantation, Daniel Case grew up to become one of Hawaii's longest-serving attorneys. Case shares how he stood guard at Punahou School on the night of December 7, 1941; represented aviator Charles Lindbergh; and with his wife, Carol, raised four children, one of whom became a billionaire.
This program will be rebroadcast on Wednesday, Aug. 3 at 11:00 pm and Sunday, Aug. 7 at 4:00 pm.
There was something from your high school years about your being elected a class officer. But I think it said that your nickname was—
–Mouse, because you kinda kept quiet, and when you answered questions, you left a lot out. You just weren't real talkative.
Well, I was shy. Shy, and I was very young, younger than most of the people in my class. I was no Tyrone Power, so, somebody called me Mouse. And in those days, you'd be surprised how many boys particularly had nicknames, and they couldn't shake 'em until they left.
Did you not like your nickname?
I hated it.
Oh. Because it sounded mousey; right?
It was kind of wimpy-ish, and … there was some truth in it. [CHUCKLE]
That shy boy who lacked confidence in school grew up to be a strong legal advocate in a prominent law firm, and a family whose children include billionaire Steve Case. Daniel Case, next, on Long Story Short.
Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox is Hawaii's first weekly television program produced and broadcast in high definition.
Aloha mai kakou. I'm Leslie Wilcox. Daniel Case turned ninety in 2015 after working into his late eighties. He spent sixty years at the same prominent Honolulu law firm, retiring in 2013. He's known for having both influence and humility. And he's a devoted family man who sometimes gets choked up with emotion when he speaks of his wife Carol or his children. In the year 2000, his number-three kid, internet billionaire Steve Case, bought the former neighbor island sugar plantation where his father grew up. Daniel Case's childhood had the trappings of privilege without the cash, but he says his life was rich in outdoor adventures.
I grew up on "cow I". And that's the way we all pronounced it, even the Hawaiians. [CHUCKLES]
I can always tell somebody who grew up on Kauai. I say that, 'cause I'm from Honolulu, and I didn't grow up there at that time. And it's sort of capital C-O-W … I.
"Cow I". [CHUCKLE]
I agree. No; it's uh, it's accepted now. But say it, I say "cow I". [CHUCKLE]
What was it like? You grew up on Grove Farm Sugar Plantation.
I did. It was … very rural. My father got his first job out of the Army at Grove Farm as a luna, as they all start at the bottom. And then, G.N. Wilcox needed a bookkeeper, and apparently had the talent, so he made him his bookkeeper. And then, he became the office manager, and all that stuff. But they built a plantation home, no architect, just Japanese carpenter. They were very good. And they built a house for he and my mother. But it was a nice house. It had four bedrooms in it, a normal house, and plenty of room, and a nice big yard, and everything. So, it was very pleasant.
When you say your dad started out as a luna, what did he do? What kind of luna work?
Those days, when they had a sugar plantation, you had crews of workers. Hard work. And many of them, as you know from history, Hawaiians began it, but they really didn't like the work, and they brought in Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and then Puerto Rico and different places. But they started because of the hot sun. They all congregated at about four-thirty in the morning, and the lunas, the people that were in charge of different areas would meet and agree on which fields needed work today, whether it's irrigation or harvesting, or clearing the fields, or whatever it was. And then, after he quit being a luna, then he'd go to the office. But otherwise, he'd then go back and supervise whatever area his group was.
So, he made this transition to indoor work, and on up the chain.
Right; right. So, he just turned out to be good at it, and so, he did it all his business life. He'd always been very good with numbers and investments.
What did you do with yourself as a boy growing up in the country on Kauai?
Well, I had a good life. We lived next door to the manager's house. And it was a wonderful eight-acre estate, really. 'Cause it was built by G.N. Wilcox for his son-in-law, Digby Sloggett, who married a Wilcox. So, they had a tennis court closer to our house than his, a wonderful swimming pool where we all learned to swim, a great front yard, royal palm drive-in and a port cochere.
What kind of trouble did you get up to?
Actually, we never had any trouble. We honestly didn't. We were busy all the time. Nobody had play dates then. The kids from Lihue School, it's only about a mile home. So, we'd would walk back. And then, those that were able to come, would come and join us for tennis, and swimming, and touch football, and all that stuff. So, we always had something to do.
Mostly sports? Not exploring and playing with sticks, and …
Well, we took a lot of hikes. Partly, we could just go without a car. Across the street, there was a valley, up from the mill to the Grove Farm museum. We would hike that. We could walk to Lihue town, and we with a little help from somebody who had a car, we would go to Kipu Falls, which was down to Lihue valley as we call it. If we were really lucky, they'd take us to Poipu and go to Brennecke's to bodysurf.
What was your expectation of yourself, as you were growing up? What did you think you would become?
Nothing; I didn't have the faintest. In my own mind, I said, you go down the middle of the road. [CHUCKLE]
So, you didn't have these, you know, striking career goals, where you had to do this, that, and that by a certain time; not at all?
Never. Somewhere along the line, because my father was never—they never paid much. There got a lot of perquisites; a free house, a yardman, n=and medical privileges, but they didn't pay them much. I always wanted to make a million bucks. [CHUCKLE] That was my only goal.
Really? And yet, you were perceived as a child of privilege. Well, you did have a lot of entitlements.
We did.
