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We taught them everything they know…
I remember that day back in September, when Cory Wade, Joe Beimel and I popped by Steelers practice. I took Santonio Holmes over to a side field and we went through some drills, showing him how to catch passes in the corner of the end zone while dragging his toes in bounds. It looks like he finally took to heart the lesson.
OK, so maybe that didn't happen, but because of our visit to their practice facility and the kindness of their staff in opening their doors to Cory and Joe, two lifelong Steelers fans, that's who I was rooting for yesterday and it turned out to be an amazing game. Congratulations to that entire organization on an unprecedented sixth title (coincidentally, the same number as the Dodger franchise).
Meanwhile, a group of fans from around the community had a chance to come out to Dodger Stadium and watch the big game from the Baseline Box Club in our second annual Superbowl party. So, with the completion of that game, it's official. Baseball season is upon us – sure, there's NBA, the NHL, and college hoops still going on, but we leave for Camelback Ranch – Glendale a week from tomorrow and everyone's getting pretty fired up.
Hope to see some of you out at our caravan stops tomorrow and Wednesday.
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Good morning everyone!!! Josh, can you ask Ned how we are doing with Manny and Andre? 🙂
Any reason why the "caravan" doesn't actually caravan outside of the immediate area surrounding Dodger Stadium? The Dodgers have fans in the counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and Ventura. I would venture a guess that at least 50% of the fans who attend the games do not live in Los Angeles County. Wouldn't a true "caravan" actually try to get out to the surrounding areas? Just a thought…
Hey Josh – don't forget that those 43 – 850 HP engines fire up at Daytona in 20 days!!!!
Calling the Ausmus signing Nells was like shooting fish in a barrel.
The typical part of that signing was that not only is Ausmus 40, but farmhand AJ Ellis projects to be never anything more than a back-up catcher (who would've played for the ML minimum of $400K.) Given Ned's penchant for overpaying washed-up veterans when anyone off the streets would do, the signing was a foregone conclusion.
LOL!!!! Eric and bpb 🙂
Way to go, Eric and bpb!!
Nellyjune ~ I still want my "Dodgereric" cookies!!!!
Dodgereric – that would be 13 Days 1 hour and 25 minutes until Daytona 🙂
I'm SHOCKED, shocked I tell you that no one's signed Jones, Sweeney or Bennett. Afterall, they went a combined 49 for 322 (.152) with 4 HR and 21 RBI (and 104 Ks.)
Surprisingly, Bennett was the cream of the crop. He had more RBI than Sweeney (4 to 3), the best BA (.190) and didn't strike out once.
Think no matter who makes up those ABs next season, production can't get any worse, even if its Pierre.
bpb ~ isn't it frightening to think Pierre may be our left fielder?!
…and tru – ask Dodgereric if you want Dodgereric cookies (jk). I will work on it 🙂 LOL!!!
LMAO!!!!!!! glad to have you back bpb!!!
Its boggling my mind now… How could you come up in all the RBI situations that Sweeney did, and only come away with 3 RBI? I mean, think about it – a grounder here, a fly ball there would plate a few guys.
Its just incredible to me that JoJo kept sending him out there time and again despite getting absolutely no production. If that had been DY, he would've been released.
Isn't that funny, I had the 20th in my head for Daytona and now I know why. There's a billboard in Lake Elsinore for the 20th-22nd, but it's for the Fontana race weekend. With my attention on all the baseball websites, I haven't looked on NASCAR.com for a long time! Saturday is the Budweiser Shootout and Sunday is Daytona qualifying already! Hot damned! Here we go!!!
Boogedy, boogedy, boogedy!!!!!!!
You are right, bpb! It's also mind boggling to see JoJo send out JP day after day until, almost too late, I may add, he figured out that Andre could play! It almost cost us the playoffs.
Vrooom, they're off and running!!!!!!!!!!!!
dodgereric: Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for.
enchanted: You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.
dodgereric: Well, what of it? It'll be out of its misery.
enchanted: You know how you sound, dodgereric? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart.
Good morning ITD,Dodgerfaithful and Nascar enthuisiast,
I am supporting #24 jeff Gordon this season!!!
Baseball and Nascar cant wait!!!
Good morning Dodger4life ~ I going with Kyle because I love M&M's!
A classy pick, D4! Myself, if the 48 can't get the four-peat, I'll be rooting for Mark Martin.
All of the above, are fantastic picks. GO NASCAR!!!!
Buenos dias ITD boys and girls. Buenos dias Josh!
Happy belated birthday to Jackie and happy retirement to John Nadel.
Josh, God willing, I'll see you and the boys in blue Wednesday! I already asked for the day off.
Sunday I was remembering when I was in Pittsburgh in the Summer and how much contrast there is between their baseball and football team. I met very nice patient Pirate fans there. Both stadiums are so close. Congratulations to the city of Pittsburgh.
You can put me down for #11 this season 🙂
Hey Dodger4life – Good Morning !!!! How are you feeling today sir?
Budweiser Shoot-Out : Feb 7, at 8pm est. Prime time!!!!!
I love nascar in prime time. Night racing 🙂
Hi, Nelly, We shall see, so far so good 🙂
Went to the bank this morning because one of my customers actually paid me, and with the usual chitchat the teller asked me how I liked the Super Bowl. I told him honestly, I didn't watch even one down – I'm a baseball fan. Then he asked me who my team was and got so excited when I told him the Dodgers. We stood there and talked for 5 minutes (much to the consternation of the managers I'm sure) about Manny and the idiots who run the club. He was even at the game where C.C. bombed that HR.
So evidently there are at least two people in NM who root for the Dodgers.
I didn't tell him about the brown paper bag though.
LOL, bpb!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you sure you weren't wearing your brownpaperbag?
Dodger4life – "so far so good" is good 🙂
From the "Where are they now" column… Who carried us in September? Methinks it was Andre with Avg/OBP/SLG/OPS of .462/.557/.692/1.249 and Manny with .370/.465/.753/1.215. Where are they now? Not signed, status unsure. Thanks a lot, McCourt!
Way to go, crash!!!!
Nice post, crash!
The Mets have reached agreement with Oliver Perez on a three-year, $36 million contract
Now maybe we'll get Wolf. Oboy…….
……… everyone hold onto your bags ………..
Dodgereric get yours ready…………
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's time for lunchtime laughter on ITD
Thanks Crash for pointing out the obvious for everyone but Frank.
I still don't understand why you don't sign Sheets to a reasonable 2 year contact. 2 years $27M with a team option third at $15M. I think he's worth the risk to have a true ace at the top of the order because Billz ain't there yet. Then if you want to sign Wolf or Looper to be a #5, fine.
Right now our rotation is:
1. Billz
2. Kuroda
3. Kersh
4. Vargas
5. Schmidt/Stults/Estes
I like to call it our Michael Myers Friday the 13th rotation because boy, its scary.
bpb ~ scary………I'm freaking out!!!!!
Good afternoon ITD boys and girls!
So, another quality SP off the market. This is just getting tiring. You know what I'm most afraid of is that we will get NO ONE to replace Derek Lowe. I'm afraid that, even though he's not our first, second, third, etc. choice, but I'm afraid that someone other than the Dodgers will sign Randy Wolf. Then we keep going on down the list. Maybe Ned has something up his sleeve and he'll surprise everyone here and sign Sheets. At this point, I'll take a chance on his health – just to sign a frontline starter. But the way this off-season is going, I wouldn't be surprised if we signed no FA SP. That's too bad.
At least we won't have to worry if Broxton can handle the closing duties………we won't be ahead in games in order to give him a chance.
I don't mean to take anything away from Andre, Matt, Russell and James……….but, they will need some help.
baggy, while you've been tanning in the tropics I've been saying the same thing about Sheets. I don't really care about the injuries, he's averaged 178 IP over his 8-year career and I'd rather have him for even 150 innings than Wolf for 200.
Close CP. Ned doesn't have anything up his sleeve, but he does have his head up his @%!.
Bingo Eric!!!
You don't replace Lowe with Wolf or Looper.
Don't blow my cover, D4! LOL!!!
How close are you to where the Isotopes play?
Anyone check the Isotopes blog here http://topesblog.mlblogs.com/
baggy, while you've been tanning in the tropics.
Albuquerque's about a 3 1/4 drive straight up I-25 Emma.
How do you get better by replacing your #2 (some would say #1) starter with a 4 or a 5? Answer: you DON'T. Except payroll-wise of course.
I like this post from the topesblog:
"When launching a blog like this, it's helpful to have a terrific example produced by the parent club to emulate and the Dodgers have one of the very best around. If you haven't already, definitely check out Dodgers Insider, it truly is one of the best in the business and exactly what we're striving for in this forum. "
How do you get better by NOT signing Manny and Andre?
….not by keeping the Garden Gnome in left field
I would have to agree with them Emma:)
LOL, Nellyjune!!
Emma – that is very true indeed 🙂
Pretty cool, emma! I just posted over there.
I have to go 🙂
Have a great time everyone 🙂
Here's an idea……….
Donate the garden gnome to charity Frank. That way we can write something worthwhile off??? How about the ballfields foundation, they can use a player development admistrator!!!!
I love the website Emma!! I was over there earlier when it first went up …………pretty cool!!
Dodger4life – take care
tradejuan – we can only wish for that to happen 🙂
Nice post on the Isotopes blog Eric! My bag will come off if I post over there because they're mostly all kids just struggling to make it. It'll be the "no negativity" site.
