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Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
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|Ryan Dempster
|*Scott Kazmir
|Reed Johnson
|*Akinori Iwamura
|Ryan Theriot
|#Willy Aybar
|Derrek Lee
|BJ Upton
|Aramis Ramirez
|*Eric Hinske
|Geovany Soto
|Evan Longoria
|Mark DeRosa
|*Cliff Floyd
|Matt Murton
|#Dionar Navarro
|Henry Blanco
|*Gabe Gross
|Ronny Cedeno
|Jason Bartlett
Matt Murton has been called up and Eric Patterson has been sent down. Welcome back to the Show Orange Guy, and good luck with Scott Kazmir, who has given up all of one run in four home starts this year (thanks nohit). The entire Rays team has been enjoying the comforts of Tampa, Florida with a shiny 26-11 mark at Tropicana Field. That's good for second best in the home record in the American League and has helped catapult them from the worst overall record in the league last year to the current AL Wild Card leaders. Most of that turnaround can be attributed to their pitching and defense and not that sketchy lineup that I'm looking at. But I guess you don't need good hitters if you can "Execute to the Max".
Game notes fun after the jump...
- This is the Cubs first trip to Tropicana Field and marks the 112th stadium they've played in.
- The Cubs enter the game 80-80 in interleague games since its inception in 1997.
- Cubs starters have allowed three or fewer runs in seven straight games.
- Carlos Marmol is five short of the team holds record with 20. Bob Scanlan('93) and Jeff Fassero('01) currently hold the team record with 25.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Rob, small slip on Johnson's position (LF).
Marmol's hold stat is pretty amazing.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Off the top of my head, I think the AL has been generally better than the NL since '97 so an even 80-80 record is probably better than most.
This lineup sucks!
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
What about the fact that Rays manager Joe Maddon is completely insane? Anyone else see th NYT profile?
Re: Murton
I thought his nickname was Ginger.
Orange guy was something Maddux said because he didn't know who Murton was.
Who's the orange guy?
Wish it would go away. Reminds me too much of the Dusty Eff Baker years.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
3 pitches, 3 fastballs, 1 strikeout.
welcome back murton.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Red's first at-bat wasn't too thrilling. Not the Hellboy action figure I was hoping for.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
working the pitch counts this year probably helped us the most in this game. Kazmir at 110 in the 5th and taken out.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
no one said it yet, and I think it's time for some runs, so...
This lineup SUCKS!
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Hi guys, I'm new here so I have some questions:
Does the Ray's strikeout bonus (free Papa John's Pizza) apply to a Cubs fan watching in Texas?
No offense (pun intended) to Murton, but shouldn't EPat been given more of a chance?
Lastly, I'm voting for a choice of Home or Away TV coverage on MLB.TV - These guys are screamers.
Speaking of screamers, does anybody else hear all the women screaming inside this dome? Do they just leave the beach and go to the ballpark?
Thanks for listening...
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Murton is not wining over any new fans, that is for sure. And I would think we might see Ascanio again for Cotts at some point. Lou couldn't have been very happy with tonight's peformance.
I've also long been an advocate of getting both home and away feeds for MLB.TV. It can't possibly cost them that much to arrange that.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Johnson out trying to steal 3rd wih 2 outs?
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Following the game on Yahoo.... was that a squeeze attempt by Johnson with 2 outs in the 9th?
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
yes...and along with his attempted steal of 3rd i wonder who told who that johnson has even a shred of speed...weird use tonite.
Re: Johnson's bunt
IMO the bunt attempt was a good idea. Just bunted a little too hard, especially on the turf. Definitely caught them by surprise. Longoria just made a nice play
Re: Johnson's bunt
Too hard or not far enough down the line. I think if that is down the line and Longoria has to come in at a weird angle and throw across his body it would have been a hit. Oh well, we were in it until the end, can't ask for more than a chance to win and we've been in every game for a long time.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
The squeeze was 'ok' I guess..takes a great play from both Longoria and Aybar to get him. I think the at bat by Hoffpaur was the really poor at bat all we needed was a fly ball. Then the wild pitch richochets right back to the catcher. Ah well luck wasn't on our side tonight. Get 'em tomorrow :)
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
That was a great play and great call at the end, imo. To get the out and save the game they were going to have to make that play perfectly. 3B Was going to have to get to the ball clean, make a clean throw, and 1B was going to have to hold on to it. Unfortunately, they did.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
I remember most of the board(me included) crucifying Neifi for doing the same thing a couple of years ago, same situation.
Re: Neifi's bunt
My mistake.
I thought he had the tying run on third also.
He still sucks.
Re: Lou burned his DH
How does that work, anyway? I'm not up on this 21st century baseball stuff.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Ouch -- shame to lose this one, after doing such a nice job of getting Kazmir out of the game. Tying run at third, one out, lefty/righty match-up....ouch.
At least the Cards lost.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
a squeeze would imply that Fukudome was running, which I believe he was not...
