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UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS and More!
New Website coming soon! - Stay tuned!!
TRUST was mailed to our campaign supporters and we've received the sweetest, most encouraging feedback and are looking forward to sharing the music with you all. It is currently available directly through us and It will soon be available for download and purchase on iTunes and CD Baby.
NOVEMBER > Exciting News! FLORIDA in January!
We're excited to share that we have been selected to participate in the 2015 South Florida Singer-Songwriter Competition this coming January! Yippee!
OCTOBER > On the radio this month Coast to Coast! California to New York
Thank you KFOG and WFUV !
Tunes from our CD, "MY FRIEND HAFIZ" have been spinning on KFOG's Acoustic Sunrise and Acoustic Sunset (Thanks DJ Rosalie Howarth! - CA) AND on WFUV's Sunday Morning Breakfast (Thanks DJ John Platt! - NY ) Woo-hoo!
OUR UPCOMING RELEASE! - TRUST - : For all the TRUST funders, fans and followers… We are nearly a go! It's the REAL, initial "CD release" -When we decide its done and let it go…into the world. Which is nearly now. Hmmm…. "nearly now" - a new phrase of anticipation. Maybe we'll coin that phrase. Or write a song. Either way, we think it means…soon. very soon.
SEPTEMBER > The Levins & Sweet Can Productions Present: My Friend Hafiz
(**UPDATE** - It was a SUCCESS! Promo video coming soon, check out photos on our Facebook page and we'll keep you posted!
It's a concert, it's a circus, it's an inspiration. My Friend Hafiz, the album created by The Levins World Folk Ensemble, stands alone as a piece of art, and when you add the circus stylings of Sweet Can Productions, you know you're in for a one-of-a-kind experience guaranteed to uplift your soul!
Weaving the wisdom of beloved Persian poet Hafiz into their "rich tapestry of unique harmonies", award-winning songwriters, The Levins, create an incredible backdrop for the breathtaking beauty of Sweet Can. Wonder at aerialists, be dazzled by acrobats and laugh with the clowns. It's a delight for all of your senses! Here for one weekend only! Come and set your spirit free!
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco (across from 24th St. BART)
September 19 @ 8 PM
September 20 @ 4 PM and 8 PM
September 21 @ 4 PM and 7 PM
Tix $20 - $65
Go to this link! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/795087
We successfully funded our campaing in support of our upcoming CD - TRUST. Our IndieGoGo campaign was successful in ways we couldn't have imagined. 102% funded and nearly 200 supporters…but beyond the statistics, we have new fans, a closer connection to our contributors and community and a solid foundation that offers encouragement and forward movement.
It was humbling, honoring, helpful and happy. We are forever grateful for the trust that all the contributors and "share-ers" had during this process. Thank you thank you thank you….
OUR NEW ALBUM - TRUST - will be pre-released in time for the winter holidays.
It's a TRUST FUND raiser! Click Here to watch, contribute, explore, share….
We are excited to announce that we are starting to record our new CD, Trust! A heartfelt follow up to My Friend Hafiz, the songs strike a universal chord that is inclusive and focuses on what we share as people on this planet. We believe in this music. We believe each song offers strength, introspection and encouragement without pushing an agenda, religion or dogma. We simply celebrate the peace that comes from being in motion and remaining open to life.
Watch The Levins' IndieGoGo Video!
By contributing to Our IndieGoGo campaign, you will be doing much more than aiding in completing the recording, packaging, replication, and distribution. We will be making an album TOGETHER and we hope that the ripple we make will spread out concentrically until people are able to smile, despite the weather or nightly news! Join Team Levin! YAY!!
NEW PERKS & VIDEOS- Less than 14 hours to go!!
The Levins' 12th Anniversary: Love Song
The Levins in Iowa: Dream Unspoken video
Great News!
We're excited to announce that we've been selected to perform at The Falcon Ridge Music Festival Emerging Artist Showcase !! It's a huge honor to be selected and we are excited and grateful to be in such good company. It's a beautiful weekend of memorable music that soars in the starry night. Get your tickets and come set up camp near us! http://falconridgefolk.com Aug.1-3, 2014
We had a great time opening for Vance Gilbert earlier this month at The Loft at UCPAC. Thanks to Split-Level Concert Series for having us!
Coming up this SUMMER!
FRIDAY, APRIL 4th - NJ Folk Project:The Minstrel Acoustic Concert Series- 8 pm
We're honored to open for Jack Williams this Friday night at New Jersey's premier Folk Music organization!
Morristown Unitarian Fellowship
21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, New Jersey
We're excited to have been awarded an OFFICIAL SHOWCASE at the NERFA (North East Regional Folk Alliance) 1 Day Conference on Saturday April 5th. It takes place at Sanctuary Concerts, 240 Southern Blvd, Chatham, NJ. The Showcase is open to the public and tickets are $10.00 at the door. Starting time is 4 pm with 10 artists performing. More information: www.nerfa.org
And so it begins! We had our first night at Mark Dann Studios with Aharon Wheels Bolsta, our tabla player from the west coast who dropped by NYC. It's fun to put on the producer hat to tie together what we loved from our last album into this recording, all while moving forward with new music, sounds and energy.
We've been playing out and about, preparing these new tunes and we'll share them on our upcoming shows.
We'll be in New York City, New Haven, Connecticut and back to the Hudson Valley, west side of the river in Piermont, NY in between recording sessions. SEE below and see you out there!
MARCH 9 - GREAT NECK PARK DISTRICT, SUNDAYS at 3, NJ
MARCH 9 - ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL / stage 1 / 7 pm / NYC
MARCH 22 - NEW HAVEN FOLK CONSORTIUM, New Haven, NY
MARCH 29 - THE TURNING POINT with Loretta Hagen, PIERMONT, NY
Thanks for tuning in! xoxo Julia and Ira
It's been a chilly but charming start to the new year. We are playing fun shows this month starting with opening for Cheryl Wheeler at Iron Horse Music Hall in Massachusetts and playing a concert with Josh Joffen at the Songbox Music Series on Long Island. We continue to craft our upcoming CD, prepare for our next recording and we've been out testing a few new tunes during random sets over the past few weeks. Found some keepers - Very Exciting!
"My Friend Hafiz" TOPS the list of 2013 favorites!
We were delighted to find that our 2013
CD release, My Friend Hafiz, was listed as a 2013 favorite of both John Platt of 90.7 WFUV.org Sunday Breakfast program and Joe Pszonek of WMSC 90.3, Radio Nowhere.
