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Our own Harry Pavlidis, Baseball Prospectus' director of data analysis, has been among the most groundbreaking voices when it comes to using the PITCHf/x, HITf/x and FIELDf/x data that Sportvision tracks in major-league and minor-league parks.
In attending the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston this weekend, it became clear that this was where many of the future analytic innovations were yet to come. Pavlidis was part of the panel called "The Revolution in Visual Tracking Analysis" and afterward sat down for a Q&A on how the industry got started, the difference between public and private data, and more.
He spoke on the panel about his Twitter conversations with then-Oakland Athletics and current Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon McCarthy about pitch types and talked in the Q&A about the other players who have come to embrace the PITCHf/x data. Here's the text, edited slightly for length, which also touches on applications to DIPS theory and implementation of FIELDf/x findings through proper coaching.
ZL: Could you give a brief explanation of why PITCHf/x is free and the rest of them aren't?
HP: It was an unproven thing. Sportvision partnered with Major League Baseball Advanced Media to make it a mandatory thing for all the teams. So in 2008, they all had the data. Why it was shared publicly, I don't know. I can see why they had the relationships, but my theory is that they didn't know what to do with the data. Sportvision had no analyst capabilities. They were basically supporting broadcasters and were like 'we need analysts.' So with BAM, they tried to open the data up, I guess. Because that's what they did later with HITf/x and FIELDf/x. So even though it's private, we had our hands on small parts of it. They were able to help them refine the product. … That's part of this dynamic is if you put it out there, you can get the innovation. I think because PITCHf/x was the first, it made it possible and may have even made it necessary. I don't think that's ever going to happen again.
ZL: Were there some ill effects of it? I know you mentioned during the panel that you weren't sure it was the right thing to do to make it public.
HP: I mean from their business perspective. Has it been profitable? It sounds like they had challenges coming up with a way to monetize PITCHf/x. … I think it was so new and so unknown what could possibly be done and the first level of interest in adopting it was on Major League Baseball Advanced Media. They wanted to have it for the entertainment value of the game. It was a good thing because it was necessary because the data has gotten a lot better. People like me and (BP alum and Astros analyst) Mike Fast and whatnot who have worked with it have given them feedback.
ZL: In HITf/x, what components go into the general realm of "quality of contact?"
HP: You basically get the velocity.
ZL: Which is a vector?
HP: They give you actually all three vectors. You get the X, Y, Z of velocity and you can combine those together and say this is the speed. You can't tell if it was off the barrel of the bat – they don't have that impact – but they do have the velocity and the angle. You can tell how hard a ball was hit. I'm not sure you can tell if it was a line drive or a fly ball. I'm not sure you can tell if it was a ground ball or a line drive. With the sample data set I did some charting to show those overlaps – so you can have trajectory and speed that are the same but human tagging is very different.
ZL: Because you don't know the spin?
HP: Part of it could be the spin. Part of it could also be that there's a big thing where it's a line drive if it's a hit, it's a fly ball if it's caught (in human tagging). That's overstating the problem but that's what happens a lot. I think Colin Wyers found that bias analytically (Here's some of Wyers' writing on the topic.) Also, if the ball skips through the infield in one bounce and just catches the back of the dirt, is that a ground ball or a line drive? A different person may answer that differently even though stringers are all given the same training and retraining. There have been situations where stringers have to go back and retrain because there were parks where you never ever had a line drive home run. There were parks that had tons of line drive home runs. I was finding park effects that were really stringer effects and I wrote about that a few years ago. So we try to match the HITf/x data to the tags. You don't know if it's the spin or if the tag's wrong. It's kind of a tricky conundrum, which is why FIELDf/x gives you the whole trajectory.
ZL: Does the quality of contact data poke holes in DIPS theory or supplement DIPS theory?
HP: Supplement. Basically what you're saying is that the pitcher can only control so much. What he may be able to control in some circumstances is the quality of contact, because there are some pitchers who for their career, beat DIPS and there are pitchers who do worse. You could probably find those guys who aren't getting as hard of an impact off the bat. You have to look through a lot of data and get a lot of patterns and regress it and understand it a little bit – kind of swim in it – but you could probably figure out where it's meaningful in terms of quality of pitching and how stable it is.
It would supplement the DIPS theory because it would say the pitcher has some control over the quality of the batted ball but once it comes off the bat it's out of their control. How it comes off the bat, they have some control and we might be able to quantify that.
The problem is that the data's not public. It's hard to take a study and do peer-reviewed research. That's another big thing – it's not just not having as many eyeballs, it's peer review. It's me doing something and having four other guys go 'make it better' or try to reproduce your results. That's science, basically, and it's best done in the light of day. But this isn't science for the sake of advancing society. It's for winning. It's that balance. What Sportvision's done about releasing some sets of data, I think that's the way to go. Not all of it but enough to get some juice out there and some ideas about how it can be used.
ZL: With the advances in FIELDf/x, do you think we'll get to the point where what we call 'shifts' now, we'll just start calling 'defense' where everyone's defended differently like basketball players are defended differently?
HP: I think so. The Cubs' approach that they've talked about publicly is that they do spray charts for their own pitchers. This gets to the contact thing as well, obtusely. Pitchers give up certain patterns of base-hits, it's not just the hitter. So the Cubs use that information and they came up with really, really good positioning.
One of the things about defensive positioning is that sometimes it can't be taught. Like it might be easy to position guys at the beginning of each at-bat, but not many players are smart enough to know that if a guy is late on a fastball, take a step over to right field.
ZL: Does a coach have to be a big cog in that?
HP: Possibly. Some teams don't even coach on that. (Alfonso) Soriano joined the Cubs and they didn't give him any outfield coaching. Soriano's first outfield coaching came last year with (first base coach) Dave McKay.
ZL: I enjoyed your Brandon McCarthy story. Are there a lot of examples of players who are into this stuff?
HP: Brandon McCarthy is, Max Scherzer is, Brandon Morrow just pulled some stuff off Brooks' site to show Ricky Romero some stuff about throwing sinkers. Trevor Bauer is into pitch types, but I don't think he looks at PITCHf/x data. So if I ask him questions about if I saw this or saw that, he'll write back to me. McCarthy, I don't know if he looks at it or not, but I know Max Scherzer has looked at it in the past and clearly Brandon Morrow.
So there are guys out there who are into it. They probably don't tell too many folks because inside the locker room, that's not typical. It's 'perform, play,' not 'analyze.' I think pitchers obviously have those natural questions like, 'Why did that pitch get crushed… I thought I was throwing that well, what happened?' They may want to start looking at it. Hitters just want advanced scouting reports and PITCHf/x can provide that just like a human advance scout in some cases but at a lower cost.
ZL: What will you be doing in your new role with the Washington Post?
HP: A weekly blog, stat-oriented. We're going to be basically working with the beat writers as well helping them develop content on their own, so basically doing research support. Also working with their interactive app department to do cool visualizations of data online.
I'm thrilled to be involved in it because having a major paper saying 'let's take this data and do stuff with it, not just show it in a chart in a Sunday paper, let's actually have regular content, let's actually embed this content throughout the staff," and I don't know of any other paper that's doing that and I hope we set a good example.