Rob, I think it's called a safety squeeze if the man on 3rd isn't running on the pitch, but on contact. When he is running on the pitch, it's a suicide squeeze, where the runner is usually out if the bunt isn't placed.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
That is true, but to be called a squeeze - safety or suicide - the runner has to know the batter is going to bunt. I think this was a bunt for a hit since Lou did not call it from the dugout.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Also, there has to less than 2 outs. The job of a squeeze is to sacrifice yourself to get the run in. You can't do that when there is a force out at first and the inning (or in this case game)will be over if the runner is out at first. That was simply Reed trying to bunt for a base hit.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Also, generally speaking, you typically don't call a squeeze with two outs. Not to say that there aren't exceptions, but that's a general no-no for managers.
You'd need somebody with Ellsbury, Reyes, or Pierre type speed to call a squeeze with two outs. Not only does the batter have to get the bunt down to get the runner home, he also has to beat it out at 1st base. That had to be a bunt for a hit for Johnson. No way Lou would call that with him at the plate.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
One can see why the Rays gave Longorria the Franklin mint this spring. He is fantastic. Great try by Reed. It was the right play. I agree the big AB was Hoff-power.
Right now, Hoffpower & Cedeno have both turned back into pumpkins.
I think we'll win one of the next two and come home w/a .500 road trip.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
To finish the night on an up note --
Veal tosses 7 innings of 2-hit shutout ball at Tenn., and Ceda (newly promoted?) follows with K's 4 in 2 shutout innings.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
I was following on ESPN.com. Thanks for filling in the cracks. IMO, like that Lou was being aggresive and rolling the dice even if it didn't work out.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
cotts didnt look good lou was not pleased
cedeno wouldbe outta here if defensively
there was a better option.
murton did not do muh to improve trade value
rays looking for outfield help.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Burma Shave.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Brick gets a clever +1.
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Why did Hoffpauir pinch hit ahead of Edmonds? Maybe Lou figured they'd give Edmonds an IBB, but I still would have picked the veteran in that spot over the rookie.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
My guess is that if Edmonds makes an out, he's got Hoffpauir up with two outs. But that's probably a stretch.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Yep..1 game back and Murton sure sucks. He can't even hit Scott Kazmir...that just sucks!!!!
I mean Kazmir is 6-2, with a 1.76 ERA, and 61 K's in 56 innings, he sucks?
I mean...huh?
Re: Murton/HIll trade speculation
I just read that. Why the hell do we want Crisp, I just don't get it.
The bottom of that article is interesting too. The Cubs sent a video to the league office to reverse a Ronny Cedeno hit that was ruled an error? That seems unusual.
Re: Murton/HIll trade speculation
Cmon Wiscgrad you know why. Lou ALWAYS wants somebody else than what he's got. This team has remained extremely heathy for the most part since Lou got here. Yet you always hear gripe from Lou about needing a
left handed bat for the infield,lefthanded outfield bat,righthanded of'er who can play all 3 positions,another RHed starter, another lefty for the pen,etc.etc.etc. That is Lou's MO since he got here. He is like the wife that can't figure out where she wants the new sofa. It's Jim Hendry's job to move that heavy ass sofa around until she is happy.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
No kidding Dusty Baylor. Murton has always had the expectation that he has to hit every single day and hit for power or else he sucks.
1 game back and the majority of the posters are signing his death sentence. Shit give the guy all the starts between now and when Soriano gets back and lets see what happens. He has proven over 2 seperate seasons he can hit in the majors, just let him play.
Food for thought....
Fukudome is on pace for 560 AB's, 12 HR's and 67 RBI while hitting .300 with a .400 OBP.
Matt Murton hit 13 HR in his rookie season drove in 62 in 455 AB's while hitting .297 with a .365 OBP. Many considered that not good enough for a corner OFer.
Last year Murton hit 8 HRs in 235 AB's.
Gee I wonder if Fuku will need to be replaced because he doesnt hit enough for a corner OFer either.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
The offensive numbers are comparable as you point out, but defense, baseball smarts and speed between the two are night and day.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
The difference is that Fuku is Japaneese. Therefore he is a cross between Ichiro and Matsui.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
That's a strawman argument. It's not just that Murton doesn't hit for power. He hits for average. But he realy can't do much else well. He is not magically going to get faster or figure out how to field. So people would like him to elevate the ball and hit for some more power. This makes him a more valuable player. If he can't improve the power numbers, then he really is a one trick pony: he will hit a lot of singles and a few doubles for a .300 average. Not that that is a bad thing, it's just that a lot of people want more.
I mean Murton's defense sucks. Fukodome's is awesome. Murton has 8 career SB and Fukodome already has 6. Also, over a full season, that difference in OBP is around 30-40 more times on base, not insignificant.
If Murton was a gold glove caliber outfielder who could run a bit, had great bat control, and got on base a .400 clip, we wouldn't care about his power.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Fuku's defense is a major plus over Murton. If Murton could consistently pick the ball in the outfield, he could have a major league job as a corner outfielder. Because he fields more like an Adam Dunn he needs to hit more like an Adam Dunn to stay in the bigs.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
While I agree that Fuk is a far more complete player than Murton, I've always thought the complaints about Murton's defense have been greatly overstated. Yes, he's a below average corner outfielder, but Adamn Dunn comparisons? That's just over the top.