I can not believe we haven't signed Andre…and Manny, the two best players of the team. Come on! So all these prices are going up (ticket sales, food & souvenirs) but yet we don't have the best players on the team…
Hello ITD! Happy b-lated to Mr. Jackie.
I agree with the comment posted by 363… about the Caravan. There is a lot of Dodgers fan out here in the Inland Empire (Riverside & San Bernardino) on their way up to Camelranch. Hey their minor league the I.E. 66rs is on their way to Camel ranch, a quick visit will not hurt. They signed a few autographs and take some pictures. They can play a friendly game or something.
LOL! That's why I didn't advertise the DodgerLyrics site. No sense scaring them off right away!
Criminy, just pass me the gas pipe……..
Nice post on the topes blog, dodgereric and, I'm very upset that Bynum will miss 8-12 weeks………which means up to the playoffs.
Uh oh, it could be a long spring in LA with no Bynum, no Manny, and a grumpy Andre who is upset over arbitration. Not to mention only three major league starting pitchers.
crash ~ no kidding!!!
true crash, along with another year without a football team!
This Ethieraholic is thinking that Andre could be grumpy on several fronts – arbitration, no Manny and no SP that can keep them in the game, therefore forcing them produce enough runs to stay ahead of the pitching when pitchers 3-5 are pitching (which may be 2-5 depending on who is signed).
perumike ~ I think I heard on the radio the other day that a football stadium is going to finally be built……..I believe they said it was somewhere between LA and Orange County. So, maybe in a few years there will finally be NFL in Los Angeles.
That's assuming Andre would lose his arbitration hearing. There are certainly plenty on this team that he can point to (Jones, Pierre, etc.) that are making much more that he outperformed. Even if he loses I don't see him as the type to sulk. Manny maybe, but not Andre. I still think they'll settle before it goes that far.
I'm not unhappy if they get Wolf – he did alright a couple years ago before he went down – but only if they get him as a 4-5 starter, certainly not a 1-2 to replace Lowe.
I think that's best Eric!
Mets may pass on Manny????
brownpaperbag – you are right about Andre. He will do what's best for the team regardless of the outcome, just like he always has. He will rely on his fans to speak for him, and if things don't turn out well for him, I don't think we will have any problem helping him out this time ethier. I know very little about this process so I am going by what you and others are saying.
I don't understand what the hold up is…seriously we need pitching real bad..i mean i am getting tired of waiting for Manny to decide..don't know who is to blame here but i do know that players are coming off the board and we are not doing anything. Frank Mcourt is being extra cheap this year and i hope he hears it from the fans whenever he decide to show he weezle looking self again…haven't seen much of franky lately, maybe his wife told him he can't come out…what a little b&*%^
Neither side wants to lose in arbitration, that's why the D's haven't had one go that far since 2004. $1M isn't a very big hurdle to overcome. If I wanted a happy and productive player I'd even meet him a little over halfway.
Does anybody here think though that when our young guns are FA eligible that they won't bolt? Why would they want to play for McCheap & Co.?
bpb ~ I, for one, am very afraid that our young guns will leave us for greener pastures. That would be a shame and if that happens, I think Frank will be tarred & feathered. (did I spell that right?) sorry, my brain is malfunctioning.
bpb – I think alot will depend on how they handle Andre and what happens with Manny as well. If either one of them is handled wrong, then I can see our young guns fleeing at their first crack at free agency, and I wouldn't blame them. I know playing for the Dodgers is supposed to be a supreme thing because of it's history, but, at what point do you say, it's not worth it to play for "him".
Ah, yes, how would Martin and Kemp look in pinstripes? Jorge Posada is getting to old to don the tools of ignorance. And Kemp, who still has a couple rough spots, has way more talent than Melky Cabrera. Makes me sick to think that because of Frank that this is a real possibility.
crash ~ and you know how the Yankees like doing business with Frank………….they have a connection, which scares me a lot.
Wow, my Dodger Toolbar now has a Spring Training Icon!
Good afternoon ITD, Nellyjune, trublu, cpompe1, dodgereric, dodger4life, and all my other friends
It has been a slow day. Another week went by and nothing happened. Maybe now the management might take steps to give Wolf an offer. It seems that they wait until someone else takes a step. I think they will give Wolf an offer soon, then maybe they can concentrate on Andre and Manny. I think it is absolutely atrocious what is being done to Andre, by the way, but I agree with Nellyjune. Andre was very mature last season when he spent so much time on the bench when he obviously should have been out there playing. I'm glad that he showed them his true colors, both on and off the field. I would have been furious. Andre has shown what a mature player he is. Whatever happens in those arbitration hearings, Andre will still be our Andre. He will play his heart out. And Manny..I don't know what to think. If the management signs him for less than what he thinks he is worth, will he still be the same Manny? It is a thought. It is a bit tiring wondering what is going on with Borass and Manny. We need to get on with ST!!! They need to concentrate on being the best Dodgers ever with what they have. GO DODGERS!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!
By the way, who is planning on going to any of the Caravan events? I probably won't go tomorrow since it will be a mob scene. I'm not really familiar with that area and since it will be dark when it's over, I may just not go. The Caravans are fun however. I went to the Yankee Doodles event last year. There was a huge crowd with a lot of waiting but it was worth it. I have to work tonight so I will be tired tomorrow. Maybe if someone else from ITD goes???
No way Pierre starts in left field…even with out Manny. With Furcal healthy(???) Pierre's "value" as a lead-off hitter goes out the window, and given a FAIR shake in Spring Training, Repko will play circles around Pierre…just like last season when the Dodgers rewarded Repko's fine Spring with a ticket to Vegas. Not this year. Repko's agent is already whining as loud as Pierre, and well he should. Granted, the Dodgers wanted to see if Repko could stay heathy for a full season…and he did. Repko even understood that thinking. But this is 2009.
Hopefully, after Manny re-signs, the Dodgers can work a little payroll magic and move Pierre this Spring–for EVERYONE'S sake, including Juan.
I will be there tomorrow with my friend Eric. both of us take public transportation to and from work so instead of going home from Union Station, we will take the Red Line for 3 stops and then the Blue line for one stop. Is the way I go when I go see the Lakers. LA Lives is next to the Staple Center. Last time I was in the area, Eric and I checked out Lucky Strike bowling alley. Is very, very nice.
kpookie ~ I certainly hope you are right!
Hello All,
Emma have fun tomorrow and report to us all the details.
Heartruss…yeah it is sad what they are doing to Andre. I still can't believe that he hasn't be signed or even Manny. The two top players of 08′.
Crash24 – both Kemp & Martin will look good in anything they get put into. LOL!
TRU – I hope that we the fans have inspired the Young Guns to want to stay here in L.A. and be Dodgers for love. But just hoping. Can you imagine Kemp in a couple of years…he is going to be hotter than last year, Andre, Martin, Loney….we have great guys that I hate to loose either one of them.
*Rose (a.k.a. dodgersrules1655)
Dodger4life – how is it that you can get the "D" in Dodger4life show in upper case where the Blogs stamps your log in name with date????
I have no idea???? I must of signed up that way???
msrussyethier ~ I hope all the young guns are with us for a very long time. I think they are a very strong building block for our future.
No lie…Dodgers make new offer to Manny: 1 year, $25 million.
kahli – what do you think about that offer? I guess I am really not sure what Boras and Manny are thinking, like any of us are.
(Wii blogging again, this time with a keyboard)
Houston, we have an offer…
I think that this offer, pitched in the presence of Borass, shows that the Dodgers are selling themselves as a way for Manny to showcase himself, outside of the Boston stigma, for the benefit of a long-term AL contract in the near future.
If nothing else, Manny shouldn't be grumpy by earning $25 million in a season. He'll especially be motivated with the big money on the horizon.
Thus, no "bad Manny". If you're to believe my spin. I'm not so sure that I believe my spin, but I wonder if Boras thinks that offer's "serious" enough.
(Oh, and THANK YOU ALBERT PUJOLS!!!)
That was truly an exciting Super Bowl, not very well played, but all those penalties along with the fact that I didn't care who lost it made it an exciting game.
I find football a very nice game to watch and I was getting into it about 30 years ago but life and the Dodgers got in the way. But none the less I enjoyed it to the fullest.
I just found out that the Dodgers made a new offer to Manny.
I year only and asking him to wait 'till next year. I hope he accepts it, but I doubt it.
I hope he takes the offer soon and we make another offer, this one to Sheets.
Personally, I'd like to lock Manny up for AT LEAST two years. The message to the kids will be that he's simply a hired gun for one season…and you know he'd sign elsehwere in 2010 just for spite. But it's a moot point. He and Boras won't accept 1 year.
Thanks Nellie
For giving me that info about changing my nick name.
They use to use my e-mail address and then like everyone else they changed it to my name.
That was O.K. I'd rather not have my e-mail address.
I see some real fancy handles and just wished I could change mine to one I think fits me perfectly.
Joe Pierre – go to mlb.com and up at the upper righthand side just to the left of the "search" in the thin gray strip it says MY ACCOUNT. Click that and it will take you into your account profile. In the center section under the heading "Personal Information" it will have a box for your first name and a box for your last name. Directly under those two boxes there's:
NICKNAME / change (in blue)
Click on change and it will pop up a screen so that you can change and save the nickname you want.
brownpaperbag, let me see if that works…
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
one more time…
TA DA!!!!!!!! I'm back to my former self. Thanks, brownpaperbag!!
Where you been?? LOL
On the Manny offer, there is a 48-hour deadline.
If Manny doesn't take it, I will!!
Kahli ~ are you new to ITD, lol
I just want to make sure that when that "supposed" ITD tour comes down that they invite both kahli and kpookie…and they'd better show us Ned's super-secret telephone to Boras.
