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Gary Cooper Did NOT Wear A Backwards Yankee Uniform
In what is easily the best piece of baseball research – and possibly motion picture research – this year, Senior Curator Tom Shieber of the Baseball Hall of Fame dispels one of the most enduring myths of both fields: That the right-handed Gary Cooper donned a backwards-lettered Yankees uniform and ran the wrong way around the bases to enable filmmakers to flip the negative and make him look like the left-handed Lou Gehrig in "The Pride Of The Yankees":
I'll let Tom Shieber take you step-by-step, with a kind of gentle meticulousness that even I could understand, through the evidence that:
A) Proves the shot of Cooper above is not a reversed image and he didn't hit the ball and then run down the third base line;
B) Proves that such movie-making sleight-of-hand would not have been necessary;
C) Proves the one instance – in a pre-Yankee scene from the Gehrig biopic – in which they really did let Cooper do things righty and then flipped the image to make him look lefty;
D) Nails the explanation of how this one instance was blown out of all proportion and turned in to the backward film legend by a very venerated but very overrated sportswriter;
E) Proves the involvement in the making of the film by two of the game's great characters, Babe Herman and Lefty O'Doul.
F) Notes and explains why the rightfielder in some of the shots appears to be playing about 20 feet behind the first baseman.
Gary Cooper, real
It is, as I say, terrific research terrifically explained.
I can add only one detail to it – something that had always bothered me about the 'then he ran down the third base line' legend. The human face is not symmetrical. We know this so intuitively that we don't usually even think about it. But you know when a picture of you has been reversed, or you're looking in a double mirror.
On the top is Gary Cooper as Gehrig, in a still frame that Shieber has determined is an original, unflipped image. Below is Gary Cooper as Gehrig, in a still frame that Shieber can prove has been flipped. Look carefully at the features of his face – they're not in the same places in each shot. It takes a little work, but it's worth it.
This is not as exact a science as Shieber's analysis of stadium backgrounds and fly buttons and all the rest, but it's of supportive value. And except in this one scene, Gary Cooper looks like one Gary Cooper all the way through the film. As
Gary Cooper, reversed
'another' Gary, Garry Shandling, used to say, 'no flipping.'
Then in this one scene at first base comes this bizarre image of a guy who looks enough like the Cooper we've seen throughout the flick to be his twin – but it is not an exact match. The nose breaks in the opposite direction (just a little bit). The veins on one side of the neck now match the ones on the other side of the neck. It's all subtle, but it's all the photographic equivalent of circumstantial evidence.
And it puts a little P.S. on some superb detective work. Bravo, Tom Shieber
Tags: Babe Herman, Baseball Hall of Fame, Gary Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Lou Gehrig, The Pride Of The Yankees, Tom Shieber
Nobody Elected to HOF: We Deserve It (Revised)
Well, this is it. Kindly pay your piper. Welcome those chickens coming home to roost. Please enjoy your Hall of Fame Day of Reckoning.
The anecdotal accounts – and an invaluable "exit poll" – foresaw that the Baseball Writers Association of America would elect nobody as part of the class of 2013, and though I grieve for Dale Murphy and Craig Biggio and several others, there is a certain poetic justice to it.
We all knew. The players who used, the players who didn't, the owners who enabled it, we reporters who covered it, we fans who bought tickets and cheered anyway. Some of us didn't want to admit we knew until they went after Bonds and Clemens, or until Canseco's book, or until McGwire's temporal displacement in front of Congress, or until that container of Andro showed up in his locker in '98.
But we knew.
We saw utility infielders popping opposite field home runs and part time guys slapping 20 homers and superstars hitting drives that would have set distance records in golf. We saw before and after photos of the Cansecos and the Bondses and we suspended our disbelief.
We all deserve nobody going into the Hall this year save for Hank O'Day and Jake Ruppert and Deacon White. Only O'Day – in his post-pitching career as an umpire – and the bespectacled White were ever accused even of myopia, let alone actual PED-use.
I am not casting stones from inside the glass house. I'm guilty, too. It was the day they gave the 1986 A.L. Rookie of the Year award to Canseco (whose moral standing in this mess has gradually gone from last place to about 4th from the top because he alone was utterly, if mercenarily, honest). One of the runners-up told me off-the-record "you do know that Canseco uses those drugs they give to the East German Women Swimmers, right?"
He didn't even know they were called steroids.
I did what digging I could, and kept an ear to the ground, but how many sources were enough to tell that story?But in 1988, just after Ben Johnson was thrown out of the Seoul Olympics for a positive steroid test, I got a series of four sources – including some of her opponents – who told me that Florence Griffith-Joyner was just as steeped in scandal as was Johnson. I promptly went out and butchered the story. I was trying to write a revelation that should have sounded like "other Olympic runners say this" and included a recitation of the math that she was now breaking records so profoundly and so quickly that if the pace continued, by the year 2188, a runner would actually finish a race before she started it. Instead, I turned it into something that sounded like "I think she's on them drug things." She and her crew threatened suit, I retracted the story, and not long after Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post had the same experience with his "Canseco Cocktail" story. As well-meaning as we each were in trying to expose the putrid mess, we both set back its revelation by some (presumably small) degree. I'm sorry.
About two months after she got back from Seoul, Flo-Jo, who had promised to sue me and CBS and Carl Lewis (who had made the same charge at a speech at the University of Pennsylvania, on videotape, and then claimed it was off the record), and who had promised to keep running until she won Gold in her "home" Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, abruptly retired. We never heard from their lawyers again. She died in 1998, more than a year shy of her 40th birthday. For the record, I think she too either didn't know – or willingly disbelieved – that there was anything more than perseverance to her unprecedented series of record-breaking performances. I think she suddenly found out, which is where the retirement – and the legal silence – came in. But it's just a guess.
In any event, the next time I tripped over something substantial, I kept it to myself. A pro sports team orthopedist remarked on the sudden devastating, nearly career-ending, bizarre injury to a star baseball player. He said that there were only three ways to accomplish what the guy had done to himself: a hereditary circulatory problem or the repeated injection of anabolic steroids into the same place in the body or a horrific car accident ("By that I mean," he told me, "having a car dropped on top of you from about 25 feet.") Having burned myself on the Flo-Jo thing I was not prepared to repeat the process. And now I knew that there was one baseball star on steroids and maybe another one had just had his career virtually ended by steroids and there were not enough sources to mine and certainly nobody to pool notes with.
And then the bottle of "andro" showed up in McGwire's locker. I can remember that week hearing the late baseball writer Leonard Koppett tell me on my show that nobody cared, that it wasn't cheating, that it was nothing worse than vitamins or maybe, maybe, "greenies." To his eternal credit, the author and former pitcher Jim Bouton not only disagreed, but got it exactly right. Some day, he says in the interview, baseball will have to reckon with years and years of records that will be artificially inflated, distorted beyond all measure, by the effects of a drug that lets you keep working out when the guys next to you – or before you, chronologically – have to drop the barbell. It was Bouton, after all, who had written in the eternal Ball Four that if a pitcher could take a pill that guaranteed him a) 20 wins and b) that he'd die five years sooner, he would've swallowed it before you finished that "b)" part.
So I pushed the Andro story – wrote a piece for Playboy in 1999 in which I picked up both Bouton's point and the fact that baseball was going to lose the breathless charm of "chasing the home run record." I pushed that story and every little hint of the truth dropped over the years, by the late Ken Caminiti, by Canseco, by Curt Schilling. But by then, almost nobody cared. I stood atop the right field corner at Fenway at the Home Run Hitting Contest the night before the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway and ooed and ahhed with the rest of you as McGwire hit 650-foot blasts beyond the wall at the other side of the ballpark. And I knew it was mostly the drugs and while I could still preserve enough of my own disbelief to know it wasn't real, I could see how the results of the PEDs could be as addictive to the fans and the owners' bottom lines, as the drugs themselves could be the players.
By 2002 I was carrying a printed list of the players I had been told by various sources were "using." Printed out and folded up inside my scorebook. I'd show it to colleagues and team executives and even other players and get confirmations or denials or additions. But I never even emailed it to, nor copied it for, anybody. With delicious irony, the legal rules protected the rule-breakers.
My conscience is relatively clean. I've been yelling about the Emporers' Clothes for more than fourteen years. Yet it literally still keeps me up at night. Did so last night before today's announcement. Biggio will probably get in later, and I think the Veterans' Committee will soon note that Dale Murphy has the same OPS+ as Jim Rice, and was at worst the second or third best hitter of the era that matched his days as a starting player, and the collateral damage to them and the other deserving clean players will be transient. I do think there's something delicious about the fact that the Baseball Writers have never even been consistent about what merits election to Cooperstown, and this time they all had to figure it out at the most complex moment in voting history, and that because none of them was likely to reach the same conclusion, for everybody who voted Bagwell but not Bonds, there was somebody who voted Bonds but not Bagwell, and none of them got in.
But they all deserve that kind of self-abnegating communal shame. As do we. They did it. We watched it. Those of us who didn't care, and those of us who cared but couldn't reveal or stop it, deserve similar if not identical fates.
The path to Steroid Hell was indeed paved with good intentions. And Jim Bouton's pills. And the drugs that he didn't know the name of that the guy told me about 26 years ago that they also gave the East German Women Swimmers. And the stuff we saw with our lying eyes and just pretended wasn't real.
Tags: Barry Bonds, Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, Craig Biggio, Dale Murphy, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Jim Bouton, Jose Canseco, Leonard Koppett, PED, Roger Clemens, Steroids, Thomas Boswell
More On Mickey, Vinnie, And The Bryce
Told you Saturday that, although the Maestro himself can't specifically recall it with certainty one way or the other, it appears that Vin Scully did more than just broadcast Bryce Harper's first Major League game ever, at Dodger Stadium, on Saturday night. He appears to have also broadcast Mickey Mantle's first (exhibition) game ever in New York, and his first appearance ever inside an actual big league ballpark.
In the late '40s and early '50s the Yankees and Dodgers would open up with a three-game series, right before Opening Day. In 1951, they began it on Friday, April 13, at Yankee Stadium. Mantle was flying back from Kansas City after a visit to a draft board, and missed that game. But he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on the 14th and 15th.
The Dodger announcers in 1951 were Red Barber, Connie Desmond – and Vin Scully. There was no reason Vin should've been off the broadcasts that weekend, and now there is more evidence that he would've been very much needed in the both. In those days, those three men handled all of the radio and television for the Dodgers, switching from one to the other every few innings.
Sure enough, the impeccable Bill Francis of The Baseball Hall of Fame has dug up what I could not: Confirmation that the Dodgers-Yankees exhibition of April 14, 1951 – Mantle's unofficial debut – was televised. Check out the entry for 1:30 PM on Channel 9, from The New York Times weekly tv listings, published on April 8, 1951: Channel 9 was WOR-TV, and they carried the Dodger broadcasts (the Yankees and Giants were on WPIX-TV, Channel 11).
Meaning that the odds that Vin Scully wasn't at both Harper's debut, and Mantle's New York debut, have shrunk to just about nothing.
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Tags: Baseball Hall of Fame, Bill Francis, Bryce Harper, Keith Olbermann, Mickey Mantle, Vin Scully
Hey Hey!
A year too late for him to enjoy it, 30 years past the day he should've been selected, the Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans' Committee has finally elected the most deserving candidate not in Cooperstown, Ron Santo.
For those who doubt, here is my statistical analysis of the five leading playing candidates:
The simplest tool for judging a player against his contemporaries is, I think, the most overlooked one – exact comparisons, from a guy's debut season through his final year.
Awards are useful, especially as an indicator of greatness – in Ron Santo's case, the five straight NL Gold Gloves 1964-68 pretty much confirm his defensive prowess – consider the one from 1964, when Cardinals' third baseman and defensive hero Ken Boyer was MVP, but Santo still won the Glove.
The hardware is nice. But statistics are better.
In short, in his era, from when he came up with the Cubs in 1960 through his last year with the White Sox in 1964, Ron Santo was one of the top ten hitters in all of baseball.
Santo was fifth in RBI in his era.
Santo was ninth in Runs in his era.
Santo was tenth in Homers in his era.
Santo was tenth in Hits in his era.
There are 17 players besides Santo on these four lists of the top ten offensive producers of the 1960's. Only four men on all four lists: Aaron, Frank Robinson, Billy Williams – and Santo. Even the three men who are only on three lists, compared to Santo's four, are all in Cooperstown already.
Needless to say, only one other full-time Third Baseman (Brooks Robinson) shows up on any of the four lists – and he, only twice. Part-timer Killebrew is on three of them: handily ahead of Santo in one (HR), behind Santo in another (R), and just two spots and only 74 RBI ahead of him in the third.
You can't ask more of a man than to produce those kinds of numbers against his direct contemporaries: what he did while he played, compared to what everybody else did while he played, is all that he can be judged on. But it focuses exactly where a player stood against his peers.
By the way, if you want to be more generous to Santo, and judge him from his first full year as a regular (1961) through his last year as an everyday player (1973) he looks better still: he holds at fifth in RBI, but moves up one spot each in Runs (eighth), Homers (ninth), and Hits (9th).
I had Gil Hodges second.
Again, what he did in his time tells me what I need to know. Here is a list, updated through May 5, 1963 – the date Gil Hodges played his last game in the major leagues.
All-Time MLB Home Run Leaders (RH Batters):
1. Jimmie Foxx 534
2. Willie Mays 373
3. Gil Hodges 370
4. Ralph Kiner 369
5. Joe DiMaggio 361
6. Ernie Banks 340
7. Hank Greenberg 331
8. Hank Aaron 307
8. Al Simmons 307
10. Rogers Hornsby 301
By the way, on the all-time homer list, lefties and righties both, Hodges had just been knocked out of 10th place, by Mays (373 to 370). The game changes. Still, it is extraordinary that Hodges' home run performance measured against all his contemporaries and predecessors, is pretty much ignored.
Hodges' career spanned 20 calendar years, but he only played regularly from 1948 to 1959. In "his" era, Hodges was second in MLB in homers (344, to Duke Snider's 354), second in RBI (tied with Berra at 1136, behind Musial's 1226), fourth in Runs, and seventh in Hits. Hodges is often dismissed as a "Home Park Homer Hitter." In fact in his ten years at Ebbets Field he averaged only 4.60 homers a year more in Brooklyn than on the road. For comparison, Duke Snider, in the Hall since 1980, averaged 4.56 homers a year more in Brooklyn than on the road.
It is also of note that Hodges hit 27 or more homers in eight consecutive seasons, drove in 102 or more runs seven years in a row, and the first baseman on two World's Champions and four more NL champs.
Haven't even mentioned Hodges the manager (1969 Miracle Mets) nor Hodges the Man (I have never, ever talked to anyone who knew him who didn't revere him.
Third on my list? Luis Tiant. Bill James hit the nail on the head: Luis Tiant is Catfish Hunter with poorer marketing.
Statistical doppelgangers are often either coincidental, superficial, or irrelevant because the players are of different historical eras. Not Hunter and Tiant. They pitched side-by-side in the same league for fifteen seasons, in the same division for six, and were teammates for a year. And they look like twins in a dozen key stats:
Statistic Hunter Tiant
Starts 476 489
Complete Games 181 187
Shutouts 42 49
Innings 3449.1 3486.1
Home Runs 374 346
Wins 224 229
Losses 166 172
ERA 3.26 3.30
Run Support 4.30 4.46
20-Win Seasons 5 4
Sub 3.00 ERA Seasons 5 6
'Wins Above Team' 20.2 20.6
That's right: Tiant made 13 more starts, won five and lost six more games, threw seven more shutouts, and finished with an ERA 0.04 higher, than Hunter. Otherwise, they share a virtually identical statistics.
Where they deviate leaves open the question of which was the better pitcher. Tiant had 404 more strikeouts, but 150 more walks. Hunter twice led the AL in wins, which Tiant never did. Tiant twice led it in shutouts, which Hunter never did. Tiant twice led it in ERA, which Hunter did once.
Hunter's big advantage? He made 22 ALCS and World Series starts to Tiant's five. He was seen on the biggest stage, by fans and reporters alike, for seven of eight Octobers. Tiant had only one shot at such impact.
Beyond the Hunter comparisons, in the match-him-against his era numbers, Tiant was ninth in wins, tenth in K's, twelfth in ERA, 1964-80 (even though in five of those seasons he did not make even 20 starts).
And there is one more remarkable and overlooked statistic. Two of Tiant's six sub-3.00 ERA seasons were actually sub-2.00 ERA seasons. Since 1920, only 29 pitchers have had a seasonal ERA under 2.00. Koufax did it three times, and the other four did it twice: Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, Pedro Martinez – and Tiant.
Fourth – and he's right below Tiant – is Minnie Minoso. He's kind of damned by the overall quality of his play: superb at a lot of contradictory things, not extraordinary at any one of them:
Who were the top five hitters during Minnie Minoso's 13 seasons as a Major League regular, 1951-63? Keep it to the guys who averaged at least 475 at bats a year and here's the headline: one of them was Minnie Minoso.
Highest Batting Average 1951-1963 (Minimum 6175 AB)
1. Stan Musial .319
2. Willie Mays .315
3. Richie Ashburn .309
4. Harvey Kuenn .307
5. Minnie Minoso .299
Note please, that performance included eight .300 seasons. It's impressive stuff, but below is my favorite Minoso stat:
Highest Slugging Percentage 1951-1963 (Minimum 6175 AB)
3. Eddie Mathews .535
The slugging number is especially astounding given that Minoso only hit 184 homers in those 13 years (28th in the era). Without being a real longball threat, he still places 8th in total bases in the span, and 9th in RBI.
Most Runs Scored, 1951-1963
1. Mickey Mantle 1381
2. Willie Mays 1258
3. Eddie Mathews 1220
4. Nellie Fox 1142
5. Minnie Minoso 1130
Seeing my point here? Pick a category, and Minoso shows up on it:
Most Stolen Bases, 1951-1963
1. Luis Aparicio 309
3. Maury Wills 236
4. Minnie Minoso 205
5. Billy Bruton 193
Minoso is also fifth in hits in the era, second in doubles (behind Musial, ahead of Mays), fourth in triples, led the A.L. in hit-by-pitch ten times, won three Gold Gloves – and all this even the color line and circumstance kept him from becoming a major league regular until he was at least 28 years old.
My fifth guy out of the group is just a notch below. I love Jim Kaat and I think he belongs (as does Tommy John). I mentioned contemporaries Hunter and Tiant looking separated-at-birth. Jim Kaat and Robin Roberts are unlikely statistical twins who overlapped by only seven full seasons:
Statistic Kaat Roberts
Strikeouts 2461 2357
Walks 1083 902
10+ Win Season Streak 15/15 16/17
Roberts got to Cooperstown quickly because of the fact he reeled off six consecutive brilliant seasons, and despite of the fact that after the age of 28, only once did he finish more than three games above .500 in his final eleven seasons.
By contrast, Kaat won 18 as a 22-year old, slumped for a year, then starting in 1964 reeled off 17, 18, and then 25. Eight and nine years later he would produce consecutive seasons of 20 and 21 wins. As Bill James pointed out, if like Roberts, Kaat had bunched his great years instead of scattering them, he might've been elected in the '90s. As it is, he is still 31st all-time in victories — eighth all-time among lefties:
Wins, Lefthanded Pitchers:
1. Warren Spahn 363
2. Steve Carlton 329
3. Eddie Plank 326
4. Tom Glavine 305
5. Randy Johnson 303
6. Lefty Grove 300
7. Tommy John 288
8. Jim Kaat 283
9. Jamie Moyer 267
10. Eppa Rixey 266
11. Carl Hubbell 253
12. Herb Pennock 241
There are only eight active lefties with more than 100 wins, and of them, only CC Sabathia (176) is younger than 32. Kaat is also 10th in strikeouts by lefties. Kaat's victory total has been criticized as "padded" by his five years as a reliever and spot starter. But subtract those seasons and his career won-lost improves to 261-217, he remains in the top 10 among lefties, and still has better won-losts than Ted Lyons and Eppa Rixey (and is just behind Red Faber).
Lastly, the 16 consecutive Gold Gloves are almost a cliché. We don't stop to think that the first of them was won when Kitty was 23, and the last when he was 38 – and that the streak stretched through five presidential administrations and three expansion drafts.
Just to show my math, here are the Homer, Runs Scored, RBI, and Hit lists from '60-'74 that back-up Santo's greatness:
Most RBI, Majors, 1960-74:
1 Hank Aaron, 1585
2 Frank Robinson, 1412
3 Harmon Killebrew, 1405
4 Billy Williams, 1351
5 Ron Santo, 1331
6 Brooks Robinson, 1217
7 Willie Mays, 1194
8 Willie McCovey, 1190
9 Carl Yastrzemski, 1181
10 Orlando Cepeda, 1164
Most Runs Scored, Majors, 1960-74:
4 Lou Brock, 1303
7 Pete Rose, 1217
8 Vada Pinson, 1177
10 Harmon Killebrew, 1131
Most Homers, Majors, 1960-74:
1 Hank Aaron, 554
2 Harmon Killebrew, 506
3 Frank Robinson, 440
4 Willie McCovey, 422
5 Willie Mays, 410
6 Billy Williams, 392
7 Frank Howard, 380
8 Norm Cash, 373
9 Willie Stargell, 346
10 Ron Santo, 342
(Note: 11th was Orlando Cepeda, 327)
Most Hits, Majors, 1960-74:
7 Roberto Clemente, 2318
8 Willie Davis, 2271
10 Ron Santo, 2254
(Note: 11th was Frank Robinson, 2220)
Tags: Baseball Hall of Fame, Bill James, Catfish Hunter, Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Keith Olbermann, Luis Tiant, Minnie Minoso, Robin Roberts, Ron Santo, Veterans' Committee
I'll Come Back From 1894 In A Moment. But First…
…just mentioning in passing. Nothing against Pat Gillick, but he was the General Manager most deserving of election to the Hall of Fame? Hogwash. Charlie Finley served as his own GM and built three straight A's World Champions of the '70s himself, lost them all to Free Agency, then rebuilt a contender by 1980. How about John Schuerholz? General Manager of the Royals, 1981-90 (that would include a World Series win in 1985 and the AL West in 1984), General Manager of the Braves, 1991-2007 (something about 14 straight division titles?). What about Al Rosen with the Yankees?
Buzzie Bavasi, perhaps? Seven NL pennants as General Manager of the Dodgers. Got the Padres started from scratch. Two division titles with the Angels (and a third with basically the same team, two years after he retired).
Gillick's selection – combined with the embarrassing ignoring of George Steinbrenner and Marvin Miller, to say nothing of Ron Santo, to say nothing of the BBWAA's incompetent annual voting – proves the voting has devolved into a popularity contest. It also underscores the necessity of scrapping the Hall of Fame election process in its entirety. I'd sooner have Bill James individually pick the members of the Hall than stick with the current system.
LAST ABOUT 1894:
Until something new pops up, of course. If you've been following Baseball Nerd's Crack Coverage of the 1894 Temple Cup (2nd Place New York Giants upend Pennant-Winning Baltimore Orioles, 4-0, for NL Crown), you might enjoy this:
Back Row: C Parke Wilson, C Duke Farrell, CF George Van Haltren, 1B Roger Connor (HOF), P Jouett Meekin, P Huyler Westervelt, P Amos Rusie (HOF). Middle Row: P Dad Clark, P Les German, IF Jack Doyle, 2B-MGR John Montgomery Ward (HOF), OF Mike Tiernan, 3B George Stacey Davis (HOF), SS Shorty Fuller, LF Eddie Burke. In Front: IF-OF General Stafford, IF Yale Murphy
The copyright is attributed to "Prince, Fotographer" – yep, spelled that way.
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:55 am
Tags: 1894 New York Giants, Al Rosen, Baseball Hall of Fame, Bill James, Buzzy Bavasi, Charlie Finley, George Steinbrenner, John Schuerholz, Marvin Miller, Pat Gillick, Ron Santo, Temple Cup
More On Jeter And 1894
It would appear that the Derek Jeter mess is down to one escape route.
Jeter should take the Yankees' last offer, adding only one demand to a deal that will already overpay him by 50% or more. To save both his tattered reputation and the equally-sullied one of the Yanks, he should agree to the three years at $15,000,000 per and append to it a deal for an undisclosed figure that keeps him in the employ of the team in some non-playing capacity for ten years or twenty or whatever number they choose to pull out of thin air. Presumably a clause giving him an out in 2014 if he still wants to play (Japan?) could be worked in and boasted about by both sides.
Add one hug, ignore the reality that the Yankees should've spent the winter seeking not to mollify Jeter but to replace him, and everybody's happy – until Jeter hits .238 in 2011.
The urgency of settlement has never been more pronounced than tonight. It's pretty bad when three or four of your four theoretical alternatives to being vastly overpaid in New York disappear on the same day: The Dodgers sign Juan Uribe to play second, the Giants are about to sign Miguel Tejada to play short, the Rays have just put Jason Bartlett on the block to make room for Reid Brignac and Cardinals trade for Ryan Theriot (conceivably leaving the other middle infield spot still open unless the Skip Schumaker fan club prevails) – oh and Troy Tulowitzki just set the real bar for what a superb shortstop is worth (as opposed to what he was worth).
So that leaves Baltimore (Japan?)
Bad day to be Derek Jeter. He and agent Casey Close were said to have met with the Yankees today, were said to have been a little more flexible when they did so, and Jeter supposedly says he and Close will meet again tomorrow. I think, perhaps, they should.
MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE TEMPLE CUP SCOREBOARD:
I am charmingly chastised by Jenny Ambrose of
the Hall of Fame that the publication from which those first-ever Temple Cup photos were taken and posted here (that's a detail of Giants' rightfielder Mike Tiernan, warning up before Game Four at the Polo Grounds in New York, a thousand yards from Yankee Stadium, in October, 1894), "The Illustrated American," lasted not from 1887 to around 1898, but from exactly February 22, 1890 through February 17, 1899. The magazine met an ignominious end. There may or may not have been a fire at its headquarters, but there was a bankruptcy of some sort. From the "Business Troubles" listing in the April 16, 1898 edition of The New York Times:
Deputy Sheriff Maguire yesterday sold out the office furniture, type, and plant of The Illustrated American at 209 and 213 East Twenty-third Street, for about $1,100.
Never mess with an archivist.
Jenny's Cooperstown colleague Bill Francis tells us a little something about the events after the decisive game of the 1894 Temple Cup, in which the homestanding Giants swept the Baltimore Orioles 16-3. Again from The Times (October 9, 1894), hours after those photos were snapped:
…the victors and the vanquished saw "Dr. Syntax" at the Broadway Theatre, and afterward recounted some of the pleasant experiences of last season, over foaming bumpers of Nick Engel's beer. In a few days the players will start for their respective homes, and the baseball cranks' occupation will be lost until gentle Spring starts again.
You just don't hear a lot these days about ballplayers reliving the season "over foaming bumpers of beer."
Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Baseball Hall of Fame, Casey Close, Derek Jeter, Japan, Jason Bartlett, Juan Uribe, Miguel Tejada, Mike Tiernan, New York Yankees, Reid Brignac, Ryan Theriot, Temple Cup, Troy Tulowitzki
Cooperstown Path Cleared For Steinbrenner, Miller
George Steinbrenner is now eligible to be elected to the Hall of Fame as early as this December.
Since this is the first time any of my suggestions to modify Cooperstown voting procedures have come to pass, I tend to doubt my campaign to hasten Steinbrenner's eligibility had anything to do with it. I'm happy enough about the coincidence.
The late Yankee owner is hardly the first man deserving of election to the Hall, but he is among the first 25 or 50, and anything that hastens the chances of any of them is, in short, fine by me. The entire Hall of Fame press release is attached below; translated, it means we've gone from votes conducted by job, to votes conducted by era.
Miraculously, the eras have been divided into "Pre-Integration," "Golden," and "Expansion." Miraculously, the players, umpires, and executives of the "Expansion" era will be voted upon first, this December. Miraculously, the eras have been defined in such a way that the "Expansion" era begins in 1973 (even though the expansions were in 1961, 1962, 1969, 1977, 1993, and 1998).
Guess what else began in 1973?
George Steinbrenner's ownership of the Yankees.
It is an obvious ploy, but an ingenious one. And it has the added plus of making actual sense in terms of the grim realities of the actuarial table. Marvin Miller did not expect to make it to his next eligibility (2012). He too could be voted in by December, given that most of the changes he brought to baseball were post-1973.
And it may even do something for Ron Santo, Gil Hodges, Curt Flood, Ken Boyer, Roger Maris, and so many others who have suffered in generalized votes that have forced voters to consider them outside of their own eras. Hodges the home run hitter looks like an after-thought in the whole spectrum of swat, but in his own time, his success (he retired in 1963 with the second most homers by any right handed batter to that point) may finally stand out sufficiently to get him elected.
Hall of Fame Board of Directors Restructures
Procedures for Consideration of
Managers, Umpires, Executives and Long-Retired Players
(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Board of Directors has restructured the procedures to consider managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players for election to the Hall of Fame.
The changes, effective immediately, maintain the high standards for earning election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The voting process will now focus on three eras, as opposed to four categories, with three separate electorates to consider a single composite ballot of managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players.
"The procedures to consider the candidacies of managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players have continually evolved since the first Hall of Fame election in 1936," said Jane Forbes Clark, chairman of the board for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. "Our continual challenge is to provide a structure to ensure that all candidates who are worthy of consideration have a fair system of evaluation. In identifying candidates by era, as opposed to by category, the Board feels this change will allow for an equal review of all eligible candidates, while maintaining the high standards of earning election."
The Hall of Fame's Board of Directors includes:
Jane Forbes Clark (chairman)
Robert A. DuPuy
Allan H. "Bud" Selig
Joe Morgan (vice chairman)
William L. Gladstone
Brooks C. Robinson
Edward W. Stack
Kevin S. Moore (treasurer)
David D. Glass
Paul Beeston
Leland S. MacPhail Jr.
Dr. Harvey W. Schiller
William O. DeWitt Jr.
G. Thomas Seaver
� Eras: Candidates will be considered in three eras — Pre-Integration (1871-1946), Golden (1947-1972) and Expansion (1973-1989 for players; 1973-present for managers, umpires and executives).
� Candidates: One composite ballot of managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players will be considered in each era. The Expansion Era ballot will feature 12 candidates, while the Golden and Pre-Integration era ballots will feature 10 candidates. Candidates will be classified by the eras in which their greatest contributions were recorded.
� Electorates: A Voting Committee of 16 members for each era will be appointed by the Board of Directors annually. Each committee will be comprised of Hall of Fame members, major league executives, and historians/veteran media members. Any candidate who receives at least 75% of ballots cast will earn election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
� Frequency of Elections: An election will be held annually at the Winter Meetings. The Eras will rotate, with the Expansion Era Committee to vote onDecember 5, 2010 at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla. The Golden Era committee will meet at the Winter Meetings in 2011 and the Pre-Integration Era Committee will vote on candidates at the 2012 Winter Meetings.
� Screening Process: The BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee will devise the ballots for each era. The Historical Overview Committee currently consists of 10 veteran members: Dave Van Dyck(Chicago Tribune); Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun); Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau); Bill Madden (New York Daily News); Ken Nigro (formerly Baltimore Sun); Jack O'Connell (BBWAA secretary/treasurer); Nick Peters (formerly Sacramento Bee); Tracy Ringolsby (FSN Rocky Mountain); and Mark Whicker (Orange County Register).
� Eligible candidates:
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bsp; Players who played in at least 10 major league seasons, who are not on Major League Baseball's ineligible list, and have been retired for 21 or more seasons;
� Managers and umpires with 10 or more years in baseball and retired for at least five years. Candidates who are 65 years or older are eligible six months following retirement;
� Executives retired for at least five years. Active executives 65 years or older are eligible.
Timetable for Upcoming Elections
The Expansion Era (1973-1989) ballot is devised and released.
The BBWAA Historical Overview Committee.
Meeting and Vote on Expansion Era (1973-1989) ballot at the Winter Meetings.
A Committee of 16 individuals comprised of Hall of Fame members, veteran writers and historians, appointed by the Board of Directors.
Induction of Expansion Era Committee selections, if anyone elected.
The Golden Era (1947-1972) ballot is devised and released.
Meeting and Vote on Golden Era (1947-1972) ballot at the Winter Meetings.
Induction of Golden Era Committee selections, if anyone elected.
The Pre-Integration Era (1871-1946) ballot is devised and released.
Meeting and Vote on Pre-Integration Era (1871-1946) ballot at the Winter Meetings.
Induction of Pre-Integration Era Committee selections, if anyone elected.
Tags: Baseball Hall of Fame, Curt Flood, George Steinbrenner, Gil Hodges, Ken Boyer, Marvin Miller, Roger Maris, Ron Santo
Self-Congratulations And Another Gem From The Hall
Nate McLouth, since his trade to the Atlanta Braves:
.263/.344/.433/.777, 6 HR, 19 RBI, 9 SB, 34 R
Andrew McCutchen, since McLouth was traded, and he replaced him in Pittsburgh:
This blog, from June 3, 2009:
Did Pirates Upgrade In Center?
Don't get me wrong about Nate McLouth. Great guy, hustles, works hard, busted his butt at an All-Star Game, better than anything the Braves had in their outfield before tonight's trade. I'm just not convinced Pittsburgh didn't improve its line-up by replacing him with Andrew McCutchen….The key to this trade is that McLouth's replacement does not come from it. McCutchen, who arrives in Pittsburgh as McLouth's equal in speed and outfield skill, probably more than his equal for batting average, and eventually capable of producing 75% of his power, nearly made the majors out of spring training. The Pirates were sorely tempted to damn arbitration and take him north – that's how authoritative a hitter he looked in Florida.
I do not see McCutchen keeping up homer-for-homer with McLouth and the RBI margin seems out-of-joint. But the point is, you'd be hard-pressed to criticize the Pirates for this trade – and this wasn't the trade.
It was not McLouth for McCutchen, it was McLouth for Charlie Morton, Gorkys Hernandez, and Jeff Locke. Also, to this point, the first guy out of the minors in the haul for McLouth, Morton, is 2-3, 3.72, with three quality starts out of eight (and three out of his last five) and the number is so low because he left injured after one inning in his first, and was pulled after five and about a 90-pitch limit in two others. In short, he's started eight times, pitched well six, pitched startlingly well, twice.
Two months is a pretty good sample size. This is not to say the Braves made a mistake dealing for McLouth. But the Pirates came out more ahead of the roster shuffling then did Atlanta, and the difference is likely to grow with time.
BACK TO COOPERSTOWN:
Spent three days, all told, in the library, in the photo archive (actually a giant room with 25,000 images, kept in cold storage, including the original images from Addie Joss day in Cleveland in 1911 – you've seen them – the American League All-Stars with Walter Johnson and Cy Young and Nap Lajoie, and Ty Cobb in a Cleveland uniform). I hope to illustrate something remarkable from the photo vault in the next few days, but in the interim, another special something from the scorebook collection:
This is the 1947 book of veteran New York baseball writer Tom Meany – his bibliography is a couple of pages worth and he ended up as PR Director of the Mets. And that's Jackie Robinson's debut game. Closer:
That's him, batting second: "Robby."
Better still, on the preceding pages, Meany shows he was at the final Dodger exhibition games, including Robinson's last with Montreal against the Dodgers, and then two exhibitions at Ebbets Field for the Dodgers, against… the Yankees.
Tags: Andrew McCutchen, Baseball Hall of Fame, Charlie Morton, Jackie Robinson, Nate McLouth, Tom Meany
The Cooperstown Flood
Greetings from Cooperstown, New York, where baseball did not begin, but where it could conceivably end Sunday at what could easily wind up being the first-ever underwater Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies.
At least seven separate cloudbursts drenched this quaint village and the surrounding "Leatherstocking" district of the James Fenimore Cooper works, and the only hope is that the forecast for Sunday (rain, possibly thunderstorms) will be as inaccurate as today's was.
Here is Main Street, Cooperstown, at about 6:00 PM, during what all official and unofficial weather outlets insisted was "72 and Mostly Sunny":
This was at about the point where this, the sixth rain, started to hit hard enough to blow the dirt out of the planters next to the shops.
Thus were the hottest commodities in this stretch of American commercialism that rivals any four blocks in the nation, not Jim Rice jerseys nor Rickey Henderson t-shirts nor even Pete Rose autographs (he's here again), but, simply, umbrellas. One woman was overheard delighting in the red bumbershoot, matching her favorite team's colors. "Now all I have to do is draw an 'F' on it for 'Phillies.'" She paused. "No, a 'P.'"
Here is the Hall of Fame itself, the last time I got close enough to confirm it was still there.
And overheard moments later, from one of the people in the foreground, the early frontrunner for quote of the weekend: "Where's the Chinese food again?"
That, of course, is until Sunday's speeches, whether they are conducted outdoors, indoors, or on an evacuation raft. Rickey Henderson will necessarily be fabulous; the long-suffering Jim Rice has been underrated both for his speaking and the depth of his thought; and, it will be fascinating to hear Joe Gordon's daughter – who claims her father never spoke of the game at home – accept on behalf of a second baseman whose career parallels that of Ryne Sandberg (except for Gordon's five World Series rings). But the sleeper bet for best speech is from Tony Kubek, the Ford C. Frick Broadcasting winner, whose prowess as a Yankees shortstop (they did not truly replace him until the ascent of Jeter) and fearlessness and insight as an NBC, Toronto Blue Jays, and Yankees announcer, were never fully appreciated until he suddenly left the game in protest of the materialism that seemed to have reached a tragic peak around the time of the 1994 strike, and the owners' cancellation of The World Series.
Tags: Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, Jim Rice, Joe Gordon, Rain, Rickey Henderson, Tony Kubek