But you're saying your family didn't have a lot of money.
Yeah. Yeah; money in the bank. My father had to borrow money to send me to Punahou.
When Daniel Case was in the eighth grade, his parents sent him to boarding school on Oahu, back when Punahou still had student boarders on campus. Young Case's senior year of high school was disrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What was it like living in the dorm when you were in eighth grade, through almost your senior year?
Well, it's wonderful. Roughly, thirty-three seems to be a magic number, but it could have been a little more. Well, we had thirty-three friends in different grades. They had some in from seventh grade, that was a little young. So, we got to know a lot of people from the grades, about five grades in a row, and six sometimes. And so, that was helpful, getting to know people around the campus, and knowing the school people, and following the activities, mainly the sports. You know, we were right above Alexander Field, where we used to play football all the time, and then they built a beautiful track. The swimming pool was right below it. So, we followed all those sports every day. [CHUCKLE] And participated in many of them, and so it was just a very good life, one of the happiest times in my life right there.
And yet, you didn't have your parents, you weren't in your parents' home. Did you miss them? Did you miss Mom?
Well, [CHUCKLE] in truth, we were just happy the way we were. Happy to go home, but happy to be there.
You were at a critical age during Pearl Harbor.
You were on campus when the Pearl Harbor attack came.
Yes, I was. Yeah; we had finished breakfast, and there was a building called Dole Hall then, where both the boys and the girls always ate together. And they mixed the tables, so we would socialize a little bit, and we'd talk after the meals. And we'd gone back, and we'd seen some antiaircraft, it turned out to be. We didn't know that. But then we heard on the radio that there'd been an invasion, so we all went down to the girls' dorm. They had better radio facilities there, and we listened to Roosevelt's speech. Then, as I say, the next day, really, but effectively Monday morning, the engineers took over the campus. So, we finished school going to Central Union Church just briefly, figuring out what to do. But we all dug trenches, we had gas masks, and all that stuff.
You wore gas masks as a general rule during the day; right?
That started fairly soon; yeah.
And did you ever do any guarding of the campus? I know at Kamehameha Schools, that was done.
Well, that very first two nights, we did. They had compulsory ROTC then. And so, the very first night, Sunday night, those of that lived in the dorm that were in ROTC, of which there were five or six, were sent up to Rocky Hill, which is the hill above the campus, but had the water tank for that whole school. And they spread us around Rocky Hill to protect the stuff. My particular one was protecting the water tank. And we all loaded rifles, but we really didn't know how to shoot 'em. [CHUCKLE] It was a very dark night. The Japanese had planned it very, very well. So, we were just all kinda itchy. [CHUCKLE] But luckily, none of us shot each other. [CHUCKLE]
After graduating from Punahou in 1942, Daniel Case headed off to Williams College in Massachusetts. He joined the Navy in 1945, serving for four years, before going to law school at the University of Denver. While he was waiting to take the Bar, a fluke accident brought Case back to Hawaii to recuperate. Here, he would stay for a six-decade legal career.
I think I've read that you and your friends were … you may have, on your own, bought or somehow you ran a hotel while you were going to law school?
Yeah. Well, when I first got back, and my friend—Al Herman, his name was, very good friend. We got out in April, and Williams didn't start until late September. So, he was gonna get married, and so he worked for his father, which was a downtown hotel. Hundred rooms, but third-rate in every sense of the meaning. [CHUCKLE] And so, I was with him and looking around, and there was a a restaurant across the street called the Owl Café, selling for three thousand dollars. Happened to be three thousand I got getting out of the Navy, severance pay. And foolishly, I bought it. And I ran it. I had no experience, just stupidity. But I did run it, and then with that and the G.I. Bill, I was able to get through my last year of college.
So, you made a profit?
I profited from a place to live and self-sufficiency. But I sold it, after we got into law school for the same three thousand bucks. So, I made about five cents an hour. [CHUCKLE] And then, his father trusted me, liked me, offered my friend and I, the lease of the hotel free, without any down payment, and we just took it over and ran it while we went through law school. So, that experience was helpful.
So now, you've graduated from law school. What was your area of expertise in law school? Had you picked it?
No; no. You really didn't pick specialties. Those were days of generalism. In school, you could take different courses, but we all basically took the same courses. And back then, most of the law firms wanted the associates to be fairly general in the beginning, and learn how to do different specialties. And then, after, oh, a year or two, or three, if they showed an interest and skill in a particular area, then they would go in that area. So, I didn't have any; I just went to work. [CHUCKLE]
And you weren't hoping you'd be chosen for this particular type of law?
No; just wanted to practice.
I imagine a lot of people didn't come home from law school; they stayed on the mainland and worked. Was it always your plan to come home?
Not really. I left Hawaii when was seventeen, and except for a stint in the Navy, I really hadn't been back 'til I was twenty-seven. I was away ten years, so I didn't know if I had any old friends or anything. So, it didn't have a must draw to it. And in fact, in law school, a couple of us were good friends; we planned to sort of start a law firm of our own. Nothing serious, four of us, that's what we'd do after we take the Bar exam and decide. So, we didn't do any more than talk about it. But then, we had to take the Bar. And strangely, this is fate. My best friend and I said, Let's work in an ice plant and toughen up a little. And we'd been working, and a hundred-pound cake of ice broke my foot. [CHUCKLE]
[CHUCKLE] Oh!
