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Jacksonville, Arizona
Joe Mather clubbed a three-run home run, Brett Jackson slugged his second home run in two days, and Jay Jackson threw three perfect innings, as two squads of Cubs played to a 3-3 tie in a five-inning intrasquad game played under sunny skies this afternoon at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in Mesa, AZ.
After reaching base four times yesterday on a solo a HR, a double, and two walks, B. Jackson picked-up right where he left off, ripping a HR into the upper bullpen beyond the RF fence off LHP Chris Rusin to give the Sveum Squad an early 1-0 lead. (B. Jackson's HR yesterday also came off a LHP).
Joe Mather took Trey McNutt deep with a three-run dinger off the LF scoreboard in the bottom of the 4th to give the Sutcliffe Squad a 3-1 lead, but B-Jax drew a lead-off walk to spark a two-run rally in the top of the 5th that tied the score. Dave Sappelt (acquired from CIN in the Sean Marshall deal) followed Jackson's base on balls with a line-drive RBI triple off the CF batter's eye 410+ feet to straight-away center to score Jackson, and then after Adrian Cardenas walked, Anthony Rizzo lofted a sacrifice fly to left-center to score Sappelt with the tying run.
RHP Jay Jackson got the start for the Sveum Boys, and threw three innings of perfect baseball (1 K and a 4/4 GO/FO), efficiently mowing down the opposition on just 32 pitches (22 strikes).
The Sutcliffe Band of Brothers reversed their fortunes in the bottom of the 4th, however, as Tony Campana ignited the inning with a drag bunt single down the 1st base line. Campana just plain outran the defense, sliding head-first into 1st as 1B Anthony Rizzo made a desperation toss to 2B Bobby Scales covering at 1st base.
Once on base, Campana seemed to rattle pitcher Trey McNutt, eventually stealing 2nd base before Jim Adduci worked a walk on a 3-2 pitch. Campana was then caught red-handed halfway between 2nd & 3rd, but he somehow managed to survive the "hot box," getting into a run-down before eventually jitterbugging past a defender and sliding into 3rd base amidst a cloud of dust. (Adduci moved-up to 2nd on the play), After Jae-Hoon Ha was called out on strikes on a close 3-2 pitch, Joe Mather sent a hanging McNutt slider high & far over the LF fence.
Matt Szczur followed up yesterday's 3-4 six-RBI day by reaching base in both of his two plate appearances today, drawing two walks and showing a lot of patience and a good eye in the process.
No doubt the People's Choice at HoHoKam Park right now is Tony Campana. The fans absolutely LOVE this guy. Besides his bunt single and the daring base-running, Campana also made a couple of eye-opening plays in the field this afternoon, running a half-mile and making a head-first diving attempt at catching a pop-up in foul territory down the LF line early in the game (a ball that Alfonso Soriano would not even have thought about chasing), and then rescuing CF Jae-Hoon Ha by running full-tilt to catch a fly ball in dead-center that Ha lost in the sun. I suppose it's just his combination of hustle, spirit, and exuberance, but the fans cheer wildly every time Campana comes to the plate or gets on base.
I wouldn't be surprised if Campana ends up playing CF and hitting lead-off for the Cubs on Opening Day. What will happen to Marlon Byrd I cannot say, but Campana seems to be in the right place at the right time right now.
The Cubs play their first "official" Cactus League Spring Training game against the Oakland A's in Mesa tomorrow afternoon. Rodrigo Lopez will is reportedly get the start.
There is no official scorer at Spring Training intrasquad games, so here is today's unofficial box score:
1. Dave Sappelt, CF: 1-3 (K, F-9, 3B, R, RBI)
2. Adrian Cardenas, 3B: 0-2 (F-8, L-7, BB)
3. Anthony Rizzo, 1B: 0-2 (F-9, K, F-7 SF, RBI)
4. Steve Clevenger, DH: 1-2 (1B, F-8)
5. Micah Gibbs, C: 1-2 (5-4-3 DP, 2B)
6. Jonathon Mota: SS: 0-1 (BB, L-8)
7. Matt Szczur, LF: 0-0 (BB, BB)
8. Bobby Scales, 2B: 0-2 (K, L-9)
9. Brett Jackson, RF: 1-1 (HR, BB, 2 R, RBI)
1. Tony Campana, LF: 1-2 (4-3, 1B, R, SB)
2. Jim Adduci, RF: 0-1 (4-3, BB, R)
3. Jae-Hoon Ha, CF: 0-2 (F-7, K)
4. Joe Mather, 1B: 1-2 (5-3, HR, R, 3 RBI)
5. Welington Castillo, C: 0-2 (F-7, 5-3)
6. Edgar Gonzalez: SS: 1-2 (6-3, 1B)
7. Alfredo Amezaga, 2B: 0-2 (L-8, 4-6-3 DP)
8. Blake Lalli, DH: 0-1 (K)
9. Matt Tolbert, 3B: 0-1 (F-7)
1. Jay Jackson: 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 32 pitches (22 strikes), 4/4 GO/FO
2. Trey McNutt: 1.1 IP, 3 H, 3 R (3 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 1 GIDP, 29 pitches (19 strikes), 3/0 GO/FO
NOTE: McNutt's first inning was stopped with bases empty and one out when he reached his max pitch limit for that inning.
