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Max Arthur Stremel (* 31. Oktober 1859 in Zittau; † 26. Juni 1928 in Ulm) war ein deutscher Maler und Graphiker. Sein Stil lag zwischen Realismus und Impressionismus. Er gehört zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Vertretern des Pointillismus.

Leben und Werk
Max Stremel besuchte das Gymnasium in Zittau und schloss sich anschließend dem Dresdner Kadettenkorps an. Ab 1877 absolvierte er ein Studium der Malerei an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. 1879 erfolgte ein Studienabbruch und die Studienreise zusammen mit dem mit ihm befreundeten Fritz von Uhde nach Paris, wo er Schüler des realistischen Malers Mihály von Munkácsy wurde und dort bis 1887 blieb (während der Sommer in Knokke, Belgien). Anschließend hielt Stremel sich in München (1887–1889), Dachau, Eppan (Südtirol), Dresden (1896–1899), Hyères (Südfrankreich) und Venedig auf. Zwischen 1907 und 1918 war er wieder in München bzw. in Pasing, wo er zeitweise unweit seines Freundes Otto Julius Bierbaum wohnte. In der Folge lebte er bis zu seinem Tod 1928 in Ulm.

1890 erfolgte eine erste Ausstellung in München sowie weitere zahlreiche Ausstellungen in anderen Städten. Er malte in der Frühzeit, beeinflusst von Fritz von Uhde in dessen heller, impressionistischer Manier (Interieurs), wandte sich jedoch ab 1896 infolge der Bekanntschaft mit Camille Pissarro ebenso wie bereits vorher sein Freund Paul Baum dem Pointillismus zu.

Max Arthur Stremel war Mitglied der Münchener Secession, im Deutschen Künstlerbund, an dessen Ausstellungen er sich ab 1904 beteiligte und in der Berliner Secession, an deren Ausstellungen er ab 1907 teilnahm. Er blieb auch nach der Gründung der Freien Secession weiterhin in der Berliner Secession. In Ulm wurde er bald nach deren Gründung Mitglied der Künstlergilde Ulm.

Auszeichnungen
 1918: Verleihung des Professorentitels durch das königlich-sächsische Innenministerium.

Werke (Auswahl)
 Vlämisches Zimmer; im Besitz der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
 Bildnis einer Bäuerin; im Besitz der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
 Klostersakristei Ottobeuren; im Besitz der Städtischen Museen Zittau
 Interieur aus dem Schloß Kirchberg; im Besitz der Städtischen Museen Zittau
 Belgischer Gutshof; im Besitz des Museums Bautzen
 Innenraum in Weiß; im Besitz des Museums Bautzen
 Im Bäckerladen; im Besitz des Kulturhistorischen Museums Görlitz
 Kornernte; im Besitz des Ulmer Museums
 Sächsische Landschaft; im Besitz des Ulmer Museums
 Zimmer mit blauer Tapete; im Besitz des Ulmer Museums
 Frau Stremel; im Besitz des Ulmer Museums
 Frauenbildnis; im Besitz des Ulmer Museums
 Landschaft bei Wasserburg; im Besitz des Ulmer Museums
 Knabenbildnis Eberhard Bilger; im Besitz des Ulmer Museums

Literatur

 Friedrich Jansa: Deutsche Bildende Künstler in Wort und Bild. Jansa, Leipzig 1912, S. #.
 Bernd Mälzer: Max Stremel, ein Zittauer Maler. In: Zittauer Geschichtsblätter, Heimatgeschichte, Kultur, Naturkunde der südöstlichen Oberlausitz, 5./6. Jahrgang 1999, Heft 3.
 Walter Scheidig: Geschichte der Weimarer Malerschule 1860–1900. Weimar 1971.
 Stremel, Max Arthur. In: Stiftung Schlösschen im Hofgarten Wertheim (Hrsg.): Max Liebermann und Mitglieder der Berliner Secession. Gemälde und Plastiken aus der Sammlung Wolfgang Schuller. Gerchsheim 2010, S. 116 f.

 Ulmer Museum (Hrsg.): Kunst in Ulm 1919-1933. Ulm 1982.

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Maler (Deutschland)
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Diversity management in the integration of minorities in the job market: policies and practices
Tehila Kalagy (Department of Public Policy and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel)
Orna Braun-Lewensohn (Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel)
Article publication date: 24 November 2022
Cultural variance represents a significant challenge to policy designers and, in practice, to employers in the varied employment spaces. Providing workplace accessibility for the integration of various cultural groups requires deep thinking and creating unique possibilities for each group in accord with its particular heritage. Ultra-Orthodox society in Israel is a religious minority group that has undergone significant changes, from a desire to maintain total separation, to gradual integration into a variety of areas in Israeli society. In light of these changes, we sought to examine what policies should be adopted in order to improve ultra- Orthodox integration.
Design/methodology/approach
Methodologically, we examined the cultural variance of ultra-Orthodox academics in their workplace using combined methods. The study included 745 ultra-Orthodox academics who responded to an online questionnaire that examined the issue in question from various aspects. In addition, four focus groups were convened, in which discussion examined issues.
The study findings reveal that the integration policies of the various workplaces were above and beyond the expectations of the cultural diversity management approach. Although the study focused on the personal perspective of the ultra-Orthodox employees who integrated, the employers' open and accepting attitudes were very prominent. The participants' comments showed that the employers showed great consideration for their needs and exceptional cultural sensitivity towards the employees' temperament. This dialogue constitutes the basis for managing variance in a multicultural society. The understanding by the employer of the background and cultural legacy from which the worker has come, alongside the difficulties he must cope with constitutes, in itself, the basis for building a stable relationship between employer and worker and for optimal integration of a minority group in society.
The findings indicate that cultural adjustment is required in four areas: a. Adaptation from the social and cultural aspect in the workplace. b. The definition of different areas of employment specific to gender. c. Consideration of the employees' halachic needs d. Professional preparation for employees prior to their absorption.
Originality/value
This study is a pioneering one, examining the integration of ultra-Orthodox academics in the Israeli economy. This process is very significant in a political entity with different cultural identities. The acquisition of a higher education in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel and subsequent integration into the Israeli economy has a decisive cultural and economic impact on both the ultra-Orthodox and general societies simultaneously. An examination of the issue of integration of the ultra-Orthodox minority in employment is intended not only to investigate the character and nature of the process, but also to examine the place of multiculturalism in Western societies and the interaction between a minority group and the majority group, with an emphasis on employment.
Ultra-orthodox society
Kalagy, T. and Braun-Lewensohn, O. (2022), "Diversity management in the integration of minorities in the job market: policies and practices", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-09-2022-0228
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I was surprised to see one of the big Canadian newspapers was recommending a seriously flawed book to readers - at least recommended according to the sticker on the cover in my local bookshop. It took a while to track down the review that the supposed recommendation was based on. It turned out to state that the central claim in the book was not-proven but praised what the reviewer thought was the pioneering archival research. The reviewer was unaware, I know because I asked him, that the same information had appeared in another book published two years earlier. In fact, it was the opening chapter of the other book. So, no new information at all. Just a chancer taking two and two and claiming that makes five - something no-one had previously discovered. And, as I said, the reviewer had actually expressed reservations over the central claim in the book and was only praising what he thought was some new information contained in it. So, how did the book in question end up with a "A ------ Recommended Book" sticker? That was down the the publisher's promotions department and a very misleading extract from the newspaper review. You give these folks an inch of praise to work with and they turn it into a mile of unrestrained recommendation.


