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Posted 28 January 2009 - 01:54 PM
Some other heads might've mentioned them, but I'd say if your starting to dive into brazilian joints, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, & Azumuth are good starting points. it depends on which style you like, bossa nova (Tom Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Ellis Regina, ect), or samba (Cartola, Os Novos Baianos, ect), in general, i love brazilian music...it's got it's own unique rhythm.
Posted 29 January 2009 - 12:23 PM
hermeto pascoal...azymuth....joyce.............for some decent new stuff seu jorge is good.
azymuth are actually still making records. i'm not their biggest fan, you need to pitch their records down just a bit
of all the traditional music, i'm a huge fan of jorge ben, gal costa, ceila reis, marisa monte, quarteto em cy, o povo canta, golden boys (oh, i could go on..)
i maybe shouldn't promote compilations, but those two gilles peterson in brazil cds are actually very good. he's showcasing some stuff even i didn't know!
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Nelson Angelo & Joyce "Nelson Angelo E Joyce"
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 04:34 AM
Aside from Os Mutantes and the other jazz/psych stuff mentioned previously, I also enjoy Seu Jorge's "Life Aquatic Sessions". If youve seen the movie, Seu Jorge is the dude singing the Bowie covers in Portugese. I detest 99.5% of records by solo singers with accoustic guitars and no drums , but if your a Bowie fan, its cool to hear his songs given a Brazilian treatment.
Posted 27 March 2009 - 05:33 AM
Posted 27 March 2009 - 07:38 AM
Some of the Brazilian stuff I bought was...
Jorge ben
Luiz bonfa
Tim Maia
Tom ze
Gilberto gil
Gal costa
Joao donato
Tom jobim
Antonio carlos Jobim
Beth carvalho
I also bought some other stuff american stuff for cheap and some stuff I cant remember because I bought it just cause it looked good.
I am surprised Deodato hasnt came up but I would say Azymuth is my favorite Brazilian group/artist just cause I havent really heard anyone who sounds like them? Can anybody suggest any groups/artists who have a similar sound to azymuth
Posted 27 March 2009 - 11:02 AM
post some pics - - -let's have a bit of record porn!!!
Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:42 AM
my favourites are:
Tim Maia - earlier stuff. songs like "azul da cor do mar", "pelo amor de deus", "rodesia", "eu amo voce"... and the "tim maia racional" albums... "que beleza"!!!
Jorge Ben - albums from the 60s... and "A banda do Ze Pretinho"
Baden Powell e Vinicius - afro-sambas
and you should really give Chico Science & Nação Zumbi's "Da Lama Ao Caos" a chance...
mixing african drums and rock, its also a masterpiece.
Chico Buarque is more rewarding lyrically I think, but he made one album with Ennio Morricone that's cool...
the drum n bass of DJ Patife is really nice, he mixes a lot with samba...
and Marcelo D2 mixes rap with samba and its ok...
but Brazil got some really, really good, traditional, sample-based but still very unique boom-bap:
Rappin Hood, Sabotagem, Racionais MCs are the ones I prefer... all their releases are really, really good... Racionais MCs going back all the way to the late 80s.... always quality material.
Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:50 AM
a bit like japanese or french
Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:51 AM
rappin hood:
Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:55 AM
portugese sounds nice in hip hop
a bit like japanese
yeah... and i manage to understand most of it nowadays, theyre very poetical...
its a very powerful listening experience.
Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:57 AM
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Posted 15 April 2009 - 12:52 PM
i maybe shouldn't promote compilations, but those two gilles peterson in brazil cds are actually very good. he's showcasing some stuff even i didn't know!
Posted 16 April 2009 - 08:50 AM
Buy CD's? Whats that?
How about you BUY THE CDs cheapskate!
Posted 16 April 2009 - 12:33 PM
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Posted 27 April 2009 - 07:17 PM
2) try to put them all in one post...
its not a contest of who can post the most music
the point is to comment and discuss, then post music
Posted 27 April 2009 - 07:19 PM
Posted 27 April 2009 - 07:23 PM
yeahh, that's more like it
another good blog that focuses on Samba and MPB > http://jthymekind.blogspot.com/
Posted 28 April 2009 - 12:30 AM
Posted 28 April 2009 - 05:15 AM
1) don't post 3 videos at the same time, its too much to watch
2) try to put them all in one post...
its not a contest of who can post the most music
the point is to comment and discuss, then post music
Is your thong backwards? calm down
I will post the videos however I feel like and I will post as many as I feel like posting.
Posted 28 April 2009 - 05:19 AM
Now that's more like it.
I have a mp3 of this if anybody wants it
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This article shows how to use Ajax techniques to make web apps with REST APIs.
Everyone's talking about REST these days. Lots of people are still struggling with it, and there's good reason for that--REST is actually quite difficult to fit into the browser-based HTML Web, for two reasons:
GET and
POST, not
PUT or
As far as I'm concerned, this is fair enough; REST is primarily a web services platform, an alternative to CORBA, SOAP, and XMLRPC, not a user interface. Still, at least some of the time, it's nice to use a REST API as the foundation for a web app. On the other hand, Ajax can be really complicated, and it always seems to involve lots of different bits of code.
That is the point of this article. REST's clean definition of an application's architecture solves at least some of the problems with Ajax; and using Ajax to a REST web app leaves the REST API uncomplicated and pure.
The best way for me to explain this is to refer to a real REST API. I recently built a multiuser ATOM/RSS aggregator. Each user can have a list of feeds (URLs, basically) and manipulate those list items. I built a simple REST API for managing the lists.