1. Chris Rusin: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HR, 1 GIDP, 54 pitches (29 strikes), 2/4 GO/FO
2. Alberto Cabrera: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R (2 ER), 3 BB, 0 K, 43 pitches (22 strikes), 0/4 GO/FO
NOTE: Cabrera's final inning was stopped with runner on 2nd base and one out when he reached his max pitch limit for the game.
P Chris Rusin E-1 - errant pick-off attempt at 2nd base allowed runners at 1st & 2nd to advance a base.
Micah Gibbs: 0-1 CS
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ike davis (NYM) doing it all wrong again...
he's contracted "valley fever"...even though his ST camp is in FL.
sigh. wrong coast, buddy.
he probably lives in AZ in the offseason...went to college there. unlucky break. hopefully it doesn't lay him up. it's like "mono" for some people...some can shake it off...some carry the effects for months/year+.
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"Unfortunately, the "Moneyball" film came up empty with the Academy Award voters, and the same fate beckons for Beane and Oakland A's owners Lew Wolff and John Fisher in their determined effort to move to a new stadium in Hi-Tech haven. The latter prospect, in which, for a variety of reasons, MLB is going to uphold the San Francisco Giants' territorial rights in San Jose, will be especially disheartening for Beane."
it's like a separated couple (fans/ownership) forced to share a house together at this point...and no one's moving out any time soon.
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Well Phil, based on the early returns, I think most Cub fans (self included) would be perfectly fine if the Cubs dumped both Soriano and Byrd RIGHT NOW and had Campana and BJax on the opening day roster. Won't happen of course...but it should.
What did you think of Jay Jax, how did he look? Last year was awful for him, can he get back to being a prospect pitcher for us?
Who is Joe Mather?
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Beating a dead horse here, but there's no reason to start Jackson on the roster. Give him some additional time in AAA and bring him up when there's no danger in being a super 2.
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No shock who's last even with one of the best analyst.
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Will Carroll has resurfaced over to SI.com. He posted his Green-Yellow-Red health update for the Cubs and head trainer Mark O'Neal was ranked #6 in 2011. His red light's are somewhat predictable: Stewart, Maholm, Wells, Wood and Marmol
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"Volstad is not Carlos Zambrano and that's enough for the Cubs. He's going to top out at around 160 innings and that seems to be a problem for baseball execs."
...and then i quit reading.
...and i probably should have quit reading after the d.barney blurb...even though his "green" rating i don't have an issue with.
...and wtf was up with that byrd blurb? "His playing time was down last year because the franchise was looking at options." I knew it was a conspiracy that he got drilled in the skull.
I got one for Will Carroll....
(Clairvoyant) Will Carroll
Just because you can get 10 patties on a In-and-Out Burger doesn't mean you have to. I saw a video of Carroll eating a couple of 10-patty burgers and noticed his left shoulder isn't raising as high as his right shoulder. This points to a shoulder injury which may prevent him from hitting 300...pounds.
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AZ PHIL: Is Campana-Fuld comparison accurate in terms of their role and projection? excepting that Sam is a LH.
Don't know much about Campana's arm, but if he can learn how to walk and hit some singles, he would have ro make the team as a 4th OF?
From many scouting reports I have read, he is one of the fastest guys in the game. But that in itself is not enough except as a pinch runner.
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I was wondering the same thing. Does he really have the batting skills needed to start in CF on Opening Day, and remain there, ahead of Marlon Byrd? Or is the Cubs' new braintrust putting so much emphasis on defense that he would start on Opening Day on the basis of his D alone?
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I would be very surprised if Campana starts in CF on Opening Day over Byrd. Seems like a huge over-reading of fan reaction to a player on the 2nd day intra-squad games
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It's not just from intra squad games, it is also from watching him last year. I can't imagine him starting over Byrd, either. But I don't think people are really basing anything on a couple days of squad play.
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I would love it if he turns out to be an impact player, but right now he reminds me of Ced Landrum.
In nearly 3,000 PAs in the minors, Ced had a career line of .280/.343/.365, and stole 267 bases while getting caught 77 times.
In 1991, he played in 50 games in the majors with the Cubs and stole 27 bases while only being caught 5 times. But he also had an OPS of just .592. (Campana was 24/26 in SB with an OPS of .603 last year).
