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|Adjusted Plus-Minus
What Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM) in brief is:
What Adjusted Plus-Minus does:
What Adjusted Plus-Minus incorporates:
How to interpret Adjusted Plus-Minus numbers:
How are the estimates for Adjusted Plus-Minus calculated?
What are the PROs and CONs for Adjusted Plus-Minus?
History of Adjusted Plus-Minus Development:
|Approximate Value
The metric which is an estimate of a player's value, making no fine distinctions, but, rather, distinguishing easily between very good seasons, average seasons, and poor seasons. There are two ways to calculate approximate value:
Credits=(Points)+(Rebounds)+(Assists)+(Steal)+(Blocks)-(Field Goals Missed)-(Free Throws Missed)-(Turnovers)
Alternative method shall be assigned according to the following rules shown here
Comments: Before the '73-74 season, steals, blocks, and turnovers weren't kept as official stats. In the credits formula, those stats are just omitted as they tend to cancel each other out to some degree when included anyway
|Assist Percentage
Assist percentage is an estimated percentage of teammate field goals a player assisted while the player is on the court.
Assist Percentage=100*Assists/(((Minutes Played /(Team Minutes/5)) * Team Field Goals Made) - Field Goals Made)
|Box Plus Minus
Daniel Myers has created box plus minus (BPM), which is a box score-based metric for evaluating basketball players' quality and contribution to the team from play-by-play regression.
BPM takes box score stats from an individual and team level and tries estimate player performance relative to NBA average. Since BPM is a per-100-possession stat where 0.0 is league average, +5 means the player is 5 points better than an average player over 100 possessions (which is about All-NBA level), -2 is replacement level, and -5 is really bad.
|Defensive Plus-Minus
A metric that measures the difference per 100 possessions in points allowed with a player on the court versus off the court. The accuracy of this measure varies dependent upon how often the player is on the floor and whom the player share it with. In most cases it provides a good indication of a players overall defensive value to his team.
|Defensive Rating
Author: Dean Oliver
A metric which is invented by Dean Oliver. The premise of individual defense is that players force "defensive stops", preventing the other team from scoring.
An individual can do that by forcing a missed shot that then gets rebounded by his team, by getting a defensive rebound, by forcing a turnover, or by fouling a player who misses both foul shots, the second of which is then rebounded by the defense.
|Defensive Stop
A defensive stop occurs when a player or team defense regains the ball without allowing the opponent a scoring possession.
Ways to get the "defensive stops" done:
|Diamond Rating
Author: Kevin Broom
A metric which is invented by Kevin Broom who devised a simple general formula that works with any per-minute statistics. Fomula subtracts the player's rating per game from his rating per 40 minutes to figure out how much his per game stats undervalue his potential contributions. He then subtracts league average from the player's per-40 minute rating and adds this amount to ensure the player is actually playing well in the minutes he does get.
Diamond Rating Formula=(Per Minute Rating)*40-(Per Minute Rating)*(Minutes Per Game)+[(Per Minute Rating)-(League's Per Minute Rating)]*40
Comments: The fewer minutes a player plays per game, and the better he does in those minutes, the better his Diamond Rating.Diamond Rating makes sense to eliminate players from consideration who are over 27, have more than five years experience, play more than 30 minutes per game or played less than 250 minutes total.
|Game Score
Author: John Hollinger
A metric which is John Hollinger's simple and linear version of the Player Efficiency Rating.
Game Score Formula =(Points)+0.4*(Field Goals Made)+0.7*(Offensive Rebounds)+0.3*(Defensive rebounds)+(Steals)+0.7*(Assists)+0.7*(Blocked Shots)- 0.7*(Field Goal Attempts)-0.4*(Free Throws Missed) - 0.4*(Personal Fouls)-(Turnovers)
Comments: Game Score does not make any adjustments like PER does for team pace. It simply adds and subtracts the box score statistics, according to the various weights Hollinger has chosen.
|Individual Floor Percentage
Author: Dean Oliver
The metric that indicates the ratio of a player's scoring possessions by his total possessions.
When a player ends his team's possession, it would be a possession charged to him. This is player's total possessions. When a player scored or assisted on a score, a scoring possession would be charged to him.
Individual Floor Percentage Formula=100*(Player's Scoring Possessions)/(Player's Total Possessions)
|NBA Efficiency
A linear and basic metric which indicates players' efficiency.
NBA Efficiency Formula = (Points)+(Rebounds)+(Steals)+(Assists)+(Blocked Shots)-(Turnovers)-(Missed Shots)
Comments: NBA Efficiency does a nice job of explaining free agent salary. NBA Efficiency tells us about perceptions of performance. It just has some problems if our objective is to measure the impact a player has on wins.
|NBA.com Plus-Minus
NBA.com Plus-Minus is a plus/minus tool to find out best player combinations. It looks at the point differential when players are both in and out of the game, to see how the team performs with various combinations.
A variety of combinations including the best two player, three player and even five player combinations for each game can be provided with this tool.
|Net Plus-Minus
Author: Roland Beech
Net plus-minus, a.k.a. unadjusted plus-minus, is invented by Roland Beech and measure the plus-minus statistics for a given player when the player is in the game relative to the plus-minus statistics when the player is NOT in the game. Net plus-minus combines offensive and defensive plus-minus.
For example, if a team scores 115 points (per 100 possessions) while a given player is on the court and 98 points (per 100 possessions) while he is off the court, his net offensive plus-minus is +17 (115-98=17).
Comments: Its better to have a positive net offensive plus-minus and a negative net defensive plus-minus.
Find out the top players sorted by 2010-11 net plus-minus ratings.
|Net Points
Author: Dean Oliver
Net Points is one way to burn indivudual Offensive and Defensive ratings into one metric.
Net Points=(Points Produced)-(Points Allowed)
|Non-Scoring Player Possessions
A player's non-scoring possessions would be his missed field goals, plus free throws that weren't rebounded by his team, plus his turnovers.
Non-Scoring Possessions Formula=(Player's Field Goal Attempts)-Player's Field Goal Made)+0.4*(Free Throw Attempts)+(Player's Turnovers)
|Offensive Conversion Rate
Offensive Conversion Rate measures the percentage of a player's steals that result in a made basket or free throw attempts within 5 seconds.