The feed aggregator needs to:
Clearly I could model the list of a user's feeds as a resource:
... and each feed as a subresource of that:
That is the great thing about REST: it's easy to work out the details of a pure REST implementation:
POST to
/feed will add a feed to the user's list. The
POST will have to include a parameter specifying the feed URL.
GET to
/feed will list the feeds. A nice HTML display of the feeds might be appropriate.
DELETE to
/feed/67 will remove the feed with that ID.
This is all very simple, and simplicity is of course why REST is so powerful.
This code is pretty easy to do with just about any web server and language combination. I used mod_python.
Here's the main handler and
GET method implementation:
import os
import re
import urllib
from mod_python import apache
from mod_python import util
def handler(http):
if http.method == "GET":
return get(http)
elif http.method == "POST":
return post(http)
elif http.method == "DELETE":
return delete(http)
return apache.HTTP_NOT_ACCEPTABLE
def get(http):
"""Display a list of feeds."""
username = http.user
form = util.FieldStorage(http)
def feeds():
dbcon = PgSQL.connect(http.get_options()["DBURL-" + http.hostname])
curs = dbcon.cursor()
curs.execute("select id, url from get_feeds('%s')" % (username))
result = curs.fetchone()
while result != None:
yield result
result = curs.fetchone()
http.content_type = "text/html"
xmlout(feeds, http)
return apache.OK
def xmlout(generator, out):
"""Use 'generator' to get the data and send it to 'out'"""
print >>out, "<?xml version="1.0"?>"
print >>out, "<?xsl-stylesheet href='/display-feed.xslt' version="1.0"?>"
print >>out, "<feeds>"
for id,url in generator():
print >>out,
"<feed><id>%s</id><url>%s</url></feed>" % (id, re.sub("&", "&", url))
print >>out, "</feeds>"
GET returns an HTML page of the user's feeds. Notice that there is an XML representation in the code, so I could add content negotiation to the mix to support both XML and HTML output.
Here's the
POST implementation. This has to add a new feed to the user's list of feeds:
def post(http):
"""Update a user's list of feeds with a new feed."""
username = http.user
form = util.FieldStorage(http)
suggested_feed = form["suggested_feed"]
def add_feeds():
dbcon = PgSQL.connect(http.get_options()["DBURL-" + http.hostname])
curs = dbcon.cursor()
curs.execute("select add_feed('%s', '%s')" % (username, suggested_feed))
curs.execute("select id, url from get_feeds('%s')" % (username))
result = curs.fetchone()
while result != None:
yield result
result = curs.fetchone()
http.content_type = "text/html"
http.status = HTTP_CREATED
xmlout(add_feeds, http)
return apache.OK
Here's what the HTTP spec says about
POST method is used to request that the web server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI.
The spec goes on to say that one specific reason for
POST is to allow append operations on databases. That is exactly what this part of the feeds application does; it appends a new feed to a user's list.
I am cheating a bit here. The return from the
POST is not exactly REST compliant. A 201 response indicates that the server has created a new resource, but this response is supposed to include a resource indicating a reference to the new resource (including a
Location header, as in a redirect response).
However, the example simply returns the same list of feeds as returned from the
GET method. In my defense, this isn't too big a heresy, and it simplifies these examples a bit. Again, it's possible to support XML output by adding content negotiation.
The last method to implement is the
DELETE method. This must remove a feed specified by its ID from the user's feed list:
def delete(http):
"""Remove a feed from the user's list"""
username = http.user
todelete_match = re.match("/([0-9]+)", http.path_info)
todelete = todelete_match.groups()[0]
dbcon = PgSQL.connect(http.get_options()["DBURL-" + http.hostname])
curs = dbcon.cursor()
curs.execute("select delete_user_feed('%s', %d)" % (username, int(todelete)))
except Exception, e:
# Possibly just from the proc, whatever - it failed.
http.status = apache.HTTP_NOT_FOUND
http.status = apache.HTTP_OK
return apache.OK
This is pretty obvious. It simply makes another database call to remove the specified feed.
This is a pretty simple API, yet it models most of the things you need to do with a database of anything.
The trouble is, how do you get this into a browser? The
GET is easy; a user can
GET the list of feeds and maybe keep a bookmark to it so he can easily retrieve the list.
POST is also quite easy. I could have a page with a text box on it so that a user can submit a URL. In fact, I have a Greasemonkey script to find RSS or ATOM feeds in a page and ask the user to POST it to the feeds web app.
DELETE is the hard option to support, because browser web forms don't allow you to send a
DELETE operation. This screws up the whole app. How can you allow users to remove feeds from their lists?
One way around this is to make a
POST with a method identifier, so you have HTML like:
<form method="POST" action="/someuri">
<input type="hidden" name="method" value="DELETE"/>
This is all very good, but the trouble is you need to add specific code to your web app for handling this. It's just another thing to get wrong, and it still doesn't entirely fix the problem--submitting the form will always cause a context change. In other words, the server returns a page from the
POST and the browser displays it.
There are ways around that, but they're all clunky. The most common is to return a redirect to the page from which the user submitted the pseudo-delete. That's more complicated code in the handler.
Here's where Ajax comes in. Use the
XMLHttpRequest object of Ajax to send the
DELETE to the server.
How do you do this? The list of feeds is the natural place to start. If the HTML version of the list of feeds allowed feeds to be deleted, then you could add some Ajax code to that page to perform deletes.
