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Blog readers will be familiar with Ryan and Kassidy Brown, siblings who are traveling from Alaska to Argentina in a "Journey of Action" — highlighting young people they meet along the way who are working to make positive social and environmental impact.
Ryan and Kassidy's journey recently took them to San Antonio, Texas where they spent the day with City Year — an organization near and dear to Timberland hearts. City Year's San Antonio corps showed Journey of Action what leadership, dedication and positive impact means, and how they're working to equip our next generation with the skills and opportunities to change the world.
Celebrating the First Snow
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Ryan and Kassidy Brown are a brother and sister team from Nashville, Tennessee and together, they are Journey of Action – a Timberland-sponsored project that is part media tour, part road trip, part inspirational expedition.
For Journey of Action, Ryan and Kassidy are driving from Alaska to Argentina – a 6-month trip that is taking them into 14 countries and over 15,000 miles. Along the way, they're highlighting the many amazing young people they meet – those working to make positive social and environmental impacts and change.
One of the most recent highlights from Ryan and Kassidy's journey was a trip to Flagstaff, Arizona and the Navajo Nation, where they had the unique opportunity to "snow bathe" – a cleansing, purifying (and obviously COLD) ritual that celebrates the blessings of the first snow.
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| Posted: Thursday, Dec 26, 2013 06:00 am
Matt Carre
Local Realtor Matt Carre created Airdrie Angels, a non-profit program that aims to provide help for those struggling with life-threatening diseases in January. Carre and his wife Michelle were inspired by the Make A Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. The program had assisted 12 people by the middle of December.
Stephen McPhee
Stephen's Backpacks Society started off 2013 on a high note. In July, the group's annual Canada Day barbecue collected more than 100 new pairs of children's shoes and monetary donations for the organization's Footprints campaign. For the 2013 Christmas backpacks campaign, the organization teamed up with 200 Starbucks coffee stores across Alberta to collect money and items for backpacks from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15. In November, TransCanada Pipeline's Rocky Mountain Region announced they had a toy drive for the charity, collecting hundred of toys for the cause.
Bert Church High School The school had a big year. Principal Pam Davidson was on hand to celebrate the school's victory in the Under Armour Finding Undeniable contest in January. The $100,000 prize was used to purchase new uniforms for the school's sports teams. The online contest required the schools' students to complete challenges that were determined by Under Armour and included everything from sending in photos of the school's trophy case to videotaping chants and cheers. In May, Bert Church High School students Mel Boccabella, Sami Stockwood and Rachel McCarvill wrote an essay that won the school a visit from local Olympian Mellisa Hollingsworth. BCHS teachers were also honoured this year with an Excellence in Teaching Award for teacher Jennifer Williams in May. Lindsay Rous won a 2013 Teacher Award complete with a $2,000 prize from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. Phyllis McCallum-Hunter, a Bert Church parent and school council member, won the Parent of Distinction Award from the Alberta School Councils' Association in May.
Jim Hassett
Local businessman and partner of Hassett & Reid received the Airdrie Business Leader Award in October. During his acceptance speech, Hassett encouraged business owners to write a community plan, similar to writing a business plan, to outline how they can give back to the community. Hassett is heavily involved in Airdrie Housing Limited (AHL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the City of Airdrie, that offers clean, safe homes at affordable rents, as well as a rent supplement program.
Chris Hadfield
Students at Bert Church High School had the unique opportunity to speak into space on March 11, as Let's Talk Science and the Canadian Space Agency held a downlink, connecting Commander Chris Hadfield to Airdrie. Before the connection was established with the Space Station, former astronaut Bob Thirsk spoke to students about the space station, which he called home in 2009.
Anna Low
The young singer from Airdrie competed in the Airdrie Rotary Festival of Performing Arts held this year March 18 to 23 and was selected to attend the Provincial Music Festival in Edmonton May 29. Low competed in the girls voice competition against 21 girls and also performed in the musical theatre category against 25 competitors. This is the second year in a row Low was chosen to move on to provincials, and the second time she placed second. Besides playing the piano, French horn and she is also taking private voice lessons.
Denisa Sanness
She was nominated for the 2013 Amazing Airdrie Women - Amazing Determination Awards, an award for a woman who has confronted challenges with perseverance and resolve in April. AIRScares, the Boys and Girls Club annual haunted house fundraiser was once again a huge success. The event, that was held for a number of nights near Halloween in the old RCMP building on Edmonton Trail, raised $26,613 for B&G Club programming.
