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You don't need to search far to make growth analogous with sports. We grow up alongside and with athletes, moving through our lives while they move through their careers. They're an ever-persistent force, always looking forward, and their existence -- be it through aging, or injections of youth from the minors or college or what have you -- is a constant reminder of our own progression through life. Nowhere is this more apparent than in baseball, given the organization of its leagues and levels.
Major League Baseball is the one active* organization that can draft a player out of high school. Nothing makes a college student who used to play some high school ball feel as old -- or their dream as dead -- as Justin Upton's being drafted as a 17-year-old. Nor does the birthday of Felix Hernandez, less than two weeks after this not-so-hypothetical college student's own, do their aspirations any favors.
*The NHL allows the drafting of high school players, but until they figure out their lockout streak, they're about as active as your local BASEketball team.
This ability to draft and sign a player at such a tender age allows for long-term fan-player relationships. You watch the player start in the lower levels of the minors as a teenager. You watch them progress through the minor-league system, stumbling, failing, but, in enough cases to keep Major League Baseball alive and well, growing and developing, turning the promise they once held into actualized performance. By the time a player gets to the majors, a dedicated fan might already have four-or-five years of familiarity with them, and if the team has played its cards right, it might squeeze another six or seven seasons from them.
That's a significant chunk of time. In this scenario, we're talking about a player who has been around for about 10 years. What's changed in your life in the last decade? Maybe you graduated college. Maybe you graduated high school and college. Maybe you met the love of your life, and through nature's late-night gift to humanity*, or adoption, or science, or maybe just a few too many drinks one night, maybe you had a kid. And let's not even get into the various cell phones you've had in the past 10 years, as the older ones now look straight out of Star Trek.
*Sex, you guys.
Because of the sheer length of time it takes for players who aren't Mike Trout or Bryce Harper to develop, it's easy to see how fans can become impatient with those who don't immediately actualize their potential. You see a player drafted, you watch them show promise in the minors, and halfway into the major-league part of this arrangement, maybe they still aren't who you thought they were or wanted them to be. You'd be upset at one of your friends or kids if they were halfway through life as an underachiever, and while you don't have that kind of intimate relationship with a baseball player, you can certainly project one on them easily enough, for the right or wrong reasons.
Like your intelligent and talented buddy who just won't get a regular job or is incapable of heading out on dates with anyone who will keep them out of trouble, the path of someone like the Mets' Jonathon Niese can be infuriating to a dedicated fan. Niese was drafted back in 2005 as an 18 year old and was placed in the short-season Gulf Coast League. He toiled in the minors for three years, full of flaws but equally full of promise, until he made the majors for the first time in 2008. He would once again briefly show his face in 2009, making five starts at various points during the year, but didn't come up for good until 2010. That's four years of minor-league performances and major-league teases, all before Niese was even the age where he would have graduated college had he gone that route. Four years is a long time, especially for a fan base in need of pitching.
When Niese was good, but not great, for his first two full years in the bigs, it became even easier to be impatient with his lack of growth. Niese had excellent stuff, and he knew how to find the strike zone consistently. What he hadn't figured out, though, is the next-level stuff that is rarely natural, regardless of the level of a hurler's repertoire. Niese didn't throw enough quality strikes, leading to higher-than-usual batting averages on balls in play. He was inefficient, and fatigued at season's end, damaging his overall numbers. By the time the opposition saw him a third time in his starts, it was wise to lift Niese if your intention was to win games.
The Mets were and are focused on developing their kids, though, so Niese stuck in those contests, stretching himself out further and facing difficult situations that he, in many instances, failed to succeed in. It paid off in 2012, as Niese, despite little change in his peripherals, was better for longer periods of time, allowing for a career-high 190 innings, a return to the land of 30 starts, as well as career-bests in ERA and ERA+ that, for the first time, matched his pure stuff. No longer a tease, Niese grew into what Mets fans have been waiting the better part of a decade for. Because of the nature of baseball's first major league contracts, coupled with the extension the Mets signed Niese to, those fans will now get to see this all grown up pitcher through at least 2016, and 2018 if his options are picked up. That's 14 years of Jonathan Niese, and it makes the few years of impatience waiting for him to develop seem trivial.
Niese's case isn't abnormal, either. Just last year, many players like him -- around for years, full of promise, but failing to realize it -- finally broke out in a way that many fans and analysts felt was late in coming. Edwin Encarnacion became more patient, swinging out of the zone less, seeing more pitches, and crushing those he did offer at. Ian Desmond, the Washington Nationals' shortstop, drafted by the now-extinct Montreal Expos back in 2004, similarly delivered on long-term promise by setting career highs in just about everything of consequence in his age-26 campaign.
Chris Davis, traded as part of a larger package deal for reliever Koji Uehara less than a year before, finally performed in the manner that attracted scouts to him in the first place while with the Orioles, mashing 33 homers and slugging over .500. Jeff Samardzija, who had the stuff but hadn't put it together either in relief, starting, the minors, or majors, was placed in the Cubs' rotation and put together a productive and average campaign. Michael Brantley, 25 years old and drafted back in 2005, owner of nearly 1,000 major-league plate appearances heading into 2012, finally broke out as well as the Indians' center fielder, hitting .288/.348/.402 with capable defense.