So as not to complicate things by adding XSLT, here is some straight HTML that the
GET method might deliver:
// Delete any marked feeds
function delFeeds ()
var feeds = document.getElementById("feeds");
for (var i = 0; i < feeds.elements.length; i++)
if (feed.elements[i].checked)
var feed = feeds.elements[i];
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.feedId = feed.id;
function delHandler(evt)
if (evt.target.readyState == 4 && evt.target.status == 200)
var feedLabel = document.getElementById("feed_" + evt.target.feedId).style.display = "none";
feed.checked = false;
req.onload = delHandler;
req.open("DELETE", "/feeds/" + req.feedId, true, "nic", "hello");

Current feeds

<form id="feeds" action="javascript:;">

<input type="checkbox" id="1" name="1" value="1"/>

<input type="checkbox" id="2" name="2" value="2"/>

<input type="checkbox" id="3" name="3" value="3"/>
<button name="delete" onclick="delFeeds();">delete</button>
This is an HTML form of three items, each with a check box. The idea is to allow a user to select all the items to be deleted and then press the delete button. It doesn't have to be this way, of course--you could have an
onclick handler on each feed item to call the Ajax, but I prefer it this way.
Now it's pretty clear. The JavaScript sends the correct HTTP request to the REST API with simple DOM code.
There is one more point of interest here: synchronizing the user's view of the feeds list with the actual state of the feeds list on the back end. When a user deletes any feed, this view should update to reflect the deletion. How can you make that happen? The Ajax could easily cause a page refresh, and that would cause the display of the feed list to reflect the state in the database.
The trouble with a refresh is that it involves another network trip. For a simple edit, this is unnecessary. The browser knows what the user has removed. The code actually turns off the display of the item being deleted.
I think that this is the right way to go with web apps. Ajax can be complicated, but REST makes it simpler. In turn, Ajax simplifies REST apps--or at least reduces the need for complicating them. By combining them, you get the best of both worlds.
Nic Ferrier is an independent software consultant specializing in web applications.
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RUSH: Now, this is January 30th and February 5th of this year. They've all got it in their Nexis database that I said nobody out there revs me up, so talking about Thompson and reporting some of the e-mails I got about him yesterday caused, "Ooh, ooh, ooh! Limbaugh's getting excited about somebody in the race!" As to your question, John, you're just another in a long line of people here thrilled as they can be with Fred Thompson. I don't know what to tell you. How many times do I have to say this? I will have to admit, this is exactly what I was talking about three weeks ago, four weeks ago when everybody was demanding that I pick somebody and get on board and start being proactive about this. I said, "It's too soon. Anything can happen."
We don't know who's going to get in this race yet, and we might have some of the so-called underdogs come out of nowhere and lead the pack. You never know what's going to happen. McCain has now snubbed the Club for Growth, the fourth conservative group in not too long a time that's asked him to speak. He didn't go to CPAC to speak. Steve Moore's bunch, by the way, is the Club for Growth, and he's not going there. McCain's sort of corkscrewing down in the polls. Giuliani is riding high at the moment. So this is a classic example of what I meant when I said it's too early here to pick somebody and start getting on the bandwagon. Way too soon. First primary is not for nine months. I have a tradition and a histoire of not getting involved in primaries 'til we're down to the final two. That's been my history, and it's just my instincts, folks. If there were somebody out there that I said, "This is it. This is the answer," then I would tell you this. But so far, I have to be honest, I can't say that yet.


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The trade deadline has come and gone but trades can still be made. Perhaps the trade deadline itself should be named differently to assuage the notion that teams can no longer make deals after it passes. All that has realistically changed is the ability to unilaterally make moves. Teams cannot deal directly with one another the way they could before July 31, as players must first pass through the waiver wire before a trade can materialize.
Waivers can be confusing given the rules and different types, but don't mistake the various forms with how the actual waiver wire works from here on out. The concept itself is fairly simple, and while none of us will ever be 100 percent versed in the minutia, hopefully this here primer can shed some light on how teams will make moves over the rest of the season.
Broadly, the waiver wire comes into play after the deadline for two reasons:
1. To improve parity by giving poorer teams first dibs to improve
2. To ensure teams cannot unload players via some secret pact to help another
The second reason occurs in fantasy sports as well, where a last place team might trade some of its best players to a fringe contender in order to aid that owner's chances of winning. Of course, real baseball is played on a much larger scale, but the idea remains the same. As for parity, well, it makes sense if a league-wide goal is to improve competition.
Most players are made available via the waiver wire even if the team has no intention of trading them. Sometimes teams do this to try and mask a player they want to move by surrounding him with plenty of other names from their roster. Other times, a team will gauge interest in an all-star caliber player to get a sense of what teams might be willing to offer if he were seriously available. There is no risk in placing someone on waivers because these are revocable, meaning the team can revoke a claim and pull the player back if they want to keep him on their roster. For instance, Cliff Lee was placed on waivers, and a big deal was made over nothing. Him, and guys like him, are always placed on waivers. Even if someone claims him, the Phillies will likely just pull him back, no harm done.
Teams can place up to seven players per day on waivers, after which they remain on the wire for two business days. When claims are put in — it is a computer network of sorts where teams merely have to click a button to claim someone — the worst teams have first dibs, but preferential treatment is given to teams in the same league as the player being claimed.
If Ty Wigginton was placed on waivers, and the Yankees claimed him, they wouldn't get to work out a deal or absorb his contract unless he passed through all other National League teams.
If a player isn't claimed by any team in either league, then he is free to be traded to anyone through the end of the World Series. In that sense, think of non-claimed players the way you would think of any trade that occurs prior to the deadline.
He can be dealt anywhere because the purpose of the waiver wire was to give every team a fair shot at acquiring him, and nobody acted accordingly.
If a player placed on waivers is claimed by only one team, then there are three options. The most common is that the employing team will exercise their revocable rights and pull him off the wire. Another option is to simply let the other team absorb the player and his contract. (While the original team placing the player on waivers can pull him back when another team issues a claim, the revocable rights do not extend to the claiming team.)
