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Motherhood ranks as one of the hardest jobs to do, yet one of the easiest to romanticize.
This Sunday, May 11, as families shower mothers with cards, gifts, and superlatives, they will be part of an observance that had its humble beginnings 100 years ago. On Sunday, May 10, 1908, simple church services in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia honored the nation's mothers. A bill introduced in the US Senate that year failed to establish an official Mother's Day, but it set the stage for a successful measure in 1914.
With their tightly laced corsets, long skirts, heavy shoes, and upswept hair, the mothers of 1908 bear little physical resemblance to their counterparts in 2008, dressed in shorts, Spandex, and sneakers. But as today's busy mothers savor their holiday, some might think longingly of simpler times, before women spoke of "juggling" or "balancing" work and family. They might even be tempted to idealize mothers of a century ago, whose serene images grace family photo albums.
But wait. "It's not a time to be romanticized," says Stephanie Coontz, a historian and author of "Marriage: A History." "Mothers in 1908 spent less time mothering than they do today. Even in the middle classes, they spent much less time with their kids than we would have imagined."
One reason for this time deficit involves work. "Most families needed several wage earners," Ms. Coontz says. "Women took in boarders, did sewing at home, cleaning, and all sorts of jobs that weren't counted as jobs on the Census but were time-consuming."
A photo from that era shows a mother balancing a baby on her lap while she assembles cigarettes at her kitchen table. Two other children stand nearby.
Even mothers without paid employment labored endlessly doing housework. In 1908, a New York settlement worker estimated that the average woman, even in middle-class families, spent 40 hours a week just cleaning and shopping. Laundry was an arduous, two-day task, washing one day and ironing the next. Wood and coal stoves required tending and cleaning.
In 1908, Hoover introduced the electric suction sweeper, revolutionizing housecleaning. "It'll sell itself if we can get the ladies to try it," Mr. Hoover said. Assuming, of course, that the ladies had electricity. A majority of women still lived on farms. Until the New Deal Rural Electrification program was implemented in the 1930s, electricity was unavailable to huge sections of the country.
Although the birthrate was falling in the early 1900s, women still bore an average of 3.5 children. Farm women averaged closer to five.
The mothers of 1908, like their counterparts today, received advice from pediatricians. Emmett Holt, author of "The Care and Feeding of Children," was the Dr. Spock of his era, Coontz says. His advice to women: Don't pick babies up when they cry, and do not breast-feed. And a noted psychologist, Dr. J.B. Watson, cautioned against using pacifiers or indulging in displays of affection. He wrote, "When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument."
Historians warn against romanticizing marriages of the early 20th century, when women still had to wed out of economic dependence. Husbands had the final say about domestic decisions and controlled family income. A mother could not be the natural guardian of her children unless they were illegitimate.
In the early 1900s, about 10 percent of families were single-parent households, partly because of death and partly because of a high rate of abandonment. "A lot of women were living apart from their husbands," says Steven Mintz, a historian at Columbia University.
Despite the challenges, Coontz does not suggest that there were no happy families. "If you had a husband who was a good person as well as a good provider, you were fortunate," she says. "If you were a wealthier mother in the city, you probably had a nanny and a housekeeper. And if you were in a small town, we might be envious of the neighborly interactions. It was a time when people still sat on front porches and did a lot of visiting."
Even so, Professor Mintz says, "Life was tough in ways we don't appreciate." Life expectancy was 51. Infant mortality was high. Most women could not vote.
In 1907, Laura Clarke Rockwood wrote poignantly in The Craftsman magazine about the need to simplify housekeeping: "This mother of to-day hurries from kitchen to nursery and over the other parts of the house, performing as best she can the many home duties of our times. But she is so overwearied in the doing of it all that the deep well of mother love which should overflow, flooding the world with happiness and cheer, runs well nigh dry at times."
As one solution, Mrs. Rockwood proposed moving meal preparation out of the home: "There should be food kitchens easily accessible to every home where cooked foods can be bought cheaply because of consolidation, and delivered hot to our homes with promptness and regularity in pneumatic tubes perhaps, or by whatever means the master mind shall decide is the cheapest and the best."
Her pneumatic tubes remain a dream. But cooks of 2008 have an alternative. It's called "takeout" and "home delivery."
Two months before the first Mother's Day observances, President Theodore Roosevelt addressed 200 delegates who gathered at the White House for the first International Congress on the Welfare of the Child, organized by the National Mothers' Congress.