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Full Bleed: The Politics of Translation: The Playful Subversions of Michael Rakowitz
I think my friend has PTSD. He told me about hearing a loud bang near where he works in downtown Chicago that prompted him to start running—unsure where, unsure why. He tried to catch his breath through gusts of wind and eventually took shelter in an alcove. Gradually I begin to connect these responses to his childhood, revealed to me in slivers. Partly these stories are idyllic tales of preteens wandering the streets of Belgrade, memories of favorite teachers, his mother. But sometimes I learn terrible things, like the biology instructor holdover from the communist period who required total silence in his classroom and graded his students solely based on grueling oral exams he expected to be flawlessly delivered. I hear about a friend killed by shrapnel. Growing up amid the carnage of the Yugoslav Wars, my friend turned his westward. When his mother asked him what he wanted from the United States before she went for the first time, he requested "anything about Aaliyah" and received upon her return a book about the R&B singer. He tells me about spending time in online chat rooms as a queer child. To this day, he has a dog-tag necklace sent to him by a member of an online Madonna community upon which the singer's visage hovers in ghostly outline.
I meet up with this friend in the small park in front of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art before going inside. We're attending a dinner hosted by Michael Rakowitz, an artist whose Backstroke of the West is currently on view. This dinner, Enemy Kitchen, is also a work of art. Rakowitz himself and veterans of the Iraq War serve us Iraqi dishes. An Iraqi-American Jewish artist whose family fled Iraq, Rakowitz is uniquely sensitive to what happens when culture crosses national borders. Backstroke of the West references a mistranslation of Revenge of the Sith for a Chinese bootleg version of the film. Although China isn't especially present in the exhibition, there are plenty of surprising connections drawn between the Stars Wars franchise and Iraq, such as vitrines that display Darth Vader helmets alongside gas masks and Fedayeen uniforms, the official costume of the paramilitary organization of Saddam Hussein's government. I learn from a comic book Rakowitz created entitled Strike the Empire Back that Uday, Hussein's eldest son, presented his father with a prototypical helmet for the uniform, a replica of Darth Vader's.
But this isn't the only Star Wars reference. Consider The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own (2009). The sentence comes from an invitation sent by Hussein for the inauguration of the Victory Arch, a pair of triumphal arches in Baghdad. The arches frame the entrances to the Great Celebrations Square, the main square for public celebrations in Baghdad. Giant bronze casts of Hussein's hands wield the Swords of Qādisīyah, the legendary blades of Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqās, who led the conquest of Persia in 636 CE. The blades were forged from the molten steel of the weapons of slain Iraqis, rising above the helmets of the vanquished Iranians. The form of the monument replicates that of another Darth Vader, who crosses two lightsabers in his hands on a promotional poster for The Empire Strikes Back.
Backstroke of the West is fundamentally about translation, though not as we usually mean the term. Translation is primarily understood as a linguistic activity, whereby one language is converted into another. As such, translation is intimately caught up with meaning. We judge how good a translation is by how well it recreates the meaning expressed in one language in another. Accordingly, we almost immediately run into a problem. Is the best translation the one that reproduces the original meaning most literally or the one that captures the more diffuse "spirit" of the original meaning? Within the subtleties of language, we can easily imagine these two imperatives coming into conflict. In "The Task of the Translator," the introduction to his translation of Baudelaire's Tableaux Parisiens, Walter Benjamin asks us to expand our conception of translation: "Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special mission of watching over the maturing process of the original language and the birth pangs of its own."[1]
If translation is indeed not about attempting to fit one language into another, certain issues fall away, such as the potential tension between the literal and the figurative. But then it becomes entirely unclear what translation aims for. What does it mean for translation to watch over "the maturing process of the original language and the birth pangs of its own"? Benjamin responds, "The task of the translator consists in finding that intended effect…upon the language into which he is translating which produces in it the echo of the original."[2] This answer shifts our attention to a higher level. Rather than merely translating text from one language to another, for Benjamin, every act of translation must take into account the entirety of the two languages. Of course, much of a language lies dormant when we translate. Nevertheless, we must always have a language as a whole in mind during translation because the text is never just a text. A text is always written within a language and, in this way, does not consist merely of what is on the page—the entirety of a language is present in every utterance, if only negatively. The translator's chosen words are fished out of a sea of possibilities, and the choice of a word is always the passing over of others. Meaning resides both within and outside of a text.
Rakowitz's translations, however, have a playful character at odds with the solemnity of the Benjaminian translator, such as in May the Arrogant Not Prevail (2010), a replica of the Ishtar Gate, the famous eighth gate of Babylon constructed by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II circa 575 BCE. The sculpture was created by a team of assistants out of Arabic food packaging and installed at the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt in Berlin. (A 1930 reconstruction using the original bricks is now shown at the Pergamon Museum, also in Berlin.) While May the Arrogant Not Prevail is a translation of the Ishtar Gates, the Ishtar Gates are also themselves a translation. Had the Ishtar Gates been reconstructed in the Middle East, they may well have become a symbol of the ancient civilization to which the region is heir, analogous to the Acropolis of Athens or the Colosseum of Rome. But the presence of the Gates in Berlin produces a very different effect; rather than connecting the Middle East to its pasts, the Gates perform "Arabness" for a mostly Western audience.
As a translation of a translation, May the Arrogant Not Prevail potentially has a higher degree of significatory freedom. Rather than faithfully reconstructing a historical past, May the Arrogant Not Prevail calls our attention to the inherent artificiality of history. Just as for Benjamin, the choice of one word requires the non-choice of others, so too does the choice of one narrative require the non-choice of others. For the past several millennia, these narratives have centered a world known as "Western," initially limited to Europe but eventually encompassing the settler colonies of Oceania and the Americas. This Western World was and is predominantly white and Christian, while the non-West was everything else—"the West and the rest." Due to centuries of colonial and imperial expansion, the West has been able to tell history in its own terms, not only due to an extreme power imbalance, but also due to its possession of much of the world's cultural wealth. As a play requires props, so too does history require artifacts. But the transfer of antiquities to Western museums has prevented non-Western societies from telling their histories. For Rakowitz, this cultural transfer is exemplified by the looting of the National Museum of Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Many of the items stolen during this period still haven't been located. In an ongoing project entitled The invisible enemy should not exist, Rakowitz attempts to reconstruct the over 7,000 objects missing from the National Museum.
On some level, The invisible enemy should not exist is an exercise in Sisyphean absurdism. How much time and effort would it actually take to reproduce all of these, even with the help of a team of assistants? Can we be sure there aren't others? Even if the collection were exhaustive, these recreations aren't the real deal, a fact Rakowitz draws attention to through the makeshift character of these reconstructions. Perhaps the failure of this work to reapproximate reality is part of its power, calling our attention to a break in the chain of history that cannot be repaired completely, just as how The invisible enemy should not exist is only a shadow of what was once a robust collection. Unfortunately, this isn't the first cultural causality of war. Another "Other" of the US was Germany during World War II, which also suffered a great deal of cultural destruction. For example, a fire in the Fridericianum museum in Kassel incinerated state library books during a bombing by the British Air Force on September 9, 1941. For What Dust Will Rise (2012), Rakowitz enlisted Afghan and Italian carvers to produce stone replicas of these volumes out of travertine from the Bamyan Valley, where the Taliban dynamited two monumental Buddhas dating from the sixth century.
In What Dust Will Rise, Rakowitz has brought together three enemies of the US (Afghanistan as a result of 9/11 and Germany and Italy as a result of World War II) in order to recover some of what was lost on September 9, 1941. By presenting the work at documenta, the famous art fair held every five years in Kassel, Rakowitz dredges up another forgetting that many in the art world would prefer to remain forgotten. The first documenta in 1955 was an attempt to showcase Germany as an enlightened country after the madness of National Socialism, and several of the artists of its initial iteration were indeed retrospectively seen as modernist torchbearers: Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso. The same city pummeled for its regression becomes a few short years later the beacon of progression.
What role does art play in the shifting of political alliances under the pressure of war? Apparently, state actors thought art was powerful enough to change the image of Germany abroad that they organized and funded an enormous exhibition continuing to the present day.
As a whole, Backstroke of the West demonstrates that history is not just what is remembered, but also what is forgotten, and is composed of not just what is present, but also what is absent. In this way, there's much resonance between Rakowitz and Benjamin, who similarly understands translation as attending to both what is and is not on the page. It's as if language is a room, and a text is a voice reverberating through it; the bigger the room, the more influential the voice, the smaller, the weaker. This is why Benjamin rejects translation as a "sterile equation of two dead languages." Instead, translation "produces in it the echo of the original." Each translation stands in relation to the totality of a language, just as each narrative stands in relation to the totality of history. A selection of words, whether in a translation or a story, is the non-selection of others. While this statement borders on a truism, Backstroke of the West illustrates how memory and relics are differentially distributed around the globe, with the lion's share going to those countries able to dominate socially, politically, or economically. I'm often told "history is written by the victors," but I'd never wondered why this should be true until seeing Backstroke of the West. Stripped of materiality, culture lives only in the mind, where it will eventually waste away.
But what of my friend, driven to run through the streets of Chicago by some unseen force? Translation isn't just cerebral; it isn't limited to the abstractions of language and history. Translation is felt through the body as it passes from one place to another, from one moment to the next. Our bodies record where we've been and carry these impressions with us. Art can bring us back in touch with this materiality. In our digital age, we may be tempted to believe the corporeal is receding in importance, that technology is liberating us from our fleshy sacs. But nothing could be further from the truth. We continue to live intimately with the material, from the clothes on our backs to the roofs over our heads. Art is differentiated from all other materials because it's where the physical and the metaphysical touch. Since art can be anything, what it ends up being tells us a lot about ourselves; a vehicle for our anxieties, hopes, and dreams. As such, we've been making art, or at least non-functional objects, longer than we've been writing. Early examples include elaborate jewelry buried with the dead, even amid relative scarcity: art as an existential scream against the void, luggage for an unknown voyage.