In the case of Davis and Desmond, their teams were helped to the playoffs by these somewhat unexpected -- or, more aptly, delayed -- developments. Encarnacion's rise didn't directly bring Toronto to the postseason yet, but his emergence helped justify their Big Trades of this off-season that, in theory, are supposed to propel them towards an October continuation in the coming season. Samardzija and Brantley aren't core players, but they're inexpensive, under team control, and are filling holes their clubs now don't have to worry about. Not too shabby of a turnaround for a group with a lifetime's worth of professional baseball experience among them.
It's easy to forget how talented and promising players who no longer have the prospect sheen on them are, especially when you've become as familiar with their ups and downs, their path to growth, for good or bad. But like with everything else, growth takes time. It takes experience. And like you, or someone you know in your own line of work or your larger life, things don't always figure themselves out immediately. That's what makes the rise of the Trouts and Harpers of the world, in baseball or otherwise, as special as they are. Don't let that cloud your perception of everyone else, though. Those who have to work a little harder, a little longer, are just growing at their own pace. And when they get to where they need to be, there will be payoff for your loyalty and patience ...
... And if they fail, there's always another crop of kids for you to be overly attached to behind them, even if they make you feel even older than the previous bunch did.
Marc Normandin is one of SBN's Designated Columnists and one of the managers of Over the Monster. Follow him at @Marc_Normandin.


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Hansel and Grethel, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella... have you ever wondered what life would be like if these fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm were true? The stories our parents told us at bedtime come to life in this thrilling new drama about a homicide detective who learns that he is a descendant of an elite group of hunters called "Grimms," who have been tasked with keeping the world safe from these supernatural creatures. As he researches his family's past, he soon realizes that he is the only person left who is able to detect these beings and prevent the mythological creatures from unleashing their powers upon unsuspecting victims.
Series Premiere:
October 28, 2011
When is it on?:
Fridays at 9:00 PM ET on NBC. Full episodes can be viewed free of charge on NBC's Grimm video page. As always, episodes can be purchased from iTunes or Amazon.
'Grimm' Cast:
- David Giuntoli as Nick Burckhardt
- Russell Hornsby as Hank Griffin
- Bitsie Tulloch as Juliette Silverton
- Silas Weir Mitchell as Eddie Monroe
- Sasha Roiz as Capt. Renard
- Reggie Lee as Sgt. Wu
- Each episode begins with a quote from one of the Grimm fairy tales.
- The series, which is based in Portland, OR, is also filmed there.
- Kate Burton (Grey's Anatomy) starred in the first three episodes as Nick's aunt.
- Before landing his role on Grimm, series star Silas Weir Mitchell starred as the mentally unsound inmate in Prison Break. Reggie Lee (Sgt. Wu) also appeared on the show as Bill Kim for sixteen episodes over the course of the second season.
- Although series star David Giuntoli has has several guest starring roles over the years, Grimm is his first starring role.
The Brother's Grimm:
The Brother's Grimm were authors who lived in the late 1700s and published collections of folklore which were passed down from generation to generation. Some of their most popular fairy tales included:
- Cinderella
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Briar Rose, whom we know as Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White
- Rumpelstiltskin
- The Golden Goose
- Rapunzel
- Hansel and Grethel
- Tom Thumb
'Grimm' vs 'Once Upon a Time':
It's funny that in same season, two dramas based on fairy tales would come to the small screen and while some of the legendary stories may be the same in nature, I assure you that both shows are completely different. Both shows deal with the same fairy tale characters and do take some creative license with the actual tale, but there are some major differences:
- The series is considered a crime drama in which the main character is first and foremost, a detective hunting down the bad guys... even if they are the big bad wolf.
- The characters exist solely in this world.
- We don't get the bad stories of the fairy tale characters as they existed in fairytale land.
- Most importantly -- most of these fairy tale characters are violent creatures/beings who don't live happily ever after.
- Stories such as Little Red Riding Hood may be the foundation of an episode, but most of the evil beings Nick hunts aren't creatures named in the fairy tales.
- There are two worlds being depicted -- the fairytale realm and the modern day world.
- Each character has a back story that occurs in fairy tale land. The writers make sure we understand that what happened to these characters in the other realm is the burden they carry with them into our world.
- Although one of the main characters may be a bounty hunter, she certainly isn't solving any crimes -- other than that of the mayor (a.k.a. the evil queen).

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We've been to loads of ATPs and I was thinking about going to Jabberwocky. Really tempted by the great lineup and handily in London (where I live). But the venue? The Excel Centre? A convention-centre box? I couldn't picture it being fun. The promoters tried to insist that it was a great idea for a venue, but it seems I was probably like a lot of people thinking "nah". (Look at the reasons they give, crap reasons. No-one ever complained at ATP about the bar queues or the wifi coverage. The only thing I complained about was that the go-karting track was shut!) I've seen a lot of those bands before, too, it's classic ATP roster, so if the place isn't a place I want to go to then there's just not enough draw.
