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Two sites dedicated to helping people interact with perfect strangers are now working together -- The folks at MissedConnections.com have added a section for Chatroulette.
For the uninitiated:
Chatroulette allows anyone with a webcam and some time to kill the chance to connect with another Web cam-using stranger anywhere in the world. Moving from user to user is easy, just a quick click on the "next" button will connect you with someone new.
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Missed Connections, meanwhile, is for the urbanite hoping to track down a person they briefly encountered in real life, inspired by a section on classifieds-listings site Craigslist.
Whereas Missed Connections submissions are usually cute and sentimental, Chatroulette is filled with some of the more bizarre users on the Web. Buzzfeed describes the latter site as "mostly dudes masturbating, but every now and then you'll get a good laugh out of it."
But hey, there is hope -- celebs from Paris Hilton to Ashton Kutcher have reportedly used the site, and there seem to be a few legitimate posts on the Missed Connections board.
One Chatrouletter wrote, "We're both students and it was an hour before you had to go to class and the screen froze! You were using your brother's spy cam on the ceiling and said I was the nicest boy in my school, even though I don't know German. We should exchange screen names and hang out again."
Chatroulette burst into the spotlight earlier this month when The New York Times' Bits blog revealed that a 17-year-old Russian high school student was behind what is quickly becoming a global internet phenomenon.
So, if you haven't tried out Chatroulette, give it a shot. If you wind up landing on one of the infamously pervy users you can quickly click "next" and who knows -- you may just find someone worth connecting with.


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Spirit and Dust has been released from captivity in the US. Already there have been sightings.
For the next week (until May 23) if you TWEET a picture of Spirit and Dust in the wild (in a store, in your house, in your shopping bag, on a bus/train/plane) then you will go into a drawing to win a signed copy of the first Goodnight adventure, Texas Gothic. Here's the deal, though. You MUST used the hashtag #SpiritandDust to be entered. (Because otherwise I won't see your post.)
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We added a new game to our list: Manic Digger.
Manic Digger is an open-source implementation of block-building games as made famous by Minecraft. Manic Digger started as a third-party client for Minecraft Classic but that compatibility was removed.
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Yesterday, it was announced that Makerbot was acquired in a deal that could be worth up to $600 million. While any exit in NYC is great, what makes this particularly special to those of us on this side of the river is that it was the first tech startup in Brooklyn to sell that was a) native, b) bought for what it did, and perhaps, more importantly, c) had a model whose idea was native to the ideals we promote in this community, namely creativity.
Sure, Wireless Generation sold for $360 million, but they moved to Dumbo six years after they were founded.
Drop.io and Hot Potato were acquire by Facebook, but those were acqui-hires where the value of the teams (all great folks) were more valuable than what they created. That's not really positive or sustainable for building a startup ecosystem.
No, Makerbot was valued for it's existing, real, growing business and it will continue to be in that business for years to come. It seems fitting, too, that it started at NYC Resistor--a little known to the rest of the world hardware hacker space called NYC Resistor tucked away not in Dumbo or Williamsburg, but in Gowanus. (If you don't live in NYC, you're probably googling Gowanus right now, reading about the canal, and imagining Makerbot's birth to look like something out of Swamp Thing. That's basically accurate.
I'm also excited to say that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has already committed to funding a new product also born out of NYC Resistor.
Check out this post from NYC Resistor's blog four years ago about the launch of the very first Makerbot. It features this fun video from the founders:
Perhaps the most important aspect of this exit is that it was from a company whose ethos--allowing people to create things--ties in completely to the values we promote as a community. Brooklyn is the creative capital of the world--and to produce such a successful market leader who makes a business out of creativity is a huge win for what the brand stands for.
It also seems fitting that the company was built by a wacky, mad scientist hacker founder, and funded by an even wackier angel (thank you Jake Lodwick for being the right kind of crazy to take a shot on ideas like this). Brooklyn is going to be an entrepreneurial powerhouse because it's got a critical mass of outside the box thinkers like Bre, cheaper real estate and fantastic talent. It's going to produce more exits of game changing companies. Etsy can't be far behind, and Kickstarter, native to Brooklyn and returning soon, while it likely won't sell to anyone, will throw off enough cash to make their investors quite happy.
It's exciting for me to be running the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn and to be a part of this ecosystem so early--not just as a Brooklyn resident but as a Brooklyn native. I was once someone who thought they had to move to the west coast to go to Stanford to become a VC and now who invests in my own backyard.
I'll continue to invest everywhere in the NYC area, but I think Makerbot is just one of many amazing opportunities that will get built on this side of the East River--and I look forward to helping to build up this community. And it does need help. It needs more investors, more founders, more established companies willing to move and anchor their business in the world's creative capital, and more startup friendly real estate. If you are interested in helping out with any of the above, please reach out at email@example.com.
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The new Aristocracy (the global corporations) is certainly a loser - they lose the ability to wean their way into one market then dominate any local competition. This is often followed by siphoning all profits offshore to a tax-free haven.
The new Aristocracy (the global corporations) is certainly a loser - they lose the ability to wean their way into one market then dominate any local competition. This is often followed by siphoning all profits offshore to a tax-free haven.
The whole hoohah generated by the remainders of disaster around the corner to my mind is just ridiculous. Trade will sort itself out, that is what business does. The devaluation of the pound created by those stupid EU negotiators already will take care of any WTO tarrifs which apparently average around 2.5%!!
I really do wish Teresa would just pull out no deal!!
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
However, am I correct in assuming that the table you show is Most Favoured Nation Tariffs, a different thing I assume.
I saw one WTOtable which assumed an 8% average , a totally different thing.
The table you have shown does confirm the view of the leave brigade, in that food prices would go down in this country, away from the huge protectionist policies of the EU. Not good for British farming I admit.
Do you really believe that the EU would impose those tariffs on us, in face of possibly the same tariffs on a much bigger export to us.
I admit that the British government is unlikely to impose such huge tariffs, with its huge effect on cost of food in this country , but the net tariff income to the country would be huge!! Not much help to the consumer I agrees .
Your table does illustrate though what a monster we have in the EU. Vastly beaurocratic, very protection and a monster.
Can you just imagine Cranswick Foods just upthe road from here having a 40% tariff on 42% of their raw material for Sainsbury's sausages?
What about whatever tariffs might be imposed on French cheese, wine, Mercedes cars etc?
Trump might be an idiot, but he does know about false news, and grandstanding.
All this hoohah is about the EU keeping its £12 billion a year contribution!
