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The Local Spin: You, me and musicBy Ali Flewelling
Arts Correspondent | February 27,2013There's a lot in store for music lovers in the days ahead. Whether you want to participate, sit back and enjoy, or do a little of both, this week gives you the opportunity to do all three. With some unique venues and performances coming up, you may want to reserve a seat ahead of time.
Tonight, Chad Hollister is back in town to perform at the new Taps Tavern in Poultney. Hollister will play solo starting at 7 p.m. This is a great venue and an opportunity to catch this hometown favorite.
In addition tonight, The Peacheaters will perform late night at the Pickle Barrel on Killington Road in Killington.
Rather than classify themselves as a tribute band, the group says they are "an Allman Brothers experience."
On Friday, aspiring local musicians have the chance to show their skills in Chittenden. The Church of the Wildwood on Holden Road is hosting an open mic night at 7 p.m. Interested individuals are asked to call Donna Martin at 483-2234 to secure a spot on stage.
As we've seen all winter, Killington is famous for hosting our favorite musicians back to back, and this week is no different. On Friday night, The Wobbly Barn invites you to see Temporary Grace at 9:30 p.m.
You can also join the Joey Leone Trio at the Outback on Friday night and the Joey Leone Band Saturday night. Both shows start at 9 p.m.
The Pickle Barrel will feature the sounds of the six-piece powerhouse, Occasional Sundays. The group will perform a variety of covers both Friday and Saturday night.
Saturday is packed full of tunes. Start the day with Tom Irish at the Vermont Winter Farmers Market on West Street in Rutland. Irish will perform acoustic starting at 10 a.m.
Duane Carleton will be at The Foundry at Summit Pond for 4 p.m. happy hour in Killington. He then heads to the Clear River Tavern on Route 100 in Pittsfield for a 9 p.m. show.
Sarah Blacker will perform at Brandon Music on Country Club Road in Brandon on Saturday night at 7 p.m. The rock, folk and jazz-influenced vocalist will be joined by Shaysh on drums, Erik White on guitar and Sean McLaughlin on bass. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased in advance by calling 465-4071.
There are two special events Saturday featuring local musicians. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center hosts its Marble Mardi Gras at the Rutland Country Club. On the Rocks will perform at 5:30 p.m., and attendees can enjoy a live auction and dinner starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $65; call 438-2097 to RSVP.
There will also be a Mardi Gras Celebration at the Knights of Columbus on Merchants Row in Rutland. Enerjazz, a 15-piece brass band, will perform at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and dancing. Tickets are $75 per person or $130 for a couple.
Also Saturday, the Aaron Audet Band will perform at JAX in Killington at 10 p.m.
On Sunday, Rick Redington will perform at his new Sunday spot, the Outback, at 9 p.m. Duane Carleton will be just down the road at JAX for locals' night starting at 9:30 p.m.
I also wanted to let everyone know about a rare musical opportunity in Vermont next week. Rosanne Cash, daughter of country superstar Johnny Cash and a standout musician in her own right, will be at Latchis Theater in Brattleboro on Friday, March 8. Tickets are on sale ranging from $29 to $59 and can be purchased by visiting kingdomcounty.org. The show is at 7 p.m. Don't miss your chance to see this music great.
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Rally shows support for gun restrictionsMark Collier / Staff Photo
About 300 people turned out Saturday at the Statehouse in Montpelier to oppose assault weapons and support gun controls.
MONTPELIER Hundreds of people flocked to the Statehouse on Saturday for a rally to support gun-control legislation on both the federal and state levels.
The rally was organized by Montpelier resident Danielle LaFleur Brooks, who said she was happy with how the day turned out.
Brooks was inspired to form the rally in response to a rally held last month when around 250 people showed up to oppose Sen. Phil Baruths proposed legislation banning military-style assault weapons.
Brooks rally, attended by about 300, was also in response to Baruths decision to pull his bill less than 24 hours later.
I was so upset that the state wasnt even going to have the conversation about assault weapons and what part that might play with gun violence, she said.
Brooks is the mother of a 5-year-old and a 9-month-old. She said the events last fall in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were killed, including 20 young children, really struck a chord with her.
As a mother, when I heard about what was happening in Sandy Hook, Conn., my 5-year-old is in kindergarten and I felt she could have been in that hallway, she said.
Brooks said there were parents like her who might not have time to pay attention to politics, but would do anything to protect their children. The rally Saturday was a way to give those parents a voice, she said.
Besides being a parent, Brooks is a former English teacher. She said one of her students was shot and killed over a racial dispute.
After the rally, a principal approached her and talked about how he has also had students gunned down at his school.
Brooks said the rally was also intended to show support for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinsteins proposed federal ban on assault weapons, as well as for state legislation introduced by Rep. Linda Waite-Simpson, D-Essex.
The Vermont legislation would, among other things, limit the number of rounds in ammunition clips, require background checks at gun shows, and require that guns are stored safely and kept out of the hands of those who shouldnt have access to them, including children.
Former Montpelier city councilor Nancy Sherman attended the rally because she also supports such legislation. She said gun control is the second-most important issue facing the country behind the economy.
Montpelier Mayor John Hollar was invited to speak at the rally. He said he attended because gun control is something he feels strongly about and he is one of 800 mayors from around the country who have formed a coalition looking for positive solutions to end gun violence.
Assault weapons are designed to essentially kill large numbers of people in a short period of time, Hollar told the crowd.
We know from horrifying experiences in Newtown, Oak Creek, Tucson, Aurora and other places that they do the job very well, he added. Nearly one-third of the high-profile shootings during the last four years involved assault weapons.
