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Jay Gorney
Ira Gershwin
Kristin Lems
Days of the Theocracy
First they fight abortion,
Birth control is next,
Then comes sex if you're not married,
Finally, out goes sex.
Put the prayers back in the schools,
Install parochiaid,
Allow for corporal punishment,
And then you've got it made!
We're going back, back
To the good old days,
When men were really men
And women knew their place;
Back, back a couple of centuries,
And welcome back the days
Of the theocracy!
The family is so holy
There must be no divorce.
And if a wife is not content,
She must adjust, of course.
And if he's forced to beat her
It's all for her own good;
She must know what her limits are
As any woman should!
The next to go is daycare,
It's all a commie plot!
What could be more fulfilling
Than a child, wanted or not?
The woman's work is housework--
God wanted it that way!
A salaried job degrades her, since
She never works for pay!
They teach us woman's lot
Is love, honor and obey,
And while their crusty notions
Seem like jokes to us today.
They're sitting in the Capitol,
They're voting on our lives;
If we don't stop them soon
Our freedom will not long survive!
No going back, back
to the bad old days,
When men were really masters
And women were their slaves;
Let's go ahead, ahead
For future centuries
And build a world that's based
On true democracy.
And build a world that's based on true equality.
Randy Newman
And the Lord said:
I burn down your cities — how blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
You all must be crazy to put your faith in me
That's why I love mankind
You really need me
That's why I love mankind
"I've got my own religion. Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves.' I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself."
P.G. Wodehouse
Thelonious Monk
John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky.
Imagine all the people
Living for today.
Imagine there's no country,
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace--
You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will be as one.
Joe Hill
The Preacher And The Slave
Long-haired preachers come out every night
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked about something to eat,
They will answer in voices so sweet:
You will eat, by and by,
In that glorious land in the sky.
Work and pray; live on hay.
You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (That's a lie!)
Oh, the Starvation Army they play
And they sing and they clap and they pray
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they'll tell you when you're on the bum.
If you fight hard for children and wife,
Try to get something good in this life,
You're a sinner and bad man, they tell;
When you die you will sure go to Hell.
Holy Rollers and Jumpers come out,
And they holler, they jump, and they shout.
"Give your money to Jesus," they say,
"He will cure all diseases today."
Working folk of all countries, unite!
Side by side we for freedom will fight.
Then the world and its wealth we have gained,
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:
You will eat, by and by,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry.
Chop some wood--'twill do you good.
And you'll eat in the sweet by and by. (That's no lie!)
Tim Minchin
"And yes I have all of the usual objections
To the miseducation of children who, in tax-exempt institutions,
Are taught to externalize blame
And to feel ashamed and to judge things as plain right and wrong
But I quite like the songs . . . "
" . . . if ever I'm asked if I'm religious I always reply, 'Yes, I'm a devout musician.' Music puts me in touch with something beyond the intellect, something otherworldly, something sacred."
Charlie McDonnell
Fan's blog post (rating Charlie's "hotness points"): Faith: Unknown but believed to be an atheist.
Charlie McDonnell: I am an atheist.
Fan's Blog: Minus 50 [hotness] points
Charlie: Oh well, reason loses again.
George Gershwin
It Ain't Necessarily So
It ain't necessarily so, (repeat)
De t'ings dat yo' li'ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.
Li'l David was small, but oh my! (rpt)
He fought big Goliath
Who lay down an' dieth!
Li'l David was small, but oh my!
Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale, (rpt)
Fo' he made his home in
Dat fish's abdomen.
Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale.
Li'l Moses was found in a stream, (rpt)
He floated on water
Till Ole Pharaoh's daughter
She fished him, she says, from that stream.
It ain't necessarily so, (rpt)
Dey tell all you chillun
De debble's a villun,
But 'tain't necessarily so.
To get into Hebben don' snap for a sebben!
Live clean! Don' have no fault.
Oh, I takes dat gospel
Whenever it's poss'ble,
But wid a grain of salt.
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,
But who calls dat livin'
When no gal'll give in
To no man what's nine hundred years?
I'm preachin' dis sermon to show,
It ain't nessa, ain't nessa,
ain't nessa, ain't nessa,
Ain't necessarily so.
Ani DiFranco
"I'm an atheist. . . . how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people."