Of course, I also think too many people make Right Field out to be the holy grail of defensive positions where only someone with a Hawk-like cannon belongs...
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Anyone know of the condition of Ward and when he is expected back? After the recent struggles with our DHs (Lee, Rammy, Soto), it seems like their offensive production is affected when they aren't out there playing defense. Additionally, after seeing Hoff trying to be a hero yesterday while swinging for the fences when all we needed was a sac fly, it makes me wonder what a veteran bench guy like Ward would of done in that situation. IMO, Ward will be a welcome addition as our DH in the Cubs/Sox series at the cell.
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
Cubs left fielder Alfonso Soriano will have his broken left hand re-examined Friday and hopes to return before the All-Star break next month...
Someone needs to do something about this
Yahoo RSS feeds for The Cub Reporter all come from View from the Bleachers, not here.
Re: It's the MVN feed
please see #59
I'm talking about the Yahoo feed aggregator module, Sports Blogs - Chicago Cubs Daily Entries.
Re: It's the MVN feed
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This is what I'm talking about>>>
Sports Blogs :: Chicago Cubs Daily EntriesCollapse moduleDelete ModuleEdit Module PreferencesRefresh Module
Ted Lilly Fan Club :: Game Recap: Why Isn't Ted Lilly Playing Left Field? - 8 hours ago
Now, we're absolutely fans of Thunder Matt's Saloon and its undying support of alcoholism but, after watching last night's game against the Satan Rays, the TLFC has one simple question for...
The Cub Reporter :: Boise Hawks Win Opener 6-5 - 8 hours ago
Jake Opitz hit a walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the Boise Hawks to a 6-5 victory over the Eugene Emeralds before 3,519 fans on opening night at Memorial Stadium. The 12th...
The Cub Reporter :: Smokies pound BayBears 13-0 - 8 hours ago
Sevierville, TN - Tonight was the official beginning of the 2nd half of the season for the Tennessee Smokies, and the home team got out to a great start in a 13-0 drubbing of the visiting Mobile BayBe...
Cubby-Blue :: How Come I'm Not The Manager Of The Cubs? - 10 hours ago
How exciting was that game? The best 9th I've seen in awhile - what drama. Ray starting pitcher Kazmir is a leftie, Lou puts in an all-rightie lineup. I'm not surprised by that or thinking any...
The Cubs Brickyard :: Boston Celtics Win NBA Title - NBA Declares Playoffs Arenât Over - 11 hours ago
(Boston, MA) - The Boston Celtics and their dynamic trio of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen had the NBA's best record this season. It showed in the postseason, as they marched through ...
The Cub Reporter :: The Game That Slowly Lulled Me To Sleep - 11 hours ago
First Star - Grant Balfour (.174) Second Star - Ryan Dempster (.161) Third Star - Kosuke Fukudome (.150) Turd of the Game - Reed Johnson (-.204) I went to bed last night after the Cubs hit in ...
MLB News Blog Network :: Passan?s all-overpaid and all-underpaid teams (Yahoo! Sports) - 11 hours ago
It's no secret which list Barry Zito and Andruw Jones are on, but all the Angels in the outfield too?
Bleed Cubbie Blue :: Almost Famous: Cubs 2, Rays 3 - 11 hours ago
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Goat Riders of the Apocalypse :: Alfonso Soriano may return early - 11 hours ago
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Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TCRfeed seems to be fine. I'm not having any problems with it using my.yahoo.com, and the feed looks fine when it's opened directly. It's most likely a configuration error or problem with your RSS reader.
Re: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TCRfeed seems to be fine.
Yeah, I know that, I use that, but it's not what I'm talking about.
http://my.yahoo.com is the RSS reader and the RSS feed module in question, as I already posted, is "SPORTS BLOGS -Chicago Cubs Daily Entries" .
That's the module that aggregates the posts on Cubs blogs and all the entries labeled "The Cub Reporter" are actually feeds from the View from the Bleachers. Add it to your personalized my.yahoo and you'll see what I mean.
Re: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TCRfeed seems to be fine.
I'm not familiar with hat RSS feed... what's the link to it? Who provides it?
I guess you're saying that in that feed, items from "View from the Bleachers" are being listed as coming from "The Cub Reporter". Not cool.
I checked the RSS feed at "View from the Bleachers", and it gets attributed correctly. Therefore, the aggregator must be to blame...
Re: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TCRfeed seems to be fine.
see #63
DeRosa asks Murton THE QUESTION on everyone's lips
Mark DeRosa interrupted Matt Murton's back-in-the-big-leagues news conference Tuesday with the question most people want the answer to:
''Will you stop hitting swinging bunts and start driving balls out of the ballpark with your quads the size of bricks?'' DeRosa said, grinning. ''Let's ask the real questions. You going to hit some home runs?''
JUST HEARD on 'GN
FUKUDOME will be the #1 hitter in Lou's lineups until Soriano returns.
Cory Provis was just told by Lou...
You heard it on TCR first!