Speaking of "the supreme dignity, the supreme usefulness of motherhood," he said, "The successful mother, the mother who does her part in rearing and training aright the boys and girls who are to be the men and women of the next generation, is of greater use to the community, and occupies, if she only would realize it, a more honorable, as well as a more important, position than any successful man in it."
A century later, his lofty idealism might serve as a fitting tribute to mothers everywhere this Sunday as they celebrate – simply or lavishly – a day that is theirs alone.


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- Amtrak Empire Builder Cafe Car Attendant – Actually, someone I have had twice before using Amtrak between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. We remembered each other's names and chitchatted at length. He owns a restaurant in Milwaukee, WI and I gave him pointers on his social media.
- Harvard Behaviorial Health Professor – my seatmate from Chicago to Boston; one heck of a conversation, culminating in contact info trade and the possibility of reconnecting for coffee on Harvard's campus.
- Al Jazerra English Senior Technical Producer, London UK – this young gentleman and I had an outstanding conversation in Chicago, and have already traded tweets. I'm a big news junkie and he was grilling my opinions on the political landscape of the USA. Perhaps the most solid connection of this trip, and my introductory relationship to the Arab World.
- Brooklyn Latino – this father and daughter made the trip with me across the country. His daughter, same age as my littlest, and I shared quite a few giggles. The father, while not fluent in English, and I got to know each other and have made plans to hang in Brooklyn sometime soon, where he will introduce me to his ethnic neighborhood.
- Everyone is stressed out.
- You hurry through the system in lines.
- Time is rushed. Get here, get there, don't talk to others – such a isolating experience and yet so ironically, all together.
- You can't move about and randomly get into conversations with your other travelers.

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Certainly Cisco is an omnipresent force in electronic equipment. Yet a person can live a perfectly rich and fulfilling life as an electronics consumer and never so much as glimpse a product with the Cisco logo. After all, the brand is only stamped on imposing equipment designed for pekid-looking wiring closet gnomes who need "certification" to get within 100 yards of the stuff. Right?
Cisco isn't satisfied with this arrangement. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, the company is highlighting a new strategy of conquering the consumer market by entering our living rooms. And winning a little respect for the logo while it's in there. But can it succeed in a space where other tech conglomerates have failed?
The CES assault begins with new set of Cisco-branded set-top boxes formerly sold under the Scientific-Atlanta brand. Cisco scooped up S-A for $6.9bn in 2005 but had kept the acquisition's namesake on the systems for market recognition. The new boxes will integrate Cisco's networking know-how to let users pause a movie in one room and watch it in another. Or view web videos on television.
Cisco is also pushing Linksys routers and home media extenders that feature the Cisco brand prominently on the box. Linksys, acquired in 2003 for $500m in stock, meanwhile is being relegated to a product family for the company, Cisco chief John Chambers revealed last July.
Cisco is also being vague (but nonetheless showy) about a home-grown media and content delivery software it calls its entertainment operating system, or EOS. The software will be sold to media companies as a combo content distributor, social networking platform and content search tool. The platform will be hosted software-as-a-service - and "likely" paid through advertising agreements, according to Cisco. We assume the social network aspect will come from its acquisition of Tribe.net last March.
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Moving media around the home is the over-arching theme here. Although Cisco's a veteran at the networking biz - the consumer market is unfamiliar ground.
Mike Kisch, Cisco's consumer marketing director, said the new presence is a natural move. The company already has plenty of experience in delivering data, and through its acquisitions has imbibed a new set of customer relations and expertise.
And according to Kisch, the market is changing.
"We used to see this kind of technology start in the business sector and get pushed into consumer hands," he said. "Now we're seeing the opposite too. Now its a continuous experience where people use devices for work and for play."
Fine, but why the rebranding? Who cares what company makes their set-top box?
"We don't think the set-top itself will make customers aware of our brand. But they will see Cisco on the set-top and other devices that facilitate the movement of data. All of it together will reinforce that we have a presence in their life."
But social networking, steaming media...a lot of this stuff sounds familiar. Cisco is moving into an extremely crowded market. The living room is a dangerous place. Dell, for instance, hasn't been too successful in selling television sets despite being a huge name in technology.
"This is not something we are going to walk away from," said Kisch. "This is not a peripheral initiative for us. The key message now is we are already deeply entrenched in this space and beginning to raise our profile." ®
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We learned more about the German Condor Squadron after WWII, than we did before WWII. The Guernica bombing was eventually grossly exaggerated. Europe "aghast and horrified"? Nah, I don't think so.
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I think the authorities probably were unprepared and for a number of reasons.