Roger Waters
"I had some pretty dark and desperate moments all those years ago . . . . I didn't ever smash up a hotel room or throw a TV out a window. That was Led Zeppelin. Thank god. If there was a god, you know, which there isn't."
Pierre Jean de Beranger
Mick Jagger
Stephen Foster
Shameful rivalries of creed
Shall not make the martyr bleed,
In the good time coming.
Religion shall be shorn of pride,
And flourish all the stronger;
And Charity shall trim her lamp;
Wait a little longer.
Frank Loesser
"What a blessing to know there's a devil, and that I'm but a pawn in his game / that my impulse to sin doesn't come from within, and so I'm not exactly to blame."
Richard Rodgers
On "inspiration":
"That's a bad word for what happens to me when I write. What I do is not as fancy as some people may think. . . This isn't a question of sitting on the top of a hill and waiting for inspiration to strike. It's work. People have said 'You're a genius.' I say, 'No, it's my job.' "
Dan Barker
Cole Porter
"Live and let live, be and let be,
Hear and let hear, see and let see,
Sing and let sing, dance and let dance.
. . .
Live and let live and remember this line:
'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'"
Irving Berlin
"Paradise doesn't compare.
All the nice people are there. [hell]
They come there from everywhere
Just to revel with Mister Devil."
Tom Lehrer
"First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Do whatever steps you want, if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff.
Everybody say his own
Kyrie eleison,
Doin' the Vatican Rag.
Get in line in that processional,
Step into that small confessional,
There, the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sin's original.
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Drink the wine and chew the wafer,
Two, four, six, eight,
Time to transubstantiate!
So get down upon your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Make a cross on your abdomen,
When in Rome do like a Roman,
Ave Maria,
Gee it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an'
Sorta dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican Rag!"
Alex Day
"I look forward to receiving 20 emails saying, 'Hey, I noticed you're not religious. Look at your fingerprint. Doesn't that prove that there is a creator, because your fingerprint is completely unique.' Um, no. Doesn't."
E.Y. (Yip) Harburg
Do Unto Others?
'Love thy neighbor as thyself?'
Hide that motto on the shelf!
Let it lie there, keep it idle
Especially if you're suicidal.
'For what we are about to receive,
Oh Lord, 'tis Thee we thank,'
Said the Cannibal as he cut a slice
Of the missionary's shank.
Stephen Sondheim
Nothing with gods, nothing with fate;
Weighty affairs will just have to wait!
Nothing that's formal,
Nothing that's normal,
No recitations to recite;
Open up the curtain:
Comedy Tonight!
David Gilmour
Jerome Kern
Javed Akhtar
"I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don't believe in spirituality of some kind."
Sean Danielsen
"I'm definitely against all organized religion just because, when you really look at it, organized religion has caused most of the deaths in the history of this planet. Most of the wars were fought over organized religion."
Dave Matthews
"We owe a faith to the world and to ourselves. We owe a grace and gratitude to things that have brought us here. But I think it's very ignorant to say, 'Well, for everything, God has a plan.' That's like an excuse. Maybe the real faithful act is to commit to something, to take action, as opposed to saying, 'Well, everything is in the hand of God.'"


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Since 2007 the IRS Whistleblower Program has helped recover $3.7 billion back to the U.S. Treasury, but there is still plenty of room for improvement.
Senator Grassley explained in an interview with Roll Call about some of his thoughts on the new adminstration and a letter that he penned with Represenative Chaffetz and Represenative Mark Meadows:
In 2014, the cancer-care giant 21st Century Oncology took over South Florida Radiation Oncology where Joseph Y. Ting, Ph.D worked as a medical physicist partnering with doctors to ensure that cancer patients got the safest, most effective radiation therapy possible.
State Street Bank and Trust has agreed to pay $530 million to settle charges it cheated several government bodies when pricing foreign exchange transactions. The case was first brought to the attention of the government by a group headed by Harry Markopolos, who first alerted the SEC about massive financial irregularities associated with Bernie Madoff.
U.S. Tax Court just gave a big win to whistleblowers in an IRS case dealing with "collected proceeds". The opinion includes broad and sweeping definitions which includes criminal fines.
An anonymous whistleblower has received a record $10 million payout from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Up until now the CFTC has not approved many whistleblower cases, and this recent payout could be an encouraging sign that CFTC desires to expand its incentivized whistleblower program under the Dodd-Frank Act.