Ilya Ushakov
Ushakov was the senior organizer for George McDougall High School's Rise of the Mustangs two-day bike-a-thon fundraiser that raised $132,852 for Alberta Children's Hosptial Foundation from April 24 to 26. The money was raised by 65 teams who biked for 48 hours in the George McDougall gymnasium for the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and the Oncology Unit.
Paul Brandt
Country music star and former Airdrie resident Paul Brandt was on hand to kick off George McDougall High School's Rise of the Mustangs bike-a-thon fundraiser that raised $132,852 for Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation. He said he was excited to visit his former school and see the efforts of the student body. Brandt also received a Diamond Jubilee medal from Prime Minister Stephen Harper in June.
Brian Jackson
The Grade 6 Ralph McCall teacher had quite the year. In May, the Airdrie Space Science Club (ASSC), founded by Jackson, launched the ABE 3 air balloon at the Beiseker Airport. A five-foot helium-filled balloon was sent into space with a video camera and a photo of the school's Grade 6 class so when the balloon landed, children got to see their faces in space. The involved educator received the Certificate of Excellence from Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa on Nov. 19 for his passion and innovation in teaching.
These accolades follow Jackson receiving the Prime Ministers Teaching Awards, Certificate of Achievement by Richards in a ceremony at Ralph McCall on Nov. 14, 2012 and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Teacher's Award, one of 20 given in the province in June 27 of last year.
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Does Your Risk Register Look Like This? (includes a Risk Register
Recently, I was discussing risk management with Bayan Qandil, a colleague at
RIM. Our conversation reminded me that planning for risk is one of the most
important considerations in software projects. Every software development
methodology, from traditional to iterative to agile approaches, tailors itself
to better manage unknowns in a project.
Today, we examine the risk management tool that must be present
in some form in every software project: the risk register.
Here is one common risk register format:
Supplier does meet the delivery deadlines
Supplier is providing weekly interim releases, which we
integrate, test, and track.
2) Supplier
deliveries are prioritized, so highest priority items will
be received first.
Higher priority outstanding items will be moved in-house.
2) Lower priority
outstanding items will be de-scoped.
3) Progress of
supplier's interim deliveries will feed back into the
project plan.
Customer does not provide timely feedback on interim
Project manager and account manager are communicating
closely with the customer to ensure that they understand the
project's dependency on their deliverables.
2) For each
interim release to the customer, we are tracking how quickly
they progress through their evaluation.
If the feedback is not received in a timely manner, further
customer requests will be handled in future releases.
2) Identify other
sources for product feedback.
3) Customer
response time will feed back into the project plan.
You can download this Risk Register Template (in Excel format)
I've already mentioned in earlier articles that risk is the
single greatest cause of failure of software projects. These
are items that the teams either did not know would happen, or that
they knew could happen but did not plan for them adequately.
The risk register fills three critical functions in avoiding
these project failures:
First, it requires the team to plan for its risks.
This in itself is invaluable. If a team plans sufficiently for
the unknowns that could occur, then the likelihood of failure is
dramatically reduced.
Second, it allows the team to prioritize its risks and
mitigations. Each risk has a different chance of
occurring, and each one has a different impact if it does occur.
Identifying this allows the team to spend its time mitigating the
risks that have the greatest chance of hurting the project.
Third, it forces the team to follow-up on its mitigation
plans. The risk mitigations in the register become
action items, so it becomes more difficult for the team to ignore
potentially disastrous unknowns.
This seems like it has an obvious answer, but let's be sure.
A risk is an uncertain event that could happen in the future, which
would impact a project objective (i.e. scope, schedule, cost, or
First, notice that a risk is "uncertain". We don't know if
it's going to happen. If you know it's going to happen, like
you don't have enough QA staff, then it's not a risk -- it's a
problem that you have to solve now.
Second, a project risk affects a project objective. There
may be many events that could affect a product or the company, but
if they don't affect something that the team is responsible for
delivering, then it's out of scope for the project.
Lastly, a risk isn't defined as being a negative thing.
Positive risks (such as unexpectedly good performance of a new
algorithm) can also be tracked in a project. With positive
risks, you want to maximize the chance of their occurrence and
maximize their impact. However, for simplicity, we'll examine
positive risks in a future article, and simply focus on the negative
ones today.
Let's now take a look at the risk register a little more closely.
The first column in the table above is the risk identifier.
This doesn't have to use an elaborate identification scheme.
You just need an easy way to quickly communicate which risk you're
talking about with your team and the stakeholders.
This is the summary of the risk you're planning for.
Identifying software project risks is a large topic, so we'll save
this for a future article. However, some key sources of risks
are incorrect assumptions, dependencies on other teams, personnel,
and requirements changes.
