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Cliff Lee's season seemed to follow the same narrative from month to month: he pitched very well, received no run support, and picked up very few decisions, let alone wins. It became something of a running joke to wonder when Lee would, in fact, "win" his first game of the season. His lack of wins also spurred my own research into finding out if any starter has ever finished a season with more WAR than wins.*
He sported an 0-5 record through June in perhaps the perfect invalidation of the win statistic. If W-L record was truly intended to measure the number of good games pitched vs. the number of bad games pitched — and really, what the hell else purpose would it even serve — then Lee's 0-5 mark was absurd. It was largely indicative of the level of run support he received and not his actual performance.
*Yes, Jerry Koosman finished with 3.3 WAR while going 3-15 for the 1978 Mets.
The absurdity continued as Lee began to heat up. After a very good July that saw him post a 2.75 ERA with 30 strikeouts against a mere five walks, Lee was virtually unhittable over the season's final two months. He made 12 starts in August and September and threw 85.2 innings. In slightly over 7 IP/GS, Lee put up a 2.31 ERA with a 22.0 K/BB ratio. Yes, he struck out 88 batters over those 12 starts while walking four.
In the end, Lee had another great season. Sure, it was down by his own elite standards from the last four years, but he finished 3rd among senior circuit pitchers in WAR even after missing three starts with an oblique injury. He led the league, or was among the league leaders, in a number of important and meaningful statistics both traditional and advanced.
However, the most traditional of traditional stats, and the one that unfortunately lacks real meaning — W-L record — is absolutely going to prevent Lee from winning his second Cy Young Award. It's also probably going to prevent him from even placing in the voting.
Despite finishing 6-9 in 30 starts, Lee was arguably the best starting pitcher in the National League this season, whether we realized it or not.
Let some of these numbers sink in for a moment. Lee had the highest K/BB ratio in the National League at 7.39. Behind him was Kentucky Joe, at 4.88, which isn't really even close. Making that ratio even more remarkable is that Lee also finished with the 6th-highest strikeout rate in the league. This wasn't a ridiculously high ratio born out of a low strikeout rate and a low walk rate, a la my favorite pitcher, Greg Maddux. Lee struck batters out left and right — he just didn't walk anyone. His 3.3% walk rate was the lowest in all of baseball.
While his torrid second half helped his ERA cosmetically, Lee led the National League with a 3.00 SIERA. That ERA estimator, which I co-created, measures pitching performance independent of defense and the associated luck in order to get to the bottom of how a pitcher really pitched. Lee finished the season with 211 innings over 30 starts, and while that innings total doesn't lead the league, his IP/GS average topped the senior circuit. His 4.9 WAR ranked third, behind Clayton Kershaw and Gio Gonzalez, but if Lee made those three missed starts, he most likely finishes atop that leaderboard.
What-if's obviously can't factor into this equation, but Lee really didn't get enough credit this season, especially from his own fanbase. Perhaps it was the timing of some of his home runs allowed that contributed to the negative vibe. Or maybe many simply couldn't look past his meaningless W-L to realize that he was having a terrific year. Those same people blamed Lee for giving up two runs over eight innings in a 2-0 loss, making their case by saying he didn't pitch to the score or some such nonsense.
The timing of some of his runs allowed was suboptimal, as he coughed up some late leads or ties. That happens to everyone. Lee would have had to pitched absolutely flawlessly this season to make up for his lack of run support, and that's a lot to expect out of anyone, vintage Roy Halladay or Justin Verlander included. Either way, Lee's name has barely popped up in award talks, and I would wager that many members of his own fanbase haven't thought of his season that way.
What's very interesting is comparing Lee to another pitcher who finished with a much better W-L record, despite having essentially the exact same season.
Lee: 30 GS, 211.0 IP, 24.4% K-rate, 3.3% BB-rate, 3.16 ERA, 3.00 SIERA, 4.9 WAR
Mystery P: 31 GS, 215.1 IP , 24.9% K-rate, 6.0% BB-rate, 3.05 ERA, 3.22 SIERA, 4.5 WAR
The mystery pitcher is Cole Hamels, who finished with a 17-6 record, and has been mentioned as a dark-horse Cy Young Award candidate. A case could be made for either one having the better season, but Lee's is easier to make. In one fewer start he provided almost a half-win more in value this year. Nothing should be taken away from Hamels's great season, but it's a shame that Lee isn't viewed in the same light, despite performing equally or better. Had he received even a bit more run support, he probably would have finished with something like a 14-7 record. While others "won" more games than that, voters may have found it easier to cast their ballot in Lee's name if his mark in this meaningless metric was more appealing.
Felix Hernandez won the AL Cy Young Award a couple of years ago with a mediocre-looking record, but that was a different situation. He still finished with double-digit wins and posted an above .500 record for a terrible team. Lee pitched for a disappointing team that made a second-half surge, but he fell below 10 wins and below .500 as well. His W-L record informs us of nothing about his season at all, yet it's what will get held against him mostly because of a game aspect completely out of his control — the Phillies offense itself.
When the season ends and awards are handed out, the NL Cy Young Award will probably come down to R.A. Dickey, Clayton Kershaw or Craig Kimbrel. Kimbrel had a historic year for relievers and both Dickey and Kershaw had great seasons as well. Lee was arguably the best starting pitcher in the National League this season, and his season will likely go unnoticed come awards time. For all the progress that was made with Hernandez's award, Lee's 2012 season will serve as an example of how meaningless numbers still find their way into value discussions in extreme circumstances.
At least it wasn't completely for naught, as that's an important reminder, as disappointing as it is that Lee's season won't get the credit it deserves.
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"Lee's name has barely popped up in award talks, primarily because his own fanbase hasn't made enough of a case."
How does a "fanbase" impact how the writers vote on awards?
Lee's season reminded me of Nolan Ryan's season in 1987. His win-loss record was 8-16 but he led the NL in ERA (2.76), ERA+ (142), strikeouts (270), K/9 (11.5) and K/BB (3.10). His WAR for that season was 5.1, which is more than double the WAR of the NL Cy Young Award winner that year, Steve Bedrosian (2.2). Although, several pitchers had a higher WAR than Bedrock, including Welch (6.8), Hershiser (6.1), Sutcliffe (5.8) and Mike Scott (5.6).
Which of course begs the question, how in Hades did Bedrosian win the Cy Young Award that year?
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Just shows how much help we needed on offense until they came to life near the end of the year. Lee was probably a top 5 pitcher in the NL this year, but even with some run support, I don't think he would have won the CY Young. Props to Cliff on a well pitched season tho
I'm not going to argue that Cliff Lee didn't have a good year.
However, it's not run support that would eliminate him from Cy Young consideration; it was his extremely poor stretch of games earlier in the year and his outings when he gave up nothing until the seventh or eighth inning, then bombed.
W-L records are not total BS. When a starter of Lee's caliber has the record he did for 2012, it's more a fluke than the norm. Guys with great peripherals generally do win a lot, and guys with bad ones don't. It's not often a pitcher doesn't at least gain some wins (even on a bad team) when pitching like Lee did, getting better as the season progressed.
Awards have always been based on results. Lee didn't get them, and it can't be blamed solely on the offense. Some of it has to be blamed on a few bad starts.
