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All-Star Starting Squad Announced
WTF on a whole lot of these picks.
Edit: Link added.
The Anthony Kennedy of BBTF (Scott) Posted: July 01, 2012 at 01:12 PM | 123 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.Poulanc Posted: July 01, 2012 at 09:19 PM (#4170936)
I am a bigger Adam Dunn fan than most anyone, but he probably doesn't belong on the squad. Willingham or Encarnacion would have been better choices.102. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: July 01, 2012 at 09:24 PM (#4170942)
Mark Trumbo has revealed he has accepted an invitation to be on the team and it sounds like Prince Fielder will be on the AL team as well.
Speaking of travesties, Lance Lynn is 27th in the NL in ERA and 30th in WHIP. He's 10th in Ks. How is he doing on this team, other than LaRussa being a joke of an All Star game manager?
I love to bash TLR as much as the next guy, but Lynn was a player's choice. WINS!!!
Altuve is first guy 5-5 or shorter to hit 5 HR since Fred Patek. Yes, really.
Oh but is he 'scrappy?' I'm guessing he would be, if he was white.
Sandy Alderson's first tweet in months:105. Rusty Mitchener Posted: July 01, 2012 at 09:26 PM (#4170947)
Wright vs.Sandoval: A city of 8 million was outvoted by a city of 800,000.
Lynn was 10-3 with a 2.42 ERA when the players picked him. A totally resonable selection.106. The Anthony Kennedy of BBTF (Scott) Posted: July 01, 2012 at 09:35 PM (#4170957)
Ah, well, that makes a pretty big difference. Grumbling withdrawn.107. Crosseyed and Painless Posted: July 01, 2012 at 09:51 PM (#4170965)
I think it would be cooler to watch old timers come in to pitch the All Star game than relief pitchers.108. tshipman Posted: July 01, 2012 at 10:06 PM (#4170970)
Wright vs.Sandoval: A city of 8 million was outvoted by a city of 800,000.
Quality over quantity.
It doesn't hurt that every team must be represented and Altuve is the only representative of the Astros.Altuve was voted in by the players. Playing for the Astros had nothing to do with his selection.
. . . the Nationals could conceivably place four players on the NL team if Harper wins the final vote. Wow.
Going to be difficult for Harper to win when many of his supporters will be without electricity throughout the voting period. Sure, there are smart phones, but who will use up their limited battery life to vote 25 times?
As of 9:00 PM tonight, 27% of the Metro DC area homes are still without power, including just under 50% of Montgomery County. Given PEPCO's track record, a lot of those people will be lucky to get their power restored in time to watch the All-Star game, let alone in time to be participating in any internet votes.
As of 9:00 PM tonight, 27% of the Metro DC area homes are still without power, including just under 50% of Montgomery County.I am currently sleeping in my office because of this -- Montgomery County resident, natch.
The real pisser is that I didn't lose my power until AFTER the storm had passed. LONG afterwards -- 12:30 on Saturday afternoon, in fact? WTF could have possibly happened there??
I really think it's time to drop the "every team gets an All-Star" policy. Huston Street has pitched 20 innings. That Greinke or Cueto has to stay home so Huston Street can be there is a disservice to the game in my opinion.113. Orangepeel Posted: July 01, 2012 at 11:39 PM (#4171006)
And there are too many damn relief pitchers every year.
As far as crimes against selection go, closers with a hot half-season screwing over veteran starters. Case in point: almost the entire AL bullpen over Jake Peavy.
Extend that to basically the entire pitching selection over Peavy, who is pretty close to Verlander in numbers and probably has a case over anyone else on that roster.
Also, at risk of sounding like a huge White Sox homer, I think Pierzynski could have an argument over any AL catcher. Mauer is the only one better offensively, and he has half the time at the position.115. Cooper Nielson Posted: July 02, 2012 at 01:12 AM (#4171050)
I wanted to complain about Zack Greinke getting snubbed, but:116. Fred Lynn Nolan Ryan Sweeney Agonistes Posted: July 02, 2012 at 01:23 AM (#4171054)
1. That's a fantastic NL pitching staff, and it's hard to say anyone doesn't belong. Miley's there because you need a D-Back, and he's certainly been good if not quite at the level of the other guys. Street's there because you need a Padre, and he's been just about as good as any reliever in the NL when he hasn't been on the DL. The least worthy discretionary pick is probably Lance Lynn, and two starts ago he would have been right in the middle of the pack.
2. Greinke's possibly not even the best pitcher left off the team: Bumgarner, Cueto and McDonald didn't make it either. Then there's Vogelsong and Zimmermann (if you like WAR), no-hit Santana, Capuano, Burnett, Dempster, etc.