Re: Game 71 Thread / Cubs @ Rays (1 of 3)
I like Fukudome batting 5th.
Will see.
Recent comments
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
Mark Gonzales @MDGonzales
Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.


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Cats are the fashion obsession that walked in the door several seasons back, and the trend shows no signs of walking out come fall.
For her September cover of Nylon magazine, proud cat lady Lea Michele, who is mom to Sheila, rocks a faux pearl headband in the shape of cat ears.
And fans are in luck: similarly-minded animal lovers can purchase the delicate headpiece from British retailer ASOS for $20.44.
On the high end, Vogue editor Grace Coddington will unveil her capsule collection with Balenciaga during the magazine's annual Fashion's Night Out event in September, inspired by her cat, Pumpkin. The line of scarves and bags features Coddington's hand-drawn designs of Pumpkin wearing Balenciaga pieces.
But though the retail value of these items has not yet been released, fashionistas can take comfort in knowing that a purchase will also do some good: 20 percent of the proceeds will benefit the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons.
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It's hard to imagine a family that watches more movies than mine, and what's one of the nicest things for me is the amount of movie buddies I have in my home.
There are the kid-friendly films I watch with my boys, anything with my wife, scary movies and comedies with Maggie, and this year, Julianna and I have developed a love for the Bruce Willis "Die Hard" films.
It's not a big surprise because my dad used to go to the movies a lot and my younger brother, Tom, and I were his movie buddies. He took us to all those Disney films in the 1970s that starred Kurt Russell and the likes of Tim Conway and Don Knotts.
My dad did takes us to see "Jaws" at The Playhouse when it came out, and though that may have been considered risky at the time, nothing could compare to the one time when Tom and I, at the tender ages of 12 and 10, respectively, saw our first nude scene at the Park Hills Plaza in a movie called "Black Sunday" courtesy of dad.
It wasn't the old man's fault, though. He thought he was taking us to a football movie. Well...at least that is what I tell myself and that is what I will take to my grave. I believe I even used that as an excuse when I went to confession back then.
It was a drama starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern about how a terrorist group was going to set off a bomb at the Super Bowl in Miami involving the Steelers and the Cowboys. The previews probably had lots of football shots of the Orange Bowl, and my father thought that even though it was rated R, how bad could it be?
Well, let's say my mom would not have been thrilled at the time. There was a scene where one of the terrorists, played by a German actress named Marthe Keller, is nude in a shower. She steps out of it when good guy Robert Shaw busts into the hotel room. He has a chance to kill her, but doesn't. The camera was on her long enough for two boys to take in the view.
I remember looking over at Tom, and he looking back at me with the same stunning amazement. You have to understand, we grew up in an extremely Catholic, Italian household. The only nudity we saw were statues in people's gardens.
I also remember my dad not looking at either one of us, hoping it would just go away. There was no more nudity in the film. Good for him, but bad for me. I can't speak for Tom, but I was 12!
Which leads me to this ... my daughters want me to rent a movie called "The Cabin In The Woods," a horror movie that got pretty good reviews this past spring. It's R-rated and I found out it has nudity in it. I want to see the movie, but I don't know if I am ready to sit in a living room with my daughters and experience that.
My wife let Maggie, who's 17, watch "Bridesmaids" with her this past summer. And if you are familiar with that R-rated comedy (which I did see and love), I had to leave the room because I could not bring myself to watch it with her.
Maybe if I just stare straight ahead and not look at my girls when they ask me about it again, it will just go away. That is...until my two boys ask me to rent it someday. Ughh!


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Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.
Kimberly and Paul have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
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Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launch events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks at events world-wide on Microsoft's behalf. Tim has done keynote demos at big Microsoft events and product launches for numerous Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
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I hate nicknames but Julip is kinda cute.
Also sounds like "tulip". Why not?
As for the nicknames, we've got JLip, Pogo, Radio, Tut, and Sot. We can deal with it.
I think it's better not to use nickname. This is bound to offend someone of different nationality, different language, different culture, or different religion.
I for one have never liked nickname for Plushenko, such as Plushy, plush, and plu. To me, those nicknames for Plushenko has always been connected with flashy, flush, and flu. I certainly don't like the sound of JLip or Julip, especially a formal request like this made it like asking for a permission to "officially" change the girl's beautiful name. JLip sounds to me like a name calling from a non-Julia fan though I don't know whether you are her fan or not.
So no matter what name any of us thinks is catchy, fitting, etc. ... I don't know how you'll ever be sure that the skater herself would be comfortable with it -- if her reaction would matter to you.
why not use dimunitive names liek for Evgeny - Zhenya, Pogs sounds like an offensive word too
Anna - Anya
Adelina - Adelya
Elena - Lena, Helen, Yelena
Julia - Julie, Yunechka
Maybe I'm getting early onset dementia, but I can't think of any other other Julias that we would confuse this particular Julia with.
I also remember that people occasionally called Irina Slutskaya by an abbreviation of her last name that could be misinterpreted as insulting (entirely with good intentions, but it was not worthy of such a lovely person). And, as brightphoton points out, right now, how many Julias are we differentiating?
