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An appeal of the Oak/Fell bike lane project
Mark Brennan
San Francisco CA 94117
Howard Chabner
San Francisco, CA 94117
Ted Loewenberg
San Francisco, CA 94117
Angela Calvillo, Clerk
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Room 244, City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Bill Wycko, Environmental Review Officer
San Francisco Planning Department
1650 Mission St., 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
DATE: November 2, 2012
NOTICE OF APPEAL TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, REQUEST FOR STAY and REVERSAL OF IMPLEMENTATION, and REQUEST FOR REVIEW
This is a Notice of Appeal of the October 16, 2012 actions of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ("MTA") Board of Directors approving the Oak and Fell Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Improvements project (the "Oak-Fell Project" or "the Project"). The approval of the Project was an abuse of discretion and a failure to proceed as required by the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") (Pub. Res. Code §§21000 et seq.). This is also an appeal of the San Francisco Planning Department's October 4, 2012 Categorical Exemption of the Oak-Fell Project.
The Project is also a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 USC Section 12101 et seq ("ADA") and California disability rights laws, including California Civil Code Sections 54 et seq. (The ADA and California disability rights laws are sometimes referred to collectively herein as the "Disability Rights Laws.")
This is also a Request for Review of the October 16, 2012 MTA Board actions pursuant to the San Francisco Charter §8A.102 (b)(7)(i).
Appellants request an immediate STAY of implementation of the Project and every part of it, pending final determination on this Appeal and Request for Review, and pending full compliance with CEQA and other applicable laws. Also, because MTA has already begun implementing the Project before the time to appeal the actions described in this Appeal and Request for Review has ended, appellants also demand REVERSAL of all implementation of the Project and restoration of pre-Project conditions on all affected streets and sidewalks.
Copies of the MTA Board's October 16, 2012 Resolution #12-129 and the Planning Department's October 4, 2012 Categorical Exemption (Exemption from Environmental Review for the SFMTA Fell & Oak Streets Bikeways Project--Case No.E011.0836E) are attached.
Grounds for this Appeal lie within, but are not limited to, CEQA, the Disability Rights Laws, and other applicable statutes, regulations, and ordinances that may apply, including the following.
1.The categorical exemptions invoked under 14 Cal. Code Regs. (the "Guidelines") Sections 15301(c) and 15304(h) do not apply to the Project, since the Project: (1) has the potential to degrade the quality of the environment; (2) has possible effects that are cumulatively considerable; and (3) will cause substantial adverse effects on human beings, either directly or indirectly. (Pub.Res.Code Section 21083(b).) Therefore the Project cannot be classified as "categorically exempt." There is evidence supporting a fair argument that the Project could cause direct, secondary, and cumulative impacts on parking, traffic, transit, loading, air quality, public safety, and emergency services. Among other things, the Project will cause substantial adverse effects on people who need to park near where they live or work.
2. The claimed mitigations do not effectively mitigate the Project's impacts, and, in any event, cannot be used to claim a categorical exemption.
3. The Oak-Fell Project is part of a larger project, the San Francisco Bicycle Plan (the "Bicycle Plan"). If it applies at all, a categorical exemption must apply to the whole Bicycle Plan project, not just the Oak-Fell segment. The Environmental Impact Report ("EIR") on the Bicycle Plan did not specifically analyze the Oak-Fell Project.
4. The Oak-Fell Project has not received specific environmental review as part of the larger Bicycle Plan or at any other time.
5. The Project does not qualify for an exemption under Guidelines Section15301(c), which consists of the "operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency's determination," (emphasis added) and (c) "Existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails and similar facilities…"
The existing conditions are parking lanes, not Class I or Class II bicycle lanes. A parking lane, as defined in the California Streets & Highways Code Section 5871(c), is "a paved area adjacent to the curb which is used exclusively for on-street parking. It does not include any portion of the street used for through traffic or as a bicycle lane." (Emphasis added) The "facility" does not meet this basic definition, since it would completely remove the parking lane and change its use to a separated bicycle lane for exclusive use of bicyclists. (S&H Code Section 890.4(a).) These definitions are mutually exclusive and involve a complete change of use. The Project, therefore, does not fall within the existing facilities exemption under Guidelines Section 15301.
The Project does not consist of mere maintenance or minor alteration, but makes major changes by, among other things: (a) entirely removing the existing parking lanes on City streets; (b) removing around 100 existing parking spaces on Oak and Fell; (c) constructing concrete and other solid structures in the streets next to moving traffic (raised, landscaped traffic islands); (d) impeding visibility and access to driveways; (e) eliminating, reducing or making dangerous and more difficult streetside, emergency, and loading access to residences and businesses on Oak and Fell; (f) constructing numerous concrete bulbouts that impede traffic by making right turns difficult; (g) adjusting traffic signals to reduce traffic speed on a major East-West traffic corridor in San Francisco; (h) eliminating one traffic lane on Oak Street during morning commute hours; and (i) constructing bicycle lanes where they do not now exist.
6. For the same reasons, the Project does not qualify for an exemption under Guidelines Section 15304(h), which consists of "minor public or private alterations in the condition of land, water, and/or vegetation which do not involve removal of healthy, mature, scenic trees, except for forestry and agricultural purposes," and "creation of bicycle lanes on existing rights-of-way." (Emphasis added.) There is no existing right-of-way in the parking lanes on Oak Street and Fell Street for bicycle lanes, since the right-of-way in parking lanes is exclusively for vehicles. (See S&H Code Section 5871(c).) Nor is the Project a "minor" alteration in the condition of land, water, and/or vegetation. Rather it is a major alteration and change of use from a parking lane for exclusive use of parking vehicles to a bicycle lane for exclusive use of riding bicycles.
7. The Project is an exception to any categorical exemption, because substantial evidence supports a fair argument that the Project will have significant impacts on parking, traffic, transit, loading, noise, air quality, public safety, emergency services, and human impacts on two major East-West traffic routes carrying a combined more than 60,000 vehicles per day. (And since many vehicles carry more than one person, the number of drivers and passengers affected will be more than 60,000 per day.) (Guidelines Section 15300.2; and see Pub. Res. Code Section 21083(b).)
8. Impacts on humans require a mandatory finding of significance, including impeding access to streetside parking, affecting disabled people, seniors, children, families, workers, and emergency, maintenance, construction and delivery services. Loading impacts also affect commercial and passenger loading. The Project will also affect public safety by impairing visibility from driveways.Bulbouts also impair visibility and delay traffic by making right turns more difficult. Asserted mitigations do not mitigate the Project's impacts and cause more impacts that require analysis.
9. Cumulative impacts on parking, traffic, air quality, noise, public safety, and emergency services also exclude the Project from any categorical exemption.
10. The Disability Rights Laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in, among other things, programs of local government, use of streets and sidewalks, and transportation. California Civil Code Section 54(a) provides that "Individuals with disabilities or medical conditions have the same right as the general public to the full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways…public facilities, and other public places." Title II of the ADA requires local governments to provide people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from all of their programs, services and activities. Sidewalks, streets and parking are programs provided by ADA Title II entities, and therefore are subject to ADA requirements.
Although the loss of parking would be a hardship for the large numbers of people who live, visit and work in the neighborhood, it would disproportionately impact people with major mobility disabilities, such as wheelchair users and slow walkers. Many people with mobility disabilities rely heavily on private vehicles. Disabled people park in regular street parking spaces far more often than in designated accessible street parking spaces (blue zones). Many people who use wheelchairs or scooters rely on accessible minivans and vans that have ramps or lifts on the passenger side. In effect, all street parking spaces (except perpendicular and angled spaces, those on the driver's side of a one-way street, and, sometimes, those with sidewalk obstructions such as garbage cans or trees in the exact location of the ramp or lift) are accessible spaces.