Both lists are filled with wonderful musicians to explore and support. (See the lists at the links below!) These DJS and their programs are essential and provide such a sweet service to so many musicians and listeners, alike.
THANK YOU for your continued support to independent artists!
We wish you well, worlds of delights and discoveries; a wondrous blank page that begins now...
A couple of quotes that are inspiring us as the new year begins...
"We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral: we have already climbed many steps." Hermann Hesse
and loving this quote by Neil Gaiman...
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life."
DEC 2013 updates....
We are lighting the halls with good humor and cheer this season and getting the chance to share music in New York and Florida before the New Year begins. We hope your spirits continue to shine bright regardless of your reserve. We have lots of wonderful happenings happening in 2014 that keep our fire lit throughout the winter. Meanwhile, we hope to see your cheery faces at one of our shows below. Further details are connected to our calendar up top to the right.
Many many blessings and continued peace to you and yours.
ON YOUR RADAR with John Platt: WFUV -
We had a great time at the Rockwood Music Hall in NYC: WFUV's ON YOUR RADAR with John Platt featuring Melissa Greener, Moors and McCumber and The Levins! 196 Allen St. NYC
Pumpkins, painted mountainsides and leaves starting to shower down- LOVE Autumn!
It's been a great season so far playing with fabulous musicians such asJoe Crookston, Josh Joffen and Arlon Bennett. We just returned from a road trip where we got to play with the sweet and powerful Chana Rothman and the amazing Victoria Vox. We are looking forward to sharing shows and showcases over the next couple of weeks with the beloved Hannah and Maggie, The Boxcar Lilies, Melissa Greener and Moors and McCumber.
ALL great musicians worth taking the time to check out!
North Eastern Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) was an amazing experience Friday Night (November 8th)
We had a beautiful time at the Acoustic Music Scene showcase with Hannah & Maggie and the Lords of Liechtenstein and at the People's Music Network showcase.
And on
Saturday (November 9th)
at Arlon Bennet's Mind Healing Songs from the Heart,
Susie's House Concert with the Boxcar Lilies, who made us cry with their harmonies on Act Great,
Richard Cuccaro's Acoustic Live in NYC & Beyond and at the Pie & Whiskey showcase where we broke into utter chicanery.
Sunday Morning
We were interviewed along with Melissa Greener on John Platt's Sunday Breakfast! *
(*- Click the link to hear the interview and 2 songs live.)
Join us at Rockland Music Hall in NYC- Nov. 12th for On Your Radar with John Platt,
Montvale Free Public Library- Nov. 14th and up in Kingston ASK for Music series- Nov. 15th.
It's a lot. A lot of fun, a lot to be thankful for...
Check the dates and join us if you can.
We hope this finds you being festive and drinking in the scenery
which serves as the proverbial red carpet as we embark on a season of celebrations
Visit Calendar for full details and more dates!
A BIG THANK YOU TO the DJ's we've recently met - Thanks for the interviews and spending time with us. Podcasts of our interviews are linked below. Please visit and LIKE their pages. This is a labor of love and the music continues because of the their passion for good music to be heard.
Kathy Millar / 100.7 WHUD FM : for featuring us on the Hudson Valley Spotlight
Jon Stein / WTBQ 93.5 / for having us on the Hootenany Mini Concert
Joltin' Joe / WMSC 90.3 FM : for having us on Radio Nowhere
Hello Fabulous People!
The heat has so far stopped us from very little (only one gig was canceled) and we have been enjoying the outdoors, meeting new folks and "summer-celebrating" with community. It continues in the upcoming Huntington Folk Festival, Borderline Picnic, Hudson Music Festival and more...but I'm not ashamed to say, we've been enjoying writing new tunes indoors with the air conditioner working overtime.
We spent the end of June at Kamp Kace (Kids Against Cancer Everywhere) in Minnesota and, before we left, we had a blast sharing a show with Twangtown Paramours in conjunction with the Huntington Folk Society, a wonderfully supportive organization and community that presents acoustic and folk music events on Long Island.
A big thank you to Patricia at Riverstone Yoga in Tarrytown for providing such a sweet venue for our concert. We performed our latest release "My Friend Hafiz in its entirety and left with such a natural high. We were joined by special guests, Mark Dann on bass and Natalia Perlaza on percussion. They added so much and we loved getting the opportunity to play with such fine musicians. It's fair to say, we've found our band.
It was an honor to be the inaugural entertainment at the new River Spirit Music series of "Music in the Castle" at Whitby Castle in Rye, NY and we've started jumping into our summer family shows at libraries of Rye, Liberty, and Ardsley and Flower Power Family Day at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown, NJ.
It's a good summer. A really good summer. Whether we are playing live or hearing that our music is continuing to get airplay, we are enjoying every minute, despite the heat.
Lots of fun ahead...Check our calendar and come say hello!
"The Levins harmonies are equisite and the music is rife with subtlety and nuance.
The blending of their music and the poetry/lyrics is stunningly realized.
I was blown away with the unforced power of this recording."
DJ, John Hammel / The Mozart to Motorhead Show on HomegrownRadioNJ.com
MY FRIEND HAFIZ charted #17 on the Folk DJ Radio Chart in March! And...
The Levins were #25 on the list of top artists! woo-hoo! Out of over 13,000 plays and 146 DJ lists, we were #25.
It's very exciting to us to have these songs based on the poetry of Hafiz (as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky) on the airwaves across the world. The Netherlands, New Zealand, Israel, England, Germany, Canada and of course, across the nation.
We are grateful to all the DJ's who have been spinning Hafiz tracks including :
Taylor Caffery (WRKF-FM/ NPR, Baton Rouge, LA), John Platt (WFUV-FM, NYC), Allan Nelson (BBC, U.K.),
Peter van Zeijl (Dollard Radio-FM, The Netherlands) , Menachem Vinegrad (Upper Galilee-FM, Israel),
Mark Michaelis (WGDR-FM, VT), Laurie DesJardins (KVMR-FM, CA), Julie Miller CFLX, Canada, Bill Hahn, ( WFDU-FM, NJ)
John McLaughlin (WMUC-FM, MD) and the list goes on...
Our first new review by journalist/writer, Tim Carroll of www.FolkWords.com says...
"They thread their musical tales through beautifully fused, engaging harmonies and an enticing melange of ancient and modern instruments to lead the listener down vaguely remembered dreamlike paths that alternate between long-ago shadows to manifestations of the present."
"This album encourages references to an elusive folk-rock acoustic mix that flourished when the world was younger and life pledged a hopeful simplicity – and that's where this music leads. Those of us that recall that anticipatory assurance will welcome its return with 'My Friend Hafiz'."
