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The availability of cheap computing power and increased network bandwidth gives rise to distributed component-based computing applications. A distributed component-based application is a configuration of services provided by different application components running on physically independent computers that appear to the users of the system as a single application running on a single physical machine. Several things motivate the adoption of distributed component-based systems over traditional centralized systems.
To give the illusion to users of a single unified application running on a single physical machine, instead of a collection of disparate applications running on heterogeneous computers connected via a network, a distributed system needs to be transparent in the following ways.
The distributed system allows a user to store, access, and manipulate data transparently from many computers while maintaining the integrity of data during system failures. The management of distributed data and transactions is accomplished at the local and global levels. A local data manager, or resource manager, enables the access and manipulation of data or resources. These resource managers provide the transparency of data location, data models, and database security and authority control. A local transaction management system is responsible for initiating, monitoring, and terminating transactions in a computing system. A distributed transaction management system extends the scope of a local transaction management system by coordinating with the local resource managers to view related transactions over a network as a single transaction.
A transaction is a group of statements that represents a unit of work, which must be executed as a unit. Transactions are sequences of operations on resources -- like read, write or update -- that transforms one consistent state of the system into a new consistent state. In order to reflect the correct state of reality in the system, a transaction should have the following properties.
Each transaction should preserve the ACID properties for the system to reflect the correct (i.e., consistent) state of reality. Unlike a centralized computing environment where application components and resources are located at a single site, and transaction management only involves a local data manager running on a single machine, in a distributed computing environment all the resources are distributed across multiple systems. In such a case transaction management needs to be done both at local and global levels. A local transaction is one which involves activities in a single local resource manager. A distributed or a global transaction is executed across multiple systems, and its execution requires coordination between the global transaction management system and all the local data managers of all the involved systems. The Resource Manager and Transaction Manager (TM), also known as a transaction processing monitor (TP monitor), are the two primary elements of any transactional system. In centralized systems, both the TP monitor and the resource manager are integrated into the DBMS server. To support advanced functionalities required in a distributed component-based system, separation of TP monitor from the resource managers is required.
Transaction management taxonomy
The most common configurations of transactional enterprise systems are the following.
There are two ways to specify transactions, namely, (i) programmatic and (ii) declarative.
Transaction propagation
A global or distributed transaction consists of several subtransactions and is treated as a single recoverable atomic unit. The global transaction manager is responsible for managing distributed transactions by coordinating with different resource managers to access data at several different systems. Since multiple application components and resources participate in a transaction, it's necessary for the transaction manager to establish and maintain the state of the transaction as it occurs. This is achieved by using a transaction context, which is an association between the transactional operations on the resources and the components invoking the operations. During the course of a transaction, all the threads participating in the transaction share the same transaction context. The scope of a transaction context logically encapsulates all the operations performed on transactional resources during a transaction. The transaction manager needs to analyze the transaction request and decompose the transaction into many subtransactions, propagate the transaction context, and send them to associated resource managers. The transaction context is usually maintained transparently by the underlying transaction manager.
Resource managers inform the transaction manager of their participation in a transaction by means of a process called resource enlistment. The transaction manager keeps track of all the resources participating in a transaction by resource enlistment and uses this information to coordinate transactional work performed by the resource managers with two-phase commit and recovery protocol. All the resources enlisted are deleted at the end of a transaction, i.e., after it either commits or rolls back. The transaction manager has to monitor the execution of the transaction and determine whether to commit or roll back the changes made by the transaction to ensure the atomicity of the transaction.
Two-phase commit (2PC)
Two-phase commit protocol between the transaction manager and all
the resources enlisted for a transaction ensures that either all the
resource managers commit the transaction or they all abort. In this
protocol shown in the figure below, when the application requests the
commitment of a transaction, the transaction manager issues a
PREPARE_TO_COMMIT request to all the resource managers
involved. Each of these resources may in turn send a reply indicating
whether it is ready for commit (
PREPARED) or not
NO). Only when all the resource managers are ready for a
commit, does the transaction manager issue a commit request
COMMIT) to all the resource managers. Otherwise, the
transaction manager issues a rollback request (
ABORT) and
the transaction is rolled back.
Although 2PC guarantees the autonomy of the transaction, the required processing load is quite heavy, creating frequent update conflicts, especially when data is duplicated across multiple sites. Replication of data is a way to alleviate this conflict problem and is usable only when transaction-based update propagation is not required. Most distributed systems adopt these two methods in parallel to judiciously match the requirements of the application.
There are trade-offs between two phase commit (2PC) and replication server approaches. The fundamental difference between them is that one operates at the transaction level and the other is a periodic propagation of updates. The guidelines are to 1) keep data replication as minimal as possible, 2) keep the number of copies small, if data must be synchronized as a transaction, and use 2PC, 3) use replication servers if concurrency requirements outweigh sub-second data integrity requirements, and 4) use replication servers if the network and nodes are unreliable.
Concurrency control is another crucial functionality. It allows multiple users to access data at the same time, increasing the throughput and performance of the system. It allows transactions to execute concurrently while achieving the same logical result as if they had executed serially. Concurrency control allows multiple transactions to read and update data simultaneously, and it includes transaction scheduling and management of the resources needed by transactions during execution. Most of the methods to ensure serialization of transactions are lock based, e.g., two-phase-locking method, timestamp method, and multiversion method. The Two-phase locking (2PL) algorithm is the most commonly used technique in distributed transactional systems to accomplish update synchronization and concurrency control. Often vendors combine concurrency control techniques like 2PL, consistency control techniques like 2PC, and timeout for deadlock resolution into a single implementation for global distributed transaction management.