The Project would remove all street parking on the South side of Oak, which means that all of the disabled accessible parking spaces would be eliminated for those three blocks. The parking spaces on the North side of Oak would remain, but it would be extremely dangerous for disabled people to use them because the ramp or lift would be deployed into the moving lane. The project includes mitigating the parking loss on Oak and Fell by converting parking spaces on some of the side streets, which are currently parallel parking, into perpendicular or angled parking spaces. This also would eliminate spaces that are currently usable by disabled people, thereby adding to the parking loss on Oak instead of mitigating it. Not only wheelchair and scooter users, but people who walk slowly and with difficulty would also be harmed by the loss of parking spaces on Oak and by the elimination of parallel parking on the side streets.
The Project would also make it more difficult, dangerous and stressful for disabled people, including wheelchair/scooter users and people who have difficulty walking, to be picked up and dropped off in this area, whether by private vehicle, taxi, paratransit or shuttle service.
These effects violate the Disability Rights Laws.
REQUEST FOR STAY and REVERSAL OF IMPLEMENTATION
This is also a Request for an immediate stay of implementation of the Project and any part of it pending final determination on this Appeal and Request for Review, and pending full compliance with CEQA and other applicable laws. Also, because MTA has already begun implementing the Project before the time to appeal the actions described in this Appeal and Request for Review has ended, appellants also demand REVERSAL of all implementation of the Project and restoration of pre-Project conditions on all affected streets and sidewalks.
REQUEST FOR REVIEW PURSUANT TO SAN FRANCISCO CHARTER SECTION 8A.102(b)(7)(i).
This is also a REQUEST FOR REVIEW pursuant to the San Francisco Charter Section 8A.102(b)(7)(i) of the MTA Board's Resolution #12-129 of October 16, 2012, approving the Oak-Fell Project. This Request for Review incorporates all of the grounds stated in the foregoing Appeal, and additionally requests Review by the Board of Supervisors of the City's substantive violations of CEQA, the Disability Rights Laws, and other statutes, regulations, and ordinances.
The Board's action was an abuse of discretion and a failure to proceed under CEQA, since it will cause significant impacts on the environment, including impacts on parking, loading, traffic, transit, and emergency services. The Project also affects accessibility and safety of people with disabilities, and is therefore contrary to the Disability Rights Laws.
The Project also creates public safety hazards by impairing the safety and visibility of drivers accessing driveways. The bulbouts also adversely affect visibility and safety by impairing visibility of oncoming traffic, bicyclists and pedestrians. Bulbouts also worsen congestion and delays.
1. Set aside all approvals of the Oak-Fell Project, and the October 4, 2012 Categorical Exemption.
2. Declare that any future proposal to implement the same project must be preceded by an environmental impact report fully analyzing all impacts and proposing effective mitigations for each of the Project's possible impacts on parking, traffic, transit, noise, air quality, emergency services, public safety, and human impacts. Cumulative impacts must be analyzed taking into account all past, present, and reasonably foreseeable projects that will also affect traffic, transit, parking, noise, air quality, and public safety on Oak and Fell Streets and the entire area. Spillover and secondary impacts from removal of streetside parking must also be analyzed, along with any impacts caused by mitigations, including traffic congestion caused by signal timing. The analysis must include real-time on-ground traffic counts during AM and PM peak periods taken at a variety of representative days of the week and times of the year.
3. The EIR must propose effective mitigations that eliminate each of the Project's impacts, including consideration of avoiding each impact altogether by not implementing the Project.
4. The City must implement effective mitigation before Project implementation.
5. The City must propose a plan to effectively comply with the Disability Rights Laws, provide an opportunity for meaningful input and comment on such plan, and incorporate such plan in a revised Project.
6. Further consideration of the Project must be stayed until City has complied with CEQA, the Disability Rights Laws and other applicable statutes and regulations.
7. Such other remedies as may be appropriate.
Appellants will submit more detailed comment and/or briefing in support of this Appeal, Request for Stay and Reversal of Implementation, and Request for Review at or before a hearing by the Board of Supervisors.
With this appeal, appellants do not waive the right to present any and all issues and other public comment in further proceedings on the Project.
Please notify the undersigned of the date of the hearing, all actions on this Appeal, Request for Stay and Reversal of Implementation, and Request for Review, and all actions regarding the Project. Please schedule the hearing not earlier than 30 days from the date of this document.
DATE: November 2, 2012
Mark Brennan
Howard Chabner
Ted Loewenberg
Labels: Anti-Car, Bicycle Coalition, Bicycle Plan, CEQA, District 5, Howard Chabner, Panhandle


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Thursday, July 5, 2012
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Is it possible that they were overwhelmed? I seem to appear stunned at times while I am trying to connect with information.ReplyDelete
I have gone to our Family History Center (but not since it has become a Family History Library). Each time I go, I am attacking a problem that confuses me. I know that I have thanked the workers there, but I am unsure if I appeared to be enthusiastic.
I left feeling more confused because I had new tools; I knew I had learned and that my genealogy future was enriched, but I'm not sure that the confusion was more apparent than the gratitude.
They act like it is some school assignment rather than something they are interested in doing.ReplyDelete
When helping people at our local Jewish genealogical society in Phoenix, I've had similarly disconcerting reactions. In one case an older person had been to several workshop meetings, but this was the first time I'd worked with him. Although he had an unusual surname, he'd not had much luck in determining his family's village of origin in the Russian Empire.ReplyDelete
I thought to look at Yad Vashem (Holocasut Victims' database) and found over 90 people with the surname and nearly all of them were from one particular village (a sad commentary in itself). He was excited. I sent the gentleman home with the recommendation that he look at the pages of testimony on Yad Vashem and try to match up the victims (whose parents and spouses were usually mentioned) with what he already knew about his family. That way he could determine if the village mentioned might also be associated with his family.
A month later when I next saw him, I asked if he'd had any success with figuring out if any of those people were relatives. He said (somewhat dismissively), "Oh, they're ALL family."
As a careful and diligent researcher I know that may be true, but it made me sad that he does not feel the need to document the connections. For me that's where the fun is. For him, I guess, the satisfying answers come much more easily.


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Richard Welch
Richard S. Welch (1929-December 23, 1975),[1] a Harvard educated classicist, was a CIA Station Chief murdered by the radical leftist organization Revolutionary Organization 17 November.[2][3] He had been stationed in Athens only a few months before he was murdered outside his home. He was outed by a magazine called CounterSpy[4][5] edited by Timothy Butz. Butz also served on the editorial staff of The Public Eye[6] and as the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska Executive Director.[7]
Welch's murder lead to the passage of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982,[8] making it illegal to reveal the name of an agent who has a covert relationship with an American intelligence organization.
In 2003, fifteen defendants were convicted of Welch's murder.
By Presidential Order of U.S. President Gerald Ford, Welch was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- ↑ Richard S. Welch, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Arlington National Cemetery Website.
- ↑ Greek Assassins Arrested, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Weekly Intelligence Notes #31-02 5 August 2002.
- ↑ Washington Post, Obituary: Richard S. Welch. 29 December 1975, A16. ISBN 01908286
- ↑ Morton H. Halperin and National Security Issues--A Partial Record,Congressional Record, Senate - July 15, 1994, pg. S9109.
- ↑ Counterspy: How a Group of Ex-Agents Turned on Their Bosses: and Began Publishing a Magazine That Sent Shudders Through the U.S. Intelligence Community, Chip Berlet, Alternative Media, Vol 9 No 5 Jan/Feb 1977.
- ↑ "Public Eye Staff," The Public Eye (Vol II, Issues 1 & 2, 1979), 3. Quoted in Laird Wilcox, The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist "Watchdog" Groups, Second Edition, Part 2, Chapter Four: Political Research Associates, A Study in "Links and ties," Editorial Research Service, 1999, pg. 29. ISBN 0-993592-96-5.
- ↑ ACLU of Nebraska Charges State Patrol and FBI with Violating Free Speech Rights of ACLU Official, Press Release, (10/5/2004).
- ↑ "Agent-ID bill had its roots in R.I.", John E. Mulligan, Providence Journal-Bulletin, 22 October 2003. [1]


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What could be more AWESOME than my son on his bike?
You might also spot Ernest on the news.
Great shots of your son and perfect for the theme. Happy Weekend.
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Awesome! Was this a father/son event?
You have got to about BUST with pride! Congratulations!