If Manny takes the $25 million, he'll be the second-highest paid player in baseball, trailing only you-know-who by $2.5 million, but $2 million ahead of CC and $2.5 million ahead of Teixeira.
kahli ~ I really think he will take it. And, it will be great for us because he will play his little heart out trying to impress future suitors.
sammieramirez99 Manny has an offer????
1 year, $25 mil.. i wish someone would offer that to me~
Good Evening ITD readers and writers!!!!
What have we got here!!! Kpookiemon, formerly known as Kahliforni, is back to being Kalhiforni, formerly known as kpookiemon – How cool is that!!!! So, if that can happen maybe, Porklinks, formerly known as westernmost, formerly known as Old Fogey, can go back to being Old Fogey, if he chooses of course.
From Tony Jackson, Daily News:
"This from a source who requested anonymity. It isn't a firm deadline, per se, contrary to what was reported earlier tonight on ESPN. But it also has been hinted to me — not told to me in so many words, but hinted to me — that this is akin to a final offer and that the Dodgers will 'move on' if Ramirez turns up his nose at it."
nellyjune, what was original moniker way back when??????????
I tried the "change nickname" for 7 months to get nellyjune to show up on the "by line" and I eventually just gave up and opened a new e-mail account with a new mlblog account. My original one was dnelson@mcsd……….
Did anyone see that Dodger Thoughts is moving to the L.A. Times as it's official Dodger blog? Can't copy and paste on the Wii, but Blue Notes had an article about it on the LATimes.com site.
If Boras counters at 2 years, $50 million, I think Dodgers should say absolutely "yes." That way, in two years, Uncle Joe's contract will be up, Ned could be histroy, Pierre will have one stinking year left (if he hasn't been gratefully traded long before) and MartinLoneyKempEthierBillingsleyKershaw will take their rightful place as the established stars of a burgeoning dynasty. Or……???
Kahli – that would be fantastic!!!!
nsblues – That's really good for Dodger Thoughts
Our young guns, Matt and Andre, are getting their kudos in the fantasy league world too. Pierre is getting mentioned, but not exactly in the same light.
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Andre deserves every penny!!!!!!!!
So we've broken the ice with a 1 year, $25 million offer. Where have I heard that idea before?
"Happy New Year ya'll!
Regarding Manny, it's plain that he wants a long-term deal that he won't get with the Dodgers. It doesn't appear that he'll get it from anyone. He's got no one to blame but himself. No one wants the potential nightmare, but I think there's a way out.
I think it might be in his best interest to sign a short-term deal, say a one-year deal for a nice salary ($25 mil). It's obvious that only an American League team would ever give him a long-term contract due to his advancing age and defensive liabilities. It's very probable that he'll continue to hit well for several more years.
Let's say that deal happens:
1 – Manny gets the rush of the largest single-year contract ever, so he's happy.
2 – It's a salary drive-incentive year, so we get his best effort.
3 – He uses this year as a demonstration to the AL that he's reformed.
4 – Lambo shows us he's ready by tearing up the AA and AAA.
5 – We mutually part ways with Manny.
6 – With a year and a half elapsing after his nasty RedSox ending, enough AL teams are impressed with his great attitude and bat that he gets that 4 year deal to finish his career.
7 – We have what, $60 million (?) come off the books in 2010 (for Manny and Schmidt's and Jones' money) to help us sign and keep our kids.
8 – Left field opens up for Lambo.
OK, the Lambo part is a bit hopeful. But doesn't the rest make some sense for everyone? We get a full year of Manny-production
By dodgereric on January 1, 2009 11:22 AM"
Of course, he's turned it down:
The way this article finishes irks me:
"The Dodgers could find themselves in a bind if Ramirez receives a multi-year offer from another club. If Ramirez is offered what he considers a fair deal, sources close to him say that he wouldn't grant the Dodgers a chance to match it, forcing the Dodgers to go into spring training without their only star attraction and reliable run producer.
Failure to re-sign Ramirez could result in the pursuit of Bobby Abreu or Adam Dunn, who remain available.
Asked whether the Dodgers would turn to other options if Ramirez rejected their latest proposal, Colletti replied, "We'll see."
You won't let us match another offer? What the hell kind of negotiating is THAT? If that's true, and I say IF, because we are dealing with the Supreme Liar Boras, then to hell with you Manny and you Boras. Get me Abreu's agent on the phone right now!
Well, good evening Ward Dear………….I was wondering what your insight would be on this offer.
They have gone from playing chess to playing poker.
Scotty's bluffing and Ned's going all in…..
Hey Dodger4life – Well, poker is definitely more fun, but only if you are the winner.
Hi Nelly, I'd rather go all in and lose than be held hostage .
I agree with you Eric. Good evening to you sir 🙂
I agree – if we are going to play with the big boys, we better be bringing it!
Good evening my friends!
First, I think D4 is a very smart man.
Second, I still think a 1 year deal is not an insult, it's a good idea for Manny. For the reasons I listed on Jan 1.
Third, we're about to find out if there is really another team in the mix. We may have brought other teams into play with this offer. If there are no other offers, Boras needs to counter. Perhaps a 3-year deal. Then Ned can put a 2-year out there and we can all stop talking about it.
Wouldn't that be nice?
And if another team gets him, as I said, don't let the door hit you in the ***. Sign Abreu, get some guts and sign Sheets, and then give Andre his money and praise him for being a team player last year.
And the next contract offer is the one Frank seems to want. A Zero year deal.
THAT would be very nice dodgereric!!!!!!!
Manny and Boras still don't get it. And another day passes.
Manny may end up with substantially less money, even still.
Frankly, I'm amazed at this offer jungar. I didn't think he'd play hardball. Perhaps you're right. Perhaps that's exactly what he wants. If that's true, there should be nowhere for him to hide in this city.
Alex – they don't seem to get it, do they?
Boras is trying to create interest in Manny. How many multi year deals have been made this year?? Not many, if Manny was going to get a multi year deal for 25 million a year. We would have action by now. Any offer that is less than 50 million for 2 years and Frank doesnt beat he will be crucified for by the press and the fans. Until someone makes that offer ours is 25 million for 1year, 2nd highest contract ever offered anyone in yearly salary. Boras is going to squeeze every last drop out of this lemon 🙂 We will get a chance to match any and all offers.
This whole situation has been butchered by Scott Boras. A-Rod stood up to him last offseason when Boras played with the Yankees. If Manny wants the money it's waiting for him right here in Los Angeles. Manny can make all of this end. He should tell Boras to get a deal done. If not Manny is going to end up a one man show on a small market team. While the Manny-less Dodgers compete for a division title. We don't need Manny to win despite what the 'media' tells us. I want Manny on the Dodgers but he's going to have to want to be a Dodger. Until that comes we're better off without him.
With out the Dodgers in the mix does'nt Manny's worth go down even more????
I'm getting tired of fighting my connection, so this is going to be it for me.
Pure and simple, whatever deal gets him on the Dodgers, Manny has to like it.
If it's the 1-year – and maybe McCourt can sweeten it to $30 mil so he can say he has the biggest deal ever, he has to see that it's the smart thing for him to do as a road to one more multi-year deal to finish off his career.
If they end up compromising on a 2 or 3 year, he has to be happy with it.
If either of these deals leaves him unhappy, he's the last guy I want on my team. Adios.
Good Night Eric, God Bless and have a great day tommorrow
Good Night Ward Dear!!!! Take care and God Bless 🙂
Good Night ITD,Dodgerfaithful.
Good Night to all involved parties, may tommorrow have a solution that is good for both sides.
May the team as a whole, players, mngmt, owners, and all of the blue in the stands find a happy medium to the situation at hand.
I would love to see Manny remain a Dodger and help lead this team to the treasured ring.
If both sides truly want this to happen lets get it done.
Do whatever it takes to bring a championship back home to LA.
If not lets show the cards collect the pot and move on!!!
Good night again and God Bless everybody 🙂
Good Night ITD readers and writers!!!!! I just want this whole issue to be over. This has got to be one of the most ridiculous things to have happened in the off season. Let's hope all involved come with their best game plans so we can finally come to a conclusion on this Manny ordeal.
DodgerEric ( YOU DA MAN! ) Have a terrific day today 🙂
So last word is that Manny rejected this $25 million a year offer. Okay…now what?
F Ramirez! F Borass!!! MOVE ON!
Good Morning ITD ~ Bear, I'm with you 100%.
Okay – it really is time to move on….this is just absolutely ridiculous. Get Andre taken care of, sign Abreu (if still possible) and please get us a SP.
Offer Andre $3.5 million for 2009, and the deal should be done and make Andre happy.
Go after Abreu with a two year deal and a performance based option for year three.
Try getting Sheets with a one year deal and a performance based option for year two.
Okay ITD crew, Borass turned down $25million and didn't even submit a counter offer, so I say it's time to move on.
I say that we offer Adam Dunn the same deal. Dunn will give us the same amount of HR power and equal defensive liability as Manny. We need to sign Andre Ethier, trade Juan Pierre, sign two more pitchers and get ready to go to Spring Training. Go Dodgers!
Now batting, left fielder #9, Juan Pierre.
Good grief.
Good morning nellyjune & it's nice to see you again Obi! We certainly are in a mess right now. I'd love to see JP out of Dodger Blue but, nobody out there wants him. However, if Frank gives Andre the money he deserves, Juan will be begging to get out of LA………if he's not gone, will have Mr. Pouty for the entire season!
Looks like you're going to be "Baggy" for quite some time!!!!
