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Some of the Phillies additions this off season have been no doubt puzzling – while much has been written lately about Delmon Young, it seems to have been forgotten that Michael Young posted the lowest fWAR (as defined here) among player eligible for the batting title last year (-1.4). Delmon Young was twice as valuable (-0.7) as Michael but his triple-slash of .267/.296/.411 with a 3.3% BB-rate leaves a lot to be desired.
There is no good way to sort this out other than by hand so I capped my research at the previous ten years: the 2013 Phillies will be the only team in the last ten years to have either signed or traded for two players who finished the previous season qualified for the batting title and contributed negative value, in this case, WAR, to their previous team.
And there is reason for optimism at Citizen's Bank Park. Or not.
Whatever the case, it does feel particularly weird to be relieved that the Phillies' projected starting right fielder may not be ready for Opening Day. And trying to do the math to convert what Michael Young's WAR would be with 2012's triple-slash at third base instead of the first base he played last season make me feel like I'm a casino junkie looking to scrounge up change for that one last bet that will finally put me in the win column.
With the additions of the Youngs, Yuniesky Betancourt (-0.8 WAR in 2012 but did not qualify for the batting title), and Joe Mather (-1.5 WAR in 2012 in just 243 PA, did not qualify for the batting title), the Phillies have added four players who cost their teams over four wins combined last year. While Betancourt and Mather will be safely hidden in Lehigh Valley, the two Youngs will not. Things can only get better right? Let's take a look at what history has to say about that:
– Four teams in the last ten years have had two batting-title eligible players post negative fWAR. Three teams did not make the playoffs: 2012 Seattle Mariners (finished fourth in AL West), 2011 Chicago White Sox (finished third in AL Central) and 2008 Kansas City Royals (finished fourth in AL Central). One team made it all the way to the World Series: 2012 Detroit Tigers.
– The 2003 Detroit Tigers had three eligible players post negative WAR totals (Bobby Higginson -0.1, Alex Sanchez -0.3, and Ramon Santiago -1.2). They finished 43-119, setting an American League record for losses and coming one loss away from tying the 1962 New York Mets for most losses by any team in either league.
– In 2004, there were only three players in the Majors who posted negative WAR totals and qualified for the batting title. One of them was surprisingly Edgar Martinez.
– The Phillies now have on their roster two players who have had the lowest WAR in all of baseball at least once in the last four seasons: Michael Young in 2012 and Betancourt in 2009. And remember: Michael Young was traded for something of value directly after his feat and Betancourt was traded for something of value during his run at history.
So, in conclusion, the Phillies' pair of acquisitions (Delmon and Michael Young) is unprecedented in recent history. No team in the last ten years has duplicated that feat. Should the Youngs play to that same level in 2013, it will make them only the sixth team in the last eleven seasons to have a pair of players qualify for the batting title and be among the worst values to their club. What kind of finish would that mean for the Phillies? If recent history is any indication, they could either go the route of the 2003 Tigers, which is very unlikely, the 2012 Tigers, probably equally unlikely, or finish around .500 like the 2011 Chicago White Sox, which, in my opinion, is very likely.
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A-rod should personally fund a parade for us since he cheated to win the 09 series.
We're looking at a .500 team again, and that's only if things go reasonably well. Injuries could put the win total in the mid 70s. If Darin Ruf & Delmon Young actually get significant playing time (and I'm sure the pitching staff are having nightmares about that scenario) they could very well be the worst fielding team in the game. The corner infielders and corner outfielders will just be brutal defensively.
I don't know about win totals, but like yourself, the defense is a big concenr. Actually has been through most of the off season. Not that pre season expectations mean a thing (at least mine don't to me), but ya kinda get some closure if you have a definitive feeling on how the club'll do, so I'm inclined to join the fray. So I've played with that, but always wrap up with trust your first instinct, which is concern about the defense, which is a major thing in validating any of the 5 starters.
The last time I was low in expectation on a ballclub that went the other way to a great extent was the Cards of a couple years ago. Course they made a couple terrific mid year deals, but between the pen, defense, no leadoff man, I just didn't expect much. I think I actually had them 4th as an expectation. Or at least I saw a lot of things that could go wrong. Your thinking about the Phils reminds me of my thinking on the Cards. There are at least some strength areas the Phils have that maybe help pull the Phils closer to where the Cards finished.
I really don't know what basis anyone is using to assume that Darin ruf will be brutal on defense. He caught everything he got to at the end of last season with the Phils, showed a decent arm and covered enough ground in left. I would consider him far better than say Matt Holliday of the Cards whom seemingly often drops easy fly balls. ruf's arm is actually a vast improvement over Juan pierre's whom I loved last year with the Phils. I think Ruf will surprise a lot of people both on offense and defense. As for Delmon Young, it is hard to judge how he will be. he played with bone spurs on his ankle and has also dropped 20 pounds. He also may surprise after having the medical issue resolved and having the additional motivation to meet contract incentives and having to repair his image. I wish the Phils would add Kyle Lohse for pithcing depth, but otherwise I expect Chase and Ryan to have major comebacks that can prpel the team to win the NL East again. we will see, but i think we will see a hungrier team this year. I think they were embarrassed by last year.
I get really tired of all you sabre only stat people and criticizing every move before we see them play a single game in red pinstripes. Especially WAR it s such a random number of stats for agents to use. What the Phil's did this winter is provide some stop gaps and depth while maintaining some payroll flexibility. One more thing D Young at the price they are paying him is set in stone starter. So can we please wait until ST starts before we burry this team and the moves that have been made.
I get really tired of all you old-school non-stat people and praising every move even though we have lots of evidence from these players' histories that they're not really very good.
WAR is not a random number. I'm sorry that you don't like change, and that new statistics that you don't fully understand are confusing to you, but that's no reason to just say that they're a random number. WAR is a rough estimation of the TOTAL value a player provides when you include his offensive abilities, defensive abilities and base running abilities. It's much more objective a measurement than just watching the players, because people have inherent biases that don't allow them to be completely objective. Statistically quantifying those things using actual numbers and game-situations is MUCH more accurate, and I'm not sure why the old school people tend to reject a more complete measure of a player's value. It just doesn't make sense.
And, PS, I don't care about spring training. It's meaningless. It's useful to get the players back into shape, get their stamina, strength and timing back up to speed, but if you judge any players based on anything they do in spring training you're making a mistake. You shouldn't make roster decisions based on most of what guys do in spring training because it's too short and you're not seeing them face real competition.
Maybe players like Young and Betancourt stink because they've been wearing the wrong uniforms. I'll buy that reasoning.
But how about this…Rather than pay Young a million (assuming he gets a couple of pounds of pure fat off his back side) the team could pay me just 200K and I promise to be at least 1/5th as successful a hitter as Delmon – and not much worse in the field. The only thing I won't do is yell anti-Semitic remarks in a bizarre, drunken rage.
Stan Musial he's not – on or off the field.
Is OBP now a sabre only stat? Would it have made you happier if Ian had used OBP instead of WAR and stated that of the 56 qualified OF's over the past 2 seasons, Delmon Young had the 55th highest OBP? If you want to expand the search to include his career best 2010 season and he's 81st in OBP out of the 93 qualified OF's from 2010 to 2012. Add to that the fact that he's a notoriously bad fielder and base runner, which I'm sure would be backed up by any old school scout that you'd ask, and I would think everyone would come to the conclusion that it will take a reversion to his 2010 levels for it to be worth having this guy on the roster and, while possible, such an occurrence is unlikely. Plus to point to the fact that he's "only" making somewhere between $750K and $3.5M totally overlooks the potential opportunity cost of any plate appearances he might take from younger, cheaper and better players.
Isn't a "sabre" a sword? So by saying "sabre only stat people" that must mean guys that are into stats that carry swords around.
totally agree with ERICL. This WAR business is pretty bogus, and as he says, let's wait and see how ST goes.
I agree with you beta. This is basically the same team that made a run at it towards the end last year, with a better bullpen!! Not having qualls and crew makes the team better, and adding adams and durbin defintlately makes them better. Im excited to see brown every day. Hungry young guys in he out field! Lets go!
Durbin is not necessarily better than Aumont or DeFratus or Schwimmer or Rosenberg or whomever. He's really not that good.
Adams has the potential to be good, but if you look at his numbers he's been losing velocity the last 3 years, and his strikeout per 9 numbers have been dropping precipitously. That's not a good sign for a guy in his mid 30s. And he's coming off of fairly major surgery.