1. Lack of any direct experience of bombing. There is a difference between a conceptual understanding of the horrors and the reality of preparing for it. Yes, there had been bombing in Spain and elsewhere but that does not mean that the authorities had any real understanding as to how to prepare for it.
2. Complacency. The heavy bombing was over a year after the war started. The authorities did a very good job of evacuation but when nothing happened everyone, including the authorities, got complacent.
3. After the fall of France and with the huge losses in shipping in the Battle of the Atlantic, investment by central government was not being channeled into civil defence. It was going to re-equip the army and build more ships. Bombing did not stop production. My Great Aunt worked in a munitions factory and they continued working despite the fact that it had no roof due to bombing.
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I live with a couple of absolutely amazing kids. DangerLad is 5 and AdventureLass (their parents' picked the nicknames) is 3; I've known them since they were born and they're tons of fun and I've lived with them for almost two years now. DangerLad, at least, knows that I'm not a "regular" boy, or he did at one point but sometimes he wants it explained again. It comes up really infrequently with him and is definitely not a part of our day to day conversations. AdventureLass, frankly, is a three year old. She just knows me as Andy and that's enough for her.
Last night I took the kids out to dinner. It was just a chain restaurant but they're young enough that it's still a big treat. AdventureLass was sitting on my lap and asked what the button on the collar of my shirt said. I took it off and pointed to the words as I read them. "Trans Rights Now." DangerLad piped up with, "what's that mean?"
It's Transgender Awareness Week which ends in the Transgender Day of Remembrance so I wore my button from the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition to class. AdventureLass, being three, is interested in anything shiny. But DangerLad, at the ripe old age of 5, wanted to know what the shiny thing meant.
This is where I feel like people get hung up on explaining stuff to kids. They're afraid that they'll scar the kid, or that the kid isn't ready to have their questions answered. This is how I've chosen to explain being trans and the fight for equitable rights to the kids; I know that they won't understand every word but hearing a message of inclusion is important. Their parents have never specifically asked how I've explained my identity to them but their kids seem no worse for the wear and they trust me to answer the other questions the kids ask… so why not these?
When people are born their parents or their doctors either call them a boy or a girl and usually those little baby boys grow up to be big boys and then men and usually those little girls grow up to be big girls and then women like your mommy and daddy.
Sometimes, however, those baby boys don't want to grow up to be big boys or men; they feel like they aren't really a boy. Maybe they feel like a girl, and maybe they don't feel like a boy or a girl, so they might dress differently or cut their hair differently than people think a boy should. And sometimes those baby girls don't want to grow up to be big girls or women so they might dress more like boys and maybe cut their hair. That's called being transgender, or trans.
Some people are mean to trans people because they think they look different or sound different but that's not nice. In church we learn that EVERY person is important and that we should be kind in everything that we do and that we should treat everybody fairly. That is what a "right" is – treating everybody fairly and being kind to everybody and not just the people who are just like you. So "Trans Rights Now" means that transgender people, or trans people, deserve to be treated fairly like everybody else.
This isn't, of course, verbatim what I said. I checked in with DangerLad a couple times to make sure he understood, and he asked a few questions that led to short tangents. It was more of a conversation than a lecture. But… yeah. That's how I explained being transgender to a 5 year old. He'd heard most of it before, in various ways, but it never hurts to repeat it. It also never hurts to answer questions. And as he gets older I'm sure he'll have more questions that either I, or his parents, will answer.
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I will confess that I am very much a fair-weather sports fan. And it really has nothing to do with whether a team I like is doing well or doing poorly and everything to do with food. Take, for example, my devotion to the Maple Leafs during my four years at the University of British Columbia. Was I really that much of a Leafs fan? No, I simply had an ongoing bet with my best friend, a boy who lived and breathed the Vancouver Canucks, for a steak dinner every time our two teams played each other. And the Super Bowl? Sure, I will watch it every year, but only really as an excuse to eat an excessive amount of Buffalo wings. The only time I ever really feel worked up about a sport is when Canada plays in the Gold medal round of Olympic hockey. That's when I get all sweaty and sick to my stomach with nerves, because let's face it…my national pride is on the line.
Buffalo wings are a food I've only come round to in the past five years or so. I've always loved chicken wings, but I preferred other flavours more than the spicy tangy hot sauce. But I seem to have developed a taste for them and I think the fault lies with my husband. He loves almost anything Buffalo-flavoured. Buffalo wings, naturally, and the hotter, the better, but also pizzas and sandwiches and snack items that contain similar flavours. A particular favourite are the Buffalo-flavoured pretzel nuggets. He doesn't really like pretzels on their own, but add some hot sauce and call them Buffalo-style, and you will make him a happy man.