….bpb – you forgot batting 2nd – LOL!!!!!!!
From what I'be been reading, Abreu is more of a defensive liability than Manny and Pierre. A duo of Dunn/Kemp will be a rally killer with all of their K's. Hell, let's give DY a shot at LF and spend the money saved on Sheets and Wolf. That would then replace Lowe and Penny/Maddux. We'll just have to rely that the kids take that next step and Ferk stays healthy all year.
Alright – bear and obi!! How are you guys??
Morning Tru & Nells!
Morning, Bpb…………it's not really a good morning, is it?
Nice to see too that in a worldwide economic crisis, greed is still alive and well.
Borass and Fehr, the two biggest cancers in baseball.
ESPN is just reporting that BorASS is the one who rejected the offer………he says there are still teams out there who are intersted. However, Dillon Hernandez says he still thinks the Dodgers will make another offer. I really don't think they will.
Funny that none of these "other teams" have surfaced to make an offer by now with only 2 weeks until ST starts. Borass is nothing but full of ****.
Doing good this morning, bpb – thanks for asking.
I guess I'm counting on our young guys adding some power this season – Kemp needs to break out to justify all the expectations of the last couple of years, and Andre, Loney and Russ should all exceed their HR numbers of last season. I personally would prefer Abreu's expected consistency at bat compared to Dunn's extra HR's but many more K's. I don't want there to be a question in Torre's mind whether Pierre can be an everyday answer in LF; otherwise, I too would just as soon go for Sheets and Wolf and just give DY and Repko a chance to fill out the outfield.
I agree, bpb! Do you really think we are through with Manny? Are we going to make another offer? Is Manny going to tell Borass to take the deal of $25M?
Bear ~ you realize we are talking about the Joe who played JP almost half of the season and kept putting Andruw out there thinking he'd come out of his slump………and who kept sending Sweeney up to pinch hit when we all know it was an automatic out!
Glad to hear it bear! We need you on here more often!!
Kemp and Dre should get to 25 HR apiece this year.
You'd think that after watching JP much of last year, Torre wouldn't have any doubts as to what JP can't do and would give DY and Repko a fair shot at earning the position, but then, Joe's an idiot and the same person that trotted Sweeney out there time after time to fail.
bpb ~ great minds think alike, lol!!!!!!!!!
You put Sheets and Wolf on this team and they're really no worse than what we went into the season with last year.
Manny no doubt is a big stick in the line-up, but remember what this offense did the first month of the season when Ferk was en fuego. They averaged about 5.5 runs a game, and that was with Kent clogging up the clean-up spot, a raw rookie playing third, and the worst player ever in CF. Even JP was getting ABs.
It still all boils down to what we kept saying over and over again last year – just put the best players on the field regardless of salary, and good things happen.
I'll take your word on that, bpb.
Good Morning ITD readers and writers!!!!
I am just checking in to see if any new developments have happened since reading earlier and apparently not. I really thought going into this off season, most of these decisions would be just a given, but apparently, it just shows you, like bpb said, greed is alive and well. BTW – Did hear that Selig got a nice hefty raise as well? I tried to post the article yesterday, but it wouldn't allow it for some reason.
Just pay Andre what he deserves and get some pitching and get this season started with what we have. Take a chance on DY or Repko on left and let's do this.
red pen – Did "you" hear………
Other teams are talking to Abreu, but not the Dodgers. Apparently, we are more interested in Dunn if Manny is a goner…………however, ESPN is reporting we would be a good fit for Sheets. So, the merry-go-round continues.
Uh,oh ~ now the rumor is, we are also considering Orlando Hudson.
Ned Colletti – idiot or GM savant? Discuss.
Discuss what? That he is an idiot or a GM. I thought they were the same thing in this case 🙂
The Dodgers should make a counter offer..5 years and 50 million. You want your long term deal, there it is.
Very good, nellyjune!
I like that idea jungar.
I would have liked Orlando Hudson all along on decent terms, but we went ahead and got Blake. I think that DeWitt would have been better at third to begin with, and Hudson could have fit the other infield needs including not having to get Loretta.
By the way, my vote goes for Idiot Ned. My vote has been long-standing.
In this economy, small market teams can't afford Manny, so that leaves us with NYM, NYY, Boston, LAA, LAD, Cubs and [barf] SF. The Yankees don't need him. Boston doesn't want him. The Mets can't afford him now. The Angeles don't care. The Cubs don't care. And SF's in the same NL boat we are.
C'mon Borass, name the "interested" teams who are willing to give Manny a long term deal. My guess is that they're all in Japan.
Move on Ned. Sign Sheets. Sign Wolf. Trade Noodles and we'll go with what we've got.
ESPN seems to think the gnats and Nationals may make a move on Manny but, it won't be more than what we've offered………like jungar said, maybe more years but far less money. So, bpb, I guess I agree with you……….sign Andre, sign Sheets, sign Wolf and we'd be okay. And of course, get rid of JP!
The "interested team" is here http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3769889
~~Worcester, MA January 27, 2009 — The Worcester Tornadoes Professional Baseball Team has offered a contract to free agent outfielder Manny Ramirez for two years worth $24,000. The deal would pay the 12-time Major League Baseball All-Star approximately $3,000 during each month of the Can-Am Baseball Season. Unlike Major League Baseball, the Can-Am League operates with a salary cap, and the deal for Ramirez would be on par with other veterans in the league.
"I feel Manny would really enjoy playing in Worcester and hitting in our ballpark. Although I would be concerned about the cars traveling on I-290 during his at bats, it's a risk worth taking," said General Manager, Jorg Bassiacos.
The contract was sent to Ramirez around 2:00 EST on Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
Other former Red Sox players have been spotted at Tornadoes games in 2008, including Johnny Pesky and Roger Clemens along with current Tornadoes manager, Rich Gedman, and bench coach, Roger LaFrancois.~~
What a mess this is. I am ready to move on from Manny. I am sure Andre will do well in arbitration so let's get some pitching and talk to Abreu.
crzblue ~ very good!
Manny just got done making $160M the past 8 years. He and his decendants are set forever. Hell, he doesn't even cash all his checks. The only one I see driving the greed is Borass. He found a dupe in Manny. He talked him into tanking in Boston with the promise of another $100M+ payday and now thinks a 37 year old ballplayer should be paid more than when he was in his prime.
If Manny fires Borass and takes either offer the Dodgers made, fine. Otherwise both of them can stick it where the sun don't shine. Don't cave in Ned.
And don't EVER deal with Borass again.
Oh and here is Selig'sarticle on his $3 million raise to $17.5
Interesting item on ESPN radio, LA…………if Manny can put 300-400 more cars in the parking lot, it will cover his salary.
ESPN must be using Obamanomics – 400 cars x $15 parking fee x 81 games = $486,000. The rest will obviously be made up with government bailouts.
I know, bpb! Jamie McCourt thought we were a boring team without him. I think the young guns are fun to watch. Who's running the team, Jamie or Frank? I should say, trying to run the team.


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The poet Czeslaw Milosz once described literature as "a series of moments in the life of the species, coagulated into language."
With only modest tweaking, this might also give us a more-than-serviceable pocket definition for the art song: "a series of moments in the life of the species, coagulated into music."
Or at the very least this broader existential approach seems to inform the uncommonly eloquent programs assembled and performed by the New York Festival of Song. Art songs here are celebrated for the sensual pleasures they bring but also for the improbably numerous ways in which they open out onto larger worlds of history, poetry, and biography, distant geographic landscapes and the veiled interior regions within.
The programming alchemy of which this group is capable was once again placed on view this weekend in a concert titled "Warsaw Serenade." An afternoon exploring two centuries of obscure Polish art songs may sound more like a dry academic seminar. Yet in Sunday's performance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, it instead offered a richly compelling encounter with the beauty and complex resonance of an all but invisible repertoire.
Long a fixture of New York's music scene, NYFOS, now in its 26th season, was cofounded by pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. They shared keyboard responsibilities on Sunday, but it was Blier whose printed essay and spoken commentary, marbled with playful lines of wit, erudition and anecdote, gave the program its distinctive personal touch. Also notable is that Blier carries out his duties as curator, researcher, writer, accompanist, and salon host while struggling with a form of muscular dystrophy that severely limits almost all motion. On Sunday, after entering the hall on a wheelchair and being helped to his seat at the piano, he confessed that this program, with its Boston performance in the wake of a snow storm, was one of the most difficult in the history of NYFOS.
You wouldn't know it from Sunday's performance, which opened with a song by Stanislaw Moniuszko, a contemporary of Chopin, given a muscular and vital account by tenor Joseph Kaiser. Kaiser, in excellent voice, shared the afternoon's vocal duties with the gifted soprano Dina Kuznetsova, who followed the Moniuszko with a deeply felt account of Edward Pallasz's "Matki czlowieczej lament" ("Lament of the mother of mankind"), a song that brims with a particularly Slavic combination of primordial sadness and luminous beauty.
A different register of loss informs the Seven Yiddish Songs (Op. 13) of Mieczyslaw's Weinberg, a Polish-born Jewish composer who fled to Russia in 1939 and became a close friend of Dmitri Shostakovich. Weinberg's presence has long been discernible as an influence on Shostakovich's artistic orbit, but Weinberg's own fascinating voice is only now starting to reach a wider audience, with his Holocaust opera "The Passenger" en route to the Lincoln Center Festival this summer.