Uhhh why don't we just call her Julia? She will be known as THE Julia of ladies, just give her a few years sheesh...
I personally think she doesn't need a special name. Julia sounds good.)


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Forget beef: Saturday at Chapman Hill, dirt was for lunch and dinner.
From start to end, last to first at the Squawker Mountain Bike Classic�s downhill dual slalom competition, riders from around Colorado flowed through berms, got some air � and plenty of riders chewed on a facefull of dirt, too.
That included Fort Lewis College�s Austin Chipman, who took second overall in the head-to-head event.
Chipman literally was head to head with University of Colorado�s Joey Schusler in both of their two final races � from the top of the course that started about halfway up the ski hill and snaked back and forth through turns, down steep slopes, to the bottom that threw in a patch of car-battery-sized rocks and plenty of loose dirt.
Chipman and Schusler turned together, jumped together, rattled together, flowed together and pedaled together until the very last turn, which left Chipman sliding through and covered in dirt on the first race.
A few minutes later, the racers did it again � and so did Chipman.
This time he pushed Schusler off the course, too, with about 20 feet to go. Schusler grabbed his bike, hopped over Chipman and practically ran across the finish line for victory.
�He was pushing hard; it would�ve been close,� Schusler said.
�You�ve got to be super careful not to slide out on those last corners,� Wyoming�s Jill Behlen said after taking third in the women�s competition.
The format Saturday pitted racers, who earlier qualified in an individual time trial, against one another on parallel courses. Each pair got two races, one on each track, and the rider who came out on top of the two-race time differential advanced. The maximum time differential per attempt was 1.5 seconds back, which was pretty standard on the dry, loose and technical course that put more than a handful of racers over their handlebars.
�Head to head ... just going for it,� Chipman said. �The competitiveness ... dual slalom is all about you.�
�Every little thing counts the whole way,� Schusler said after high-fiving the runner-up Chipman.
And unfortunately for Chipman, that little thing included those last 20 feet. Twice.
�It (stinks), but that�s how racing is,� he said.
FLC�s Phil Cowan beat Lucas LeMare by .349 seconds for third.
The women�s finals weren�t nearly as close.
FLC�s Brittany Clawson cruised the course far in front of Colorado State�s Eva Wilson for the fully allotted 3-second differential, shortly after Wyoming�s Behlen beat FLC�s Kaila Hart by the same margin.
For Clawson, who had to sit out of last year�s Squawker Classic with a separated shoulder, it was a welcome chance to at last compete and win in front of a home crowd of a few dozen people.
About 50 riders from schools including FLC, CU, CSU, Western State, Adams State and more took on Fort Lewis�s home slalom course, and all of them described it as one of the hardest courses they�ve had to contend with.
On a day that race manager Matt Nimetz said reminded of him of what Kenya must be like on a sunny day, even a prerace watering couldn�t keep the dust down or harden up the soft dirt, which only got deeper as riders zipped through its lines.
CU�s Nora Richards was one of it�s victims, dining on dirt about halfway down the course and tearing a large leaf of skin from her palm.
�Sudden flash of dirt, life flashing before your eyes,� she said with a chuckle.
Richards described the course as �rowdy.�
�This is like downhill extreme dual slalom,� she said.
Even extreme for Israeli mountain bike national champion and Saturday�s Squawker Classic short track winner Rotem Ishay, who competed in his first-ever dual slalom competition after his victory earlier in the day. He was eliminated from the men�s field in the round of 16 after skidding around some of the corners.
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When it comes to keeping the romance alive with his wife, Michael Bublé doesn't rely on his powerhouse vocal chords (or those swoon-worthy love songs).
Rather, it's all about modern technology.
Due to his work schedule, they've spent the past couple of months apart, he says. Their long-distance essential? "A lot of Skype dates," Bublé tells Entertainment Tonight Canada.
"I miss her, though," the Canadian crooner, 36, says of wife Luisana Loreley Lopilato de la Torre, 25, an Argentine actress. "So it's just been nuts. We've been going back and forth."
The couple celebrated their first anniversary in March, and to mark the milestone, "I recorded a song for her and a video," he says. But it was Lopilato de la Torre's gift that "shocked" him, he adds.
The actress gave him a very special book that contained "every note, every love note, every ticket – everything we've done."
"She saved everything," he says. "It was very sweet."
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If you want to excel consistently, you have to have a team philosophy and know how to execute it year in and year out. That's why teams like Pittsburgh and New England keep making it back to the Super Bowl.
The New York Giants are one of those teams. On offense everything revolves around clutch quarterback Eli Manning, and on defense it's all about their front four. By putting pressure on the quarterback with their four down linemen, the Giants can neutralize quarterbacks like Tom Brady while other teams can barely slow him down.
With that backdrop, I was very impressed when the Giants were able to grab defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins in the second round and then Damontre Moore in the third round. This New York Giants fan blog has a great post breaking down both picks. Hankins in a beast who helps plug up the middle against the run, but Hankins is also very quick and mobile for a big defensive tackle. He reminds me of guys like Michael Dean Perry and Warren Sapp who were quick off the ball and could rush the passer up from the interior line position. On the Giants, where the defensive ends pose real problems in pass protection, Hankins will have even more opportunities to get sacks. He clearly has first-round talent so the Giants got great value here.
