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They spend hours each month preparing for what they hope will never happen — a disaster.
Comprised of volunteers culled from almost every public and government sector in Roosevelt and Curry counties, Local Emergency Planning Committees promote emergency planning, preparedness and public awareness in the case of a natural or manmade disaster.
A composite reflectivity image of a large storm just north of Clovis on May 25 that produced golf-ball size hail.
On Wednesday, Roosevelt County Emergency Management Director Keith Wattenberger conducted an emergency preparedness drill at the Portales Police Department.
Dispatchers went through a drill simulating emergency weather situations, such as severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, funnel clouds and hailstorms.
The drill featured a group of evaluators that included Wattenberger, director of engineering at KENW-TV Jeff Burmeister, Fire Management Officer for Glacier Technologies Kelly Gregg, and a host of others who work or have worked in emergency situations.
"Between all of the evaluators, there is over 150 years of experience," Wattenberger said.
The drill began with simulated severe weather calls sent over the dispatch radio. The communications division began determining the severity of the weather before notifying nearly every sector of the city and county.
Dispatch supervisor Mike Lacer oversaw three pairs of dispatchers as they updated local and state law enforcement, radio and television stations, local schools, local government, and other entities on the severity of the weather.
Most of the drill was focused on how to react in the event of a tornado, which is the most likely severe weather situation Portales would experience.
Portales police dispatcher Shaun Banther takes a call during a emergency management drill Wednesday in Portales.
Emergency weather sirens were also tested.
Lessons learned from the 2007 tornado that tore through Roosevelt and Curry counties were many, according to Curry County Emergency Management Director Ken De Los Santos. Tops among them have been efforts to upgrade communications systems and working to provided backup systems for emergency power.
In Clovis, warning sirens placed around the city are dedicated to tornado alerts only. The city and county are also part of an emergency alert system that interrupts cable, television and radio programming when a storm is threatening.
Weather information is posted to the city's website and De Los Santos and his crew have also developed text and email alerts available to anyone requesting them.
Roosevelt County has a similar system in place.
"We have lots of ways to notify," De Los Santos said, "and the big thing is … the thing we tell people is when you get up in the morning, turn on the television or radio first thing and find out what's going on."
The Curry County Emergency Management office also engages in training exercises for its staff and other entities around the county. They recently held an exercise for Clovis Community College employees, and have scheduled exercises this year with the Clovis Airport and Clovis Christian School. They consist on tabletop discussions as wells as hands-on emergency preparedness training.
F2 (wind speeds greater than 113 mph) tornadoes in Curry County:
- June 10, 1932
- Sept. 17, 1944
- May 24, 1957
- June 11, 1964
- March 23, 2007
Source: Clovis and Curry County Emergency Planning Director Ken De Los Santos
Shelter-in-Place Fact Sheet
A sudden emergency involving chemicals, or hazardous materials, can force emergency officials to ask you to take immediate action to protect yourselves and your families. Sheltering-in-place means protecting yourself where you are and remaining in place until given further instructions or emergency officials give the all clear. If you are asked to shelter-in-place, do the following:
- Remain calm.
- Go inside if you are outdoors.
- Do not call 911 unless you are reporting an immediate life-threatening situation.
- Children in schools or day care centers will take shelter where they are located and will stay indoors.
- Close all windows and doors. Tape cracks for extra protection.
- Close all vents on cooling, heating or ventilating systems.
- Cover cracks under doors with damp towels.
- If you have a fireplace, put out the fire and close the damper.
- Tape cracks and other openings such as electrical outlets and cable outlets.
- Move to an interior room or hallway with no windows or doors to the outside.
- Keep pets indoors.
- Listen carefully to a portable radio for instructions from emergency officials.
- If you are in a car, close windows and vents.
- Don't come out unless told to do so by radio, TV, news, or emergency officials
Source: Curry County Emergency Planning Committee website
Evacuation fact sheet
A sudden emergency involving chemicals, or hazardous materials, can force emergency officials to ask you to take immediate action to protect yourselves and your families. Evacuating means leaving the area that is affected by the potential hazard. Sometimes a chemical accident, such as an overturned tanker truck, will force people from their homes for health and safety reasons. If you are asked to evacuate, do the following:
- Remain calm.
- Listen carefully to the instructions you are given and be sure you are in an area that is being evacuated.
- If told to evacuate, do so!
- Do not use the phone except to dial 911 in a life-threatening situation.
- Take your "Disaster Supplies Kit" with you.
- DO NOT go to your children's school. If they are in the evacuation area they will be taken care of. They will probably be gone by the time you get there.
- Close and lock windows and doors.
- Turn off all fans, heating and cooling units.
- Bring pets indoors and leave food and water for them. Remember, pets ARE NOT allowed in emergency shelters!
- Keep vehicle windows and vents closed while evacuating.
- Follow instructions of emergency personnel along evacuation routes.
- Stay tuned to radio and television for further instructions from emergency officials.
Source: Curry County Emergency Planning Committee website

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Bangladeshi soldiers stand Monday at the site where a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed on April 24 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh,.
SAVAR, Bangladesh Several major Western brands embraced a safety plan that requires retailers to help pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh, where the three-week search for bodies at the site of the worlds worst garment-industry disaster ended Monday with the death toll at 1,127.
The collapse on April 24 of the Rana Plaza factory building focused worldwide attention on the hazardous conditions in Bangladeshs low-cost garment industry and strengthened pressure for reforms.
Bangladeshs government also agreed Monday to allow garment workers to form trade unions without permission from factory owners. That decision came a day after it announced a plan to raise the minimum wage for garment workers. Both moves are seen as a direct response to the collapse of the eight-story building, which housed five clothing factories.
Swedish retailing giant H&M, the largest purchaser of Bangladesh garments, and Britains Primark Stores announced Monday that they have accepted a legally binding fire and building safety plan drawn up by Bangladeshi and international labor groups.
The plan would establish an independent inspectorate to oversee factories, with powers to shut down unsafe facilities and require renovations financed in part by Western retailers.
The Clean Clothes Campaign, which seeks better working conditions in the global garment industry, praised H&Ms decision, saying it would pressure other retailers to sign the plan as well.
The agreement was signed earlier by two other companies PVH, the owner of the Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein brands, and German retailer Tchibo. Others, however, had refused to sign because the plan was legally binding and costly.
Primark is one of the few retailers that have acknowledged that their clothes were being made by factories in the Rana Plaza building at the time of the collapse.
Working conditions in the $20 billion industry are grim, a result of government corruption, desperation for jobs, and industry indifference. Minimum wages for garment workers are among the lowest in the world at $38 a month.
Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, deputy director of fire service and civil defense, said the search for bodies at Rana Plaza was called off at 6 p.m. Monday.
Now the site will be handed over to police for protection. There will be no more activities from the fire service or army, he said.
Bulldozers and other vehicles have been removed from the building site, which will be fenced with bamboo sticks. Red flags were erected around the site to bar entry.
The last body was found on Sunday night. A special prayer service will be held today to honor the dead, said army Brig. Gen. Mohammad Siddiqul Alam Shikder.
For more than 19 days, Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar had been the scene of frantic rescue efforts, anguished families and the overwhelming smell of decaying flesh.
Miracles were few, but on Friday, search teams found Reshma Begum, a seamstress who survived under the rubble for 17 days on cookies and bottled water.