W-L records are not total BS.>>
Now THAT is total BS. I meran god damn, George, Are you blind, stubborn or principled? Here we are, in a room full of strangers, but the baseball gods have bestowed upon us a sport saving class of patrons who have taken the game, flipped it over, under, around and through, and reinvented it, and with over 100 per cent conviction are trying to show you the light.
Never mind that people in the game, I mean freaking uniformed personnel, for cryin' out loud refer to pitcherrs W-L's, but how could you side with that? There is no gray, don't ya understand that? The nouveau riche upstart baseball fan is trying to show you the light, that W-L's belong in the garbage, and RBI in the recycle bin. And you just don't get it. Can't you tell by their conviction and put down of the old fashioned ways that there is no other way to think? There is no inbetween.There is no other way to think.
Chase Utley for MVP
Cliff Lee for CY
Get with the program, George. get empirical, pal. Then you can be as robotic as the players are.
Lemme tell you sa little story about one sabermetric preacher who lives by that gospel. Or awfully close to it from the way it sure as hell seems to me. Last year, stats in hand, and numbers in mind, he brilliantly predicted the Phillies would sweep the Cards in the playoffs. Ever notice how people come back with predictions time after time, unabashed by their priors. This time, he offered that the Braves and Rangers would win the wild card games. Did you see AFW at the parade last year as it crossed Broad and Dauphin? If you go by the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, the sign says welcome to Offseason Park. Did you hear Chipper Jones is as active as Cy Young? You know Cy, right? He's the dude that rolled over in his grave when he heard Cliff lost the CY because of run support.
Nobody who is at all familiar with sabermetrics, variance or sample sizes would make a prediction on the outcome of any single playoff series, much less predict a sweep of anything. Either you've attributed sabermetric qualities to someone who has few, or your story is a complete fabrication.
Win-loss records are fine if you're curious as to how a particular game turned out. They're completely useless if you're interested in how a particular pitcher performed.
In case anyone has misunderstood what I said about not arguing Cliff's good year, I'll try to clarify my view of W-L stats.
To me, there is NO, I repeat NO, stat that's foolproof. The fact that I stated Cliff Lee had a good year should be proof that I don't put all my faith in W-L. There are other factors. But I don't put all my faith in the sabermetric numbers either, because baseball is a results oriented game, where a miss is as good as a mile.
I can't imagine how frustrating this year must have been for Cliff. I give him all the credit in the world, not only for playing so well, but for managing to keep an even keel throughout. How he kept from throttling his teammates is beyond me! Really the only time you saw him upset was the situation with Victorino, in which case Lee seemed pretty justified.
Understandably frustrated, yes, but I don't know about justified.
Oh come Schmenk! It's always justified for a pitcher to go off on an outfielder who's battling the sun or committing one of the few errors he ever makes. It's always justified for a pitcher to miss the five or six impossible plays that same outfielder makes in the pitcher's other starts.
A lot of people are assuming that it was Cliff Lee who said something first. I actually heard that it was Victorino who made the first comment when he felt Lee was staring at him when he came into the dugout. Who knows for sure?
Probably about as frustrated as Cole Hamels was in 2010 when he was the victim of poor run support and everyone was questioning whether he had the support of the team behind him. That's how bad it was for him and he maintained class and dignity through the whole season. This year it happened to Lee and no one has questioned if his teammates like him.
I don't see how the Phillies can keep 2 pitchers with such similar stats making over 20 mil. It's like there's an extra pitcher on the roster. They should have traded Cole Hamels when they had the chance regardless of what happens with Halladay. When they signed Lee, I really thought they would move Hamels.
I'm not sure I understand the point. Is it that they can't afford such high-priced pitchers? Or that the money would be better spent on position players? Because in the end it's about value for money, and preventing runs is just as valuable as scoring runs.
I thought the money could have been better used for position players or prospects. Obviously the team can afford both but IMO they could have put Hamels' extension dollars to better use elsewhere and used a cheaper alternative to Hamels especially since Lee is the better pitcher.
Check out Nolan Ryan's 1987. 2.76 ERA (led league)/270 Ks (led league)
hits per 9inn. K's per 9inn. – Led league.
8-16. Finished 5th in the Cy Young.
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Starting pitching was not the Phillies issue this year and all this post does is add more validity to that argument. Lee had a "fluke" year. Yeah, he had a few bad starts, but the reality of it is you can't blame him for the lackluster offense and bullpen blowing games when he left with a lead. What's the stats for the number of games of Lee got a ND because the bullpen blew a game? I'll wager that it's higher than any other starting pitcher for the Phils. Using sabermetrics is not an end all justification for player performance, but it does provide a greater in depth look in to performance, such as the case here with Lee. If you took Lee's "traditional" stats, one would say he had a bad year and wasn't worth the money. But when you look deeper into the numbers or if you watched the games he pitched, you would know that he had a pretty good year but got hosed by a bad bullpen and a terrible offense. Couple that with a poor defensive team behind him and you suddenly realize that he was worth every penny the Phillies spent.
Since Washington won 98 games with an $81 million payroll and the Phillies won 81 games with a $174 million payroll, it's hard to think that anyone on the roster was worth every penny.
Ruiz was. I don't think many would disagree that he vastly outperformed his $3.7mm contract.
A bunch of other guys did as well (Rollins, Kratz, Frandsen, Pierre, Horst, Worley, Valdes, Bastardo, etc.) if you compare their actual value provided (via fangraphs) to their contracts.
I'm really tired of hearing about the Phils' bloated payroll and other teams doing more while spending less. Excrement happens. Injuries happen to one team. 1st round draft picks happen for another.
I'd wait a couple years when all those young Nationals are hitting free agency and more of them hit the DL, and I'll wait a couple of years as their draft selections drop into the second tier, before I'll praise them for winning with less.
in light of the moves the Dodgers have made, Amaro is starting to come off like a miser.
and i dont think hes spending much more money. I see the org spending money on 3rd tier players in the outfield, keeping Frandsen at 3rd. No upgrades in our rotation, Howard and Utley producing at their new normal, the phils possibly getting into the playoff and getting knocked out the first round. Manuel and Amaro will be gone, and the collapse of the phillies as we know it for the next 4-5 seasons.
Arc, I have no idea what you're talking about.
You say Ruben is coming off like a miser? As of today, the Phillies have the 2nd most money committed to their 2013 payroll in all of baseball. That's not miserly. The committed money, without considering arbitration raises or options picked up (Ruiz, for example) is $133,000,000 or so.
There were only 4 teams in baseball who entered the 2012 season with a payroll higher than the $133mm the Phillies have committed to next year. The Yankees ($209 mm), the Red Sox ($175mm), the Phillies ($172mm) and the Angels ($151mm). Of the 10 playoff teams, the only one with a higher current payroll this season than the Phillies already have committed going into 2013 was New York. The current salaries of Oakland, St. Louis, Detroit, Texas, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore, Cincinnati and San Fransisco are all lower than the money Philadelphia has guaranteed to 9 players next season.
The Phillies are a lot of things; frugal is not one of them.
George writes: "and I'll wait a couple of years as their draft selections drop into the second tier, before I'll praise them for winning with less." yeah, im pretty sure a comma goes in between tier and before.