Many thought Ced would be the lead-off man of the future for the Cubs and would steal 50-60 bases a year. But Ced only had 20 more big league PAs in his entire career.
There are certainly differences between the two (age for one) but right now Campana has shown he has speed, but beyond that little else offensively. I am hopeful, but not holding my breath.
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Cool info graphic on the value of 200 ip per season starters
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Sorry, was trying to clean up this thread that had my early (and long) posts that lead to the Theo interview on Bruce Levine's show and it seemed to delete 2 related posts from Rob and E-Man. I don't think it took away any of the posts that were related to Arizona Phil's article or other miscellaneous posts (it went from 19 comments to 13 and I think I used 4 on the Theo interview).
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nothing to apologize for, just saying if you're gonna put such effort into a comment, you have the power to make it into a post, especially since it contains a lot of great info.
no worries...
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Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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Ben wrote:Alex123 wrote:The fact is that even the Buddha has experienced dukkha to some degree.
Actually, Alex,its just your interpretation based on selective reading.
How do you explain DN16 talk on Buddha's illness? How do you explain that all saṅkhārā are dukkhā?
Bodily pain is classified as being included in 1st NT of Dukkha.
[a] "Now what is the noble truth of stress? Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unbeloved is stressful; separation from the loved is stressful; not getting what one wants is stressful. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are stressful.
"And what is pain? Whatever is experienced as bodily pain, bodily discomfort, pain or discomfort born of bodily contact, that is called pain.
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An embarrassing first pitch at a Stetson University game is going viral on YouTube after it was posted Wednesday.
John Bledsoe, the executive vice president of insurance services at FHM Insurance Company, got the honor of throwing out the pitch as Stetson hosted Florida State on Tuesday.
He did everything right, including jumping over the first base line and waving to the crowd before the pitch.
But the actual pitch appeared to travel only a few feet in the air before bouncing off the ground and flying off-screen toward the dugout on the first-base line.
Bledsoe rolled off the mound as the crowd let out a yelp in unison.
The video was posted on the official Stetson Hatters YouTube channel.
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William Redington Hewlett
Bill Hewlett was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable men, and one of America's most uncommon. This quiet, self-effacing man, together with his longtime friend and partner, David Packard, changed the world and helped usher in the modern technological age.
Their co-founding of the Hewlett-Packard Company in 1939 (Hewlett won the coin-toss to decide which name would come first and which second in naming the company) was Silicon Valley's defining partnership. It was also the valley's first major start-up company, and one of its most successful, ranking at Hewlett's death as the nation's thirteenth largest business, with annual sales of nearly $50 billion and some ninety thousand employees in 120 countries.
William Redington Hewlett was born 20 May 1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father, a respected physician, served on the faculty of the university's medical school. The family's subsequent move to California when Bill was three years old, occasioned by his father's acceptance of a faculty position at Stanford University, introduced young Bill to the cultural, scientific, and literary world of a dynamic and growing San Francisco Bay Area, anchored on the East Bay by the University of California at Berkeley and on the West Bay by Stanford University, and centered in the vibrant, brash, and whimsical city of San Francisco, where the family lived.
Although the father died suddenly when Bill was twelve, the family rallied. Bill was enrolled in San Francisco's Lowell High School, and life moved on. His high school years were not academically noteworthy, doubtless influenced by the then little noticed and rarely accommodated dyslexia with which he dealt all of his life; but his intellectual curiosity, his incessant "tinkering" as he called it when he sought to understand how things worked, and his sterling character, won the admiration and respect of his high school principal, who encouraged Stanford to take a chance on Bill. Bill was admitted as a freshman in 1930.
Hewlett was fortunate to have studied under and to have been mentored by Frederick Terman, one of Stanford's most famous professors, who was to a great degree responsible for the subsequent development of Silicon Valley.
Upon completing his engineering studies at Stanford in 1934, Hewlett studied at, and earned a master's degree in engineering from, MIT, returning to Stanford in 1936 to continue his graduate studies in engineering. Hewlett and his fellow student and close friend David Packard, with Terman's encouragement, formed the Hewlett-Packard Company in 1939 (its corporate offices and laboratories being located in Packard's garage at home in Palo Alto). With the exception of four years during World War II when he served as an officer in the U.S. Army, Hewlett's professional life was committed to the building of the company.
The year 1939 was also of signal importance in Hewlett's life as he and Flora Lamson, whom he had been courting, married. They had five children and together raised them to adulthood until her untimely death in 1977.
Hewlett-Packard's first commercially viable product, developed in Hewlett's Stanford lab, was the audio oscillator. The Walt Disney Company purchased eight of the first ones for $71.50 each, for use in the 1940 film Fantasia. The product was also of use to medical doctors, hospitals and clinics, geologists, engineers, oil and mining companies, and the military, among others. This device launched Hewlett-Packard, whose products over the next sixty years captured the world's admiration, and transformed the nature and character of technology, including its miniaturization in manufacturing, testing, measurements, copying, scanning, and calculating, and for the most sophisticated technological requirements of medicine, science, research, business, universities, and the military worldwide.