So I guess I can't really complain. Heckuva year for pitchers in the NL.
Josh Reddick wuz ROBBED.117. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: July 02, 2012 at 02:07 AM (#4171058)
I love All-Star Game threads. In fact I'm fairly certain I love All-Star Game threads more than I love the actual All-Star Game.
The thread for the 2008 ASG is still one of the most memorable aspects of that entire season for me and that's saying something, since that was the year the only legitimately great Cubs team in my lifetime seemed to reel off great moment after great moment.
But it's weird that the argument has become a defense of the notion that the first half of the current season, which is the only information on the performance of players for this season, shouldn't be that highly considered when choosing this year's all star team.
If it makes it easier for you to navigate this thread and discussion to set up a false strawman to knock down, then so be it. But I didn't say or do what you are saying I did. All I did was include second half data with this years data to see how things would look. If you would apply logic and reason, you would understand that what I posted does indeed include information from this seasons performance. Hence "the last 162 games". In one particular case that data happened to show things a bit closer between Sandoval and Wright, at least by one measure, and you kinda freaked out about it.
I guess I should have voted for Ellsbury.
Now see THIS is whats kinda weird.
Nobody is telling you to elect Ellsbury. What I posted is just one more data point to consider, not some be all end all list that should be adhered to strictly without thinking. Nobody told you to stop thinking, stop reasoning. There are all sorts of caveats, buts, and qualifications to make when looking at that list, or any other for that matter.
There's 16 qualified pitchers in the NL with ERAs under 3. There's 6 in the AL. As a whole, there's only 17 qualified AL pitchers with ERAs under 4 while there's 39(!) in the NL. There's a sizable difference in R/G, NL teams score 4.20 a game, AL teams 4.45, but that doesn't come close to explaining the whole difference. Is it just a health thing?120. Crispix reaches boiling point with lackluster play Posted: July 02, 2012 at 12:13 PM (#4171291)
I really think it's time to drop the "every team gets an All-Star" policy. Huston Street has pitched 20 innings. That Greinke or Cueto has to stay home so Huston Street can be there is a disservice to the game in my opinion.121. The Anthony Kennedy of BBTF (Scott) Posted: July 02, 2012 at 12:23 PM (#4171309)
Joel Hanrahan is also there, although his team already has a representative.
I think the "players vote and their second choice gets onto the team" rule is a worse one, as Walt Davis explains in #85. Bryan LaHair is one of two Cubs on the team, because an unspecified number of players voted for him ahead of Joey Votto. Chase Headley deserves to make the All-Star team one of these years, and he could have been in LaHair's spot.
It'd be nice if the player balloting could be done just after the fan balloting closed, so they knew who had been picked already. I don't have any idea about how the logisitics of that would work.122. Misirlou is too lofty, and grabs up all the light Posted: July 02, 2012 at 12:26 PM (#4171314)
Also, Kemps participating in the derby but not the game, which is kinda weird.
Also, Kemps participating in the derby but not the game, which is kinda weird.
See, I don't get that. The HR derby has to be far more strenuous than playing CF for 2 innings and batting once.
See, I don't get that
Chicks do not dig "I helped my league's representative secure home field advantage for the World Series."
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"Great Scifi Quasi-Religious Epic, So-So Narrator?"
David Weber is a prolific writer of a good number of series, but this one stands apart from his work because of the scope, excellent character/plot interaction, and a grand sense of an epic tale just getting underway. Future technologies, vast space armadas, aliens, medieval settings, fantastic intrigue, and wait...a warrior/priest/wizard robot using disguised technology to guide an entire planet into their destined future...AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN MAJOR PLOT POINTS AWAY!
Why not pick a great narrator to match the work, someone who could carry this exciting centuries-spanning tale with the energy and depth it deserves? Say, a "Roy Dotrice" style narrator, who brings accents, timely verbal emphasis, and a stronger sense of placement to the narration? No offense, Wyman, but this is a work that is still a bit beyond you. Work on it. Practice makes perfect, but not on this audiobook just yet.
Still, this is no reason not to get this audiobook. It's an WONDERFUL listen, despite the narrator, and it's only the first in the series - Please do yourself a favor, and buy this audiobook. I've gone back twice to listen to it all over again, and enjoyed it. I'm confident you'll do the same.
I am an avid eclectic reader.
"Off Armageddon Reef"
This is book one of a new series called Safehold. Safehold is a planet that humans have hid on to seek survival of the human race from destruction. The goal was to stay a low tech world so it would not be seen by the enemy. They set up a religion to control people and a simple society. The story starts from here and was slow to get going but by the end of the book I was hooked and looking forward to the next book. I think I prefer the Honor Harrington series better but they are much different stories.