The reason for taking 5 seconds is to measure a player's transition defense in terms of how frequently his steals lead to offensive production.
|Offensive Rating
Author: Dean Oliver
A metric which is invented by Dean Oliver. Individual offensive ratings are constructed from the following two statistics:
|Per Minute Ratings
The metrics that evaluates a player's performance more accurately than his averages.
The common notation for per-minute ratings is using per 40 minute stats.
Per minutes ratings are calculated by taking the player's total in any category (points, rebounds, assists, etc.) divided by total minutes played.
|Personal Foul Efficiency
Author: D. Nelson, D. Walker
Personal Foul Efficiency measures ratio of steals plus blocks to personal fouls. Indicates how efficiently a player forces turnovers, removing the bias of jump-happy or slaptastic players who accumulate deceptive block or steal totals.
Comments: Andris Biedrins block total seems comparable to Ben Wallaces, until you realize that Wallace has more blocks with half the fouls. This statistic can be deceiving, since fouls may increase with defensive effort, but it is still a useful measure for comparative analysis.
|Player Efficiency Rating (PER)
Author: John Hollinger
The metric that which boils down all of a player's contributions into one number. John Hollinger's formula adds positive stats and subtracts negative ones through a statistical point value system.
For more information about PER Calculation visit basketball-reference
Comments: PER largely measures offensive performance. Hollinger freely admits that two of the defensive statistics it incorporates -- blocks and steals can produce a distorted picture of a player's value and that PER is not a reliable measure of a player's defensive acumen.
|Player Tracking Plus Minus (PT-PM)
Author: Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson's Player Tracking Plus Minus (PT-PM) is a player evaluation metric based on a combination of:
The plus-minus, a.k.a. +/-, simply keeps track of the net changes in score when a given player is either on or off the court.
NBA.com has been publishing plus-minus values in official box scores since 2007-2008 season.
Since the invention of basic plus minus, the plus-minus technique has been developed in order to get more accurate results.
There have been some stat heads who have developed different types of plus minus metrics. Here's a collection:
|Points Created
Author: Bob Bellotti
Points created is a metric that evaluates overall player performance.
It comprises all current primary and secondary statistical categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots, missed shots (both field goals and free throws), turnovers, and personal fouls.
Points Created= PTS + AST * (2-VBP) + (REB + STL + BLK) * VBP -(FGMiss + FTMiss + TOV) * VBP 0.5 * VBP * PF
It measures overall performance rather than a single skill (such as shooting) or set of skills (such as shooting, rebounding, and shot-blocking). Therefore, the result is a clear composite of a team or player's total performance.
Comments: Points Created is valuable in many ways. It is comprehensive, and can be used to evaluate players and teams on any level of basketball, in any league where statistics are kept. You can use it to study one game, many games, a season, and a career.
|Points Produced
Author: Dean Oliver
Points Produced is a measure of player's offensive contribution. "Points produced" metric has been considered more important than the "points scored".
A player produces points through made shots, assists, and offensive rebounds. The number of points produced by the various methods depends on the actual number of points scored and the importance of the player's contribution.
Comments: The sum of all teammates' individual points produced should be very close to the number of points actually scored by the team.
|Position Adjusted Win Score (PAWS)
Author: David Berri
The "Win Score" metric that takes player's "primary position played" into account.
PAWS=Position Adjusted Win Score=[(PAWS48/48)*Minutes]
PAWS48 =PAWS per 48 minutes=[WS48 Average WS48 at primary position played]
WS48 =Win Score per 48 minutes
|Real Plus Minus (RPM)
Author: Jeremias Engelmann
A metric provided by former Phoenix Suns consultants Steve Ilardi and Jeremias Engelmann, based on Engelmann's version (xRAPM) of Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus
Real Plus Minus is the player's average impact in terms of "net point differential" per 100 offensive and defensive possessions. RPM can be broken down to offensive and defensive metrics:
|Rebound Percentage
Total rebound percentage is estimated percentage of available rebounds grabbed by the player while the player is on the court.
Total Rebound Percentage=100*(Total Rebounds*(Team Minutes Played/5))/(Minutes Played*(Team Total Rebounds + Opponent Team's Total Rebounds))
|Regularized Adjusted Plus Minus (RAPM)
Author: Joe Sill
In "Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus" (RAPM), the goal is to provide more accurate results by employing a special technique called "ridge regression" (a.k.a. regularization). It significantly reduces standard errors in Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM).
Conventional adjusted plus-minus is shown to do a poor job of predicting the outcome of future games, particularly when fit on less than one season of data. Adding regularization greatly improves accuracy, and some player ratings change dramatically. The enhancement with the RAPM is a Bayesian technique in which the data is combined with a priori beliefs regarding reasonable ranges for the parameters in order to produce more accurate models. That is what ridge regression (a.k.a. regularization) does.
Comments: RAPM is about twice as accurate as an APM using standard regression and using 3 years of data, where the weighting of past years of data and the reference player minutes cutoff has also been carefully optimized.
|Roland Rating
The Roland Rating is a basic, quick look at the player that represent a player's value to a particular team and are not intended to be an accurate gauge of the ability and talent of the player away from the specific team. It represents how successful a player is with a given team.
The on court +/- number represents the team's net points with the player on the floor per 48 minutes, while the off court number is the team's net with the player off the floor per 48 minutes. The Roland Rating is the difference between the two, with a positive number indicating the team has played better with the player than without.
|Scoring Player Possessions
Author: Dean Oliver
A player's scoring possessions would be his field goals that weren't assisted on, plus a certain percentage of his field goals that were assisted on, plus a certain percentage of his assists, plus his free throws made.
Scoring Possessions Formula=(Field Goals Made) - 0.37*(Field Goals Made)*Q/R + 0.37*(Player Assists) + 0.5*(Free Throws Made)
Q=5*(Player Minutes)*(Team Assist Total)/(Team Total Minutes)-(Player Assists)
|Seasons Left
Author: Dean Oliver
The estimate of how many seasons the player has left to play.
Seasons Left Formula=27-0.75*(Age of The Player)
|Simple Projection System
Author: Tom Tango
It's been developed to account for aging when calculating player efficiency. SPS uses 3 years of data, with the most recent data weighted heavier. It regresses towards the mean. So the model has an age factor and the numbers are adjusted to account for age.
