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pilgrim wrote:The insistence that we all adhere to the good book may be applicable if Buddhism is a religion of faith. But it is not. We use the texts not as an item of faith but as a manual for our application.
Ñāṇa wrote:If we approach the Abhidhammapiṭaka as a prescriptive and descriptive aid to help clarify practice and textual interpretation of suttas, and not as a closed system of ultimate truth which marginalizes the suttas as being of lesser importance, then this combination of canonical Vinayapiṭaka, Suttapiṭaka, and Abhidhammapiṭaka offers us a very workable and valuable set of teachings to guide our practice.
Vossaga wrote:For example, if one follows only the suttas, what school or designation is that?
Sylvester wrote:Hmm, why draw the line artificially at the Psm and Abhidhamma?
Sylvester wrote:What about the Classical Mahaviharins who insist that the Vsm and the Commentaries and Tikas should also be included in received Theravada?
Sylvester wrote:What about the other camp who argues that "Theravada" is simply a Vinaya ordination lineage, and not a doctrinal one?
Sylvester wrote:I shudder to think that Ajahn Chah and Ven Nanananda have fallen between the cracks, based on this definition.
Vossaga wrote:Who or what exactly are the 'Elders' in Theravada? Are they the Buddha's arahant disciples, who followed & taught the Dhamma in the suttas? Or are they those who invented Abhidhamma?
Vossaga wrote:For example, if one follows only the suttas, what school or designation is that?
Sylvester wrote:If I grant that both frameworks have legitimacy, I can see no valid reason to artificially draw a line to keep out the text-critical approach which focusses on a limited body of the canon, whether or not the exegetical material are consulted and discussed. I don't think you would disagree on this, I hope.
Ñāṇa wrote:I guess if one only accepts the suttas then they are some sort of modern Pāḷi suttantika.
'suttantika' - one who knew precisely the Dialogues by heart.
Vardali wrote:What purpose is served here?
Dmytro wrote:The historical dogmatics in Brahmavamso's group is handled by Sujato.
Sujato about preferring the Sarvastivada, and Mula-Sarvastivada in particular:
"Sometimes i think it's just that Sarv is a bit stale and
ordinary and Mula-S is a sexier theory! Of course, it is not at all
unlikely that within one school there may be several different
versions of the canon. After all, even within the arch-orthodox
Theravadins the Burmese Tipitaka today differs substantially from
the Sinhalese and Thai. Even within the four Nikayas we witness the
movement of the Maha Satipatthana Sutta from the Digha to the
Majjhima, probably in the fifth (Burmese) council."
"So in such cases, the Chinese translations are just as accurate and authoritative as the Pali, and sometimes may even be more reliable."
http://sites.google.com/site/santipada/ ... allytaught
Sujato on inauthenticity of Pali Satipatthana sutta, in comparison with Chinese versions and Mahayana sutras:
"These philosophical suppositions, inherited from the tradition and largely unexamined, underlie and inform the major schools of contemporary Theravāda meditation. Meditators practice precisely in order to see the elements of 'ultimate reality'. The prime source text for this approach is the 'Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta', which we suggest would be better called the 'Piltdown Sutta'. Is it too much to hope that the revelation that this is one of the latest and least authentic of all the texts in the Nikāyas will cause such meditation schools to question their own assumptions and methods?"
Sujato on Theravadin Abhidhamma:
"I suggest that the abhidhamma is most profitably considered, not as a psychology or as a philosophy, but as a mystical cult."
"It's time"by Sujato:
"It's time. We need a new paradigm. Buddhism is suffering from schizophrenia; there is a split in consciousness between the historical and the mythic conceptions of the origin of the Dhamma. For 2500 years Buddhism has been constantly changing, adapting, evolving; yet the myths of the schools insist that the Dhamma remains the same. All existing schools of Buddhism justify their idiosyncratic doctrines mythologically; this is what all religions do. Thus the Theravada insists that the Abhidhamma was taught by the Buddha in Tavatimsa heaven during his seventh rains retreat. The Mahayana claims that the Mahayana sutras were written down in the time of the Buddha, preserved in the dragon world under the sea, then retreived by Nagarjuna 500 years later. Zen claims authority from an esoteric oral transmission outside the scriptures descended from Maha Kassapa, symbolized by the smile of Maha Kassapa when the Buddha held up a lotus. All of these are myths, and do not deserve serious consideration as explanations of historical truth. Their purpose, as myths, is not to elucidate facts, but to authorize religious convictions."
Still, to perceive, for example, Analayo as a monastic, I need a clarification of his lineage and identity.
My going forth etc. is a little complex. I originally went forth in 1990 in Thailand in a monastery near Huahin (after an inspiring meditation retreat at Wat Suan Mokh, the monastery of Ajahn Buddhadāsa). This was, however, originally only planned to be for the vassa, which I wanted to spend meditating in a cave close by the seaside. I stayed on in robes for two years, in the end, since I found it was the most meaningful thing to do. However, trying to keep the rules strictly combined with my German perfectionism had created some problems in my mind (stiffness, arrogance towards those who are less strict etc.). I anyway had to go back to Germany to settle things, since originally I had not left with the idea of living in Asia, so I went down to anagārika, did what I had to do in Germany, and in 1994 came to Sri Lanka, where in 1995 I took pabbajā again, under Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya.
"My main reference point for the subsequent period was Bhikkhu Bodhi, whom I consider as my teacher, as he guided me in Pāli etc. and we were throughout in regular contact. In order to keep out of dāna obligations and other things, and also out of my earlier experience with the rules of higher ordination, I stayed samaṇera for 12 years. Thus it was only in 2007, after repeatedly being urged to do so by Bhikkhu Bodhi, that I took higher ordination, in the Swejin Nikāya, with Ven. Pemasiri of Sumathipala Aranya as my monastic teacher."
vidar wrote:What do you mean with a clarification o his lineage and identity?. He recieved his Upasampada in the Sri Lankan Shwegyin Nikaya (and the Shwegyin Nikaya is part of the Amarapura Nikaya lineage) with the Venerable Phemasiri Thera as his monastic teacher:
Sylvester wrote:Brahmavamso conflates "Nirodha" as the epithet of Nibbana with Nirodha-samapatti:
I'm not sure if the error was Ajahn Brahm's or yours, since you seem to have mistaken his statements about "nirodha" with Nirodha-samapatti. The contexts of his statements should be amply clear that he was speaking of the gradual cessation of contact with the kama (pl), of sankhapa, of the different types of vedana etc in each stage of progression through the Jhanas.
But in any event, if Nirodha-samapatti is nothing more a synonym for sanna-vedayita-nirodha samapatti, I thought Ven Sariputta praised Nibbana because the cessation of feelings is pleasant?"I have heard that on one occasion Ven. Sariputta was staying near Rajagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels' Feeding Sanctuary. There he said to the monks, "This Unbinding is pleasant, friends. This Unbinding is pleasant."