In other words, if the Phillies place Joe Blanton on waivers and the Orioles claim him, the Phillies can decide to just let the Orioles absorb him and become liable for the entirety of his contract. The Blue Jays did this with Alexis Rios, where the White Sox put in a claim, and instead of working out a trade they just let him and his contract go directly.
The third option is then to work out a trade with the claiming team. If a team wants to trade a player as opposed to just letting him and his contract go to another team, they can threaten to pull him back off of waivers unless the claiming team agrees to make a traditional trade. This is literally the same as making a trade before the deadline, with the caveat that the deal can only be made with the claiming team. Otherwise, it's the same type of deal where prospects or major leaguers are dealt for one another (as long as they have cleared waivers), with teams perhaps kicking in money to sweeten the deal, and no-trade clauses being just as relevant.
Teams can only pull their players off of waivers once without sacrificing the revocable rights. If Wigginton hits the wire, the Yanks submit a claim, and the Phillies pull him back, then if he is placed on the wire later in the month he is no longer protected under the pull-back rules.
When multiple teams claim a player, the same three options exist, but the worst team in the same league gets acquisitional priority. It doesn't work where the original team can choose among those submitting a claim. Further, claiming teams have no idea who else has submitted a claim until after the fact. The Phillies might put in a claim for a player they have interest in, even though other teams higher up on the priority list have done so as well. Had the Phils known that the Diamondbacks were also putting in a claim they might not have issued their own, but the nature of the wire doesn't avail itself to this information.
The next logical topic is why teams would submit claims, for which there are two answers: to acquire a player in whom they have legitimate interest, or to block a rival from bringing in a player that would help their cause. Examples of the former would be when the Phils acquired Matt Stairs and Scott Eyre over the last three years. Both were placed on waivers and fell to the Phillies in the claiming process.
An example of the latter is Cody Ross during the 2010 season. The Giants and Padres were neck and neck in the NL West, and the first-place Padres had interest in the then Marlins outfielder. The Giants, who had a higher rung on the priority chain, put in a claim of their own primarily to prevent the Padres from acquiring him. Sure, they may have had cursory interest, but they already had about 32 outfielders on the roster, so the move clearly had blocking implications. Ironically, the Giants probably don't win the World Series without claiming Ross that year.
Blocking can also come back to bite a team, as was the case when the Yankees claimed Jose Canseco in 2000, and when the Padres claimed Randy Myers earlier in the 90s. In both situations, the claiming teams were attempting to block a rival, but ended up absorbing hefty contracts since they couldn't undo their claim.
These are trade waivers, which are revocable.
Other waivers are irrevocable, such as when a team decides to release a player, or when it tries to move one off of its 40-man roster. In these cases, if a claim is submitted, the original team cannot pull its players back. The players become the property of the claiming team. In order to release a player, he must first pass through these irrevocable waivers. Generally, teams don't claim these players, because once released the original team is liable for all but the minimum of the player's salary. Then again, claiming a player on release waivers can ensure the interested team brings the player in, so there is risk all around.
Optional waivers are different than trade or release waivers because they are revocable and can be used as a circumventory process to the 40-man roster. The Phillies have done this twice over the last few years with Scott Mathieson. By designating Mathieson for assignment, the Phillies were able to remove him from the 40-man roster while having ten days to decide whether to trade him, demote him, or release him. But since he had options remaining, he had to first pass through optional waivers, which are revocable.
According to a front office source of mine, there is an unwritten agreement among teams not to claim players placed on optional waivers, so there is no risk of a claim being put in. This results in basically a ten-day loophole where a spot on the 40-man roster is opened up and there is no risk at all in losing the player, even if he is designated for assignment.
For the purposes of what to focus on right now, though, the trade waivers are more important. The Phillies can still make moves even though the non-waiver trade deadline has passed. But just because someone is placed on waivers doesn't mean he is going to get traded. It's standard protocol to place most of the roster on waivers, as without doing so there is a 100% guarantee they can't get traded. Since there is such little risk in placing players on revocable waivers, even the star players staying put are placed on them.
It's easy to see why Lee's getting placed on waivers was a "story" but it really isn't one aside from interesting hypotheticals. He is one of several high-priced superstars who will get placed on waivers and pass right on through. And, like the others, it's doubtful he gets moved even after passing through.
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I hope people read and understand this well-done article. Waivers have confused many fans, who many times seem to think that a player is automatically gone when he's placed on the wire.
Great piece thanks. Who else did the Phils put on waivers?
I would be very interested to see what happens when and if Lee is claimed. Much like what the White Sox did a few years ago when the Jays placed Alex Rios on waivers, a team could claim him and then just drop Lee's salary right on the claiming team's head. Rios got claimed and the Jays just said here…take him.
We can all bitch about how we got here, but if Lee get's claimed, what would you rather have – Lee or 24m extra dollars a year? Thats a tough decision. I think the right decision is to let him go. But it would be incredibly unpopular thing to do. But, then again, being a winning GM is not a popularity contest.
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Lee will not be claimed. Every GM in baseball knows what Amaro is doing. The Dodgers GM Colletti is a former Philly sportswriter and even he won't do it. He did give up something for Shane tough. Let's see how that works out.
Thanks for this! I just asked someone to help me understand how this process works (after hearing the news about Lee) and could get a complete, logical answer.
Thanks for this! I just asked someone to help me understand how this process works (after hearing the news about Lee) and could NOT get a complete, logical answer.
did we get thad iguchi off waivers or was that before the deadline?
Great piece. One thing to add that isn't being mentioned anywhere. If a team claims a player and that claiming team is on the players NO TRADE list,
Even if the team wants to let the Player go, it can't happen without the player waiving his no trade clause.
