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Today's Interview with Jake Peavy
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
"I felt okay, I really
did. Obviously there is some fatigue there, but that's part of building your
arm up and getting it strong. Like I
said, here we go again, we tried it before and hopefully it can sustain it this
On being pain-free
and throwing nice and easy
"Just being able to
put those wings on and come back tomorrow and feel a normal soreness, not
anything we would deem painful. We hope that's the case and I certainly think
that having the medication in my system and all that treatments that have been
done should help.
On retiring all 13
"It's always good to
get people out, you know your pitches are sharp. I feel fortunate not to lose a whole lot of
feel. I tell people all the time, I'm
going to throw strikes and find out where we stand. I faced Quentin a couple of times and other
guys that have been in major league camp.
Any time you can get those guys out it's always a plus. Certainly I'm more concerned with how I feel
right now rather than the results."
On being more
cautious this time around
"I'm just going to try
to do exactly what we did, I'll start again here in five days and throw maybe
60 pitches instead of 45 and hopefully we can come out of that and my body and
shoulder will be more prepared to take that load and come out of it a lot more
pain-free than I was last time. Last
time i got to the point where i made the start, was pretty sore, had some
discomfort, and got to where we thought we were good enough to go out there
again and after that one it was more than it was, and we were going in the
wrong direction."
"We hope that with all
the medications we've used, and treatment I'm getting as well. Hopefully that and the fact that the shoulder
already went through this one time, we hope it will taxi that load a little bit
better. I will push to make it happen."
On dealing with the
fact that he will be in Arizona for the season opener
"It's tough. This is the first time I've never broken camp
with a team. Today is a tough day. I had
my sights set on getting on this airplane with the boys today and making that
start in Kansas City and being one of the guys.
It's tough, but at the same time I think it would be tougher five or six
years ago when I was younger and less experienced. I know what I need, what my body needs. I
truly want to take the mound, feeling the way i felt for a long time in my
career-and that's healthy and able to go out there and do what I'm able to do
on a major-league field and that's help this ballclub in a big way. I know that I need a little more time to make
that happen. I gave my word to Kenny and
the rest of the staff that I wouldn't do that until I was ready and that's
where we're at. So, obviously a tough day, but a motivating day as well-to do
all I can do in the next few weeks to be on the mound as soon as I can in
On having regular
starter intensity on the mound
"I want to get outs, I
want to make pitches. I made a lot of
good ones today, made some bad ones.
When I play baseball, I know one speed and one way to play. Obviously that's toned down a little bit
today, but that adredline and stuff from a big league stadium takes you over
that edge I was today. I love to
compete. I don't want to give up hits. I want to win, it's just the way I
On having faith in
Buehrle, Danks, Jackson, and Floyd
"I have all the faith
in the world. These guys are
experienced, veteran guys. It's not like
you're asking any of these guys to go out and do anything (they can't already
do). And then there's Phil, a lot of
talent there. Phil has that experience,
just not a whole lot at the major league level, like the other guys do. With his talent and ability to go out there
and make good things happen, along Buehrle and Danks and those guys-they're
proven and established big league guys who have a track record-and I believe in
that track record that they'll be able to go out there and do what they've
always done. It does make it a little
bit easier to know that these guys are shouldering that load with you. At the same time I want to be back as soon as
I can to be right at the front of the line pulling my share of the load."
On progression of
next starts
"Just going to try to
start again in five days down here in an intrasquad game. I will get to where I can throw 100 pitches
or so and can bounce back and do it again five days later. Then, I'll say I'm ready to pitch in the big
leagues. I'm going to go out there and
give it all I can to get to Chicago and when I get to Chicago, I want to stay
Wrapping Up
Monday, March 28, 2011
Blog Issues
Sorry to be quiet recently … actually, it isn't that I haven't been posting, it's that my posts have been gobbled up as mlblogs has converted to a new "provider." So, I've kept posting even though I am not sure if anyone has been able to read it. And talk about it happening at the worst possible time …
We should be able to announce final roster moves Wednesday after our exhibition game in Winston-Salem (weather permitting as we all cross our fingers). Of course, there is always the chance for a late spring trade or a terrible injury, a la Brian Simmons.
I will never forget seeing him go down with a torn Achilles tendon on the final game of the spring. Brian, a great guy, had made our club. I was on the way to the team shop on the main concourse in Tucson when he hit a ball to the wall. Rounding second base, he went down in a heap. Man, talk about feeling badly for someone. He was never the same player after that.
Two players were bothered today by small injuries. Alexei Ramirez was scratched with an aggravated lower back and is day-to-day (won't play tomorrow, I am told), while Chris Sale woke up with a stiff neck and looked like Lerch walking around today.
Travel Plans
Following tomorrow's noon start at Kansas City, the White Sox will board their United charter for Winston-Salem and the game Wednesday. The team will work out on Thursday in Cleveland before strapping it on for real on Friday.
Friday's forecast for Cleveland isn't great … high of 35, 30 percent chance of rain/snow showers. Alexei weather.
Pitching Matchups
For the season's first two series:
Friday: 2:05 p.m. CDT, CSN
LHP Mark Buehrle (13-13, 4.28) vs.
RHP Fausto Carmona (13-14, 3.77)
Saturday: 12:05 p.m. CDT, WGN
RHP Edwin Jackson (4-2, 3.24) vs.
RHP Carlos Carrasco (2-2, 3.83)
Sunday: 12:05 p.m. CDT, CSN
LHP John Danks (15-11, 3.72) vs.
RHP Justin Masterson (6-13, 4.70)
Tuesday: 7:10 p.m. CDT, CSN+
RHP Gavin Floyd (10-13, 4.08) vs.
LHP Bruce Chen (12-7, 4.17)
Wednesday: 1:10 p.m. CDT, CSN
Undecided vs. Jeff Francis (4-6, 5.00)
Classic Buehrle
After striking out five batters all spring, Mark Buehrle fanned seven yesterday in the team's 2-1 victory over Milwaukee. Five Sox hurlers combined for 15 on the day.
Buehrle described feeling "scary good" and hoped to bottle this up and save it for Opening Day.
The lefty joked that he had set a goal for 200 strikeouts this season.
"I lead the league in 0-2 counts," he offered. "I just need to find an 'out pitch.'"
Hitting Stride
Edwin Jackson, Chicago's starter in game two of the season against the Indians, allowed three hits, three runs (two earned) and struck out six in 7.0 IP of work against the Royals Class AAA club on Sunday in his final tune-up before his start Saturday.