Hewlett and Packard oversaw the company with enviable management, technological, and scientific skills. They also managed the company with a new set of operating principles and with an intensely personal style that came to redefine much of American corporate life and culture, e.g., profit-sharing, employee stock ownership, flexible work hours, and health insurance. What came to be known as the "HP way" marked the company as a special place and made it nearly as famous for this unique business culture as its products later became for the inventive, cutting-edge technology that they consistently represented in the marketplace.
Hewlett regarded his employees as the foundation of Hewlett-Packard's success and worked as comfortably with the most junior members of his engineering staff as he did with the most senior members of his management team. Hewlett never saw his employees as being mere interchangeable parts, nor as expendable; no, they were his partners, colleagues, and friends, and they counted. His fertile imagination and curiosity about how things worked, from childhood on, earned him the title of "true visionary" as he foresaw new answers to old and intractable problems and solutions to what had been unworkable answers. This he did in his notably quiet and unassuming way, and for all these reasons he is both remembered and respected by the tens of thousands of people whose lives he touched in the Hewlett-Packard Company for sixty-two years.
Hewlett was honored for his work both here and abroad by governments, universities, scholarly and scientific societies, trade associations, and all the others whose admiration and respect were expressed almost continuously in recent decades. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan conferred on Hewlett the Presidential Medal of Science, the nation's highest recognition for scientific accomplishment.
Hewlett also served on several presidential commissions during his active years, participated in the affairs of the scholarly and scientific organizations to which he had been elected, and served on numerous boards and committees nationally and in his hometown of Palo Alto, California.
In his personal life, he lived modestly for one of his position, preferring to raise his five children in Palo Alto, to center Hewlett-Packard's corporate interests within the city, and to participate in its civic affairs and in the work of his beloved Stanford. He drove himself to work and occupied the same office (seemingly with the same furniture) for more than forty years, but, rather than work there, preferred to "walk around" the offices and labs to see what was happening and to engage, question, challenge, and encourage those who were doing the company's work.
He was indifferent to the trappings of wealth, but used his to help others and to make good things happen. His wants were remarkably simple and did not seem to be in any way the object of his professional life. He told me once that he did what interested him as an engineer and "the money just happened along."
I recall one conversation involving Bill, his son Walter, and me at his home following a review of our upcoming meeting of his foundation's board. Bill could not shop for a Christmas present for his second wife, Rosemary, owing to an operation from which he was then recovering. He asked Walter to shop for the gift he wanted, a pair of binoculars for Rosie's bird-watching.
He gave Walter a hundred dollars for the purchase. Walter, who knew a great deal about binoculars and optics, suggested that his father might prefer one of the better German or Japanese binoculars that would cost not a hundred dollars but six to eight hundred dollars.
Bill was having none of this, and the matter was "discussed" for some twenty minutes. Finally, in exasperation, Bill said, "Walter, here is two hundred dollars. It is more than enough for a decent pair of binoculars. Please go buy it."
All this after just settling on proposals to spend some $15 million of Bill's money at our next board meeting.
He also loved and valued his friends, one of whom, Professor Herant Katchadourian of Stanford University, recalled the following story at Bill's memorial: "I used to take Bill on long rides, usually to his beloved ranch, and we sometimes stopped at some hole in the wall for a bite to eat. When it came time to pay, I would say, 'Please let me take care of it; I don't think you can afford this place.' He usually let me get away with it with his distinctive twinkle in the eye. But on one occasion, he insisted that he was going to pay the bill himself, and then it turned out that he had no money! I told him, 'What is going to happen to you without friends like me?' 'I don't know,' he said, 'I guess I would be homeless.'"
Many lives were touched by Hewlett through the remarkable scope and scale of his philanthropies. Stanford (his alma mater) and UC Berkeley (his late wife Flora's alma mater) enjoyed his special attention.
These interests extended around the world: to population issues and the status of women, their education, and economic opportunities in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America; to conflict resolution, particularly in eastern and southern Europe, the former republics of the Soviet Union, and the Middle East; to U.S.-Latin American relationships; to the needs of the nation's liberal arts colleges and research universities; to the environment in the western United States; and to the improvement of K-12 education, the performing arts, and the many communities and neighborhoods of the San Francisco Bay Area. He also had a vital interest in his adopted California, and in 1994 founded the Public Policy Institute of California, to be guided by the longtime president of his foundation, Roger Heyns, chancellor emeritus of the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
The range of his philanthropy reflected his lifelong interests in other cultures and societies, in strengthening and improving the quality of life for disadvantaged people living in the Bay Area, in the health of the environment (he was an accomplished botanist and a lifelong climber, hiker, fisherman, hunter, and photographer of California's high and coastal mountains, its wildlands, meadows, forests, rivers, and coastline and of much of the intermountain West as well), in the well-being and vibrancy of the communities and region in which he lived and in which Hewlett-Packard was located, and in music, which he deeply loved.