George writes: " There are other factors. But I don't put all my faith in the sabermetric numbers either……" I think a comma goes in between factors and but.
By the way, weren't you the one who said I would appreciate an article with grammatical errors? Next time you start criticizing someone's grammar on a message board, you better delete all of your past postings.
How about we stick to baseball related discourse, and leave the grammatical criticism back at Community College. arc
George writes: "and I'll wait a couple of years as their draft selections drop into the second tier, before I'll praise them for winning with less." yeah, im pretty sure a comma goes in between tier and before.
George writes: " There are other factors. But I don't put all my faith in the sabermetric numbers either……" I think a comma goes in between factors and but.
By the way, weren't you the one who said I would appreciate an article with grammatical errors? Next time you start criticizing someone's grammar on a message board, you better delete all of your past postings.
How about we stick to baseball related discourse, and leave the grammatical criticism back at Community College. arc
Good posting again Eric S., thanks. I agree completely. It's just going to take patience and a lot of years until we get the Mad Dog's and Max Mercy's of the world to either retire or see it your way. Just keep writing, it's all you can do. King Felix is a step in the right direction, maybe we see something like it again in a few years, and then maybe more and more often.
Also Cliff Lee is the first pitcher since 1904 to record mor that 200 K and less than 30 BB…. Can anyone guess who that pitcher was in 1904?
Cy Young!!
All pitchers in MLB history with 200+ Ks and 30 or less walks:
Lee 2012 – 207 K, 28 BB
Halladay 2010 – 219 K, 30 BB
Young 1905 – 210 K, 30 BB
Young 1904 – 200 K, 29 BB
i dont know if this article has enough grammatical errors for me but here is some info on market size: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/368721-seattle-mariners-a-large-market-team-mlb-market-size-rankings
Also: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/961412-mlb-power-rankings-all-30-mlb-teams-by-market-size/page/30
I think you may be getting potential market size confused with a teams actual market.
As for available money left; again, check my earlier posts. This is my case for dumping Lee and Halliday. This frees up 140 m in the long run, and 50m for 2013. If your calculations are correct, another 30m makes 80m available for 2013. That should be enough to sign 3 or 4 top free agents.
The first article you link to simply categorizes teams by the size of their payroll, which is why the Dodgers are ranked below the Phillies.
The second article was written before the Dodgers were sold, and includes this telling comment:
"If McCourt successfully sells the team to a multi-billionaire with the wherewithal to turn things around quickly, great, but for now, internal factors pull down a team blessed with almost unparalleled external opportunities."
So the only reason the Dodgers were ranked behind the Phillies is no longer there, and the team is again "blessed with almost unparalleled external opportunities."
And on Halladay (note the spelling) and Lee (you spelled this one right), EricL laid out why trading them is not a workable solution:
"You don't trade guys like Roy Halladay when he's coming off the worst year in his career because you'll get next to nothing for him and you'll likely have to pay a large portion of his salary (which then prohibits you from going out and signing all the free agents). Players, like stocks and commodities and anything else, should be bought when they're cheap and sold when they're valuable, not vice versa.
You don't trade guys like Cliff Lee because he's still a Cy Young calibre pitcher and because, again, his contract is so large that you will either have to pay a large portion of it or get next to nothing in return. But more than that, he is, in fact, a better pitcher than anyone on that list of free agents, save maybe Greinke. Trading away Lee to go out and acquire another pitcher makes no sense.
Either way, trading both of those players in no way clears their salaries, brings back anything of value or allows you to go out and sign Bourn, Upton, Hamltion and two additional pitchers without blowing through the luxury tax threshold, which is something they're trying to avoid. In essence, it doesn't make the Phillies a better team."
Lee's 2nd all time among LHP in SO/BB ratio.
Johan Santana is 3rd. Randy Johnson is 4th. I'll let you guys look up who's number 1. It might surprise you.
Actually what really suprises me is that the #1 LH has a slightly better ratio than Doc.
This is silly. Lack of run support did not cost Cliff Lee the Cy Young. The fact that he didn't pitch anywhere near as well as RA Dickey cost Cliff Lee the Cy Young.
The argument of this post is that Lee did pitch almost as well, if not better than, R.A. Dickey, and that only factors outside of his control make it appear otherwise.I'm not sure I agree with that conclusion completely, because of a high HR/FB ratio, but Cliff Lee should be a top 5 Cy Young finisher.
Again eric, you make a compelling case for the beauty of your arguments while keeping lights in the room turned off. Allow me to flip the switch, and you will find that Amaro was responsible for exactly what amount of that high payroll? I think in light of the new cable contracts, the climate of baseball finance has changed. Not to many teams can do what we can do. Now, do we just cut to the chase and compete with big market teams, which seem to all be shifting toward, what i call "Labronification" or do we think small minded and rely primarily on the farm? Amaro has added some payroll, albeit poorly, but I definitely think he can up the ante.
I don't understand. Which big Phillies contract was NOT signed by Amaro? Utley. That's 1 out of the big 7.
"While the size of the market refers only to the population of the respective city, it is also closely correlated, in most cases, to the amount of money that a team will spend on players. In general, teams in "big markets" attract more fans, allowing them to raise ticket prices".
According to market size Philly has the 3rd largest, the Dodgers have the 7th largest
Philles attendance is 100.8 % while the Dodgers 73.3%. between 2011-12 the Dodgers have only added 4,000 new attending fans. The phillies in the same time has lost 1,500 attending fans. We still have on avg 3000 more fans post Dodgers sale. The Dodgers in 2012 still are only 70% filled, the Phillies 100%.
Again, I think youre getting population, potential market, and the actual accounted for market confused. While L.A certainly has a larger market available, I just don think that many people in L.A. care about the Dodgers. I may be wrong, but espn stats say they still only attract 3/4 the size of the stadium in the second largest potential market in MLB.
To your argument against the second article, I ask what difference does it make? How does the state of the teams internal issues affect fan participation?
To the quote you used about " blessed with unparalleled opportunities" you seem smart enough to not use such fallacious reasoning. I hope you dont expect to sway me to do so, so we'll both just disregard that quote. By the way, falling for logical fallacies is allot more telling of a persons judgmental abilities than grammatical errors.
Anyway, this quibbling over market size does not much matter to the overall premise of my argument; why the Phillies should go after big free agents.
Again I used your calculations so there wouldnt be any debate over numbers. I added to that, again the dumping of Lee, and "HALLADAY" (didnt show up in spell check) which would allow for roughly 80m. You say dont trade Halladay; o.k. i can live with his contract, but where you and I must part ways is over the Lee contract. Now I wont argue with you over your "conventional wisdom" again, another fallacy, but yes, I does make sense to dump lee for Grienke. Grienke is 28, Lee 34. Maybe you weren't thinking when you wrote that nonsense down. As for paying Lees salary, why? hes only owed a little bit over 80m. As far as I know texas was really considering acquiring him. Why would you think we would have to pay part of his salary, for a CY Young caliber pitcher?
Also there are alot of starters on my list that are not Cy Young winners but finished with a better record than Lee.