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During the first scene of "Money Trap," Art tells Raylan he doesn't have high hopes about the Marshals finding Drew Thompson. What he may as well have said was that he doesn't have high hopes they'll find him for another another five or six episodes. When a show builds a season around a mystery, the audience knows damn well it won't be solved until the end of the season. What separates good shows that follow this formula from bad ones is whether the audience remains entertained by the characters' various adventures as they inch closer to their final goal as well as intrigued by each ensuing thickening of the overarching plot. As I discussed last week, Justified's rich dialogue and colorful characters generally ensure the former is taken care of. But I have to admit the idea that saying they're "inching" towards solving the mystery is a bit of an overstatement. "Money Trap" didn't seem to bring us much closer to finding Drew Thompson, and the longer it takes the less inclined I am to give a damn.
Neither Boyd nor Raylan made much headway in the hunt for Drew Thompson this week. In the aforementioned opening scene, Art tells Raylan that their only leads are Arlo and former Harlan County Sheriff Hunter Moseley, both of whom happen to reside in a local penitentiary. Isn't that convenient? Raylan is none too eager to visit his father, so when a local cop informs him his old pal Jody Adair (Chris Chalk) is on the loose, he's happy to take a turn down distraction avenue. Raylan even admits it, saying some people "do as much as they can to avoid [their fathers]." He's never met the woman he says it to (Adair's ex-wife's house sitter), yet even she immediately understands the implication, replying, "you just showed your cards."
You'll recall the fugitive Jody Adair as the subject of the season premiere's crime-of-the-week plotline. This week we found out he murdered bail-bondsman Sharon Edmunds and her associate after a filmmaker friend named Kenneth (Michael Gladis) helped him escape their custody. Things happen as they often do in Justified: Raylan saves girl from criminal, criminal escapes by jumping out a window, Raylan finds criminal, Raylan shoots criminal, Raylan gets laid. It's entertaining, but in the end that's really all that can be said in its defense. It has exactly zero relation to the Drew Thompson mystery. Still, if you're going to have a major character's subplot amount to nothing but distraction, it might as well be an entertaining distraction.
It's only at the very end of the episode, after the criminals are dead and the sex has been had, that Raylan finally gets around to visiting Arlo. He does exactly what Art suggested to him, stuffing a file to make it look like the Marshals have a lot more evidence on Drew than they do. But Arlo tells Raylan to shove it, even after finding out the "son he never had," Boyd, has been employed by Theo Tonin to search for Drew. The last thing Raylan wants to do is delay Arlo's execution, which is only days away, but he's forced to play the only card he's got: offering his daddy a deal. The Marshals know Drew's alive and that he's in Harlan, so they're willing to commute Arlo's sentence to life imprisonment and move him to a "country club jail" if he'll just point them in the right direction. Arlo's got no interest in that either, so Raylan leaves. But not before saying he's "gonna be glad when [he] hears the news" that Arlo's been executed. Even still Arlo appears unconcerned. The episode ends with him walking down the prison halls with a look on his face that could be construed as a smile. Men like Arlo are never happy to die, so he's sure to have another trick up his sleeve.
Meanwhile, Boyd and Ava attended a swingers party at the home of another former sheriff of Harlan County, Tillman Napier. While the undertaking was ostensibly related to the main plot—they were going to "pull them old horndogs off their women, find their history in Harlan, and see which one of them could be Drew," as Ava put it—in truth, they took distraction avenue the whole way to the swanky neighborhood of Clover Hill.
Boyd doesn't get any closer to finding Drew this week than Raylan. He thinks there's a chance that two or three of the rich folk at Napier's party might be Thompson. But in the end all he's really left with is a few more trails to sniff. The more important development of the night is Boyd finding out he's not as high on the criminal foodchain as he likes to think. A few of the other men at the party "ask" him to kill a man named Frank Browning, and react with near disbelief when Boyd inquires as to what he'd get in return. "I think you're missing the point," one man responds, "your daddy got the point. Crowders do what we say." Another interjects, "Let me be crystal clear: Kill Frank Browning or we'll destroy you." Men like Boyd and Arlo don't take kindly to threats. The fact is Boyd would likely have killed the man with a smile on his face, for the right price, but being told to do one thing might just make him inclined to do another. The problem is Boyd's got a whole lot of enemies right now, some that he isn't even aware of yet, it might not be in his best interest to make any new ones, especially among such powerful men.
One last thing: the jig is up for Colton. Johnny finds out from Teri that Colton's been "tweaking" and it was him who put the beating on her, not to mention that he never killed Ellen May. Teri doesn't need to say much before Johnny's able to put things together. Perhaps he's smarter than we give him credit for, and much more of a danger to Boyd than we think.
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Last week's subject for Tara Cain's Gallery at Sticky Fingers, the first of the year, was 'Body Parts'. A lot of people seemed nervous about it, for obvious reasons, & many also seemed to find it a difficult one to find a photo & a story for. We seemed to manage 'though: it was a cracking start to the year! And not even (too) pervy…
To be honest I had more trouble trying to think of something for this week's theme "Mother Nature". I mean, there are only so many body parts, right? And Mother Nature is, like, really big (man), I mean it's kinda like: Everything. Choosing a single photo for it seemed to me to be really daunting.
I'm possibly being a little pedantic; it wouldn't be the first time. To me "Mother Nature" is quite different to "Nature", so a pretty picture of some trees or a sunset for me just wasn't enough. Mother Nature, to me, is conceptual, & not just about the physical world we live in. It's about our relationship to that physical world around us, exploring the idea that we dont just live in 'Nature' but that we are a part of it, that it gave birth to us, that we are its – her – children. It's about who we are, where we come from, the nature of our existence: the Big Questions of Life; indeed about Life itself.
Then maybe I'm just reading WAY too much into this. I'm already feeling another existential crisis coming on…
Then I realised as I was writing this post on my Dad Blog "Whiskey For Aftershave": I have it. The perfect picture for my take on the theme.
Unfortunately it was on print film & I couldn't find it! Thankfully though after some rummaging in what is currently the storage room & a quick trip to Boots I now have it, along with some of my favourite ever photos, in glowing digital form.
My photo is from the Inca Trail in Peru on the way to the ancient mountain city of Machu Picchu, part of our 'holiday of a lifetime' honeymoon.
I'd become separated from the rest of the group & was rushing to catch up. As I did so it occurred to me that I was passing through 1 of the most beautiful, magical places I'd ever seen. So I stopped being an idiot, slowed down, & enjoyed it. It's called the Cloud Forest: an area of dense vegetation where the plants & trees are so high up in the Andes mountains that they're literally watered by the clouds themselves.
As I came out I caught up with our main guide, who told me about the subject of the photo & this post.
So here she is: PachaMama
The local Quechua people revere this mountain as the embodiment of their Goddess, PachaMama. Her name literally means "Mother World", or in modern terms 'Mother Universe'. 'Mother Nature', even.
The locals come here to commune with the mountain, standing on the outside of the track just by where the guide is in the photo below.
He'd just told me about the mountain & about PachaMama & about he & his peoples' veneration of her. He's walking off to give me the chance to take up his suggestion to spend time alone there in 'her' presence, communing with her, with PachaMama, with Mother Nature.
After he left I did so. And it was a big deal for me. I'm not religious; I try to live a rational life, being guided by knowledge & rational thought rather than superstition. So this went against the grain. Not only that, but I'm afraid of heights. Standing on the edge of the track, a vast sheer drop below, arms stretched outwards, eyes closed – I had to muster a fair bit of courage for that.