These philanthropies were accomplished by his personal generosity from funds he set aside, and through the work of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, created in 1966 by Hewlett and his first wife. The foundation now ranks as one of the nation's largest. "Never stifle a generous impulse" was one of his favorite and best-known phrases; as was his custom, he practiced what he taught.
It was my honor to serve as president of his foundation from 1993 to 1999. Never once in those years did he ask me to make a grant or deny one, relying instead on the collective judgment of his independent trustees and the work of his professional staff within the foundation. And while he chaired the board for most of those years, I never once observed him seeking to impose his will or to otherwise stifle or limit discussion. To the contrary, it was he who asked the right questions and left the answering to others. He helped us grow by learning from our mistakes and from the encouragement and confidence we all experienced when things went right.
Bill was not fond of looking backward. Instead, he looked steadily forward, beyond most people's more limited perspectives or the natural limits of their imaginations, searching for the nuances and subtleties of the problems encountered, discovering how, by redefining a problem, the solution was made clearer or even self-evident, challenging when complacency became confused with contentedness, and asking, always asking, if there was not a better way or a more fundamental question to ask. He was a great teacher in this sense, as well as a colleague; and he seemed to derive as much pleasure from the one as from the other.
Bill's character, honesty, generosity, and quiet, self-effacing ways, to his great credit, have come to be as much respected as his company. These personal traits were the markers of one whose life should be a source of inspiration to the young and a cause of admiration and respect for the rest of us. At the Stanford Memorial Church, where the service memorializing his life was held on 20 January 2001, one of his grandchildren's recollections on the printed program read in part:
In the end, his greatest gift to future generations was not the compass he could build with his hands, but his moral compass. Its cardinal points were knowledge, modesty, justice and hard work. His life was guided by what seem to me innate principles of rectitude. He never wavered at home or at work. He was true to himself and an example to us all. It is for this I am most grateful to him.
What an example he was to us all; and so he shall remain.
President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 1993-99
President Emeritus, University of California and University of Utah
From the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 147 [2], June 2003
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"Several years ago, we would have advised shoppers to go the used route in order to save money, but in the current economic state, used car prices have skyrocketed, which could make buying new just as economical," says Patrick Olsen, editor-in-chief of Cars.com.
Experts suggest that the sluggish economy pushed more people out of the new-car market and into the used-car market. This resulted in a strain on used inventories, jacking up prices. Additionally, the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program also removed more than a million used cars from the market.
"It's all about supply and demand," says Olsen. "Low supply means car shoppers can expect to pay a premium for a used car that would usually be affordable, since new cars are so much more plentiful."
While used-car prices have dropped a little in recent months, they remain high compared to historical standards. Aside from looking just at cost, experts like Olsen, say that buying new or used has many different benefits.
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On the contrary, there is a definite case to be made for buying used. "If you aren't married to the idea of buying a new car, used vehicles also offer some great benefits," says Olsen. "The top perk remains affordability. Buying used can often let buyers drive a nicer, more luxurious car than they could afford if buying new." Other benefits of buying used:
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Death Metal is a subgenre of metal featuring talentless guitar, nonexistant bass, a jack hammer in the back ground, and some really drunk guy yelling his head off. People often confuse it with black metal, but there is one difference between them: in death metal you dress vaguely normally, and in black metal looking like a homosexual male stripper is prioriity number one.
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Everyone with sanity: Immortal is Black Metal, you idiot. Go find some music with talent.
de a clever metal fan 27 Martie 2009
An extreme form of heavy metal which contains blast beats, double bass, growling vocals and distorted guitars. Most songs are about the grotesque and darkside of life. While most of these bands claim to have the worlds most talented musicians, they all seem to sound identical.
Hey didn't this song already pass? No, we're already on track #10, but what did you expect? It's Death Metal.
de Anonymous 30 Iulie 2003
a type of music that has really powerful instrument playing, but the singer sounds like he's choking on a horse cock. rap, while the beats are not real, they are pretty good and you can at least understand what the fuck the guy is saying. see: gay, choking on cock, lame,
grrr, i am goth and listen to music that sounds like a horse raping a cow, i cut myself and hate god, i want to be a death metal artist and can't get any girls
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Shitty music. The lowest kind of music there is.
That's right I said it..death metal is shit, faggots.
de nevermindthatnoiseyouheard 27 Martie 2007
Death metal is characterized mostly by absolutely unintelligible vocals - often not even real words - and drummers who only know how to use thier bass pedal.
Cannibal Corpse is a fine example... of the worst music I've heard in my life.