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This morning on BBC Radio 4 there was a profile programme on a man called Stollmeyer, a chief of staff of the EU president. Nicknamed the monster, he is 47 years old, German, non elected of course!Apparently at the age of fifteen his father took him to the World War 1 battlefields and he has been a believer in European peace ever since.I agree with that motive, but I think that the present trading relationships cancel that out. In fact suppression of the various nations like Hungary and Catalonia is. Just the reverse.
Apparently Stollmeyer was at the dinner in Downing Street and it was him who leaked reports of the dinner to the press in order to weaken Teresa May.
These. Are the sort of people democracy is up against, totally opposed to a democratic vote, that the beaurocrats and the politicians know best.
The programme was on Radio 4 about 7 o,clock this morning.Mark Coles.
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Thinking out loud ( but with a tin hat on ! ) : Are these "Eurocrats" actually shoting themselves in the foot ? i.e. Juncker says we've got to do this, Garnier says we've got to do that, collectively they say that £20 Billion is a joke so go away and think again, "bang bang you're dead or we're not playing".
The British media are reporting all that and while my initial reason for being a Brexiteer was that I wanted the U.K. to be in control of itself again, I'm wondering if Joe Public is beginning to feel as I do insofar as I just want to say sod them all and just walk away ? Or is it time for another referendum for a stronger mandate or would that be too risky ? Discuss.
Too risky Zaza, the Great British public is too fickle and too thick to understand and evaluate any argument whether pro or con.
Anyone who has ever tried to buy stock from an Irishman will understand the nature of the negotiations. A deal will be made but there will be alot of feet stamping, throwing the arms up in disgust and general bullshitting around. But if you study EU agreements this has forever been the case, then suddenly at one minute to midnight, surprise, surprise a deal is struck and we're all pals again.
I wouldn't worry too much about tax. If we leave without a deal, I don't anticipate paying any for a long, long time.
And I doubt I'll be alone, not by a long shot.
Bang! There goes another chunk of our 'Brexit windfall'
Interesting graph here - blue is what we pay, pink is what we get back out of it, black line is our net contribution. source as per the bottom of the graph. Says it all really. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Common Market was a damn good idea. But when we joined we had no idea about the blood sucking monolith that would evolve. We stood on our own two feet for 2 centuries and we can do it again.
As I understand it our contribution is a percentage of the VAT take, stand to be corrected there. Since our Vat rate has doubled over time, this has resulted in an increased payment to Europe.
Interesting comment I heard.....Farm Assurance inspector doing a visit....Farmer commented that they were getting just a little too intrusive, his reply was that he expected if Brexit came about FA would become a legal requirement not a voluntary action.
Difficult to justify if our shores are opened up to any country in the world that our globe trotting trade minister can find to do a deal with.
Thinking it over....It may well become a legal requirement, the part he failed to realise was that it will not be a legal requirement to continue farming!
Old news I know but.....
The big problem ith all this debate is that from the start we allowed the EU to make all the running.
Had we gone in hard from the start I think the picture would be different.
All along, even when Cameron went EU made the running. All they had to do was grant Cameron some ground on immigration control and benefits. No, they brought all this on themselves. In fact if they had offered some payments to us, so we could house those 3 million immigrants, pay them benefits and give themNHS treatment, I think they would never have had a referendum.
As it is, they have demonstrated it is just about money, not European peace or anything like that.
We should have gone in hard and let. Them beg for our market.
Jack Caley
There was a mention this morning(or last night), surprise, surprise, on BBC about the Stollmeyer git, not spelt correctly, but better spelt as the monster!! Apparently it was him again who said that Teresa was forlorn and dejected. His boss denied it.
It just goes to show though what lengths those EU leeches will go to to keep all that loot.
Jack Caley
The Tories in a "cold" (for the moment) civil war, Nationalism and sectarianism on the rise in NI and Scotland and the next government looking like 60's Marxist throwback. Will a Corbyn led UK with NI in turmoil, Scottish independence back in vogue, Tories split and the City a faction of the size it is, be a good outcome?
From the outside, I can't see how a divided Tory party with a minority in parliament can get this trough, or win the next election.
The UK being run by a 1960's style Marxist Labour party seems to be getting closer and closer.
He seems to be gaining more and more support while the Tories are totally focused on who will replace Mrs May.
I can't remember the last proper attack, by a Tory, on Corbyn, but the "coldwar" in the Tories rages on.
This has to be a fear for the rural and farming communities
The result of the Catalonian vote is interesting to me.
There was a referendum by Catalonian voters, maybe only a percentage, but nevertheless a majority vote for out.
The reaction of other countries, the EU and most importantly our government is to oppose the result and support the Spanish government. Our parliament has a very substantial quantity of MP,s who feel that the referendum result is wrong and that a democratic vote should be ignored, Parliament knows best!!!
It really does illustrate the problem of power. Do politicians have the mentality of power, or are they there to serve the people, their voters?
I suppose in Spain it may yet again come down to money, apparently Catalonia is 30% of Spains GDP. Possibly like EU therein lies the answer.
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You were talking about money and the economy and citing past economic success, going back 200 years, as evidence of future economic success. I was pointing out that your point was pointless. That was a different time and vastly different circumstances. Circumstances that will never be repeated and can have no bearing on our fortunes going forward. A bumper harvest from 10 years ago won't feed today's cattle.
Whether you like it or not, our biggest trading partner is the EU and the economy is geared towards that. Other trade deals will come in time, I'm not disputing that, but that's about as much use in the here and now as being promised a load of hay next week when your cows are looking at empty feeders this morning.
And, since you mention invention and innovation, do you have any evidence this has been stifled by being in the EU?
Incidentally, I see celebrated inventor, innovator and ardent Brexiteer James Dyson is planning to build his new electric cars in China. Hardly a vote of confidence.


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Dr. Paul Griffiths will speak at Wabash College at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hays 104.
Griffiths is the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Catholic Studies and Chair of the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His talk will be titled, "Dissent and Disagreement in a Good Society."
Griffiths has written extensively in the areas of religion and philosophy. He is the author of numerous books including "Problems of Religious Diversity," "Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity," and his latest work is due out next month, "Reason and the Reasons of Faith: Theology for the Twenty-First Century."
He is a regular contributor to First Things magazine.
His talk is free to the public. A reception will follow. His appearance is sponsored by The Commentary and Wabash College Religion Department.


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What should we do with our blink of time?
The long view of science turns out to be both reassuring and daunting. Life on Earth turns out to be remarkably resilient. Within the story of our 13.5-billion-year old universe, our own lives -- so crucial to us and to our families and dear friends -- look fleeting, gossamer. These paradoxes overwhelm me.