So in cliffs case, if a team like the Oakland As claimed him, if they're on his 21 team list, even if raj said you can have him, cliff would have to like the idea of spending the next 4 years in oakland as a moving target.
So all the "he's gonna clear talk" is speculation. It's actually fairly likely that a team that knows he'd veto a move to them will put in a claim just to block the possibility of someone else getting him.
Well-written and insightful. It cleared up the many questions I had. Thank you!
You said:
"This is literally the same as making a trade before the deadline, with the caveat that the deal can only be made with the claiming team. Otherwise, it's the same type of deal where prospects or major leaguers are dealt for one another[.]"
But isn't it the case that the "claiming" team can trade a 40-man player only if that player has also passed through waivers? In other words, the Phillies couldn't trade, say, Utley (who in this hypo has not passed through waivers) for a guy on whom they made a claim, right?
If someone claims him. Let him go. The money we are paying this man he is not worth. Then we can build this team up. A couple good pitchers and fill the holes. Wish there was a way to shed Howard. That is the biggest waste contract in baseball history. He is terrible even before the injury. Not a clutch performer for the money. Maybe eat Ultey's salray too and release him. Another man that has to go.
I don't even think you can compare Utley to Howard right now… contract or play wise. While I don't agree or understand Utley missing the first half of the year, he atleast looks like he belongs at the bat and in the field, which is more than you can say for Howard. Plus, his contract is up at the end of next year, whereas Howard's is another 20 years or so.
you guys crack me up Howard has been back for what 3 weeks? From an injury that pretty much had him sitting with limited or zero ability to work out for 4-6 months, then he had an infection which I am sure was his fault too,which took him off his feet for another 3-6 weeks. And he is not hitting that great,"he is not Clutch?" Do you really smoke so much that your short term memory last 3 days? This Guy carried this team in clutch situations for 3-4 years, August and September of 07, 08, 09, Playoff hits. Man you are the type that give the City a bad name for fans. Almost to a man profesionals say that that type of injury take at least a year to be 100%. This team was not that much different that last years team in the first half expcept for Howard, (I know the bull pen did carry this team to a lot of wins last year in the first half and stunk up the joint this year) And look at where they are. Talking about signing Ryan to extension that early then saying they should have signed Cole to a long term extension 2 years ago in crazy. If Howard doesn't get hurt in both of the last two seasons that would have been a great signing. If you signed Cole that long ago and he pitched like it was 2009 for three years you would be bashing signing him. Hindsight is great by GM do not have the Luxary to use it. Let this team have a post season off, shelf Utley early, so to get a full season out of him, and let Ryan finish rehabing his legs. Find a decent 3rd basemen and this team will be fine.
I wasn't a big fan of re-signing him in the first place but now that we have Lee I think we really need him to help shore up this rotation (Who knows just what's up with Halladay and where he's headed???) I think Cliff will be fine and bounce back from such a poor beginning to the season.
If you're gonna get rid of him then this isn't the way to do it. The ONLY way I'd get him off the roster is via trade and that will be tough. There just aren't enough teams out there that want to take on his salary. Texas might be the one team that could really do it…who knows…
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You put Lee Howard Utley and Rollins on waivers.
Anyone claims them you throw a party like its 1999.
But no one will so its moot.
I am going to the Meadowlands tonight and tomorrow maybe ill stop by on the way.
If someone claims Blanton, do you let him go without getting anything in return? I'm torn about it.
RAJ had a plan for 2011-win another at all costs- ie. Cliff Lee signing. Of course we had 102 wins but a NLDS meltdown- none more frustrating than Cliff Lee's squandering a 4-0 lead. I thought RAJ had a plan for 2012- acquiring everyday players who had an intelligent approach at the plate to bolster our formidable starting pitching. Somewhere along the line this fell to the wayside. The rest is history. We acquired Thome, Wiggington, held onto Martinez (a complete JOKE). Howard was hurt. Utley and Amaro either were ignorant about the former's injured knees or lied to themselves and each other, likewise with Polanco. What is left is a train wreck. No waiver wire deals will cure the Phillies' ailments, not until Howard and Utley are off the books. By that time it'll be just like 2000 with Hamels, like Schilling, screaming for a trade.
First, winning at all costs is not a plan, given what a crapshoot the playoffs are.
Also, frustrating and disappointing as the NLDS was, it went the full five games and they lost that 5th and deciding game by 1 run. Hardly a "meltdown".
Agreed. They could just as easliy won that game instead of lost. Cliff blowing the 4-0 led in the earlier game certainly didn't help and contributed to the series loss but it wasn't the only thing.
Lee, Franco and cash considerations for Olt.
And if Olt turns out to be Mike Costanzo by a different name?
Olt is major league ready right now, but blocked by Beltre. That's why the Rangers are letting him play some OF. He's consistantly aroun .395 OBP. 28 dingers this year in 354 ABs. Prospects are always a gamble, but he's a top 25 prospect. Phils will have to provide some cash $5 millin per year or so whichI don't think the Phils would do, but I would.
Joe, Olt was ranked 43rd in the nation by Baseball America this season. John Sickels had him at #65.
So, no, he's not a "top 25" prospect.
I don't think Costanza was ever ranked among baseball's top 50 prospects by Baseball America. It doesn't matter though, even the Rangers want no part of a 34 year old pitcher with $100 million left on his deal.
Blanton just traded to the Dodgers. as per MLBTR
Cliff Lee got claimed too, not sure by who.
go a PTBNL or cash considerations just like in the Vic deal. I'd love to see the plyer list in both trades.