I haven't made any roasted nut snacks for a while, so the time was ripe. I wanted a savoury snack, and making them Buffalo-style just seemed like a natural fit. So natural that I actually expected to come across a ton of recipes for similar things. I wanted to get an idea of how to make the buffalo flavouring stick, so I did a google search, which yielded surprisingly little information. I know it's not a completely original idea, as there are a number of companies out there that make them. But shockingly, I couldn't find any recipes for homemade. So I had to go it alone. In the end, I decided simply to toss the mixed nuts with butter and hot sauce, just like wings would be. Then I added a few extra spices, like garlic and onion powder, a bit more cayenne, and some salt. And into the oven for roasting.
The Results: I'm not going to lie to you…these are fantastic! Really, if you like Buffalo-flavoured things, these are a must-try snack. They are simple to make, so it's easy to whip up a batch for a party or on game-day. Or just for having around the house for snacking. My husband couldn't stop picking at them when he came home from work. I kept running my finger around the bowl where I'd tossed them together, the sauce was so tangy and good. And since they were nuts, instead of chicken, I didn't run the risk of giving myself salmonella by doing so!
I will tell you a few things to keep in mind. First, skip putting in any hazelnuts – I only put some in my mix because I was short on almonds. But they don't have the right flavour for the buffalo seasoning. They aren't awful, just not as good as the other nuts. The pecans are very good, because they impart a kind of sweetness that goes surprisingly well with the hot sauce.
Also, if you like your Buffalo-flavouring to be hot, put in extra cayenne. I would definitely put in more next time. The sauce tasted quite spicy after I'd mixed it all together, so I thought there was enough. But in the roasting process, some seems to fall off the nuts so they lose a bit of heat. They are still really great, but not quite as hot as I would like them.
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2 cups mixed raw nuts (pecans, almonds, cashews)
2 tbsp melted butter
2 tbsp hot sauce (Frank's Hot Sauce is the Buffalo wing standard)
1 to 2 tsp cayenne powder (or more, if you dare!)
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment.
Mix all ingredients together in a medium bowl. Spread in a single layer on prepared baking sheet and bake 8 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Let cool on pan and serve.
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Miesjel van Gerwen was born in Heeze, The Netherlands, in 1950. He studied at the Academie voor Kunst & Vormgeving in 's Hertogenbosch. Since then, he has been active as a graphic designer, illustrator, comic artist and theater designer. He was the main artist for Vuistje, an independent comics magazine for children, of which 11 issues were published by Sjaloom in Odijk in 1975-76.
Miesjel van Gerwen has contributed comics, among others, to magazine Vox, and he was founder, editor and contributor of youth magazine Zone 3, which ran from 1983 until 1985. For De Zelfkrant, the homeless paper of Den Bosch, he has created the comic strip 'Straathonden'. For local newspaper Brabants Dagblad, he started drawing the strip ''t Moer' in 1995, which commented on the actual news in the city of Den Bosch. This strip has been collected in the book 'Ik Beloof Niks!', published by Silvester in 2002.
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All government agencies are prohibited from holding public-private job competitions for rest of fiscal 2009.
Competitive sourcing, one of the Bush administration's most controversial government reform policies, could be coming to an end.
The 2009 omnibus appropriations bill, which passed the Senate on Tuesday, includes a provision prohibiting the use of funds governmentwide to study or hold a public-private job competition for the remainder of fiscal 2009. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., introduced the measure.
Although the omnibus halts job competitions through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, it does not kill competitive sourcing, which would require further legislation.
The bill also requires civilian agencies to review current contracts and issue guidelines for considering whether new projects can be performed by federal employees, or if previously outsourced work can be brought back in-house.
Criteria for jobs subject to insourcing include: those outsourced without competition or performed by a federal employee during the past decade, jobs closely aligned with an inherently governmental function, or judged by a contracting officer to have been performed poorly "because of excessive costs or inferior quality." The provision does not apply to Defense Department contracts.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign the bill.
Job competitions have been held for several decades, primarily at the Defense Department, through the Office of Management and Budget's Circular No. A-76 process. But it was only during the past eight years -- through the Bush administration's competitive sourcing initiative -- that agencies were encouraged to find federal jobs that could be competed with the private sector.
From the outset, the competitions were unpopular with government labor unions and congressional Democrats who argued the program not only threatened federal jobs, but also failed to produce results.
Competitive sourcing is designed to drive cost savings and efficiency by requiring agencies to put up for competition with contractors jobs that could be performed commercially, and then determine which organization can accomplish the work most economically. The idea is that the government will save money even if the federal team receives the contract because the competitions would force agencies to streamline their operations.
