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WASHINGTON — A Syrian hacking group's reported defacing of Qatari government webpages over the weekend could signal a new direction for the organization that has infiltrated Western news websites and is loyal to Bashar Assad, the civil-war-torn country's embattled president.
Still, U.S. cybersecurity experts said they don't expect the so-called Syrian Electronic Army to take steps as drastic as compromising U.S. nuclear facilities or crippling the critical infrastructure of a major world power through a cyber attack — at least not in the near future, and not without help from other countries.
The Syrian Electronic Army is loyal to Assad, though U.S. analysts say its specific ties to the regime are not clear. The group in recent months has targeted news and communications websites in and out of the United States, with suspected actions including disabling the New York Times' page in August and posting pro-Assad messages on a U.S. Marines Corps page in September. It infamously caused U.S. stock markets to dip in April after posting a fake news alert about a White House bombing on the Associated Press' Twitter page.
This past Sunday, Qatari officials said they recovered government websites targeted by the Syrian Electronic Army, including the Qatari interior ministry's site, according to Middle Eastern news reports.
"It's pretty interesting that (the Syrian Electronic Army) went to Qatar," said Christopher Ahlberg, CEO and cofounder of Recorded Future in Cambridge, Mass., a company that tracks computer infiltrations around the world. The Syrian Electronic Army reportedly said it targeted Qatar because it supports Syrian rebels. In an interview with Global Security Newswire, Ahlberg also pointed to another possible motivation: "Maybe it's because the attractive targets in the U.S. and the U.K. are now locked down now, so they have to go elsewhere."
If that is the case, more countries could be subject to the Syrian Electronic Army's tactics, which are described in recent reports by network-security company Fire Eye, internet-content-delivery firm Akamai and Washington think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Those actions include website defacings, denial-of-service attacks, "phishing" campaigns to trick computer users to reveal passwords and sensitive codes, and e-mail spamming of governments, media outlets and online services.
Previously, the Syrian hacking group had been tied to some attacks of government websites — including a reportedly failed attempt to disrupt the water supply in the Israeli city of Haifa and a potentially successful breach of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense email system, both in May. However, the validity of those reports has been questioned, according to U.S. analysts. Akamai's Oct. 16 report also says the Syrian Electronic Army "has been associated with the posting of pro-Syrian propaganda" to the Facebook pages of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Treasury, the White House and President Obama.
The U.S. National Security Agency is believed to be investigating the Syrian Electronic Army, by accessing some members' computers and networks to understand if they have the capability to launch a larger attack, according to Matthew Rhoades, the director of the Cyberspace & Security Program at the Center for National Policy & Truman National Security Project in Washington. A worst-case scenario could be a catastrophic cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure, including nuclear reactors.
Rhoades, though, in an interview with GSN said he doesn't "know that there is a capability or an intent within these Syrian groups as of today to pursue and successfully complete one of those attacks."
"As far as capabilities, they're considered to be on the lower end of the spectrum," he said. "They're motivated by political reasons right now. So that's why they go after media outlets. That's why they go after some government organizations. That's why they go after anti-Assad groups. They do not appreciate the coverage … [of the] sort of pro-West, anti-Assad news media."
Ahlberg said the Syrian Electronic Army is "not the most sophisticated" group of hackers, when compared to their counterparts in Russia, who have targeted foreign banks, and in China, who have sought military secrets.
It is unclear if the Syrian Electronic Army has connections to more-advanced hacking groups from other nations that are critical of U.S. policy, Rhoades said.
"Iran and Russia would worry me the most, and for two separate reasons," he said. "Russia, because they're highly sophisticated, and so if there's some sort of educational component between the two, that could greatly expand Syrian capabilities. … (And) If anybody was motivated to do something on the cyber-attack side of the scale, from a nation-state perspective, you would imagine it would be Iran."
While U.S.-Iranian relations are improving, Rhoades noted they still are tenuous.
Kenneth Geers, a senior global threat analyst for Milpitas, Calif.-based FireEye, said the United States "absolutely" should be concerned about Russian and Iranian hackers training and aiding the Syrian Electronic Army.
"Cyberspace is a reflection of traditional social, political, and military affairs," he said in an emailed response to questions. "Russia and Iran are Syria's allies in traditional space, so they are Syria's allies in cyberspace."
Geers, whose past government roles include stints at the National Security Agency and NATO, said he believes two factors suggest the Syrian Electronic Army possesses an "advanced persistent threat," which he defines as having the direct or indirect support of a nation state: "First, the duration of SEA's attacks: over two years; second, their gravity: within a week in July 2013, SEA compromised international communications websites used by hundreds of millions of users around the world," he said.
A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman declined to talk specifically about what the United States is doing to monitor and defend against cyber attacks from Syria.
Air Force Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, though, in an emailed response to questions noted: "We've seen a series of attacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army over the past several years, so the recent attacks were not a new phenomenon."
He said the Pentagon "takes seriously its mission to defend the nation from any group that attempts to use cyberspace to threaten U.S. security or national interests."
The U.S. government routinely shares threat information with the private sector through the Department of Homeland Security in order to "mitigate much of the threat activity we have seen recently," the Pentagon spokesman noted.
