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While this isn't the first time we've seen modern tech go retro, the makers of pro audio microphones Blue have recently announced an update to their previous Snowflake Microphone released back in June 2008.
Forgoing its old cutesy name, the Blue Microphones Eyeball features a superior condenser capsule for high quality sound, HD video recording, and a retractable lens, it's perfect for anyone looking to add a little class to their daily video conferencing routine...
As far as audio quality goes, many review sites such as Cnet have all agreed the sound quality of the Blue Eyeball sounds great, just like its little cousin, the Snowflake.
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Hewlett-Packard plans to increase its focus on software, new chief executive Leo Apotheker said Monday, as the US computer giant posted fourth quarter results that topped Wall Street's expectations.
HP said net profit rose five percent in the fourth quarter of its financial year to 2.5 billion dollars while revenue was up eight percent to 33.3 billion dollars, better than the 32.75 billion dollars expected by analysts.
The Palo Alto, California-based HP, the world's largest computer maker, reported diluted earnings per share of 1.10 dollars in the quarter compared to 99 cents during the same period a year ago.
"HP proved once again that it is able to execute given its market strengths and technology leadership," said Apotheker, who took over as HP's president and chief executive on November 1 after former CEO Mark Hurd's abrupt resignation.
HP said revenue increased 10 percent in the Americas to 15.1 billion dollars and was up six percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to 12.4 billion dollars. Revenue rose eight percent in Asia-Pacific to 5.8 billion dollars.
HP said it expected revenue of 32.8 billion dollars to 33.0 billion dollars in the current quarter.
HP shares were up 3.05 percent at 44.50 dollars in after-hours trading.
Revenue from HP's services business rose 0.4 percent in the quarter to 9.0 billion dollars while revenue from its storage and servers business for the enterprise market was up 25 percent to 5.3 billion dollars.
Software revenue increased one percent to 974 million dollars.
Apotheker, the former chief executive of German business software giant SAP, said in a conference call with reporters that he planned to increase emphasis on software.
"We all feel we need to have a strong and viable software business," he said. "It is true that today software represents roughly three percent of our revenue but I think we can do a lot better.
"Doubling it wouldn't be too bad, tripling it would be even better but that would be a very, very, very longterm projection," he said.
"With software we can add a lot of value in our strengths to whatever we do for our customers. That doesn't mean we would be in any type of software business," he said. "We have focus in our software strategy."
HP said revenue rose four percent to 10.3 billion dollars at its Personal Systems Group, which makes desktop, notebook and other computers. Notebook revenue was down three percent while desktop revenue increased 13 percent.
HP said commercial client revenue rose 20 percent while consumer client revenue was down 10 percent.
Revenue was up eight percent to 7.0 billion dollars at HP's imaging and printing group.
In the conference call with reporters, Apotheker referred only briefly to the case filed against SAP by rival Oracle in a California court.
"Given the strength and momentum of our business and our strong competitive position in the industry a competitor has tried to distract us -- and you -- from the good work being done across HP's business," he said.
Oracle had been seeking to have Apotheker testify in the case, in which Oracle has accused an SAP subsidiary of stealing Oracle software, but was reportedly unable to serve him with a subpoena.
Apotheker said he had been travelling constantly since taking up his new position at HP, meeting with company employees and partners.
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Asked by a reporter where he was right now, Apotheker replied: "That's a bit of an odd question. I'm on a media call focused on our fourth quarter in Palo Alto at HP's headquarters together with a bunch of people.
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(Taped Thursday, August 3, 2006)
MR. SCULLY: Senator Joe Biden; middle name is Robinette. Where does that come from?
SEN. BIDEN: It's my grandmother Biden's maiden name. It's French. And it goes back a long, long way. Allegedly the Robinettes came over with Lafayette and never went home. I don't know that. We can't guarantee that. But it goes back a long way in Maryland and West Virginia. My dad was born in Baltimore, Maryland and worked his way to Scranton, from Wilmington to Scranton with his dad, who was working for the American Oil Company.
MR. SCURRY: Where does the Biden name come from in Ireland?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, it doesn't. The Biden name was actually English. We did -- since I was thinking of running for president, I actually went back and said, "I'd better figure out, you know, some of this stuff," and went back. And the Bidens have been here since 1825, and two brothers came from England.
My mother's side is all Irish and part of my dad's side is the Hanafees (sp); there's some Irish there as well -- Irish, French, but English; English, Irish and French, my dad. But it's an English name. And they immigrated here in the early 1800s. And my mother's family all immigrated from Ireland in the mid 1800s to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
MR. SCULLY: How much time did you spend in Scranton before moving to Delaware?
SEN. BIDEN: I spent -- I moved when I was in third grade, but I spent every summer up there, every holiday. My grandfather Finnegan was still alive. We had family up there. When I got married, my first wife, who is deceased -- when I got married in 1967, it was funny; I looked at the -- it was a big wedding and we had five, six ushers, and two of them were from Scranton. And I kept -- and I still get back home. Everybody in my family still calls Scranton home. And we've been out of Scranton for 50 years; my mother that long as well. But, you know, it's not unlike where you grew up on the other end of the state. It's neighborhoods. It's ethnic. You know, it's -- I like Scranton a lot.
MR. SCULLY: We have a photo with you, your mom and dad. It's in your Senate office. Where was it taken? And tell us a little bit about your parents.
SEN. BIDEN: Well, it was taken -- I guess that was taken probably 15 years ago. It was taken in my Senate office. And my dad used to love to come down to the Senate with me. He was semi-retired then. He was a salesman. And he used to love to come down. If you asked my dad in those days, you know, "What does your son do?" and he'd say, "My son" -- you wouldn't even need to ask him; he'd say, "My son's a United States senator."
You'd ask my mother, you know, if she had any children and she'd say, "Yes, I have four children," and I'd be mentioned last; and so very different. My dad was very, very proud of the fact I was a senator, and he loved to come to Washington with me.
MR. SCULLY: As long as we're looking at photographs, there's a picture of a younger Joe Biden at the dugout with one of your sons at a baseball game.
SEN. BIDEN: Well, that was taken -- I played in an exhibition baseball game up in the Nemonds (sp) Road field to raise money so they could get lights. It was a semipro field. And I was sitting there. My right hand is draped, and that little guy next to me is my son, who is 37 years old; is the Democratic candidate for attorney general in the state of Delaware, captain of the National Guard. But that was years ago, probably 28 years ago. And I hit a ball off the left- centerfield fence, which is unusual. As I was rounding third base, they said, "Come on," you know. And I turned around and saw the cutoff man with the ball at second base, so I slid back in head first to first base and ended up breaking my wrist.
It was 1978 -- (laughs) -- because they thought it would be just real fun -- it was an exhibition game -- to see Biden hit an inside- the-park home run. I didn't think it was so funny. And right after that picture was taken, I quietly slipped out of the dugout and went down to the Delaware Hospital to get my hand put in a cast. (Laughs.) So much for my prowess as a baseball player.
MR. SCULLY: Beau Biden on the ballot, as you said, attorney general. What's that like for the father?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, it makes me exceedingly proud. But also you find yourself -- I can now understand how my wife and my sister and my mother and my brothers, you know, how they live and die with campaigns relating to me. It's a lot easier to be the candidate than it is to be the person supporting the candidate. But I'm very proud of him. Public service is in his blood.
He has a very successful law firm, doing very well. I kid him. I say, you know, "I wish one of you guys would stay out of public service." My daughter is a social worker. And I was saying, "I should raise somebody who wants to make money so that when they put me in a home, I've got a window with a view." But I'm very proud of him; very proud of him.
MR. SCULLY: Your own family -- brothers, sisters -- how many?
SEN. BIDEN: I have two brothers, one sister. My one brother works in an alcoholic rehab center down in Florida, and my other brother is a businessman in Philadelphia, right across from St. Joseph's University. And my sister Valerie is still my best friend who hangs with me. She lives just across the line, as we say, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. She has three children but works very closely with me still politically. And so -- and my mom -- my dad passed away, but my mom lives with me. She's 89 years old and still runs the show.
MR. SCULLY: Still commute back and forth to D.C.?
SEN. BIDEN: I still commute back and forth everyday. You know, I know people think I'm crazy. Now I heard some wag point out that I've made close to 7,000 round trips on the Amtrak, and they think, "This guy can't be very bright."
I never intended on doing that. I mean, after I got elected in '72, I thought I was going to -- I actually came down, with the help of my father-in-law, borrowed some money for a down payment for a home here, and several weeks after I got elected, my wife and daughter were killed and my sons were badly injured in an automobile accident, which I was not in. And I started commuting while my sons were recovering from the hospital.