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Fast, heavy metal. But what the fuck is with everyone just mentioning Cannibal Corpse? Come on... what about Darkthrone, Burzum, Behemoth, Gorgoroth. What about the band that made death metal famous Mayhem? Old Man's Child and Children of Bodom? emporer and immortal and celtic frost and BATHORY. at the gates, arch enemy
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Lots of people in South Carolina and across the country are hoping that Congress can get its, um, stuff together and keep Friday's budget cuts from happening.
But it doesn't look good.
This thing hits lots of people, as the accompanying reporting indicates. For instance, civilian Department of Defense employees would be forced to four-day workweeks for about 22 weeks. That's a painful paycheck gut-check.
As bad as that is, there are some who will have it worse. Because when you don't have very much to start with, taking anything away just adds insult to injury.
Jamie Wood, workforce development director for Trident SC Works, said the agency has taken measures to ensure that services aren't affected, like leaving positions vacant and carefully watching its budget.
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He said clients may see longer wait times as more work is divided among fewer staffers. And he urged people to take advantage of online employment services through its SC Works Online Services portal. Those who don't have home Internet service can access the website at the area workforce centers. (That's all they can get at some of the rural workforce centers. See earlier cuts above.)
"Our goal is still to help people get re-employed," he said.
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Fewer seniors will get meals delivered to them, fewer people will get assistance in keeping their lights and heat from getting cut off, and fewer low-income students will get financial aid.
Some folks will see reduced services, and others just won't get helped, period.
Staff at Tell Them, a statewide reproductive health-focused foundation in Columbia, has looked carefully at the cuts, and they don't like what they see.
Federal money to upgrade public health resources, to help respond to a swine flu outbreak, for example, is part of what would be cut, $400,000 worth, program manager Emma Davidson said.
There would be 1,400 fewer admissions to rehab facilities for people with substance-abuse problems, as part of a loss of $1 million in grants.
And two serious issues for our state — HIV testing and domestic-violence assistance — would be affected as well.
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Add to that almost $100,000 in assistance for rape victims that would evaporate. In a state with a well-documented, notorious (in the truest sense) domestic violence problem, that's downright terrifying.
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Wouldn't you just love to wind up a humdrum winter's workday by sipping a beverage, chatting with friends – and listening to an author of a well-known book talk about her work in a casual setting?
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The event featuring McCleary will begin at 5 p.m. and conclude around 6:30, organizers said. It is free and open to everyone.
The goal of the new Larkin Square Author Series is to create a fun place for people to gather after work for a literary-focused event with a casual vibe, said Leslie Zemsky, Larkin's "director of fun."
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McCleary will likely discuss her book "A Simple Thing," which is her second novel. It tells the story of two women, one of them a mother looking to protect her children – from bullying and other things – by removing herself from the craziness of everyday life to a remote island.
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I got a question Thursday from a Juniata County School District coach: Was I aware of any school district that has canceled sports outright, even for a season?
A quick poll of the press box at Altoona's Mansion Park produced a resounding "no." We all knew of schools that consolidated, eliminating all sports in the process, and most of us knew of one or two schools that had ended some sports - usually a smaller school that just didn't have the students to field a team. But the possibility of an entire Pennsylvania school district canceling sports altogether? That was a first.
A call came later in the day from a Juniata parent. What, he asked, would become of the kids who were in the running for college scholarships? What about those who are motivated to stay in school and keep their grades up because of sports - or any extracurricular activity, for that matter?
The quagmire potentially created by the school board's vote that night to cut athletics as a result of a failed vote in favor of a tax referendum two days earlier - making good on its promise or threat, depending on how you look at it - could be a sign of the future for public education statewide. Or it could be the first step toward the demise of public education in Juniata County.
The school board's history of pandering to those who would have no tax increase at any time, for any reason, has come back to bite it - since the state's passage of a cap on tax increases, every dollar not levied has had an impact that reaches far down the road.
Before you get the wrong idea, I'm not suggesting that the school board should raise taxes just because it can, nor blaming voters for turning down a proposal that would have given the board carte blanche to reach into taxpayers' pockets just so there will be football in the fall.
But the board deserves blame for the times it was thinking only in the present, when the writing was already on the wall about the future cost of education - salaries and benefits, transportation, buildings and maintenance, books and computers - that were escalating statewide.
And that's the kicker - this may not be just Juniata County's problem. Districts are expecting that, within two years, the cost of teachers' pensions will represent as much as 20 percent of budgeted salaries, rather than the 5 percent we see today. That, too, will have to be paid for somehow, and in the process will even further reduce the cutting room available in a school budget.
What of the kids who are done playing, if the school board fails to find an alternative before the June 30 budget deadline?