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PATRIOTS ON THE ROLL
NEW AND IMPROVED!!!
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LIVE THREAD OF TUESDAY'S EVENTS BELOW
TUESDAY IS D-DAY in Berkeley, California, where the heart of liberalism is trying to beat down every breath of red-blooded American freedom and liberty. Thousands are expected to show up to protest Berkeley's Mayor and City Council who are trying to give the boot to the U.S. Marines.The controversy involves a Marine Corps recruiting station that moved to the liberal bastion of Berkeley in December 2006.
At its Jan. 29, 2008 meeting, the Berkeley City Council passed three controversial resolutions: One said the Marine recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
A second resolution encouraged the city to go after the Marines by enforcing a local law barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. (Federal law says homosexuality is incompatible with military service.) It also encouraged protests aimed at the recruiting center.
And to facilitate those protests, the city council also voted on Jan. 29 to give the group Code Pink a free parking space in front of the recruiting station so it would have a place to conduct its weekly protests — with bullhorns. (A free sound permit was included with the free parking space.)
At tonight's meeting, the city council will consider whether to revoke the resolution calling the Marines "unwelcome and uninvited intruders."
Show producer and blogger THIRDWAVEDAVE will be carrying the flag for the good ol' U.S. of A, meeting with Melanie Morgan and the patriots at Move America Forward, the nation's premier troop support organization. He's got the details at his site.
They'll know the Cavalry's arrived when he wheels into town in this:
I'll be live blogging the events all day long as they unfold. THIRDWAVEDAVE will be calling in reports and we'll keep you posted right here. Don't touch that dial. We'll have it all right here for you, beginning early tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.
Let Freedom Ring!
Live Thread begins here:
3:45 a.m. PST – "Lord, I was born a ramblin' man…" ThirdWaveDave arrived in town to a thick fog and 40 degrees, cruising to the music of vintage Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band — (c. 1976). Dave was the first one at the Berkeley City Hall site.
Within five minutes he had done two on-camera TV News interviews, talking with reporterKraig Debro of KTVU-TV Channel 2and Amy Hollyfield of KGO-TV who asked why he came and where he stood on the issue:
Dave told her: "You are not going to out-debate these people. They have their minds made up. So, we are here to support the Marines and military recruiters and hopefully we will get the city council to rescind their order to have them leave town. That is all we can hope for."
5 a.m. PST -"We've got five satellite trucks at full mast. Move America Forward is setting up their tent in Martin Luther King Jr. Park directly across the street from City Hall. The place is filling up. A car is pulling up covered in flags — flags flapping! The people in the car with all the flags — Dale Lanham and Debbie Parrish pulled in from Colorado, 18 hours on the road! Met a guy here who was in the Marine Corps — name's Chuck Hettlinger from Suisan City."
Gold Star Mom Debra Lee and Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns are now there, waving hello to friends on the East Coast.
5:50 a.m. PST -"Police are here now, all lined up to separate out the Code Pink people from the Patriots, there are about 100 to 200 people here now, and it's still dark , but it's getting heated — a couple of confrontations. Some people are going to get hurt here. These people are actually crazy." Dave held out his phone to capture the shriek-like sounds of chanting from Code Pinkos screaming through megaphones and loudspeakers– "No money for war, no money for occupation. Money for education, money for health care".
Media outlets continue to arrive on site: ABC 7 – KGO TV; NBC 11; KRON Channel 4; CBS Eyewitness News; KFBK 1530 Radio Sacramento; KCBS 740 AM. Adds Dave: "We've got two helicopters overhead." He couldn't make out if they were police or news copters.
Meanwhile… MICHELLE MALKIN reporting on her site:
"You'll be very interested to know what happened back here in Washington last night related to the Berkeley debacle. And protesters in Berkeley might want to bring a couple rubber chickens as a reminder. As you'll recall, Sen. Jim DeMint moved to deny Berkeley millions of dollars worth of earmarks to the troop-bashing city. This would have put Democrats on record: For the moonbats or for the troops?
Well, Harry Reid managed to stymie movement on DeMint's measure. He used a rare maneuver to delay the vote until later today–giving the council a chance to backtrack and giving cover to the Dems. A Senate staffer told me: "It's truly incredible that they went to such great lengths to avoid having to deal with this."
Par for the course for the Move On-bought-and-owned Dems."
6:21 a.m. PST – Daylight dawning on a crowd heating up its rhetoric and vitriol. Code Pink is nose to nose with the Patriots, but the Berkeley police will not separate them. There are 30 police officers with riot gear, standing in a line waiting for something to happen, which will, Dave assures me.
Radio show host Melanie Morgan of Move America Forward is now on scene, making a phone call to someone, insisting they separate the Code Pinkos from the Patriots before someone gets hurt. Code Pinkos already are at fever pitch and it's only now just dawn….
7:20 a.m. PST – Police finally have separated the groups. Melanie is holding a rally, thanking everyone for being there. A very large flag is raised above crowd, flying some 10 feet off the ground.
The park area is now home base, the center of gravity for the Patriots. "There are probably 150 patriots here to 100 Code Pinkos across the street. It's a lot more manageable now," Dave says.
Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns have spoken to the crowd, as have a couple of other military families. Here the gals pause for a pose with Dave.
Patriot Guard Riders are arriving on motorcycles, and hard to tell which is louder – the roar of their bikes or the crowd's welcome. They 're led by this awesome Hummer.
Earlier at 6:30 a.m. local TV news crews were broadcasting live from the scene for their early morning news cut-ins, with news copters overhead grabbing aerial shots.
Melanie Morgan is seen here being interviewed on KTVU-TV. Our man Dave is in the background to the left, just over Mel's shoulder.
While Melanie and the military moms were being set up for interviews, CodePink queen Medea Benjamin tried to insert herself into the shot. Dave stood behind her and made sure his hand-held flags were positioned over Benjamin's shoulders.
"I tried my best to make her look American", he jokes, noting that Benjamin's typical response to commenters is to flash them a peace sign. So sixties.
Meanwhile… Confederate Yankee reporting at his site:
"I've got a source that has been on the phone with the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and the City Council, and they are essentially revolting against the Mayor that shut down the Marine training mission last week. They are introducing a resolution this AM that should rectify the situation."
9:20 a.m. PST – Skateboarding kids who couldn't skate in the park today (no school?) while it's being used by the Patriots, made up their own crude protest signs and cursed at the police shouting "Skateboarding is not illegal". Police donned riot gear to protect themselves from the 12 and 13-year olds.