When this was said, Ven. Udayin said to Ven. Sariputta, "But what is the pleasure here, my friend, where there is nothing felt?"
Furthermore, there is the case where a monk, with the complete transcending of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters & remains in the cessation of perception & feeling. And, having seen [that] with discernment, his mental fermentations are completely ended. So by this line of reasoning it may be known how Unbinding is pleasant."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
The problem with the Mahavihara Buddhists is simply this - the Commentarial insistence on lokiya/lokuttara attainments empowers them to say that Nirodha-samapatti is also subject to the lokiya/lokuttara distinction. According to the Commentaries, lokiya Nirodha-samapatti leads to rebirth as an asanna brahma. This is not in line with the plain sutta presentation about the inevitable result of experiencing Nirodha-samapatti.
As for the attachment to Jhana, I think we've discussed the plain meaning of MN 44, versus the Commentarial exegesis.
However Brahmavamso clearly conflates this epithet of Nibbana with Nirodha-samapatti:
"Navayime, bhikkhave, anupubbanirodhā. Katame nava? Paṭhamaṃ jhānaṃ samāpannassa kāmasaññā niruddhā hoti; dutiyaṃ jhānaṃ samāpannassa vitakkavicārā niruddhā honti; tatiyaṃ jhānaṃ samāpannassa pīti niruddhā hoti; catutthaṃ jhānaṃ samāpannassa assāsapassāsā niruddhā honti; ākāsānañcāyatanaṃ samāpannassa rūpasaññā niruddhā hoti; viññāṇañcāyatanaṃ samāpannassa ākāsānañcāyatanasaññā niruddhā hoti; ākiñcaññāyatanaṃ samāpannassa viññāṇañcāyatanasaññā niruddhā hoti; nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṃ samāpannassa ākiñcaññāyatanasaññā niruddhā hoti; saññāvedayitanirodhaṃ samāpannassa saññā ca vedanā ca niruddhā honti. Ime kho, bhikkhave, nava anupubbanirodhā"ti.
"Well spoken, monk, well spoken! While three feelings have been taught by me, the pleasant, the painful and the neutral, yet I have also said that whatever is felt is within suffering. This, however, was stated by me with reference to the impermanence of (all) conditioned phenomena. I have said it because conditioned phenomena are liable to destruction, to evanescence, to fading away, to cessation and to change. It is with reference to this that I have stated: 'Whatever is felt is within suffering.'
"I have further taught, monk, the gradual cessation of conditioned phenomena (anupubbasaṅkhārānaṃ nirodho). In him who has attained the first meditative absorption, speech has ceased. Having attained the second absorption, thought-conception and discursive thinking has ceased. Having attained the third absorption, joy has ceased. Having attained the fourth absorption, inhalation and exhalation have ceased. Having attained the sphere of the infinity of space, perception of form has ceased. Having attained the sphere of the infinity of consciousness, the perception of the sphere of the infinity of space has ceased. Having attained the sphere of no-thingness, the perception of the sphere of infinity of consciousness has ceased. Having attained the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, the perception of the sphere of no-thingness has ceased. Having attained the cessation of perception and feeling, perception and feeling have ceased. In a taint-free monk greed has ceased, hatred has ceased, delusion has ceased.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .html#fn-3
"Seeing that these five hindrances have been abandoned within him, he becomes glad. Glad, he becomes enraptured. Enraptured, his body grows tranquil. His body tranquil, he is sensitive to pleasure. Feeling pleasure, his mind becomes concentrated.
"Quite withdrawn from sensual pleasures, withdrawn from unskillful mental qualities, the monk enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. His earlier perception of sensuality ceases, and on that occasion there is a perception of a refined truth of rapture & pleasure born of seclusion. On that occasion he is one who is percipient of a refined truth of rapture & pleasure born of seclusion. And thus it is that with training one perception arises and with training another perception ceases. (etc etc for the other attainments, before we reach Nirodha Samapatti
"Now, when the monk is percipient of himself here, then from there to there, step by step, he touches the peak of perception. As he remains at the peak of perception, the thought occurs to him, 'Thinking is bad for me. Not thinking is better for me. If I were to think and will, this perception of mine would cease, and a grosser perception would appear. What if I were neither to think nor to will?' So he neither thinks nor wills, and as he is neither thinking nor willing, that perception ceases and another, grosser perception does not appear. He touches cessation (So nirodhaṃ phusati). This, Potthapada, is how there is the alert step-by step attainment of the ultimate cessation of perception.
Nirodha as an epithet of Nibbana is the cessation of suffering (dukkha-nirodha), the cessation of all defilements (sabba-kilesa-nirodha). This cessation of suffering does not require any shutting off of experience, but can be experienced in an awake and present state.
"I entered & remained in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. But the pleasant feeling that arose in this way did not invade my mind or remain."
"I thought: 'I recall once, when my father the Sakyan was working, and I was sitting in the cool shade of a rose-apple tree, then — quite secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful mental qualities — I entered & remained in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. Could that be the path to Awakening?' Then following on that memory came the realization: 'That is the path to Awakening.' I thought: 'So why am I afraid of that pleasure that has nothing to do with sensuality, nothing to do with unskillful mental qualities?' I thought: 'I am no longer afraid of that pleasure that has nothing to do with sensuality, nothing to do with unskillful mental qualities, but that pleasure is not easy to achieve with a body so extremely emaciated.
Sylvester wrote:Leaves one to wonder why there is this irrational fear that "Cessation of perception and feeling" leads to rebirth as an asaññasatta.
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WASHINGTON: Washington's top tax official has been fired as President Barack Obama seeks to stem a rising tide of criticism over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny.
Seeking to regain the initiative amid a series of controversies that have threatened his second-term agenda, Mr Obama said new leadership was needed to restore public confidence in the IRS, whose reputation for political independence has suffered a major blow.
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Dee Hoty (Violet) has earned three Tony Award nominations for her starring roles in Footloose, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and The Will Rogers Follies. She starred on Broadway and in eight major U.S. cities as Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia! More Broadway: Bye, Bye, Birdie (Roundabout), City of Angels (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Me and My Girl, Big River, The Five O'Clock Girl, and Shakespeare's Cabaret. Other highlights: Tours of Barnum, Doctor Dolittle; Phyllis in Follies at the Papermill (cast recording); Kay Thompson in Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne (Barrymore Award, LA Ovation Award). Otterbein College graduate and honorary doctorate. Proud Equity member. www.DeeHoty.com.