But it was one of those things I felt that while there I had to do. It's likely I'll never get the chance again.
And the place is just magical; it draws you in. The vastness, the stillness, the silence, the sense of timelessness, the rarified atmosphere, the awareness that you are standing on the roof the world, the realisation that millions of lives have come & gone but PachaMama is just there, & has been for thousands, maybe millions of years: PachaMama does seem to have a Presence.
I stood there, I don't know for how long, & communed with PachaMama, with Mother Nature. Feeling at once as small as the smallest speck & yet part of the vastness of all that is. I felt alone in the Universe, & yet that I was the Universe. Impossible to explain!
I don't really know what happened there. In purely superficial terms, probably nothing. I do know that it was one of the most amazing, most profound experiences of my life, & that I walked on a changed, hopefully a better, man.
Why not have at look at all the other interpretations of 'Mother Nature' in this week's Gallery: it never fails to disappoint.
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Aberdeen: The Green
I am a Collections trainee based at RCAHMS as part of the Skills for The Future programme. I obtained my undergraduate degree from Aberdeen University and lived in Aberdeen for almost 8 years. The Green is a popular area in the centre of town and I know it well. The Green's interesting history has been revealed through a series of excavations.
The Green is situated near Aberdeen's harbour and is one of the oldest known parts of the city. Archaeological excavations of the area revealed flints, used to make tools for fishing and hunting, which date back to about 8000 years ago.
In Medieval times it was in operation as an administrative and defensive point of entry to the city. It also had a thriving religious community especially after the founding of the Carmelite Friary in 1273 when Carmelite friars settled here and made relationships with the local community. Excavations were carried out in the 1980's and 1990's which revealed sections of the friary church foundations and areas where the friars would have lived. Skeletons found through excavation are thought to have revealed the location of burials within the church and graveyard. As you can see from the picture of Carmelite lane, below, the area has been completely built up over time and no physical remains of the church can be seen.
RCAHMS hold a collection of ink and pencil drawings relating to small finds from the excavations which one of the curatorial trainees has just recently catalogued. The drawings were used for the publication "Three Scottish Carmelite friaries: excavations at Aberdeen, Linlithgow and Perth 1980-1986", Society of Antiquaries of Scotland monograph series no
6 by J.A Stones which presents the results of excavations at similar friaries in Scotland.
This site is a great example of finding archaeology in our cities. Aberdeen City Council have set up The Green Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) to tackle the problems of run down areas of historic significance and you can take part in The Green Trail, a tour of areas of historical significance around the Green. I would recommend paying a visit to the Green and while walking around just remember what was found beneath your feet and what may be found in the future.
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It's not every day a center back pings a perfect long ball over the back four for an assist, but then again it's not every day that a striker's first-time, high-arching shot actually finds the back of the net. Did I mention that he wasn't even looking?
This goal to put Liverpool up 3-0 over their fiercely hated rivals, Everton, and essentially ended the Merseyside Derby. I have to mention that the defending was absolutely terrible, but the sheer audacity to flick the ball almost straight into the air, without looking at the goal, deserves the praise it will receive. Your move, Suárez.


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I'm no techno aficionado. I like bleeps and bloops. Who cares if they're acid house or space jam or whatever? But I can tell you this: "Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat" is amazing. And it's from 1982.
I may not know that much about techno, but specialist music website and retailer Boomkat sure does. They uncovered Charanjit Singh's amazing 1982 album, "Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat" and it's a mindbending treasure of vintage 303 and 808 sounds that makes retro-modern sound entirely new.
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Charanjit Singh's 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' is quite easily one of the maddest records we've ever had in stock. It was originally made in 1982 by a Bollywood soundtrack composer, intending to capitalise on the disco phenomenon with a combination of centuries-old classical Indian Ragas set to a disco backing. To achieve this Charanjit used a prototypical acid set-up of Roland TB303 bass melody sequencer and TR808 drum computer together with a Jupiter-8 keyboard. He basically created a sound which mirrored, and more importantly, pre-dated the first acid house record - Phuture's 'Acid Track' by five years, and even preceded Chip E's 'Jack Trax' in 1985. It's no throw-away novelty record either, instead capturing the hypnotic potential of acid music in the most ornate and scarily prescient fashion, making explicit the similarities of infinitely arpeggiated bass sequences and pure electronic pulses that would soundtrack dancefloors for the next 30 odd years. The more cynical among you will probably be thinking this is Ceephax or Aphex Twin delivering one of the most elaborate in-jokes of their career, but with the gatefold sleeve depicting the original sleeve and some in-depth liner notes from the label and Charanjit, our cynicism is waning in favour of absolute shock and awe. 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' is vintage futurism of the highest calibre, and made all the more amazing by the fact it came from India, a place hardly renowned for its electronic output! This is a remarkable record and comes with our highest recommendation - AN ABSOLUTE FIND.
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Talk about getting it straight from the source.
Beating an official announcement from the Recording Academy, R&B star Rihanna tweeted that she will be performing a duet with Coldplay during the 54th annual Grammy Awards on February 12.
"My friends @Coldplay and I will be sharing the stage for a performance at this year's annual Grammy Awards! #Bonkers," wrote the singer.
Rihanna and the British pop group are expected to perform the song "Princess of China," their collaborative effort that appears on Coldplay's most recent "Mylo Xyloto" album.
Rihanna and Coldplay are in for a big night - they are both multiple nominees as well.
Selected Reading: Rihanna Twitter Page, Grammy.com, HitFlix


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american parents last chance to tell public servants to stop lying- let me explain with the case of pre-computing maths- q1 why were americans worst at teaching this? 2 how was computing designed by best maths guys? 3 what purposes could computers humanise- long version read biography of von neumann by macrae, short version here.
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| Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes The ninth and worst enclosure is the one inside our heads. Because, if we think the Internet is something we use by grace of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and "providers" such as phone and cable companies, we're only helping all those companies contain the Internet's usefulness inside their walled gardens.
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|firstname.lastname@example.com, normanmacrae.net quarters 5 and 6 of EconomistDiary 2018-1843 - journalists valuing mediation of goal 1 end poverty , A global databank for brandchartering the interconnecting aims of CLO, CBO and CEO in organising learning, branding and strategy - "I'd like to ask : Isn't it time that branders, strategists, and learning systems people believed and acted on their marketing promise as much as they want end-consumers to trust it? I am editing a millennial issue of a journal where we are urgently inviting world leading influencers of strategy, brand or learning to write 6 pages on future organisational frameworks in such simple language that every reader connects to the big idea whatever their home area of expertise"
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The first quarter of families developing the new world launched at the UN by Pope Francis and 17 pro-youth sustainability goal mapmakers completed earlier this week- may the next quarter be integrated into every new year sustainability and youth goodwill resolution you make.
Where do Americas fit into maps like these - come back after the Xmas break and we will try to have tidied up some Routes to Sustainability 4 hemispheres can linkin celebrating with Americas.


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Obama's 32 Czars
By Eric Cantor
Thursday, July 30, 2009
"The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States." — Sen. Barack Obama, March 31, 2008
The LAST paragraph from this article: The point here is not that President Obama's reliance on czars is illegal (although it does raise significant, unresolved constitutional issues). Nor is it that these czars are bad people. It's that we have not been able to vet them, and that we have no idea what they're doing. It's that candidate Obama made a pledge to keep Congress in the light. Yet less than six months after his inauguration, the president appears intent to keep Congress more and more in the dark. Dozens of czars at a time.