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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
2/12/2012 (4 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan came to the South Bronx to bless a
library. He offered no blessings for President Barack Obama, who wants
Catholic institutions to pay for birth control, the morning after pill
and other services for people who work for them. Dolan offered a sharp
rebuke that put even more pressure on the president to calm widening
election year uproar.
"The federal government should do what it's traditionally done since July 4, 1776, namely back out of intruding into the internal life of a church," Dolan told television reporters.
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
2/12/2012 (4 years ago)
Published in Marriage & Family
Keywords: Timothy Dolan, birth control, health care, rebuke
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "The federal government should do what it's traditionally done since July 4, 1776, namely back out of intruding into the internal life of a church," Dolan told television reporters.
The leader of the New York Archdiocese won support from Speaker John Boehner, who said either Obama will need to reverse the policy -- or the House shall.
"The federal government has drifted dangerously beyond its constitutional boundaries. This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and will not stand," Boehner said.
The White House has been left foundering in the midst of the controversy. The administration wants to find some way to calm Catholic opposition -- but says it will not back down on the policy.
"I want to be clear today that the commitment to insuring the women has access to these important health care services remains very strong," Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
Those rallying behind the president include New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, reports CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez.
"The power to decide whether or not to use contraception lays with a woman, not her boss," Sen. Gillibrand said.
"It's time to tell those Republicans mind you're own business," Sen. Lautenberg said.
One avenue of compromise may include granting leeway for a church-related organization not to cover birth control, but refer employees to another insurer that will provide the coverage.
Dolan declined comment on the proposal but added, "I would welcome the fact that officials of the government are saying we need to rethink that."
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Mother-to-be Aley Meyer was so excited to have a child, she didn't notice the image of Christ until someone else pointed it out during her baby shower. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "She was like, 'do you see this?' And I was like, 'see what?' And she pointed to ... continue reading
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When cat-owner Doug Taw heard a few gunshots in his Ardleigh, Essex neighborhood, he thought nothing of it. He continued with his regular routine until he realized his 3-year-old cat, Puss-Puss, didn't come home that night. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According ... continue reading
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Video: Dr Vandana Shiva on Proposition 37 and GMOs
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- Dr. Vandana Shiva is interviewed on her views relating to Proposition 37, the Californian ballot initiative to make GMO labeling mandatory, and about GMOs as a whole.
has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. Intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, genetic engineering are among the fields where Shiva has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns.
Trained as a physicist, Shiva is the founder of
, "a movement which aims to protect nature and people's rights to knowledge, biodiversity, water and food," by creating community seed banks among other things.
host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Shiva in the backyard of a private home in Santa Monica on October 30, 2012.
Shiva discusses labeling of GMO products, as well as how a genetically modified organism is created. She covers the various scientific studies which have been run to show the dangers of GMOs. She also talks about the pressure that Monsanto, together with the US government, places on governments, including India, and why so many thousands of Indian farmers have committed suicide.
Extracts from the interview read as follows:
"I think Proposition 37 is an opportunity for both the US citizens - and I put the US citizens first - and the US government to catch up with the rest of the world. Europe has had mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food from the early part of around 2003.
"India has just announced mandatory labeling beginning first of January 2013. And this is out of a case we filed in 2006 saying every citizen has a right to know what they are eating and a right to choose. ...why should the government and the industry be scared of just putting there, 'This has GMOs,' if they are not worried about what GMOs do and they are not worried about how much facts they are suppressing in the process of pushing GMOs on unwilling consumers, not getting the full information."
"What is the science of genetic engineering? It is really not a science; it's a technology of shooting a gene that doesn't belong to a plant through two means. One is a gene gun and one is an agro bacterium, a plant cancer. You don't know where it's landing; you don't have the science of prediction. You don't know what it is doing. You don't know if it is getting absorbed, that was why you add anti-biotic resistance markers. You know the plant is not expressing it so you add super virulent viruses to pump up the expression. They're called promoters. So, you have a bundle of toxic risky genes."
"All of the real science tells us there is a phenomena called horizontal gene transfer in nature, when vertical is where your genes are taken from your parents, it's offspring to offspring. Horizontal is when it moves across species. We know the bacteria in our food hybridize with the bacteria in our gut. We know the viruses in our food hybridize with the viruses in our gut. We know, in spite of them saying the BT toxin doesn't last, new studies in Canada show it has been found in the blood of pregnant women and in the fetuses they've given birth to."
"A new study in France, a two year feeding study shows high levels of mammalian cancer. A similar study had similar results, in Russia in the Academy of Sciences. These are independent scientists with absolutely no involvement in any business industry interest. They are what we call public scientists."
"UK government asked Arpad Putzai, one of the most eminent scientists to do a study on GM foods, way back around 98' and he did it. He was actually a promoter of genetic engineering, but when he did the study, he found the results; the rats he had fed had shrunken brains, enlarged pancreas and a collapse of immunity. He went to his director and said if this has happened with three months of feeding rats, what will happen to a lifetime of feeding human beings, we should inform the public. They did, went all over BBC immediately, this is what we've been told, a call from Monsanto to Tony Blair to get rid of the top scientist who had left Hungary for freedom. And he said I had more freedom in Hungary than in corporate ruled England. That freedom is what the US is losing and US citizens are losing as corporations take over our science, our decision making, our food systems and our seed."