For five years, I've immersed myself in geologic time while writing exhibit text for the new Natural History Museum of Utah. Again and again, mass extinctions sweep away millions of years of diversity, and we start anew.
One time period produces six-foot-long arthropods that look like centipedes in a child's nightmare. Another evolutionary interval yields a flightless six-foot-high bird whose head mostly consists of formidable jaws, a predator that may have hunted in packs. The Mesozoic landscape teems with dinosaurs the size of commuter jets -- and then the strange animals are gone.
Evolution proves relentlessly inventive as life forms come and go. I recognize that humans appear as just one more entry in the evolutionary spiral. But now we don't just live within this geologic story, we shape it. With that power comes responsibility.
Geologists think of the last 65 million years as recent, and so all the epochs in our era end with -cene, from the Greek for "recent."Pleistocene. Eocene. Holocene. The prefix changes, but the "-cenes" mark "recent" developments in evolutionary and tectonic cycles, even when the timeline for these epochs reaches back tens of millions of years.
Many scientists now believe that we have entered the Anthropocene. In just two centuries of this "human-dominated recent time period," beginning with the Industrial Revolution, we have transformed half of the Earth's land surface, changed global climates and triggered losses in biodiversity. Animals slip away as we destroy their habitat, at extinction rates 45 times greater than the long-term average (for mammals) and 270 times greater than average (for rainforest species).
In the Anthropocene, 7 billion people everywhere insert themselves into delicately interwoven systems. Bio-crusts carpet the soil in dry country. Disturb that living crust in the redrock canyons of the Four Corners with a careless boot print, too numerous livestock, or a freewheeling all-terrain vehicle, and you liberate dust to blow onto the snowpack in the Rockies. Dark snow melts faster than clean snow, and the spring runoff now comes 50 days earlier in the Colorado River Basin, with stark consequences downstream.
We've constructed a desert civilization in the American Southwest that depends on water from elsewhere. When climate change drains the delivery system, will Phoenix and Las Vegas (let alone small towns like Hanksville and Needles) dry up and blow away?
And so I've become obsessed with fragility. We can take nothing for granted, from the air we breathe, to the value of our homes, to the well being of our loved ones.
In one recent week, I saw this tenuousness shatter four exceptional people. I attended memorial services for two friends, one who died in a freak accident at 41, a second who died of a disease with no treatment and no cure, at 63. In between, I visited a mentor living with the debilitating aftermath of a stroke and a legendary teacher paralyzed in a bike accident and fighting for breath, year after year.
Watch your step. On this day-to-day level, live every moment fully. Nurture resilience.
When we can define geologic time by our actions, we must think hard about consequences. When we have become connected to one-third of the people of the planet through our computers, our effects multiply; politics and social justice and human rights are no longer local issues. In the Internet-driven Anthropocene, we mightily affect our generation and those who come after us.
We can deal with the Anthropocene with hubris -- why conserve when in a million years we will move on to a new evolutionary world? This might explain the Utah Legislature's selfish attempt to turn over fragile public lands to the state for development, for management by the few and for the few, even though all Americans own the federal lands in question. Or the fossil fuel industry, intent on maximizing profits until we've drilled the last drop of oil, without regard for the people who live nearby.
Or we can deal with the extraordinary opportunity of our few decades on Earth with restraint, blessed by the fragile miracles of our health and acutely aware that we must act with care if our natural world is to flourish.
Stephen Trimble is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a writer and photographer in Salt Lake City and was the lead writer for the new Natural History Museum of Utah.


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Ethan Martin easily takes the #9 spot, no new names have been added.
List so far:
- Biddle
- Quinn
- Morgan
- Joseph
- Franco
- Ruf
- Asche
- Pettibone
- Martin
I voted Gillies. For reference:
Player POS
Tyson Gillies CF
68 276 59 84 13 8 4 24 125 18
52 8 6 0.369 0.453 0.304 0.822 2
Cody Asche 3B
68 263 42 79 20 3 10 47 135 22
56 1 1 0.360 0.513 0.300 0.873 11
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Gillies: G = 68. AB = 276. TB = 125. BB = 18. OPS = .822. AVG = .304. E = 2.
Asche: G = 68. AB = 263. TB = 135. BB = 22. OPS = .873. AVG = .300 E = 11.
However, Asche doesn't have a history of leg injuries that have hindered his development. I don't think anyone doubts that Gillies has the talent to succeed. The problem is that he can't stay healthy when he gets on the field. If he shows that he can stay healthy for an entire season, his stock will rise like crazy. He hasn't shown that ability yet and therefore the skepticism is warranted.
The big difference here is in the similar looking AB and equal G. Asche's number is small, because he spent the other part of his season excelling at Clearwater, following a double jump from Williamsport. Gillies number is small, because he was hurt, yet again. Most of the lost time was to a concussion. That can't really be his fault, although possibly his hearing problems contributed to the collision. His recovery from the concussion was unusually slow. Also, he ended the season with more leg woes. If he had stayed healthy, Gillies likely was our starting CF part of last season and we would be looking forward to a full year of him patrolling CF in PHilly, this season, with Worley still our #4 starter. Unfortunately, it was several years ago that Gillies first set foot in Reading's stadium. Since then, he has been defined more by injury than by baseball success. He played less than half a season last year and that was a giant improvement for him.
Asche: Age = 22
Gillies: Age = 24
I voted for Tocci. Even though he is a long way away from the majors, he has star potential (as others have previously noted). Aumont, Defratus, Greene, Watson were others I considered. I don't get the love for Gillies. I think his likely outcome, IF he stays healthy, is a 4th outfielder. And that's if he stays healthy.
Honestly, I voted for Tocci previously, as well as Gillies. I have never been this wishy-washy with my rankings (i.e. like Tocci one day more; prefer Gillies the next). Either way, I think Gillies production last year was better than I expected. And pre-injuries, I liked what I saw of him in Phillies Spring Training. We'll see. I like them both. A lot.
I'm not saying he doesn't have the potential to be a very good player- but 'star potential' might be a bit much without much power. I take a list and I look at it as a trade- which guy wouldn't I trade for one of the others. From that list it's Aumont for me.
This is 100% correct. I voted for Tocci here, but there certainly is not hint at present that his upside is more than Revere, because there is no credible hint of power to come. Tocci is this high on potential, largely because of speed, athleticism, defense, and trusting the scouts that he will learn to hit for average as he becomes older and more age appropriate for the league he is in. He almost held his own in GCL, which is an accomplishment at 16. Really, all the choices here are flawed in some way. I may need to promote Aumont up the list as my next pick.
