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It's a been argued over and over again, especially in Philadelphia, where Ryan Howard–one of the best RBI men in MLB over the years (2nd overall to only Miguel Cabrera since 2006) calls home.
And no, I'm not talking about whether to refer to multiple runs batted in as "RBI", or "RBIs" (I'll be using the latter in this post). I'm talking about the meaning of the stat.
"RBIs don't matter!", say many believers in advanced metrics and Sabermetrics.
Those that disagree tend to favor, from what I've seen, all the more traditional statistics, like batting average, pitcher wins, and things of that sort.
But I tend to not lean 100% one way or the other. I don't think RBIs are meaningless, but I also don't think that they are a good metric to use to form an opinion on a player. I treat them for what they are: a measure of what happened.
Two players on the Phillies are currently making a strong case to discontinue the use of RBIs as a value indicator: Ryan Howard and Ben Revere.
Howard, as of writing this post, has 80 RBIs, and fourth in the National League. He's hitting .222/.309/.379. He's striking out at the 4th-highest rate in the NL (27.9%), and is in the bottom 16 in OPS (among qualified hitters). He chases pitches outside of the zone 33.9% of the time (21st highest), but only makes contact on 53% of those swings (3rd-lowest).
About the only thing he's done well in 2014 is collect RBIs. Here's why: he's had 290 plate appearances with men on base (highest in the NL), and 172 plate appearances with men in scoring position (2nd highest in NL). His average in those situations isn't abnormally higher than his season average. He just has more chances to knock guys in.
Conversely, Ben Revere has 15 RBIs, last in the NL, and 12 lower than the next highest. But he's in contention for the NL batting title, has swiped 38 bags, and puts the ball in play at an extremely high rate. Why does he have so few RBIs? Because he's only had 145 plate appearances with men on base, and just 74 with runners in scoring position. Both of those aren't even enough to qualify for leaderboards.
So, while Revere can make contact with the best of them, the RBIs just don't happen because of the lack of runners on base when he's at bat.
And that is why he and Howard are proving that RBIs aren't a good determinant of value on offense. Revere is far more valuable than Howard offensively this year, but Howard is far, far ahead of him in RBIs. Howard is on pace for one of the worst-hitting high-RBI seasons of all time. Revere is on pace for one of the lowest RBI seasons of a all time for a player with 175+ hits.
I get it, Ryan Howard is supposed to have tons of RBIs because he bats fourth, and Ben Revere shouldn't because he's a lead off hitter. And that is 100% correct. It also furthers my point that RBIs, especially in the cases of Revere and Howard–are simply a measure of what happened. Not a measure of value.
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It's boring when my reply is just going to be "yes, I agree w u, great article!" But, haha, that's all I can say. Well said!
Haha, thanks Mike. I appreciate that.
As an older, long time baseball fan advanced metrics are sometimes confusing to me, but are a much better indication of value than many of the old time stats. Very correct and good article.
Glad you agree!
One thing I don't like about a lot of the new metrics is how they are treated. Lots of people tend to want them to be the end-all-be-all, and choose to ignore traditional stats. That's why I mentioned I don't like to lean completely one way or the other. I believe there's a place in baseball for all kinds of stats and metrics, but they need to be used carefully & correctly.
Ryan Howard is in the fourth hole bc he drives runs in,thus allowing the team to score runs and hopefully win games. That's what he gets paid to do. Revere' s job is go get on base and mame things happen. That's why he is lead off hitter, that is his job. When Ryan went down and we had others on the fourth hole, the team had a difficult time scoring runs bc the big man was not in the line up. How Ryan goes the Phillies go it is that simple.
I think it's the other way around. He drives in runs because he is in the cleanup spot. The numbers don't lie: he's been pretty bad at the plate this year. But he has a ton of RBIs. That's why RBIs aren't good to value him
Well Ryan has 80 rbi's and the phillies aren't going much of anywhere at the moment…. It takes a total team effort to win ball games.
While I get the point you are trying to make, I am not sure you are comparing apples to apples. Your point is negated at the end when you recognize Revere bats lead off and Howard bats clean-up, seems pretty obvious that if you bat lead-off you can't knock in runs. Now if you want to compare those apples, lets look at the RBI production Jimmy Rollins had over the years when he was the consistent lead off batter and see how Revere's number match up to Jimmy's. Better yet, compare Marlon Byrd or Chase Utley's percentages to Howards. Finally, imagine Howards numbers if he was to cut out the K's and swinging at pitches out of the zone.
My point was that comparing Howard's RBIs to Revere's is apples to oranges, and therefore proving that RBIs don't say too much about a players value. They are too dependent on the situation, rather than the hitter
Definitely apples to oranges, because if you do the math and figure out how many RBIs Ben Revere would have had if he had 290 chances (with runners on base), he would have had 30 RBIs (290X15/145) or with runners in scoring position 172 chances, he would have had 35 RBIs (172X15/74), it's much lower than Howard. They both add a certain value…Ben getting on base and possibly to 3rd, while Howard hits a deep fly ball so Revere can tag in. I don't know the stats on that: to see how many SFs Howard has compared to Revere, but I bet it's a big difference. I don't think Ben hits many deep flies.
Clean up hitters are notoriously strike out kings: Mike Schmidt, Babe Ruth…But they create runs, with help from .300 hitters who get on base a lot.