The Yiddish songs performed on Sunday set off on a deceptively folksy and innocent note, conjuring memories and souvenirs of childhood — a little loaf of bread, a mother's lullaby — in the poetry of I. L. Peretz. Nothing however prepares you for the rupture of the sixth song, "The orphan's letter." Tragedy here is conveyed with both understatement and searing directness.
A grouping of four concise songs from the mid-20th century served as vivid introduction to the sharply drawn vocal writing of Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-69). And another set of songs deftly distilled the creative evolution of the best known composer on this program, Karol Szymanowski, from an early Wagnerian phase, through two periods of reinvention and liberation as reflected in one of the highly erotic "Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin," to a proudly nationalistic stage, less overtly sensual but still wonderfully polychrome, sampled in a selection from his "Kurpian Songs."
The formal program ended with Pade-rewski's "Piper's Song." It is, in truth, not the most sophisticated of vocal gems but here it was given a rendition so gleaming and open-hearted, you forgot to notice.Jeremy Eichler can be reached at jeichler@

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The Senate Intelligence Committee will mark up its highly anticipated changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this afternoon in a closed session, a meeting that sources said could take nearly four hours.
The bill, announced by chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., at a rare open hearing last month, was a committee response to public outcry about the National Security Agency's metadata collection programs. The mass surveillance was revealed in June through documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Feinstein said the committee was considering a myriad of changes to FISA, including new limitations on access to collected metadata and tighter requirements for reporting to Congress on the NSA's programs.
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Although certain provisions of the bill would rein in the Agency's abilities, one provision would extend its authority by allowing a 7-day window in which the NSA could collect data on a foreign target that has entered the U.S.
But much has changed since Feinstein first announced the legislation, particularly in the last week. Feinstein's announcement came originally at a time when concerns largely focused on the NSA's domestic metadata collection, while recent revelations of international surveillance -- specifically, on allied European leaders -- have added a new dimension to the criticism.
Feinstein, often considered a staunch supporter of the NSA's programs, issued a statement Monday that indicated a shift in position, and suggested that the Senate Intelligence Committee, hailed by officials as adequate congressional oversight, was not fully aware of the Agency's international efforts. It was unclear whether the bill would address any of the recent revelations.


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Hello Stoke-on-Trent City Council, why not look at ideas like this from Manchester for improving Hanley?
Hello Stoke-on-Trent City Council, why not look at ideas like this from Manchester for improving Hanley?
Longton Businessman Jon Beech has contacted Pits n Pots asking us to publish his letter about Longton Railway Bridge.
There was a letter published in The Sentinel recently about Longton Bridge by Barrie Roberts. I have written to the Editor in response,
I agree that the railway bridge's poor condition and appearance is certainly of great frustration to the local citizens and is also very detrimental to the Town of Longton's future regeneration.
However, the Tyneside bridges he refers to are unlike ours in that they are highways structures and owned by their respective councils. In contrast, the Longton Bridge is owned by Network Rail, a private company and its maintenance is subject to its own national policies, which apparently exclude any requirement for a reasonable appearance!
I am aware that the City Council, and our own MP Rob Flello, have repeatedly strived to convince Network Rail and other influential bodies that the condition and the appearance of this bridge is most certainly not of a satisfactory standard "" particularly given its central location in the heart of a major town such as Longton. I believe Network Rail has claimed that the cost of the Bridge's remediation would be around £750 thousand and that it would only be prepared to contribute a small amount of this fee itself ! !. The Company also strictly restricts anyone else except its own contractors from undertaking this work, so there is limited scope for reducing the cost by using volunteers for example.
In his letter Barrie implies a common assumption that our City suffers from poor attitude and hope. As local people, perhaps we can demonstrate that we suffer from neither and by supporting Rob Flello and the Council's efforts to convince Network Rail of the importance of improving the appearance of this iconic structure which incidentally is 30 years older than the Titanic!. I would suggest it is time to dispel this apathy myth and at the very least we the citizens of this city get together a petition headed by our local mp Rob Flello and supported by the city council to be submitted to its regulating body, the Office of Rail Regulation. Would anyone like to help me in co-ordinating such a petition?
Jon Beech, Longton
We have a long history of discussing Longton Railway Bridge here on Pits n Pots and it is one of Warrens' favourite subjects. What do you think, should we just accept that the bridge will not be painted or should we start a campaign to try and shame Network Rail, in to spending less than £1million on refurbishing the bridge which is a gateway in to one of our towns?
To put £1 Million in to perspective, that is 1/60 of the reported overspend on the luxury Kings Cross offices for Network Rail. That is £60 Million that will never be seen by the public and has no benefit to the travelling public what so ever.


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Mobile Ads Are the Future. They're Also Lousy
What gap in the consumer attention span can they fill? | "When I'm on my phone, this is my thing. I don't want to be tracked"
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Companies across the Internet continually proclaim mobile ads as the next great frontier. Pandora Media, Twitter, and other big names often derive the majority of their revenue from them. On Oct. 23, Facebook's stock leapt more than 10 percent on news that the social network earned 14 percent of its third-quarter revenue from mobile ads, up from almost nothing in the first quarter. That mobile advertising should be an enormous business makes sense. After all, our smartphones are always with us, know where we are, and collect far more data about us than a desktop PC. So if mobile has such potential, why are the ads so mediocre?
"Most mobile advertising is done as an afterthought," says Eric Picard, chief executive officer of Rare Crowds, an ad technology company. "Immature designers have just sort of slapped banner ads in there." Working with a tiny canvas — a smartphone display — most ads take one of two forms, each with obvious shortcomings. There is the tiny banner ad Picard refers to, which has little room to say anything more than "Click here for something!" and the interstitial, the screen that pops up and interrupts you while you're trying to read something else.
These two simple forms have their roots in other media — only in other media they make a lot more sense. A print advertisement or, for that matter, a Web ad on a computer's large display, is based on the concept of adjacency: We tolerate it because it's next to content we want to consume. Television ads work the same way (at least for people without DVRs), but with the added dimension of time. Modern Family will be interrupted, sure, but the show's story structure is designed for that, and we'll sit through some commercials because we want to see what's going to happen with Phil Dunphy's next crazy scheme to surprise Claire.
When we encounter a mobile ad, it's disruptive, and not in the positive way that business gurus breathlessly use the word. "When I see an ad pop up on my phone, I get scared," says Al Rotches, a Web ad designer who has worked on Internet campaigns for Barack Obama, Honda Motor, and Trojan Brand Condoms. "When I'm on my phone, this is my thing," he adds. "I don't want to be tracked, I don't want to be interrupted."
Worldwide mobile-ad spending will reach $6.4 billion this year and more than $23.6 billion by 2016, according to researcher EMarketer. Google is the biggest beneficiary, but even it realizes that banner ads and interstitials aren't going to work on a smartphone. The company has been developing enhanced ad services like click-to-call buttons, which allow people to contact an advertiser directly about an offer using the phone in their hand. Its Android devices also can use Google Now, a virtual personal assistant that keeps track of your frequently visited locations and repeating calendar entries and then tries to provide relevant information, such as a traffic report minutes before you head to work. The company hasn't sent out any advertising through this service, but many in the industry expect it will: Besides the traffic, wouldn't you be interested in a coupon for a new breakfast sandwich at that coffee place on your way to the office?
The company's mobile-payment system, Google Wallet, is another way it's moving beyond the standard model. Storing a user's credit-card information does two things: It makes mobile purchases easier, since a person doesn't have to enter payment information on a small device, and it provides a way to follow the money. Without a payment platform, Google and other ad networks have no way to determine whether an ad persuades a user to make an offline purchase. But if you use Google Wallet to pay a florist after Google sent you an ad from that florist, Google can make some conclusions about that ad's efficacy and adjust prices accordingly.
Facebook's rapid mobile-ad expansion has been possible because more than 60 percent of its users access the social networking site on a mobile device. The company attributes its recent growth in mobile ads to what is known in the digital-ad world as "native advertising," or advertising that's integrated with a site's regular content. In Facebook's case, that means ads that appear in a user's news feed, which the company calls a "sponsored story."
"We want to make the ads on Facebook part of the user experience in a seamless way," says Gokul Rajaram, Facebook's product director for advertising. That not only means incorporating ad content into news feeds, but also storing users' credit-card information so they can make purchases with a single click. "On mobile, the need to reduce friction in any transaction is exponentially greater," says Rajaram.
On Facebook, each user can be turned into an ad network. Sponsored stories are first distributed to users who have chosen to be fans of an advertiser's Facebook page. If a fan then likes the ad (often consisting of a coupon or other discount) in a sponsored story, it's distributed to that fan's network of friends, whether they liked the advertiser's page or not. "We're finding that more than 50 percent of all claims of offers come from friends of fans, not fans," says Rajaram, adding that Facebook's research showed people recalled an ad referred by a friend 10 times more often than a typical display ad.
Twitter is also pursuing a native-advertising strategy, in the form of promoted tweets, but custom formats for Facebook and Twitter will not work for the larger world of the Web, meaning that the magic formula for mobile advertising remains elusive — especially for sites that have fewer visitors. "Digital advertising is about getting my message in front of a lot of people at a low cost," says Rare Crowds' Picard. "The more we carve up that inventory, the harder it is to get that message out." Facebook can do sponsored stories, he says, because it has such a large audience. "But not everybody's Facebook."
The bottom line Traditional advertising doesn't translate to mobile devices, and companies are still struggling to come up with effective strategies.


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Pandas are beloved around the world, and now they are coming to the big screen in the IMAX® original film "Pandas," a breathtaking documentary adventure and amazing experience for the whole family.