This 13-point checklist is designed to get whistleblowers to engage in forward-thinking about taxes as their cases resolve after years of hard work. While it never pays to count eggs as chickens, a little planning for success can help maximize your success while helping pay it forward to those to come.
The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) has issued a report that says lack of IRS whistleblower communication is one of the most serious problems encountered by taxpayers. They urge the agency to revise regulations so administrative proceedings can start at an earlier date.
It's sometimes said that Ralph Nader came up with the term, but the practice of whistleblowing goes back to Britain in the late 19th Century when government, in the form of local unarmed police or "bobbies," would "blow the whistle" so that good citizen
Prepare Before You Talk to an Experienced Whistleblower Lawyer
Few things are more important than the selection of competent legal counsel to represent you in your qui tam case.
Because there are a finite number of top firms, it is very important for you to "pitch" your False Claims Act case as simply as possible. False Claims Act lawyers are very busy and they are looking for clients who know their story, have real evidence in hand, and have "done their homework."

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SailNet Community (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/)
- Gear & Maintenance (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-maintenance/)
- - Helm removal (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-maintenance/21410-helm-removal.html)
Helm removal
Hoping someone knows the right technique to remove a Yacht Services Co helm on my Challenger 32. It looks just like an Edson setup. There is a notch in the hub and I can see a key recessed about 1/2" back. Problem is the rear of the hub is solid and I can see no way for the wheel to come forward without the rear contacting the key, and there isn't a channel from the key to the front of the spline to allow key removal first.
Any advice would be appreciated.
The best thing you can do is to get rid of the old Yacht Specialties pedestal. They have been out of business for 18 years and new parts are nearly nonexistant
We have a YS pedestal as well
but our wheel slides off easily as the rear (or forward facing) face of the wheel hub has the keyway cut in it. I hate to ask the question but are you sure that your wheel hub does not have the keyway cut all the way through so that you can pull the wheel off leaving the keyway in the shaft?
Ours was hard to remove the first time and I thought we had the same problem. A little WD40 and elbow grease got it off for us. If your set up is different then maybe a very small drill bit and screw extractor might get the key out?
Good luck
I (finally) saw the keyway at the rear of the hub last night, all became clear and I used a puller today and off it came. Thanks for the advice guys.
If there was corrosion holding your wheel tight, you might want to clean out the hub & keyway, and than reassemble with antiseize. The stuff is expensive, but everyone I know who has started using it, has become a convert.
You can use anhydrous lanolin, available at most pharmacies, or Lanocote, available at most marine chandleries, for an antiseize compound, and it's relatively inexpensive.
Lanolin will last for ten years in an exterior fitting, the way NeverSeize will?
Anhydrous lanolin is very viscous, sticky stuff. Lanocote is the commercial version that has some additives to give it better protective properties, but neither is likely to wash away, especially in a very tight area, like the keyway on a steering pedestal.
While I don't know if it would last 10 years, a decade is an awfully long time to go without disassembling and inspecting a piece of gear, especially one as important as the steering system on a boat. But YMMV... if you are willing to risk your steering system failing in a storm, be my guest. :D
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Designing rules to guide consumer choice of insurance plans on health exchanges
The purpose of this project is to provide the health exchanges with specifications for decision support software and the underlying research evidence to help consumers select a health plan. The complexities of insurance products, four levels of benefit design, potentially large numbers of product offerings, subsidy calculations, and differences in eligibility status within a family are among the many daunting aspects of choosing a plan in the exchanges. This project will focus on research that addresses these challenges to help people choose a health plan that meets their needs. Deliverables will be: (1) requirements for information technology vendors, essentially the business rules for the plan choice software; (2) requirements for information on health plans, including data elements that provider plans must submit; and (3) research findings to help consumers choose a plan, essentially the findings on decision supports to guide planning for information services and support for the exchanges.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $122,541.00
Awarded on: 9/6/2011
Time frame: 10/1/2011 - 4/30/2012
Grant Number: 69399
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575 Market Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, 94105-5811
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In a winner-take-all game like the Wild Card, deserving players might be pushed to the background ahead of the game in favor of the pitching, but the matchup between pitchers will likely be the difference between the team that keeps playing and the team whose season is over. For those watching the Cubs take on the Pirates, they will witness one of the very best pitching matchups the playoffs have ever seen.