Kiss another bad contract, orchestrated by Amaro, goodbye !!!! Good luck Cheeseburger Joe
Actually, when it was done, that contract wasn't that bad. He was offered about market value for a pitcher of his caliber if I'm not mistaken. And….this season isn't his fault either. If the Phillies were winnning this wouldn't even be an issue.
I guess mondog your wrong. Lee was claimed. Let him go let him go let him go
It was a bad contract. Amaro paid too much.
It's not that clear. Based on his results (i.e. ERA), you can say he was overpaid. Based on his underlying stats — the things that he had more control over — walks, Ks, and even HRs, his stats translate to about $18 million on the open market, and he was paid $20 million for the 2 2/3 years of his contract.


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For something completely different, I'm tired. Aging gracefully has never been my strong suit, and when I pass a mirror these days, I wince a little and move on. As a kid, I lamented my special day (read "birthday") being usurped by Memorial Day, since many families would head out of town, leaving me friendless on my special day. In my 20s, I was convinced that the nation was throwing a party just for me, and reveled in the fireworks and parades that honored the day I came into the world. After 30, I became blasé for a decade or two and now… well, I'm feelin' kinda old. While many have suggested that "age is just a number," I feel compelled to chime in that these days, "It's a pretty big number" and weep silently, lest I seem ungrateful in response to the overwhelming flood of well-wishers, cards and emails that are still streaming in. In an effort to underscore the importance of this particular number, one of my friends from the old country (I mean California) flew in to celebrate with me and was a bit overwhelmed himself as we toured the countryside with the Wonder Dog in tow, stopping every few miles to chat with a neighbor, as they acknowledged my milestone, assuring me that the best (I mean a dirt nap) was yet to come.
While many of you were preparing to entertain and grill, I steeled myself for the event that has had Sullivan County buzzing for months—Mysteryland. Having done a bit of homework, I had already learned that the three-day music festival has been around since 1993, originated in Holland, and it has attracted hundreds of thousands of electronic music fans from all over the world, presenting a multimedia extravaganza of monumental proportions that changes with each exotic locale, as the organizers strive to imprint each new generation with global concerns and a new-age philosophy of the old adage (from my generation) of "Peace-Love-Happiness."


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Royal Pains: Season 5 DVD
After spending the winter recuperating from neurosurgery, Dr. Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) is ready to return to work on the first weekend of summer or so he thinks. With his CFO brother, Evan (Paulo Costanzo), submerged in a political battle with a well-connected socialite, Hank finds himself relying on Dr. Jeremiah Sacani (Ben Shenkman) in a very surprising way. It wouldn't be life in the Hamptons if shocking revelations didn't shake things up, including Divya's (Reshma Shetty) life changing news and unexpected discoveries relating to Boris' death. Check up on HankMed with every enthralling Season Five episode available on call, back-to-back and uninterrupted.
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New Orleans police said a new arrest was made in the investigation of the shooting that injured 20 people on Mother's Day, WDSU-TV in New Orleans reported on Friday.
Police said 19-year-old Monique Pepe was arrested on charges of harboring Shawn Scott. Police said Scott, 24, was one of the two gunmen who fired into the crowd attending a parade.
Pepe was also charged with accessory after the fact of attempted second-degree murder, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of heroin and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
The other shooter, police said, was 19-year-old Akein Scott, who was arrested late Wednesday night in eastern New Orleans. Shawn Scott was taken into custody Thursday.
The two brothers are involved in the "Frenchman and Derbigny Boys" gang, according to police.
The shooting is under investigation, and police haven't publicly stated the cause that led to the barrage of gunfire Sunday afternoon, but sources told WDSU Thursday that the intended target of the shooting was 35-year-old Leonard Epps.
New Orleans police arrested four people, who investigators said harbored Akein Scott, providing him shelter and comfort in New Orleans East.
Neika Youngblood, 32, Bionca Hickerson, 22, Brandy George, 28, and Justin Alexander, 19, were arrested on charges of accessory after the fact of attempted second-degree murder and relative to obstruction of justice by harboring a fugitive, police said.


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Citing continued damage to the environment, the economy, drinking water supplies and more, The Wilderness Society, along with other national groups across the U.S., is urging the President and Congress to invest in vitally important conservation and natural resource programs.
The Wilderness Society applauds President Obama's fiscal year 2016 budget for responsibly addressing the damaging sequester and restoring essential funding to conservation, clean energy and outdoor recreation programs that support our nation's treasured public lands and address the h
The Wilderness Society commends the U.S. Forest Service for completing directives to implement the 2012 National Forest Planning Rule.
The Wilderness Society released the following statement today regarding a close vote on a conservation amendment (S.A.
Today, several measures aimed to roll back protections on our nation's public lands were defeated in the Senate as part of the Keystone XL Pipeline bill.
The agency rule was issued after a federal court ruled in 2013 that the Forest Service was in violation of an executive order on off-road vehicle management. The statement from The Wilderness Society follows:
Despite major risks, obstacles and climate change concerns, the proposed plan would allow drilling for oil and gas in this remote, fragile and rapidly warming environment.
The following statement is from Sally Miller, senior regional conservation representative with The Wilderness Society, regarding Representative Paul Cook's introduction of legislation to create the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area and include it in the Bureau of Land Man
Senators Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced the bill along with Republican Senators James Risch of Idaho, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Steve Daines of Montana as well as Democratic Senators Michael Bennet of Colorado, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Maria Cantwell of Washingto
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A capacity crowd of 900 people raised £1 million towards the development of Camp Simcha's services at a gala dinner for the charity. The dinner, held at Old Billingsgate in central London, showcased the charity's services to improve the quality of life of children throughout the UK with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. The event was sponsored by Extreme World Races.