Voted for Aumont over Tocci but expect I'll be voting for Aumont again at #11. I also like Gillies potential but he's needs to have a healthy season before I can justify ranking him above a few others who are still out there.
Agreed. I don't really have a problem with Tocci here but I do prefer a guy who is already in the majors and has filthy stuff he just needs to harness.
Agree as well. I went Aumont here, probably Tocci and Gillies next for the reasons mentioned.
Agree precisely
I went with Watson here. It was between him and Tocci. With two plus-pitches, I figure Watson has about the same chance of fulfilling his ceiling as a No. 1-2 starter than Tocci does to add the power needed to be an All-Star CF. And given the choice, I'd take the stud starting pitcher over the CF.
This. Pitching trumps all.
I think it takes a really huge dose of optimistic dreaming and the big rosy-lens glasses to see Watson as a potential #1 starter. That is the old 'he's a #1 draft pick and we don't know enough about him yet to lower his ceiling below infinity' approach. Of course, we also don't know enough about him to raise his floor above 'guy who fails to reach AAA'.
Tocci. All of the guys left, that are in full-season ball, are not projected as regulars or starting pitchers. Of the ss guys, Tocci and Watson probably have the most upside. I took the position player.
In the last thread, the argument that Aumont should be in the top 10, if Ethan Martin is in the top 10, made me rethink my placement of the two players. Aumont does have closer stuff, so if you believe Martin may wind up in the bullpen, why not Aumont over Martin?
If I thought that Martin was definately going to end up in the pen I would take Aumont ahead of him but since Martin is still working as a starter, he remains ahead of Aumont for now.
I would say that Martin has been more successful than Aumont as a AA starter thus justifying a higher ranking. I went with Tocci hear with Watson next.
I went with Tocci here. I will likely go with Austin Wright next.
Larry Greene Jr….monster godzilla like power…I can't believe I'm only his 7th vote
He is 9 on my list…look at his hit tool numbers next to Quinns, they are nearly identical yet they couldn't be two more opposite ends of the spectrum type players.
WPT is not a great place for power hitters. I expect his OPS to see a nice jump in Lakewood.
I also expect Greene's number to continue to improve, but man Lakewood is a tough tough place for power hitters.
It is yes but Howard managed 19 HRS and an OPS of 828 as a 22 year old. I wouldn't expect that from LG but let's see where he comes in at.
Doesn't Inciarte provide us with the paradigm to not rank Ruf, JDF and Aumont? Whatever your cup of tea VOR is correct IMO you cannot have Martin above JDF or Aumont. Well I guess you could but I wouldn't. And if you are going to have those guys available what about Rosenberg?
My list doesn't include those guys because in my mind they have graduated to the big club. having those guys in the vote kind of muddies the water.
Once we get through Tocci/LGJ/Watson/Wright I think I will start throwing in Aumont and DeFratus.
Agree on JDF, Aumont, Ruf. They will be playing in CBP this summer. I have a hard time reading about what Tocci will be like while I look at a good defensive catcher slip out of the top ten. If he doesn't belong, neither does Tocci. The old proximity versus potential argument goes on.
I agree that at low Minors the preference is toward position players. Tocci has the potential to be a star player. Not saying he will be or that road is not long, but I think that he has to be considered a Top 10 prospect.
Random question but where is Alan? He usually has good commentary on this list.
I was happy the Phillies tried to move Aumont to a starting pitcher. His pitch arsenal is certainly diverse enough to be a starting pitcher, his frame appeared sufficient, and the Mariners either were protecting him on innings or trying to aggressively promote him as a reliever. His 'upside' would likely have been #2 and with control (unlikely to happen) possibly #1.
Unfortunately it did not work out as Aumont could not harness his control and spiraled even further out of his element. I doubt the adversity was beneficial but hopefully he can make progress as a stud reliever.
That was really just to get him more innings, their plan was always to put him in the pen ultimately.
You really believe that??????? Cool aid time.
This was difficult, had to go Tocci though bc of the upside.
Ruben on Ethan Martin yesterday in philly.com:' "His command was very good with us, I guess he had had some issues with throwing his breaking ball for strikes, and I guess he had stopped throwing it for a while. But he came and threw for us, and it's an above-average Major League breaking ball. Hopefully he stays with it and continues to master it. "He's got good stuff. He's got four pitches. When he came to us, his delivery was good. He threw the ball pretty darn well, and hopefully he continues that progress."
Let's hope he is right. I agree with Matt that usually you have to take what the front office says with a grain of salt. That is the first time I've heard someone say he has four pitches.
I always weigh ceiling and floor on each vote. A stud closer is a pretty good ceiling for a prospect, and I think Aumont's floor is pretty high. He's going to spend the next few years as at least a part time major leaguer. Even if he stinks, teams are going to keep giving him chances because of his stuff. I like the ceilings on Tocci and Watson, but their floors are so, so low that I can't put them ahead of Aumont.
For me, if Aumont is anything less than a lights out closer he has so little value i will then go upside. I went with mean Larry Greene and will continue to until he wins a spot. Part of this is the fact i am just not confident Aumont will put it ALL together to be a closer. Sure, he will probably be a 7th/8th inning guy but even that is no guarantee if he puts a couple of those crazy multiple walk games in a row. Also, Gillies needs to show me a full season of no injuries or he stays really low in my rankings. That's just my 1 and a 1/2 cents..
Aumont. LarryGeene really?
Yea, Larry Greene really……. Nothing wrong with projectable power especially if he sticks in Left. I think our main difference is confidence in Aumont. I won't rank a reliever i don't think can put it all together over a guy who is thought to have 80 power. That is just me but i also don't see how my opinion is so far from reality.
Given what we are paying Adams, I'd hardly say a reliever other than a lights-out closer has little value. Papelbon is a little less than lights out as a closer and you are looking at $50 million there. Even if Aumont turns out as nothing more than a 7th inning reliever in the Phillies scheme of things, that is still $2-3 mill/yr. of value. I think he can be more than that. People who rank prospects tend to really downgrade even excellent prospect relievers, but GMs continue to pay them on a par with #3/4 starters.
7th inning relievers don't get paid anywhere near, what real #3 starters get.
Never said they did. I said they often get $2-3 mill. #3 starters often get $6,8,even10 mill. But you didn;t address that non-lights-out-closer-relievers like Adams or mediocre closers don't get a hefty pile of cash, because in reality they do.