Diana DeGarmo (Doralee Rhodes) "Is happier than a puppy with two tails to be Workin' 9 to 5!" Runner-up third season of American Idol at age 16. No.1 Billboard's Hot 100 Singles. Broadway: Hairspray (Penny Pingleton), HAIR the Musical (Sheila). Tours: Brooklyn: The Musical (Brooklyn). Off-Broadway: The Toxic Avenger Musical (Sarah). Regional: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (OKC), West Side Story (San Jose), Back to Bacharach and David (Music Box, L.A.). Television: CMT's Gone Country, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and others. Country music singer/songwriter: Released acoustic EP Unplugged in Nashville. Debuted at the Grand Ole Opry at age 12. "Many thanks to Headline Talent Agency, Ellis Talent Group, Rogue, Steve & Will, & of course, my family and Momma!"
Mamie Parris (Judy) A native Texan, Parris attended the Paseo Academy of the Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Her Broadway credits include the recent Tony Award-nominated revival of Ragtime, where as an understudy she received the unique privilege of closing the show in the role of Mother. Other Broadway credits include the five-time Tony Award-winner The Drowsy Chaperone and Roundabout Theatre's acclaimed revival of 110 In the Shade. Additional credits: the first national tour of Legally Blonde: The Musical; the acclaimed new musical See Rock City... and other destinations, presented Off-Broadway by the Transport Group; Chicago at the Macau International Music Festival in Macau, China; two national tours with country music icon Kenny Rogers; and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Regional roles: Millie, Rizzo, Audrey, and Grizabella. Workshops: It Shoulda Been You (Anselmi/Hargrove, directed by Casey Nicholaw). Parris currently resides in New York City with her husband, Johnathan, and their nutty dog, Cookie. More on Facebook and at www.mamieparris.com.
Joseph Mahowald (Franklin Hart) is a lyric-baritone who appeared on Broadway in Boublil & Schonberg's The Pirate Queen on Broadway and starred in the title roles of Jekyll and Hyde. He played Javert and Enjolras in Les Misérables, and he originated the role of Aaron James in Mike Reid's opera, Different Fields, commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera Guild. Mahowald also created the roles of Ace Gruver in William Luce's Tony Award-winning Sayonara and Captain Phoebus in Dennis DeYoung's (Styxx) adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Off-Broadway credits: Frank Ford in Lone Star Love, Hendon in the Prince and the Pauper, The Aviator in The Little Prince, and Haemon in Antigone. National tours: Javert in Les Misérables; Lancelot in Camelot with Stacy Keach; featured soloist in A Grand Night for Singing; and Ace Gruver in Sayonara. Recordings: Five CDs including Wonderful Words of Life, his first solo CD; Sondheim Tonight, recorded with the City of London Philharmonic, benefitting the Alan Jay Lerner Fund for research into Cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital; Scattered Thoughts benefitting The Lord's Pantry in New York City; the original cast recordings of Lone Star Love and The Pirate Queen. His voice can also be heard in the Disney film, Mulan. Mahowald has also recorded dozens of "backers tapes" for new musicals and is currently working on a new original project. For television, Mahowald played Jason Gwynn on NBC's Another World, Nails on ABC's Guiding Light, and Standish on ABC's All My Children (recurring). He can also be seen on PBS in The Making of The Pirate Queen and in the series Front Row Center, a musical theatre spotlight. http://www.josephmahowald.com
More about The 5th Avenue Theatre
Now celebrating its 31st anniversary season, The 5th Avenue Theatre is acclaimed as one of America's leading musical theatre companies. Under the leadership of Executive Producer and Artistic Director David Armstrong, Managing Director Bernadine Griffin, and Producing Director Bill Berry, The 5th Avenue has premiered 10 new musicals during the past 10 years, five of which have moved to Broadway, and two of which have earned Tony Awards for Best Musical. Those productions include Hairspray (2003 Tony Award for Best Musical), Memphis (2010 Tony Award for Best Musical), The Wedding Singer, Shrek and Catch Me If You Can. In July 2011, The 5th Avenue Theatre will produce the world premiere of a new stage musical of Disney's Aladdin, and in the fall of 2011, The 5th will produce Saving Aimee, a new musical based on the life of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
In addition to bringing new musicals to the stage, The 5th is also renowned for its exceptional productions of the best of contemporary and classic Broadway musicals. Unique in its Chinese-inspired design, this exquisite theater opened in 1926 as a venue for vaudeville and film. In 1980, the non-profit 5th Avenue Theatre began producing and presenting top-quality live musical theater. Today, The 5th Avenue Theatre attracts an annual attendance of more than 287,000 and ranks among the nation's largest and most respected musical theater companies.
In addition to its main stage productions, The 5th Avenue Theatre is also committed to encouraging the next generation of theatergoers through its extensive educational outreach programs, which include: The Adventure Musical Theatre Touring Company, The 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre Awards, the Student Matinee Program, and Spotlight Nights.
For more information about The 5th Avenue Theatre, its season and its programs, please visit www.5thavenue.org.


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Location: Cotton Structure and Quality ResearchTitle: Reference method for total water in lint cotton by automated oven drying combined with volumetric Karl Fischer titration Author
|Montalvo Jr, Joseph
|Von Hoven, Terri
|Cheuk, Sherwin
Submitted to: Journal of Cotton Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/2/2011
Publication Date: 7/13/2011
Citation: Montalvo Jr, J.G., Von Hoven, T.M., Cheuk, S.Y. 2011. Reference method for total water in lint cotton by automated oven drying combined with volumetric Karl Fischer titration. Journal of Cotton Science. 15:189-205. Interpretive Summary: Water in cotton is important because the fiber properties (mechanical, dimensional and electrical) are dependent on the water content. The standard test methods for water in lint cotton are based on oven drying at 105oC; all of the loss in weight is attributable to moisture. A more accurate reference method was developed based on oven drying in combination with Karl Fischer Titration of the water vapor from the dried cotton. Karl Fischer Titration, used in standard test methods worldwide, involves titrating water with an iodine reagent. Our approach in these studies was to conduct a series of probing experiments to help understand the critical variables in the Karl Fischer method, such as, response to cotton and sample size; oven temperature, drying time and carrier gas to transport moisture vapor into the titration cell; temperature variability in the sample container; selectivity to water; and effect of the non-aqueous volatiles in cotton on results. From the information gathered, all of the variables could be optimized and this resulted in excellent water content values in cottons that were validated by other techniques. For the first time, it is possible to calibrate, package and distribute to collaborators standard reference cottons certified for water content.