Hollar said a civilized society does not allow weapons to be sold that are designed for large-scale killing, distinguishes between guns that have a legitimate use and those used for warfare, and protects its children.
The Second Amendment really has no place in this discussion, he said. It has never been construed to protect private ownership of military weapons. Even as the Supreme Court has upheld gun ownership for self defense, the Second Amendment does not uphold the right to own dangerous and unusual weapons.
Hollar encouraged the crowd to implore legislators to have a reasoned and thoughtful debate about whether assault weapons have a place in our community.
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Transparent JDBC Connection Pool Reconfiguration in GlassFish 3.1
By jagadish on Feb 28, 2011
Transparent jdbc-connection-pool re-configuration
|A feature using which
redeployment of jdbc-connection-pool due to attribute or property
change can be handled transparent to applications that use the pool.
Whenever a set of properties / attributes (eg: host-name, port-number
etc.,) of jdbc-connection-pool are changed, the connection-pool is
destroyed and re-created based on the new values. Any application that
is using the connection-pool need to be re-deployed (or application
disable and enable must happen) due to pool re-configuration. Using
this feature, existing applications can roll-over to new connection
pool transparently. It is also possible that there can be in-flight
transactions that is using the connections when the pool is
re-configured. This feature will make sure that the new requests are
queued till re-configuration is complete, however will allow requests
that have already acquired atleast one connection from the pool and is
part of a transaction. Thus, in-flight transactions' connection
requests will be honoured and the transaction can complete.
A new property named 'dynamic-reconfiguration-wait-timeout-in-seconds' will help to allow in-flight requests to complete.
All in-use connections, in-flight transactions that span even after 'wait-timeout' is elapsed will have to be re-tried.Applications can define "application" scoped and "module" scoped resources in the archive.
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When the size and complexity of your project grows, a build tool is the best way to automate the steps required to generate your project. For example, in a typical Java project, each time you build you compile the Java files,
jar the .class files, and generate the Javadocs. These steps can all be automated using a build tool. The
make build tool was invented to work out dependencies for a build, and Ant was developed as a cross-platform, Java-centric alternative, with XML replacing the
Makefile's crazy syntax.
Maven from the Apache Software Foundation will most likely become your build tool of choice after you discover its many features. Not only does it provide an out-of-the-box solution to common build-related tasks, but it also produces a "dashboard" of technical information that enables a development team to track the state of a project.
As great as Ant is as a build tool, you start out each project's build script having to accomplish the same things: compiling, packaging, and testing your code. You can do anything you want, using the great tasks that are built in, but it is a blank canvas for you to fill in. Anyone that has done this a few times probably has a build script they use as a template to begin any new project. One common problem is reusability of targets, unless you are writing your own custom tasks.
Maven takes a different approach. You fill in the details of your project in an XML file, and a wealth of prebuilt functionality becomes available immediately. What's even better is that you can leverage any Ant task inside of your new Maven project.
Maven provides prebuilt "goals" that will automatically:
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The power in Maven comes from a plethora of excellent plug-ins. A list is viewable at the Maven site. For example, there are plug-ins that create EAR files and control J2EE application servers.
Another interesting feature of Maven is its use of a central repository to access the .jars needed to build your project (similar to Perl's CPAN). You list what .jars and versions you need, and Maven is intelligent enough to go and download them for you. When you run Maven for the first time, or attain a new goal, you will see console output detailing repository access to download any required .jars. This is a great feature that not only makes Maven easier to use and set up, but also saves you a lot of time and the headaches of keeping your own collection of dependencies up to date in a local directory or in your source-code control system.
Maven's ease of use comes from the declarative nature of its configuration. Out of the box, it provides the basic steps that every project needs, and configuration customization is done declaratively in the file that contains your Project Object Model (POM). The POM is XML-based, with clear and descriptive names of the elements and attributes. This makes the editing process easier for the developer. Once you have completed filling out the POM, a large number of prebuilt plug-ins are ready to provide some amazing functionality to your build process.
Maven is also easily customizable, especially if you already know Ant. You can add new functionality or hook into existing processes to add any custom steps by using Ant tasks. Use the maven.xml file to add your custom functionality.
The unit of work in a Maven project is a goal. For example, when you issue the command:
maven site:generate
You are instructing Maven to attain the
generate goal of the
site plug-in. If you would like to see a list of all the goals at your disposal, enter:
maven -g
For any development team, running the
maven site:generate goal and publishing the results on a scheduled basis gives every member of the team a clear view of the status of the project. The first page to look at is the Unit Test report, which gives the team an aggregate dashboard-style report of the test runs.
The Checkstyle plug-in is great for enforcing a coding standard. The generated reports list the summary details of how many errors exist in how many files, followed by a listing for each file of the error and line number. It provides a link to the cross-referenced source code, which makes it easy to track down any offending code.
In fact, the Maven developers use Maven in their own development, so you can check out the results of Checkstyle for Maven itself on their Checkstyle report page, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Checkstyle Report overview
Under this summary is a line-by-line report on style violations, organized by source file, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Checkstyle Report details
The CVS plug-ins give you a quick status of the code commits to the repository. The provided reports include:
These reports are also available for Maven's own development, and a recent Changelog Report is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Changelog report
If you are ready to try using Maven, here are the steps to take to set it up on your system.
MAVEN_HOME environment variable to point to the directory where you extracted the files.