Bob I agree with u Ryan does swing at bad balls all the time, why I don't know. But I do know that he has carried the team for a lot of years.
Lol yeah Ryan Howard carried the team for 5 consecutive playoff runs, give me a break
The only issue to discuss is how many more RBI ryan Howard would have if he just hit well. Lou Gehrig often said his job was to drive in runs, that's it. Put Revere in the same spot and I say he falls off the table of effectiveness. No. 3&4 hitters don't see the same amount of fastballs as others. It's far more difficult to bat in that part of the order. Revere would always see more fastballs in his current position in the order because he's not a threat to hit anything but a single.
I'm not going to say that Revere is a great player, but he certainly isn't the problem with this team as much as the WIP hosts would disagree. Ask yourself this: if Rollins and Howard's batting averages were both 50 points higher does this team have a much better record. I'm willing to bet yes
Agree on Howard, but if you're saying that (unlike Revere) Rollins IS part of the problem, that's way off base.
He is already having one of the best seasons of any SS in the NL.
If his batting average was 50 points higher (with the same power and walking he's shown this year), he would be hitting .290, with a .363 OBP and .824 OPS. At shortstop. That would be one of the greatest seasons a 35 year old has ever had in the history of the game.
I'd still like to see Rollins hitting at a .275 clip. .240 is too low for your two hole hitter.
We'd like to see a lot of things, but the point is that even a .275 average (for a shortstop, with his walks and power) would put him in MVP territory. It would make his OPS+ 116. In his 2007 MVP year, it was 119.
I don't think wanting your shortstop to hit .275 is asking too much. Rollins power numbers are good this year, but his on base percentage is around 20 points lower than where it should be for a 2 hole hitter. No real contender is going to have a two hitter with a .240 batting average and a .315 OBP. That's not a knock against Jimmy Rollins' career, but moving forward those numbers simply aren't good enough, anywhere.
You want an MVP candidate hitting second. Who doesn't?
The problem isn't Rollins per se, who's producing more than the vast majority of shortstops, and is having about as good a year as could be expected. The problem is that he's in a lineup where he's still a good option for the 2 spot.
Sorry, I'm missing your point. IF Rollins was hitting 50 points higher…. why would he be? How many times has he? If Howard hit 50 points higher, people wouldn't be having discussions about releasing him. I'm not arguing, just wondering where the extra 50 points in average came from.
Look at both Rollins and Howard's better years. Howard was hitting in the .270 range with power and Rollins was between .275 and .290. I don't expect them to do that anymore, but the organization apparently did. Otherwise, what you have is a two hitter batting .240 and a power hitter with mediocre power numbers and no batting average. This team is going nowhere with the numbers that these guys are putting up. I single them out because the organization singled them out at the start of the season.
At that, I don't feel that a SS hitting .275 is an MVP candidate, but a player being a professional hitter. .240 isn't good enough. .220 isn't good enough. I can't remember many contending teams with two/four hole hitters with those numbers
Based on those RBI opportunities, I wonder what the Phillies record would be if Marlon Byrd hit cleanup the entire season instead of Ryan Howard.
Based on Byrd's numbers this season, I'd say he'd probably lead the NL
We can guess that their record would be about the same. Byrd has actually been less effective than Howard in capitalizing on his RBI opportunities.
Howard has come to bat with 395 runners on base, and knocked in 61 of them, or 15.4%.
Byrd has come to bat with 372 runners on base, and knocked in only 52 of them, or 14.0%.
If hypothetically Byrd had been in Howard's spot and saw 395 base runners, but knocked in only 14.0%, that would have been 55, or 8 fewer than what Howard knocked in.
Theoretically, 8 runs over 130 games is worth about 1 win, so all else being equal they may have won 1 less game.
This is exactly the analysis in which I was interested. Thanks for the post.
Did you calculate those percentages or did you pull them from a reference site? I'm interested to see other players' RBI/Opportunities percentages. Also interesting to see would be RBI/Scoring Position Opportunities.
I'm curious to see if the percentages are similar between Byrd and Howard while men were in scoring position.
I don't suppose there's a way to isolate the base running ability of the 395 runners on base for Howard (mostly Revere/Rollins/Utley) vs. Byrd (batting with Howard on base)? I'd settle for finding out how many of the 372 runners on base for Byrd were Howard, if you're feeling kind enough to figure that out. Howard's reached by walk or single 90 times this year, and he seems pretty hard to drive in from first an anything that stays in the park.
I can answer some of that. Stats are from baseball-prospectus: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/sortable/index.php?cid=1657903
Howard and Byrd have been the same in knocking in runners in scoring position, with both at 25.0% of RISP knocked in.
The difference between the two, to John's point, is that Howard has knocked in a much higher % of runners from first. It's not clear how much of that is due to the hitter vs. the runner.
By the way, the only batter who has come up with more runners on base than Howard is Casey Mcgehee, who has knocked in 14.8% of the 400.
but you don't factor in the amount of times howard was on 1st base with byrd batting. takes 2 extra base hits to score howard from 1st on a good day.
@tbarr, you're right, and it has cost Byrd 3 RBIs this year.
Howard was on first 9 times when Byrd has doubled this year, and he only scored on one of those. The average MLB runner scores 41% of the time on that play, i.e. about 4 of 9, so give Byrd 3 more RBIs assuming the average MLB runner (really less, but we'll round up to 3).
