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The Thai Cabinet has approved a budget of 1.55 million baht (50,000 US dollars) to support the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), located in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The approval is aimed at encouraging Thai researchers and research institutes in Thailand to take part in doing research with ERIA, as well as, disseminating their research results, to be used by the country's policy-makers in preparation for the ASEAN Community.
Following the results of the 18th informal ASEAN economic ministers meeting, each ASEAN member country agreed to allocate 50,000 US dollars within the next five years to support ERIA. This meeting took place in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on 16 February 2012.
According to Mr. Hidetoshi Nishimura, ERIA Executive Director, ASEAN and East Asia are continuing to increase their roles as the engines of growth for the world economy. He cited Thailand as the center of production networks in Southeast Asia, where community building is the key to maximize the growth potentiality in the region. The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), established in 1984, is the location of ERIA's research network in Thailand.
ERIA is part of the ASEAN Secretariat, functioning as an independent research institute and providing resources for narrowing development gaps and enhancing research capabilities in countries in need of improvement in public policy. This institute also means to facilitate the building of the ASEAN Economic Community, to support ASEAN's role as the driver of wide economic integration, and to nurture a greater sense of community in East Asia.
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Joan Casey has believed in prayer since she became a Christian at age 13. So when she and husband, Harold, decided in 1997 to become Salvation Army soldiers in Jonesboro, Ga., she naturally brought with her an active prayer life.
"It was a very small corps back then, but they made Harold and me feel like we were family," Casey said of her first encounter with the Jonesboro Corps. "Right away we became encouragers to our corps officers and fellow members by praying for them regularly."
Many prayers were answered, she recalls, one of which was the growth of the corps to a fellowship of about 75 members.
Harold retired and the couple decided to move to Morehead City, N.C., because they'd always wanted to live by the ocean. In the Morehead City Corps they found a situation very similar to the Jonesboro Corps some years earlier: a small group of soldiers and an officer couple in need of encouragement. It was natural for the Caseys to bring with them a practice of fervent prayer which they gladly shared with their new corps home. Joan became the unofficial "prayer sergeant," keeping tabs on prayer requests and reporting every Sunday on how God was answering their petitions.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A team of genealogists has found evidence that President Barack Obama could be a descendent of an African slave — but not through the lineage of his black father, the most likely route researchers had followed and exhausted.
The link, genealogists with Ancestry.com said Monday, is, in fact, through an examination of his white mother's family history.
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Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother was from Kansas. It had been generally assumed that the president had no slave ancestors because researchers couldn't find it through the lineage of his father. However, no one had yet performed any exhaustive research into the lineage of his white mother, who turns out to have a mixed-raced family history.
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Thanking Tom Frank is a great idea. He devotes a lot of time and energy to this topic. It's most appreciated. Bill |
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After correspondence with Diana it will be resolved but not today |
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Glad to read this will be resolved. Bill |
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My JAZZ HD camera shoots very good 1280x720 @ 30 fps video (a little better than the HD key cam due to it's better lens and real 5MP sensor) with an average data rate of only about 4.2Mbps, so I think the the HD key cam could actually benefit (given the lower quality optics) by reducing the data rate a bit and the file sizes along with it. But I digress... My main gripe with the stop/save/continue (S/S/C) on this camera is I fly up to 30 min. with some planes, and would like uninterrupted video. I think they could double it to 40 min., and still easily contain the video on a 4 GB flash card if the battery would last that long, which mine does for now while its new and healthy I've confirmed the file is saved when the card fills up, and the file is not saved when the battery gets low, so the big issue is battery life with the S/S/C function. If it were 30 min. instead of 20 min., I probably would not care as much. |
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Update on external charger and Stop/Save/Continue function
My Camera Guy said they WILL be doing a firmware mod to allow continuous recording. But it won't be done until sometime after the Chinese New Years holiday, which lasts about 2 weeks or so as I recall. So sit tight, and maybe well have a fix soon. I've requested that the date stamp removal be retained with this additional mod. Also, they have decided to STOP selling the external "emergency charger" as a separate item on eBay... probably because it's going to be included as an accessory with the camera. But if you want one, My Camera Guy said you could email him directly and he could sell one separately off eBay. Also, now that we know how the car charger works by moving the USB +5V from pin #1 to pin #4, you could also buy one of the similar chargers for cell phones, and modify it for use with the camera. |
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Thanks for the kudos on the thread... they have not gone unnoticed and are appreciated! I'll admit more time has gone into this than I thought when I started this... I guess I underestimated how fast the HD key cam following would grow. BUT, as more things are discovered and questions get asked, answered, and documented with links in the FAQ Post #3, it will save a lot of time and posting for every one later. When some one asks a question you know is answered in the FAQ, you can just refer them to Post #3! |
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http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1115052 Iam also having troubles. You can see it in one of my last posts there. |
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Lets C what the Cnewyear brings.. Mike |
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/chinesenewyear1.html Looks like a month out (to the end) Yabba |
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I just got my camera from eletoponline365 but I can't seem to get it to work.
If I push the power button (the bigger of the two buttons) the yellow led starts flashing: on about a second, off about 1/2 sec and just continues to do that over and over again. Pushing the "shutter" button (at least that is what the instructions called it, the smaller of the two buttons) doesn't have any effect at all, led just keeps flashing yellow as above. Pusthing the power button again once it is flashing as above will cause the yellow led to flash once quickly and then it returns to the 1 second on:1/2 off yellow flashing. Eventually after a couple minutes of not pushing any buttons and the unit turns itself off again. Plugging in the usb cable and the red charging light comes on and stays on (until charged up and it turns off). Pushing the power button when the usb is connected causes it to alternate between red and yellow led flashing and I get a "Removable Diske E:" on my computer which if I open I get "DCIM" and in that folder I get "100MEDIA". Sounds promising, but I never get anything inside 100MEDIA no matter what series of buttons I push to try to get it into either video or still picture mode (with or without the usb cable attached). If I right click on E: it tells me it is FAT with 8,192 bytes used and 970,752 bytes free (that seems might small - isn't this thing supposed to have an internal 512Mbyte memory?). The only recording mode I've ever gotten it into is as a usb camera (those instructions - post 427 - are the only ones that seem to work). Am I just incredibly dense/stupid when it comes to trying to follow simple instructions or is something wrong with my camera? Thanks Tim |
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Section VI is a short section entitled "Of Probability." Hume asserts that there is no such thing as chance in the workings of the universe, but that our ignorance of the real causes of events leads us to a belief in chance. Hume conjectures that belief differs from fiction simply in this: what we believe is more forcefully imprinted upon our imagination because it is more likely to arise. Belief, Hume asserts, is just what is confirmed by experiment.