Now, if you enter the following command:
maven -v
You should see the following output:
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Not only is Maven working, but you get cool ASCII art as well! To see what options are available when you invoke Maven, type:
maven -h
To see the list of available goals, type:
maven -g
What you see in the output is a long list of plug-ins and the goals they provide:
Available [Plugins] / Goals
[ant] : Generate an Ant build file
generate-build ............. Generate an Ant
build file
[antlr] ( NO DEFAULT GOAL )
generate ................... Generate source
from antlr grammars
prepare-filesystem ......... Make any necessary
directories for antlr
Further down in the list, you will see the plug-in
[wizard], with the goal
ui. You would attain that goal by typing the following command:
maven wizard:ui
When you type this, you'll see output messages indicating Maven is going to its repository and downloading any needed .jars.
To get more familiar with Maven, let's create a sample project. For this example, we'll create a directory called maven-sample, in ~/maven-sample or C:\maven-sample. Then run the following command:
maven -D package=com.oreillynet.mavensample genapp
This will generate a complete simple startup project for you. Make sure you enter the package name as specified above when prompted at the console. If you don't, you will get compile errors.
Now run the command:
maven site:generate
This instructs Maven to generate the site for the project. This is generated based on the POM file (project.xml) that was configured. When you run this command for the first time, you will notice that Maven goes to its own repository and downloads any .jars that are needed.
By running that one goal, Maven has compiled your code, copied over any resources (properties files) from the conf directory into your classes directory, produced Javadoc documentation, and run all of the project comprehension and analysis reports. That's an incredible amount of functionality for one goal!
If you look in the target directory, you'll see the output of the
site:generate goal. Open the docs directory under target, and open the index.html in your favorite web browser. You will see the reports Maven generated for the sample application.
To integrate any Ant task into your Maven build process, you need to create a file called maven.xml in the same directory as your project.xml. Add the following XML code to the maven.xml file:
<project default="myGoal">
<goal name="myGoal">
<echo>Hello Maven!</echo>
<echo> task is a simple Ant task that just displays the text between the tags when the task is run. When constructing your own goals in Maven, you can use any valid Ant task.
Save the file, then run the following command from the directory where your project.xml and maven.xml files reside.
You should see the following output:
[echo] Hello Maven!
Total time: 1 seconds
Now that you have seen the basic sample project working, you can start customizing Maven for your own project's needs. If you open up project.xml in your favorite text editor, you will see the generated and commented file. You can use this as a base for your own projects and edit the file as necessary. What's nice about this approach is that you have a working project right from the beginning, and can then add your source code and other resources to the project.
If you are using the Checkstyle plug-in, you can set what coding style you would like to use in the project.properties file. This plug-in, by default, comes with the standard Sun and Turbine coding styles. If your team's style is different, you can define your own! First, set
This tells the plug-in to look for a file called team-checkstyle.xml that contains the settings for your team's style. To create yours from scratch, you can use the excellent Eclipse plug-in, or use one of the standard ones and customize it. Open the MAVEN_HOME/plugins directory and then extract the files from the
maven-checkstyle-plugin .jar. Under the expanded .jar's plugin-resources directory, you will see sun_checks.xml and turbine_checks.xml. Pick the one that is the closest match to your team's style and then alter as needed.
To change some of the default colors used when the project site is generated, you can change the following properties in the project.properties file. You specify the colors in the typical HTML style. In this case we have set the section, banner, and source colors.
If you need to define a dependency that is used in your company but is not available in the Maven repository at ibiblio.org, you can define the dependency like this:
You then need to place a someJar1.2.jar file in your repository. This directory location is controlled by the
maven.repo.local property in your project.properties file. This defaults to
${maven.home.local}/repository, which in turn resolves to
${user.home}/.maven. If you would like to customize the reports that get generated, then add the following
<reports> element to your project.xml:
All but the last two of these reports are generated by the standard configuration. This adds
maven-statcvs-plugin, which generates statistical
cvs reports, and the
maven-simian-plugin that identifies duplicated lines of code in a project. Once you define a
<reports> element, you override any of the reports that would get generated by default.
This article has provided a basic introduction to the features of the Apache Maven project. Using Maven should help streamline your team's build process and give you insight into the current status of your code.
Maven's developers, and the community of users, have created an excellent build tool. Thank you!
Rob Herbst is a developer whose interests include Java, Linux, and .NET
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#199225 - 04/19/11 10:30 AM pariah
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To explain why drummers were members of the lowest caste - Drumming was an occupation performed by the Dalit or untouchable caste because drums were made from the tanned hides of animals and therefore associated with death. Therefore, the task of beating on them with bare hands fell to the Dalit caste, who performed the "unclean" occupations having to do with death and human waste.
#199226 - 04/19/11 10:57 AM Re: pariah [Re: Mowgli]
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Makes perfect sense in a caste-like situation.
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#199231 - 04/19/11 03:35 PM Re: pariah [Re: Mowgli]
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Thanks for this information (Earliest documented use: 1613.)
Does this mean Mowgli, that before 1613 Dalit was the general word for the untouchable caste ? Has pariah replaced this word Dalit which you write with capital D , while pariah is written without a capitial ? I know very little about this. Was the untouchable caste only one tribe?
By the way, on the photo the drummer is beating the drum with two sticks.
Edited by BranShea (04/19/11 03:39 PM)
#199233 - 04/19/11 07:09 PM Re: pariah [Re: BranShea]
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That "earliest documented use" is probably the earliest use in English and has nothing to do with the Indian caste system.