Begum spoke to reporters Monday from the hospital where she is being treated. She told them she never expected to be rescued alive, and she vowed, I will not work in a garment factory again.
The Rana Plaza owner and eight other people, including garment factory owners, have been detained in the collapse investigation. Authorities say the building owner added floors to the structure illegally and allowed the factories to install heavy equipment that the building was not designed to support.
Bangladeshs Cabinet approved an amendment to the 2006 Labor Act on Monday lifting restrictions on forming trade unions in most industries, government spokesman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said. The old law required workers to obtain permission before they could unionize.
No such permission from owners is now needed, Bhuiyan told reporters after the Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The government is doing it for the welfare of the workers.
Local and international trade unions have long campaigned for such changes.
Though the 2006 law technically allowed trade unions and they exist in many of Bangladeshs other industries owners of garment factories never allowed them, saying they would lead to a lack of discipline among workers.
Trade union leaders responded cautiously.
The issue is not really about making a new law or amending the old one, said Kalpana Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity, a group campaigning for garment workers rights. In the past whenever workers tried to form associations they were subjected to beatings and harassment, she said. The owners did not hesitate to fire such workers.MORE IN Wire NewsUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. Full StoryTroubling as the details of the McLaren Report were, a news item out of Russia earlier this week... Full Story
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There is such understated beauty in these photos.
The top one is so freaking cute. <3 I wonder if he is gay. <3
They are all gorgeous. I'm a bio gay male, and I'd have no problem going out on a date with any of these gentlemen. Also, ugh calling them "women" is really low-class. They aren't women, their battle scars are proof of a manhood they fought for.
@tommiej: I'm a gay cis-male as well and I would feel privileged to go out with any of those gentlemen (especially the one at the tippy top, I can't stop looking at that handsome, sweet face! lol) And I agree, their scars are battle scars that are proof of the manhood that they fought for!
But they all have vaginas. *shudders* Sorry, we can be the best of friends and I'll 100% have your back – but I could never be romantically interested in a FTM person. I assume though that it would be very easy for a bisexual person.
@DarkZephyr: im with ya- 'tippy top' dude is sooooo adorable!
@Mikey: We don't all have vaginas, actually. But that's okay, because literally not a single one of us wants to sleep with you.
@Mikey: I'm a bisexual male, and on the men's side of the fence I'm very versatile, but in all honesty I could never be with a transsexual person, male of female. I'm completely sexually turned off by all the surgery/implants/hormonal treatments/ambiguity factor; there's just too much doctor-induced artificiality involved. Some bi-people find the dichotomy 'man with a vagina', 'woman with a penis' sexually appealing; I myself find it off-putting. Even surgically-created vaginas, although visually similar to real vaginas, are not even close to the real thing in terms of smell, taste, lubrication, etc. But hey, it's a big world, apparently from reading this, there's no shortage of LGB people attracted to transguys; I myself like my men and women all-natural.
Only the first one is remotely kissable. I don't feel attracted to transguys and transgirls. I do like young men who are slightly androgynous, though.
Gay men do not date Trans men…if you do(or would.) please call yourself something other than "gay".
@jayallen: @jayj150: @Mikey: I must concur. I'm glad these guys are on their right path. But…no. I, for one, am over the overly-pc rhetoric using "cis" to identify myself. My childhood pictures are of me as a boy, dressed in boys clothing, being a boy. I'm not going to rename my gender or throw around another term to justify that I was a boy then and I am a man now.
@JennyFromdabloc: I agree. I also don't use the "cis" terminology.
@jayallen: I've never used it, or ever will. Their argument that everyone should use it because the alternative to 'cis' is 'normal' and that would be offensive is ridiculous. If(as they always claim when they sue insurance companies and the government to pay for the extremely costly treatments and surgeries) 'transsexualism' is in fact a medical condition that needs fixing, then what the word 'cis' basically means is 'anyone who doesn't suffer from the medical condition of transsexualism' and that obviously makes it unnecessary. If you want to be really PC about it, then say non-transsexual. But frankly, making up words to validate their identities makes no sense, and actually has the opposite effect, as it makes it painfully obvious how insecure some people are about their sexual identities.
I'm so glad to hear a non-trans person argue that their privilege means they don't have to use any new fangled terms, like cis, to describe their gender. It is such a compelling argument, especially when they underscore their point by using "sexual identities" when they mean gender identities. That makes it clear to me how much they understand my experience as a trans man and are clearly authorities on this subject. I'm sure that if I watch this space I'll continue to be educated by them.
The photos are beautiful and these trans men are brave to subject themselves to objectification and ridicule.
@queerboi: The idea of "cisprivilege" is a fallacy to all women and many gender non-conforming males. I'm not going to subscribe to a terminology that undermines that. You're a trans man, that's cool, whatever. Don't undermine other people's struggle with your terminology. "cis" actually does just that.
That said I support people looking like they wish to look and living like they wish to live, I just ask they don't claim or appropriate identities that are not really their own. a "gay" trans man is a biological female engaging romantically with biological males. That is essentially a heterosexual arrangement.
@jayallen: Who the hell are you to make such a claim? I'm a Kinsey 6 gay man, and I would have no problem dating a trans man if I found him attractive. Doesn't make me bisexual because he's still a man. And I have absolutely ZERO attraction to women.
@jayallen: I am a GAY man, and I like MALES. A trans man is a man, regardless of whether you choose to accept that. Pansexual means a sexual attraction to people of all gender and biological identities, and that is NOT what describes who I am. You're far too rigid and black and white in your way of thinking. A man is much more than just his genitalia.
@MMDD: Like it or not, genitals do define sex. It's not the only factor involved, there is a bunch of other stuff to take in consideration, like hormones and DNA and yada yada yada, but genitals are a factor, and most often than not, they do indicate correctly the sex the person was born with. And also, like it or not, genitals are important to most people in basis of sexual attraction. No, it's not the only thing one looks for, no, they alone don't necessarily make some attractive, no we don't ask to check someone's genitals before going out with them, but the consistency between gender presentation and sex IS extremely important for most people. And I don't see how that should offend or threaten anyone's identity; after all one person's identity has nothing to do with someone else's perception of it, those are two completely independent phenomena. I can respect the way you choose to identify yourself, and don't mind using the pronouns you prefer, but as a matter of sexual attraction I will never see a transsexual person as a sex other than the one they were born with.
@jayj150: "…genitals are a factor, and most often than not, they do indicate correctly the sex the person was born with."
Of course…but even you went out of your way to say "most often," not "always." Hence transgender men are the ones who don't necessarily fit into that "most often" category.
"…the consistency between gender presentation and sex IS extremely important for most people."
No argument from me there. I totally get that there are gay men who would not be attracted to or consider dating a trans man. But having the audacity to say that you can't be gay and attracted to or date a trans man is sheer ignorance. A trans man is still a man, regardless of what's between his legs.
"…as a matter of sexual attraction I will never see a transsexual person as a sex other than the one they were born with."
So if you see a man out in public whom you've never met before and you happen to find him attractive before discovering he's trans, will that attraction you feel suddenly evaporate in the moment you discover he's trans? What if he's a biologically born male but you discover he lost his penis and/or balls in some tragic accident? Will you suddenly no longer find him attractive?
Why is anyone sharing if they would have sex with these men or not? How is that relevant to these pictures and why are you up just to find these people? These pictures are beautiful nice work jes.