Thanks Fans
With a final spring training attendance total of 91, 749, the fifth-highest total in Sox history. Thanks to all of those fans who travelled to Glendale or who live in the Valley and made their way to a Sox game this spring.
Sox Appeal
MLB released info on the top-selling jerseys from 2010, and your White Sox rank third in the American League (seventh overall). What is impressive is that we ranked that high without a single player in MLB's Top 20. That speaks to how diverse and popular all of our players are …
Final Saturday
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
This morning, folks were still talking about last night's White Sox victory which featured what amounted to a mano-a-mano battle between Lastings Milledge and Brent Lillibridge.
Lillibridge started his game with a home run. Milledge countered with a two-run double. Milledge made an unbelieveable throw to the plate to nail a runner. Lillibridge added his own defensive gem.
Sometimes, when you come to a spring training baseball game, you even get to see a game within a game as players fight down to the wire for those coveted roster spots.
Remember When
Talk this morning tilted toward memories of the old Payne Park complex in Sarasota, Fla., and how our facilities today make those appear so very primative. Ask anyone who worked/played at Payne Park about the conditions, and you will hear a different funny story.
The clubhouse at Payne Park was built on wooden stilts so that you could literally climb underneath it … in Florida, with moisture, cockroaches, rats, mice, snakes, etc. running/slithering around.
"It was nasty," one former coach admitted.
The building had no electrical wiring so you got electricity by running drop cords across the ceiling.
One day, former Sox player Rich Coggins received the surprise of his life.
"Help! Help!" people in the clubhouse heard.
Everyone came running to find Rich. He had been sitting on the comode in what counted as the bathroom only to have the toilet, plumbing and Rich fall right through the floor to the sandy ground underneath.
Fun to watch our players and staff oohh and ahhh over the highlights of Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls … and there happens to be a Bulls home game the night of our home opener. Bet you'll see a few White Sox players in attendance.
To Nicole and Patrick O'Connell, our terrific assistant director of media relations, on their marriage last night in Scottsdale.
Comments from Jake Peavy
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Comments Today By Jake Peavy
"I felt good. I felt quite a bit better than I did a few days ago. I was excited that things are certainly calming down. The biggest thing was we were doing things au natural, just trying to do everything by the book and certainly taking anti-inflammatories is not anything huge, it doesn't happen on a daily basis.
"It's just one of those blips on the radar. We have been treating the heck out of it, and it's something we need to stay on top of, because, like you said, the little things are going to pop up here and there because things are a little bit different in there now. Anytime you go in, it's never quite the same. Today was very encouraging, though.
"I'm trying to progress and continue to play some catch and stretch it out with some long toss and push it as much as we can without pushing it. We just need to make sure we are making smart decisions so that I'm healthy, so I'll probably do a little bit more tomorrow and not take too much away from where we are at. 83 pitches the other day, so we are taking a small step back, try and regroup and hope everything looks good.
"My body was needing a little bit more time to bounce back, and we pushed it and tried to make it respond, and it responded in a way we weren't happy with. Hopefully, it's just a small step backwards from where we were at.
"You just don't know how your body is going to react. We are leaving nothing to chance here."
AJ at Center Ice
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Video of A.J. Pierzynski at Sunday's Blackhawks vs. Coyotes game. Let's go White Sox!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tough Waking Up
Gotta love day games after night games in spring training …
Roster Moves
The camp roster dropped to 29 this morning (13 pitchers, three catchers, nine infielders and four outfielders) with nine roster moves — DeAza, Flowers and Infante were optioned to Class AAA Charlotte, while Bruney, John Danks, Gray, Kinney, Lindsay and McPherson were re-assigned to minor league camp.
If you are wondering who this is, minor leaguer James Gallagher is having an unbelievable spring in major league camp. In 11 games, he is hitting .545 (6-11) with four RBI when pulled over to play late in big league games.
Caps for Charity
The White Sox will auction autographed, game-worn caps from the starting lineup from last Wednesday's game vs. San Francisco, with proceeds from the sale benefiting "From The Heart," a Glendale, Ariz.-based agency. Fans can bid on the caps by clicking here.
The starting lineup for the White Sox against the Giants included: Juan Pierre, Gordon Beckham, Adam Dunn, Paul Konerko, Alex Rios, Carlos Quentin, A.J. Pierzynski, Alexei Ramirez, Brent Morel and pitcher Mark Buehrle.
To hear Sox players explain why you should bit on THEIR cap, click here.
"From The Heart" assists social service agencies that promote the positive development of youth, strengthen families and assist Glendale residents of all ages in addressing urgent needs. This is the second consecutive year the White Sox have held the cap auction to benefit "From the Heart."
The auction will conclude on Thursday, March 31 at 12:59 p.m. CT.
Sometime in April, we are going to run a great story on our players and how they feel about their gloves. Shortstop Alexei Ramirez treats his like "a fourth child," and Mark Buehrle has a secret weaponn when it comes to winning Gold Gloves (you'll need to watch the video in our newsletter to understand my clues).
But before that runs, I would like to hear from fans. Let me know about some of your favorite glove stories … your first glove, favorite glove, a lost glove, funny glove care stories, you name it. Send them in by posting or to my email (email@example.com) and we'll recognize the very best in some way.
AJ and the Coyotes
Monday, March 21, 2011
Despite rain washing away most of the Cactus League schedule, the White Sox and Padres will play (at least as of 4 pm MT) tonight in Peoria on a wet, cold, damp evening. Mark Buehrle was scratched from the start due to the inclement weather and will throw tomorrow in a Class AAA game at Cincinnati. Jeff Marquez starts tonight in Mark's place.
Only AJ
Catcher AJ Pierzynski received both cheers and boo's (what new) last night as he took center ice to drop the puck before the Blackhawks 2-1 win over the Coyotes.
Wearing an inconspicuous Nike hat, AJ dropped the puck and then quickly (a la Obama) pulled out his Blackhawks hat. On the way off the ice, he has to pass the Coyotes bench and one player doused him with water from his water bottle. Game on!
Camelback Ranch (Photos)
Monday, March 21, 2011
The mood and atmosphere at Camelback Ranch has been great this season. White Sox fans have been flocking to Glendale from all over to show their support for the team. Take a look at some recent shots of Camelback Ranch to get an idea of what it's been like.
Double Dipping
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Today marked about the fourth time this spring that I have written a blog post and hit save only to have it disappear. So as I sat down to yet again re-write a post, my wife suggested, "Why don't you just type it in word first." Good advice.