Thanks Tim! Read the full review HERE!
"This is one of those cd's that creeps up on you (at least me!) and these are the kinds of releases that often become a favorite of mine.... with new tracks connecting with you on each new listen."
-Mark Michaelis (WGDR-FM, VT)
"Sensational work guys..the lyrics here are just brilliant..and when those voices work together, with the simple, uncluttered arrangements, like on "lines in the land", it's just beautiful." -Mike White Presents London, UK
A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES DICKENS: New Video / Song:
"Raise Your Glass to Charles Dickens!"
7 Dickens Novels in under 7 minutes summarized in song by The Levins! Huzzah!
See the stop action animation video here or above.
Share it with your friends!
Raise Your Glass to Charles Dickens- Extra Extras!! :
Interested in playing the song? Lead sheet, guitar chords, lyrics and more!
We were grateful to be the featured artist in the October issue of Acoustic Live in NYC and Beyond!
Richard Cuccaro is an insightful writer (we think so! ) and his newsletter is a sought-after resource for musicians and music enthusiasts in the Northeast. A part of the fast-folk movement in NYC, Richard has been contributing to and upholding the integrity and forward movement ever since. We are honored by his support and encouragement.
"there is no confusion, especially regarding talent once Ira and Julia Levin start to sing. A configuration of harmony and melody lights up the area. Their voices fit together like water and ice, heat and steam. Something joyful explodes inside the listener's chest like a Roman candle. Their effect may, in fact, begin before they start to play. Even at first glance, Ira and Julia seem to radiate a positive energy. That 'look' always keeps its promise. " www.acousticlive.com LINK TO Full article here....
We had a wonderful time this weekend at NERFA. The Java Love Midnight Cafe was a huge success and provided many bright moments with some dazzling performances, rich coffee and lots of comradery. There was a tapestry of talent and mastery upholding creativity and unique expression at all hours of the day and night. Our thanks to Java Love Coffee Roasters, all the great musicians and promoters and organizers who make NERFA such an amazing event!
I'm a bright summer day with the colors of fall... I'm all things at once and I'm nothing at all. "Barely Contained", The Levins
We are Barely Contained...and we are stretching out each moment to harvest a little timeless joy. We've had a sweet summer performing at festivals and camps, concerts and coffee houses, wineries and listening rooms. As we watch the sunflowers and peaches wane and cattails and apples surface, we prepare for fall and winter.
We're looking ahead to great shows at Applefest in Warwick and WhereforeArts Listening Room and live webcast. All while jumping aboard the NERFA train and preparing for Fall shows and planning a midwest musical jaunt to Iowa in November.
It's been exciting working with Mark Dann on the final recording / mixing of our upcoming re-release of My Friend Hafiz. The energy of the new tunes keep us awake as they dance in our heads at night. Look for an early 2013 release with pre-release for holiday gift options! ( just thinking ahead : )
We are grateful you are visiting us here...seeing what we are up to. Facebook Likes are still a big important plus in the eyes of the industry, so LIKE us, share the music...it's a the same vibe, whether folk, folk pop or world folk...the thread is all the same. Uplift and connect, uplift and connect....
That's what your visit does for us. See you out there!!
Celebrating ten years of marriage...and two years of doing music together full time.
We are really grateful for this, for each other and for your support along the way.
We were honored to be interviewed and play on Be The Change Radio WVKR - FM (March 28th). We were fortunate enough to have radio hosts, Amy and Julie, in our audience last month and afterwards they invited us to be on their ongoing radio show on Vassar College independent radio station. Amy and Julie are beautiful people who really are making a difference with their show which will be on the air four years in May. Our show will be archived soon at http://www.bethechangeradio.org Visit http://www.wvkr.org/ - there are some great shows before and after theirs as well!
We are proud to have just finished helping a dear friend celebrate the release of her children's book "My Mama Earth" by creating a video representing the author and illustrator as presented by Barefoot Books Plublishers. Julia's vocals present the inspiring words of Susan B. Katz to a traditional melody over the soothing illustrations of Melissa Launay. A great gift for Mother's Day or Earth Day. Visit the video here!
Thanks for visiting YouTube and watching our Cereal Days video. We are currently working on two separate recording projects but couldn't help but let Cereal Days come through, just for fun. ( okay..or a future recording project currently dubbed "Sidetracked" that will feature our novelty songs.) Download the single below for that sugar high without the calories. And stays tuned for upcoming releases. <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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Mark Dann: Bass, electric guitar, drums, tambourine
Video Created and edited by: Ira and Julia
Special Guests: Coventry-Kaluza and Sweet Mary the Cat
Thanks to Sonny Rock for spinning The Levins on WRIP 97.9 FM Local Licks Radio Show Valentine's Day. Here's a link to WRIP: http://wrip979.com/stream.html
We've been busy with a variety of special projects which we are looking forward to sharing with you soon, so stay tuned. Check our calendar. We're excited to play new and familiar venues...Hudson Valley, Long Island, Connecticut....if they are near you, we'd love to see you!
Thanks for listening...and for all of your support. It means SO much to us.
Thank you...Julia and Ira
NEWS from THE LEVINS : 2012 - A New Happy Year...with much NEW-ness
The calendar is filling in as we prospect and submit and reach out and sing out...and we are grateful. We've started meeting with potential producers and those in artist development as we move forward towards our next full length CD. We've been taking the time to toy around with the new tunes, so that when everything lines up, our music is ready and so are we. We're having a blast, continuing to write and we'll keep you posted!
We're looking forward to a great weekend back at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa. This time for LIMMUD NY 2012 ! It's not only an amazing opportunity to perform, but we"ll get a chance to learn from and see some of the best, most provacative and inspiring Jewish educators and artists in the area. In addition to our main concert, we are presenting a family music concert ( special guest- the Sephardic Rubber Chicken of Freedom ), two special singing storytelling sessions, co-leading services and performing in the final gala event. In between, we'll be attending all the sessions, as we learned last year in England, its all too good to miss! Visit www.LimmudNY.org for more details or www.thelevinsruach.com to find out more about bringing The Levins to your community.
Thanks for visiting and Keeping Up with The Levins! ( not as crazy as the Kardashians, but you feel much much cleaner )
NEWS from THE LEVINS : WINTER 2011- 2012 : A Season of Conferences and Concerts
Still inspired from NERFA and newly energized by Boston Limmud, we are looking forward to URJ Biennial, Washington D.C., New York Limmud.
Before then, we get the honor to be a part of the esteemed John Street Jam in Saugerties, NY as well as take part in Wintermezzo in Peekskill,NY - all with other fabulous musicians.