An example of how the SPS is calculated for Dwight Howard's rebounding in 2008-09 season by using data of previous three seasons.
|Statistical Plus-Minus
Author: Dan Rosenbaum
Statistical Plus/Minus (SPM) is an estimate of the player's contribution to the team's point differential per 100 possessions, using his box score stats as inputs. In another words, SPM can be considered as a way of estimating adjusted plus-minus from box score stats. Statistical plus minus puts a weight to basic box score stats like, points, steals, blocks etc., in a effort to solve the lowest mean residuals (average errors).
The goal with the SPM technique is adding a more stable component to player's basic stats as a counterbalance to the basic plus-minus. As a well known fact, basic plus-minus can be wildly inconsistent for individual players from season to season or under different coaches in a season.
Dan Rosenbaum has outlined different ways of addressing adjusted plus-minus' accuracy issues, by employing additional analyses based on box score stata.
In a lot of cases the statistical plus/minus ratings might be a more accurate predictor of future defensive performance. To characterize past defensive performance, adjusted plus-minus does a good job. A combination of the adjusted and statistical plus-minus will do a better job when we want to find out which players are going to be good or bad defenders in the future.
Comments: Statistical Plus/Minus is an "organic" way of deriving a linear-weights-style box score based formula from actual, real-life data.
|Steal Percentage
Steal Percentage is the percentage of estimated opponent possessions that end with a steal by the player while the player is on the court.
Steal Percentage=100*(Steals*(Team Minuted Played/5))/(Minuted Played*Opponent's Possessions)
Author: Dave Heeren
Dave Heeren's player evaluation metric which is generally considered the first player rating system with linear weights.
The Tendex Formula=[(Points)+(Rebounds)+(Assists)+(Steals)+(Blocks)- (Missed Field Goal Attempts)-0.5*(Missed Free Throws)-(Turnovers)-(Fouls)]/(Player's Minutes)
|Total Player Possessions
Author: Dean Oliver
The metric that represents a player's total possessions in the game. In other words,a player's total possessions is the total number of how many times he ends his team's possession.
Player's Total Possessions Formula=(Player's Scoring Possessions)+(Player's Non-Scoring Possessions)=(Player Field Goal Attempts)-(Player Missed Shots)*(Team Offensive Rebounding Percentage)+0.37*(Player Assists)-0.37*(Field Goals Made)*Q/R+(Player Turnovers)+0.4*(Player Free Throw Attempts)
Q=5*(Player Minutes)*(Team Assist Total)/(Team Total Minutes)-(Player Assists)
Author: Bob Chaikin
Touches estimate the number of times a player touched the ball in an attacking position on the floor. The theory behind the formula is that once a player gets the ball, he can only do one of four things (aside from dribbling, of course): pass, shoot, draw a foul, or commit a turnover.
Touches=Field Goal Attempts + Turnovers + (Free Throw Attempts / (Team's Free Throw Attempts/Opponents Personal Fouls)) + (Assists/0.17)
|Trade Value
The estimate using a player's age and his approximate value to determine how much value a player has left in his career.
Trade Value Formula=[(Approximate Value- 27-0.75*Age )^2( 27-0.75*Age +1)*Approximate Value]/190+(Approximate Value)*2/13
|Trade-off Between Usage and Efficiency
The mathematical relationship between usage rate and efficiency.
Trade off between usage and efficiency explains the player's gain of offensive rating (points per 100 possessions) for drop of each percent of usage.
|True Shooting Percentage
The metric that factors a player's performance at the free-throw line and considers their efficiency on all types of shots.
True Shooting Percentage Formula=(Player's Total Points)/[(2*(Player's Field Goal Attempts+ 0.44*Player's Free Throw Attempts)]
|Usage Percentage
Usage percentage is an estimate of the percentage of team plays used by a player while he was on the floor.
Usage Percentage Formula=100*[(Team Minutes)/(5*(Player Minutes))]*[(Field Goal Attempts)+0.44*(Free Throw Attempts)+(Turnovers)/[(Team Field Goal Attempts)+0.44*(Team Free Throw Attempts)+Team Turnovers)]
By balancing usage rates and the varying offensive ratings of the five players on the court, a team can achieve optimal offensive output for the personnel.
Comments: The stats show that, for all players, as the player uses more possessions, his efficiency decreases. What defines a superstar, in Dean Oliver's statistical analysis, is that he can shoulder a larger proportion of a team's possessions with only a relatively small drop in efficiency. Meanwhile, the opposite is also true: players perform more efficiently when they are asked to use fewer of their team's possessions. As a result, the greater burden on the superstar means that supporting players maintain low usage rates, allowing them to operate closer to their peak efficiency.
|Versatility Index
Author: John Hollinger
Calculate versatility index and many other metrics with accessing to our NBA player historical data sets
The Versatility Index, which was designed by John Hollinger, is a metric that measures a player's ability to produce in more than one statistic. The metric uses points, assists, and rebounds. The average player will score around a five on the index, while top players score above 10. and more information can be found in this article.
Versatility Index Formula=[(PPG)*(RPG)*APG)]^(0.333)
Author: J.Sagarin, W.Winston
A program which measures team chemisty and analyzes a player's impact on his team's ability to produce points. WINVAL is the labor of Jeff Sagarin and Wayne Winston, who are both graduates of MIT.
|Win Score
Author: David Berri
The metric that indicates the relative value of a player's point, rebound, steal, turnover, and field goal attempt.
Win Score Formula=(Points)+(Rebounds)+(Steals)+(½Assists)+(½Blocked Shots)-(Field Goal Attempts)-(Turnovers)-½(Free Throw Attempts)-½Personal Fouls
Comments: Win Score is sufficient to give you a quick snapshot of a player?s performance. And it is especially useful if you wish to know if a player is playing better or worse than he did before.
|Win Share
Author: Justin Kubatko
A Win Share is worth one-third of a team win. Win Shares are assigned to players based on their offense, defense, and playing time. If a team wins 60 games, there are 180 Win Shares to distribute among the players. This is always true; if a team wins n games, then there are 3n Win Shares to allocate to the players.
