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I know, you guys: WORST punny title ever. But, I couldn't resist. Or, more specifically, I couldn't think of a more creative answer than the umpteenth variation on "floral … something or other". Wardrobe rut? I prefer to go with signature style. Pota-toe, pota-toh.
I scored this dress for a steal of a deal, and I will bore you with the details here again, even though I've already crowed all over Instagram. So. I noticed this dress months ago at Winners, and started eyeing it seriously when it hit the clearance rack. Still, at $120, it was too pricey for my taste. That might seem wholly arbitrary but hear me out. It's (a) a pretty memorable print in a dressier silk fabric, (b) a non-versatile silhouette (dropped waist plus a low, open back that's NSFW when worn alone), both of which mean I can't really wear it at the office very often. It's a once-a-month-tops kind of dress. I already have a lot of special occasion dresses I rarely wear, so I can't justify buying a new one on that basis. However, when the price finally dropped – to $60! – you can bet that I was all over it. At that price, it will only take about 2 years to get to a reasonable CPW, which is doable. Plus, I can now brag about getting this dress for 90% off the original retail price which, as a friend pointed out, is practically FREE. That's a pretty good brag. [Winky face emoticon firmly in cheek]
So, the outfit. It's cute, yes? Dropped waist silhouettes can be tricky – they have a tendency to look toddler-esque – but the dark floral and office-appropriate hemline (plus the always classy Ferragamo flats) balance things out.


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After the coming upgrading, all users will enjoy a more stable yet convenient way to regain the lost or deleted text messages and contacts on Android. And the rooting process will also be simplified, so that no one will give up to experience the program due to the rooting reasons. Now, let's have a brief review on the functions of the previous version of Android SMS+Contacts Recovery program:
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(JTA) — Israel arrested five Palestinian Authority intelligence officers in the West Bank.
The arrests in Salfit, according to Ynet, are believed to be related to an investigation by the Palestinian General Intelligence Service into a man suspected of collaborating with Israel. All five of the detained are officers in the service.
According to the Palestinians, talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel already are under way to secure their release.


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I have visceral fat. Why won't Smart Lipo work for me? Do I have any solutions? Visceral fat can be life threatening for heart disease.
Smart Lipo for Getting Rid of Visceral Fat?
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Smart Lipo is not indicated to treat visceral fat
Smart Lipo is not indicated to treat visceral fat! There is no way that a prudent physican would ever use this device within the intra-abdominal cavity putting at you at risk for potential serious or fatal complications and/or vital organ injury.
Visceral fat can be treated with diet and exercise. Other means such has hormone supplementation may help. For the morbidly obese, gastric bands, gastric by-pass, or gastric stabling procedure are available.
It doesn't go below the muscle and that is where the visceral fat is located
Smart Lipo (as with all liposuction procedures) is good for only the fat that is above the muscle and easily reachable. The safety of this procedure is that it doesn't go below the muscle to areas where large blood vessels and organs are located.
While I guess it is theoretically possible to take away some of the visceral fat while in the abdominal cavity for a surgery, my guess is that the danger of this would be very significant and far outweigh any possible advantages.
For now, the only way to reduce this is diet and excercise!
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1. While coal prices become more volatile, natural gas prices appear more stable (and the cost of renewable energy is dropping fast).
2. The delivered price of coal increased three times faster than inflation over the past five years.
3. States dependent on coal had the highest electricity price increase in the past five years.
4. U.S. Coal mining productivity has declined 20% since 2000.
5. Rising international demand and recognition of environmental costs will continue to drive coal prices upward.
Coal still plays a dominant role in the U.S. energy mix, accounting for almost 45% of American electricity production. But the economics of coal continue to change, making the resource look far less attractive today than it once was.
Researchers, journalists and activist groups have been sounding the alarm about "Peak Coal" in recent years. A 2010 paper in the journal Energy concluded that the global coal industry had reached the limit to what it could technically and economically exploit. Another 2009 analysis from Clean Energy Action based on US Geological Survey data suggested showed that available coal reserves were not as abundant as widely thought:
Depending on the resolution of geologic, economic, legal and transportation constraints facing future coal mine expansion, the planning horizon for moving beyond coal could be as short as 20-30 years.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has repeatedly published data on coal "reserves" as though they include an assessment of economic recoverability when in actuality they did not. As a result, the often touted "200 year supply of U.S. coal" is not based on a realistic assessment of how much coal will actually be accessible.
Actually, recent data, some released by the EIA, does tell us a lot about where the industry is heading. It would be nearly impossible to say whether the industry has hit Peak Coal based upon the available figures – but they do show how much the economic landscape for coal has changed.
1. While coal becomes more volatile, natural gas prices steady
Shale gas has some pretty serious environmental factors that need to be dealt with. But a combination of natural gas and renewable energy is far better than coal. With renewable energy prices dropping fast and natural gas prices depressed, we have a unique opportunity to a dent in coal's share of the energy mix.
2. The delivered price of coal increased three times faster than inflation over the past five years
Over the past five years, U.S. inflation has increased around 15%. During that same period, the delivered price of coal to utilities has gone up 54%, according to the EIA. In the last decade, the delivered cost of coal has increased 96%, with U.S. inflation around 30% over that time period. Since the beginning of 2011, the delivered price of coal has increased 3.1 percent.
3. States dependent on coal had the highest electricity price increase in the past five years
The retail price of electricity in the US increased 22% over the past five years from 8.1¢ in 2005 to 9.9¢ in 2010. But the two most coal-dependent regions – East South Central (TN, KY, MS, AL) and East North Central (MI, OH, IN, IL, WI) – saw their rates increase 34% and 32% respectively.
4. U.S. Coal mining productivity has declined 20% since 2000
Improved technologies boosted coal mining operations from the late 70's until the year 2000. But since then productivity has declined substantially. Across the broad, the EIA figures show decreasing productivity – with the country's largest coal reserve, the Powder River Basin, declining by 7.2% between 2008 and 2009.
5. Rising international demand and recognition of environmental costs will continue to drive coal prices upward
Along with declining productivity and rising delivery costs, other pressures may accelerate the rising cost of coal. Exports are a major factor: Between 2009 and 2010, exports to China increased from 386,950 short tons to 4,071,837 short tons. With exports to China only increasing, prices will continue to rise. (In fact, five Chinese power providers are facing financial troubles because of price increases.)