You keep your 120 million dollar 34yr old "maybe", I opt to get younger, and spread that money out to some position players. WE HAVE NO OUTFIELDERS OR 3RD BASEMAN FOR 2013 DO YOU REMEMBER?
Do you stand by your assertion that Amaro has been "miserly?"
Because, I mean, now I think you've changed your response to: "Well, sure the Phillies spend a lot of money, but Amaro didn't spend most of it and they can spend more than the huge amount they're already spending."
That's really wrong and misguided, but it's not what you argued in the first place.
And are you aware that there's a luxury tax in baseball that penalizes teams for exceeding it? It's not like these teams can just spend infinite sums of money.
Im just saying that according to market size Philly has the 3rd largest, the Dodgers have the 7th largest
philles attendance is 100.8 % while the Dodgers 73.3%
And to touch on erics earlier hypothesis that winning teams is correlated with attendance, this is not necessarily true for instance the height of Phillies attendance has grown with the phillies subsequent decline in post season appearance length, same for the Cardinals. In 2011 the year of their WS victory and 2012 attendance has actually dropped. I think attendance would have a stronger correlation to market size. Also, the teams with the highest payroll seem to consistently have the largest attendance.
As for my "Miserly" comment, I can see now how I allowed the anchoring/ adjustment heuristic to cause my error. It seemed from the amount of players the Dodgers acquired that Amaro hadn't done much. This is in fact true, but not in the way that I thought. In fact, it seems Amaro has spent considerably more , but has gotten less product.
Amaro signed in his tenure around 550,000,000M during the span of 3 seasons; 6 players in one season.
Colletti, 700,000M; 10 signings in one season. So I guess upon deeper study, im wrong about the "miserly" comment, in fact it seems like Amaro has over spent relative to the Dodgers and gotten less bang for his buck, at least star power wise. Cliff Lee, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, J Papelbon, and Jimmy Rollins.
Colletti has gotten; Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett, Hanley Ramirez, Andre Ethier, Joe Blanton, Matt Kemp, Shane Victorino, Chad Billingsley, and Clayton Kershaw. WTF??????
as to your restatement of my argument, yes, that is exactly what Im saying. The Phillies have spent a lot and they can spend more. However, my premise is and has been that, If the Dodgers can spend towards a certain threshold with a smaller market, than what is stopping us from spending more? Also, how is adding more high profile free agents infringing on the luxury tax? Please provide the math on that.
That's the first time I've ever seen LA described as a "smaller market".
The math on the tax threshold has already been provided, but here it is again:
178 M is the luxury tax threshold
-10 M is for benefits
=168 M is available for salaries
-138 M is already committed to 10 players based on the 2nd article below
=30 M is available for all other positions
If they spend more than $30 M more in 2013 and therefore go over the $178 M luxury tax threshold, any additional spending will be taxed at 17.5% of the excess amount. That's the rate for a first-time offender. If a team goes over for a second straight year, the tax is 30%. The 3rd straight year it's 40%. 4th straight year and on: 50%. A year in which a team is under the threshold resets the rate back to the original 17.5% for next time.
The 17.5% in itself isn't that onerous, but no business likes throwing away money, and it does get more onerous with successive years.
Again, this article might be helpful: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillies_zone/understanding-payroll-and-luxury-tax.html
Also this: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/An-updated-look-at-the-Phillies-2013-payroll.html
I doubt if either of those articles will help. They'll probably be too heuristic and not have nearly enough run-ons and sentence fragments for someone like ARc.
I don't need a W-L record or sabermetrics to know that Cliff Lee was an awesome good pitcher this year. He had only one start he went less than 5 innings despite battling an oblique injury. A couple of the other games where he gave up a run or two in the 6-8 innings, you wouldn't have noticed that much if the Phillies ever had any runs on the board for him. When every game was a tight, low-scoring affair …. you notice. And if there were a better bullpen, he could have been helped out a little more. What I do know is that dude puts out 100% everytime he goes on the field. He's a real competitor … and a talented one at that.
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Eric, you're one of the few who understands Cliff Lee.
While lack of run support definitely played a part in Cliff Lee not even being considered for the CYA, Charlie's mis-management also deserves some of the blame. Off the top of my head, I remember the following:
1. In Cliff's first start at PGH, Charlie's unwillingness to use Papelbon for a 4-out save quite possibly cost the Phils and Cliff Lee a win. Charlie's excuse was that he didn't want to overwork his closer (even though it was the 2nd game of the year and it followed an off day).
2. In the epic 10 inning shut-out at SF, Charlie allowing Thome (instead of Polanco or Mayberry) to face LOOGY Javier Lopez cost the Phils a better shot at taking the lead in the top of the 11th.
3. In another early season game against HOU that the Phils eventually won in extra innings, Chad Qualls was called on to save a 2-run lead for Lee and Qualls blew the save. Why was Qualls closing instead of Papelbon you ask? Because Papelbon was used the day before to close out a 4-run victory over HOU. Remember a month earlier when Charlie didn't want to overuse Papelbon and have him go for a 4 out save with a 1 run lead? I guess he was saving hm to close out 4-run victories over the worst team in MLB.
In three of Lee's first five starts, Charlie's sub-optimal management impacted Lee's (and the team's) chances to get a W. I suspect that there are more examples later in the season, too.
But when it comes to meant influencing of Luck, its much weaker locked in in the minds of people.


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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/235076
- Title
- A large closed queueing network with autonomous service and bottleneck
- Author(s)
- Abramov, Vyacheslav M.
- Abstract
- This paper studies the queue-length process in a closed Jackson-type queueing network with the large number N of homogeneous customers by methods of the theory of martingales and by the up- and down-crossing method. The network considered here consists of a central node (hub), being an infinite-server queueing system with exponentially distributed service times, and k single-server satellite stations (nodes) with generally distributed service times with rates depending on the value N. The service mechanism of these k satellite stations is autonomous, i.e., every satellite server j serves the customers only at random instants that form a strictly stationary and ergodic sequence of random variables. Assuming that the first k - 1 satellite stations operate in light usage regime the paper considers the cases where the kth satellite station is a bottleneck node. The approach of the paper is based both on development of the method from the paper by Kogan and Liptser [16], where a Markovian version of this model has been studied, and on development of the up- and down-crossing method.
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- Journal article
- Source
- Queueing Systems, Vol. 35, no. 1-4 (Jul 2000), pp. 23-54
- Publication year
- 2000
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- Autonomous service; Bottleneck; Closed queueing network; Diffusion and fluid approximation; Martingales; Semimartingales; Up- and down-crossings
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- Copyright © J.C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers (2000).
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How to keep from going into 'summer festival overload'
I can smell it from this office. If I opened a window, I could hear it. If I went on the roof, I could probably see it. And pretty much the rest of the city.
It's here, and I am overjoyed.
Summer festivals are back in the Valley. Right now, the African-American festival downtown is rife with great food, fun, games, music, people and fried stuff. The sweet smell of barbecue is wafting through downtown, leading me on a Bugs Bunny-esque mission for dinner.
I walked down and was greeted by the familiar sights of a Mahoning Valley festival:trailers selling foods of all kinds, booths filled with games and inflatable Sponge Bobs and those weird plush bananas, dancing in front of a live band, kids running around being kids, people running into friends and saying hi, the inevitable Chinese auction and basket raffle.