In addition, just for completeness, Howard was on second base twice when Byrd singled, and he scored on one of those two. The average MLB runner scores 59% of the time on that play, so someone could also give Byrd a fraction of an RBI there if they really wanted to.
What'd I say, Laura?! GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN.
That's uncalled for dude. Get back in your mom's basement. NOW.
Okay, but consider:
Every time Howard comes to the plate (PA), while hitting 4th, he produces ((RBI+R)-HR) runs at a .225 clip.
The MLB RBI leader among cleanup hitters, Victor Martinez, produces runs at a .248 clip.
I don't know. A run is a run. We used to call it clutch hitting. If you're holding Howard up as a reason to devalue RBIs, especially as he plays for the 26th best (or, 5th worst) OBP team in all of MLB, I think you may be trying too hard.
I'm not trying to devalue to RBI itself. It's useful. What I'm trying to say is, based on RBIs, Ryan Howard is one of the best in the league and Ben Revere is one of the worst. Which is far from the truth
Using Revere as an example of the non-value of RBI is ridiculous. He's a leadoff hitter; it's not his job to drive in runs but to be driven in by others. It's like complaining that a 20 game winner had limited value because he only batted .147.
In Howards case, his job IS to drive in runs. With 80 so far, and his ability to drive in 15.4% of runners, he's doing the job, although not as well as he used to. I blame that partly on the fact that he doesn't seem to have real home-run power any more.
I think you're missing the point, George. Since there is a disparity in RBIs based on batting position order (as you just pointed out), it shouldn't be used to value a player.
Bull. Put a leadoff hitter in the four hole and see what you get. No one is going to pay Revere to bat cleanup, because he can't do it. A non-power hitter can rarely drive in a runner who's on first; sometimes he can't even get one in from second because his singles are not deep enough. A power hitter, even one with a low average, many times can do both. RBI might not be the best stat, but it's still an important one. Teams aren't generally built around 8 banjo hitters, and teams that don't recognize the importance of the RBI are destined to have losing seasons.
The team with the most runs, wins. Unfortunately, that is not usually the Phillies, but that's besides the point. In simplistic terms the 3 actions that are involved in scoring runs are
Scoring the runs
Advancing the runner
Driving in the runs
Revere's job is to get on base and score runs. He's 40th in that category in the NL (75th in MLB).
Howard's job is to drive them in. He's 4th in the NL.
Howard's having an abysmal year in nearly all categories, but RBI isn't one of them. Just because that's an aberration doesn't invalidate the stat.
I think it's more than just an outlier, to be honest
No, I respectfully disagree. While I have not done any research, it sure feels like an outlier. It's been a truly bizarre season for TBP; that's why we're all talking about it. 🙂
I haven't done any extensive research on it, but I'd bet it's been a trend for Howard to have high RBIs and sub-par stats everywhere else.
I love the guy, though–don't get me wrong. I just don't think he's as good as his RBIs would suggest
I respectfully, yet completely disagree. RBI's are not the perfect stat because they rely too much on your teammates getting on base, but RBI's are still a good indicator. Howard gets more RBI's and is a better player because he has hit 19 HRs, 35 extra base hits, 44 more walks, and long fly balls for runners to tag up. Meanwhile Revere with his 42 extra hits has only 1 HR and less than half as many XBH (17). Based on the numbers you produced, Revere had 145 opportunities to drive in a runner and only has 15 RBI's. Howard has had exactly twice as many opportunites (290), yet has more than 5x the amount of RBI's (80). It doesn't take Advanced Sabremetrics to see who gets the job done.
He's neither as good as his RBIs would suggest, nor as bad as many of his other stats suggest. And I love the guy too. After all his health issues it's got to be really frustrating for him not to be the hitter he was. I cheer every time he comes through…and that's been fairly often lately.
Thank you! Couldn't have put it better. There are guys batting 0.04 better, with less HR and less RBI that nobody bashes. But because of Ryno's contract, he gets a lot of crap.
Imagine if the big piece was hitting he should have over 100 rbi by now and this team would be at least .500
Another day, another lack of Gameday post.
My wrist is hurting after seeing Blanco's fall!!!
Really quick moving game! Through 4-1/2 in barely an hour!
I have a friend who called Freddy "Uno de Mayo" because he only had one hit in the entire month of May. He's making up for lost time now!
Less than 60 pitches in 6 innings. Could this be some kind of record?
… do I dare hope that the Phils could win 3 series in a row?
(sigh…) I think I jinxed it…
Easy now 🙂
Argh, there goes the shutout…
Apropos of nothing in particular, Rollins leads all MLB shortstops in walks. And in stolen bases.
Freddy putting on a power show.
.044 no more
To Tracey's point, despite facing 8 hitters last inning, Cole has still only thrown 81 pitchesm
Nice job Cole. I predict we score in the bottom of the inning and still get the win.
Use that wipeout slider on him, 100 miles Giles.
Oh Jayson – now you see it, now you don't
Giles is looking tremendous, but we still need some offense to win this thing…
The difference between Giles and those other hard throwers is that's slider. If he could ever develope a straight change he'd be unhittable.
Ben's 11 walks have him on pace for about 14 or 15, I think. If he won the batting title, that would be a modern record.