More information about Win Share calculation
|Wins Above Replacement Player (WARP)
Author: Kevin Pelton
WARP, a metric which is invented by Kevin Pelton, stands for Wins Above Replacement Player. The term and concept are borrowed from sabermetrics and, specifically, Baseball Prospectus.
|Wins Produced
Author: David Berri
A metric which is invented by David J. Berri based on box score stats. Wins Produced is derived from the relationship between wins and offensive and defensive efficiency. It takes five steps to calculate Wins Produces for each player.
Get more information about Wins Produced calculation.
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Mayor asks for five percent off budgets
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - Budgets are back on the chopping block in Sullivan County -- we've learned the county's mayor is asking all departments to scale back by five percent.
News 5 sat down with the mayor and discovered this is not a mandate, but a note he's sent out for the past few years, reminding officials that in order to keep finances floating costs must go down somewhere.
It takes $1.6 million to keep the Sullivan County property assessor's office running, and that budget is barely enough to get by. "Last year, we cut back five percent and if we keep cutting, it's going to hurt," said Bob Icenhour, Sullivan County's property assessor.
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The election commission has already closed some precincts and cut 40 poll workers. "To cut where we are already is absolutely impossible," said Jason Booher, Sullivan County Election Administrator.
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Original post made by Karen White, Duveneck/St. Francis, on Jul 16, 2006
An auto center along West Bayshore should be considered a new extension of our current Embarcadero auto row, not a replacement for current dealer space. An auto center on all or part of the MSC site would become one part of a synergistic Embarcadero-and-West Bayshore row. The resulting critical mass will increase auto sales across the board. It may be possible to use 8 acres of airport land for half of current 16-acre MSC operations. This would open 8 acres with freeway frontage at the MSC for auto dealership use.
Car dealerships represent small-scale development when contrasted with the square footage that could be built along West Bayshore, given what zoning allows. Dealerships are low trip-generators and bring minimal negative environmental impacts. Encouraging the use of green building standards would enhance the community value of new dealerships.
With these thoughts in mind, the City should move assertively to establish transfer of development rights, creating an economic incentive for establishing auto dealerships (instead of building housing or offices) along West Bayshore where vacant offices now sit. These sites border the freeway and are prime locations for auto sales.
In short: Palo Alto should create a freeway centered auto row by 1) using any portion of the MSC that proves economically sound, remembering its prime location, and 2) immediately adopting land-use incentives to encourage auto dealerships on private land along 101. We stand to gain $1.6 million each year in new sales tax revenue. But the opportunity costs from not acting on these initiatives include losing our dealerships altogether.
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a resident of Palo Verde
on Jul 17, 2006 at 10:40 am
Hi Karen,
I believe and hope you meant East Bayshore, not West Bayshore. West Bayshore is the name of the frontage road that is the border of the Palo Verde neighborhood in which I live. East Bayshore is the road on the Bay side of the freeway.
-Boris Foelsch
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on Jul 17, 2006 at 11:04 am
Jay Thorwaldson is a registered user.
Checking with Karen White, she "Absolutely!" means East Bayshore Road, not West Bayshore, and apologizes for the confusion. -jay
a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 17, 2006 at 9:34 pm
I respectfully disagree with Ms. White's posting. While the basic idea is, I think, a good one (opening East Bayshore for development of a business that could potentially provide the city with additional tax revenues), the execution of it seems completely at odds with what has made Silicon Valley the thriving place it is.
Instead of letting dozens of groups of entrepreneurs or other businesses decide what kinds of businesses would make sense in that location, the proposal goes well beyond to circumscribe exactly what kind of business would be allowed. Which is to say that the City of Palo Alto has decided that it can pick business winners, and probably pick them better than any of the venture capital firms on Sand Hill.
Why not open that area for development and see what value everyone puts on it? Answer: because the winner of that contest might not be an auto dealer. The solution, apparently, is to not only restrict the development to auto-dealers, but probably give them incentives to come to our fair city.
But the last time I checked, Palo Alto is not the only city on the Peninsula bordering 101. Even if we were able to identify a dealer to take our offering, do we not think other cities will learn that lesson and try to lure them away? It doesn't seem to be much of a secret that auto dealers can provide tax revenues - is there any sustainable advantage that Palo Alto has that would make dealers want to stay here? The answer to that question is quite possibly "yes," but I haven't seen anything to support it.
And does anyone really believe that people will think "Gee, I need to get a good deal on a car. I should head down to Palo Alto" ?
The dealers are clearly (sorry) in the driver's seat. Instead of trying to "catch" them, we should do what we can to make Palo Alto a business-friendly town. And while we're at it, we might want to evaluate our current city budgeting in light of likely lost revenues.
a resident of Evergreen Park
on Jul 18, 2006 at 2:43 am
Well said, Ted (rhyme not intended).
Letting that land go to "market rules" is the right thing. It seems odd that we're so fixated on the auto delaerships, because in doing so we've practically shown them our negotiating cards before they come to the table. Looks like a giveaway in the making that precludes other, potentially more profitable uses.
It's not an easy choice though. Palo Alto needs revenue NOW - so even a bad deal with the auto people gets us some needed cash. We're paying for prior short-term thinking. NO one to blame, really. It's easy to get sucked into thinking good times will last forever. An adjustment period is in order.
Palo Alto is in a really bad spot right now. We're outflanked by big box retail, right on our borders. (Home Depot is probably going into the old Sears spot on San Antonio in Mt. View). We're outflanked by new hotels, and soon to be new hotels (Sand Hill and 280, Menlo Park).
If I was running location and real estate at Fry's, I'd have my real estate team negotiating with Menlo Park's deserted auto row right now, get my best deal, and then come back to PA and force concessions. And then I'd go back to Menlo Park one more time to grind a little more, and finish with PA. I hope our negotiators have kneepads.
Both cities will negotiate to the bottom, because both cities are in dire revenue straits. If Fry's isn't doing this now, it's gotta be on their "to do" list.
We're about to lose "shopkeeper" retail. Tiny shops on University are paying upwards of $9K per month for rent. How much barbequed chicken. tea, ice cream, etc. can one sell in a month?
The result? HIGHER end retail. It's coming soon, to a neighborhood near you. Forget the friendly little guy or gal who wants to open up a small retail store with longevity. Those days are OVER here.