And while the Phillies put together a nice run over the 2nd half, the Braves and Nationals still had better 2nd half records and both have improved. When Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg and Jason Heyward and Freddy Freeman and the like get a year older it's good for their teams because they're still young and getting better with age. When the Phillies get a year older it's bad, because Halladay, Utley, Rollins, M. Young, Ruiz, Lee, etc. are all on the wrong side of thirty and in their decline phases.
I'd love to see the Phillies repeat 2011 and win 100+ games, but at this point it's no longer a realistic expectation. The Nationals are the class of the NL East now, with the Braves right on their heels, and the Phillies are sadly solidly in third place. That's not to say lots of things could go right and they somehow sneak into the playoffs (look at Baltimore last year, for example), but to expect that and to have optimism that such a scenario is likely to happen is, I think, delusional.
One point of disagreement.
"and both have improved"
But the Braves have not improved their outfield according to WAR. Look at the last few years of WAR for the law firm of Upton, Upton, and Heyward, and then look at Prado, Heyward and Bourn. They are not better, they are worse using WAR as the measurement, and it's not close. They had a difficult arbitration with Prado and knew they couldn't keep him past this year, so they had to make a trade.
You can't use WAR to make help make one argument, and then go against it to make another. And a few weeks ago, you called me hypocritical.
WAR is a descriptive calculation, not a predictive one. Therefore, if someone wants to make the case that the Braves have improved, they would say that McCann, Freeman, Simmons, Heyward, the Uptons and even Chris Johnson / Juan Francisco are still of the ages where you would typically project their WAR's to increase (they are all younger than Bourn, Chipper and Prado, the players the Braves lost). Having said that, my opinion is that the Braves non-pitchers project to have ~ the same WAR in 2013 as they had in 2012 with improvement at 1B and RF and huge improvement at SS offsetting the drops at 3B, CF and LF with C and 2B projecting to stay about the same.
hk, The posting is about adding unprecedented futility in terms of WAR and using it to predict how the team will finish. I didn't write it. It was retorted by several commenters, and EricL defended it.
I only pointed out that by using the same methodology, his statement was wrong.
It seemed to me that EricL responded to JohnMatrix, not the article, and he did so without mentioning WAR.
First, Lefty, if I recall correctly I said that I thought your position on "performance enhancing" drugs with respect to the hall of fame was hypocritical because you thought the amphetamines of yore were okay whereas steroids were not.
That's just one particular position you took, not you in general, who I find to be one of the more informed posters here overall.
Second, as hk says, WAR is descriptive of what actually happened, and not predictive. So when guys like Prado have a career year, yes, he posted a high WAR total, but that doesn't mean he was likely to repeat it this season. It was also based on a huge bump in his defensive rating, which most advanced-stats followers will tell you is highly volatile, and thus at age 29, you're unlikely to see him improve or even duplicate those numbers. So, when I look forward I try to judge how a team is going to do based on things like projections and aging curves and regression to the mean for outlying seasons and the like, and that's why I think it's reasonable to say that on total the Braves will improve, the Nationals will improve, and the Phillies are unlikely to improve much. (I'm still of the opinion that they're something like a 84-86 win team, talent-wise).
And again, remember that when I say improve, that doesn't mean they'll finish ahead of the Phillies. If you can accurately estimate the true-talent number of wins a team has (which, obviously, is almost impossible to do anyway), in any given year, due to luck and sequencing of events and other things out of their control they'll finish within +/- 5 games of that number only ~50% of the time. So there's lots of variance that allows for all kinds of weird results to occur.
I honestly agree with you Eric, intuitively and by looking at the aging curves I think the Braves will improve as well. As I told hk, since you were commenting on a posting that used WAR as a measurement of prediction, I assumed you were doing so as well when you responded to Beta. I was, evidently, not paying close enough attention to detail.
But the more important issue is this. I firmly believe that all manner of reasonable methods should be used to measure performance. That includes, but is not limited to – counting stats, mathematical formulas, and the eye test. There shouldn't be an "old school" of anything. Why not make use of all tools available to help predict and measure, it's all good man. Years ago like most old ballplayers my age, I resisted the new metrics. But when I began digging deeper and opening my mind, I found a whole new world of baseball that I never understood thanks to folks like Bill James and Vince Gennaro.
I respect you as well Eric, you are knowledgable and fun. I like all the analytics I've learned over the years and am excited about the continuing work SABR is doing.
But you'll have to forgive me for my preference to be delusional about my team in February. Because as illogical as that may be, sometimes the stories of the Orioles and A's of 2012 are all we've got to keep hope alive.
Lefty and EricL,
It is important to note that, while both Bourn and Prado produced career years last year and both were unlikely to reproduce them this year*, WAR does describe what did happen and their combined 12.3 WAR contributed largely to the Braves 94 wins last year. When you add the 12.3 WAR to the 4.5 WAR that the Braves got from the now departed David Ross and Chipper, there is 16.8 WAR from non-pitchers last year that will have to be made up for by the Uptons, the 3B's, a full year of Simmons and improvement from Freeman and Heyward. Personally, I think it will be difficult for them to improve much, if at all, upon last year's position player production and whether they improve as a team will depend more upon their pitching. I think the Phils have a decent chance to contend with the Braves this year**.
* The reason that I think that the Braves won the trade with the D-Backs is that they swapped Prado's age 29 year for Justin Upton's age 25, 26 and 27 years.
** I find it interesting that right now, after the Upton trade, the Vegas odds on the Phillies winning the NL pennant are the same odds that you can get on the Braves, Cardinals and Giants winning the pennant. Only the Dodgers, Nationals and Reds are listed as higher favorites than that group of four.
All we have to do now is wait and see. Who knows what mandates Amaro us under? Who knows how the key injured Phils from last year will rebound? I think Michael Young was a decent pick-up and will be a better fielding third baseman than what many think. I have to be optimistic at this point. It is just better for my health. Don't worry, be happy !!!!
Of course, whether the decisions are being made by Ruben or from above, the result is the same for the team and fans. As is always the case, an organization either gets it together or fails, year after year – like the Cubs and their baseball ignorant, far right wing owner.
The Phillies current ownership has made some good decisions in the past. Hopefully, they'll remember what they did right and try to do it, again.
"Who knows what mandates Amaro us under? "
I think this statement is key here. No one knows or will probably ever know. Im figuring Rube/Phillies are going to make one final push with (whats left) of their aging core. Before a rebuild will happen. One will have a good argument that on paper the Phils arent ahead. The games still have to be played.
The only question I'd have is whether it would be smarter trade away some of those veteran players now while they still have some worth and use that value to restock their depleted farm system with future stars. It may already be too late to do that, especially when you another team looks at the contracts that would have to be absorbed. The Phillies seem happy to go after pitchers who have been steadily losing velocity for three or four years and coming off of major surgeries or signing hitters who have been dropping in all the critical numbers and are hazards in the field. Other GMs may not be that charitable, especially to players who were mediocre in the heyday. At least Utley, Howard and Rollins were all superstars. Howard's salary probably makes him impossible to trade and I'm sure Utley's chronic injuries have dramatically lowered his trade value. Still, for the right young players, maybe it would still be worth trading a guy like Howard and eating most of his salary if that's even possible. He might help win a pennant for a team on the cusp.
The Phillies are not on that cusp.
Signing below replacement level players and hoping they regain their past form – or in the case of Yuniesky Betancourt, hoping they gain someone else's past form – is a very risky way to approach the season regardless of the mandate.
It will be very hard next to almost impossible to trade Howard especially now. Coming off his torn Achilles. He will have to first prove he can be at least a resemblance of his former self. Not to mention his huge contract.
First off I do not have a problem with using sabre stats with other things. I would say the same thing to people who judge a pitcher by their W-L record. Also I do not praise every move they make or get all excited over a move every one thinks is great. I reserve judgment until we see how they play on the this team. I do think Brown showed improvement on defense. I do have concerns about M Young defense. One last thing I would say if you any one stat in in any one year to prove a point is a poor argument. And to throw in pick ups that are going to play AAA and a guy who can pull his weight can be cut cause he is only owed less then a million.
I choose to take saber stats, classic stats , and the eye test AFTER a player actually does something on the diamond
I did see this on FB – and it does get my blood to boiling
Why did it get your blood boiling?
It's an expression – blood boils when you're pumped.
Got it. I always thought blood boiling = anger. My bad. He has produced some great moments, hasn't he?