At Chengdu Panda Base in China, scientists are dedicated to protecting the species by breeding adult giant pandas in order to introduce cubs into the wild. This film follows one such researcher, whose passion leads her to initiate a new technique inspired by a black bear program in rural New Hampshire. What starts as a cross-culture collaboration becomes a life-changing journey for an American biologist who crosses an ocean to join her; a scientist from Inner Mongolia; and a very curious female cub named Qian Qian, born in captivity.
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At Eikon Graphics, our sole objective is the successful delivery of each and every project, large or small, on time, in budget and to the total satisfaction of the client. To discover more about the Eikon Graphics, who we are, what we do, what we stand for and how we satisfy our clients objectives, visit our website and step into our centre of creative excellence.
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Community Clean Water Institute (CCWI) is dedicated to protecting water quality and public health throughout Northern California by identifying pollution sources through the collection and analysis of water quality data. CCWI shares the information collected with government regulatory agencies and the public, and engages in education and community outreach activities.
Mermaids Work for Clean Water
Vira the Mermaid, a long-time benefactor and advocate of CCWI, appeared in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat earlier this month.The story (read it here) describes Vira's innovative and creative efforts to demonstrate habitat restoration and increase environmental awareness here in Sonoma County and in her travels across the country.
The Fog to Bog Quest
CCWI has partnered with the Atascadero / Green Valley Watershed Council to create a watershed Quest in the backcountry of Ragle Ranch Regional Park. A Quest is an interactive treasure hunt that teaches people about special places. Learn about this seasonal wetland, engage in water quality observations, and have fun while adventuring in this section of the Atascadero / Green Valley watershed.
Quest participants: click here to view preliminary results.
Online Interactive Water Quality Database
Community Clean Water Institute now has available to the public an online interactive water quality database for streams and rivers in Sonoma County. Data collected by CCWI since 2001 is displayed in both graph and table format for over 100 monitoring sites. To explore further click here.
Data Displayed
Get to know your watershed throught this easy interactive tool. Choose your water body of interest, time frame, and site location to compare trends and changes over time. Export the date to your own computer for further analysis.
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
Volunteer to monitor water quality in your watershed by working with CCWI. Collect important water quality data, and educate your neighbors about best practices for watershed protection. For more information on citizen monitoring, click here.
The Water Rights, Privatization and Public Trust ProgramClick Here
Instream Flow Monitoring GuideClick Here
Dutch Bill Creek Water Quality Study 2009
The primary objective of CCWI's Dutch Bill Creek Water Quality, Turbidity, Nutrients and Bacteria Study was to collect water samples on Dutch Bill Creek over the 2007/2008 and the 2008/2009 winters in order to document and analyze the water quality of Dutch Bill Creek during storm events. A secondary objective was to train interns and interested citizens in the study and to present the information to the public. To see the full report click here.


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Local Eye Clinic is Providing Free Vision Screening For Young Children
For the entire month of October, the optometrists at Central Washington Eye Clinic are providing FREE VISION SCREENINGS to children from 6 months to 5 years old.
Why? Because by the time children reach preschool there may be vision problems that could easily have been detected and helped far earlier. Parents seem to be very attuned to the fact that vision is a key factor in successful learning ; that children squinting , headaches and poor reading scores may all be signs of needing glasses. However, parents are less aware that children as young as 6 months old can be screened for eye health, as well as the functioning of the pupils (reflex) , binocularity, and clarity even if the child cannot read.
Pediatricians and pediatric ophthalmologists recommend regular screenings; once by 6 months, again by 3 years and again by 5 years.
Doctors David Moon and John McGiffin at Central Washington Eye Clinic want to offer their services in order to educate parents about what to look for and to ease their minds when it comes to their child's vision. In actuality 90-9% of all children have no vision issues at a young age, but given the opportunity most parents still would like to know.
Appointments must be made for the free screenings.


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Chrisstewartmba needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 127 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
Fitness site targeted at men. Members are fitness crazy and already have "six pack" or "8 pack" abdominals.
This logo must be shocking and immediately grab the attention of visitors. Checkout the font used in the attachment called "muscle.jpg" and look at the word "muscle" in the image, we like that style of masculine, powerful, font.
We are targeting a young audience: 18 to 25 year old men. These men have great bodies and work hard to keep fit. They have attitude, they are vein, they are strong. They know they look good.
We want our logo to reflect this masculine attitude.
Details about the logo:
1. Submit 2 versions: one version will be 8PackAbs.com and one version should just be 8 Pack Abs ( second version should have no .com and have spacing between words)
2. Must use the colors I have suggested: black, silver, and red.
3. Include this slogan in the logo: WHEN SIX JUST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH.
Note: Any submission that doesn't follow these directions will be eliminated immediately
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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OK, I'm trying to figure this all out... If I did my math right, there are over 40 different unique characters shown so far for the Infinite Heroes line... and that's only what we've seen, with more to be revealed after the DC Panel. This is a LOT of DC goodness! I'm excited and hesitent at the same time... sort of like I was with Indy. Yes or no? Buy or stay away? What's a good DCU fanboy to do?
That was the excuse when I bought the 3.75" Batman/Joker pack and $10 Tumbler at Target last week...
If she's even remotely excited when Star Wars stuff comes in the house, she's a total keeper anyway. The grief associated with the non-SW stuff is worth it then. My wife tolerates my habit (and, well, me) so if your wife is finding some of it cool, that's great.
On an opposite note, the 3 packs seemed to have increased in price at our store to closer to $17 (they were $9.99).
At the $10 price I was considering picking up a few 3-packs (GL, Bat themed sets), but for $17 I'd rather have two new SW figures instead.
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Sunday 19 September 2010 – Sunday 6 February 2011, 2.30pm - 4.30pm (Excluding Sundays 24th & 31st October, 19th & 26th December 2010 & 2nd January 2011)
Led by artist Fiona King, the purpose of this 16-week course is to instruct students in the preparation and production of a portfolio of work that will cater for entry to third level art colleges. Through continual emphasis on idea generation, group discussion evaluation and practical application, students will identify and clarify the process involved in producing a body of art work. The students will demonstrate how each of the ideas they generate is connected and influences the work to follow through a visual or conceptual association. The visual research will be presented through notebooks, worksheets and resolved pieces. For students to truly benefit from this experience, assignments will need to be completed outside of the scheduled classes.
Fee: €220. Early enrolment is advised, as numbers are limited. To book, please contact Katy Fitzpatrick, Education Curator.


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Wonderful work, ladies!!!
Pixel Scrapper December Blog Train Comments
I what has been so kindly provided to us.
A job well done by ALL the ladies involved. (insert clapping hands here) - more emoticons needed )
Love everyone's parts!! Thank you all for your care, love and kindness!! Big Texas size hugs!!!
Some great stuff here....thanks to all!!
I am posting here at first to tell you that I finally uploaded my part to my blog, you can find it here. Sorry for being sooooo late, but for one hand, I arrived really late and tired from work yesterday, and from other, all your designs are soooooooo great that I´m a bit ashamed from my noob, tiny kit.
@Lizanne: Do you believe I had almost the same problem as you? My Photoshop stopped working, then my husband installed a new one he recently bought and I felt really lost! I ended up making most of my kit, and the preview, in Corel Draw... I also need to tell you that your kit seem amazing! I loved it!
As soon as I download all the kits (I haven´t even started) I will try to send each of you some .
Thanks Marisa and Jordan for providing us this great opportunity! I learned a lot
Hi all! First let me say again to all the contributors thanks for your great Train additions. For me, I had never "designed" anything before so this was a challenge. I had such a busy November that I just ran out of time and therefore my part is quite tiny but I love plaids and it was fun coordinating the designs with the colors. I also love realism and therefore enjoy extracting items so that is what I went with. Hope you all are able to use some of what I did. Thank you Marisa for the opportunity to go out of my comfort zone and learn something new! Applauding all the designers out there because it is a lot harder than you think to not only "dream up" ellements but to make them come to life. I just loved participating and hope to be able to do it again!
@Lorien, Just downloaded your kit! It is lovely - worth the wait!
Hi there,
Thank you for all the wonderful contributions in the blogtrain! I left individual comments were I could, but ttah wasn't always possible. So I hope you see it here!
I wanted to say thanks to Marisa for the opportunity to participate in a blog train and also thank all of the people who have left comments here or on my blog. I am amazed at the kindness of this community of scrappers and the time that they took to say thank you. Y'all are the best! Thanks to all of the other designers who created something for the train as well. Everything turned out so amazing!
Hoping I can d/l parts of the train tomorrow, provided I don't have anymore problems with my ISP (been having speed & connectivity issues off & on for at least 4-5 days now). I'm sure everyone did a great job - thanks in advance!
@Lorien: Aww... thank you, sweetie! So sorry you had to deal with the same problem I had - I can truly sympathize! I guess we both have a huge learning curve ahead of us now... ((hugs)) Sometimes I really don't like change... I'm still struggling with the differences between Win XP & Win 7 as it is, not to mention Outlook 2003 & Outlook 2007 - I hate what Microsoft did to the newer versions - the older versions were much better!
Thank you all so much! You are all super talented and I so appreciate the time and generosity involved in making this happen. What a lovely community we have here!
Thank you so much for allowing us to participate in the blog train. I'm finally getting around to checking out the parts that I downloaded and am so excited to get started creating. Such fun!!
Thanks to All who Participated in this Awesome BT .. I Have never participated in one but would like to try, just dont know where to start.
I have been trying to learn how make a few papers and embellies .. Maybe i can join in on one soon ..
Thank you ladies so much each and every one for your contributions to the blog train. What a wonderful bevy of goodies!!!