High end boutiques, restaurants galore (coming and going) and the occasional niche player that's foolish, or courageous, enough to take the chance to bring something 'different' to Palo Alto.
There are some cool possibilities on the horizon, like the PTOD in the Cal Ave. corridor, and other developments on Cal Ave. Midtown has some neat possibilties, and there are others. The thing to watch for there is that developers and landlords are going to have to be encouraged to promote healthy retail mix. That's a leadership issue; and it's something that we've been loath to get into. We'd better start thinking about this NOW, however, or we're going to end up with a very unhealthy high end mix. If word gets out about that, that mix will start to migrate up and down the Peninsula, near long term, because our neighbors are lagging behind us by just 5-8 years in terms of heading in the same direction.
What we're heading for near-term are some very uncomfortable times that will probably be dealt with by cutting services. Some very special services that have been around for a long time are going to be challenged. Citizens are going to have to pony up to keep some things running.
All this isn't necessarily bad; it's just going to make Palo Alto a different place. Given the new demographic that's rolling into town, it could be that the scenario described above will suit newcomers just fine.
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a resident of Midtown
on Jul 19, 2006 at 7:01 am
VT: If 'Tiny shops on University are paying upwards of $9K per month for rent. ', then commercial property values and the resultng taxes should be way above per capita average for a city.
Where is the money going?
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jul 19, 2006 at 8:59 am
While we support attracting auto dealerships to the City, we point out that dedicated airport land is not an appropriate location for non-aviation activities. While there currently is an unimproved area on the airport, it is used for some aircraft operations today, and the Draft Master Plan for the Airport calls for a terminal and a helipad, among other things, on this space. Palo Alto Airport is a busy general aviation facility on a restricted space which cannot be expanded. It is essential that this limited amount of land be exclusively reserved for aviation purposes.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jul 19, 2006 at 9:57 am
A good solution would be to establish transferable development rights that would encourage the private owners of vacant buildings with freeway frontage to build dealerships or lease to them. Those vacant buildings along 101 will be redeveloped sooner or later. Let's encourage auto dealerships there instead of housing or offices, for which freeway frontage is not essential.
Under a TDR program, landowners can sell their unused development rights, which then could be used downtown or in other locations where higher density housing or offices might be appropriate. Bottom line: With land use incentives to spur action by the private sector 1) Palo Alto would see new car dealerships with freeway frontage, 2)landowners would retain the economic benefit of redeveloping their sites, and 3) there'd be no direct cost to the City.
Related: here is Marc Fleischmann's timely Town Square post (copied with Marc's permission) on the need for concerted action to retain and enhance Palo Alto retail.
"Do you hear that sucking sound?
That all of our tax dollars being sucked out of Palo Alto by the surrounding towns. Take a good look at the attached map and you can see why the city's income is on a downward spiral.
Since we moved here in 1991 all we've ever seen is retail business leave Palo Alto. All the talk by the City Council and City Management has been a waste of time.
All the coffee shops, all the restaurants and all the fro-foo french patio stores don't bring in the tax revenue that one big box retailer or car dealer does.
Here's my prediction for the next five years.
Magnussen's Toyota moves to Mountain View.
Whole Food's sales drop 40% once the Mountain View super store opens.
Mangnolia HiFi closes due to the Best Buy in East Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Fry's moves to Menlo Park, just north of Palo Alto on the site of the closed auto dealers. Plenty of room for a huge building and parking.
What will the city council say then? That it's time to form another Blue Ribbon committee to develop a plan to save retail."
In answer to Bob's question on the use of funds, please see the City Budget. It can be reviewed at Web Link. The home page includes a direct link.
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 19, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Thanks to Karen for clarifying she meant East (not West) Bayshore. Although Council and Staff are once again considering West Bayshore, it remains an inappropriate location for auto dealerships. The commercial sites are far too narrow (600'), they back up directly to residential properties, and access is problematic. With the Canpus for Jewish Life being built at the San Antonio end, freeway access will be difficult for someone test driving a car they're unfamiliar with and the Oregon side is not much better with its sharp turn (autos being delivered could not use this entrance).
Potential areas previously mentioned, but undiscussed lately are the Palo Alto Business Park at the junction of 101 and East San Antonio (easy freeway access) and the entire area of Embarcadero between 101 and the airport. The dealers need not be directly on 101, if reasonable signage (not 80'!) is provided at the 101 and Embarcedro or San Antonio intersections. And, no, the sites need not necessarily impact the Baylands.
It makes more sense to provide owners of these sites with incentives to sell so the properties can be consolidated rather than to create an expensive and potentially visually disruptive auto row at the MSC (the Baylands and those signs again...).
a resident of Downtown North
on Jul 21, 2006 at 11:32 am
I say let the auto dealers, and the rest of the retail that want out of Palo ALto, move to another city. These businesses generate too much traffic and negatively impact my quality of life.
Why waste City Council time debating about this issue? As soon as the Council will find a spot to put an auto row or any other retail, then some neighborhood group and neigborhood leader will rise up to oppose it or it will be nit-picked to death via the Palo Alto process. The council, unwilling to stand up to these people/groups, will recommend years of discussion, the need to hire consultants and to start studies on the matter.
Think I am kidding? Check out the Council's history with regard to the Hyatt and Alma Plaza issues. Now we are also starting anew round with Edgewood Plaza--how many years before that will be resolved?
Let's just cut to the chase--let the retail go now and save the aggrivation and bickering.
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Years ago, while trying to explain how a person can be caught off guard, someone shared an analogy with me of a frog being boiled alive. The explanation of the situation was that if a person threw a frog in a pot of boiling water, the frog would immediately jump out, and the would-be cook's future frog-leg dinner would be lost. However, if a person threw a frog into a pot of cool water and then gradually warmed the water to boiling, the frog would swim around happily until it was too late, and the frog-leg dinner would be a success.
I can empathize with that frog.
I've already shared on this blog my experience a couple years ago with rediscovering social enterprise and the work being done in developing markets. What I didn't share was that I admired C.K. Prahalad's (the late author of "The Fortune At The Bottom of The Pyramid") expertise and imagination, and it occurred to me that there would be a lot of value in turning toward an academic career. That didn't mean I actually wanted to do something with it. There was value in it, but there wasn't a chance that I was right for something like research and clear academic rhetoric.