So, I was in a cast for a short spell, and I started saying, Maybe I'd better just go home. So, I came home.
Home, being?
To Oahu, or Kauai?
My father was still on Kauai. But I never expected to practice anywhere else. So, I looked for a job when I first got here, one particular law firm, Pratt, Tavares & Cassidy, and the Attorney General and the City. None of them offered me a job right away, so I then studied for the Bar. Went home, stayed with my father. My parents had been divorced in 1948; he'd been remarried to a very nice lady, and so I got to know them that way. And studied for the bar, and … came back tried again. And Pratt, Tavares & Cassidy offered me a job, so that's where I stayed for sixty years.
And in all that time, you didn't leave that firm.
I was happy. They treated me well, I was happy, I liked being a lawyer, and I liked the clientele we had. Many of the clients, a young lawyer starts to get to know them, and then the older lawyer retires or dies, and there's a tendency to stay with the client. So, you build relationships, and I was fortunate enough to do that.
Daniel Case recalls a land sale on Maui as part of settling the estate of the late-famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. The fight over Lindbergh's estate made headlines when an attorney who said he represented Lindbergh's abducted child tried to claim the Lindbergh land on Maui.
And we filed a notice in the Maui court, and a lawyer from Georgia, never heard of him before or since, filed a claim saying he represented the former Lindbergh child, that he was alive. And so, we had a lot of litigation over it, but his main purpose, we decided, was to get publicity by interviewing Anne Lindbergh and the kids, and all that. So, they didn't want that.
It was really the lawyer who wanted the publicity.
Not the pretender to the Lindbergh baby identity.
Not the pretender. We don't know if he exists. So luckily, we were able to get it dismissed by the judge. And so, it was gone, and he didn't pursue it further. That was interesting.
When I read the names of the people in your law firm that you joined—you said that wasn't a shoe-in, you had to look for a job. But that was a kick-butt law firm. I mean, those were the Territorial days, and I remember those names as being big cheeses in Hawaii at the time.
Well, they were. Dudley Pratt was a marvelous person, good citizen, very good lawyer, very good in the community, and a wonderful mentor. Judge Tavares was a very bright guy who was the State Attorney General, from which Dudley Pratt hired him. And Judge Cassidy was a well-known prosecutor.
So, when you became an attorney, did you have to go toe-to-toe and head-to-head, and to the jugular with people?
Well, luckily, I wasn't born to be a litigator. But when I got back from law school, I knew I was shy and not a very good public speaker. So, I went to the Dale Carnegie School after work once a week for five months, which helped a little bit. And then, after I finished it, they asked me to be a teacher. That was manuahi, but I did that for another four months, just for the exposure and trying to get used to it. And I think it helped me. I was never a battering ram litigator, but I did it for a couple of years, did the best I could. And I wasn't strong at it.
Daniel Case met the love of his life at a friend's wedding. Carol was a teacher at his alma mater, Punahou. The two got married and raised four children together. At first, the Cases didn't expect to have a big family.
Our oldest daughter, Carin, was adopted. Because the doctor told Carol she didn't look like she could have children. So, Frank Spencer, her doctor, wahine doctor, said there was a nice child coming up, and that we might consider it. So, we did. So happens that Carol was pregnant. [CHUCKLE] We didn't know it 'til after we'd made the decision. So we stuck with it, and happily so. Then we had a son Danny five months later. And then, thirteen months later, our son Steve.
That was a busy household.
Oh, boy.
And a little over four years later, our son Jeff. So, she had a lot of work and needed a lot of help.
Daniel Case's third child is America Online cofounder, billionaire Steve Case. In the year 2000, Steve Case bought the former Kauai Sugar Planation where his father grew up. Grove Farm had evolved into a land management company and commercial developer, and it ran into financial trouble. It needed to be saved. For the company and its obligations, Steve Case reportedly paid some one hundred million dollars.
Pretty cool to have a son who's a white knight.
Well, he started what he did, and made a lot of money. [CHUCKLE]
Did you see that in him as he was growing up?
Oh, I don't think you could ever see it in him. He was always independent and busy. He never had enough time, which was a clue to something, but I don't know what. I don't think he knew, either. But he was always that way, all his life. Today, he's very restless and wants to do things.
And he is a disrupter. He does things—
Did you see that as a kid? I say that in a positive sense.
No; not in the slightest.
Not; okay. Because basically, you have to go against the grain sometimes, to really make headway.
Well, it's true. When they were first starting AOL—that wasn't its name at the time. But the predecessor just wasn't making it, making any money, so he worked with him, though, and then finally, the guy turned it over to Steve and two other executives and said, You take it over. So, they took it over, and worked on it. And Jim Kimsey was more experienced and a little older, and he became the CEO, and Steve was just number two or three. I don't know what you would call it. But he then helped push it along very well. He was a good marketer, and has a good thinking mind.
Daniel Case's most difficult moment came in 2002, as his firstborn son, named after him, lost his life to brain cancer.
He was one wonderful guy. [SNIFFING] Very successful, very popular. He was a Rhodes Scholar, and wonderful investment banker. And helped a lot of people.
Would you agree that the hardest thing for a parent to go through is the death of a child? Any advice you could give other parents who go through something like that?