Regardless of what anybody has posted Ryan Howard is the MAIN reason the Phils have been and will be a force in the NL East.. Not the only reason, the MAIN reason.
Brooks – Nice! Thanks for that. We WILL see that again this year and I agree that he WILL be a major factor in the Phils winning 90 games and making the playoffs.
So many awesome memories and hopefully more to come.. didn't you want Howard to catch up to Barry in that mess vs the Astros (in a way..)?
I find it ridiculous that so many people seem to think that because Howard didn't play real well coming back too soon from a really serious injury that he's completely washed up. I think anyone who's put up the numbers he has, if healthy, will continue to be a force. Maybe not the huge force he was early on in his career, but a pretty big force nonetheless. People fail to realize that his running speed and defense were also affected hugely by his Achilles injury, and those should return, too. He's just not the negative WAR player he was in 2012..
The greater meaning of this offseason lies in the fact that the Phillies are already thinking in terms of the future in their unwillingness to give longer term contracts or sacrifice their draft picks for anyone not named Hamilton. I commend them for not acquiring Vernon Wells or Alfonso Soriano. I commend them for not signing Nick Swisher, Scott Hairston or even Michael Bourn all of which would have been overpays. I don't even mind the M. Young acquisition especially if you consider Dave Cameron's predictions for a WAR bounce-back year. What I am perplexed about is why the front office felt the need to bring in the reigning ALCS MVP- is it really an indication that they have no faith in Brown and Ruf? If that is the case then the future success of the team might be farther away than we envisioned.
Del – Yes, it is an indication of their lack of faith in Brown and Ruf. Brown hasn't exactly set the world on fire (although he HAS had injuries) and Ruf, for all his mystique and prowess, has a whopping 37 MLB at-bats. So yeah, I get why they spent a measly $750,000 on a proven run producer.
What did I miss? Who is the $750k run-producer the Philles sign? You can't mean Delmon Young?
To me, the only player mentioned that's worth the worry is M.Young. Mather and Betancourt are minor league depth, and the kind of signings that every front office makes. D. Young, at his paltry pay, is not a lock, no matter what Amaro says about "starting RF." He's also 27 years old, and may actually have a chance to improve, if he's grown up a little. He's shown flashes of ability in the past.
As far as WAR, or fWar, these are still only numbers, and despite what some claim for their "completeness," are based on certain factors, like defense, which are still being argued over. I'm sure in 6he case of M,Young, for instance, that his constant shifting of positions has had a detrimental effect on his defense, and therefore, his overall performance. I really would prfer that instead of lumping everything into one "convenient" number, that each individual aspect be looked at seperately. To me, a better evaluation could be made in that way in that certain positions (particularly when a defensive replacement is availabe late in the game) a team might prefer offense to defense, others defense might come first.
Lastly, there have been players who have had off-years due to injury, misuse, or switching popsitions. I'm with Beta here. Numbers are fine, and offer some predictive value, but they aren't the whole answer. Spring training, despite what EricL believes, CAN reveal more. So what if players are just getting in shape or working on things. It's still pretty easy to tell who has a smooth swing, who's coachable, who seems to have a good batting eye, who is taking way to long to gain command of his pitches or control of his bat, who can actually judge a flyball or guage a grounder, etc. ad nauseaum.
couldn't have said it better myself george. my biggest problem is the amount of questions the phils have this year. the guys coming off injuries, the youngs? can they be effective? the pen? is durbin as solid as before and can adams do what he's done in the past? like ericL said. adams FB has been losing mph the last three years. they have so many variables that it's difficult to actually gage how they're gonna do. someone said in an earlier post if everything goes right they can win 90+ games. i agree with that, but that's an awful lot of things that have to go right.
I agree with your comment 100%, and have just one further opinion on rating defensive performance.
The managers and coaches need to be figured in. They make the decisions about where players should be positioned in the outfield, whether or not the infield should be in, at Dp depth, etc.
These decisions affect the performance of the players on the field, and should be taken into account when evaluating a player's defensive worth. Obviously there are some situations where this does not figure in, such as a guy with low arm strength, but in terms of catching the baseball, a player's positioning is huge IMO. I assume they play where they are told as I've never seen a position player shake off a sign.
First let me humbly request that all of you help satisfy old Lefty's OCD, and get this one thing straight.
The acronym for the "Society for American Baseball Research" is SABR, not saber, not sabre. When used in conjunction with the word "metrics" it has become commonly spelled Sabermetrics or Saber-Metrics, but separately the Acronym is SABR. There are no swords or weapons that Darth Vader or Yoda might use involved here. Thanks for letting me get through that. Sorry, but for some unknown reason, the word "sabre" on a baseball site just drives me bat-shit crazy.
Now on to more important totally off topic things-
The good folks of SABR have added some incredible and wonderful insight into the game of baseball for fans and the management of some major league teams as well. The current president of SABR, Vince Genarro is a sharp customer and also the author of "Diamond Dollars" which I highly recommend that all of you read.
They also are still working diligently on the science of defensive metrics, and as George mentioned earlier, they haven't got it right yet, and they know it. It is hoped that video technology will be major plus in making defensive assessment better now and in the future. They are also looking into even more new ways to be better at evaluating the value of individual players offensively and predicting performance. They are also endeavoring to find the exact right cocktail if you will, for team management philosophies pending whether you are small market, large market, or markets where revenues are less responsive to winning. (He cites the Braves as an example of this)
But they haven't perfected anything! As Vince will tell you in his book, there are simply too many obstacles to overcome for any system to guarantee success. He notes prospects that never fulfill their promise, free agents that don't live up to the hype, and more than an occasional Tommy John surgery as just a few of these obstacles.
So while it's good to put your faith in a system, I know I do, it's not always going to bring the desired results. And while it's good to use your scouting, (the eye test) and let your record be the measure of your success, that's not always going to work either.
In my humble opinion, there simply are no absolutes! The eye test, the advanced metrics, even the counting stats, they are all good and should all be used together for predictive purposes, or simple as a measure of success.
But as we all see every day on blogs like this one, that rarely happens. It amazes me that people can be so one sided, that they can't see the value of using every available piece of information, whether it is processed by the eyes, by counting, or by mathematical formula. Again folks, it's all good and should be used together.
Lefty, you've really nailed it, in my opinion. Use every available bit of information. Like most everyone does when purchasing a car or choosing a spouse.
Back to the original posting. Why go for these marginal players?
There is no question that Amaro is reaching with these moves. Why? The answer is that the Phillies are in the worst of all possible situations. They have a number of high paid stars that brought them success in the recent past and they have been drawing huge attendance prior to a new TV contract. Accordingly Amaro cannot yet dismantle and start rebuilding because he would risk hundreds of millions of dollars on a TV deal based on the last 7 years popularity of the team.
So, he has to give it a go BUT he is under financial restraints. Remember that Lee deal? The one that shocked us all. It is clear to me that the owners said this is your last cash Reuben. From now on everything has to balance – if you want a new guy get rid of an old one. (See add Hamels contract – delete Victorino/Pence.
So having given up that Victorino/Pence money (or most of it) – after all the pluses and minuses (Blanton, etc) Amaro was left with little money. More importantly the actual cash flows on all of these contracts is back loaded so he actually has less money to go in the future and therefore can't sign a big longterm contract until someone drops. So he goes for short term contacts i.e. Young(last year of his contract) and Young and Durbin.
Now, who will sign a one year agreement? Only someone who feels they can't do better. Why can't they do better? Because they have had bad numbers recently. So, Amaro is hoping that they deliver on the upside but he knows it is not likely – its just that he can't do better right now.
The real changes will begin in 2014 with the end of Doc and Utley's contract – $35 million.
If the Phils do really poorly in 2013 Amaro will try to retool and rebuild but it is not going to be easy. Nothing really exciting on the farm.
I regret to say the window has closed. Phils will meander around 500 for the next few years unless they get lucky with some kids.
It won't be pretty but as always – follow the money.
I can agree somewhat with the financial considerations, but can't fully go along with the thoughts on Victorino and Pence. Vic was in the final year of his contract and probably not worth extending. He had to be traded to get something back rather than the nothing he'd bring back in free agency. Pence was likely dropped because he'd had ample time to prove he wasn't the answer, and he'd have been overpriced after arbitration. Again, it was probably a move to gain a player who could help long-term, rather than to keep a player who didn't have talent commensurate with his salary.