And a commitment I made to then-Senator Mansfield, the chairman of the -- not the chairman, but the majority leader of the United States Senate -- who said, "Look, just give us six months," because I had gone to my governor to say he ought to appoint somebody in my place; I shouldn't be going down to Washington. And God bless old Mike Mansfield, who passed away at age 99, who said, "Look, just give us six months." So I said, "Okay." And I started commuting. Here I am, 33 years later. So much for six months, huh?
MR. SCULLY: Let me ask you about your first wife -- Neilia?
SEN. BIDEN: Neilia, yeah.
MR. SCULLY: When did you meet her?
SEN. BIDEN: I met her on spring vacation. I had $89 in my tax return from summer employment. I got in the car with a bunch of guys, one of whom is a great guy; he's still around as a prominent banker in Delaware and now runs a charitable fund. We got down to one of the summer places. And I'd never been in a plane before. For 25 bucks you could get in a plane and fly to a place called Bermuda -- I mean, excuse me, Nassau. And so we got on a plane called Caribe Air for 25 bucks and went over.
I met her, and she was down on spring break from Syracuse University with a couple of girlfriends. I met her and fell in love with her, literally.
I mean, I know it sounds stupid, but I really did. I knew after the second day being down there with her I was going to marry her. And we saw each other from that time on. That's why I went to Syracuse University Law School. She was up that way, up in Skaneateles, New York, one of the Finger Lakes.
MR. SCULLY: You were married in 1966?
SEN. BIDEN: I was married in 1966 -- no, '67. And I was at the end of my first year in law school. But we had met back in '64, and she passed away December '72.
MR. SCULLY: Three children.
SEN. BIDEN: Three children; lost one, lost my little girl. My boys, Beau Biden, who is Joseph III -- we call him Beau -- was almost four years old. My son Hunter, who was a year and a day younger, was three years old. And my little girl was 13 months old.
MR. SCULLY: What happened?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, they were Christmas shopping, heading back toward my home in the station wagon; no one knows for certain what happened, but pulled out of an intersection in a semi-rural part of our state, a place called Hockessin, Delaware. A tractor trailer coming down a hill broadsided them. I never, quite frankly, wanted to know; I didn't want to pursue if anybody had made a mistake or whatever.
They got broad-sided. My wife and daughter were on one side of the car and they were killed immediately. My two boys were on the other side of the car, and thank God for my volunteer firemen. They used the jaws of life to get my sons out, saved their lives. And it's a funny thing. My whole career is sort of -- I owe the volunteer firemen in our state a big deal. They saved my life. They saved my home in a fire. They're just incredible people.
But at any rate -- and that happened December 18th. My sons were very badly injured. My son Beau was in a body cast, ankles to neck, both arms, both legs, for a long time; fully recovered, thank God. And my other son, Hunter, had a fractured skull, was banged up as well, but he recovered fully. And they're both grown men that I'm very proud of.
MR. SCULLY: Where were you that day?
SEN. BIDEN: I was down here in Washington, the first time I had come down. It was a Monday. I came down here, using Senator Byrd's office, interviewing prospective staff. And I got the call while I was doing that, and they had some young person call me and say, "There's a slight accident." And the young woman calling me, a volunteer in the campaign, from the campaign headquarters, thought it was a slight accident. But I just knew. I said, "She's dead, isn't she?" And this young girl said, "No, no, no, Senator -- no, no." But she was.
And, look, a lot of things have -- there's thousands of -- you've been through a lot of this yourself in your personal life. And we both know there's tens of thousands of people who have been through what you and I have been through without the kind of support you and I have had. But it does make you realize how many truly courageous people there are out there. I mean, people have gone through -- imagine going through what I went through without the kind of family I had helping me.
The accident occurred. I went to stay at the hospital. I came home. My brother-in-law is a very successful lawyer, and my sister is my best friend. They'd given up their home and moved into my house. And we have an expression in my family. It comes from -- I know you have a much bigger family than mine, but a big family as well. And it is, "If you have to ask, it's too late."
And so I had this incredible help. My brother Jimmy moved in. And it was a little farmette, sort of, that we lived in, in a barn that we converted to an apartment. He moved in there. And my mother was nearby; my father. But imagine being a woman making, you know, $30,000 a year and having that happen to you and not having family around. It makes you appreciate how incredibly resilient so many people are.
MR. SCULLY: At what point did you decide to stay in the Senate?
SEN. BIDEN: You know, I never made the decision, in a sense. It just kept rolling out. I mean, I owe a lot to a lot of people in the Senate, starting with Senator Mansfield, Senator Hollings, Senator Kennedy, Senator Eagleton, Senator Stevens.
What happened was I got down here and, without my realizing it, they really just kept me busy. Mansfield would have me report to him once a week on some sort of assignment. Looking back on it, he was just taking my pulse. I was a 30-year-old kid, just turned 30. But they put me on important committees, got me in the middle of fights. I mean, I was, I think, the youngest person ever put on the Foreign Relations Committee. Everybody wanted to be on that in those days, you know. They got me engaged in the Judiciary Committee, a very controversial committee. And they just kept me engaged and, you know, kept pulling me in. And in a sense, it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.
And I had the luxury of being able to go home every night, because I knew, as you know, raising children and coming from a large family, you know, kids can hold an important thought for maybe 12 hours and then it's gone; you miss it. But it's no Ozzie and Harriet stuff, but I'd go home every night, no matter what time. And I still do it, out of force of habit. So when I got up in the morning, they'd have me there. So whatever that thought was, they could tell me.
And, you know, and my mom, who I think you've met, has an expression. I don't know that it's unique to the Irish; I'm sure there's some version of it in every ethnic community. But she said, "Joe, out of everything bad, something good will come if you look hard enough for it." And a lot of good has come. I wouldn't trade it. I'd love that it never happened. But my sons and I are just so tight; it's an incredible bond. And the way that my family was pulled together -- I don't know; it's just I've been really lucky.
MR. SCULLY: Your wife Jill --
SEN. BIDEN: She's incredible.
MR. SCULLY: When did you meet her?
SEN. BIDEN: I met her in 1975, maybe late '74. It was March the 8th, on a blind date. I had given up wanting to go out with anybody. It had been several years since the accident. My brother Frank, God love him -- we kid him. Jewish people have an expression; a yenta is someone who is a matchmaker. And my youngest brother Frank introduced me on a blind date to my wife, and he introduced my brother on a blind date to his wife. And they're both incredible women.
And I met her back then. She was finishing up at the University of Delaware. She's younger than I am. I was 33, almost 34 when I met her, and she was 25. And again -- I know this sounds bizarre -- I just knew. We've been married together now 29 years. She's an absolutely incredible woman. She gave me my life back.
My boys -- there's no "step" anything in our family. When they refer to their mother who was killed, it's "Mommy." When they refer to her, it's "Mom." And I have a beautiful daughter who is a really bright kid who wants to save the world, 25 years old, graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and working full-time. And so she put my life back together again.
And I know it sounds corny, but we'd been dating for a year and a half, and the boys one morning on their way to school came in, and it was one of these -- you've watched this with your kids -- "You tell him, Beau." "No, you tell him, Hunter." "No, you tell him." I said, "Guys, what is it?" I think it was Hunter who spoke up and said, "Dad, we decided we should marry Jill."
We got married by a Jesuit priest, a friend of my sister's, at the (U.N. ?) chapel up in New York because we didn't want to go through it in Delaware. And our collective families, about 50 people, came. And we've been together since.
MR. SCULLY: We have a family photo, including a couple of grandkids and a daughter-in-law, I believe.
SEN. BIDEN: I have now two daughter-in-laws. That photo -- I don't know which one it is -- that photo is a couple of years old. That was taken on our property. We have a little pond. And the one on the right is my son Hunter, who's a lawyer here in town, and he has his number two grandchild -- my number two grandchild on his lap. But since then it's grown.
The beautiful young woman on the left is my daughter, and the one in the back is my oldest granddaughter, and the one on the right is my son Hunter's wife, a Chicago girl who is like my daughter. But meantime, my son Beau was married and he has two children. So we now have four granddaughters, two daughters-in-law and one grandson who just arrived. And the great thing about granddaughters is they always love their pop. No matter what age, they always love their grandfather. It's wonderful.
MR. SCULLY: Having gone through everything in the early to mid '70s, did you learn anything about Joe Biden?