In Jake Arrieta and Gerrit Cole, both teams will feature bona fide aces. Arrieta might have just had the best half-season of all time. Overall, he's pitched 229 innings with an ERA of 1.77 and a FIP of 2.35, giving Arrieta a 45 ERA- and a 60 FIP- over the full season after league and park are taken into account. He's in pretty rare company. Consider: since the end of World War II, these are the qualified pitchers with an ERA- below 50 and a FIP- below 65 over a full season.
Greatest Combination of FIP and ERA in History
Name Season Team IP ERA FIP WAR ERA- FIP-
Pedro Martinez 1999 Red Sox 213.1 2.07 1.39 11.6 42 31
Roger Clemens 1997 Blue Jays 264 2.05 2.25 10.7 45 50
Pedro Martinez 2000 Red Sox 217 1.74 2.17 9.4 35 48
Ron Guidry 1978 Yankees 273.2 1.74 2.19 9.1 47 58
Dwight Gooden 1985 Mets 276.2 1.53 2.13 8.9 44 58
Bob Gibson 1968 Cardinals 304.2 1.12 1.75 8.6 38 64
Zack Greinke 2009 Royals 229.1 2.16 2.33 8.6 48 54
Pedro Martinez 1997 Expos 241.1 1.9 2.39 8.5 45 57
Roger Clemens 1990 Red Sox 228.1 1.93 2.18 8.2 47 55
Greg Maddux 1995 Braves 209.2 1.63 2.26 7.9 39 52
Greg Maddux 1994 Braves 202 1.56 2.39 7.4 37 54
Pedro Martinez 2003 Red Sox 186.2 2.22 2.21 7.4 48 51
Jake Arrieta 2015 Cubs 229 1.77 2.35 7.3 45 60
Pedro Martinez 2002 Red Sox 199.1 2.26 2.24 7.3 50 54
Randy Johnson 1997 Mariners 213 2.28 2.82 7 50 62
The only pitcher with better context neutral numbers in both ERA and FIP and more innings was Dwight Gooden in his amazing 1985 season. It is easy to see why so much attention has been given to Jake Arrieta this season and in this matchup, but the Pittsburgh Pirates's Gerrit Cole has had an excellent season of his own. Cole's 5.4 WAR is fifth in the National and ninth in Major League Baseball. Pitchers don't choose their opposition, leaving great matchups more to a question of chance than a complete reflection of their own skill, but the high level of both players heading into this game is something rarely seen in a game of this magnitude.
A one-game playoff has been an incredibly rare event in MLB history. The advent of the Wild Card has created generally more playoff teams and more possibilities for ties at the end of the regular season, and the introduction of the Wild Card Playoff Game in 2012 has guaranteed a one-game playoff in each league every year. The games this season will be the 18th and 19th winner-take-all one-game playoffs in baseball history, the first having taken place in 1948 and the second not occurring until the New York Yankees played the Boston Red Sox after the 1978 season. Many remember the 1951 game between the Dodgers and Giants and Bobby Thomson's home run, but that game was actually the final game of a three-game series, which the National League used for the last time in 1962, again while featuring the Dodgers and Giants.
While quantifying which pitching matchup among these games is a very difficult task, the simplest solution is perhaps to look at single-season WAR as a measure of how well the two pitchers were doing during the year. Very good pitchers who were injured for much of the year, like Johnny Cueto in 2013, will not fare well this way, but overall this seems to be a reasonable method. If we take only the average of the two pitchers, we come up with the following the chart.
Best Pitching Matchups in One-Game Playoffs
Year Event Matchup Player WAR Player WAR Winner AVG WAR
1995 Tie-breaker Angels v Mariners Mark Langston 4.1 Randy Johnson 9.5 Mariners 6.8
2015 NLWC Cubs v Pirates Jake Arrieta 7.3 Gerrit Cole 5.4 6.4
1978 Tie-breaker Yankees v Red Sox Ron Guidry 9.1 Mike Torrez 3.3 Yankees 6.2
2014 ALWC A's v Royals Jon Lester 5.5 James Shields 3.3 Royals 4.4
2015 ALWC Astros v Yankees Dallas Keuchel 6.1 Masahiro Tanaka 2.2 4.2
While taking the average seems like a good idea, we have several games with great disparities between the two starters. Randy Johnson and Mark Langston carry the top spot due principally to Johnson's 9.5 WAR in 1995. As a result, like Dan Szymborski did in his piece on the greatest one-two rotation punch in history, I took the geometric mean ((WAR1*WAR2)^.5) to lessen the influence of one truly great pitcher. Switching to the geometric mean pushes Arrieta/Cole over the top. Below is a complete graph of the top one-game playoff matchups.