I have to apologize for my post the other day. I was 95% frustrated with this Free AEC stuff as I was catching up the last weeks worth of comments and 5% frustrated with this polling. The reality is it is nobody's fault but my own that I allow the Free AEC stuff to bother me and as a few of you said in response to my post, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I appreciate the kind words many of you shared and I will continue to share what tidbits I can contribute this summer. This is a wonderful site and the majority of you are great baseball fans with good, passionate opinions that I enjoy hearing. I hate that there are a few commenters that levy either personal attacks on others or just throw out nonsense (Free AEC) that adds no value, but I shouldn't let it take away from all the great contributions of the rest of you. So one big apology to pp.com and glad to see y'all are finally voting Tocci :).
No problem, we all encounter frustrating days.
Glad you reconsidered.. Don't let anything get you down on this site. We are just sitting around rating marginal prospects from a rather weak system. No pressure. words are just words.. your idea may be as valuable as any other. I like Aumont next maybe..
I see 110 people were up last night and all 110 of them voted for Austin Wright and zero voted for Tocci. It is really pathetic, how much time someone would spend, harassing a WordPress minor league baseball internet site.
Agree VOR. Have my suspicions concerning the one individual who would do that.
Interesting discussion here about value of closers and then separately the issue of age of some of the Phils prospects.
I went Tocci again of course as I heavily weigh the upside argument, ie, would you rather have the next potential Mike Trout or the next potential Jonathan Papelbon? Trout is a tough one to get via trade or free agency, whereas a top notch closer much tougher. Having said that, if this team is willing to pay a closer $13M a year, I sure would see big value in Aumont being able to replace Papelbon when his contract is up and save approx $10M a year for that role. I think when it comes to relievers maybe we should value the true closer a bit more and the next level down a bit less even.
As for age, it really is amazing to me that some are so critical of Dom and at the same time so complementary of Ruf. I have no idea what Ruf is going to do this year, or in his career, but while I'm skeptical I'm very excited to watch it unfold. As for Brown, I really feel like a breakout year is a possibility. He should be well over the hump with his wrist, I think the pressure on him to perform is much less than it had been in previous years, he's had time to work with his swing change, and it just seems like if he can stay healthy this year we may see big things. Would be quite the lift to this organization if Brown developed into a legit everyday RF and Ruf the same in LF.
Ben Revere was a 2.4 WAR player last year, Papelbon was a 1.6 WAR player. Madson was a 1.5 WAR player in his best years.
Even if Tocci never gains any power, he has more upside than any of these relievers. Even the closers.
Another way to measure players value is by salary. Top closers make between $8-12M while elite position players and aces make $25M. I think legitimate #3 starters make about $10M which certainly can be debated.
Given those estimates I put the value of a consistent closer similar to that of a #3 starter. However, I will agree that projecting failed starters as 'consistent' closers seems unlikely. The variability of most relievers from year to year seems to confirm this risk.
If Martin cannot make it as a starter, will he have enough control on two plus pitches to become a stud closer? Once we bump down to top setup guys the cost appears to be about $5M which would be more along the lines of a #4 starter. Certainly some value there but again reliever consistency is tough to find.
"If Martin cannot make it as a starter,"
Plus fastball and wipe out curveball. Sounds like Brad Lidge. Phillies traded Michael Bourn to obtain Lidge.
And it won them a WS
Would say that more an indication of the shortcomings of WAR as a true comparison of players across positions, especially position players vs. relievers.
I would like to see a comparison of team WARs (+ replacement team wins) to actual team wins across MLB year-by-year. Such a study could be part of a broader analysis of when WAR is useful and when it is not.
Why Austin Wright over Tocci or LGjr?
When did Wright get all those votes?
Some no-life hacked the vote and added 170 votes to Autin Wright early this morning.
So Tocci isn't a top 10 prospect in the Phillies system??? Seriously? Fringe bullpen prospects should never trump a legit cf prospect…who is only 17! Come on people, vote for Pedro, I mean Carlos.
I think there has been some mistake because Wright only had like 7 or so votes last time I checked before I went to bed. He was behind everyone up to Valle.
Buddy, I enjoy reading your contributions to the site, and I am glad that you have reconsidered. I think, overall, we discount quality relief pitching, but then go get journeymen and pay them a lot of money. So, a relief prospect has to have a little value, I would think. How about you?e
I can see it both ways. I tend to give significant value to Aumont and Giles because I believe both can and will be closers in the big leagues someday, with Giles being the better of the two. I think pitchers with that capability have good value.
For me the next group down is DeFratus, Diekman, and Simon, who I don't believe will be closers but could end up being decent setup relievers, which carry much less value than a closer due to salary differences.
The last group is the group that I give almost no value to, which would include guys like Schwimer, Herndon, and Cloyd, who I believe are either long men or mop up middle relief type roles and are more than easily replaceable through free agency and non-tenders at very low financial cost.
The one wildcard to me was Bonilla, as his stuff would put him in the first group in my opinion, but some people questioned whether he would have the right makeup and maturity to be able to handle late inning pressure situations. Having said that, he had alot of time to mature and grow up if you believe what you hear and I for one would be willing to give an arm like that some more time to grow up.
What did LGJr do so wrong last year that he is getting no love here at #10…our first pick a few years ago who had a good year last year and is still in lf as opposed to being moved to 1b…I like Tocci too and probably have him too low at 15 but LGJr was drafted that high for a reason.
I am still skeptical of LGJ because although his batting average and OBP look good, he struck out in 25.7% of his at bats and he had a BABIP of .378. Lots of strikeouts and good fortune on balls in play is usually not a recipe for sustainable success. Finally, he didn't show a ton of power in games. I know it is a tough ballpark to hit in and generally a tough hitters' league, but nothing about what he did really stands out to me. I'm probably being too harsh, but I do think he did a few things wrong last year and that has hurt his value.
Sorry, that was me.
I'm still encouraged by his ability to draw walks. Enough that I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now with the power part of his game. He's not in my personal top 10 but he's not far from it and I still have pretty high expectations for him next season.
Matt…is it possible to lay out top ten on the site vs BA's, BP's and MLB's. so we can get a overview?
Shades of Damarii Saunderson with the poll this week?
At least Wright would be a defensible pick in this spot, but if it was really just one guy, that's pretty sad.
How did Austin Wright go from 7 votes out of the 1st 400 votes cast before midnight, to 180 votes out of the next 210?
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Friday, July 28, 2006
Drug Lunches
The pharmaceutical industry deals in drugs, and doctors dispense drugs. The pharmaceutical industry wants doctors to use their drugs. So they market. This is America - we do this. Look at Starbucks, Panera offering WiFi, McDonalds giving away Disney Toys, Nike, Apple. They all have products, and they market these products to the average American who often can't afford higher prices for their products. Yet these companies spend zillions of dollars marketing their products. Their shareholders demand it, revenues rely on it. And guess what.... people buy their products. Can you believe? Yep, doctors might actually be influenced by a drug company buying them lunch! And companies might profit!