SEN. BIDEN: Yeah, I think I did. I hope I did. I learned a lot. People think I should say, "Well, I learned the value of family." Well, it's presumptuous of me to say -- I think you know a little about my family. I think I already knew the value of family. I don't think that changed.
But what I learned was that what my father's life taught me is that my dad used to have an expression: It's not whether you get -- success is not measured by whether you get knocked down; it's by how quickly you get up. And I watched my dad get up repeatedly. My dad always believed that the next day is going to be a better day. No matter how bad today was or how good, tomorrow will be better. And it made me realize that my dad was right, that you just have to get up. You just have to get up. You just have to get up.
And it taught me that I could take more of a punch than I ever thought I could take. And it made me realize what I already knew, but I think it emblazoned it in my mind that the only thing that's really important is the health of your family. And I know -- again, I don't want to be too personal, but I know what you've been through as well. It puts an incredibly high premium on what's important.
You don't have any question -- you don't need to worry about trying to figure out the balance here. It never is a hard decision for me to make -- do I go to the birthday party or do I make an unimportant vote, or do I show up for the school play or do I take advantage of an opportunity that would help me politically? Those are not close calls. I mean, they are simply not close calls.
It's not like, you know, you -- and I'm sure other people who have been through this feel the same way. So it put in perspective, in a sharp, sharp relief, not just overall priorities, but the little things matter. I used to hear people say, my generation -- I'm a lot older than you -- my generation of the '60s would say, "Well you know, it's not the quantity of time; it's the quality." That's malarkey. Every important thing my children have ever said to me has been spontaneous. It's not like, "Well, honey, let's go out and go fishing, and let's talk." So, I mean, it matters. You know, it matters. The quality of time matters too, but it matters just the time.
And so for me it was a God-awful object lesson about the resilience of -- you know, I don't know what your experience was, but mine was that at first I felt guilty. I shouldn't be saying this, I guess. I felt a little guilty that I wanted to stay alive after it all happened, because if you really and truly are differentiated from animals, why this desire to continue to live when the thing that you loved and adored the most in the world is gone? And I used to rationalize to myself and say the only reason I did was because of my two sons.
The truth of the matter is there's something deeper in people than that. My mom has an expression: As long as you're alive, you have an obligation to strive. And you're not dead till you see the face of God. And it made me realize some of these old truisms you hear, the things my parents would say were absolutely true. I mean, we have an obligation to strive, you know. It's part of the human condition. At first I felt guilty about that, you know. And anyway, but it all -- and I've been incredibly lucky. No man deserves two great loves.
MR. SCULLY: Let's talk politics. Why the Senate? Why, at the age of 29, did you decide to run for this job?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, I didn't plan on running for the Senate. I had just been elected to the county council. And you know my state a little bit. It's like a miniature Illinois. One county has over 60 percent of the state's population. And I ran because I was part of an effort to, quote, "reform the Democratic Party," to make the Democratic Party in Delaware more like the national Democratic Party than a southern Democratic Party.
And I came back from law school in '68; no law school in Delaware at the time. And I joined this group, reform group, because our Democratic governor had stationed National Guard troops on every corner in Wilmington, Delaware because we were one of the early cities burned down after Dr. King was murdered in '68.
And so I got involved in this group. And the next thing you know, they said, "How about running?" So I ran as a good sport, because no Democrat had won that seat before. Lo and behold, I won. And then guys who I've come to really respect, Republicans, had a very deep bench of young people in those days in Delaware, and they all figured out that I might run someday statewide.
I had no intention to run statewide. I had been elected for four years. And the next thing that happened was they reapportioned me in the decennial census back to a two-year term. (Laughs.) So it put me in a position of, in politics, up or out, you know, because it was a more difficult seat.
And during the same period, the Democrats had gotten wiped out in '70. And they put me on a commission, the Democratic Party, called a renewal commission. I was the young guy on the commission, so I got to turn the lights out and write the report. And in the process of holding hearings all over the state, I met all these Democratic operatives. The next thing I know, they said, "Hey, how about you?"
I was appointed to a group to go find someone to run for the Senate, sort of Cheney-like, you know -- "Find a vice presidential nominee." And one day they said, "How about you?" And I had thought a lot about it by then and I thought I could win. I wouldn't have done it unless I thought I could win. And the next thing I know -- but it's not like I'd planned it.
I love the law. I read these books about me. "Biden knew when he was eight years old he was going to run for the Senate before 30." I could not have run for the Senate had they not reapportioned me. I didn't have any notion of doing that.
MR. SCULLY: How do you make a decision? Whether it's a vote or an issue, what process do you go through before saying, "That's my vote; that's my view"?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, it kind of depends on the issue. Some are sort of pro forma. You just -- they're just automatic in the sense that they're so cut and dry, so clearly fall down on one side or the other that it doesn't take a lot of thinking, because you have a sense of, you know, the kind of stuff that makes you a Democrat or Republican in the first place.
An awful lot of votes are a lot closer. And what I try to do is, and have for years, ask the question whether or not voting one way or another is likely to -- and this may sound strange, but I really mean it -- whether it's likely to -- I kind of view things through a middle-class prism. Maybe I'm a product of my -- when I first got here, I thought of myself -- and I still am, I guess, in many ways -- pretty unsophisticated.
I kind of ran away from -- in my mind, I'm this middle-class kid, you know. But I realize that I kind of view things through that prism, and so I kind of look at it, "How does that affect average people?" whether it's a tax cut, whether it's the notion of going to war or not going to war, who's going to pay, how's it going to work, can we win?
So I try to be pragmatic about it and not ideological about it. And so if it matters and it relates to money, I try to figure out who's going to have to pay, how you pay. If it relates to a matter of philosophy, I try to figure out whether or not it's going to -- is it workable? Does it make sense?
There are some things that are pretty straight in all judgments that I admit I make, that are, I think, like most of us, informed by my faith, informed by the way I was raised. And so it kind of varies on the nature of the issue. But the bottom line is, do I think it's good for the country?
MR. SCULLY: Do you ever find a conflict between your Catholicism and your political beliefs?
SEN. BIDEN: I do. I do; not often, but I do. And I think the most difficult one is the obvious one, abortion. Personally, privately, I have difficulty with the idea of thinking it's, quote, a "choice." The history of the nature of that debate in our church has not morphed but has changed over a thousand years.
It always is viewed by the church as something that is wrong, but there's been gradations whether it was wrong, you know, from venial to mortal sin, as we Catholics say, in the versions of it. But today, probably since Pius IX, it's been pretty clear that it's automatic, moment of conception, by the '20s.
So that, to me, is a very difficult vote. But I find it hard to insist on matters of faith, to impose that version of my view of when the moment of human life begins on society when there's as many decent, honorable people of faith who have a different view as to when that moment is.
But that's the most difficult.
The rest of it I'm pretty well in sync with. The way I was raised, the church I was raised in was like my parents raised me. It was the central animating element of it in the '50s and '60s, and '70s for me in my faith was the abuse of power, the teaching about the abhorrence of the abuse of power, whether that is a woman being struck by a man or a child being struck by an adult or the use of economic power to subjugate people.
And that's how I was raised. That's the church I came out of. That's the church I come out of in terms of civil liberties, civil rights, sound economic policy. So I feel totally consistent with the teachings of my church. And it's one of my avocations is theology. And I don't offer myself as an expert, but it's something I have keen interest in and know a little bit about.
And so I find sort of the view of the social contract between society and man, individuals, as being totally consistent with the teachings of my church.
MR. SCULLY: So based on that, who do you think are the great thinkers of our time or in our history -- politically, religiously, philosophically?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, I'm kind of a product, on the religious side of the equation, of Aquinas, St. Thomas Aquinas and his seminal work, Summa Theologica. You know, he raised very difficult questions and acknowledged nuance. I think I'm a John the 23rd guy. I think the ecumenical movement of Pope John Paul -- I mean, Pope John -- was kind of the core of the church that I -- our church has always had debates. I mean, we've always -- I know most non-Catholics may look at us and say, "What, these guys are" -- but we've always had -- we've gone through periods of intellectual transition.
But I think that, you know, I've found that, on the political side of the equation, I look at leaders -- I don't have any one; I can't say, like John McCain and others, that I have a political hero. I don't have -- I guess I should, but I don't have a political hero. But I admire pieces of the character aspects and the intellectual aspects of various presidents. I admired Robert Kennedy's passion. I admire Franklin Roosevelt's pragmatism. I admire General Eisenhower's sense of balance in his ability to bring people together.