The Mouthpiece: Everybody wants to regulate sports betting - Law Offices of Martin D. Owens, Jr.
There have been many twists and turns since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in the recent case of NCAA v Murphy. Some were new twists and turns, some were not, but together they make a very interesting picture.
It was not news, particularly, when veteran Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) announced he would be sponsoring legislation to put newly allowed sports betting under federal control. Hatch, a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, would have vastly preferred the old regime to stay in place—that is, a federal law forbidding both American states and American gaming tribes from authorizing money bets on sports. (He was one of the prime movers behind PASPA, after all.) But if it's inevitable, if we have to have sports betting, then according to Senator Hatch we should have it under federal control. The same rules for everybody, only certain kinds of bets accepted. And of course, new federal fees and taxation.
It was newsworthy, however, when from the other side of the Senate aisle, Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also came out in favor of a national law regulating and controlling sports betting. So with what appears to be bipartisan support, a national licensing regime for sports betting in the U.S. is a shoo-in, right?
In spite of appearances, the two proposed bills represent very different regulatory approaches. To be sure, both advocate federal supervision of sports betting nationwide. But the primary purpose of the Hatch approach seems to be customer protection—a uniform system of administration and reporting nationwide, the better to protect the young and vulnerable, and ensure the purity of sports is unsullied.
The Schumer angle also contains the expected guidelines: no players under the age of 21, advertising must not be too enticing for the young and vulnerable, and the licensees and participants should be ready to aid law enforcement against money laundering and other offenses. It too claims to be protecting the customer. But in doing so, it promises to distort the market and give away monopoly power over it.
Now for both, the main argument is that close supervision will help the leagues preserve the purity of their respective games.
And it turns out that the purity of games is no small consideration. Participation in sports, team sports especially, occupies a prized place among the social virtues of our brand of civilization. Playing sports is supposed to impart physical fitness, an instinct for competition, balanced by a sense of fair play and an appreciation of teamwork. It also helps to bolster civic and communal pride. The star players who arise from sporting backgrounds provide role models, especially important to disadvantaged and minority youth. And so on. Given all the values that sports uphold, it is no surprise that cheating is held in especial infamy. It is not merely a crooked scheme for money, but practically a sacrilege against our national character. The memory of the Black Sox Scandal, when a crooked gambler induced Chicago's baseball team to throw the 1919 World Series, is still vivid. The evil reputation it gave to gambling in general and sports betting in particular, lingers to this day.
It is only now, a hundred years later, that professional and college sports leagues have even begun to discuss the possibility of associating with betting enterprises at all, on any terms.
And some very stiff terms are being proposed. First, there were the so-called "integrity fees" to the leagues—in effect a surtax on gambling businesses who offer bets on league sporting events. Supposedly, the funds were to be used to police the Wicked Gamblers, and ameliorate the harm caused by their nefarious activities.
This business model was of course a nonstarter.
First, nobody wants to increase their own cost of doing business, and secondly, it is not the gamblers nor the athletes who are in need of close watching. These days successful athletes make far more than they did at the turn of last century. No mere bribe is going to tempt them. And any major athletes under suspicion of cheating would automatically lose their posts as sponsors for various products and services, which can be more lucrative than the team salary itself. Therefore, with no incentives to wield, gamblers lack the power to cause games to be thrown.
If anyone's integrity needs a long look, it is just possibly the conduct of the leagues and team owners themselves. Quite apart from enjoying rich holidays from U.S. anti-monopoly and labor laws, major-league sports franchises have developed the habit of squeezing cash-strapped American cities into building new stadiums as the price of staying in town. But in reality, teams can and do move to greener pastures when they feel like it. Oakland, California still owes almost $100 million on the stadium improvements it needed to entice the Raiders back from LA; all the same, the team is moving to Vegas. Just up the road, the NBA Kings still owe the city of Sacramento about $30 million, "restructured" from an actual loan of about $79 million the city gave to the team in 1997, to renovate an arena that is no longer in use. For the highly touted new arena downtown, Sacramento mortgaged its parking fees for a $270 million bond issue. We could extend the list to pages, city after city, coast to coast. But the pattern is clear. In almost all such cases, the civic improvements and economic benefits promised by the new stadium or arena are exaggerated, and more than a few of these projects have failed to live up to the rosy income predictions. The next act, as always, is making municipal taxpayers take the haircut and make up the difference.
Nonetheless, proponents of national legislation argue, steady control and supervision (federal, of course) are indispensable.
Up to this point, the Hatch and Schumer plans are practically identical.
But the Schumer plan goes much farther than merely requiring a federal gambling license. Under the Schumer plan, not only will sports betting be limited to federal licensees exclusively; the only information that those licensees may use to calculate and generate odds and offers and combinations are the official league data. Which the sports leagues would be happy to provide. At a price, of course.
By forcing licensees to use official league data and statistics to develop models, predictions, and offerings to the betting public, the Schumer plan would restore the upper hand to the leagues and the owners. Under the now-extinct provisions of PASPA, the leagues could sue to stop any state that proposed to offer sports betting. (This is essentially what killed PASPA in the case of NCAA v Murphy).
But by granting them the sole right to promulgate the morning line, the Schumer plan will make the leagues even more powerful than they were before. There is no mention of guaranteed access for anyone. That means leagues and owners would be able to dictate which gambling businesses are allowed to offer sports betting in the U.S. at all.
Congress cannot simply turn over access and control of sports betting odds to parties who have a stake in how it's regulated. This would be the equivalent of giving Exxon or Royal Dutch Shell control over who gets oil drilling licenses.
Under the Sherman Act,4 a party has monopoly power if it has, over any part of the trade or commerce among the several states, a power of controlling prices or unreasonably restricting competition. Making all other odds makers and reporters unacceptable at a stroke would surely seem to be establishing unreasonable restrictions.
The measures proposed in the U.S. Senate regarding federal licensing of sports betting range from the totally unnecessary—the states have proven they are equal to the task of supervision—right through to the outright un-Constitutional: Congress does not have the right to give away its regulatory power door to distort the market and suppress commercial speech by restricting legal odds making to the sports leagues alone.
There is good news: first, with only a few weeks left in the Congressional legislative calendar, there is little if any chance that either of the two main competing regulation plans, Hatch or Schumer, will actually go to a vote, or even make it through the necessary committees. Second, Senator Hatch will retire at the end of 2018.
Thirdly, states and tribes can be relied on to oppose federal licensing of sports betting, with lots of willing help from the industry itself. Uncle Sam's supervision would decrease their autonomy; Uncle Sam's taxes and fees would decrease the revenue they anticipate from future sports betting.
And lastly, gambling is not a hot topic right now. Lawmakers are much more involved with the policy changes, domestic and foreign , that this very controversial administration has brought about, or is trying to bring. Unless sports betting can be linked to one of the big issues of the day, odds are the powers-that-be simply won't have time to deal with it, one way or the other, for the foreseeable future.
All the same, the two biggest hazards to expanding gaming, and retaining the gains it has made, are still out there. Gambling continues to be a stock bogeyman of American political theater, providing the anti-gambling lobby with a ready-made soapbox and political leverage. And the ceaseless itch of government at all levels, for ever more control over everything, is never far away. Adherents of these views are still free to act at any time.
Like the man said, they'll be back.
1 United States Constitution, Article I, section 8, clause 3.