"One-dimensional, no suspense."
The premise is quite original; placing an historical novel in the future is a nice twist. The problems I have with the book are twofold: first, the characters are terribly one-dimensional. The first reviewer references George R.R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones", but Martin knows how to build characters of startling complexity. They begin as villians and become, gradually, heroic - or vice versa. Weber's characters are nearly comedically bad or disgustingly good. They have no crises that alter their personalities and I nearly found myself cheering for the wrong side at the end. The second problem is that despite Weber's attempt to make the odds seem overwhelmingly against the protaginists, it is painfully clear that there is no way in the (new) world that they will so much as work up a sweat utterly defeating their enemies. There is virtually no suspense; nothing hangs in the balance. Still, the anti-technical society, the theocratic rulers and the detail in which the world (as opposed to the characters) is rendered give me at least some hope for the next installment.
"A good foundation"
A good book if it willbe the first in a series. That being said if it's meant to stand on it's own it's mildly muddled. I assume, given the description that the main chracter is Nimue. that being said "she" doesn't appear that often and when "she" does it's either for some rather unbelievable action sequence or to suffer a historical dissertation.
Don't get me wrong, history is important but the relevance of the speches given (or thought) is something that weighs the story down. Unlike where there's a fairly clear dominant main character in the say the Prince Rogers series, this book suffers from too many characters with little or no background to understand thier motivations.
The book is described as a "sci-fi epic" it's not, it's more a historical military novel with a few sci-fi bits as plot props.
I really can decide how I feel about it. I'm going to reread it again but at least for the first read-thru I didn't care about any of the characters and the bits of SF that were included are very good concepts but either allow deus ex machina style plotting or add littleif antyhing to move the story forward.
I suppose it could be arged that SF is a relative term given the planet's tech levels but for my midn that's stretching things a bit.
"WARNING WARNING Read only if you like details!"
I recommend this book highly if you want to know everything about everybody and are not that interest in a story moving forward. I finished all of the 6 books out so far. If I would have known that every minor detail of everything was in the story I would not have started. This book is interesting and Sci Fi after this one you need to go to Wikipedia and study Naval and land warfare tactics of the 18th (Sailing ships and what came next) century. You will learn every and I mean every single thing about handling a ship of war (in another book).
Example (trust me not a spoiler) in a further book down the line you learn in about 20 minutes of audio how a super minor character fixed a plumbing (water pipe issue) in a city. After the excruciating details of how he tracked the water lines to find a leak and then the method of repair the story is allowed to proceed. WTF?
I LOVE David Weber and have read or listened to just about all he has written. I just finished the Honor Harrington series = awesome! He does love details and the creation of worlds but in this series he went off the deep end.
Ok here is a HUGE complaint against audible. If you start a series with a narrator stick with the same one Oliver does a fantastic job given the amount of text he has to read through. Audbile switches narrators three times in this series. Voices and pronunciations of names and places change (although that may not matter so much since you get so many names and places you really can't keep track!)
The overall story after reading the six books so far is pretty good you only need to cut out about 2,000 pages of fluff and political intrigue. Then maybe...
If you are into big long highly detailed stories this is the series for you. If you are a science fiction fan this is not the series for you.
Slight SPOILER ALERT: The premise is to defeat an alien enemy in space. Considering this book starts us off with late 17th century tech and after 6 books and near 150 hours of audio we have only moved to the18th century - how will we ever get to space? One maybe two "tech" ideas are introduced per book and the tech is how to build (in extreme detail) an 18th century weapon.
"Great story, but pronunciation a little weird"
My only complaint with the audio books is the tendency of the narrator to pronounce "zh" as a z sound instead of "j". My impression is that the " archangels" phonenticized English and so all the names should be pronounced more like their traditional English spellings.
While I am drawn in by the insightful descriptions of the military technology and its ramifications, I am equally put off by the near complete lack of personalities. Almost everyone is completely rational in every circumstance, and they all reason in the same way, even expressing themselves idenrically. The only thing lending diversity to the fast is the excellent narrator.
"a great listen"
over the years I have listened to this series several times and love the narrator


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He remains in custody at the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office and is being held on a parole violation warrant.
He has a lengthy criminal history and has been in prison five times, police said.
'The suspect knew the victims to some degree,' District Attorney General Randy York said at a press conference on Friday but would not provide further details.
During a news conference on Friday, prosecutors and police gave no indication of a possible motive. Asked if the crime was drug-related, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said that most crimes of this type involve drugs.