The Bush administration credited its competitive sourcing initiative with saving roughly $7 billion in government efficiencies from 2003 through 2008. The unions, however, disputed that figure, arguing that the administration embellished its savings, in part by failing to account for the planning costs of the competitions.
While the omnibus is likely the final nail in the coffin of competitive sourcing, the program had been suffering a slow death since Democrats assumed control of both chambers of Congress in 2006.
In the past several years, Congress has passed legislation that excluded health care and retirement benefits from the cost comparison process, established protest rights for federal teams on the losing end of competitions, and halted all new competitions at nine key agencies.
In 2008, Congress tried unsuccessfully to suspend job competitions for one year at civilian agencies and three years at Defense.


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If you have a spare $16,000 laying around, you can be the proud owner of the third offering in the Six Pillars Collection, a whiskey-and-crystal project of The Macallan and Lalique.
The first two decanters in the series were designed to reflect the Macallans Exceptional Oak Casks and Natural Colour. This one is an exceptionally rare 57-year-old single malt whisky in a Lalique Finest Cut decanter.
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For years ProgressiveRC has offered the most tricked out cases in the world for special event prizes and our sponsored pilots. Customers have frequently asked for non-standard options they've seen on these projects such as USB charging and lighting which we've had to reserve for special applications. We're happy to announce that we are now able to offer these options to our customers through the "PRC Custom Shop." We've expanded our supplies, templates, tooling, and employees to accommodate growing demand, and if you can imagine it we'll apply our experience, equipment, and skills to make it a reality. Our newsletter features a few photos of creations we've done to give you an idea of the finished products. Some of the possible options include:
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A hearing is scheduled at Fort Bragg for a U.S. Army general charged with sexual misconduct.
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair is expected in court Thursday for hearing on pre-trial motions. Sinclair faces court martial on charges that include forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders and adultery. He has thus far deferred entering a plea.
The Army has rebuffed public records requests from The Associated Press for copies of motions filed in the case by the prosecution or defense. Thursday's hearing comes more than a month before the March date military judge Col. James Pohl had previously set to hear motions.
Sinclair's defense team asked Pohl last month to disqualify prosecutors over privileged emails belonging to Sinclair erroneously sent to them by criminal investigators.


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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Byron Wiley has been released
I've been holding off a bit on writing about this particular topic in hopes of getting a bit more information that might serve as an explanation. Unfortunately, no such information has been forthcoming. In fact, it's barely been mentioned at all. So, let's just dive right in:
The Reds have released Byron Wiley.
Now, as I have previously written, I'm a fan of Byron Wiley, probably more so than most. I like his well-rounded hitting skills. He controlled the strikezone better than the vast majority of the prospects in the system and (I suspect) he has additional power projection to his game.
Admittedly, he was limited defensively and was likely to be relegated to leftfield. As a result, he would have to make it as an offense-first type prospect, if he was to make it at all. And, while there were legitimate questions revolving around whether his bat could bear that particular burden, there seems to be no obvious rationale for not letting him prove it one way or the other.
Nevertheless, the Reds elected to cut ties with Wiley just a short time after he was promoted to high-A Lynchburg. To start off the 2010 season, perhaps in a sign of his tenuous standing in the organization, the Reds made the decision to send Wiley back to Dayton for another unnecessary go around with low-A competition.
He had yet to really find his stride in 2010, but still managed to post an OPS of .787 for Dayton. He was promoted to Lynchburg where he racked up a grand total of 13 lackluster games played and 44 uninspiring at bats before he was handed his walking papers. Obviously, his OPS of .558 indicates that he wasn't producing at the necessary level, but the sample size was so small as to be essentially meaningless.
At this point, it's difficult to believe that the decision was based solely on performance, as the sample size is simply too small to be meaningful. If so, then it would be reasonable to infer that the Reds simply do not value on-base skills very highly. They would be rejecting the player profile that Wiley represents, rather than the player himself. And, quite obviously, you never want an organization to reject something as fundamentally important as "out avoidance" (aka: on-base percentage).
On the other hand, if the decision was not based on performance, then it is difficult to imagine what rationale could be underpinning the decision. You simply don't let value leave the organization without getting something in return. So, either the Reds simply don't view Wiley as having any value (which seems a troubling conclusion) or something else was driving the decision. Either way, it's a move I don't understand.
A bit more information and a bit more clarity might make the decision a bit more palatable, but regardless I am sorry to see Wiley leave the organization.