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Nadir image acquisitions with regular flight patterns do have images looking straight downward. Also in oblique camera systems, the flight planning should be executed according to the Nadir camera. The images are typically acquired in strips and parametrized by a forward (in strip) and sideward (cross strip) overlap between the images in percent.
Within this article, multiple scenarios and recommendations are given for standard large frame cameras (Vexcel Ultracam, Leica DMC) with a typical opening angle of 60-70 degrees across flight direction. More specific definitions can also be given in a more custom way for cameras with other opening angles using the building lean occlusion in the central image area. For the simplified case of standard cameras, the following typical scenarios are described in detail: 60/30, 80/30, 80/60, 80/80 as well as a more generic approach using the Central Image Contribution.
The typical minimum Nadir image acquisitions were traditionally carried out at 60% instrip, 30% cross strip overlap. This overlap is the minimum configuration, enabling a connection of the images through mutual points in the outer image area (e.g. in the Von Gruber positions at the image corners) and thus an Aerial triangulation while saving the expensive film and processing costs during the analogue capturing times. As seen in the graphics on the right, no redundancy or overlap with more than two images is available in the central image area. For dense matching applications like with SURE this area is also of interest for height extraction. SURE is able to deliver data for this, however, the missing redundancy is compensated by increasing the grid cell (GSD) of the final DSM to the double width, in order to have more than one observation per cell for filtering to retrieve clean point clouds. The 60/30 configuration is thus supported for traditional datasets. For new captures, at least 80% forward overlap are recommended.
By increasing the forward overlap, no additional flight efforts (flight lines) are required - however, the amount of occlusions and the redundancy are strongly improved. Every image now has 4 suitable stereo partners - an 80% as well as a 60% overlap stereo model forward and backward in strip. This enables multi-stereo triangulation and thus outlier rejection and an improvement in measurement precision. The strong reduction of stereo occlusions (pixels not being observed in multiple stereo models) decreases data gaps and thus the need for interpolation. The higher image similarity of the 80% forward overlap model enables better edge recovery due to better matching performance. Thus, it is an optimal scenario for the capturing of open landscapes from higher altitudes. For scenarios with ground undulation (e.g. urban areas with buildings and more occlusions), an increase of the sideward overlap is recommended, in order to resolve stereo occlusions between the strips (e.g. streets perpendicular to the flight direction).
This setup enables the resolution of stereo occlusions between strips, which are typically caused by buildings and building lean or other objects generating terrain displacement between images. With an increase to 60% side-overlap, an additional stereo model can be considered between strips (leading to 4 models in strip and 2 cross-strip per image), which leads to points in such areas and thus to better coverage. This also improves the True Ortho quality significantly, since correct points in front of the facade are essential for good True Ortho edges.
This setup compensates the strong occlusions caused by high buildings. This should be considered as soon as multiples buildings with more than e.g. 30 meters height are close to each other.
Within a generic approach for all kinds of cameras, the Central Image Contribution should be considered (also referred to as "net image", see image on the right). This central part of the image is defined by the area between the overlaps or the counter percentage (e.g. 60%/30% => the 40%,70% of the image center). Within this Central Image Contribution, the occlusions caused by the building (or any object) lean should be minimized - e.g. to less than 20 pixels. It can be estimated from the opening angle of the Central Image Contribution divided by two - leading to the maximum building lean angle at the border of the Central Image Contribution. By introducing a maximum building height, the effective maximum occlusion width can be estimated.
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The redundancy enables outlier filtering, noise and occlusion reduction.