Fast forward a little more than a year, and I was a brand new student in BYU's MBA program. I was vigorously working to learn as much as I could about the social enterprise space and trying to determine what the best way into the space would be. (Note: There is so much that I've learned that could be written here, and I'm hoping to catch up with it, but I have avoided putting down a lot of my thoughts, because it was looking like I was going to be getting a corporate internship, and I didn't want to scare anybody off with my "distractions.") The initial options I found for working directly with the BoP or starting my own social enterprise or consulting weren't the right fit as a career, but I had observed some previous graduates entering into innovating in developing markets through multinational technological corporations. It also occurred to me that a PhD could be a strong option, because it gave me more control over my work, and it offered a solid situation for my family. I didn't take it very seriously, but that time I did ask some colleagues about it.
At the same time, I was taking my MBA courses – courses taught by PhDs. I think I was lucky to have a set of professors that I unanimously enjoyed, and I often reflected on how much I appreciated the way they were engaged in their work and carried out the task of instructing us. Not only that, it occurred to me that I would enjoy teaching, and I thought I would be good at it. It didn't really matter whether I was right about that or not. The thought was back.
It was about this time that I realized there was probably something up – the water around me was warming up.
I followed up with one of my professors (Dr. Curtis Lebaron) with some questions about my career, and it was during that conversation that the idea of a PhD was first brought up and entertained as legitimate. Dr. Lebaron asked me what kind of career options I was thinking of, and I shared some details about my goals and what I thought I could do, and then I told him that I'd even thought of a PhD, but I didn't give that idea any real traction. I told him how I just couldn't see how I could be a PhD, and then I rattled off a bunch of concerns I had about myself in such a role. They didn't phase him a bit. He just smiled and said that he didn't think I would have a problem at all – if that's what I wanted to do of course.
That little bit of encouragement was actually pretty startling. I really hadn't expected anybody to write me down as a PhD candidate. I'd been a salesman – persuasive communicator – for years, not a well-articulated deep-thinking academic. I was excited about making the world a better place, but it was going to be my enthusiasm and work ethic and drive that changed the world, not my ability to come up with the next big breakthrough in business theory. At least that's how I saw it then.
Not only was I concerned about my own fit as a PhD, the fact is that going through a PhD would mean taking my family so far "backwards", as I saw it, that I couldn't even fathom the idea at all. A significant force for reducing the stresses on my family was focusing on making our home comfortable and inviting and having our family in one of the best neighborhoods on earth. A PhD would mean packing an active and growing family with 3 kids into a tiny house and a guarantee that I was going to be explaining at some point to my kids, especially my oldest son, why dad had taken them from comfort and friends to cramped quarters, toys that couldn't be repaired, second-hand sports equipment, and a new school. At least that's how I had seen it before, but the little bits of preparation I'd had prior to talking with Dr. Lebaron had taken that edge off, warmed up with water I'd been swimming in if you will, and my defenses were down. For better or for worse, I didn't say no to a PhD. My family was doomed.
A month or so later the PhD finally started taking a very realistic place in my career path decision. One prominent factor was a pre-PhD information session that was put on by the faculty. I didn't find out about this until later, but the secret sauce that PhDs use to entice students into the career path is the most fantastic sounding family life you'll ever discover. That information session was covered in secret sauce, and I ate it up. I learned a lot about the career path and the demands of a PhD too, and by this time I was in so deep that I really wasn't putting up a fight any more. Shortly after the information session, I went to talk with another of my professors Dr. Dan Snow to bounce the idea of a PhD off of him – an idea that I was now realistically considering. Dr. Snow was encouraging again, he really only had good to say about the opportunity and my ideas for it, and he wished me the best while I figured things out. That was good enough for me. I was two for two in professors giving me a thumbs up, and I was considering that enough of a vote of confidence that the option of a PhD was now a very strong contender for a career path.
A contender?! Seriously?!
To my wife and friends I imagine this was something like watching a jaded left-wing hipster friend take off for a couple months and return wearing an Izod shirt, Dockers and penny loafers and listening to Glenn Beck. Well, something like that. The change just begs the question: what on earth happened?
The reality is that while I had come a long way, and my awareness had changed a lot in a very short time, there was still a long way to go to make a decision. I'll probably talk more about the actual decision (making the difficult choice took more time and skill than I would have expected) a little bit later. Right now I just want to stress that it took me another two months to read info on PhDs, to visit companies that I was interested in, to talk with my wife, to talk with my professors, to get my wife to talk with my professors' wives and the rest of my career path due diligence. I think it's also worth noting that I did a lot of learning about myself and how I make decisions during that time.
The decision has now been made, and if the subtext wasn't clear, my wife and I have decided that a PhD will be best. I'm really pleased with the decision, and I'm excited by how closely it fits with all of my goals. It hasn't been easy (I just sent an email to one of the best contacts I've ever made who was bending over backwards in ways that would have made a Chinese acrobat jealous to get me into the company I was most excited in. I can tell you that it seriously makes you question your sanity when you find yourself turning away from success at the same time you're finding it.), but I'm confident the decision is right.
What's so fascinating to me is how rewarding this experience of being "boiled" has been for me. This wasn't an easy decision – it hurt to make it, and it's going to be painful to a certain extent to adjust. I guarantee you if somebody had told me at the beginning of my MBA that I had to make a choice about a PhD or a professional career right at that time, I would have chose the professional career immediately without even thinking. The decision was just way too "hot". Now, after swimming around in this gradually boiling pot, I'm really pleased to be where I am. I guess you could say that if there was a frog who was really happy about being a frog-leg dinner, I'm that frog. Once I was deep into the possibility of deciding on being an academic, I would have felt irresponsible turning away from something that had such great possibilities for allowing me to achieve my goals for my career and taking care of my family. I had to see it through, and I've discovered that seeing it through was a brilliant exercise in learning how I value my own work and my family and how to approach critical decisions. The decision process was painful, but it was right to go through it. The decision itself was somewhat painful, but it was right to make it.
I can empathize with the boiled frog, and the experience was transforming for both of us. I'd like to think that the results for my life will be a spectacular "dinner" made of success.