In section VII, "Of the Idea of Necessary Connection," Hume suggests that no idea in metaphysics is more obscure and uncertain than what is variously termed "force," "power," "energy," or "necessary connection." As he has argued in section II, all ideas and complex impressions are initially formed by simple impressions, which are vivid, sensible, and unambiguous. For a complex idea like causation to have any meaning, we must be able to trace it from the simple impression from whence it is derived.
Hume argues that there is no simple impression that could inform us of necessary connection. He examines in turn our impressions of interactions between two bodies, between mind and body, and within the mind, and argues that in each case we do not perceive, by experiment or reason, any secret power of necessary connection.
Hume has already discussed the body-body interaction of billiard balls. All we observe is that the motion of the first billiard ball is followed by the motion of the second billiard ball: we cannot observe the act of causation. Nor does the mind perceive the workings of cause and effect: otherwise we could determine what effects would follow from causes without ever having to rely on observation.
Next, Hume looks at the mind-body interactions according to which an act of volition can cause the movement of limbs. Hume points out that while we are aware of our ability to move our body, we are by no means aware of the connection between the act of volition and the bodily movement. The connection between mind and body is poorly understood at best, nor do we understand why we are so capable of moving, say, our fingers but not of controlling, say, our heart. Furthermore, Hume points out that there is a long chain of muscle and nerve reactions between the act of volition and the movement of the body. Our mind wills that the arm should move, but it actually produces a whole series of effects which it in no way wills.
Finally, Hume looks at mind-mind interactions, whereby we focus the mind or produce ideas, and fails to locate any necessary connection. First, he points out that we are unaware of how the mind can conjure an idea out of nothing. Further, he points out that experience teaches us that the mind has varying degrees of control, so that it has more power over reason than the passions, or that it has greater self-command when it is healthy. That we learn these things from experience suggests that we are observing only a constant conjunction and not some necessary connection.
Hume goes on to examine and attack the occasionalist picture, which suggests that what we perceive as "causes" are in fact "occasions" and that God is the ultimate cause of all change. Considering the limitations of the human intellect, Hume ponders what stroke of logic could possibly produce such unsupported and outlandish conclusions. Further, he questions how we might know the forces that are operated by the mind of God if we cannot even decipher the forces that are operated by our own minds and bodies.
The motivation behind Hume's brief discussion of probability might not be readily apparent. Considering his emphasis on the scientific method, we should not be surprised that Hume carries a deterministic worldview: nothing that happens happens purely by chance. We may not be able to predict the outcomes of dice rolls, but this is simply because we cannot adequately calculate all the relevant factors. Hume will address the difficult question of how free will might be reconciled with this determinism in section VIII.
Hume's determinism should suggest to us that his skepticism is epistemological and not metaphysical. That is, Hume does not believe that it is pure coincidence that billiard ball collisions always happen in the same way. Rather, he believes that we are incapable of rationalizing the causal connection. We might read Hume as saying that everything that happens happens according to some sort of law or necessity, but that these laws or necessities are beyond our understanding.
We invent the notion of probability and chance, Hume suggests, because we cannot actually determine precisely how things will happen. These probabilities are determined by experience. For instance, if car crashes kill passengers 80 percent of the time, I will judge it highly probable that a car crash will result in death. Other probabilities are 100 percent certain: for instance, flames always burn. This certainty does not then result from observing directly some power of causation or necessary connection, but comes instead from a calculation of probability based on experience. Hume's discussion of probability explains his tendency to see reasoning about matters of fact as determined by habit and experience rather than by an understanding of causation.
A little more straightforward in its intent and methodology, section VII returns to the central line of Hume's argument in the Enquiry. This section is meant to establish what precisely we mean when we talk about causation.
Before we continue, perhaps we should clear up the distinction between causation and necessary connection. Generally speaking, we can say that A causes B if B temporally succeeds A, if A and B are spatially contiguous, and if B always follows A. However, if I always hum while striking a match, we can hardly say that my humming causes the match to burst into flame, even though it satisfies all the above criteria. Causation must also rely on some kind of necessary connection: the match could still burst into flame if I didn't hum, but it couldn't burst into flame if I didn't strike it. The question for Hume, then, is how we can know or perceive this necessary connection. What is it about the striking of the match and not my humming that connects to the match's bursting into flame?
The first part of section VII could be read as the negative phase of Hume's argument. With body-body, mind-body, and mind-mind interactions, Hume shows that there is no evidence of necessary connection. If we knew of necessary connection purely through reason, we would not need experience to show us that two events are necessarily connected. However, in each case, Hume shows us that it is experience that teaches us of this connection. Furthermore, we do not actually experience the necessary connection itself: we only infer it from the constant conjunction that we observe between two events. Here, Hume's discussion of probability comes in once more. We observe that in 100 percent of cases, one billiard ball striking a second billiard ball is followed by the movement of the second billiard ball. This observation leads us to infer that there must be some necessary connection between the collision and the movement of the second ball even though we cannot directly observe that connection.
That all ideas and complex impressions are derived from simple impressions is central to Hume's thinking. For our idea of necessary connection to have any coherence, it must be related to some simple impression. However, Hume's arguments show us that there is no simple impression that produces the idea of necessary connection. As we mentioned before, Hume is not suggesting that it is pure coincidence that the second billiard ball invariably moves when it is struck. Instead, he is suggesting that whatever causal connection there might be between the two events cannot be rationalized by us.
At the end of the first part of section VII, Hume touches on occasionalism, most famously represented by Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715). A proper discussion of occasionalism is beyond the scope of the present commentary, but we should note that Hume displays a great deal of intellectual courage and integrity in not shying away from the skeptical consequences of his argument. Unfortunately, he was rewarded for this with accusations of atheism that plagued him his entire life.
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Good day at On Deck
The Milwaukee Brewers held their On Deck event on Sunday afternoon. The Timber Rattlers had some representation:
Michael Sears of The Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel caught this photo of former Rattlers Clint Coulter and David Goforth:
Full size photo at this photo gallery.