Several White Sox players and staff, not to mention many, many fans, headed over to watch the Blackhawks 2-1 win over the Coyotes just an hour or so after our Cactus League game ended. A.J. Pierzynski dropped the ceremonial first puck, and he spent time looking for a BHawks jersey to wear to taunt the Coyotes. "I did wear my Blackhawks cap today," Pierzynski offered, admitting he doubted the Coyotes would allow him to done the sweater of the opposing team. Also scheduled to attend the game were Gordon Beckham, Giant Aaron Rowand, Sergio Santos and both Danks brothers, among others.
Today's news focused on Jake Peavy. The Sox pitcher has been shut down for a day or so because of soreness (described as excessive discomfort) in his right rotator cuff. He has been given medicine help to fight the tendinitis and will be re-evaluated in 24-48 hours. Peavy said he might play catch tomorrow and was not ready to rule out his start on Thursday, but manager Ozzie Guillen said postgame that Peavy was unlikely to make the start.
Several years ago in Tucson my family ventured to a spring training game. Sitting in the outfield, I watched on television from the press box as Carl Everett's home run soared right toward my wife and three small children. Being a soccer player, my wife's reaction was to kick out her leg and deflect the ball with her foot – all of which was caught on TV by the WGN cameras. She limped for days.
Well, history does repeat itself. Today, my daughter, son and two friends headed out from the safety of the net behind home plate to right field late in the game. My daughter lives in fear of getting hit by a foul ball. Once again, with WGN cameras running, a home run sped right toward them. They ducked and scattered and the ball bounded off the rocks right back to where they were sitting.
Upcoming Pitching
Buehrle Monday night at SD, Jackson on Tuesday at Sea and Danks Wednesday vs. LAD.
I took in Saturday's game at Oakland as a fan, sitting above our dugout with my dad.
A few random observations …
Neat how A's 3B Kevin Kouzmanoff played catch with a young fan from the stands during pregame.
Always love the fan reaction – no matter where we are – to Omar Vizquel (cheers) and A.J. Pierzynski (boo's).
"What's the matter with AJ," A's fans shouted, "he's a bum," others answered in a call and response. Soon the many Sox fans in attendance had enough. "He may be a bum, but he's OUR bum," one challenged.
At Salt River Field on Thursday, I exited the ballpark with a thousand other fans to see Vizquel quietly sitting on a bench outside the ballpark. "Waiting for your ride?" I asked the future Hall of Famer. "Yes," he smiled and laughed, shades on, unnoticed.
Great to see Bert Campaneris and Ferguson Jenkins but am I really that old?
Sox fans joked with third base coach Jeff Cox about Paul Konerko's nifty base running on Friday night.
"Yeah, and you all are telling me, 'Don't send Konerko,'" Cox laughed in reply.
Funniest thing that happened on Saturday involved coach Mike Gellinger.
Two strikes into the first inning, umpires realized the White Sox didn't have a first base coach (Harold had the game off). Always the good soldier, Gelly headed out of the dugout. But as he headed out, he caught his toe on the dugout step and went down in a heap to a collective gasp (and then laughter) from the crowd.
"I just hoped nothing would show up on You Tube," Gelly said this morning, adding that if it did, he had an explanation handy. "I was just doing it to keep guys loose.
"The guys in the bullpen thought somebody pushed me out of the dugout."
They say when you go to a baseball game, you always will see something you never saw before. True for me on Saturday. I have never seen an umpire hurt himself by making too aggressive of an "out" call at first base. He almost punched himself out, but luckily was able to remain in the game and is day-to-day, like us all.
Everyone should sit close to the diamond at least once to hear Jake Peavy grunt and talk to himself on the mound. Worth the price of admission.
The toughest three outs of any Cactus League game are ALWAYS the last three.
Out With A Bang
As pans and trays loudly crashed to the cement floor of the White Sox kitchen at lunchtime, a smart aleck offered:
"Hey, did someone drop their glove?"


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Last week a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem had to be hospitalized for injuries sustained when he was attacked by a group of Jewish teenagers in Jewish West Jerusalem. Yesterday, his assailants were charged with the crime:
Six Jewish teenagers from Jerusalem have been charged in Jerusalem District Juvenile Court with attacking an East Jerusalem Palestinian and causing him serious injury, including a broken ankle.
Four of the suspects have admitted to assaulting Ibrahim Abu Ta'a, 28, saying they thought he was "taking advantage" of an intoxicated Jewish woman he was accompanying.
…The suspects allegedly choked, pushed, kicked and beat Abu-Ta'a with their fists, as he begged them to stop, saying he hadn't done anything. At some point he was pushed to the ground, as the suspects kicked him all over his body, "all because of racist motivations, because the complainant is Arab," the indictment said.
The fact that the Jerusalem police are taking this case seriously is good news, and here's some more good news—there's a growing tendency among Israeli government and media figures to call this anti-Palestinian violence what it is: Terrorism.
Under a headline that read, "New police unit to battle Jewish terror," Yediot Aharonot reported on Monday:
In light of the rise in nationalistically-motivated hate crimes and price tag incidents initiated by Jews, Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said Monday that a special police unit will soon be established to combat the phenomenon.
"We must institute a zero tolerance policy against terror, the desecration of religious institutions, attacks on symbols of governance and attacks commonly known as 'price tag,'" Aharonovitch said.
In the past, "the desecration of religious institutions" has included the destruction of holy books and arson, including Muslim and Christian holy places. This week, it was vandalism at a mosque:
Graffiti reading "Price tag Migron" was found on Monday night on the wall of mosque in a village southwest of Hebron in the West Bank.
"Price tag" attacks are usually carried out by West Bank settlers and their supporters against Palestinian targets, often in retaliation for moves against settlements. Migron is the name of a West Bank outpost that was recently evacuated.
Judea and Samaria District Police claim that residents only informed them of the graffiti on Tuesday evening, and that following this an investigation was opened into the incident.
But the truth is that all of this good news will only really matter if the authorities follow through. The vast majority of such cases are abandoned, and one study found that only 9% of such cases led to indictments.
Among the most notable cases are the mosque arson in Beit Fajr in October 2011, the raid on the Binyamin Spatial Brigade and mosque arsons in the villages of Qusra and Burqa earlier last year.
…Similar incidents were also recorded in the past three months in Neve Shalom, Kafr Jaba and Jelazon. No indictments or arrests were made. In fact, only a small number of indictments have been filed in relation to "price tag" incidents in the past few years, in sharp contrast to the growing scope of the phenomenon itself.