I can't tell of he's safe or out.
Ok the rally is on. Can Hamels still get a W?
Rollins hit 2 to the warning track tonight. One in left one in right.
Frandsen doing a Willy Mays imitation.
Alright CincoPapelbunny, lets get r done!
Tracey did you get my private message?
I think this is the guy that homered off Cinnabon last night . Oops not tonight 2 down.
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The kids rule!
Winner winner
Chicken dinner
Unfortunately the Mets are wining in the 9th
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The nations eyes are on you Phils.
You can come back to catch the Mets.
I believe!!!!!!!!!!!1
I agree with most of what you are saying in the article, but I believe that Runs Batted In are still a better indicator of value than the Win. The win is a broken stat. It is a part of baseball and I don't want to see it removed, but there should not be so much stock placed in it. Tell me, what would most people say of Ryan Howard if he was hitting .300 with 50 RBI at this point with as many at bats? Probably something about how he is not doing his job, which is to drive in runs. I am not at all excusing his just over the Mendoza line BA, but driving in runs is what people expect of Howard.
Exactly. .300 with 50 RBIs and he's "padding his average with meaningless hits."
It's a truly crazy season he's having.
There was an old anecdote that this one old time reporter talked about. He took his son to meet Richie Ashburn. Richie asked his son who his favorite Phillie was. The kid said Del Ennis because he hits in all the runs. Richie told the kid, who do you think he hits in all the time?
RBIs are a stat that are created by where the person hits, but it is also reliant on the people that hit ahead of the batter. Howard has seen better days, but there is a reason why he hits a lot of RBIs – because of who he is and how the fielders are positioned when he is at bat with runners on vs with no one on base.
It is kind of sad that just because the Phils have had a few bad years these guys can't write a game day post or a wrap up post. Do they need more writers because I'll do it
Even though they got the Sanburg still making bad moves. I know Cole only had 80 pitches, but after cruising through 6 that seventh was a stressful one. No way you have him hit much less send him back out. Cost Cole a win.
I'm not ready to run Ryno out of town. It is his rookie year. But if he makes these same bad moves next year I think his stay in Philly should be short
What Ryan Howard has done for the city of Philadelphia will never be taken away from him. Bringing '08 Championship along with Cole and Chase was a great achievement. My question would be seeing how Howard is batting .222 with 80 RBI's, why not allow a higher contact hitter like Revere to bat clean up? I understand that it's a lot less power but he has a higher on base%, average, more hits therefore in theory he would create more chances for scoring, or am I just being a silly cloud dreamer here.


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Series: Ten (1991)
The Air Commandos (with Cloudburst) was first released carded in U.S. toy stores in 1991. It was discontinued in 1992.
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First-quarter equity trading at three-year high in Europe
European stock trading is on course for its biggest first quarter since 2011, providing some respite for investment banks in a brutal quarter for fixed income.
According to data from stock exchange Bats Chi-X Europe, collating information from around 35 trading venues, €2.5 trillion worth of equities have been traded between January 1 and March 27 this year.
With two full trading days still to go, the start to the year is the busiest since the first quarter of 2011, when the value of stock trading reached €2.7 trillion.
Volumes so far are 19% higher compared to the first quarter of 2013 and are also on track to become the largest since the third quarter of 2011, when €2.8 trillion of stocks were traded across the region.
The data suggests growing optimism for investing in European equities and comes as new issues pick up in the region.
According to data from Dealogic, the value of IPO deals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa has reached $17.6 billion so far this year, which is already higher than the $16.5 billion recorded during the whole of 2012 and the $9.9 billion recorded in 2009.
On Thursday, the London Stock Exchange said total equity capital raised across its UK and Italian markets in the 11 months ending February 28 grew 91% to £28.3 billion, from £14.8 billion during the same period in 2013.
The Euro Stoxx 50, an index of the top 50 blue-chip stocks in Europe, has grown 3.2% to 3157.57 between the start of the year and March 27, while the Euro Stoxx Mid, representing mid-cap stocks in the region, grew 7.2% to 336 over the same period.
Mark Rice, global head of sales trading at Societe Generale, said: "Since the improvement of the macroeconomic environment in Europe, there has been increased interest from international – and in particular US – firms in Europe. The higher probability of easing measures by the European Central Bank has been the key macro driver that has made EU assets more attractive."
Per Loven, head of international corporate strategy at Liquidnet, a block trading venue geared towards long-only institutional investors, said: "From what we see on our market and hear from our members, there is more of an appetite to invest cash sitting on the sidelines into equities. We are also seeing investors that were heavily invested in US equities moving more into European equities."
Loven added that volumes on Liquidnet for the first three months of this year were the highest ever for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Despite the strong equities volumes, banks' sales and trading divisions are likely to suffer from a 10-20% fall in trading revenues, mainly due to lower activity in fixed income, currencies and commodities trading.
Rice added: "For the foreseeable future, it would appear that those banks with a larger equity exposure, would be beneficiaries but this is a cyclical business and this trend is likely to reverse at some stage. Moreover, while the environment is encouraging, the established bulge brackets are still struggling with the old issue of a high fixed cost base for equity trading and although volumes are up, the business is still edging towards increased electronic trading, which offers lower margins."