"So Proposition 37 is not an insignificant proposition. It is in a way a reflection of the larger debate in this election. Will money run it or will the people's democratic votes run it? Will democracy in America be of the people, by the people, for the people or is it going to be reduced to of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations? In which case, you have corporate rule and corporate rule means corporate dictatorship and corporate dictatorship as Mussolini said is Fascism, the convergence of political power with economic power. Very dangerous moment, but also a moment that pushes us to take action for freedom."
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Paid Attendance Vs. Paid Attention
It's not supposed to be like this.
First your Opening Day/Night gets rained out. Then the following day/night is cold and windy, but dry, so you go through the ceremonial motions with no one there to watch and clap. Player introductions with some guys just staying in the dugout and others shivering and huddling together along the baselines like penguins. A video tribute to Bob Feller on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the only Opening Day no-no in big league history to go along with the Bob Feller bandanas handed out at the turnstiles that folks are using as windbreaks on their cheeks, looking like stagecoach robbers. The silly hat-head contest atop the home dugout that's supposed to be decided by the applause-o-meter except it's out-of-order; no power. Saturday night there were probably more people in the skyboxes than the stands. Then the game had barely started when Tony Campana, who looks about as batboyish as his predecessor, Sam Fuld, used to before he donned a cape and became ManRam's replacement, lofted a blooper to left-center leading off the bottom of the first. Memphis' left and center fielders, Andrew Brown and Shane Robinson, respectively, collided in pursuit of it - no skid marks; full-tilt. Poor bastards; 15-20 minutes later they were both scraped off the turf and ambulanced to the hospital with concussions [Robinson also sustained some facial fractures] and the players and fans re-thawed and resumed. Eventually the I-Cubs prevailed, long after I'd taken my media guides and gone home.
Sunday afternoon was better; still chilly but less breezy and the sky was blue. Oneri Fleita was in attendance and sat outdoors, for which I'll give him credit. The Chicago and Iowa Cubs announced that their three-decade long affiliation has been formally extended through 2016. Everyone seemed glad to hear it. I certainly was. Ramon Ortiz started for the I-Cubs and pitched quite a bit better than his line suggests. His arm seemed lively and his command fairly sharp but he fell victim to the limited range and quickness of Bobby [Godblesshim] Scales in the 3rd when Memphis breached the right side of the infield defense and aimed a series of grounders through it. Combined with a couple of flares that dropped gently between IF and OF, one of them off the bat of Fast Freddie Bynum, the bleeding of Ortiz couldn't be stopped until he'd thrown about three dozen pitches in the inning that would be his last. I thought he looked about as good as a guy can while suffering death by a thousand cuts.
Doing my best to simulate conditions more LA-like, I excused myself early again to head home and watch the local club's parents play on television. A foul ball followed me out of the park, landing maybe ten yards behind me in the parking lot and rolling practically right to my car. I picked it up and inspected. It was still pristine except for a small bat-inflicted blemish and the abrasion that resulted from its crash landing on the asphalt. I drove home contemplating the difference between the baseballs we used to play with and the professional ones. Ours usually were dirty, waterlogged and frayed by the time we lost or discarded them. The one in the seat beside me yesterday may have lived only a pitch or two.
The season's start felt false here, but there are plenty more where that ball came from, starting today at noon in the series finale. The forecast includes a good chance of rain and temps below normal. I've gotta work.
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That's gold Jerry, Gold!!!!
so was the paragraph about the baseball
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Yes, nice article, Mike.
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Wells, Cashner exams today, would start throwing if they get the green light, says Wells would be back sooner.
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nothing at all interesting about Castro and Barney from Rosenthal.
McNutt off DL, Ty Wright goes on for Smokies
Cubs due for a win, they've been 1-game up, even or 1-game below .500 all season.
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Want to take a moment to thank the volunteers who have taken over the Bullpen Spreadsheet.
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paul noce, jumbo and crunch...
thanks indeed.
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I have yet to ccontribute to the spreadsheet, but I have a good feeling that I will at some point. Fear not, I'll announce it to board when it happens. Until then, praise be to paul & crunch
Lineups for Mon
Venable 9, Headley 5, Hudson 4, Cantu 3, Hundley 2, Ludwick 7, Maybin 8, Bartlett 6, Stauffer 1...
Castro 6, Barney 4, Byrd 8, Ramirez 5, Pena 3, Soriano 7, Fukudome 9, Soto 2, Zambrano 1...
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What a pitiful lineup... and the Padre's isn't any good either.
I guess this makes Byrd the 2nd worst #3 hitter in the majors.
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pardre lineup is f'n pathetic.
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Tonight, Zambrano is realistically a better hitter than anyone in the Padres lineup :)
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All this confidence will produce a Cubs loss, I'm sure of it. So sayeth the baseball gods
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Says fans of the cat to the kettle.
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...if that makes any sense whatsoever.
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Sometimes I hate always being right.
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try to get back to the recaps this week...
Robert Whitenack with another good start yesterday
6 IP, 1 unearned run, 3 H, 1 BB, 6 K and the win
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try to get back to the recaps this week...