While the Arrieta/Cole matchup is clearly impressive and historic, teams playing in a one-game playoff generally had to fight just to get to the playoff. Otherwise, they would not have ended in a tie to begin with, and this ends up with teams unable to set their best starters in these games. Expanding the field a bit can provide this duo more competition.
Adding all winner-take-all games — Game 7s in the World Series, Game 5s in the Division Series, etc. — we can compare this matchup to every game in which both teams were confined to a win-or-go-home scenario. Including the two games about to be played, there are 108 pitching matchups to examine. Using the geometric mean once again, we come up with the following table featuring the top-10 such games.
Best Pitching Match-ups in Winner-Take-All Playoffs
Year Event Matchup Player WAR Player WAR Winner AVG GEOMEAN
2001 NLDS Cardinals v Dbacks Matt Morris 6.1 Curt Schilling 7.2 Dbacks 6.7 6.6
1965 World Series Dodgers v Twins Sandy Koufax 10 Jim Kaat 4.3 Dodgers 7.2 6.6
2001 World Series Yankees v Dbacks Roger Clemens 5.6 Curt Schilling 7.2 Dbacks 6.4 6.3
2011 NLDS Cardinals v Phillies Chris Carpenter 4.8 Roy Halladay 8.3 Cardinals 6.6 6.3
1985 World Series Cardinals v Royals John Tudor 6.4 Bret Saberhagen 6.2 Royals 6.3 6.3
2015 NLWC Cubs v Pirates Jake Arrieta 7.3 Gerrit Cole 5.4 6.4 6.3
1995 Tie-breaker Angels v Mariners Mark Langston 4.1 Randy Johnson 9.5 Mariners 6.8 6.2
2003 ALCS Red Sox v Yankees Pedro Martinez 7.4 Roger Clemens 4.5 Yankees 6.0 5.8
2003 ALDS Red Sox v A's Pedro Martinez 7.4 Barry Zito 4.4 Red Sox 5.9 5.7
2001 ALDS A's v Yankees Mark Mulder 5.7 Roger Clemens 5.6 Yankees 5.7 5.6
Matt Morris facing off against Curt Schilling is a surprising result mainly due to Morris' presence, but Morris was once one of the better pitchers in the game. After a nearly five-win rookie season in 1997, Morris suffered shoulder and elbow injuries, missing 1999 and much of 2000 due to recovery from Tommy John surgery. Morris came back strong in 2000 and 2001 before diminished velocity turned him into an innings-eater for the remainder of his career. In the Diamondbacks-Cardinals series in 2001, Morris went toe-to-toe with Schilling in Game 1 of the series, losing 1-0. The Cardinals almost ended the Diamondbacks' dream playoff run before it could get started as Morris and Schilling again dueled, this time in Game 5 for the series win. Morris and Schilling each gave up one run on solo home runs, but the Diamondbacks scored in the bottom of the ninth off the Cardinals bullpen for the walkoff win.
The Arrieta-Cole matchup still sits comfortably in the top ten of dueling aces in winner-take-all games. Arrieta does have the edge in the matchup between the two pitchers, but the team with the better pitcher does not always win. In the 75 games in which one pitcher had at least a one-win WAR advantage, the better pitcher's team posted a 44-31 record. It is probably a little unfair that a 97-win team and a 98-win team have to face off in a one-game playoff just to make the Division Series, but it has produced one of the greatest pitching matchups of all time.
Matt Williams and What We Don't Know.
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It's often said we like numbers here at FanGraphs — and that's true, as far as it helps us understand the game better. But managers are one aspect of the game that have, to date, defied attempts at being quantified. Matt Williams put together a 179-145 record during his two seasons in Washington. That's a winning percentage of .553, which comes out to a 90-win average. That's pretty good! Matt Williams must be a good manager, then. The thing is, and you probably know this if you read FanGraphs, those are team stats, and ascribing them to one person, even if that person is ostensibly in charge of the team, is probably a mistake. There's a lot more that goes into a winning team than the manager, a fact that was underlined today by the Nationals' actions, and I suspect will be underlined again by Williams not being snatched up by another team any time soon.