Technical Abstract: In a preliminary study to measure total water in lint cotton we demonstrated that volumetric Karl Fischer Titration of moisture transported by a carrier gas from an attached small oven is more accurate than standard oven drying in air. The objective of the present study was to assess the measurement reproducibility of this new reference method as a function of sample type, sample sequence and condition of the working medium in the titration cell. Sensor response was linear and accurate over the range of 5.5 to 8.5 mg water, which corresponds from 5.5 to 8.5 % water in 100 mg cotton (recommended sample size). Optimal conditions were: oven temperature, 150oC; 270 sec of drying, and nitrogen gas. The actual temperature inside the sealed glass sample vial was 15 to 25oC less than the oven temperature. Karl Fischer selectivity to water over interfering substances increased with extent of cleaning: raw, mechanical cleaning, and scoured and bleached. In sequential analysis of cotton using the same working medium in the titration cell, the non-aqueous volatiles caused a negative bias (trend) in measured water contents. This was prevented by alternating six replicates of cotton and one replicate of: a blank vial, a water standard vial or adding fresh working medium to replace spent medium in the titration cell. Method validation involved checking for residual water in cotton by in vitro NIR and comparing results from a second reference procedure developed in this laboratory – Low Temperature Distillation.


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The Easter Bunny will appear once again at the 50th annual Los Altos Village Association Easter Egg Hunt March 23.
A longtime downtown Los Altos tradition is turning the big 5-0 this year.
The Los Altos Village Association (LAVA) has scheduled its 50th annual Easter Egg Hunt 10 a.m. to noon March 23 in downtown Los Altos. According to LAVA Executive Director Nancy Dunaway, the event's founding in the early 1960s led to the formation of the downtown merchants association.
A handful of downtown merchants, including longtime Los Altos children's clothing store proprietor Marion Jackston, organized the first Easter Egg Hunt in response to increased competition from nearby shopping centers.
"It was the very first event that was done by the merchants to bring people downtown," Dunaway said. "The formation of LAVA came from that event."
The Easter Egg Hunt now draws an average of 800 children and their families downtown every year.
Dunaway credited the work of LAVA members and its volunteers for the event's prolonged success. She added that this year's 50th annual event would strike a familiar tone and feel from those in years past, featuring the customary Easter Egg Hunt for children ages 1-10 along Main and State streets. Another more recent custom will return, when Los Altos Police Chief Tuck Younis directs a police cruiser – siren blaring – through downtown to signal the start of the hunt.
Volunteers at the Los Altos Senior Center stuff the 4,000 eggs distributed during the hunt with candy and redeemable gift vouchers donated by downtown merchants.
A family entertainment area at State and Second streets, temporarily blocked to traffic, will feature games, face painting, balloon and craft booths staffed by volunteers from the Los Altos High School Interact Club. The Easter Bunny makes an annual appearance during the events, according to Dunaway.
The event's success can be traced to the community itself as well as volunteers and LAVA members, she said.
"The reason we continue doing these events is because the community embraces them," Dunaway said. "We see people (participating) with children now who used to come to the event themselves as kids. … It speaks to how the community embraces Los Altos. It's a special place to raise a family."
For more information, visit www.downtownlosaltos.org/events/easter.


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The GM Revolution
A young generation of general managers are testing conventional baseball wisdom as they make their marks in front offices around the Majors
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Epstein wore an elegant white shirt, untucked, and had the first stirrings of a goatee on his chin. He looked ready to walk onstage with an electric guitar. Instead, he'd just put a pitcher on the disabled list and signed a hitting instructor. On a similar day the previous summer, he'd traded fan favorite Nomar Garciaparra to the Chicago Cubs. Over the winter, he'd ended the bidding on future Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez, who escaped to the Mets. Then Epstein took a flyer on the portly David Wells.
As the general manager of the Red Sox, Epstein is responsible for the personnel decisions for the team that won the 2004 World Series and led the American League East for nearly all of 2005. He is 31 years old.
Epstein is the extreme example in a new wave of baseball executives: decision-makers with the attributes of investment bankers or lawyers. Instead of thousands of innings accumulated watching ballplayers at every level, this new breed has high SAT scores and degrees from prestigious universities. They are blessed with nimble minds and knowledge of other disciplines, and are challenging the conventional wisdom of how to effectively build and run a baseball team. And because almost nobody like this existed in baseball until quite recently, they are younger than nearly all of the executives they're supervising—and many of the players, too.
The day he was named to his position in late 2002, Epstein became the youngest general manager in baseball history at 28. He was also one of the least qualified—or one of the most qualified, depending on the criteria. He had an American Studies degree from Yale and experience as a sports editor of the Yale Daily News. He had law school in the on-deck circle. But he hadn't played baseball past high school.
A Renaissance type, Epstein could have been working on Wall Street or writing a novel. Instead, he'd chosen baseball. He seemed so young, so callow, that it was no surprise to learn that he'd been driving a car for only five years. Jay Leno joked that the new GM had been held over a balcony by Michael Jackson.
The summer after Epstein's youthful ascendance, Michael Lewis's Moneyball was published. The book detailed the unorthodox (for baseball, at least) thinking of Oakland general manager Billy Beane, a former Major Leaguer who had come to trust statistical analysis more than empirical observation, then constructed teams that overperformed considering their limited payrolls. Together, Epstein and Moneyball caused a crisis of confidence among career baseball men—"a bunch of old guys sitting around in windbreakers," as former Baltimore Orioles owner Edward Bennett Williams once called them—who did things a certain way because that was how they had always been done.
The baseball lifers were scared. For decades, they'd been operating under the rarely questioned belief that nobody could truly understand their game without playing it at the highest level. What really mattered in baseball, they believed, was unquantifiable. The only way to evaluate a player was to watch him play and match what you saw against your mental snapshots of decades' worth of similar players.
This seems strange, if you think about it. Of all the sports, baseball requires the longest time for the talents of standouts and scrubs to separate themselves. Any untrained observer could see within five minutes that Michael Jordan at the height of his career was the best player on a basketball court. Neither a varsity football letter nor a Yale degree was necessary to ascertain that Jim Brown ran the football better than other mortals; a single handoff sufficed. But in baseball, even a three-game series might not be long enough to glimpse the historic talent of, say, Barry Bonds. He could go 2-for-10 with three strikeouts even as some marginal Major Leaguer happened to bang out seven hits and make a game-saving grab. It would all mean nothing. As anyone who follows the game even superficially understands, it's the accumulation that counts.
But if you make your living evaluating talent, your mandate has always been to know something the statistics skimmers at home don't know—can't know. So you flew to Augusta or Amarillo and noted how the player carried himself, how confident he seemed at the plate, how he took his cuts. You assumed—you knew—that such attributes could predict his success better than statistics. Nobody could just come off some college campus with an American Studies degree and see that special something. If someone really wanted to be able to see it, he'd be better off not going to college at all.
For decades, such an empirical approach served to limit the pool of men who made the personnel decisions for big-league teams. Outsiders, no matter how intelligent, didn't bother to apply. Judging baseball talent was positioned as a special skill, unique to the profession. A pianist might have the hands to play Chopin, but did that mean he could build a house? But now here came Beane's computerized evaluations, and the high-SAT backgrounds of Epstein, the Los Angeles Dodgers' Paul DePodesta and the Cleveland Indians' Mark Shapiro: brainy, young executives who had been promoted all the way to GM having barely worn a batting helmet. If some Harvard graduate could run a baseball team just as easily as he could run a hedge fund, the lifers were out of luck.