So there's various leaders in American history -- I mean, we've all read a lot of biographies about Abe Lincoln, and he was obviously an incredible political figure. But in recent American political history, I guess I look at people like Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. I admired John Kennedy. I never felt quite -- as an Irish-Catholic kid, he always seemed too elegant. I don't know; Robert Kennedy felt more comfortable to me. I can picture Robert Kennedy at my kitchen table, the family I grew up in.
And so there's various political figures that I think brought to the moment an element of their character and intellect that was uniquely suited for that moment. And I think that's kind of how I measure history. I mean, I do think -- you know, that old debate, does the man make history or history make the man? I think it's a little of both. I think man does have great impact on moments in history, but it's finding the right person with the right temperament, quality, background and time.
And my grandfather Finnegan used to always say, "Joe, remember the two things" -- I'm going to make some Irishmen happy. He said, "The Lord takes care of Irishmen who imbibe too much; he always protects them." And he says, "The Lord takes care of America." It's kind of like there's been the right person that's come along at the right time.
And I think this time requires a combination of some of the features of each of the people, the willingness of Lincoln to reach out to his political enemies and bring them in to unite the nation. I think that's badly needed; I think the pragmatism of Franklin Roosevelt and determination, I think, and optimism; and I think the passion of Robert Kennedy. They're all features that are very much in need right now for this country.
MR. SCULLY: Let me come back to that point in a moment, but let me take us back to 1987, when you ran for the president the first time. What did you learn?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, I learned that I was too arrogant. I learned that it's never too late to make up for a mistake. I learned that when you're at that level, every word you say means something. You can't be flip. And I learned that it is a very rough game; that you have to assume that -- I mean, I was so naive, I kind of thought it was the Marquis of Queensbury rules, you know. And as I kid now, I say, "Look, it is kind of tough in presidential politics, but in other countries they shoot you." I mean, here at least you get a pension. I mean, it's not like it's life and death.
But I was very naive about it. And I entered that race the wrong way -- not morally the wrong way -- the wrong way. I never intended on running when the whole thing started. I had a number of people encourage me to do it, and I thought, "Well, you know, look, I'll go out there and I'll get started. And what it will do, at a minimum, it will enhance my clout in the Senate." And maybe, in four or eight years, I'd be in a position -- I was 42 years old. When I went out there, all of a sudden things started catching on fire. I mean, things started moving. We were raising more money than anybody else.
And I found myself viewing it through the wrong prism. The prism was, "Can I beat the other guy? Am I better than the person I'm running against?" as opposed to, "Am I ready to be president of the United States of America?" -- not, "Is the other guy ready?" "Am I ready?" And I think my conduct demonstrated an immaturity that justifiably said I wasn't ready.
MR. SCULLY: So finally, as you look ahead at another possible presidential bid, what is the state of America? Where are we today as a nation?
SEN. BIDEN: I think the character of the nation -- and I know people don't talk about it this way -- but the character of the nation is stronger and more emboldened and possesses more grit than it has at any time probably since World War II. But the leadership of the nation is failing that character.
This administration, God love them -- and look, I'm not one of these guys who thinks that the neocons are a bunch of wackos. These are very bright, patriotic, honorable people. But I think the whole ideological bent of this administration has dug us into a very deep hole, a very deep hole internationally and domestically.
I think they've tilted the playing field against the middle class, the working people of this country, so profoundly, not because they don't care about them but because they have this ideological view that if you shift power to the more powerful, they'll make the right decisions.
I'm vastly oversimplifying it. I don't want to be unfair to them. But, you know, as Clemens (sp) said, "All generalizations are false, including this one." But in the interest of time, I think that's the essence of what's (at play ?). I don't think they respect the judgment of average Americans. They think they're not capable of stepping up to it.
And internationally, this idea of leveraging power -- we're at the apex of our physical power, and the way to prevent wars in the future is to use that power, and use it in the face of the moral disapprobation of the world has been a disaster. I think we're weaker, relatively speaking, than we have been in three decades. I think we are less respected than we have been in 100 years. I think we are in a position where it's not our power they doubt; it's our judgment they doubt. And we've squandered our value set. Our values are the thing that have made us different.
You know, as you travel around the world, you know, and you meet these people, particularly in Europe and even now in the Asian capitals, who kind of look at us as naive, but guess what: They need our naivete and optimism. They are worried we're losing that. It worries them, because even though they make fun of us, they've looked to us. And it's our values. It's our values. And they've kind of squandered them.
It's like the president has a quiver of arrows in the conduct of the foreign policy of our nation, and the president has only pulled one out -- military power. The rest he's let atrophy there. And it's our values that have changed the world. Military force has been necessary to bring down the Berlin Wall, but it wasn't sufficient. It was our ideas, our values, what we stood for, what we spoke about, what we spoke to. And we have taken what some people call that soft power and we have just taken it off the table, and we're paying a terrible, terrible, terrible price for it.
I tell a bad joke when I try and explain it to people. I say, you know, that it's not -- when I talk about judgment as I go around the world -- and I've had the advantage of doing that, being a senior Democrat for a long time on foreign policy -- I say it's like that coach I had at the University of Delaware, my freshman year baseball coach. And he told the joke about the centerfielder, star centerfielder. I changed the name; the star centerfielder, George.
In the first two innings, George makes four errors and the coach calls him out and he says, "Scully, you're in." And Scully goes out and the first pitch, a routine fly ball to Scully, hits his glove and he drops it. And the coach goes nuts, calls timeout and calls Scully in as he crosses the third base line. He grabs you by the shirt and he says, "Scully, what's the matter with you?" Scully looks at the coach and says, "Hey, coach, George screwed up centerfield so badly, no one can play it."
The truth is, rightly or wrongly, the bulk of the world leaders think we have screwed up the international arena so badly, they're unwilling to play with us on it. And we need them. Every single existential threat to the United States that your kids will be writing about in their senior thesis 20 years from now, not one of them lends itself to a mere military solution. It needs much more. And we have sort of taken all those other items off the table.
MR. SCULLY: Senator Joe Biden, thank you.
SEN. BIDEN: Thank you.
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A Mexico Hotel Experience: Maroma Resort Launches "Mexican Immersion" Program
The best way to learn a language — or understand a culture — is to surround yourself with it. And Maroma Resort & Spa, a luxury Mexico hotel in the Riviera Maya, is making it easier to pamper yourself while the learning process takes place. They've launched a program, Maroma's Mexican Immersion, which aims to incorporate as much of the local culture into daily resort life as possible — from traditional spa treatments and Mexican cuisine to staff who, when requested, will converse only in Spanish.
As part of the Mexican Immersion program, guests can experience a Mayan Temazcal. A therapeutic cleansing ritual known for its healing properties, the Temazcal is one of the richest traditional spa experiences in Mayan culture. Carried out at dusk, this ritualistic treatment weaves together ancient traditions, chants and meditationto provide deep physical detoxification combined with mental calm and relaxation.
Mexican cuisine takes center stage at the hotel's new La Cantina restaurant, where Noches de Cantina is a twice-weekly event with a diverse menu of botanas (home-style dishes), including fideo seco (dry noodles with chipotle, avocado and fresh cheese) and cordero rostizado (roasted suckling lamb), served alongside home-brewed beers, a range of tequilas and the local favorite, Mezcal. The evening is completed by vibrant Mexican music and dancing.
The Spanish Language Immersion program sounds appropriate for travelers looking to absorb a bit of language and culture, without having to cut back on the luxurious amenities or devote time to a set class schedule. Guests can wear a special pulsera (bracelet) signalling to the resort team that they wish to communicate in Spanish only. To help guests along, Spanish-English dictionaries are placed in every room along with a "cheat-sheet" of helpful phrases. Maroma's 2:1 staff to guest ratio ensures guests plenty of people with whom to practice.
Guests can partake in a private walking tour of Maroma, where staff will discuss the iconic symbols that make up the property's history, combined with their cultural and social importance.
Maroma's Mexican Immersion programme costs from U.S.$240 per person and can be added to any holiday at the hotel. The price includes a Temazcal spa experience, an evening at Noches de Cantina including a special menu of Botanas and a tasting of Mezcal and beer, a tour of Maroma and the Spanish Language Immersion program. Nightly rates at Maroma Resort and Spa start from US$575 based on two sharing a Deluxe Garden View Room, including breakfast. For more information, visit www.orient-express.com.
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Boy, do I eat a lot. Why? Because I'm constantly being invited to lunch by people with whom I may or may not want to share a meal. That's just part of my job. It can be fun, or it can be as torturous as being held hostage by Somali pirates.
