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GOP-Controlled Wisconsin Legislature Targets Milwaukee
Recent moves by the republican-controlled legislature that could hurt the city's finances has raised speculation that it being targeted as part of a political vendetta.
By Don Walker
Even before such hot topics as residency and a proposed streetcar came before the Republican-dominated Legislature's Joint Finance Committee last week, one City Hall partisan was preparing for the worst.
"We're calling it Screw Milwaukee Day," the official said.
The actions by the committee, the Legislature's powerful budget-writing panel, not only proved to be a disastrous defeat for Mayor Tom Barrett's administration, they were a reminder of the divide -- philosophically and politically -- between the state's largest and most important city and the Republican leadership in Madison.
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It's an old story in many ways. There have been sewer wars between city and suburbs; the bruising debate over the financing and construction of Miller Park; the back-and-forth rhetoric between Barrett and Gov. Scott Walker in last year's recall election over what is best for Milwaukee; and, more recently, the fight with the state over whether to use mortgage fraud settlement money to pay to demolish hundreds of abandoned homes.
Last week, action by the budget panel would cast aside a 75-year-old ordinance on residency rules for local units of government, altering it to allow police and firefighters to live up to 15 miles outside the city limits of any community in the state. While the measure still must pass both houses of the Legislature and be signed into law by Walker, Republicans have the votes, and Milwaukee's police and fire unions, which supported the governor in his election, are on the verge of a major victory.
At the same time, one of Barrett's major initiatives -- a proposed streetcar he believes will be a major economic development project but which opponents label a boondoggle -- also hit a major obstacle that was inserted into the budget by Joint Finance. Republicans on the committee hope to kill the project by requiring that the cost of moving utility lines for the streetcar fall to the city and not the utilities themselves and their ratepayers.
The events left Barrett angry, particularly on residency ("It makes my head explode."). And he vowed to move forward, talking to legislators and looking to "see if anybody is interested in helping us."
"This is a great city and Governor Walker and his allies have spent countless dollars to run down the city," Barrett said.
But with an outnumbered and weakened Milwaukee delegation that has little influence, it will be an uphill battle in the Republican-dominated Legislature.
"I question how much they value Milwaukee," Common Council President Willie Hines said of the GOP lawmakers.
Marquette University political science professor John McAdams says the divide is about the use of political power forged through ideology rather than regional differences.
"Republicans in the Legislature are doing Republican things that are hostile to Democratic things," he said, citing the example of conservatives who have no use for high-speed trains to Madison or streetcars.
Ald. Michael Murphy witnessed how the new order works last March. After Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) suggested Milwaukee needed to save more money and become more efficient, Murphy reached out to Vos.
Murphy, joined by city Budget Director Mark Nicolini, had a cordial meeting with Vos in Madison as they pored over the city's numbers and benchmarks that Murphy said showed the financial challenges facing Milwaukee.
"The speaker said most of his colleagues wouldn't believe a word we said," Murphy recalled.
Vos, who confirmed the details of the meeting, said he loved Milwaukee but told Murphy and Nicolini not to ask for any money.
"Which was OK," Murphy said. "But I said, 'Just don't hurt us.' "
What rankles Barrett the most over the residency battle is Act 10, the historic and controversial law Walker signed that all but eliminated collective bargaining for most public-sector employees, except for police and fire unions.
Barrett said Republicans went against the principles of that law because it called for collective bargaining with unions such as the Milwaukee Police Association, Local 215 of the Milwaukee Professional Firefighters and the Milwaukee Police Supervisors' Organization.
In Barrett's view, Republicans in Madison should have held true to their beliefs and allowed the city and the unions to get politics out of bargaining and get back to the table. Now Barrett is facing the loss of residency, and taxpayers could be paying for lucrative pensions for police officers and firefighters who may not be living in Milwaukee and contributing to those pensions through property taxes.
As Joint Finance met Thursday, Vos called Barrett in an effort to forge an agreement with the committee, including the possibility of wage concessions from the unions in return for ending the residency rule.
Barrett was not interested, asking Vos and others why he was suddenly negotiating with Republicans and not union negotiators representing police officers, their supervisors and firefighters, as Act 10 calls for.
Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), the co-chair of Joint Finance who represents a piece of Milwaukee, said Republican legislators were only doing what she said Barrett wasn't doing on his own: providing leadership.
"We have a problem with the mayor," Darling said of the residency debate. "He should have addressed this. He sent the unions to Madison and we took care of it."
Patrick Curley, the mayor's chief of staff, called Darling a "cheap-shot artist," noting that the city's top labor negotiator had told the unions the city was ready to talk about residency. Union negotiators said the move came too late.
With residency on death row, Barrett reached out to supporters in the business community, arguing that the prospect of city employees leaving the city limits will ultimately hit businesses in the pocketbook. Recently, he spelled out the implications to members of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
As the city's foreclosure crisis has decimated many neighborhoods, the burden of the property tax levy has begun to swing away from residents and more toward commercial and manufacturing interests. The city has seen a $5 billion loss in valuation since the housing crisis began in 2008.
Barrett says that burden will only grow without residency rules.
Sheldon Lubar, a prominent Milwaukee businessman and philanthropist, agrees with the mayor. Last month, he sent a letter to every state legislator.
Lubar asked them to take the fight over residency rules out of Walker's budget and let local officials decide the issue. But Lubar also pointed out what could happen to businesses if residency rules ended.
"If changes are made to the residency requirement for local government employees, the relative value between residential and commercial/manufacturing is likely to continue this shift," he wrote. "Careful attention should be given to the unintended consequences for businesses in Milwaukee of changes to residency requirements."
What's notable is not that Lubar was asking for consideration of an issue of importance to the community. What bothered Lubar was something else.
"I got zero feedback. I think that's somewhat inexcusable," he said.
Pedro Colon, a former Democratic state legislator from the south side and now a circuit judge in Milwaukee County, says legislative redistricting removed the middle ground in partisan politics. It also had the effect of giving some Republican legislators new districts that included pieces of Milwaukee.
"A lot of legislators misunderstand Milwaukee," Colon said. "There is a distance there that is not understood. We are doing business in a more partisan way. And all of the interests understand that."
Murphy, the alderman, says there is something more at play.
"I think one can't escape the personal nature of the politics between Scott Walker and Tom Barrett," Murphy said. "That plays a role in this. And, unfortunately, it's the taxpayers of the city who will be hurt."
Walker defeated Barrett twice: last June in the recall election; and in 2010 in the race for governor.
Rich Meeusen, the president and CEO of Badger Meter and a businessman working to establish Milwaukee as a water technology center, says it may be time to move on.
"The mayor's battle may be lost on residency," Meeusen said, though he added that he agreed with the mayor on the potential impact on business. "Madison has made its decision. I think it behooves the mayor and all of us to focus on what we need to do to make the city of Milwaukee the kind of place where the residents want to stay and bring in more people."
Former Mayor John Norquist said he's seen it all before. He blames Republicans now for the political divide, the us vs. them mentality. And the new battles, he said, are unfortunate.
"But over time, Wisconsin needs Milwaukee more than Milwaukee needs Wisconsin. Without Milwaukee, Wisconsin is basically Iowa," he said.
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|A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France.
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Party On, Wayne
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It's a rite of passage: Sometime, usually not long after launch, a business holds a party and invites not only employees (of course), but also customers, prospects, vendors, business associates, and pretty much everybody else who has ever had the slightest contact with the company. And the invitations are rarely humble. Most tout the pending event as "the party of the year." Do they deliver? Rarely. The overwhelming majority of start-up parties range from boring to deadly, and smart guests who have been around this block before make plans to go, make one swoop around the room-and promptly rush for the exit.