@MMDD: You people need to stop using the 'man who lost his genitals in an accident' example; it's grossly offensive to victims of violent accidents, not to mention tacky. Of course those men are very much men and will always be. And to answer your last question, even if I happen to see an incredibly good-looking transsexual man(or woman, I'm bi), which no, I haven't seen yet; yes, my attraction would instantly evaporate. As I explained before, I'm completely sexually turned off by all the surgery/implants/hormonal treatments/ambiguity factor; there's just too much doctor-induced artificiality involved. I like my men and women's respective manhood and womanhood to be all-natural, not surgically and hormonally created by a doctor. But again, and as I also mentioned before, some bisexual people find the dichotomy of trassexuals to be attractive; it's a big world. The important thing is not to shame gay, lesbian and bi people for their sexual preferences, which from what I've seen is a constant among trassexual people.
why is anyone sharing if they would have sex with these men or not? How is that relevant to these pictures and why are you objectifying these people? I don't think the point these pictures was for anyone to decide if they would have sex with these men are not. I also highly doubt any of them have trouble finding partners, sex or love. These pictures are beautiful nice work jess.
@jayj150: "You people need to stop using the 'man who lost his genitals in an accident' example…"
And people like you need to stop telling others what they can and cannot say in a PUBLIC FORUM. The example was valid in making my point, and I stand by it.
"I like my men and women's respective manhood and womanhood to be all-natural, not surgically and hormonally created by a doctor."
Fair enough. Most people feel the same way you do, and all things considered that's usually my preference as well. You'd be hard pressed to find a gay man out there who adores male genitalia more than I do, BUT…there's so much more to a man's body that turns me on than just his penis and balls. Hell, I could just look at men's asses all day long and be the happiest man on earth. :-)
"The important thing is not to shame gay, lesbian and bi people for their sexual preferences, which from what I've seen is a constant among trassexual [sic] people."
Ah…so now we get into the REAL reason why you have an issue with transsexuals: a personal bias/generality based on your own and/or others' negative experiences. I've been around trans folks for many years and have never had any such experience. Your attitude is just as bad as those who say gay men are AIDS-carrying sluts or, to make it more personal to you, who say that bisexuals are confused, unable to commit to one person, or just really homos in denial.
First pic turned me on.
It was disappointing to read some of the comments above. Knowing a few Transmen I feel privileged and enjoy the relationships I have build. I would date, have a relationship and sex with trans men and while I understanding not all people are attracted to the transman I found some comments distasteful. The journey is full of courage so thank you for your photos and I thank my transgender friends for your friendships and love.m
If anyone wants to reply to my comment above its [email protected]
I love (sarcasm) that a whole lot of people saw these photos and saw fit to judge peoples sexuality and invite comment into others lives about what to call each other, who is hot, who you would wanna make out with and that transmen arent men if they havent had lower surgeries.,
Pretty disappointing really.


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Now I know why I kept Merck
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Today is a day, by the way, where I realize what is really missing in this market: high-yielding bank stocks. There was a time when you would reach for a Bank of America
But we keep getting force fed into the same drugs and foods because despite the bountiful return from so many companies' bottom lines, it isn't like these companies can double their dividends routinely.
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Let me ask you: If Clorox raises its dividend by 6% would it make a big difference to you? Not to me.
But if we aren't getting any rate increases any time soon, it will certainly make a difference to the big fixed-income boys who have given themselves carte blanche to buy stocks to pick up yield, and Clorox is about as safe as it gets -- unless rates tick upward by a hair. That's why something that's 4% to 5% is so much better, and we just don't have enough of them.
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Posted by Nick on 12/5/2006, 8:21 pm, in reply to "The 616 New Warriors Volume 4 (Spoilers)" --Previous Message--
: We've been discussing this over at
: newwarriors.com/forum bu my picks so far:
: Firestar will be the "returning
: member" because Speedball is in TBolts
: Arana is a shoo-in bc of Ms. Marvel
: appearances
: Gravity, bc hes a teen hero and McKeever
: created him and will be writing New Warriors
: Jubilee (she needs to be somewhere)
: And beyond that, I don't know. X-23 is too
: dark for me.
: --Previous Message--
: Well i think a few ultimate books are well
: done, and its just an alternate univers type
: thing, Like the ultimates, I loe the
: traditional 616 stuff but I also like some
: ultimate stuff like i said before the
: ultimates and ultimate ff, but i dont think
: spiderman was that bad, ultimate dead pool
: pissed me off tho. And dont get me started
: on ultimate x-men. But ok no more ultimate
: who would you all like to see in the 07 new
: warriors line up? i will say it again
: slapstcik!!! come on say it with me
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: Never liked it, never will. I don't get why
: so many people read it. Traditional comics
: readers (I would assume) would avoid it
: because it's non-con. Non-traditionalists
: should be turned off by (at least in USM)
: Bendis!' terrible writing style.
: I think the main problem with Ultimate
: titles, is you cannot base their existence
: entirely on "oo... what can we do
: differently?" Then it just becomes a
: gimmick, and the writers will go out of
: their way to mess with the good ideas
: established in the 616 U. The reason why
: What If's" (sometimes) work is that
: they do the Ultimate gimmick, but only once.
: And on that note, here's my Ultimate
: Warriors:
: Night Thrasher as a woman
: Darkhawk as a pure android, maybe the
: product of Tony Stark (what's he like in the
: Ultimaverse) sick perversions (not that
: Stark's known for that)
: Speedball, MAX Alias style... he really does
: %^*% up all the time.
: Firestar, but as Johnny Storm's
: cousin/sister or something
: Turbo as just Turbo.
: --Previous Message--
: If marvel were to do an ultimate New
: Warriors
: book who would you want o see on the team?
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Just six days ago, we were discussing whether Chan Ho Park was facing his final start as a Phillie. Now, that all seems like a distant memory.
Park will face the Dodgers tonight in the first game of a three-outing set. This team is a lot like the Mets in their offensive prowess – a team that features a few guys who can do multiple things at the plate. Park will need to mix up his pitches again, paint his corners and work diligently to keep the Dodgers at bay.
But what if he screws up again? What if Park hands in only a two- to three-inning start? Should we start the clock again?
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I still think he's on a start by start basis. Happ has thrown so well, we can't keep him in the pen any longer. I think for the next few starts, Park will have to throw 6-7 solid innings to keep his job.
Let me first state the Chan Ho Park sucks. He will not be a starter come June 1. He'll be good in the pen with him coming in as a mix with Scott Eyre to do lefty/right stuff in the 6th or 7th inning. Let me also say that Jack Taschner is even worse than I thought. He should not be allowed to pitch again. To lefties or righties. That said, it should be J.A. Happ. When Romero comes back we'll have enough lefties. Next question: Who replaces Moyer? This may be where a trade is in order. D'Arnaud and Savery for Oswalt? Anyone? Bueller?
The Dipsy
Parks start last week bought him two more starts. Moyer is now at even, meaning hes really got to get it done in the enxt 3 or 4 starts or hes out. Hamels and Myers are up and running. Blanton has two to three more starts before something has to be done about him. JA Happ is still waiting, but even with him in there, you have two more slots to fill if things dont improve.
I mean youve really only got two starting pitchers right now. The other three will combine to give you a good start occasionally. This is not really acceptable.
So lets say you put Happ in for Park – who I have full confidence in. That gives you Hamels Myers Happ. So lets say Moyer tanks. Is Carrasco ready? Not right now. Is Kendrick a major league pitcher? No. Drabek? Still too raw. Worley, Stutes? Maybe, only a year removed from the draft though.