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Past is prologue
Former NAACP presidents hope to clear the air at meeting with Pasadena police chief
By André Coleman 11/05/2013
In a potentially historic gathering, former Pasadena NAACP presidents plan to meet with Police Chief Phillip Sanchez to discuss a number of issues they believe have led to friction between African Americans and local officers, including the lack of civilian oversight of the department.
On Monday, ex-Presidents Del Yarbrough, Charles "Buddy" Bereal and Joe Brown, who stepped down in March after leading the organization for 12 years, requested the informal get-together with Sanchez, which Brown said will be an "issue oriented" discussion on everything from everyday struggles of people living in the African-American community to police interactions with minorities.
"The climate in our community is not what it should be," said Brown. "We want to share with him how each of us has dealt with his predecessors during these types of issues."
Sanchez, who took over as head of the department in 2010, said he would meet with the group and hoped to establish a dialogue that would be beneficial to the community.
"There is always value in dialogue to identify the problems and concerns and then working together to develop strategies for solutions," Sanchez said. "The knowledge of our community members is formidable. They have historical perspective and some of the issues we are dealing with today have been dealt with in the past. If the issues are in the realm of the Police Department I can address them. If not, I am still a stakeholder that can raise awareness and develop strategies that can mitigate those concerns as a collaborative stakeholder in voice."
The group decided to request the meeting after getting together last Friday at an undisclosed local business. If a meeting is held, it will be conducted at a neutral location yet to be selected.
Former NAACP President John Kennedy, who became the organization's youngest president when he was elected to lead the group at the age of 25 in 1987 and now represents District 3 on the City Council, will not attend the event.
Former interim President Charlie Johnson, 101, also will not attend the meeting due to health issues, but will advise the group on the meeting.
NAACP President Gary Moody, who took over for Brown, also will not attend, primarily because Moody could be hampered by NAACP bylaws if he attended without first consulting with the organization's members.
However, Moody told the Weekly that the NAACP would definitely be interested in the results of any meeting that takes place.
"The expertise of the past presidents lends a lot of wisdom," Moody said. "They were not presidents of the NAACP for nothing. I am definitely interested in hearing from them."
Formed in 1919, the NAACP Pasadena Branch is one of the oldest advocacy groups in the city, and Yarbrough, Bereal and Brown have been among the group's most successful presidents, breaking down barriers in education, local hiring and minority relations with the Police Department.
Bereal was elected president in 1994, 20 years after he sued the city over claims of racial discrimination. The lawsuit resulted in an overhaul of city hiring policies, enabling more African Americans and Latinos to gain entry-level positions in the city Police and Fire departments and other skilled trade posts.
In 1998, Yarbrough was elected to lead the organization and relied on his roots as an educator to rally members to become more involved with the Pasadena Unified School District. Yarbrough worked to unify the group at a time when it was severely fractured and running a $20,000 debt. Two years later, the group had come together and the debt was wiped out.
Brown, who was elected the group's president in 2000, worked to close the communications chasm that existed between the Police Department and minorities living in Northwest Pasadena.
"We bring wisdom to the table," Brown said. "We want to see Sanchez continue to lead the community and continue to move forward."
Brown said the reason for the meeting is not exclusively about Kennedy's recent call for consideration of forming a civilian oversight board to oversee of the Pasadena Police Department, although that will be part of the discussion.
"This is not just about John Kennedy and Chief Sanchez," Brown said. "This is bigger than Northwest Pasadena. This is about the community and building bridges going forward. Civilian oversight of the Police Department is one of several subjects we will be discussing, but that is not the reason we are meeting with the chief."
In September, the council rejected an effort by Kennedy to bring a discussion of a feasibility study of civilian oversight of police before the board.
Two weeks later, a Pasadena police officer shot and wounded Paris Holloway, 23, in the arm, leg and back after Holloway allegedly fled to the Kings Villages housing complex after an encounter on Hammond Street and Sunset Avenue.
According to police, Holloway was on parole for felony assault, which allows police to question him at any time. According to Pasadena police spokeswoman Lt. Tracey Ibarra, Holloway produced a weapon at the end of the pursuit. According to police, a loaded handgun was recovered at the scene.
In August, investigations by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Pasadena Police Department cleared Officer Kevin Okamoto and Detectives Keith Gomez and William Broghamer of claims that they either individually or together attempted to influence witness testimony, inappropriately used an informant and failed to provide a copy of a search warrant when asked. Other claims against the officers included harassment, unlawful arrest, submission of a misleading police report and inappropriate recording of a jailhouse conversation.
The department is also waiting for the results of a probe being conducted by the Office of Independent Review of the March 2012 officer-involved shooting death of unarmed Kendrec McDade, 19, who was killed by police officers Matthew Griffin and Jeffrey Newlen.
Since 2008, African American and Latinos have made up 90 percent of the 1,464 juvenile arrests, according to information obtained by the Pasadena Star-News. However, 80 percent of those contacts were not initiated by police officers, according to Sanchez. Police, he said, were actually responding to calls for service.
Kennedy's calls for discussion of a feasibility study of civilian oversight of the department were shot down by his council colleagues, but have gained support from other elected officials, including Pasadena Unified School Board President Renatta Cooper, PUSD Board member Mikala Rahn and former Pasadena City College Board of Trustees member Jeanette Mann.