Queued transaction processing
Direct transaction processing is synchronous, since the initiator of the transaction is blocked until the transaction manager runs the transaction. Unfortunately, there are situations where either the client or the server or the communication link between them fails. Sometimes there is even a need for priority scheduling of requests for transactions. The synchronous model of transaction processing cannot handle all these cases. This led to the development of asynchronous transaction processing models using queues. The queue is a transactional resource and operations on the queue, namely, enqueueing and dequeueing, are either made durable or completely undone depending on whether the transaction that issued the operations commits or aborts. The J2EE platform defines two mechanisms for handling queued semantics. One can use the native JMS API or one can make use of message-driven beans as defined in EJB Specification 2.0.
JMS API in transactions
The application component developer should not use the JMS
request-reply paradigm within a single transaction. Since a JMS
message is not delivered to its final destination until the
transaction commits, the receipt of the reply within the same
transaction never takes place. Because the container manages the
transactional enlistment of JMS sessions on behalf of a bean, the
parameters of the
createQueueSession(boolean transacted, int
acknowledgeMode) and
transacted, int acknowledgeMode) methods are ignored. It is
recommended that the component developer specify that a session is
transacted and provide 0 for the value of the acknowledgement mode. It
is also important to keep in mind that the JMS
acknowledge() method either within a transaction or
within an unspecified transaction context must not be used. Message
acknowledgement in an unspecified transaction context is handled by
the container with
JMS AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE semantics.
Message-driven beans
A message-driven bean is an asynchronous message consumer invoked by the container as a result of the arrival of a JMS message. The client's view of a message-driven bean is that of a JMS message consumer that implements some business logic running on the server. A client accesses a message-driven bean through JMS by sending messages to the JMS Destination (Queue or Topic) for which the message-driven bean class is the MessageListener. Message-driven beans have no home or remote interfaces and are stateless. They are thus like stateless session beans: all bean instances are equivalent as long as they are not involved in servicing a client message. A message-driven bean instance is created by the container to handle the message processing for the consumer. The container controls its lifetime. However, the instance variables of the message-driven bean instance can contain state across the handling of client messages.
Examples of such state include an open database connection and an object reference to an EJB object. The message-driven bean model makes developing an enterprise bean, which is asynchronously invoked to handle the processing of incoming JMS messages, as simple as developing the same functionality in any other JMS MessageListener. It also makes concurrent processing of a stream of messages possible by means of container provided pooling of message-driven bean instances.
The goal of transparency in a distributed TP environment demands interoperability between transaction managers and interoperability of TMs with resource managers. Currently, there are two open standards, namely, X/Open DTP Model & ISO TP Model. ISO TP protocol communicates between two distributed transaction managers possibly from different vendors in an open environment. ISO TP doesn't have many followers. On the other hand, X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing (DTP) is a distributed transaction-processing model proposed by the Open Group. This model is a standard among most of the commercial vendors providing transaction processing and relational database solutions. Some of the major elements of the model are
The following are the major interfaces specified in the model:
The X/Open DTP model is fairly well-established in the industry. Commercial transaction management products like TXSeries/Encina, Tuxedo, TopEnd, and AT&T GIS support the TX interface. Most of the commercial databases such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix and Microsoft SQL Server, and messaging middleware products like IBM's MQSeries and Microsoft's MSMQ Server, provide an implementation of the XA interface.
The Java 2 Enterprise Edition is a framework based on architecture. Support for transactions is a major element of the J2EE architecture. The component provider can use the Java Transaction API (JTA) to specify transaction boundaries in the component code. On the other hand, with declarative transaction specification support in enterprise beans, transactions are started and completed automatically by the container. The J2EE server implements the necessary low level transaction protocols between transaction manager and database systems supporting the JDBC API, including mechanisms for transaction context propagation and the optional distributed two-phase commit. The J2EE platform currently supports flat transactions that cannot have any nested transactions. It is possible to have a transactional application that uses a combination of servlets and JSP pages accessing multiple EJBs within a single transaction. Each component may acquire one or more connections to access one or more
shared resource managers. It is important to emphasize that there are many different possibilities to choose from when it comes to architecting a solution for a specific application. However, out of all the possible configurations, only the following recommended ones are highlighted here.
Case I: Stand-alone Client <-> EJB Container
<-> RDBMS/EIS Resources
This configuration is the first step in the evolutionary migration from a two-tier client server system. In general there is a fat client probably written using Swing that communicates with the business logic residing in the EJBs in an EJB container of some application server.
Case II: Browser <-> Web Container <-> RDBMS/EIS
This configuration is popular in small scale web applications that are not supposed to serve an unpredictable number of users and is more appropriate for systems that reside within the intranet of an organization. This is suitable for applications where use of an application server is overkill.
Case III: Browser <-> Web Container <-> EJB
Container <-> RDBMS/EIS Resources
This configuration is the recommended full-blown architecture where the application has to be robust and scalable with a multitude of users demanding the maximum performance out of the system.
Dibyendu Baksi is a J2EE transactions systems and frameworks designer and developer for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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And according to CSN Philly's Jim Salisbury, that's all the Phillies will be saying about Ben Wetzler:
The Phillies issue statement acknowledging participation in NCAA investigation of OSU pitcher. Team says it will have no further comment
— Jim Salisbury (@JSalisburyCSN) February 22, 2014
Amaro tight lipped on NCAA issue. He was aware complaint had been filed. He said Marti Wolever remains as scouting director/asst GM
— Jim Salisbury (@JSalisburyCSN) February 22, 2014
Amaro added that he is not concerned about team's perception. Says team is regarded in industry for being professional.
— Jim Salisbury (@JSalisburyCSN) February 22, 2014
According to multiple sources, the Phillies have released the following statement regarding the situation:
"The Phillies did participate in the NCAA investigation and a ruling has been issued. We believe it is inappropriate to comment further on either the negotiation with the player or the action taken by the NCAA."