When festival season begins, it aids in the rejuvenation of the Hibernated Midwesterner. Once we've officially thawed out (i.e.: when it's warm enough to tolerate a night Indians game), you have only to smell a sausage sandwich to fully emerge from the winter cocoon.
But, you must show restraint. I know, a re-enactment of Eric Cartman's 60-second run of glory through Casa Bonita on "South Park" seems like the thing to do. At first exposure to a summer festival, you want to munch down some Idora Park fries while throwing baseballs at those stupid milk bottles with the other hand, then wiggle to some polka music while plopping tickets into some auction baskets, then finish with a ride on the Scrambler whilst scattering powdered sugar into the breeze (because it never stays on top of the funnel cake where it belongs), emerging a tired, full, sugar-dusted mess.
So, here's some ways to take the onslaught of festivals in moderation and still have a full summer:
Try and pick the unique part of each festival to enjoy. If you are at the Greek fest, enjoy some smelts. If you go to Brier Hill fest, play some bocce. The sausage sandwiches ain't going anywhere.
Remember that most carnival games are designed to destroy your brain and drain your wallet. Stick to balloon darts (make sure you pick the most inflated balloons) and the little duckies where everyone gets a prize.
Make a calendar in your phone or a datebook with dates of the best fests near you. This will help you budget your cheese puff and bingo intake.
Sometimes, two festivals are going on at the same time. Hit up one for dinner, and one for entertainment.
Take time to learn something new. The Simply Slavic festival coming up on June 15 has some great information booths. Last year, I learned a lot about Jon Bon Jovi.
Slow down and mingle. Festivals are a great time to bump into classmates, ex-coworkers, etc. If you're busy trying to sample every food truck, you might miss someone you actually want to talk to.
And, heavens to Murgatroyd, save room for the Canfield Fair.
What's your favorite festival? Share your fest strategy with me at firstname.lastname@example.com, or comment on this story at www.tribtoday.com.


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There were some pretty impressive chum caught this fall, but the biggest was 16.6 pounds, caught by Phil Morris. His guide was legendary Painter's Lodge angler Bruce Aikman. For his efforts, Phil will receive a 3 day/2 night fishing package at Painter's Lodge. Congratulations Phil and Bruce!
Matt Spindor nearly dethroned Phil as the leader with his 16.5 pound chum. Although he failed to grab the lead, Matt took second place in the derby and earned himself a 3 day/2 night activity package at April Point Resort & Spa.
Finally, we selected one derby participant at random to receive a free room night at Painter's Lodge. The winner of our random draw prize is Ian Lamplugh, who caught a 14 pound chum during the derby.
Congratulations to all of our winners, and we hope to see you again next year!


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2009: In the early morning hours on the day of the Grammy Awards, R&B singer Chris Brown is arrested and held on suspicion of making criminal threats on his girlfriend, fellow singer Rihanna, who suffered visible injuries and identified him as her attacker. The incident led Rihanna to postpone concerts scheduled in Indonesia and in Malaysia. Brown would plead guilty to felony assault in June and be sentenced to five years probation and six months of community service. The two singers are seen here in December 2008.
2007: Actress and Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith dies at age 39 in a Hollywood, Florida, hotel room as a result of an overdose of prescription drugs.
2000: Derrick Thomas, an 11-year defensive end/linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, dies from a massive blood clot that developed in his paralyzed lower extremities and traveled to his lungs. His paralysis was the result of severe injuries sustained in a car accident weeks earlier. Thomas, part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 2009, was a premier football player throughout the 1990s and is considered one of the best pass rushers of all-time.
1998: The first women's ice hockey game in Olympic history takes place at Aqua Wing Arena in Nagano, Japan, as Finland beats Sweden 6-0. On Feb. 17, the United States would beat Canada 3-1 for the first Olympic gold medal in the sport.
1992: The song "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. It would stay on top of the chart for three weeks.
1990: Rock 'n' roll singer-songwriter Del Shannon, best known for his 1961 No. 1 hit song "Runaway" and other songs such as "Hats Off to Larry," "So Long, Baby" and "Little Town Flirt," commits suicide with a .22-caliber rifle in his home in Santa Clarita, California, at the age of 55. Shannon, whose real name was Charles Weedon Westover, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.
1986: Five-foot-seven-inch point guard Spud Webb of the Atlanta Hawks wins the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, becoming the shortest player ever to win the competition.
1985: "The Dukes of Hazzard" ends its six and a half year run on television. The show followed the adventures of cousins Bo and Luke Duke as they raced around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger, christened The General Lee, while evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. The show was consistently among the top-rated television series for its first four seasons, but couldn't recover from a ratings slide after stars Tom Wopat and John Schneider walked before the fifth season over a contract dispute and were replaced by lookalike replacements Coy and Vance Duke, played by Byron Cherry and Christopher Mayer. Wopat and Schneider returned toward the end of the season, but the damage was done.
1976: Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller film "Taxi Driver," starring Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, a mentally unstable New York taxi driver prone to outbursts of violence, premieres in theaters. The movie, which also features Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd and Harvey Keitel, would end up earning four Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor for De Niro, Best Supporting Actress for Foster, and Best Original Score. Filmed on a budget of $1.3 million, the movie earned $28 million in the United States, making it the 17th-highest-grossing film of 1976. It is regularly cited by critics and audiences alike as one of the greatest films of all time and De Niro's character's catchphrase, "You talkin' to me?," quickly became a pop culture icon.
1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. The station would burn up upon re-entry of the Earth's atmosphere in 1979.
1974: The sitcom "Good Times," focusing on a black family living in a poor housing project in inner-city Chicago, debuts. The show, a spin-off of "Maude," which is itself a spin-off of "All in the Family" along with "The Jeffersons," would run for six seasons before ending on Aug. 1, 1979. It broke new ground, becoming the first television show to featured working class black characters living in such impoverished conditions. It also made a star out of Jimmie Walker, whose James "J.J." Evans Jr. character had the catchphrase "Dyno-MITE!," and gave a young Janet Jackson her first taste of acting in its final two seasons.
1974: Actor Seth Green, best known for his role on the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and for roles in movies such as "The Italian Job," "Can't Hardly Wait" and all three "Austin Powers" movies, is born in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Green is also the creator, executive producer and frequent voice actor on the stop-motion animated show "Robot Chicken," and is also well known for his role voicing the character Chris Griffin on the animated series "Family Guy."
1971: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos during the Vietnam War aiming to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail, used by North Vietnam as a supply and troop route. U.S. ground forces were prohibited by law from entering Laotian territory. After meeting resistance, the South Vietnamese forces retreated in a confused rout, dealing a blow to the idea that they could defend their nation as the U.S. continued to withdraw from the war.
1971: The NASDAQ stock market index begins trading as the world's first electronic stock market.
1968: Nine South Carolina Highway Patrol officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina, fire into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against segregation at a whites-only bowling alley near the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically black college, killing three men and wounding another 28. The federal government brought charges against the state patrolmen in the first federal trial of police officers for using excessive force at a campus protest. All nine defendants were acquitted.