You couldn't have a baseball conversation for much of 2003 and 2004 without someone pushing you to take sides. "Moneyball became a buzzword," says Toronto Blue Jays general manager J. P. Ricciardi, who has a standard-issue baseball background—6 years on the field as a minor-league player and coach followed by 16 years scouting or supervising scouts—but helped undermine the established order while working for Beane in Oakland. "And Theo was Moneyball with money. People attack countries with the budget he has."
Then Epstein's Red Sox won the World Series. All of a sudden, this wasn't a theoretical discussion involving a book someone had written, and kids who didn't know a fastball from a fungo. Now this was about winning at the highest level. And if there's any tradition in baseball as strong as maintaining the established order, it is the slavish copying of success. Soon, nearly every Major League team was out trolling for an Epstein of its own, even as the original advised against imbuing his success with undue meaning.
"I'd be careful separating into groups and slapping labels, because it isn't 'us against them,'" Epstein says now, but it's far too late. The door has swung open wide and the college kids with the shiny resumés are streaming through. For better or worse, baseball may never be the same.
The first thing that must be understood is that Theo Epstein isn't Billy Beane. Beane was a Major Leaguer, albeit a not particularly successful one. When he walks into the Oakland clubhouse, author Lewis notes, he earns respect as the best athlete in the room. Beane moved directly from a stellar high school career to the minors. His path to the front office was traditional, though he has used very untraditional means of evaluating talent since arriving there.
Unlike Beane, Epstein can be best understood as the personification of a gradual move by the baseball industry toward the business practices of other industries. "Baseball people look at the bottom line differently," says Paul Godfrey, a former head of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto and publisher of the Toronto Sun who now serves as the chief executive officer of the Toronto Blue Jays. "'Best practices' was never part of the nomenclature."
When Godfrey arrived in baseball in 2000, he found an industry different from any he'd known. "Baseball is so traditional," he says. "After every out, if there's nobody on base, they've got to throw the ball around. Everybody's got to touch it, like it's some mystical thing, though there's absolutely no reason why they should. In the same way, I don't think that even today half the organizations in baseball are run the way someone would run their private business, which is what earned them the money to buy a team in the first place. Baseball teams are looked at with a different set of principles. To me, that's a ridiculous situation."
Godfrey should have seen baseball in the 1960s and 1970s. It was run more on the level of a YMCA than a major industry. At the time, player salaries were in line with those of middle-management executives. Ticket prices were affordable for any kid with an allowance. Marketing meant throwing the doors open and announcing that the season had started, perhaps giving away free bats to turn a Saturday afternoon into an event. Sponsors were limited to exposure on radio broadcasts. "It was a game that was a little business," says John Schuerholz, the general manager of the Atlanta Braves. "Now it's a big business that's also a game. And the realization has occurred around the industry that perhaps we need some different types of people running it."
Schuerholz was the first of them. In 1966, he was working as an English and geography teacher in Baltimore County when he wrote to Jerrold Hoffberger, who ran the Orioles. Schuerholz had played baseball at Towson State, and had known and loved the game as a fan and participant. His letter expressed hope that his perspective might possibly be helpful. Astonishingly enough, the Orioles agreed. They offered an entry-level job, and Schuerholz accepted. It wasn't as if he was getting rich teaching world capitals to eighth graders.
Years later, Schuerholz would be named general manager of the Kansas City Royals at age 41, which made him younger than every other Major League general manager, and one of the very few who hadn't played the game professionally or grown up in a baseball management dynasty. He'd win a World Series in Kansas City in 1985, then move to Atlanta and begin an unprecedented run of 14 consecutive division championships, including 2005. When you consider the rapid player turnover of the free-agent era, Schuerholz can be considered the most successful baseball GM in history.
At the start, though, he was simply an anomaly. For a time, he worked in the Orioles scouting department under Charlie Metro, an archetypal baseball man, who had set notions and his blue windbreaker and wondered what this erstwhile schoolteacher could possibly understand. Once, Schuerholz sent out minor-league requisition forms. Metro questioned the act. "What uniform did you ever wear?" he asked Schuerholz. "I was unaware that putting on a baseball uniform made you smarter," Schuerholz responded. So Metro fired him.
In 1981, the same year that Schuerholz was named the Royals' general manager, Sandy Alderson left a law practice to become team counsel of the Oakland A's. Alderson was a Dartmouth graduate with a Harvard Law degree who'd served in the Marines for four years, including a tour in Vietnam. "I went to the A's with the notion that I could always come back," says Alderson, who is now a CEO with the San Diego Padres.
Two years later, he was the A's general manager, working for a friend, owner and fellow attorney Roy Eisenhart, with baseball veterans Bill Rigney and Karl Kuehl at his side. "I really wasn't doing any player evaluation at the time, nor did I have any handle on how to do it," says Alderson. He kept his mouth shut, dressed down so as not to look like a lawyer, and fantasized that he might be the first of a new breed. "I thought maybe there could be a new prototype, people with law backgrounds who could be more proficient in business issues. That turned out not to be the case."
Alderson was proficient enough. From 1988 to 1990, his A's won three American League pennants. Beyond that, he brought a real-world perspective to the sometimes fantastical doings of the industry.
Others saw the value in this. When Edward Bennett Williams was running the National Football League's Washington Redskins for Jack Kent Cooke in the early 1970s, he'd brought in Larry Lucchino, an attorney specializing in sports law, to help. When Williams cashed out of the Redskins to buy the Baltimore Orioles in 1979, Lucchino, a graduate of Princeton and Yale Law School, moved with him. "Williams told me he'd rather reach into the pool of people who'd been selected by his law firm than use traditional baseball people," Lucchino says. "It was a different breed of cat, a better skill set."
By 1988, Lucchino was the Orioles' president, with equity in the team and a general manager below him. He'd hold the same position with the Padres—where he'd try to hire Beane to be his baseball man—and then with the Red Sox. He hasn't played baseball since helping Taylor Allderdice win Pittsburgh's high school championship, but that's fine. In Lucchino's case—and nearly every case—the line of demarcation remained firm into the 1990s. There were lawyers and businessmen to do the law and business, and baseball people to do the baseball.
If a Theo Epstein had come along then, carrying the same Yale degree and obvious intelligence, the existing schemata of Major League Baseball would have offered little hope. "He would have seen that the environment in the industry did not exist for an opportunity to succeed," says Schuerholz. "And he would have been smart enough to have gone to work in another industry."
But baseball was changing. For one thing, the men sitting across the table from Lucchino, Schuerholz and Alderson during contract negotiations were now the furthest thing from baseball men. In the 1980s, a new breed of professional agent had emerged. "Very few had the slightest bit of baseball experience, yet they were certainly evaluating talent," Lucchino says. "So it was getting more difficult to criticize the guy sitting on the other side of the table for having no baseball experience."