Recognition of the local and global environmental impact of coal will also be a factor. A recent study from the New York Academy of Sciences estimated that the cost of coal-fired electricity in the U.S. could be as high as 28 cents/kWh, assuming the environmental and health costs are factored in. While we're far away from actually pricing externalities for coal in the U.S., investors see the writing on the wall – the number of coal plants once expected to be built has dropped off substantially. Since a May 2007 report from the National Energy Technology Laboratory declared a "resurgence" in coal, 153 proposed plants have been cancelled or postponed. There are also 190 existing coal generators set to close over the coming years, as they're too old and dirty to warrant investment in scrubbers.
What does it mean?
None of these indicators prove that we've hit Peak Coal. Nor can we project where prices will go. But with declining productivity rates, increasingly volatile prices, higher transport costs, surging international demand, and construction of plants getting harder, the economics of certainly don't point to a bright future for coal.
(Thanks to Frank Zaski for pointing us to some of the resources linked to in this piece.)
[Joe Romm: Of course, we need to get off of coal as soon as possible to avert catastrophic climate change — but you knew that already!]


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Nicki On SNL!
Did y'all manage to catch her on SNL...If you haven't catch the video posted on the MPF homepage! I watched it live via some illegal website (lol) that lets you watch NBC live from the UK! I was so happy, and she was amazing.
I love when Nicki utilises and shows all her talents. I love how amazing of an actress she is. And besides that, her different wigs and outits were FETCH as!
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I know I've seen this post before but now I can't find it. Im making a cowboy baby shower cake and want to make one tier look like jeans...how do I do that with fondant?
Thanks for the help
I do not know how to do this. But I would be interested also.
I don't know if it will work but its an idea. use white as the base colour for the fondant and get a piece of fabric like linen that has a real woven texture - wash and rinse till the laundry powder is gone - then mix a batch of gel colour and vodka to a nice light denim blue, then brush the colour onto the fabric to cover the surface but try not to over saturate the fabric so when you go to print the fabric onto the fondant it leaves some white flecks. then repeat with a darker blue colour to add some depth. try this on scraps first please - i do not want to be responsible for you ruining your cake!!!
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Buddy did some really nice looking denim on an episode of "Cake Boss". I don't' remember if they said exactly how he did it, but it might be worth trying to look up and see. Hope you get it figured out! Sounds like a fun cake!
just press a piece of denim on the fondant to get the imprint of the fabric. thats what he did on cake boss. i think he colored the fondant a demin color, then airbrushed on some extra detail to make it look real.
Oh that's right! I remember them cutting someone's pants off so he could use the pocket or something to press in the fondant. I think it was Danny's pants...it was hilarious!
Thanks so much for the replies!
This person found a textured cutting board. Just another idea.
Of course it doesn't have to be so realistic if it's for a baby shower and you can even use buttercream.


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Bilsdale Midcable is a geographically large civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England and situated in the North York Moors National Park. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 293. Settlements in the parish are The Grange, Chop Gate (locally pron "Chop Yat"), Seave Green and Urra. The parish also contains Bilsdale Moor, Bilsdale East and Bilsdale West.
Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Bilsdale Midcable was located in Stokesley Rural District. Historically, it was located in the ecclesiastical parish of Helmsley in the Rydale Wapentake. It was in the Stokesley Registration District.
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If you have the better overall team, you win, in the Manning-Brady games.
If you have the better overall team and you are Peyton Manning, and if you are playing anyone at all in the first round of the NFL playoffs, history shows that your team will most often lose.
Why this is the case is mystifying and is the source of the debate. Sample size? Hard to get much bigger sample sizes than playing 22+ playoff games.


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What has at least 25 pairs of legs and can turn on a dime? That's a question researchers have been asking themselves ever since they uncovered a strange set of footprints in the Burgess Shale, a 500-million-year-old fossil field in the western Canadian Rockies. The first analysis of the comma-shaped and elliptical tracks, reported online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, indicates that they belonged to a marine arthropod called Tegopelte (artist's impression above), a relation of an extinct group of hard-shelled critters known as trilobites. The size of a loaf of bread, Tegopelte was the biggest bottom-dweller known from the Burgess Shale. The tracks show that the creature was also speedy and nimble, adding to evidence that it was either a predator or a scavenger—and therefore a possible rival in importance to free-swimming predators such as the segmented arthropod Anomalocaris, which were known to have thrived in ancient seas.
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David Ortiz understands where Jonathan Papelbon is coming from, but he doesn't exactly hold the same opinion when it comes to Yasiel Puig's All-Star candidacy.
Papelbon said recently that it would be an "absolute joke" if Puig made the National League All-Star team because the rookie has played in less than half of the Dodgers' games. Ortiz, on the other hand, thinks that the fans should get what they want, even if that means putting Puig in the All-Star Game.
"I know what Pap's point is," Ortiz told WEEI.com's Rob Bradford. "[Puig] doesn't have enough time, which I understand. I'm pretty sure that's why Pap said what he said. He doesn't have enough time to earn it.
"On the other hand, if the fans vote for him, screw it. I was looking at [Puig's] numbers last night and I was impressed, myself. What he's doing is incredible."
Puig, who signed with Los Angeles as a free agent in 2012, is off to an historic start. He's hitting .430 (49-for-114) with eight home runs and 19 RBIs in 29 games. His OPS is an amazing 1.174.
Puig has taken the baseball world by storm since being called up, but because the sample size is still relatively small, there has been a ton of debate about whether or not he should even be considered for the All-Star Game. Ortiz doesn't seem to think it's much of an issue, though.
"If he gets voted by the fans, screw it," Ortiz reportedly added. "What he's doing is extraordinary. It's sick what he's doing. If a guy like that goes to the All-Star Game, it's because he's doing something incredible."
Jose Iglesias' fast start hasn't received quite the attention that Puig's stretch has, but the Red Sox rookie's season has also been impressive. Iglesias enters Friday's game hitting .411 (58-for-141) in 42 games while playing sensational defense. Although Iglesias' power numbers don't exactly stack up with Puig's, Ortiz thinks that the Boston infielder should at least be part of the All-Star conversation.
"Jose, in his case, he made the team. He made the team out of spring training. It's a little different," Ortiz reportedly said. "And he's played in 40-something games. I would to like to see the young talent out there, I don't care. He's just unbelievable, that's what I think."