All details are below and we hope to see you there!
Thank You Boston Limmud! www.Limmudboston.org
We had a great time Boston! It was wonderful sharing the afternoon concert with Shoshana Jedwab and joining the evening concert with Kol b'Seder, Sue Horowitz, Arnie Davidson, and Josh Nelson. Thanks for having us and great job to all those behind the scenes!
John Street Jam : December 10th, 2011 www.johnstreetjam.net
John Street Jam: December 10th : Saugerties, NY
A great Hudson Valley showcase of talent in an intimate setting.
Additional performers: Marc von Em, Melinda DiMaio, T-Jay, Jeff Entin and Bob Blum, Kama Linden , Stuart kabak, Jean Bratman.
Admission is $5. Doors open at 6:45, music 7:30 – 9:30. Refreshments available.
Located in the Dutch Arms Chapel near Main Street
'Wintermezzo' : December 12th : Songs of Seasonal Celebration
Host JAMES DURST welcomes an eclectic array of musical guests to celebrate the spirit of the season with songs both original and gathered from around the world. JAMES DURST, The YAYAS, FRED GILLEN JR., THE LEVINS, JULIE ZIAVRAS, DAVID GOLDMAN - $10 door/ $8 advanced/ $5 –tribes hill members
URJ BIENNIAL : December 14th -17th , 2011
The Levins perform 3:00 pm : URJ Transcontinental Stage and Friday morning with ShirLaLa. FYI -Just confirmed – President Obama is a confirmed guest speaker at the conference- very exciting!
New York Limmud : January 14th-16th, 2012 www.LimmudNY.org
The Levins will be performing on a variety of stages. Main event concert, family concert, and singing-story-telling sessions. More details and times TBA ... Stay tuned!
A big thank you CT Folk! - it was a beautiful festival and music, environment, education...a great feast for all senses and sensibilities! It was an honor to open the evening stage for The Nields, Vance Gilbert and Leo Kottke and we are grateful to all the judges and those that helped to organize and coordinate the contest and event. www.ctfolk.com
It's been great getting to know our music and music industry communities of New York and New Jersey...and feeling welcome. We've been playing in the Catskills, Hudson Valley, and northern NJ. Festivals, listening rooms, showcases and cafes, wineries and farms. We camped at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival playing the AcousticLive.com performance showcase and evening song circles. We heard great local artists such as Spuyten Duyvil, the Ya-Ya's, Marci Gellar, Red Molly and Gandolf Murphy and truly enjoyed hearing Susan Werner (and her amazing percussionist/harmonica player) whom we've seen in CA, IA and now NY. Unbelievable talent... We played the AcousticLive.com showcase at the Huntington Folk Festival on Long Island last weekend and also got to be a part of the Solid Citizens performances, keeping the old folk sing-al &l t; script src="/plugins/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/langs/en.js" type="text/javascript"> ongs alive.
A Summer like no other....
Travelling to sing f or sweet Camp Kace in Fargo, ND/MN and Camp GetaWella in Philadelphia PA were summer highlights. In PA, the Ryan Seacrest Foundation has incorporated live studio/radio stations in children's hospitals across the nation called The Voice and we had fun performing live in studio which is broadcast throughout the hospital. Kids could call in and make requests and ask questions. It's truly an amazing vision and gift he has offered to so many in need of connection.
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Instructing in the '90s |
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Flight Instructing in the Bay Area |
Lessons in a Cessna |
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Can anyone give me some advice on the cost associated with converting a fridge to a kegorator? i only want three taps on it, i love to brew but the bottling part gets a little tedious! i'd much rather siphon it all into a keg and be done with it!
Primary-Hibiscus porter Secondary-Empty Bottled-RedHook IPA, ONO Hefeweizen, Germen Pils, BlueBerry Ale, Hawaiiian Summer Ale, Honey Wheat, Hibiscus Wheat, Wheat Bock Drinking-Longhammer IPA, Dead Guy Ale
Well I think we will need some more info on what you want or have to work with. If you have nothing and just want to run shanks through a cheap craigslist refrigerator, I would say you are looking at a couple hundred bucks for all the taps, hoses, fittings, and C02 tank for a keg fridge.
i have nothing!
Get a package deal for the tank, lines, and a corney keg, I saved money that way. Then, go and buy several more corney kegs and extra hosing they are really handy! You'll love kegging. $200 minimum setup sounds about right.
Ok so assuming you are looking to get a fridge built as cheap as possible. Around here it's not too hard to get an old fridge from Craigslist for very little if not free. Then after that you will of course need some kegs. There are about 3 different people right here on HBT that you can get a good deal on those from. You will be looking at about $100-$120 for 4 kegs depending on shipping. Around $75 for a full CO2 bottle and another maybe $150 for all the fittings, regulator, taps, shanks, and hoses. So I would budget around $300-$400 for a whole 3 tap setup and hope you can find a good deal on a used fridge.
You can get good deals on Corny Kegs at chicompany.net. They sell them in 4 packs which are $87 right now. They've got every part you could possibly imagine as well. Not sure how their prices compare for taps/hardware.


