Broadcasting legend Vin Scully passed away today at age 94, according to a Dodgers news release. “He was the voice of the Dodgers, and so much more. He was their conscience, their poet laureate, capturing their beauty and chronicling their glory from Jackie Robinson to Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson to Clayton Kershaw. Vin Scully was the heartbeat of the Dodgers – and in so many ways, the heartbeat of all of Los Angeles,” the release stated.
For all of the legendary voices who have called baseball games over the decades, there is little debate that Scully was the best of them all, both for the incredible length of his tenure in the booth, and his unmatched quality over those 66 years of broadcasting Dodgers games. Amazingly, Scully was already a Hall-of-Fame level broadcaster even aside from his work with the Dodgers, as he covered the NFL, pro golf, tennis, and (naturally) postseason and All-Star baseball games for such outlets as CBS, NBC, ABC, and TBS.
From start to finish in his iconic career, Scully was a master storyteller, finding endless inventive and poetic ways to call the action, yet never overwhelmed the play on the field. Scully was on the mic for many of the greatest moments in baseball history, adding to those moments with both wonderful calls and (just as important) poignant silences.
Scully was something of a prodigy, as quite early in his career he began calling Dodgers games in Brooklyn in 1950 on both TV and radio broadcasts. He was then in the booth until the end of the 2016 season, following the Dodgers to Los Angeles. As noted in the press release, “it was Vin as much as anyone who bonded the franchise with its new city. Fans – not only around the city, but at the games themselves in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – would listen on their new transistor radios to Vin and colleague Jerry Doggett.”
On behalf of all of us at MLBTR, we send our condolences to Vin Scully’s family and legions of friends and fans.
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I come from a die-hard SF Giants family (grandfather worked for the Giants) and everyone has only nice things to say about Vin Scully (and Tommy Lasorda not long ago). Rivalry does not mean hate despite the emotions of the game.
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I dated this beautiful capra.
We danced all evening to Sinatra,
and ended up sleeping together.
In the morning they came,
Waving guns, crying 'Shame!'
And us, at the end of our tether!
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The best part of it is, it will force any future president to have a praetorian guard against his own party, his cabinet and all the LE and IC agencies in the country. Which is a step towards the collapse of the entire shebang.
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Sorry - the speaker does not move up to replace the VP. Instead the President nominates a new VP (did someone sneeze 'Hillary'?).
When VP Spiro Agnew resigned, Nixon made Gerald Ford the new VP. When Nixon resigned, then Gerald Ford was promoted to President.
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^ There is very little time left. Everyone says Joe will proactively pardon a bunch of people before he is ousted. It just doesn't work that way. And whoever would come after has no incentive to pardon them. There are probably more people than ever before in the swamp now who are "making their own arrangements" for what happens when the bottom falls out.
If it goes "every man for himself" it will be a spectacle for the ages.
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^ Looks like the Dems have until the midterms if they're gonna select/approve VP pick. After that, the 'pubs will have the House and maybe even the Senate.
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Several of RB members mentioned the use of C19/22 as a possibility for a power shift in DC several days ago.
#14
The Newsom visit is highly significant, since Biden was not there but Jill, Klain, Rice, Powers, and a cast as yet unknown was. The Secure VTC nodes to the other players in the Central Committee had to be orchestrated by the WH Comms folks to be safe from Five Prying Eyes I suspect.
The outcome of the Primary last night might get Sinema thinking of the sidelines, or the Golden Ticket value she now has in her hand. How that might affect the plans is going to unfold in the next couple of weeks I'm thinking?
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Should monkeypox -- horrors! -- abate,
Would hatred fade too, fourth estate?
A Pride Day for breeders?
Or... chiding gay readers
For failing to date a damned straight?
The next turning of the screw. Forward in the past!
[KhaamaPress] According to Taliban ...Arabic for students... local officials in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, in eastern Afghanistan, three people—two men and one woman—were reportedly flogged publicly for committing adultery.
The newsletter of the Taliban governor’s office in Nangarhar province states that these three individuals, who shared a residence, were tried and sentenced after being detained on suspicion of having an illegal sexual relationship.
Each of these three people reportedly received 39 lashes in public, according to the publication.
The newsletter about the implementation of this sentence states that "they were flogged in front of people in public so that it would serve as a lesson to others."
As for flogging, the Taliban has previously flogged people accused of adultery, fornication and theft in the southern province of Kandahar.
Nearly a month ago, three individuals in the province of Kandahar were subjected to 39 flogs for allegedly committing adultery and theft.
Public executions and public floggings, in the opinion of an Afghan legal scholar, are inevitable as a result of the Taliban’s reforms to Afghanistan’s justice system, which are based on their strict interpretation of Islamic law, particularly when it comes to "crimes against God."
Human Rights Watch, on the other hand, sees the Taliban’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice as a "notorious symbol of abuse", especially for Afghan women and girls.