(H/t Chris Branch, Matt Gelb)
This one is, well, bizarre. The Phillies have reportedly turned in Oregon State LHP Ben Wetzler into the NCAA for using an agent during last year's signing process. Wetzler, the Phillies fifth-round pick, chose to return to the Beavers for his senior campaign in 2014. The news was first reported by Baseball America's Aaron Fitt in a series of tweets:
Several sources have confirmed #OregonState LHP Ben Wetzler was turned in to #NCAA by #Phillies, who drafted him in 5th round last year.
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When asked about Wetzler situation, #Phillies scouting director Marti Wolever said, "I have no comment." Expect more details in coming days.
— Aaron Fitt (@aaronfitt) February 20, 2014
In what is sort of a now open secret, most amateur players likely to be drafted work with agents as "draft-day consultants" to skirt around hiring an agent. This is a practice that has been established for years and Wetzler is not the first nor will be the last to do it but Wetzler was hit with an indefinite suspension for it. The Phillies have also reportedly attempted to turn in Washington State outfielder/first baseman Jason Monda but Monda was cleared to play by the NCAA this Thursday.
This may hurt the Phillies' ability to sign players in the upcoming drafts. Scout's Kiley McDaniel says it has broken any trust the Phillies may have had with amateur players and Jim Callis of Baseball America says it will give amateur players a pause before dealing with the Phillies.
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I was just thinking that our farm system was way too overstocked and we'd have to outright players just to draft new ones. It's a mess. We're much better off just keeping the minor league players we have now or just letting the A's take them.
Who would I have to talk to in order to make sure that every draft pick gets a Scott Boras business card in their welcome packet?
I'm going to get some flack for this… but if a player wants to continue playing college ball, why did they enter the draft?
Its not like the NFL, in baseball if a player is eligible they can be drafted there is no "entering" the draft…..
I think there are a number of factors…
1. You're testing the waters to see where you really would come out, which could vary widely from year to year based on the organizations' depths and perceived needs.
2. If you're a fan of a particular team or have a short list of teams you'd REALLY like to play for, by entering the draft over multiple years you have a much better shot of winding up where you really want to go. Don't forget the team that drafts and signs you pretty much owns you for a long time for very little money.
3. It's a way to test to see if you'd be drafted at all…to get an idea of the process…and possibly have more input/knowledge from MLB teams of what you need to work on in the upcoming years.
If a player enters the draft and is picked for a team, he should either go to the team, or have to sit out the entire next year. MLB teams are businesses and being jerked around by kids "feeling out the system" is not acceptable.
I love the idea… the only problem is that there is no "default" salary based on draft pick position.
If, say all 10th round players got $40,000 per year, that would be simple. In our free market draft there is really only a recommended value for the draft slots, but the players are free to demand more.
So, regardless of their reasons (say if you grew up a Phils fan and got drafted by the Braves and just refused to ever wear a Braves uniform), you could simply say the salary offered was not enough and take you chances next year.
By forcing the player to sit out, you're putting the player at a huge bargaining disadvantage.
The only "fair" way to do it would be that you get your salary based on draft slot and the player could take it or leave it…but be penalized for not taking it by losing a year of eligibility….but no one in the union would call that "fair."
It would also be difficult to have a take it or lose a year of eligibility as the NCAA and MLB are in not linked in a business relationship. The MLB cannot make a rule that would impact NCAA eligibility. It's not impossible but extremely unlikely that the NCAA would go for something like that as it would gain nothing and face losing some of their talent.
Sorry…MLB First Year Player Draft eligibility, not NCAA playing eligibility.
I honestly have no problem with what the Phillies did, from the day they drafted Wetzler it seemed like he was a guaranteed signing. Also he was the highest pitcher they took and if they were told he would sign that was a major jab toward the Phils. Wetzler was a player the Phillies really needed, without him there are very few pieces in the lower Phillies minor league system pitching wise and Wetzler was a prospect they were counting on.
Since when are 5th round draft picks guaranteed signings? Regardless, so the Phillies can't come to terms with this draft pick and their response is to rat him out and affect his college playing career? This is a kid we're talking about who's only leverage with any team drafting him was his ability to return to school. The organization has been pretty inept since Amaro took over. Now you can add petty to the list. What a joke.
Do you follow the draft and post draft process? If you did you would have known that Wetzler was reported as close to a deal and a basic lock to sign. Going into a draft a team has a strategy of who to draft and how to spend money, clearly the Phils were banking on Wetzler signing and they likely had heard from him in advance that he would sign. Why else would they take him over better pitchers like Bobby Wahl, Buck Farmer, Dustin Driver and others? Because they knew they were told they could sign him for X amount and that would allow them to save money to sign Crawford, Knapp, Sandberg and Hernandez. I am a big proponent of keeping your word and it seems like in this situation Wetzler did not keep his word. This could really hurt the Phils because looking at this draft they have only one or two pitching prospects none of which are really impressive, Wetzler would have given then a very solid prospect with back of the rotation MLB potential.
Regardless if this was a guaranteed signing (which are far and few between in the 5th round), my point still stands. If the allegations are true, it's completely petty and vindictive on the Phillies part and serves no purpose. So negotiations broke down. News flash – this happens all the time.
The comments on that article are wonderful. You'd think we all here at the PN are throwing batteries and snowballs at each other while barfing on other people's kids.
Forgive my near-total ignorance on this subject, but…
Am I correct in assuming that unlike basketball and football, the team that drafts a player in any one year doesn't retain those rights if the player chooses not to sign with them?
If all a team loses in the gambit is time (unless the player eventually chooses another profession) it seems an awkward practice but not quite as crazy. If on the other hand the drafting team loses its claim on the player AND its draft position if the player won't sign… well, that's insane. At the very least, if another team eventually signs the player the original drafter should be paid compensation with additional penalties assessed. Even then it can't offset the loss of talent unless the club that finally drafts the player has a higher draft pick to surrender (and that's unlikely if players are choosing their teams).