Yikes, that turns parties into a huge waste of money-and sometimes, a major embarrassment. What's gone wrong? For starters, young entrepreneurs know their bashes shouldn't duplicate the hedonistic excesses of the grain parties they loved in college, but they don't know what else to do. So they do boring. But it doesn't have to be that way. Read on for plenty of tips about business-party to-do's.
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Walk in the Light
1. We are all the children of light,
fighting the fight, seeking the prize,
here to succeed in God's eyes.
We have seeds of virtue within.
We're children of God, working to win
a place in His kingdom again.
And though the way seems long and hard,
these promises live in our hearts:
Walk in the light.
Angels will walk beside you.
There in the light,
His love will safely guide you
back to the place where love burns bright,
a place prepared for those who walk in the light.
2. We are all the children of light,
striving to learn, trying to earn
blessings for doing what's right.
We have left our heavenly home.
We're walking by faith, finding our way
and He will not leave us alone.
And as we seek each righteous goal,
these promises ring in our soul:
3. We are all the children of light,
falling, but then rising again
as we endure to the end.
We are children following Christ.
We're doing His work, trying to serve,
children of infinite worth.
And as we try to find our way,
these promises guide us each day:
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Homemade Haunting
- Rob Stennett Author
- 2011 19 Apr
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Homemade Haunting by Rob Stennett (Zondervan).
God and Evil
I would have never followed this path all the way down to its inevitable conclusion if it weren't for two questions.
The first: Does God exist?
And the second side of that question is: Does Satan exist?
Not that I thought about Satan very much. And as for God, early on I decided that I did not believe in him in any way, shape, or form. I wasn't a cynic. I believed that people had the ability to do unthinkably kind, generous, and heroic acts. I just didn't believe God had anything to do with them.
God can't protect a family as their minivan sails through a crowded intersection, he can't influence the outcome of a football game by commanding an angel to flap his wings to cause a field goal to slice wide right, and he certainly can't convince a man standing on a bridge ready to take the final plunge that life was worth living after all. God couldn't do any of these things. Not because God was a jerk — he simply wasn't around.
I didn't arrive at this conclusion by reading Richard Dawkins and deciding belief in God is the reason there is so much war and poverty in the world. I didn't come to this conclusion by getting frustrated with inconsistencies between the Old and New Testaments. In fact, I wasn't even reading much besides Charlotte's Web back then. And it's not like E. B. White influenced me — a spider didn't appear and weave "God Is Dead" into its web.
But this journey did start when something uninvited came into my room. I was seven years old and it was a sunny afternoon, the type of day where I should have been outside playing baseball until dusk when supper was ready. Instead I was in my room surrounded by Legos because I wasn't very good at baseball. "Wasn't very good" is being kind — I was a train wreck. The first time I ever got a hit I ran to third base. Everyone was screaming "No!" but I assumed they just couldn't believe I'd actually hit the ball. I played left field, and when the baseball came at me, I curled my arms around my face like someone had just lobbed a grenade. After a while I decided my afternoon was best spent skipping the humiliation, so I spent my time alone reenacting medieval battles with Legos. When I was in my room my parents almost never interrupted me, and if they did I knew there was a problem.
And on this day there wasn't just one parent; both Mom and Dad were there. Dad stepped foot into the room first and said, "Charlie we need to talk."
I broke into a cold sweat. Whenever my parents said "We need to talk" it was because I'd done something wrong. They never said "We need to talk" and then spend the next hour discussing what a great job I was doing at school or how proud they were of me. "We need to talk" meant they'd gotten an angry phone call from a teacher or a principal or one of the neighbors was upset about something I'd done. "He was peeing on my prize rosebushes, Sally," a mom of one of the neighbor kids would say. And then she'd add, "What is wrong with your son?"
In these "We need to talk" conversations I always had a perfectly reasonable explanation. "We were playing hide-and go-seek and I really needed to go. And I thought it was good for plants. Aren't there a lot of nutrients in pee?" Dad would say, "No son, there aren't any nutrients in pee.*
We didn't raise you to act like an animal. If you can't be civil then we won't let you play outside at all." After that I'd be grounded for two weeks.
But on that day it was different. I knew it was something serious, but their tone was gentle and soft. Something bad was about to happen. "I just got back from the doctor. He said I'm sick, honey," Mom told me. Then she started to cry. I felt like I wanted to cry too, but I didn't know exactly what was going on.
"Your mother has cancer. Do you know what cancer is?" my dad asked.
"Yes," I answered, even though this wasn't completely true. I knew there was such a thing as cancer; I knew cancer was a scary and serious word, but what it was exactly and how it worked was beyond me. My parents accepted my "yes" because they didn't want to get into the specifics. Besides, they were as mystified as I was.
"They're going to give her treatment," Dad said. "And the treatment is going to work, but the medicine will make her tired. So we need you to be really good right now. Help around the house. Don't get into any trouble. We've all got to pull together to fight this. Okay son?" Dad said.
The treatment did not make her better. It made her skin brittle, it made her lose her hair, it made her sit on the couch around the clock and watch soap operas. And I would sit at the other end of the couch and discuss the plots of General Hospital with her. She was too weak to get up and change the channel (back then, we could only imagine what it would be like to be one of those families who could afford a TV with a remote; we couldn't afford much of anything with all of her hospital bills stacking up) so my primary job for this portion of her life was to switch the TV from General Hospital to Guiding Light to Days of Our Lives.
Toward the end Dad told me, "It's looking bleak, son.
We're going to need a miracle for her to make it now." My dad was raised Catholic so we started going to mass to pray for her. I remember going up to this altar and lighting a votive candle for Mom. I remember sitting and staring at that candle and imagining God way up in heaven looking down at us on earth. I pictured God using his X-ray vision to look inside the church and see my candle burning so brightly and profoundly that he would use his powers to heal my mother.
I fully expected I would come home from church to find my mother completely healed. She would pick me up and kiss me over and over again and say, "I'm healed!" through her tears.
But every time I got home she'd still be lying on the couch — brittle and as close to death as ever — watching soap operas. We recorded soap operas over every VHS tape we owned so Mom could watch them day and night. We recorded Guiding Light over The Twilight Zone, As the World Turns over Jaws,** and General Hospital over season 2 of Silver Spoons.†
Our lives were being taken over by bad dialogue and unbelievable plot twists. But they were all Mom wanted to watch. Game shows were too loud; sitcoms too silly; my horror shows were too scary. Mom found her only solace in affairs and mistaken identities and confessions of secret desire.
Mom watched soap operas (it got to where she almost never left the couch) while Dad and I went to church to light candles and pray for her. And it was one night when I looked at all the lit candles and wondered how many of those were for other moms who were dying of cancer. Why didn't we hear good stories of things happening with these candles? Why was it the same people every Saturday night, the same hopeless stares, the same candles flickering pointlessly?
When we got home Mom wasn't there. We learned later she'd called a neighbor who took her to the hospital. By the time Dad and I arrived a doctor was waiting to meet us. He asked to talk to Dad in private, and through the glass in the other room I saw Dad cry for the first and only time in my life. He was still strong as my dad always was; he locked eyes with the doctor and nodded as the doctor was no doubt giving him the details of my mother's death. For a moment Dad looked away from the doctor and caught eyes with me.
His look told me everything. It said, Well, it's just you and me now, Charlie.