"The Code Pinkos got the kids together to cause trouble on our side," Dave says. "All the adults on the Patriot side stood shaking their heads wondering out loud what was wrong with these police officers who wouldn't take a stand with kids who were telling them to go f***k themselves. This town has no control over anybody. Even the kids know they can go around telling the cops to go screw themselves."
Dave says the situation is calmer now that both factions have been separated by a wide thoroughfare. And the TV cameras are off while reporters get a bite to eat…
11:40 a.m. PST – Dave estimates there's a crowd of about a thousand people there now. The crowds are pretty evenly distributed among the Patriots and the Code Pinkos. Police are lining up at both ends of the Patriot's site. Dave's not sure why. He says certain areas are off limits to protesters. Melanie Morgan has just returned to the Park where a large flag is flying at half mast out of respect to the passing of Rep. Tom Lantos. The TV people are back in action. The crowd is growing. Looks like lunch break is over…
12 Noon PST – Code Pink has crossed the street, the line of demarcation set by the police, and are advancing toward the Patriots. That explains why the police were all lined up. Dave says some Code Pinkos have penetrated the center of the Patriots — a fight has broken out — about 50 cops in riot gear are trying to separate the two groups. Dave is taking photos of the fracas.
Moments later, he says there must be a hundred cops now in riot gear, two rows of cops in between the two groups — spilled over into the street — TV cameras rushing over to capture it. The peace loving Code Pinkos are the aggressors, moving in to encircle the Move America Forward Patriots. Now the police are shifting all the way to the other side, in an effort to get between Pinkos and MAF.
Dave says there's a lady there wearing contact lenses with American flags imprinted on them.
Grab a picture! I tell him. But he's reluctant — "It's scary looking", he says.
(This photo of Roberta Allen of San Jose, CA was taken by AP photographer Jeff Chiu and made it onto Drudge's front page on Wednesday.)
The police, many of whom have plastic handcuffs and gas masks hanging from their belts, have blocked off the street with police vehicles.
12:44 p.m. PST – Code Pinkos are unplugging the Patriots' concert-sized sound speakers, cutting at least one wire.
Dave is amazed at the fearlessness of some of these military mothers. One petite Blue Star mom ventured right into the center of a Code Pink crowd of some 50 people to give one of the Pinkos a piece of her mind. Dave and several others, afraid for her safety, went in and pulled her out.
Standing beside one of the loudspeakers, another feisty woman weighing all of 85 pounds asked Dave whose side he was on. "Yours", he replied. She misunderstood him to say "Theirs", and shoved him into the Code Pink crowd. He quickly shouted "YOURS! I'm on YOUR side!" and to prove it, he showed her his dogtags. She realized her error, threw her arms around him, and said "Then you stay right here with me!"
Code Pink Queen Medea Benjamin is now leading a contingent of acolyte Pinkos in Pilates exercises on the lawn. "This is just hilarious!" Dave says. He's incredulous. "They've got their little crown on… these people should have a net thrown over them and taken away." Over the din, I can hear her encouraging the impromptu exercise class to bend and stretch. He's right. These people are from another planet.
A plane circles the park towing a banner sign that reads "Semper Fidelis". The Patriot crowd cheers and points at it. "How cool!" Dave says.
"Now Code Pink has moved into the middle of the Patriots section — police are nowhere — standing around on the other side — doing their 'Barney Fife'. I can already see there's going to be trouble on this side — they've never been this close before."
ABC and CBS TV cameramen are close by, shooting video in anticipation of grabbing headline making fight footage. The media is there. But not the police.
A group of teens are carrying signs reading "WorldCantWait.org". They're wearing stickers on their behinds: "Make Out, Not War".
About two seconds from fists now, Dave holds out the phone so I can listen to the verbal altercation. Tempers are flaring. The women sound shrewish, while at least one man utters a four letter expletive. The little Blue Star mom has taken on the teens — she's carrying a sign that reads: "Berkeley Council: The Few. The Proud. The Insane."
Meanwhile, as tempers continue to rise, Dave says the police are still nowhere near where they should be.
"These cops are all by themselves standing at the corner, while all the people are congregated in other areas in flashpoints. Either they're (cops) being told to do this or they're really stupid. You decide."
The background noise is raucous. And there are yet six hours to go before the Council Meeting even begins…
1:30 p.m. PST – The Code Pink insurgency that made its way into the Patriots' area were primarily teenagers. The same little Blue Star mom pulled a couple of these teens aside to ask if they knew anything about Code Pink.
"Turns out they didn't know Code Pink and International A.N.S.W.E.R. is a communist organization," Dave says. "She suggested that they look it up on the computer." The teens are now gone, leaving the Code Pinko crowd significantly diminished. As a result, the Patriots far outnumber them, with things having calmed down. For now.
The weather is beautiful, and Dave says people have been enjoying themselves for the last 45 minutes. He's already got a pretty decent sunburn to go with "some unbelievable pictures of Code Pinkers. Women in their 50's and 60's wearing house slippers with peace signs on them. Some wearing pink robes. It's a freak show. Fifty cents. Step right up…"
2:09 p.m. PST – Dave's reporting that Melanie gave a rousing speech. A particularly emotional moment for her came when she told of receiving an unexpected FedEx package that held a huge surprise: her son's recruitment papers for the U.S. Marine Corps.
She introduced Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee, who talked about her son Navy SEAL Capt. Marc Allen Lee, who died defending our country in a hail of gunfire fighting radical Islamic terrorists in Ramadi. He was the first Navy Seal who was killed in the fighting in Iraq. He stood up not once, but three times to save his fellow soldiers from a murderous attack by al Qaeda.
Dave says her story brought everyone to tears. Heartwrenching talk.
Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns also spoke, as did several others including a woman who flew in on an overnight red-eye from the Ft. Benning, Georgia area. She carried with her a large sheet covered with hundreds of signatures collected from neighbors, fellow townspeople and friends. Dave says people have come from all over the United States, including New York, Colorado, California, Nevada, and Georgia.
Melanie introduced a young teen who, as it turned out, lied to her in order to get the microphone. He cleverly began with a story about his childhood friend, which quickly devolved into an anti-war, anti-Bush screed. Melanie grabbed for the microphone, but he wouldn't let go. So someone in the crowd stepped forward and pushed him down to the ground.
Though she was doing her morning radio show today, Melanie said when she saw TV news reports of what was happening in Berkeley, she immediately left the program in the hands of her co-host Lee Rodgers and headed for Ground Zero.