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- Posted by formandfoliage 9b (Sunset zone 15) (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 14 at 11:15
With that small amount of info I have no idea what did happen, but it could happen. All you need to do is get your shirt sleeve caught in a chipper of that size and it could drag you all the way through. Every few years you hear horror stories of people getting 'processed' in farm equipment (a kid got stuck in a baling machine here a while back). They are industrial-strength machines and don't need to have the material fed into them - they pull it right along. (unlike the small chipper at the end of 'Fargo'!) Sara |
If the input chute will accommodate a human body, it could probably process it with little to no difficulty. If the chute couldn't, it would just pull the body in and chew it up piece by piece. I worked in an agricultural capacity for the last quarter century. Workmens comp rates for us were astronomical and there were some very stringent regulations about using help who were not legally adults. Does that tell you anything about the machinery we use? |
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- Posted by mikebotann 8a SE of Seattle (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 3:20
I have fed a lot of branches into chippers. Most have safety features such as a two short lengths of cable you can grab to stop the intake rotors. A large branch can have a side branch that can push you in as the whole branch is drawn into the machine. Or a branch can snag your clothing and pull you in. It's damn dangerous, and you gotta be careful, or you'll end up looking like a bunch of Pringles. Mike |
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That is unfortunate. It doesn't take much to get caught into the machine such as accidentally tripping over the branch... Maybe this worker was working all day and was tired... |
- Posted by ilovemytrees 5b/6a Western, NY (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 9:11
Thanks, everyone, for responding. I've never been around a wood chipper before, so I naively figured that there were safety measures in place that would 100% prevent a human body from being chopped into pellets. I cant imagine the horror for the victim and for his family. |
- Posted by lazygardens PhxAZ%3A Sunset 13 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 9:18
You have to be careful around the big chippers, because the tree moves in really FAST and the chute is big enough to take in a human body (mangling it badly, but bodies are squishable). When an arborist was removing a cluster of huge pines for our neighbor, the two guys feeding the chipper had safety harnesses limiting how close they could get to the input area, and were wearing snug sweatshirt type tops and no belts or suspenders. They could get close enough to easily start the trunk into the chute, but no closer. Everybody else piled the branches and stayed away. |
Sounds like an episode of Criminal minds I saw recently. But seriously, I have a chipper that takes in 3" branches, it is the one with 4 wheels, you can pull with a tractor and it gets quite violent and fast with the branches, I can imagine a industrial one. |
But then again, who knows. It just may be foul play. Maybe they can get a tox screen if they can find enough of the guy/gal. I would think you would be dead or out cold to let that happen by another persons hand. Yeah, nothing is left, probably. |
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M. Ig Nobel fun for comb-over heir By Rich McKay
ORLANDO, Fla. Perched on a white cloud somewhere in the great beyond, Frank Jackson Smith, a balding and wisecracking failed inventor, must be laughing at himself. A patented comb-over hairstyle of his that never earned a penny during his lifetime finally got recognized albeit with a wink and a jab rather than laurels and cash. Smith's son and co-inventor, Donald Jackson Smith of Orlando, Fla., says, his "Pappy," once a Virginia hobo who rode the rails during the Great Depression, would have laughed "until his eyes leaked." The father-and-son team received an Ig Nobel prize, awarded for dubious achievements in science, Sept. 30 at Harvard University. Other winners delved into such useful topics as whether herrings communicate through flatulence, and whether the five-second rule for eating dropped food is valid. The invention came about in 1977 as all Smith father-and-son ideas did: over a jug of homemade wine sipped at the supper table. "He was pretty bald, so I was poking at him some," said Donald Smith, 66, a retired Orlando police officer with plenty of hair. "I suggested he let it grow long on all the sides and back, and then pile it all on." From that remark, Frank Smith cooked up a method for partially bald men like himself to divide their remaining hair into three sections, grow it to different lengths and bring it all together on top like a thatched roof. "He went to a lawyer, and if it don't beat all he got a ... patent," the son said. "Well, here it is," he said, pulling out the yellowing U.S. Patent No. 4,022,227 issued in May 1977 to both Frank and Donald Smith. "It was never worth a ... cent for the paper he wrote it on."
But not listed in the patent was Frank Smith's plan to then create a spray-on hair tonic for men that would hold it all in place.
The elder Smith worked on the hairspray off and on for years, practicing on his own balding head, except for times his wife got mad and hid his hair elixir. "He folded his hair this way and that and got it looking pretty good," his son said. Frank Smith died in 1985 at age 74. "I like the idea of my father getting some recognition after all this time," Donald Smith said. The Smiths' fame won't end in a few newspaper articles. The comb-over patent is featured in the upcoming "Combover: The Movie." It is a humorous 84-minute documentary by Colorado director Chris Marino, being submitted to the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the hallmark for independent films. Marino and his team crisscrossed the country in search of the best and worst comb-overs. Along with an interview of Donald Smith, the film includes a forensic breakdown of the infamous comb-over worn by business mogul Donald Trump. Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company
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Long tall petioles on those plants. Good show there! Cannot beat that for a quick turn-around on your order either....which is why I'm thinking if it is in stock this fall, I'd rather go ahead and get hosta now than wait for the weather to break in the spring--we can start planting in March and by May, when northern nurseries are ready to ship, it is almost too hot to ship without injury. Almost. Those I plant this fall will be big and lush by May and 2 months ahead of any new arrivals. So yeah, you did good getting them now. |
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hey viv .. the issue in your zone.. is winter/spring HEAVE ... insure they do not pop out of the ground in the freeze/thaw cycles of spring ... nothing like seeing those GIANT eyes/pips .. next years plant ... i dont know what scares me more.. your shopping at 3am.. or him replying a few hours later.. lol ... ken |
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September is my favorite time for planting, dividing and moving things around. Did a lot of that yesterday, and planting 7 new hecucheras ordered form Ilovehostas.net. Overall I find it less work to have the plants in the ground now and then settle in for the winter. I travel a lot during the late spring and summer months and so will have limited time to take care of newly planted hostas, etc. My challenge is that I have limited shade areas. So with my newly developed "love" for hostas and heucheras, I am putting them where they still get a significant amount of sun (afternoon sun also). So watering can become an issue. Good advice, as always. I buried them a little deep and will aplly some extra mulch so they do not pop out too early next spring. This past spring was pretty tough and I lost a couple asiatic lillies due to the early warm up and frost. So I will be extra helpful. Vivian |
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Reining in a diverse industry under one set of quality standards is a major goal of the new Chilean Kiwifruit Committee, which was formed with the assistance and support of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Chilean Exporters Association (ASOEX) and the Chilean Fruit Growers Federation (Fedefruta).
Ronald Bown, chairman of ASOEX, cited a need for cohesion in Chile's kiwifruit industry is longstanding and the foundation of the group.
"The Chileans have made a substantial commitment to kiwifruit," said Tom Tjerandsen, managing director for North America for the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, Sonoma, Calif.
Tjerandsen said more than 80% of Chilean exporters are members of the new committee.
"The reason for forming this is that they recognize to be successful and grow the kiwi market in North America, they have to have a very competitive product so that working internally to establishing rigorous standards to ensure only thee best product arrives at our shores," Tjerandsen said.
Chile is just completing its first season with the committee in place, and overall, everything went smoothly, Tjerandsen said.
"It worked fine," he said. "You always wonder if the standards that have been established are going to be recognized and adhered to and that has been the case. That was encouraging. All these standards and requirements that exceed the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) regulations are voluntary. That is something that they needed to carefully monitor."
Much of the committee's mission is centered on the maturity of the fruit before it is harvested, Tjerandsen said.
"The spotlight has been focused particularly on early season fruit, which has been the most problematic," he said. "The growers everywhere take a look at prices and window of opportunity and take advantage of those prices. The Chilean growers waited this year to ensure sufficient quality to enhance the reputation for Chile's fruit to export."
The most daunting hurdle in any such concept is attaining universal participation, Tjerandsen said.