There was alumni news from the event.
The Journal-Sentinel caught up with Jimmy Nelson ('11), who is ready to succeed in the Milwaukee rotation:
When the Milwaukee Brewers traded established starter Yovani Gallardo to Texas and committed to unproven Jimmy Nelson in their starting rotation for 2015, it was an admitted gamble.
Nelson's goal is to prove it was smart money.
"I'm excited about it. I feel like I'm ready," the 25-year-old right-hander said during a break Sunday at Brewers On Deck, the team's annual fan festival in downtown Milwaukee.
What raised concerns among many fans about that move was the way Nelson struggled during his 2014 debut season. He went 2-9 with a 4.93 earned run average in 14 games (12 starts), eventually pitching his way out of the rotation as the Brewers faltered down the stretch.
It was a far cry from how Nelson performed at Class AAA Nashville before being summoned. In 17 outings there, he went 10-2 with a 1.46 ERA, striking out 114 hitters in 111 innings. Nelson was so impressive over that period he was named Pacific Coast League pitcher of the year despite missing most of the second half.
For Nelson, it was a matter of a lesson learned.
"The problem was when I got to the big leagues I got away from my game plan," said Nelson. "The things I was doing to be successful, I got away from that when I got up here.
"I've got to learn from that and stick to what was working. I know why it happens. There's no specific reason you can put a finger on. I just got away from the way I pitched in Triple-A."
Brewers.com has news that Jim Henderson ('09) and Tyler Thornburg( '11) are aiming for Opening Day to return from injury:
Thornburg, who has avoided Tommy John surgery for a compromised ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, is already throwing bullpen sessions. Henderson, who underwent surgery to "clean up" bone spurs and tissue damage in his right shoulder, is scheduled to throw his first proper bullpen session on Tuesday. If that goes well, he will repeat the exercise on Friday.
"I can probably give you a better answer in maybe two to three weeks, but the rehab's gone well," said Henderson, who was penciled in as Brewers closer before experiencing shoulder weakness last spring. "I feel strong. I've had no problems, no setbacks. I pushed it as far as I could go last year, trying to come back and rehab, so that I could be ready this year."
Asked whether his Opening Day goal was realistic, Henderson said, "Yep, 100 percent. We're going to get 10 bullpens in here before Spring Training, and then you've got all of Spring Training as well. …
Personally, I am excited for the new Barrel Man mascot and T-Shirt!!!!
Introducing….the official Barrelman Mascot, making his debut at #BrewersOnDeck! pic.twitter.com/CFOtXYhdF1
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) January 25, 2015
Alumni Birthdays for January 24:
Tyler Wagner ('13) – 24
Joseph DeLuise ('64) – 69
Sandy Valdespino ('58) – 76
Ed Lewee (Manager, 1910) – Would be 142
Alumni Birthdays for January 25:
Eric Arnett ('10, '11) – 27
Jimmy Maness ('66) – 70
Alumni Birthdays for January 26:
Josh Prince ('09) – 27
Ryan Rowland-Smith ('02, '03) – 32
Mike Pazik (Coach, '82) – 65
Bobblehead news & a roundup on the extension – December 3, 2014
Keep your eyes on @TimberRattlers at the top of each hour between now and 6pm tonight. The team is announcing their bobblehead giveaways for the 2015 season at the top of each hour. As of the time I started to write this post, they have announced three of the ELEVEN bobbleheads:
Bobblehead #1 – JONATHAN LUCROY – Opening Day 4/12 RT this post for a chance to win tickets to the April 12th game! pic.twitter.com/qSi48BlrNA
— Timber Rattlers (@TimberRattlers) December 3, 2014
Bobblehead #3 – Mike Fiers – RT this post for a chance to win tickets to the May 3rd game! http://t.co/FdRw1pjjsw pic.twitter.com/aQARqih5Se
— Timber Rattlers (@TimberRattlers) December 3, 2014
Correction: Yesterday, I announced Reggie Keen's birthday based on some research not done by me earlier this summer. I did not doublecheck the research until after it was pointed out to me that Reggie's birthday is actually January 13…Apologies to Reggie…I will get it right in about a month.
The Timber Rattlers and Milwaukee Brewers have announced a 4-year extension to their current Player Development Contract. The teams are partnered through the 2020 season.
The media roundup:
Tim Froberg of The Post-Crescent also caught up with Rob.
Second baseman Scooter Gennett, outfielder Khris Davis and pitchers Wily Peralta, Jim Henderson and Jimmy Nelson are among the current Brewers who learned the ropes of professional baseball with the Timber Rattlers.
"To have our fans talk about someone like Scooter Gennett, it's like they knew him before he was even a Brewer," Zerjav said. "It's been great for fans getting to know the players a little better.
This has nothing to do with the affiliation extension, but here's a story on Fang's Holiday Extravaganza from FOX 11:
Kids' Crew memberships for the 2015 season were available at the Extravaganza. They are now available online through the team store.
Alumni Birthdays for December 3:
Chris Snelling ('00) – 33
Mitch Lukevics (Player, '76; Coach, '84-'85) – 61
Steve Huntz ('64) – 69
Paul Knechtges ('61) – 75
Notes and Highlights on a Friday – October 24, 2014
Jonathan Mayo and Jim Callis take a look at the Brewers prospects in the Arizona Fall League with a special focus on former Timber Rattlers Tyrone Taylor ('13) and Clint Coulter ('13, '14):
Check the daily game notes for the AFL here.
Glendale, the team with the Brewers prospects, are 7-6-1 and leading the West Division. Glendale hosts Salt River today at 2:35pm CDT. According to the scoreboard page, Mike Strong ('12, '13) is a scheduled reliever for Glendale today. Click that link later today for the rest of the starting lineup.
I'll have a more complete winter league update on Monday, but looking at yesterday's action in the AFL saw Glendale win 2-1. Wei-Chung Wang ('14) earned the win. Tyler Wagner ('13) got the save.
Time to take a look at the Timber Rattlers Alumni as batters with the Brewers.