That 405 article mentions an early "leak" of plans that they were aiming to hold it in the Olympic Park. Now that would have been a place to hold it. Apparently the Olympic Park claimed ignorance, saying they never received a booking, but that sounds like PR-speak pinpointing that they were in initial discussions but didn't take it further. I would imagine that the Olympic Park demanded a much higher price than Excel since they have quite a lot of prestige and political muscle - or maybe it was just an issue of technical requirements or the like. But the Jabberwocky organisers clearly decided that they'd got the other things in place (lineup etc) so they'd press ahead with London in some other mega-venue, and hoped that the magic they once weaved on Pontins or Butlins would happen in the Excel.
This weekend there will be lots of great Jabberwocky fall-out gigs across London. That's totally weird. And I'm sorry I won't be in London to catch any of them! But it's very very weird because it's going to be about 75% of the festival, but converted from a monolithic one into one of those urban multi-venue festivals. The sickening thing about that is that even though the organisers clearly cocked some stuff up royally, I still feel terrible for them having to go bust and get no benefit from the neat little urban fallout festival they've accidentally organised. Now if ATP had decided to run it that way, I would very likely have signed up for it, and dragged my mates down to London!]]>
I also want to point to a more "one-sided" piece (in the sense that it criticises one "side" specifically - I've no idea about the author's actual motivations): Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza - Debunked. I recommend it because it raises some interesting points about international law and the like, and we in the UK don't seem to hear these issues filled out on the radio.
Also this interview with Ex-Israeli Security Chief Diskin. Again I don't know Diskin's backstory - clearly he's opposed to the current Israeli Prime Minister (Netanyahu), but the interview has some detail.
As usual, please don't assume anyone is purely pro-Palestine or pro-Israel, and don't confuse criticism of Israel/Hamas with criticism of Judaism/Islam. The topic is hard to talk about (especially on the internet) without the conversation spiralling into extremes.]]>
1 in 3 rape victims have been drinking. Know your limits.
I can imagine there are people in a design agency somewhere trying to think up stark messages to make the nation collectively put down its can of Tennents for at least a moment, and it's good to dissuade people from problem drinking. But this is probably the most blatant example I've ever seen of what people have been calling "victim blaming".
If your friend came to you and said they'd been raped, would you say "You shouldn't have been drinking"? I hope not. And not just because it'd be rude! But because even when someone is a bit tipsy, it's not their fault they were raped, it's the rapist's fault.
It sounds so pathetically obvious when you write it down like that. But clearly it still needs to be said, because there are people putting together posters that totally miss the point. They should also bear in mind that a lot of people like to have a drink on a night out, or on a night in. (More than half of women in the UK drink one or two times a week, according to the 2010 General Lifestyle Survey table 2.5c) So it's actually no surprise AT ALL that 1/3 of rape victims have been drinking. What proportion of rape victims have been smoking? Dancing? Texting?
(By the way there's currently a petition against the advert.)
On the other hand, maybe it's worth thinking about the other side of the coin. People who end up as convicted rapists - some of them after a fuzzy night out or whatever - how many of them have been drinking? Does that matter? Yes, it matters more, because rape is an act of commission, and it seems likely that in some proportion of rapes a person went beyond reasonable bounds as a result of their drinking.
So how about this for a poster slogan:
1 in 3 rapists have been drinking. Know your limits.
(I can't find an exact statistic to pin down the number precisely - here I found an ONS graph which tells us in around 40% of violent crimes, the offender appears to have been drinking. So for rape specifically I don't know, but 1 in 3 is probably not wide of the mark.)
So now here's a question: why didn't they end up with that as a slogan? Is it because they were specifically tasked with cutting down women's drinking for some reason, and just came up with a bad idea? Or is it because victim-blaming for rape just sits there at a low level in our culture, in the backs of our minds, in the way we frame these issues?]]>
This and other geo-factoids available from my new web service. (I've named it "Feet From A Rat" in tribute to this hoary old urban legend.)]]>
What's the point of analysing bird sounds? Well...
One surprising fact about birdsong is that it has a lot in common with human language, even though it evolved separately. Many songbirds go through similar stages of vocal learning as we do, as they grow up. And each species is slightly different, which is useful for comparing and contrasting. So, biologists are keen to study songbird learning processes - not only to understand more about how human language evolved, but also to help understand more about social organisation in animal groups, and so on. I'm not a biologist but I'm going to be collaborating with some great people to help improve the automatic sound analysis in their toolkit - for example, by analysing much larger audio collections than they can possibly analyse by hand.
Bird population/migration monitoring is also important. UK farmland bird populations have declined by 50% since the 1970s, and woodland birds by 20% (source). We have great organisations such as the BTO and the RSPB, who organise professionals and amateurs to help monitor bird populations each year. If we can add improved automatic sound recognition to that, we can help add some more detail to this monitoring. For example, many birds are changing location year-on-year in response to climate change (source) - that's the kind of pattern you can detect better when you have more data and better analysis.
Sound is fascinating, and still surprisingly difficult to analyse. What is it that makes one sound similar to another sound? Why can't we search for sounds as easily as we can for words? There's still a lot that we haven't sorted out in our scientific and engineering understanding of audio. Shazam works well for music recordings, but don't be lulled into a false sense of security by that! There's still a long way to go in this research topic before computers can answer all of our questions about sounds.