When he finally came out of the glass room Dad wasn't crying anymore. He knew it was his time to be strong as he told me, "Charlie, your mother isn't with us anymore."
I was crying now. I asked, "Can we see her?"
"Sure," Dad said.
When I looked at her, I thought of the bouquet of helium balloons I'd gotten for my birthday that year. At the party they were colorful and full of air. They seemed ready to race to the sky — if only the ceiling weren't in the way. But slowly, over the next two weeks, the life started to leak out of them.
At first I noticed they were no longer reaching the ceiling, then it seemed like just staying off the floor was a chore.
Finally they were lying on the ground, flat and lifeless, and I could barely remember when they were so vibrant and full of life.
My mother was a helium balloon.
Life had been leaking out of her ever since that day she and Dad told me she was sick. Maybe that's why seeing her there pale and dead wasn't all that much of a shock. I did think about the last thing I said to her, which was, "I think Dr. White is secretly in love with Susan Ward."
We had been discussing the latest General Hospital. I was the only one around for Mom to discuss soap opera plots with. I loved those discussions because Mom didn't look at me like a child. I was a peer and a friend. I think this change happened when she started realizing her fate. She understood she'd never get to see me holding a college diploma, she'd never help me think of creative ways to propose marriage, nor would she give me advice on how to raise my own kids. The most adult moments she'd ever get to have with me involved the plots of As the World Turns.
When we went back to mass for the funeral I stared at those candles again. As everyone bowed to pray I held my head up because I knew there was no God to pray to — if he was out there he would have healed my mother. He would have done something for me and for all those other people who light candles and cry out for him to save them.
The pallbearers carried my mother's casket, and I followed it and left the church.
Any chance I had at having faith in God left with me.
*Come to find out, there are several nutrients in pee. There are large amounts of calcium, magnesium, and potassium. I found this out later when I was in college. I called and told my dad, and he just said, "Well you can let your kids pee on the neighbors' rosebushes then."
**Even at a young age I loved horror movies. They take you to another world and always make me jump a little. All my friends got a thrill from riding roller coasters. We never had the money for amusement parks so I had to find thrills from werewolves and axe murders.
†I didn't just like horror. I also appreciated the acting talent of Ricky Schroder.
Homemade Haunting
Copyright © 2011 by Rob Stennett
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Everyone hates to write 'intro' posts. They are kinda annoying and no one ever really knows what to say... Here are a few ideas... (of course, you can substitute any bull breed for Pit Bull)
Hi, my name is __________, I live in ________ state. I've been involved with <Pit Bulls/other bull breed> for ___________ years. I have __________ dogs, <names>. I got my first Pit Bull because _________________ /I want to own a Pit Bull because _________ / I am interested in Pit Bulls because___________ / I support the breed because ___________. There <is/is not> BSL in my area. These are the sports / activities I do with my dog _____________
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Hi All,
Our workplace is looking to introduce the presence of a HR person into our bi-annual performance review and I just want to get some assistance with clarifying the exact role of the HR person in regular performance reviews.
My understanding is that it is usual to have a HR person in disciplinary reviews, however they are there as an impartial observer to ensure the review is conducted in a fair and equitable manner.
In a normal performance review I would expect the HR person's role to be, again, as an impartial observer and not there to actually 'review' the employee and not to contribute their own comments and opinions during the review.
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What did you think of the half-price throwback days?
When we got our 2011 schedule, there were six midweek day games on there based on travel schedules and as an organization, we decided to try something a little unique with them.
Not only did we make them half-price food and soft drink days, but we had the fans vote on which throwback uniform they wanted to see the team wear. Tens of thousands of votes came in and the "baby blue satin" uniforms from the 1940s won the vote.
So, did you make it out for these games? If so, what did you think? Did you like the uniforms? Did you like the half price concept for midweek day games? Did you hate both? Any other cool ideas for a group of day games that fall during the middle of the week? Let us know, as we're starting to look into 2012 promotions and we are always mindful of the feedback.
We should be releasing the 2012 schedule within the next couple weeks.
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I thought the uniforms and the promotions were fine. But I haven't attended a game in over a year; I used to attend between 20 and 40 games per year. Get rid of the owner, not the promotions, and I'll be back!
The uniforms are ugly. Poor Casey Blake, retiring in baby blue!
Cannot see them from Utah, but the pictures are ugly.
If McCourt doesn't take the offer he's a fool and an ***-hole. But that is hardly news.
HI everybody
Although I didn't have the opportunity to attend any of the "Throw Back" games, I really appreciated the Dodgers wearing "Brooklyn" on a uniform, which they've done previously. I'm really thrill that even if they could take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn, they can't take Brooklyn out of the Dodgers as the saying goes(and it's good to know that, that it is true).
Fantastic 8 inning gem by Dana Eveland. I know he's been around put that was something that I didn't expect. Tough series ahead, maybe we'll know where they really stand when it's over.
I didn't get a chance to go to any of the day games this year, but I liked the idea of Brooklyn uniforms. It's just nice to give a shout-out to the Dodgers' previous home.
Not thrilled about the uniforms. While I understand the need for a weekday day game once in a while, it is difficult for many to attend these games. From the attendance figures and all the empty seats, one could argue the promos did not work very well. Of course, the hot weather and club issues might have something to do with it.
Sorry to see the season end this way for Blake. More than likely he is through as a Dodger, but he did some good things for us and that is what I'll remember.
Looking forward to the promotions when they offer half price chow mein and Frank is GONE.
Don't forget the Moo Shu & Fried Wontons!
Those powder-blue unis would look horrible at a softball game, let alone an MLB game. I have no problem whatsoever in honoring Brooklyn by wearing throwbacks, but use the 1911 uniform instead. Those honor baseball's tradition as well as Brooklyn.
Get a new owner and I will gladly return to Dodger Stadium, regardless of the uniforms, prices, won-loss record.
Geez, even HE hated those damned things……….
They're ugly! They look like pajamas from yesteryear!
I LOVED the fact that the team wore Brooklyn throwbacks. But those powder blues just don't work, and there's many other Brooklyn jerseys to choose from that would make sense.
It was a road jersey designed for night games in the '40s that were worn for home day games. Satin jerseys that were not made of satin. And the throwback element doesn't work when the team doesn't go high-cuffed (stirrups or no stirrups), it makes them look like they're taking a romp in their (as mentioned above) pajamas.
A good idea for an instant "throwback" jersey is to wear cream colored jerseys at home. Without the name on back, and with big numbers (one thing the Brooklyn throwbacks got right vs. the 2005-06 nameless jerseys). Either the Brooklyn hat or the L.A. hat would work with this.
Mainly, I was sad we didn't get to see the 1911 jerseys, would've been perfect this year.
Hi Everybody.
Just hoping our boys can keep up the good work. They're doing just fine.
Hi Everybody
Since last we've met the Dodgers won an exciting game last night and lost a heartbreaker this afternoon. I didn't see today's game because Truebluewill, my daughter Claudine and I met up with LFP's Ron FanSince53 at Yankee Stadium. We did follow the game with Ron's Androit player. Ron will stay in town and him an his daughter FanSince 85 will meet at Citi Field on Friday.
Big game tomorrow in DC.
Correction, they'll meet TBW & Me.
We also plan to visit the Brooklyn Dodger exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society, which TBW & I have already visited. Last time I wore my Brooklyn cap but noting how they didn't seem to recognize the present team, I've decided to wear my LA cap in spite.
I like the promotion a lot, unfortunately, I was boycotting the team this year.