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- AnonymousJune 4, 2010 at 5:46 AM
Maybe the guy is just an assReplyDelete
I haven't heard anything like that. There have been unconfirmed whispers/rumors about his work ethic, but nothing confirmed or substantiated. As a result, I'm hesitant to even mention it, but I do think his release had to be tied to something other than his on-field performance. He had upside and talent, and you don't give up on that for no apparent reason.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more explanation for the release, but maybe we'll find out someday.
- AnonymousJune 6, 2010 at 10:38 PM
not trying to burst your bubble but you overvalued wiley way to much he would have had a tough time even making any AAA team he will be a A or High A player his whole career. still respect that he was one of your diamond in a rough favorites tho LarkReplyDelete
Obviously, I don't agree. I had him slotted in at number 20, but Baseball America rated him as #29 in the system in their 2010 Prospect Handbook. So, he was not without skill and ability. Given his very strong ability to control the zone and the additional power projection to his game, I don't think I overrated him.
Still, something certainly happened to bring about his departure from the organization.
Byron Wiley has already caught on with another organization. He signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks and is currently playing with the Visalia Rawhide in the high-A California League.ReplyDelete
He's logged 6 games and 23 At Bats in which he's posted a slash line of .348/.483/.478/.961 with 1 homer and a 5/6 K/BB ratio.
I wish him the best and hope he comes back to haunt us. At the very least, I will always wonder why he was cut loose.
- AnonymousJune 13, 2010 at 4:30 PM
yea that anonymous up there has no idea what hes talking about and hes a idiot! Byron had said that everything he did the coaches would critique him like he was out to get him, and when he released him, the coach told byron he was the worst outfielder he has ever seen, which is highly unlikely. But lark as you said byron is doing good with the diamondbacks and says he feels alot better than he did with lynchburg.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the update on Byron. Something just seems really strange about the whole situation.
As you mentioned previously, Byron's starting level for 2010 was to be determined by his spring training performance. Even so, they sent him back to Dayton to start off the 2010 season. In my opinion, he had nothing left to prove in low-A ball, so that struck me as strange (and, perhaps telling) right off the bat.
Then, he gets bumped up to high-A Lynchburg and promptly gets released. He wasn't hitting well, but the sample size was so small as to be meaningless. I just don't see why you would cut loose a player who possesses legitimate upside.
Surprising to hear the coach was so down on him. Obviously, the stats don't support his statement about Byron's defensive skills. The defensive metrics peg him as average or, at worst, a tick below. Was Byron ever disciplined? Or, was he really just released out of the blue based on a single coach's dislike? If the latter, then the organization may need to take a closer look at how it operates.
Anyway, I appreciate you letting me know what happened. I've been searching the internet for some explanation of any kind, but I haven't found anything at all. It would be nice to actually understand why the Reds felt the need to part ways with a talented player.
Also, any reason why Byron hasn't been in the lineup for Visalia the past few days? I've been following the boxscores, but haven't seen him in there lately.
Thanks for the comment!!
- AnonymousJune 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM
He's having back problems and the trainers wanted to take him out for awhile and stretch him out real good. He said the trainers up there dont believe in the short term process of ice and shock therapy, their looking at the long term.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the info! I figured it had to be a short term injury, but nothing serious enough to land him on the DL. Here's hoping he's back in action soon.
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Its a shame, but ive seen this happen too many times. For some reason players sometimes do not gel with a certain coach and it effect that players career so drastically. Sometimes the reputation of being a trouble maker or having no work ethic is warranted but in other situations the coach is way out of line and taking his authority to a level of that underminds everyone elses opinion or opinions on any matter. I myself was was of the hardest workers ive ever played with and was someone that kept his mouth shut and really never had anything to say. I was a jokester on the field but that was a way for me to keep loose. Ive always had issues with coaches that had one way to hit and one way to pitch. Different players have differt values to a team. I was an undersized prospect that both hit and pitched. I went against all logic.Being so small i should have been a slap hitter and a control pitcher. On the contrary , i hit for power and threw over 90 miles per hour. That being said for some crazy reason i was given the label of having no work ethic by a couple of coaches.However there were many a day when i was in the batting cage and gym after working out with the team i played for.I never even was given a chance to make it as a a baseball player because of my health, but my last experience with coaches in higher level baseball left a sour taste in my mouth. Im not going to throw anybody under the bus, but when i was a kid playing little leaugue i really had a different outlook on baseball the when i essentially retired. I thought the coachig would get better as i progressed to higher levels of baseball , but i honestly thought that it degressed.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Thats the kind of respect i have for some coaches in professional baseball. Sorry for the horrible grammar but i really just wanted to get the paragraph over with .Ive had too many conversations with too many people about what happended to my baseball career. My health is what took my career away from me, but i really was having a rough go of it with coaches when i stopped playing. i think i had to do with the fact that i was always not able to play because of my sickness. Its not something many coaches can understand because they do not have to deal with it. Most of the time when somebody is injured they can see that persons injury however the problems that i had were not visible. I got ulcerative colitis and had to take anti inflammatory steroids to get control of the symptoms. ITs a horrible disease and a horrible drug to have to take. I lost most of my muschle mass and lost 10 miles an hour on my fastball.Im guessing thats where the comments about my work ethic came from. But i still think that coaches sometimes have too much to say and put too much in thier authority. I can say this i played with someone who hit 190 in high school and had the worst work ethic that ive ever come across and is currently a manager in the minor leaugues. Its who you know not what you know, "I GUESS"ReplyDelete
Interesting take, thanks for sharing. I suspect you're right about some coaches and I can't help but wonder if something like that happened to Byron Wiley. Labels are tough to shake once they land on you. Still, it's odd that Wiley hasn't played anywhere in 2011. And, it's even odder if he's healthy, but still not playing this year.