I'll be developing automatic analysis techniques (signal processing and machine learning techniques), building on starting points such as my recent work on tracking multiple birds in an audio recording and on analysing frequency-modulation in bird sounds. I'll be based at Queen Mary University of London.
I'll also be collaborating with some experts in machine learning, in animal behaviour, in bioacoustics. One of the things on the schedule for this year is to record some zebra finches with the Clayton Lab. I've met the zebra finches already - they're jolly little things, and talkative too! :)
It's important because often, especially as an early-career researcher, if it takes one year for a journal article to come out (even after the reviewers have said yes), that's one year of not having it on your CV.
So how long do the different bits take? Here's a bar-chart summarising the mean durations in my data:
The data is divided into 3 sections: first, writing up until first submission; then, reviewing (including any back-and-forth with reviewers, resubmission etc); then finally, the time from final decision through to publication.
Firstly note that there are not many data points here, so for example I have one journal article that took an extremely long time after acceptance to actually appear, and this skews the average. But it's certainly notable that the time spent writing generally is dwarfed by the time spent waiting. And particularly that it's not necessarily the reviewing process itself that forces us all to wait - various admin things such as typesetting seem to take at least as long. Whether or not things should take that long, well, it's up to you to decide.
Also - I was awarded a fellowship recently, which is great - but you can see in the diagram, that I spent about two years repeatedly getting negative funding decisions. It's tough!
This is just my own data - I make no claims to generality.]]>
Here's the simple code example - using scoreatpercentile to find a percentile for some 2D array:
import numpy as np from scipy.stats import scoreatpercentile scoreatpercentile(np.eye(5), 50)
On my laptop with scipy 11.0 (and numpy 1.7.1) the answer is:
array([ 0., 0., 0., 0., 0.])
On our lab machine with scipy 13.3 (and numpy 1.7.0) the answer is:
In the first case, it calculates the percentile along one axis. In the second, it calculates the percentile of the flattened array, because in scipy 12 someone added a new "axis" argument to the function, whose default value "None" means to analyse the flattened array. Bah! Nice feature, but a shame about the compatibility. (P.S. I've logged it with the scipy team.)]]>
First of all, coincidentally I know that Pedro Pestana published a nice analysis of exactly this phenomenon, at the AES 53rd conference recently. He actually looked at hundreds of number-one singles to determine the relationship between panning and frequency in the habits of producers/engineers for popular tracks. The paper isn't open access unfortunately but there you go.
So anyway here's a Python script I just wrote: script to analyse your audio files and plot the distribution of panning per frequency. And here's how it looks when I analyse the excellent Rumour Cubes album:
(Just to stress, this is a simple analysis. It simply looks at the spectral representation of the complete mix, it doesn't infer anything clever about the component parts of the mix.)
See any patterns? The pattern I was looking for is a bit subtle, but it's right down at the bottom below 100 Hz (i.e. 0.1 kHz on the scale): the bass tends to "pinch in" and not get panned around so much as the other stuff.
This analysis of Lotus Flower by Radiohead (by Daniel Jones) shows the effect more clearly.
This is what's generally observed, and widely known in mixing engineer "folklore": pan your bass to the centre, do what you like with the rest. Not everyone agrees on the reasons: some people say it's because the bass can cause the needle to skip out of vinyl records if it's off-centre, some people say it's because we can't really perceive the spatialisation very well at low frequencies, some people say it's just to maximise the energy in the mix. I have no comment on what the reasons might be, but it's certainly folk wisdom for various audio people, and empirically you can test it for yourself by analysing some of your music collection.
NOTE: Code and image updated 2014-02-08, thanks to Daniel Jones (see comments below) for spotting an issue.
Don't get confused by the name, by the way: your data doesn't have to be Gaussian, and Gaussian Process regression doesn't always produce smooth Gaussian-looking results. It's very flexible.
As an example, here's a first pass I did of analysing the frequency trajectories in a single recording of birdsong.
I used the "GPy" Python package to do all this. Here's their GPy regression tutorial.
I do want to emphasise that this is just a first pass, I don't claim this is a meaningful analysis yet. But there's a couple of neat things about the analysis:
So now here's my second example, in a completely different domain. I'm not a geostatistician but I decided to have a go at reconstructing the hills and valleys of Britain using point data from OpenStreetMap. This is a fairly classic example of the technique, and OpenStreetMap data is almost a perfect for the job: it doesn't hold any smooth data about the surface terrain of the Earth, but it does hold quite a lot of point data where elevations have been measured (e.g. the heights of mountain peaks).
If you want to run this one yourself, here's my Python code and OpenStreetMap data for you.
This is what the input data look like - I've got "ele" datapoints, and separately I've got coastline location points (for which we can assume ele=0):
Those scatter plots don't show the heights, but they show where we have data. The elevation data is densest where we have mountain ranges etc, such as central Scotland and in Derbyshire.
And here are two different fits, one with an "exponential" kernel and one with a "Matern" kernel:
Again, the nice thing about Gaussian Process regression is that it seamlessly handles smooth generalisations as well as occasional patches of fine detail where needed. How good are the results? Well it's hard to tell by eye, and I'd need some official relief-map data to validate it. But from looking at these two, I like the exponential-kernel fit a bit better - it certainly gives an intuitively appealing relief map in central Scotland, and it gives visually a bit less blobbiness than the other plot. However it's a bit more wrong in some places, e.g. an overestimated elevation in Derbyshire there (near the centre of the picture). If you ask an actual geostatistics expert, they will probably tell you which kernel is a good choice for regressing terrain shapes.