So basically if more than one guy needs replaced youre looking at a big decision. I think if both Blanton and Moyer tanked out and had to be traded for nothimng, DL'd, or sent down then youd have to take a flier on promoting one of these young arms and then use your assets to go out and trade for a proven solid starting pticher.
A 2 or 3 inning start should definitely be a seeya pal situation (send him to the pen in this case).
I believe that he gets this start and one more. If all goes well in these two outings, you stick with him for another 2-3. NOw if things go back to the way they were the next two outings, Mr. Happ gets his chance and Park becomes long relief. What if he throws out there 3 consecutive QS and gets hit around the next game? Can him? No way, give him 2 more starts and then analyze the situation from there.
Houston would want Carrasco or someone closer to the majors…theyd probably want Donald and/or Mayberry because Tejada is liek 57 years old and ailing from years of steroid use.
Oswalt is in his walk year. And Ed Wade is their GM.
The Dispy.
I doubt Ed Wade is going to hand us another stud for "potential". The whole city of houston will each have an opportunity Shawn Chacon him as a giveway for all home games for the rest of the year if he even thinks about that.
Oswalt is not a stud anymore btw. Check the stats!
The Dispy
I love people who post here… Moyer gets shelled after a few good starts in a row and all of a sudden he is done.
You really are what have you done lately kind of folks I guess. Forget that one week ago he was our best starting pitcher.
I hope Charlie is much smarter than all of you and realizes that demoting Moyer will set the rest of the rotation back since he in fact is the best pitching coach we have.
Dipsy that name fits you, Houston isn't giving up Oswalt for that junk, We would drive the bus to houston if they would take a 254 minor league hitter in mayberry and a ulitity in donald and a Carrasco who is getting hit again, why don't we give them coste, cairo, taschner, park, think they would go for that? to get oswalt it's going to be a Michael Taylor or Dominic Brown, a Worley, Stutes or Drabek and a Marson or Donald , They will want a least three of these players to make the move.
Moyer has had TWO good starts, and the rest of them have either been dog dirt terrible OR the old mediocre 4 runs 6 innings which is somewhere between good and dog dirt terrible.
I forgot wade is their gm. That means we could trade like Christ Coste, Brad Harman, and Drew Carpenter for Roy Oswalt and some utility bench player.
Remember, Lidge didnt have Grienke-esque numbers when we "stole" him from Houston either. Your gonna have to give up a ton to get Oswalt. He is almost the face of their franchise right now and arguably the most consistent pitcher in the NL in the past several years. Unproven Carrasco? Mayberry (already have Lee, and Pence)? I would love it but doubtful. To rectify and pitching woes we have right now, we will look within our own for now.
Anyone who wants Oswalt is an idiot as he has basically the same line as Moyer all season, roughly 6 innings with 4 earned runs.
With the offense we have 6 innings and 4 earned runs should be a W 9 times out of 10. This team is built to score runs everyday.
Moyer has had two good starts which is ONE more than every other pitcher on this team so far.
Right but you see that getting 4 run 6 inning outings from our pitching, even with our offense, theyre NOT winning 9 games out of 10. thats the whole point! thats NOT happening right now. IF it was we wouldnt be talking about this.
Look at Oswalts numbers…hed probably be better than Moyer but hes not the ghuy he used to be. But someone else brought him up thats not the guy that Id want to bring in here anyway. Hes a flyball pitcher – and those dont work too well here…
Oswalt IN …HIS…..WALK…..YEAR.
The Dipsy
Oswalt is 32 yrs old and has a career 3.17 era. Please, please do not compare hiim to Moyer. As much as I love Moyer and everything he has done for Philly, he is not Roy Oswalt. Oswalt has been amazingly consistent and as much a competitor as Myers(with a cooler head). Oswalt has been an as ace for quite a while, whereas Moyer has been more of a coach with pretty solid numbers the last 2-3 years. Were not getting Oswalt for unproven talent.
Oswalt not a stud anymore? Dipsy… stop. 2006-2008—- 46 wins. And ERA of 2.98, 3.18, and 3.54. If i am reading this right, he is pretty close to our ace, cole hamels, and has been way more healty too. Dont get me wrong, i am not comparing cole and roy, i am just proving a point that he is extremely valuable and worthy of more than 3 unproven prospects.
Oswalt has been a ace for a while now but he is on his downslope… look at how 32 yr old power pitchers fair in their declining years, unless he juices like Clemens he will be an afterthought in a few years. He had his run and now he is out of gas. Check his game log, it is very unimpressive and his only win came on a day when he got 12 runs in support
I am not comparing Moyer and Oswalt in their careers just their stats so far this season in which they are extremely similar.
As Geoff said a 6 inning 4 run game should be enough for a win with our offense but lately our offense hasnt been pulling their weight so instead of talking about how horrendous the pitching has been why dont we look at how horrendous the offense has been.
If he has another two or three inning start, he should definitely be sent to the pen. I wasn't high on the guy to begin with and I' wouldn't sit around waiting for that good start every 10 outings.
The sad thing is, most of us have been concerned about the starting rotation since last season, but because the Phils won the WS, this problem got shoved under the rug during the off-season, the FO hoping/assuming that it would be the same as last year. Now we're facing the reality that maybe one or more of our starters are not what they were last year, maybe not even major league caliber. If it turns out that just one of them sucks, we should be able to address that, but if it's three, we're screwed.
I agree with PtheBLovesTheBallGirls to an extent. Will Osawlt decline, possibly. But you dont know that. You cant really judge a guy, including Moyer, based on April numbers when they have proven themselves year in and year out. After all, if we were to magically get Oswalt, it would be for this year and this year only. So, if he were to drop over the next few years, it shouldnt affect us much. If we get him, it will be at the Trade Deadline and Houston must be totally of it. And it will not be for 2 prospects.
Oswalt is not coming to Philly, so it's not even worth discussing.
Moyer can still rebound, I wouldn't be so quick to write him off. Park is only as good as his next start. We have a good problem in that at least we have some depth with Happ.
It's still Mid May everyone, let's not worry to much. Did anyone watch the Mets last night?
Yea, Mets had a bullpen breakdown last night. Great to watch. Its like watching Fragglerock! Awesome and funny!
Why doesn't Charlie go with a six man rotation over the next few weeks?
It gives the guys from last year an extra day off between starts to rest up a bit more if this really is the hangover from the extra month of postseason pitching. It also gives Happ a chance in the rotation to prove himself. At the end of the the three weeks, drop the worst starter in the past few weeks to the pen.
Seriously Charlie needs to address this and ASAP we can't fall to far behind in the East, each game will be essential as we approach August and September. Drop Cario from the bench and add a reliever to the pen and give the six man rotation a chance.
not interested in trading for a 32 year old pitcher and the Phillies aren't either.
Why isn't Oswalt coming to Philly? Why? Why? Tell me , please. We don't have things Houston wants? We don't "need" or "want" Oswalt? Do you have special "knowledge" we don't have? Moyer stinks. Look at his last 5 years. Park stinks. Look at his last 5 years. In fact….look at everbody's last 5 years while you're at it.
The Dipsy
Oswalt is not coming to Philly because he is 32 on the decline and may or may not have any good innings left in him. The Phillies do not need another 30 year old in their rotation and could definitely benefit from getting younger and using the talent in the minors instead of selling the farm for a guy you will have for half a year who may or may not be effective.