It seems the draft could more closely resemble free agency with the monied teams winning out in the long run should they choose to exercise their financial clout and not adhere to some loose gentleman's agreement on signing bonus dollars.
Considering the fact that the draft is the only equalizer for distribution of talent, do any real safeguards exist for the "less desirable" teams? If not, what those meanie Phillies did could evolve into a welcome test case that other scorned teams in the league would quickly want to emulate.
They receive a compensatory sixth rounder for not coming to terms with Wetzler. There's absolutely nothing to gain for "turning him in" and it will only hurt them in the future when dealing with other draftees.
How does it hurt them in the future with other draftees?
the Phillies dont receive anything. Only the first 3 rounds are protected picks
Right, CBP. I understand that 131 college players were selected in the non-protected rounds 4-9.
Only three of the 131 didn't sign: these two, plus a "courtesy" pick in the 8th round. The Phillies must have had some indication they would sign.
The way the draft works is there are certain groups of individuals that can become eligible for the draft. Here are the requirements from mlb.com
1. High school players, if they have graduated from high school and have not yet attended college or junior college;
2. College players, from four-year colleges who have either completed their junior or senior years or are at least 21 years old; and
3. Junior college players, regardless of how many years of school they have completed
So its not like a player declares interest, and it would be unfair if a high school player really wanted to go to college and be penalized if he is drafted….
The way the draft works is every team gets a pick in each round and they can only lose picks in the early rounds if they sign a player that is tied to pick compensation. Teams are also not allowed to spend recklessly, each team is given a budget based on position in the draft. However teams can use that budget however they deem necessary. Unlike the NFL or NBA draft teams do not always pick the best player when they are on the clock. Its a game of strategy, for example the Royals this past season drafted Hunter Dozier with the 8th pick and by doing so saved money for Sean Manaea who was their 2nd round pick who slid due to injuries but was much more talented than Dozier. Not only that players can be picked very late due to questions of signability or talent, example the Phillies drafted Cavan Biggio in the 29th round and he was arguably the 3rd most talented player they drafted.
It is all a game of strategy and the reason the Phillies were frustrated with Wetzler is they took him over better players because of his signability and his likely lower price that would help them to sign Sandberg, Hernandez and Trey Williams.
You will have to excuse my ignorance, just catching up. This is the first I've read of this and haven't had a chance to look further in to it.
How does Aaron Fitt know this to be true? Because the players told him? Is that credible evidence?
Sounds like something this incompetent FO would do. How effin petty is that?!? How is this going to effect future negotiations with draftees and/or agents? If he signed with them, I bet he doesn't get turned in…
Why would you expect a 20 year old with no knowledge of negotiating a pro sports contract to not have an agent in the first place? What kind of stupid rule is that?
Because he retained an agent, do you think?
Why are you automatically assuming the culpability of the Philles front office? Do you think they haven't operated under the same "wink wink" draft paradigm before? I suspect it was the agent thinking he could blackmail the team after a preliminary agreement had been reached that led to this unusual action.
I, for one, will not pass judgement on this until ALL the facts are in. A few of possibilities come to mind:
1. Maybe it WASN'T the Phils that turned these guys in, and the team name came up because some reporter assumed that the Phils were the culprit because they had a "sour grapes" response to the player's decisions to go to college.
2. Maybe these two players actually hired agents long term instead of just for draft consultation. In that case, they should be suspended according to NCAA rules.
I'm certain that this entire report, being only a day old, isn't the whole story. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop before I'll make blanket claims of "petty front office," or call anyone names, or say how this will affect future drafts.
3. Maybe the two players had agreed to sign, then their respective agents stepped in and demanded bigger bonuses.
@aaronfitt – "Hearing from one agent after another today about the Ben Wetzler situation. There will be repercussions for the Phillies."
"One agent: "As of today, Phillies are out. Phillies are not getting into any more of our households. We're shutting down all communications"
@Buster_ESPN – "Amaro: No comment on NCAA situation, because of investigation. That's amusing; Phillies aren't being investigated."
"Phillies are free to comment, because NCAA is investigating a college kid now, not the Phillies."
"If the Phillies — a billion-dollar company — actually decided to attack a college kid's eligibility, they should explain why."
Yeah — a little early for all of that.
Yep. Way too early.
Pretty cool to see the knee-jerk reactionism here trying to defend some pretty indefensible actions by Rube & Co. These kids didn't do anything different than literally any other potential draftee, and Rube instead threw a hissyfit and ratted them out to the NCAA in an attempt to create future negotiating leverage. Like all things this man does, it backfired terribly and now he's scrambling.
No. We don't know happened yet here. Did the Phillies report them unprompted, or were they asked? And they reported them unprompted, why did they wait four months? There is lots we don't know yet, and what's "cool" is the kneejerk reaction to bash them with woefully incomplete information.
*And _if_ they reported them unprompted…
The NCAA doesn't "prompt" this kind of thing because it is just simply assumed to go on and just tacitly accepts this. Multiple sources have confirmed that the Phillies reported this poor kid to the NCAA. There is literally no good way to spin this, but keep trying schmenkman
"this poor kid" — come on. He hired an agent, indicated he would sign, and then made the Phillies waste a pick. And I'll keep repeating because it's true: we don't know what happened, and we only have one side of the story. That's spinning? Hardly.
"multiple sources" – Well, there were two kids, or maybe their agents who could have some kind of ax to grind from a past experience. Sorry, but to me that's that's not enough to make it automatically true.
Unless this guy Fitt is willing to name his sources (which will never happen) showing that it was the NCAA that named the team specifically, I'll continue to assume the Phils are "innocent until proven guilty". mkay?