"I would like to at least see them study it," Cooper told the Weekly. "Not having civilian oversight creates a perceptual problem. If we had it, it would eliminate some of the arguments. I would be willing to serve on such a committee."
Relations with local police are not the only issues facing minorities in Pasadena. African-American residents have long been calling for more citizen involvement in the process to select a developer to complete the $8 million renovation of Robinson Park. That city project had come under fire for not hiring more local residents to work on the project. The same was true of the recent renovation of the Rose Bowl. So far, only 10.2 percent of the workers hired to renovate the Rose Bowl have been from Pasadena, well below the 15 percent goal set by the Pasadena City Council before the $180 million project began.
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"There is always value in dialogue to identify the problems and concerns and then working together to develop strategies for solutions" ... but apparently NOT if it involves any kind of kind of preventative (or even punitive) oversight that would be accomplished by the more common hoi-polloi of Pasadena's (increasingly un-Caucasian) population.
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|circa 1925, Sigfords Planting Dry Land Wheat
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The photo prompt for this 179th Sepia Saturday includes birds, beasts and reptiles, or carts, wheels, ladders, barrels, or whatever offshoots that occur in the minds of Sepians. At first I favored an owl photograph (and it's a pretty good story too), but my decision was made when I happened to flip this old family photograph. I am not sure that it fits the prompt, but there was something about the tractors, wheels, barrels, and horses that grabbed my attention.
My grandfather, Frank Sigford (probably with his pipe clenched between his teeth) was operating the old tractor, which almost has a homemade look, at least in comparison to the "modern" 1924 tractor. The wheels look a lot like the Fordson F tractor of that day, but certainly not the tanks mounted on what appears to be a-trailer-like extension. The driver's seat is visible, even though my grandfather is standing at the steering wheel. All of the working mechanisms were open and visible -- a dangerous rig to operate, what with all the gears, flywheels and belts.
The little girl trudging up the hill to the tractor is my mother, who was about five or six at the time. My Aunt Loise, one of my twin aunts and was a senior at Klamath Union High School, was driving the horse-drawn seeder and disc.
Dry land farmers always seed their crops with the hope (and expectation) that Mother Nature sends enough rain to sprout the seeds and weather warm enough for the seeds to get a good start. Frank was no different from any other farmer, but the planting shown in this picture was subjected to one of Klamath county's cold, dry spring. This was Frank Sigford's last attempt at farming, and the dream of having his own farm.
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I just weaning my DD about a week ago after nursing for 26 mos. We started food at 7 mos or so and reduced to nap and night time only about 2 or 3 mos. ago. My breasts were really flat before the real end of BF for us and I figured I would have no problem with ducts clogging, etc. And for a week I just had fuller, not hard or painful.
THEN, last night I notced tenderness and hard feeling in the top of my left and this morning a quarter shaped light red spot. Anyways I took a shower and expressed a lot out, I tried to push on that duct too and it definitely helped, now the hardness is gone, but the tenderness is still there a little.
I'm pretty sure this is being caused by a ten pound weight vest I wear to exercise....I know, tres dumb. How long should I keep expressing? I don't have a fever but I don't want to keep up a supply forever. I've read alot of conflicting advice about warm or cold compresses? I'm leaning towards warm? Anyone have advice? Thanks!


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Athlete Year of Birth: 1970
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Jane was new to triathlon in 2009 but became a World and European Champion in 2010 - she was recognised for this spectacular breakthrough by being voted British Triathlon's female Paratriathlete of the Year for 2010.
She was selected for the British squad unexpectedly when she went to be classified as a Tri1 Paratriathlete. She did her first triathlon in 2009 and 2010 has been her first full season.
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I wonder how long a Paris Hilton sex list would be
LIKE THIS I'd imagine….ReplyCancel
I second Reno. And …ReplyCancel
Remember back when her sex tape came out and she said she had only been with a few people at that time. ..I counted her virginity taker the Spelling boy, a Carter boy forgot which one and Rick Solomon which is in tape. Also paris niachos or whatever and that other Greek heir. .. And apparently lil Wayne? Who are we missing. ..ReplyCancel
I'd love it! We can finally find out what celebrities to avoid sleeping with. #noparisnoherpReplyCancel
it'd be more of an encyclopedia than a listReplyCancel
Ed Furlong, Travis Barker I thinkReplyCancel
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It would be easier to eliminate those she hasn't slept with. Easier being relative here, as that is still quite an undertaking. Cannot rule out: women, hermaphrodites,old people, circus freaks, the dead, close to dead, pretty much anything that walks or rolls.ReplyCancel
She's definately gross but I'm not down for slut shaming. Every male celebrutard is probably just as high. Hate on her because she's a pampered idiot with brain damage instead.ReplyCancel
Let's hate her because she's a Stupid Spoiled Whore!ReplyCancel
Dog Killer's list might not be all that long compared to, say, someone like KPig or KSlow. Apparently those 2 KTurds have a sexual history that rivals Mata Hari for sheer volume. And now that everyone on the face of the Earth knows that Paris is all herped up and is a filthy fucking piece of shit of a human being that should be shot in the head and thrown in a ditch, she has a little trouble getting dates and boyfriends. She has to actually pay guys to just stand beside her at functions. This pleases me to no end.ReplyCancel
You'd need a Super Computer to compile it.ReplyCancel
She's so unattractive, even with her hair dyed blonde (she's a natural brunette) and always wearing blue contact lenses (her eyes are brown).ReplyCancel
A Paris Hilton sex list would break the Internet, or at least infect itReplyCancel
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paris was a well known hooker since she was 17-18 because she got paid good to go bareback. she and kimmycakes used to tagteam. paris is well connected in hw not because of the Hilton name because everyone in hw has a famous last name. but because she would go bareback.. I would say 1000 or so.. seriously.. not to forget all the summers she spent as a yacht girl on paul allen's yacht. girl no one can count that high.ReplyCancel
It'd be like Santa's "Naughty" list. Except, it'd be the Santa from "Futurama" where Santabot judges everyone to be naughty, and you have to fortify your home like a bank vault to keep Santabot from coming in and killing you on Xmas eve.ReplyCancel
@sugarbread Paris is a woman for the ages.ReplyCancel
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I will have my first interview tomorrow (EXCITEMENT) with a man named Synchro. He is also having a show at Palac Akropolis so hopefully I will be able to stick around and enjoy it! I WILL try to take pictures etc.