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Long-awaited findings point to failures at every level, says lawyer for victims' relatives Kurt Bayer
They choked back tears as the Attorney-General told them what they already knew: that their loved ones should never have died in the Pike River mine tragedy.
Almost two years after the series of explosions tore through the West Coast mine, and after enduring weeks of intense Royal Commission of Inquiry hearings into the disaster, the bereaved families were yesterday told finally that the deaths of 29 miners were entirely preventable.
Mine bosses ignored stark warnings over dangerous methane gas levels, and the Government's health and safety checks were "Third World".
When Cabinet ministers Christopher Finlayson and Gerry Brownlee flew into Greymouth yesterday armed with thick copies of the much-anticipated royal commission report, they brought with them some finality to the grieving process.
"It's a moving on for me," said tireless campaigner and spokesman for most of the 29 families, local publican Bernie Monk.
His son Michael is still buried in the collapsed mine shaft alongside his mates.
While it's likely the killer blast was caused by high methane levels, the royal commission report concludes, it does not categorically pin down the cause.
And they will never know, families accept, unless they go back into the mine and recover the bodies.
Mr Monk said that Mr Finlayson - who has to consider the 16 recommendations in the report for the Government - pledged a commitment to the families that he would get back to them 14 days from yesterday to "help us do the reclamation of the drift".
"I was really rapt with that," he said.
"There are answers down that drift. They [the Government] know how many blunders have been made here and they want to make amends."
Around 40 family members, either in person or tuning in via phone conference, sat around a table for about 70 minutes yesterday discussing the damning report with ministers and lawyers.
Mr Finlayson "spoke very well", according to Rachelle Weaver, whose partner Josh Ufer died in the tragedy, leaving his unborn daughter fatherless.
At the end of the session, there were few questions left to ask.
"These families have gone through the commission - some went every day - and this was summarised in a very strong way," Mr Monk explained outside the private meeting.
Mr Monk's daughter Olivia, Michael's sister, wanted the report to go further and find out what caused the explosion, and who was to blame.
"They won't know until they go down the mine," she said.
Lawyer for the families Nicholas Davidson, QC, said the report gave an "unrelenting picture of failure at virtually every level".


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Appeal filed over state retirement fund
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado Springs attorneys have filed an appeal in the city's dispute over whether it owes the state retirement fund millions of dollars in pension liabilities for Memorial Hospital employees.
The lawsuit was filed after a privately hired judge sided with the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association in a dispute with Colorado Springs over compensation after 4,000 city hospital employees left the state pension system.
The judge says Colorado Springs should pay the state fund $190 million plus interest because the Memorial Hospital workers left the state retirement plan when the city leased the hospital to University of Colorado Health in 2012.
Retirement fund officials say the decision means the city and hospital cannot shift their obligations to other government agencies and public employees.


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Los Angeles newspaper columnist and adventure writer Benjamin Mee wanted a fresh start for his family. Little did he know that there were big adventures awaiting them! Opening December 23, We Bought a Zoo tells the true story of the Mee family, whose new home comes with a special bonus: a zoo in the backyard. With the support of his family and the local community, Benjamin sets out to bring the zoo back to life.
Elle Fanning plays their neighbor, Lily, who lives and helps out at the zoo. When Benjamin's son, Dylan, has a hard time adjusting to his new life, Lily comes to the rescue. TFK spoke to Elle about her wild new role, and what it was like to monkey around with a capuchin monkey on set.
How do you think you would react if your family bought a zoo?
Oh, my gosh, I would be excited. I love animals. I have lots of pets—a horse, a dog and a fish, so I would be pretty excited. I might be a little scared with the big cats and the bears, but with everything else I'd be good.
Can you relate to the story in any way?
My character, Lily, is a lot like me in real life, so I can really relate to her. She's sort of a country girl, and she's home-schooled at the zoo. She doesn't have any friends her age who are actually human. All of her friends are animals. And then Dylan comes in, and he's this city boy, this creature. She's very interested in him, but she kind of treats him like he's an animal. She approaches him carefully at first. She doesn't know how to act around kids her age, so she can come on a little strong.
How did you like working with the animals?
All of the animals were very well behaved. They were very sweet, but we definitely couldn't get near some of them, like the bear and the big cats. But we had a good time, especially with the capuchin monkey, Crystal. She's a movie-star monkey. She was amazing.
What kinds of tricks does Crystal do?
Her trainer would wave his hand, and she would hit your head. She would also smile for the camera, stick out her tongue, and give you a kiss. She was so cute. She also danced.
Were there any mishaps with the animals during filming?
There were always animals on set, but they would film the animals and the human separately. For example, when they were doing the lion scenes, they had to do hours and hours of filming, just waiting for him to roar or do something else. They would wait for hours for just a second of footage!
What was the most memorable day of filming for you?
The first day. I didn't know that Cameron [Crowe, the director,] does this, but he plays music while you're filming. He turns on a song that sets the mood of the scene. It actually really, really helps. Each character has a theme song. Mine was "Don't Be Shy," by Cat Stevens. Whenever I had a big scene, Cameron put that one on. Bob Dylan was also in Lily's soundtrack.
You've played younger versions of your sister Dakota's characters in her movies. Would you like to act together one day?
That's our dream. We always hope for that. We've never been on screen together, so maybe someday if we could play friends or sisters on screen, that would be great.
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I was a staunch Big Day Out supporter to the bitter end. Despite the bottlenecks, and toilet and beer queues, it was my favourite New Zealand music festival by far. So I'm a bit sad. And I'll be sad - and perhaps even a little bit pissed off - tomorrow too.
And though the final BDO line-up is not the greatest in its 18-year local history, if you ask me it remains this country's premier festival in terms of international acts. And the locals included on this year's bill are tops too.
Shame then that this is the last one. The BDO is no more.
On Tuesday morning (TimeOut's deadline day), before the dreaded announcement, I sat down to plot out a possible dream line-up for the January 17, 2013, event. My aim was to inspire those who were not going this year to perhaps reconsider and buy a ticket.
It seems a bit pointless to run through it now, but hey, for old time's sake, indulge me. I figured the Black Keys would co-headline with their idols Led Zeppelin reforming especially for it. British music institutions the Stone Roses, Radiohead, and the newly reformed Smiths (in my dreams, that is) were also on the list. Even Beyonce was back touring after having her baby and was on the bill (once again, in my dreams).