The key here is Wetzler is not innocent in this process, if you are a player that is potentially going to get drafted there is no way you go into the process completely ignorant. The major factor here is it was rumored that Wetzler and his "adviser" had told the Phils what it would take to sign him and that he was a virtual lock to sign. If this was the case then the Phils likely tailored some of their draft around knowing he would sign. Wetzler was the Phils 5th round pick and by far the best pitcher they drafted, they took him ahead of better players (likely because they knew he would be cheaper and would give them flexibility). If you honestly think this was the player saying o well I want to go back to college instead your ignorant. He decided that he wanted more money than the Phillies were willing to offer and it was likely on the advice of his "adviser". With the injuries and inconsistency from some of the Phillies pitching in the low minors the Phillies were counting on Wetzler to give them a solid prospect and if he gave his word that he would sign for X amount and then came back with a different offer after the draft I understand the Phillies frustration. MLB draft is all about strategy and in taking Wetzler was part of the Phillies strategy and plan. Without him signing the essentially have no good pitching prospect from the 2013 draft. They did get Shane Martin in the 9th who has some talent but nothing special, Denton Keys is likely the most talented lefty the Phils got but he has a ways to go and it looks like 32nd round pick Tyler Viza might have something but he is a very raw 19 year old. Wetzler was their safety pick that they KNEW would sign and I think he was going to until he met with an agent and changed his mind. So regardless of how this turns out Wetzler screwed the Phillies and in that case how is it not fair for them to report him if he contacted an agent?
Alex M – Per your words, it was "rumored" that Wetzler told the Phillies what it would take to sign him. There is no guarantee. And it's a freaking negotiation process. These are kids negotiating their salary. They're free to do whatever the hell they want throughout the process. Even if he promised them what it would take to sign and still walked away, the Phillies (again, if this is true) were absolutely pathetic in turning him in. It doesn't help them one bit and could potentially hurt future negotiations. It's great that you're advocating a major league organization to employ a child-like mentality, though. A potential player doesn't like our offer, so let's screw him over. Classy.
Btw, he can contact an agent. The agent can't do the negotiating on his behalf.
And how the hell do you know, Publius, that these kids DIDN'T do anything different than anyone else?
Can't you just wait like Schmenkman, Lefty, wbramh, and others here to find out ALL the facts, and not just some reporter's take on the few crumbs of information that are currently availabe?
Ok Schmen. Let's play a game. Three parties involved. A. Kid turned himself in. B. His advisor turned him in. C. Phillies turned him in. There's playing stupid and actually being stupid. Your choice.
One thing that I hope comes out of this-Is that the rules are changed regarding agents and either you allow them or enforce the current rule! If everyone is in violation of the rule then there is no point in having it.
I think what needs to happen is that they are allowed to talk to an agent or adviser once or twice and that is documented so they have knowledge and an idea of what to do going into the draft process. It would kind of be like recruiting in college, the visits are recorded and regulated and if the player or agent goes over the desired visits then they are potentially penalized. Its not as cut or dry as it is in football or basketball. But I agree there needs to be more rules in place, the fact that the Phillies are getting crap for following the rules is crazy. Even if there is an "unwritten understanding" that you do not rat out players. To me that just sounds shady and after all of the steroid issues baseball really needs to avoid shady dealings.
Well put Alex M.
Yes, let's limit the resources available to an 18-19 year old in negotiating his future with a billion dollar organization. Great idea.
And the Phillies aren't getting crap for following the rules. They're getting crap for being petty, vindictive and counter-productive.
Me, I prefer my favorite team tattles on a college kid instead of actually working on fixing a organization that's been going downhill ever since the 2008 season.
Again, I ask, do you think the Phillies haven't operated in this draft paradigm before? If they made a habit out of pursuing this course of action, there might be reason to jump to conclusions regarding their motives. I think the situation suggests egregious behavior on the part of the agent. The ultimate outcome will be that the agent will suffer the consequences for his actions, perhaps finding a smaller client pool, for example, for his disservice to Wetzler.
"Ok Schmen. Let's play a game. Three parties involved. A. Kid turned himself in. B. His advisor turned him in. C. Phillies turned him in. There's playing stupid and actually being stupid. Your choice."
D. The story is not true, and the NCAA suspended them on their own.
E. The NCAA approached the Phillies based on a tip from 1) another student with a grudge, 2) an angry ex-girlfriend, 3) an athletic department equipment manager who he treated like crap, 4) one of his professors (h/t commenter phil-er-up)
Oh look, both of you were wrong. What a shock.
lol – we still don't know the whole story, but in any case this article is pretty informative:
Wetzler has been cleared to play Mar. 2. That being said, does MLB expect kids to negotiate contracts on their own? It's a dumb rule to begin with. That being said, if the kid knew he wasn't allowed to use an agent, and he did, wasn't there a chance he's get caught anyway? I understand there is the 'unwritten rule' about not turning these kids in, but you'd think the agent would know better as well. Funny how the writers are coming down on the Phillies, when they don't even really know what happened, and on paper, the team only broke an unwritten rule, not an actual one. Then again, I find that most writers do nothing but trash the Phillies, anyway. Either way, I'm glad the kid will be able to play this season.
Right, he was suspended for 11 games, or 20% of OSU's season, i.e. he can play starting 3/2.
"Oregon State official Steve Clark said today that it is "our understanding" that the Phillies reported it, tweets Fitt."
Well I have to give him credit, I never thought he'd give up his source. To me, that's still not enough proof to write a story like that which could cause many negative effects on the Phillies ability to negotiate with agents in the future.
IMO- Fitt needs to supply more than that or face possible consequences.
What a gutless move by a gutless organization
Publius, you surprise me on this. As an ardent stickler for advanced metrics, I would think you'd want absolute proof before just blasting the organization.
Amaro acknowledged "participation" in an investigation, not that the team "reported" the violation.
I still have not seen proof that they reported the violation.
Do I have to give you dictionary definitions of the words "participation" and "reported"? Or can we agree that participation can mean many things including;
Being called in for questioning during an investigation?