Just … just work with them with their time off. When they found it, he was already Stage 4. So … it was terminal. So … surgery in the beginning, and got treatment. He lived another sixteen months. We spent a lot of time.
Daniel Case considers his family to be his greatest joy and achievement. At the time of our conversation in February of 2015, Case was about to head out to a retreat on Oahu's north shore with his loved ones and celebrate his ninetieth birthday.
Do you have a history in your family of longevity?
[CHUCKLE] I think my sister-in-law, Celia Case, was wonderful, looking in the genealogy and stuff; a scrapbook. And I think I would have been the oldest in my family, except my older brother Jim is still alive, [CHUCKLE] and doing pretty well at ninety-four, going on ninety-five. So, I think he holds the family record. [CHUCKLE]
Because you seem like you're trim and fit, and you know, ageless.
No; it's not true. We've all got a lot of nicks and crannies, and problems. But I'm fortunate to be as healthy as I am.
I mean, you're driving around, you're going daily to—you play a regular Bridge game at the Pacific Club. What else do you do?
Well, since I retired, I read a lot. I always have. And a lot of television, including your program, and public television generally. And we have friends. So, it's a quieter life, clearly.
What do you read?
Almost everything. I love history, I like novels, I like business stuff. I try and mix reading business type books with a novel or a history book, and mix it up. But I like long books. [CHUCKLE]
[CHUCKLE] Oh, big, fat books.
I do. I like many of those. So, I just mix it up, and it keeps me going.
Also in 2015, Daniel Case and his wife Carol celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. His secret to a long and happy marriage? Give extra love, Case says, and always respect each other. We'd like to thank Kauai born Daniel Case of Honolulu for sharing his story. And thank you for joining us. For PBS Hawaii and Long Story Short, I'm Leslie Wilcox. A hui hou.
For audio and written transcripts of all episodes of Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox, visit PBSHawaii.org. To download free podcasts of Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox, go to the Apple iTune Store, or visit PBSHawaii.org.
You did something after your wedding at Oahu Country Club.
[CHUCKLE] I did.
That is still remembered. What did you do?
We hired a bicycle built for two. So, after all the hoopla went on, we went out and got out bike, and pedaled through the port cochere waving, and headed out. [CHUCKLE] So, that was a little unusual.
The last your guests saw of you, you were on a bicycle built for two.
Heading out. [CHUCKLE]
We went so fast, I don't think anybody, including us, knew what was happening. [CHUCKLE]


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A trailer for Charlie Brooker's detective show spoof A Touch of Cloth has been released.
The promo for the Sky1 series features John Hannah's DCI Jack Cloth and Suranne Jones character DC Anne Oldman chasing after a hooded criminal known as 'Crossbo'.
While Hannah quickly runs out of breath, Jones continues pursuing Crossbo accompanied by a live steel band, pulling off a stream of elaborate stunts and manoeuvres along the way.
Brooker previously told Digital Spy that he considers A Touch of Cloth to be "a silly, old-school spoof of the dark British detective serials".
"[It is] just Airplane-style daftness," he explained. "The inspiration there was just to entertain."
Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing), Adrian Bower (Mount Pleasant), Navin Chowdhry (Teachers) and Daisy Beaumont (Star Stories) also star in A Touch of Cloth, which will debut on Sky in August with a 90-minute special.
Two more outings were ordered by the broadcaster late last month.
The trailer release follows on from the news that Brooker's anthology series Black Mirror will return for a second run in 2013.
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Victoria needs to get way from her abusive husband and a life she describes as "years in hell". Although she has been brutally beaten and humiliated, she still finds the strength to start a new life.
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Live Blues Music in the Water Gap, By The Blues Dude, and the Tony Dellaria Quartet
Aug 6, 2013 Blues, Live Music, Poconos Blues
Posted by The Blues Dude
Yesterday, Sunday August 5th at 6:00, The Blues Dude and the Tony Dellaria Quartet fired up the Delaware Water Gap with their thrilling, high energy, blues band. People came rushing off the streets to hear the roaring sounds of The Blues Dude and The Tony Dellaria Quartet. The quiet streets began to fill up with the seasoned sounds of Blues music, played only with the greatest respect to the artists that have gone before them. People were drawing in from everywhere to hear the cool, clean, authentic tones and lyrics that only Blues can offer.
The thunderous thumping coming from Tony Dellaria himself, was life a clock the size of a mountain, ticking away while keeping everything moving at a pace. Tony's approach to drums is like a pace more than a race, therefore keeping the music groovin and flowing like the Mississippi river. Tony plays with many other musicians in Pocono Mountains and surrounding areas, such as Brian O'Malley, Bobby Kyle, and Pieter Holland.
Dennis Grove playing the bass, out of his Hartke Cabinet. Dennis has many decades of experience behind him, in and around the Pocono Mountain area, which helps to lend a bottom end to the groove Grove creates. Dennis also performed a classic Allman Brothers song called one way out. Dennis's applause was great to hear due to the original Bass player Rick Madigan not being able to perform that day due to being asked to perform at the Deerhead Inn at the very same time.