Robert Whitenack with another good start yesterday
6 IP, 1 unearned run, 3 H, 1 BB, 6 K and the win
ROB G: An interesting thing about Rob Whitenack (besides the fact that he skipped AZ Instructs and went back to school after each of the last two seasons) is that he has a very effective sinker that he uses to make hitters get themselves out (hence the extreme GO/FO rate), but once he gets to strike two, he throws a wipeout knuckle-curve for the punch-out. That's why his strikeout totals vary wildly from start-to-start.
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Cubs with 3 quality starts so far this year, tied for worst in the league with Mets
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Yeah they were talking about that on the broadcast yesterday... QBall's stupidity cost Dempster at least one, though, didn't it?
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weren't they one of the NL best last year?
pen last year was so so so so ass. it made the team look worse than it was, really. but hey, the pen is part of the team.
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Too bad we don't have a sucky pitcher named sword... then the pen would be mightier than the sword.
Or at least smarter than Mike Leake.
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"The Cubs led the NL and ranked second in the Majors with 96 quality starts in 2010"
pen was even worse than i thought...bats had to help with some low/no score games, too.
"The Cubs finished with 94 quality starts (three or fewer earned runs over six or more innings) in 2009, tied for second in the majors with the Rockies. Only the Braves (99) had more."
The DeadEndry/Rickettyass Plan
What wasn't broken the last two years?
..starting pitching depth
What's broken beyond belief now.
Redefining success.
Red's Pitcher Mike Leake Arrested for Shop Lifting
He refused bail stating his future was brighter in the joint rather than pitching for Dusty.
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What a moron.
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wow...$425K don't go as far as it used to i guess. this is pretty solid proof the rich need more tax breaks, imo.
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Wow. I make about 10% of the salary that he does and I wouldn't blink an eye to drop $60 on six T-shirts. What a dirt.
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Not to mention the $2.3 million signing bonus as a 1st round draft pick in 2009. Entitlement attitude, perhaps?
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Maybe he was just going to joy-ride them like Sean Estes did that police bike 20 years ago.
Once I bought a pair of pants from there and they didn't remove the anti-theft tag. I didn't notice until a couple days later - so I took it back, but they thought I was trying to steal it... after some discussion they removed the tag for me.
It makes me think that something similar may be involved - like they didn't exchange something for him so he decided to take matters in his own hands.
Weird story.
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"Employees at Macy's called police after they said Leake removed the tags from six American Rag T-shirts, valued at $59.88, and left the store with them.
The incident was captured by security cameras, police documents state."
Looks like he was caught... RED handed.
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Looks like he was caught... RED handed.
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had $250 in cash and credit cards with him, lawyer gonna try and get him through 1st time offender program and get record cleaned.
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funny thing is he's probably been doing this for many many many years. guys like this that are paid, not junkies, etc etc...a lot did it while young, never got busted bad, and just keep doing it for the mild rush. known a few people like this...one guy who didn't even get popped (where he couldn't talk his way out of it) until he was in his late 20s.
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Good thing he's not living in late 18th century England -- he'd probably be sentenced to death with an option to be transported to Australia. In England back then, the most severe penalties were for property crimes -- usually targeting the lower classes. Gotta keep them in their place, you know.
Recent comments
Not just Maddon, but the organization as a whole. If the rumors are to be believed, they did a good job of letting Baez learn that he needed to change his approach, and Baez has done a good job listening to their instructions an adapting. Hopefully the same is true of Alomar, who is ripping up AAA.
Previous management teams haven't been as good at this (e.g. Corey Patterson).
Man, this team makes you greedy. Going into Pittsburgh -- with Cole vs. Hammel Game 1 -- I was hoping for 2 out of 3. After winning the first 2 games 14-3, I now want a sweep. Same thing happened in STL. Very, very fun.
Repeating myself, but I give Maddon a lot of credit for Baez's success. Instead of talking about monster HRs and high K totals, he has talked up his defense, versatility and being a "special" player. The kid seems to have responded.
BOB: The attendance has taken a big hit since you left.
K-DUB: I think the Cubs might consider skipping Dylan Cease past South Bend and starting him at Myrtle Beach next season, especially if he gets some time at South Bend this season and pitches well there. As a southern kid with TJS history, pitching at Myrtle Beach in April is probably a lot more attractive than pitching in South Bend, but Cease can't go to Myrtle Beach if he isn't ready for Hi-A.
His story makes him someone I completely root for to succeed but it's interesting that he's not succeeding in the way anyone thought when he was just a prospect. Great defense and contact instead of power. I think failing so glaringly and getting sent back down might have been the best thing for him and his ego.
He still swings at too many balls out of the strike zone but he's making a lot more contact on them which I think is helped by the less violent swing. So we might not get all the HRs we were expecting but I'll gladly take what he's giving.
"KingKongVsGodzilla"? So - was there a winner?
Baez is looking like a pretty special player.