Risks also occur at the task level and at the project level, and
both of these must be considered in the risk register. An
example of a task level risk is that a feature may consume too much
memory for the customer.
Project level risks are not tied to any particular task.
For example, in
projects that are estimated using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS),
the most common project level risk can be called "whitespace risk".
This is the risk that the WBS is missing tasks. Even if the
WBS was created using progressive decomposition, the risk exists
that at some point during the project, the team will realize that a
piece of work is missing, and the project will be delayed.
This is the probability that the risk will materialize. For
qualitative risk management, a high / medium / low scale is usually
sufficient. These don't have to map to a specific percentage
range, as what matters is their ranking versus the other risks in
the register.
An important consideration here is that you should record the
probability of the risk occurring before
mitigation. One purpose of the risk register is to identify
which mitigations are top priority, so the team may decide that low
priority risks do not need to be mitigated.
For quantitative risk management, you will often need to
assign a numeric percentage chance of occurrence. Quantitative
risk management is a much larger topic, so we'll merely touch on it
here and save the rest of the discussion for a future article.
This is the impact that the risk will have on the project if it
occurs. Once again, for qualitative risk management, you
generally only need a high / medium / low scale, which is relative
to the other risks in the project.
With quantitative risk management, you would need to explicitly
quantify the impact to the relevant project objective. For
example, if the project does not meet the bandwidth requirements of
the customer, the team may forecast that this would result in a 40
business day delay to the project schedule.
The purpose of the risk exposure field is to identify the
priority of the risk and its mitigation activities. The
highest exposure risks pose the greatest threat to the project and
must be mitigated first. So, the mitigation tasks need to be
prioritized accordingly. Qualitative risk exposure is
calculated by combining the probability and impact fields, often
using a simple table such as:
On the other hand, if you are doing quantitative risk management,
you will calculate the risk exposure by multiplying the actual
percentage probability of occurrence by the actual impact to the
objective. If the 40 day delay above had a 10% probability of
happening, that would mean a 4 day contingency would need to be
included in the project schedule.
Mitigation is the set of tasks that the team undertakes to
minimize the chance that a negative risk will happen. The
important thing to remember here is that mitigation leads to
action items. Each of these action items should be
assigned to someone and have a deadline associated with it. Of
course, action items associated with risk mitigation can be tracked
on the risk register or they can be tracked with the rest of the
project action items.
Since the risks are prioritized, the action items associated with
the highest priority risks need to be addressed first. Lower
priority risks can be mitigated later, if they are mitigated at all.
Identifying risk contingencies can be difficult. After all,
if the schedule for a project is slipping, the two obvious responses
are to add more staff (i.e. increase cost) or to drop features (i.e.
reduce scope). If you have flexible project objectives, then
this is a feasible approach -- this is the case of, "I don't care
what you deliver, as long as you deliver by this date."
However, most projects operate with less flexible objectives,
with contracts specifying scope, schedule, and cost. In this
case, "delay the project", "drop features", or "add staff" are not
realistic contingency plans. Challenge the team to be creative
here. Are there temporary workarounds that can be established
for the first release? Can the customer's end goal be
accomplished in another way? It can be difficult to ask these
questions while the project is still on track, but considering your
options early will help immensely when problems start surfacing.
In terms of quantitative risk management, contingency also
typically includes the "buffer" applied to the affected project
objective. In the example above, the 4 days that are added to
the schedule are part of the contingency planning for that risk.
"Buffer" is a bad word, because it conjures up images of arbitrary
padding. It's important to remember that you aren't
arbitrarily adding safety to the objectives. You are taking a
defined action to reduce the impact of a known risk. If there
is a better contingency to use, then you should plan to use that one
Risk registers sometimes contain other items as well, depending
on the needs of the project and the company. Here are a few
Objective affected: When you are performing
quantitative risk management, you need to identify the objective
that is affected. The risk exposure for quantitative risk
management is measured in the units of the objective affected.
That is, schedule slip in days, cost increases in dollars, and scope
in number of features. The overall contingency for that
objective then becomes the sum of all the individual risks that
affect the objective.
Probability after mitigation: When you mitigate
a risk, the probability of that risk occurring should go down.
Knowing this reduced probability can be especially useful for
quantitative risk management, because once a risk has been
mitigated, you should be able to reduce the risk exposure, and hence
the contingency that is added to the schedule or the budget.
As well, sometimes mitigation also reduces the potential impact
of the risk. In this case, you should include 'impact after
mitigation' in your
risk register as well, and adjust exposure and contingency
Action item assignees and deadlines: If you are
tracking mitigation action items in the risk register, then adding
these fields will remove a lot of confusion.