1968: The sci-fi movie "Planet of the Apes," starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter and Linda Harrison, premieres in New York City. The movie, which tells the story of an astronaut crew who crash-land on a strange planet in the distant future and find it run by apes who have adapted human-like intelligence and speech, was a commercial success. It earned more than $32 million worldwide at the box office and spawned a film franchise, including four sequels, as well as a short-lived television show, animated series, comic books, various merchandising, and eventually a remake in 2001 and a reboot in 2011.
1968: Actor Gary Coleman, best known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," is born in Zion, Illinois. He died at the age of 42 on May 28, 2010, two days after falling down the stairs at his home and hitting his head, possibly after suffering a seizure, and suffering an epidural hematoma. Coleman had many health issues over his life, including congenital autoimmune kidney disease, heart surgery and two previous seizures.
1965: The Supremes release the song "Stop! In the Name of Love." The song would hold the No. 1 position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart from March 21 through April 3 and reached the No. 2 position on Billboard's R&B singles chart.
1963: Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy makes travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba illegal.
1961: Rock singer Vince Neil, best known as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, is born in Hollywood, California.
1956: Hall of Fame baseball manager Cornelius McGillicuddy Sr., better known as Connie Mack, dies at the age of 93 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mack retired as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics after 50 years in 1950 at age 87. Mack, who was also at least part-owner of the team from 1901 to 1954, was the first manager to win the World Series three times and set records for wins (3,731), losses (3,948), and games managed (7,755).
1956: Singer-songwriter Buddy Holley signs a recording contract with Decca Records, one which mistakenly drops the "e" from his last name. He thereafter adopted the misspelled name for his professional career.
1955: Author and lawyer John Grisham, the writer of such best selling novels as "The Firm," "The Chamber," "The Client," "The Pelican Brief," "The Runaway Jury" and "A Time to Kill," is born in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
1953: Actress Mary Steenburgen, best known for roles in movies such as "Parenthood," "Back to the Future Part III," "Elf" and "Step Brothers," is born in Newport, Arkansas. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1981 for the film "Melvin and Howard."
1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies in the world.
1941: Actor Nick Nolte, best known for movies such as "North Dallas Forty," "48 Hrs.," "The Prince of Tides," "Lorenzo's Oil," "Affliction," "The Thin Red Line" and "Warrior," is born in Omaha, Nebraska. Nolte has been nominated for three Academy Awards, twice for Best Actor for "The Prince of Tides" and "Affliction" and once for Best Supporting Actor for "Warrior."
1940: Broadcast journalist Ted Koppel, best known as the anchor for "Nightline" from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005, is born Edward James Martin Koppel in Nelson, Lancashire, England.
1936: Charles Curtis, the first Native American U.S. senator and vice president, dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Washington, D.C. Curtis, who was enrolled in the Kaw tribe and spent his childhood living with his mother and her family on the Kaw reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, joined the Senate in 1907 and became the 31st vice president of the United States in 1929 under President Herbert Hoover.
1936: The first National Football League draft is held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia. Teams chose from a pool of 90 players whose names were written on a blackboard in the meeting room, with University of Chicago halfback and first Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger the first to be selected. Berwanger was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but was traded to the Chicago Bears. Berwanger never signed with the Bears and never played in the NFL. His decision to not play in the NFL was not unusual, as only 24 of the 81 players selected chose to play in the NFL that year.
1932: Composer and conductor John Williams, who has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in cinematic history, is born on Long Island, New York. Some of the films Williams has scored include the "Star Wars" films, "Jaws," "Superman," the "Indiana Jones" movies, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan." He's won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 21 Grammy Awards. With 49 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most nominated person, after Walt Disney.
1931: Actor James Dean, best known for his movie roles in "Rebel Without a Cause," "East of Eden" and "Giant," is born in Marion, Indiana. Dean's short-lived career ended with his death in a car crash on Sept. 30, 1955. While his acting career only lasted a little more than a year, his three films and tragic death made him an American legend. He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, for "East of Eden," and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations, earning a second for "Giant."
1925: Actor Jack Lemmon, best known for roles in movies such as "Some Like it Hot," "The Apartment," "Mister Roberts," "The Odd Couple," "Save the Tiger," "The China Syndrome," "Missing," "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Grumpy Old Men," is born in Newton, Massachusetts. Lemmon won Oscars for Best Actor for "Save the Tiger" and Best Supporting Actor for "Mister Roberts." He was also nominated for six more Oscars during his career. He died of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder at age 76 on June 27, 2001.
1924: Convicted murderer Gee Jon becomes the first person executed in the United States by gas chamber, when he is put to death in Nevada. Gee, a member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco, was sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly member from another gang in Nevada. An unsuccessful attempt to pump poison gas directly into his cell at Nevada State Prison led to a makeshift gas chamber being set up at the butcher shop of the prison.
1921: Actress Lana Turner, best known for movies such as "Ziegfeld Girl," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "The Bad and the Beautiful" and "Peyton Place," is born Julia Jean Turner in Wallace, Idaho. Turner was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for "Peyton Place" in 1958. She died of throat cancer at age 74 on June 29, 1995.
1915: D.W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation" premieres in Los Angeles. The silent movie, based on the novel and play "The Clansman," was a commercial success, but was highly controversial due to its portrayal of black men (played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive toward white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force. When the film was shown, riots broke out in Boston, Philadelphia and other major cities. In response, several other cities refused to allow the film to open. The film has also been credited as groundbreaking for its innovative application of the medium of film, including pioneering such camera techniques as the use of panoramic long shots, the iris effects, still-shots, night photography and panning camera shots.
1910: The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1896: The Western Conference is formed by representatives of Midwestern universities. The group, which originally included Purdue University, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University, would eventually change its name to the Big 10 Conference.
1894: Film director King Vidor, who was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar during a career that included films such as "Hallelujah!", "The Citadel," "The Champ" and "War and Peace," is born in Galveston, Texas. He died from a heart ailment at age 88 on Nov. 1, 1982.
1865: Delaware voters reject the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. The state would finally ratify the amendment on Feb. 12, 1901.
1837: Richard Mentor Johnson becomes the first United States vice president chosen by the U.S. Senate under the provisions of the 12th Amendment. Johnson had been the Democratic nominee for vice president on a ticket with Martin Van Buren, but while Van Buren secured enough electoral votes to win, Johnson fell short. Virginia's delegation to the Electoral College went against the state's popular vote and refused to endorse Johnson, but he was elected to the office by the Democrat-dominated Senate, which is empowered by the 12th Amendment to choose the vice president from the top two vote-getters if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes.
1828: Author Jules Verne, a pioneer of the science fiction genre best known for his novels "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Around the World in Eighty Days," is born in Nantes, France.
1820: William Tecumseh Sherman, the American Civil War Union general known for the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States, is born in Lancaster, Ohio.
1693: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II. The college is one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution and is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States after Harvard University.
1587: After more than 18 years in custody, Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
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US officials are saying very little about the Algerian military operation to free those taken hostage after militants attacked a gas facility Wednesday morning. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
The fate of dozens of hostages seized by Islamists at a gas field in Algeria remained unclear early Friday, hours after the Algerian military stormed the site.
At least six people, and perhaps many more, were killed, The Associated Press reported, and dozens were unaccounted for.