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HomeWealthEmerging markets, despite strengths, still get no respect
Emerging markets, despite strengths, still get no respect
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The financial profiles of emerging markets are far better than they were just five years ago, but when global investors get worried about risk, emerging market assets are among the first things they sell.
True to form, EM currencies, stocks and bonds have been hammered this year as volatility picked up in the markets. The MSCI Emerging Markets Currency Index — a basket of 26 EM currencies — was down 5 percent for the year through Sept. 25. EM stocks are down 10.5 percent, and bonds are down 7.7 percent — the worst performance of any major global fixed-income asset class this year.
"Given the state of the world with strong U.S. growth and contained inflation globally, it's hard to imagine that emerging markets would suffer so much this year," said Pablo Goldberg, a senior fixed-income strategist with BlackRock. "There's been a general pullback from risk in emerging markets."
The spread of average EM bond yields over comparable duration U.S. Treasurys has widened dramatically, and the average yield on the JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond index — a broad index of EM sovereign bonds — was up to 5 percent as of Sept. 25.
George Rusnak, co-head of fixed-income strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, thinks that presents a buying opportunity. "It's hard to buy when others are selling, but blood is in the water and that's when you want to get involved," said Rusnak. He has changed his view of emerging market bonds from neutral to favorable since the beginning of the year.
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"We look for value," he said. "Domestic high-yield bonds are priced for perfection, so you're not getting paid for a risk that is still there.
"With emerging markets, you get more compensation for the risk," Rusnak added. "If we want to get aggressive, it's in emerging market debt."
Some of his more aggressive ideas include the sovereign bonds of Brazil and Mexico in Latin America, and India and Indonesia in Asia. They carry significant risks. The Indonesian 10-year sovereign bond yields 8.24 percent. Brazilian 10-year bonds pay 11.6 percent. "We feel we're fairly compensated for the risk."
Jim Caron, fund manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, also sees the recent weakness in emerging markets as an opportunity. "We're still in a global growth environment, and the trajectory for emerging markets is still positive," said Caron. "Valuations tell me that emerging market assets are attractive.
"They have good fundamental attributes but have been subject to political risks that I hope are temporary," he added.
The turmoil in markets such as Turkey and Argentina hasn't helped. The Argentine peso has dropped by more than 50 percent this year, and the Turkish lira by nearly 40 percent. Spreads on both countries' debt have widened dramatically. Other country-specific risks in emerging markets include the Brazilian elections, trade issues for Mexico, and recession and land reform issues in South Africa. In emerging markets, bad news tends to spread.
"The contagion in emerging markets happens through different channels and it tends to be greater in periods of monetary tightening in developed markets," said BlackRock's Goldberg. "Liquidity is an issue. Investors will sell what they can sell."
The concern about global trade is also weighing on export-driven emerging markets. President Trump's unconventional trade policies — or lack thereof — have yet to seriously hit global trade and economic growth, but it still has investors on edge.
"We use to abide by one set of trade rules in the past, but now we're moving towards bilateral agreements," Caron said. "The rules are no longer uniform."
While many of President Donald Trump's threats have been directed toward developed markets such as the European Union and Canada, he has also targeted Mexico, China and other EMs for "unfair" trading practices.
If the tariff battle with China becomes a full-blown trade war — a possibility now that the United States has imposed tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese exports, and China has replied with $60 billion of its own — it will hurt growth in the emerging markets as a whole.
The biggest headwind for emerging market bonds as a group, however, is the rise in U.S. interest rates and the strength of the U.S. dollar. Both make EM bonds relatively less attractive. The question is how much further U.S. rates will rise and how much higher the U.S. dollar can go.
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Known for her huge hit single "Mr. Big Stuff," Grammy-nominated soul and funk singer Jean Knight was a promising artist before internal strife within her label, Stax Records, prompted her to leave. After Stax, she recorded more songs under various small-time labels, but none of them gained the success like "Mr. Big Stuff" had. However, Knight continued to tour and perform in the Southern states and around the world as well. A Louisiana native, Knight was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame in 2007.
Soul/R&B/funk singer Jean Knight was born Jean Caliste on January 26, 1943. The New Orleans, Louisiana native began her pursuit in music at her cousin's bar "Laura's Place" right after graduating high school. A lot of different bands, after hearing her sing, were willing to be a her musical backup.
In 1965 Knight made her first recorded song, a demo of her cover version of Jackie Wilson's "Stop Doggin' Mer Around." That demo caught the attention of record producer Heuy Meaux, who got Knight signed to her first recording contract with Jet Star/Tribe labels. She recorded four singles, which gained her local popularity. However, she wasn't able to attract any national attention, so she went to a day job as a baker Loyola University's cafeteria.
But Knight's fortunes turned around as she was discovered by songwriter Ralph Williams, whose connections brought her to record producer Wardell Quezergue. Knight went to Malaco Studios in Jackson, Mississippi, for a recording session helmed by Quezergue in 1970. That is where Knight recorded a song called "Mr. Big Stuff," written by Joseph "Joe" Broussard, Ralph Williams and Carrol Washington. The song was sent over to Stax Records, which passed it over. Other labels also rejected the song.
However, after Stax achieved successes such as "Groove Me" by King Floyd, the label took another consideration and finally decided to release "Mr. Big Stuff" as a single. When the song was released in 1971, it became an instant hit on both pop and R&B singles charts, at #2 and #1 respectively, spending a total of five weeks in those positions. The single sold over two million units and went platinum. "Mr. Big Stuff" was also nominated for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female, only to lose to Aretha Franklin's version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" The album of the same name was released in that same year, which performed strongly on the charts.
However, Knight couldn't sustain the success attained by "Mr. Big Stuff," and only managed to score minor hits: "You Think You're Hot Stuff" (#57 pop, #19 R&B) and "Carry On." However, her producers' spat with Stax caused her contract with the label to be terminated. Knight quickly faded from the scene after her fleeting brush with fame.
In 1981, Knight came back with a minor hit "You Got the Papers (But I Got the Man)" (#56 R&B). In 1985 she charted one of the more successful renditions of Rockin' Sidney's novelty hit "My Toot Toot." It was also the titled track of Knight's second LP, this time released on Mirage. Knight also made a return once again in the 1990s and in the new millennium. She released an album on Ichiban, Shaki De Boo-Tee (1997), andQueen (1999). In 2003 she performed her biggest hit "Mr. Big Stuff" on a television special Soul Comes Home. In recognition of Knight's contributions the Louisiana music scene, she was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2007.