The value was even better when they were able to grab Moore in the third round. He dropped like a rock with poor performances at the combine and on his pro day, so there's some risk here. But given his talent, Moore is a steal in the third round. And while the bright lights of New York City could be a problem for this guy, he's going to the perfect team for his talents, and the guys in this locker room should keep him in line.
The NFC is loaded with media favorites San Francisco and Seattle, along with teams like Atlanta and Green Bay. The Giants slipped last year, but if these two guys pan out, you can bet the Giants will be in the mix for the NFC title.
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Somewhere in my collection of political artifacts is a reminder of what happens when parties divide among themselves. It is a bumper sticker with a foot on the side with the legend "Tar Heel Democrat."
Issued in 1972 and again in 1984, it was an attempt to decouple the state party from the national slates led by George McGovern and Walter Mondale respectively. Considered to be necessary because the unpopularity of both standard bearers, it nevertheless turned out to be disastrous. Eventually, Republicans began to make gains at all levels, not only federal, but state and local.
West Virginia Democrats also have decided to go down the same path. Predictably, they place it on a sticker "W.Va. Dems Getting The Job Done" with a hardhat for emphasis. Understandably, they fear that President Barack Obama is a liability. He had 41 percent of the vote cast against him in the primary, given perhaps unwittingly to a convict. His favorability rating is the lowest of any state. Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin have been loudly speculating that they may not vote for him again, perhaps correct in regard to their fears. But is it smart?
Given the past it is not. The theory in North Carolina was that the Democratic Party still held the imagination of voters in most offices but the presidency. Sure, in 1968 Democrats won re-election statewide despite the 28 percent Hubert Humphrey got. However, in many minds, George Wallace was a "Dixiecrat" the representative of the traditional party. By 1972, however, no such third force existed, and McGovern received 29 percent. But some voters chose Republicans downticket. Jesse Helms won the Senate and James Holshouser took the governor's office. In 1984, Ronald Reagan easily swept the state and Jesse Helms defeated a super-politician Jim Hunt for re-election.
Still, Democrats played duck and cover. Eventually, Republicans chipped away, taking Senate seats and by 2010 the N.C. Legislature - both houses. Now the GOP competes for local offices with alacrity defeating so-called conservative Democrats because they're not as far to the right as Republicans. Why vote for a substitute when you can get the real thing?
West Virginia Democrats risk a great deal if they completely abandon the national ticket. Perhaps anything slightly more than 40 percent for Obama can make it easier for Democrats to hold the statehouse and the Senate. As well as to denounce the president is to place suspicion on themselves. John Raese who understands this point better than anyone else has been busily pointing out Manchin's inconsistencies. If a Democrat dislikes his national party so much, then how can he remain credible? For Republicans this is a pleasant dilemma which one suspects they will take full advantage of.
Manchin, Tomblin and the rest are acting like panic-stricken bomber pilots who break formation at the first appearance of enemy fighters. After they are scattered, they become easy prey for GOP pilots. Better to say nothing about Obama than take a negative position. Again, Republicans will correctly claim that they are the real conservatives in the rose - and make voters understand the difference.
Raese and Bill Maloney are running campaigns based on less government - period. Manchin and Tomblin support benefits and more state-driven initiatives. They might despise the Environmental Protection Agency, but they push a business-progressive agenda. The Republicans can say away with all that and remain true to themselves. Although Raese can be clumsy at times - he at least is on-point and says what he thinks. Given that Democrats in the Mountain State apparently heartily dislike their national party - they make the point for the GOP that they haven't a clue. Benjamin Franklin, during the American Revolution, made a salient point when he warned waverers that, "We will all hang together" or "hang separately." Imperfect, if not sincere, unity is better than letting the opposition see you sweat.


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He plays a sharp-tongued playboy and White House aide on TV, but this past weekend, Reid Scott was a blushing groom.
The Veep star, 36, married longtime girlfriend Elspeth Keller in an intimate ceremony at downtown Los Angeles's Maguire Gardens on Saturday.
Scott popped the question in Palm Springs last April after he secretly flew to San Francisco to ask Keller's father for her hand in marriage, a source told PEOPLE at the time.
Among the guest list: actor Brendan Patrick Hines and Mad Men star Ben Feldman, who shared a picture of the happy couple on Instagram. "Last night, 2 people I follow on Instagram got married, so I crashed their wedding and made a 45 minute toast."
And now it seems the lovebirds are off on a sun-filled honeymoon. "Hope you had a great weekend. I'm off to Fiji now," Scott Tweeted. "No haters."
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St Christopher's is right in the heart of Berlin, providing free bed linen and free Wi-Fi to insure this is an ideal base for you to explore the culture, history and nightlife of our amazing city.
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Danish pastry makers aren't feeling terribly sweet toward the European Union after a Danish agency discovered the country's cinnamon rolls may violate EU spice regulations.