I do agree with your assessment of the "window." The team probably do better than .500, but won't be a powerhouse with the current aging core players. There may be more money around than anyone thinks, but to spend it this year on the free agents who, in most cases weren't improvements, would have been stupid. It'll be needed in seasons to come, when the next Halladay or Utley or Howard comes along.


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I jammed up my player with too much stuff!
So I had some room left on the internal memory on my Pilot and I though I'd fill it up. I plugged it into my Mac and put two more albums on the Pilot, leaving ~3 MB of space left.
When I started it up, it started profiling the media and said that the database was full. "Delete Content or Reformat Device". With an error like this, it seems that the Pilot wouldn't show up in MTP mode. I guess it relies on the database to display the content of the device. The only way I could delete content was by locking the Pilot and connecting via file and folder mode. I deleted the problem albums. Same message. I deleted more. Same message. I moved some files to external memory. Same message. There is now over 500MB free space.
Please tell me there's a way to force it to rebuild the database without removing all the content, reformatting and putting the media back on the Pilot. That's ridiculous.
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I didn't have enough space to copy stuff over to my computer, so I plugged into my friend's Mac. I copied my Music folder to his computer, unplugged to reformat, and it built my database successfully. I'm happy, but confused and a little frustrated. Why didn't connecting to the PC in file and folder mode not cause this?
AAAAaaaand, oddly enough, µ-ziq is back to a-ziq. I didn't TOUCH that file on the Mac or on the PC. Why oh why?!?!? I'm sure the others are messed up too now.
Any more background on what the sequence was make this happen? We will try to reproduce it.
Sure. I'll try to include everything, regardless of whether I think it caused the problem.
Here are the three machines involved:
Apple 1.42GHz dual processor G4 running OSX 10.3.9
Dell XPS M1210 Core Duo 1.83GHz, Windows XP MCE Version 2002 SP2
Apple Mac Book Pro 2.16GHz Core Duo, OSX 10.4.10
My Pilot is an 8GB model with a 1 GB Transcend microSD card in it's bundled SD adapter. This is how the Pilot was, working fine.
Internal Memory: ~1650 mp3s with ~100MB of free space
External Memory: six videos with 222MB of free space
All of the files were loaded up from my Dell or G4 Mac.
I wanted to add some files to the Pilot using the Mac. I deleted some files and added albums until the Mac indicated something like 2-3MB of free space.
I unplugged the Pilot when it indicated that it was OK to do so. When I looked down, it said that there were no files on it. (I obviously missed the full database message). Every time I started it up, it would appear that it was starting up, but then give me a message saying the "Database is full. Delete content or reformat device."
I tried to connect it to my Dell (via MTP auto-select) and it would only mount my External Storage. It makes sense. I'm not positive how MTP works, but I'm getting the feeling that it relies on this database I keep hearing about (but can't see... grrr).
I switched to force File & Folder mode and it would mount the internal and external memory. While I was in there changing the USB mode, though, I was checking the System tab. IIRC, it indicated something like 2.37MB of free space on the Internal Memory.
Anyway, I didn't have 8 gigs of free space on my laptop, so I asked my friend with the MacBook Pro if I could dump stuff onto his HD and reformat.
I removed the SD card for the process.
I plugged into the Mac and it mounted the internal memory. I told my friend to copy the Music folder over. He said "Dump it?" I said yes. I call transferring something from a device onto another "dumping." Well... he threw it in the trash. Luckily, it didn't delete automatically. I told him to move the Music folder back onto the device. After he did that, he copied the Music folder to his desktop.
After everything was backed up, I disconnected the Pilot. To my amazement, it profiled the files properly as if I just threw all of the files on for the first time.
Now it works as it did before. With the exception of the myu character changing back to "a". Odd, but I'm happy I didn't have to reformat and re-load the thing.
Hey !
This happened to me when I took my MP3 off of my Mac. I didn't know why, but I sensed a pattern. Thats when I figured it out. All you have to do to prevent this is "Safely Eject" your hardware from your computer whenever you are done placing things on/ taking things off of it from your computer. For a Mac, all you do is drag the Icon thats on the desktop to the Trash, and it will eject it, and for Windows, you go o the bottom right hand corner of your screen and find the "Safely Eject" icon, click it, and then click what you want to eject.
Now, if you have already done the action and that message pops up, this is how you fix it.
Go on your computer and plug in your MP3. The files will still be on there, but they won't show up on your MP3. They will show up on your computer. Make an empty, easily accessible folder somewhere (I always put it on my desktop, its not going to be there long). Then, drag all the files from your MP3 to that folder (the ones you want to keep, anyway). After its done copying the files over, safely eject your MP3 from your computer.
Now, go on your Insignia and find where it says "Empty Internal Memory". Click that, and then click yes. It will now empty all the memory from your MP3. Then, find where it says "Restore Settings" or "Restore Default Settings". Click that. Now, you basically have a brand new MP3. No kinks to it.
Now, plug your MP3 back into your computer. The tricky part is when you delete all the internal memory, you also delete some of the folders that actually come with the MP3, namely the "Music" folder. Thats what took me a while to figure out. To regain your "Music" folder, all you have to do is go into the folder named "AUDIBLE" (all caps, hopefully), and then create a folder named "Music" (just type it like that, not "MUSIC" or "music"). After you have that down, you could drag all your music back from that folder you made a little while back. Now you have all your files on your MP3 again! After you're sure its done copying all the files back to your MP3, make sure you SAFELY EJECT the MP3 from your computer. Check that 3 times before you do it, just so you don't have to repeat this tedious process.
And, presto, you're done! At least thats how it worked for me and a few others
Hope it helps!!!
- Brandon
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As usual, it was an eventful year. A Bishop Watterson High School teacher was fired after she listed the name of her same-sex partner in a newspaper obituary for her mother. Road construction eased a bit, as new pathways opened. Ohio Veterans Memorial learned that its days were numbered. A battle erupted over the privacy of the records belonging to JobsOhio. And the Ohio State football team ran its winning streak to 24 before a heartbreaking loss. Look back at the stories of 2013 and let us know which you think is the big event of the year (stories compiled by Dispatch librarians).
Top stories of 2013
Revisit the top local stories of 2013, from E. Gordon Gee's departure to Columbus City Schools' year under the microscope.
Columbus City Schools in the spotlight
The spotlight was on Columbus City Schools again in 2013.
Starting in January, state investigators reviewed an unusually high number of grade changes within the district.
Mayor Michael B. Coleman formed the Columbus Education Commission -- a 25-member board of business, city and school leaders -- who will study the district's operations and proposed recommendations for district improvements.
In May, State Auditor Dave Yost sent his investigators and uniformed Columbus police officers to 20 Columbus high schools to seize records for his investigation of school-data rigging.
A number of administrators linked to the the data-rigging scandal retired over the past year, including: Steve Tankovich, Michael L. Dodds and assistant principal Stanley K. Pyles.
Superintendent Gene Harris also retired and was replaced by interim superintendent Dan Good on July 1.
A pair of levies, Issues 50 and 51, intended to revitalize the district were soundly defeated in November. It was the first loss for a Columbus City Schools levy in 23 years.
>> Assistant principal in Columbus data-rigging scandal leaves post early
>> Departing superintendent Harris leaves her legacy to others
>> Voters soundly defeat Columbus school levy
>> Auditor's report won't end Columbus schools scandal
OSU football winning streak
Over the course of two years the Ohio State football Buckeyes built a record-setting 24-game
winning streak.
This year's Buckeye squad entered the team record books when they beat Indiana (42-14) to establish a 23-game winning streak on Nov. 23, 2013. This streak surpassed the run established by teams that won the 1968 national championship.
A tight win against Michigan (42-41) extended the streak to 24 games.
The winning streak ended with a disappointing loss to Michigan State (34-24) during the Big 10 Championship game on Dec. 7, 2013.
>> Ohio State 42, Indiana 14: Down in history
>> Ohio State 42, Michigan 41: Fight to the finish
>> Michigan State 34, Ohio State 24: No quit, no win
Carla Hale's firing
Bishop Watterson High School physical-education teacher Carla Hale was fired
in March after she listed the name of her same-sex partner in a newspaper obituary for her mother.
According to The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, Hale, who worked at Bishop Watterson High School in Clintonville for 19 years, violated a "morals clause" in her teaching contract which requires abiding by the tenets of the Catholic Church. The church considers homosexual acts and any sex outside marriage to be immoral and thus, grounds for dismissal.
Hale, whose teacher union declined to support her effort for reinstatement, received an outpouring of support from students and the local community when a petition on change.org demanded her reinstatement collected more than 125,000 signatures.