Answering questions under oath?
Being subpoenaed to answer questions?
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I must say that I'm disappointed by their public comments. It's possible that their PR people are telling them to ignore this situation and maybe it will go away, but if my organization was wrongly accused of acting vindictively and trying to do harm to a kid's right to return to college for another year, I'd want to get out in front of it and clear the air.
hk, I have been wrongly accused in a lawsuit before, and it's not fun. But the most agonizing part was that my lawyer would not let me speak up for myself. All good counsel inform their clients to say nothing, and in the end IMO they are 99% correct to do so.
But in the interim, the court of public opinion usually chooses to take silence as guilt, and from experience I can tell you and that hurts an awful lot.
When I see or read absolute proof that this organization acted stupidly against an innocent kid, I will fry them publicly like many others are doing. I'm not saying I'd put it past them, I just don't have enough evidence of that yet.
The lack of a denial by the Phillies and numerous respectable college baseball sources running with the "Phillies ratted him out" version is plenty of proof. If it is not true, why haven't the Phillies denied it? Why not expound on what the "participation" means? If more proof to the contrary comes out I will happily reconsider, but there is simply no counter-evidence showing that the Phillies had a small or no part in this whole thing.
What are the numerous sources?
Last I checked your innocent until proven guilty and its not the Phillies style to talk much publicly and this whole thing has a suspicious aire about it
Why do the Phillies need to cooperate with the NCAA? They are not a governmental agency. They can't do anything to the Phillies.
And when did the NCAA become a paragon of virtue?
They've been putting it to "student athletes" for years.
That organization is the furthest thing from a paragon of virtue and are probably the biggest culprits in this situation. Think about how Draconian it is to have a rule that punishes a kid with a suspension if that kid pays an advisor to help him negotiate what most likely is the largest financial negotiation in which the kid will ever engage. The NCAA wants kids to come to their schools to play sports, but when the kid has a chance to turn pro while still having a year of eligibility, the NCAA punishes the kid by either (a) reducing his ability to negotiate or (b) suspending him when he returns to college. Great system.
Joe Nocera wrote a series of articles on the NCAA in his Times column. The link I supplied is just one among them. None of his articles portray a very attractive organization.To quote Nocera, "He (NCAA founder, Walter Byers) is the man who coined the phrase "student-athlete" to deflect attempts to force universities to pay workers' compensation. He fought efforts to tax college sports. (Today, buying a "seat license" is viewed by the I.R.S. as a tax-deductible donation)." I suppose that includes all 110,000 "charity" seat licenses in Ann Arbor. Apparently, the NFL is also a charitable organization since they too don't pay a dime of taxes, but that's another story.
If the Phillies had absolute power they'd be able to force prospects to sign contracts on the spot rather than rely on verbal promises. The NCAA actually uses their power to own college players outright and with no contract or compensation. As the NYT article states. the NCAA is currently (and finally) being sued for violation of anti-trust laws. The case Nocera cites centers around Ed O'Bannon, "a former U.LA basketball star who sued the NCAA for licensing his likeness to the video game maker EA Sports without compensating him.
One of the NCAA's attorney's arguments in front of the court stated, "The NCAA's rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school." Well, that's ludicrous since the NCAA has monopolized college sports, particularly football and basketball and turned them into pay-free minor leagues for pro teams while raking in tens of millions of dollars for themselves in broadcast and licensing rights. More to the point, a basketball player can no longer be drafted directly out of high school but instead, must wait a year (if they forego college) and play in a developmental league – usually those meat factories operated by the AAU who essentially function as players' de facto agents. In other words, sign with a university or face oblivion. These kids are victimized plenty by the NCAA, agents, universities and amateur leagues long before they meet their first pro scout.
The O'Bannon case now appears to be headed to trial. A victory for O'Bannon could very well serve as a landmark decision and change "business as usual."
And speaking of the legal system, any good lawyer would advise his client not to comment on a situation that could end up in litigation. Therefore, the fact that the Phillies haven't responded in detail to the charges put forth in no way indicates guilt. There may be as much or more evidence of defamation perpetrated against the team. In any case, now would be a good time for the player and his rep(s) to just shut up, too and stop feeding the ever hungry rumor mill.
Additionally, the idea that various sources siding with the player makes for truth in this case is ludicrous. It's likely that only the player and/or his "advisor" would have been present for discussions with the Phillies. Everyone else is spreading hearsay – no doubt some for their own self benefit..
So when do the games start? …..
I generally applaud anything any major league team does to stick it to an agent. And please stop portraying Wetzler as some innocent in all this. At the very least he should have hired more competent "advisors."
So, by extension, do you also applaud everything a major league team does to the player that the agent represents? If so, do you realize that you are siding with billionaires and billion dollar corporations anti-trust exemptions that give them cover to screw the exact people that the public pay moneys to watch actually play the games? That's an interesting take for sure. I assume that you've never known a kid like Wetzler who had a unique talent that people pay to see and who was just trying to do what's right for himself and his family, but was forced into a situation where the cards are so stacked against him maximizing his worth that it's either sad or laughable. I suspect that, if Wetzler was your son, you'd think differently.
Yeah, well there's that undeniable fact, too. These billionaires are handed anti-trust exemptions, free land, tax-free incomes and tens of millions of misappropriated money from the community chest to construct personal palaces in which few permanent local jobs are created and with seats that, increasingly, the average fan can't afford to sit in. Close 50 schools for lack of money and nobody cares but lose a sports franchise (to suckers in some other city) and your career in politics is over.
These men are among the biggest welfare leeches in the country
And the next time you buy MLB licensed merchandise look at the label to see where it's manufactured – probably some place where they can get away with paying a dollar a day to a worker risking her life in some fire trap. But the American worker they forced onto unemployment is a "welfare queen."