Whether or not Puig and/or Iglesias gets to play in the Midsummer Classic will be determined before long. But before then, Ortiz had a simple message.
"You don't hate, you appreciate," Ortiz reportedly said.
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The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload
There has been an explosion of new forms of communications media for interpersonal communication. There is anecdotal evidence of people suffering from 'information overload' as a result of these developments. This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organization: Watson Wyatt Partners. The research took two approaches to exploring the problem. The first was a survey of 1500 members of staff in the UK and Europe. This was aimed at collecting factual information. The second approach was to conduct follow up interviews with 19 people at two sites in the UK to explore some of the issues raised by the survey in greater depth. In the paper, we argue that for CMCs (Computer Mediated Communications) to be effective there is a need to establish a 'context' in which the message can be interpreted. In doing so, we will demonstrate that ignoring the degree of 'context' a media provides can adversely affect the users perceptions of that media.
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There will be a Clothing Recycling Collection on Monday 18th September
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Attendance Awards 2017 At the end of the Student Council Assembly, our Family-School Liaison Officer, David McCague, presented the Annual Attendance Awards. Two girls, Hazel & Jessica received certificates for improved attendance, while 17 gi... Read more
Student Council Assembly The Student Council members have been very busy during the last month. They produced their own newsletter which was sent home to all our families and they also worked with Mrs Farrell on a special assembly w... Read more
Swimming Success Well done to two of our 2nd class girls, Eimear and Ava, who represented the school at a Swimming Gala in the Coral Leisure Centre on Saturday, June 17th. Eimear won two silver medals for the front crawl&... Read more
St. Louis Raises its New Healthy Schools' Flag The staff and pupils of St. Louis GNS are very proud to announce that we have secured the status of a Health Promoting School. In a special ceremony held on Friday last, June 16th the school community gathered in the hall for an assem... Read more
Bike Week Activities National Bike Week 2017 took place from 10th to 18th June. On Friday 16th, Gabriel Bell of Emyvale Cycling Club delivered a talk on Bike Safety to our two sixth classes. Afterwards, Gabriel and Miss O'Reilly took a group of nine g... Read more
St. Louis win the Athletics Shield! The Athletics Team won the shield at the County Primary Schools' Track and Field Competition for the best school in the Girls' Large Schools' category. The team members are Caragh, Katie, Julija, Ava, Daisy, Niamh, Jeanette, ... Read more
Handball Finals Throughout the month of May Mrs Hannon ran a Handball Competition for all our classes. She invited Martin McEntee of Monaghan Harps to come to the school on Wednesday 7th June to referee the final in each class. The whole school gather... Read more
ATP Committee do some gardening On Friday, 2nd June, Mrs Healy and some of the junior members of the Action Team Partnership Committee undertook the task of replanting the flower pots at the entrance of the school. They busied themselves weeding, plantin... Read more
Launch of Bike Week and Greenway Four of our 5th class girls: Victoria, Aoife, Neeharika and Rhiain were chosen to represent the school at the joint Launch of the Ulster Canal Greenway and the Launch of Bikeweek 2017. The event took place on Friday, 2nd June at the Monumen... Read more


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Sober Up, Float Down
A pattern has developed: Each time youre given the precious gift of a three-day weekend, you ruin it. You dont intend to self-destruct any more than Lennie meant to hurt those bunnies in Of Mice and Men; you simply get so excited that you cant recognize limits. By Sunday even though 48 hours remain before the Labor Day hijinks are up youve morphed into a coagulated puddle of hangover. Maybe you need some yoga.
Strengthen your core, align your chi, and attempt to alleviate that pounding in your head as you unwind at the Yoga Month Health Festival, Miami (I Love Yoga Headquarters, 99 NW 166 St., Miami). The traveling fest promotes various aspects of healthy living and green culture through lectures, workshops, and by hosting a progressive vendor area. The fest is inhaling and then exhaling in ten different cities across the country during the month, but it has picked Miami as the Labor Day Weekend detox location. Feel those shots of tequila evaporate through your pores as Duncan Wong helps you combine elements of ashtanga flow and martial arts (5 to 7 p.m.). Purge your mental pathways from haunting memories of Friday and Saturdays one-night-stands and locate inner peace during Rosa Santanas class Beyond Asana (3 to 5 p.m.). Or simply shop your way to earthly contentment in the tantalizing vendor area. The Yoga Health Festival packs up its mats on Monday night, so youve got two days to regain your composure before you show up at your cube on Tuesday morning, still wearing last weekends eye make up. Tickets cost $88 for a weekend VIP pass and $25 for individual activities; proceeds benefit the Youth Health Alliance. Get the whole schedule at www.yogamonth.org.
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I'm not one of the developers either but this was posted to the hackers list just today: We currently have processed 15 of the 40 patches in the patch queue during our two months in feature freeze. Based on that progress, I estimate we will enter beta in September. Kevin. -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Raymond O'Donnell Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:25 PM To: Guy Rouillier Cc: 'PostgreSQL' Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 On 30/05/2007 00:11, Guy Rouillier wrote: > I'm not one of the developers, but I found the following information > here http://www.postgresql.org/developer/roadmap: That's great - thanks. Ray. --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland rod(at)iol(dot)ie --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings This email communication and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and or proprietary information and is provided for the use of the intended recipient only. Any review, retransmission or dissemination of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication and any copies immediately. Thank you. http://www.encana.com
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Today is Laura Diaz's last day on the air as morning anchor at WKMG-6, the CBS affiliate in Orlando. She has been with the station almost 4 years.
The decision to leave was hers. "I don't think I can do television anymore," she told the Orlando Sentinel. "It's just a lot of pressure. I got into it young. I moved up quickly. It's really a tough job to do."


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Kyle and Christopher Massey to Serve As Parade Route Reporters for the 2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade
Actor ERIK ESTRADA (World's Funniest Moments; CHiPs; The Bold and the Beautiful) and Television Host LAURA McKENZIE (World's Funniest Moments; Laura McKenzie's Traveler) will serve as Parade Broadcast Hosts for The Hollywood Christmas Parade/Live Positively Presented by Coca-Cola on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
Other Parade Presenting Sponsors include The City of Los Angeles and Associated Television International. The Brother Team of Kyle Massey (That's So Raven; Corey in the House; Life is Ruff) and Christopher Massey (Zoey 101; City Girls; Emmy Award Nominee) will serve as Parade Route Reporters who will interact with parade attendees on camera.