Tomorrow I plan on taking a brief trip to the Czech country side. I'm not sure what the town is called but of course I will update you all on that as well. I hope to do some gardening there!
My landlady, Hana, has started this NGO called the L.A.F. Project, it sounds awesome. I don't think I fully understand it but I am definitely intrigued! Check it out: www.lafproject.org/
This will be a short post because it is almost 11 pm here, and I am sleepy! At Haverford I feel like I was always on high-alert with something to finish or to start, it's nice to relax ( a little ) and still have an agenda.
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Grand Valley became the only university in the state and one of 45 in the country to receive gold status after completing a sustainability program developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) is designed to help gauge the progress of colleges and universities toward sustainability in all sectors. Grand Valley joins universities such as Arizona State, Stanford and Cornell as a gold STARS status institution. Of the 241 schools that received a ranking nationwide, Grand Valley's average score was higher than the national score. The assessment included 1,000 questions and compared campus operations from 2005 to 2012. STARS includes four categories: education and research, operations, innovation and planning, and administration and engagement.
This is the second time Grand Valley has participated in the STARS program. In 2011, the university received silver status and in 2008, Grand Valley was selected as one of 90 universities in the U.S. to participate in the pilot phase of the STARS rating system.
Bart Bartels, campus sustainability manager for the Sustainable Community Development Initiative, said, during a reception on March 21, that Grand Valley's scores went up in most categories, especially in areas of operations, innovation and planning. The university also scored well in the sub-categories of interdisciplinary research, environment, and diversity and affordability.
Anne Hiskes, dean of the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, said the entire university is responsible for the success of moving from silver to gold status. "It took support and leadership from many offices and departments across campus to make Grand Valley a leader in sustainability. This would not have been possible without help from everyone."
Since the last STARS submission, the university has made improvements in areas of composting and recycling, and has added educational and innovative programs such as a student-led Green Team and Eco Reps program, the Sustainable Ambassador Program for offices and departments. The university also made the transition from organizing a sustainability week to a yearlong campus celebration. Additional efforts include installing several electric vehicle charging stations on campus, purchasing more locally grown produce, increasing use of virtual meeting platforms such as ooVoo, and introducing a bike- and car-sharing program.
"We've gone from sustainability being a strategy to a value of the university," said President Thomas J. Haas. "It takes hard work and collaboration to achieve this accomplishment, and it's a great statement in showing how we're making a difference in the community."
The rating system includes bronze, silver, gold and platinum statuses, but no institution has reached platinum status, said Bartels. "We hope to get there in the next few years," he said.
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Baseball, Chemistry and my Projects!!!
Baseball is the perfect medication– for anything really. This morning, I had this terrible chemistry mishap, and I was basically yelled at profusely. I'm in an awful predicament in which I have to make sure that my teacher doesn't try and take points off of my test. It really wasn't my fault! It was merely a false assumption, and miscommunication.
He is the first in line to come up if one of our starters gets injured. Last year, we rushed him way too much, but we didn't have much of a choice with Curt Schilling out of the rotation. The acquisition of Brad Penny makes the situation a lot easier. I expect to see Buchholz come up a lot this season. I would say a similar track to Justin Masterson.
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Elizabeth – I'm sorry about your chemistry mishap! Maybe tomorrow after everyone has slept on it you might be able to talk to your teacher then. Good luck!
I really thought that Jeff Bailey was going to be the one to make the team. And yes – I suspect that Clay will be with us soon in Fenway!
GO RED SOX!! Only 6 more days!
ELIZABETH – You know that we'd never take points off your chemistry exam! The AL East is going to be the toughest in all of baseball. I definitely feel that the O's and the Blue Jays will have a say in who wins the division. I dislike Peter Angelos, but there is some great talent on that roster. We hurt Toronto by taking A.J. Burnett, but I think they'll be alright. It should be a slugfest to the end. I liked Nick Green, and wished the Yankees had held on to him. I also think that Clay will be back sooner than later. Great post, my friend!
Julia: You're right, after everyone has had a chance to cool down, it will be easier. Either way it would have been good. I would like to know their exact reasoning though.