Arrest: Jacob Bennett, 26, is suspected of shooting dead a woman and three teen boys in a rural Tennessee town. He has not yet been charged and is being held on an unrelated parole charge
Found: The bodies were found inside this blue Dodge Neon that was abandoned at Renegade Mountain
Concerns: Residents were suspicious of the car as the former mountain resort is not densely populated
A Facebook post by a close friend of Rikki and Domonic suggested the killings could have been related to drugs. The friend refers to Domonic as Rikki's nephew.
her own Facebook profile, Rikki, who worked as a cashier at WalMart,
wrote a heartfelt letter to her young son, who is believed to be four
years old.
'On the day you were born to forever and a day I have and will always love you,' she wrote to him. 'Nothing can and will separate the strong loving bond of a mother and her son!'
A resident came across the blue Dodge Neon that was parked on an unpaved road off one of Renegade Mountain's main streets at 7am on Thursday.
'They knew that nobody lives on that street, and [the car] just looked odd sitting there,' Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess told WATE.
Missed: Davis, left, was in the car driven by Jacobsen, right. Two other teenage boys were also killed
Loss: Jacobsen, a Walmart cashier from Crossville, leaves behind a young son, pictured
He added: 'Knock on wood, we've not had any [cases] gone unsolved. And we don't want this to be the one that does.'
The community, which was a former ski resort and golf club, is 50 miles west of Knoxville. It is now home to just 43 residents, most of which are young families.
Burgess and other officials contacted the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which sent a specialized crime lab from Nashville. The TBI is still working at the scene.
John Moore, the president of the Renegade Mountain Homeowner's Association, told the Associated Press that there have only been minor crimes in recent years, including drugs and break-ins.
'I believe it was just somebody doing something that required an isolated place and it just happened, unfortunately, to be our sub-development,' Moore said.
'There are 10 miles of road on 3,000 acres. It's easy to get lost or be invisible once you get past the gate.'
Probe: Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation investigate the discovery of four bodies in a vehicle at the former Renegade Mountain resort community near Crab Orchard
Grim discovery: The bodies were found by a resident who saw the car parked on the isolated gravel road
The medical examiner's office will conduct autopsies on the bodies.
'I know this really affected a lot of the high school age kids,' said Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess. 'This is something that's very traumatic and it's never happened in our county before, to this extent.'
Cumberland County Superintendent Donald Andrews said grief counselors have been made available at all three area high schools for both students and staff.
Davis had been a sophomore at Cumberland County High School, where he'd been 'well-received' by other students after moving there from another state, Andrews said.
Lajeunesse had attended both Cumberland and Stone Memorial High Schools before being home schooled, Andrews said.
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Performer Franck Rabilier could have run away and joined the circus. Instead, he and wife Delphine created their own using their yacht as a 'big top'.
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Franck and Delphine and their daughters Loeva and Ondja have been on the water for 10 years sailing from their native France to wherever the trade winds take them.
At the moment it's Australia and the young family set down anchor on the Gippsland Lakes for a few days before tackling Bass Strait, bound for Hobart.
To earn a living, Franck and Delphine have put their comedy and circus performance skills to good use. They use their boat as a floating stage and perform shows which feature acrobatics using the 17-metre high mast as an unusual point from which to dangle.
Unfortunately for Australian audiences, Franck and Delphine have been unable to perform here because of visa restrictions.
"The idea came when we were in Canada as students and we were practicing circus for fun," Franck said.
"We wanted to find a way to be back in France and we had the idea to come back by boat and perhaps take one year with the boat and perform in shows.
"It was not really the idea on the boat or on the land but using the boat to move from place to place and perform acrobatics."
It was some years before the couple realised their dream. They bought a wooden boat which was almost 12 metres long and still under construction.
La Loupiote has held them in good stead over 35,000 nautical miles or 70,000 kilometres and taken them to places like Portugal, Morocco, Caribbean Islands to Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia.
Loeva was a toddler when they set out and now she's a teenager. Five year-old Ondja is a born and bred seafarer.
The girls study by correspondence and return to France for exams.
While Franck and Delphine miss family and friends in France, they've still got many nautical miles of travel ahead.
In coming years they hope the trade winds will take them to Asia and along the African coast.
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Syrian warplanes have bombed an olive oil factory packed with farmers, killing at least 20 people in the latest regime strike to rip through a crowd of civilians, activists said.
The bombing comes as the civil war takes a devastating toll on an already beleaguered population. Human Rights Watch said it found "compelling evidence" that the regime used cluster bombs in an airstrike that killed at least 11 children earlier this week.