The organs start to rumble the earth with Dwight Spencer, The Blues Dispenser, and people start looming around to see what's going on in front of the Church. Dwight uses a realtime leslie simulator to capture the authentic sounds of the greatest organ and keyboard players of our time, while adding his own unique ingredients to the mix. Dwight had just finished up a gig at Musicfest with Friars Point, at Levitt stage. I asked him how it went and he said, "It was unbelievable, our whole band was piped in through enormous speaker arrays, all throughout the Bethlehem Steel Stacks."
Then the sun came through the clouds right as The Blues Dude grabbed his Fender Telecaster and turned all the knobs clockwise, while relentlessly stretching the strings across the fretboard. The combined sound was awesome. Everyone stopped and stared as these musicians began playing true soulful blues. The Blues Dude kicked it of with a couple classic blues riffs and began singing his heart out.
The response from the audience was so impressive people were wandering over from the neighborhood to see if someone was playing a loud radio, yet were surprised to find out that even though it sounded as good as any song on the radio today, it was old fashioned live music. The crowd filled in the empty spaces left on the lawn and began to enjoy the Free Concert that was being presented by the Shawnee Church on the Mountain, and the Poconos Arts Council.
We wanted to give a special thanks to Paul Smeltz for taking these great pictures of our band and invite you to visit his website, which attempts to promote art in and around the Pocono Mountains. His website address is http://theforwardianartssociety.com thanks again Paul.
Tags: Blues, Dennis Grove, Dwight Spencer, Fender Telecaster, Jeremiah, Jeremiah Williams, Live Blues, Live Music, Poconos Music, The Blues Dude, Tony Dellaria


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Chatham Hotel Special
A word of warning, this cocktail is pink. Not a gentle pink blush but rather full on Pepto pink. Barney-the-dinosaur pink. Strawberry Quick pink. In the interest of full disclosure we did not invest in the dark crème de cacao called for in the recipe, substituting instead its clear counterpart. But as the recipe only calls for a dash I doubt that would have changed much.
Color notwithstanding the drink is enjoyable. It is decidedly a dessert cocktail but it is pleasantly boozy and not too sweet. The cacao is restrained; adding just a hint of chocolate-y goodness on the nose and the front of the palate, with the port taking up the rear for a long finish.
I will admit that I am rarely a fan of dairy in cocktails. I dislike the richness and the unsightly residue that invariably clings to the inside of the glass. We decided on 18% cream which gave the drink a lighter weight and texture, which we both liked. As for the residue I have no solution other than to drink quickly and clear the glassware immediately.
D declared it to be "A Purple Russian!" And seemed to feel it would compliment his morning bowl of cereal.
The Chatham Hotel Special feels like a true throwback to a bygone era. It is a curious concoction that we could see having a place in a period where dessert beverages were the norm – the grappa or amaro of its day – but it is hard to figure out where it could possibly fit in contemporary cocktail culture. While we concede that the drink is enjoyable we do not feel it is a recipe we are likely to revisit.
Chatham Hotel Special
- 1.5 ounces brandy
- .5 ounce Ruby Port
- .5 ounce cream
- 1 dash crème de cacao, preferably dark
Shake over ice and strain into a cocktail glass.


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Met fan I guess posted it, as the username looked like a fan from that org.
Some of the prospects he had in the top ten, I don't even have in my top 20-25.
1. Jemile Weeks, 2B, A- Almost an exact throwback of his brother Rickie. He has power, wheels, discipline, and hits for average. He's a swtich hitter and a bit of an injury risk and showed us that after his hip flexor injury. He's a good, explosive player who is probably going to be on the A's for as long as they can afford him. After beginning the year in May, he's hit for a .316/.395/.509 line for the A+ Stockton Ports. He's hit his first speedbump this July. With the A's extremely weak at the 2B position, I see him getting some good MLB time in 2010. At 22 years old, he's young, college-polished, and one of the best prospects in the game.
2. Brett Wallace, 3B, B+/A- He's got one of the funniest faces the game has to offer, and one of the most promising bats. Between A and AA last year, he hit .337 with 8 HR in 202 ABs with a .427 OBP and a .530 SLG. Already he was high on many prospectors' Top 50s, however his defense was dubious. Wallace has been an OK third baseman so far despite his large frame, and with the contest for the A's first baseman a tad clogged I think Wallace is far more suitable for 3B or DH in the bigs. Between AA and AAA this year so far he's hit .289/.367/.427, which certainly isn't bad for a 22 year old, but for him having such low pop between the Texas League and PCL worries me a bit. He may see some MLB time this year. His grade depends on his power.
3. Chris Carter, 1B, B+ Carter is the other true top prospect in the A's system. He's been hitting for some solid average, but his main prowess is walking and hitting homers, and check this out: the 6'4 225 pound Carter has stolen 11 bases! Carter was acquired via the Dan Haren trade, and worries many scouts and fans with his high K rate, which last year was around 1 K per 3.2 ABs, a highly worrying number. Many also doubt Carter's defensive ability, and believe he is a future DH; however, Carter's production seems to silence the faults. In 2008 he hit for a .259/.361/.569 slash line with 39 homers, and this year in the Texas League so far it's been .305/.407/.515 with 16. I am very optimistic about Carter and I believe he is every bit of the ability to be a righty Ryan Howard, but he has to prove he can move past his high K rate (1-per-4 ABs this year) to do it.