The other thing you can see in the images is that it isn't doing a very good job of predicting the sea. Often, we dip down to altitude of zero at the coast and then pop back upwards after. No surprises about this, for two reasons: firstly I didn't give it any data points about the sea, and secondly I'm using "stationary" kernels, meaning there's no reason for the algorithm to believe the sea behaves any differently from the land. This is easy to fix by masking out the sea but I haven't bothered.
So altogether, these examples show some of the nice features of Gaussian Process regression, and, along with the code, that the GPy module makes it pretty easy to put together this kind of analysis in Python.]]>
Some notes on other things which I'm not sure how vital they are:
I'd be grateful for any feedback on the thoughts above, including other things that could be priorities. Just one UK mapper's perspective.]]>


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As a bakers' strike threatens to kill off the legendary snack-cake manufacturer Hostess, consumers on Twitter are pausing for a moment of reflection. With the company threatening to liquidate if workers don't return by tonight, this could be the end of the company.
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Twinkie's may never be made again. Fear not, America. We still have the Chocolate Fountain at Golden Coral.—
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08.27.2014 - John's 22nd full-length album and first release for Republic Records
Plain Spoken
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The Paintings Of John Mellencamp On View At The Museum Of Art Deland, FL
08.25.2014 - The exhibition will feature some 40 oil and mixed media paintings, which will remain on view at the Museum from October 10, 2014 until December 28, 2014. Mellencamps unbridled creativity enables him to aesthetically express hard-hitting truthful messages with distinctive perception. John Mellencamps subject matter is of human existence painted as simply, starkly and fully as he himself experienced it, said Museum of ArtDeLand CEO George Bolge. Art is not merely something he uses to clarify his position or to give point to his vision of life, its the very substance of who he is and what he wants to say. Read the complete press release after the jump.
American Boy and Girl, 2013
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"Troubled Man" Available For Digital Download
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Rolling Stone Exclusive: Hear John Mellencamp's 'Plain Spoken' New Single 'Troubled Man'
08.18.2014 - John will return from a four-year recording hiatus on September 23rd with
Plain Spoken
, his first album under a groundbreaking "lifetime contract" with Republic Records. Listen to an exclusive stream of its lead single, the acoustic guitar-driven "Troubled Man" on
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John Mellencamp's New Album "Plain Spoken" Will Be Released September 23, 2014 On Republic Records
08.14.2014 - John Mellencamp will release his new album,
Plain Spoken
, Tuesday, September 23, 2014, followed by an 80 city North American Tour starting in January. This is his 22nd full-length album and first release for Republic Records.
Plain Spoken
includes ten stunningly elegant and soul-searching Americana gems from The Voice of the Heartland, John Mellencamp, while celebrating his skill not just as a song craftsman but as a world-class entertainer. The lead track "Troubled Man" will be available on
Tuesday, August 19th and impacts radio on September 8th. Read the complete press release with track listings after the jump.
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Plain Spoken
08.14.2014 - The lead track, "Troubled Man," off of John's forthcoming album
Plain Spoken
will be available on iTunes, Tuesday, August 19th and is going out to radio in the next few weeks. On its release on Tuesday, September 23, 2014,
Plain Spoken
will be available in a 10-track edition on CD, vinyl and download. After the jump is a larger version of the single, which features an original painting by John Mellencamp.
Artwork for "Troubled Man" Single
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Rolling Stone: The Playlist - John Mellencamp Expert Opinion
08.13.2014 - In the new issue of Rolling Stone Magazine with Willie Nelson on the cover, hitting shelves now, "The Playlist" played five songs new and old for the heartland rocker, - whose
Plain Spoken
LP is due in September, and asked for his take on each one. Check out John's "Expert Opinion" of these songs after the jump.
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Farm Aid Music And Food Festival Head To North Carolina On Sept. 13th
07.24.2014 - Farrm Aid announced today that its annual benefit concert will head to Raleigh, NC on Saturday, Sept. 13, taking place at the Walnut Creek Amphitheater in Raliegh, North Carolina
Farm Aid 2014 will feature Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds as well as Jack White, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jamey Johnson, North Carolinas own Delta Rae, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Carlene Carter, Pegi Young & The Survivors, and Insects vs Robots.
Tickets will go on sale Friday August 1st at 10 AM EDT via
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Raleigh NewsObserver: Farm Aid Coming To Raleigh In September Mellencamp Interview
07.24.2014 - John spoke with David Menconi of the Raleigh News Observer this week announcing Farm Aid 29 on September 13th at the Walnut Creek Amphitheater. Read the complete interview after the jump. Here are some excerpts: I think North Carolina has always been an important part of small family farms dating back to the Civil War,
We come down there with respect for the hard work people have done there...
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Rolling Stone: "Trouble No More Live" Album Review
07.18.2014 - Read Andy Greene's of Rolling Stone magazine complete review after the jump. Here are some excerpts "excellent live album..."