Way to go NG! Let nobody renew their season tickets until Frank, Ned, and Rawitch are GONE.
Come on bear, we get a new thread here every, oh, week to 10 days or so. Josh is totally on top of things???!?!?!?!? I never thought I'd see a boycott of the ITD blog, but geez, how the mighty have fallen. How are things over in Outside the Dodgers? Just can't seem to play that game……….
Hi Everybody
I've been having a lot of trouble with my cable system lately so I can't guarantee when you'll read from next.
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Didn't have that trouble, I was anticipating and watched that fantastic 5 innings that Strasburg pitched against us and really enjoyed the Dodgers coming back to beat the Nats.
The half-price thing is definitely nice, though I did not get a chance to attend. And comments about other things that would attract folks to the game are well-taken.
But I really dislike the "throwback" uniforms. Why would you have the Dodgers wear a "throwback" uniform. The Dodgers already wear a throwback uniform. It is a throwback to the 1970's, and 1960's, and 1950's. Except for the "LA" replacing the "B" on the cap, the Dodger home uniform is the same design that the team has had since 1938, and should remain that way. The Dodger uniform is classic—Dodger Blue on Whiter than White.
I do not know when Clayton Kershaw will throw a perfect game, or when Matt Kemp will hit for the cycle, or when Andre Ethier will start a 45-game hitting streak. But each of those games will become iconic Dodger moments. I did not know when Ramon Martinez would strike out 18 hitters (a game I was at), or when Eric Karros would hit his 229th home run to become the all-time Dodger leader (also a game I was at—and we were chanting "229" before he came up), or when Kirk Gibson will hit a 3-2 backdoor slider into the seats off of Eckersely, but those all became iconic Dodger moments. And when you have that iconic moment, you want to know that Kershaw and Kemp, Gibson and Martinez were wearing the same Dodger Blue and Whiter than White uniform that Sandy Koufax wore when he threw his perfect game, that Maury Wills wore when he stole his 104th base, that Jackie Robinson broke into the major leagues in. And even with all that great Dodger history, you never know what game is going to be a relatively routine Jerry Reuss win early in the 1982 season wear a 6-year old kid goes to his first Dodger game—or any other day that might be the first time a kid comes to Dodger Stadium and becomes a life-long fan. And you want him or her to remember the same Dodger Blue and Whiter than White uniform that they will know forever.
Every day is throwback uniform day at Dodger stadium—so don't spoilt it with powder blue uniforms or other gimmicks.
LeeFink!!!! When I see that name in the "recent comments" section, I know I am in for some great reading!! You certainly did not disappoint. Fabulous post sir!!!! I hope all is well with you. It's always wondeful to read what you are thinking.
I actually enjoy Throwback unis, but the "Los Angeles" Dodgers don't have many of them, true "throwbacks" would be minute changes, like creating a 70's-mid 80's road jersey by putting a blue and white elastic stripe around the sleeves. Or creating 50's-early 70's throwbacks by making the home unis cream colored instead of white. Or changing the wordmark to the one with the little-bit-smaller "o" in the Dodgers wordmark (like the one on the Elevator buidling by top-of-the-park above the Top Deck.
Also, the Dodgers road jerseys changed from the "Dodgers" wordmark to the "Los Angeles" roadmark in 1959, which, although it seems iconic to see the Los Angeles script on there, it was only there for 10 years, the Dodgers' road jerseys going back to "Dodgers" on the front in 1970.
Then there's the piping (the blue lines on the sleeves and sometimes around the neck and down the chest). The Dodgers got rid of it on their road jerseys in 1963 after having the piping down the front of their chest since at least the '20s.
Then there's that white fabric that used to be under the wordmarks and numbers that McCourt got rid of to give them a more old-school look (or to save money on fabric). Also, the road jerseys, for a bit around the turn of last century, had blue buttons instead of gray.
There's lots of little ways the Dodgers could go throwback… but it's all little changes. Like Lee said, the jersey itself is iconic. I think it's good to throwback to Brooklyn, though. Just wish they hadn't chosen such a gimmicky jersey that was never meant to be used during the day (or without satin). It was all very silly, which goes with the way the rest of the season has gone, I guess.
Cream colored home jerseys would be awesome. Instant class.
The only thing the Dodgers should throw back are the McCourts and Ned. After Frankrupt is gone, then the fans will return, and no amount of stupid promotions will change that!
NOT MY ANDRE! Sad, sad day for us Ethieraholics. My prayers and thoughts are with him and I wish for a fast recovery. I wish he does return to finish the season with the Dodgers. And I just wish that he returns to the Dodgers for the next season and not get screwed like Russell Martin (yeah I know Martin is better off with the Damn Yankees).
Josh, please shit-can this blog if you're going to let it die on the vine. This entire Dodger front office has its head up its a**. I haven't been this angry in a long while. So typical of this regime.
PS…I hope Selig yanks the carpet right out from under McCourt's negligent posterior.
And Bud should be following Frank out the door.
Take that, Giants!
as for Selig… I think he's on his way out after next season anyway, at least he had the good decency to clean up the mess he made with allowing the McCourts to tarnish our franchise. But if the Commish had to chose one dung pile out of the fecal minefield that has been his stewardship to clean up, I'm glad it's the one that's firmly on our turf.
I know that MLB really doesn't have the guts to do anything about Frank, now that they have the excuse that everything is tied up in the bankruptcy court. So much for Bud's bullshit! At least they could take this blog away from Rawitch and the Dodgers' front office and give it to somebody who will follow the MLB principle of providing some team information and a decent forum for fan expressions. One shouldn't have to go to Twitter to accomplish something that MLB initially set up as a blog for each team's fans. So, do it, MLB! Or are you a bunch of timid assholes that don't even have the guts to do that much for the fans?
I don't have the inclination to go to Twitter, but if you only understand tweets, Rawitch, here's one for you:
While I would not be quite as direct as messagebear, I used to look forward to coming to ITD to see some interesting tidbits about the Dodgers and to communicate with other fans. Other than what I see on the Dodgers page, I am not inclined to follow anyone on Twitter.
Twiiter is shitter, and so is McCourt, Ned, and Josh.
Well I actually was ok with the throwbacks. I thought they were fun and only done for a few days so I liked it.
Unfortunately due to the owner and violence in the stands from a few years ago that wasn't ever dealt with (even though it was known about — Frank wouldn't want me as a witness for the Stowe family in court) I haven't been to Dodger Stadium.
As far as twitter and ITD — I'm not into the twitter thing. I just don't have that many fans.
I'm bummed about what has happened to ITD. A few years ago it was so much fun to come on here and watch the game while conversing with other Dodger fans. Sometimes we didn't always agree but it was fun to talk ball and be around other passionate fans and enjoy baseball with them. I miss those days and many of those people. Then the time warp thing started and Frank & Jamie had their "announcement" and all the reports started coming out about what they had done with our team.
Now there is so much hatred and anger it just bums me out. Once Frank is gone hopefully we'll all be back. Here on ITD, at the stadium, and the Dodgers as a franchise.
So Frank, please……………. give us back our team!!!
Amen to what everyone has said in the last day about Twitter and this blog. Give me a break…Twitter??!?!?!?!?! I miss ITD, as well. Frank, we despise you on so many levels we've lost count.
Twitter? I can barely answer my cell phone. I'm required to carry one at work, and they furnish it. Don't know how to text, either. There are things that go along with these gadgets I'm just not going to do.