Algerian state media reported Thursday evening that the military operation had ended at the remote desert facility where dozens of workers — including three Americans — had been held hostage. The Algerian government was reported as saying two Filipinos and two British hostages had been killed.
Accounts of the number of hostages and militants killed in the operation differed wildly — ranging from four to 35 — in reports from regional sources cited by The Associated Press and Reuters.
Among those unaccounted for were Americans, Britons, French, Norwegians, Romanians, Malaysians, Japanese and Algerians.
Some of the hostages reportedly escaped from the natural gas pumping plant, near In Amenas, close to the border with Libya and 800 miles from the Algerian capital.
An unknown number of hostages left the country on a charter flight and were expected to land at London's Gatwick airport near midnight Thursday, according to BP, which operates the gas complex. The plane had not arrived as of 3:15 a.m. Friday.
The Islamist militants stormed the plant and workers' housing before dawn on Wednesday seizing up to 41 hostages in one of the biggest international hostage incidents in decades.
The militants have demanded an end to the French military campaign in Mali where ground troops and air forces of the former colonial power are backing Mali's military in offensive against Islamist rebels linked to al-Qaida in that country.
The group that has claimed responsibility for the gas plant raid is said to be led by an Islamic militant called Mokhtar bel Mokhtar, whose nicknames include "The Uncatchable" and "Mr. Marlboro."
According to the AP, militants with the Masked Brigade, a Mali-based al-Qaida offshoot, provided updates through a Mauritanian news organization that said the Algerians attacked when the militants tried to move hostages from the energy complex. The group claimed that 35 hostages and 15 militants died but seven hostages survived the helicopter attack on its convoy.
An Algerian security official says the decision to send forces came because the militants were being stubborn and wanted to flee with the hostages.
U.S. officials called the hostage situation "murky" and said the United States is working with the Algerian government and other affected nations to try to resolve the situation as quickly and securely as possible.
"It's in a remote area of Algeria, near the Libyan border," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. "The security of our Americans who are held hostage is our highest priority, but of course we care deeply about the other Algerian and foreign hostages as well."
Clinton said she could not provide any additional information about the situation.
An Ireland government spokesman said Thursday that an Irish national held at the In Amenas gas plant had "made contact with his family and is understood to be safe and well, and no longer a hostage."
Sky News in London identified the Irish survivor as Stephen McFaul, 46, from west Belfast.
In an interview with the television station, McFaul's father Christopher said he was "delighted" by the news but added he felt "sorry for the other hostages that are still there."
He also described the last 48 hours as "hell".
Stephen McFaul's son, Dylan, also spoke to the Sky reporters: "I can't even explain the excitement. I can't wait until he gets home again," he said, adding that he would tell his father "he's never going back there and I'm not letting him".
A local resident near the plant told Reuters the Algerian military had opened fire and that "many people" were killed.
Twenty hostages of an Algerian militant group with ties to al Qaeda in a standoff with the Algerian Army are reported to have escaped Thursday. Over 41 hostages of several nationalities, including Americans, were being held in a BP gas facility. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
Faycal Metaqui, a journalist at Algerian newspaper El Watan, told French news channel BFM that he was unable to confirm with authorities the earlier reports that some hostages had escaped.
"Sadly, there have been some reports of casualties, but we are still lacking any confirmed or reliable information," said a statement from oil giant BP, which is a joint owner of the plant.
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MONTPELIER Margaret Peg Mason Dwinell died on October 12, 2012, in Burlington, Vt.
She was born at home on April 6, 1916, in Randolph, Vt., to Edward H. and Mary M. Mason. She was educated in Randolph schools and later graduated from Webber College with a degree in business.
She was employed at National Life in Montpelier when she met her future husband, Bancroft Dwinell. They were married on August 19, 1939, in Randolph and made their home in Montpelier. They had three children, Bancroft Jr., James Mason and Jane Bancroft.
Peg spent time in volunteer work, but her true avocation was as an artist. She worked in many different mediums, oil painting, stenciling, theorem painting, quilting, braided rugs and hooked rugs. In her final years, she knitted hats and mittens for charity, keeping many children warm.
After her husband retired, they traveled extensively; she visited 56 countries over the years. Her husband passed away in 1996.
She is survived by her three children, Bancroft Jr. and his wife Elizabeth of Burlington, James of Norwich, and Jane and her husband Sky Yardley of Montpelier; her eight grandchildren, Thomas Dwinell, Mason Dwinell, Ashley Clapp, Mary Beth Zabowsky, Dana Dwinell-Yardley, Sayer Dwinell-Yardley, Harry Dwinell and Sophia Dwinell; and her seven great-grandchildren, Allison, Jake, Lilly, Skyler, Hayden, Michael Jr. and Nyah.
A graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, in Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier, Vt. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can go to the Kellogg Hubbard Library, 135 Main St., Montpelier, VT 05602; or the First Universalist Parish, PO Box 454, Derby Line, VT 05830.
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>Could it be the browser rather than the server?
maybe... but it's more likely to be a function of what's going on with your cache. I see this more often on a busier system.
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#62861 - 03/29/02 04:44 PM Looney Tunes Wisdom
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In the immortal words of the Dark Alien from Duck Rogers in the 21st Century:
(As the Dark Alien is trying futilely to program the destruction of Earth)
"Drat these computers! They are so naughty and complex. I shall have to pinch them."
#62862 - 03/29/02 06:18 PM Re: What's with the EDIT function?
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but it's more likely to be a function of what's going on with your cache
Could clearing the cache more often help to avoid this, tsuwm?
#62863 - 03/30/02 03:39 PM What's with the cache?
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And come to think of it, just how _does_ one clear the cache on IE ? I can find that function without much difficulty on Netscape Navigator but haven't been able to locate it on IE Explorer.
#62864 - 03/30/02 05:02 PM Re: What's with the cache?
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Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
how _does_ one clear the cache on IE
Start; Programs; Accessories; System Tools; Disk Cleanup.
Check with an expert before believing, though--tsuwm knows for sure.
#62865 - 04/03/02 10:05 PM Re: What's with the cache?
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Posts: 477
Loc: Sydney, Australia
how _does_ one clear the cache on IE
Apologies if I'm way too late on this one, but I figured this post needed to move up the chain a little.
In IE (I'm on 5.5 but should be the same/similar for most) go to Tools\Internet Options. On the first tab "General" about half way down the dialogue box is a section called Temporary Internet Files. You can delete files there. It's clunky though - a kind of "all or nothing" approach. You can't really select which files to delete, although you do have an option to leave "offline" files alone.
HTH (albeit way too late)
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The award is the Space Division's highest honor and recognizes public and private sector leadership or achievement that results in significant contributions to the development, introduction, operational contribution or support of space systems. Each year the division recognizes an individual from government and an individual from industry.
Lieutenant General John W. "Jay" Raymond, Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, Headquarters United States Air Force has been selected as the government honoree. Lieutenant General Raymond distinguished himself as a leader in space and missile operations for over 30 years and has an extensive record of success, innovation, and contributions to national security space, particularly in the integration of space with other domains of warfare in the joint environment. In his current role, he is responsible to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff for formulating policy supporting air, space, cyber, irregular warfare, counter-proliferation, homeland security, and weather operations. As the Air Force operations deputy to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the general determines operational requirements, capabilities and training necessary to support national security objectives and military strategy.