Oh well, that's never going to happen.
On the positive there is now a whopping big gap for Australia's Soundwave Festival - a behemoth metal, heavy rock and punk extravaganza - to possibly make its way across the Tasman. I'd welcome it.
But let's forget about that for the moment. It's tomorrow at Mt Smart Stadium that I'm thinking about. Like I said, it's going to be a sad day for me - and thousands of other music fans. Some of my most poignant and badass rock 'n' roll moments happened thanks to the Big Day Out.
Like hanging off the balcony at The Powerstation the night before the BDO giving Al Jourgensen from industrial metallers Ministry the birdy in 1995. Copping more than an eyeful of Courtney Love's nether regions as she slung her leg up on the foldback speaker while singing Teenage Whore. Oh so charming. And getting grubby and sweaty as Soulfly whipped up a sonic racket mid-afternoon in 1999. And there were many, many more. I tell you, there are no other festivals like it in New Zealand - and now it's gone. There are no other music events that attract as many big-name international artists as the BDO did.
It has stiff competition these days - both here and in Australia. But though Laneway is a great festival, the nature of the acts playing means it has limited appeal. And then there are other festivals like Splore and Rhythm and Vines which are also great, but only have a sprinkling of big-name internationals.
Many people have slagged the BDO line-ups as repetitive, especially in recent years. And I have to say, if there is one band I am sick of seeing it's the bloody Living End. So at least I won't have to put up with them any more, I guess.
And as for who will play the last note at the death tomorrow? Going by the timetable it might be left to His Royal Britpop Majesty Noel Gallagher. As well as playing his own songs, he also plays Oasis material and generally finishes his set with Don't Look Back in Anger, which would be fitting.
But since I've been practising my Jesus Christ Pose in preparation for Soundgarden, I want to hear that.


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Signature Range Crumbed Chicken Nuggets - $13.95 for 1kg
It's been two years since I last looked at chicken nuggets and the only reason I am looking at these now is because my 14-year-old daughter confessed that while we were away overseas recently she "lived on them".
She was being looked after by her adult sister who is a vegan, so I can only presume a very blind eye was turned at dinner time.
I have only myself to blame as I let my daughter eat thousands of these as a toddler, like many parents, because they were quick and easy to prepare.
Since then, I have learned how to read labels and watched far too many Jamie Oliver shows to allow them back in the house. "But at least I chose the ones with the most chicken," said my daughter in her own defence.
She is correct; these chicken nuggets contain 56 per cent chicken as opposed to the 31 per chicken content of the Tegel nuggets I analysed last time. So we're ahead when it comes to real food ingredients.
Chicken (56 per cent)
According to the label the chicken in these nuggets is from New Zealand, is barn-raised and has no hormones added. The SAFE website says barn-raised hens are kept in large sheds with limited space and no access to outdoors. Up to seven hens can be kept per square metre. So we're not talking free-range chickens here. Other nugget manufacturers say their chicken is breast meat, but there is no indication what parts of the chicken are used in these nuggets. So there is no way of knowing if waste material such as carcasses and skin are in here.
Wheat flour
This is most probably an ingredient in the crumbing mixture.
Vegetable oil (sunflower,canola)
Hurray for having the name of the oil listed in the ingredients panel. Both oils are low in saturated fat.
Soy protein
This is a protein obtained for soybeans which is commonly used to fill out processed foods.
Starch (maize, tapioca)
This will be in here as a thickener similar to cornflour except the starch comes from maize (corn) and tapioca.
This will be part of the breadcrumb mix.
Maltodextrin (from corn)
This is a form of sugar obtained from corn. The corn is cooked and then acid or enzymes are used to break the starch down. Some people are sensitive to maltodextrin if it is made out of barley or wheat, so it is good that this label tells us where it has come from. Maltodextrin is commonly used in processed foods as a thickener which is why it is probably in here.
Emulsifier (472)
This is fatty acid esters of glycerol and will be in here to stabilise the chicken mixture.
Hydrolysed soy protein
This is similar to the soy protein (above) except the soy has been boiled in hydrochloric acid and then broken down with sodium hydroxide to release the protein. It is used in foods as a flavour enhancer but also as a filler.
Flour treatment agents (510, 300)
These are ammonium chloride (510) and ascorbic acid (300). Both will be in the flour to treat it in some way when making the breadcrumbs.
These will be in here for flavour.
Vegetable gums (412,415)
This is guar gum and xanthan gum. These are natural gums often used in products as binders.
Natural colour (160)
This is carotene which is a natural orange/yellow colour.
My recommendations:
As far as additives go, these have no MSG, unlike the Tegel nuggets, and no additives with health concerns.
But you are still getting only 56 per cent chicken in each nugget, the rest being made up by soy protein, thickeners, binders and colour. And while the amount of chicken is higher than Tegel nuggets, the source is not identified.
If it was just breast meat that's okay, but the possibility of other parts of the chicken, possibly waste products, isn't great. I would try to wean my family off processed meats like this and for a quick meal which takes the same time to cook grab some chicken nibbles which are small, fast cooking but are recognisable as parts of a chicken wing. I think it's good to teach our children to eat food that represents something real, rather than something processed.
* No MSG or additives with health concerns.
* 56 per cent chicken but parts of chicken used unknown.
* Barn-raised NZ chicken, not free-range.


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Five parts today.
Orlando Bloom body surfing in Malibu.
Patrick Dempsey on a coffee run in a Porsche.
Reese Witherspoon takes a call while filming her new movie.
Rumer Willis changed her hair color for the third time in two weeks.
Justin Long leads Amanda Seyfried through NYC.
Adam Sandler doesn't seem to be concerned about his latest bomb.
I think Seth Rogen's wife might be winking.
Tobey Maguire and his wife take the kids out for lunch.
Taylor Swift on the way to the gym. Seriously.


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I cant help but watch the Jest's, I mean Jets just for Tebow Time. Every time Sanchez does bad I always tell my Jet fan buddies that Tebow is gonna come in and throw for 2 and run for 1td just to intensify the controversy.
Cant wait for the Sunday night game Steelers vs Peyton


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