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Fire and Ecosystems focuses on a number of aspects of fire ecology. This book deals separately with both harmful and beneficial effects of fire on soils, soil organisms, animals, and plants. This reference material elucidates the effects of fire on grasslands and considers the role of fire in temperate forests and related ecosystems. Four chapters are presented on a regional basis to highlight variations in responses, especially plant succession, to fire. The use of fire in land management is also explored. This book will serve as an invaluable reference material to researchers, teachers, and land managers.
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Dr. Patricia Bradshaw, Dean of the Sobey School of Business; Pierre-Louis DuBois, professor emeritus with Université de Montpellier, and a former director with FNEGE, one of the cofounding groups of the BSIS
Impact With Purpose
By Maroon & White | spring 2017
Business and government leaders, entrepreneurs, students, faculty, and staff gathered in Halifax last fall to celebrate the release of a report re ecting the Sobey School of Business' economic, social, and intellectual impact on the province of Nova Scotia.
Applying the Business School Impact System (BSIS), developed by the Brussels-based European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), we can proudly say that the Sobey School of Business contributes $329 million annually to the economy of Nova Scotia.
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For a year after treatment for cervical cancer has ended, women usually see their doctors at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center every three to four months to ensure the cancer has not returned. After that, appointments are usually scheduled every four to six months. Follow-up care may include Pap tests and pelvic exams, as well as imaging tests, such as CT, MRI, or PET scans.
Specialists at NYU Langone develop a plan that includes good nutrition and exercise as you recover from surgery, chemotherapy, and other treatments. Also, doctors at NYU Langone's Fertility Center and NYU Langone Reproductive Specialists of New York assist women during and after treatment with any fertility concerns they may have.
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Immediately after cervical cancer surgery, under the guidance of specialists at NYU Langone's Rusk Rehabilitation, physical therapists help you with mobility, so that you can return home as soon as possible. They help you get out of the hospital bed and encourage you to move around. Our doctors prescribe medications for any postoperative pain and discomfort that affect your mobility.
Neuropathy is a potential side effect of chemotherapy. The condition leads to nerve damage that can cause numbness, tingling, pain, and weakness, often in the hands, feet, arms, and legs, though it can also occur in other parts of the body.
Doctors at Rusk Rehabilitation prescribe medication to help ease the discomfort caused by neuropathy, and physical therapy to prevent it from interfering with your balance and strength.
Surgery for cervical cancer that includes the removal of lymph nodes in the pelvis may damage the lymph vessels—tubes that carry lymph fluid throughout the body, helping to fight infection. This damage can cause lymph fluid to build up, a condition called lymphedema, which can lead to swelling and discomfort in the legs.
Doctors and physical therapists at Rusk Rehabilitation can show you how to prevent the development of lymphedema after surgery—for example, by wearing special wraps around your legs. They can also ensure you're aware of the early warning signs of the condition, such as aching, tingling, or a feeling of fullness in the groin, legs, or feet. The sooner management starts, the less likely lymphedema is to develop.
Our doctors encourage healthful eating as a part of cervical cancer follow-up care. Oncology dietitians at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center can counsel you on nutrition.
After consultation with our doctors at Rusk Rehabilitation, physical therapists can provide a rehabilitation program of strength and aerobic exercise to address weakness and fatigue caused by cervical cancer or treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Our exercise program also aids in improving your balance, flexibility, and mobility, which may be affected by cancer surgery.
The use of integrative therapies—conventional and nonconventional techniques known to be safe and effective—can often help women with cervical cancer feel better during and after treatment. At Perlmutter Cancer Center, our integrative health services include massage therapy, which can help reduce stress, and acupuncture, which may relieve chemotherapy-related hot flashes and radiation-related fatigue.
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Q: sql query for the fetching back the drop-down list selected option I have drop down list in my website and the options are stored in database in a separate table and fetched back to drop down list. Now whenever I select any option from drop down list the value of option is stored in a main table. Now how do I fetch back the selected option from the database to website?