Khris Davis (2010): 144 games, .244/.299/.457, 22HR, 69RBI
Scooter Gennett (2010): 137 games, .289/.320/.434, 9HR, 54RBI
Carlos Gomez (2012): 148 games, .284/.356/.477, 23HR, 73RBI
Jonathan Lucroy (2012): 153 games, .301/.373/.465, 13HR, 69RBI
Martin Maldonado (2009): 52 games, .234/.320/.387, 4HR, 16RBI
Jason Rogers (2012): 8 games, 1-for-9, 0HR, 0RBI
Marco Estrada (2013): 3-for-32, 2RBI
Mike Fiers (2009): 1-for-17
Jimmy Nelson (2011): 3-for-21 with a double off Clayton Kershaw?!
Alumni Birthdays:
October 24:
Hunter Brown ('02) – 35
Eric Morgan ('95) – 42
Daryl Robinson ('88, '89) – 47
October 25:
Tyler Roberts ('11, '13) – 24
Clint Nageotte ('01) – 34
Gerald Eady ('98) – 39
Kevin Hickey ('79) – 58
Don Eddy ('69) – 68
Richard Hunt ('60) – 74
October 26:
Robbie Dominguez ('08) – 29
Chad Fillinger ('04, '05) – 32
Harry Chappas ('76, '78) – 57
Alan Kristowski ('66) – 71
Big home runs and other news over the weekend
Former Timber Rattlers outfielder Wladimir Balentien broke the old single-season home run record in Japan with his 56th homer. Then, he hit another home run later in the game to give him 57.
From the Japan Times:
As soon as Wladimir Balentien's bat made contact with Daiki Enokida's fastball there was no doubt: Japan had just crowned a new home run king.
And the new king's first decree was that his record total wasn't high enough yet.
Balentien set the NPB single-season record with his 56th home run of year in the first inning, then hit No. 57 in his next at-bat of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows' 9-0 win over the Hanshin Tigers on Sunday night at Jingu Stadium.
"I feel so relieved right now," Balentien said. "Lot of emotions. Just to get this is something unbelievable. This is (something) that nobody was able to do for 49 years. For me to do it, I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now."
The 29-year-old Curacao native broke a four-way tie with Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh, Tuffy Rhodes, and Alex Cabrera, who all have 55, to stand alone as the new record holder.
"It's amazing that he's homered at a pace of about once every two games," Oh said in a statement. "This is far beyond a new NPB record and an overwhelming number. I want to enjoy how far he can take it over the next 18 games with the fans."
Meanwhile in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, former Timber Rattlers first baseman Sean Halton hits a game winning home run to beat the Cincinnati Reds!
With nothing left to play for themselves, the Milwaukee Brewers have fully embraced the role of spoiler over the last month.
That never-say-die attitude was on full display Sunday afternoon at Miller Park when they overcame a poor start by Yovani Gallardo to score five times in the final three innings.
The ninth was especially exciting, with Carlos Gomez robbing Jay Bruce of a go-ahead home run at the center-field wall in the top half and rookie Sean Halton belting a one-out, walk-off homer off Zach Duke in the bottom half to cap a 6-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
"I've had a couple (walk-offs, in the minor leagues), but nothing comes close to this one," said Halton. "Especially against a team that's playing well and in the hunt. We've been playing that spoiler role lately, and hopefully we continue that the next couple weeks."
Since, Todd Rosiak's story mentioned the catch by Gomez….
The other news was from Adam McCalvy's blog post that notes all of the players that will be taking part during instructional league in Arizona. Rattlers manager Matt Erickson will be in charge of a team down there.
Add the fall instructional league to Brewers prospect Jason Rogers' busy schedule.
Rogers and top 2013 Draft picks Devin Williams and Tucker Neuhaus highlight the list of players reporting Sunday to Maryvale Baseball Park for an instructional program that gets underway Monday morning. Rogers, who manned first base at Double-A Huntsville this season, will work a bit at third base before primarily playing left field in the Arizona Fall League as the Brewers increase his versatility for 2014.
Fifty-three players in all are listed on the Brewers' instructional league roster — 42 on the regular roster and 11 more on an advanced roster. They include 20 of the team's 2013 First Year Player Draft picks, and eight players from MLB.com's list of the top 20 Brewers prospects: outfielder Tyrone Taylor (No. 4), shortstop Orlando Arcia (No. 6), outfielder Victor Roache (No. 8), right-hander Williams (No. 9), catcher Clint Coulter (No. 11), infielder Neuhaus (No. 13), and right-handers Drew Gagnon (No. 15) and Damien Magnifico (No. 19).
Also participating are shortstop Franly Mallen and outfielder Nicolas Pierre, who received record-setting bonuses in the Dominican Republic in July.
The full list is available at that post. There are a lot of former (and future) Timber Rattlers on that list.
Some of those players are still playing with the Helena Brewers. Helena lost Game One of the best-of-three Pioneer League Championship Series at Idaho Falls on Saturday.
The first game of the Pioneer League Championship Series featured a championship caliber pitching performance from each side. Jonathan Dziedzic and a trio of Idaho Falls relievers out dueled Anthony Banda and Tristan Archer as the Chukars beat the Brewers 2-1 on Saturday to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series.
Dzidezic picked up the win after limiting the Brewers to just two runs in six innings. He struck out eight and walked one.
Josiel Martinez allowed an unearned run in the seventh and Glenn Sparkman relived him in the eighth and struck out three in 1.2 innings.
Kyle Bartsch faced just one batter, pinch hitter Jalen Harris, and struck him out to close out the game and earn the save.
Banda kept the Brewers in the game as he allowed two runs on five hits in six innings. Archer allowed no runs in two frames.
Game Two is tonight in Helena. Go, Brewers!
Lastly, the Midwest League season came to an end on Saturday night in Davenport, Iowa. The Quad Cities River Bandits swept the South Bend Silver Hawks in the best-of-five Championship Series to win the MWL Pennant for the first time since….2011.
Josh Hader isn't even old enough to legally drink the champagne that was being splashed around the Quad-Cities River Bandits dressing room Saturday night.
He was more than happy just to wear some of it.
A little more than six weeks after being traded from his hometown Baltimore Orioles to the Houston Astros organization, Hader helped put the finishing touches on the River Bandits' second championship season in three years.
The slender 19-year-old left-hander shut out the South Bend Silver Hawks on three little singles through seven innings as the Bandits completed a sweep of the Midwest League championship series with a 4-2 victory in front of a lively crowd of 3,607 at Modern Woodmen Park.