Hey AZPhil,
Love checking TCR for your writeups. Quick question - any of these 2015 positional IFAs stand out to you yet? I'm most specifically referring to Kwon, Sierra, Paredes, and Amaya, but I know there's a couple other guys from that class in EXST as well.
bored...looking at stats for the hell of it...
felix pena (26yo) moving to the pen in AAA is looking like an insanely good fit so far in a smallish sample size
13ip 4h 3bb 20K
remembering back to spring training he was regularly hitting mid-90s (though he didn't have a good spring stats-wise). as a starter in the minors he usually worked low-90s.
this could be an arm worth keeping an eye on even if he's only a 1-inning guy who was "demoted" to the pen to start the year.
Phil, historically this front office has been patient with their prep pitchers keeping their IP low and moving them one level at a time. I know I'm getting ahead of myself, and you may not be able to formulate an opinion on this, but you've seen a lot of pitchers over the years, so...
also, after tonight's loss, STL is 13-14.
also also, the wsox are 19-8.
Win tomorrow, and the Cubs would have a 6-game lead. On May 4.
Fully agree on Addy -- hope he is our SS for a long time. I'm just surprised he has 4 errors already -- the last 2 on routine plays.
Guess how many Carlos Correa has?
I would still rather have Russell, right now, than any shortstop the team has had in many years. The future is bright enough to wear shades.
EDIT: Gonzo WOULD have been my favorite, 'cepting a certain error of a double-play ball...
Hi Phil, made it home tonight safely. Looks like Cease is getting better each outing. I see Crow did ok today too. I will be reading your write_ups everyday. Great seeing you while there!


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"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang like she'd just stepped out of Harlem. Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With her platinum cool and inimitable whisper she sold twenty million records, made more money than Mickey Mantle, and along with pals Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby presided over music's greatest generation. Yet beneath the diamonds she was still Norma Delores Egstrom, insecure and always looking for acceptance.
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The Half Note was dark, Coltrane uncharacteristically silent. Birdland was battened down. Buddy Rich and his boys had taken a one-night holiday. Lonely chords serenaded the empty rink at Rockefeller Center, not a single skater to hear them. On this February evening in 1961, the blizzard of the century had all but locked the great city down. The silence of a foot and a half of newly fallen snow had blanketed the island from river to river. An edict from Mayor Robert Wagner had swept all but essential vehicles from the streets. Bars, restaurants, shops--everything was shuttered; most of the town's famously bright lights were extinguished. Hardly a sound could be heard in the muffled night, save the winter wind whipping from alley to alley.
Hardly a soul could be glimpsed on Manhattan Island, except for the intrepid pedestrians gathering in the immediate vicinity of East Forty-eighth Street and Lexington Avenue, where the most elegant of parades was making its way through the blowing flakes and the gathering drifts. Laughing couples seductively attired in minks and tuxedos, giddy revelers swathed in mufflers and mittens, all hurried through the glow of streetlights, braving the wind, lured by an unseen gravitational pull toward what was, on thissingular evening, the city's undisputed nexus. The long, rarely silent, and usually smoky room was known as the nightclub of nightclubs, and despite the climate's extreme hostility, people packed the space--wall to wall, table to table, knee to knee, stranger to stranger--as if all the energy of old New York, banished from the streets, had been channeled and gathered into this single place, for one single night, one single show.
They had come to catch her fever. They had come to bask in her cool. They had come to Basin Street East to hear the Queen. That's what Ellington had ordained her: "If I'm the Duke, man, Peggy Lee is Queen." The New Yorker, describing this particular engagement in typically omniscient style, had settled simply for calling her "practically the hub of the universe," drawing no argument from the cognoscenti. At any rate, the semantics were irrelevant. No one in Basin Street needed convincing. The only phrases that mattered on this night were melodic--jazzed, bluesy, heartbroken, hopeful--and all absolutely American. And the woman who could sing them all, from the classic phrasings of the standard popular songbook to adventurous melodies out on the rhythmic fringe, and everything in between--was about to seize the small, empty stage and claim the whole magical New York night as her very own.
There was never a question that the show would go on. Even with the weather wreaking havoc, nothing could have waylaid the faithful. With delivery trucks banned from the streets, the club's publicist had enlisted local schoolkids to scour nearby grocery stores for all the provisions they could load onto their sleds. For this evening's show, the guests would feed on impromptu cuisine and fuel themselves on a more limited range than usual of their favorite cocktails--as if to prove the Richard Rodgers dictum that our need for melody is as strong as our need for sustenance. The club held 340 people, legally. On this occasion, it would accommodate nearly twice as many. As the listeners shook off the snow and settled into the cramped confines, the low murmur of anticipation became a rising undercurrent. On this night, instead of the usual three shows, she'd be doing just one. This crowd would be hearing everything the woman had to offer.
They were here because no one would dare miss any occasion to see the undisputed female champion of pop-jazz at the top of her game, in a city and time where beat and Beat were almost interchangeable. Down on Washington Square a handwritten sign stuck to a snow-covered fence read: "Be Abstract." But unlike Kerouac, Pollock, Ferlinghetti, and all of their friends in the avant-garde, Peggy Lee, on February 4, 1961, was not out on the fringe looking in, railing at the soullessness of it all. After years of feeling herself the outsider, she had reached the top of her game and was finally enshrined inside the big room of fame where the lights burned late and her ballads and jazz and rhythm and blues spanning every emotion reached every kind of listener, from martinied-up suburban types to the visiting jazzmen and players who had come to pay homage, to tap the tiny tables as her informal accompaniment, nodding Yes. Yes.