Emmy Award winning actress, Susan Lucci, will serve as the 2009 Grand Marshal of The Hollywood Christmas Parade/Live Positively Presented by Coca-Cola which will include celebrities from film, television and stage; award winning bands; colorful equestrians; ornate floats and specialty characters. The holidays will be ushered in with a special appearance by Santa Claus. The parade will travel on a U-shaped route throughout Hollywood, CA on Orange Street and Hollywood Boulevard, traveling East onto Hollywood Boulevard turning South onto Vine Street, and then traveling West onto Sunset Boulevard back to Orange Street.
The Hollywood Christmas Parade, an American tradition, promises to be extra special this year. This is the first time in over 80 years that the parade will air nationally as a two-hour television, primetime event. MyNetworkTV will telecast the parade. Associated Television International will produce the special.
David McKenzie, President of Associated Television International, said: "Proceeds from the telecasts of the parade will benefit this year's official charity, Feed The Children, a nonprofit relief organization which delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disasters. We are happy to do our part to help those in need."
The parade will be presented in Hollywood starting at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 29, 2009. The event will be taped for a nationwide broadcast to initially air on Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. (Local Time)/7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (Central Time), followed by an Encore Presentation to be aired on Thursday, December 24, 2009 from 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. (Local Time)/7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (Central Time). Please visit the website, www.TheHollywoodChristmasParade.com for a complete listing of television stations carrying the parade telecasts.
Reserved Grandstand Seating for The 2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade/Live Positively Presented by Coca-Cola are now available for purchase within Associated Television International's "live set" area located on Hollywood Boulevard between Orange Street and Highland Avenue. Tickets are $35 per ticket. Group Discounts are available. To order tickets, please call toll free at 1-866-PARADE1 (1-866-727-2331).
One of the easiest ways to get to the parade is to take Metro. There are two stations located on the parade route, one at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, and another at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. For further information or to plan the best route, use the Metro Trip Planner at www.metro.net.
For updates and further information about The Hollywood Christmas Parade/Live Positively Presented by Coca-Cola, please visit the parade's official website, www.TheHollywoodChristmasParade.com or call 1-866-PARADE1 (1-866-727-2331).


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Brookie99 1 child; Fort McMurray, Alberta 1126 postsApr 6th '13
Quoting NICKEL☮POLIS:" I eat the whole bag to myself :oops: sometimes for lunch I'll just pop a bag in the microwave lol. So ... [snip!] ... the broccoli + cauliflower with cheese. I've never tried the peas, I've tried the corn though, and the broccoli with carrots"
Lol that is actually what I had for lunch yesterday. I haven't seen any of the other ones except peas and brussel sprouts Ill have to take a look next time I'm at the store.


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13 March 2011
A couple of these additions are things I forgot, and others are things that have happened since March 6th:
- My 1st son was born
- My 1st son celebrated 6 weeks on this planet
- Mardi Gras & Carnival celebrations around the world
- Ash Wednesday
- A massive Earthquake rocks Japan, unleashing a devestating Tsunami
- The Standoff between the Government and Government workers in Wisconson ends, with the Government pushing through a bill that strips most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.
-The NFL owners and NFLPA fail to reach an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, The NFLPA decertifies which paves the way for players, led by Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, to sue the league for anti-trust violations.
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Friday Flashback for September 12, 2008
I'll be taking a few days off, so while I'm away, I thought you might enjoy some of these oldies but goodies!
10 Years Ago on Psych Central
- Mental Health Care is Available in Varied Forms
Ten years ago, I wrote about the various forms or types of treatments available to treat mental illness and mental health related issues. It's a good primer on what to expect from different modalities, like outpatient care versus going to a private psychiatric hospital or the like.
5 Years Ago on Psych Central
- August 2003 Blog Entry
You know it's a slow news cycle when I was blogging about the rise of bachelorette parties — and the researchers who study them. "Dr. Beth Montemurro, assistant professor of sociology at Penn State's Abington Campus, has interviewed more than 50 women and personally attended many bachelorette parties in an attempt to determine what significance that bachelorette parties — especially those containing sexually charged themes — have for them." I love that part where she "personally attended" many of them. Nothing like first-hand research, right?
1 Year Ago on Psych Central
- Health 2.0 in The Economist
I discussed this article that helps to dismantle the Health 2.0 hype machine. With the inevitable sale of Revolution Health to one of its competitors, it seems that this particular bubble is about to burst. I say it's about time.
While watching television doesn't cause ADHD, researchers did find a significant correlation with watching TV and being diagnosed with ADHD as a child (ages 5 to 11). The reason? The researchers speculated that "rapid scene changes influence brain development and television replaced other activities like reading — activities that require attention development." An important research finding worth repeating — limit your child's television time every day.
APA Reference
Grohol, J. (2008). Friday Flashback for September 12, 2008. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 26, 2017, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/09/12/friday-flashback-for-september-12-2008/
Grohol, J. (2008). Friday Flashback for September 12, 2008. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 26, 2017, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/09/12/friday-flashback-for-september-12-2008/


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"Very friendly owner on site."Very friendly owner on site. Warm,cosy cottage which is very well equipped with plenty of information on local walks and places to visit.Very friendly owner on site. Warm,cosy cottage which is very well equipped with plenty of information on local walks and places to visit.
- Off road parking
- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Cot available
- Highchair available
- Washing machine
- Dishwasher
- Broadband / WiFi
The Huntsman Holiday Cottages
Situated in the heart of the pretty village of Wrelton, these three charming holiday cottages have been sympathetically converted from old stone barns. Care has been taken with these Wrelton cottages to retain original features including beams, stripped pine doors and exposed stonework, whilst complementing them with modern comforts such as an open plan living space, WiFi connection and comfortable furnishings. With a spacious feel throughout, these welcoming Wrelton cottages benefit from sunny, communal gravelled patio areas with raised borders, a fish pond and outdoor seating, a perfect spot in which to sit and relax with an evening drink. A minute's walk from these Wrelton cottages is the local inn, which serves good food, while a stroll around this delightful village takes you past old stone and pantile cottages clustered around the two traditional village greens. From these Wrelton cottages, the thriving market town of Pickering is just three miles away, with a good variety of pubs, restaurants, tea rooms and specialist shops. Why not visit Pickering Castle or the Beck Isle Museum, or take a trip back in time on the North York Moors Steam Railway? Surrounded by the beautiful scenery of the North York Moors National Park, these Wrelton cottages are ideal for walkers with numerous public footpaths in the immediate vicinity; for golf enthusiasts there are courses at Malton and Kirkbymoorside. With a wealth of attractions around these Wrelton cottages, including stately homes, gardens and market towns, they make an ideal base to return to time and again.