To say President Obama failed to follow through on this promise is an understatement. By appointing a virtual army of "czars" — each wholly unaccountable to Congress yet tasked with spearheading major policy efforts for the White House — in his first six months, the president has embarked on an end-run around the legislative branch of historic proportions.
To be sure, the appointment of a few special officers to play a constructive role in a given administration is nothing new. What is new is the elevation of so many czars, with so much authority on endless policy fronts. Vesting such broad authority in the hands of people not subjected to Senate confirmation and congressional oversight poses a grave threat to our system of checks and balances.
At last count, there were at least 32 active czars that we knew of, meaning the current administration has more czars than Imperial Russia.
The administration has a Mideast peace czar (not to be confused with the Mideast policy czar), a Sudan czar and a Guantanamo closure czar. Then there's the green jobs czar, sometimes in conflict with the energy czar, who talks to the technology czar, who sometimes crosses paths with the urban affairs czar. We mustn't forget the Great Lakes czar or the WMD czar, who no doubt works hand in hand with the terrorism czar. The stimulus accountability czar is going through a rough time right now, as is the TARP czar — but thankfully they have to answer to the government performance czar. And seemingly everyone falls under the auspices of the information czar. In a government full of duplicative bureaucracies, adding more layers with overlapping responsibilities hardly seems the way to go.
Even Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.) was fearful enough to pen a letter to President Obama in February highlighting his concerns with the administration's tactics. The Constitution mandates that the Senate confirm Cabinet-level department heads and other appointees in positions of authority — known as "principal officers." This gives Congress — elected by the people — the power to compel executive decision-makers to testify and be held accountable by someone other than the president. It also ensures that key appointees cannot claim executive privilege when subpoenaed to come before Congress.
As we move forward, proper oversight of the growing lineup of czars is essential. From orchestrating bailouts to making industrial policies to moving toward government-run national health care, Washington seems intent on sailing into uncharted waters — and the czars are often steering the ship.
The car czar, who stepped down this month amid controversy over his former firm's role in a scandal, had been managing government's recent takeover of a huge swath of the domestic auto industry and making decisions for auto companies. The pay czar — also known in White House circles as the "special master for compensation" — has the power to reject or accept any current and future compensation for the top 100 earners at companies that received, in some cases under pressure, money from the Troubled Assets Relief Program. In the coming months he will decide the fate of $235 million in pending retention bonuses at AIG. And the health czar, meanwhile, has become as influential as perhaps anyone in the Obama administration, spearheading White House negotiations with doctors, hospitals and other health providers. She will play a key role in determining which medicines, treatments and cures are deemed necessary for the public.
The point here is not that President Obama's reliance on czars is illegal (although it does raise significant, unresolved constitutional issues). Nor is it that these czars are bad people. It's that we have not been able to vet them, and that we have no idea what they're doing. It's that candidate Obama made a pledge to keep Congress in the light. Yet less than six months after his inauguration, the president appears intent to keep Congress more and more in the dark. Dozens of czars at a time.
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05:40 Youngest child cannot sleep anymore too light, too hot, tells her father (who was asleep)
06:00-07:30 Start up children make breakfast, iron shirts, make breakfast, packed-lunches, and package them off to school. Feed fish, rabbit, cat and washing machine in that order, make beds, shut windows lock back door pedal off to work
08:15 Arrive at work – strong westerly wind makes going tough – and so many of those Boris bikes to avoid!
08:30 – Check inbox and general helpdesk call queue down to 8, my queue – generally full of slower burn more tricky development tasks – sticks at a belligerent 12.
08:40 Tried to understand a change in Microsoft pricing structure for charities which would affect any new licence purchases we wished to make.
09:00 Passed on message to Rafel – our engineer who works for the outsourced helpdesk team – from Jazz (my colleague in IT) that Jazz will be watching all 6'2″ of Maria Sharapova on court number 1 at Wimbledon today while we bake in the office.
10:00 Finally nail the MS licensing issue. We need to have more than 10% of our income from charitable donation to qualify for their special pricing, which while we don't now we could do in a few years with the launch of the new MOLA charitable foundation about which I am very excited. This could be a great resource and banner for so much of the community outreach, applied research, educational and capacity building ideas in UK and abroad which we need to get further into.
11.00 Short discussion re the new MOLA website. We want to re-align our website to focus on the needs of our major clients so we can build revenue in this area and thereby have the financial momentum to keep the organisation healthy and to allow us to really get involved in those engaging, worthy and ultimately valuable activities such as research partnership project, volunteer inclusion programmes and community engagement, which are generally less lucrative. New website has to have a more user-friendly authoring interface and we need to understand our audience, their language how they're likely to navigate our site. We then need to have that information architecture translated in to a web site design then get the thing built and tested. We have some short deadlines and I am suspicious of external consultants not being as frank as we need them to be about what we absolutely must do as opposed to what we could do. Am reminded of Paul Theroux who wrote in the Mosquito Coast about Amazonian Indians seeing a block of ice for the first time produced by a massive homemade fridge built by Harrison Ford, that ' any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,' and worry that some consultants assume that the same is true of arcane knowledge, and hope that punters will pay for their advice because they don't understand it. We need to be on our guard for half-naked emperors, people!
11.15 More responses received on familiarity with Office 2010 poll, conducted by email; looks like 1 in 5 people have never used it. One commented it was rubbish and should be thrown out, but I pointed out he'd said the same things when we migrated from a Unix Word editor to our first Word for Windows in 1995.
11:20 My turn to make Rafel tea, into which 7 spoonfuls of sugar are shovelled; reminded of Jazz's idea to deduct costs from monthly helpdesk payment to cover this wanton consumption; we'll call it a saccharine levy
11:30 Start manipulating a surface model of the City of London and the home boroughs interpolated from about three thousand modern spot heights. Aiming to use this as an upper surface then interpolate beneath it a surface representing the top of natural (aka the bottom of archaeology). This is interpolated from archaeological and geological borehole data and the thousands of deposit survival forms, which are filled out at the end of excavations, recording the height at which geological layers were encountered. First results encouraging, notwithstanding concerns over identification of truncation (which would show geological deposits as being un-naturally deep) and I have a satisfactory wedge of cheese, which very roughly represents the layer of archaeological deposits overlying the two hills of the City. Enthused and with the idea of Eskimos cutting out ice blocks from the surface of a lake in my head, I experiment with extruding building footprints downwards to represent the pieces of cheese (or ice) which have gone, due to cutting of basements. Having pleaded for a sample city building height data from a friendly supplier, am able to extrude a small area of the city upwards, and render things so you can see the bit above and the bit below ground. It's all pretty vague of course, but it may do as a proof of concept for EH and archaeological advisors to have them contemplate the benefit of a decent basement data collection project. Fingers crossed.
13:30-14:00 Helped Rafel bring 16 new PCs and monitors up from the goods yard. As if by magic Jamie turns up with a pallet truck which saves us using our cake-trolley, and I drag the lot through the middle of the office. Am greeted like Vespasian in Triumph entering Rome; everyone always wants a new PC. Piled them up on the desk and had our photograph taken – sent to Jazz on number 1 court to show him how we suffer while he is enjoying himself (Maria was winning).