#199243 - 04/20/11 09:21 AM Re: pariah [Re: Faldage]
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the Indian caste system
In the Oldest Sanskrit text (the Rig Veda), there are four divisions, from highest to lowest, in the caste system (varṇa 'covering, color'): brāhman 'priest', kṣatriya 'warrior', vaiṣya 'merchant, artisan', and śūdra 'laborer'. The split and proliferated in post-Vedic times. Brahmin is related to Latin flamen 'priest' and Kshatriya is related to Iranian shah and English chess._________________________
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#199259 - 04/21/11 01:16 AM Re: pariah [Re: Faldage]
Registered: 09/21/10
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Loc: down under
Originally Posted By: FaldageThat "earliest documented use" is probably the earliest use in English and has nothing to do with the Indian caste system.
Thats a good point, Faldage.
I have read that the word pariah may come from the Tamil word parai and parayar "to tell something".
In early days announcements were made in public places and attention was sought be beating the drum. These broadcasts were usually made by men from the lower casts. So you can see how the two became to mean the same, pariah and low cast.
And maybe the messages were not always good news.....
Like the saying, 'shoot the messenger' maybe the pariah became the outcast because of the announcements he made.
#199266 - 04/21/11 08:08 AM Re: pariah [Re: Mowgli]
Registered: 01/06/08
Posts: 132
According to the OED Online, "pariah" is from Tamil பறையன் paṟaiyaṉ "(hereditary) drummer" from பறை paṟai "drum".
#199267 - 04/21/11 09:55 AM Re: pariah [Re: goofy]
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Loc: R'lyeh
from பறை paṟai "drum"
Took a quick look in Burrow's Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (brick & mortar version, but also online): entry 4033. Corroborated, although it also means a measure and a member of the Paraiya caste._________________________
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#199273 - 04/21/11 11:31 AM Re: pariah [Re: zmjezhd]
old hand
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Posts: 724
I can't contribute to this discussion, because I do not know much about caste. In modern cosmopolitan daily life in India, it is not much of an issue.
Edit: Sorry luke edited this after you replied to it. Never serves to refer to the P word.
Edited by Avy (04/22/11 12:03 PM)
#199276 - 04/21/11 01:16 PM Re: pariah [Re: Avy]
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How sad!
But it is good to hear that it is not of daily relevance._________________________
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If you bought groceries in West Virginia last week, you paid a little less than previously. On July 1, the last of the old sales tax on food, other than from restaurants and vending machines, disappeared.
You probably didn't notice the change, a minor one amounting to only 1 percent of the price of your food purchase. But it marked the end of a campaign that began in 2005, when the tax was a substantial 6 percent. Slowly, during the years, the tax was reduced to nothing.
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Members of the Sullivan County Legislature were divided over whether the county should hire another lawyer for the Department of Family Services (DFS) at a meeting of the Government Services Committee at the government center on December 12.
The position would cost $122,639 per year, but only $23,301 would come from the county, and the balance would come from the state and federal government. According to the resolution, the attorney would provide oversight of such areas as "department legal services, child support enforcement services and fraud investigation services."
DFS commissioner Randy Parker told the legislators that there are monies due to the department that are not being collected because of a lack of legal talent. He said, for instance, there is $32 million in unpaid child support payments in the county $18 million of which is owed to DFS, and another $3.7 million is owed in "repayment agreements." Parker also noted that the budget he put forward for 2014 realizes a savings of about $600,000 compared to the 2013 budget.
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Pat Burrell
Career w/Phillies: .257 AVG / 251 HR / 827 RBI / 5 SB
With the first pick in the 1998 draft, the Phillies selected Pat Burrell, a big outfielder from the University of Miami. In return, the slugger gave the Phils and their fans nine crazy but ultimately rewarding seasons. He finished second on the franchise all-time home run list with 251, but no hit was larger than his final hit as a Phillie, a smoked double off the left-center field wall that turned into the winning run of the clinching game of the 2008 World Series. Before then, Burrell bashed the ball regularly, with eight straight seasons of 20 or more home runs. He also had troubles staying consistent, hitting for below a .260 average six times. Still, his best seasons were extremely good. In 2002 he hit .282 with 37 homers, and he parlayed a ridiculous second half in 2007 to finish with 30 homers. He also reached base a ton toward the end of his run, finishing in the NL top 10 for walks in his final four seasons in Philadelphia. He signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2009, the same team that fell victim to his biggest hit.
Comment: Burrell gave fans some great times during his nine-year career. He was what he was: A strong power hitter who found consistency sparingly. But when he was on, boy was he on. We'll miss Burrell, and he definitely earns a top 25 spot in the Greatest Phillies countdown, with a little debate on whether he should be top 20.
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In a way it's amazing that after all the animosity over his performance throughout the years, in the end he left a hero. It's a small list of ex-Phillies that get standing ovations when they come back to town with another team. The fact that Pat will be one of those guys, along with Thome and others, speaks volumes about his last several years here.
It's not how you start or even what happens in the middle, but how you end that seals the deal. Pat has cemented his place in Philly's heart, got his ring, and can enjoy the rest of his career being a DH.
Kudos to "The Bat".
like the pick, Tim, however, I would love to know how much his final Phillie at-bat influenced this decision. : )
Although Burrell was inconsistent during the course of a season, his end of year stats were pretty similar year to year, with the obvious exception of the '03 .209 BA debacle.
His OBP for the last 9 years were .359, .346, .376, .309, .365, .389, .388, .400 and .367. Pretty consistent.
Burrell will always be one of my top 5 Phillies of all time (In my 25 year era of being a Phillies fan). I know its unlikely, but I hope he comes back to retire here. He just doesn't look right in a Tampa uniform.