It was not immediately clear whether the olive press was the intended target, or if the plane misfired. The government generally does not comment on rebel claims and there was no official reaction to the latest allegations.
But two anti-regime activist groups - the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Co-ordination Committees - said the factory was hit Tuesday (overnight, NZ time) near the northern city of Idlib.
The Observatory said "tens were killed or wounded," while the LCC said at least 20 people were killed. Syria restricts independent media coverage, making it difficult to determine the exact toll.
Both groups depend on a network of activists on the ground around the country.
President Bashar Assad's regime has been relying on air power in recent months, mostly in the northern province of Idlib, the nearby province of Aleppo, Deir el-Zour to the east and suburbs of the capital, Damascus.
Hilal Khashan, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut, said the air force is being used in areas that the overstretched army cannot easily reach.
"This is mass punishment," Khashan said. "The regime is desperate and wants to make the price of its opponents' victory costly."
Olive oil is a main staple in Syria. Tens of thousands of tons are produced annually.
Fadi al-Yassin, an activist based in Idlib, said that dozens of people had gathered to have their olives pressed when the warplanes struck, causing a large number of casualties.
"Now is the season to press oil," said al-Yassin, noting that many olive press factories are not functioning because of the fighting in the region. "Functioning olive press factories are packed with people these days."
Also overnight (NZ time), Syria's air force targeted a village in northeastern Hasekah province as well as the town of Harim, in Idlib province, according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.
At least four people wounded in Hasekah were taken to neighboring Turkey for treatment.
An AP reporter on the Turkish side of the border, across from Harim, saw smoke rising from the town.
The conflict in Syria started 20 months ago as an uprising against Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for four decades. The conflict quickly morphed into a civil war, with rebels taking up arms to fight back against a bloody crackdown by the government. According to activists, some 40,000 people have been killed since March 2011.
Assad blames the revolt on a conspiracy to destroy Syria, saying the uprising is being driven by foreign terrorists - not Syrians seeking change. On Tuesday, the pro-government daily Al-Watan published a list with names of 142 Arab and foreign terrorists it said were killed in Syria in recent months.
The list had names from 18 countries, including 47 from Saudi Arabia, 24 Libyans, 10 Tunisians, nine Egyptians, six Qataris and five Lebanese.
Analysts say most of those fighting Assad's regime are ordinary Syrians and soldiers who have defected, having become fed up with the authoritarian government. But increasingly, foreign fighters and those adhering to an extremist Islamist ideology are turning up on the front lines. The rebels try to play down their influence for fear of alienating Western support.
The regime, however, points to foreign fighters as evidence that the uprising is illegitimate.
As the conflict grinds on, however, the toll on civilians is growing.
Winter is coming, and temperatures can drop below freezing in northern Syria, where it often rains heavily. The parts of the country outside government control have to rely on smuggled supplies of gasoline and heating oil, which have already tripled in price.
The violence is also hitting the most vulnerable.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said evidence has emerged that an airstrike using cluster bombs Sunday on the village of Deir al-Asafir near Damascus killed at least 11 children and wounded others.
Cluster bombs open in flight, scattering smaller bomblets over a wide area. Many of the bomblets don't explode immediately, posing a threat to civilians long afterward. They have been banned by most nations.
"This attack shows how cluster munitions kill without discriminating between civilians and military personnel," said Mary Wareham, arms division advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "Due to the devastating harm caused to civilians, cluster bombs should not be used by anyone, anywhere, at any time."
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To benefit humanity, scientific creativity must be detached from ideology, profit, says Pope
Nov 8, 2004 - 12:00 am
.- This morning Pope John Paul II received participants of the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, whose theme is "science and creativity," and spoke to them of the the spiritual questions raised by scientific discovery, and the need for a scientific creativity which responds to "authentic human development," rather than "financial or ideological conditioniong."
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.- A Catholic-run health insurance plan which does not cover abortion, contraceptives or fertility treatment has been made available to federal employees this morning in part of Illinois, reports Associated Press. According to officials, it is the first plan of its kind to be offered to federal employees.
Eucharist is the pinnacle of prayer for the dead, says Pope
Nov 8, 2004 - 12:00 am
.- Pope John Paul II, prior to praying the Angelus yesterday with the faithful in St. Peter's Square, reminded them that "popular devotion dedicates the month of November to the memory of the deceased faithful," and that the summit of prayer for the dead is the sacrament of the Eucharist.
Iraqi bishop says Islamists will not drive Christians out
Nov 8, 2004 - 12:00 am
.- An Iraqi archbishop said Islamists will not drive Christians out of Iraq because of their strong Christian faith.