The property
A lovely stone and pantile mid-terrace cottage, centrally situated in the pretty village of Wrelton in the North York Moors National Park.
With a spacious open plan living area, this characterful Wrelton cottage boasts exposed timbers, a stone fireplace and a delightful bedroom providing a romantic retreat for couples!
Tastefully furnished and decorated, this Wrelton cottage offers very comfortable and welcoming accommodation with a traditional feel.
Note: This property can be booked with refs. 12613 and 12614 to accommodate 8 people.
One double bedroom. Bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. Open plan living area with fitted kitchen, dining area and spacious sitting area.
- Gas central heating
- Electric oven and hob, microwave, fridge/freezer, washer/dryer, dishwasher, TV with Freeview, DVD, radio, WiFi
- All fuel and power inc. in rent
- Bed linen and towels inc. in rent
- Travel cot and highchair on request
- Off road parking for 1 car
- Large, shared patio areas with furniture and BBQ
- One well-behaved pet welcome
- Sorry, no smoking
- Shop 1 mile, pub 1 min walk
- Note: The garden pond is unfenced; care should be taken at all times.
About the location
Pickering 3 miles; Helmsley 8 miles; Scarborough 17 miles.
Wrelton is a small pretty village just three miles from the historic market town of Pickering. Its stone built cottages are clustered around two village greens where the annual summer fete is held every August. Although the village has no shops, it has an excellent pub which serves meals and is the hub of the village. Surrounded by the stunning countryside of the North York Moors, Wrelton offers great walking from the doorstep. Nearby are the market towns of Helmsley and Malton, and just three miles away are the steam railway and Pickering Castle. There are a wealth of places to visit from this great base including Castle Howard, the historic city of York with its famous Minster and the fishing port of Whitby on the east coast.
This property offers the following short breaks:
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Living in Duluth and reading the MSP sushi thread with some interest, I began to wonder...how many sushi restaurants are there in Minnesota OUTSIDE of the metro?
In Duluth, there's one:
Zen House
Maple Grove Rd. & Haines Rd.
This place is located, as strange as it sounds, in the same building as an ICO gas station that previously held a drive-through gyro place (not for long though) and a burger joint (for a long time, until the owner retired IIRC). I get sushi and noodles from there quite often, and it SEEMS pretty good, though the only time I've had sushi from somewhere else was from a rather low-priced place in New York. The facility itself has a drive-through, and even though I don't like them, I figured it would be kind of cool (in a making-Duluth-look-"cosmopolitan" sort of way) if they'd use it, though the display window is currently broken and the lane itself seems to be in use as a parking spot for somebody's vehicle and package storage.
Does anybody know of any other sushi places throughout outstate Minnesota? These regions don't seem to be nearly as "cosmopolitan" in their dining preferences as the Twin Cities, being mostly rural. Most people around here seem to never have tried sushi, and many people confuse it with raw fish itself and therefore consider the idea of it disgusting.


text: Dungey, Pourcel Quickest In Dallas Qualifying Kit Palmer | March 20, 2010Ryan Dungey has let it be known that he's going to be the rider to beat later tonight when things get serious at the 11th round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Champion inside the spacious Cowboys Stadium in Texas.Dungey, on his Rockstar Makita Suzuki, set the quickest lap time following both timed qualifying sessions. Dungey was the only rider to crack the 48-second mark with a 48.623. Right behind him are five riders that got into the 49-second bracket, led by Honda Red Bull's Davi Millsaps with a 49.359, Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto with a 49.554, and GEICO Powersport Honda's Kevin Windham with a 49.571. Justin Brayton, on the JGR Yamaha, and Kyle Chisholm, on the MotoConcepts Yamaha, matched each other times with 49.931s.In the Lites class, points leader Christophe Pourcel, on the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki, is the quickest with a 49.278, edging out series rival Austin Stroupe, on the Rockstar Makita Suzuki, with a 49.474. They were the only two riders in the Lites class that got into the 49s.Star Racing Yamaha/DNA Shred Stix' Martin Davalos was third quickest with a 50.553. Right behind him was last week's winner Justin Barcia on the GEICO Powersports Honda with a 50.577.This is the first time that the new and massive Cowboys Stadium has hosted a Supercross race, and luckily it has a retractable roof. Despite seeing temperatures in the upper 60s the day before, things changed drastically over night at Dallas. Rain fell Saturday morning, as did temperatures, which are currently in the low 30s. But racing conditions inside the stadium couldn't be much better.Of note, Chad Reed is not racing tonight. The Monster Energy Kawasaki team rider was hoping to make his comeback last week at Toronto but injured his thumb before the race. He was hoping to be well enough to ride at Dallas, but he'll wait at least another week.Kit Palmer | Off-Road EditorKit Palmer started his career at Cycle News in 1984 and he's been testing dirt and streetbikes every since – plus covering any event that uses some form of a knobby tire. He's also our resident motorcycle mileage man with a commute of 120 miles a day. Comments


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CoSN Releases New Report on Use of Education Technology in Scandinavia: Implications for U.S. Educators
CoSN — Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Consortium for School Networking Releases New Report on Use of Education Technology in Scandinavia: Implications for U.S. Educators
Source: CoSN, February 27, 2008
Washington, DC (February 27, 2008) - The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) today released a new report exploring the use of education technology in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. It is intended to help U.S. educators understand the role of technology in improving teaching and learning in these countries.
In November 2007, CoSN led a weeklong delegation of senior U.S. educators and policymakers to Scandinavia. The delegation participated in a series of high-level talks with key members of the Finnish, Danish and Swedish Ministries of Education, as well teachers and administrators at schools in Helsinki, Finland and Copenhagen, Denmark.
"We selected Scandinavia because it ranks in the top-tier of international education comparisons. They are also societies that are very technology intensive and we wanted to explore their use of technology in educational institutions. We developed this report to share what we learned with American educators," said James Bosco, Chair of CoSN's International Committee.