Hader, who went 2-0 in just five appearances with the Bandits in the regular season, also went 2-0 in the postseason and he was never in any sort of serious trouble Saturday. He allowed only four baserunners, only one of whom got as far as second base. He also struck out eight Silver Hawks.
Yankees mess with Money
The Timber Rattlers have announced that Don Money will be the special guest at the 2013 Leadoff Experience. The event will be held at Liberty Hall on Wednesday, April 3. Full details are at this link here.
I'll be hosting again and one of the main questions I want to ask of Don Money is: What really happened with Billy Martin, Chris Chambliss, and the Brewers on April 10, 1976?
Here's the story.
The Brewers had opened the 1976 season on April 8 with a 5-0 victory over the Yankees at Milwaukee County Stadium behind a complete game, 4-hit shutout by Jim Slaton and three RBI from Henry Aaron. There was a scheduled off day on April 9 and the teams got back in action on Saturday, April 10 for an afternoon start.
Milwaukee, still a few years away from Bambi's Bombers, grabbed a 6-0 lead with a run in the fourth, two in the fifth, and three in the sixth off Eduardo Figueroa.
Bill Travers pitched 5-2/3 scoreless innings and turned the game over to the bullpen. Eduardo Rodriguez gave up four runs in the top of the seventh, but Milwaukee held a 6-4 lead heading to the top of the ninth.
Mickey Rivers singled off Jerry Augustine to start the ninth. Milwaukee called on closer Tom Murphy to get the final three outs. Rivers stole second, but Murphy struck out Roy White. From there….HOO BOY!
Munson singled to shortstop [Rivers to third]
Chambliss doubled to center [Rivers scored, Munson scored]
Piniella tripled to left [Chambliss scored]
Nettles was walked intentionally
Dempsey singled to second [Piniella scored, Nettles to third]
Randolph hit a sacrifice fly to center [Nettles scored]
Alomar lined to third
So, yeah. A five-run ninth inning and the Yankees are up 9-6 heading to the bottom of the ninth.
But, the Brewers rallied. Robin Yount singled and Pedro Garcia walked against Sparky Lyle to start the bottom of the ninth. Dave Pagan relieved Lyle and the Brewers had Bobby Darwin pinch hit for Gorman Thomas. An error on Graig Nettles let Darwin reach and the Brewers had the bases loaded with no outs. Don Money stepped to the plate as the potential winning run.
Here is where I will let the AP story take over:
Right-hander Dave Pagan, fifth of six New York pitchers, had a one-ball, no-strike count on Money, who drilled the next pitch into the left-centerfield bleachers.
Yankee Manager Billy Martin and first baseman Chris Chambliss immediately stormed [first base umpire Jim] McKean. After several minutes of heated discussion and mass confusion, the umpires conferred and then called the players back to their positions.
What had happened was…oh…man…I was seven when this happened and I remember listening to the game in the basement and I still get angry about this today.
"Chambliss turned to me just before the pitch and asked for time out," McKean said. "He said Billy (Martin) wanted him to tell the pitcher to go to a full windup instead of the stretch.
"It was a tough situation, but not a controversial one as far as judgement was concerned because I had called time. No way that hit could have counted because I had called time out.
"Billy came running out yelling at Chambliss, 'Tell Jimmy you called time.' I couldn't comprehend what Billy was claiming at first, but then I told him, 'RIght. Time was out, period. I'll go tell the other dugout.'"
Martin said he told McKean, "You called time. Now you have to back it up. He did.
"It was a tough decision for an umpire," Martin said. Whether he called it for me or against me, he showed a lot of class. Good thing Money didn't hit a double-play ball. I would have to go back to the dugout and cry."
Harvey Kuenn, the Brewers first base coach, disputed McKean's version.
"I heard McKean tell Chambliss he did not call time out," Kuenn said. "I did hear Chambliss call for time, but I never heard the umpire call it. I don't know if McKean put his hand up to signal for time, but I know he didn't yell for time.
"By the time Chambliss was asking for time, the pitch was already on its way. After the ball had gone into the stands, I heard the second base umpire (Nick Bremigan0 say he saw the first base ump's hand go up out of the corner of his eye."
Asked whether Bremigan had said he saw the hand go up before or after the pitch, Kuenn said, "That was my next question. But they wouldn't let me ask it."
Bobby Darwin, the Brewers' runner on first base at the time, said Pagan was on the rubber, looking for the catcher's sign when Chambliss asked for time.
"My back was to the umpire, so I didn't see whether he put his hand up," Darwin said, "I heard Chambliss yell, 'time, time.' And then, 'Oh…!' when Pagan let the pitch go. I didn't hear the umpire call for time."
Money said he believed Martin influenced the umpire to change his decision.
"Damn right," teammate Kurt Bevacqua said, "he's the best intimidator in the league. He and (California Manager Dick Williams)*."
"Why did Billy have to come out and argue all that time?" Money asked. "He (McKean) could have said, 'Billy, I called time out.' but no, they had to argue before he changed his deicision. You should just make your decision, right or wrong, and stick by it."
After the game restarted, Money would pop out to right for the first out of the ninth. George Scott's sacrifice fly drove in Robin Yount and make the score 9-7. Ken Brett came on in relief of Pagan and got Darrell Porter to ground out to end the game.
So, yeah. I can't wait to ask Don Money about this game….and about his Hank Aaron book. That was awesome.
*-The odd thing about Kurt Bevacqua name checking Dick Williams in that quote is that Bevacqua would play for Williams on the San Diego Padres and have one heck of a Dick Williams impression.
The Williams impersonation, he says, emerged one night in Montreal "when Dick had gone to Tampa to attend the graduation of one of his children. I was in the locker room after the game started, and I had this can of baby talc, and I just kinda dabbed some on my mustache, then on the temples of my hair below the cap line. And there he was! I stuffed a couple of towels around my waist under my shirt, put on a pair of those little reading glasses Dick wears down on his nose and walked out. Norm Sherry [then the pitching coach] was sitting on the bench. He turned and said, 'Oh, hi, Dick.' Then he did a double take.
"Terry Kennedy was catching, and he was so surprised he had to call time out. I did it again last year in San Diego when Dick was suspended for 10 days and we needed something to stop a losing streak. When I came up to the plate to give the umps the lineup card, they were stunned. Dick was up in the press box. I gave him a big wave. We won."