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Nov 8, 2004 - 12:00 am
.- A coalition of pro-life groups is planning a "pray-in" Nov. 10 at the Dirksen Senate Office building to ask that pro-abortion Senator Arlen Spector not be reappointed as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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.- The seventh of 13 Canadian jurisdictions legalized same-sex marriage Nov. 5. A Saskatchewan court ruled that the traditional definition of marriage, as the union of one man and one woman, is unconstitutional.
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.- During a press conference organized by the Bishops Conference of Spain in which the bishops announced the launching of a national campaign to "mobilize the consciences" of Catholics against euthanasia, the president of the National Federation of Associations of Spinal Cord Injury Victims and the Severely Handicapped, Alberto de Pinto, said if there is anything that unites the country's 12 million spinal cord injury sufferers it is their love for life and their rejection of euthanasia as a solution to their anguish.
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A fast, water-resistant phone with improved battery life? Samsung commits to improving the basics on its flagship smartphone.
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How do you follow up one of the most feature-packed phones in the world?
Samsung answers that big question with the Galaxy S5, now in stores. The Korean electronics manufacturer has spent huge on marketing and a vast array of phone and phablet products, which has helped turn the company into the second largest phone-maker in the world behind Apple.
The Galaxy family of phones has also improved, and the S4 came with a slew of whiz-bang features that were almost overwhelming for users. It definitely required some patience and experimentation to learn to use it just right. Some of the additions came off as downright gimmicky. But it's hard to knock, the sales numbers, which finally gave some real hype to Android devices.
For its encore, Samsung has definitely gone iterative, as opposed to truly innovative, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
As with all tech, this year's model bristles with impressive specs, a 2.5GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 2800mAh battery, 16/32GB of memory (with up to 128GB extra through microSD), and the phone is really fast, jumping among apps and online.
In terms of the design, it is slightly thicker than the S4, with a larger 5.1-inch screen, and has a thicker metal band running around its body, that attaches to the new pinhole-covered back. The back is supposed to seem classier, but it has a sort of faux leather feel that still appears cheap and is boxier than the previous model. Its most recently released Android competitor, the HTC One M8, still wins on the design front with its all-metal body that feels much sleeker.
But the Samsung's back and metal band help provide a useful function: the phone is water resistant. Now that doesn't mean you should go swimming with it, but according to IP67 standards, it can be submerged for a short time and still remain working. The body also makes it more dust resistant.
Another smart improvement is the battery life; I got almost a day and a half of regular use out of it. It also has an Ultra Battery Saving mode, which in an emergency can suck hours of extra life from a dying battery. You still have to be careful how you use your phone, but it turns off things like background notifications that suck up power.
The 5.1-inch Super Amoled display remains one of the tops on the market. It also has a large number of controls to get it just right. It's a gorgeous screen, really bright and sharp, and one of the best features of the phone.
The camera has been improved too, bumping up to 16 megapixels from 13 in the previous model. The company is hyping the swift autofocus feature and that works fairly well, but it's not perfect, and I had to fiddle with it to get the right focus. But it takes bright, beautiful pictures.
Cellphone innovation is a copycat business, so Samsung has followed the competition with an onscreen fingerprint scanner to unlock the phone. Unfortunately, this scanner is finicky, and finger placement needs to be just so to get it to work right. It is just not as good as the TouchID on the iPhone 5S.
The other addition is a sensor on the back, underneath the camera, which works as a heart-rate monitor, which reads your pulse from your finger. It's obviously not as accurate as a chest monitor, but it works fairly well. This can be chalked up to the company's commitment to S Health, Samsung's suite of health monitoring tools, which work with its smartwatch and the Gear Fit, the flashy activity monitor bracelet.
But the key things to take away are that while this phone still has many of the S4's features, a lot of the thinking went into improving some of the basics like speed, durability and battery life.
It is not the slickest designed phone, and the harder question is whether those improvements are enough to mandate an upgrade. The common sense approach is that for most people, even last year's model is more than good enough. There doesn't seem to be a killer feature that should make people run out and get it, but by dialing down the hype a little bit, Samsung has made a phone that improves on a lot of the things that really matter to consumers. In these days of over-hyped innovation cellphone feature wars, that actually feels refreshing.
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European and US stocks have suffered one of the worst quarterly falls for the markets in the past decade.
Stocks dropped broadly on Friday in fresh signs that Europe's debt problems and the US economy continue to languish.
The Dow Jones, Standard & Poors (S&P) 500 and Nasdaq each lost more than 12 per cent this quarter, the first time that has happened since the financial crisis crested at the end of 2008.