That is Awesome!
Have a happy Easter.
Nice. That looks like it was exciting (and awesome) for you both.
Yes! Very awesome!
congrats!!! Beautiful pics, too :-)
Mowzers1 Thanks for coming to look at our 'awesome" - we think yours are pretty awesome too!


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Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Kavanaugh has seen many remarkable things happen in her lifetime. As a child she lived within earshot of the Halsey Theater and saw a young Jackie Gleason perform there. In fact, she saw him say "And away we go!" live on that stage years before he would become famous for the line.
During World War II, Kavanaugh worked at a war plant drilling and milling parts for airplanes - a true to life Rosie the Riveter - and later on worked in a section building radios for our soldiers.
Later in life, Kavanaugh would move to Woodhaven with her family where she says she spent the happiest years of her life. She volunteered for many years not just at one school in Woodhaven, but two, first at PS 60 and then at the St. Thomas the Apostle School Library.
On top of all her selfless support of others, Kavanaugh has one additional gift she has been giving to our community over the years – her talent as a wordsmith and poet.
Kavanaugh wrote her very first poem for an Easter card in second grade. She can recite it from memory, over 80 years after she wrote it in Class 2B in Bushwick:
"Easter Day is almost here, everyone is full of cheer, when they see their Easter Bunny, they all laugh and think it's funny!"
The first time she read one of her poems in public came a few years later when Mrs. Schuster, her eighth grade teacher, asked her to read a poem in front of the entire school. Mrs. Schuster, herself an enthusiast of poetry and Shakespeare, saw a spark of talent within the young Kavanaugh and she encouraged it to blossom.
Kavanaugh was nervous speaking in front of a large crowd of her peers, but the excitement of being chosen helped her get over that. "I was very honored that she liked my poetry," Kavanaugh told me, saying that ever since then she has been writing publicly.
"In high school, I wrote poetry for the Bushwick Bulletin, and from there I entered contests and submitted poems to newspapers," she added.
Kavanaugh has even seen her work published in is this very paper, which published over 70 of her poems between 1983 and 1995. She was also a frequent contributor to The Queens Times and has published several volumes of her work.
One collection of poems, "Poems & Lyrics For All Seasons & Reasons," was selected for an award by Writer's Digest.
Speaking with Kavanaugh and reading her work, you do not have to look far to see where she gets inspiration for most of her poems: family. She speaks very fondly about her parents, noting that most people are lucky to get one great parent, but Kavanaugh was lucky to have two.
In her collection of work, you will find family poems such as "Rest in Peace, Dear Mother of Pearl" (after the death of her mother, Frances), and "Going Off to College" (for her grandson Jimmy.) And you will find several poems for friends on the occasion of their birthdays, retirements and other memorable events.
You will also read about our life and times when reading Kavanaugh's work, with several poems concerning the events of the day, such as the death of Princess Diana, the terrorist attacks of September 11, and the devastation of AIDS.
Rose Kavanaugh has put together a remarkable body of work over her lifetime and we have been honored to have her serve as secretary of the Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society these past 22 years.
"She does a remarkable job," says Leonora Lavan, president of the WCHS for 20 years. "She makes it look easy, and everyone absolutely loves her."
As the person who succeeded Leonora for the WCHS, I wholeheartedly second that opinion.


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When I have even a little time on my hands, I enjoy experimenting with ingredients to come up with new recipes. But most days are a blind rush to get home from work, get any errands out of the way, dash into the kitchen, and get dinner on the table.
On days like these, faced with the prospect of cooking something I've cooked often before, I – ironically – feel at a loss for ideas. That's when I turn to Desi and ask him what he'd like for dinner, even though I well know by now that his answer will be a cool, "Anything will do."
Now as you can imagine, that's one frustrating response when you're banking on someone for inspiration. Still, there are rare occasions when Desi will request an old favorite, making my life a little easier. And Green Tomato Masial is at the top of his list.
Here, I don't find green tomatoes in the market, so the only times I am able to make this delicious dish is when I can grow my own tomatoes in the summer. But in the days before I grew tomatoes, I learned to substitute for the tomatoes with a lookalike that has a similar-sounding name: tomatillo.
Tomatillos come all dressed up in a papery robe that you peel off to expose a deliciously tangy, gem-like green fruit. They are shoulder-shrugging sour, and used quite a lot in Mexican cuisine. They are also quite easily available at the supermarkets here.
The masial is easy to put together, and I used sambar powder that my sister-in-law brought for me when she visited, which is beyond delicious. Store-bought sambar powder would do very well too.
So here's an easy and quick, and traditional (almost) Tamil recipe that's a lifesaver and a timesaver on busy weeknights. I served it with hot, boiled rice, some roasted potatoes and papad or poppadum for a delicious and near-effortless meal.
Enjoy, everyone!
Try these recipes next:
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Cabbage Paruppu Usili
Kathirikka Kai and Vendakka Kuzhambu (Eggplant Curry and Okra Sambar)
Tomatillo Masial
5-6 tomatillos, outer covers peeled, washed, and chopped into a 1/2-inch dice and zapped in the microwave with 2-3 tbsp of water for about 2-3 minutes until quite tender.
1/2 cup tuvar dal (small yellow split lentils), covered with water and boiled until tender. Reserve with all liquid.
2-3 green chillies. Run a knife along the length to split them into halves
1 heaping tablespoon sambar powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp mustard seeds
A generous pinch of asafetida (hing)
1 sprig curry leaves
1/3 cup coconut shreds
1 tbsp canola or other vegetable oil
Heat the oil in a saucepan
Add the mustard seeds and when they sputter, add the asafetida
Add the green chilies and curry leaves and stir.
Add the sambar powder and turmeric and stir, then add the cooked dal and tomatillos.
Allow the masial to come to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer on a low flame for about 5 minutes.
If the masial is too thick, add water. If it's too thin, mix 1 tbsp of rice flour in a quarter cup of water and add to the masial.
Add salt to taste. Add coconut shreds and turn off the heat.
Serve hot with boiled rice.
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I long to hear that you have declared an independency--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary to make I desire that you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to ferment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation...(sic)
With those words, which so eloquently echoed her male counterparts objection to British oppression, Adams asserted herself as one of the countrys first advocates for womens rights. Later the same year, rephrasing the same argument to her husband, she solidified her resolve:
I cannot say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to Men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over Wives. But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken--and notwithstanding all your wise Laws and Maxims we have in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our Masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet...(sic)
Adams also championed the abolition of slavery with the same argument about declaring independence for some while withholding it from others. Abigail Adams continued to rally for the Ladies, even petitioning the Congress with a List of Female Grievances, until her death in 1818.
The Adams National Historical Site is located at 1250 Hancock St. in Quincy, MA. The park is open 9am-5pm seven days per week from April 19-November 10. It is closed the remainder of the year. For more information call 617-773-1177, or click here.
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In the current issue of National Review, Jay Nordlinger has a noteworthy article about critics who charged him with being a racist after he wrote that he thought President Obama appeared to be arrogant in his State of the Union address. The word arrogant, he quickly found out, was now held to be "a racist codeword."
Strangely, when liberals make comments about Obama that actually could be construed as racist code words, no one utters a peep and those guilty of offense are quickly let off the hook. Take Dan Rather, for example. As Nordlinger points out, Rather "described Obama as 'very articulate' — there they go again — but said 'he couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.' Watermelons? Rather later said, 'Anyone who knows me personally or knows my professional career would know that race was not on my mind.' I'm sure that's true. But would he give such a break to a conservative who committed a similar faux pas?"
Nordlinger hopes a day will come when race fades from the scene. But judging how crying racist is now a favorite form of attacking critics of Obama, it will not be for quite a while. Take again one of the most recent egregious forms of its use — that by New Yorker editor David Remnick in his new biography of Obama, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.
Remnick, as I pointed out in my last blog post, goes on the attack against Obama's critics during the campaign. His most extensive and nasty comments are reserved for Jack Cashill, the blogger who penned the now famous article raising questions about whether Obama wrote his memoir Dreams from My Father, or if it might have been ghostwritten by Bill Ayers.