Don't be surprised if nearby schools in Mifflin, Snyder and Perry counties suddenly see a few new faces - and despite transfer rules, I suspect most athletes who change venue will get to play. Those in individual sports - wrestling, tennis and track - can enter unattached as long as the school district agrees to it (presumably with those kids' parents paying the tab in full).
But every kid who leaves costs the district money and worsens the budget impact, as the loss is felt in state funding.
As brought up by at least one parent at Thursday's board meeting, this will have a negative impact on the ability of JCSD kids to get into college, lessening the value of the district's education even further. And as noted, lack of motivation may mean lack of education - a future cost taxpayers may have to bear.
It's the responsibility of the board and administration to make every effort to serve their constituents, which are not the voters or the parents, but are the students placed in their charge every day. There are alternatives, as one taxpayer told the board - while, somewhat selfishly, refusing to document them in detail.
But for sports, we know what they are. It's time to stop supporting two programs. It's time to make athletes and their families share the cost. Even an assessment of each sports program must be made, despite the fact that Juniata County is at a minimum in that department for schools of comparable size.
The school district in Palmerton recently decided to cut a few sports - golf, cross country, wrestling and swimming - and within days the supporters of those teams raised the money to keep them going.
We constantly hear how it's all about the kids. Now is the time to prove it.
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Observations on British and American English
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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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resources on regional accents
So, in the absence of time/presence of mind to write much more, here are some recommendations for resources on regional accents. The British Library has recently unveiled their Sounds Familiar? website. This is a wonderful resource, full of descriptions and recordings of various dialects in the UK.
Looking for something somewhat similar for the US, I found the Varieties of English website at University of Arizona. This covers other Englishes in addition to American--and doesn't cover the whole of America. (For instance, the English of white Arizonans isn't treated at all.) But if you click on 'Southern States' or 'Northeast US', you get some general description and sound samples. A classic (meaning that it already existed when I started teaching) American dialect 'edutainment' is the film American Tongues. If you can find a copy, it's definitely a good one.
If you have other dialect audio-visual resources to recommend, please do so!
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- Elizabeth Martin said...
I have access to the Phonological Atlas of North America through my university library online. I'm not sure how many other universities have it.
- 03 April, 2007 02:37
- jangari said...
I see your digital atlas, Elizabeth, and raise you one, 1943 vintage, Linguistic Atlas of New England, by Hans Kurath, Volume III, Part I, maps 492-602.
I found it when cleaning out what was to become my office. It takes the form of a pile of around 150 A1 size maps of New England, with the various phonetic pronunciations of a single word inscribed on each one.
It's quite incredible.
- 03 April, 2007 03:50
- Ginger Yellow said...
The BBC has a site on UK accents and dialects . For the US, I don't know an audio site, but the Harvard dialect survey map is fascinating.
- 03 April, 2007 10:51
- Ginger Yellow said...
Whoops, I screwed up the tags. Click on "For the US" to get the BBC site and "Harvard dialect survey map" for that.
- 03 April, 2007 10:52
- judyb said...
Here's the Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University:
- 03 April, 2007 15:00
- judyb said...
Oh, and this:
- 03 April, 2007 15:01
International Dialects of English Archive
Seconding the Speech Accent Archive mentioned by JudyB.
- 03 April, 2007 16:43
- dearieme said...
Talking of Jelly, one can get an idea of how New Orleans creoles spoke before WWI by listening to the Library of Congress recordings of the interview with Jelly Roll Morton (done in the late 30s). Of course, his music is rather attractive too.
- 03 April, 2007 18:52
- Paul Danon said...
Super stuff about on regional variations. What is that thing about a language's being a dialect with an army and a navy (also rendered as ״אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט״)?
If I may namedrop, some select chums and colleagues of mine went to Cambridge-university, eastern England, the other week (as you do), to listen to His Supreme Holiness the Dalai/Pope Rt Rev Professor Dr Sir William Labov DD OM DFC and bar. He spoke about inter alia the northern cities shift which is a rotation of five AmE vowels (as well as a popular disco-dance in Cleveland OH). His PowerPoint included a soundclip of someone saying what seemed to be: "We used to have bosses with antennae on top." Visions of something out of Dilbert with management sprouting BrE aerials/AmE antennae. In fact, the research subject (as we linguists so lovingly call the victims of our obtuse investigations) was talking about buses (whose drivers could presumably radio back to the depot with their orders for lunch). That's what happens, I guess, when your vowels start rotating.
There is, IMHO, a lot of bolloques linguistiques spoken about the alleged closeness of Geordie and Norwegian and how, because there is a mere 446 statute miles (count them) between Newcastle upon Tyne and Bergen, the two accents are pretty well mutually comprehensible. Oh yeah? I suppose that means that, just because England and America are across the Atlantic from each other, people from here and there can understand each other. Dream on, sunshine.