Melanie is still at the microphone, now telling supporters that the Berkeley City Council is going to make it difficult for them. The items at issue have been placed late in the agenda, and probably won't be taken up until five hours into the meeting. She says she has been told that in order for any supporters to be there when the item is taken up, they must have been in their seats for the entire meeting. City council room doors open at 5. Stand by…
4:46 p.m. PST – There are more than 300 people lined up to crowd into the Berkeley City council chamber. Dave reports that it is chaos.
He's not likely to get into the chamber, so after a short nap in the red U.S. Cavalry Silverado , he's heading home to catch it on the news. We'll keep an eye on it too. It's sure to be a newsmaker…
8:00 p.m. PST – Final entry: Dave makes it home, having foregone the notion of getting into the council chambers. Watch his site at THIRDWAVEDAVE for his after action report, including photos.
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Labels: Code Pink, Liberalism, ThirdWaveDave
Andrea Shea King said…
From a reader on the Space Coast:
Andrea,
Intellectually my brain cannot wrap itself around the paragraph you have written above… Liberals have always stood for freedom – it is the very heart of what liberalism is about. Liberals are against the miltary industrial establishment – the very one Republican President Eisenhoweer warned us all about. Liberals
were the ones who correctly addressed the evils of the Viet Nam war – a pointless excersize which cost over 50,000 young American men and women their lives (and maimed thousands of others both physically and emotionally for life) to no recognizable result or purpose.
Here again liberals are standing up against tyranny. The military has no business conducting maneuvers or traiing programs within the city limits of an American urban
environment. Especially when they already have appropriate other facilities in which to do that sort of excersize. No American city should have to put up with that. We have military bases just for that purpose. The dark evil side of such practices would be to dull the Ameican sensibilities to continuous military presence, just as Fascists did in Germany and Italy prior to WWII. Fascists,
like communists, have no concern for individual liberties and rights – the state is the end-all to be worshiped.
Are you proposing that we SHOULD be happy to entertain military units everywhere?
We SHOULD have a police state with soldiers at every corner (as they have in such wonderfully "liberal and developed" countries as Egypt)? I think not……
A Very Proud American Liberal Democrat
HILLARYNEEDSAVACATION said…
WHAT A GREAT RIDE !
gorgeous red with old glory displayed proudly.
i read the above note too…
UGHHH.
imagine, the liberation of 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
and liberals would prefer a world with Saddam the Monster.
the USA has liberated so many in this fine World, and remains a brilliant LIGHT on this Planet.
and it could not have led to free so many without the amazing Men and Women who served in the Armed Forces, the brave Military, who sacrificed so much, so that fools could make fools of themselves with laughable mindless 'police state' comments in freedom.
some are so vividly ignorant, but such is life.
long ago, i visited the Soviet Union, when it was still a prison, and perhaps some of these liberals should be treated to such an experience, to see what a real "POLICE STATE" actually is…
THIRDWAVEDAVE said…
Your first ammendment rights at work. God love 'em.
Stacy said…
The Mississippi Patriot Guard Riders are headed to Ft. Walton Beach Florida this weekend to witness history being made. Lex, a retired Military Working Dog is receiving a purple heart. Not sure how far away you are from Ft. Walton Beach.
Would love to see you if you are close.
Greybeard said…
I'm trying not to gag here.
J.E., what world do you live in? My head is spinning.
Your comments about Liberals "standing for freedom" may be true in theory, but I cannot think of a more telling picture to refute your statement than to point to such recent events as granting public access to the Rose Law firm records, or the freedom President Clinton allowed Paula Jones in pursuing her civil rights lawsuit.
Are these the actions of "freedom loving" Liberals you refer to?
I am a Viet Nam Veteran, Sir/Madam.
Your comment about the Viet Nam war boggles!
You DO recall, of course, who it was that got us involved in that "pointless excersize" (sic), don't you?
(Hint… it wasn't a Conservative.)
I taught Vietnamese Air Cadets to fly helicopters from 1969 to '72, to help Viet Nam begin to shoulder it's own war burden. I watched aghast as our Liberal Congress undercut the Vietnamese and our troops, and provided aid and comfort to our enemy, leading to the eventual loss of 58,000 of my brothers and untold thousands… (millions?), of Vietnamese. And please… can you even fathom the loss of 2 to 3 million Cambodians in the killing fields due to Liberal abandonment? Please, allow me to write that number out so you can weigh its true effect….
2,000,000 to 3,000,000 tortured deaths, all thanks to our Liberal friends in Congress!
Have you actually read the Eisenhower speech which you reference? If so, you know that although DDE was concerned about the Military/Industrial relationship, he nevertheless acknowledged its necessity. He knew the world was an evil place, and America needed to stand up to the evil to protect the weak, (like our friends the Vietnamese, with whom we had signed a treaty of protection.)
When I read a comment like yours, I am SORELY tempted to resort to name calling. Instead, I take deep breaths and put fingers to keyboard, hoping to reach a few brain cells that haven't been tainted with stupid propaganda from Liberals and Liberal media.
Freedom loving? Ha.
(Biting my tongue again here.)
Aaron Matthew Arnwine – LifelikePundits.com said…
I wish I could be there with you, DAVE!!!!!!!
Give em hell!
Thanks for keeping us posted ASK.
CJ said…
Great reporting Andrea!! I wish I could have been there. Let 'em come to Alabama and pull that crap! Keep it up. Looking forward to the pictures.
ProtestShooter said…
Thanks for the overview – I was there on and off over the course of the day but it was great to kind of get the flow of things.
Claire said…
Great reporting, and thanks for sharing the pictures! I had the pleasure of meeting Deborah Johns in Charlotte NC last year about one month after my son deployed. She was on her way to the big Gathering of Eagles march in DC and stopped close enough for me to drive up and join in on one of the smaller rallies. I only got to talk with her for a moment, but she is a genuinely kind person. MAF has done a tremendous job supporting our troops. This Blue Star mom is proud of them, and hopes to join them when they come out this way again.
For our beloved Marines in Berkeley, remember what Puller would say, "They've got us surrounded. That only simplifies the problem." OORAH!
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I am curious as to why there are seasons.
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Q: Bootstrap: Why do my input box and button have gap? Please check my code at http://jsfiddle.net/TccN5/.
It has a gap between the input text box and the button on the right. For the very same markup on Bootstrap site the input box and the button has a nice tight fit with no gap.
Why do I have the gap?