Ibanez was probably an upgrade over Pat the Bat, but man I'd rather have Pat in the lineup just for nostalgia purposes. I won't really miss him in the field… Just gonna miss hearing Harry Kalas saying "Burrell steps up to the plate." Hearing that you always knew there was a chance he'd rock one.
Looks kinda effeminate in the picture posted
hahahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha @ Evan's comment
my favorite Phillie. bought tickets to the april 3rd showdown. was hoping he made top 20. what a way to finish
good riddance pat, when this guy came up in a clutch situation, the best i could hope for was a walk, more often then not he would either look at a called third strike or pop up , in my book he is the all time prima donna and choke in my 45 years of following the phils. you just cant have him and howard being in a funk at the same time. you can live with howard because when he gets hot he can carry the team.
Going to see him play Philly in Tampa June 26th!!!
Its funny…if you would have asked for an opinion about Burrell's production 2 years ago,well,lets just say it wouldnt be so heartwarming as today.No body wanted this guy on the Phils,they were ready to run him out of town.
Now,he is a "beloved former Phil".
Wow….a world series win really softens up the fans.As I guess it should.
Burrell drank so many beers, what a legend
i feel like a broken record, but man did this list ever throw the 08 team under the bus.
ravaged quite a few ladies in center city as well. and went through cigs and dip like it was his job.
two enduring images of pat burrell that i will never forget. his double off the wall in the series. and him riding on the budweiser cart with his mammoth bulldog elvis.
i had season tickets in the section behind pat and really used to love yelling stuff at him in the field. especially when he came out after a big hit.
Pat's final at bat was a wonderful moment that capped a great Phillie career. The numbers don't lie: He was one of the most consistent power hitters in franchise history.
I love the "choke" nonsense about Burrell. His two homers in the clinching game of the NLDS, his game winning home run off of Lowe in game one of the NLCS and his double that scored the winning run of the World Series clincher show how un-clutch he is.
I also love how people dismiss his walks. Citizen's Bank Park lead the majors in % of runners on base who came around to score.
i think you mean un-un-clutch
I actually meant it sarcastically but it didn't come off that way. "un-un-clutch" sounds good to me, Chutley.
I remember driving to New York one night to visit family, listening to the Phillies playing the Mets at Shea and Pat hitting a homerun to win the game off Armando Benitez. It was amazing, and then showing up at my mets fan Uncle's house and gloating about Pat the Bat.
Thank You Pat for ALL the memories.
Best memory besides the big double – home run off Wagner in the crazy '08 comeback game against the Mets. Often frustrating, but at least he never whined to the press.
let us also not forget, that Pat the Bat completely OWNED the mets. especially at shea stadium
For a guy with a colorless and predictable batting technique, he undeniably was able to consistently produce the power numbers. Just goes to show you that most pitchers are dumb. I didn't realize he is that high on the franchise all-time home run list. I am impressed. # 22 is fine with me even though he could neither run nor field well. Top 20? No way. The top 20 demands more than 25+ yearly homers and a pedestrian .257 BA. Aim the ball at his effeminate looking head and banish him to the Amercian League.
Damn, trying to select the top 10 is proving to be a perplexing experience.
BFO, i completely agree.
I was at the parade and everyone in my section (on Broad Street unfortunately) was yelling, "One more year! One more year!" And you know what, I was too because that double made my being a Phillies Phan that much more worth it. But in hindsight, yes we got Ibanez at a bad price, but it's better for Pat the Bat to go out with a bang instead of another frustrating bum year.
But Pat, thanks for the memories. That double will always be cherished among all Phils Phans!
Between the two, I'd take Del Ennis.
Top 20 just for the games when he beat the Mets with his late inning Dingers.
In a perfect world that ball goes out in his last at bat of the World Series.
I agree, deal, I wanted that ball to get out and see Pat jog around the bases to end his Phillies career.
The one thing I'll say is Burrell, even when in one of his crazy bad slumps, was always a standup guy to the media. he never threw his teamates under the bus, always took responsibility for his play. Just for the amount of pipe that man layed in our glorious city, he is deserving of the top 25. I wonder what Pat was doing the night Jason Michaels was arrested? Whatever it was, it was probably a lot more interesting than what I was doing.
I wanted nothing more than "The Bat" to hit that one out. Off the bat we were praying for that to get out. But still fitting that in the box score he scored the winning run.
i hope del ennis and the bull get this much love, they are way more deserving and they were CLUTCH.
yes, I just wish Pat Burrell had a big hit or four en route to winning the World Series….
I love on the Phils WS DVD, Rollins calls him out. Telling Pat he needs to get his swagger back and then Pat just to spite Jimmy goes and hits a 400 ft double. His only hit in the series and it was the biggest of his career.
Pat Burrell's career OPS is .852.
His OPS with 2 outs and Runners in Scoring Position is .856
His OPS in games labeled "late and close" is .870
So much for that CLUTCH argument.
Pat the Bat, one of my all time favorites! I basically matured as a baseball fan as Burrell matured as a player. It all came full circle last year and what a way to finish it off for the Phils as well. I still get a bit choked up watching that infamous double that would eventually score the game winning run. If Burrell's time in Philly had to end, that was the way to end it.
Pat the Bat! Nice pick! Great player while he was pick but… He's atta here!!!
I agree with aschmidt. Taking Burrell's whole career under consideration after he was drafted in 1998, he was an underachiever. Too inconsistent to be rated higher than 35th or so.