Unless all the serious words are followed up by serious action, those words will be worse than meaningless—they will serve to merely strengthen the hands of Jews for whom Palestinian lives and sacred property hold no worth.
And, lest you think it's just bleeding hearts like me who feel this way, consider the opinions of Danny Dayan, chairman of Yesha, the settlers' regional council:
It's unacceptable that the Shin Bet produces zero indictments and 100% failures.
… There have been at least seven cases of mosque arsons, countless car arsons, including those of police cars, the throwing of stones, firebombs and hate messages. It's inconceivable that our glorified Shin Bet [Israel's internal security service] cannot handle these groups of thugs.
Inconceivable that the Shin Bet can't handle it—but not yet inconceivable that they choose not to.


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What we read while debating the plausibility of the Shroud of Turin…
- Ben Cohen, former (and possibly still?) Deadspin intern and friend of the blog solidified the latter status with his ardent yet in the end conciliatory defense of dear old Duke. Speaking of sympathetic portrayals of Duke basketball, Dana O'Neill chronicles Lance Thomas and Kyle Singler's studies of art.
- Our favorite part of Easter (aside from Tim's whole Jesus infatuation) has to be the Washington Post's "Peeps Show," which combines our distaste for actually eating Peeps with our affection for dioramas and cultural allusions. Although, to be fair, we weren't big fans of the winner's source material. Speaking of films Josh didn't like, The Millions considers Up in the Air from a literary perspective. And, speaking of Peeps, we also have a distaste for eating this Peeps creation.
- Josh likes attending a university where this bathroom graffiti is actually not that surprising. This university also puts a premium on economics and, speaking of which, Elinor Ostrom, this year's Nobel Prize co-winner in Economics takes part in a very accessible and interesting interview.
- The best part of April Fools' Day might be ThinkGeek's fake-but-will-be-real-in-a-few-years products. Our fave this time around? The Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock: Perfect for 108-minute naps!
- You know, we've been waiting like five years for someone to finally try to prove Bill Simmons' Ewing Theory by applying Braess's Paradox to offensive possessions in basketball. About time.
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South America
South America
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Recent Activity
The number of people around the world forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution reached its highest total since World War II, with more than 51.2 million fleeing their country or displaced within it, the UN refugee agency reported in 2014. An estimated 13.6 million people have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq alone, constituting what the UN High Commissioner for Refugees dubbed a mega-crisis.
This country profile analyzes Ecuador's migration trends and examines how remittances and return migration have become an important policy focus for a country with an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million nationals living abroad, chiefly in the United States, Spain, and Italy. As waves of emigration occurred, the country also has experienced significant inflows of refugees and economic and lifestyle migrants.
Immigrants from South America made up 2.7 million (about 7 percent) of the United States' foreign-born population of 40.4 million in 2011. While the share may seem small, this population has grown 30 times its size since 1960, when about 90,000 South American immigrants resided in the country. This article examines the latest data on South American immigrants in the United States, including population size, geographic distribution, admission categories, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Unaccustomed to a large number of migrants, Chile has seen an increase in migrants in the past three decades. Cristián Doña-Reveco and Amanda Levinson examine how the country, still wedded to its dictator-era migration framework, is balancing shifting migration patterns with a piecemeal approach to migration policy.
Migration from Latin America to the United States and Europe appears to have slowed in the wake of the recent global financial crisis. As Jacqueline Mazza and Eleanor Sohnen of the Inter-American Development Bank report, flows between Latin American countries expanded in the 1990s and are still growing, crisis or not, and some countries are taking a more regional approach to managing migration.
Although most Latin Americans head to North America, the increasing flow of people from Latin America to Southern Europe reflects colonial and historical patterns as well as new economic opportunities. Beatriz Padilla and João Peixoto examine various data that show the region's popularity.


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Since our Avivo versus PureVideo showdown early this year, there have been some inevitable changes in the graphics scene. Significantly, NVIDIA launched their mid-range GeForce 9600 GT and since that is based on the G92 core, it has the same VP2 hardware as that on the GeForce 8800 GT and also the GeForce 8600/8500 cards featured in our article. Additionally, NVIDIA has claimed that the release of the new ForceWare 174 drivers has unlocked new PureVideo features on these GeForce 9 cards, like dynamic contrast enhancements and hardware acceleration for dual video stream decoding. These features will be found on all GeForce 9 cards, including models that have yet to be launched.
ATI has been less busy with the product launches, though they did reissue their mainstream Radeon HD products (namely the 2600 and 2400 series) in a newer 55nm package in January and branded them as the Radeon HD 3600 and 3400 series respectively. Unfortunately, they were launched around the same time as the single PCB, dual-GPU Radeon HD 3870 X2 and were quickly lost in the whirl of publicity surrounding the new ATI flagship card. While we didn't manage to get these new Radeons in time for the Avivo/PureVideo article, we finally got them in the lab recently. Hence, it was only appropriate to give them a spin with our HD movies and see how they fare in handling them.
The Radeon HD 3650 and 3450
The more powerful of the two (hence the higher model number), the Radeon HD 3650 (core code: RV635 Pro) is what you get when you shrink the GPU on the Radeon 2600 series from 65nm to 55nm. One immediate advantage of the die shrink is obviously the lower TDP rating on the newer core and theoretically, ATI has more allowance to bump up the clock speeds. In the case of the Radeon HD 3650 256MB that we received however, the clocks are at 725/1600MHz, which are quite different from the ones on the Radeon HD 2600 PRO and XT. The new card was also using GDDR3 compared to GDDR4 memory on the Radeon HD 2600 XT model. Nevertheless, the basic architectures of both are very similar, with the same number of shaders, texture mapping units and render output units. As for HD video playback, the same Avivo hardware is found on both SKUs and we are expecting similar results in our testing.
Likewise, the Radeon HD 3450 is an updated version of the Radeon HD 2400 series given a die shrink and a new GPU core (RV620 LE). The clock speeds have also changed with the refresh and at 600/1000MHz, the Radeon HD 3450 has no clock equivalent from the Radeon HD 2400 series. As the new entry level graphics card from ATI, DDR2 memory is used on the Radeon HD 3450, with ATI also implementing HyperMemory on our review sample to give it a total of 512MB frame buffer. Physically, the Radeon HD 3450 is a low profile card with a small simple cooler, making it suitable for small form factor systems and will probably show up in PCs from system aggregators keen to show that their products come with a discrete graphics card.
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Archive for April, 2011
Lynn E. Szymoniak, Esq., April 23, 2011
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On April 13, 2011, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate released a report titled "Wall Street and The Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse."