Trigger point: How do you decide if a risk has
actually occurred, and you need to execute the contingency plan?
With some risks, this is easy -- for example, if a key staff member
quits. But with other risks, such as an increasing defect
arrival rate, it's often useful to identify what the threshold will
be, to execute your contingency plan. This threshold is your
trigger point: The point at which a trend is deemed to be
unacceptably high. For example, you may set your trigger point
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Risk management doesn't stop once the team has created the risk
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Bonaire House by Silberstein Architecture
Silberstein Architecture have sent us images of a house they've designed on the island of Bonaire.
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5 Responses to "Bonaire House by Silberstein Architecture"
RonH. Architect on 11 Nov 2011 at 4:24 pm #
Great location, nice detailing, fun bridge, rather brutal entry and sticking the living room/seating group right on axis and in the center of the tans-section of main entry circulation is like putting the most sacred part of the house in the middle of a street intersection…….NOT!!!! This obviously works for the Architect but no client is going to ever feel comfortable, intimate nor protected in this alignment with Joe Blow coming to the front door and seeing all. Ok we have curtains but subconsciously you're still sitting in the middle of the intersection. They had to pull the living room seating group apart (breaking intimacy) just to get into the house. Other then this crucial flaw, nice job.
ARCHMAD. on 12 Nov 2011 at 9:36 am #
so good!specially circulation!
Shannon on 12 Nov 2011 at 10:17 am #
It's certainly beautiful. I like warmth of the wood staircase and ceilings. Still strikes me as an office lobby and not a home though.
roberto on 14 Nov 2011 at 3:24 am #
muito lindo
Rudy on 15 Nov 2011 at 5:09 am #
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run and often in the short one the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.William Clark
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their livesWilliam James
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.Albert Camus
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in usPaul Valery
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.Albert Einstein
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert Szent-Györgyi Von Nagyrapolt
n short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.Armstrong Williams
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He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.Samuel Smiles
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joyJoyce Grenfell
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forcesStefan Zweig
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.Albert Pike
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.Benjamin Franklin
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Sounds yummy! Yep, I'm a powdered mix kind of gal, too. My kids will think this is all kinds of fun - can't wait to try it!
Awwwww!!!! I got a shout out and I was a called a friend. How nice! I like your method better than mine. I'm guessing everything mixes together better with the boiling water.
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Doctor Who Review: The Doctor and His Gangby Carissa Pavlica at . Comments
Those were only a few of the things we encountered on Doctor Who this week. He had a gang! That's new! Seriously, could a Doctor be any cuter than Matt Smith? I think not. As he was traveling through time picking up his gang, including the Ponds with special guests Brian (Rory's dad) and Nefertiti, among others, he was so excited I wanted him to materialize in my living room.
Please note: I realize if Rory and Amy are married, they should be referred to as the Williams. It's The Doctor who calls them the Ponds and I'm not going to argue the point!
The best addition to the trip, by far, had to be Rory's dad. He had some of the best Doctor Who quotes in the episode. Typical British humor that makes me truly laugh out loud. Check out this beautiful exchange between the boys:
Rory: Did you just have that on you?
Brian: Of course. What sort of a man doesn't have a trowel? Put it on your Christmas list.
Rory: Dad, I'm 31 years old. I don't have a Christmas list anymore.
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I have very little to impose by way of review of this episode. It was just a fun romp and a great time. The robots were awesome. Once they started talking, they were not at all what I expected. Their interchanges with The Doctor and Rory were hilarious. Thankfully, they were not only funny but the most horrible shots in the universe.
The Doctor playing with the triceratops, who was busily smelling Brian's balls...golf balls you dirty birds...and then licking his face was a treat. How often do we get treated to a dinosaur that isn't hell bent on killing every living creature it comes in contact with? Not very! He also turned out to be quite the transportation device, making an exciting episode even sillier as The Doctor, Rory and Brian rode him through the spaceship.
That same silly, fun triceratops was the subject of a dramatic turn later, when Solomon had his robots shoot him to prove he was willing to take out anything in his path to get what he wanted. Even something as valuable as the dinosaurs he had confiscated the ship to steal. If you know anything about me, you know that scene was difficult for me to watch: the big, watering eyes of the playful triceratops as he lay dying. Observing the missiles attack Solomon's ship was a joyful event.
The biggest revelation of the hour was that Amy felt The Doctor was going off of she and Rory. They both promised they'd be there for each other until the end of one or the other, but we already have the news that just isn't true. It was a bit of foreshadowing that she's getting tired of putting her life on hold to wait for the sound of the TARDIS, especially when the time between The Doctor's visits is growing.