Mr. Martin C. Faga, retired President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mitre Corporation, has ben selected as the industry honoree. Mr Faga has over 40 years of distinguished and devoted service as a leader in the National Security Space community. He was the 10th Director of the National Reconnaissance Office where he revolutionized NRO support to the military, downgraded the classification of NRO products, and appointed a Deputy Director for Military Support. He also served from 1989 to 1993 as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space while also director of the NRO. He joined the Mitre Corporation in 1993, eventually retiring as the President and Chief Executive Officer in 2006. He remains active on numerous government and industry panels and boards continuing to shape the future of National Security Space.
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In 2012 Gen Pawlikowski was instrumental in SMC's launching four next-generation spacecraft, including Advanced EHF (AEHF) #2-2, Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) #4, Global Positioning System (GPS) #IIF-3, and Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) #1, as well as four NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) spacecraft. Her team was personally recognized by the Director of the NRO for their outstanding support. These launches extend SMC's track record to 79 successful launches in a row.
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The guest speaker was Maj Gen David Thompson, USAF, Vice Commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
Maj Gen David Thompson, Vice Commander of Air ForceSpace Command, provided a keynote speech during theNDIA Space Division Breakfast held on 12 April 2016 inColorado Springs.
NDIA Space Division members assembled in Colorado Springs during the Space Symposium listen to the breakfastkeynote speaker, Maj Gen David Thompson, ViceCommander of Air Force Space Command.
NDIA Space Division members assembled in ColoradoSprings during the Space Symposium listen to the breakfastkeynote speaker, Maj Gen David Thompson, ViceCommander of Air Force Space Command.
NDIA Space Division Breakfast that was held in conjunction with the Space Symposium at The Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.
The guest speaker was Major General John E. Buck. Buck, USAF, Vice Commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
Award presentation:
Mr. John Williams, Chairman of the NDIA Space Division awarded the silver medal to Mr. Wayne Kauffman for his long standing contributions to the Space Division, serving many years as the Western Region Vice President of the Space Division, and in recognition of his outstanding service to the defense space industry during the breakfast meeting.
Other Previous Space Division Breakfast Meetings:
The 2014 NDIA Space Division also held its Annual Space Division Breakfast Meeting (held in conjunction with the National Space Symposium) at The Broadmoor on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. The guest speaker was General/select John E. Hyten, USAF, Commander-designate, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.


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Comments: True mates, i have blisters on the arch whenever running on xr mision... really dissapointing....
From: kid, singapore
Comments: More of the same from me, blisters. I have been running in the Speedcross for 2 years, finished my first 50 miler in them and never once had any blisters or discomfort, I was looking for a new road shoe and thought I'd try the XR
Mission but these shoes are not for me. Went out for a quick 6 miles and new I was in trouble inside of mile 2, blisters just behind the balls of both feet and blisters on both achilles. I will for sure keep running the trails in my Speedcross 3's, but on the road I'm going back to old faithful.
From: Brooklin, SM, CA, USA
Comments: Running in these shoes was the best my achilles has felt in six months. I've been struggling with this pain and tried switching through a number of different shoes to no avail. I think it's most likely the abnormally high arches in these shoes, that the other reviewers mentioned, that is working the magic for my achilles. So while they may cause blisters for some people, they feel precisely right for me. The heel to toe transition feels swift and natural with these and they're surprisingly light.
From: Alan, Rochester, NY USA
Comments: XR Mission: looks great, feels bad. I'm sticking with the Crossmax. One run was all it took for me to know that this shoe wasn't what I was looking for. Strange rubbing behind the ball of my foot and I even experienced unusual toe joint pain in one foot. All in just 6 miles. Oh well, the shoes look great on my feet at my office and they are good walking around town shoes. No more running in those suckers for me. The crossmax, however, runs great. I can't say enough good things about that shoe.
From: Jake, CO, USA
Comments: Another set of blistered arches here. I've been running in Salomons for the 5+ years - XAs, then XTs and logged 2000+ miles last year in my XR Crossmax and have never had a problem until the XR Mission. Salomon needs to go back and redesign this shoe. I found the culprit inside the shoe - there is support band near the 'SensiFit' webbing that is strung too tight and rubs on the front of the arch, just behind the ball of the foot. Sorry Salomon - you botched an otherwise great shoe with a basic design flaw. Looking forward to seeing the XR Mission 2...
From: Matt, Upstate, NY, USA
Comments: Ding, ding, ding. Just put my first run in with these and got blisters on both feet which has never happened before. Curious what the return policy is. I'm going back to the Crossmax.
From: Matt, Spokane, WA, USA
Comments: I just wanted to agree with the reviewers that had the blistered arches. I've never had that happen with any pair of shoes until I used these. My first run for 10 miles was all it took to rub my arches raw. I LOVE the look and feel of these shoes and I feel that the construction and quality of the shoe is second to none. Really disappointed that I can't use them anymore though.
From: Steve, San Ramon, CA, USA
Comments: I wore these shoes while running the Pass Mtn 26k in Mesa, AZ. A Salomon vendor was demo-ing shoes at the event. I tried the Salomon XR Mission because I was battling right Achilles tendonitis that I acquired while wearing the Brooks Pure Grit. I need a higher heel to toe elevation than the Brooks Pure Grit offered, so the Salomons seemed to fit my need. I have been running for 20+ years, and these shoes provided the best cushioning of any shoe I have ever laced up. My Achilles felt wonderful. These shoes felt like a pillow on my feet while I ran through canyons, washes, gullies, switchbacks, across desert plains and up and over Pass Mtn. I was truly amazed how these shoes chewed up the vicious terrain we ran on that day. BUT just like Jean said, I felt hotspots developing less than a mile into the run and by mile 2 I had blisters on both arches. I even wear Features Elite blister proof/moisture wicking socks. By mile 5, I was hobbling as the blisters had popped and I was running on raw skin. If it was not for the cushioning these shoes provided, I would have crawled back to the finish line. I managed to finish the run, however, my feet were raw for a week afterward. Like Jean said, my foot shifted around a lot inside of the shoe as well. I like the lacing system but some parts of my foot felt locked in place and other parts were sliding around.
From: Jeremy, Chicago, IL USA
Comments: I am a big fan of Salomon, and have 3 of their shoes in my current trail line up, but I do not like this shoe. I have put six 5 mile sessions on them and cannot go any further due to excessive blisters in my arch. I have never had a shoe do this. Generally I can run with most right out of the box. And these do not seem to get any better. I think the lacing system is to blame. It does not allow for a tight enough fit thru the center of the shoe so there is too much movement. Also the lacing system broke on my last run (after only 6 runs). Not impressed with these.
From: Ryan, TX, USA


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There are "over 40" classes, which may or may not count promotion (FE8 has 46+3 enemy only+21 monsters, with 18 unpromoted+3 trainees)
Also mentions fast skipping battles on a fight by fight basis is an option. May be more info on dual attacks and My Unit.
Edited by deuxhero, 14 February 2012 - 08:04 PM.