Wall Street's main Dow Jones index dropped 240.60 points, or 2.2 per cent, to 10,913.38.
The broader S&P 500 index shed 28.98, or 2.5 per cent, to 1,131.42.
The Nasdaq composite index fell 65.36, or 2.6 per cent, to 2,415.40.
Markets have been wracked this summer by growing fears about a possible default by Greece and the increasing likelihood of a global recession.
The S&P 500, the benchmark for most US stock mutual funds, has lost 14.3 per cent since July 1, the start of the third quarter.
"The market has really seen some damage this quarter," said Mike Hurley, portfolio manager of Highland Trend Following Fund.
The weakness appears to be the start of a longer decline, Hurley said, because bonds are increasing in value and interest rates are low.
Traders also are selling commodities such as oil, which would lose value in an economic downturn.
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Persistent squabbling over financial policy has been a major obstacle to achieving a lasting solution to Europe's debt crisis.
Many European leaders and traders believe Greece will default in the coming weeks or months.
Traders have reacted strongly to news and rumours out of Europe about how the crisis is being addressed.
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Saturday, August 1, 2015
Breakfast Links: Week of July 27, 2015
Saturday, August 1, 2015
• The story of Spitalfields silk.
• An early Victorian dress, inside and out.
• In elegant penmanship: a merchant's 1763 accounting book of the sales of African men, women, and children in Philadelphia.
• Photographer Eugene Atget captured the now-lost streets of old Paris about to be swept away.
• Flat roofs: 19thc. Italianate houses in upstate New York.
• Bodysnatching in 1816: a bad year to be alive, or dead.
• Image: One of Horace Walpole's "Gothic Lanthorns" from his house at Strawberry Hill.
• Seventeenth century women on horseback in art.
• The groaning Georgian dining table with the elaborate epergne at its center.
• Cracking open the history of fortune cookies.
• The Great New England Earthquake of 1663 came with a "roar like a great fire."
• Image: Mother of pearl fan, French, c.1895.
• Art and design meet in this "behind the seams" look at a 1918 dress by Lucile.
• The freaks and fascinations of 18thc. entertainment.
• Recreating 19thc. whitework embroidery.
• Who knew that Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's School Days, also founded the idyllic town of Rugby, Tennessee, as a social experiment?
• The over-the-top coronation of George IV.
• Bigamy and bankruptcy: the unfortunate tale of 1750s Boston shopkeeper Henrietta Maria East Caine.
• Waiting for a summer promenade: eight of Britain's most historic surviving seaside piers.
• Image: Startling remedy for hiccups from an 18thc. herbal.
• "Have I been poisoned?" Real questions asked of an oracle by ancient Greeks.
• Women hunting, shooting, & fowling across the centuries in art.
• How to shop like a fashionable Regency gentleman.
• Image: A 19thc cartoon of "indoor cycling" complete with cinemetograph and fan.
• "A recipe for a Pomander": excerpts from a 17thc perfume book.
• All that flitters: spectacular sparkling wallpaper from 1910.
• Thought-provoking piece about how American slavery is presented on plantation tours.
• Image: Unabashedly unsubtle recruitment poster from WWI.
• Unfair sport: a brief history of Dickens-bashing.
• How Singer won the sewing machine war.
• Mass graves of Napoleon's soldiers recently found in Lithuania show that many died of disease and starvation, not battle.
• Manchester University launches largest-ever online collection of the work of Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell.
• Image: Just for fun: In 1951, Harlequin Books wasn't just publishing romances.
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Friday, July 31, 2015
Summer Rerun: Leaving Work, 1895
Friday, July 31, 2015
Since everyone is in a rush to leave work on Friday afternoons in the summer, I thought I'd once again share this early silent video clip.
Isabella reporting,
After posting the early film clip from 1896 of a snowball fight, the creation of the pioneering French film-maker Louis Lumière (1864-1948), I looked for more of his work to share here.
This short silent clip is known as Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (La Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon), and it's exactly that. Using natural daylight, Lumière set his camera across the street from the exit of his family's factory at closing time and recorded the workers – mostly women, though there are a few men in top hats – leaving for the day, plus a single large, inquisitive dog. Lumière filmed the same scene three times, on three different days, which accounts for the varying light as well as other differences like the carriages that come through the gate.
While I love seeing the clothes worn by everyday working women (plus the hats!), this film is famous for another reason. It was one of ten short films shown together to an audience on December 28, 1895 at the Salon Indien du Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, making this the first public screening of films with an admission fee charged. Each film ran about 50 seconds, shown through a hand-cranked projector. And, as the old saying goes, the rest is history.