"Just 11 years later, the concert already feels like a time capsule of a bygone era...
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Trouble No More Live At Town Hall
Available Now!
06.16.2014 -
John Mellencamp Performs Trouble No More Live At Town Hall
documents John performing material from his 2003 studio album
Trouble No More
, a collection of classic folk and blues songs that had been an inspiration to and influence on Mellencamp. The live album comes from a July 31, 2003 New York City show at Town Hall, one of only two shows performed upon the release of
Trouble No More
. The album, to be released on July 8, 2014, features many of the songs from the
Trouble No More
album as well as rootsy versions of "Small Town" "Paper In Fire" and "Pink Houses" along with an inspired cover of "Highway 61 Revisited."
The CD and digital audio packages both feature the complete 15-song concert, while the vinyl LP highlights 10 performances from the show are available now at
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Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County
Will Tour North America This Fall
06.12.2014 - AEG Live announced today the southern gothic, supernatural musical
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
will tour across North America this Fall. The tour kicks off right outside Bangor, ME at the Collins Center For The Arts in Orono, ME, on November 8, travelling through cities such as Toronto, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles before wrapping in San Francisco on December 5. Tickets are on sale now at
Nov 8 Orono, ME Collins Center For The Arts
Nov 9 Orono, ME Collins Center For The Arts
Nov 11 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
Nov 13 Philadelphia, PA Merriam Theatre
Nov 14 Durham, NC Durham Performing Arts Center
Nov 16 Baltimore, MD The Modell Performing Arts Center at the LYRIC
Nov 18 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
Nov 20 Portland, ME Merrill Auditorium
Nov 21 Boston, MA Emerson Colonial Theatre
Nov 22 Providence, RI The VETS
Nov 24 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Nov 26 Detroit, MI Fisher Theatre
Nov 28 Chicago, IL Broadway in Chicagos Oriental Theatre
Nov 29 St. Louis, MO Peabody Opera House
Dec 1 Denver, CO Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre
Dec 3 Phoenix, AZ Orpheum Theatre
Dec 4 Los Angeles, CA Saban Theatre
Dec 5 San Francisco, CA SHN Curran Theatre
Please note: Stephen King, John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett are not part of the stage performance.
Read the complete press release after the jump.
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Massive, Career-Spanning John Mellencamp Boxed Set Now Available
12.01.2013 - John Mellencamp 1978 2012, a uniquely comprehensive boxed set collection covering the legendary singer/songwriters principal studio albums, will be released by Universal Music Enterprises on December 17. Pre-orders now at
ensure holiday delivery. The collection consists of a total of 19 CDs originally released over a recording career that spans 35 years.
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John Mellencamp - "Truth"
06.23.2013 - John Mellencamp performs "Truth" from the southern gothic supernatural album, "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," a collaboration between him, Stephen King, and T Bone Burnett.
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Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County Recording - ORDER YOURS TODAY!
06.04.2013 - After thirteen years of waiting, on Tuesday Mellencamp fans everywhere will finally be able to experience the John Mellencamp, Stephen King and T Bone Burnett Southern Gothic supernatural musical
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
when Hear Music/Concord Music Group releases the all-star recording this week!
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Dobbie rewarded with starting role
2:21pm Saturday 10th November 2012 in Sport By Brian Owen
Albion have given Stephen Dobbie the chance to shine from kick-off at sunny Molineux today.
The midweek matchwinner starts in support of Craig Mackaill-Smith for the first time as the Seagulls take on Wolves in the Championship.
There is also a recall for David in place of Will Buckley while, as expected, Liam Bridcutt returns after his one-match ban.
Bridcutt replaces Dean Hammond who joins Barnes and Buckley among the subs.
Winger Jermaine Pennant, on loan from Stoke, returns to the Wolves starting line-up having come off the bench in the midweek defeat at Hull.
Wolves: Ikeme; Foley, Johnson, Berra, Ward; Pennant, Edwards, Henry, Sako; Doyle, Ebanks-Blake. Subs: De Vries, Stearman, Sigurdarson, Batth, Davis, Forde, Doumbia.
Albion: Kuszczak; Bruno, Greer, Dunk, Bridge; Bridcutt, Crofts, Orlandi; David, Dobbie, Mackail-Smith. Subs: Ankergren, Calderon, Hammond, Dicker, Barnes, Buckley, Hoskins.
Ref: Scott Mathieson (Cheshire)
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On BBC text the goal by CMS was his first action, love th egoal but wonder why he seems to have been so out of the game, maybe BBC error.
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Injury concerns aside, a China tour keeps Bryant and the players that may join him in shape and busy, all while bringing the NBA to China. It's beneficial to Bryant and a subtle dig at the NBA during what promises to be a contentious work stoppage.
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The two young actors are rotating in the role with Ben Cook and Noah Parets, who joined the tour earlier this year. Minard's first performance was Dec. 15, and Tobin's was Dec. 16, both in Austin, TX.
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Billy Elliot the Musical is based on the film of the same name and features music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall, choreography by Peter Darling and direction by Stephen Daldry.
The production features scenic design by Ian MacNeil, associate direction by Julian Webber, costume design by Nicky Gillibrand, lighting design by Rick Fisher and sound design by Paul Arditti. Musical supervision and orchestrations are by Martin Koch. Touring production direction is by Justin Martin and choreography by Kathryn Dunn.