News, Notes, & Interviews
There are a few things out there for which I'd like to provide links. Click the link above each excerpt for the full story.
Kjeldgaard eyes big leagues from the London (ONT) Community News:
For the time being, London's best kept secret is tucked away at the back of Centrefield Sports indoor complex. Come March 2012, however, Riley "Brock" Kjeldgaard will be down south, flirting with the feat of being the first Forest City resident since Adam Stern in 2005 to make a Major League Baseball (MLB) roster.
"Baseball is a game where you might not get an opportunity," said Kjeldgaard, 25, the centre's lead hitting instructor. "But, when you do you have to be ready. It's all about timing and good fortune."
5 Tweets with Maverick Lasker from Peace & Glove blog:
Me: Other than easy access to glorious cheese, did you like playing in Appleton? What was the best part?
Maverick: The curds were fantastic, but the best part was playin in front of a packed house. Being associated with the Brewers, our fans were very supportive.
Manzanillo involved in auto accident from Adam McCalvy's Brew Beat blog:
According to information from Manzanillo's Dominican Winter League team published on Licey.com, a truck struck Manzanillo's Hummer on a highway in La Romana while Manzanillo was on his way to the Brewers' new baseball academy. According to the website, Manzanillo, a right-handed power pitcher, suffered cuts and bruises on his right shoulder and was taken by plane to Cure International Hospital in Santo Domingo.
Manzanillo, 22, suffered a separated right shoulder and is currently undergoing further tests.
Good news.
The White Sox are trying to move Thornton because he signed a two-year, $12M contract last season, and the back-end of their bullpen has gotten crowded with Sergio Santos and Chris Sale proving dominant. No need to pay a reliever $6M per year when he is not needed in the eighth or ninth inning. It's just about finding a dance partner now on the open market.
The issue is the asking price. In Olney's report, he says the White Sox have been trying to move Thornton since July and has found no takers. Either none of the other twenty-nine teams in the league have a use for a mid-90s throwing lefty with four consecutive seasons with a sub-3.00 FIP, or the asking price has universally been deemed too steep. Obviously, the latter is far more likely.
If that asking price comes down a bit, it will be interesting to hear if the Brewers want to get involved in the fray. It would certainly make sense for the organization in terms of what Milwaukee has done in the past and falls in line with their 2012 goals for roster construction.
Jim also includes a note that Johnny Narron, the new Brewers hitting coach, played for the Appleton Foxes in 1975. He joins third base coach Ed Sedar, an Appleton Fox in '82, '83, & '85, on the staff.
A few Timber Rattlers notes:
The tickets for the 2012 Donald Driver Charity Softball Game went on sale this morning. Here is a link to purchase your tickets for this annual event.
The 2012 Timber Rattlers Calendars arrived today. Somehow, a photo I took was included and is used for the picture in March. You will receive a 2012 calendar for free when you purchase a holiday ticket package.
Greetings from Miller Park
Sorry for the late posting today. I decided to wait until I got down to Miller Park to start posting. Yes, I have a media pass for game five of the Brewers-Diamondbacks series.
The Brewers won the first two games at home. The Diamondbacks won games three and for down in Arizona. Now, an entire season comes down to this one game. Yovani Gallardo against Ian Kennedy. Game time is 4:00pm.
Time Warner Cable Field will host another Brewers Watch Party today. The gates open at 3:00pm. Parking & admission are both free. The game will be shown on the big video board and on the televisions in the Lenie Lodge. There is a $10 All-You-Can-Eat offer and a concessions menu available.
There have been some very nice crowds for the Watch Parties. Even for the games that didn't start until 8:30 CDT. If you are up in the Fox Cities area, feel free to stop out and enjoy the game today.
The Brewers a game five situation twice before in their history. They lost game five of the 1981 ALDS against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. They won game five of the 1982 ALCS against the California Angels at County Stadium.
But, that was years ago. It was so long ago, that neither of the stadiums at which that those game fives were played are still around and the Angels aren't called the California Angels anymore.
Drawing parallels between what happened 30 years ago and today would be like trying to connect meaning between what happened in Game Seven of the World Series for the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers and the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. A fun exercise and an interesting article for the offseason.
However, looking back to Brewers game fives from 30 years ago & 29 years ago sheds no illumination on what is going to happen today.
So, what IS going to happen today? (Aside from the roof being closed….roof closed? Really?)
I like the Brewers chances. They are at home. Gallardo has been outstanding and his start in game one against the Diamondbacks was him stepping up his game while the Brewers offense got to Kennedy just enough to support Gallardo in game one.
I expect game five to play out in a similar fashion to game one and Milwaukee advancing to the NLCS.
Time for this Milwaukee Brewers team to make more of its own history.
To the Alumni report for games on Thursday!
MLB Playoffs:
Alex Rodriguez (Foxes, '94): 0-for-4, BB, 3K
Rafael Soriano ('00): 1.2IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 2K
Arizona Fall League:
Phoenix 10, Peoria Javelinas 4
Kentrail Davis ('10): 1-for-4, RUN
Tyler Thornburg ('11): 1.1Ip, H, 2R, 2BB, 0K
IBAF World Cup:
Netherlands 5, Puerto Rico 0
Puerto Rico:
Jeff Dominguez ('06): 1-for-3
Nick Bucci ('10): 5IP, 2H, 0R, BB, 7K
Brock Kjeldgaard ('09): 0-for-3, BB
Kuo Hui Lo ('07): 0-for-4
Brewers 7, Padres 0
In Cactus League play, the Brewers beat the Padres 7-0.
Sean Halton ('10): 0-for-1
That is all.
Brewers 7, Royals 5
Sunday's game between the Royals and the Brewers involved a bunch of players involved in "The Trade".
Sean Halton ('10): 1-for-1, BB
Wily Peralta ('09): 3.2IP, 5H, R, BB, K, WIN
Cody Scarpetta ('09): IP, 2H, R
Lorenzo Cain ('09): 1-for-3
Jeremy Jeffress ('10): IP, H, R, 2BB, K
Jeffress allowed one hit, two walks, two runs and threw two wild pitches in a trying third inning against his former franchise. He was Milwaukee's first-round Draft pick in 2006.
"It's just a game, man, you've got to go in and do your job on the field," Jeffress said. "It was just one of those days I couldn't find the strike zone a little bit."