Scott: Thank you! You're right, the Orioles and Blue Jays WILL have a say in who wins the division. The O's always give the Yankees trouble, and the Jays give the Sox trouble… never ending cycle.
I did the same thing is history sort of. We were learning about the big three (Stalin, FDR, and Churchill) from World War II and I started think about the big three from the Celtics and who were the big three in baseball. Also please sign my letter to Bud Selig.
Bob, http://bostonsports.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/03/baseball_bucks.html
Wow, Elizabeth, as someone not far removed from her own chemistry career…those are some pretty excellent analogies. Did you have to use those terrible 3-D models, with all of the different colors? Those should be outlawed.
And as cheesy as it sounds, thanks for the reminder that baseball really does make you feel better. It's so true; we're so lucky to have it! Now I'm thinking about taping some baseball pictures to my accounting notebook in order to keep myself motivated.
Sorry you had such a bummer with the chemistry mishap. I hope it works out. It was my worst subject, so I'm afraid I'm useless to you. As for our teams, it's going to be a dogfight all season long and I can't wait. I feel as if I'm just treading water until the real action begins.
It's been many years since I had to think about chemistry. I believe I've successfully purged most of it from my mind. And geez, you had to go and remind me about the Utley/Rowand collision! I was actually at that game, but way out in the bleachers. Even from there, it looked bad!
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I love it! Ionic bonding = Jeter to Pedroia to Youk. Priceless indeed.
I'm sorry about your chemistry mishap! I hope all of your studying pays off and you get a good grade.
I am proud of your projects too! One of my projects made the opening day roster when a veteran got hurt. I hope he does so well they can't imagine replacing him with the veteran when he's better.
Now that you put it in baseball terms, I actually understand Chemistry! If it makes you feel any better, I always hated that class and I could never figure it out either. Luckily I'm a business student and won't need to learn Lewis structures or the difference between ionic and covalent bonds or anything like that. Good luck!And you know, Julia is reporting that Buchholz is being traded to the Yankees for Wang ;)-Erinhttp://www.plunking-gomez.mlblogs.com
Bob: Ah yes, the big three. the comparisons with baseball and school are endless!
Paige: Oh yes, those 3-D models and colors. I became frustrated and tried to make animal-like and people-like structures. We should both tape baseball pictures to our notebooks. We're in the last quarter (I would think you are too).
Sue: As soon as this year is over, I will begin to "purge" myself from anything chemistry related. Sorry to remind you, but my clash with my teacher isn't that pretty either.
Jeff: Thank you!!
Melissa: Good job on picking your projects! I think our teams should hire us as scouts.
Erin: A business student? That's really cool. Are you going into sports business?
Chris Carter will do some serious damage if he gets legit time. I could see him playing between 60-80 games this year because of Kotsay, Drew, and Baldelli's liability but they may stay healthy for a change. With that being said, I would have to say he'd hit .265 AVG, 8-10 HR, 30-40 RBI. He's a solid player, should do a good job. Nick Green, what can I say about Green. He'll be like A.C. (Alex Cora), a .250 AVG 2 HR 15 RBI type season. Good Luck with chemistry and you do have a thing for calling events lol.
Keep it coming!
AAAAAAAHHHH!!! My Aaron Rowand is the Phillies center fielder in that picture! I LOVE HIM!!!!! My Number Three forever! I get so excited when I see him. Hahaha! I TOTALLY could have used that analogy when I was learning ionic bonding. I was a horrible chemistry student, so that would have been so helpful. I wish there was a way to relate baseball to law. I'll have to work on that. There has been a development with my project! It sounds like a platoon situation with my Brian and Dewayne Wise is more than likely what's happening. YAY!
Sorry about the chemistry mishap. Baseball always makes everything better.
Christos: I'm definitely excited to have the both of them up. I hope that they will see Red Sox action throughout the season.
Jen: Well, you are going into sports law right? I'm sure there will be ways! And projects… no words to describe them!🙂
Emily: It calms the soul.
DUDE, I totatlly knew what you were talking about in your chemistry explanations there! Wow, I must be actually learning something through this! That is so cool that you were able to relate to baseball, and I hope you get that mess cleaned up. Baseball really is an escape from whatever's going on in life.
Elizabeth, thanks for "stuttering" on our blog–computer problems? (Join the club!)😉 Hey, it ups our Brownie Points "entries"!😉
Baseball talks about "chemistry" (ahem!) all the time! Hmmm…Is that a good thing??! Oh well, as Scott and Jane will tell you, the Yankees had "chemistry" back in the 70s– it simply was the "explosive" kind! (Mishap?!) I like ours better!
Keep blogging, Elizabeth! –you are doing a great job!


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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A pretty, clean-burning candle, and a lovely little giveaway...
The wax actually reminds me of milk a little bit... I wanted to do some research to see if soy wax actually is better, and I found this article on Mother Nature Network. The article states: "Candle wax is made from the petroleum byproduct, paraffin. Burning a paraffin wax candle, even if it smells like scrumptious apple pie, is like inviting a diesel truck into your home to let off some exhaust … the soot from both diesel fuel and paraffin wax contains a noxious mix of carcinogenic petro-carbon nastiness that can mess with your health, blacken the inside of your home, and emit toxic chemicals like benzene and toluene. Gross. And as you probably know, petroleum isn't exactly renewable.
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