32 year old pitcher (gasp)!!!!! You're right. If he were a horse he'd be shot.
The Dipsy
Dipsy, you are right I don't know for sure he isn't coming to Philly. But I echo was Jeff says above. Why would we or the FO want a 32 year old pitcher in the last year of his contract??????????
Every team has something it wants from another team.
Saying Moyer stinks is outrageous. He won 16 games last year, has tons of knowledge to give to younger players (which is invaluable). Not arguing you on Park, like I said, he is only as good as his next start. If he explodes tonight, bring in Happ.
If we get Oswalt, it is for one year. One more time. IF we get Oswalt it is for one year. Stop bringing up his age and the "possibility" of him declinging. He is having a less than average start to the very, very early 2009. The Phillies are not ready to give up what Houston would want in return for their 5-6 year ace. Gotta stop this silly talk.
Okay so we get a declining Oswalt for one year, he is still declining. He has already given up 9 Hrs, which is one behing Myers and Moyer. Why would we want to give up so much for a pitcher who does the same thing half our rotation already does. Give up 4 runs in 6 innings and be suspect to the home run ball which in our park Oswalt would give up a ton more homers.
Chan Ho Park should never have been in the rotation in the first place. he has a proven track record of being a bad major league pitcher. he's always been bad. for almost a decade now he's been puttering around the major leagues being a terrible pitcher. he will never be any good. JA Happ on the other hand has a ton of upside and could show himself to be a true #2 starter in this league possibly. give him the chance.
How did someone like Oswalt get in this discussion when the topic should be about Park? Oh.., I see, you have the usual group of GM wanna be's here..;-)
In the real world when one looks from the perspective of the manager, Park's experience as a veteran with a proven track record of effectiveness as a starter is more desirable for the rotation. He also won the 5th spot in rotation with his solid performance in Spring Training. His outstanding six inning effort in his last outing justified Charlie Manual's belief in his ability. At this point, there is no reason to think Park would not continue to do well. Given the problems of consistency with the other starters (highest ERA in baseball). Manuel needs Park in the rotation and certainly preferable over an inexperienced rookie like Happ. Manuel see the young Happ as a better fit for the bullpen and as a work in progress in obtaining Major League experience and knowledge of hitters. Yes, the ultimate goal for Happ is as a starter. But as they say, he has to put in that dues and EARNED that right. Be patient fans, it's not baseball fantasy where you toss names on your wish list like Oswalt.. (chuckles)
I think Park gets -20 more innings.
1 good outing in no way justifies 5 horrid starts. He gets two more starts, if he fails he will find himself in the pen.
Park hasn't been a decent starter in years. He didn't even play two years ago. He was a decent bullpen guy with a couple spot starts last year wherein he was effective, but failed to last more than 5-6 innings. Either all the Phillies starters need to get their act together, or we need to start examining the possibility of trading for a big arm. THATS why we're talking about Oswalt.
Happ oughta be in the rotation…
With Myers contract up this year, and Blanton on a one year deal same with Park. The phillies have more tools to make a trade this year then last for a starter, Some prospects like Taylor packaged with a worley marston for a harden might work, and throw in a blanton with his expiring contract, to take harden place for this year, might be attractive, If not we can't win with this rotation, park stinks, blanton had a lee type year last year. bad pitching ,but won due to great offense.
If Park doesn't pitch well, his leash should depend on what he does wrong. Basically if his control isn't there and he gives up walk after walk he should be replaced with Happ. If he's throwing strikes and leaves a hanger or two that gets crushed I'd say give him another start. He should be able to control his pitches, he should he could do it in spring training, if he's giving up a ton of walks then he's just unable to get where he needs to be mentally in order to start in the majors.
he showed he could do it*
cole hamels just walked by me at 15th and chestnut. he was flanked by two small guys in suits. weird!
Since Geoff always seems to be alone in his thoughts, this one should be chimed to the tune of The Lone Ranger theme song…
Seya pal, seya pal, seya pal pal pal
Seya pal, seya pal, seya heads will roll
Seya pal, seya pal, seya pal pal pal
Bruce you are right though we should change this blog to Phillies GM's Nation. I wonder if Ruben checks this site out from time to time. He would laugh his ass off if he did, but what is better than talking trades honestly. Now I would have loved for the Phils to have went after Derek Lowe, give the Braves credit for out-bidding the Mets on that, but the steal that no one really talks about and I would love him in this rotation is Javier Vasquez. He has been healthy and keeps his team in the game for years now and they got him for peanuts.
Chris the other day I had a weird thing happen to me, I was driving through Rittenhouse Square where I would see Burrell walking his dogs twice a week and who do I see yesterday?? RAUUUULLLLL!! Everyone was waving to him walking with his kid. Weird shit!
Harden just signed an extension, so that isnt happening.
Anyone think a Worley might jump AAA ala Kendrick or will they take it slow with him?
Hamels has a place in Liberty Place. 16th & Chestnut-Market..
I think if more than two guys need replacing (most likely out of blanton, park, moyer) , then the order of replacement will be:
1st hole: Happ
2nd hole: trade for significant starting pitcher
3rd Hole: One of Carrasco, Worley, Drabek or Stutes (not kendrick) – they may jump one of those guys up from AA like Kendrick is they REALLY need to.
I think Park is the most likely to be replaced – obviously. follwoed by Blanton and then Moyer.
or tyson brummett maybe
I understand Richie. I'm not oppose to reading proposed trades, etc. (chuckles). Actually, it's entertaining to read some "out of the box" ideas and thoughts on desired players. I'm one of those armchair or grandstand managers who will yell at the TV when my team make blunders in losing a game. However, in the end, when calmness prevails,I keep everything in perspective. And that's what I preach to other fans. Stay with the big picture of a marathon season. It's ok to read ideas and suggestions within the realm of reason. But for me when I read comments that turns reality into outright fantasy that no manager or GM would go anywhere's near, then it becomes pointless for me to comment on it. But that's just me and for others who do like that, well..that's their choice.
Well Bruce the great thing about our farm system now is that we can actually be in the running for the one year rentals now. Now with the prospects we have this year we could grab a guy ala Sabathia with the brewers last year. Can you imagine if we got Sabathia last year, I know we won the WS, but how scary is it to face Hamels and CC. I am hoping for the Jays to fall off this high horse they are on and see Hallady on the blocks come July…..
How about this stat…
"Philadelphia is the only team in the majors not to win a game while scoring fewer than five runs."
is that true? It was in an SI.com article..
Given the team's ERA, I would completely believe that stat.
Brummett be serious no chance, why just throw out names, no one in there system will be brought into the rotation except maybe Carrasco if he shows that he can be more consistent. stutes, worley and especially Drabek no way, they would rather have park go out there ever fifth day then take Drabek and hurt his developement, If you have followed him he was hurt and only goes five innings most starts, they are trying to be carefull with him, Stutes isn't near ready, Worley needs to see more innings in double a and then go to triple a .
Here is the problem that many Phillie fans have
Our Pitching Staff is very diverse…. right now that diversity is hurting us.
Hamels- when healthy has nasty stuff.
Myers- when his head is in the game has a nice curve with strong velocity
Moyer- fools people for a living- he never was and never will be anymore than that, and some days he will not fool anyone, but he has fooled more than he has not.
Blanton- is similiar to Myers with more consistency
Park- my opinion is a bullpen guy.