A: Could you provide some more detail? I assume that when the user loads the page you want the dropdown menu to display the same value it had the last time they logged in or something like that?
If such be the case, you need a few things. To start with your body tag needs an onload function that will get called when the page is loaded:
<body onload="dosomething()">

In your javascript dosomething() function you will make an ajax call to the back end which will probably be a php script.
This script will fetch the value from mysql and return it.
Your ajax code will have an onreadystatechange() function which will receive the response from the back end and do something like
document.getElementById('foo').value=whatevercamebackviaajax

Written off the top of my head, and somewhat vague, but I or somebody could probably do better with a bit more information.
You need to add javascript to your tags.

A: Now we can see the scenario where we get the option for one single user from the database so that it will be easy for understanding and you shall make your own code if you need to customize it.
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Scenario: Keep Selected the login username is equal to the clientname in select tag.

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$select="SELECT * FROM TABLE where id='".$_GET['uid']."'";
// here `uid` is the logged in user id
$q=mysqli_query($conn,$select) or die($select);
$row=mysqli_fetch_array($q);
?>

<select name="sclient" id="sclient" class="reginput"/>
<option value="">Select Client</option>
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$sel="select * from user where type='client'";
$que=mysqli_query($conn,$sel) or die($sel);
while($res=mysqli_fetch_array($que))
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<option value="<?php echo $res['login_name']; ?>"<?php if($row['clientname']==$res['login_name']) echo 'selected="selected"'; ?>><?php echo $res['login_name']; ?></option>
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This contract was one of FiveCo's first major image processing projects. Today, this Automated Licence Plate Reader has been integrated to most photo radars used all over Switzerland.
The image processing in this case is based on mostly two parts: first, finding the licence plate that makes up only 0.5% to 0.6% of the picture size, and then extracting the smaller typesets, all the while taking into consideration the wide differences between the various settings in which the pictures were taken (contrast, angle of the vehicle and so on).


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Jang Ha-na continues decade-long KLPGA winning streak
Jang Ha-na celebrates her first victory of the season after winning the KLPGA Lotte Open at the Bears Best Cheongna Golf Club in Incheon on Sunday. [KLPGA]
Jang Ha-na picked up her first win of the season at the KLPGA Lotte Open at the Bears Best Cheongna Golf Club in Incheon on Sunday.
Jang took home her first win in the eighth KLPGA tournament of the season, having finished in the top-10 in six of the seven preceding events.
Jang has now won at least one KLPGA Tour event every season for ten straight years, with a total of 14 KLPGA career wins. Sunday's victory takes her career earnings over 5 billion won ($4.5 million).
Jang faced serious competition for the Lotte Open title. Starting the final round, Jang trailed one shot behind Ryu Hae-ran, also looking for her first win of the season, with Pak Ju-young looking for her career-first victory just one shot behind Jang in third.
It was a windy day on the course, making control difficult for even the most seasoned golfers. The wind was generally blowing from the back toward the pin, making it harder for the golfers to judge shot distance.
Even a few holes from the end of the round, Ryu, Jang and Pak were still stacked in first, second and third with only two shots separating the three of them.
Jang and Ryu came out of the par-4 17th tied for first, with only the notoriously difficult par-4 18th left to play, made even more tricky as the wind had changed direction to face the golfers. Ryu and Jang's shots both landed in bunkers while Pak hit the rough just in front of the green.
Ryu Hae-ran makes her second shot on the par-5 sixth in the final round of the KLPGA Lotte Open at the Bears Best Cheongna Golf Club in Incheon on Sunday. [KLPGA]
Pak's last iron shot seemed like a miscalculation on her part as the ball landed 15.4 yards from the pin, leaving her with a long and difficult putt that led to a bogie. Pak ended up finishing tied for fourth alongside Son Ju-hee, while Choi Hye-jin stepped up to third with five-under-par.
Jang made her bunker shot first, with the ball landing right next to the pin. Ryu also put the ball on the green, but a little farther away from the hole.
Ryu's long putt narrowly missed the hole, potentially pushing her down into second place on the final hole. All Jang had to do was make her short putt to take the title, but the seasoned pro was unable to put the ball in the hole, pushing the match into a sudden-death playoff.
Ryu and Jang headed back to the teeing ground, playing the hole in almost the exact same way and quickly finding themselves back in the bunkers. Once again, Ryu's bunker shot went farther, leaving her with a longer putt to finish the hole. Jang landed closer to the pin and this time she didn't miss, taking par while Ryu had to settle with a bogey.
This is Jang's second sudden-death playoff this season, after losing to Park Min-ji at the Nexen Saint Nine Masters in April.
"I won, thanks to my fans who cheered me on," said Jang. "It was a rough match because I had stomach cramps, but their cheering made me feel energetic."
The KLPGA Tour continues with the Celltrion Queens Masters at Seo Seoul Country Club in Paju, Gyeonggi from June 11 to 14. The upcoming tournament will be played as a three-day, 54-hole event.
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nice to see old faces returning!!
its great to be back guys, ive had some wonderful conversations on this forum!!!!!!
It's so nice when people come back... HOWDY!!!
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The Folsom Historic District with more than 80 businesses hosts numerous, exciting events all year round for all ages and provides convenient parking -- Restaurants, Lodging, Museums, Wine Tasting, Antiques, Art Galleries, Live Theater, Taverns, Bike Trails and Specialty Shops.
A 315-space parking garage - located at 905 Leidesdorff Street - offers complimentary parking on most days, with the exception of special event days. Street parking and several large lots are located throughout Historic Folsom, as well.
Take the ramp toward Historic Blvd.
Stay straight to go onto Sutter Street.
Turn Left onto Reading Street.
The Parking Garage is located on the Right.
and exit onto Folsom Historic District.