4. Michael Ynoa, RHP, B Still an engima with good stuff. Inoa has a consistantly 91-93 MPH fastball that hits 96 and 97, and is 17 years old at the moment. He's got a rather large frame, standing just above Kobe Bryant at 6'7" and yet weighs about as much as Jose Reyes at 205 LBS. So yeah, he still has room to fill out. IYnoa has no pro experience yet, but he IS on the A's' Arizona League roster. He matches his fastball with two very nice pitches in a curve and splitter, and at 17 is more polished than most players half a decade older than he is. Known to scouts as an absolute gem of a player. No pro experience warrants nothing more than a B.
5. Grant Desme, OF, B Desme is a pretty sexy prospect this year to be sure, and mostly because of his gargantuan counting stats. This year, Desme has hit 29 homers and stolen 40 bases. I'm already salivating. There isn't a doubt in my mind or anyone else's for that matter that this guy is the epitome of toolsy. Desme is a righty hitter drafted out of college and will likely see some MLB time possibly as soon as August 2010 knowing the A's. His speed is stellar, as is his baserunning ability (89% SB success rate), and his power is his most standout tool (TBC scouting report ranked it a 95 out of 100). Unfortunately, some worries accompany his seemingly unlimited potential. His plate discipline is in need of some work. He kinda needs to walk more (52 times in 540 PA), and strikeout a hair less (144!!). Make sure to watch this kid.
6. Adrian Cardenas, 2B/SS, B- I'm sure Billy Beane wants Cardenas around for a long time. Cardenas is nothing but OBP. He's a good defender, but he's nothing but OBP. Cardenas in the FSL last year hit for a .296/.364/.399 line with 17 stolen bags, and was caught stealing once. This year in AA he hit .317/.386/.436, and is having some trouble adjusting to AAA. He's certainly a good prospect and reminds me a bit of Luis Castillo with less wheels. I'm sure Cardenas will develop SOME power, but maybe when he's around 25 or 26. He's 21 now.
7. Henry Rodriguez, RHP, B- An unhittable reliever. He throws a high-90s heat and mixes it with a very nice changeup. He has a breaking ball, but he'll probably drop it soon if he hasn't recently. Should make for a spectacular closer. Last year, mainly as a starter in the CALi league, he pitched 75 innings, walked 40, and struck out 104. He allowed 57 hits, and 5 HRs to achieve a 3.96 ERA. He got absolutely rocked in 40 or so innings in the Texas League, walking and striking out about 1 per inning pitched, bringing his ERA to 7.46. Since being moved to relief duty full time, he's had a 4.94 ERA and 22 walks in 27 innings, but he's shown that he can dominate hitters very well. He's struck out 45, and allowed 18 hits. Rodriguez has time to gain command. He's a 22 year old relief prospect in AAA, so he's fine.
8. Sam Demel, RHP, B- I can't say I know too much about Demel in terms of his repertoire. I know that he's destined for the bullpen and his numbers suggest that he could be a setup man or closer. He gets Ks, has solid command for a reliever, and has great makeup. Demel has a deceptive motion with a good release point that's hard for batters to pick up. He's not a hard tosser, but has great bite to his fastball. At 23 years old, he's almost ready for the bigs, and is seeing some time in AAA. He's not too big a guy but not small, standing 6'0" 200 LBs with a pretty muscular frame. In AA, he was phenominal to say the least. In 27 appearances he pitched 29.1 innings, striking out 26, walking 9, and finishing the league with a 0.61 ERA. In AAA, he's seeing his first real command struggle. In 11 appearances he's pitched 14 innings and walked 9, striking out 14 for a 1.93 ERA.
9. Jason Christian, 3B, B- Christian was a steal from the 2008 draft. He's a base stealer who knows how to take a pitch. He's been between third and shortstop in the A's organization. In short-season ball in 2008, Christian hit .291/.404/.432 in 214 ABs, going 13 for 14 in stolen base attempts. He also saw a small glimpse of A ball. Christian, now 22, has been in A ball for all of this year, and is still showing quite good discipline at the plate (41 walks, 69 Ks, 330 ABs), and Beltran-like efficiency on the paths (28-for-31 this year). The negatives for Christian have been his troubles at the plate, evident by a .261/.341/.385 slash line, and small encounters with injury. If I were to make a crystal ball on Christian, I'd say that he's see's some big league time at 24, struggles at ages 25 and 26, and comes to be a very good leadoff hitter between 27 and 31, the average of those years being a .280/.360/.420 line with a crapload of stolen bases.
10. Mickey Storey, RHP, B- Storey is the third relief pitcher I've included in the A's Top 10, and it's an incredible testament to the Athletics' pitching depth. In addition to a full 2010 rotation (Braden, Cahill, Anderson, Outman, Mazzaro), the organization is filled with young starting pitching (Gonzalez, Simmons, Eveland, Ynoa, Ross) as well as a wonderful closer (Bailey) and 3 candidates to replace him (Rodriguez, Demel, Storey). But anyways, on to Storey himself. Storey was a brilliant relief pitcher his junior year in 2007, but opted to go for a senior year. In the end, he finished with a 7 ERA. Because of this, Storey dropped to the 31st round, when the A's picked him up. Storey, sporting a High-80s fastball and a beautiful mid-70s curve, as well as a serviceable change, is a command artist in addition to his plus stuff, which helped him to a 23-to-1 K/BB rate in his duration at A-ball. In the beginning of this year, Storey didn't even make a full season squad, and made it to A ball as a replacement. Now he's in AAA. Between A/A+/AAA ball, Storey has pitched 44.0 innings, striking out 62 and walking just 7. A phenomenal young pitcher.