I said earlier that Williams' firing wasn't a surprise, and it wasn't because of a few things. Locally, Williams' bullpen management has come under fire, as has his handling of the clubhouse. Nationally, the big stories were the Nationals' loss of the division to an upstart Mets team that didn't reach 90 wins until the end of the season and the fight in the dugout between Bryce Harper and Jonathan Papelbon. That is warmed over territory so I won't cover it in any great detail other than to say the fight itself seemed to confirm the worst fears about Williams' handling of the team in the clubhouse. Then the way Williams handled both the fight's immediate aftermath and the public relations aspect afterwards erased the word "seemed" from the previous sentence. It's one thing to be good behind closed doors as maybe Williams was (or not), but to appear clueless and indifferent and rigid while your team is exploding on national TV (no pun intended) within 50 feet of where you are standing is another much worse looking thing.
Even with all that, there's a fair argument to be made that Williams was a passenger on this ship and his jettisoning is perfunctory. In 2014, when the Nationals won 96 games, made the playoffs, and Williams won his Manager of the Year award, the Nationals lost only 417 man games to injury according to Man Games Lost, 20th most in baseball. This season, when they missed the playoffs and Williams lost his job, they lost 1,030 man games to injury, seventh most in baseball. If the Nationals had lost 600 fewer man games to injury like they did last season, would the Nationals have finished behind the Mets and would Williams have lost his job? If the Nationals won more games, then Papelbon probably doesn't snipe at Harper and probably Harper doesn't jaw back at him. And on and on.
The Washington Post has covered the Williams angle extensively since the Nationals mid-season fall from first place, and today Chelsea Janes published a list of seven decisions that helped lose Williams his job. It's instructive, I think, to go over the list a bit. But let's make it fun! How many of the seven do you think were bullpen decisions?
Before I tell you the answer, though, let's quickly talk about what Williams did wrong. We know he was structured in his bullpen usage — I'd argue to a fault — though as with all bullpen decisions, it's difficult to know for sure because we only see one result. It's not a choose-your-own-adventure book where we can compare outcomes. We further know that reporting has indicated there were problems in the Nationals clubhouse. We also know that there are often problems in many teams' clubhouses over the course of 162 games, and problems in the clubhouse don't necessarily signify that the manager has made mistakes, even if that's what reporting indicates. Terry Francona wrote a book about his time with the Red Sox, during which he won two World Series and was heralded as a managerial savior, and even on those world championship-winning teams there were in-season problems, often ones that sounded rather serious and would have been fodder for big newspaper articles had they got out at the time. And those are the ones Francona was willing to divulge in his book! Presumably there are others, possibly more sensitive examples that he didn't include.
This isn't to say Williams did a good job holding the clubhouse together. All indications are that he did not, but just to point out that those are only indications and even with that background we can't really know what went on. Clubhouses are the responsibility of the manager but are composed of the players. Some players have outsized personalities that even the best managers can have difficulty controlling.
So, back to Janes' article, which by the way I heartily recommend. How many of Williams seven deadly decisions were bullpen-related? The answer is…
[Drum roll]
Here they are the seven in summary:
Pulling a starter for the closer in the ninth.
Seventh inning reliever choice.
Not using his closer in a tie game on the road.
Leaving starter in to pitch seventh.
Not using his closer in a tie game on the road.
Asking Anthony Rendon to bunt on a 3-1 pitch in the ninth against the Mets.
Leaving Papelbon in to pitch after he choked Harper.
It's instructive, I think, and interesting, that a manager as derided as Williams is still being judged (harshly) on his bullpen usage. How many managers refuse to use their closers in tie games on the road? Many, many of them! Further, can you fairly kill a manager for pulling a starter in the ninth and for leaving his starter in to pitch the seventh? Maybe so, but it seems iffy.
None of this is intended as criticism of Janes' article. I think it's representative of the Williams zeitgeist, however, and instructive in that, for a manager who apparently everyone despises, most of what we can get on him is that he won't use his closer in a tie game on the road.
Was firing Williams a good thing for the Nationals? I surely wouldn't be alone by arguing yes. It further seems that of the sins listed above, many came from the same book, one probably called something like Game Time Decisions for Managers for Dummies. Managing is easier if you can push buttons, and it takes someone more secure than Williams in his decision-making to go against established thinking.