Cashill has solid bona fide academic credentials. He has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University, and author of a respected book on American intellectuals, Hoodwinked. He also acknowledged from the start that "shy of a confession by those involved, I will not be able to prove conclusively that Obama did not write this book." What he offered is an argument that readers were free to accept, reject or challenge. It is certainly valid to do the latter. I suspect he certainly expected that. At any rate, except for Rush Limbaugh and others on the political right, Cashill convinced very few that he was on to anything.
An exception was writer Christopher Andersen. As I reported earlier, the pop biography Andersen wrote, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage, included a tantalizing tidbit. After Obama got a new contract to write his book, Michelle Obama told Andersen that she suggested to her husband that he get advice "from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers" who had a reputation for being a good writer. Andersen claimed that then Obama handed over his oral interviews with relatives, a draft of his manuscript and notes to Ayers. Andersen concluded, in much the same way as Cashill, that "in the end, Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams From My Father would be significant — so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."
Andersen's claims came out after Remnick's manuscript was being printed, sparing Remnick from having to comment on them. What is important though is how Remnick dealt with Cashill's claims. He could, of course, have simply ignored them — especially since he acknowledges that few outside of the right took them seriously. But because Limbaugh endorsed them, Remnick could not resist using his pages to score another blast at Obama's conservative opponents.
Since so many people had a sense of Obama from his own writings, Remnick argues, any challenge to his authorship "possessed a diabolical potency for those who wished him ill." (This is certainly so. Friends of mine told me that they supported him from the get go because they had read Dreams From my Father.) Remnick writes: "It suggested that the man poised to become the first African-American President, one celebrated for his language and his eloquence, could not possibly be such a good writer."
So what, precisely, does Remnick do to put an end to what he considers the dangerous and false claims made by Cashill? First, he calls him "a latter-day Derrida" who has penned a deconstructionist style attack on Obama. Next, he says his attempts "might well have remained a mere twinkling in the Web's farthest lunatic orbit had not … more powerful voices hoped to give his theory wider currency." This would be referring to Limbaugh, who used his radio show "to take up the Ayers-as-author theory." Limbaugh said "there's no evidence that [Obama] has any kind of writing talent."
Readers of Remnick's book will not have had the chance to read Cashill's article, from which Limbaugh reached that judgement. It is based on the fact that as editor of Harvard Law Review, Obama obtained the position without ever having published anything in the journal. Nor had anyone ever seen examples of prior writing. Moreover, Cashill noted that a long period existed between Obama's first contract, voided because he failed to turn in an acceptable manuscript, and a new contract which concluded with the now famous and acclaimed memoir.
In Monday, in a blog he posted, Cashill writes:
In late 1994, Obama finally submitted his manuscript for publication. Remnick expects the faithful to believe that a mediocre student who had nothing in print save for the occasional "muddled" essay, who blew a huge contract after more than two futile years, who wrote no legal articles, and who turned in bloated drafts when he did start writing, somehow found the time and inspiration during an absurdly busy period of his life to write what Time magazine would call "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."
Now the above certainly does not prove that Obama did not write his own memoir. It does, however, raise valid issues about how he was able to so quickly develop such a strong literary voice for which there was no prior evidence. After all, how many years did John F. Kennedy's defenders swear he wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage, which we now know was ghosted by Ted Sorensen? For political reasons, his supporters had good cause to worry that Kennedy's political future could have come to a halt had the truth been learned at the time.
At any rate, aside from snide comments, Remnick does nothing to take on Cashill's actual arguments. Saying he is part of a "lunatic orbit" is not exactly any kind of a real answer. But he does more — and this time, Remnick uses the same attack launched on Nordlinger. He calls Cashill's argument racist! First, he calls the claim that Obama had a ghost writer a "libel" that has a particularly "ugly pedigree." It is this:
Writing elevated a slave from non-being, from commodity, to human status. … In Frederick Douglass' narrative, his master, Mr.Auld says, "Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world … if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) to read, there would be no keeping him."
And yet writers like Douglass had to call on white men to authenticate their texts, the better to disprove the antebellum Jack Cashills and Rush Limbaugh ready to declare fraud.
Remnick continues to argue that Douglass had to assure white readers that he wrote the book, by providing authentication from people such as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips so that he would have the "seal of white endorsement." Remnick writes:
Garrison vouched for Douglass' literacy. The title, too, indicates a need to deny a sham. It is called the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.
A century and a half later, thinking a degree of racial progress had been achieved, Barack Obama and his publisher had not thought to collect such endorsements. (my emphasis.)
That ends the chapter. Remnick, instead of showing how, why and where the questions raised by Cashill have no merit, simply asserts that like in the times of slavery, white critics today argue that Obama might not have written his book and needed a ghost writer to help him because they too are racist and believe that Obama or any other articulate, smart and educated African-American cannot write his own book!
Cashill's arguments may indeed be wrong and not have merit. I emphasize this because I am not writing to endorse his theory. I am only arguing that Remnick does not even try to disprove or challenge him. Instead, he deals with him and Limbaugh by playing the race card in an absurd way.
Cashill is also correct when he writes in his American Thinker blog:
The defense of Obama by Wills and Remnick should not surprise. As I discovered five years ago in the research for my book, Hoodwinked, America's intellectual elite has been crafting and enabling intellectual fraud for nearly a century. "Not unnaturally," I wrote, "people of influence in the cultural establishment are inclined to promote, praise, and protect those creative individuals who think as they do." The protected, by the way, include people of all colors, genders, and orientations. The protectors usually vote, sound, and condescend just like [Gary] Wills and Remnick.
As one of the most quoted comments ever made about intellectuals go, they are the "herd of independent minds."
All this should not be surprising. The New Yorker, along with The New York Review of Books and The New York Times, has become the epitome of acceptable liberalism and a chorus of cheer-leaders for Barack Obama. If David Remnick had reached any different conclusions about Obama's critics than the one he did reach, that would have been the real surprise.


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Cornerback Sheldon Brown, still plenty steamed about his contract situation, said this morning that he knows he's not the only player on the Eagles' roster feeling underpaid and underappreciated.
"Without a doubt there are going to be more problems," Brown said this morning. "I'm not the first guy and I'm not going to be the last guy. What's the incentive for guys like Trent Cole and Mike Patterson to play above their heads? Everybody's situation is different and everybody handles their business in a different way. This situation could have been handled in a different way. I was forced to put it out there."
The veteran cornerback said his decision to go public with his trade request and contract dispute was triggered by team president Joe Banner's unwillingness to recognize that a dispute existed.
"Joe did an interview with 610 (WIP) and he said my contract has not been presented as an issue," Brown said. "I take that personal. My agent (Jason Chayut) has been talking to him for four months. (Banner) was throwing him off to some guy I don't even know."
Chayut, according to Brown, was told to talk to Andrew Brandt, who was hired by the Eagles this offseason to help with salary-cap matters.
Brown said his invitation to go public about his dispute came when Banner said Sunday that he had contacted the Buffalo Bills about the availability of Jason Peters while the left tackle was in the midst of a holdout from training camp last summer.
"What's my only option?" Brown said. "That's my key to the exit. Joe was going to deny until he dies there is not a problem. He forced my hand to make a statement and make a statement in a strong way. It has been like a slap in the face."
Brown also addressed the predictable backlash from some fans who are upset that a person making $2 million next season can complain about their contract in these troubled economic times.
"Everybody is saying this is only about the money and that I don't know what's going on in the world," Brown said. "Don't you think I have family members who live in the real world? Don't you think I have family that has struggled in this recession? I'm not worried about how people feel about me. When I'm done playing football, I'm going back to South Carolina and I won't have to listen to 610 (WIP) or Joe Banner. Everybody has the right to their opinion, but if you think it's about the money, you're crazy."
Brown acknowledged that the six-year contract extension he signed in 2004 was a fair deal, but he said the economic climate of the NFL changed drastically with a new collective bargaining agreement in 2006.
"When I did the deal, I knew it was a good deal," he said. "Nobody could anticipate that the CBA was going to go up 40 to 50 percent. Nobody wants to talk about the owners being billionaires and how they won't open their books."