But don't get me started…
Exactly. There are no easy answers to our societal problems but tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and powerful are not not on the short list.
Now, when do the games start?
Your conclusions seem influenced from some dislike of "billionaire owners." Are you suggesting that there was no misconduct on the part of Wetzler and his "advisor" or choosing to ignore it? If there were no misconduct then there would have been no suspension. I suggest merely that Wetzler's "advisor" was responsible for some sort of brinksmanship which put the young man's baseball future at risk. Lastly no one is forcing Wetzler into baseball servitude and he is still free to earn a living with his education.
Re:"Your conclusions seem influenced from some dislike of "billionaire owners."
Not at all. My point was that HK is also correct – I tried to make that clear in the first sentence when I said, "there's that undeniable fact, too." It probably wasn't clear due to the rant that followed so I apologize if that comment was misleading. In my previous comment, I came down just as hard on agents, schools, the NCAA and others who, not unlike billionaire owners, leech off of innocent kids and/or the public.
If I had to guess, I'd say someone having less than the kid's best interests at heart whispered in his ear in the expectation of a quick and dirty commission opportunity that likely won't come again. But that too is pure speculation. While it's not out of the realm of possibility that the Phillies did something unfair, I don't believe the probability is all that high, especially since they're not new to the procedure and were not fighting over rights to the next sure bet Cole Hamels. So no, my very real disdain for billionaire owners (some far more than others – like the Cubs for instance) does not play into the scenario I have conjured.
As for servitude, you're correct; no one is forcing the kid to play baseball. If the Phillies had that power and desire (they have neither) they would have signed him under duress or freed him to pursue a career in some other field – one likely without an agent involved. My only reference to servitude was minimum wage American MLB merchandise makers whose jobs were shipped overseas and taken over by Chinese and Bangladeshi workers. They are not much better off than indentured servants, working miserable hours, often in unsafe conditions and for dollar a day type "wages."
As always well put wbramh. Pardon any of my misunderstandings or misstatements.


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My baby is 6 1/2 weeks old. Is he supposed to have sweet smelling breath? I nursed my first child for 2 years, it was a long time ago, but I just don't remember her breath smelling very sweet.
This baby is not gaining weight well. We are pretty sure it is the dairy in my diet so I am trying very hard to not let anything get past me.
At 3 weeks, his poop changed from yellow seedy to green. And he started to look thinned during that week too. He also started pooping with every diaper- going through about 15-20 a day. His family doctor was not concerned, said it was normal even though he was still only 7 pounds 5.5 oz. ( he was 7 pounds 6 oz. at birth, 6.12 at release and 6.14 1/2 at 6 days)
After eliminating dairy in the obvious forms his poop changed back to yellow and he was able to gain 7 oz. in 10 days.
Now though I have not had any obvious dairy for quite some time, and even trying to not let any get past in any form, but we are not having the same luck of his poop going back to always yellow. We will get an occasional yellow but mostly green,altho nowhere near as frequent as before.
Anyways, is his breath supposed to be sweet smelling? Or is that a "symptom" I should bring up to his doctor?
His father and his older brother also had "formula issues" as infants/toddlers, but were never diagnosed with anything.
Oh, also he has never had a growing spurt of constant nursing or even more frequent nursing. I thought he should have had his second one by now?
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150 gram discs are designed to do exactly what their heavier weight cousins of the same name do, for someone who has less snap and less armspeed than an experienced player in their prime. In other words, if you meet a pro on the course who throws a 175 gram Wraith 400 feet in a relatively straight line with a little hyzer at the end but you know you have neither the experience or torque to do the same, you could safely assume that you might be able to throw a 145 gram Wraith in roughly the same manner and perhaps get 75% of the distance of the pro(300Ft.) depending on how much torque you actually do have.
Another way to look at it is if you are underpowering your shots - not getting enough speed and torque on them to keep them from hyzering out prematurely - than it will probably benifit you to lower the weights you`re throwing substantially. The fact is, with less weight in your hand to propel forward, the faster your arm will complete it`s stroke and the faster the disc will be traveling when it leaves your hand.
The disadvantage to lighter discs is that they can be a bit squirrelly and unpredictable when the wind starts to kick up. They are certainly more likely to fail when overthrown. But don`t let this stop you from trying them. For many players, these are the key to being able to do what the big boys do.
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The overdue paper notice will be replaced by an email or phone notification effective March 18 at the Algonquin Area Public Library District.
By using the library's automated phone notification system to contact cardholders when they have items overdue will result in cost savings to the community and provide library users with a much more timely notice, according to a news release from the library district.
Notice messages will not contain any item information; they simply will inform cardholders that they have overdue material. Those receiving email notifications will see no change. Cardholders who do not wish to receive phone notices must provide an email address.
Those interested in signing up for email notifications can call the library at 847-458-6060, ext. 4, or visit www.aapld.org, click on the About Us tab, select Library Info and follow the instructions via the E-mail Notification link.


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Never thought I'd say this but I bet if he puts Balkman in we go on a 10-0 run
Thank You we need some Bibby
Selby in I wanna see if he got it
Balkman Lmao!!
Amare had gasol beat why did he go back into him?????????
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This is gonna be a tough game to watch
....shump is a boss
SHUMPERT! then BALKMAN!?
Mad props go out to Shump for the hustle...That's what it's gonna take tonight.
Shumpert has like 4 steals already, even though he cant score he's still playing hardm thats good work right there ROOK


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I love receiving letters from my sponsored children. My girl in the Dominican Republic colors some precious pictures in each letter she sends us.
Doesn't it just make your day when you get artwork from your child?
Have you ever considered that your child would love to receive artwork from you?
Sure, we can send blank coloring book pages, but have you ever considered coloring some of them?
Have you ever had your children, nieces or nephews do art and coloring to send to your sponsored child with your letters?