Over the last few weeks, I had lunch with several managers. Some of them share clients with me. Others want to. Most of those meals were pleasant. They were an opportunity to cement existing relationships and create new ones.
The only lunch that made me grind my teeth was the one I had with a low-level manager who chased me for weeks, begging for a chance to meet. The meal was fine, but when the check came, the cheap bastard asked if I wanted to split it down the middle. What I should've said was that I wanted to split his skull down the middle, but being a decent sort, I agreed to pay my share.
First rule of Hollywood: The one who invites is the one who pays. I will never work with that manager. And I've shared the story with all my agent friends.
I also recently had lunch with two clients, and those experiences could not have been more different. One was a pleasure, and the other brings us back to that Somali pirate metaphor.
Let's start with the good.
I recently signed an established character actor named Bruce. The guy is in his 40s, and he has an extensive résumé. Sadly, his prior agency went down the tubes, so a mutual casting friend sent him my way.
We picked a restaurant near my office so I wouldn't have to drive. It was a friendly place, not too industry, not too pricey.
During the meal, he never once mentioned our professional relationship. He didn't even bitch about his former reps. Instead, Bruce made a genuine effort to get to know me. He asked a lot of questions, and he listened intently to my answers. This motivated me to do the same. It was an hour well-spent.
And when the check landed on the table, there was an intense blur I couldn't quite make out. It was Bruce reaching for the bill.
Now let's move on to the bad.
The second client was a young lady named Rona. From the moment we sat down, I knew I was in for a rough ride. She started off our conversation with a dramatic sigh and then proceeded to whine about the other agents in my office. "They never get me out. They take forever to return my calls. They don't understand what I'm about." And she went on and on like that for an entire hour.
When we were done I liked her less than before, so I'm not sure what she accomplished by inviting me to lunch. And in case you're wondering, Rona claimed poverty when the check came. Her musician boyfriend had borrowed a lot of money, and she was waiting for him to pay her back. (Yeah, good luck with that. The guy's probably halfway to Seattle by now.)
So let's recap. Was Bruce playing it smart, creating a situation where I would be motivated to work harder for him? Yes. That's exactly what he was doing. And it worked. As for Rona, she had no real plan, so the meal was a mess. The entire experience left a bad taste in my mouth, and she's hardly a priority to me now.
Inviting your agent to lunch is a smart move if you play your cards right. But be smart about it, and don't forget to bring your credit card.


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Don't you kind of feel sorry for Fox TV? In the olden days (back when it was the fourth place network out of four networks), Fox was like a five-year-old kid jacked up on Mountain Dew and Pixy Stix—it'd do ANYTHING to get your attention. I particularly enjoyed its guerrilla-style (and super-offensive) reality shows, such as Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire, Man vs. Beast, and my favorite, The Littlest Groom (in which it tried to hook a dwarf up with a hot, normal-sized babe). However! Nowadays it seems like Fox has "grown up" and can no longer find room in its schedule for shows about such important topics as When Animals Attack. Apparently dwarves, bimbos, and ass-ripping lions are no longer a concern to Fox executives.
And that's too bad, because now that Fox has grown into a self-absorbed teenager (who in order to look more like an adult has been seen wearing a coat with elbow patches and smoking a pipe), it has been receiving some of its worst ratings ever. Other than the doctor-drama House, almost all the shows on Fox's schedule are crapping the bed—and that's because Fox has forgotten who its audience is (i.e., 18-34-year-old drunks with an unhealthy affinity for midgets and angry, bloodthirsty monkeys).
But this week all that may change, as Fox has what could be loosely termed as the most CREEPY, OFFENSIVE INTERVIEW EVER! According to Fox.com, on Monday, November 27, and Wednesday, November 29, at 9:00 pm, the network will be broadcasting an exclusive interview with accused murderer O.J. Simpson, in which he describes how he killed his ex-wife and her friend—HYPOTHETICALLY, of course! "O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," according to a Fox statement. Coincidentally, the interview comes a day before the release of Simpson's new book on the same subject, entitled If I Did It.
All together now... BRRRRRRRRRR!
Naturally, this is a step in the right direction for Fox. However, an interview of O.J. describing the brutal murder of his wife lacks... ohhhh, the joie de vivre of something like Joe Millionaire or Temptation Island. Here's some advice on how this show could be automatically—and cheaply!—improved:
• During the interview, O.J. should be wearing the Hannibal Lecter straitjacket and leather facemask. (Then after a commercial break, we learn that he's escaped and was last seen outside YOUR bedroom window! EEEEEEEEE!)
• O.J. describes how he killed his wife—while helping Martha Stewart bake a batch of rustic apple tarts.
• Perform a dramatic re-creation of the murder using kangaroos. (And before PETA starts climbing all over my ass, it's a scientific fact that kangaroos love to fight.)
• Along with his "faux" confession, O.J. also hypothetically describes how he killed Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Crocodile Hunter.
• During random moments, a monkey wearing a red jumpsuit should ride by on a tricycle. OOH! Better yet, a skateboard!
• Turn the whole thing into a new reality show entitled Who Wants to be Murdered by O.J. Simpson... Hypothetically?


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Album Rating: 4.0Saw these guys open for Carcass last night in Columbus, and they fucking ruled. I bought their cd and t-shirt because they just cool to talk to, and they were just kids ripping it up on stage. I was pretty blown away by their live show, the solos were great. Such a great night.
Album Rating: 4.0I was also there. They were fun, but the sound was terrible. All the guitar parts melded into a wall of noise. It happened with Carcass to an extent as well.
Album Rating: 4.0Yeah, I heard what you are referencing, it was a little annoying but still really fun. I didn't really hear it with Carcass but I'm sure that it could have happened a little. As it stands, I still thought it was an excellent show, all the bands were great live.
Album Rating: 4.0Sick fucking album
Album Rating: 4.0Hell yeah, man. Been listening to it nonstop lately.
Checked two songs off this.All i can say is riffs
Digging: Kawir - Exilasmos
Album Rating: 4.0Riffy goodness for sure. It's so much fun.
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I have renewed confidence after most of my picks did well in the last
event at Trestles. It's getting down to the business end of the year so
everyone is under pressure to flare up — now or never. France is so
fickle, hopefully the boys will have fun waves to blow up in.
Kelly Slater You would have to be stupid, crazy or a straight out
hater to not have the Syrian from Cocoa Beach on your roster at this
point. Little proof is needed that he has been this years MVP.
Andy Irons I think Andy will be more relaxed now that Kelly has a
huge point lead over him. Now he cannot worry about everything and
just be free to show people why he is the only surfer in history to
ever rattle Kelly.
Mick Fanning Fanning is in third at the moment and I have a feeling he
wants to finish the year as runner up. Expect him to be dead serious
about taking people out.
Fred Patacchia Fred will want to finish strong this year knowing every
Hawaiian is proud and pulling for him. He knows he can beat the best of them, and that confidence will serve him well.
Chris Ward Has had quite a shocker since his 2nd place finish in at
snapper. I have faith that it's only a matter of time until Wardo finds
his form again. The playful beachies of southern France suit him down to the ground.
Bede Has surprised many people this year. The truth is there
aren't many attractive prospects in this price range.
Taj Burrow France loves Taj and Taj loves France. He will be
punting huge airs in the conditions he surfs best in. Also coming off a
strong finish at Lowers last week.
Luke Stedman 'Steady' has had an inconsistent year, but I am
hoping he will flare up in France.–Shane Dorian


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Texas Tech men's tennis team continued its season of firsts, but this time, the Red Raiders made history in the classroom.
Senior Michael Innerebner was named Tuesday to the first team of the ESPN The Magazine Academic all-America team in the men's at-large university division selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Innerebner is the first Tech men's tennis player to be selected to the first team, but he wasn't alone in receiving academic honors.
Tech sophomore Bojan Szumanski was selected the third team.
"They really are truly a student-athlete in every sense of the word," Tech head coach Tim Siegel said on Wednesday. "Nobody works harder both on the court and in the classroom, and I'm proud of them for being honored."
Only one other time has a Red Raider men's tennis player been chosen as an Academic All-American. Charles Bailey was selected to the third team in 1991 and '92.
To be on the ballot for Academic all-America, a student-athletes must have been selected Academic zll-District in his respective district.
In order to be nominated for Academic all-District and all-America honors, a student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve, must have at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average and must have completed at least one full academic year at his institution.
Through the fall semester of 2004, Innerebner boasted a 3.934 GPA in finance. Szumanski, meanwhile, maintained a 4.0 GPA in personal finance planning.