We all want that power guy that overwhelms and dominants. Well that is Hamels, Anyone that is being traded in July is not going to be that guy:(
Remember when everyone wanted Manny last year to Philly. Or we were all excited that we got Freddy Garcia. how about Kevin Millwood. The only guy I feel the Phillies missed out on was Derek Lowe. A sinker baller in the bank is key.
I am sure the FO is not going to trade our many valuable resources in the farm for an expriing contract of Oswalt. We do not have a #1 pick this year(Ibanez signing) and that is fine cause Ibanez was worth it, but we need to make sure we do not deplete the farm for a pitcher for 2 months. I mean we got screwed with Burrell cause if we offered him arbitration he would have taken it, instead we got nothing for him.
As far as trade bait I think the following would be traded if the setting was right
1. Kyle Kendrick
2. Mike Cervanek
3. Chris Coste
4. Drew Carpenter
5. Jermey Slayden
6. JA Happ
7. Joe Savery
Happ and Savery would probably not traded
I am using what I read about the minors and the thoughts the FO has about them, I follow the minors pretty extensively, and those would be the only ones that make sense unless we are getting a ready made stud with major upside
I believe in trading for a guy with a year left of his deal as opposed to in his walk year…itll cost a bit more but its a better move.
I tossed some of their better young arms out there saying they may call one of them up and jump AAA if theyre really desperate. Like I said. Carrasco doesnt look ready at all so any more than one hold opens up theyll have to make a trade unless they want to risk bringing up carrasco when hes not dealing in AAA or vance worley or stutes. I agree that drabek must be handled carefully though…same with knapp. knapp is liek 19, no need to rush him at all in any way…
Roy Oswalt is signed through 2011 with a club option for 2012.
If a stud starting pitcher is put on the trading block, it will be Peavy, who is signed through 2012 with a club option for 2013.
guess what? our rotation's combined numbers are almost EXACTLY the same as Adam Eaton's 2007 season…. check it out…..
Mike Cervenak is 31/32 years old….They missed out on their chance to get anything good for Chris Coste, same with Kendrick. Those three guys would just be throw ins with a B type prospect.
Griffin. is. back.
yeah baby!
J. Roll batting 5th tonight according to Todd Zolecki's blog.
Cervenak will be 33 in August, he's a journeyman, who would come to the Phils asking for Cervenak in a trade? Geoff's right if he's in a trade that means he's a throw in to get quantity back even though he's been tearing up the International League, Terry Tiffee did the same last year in the PCL and he's no where to be found on a MLB roster, heck he signed with us and has yet to play a game with Lehigh Valley, he's been on the DL for the entire start of the season.
Jeffofnova The only person you mention who has any value is Happ and its not that great. What kind of pitcher would you get for all the over thirty orgizational fillers you listed, And the last one Savery is right now a first round draft choice, who is throwing at 88 miles a hour with a straight fast ball. He is the ultimate bust. No one would give you more than another first round bust for him. Like the phillies trading Golson for Mayberry both are first round bust. can't hit a enough to use there tools.
Don M, FYI… The Phillies are now 0-10 when they score three runs or less. They're 15-4 when they score at least four runs. The source for that info comes from Yahoo Sports website.
Mike you have some good points,
Basically I don't think they are going to make a trade. Kendrick is putting up pretty good numbers and may lure a team with very little back fo the rotation pitching.
Oh … are there still any doubts about Park's capability as starter after tonight's game? Dipsy? Ryan? Anyone? (chuckles)
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That night, we heard a symphony of frog sounds. Armed with a flashlight, we crept through the spiny aster plants bordering the pond. There were several different calls. We recognized the deep bass of the bull frogs, the bell-like ring of tree frogs, and the flat trill of a Gulf Coast Toad, but there were other sounds, too. What was making that bleating sound? It sounded like a goat, or maybe a lamb. Could one of our neighbor's animals have washed under the fence?
We looked for a lost lamb or goat kid briefly, but we soon realized the bleating sound was coming from the water. Following the sound, we looked in the shallows. The water was clear and only about an inch deep. The olive-brown skin of a small frog glistened in the beam of the flashlight. It was then that we noticed its most curious feature. It had a narrow yellow line down the center of its back. It looked as if someone had dribbled a thin stream of yellow latex paint along its midline.
The yellow line, which continued under its tiny chin and across its belly, made it easy to identify. The field guide said it was a sheep frog. Not only had we never seen one before, we had never even heard of one!
We soon found out why. Sheep frogs are secretive, largely nocturnal and spend most of their time under debris or in burrows. They need high humidity and are never found more than 100 miles from the coast. The northern edge of their range is in Live Oak, Bee and Goliad counties. Their range extends southward into Mexico and Central America. Once again, we had encountered a South Texas specialty!
Because sheep frogs are seldom seen, nobody is quite sure of their status. They may be quite rare and possibly in peril. Texas Parks and Wildlife has listed them as a threatened species.
So how did we get so lucky as to have one on our farm? It turns out that a heavy tropical downpour, especially during the late summer months, triggers a reproductive response in sheep frogs. The males come out of their burrows and float about on the surface of a flooded pond. Sometimes at dusk, you can see them, their forearms resting on a stem, floating and calling that sheep-like bleat. Soon, the females join the males, and mating occurs. The male grabs on to the female locking his thumbs under her arms. As she lays the eggs (sometimes 700 of them!), he fertilizes them.
Some sources say the eggs are in strings, others say the egg mass forms a raft. But they don't stay eggs for long. After just 12 hours, the eggs hatch into tadpoles. The fish-like tadpoles have gills and feed on plant matter until they undergo metamorphosis. At 30 days after hatching, the aquatic life of the tadpoles is over; they become air-breathing, legged, insect-eating, land animals.
This is why frogs and toads are called amphibians. They have both life (amphi-bios) styles during their lives. It is pretty amazing when you think about it.
Members of the Class Amphibia are pretty easy to distinguish from other classes of animals, but how do you tell a frog from a toad? There is no clear-cut scientific difference. In general, frogs are slim and speedy, while toads are short, plump and sluggish. Frogs can leap great distances, while toads can do short hops or just walk. Most toads have warty skin; frogs are smooth. Frogs are usually around water most of their lives, while toads can take a certain amount of dryness. Both frogs and toads must reproduce in a watery environment, however.
A sheep frog is actually a toad. It has a toad-shaped body and walks (or runs!) rather than leaps. But it has the smooth skin of a frog. Sheep frogs belong to a small family of amphibians known as the narrow-mouthed toads. The small mouth is designed to take small insects, usually ants and termites. Interestingly, the three species in this family all have a fold of skin on the back of their necks. It is just behind the eyes. These toads can roll this fold of skin forward to clear away ants that may get on their eyes while they feed.
This is the time of the year when you might see a sheep frog. Wait for a tropical deluge, go out to a pond, and maybe, just maybe, a sheep frog will be calling.
On the other hand, there is another creature that you can't miss seeing this time of year. It's the American Snout Butterfly.
Earlier this week, Alice Box asked me, "What are all these butterflies flying around the windows?" Indeed, there were hundreds! At first glance, they seemed small and gray, almost nondescript. But then Alice deftly caught one of the butterflies and showed me the beautifully patterned orange, white and black top sides of the wings. And we noticed another feature that was a dead giveaway: It had a snout.