Adultery, also known as extramarital sex, is viewed as a breach of the matrimonial bond and is one of the major offenses decried by Allah in the Moslem holy book, the Koran.
PLA Eastern Theater Command to hold joint military ops around Taiwan, with joint maritime & air drills in N, SW,SE of island, long-range artillery shooting in Taiwan Straits, & conventional missile test firing in sea regions E of island starting Tue night: spokesperson pic.twitter.com/0wVACvGJ62
[Breitbart] In the ongoing patent infringement battle between Apple and Ericsson, Apple has responded to a court-ordered iPhone ban in Colombia by claiming that its human rights have been infringed.
9to5Mac reports that in an ongoing infringement battle between Apple and Ericsson, Apple has responded to the iPhone ban in Colombia by claiming that its human rights have been infringed. The company has requested emergency relief in Colombia just days after being warned by a U.S. judge not to abuse the Colombian court system by filing emergency requests for non-emergencies.
5G iPhones and iPads use patented technology owned by Ericsson, which Apple has been licensing for some time. However, Apple is unhappy with the amount it’s being charged for the license and has stopped paying. This means that currently, Apple is infringing on Ericsson’s patents and the company is now seeking to ban iPhones in a number of countries by filing injunctions against the import and sale of 5G iPhones and iPads.
Ericcson has succeeded in filing an injunction in Colombia and the court has ordered all iPhone sales in the country to be paused. Apple responded by filing an emergency motion in the Eastern District of Texas in an attempt to obtain damages from Ericsson for its losses in Colombia. The company also filed a number of counter-claims against Ericsson.
A Texas judge rejected Apple’s motion and criticized the company for misusing the emergency motion process for a non-emergency matter.
Foss Patents writes:
Judge Gilstrap doesn’t think it constitutes “imminent, irreparable harm” to Apple that it may–as a result of enforcement actions in other jurisdictions–have to sit down and negotiate a license with Ericsson. The Texas FRAND case will go to trial in December, and no later than September, Apple and Ericsson have to engage in formal mediation […]
There’s also a procedural issue. Apple should have brought a regular motion as opposed to an emergency motion. “Emergency motions are to be filed only in truly extenuating circumstances and should not be used as a means to secure an expedited briefing schedule and hearing before the Court,” Judge Gilstrap clarifies–and “finds that Apple has misused and misapplied the rules for emergency motion practice in this Court.”
The judge also said that if Apple attempted to do something similar again, he would consider penalties against the company. However, despite this warning, Apple has taken major steps to continue the legal fight in Colombia, alleging that its human rights are being abused.
[BBC] Tensions are running high between ethnic Serbs and the Albanian-led government in Kosovo, south-east Europe.
Protesters have blockaded roads and reportedly fired guns after being made to put Kosovan-issued number plates on their cars.
There are fears violence between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians could flare up again, 23 years after the Kosovo war.
WHERE IS KOSOVO AND WHO LIVES THERE?
Kosovo is a small, landlocked country in the Balkans, bordering Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Many Serbs consider it the birthplace of their own nation.
But of the 1.8 million people living in Kosovo, 92% are Albanian and only 6% Serbian. The rest are Bosniaks, Gorans, Turks and Roma.
HOW DID KOSOVO GAIN INDEPENDENCE?
After the break-up of the Yugoslavia, in the 1990s, Kosovo - a province of the former country - sought its own autonomy and independence.
Serbia responded with a brutal crackdown against ethnic Albanians seeking independence.
This ended in 1999, with a Nato bombing campaign against Serbia, between March and June.
Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo - but for many Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, the conflict has never been resolved.
The Nato-led Kosovo Force (KFor) is still based in Kosovo, with a current strength of 3,770.
In 2008, Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.
A total of 99 out of 193 United Nations countries now recognise Kosovo's independence, including the US, the UK and 22 out of 27 EU countries.
But Russia and China, which do not, have blocked Kosovo's membership of the UN.
And Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has vowed Serbia would never recognise Kosovo as an independent country.
Neither Kosovo nor Serbia are in the EU - but:
Serbia has been an EU candidate country since 2012
Kosovo indicated it would like to apply by the end of 2022
WHY HAS TROUBLE FLARED UP NOW?
Relationships between the Albanian-dominated government and the Serb minority have been strained for years.
Last weekend, tensions boiled over into civil disobedience.
Kosovo's government wanted to make those in majority ethnic Serb areas swap their Serbian-issued car number plates for Kosovan-issued ones.
Some 50,000 people in these areas will not use Kosovan number plates because they refuse to recognise Kosovo's independence.
On Sunday, ethnic Serbs in the northern region of Kosovo, which borders Serbia, barricaded roads and some men reportedly fired shots in protest.
Kosovo's government postponed implementing the new rules, for a month.
IS RUSSIA INVOLVED?