At issue are EU rules limiting coumarin, which can cause liver damage when eaten excessively, to 15 milligrams per kilo in everyday baked goods. Coumarin occurs naturally in the most common type of cinnamon, and the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration has determined that coumarin levels in the country's popular cinnamon twists and rolls are too high, according to The Associated Press. The agency has asked bakers to reduce the amount of cinnamon in the baked treats.
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Buffalo's new school superintendent is beginning to assess some looming challenges facing the district. Pamela Brown has already identified one aggressive long-term goal. Five years from now, she believes 80 percent of Buffalo's students should be graduating from high school, a target that would mean increasing the district's graduation rate by nearly 30 percentage points.
Brown sat down with The Buffalo News' Brian Meyer to discuss some additional issues involving education.
Here is a summary of some of the points made in an interview that is part of the weekly "In Focus" series. Watch the full seven-minute interview at BuffaloNews.com/video.
Meyer: The [district's] problems have been well documented. Where do you start? What's at the top of your agenda as it relates to tackling these issues?
Brown: At the top of my agenda has been a very pleasurable activity for me. It has meant going out into the community, getting to know as many members of the community as possible, so that I can begin to connect with the folks who will benefit the most from ... the work that we do in the Buffalo Public Schools.
Meyer: Some people look at the socioeconomic ... and they [ask], "Can a school superintendent in Buffalo do anything but sort of putter around the edges of these problems?"
Brown: I certainly believe that as the new superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools, I can lead this district to great improvement for all of our students.
I think that the potential to do that has been demonstrated in many different places in different parts of the country. So we know it's possible. With the experience that I bring to this position, I know not only that it's possible, but I have been able to utilize some strategies in other places that have proven to be effective in working with urban schools.
Meyer: You're a former principal. You were in the upper tier of administration in Philadelphia. Some, during this tumultuous selection process, were saying "but she never ran a district." Is that germane?
Brown: It's important, I think, that the individual in this role understands the work that is done at different levels and in different aspects of this organization. I've been a teacher. I've been a curriculum specialist. I've been a principal. I served in different senior leadership positions. So I know what the challenges are on a day-to-day basis in those different roles ... And I think that the skills that I developed and the experience that I bring with me after having served as an assistant superintendent [in Philadelphia] where I was responsible for the improvement and the progress of 30 to 32 schools per year certainly puts me in a good position to be able to bring some of those strategies that I believe were successful ... to Buffalo.
Meyer: Your predecessor, James Williams ... would say it's not money that's the problem. We have more than enough money to give a good education to every child in Buffalo. Do you agree with that?
Brown: I agree that there is a sufficient amount of money and resources in order to generate improvement in the system. Our challenge and our goal is to make sure that we are utilizing the resources we have in the most effective and efficient way.<INLINENOTE>Meyer: Half of all the money that the city raises in its property taxes goes to the school district. Is it a fair request that the city have some control – that there be some mayoral input in a real formal sense ... on how you spend your money?
Brown: I prefer to think of the benefits of operating in a more collaborative way with the city and the county. I think that bringing the Say Yes to Education Buffalo initiative into the city is going to really promote that kind of [collaborative] model.</INLINENOTE>


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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) brought us an ability to produce maps of whole human genomes in less than a week for just a few thousand dollars. With this ability came a tsunami of data.
Because we cannot simply read the entire genome end to end, NGS generates a very large number of small reads from random locations in the genome. The reads are assembled in larger contigs, and contigs into genomes. This process generates about 100 bytes of compressed data for each base pair and 100 GB for each human genome. Worldwide, the volume of sequencing data is rapidly approaching the exabyte (1018 bytes), with an astounding 5x year-on-year growth rate.
The future development of the field is in clear need of very efficient and rapidly scalable methods of dealing with data storage and analysis. And in order to use the data in a clinically meaningful way, we need methods for assessment of the quality of the resulting sequences.
CHI's "Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis" conference was dedicated to evaluation of progress in the pipeline of computational technologies. The technologies selected for the conference and for this article highlight diverse approaches of dealing with big data.
"Next-generation sequencing instruments can generate up to two terabytes of data per run per sequencer," said Sanjay Joshi, CTO life sciences, Isilon storage division, EMC. "The ability of sequencing technologies to deliver data drowns out our capability to process and store the raw data and results."
The EMC storage solution, Isilon OneFS, enables users to grow storage capacity seamlessly, in full sync and linearly with data growth. "Isilon adds storage as simply as Lego blocks," continued Joshi. "Adding more and more identical nodes to the existing architecture provides so-called scale-out solutions for life sciences computing, the field with practically unlimited needs."
Isilon OneFS has multiple distinctive characteristics, according to Joshi. In addition to infinite scalability, it spreads the metadata that describes each datafile intelligently across all storage nodes in the system. Therefore, each node "knows" what the other nodes are engaged in, and that eliminates any individual points of failure within the storage cluster. In essence, Isilon OneFS is a self-healing system.
Its nodular structure is ideally suited for multiparallel computing protocols that are indispensable when dealing with assembly of millions of short DNA pieces. Multiple storage needs, simultaneously supported by the same Isilon framework, can be rather diverse in nature.