But in the case of marketing to doctors, well that's not okay, because they're rich! They are single-handedly increasing the cost of health care! Look at those drug lunches! Look at all that fat! See? I told you! And those free pills they get - those are driving up the cost of health care to American's, I tell you! See how unethical and unprofessional they are? I'm sure that's why the cost of healthcare is spinning out of control! It's the doctors having lunch! And free lunch at that!
But I would remind the casual reader that there are few professions that have sustained a negative reimbursement rate for services rendered like the medical profession. The July-August issue of Physicians Practice published a survey of internists, family practice doctors, and pediatricians salaries by Merritt, Hawkins and Associates. The average generalists' salary was $150,000 per year, over half of the doctors were "dissapointed" with their income relative to their work effort, and 28.6% of doctors stated that in retrospect, they would not choose to go into medicine again at all. All this with an aging and growing population that needs these guys more than ever.
Look, what the drug companies feel is useful or not is up to them. It's a great country and this is the American Way. The free market has permitted our health care system to be the best in the world. Certainly, I can elect not to attend drug lunches. My employer can elect to stop permitting drug lunches. But will this self-virtuous act change the cost or quality of healthcare?
I know there are colleagues who are emphatic about this issue: that we, the doctors, should live a puritanican lifestyle and not interface in any way with peddlers of products that might influence our decisions. Especially medical decisions. But we interface with these products every day. Nearly every major medical profession I can think of receives a significant portion of its operating budget from the pharmaceutical or medical device industries. Look at any "Scientific Session" or "professional society" in medicine. Even the AMA peddles our prescribing habits to the drug industry to receive funds.
Certainly physicians should take a lead in reducing the costs of healthcare for our patients. But we should not be disingenuous about our dealings with these companies either. I'd like to think I'm capable of independent thought on the subject of drug marketing. Believe me, as the article suggests, enticements were much more prevalent before 2002 and yet here we are, with a healthcare system that is emulated by many and yet with higher costs than ever before. Was this from doctor's lunches? Will we stop deluding ourselves to thinking that stopping this practice will influence the cost of medications? Newsflash: it won't. The days of the $10 pill are here. And drug lunches didn't start this.
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Eli Lilly is a big drug company that puts profits over patients.
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You Have Now Been Sampled (Drug Reps, Part 2)
While the pharmaceutical industry's image and reputation has suffered, and has been complicated with their declining profits due to a few reasons, these companies still apparently insist on keeping most of their gift- givers on board. Known presently as simply drug reps today, this job has become a vocation void of a sense of accomplishment, which will be described below.
So they may be named at times in different ways, these promoters will be referred to as drug reps, which number close to 100,000 in the U.S. presently, it is believed. The cost to the pharmaceutical industry of these employees is around 5 billion dollars a year. Income for each rep grosses close to or above 100,000 grand a year on average, along with great benefits and a company car, as well as stock options as they gladly work from their homes.
The main function these days of drug reps, I believe, is primarily to offer doctors various types of inducements of a certain value. The drug sampling of doctors may be considered an inducement, and a rather valuable one for the drug rep, as many believe that these samples are what ultimately influence the doctor's prescribing habits over anything else, including statements from drug reps. This may be why the drug industry spends around 20 billion every year on samples.
While historically drug reps have used their persuasive abilities to influence the prescribing habits of doctors in an honest and ethical manner. However presently, most health care providers now simply refuse to speak with them, or have banned all drug reps permanently from their practices for a number of reasons, including the recommendations from their colleagues. It is possible that this may be due to the following reasons:
1. The doctors lose money. Doctors are normally busy, so their time is valuable. As a drug rep, you are a waste of their time. Yet they will accept your samples still. The credibility you possibly have as a rep is not considered anymore to be present in your vocation due to various controversies associated with the pharmaceutical industry, it is speculated.
2. Most drug reps in the U.S. are hired for their looks and their personality. As a result, many are somewhat ignorant in regards to anything that is clinically relevant to a medical practice, so doctors seem to know this and have responded in such ways. Most drug reps have college degrees that do not correlate with their profession as a drug rep, which is to say that the clinical training of drug reps is limited. In fact, many consider this of such a serious nature that an Act is presently being considered called the SafeRx Act that would certify pharmaceutical reps, and this would be mandatory. One main reason would be to ensure personal accountability for their tactics and statements, I believe, which may improve the quality and safety of their function in the medical community.
3. Many drug reps, it is believed, are void of any ethical considerations due to ignorance of what they are coerced to do or say to prescribers by their employer, and this allows them to embellish the benefits of their promoted products at times in addition to offering inducements to doctors. This is usually due to the rep being unaware of the consequences of their actions at times, yet at other times what reps say is with premeditated intent for potential financial gain for such a drug rep. Worse yet, due to pressure to keep their high-paying jobs, they always are anxious to please their superiors, who require them to offer various types of inducements to physicians that are designated targets of a particular drug company. Such tactics are especially true with the larger drug companies. These reps are in fact coerced to spend these individual promotional budgets assigned to them by their employer. While legally risky, the drug companies continue to dispense to their reps these large budgets reps have been forced to be responsible for dispensing, and are required to spend these budgets. In fact, so much emphasis is placed on this promotional spending, there seems to be an association between the money a rep spends and the progression that occurs with their career working for their pharmaceutical employer. Disclosure laws are being considered presently to mandate the release of all funds dispensed from pharmaceutical companies, which is to say to allow others to see where their money goes and who it goes to, as it is presently very secretive, overall. It is not unusual for a big drug rep to spend 50 thousand dollars a year for clinic lunches alone. In addition, drug reps hire doctors as speakers for certain disease states, and they find many other ways to spend this money they are required to spend.
4. Another issue is what is referred to as data mining. The American Medical Association sells this prescribing data on individual doctors to pharmaceutical companies, which allows them to track the scripts a doctor writes, and the data is free of the patient names. Yet the names the products prescribed are well illustrated and available to the drug reps. This allows reps to tailor their tactical approach with any given doctor, if they see the doctor at all during an office visit. Worse yet, doctors who greatly support the promoted products determined by this data allow reps to reward those doctors who favor the rep's products that they promote, and this could be considered a form of quid pro quo. Laws are being considered presently to prevent this practice of allowing reps to have this data. Doctors are opposed to the data the reps have as well about them for privacy and deceptive reasons, so they say.