A: You have extra whitespace characters between button and input elements. Place button tag immediately after input element:
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A: Im not sure why that is, but this is how i fixed it. maybe you got some of your own css conflicting with the text field.
here's the jsfiddle with the fix http://jsfiddle.net/TccN5/2/
I just added
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A: Use input-prepend and input-append
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Q: Firebase Realtime Database Android: How to Display Data, Parts at a time I needed some help on getting the Firebase Database to display some information from the real-time database.
I am using Firebase Query to display the last 30 items in a list view by using limitToLast(30).
However, I want to display all the data. I know loading too much causes the system to slow down and this is why 30 is optimal.
Is there way to set it up so that when I, scroll down, it hides the top ones from being present, or have some sort of page where when they go to next page, it shows the next 30 posts.
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A: Use a RecyclerView. It will reuse views scrolling through the list.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/recyclerview

A: Try to modify your query like this.
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Also, here's some good news about Max Fried: http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/baseball/frieds-off-to-good-start-in-comeback-from-tommy-jo/nq7GC/
csg says:
Might as well leave Mallex up and shift him to left field when Inciarte returns. I don't see Olivera returning. Best case scenario for Olivera is an extended stay in Gwinnett
Alex…is it Freed or Fried? – the rhyme, you know…thanks
for the masses aching for more verse there are three new Clerihews posted this morning at the tail end of the previous thread…cheers
Don't know if I've heard it said aloud, but I've always assumed it was pronounced like "Freed."
jjschiller says:
Rio Ruiz is looking good on the young season at AAA. 4.8 years younger than the league, and he's but up an .850 OPS so far.
Somehow he's become the pivot player in my mind, so I'm excited to see him do well. I feel there's going to be pitching soon, and I'm buying Swanson and Albies. If Ruiz can be a big infield stick, to go with Freeman, we've got a real chance at having an offense in 17 or 18.
If Swanson and/or Albies are 1/2 hitters, we won't need much from CF. We can spend money for hitters in the corner OF slots. Getting a legit 5/6 hitter at 3B for league minimum makes the plan for me.
Your lips to God's ears, jj.
Mikemc says:
I really want to see a good catcher on the field.
krussell says:
It all hinges on the pitching. Still gonna take a while to know what we've got.
Rob Cope says:
It seems there's never been a question of talent for Fried. It's just durability. If he stays healthy, he should be the third major leaguer out of the JUpton trade.
KJ has produced one major leaguer: Gant.
Gattis: Foltyniewicz
Kimbrel/BUpton: Wisler, Maybin (then Ian Krol, who sucks)
Simmons: Aybar
Heyward: Miller, then Inciarte
Callaspo (I guess): Withrow
Then we have Newcomb, Jenkins, Swanson, and Blair who should make their appearances by the end of the year. Then next year, Fried, Ruiz, and Rodriguez, then maybe Byrd, Ellis, and Whalen. People better get good.
Is Adonis not a legit 5/6 hitter at league minimum?
I don't think Adonis is a 5/6 hitter on a championship caliber team, no. And by the time we expect to field a championship caliber team, Adonis will be approaching arbitration.
I think if Ruiz topped out at the same level Adonis tops out at, we'll either be disappointed by Ruiz or friggin AMAZED by Adonis.
Seat Painter says:
I'd say Adonis is average to above as a hitter. And that makes him a valuable piece at his current salary level.
I'm still interested to see if Toscano amounts to anything. So far he is 3 for 15 at Mississippi – not good, but it's very early. Dustin Peterson has gotten off to a decent start in Mississippi this year. He's still only 21 but could help us out by 2018 if he makes significant progress.
Adam R says:
SSS alert, but Ruiz is BABIPing .414 and striking out at a 26% rate. True, he is young…let's see what happens over the next few months with him.
If Ruiz can keep hitting, Adonis becomes trade bait.
Ruiz is 21. Don't expect to see him anytime this season
Adonis hit well last year, in winter ball, and is off to a good start this year. I think he's got a better bat than people give him credit for
Interesting tidbit from Bowman's inbox:
"As the Braves started the season 0-9, the front office told Gonzalez to essentially treat every game as if it was a do-or-die postseason situation. Gonzalez did just that and also protected Arodys Vizcaino's future when he summoned Tuesday's scheduled starter, Wisler, out of the bullpen to work a perfect 10th inning to conclude Sunday's 6-5 win over the Marlins."
It really felt that way with bringing Wisler again. We have plenty of currently mediocre pitchers to shuttle from AAA to Atlanta. Get the dadgum win when you've got it.
JohnWDB says:
"As the Braves started the season 0-9, the front office told Gonzalez to essentially treat every game as if it was a do-or-die postseason situation."
If they really told him that, it was incredibly stupid. That's just not how you manage in the regular season, especially not with a team that's not going to remotely contend anyway
Adonis is being crucified for his defense in bWAR.
It would've been nice if Gonzalez had managed his few *actual postseason* games in that same fashion.
I think Adonis can hit in the big leagues. That doesn't make him a middle of the order bat on a contender. That's not an insult.
It's also not an insult to our 30 year old found-money third baseman that we root for our 21 year-old sometime-stud in AAA to turn in to an actual stud.
RE: do-or-die tactics.
I imagine Bowman was turning a phrase. Even so, using a guy on his throw day when your bullpen is taxed isn't exactly a do-or-die playoff mentality. In a win-or-go-home playoff game, you pull a struggling starter on the 3rd and put in tomorrow's starter. I doubt we'll see anything like that.
If they really told him that, it was incredibly stupid. That's just not how you manage in the regular season, especially not with a team that's not going to remotely contend anyway.
They're not willing to take the financial hit if no one wants to watch this team, is what it means. I'm sure Fredi knows what win threshold he's shooting for and the underlying importance thereof. Assuming whatever budgetary constraints you do or don't feel like railing against, it's not a terrible idea to ensure a floor in the earlygoing.
Should have said do-or-die job situation for Fredi
A not on OF Kyle Lewis from Braves
Game, Blauser says:
@26 MLB.com projects Kyle Lewis as the #8 pick in the 2016 draft. Overall, it doesn't appear that the 2016 draft class has any clear top picks – MLB.com's top 4 guys are all tall pitchers (6'4″, 6'7″, 6'7″, 6'8″), great arms but none appear finished products at this point. The Braves have a bunch of those guys in the system already.
Lewis has put up a magnificent 2016 stat line so far – .437/.568/.852. The most apparent worries I'd have are his K rate (20%+) and adjusting for quality of competition – Mercer doesn't exactly play the toughest schedule in college baseball.