The Father Daughter Camp is a facilitated overnight bush camp set in the spectacular Byron Bay hinterland. The program – designed for girls aged 7-11 and their fathers – provides a great opportunity for fun and adventure with Dr Arne's team.
It also offers a safe, distraction-free environment for fathers and their daughters to share one on one time together, which is so important yet often so rare in today's busy world. We have created a beautiful, natural and safe place for you to really show your daughter how much you appreciate her and gain a better understanding of her needs as she grows into a young woman.
The camp includes lots of interesting and fun activities, and we also set aside some time to support dads to think about what they need to do to give their daughters the energy, attention and guidance they need at this important time in their development.
$620 is the total cost for both to attend and includes catering and camping equipment. Please understand that as the camps fill to capacity we are unable to accept your registration and secure your place without payment of the camp fees.
Please subscribe to our Newsletter and Like us on Facebook so we can keep you up to date with upcoming dates for our Father and Daughter Camp.
"Taking the time to acknowledge and appreciate my daughter has been immensely rewarding. It's been an inspiration for us both to shift our relationship and behaviors to come into line with what she really needs in this stage of her life".
The Father and Daughter program involves an overnight bush camp for girls aged 7-11yrs and their father.
On the camp itself the girls and their fathers spend time together in a fun and safe environment, story telling, playing games and participating in other activities. Facilitators also spend time supporting the fathers to think about what they need to do to support their daughters as they become young women.
What are the facilities like on camp?
We have kitchen facilities, camping areas, recreational spaces, composting toilets, undercover areas, all located in a beautiful natural bush setting.
Dry areas are utilised with the care of all participants as a priority. All participants should bring effective wet weather gear with them (as directed on each camp's 'what to bring' list). We do not cancel camps because of wet weather.
Do I have to sleep on site? I live only a few minutes away….
Yes. One of the core elements of the camps is that it is a group residential experience.
My daughter's father can't or won't come – who can come on the camp with him?
The best person to take your daughter on a camp is her father, but we are aware that this is not always an available option. We are happy to talk personally with you regarding this if required.
At all times you have a choice to participate in an activity or not. We are a values based organisation founded on the understanding that everybody is entitled to have their own beliefs that need to be respected.
I have two daughters – can they both come on the same camp?
No it is very important that the father/mentor is able to give full attention to his daughter. Past participants often return a second time with their other daughter.
Will my Daughter be safe?
YES. As a professional organisation the wellbeing of your daughter is paramount. We have strict Occupational Health and Safety guidelines, Child Protection policies and procedures, qualified First Aid Officers and evacuation procedures in place on all camps.
Would you like to join our camps in a leadership or support role?
Designed for young men who have previously attended camps and want to return again as part of the leadership team.
Designed for men that have completed the Global Rites of Passage Leadership Training program and wish to assist on future camps to learn more about the work and processes.


The present: millions lack access to adequate health information and care.
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Sheridan grew up at ATD having studied dance for 16 years with Ms Debbie, Candace and Linda Patrick. Sheridan was in company classes and competed at the regional, state and national levels. Throughout her years of training, she also took classes from instructors around the country by attending many regional and national workshops. Sheridan understudied with Ms Debbie for 3 years before becoming the instructor for our popular Pee Wee Pom and Hot Tots Hip Hop classes, designed for 3-5 year olds.
Sheridan attended the University of Central Oklahoma, taking classes designed toward early childhood dance education. Sheridan has been an instructor at All That Dance for 12 years and choreographs for competitive classes, as well as solos, duos and trios, earning many overall awards. Sheridan also does wedding/anniversary choreography for private instruction, and can make a very special day even more memorable. Sheridan keeps up with her dance training by taking yearly convention classes and workshops. Sheridan knows how to instruct and work with all personalities and age levels.
She is always happy to teach the next generation of dancers to love performing, and to love developing their technique in the art of dance.


The 10th most popular fly fishing river in Michigan.
Near Niles, the St Joseph River is well-known for its huge steelhead and salmon runs. The river begins in Michigan and heads southwest through Indiana on the way to Lake Michigan. The deep runs and pools of this wide, large volume river are best accessed by floating. There are several dams along the river, but especially the Berrien Springs dam and Niles dam offer excellent fishing due to the fish latters.
When fly fishing on the St Joseph River, you can expect to notice that it is heavily stocked with steelhead and coho silver salmon. Also, there is a prolific caddis hatch.
Overall, St Joseph River is the 10th most popular fly fishing river of all 26 fly fishing spots in Michigan.
For fly fishing the St Joseph River in Michigan, our printable fly fishing guides offers river descriptions, maps, lodging suggestions, driving directions, levels of difficulty and points-of-contact.


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Italian women share stories of strength in new book
by Lisa Backus Author Anthony Riccio spoke of his grandmother as a woman who was "4-foot-11" with "eyes as black a coal" when she gave her grandson the "you're in trouble look." "Those of us who had Italian grandmothers are blessed," he told a small crowd Saturday morning at the New Britain Public Library. His book, "Farms, Factories...
Milford fire chief is this year's Italian-American of the Year
The Milford Columbus Committee has named its Italian-American of the Year and he is a face many will recognize from his two very different professions. Douglas A. Edo – Milford Fire Chief and a musician with a popular local band, will be named Milford's Italian-American of the Year for 2015 at the Annual Milford Columbus Committee Dinner Dance. &n...
Connecticut Lyric Opera, Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to present 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' in area
by Allison Lindsay Connecticut Lyric Opera and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra have scheduled performances at five venues for the upcoming co-production of Gioachino Rossini's opera, "Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)." Rossini's famous two-act comic opera, The Barber of Seville, is a masterpiece of invent...
Southington Italian-American Festival to Donate Proceeds
by Dawn Miceli The sponsors of the annual Southington Italian-American Festival have selected Community Services and Southington Community Cultural Arts to be the recipients of proceeds from the festival. The festival, sponsored by the Sons of Italy and Southington UNICO, will take place July 24, 25 and 26 on Center Street. "...
Dante in Florence - Poetry, Dance and Music
Dante's Poetry in Italian and English - Marco Zanelli Medieval Dance - Chiara Durazzini & Emanuele CapoanoSolo by Ornella Iuorio Music by Renaissonics Click here for more details Sunday, June 7, 5:00 pm41 Hampshire St, Cambridge - (617)876-5160 Free Admission - Light Refreshments Source: Dante Alighie...
Holiday Concert with Micheal Castaldo and Marissa Famiglietti
The Mattatuck Museum (144 West Main St. Waterbury, CT 06702) is pleased to celebrate the holiday season with a concert featuring renowned tenor Micheal Castaldo and guest soprano Marissa Famiglietti on Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Micheal Castaldo, a classical crossover tenor and light Italian opera singer, songwriter and composer,...
The essential red sauce: The Best Sunday Gravy, Italian-American style
by John Golden Several years ago when I set out to make the perfect red sauce—or Sunday gravy, which it's often called—I knew exactly where to look. That was to my good friend Steve Quattrucci. His family has long held sway in Portland food circles amongst the Italian-American community. Or as Quattrucci relates, "Memories from my...
When cooking Italian food, it's OK to be 'lazy'
By Catherine Smart Francesca Montillo thinks Italian cooking is for everyone. The Calabrian native, who has lived in the Boston area for 28 years, launched her business, Lazy Italian Culinary Adventures, last year to help the most novice cooks enjoy a taste of her homeland. She started teaching classes at adult education centers in Brookl...
Eataly's COO on creating an 'Italian village' on Boylston Street
Eataly, a 45,000-square-foot Italian marketplace, will open on three levels of what used to be the Prudential Center food court on Nov. 29. I caught up with Alex Saper, Eataly's managing partner and chief operating officer, to discuss creating an old-style European market and why Eataly chose Boston's Back Bay. For those who have never see...
A Week in Emilia Romagna: An Italian Atmosphere in the States
The Wine Consortium of Romagna, together with Consulate General of Italy in Boston, the Honorary Vice Consul of Italy in Rhode Island, NOIAW and various Italian associations in RI, is proud to present several wines from the Italian region of of Emilia-Romagna during a one-of-a-kind wine tasting event on Thursday, October 4, 2012. "A Week in Emilia...
Eni celebra il matrimonio con il Mit insieme ai musicisti della Scala
Ieri sera a Boston si è celebrata l'elleanza tra Eni e il Massachusetts Institute of Technology con un concerto dei Cameristi del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. Sulle note delle "Fantasie dall'opera di Verdi" - una serie opere "dimenticate", composte su temi tratti dai lavori più celebri di Giuseppe Verdi, l'Eni e il Mit hanno ribadito il successo de...
Part-time Lecturer of Italian
The Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University has an opening for a part-time lecturer in Italian language to teach one or two courses in the Fall 2014 term with the possibility of renewal in the Spring 2015 term. QUALIFICATIONS B.A. or equivalent required; M.A. or equivalent preferred. Previous college-level teaching experience...


What a Gem situated very close to Gorham Pond and only one mile from the Goffstown line. This home had a complete make over 1 year ago including siding, front porch/deck, architectural roof, 1250 gallon septic, all fixtures, all flooring, maple kitchen cabinets, appliances, windows, doors, tankless RINNAI furnace/hot water system and so much more. Step into the front door and you are welcomed into the open floor plan. Just about time to enjoy the sunshine on the rear deck, fenced in yard, boating, fishing and water sunsets. For now you can ice fish and ice skate. At $40 small association fee per year enjoy the boat launch, water access, beach and playground/recreation area. Last but not least there are walking trails near by. You could not ask for a better priced or well kept home in Dunbarton.


Three more days passed away at the Legion's road to Cup.
On monday RL had a day off, all players managed to visit Clearwater beach at Tampa, wich was gently recomended to us by Damage guys. The place was definetly perfect: white sand, blue warm water and light breez. Everybody enjoyed that place very much and totaly racovered after weekend games.
On tuesday team had a paintball practice. The goal was to train taco side guys, who has been doing some tought brakeouts and shooting of the brake exersises.
On wednesday we had a fitness day. We start with basketball games at local fields, then we mooved to the same beach where we spent half an hour for cross runing and several hours for voleyball. Everybody enjoyed it very much and got wonderful sun tan.
Paintball Sports Promotions would like to wish everyone very Happy Holidays and thank you for your support of the PSP. We are looking forward to a great 2007 season with many great things to come.
In the sports club of the Russian Legion, a new store has opened, distributing paintball equipment ranging from paintballs to paintball markers. To this day, this is the most popular store in Russia, with an extremely broad assortment of paintball equipment from all different manufacturers.
It?s a brand new season. And as usual, Facefull delivers the goods: A full Millennium and NPPL season preview, the world league project and the newest gear available from today?s best paintball manufacturers.
NXe announced today that it has appointed Russian Legion as its Master Distributor for Russia.