And the business of baseball was evolving. "As the franchise values went up, the stakes got higher," says Mark Shapiro, the Indians' general manager. "Some owners recognized that they should have people running this business that held themselves to the same standard as the people running their other businesses."
As a job applicant, Shapiro's only connection to baseball was tenuous, and as much negative as positive: his father, Ron, was one of those agents who'd helped blow player salaries sky-high. Shapiro had attended Princeton and played football as an undersized lineman. In 1992, he left a budding career as a property developer to work in the front office of the Indians, the worst team in baseball.
He was hired by John Hart and Dan O'Dowd, traditional baseball men who had the groundbreaking notion that it was harder to teach a baseball lifer the requisite economic understanding than to hire somebody young and certifiably smart, show him the business, and surround him with baseball minds. "They believed in me and gave me responsibility almost right away," Shapiro says. And why not? They couldn't do worse than they'd been doing.
The Indians implemented a strategy of tying up young players to long-term contracts, then praying that they'd picked the right ones. Shapiro wasn't the architect; necessity was, as interpreted by Hart. But Shapiro had played a major role in the decision-making process and, as farm director, in evaluating baseball talent. When the Indians won the American League pennant in 1995, he began to get noticed.
Then Hart left for Texas and O'Dowd for Colorado, and Shapiro was elevated to the general manager job in 2002. By then, he was 33. He'd earned the reputation as not simply smart, but a smart baseball man. Part of that came from knowing when to challenge established notions, and when to defer to them. "There's still plenty of resistance to someone like me in this industry," he says. "In order to manage people effectively, you'd better be aware of it. You have to have respect for tradition—and the traditional baseball people—or you aren't going to get far."
He'd already started to seek out future executives in the same mold, the next generation of Mark Shapiros. In most cases, they had no connection to the game at all. But Shapiro believed that didn't matter. "Why limit yourself?" he says. "Get the best candidates out there. Sometimes the best guy is going to be a Billy Beane, but sometimes it's a Georgetown grad."
Those young protégés of Shapiro began, ever so slowly, to populate the industry. For a college senior typing up his resumé, it offered a glimpse of the possible. Paul DePodesta was one of them. Arriving at Harvard in the fall of 1991, he'd had his future planned. Asked for some sense of what he might like to major in, he handed his freshman adviser his schedule for the next four years. "Time slots, all the classes I was going to take, everything," he says. "And the guy stared at it, flipped it over to the back, then looked at me and said, 'Where's law school?'"
Such certainty melted away as college progressed. Senior year, DePodesta interviewed with banks and consulting firms, but found himself wondering about his passion for such professions. Looking for something different, he decided to send letters to sports teams, only to wind up with a pile of rejections on nice stationery. Finally he landed an unpaid internship with a Canadian Football League team, the Baltimore Stallions. In the Stallions office, he happened across Alderson's bio in an A's media guide. "I'm looking at it, and I see, 'Dartmouth, Harvard Law, and now he's GM of the A's,'" DePodesta says. "He didn't play the game, he had a similar background to me. That was the first time it hit me, that I could actually give this a try."
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In the 90s I used a Tascam M1600 mixer. As studio life went ITB (in the box) most of the large mixer sat unused. After I while I got sick of cleaning the dust off it and switched to a Presonus Central Station to handle my monitor controlling. It's passive which means my audio doesn't take a trip through DSP chips. The "passive" bit was the selling point for me and why I recommend it over a Mackie Big Knob. It's nice but the Avocet from Crane Song is the Lamborghini of monitor controllers.
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Average SpeedMath brain teasers require computations to solve.
A car travels at a speed of 30 mph over a certain distance, and then returns over the same distance at a speed of 20 mph. What is the average speed for the total trip?
Answer24 mph. Most people are quick to answer 25 mph, but this is not correct, as we will see. Let the distance traveled be 60 miles each way. Then, the trip out = 60/30 = 2 hours, and the trip back = 60/20 = 3 hours. Therefore: the 120 mile trip = 120/5 = 24 mph.
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OROVILLE — As Veterans Day approaches, there is one place people might want to consider visiting that offers a glimpse into history through artifacts of wartime.
That place is the Military Museum of Butte County, a little-known stop in Oroville that houses artifacts of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War.
Located inside Surplus City, the museum has dozens of items, including a 1917 Swiss Army ammunition wagon, a 1942 M-16 Half Track, a troop carrier tank and various posters.
A tank and a Nike missile outside are also part of the museum. Of course, the missile's electronics are gone, said owner Steve Seidenglanz in a phone interview Wednesday. Seidenglanz began collecting military memorabilia 51 years ago.
"Being in the surplus business, I started running across things the government was destroying because they were weapons of war," he said.
He first established the museum in 1970 in Los Angeles. It was certified by the state in the late 1970s.
Seidenglanz isn't a veteran, but he is fond of the war memorabilia.
"It's unique," he said. "The government has done a good job of not letting that equipment out. Owning a Nike missile is quite unique."
Everything in the facility has been inspected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and has been "demilitarized" for safety purposes.
One artifact that hangs in the museum is a banner from Feather River Barracks No. 441 for the World War I veterans of Oroville. It was donated by a collector 10 years ago, Seidenglanz said.
"When a unique piece comes down, if you don't act, it's destroyed," he said. "Instead of that, I'm able to buy it and show it to the public."
Seidenglanz finds the museum especially important when schools take children for tours.
When the children are there, he likes to talk to them about the different methods of communication used during wartime, such as sending messages via carrier pigeons.
"Little children in school can't comprehend it — they're used to cellphones," he said. "When you talk about writing a note and putting it on a pigeon's leg to send it to troops, they don't understand."
The military museum doesn't only hold artifacts from the United States. Seidenglanz went to Europe to buy several pieces.
The Military Museum is a nonprofit organization. Seidenglanz said he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the memorabilia, but he doesn't charge to visit.
"It's strictly our gift to the community," he said.
Surplus City marketer Fred Borowski said people who come in are often surprised and fascinated by the museum.
"This is probably the best kept secret in Butte County," he said.
Borowski is a Navy veteran. His favorite pieces are the posters. Wartime posters are known to have been used as propaganda, but Borowski said they were also used to provide information to soldiers.
Seidenglanz has a couple of favorites, but added, "Every piece is kind of special because it's so hard to find."
Although the museum is composed mostly of artifacts he has bought, there are donated pieces also. Borowski said some of those belonged to the donors' grandfather or great-grandfather.
Seidenglanz welcomes memorabilia donations, and noted that sometimes people want their relative's name on a piece.
"If people have something they want kept safely in perpetuity, we'll oblige them," he said.