The report discusses how each country approaches education, and the transformative role information and communications technologies (ICT) are playing in Scandinavian schools. ICT is viewed primarily as supportive rather than as a key driver of education innovation or a catalyst of transformation in these countries. Other factors such as a high regard for teachers, a commitment to encouraging student responsibility, the postponement of competitive grading until high school and classroom level autonomy are playing an integral part in each school system's success.
In addition, the report states, "ICT is viewed as important primarily to ensure student success in future careers. While some educators talked about the importance of integrating ICT into the school experience, technology tools, such as computers, were given to the teachers first as a way of supporting highly qualified teachers...A recurring theme from our Scandinavian visit was the critical importance for policymakers and education administrators to have a clear vision of how technology can improve teaching and learning. We heard this in nearly every meeting whether it was being identified as the reason for a successful strategy or its absence highlighted as a core reason for lack of progress."
Among other issues, the report explores the policies put in place in Scandinavia to create highly accountable and innovative educational systems that incorporate the use of ICT. The report notes that educators and policymakers in Scandinavia view assessment and accountability in a far different way than in the United States. "In contrast to the focus on quantitative measures and standardized testing found in the current U.S. context of No Child Left Behind, Finland, Sweden and Denmark rely more on a system that produces highly competent teachers who use their professional expertise to work with each student and develop individualized learning plans," reads the report.
"The goal of our visit and this report is to stimulate dialogue among U.S. education leaders and policymakers about how technology is being used in Scandinavia to improve educational outcomes, and the lessons we may be able to apply to our own schools, students and teachers," said Keith Krueger, CoSN's CEO. "If the United States is to remain a global leader in innovation and technology, it is important that we fully realize the impact that investments in education technology can make on maximizing the competitiveness of American students."
For more information about the report and the delegation, please visit http://www.cosn.org/resources/international/2007_trip/index.cfm#report.
The delegation was made possible through support from its lead sponsor Pearson Foundation with additional support from Atomic Learning, Nokia and Texas Instruments.
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CoSN's membership includes a unique blend of education and technology leaders, policy makers, and influencers from the public and private sectors. Our audience includes key technology leaders (often called Chief Technology Officers--CTOs) in leading-edge states and districts, policy makers, private sector leaders, as well as those technology leaders who wish to accelerate their districts' or states' systemic technology use. Visit www.cosn.org or phone 866.267.8747 to find out more about CoSN's programs and activities supporting leadership development to ensure that information technology has a direct and positive impact on student learning in elementary and secondary schools.


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March 11, 2011
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A Quality Stat, Better than Wins
Murray Chass is at it again, or perhaps he never stopped. I'm not sure, as I'll admit an aversion to reading the blog of a writer who years ago declared his loathing for the form and its practitioners, but now dwells in that very ghetto himself since being laid off by the New York Times. Chass has made noise twice in recent weeks via missives bemoaning the diminishing primacy of pitcher wins and assailing the so-called "new-age thinking" of anyone who would introduce more modern measures, be they VORP, WAR(P), or quality starts. Even the latter, which was introduced by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist John Lowe back in 1985, is too newfangled for Chass' tastes.
In mid-February, Chass took umbrage at the $2.025 million arbitration award which the Pirates' Ross Ohlendorf received following a hard-luck season in which the 28-year-old righty won one game while losing 11, albeit with a respectable 4.07 ERA. "[T]imes have changed for pitchers. They don't have to win games any more. Just throw some good-looking statistics out there other than wins, and they can win Cy Young awards and salary arbitration cases," he wrote.
Never mind that even while battling back and shoulder woes, the Dorf's season was actually quite similar to his 2009 campaign, which featured a superficially more impressive won-loss record:
Ohlendorf's peripherals fluctuated from one year to the next, but all told, he outdid his SIERA by more than half a run in both years thanks to above-average defensive support. The biggest difference between his two seasons is that in 2010, he finished in a virtual tie with Johan Santana and Ryan Rowland-Smith for the honor of being the majors' worst-supported starter among those with at least 20 turns. To hear Chass tell it, this is evidence of the breakdown of society:
Under this new-age thinking, if a team doesn't score more than three runs a game, a pitcher isn't expected to win. No longer is a pitcher expected to win 3-2 or 2-1. If his team doesn't score at least four runs, it's not the pitcher's fault if he doesn't win.
Elsewhere in that piece, Chass bemoans the intricacies of the arbitration process, an irony given that he made his mark by pioneering the coverage of the business side of the game during the heyday of Marvin Miller, eventually earning the J.G. Taylor Spink Award. He stops short of calling for the abolition of arbitration, but it's clear from his insinuating tone that he's choking down every explanation for the pitcher's arbitration victory—including reliance on such arcane stats as ERA, innings pitched and run support—offered by those close to the case with the enthusiasm of a man forced to eat worms covered in boogers. Cheer up, Murray, is it really as bad as getting the Fire Joe Morgan treatment?
Last week, Chass again took up arms against the quality start (among other things) in an article titled "Pampered Pitchers and Their Enablers." He even talked to the stat's creator:
"I got the idea in 1983 and '84," Lowe said. "I was hearing managers saying they were looking for six innings from their pitchers. I heard Whitey Herzog say 'all I want from my pitchers is six good innings.'"
Elsewhere in the piece, Chass lauds the won-loss record and the durability of Warren Spahn, who ranks sixth on the all-time wins list (and fifth on the pitcher WARP list) and who still excelled in his early Forties. He echoes some valid points in terms of the way modern pitchers are conditioned (five-day rotations, pitch counts, and so on) relative to their forebears, but flogging them for the sake of exalting an outlier who retired just shy of half a century ago isn't a terribly convincing argument. Who's going to tell him that nobody hits like Ted Williams anymore, either?
In any event, with the quality start no spring chicken, it's worth looking back at its relationship to modern pitching history in order to clear up some misconceptions about the stat and its utility. Via Chass and his allies, the chief complaint about the stat what we'll call the 4.50 Case, the times when a pitcher surrenders exactly three runs in six innings. I've argued elsewhere that the stat should be expanded to include starts in which a pitcher surrenders four earned runs in eight or more innings, and one can certainly take issue with the preservation of the artificial distinction between earned and unearned runs in this not-so-new metric, but for now, we'll stick with Lowe's definition so as to keep comparing apples to apples.