Ten months was long enough of a wait that Amy gave up her job, just as she gave up the one before it, both times using her wait for The Doctor as an excuse not to settle into her life. When Rory and Amy wanted to go home instead of onto the next adventure with The Doctor, the look of sadness on his face was hard to fathom. In the back of my mind, I kept remembering that we had a peek into his future and new companion in last week's premiere and not to despair.
Much like Rory's dad and his new life of adventure, even when Amy and Rory decide to step aside, we'll continue on with The Doctor and find new thrills along the way.
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Was it me or there was a hint of nervous sadness on the Doctor´s eyes when Amy told him something about he seeing the end of her? Maybe he knows that they will be leaving soon...
The robots were voiced by David Mitchell and Robert Webb of UK "Peep Show" fame as well as their own comedy sketch program "That Mitchell and Webb Look". David is also a team captain on LMFAO UK quiz show "Would I lie to You?". As you can tell I am a bit of a fan.
@Nicole, you're right. I didn't even think about the dark Doctor because I was so enjoying everything else. But the changes coming his way are most certainly affecting him. I think it's really interesting to watch his slow progression to something darker, all while trying to be over the top funny to keep anyone from catching on. Just took me a while after watching to spot it. Thanks for the heads up.
I'm surprised the review didn't mention anything of the dark Doctor (although we did in the comments). The "silly" episode really threw me for a loop when the Doctor basically executed Soloman (I must say that actor had more lines in this one episode of Doctor Who then in the entire Harry Potter series, haha!) While the doctor has such a good heart and is silly and brilliant, especially with Matt Smith (David Tennent did a much better?/more frequent dark "scary" doctor) it's a little unhinging to see that dark doctor now.
Ok so I'm not usually a fan of the silly one shot episodes but I have to say this was done really well. I just loved having Rory's father along and that interchange between the father the son and the trowel was great. Although I really didn't find the two robots funny I do love the return of the dark doctor (and who didn't deserve that more than solomon) and the start of the disintigration of the pond relationship was good. Not something that would normally be seen in a silly episode like this. Just an episode done really well. Bring on more Who!
Entertaining and fun.
Doctor Who is about the only show I know that can combine silliness, heartbreak, and sexual inuendoes into an hour long adventure through space and time while also making a statement about evils of inhumane greed AND tops it off with the Doctor doing something he has done before when seriously pissed off: playing a judge and an executioner. Basically, a great episode that leaves you full of emotions for hours later and one of my new favorites. And how awesome were all of the Ponds?
Loved it! Have no idea why some people are down on it. Two great stories in a row. Lets see if we can make it three next week. Doubt it can be four since I've heard nothing about The Power of Three. Based on budgets of the other four episodes I wouldnt be surprised if this were a small scale episode with maybe a few sets. High concept. Who knows? Could be amazing. Then it would almost certainly been five great stories in a row.


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Governor David Paterson is said to be feeling better after suffering a bad headache this morning while waiting to be interviewed in Washington D.C.
Paterson, who's in the nation's capital for the presidential inauguration, was scheduled to be interviewed by NY1's sister station, Capital News 9, but later cancelled after aides said he started feeling faint.
A spokesman said the governor was suffering from a bad headache and had to be brought back to his Washington D.C. hotel to rest.
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Speaking on CNN early Monday morning, Paterson said he's been reviewing his interviews with dozens of candidates which have been conducted over the last few weeks.
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ZuZu's Petals is an innovative, full-service wedding and event floral design studio specializing in creating floral creations for weddings, corporate and social events.
For a bride, her wedding day is something she has dreamed about since she was a little girl, and our team at ZuZu's Petals helps bring those dreams to life through our floral design. Whether the style for your event is rustic, whimsical or formal, our passion for flowers, colors and a keen eye for design is what inspires us to continue creating breathtaking memories. Our seasoned team of designers will be sure to create an event that you and your guests will be talking about for years to come.
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Rural youth face distinct problems that demand solutions specific to small-town environments. Freedom to Act is a case study about young people in a high school co-op program who combine their skills to reach a common goal. This youth team created a magazine for their peers, called Wild Times, Deadly Times, with information on how to reduce the harms associated with alcohol and other drug use.
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John Blake just tweeted that the Rangers' deal with A.J. Pierzynski is now official. In order to make room for Pierzynski on the 40 man roster, the Rangers have designated catcher Luis Martinez for assignment.
Martinez functioned as the Rangers' third catcher last season, spending most of the year in Round Rock but coming up on occasion and being pressed into service when, for example, Mike Napoli was on the disabled list.