Brown said his current salary ranks 36th among NFL cornerbacks, but it wasn't clear if he was talking about this year's salary or the average value of his deal. He said he's not trying to become the highest-paid cornerback in the game.
"It's not like I'm trying to get near the top of the tier," Brown said. "I want them to pay me somewhere in the middle of the pack."
The Eagles, in a statement yesterday, said they have no intention of reworking Brown's deal or trading him. So where does that leave the cornerback? Will he boycott the mandatory camp scheduled to begin May 1? Will he boycott the voluntary camps later this spring? Will he hold out of training camp? His hope remains that the Eagles will trade him this weekend, which is an unlikely scenario.
Brown said he's flying back to his home in South Carolina Thursday.
"I have considered (holdouts)," he said. "I'll deal with that stuff when it comes around. I'm really not in the right state of mind to talk about it right now. I didn't want it to get to this point. I tried to handle this in a professional way."


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For once, the Brown twins are not in matching outfits. Marian B. is in hers, a leopard-print cowboy hat and car coat, but her sister, Vivian A., older by eight minutes, is in bedclothes at Davies medical center.
"My sister has Alzheimer's, so she has to have 24-hour care, because they're afraid she will go out and get run over or something," says Marian, offering a straight answer to the question everybody who sees her on the streets stops to ask. "Where's your sister?"
The identical twins, who have built themselves into a living San Francisco landmark of irrepressible inseparability, are now barely holding it together, at age 85.
"We don't look much alike anymore," Marian says, in a taxicab en route to visit Vivian at California Pacific Medical Center's Davies Campus. Her memory has been going for a year now, says Marian, who has been caring for her sister in the one-bedroom apartment on Nob Hill where they sleep in twin beds. But a slipping mind led to a slip and fall about a month ago. Vivian went to a doctor, who referred her straight to the hospital, where she has been ever since.
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"We've been separated before," Marian says, with a tone that would indicate it did not work out. "We taught school for three years. I taught in Hillsdale, Mich., and she taught north of St. John's, Mich."
Marian would like to bring her sister home to be among their 100 or more matching outfits. But she understands that's probably not practical. An assisted living facility would do, even if it means separate bedrooms. She would prefer that to the current predicament of taking a cab to visit her sister only twice a week, which is all she can swing.
"Thirty dollars round trip, I can't afford that. I'm not a millionaire," she says on a drive west from Nob Hill, her mood brightening by the block. She's unfamiliar with seat belts and needs assistance in freeing herself from the device and getting from cab to curb. But by the time she is at the front desk, she's wearing that familiar smile as she proudly announces, "I'm going to visit my twin sister, Vivian A. Brown. She's in Room 3208."
Vivian's interests are being represented by an attorney, but Marian says she has her own interest, which is to find a situation where the twins can be twins. Cost is a barrier. Their rent is $1,088 while all the options she's seen start at $2,000.
"I'm not going to get knee high in debt," says Marian, still a Midwestern pragmatist. "I'm not signing anything until I see the bare facts about the finances."
A relative living in San Diego came up to drive Marian around looking for alternatives, and they wound up in Foster City. "I was worn out by the time I got there," Marian says. "It took over half an hour." Besides, they aren't the Foster City Twins.
"People know us as the San Francisco Twins, and we want to finish up our lives here in San Francisco," says Marian. When they arrived from Michigan more than 40 years ago, she worked as a bank auditor, and Vivian was a legal secretary at an insurance agency. But at 5 foot 1 and 98 pounds, they were meant for bigger things. They've done 25 commercials, and Marian can fire off the names of their clients as if they were the lyrics to a Johnny Cash song.
"We've been on Reebok, IBM, Payless Drugstore, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Joe Boxer shorts, AT&T, Dell Computer, Atachi, Apple Computer," she says before stopping to take a breath. "We've been on 'The Richard Simmons Show,' the Tom Snyder show, the Vicki Lawrence show, the AM show, the PM show. Richard Branson flew us to London for Virgin Atlantic and took us on a shopping trip to Harrods."
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But the residuals dried up years ago. There isn't much demand for a single twin, so Marian is living on Social Security while protecting what little savings she has for a proper funeral and burial, the two sisters side by side.
"I don't know which way this is going to turn out," she says. "I'm waiting to see like everybody else."
Former Mayor Willie Brown has vowed to help and recommended donations be made to Jewish Family and Children's Services. The twins are Protestants, but it doesn't matter. The agency will help anyone and has done so for 162 years. It accepts donations through the San Francisco Emergency Assistance Fund ( www.jfcs.org). "We are grateful for the donations that have been made and are making sure the twins are being helped," says Barbara Farber, director of development at the agency.
One way to offer direct aid is to go by Uncle Vito's pizza at Bush and Powell any afternoon at 4 and offer to pay for Marian's daily meal, which costs $20, tip included. The restaurant always throws in a glass of wine.
For years, the twins have sat at the window table so they can watch the colorful new models of cars go by. "We had twin Oldsmobiles back in Kalamazoo," says Marian, referring to the place they grew up. "We tried dressing differently for six months. We didn't like that at all."
Dining alone, Marian has downsized to a mini pizza, from the small they normally split. But she hasn't downsized the chocolate cake for dessert.
"I'm eating the whole piece, which my sister and I used to split," she says with a laugh that doesn't last long. "I'm lonesome," she says. The only relief is the daily phone call to her sister's bedside.
"I say, 'This is a hug for you, Vivian, and that's a kiss,' and we both smack our lips on the phone," she says. "I see improvement, even over the phone."
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Washington (CNN) -- With less than four months until this year's midterm Election Day, the Obama administration is defending its record in response to criticism from liberals and progressives who are increasingly saying the president has not been aggressive enough in pursuing their preferred agenda.
"My admonition would be: Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good," Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union in an effort to speak directly to the president's liberal critics. "We've achieved more in these two years -- in terms of advancing a solid progressive agenda for this country that will help working families and make this a better, more balanced economy -- than anyone has done in you know, in our generation."
As evidence of Obama's movement on liberals' preferred agenda items, Axelrod mentioned comprehensive reform to the nation's health care system that would extend coverage to more of the uninsured and improve care for those with insurance.
"We've been talking about that for a hundred years," Axelrod told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. "Barack Obama got it done," he said. "We've been talking about financial reform for a long time. We've got the deepest reform since the Great Depression."
The senior Obama aide also mentioned the administration's move to boost fuel efficiency standards and the president's desire to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians serving in the U.S. military. "That policy is going to be changed," declared Axelrod.
Axelrod continued, "And I can go through a long list of things that have languished for years and decades and generations that this president got done in the midst of a very difficult time."
While he defended the president's record to liberals, Axelrod also sought to fault Republicans for a lack of cooperation with Obama, who campaigned on the idea of changing the tone in Washington.
"Candy, here's the problem, in order to have a partnership, you have to have people who are willing to be partners," Axelrod said of Republicans on Capitol Hill. He singled out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, for espousing and pursuing a strategy of not cooperating with the White House on major issues.
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Axelrod also said the president's slide in approval ratings with independent voters isn't surprising given the circumstances.
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Outreach and professional development work is very important for librarians and library staff. Not only does it provide an opportunity to communicate Dana Medical Library's full range of services to potential patrons, it helps the Library better understand the diverse needs and interests of our clients. Leaving the library to present at or attend an event ultimately helps fine tune current collections, services and programs and develop new ones for the future.
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Going Mobile for EDU@UVM
Dana Librarian Alice Stokes presented a class on mobile library resources during the EDU@UVM Staff Development series over Spring Break. The class, Library Databases, Journals and Books on your Mobile Device, attracted staff from seven University departments and offices. Participants learned about library apps for smartphones and tablets, e-books, and the Libraries mobile websites. More information about mobile apps from Dana can be found on the Library website: http://danaguides.uvm.edu/mobile.
Health Information Equity
A recent conference sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), New England Region examined issues of health information equity. The conference was attended by medical and public librarians, public health workers, AHEC representatives and Regional Medical Library staff. Dana Library Director, Marianne Burke, who has conducted health information outreach projects and has had NLM-sponsored contracts was in attendance.