That 4.50 game ERA is higher than the major league average in all but eight of the last 61 seasons (as far back as Baseball-Reference.com's quality start data goes), so one can understand some of the resistance to hanging a "quality" tag on such an effort, but it's also true that such cases are infrequent. Last year, 4.50 Case starts made up just 8.5 percent of all quality starts, and 4.5 percent of all starts. Those pitchers' teams went 98-122 in those games, for a .445 winning percentage. Historically speaking, all of those figures are relatively high. Since 1950, the 4.50 Case starts have constituted just 5.9 percent of quality starts and 3.0 percent of all starts. Their frequency fell below 10 percent in the former category for the first time since 2005, a development that had plenty to do with the major league scoring rate (4.38 runs per game) falling to its lowest level since 1992. From 1950 onward, teams have won at a .419 clip in such games, but while team winning percentages fell below .333 no less than 15 times between 1950 and 1972, they've been that low in just two seasons since (1976 and 1981) and have reached .500 in just four seasons (1994, 2000, 2007, and 2008). That the strike-torn 1981 and 1994 seasons wind up among the outliers is duly noted; they may owe their presence on the list to smaller sample sizes. The takeaway is the same: teams don't win all that many of those 4.50 Case games, but those games make up only a small portion of quality starts.
What should be fairly obvious given all of the above is that the frequency of quality starts is heavily dependent upon scoring rates. In fact, it tracks almost perfectly. From 1950 through 2010, the correlation between the major league scoring rate and the overall percentage of quality starts is -.94. When the scoring rises, the quality start percentage (QS%) falls just as surely as God made little green apples for teenagers to chuck at Chass' proverbial front porch. Note the way the two lines mirror each other:
The highest QS% was in 1968, the Year of the Pitcher, when teams scored just 3.42 runs per game—the lowest scoring level since 1908—and 62.6 percent of all starts were quality starts. The lowest QS% was in 1996, when teams averaged 5.04 runs per game—the highest level since 1936—and 45.8 percent of all starts were quality starts. In 2000, when scoring crested at 5.14 runs per game, just 46.3 percent of starts were quality starts. With runs per game falling, last year was the first time since 2005 and just the second time since 1993 that the QS% rose above 50 percent.
Overall, the linear relationship between scoring rate and quality start percentage is described by the line y = -0.094x + .9263, where x is the scoring rate and y the frequency of such starts. In an environment of 4.0 runs per game, we'd expect 55.0 percent of starts to be quality, with the percentage dropping to 50.3 at 4.5 runs per game, and to 45.6 percent at 5.0 runs per game, very close to our actual observed percentages.
Regardless of the scoring rate or the era, pitchers making quality starts have collectively kicked ass. The combined ERA of starters in all quality starts in a given season has ranged from 1.63 in 1968 to 2.13 in 2000—yes, the two most extreme years again—with an overall average of 1.90. It rose above 2.00 just once from 1950 through 1992, coming in at 2.03 in the anomalous 1987, when the major-league scoring level (4.72 runs per game) rose higher than in any other season in a 43-year stretch (1951-1993). From 1993 through 2009, the ERA in quality starts was a smidge above 2.00 in every season save for 1995 (1.99); it dipped to 1.98 last year. Meanwhile, the combined ERA of starters in all non-quality starts has ranged from 6.98 (terrible) to 8.25 (godawful), with 1968 and 2000 again representing the extremes; 7.65 is the average, and 7.58 was last year's figure, down just a whisker from the previous two seasons. It topped 8.00 in four seasons (1994, 1996, 1999, and 2000). Graphically speaking:
Note that these ERA splits aren't all that different from what we see when looking at all pitcher ERAs in wins and losses. In 2010, pitchers posted a combined 1.96 ERA in wins, and 7.69 in losses. At the height of scoring in 2000, the numbers were 2.39 and 8.53; at the nadir in 1968, they were 1.36 and 5.22.
As you might expect, pitchers who deliver quality starts pitch deeper into games than the average starter. From 1950 through 1963, they averaged over 8.0 innings per start, and hovered just under that mark for the over another decade. As late as 2000 they were still consistently over 7.0 innings per start, while for the past decade, they've hovered between 6.82 and 7.01 per start, landing at 6.89 last year. Meanwhile, the average number of innings pitched in all starts has decreased from a high of 6.76 per inning in 1952, to a low of 5.79 in 2007; it's been below 6.0 in all but one year since 1995, but it did rise back to 5.98 last year. In general, quality starts hovered around 1.7 innings longer than the average start in the 1950s, slipped below 1.5 innings longer per start by the late 1970s, and spent the last decade falling from 1.07 innings longer to 0.91 last year, the first time it slipped below 1.0. Still, longer is good, and these guys work overtime.
In turn, pitchers delivering quality starts have left their teams with excellent chances of winning. Since 1950, teams have won at a .677 clip in games where they received a quality start, with the range running from .642 in 1968 to .717 in 1950. It hasn't been above .700 since 1958, when scoring was just 4.28 runs per game, but it was above .680 11 times from 1994 through 2007, with a high of .698 in 1996, when as noted before, scoring broke the 5.0 runs per game ceiling. The correlation between scoring rates and team winning percentage in quality starts is .71; the two are less directly tied together, but still more than a bit related.
While one might expect falling innings-per-start averages and complete game percentages to help explain the rest of the variance—perhaps pitchers not doing all the work their own damn selves harm their teams' chances of winning—such correlations surprisingly don't hold up. The correlation between team winning percentage in quality starts and annual complete game percentage is a negligible .06, and that between team winning percentage and annual average innings per start is -.15, meaning that the percentages actually fall with rising inning rates such as those observed in the first half of the '70s, when they were at their highest in two decades. In any event, the fact that teams win about two-thirds of the time when they receive quality starts is impressive enough.
Simplistic though it might be, the quality start metric has value. Over the past 61 years, the worth of a quality start has fluctuated in a relatively narrow range depending upon overall scoring levels (which to say the least are influenced by more than just the quality of pitching). No matter what the scoring level, the practitioners have collectively delivered elite-level ERAs around 2.00, with less than 10 percent producing the six-and-three performances over which detractors such as Chass obsess, and they've consistently left their teams in position to win even if they haven't been able to collect the W themselves. As for individual pitcher wins, we're not going there again today, except to point out that their decreasing stature owes plenty to the rising offensive levels, deeper lineups, longer at-bats, and increased reliever specialization which have made complete games largely a thing of the past. With the AL Cy Young awards going to Zack Greinke in 2009 and Felix Hernandez in 2010, it's clear that even most mainstream writers understand this, though some still cling to the bygone era.