Along the lines of dominant hitting, check out Wake Forest's Will Craig, who's slashing .442/.556/.863 against ACC competition. He's not nearly the all-around athlete that Lewis is, which is why Craig is projected as maybe a 2nd rounder at best.
Sadly, Braves will not be able to draft the guy who's likely the best bat in college baseball – Clemson's Seth Beer. This is because he's currently a freshman and not draft-eligible for two more years.
@24, Bingo.
So, Mike Minor touched 96MPH and sat at 93MPH in a bullpen session last week. He signed a 2YR, $7.24M contract, and the Royals expect him to be ready in June.
$3.62M per for Minor, and we couldn't fit it in the budget. I guess the porn cable boxes have to be refurbished or something…
Also, I think Mallex is doomed to become another fan favorite that is simply not that good, a la Jeff Francoeur. I fear people will love Mallex's personality and speed a lot like how people liked Jeffy's personality and power, but forget the gaping weaknesses in their game like Mallex's lack of power and arm and Jeffy's lack of plate discipline and cognitive capacity.
Williams Perez vs Alex Wood tonight.
Re: Do-or-die. I don't interpret it quite the way you guys do, either as a statement of permanent tactics or as a Fredi referendum. I think the point is that 0-9 is worthy of comment, and this team, *especially* since it isn't going to contend, doesn't want to be worthy of comment. So that means putting a little extra effort into getting that first win, even if it's a move you wouldn't have made if the team were 4-5.
I happened to be listening to a radio program Saturday morning in the car (which was recorded on Friday when they were still 0-9) in which some NPR types were sampling desperation tweets from the early season — they came from Mets fans, Red Sox fans and a Braves fan who tweeted that this was the worst team ever. Tim Kurkjian was asked to comment and he said something like — "Not even close. I was the beat reporter for the 1988 Baltimore Orioles when they lost their first 21 in a row. The Braves may not be a good team this season, but I resent the fact that fans are even daring to compare this start with that one."
3-9 is just a garden variety slow start — the powers are comfortable there.
I'm not sure this is what I'd roll with if I was in do-or-die mode…
Markakis
Francouer
Aybar
Mallex
Tickets for this should be free.
Of course, the '88 Braves opened 0-10 & lost 106 games, just one less than those Orioles. (The '88 Braves had a .298 team OBP — ouch.)
This team could still give that Braves club a run for Atlanta-franchise futility. Dunno if they're 106-loss bad, but it's still hard not to imagine them losing 100.
(Only 2 ATL clubs have lost 100, BTW.)
Going to be sad leaving all those division flags up and walking out of this stadium with 100+ losses
@32: I don't disagree. As you and I both know, because we live up here, the Mets 6-6 start will generate WAY more ink than anything the Braves press could muster. I gather they just want the Braves to get through this season.. losing 90 is fine. Losing 100 is bad, but y'know, with a break here and there…
I'm down for avoiding 100, but it doesn't keep me up nights either. I'll take 90, but 90 losses or 99… what's the difference?
That said, this early-season Met-fan freakout is just like last year's mid-season Met-fan freakout. Typical & predictable.
Still, hate to say it, but if they score any runs at all & their bullpen doesn't turn into a sieve, they'll be fine.
I'll take a Mets WC game loss to, like, Pittsburgh, who then knocks out the Nats. Then the season can end relatively well…
I still say the key to whether we lose 100 or more lies with our bullpen and the early season has born this out. Over the last 3 games our bullpen has managed to keep the lead and this has made all the difference. From what I've seen I think our bullpen will be better than last year (not saying much at all), but it could be significantly better if Cervenka is decent and O'Flaherty finds some level of aptitude between one of the best years ever for a reliever when he was in Atlanta in 2011 and a 6+ ERA last year between Oakland and the Mets. My guess is still about 70 to 75 wins.
Brian J. says:
Francoeur with the sac fly. No doubt this will "silence his critics."
As for the team, this can be a 70-win team if a couple of the pitchers step up, like Wisler or Williams or Perez. A few wins better with more good pitching, a few worse if it looks like what we got in the first nine games.
2 runs, plus we cleared the Aybar.
How dare they throw at Markakis!
Z in Tempe says:
OBP machine
So, Alex Wood is just hitting all of our guys now.
What the heck? Up 4-0, top 4, two runners on, and the Bills get pulled? Am I missing something? Is our bullpen not taxed enough?
Excellent move by Fredi to pull Perez. He has been living on the edge all night. It was just a matter of time until he got shelled.
If Perez isn't hurt, it's kind of annoying that he hit for himself last inning.
I gotcha, and admittedly, I do like the aggressive managing. A part of me would love to see 7-9 pitchers on the roster that can chew multiple innings so that when a Bills or a Folty or whomever doesn't have it, we can cut the cord quickly and have a couple options to chew innings
Nice job Weber!
I bet it'll be a long time before we see another 4 out save attempt.
@47- Wouldn't be surprised by a six-out attempt, though.
Jeff Francoeur… is 2-2 with two RBIs. Your guess is as good as mine.
Francoeur now has a two-RBI game. I'm sure the columns claiming that the "Frenchy of old" is back are already being submitted.
My beautiful bride and Ryan Weber, who grew up in our city St. Pete, have 6 mutual friends and she added him on Facebook. He has a lot more money than me. I should probably be worried.
Ryan Weber has been in 3 games in Gwinnett, none of them starts, and he's thrown 8.1 innings, so almost three innings per appearance. I think he was called up on the off-day just to piggy-back Perez.
Which is to say, I think Fredi is following a predetermined plan, not panicking about this specific Perez start.
I'm going to guess Folty takes Perez's next start, and it's even money as to which of Weber or Perez moves to long relief.
Just steal his money, Rob.
BTW, Aaron Blair threw seven no-hit innings for Gwinnett tonight, striking out 10.
I like mallex as much or more than the next guy, but id probably go to Stubbs here.
Edit: shows what I know.
@51..
Aybar looks done. Play Castro and Jace up the middle
Strange how no one was lamenting tonight how much they missed Gumby.
73-9 is still in play.
We did have a perfectly good left handed pitcher…
It's dumb to pretend that Wood's still a 2nd or 3rd starter. He's going to the 'pen when and if the Dodgers' staff gets healthier. That they still won the trade says something, though.
JonathanF seems to be predicting a strike this season :)
'Rissa says:
Recapped.
Gotta wonder when Blair gets the call. 3-0, 19 IP, 1.42 ERA, 0.79 WHIP, 22/5 K:BB. He's dealing.
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Thorey is een gemeente in het Franse departement Yonne (regio Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) en telt 47 inwoners (2009). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Avallon.