11. Sean Doolittle, 1B/OF, B- Battling a knee injury, Doolittle is a solid player who should have a good career as a platoon hitter. He has some potential with the bat, mostly in the power department, he has pretty average contact ability and above average discipline. Due to health and the fact that he probably won't show that he can be a good full time hitter, he should see plenty of 350 at-bat seasons.
12. Tyson Ross, RHP, C+ Selected in the 2008 draft, Ross was a pick that received minor controversy. On paper, Ross is a very attractive player -- he is the owner of a mid-90s fastball and a mid-70s change that makes for a nice velocity change. In addition he's developing a curveball and slider. He's a strikeout pitcher with good command, and it doesn't hurt that he's 6'5 and 215 pounds. There's no doubt that Ross's scouting report and built dark frame is a plus, but what's the downside to Tyson Ross? It isn't his 4.41 ERA for the year, but rather his awkward delivery which may inhibit his durability and may make him prone to injury. Despite his delivery and also because of it, Tyson Ross is a prospect to watch.
13. James Simmons, RHP, C+ Just last year Simmons was a legitimate Top 10 Prospect for the A's. His numbers were wonderful and he was on the fast track to the bigs, with great command and a good changeup. Of course, when a pitcher who was known for his command loses it, bad things happen. Simmons was in Double-A in 2008, pitch for Midland in the Texas League. His ERA came out to a neat and tidy 3.51, and his walk rate a fabulous 2.1 per 9. Simmons looked like he was near ready to be the Athletics' number 4 behind Cahill, Anderson and Mazzaro. However, Simmons has seen a setback in AAA this year, as his walk rate has zoomed up to 3.5 per 9 and his K rate dropped from 7.9 to 6.5 per 9. Simmons doesn't have premier stuff -- his fastball tops out at 92 and is steady at 88, and his changeup only works when is fastball does. He projects to be a back end starter if he continues to walk as much as he has been.
14. Corey Brown, OF, C+ A toolsy young outfielder who should be used to success by now. Injuries holding him back.
15. Dusty Coleman, SS, C+ Despite being a young shortstop, there is nothing too exciting about him. He's a 22 year old right with overall above average tools with potential to be an everyday regular. Coleman is only held back by his ridiculous K rate, which has never dipped below 33.2% and has gotten as high as 39%. Coleman's walk rate has improve significantly from 5% to 10%, so as long as the Ks drop he should prove to be a valuable player. His 20-for-29 in stolen bases, and his ISO is good for a shortstop at .144. If I were to predict Coleman's future, I'd say he sees another 2 or 3 years of minor league time before being promoted and proving himself to be a useful role player, perhaps a regular.
16. Cliff Pennington, SS, C+ You may have seen Pennington in a Miami Dolphins uniform, but in his spare time he's a speed demon with a good, disciplined approach at the plate. Last year Pennington also saw some time in the Futures Game for God know's why. Cliff plays a very good shortstop and is pretty average in every category but discipline (above average) and speed. Time is running out for Pennington to be successful, but I believe he could be useful to some team, getting a .340 OBP and stealing his fair share of bases. To get a good idea of how good a base-stealer he is, one needs to look no further than his career SB numbers, where he is 107-for-128 in stolen base attempts. His career numbers and 2009 season numbers also give you an idea of what kind of hitter he is (.263/.362/.358 and .264/.345/.367 respectively). He'll be 26 next year.
17. Josh Donaldson, C, C+ A pretty underrated prospect, Donaldson overall is a good hitter in every respect. He's disciplined at the plate, he can hit for power, and he can get a solid average as well (think .265-.275). His K rates are pretty normal also (20.1% this year, accompanied with a 15.9% walk rate). In terms of standout ability I don't think Donaldson really has any, but I think he'd be a more than capable hitting catcher for just about any team out there, and that's pretty rare. This year, Donaldson's line in AA ball looked very promising, as he hit for a .272/.387/.413 clip. His power was down a bit as demonstrated by a .036 drop in ISO, but I don't find that number worrisome as the Texas League often robs power hitters of their homers. Donaldson only has one concern and it's whether he can stick at catcher, which I guess is pretty major, but worst-case scenario he'd be a solid corner infielder.
18. Nino Leyja, SS/2B, C A young, raw second baseman with plus defense and speed. Only 18 years old this year, he naturally struggled throughout the year.
19. Jeremy Barfield, OF, C Also a young, raw hitter. Good discipline, need to see more.
20. Rashun Dixon, OF, C Same things as Barfield and Leyja.


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Yes, I believe the award can safely be presented to me at this point. If it's any excuse, I do write a lot, just not the blogging kind. In fact, since my last post, I've completed two novels and am publishing one and writing a third. So rather than the general kind, it's a very specific form of laziness.
But back to the novel: Welcome Home, which has just hit the cyber bookshelves.
For the six of you out there who can't get enough of horror/literary fiction, it's the story of Chris, who moves to a farmhouse in Oregon with two friends and must determine just what's going wrong in their new home before real harm befalls them. Whatever you're picturing right now, it ain't that, so people who enjoy straight-up genre horror will be in for a new experience. And for the scattering of lit-fic readers out there who are imagining a deconstruction of horror, it will surprise you, too, I hope.