The Rangers' 40 man roster remains at 40 with Pierzynski being added and Martinez being designated for assignment. The Rangers still have three catchers on the 40 man roster -- Pierzynski, Geovany Soto, and newly-claimed Eli Whiteside. The Rangers also have catcher Konrad Schmidt in the organization. Schmidt was claimed on waivers earlier this offseason by the Rangers from the Arizona Diamondbacks, and then was later waived by the Rangers and outrighted to AAA Round Rock.
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Aside from the overstated 'save-the-world one-pedal-at-a-time' mentality, riding your bike to work can be a fun and healthy habit to get yourself into.
Of course, if you live in the northerly latitudes like us, it's likely a part-time commitment thanks to the winter chaos on the road. And if you live in a metropolitan area that's not keen on bike infrastructure, then you'll face your own set of challenges in the form of over-populated --and sometimes ruthless-- auto traffic.
Tossing all these obstacles aside, and ignoring the excuses of why you don't already commute to work every once in a while, the product review team at Wired put together a well-rounded commuter bike review last month.
In honor of this week's standing as " Bike to Work Week," we felt it appropriate to revive their " 5 Rides for 9-to-5s" bike round-up. Check out these images, courtesy of Wired.com, and go find yourself an urban cycle to bear some of the burden away from your auto.
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'Taking a closer look at NAR' aims to:
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Town denied victory in late shocker at Drayton
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UTTOXETER were robbed of victory at Market Drayton in a blood and thunder encounter with the league leaders.
The Town's Midlands Four West (North) title hopes took a big hit after they conceded an injury time try to go down 15- 13.
But Uttoxeter were incensed with the referee for adding too much time — and allegedly failing to communicate effectively with them.
As they led in injury time, the official was twice asked if it was the final play of the game, but failed to give a clear answer.
Drayton then made a final attack and took the win — with the Town told afterwards that if they had kicked into touch, the whistle would have sounded.
Uttoxeter director of rugby Donald Hayes reckons it was the best game he has seen at the club's current level.
"We did enough to win the game," said the former front row.
"All involved know Uttoxeter won the contest fair and square, but we have to take the outcome on the chin and move on.
"This was the best Level Nine game I have ever seen. It could have easily been Level Seven — the skill, fitness and instensity level from both sides was outstanding.
"More matches like this are vital for the development of both sides." Both XVs started at a good pace, with Drayton — featuring several Pacific Islanders — hitting a post with a penalty from fly-half Steve Meadows.
Paul Milward then narrowly missed with a penalty from just inside the hosts' half as Uttoxeter hit back.
Drayton winger Joe Koroivuya should have been sin-binned for a high tackle on Lewis Bain but escaped with a warning.
Instead, it was the Town down to 14 men as Milward was yellow carded for his reaction.
Meadows then gave Drayton the lead with a simple penalty in front of the posts after Ben Gallimore was adjudged offside.
Koroivuya was eventually sin-binned for another infraction, with Uttoxeter's Bruce Mustard joining him for a 10- minute break for yet more retaliation.
With Milward still off the pitch, Aaron Lakin missed another penalty for the Town.
Drayton then extended their lead through the outstanding Meadows.
He bounced off one tackle and charged through before grounding the ball under pressure from several tacklers. He got up and converted his own score.
Uttoxeter were unfortunate to be 10-0 down at the break, but turned on the style in the second half with a dominant display.
Pete Allen cut the gap with an excellent team try involving Bain and Steve Woolley five minutes after the restart. Milward converted.
Drayton then conceded a penalty and Milward levelled.
James Williams and Milward both came close to another try, only to be denied by defiant defending.
Eventually they got the lead for the first time as Milward slotted his second penalty of the afternoon.
Uttoxeter then lost skipper Mat Nance, who was knocked out by a big hit from one of the Drayton pack. He was sportingly aided by the hosts' Dan Leigh and Apisai Bulimaibau and regained consciousness soon afterwards.
Mike Davies replaced him, while Chris Basset came on for Gallimore in the centres.
Sherrat was then replaced by Andy Todd, with Milward going to full-back and Todd to scrum-half.
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The great Matt Holliday Experiment
Posted By Jeff Fletcher on January 25, 2009 1:26 am
I had this theory about Coors Field. Everyone knows the players who play there don't do as well on the road as at home, but it's not just because of what happens in Colorado after you hit the ball. It's also because of what happens after the pitcher throws the ball. Curve balls and sliders don't break as much.
That means that Rockies hitters are not only going to be helped at home, but they'll be hurt on the road more than other players who are used to seeing the ball break normally.