The men's at-large all-American teams consist of student-athletes in fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
On the court, Innerebner finished the year with a 27-8 record in singles and 13-15 in doubles. His 27 wins in singles ranks first on the Tech single-season list for victories.
Szumanski was 26-9 in singles play and was 17-11 in doubles action.
The duo helped finish the season 25-4, the best record in school history. The Raiders hosted the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament for the first time, and they advanced to the Sweet 16 in College Station before losing 4-2 to No. 3 Mississippi.
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Moderator: Baseball America national college baseball writer Aaron Fitt chatted about Week 2.
John Manuel: I'm here to pinch-hit for Aaron until he gets through airport security. Wear it, TSA, you can't stop the College Monday chat!
Matt (GA): Aaron, better job by Georgia Tech over the weekend to finally put some runs on the board, but this season certainly won't be confused with some of Danny Hall's recent power-laden clubs. Is this a team that can do enough at the plate to contend in the ACC?
John Manuel: It is not a juggernaut, but usually Tech hasn't fared so well as a juggernaut! Short version is the Jackets got back on the winning side of the ledger by sweeping UNC Greensboro, but they also went 1-3 opening week and has some real questions in the lineup. Pitching coach Jason Howell and Coach Hall have to hope Matt Grimes keeps working his way back into important innings by the time the tough ACC slate gets started. For me this was a borderline regional team starting the season; we had them as a 3 seed entering the year.
Jake (Atlanta): The Mercer Bears don't get a nod in your top 25 yet? Sitting at 8-0 with the best RPI in the country. I know it's early and RPI isn't a true representation quite yet, but at least should be getting votes. What are your thoughts on this 2013 regional club?
John Manuel: Who would you drop, Jake? We talked a little at the end of the podcast about Mercer, Aaron is high on coach Gibson's team and we like their combination of physicality, offense and reliable, if not flashy, defense. It's a good start but we don't have votes, so Mercer didn't get any. It's on the worksheet for our rankings meeting and also projected as a regional team preseason, also as a 3 seed.
Eric Oetken (Wayne, Nebraska): What do you think of the University of Iowa baseball team? 6-1 is the best start since 1985.
John Manuel: Long been a fan of Coach Rick Heller who did a fine job at Northern Iowa and then at Indiana State. If anyone can make Hawkeye baseball relevant, it would be him. Nice way to start the year beating a rebuilding Austin Peay team, that's a consistent program and winning a series there is a good sign for Iowa.
Bob (Chicago): How concerning is Indiana? The pitching team seems questionable after Denato. Big bats are not performing as well.
John Manuel: We certainly had a long Indiana debate in the rankings meeting. Big picture, as Aaron explained in the podcast, Indiana being ranked after a 2-5 start is quite a sign of respect. Also big picture, we're not worried about this team's bats; the Hoosiers will hit. I do think the weather is a factor, but other teams have handled it better so far. I think we are more concerned with the starting pitching and defense at this point, but we're not hopping off the IU bandwagon yet.
Bill (San Diego): Is USC that good or is their undefeated record a byproduct of playing poor teams on the weekends?
John Manuel: Because you're from San Diego, I think you mean Southern California. The biggest part, certainly Bill, is the schedule. Any team in Southern California (or in Trojans uniforms) should sweep Northwestern and North Dakota State. But Aaron says the buzz on the Trojans has been good with scouts and opposing coaches in the preseason and now that the season has started. Dan Hubbs has talent to work with; they key is to parlay the confidence that comes with seven straight wins into some consistency the rest of the season. Huge measuring stick next week against Cal Poly.
Matt W. (Leesburg, VA): I normally don't put too much emphasis on streaks and records especially in the beginning of the year since it is normally against teams that aren't as talented. Having said that, what do you make of the Gamecocks' shutout streak knowing that it isn't just the starters that have dominated but the entire pitching staff?
John Manuel: The caliber of competition does not inspire awe, certainly, but 51 scoreless innings is 51 scoreless innings. I was pretty high on Wil Crowe in last year's draft out of Tennessee and expected him to step right in and compete well, but no earned runs through two weeks is pretty special. Jordan Montgomery is just very, very good, a harder-throwing version of Michael Roth, and Wynkoop has pitched well also. That team has no real obvious hole; very strong team on paper and certainly playing that way through two weeks. Aaron will see them vs. Clemson this weekend and I know he's looking forward to it.
Joe LeCates (Easton, MD): Aaron, thank you for the chat today and hope all is well. With Josh Sborz moving to UVA's starting rotation (and doing so with aplomb) I couldn't help but take notice of Connor Jones and what he's done thus far. Having a Branden Kline flashback of an young, athletic righty with an electric arm stepping into the closer's spot - do you see it possibly shaping up that way as well?
John Manuel: Don't do that to Connor Jones … I think of Branden Kline and I think of a modest junior season and injury-plagued pro start. I am sorry that I am not thinking of 2011 stud closer Kline. Jones certainly could thrive in that closer role, with a big arm, life on the fastball. His fastball command might be good enough even as a freshman to emerge as a starter, but coach O'Connor is playing the long game here … he knows he has an Omaha roster and is playing to win now but also down the line. I like the comp from a role standpoint, but I think Jones will be better than Kline.
Brad (Toronto): Tyler Beede s start to this season, fact or fiction? Has he made the adjustment that will allow him to maintain his Friday night status as well as a possible top 20 draft pick?
John Manuel: Sounds like fact. There were plenty of national-level scouts at the Rodon game last Sunday, and the buzz from them on Beede's start to the season (including scrimmages and fall practice) was strong. No one had him outside the top 20, not even after last summer's struggles with the Collegiate National Team. Seems like the delivery is more in sync this spring, better direction to the plate, and so far better results in terms of command. The stuff is plenty live.
John Manuel: Update from Aaron in Miami: "This airport is an outrage! No rhyme or reason to this layout!" Somebody bring that man a Mark Light Shake in the terminal please …
Sean (Texas): Coach Serrano has a young Vols team off to one of the best starts in TN history coming off of a sweep of UNLV this weekend. How do you see them stacking up in the SEC?
John Manuel: We didn't have Tennessee as a regional team, but sweeping UNLV certainly helps their case for getting off a theoretical bubble. The talent level for the Vols is up significantly in the last couple of seasons, now coach Serrano is getting that team to figure out how to win. I don't expect a 40-win season or anything like that but breaking even in SEC play would help get the Vols a regional bid, which would represent a huge step forward. The SEC East has 2 obvious powerhouses in South Carolina & Vandy, with Florida likely next, but Georgia is rebuilding, Mizzou to an extent, Kentucky looks good … just no getting around it, Tennessee will have to grow up quick to get to .500 in the SEC, but I think it can.
John Manuel: Aaron should be jumping in now. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, lots of great questions in the Q for Aaron to hop in and answer.
Aaron Fitt: Hi everybody, thanks to John for filling in today, hope I don't get Wally Pipped! I'll chat right up until my flight boards, maybe 40 minutes or so.
Jeremy (Coral Gables): I'm worried about the Miami defense. 18 errors in 7 games. Do you see it getting corrected?
Aaron Fitt: I'm not too worried about it. Alex Hernandez has done a nice job at short, but the defense will be better once Brandon Lopez comes back to play short and Hernandez slides over to second. First base has probably been the biggest issue; Brad Fieger is not great there, and Zack Collins is still learning the position. Thompson is OK at third but won't be a standout. Kennedy is a veteran catcher who does a nice job but doesn't have a gun behind the plate. The outfield should be fine. I think it will be a solid-average defense when everybody settles in.
Daniel (Arkansas): Thoughts on the Hogs so far? Anderson and Benintendi look like potential AAs through 2 weekends.
Aaron Fitt: I'm very high on Anderson, and so are scouts (remember, big league scouting directors voted him onto our preseason All-America team). Love Benintendi too—I would bet on him being a freshman All-American. His game and intangibles are pretty similar to Austin Cousino's. I've been very encouraged by the way Chris Oliver has pitched in the rotation — thought he was a big key. And Jalen Beeks has done a fine job filling in for Trey Killian on Fridays, not that I'm too surprised—Beeks is legit. I'd say Hog fans have reason to feel pretty good so far.
Brad (Cary, NC): Is there a better pitcher in the country than Aaron Nola? I mean the guy is throwing seven different kinds of smoke every game.
Aaron Fitt: He's incredibly good. I obviously still believe in Carlos Rodon, but if you wanted to make a case that Nola will beat him out for national Player of the Year honors, you might just wind up being right.