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
True Love According to Helen Rowland
Thursday, July 30, 2015
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Helen Rowland (1875-1950)was called "America's Bernard Shaw." Unfortunately, not an awful lot is known about her, and I've turned up exactly two pictures (one only last night—to feature in a future post).
It's been a while since I've posted any of her wit and wisdom.* This one, on love, is rather sweet, for her.
*Blog posts here, here, and here.
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Page images from Helen Rowland, A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1922).
Illustration: "La Câline," from Gazette du bon ton (1922) [edited], courtesy Internet Archive.
Clicking on the image will enlarge it. Clicking on the caption will take you to the source, where you can learn more and enlarge images as needed.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
What the Seamstresses Wore, c.1775
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
I'm visiting Colonial Williamsburg again this week, and of course I visited our friends in the Margaret Hunter millinery shop. In the past, I've shared different posts about what some of these shop's ladies were wearing (here's a mantua-maker's apprentice, a woman blacksmith, and a housewife), all dressed in replicas of 18thc clothing that was made by hand in the shop. Everything is cut, fitted, and stitched entirely by hand, using 18thc methods, and I'll be writing about more of their fashions in the next few posts.
This summer, the shop is blessed with a number of hardworking and gifted young interns to help not only with interpretations for visitors, but also contribute their stitching skills with a needle.
This would have been quite typical of an 18thc mantua-maker's (dressmaker's) shop. The shop's mistress of the trade, likely the owner, would be the one who designed and fitted the dresses, and interacted the most with customers. The more complicated work in creating the dresses would be done by the next level of skilled worker, the journey-women. Below them would be the apprentices, and at the bottom of the shop's hierarchy would be the seamstresses, women whose skills were usually limited to straight seams and "plain" stitching. As can be expected, there were more seamstresses than anything else, and they were the lowest on the pay scale, too. Georgian literature is filled with pitiful seamstresses who cannot make ends meet on their meager earnings, and too often meet with unhappy endings.
I can report, however, that the intern/seamstresses in the Margaret Hunter shop are all prospering merrily, and all say they'll be very sorry to see their internships end. Here are two of them, dressed appropriately for their station and positions working in a fashionable shop around 1775.
On the left, above, is Maggie Roberts. She is wearing a jacket that laces up the front, and is made from a reproduction Dutch printed cotton. The jacket is worn with a tucker, a cotton kerchief, a ruffled cotton cap with a silk ribbon, a cotton apron over a linen petticoat, and a coral necklace. On the right is Peryn Westerhof Nyman, who is wearing a center-front closing English gown with her skirts looped up over her petticoat, a cotton apron, cap, and kerchief, and silk ribbon bows on her bodice and cap.
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And yes, these saucy seamstresses were turned out literally head to toe in their Georgian finery, lower left, and eager to show off their flirtatious clocked stockings. (There must have been some male apprentices nearby.) The pink-heeled mules were made by journey-woman Sarah Woodyard, while the the black shoes and the reproduction stockings are made by the company American Duchess.
Interested in becoming a mantua-maker's intern next summer? The Margaret Hunter shop begins accepting applications in late winter for the following summer. Follow them on Facebook for more information as it becomes available.
All photographs ©2015 by Susan Holloway Scott.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
An Early 1900s Lingerie Dress for Hot Summer Days
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
It's steamy weather in New England. Nowadays when temperatures soar, we shed layers of clothing. Depending on our age and fashion sense, we wear not only fewer clothes, but skimpier ones: short sleeves or no sleeves, short skirts, short shorts.
This was not the case in times past. An Edwardian lady would faint dead away if someone proposed she go out of her bedroom, let alone go out in public, with her limbs exposed. Same goes for her predecessors.
As Isabella/Susan has shown in dress posts here and here, the solution in the past was lighter weight, airier materials.
For the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and continuing into the 1920s, the solution was the lingerie dress. During a visit to the American Textile History Museum in Lowell Massachusetts for Astrida Schaeffer's talk, Mentioning Unmentionables, I took photos of this fine example of a lingerie dress from the museum's collection.
I'm posting the information card from the museum, but you can find out a great deal more about lingerie dresses from this post at On Pins and Needles, which includes some lovely illustrations.
A few more examples:
1913 here
1915 here
The dress, dated 1904-07, is the gift of Michelle Whitlow. It belonged to the estate of her great grandmother, Miriam Olive Hill.
Please click on images to enlarge.
Posted by LorettaChase at 12:30 AM
Labels: 20th century, American Textile History Museum, Edwardians, fashion, fashion history, historic dress, history, Loretta Chase, Victorian era
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