5. Overall, reps can be best described as far as their function goes with their profession is to, whenever possible, manipulate doctors with remuneration or other forms of inducements, as they also continue to sample such doctors along with others their promoted meds. Also, frequent lunches are in fact bought often for doctors' offices and their staff as a method of access, primarily, as stated earlier with the money reps spend earlier for this type of function. Essentially, because of the income and benefits the drug reps receive that they would likely not be able to obtain with any other job, they are compelled to do such unethical if not illegal tactics mentioned earlier that they perhaps normally would not do in another setting. Usually these drug reps rarely refuse to implement such tactics encouraged to them by their employers.
6. Samples keep the prescriber from selecting what may be their preferred choice of med due to cost savings from samples left with a medical office by a drug rep. In addition, doctors are now being paid by prescription providers, which are called pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that are typically owned by a managed care company to have a doctor switch their patients to generic substitutes, if they exist, and this is often not disclosed to such patients. Apparently, these PBM companies are doing this in response to the activities of the branded drug companies, as they continue pay doctors often for various reasons, which are questionable in themselves.
It is likely that most drug reps are good and intelligent people who unfortunately are coerced to do things that may be considered corruptive to others in order to maintain their employment, ultimately. It seems that external regulation is necessary to prevent the drug companies from allowing the autonomy of drug reps that exists, with their encouragement, which forces the reps to do the wrong thing for the medical community, possibly. Clearly, greed has replaced ethics with this element of the health care system, which is the pharmaceutical industry, as illustrated with what occurs within these companies. However, reversing this misguided focus of drug companies is not impossible if the right action is taken for the benefit of public health. Likely, if there are no drug reps, there is no one to employ such tactics mentioned earlier. Because authentically educating doctors does not appear to be the reason for their vocation. This is far from being the responsibility of a pharmaceutical sales representative.
"What you don't do can be a destructive force." --- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Infante scores lone Royals run in loss to Rockies
Chen has rough first inning, Duffy gives up home run
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Rockies starter Juan Nicasio breezed through four scoreless innings, Kyle Parker drove in five runs, Corey Dickerson hit a home run and Paul Janish was 3-for-3 in a 10-1 victory over the Royals on Sunday at Surprise Stadium.
Nicasio, in two starts, has a total of seven scoreless innings. The Royals' only hit off him was Omar Infante's single; he walked one and struck out three.
"I was working on my fastball down in the zone and my slider," Nicasio said. "They were really good today because I threw many breaking balls down in the zone."
Dickerson belted a solo homer just over the right-field wall in the sixth inning. That was the lone run given up by left-hander Danny Duffy in his three innings. Duffy is competing with Yordano Ventura for the Royals' fifth rotation spot.
"Danny did a great job," catcher Brett Hayes said. "He threw all his pitches for strikes, he was down in the zone, he attacked hitters. The one mistake he made was the home run pitch, but he knew it and composed himself and did a nice job to come back and get through it."
Parker, a first-round Draft choice in 2010, belted a three-run double to deep center field in a four-run ninth inning against right-hander Michael Mariot. Then Parker scored on Kent Matthes' single.
Parker also contributed to a three-run seventh inning against Royals closer Greg Holland. Janish got his third single and stole second, Tim Wheeler was hit by a pitch and Parker delivered a two-run double. Parker took third on center fielder Jarrod Dyson's error and scored on Matthes' sacrifice fly.
Left-hander Bruce Chen, the Royals' No. 4 starter, had a rocky first inning. He gave up three successive hits -- Drew Stubbs' single, Matt McBride's double and Wilin Rosario's two-run single. He also issued a walk before closing out the inning.
Chen finished up with two scoreless innings and a 47-pitch workout that included 32 strikes.
The Royals scored a run in the seventh against Adam Ottavino on two walks and Jimmy Paredes' RBI single down the left-field line.
Up next: James Shields, just anointed the Opening Day starter for the Royals, will continue preparations for March 31 at Detroit against the Seattle Mariners at 3:05 p.m. CT on Monday at Peoria Stadium. An unanswered question is whether Infante's shoulder will feel well enough to play second base for the first time in 12 days. Others in the Royals' pitching plans are P.J. Walters, Francisley Bueno, Aaron Crow and Jon Rauch. The Mariners' probable pitchers include Brandon Maurer, Yoervis Medina and Ramon Ramirez.


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BRUINS: Bergeron leads Boston past Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Patrice Bergeron scored the go-ahead goal on a third-period power play in leading the hot-starting Boston Bruins to a 3-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday night.
Brad Marchand and Milan Lucic, into an empty net, also scored. Backup goalie Anton Khudobin made 25 saves in only his second start of the season.
The Bruins (8-1-1) are off to the team's best start to a season by earning 17 points in their first 10 games. The team's previous best was 16 points through 10 games, set four times, the last in 1978-79, when they opened 7-1-2.
Boston beat the only team that's defeated them this season, after the Sabres won 7-4 at Boston on Jan. 31. And the Bruins continued their roll following an extended break.
The Bruins have been off since a 2-1 win at Montreal on Wednesday, and had their home game against Tampa Bay on Saturday postponed due to a winter storm.
Tyler Ennis scored for Buffalo, and Ryan Miller was solid in making 36 saves.
Bergeron's goal came 28 seconds after Buffalo's Mike Weber began serving a delay-of-game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass in his own zone. The Bruins worked the puck back to the left point, where Chris Bourque's point shot hit a body in front.
The puck took a hard carom off the end boards and dribbled directly to Bergeron in the left circle, from where he snapped a shot into the top right corner.
Miller was otherwise outstanding in keeping the Sabres in it, while coming off a stellar 41-save outing in a 3-2 win at Long Island a night earlier.
In the first period, Miller got his right pad out to stop Zdeno Chara on a breakaway. Early into the third period, Miller got his glove up to snag Marchand's snap shot from the lower right circle, where he was set up by Thomas Vanek's giveaway.
Miller's best save came six minutes into the second period when he spread-eagled, getting his right pad out, to stop Nathan Horton's one-timer from the left circle.
And Miller had little chance on Marchand's opening goal, which sneaked in through a crowd 7:10 into the second period. The goal came as a result of Ennis' lazy no-look clearing attempt that was easily stopped at the left point by Andrew Ference.
Ennis made up for that miscue 11 minutes later. Set up along in front by Drew Stafford's pass from the right boards, Ennis faked a shot to draw out Khudobin, and then snapped a shot in behind the goalie.
The Bruins goalie had his big moments, too, though most of the Sabres shots he faced came from the outside.
Khudobin got his blocker out to stop Stafford's sharp shot from the right circle 5 minutes in. He did the same to stop a shot from defenseman Andrej Sekera from nearly the same spot midway through the second period.