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Funeral services will be Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, at 1 p.m. at Cold Springs Baptist Church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Tommy Graves, Marvin Clemons, Ted Blaylock and Tim Sutton will officiate.
Abraham Lincoln once said "All that I am or hope to be came from my mother." We look to our mother for guidance on life's many journeys. We form our outlook on life and build our future plans on the example set forth by our mother.
Mrs. Williams was a woman who wore many hats. She was a Title I school teacher, homemaker, farmer, Sunday school teacher and a minister's wife for 58 years. Mrs. Williams was the leading lady to the Rev. Ervin E. Williams, better known as the "marble man." She purchased the 70,000 marbles Reverend Williams gave away during the course of his ministry. She dutifully kept up with the number of marbles in a small notebook, careful to record each one. She is the epitome of the saying "behind every good man, there is the love of a great woman." The Rev. and Mrs. Williams eloped and married when she was 18, and their love withstood the trials of World War II, poverty, sickness and death. Life has to end but love will never die.
Mrs. Williams was a true southern, born again, God fearing lady. She loved dainty dishes and flowers. She picked 300 pounds of cotton once to buy a set of dishes to entertain with. There are many life lessons she passed on to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She always taught how to love and support in times of bereavement, which included sending flowers and a covered dish. "Every Christian woman worth her salt sends flowers and a covered dish." Mrs. Williams owned an in-home state licensed day care center for 60 years. There are countless lives that have her joy and love impressed upon it. She treated each child as her own and kept up with her babies into adulthood. Mrs. Williams retired at the age of 80. Her pallbearers will be those she helped raise at her daycare.
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She was preceded in death by her father, William Dooley; mother, Bessie Jane Light Dooley; husband, Rev. Ervin Williams (Mr. Marble Man); brother, Leacil Dooley; sister-in-law, Betty Dooley; brother-in-law, Robert Drummond.
Mrs. Williams is survived by her daughters, Donna Bradford (Butch), Carolyn York (Tommie III) and Libbie Myers (Larry); sister, Marie Drummond; grandchildren, Tommie York IV, LeAnn Henderson (Terry), Angie Dye (Michael), Jessica Henderson (Jon), and Holly Bradford; great-grandchildren, Camron Henderson, Lakota York, Makayla Dye, Whitney Heaton, Colby Henderson, Payton Heaton, Logan Dye and Alley Heaton; and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends.
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See the first three rounds here. The rest of the selections...
Round 4: Team Staal takes defenseman Zdeno Chara, Team Lidstrom selects defenseman Shea Weber.
The teams traded off giant defensemen in Round 4.
Round 5: Team Staal takes high-scoring forward Rick Nash, Team Lidstrom selects goaltender Tim Thomas.
It took five rounds, but Lidstrom finally matched Staal by taking a goaltender. The teams needed to select three goaltenders by Round 10, and by this point, each team only had one.
Round 6: Team Staal selects goalie Henrik Lundqvist, Team Lidstrom selects forward Danny Briere.
Just before Round 6, TSN interviewed Eric's brother Marc Staal. Marc proceeded to lay down the guilt trip on his brother, to which Eric responded by taking, from the New York Rangers.... not Staal, but Lundqvist. Was that on purpose to rub it in, Eric?
Round 7: Team Staal selects.... brother Marc Staal, Team Lidstrom selects defenseman Dustin Byfuglien.
After messing with his brother a round earlier, the family Christmas will be okay next year. Eric felt bad enough to select his brother in Round 7.
Round 8: Team Staal selects Patrick Sharp, Team Lidstrom selects Jonathan Toews.
Jonathan Toews did look a little irritated after Staal took his teammate Sharp, but that quickly went away one pick later, as Patrick Kane and Team Lidstrom took Toews.
Round 9: Team Staal selects Dan Boyle, Team Lidstrom selects Marc-Andre Fleury.
With Staal's pick of the defenseman Boyle, and the requirement that all goalies must have been selected by Round 10, they assured that the goalies would be taken with the next three picks. Fleury's first.
Round 10: Team Staal selects goalie Carey Price, Team Lidstrom selects Jonas Hiller.
... Price is next, and Hiller's the last goalie selected.
Round 11: Team Staal selects Jeff Skinner, Team Lidstrom selects Brad Richards.
Jeff Skinner is the youngest All-Star ever (and boy, does he look it) and he'll be able to enjoy the event with his teammates, Cam Ward and Eric Staal, and in front of his home fans in Raleigh. All the Hurricanes are on Team Staal. Fitting.
Meanwhile, Brad Richards joins up with former teammate and linemate Martin St. Louis on Team Lidstrom.
Round 12: Team Staal selects defensemen Kris Letang, Team Lidstrom selects defenseman Keith Yandle.
Defensemen are starting to fall off the board now, as the teams have to fill their six spots by Round 15.
Round 13: Team Staal selects Claude Giroux, Team Lidstrom selects Brent Burns
Claude Giroux and his Flyers teammate Danny Briere live together. They'll be going head-to-head on Sunday.
Round 14: Team Staal selects Erik Karlsson, Team Lidstrom selects Martin Havlat.