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Clements Jr., Ernest Vinton "Vint" September 18, 1921 - March 18, 2013. Ernest V. Clements, Jr. "Vint" passed away from complications of congestive heart failure at the age of 91 in Oakmont, PA near Pittsburgh. Vint lived a long and interesting life having been born in Sialkot, Pakistan to missionary parents. He grew up in India and Pakistan attending Woodstock School in the Himalaya Mountains with his older brothers, Jim and Glenn, until he reached high-school age when he returned to the U.S. for good to New Wilmington, PA. He enrolled at Westminster College where he captained the cross-country track team and met his future bride, Carolyn Downs (Jackie). WWII intervened and after marrying Jackie and receiving extensive training in the Signal Corp and the German language, he shipped out to the European theater. Vint worked as a translator and radioman as the 3rd Army moved through France and Germany, and fought in several battles, most notably the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he took up graduate studies in English Literature under the G.I. Bill at the University of Chicago. He went on to teach English at Wright Jr. College in Chicago, rising up the ranks of the administration to become President of that college. His combined service of 37 years at Wright and also as the founding president of the Loop Branch City College (now the Harold Washington Community college) makes him one of the longest tenured college presidents in the history of Illinois. Vint lived with his family on Indian Road in Glenview, Illinois north of Chicago for over 40 years when age and health concerns forced him and Jackie to move to The Glen. Following Jackie's passing in April 2005, he moved to the retirement community at Longwood near Pittsburgh, PA, the ancestral family home town. Throughout his life, Vint remained active in the Church, primarily the Glenview Community Church, and retained his deep knowledge of the bible from his childhood days in India. Vint was an intellectual and scholar who loved language. He was never far from a crossword puzzle and was brilliant at their solutions. He loved tennis and sailing, playing the former with his wife and sons into his 70's, and sailing his Sunfish on Lake Michigan into his 80's. We remember him as a family man of integrity and dry, often ribald wit, humility, generosity and calm energy. Vint is survived by his sons, Ernest V. Clements III (Chip) of Los Angeles and Wallace G. Clements (Wally) of Pittsburgh; their wives, Lois Fletcher and Sandy Clements; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Vint's life not only profoundly touched those close to him, but literally thousands who knew him as friend, associate, teacher and college president. We celebrate the great contribution he made to our lives and choose to remember him on that sailboat heading out into the lake on a gentle breeze. Donations in Vint's memory can be made to: The at:
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If you were to place a copy of Assassin's Creed: Unity next to an Xbox 360, the clingfilm would flinch back, then split and pucker into an angry, growling mouth. Ubisoft wants to make a fresh start on next generation consoles, see, and that applies as much to the game's engine as the new parkour mechanics and mission types.
According to creative director Alexandre Amancio, the developers have had plenty of time to reinvent Assassin's Creed's supporting technology. "Keep in mind, this game has had almost a four year development. Before we even started the content or anything it was almost a year of development of technology and features and stuff like that."
Naturally, this pre-dated the announcement of the Xbox One. "Even before that, we were speculating," Amancio continued. "And saying, 'OK, let's do this and it should be possible, let's start and we'll readjust once we start the actual game'."
The developer hopes to address a number of long-running irritations in the process of overhauling the tech, though Amancio was unable to specify which. I think guard AI needs a tune-up, personally. "We know of these things, it's all a question of the time and complexity of how to fix them. Sometimes it seems like a small thing but when you open the hood it's like, 'oh, really, it's connected to that!'
"So for this game, because it's the first from the ground up next-gen title, we essentially had to do most of the systems from scratch. Which meant that 'now we have to re-do that, we might as well do this' - it was that sort of thing."
Unity doesn't feature playable female avatars in co-op, for not especially convincing reasons. I've written a blog about how reversing this decision would be good business for Ubisoft. In other news, another new Assassin's Creed game appears to be wending its way to Xbox 360.


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Now that I have my little iPod, I can read Largehearted Boy without despairing at my inability to partake in all the choice MP3s. As they say: yay!
Plus, did y'all notice how hot it is outside? Al Gore, please fix this. I'm witch-style melting over here.
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Let's get to the heart of this right away. How can we "do" Romanticism in an age of cynical post-modern irony? I don't pretend to have the answer, but the question is a hefty one. And Jonathan Kent's new production of The Flying Dutchman at ENO asks it full on. That is not the least reason it is so effective. Whether or not the director intended to do so, he's sunk his teeth into one of the big artistic conundrums of today. It deserves to be brought into the open.
We see Senta first as a child in pink pyjamas, watching the waves through a giant skylight; she craves her father's affection, but he is unable to deliver any and pushes off to sea, leaving her with a book of fairy tales for company. The Dutchman manifests as her imagining, her interior living, if you like, of such a fairy tale - as children do, as we all do if only we remember, casting her father one of its characters, and the Steersman too - who sings his quiet song with rapt nostalgia and falls asleep on the floor, where little Senta covers him tenderly with her duvet. The Dutchman and his ship arrive in a terrific coup-de-theatre, he in full Mr Darcy getup, while the ship wouldn't disgrace Errol Flynn's in The Sea Hawk. And Daland's eagerness to marry the stranger off to his daughter without noticing that said stranger is one of the Undead is all too convincing, because Daland is a stranger to love and values nothing but money.
Senta, meanwhile, grows up to be Orla Boylan - except that she doesn't. She's still living that fairy tale, her emotional world twisted into an alternative reality by the lack of emotional substance around her. She works in a factory making ships in bottles - the set (designed by Paul Brown) is magnificent, with a vast window and plenty of wood suggesting past glories for this Norwegian one-ghost suburb. Her refuge is the image of the Dutchman: her own longing, her own clinging to belief in the redemptive power of love and compassion. There's none of that in her real world. Even Erik (sung by Stuart Skelton, who is an absolute knockout of a Heldentenor) is no answer. He's a security guard at the factory and there's a hint of violence, born of frustration, in his treatment of her; this big guy doesn't know his own strength. And the other girls pick on her: she's the mildly deranged fat lump in the pink dress (Primark?) who pooh-poohs their sluttishness.
And then the boys come back from sea, they have a piss-up in the factory and they try to gang-rape her. In the song to the Steersman they're egging him on, as their leader, to do the deed. Remember that nostalgic first song he had in act 1? Everything now is inside-out and upside-down. The ghost ship chorus - beamed in by amplification from somewhere offstage (a bit of a pity soundwise) comes to Senta's aid and scares everyone off, but the event pushes her over the edge and, exhausted and already dead within, she breaks a beer bottle and stabs herself with it. She is destroyed by the society in which she lives. Jonathan Kent shows us the death of a soul.