But, I think your comment illustrates the importance of timing in any professional baseball career. A lot has to go right for a player to hit the majors and then succeed. And, not all of those factors are within the player's control.
I'd still love to see Wiley get his game back on track and climb the ladder, but I'd also love to know what derailed his career. Even in the internet age, it's not always easy to find out information on the non-elite prospects.
Anyway, thanks for the comment! It was a good read.


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|(Nanowerk News) University of Manchester researchers, working with colleagues in the UK, Europe and the US, say the novel imaging technique could have a wide range of applications across many disciplines, such as materials science, geology, environmental science and medical research.
|This new imaging method termed Pair Distribution Function-Computed Tomography represents one of the most significant developments in X-ray micro tomography for almost 30 years, said Professor Robert Cernik in Manchesters School of Materials.
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|When X-rays hit an object they are either transmitted, absorbed or scattered, explained Professor Cernik. Standard X-ray tomography works by collecting the transmitted beams, rotating the sample and mathematically reconstructing a 3D image of the object. This is only a density contrast image, but by a similar method using the scattered X-rays instead we can obtain information about the structure and chemistry of the object even if it has a nanocrystalline structure.
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Based on the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee and adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's 2013 sellout production of To Kill A Mockingbird returns ahead of a major UK tour.
Acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, it became our most successful play and was Critics Choice in the Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Times, Gaurdian, Metro and Time Out.
Set in America's Deep South in the 1930s, To Kill A Mockingbird is a tale of racial injustice enveloping a small town community.
A black man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white woman. With courage and compassion, lawyer Atticus Finch seeks the truth, and his daughter, Scout - a young girl on the cusp of adulthood - brings new hope to a neighbourhood in turmoil.
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My advisor in graduate school was Prof. Yoshikazu Sasaki, who co-founded the OU meteorology program (with Prof. Walter J. Saucier - another great individual). I've already acknowledged Yoshi's importance to my career in an essay here. He was all that I could ever have asked for as my advisor!
It's my clearly biased opinion that he is the best professor that the OU meteorology program ever had and his track record of accomplishment will be difficult even to approach. I'm very proud to have been his student and don't believe he can get enough credit for his contributions - not just to meteorology but also the city of Norman and the state of Oklahoma.
He recently turned 80 and he's still busy with all sorts of projects, including helping younger meteorologists. However, I just learned some news today (02 March) I want to share:
Feb. 27, 2009
Dr. Yoshi Sasaki Day Declared in Oklahoma
To recognize Yoshi Sasaki's hard work and dedication as a long-time member of the Governor's Advisory Council on Asian-American Affairs, Governor Brad Henry, by proclamation, declared Jan. 2, 2009, as Dr. Yoshi Sasaki Day in Oklahoma.
Sasaki is currently the George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus within the School of Meteorology and is also one of the founders of the school.
"It is an honor to be recognized for my work within the field and within the state of Oklahoma," Sasaki said. "I have enjoyed my time spent on the Advisory Council and have seen much progress from the efforts of all involved."
Sasaki's interest in storm prediction began early with his studies at the University of Tokyo. His research topic as a doctoral student was the development of a numerical and objective prediction technique to track typhoons. This area of study was prompted by a typhoon which caused a ferry to sink and hundreds of people to lose their lives because of an incorrect subjective typhoon track forecast. Sasaki and a colleague received an award from the Meteorological Society of Japan in 1955 for their research on the development of the world's first numerical prediction of a typhoon track.