In August, Hale and the diocese reached a confidential settlement that did not include Hale's reinstatement.
>> Backers rally for fired gay teacher
>> Union won't back gay teacher fired from Watterson
>> Fired lesbian teacher Carla Hale won't get job back in deal with diocese
Deadly Legionnaires' outbreak in Reynoldsburg
Six people died and 39 were made ill by an outbreak of the disease beginning in July at the
Wesley Ridge Retirement Community in Reynoldsburg.
The ill ranged in age from 63 to 99 years, and many had medical conditions that made them vulnerable to infections from the bacteria. Everyone who died lived at Wesley Ridge.
An investigation led by Franklin County Public Health pinpointed the sources: a cooling tower and potable water used for bathing, drinking and cooking. But investigators didn't determine any definitive circumstances that allowed the bacteria, which are ubiquitous in the environment, to flourish.
>> Sources pegged for Legionnaires' outbreak at Reynoldsburg retirement center
>> Legionnaires' cases reach 39 sick, 5 dead
>> Cause of 'Legionella' outbreak unresolved
Veterans Memorial controversy
Franklin County Commissioners voted Dec. 3 to allow the Columbus Downtown Development Corp. to
demolish Veterans Memorial and build a glass-and-steel Ohio Veterans Memorial and Museum in its
place. The project is part of a larger CDDC plan to redevelop the Scioto Peninsula.
That includes a culture and education district on the west side of the Scioto River, anchored by the COSI science museum, a new Veterans, and a Downtown Columbus Zoo and Aquarium attraction. The county will contribute about $3 million to construction costs, and it will pay the estimated $2.6 million to demolish Veterans and clear the site by March 2015.
The new Veterans would be built using $25 million donated by Limited Brands founder Leslie H. Wexner and his wife, Abigail.
>> Plan would bring arts venue, zoo to area near COSI
>> Vets museum, zoo attraction highlight Scioto Peninsula remake
>> Veterans lose battle to spare Vets Memorial from demolition
E. Gordon Gee's retirement
On June 4, 2013, in an email to students and faculty, Ohio State University President E. Gordon
Gee announced his retirement effective July 1.
Gee cited more time with his family as the main motivator for his retirement, not because of jokes he made about "those damn Catholics" at Notre Dame that sparked a backlash.
He is the only president who had led Ohio State for two terms; first serving from 1990-1997 then returning in 2007.
>> Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee to retire
>> Gee has regrets, but says gaffes didn't cause him to retire as Ohio State president
JobsOhio under scrutiny
In March, the feud over Auditor Dave Yost's authority to inspect the private finances of
JobsOhio, Gov. John Kasich's privatized economic-development agency, ended with Yost getting the
records he wanted. At the same time, JobsOhio announced it would repay the state the public money
it already had received -- at least $7.5 million.
In June, Kasich signed the bill that will keep the state auditor's eyeballs largely off of JobsOhio's books. Senate Bill 67 will prohibit state Auditor Dave Yost from inspecting the state's wholesale liquor profits funding JobsOhio. The current audit of 2012 will continue, but future audits would be prohibited.
In November, after months of questions about possible improper conflicts of interest at JobsOhio, Yost revealed he had found none in his state audit. The Republican auditor said there were no conflicts by the decision-making staff of JobsOhio, the people who actually decide which companies receive state incentives.
>> Dispute over audit lingers even after JobsOhio gives up records, $7.5 million
>> Senate follows House in quickly passing bill to block public audit of JobsOhio
>> JobsOhio audit finds no improper conflicts of interest; some safeguards needed
Muirfield hosts Presidents Cup
The Presidents Cup, one of golf's premier team events, was played at the Muirfield Village Golf
Club in Dublin Oct. 3-6.
The international attention accompanying the event was an opportunity to brand Columbus and sell it as a travel destination. The projected economic impact on the area was $50 million.
The competition between a team of 12 of America's best pro golfers and a team of a dozen of the best from non-European countries is played every two years.
A sold-out opening ceremony was held Downtown at Columbus Commons. The four official rounds of play were also sold out.
The American team beat the International team for the fifth straight time, and Muirfield became the first course in the world to host the Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup and Presidents Cup.
>> Presidents Cup: Festivities spill beyond Muirfield
>> U.S. holds off late challenge to win Presidents Cup
More ways to get around
New on-demand transportation options in Columbus' urban core debuted this year, including the
CoGo bike-sharing program and the Car2Go car-sharing program. Other new transportation options
include pedicabs, planned new bus routes and expanded amenities for cyclists, including extended
trails and bike lanes and Downtown lockers.
The CoGo program, launched in July with about 300 bikes, has its bikes stationed around Downtown and in nearby neighborhoods such as German Village.
Car2Go started with about 50 cars at its launch in October. The service allows members to rent Smart cars by the minute, hour or day. In November it expanded its service area by providing 45 spaces around the Ohio State campus. It was planning to expand to as many as 250 vehicles by the end of the year.
The Short North and the Arena District have been the focus of the pedicab business.
Mayor Michael B. Coleman has said he wants Columbus to become "Bike City USA." More than $5 million in bike-friendly upgrades were made in the summer as the city installed bike lanes and pavement markings and added shelters and racks.
>> Pedal on, Columbus! City bike-share program up and running
>> Car-sharing service set to launch in Columbus on Oct. 26
Road construction progresses
For more than two years, the largest construction project in central Ohio snarled commuter
traffic, shutting off access points between highways and major Downtown arteries.
The final highway restrictions on a $200 million I-71/670 interchange project were lifted Nov. 18, allowing traffic to flow unimpeded on northbound lanes through the interchange. Several exit and entrance ramps also reopened.
Ohio Department of Transportation officials say the completed interchange will be safer and see fewer traffic jams. The speed limit will be 55 mph.
Completing the highway changes on time and on budget is a milestone, but the project is only the first of a six-phase, $1.1 billion plan to rebuild Downtown highways. Those phases will be in planning and construction for years.
>> Traffic to flow at I-71/670 as last lanes open after 2 years


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Chuck Frayer, '77, has been named a partner at Crowe Group, LLP, the holding company of the public accounting and consulting firm Crowe Chizek and Company, LLC. He works in the Grand Rapids office within the firm's Tax Services Group. Chuck previously spent 27 years at Ernst and Young. He lives in East Grand Rapids.


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The Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act: Ill-advised "right to try" goes federal
Not too long ago, I expressed alarm at a series of bills that were popping up like so much kudzu in various state legislatures, namely "right to try" bills. Both Jann Bellamy and I warned that these bills gave a false illusion of hope to patients with terminal illnesses. Basically, these laws claim to grant the "right" of patients with terminal illnesses to access promising experimental medicines that have not yet been approved by the FDA. Indeed, these investigational drugs need merely to have passed phase I trials, and these "right to try" laws would allow them to be used in pretty much any human with a terminal illness who can persuade a pharmaceutical company to let them have such drugs. Of course, as I pointed out, such laws are based on a false premise, namely that there are lots of promising drugs out there that could save lots of lives of terminally ill patients, if only the hidebound FDA would get out of the way and let the people try them. The problem (besides the false assumption behind such laws) is that they are all state laws, and the FDA and federal law still trump state laws with respect to drug approval.
Apparently, advocates of "right to try" laws have gotten around to trying to take care of that little obstacle, too. I'm referring to a federal law under consideration in the House of Representatives and championed by the usual suspects, including the Alliance for Natural Health USA, a "health freedom" group that has yet to see a pro-quackery bill it doesn't like.
In any case, at the time I originally learned about this bill, HR 4475, which was introduced by Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and entitled "The Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2014," its text hadn't yet been published to the Congressional website. I did learn that the bill has been floating around for a while in various forms (for instance, former Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) apparently introduced it.) Now its text has been published, as Guy Chapman has noted. He calls it a "quack's charter," and he's only off by a bit. The bill doesn't go quite as far as he believes, but the bill is still plenty bad, man. If enacted, HR 4475 would amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by inserting after section 561 (21 U.S.C. 360bbb) the text of HR 4475. This section of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is entitled "Expanded Access to Unapproved Therapies and Diagnostics," and it's the section of the act that regulates exactly that. The interesting thing is that this particular section of existing law is the framework under which the whole system of single patient INDs (also known as "compassionate use exemptions") is already based. As I've described before, single patients can receive promising unapproved drugs under what's known as a single patient IND, which has to be approved by the Institutional Review Board and the FDA and allows single patients to receive unapproved drugs. You can (and many have) argued that the single patient IND process is too cumbersome and restrictive, but HR 4475 seeks to (mostly) nuke this requirement. You'll see what I mean in a minute.