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Taking the bad with the good but mostly bad…
Fresh after ending a big freelance project, I am temping today. Temping is sometimes fine and boring, and rarely excruciating and boring, but my agency folks are very good to me, so I can't complain. But for this very moment, with my personal email unavailable and my pricey temp skills not needed, all I have to do is think…and blog.
So about them Mets. We're in a valley. Not a crevice, mind you! Just a valley. But let's take it for what it's worth–another moment in Mets lore, another obstacle for us fans to overcome that will make our bonds and our narrative stronger in the end. For instance, I became a Mets fan in 2003. Remember 2003? The Mets sucked. Piazza wasn't even playing much, with his groin all old and cranky. We had Uncle Cliffy, whom I loved, but really who else is worth mentioning? Still, when I tell people when I became a Mets fan, they all get the same look. "Really? Oh, we sucked then." And I get a pat on the back–I became a fan when we weren't anything near frontrunners. Because if there's anything a Mets fan hates…it's a frontrunner. A fair weather fan. A…well usually…a Yankees fan.
For a while there, we had hope. Tons of hope, lasting all season! Only to be dashed at the end. And yes, that's harder than having no hope at all. But look where we are now! Measured expectations! We're suddenly marginally satisfied by mediocre play instead of really crappy play. It's still a punch in the gut when steady-Freddy Livan Hernandez amasses an ERA of about 30 over his last 3 starts. It's still an "oomf" moment when K-Rod nearly gives up a save, and trust me, I'm going to swat a hand at the TV every time Ollie walks a batter. And yes, we still yell with exasperation when each Met gets his turn to drop a pop up. But in five years, we'll be saying, "Remember 2009? With the injuries and the complete lack of fundamentals? Oh, that was a toughie. But we made it." We'll react to 2009 the way people react now to 2003 when I tell them my Mets fan origin story. And things will get better.
Even in 2005 we would have taken our current position, 5.5 games back at the All-Star break-ish, with a nod of–if not acceptance, at least not of despair. We're 4 games below .500. We're not a good team right now. But there's still time to come back! There really is! Every non-Nationals team in the NL East is still in the running. And here we are still in the running with mediocre expectations. So maybe we'll be surprised? Maybe the worst has passed? And they'll get their acts together? And maybe sooner rather than later–maybe in September!–we can pat each other on the back again and say, "Man, remember the first half of the season? That sure sucked. But we're still here!"
I haven't given up on 2009 yet. At best, our lowered expectations will pay off with surprise gutsy wins. And at worst, we'll have a year to commiserate over in the future. We're Mets fans. As I've learned, that's what we do.
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Being a Met fan right now is like walking on a broken leg without a cast and a crutch…. it Hurts! We need to stabilize the break with some pins, wrap a cast around, get a crutch and hopefully we can limp our way to another wild card berth. I don't know how many METaphors we can come up with to describe that ever-present feeling that this season is going down faster than the Titanic. Pretty soon there will be Mutiny on the Bounty and of course they will lash Jerry Manuel to the mast, make him walk the plank or strand him on on a sand bar on Long Island sound. Half the season over and you have to ask yourself "Is the glass half full – or are we running on empty?"
Look on the bright side, the chances are slim that the Mets will choke this year, that's a positive, I think anyway….:-)
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A former midwife whose license was revoked a decade ago after complications in two home births answered Monday to a criminal charge of domestic assault.
Roberta Devers-Scott, 50, of Castleton pleaded innocent in Rutland criminal court to a misdemeanor offense and was released on court ordered conditions.
It is the second time in less than a year that Devers-Scott has been charged with domestic assault. In October, 2012, she was charged with the same offense but state prosecutors dismissed the charge in February.
In the new charge, a man told Castleton Police that Devers-Scott struck him repeatedly following an argument Saturday night.
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Rochelle wrote:Geez people. Are we not entitled to our own opinions, positive, negative, good, bad, indifferent? Does any of what we say really actually matter? He!! no.
I don't give a rat's a$$ what anyone says as long as I have that same right. The only idiots I have a problem with are the ones that call people names. There's no reason for that, so you disagree, who the F cares? Don't read the dang posts if it bothers you so much that it turns you back into a preschooler.
^^^ This post makes the most sense out of all of them, to me. LOL And Rochelle even turned against me in our SHR Survivor Game! LOL But I can still recognize common sense and as usual, ndunn said a piece too, that is true.
Some "OGG"s - Original Garage Gangsters - DO have a problem with some new members opinions ...and want to play the "How long have YOU been here? card" ... and that just aint right.
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The Texas Sports Writers Association recently announced the All-State Softball Teams, selected to the All-State First Team were second baseman Kendall Wendland and Utility player Taylor Perez.
Making the All State Second Team were pitcher Jamie Wilson and outfielder Ashley Barraza. Kasye McCool was selected to the Honorable Mention All-State team. Kendall Wendland had a batting average of .432, 20 RBIs, 17 runs scored, 6 stolen bases, and a .958 fielding average. Taylor Perez led the Lady Eagles with a batting average of .500, 36 runs scored, 15 walks, 8 sacrifices, 15 stolen bases and 18 RBIs. Jamie had a .397 batting average, 26 runs, 19 RBIs, 3 homeruns.
Wilson had a 19 wins 8 losses, 1.90 ERA, 263 strikeouts in 165 innings pitched. Woodsboro lead off hitter and outfielder Ashley Barraza had a batting average of .387, scored 34 runs, 17 RBIs, and 12 stolen bases. Shortstop "Cool" Kasye McCool posted a .476 batting average, with 23 runs scored, 24 RBIs, 2 homeruns, and 10 stolen bases.