Kosovo's government says Serbia is stirring up ethnic tensions and Russia is supporting it.
Serbia and Russia are traditional allies.
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Serbia refused to join other European nations' sanctions regime.
Instead, in May, Mr Vucic signed what he said was a favourable gas deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blamed the Kosovo tension on Kosovan authorities imposing "groundless discriminatory rules".
An MP from Mr Vucic's party said Serbia would soon be compelled to begin the "denazification of the Balkans" - using the same language President Putin used to justify his invasion of Ukraine. He later apologised for his words.
Kosovo's President, Vjosa Osmani, said Mr Putin could use Kosovo to widen the current conflict in Ukraine and destabilise Europe further.
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No longer united by their hatred of the Russians, the ethnic states that made up the Country Formerly Known As Yugoslavia have returned to their age old custom of hating each other.
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Kingston Trio's The Merry Little Minuet -- People don't love their neighbors as a general rule. Especially when your neighbor is a Serb, or an Albanian for that matter.
[Fox4News] TEXAS - A draft of new social studies curriculum in Texas removes the commonly used BC and AD calendar dating system. You mean the dating system everyone else on the Planet is using? that dating system?
The terms meaning "Before Christ" and "Year of Our Lord", would be written out in place of more religiously-neutral language.
BC would be replaced by BCE (Before Common Era) and AD would be replaced with CE (Common Era).
Andrew Pearce, a certified social studies teacher, brought attention to the change at the Texas State Board of Education meeting on Monday.
"The Biblical authority for BC and AD was created over 500 years after the events described. So it has nothing to do with removing Christ from the calendar, and everything to do with accuracy," said board member Rebecca Bell-Metereau. But of course we all know it has everything to do with removing any vestages of Christianity from schools
Barry Strauss, an author and historian at Cornell University, says the widely-used dating system was originally invested by a monk in the Middle Ages.
"It was thought year 1 was the year Jesus was born, we now know he was probably born in 4 BC," said Strauss.
The Texas Education Agency says the discussion is still early in the process, and the issue will likely be discussed at length this fall.
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This is the same Texas Board of Education that recently firmly shot down a proposal to teach second graders some idiocy about slavery in language understandable to college students. Once again it looks like certain unnamed Progessives are trying to either agitate or put one over the rubes.
BCE/CE instead of BC/AD has been in use in academia since I was a child, if not longer. That the Christian count of years has become nearly universal bespeaks the effectiveness of the culture that underlies it compared to all others, though I don’t hear anything about cultural colonialism when it is used.
And after all, that method of counting replaced every kingdom, principality, and village across Europe having their own count based on local events of importance, as Afghanistan still does in measuring 1444 years since the Prophet Mohammed hijra.
To be honest, I’m very glad these culture war things are being forced into the open instead of being quietly put in place in the educational equivalent of smokey back rooms.
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From history's abyss [leftist terror]
To optimist's hope (rounding error),
He pissed off the pope
And drove Dawkins to dope
By insisting CE's "Christian Era."
Using current abortion statistics, hasn't the LSD party just shot itself in the A$$ Womb by reducing its own Voter Roles by about 1/5 in 18 years. Starting with the 2040 elections and thereafter?
Where Conservative leaning States that restrict it, will likely increase their voter rolls in 18 years, in a more PRO-Conservative Voter Roll increase direction?
Example:
Official NY 2020 election results show Democrats at 6,563,866 or 50.6%. Using current abortion numbers of 1 in 5 projected 18 years out to 2040. NY would have 20% less births and likely have less than the current 50.6% (D) registered voter majority.
[Manufacturing Bus Tech] MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.
Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body’s workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient’s internal organs. To capture these images, trained technicians manipulate ultrasound wands and probes to direct sound waves into the body. These waves reflect back out to produce high-resolution images of a patient’s heart, lungs, and other deep organs.
Currently, ultrasound imaging requires bulky and specialized equipment available only in hospitals and doctor’s offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the technology as wearable and accessible as buying Band-Aids at the pharmacy.
In a paper appearing today in Science, the engineers present the design for a new ultrasound sticker — a stamp-sized device that sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.
The researchers applied the stickers to volunteers and showed the devices produced live, high-resolution images of major blood vessels and deeper organs such as the heart, lungs, and stomach. The stickers maintained a strong adhesion and captured changes in underlying organs as volunteers performed various activities, including sitting, standing, jogging, and biking.
The current design requires connecting the stickers to instruments that translate the reflected sound waves into images. The researchers point out that even in their current form, the stickers could have immediate applications: For instance, the devices could be applied to patients in the hospital, similar to heart-monitoring EKG stickers, and could continuously image internal organs without requiring a technician to hold a probe in place for long periods of time.
If the devices can be made to operate wirelessly — a goal the team is currently working toward — the ultrasound stickers could be made into wearable imaging products that patients could take home from a doctor’s office or even buy at a pharmacy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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