The roster of faces in the crowd during her four-week stint at Basin Street that winter would say all that had to be said about her peers' regard for her status in the pop pantheon. Making the pilgrimage to East Forty-eighth Street were Ray Charles and Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland. (Garland once called Peggy her favorite girl singer.) Then there were Cary Grant, Jimmy Durante, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joan Crawford, Art Carney, Louis Armstrong, and a young arranger named Quincy Jones. (Tony Bennett called late one night after a gig in Detroit, hoping for a seat at the 2:30 a.m. show.) None would have thought of missing out on this engagement, not at this time, in this era when popular jazz singing was not only a craft but an art of the highest order, a universal language that touched the hopes and longings of a generation of American dreamers.
The crowd wasn't privy to her preshow rituals: first, the physical transformation from woman to Stage Presence. (One night in the elevator up to the hotel room where the singer would make up, do her hair, and don the gown, a stranger asked, "Are you Peggy Lee?" Her answer: "Not yet, I'm not.") Then came the hugging and kissing of the musicians, for good luck. Then the healthy slug of cognac, from a large glass, followed by a drink of cool water--not just for the rush of energy, but for the added release the alcohol brought, the little bit of extra freedom. For every show had to be special--they expected no less of her, and she demanded no less of herself. An element of unpredictability could only add to the mystery. She wanted to seduce them all. She wanted them to hear each word, and feel every emotion that lay behind it. She wanted perfection. She needed perfection.
Then, as the band set up out front, she said a quiet, intimate prayer behind the curtain. Now the musicians launched into the brassy intro: a medley comprising a few measures each of Peggy's standards, a signature string of great sounds--a snatch of a chorus from one of her original hits with Benny Goodman, a melody line from one of her own compositions from the forties, a measure of a memorable bridge from the glorious early fifties, a lilt from some recent swingy triumph.
Then came the voice offstage: "Ladies and gentlemen, Basin Street East takes great pleasure in welcoming . . . Miss Peggy Lee." Behind the curtain, she'd let out a scream--just loud enough to start her own engine--and stamp her foot, once. Then she'd yank open the curtain and step into the light.
And there she was: an hourglassed platinum doll, forty years old, shrouded in a metaphoric glow, an aura she had earned, step by step, from her first, unlikely low-down blues hit for Goodman in 1942 to the hypnotic finger-snapping "Fever" a few years back--and a whole lot of everything in between: an Oscar nomination; a turn doing the voices for a couple of Siamese cats in a Disney animated feature; the mambo-and-sex-soaked "Lover," which made it to the top three on the charts. Not to mention Black Coffee, the jazz-vocal album that had raised the pop-jazz bar to unheard-of heights.
But just as obvious as her celebrity on this night was her sensuality, a confection of cosmetics, jewelry, and hairstyle, of glance and wink and half smile, that spoke as much of illusion as it did of authentic female. Her appearance told more than a few half-truths. She was the image of glamour and independence, but there was something artificial about the strength she displayed beneath the lights, for with three failed marriages and another broken Hollywood romance already behind her, the music increasingly defined her whole world. Her artistry had risen from a childhood without real family, and by now her audience and her public had become a very large part of what sustained her. Her nightclub theatricality was as spectacular as her art, but the elaborate gowns and masquerade could not conceal the vulnerability beneath. At this crossroads of her life she found her love in those who crowded the clubs from coast to coast.
The applause had not yet died when she plunged into her opener, "Day In, Day Out," a rollicking jazz-infused arrangement of a Bloom-Mercer standard she'd recorded just that week, and immediately she had the place hooked. Her notes rushed and leaped, insistent, playing with the beat, moving behind it, shadowing it, toying with it. The horns swung a high-speed brassy subtext. The pace was breakneck; in their adrenaline rush to get the thing going, the band and the singer nearly outran themselves right out of the gate. The opening number was finished in a minute and forty-five seconds.
"Thank you--thank you very much," she said--just breathily enough. A knowing smile passed across her lips and her eyes darted off to the side. It was the coy, flirtatious expression that would ride her features all evening long, suggesting that something was being mysteriously withheld. She always kept some secrets behind the curtain, even when she insisted otherwise; even when she was exchanging giggles and laughing at double entendres and she and the crowd were meeting halfway, in perfect harmony; even when she confided about the cold she felt coming on: "See? I tell you everything." It was a ruse, though; she never confided more than just enough.
The rest of this show fell into place exactly as she had choreographed it, song by song, so that the moods balanced perfectly between highs and lows, and every rhythm, every genre, had its say. "Call Me Darling" brought scattered laughter at the mention in the lyrics of the word "affair." "The Most Beautiful Man in the World" evoked a late-night-to-dawn jam, and she stretched the beat to mirror the flights of the band's solos. This much was constant: No matter what the rhythm of the song, her body moved as if being guided, as if the notes were caressing her. But there was no mistaking who was running the show. Beneath all the artifice, beneath the glamorous mocha gown and the lacquered nails and the sequins that caught the glint of the lights, she was in complete control--of every note, of every pause. Her pianist and conductor Joe Harnell responded to a single lifted finger, to a single lifted eyebrow. Her bassist Max Bennett, entrusted with the beat, was on high alert to her every physical nuance. The multiple lighting cues in every song came neither a second too early nor a second too late.