Karlsson rounds out the defensemen, while late injury replacement Havlat joins Team Lidstrom.
Round 15: Team Staal selects Corey Perry, Team Lidstrom selects Anze Kopitar.
Round 16: Team Staal selects Patrik Elias, Team Lindstrom selects Matt Duchene.
Round 17: Team Staal selects David Backes, Team Lindstrom selects Loui Eriksson.
Round 18: Team Staal selects Paul Stastny, Team Lindstrom selects Phil Kessel.


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The first round of the NHL Draft kicks off this evening in Los Angeles. The first round of the draft is always unpredictable--weeks of meticulous planning and pontificating go out the window with the first trade--but this one almost seems even more unpredictable than usual. What makes it so unpredictable this year is that there are so many interesting question marks surrounding players, and it's impossible to tell how each team will react to them.
With that in mind, instead of giving you a mock draft that is sure to be horribly wrong, I thought I'd share some of the storylines that I'm curious to see unfold this evening.
1. Taylor vs. Tyler
This has been done a million times before by everyone else so I won't belabor the point. I've made it clear that my personal opinion is that Edmonton has to pick Taylor Hall, and have pretty much maintained Hall would go number one all year long. I rubbed some people the wrong way here back in October when I said the race between the two was manufactured drama, and heading into Draft Day, it kind of looks that way with Hall being nearly everyone's heavy favorite. But stranger things have happened, and it will be worth watching to see who goes number one.
2. What Order Will the Top D Go?
More interesting than spots one and two in the draft are the defensemen that could go three, four,and five in the draft: Cam Fowler, Erik Gudbranson, and Brandon Gormley. Fowler has been the heavy favorite all year, but in the past couple of weeks, it has become trendy to downgrade Fowler and move the other two past him. Personally, it's hard for me to go against Fowler, having watched him so many times over the past couple of years, but I can also see the drawbacks to that selection. I don't envy the guys that have to put their jobs on the line to make that pick.
You can also throw two American defensemen into the mix in Derek Forbort and Jon Merrill. Popular theory is that they're a notch below the other three, but both are ranked higher than Thomas Hickey or Blake Wheeler was when teams jumped up to grab them in the top five.
3. The Russian Factor
There are five talented Russian players that could go in the first round of the draft: Alex Burmistrov, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vladimir Tarasenko, Stanislav Galiev, and Kirill Kabanov. Kabanov will likely fall out of the first round for a myriad of red flags beyond his nationality, but it will be interesting to see how teams handle the other players.
There's a lot more over at WCHB. Go read, thank us later.
For more from our writers in LA, follow our Twitter list and stay right here at SBNation.com as the day progresses.


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The crux is the first move. Start on the rail underneath the original start.
Some pads.
So, the start is down and right of the Kind. Starts on a short crimp rail and does a left hand move to an improbable pinch. Hard move coming in with your right hand to an underclinging sidepull. Then fire into a decent hold on the Kind and finish. Two Pads. I don't think this is called the Kind sit start.
I started on the slopey rail with a heel hook to the left. Moved right hand up to a crimp and walked my feet back under me. Made a left hand move to a slopey edge/pinch (crux). Then got right heel hook and came in left hand to an okay edge compression. Finally bumped left hand to a good hold on The Kind and continued up the line.
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Philip Proctor has been a tentacled monster, juvenile delinquent, intoxicated monkey, talking seahorse and king among Smurfs. This week, he's a native son paying a visit.
An actor who found early fame as a member of The Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, Proctor was born in Goshen. He returns to the Maple City for a Goshen College Performing Arts Series concert Friday.
Together with the Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Proctor will stage a multimedia show based on Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote." He'll portray a variety of characters in the tale.
Proctor will be easy to spot onstage Friday. That's a change of sorts for a performer more often heard than seen.
The short list of Proctor's TV and movie roles includes voice work in "Rugrats," "Monsters, Inc." (he was Charlie the assistant), "Finding Nemo" (Bob the seahorse) and Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Doolittle" flicks (drunken French monkey). He was also the announcer on "Big Brother" for three years.
"'Previously, on 'Big Brother 3'...,'" Proctor intoned in a recent phone interview with The News.
Long before he was a voice heard on a reality TV program, though, Proctor was a boy on a bicycle.
Maple City roots
Proctor claims Irish and Amish ancestry. To learn more about his family, he suggests, pick up a book titled "Rosanna of the Amish." His great-uncle, Joseph W. Yoder, is the author.
In Proctor's family, people could sing and harmonize and loved to tell jokes. Proctor says he was born with an ability to mimic the sounds he heard. From an early age he could sing, and he picks up languages easily.
A Goshenite by birth, Proctor mostly lived out east during his formative years. He attended Allen-Stevenson elementary school in New York, performing in school productions of Gilbert and Sullivan shows. He later received a bachelor of arts degree in drama from Yale.
Until his teen years, though, Proctor spent most of his summers in Goshen with his grandparents, George and Hazel Yoder. They lived in a "big, old, beautiful brick house that's still there" along Fifth Street, he said.
Proctor said he has fond memories of his time here.
"I grew up on a bike in Goshen," he said, "so I probably know the alleys better than I know the main streets."