14:15 – Laura says it is 32 degrees in the office – we mumble about the cost of fans and electricity used to push the hot air about our un-air conditioned "air conditioned" offices
14:25 I eat three digestive biscuits and remember I've had no lunch again – it's the heat!
14.30 15:15 Discuss with Sarah next week's Geomatics seminar on one recent and one current mapping project. These involved digitally stitching together scanned version of 16th and 18th century maps, georeferencing them, and the extracting a road and place network from them which were then given an identify by relating them spatially to an existing index which had been located on the individual scans. Phew, we wrote a blog about it too you can see it here http://locatinglondonspast.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/populating-rocque-what-was-where/
This picture is an example of how good a fit we were able to get between adjoining sheets of the 1746 Rocque map through cunning manipulation of the sheet scans to allow for the differential shrinkage and warping that map sheet experienced since they were made.
The movie (linked below) shows a traverse of the street network of London c.1746 used during processing to check that the graph was truly connected, but it also has geo-social research applications interested in proximity, distribution and so forth.
Traverse of the street network of London c.1746
16:00 Fill out a change control form to inform IT and the outsourced helpdesk of a server re-boot I want to do tomorrow. We have a problem with old GIS files that access data on an older server (which we want to decommission) hanging when that server is switched off, rather than failing gracefully by opening but without the unreachable layers. Purpose of shutdown is so I can log the TCP connections the old GIS file tries to make as it starts up. This should help diagnose the problem.
16:15 Query Jamie on uncertainties regarding the modification wanted to the dendrochronological recording form on our central database. This one was around date ranges. Do we need and if so which fields ought we to be using to record the date range of the tree? – i.e. acorn to death, the date range of the archaeological feature of which the timber is part, or the lifespan of the tree. How to best record an estimate or actual lifespan if the entire record of rings is not present which it often isn't. Sometimes we can also identify timbers from the same tree (as possible amongst the massive Roman and Medieval oak waterfront timbers recently excavated on a large site on the Thames foreshore), but how best to record? Appears to be a one to many situation but to avoid a horrible Cartesian product, the likely SOP is that timbers from the same tree are mapped to that with the lowest context number; on the logic that the lowest one is more likely be the first discovered.
16:45 Prepare screen shots for staff meeting, and recruit Steph and Nigel to enthuse about on-going vitality of our Facebook and Twitter streams. Much interest indicated following our discussion of the Shakespearian Curtain Theatre in Hackney. This was a major find and such a well-timed one. Named after the nearby Curtain Close, it was the main venue for Shakespeare's plays between 1597 and 1599 until the Globe was completed in Southwark. Popular recent posts include other small wonders such as the discovery of a bricked-up collection of head-gear and other apparel during our work at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
17:00 We say good bye to an old colleague who is retiring after 30 years work with MOLA. Andrew was an old mentor of mine when I first arrived as a green student, in the then Department of Urban Archaeology (DUA) 22 years ago. Having been used to excavations on the wide open spaces of Salisbury plain, I probably drove him mad with all my questions about how the DUA dig this complex urban stratigraphy, and how they understand what it is they have dug. Getting my head around all the procedures that had been devised to allow accurate but also time-effective recording. He was all over it and remained so. A great archaeologist and friend, I will miss him. Carol, our bubbly receptionist, does him proud with a wonderful homemade cake which she produces for all leavers – the woman is a diamond.
17:30 Intense discussion with training supplier on subject of Application Express, a data entry environment for Oracle databases that's totally web-based and would be a valuable tool in our tactic to move more data entry into the field to reduce double-handling of information. The big idea is to re-appraise the paper recording sheets used on site for various types of context (a valuable exercise on its own) and then from that look at what could be usefully recorded digitally. Don't want to record stuff digitally simply because we can, there has to be a purpose and a benefit. That benefit should be in greater efficiency, but equally I want to ease some of the more mundane aspect of recording. For example change a prompt requiring a discursive response, which analytically does not have great value, into a tick-box. Want to do this as we need to get our archaeologists, especially the younger ones coming into the profession more engaged with the process of thinking what it all means. We don't want people just filling out checklists, we want them engaged, and enfranchised, and if we can give them more time to do that by streamlining the data collection then that will really help.
17:40-18.30 Have third and final cup of tea, update helpdesk call list with work done, restart the computer, turn off the screens and pedal for home.


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I saw this phrase discussed on esaura.cc
'There's a gap in their conversation.'
'They can't meet on common ground.'
'They have been at odds with each other.'
'They have not been on the same page.'
Is this the same
噛み as in
[噛]{か}み[付]{つ}く 'to bite (at), to snap at, to snarl at' or
噛{か}む 'to bite, to chew, to gnaw'? If so, or if not so, would anyone care to explain or expand on the metaphoric implications of the original sentence (on the assumption that it uses a metaphor)?
Here is the original page: http://esaura.cc/questions/598


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(crazyinsomniac) Re: time for new highs?by crazyinsomniac (Prior)
|on Jan 14, 2001 at 18:36 UTC ( #51743=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
I pretty much agree with everything everyone said in this node. I myself am @ level 7 now and can't remember what it is half the time, like now. Why am I at this level is not because of my 'perl' knowledge or my contribution to the monastery. I am an abbot(i looked it up) because i'm here everyday, i read a lot of posts, try to spend all my votes, and i occasionally have a good(1 on the + side) post. Do i deserve it, yes i do.
My suggestion is, instead of adding a +2 option or new levels, is to add a 'user settings' options which will allow anyone visiting your home node to view a breakdown of xp -2- posts ratio for each of the 'frontpage nodes' excluding of course 'newest nodes', 'the monastary gates', 'library' and maybe 'perl news'. This will give 'everybody' a better of idea, if a monk chooses so, of what that monk is capable of.
IMHO This should be a monk+ feature, seeing how it's the first big level, at which you have 'considerable' xp.
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honey mustard chicken sausage rolls
- 600g chicken and herb sausages, skins removed
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- sea salt and cracked black pepper
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- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- sesame seeds, for sprinkling
- tomato sauce, to serve
- Preheat oven to 200°C. Place the sausage meat, mustard, honey, parsley, salt and pepper in a bowl and mix well to combine.
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The lengths to which scammers go to take money from consumers knows no bounds. In a new case announced today, a robocall operation allegedly tricked consumers into turning over bank account information—nothing new there. But this time, the scammers allegedly targeted consumers who might have been tricked by previous scams into thinking they were getting a refund.
To top it all off, the operation's masterminds allegedly impersonated the Federal Trade Commission, the US government's agency for protecting consumers from just this sort of wrongdoing. Spoiler alert: government agencies really don't like it when you impersonate them.
An FTC announcement today said:
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal district court shut down a robocall operation that allegedly impersonated the agency in an attempt to trick consumers into turning over their bank account information and other sensitive personal data.
In a complaint filed in federal court, the FTC charged that the operation run by The Cuban Exchange, Inc., also doing business as CrediSure America and MyiPad.us, and its principal, Suhaylee Rivera, deceptively claimed it could help consumers obtain refunds from the agency, in an effort to trick them into providing their personal information and bank account numbers.
According to the agency, the company falsely told consumers it has helped "more than 13,000" people get refunds. It also "spoofed" the FTC's Consumer Response toll-free phone number so that the FTC's number appeared on consumers' Caller ID devices and used a website address—ftcrefund.com—designed to confuse consumers into thinking the operation had a connection with the FTC.