Vermont's own Jessamyn West, a librarian who consults with rural public libraries on technology and information access spoke on the continued Digital Divide. She provided data from recent Pew studies showing that digital access disparity parallels health disparity in populations by race, socio-economic class, and region. A lack of computing and network resources can translate into health literacy disparities in communities. Since so much health information is communicated at the family and community level, the lack of technology access may make the dispersion of information throughout communities slower. Public libraries have been a great leveler providing high speed internet access across rural and disadvantaged urban regions; they are also good sources of health information. Studies have shown that library–based Internet need exceeds capacity, and that many inquiries at libraries are health-related.
State Conference for Leaders in Nursing
Vermont Organization of Nurse Leaders (VONL) held their annual conference April 19 and 20. Fred Pond, MLS and Bob Sekerak, MLS staffed an exhibit and met with close to 150 nurse leaders from across the state. Dana resources and services were highlighted.
Old Vermont Films
Fred Pond, MLS Dana Librarian, presented at the first spring 2012 presentation at UVM's Center on Research on Vermont on the work he has done to preserve old films.
Pond was working with the film collection at the Vermont Historical Society in Barre when he uncovered a film cannister marked, "Montpelier- Silent." Inside was a 16mm color film of about 45 minutes in length. When Pond looked more closely, he discovered the film was more than a film featuring Montpelier. The film turned out to be a silent documentary showing the Vermont State Guard during World War II.
Vermont State Guard in World War II is among the films which the Vermont Historical Society recently embarked on a project to move from film to DVD, digitizing them for use by communities, researchers and film makers. Pond presented the challenges and rewards of this process, along with selected footage from titles from the VHS Leahy Library Collection, featuring a mix of home movies, state development, and commercial films of Vermont's industries.
Careers in Libraries
On April 3, 2012 Dana Medical Library joined 90 area businesses at the 13th annual South Burlington High School Career/Job EXPO. The event offers high school students an opportunity to explore new career pathways and talk with professionals and business leaders about college options, employment, shadowing, and internship opportunities. This year Dana librarian Nancy Bianchi used a Harry Potter theme to welcome students to learn about careers in medical librarianship. EXPO attendees who stopped at the Library's exhibit table were invited to take a five question Harry Potter quiz, and then encouraged to ask the librarian about the magical similarities between the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" and Medical Librarianship. Potions, Hogwarts Library, and Dementors made the Dana Medical Library's exhibit a popular stop at this year's Career/Job EXPO!


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Monday, April 25, 2011
Post-spring depth chart: Skill positions
For the purposes of this blog, we will not include the incoming players on the depth chart. But they bear mention with each grouping. I also assign a percentage to the chances the depth chart looks like this when Georgia runs onto the Georgia Dome field to take on Boise State.
We weigh in today with the offensive skill positions. Not that the linemen don't need skills. But we didn't make up the term. So anyway:
Starter: Aaron Murray, (R-Soph.)
Top backup: Hutson Mason (Soph.)
Also: Christian LeMay (Fr.), Parker Welch (walk-on, R-Fr.) Greg Bingham (walk-on, R-Fr.).
CHANCE IT STAYS LIKS THIS: 95 percent. … The 5 percent is for whether Mason will actually play this year or the team will try to get him his redshirt back. But there's no doubt right now that Murray is the starter – after all, many consider him the SEC's top returning quarterback – and that Mason is best equipped to play next.
LOOMING: None. … LeMay is the only quarterback recruit, and he enrolled early.
Starter: Caleb King, (Sr.)
Top backup: Washaun Ealey (Jr.)
Also: Carlton Thomas (Jr.), Ken Malcome (R-Fr.), Alex Parsons (walk-on, R-Soph.), Brandon Harton (walk-on, R-Soph.)
CHANCE IT STAYS: 10 percent. … There's at least one newcomer who should vault into one of the top two spots. King had a better spring than Ealey, who was hurt the vast majority of time. But coaches said no one separated themselves, and no one else really stood out. King gets the edge because of his better spring and experience, but you get the feeling that everything will reset to zero once preseason camp begins.
LOOMING: You may have heard of Isaiah Crowell. He's still the best bet to be the starter against Boise State. Yes, that's not a certainty. But let's put it this way: Of the five scholarship tailbacks, almost any of them could start the opener, but the one who seems certain to at least get multiple carries is Crowell.
Starter: Zander Ogletree (Soph.)
Top backup: Bruce Figgins (Sr.)
Also: Dustin Royston (walk-on, R-Soph.), Chris Young (R-Soph.)
CHANCES IT STAYS: 50 percent. Ogletree and Figgins should both get plenty of time. Figgins is likely to get the nod if he masters the blocking scheme after his move from tight end. For now, Ogletree gets the (slight) nod because of his experience.
LOOMING: None.
Starter: Tavarres King (Jr.)
Top backup: Israel Troupe (Sr.)
Also: Rantavious Wooten (Jr.), Chris Conley (Fr.), Taylor Bradberry (walk-on, Jr.)
CHANCES IT STAYS: 60 percent. … King is set at the top spot, but the rest is up in the air. Bennett seems likely to play somewhere, as does Conley. Troupe gets the nod as the top backup because of experience, but his playing time is far from assured. Wooten didn't help himself in the spring, and missed G-Day with an undisclosed injury. Wooten and Troupe should play too, but it could be at split end, or the third receiver spot. And how much any of the backups play depends on whether they can hold off the recruits in August.
LOOMING: Malcolm Mitchell is likely to play receiver and not cornerback, and is just as likely to see the field against Boise State. Justin Scott-Wesley could also figure in the rotation, though that could take longer. Don't count out Sanford Seay either.
Starter: Marlon Brown (Jr.)
Top backup: Michael Bennett (R-Fr.)
Also: Bennett, Wooten, Conley.
CHANCES IT STAYS: 45 percent. … Brown will be the favorite entering camp, but he'll have to hold off Mitchell, Bennett and possibly Conley. Wooten and Troupe can also switch to the other side of the field too.
LOOMING: See above.
Starter: Orson Charles (Jr.)
Top backup: Aron White (Sr.)
Also: Arthur Lynch (R-Soph.)
CHANCES IT STAYS: 85 percent. … Charles had the edge entering spring and separated himself through a strong set of practices. But White, who was injured, will still see plenty of time. Lynch made the smart decision by redshirting last year, but will still be fighting to see the field at the team's deepest position.
LOOMING: Jay Rome was one of the team's highest-rated recruits, but whether he plays this year remains an open question. The Bulldogs don't really need him unless there's an injury, but Rome is also so good he may force the team to use him.
36 comments:
- Ben said...
One of the first plays of the G-Day game I saw Charles line up in a receiver spot. I don't remember if he motioned out from the tight end position or if he lined up there right off the bat. With White, Lynch and now Rome incoming, what are the chances that Charles becomes a functional wide receiver this season? It doesn't make sense to have him making blocks when we've got plenty of bodies behind him and he's got arguably more "playmaking" ability than any of our current receivers.
- April 25, 2011 at 10:35 AM
One reason the coaches do not want Charles as a receiver is because he creates such a mismatch between the linebackers that cover him when he goes out on routes. If you made Charles a receiver he would be getting covered by cornerbacks/safeties, and the mismatch would, for all intesive purposes, become negligible. Don't get me wrong, Orson is a great player with good speed and fantastic "playmaking" abilities. But he is not fast enough to outrun SEC corners/safeties, and the coverage problems he causes for opposing linebacking corps are too precious of advantages.
- April 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Figgins has a considerable lead on Ogletree to start at FB due to Ogletree's size. He may have the heart, but he's greatly undersized at the FB position.
You tip your hand there as a writer and show football is something you cover in great depth but still don't totally get.
- April 25, 2011 at 10:56 AM
Anon 10:56, amen. The Crowell being the top bet at starter is ridiculous. If he starts the first game, it will be ceremonial at best. Calling him a likely starter by the third or fourth game makes more sense, but to make him the top bet to start the first game when he hasn't even been to a college practice with our particular offense is a huge stretch.