Windywave (Chicago): Tulane is off to a solid start. Is it too early to start getting my hopes up for making regionals or do I have to put on my Cubs hat and wait til next year?
Aaron Fitt: I'll tell you what, Tulane has had some RPI issues in recent years, and I think it will be fighting an uphill RPI battle this year too based on the first few weeks of its schedule. I do like Tulane's talent—feels like there is good depth on this pitching staff and a lot of exciting freshmen in the lineup. But I'm not ready to pronounce it a regional team yet.
Evan (San Diego): What are your early impressions on Cal? Seems like they have a ton of arms.
Aaron Fitt: Daulton Jefferies certainly seems like the real deal, Theofanopoulos pitched well this weekend, and I do like their bullpen depth too. That was a pretty nice recruiting class this year—just outside our Top 25 classes, and I have a feeling we might have been light on that group.
Nick Melotte (Atlanta, GA): Hey Aaron, thanks for the chat. Has there been a player that came out of nowhere to really impress you so far?
Aaron Fitt: Slater Lee at Cal Poly. I really didn't know what to expect from him, but he's been a stud as the Saturday guy through two weeks. Two-hit shutout at UCLA in your first career road start, a week after beating a super regional team in your debut? That's quite an entrance.
Justin (Chicago): Which freshmen have impressed you the most to start the season? Who do you anticipate being in the conversation for the top pick in a couple years assuming they stay healthy?
Aaron Fitt: Well, I got a look at a pair of top-five freshman classes this weekend in Coral Gables, and I think both Florida's and Miami's classes are legit. Willie Abreu and Zack Collins really do change the complexion of that Miami lineup, helping bring that power element—and Bryan Garcia was terrific at the back of the bullpen, potentially giving them a real shut-down closer. I think Brett Morales and Logan Shore and Dane Dunning and John Sternagel are all going to be good for Florida, but the guy who made the biggest impression on me was A.J. Puk—a 6-foot-7 lefthander throwing 92-94 with no effort, with a nasty 84-86 slider. Good grief. He also has big-time thump in his bat, although Kevin O'Sullivan did not start him this weekend against those three tough Miami lefties, because he didn't want to destroy Puk's confidence at the plate. Shows you a little about how much he respects that Miami staff.
jb (SC): South Carolina's pitching has been "lights out" so far this season against teams with virtually no offensive pulse. They are unbelievablely talented and deep...how do you see this weekend's series going against what seems to be a higher quality Clemson team? Thanks!
Aaron Fitt: I think South Carolina is the complete package, and I expect the Gamecocks will continue to perform at a very high level this weekend against Clemson. That said, South Carolina hasn't exactly been lighting up the scoreboard against teams you'd expect it to put up more runs against. I think the Gamecocks are definitely better on the mound than Clemson, but Clemson's lineup is very intriguing, and might have a chance to be better than S.C.'s. I'll obviously get a better feel for how they stack up after taking in those three games this weekend. But heading into it, I like S.C. to win the series.
Steve (San Diego): Can Cal Poly threaten Fullerton for the title of "Best in Cali"...is their ceiling a legit Omaha team or more of a super regional with an outside shot an Omaha?
Aaron Fitt: Yeah, I think they can threaten the Titans. Cal Poly will be the best offensive team in the West, I predict, and so far its pitching also looks stellar. Obviously no team out there will pitch better than Fullerton, but Poly could wind up being the more complete of the two teams. Right now, I'm sticking with the Titans—but it's a legitimate question, and it will be fascinating to monitor this spring.
Rob (Orlando): What did you think of AJ Puk this weekend? He has some great stuff and looks like something special who could develop into top 10 pick caliber player.
Aaron Fitt: I'll say this again, just for emphasis: He is going to be a beast.
Steve - Beaver Believer (Corvallis): Should Beaver Fans be worried with the play of our middle infielders or is it just beginning of the season jitters?
Aaron Fitt: Freshman shortstops will always have their ups and downs, but I do believe in Morrison's talent. You just seldom see teams with freshmen shortstops win national titles, so it is definitely a question worth asking. I don't know what's gotten into Andy Peterson—I expected him to be rock-solid, and he has not been. Still feels like an aberration…
VUHawkTalk (TN): Aaron, Has any starting trio in the nation burst out of the gate as well as Vandy's Tyler Beede, Jared Miller and Tyler Ferguson? Combined, they are 6-0 with a 0.51 ERA and .096 BAA. Almost as impressive, they've got a 38:5 strikeout to walk ratio. They've set the tone for a staff that has an NCAA-leading 0.43 ERA (followed by South Carolina, Houston and TCU at 0.86) and an amazing .139 BAA.
Aaron Fitt: Certainly, the Commodores, Gamecocks and Cougars strike me as the staffs that have gotten off to the best starts so far, with Ole Miss in that discussion too. Heard great things about all of those staffs—I think the Rebels' rotation is legit, as Ellis, Trent and Sam Smith all have looked strong.
Dave (New York City): With A.J. Reed's historic weekend, where do teams that are looking at drafting hime see him playing as a pro: First Base or Pitcher?
Aaron Fitt: I think that's still TBD. Monster weekend with the bat though. Our Jim Shonerd will have a piece about him and Cousino coming up this week.
Jim (Atlanta): Given the early results, looks like Mercer and Ga. Southern may be the best two teams in Georgia. And, UGA, with new skipper, Scott Stricklin ... oh my!. Your thoughts on the teams in Georgia?
Aaron Fitt: I'll go with Mercer as the best team in that state—and how about that statement? Come to think of it, we had Mercer ranked highest internally in that state in the preseason too. Georgia is going to struggle this year, but I promise you, Stricklin will get that program going in the next couple of years. No doubt in my mind.
Aaron Fitt: OK folks, my flight is boarding. Have a great week!


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Subject: [HILL-L] James HILL/Margaret MIDDLETON (Rutherford Co. NC 1790)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 07:37:36 EDT
Seeking help on the lineage of James HILL (below). There are several strong
opinions on this line, but I am seeking the advice of anyone who believes
they have the nearest to proven lineage. Possibly I have two lines
co-mingled. There seems to be questionable relationships between the
children as listed below and the parents. Can anyone comment on this for me?
If the lineage is wrong, I am baffled by the fact that a child of John HILL2
is named Burrell HILL, and a child of Burrell HILL2 is named Middleton HILL
(obviously pointing back to the Margaret Middleton), yet there are so many
conflicting opinions among the researchers of this line, including data that
conflicts with DAR records (not unusual I know). Can anyone lead me to the
person who is the most knowledgeable of the line?
Descendants of James Hill (CAUTION: DATA AS LISTED MAY BE INCORRECT)
Generation One
1. James1 Hill; born Jun 1, 1743 at Surry Co., VA; married Margaret
Jane Middleton circa 1762 at Anson Co., NC; died circa 1833 at Rutherford
Co., NC.
He lived before 1761 at Sussex Co., VA. He appeared on the census of
between 1790 and 1830 at Rutherford Co., NC.
Children of James1 Hill and Margaret Jane Middleton may have been as
+ 2 i.George2 Hill, born circa 1762 at NC; married (--?--)
Waggoner; married Alice Ashworth.
+ 3 ii.Abel Hill, born circa 1762 at NC; married Elizabeth
+ 4 iii.Reuben Hill, born 1764 at York Dist., SC; married
Margaret Brien.
+ 5 iv.John Hill, born circa 1766 at York Co., SC; married
Rebecca Cooper.
+ 6 v.James Hill II, born circa 1768 at NC; married Jean
(Jane) Robinson; married Priscilla Ryals.
+ 7 vi.Burrell Hill, born circa 1770 at NC; married Rachel
8 vii.Elizabeth Hill; married Robert Hill, son of Charles
Hill; born circa 1772 at NC.
9viii.Richard Hill; born 1774; married Margaret Irvine
10 ix.Henry Hill; born 1776 at NC; married Susanna Rich
Dec 1, 1801.
11 x.Mary Hill; born circa 1781 at NC; married John Rich
Nov 10, 1801.
Generation Two
2. George2 Hill (James1); born circa 1762 at NC; married (--?--)
Waggoner, daughter of John Waggoner I, before 1784; Questionable marriage;
married Alice Ashworth, daughter of John Ashworth and Ann (--?--), 1784;
died 1838 at Pickens Co., SC; Note that will was dated May 13, 1824, proven
July 23, 1834.
He was said to have had all children listed by one source, yet will
abstract only lists four. Will was witnessed by Roswell Hill (no further
info). ,
There were no children of George2 Hill and (--?--) Waggoner.