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De oppervlakte van Thorey bedraagt 6,9 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is dus 6,8 inwoners per km².

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Distribution was a priority for the owners of the Wheeling Brewing Company even before opening the pub's door in Centre Market, and now that goal has been realized thanks to a new partnership with Carenbauer Distributing.
Three craft beers produced by Wheeling Brewing – the Panhandle Pale Ale, the Moondog IPA, and the McColloch's Wheat – now will be available at restaurants and bars in Ohio and Marshall counties. Quaker Steak & Lube debuted the Moondog IPA yesterday at its location at The Highlands.
"This is huge for us because it expands our market, gets our craft beers to more people than ever before, and fits our goal of putting Wheeling back on the map for brewing," said Wheeling Brewing co-owner Chad Hill. "Wheeling has such a rich history in beer brewing, but that ended when prohibition took place in West Virginia back in 1914. But now, a new chapter is being written.
Jim Chaney, Jimmy Schulte, Erin Ball, Carl Carenbauer, and Brian Main taste a few of the brews that will be distributed in Ohio and Marshall counties.
"We have no idea where this could lead in the future, but it would be great to reach areas where craft beers have yet to be implemented," he continued. "This is about more than making a profit to us because we see it as an opportunity to market the Wheeling Brewing Co. so we can see more people come into Wheeling to visit the pub. If that happens, then they will discover the city of Wheeling and the Centre Market area, too."
The Wheeling Brewing Company officially opened its doors in March 2014, and along with its staple crafts several others are included on the beverage menu. The establishment's dinner service begins daily at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and lunch and dinner are available on Saturdays beginning at noon.
Hill admitted that partnering with Carenbauer Distributing is a realized dream, too.
"It's a very well-established and respected company that's very family oriented," he said. "The Carenbauer family has been in this business for many, many years, and the owners care about the community, and they prove it over and over. That means a lot to us.
Brian Main and Jim Chaney are in charge of the brewing at the Wheeling Brewing Co.
"Our business plan has included distribution from the very beginning, and when developing the plan, our hope has always been to work with the Carenbauers to get it started in their two-county territory," Hill continued. "We don't believe distribution will make us ginormous or anything close to that, but our goal has always been to make a positive difference in Wheeling, and we believe this partnership is a big part of that."
Carl Carenbauer, president of Carenbauer Distributing, said that while the company began the distribution of craft beers a few years ago, the company is excited to now include a draft beer that is brewed locally. Along with a few national crafts, Carenbauers has sold brews from Morgantown, Mountain State, and Greenbrier Valley, and also will soon offer Big Timber products from Elkins.
"Craft beers now make up 13 percent of all beers that are purchased in the United States, and it's a trend that we don't expect to fade anytime soon," he said. "We've distributed several different beers that are produced here in West Virginia, but now we are looking forward to selling one that is brewed right here in Wheeling.
Carl Carenbauer and Erin Ball from Carenbauer Distributing accept on of the new kegs that will utilized for distribution.
"We know there are beer drinkers out there who have a lot of allegiance to what they have always chosen because they know what they like, but there are also a lot of beer drinkers out there who enjoy the crafts," Carenbauer continued. "There was a time when a beer drinker would go into the store, go to the cooler and immediately grab what they wanted, but these days you see beer drinkers standing in front of that cooler really contemplating what to purchase because of the number of options there are these days."
Along with Quaker Steak & Lube, Carenbauer is hopeful that establishments like River City, Generations Restaurant, and Market Vines will soon choose to offer Wheeling Brewing products.
"The Wheeling Brewing Company makes some really great beers, but they are not equipped like our company is for distribution, so the partnership makes a lot of sense to everyone involved," he said. "Right now there are maybe 10 places in Marshall and Ohio counties that have the capability of offering the craft beers, but we expect that to change in the future."
Christine Thomas, marketing manager for Quaker Steak & Lube, said she predicts the Moondog IPA will become very popular.
Chaney and Main have brewed the three craft beers that will soon hit the market.
"It is something new, and it usually takes some time for people to get used to the newer products that we put on tap, but I think our local customers will try it just because of the name," she said. "Charles Waldrum is an icon in the Wheeling area, and he's really a nice man if you have a chance to meet him like I have.
"We have a lot of customers who come in and ask if we have any crafts on tap, so we're excited about it, and we're hoping to add more of the craft beers from Wheeling Brewing in the future," she added. "People are still enjoying the Bud and Bud Lights that we offer, but now there is a lot more interest in the crafts, so we're expecting it to become pretty popular."
Carenbauer agrees, especially with the craft industry's recent evolvement.
"Right now most of the craft brews have a higher alcohol content than the mainstream beers like Bud and Bud Light do, but what we are seeing now are craft breweries starting to produce products with a lower alcohol content so their customers can have more than two or three," Carenbauer reported. "And I don't see the craft industry going away anytime soon, especially since some of the major breweries like Anheuser Busch are buying up smaller outfits across the country.
"About five years ago about 4 percent of beer drinkers were enjoying the crafts, but that number has tripled since, and I believe it will continue to grow in the years to follow. How high will that percentage get? We'll have to wait and see," he added. "And the popularity is growing here in the Wheeling area, too, so that's why it's important for us to get involved as much as we can."
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Note how most of the land of earth is above the equator, in the Northern Hemisphere. I have no explanation for why this is, but it probably explains why most maps of the world are oriented with the North side up. People don't like to look down on themselves.
The majority of land and hence the majority of the world's population is in the Northern Hemisphere, so we tend to orient world maps with North at the top.
This also explains why globes are oriented with the North Pole upwards, as this makes it easier to see most of the land. If a globe was mounted with the South Pole upwards then most of the land would be on the underside of the globe and we'd all be bending over to see the land.
Having most of the land in the Northern Hemisphere also explains why clocks go clockwise. Since most of the land is in the Northern Hemisphere, it's natural that the people who invented mechanical clocks would live in the Northern Hemisphere and would make the hands on their clocks mimic the direction a shadow moves on a sundial. "Clockwise" is the direction shadows move in the Northern Hemisphere. (See lesson on Sundials) Most measuring devices with dials also go clockwise because of this.
The convention of placing North at the top came a few centuries ago when European navigators started using the North star and the magnetic compass. Before that, the top of the map was to the East, which is where the word orient as in orientation comes from. The Chinese, however, put South at the tops of their maps, while Australians still like to refer to their country as "down under".
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