"But Brett, I'm a horrible artist. My artwork stinks. You'll have better luck finding a flying pig than getting me to keep my colors within the lines."
Do you think the child will actually care if your drawing isn't perfect?
Do you think he or she will care if you don't stay within the lines of your creation?
Not a chance!
Your child will be so proud and happy you took the time to do something special!
"I sponsor a boy and he probably doesn't want silly pictures or coloring book sheets."
Perhaps, but I'm sure he likes soccer/football/futbol. Why not try to draw the crest or logo of his favorite team? Or try drawing the child's country flag.
I told my 3-year-old daughter that we were going to do art for our girl in the Dominican Republic. She picked out a page from one of her Disney coloring books and colored it for Nara. Simple. Meaningful. Heartfelt.
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Dr. Joanne Lee recognized in Waterloo Region Record's 40 Under 40 for 2009
Lee's work recognized for valuable contribution to community and to research
Feb 27/10
Each year, The Waterloo Region Record awards the Top 40 Under 40. Dr. Joanne Lee was selected as a recipient for 2009. Dr. Lee was recognized for her research in early numeracy and the LittleCounters TM program she co-developed with Dr. Donna Kotsopoulos. Dr. Lee was nominated by numerous colleagues, students, and community members. This prestigious award recognizes individuals for their unique and valuable contributions to Waterloo region.
Congratulations, Dr. Lee!
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Best Buy Ditches 'Christmas' But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers
Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that's for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It's so "religious" and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha? Heck, why not? What could be more welcoming and tolerant?
And so, Best Buy has issued a Thanksgiving sales flyer wishing all good multi-cultural, Muslim loving Americans a happy Eid al-Adha this year.
Don't you feel your heart warming already? Isn't your PC bone tingling with happiness? And aren't you secretly gleeful that those rotten, evil, reactionary, hatemongering Christians are getting theirs… even if Christians do make up about 75 percent of the United States?
Well, let's give Best Buy a hand for its politically correct sales flier excising that horrid Christmas nonsense and being enlightened enough to help us all convert to the "Religion of Peace."
Thanks be it to Allah and Best Buy for helping us forget little things like the Khobar Tower bombing, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Towers, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, 9/11, or that silly little incident with Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood. It was but a trifle, after all.
In this happy Eid al-Adha season we can thank Best Buy for its sacrifice, too. For its sacrifice of America to its enemies, for the sacrifice of our traditions, religious principles, and culture to an alien, hostile ideology. We can thank Best Buy for helping organizations like CAIR to spread its message of cultural jihad.
Yes, thanks Best Buy for showing us how to be better "Americans."
Now go ye forward and shop, America. Happy Eid al-Adha to everyone. And don't let PETA stop you from buying that goat. And don't mind us, folks. We are just committing cultural suicide is all.
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The string of recent reboots continues with director Len Wiseman ("Underworld") updating the sci-fi action flick "Total Recall" by replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger with Colin Farrell, upping the special effects and adding bass drops. Oh so many bass drops.
I'm apathetic about reboots in general, because what I want most from a movie-going experience is imagination. And rehashing an old story usually doesn't result in something mind-blowing or ground-breaking. Such is the case with "Total Recall."
Unhappy with his life — despite being married to Lori (Kate Beckinsale) — Douglas Quaid (Farrell) goes to a memory-implanting company so they can give the memory of a lifetime; he wants to be a badass secret agent who gets the girl and saves the world. There's only one problem: Apparently Quaid already has that memory, because that's who he is. What follows is a wham-bam blend of chase scenes and whirlwind fisticuffs as Quaid and Melina (Jessica Biel) figure out what bad guy Cohaagan (Bryan Cranston) is plotting.
Wiseman creates eye-popping special effects reminiscent of "Minority Report" and "Blade Runner," and fills the film with booming action sequences from the get-go. There are even some fun callbacks to the original.
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- Will 2013 Weather Provide Enough Moisture to Grow Corn, Soybeans and fill the Mississippi River?
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MeteorologistSteve Buan of NOAA North Central River forecast Center recently reported to Congress there were reduced chances for spring snowmelt flooding, and there was a reduced chance for overall significant spring rise in river levels. He also said there is a 40% chance to have fall 2013 flows as low or lower than last year.
During the past three months the mid-Mississippi was kept open without added flow of water from the Missouri River, which many farm groups and grain exporters pleaded for last fall. High-level Corps decisions kept the Missouri flow reduced as reservoirs in thatwatershed are replenished. However, that may not be a quick process, based on the Drought Monitor and drought projections by NOAA and the National Weather Service. The center of the drought is focused in the Missouri River watershed. This implies that the Missouri may be unable to provide water to the Mississippi River during 2013 because of the need to manage reservoirs and any rains will be more likely to be absorbed into the soil, rather than fill streams and ultimately the Missouri River.
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Although dredging has ended on the mid-Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cairo, work continues by contractors to remove rocks in the barge channel as conditions permit. But higher water levels have prevented daily work, while barges and tows benefit from deeper drafts. TheArmy Corps of Engineers says there were no reported groundings ofbarges during the extensive effort to keep the barge traffic flowing despite the rocky shoals. Farmers who may have been upset with the Corps' 2011 decision to blow up the Birds Point Levee and flood 120,000 acres of farmland, can thank the same folks who responded to the low water and expedited the rock removal to keep grain barges moving southward to Gulf export terminals. That was accomplished with no additional funds added to the budget. Agriculture has likely gained a greater respect for those who job it is to manage a river. That is quite a task when you think about it.
Weather forecasts for the 2013 cropping season indicate the lack of weather patterns that will dominate the delivery of moisture for crop production. However, the Missouri River Watershed is currently in an exceptional drought, and the water from the Missouri is needed for maintenance of river depths on the Mississippi for normal barge operations. Under current forecasts, chances are strong that low water on the Mississippi will last through next fall.


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