The point to all this is that you can't just take Matt Holliday's career splits (.357 at Coors Field and .281 on the road) and say: "Well, he's really a .281 hitter." That .281 average is the sum of a lot of games in which Holliday was trying to get acclimated to sea-level pitching. In theory, if you took Holliday (or any Colorado hitter) and put him at sea level all the time, he'd be a much better hitter than he was wearing the Rockies' road grays.
So if my theory was accurate, I could look at Holliday's road games with the Rockies and see that his performance would improve the longer the team was on the road, because there would be more time to adjust.
With the magic of baseballmusings.com and Excel, I bring you my entry for the Nobel Prize…
Matt Holliday's career road numbers…
First 2 games of a trip: .277 BA/.472 SLG
3rd game on: .281/.446
4th game on: .281/.458
5th game on: .291/.483
6th game on: .305/.522
7th game on: .321/.567
8th game on: .356/.683
There's not much point in going beyond that, because Holliday and the Rockies rarely had trips of more than nine games. Sadly for him and his Rockies teammates, just when he was getting used to the conditions on the road, the Rockies would return home to the junk food atmosphere of Coors Field (nice in the short term, but not good for you in the long-term).
Given that Holliday is going to be playing all of his games at sea level this year, I'm expecting he'll be acclimated from the start, and he should produce good numbers (not Coors Field good, but good nonetheless).
Memo to Scott Boras: Feel free to use this information when negotiating Holliday's next contract. I'll just take about 0.5 percent of the deal.
If anyone out there has the time or inclination to replicate this for the entire Rockies team, please post the results here or fire me a link. I'd be interested to see them.
31 Responses to "The great Matt Holliday Experiment"
can you give us an idea of what the sample size is? i'm presuming there aren't that many nine game road trips. still, if this is statistically significant, encouraging
Very interesting breakdown. Nice work.
i want to see this using OBP and SLG
Coming from a huge A's fan, this is great work.
Thanks for plugging this on AN :)BR/Hope this proves to be true!
For 6+ games, he's got 314 at-bats
For 7+, 171 ABs
For 8+, 104
That's why I didn't go further because it really would not have been significant
I may go back and look up SLG and OBP.
Here's another factor in the big difference with the Coors effect. When the rockies do go out on the road they spend the majority of their time in NL west ball parks. We are talking about homes of the Giants, Padres and Dodgers. All heavy heavy pitcher ball parks, people are quick to ajust for coors field but how about a little adjusting for the road splits that take place in these parks where HR's go to die. Then you throw in Arizona that has a solid pitching staff and road games become bad for stats. As a rocky fan I would take a look at splits for road games outside the NL West, those are probably a better indicator of performance outside of Coors field.
On a personal note it seems to me since the addition of the humidor that Coors field has lost a lot of offensive spark. It's still a hitters ball park but a lot less then people think. I'm willing to bet that higher HR rates can be found in the band boxes that are Citizen Bank, Great American and Minute Maid. Yet somehow those players offensive stats are not challenged and the Rockies are, I'm a little confused by that.
Gary, the numbers are only for Holliday's first game. If you want more details on how I calcuated everything with Excel, email me at email@example.com
Anonymous, I'm sure you are right about the pitchers parks in LA, SF and SD, and that also hurts the Rockies road stats.
I take that back, and i am so wrong
Just did the numbers for Helton, and they don't work out quite as neatly as for Holliday…
Gms 1-2: .289 BA/.405 SLG
3+: .296/.509
4+: .296/.521
5+: .284/.498
6+: .288/.498
7+: .270/.462
8+: .276/.455
Maybe Todd Helton just got more homesick than Holliday.
OK, SLG was pretty easy to add. OBP would take some work because I already deleted some of those numbers (BBs, HBPs) out of the spreadsheet to make it easier to handle. I'd have to start over. I've got to assume if his BA and SLG both go up that the OBP goes up at around the same rate.
I wanted to see how this turns out for another good hitter with a solid season of stats. So I looked at Todd Helton in 2000, though I only looked at BA and excluded slg% (why? because I am lazy).
Game—-Away Avg.—-Home Avg.
I was hoping for a similar pattern and the away games and 1-3 does show that similarity.
Looks like Baseball Prospectus examined this very phenomenon back in 2000, and determined it was a bunch of baloney.
Very interesting analysis even if it ends up being coincidental, and very big of you to call out BP disputing the theory on your own once you discovered that to be the case.
This is very good work. One question: If Holliday sits out the first game of a trip, do your stats show his stats for "his" first two games played on a trip or his stats for the team's first two games of a trip?