The performances match the power of the staging. The chorus, for a start, is possibly the best I've ever heard at ENO. Orla Boylan's Senta gives everything in her Ballade; there may be issues about pacing and stamina, as in the scene with Erik she began to sound strained and tired, but she summoned reserves of strength for the final scene that made her Senta seem cousin not so much to Isolde (as Wagner later saw her, rewriting the ending post-Tristan - we got the early version at ENO) but Brunnhilde, facing a test of fire instead of water.
Clive Bayley is a magnificent and all too believable Daland; James Creswell as the Dutchman is strong and even-toned, though could maybe use more variety in vocal colour to put across the emotional content, rather than relying too heavily on diction - it's good to hear all the words, but it sometimes distorted the ends of his phrases. Tenor Robert Murray made much of the Steersman aria, which in the grand scheme of the staging acquired extra dramatic significance. But Skelton just about steals the show, despite his character having too little to do. He tweeted the other day that he was off to New York to sing in Die Walkure at very short notice (jumping in for Kaufmann). Lucky Met.
Still, there's big stuff happening at home, and it is happening most of all down the pit. This is Ed Gardner's first Wagner. And from the moment the lights go off and the orchestra plunges into the deep end, we plunge with them. They grab us by the throat and don't let us go for the full 135 minutes (no interval, thanks). The intensity is fabulous, both at the opera's wildest moments and its stillest; the pacing is excellent, passionate, convincing. This seemed the case after that glorious Rosenkavalier a few months back, but now there's no doubt about it: ENO is busy growing a great conductor.
So, I was wondering how we do romanticism in an anti-romantic age. And then I went to see a preview screening of the 3D film of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, which is being released into cinemas worldwide on 15 May starring Richard Winsor (and very good it is). And there's the prelude. The child prince in bed, in his pyjamas. His mother comes in; he reaches out to her, she backs away. He has a fuzzy swan by way of comforter. He has a nightmare vision of the real swan. And the action commences. Remind you of anything?
Now, I'm not suggesting for one moment that this Dutchman production borrows anything from anybody, but the general atmosphere and logic of the concept is quite prevalent enough for different directors to arrive at the same scenario from contrasting positions. The Flying Dutchman story has plenty in common with that of Swan Lake. The lead character's fantasy world becomes his/her reality, encroaches on actual reality, then destroys him/her.
And today, we can't take it on its own terms, the way Wagner or Tchaikovsky intended; we have to interpret and explain it, because it seems nobody will buy into it otherwise. If a twisted mind through lack of a parent's affection is becoming the dramatic cliche of today (taking over from child abuse, which has been used ad nauseam), there may be a good reason for it.
It's one of those odd things about Romanticism, though, that it involved plenty of cynicism. It was the composers, not the writers, whose senses of humour and awareness of irony sometimes fell flat. The Flying Dutchman is based on a story by Heinrich Heine, whose bite is much fiercer than his eloquent bark. In Heine, the ending of the tale - the suicide of "Mrs Flying Dutchman" - is cynical as hell: the only way a woman can be faithful to this man unto death, he suggests, is if she dies right away. Wagner makes a virtue out of this, but that's not how Heine wrote it. Just as Schumann, setting Heine's songs, avoids the razor edge of this poet's fearsome blade and refuses to laugh or sneer with him, so Wagner goes a stage further and creates his own philosophy out of it - perfumed, feverish and egotistical it may be, but it's alive and well and blazes out of the music. Heine, one suspects, would have been livid.
And Romanticism? Its music still has the strongest appeal to audiences for classical music - not all, of course, but a distinct majority. You want "popular classics"? You get Tchaikovsky. So it is not dead. Twisted, certainly, but defunct, not at all. Most of us still, somewhere, believe in the redemptive power of love - don't we? - and the current craze for vampire movies suggests that maybe we even want to believe, at some level, in the supernatural. But the destruction of a soul through lack of love, and that lack of love, and tenderness, and compassion, and kindness, and idealism, as a comment on our society, is taking hold. Maybe we should take notice.


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I'm doing it, I'm doing it. Figured out how. Actually someone told me on Ralvery. Start one, put it on a holder, start the other, get it to the same point. Then put them on the needles (facing the same way) and you can get them going. SOme one here suggested keeping the yarn separate in zip lock bags, that helps too. I'M DOING IT!!!
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Once I get this 2 socks, 2 circular needle thing down (I figure about 6 pairs....and I convince DH I need MORE needles, I'll get a 1 or 2 Circ 40" or co and try magic loop! and then try that. I LOOVVVVEEEE making socks! Vickey-MN |
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This recipe is a little time consuming, but totally worth it imo. It's made with no shortening, for those that may not have it available to them. This is the first recipe I've ever made that didn't taste oily or gritty to me and I think I'm gonna stick with it for a while! Sorry if this has already been posted :) Recipe from http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/fluffy-white-buttercream-frosting-recipeIngredients
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup boiling water 1/4 tsp salt (ONLY if using UNSALTED butter) 1/4 cup meringue powder 1 tablespoon vanilla extract** 4 cups sifted powdered/confectioners sugar 2 cups soft butter (cut into chunks)** ** my alterations Instead of 1 tablespoon vanilla, I used 1/2 tablespoon almond extract & 1/2 tblspn imitation strawberry extract Instead of 2 cups butter, I used 1 cup butter and 1 cup veg. shortening
Boil your water and dissolve your granulated sugar (and salt if using) in it. Remove from heat and let it come to room temperature ( I stuck mine in the freezer for a speed up). Using a mixer on low, blend together your sugar water and meringue powder until meringue dissolves. This can take a few minutes and I helped it along with a whisk on the other side of the bowl. Once meringue is dissolved, turn up your speed and whip until soft peaks form. Add your extracts and sifted powdered sugar ( I added 1 cup at a time). Once your powdered sugar is well mixed, begin adding your butter or shortening in small chunks. Mix well after each addition. My buttercream didn't firm up until literally the last scoop of shortening I added so don't worry if it isn't forming. The recipe does state it's a crusting buttercream, but mine never did. It was, however, not necessary for smoothing as it was so easy to spread on my cakes and smooth out with my dough cutter. Hope everyone who tries it has as much luck with it as I did!


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Who you callin' "round"?