The Nationals face an off-season of turnover as many of their starters are set to be free agents so it makes sense to bring in a new manager, clean break, timing, and all of that. Williams is interesting in that all the known aspects of his situation point to an obvious decision and yet when we dig deeper we discover that we really don't know very much at all.
CC Sabathia and the Humanity of Athletes.
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"Today I am checking myself into an alcohol rehabilitation center to receive the professional care and assistance needed to treat my disease.
"I love baseball and I love my teammates like brothers, and I am also fully aware that I am leaving at a time when we should all be coming together for one last push toward the World Series. It hurts me deeply to do this now, but I owe it to myself and to my family to get myself right. I want to take control of my disease, and I want to be a better man, father and player.
"I want to thank the New York Yankees organization for their encouragement and understanding. Their support gives me great strength and has allowed me to move forward with this decision with a clear mind.
"As difficult as this decision is to share publicly, I don't want to run and hide. But for now please respect my family's need for privacy as we work through this challenge together.
"Being an adult means being accountable. Being a baseball player means that others look up to you. I want my kids — and others who may have become fans of mine over the years — to know that I am not too big of a man to ask for help. I want to hold my head up high, have a full heart and be the type of person again that I can be proud of. And that's exactly what I am going to do.
"I am looking forward to being out on the field with my team next season playing the game that brings me so much happiness."
For making this decision, Mr. Sabathia, I'm already proud of you.
As baseball fans, we tend to see players through the lens of what they can do for us. Did they help our team win? Did they provide enjoyable entertainment for us to watch? Did they sign a ball for our kids? Our opinion of them is often directly related to what they've done recently to improve our own lives. Our relationship with athletes is mostly selfish. We like them when they decide to play for our team and hate them when they decide to play for someone else, even if that move improves their own lives.
At its core, our relationship with athletes is not really a relationship at all. We fund the machine that pays them extraordinary amounts of money, and because of that, we feel entitled to treat them as if they somehow now belong to us, or should prioritize our desires over their own. When Daniel Murphy dared to take an extra day to help his wife after she gave birth to their child, he was criticized by a portion of the Mets fanbase for choosing his family over his job.
Today, CC Sabathia made a similar choice. At a time when the games matter most, he picked his family over his job. And I think he should be applauded for doing just that.
Sabathia has four children, and he will be their father long after he stops playing baseball. His relationship with his kids will continue for years after his relationship with the public ends, and he chose to get the help he needed to be a better father for the long haul, even though it came at the expense of his professional reputation. That could not have been an easy decision. Waiting another month, doing this away from the public spotlight, would have been easier. Instead, Sabathia chose to take the harder road, take the public criticism, and not delay getting treatment that could give his children a better life with a better dad.
Sabathia chose to be a human being first and a ballplayer second, in a world where so often we pretend that athletes sold their humanity for the right to do their job. Yes, they chose this life, and yes, they are well compensated financially by the machine that we all help fund, but I guarantee you Sabathia didn't knowingly sign up for this. He didn't agree to sell his health and physical well being, as well as his relationship with his family, to get to play Major League Baseball. That shouldn't be part of the cost of the job.
To see Sabathia prioritize himself and his humanity, instead of his identity as a ballplayer, is a decision worth celebrating. I hope he gets the treatment he needs, and goes on to make a full recovery, becoming the father, husband, and person he wants to be.
Already, he's made a decision that we should be proud of. Already, he's worth looking up to.
Carlos Correa's Rookie Season Hints at Greatness.
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You probably didn't need me to tell you that Carlos Correa's been really good. This isn't exactly news. So rather than dwelling on how good Correa is now, I want to consider what his impressive rookie campaign means for his short- and long-term future.
I'll start off by looking at what he did in his two months in the minor leagues. Correa opened the year at the Double-A level, where he hit an absurd .385/.459/.726 in 29 games before the Astros bumped him up to Triple-A. I wrote about Correa at the time of this promotion, and unsurprisingly, the data had glowing things to say about his long-term outlook. Based on his Double-A performance, the names Mike Trout, Cliff Floyd and Asdrubal Cabrera showed up as statistical comps, putting him in some mighty fine company.