Again, nice work.
I write for WEEI radio in Boston and am going to put something like this together for the Sox.
About AT&T, it hasn't been a pitchers park for a number of years now. Apparently the league has figured out how to play there, it has been pretty neutral (league average) for a number of years now, and according to Bill James methodology, nearing (in my opinion) a hitters park, with a 105 for runs scored and only 5 NL parks rank higher (out of 16 teams; which means 10 teams have lower). Rockies are still #1 in HR with a 127 index, but the D-backs edge out the Rockies, but both with 113 index for runs scored.
Baseball-Reference shows a similar difference, AT&T had its' highest pitching factor ever in 2008 with 104 and 2004 was the year things totally changed from pitching to neutral for the ballpark, according to BP data.
And, to concur with LBDG, yes, very big of you to point out that contradiction.
As for the BP study, I will point out that used the whole Rockies team, and it was a different methodology. I think it's still possible that my numbers for Holliday are legitimate. Maybe he really does adjust better as a trip goes on, even if some of his Rockies teammates didn't. The sample for Holliday is over five years, so it's not insignificant, I don't think.
If the theory is correct, wouldn't Holliday go through a similar adjustment period after returning home from a road trip? You might want to weigh in how long the Rockies are home before they hit the road, too. If you have enough data, it might be interesting to look at how opposing teams adjust to Coors field over the course of a 3 or 4 game series.
Mo, I'm no major league hitter, but I wouldn't think it would take much adjustment at all if the ball was breaking less. I'd be just like batting practice if suddenly everything was coming straight. Theoretically.
Here you can read what they think of my work at Baseballmusings.
I looked at Helton during the same period. Like the overall Helton numbers above, it was a bit more all over the map.
Game AVG OBP SLG
1 0.291 0.422 0.432
2 0.275 0.392 0.400
3 0.286 0.402 0.422
4 0.350 0.462 0.583
5 0.265 0.353 0.401
6 0.288 0.414 0.518
7+ 0.299 0.396 0.457
Total 0.293 0.406 0.454
I would like to point out that while Holliday and Helton were selected because of their level of excellence, they are hitters with very different approaches to an at-bat. I'll introduce the numbers first, then we can examine the conclusions.
In 2007, Helton saw 2917 pitches, while Holliday saw 2580. Helton saw more pitches, while Holliday saw 88% of the pitches that Helton saw.
Helton took 60% (1738) of those pitches, while Holliday only took 46% (1193). Naturally, Helton swung at 40% (1179) of his pitches, while Holliday swung at 54% (1387) The fundamental difference between whether to swing or not between the two is 14%.
Helton was also more willing to take a strike than Holliday. 31% (547) of the pitches Helton took were strikes, while only 20% (243) of the pitches Holliday took were strikes. The difference in willingness to take a strike or not is 11%.
Why introduce this data into the discussion? Because it demonstrates that Matt Holliday is more aggressive and Todd Helton is more selective. While correlation does not equal causality, I would hypothesize that the different approaches require different adjustment levels.
Holliday adjusts later because he sees fewer pitches, and Helton see more of them. Holliday adjusts later because he wants to swing when Helton wants to take. Holliday adjusts later because he will take fewer strikes, while Helton will take more.
In the case of seeing more pitches, there is a 12% difference. In the case of swinging at a pitch, there is a 14% difference. In the case of taking a strike, there is a 11% difference. When all these partial differences are summed up — it can result in a substantial separation.
Again, I don't offer this up to be conclusive, but rather to try and further the discussion.
(All stats courtesy of Bill James Online.)
All I've got to say is that this is the web at it's finest. A good point worth investigating, a little research, (thanks Jeff) and then some very intelligent friendly responses from the community that read it.
I have to add that it would be nice to see Holliday KILL IT for the A's.
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Very interesting research.
I think there are some other variables at play here, too:
- How does Holliday's road performance compare with the league as a whole?
- Is there a stark difference between 2008 and other years on this example?
One of the things that I'm digging at is that home teams seemed to perform especially well last year. One theory postulated was that the ban on amphetamines has made a pretty big difference. That is, players are having a more difficult time getting amped up after traveling, so their road performance, particularly after arriving at a venue, suffered. It's not really my theory – and really, there's no way to properly test it, since there's no "control" group vs. a known using group. But it's nonetheless interesting to me.
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Oh, lord. I was trying to do this by hand with PI data from baseball-reference.com
Very nice.
Another thing to note is that Holliday's road OPS has improve (usually significantly) each year in his career – indicating that he is getting better at adjusting.
Clarification … not "by hand" but with more cluttered initial data.
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