Section VI of the Report, pages 318 to 639, is titled "Investment Bank Abuses: Case Study of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank." Part B of this section, pages 330 to 375, focuses on Deutsche Bank and is titled "Running the CDO Machine: Case Study of Deutsche Bank."
The Deutsche Bank case study section is divided into the following areas:
(1) Subcommittee Investigation and Findings of Fact
(2) Deutsche Bank Background
(3) Deutsche Bank's $5 Billion Short
(a) Lippmann's Negative View of Mortgage Related Assets
(b) Building And Cashing In the $5 Billion Short
(4) The "CDO Machine" (5) Gemstone
(a) Background on Gemstone
(b) Gemstone Asset Selection
(c) Gemstone Risks and Poor Quality Assets
(d) Gemstone Sales Effort
(e) Gemstone Losses
(6) Other Deutsche Bank CDOs
(7) Analysis
The Analysis Section, pages 374 – 375, states the following clear condemnation of Deutsche Bank's practices:
Deutsche Bank was the fourth largest issuer of CDOs in the United States. It continued to issue CDOs after mortgages began losing money at record rates, investor interest waned, and its most senior CDO trader concluded that the mortgage market in general and the specific RMBS securities being included in the bank's own CDOs were going to lose value. Mr. Lippmann derided specific RMBS securities and advised his clients to short them, at the same time his desk was allowing the very same securities to be included or referenced in Gemstone 7, a CDO that the bank was assembling for sale to its clients. In fact, the bank was selling some assets that Mr. Lippmann believed contained "crap." While the Gemstone CDO was constructed and marketed by the bank's CDO Desk, which is separate from the trading desk controlled by Mr. Lippmann, both desks knew of Mr. Lippmann's negative views. The bank managed to sell $700 million in Gemstone 7 securities which then failed within months, leaving the bank's clients with worthless investments.
This case history raises several concerns. The first is that Deutsche Bank allowed the inclusion of Gemstone 7 assets which its most senior CDO trader was asked to review and saw as likely to lose value. Second, the bank sold poor quality assets from its own inventory to the CDO. Third, the bank aggressively marketed the CDO securities to clients despite the negative views of its most senior CDO trader, falling values, and the deteriorating market. Fourth, the bank failed to inform potential investors of Mr. Lippmann's negative views of the underlying assets and its inability to sell over a third of Gemstone's securities. Each of these issues focuses on the poor quality of the financial product that Deutsche Bank helped assemble and sell. Still another concern raised by this case history is the fact that the bank made large proprietary investments in the mortgage market that resulted in multi- billion-dollar losses – losses that, in this instance, did not require taxpayer relief but, due to their size, could have caused material damage to both U.S. investors and the U.S. economy.
"Mr. Lippmann" in the above summary refers to Greg Lippmann, Deutsche Bank's top global CDO trader. Regarding Mr. Lippman, the Senate report finds the following (on page 330):
By the middle of 2006, Mr. Lippmann repeatedly warned and advised his Deutsche Bank colleagues and some of his clients seeking to buy short positions about the poor quality of the assets underlying many CDOs. He described some of those assets as "crap" and "pigs," and predicted the assets and the CDO securities would lose value.
At one point, Mr. Lippmann was asked to buy a specific CDO security and responded that it "rarely trades," but he "would take it and try to dupe someone" into buying it. He also at times referred to the industry's ongoing CDO marketing efforts as a "CDO machine" or "ponzi scheme."
"Gemstone" in the above summary refers to a CDO that the Subcommittee chose to examine in detail called Gemstone CDO VII Ltd. (Gemstone 7). The Subcommittee report states the following (on page 331) regarding Gemstone 7:
In October 2006, Deutsche Bank began assisting in the gathering of assets for Gemstone 7, which issued its securities in March 2007. It was the last in a series of CDOs sponsored by HBK Capital Management (HBK), a large hedge fund which acted as the collateral manager for the CDO. Deutsche Bank made $4.7 million in fees from the deal, while HBK was slated to receive $3.3 million. It was not the last CDO issued by Deutsche Bank. Even after Gemstone 7 was issued in March of 2007, Deutsche Bank issued 9 additional CDOs.
Gemstone 7 was a hybrid CDO containing or referencing a variety of high risk, subprime RMBS securities initially valued at $1.1 billion when issued. Deutsche Bank's head global trader, Mr. Lippmann, recognized that these RMBS securities were high risk and likely to lose value, but did not object to their inclusion in Gemstone 7. Deutsche Bank, the sole placement agent, marketed the initial offering of Gemstone 7 in the first quarter of 2007. Its top tranches received AAA ratings from Standard & Poor's and Moody's, despite signs that the CDO market was failing and the CDO itself contained many poor quality assets.
Nearly a third of Gemstone's assets consisted of high risk subprime loans originated by Fremont, Long Beach, and New Century, three lenders known at the time within the financial industry for issuing poor quality loans and RMBS securities. Although HBK directed the selection of assets for Gemstone 7, Mr. Lippmann's CDO Trading Desk was involved in the process and did not object to including certain RMBS securities in Gemstone 7, even though Mr. Lippmann was simultaneously referring to them as "crap" or "pigs." Mr. Lippmann was also at the same time advising some of his clients to short some of those same RMBS securities. In addition, Deutsche Bank sold five RMBS securities directly from its inventory to Gemstone 7, several of which were also contemporaneously disparaged by Mr. Lippmann.
Footnote #1325 on paqe 347 shows the disdain for the products the traders were selling was widespread among the traders, as a trader sends a parody of a rap song to his boss at Deutsche:
Mr. Lippmann's negative views were shared by his traders. In an email originally sent by one of the traders on his desk, Rocky Kurita, the CDO business is set to a song, "CDO Oh Baby," by VanillaIce with the following lyrics: "Yo vip let's kick it! CDO oh baby, CDO oh baby. All right, stop, collaborate and listen. Spreads are wide with a technical invasion. Home Eq Subs were trading so tightly. Until Hedge Funds BotProtection daily and nightly. Will they stop? Yo I don't know. Turn up the Arb and let's go. To the extreme Macro Funds do damage like a vandal. Now, BBs are trading with a new handle. Print, even if the housing bubble looms. There are never ends to real estate booms. If there is a problem, yo, we'll solve it. Check out the spreads while my structurer revolves it. CDO oh baby, CDO oh baby." 11/8/2005 email from Jordan Milman to Greg Lippmann, DBSI_PSI_EMAIL00686597-601 (forwarding an 11/8/2005 email from Rocky Kurita at Deutsche Bank).
Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc. (AMSI) loans were part of the Deutsche Bank warehouse inventory that were included in Gemstone 7. On page 362 of the report, the Subcommittee finds that Mr. Lippmann was also very disdainful of the Ameriquest loans, but that he bought them to sell to investors:
On April 6, 2006, Mr. Lippmann called AMSI 2005-R7 M8 a "crap name." In a June 16, 2006 email, Mr. Lippmann called AMSI generally a "weakish name." On December 12, 2006, Gemstone 7 purchased $5 million of another RMBS, AMSI 2005- R11 M10, with no objection from the Lippmann trading desk. (footnotes omitted)
The Report has very many examples of Mr. Lippman and his colleagues and traders sending emails to each other wherein they repeatedly refer to loans and securities as "absolute pigs" and "generally horrible" and "crap" as Deutsche Bank was buying these very loans and securities to sell to investors. "Doesn't this deal blow?" Lippman asks one of his traders (page 361), as they forge ahead with the deal.
The Subcommittee Report records in painful, exhaustive detail the building and collapse of mortgage securitization and in particular the role of two of the largest entities, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, in causing investors to lose billions while they reaped the largest profits in the history of their companies.
The Subcommittee Report focused on the financial collapse and Wall Street. The aftermath of that financial collapse was widespread unemployment and foreclosures.
If the Subcommittee had extended its investigation, it would have found that the trusts with the loans from the four mortgage companies identified as "crap" by Deutsche Bank's traders became the top foreclosure litigants in the country as Deutsche Bank itself became known as "America's Foreclosure King."
When Deutsche Bank, as trustee, foreclosed, it was no more honest with courts and foreclosure defendants than it had been with investors. To prove to courts and homeowners that the trusts owned the mortgages in foreclosure actions, Deutsche Bank most often relied on documents produced by Lender Processing Services ("LPS") to create mortgage assignments to the trusts when the mortgages had been originated by Ameriquest, Fremont, Long Beach and New Century.
LPS employees signed thousands of mortgage assignments as if they were officers of Ameriquest, Fremont, Long Beach and New Century.
Both the Alpharetta, Georgia and the Mendota Heights, Minnestoa offices of LPS produced these Assignments.
On these Assignments, the dates that the trusts acquired the mortgages are falsely stated.
These false Assignments were prepared from 2007 to at least February, 2010. When LPS stopped producing the Assignments, employees of other mortgage servicing companies continued these practices.
The Deutsche Bank trusts needed these Assignments because they failed to get Mortgage Assignments from the loan originators to the trusts – even though Deutsche Bank promised investors and the SEC they would get these mortgage assignments.
On tens of thousands of these LPS produced Assignments, the mortgage servicer is identified as American Home Mortgage Servicing. On the documents produced by LPS subsidiary Docx in Alpharetta, the servicer is identified in a box in the upper left-hand corner as "AHMA" or "AHCIT."
AHMA is an abbreviation for American Home Mortgage Acquisition, the company that became American Home Mortgage Servicing in Coppell, Texas. American Home Mortgage Acquisition, owned by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, (the "King of Bankruptcy") purchased the $45.3 mortgage servicing business of bankrupt American Home Mortgage in September, 2007.
AHCIT is an abbreviation for American Home Citigroup. In February, 2009, Citigroup sold its servicing rights on 185,000 loans to American Home Mortgage Servicing (AHMSI) for $1.5 billion. Citigroup was one of the primary servicers of the Ameriquest loans.
Only a few courts have recognized that the LPS assignments were fraudulent and forged, even after former employees of Docx admitted on a segment of CBS "60 Minutes" to forging over 4,000 documents each day for several years.
No criminal charges have been filed against Deutsche Bank, Lender Processing Services or American Home Mortgage Servicing and all three of these corporations continue to pursue forecloses in courts throughout the United States using fraudulent mortgage assignments to trusts created by Deutsche Bank and sold to investors as the bank was shorting these same investments.


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Symptoms of an overactive thyroid
An overactive thyroid can cause a wide range of symptoms, including:
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See a GP if you have symptoms of an overactive thyroid.
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Find out more about how an overactive thyroid is diagnosed.
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An overactive thyroid is usually treatable.
The main treatments are:
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- surgery to remove some or all of your thyroid, so that it no longer produces thyroid hormones
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- some medicines such as amiodarone, which can be used to treat an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia)
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I published this column in the Deseret News for Thanksgiving 2013:
It's the season of Thanksgiving, and, so, minds like mine turn naturally to etymology, to word origins. Please be patient. There is method in my madness.
The origin of the word "religion" is obscure, and has been much debated. But all suggestions for it seem to agree that remembrance, an awareness of dependence and obligation, is at the core of what it means to be religious. The ancient Roman politician and writer Cicero derived the word from "legere," "to read," believing that it meant "to go over" something again in the sense of "re-reading," "re-thinking" or considering it very carefully. Other writers, ancient and modern, connect it with the word "religare," "to bind fast," from which we also receive our modern verb "to rely." They emphasize the bond between humans and the divine. Still others suggest a distant relationship to the archaic English verb "to reck" or "to reckon," meaning "to pay attention to," or that it stems from the Latin adjective "religiens," "careful" or "mindful," which is the opposite of "negligens."
Most if not all religions are saturated with exhortations to remember, and with practices designed to help us to do so. The liturgical year of many Jews and Christians, for example, is a profound teaching device centered on events (e.g., Passover, Easter, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles, Hannukah, and Christ's Nativity) that are charged with deep meaning for believers. The Qur'an continually encourages readers to "remember," and not to be "neglectful" or "heedless" of the mighty acts of God, and it condemns those who fail to reflect on the lessons of the past.
In the Mormon context, the most obvious example of memorializing is the weekly sacrament. Those who partake are to do so "in remembrance" of Christ's suffering on their behalf, and to "always remember him." But examples abound. The ordinances of the temple remind us, for instance, that the creation of the world was purposeful, and that we can only enter into his presence again through the wounds he suffered in his atoning sacrifice. The scriptures were essential, Alma taught his son Helaman, because they "enlarged the memory of this people" (Alma 37:8); had they not been preserved, explained King Benjamin (in Mosiah 1:3-5), the Nephites would have fallen into "ignorance" and "dwindled in unbelief." Hence the vital importance, even today, of repeatedly immersing ourselves in the scriptures, which continually admonish us to "remember."