Though the pitcher win is widely regarded as an outdated stat in today's world of advanced stats and metrics, it's still kinda cool to see a pitcher reach a round win total that only 111 pitchers before him have reached. In this case, we're talking about 41-year-old Bartolo Colon, who on Friday night notched career win No. 200 in the New York Mets' 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies…
With the victory, Colon becomes the third active pitcher to reach the 200-win plateau, joining Tim Hudson (213 career wins) and CC Sabathia (208). Colon is also the third Dominican-born pitcher to win 200, joining Juan Marichal (243) and Pedro Martinez (219). That's very good company.
''I'm really happy to be in that category,'' Colon said through an interpreter. ''I'm expecting a call from those guys.''
If it seems like Colon found the Fountain of Youth, it might be true. Since turning 40 on May 24, 2013, he's won 25 games…
Given how well Colon has pitched these past two seasons, it would seem he has at least one more decent season left in him, maybe two. Obviously 300 wins is out of the questions and 250 is an extreme longshot, but 215-220 may not be. Getting there would move him into the top 80 on the all-time wins list.
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Player WAR GS ERA+ Age GF W L IP
Waite Hoyt 53.3 425 112 18-38 172 237 182 3762.1
Larry Jackson 52.5 429 113 24-37 73 194 183 3262.2
Mark Langston 50.3 428 107 23-38 3 179 158 2962.2
Dwight Gooden 48.2 410 111 19-35 4 194 112 2800.2
Mel Harder 47.9 433 113 18-37 94 223 186 3426.1
Frank Viola 47.4 420 112 22-36 0 176 150 2836.1
Bartolo Colon 45.4 428 112 24-41 0 200 137 2738.0
Tom Candiotti 42.5 410 108 25-41 11 151 164 2725.0
Paul Derringer 39.0 445 108 24-38 98 223 212 3645.0
Freddie Fitzsimmons 33.5 424 112 23-41 65 217 146 3223.2
Way back on July of 2002, the Expos gave up Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore, Brandon Phillips, and Lee Stevens for 117 innings of Bartolo Colon.
A) They weren't really and B) Omar Minaya was the idiot who made that trade.Yeah, I've always been very skeptical of that explanation. Most of us here scoffed at contraction as an empty threat, so it's hard to believe that people with much more information than us took it more seriously. I would love to hear Minaya's honest account of what he was thinking, although I'm not sure how you could get that, given that the trade didn't work and this is the obvious excuse he can offer.
Yeah, I've always been very skeptical of that explanation. Most of us here scoffed at contraction as an empty threat, so it's hard to believe that people with much more information than us took it more seriously.
Throw in the idea of the Colon trade as a big middle finger to MLB
and then it quickly became doubly stupid when he traded Colon to the White Sox for absolutely nothing.
Both men fought the Battle of the Bulge.
The difference being Spahn won.
In 1989, the Montreal Expos, in go-for-it mode, traded a package of prospects to Seattle for hard-throwing lefty Mark Langston. Though Langston pitched extremely well, the Expos failed to qualify for the postseason, and one of those prospects was another hard-throwing southpaw named Randy Johnson.
Dave Dombrowski, who made the trade for the Expos, was not deterred. Now in his 13th year running the Tigers, he has become baseball's king of go-for-it trades.
This July, he executed two more big deals, trading young pitchers Corey Knebel and Jake Thompson to Texas for reliever Joakim Soria on July 23 then pulling off a three-way trade in which he acquired ace David Price from Tampa Bay while shipping minor league shortstop Willy Adames and left-hander Drew Smyly to the Rays and center fielder Austin Jackson to Seattle.
"For some reason, this false thought process is out there that you can acquire good big league players without giving up any talent," Dombrowski said this past week, during the Tigers' visit to The Bronx. "I have not found that to really exist. I just think, if you're trying to win, that's the cost of doing business."
In recent years, very few of these prospects have come back to bite Dombrowski. Not yet, at least.
Outfielder Avisail Garcia, dealt to the White Sox last year in a three-way swap that brought aboard currently injured shortstop Jose Iglesias, missed most of this season with a serious left shoulder injury.
Jacob Turner, the key piece that landed Anibal Sanchez from Miami in 2012, was just traded from the Marlins to the Cubs.
Going back to 2007, Dombrowski gave up a haul of kids, including outfielder Cameron Maybin and pitcher Andrew Miller, for reigning two-time AL MVP Miguel Cabrera. None of the players helped the Marlins significantly.
"You hear everybody say it and it's absolutely accurate: You're in a spot where you have to know your own players better than anyone else," Dombrowski said.
And when we did see a top 20 guy (Addison Russell) go, it was for two rotation SP.
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CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. – What may be the only state park in Josephine County could soon be closed, but not if Illinois Valley residents have anything to say about it. The Forks of the Illinois Park at Cave Junction has been in need of maintenance and repair for several years.
State Parks officials say just keep the lawn mowed and trash picked up costs about $25,000 a year. So, they would like to close the gates, but Cave Junction and Josephine County officials are calling on State Parks to renew their lease with BLM and keep the park open.
"That is a gateway park," says Carl Jacobson, the Mayor of Cave Junction. "It's the only one, State Park, In Josephine county and its–it really benefits this community 'cause we have access to the river for swimming and whatnot. And there is a parking area down there."
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TUCSON - A wiretap from Nogales, Arizona by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents is being credited for capturing Mexico's most wanted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
The arrest of "El Chapo" Guzman has huge implications around the world. Authorities say, his Sinaloa cartel is behind most of the illicit drugs crossing the U.S. border.
Retired Federal agent, Terry Kirkpatrick was on the task force that hunted Guzman back in 2001 when he escaped from a Mexican prison. He says "Every time somebody gets taken down that makes what they call the wiretaps heat up. So, people start talking a lot more. And the more they talk the more information they are getting so as they are listening in on these wiretaps they were able to track Guzman down to Mazatlan."
He says 13 years ago, "We would come close to getting him in the outer fringes but no we never got close enough. He stayed for quite a number of years he stayed up in the mountains and operated out of there. The mountains are so dangerous that not even the Mexican Army would go up there."
It's in the mountains of Nogales, Arizona where communication equipment tracked Chapo Guzman. According to officials, when the Mexican Marines raided seven houses in Culiacan, they seized numerous cell phones that contained vital information to the whereabouts of Chapo Guzman.
"Every time they arrested a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, agents would go and interview them or interrogated them down in Mexico. Every bit of information is like a puzzle, it added up."
Kirkpatrick wrote a book,"Sixty Miles of Border". In it, a picture of himself coming out of a tunnel underneath a bathtub in Agua Prieta. According to officials, it's similar to how Chapo Guzman escaped from a house in Culiacan just days before finally getting caught in Mazatlan.
For now, authorities on this side are monitoring the situation and they say they will be prepared if violence should break out.
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