The American Snout is an unusual butterfly. It is the only species with elongated mouth palps. This gives it a long-nosed or snout-like appearance. When roosting in vegetation, these butterflies lean forward with the snout touching the stem. With their wings closed, they look like dead leaves, and the snout resembles the leaf petiole. It is great camouflage.
Snouts are famous for their spectacular migrations. Literally millions of the butterflies can be on the move. Where are they going? I could not find out for sure, but in Mission, Texas, they have been observed heading northeast. Some Rio Grande Valley reports describe flights going northwest towards Austin and San Antonio. A record flight of over 6 billion snouts flew from San Marcos to the Valley during an 18-day period in 1921. North, south, east, west. I wonder if they really are migrating. Maybe these huge flights are better labeled "outbreaks" of snouts!
There is some logic to this idea. One Internet site referred to these South Texas snout migrations as "butterfly blooms" and associates them with drought-breaking summer rains. In our area, snouts can go from egg to adult in just 12 days! After a good rain, the spiny hackberry (a common brush country shrub) puts out new growth. These tender leaves are super food for snout larvae. Even if the caterpillars defoliate the bush, the spiny hackberry re-sprouts leaves. And the newly emerged adult snout females will quickly mate and lay another set of eggs! Intriguingly, most of the male butterflies will form the spectacular flights we are seeing.
So, have you seen your snouts today? Hope for a "frog-strangler" of a good rain, and you may see sheep frogs as well!


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MONTPELIER Douglas Harold Nicholson, 59, of Montpelier, died unexpectedly Saturday, March 15, 2014.
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He attended schools in Montpelier and graduated from Montpelier High School in 1973.
After graduation, he enlisted in the United States Army.
He married Corine Atwood on June 19, 1993, at the Trinity United Methodist Church.
Doug owned and operated O.J. Country Store and Gas Station in Orange, and later he and Doug Roberts owned A.C.V. Adjustments. He also was an adjuster for Nationwide Insurance Co. Doug later worked at South Main Auto Body Shop in St. Johnsbury and went on to be the manager of the service department at Courtesy Toyota in Berlin. Most recently he worked as a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, out of Montpelier.
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The Westcott House will be a great place for the Delta T90 house to land, said Aron Temkin, dean of the College of Professional Schools. The organizations mission, at the intersection of design and education, makes them an ideal partner. We are excited at the opportunity this will create for long-term study of the buildings performance and on-site learning opportunities for our students.
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Moab, Utah—Interested members of the public are invited to join the BLM-Utah Canyon Country District paleontologist for a tour of the new dinosaur track site in the Mill Canyon area on Friday, June 28, 2013.
Paleontologists and volunteers will be onsite excavating the track surface, and BLM paleontologist ReBecca Hunt-Foster will lead short, interpretive hikes at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. During these walks, participants will learn how paleontologists differentiate between tracks and the dinosaurs that made them, as well as the importance of protecting track sites like the one in Mill Canyon. Please join the BLM for this unique, educational opportunity.
Those interested in joining Dr. Hunt-Foster on one of the hikes, should plan to be at the site a few minutes before the tour is scheduled to begin. From Moab, take Highway 191 north for 15 miles to Mill Canyon Rd. Turn left onto Mill Canyon Rd. and travel approximately one mile to the "Y" intersection of Mill Canyon Rd. and Cotter Mine Rd. Turn left onto Cotter Mine Rd. and continue for another ½ mile to a second parking area.
Participants are reminded that summer temperatures in the Moab area can be extreme and should plan accordingly and bring their own water and sunscreen. Although the hikes are relatively short, walking in the sun and heat may not be enjoyable or advisable for everyone. Although the hikes are very short in duration and distance, participants should be aware of their own skill level and health, and proceed accordingly.
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#147638 - 09/10/05 08:00 AM Re: O you who turn the wheel and look to windward
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>>consider the stars<<
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[Middle English consideren, from Old French, from Latin cnsderre : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + sdus, sder-, star.]
I prefer to think this refers to science than to superstition.
#147639 - 09/10/05 08:59 AM The Interpretation of Dreams
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And while we are on the subject of the unexpectedly arcane etymologies to everyday words [?], can anyone explain why the word "read" has its root in "rædan", "raden" and "raten" (respectively, Germanic, Dutch and German) which makes a reader, roughly "an interpreter of dreams" ?
Is this some throwback to a mantic use of the written word?
#147640 - 09/10/05 10:20 AM Re: The Interpretation of Dreams
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why the word "read" has its root in "rædan", "raden" and "raten" (respectively, Germanic, Dutch and German) which makes a reader, roughly "an interpreter of dreams."
I'm not sure about oneiromantic etymologies, but according to Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Rat 'council, advice' and raten 'to advise, give council' occur in most of the Germanic languages. There's even a Gothic verb, garedan 'Vorsorge treffen / to look ahead, provide for risk'. He ties in raten and lesen with unravelling (lit. unriddling) the runes / "die Runen enträtseln". German lesen, like Latin lego and Gk λεγω lego (and λογος logos 'word; reason', but translated by the Romans as ratio 'reckoning') have primary meanings of gathering together. Sounds partially like augury, or later on, hermeneutics, to me. There's also some connection between counting, recounting, telling a tale, and gathering knowledge or portents about the future: cf. English tell, tale, and German zahlen 'to pay', zählen 'to count', and erzählen 'to tell'. Also, the German word for letters of the alphabet Buchstabe where the morpheme Stab means a kind of wand or staff. Kluge mentions that Tacitus, in the 10th chapter of Germania describes how Germans made marks on twigs and threw them (like the I Ching?), interpreting the results, and connects this with runes._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#147641 - 09/10/05 10:29 AM Re: The Interpretation of Dreams
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>> oneiromantic<<
Sorry to keep asking what's that; but what's that? Can't find nothing helpful.
#147642 - 09/10/05 10:34 AM Re: The Interpretation of Dreams
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from OneLook:
Quick definitions (oneiromancy)
noun: divination through the interpretation of dreams_________________________
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#147643 - 09/10/05 10:41 AM Re: The Interpretation of Dreams
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Oneiromancy is the practice of predicting the future through dream analysis.
#147644 - 09/10/05 10:43 AM Re: The Interpretation of Dreams
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What he said. Gk ονειρος (oneiros) 'dream' + μαντεια (manteia) 'divination' (fr. μαντευομαι (manteuomai) 'to divine, prophesy'. English praying mantis is a praying 'prophet, seer, foreboder, presager'._________________________
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#147645 - 09/10/05 11:40 AM Re: The Interpretation of Dreams
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You bros are the boss, I say the boss, the Boss Bros., bros.
#147646 - 09/10/05 11:51 AM Re: dreaming of interpretations
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and, just in case you're wondering, no relation to
c.1300, from L. manticora, from Gk. mantikhoras, corruption of martikhoras, said to be from an O.Pers. word for "man eater," cf. martiya- "man" + root of khvar- "to eat." Fabulous monster with the body of a lion, head of a man, porcupine quills, and tail or sting of a scorpion.