He took some good-natured ribbing from former teammates.
"Some of the guys over there were trying to say stuff a little bit, but it's all love," Jeffress said.
"It's so good to see the guys and see everybody's faces."
The Brewers play the Giants this afternoon.
In other news, six players in the big league camp were optioned to the minor league camp after the game.
The Brewers moved six players off the big league camp roster, including one potential fifth starter candidate, in the first round of cuts on Sunday.
That fifth starter candidate is right-hander Amaury Rivas, who was optioned to Triple-A Nashville. He was one of the players mentioned as a potential fill-in for Zack Greinke, who will miss the start of the season with a cracked rib.
The Brewers also optioned pitchers Dan Merklinger and Cody Scarpetta to Double-A Huntsville and returned pitchers Robert Hinton and Roque Mercedes and catcher Anderson De La Rosa to Minor League camp.
The first Minor League full-squad workout was Sunday, but all six players were given until Tuesday to report.
The item on the roster moves is at the bottom of this Adam McCalvy notebook, which you should read in full as it touches on Takashi Saito, the starter in yesterday's game. Saito is from Japan and has family members and friends unaccounted for after the earthquake and tsunami in his homeland.
Rockies 9, Brewers 8 (10)
The Brewers lost 9-8 in ten innings to the Rockies on Thursday.
Ex-Rattlers for the Brewers in that game:
Dan Merlinkger ('09): IP, 0H, 0R, 2BB, 0K
Cody Scarpetta ('09): IP, 2H, R, 0BB, K
Michael Fiers ('09): .2IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, K
Here is Adam McCalvy's game writeup.
Milwaukee is playing the Athletics today at 2:05pm CST. Yovani Gallardo is on the mound to start the game. No word on any former Rattlers on the big league roster for today. Check the Timber Rattlers twitter account later today. Or, listen in on the Brewers free live webcast when the game starts.


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I really did consider it an honor to be the maid of honor in my best friends wedding. She doesn't have any sisters, and I was excited to have this privilege.
My friend is not a high maintenance person, so being her maid of honor was pretty easy. We looked for dresses together and also did a lot of the planning together.
I think we would have done this even if I wasn't the maid of honor. I really didn't realize there were so many responsibilities that went along with this, but it sounds like I did almost everything that is expected without even knowing it.
The grooms best man was also a good friend, so everything from the rehearsal, to the wedding and reception were relaxed and a lot of fun.


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one afternoon last october, Barry Bonds stepped off a Delta flight at the Edmonton airport carrying a .300-caliber rifle and a bow. Hunting season had just opened for the year, and Bonds had come to Canada to stalk whitetail bucks at True North Trophy Hunts, a 1,000-acre ranch set among the icy lakes and stands of spruce, willow, and poplar that dot the vast Saskatchewan wilderness.
It took a while for Bonds to clear his weapons through customs. As he waited in line, his imposing frame and enormous head must have stood out among the travelers queued up to have their passports stamped. But nobody paid the former Giant any attention.
Which is exactly how he wanted it. In Canada, Bonds was thousands of miles removed from the booing fans, scrum of reporters, and generally unwanted scrutiny that has dogged him for more than five years now, ever since baseball's steroid crisis claimed him as the embodiment of all that's wrong with America's game. For the past eighteen months—since baseball abandoned him after the 2007 season, a season in which he broke Hank Aaron's all-time home-run record—the 44-year-old Bonds has found refuge from his legal entanglements in a new sport: hunting. His friend and former teammate Ryan Klesko introduced him to the outdoors, and Bonds became obsessed. He even set up an archery stand on the grounds of his compound in Beverly Park, a gated Beverly Hills community whose other residents include Magic Johnson, Eddie Murphy, and Sumner Redstone. Most days, Bonds spends up to an hour outside taking target practice.
This trip to Saskatchewan, however, would be a rifle-hunting expedition. Bonds was excited about his new gun, a 300 Ultra Mag made by Christensen Arms. He loved the weapon's lightweight carbon barrel and low-recoil discharge so much, in fact, that he agreed to serve as an unpaid spokesman for Christensen. ("One blast is all it took," Bonds writes in a testimonial on the company's Web site. "Keep up the great work and God bless.") That's how he'd come to know John Mogle, the goateed 37-year-old president of Christensen, who would be his hunting guide in Canada. Klesko had introduced the two over e-mail, but they hadn't met until Mogle picked Bonds up at the airport. Given his guest's reputation, Mogle didn't know what to expect. Bonds, after all, spent his twenty-two years in the majors amassing so much ill will—for his refusal to sign autographs, for his frequent references to baseball as nothing more than a business, for his rants to the media, and of course for his suspected use of steroids, HGH, and other performance-enhancing drugs—that his few remaining supporters believe his federal perjury trial is one big case of karmic comeuppance. As Rich Cairns, Bonds's bodyguard, summed it up to me, "Nobody cares about the guy."
But as Mogle got to know Bonds during the four-hour drive east from Edmonton to the remote True North ranch, he was surprised at Bonds's easygoing manner and that he'd flown in unaccompanied on a commercial flight—no entourage or private jet. One subject that definitely did not come up was Bonds's legal troubles. "We didn't even talk about that stuff," recalls Mogle, who's hunted with other pro athletes. "You never know how those kinds of guys are going to react."
The next morning at dawn, Bonds, wearing a knit cap and a speckled brown camouflage jacket, greeted Mogle in the lobby of True North's unpretentious lodge. "It's awesome. It's a beautiful day," Bonds told his guide, who was filming the hunt for an upcoming episode of Christensen Outdoors, his show on the Sportsman Channel. The episode won't air until after Bonds's trial is over, but in a seven-minute clip that was posted on YouTube last fall, Bonds appears relaxed, wistful, even giddy at times. At one point, he hearkens back to his father Bobby's 1975 season with the Yankees. "I was 10 years old, back when Thurman Munson [was on the team], Sandy Alomar was playing second base," he says. "Me and the kids—Sandy Jr. and Robbie—we used to play cup baseball in the walk ramps.… We used to push in a whole bunch of cups together, and we'd hit it with our hands, smack it, and if you hit it off certain walls it was a single, a double, or if you got it all the way through the tunnel down the hallway it's a home run. Me and Robbie just killed Sandy and my brother. We used to kill 'em." He chuckles. "Those were the good old days, man. Back in my young days…"
The video cuts to Bonds and Mogle crouching inside a deer blind at the far edge of an alfalfa field. A commanding buck wanders out of the forest into the tall grass. "That get your blood pumping?" Mogle asks. Bonds takes aim, but then pulls back. "He's a good shooter buck," Bonds whispers into the camera, "but from what I'm told, there's some big ones out here that are bigger than him. So we got time. We still have a couple days here. So we're going to sit down, wait, relax, and be patient. Sometimes you have to be patient if you want the best."