Sasaki's journey to the United States began after he finished his dissertation at the University of Tokyo in 1955. He and his wife Koko moved to College Station, Texas, where he accepted a position at Texas A&M as a research scientist.
While in Texas, Sasaki discovered that Oklahoma had the maximum frequency of tornado occurrences in the United States in the 1950s. However, OU did not yet have a meteorology program. He saw the opportunity for advancement in tornado research.
In 1960, Sasaki headed north to Norman and joined Walt Saucier to become a founding faculty member in OU's meteorology program.
"Tornadoes and associated disasters stimulated my scientific interest to reveal the mysteries of tornadogenesis and to help develop accurate prediction technology toward the goal of protecting people and properties from tornado disasters," Sasaki said. "It was my great feeling that I might be able to contribute something to protect people and properties from natural disasters."
While at OU, Sasaki became the School of Meteorology's first George Lynn Cross Research Professor in 1974 and the second Director of the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) from 1981-1986.
Techniques developed from Sasaki's internationally-renowned research in variational data assimilation remain a cornerstone of modern-day meteorological analysis at operational weather prediction centers around the world.
Sasaki's students have also achieved great things within the field of meteorology. Joe Friday, one of his earlier students and former Director of the National Weather Service, played a key role in securing significant funding from Congress, working with OU President David Boren, then a U.S. Senator, to establish the successful, first nationwide Doppler Radar Network for detection of tornadoes and severe weather.
"From the time Yoshi Sasaki arrived in Oklahoma in 1960, he has been engaged 110 percent, with not only the University, but the city of Norman and the state," said John Snow, dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. "Oklahoma has a stronger economy and is a better place to live because of his efforts over the last 50 years. Yoshi remains an excellent example of an outstanding faculty member fully engaged with the wider community."
Among his many honors, he has been elected as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, presented the Fujiwara Award from the Meteorological Society of Japan, awarded the "Order of the Sacred Treasure" by the Emperor of Japan and appointed as an Honorary Consul General of Japan.
In 2004, Sasaki was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame for his service to OU and the state of Oklahoma.
The Governor's Advisory Council on Asian-American Affairs was established to provide advice and assistance to the Governor on policy issues related to the arts, economic development, health and human services, human resources and education affecting the Asian-American population of Oklahoma. All Council members are appointed by the Governor.
I can't begin to detail the greatness of this man in a blog, but I certainly want to take this celebratory occasion to point out what a blessing it was for me to have learned from him. He and his wife, Koko, are among the finest people it's been my pleasure to know.
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Senior British journalist charged over bribes
LONDON (AP) -- The Sun newspaper's executive editor was charged Thursday with authorizing bribes to a government official, making him one of most senior journalists to be caught up in Britain's sprawling media ethics scandal.
Fergus Shanahan is accused of authorizing one of his journalists to make two payments totaling 7,000 pounds ($10,700) to an unidentified public official in exchange for tips between August 2006 and August 2007.
Shanahan, 58, joins a growing list of senior Sun journalists who have found themselves either under arrest or facing criminal charges as the scandal rumbles on.
The Sun's deputy editor, Geoff Webster, is charged with authorizing thousands of pounds in illegal payoffs. The Sun's defense editor, Virginia Wheeler, is charged with being in on a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds worth of bribes to a police official in return for tips. The Sun's former chief reporter, John Kay, faces charges in relation to tens of thousands of pounds' worth of bribes allegedly paid to a defense official.
The Sun's crime editor, Mike Sullivan, was arrested last year but recently learned he would not face charges.
Shanahan, the executive editor, was promoted to his job on November 2007 after four years as No. 2 to then-Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, who described him as "my outstanding and most brilliant deputy." Brooks herself faces some of the scandal's most serious charges, including conspiracy to hack phones, bribery, and obstruction of justice.
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The phone hacking scandal exploded after it was revealed that journalists at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid routinely hacked into the voicemail messages of the rich, the powerful and other potential information sources. The scandal spawned a substantial police investigation and a host of official inquiries, and allegations of wrongdoing have since spread to other papers outside the Murdoch empire.
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Barcelona cruise in Copa del Rey
Barcelona have one foot in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey after cruising to a 4-1 victory over Cartagena in the first-leg of their round of 32 clash.
Playing at home, Cartagena, who currently occupy one of the promotion play-off spots in Segunda B, took a shock 16th minute lead through Fernando before Barcelona pushed ahead before half-time with strikes to Pedro and Cesc Fabregas.
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