The Kindle edition is available now, and it's only $2.99. You can even download a sample of the writing there to be sure it's something you'd enjoy. And the paperback version should be available on lulu.com any day now. As a blogger, it is my solemn duty to report when this occurs. Let's see if I remember to do it.
I welcome your thoughts!


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The report provides detailed statistics on 2007-08 bilateral and multilateral development aid from members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and from selected countries and organisations that are not members of DAC, and on where that aid went. It also addresses a few pointed questions that have been raised both inside and outside the development community: Does development aid have an impact? How can it spur sustainable growth and foster more self-reliance among poor countries? How much aid money is squandered by corrupt governments?
Aid effectiveness is not just about numbers, it's also about where and how the money is spent, the report says. It discusses the importance of aid for trade and incorporating policies to adapt to climate change in all projects and national strategies. It also focuses on policies for the world's most fragile states–some 48 countries, plagued by violent conflict and poor governance, abject poverty and high child mortality rates.
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Dario Del Puppo is Professor of Language and Culture Studies. Besides teaching all levels of Italian language, he teaches courses on Dante's Divine Comedy, surveys of Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Food in Italian History, Society, & Art, and Italian Cinema. He also co-teaches first year seminars on Food, Fitness, and the Journey to Self-Discovery and Cycling, Sustainability, and the City of Hartford.
His research deals with the manuscripts and early printed books of Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature and, more broadly, with popular and material culture in Italy during the 14th-16th centuries. More recently, he has written about food history and culture. He has a longstanding research interest in the Romantic poet, Giacomo Leopardi.


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The municipal formation Mostovskiy district offers investors a land plot
The municipality will offer an investment site for the construction of a fish farm.
The area of investment-attractive plot is 217,820 sq. m. The site is located in Mostovskoy small town. There is a local road, «Khozd village Mostovskoy small town» ( 50 m), there. The distance to the federal highway «Khozd village Mostovskoy small town» is 50 m.
The distance from the regional center of Krasnodar city is 220 km.
The distance to the nearest railway station of Mostovskoy small town is 3 km, to the Krasnodar Airport is 220 km, and to the seaport of Tuapse is 240 km.
The site is in the state property, with the Administration of Mostovskoy urban settlement as a right holder.At present time, the site is not used and free from buildings.
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For its second annual Summer Reading Program, Jacksonville State University has selected This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. All incoming freshman students will pick up a copy of the book at the campus bookstore when they attend Gamecock Orientation sessions in June and July and read it before they return in the fall.
When the semester begins, students will discuss and complete assignments related to the book in English 100 and English 101 as well as in their Freshman Orientation seminars, which provide "supportive guidance in study skills, problem-solving, decision-making, and college adjustment."
To see a list of other schools that have adopted This I Believe or the second volume of essays, This I Believe II, as well as other Popular Picks from Macmillan, click here.
This I Believe • Holt Paperbacks • 320 pages


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My code was pretty simple - no "include" or "require" statements anywhere, and perfectly valid syntax. This puzzled me for some time - it appeared as if PHP was trying to "require" my test file in itself. As it turns out, that wasn't too far from the truth.
This error was simply caused by Apache (and therefore PHP) not having read permissions to my PHP file. So it could tell that the file was there (otherwise I would get a 404 error), but when PHP tried to open the file for reading it failed, due to my file permissions (in this case, 007). To fix the problem, I simply had to run:
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After this my PHP code ran perfectly. It's worth knowing that this kind of error can occur - it might save a lot of Googling like I had to do!
Note: Normally I wouldn't change the permissions on a PHP file to 777 (everyone has full access, including write). However, in this case it was just a simple test page running on localhost, so I wasn't too worried about security.


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Although a recent law enforcement initiative carried out by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office might reasonably seem noteworthy on several fronts, one thing certainly jumps out as being especially prominent regarding the so-called "warrant roundup" of scores of people.
And that is this: When Tennessee law enforcers aggressively seek to conduct a sting operation, they really make a statement.
That is, they spare no resources.
When officers and agents from a combined task force sought to arrest and charge a high number of Hamilton County residents with various crimes last month, notes a local news report on the matter, they did so with a truly impressive display of force and power.
To wit: The sheriff's office figuratively locked arms "with 10 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies." Enforcement officials served 131 warrants on individuals across the country, making 59 arrests.
We pass along the story to convey a simple point, namely this: When it comes to the investigation and prosecution of alleged criminal conduct in Tennessee, police departments and additionally linked agencies command seemingly unlimited power, money and tools to go after targeted individuals.
There is an obvious corollary to that, of course. Any person on the receiving end of that powerful scrutiny and punitive reach is going to need the tailored and aggressive advocacy of an experienced and proven criminal defense attorney to safeguard his or her legal rights and interests.
We note on our criminal law website at the Chattanooga Law Office of Sam Byrd that some individuals needing impassioned and knowledgeable legal advocacy are flatly innocent, with others having made bad decisions and now regretting that fact.
Both types of persons need -- and have a constitutional right to except -- strong legal representation aimed at fully promoting their best interests.
That is what a seasoned criminal defense attorney will seek to do in every client matter.