At Harvard Medical School (HMS), Isilon One FS is connected to a supercomputing center to serve genomics and image-analysis needs. At the same time, it stores learning courses with multimedia applications and HMS administrative workflows.
Isilon found another application at the Laboratory of Neuroimaging at University of California, Los Angeles (LONI), where it stores what is reportedly the largest collection of neuroimaging data in the world, exceeding 430 terabytes. The LONI brain scans represent a unique collection of 2D images that can be stacked to reconstruct 3D brain images.
"Computational challenges of image processing on this scale are daunting," continued Joshi. "But storing and retrieving the 200 GB images is what often impeded the work of researchers around the word."
Deployment of Isilon's storage environment enabled LONI to double the processing speed and reduce network bottlenecks. "Data security and availability are absolutely critical when dealing with potentially identifiable health information. Transfer of information over the internet would inherently be less secure than the Isilon solution within a private cloud context," Joshi concluded.
"Web-based platforms present an ideal infinitely scalable solution for handling big data," countered Andreas Sundquist, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder, DNAnexus. "The data goes straight from the sequencers into the cloud over the secure protocol. Our customers can access all storage and data-visualization tools without investing in expensive hardware infrastructure."
DNAnexus rents a segment of the Amazon cloud. Customers acquire services on demand, and the pricing mirrors the data usage. Because of this infinite elasticity, DNAnexus can support sequencing operations of virtually any size, from a single machine to a full-scale sequencing center.
"For DNA sequencing to have real application in healthcare, clinicians should be able to generate the data and receive the results even if they do not have access to a large computational center," continued Dr. Sundquist. "The analysis will also have to be considerably simplified."
The success of a 100% outsourcing approach is exemplified by discovery of an unstable variant of dystonin, a protein used in the cytoskeleton. This mutation causes hereditary loss of function in peripheral sensory nerves.
The mutation was identified by a small nonprofit organization, Bonei Olam, which does not have its own DNA assembly, analysis, or storage capabilities. Instead, the scientists contracted DNAnexus to provide the entire workflow from alignment of raw reads to graphical display of matches to the reference genome. In the future, DNAnexus plans to expand such clinically relevant workflows.
A collaboration with Geisinger Health System and University of California, San Francisco will enable DNAnexus to learn from clinical experts how to build innovative solutions for personalized healthcare. DNAnexus will soon be launching an instant genomic and data analysis center that enables collaboration in a unified environment with just a click of a button.
"The cloud is a powerful tool to build absolute best security," continued Dr. Sundquist. DNAnexus emphasizes multiple approaches to protect personal health information in the cloud environment: physical protection of servers with round-the-clock surveillance, data encryption, audit trails for data access, among others.
"Just a few years ago pharmaceutical companies would not consider the cloud as even remotely possible," continued Dr. Sundquist. "But now, enhanced data security allows for storing various sensitive data in the cloud, including employee records and financial data."
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With a growing number of legislators supporting his bid for speaker of the Hawaii House, Maui state Rep. Joe Souki has announced two leadership appointments.
Souki said that he had 30 votes in his favor as of Monday - four more than the minimum needed from the 51-member chamber to defeat longtime House Speaker Calvin Say.
Souki named John Mizuno - who represents Kalihi Valley, Kamehameha Heights and parts of lower Kalihi on Oahu - vice speaker of the House. Mizuno last session served as chairman of the House Human Services Committee.
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Souki also named Maui legislator Gil Keith-Agaran House majority leader. Keith-Agaran - who represents Kahului, Puunene and portions of Wailuku - had been chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Souki acknowledged the speakership won't be confirmed until lawmakers vote on it Jan. 16, the opening day of the 2013 Legislature.
"Politics being what it is, nothing is a done deal until the third Wednesday in January, when we open the session," he said. "As of this point, it looks very positive for my group. We hope to have as many people join us as possible."
Souki's supporters include all seven Republicans in the House and a dissident faction of Democrats opposed to Say's leadership.
Say, who has held the speakership the last 13 years, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Lawmakers have said privately that Say has not given up yet.
In return for their support, House Republicans, led by Minority Leader Aaron Ling Johanson, will be given vice chairmanships of three key House committees: Energy and Environmental Protection, Economic Development, and a newly created co-vice-chair position on the powerful Finance Committee that Johanson would hold.
Souki said appointments of committee chairs and members will be forthcoming.
"Committee chairs will be coming a little bit later, but we wanted to get this announcement of the leadership team out," Souki said. "I look forward to working with Mr. Mizuno and Mr. Keith-Agaran."
Souki said in a statement that Mizuno "has been a strong leader in his community for decades and has a successful record of working for the needs of Hawaii's people."
Mizuno said he is "ready to step up to meet the challenges this position poses."
Souki called Keith-Agaran "an incredibly hard-working legislator," capable of directing efforts to improve communities statewide.
"I'm looking forward to working with all the members of the House on behalf of the people of Hawaii," Keith-Agaran said. He added that as majority leader, he would not be serving as chair of any committee.
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