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The Dominion Country Club
San Antonio, Texas
July 12-15, 2004
Pressel leads Girls Division by two strokes at even par
SAN ANTONIO â Josh Hedge of Billings, Mont., shook off a bogey on his first hole and breezed through the rest of his round, shooting a 6-under-par 66 and taking a three-stroke lead Tuesday in the first round of the Valero Texas Open Junior Shootout. In the Girls Division, Morgan Pressel of Boca Raton, Fla., shot even-par 72 to take a two-stroke lead.
Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the Valero Texas Open Junior Shootout is a 54-hole, stroke play event featuring junior golfers from nine states and Mexico. 101 Texans are among the 120 juniors, who range in age from 12-18. 2004 marks the 13th year the AJGA has staged the event in the San Antonio area.
After making bogey at the par-4 first hole, Hedge, 18, got back to even par with a birdie at No. 4, then went on a tear with birdies at Nos. 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 14 to get to 6-under-par. The impressive stretch included birdies at three of The Dominion Country Clubâs four par-5s.
âWith those par 5s in the middle, I like that stretch,â Hedge said. âSo I knew if I could play the first five holes well, Iâd be in good shape.â
Hedge said that he would continue to attack flagsticks throughout the tournament.
âI was just playing each hole trying to make a birdie,â Hedge said. âIf youâre hitting fairways and hitting it long, I donât see why not. As long as I keep hitting fairways, I feel like Iâll be alright.â
Three boys trail Hedge by three strokes. Robert Streb of Edmond, Okla., Brent Bennett of Midland, Texas, and Scott Pinckney of Anthem, Ariz., each carded a 3-under-par 69.
âThe putter was doing it for me today,â Streb said. âUsually I donât make much outside of 10 or 15 feet, but today was good.â
Bennett said his focus on the course was the key to his round.
âI was really in the zone,â Bennett said. âIâd hang on until the end and make a lot of up-and-downs.â
Pinckney, who shared medalist honors in Sundayâs Valero Texas Open Junior Shootout Qualifier, is playing in his first AJGA Open event and was upbeat after his solid play.
âIâm hitting the ball awesome,â Pinckney said. âI feel like I can go at the flag and Iâm thinking positive.â
Randy Guliuzo, Jr., of Belle Chasse, La., and Nick Olivarri of San Antonio each shot 2-under-par 70 and trail by four strokes in fifth place.
In the Girls Division, Pressel was able to stay out of trouble, but said she was not satisfied with her work on the greens.
âI missed short putts everywhere â I just couldnât get the speed right,â Pressel said. âI had three goals coming in â birdie the par-5s, hit every par-3 green, and never three-putt.
âAfter today Iâve already scratched all those off, but itâs only the first day. Hopefully I can play a little better the next two days.â
Caney Hines of San Antonio shot 37-37â74 and trails by two strokes. Tamara Campbell of Lawton, Okla., and Daphne Vines of Austin, Texas, are tied at 77 in third place.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA has a membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became an AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
Second-round tee times begin at 7 a.m. off the No. 1 tee at The Dominion Country Club. For more information on the Valero Texas Open Junior Shootout, contact tournament headquarters at (210) 698-2745.
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The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
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Tag along with your favorite monster family! "The Munsters: Two-Movie Fright Fest" (1966) is a 1.5-disc set that includes two films adapted from the hit TV show. And they are now in color! The films include all of the original cast members from the show. The first film, "Munster, Go Home!" finds the Munsters moving to an English estate Herman inherited. In "The Munsters' Revenge," Dr. Diablo tries to create robot Munsters to pull off art heists.
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Roman and Irene Me rlo were indicted on charges of possession of a certain chemical to manufacture a controlled substance by Bee County Grand Jury members.
The maximum 20-year sentence could come with an order to pay a $10,000 fine if the two are convicted in court.
According to the indictment, the 40-year-old man and his 36-year-old wife were found to have chemicals that could be used to manufacture methamphetamine on July 26, 2012.
Bonds for both suspects were set at $5,000 by District Judge Janna Whatley.
Others named in recent indictments included:
•Edwin Michael Rhodes on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, 1-200 grams.
The charge is a second degree felony.
Highway Patrol Trooper Kolton Kendall alleged that Rhodes, 21, had oxycodone in his possession on Sept. 4, 2012.
Bond was set at $20,000.
•Cynthia Bernice Guevarra-Garcia in a two-count indictment on charges of engaging in money transmission without a license and money laundering.
The second count is a second degree felony. The first count is a third degree felony.
If convicted of the first count, the 31-year-old defendant could face a 10-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine.
Investigators alleged that Guevarra-Garcia had between $100,000 and $200,000 in alleged narcotics proceeds in her possession on Dec. 24, 2104.
Bond was $10,000.
•Jesus Maldonado Jr. on a charge of driving while intoxicated, third or more. The charge was enhanced to a second degree felony because Maldonado, 34, had a previous felony conviction.
BPD Detective Matt Miller alleged that Maldonado was driving drunk on April 5, 2015, and that he had two previous DWI convictions on April 16, 2003, in Bee County.
The charge was enhanced because the defendant had another felony DWI conviction on Dec. 13, 2004, in Bee County.
Bond was $3,000.
•Kevin Tobar on a charge of bail jumping, a third degree felony.
According to District Court Bailiff Bill Lazenby Tobar was to have appeared in court on March 18 while he was out on a $5,000 bond on a charge of DWI with a child under the age of 15 in the vehicle but he failed to appear.
Bond was $30,000.
•Matilda Hilda Arrisola on a charge of bail jumping, a third degree felony.
Lazenby alleged that the defendant failed to appear in court on Feb. 11 while out on a $1,000 bond on a forgery charge.
Bond was $20,000.
•Juan Carlos Balderas on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, a third degree felony.
Bee County Sheriff's Office Deputy Investigator Steve Linam alleged that the 40-year-old suspect had a firearm in his possession on Sept. 29, 2012. That was less than five years after his release from supervision on a conviction on a charge of aggravated kidnapping on Oct. 8, 2002.
Bond was $10,000.
•Rodolfo Almadarize Medina on a charge of DWI, third or more. The charge is a third degree felony.
According to Trooper Kendall, the 32-year-old defendant was driving drunk on July 3, 2013.
He had previous DWI convictions on May 7, 2007, in Galveston County and on June 27, 2008, in Hidalgo County.
Bond was $7,000.
•Armando Mendez, also known as Almando Mendez, on a charge of injury to a child, a third degree felony.
BPD Detective Chris Vasquez alleged that Mendez injured a child age 14 or younger by contacting him with his hand on Dec. 5, 2013.
Bond was $5,000.
•Melissa Bass Durment, also known as Melissa Pillow Bass, on a charge of DWI, third or more
The charge is a third degree felony.
Trooper Kendall accused the defendant of driving while intoxicated on Feb. 19, 2013.
The 42-year-old defendant had previous DWI convictions on May 21, 2003, and Oct. 4, 2012, both in Bee County.
Bond was $5,000.
•Johnny Monsevais on a charge of DWI, third or more, a third degree felony.
Trooper Kendall alleged that the 34-year-old suspect was driving while intoxicated on May 18, 2013.
He had two previous DWI convictions, both on April 14, 2011, in Bee County.
Bond was $3,000.
•Conrad Pedro Ruiz on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, one to four grams.
The charge is a third degree felony.
BPD investigators charged that Ruiz had methamphetamine in his possession on Oct. 5, 2013.
Bond was $2,500.
•Thomas Ryan O'Neil on two counts of criminally negligent homicide, both state jail felonies.
According to Highway Patrol Trooper Marvin Baker, O'Neil was passing a vehicle in a no-passing zone on April 6, 2014, when he allegedly caused an accident that resulted in the deaths of two persons.
Bond was $10,000.
•Rodolfo Urbina, 54, on a charge of theft of a firearm, a state jail felony. If convicted, Urbina faces a two-year term in a state jail facility and a $10,000 fine.
According to BPD Detective Greg Baron, the defendant took a firearm from another man on July 28, 2013.
Bond was $3,000.
•Jerrett Ross Remmers on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, less than one gram, a state jail felony.
According to a BPD investigator, the 29-year-old defendant had methadone in his possession on March 23, 2013.