He pulls out his binoculars and surveys the field. Soon a giant whitetail emerges out of the woods, and Mogle gets excited. "This guy is big!"


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Wapello Land & Water Reserve
The Wapello Land & Water Reserve is located along the South side of Rt. 84, at the South end of Hanover. There is a "Hanover Wapello Reserve Volunteer Workday" held every Tuesday, weather permitting. For more info you may contact the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation at 815-858-9100, or go to their website: http://www.jdcf.org/wapello_land.aspx
Field Museum Bio-Blitz will be June 22nd & 23rd. Renowned scientists are headed to the Wapello Land & Water Reserve to conduct the first ever Bio-Blitz (24 hour inventory on the preserve). This inventory will include birds, plants, insects, river species and more. You are invited to come out for a tour to see the scientists in action. There will be a Night Hike on the 22nd that will begin at 8:30 pm & Prairie Hikes on the 23rd at 10 am and 1 pm. Information gathered at this Bio-Blitz will be used to create identification guides of the common species as well as provide information to an interactive permanent exhibit at the Field Museum called Restoring Earth. Bio-Blitz Sponsors: The Chicago Field Museum, Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation, Illinois Ornithological Society, and the Friends of the Hanover Land & Archeological Reserve.
Community Dinner will be July 27th at 5 pm. This free event will be held at Rocky Waters Vineyard, Hanover. On July 27th the Field Museum scientists will return with their findings from the Bio-Blitz and share them with the community. Registration is required and seating is limited. Please call 815-858-9100 to register. Community Dinner Sponsors: Hanover Chamber of Commerce, Rocky Waters Winery & Vineyard, and Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation.
Native American Prairie Day will be July 28th from 1 – 4 pm. Held at the Wapello Land & Water Reserve at the South end of Hanover along Rte. 84. There will be Free 30-minute tours, Atlatl throwing, Flute playing, Native American story-telling, Local Archeological collections, Face painting, Arrowhead replicas will be given to all children. The Chicago Field Museum will be hosting an exhibit at the event that will focus on Native Americans. With thousands of wildflowers in full bloom on the prairie, make sure to mark you calendar for this one of a kind event! Prairie Day Sponsors: Field Museum and the Friends of the Hanover Land & Archeological Reserve.
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Market Preview: Smart Money Skeptics
The firm estimates Cisco's guidance for its fiscal first quarter ending in October at in-line or slightly below the current consensus view for a profit of 46 cents a share on revenue of $11.6 billion.
"From a geographic standpoint, we are picking up relative strength in the Americas (56%) and Asia-Pacific (17%) while Europe (27%) remains unsurprisingly challenging," Sterne Agee said. "In terms of industry verticals, our feedback suggests healthier trends in SMB (~20%) and service providers (~11%), mixed trends in enterprise (~50%), and weakness in government (~15%). As we have said before, we are hearing that customers are not necessarily canceling projects but scaling back and/or pushing them out. CSCO appears to be doing relatively better than its competitors, taking share, namely because the company has a fresher product line that saw updates in its routing, switching, security, and wireless units."
The current low expectations for the company could translate into heavy appreciation for shareholders, the firm said.
"At this point, we believe downside risk on CSCO shares is limited as investor expectations appear fairly modest," Sterne Agee said. Moreover, we believe carrier spending will pick up in the 2H and beyond driven by 4G LTE. We continue to believe CSCO is an underappreciated turnaround story similar to what we have seen with AAPL, IBM, and EMC in the past. We find its valuation attractive trading at 8.5x our CY13 EPS (6x ex. net cash) and see upside to $23 based on what we think is a reasonable and conservative 8.5x multiple on our CY13 EPS plus $6 in net cash."
Check out TheStreet's quote page for Cisco for year-to-date share performance, analyst ratings, earnings estimates and much more. Target (TGT - Get Report) also reports on Wednesday, and Wall Street is looking for earnings of $1.01 a share in the July-ended quarter on revenue of $16.75 billion. The company has fared well on earnings day of late, beating the consensus view in five straight quarters with an average upside surprise of more than 5% over that span. Consumers have responded favorably to a shift in Target's product offerings as the company has added grocery sections to many locations in order to compete better with Wal-Mart (WMT). Shares of the Minneapolis-based Target have jumped more than 20% in 2012, pushing the stock's forward price-to-earnings ratio to 12.97X vs. a multiple of 13.55X for the S&P 500 as of Friday's close. Other companies reporting on Wednesday include Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Agilent Technologies (A), Applied Materials (AMAT), Citi Trends (CTRN), Deere (DE), Hot Topic (HOTT), Limited Brands (LTD), NetApp (NTAP), Petsmart (PETM), SINA Corp. (SINA), and Staples (SPLS). Wednesday's economic calendar is busy with the Mortgage Bankers Association's weekly mortgage application activity index at 7 a.m. ET; the consumer price index for July at 8:30 a.m. ET; the Empire State Manufacturing survey for August at 8:30 a.m. ET; industrial production and capacity utilization for July at 9:15 a.m. ET; the National Association of Home Builders housing market index for August at 10 a.m. ET, and weekly crude inventories at 10:30 a.m. ET. And finally, JDS Uniphase (JDSU - Get Report) was surging in late trades after the optical networker reported non-GAAP earnings of $35.3 million, or 15 cents a share, on revenue of $439.3 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, beating the average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters for a profit of 12 cents a share in the June-ended period on revenue of $422.6 million. The company also forecast non-GAAP revenue of $415 million to $435 million for its fiscal first quarter ending in September, surrounding the current consensus view of $427.1 million. The stock was last quoted at $11.11, up 4.6%, on after-hours volume of 1.74 million, according to Nasdaq.com. -- Written by Michael Baron in New York.>To contact the writer of this article, click here: Michael Baron.
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