Bruins forward Chris Kelly avoided a scare in the final seconds of the first period. Driving in on net from the left wing, Kelly got a shot off before going airborne and crashing hard into the right post. Kelly got up immediately and returned for the start of the second period. NOTES: Sabres D Robyn Regehr returned after missing seven games with a lower body injury. LW Matt Ellis was waived for reassignment to AHL Rochester. ... Bruins forward Shawn Thornton returned after missing two games with a concussion. The Bruins had two other regulars return: forwards Daniel Paille (upper body), who missed two games, and Marchand (upper body), who missed one game. ... Sabres LW Ville Lieno, who's yet to play this season because of a hip injury, said before the game that he felt "not bad" after skating earlier in the day.


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MusicUnitesUS founder Judith Eissenberg explains program's origins
When Judith Eissenberg, professor of the practice of music, founded MusicUnitesUS in 2003, she wanted to explore how the creative act of making music brings people closer.
For the past 11 years, internationally renowned musicians such as Senegalese percussionist Lamine Toure, Palestinian oudist Simon Shaheen, and Homayun Sakhi, a rubâb player from Azerbaijan, have been creating beautiful soundscapes during their residencies at Brandeis. Their performances - aural bridges between local world traditions and the Brandeis community – bring people closer as they listen together.
When Trio Da Kali comes to campus for their residency Feb. 26 through March 1, we will have the rare opportunity to experience music of the griot tradition of Southern Mali, a deeply stirring and vibrant music, and the origins of the blues.
|Lila Bambo by Trio Da Kali
Brought together for the first time at the BBC Proms in London in 2013, the trio of griots combines the deep, vibrant voice of Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, daughter of legendary singer Kassé Mady Diabaté, the dazzling virtuoso balafon playing of Fodé Lassana Diabaté (Symmetric Orchestra, AfroCubism), and Mamadou Kouyaté providing brilliant bass lines in the tradition of his father, ngoni maestro Bassekou Kouyaté. Their music evokes the timeless, rolling savannas of Southern Mali with dashes of contemporary Bamako street weddings and late night performances.
Their visit will include classes and workshops that cross academic disciplines, a visit to Waltham High School and a world music concert in Slosberg Music Center on March 1. Tickets for the concert are $20, $15 for the Brandeis community and seniors, and $5 for students.
A full schedule of events is available on the MusicUnitesUS website.
But first, learn how it began, in a Q&A with Eissenberg.
What is the idea behind MusicUnitesUS?
I started MusicUnitesUS (MUUS) in the wake of the events of 9/11 as an outreach program to the Waltham schools. Bluntly put, I wanted to counter the image of the gun with the sounds of a love song. That, of course, is a simplification. But it gets to the point – we need to find a way to hear the whole story, and music has been offering that since the first lullaby, the first prayer.
Music is not a universal language. The very fact that music can sound so different according to place, time, and function, is evidence that music is many, many languages. The idea behind MUUS is that music offers us the means to explore our differences, and in doing so, helps us come toward each other.
The program offers us the chance to listen together in the context of classes across the academy. Musicians from around the world come to campus to share their virtuosity, ideas of beauty, and traditional values through sound. Listening to these sounds, whether from the standpoint of anthropology, global studies, gender studies, history, philosophy, or in my own World Musics class, can reveal so much about culture and society. I think this deepens our appreciation of each other, and helps us to understand the many different world views.
How is MusicUnitesUS supported? Why is Brandeis a good home for it?
The Aga Khan Music Initiative has been our partner for more than four years, bringing musicians of world-class stature from Central Asia and the Middle East. We have funding from the Mass Cultural Council, private foundations and donors, and from various university resources, including the Poses Foundation and the Brandeis Arts Council. I would like to see the program have more stable funding; it is hard to plan in advance going year-to-year.
Brandeis is the perfect home for this program, because of its commitment to the arts and issues of social justice. I also believe that Brandeis, with its sensitivity to religious expression, benefits from the pairing of two powerful expressions of the human experience, art and spirituality. These two have such a deep relationship, and I believe there is much promise in exploring those connections.
How do you think music brings people together?
I don't think music automatically brings people together. In fact, one of its greatest attributes is how it differentiates us from each other. That being said, once we are fully aware of our difference, creative collaboration and relationship-building is really at the core of what makes us happy. The world music scene is evidence of that happening in good ways and not so good ways. The most exciting musics today are border-crossing explorations of all sorts, and the most repressive music is when a local tradition is muted by the suffocating dominance of another culture.
Has the program so far accomplished what you set out to do with it?
It is a work in progress. I want to soften the boundaries between our different sources of knowledge, to repair some of the damage done by the Age of Enlightenment. [There is a need for]a little less separation, a little more connection. I don't want to rewind, I just think we need to respect all the ways humans make sense out of the world, and the ways we talk to each other. Although technology (internet, iPod, online music apps like Pandora, etc.) has increased access and choice, the quality of our "encounters" is profoundly at risk; one of my objectives is to provide opportunities for live performance, so we sit elbow to elbow over a period of time. Having recently seen the movie "Her," which brilliantly explores the limits of virtual relationship, I think we need to make sure we still have intimate moments with each other.
Can you talk about a few highlights from MusicUnitesUS over the years?
Kayhan Kalhor, the kamanche player from Iran played one single improvisation that lasted the whole concert - it was mesmerizing. Alim Qasimov and his daughter Fargana (from Azerbaijan) transported us out of the concert hall and into some other spiritual realm through his Sufi-inspired music. Pablo Ziegler made it impossible to sit still, especially when international tango stars Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo stunned us with a surprise dance that brought us into the most intimate spaces of our hearts. Stuff like that.
What do you hope this spring's attendees and participants will come away with?
I'm really looking forward to the upcoming residency with the Trio Da Kali. I had the chance to spend time with the musicians this past November in Mali. (Read Eissenberg's journal.) Each musician in the trio is a griot. The griot holds a very special place in Malian traditional society…artisans of the word, and renowned for the depth and beauty of their musical expression. Hawa, whose voice is a deep purple (some compare it to gospel singer Mahalia Jackson's), manages to make everyone think she is singing directly to them. Lassana is a master of the balafon (wooden xylophone) and Mamadou has arrived as young prince of the ngoni (a stringed lute-like instrument) with one foot in tradition, the other in the world of blues and hip-hop. I think everyone, whether in the audience at the final concert or in class, will feel the values and beauty of an ancient culture thriving and alive as contemporary expression…and we'll all revel in it!
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July 15th, 1997, fell on a Tuesday. Day 196 of 1997. Decade: 1990s.
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