I have to admit, I do have a twitter account, but for me it's more for my love of NASCAR. All the drivers, driver teams, media and fans use it to talk about what is happening during the races. It's great for when I can't be home to watch because there is always somebody representing all the major teams updating the race, including what is being said on the radios. I do follow some baseball players too, but I use it more for informational purposes than to communicate back and forth like we do/did on ITD. Twitter really isn't designed for that IMO. I miss the way ITD used to be.
Agree…too bad Josh gave up on us.
There was a true opportunity for Josh to do something great for 9/11 and I see it didn't happen . . . . I loved ITD, but now because of the apparent apathy, I just don't know what to think. Thankfully there are other places to hang out and talk with other fans. It's a shame to see what's happened here.
Hi ITD.
It's sad for me, that Josh is leaving since he arranged my entire trip to LA, which I'll never forget for the rest of my life. I still hope to return someday on my own.
Well I guess that's the way things go in this business. I wish him luck and continued success.
Good Bye Josh.
I don't any of is that were there with you will ever forget either 🙂
Let me say that again… I don't think any of us who were with you that day will forget either.
Josh – if this is true, I wish you very best!!! Thanks for putting up with the craziness….. the songs, the tireless days of 1000 comments on topics that had nothing to do with the Dodgers, the debates, the arguments, the Martinistas and Ethieraholics, the Cleaver Family, the Cult, the paperbag initiative, the name changes (both intentional and unintentional), the time warping and submission-error hell, and all the stories upon stories of both good and bad. You allowed us to have a family-like atmosphere around here, and because of you, we got to meet as a group. Like Oldbrooklynfan said, that will never be forgotten, ever. Once again, I wish you the best….and thanks for providing this forum.
Lots of luck, Josh, in your new position. Thanks for all you did for us here on ITD.
I just noticed that little note that you're leaving us. I will be very sorry to see you go. But I do understand. I just hope that the next person to run ITD will be like you. I do appreciate everything you have done for us. I can't speak for any others, but even though we only met personally a couple of times, I do feel like you're a friend. To this day, I still remember and will NEVER forget in April 2010 when you said you were trying to visit me on Opening Day, but I couldn't because I was starting work with the Census. I will NEVER forget that! I will miss you Josh. Good luck with the D-Backs next year.
I don't blame you for bailing. After all working anywhere else has to be better than working for a scumbag like Frankrupt.. Good luck in Zona.
So sad to hear you are leaving the Dodgers. Thank you for putting up with my emails. Now who else am I going to bug? No more running into you at Dodger Stadium and on the road games 😦 Hope to see you when I go to AZ. Thank you so much for everything that you have done for us fans here in the ITD. I wish you the best! I went from being happy aboutt the aritlce written about me in the Dodger magazine to being sad about you leaving. Good Luck! -Emma
As you might know, I'm not one who's cut Josh any slack, but I'm glad that he's showing some good common sense and seizing that new opportunity. I only wish that he could step out of the spin zone and call Frank and Ned what they are – real ratfucking bastards. Seeing as he's got to stay within the MLB fraternity, I'll understand that he can't do that. Good luck to you, Josh. I'll still pretend like I know what you're really thinking.
Hi Josh! If you're still actually reading this thing, I too would like to thank you. Thanks for all your work here in the past few years, especially for The Tour and MOST especially for taking the Joe Pierre "ball" and running with it all the way. I walked away from that convinced that you are a good guy.
It must be very hard to work for someone as morally bankrupt as is the owner of our team. Times are hard and all jobs are hard to come by. Good jobs even more so. I've always appreciated that your master here would shitcan you in a heartbeat if you were to join us in our vitriol towards him. Ordinarily, burning bridges is never a good idea, but I would love it if you would come back here with a thinly-disguised moniker (perhaps "notJosh" would be too thin) and make comments from time to time. If not here, you'll be welcomed at OTD.
Good luck to you with the Diamondbacks and whatever awaits you in your future.
Josh, thanks for your efforts to bring Dodgers news and opportunities to the fans. While I wish it would have not been necessary, thanks for giving me the excuse to start the OTD blog. I have always played with the latest online technology but never had a reason to really use it on a daily basis. OTD gave me the opportunity to stretch my communications skills a bit.
Thanks for not censoring this blog. There have been some nasty comments about you lately and the rest of the management team, especially Ned and Frank, for quite a while. I'm sure those were not fun to read. But you got the pulse of what some of the fan base were thinking and upheld the spirit of the first amendment.
I wish you continued success in your outstanding career. Derrick Hall has done a good job making the Diamondbacks a first class operation using some of what he learned while working for the O'Malleys. Being able to transfer your enthusiasm for social media to the D'backs marcom efforts will be a win-win for you and your new team.
Josh it is SAD NEWS to read that you are leaving us. Thanks for all you have done for us the fans here at ITD…thanks for the tour which me and my family will always remember. And oh yeah thanks for the Russell Martin autograph ball I won for just being a Martinista during the tour. It's probably worth more $$$ now that he is with the Damn Yankees. Wish you the best in Arizona! You will be missed. ITD will not be the same without you here. THANKS!
Josh, sorry to hear about your departure. I've enjoyed reading this blog over the past several years and yours will be big shoes to fill. As a former Dodger blogger myself (Words From The Park), I can appreciate the work that goes into it. Good luck in your new position.
Well Josh, I can't say I'll miss you because you've been absent for so long. But I DO thank you for the two ITD tours. Glad you could get out with your skin. You must have been pursuing this for a while, which leads me to believe that things are REALLY going downhill fast in the Chavez Ravine offices. On an optimistic note, I hope this portends an ownership change and that you were simply looking out for yourself in the face of inevitable restructuring. If you left simply because you can't stomach the place anymore, I understand that, too. Either way, you've joined the majority of fast-fleeing fans in saying 'no thanks" to Frank McCourt. Is there no end to this wastrel?
Josh, best of luck in Arizona. We all understand you have a difficult job even in good times. I am sure even with all the nonesense going on with the Dodgers leaving can't be easy after all the time you have spent with the Dodger organization. Thanks for this blog and good luck down the road.
Josh – I also wanted to wish you luck in your new gig. A heartfelt congrats on the job. Thanks for dealing with us for all these years. You opened up a forum for all of us and as a fan in Norcal that for years has had to just talk to myself about the Dodgers in allowed me to meet many other fans and become friends with many of them. So thanks for that! You also went above and beyond for us with the ITD tour & bringing OBF to town. I wish I could of been there. You will be missed. I for one have missed the old ITD days where you were touching base with us daily. I know some of us got testy and some pretty harsh things were said but I think that was in the frustration that is had in having your bosses be who they are and doing what they have done and are doing. I think most of that was intended for Frank. I for one know you were doing your job — as tough as that might of been. I think you are a classy dude who stayed true to your job and bosses. So thanks for starting this thing, putting up with us, and staying positive. Take care and make sure you bring some sunscreen!!!!! Oh & GO BLUE!!!!!!
I wouldn't be an Ethieraholic if I didn't wish Andre luck with his surgery today. Praying that the medical staff does it's job and fixes his knee so he is ready get back to his off-season workouts fairly quickly. I remain an optimist in regards to Andre that this was just one of those quirky off seasons he had (not that I think it was all that bad), and that he will be back in 2012, with that chip-on-his-shoulder attitude that is so endearing to us Ethieraholics. He will come back ready to prove all the skeptics wrong once again. I think he lives for those challenges, and he will not disappoint in conquering it.