Sorry; that should be ashmidt.
pat the choke artist. how is he above chase?!?!
hey griffin, i dont know what ops means, i am old school, tell me what his ba was with men in scoring position. games labeled late and close? you really sound like a rotisserie geek.
Pat has been my Favorite Phil since he first put on a uni. The problem is that most fan are still mad that he never lived up to the hype, I could care less, he was a stand-up guy and a good ballplayer. The fact that the fans demanded that he be traded almost every year and the media throw him under the bus, and he still had nothing bad to say about either speaks volumes of his character.
I always liked Pat-the-Bat.
I bought Hall of Fame Club tickets (just in case it is brutally cold) for the April 4th game just to see Pat the Bat Burrell again……live. Standing Ovations for sure! He certainly did frustrate me at times, but damn, when he was on, that swing of his was sweet!…………Outta Heeeereeeeee!!!!!
I remember teaching a large bag of cheetos a lesson. It barely stood a chance as I was watching the Phillies and stuffing my cheeks full of cheetos. My cat's head was orange by the time that Burrell walked.
I have plenty of other Burrell stories.
ashmidt, what can I say? I am not exactly young but I took the time to learn new stats that tell a lot more about a player than BA and RBI do. I just looked up stats that proved that Burrell was the same player in "clutch" situations as he was in situations with no one on base. But if you'd like to just hate on Burrell because you don't like him, feel free.
Dirty Laundry!
I remember Pat hitting a homer at the Vet that broke the plastic on one of the lighted signs in left field. Thanks, Pat, for your years of service to all of us starving fans. Let's remember him for what he did. He helped win a World Series for the Phils and that alone is plenty.
I will miss Pat-the-Bat soooooo much. He was my 2nd favorite Phillie behind Rollins. I personally think he should have been top 20, but that's just me. I got my ticket to the April 3rd Pat the Bat tribute and I can't wait for it. I'm going to be the loudest one there when he gets in the batters box for the 1st time. I bet you he cries when he gets his ovation.
For all of you saying he's not clutch, let it be known that he had the 2nd most amount of game winning hits in the NL behind Derek Lee last year. He was also really good on the road too, which most players aren't. Just some FYI. Pat Burrell was ridiculously clutch. I can name some really big moments. Home run off of Wagner. Home run off of Wilson. Home run off of Velverde. Double in the WS. I just think the people who are bashing his "unclutchness" are just thinking about his streakiness. FYI Late innings in close games he had a .418 OBP. That's insane. His batting average is .298. So if he didn't get a hit he got on base which still helps his team. He has a career OBP of .500 in extra innings which is also insane.
Phil, good stuff. As I stated earlier in this post, Burrell had the two homer game in the NLDS clincher against the Brewers, the game winning homer off of Lowe in Game 1 of the NLCS and the double that led to the game winning home run of the World Series clincher. Sounds clutch to me.
And the extra-innings home run on a 3-2 count vs. Rowand's Giants… One of the best moments ever.
You're right Manny, that was a great one and Phil also mentioned the one off of Valverde last year and don't forget the two that he hit off of Wagner in '07.
Good player, great hitter, and a stand-up guy. Pat's yet another example of dealing with unrealistic expectations. If you liked him, you saw the clutch play, the ability to get on base, and the desire at the plate. If you didn't like him you saw him watching third strikes, enduring long slumps, and not acting like a baby when he was frustrated (unlike so many big leaguers).
For me, he eventually evolved into a Doug DeCinces-type player (albeit weaker in the field and stronger at the plate): a guy whose numbers would come in bunches, a guy who could get unbelievably hot and carry a team for a month, a guy whose long slumps would leave you utterly mystified.
Finally, let's look at a somewhat unscientific comparison:
Player #1:
Player #2:
In the field, player #1 probably gets the nod by a small margin due to slightly better FP and more assists.
Player #1 is Pat Burrell, obviously.
Player #2 is Greg Luzinski (White Sox stats excluded).
Not all that different, really. The Bull's a bit better at the plate, Pat gets the nod in the field (people tend to forget the Bull's crappy fielding; even Skates seemed better, so the Bull got to sit out large portions of the Series). The Bull probably gets the nod overall, but not by a whole lot, and some of it's due to nostalgia. Pat could easily be higher than this.
By the way, if any of my numbers are wrong, please let me know. I did the Bull's Phillie stats pretty quickly, so they be off a tad.
Ed R., nice post. Their stats are amazingly close.
He was also pretty damn good at hitting Mets pitching.
How is Pat Burrell's BBQ sauce though?
I know everbody is now warm & fuzzy about Burrell now….But I'll always remember him striking out many,many ,many times on that low outside slider from a righthanded pitcher.
You could almost see it happening in your mind before he missed the pitch for strike 3.
Way, way too high. Are you kidding me – Granny Hammer had more impact for an entire Phillies career. Not always, but too often empty numbers . If you want to merit on big numbers Del Unser and Marty Bystrom would be right there with Pat.
Hindsight's golden, but at this point I'd rather have Pat for 2 years at $16m than Ibanez for 3 at $30m. If Pat gets his ABs for Tampa he'll put up some very good numbers, I'm guessing in the 33HR, 115RBI range. If they have him protecting Eva Longoria in the lineup he'll see a lot of baserunners when he's up. I think it was a mistake to let him go, but I don't think management dreamed they could get him as cheaply as the Rays did.
Del Unser? You must mean Del Ennis. Ennis' stats are certainly better than Burrell's, and he was around longer so he has both better numbers and length-of-service in his favor. I have no problem with Ennis being higher than Burrell on the list.