For sure, the quality start metric could be improved by including unearned runs and expanding to eight-inning cases, or replaced entirely with something better. Here at Baseball Prospectus, we're partial to the Support-Neutral Winning Percentage (found on this leaderboard), which tells you how often a team would win a pitcher's starts given average offensive and bullpen support, but that's a story for another day. The humble quality start metric is doing a laudable job of recognizing quality, and it deserves better than the abuse it sometimes receives.
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Mar 11, 2011 05:14 AM
I'm hopeful that at some point we can add a BP-defined quality start incorporating unearned runs and eight-inning cases, but there are bigger fish to fry at the moment. And as I said above, I'm quite a fan of our Support Neutral Winning Percentage, which tracks pretty well with QS%. Among ERA qualifiers (162 IP), the correlation between QS% and SNWP was .79 in 2010.
Mar 11, 2011 08:50 AM
They probably shouldn't. I think the point is not that the state is terribly useful, but that it's not NOT useful.
Mar 11, 2011 06:44 AM
Mudslingers and propagandists like Chass deserve to have their bones picked. The assertion that modern metrics have no validity when compared with archaic ideas is as old and just as pointless as protestations in the 15th century that the world is indeed flat, no matter what evidence indicates.
Mar 11, 2011 09:15 AM
Agreed. Few have continued to invite consistent servings of schadenfreude pie the way Chass has, and we go way back with him here at Baseball Prospectus (http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2007/02/this-is-why-this-site-exists.html and http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=233&).
Mar 11, 2011 09:35 AM
To include unearned runs in the quality start metric would be ridiculous. Simply change it to 7 innings and 3 earned runs.
Mar 11, 2011 07:04 AM
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For every moron that rails on about the 4.50 quality start in defense of wins, answer him with this pitcher "win":
Mar 11, 2011 07:12 AM
There are so many problems with Quality Start as a useful measure of anything (run environment, defensive support, 'quality' vs. 'QUALITY!'), I can't see any point to it. Like calling for Ford to restart a line to build 2001 model cars because they're better than the 1991 models you still find out on the road here and there.
Mar 11, 2011 09:26 AM
I was suprised to see the W% for the Case start at .455. I would have guessed it would be higher. I wonder what it is for 6 1/3 IP and 3 ER. Wherever the line is that gets you above .500, that is how I would define a quality start.
Mar 11, 2011 09:39 AM
Interesting that only about 6% of QS are of an iffy sort. If that's enough to discard the entire stat as useless, as Mr. Chass would apparently say, then we must also be done with errors, ERA, park- or league- or era-unadjusted BA and XBH, certainly W-L, and probably most of the other traditional stats that he feels captured everything we'd ever want to know.
Mar 11, 2011 09:41 AM
"You kids get off my lawn" -Murray Chass
Mar 11, 2011 09:46 AM
Thanks for the article, Jay! This is awesome, in fact.
Mar 11, 2011 09:52 AM
Alas, it was late in the game when I thought that such a comparison might be worthwhile, and would have required hand-harvesting the data instead of querying our department.
Mar 11, 2011 10:23 AM
I can't think of any reason Murray Chass would be worth discussing, even by way of introducing an otherwise interesting article.
Mar 11, 2011 10:58 AM
Murray Chass is to baseball as Sarah Palin is to politics as Charlie Sheen is to intelligence.
Mar 11, 2011 11:54 AM
Murray Chass reminds me of the monkeys in 2001: A Space Oddyseey when the monolith appears.
Mar 11, 2011 12:13 PM
Yeesh - Odyssey
Mar 11, 2011 12:15 PM
I like that guys like Chass are still writing stuff like that. The more they write and talk, the more silly they sound and the more folks who actually like to think and stuff will get interested in the "newer" stats (many of the "new" stats and ideas are getting into their 20s and 30s) and the newer ways of looking at baseball.
Mar 11, 2011 14:00 PM
Rusty Pecker
It's those DAMN COMPUTERS DOIN' ALL THEM FANCY STUFFS AND WHAT NOTS THAT DEM YUNGUNS DONE GROWN UP WITH!
Mar 11, 2011 14:07 PM
I don't understand the caption on the picture for this article on the front page, according to Chass, Mathewson is in the best shape of his after-life.
Mar 12, 2011 07:07 AM
John Douglass
Chass: "this, I think, is my favorite Spahn statistic: the man gained 25 percent of his victories, 91 of 363, when his team scored three or fewer runs."
Mar 12, 2011 12:18 PM
To give him his due there, it is about Spahn. He's suggesting Spahn 'pitched to the score' to gain those 91 victories.
Mar 12, 2011 12:49 PM
Spahn's belief in the Easter Bunny was responsible for all of those eggs the children found.
Mar 12, 2011 17:26 PM
John Douglass
Richie--I get Chass' intent. That's actually the primary reason I take issue with it. I don't think his point about Spahn is a good one. It's not like saying:
Mar 12, 2011 17:40 PM
Well, he's also saying it's his "favorite" thing, not the "most notable" thing, about Spahn. Chass gives us statheads plenty of stuff to ridicule, without also spinning stuff a bit on him.
Mar 12, 2011 20:10 PM
I don't really see why anyone would have suspected that quality start pct. did not correlate well with avg. runs scored, or with ERA, or with team win pct. I.e., I don't see why this analysis was performed or what it really proves.
Mar 13, 2011 00:19 AM
I've never considered 'quality start' a particularly useful concept.
Mar 13, 2011 09:33 AM
I decided to test this in response to evo34's comment above.
Mar 13, 2011 10:19 AM
Sometimes statistics impact reality and it seems possible the "quality start" is an example. If pitching six innings and allowing three runs or less is the goal, do pitchers and managers employ strategies designed to maximize this result in the (probably mistaken) view that such a strategy helps them win games? This interesting article notes that the number of '4.50 starts' last year was significantly higher than the historical average since 1950 (2010- 8.5%; Avg. 5.9%). Was 2010 an outlier, or is this a trend? If the latter, it may be that that the stat is affecting the way the game is played. If so, this is probably unfortunate because of all of the reasons mentioned by others above about why the stat is not that useful (even if better than wins).
Mar 13, 2011 13:33 PM
You make some good points.
Mar 14, 2011 10:17 AM
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