Bond was $1,500.
•Roy Trejo on a charge of possession of marijuana, between four ounces and five pounds.
The charge is a state jail felony.
BCSO Deputy Investigator Delilah Pier claimed that the 31-year-old defendant had the drug on Jan. 24, 2012.
Bond was $1,500.
•Lewis Langley in a two-count indictment on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, less than one gram, and possession of marijuana, between four ounces and five pounds.
Both charges are state jail felonies.
Investigators alleged that he had the drugs on March 8, 2012.
Bond was $1,000.
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Evansville, Indiana, USA, has a population of ~130,000 and is bounded to the south by the Ohio River. Our riverfront is now the permanent home of the WWII vessel LST 325. These "Landing Ship Tanks" were constructed in the Evansville shipyards during the war years, and this particular ship saw duty in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Evansville is also home to the largest old growth forest in a large city in the United States. Wesselman Woods is a National Natural Landmark with nearly 200 acres of virgin bottomland hardwood forest. Just east of Evansville, our neighbor, Newburgh, Indiana, is home to Angel Mounds State Historic Site, nationally recognized as one of the best-preserved prehistoric Native American sites in the United States. The site, on the rich bottom lands of the Ohio River, was occupied from A.D. 1100 to A.D. 1450 by people of the Middle Mississippian culture. Just an hour to our east are the beautiful, rugged hills of Hoosier National Forest; an hour to our west are the hills of Shawnee National Forest; and a few hours south is Mammoth Cave National Park.
Middle Pennsylvanian sandstones, siltstones, and shales in the flanks of the Illinois Basin underlie this area. To our west is the active midcontinent New Madrid seismic system. And, as we are periodically reminded, Evansville sits on top of the faulted Paleozoic rocks of the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone. Although this area did not have direct ice cover during recent glacial periods, glacial influence is quite prevalent in outwash-dammed lake deposits and extensive loess blankets. The Evansville regional legacy is firmly rooted in the discovery and extraction of fossil fuels, particularly the petroleum and coal resources of the Illinois Basin. We see a reinvigorated exploration and development of petroleum resources and expansions in the working surface and underground coal mines. In fact, our keynote address by Bill DiMichele of the Smithsonian Institution will describe the exciting, "as seen on TV," discovery of the preserved Pennsylvanian rainforest in regional coal mines. We have many opportunities and challenges as we address regional and local issues of brine disposal, acid mine drainage, subsurface coalmine subsidence, flooding, and land-use changes from development.
Perhaps most important, however, is that we are in the heart of what is accepted as the birthplace of North American geology. During the early to mid 1800s, New Harmony, Indiana, truly was the hub of frontier geology for what was then known as the Northwest Territories. David Dale Owen's geological enterprise, based in New Harmony, created the first reconnaissance geological maps of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Wisconsin. New Harmony was so well known throughout the geological community in the mid-1800s that when Charles Lyell, the "founder of modern geology" and champion of uniformitarianism, visited North America in 1841, he insisted on coming here. If you take advantage of the opportunities we have designed to visit New Harmony in person or in sessions, we hope you get the same sensation of legacy that we do when visiting the labs that were in use then and examining the same outcrops described nearly 200 years ago.


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(Bluefield)—Dr. Thomas McDowell will deliver Bluefield State College's Spring 2012 Convocation message. A Bluefield State College graduate (1986), Dr. McDowell is the Lead Pastor at Christ/St. Andrew's United Methodist Church. The convocation will begin at 11 a.m., March 28, in the Basic Science Auditorium and will focus on the theme, "A Hope-Filled Future."
"Dr. McDowell has very strong ties to this area," noted Dr. Felica Wooten Williams, BSC Executive Director of Academic Outreach Programs and advisor of the BSC Campus Ministries student organization. "As an undergraduate at Bluefield State College, he was the student editor of the college newspaper, 'The Bluefieldian.'" His community service activities included participation in the Bluefield, West Virginia Rescue Squad, the Mercer County Domestic Violence Task Force, the Mercer County Drug Abuse Task Force, and the Mercer County Family Resource Network.
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Brit Eugene Souleiman, Wella Professionals global creative director, has been a backstage star for 20 years, creating looks for the likes of Stella McCartney.
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German-born makeup master Jürgen Braun, who created this perfect metallic khaki eye, prefers "lived-in, day-after makeup."
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Striped dolphin
The Striped Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) is an extensively studied dolphin that is found in temperate and tropical waters of all the world's oceans. It is a member of the family Delphinidae of toothed whales.
The Striped Dolphin is one of five species traditionally included in the genus Stenella; however, recent genetic work by LeDuc et al. (1999) indicates that Stenella, as traditionally conceived, is not a natural group. According to that study, the closest relatives of the Striped Dolphin are the Clymene Dolphin, the Common Dolphins, the Atlantic Spotted Dolphin, and "Tursiops" aduncus, which was formerly considered a subspecies of the Bottlenose Dolphin. The Striped Dolphin was described by Franz Meyen in 1833. The specific name coeruleoalba (from Latin caeruleus 'dark blue' and albus 'white') refers to the characteristic blue and white stripes on the flanks.
Physical description
The Striped Dolphin has a similar size and shape to several other dolphins that inhabit the waters that it does (see Pantropical Spotted Dolphin, Atlantic Spotted Dolphin, Clymene Dolphin). However its colouring is very different and makes them relatively easy to notice at sea. The underside is blue, white or pink. There are one or two black bands that circle the eyes, and then run across the back, to the flipper. These bands widen to the width of the flipper which are the same size. There are two further black stripes running from behind the ear — one is short and ends just above the flipper. The other is longer and thickens along the flanks until it curves down under the belly just prior to the tail stock. Above these stripes the dolphin's flanks are coloured light blue or grey. All appendages are black as well. At birth, individuals weigh about 10 kg (22 pounds) and are up to a meter (3 feet) long. By adulthood they have grown to 2.4 m (8 ft) (females) or 2.6 m (8.5 ft) (males) and weigh 150 kg (330 lb) (female) or 160 kg (352 lb) (male). Research suggest that sexual maturity was reached at 12 years in Mediterranean females and in the Pacific at between 7 and 9 years. Longevity is about 55–60 years. Gestation lasts approximately 12 months and there is a three or four year gap between calving.
In common with other dolphins in its genus, the Striped dolphin moves in large groups — usually in excess of up to thousands of individuals in size. Groups may be smaller in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. They may also mix with Common Dolphins. The Striped dolphin is as capable as any dolphin at performing acrobatics — frequently breaching and jumping far above the surface of the water. Sometimes, it approaches boats in the Atlantic and Mediterranean but this is dramatically less common in other areas, particularly in the Pacific where it has been heavily exploited in the past.
The Striped Dolphin feeds on small pelagic fish and squid.
Population and distribution
The Striped Dolphin likes temperate or tropical, off-shore waters. It is found in abundance in the North and South Atlantic Oceans, including the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Roughly speaking it occupies a range running from 40° N to 30° S. It has been found in water temperatures ranging from 10 to 26 degrees Celsius, though the standard range is 18-22 degrees. In the western Pacific, where the species has been extensively studied, a distinctive migration pattern has been identified. This has not been the case in other areas. The dolphin appears to be common in all areas of its range, though that may not be continuous in areas of low population density do exist. The total population is in excess of two million. are many of those striped dolphin in the US
Human interaction
Japan has hunted Striped Dolphins in the western Pacific since at least the 1940s. In the heyday of "striped dolphin drives", at least 8,000 to 9,000 individuals were killed each year and in one exceptional year 21,000 individuals were killed. Since the 1980s, following the introduction of quotas, this number has fallen to around 1,000 kills per year. Conservationists are concerned about the Mediterranean population which is threatened by pollution, disease, busy shipping lanes and heavy incidental catches in fishing nets.
Attempts have been made to keep the Striped Dolphin in captivity. However these have all failed, with animals dying within two weeks due to failure to feed.
The adult Striped Dolphin eats fish, squid, octopus, krill, and other crustaceans. Mediterranean striped dolphins seem to prey primarily on cephalopods (50-100% of stomach contents), while northeastern Atlantic striped dolphins most often prey on fish, frequently cod. They mainly feed on cephalopods, crustaceans, and bony fishes. They feed anywhere within the water column where prey is concentrated and they can dive to depths of 700 metres to hunt deeper-dwelling species.