Marty Bystrom? Marty Bystrom? Would that be the Marty Bystrom who had two whole winning seasons (5-0 in 1980 and a big 4-3 in 1981)? Would that be the Marty Bystrom who had a grand total of 64 starts for the Phils? The Marty Bystrom with an ERA north of 4? All Bystrom has on the positive side of the ledger is 1980. Not a bad thing to have, but nothing like Pat.
As for Hammer, if you want to like him more than Burrell, go ahead, but if you compare the two statistically Burrell's the clear winner. It's not even close.
I don't like Randy Wolf higher than Myers.. and some other things, but its a hell of a good list, has kept us all entertained, and is teaching us some Phillies history along the way!
Can't wait to see the Top 10..
Keep up the good work, Tim & Crew!
I wonder how many of you actually seen Luzinski played during his years with the team? For those who have not and are relying only on stats for comparison, I can tell you it does not give you the complete picture of the player(s). While the offensive stats suggests that they are comparable, I know that Burrell is more patient as a hitter (see the huge disparity for total walks in their respective careers) than Luzinski. The "Bull" had less patience at the plate. He was never known for his astute knowledge of a pitcher's repertoire and habits. And as a few mentioned, Burrell was more "clutch" in key situations. And fielding? NO comparison. Burrell had a stronger and more accurate arm. At least Burrell can catch what he can get to. I watched Luzinski played in LF and shuddered whenever a long flyball heads his way. He would lumbered and circled under it and the ball found his glove. 🙂
When Luzinski went to the White Sox in 1981 and played for 4 years, he was a designated hitter for all but two games duriing that period. The manager/coaches scouted and knew about the Bull's reputation as a fielder.
Was at the game at Shea in 2007 when he homered off Wagner in the 9th. Remember screaming "You suck Wagner". Such a sweet moment.
Ed R. It's very enriching to read your pro Burrell rants and other assorted insights. Entries like your comparative post with Luzinski makes this blog a worthwhile stop. The Bull had fan appeal that Burrell just didn't have in spite of some of his late inning heroics. When Greg juiced one it was cosmically exciting. Advantage, Luzinski.
Not so much pro-Burrell as wanting to give credit where credit's due. Trust me, my first Phillies experiences were in Connie Mack, so I saw plenty of the Bull. At his best, the Bull was pretty scary at the plate (and in the field too, truth be told) in a way that Burrell never matched. He also connected with the fans in a way Burrell didn't. I also saw a picture of him wearing the White Sox uniform with the shorts, but that's another story.
As for Pat, I can't begin to count the times I screamed in frustration as he watched the third strike go by with men on base.
The thing about Pat, and it happened with Schmidt on a much higher level, is that people were always disappointed by him because they felt he could do better. I mean, if he could hit 30+ HR and 100 RBI while somehow mysteriously avoiding the ball almost entirely for about 2 1/2 months of any given season then he "should" be capable of truly monstrous numbers. These unrealised expectations were the burden he had to carry, unlike the Bull, who always looked like he was fulfilling his potential.
He's never been my favorite player, but once I figured out what he was by understanding his stats I was happy he was with us. I'm glad his Phillie career ended on a high note (like the Bull's) and that he finally achieved some popularity.
I don't want to diss the Bull too much, but people forget that by the WS in 1980 he was almost an afterthought. His fielding was terrible (and this on one of the best defensive teams in the history of baseball, IMO), and Smith was so hot that the Phils couldn't wait to get rid of the Bull to the Sox. I believe they received a cheese sandwich in return.
Overall I probably prefer the Bull by just a teeny bit, but he'd better have Maddox (probably my favorite all-time Phillie) there to protect him in the field. I still wish they'd resigned Pat, though.
Ed R., Good rebuttal. You're a tough sale.
deal and Griff, I actually wonder if Burrell's double in Game 5 reached the seats that he'd possibly still be a Phillie. He would have been remembered as the guy that won the World Series (along with Hamels and Lidge). It would have been A LOT harder to let him go after that.
when i'm going to have some "alone time" I now say that I am patting the bat. Or I have to go pat the bat. I don;t think about him when I do it… not all the time.
saw him play double a when i was like 8 or something and ive loved him since
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Remembrance and tributeJanuary 30,2014
The first time I saw Pete Seeger I was a kid in the 1950s being dragged along by my parents to lefty picnics and social events. I wasnt particularly interested in folk music, but there was something captivating about this tall, somewhat awkward man with the big Adams apple and rolled-up work shirtsleeves exhorting the audience to sing along while whamming away on an oddly long-necked banjo.
The last time I saw Pete Seeger he was 90 years old and chopping wood. Ben Koenig, owner of The Country Bookshop in Plainfield, and I had driven to Seegers self-built log house in New Yorks Hudson Valley
to deliver the huge card signed by many of the 300-plus folks whod celebrated Petes birthday a few weeks before at the Old Labor Hall in Barre. The card featured a painting of Pete by Ed Epstein, of Montpelier, an old Seeger friend and illustrator of Petes groundbreaking 1948 mimeographed manual, How to Play the 5-String Banjo.
In the house, piles of cards, letters and packages testified that we were hardly the only ones grateful to Pete for his many years of music and inspiration.
Pete Seeger died Monday. Youve probably read, heard or seen at least one of the many tributes to this monumental man (hed hate that phrase, Im sure) praising Pete not only for his music but for his courage, integrity and unshakable dedication to making a better world for all. Ill go so far as to say that many of the social and environmental gains of the past century owe a great debt to Pete Seeger.