- April 25, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Ben said...
@ Anon 10:45
That's a good point, thanks.
- April 25, 2011 at 11:07 AM
A.J. Green started from the first play of his career and was considered one of the top ten recruits in the country. Crowell also is a top recruit, some had him the top runningback in the country, at a position of need. It's not that farfetched. Ask Lattimore. If Crowell doesn't start right away, look out, he's probably over rated.
- April 25, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Unknown said...
I agree with Anon, but White has those same mismatch ability. Use Charles as BOTH TE and WR. Just keep him in the game as a WR when the other TEs are in the game. Seems logical to me. Put the best players on the field, right? If Lynch, Charles and White all on the field are better than Wooten or Troupe, I don't see why not do that.
- April 25, 2011 at 11:40 AM
We've already seen various predictions for the OL, but I was wondering what your insights were after seeing Coach Friend in action during the spring. What is he like? How are the players responding to him? Do you see him fitting into a role or making a strong impact from the start?
- April 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM
actually AJ Green didn't start his first game.
- April 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM
- Doug said...
anon 10:56-
You need to learn to read.
You tip your hand when you failed to read the part about Figgins starting hinges on his ability to master the skills to play FB. Seth assumes the coaches won't play a kid just because he is big.
- April 25, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Wasn't Joe Terishinski a lock as starter a few years ago. Amazing wehat a few losses out of the gate did to Joe's career.
- April 25, 2011 at 12:37 PM
I feel like I am on crazy pills sometimes when I read this blog.
AJ did not start as a freshman from the first game. Use that as a small factor when comparing the talent level of Crowell and whether or not he will receive "multiple reps" as a starter or otherwise. ALL the tailbacks receive multiple reps, at least CK and WE and CT do, because they play for several downs in a row. Why in H3ll do we still keep talking about Crowell as though the job is his to lose?
CK was just as hyped coming into the program, but guess what? IF YOU CANT UNDERSTAND THE BLOCKING, YOU DON'T PLAY!!!
What makes anyone think that IC will be so awesome is watching his HIGH SCHOOL tapes. Good for him, good for all of you sunshine pumpers. He can run, and I am excited to watch it, but that does not mean that he will be able to run if the OLINE is a cesspool of blocking like is has been for the last two years.
And IC sure as H3LL wont be playing if he can't pick up the blocking schemes to protect the golden boy quarterback Aaron Murray. Murray is THE biggest thing that needs to be protected. Think the coaches want to put in a back that cannot block properly, or can't tell what his assignment is so that AM's ass is hanging out to be clobbered by some LB that puts him out for a game or several or the season? PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS!!!
I loathe predictions, but in full hypocrisy here goes:
LT Glenn-experience, the best bet for protecting murray.
LG Gates
C Jones
RG Burnette-so he has more experience to take over C next year.
RT Bean big and fast, better than Harmon
And NO! None of the frosh are going to be ready to start.
King and Brown at Receiver, with Bennett company back ups. Brown has the size and speed, lacks the confidence but can get it quickly if given a game or two to flip the switch.
Charles at tight end, white backing up, regardless of what people think or say, these two are interchangeable. White is as good when used the same and given the same playcalls.
Figgins at FB-size and catching ability, this is a no brainer. Thanks zander, love you too, but this is just reality.
Caleb will be the starter, the only exception is if there is some other than football factor like injury or grades, or a promise to a prize recruit. He knows the system, knows the blocks, is not still having issues like WE, and is running for his last time as a senior, hoping to make an impact for the pro scouts.
Done. NONE of these frosh are going to make the impact that many are hyping about. Look at Charles, a fiver that is great but will show you that all the hype and talent in the world is not going to get you the starting job from day one.
- April 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Anon12:28. Sorry, I was at the game. Green was out there the first play. I believe it was Western Kentucky but I'm too lazy to look it up.
- April 25, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Looked it up, it was Georgia Southern, I remember when I saw him out there on the first play it told me all I needed to know about what kind of player he would be. When Marlon Brown, who was almost as hyped didn't play right away, it told me all I needed to know about him. If you're a Georgia fan, you better hope Crowell plays right away or that's a bad sign.
- April 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM
To all you anons (can't tell any of you apart. Please just use some sort of name to identify yourself so that these threads are readable):
1) Didn't knowshon and stafford have to wait their turn to play as well? Look how they turned out - 1st rounders.
Pollack and Greene same way (Greene redshirted). Again, both awesome players (all SEC).
2) Didn't Hitman Hamilton start his first game here last year? Look how that turned out - a Frosh beat him out by the end of the year and will be a starting LB this coming year
My point is, just because a player does or does not start his FIRST ever college game does not mean he is over(or under)rated. It means that he has or has not EARNED the right to be on the field as a starter.
- April 25, 2011 at 4:23 PM
Seriously, why is the starting RB spot Crowell's already? Because it isn't. He isn't even there yet, and Richt only made mention of Crowell in the past to show how the competition will be open. Right now, King and Ealey are the solid starters (as they have been for some time). Crowell will have to come in and prove himself as an RB (and a blocker) in order to get a shot.
Also, starting a game against Boise at running back is WAY different than starting a game against Georgia Southern as a WR. There are almost always multiple WRs on the field during any play, and that was against crappy GSU. RB is much more important as there generally will only be 1 on the field and they will take the ball. Plus, it's a huge game.
The job isn't Crowell's YET.
- April 25, 2011 at 4:54 PM
Yeah Stafford had to wait all the way to the second game to start. Against South Carolina. On the road. Georgia won. I was there.The super studs play right away. You could watch Stafford warming up next to the other guys before the game and could tell the job would be his soon. Try going to the games and watching them instead of fluffing the covers with depth charts and stats. It adds to the enjoyment and you might learn a few things. If Crowell is a great player he will play and help Georgia win. Soon.
- April 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM
I would move Ken Malcome up the depth chart.
- April 25, 2011 at 6:15 PM
I just hope Crowell is good enough to get on the field right away, bc it will be a good sign for Uga. If he's not doesn't mean he won't be great though! You just don't know yet!
And fwiw, Stafford didn't start game at usc, Joe T got hurt in 1st qtr.
- April 25, 2011 at 6:51 PM
No Stafford started but you are correct they said Joe T was "hurt". Like I said, I was in Columbia that night. The Cocks got shut out, one of the few times that has happened to Spurrier if I recall.
- April 25, 2011 at 7:52 PM
100 percent Mark Richt will be fired at seasons end.
- April 25, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Please check facts. Joe T dis start against SC in 2006, got hurt and Stafford came in relief. I'll bet a steak dinner on it.
- April 25, 2011 at 8:36 PM
I think that crowell will start the first game
- April 25, 2011 at 8:53 PM
I think the coaches made a good decision by leaving King as a starter over Crowell because of his experience at tailback.
- April 25, 2011 at 8:54 PM
Yes, Joe T played the first series Swalt. I'm glad I'm not a betting man.
- April 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM
Ever wonder why you get more comments on the gray site than the white site?
- April 25, 2011 at 9:35 PM
If I were a betting man, I'd be quite poor!
- April 25, 2011 at 10:29 PM
The Top QB in The Entire Southeastern Conference is 5' 11" 198 lbs who beat 6 teams all of whom had a losing record, and lost to all 7 other teams stealing 8 carries a game from the non-existent running backs, averaging himself, 2 yards per carry for his 2nd season on campus here.
Returning 10 of the 11 Starters on Offense for his 2nd season on campus, he led his team to Number 72 in the nation in even gaining a 1st Down for the entire season playing a soft schedule of chalk full of cupcakes.
# 56 in the nation in Total Offense this ball hog ran an Offense that was awful.
# 55 in the nation in 3rd Down Conversions for the season, this clutch performer against quality opponents, now faces a season of hot seat for his "Offensive Line," for his "Wide Receivers," for especially his "running backs" and for his ill-prepared non-existent fullbacks of which there are none on the roster and none recruited. He faces this season, too, with a Position Coordinator for the Offense who is the most embattled O.C. in the nation Mike Bobo, with uncertain and unproven position coaches at WR and RB. And, their Head Coach is on the Hot Seat to produce with this talent.