Children of George2 Hill and Alice Ashworth were as follows:
12 i.Mary3 Hill; born 1785.
13 ii.Margaret Hill; born 1787.
14 iii.Elizabeth Hill; born 1789.
15 iv.Susan Hill; born 1791.
16 v.Malinda Hill; married Moses Hendricks; born 1793.
17 vi.Abel Hill; born 1795.
18 vii.John Hill; born 1797; died 1814.
19viii.Asaph Hill; born 1797.
20 ix.Lewis Hill; born 1799.
21 x.Rachel Hill; born 1804.
22 xi.James Hill; born 1807.
23 xii.(--?--) Hill.
24xiii.(--?--) Hill.
25 xiv.(--?--) Hill.
3. Abel2 Hill (James1); born circa 1762 at NC; married Elizabeth
Waggoner, daughter of John Waggoner and Margaret McLain, 1782; died 1803 at
Pendleton Dist., SC.
He left a will on Jul 18, 1799 at Pendleton Co., SC; WILL OF ABEL HILL -
pp 33-35
Pendleton, a farmer, Every one of my living children. Sons and
daughters of my loving wife Elizabeth to have 5 shillings. To
son James lands and negroes. Son Ruben (?) Hill and Wife
Elizabeth Hill executors.
Dated 18 July 1799.
Wit.: Thomas Cureton (Signed) Abel (X) Hill
Mary (X) Cureton
Rachel (X) Harkens
Proven 15 Mar. 1803. Elizabeth qualified as executor 26 Mar. 1803.
The above published in the book "Pendleton District and Anderson County,
South Carolina Wills, Estates, and Legal Records" by
Alexander, Elliott, Willie. Published by Southern Historical Press,
Inc., PO Box 1267, Greenville, SC 29602. Second Printing: 1994.
This should establish the relationship of Ruben as the son of
Abel Hill as well as other documentation.
Children of Abel2 Hill and Elizabeth Waggoner were as follows:
26 i.Margaret3 Hill; born 1782.
27 ii.Morning (Mona) Hill; born 1784; died 1861.
28 iii.James Hill; born 1786.
29 iv.Richard Hill; born 1788.
30 v.George Hill; born 1790.
31 vi.Asaph Hill; born 1792.
32 vii.John Hill; born 1796.
33viii.Reuben Hill; born 1798.
34 ix.Charles Hill; born 1800.
4. Reuben2 Hill (James1); born 1764 at York Dist., SC; married
Margaret Brien Feb 7, 1791 at Rutherford Co., NC; died 1858 at Dawson Co.,
He was Baptist. He lived in 1790 at Rutherford Co., NC.
Children of Reuben2 Hill and Margaret Brien were as follows:
35 i.William3 Hill; born 1792; died 1860.
36 ii.Abel Hill; born 1793; died 1883.
37 iii.David Hill; born 1795; died 1885.
38 iv.James Hill; born 1797.
39 v.Arabella Hill; born 1798; died 1879.
40 vi.John Hill; born 1800.
41 vii.Margaret Hill; born 1802.
42viii.Asaph Hill; born 1803; died 1859.
43 ix.Reuben Hill II; born 1805.
44 x.Belariah Hill; born 1807.
45 xi.Patricia Hill; born 1809.
46 xii.Scotland Hill; born 1811.
47xiii.Delilah Hill; born 1812.
48 xiv.Martha Hill; born 1814.
49 xv.Richard Hill; born 1816.
5. John2 Hill (James1); born circa 1766 at York Co., SC; married
Rebecca Cooper circa 1788; Questionable marriage. Unproven; died 1795 at
Rutherford Co., NC.
He appeared on the census of 1790 at Morgan District, Rutherford Co.,
NC. He was said to have had several brothers in the area, but they moved to
SC after 1794. It is thought that John's own family was wiped out by an
epidemic except for infant Burrell, who was taken to KY by the Waggoner
family before 1794 at Rutherford Co., NC.
Children of John2 Hill and Rebecca Cooper were as follows:
50 i.(--?--)3 Hill.
51 ii.Burrell Hill; born 1793.
6. James2 Hill II (James1); born circa 1768 at NC; married Jean (Jane)
Robinson Jul 6, 1789 at Lincoln Co., NC; married Priscilla Ryals 1790 at
Rutherford Co., NC; died circa 1800 at Rutherford Co., NC.
There were no children of James2 Hill II and Jean (Jane) Robinson.
Children of James2 Hill II and Priscilla Ryals were as follows:
52 i.Alexander3 Hill; born 1790.
53 ii.John Hill; born 1792.
54 iii.Ryall Hill; born 1794.
55 iv.Charles Hill; born circa 1796.
56 v.Sarah Hill; born 1798.
57 vi.James Hill III; born circa 1800; died 1867.
58 vii.Jeremiah Hill; born 1809.
7. Burrell2 Hill (James1); born circa 1770 at NC; married Rachel Hill,
daughter of Charles Hill, Oct 2, 1788; died circa 1840 at IL.
Children of Burrell2 Hill and Rachel Hill were as follows:
59 i.John3 Hill.
60 ii.Nathan Hill.
61 iii.William H. Hill.
62 iv.Middleton Hill.
63 v.Green Hill.
64 vi.James Hill.
65 vii.Joseph Hill.
66viii.Ephrain Hill.
67 ix.Robert Hill.
Printed on: May 13, 1999
Prepared by: Byron HILL
Ancestral File. unknown repository, unknown repository address, 1947.
unknown author. The Family and Descendants of Burrell Hill and Sarah Pruitt,
Western Kentucky Pioneers.. Houston, TX: Jerry D. Hill and T.R. Howard,
November 1993.
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Lauren Molina and Jason Tam will star in the Keen Company revival of the 1980 Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre. Helmed by Keen artistic director Jonathan Silverstein, the show will begin performances September 11 and play a limited engagement through October 21. Opening night is set for October 2.
Conceived by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene and comprised of Sondheim's lesser known songs, Marry Me a Little is the story of two single neighbors who have never met and are spending their Saturday night alone, with no idea that potential companionship is only one floor away.
The production contains material from Sondheim's catalogue that will be heard for the first time, including "Rainbows" (originally written for the unproduced Into the Woods film and replacing "Two Fairy Tales"), "Yoo-Hoo!" (cut from Sunday in the Park With George and replacing "Pour La Sport"). Additionally, the production will feature "Ah But Underneath" (written for the London premiere of Follies), "Saturday Night," "So Many People," "Silly People" (cut from A Little Night Music), "Can That Boy Foxtrot!," "Who Could Be Blue?" (cut from Follies), "Happily Ever After" (cut from Company) and more.
Molina appeared on Broadway in Rock of Ages and Sweeney Todd. Her additional theater credits include Nobody Loves You, Next Thing You Know, Ernest In Love, Ten Cents a Dance and a national tour of Sweeney Todd. Tam's Broadway credits include Lysistrata Jones, A Chorus Line and Les Miserables. His additional theater credits include Nobody Loves You, Allegiance, The Distant Bells and The Yellow Wood.
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A conservative activist who ran for Pennsylvania governor three times in the 1990s says she will challenge Arlen Specter for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate next year.
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Luksik says Toomey told her last month that he wouldn't challenge Specter. She says it's up to Toomey to decide whether he wants to risk dividing the GOP's conservative wing and allowing Specter to win a sixth term.
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My grandfather, who lived just down Garth Road from the late, lamented Jespersen's in Scarsdale, always used to refer to his "favorite fruit" -- which was Jespersen's chocolate chip cake (a pound cake, I think.) Might anyone familiar with this cake be able to offer a recipe (or, I suppose, a reasonable facsimile)?
Thanks kindly!


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Hunsrück, southernmost mountain region of the Rhenish Uplands in central Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), western Germany, bounded by the Rhine (east), Mosel (north), Saar (west), and Nahe (south) rivers. The undulating Hunsrück plateau, extending approximately 55 mi (90 km) in a southwest-to-northeast direction and 20 to 25 mi in width, has an average elevation of 1,300 to 1,600 ft (400 to 500 m). It is traversed by several higher quartzite ridges including the Soonwald, Idarwald, and Hochwald, their highest peak, the Erbeskopf, reaching 2,684 ft (818 m) in elevation. The lower plateau regions have been cleared of much of their natural deciduous forest and are used primarily for cattle rearing, while the highlands remain covered by extensive beech and spruce forests. Small villages are the predominant form of settlement in the Hunsrück. Simmern is the region's principal town.
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