Even such modern programs as Pioneer Day celebrations throughout the Church and reenactments of the handcart treks in Africa, Europe, and the Philippines, as well as in Wyoming, allow us to "remember," and to make ourselves one with our spiritual progenitors (whether or not we are biological kin). Just as the nineteenth century pioneers saw themselves as a modern Israel led by an American Moses, we are to identify with them, and, thus, with the ancient people of the Exodus. Latter-day Saints are to relive the experience, in their own way, of former-day Saints. "I did liken all scriptures unto us," Nephi explains, "that it might be for our profit and learning" (1 Nephi 19:23)
Abraham Lincoln's proclamation of a national "day of Thanksgiving and Praise," issued 150 years ago on October 3, 1863, was a summons to explicitly religious reflection on the many blessings that the American people had received even amidst the sadness, death, and destruction of the still ongoing Civil War. While it says precisely nothing about turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, or pumpkin pie, it calls upon the nation to remember "our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens" and, in "humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience," to seek his caring help for all those who were suffering.
On this Thanksgiving Day, accordingly, it is worthwhile to recall that the English verb "to thank" derives from the same root as the verb "to think." (Compare the equivalent German words "danken" and "denken.") With all the busyness and the rush of the day, we should still try to find time to reflect.
Thanksgiving isn't about eating. It isn't even, really, about spending time with family and friends, important as those are. It is, or should be, about thinking, about contemplation. From its very origin, it was about considering the debt that we owe to God and to the others who laid the foundation of the blessings and prosperity that we enjoy, about reflecting, repenting, and seeking to extend those blessings to others.
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GIOVE-A on the launch pad; launch rehearsal completed
GIOVE-A, now mated with the Soyuz launcher that will carry it into orbit, is in position on launch pad six at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. A successful launch rehearsal for Soyuz, GIOVE and the ground station network has been completed. Lift-off is set for 05:19:08 UTC (06:19:08 CET, 11:19:08 Baikonur local time) on 28 December.
GIOVE-A launched at 06:19 CET this morning
GIOVE-A and the Fregat launcher upper stage, encapsulated in the rocket nose cone, travelled by rail to the launcher integration facility where they were mated with the third stage of the Soyuz launch vehicle. After installation of a thermal cover over the fairing, or nose cone, GIOVE-A, Fregat and the Soyuz third stage were mated with the first and second stages of the launcher.
Late on 24 December, launcher and satellite travelled from the integration facility to launch pad six on a specially designed railway train. The launcher was raised into the vertical position on 25 December at 01:30 UTC (02:30 CET, 07:30 Baikonur local time).
On 26 December, a full launch rehearsal was conducted, involving the Soyuz launch team, the ESA and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) teams at Baikonur, the ground controllers at SSTL's facility in Guildford, UK and the ground station network that will track the launch.
The launch rehearsal was a success and the final countdown will begin at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 23:00 Baikonur local time) today, 27 December.
Lift-off is scheduled for 05:19:08 UTC (06:19:08 CET, 11:19:08 Baikonur local time) tomorrow, 28 December.
Separation of GIOVE-A and Fregat from the Soyuz launcher is scheduled to occur 8m:49s after lift-off. GIOVE-A and Fregat will part company 3h:42m:31s after lift-off, injecting GIOVE into its final, circular orbit 23 222 km above the Earth. Early on-orbit operations such as solar array deployment are expected to be completed 7h:32m:31s after launch at 12:51:39 UTC (13:51:39 CET, 18:51:39 Baikonur local time). Satellite commissioning will commence soon thereafter.
GIOVE A is the first of two Galileo In-Orbit Validation Elements which, with its sister spacecraft GIOVE B and their associated ground segment, make up the first stage of the in-orbit validation (IOV) of the Galileo system.
Experience gained from the GIOVE missions will support the development of the Galileo IOV system. The next phase of Galileo IOV will be the deployment of the first four of 30 Galileo satellites that will be required for full system operation.


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BOS votes to add elected officals to water and waste boards
The Albemarle County Supervisors have joined their city counterparts and unanimously approved adding one member of each governing body to the boards of the Rivanna Water and Waste Authorities. The resolution, says Mayor Dave Norris, could help solve problems like the one outlined in this week's cover story, in which it is revealed that the RSWA is suing a private citizen for $3.5 million, something Norris, and other leaders, were unaware of. "Most of us feel the Authority has been well-run," said BOS chairman Ken Boyd after the April 1 vote. "But the city felt strongly about it, so we went along with it to be a good neighbor." Boyd says Supervisors were also responding to the public, many of whom have been upset over the Authority's so-called 50-year water plan. "We're an elected body," said Boyd, "so we do listen to the public."
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It's one too many. According to Jeff Werner of PEC, who has gotten some results from the formula, you put the elected official in a room with a "representative" from DEQ (who will actually be a shill) show up with good questions and as many witnesses as you can to watch the shill pretend he isn't one. Take your video camera and tape the fun. There is aready some interesting footage available through PEC.
Skyking your post is interesting could you explain in more detail and provide a link to some of the video from PEC
Watching the Rivanna Board's behavior with the water plan and now this trash mess don't think 2 elected officials is enough. Time for the public to demand an entirely new board and a new director !
Any lawyers out there? Is there a way to dissolve the RWSA and RSWA. The board is totally incompetent and is wasting millions of dollars we need to act now !
This board doesn't like my computer well enough to send links. Call PEC and they'll put you through to Jeff, who will send you some hilarious (and telling) footage of his encounters with RWSA. He also can and will send you as much information about the history, engineering and political players concerning hydrology and solid waste in Va. as you can stand.
I've got some dealing to be done with the miscreants here in Fluvanna who want to run an insane (and Tenaska driven) pipeline from the James river to Zions Crossroads. I highly recommend his advice.
Tell him John sent you. :)


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In the US during last week's Saturday Night Live, NBC played a very short clip of funky dance music over the image of the Daft Punk logo and the odd helmet that that has been on the group's homepage for a few weeks. What does it mean? Please tell us when the record is coming out! Well, a genius on the Internet just gave that brief clip meaning with this video.
The music from the clip loops perfectly so you can repeat it forever without interruption. Layer a Gif of Ron Swanson dancing on top, and you've got Internet perfection.


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Some of us think of Starship Troopers as a brilliant satire, others consider it a bastardization of Robert Heinlein's novel. Scott Tobias of The Onion AV Club considers the 1997 film an apt metaphor for 21st-century nationalism and militarism.