When she wove her way through the melancholy languor of Jimmy van Heusen and Sammy Cahn's "The Second Time Around"--one of the most lush and heartfelt of all her ballads, it sounded like a Shakespearean soliloquy--she was completely in the moment, measure by measure, tone by tone, syllable by syllable. So utterly given over to the song was she that to disturb the spell would have been to risk a fissure in the universe. By now, anyone who had begun the evening sitting back had unconsciously shimmied forward, hypnotized. Her midsong pauses and silences brought an answering silence out in the room: not a knife scraped a plate, not a cigarette was stubbed out, not a chair was dragged, not even an inch. It would have been like coughing in church.
Her rendition of "Fever" was liquid, all slow drips of honey; she brought the audience to her, entwined and entrapped it, note by note, with the gestures of a single hand, a single snap of the fingers against Bennett's thumping stand-up bass. Then she turned the room loose again with brassy, polytonal high jazz: Ellington's "I'm Gonna Go Fishin' " with the lyrics she'd written at Ellington's request. The music mounted and mounted, key change by key change, the horns going octave, the arrangement turning almost anarchic. But she would never lose sight of the melody. She never did.
Her tribute-medley of songs recorded by Ray Charles--a man for whom she held extraordinary admiration--offered a taste of everything, from the slow, sultry, dazzlingly cool "Just for a Thrill" to the galloping "I Got a Man" to a raucous, hip version of Sy Oliver's "Yes Indeed!" On this last one, with a wide smile on her face, she seemed to offer an affirmation of just about everything that this night, this world, this life could possibly have to offer.
It was over as quickly as it began. The show spanned less than an hour and a half. The final ovation lasted for several minutes, and at last her audience reluctantly trudged out to the sidewalks, where they were met by horse-drawn sleds summoned by the club, the perfect finish to an evening of New York romance in an era that still believed in the possibility of enchantment.
And she? Her night was hardly done. The music was over, leaving a space she would rush to fill. The late, late hours were those she would always call her own, and she would surround herself with company. She could never bear to be alone. And so, again, picture another curious parade on another Basin Street evening, after one particular late show. Picture another odd assembly of souls, this time not out on the sidewalks but in a hallway of the luxurious Waldorf Towers apartments, outside her very own door. The elevator bell pinged, the doors slid open. Out spilled the singer and some of her friends: Cary Grant, Sammy Davis, Jr., Art Carney. But before she turned the key in the door, she indulged a sudden whim. She ordered them all to the floor. "Lie on your backs," she told them. "Now put your head on the stomach of the person lying next to you." And they did.
"Now say 'Ha.' "
"Ha," said one. "Ha, ha," said the next. And within seconds they'd convulsed in laughter. No doubt, had the elevator opened again, the sight would have been hard for a stranger to explain, this cluster of celebrities playing a Cheeveresque suburban-living-room party game--unless our observer understood that on this night, the woman in the beaded dress, after a lifetime of using her pain to create her art, was finally in command of her own universe, as well as ours.
During the two decades when popular music spoke a universal language, Peggy Lee's star blazed brightly. She sang the Great American Songbook, flavored by jazz and blues and swing and pop and bop and Latin and soul. The music and the culture would soon change, and when the lights finally dimmed, she would be increasingly lost in the darkness. But in a time when art still shaped our popular media, from writing to film to music, she reigned supreme. It was not a time, as now, when "popular" and "disposable" were interchangeable terms. It was a brief, never-to-be-revisited era when popular novels were also literary and enduring, when popular movies were crafted and inspired and lasting. When music had meaning and resonance. The cultural chaos and cacophony that have ensued have done much to obscure the soft brilliance of this particular past. But artistically, it was a golden age in America, and Peggy Lee was in its pantheon--not only as a singer but as a lyricist, and not only a lyricist but a lyricist whose poetry spoke worlds. A Peggy Lee lyric told a story, felt a feeling. She was one of the first important female singer-songwriters, and several of her hits were her own compositions. Few other songstresses of the time could make such a claim.
At the time of her Basin Street triumph, she'd had five recent albums in the top twenty, an annual salary ten times Mickey Mantle's, album sales of many millions. She was a given. She was an icon. She was a cultural emblem in a culture that had not yet radically changed. She wasn't one of our girls, like Rosemary Clooney or Dinah Shore or Patti Page or Doris Day; there was more richness to her, more complexity, more undercurrents that couldn't quite be controlled. Ella, of course, was widely held to rule the pop-jazz roost, but she was never quite able to bring a true broken-heart ballad to the depths of the soul that Peggy could. She wasn't Billie, or Sarah, or Anita--all of them brilliant in some ways, but limited in others. She had some of all of them in her, but she was a great deal more. She was singular. No one occupied Peggy Lee's place, because only one woman could: platinum-pretty, but beholden to no one. Perky and bouncy, but genuinely soulful and world-weary, and resigned.