Well Josh, time to go. I hope you can forgive some of the rough treatment you have received on here. I had hoped you would survive McCourt, but this is no doubt necessary for you. Good luck in AZ. Hate to say it, but right now the D-backs are a far better organization. And who would have ever thought that.
I would like to put my resume into the mix to replace you, Josh. You have my email address. I can't promise to hold onto the job very long, but I promise a new thread that the owner will not soon forget.
How about this headline for your first thread, Eric: "Dodgers still chasing .500 after 147 games; Colletti says Dodgers 'almost there,' promising no major overhaul."
HAHA! That would be a good one, kahli! But not for the first one. I'm thinking more along the lines of, "What Did You Think Of The Stupid-MotherFucking-Shithead-Bastard-Owner-All-Of-Us-Have-Had-To-Suffer-With-All-Of-The-Last-7-Years days?"
The only thing better than that would be if the asshole had the balls to fire me face-to-face.
From the looks of this thing, maybe Josh is already in AZ. Just cleaned out his desk and got on the bus with the rest of the D-backs.
Wow, Sept. 15 and still the same post from Sept. 1. Kind of like excusing oneself to go use the restroom and never coming back to the party.
lbirken, a sorry, sorry year all around for this franchise. If only Kershaw could aim a high hard one at McCourt's noggin!
Kahli, I can see the headline now: McCourt hit in head by errant fastball, X-rays taken but find nothing there.
Hey all, long time no talk. Lots been going on, mostly not too good, but I'm alive and here to watch Kersh go for 20! We need lots of change in the offseason, some on the field, much upstairs. Saw crzblue walking into the stadium, but didn't get a chance to say hi. Hopefully run into her tonight! I am at TD, sec 4, row H, seat 19! Best of luck to you all, and best to Josh in his new job!!
Thanks for a great run, Josh.
Literally brought the Dodgers into the 21st century, making good on the promise of of the launch of Dodgers.com in the mid '90s. Anyone and everyone, by posting here, has a say, and it's read by those in the Dodgers front office. Kind of amazing, when you think about it.
It was great having you run this site, especially since you also grew up a Dodgers fan with Steve Sax as your favorite player. If nothing else, you got a unique view into the inner workings of the team during one of the most… eventful eras in the 53 years of Los Angeles Dodgers history. And you gave many of us a unique view of the inner workings of Dodger Stadium, moreso than the regular tour, and that was awesome to see.
Good luck and congratulations on the new job (and hope you can keep Joe Garagiola on the ARI broadcasting team, it's always fun to sneak a listen when the Dodgers are in Phoenix).
Thanks again!
I see that Carlos Santana hit a walkoff HR today – his 27th HR of the year. Thanks a lot, Ned. How you could trade that kind of talent for a couple months of rent-a-player is beyond me. That's got to be one of the most asinine blunders of all. Of course, it's not your only one!
MLB, please force the sale, approve competent new ownership, boot Ned, sign the stalwarts to long-term contracts, and get on with a great 2012. Simple…easy.
Kahli, isn't it sad? Really… looking at that picture of Selig and McCourt on ESPNLA made my stomach turn, my two least favorite suits in baseball.
Just sickening, and Selig's even threatening to suspend the Dodgers' participation in MLB as a last resort should McCourt be allowed to auction the TV rights. blech.
For me, watching what's going on between those two in this trial is a lot like watching the US Government. Two sides that sicken me with their catty back-and-forth making it impossible to get anything done, one way or the other. Except, unlike DC, I don't imagine McCourt and Selig going out for drinks at the same bars, like Pro Wrestlers after the match, calling up the same escorts and sharing cigars. Maybe their lawyers do, though.
I don't expect Selig to be able to get anything done. He's had decades to grow into the Big Boy Pants since flying the Pilots to Milwaukee, and has failed to do so, on every front.
Under him, Baseball's fallen off the international radar, yet Basketball is becoming as beloved worldwide as soccer.
Under him, Baseball's fallen off the national radar, taking a backseat to the NFL, even during the lockout.
Under him, steroids flourished as fans refilled the seats emptied by the '94 strike. Then, he turns around in a Barney Fife-ian effort to play bad-cop that only took… I don't know… how long has it been since the Bash Brothers of Oakland shot each-other up?
FOX wanted a quiet nobody dumb enough to buy the team without the TV rights and found one in McCourt.
Selig wanted a quiet nobody to occupy the L.A. Owners' seat that would be the anti-O'Malley, a non-factor in the Owners' meetings, and thought he found one in McCourt.
Well, surprise, surprise, the dummy isn't so quiet, is he?
They made this bed, and now they have to lie in it. at least that small facet is satisfying.
I've been saying it for sometime now, and had been laughed at for even bringing up the notion, but if the dominoes fall right, McCourt could pull up the stakes from a city that hates him, and take the team elsewhere. If Selig loses this case, in a court that could care less if he was the Commissioner of Baseball, the Mayor of Munchkinland or Mayor McCheese, he'll have all the legal virility of a wet noodle.
If McCourt retains ownership, the city might not forgive him. But if he moves the team back to Brooklyn, he's a Saint, no matter what.
And if Brooklyn doesn't want him, they'd be a NY team, so there would be no feet shuffling there (unless you're buddy-buddy with Mayor Munchk… I mean the Commish, like Wilpon is).
It's more likely that the move doesn't happen, but I'll tell you what, the surrounding circumstances of the Dodgers move from Brooklyn (aside from the stadium drama w/ Robert Moses, though with the NFL looking lustily at spacious Chavez Ravine while trying to fit a stadium into a Downtown shoebox, that could change soon) look awfully familiar when reading today's articles and comments on the Dodgers and their situation.
I'm probably wrong, but damned if that picture doesn't become clearer and clearer every day since I've said it.
It seems like McCourt is always one step ahead of MLB. His high priced legal team can keep this situation locked up in court for years.
1. No more Brooklyn. Come on, we're in Los Angeles and has been for 50+ years. It's not necessary to wear Brooklyn jerseys and Brooklyn hats for like 10 games. Honor the Dodgers history in Brooklyn like once every 5 years or so, not ~TEN games a season.
I mean, this is the LOS ANGELES DODGERS. We have not played in Brooklyn, New York on the East Coast for 50+ years.
2. No alternate uniforms for the Dodgers
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier is filming in Cleveland and they're getting busted kind of a lot. It's a good early predictor for how big a movie will be—what level is the set stalking at? There's been a steady diet of set stalker photos coming from Cleveland—more than when The Avengers filmed there two years ago—so let's say they're at 7/10. Solid but not intimidating.
So what's happening in these photos? Well we've got Captain America fighting the Winter Soldier, who looks COOL AS F*CK. I love Loki, but Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier might be my new villainy jam. And then there's Black Widow and Cap fleeing/hiding in a…mall? They're in a mall, but Cleveland is doubling for New York/DC, so that could be meant as Grand Central Station or something. The important thing here is the kissing.
Captain America gets kissed! By the Black Widow! And the fanboys melt down! Because the Captain never gets it. He's the oldest virgin in the world, but here he is, locking lips with a woman in a fan-fic-level leap of canon f*ckery. But guys, c'mon. They're clearly incognito. Look at her hoodie. Look at his nerdy disguise—which I love, as that's the Chris Evans I started crushing on years and years ago; they're trying to blend in. Young lovers at the mall! This kind of makes me wish they'd hook up in real life, but he is very much not ScarJo's type, and they've been friends for ages—better odds she hit it years ago and no longer has any interest.