The Military Museum is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. It's located at 4514 Pacific Heights Road, off of Highway 70, just south of Oroville.
For information, call 534-9956.
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I have a large collection of mini tricks I use when producing music. When looking for a way to create some variation in arrangements most of the time I consider things like changing notes, drum patterns or adding effects in and out at certain parts. I also like to play with the speed of a individual clips. This technique can add tension to a chorus or showcase a serious lyric.
Ableton Live has a nice feature that allows you to half or double a Clips tempo. As with most things in Live this is really easy to do. This will work on either Midi or audio Clips. You have to have Warp on for the feature to work on an audio Clip. First, double click on a Clip to open it in the Clip View which runs along the bottom area of Ableton Live. Next, find the :2 and *2 buttons. These are found under the Clip's tempo number. To make a clip play at half speed click :2 and for double speed hit *2. Of course you can keep clicking either button to take things into extremes. Lastly, you will want to adjust the Clip's loop markers to only encompass the new note length.
While this is a ridiculously obvious feature of Live, I do think it worth a blog post to get it into one's radar. We all get used to working in a certain way and our eyes pass over the unfamiliar. I use this technique in a song off my album Attack Decay called You Are Disturbing. Listen to the following audio sample. There is a clear repeating main melody. After I say "Tell me the things you like to do sexually." which is 50 seconds in on the audio clip, the same exact melody plays back at 2x the tempo. I used a different synth, a TC Powercore01 for the double speed clip. I think it makes a nice statement:
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I think Wednesday afternoon is a good time to move forward from the previous week's game. I usually do this anyway whether the Colts have lost or won the previous weekend. I see no need to stop now.
With that in mind I thought that now would be a good time to ponder over some of the highlights for this season filled with highlights. There are so many records, individual and team, that the Colts have accomplished that it just feels wrong to overlook them. So I think for the rest of this week I'm only going to focus on the incredibleness of this season.
1. Winning the AFC South Division
This was obviously a goal the moment the season ended after the Wildcard game last year against the Chargers. It's one of the worse rules in the NFL that just because you win your division, you automatically get to host your first game. The fact that a 12-4 team had to go to play on the road because the Chargers, a team with a measley 8-8 record, were a division winner and they weren't was pure nonsense. The importance of winning the division was no doube drilled down into their subconscious.
Mission accomplished in 2009, as they won their 6th AFC South Division title. They ran away with the division, making a clean sweep of the competition for the first time in the franchise's AFC South history. They've won the title 6 out of the 8 years that the division has been in existence.
2. Securing Homefield Advantage Throughout the Playoffs
This is a big deal and something that isn't as easy to do as one would think. Once again, the boys in Blue earned the right to play every playoff game at home and they cliched this honor extremely early - with three games left on the regular season. Record-wise, they're the best team in the AFC.
Interesting factoid - The Colts have been terrific this decade during the regular season, right? Yet, they've only accomplished this feat once coming into this season.
3. Winning More Games in a Decade than Any Other Team in History
This one was a very interesting record to me. When I think of best team of any decade I immediately think of the 80s and the San Francisco 49ers. They won 114 games. The Colts, in the first decade of the new millenium have won 115 games. It's an amazing feat.
Having 115 wins in this era of Free Agency and with the talent pool being spread out with 4 additional teams is an incredible amount of wins. I don't care what anyone says otherwise. I know what the arguments would be but the facts show that, during the regular season, no team at any point in the NFL's 75 plus history has won more games in a decade than the 2000-2009 Colts.
4. Playing Great Despite Injuries
They have had as many as 12 starters injured and out of the lineup and yet the Colts are 14-1. Bob Sanders, Marlin Jackson, and Tyjuan Hagler are on the Injured Reserved list yet our defense is probably the best it has ever been this decade.
Anthony Gonzalez has essentially missed the entire season, Marvin Harrison parts ways with the Colts, and yet the offense and Peyton Manning are having their most efficient season ever. These are the signs of a very special team still on the verge of greatness and we should be proud that we're Colts fans.
There's plenty to celebrate other than week 15 and I think there will be plenty more weeks to celebrate once the playoffs begin. That's where my focus is the rest of the way and I'm sure that's what Peyton and Colts are focused on as well.


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This past Cinco de Mayo Weekend was Riverside's annual car show & cruise. Since 1999, the Riverside East Rotary Club partnered with the Old Farts Racing Team, in Southern CA., to provide classic automobile enthusiasts with a venue to showcase their restored cars, trucks, motorcycles and Lowriders. Delivering 15 shows since it's inception, all efforts have been in the name of charity to serve the Community of Riverside.
The cruise started at 6:00pm and went on until 10:00pm where people where allowed to cruise their custom rides and show off what their rides had. The pipes and engines where loud and the airbags and hydraulics where used through out the show giving the spectators a chance to see what the participants cars where all about.


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Heavy LiftingMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
It was officer Smith's first day on the job. All the detectives were buzzing about a recent robbery from Fort Knox. One hundred pounds of gold had been stolen right from under the guards' noses. It was obviously an inside job, and the list of suspects was rather short. Jim Python was at the top of the list, but they had checked his house and found nothing.
Hank Pank, the Captain, ran into the room. "I've just received an e-mail from our robber." Everyone ran into the conference room to see it. "I can't believe how smug this robber is, rubbing it in our faces!" thought Smith. The e-mail said:
"Greetings, you capitalist swine! I trust you have realized your ridiculous inability to catch a master thief. I have hidden the gold a short flight away which was difficult due to its weight. You will never catch me!!"
The officers, keeping Jim's house under surveillance, suddenly radioed in. "The suspect has left his home in a hurry and appears to be moving towards the airport". Every officer in the room ran to their cars except Smith.
Two hours later, Captain Pank returned disheartened. "We got Jim, but without the gold we don't have much of a case". Smith replied "I have the gold, it was easy to find once I deciphered the e-mail".
What had Smith figured out?
HintJim was an avid word puzzle solver and enjoyed playing with words that had double meanings.
AnswerThe gold was hidden at his house. It was upstairs (a short flight) in the workout room where Jim had configured it to look like regular weights.
With the gold found, Jim confessed, and Smith was quickly promoted.
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Since the end of the third quarter, Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group has gone from owning about 40,000 shares of the oil and gas producer Penn Virginia (PVA), according to its most recent 13F filing, to 2.6 million shares, per a recent 13G filing. Penn Virginia is a $210 million market-cap company, but over the last three months, an average of 1.4 million shares have been traded daily, and the current market price is about $4.60. As a result, we believe there is plenty of dollar volume in the stock. Penn Virginia operates in the onshore U.S.
The company's natural-gas production was down 46% in the third quarter of 2012 from the same period in 2011, while production of liquids (oil and natural gas liquids) was up. As a result, the company managed to shift its product mix from being two-thirds natural gas in the third quarter of 2011 (going by MMcf as a share of MMcfe) to about half natural gas last quarter, with the rest of output being oil and natural-gas liquids. As a result, while production fell 24% in terms of MMcfe, revenue was down only 8% from a year earlier.