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#147647 - 09/10/05 01:21 PM Re: khora
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Sexual politics is written all over the text. And there is also, and relatedly, a sense that the text is reaching for something which cannot be said, yet which we cannot bring ourselves to pass over in silence - a little like the fourth guest who never appears. The literary figures of speech, the tropes in the text, are especially disconcerting in the passages, halfway through the dialogue, concerning something called khora (spelled: chi, omega, rho, alpha), which means - roughly - space or place. The Greek word has femine gender, and this is played up to the hilt - very off-puttingly, it must be said, for those of us who are tired of sexist stereotypes of Woman. Khora is the womb within which the ideal forms or essences are to be imprinted, when the visible world is created under the guidance of an intelligible plan. Being the receptacle for all essences, khora can have no essence of her own; but for Plato that means that the word "khora" can be given no definition - so no wonder Timaeus finds it difficult to talk about her! As Derrida says of the khora, "the question of essence no longer has any meaning with regard to it. Not having an essence, how could the khora be [se tiendrait-elle] beyond its name?" (Derrida, 1995, p.94) Khora is, as it were, concealed behind a veil of femine mystique. And yet, although she lacks any essence or form, khora is incapable of embodying the ideal forms without distortion - and indeed she is not always completely passive as she receives the forms. Shortcomings in the world which comes into being are to be traced not to flaws in the (masculine) plan, but to deficiencies in the (feminine) khora within which this plan must be executed.
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On Monday, the White House submitted a trio of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) to Congress for approval.
In the works for years, the agreements — with Colombia, Panama and South Korea — have faced a bumpy ride on the way to ratification.
Following the submission, a long list of farm advocates and commodity organizations lined up to support passage of the FTAs. Approval of the Colombia FTA "will enhance U.S. competitiveness and benefit farmers and manufacturers by removing the tariffs which are currently applied to U.S. products," said a statement by the National Cotton Council.
The FTAs "will support tens of thousands of jobs and add billions of dollars in economic activity to our economy," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack during a Tuesday morning press conference.
"When they're approved, these agreements will clear the way for new American exports around the world. (This will) create jobs and provide new income opportunities for (U.S.) agricultural producers, the small businesses that will assist in the export of those agricultural products, and rural communities from whence they come.
"American agriculture will benefit to the extent of $2.3 billion in additional exports. That will support nearly 20,000 jobs" in the United States.
One major sticking point for the deals was the insistence of the Obama administration to tie them to an extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. House Republicans were opposed to extending the TAA, which would assist U.S. workers who lose their jobs in the wake of the trade deals.
Vilsack said the White House had reached "an agreement on the terms of meaningfully strengthening and renewing the (TAA program). The agreement reached preserves the key goals of the 2009 program. That means it will provide covered service for workers whose jobs have shifted to China, India or other countries.
"That's important, but it was also reformed and improved and we believe the changes will save approximately $733 million when compared to a straight extension of the full program."
What assurances does Vilsack have that the House will pass it?
"We have the commitment of (Ohio Rep. John Boehner) the Speaker of the House. The speaker (has) indicated a strong desire to move the trade agreements and TAA. I take him at his word and we all should."
Vilsack expects Congress will now "work swiftly to pass these FTAs. Korea, Colombia Panama have approved, or negotiated, trade agreements with a host of other nations. So, we need these agreements to be completed quickly to level the playing and secure markets for American products."


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Washington Informer Spelling Bee Celebrates 30th Year
Floyd Nelson Jr. | 3/28/2012, 11:02 a.m.
Two students from Oyster-Adams Bilingual School won the top spots in the 30th Annual Washington Informer spelling Bee. Armed with their daunting arsenals of words and spelling skills, they claimed the first and second prizes and a chance to represent the District of Columbia in the National Scripps Spelling Bee in May.
Tuli Bennett-Bose, a seventh grader, and Noa Rosinplotz, a fifth grader, won first and second place, respectively. Tuli, a familiar face because she won second place at The Washington Informer Spelling Bee last year, will go on to compete in the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National, in Oxon Hill, Md., on May 31, 2012.
Despite all of her etymological prowess, Tuli, the veteran spelling bee champion, who said she practiced "over and over again," didn't expect to win.
"I didn't expect to know the last word," Tuli said. "I was really nervous."
Tuli's winning word was "epistolary" and spelling it correctly allowed her to walk away with a cash prize of $1,000 and other prizes. Meanwhile, Noa, a star wordsmith in her own right, nabbed the second-place trophy and a $500 cash prize.
Taped before a live studio audience of family, friends and supporters on March 10, the bee was held at NBC4 studios in Northwest D.C. The Washington Informer Spelling Bee is set to air locally Easter Sunday, April 8, at 2 p.m. News anchors Aaron Gilchrest and Angie Goff co-hosted the event.
One of those spelling bee supporters in attendance was D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson who said she was "beaming" and excited for Tuli, Noa, Oyster Adams, the parents and D.C. Public Schools.
"People underestimate us and I think this goes to show that our students are at least better spellers than anybody else," Henderson said. "Activities like the Spelling Bee help us to reinforce for our young people a set of high expectations. The competition they are going to face out there in the world...we actually show them we support them and they can be excellent and I think these young people did a tremendous job today. We have a stage full of winners. People underestimate D.C. Public School students and don't think we can achieve or perform at these high levels. Showcases like this show the city, the country, the world that DCPS can produce excellent students."
Although The Washington Informer reached a milestone by sponsoring the spelling bee for the last 30 years, it almost never happened.
Before 1981, the now defunct daily tabloid, The Washington Daily News, owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, sponsored the spelling bee annually. The Daily News merged with the Washington Star, but the Star went out of business. This left the spelling bee without its sponsor--a mandated daily newspaper-- for more than 14 years. Meanwhile spellers from around the world continued to come to the District to participate in Scripps' famous annual championship event. All 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Canada participated in the spelling bee. Spellers even came from parts of Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and Africa. But with no daily newspaper sponsor, the District of Columbia was left out in the cold.


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Reuters reported Wednesday, "The Federal Reserve ramped up its stimulus to the economy on Wednesday, expressing disappointment with the pace of recovery in employment as contentious U.S. budget talks heighten uncertainty about the outlook."
The report explained, "The central bank replaced a more modest stimulus program due to expire at year-end with a fresh round of Treasury purchases that will increase its balance sheet. It committed to monthly purchases of $45 billion in Treasuries on top of the $40 billion per month in mortgage-backed bonds it started buying in September."That's a total of $85 billion per month.
There was even a surprise element to Ben Bernanke's iteration of the FOMC policy decisions. The Fed decided to embrace numerical thresholds for policy, a step that had not been expected until early next year. These included targets concerning employment and inflation which the Fed is aiming for.
TheStreet.com's Director of Research Stephanie Link was asked in a recent CNBC interview her views on how the FOMC's policies and Bernanke's press conference might impact upon the financial markets. Link was referred to as "the trader
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To be more specific, the Fed said it will likely keep official rates near zero until the unemployment numbers fall to or below 6.5%. It also earmarked inflation, saying the 0% official rate would continue because we're between one and two years ahead of the time where it projects inflation would not exceed 2.5% and long-term inflation expectations remain contained.
Speaking of the cost of things, import prices recorded the biggest drop in five months in November as food and fuel costs fell, keeping inflation at bay against the backdrop of an economy on the ropes.
The Labor Department said on Wednesday import prices fell 0.9% after three straight months of gains. October's data was revised to show a 0.3% increase rather than the previously reported 0.5% gain.
"Economists polled by Reuters had expected import prices to fall 0.5% last month. In the 12 months to November, import prices fell 1.6%," the news service reported.
"Stripping out fuels and food prices, import prices dipped 0.1% as the cost of capital goods fell by the most since March 2010 and automobile prices were flat, indicating that broader inflation pressures remained benign.