But maybe this is a huge rewrite of character backstory. I am not a fan of Cap's comic book love, Sharon Carter. It's just so f*cking creepy—he loved her (great)aunt, Peggy, in World War II and then falls for Sharon in the present day? How would any self-respecting woman be okay with that? And Sharon is not very popular with the comic geeks, partly for that reason and partly because she's just a horribly written character. I will continue to hope for any other love interest for Cap, even if it means tossing Black Widow's awesome backstory with the Winter Soldier out the window, because Sharon Carter sucks. And it's interesting that we've seen everyone on this set BUT Emily VanCamp as Sharon, isn't it?
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As it turned out, he was one of the last.
"Yeah, that was like my first 'aha' moment where I knew it's going to be different up here," Martin said. "Now I get here two hours early. It took me one day to learn that."
Along with the other prospects getting their first taste of Major League camp, Martin figures to be learning a lot this spring. Sharing a clubhouse with the type of All-Star talent the Dodgers possess, he is aware of the opportunity before him, even though he knows that in all likelihood he'll begin the season in the Minors.
"It's an honor, there's no other word besides that," Martin said. "You see some of the names on this team and you want to pinch yourself. Being here with this franchise, it's a dream come true. These guys show up early and leave late, and I'm really trying to shadow what they do. It's a priceless experience."
It has been a whirlwind few months for Martin, who began last season as a starter only to be moved to the bullpen midway through June. The switch ended up being a turning point for the southpaw as he went from a 4.79 ERA in 14 starts for Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga to a 2.73 ERA in 26 relief appearances between the California League and Double-A Chattanooga.
Martin's strong finish to 2013 earned him a ticket to the Arizona Fall League and later a coveted spot on the Dodgers' 40-man roster as the club protected him from the Rule 5 Draft.
"That was very exciting. I felt like I had a pretty good year and done enough to be protected, but you never know," Martin said. "It was tough waiting, but once I got that phone call, it was a big relief. After that, I just started working again so I could be ready to show what I can do in the spring."
With his projected role in the Majors now clearly defined as a reliever, Martin is excited about having a full spring to prepare in the bullpen -- a luxury he didn't have last year and one he believes will propel him to a breakout 2014 campaign.
"It helps a lot to know what your job is going to be," Martin said. "I'm going to treat this spring like the regular season and try to build some momentum coming out of camp. I'm focusing on attacking hitters now. I had a few things click for me late last year, so I'm looking forward to trying it out against some big leaguers."


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He is the heir to Stormwind's throne, to a kingdom that is tattered at the edges and trying desperately to hold itself together. While the rest of the world seems to revel in the chaos brought about by Deathwing's return, eager for the battle between Alliance and Horde to rear its head, he quietly follows the path of peace, looking to the future. It's a future that Prince Anduin Llane Wrynn may very well have to put back together again, perhaps sooner rather than later.


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What do you think when you see a beer recipe that calls for hops measured not in ounces but in HBU's? or when you read a label and it tells you the beer has so many IBU's? Ever notice on that packet of hops you bought at the Home Brew Store that the hops are rated based on aa%? What gives? How do you figure out how much to use? It's not as complicated as it looks at first blush.
AAU's and aa%: The relative bitterness of a given crop of hops is measured based on the acidity of the flower. The acid that brewers are primarily concerned with is the "alpha acid", or aa – this is measured in a percentage, hence aa%. The higher the number, the more acidic and thus the more bitter the hop. The Hallertau I used this morning measured 3%, the Perle 6%, so the Perle were twice as bitter as the Hallertau. An AAU (alpha acid unit) is the product of the percentage of bitterness times the amount used – 1 ounce of those 3% Hallertau provides 3 AAU's, one ounce of the Perle provides 6 AAU's.
More common and relevant to the homebrewer is the HBU – Homebrewer's Bitterness Unit – but it's exactly the same thing as an AAU. If your recipe calls for 6 HBU's of a given hop, work backwards. If you have a Chinook hop at 12% aa, you need to use 1/2 oz. to get 6 HBU's (or AAU's) – right?
IBU's – International Bitterness Units – are the result of using the hop. There is actually an esoteric table which gives an indication of how bitter a beer will be based on how much of which hops are boiled, and for how long. So IBU's are the sum total of all the hops added in a given beer, multiplied by a factor depending on length of boil and volume and strength of the wort. For more information on this, I recommend the excellent discussion in Greg Noonan's "New Brewing Lager Beer".
In a nutshell, the average homebrewer can use the following simplified tables, which I used in "North American Clonebrews", although it is based on a table Greg devised for the "Seven Barrel Brewery Brewers' Handbook".
Assuming moderate/average strength wort, in a 5-gallon boil:
- 0 minutes, or dry-hopping – .7
- 5 minutes – .7
- 15 minutes – 1.25
- 20 minutes – 1.5
- 30 minutes – 2.4
- 45 minutes – 4.0
- 60 minutes – 4.25
- 90 minutes – 4.5
So one would multiply the HBU's (aa% times ounces) times the above factors, to get the IBU's.
If one boiled only one ounce of a 4.5% aa hop for 60 minutes, one would have 19.1 IBU's (4.5 x 4.25)
But if one also boiled one ounce of a 2% aa hop for 5 minutes one would end up with 20.5 IBU's (add another 1.4, or 2 x .7).
So work backwards – if you know the approximate IBU rating you are shooting for, it is relatively easy to calculate the amount of hops, the desired aa%, and the length of boil. At least I think it is…
Looking at the recipe I posted earlier for the Dortmund Export, we see a total of 22.5 IBU's. 3.2 of that came from the first addition of Hallertau (.25 x 3 x 4.25); 12 from the 45-minute addition of Perle (.5 x 6 x 4); 5.4 from the second batch of Hallertau (.75 x 3 x 2.4) and the last 1.9 from the final addition of Hallertau (.5 x 3 x 1.25).
So a quick quiz: If you boil 1/2 oz. of Galena at 8% aa for 90 minutes, 1 oz. Tettnang at 4% for 45 minutes, and dry hop with 1 oz. Saaz at 5%, how many IBU's will the beer have? (Answer follows)
.5 x 8 x 4.5 = 18; 4 x 4 = 16; 5 x .7 = 3.5; total 18 + 16 + 3.5 =37.5 IBU's.


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Junior Soe Yu Nwe ("Joy" on campus) took one of the top four student awards at the biennial Michigan Ceramic Art Association Michigan Mud conference held in October.
"I'm kind of surprised, because there were graduate students competing too," said Soe Yu Nwe of the juried competition. "I'm just an undergraduate. But it was nice to win."
Soe Yu Nwe's winning sculpture, "House," was inspired by a childhood spent on both sides of the border between Thailand and the Union of Myanmar. Many Thai families have "spirit houses," small structures which are decorated and sometimes furnished for spirits tied to that land. Also, "the Chinese character for 'prison' is a box with a person inside," explained Soe Yu Nwe, whose mother is Chinese. "My sculpture is sort of a box with a person inside, so it relates to language and heritage too."
For Soe Yu Nwe, the Michigan Mud honor is even more surprising given that she knew nothing about art when she arrived in Albion in the fall of 2009. Intent on a biology major but unable to find a seat in the introductory class, Soe Yu Nwe liked the ceramic studio's decorative pediment and decided to take a class in a building she found interesting. "I asked someone passing by if they knew where I could find [then department chair] Lynne Chytilo, and she said, 'I'm Lynne Chytilo,'" Soe Yu Nwe recalled.