(Of course, it is true that cockney-RP speakers like me find Geordie and Norwegian as difficult to understand as each other, but that is another matter probably best discussed offline and not just after the pubs have shut in Gateshead.)
What is spooky, however, is that, in at least one part of the Germanic world, you find that folks on either side of a national border are more likely to understand each other than they might understand their further-flung compatriots. What I'm on about (for those of you still awake and reading) is Plattdüütsch, also known unflatteringly as low German. Imagine you were an Englishman cycling through the eastern Netherlands and then into western Germany. The people alongside the road would largely be using the same lexis, grammar and phonology to swear at you about driving on the wrong side of the road, even though they were citizens of two different countries. An Austrian cyclist coming in the other direction on the German side of the border wouldn't understand what they were shouting at him either as they warned him of this crazy Englishman's approach on an inevitable collision course, even though they were all supposedly German-speakers. Separated by a common language? Separated by a common schmanguage.
By contrast, you just try cycling through the channel tunnel and see if you can understand what the people on the other side of that submarine land-border are saying (which would probably be: "Attention, monsieur. Un train s'approche.").
(Cf. here Dr Strabismus of Utrecht's notable work on the mutual mooability of black and white cattle throughout Dutch, German and Danish Frisia.)
Before the nurse arrives with my next injection, let me reflect on my listening to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent speech to the Teheran women's institute (or whatever it was) during which he announced the safe return of the 15 British servicepersons. It struck me how at least some of his words sounded familiar. Not familiar in the "How are you, me old duck? Have some whelks and jellied eels down the Old Kent Road." sense, you understand, but phonologically. Of course. Silly me. Persian is Indo-European. The bits that sounded otherwise were (according to the rather flummoxed BBC interpreter) where His Presidency was quoting qur'anic Arabic. If only the interpreter had been a Geordie. Her dialect would have been more or less the same as demotic Farsee.
- 05 April, 2007 23:50
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For the first time since 1997, residents of the Village of Lancaster have a choice on their ballots in the village elections.
Rejected by his own party, Trustee Edward M. Marki has formed the Integrity of Choice Party and – with running mate Russell W. Sugg – started making the case that the Citizens Party has had unchallenged power in the village for too long.
"Our goal is to bring transparency. Our goal is to end the back-room deals," Marki said.
Trustee William C. Schroeder and fellow Citizens Party member Jennie E. Smith on Tuesday look to extend their party's long winning streak and contend they've heard few complaints about the management of the village from residents.
"For the most part, they are happy with how things are," Smith said.
The last trustee who didn't belong to the Citizens Party was Joseph E. Dennis Sr., who won a write-in campaign in 2006.
The seats of Schroeder and Marki are up for election Tuesday. Citizens Party members in a November vote endorsed Schroeder for another four years, but they backed Smith instead of Marki for the other seat on the five-member board.
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Sugg said he and Marki view themselves as the underdogs in the race, given the Citizens Party's edge in organization and fundraising.
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The best-known of their opponents is Schroeder, 52, who has served on the Village Board since 2005 and is seeking a third four-year term.
He works as a maintenance mechanic for the Lancaster School District and has an electrical contracting business.
Schroeder said residents are happy with the board's responsiveness and its members' efforts to keep taxes in check, and he dismissed Marki's criticism of the Citizens Party.
"If there was such a machine, and there was such nepotism, Ed was a big part of it," Schroeder said.
Smith, who is 35, is a social welfare examiner for Erie County who served for three years as the village's part-time coordinator of special events. Her contract with the village ended in December, but she has continued to perform those duties as the Village Board seeks her replacement.
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• Trustee Dawn M. Robinson, who was named to fill Maute's seat and is running for the last two years of his term.
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The Planning Commission is scheduled to meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday in council chambers at city hall to address the request to rezone 6.9 plus acres from C-2 General Commercial to RA Multiple Family for the NRP Group for the proposed Salem Garden Apartments. The other 60.80 plus acres of the parcel are already zoned RA.
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Husband: "Do you know where the green man from Candy Land is?"
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At gymnastics recently, I was talking to another mom whose best friend has a perfectly clean house and four kids. But we both know how she does it: the devil box.
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My husband is a long-term thinker, while I'm a short-term sort of gal. Given a spare quiet moment, my husband is researching retirement options, while I am packing lunches and folding laundry. In order for our family to operate and function to its best potential, both the short- and long-term goals have to get met, but how we go about them is just different.
These days, the world is full of opportunities to fulfill our instant gratification needs. Drive-through windows, downloadable books and text messages are just a few examples.
Recently, I ordered a winter coat for my sprouting daughter from a website. The coat actually took three weeks to arrive. Three weeks. I was appalled. Luckily, I ordered it in August, so it wasn't a problem.
I'm not sure long-haul goals are as valued as they once were. But every day I try to challenge myself to have priorities that reach beyond instant gratification.
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