It's possible that no one was fooled by this scam, as the FTC stops just short of saying the alleged scammers actually got money from victims. But in all likelihood, the "Defendants have likely been unjustly enriched as a result of their unlawful acts or practices," the FTC said in its complaint. "Absent injunctive relief by this Court, Defendants are likely to continue to injure consumers, reap unjust enrichment, and harm the public interest."
The complaint was filed in US District Court in Eastern New York last week. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf subsequently issued a temporary restraining order against the defendants, which among other things orders the shutdown of www.ftcrefund.com and the defendants' other site, www.credisure.net. In addition to "helping" victims of previous scams get refunds from the FTC, these sites promised to "expedite refunds you may not even know were owed to you." While www.ftcrefund.com is offline, www.credisure.net was still up as of this afternoon:
Typing anything (or nothing) into the "Seizure ID" box brings you to a refund processing page, in which you are asked to enter your name, address, bank account, and routing numbers. After typing in a bunch of fake information today, I clicked "Process Refund" and was surprised to see that my refund went through, along with a $22.19 fee to be sent the way of "Credisure."
The website obviously can't tell whether you've entered real information or not. The scammers may thus be checking each submission manually to determine which consumers they can take money from. Or, given the "2007" date on the front page, the site may have just been abandoned.
The website is filled with all other sorts of awesomeness, with misspellings such as "siezure," "busienss," "tidious," and "meer." Credisure's "About Us" page includes the stock photo at the top of this article, which features 10 suit-clad businesspeople sitting around a table. It was presumably stolen from some other, more reputable website. Underneath their confident faces is this ironclad promise:
[W]e have hired the best of the best in financial forensics and investigation and lobby heavily the FTC on a daily basis. Our experts follow closely all cases handled by the FTC and identify the ones it can help expedite. Our concerted efforts allow a quicker settlement and therefore quicker refund.
Over time, we have cleared the red tape and are becoming one of the fastest channels for refunds of seized money by the FTC. Over 13000 clients have received refunds through CrediSure America as of today and our team continues to create the perfect channel for expediting of FTC seizure related refunds.
FTC law requires us to remind you that you may collect these funds yourself although this process is lengthy and teedious. For a meer 5.55 percent, CrediSure gets your refund processed within 5 to 7 business days.
The Credisure and FTCrefund sites were identical, according to the FTC. The agency's District Court complaint charges the defendants with violating Do Not Call rules, failing to transmit accurate Caller ID information, making illegal pre-recorded telemarketing calls, and "violating the agency's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) by misrepresenting their affiliation with, or endorsement or sponsorship by, the FTC."
The FTC noted it provides refunds only by check, never by direct deposit.
"When the Federal Trade Commission returns money to consumers who have been ripped off, it doesn't use robocalls, and it certainly doesn't ask them to provide personal financial information," David Vladeck, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in the agency's announcement. "To anyone hell-bent on breaking the law by making illegal robocalls, transmitting phony Caller ID information, or impersonating a federal agency, we have two words for you: Stop now. The real Federal Trade Commission will come after you."


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He's supposed to give gifts and bring joy around the world, but a man dressed as Santa has stolen a large sum of cash from a Sydney shopping centre.
The Santa impostor broke into a store's office and raided a safe at Westfield shopping centre in Liverpool, south-west Sydney, about 8pm on Sunday, police said.
Police are appealing for help with their inquiries and have released an image of the man.
"He was pushing a shopping trolley and using a walking stick. In the trolley was a red sack," policesaid.
Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or local police.
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Energy Pipeline: Executive Profile, Kevin Williams, DCP Midstream
February 24, 2014
Talk to a successful executive for any amount of time and you will quickly learn that their success can be attributed to a lot of things – education, opportunity, even luck.
But, most will tell you there was a "special someone" who inspired them to do bigger and better things.
Kevin Williams, the highly-successful and driven senior vice president for DCP Midstream, is no exception.
"Absolutely, I did," Williams said recently during a telephone interview.
"It was Bobby Evans," said Williams. "I got hired by him right out of college. I graduated (from the University of Northern Iowa) on Memorial Day weekend (1981), and started the following Tuesday at Texas Eastern (Transmission).
"I reported to him for over the next 12 years. I really liked his business philosophy and used him as a mentor."
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Williams said Evans' background was part of his inspiration. He said Evans came from a humble background and started in the measurement department at Texas Eastern. After having three kids, Williams said Evans realized he needed more education.
Evans went back to school – at night for 10 years – and got an accounting degree. He eventually worked his way up to CEO of Duke Energy International.
"It was a classic case of starting out at the very bottom and eventually becoming the CEO," Williams added. "I loved his determination, his commitment to developing people, his ethics. It was the template for how I wanted to be."
Williams said he learned so much from Evans that he strives to pass it forward.
"I really do. I have over 30 people I have helped in my career that are officers in their companies today," said the 54-year-old executive.
Energy Pipeline also talked with the enthusiastic Williams about his career, the recent Colorado floods, and what the future looks like for him and DCP Midstream.
Energy Pipeline: Your job description on your LinkedIn page says you are focused on excellent day-to-day execution of the business objectives intended to achieve high customer and owner satisfaction. Drive leadership around strategy, competitive positioning, talent recruiting and team building. Playing to win the business and be the No. 1 customer choice for natural gas gathering and processing in Colorado, Wyoming and Michigan. That sounds like a lot of responsibility but it also sounds like a fun job for someone who is people-oriented. Is that how you see your job?
Kevin Williams: I really do. I work with people in technology, legal, finance, commercial and operations. The range of folks it takes to run this business is what's so interesting for me. You have to communicate on so many levels with customers, employees and the community.
Safely and reliably managing the assets of our company tend to be our primary focus. That's a general business practice. But, at the end of the day, without all those people, we're unable to fulfill our objectives.
EP: How did the recent flooding along the Front Range affect DCP Midstream operations?
KW: It really didn't affect our productivity too much. Of course, our first priority was to make sure our employees were OK, that everyone was safe and accounted for. We did have a couple million dollars damage to some equipment but there was no environmental impact. We did have employees living on both sides of the river and they were cut off from crossing for a while. So, we said, 'If you live here, you go to work here. If you live over there, you go to work over there.' That way we were able to keep operations going. It was really amazing.
We were getting ready to open a new plant when the floods came. We opened it 10 days later due to the flooding. Our customers were impressed. They just couldn't believe we did it. I think we performed very, very well through all of that.
EP: Did DCP Midstream get involved in efforts to help residents living in areas affected by the flood? If so, can you talk about some of those efforts?
KW: We did give $20,000 to the Red Cross. A lot of our employees also donated their own money and the company matched that. I'm not sure how much that was. But, our employees did a lot of neighbor helping, too.
Our supervisor at the Roggen plant personally helped a rancher move some of his animals to safer locations. I'm sure there were a lot of other stories I don't know about.
EP: I assume that the word Midstream in your company's title refers to the midstream processing of natural gas. Is that correct? Can you explain briefly how that process works?
KW: That's right. It's basically two things that are involved. You have to have a pipeline to gather and compress the raw natural gas from the well site into the processing plant. Then we process the natural gas (at the plant) into natural gas and natural gas liquids for residential, commercial and industrial uses.
It's primarily separating the methane from the other liquids. We also (extract) propane from the natural gas liquids for local use. The rest of the natural gas liquids (NGLs) are sent to Conway, Kan., and to the Texas Gulf Coast to be fractionated and stored for use as the market demands. This is also where the natural gas liquids are modified at petrochemical facilities into plastics and other specialty chemicals for use by manufacturers and industry.