For her part, Chytilo was surprised to find herself agreeing to take Soe Yu Nwe into an already-full ceramics class. "It's really hard to make space for extra students, but Joy was an international student and seemed so lost," said Chytilo. "I had no reason to do it other than I felt sympathetic for her.
"She has this whole internal world that translates beautifully into ceramics," Chytilo says, explaining Soe Yu Nwe's work. "People have a visceral response to Joy's work. She has a unique gift of communicating something in a way that I don't often see in students her age. It's been a remarkable journey to see who she is and to watch where she goes."


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Q. Is it fair for Wall Street traders to be making tens of millions of dollars a year?
A. Last week we discussed whether traders are engaging in socially worthwhile work, as opposed to some kind of rip-off. Based on the evidence I am aware of, I wrote that traders seem to be engaged in a job like any other, earning a salary based on performance which results from a combination of skill and luck.
Some people may be willing to grant this point, but still feel that at some stage salaries become "obscene" or "excessive." In the US, there is legislation limiting how much salary can be considered a legitimate business expense. (Ironically, this supposedly "salary limiting" legislation is partially responsible for the compensation system of traders, who get a low base salary partially for this reason.)
It is interesting that no one has tried to limit how much money can be made from a business, or by an athlete. For some reason, people don't have a problem with the fact that people like Bill Gates of Microsoft or Sam Walton of Walmart can make billions of dollars from the firms they founded, or with the hundred million dollars earned in a good year by outstanding sports talents like Tiger Woods. Yet it disturbs them that a "regular" salaried worker like Andrew Hall can earn a hundred million dollars a year. Perhaps it is because a salaried worker is working with "other people's money" and not risking his own.
I think we can find a precedent for this attitude in the Torah. The patriarch Yaakov begins working for Lavan as an impoverished hand. But his management of the flock is so successful that soon his salary (a percentage arrangement worked out with Lavan) makes him a wealthy man in his own right. Lavan's sons became jealous: "And he heard the words of the sons of Lavan, saying: 'Yaakov has taken everything belonging to our father, and from what belongs to our father he obtained all this honor" (Genesis 31:1). Yaakov after all was merely a hired hand; it didn't seem right for him to become a wealthy householder in his own right from a mere salary. But Lavan's daughters, who are Yaakov's wives, recognize the truth: "All the wealth that God saved from our father, it is ours and our sons'" (Genesis 31:16).
Later on we find a similar story with Yaakov's son, Yosef. Yosef is acquired as a slave in the household of Potiphar. There, he makes shrewd use of his master's possessions. "And it happened, since he appointed him on his house and on all that was his, that the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian because of Yosef." Yosef, despite being a slave, was allowed to enjoy a standard of living commensurate with the profits he brought his master, as he says to Potiphar's wife (Genesis 39:9), "and he hasn't denied me anything except for you, seeing that you are his wife." It is likely that jealousy towards Yosef's success also played a role in the enmity borne him, which resulted in his imprisonment, but certainly we do not find any condemnation of Yosef's generous remuneration merely because he was managing "other people's money."
To sum up, I don't find that there is any reason to condemn someone for making a lot of money merely because they are managing and risking someone else's money and not their own. If any person, such as Yaakov or Yosef, lacks funds of their own but shows a unique talent for effectively managing the funds of others, there is no reason they shouldn't enjoy a fair return, up to an including making them independently wealthy like Yaakov or enjoying the lifestyle of a lord like Yosef.


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DES MOINES, Iowa -- It's all about the odds.
With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars -- and that's after taxes.
The problem, of course, is those same odds just about guarantee the lucky person won't be you. The chances of winning the $600 million prize remain astronomically high: 1 in 175.2 million. And lottery officials said Saturday that 80 percent of the possible combinations have been purchased.
"This would be the roll to get in on," said Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich. "Of course there's no guarantee, and that's the randomness of it, and the fun of it."
That hasn't deterred people cross the Powerball-playing states from lining up at gas stations and convenience stores Saturday for their chance at striking it filthy rich.
The latest jackpot is the world's second largest overall, just behind a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012.
At Jimmy's Mart, a small convenience store in suburban Columbia, S.C., Armous Peterson spread out several Powerball tickets. About four dozen more were already filled out from weeks before and are stacked in a clear pouch beside him.
Peterson, 56, has a system -- although he is reluctant to share it -- and was trying to figure out his numbers for Saturday's drawing. He's well aware of the long odds, but he also knows the mantra of just about every person buying tickets this week.
"Somebody is going to win," he said. "Lots of people are going to lose, too. But if you buy a ticket, that winner might be you."
Benjamin Richardson, 56, plays every Powerball drawing, figuring spending a few bucks a week is no great loss -- and it keeps him in the running for the big jackpot.
He spends about as much on lottery tickets as he does for two of the hot dogs and chili that usually causes the long lines at Jimmy's Mart.
"If it happens, it happens. It's all luck anyway," he said. "What do they all say? If it is your time, it's your time."


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Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab & Co.'s chief investment strategist, sees good news where most people don't. Or to put it another way, the U.S. economy has been down so long, it looks like up to her.
Striding the stage Wednesday evening as she delivered the opening keynote speech at the Morningstar ETF Invest 2012 conference, Sonders asserted that she's a contrarian, so the level of pessimism she's heard about the economy and markets "is music to my ears."
As a contrarian, Sonders has turned that pessimism around and come up with a case for optimism that includes "incredibly strong corporate earnings, a ton of cash at corporations," and what she sees as green shoots of economic promise in housing and manufacturing.
She also sees promise, perhaps counterintuitively, in the fact that the U.S. recovery from recession has been fairly anemic. Since spring 2009, Sonders said, "we never got to a high enough level to drop down again."
U.S. Debt: 'The Really Ugly Part of the Story'
Of course, the U.S. still has a debt crisis and a fiscal cliff to contend with, Sonders acknowledged. Throwing "the really ugly part of the story" right into the middle of her speech, she noted that the strength of U.S. GDP has waned as debt growth has surged. U.S. federal debt is currently 102% of GDP – and a 90% debt-to-GDP ratio is the threshold above which GDP suffers.
"You don't need any better explanation for why this recovery has been anemic," Sonders said, adding that the Federal Reserve's open-ended "QE Infinity" easy monetary policy certainly matches that of other central banks around the world.
Yet U.S. consumers' stresses have eased significantly, Sonders said, pointing to her own "consumer stress index" of stocks, income and inflation. That index has come way down as the recovery takes hold and homeowners are seeing very low mortgage rates and rising home values, she said.
Bright Spots: Housing and Manufacturing
In addition to housing, another bright spot is manufacturing, with what Sonders terms as a "renaissance" biased toward energy and autos. For every 100 jobs created in petroleum refining, additional related jobs created equals 1,190, she said. Manufacturing is showing signs of coming back to the United States as worker wages are flattening; China's wages are increasing at a rate of 160% while the U.S. is a negative 3%.
"The economy is actually creating stuff and not just paper wealth," Sonders said.
And now here's the contrarian good news for investors: "The biggest rallies come when economies stink," according to Sonders. She reminded attendees at the conference that even though the concept of diversification has gotten a bad name during this period of "risk-on/risk-off" volatility and market correlation, diversification nevertheless remains crucial in volatile macro times. The cycle still favors a combination of asset classes, plus Sonders predicts an upcoming period of stable economic growth.
In introducing Sonders at the conference, Morningstar fund research director Scott Burns mirrored her thoughts on diversification, saying that allocation matters greatly now – and that exchange traded funds are a good match for the current low-return economic climate, where "cost matters even more."
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