A head coach who is 3-10 vs teams finishing in the top 10 of the AP Poll his 1st 10 years here, and who has not even been to The SEC Championship Game in over Five Consecutive Years now. A head coach who has the # 7 recruiting class every single year. But, this up-coming season is different. We play 9 cupcakes, so with all the talent coming in this season unlike any other failed year, all he has to do is go 9-4 when the top teams in the nation will play instead by direct contrast 14 games, with 25 teams again all winning more games than we.
# 62 in the nation at being sacked, this offensive stud, is the clear and concise consensus best QB in the Southeastern Conference as I stand here.
Everything is everyone else's fault, not Aaron Murray. He just had an amazing 2nd season on our campus. You have to go back 58 years in UGA Bulldogs' Football History to find a season we Lost more than 7 games - 1953 was the last time UGA Lost more than 7 games in a season.
Best QB in the Southeastern Conference
He isn't a leader.
He isn't a winner.
He isn't big.
He does not take the team on his back and will us to wins.
He does not beat the good or even average opponents we play.
He calls his own number, or checks off at the line to his own number, and stands back there without a care in the world.
He will not be drafted by anyone, ever.
He cannot run the football at all.
His passes are not accurate.
He does not convert 3rd Downs.
He does not make 1st Downs.
He has no timer in his head back there to get rid of the football.
He actually thinks he can run the football like Cam Newton.
He is not a leader.
It is everyone else's fault that Aaron Murray led UGA to a 7-Loss season, scoring TDs on cupcakes only and beating only them, and putting together a season for the ages which only 58 years ago did we actually lose more games than his 7 Losses as our Starter.
David Greene was the best quarterback for us because he Won Games as Our Starting QB, but now, 7 years later, we are much more sophisticated now - for now, it is anything but being a team leader, being able to run the ball and not be a drag on the running game, and beating the good teams in a year in which we are ourselves relevant on the national stage playing in a big bowl game against a 13-1 or 12-2 opponent ourselves 13-1 or 12-2.
Nah. 6-7 makes him the best.
- April 26, 2011 at 1:14 AM
And Georgia Tech still sucks eggs ^^^^
- April 26, 2011 at 3:35 AM
You would think that after months of failure trying to convince us to jump on the anti-Murray bandwagon, that he'd find some new statistics to use. Also, how hypocritical does one have to be to complain about Richt's steady approach and yet "keep to the course" themsleves.
- April 26, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Anon at 1:14;
blah, blah, rant, rant, blah, blah.
Aaron Murray was All-Freshman QB selected by SEC coaches.
He's good. End of story.
- April 26, 2011 at 8:00 AM
"...schedule of chalk full of cupcakes."
I think someone has been eating the chalk-filled cupcakes
- April 26, 2011 at 8:26 AM
Guys, guys... let's give the Anon poster some respect. Afterall, according to him, he's a very smart, successful professional at a massive law firm. What law firm you ask? He didn't specify. What is his role at this law firm? He didn't specify. What is the name of this brilliant and opinionated man, you ask? He didn't specify. But he sure can write some choppy, repetitive posts. And he sure does get his feelings hurt when Seth deletes his posts (which I hope happens again soon).
- April 26, 2011 at 9:04 AM
I guess big successful lawyers suffer from insomnia when confronted with Murray's greatness according to his post time.
- April 26, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Perfect timing...check out the latest blog entry on ESPN's SEC Blog:
- April 26, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Seth, Like many fans, I'd disagree with your assessment that Murray is a lock at QB. Thought Mason & Murray both played well enough over Spring to send a message about starting, and by end of summer, think 1 of them will be there. At least I hope so, like many of the fans here, I don't think Murray gives up the best chance to win, nor does Caleb King, or Aaron White. I'd like to see Mason at QB, Charles at TE, and Crowell at RB. After last season, we need to change it up.
- April 26, 2011 at 1:12 PM


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It is a downright shame that the Rapture has to take place within the midst of the Twins' best stretch of baseball thus far in the 2011 season. It is particularly more disappointing considering the recent strides some key players have made over the past couple of weeks.
For starters, suddenly the rotation doesn't look like such a boondoggle.
Francisco Liriano discontinued his usage of the two-seam fastball and went back to what worked for him in 2010 – the four-seamer, change-up and slider trinity. Equally important to his improvement was his ability to pepper the strike zone early in the count and work ahead of his opponents. The results in his most recent start -- albeit against the woeful Mariners lineup -- suggest that this is the approach would put him back on track as the dominating pitcher from a year ago.
Coming off now four straight quality starts, Nick Blackburn, as he demonstrated in yesterday's game, has diversified his pitches more. This has been keeping opponents off-balanced and getting them to beat the ball in to the ground. A year ago, Blackburn fell into the pattern of using his two-seamer far too frequently and hitters jumped all over that. Over the winter, Russell Branyan, who faced Blackburn while in an Indians uniform, told him that hitters picked up on that fact quickly. This year, with his elbow repaired, Blackburn has started off hitters with a fastball far less often than he did last year (46% in '11 versus 55% in '10) which has helped him to a team-best in ERA (3.40) and xFIP (4.08).
In the bullpen, Joe Nathan has also looks like he has turned a corner in his recovery. At the beginning of the season, Nathan was a facsimile of his former self – unable to neither generate velocity nor dispatch his deadly slider. As such, few opponents chased after anything not thrown in the zone and punished anything that dared fly into their wheelhouse. He finished the season's initial month with a 10.00 ERA, allowing 11 runs in nine innings of work while posting a 7-to-7 strikeout-to-walk ratio. This month, with a heavier reliance on his curve and improvement in the velocity department, Nathan has gotten hitters to chase more pitches out of the zone and missed more bats. The end result in May has been significantly better: a 1.80 ERA with just one run allowed in his last five outings.
Meanwhile, on the offensive side of the baseball, the Twins have seen some players begin to emerge from their early season doldrums as well.
Having been discussed repetitively during each one of his at-bats during the FSN broadcasts for the past few weeks, Justin Morneau's mechanical problems did not hamper him in Oakland. With his second home run of the season and adding a double for good measure, Morneau appeared to be keeping his weight back more with his front side locked in rather than pulling away from the plate. Admittedly, the A's did not follow suit as previous teams did by pitching Morneau away, instead leaving some offerings over the plate. To his credit, the first baseman capitalized on those mistakes and that is perhaps a sign that the slugger is poised to contribute more regularly.
After a brutal month of April, Michael Cuddyer has accumulated base hits by the bushel in May. Following a 3-for-4 day at the plate yesterday, he's now hitting .333 this month and has resurrected his overall average back up to .267 after entering May hitting .226. Admittedly, he still lacks the power that he had shown two seasons ago, but getting on-base and avoiding outs is a big step forward.
Likewise, Trevor Plouffe has been a refreshing oasis in the desert of disappointing offensive shortstops, giving the Twins someone with a stick to hit in the second spot in the order. Although defensively Plouffe needs some work – often taking ill-advised routes to groundballs, bobbling others and throwing away every third chance – he has come through with some very clutch hits as of late. Though the defense may need work, management will grit their teeth and suffer through it in order to have someone who can wield some lumber.
If these and other players around them continue to make progress and sustain production, though it would take a near miracle, the opportunity exists to chip away at the deficit the team created in April and potentially re-enter the division race. Considering the Twins have played the fewest amount of games at home in the American League (15) and have a large portion of contests remaining within the division, there is a chance for the team to climb the standings. And it could happen sooner rather than later. In addition to returning to Target Field on Monday for the week, the Twins have 10 consecutive games against AL Central opponents following that.
Could a big run now be enough to give the team with baseball's worst record a shot at drawing closer to contention prior to the trade deadline?
It is unfortunate that the world has to end so soon without fans being able to receive an answer. Then again, maybe it is for the best that the apocalypse happens now rather than after the team heats up. After all, somewhere in the Bible it says the last shall be first and, at this point, the Twins have nowhere to go but up.