Musically? She was possessed of nothing less than extraordinary intonation and perfect time--so much so that many of her musicians and collaborators regularly use the word "genius" to describe her innate musical skills. Her personality? Forever in discord. Born Norma Deloris Egstrom, a child of the Depression Great Plains, shy and insecure, she had gradually blossomed--on the surface--into another lady entirely. But the glittering, seductive façade only hid, never erased, the girl beneath, and it was the interplay of the two that produced the woman's art.
"She had an image to uphold," the producer of one of her final albums says. "The dichotomy, I think, was between that girl in North Dakota who she never stopped being, and Miss Peggy Lee, whom she invented and became. Once I asked her if Norma Deloris Egstrom was still there in her. She said yes. I think that was the whole thing about Peggy Lee. The dichotomy between the two."
Peggy Lee was not in a class by herself. There were three others who shared her particular greatness. Armstrong, Crosby, Sinatra, Lee--these are the faces on the Mount Rushmore of American pop, the greatest generation of American music, singing at the height of an era when the American Songbook was the expression of the national heart and soul.
Others sang the songs, of course--countless others, and often brilliantly--but these were the four who perfected an art form now lost to mainstream history--now filed, in a fringe wing of our cultural archives, under "popular jazz singing," which was one of American music's truest contributions. If jazz was our nation's invention, our absolutely original music, it was popular jazz singing whose lyrics and melodic sentiments reached us all and embodied America's dreams of romance, dreams we can no longer even imagine. Peggy and the three men who were truly her peers were the voices of our lost American innocence, of sweetness and gentleness, of longing and melancholy, but always of the rightness of things. They were the artists entrusted with expressing the yearnings and desires of an entire culture. No less than that generation of distinctly American writers, they were given a mandate to tell a nation's tale.
History has told us all we need to know about the three men, and more. Their legends live on not only because they lived in a time when men ran the legend-making machinery, but because each had extraordinary talents layered with an unforgettable image. Louis Armstrong brought jazz to the pop mainstream in a tempered manner and entertaining guise that, at the time, we could understand and easily accept from a black man. Bing Crosby brought the gift of a vocal instrument without equal, along with a paternal demeanor, to a country that once admired him more than any other man alive. And Sinatra brought a taste of solo swagger to his swing; as a man, his attitude could be countenanced and embraced and revered in the spirit of the Great American Individualist Pioneer.
History has told us very little of the woman. The musicians know of her stature, of course. But when the music changed and rock altered the landscape, her art had difficulty adapting in the popular eye. Neither could her image adapt. And nor could she. When our dreams died--our hopes for a house on the hill, our certainty that our train would always arrive to carry us forward to the next place, the place where we'd find what we were searching for--her dreams died, too. She grew old, and not always gracefully. For too many years, we forgot her and overlooked what she had achieved as an artist.
Now it is time to remember, and celebrate, and enjoy anew, one of the greatest female singers of that American century, and the music that animated an entire land. It is time to come to know, for the first time, Miss Peggy Lee.
Copyright 2006 by Peter Richmond
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"Super disappointed to learn that my time with the Pixies ended today. Amazing experience. Looking forward to focusing my attention back on the Muffs and our upcoming new album. All the best to everyone."
That was the surprise message posted on Twitter by Kim Shattuck regarding her rather short lived position as bassist in Pixies.
Shattuck took the position following the departure of Kim Deal earlier in the year, but obviously things didn't work out. Are there any other bass players out there called Kim? I'm sure we'll find out soon enough, as the band have a pretty huge tour of North America planned for next year.
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Just days after resigning from his post, Hogsett told Call 6 Investigator Rafael Sanchez about his plans to create the committee, one of the first official steps to run for mayor of Indianapolis.
Hogsett said the committee is an exploratory effort to discuss the major challenges facing the city.
Hogsett believes that public safety is one of the prime issues the next Mayor of Indianapolis must attack.
He stopped at the Fraternal Order of Police headquarters on Thursday to purchase a T-shirt in honor of Officer Perry Renn who was killed in the line of duty.
"This city faces enormous challenges. We have an epidemic of violent crime. We have an educational system that in many neighborhoods throughout the city is substandard," Hogsett said.
Hogsett's exploratory committee will take a look at both of those issues before he decides to run.
On Wednesday, in anticipation of a Hogsett run, Marion County Republican Chairman Kyle Walker suggested that Hogsett violated federal law by participating in political activity prior to resigning as U.S. Attorney.
Hogsett dismissed that claim.
"It's unfortunate that people have to resort to negative partisan political attacks. I guess they are what they are and we ignore them," Hogsett said.
"I think it is incumbent on the part of Joe Hogsett to answer some of those questions and if he has nothing to hide he can put everyone's mind at ease," Walker said.
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Ducks general manager Bob Murray announced the decision Friday.
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Getting to head home won't make much of a difference for the Detroit Red Wings if they don't get more going against Ben Bishop or slow down Tyler Johnson and his line.
ST. LOUIS -- David Backes scored at 9:04 of overtime on a shot that deflected off a Chicago Blackhawks defenseman, and the St.
DETROIT -- Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk is expected to retire from the NHL after the playoffs.
Dan Milstein, his agent, confirmed Datsyuk's decision.