EP: DCP Midstream is gathering and processing natural gas for its exploration and production customers from over 20,000 dedicated acres in the state of Colorado. It sounds like DCP Midstream is going to be in Colorado for some time. Is that true?
KW: The DJ Basin is extremely active and extremely important to us. It's a huge economic engine for our company. It's one of the most active oil and gas basins in the U.S.
We work closely with the producers on efficiently planning new infrastructure to meet their growth plans.
At a minimum, we go out and connect their well battery. They might have eight, 12, or 16 wells going from one pad site. We go out and make connections on all of them. Talking with them gives us the know-how we need to construct our plants and where. There's a lot of planning and engineering involved. We're definitely here to stay in Colorado. The DJ Basin is a fundamental cornerstone for DCP.
EP: You recently opened the O'Connor Plant near Kersey in the DJ Basin. It reportedly has a capacity of 110 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) expandable to 160 mmcf/d. How important is that and other plants to Colorado operations in the Niobrara play?
KW: It's very important. It's our eighth processing plant (in the DJ Basin). But, we also have a plant – the Mewbourne – which produces 160 million cubic feet of gas per day. We are also anxiously awaiting a permit to build a new plant at the existing Lucerne plant site – the Lucerne II plant – which when it comes on line will have a capacity of 230 MMcf/d.
(Note: All eight DCP plants in the DJ Basin have a total capacity for approximately 600 MMcf/d).
EP: What's the most exciting/interesting thing for you in the industry today?
KW: There's a lot. We are investing well over a billion dollars in about a four-year period. We're creating jobs. We're reducing our dependency on foreign oil. We're taking control of our destiny in Colorado and the U.S. I believe the U.S. is now the No. 1 producer of crude oil in the world. What a real renaissance. And, let's face it: Do you want crude oil from foreign sources or Colorado?
There are other things, too. I want a clean Colorado. I like to ride my bike here and I like to run here. I want an environmentally safe industry just like every other citizen in our great state.
EP: Hydraulic fracturing, although it's been around for more than 30 years, continues to be a misunderstood practice in terms of safety to the public. What do you think the industry, or your company, can do to change the public's perception of this technology? Is it a matter of better educating the public?
KW: I totally agree. I think it is a matter of doing a better job educating them. Hydraulic fracturing has been around since the Truman Administration. But there is so much misinformation out there from environmental activists. To change regulations, to slow or stop the oil industry is extremely irresponsible to the state and U.S. economy and conveniences of every day life.
In Colorado, regulation writing has been very aggressive. But, we have the potential to be an over-regulated industry. We just need more education done in a responsible way. Weld County, for example, has a great understanding of our oil and gas industry. But a lot of people just don't understand the safety measures and technology used to responsibly produce oil and gas by our industry. We'll keep trying hard to put a face on this for the public.
We're also educating our employees (better) about hydraulic fracturing so the same message is going out from them to friends and family in the community.
I think until we get the public comfortable with this, it kind of will be a challenge.
EP: Given world production capabilities and future needs assessments, where do you see the oil and gas industry in 20 years?
KW: We all want to see renewable energy continue to be developed. But, the world is going to continue to grow, from 6.5 billion people to 9 billion by 2050. A lot of that will come in developing nations in Asia, Africa and other places. We're going to continue to have demand for natural gas and these products. These global developing middle class economies are going to want what we have in the U.S.
Thus, our industry is going to continue to grow. Technology is going to continue to advance – today we're only accessing approximately 10 percent of the reserves that are in the DJ Basin right now.
The U.S. will be a big player because of its use of the horizontal well (drilling technology). We will continue to be a world leader in hydrocarbon production.
We will have to attract a lot of young, talented people. We will have high-paying jobs. But, it will take a lot of know-how to bring it energy supplies to the growing market demand.
In my mind, in the next 40-50 years, the oil and gas industry will continue to be vital for the success of the planet Earth. We will need to continue to leverage technology and ensure that the public is confident around the environmental sound and safe practices of our industry. It's going to be fun to see how it all plays out.


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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open and the Olympics, plus NCAA Final Four connections, NASCAR, the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
Today, August 28, 2018, is the 45th anniversary of an Olympic moment.
So much history was locked with in the 1972 Olympic Games.
Held in Munich, West Germany, who could forget the slaughter of Israeli athletes by Palestinians in one of the world's greatest divides?
The U.S. men's basketball team lost a gold medal that led to an international incident.
Meanwhile, American sprinters Rey Robinson and Eddie Hart, nowhere to be found in the 100 and 200 finals, missed their preliminary heats when they received the wrong starting times.
On the plus side, there was wrestler Dan Gable, marathoner Frank Shorter and half-miler Dave Wottle, who came from behind to win the 800.
At Schwimmhalle, the Olympic swim center at the Munich Olympic Park, an American swimmer was re-writing the record books.
A Redlands swimmer was hot on his trail.
Mark Spitz. Seven gold medals. An American legend.
An Australian teen, Shane Gould, made his own mark with three golds, plus a silver and bronze at age 15.
There was another teenage swimmer at The Games.
That teen, Robin Backhaus, was attending Redlands High School.
Born in Nebraska. Attended Redlands High. His swim club was in Riverside. Wound up in Hawaii. Alabama. In Washington, the U.S. Northwest.
On Aug. 28, 1972, Backhaus won a bronze medal for his third-place performance in the men's 200-meter butterfly. His time, 2:03.23, finished behind Spitz's world record 2:00.70, with Gary Hall, Sr. (2:02.86) and Backhaus completing an American sweep.
Imagine that for a Redlands Connection!
A Redlands swimmer beaten only by a world record.
In that 200-fly finale, Backhaus outlasted Jose Delgado, Jr., of Ecuador, by over a second to grab that bronze medal.
Even the pathway to the championship race is littered with challenges.
Backhaus posted the fastest time in the heats leading up to the finals, beating West Germany's Folkert Meeuw in 2:03.11. By heat four, Spitz won his race and stole away, however briefly, Backhaus' Olympic record swim.
Spitz, who surpassed Backhaus' 2:03.11 clocking with a 2:02.11 of his own, claimed the record in that semifinal heat.
The top two finishers from each heat qualified for the finals.
It took that world record swim from Spitz, his 2:00.70 outdueling Hall and Backhaus.
Delgado, West Germany's Hans Fassnacht, Hungary's Andras Hargitay, East Germany's Hartmut Flockner and Meeuw took fourth through eighth place in the overall outcome. Even Meeuw's last place clocking, 2:05.57, was world class.
Backhaus was surrounded by superior talent on his U.S. Olympic team:
- Jerry Heidenreich, two relay gold medals, part of six world records
- John Murphy, a relay gold and bronze in the 100-back
- Mike Stamm, silver medals in two backstroke events, plus a relay gold
- Tom Bruce, former world record holder in 4 x 100 free
- Steve Furniss, bronze, 100-individual medley
- Gary Hall, Sr. – Two years before Munich, Hall set a world record in 200-fly
- Mike Burton (3-time Olympic champion, former world record holder)
- Steve Genter, gold medalist (silver in 100-free)
- John Hencken, 13 world records, 21 American records
- Doug Northway, like Backhaus, was 17, capturing bronze in the 1500-free
- Tim McKee (3-time silver medalist)
A footnote to McKee: Swimming observers will recall a close finish – losing to Sweden's Gunnar Larsson by two one-thousandths of a second in the 400-IM – in which the scoreboard reflected a dead heat at 4:31.98. In a controversial decision, event judges named Larsson the winner with a 4:31.981 to McKee's 4:31.983.