Lady Eagle pitcher Jamie Wilson, the only Lady Eagle selected, as well as the only Class 1A player representative on the Corpus Christi All-South Texas Softball Teams. Representing the Lady Eagles on the Victoria All Area Honorable Mention softball team were pitcher Jamie Wilson, catcher Taylor Perez, infielders Kendall Wendland, Kasye McCool, and Kati Perez, outfielders Hannah Niemann, Ashley Barraza and Madalynn Nixon.
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My DD had her 6month appointment yesterday (almsot a month late) and I've been feeding her solids once a day (about 2 weeks). I usually just pick either a fruit, veg, or cereal. The past week she's started eating 1/2-3/4 of 2.5oz container. Her nurse yesterday said she needs to be eating one serving of fruit and one serving of vegetables everyday and cereal. She said she only needs to drink 16-24oz of BM a day and can eat finger foods and pretty much anything else and drink juice. She was pretty shocked when I told her that DD eats 11 oz of BM from 7:30-3:30 while I'm at work. I thought that wasn't much at all.
The Dr. said to slowly start adding more and not to rush her. He did say she needed to eat cereal for the iron.
Of course today I read posts saying cereal is not necessary or good for them.
I don't mind adding breakfast, but I don't think she'll eat two whole containers of a fruit/veg and cereal. Also, I think she's starting to get constipated on just on the little bit she's eating now (she goes a tiny bit and it's getting more and more solid/thick). I was going to give her cereal with prunes mixed in to help.
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For the purpose of offering quality camping facilities
to large organized groups, Pere Marquette State Park operates three group
camps. Camp Potawatomi accom-modates 60 guests. Camp Piasa and Camp Ouatoga
will each accommodate 120. All three camps feature fully-equipped kitchens
and dining rooms, lighted sleeping cabins with cots and mattresses, and
restroom facilities with warm showers and flush toilets.
Camps Piasa
and Ouatoga each feature a kitchen/dining hall, staff house, cook's
cabin, first aid building, and a swimming pool. The sleeping cabins at
each camp are situated in four units. A unit consists of seven sleeping
cabins, a restroom, and a unit lodge building. The unit lodges have electrical
outlets, a fireplace, and an outdoor water hydrant. Facilities in Camp
Piasa are handicap accessible.
Camp Potawatomi is situated in one unit,
with twelve sleeping cabins, kitchen/dining hall, staff house, and shower
Maps of the camps are available. Note: Some buildings may be closed due to structural damage.
To apply for a group camp reservation,
groups must submit a completed application form, indicating one or more
choices of date and camp. Reservations will be allocated by daily lottery,
beginning on the first working day in January and continuing for as long
as dates are available. Applications are accepted by
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The first daily drawing will include applications
received on or prior to the first working day in January.
Groups may apply for a maximum of 14 consecutive
nights. Groups applying for a minimum of 6 consecutive nights will be
considered in the first daily drawing. Applications for overnight stays
of any length will be considered beginning with the second day. Day use
applications will be considered beginning April 1st.
If the requested dates are available the
applicant will be notified by mail. In order to confirm the reservation,
a $100 deposit will be required. Cancellations must be made at least 30
days prior to the camping date, or the deposit is not refundable. If a
reservation is not canceled, the group will be responsible for at least
a minimum fee for each night reserved.
Only one application per group outing is
accepted. If multiple applications are submitted by individual group members,
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The camping fee is $4 per person per night,
with a minimum charge of $100 per night, payable at the end of the group's
stay. A deposit of $100 is required at the time a reservation is confirmed.
An inspection of the camp will be conducted
upon the group's departure. If this reveals no damage beyond normal
use, the deposit will be refunded. If intentional or unreasonable damage
occurs, the deposit may be retained, as well as additional charges assessed,
if warranted.
If day use is available, the fee is $50.
Tentative dates the camps will be open in 2011 are May 27 through Ocotber 23rd.
For overnight stays, check-in time is 2:00
PM, check-out time is 12:00 noon.
Day use hours are 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
Swimming pools are open from Memorial Day
weekend through Labor Day weekend.
* The kitchens and dining halls are
equipped with ample refrigeration and cooking facilities, utensils, tableware,
and seating for the capacity of the camp.
* Cots and mattresses are furnished. Bedding,
towels, etc. should be brought from home.
* Firewood is not provided. Picking up
or cutting downed limbs for firewood is permitted, but standing trees
may not be cut or damaged.
* Brooms
and mops are provided. Facilities are
to be left in the same condition as they are found. It is requested
that floors be swept and mopped, dishes be washed, and kitchen equipment
be left reasonably clean. The grounds must be left free of litter, and
any beds moved from one building to another MUST be returned to their
original location before the group departs.
* Emergency telephones are provided at
the swimming pools. These phones will accept local calls only - local
emergency numbers are posted.
* A telephone is provided in the kitchen
at Camps Piasa and Ouatoga, but prior arrangements must be made with Grafton
Telephone Company for hookup. Contact them directly for more details,
at 618/786-3311.
A complete list of group camping regulations
is issued to all successful applicants. Violation of regulations or destruction
of park property will result in
loss of prepaid fees.
For horseback riding information, contact
Pere Marquette Riding Stables at:
For information about our educational and
interpretative programs, or for general information about Pere Marquette
State Park and surrounding area, contact our Visitor Center at: 618/786-3323
or write to:
Marquette State Park
13112 Visitor Center Lane
Equal opportunity to participate in programs
of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and those funded by the
US Fish and Wildlife Service and other agencies is available to all individuals
regardless of race, sex, national origin, disability, age, religion, or
other non-merit factors. If you believe you have been discriminated against,
contact the funding source's civil rights office and/or the Equal
Employemnt Opportunity Officer, IDNR, One Natural Resources Way, Springfield,