While this isn't positive, if we strip out the impact of a loss item, operating losses have declined slightly, despite lower revenue. Operating losses, even including that item, decreased 44% in the first nine months of 2012 compared with the same period in the previous year, despite a large drop in the prices of natural gas and natural-gas liquids (though higher oil prices have certainly helped the company).
This suggests that Penn Virginia has some upside if natural gas prices start to rise -- that market is more or less a race between very high supply and growing demand. Total U.S. net electricity generation decreased 1.3% in the first 10 months of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011, but generation from natural gas was up 25% as power producers have shifted somewhat from coal. In addition, there is increasing interest in exporting natural gas, a trend which would tend to lead domestic producers' realized prices higher.
Wall Street analysts don't expect that Penn Virginia will be profitable in 2013 either, and we'd say that even if there is a strong recovery in natural-gas prices, the business' performance wouldn't carry it into value territory there.
However, the company is a bit more interesting if we consider cash flow: Cash flow from operations was $190 million in the first nine months of 2012, and while the debt load is high, the enterprise-value-to-EBITDA multiple is only 4.4x. That actually compares favorably with two larger natural gas companies: Chesapeake Energy's (CHK) enterprise value is 7x trailing EBITDA, and SandRidge Energy's (SD) is even higher. However, the EBITDA multiple is competitive with energy producers such as Apache (APA) and Devon Energy (DVN), which are more oil-focused, and these companies are also much larger in terms of market cap. As we've seen, oil is currently responsible for a sizable share of Penn Virginia's production.
Chesapeake and SandRidge are also currently struggling with profitability, as the decline in natural gas prices has hit them hard. Chesapeake in particular had followed a strategy of production increases, and it has had to sell off some assets in order to meet its cash-flow requirements this year. Analyst consensus is for Chesapeake to at least prosper next year, with a forward P/E of 13.
We'd certainly be careful of any company that is currently unprofitable, but Penn Virginia might be an alternative to play an increase in natural gas prices if Chesapeake and SandRidge look too troubled. The stock would also likely have less of a downside, given its shift in production mix toward oil, if prices remain low.


text: Well, it's true. The rumored 25% price increase for Fuji film is happening. I was the Yodobashi Camera film shop in Shinjuku yesterday and they already had the more expensive film with the redesigned box on the shelves for several types of film and were selling off their remaining old stock at the lower prices. I picked up a 5-pack of Velvia 50. It was priced at something like 2800 yen and the newer Velvia 50 was 3200 or 3400... Of course there is nothing actually new about it other than the price and the design of the packaging. So sad! I'm glad I stocked up on HP5+ and Arista when I was back in the U.S., but I still prefer Fuji reversal for landscape work so I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet. Apparently Fuji's price increases in the U.S. will be about 20% and won't take effect until July of this year.


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Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking an organisation to set up and operate artists' studios at the former Spode Works, Stoke town. The Council has identified suitable space within the complex for the studios and it proposes to lease this space to a suitable organisation for a period of ...[Read More]
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NFASP organises national and regional events for studio groups, organisations and artists, and those with an interest in developing artists' studios. NFASP also holds its annual AGM. In 2012, NFASP has been developing regional networks with initial networking meetings in five regions.
Attendees representing or interested in artists' studios from 11 groups/organisations met for the first time at Seco, Royal William Yard on June 19. These are the notes from that meeting.
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Get Your Cheap Cheesecake!
To commemorate their 30th anniversary, the Cheesecake Factory will be lowering the price of cheesecake. When the first Factory opened in Beverly Hills in 1978, a piece of cheesecake was only $1.50. Tomorrow, (which also happens to be National Cheesecake Day) the restaurant chain will offer cheesecake at its original ($1.50) price!
In addition to serving the cheap cheesecake, the Cheesecake Factory is introducing a special, limited-edition flavor, the 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake. A portion of the sales of each anniversary slice will be donated to America's Second Harvest.
If you can't make it to a Cheesecake Factory tomorrow, no worries, the "sweet initiative" celebration — additional promotions have yet to be announced — will continue throughout the year.


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Topic: Suggestions needed for Oncologist in New Delhi/Gurgaon region, India
Hello, I need recommendations for an Oncologist and Liver surgeon working on CGC cases in New Delhi/Gurgaon region India if possible.
Any other suggestions for Oncologists in India working on CGC cases is welcome as well.
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Thanks for the inspiration Lainy. I am still scared with the bilirubin being so high. Also, I think I look a little more yellow today than yesterday but I'm not calling the doctor because I don't want to be in the hospital on Mother's Day. I'm hoping to feel well enough tomorrow to go out with me daughter. I can't wait for Monday to come and get that last treatment in. I'm so afraid they're going to tell me they can't do it if the bilirubin is higher on Monday. I'm trying to stay positive!!!
Happy Mother's Day to you Lainy and thanks for all the words of encouragement.


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As Marlins seek middle relief, Hand sent to DL
MIAMI -- At a time the Marlins are looking for middle relievers to step up, one candidate is being shut down for at least a few weeks.
Brad Hand on Saturday afternoon was placed on the 15-day disabled list, and lefty reliever Dan Jennings was recalled from Triple-A New Orleans to round out the roster.
"Brad has a right ankle sprain," manager Mike Redmond said. "I guess he tweaked it on a pitch."
Hand's injury came at a time in which the 24-year-old had been struggling.
In 16 appearances, the lefty was 0-1 with a 6.38 ERA (17 earned runs in 24 innings). He has a live arm and boasts a mid-90s fastball. In 24 innings, he has 20 strikeouts and 16 walks.
In his past 10 2/3 innings, he has given up nine earned runs in 10 2/3 innings.
Hand, who is out of options, gave up two runs in two innings, including a home run to Khris Davis, on Friday in Miami's 9-5 loss to the Brewers.
"I feel like a broken record sometimes talking about our pitching and guys pounding the strike zone," Redmond said. "There really is some opportunity for some guys to solidify roles. We all talk about roles. Everybody wants a role. There are opportunities out there for guys to solidify their spots in that bullpen to get consistent reps."
Jennings falls into that category. He has also had his ups and downs at the big league and Triple-A levels.
With the Marlins, Jennings is 0-1 with a 1.59 ERA in 11 1/3 innings, including 14 hits allowed. Opponents are batting .304 against him, and he has struck out nine and walked four.
At Triple-A New Orleans, Jennings posted a 4.50 ERA in five outings. Jennings, who made the Opening Day roster, also has six strikeouts and six walks in six innings in Triple-A.
Miami's bullpen ERA entering Saturday was 3.96, which ranked 20th in the Majors.
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter


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