Says Tobias:
It seems absurd now to write it off as some silly piece of escapism, as its detractors complained, and the amount of detail Verhoeven and Neumeier invest in their cinematic universe keeps cultists like myself coming back to it. [...] Each viewing seems to yield a new revelation-this time, Carmen asking Rico to "write her" via video message, suggesting an illiterate society-or something else to discuss, like the co-ed showers and military units, an intriguingly progressive sign that the battle of the sexes ended in a draw. I suspect its future is bright: The line between the world of Starship Troopers and Sarah Palin's Twitter feed gets thinner every day.
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For Bob Gladney, that summer's day in early June 35 years ago was not unlike any other he'd spent in his native Clarenville.
It's too long ago, of course, to remember exactly what it is he was doing, but more than likely Gladney was hanging out with the boys or off troutin' somewhere.
This much is certain: he wasn't home waiting for the phone to ring, or in the ballroom of Montreal's Mount Royal Hotel, fidgeting in his seat hoping to hear his named called.
Yup, things certainly have changed with the NHL Draft.
"No, I wasn't interviewed on TV, wasn't called to the big stage to put a jersey on," chuckles Gladney today. "I was back in Clarenville, off doing whatever. No more exciting than that."
The call eventually came, from the Toronto Maple Leafs, who made the defenceman from Newfoundland the 24th overall selection in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft, as it was known then. As the sixth pick of the second round, tabbed one slot ahead of tough Brandon Wheat King junior Dave Semenko, and 12 spaces ahead of relative unknown U.S. collegian Rod Langway, Gladney became the highest-selected Newfoundlander in the NHL draft.
In 1971, Grand Falls star defenceman Terry French was nabbed with the 25th overall pick by the Montreal Canadiens, only five spots behind another Canadiens' pick, a lanky defenceman named Larry Robinson.
But getting back to Gladney. He figured to be drafted in the '77 lottery — a draft perhaps best known for the fact 14 teams overlooked Mike Bossy before the New York Islanders tabbed him at No. 15 — following three impressive years with the Ontario Hockey League's Oshawa Generals.
Gladney had been a young star in Clarenville, but unknown outside Newfoundland. That was until he attended the very first Canadian midget hockey championship in 1973-74, the Wrigley. Gladney opened a lot of eyes, and the Generals used their sixth overall pick in the OHL draft to select the Newfoundlander.
And he didn't disappoint. For the next three years, Gladney would register 62, 78 and 62 points for Oshawa.
Entering his third OHL season, Gladney's name was tossed about as a potential NHL draft pick. But unlike today, with the Draft Combine, endless draft previews and live coverage on draft day, there was very little fanfare back in 1977.
"Oh no, there was definitely none of that. Not at all," he says, to great laughter. "I suppose I knew I would be, from word of mouth, drafted in the first couple of rounds, but you didn't know if you were going to be a first-rounder or not."
Gladney might have seen his stock drop a bit because he languished in Oshawa, which managed only five wins in 66 games in 1976-77. He said there was some discussion about trading him in his final year, but in the end, the Generals' owners elected to keep their high-scoring rearguard.
Gladney can't recall who it was from the Leafs who called him, though he thinks it was former coach, assistant GM and then-current scout Johnny McLelland.
"He basically told me Toronto had selected me 24th overall, that they were pleased, and congratulations. No more hoopla than that. It was a short chat."
Shortly afterwards, Gladney got a call from his agent, Alan Eagleson. And then came a letter in the mail, from the Leafs, instructing their pick to maintain an exercise program for the remainder of the summer.
"Looking back, I would have done essentially what they asked me," he said, "but not to the extent now where there's a lot more emphasis on training and conditioning. Geez, there's diets and everything else these days.
"The reality of that era was the veterans went to camp and the teams said, 'You're a little overweight. You had a good summer,' and the guys hit the ice to get in shape.
"I know it's totally different now. I'm in touch with a couple of guys whose sons are (in the NHL) and they get a few weeks' break, but then they're back working out over the whole summer to get ready for camp. And they're not trying to make the team. They're established players."
Gladney headed to Toronto two weeks before training camp opened, and skated with some of the Leaf veterans of the day.
"That was about as much preparation that I initiated, which I thought was adequate," he recalls. "It wasn't something the team had pieced together. It was certainly more haphazard, less structured than what it would be today, I'm assuming."
Toronto had a job opening on the blueline that season, but rather than go with Gladney, the Leafs opted to keep fellow rookie Trevor Johansen on the roster. Johansen had been selected 12 spots ahead of Gladney in the draft.
Gladney was optioned to Saginaw of the old International league, and responded with 65 points as a rookie defenceman.
The next season, another job opened in Toronto, but by then the Leafs had fired GM Jim Gregory, who had selected Gladney. This time, Toronto elected to go with Joel Quenneville, who was the Leafs' first pick, 21st overall, in the 1978 draft.
Gladney would go on to play another four years in the minors, before getting his crack at NHL in 1982-83 after joining the Los Angeles organization.
That year, he played his first NHL game with the Kings.
Gladney, coming off a first-team AHL all-star season, signed with Pittsburgh in the off-season and made the Penguins out of training camp, where he had a goal and five assists in 13 games.
Still, he was optioned to the Baltimore Skipjacks of the American league, and 13 games later, was clipped in the eye by a stick in a game against the Rochester Americans.
He would never play again.
Today, the 55-year-old Gladney lives in Riverview, N.B., where he's a civil aviation inspector with Transport Canada. He bikes to work quite a bit, but a sore knee — the result of an old hockey injury — does not allow him to run anymore.
And it's been at least 19 years — since he moved from Newfoundland to New Brunswick — since he's had a game of hockey.
Robin Short is The Telegram's Sports Editor. He can be reached by email email@example.com


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While we're waiting to see what Microsoft does with the "new" email program in Windows 8 (we're testing Windows 8 Release Preview right now) we'd like you to tell us what you like.
More than 60% of you have now moved to Windows 7 and you, like us, are probably very disappointed in the choice of email programs you have.
We'd love to go back to making our regular stationery but the new email programs can't use it – Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird and Outlook 2010 limit what we can do with stationery.
So for now, until Windows 8 is final, we need you to tell us what you like best. Since we're limited to full backgrounds (backgrounds that cover the entire email) or top border stationery.
Do you want our next collection to be full background stationery, top border stationery, or a combination of both. What categories would you like to see? Wildlife? Scenic? Fun?
Please give us your opinions and we'll do our best. We want to create what you like. And since we're so limited by what Microsoft has done with Windows 7 (we do have some hope for Windows 8), we really need to hear you voice!
Tell us what you want and we'll do our best for you.
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