The Eastern tropical Pacific and Mediterranean populations of the Striped dolphin are listed on Appendix II [3] of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), since they have an unfavourable conservation status or would benefit significantly from international co-operation organised by tailored agreements.[4]
In addition, the Striped dolphin is covered by the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS)[5], the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS)[6], the Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region (Pacific Cetaceans MOU)[7] and the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Conservation of the Manatee and Small Cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia (Western African Aquatic Mammals MoU)
See also
- ^ Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L., Jr. (2005). "Order Cetacea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 723–743. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14300089.
- ^ Hammond, P.S., Bearzi, G., Bjørge, A., Forney, K., Karczmarski, L., Kasuya, T., Perrin, W.F., Scott, M.D., Wang, J.Y., Wells, R.S. & Wilson, B. (2008). Stenella coeruleoalba. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
- ^ "Appendix II" of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). As amended by the Conference of the Parties in 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008. Effective: 5th March 2009.
- ^ Convention on Migratory Species page on the Striped dolphin, Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Conservation of the Manatee and Small Cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia
- ^ Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas
- ^ Official website of the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area
- ^ Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region
- LeDuc, R.G., W.F. Perrin and A.E. Dizon (1999). Phylogenetic relationships among the delphinid cetaceans based on full cytochrome b sequences. Marine Mammal Science, vol. 15, no. 3:619-648.
- Striped Dolphin by Frederick I. Archer II in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals pp. 1201–1203. ISBN 978-0-12-551340-1
- Eds. C.Michael Hogan and C.J.Cleveland. 2011. Striped dolphin. Encyclopedia of Earth with content partner EOL, National Council for Science and Environment, Washington, DC
- Whales Dolphins and Porpoises, Mark Carwardine, Dorling Kindersley Handbooks, ISBN 0-7513-2781-6
- National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World, Reeves, Stewart, Clapham and Powell, ISBN 0-375-41141-0


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At almost 3600 square kilometres, the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park remains one of the country's last frontiers. Said by conservationists to be the Philippines' richest protected area in terms of habitat and species, the park is eighty percent land and twenty percent coastal area along a spectacular, cliff-studded seashore.
One of the reasons for the health of the park's ecosystems is its inaccessibility from outside. To the east lies the Pacific, which is too rough for boats during much of the northeast monsoon (Dec–Feb) and typhoon (July–Oct) seasons; to the west, no roads cross the park or lead towards the more populated, rice-growing valleys. Small aircraft connect the towns of Palanan and Maconacon to the outside world, but that doesn't make the area any less remote and for those unable or unwilling to pay for flights it's very time-consuming to reach. If you do make it, however, then you'll have no regrets.
The park has few wardens and no fences for boundaries, so you can visit any time you want without restriction; it is essential, however, to take a guide if you are to visit safely. A guide can take you down the Palanan River to the village of Sabang, from where you can walk through farmland and forest to Disadsad Falls, a high cascade that crashes through dense forest into a deep pool. For some of the trip there's no trail, so you'll have to wade upriver through the water. Another memorable trip from Palanan takes you northwards along the coast to the sheltered inlets around the towns of Dimalansan and Maconacon. On the isolated beaches here the Dumagat people establish their temporary homes.
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Obama focused on urban voters
You may not have seen the last of Kent Leonhardt, as I suggested after the election last fall. Leonhardt may be planning to run for the West Virginia Senate next year.
If so, he will be taking on incumbent Sen. Larry Edgell, who plans to run for re-election next year.
Leonhardt, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, and his wife own a 380-acre agribusiness in the corner of Monongalia County that falls into state Senate District 2. The district includes Wetzel, Tyler, Doddridge, Ritchie and Calhoun counties and parts of Marshall, Monongalia, Marion and Gilmer counties.
Last year, Leonhardt, a Republican, ran an excellent race against one of the state's most entrenched Democrats, Walt Helmick of Pocahontas County. Both men wanted to be state commissioner of agriculture.
Helmick won, but not by much. The final vote tally in November had him gaining election with 316,571 votes, or 51.6 percent of the total, to Leonhardt's 297,088. That showing, along with Leonhardt's talent for campaigning, prompted Republican leaders to encourage him to try again.
But if he does, he'll be in a race that, in some respects, will be even tougher than that for agriculture commissioner.
Edgell, a Democrat who's a retired educator, was born in Hundred, not terribly far from where Leonhardt's farm is located. He now lives in New Martinsville.
Edgell first won election to the Senate in 1998 and has risen steadily to the point that during the just-ended legislative session, he was speaker pro tempore of the Senate. He is widely respected by both fellow Democrats and Republicans.
The toughest challenge Edgell has faced in state politics was his first Senate race, in 1998. Then, he gained 11,253 votes to handily overcome Republican Charles Clements, also of New Martinsville.
In 2002, no Republican even tried to run against Edgell. Then, in 2006, he overwhelmed the GOP's Wayne Weber, by a vote tally of 17,009-9,184. Last time around, in 2010, he ran unopposed again.
As a result of the 2010 Census, the Second District's boundaries have been altered, but only slightly. One measure of Edgell's strength is that in his last race, 2006, he lost just one county (Doddridge) – and that only narrowly.
Still, if Leonhardt gets into the race, as I'm told he will, he will be a formidable opponent for Edgell.
As I pointed out in a column not long after the November elections, the balance of political power in the United States has gone, without question, to the big cities. President Barack Obama was re-elected solely on the strength of his performance there. Nearly exclusively, rural and small-town America voted for his opponent, Republican Mitt Romney.
As I also pointed out last fall, big cities have benefitted financially from that clout. When decisions about how to dole out federal money are made, they often are driven by how many votes Uncle Sam's generosity can buy.
More evidence of that is being presented by Obama himself in his budget proposal for fiscal 2014.
As we reported, Obama wants to change the Community Development Block Grant program. Smaller cities, including Wheeling, would get less CDBG money.
Obama is making his plan obvious. His proposed change would "ensure that communities receive grants large enough to be more effective in advancing the goals of the program," the White House says in one budget document. In other words, big cities get more money. The rest of us get less.
Wheeling City Manager Robert Herron thinks what is happening is obvious: "This is clearly an effort to shift funds from rural, smaller communities to larger communities," he said during a meeting this week.
And folks, it's going to get worse. Obama and his fellow liberals know where the votes are – and they're determined to use our money to buy them.
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- A novel star PEG-derived surface coating for specific cell adhesion
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- Groll, Juergen; Fiedler, Joerg; Engelhard, Erika; Ameringer, Thomas; Tugulu, Stefano; Klok, Harm-Anton; Brenner, Rolf E.; Moeller, Martin
- Abstract
- In this study a novel approach for the coating and functionalization of substrates for cell culture and tissue engineering is presented. Glass, silicon, and titanium panes were coated with an ultrathin film (30 +/- 5 nm) of reactive star-shaped poly(ethylene glycol) prepolymers (Star PEG). Homogeneity of the films was checked by optical microscopy and scanning force microscopy. These coatings prevent unspecific protein adsorption as monitored by fluorescence microscopy and ellipsometry. In order to allow specific cell adhesion the films were modified with linear RGD peptides (gRGDsc) in different concentrations. After sterilization, fibroblast, SaOS, and human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) were seeded on these substrates. Cell adhesion, spreading, and survival was observed for up to 30 days on linear RGD peptide (gRGDsc)-modified coatings, whereas no cell adhesion could be detected on unmodified Star PEG layers. By variation of the RGD concentration within the film the amount of cells that became adhesive could be controlled. When differentiation conditions are used for cultivation of hMSCs the cells show the expression of osteogenic marker genes after 14 days which is comparable to cultivation on cell culture plastic. Thus, the Star PEG/RGD film did not negatively influence the differentiation process. The high flexibility of the system considering the incorporation of biologically active compounds opens a broad field of future experiments.
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- Journal article
- Source
- Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A, Vol. 74, no. 4 (Sep 2005), pp. 607-617
- Publication year
- 2005
- FOR Code(s)
- 06 Biological Sciences; 09 Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Adsorption; Arginylglycylaspartic acid; Biocompatible materials; Cell adhesion; Cell culture; Cell differentiation; Fibroblasts; Fluorescence microscopy; Macrogols; Mesenchymal stem cells; Osteoblast; Polyethylene glycols; Polymers; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; RGD; RNA; Scanning force microscopy; Silicon; Substrates; Surface modification; Surface properties; Surface treatment; Thin films; Tissue engineering; Titanium
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- John Wiley & Sons
- 0021-9304
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- Copyright © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Peer reviewed