Certainly, without Pete, the 20th centurys labor, peace, civil rights and environmental movements would not have sung as loudly, diversely or with as much conviction and power. For several years, theres even been a movement to award Pete the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now an icon, Pete certainly knew adversity. As an Almanac Singer with Woody Guthrie and others in the 1940s he held hootenannies to raise rent money. In the 1950s he saw his next group, the Weavers, and his career derailed by McCarthyism, and he was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. In the 1960s he was blacklisted from national television and censored when the Smothers Brothers defied the blacklist and presented him on their network show.
But Pete never quit. He just threw his head back, sang louder, and chopped more wood. Like Nelson Mandela, Pete was a reconciler more interested in bringing people together and pursuing a peaceful future than in railing and recriminating against an unjust past. He was, in his own phrase, a musical Johnny Appleseed Jr., using folk music instead of apples to plant the seeds of a better tomorrow in the homes across our land.
Some of those seeds became anthems: If I Had a Hammer, Turn, Turn, Turn, Where Have All the Flowers Gone and, perhaps most importantly, We Shall Overcome.
Pete was also an accomplished, creative and versatile musician, something that tends to get overshadowed by his social activism and extraordinary ability as a song-leader. He was 16 and playing tenor banjo in his high school jazz band when a trip with his ethnomusicologist father exposed him to vernacular Southern music and the five-string banjo. He was quickly converted to the older instrument and began learning traditional techniques frailing (or clawhammer), double thumbing, up-picking from the old-timers, both on record and in person. He was also among the first Northerners to explore the new three-finger bluegrass style of Earl Scruggs. And he took the banjo in even newer directions. Flamenco, jazz tunes and pop standards emanated from Petes banjo alongside modal mountain tunes and ancient Child ballads.
Nor were Petes instrumental talents confined to the banjo. He helped popularize the 12-string guitar. He also played the mandolin, the recorder and the Israeli chalil.
But it is perhaps as an accompanist that Pete displayed his greatest instrumental skill. Even his simplest arrangements are carefully honed. His guitar and banjo settings employ counter-melodies, rhythmic accents, chord voicings and other techniques that enhance the songs without ever calling attention to themselves. Even his whamming on the banjo provides the perfect means of supporting and stimulating the singing of his audiences.
In a music industry infamous for its financial mistreatment of musicians and songwriters, Pete was a model of integrity, seeing that royalties from Wimoweh went to the estate of the original writers family and that a fund was established for the royalties from We Shall Overcome to support grass-roots efforts within African-American communities to use art and activism against injustice.
And now hes gone, less than a year after the death of his wife of 70 years, Toshi. Like Pete, Toshi was a power (though a behind-the-scenes one) in the folk music community that they did so much to build. They were inseparable.
When Ben and I visited in 2009, Toshi interrupted our talking (mostly by Pete) and music-making to ask Pete to fetch something. At 90, he jumped up like a well-trained retriever. And when Ben and I summoned our courage and played for Pete a medley of his songs that we had performed at the Barre concert, he excitedly summoned Toshi to listen.
Eventually, our visit was over. We packed up our instruments and headed down the road, and Pete returned to chopping wood.
Chop on, Pete. Well may the world go, as you wrote and sang, when you are far away.
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Moxibustion is a form of heat therapy in which dried plant materials called "moxa" are burned on or very near the surface of the skin. The intention is to warm and invigorate the flow of Qi in the body and dispel certain pathogenic influences.
Moxa is usually made from the dried leafy material of Chinese mugwort (Artemesia argyi or A.vlugaris), but it can be made of other substances as well.
In the U.S., practitioners generally hold a burning moxa stick close to, but not touching, the surface of the skin.
In this method, the moxa material is compressed into a stick or pole, looking not unlike an oversized cigar that can be lit and allowed to smolder, producing a unique form of very penetrating heat.
The smoldering moxa stick is held over specific areas, often, though not always, corresponding to certain acupuncture [7] points. The glowing end of the moxa stick is held about an inch or two above the surface of the skin until the area reddens and becomes suffused with warmth.
It is not uncommon for patients receiving moxibustion to report a sudden flooding of warmth that quickly radiates along a specific pathway (usually corresponding with the jing luo channel that is being treated) away from the site of application. This is a good result, as it indicates the arrival of the Qi and signals that the flow of Qi and xue has been freed in the channel.
Moxibustion is used for:
Practitioners often do both acupuncture [3] and moxibustion in the same clinic session when appropriate to the diagnosis and treatment strategy. Practitioners believe that the therapies increase each other's effectiveness when used together.
Unlike acupuncture, which is almost always done by a trained practitioner in a clinic setting, moxibustion can be easily used at home. It is not uncommon for Chinese medical practitioners to train their patients to use moxa on themselves to strengthen the effect of the clinical sessions between appointments.
There is a small inconvenience associated with moxibustion: the smoke and odor. Although there are so-called smokeless varieties of moxa, the preferred true moxa (made from mugwort) does produce a lot of smoke when burned. Most TCM clinics are well equipped with a good ventilation and air purification system, so this is not a big problem.
However, the lingering odor produced from burning mugwort unfortunately smells somewhat like marijuana. Most TCM practitioners in the United States, place small signs around their office informing patients and visitors about the true nature of the odor that they may be noticing.
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[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/acupuncture
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/arthritis
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/irritable-bowel-syndrome
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/holistic-pregnancy-childbirth
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term4
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/irritable-bowel-disorders
[9] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/christopher-hafner-lac
[10] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/moxibustion-video-high-bandwidth
[11] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/acupuncture-video-high-bandwidth
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/experience-different-viewpoint
[13] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/visit-tcm-practioner