Under new federation rules, timing to the thousandths of a second are now prohibited. It was that race which led to the change in rules.
The U.S. copped 43 medals, seven of its 17 gold medals won by Spitz, two shared in pair of relays.
Spitz, meanwhile, might've been caught up in the explosive nature of The Games. As a Jewish American, Spitz was asked to leave Germany before the closing ceremonies. The deaths of those Israeli athletes had left a trickle-down effect for the remainder of The Games.
Domestically, Backhaus won three Amateur Athletic Union titles, at the indoor 200-yard butterfly in 1974, plus the 100-fly in 1973.
He also won NCAA title in the 200-fly in 1975.
His club was based in Riverside. One of his coaches was Chuck Riggs, who would help develop several future champions, including Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead. Riggs was voted into the Swim Coaches Hall of Fame in 2018.
Backhaus' college choice was Washington, later transferring to Alabama, which is where he graduated.
Backhaus, a teacher and swimming coach at Konawaena (Hawaii) High School, eventually surfaced as a swimming trainer in Texas and California for over 20 years.
A year after his Olympic exploits, Backhaus won a pair of gold medals, plus a bronze medal at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
There was a win in his specialty, the 200-fly, plus his part in the 4 x 200 freestyle relay. In the 100-fly, Backhaus stroked home in third place.
Born on Feb. 12, 1955, Backhaus never swam competitively for Redlands High. He's a Terrier Hall of Famer, though, in the school's growing history of top-level athletes that includes that likes of NFL's Brian Billick, Greg Horton, Patrick Johnson and Jim Weatherwax, track & field's Karol Damon, soccer's Heather Aldama, baseball's Julio Cruz and volleyball's Keri Nishimoto.
En route to the '72 Olympics, swimmers had to qualify at the U.S. Trials at Portage Park in Chicago.
In the 200-fly, Spitz's 2:01.53 outgunned Backhaus' 2:03.39.
Backhaus' only other hope for another Olympic event came in the 100-fly, but he was unable to qualify at the Trials.
Think of it this way: For a brief time, Backhaus held the Olympic record for that 200-meter butterfly. It took a world record swim, from Spitz of all people, to edge the Redlands teenager for the gold medal.
There would no Olympic Games for Backhaus in Montreal 1976.


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Prosecutor says man previously convicted of similar charges
A registered sex offender is facing new charges of possession of child pornography.
Thomas Richards, of Milford, was arrested Friday after police said they found sexual images of children on his electronic devices.
Richards was arraigned Monday morning on five counts of possession of child pornography. In asking that bail be continued at $100,000 cash, prosecutor Michael McCall said Richards was convicted of the same crime in 2005 and was sentenced to prison.
"He continues to be a consumer of this type of material, which in turn creates a marketplace for others to exploit the most innocent of our society -- children," he said.
Richards countered that he has lived in Milford for 22 years and is not a flight risk.
"As far as being a danger to anyone, I've just never been in a situation like that," Richards said. "It never comes to my mind. It's not something I do."
But McCall said Richards is a threat to children.
"He poses a threat to the children of our community and other communities around the country, as these images, it is my understanding, came from all over," McCall said.
The judge decided to keep bail at $100,000 cash. Richards was also ordered to have no contact with anyone under the age of 18. He was also forbidden from having any electronics.
A probable cause hearing is scheduled for April 3.


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In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
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Overcrowding of Emergency Departments (EDs) put the safety of patients at risk. Decision makers implement Ambulance Diversion (AD) as a way to relieve congestion and ensure timely treatment delivery. However, ineffective design of AD policies reduces the accessibility to emergency care and adverse events may arise. The objective of this dissertation is to propose methods to design and analyze effective AD policies that consider performance measures that are related to patient safety. First, a simulation-based methodology is proposed to evaluate the mean performance and variability of single-factor AD policies in a single hospital environment considering the trade-off between average waiting …
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Local advocate fears effect of Russian adoption ban, says orphans there will be victims of decision
Russia's new ban of adoptions to American families could shatter the dreams of prospective adoptive parents in northwest Ohio.
Families with adoptions pending — who have met and bonded with the child — may now find themselves stuck in limbo, or worse, the adoptions could be canceled.
Lisa Wurster, president of the Sylvania-based, not-for-profit Friends of Russian Orphans, said adoption cancellations not only would hurt parents but also would leave more Russian orphans in institutions.
"It's devastating," she said. "It is just absolutely devastating for both the children and the parents."
Ms. Wurster and her husband, Phillip, adopted two Russian orphans after they had two children of their own. They then started Friends of Russian Orphans.
Not an adoption agency, the corporation has two main missions.
It provides material help for children living in orphanages, paying for clothes, gymnasiums, equipment, and more. Its friendship program includes an initiative that brings orphans to the United States for summer visits. During the visits, children attend cultural events, day camps, and take part in other activities.
Many U.S. volunteers in the program decided to adopt Russian orphans after participating in the summer visits, Ms. Wurster said. Friends of Russian Orphans also organizes Russian volunteers to provide extra stimulation and development activity for babies in orphanages.
Although domestic adoptions in Russia have increased in recent years, many prospective parents are disinclined to adopt older children or those with disabilities, Ms. Wurster said.
Prohibiting adoptions by U.S. parents greatly limits options for those Russian orphans, she said.
"The number of children who remain institutionalized is huge," she said.


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An intriguing welterweight contest between seven-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Andre Galvao (5-2) and top Wand Fight Team prospect Jorge Lopez (10-1) completes the nine-bout lineup for Tachi Palace Fights 10.
Tachi Palace Fights officials recently announced the addition to the card, which also features title fights in the flyweight, featherweight and middleweight divisions.
Tachi Palace Fights 10 takes place Aug. 5 at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in Lemoore, Calif.
Galvao looks to return to the win column following a TKO loss to top Strikeforce prospect Tyron Woodley. The bout snapped a two-fight win streak under the Strikeforce banner for Galvao, who also earned a 1-1 mark in two contests with the Japanese-based DREAM promotion.
Galvao is 2-2 in his past four overall contests after opening his career a perfect 3-0.
Meanwhile, Lopez looks to catapult himself into a major promotion with a second win in as many appearances under the Tachi Palace Fights banner.
"Lil' Monster" carries a nine-fight win streak into the bout. The run dates back to 2008 and includes the likes of Chihi Njokuani, Waachiim Spiritwolf and Dave Terrel.
The latest Tachi Palace Fights card includes:
- Champ Darrell Montague vs. Ian McCall – for flyweight championship
- Joe Soto vs. Eddie Yagin – for vacant featherweight championship
- Jussier da Silva vs. Mamoru Yamaguchi
- Champ David Loiseau vs. Giva Santana – for middleweight championship
- Andre Galvao vs. Jorge Lopez
- Ulysses Gomez vs. Drew Bittner
- Phil Collins vs. Kenny Ento
- Art Arciniega vs. Andy Miranda
- Brad McDonald vs. Chris Tangonan
(Pictured: Andre Galvao)