Thank you to the Ladies without blogs! I thanked the rest of you on your blogs! Hope we can continue this each month...
Thanks for hosting this blog train. The pieces on the train are beautiful! I love having the preview with the link! I hope you host another train in the near future!
We are planning a new blog train. There's a bit of discussion about it here: http://www.pixelscrapper.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking/digital-scrapbooking-discussion-chit-chat/requested-overlays although I should probably move it to a new thread.
Thank you so much
TYVM for the wonderful BT and for all the designers who share their talent. Happy Holidays to everyone.
Finally got a chance to d/l everyone's parts... Great job everyone! And thanks! I can't wait to try scrapping something for the train challenge...
I took this morning to unzip and check all the files of this blogtrain and send each one a comment. There are some comments remaining, however Well, not anymore! Here they are!
@Lizanne: As I think I´ve commented before, your theme, as Irish Christmas, is fantastic! I enjoyed so much the elements I could see in the preview, but unzipping it was really surprising! Thanks for that music sheets! They are great!
@Janet Scott: I like the ornament paper and all the glitter brads, but specialy the one with the hat and the other with a stocking!
@Elizabeth: I couldn´t imagine your kit is so nice just seing the preview! Thanks for sharing, It inspred me to craft some Xmas cards. I am just not sure if I can do them for this year, lol.
@Janet Hull: Your elements are sooooo cute
JUST THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT SOME OF YOUR PARTS WERE ON SUZEE Q'S BLOG YESTERDAY..... http://suzee-q-stuff.blogspot.com/
Cool. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for all these lovely kits
Thank you to all you awesome designers! What a great collection.
ooh...I'm so excited to see what the others will have!
Love the designs, excited to have my oldest home for Christmas finally! We've decorated the tree, and hope to get some great photos to scrap with these wonderful Christmas themed designs! Thanks so Much!
Just wanted to say Thanks to all the designers, including the first timers! Everything looks wonderful! Really getting in the Christmas spirit! Truly needed it right now!
just realized that though I downloaded the parts of this train back at the beginning of the month I forgot to say thank you to everyone! so Thank you...lol... all the parts look fabulous and I look forward to using them, who knows maybe when I'm feeling a bit better I'll try my hand at that challenge Marisa is holding for the Birds in Snow kit/train... thanks again!
Thank you so much for the freebies!!!!


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Developing MMC Snap-Ins using ATL
Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
Creating a Simple MMC Snap-In with ATL
Adding About Information
Adding the Items
Adding Help
Adding MessageView
Adding Property pages
Adding Menu
Adding Wizard
Adding Toolbar
Adding Persistence
Adding Connect to Server dialog
Adding ActiveX control
Adding Taskpads
Adding WebPage
IntroductionThis article tries to show how to implement basic MMC Snap-in features using ATL and gives you a starting point. The MMC Snap-in is a COM in-process server DLL. MMC stands for Microsoft Management Console and is designed to simplify and unify the different tasks and GUI elements for the end user. Some of the examples that use MMC as a hosting environment include Event Viewer, NT Services configuration GUI, Indexing Service, Win2k Disk Defragmenter, Device Manager, and many others. You can view the list on your machine by running mmc.exe and choosing menu Console | Add/Remove Snap-in | Add. The MMC framework provides no management by itself, but only unified graphical interface for hosting snap-ins. MMC is not a solution for everything. It's just another option that you have. It's up to you to see the applicability of MMC to your particular needs. This article only describes Primary Snap-Ins (Non Extension).
MMC GUI has several elements to it.
- Scope Panes - Console Tree which is normally on the left pane. Starts with a Static node which can have children.
- Result Panes - List View, Taskpad View, ActiveX control, and Web Page normally on the right pane. Usually appears when user selects a node from Console tree.
- Context menus - Popup menu when user right clicks Scope Pane or Result Pane.
- Toolbars and menus
- Property Sheets - When user chooses Properties for scope or result pane items, MMC allows developer to add property pages.
- Wizards
- Taskpads
Key Required Interfaces:
- IComponentData - Initializing CComponentData and Displaying the Snap-in Root Node (MSDN)
- IComponent - Creating CComponent and Expanding the Snap-in Root Node (MSDN)
- IDataObject - Data Objects and MMC (MSDN)
- IConsole(2) - Implemented by MMC. Used by Snap-in to manipulate Scope or
Result panes. The IConsole passed to IComponent::Initialize represents
Result pane. The IConsole passed to IComponentData::Initialize represents
Scope Pane.
(Note: Each IComponent and IComponentData gets its own private IConsole(2) interface pointer. Do not mix them.)
Creating a Simple MMC Snap-In with ATL
(Tools used: Microsoft. Platform SDK for Whistler Beta 1 and VC++ 6.0(SP4) under Windows 2000)
Create a new ATL COM AppWizard project for in-process COM server. Insert New ATL Object | MMC Snap-in. For the name put Simple. For MMC Snap-in property page leave the defaults and choose IExtendContextMenu, IExtendPropertySheet, and IExtendControlBar.
All Snap-ins get installed under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns reg key. The following values are valid under this key:
- NameString - Displayed during Add/Remove Snap-in Dialog. If not specified, Snap-in appears without name.
- About - CLSID of the about object. Used during Add/Remove Snap-in to provide the version and copyright info as well as the Snap-in icon. If not specified, no about information will be available to end user and default icon for the Snap-in will be used, which is generic folder icon.
- StandAlone - The key indicates that this is a Primary Snap-in; that is, it can be used stand alone and doesn't extend any other Snap-ins.
- NodeTypes - Contains values that represent Snap-ins nodes. You should list your nodes here only if you want them to be extended by other Extension Snap-ins. The wizard adds our static node here, it assumes that we will allow Extension Snap-ins to be written for it.
Let's start with the simple part of MMC, the ISnapinAbout interface. This interface is responsible for providing the copyright and version info, etc. to the user. The info is only visible when the Snap-in is being inserted through Add/Remove Snap-ins dialog:
It is implemented in a separate COM class for efficiency since it's role as you can see is very minimal. It has very trivial methods. Adding About Information (MSDN)IComponentData is implemented by IComponentDataImpl in ATL. The IComponentData is associated with the Scope pane (left pane/the tree nodes). MMC calls the IComponentDataImpl::CreateComponent, which will create an instance of IComponentImpl or more specifically ATL will create our CSimpleComponent class, which was passed as 2nd template argument to IComponentDataImpl. MMC will associate it with this IComponentData. The IComponentDataImpl::Initialize method, which is called by MMC, caches the private IConsole(2) and it you can also cache the IConsoleNamespace(2). The constructor of CSimple creates a new main static Node.
- CSimple - IComponentData. (Scope Pane/Left pane/The tree nodes/The folders)
- CSimpleComponent - IComponent. (Result Pane/Right pane/Listview..etc)
- CSimpleData -
The names used by ATL wizard are somewhat confusing. I always mix up which one inherits from IComponentData and which one provides implementation for IDataObject. IComponentData (MSDN)Initializing CComponentData and Displaying the Snap-in Root Node (MSDN)
IComponent is implemented by
IComponentImpl in ATL. The IComponentImpl is associated with the
Result Pane (right pane). It also has Initialize method and gets passed
its own private IConsole pointer by MMC, which is also cached by IComponentImpl.
It also sets the header, but the docs say that "The IConsole2::SetHeader method is
obsolete in MMC version 1.2 and later." IComponent
Creating CComponent and Expanding the Snap-in Root Node (MSDN)
Data Objects and MMC (MSDN)
IPersistStreamInit can be used by IComponentData and IComponent derived classes to provide persistence support. You can for example save the computer name, IP address, folder names, services, etc...
IExtendContextMenu, IExtendPropertySheet(2), and
IExtendControlbar can be used to extend the popup menu, property pages,
and add control bars for Snap-ins.
ISnapinHelp(2) is used to inform MMC that we support help. Snap-ins are strongly encouraged to provide help
IDisplayHelp can be used to support context sensitive help by responding to MMCN_CONTEXTHELP messages from MMC.
The best thing to do is to rename the CSimpleData to CStaticNode. I think it makes it clearer, but I left it as is. To simplify our life a little we need to create a base class for the nodes. This class will provide all the default initialization and functions that don't need to be repeated in all our node classes. I've added a CBaseNodeItem, which inherits from CSnapInItemImpl and provides simple initialization. If you look at CBaseNodeItem class you'll see that it does some pretty generic stuff in the constructor, GetScopePaneInfo, GetResultPaneInfo, and Notify that are shared among most items. The Notify method is the method responsible for handling various MMC messages and is the primary way of getting notifications from MMC. The obvious advantage of course is for Notify method to be in the base class. All we have to do is call the appropriate virtual function for each message and the right function for our nodes will be called. So now any new Scope Node or Result Item will inherit from CBaseNodeItem.
Any new Scope Node or Result Item will inherit
from CBaseNodeItem. The items in MMC are represented by the SCOPEDATAITEM and RESULTDATAITEM structures.
To add the items to the Result Pane:
- Derive another CBaseNodeItem which will represent result items. Define the clipboard vars. I set the GUID to GUID_NULL.
- MMCN_SHOW - respond to this message from MMC in Notify. We simply call virtual OnShow function. Insert the columns/items.
- GetResultViewType - set the params depending on what you need. Listview, Taskpad or ActiveX ctrl.
- GetResultPaneInfo - calls virtual GetResultPaneColInfo to get the list item.
To add items to the Scope Pane:
- Derive another class from CBaseNode which will represent scope items. Define the clipboard vars.
- Create a member of your new class in parent node class.
- MMCN_EXPAND - handle this message from MMC. We simply call our virtual OnExpand.
- Define the clipboard format values (m_NODETYPE, m_SZNODETYPE, m_SZDISPLAY_NAME, m_SNAPIN_CLASSID, CSomeNodeGUID_NODETYPE)
Create a simple html help project with HTML help
wizard. Handle the MMCN_CONTEXTHELP. This will enable the F1 context
sensitive help. Inherit the IComponentData derived class from
ISnapinHelp2. Provide implementation for GetHelpTopic (tell it the
directory of your help file). Look at the help on ShowTopic
for the format on how
to specify help topics. Now each Node in the Scope Pane and each item in
the Result Pane can have it's own help file entry. The help file will be
merged with MMC's help file. So you can add your own headings and stuff. Implementing
Help (MSDN)
MMC 1.2 has MessageView OCX control that can be used to
provide some useful info to the user.
You create it similar to creating ActiveX. Just implement the GetResultViewType and provide the CLSID_MessageView. During the OnShow use QueryResultView to get access to the IMessageView interface and manipulate it.
Using the MMC Message OCX Control (MSDN)
To provide the property page:
- derive a class from CSnapInPropertyPageImpl
- Implement QueryPagesFor for your Scope Pane or Result Pane Item
- Implement CreatePropertyPages for your Scope Pane or Result Pane Item
- Enable the MMC_VERB_PROPERTIES verb. I did it in OnSelect
- Save a pointer to parent class to exchange the data if needed
- You can use the PropertyChangeNotify function of your property page class which will
translate to MMCN_PROPERTY_CHANGE.
You have to override the Notify function of IComponentDataImpl derived class and provide the implementation for lpDataObject == NULL case and handle the MMCN_PROPERTY_CHANGE event.
(Side Note: There are different predefined MMC verbs that can be used such as MMC_VERB_RENAME, MMC_VERB_DELETE, MMC_VERB_PROPERTIES, etc... Enabling MMC Standard Verbs (MSDN))
If you want to display Property Page and not use the MMC's Properties menu, you have to do so using the IPropertySheetProvider. Look under the Adding Wizard section later for details. Adding Property Pages (MSDN)
Adding menu is easy with ATL. Just add a menu
resource with 4 popup menus.
Each popup menu on the menu represent specific place on the MMC popup menu. Adding menu entry under Top will create a top level menu, Task - under All Tasks, New - under New, and View - under View. To add the menu all you actually do is use the SNAPINMENUID ATL macro for each node or result item that you want to have menu commands. You handle messages using BEGIN_SNAPINCOMMAND_MAP/END_SNAPINCOMMAND_MAP. What you get is the pointer to CSnapInObjectRootBase. You cast it to the IComponent or IComponentData derived class by looking at the m_nType (Scope or Result). Adding Context Menu Items (MSDN)
Add a menu entry under All Tasks for invoking the wizard. Then Add a function such as InvokeWizzard so it is accessible to you when you need it. It can be used for Result and Scope items based on the m_nType. All we get with the menu command is CSnapInObjectRoot, Notice that ATL uses the m_nType variable in CSnapInObjectRoot. So we know that IComponentDataImpl derived class has type 1 and IComponentImpl has type 2. To display wizards we have to directly use the IPropertySheetProvider. Look under the Using IPropertySheetProvider Directly on the MSDN.
Adding Property Pages and Wizard Pages (MSDN)
Add a toolbar resource with 16x16 buttons. Add the entry inside the BEGIN_SNAPINTOOLBARID_MAP/END_SNAPINTOOLBARID_MAP block. Handle the commands from toolbar under BEGIN_SNAPINCOMMAND_MAP/END_SNAPINCOMMAND_MAP. You can manipulate the toolbar. Notice that CSnapInObjectRootBase has CSimpleMap m_toolbarMap. Call the lookup method on it passing the toolbar id as key. It will return IToolbar pointer. Now call SetButtonState on it. You can also use the GetToolbarInfo function to get the CSnapInToolbarInfo and then iterate through all toolbars of the class if needed. More details at Adding Toolbars (MSDN)
Implement the IPersistStreamInit for IComponentImpl and/or IComponentDataImpl if needed. You can save nodes and items, computer names and reload it next time. Snap-in Persistence Model (MSDN)
Adding Connect to Server dialog when the Snap-in is Added
The main static node has to respond to QueryPagesFor and
check the type to be CCT_SNAPIN_MANAGER. Implement the
CreatePropertyPages. So now when MMC adds your Snap-in, you'll bee able to
present a choose computer dialog. The dialog layout is basically standard
for most components.
Adding ActiveX isn't hard either. Derive
another CBaseNodeItem class and implement the GetResultViewType. MMC
will call this function. One of the params is ppViewType, which
should be set to the CLSID of the control you want to display. You can
cache or recreate the control each time the item is selected through the
pViewOptions param. You can use
After GetResultViewType returns MMC will send a MMCN_INITOCX notify to the
Snap-in. One of the params will be the pointer to IUnknown. You can also
obtain the pointer through IConsole2::QueryResultView when you receive the
MMCN_SHOW notification from MMC. You can set up your sink to receive
events if needed. The control most likely has to support IDispatch, but I'm
not sure and didn't test it.
Using Custom OCX Controls: Implementation Details (MSDN)
There are two different taskpads. Snap-in taskpad and Console taskpad.
The latter one is available with version 1.2 and is much easier because
MMC takes care of managing and creating the taskpad. To add the Console
taskpad do the following select and then right click the node. Choose
New Taskpad View:
You can play with different options to change how taskpad looks, etc...
If you want to do it manually (Snap-in taskpad) or have to support 1.1 then read this: Using Taskpads (MSDN) and Using Taskpads: Implementation Details. Of course you'll have much more control over the taskpad if you choose to use the Snap-in taskpad.
Look at Using Custom Web Pages (MSDN)
Some Useful links
Breakpoints Not Hit in ATL MMC Snap-in (MSDN)
Microsoft Management Console (MSDN)
MMC C++ Sample Snap-ins (MSDN)
Distributing Saved Console Files (MSDN)
MMC: Designing TView, a System Information Viewer MMC Snap-in
Visual C++ Developer: January 1999 - Writing MMC Snapins is a Snap with ATL 3.0
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DVD Burning
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Writing (or "burning") DVDs requires a different approach than burning CDs. DVDs offer much higher capacities, and the standard CD writing tools will not suffice.
This HOWTO covers a narrow scope for now: writing data onto DVDs using the command line.
Required packages
- You still need the standard CD writing tools known as Template:Package AUR (which can be replaced by Template:Package Official, if desired).
- You also need the new DVD writing tools known as dvd+rw-tools, found in the [extra] repository.
This HOWTO will use the command Template:Codeline from the dvd+rw-tools package. If you've ever written CDs from the command line before, you'll know the process of first creating an iso9660 file (Template:Codeline), and then burning it to CD (Template:Codeline). Template:Codeline merges these steps, so you don't need extra storage space for the ISO file anymore. Another advantage is that multisession writing has been simplified.
Essentially, writing a new DVD follows this procedure:
$ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrw -r -J /path/to/files
where Template:Filename is your DVD writer device.
To continue a DVD (write an additional session) you use:
$ growisofs -M /dev/cdrw -r -J /path/to/files
To burn an ISO image to disc use:
$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrw=/path/to/iso
To create a video dvd use the following (NOTE: rather than using /dev/srN directly, consider /dev/dvdN or even just plain /dev/dvd):
$ growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 -dvd-video /path/to/video
- Template:Codeline
- start at the beginning of the DVD using the following device
- Template:Codeline
- start after the last session on the disc using the following device
- Template:Codeline
- Rock Ridge support with sane permission settings (recommended, extended UNIX info)
- Template:Codeline
- Joliet support (recommended, extended info for Windows NT and Windows 95)
$ readcd -v dev=/dev/cdrw -f image.isoas per CD Burning Tips, then use the Template:Codeline example above to burn the ISO to a new blank disc.
Although the above might suffice for you, some users require extra settings to successfully write DVDs.
A simple DVD writing template:
$ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrw -v -l -dry-run -iso-level 3 -R -J -speed=2 -joliet-long -graft-points /files/=/path/to/files/
- Template:Codeline
- as seen above, this starts a new DVD; to continue a multisession DVD, use Template:Codeline
- Template:Codeline
- increase verbosity level (more output)
- Template:Codeline
- breaks DOS compatibility but allows for longer filenames
- Template:Codeline
- simulate writing (remove this flag if you are sure that everything is set up correctly)
- Template:Codeline
- defines how strict you want to adhere to the iso9660 standard (Template:Codeline is very strict while Template:Codeline is very loose)
- Template:Codeline
- see above
- Template:Codeline
- see above
- Template:Codeline
- start burning at 2X speed
- Template:Codeline
- allows longer Joliet file names
The final part needs more explanation:
-graft-points /files/=/path/to/files/
This specifies that files will be stored in the subdirectory Template:Filename rather than the DVD root. See the Template:Codeline manual for details.
Re-writable DVDs
The process for burning re-writable discs is almost the same as for normal DVDs. However, keep in mind that virgin DVD+RW media needs to be initially formatted ("blanked") prior to usage. Blanking can be done using the program Template:Codeline like this:
$ dvd+rw-format /dev/cdrw
where Template:Filename is your DVD writer device.
Permission denied
If you encounter the a permission error, ensure you are a member of the group "optical":
# usermod -aG optical username
after which you will have to logoff and -on.