His stay at the Triple-A level was short lived, as the Astros called him up to the show after just 24 games. His .276/.345/.449 showing at the level was a few notches down from his Double-A performance, but still very impressive for a 20-year-old shortstop. Based on his Double- and Triple-A numbers, KATOH pegged him for 19 WAR through age 28, which was tops among players with at least 200 plate appearances in the minors. Before he even stepped on to a big league field, Correa had the statistical track record of a star in the making.
Now, I'll look at the more important part of Correa's 2015 campaign: his big league performance. The crux of this exercise revolves around Correa's statistical comps, which were calculated by way of some weighted Mahalanobis distance calculations. As a warning, the next couple of paragraphs will be strictly about math. If you're more interested in reading about Carlos Correathan you are in reading about math, feel free to skip ahead to the table of comps.
First, I took every rookie season since 1955 in which a hitter aged 19-21 recorded at least 400 plate appearances. Then, I turned every possible offensive outcome into a rate stat, regressed them for sample size and scaled them to league average. In my distance calculations, I applied weights to each of these rates based on the 2015 wOBA coefficients in order to properly weigh the importance of each component. In simpler terms, I compared Correa's rookie season to other young players' seasons by weighing each metric according to its offensive importance.
One tweak, though. While wOBA does a good job of quantifying a hitter's past performance, it fails to account for some things that fall largely outside of a hitter's control. Most notably, it does not adjust for BABIP. In other words, it treats all outs equally whether they're strikeouts, line drives or otherwise, which is less than ideal when trying to predict the future. So, I also threw strikeout rate into the mix. I gave it the same coefficient as walk rate, since my KATOH models revealed that a hitter's strikeout rate and walk rate in Triple-A have similar predictive power.
Enough technical mumbo-jumbo! Let's have a look at Correa's top comps based on my fancy computer math. Here are the players whose rookie campaigns most resembled Correa's.
Carlos Correa's Mahalanobis Comps
Rank Year Name wRC+ WAR Mah Dist
0 2015 Carlos Correa 133 3.4 0.00
1 2011 Eric Hosmer 113 1.0 2.53
2 1977 Eddie Murray 123 3.0 3.79
3 1982 Cal Ripken 116 4.6 4.73
4 1964 Tony Conigliaro 138 1.9 5.41
5 1975 Gary Carter 113 3.2 5.53
6 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. 106 2.5 5.86
7 1990 John Olerud 122 1.4 6.29
8 1976 Jason Thompson 103 1.2 6.35
9 1965 Curt Blefary 145 4.2 7.79
10 1969 Carlos May 140 1.8 8.05
And let's see how the rest of their careers turned out.
Career Stats for >Carlos Correa's Mahalanobis Comps
Name wRC+ WAR
Cal Ripken 112 92.5
Ken Griffey Jr. 131 77.7
Eddie Murray 127 72.0
Gary Carter 116 69.4
John Olerud 130 57.3
Jason Thompson 123 27.1
Curt Blefary 117 12.1
Tony Conigliaro 119 11.8
Carlos May 112 9.4
Eric Hosmer* 108 6.1
*Career still in progress.
On the whole, their careers turned out pretty well. Ripken, Griffey, Murray and Carter are all Hall of Famers, while Olerud was one of the best hitters in baseball for a time. Conigliaro might have been right up there too had he not suffered a career-derailing injury at age 22. In a nutshell, Correa is keeping some pretty good company. Here's a look at these hitters' career trajectories by cumulative WAR.
There are lines going in every which direction in that last chart. You probably noticed that a few of those lines approached the 10 WAR mark at various points, but other than that, it's a little hard to grasp what's going on. So let's try a simpler graph that doesn't look so much like spaghetti. The graph below plots the group average and median, along with the group's 25th and 75th percentiles for each year.
The outlook here is pretty encouraging. This group's mean bounces between 3 WAR and 5 WAR, with a modest upward trend. A perpetual four-win player pretty darn good. However, it's those top two lines that should really make you giddy. One out of every four hitters topped the 4.0 WAR mark in just about each season, while at least one eclipsed 7.0 WAR.
Correa had one heck of a rookie campaign, and was a big part of the Astros' unanticipated run to the playoffs. But most remarkable of all, he did almost all of it as just a 20-year-old. He's still a baby by baseball standards — and by many non-baseball standards, for that matter. Still, in spite of his youth, he very well might be the most talented player on the field in tonight's wild card game. He's already that good; and hitters who are that good at 20 are often great in just a few years' time.
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The same goes for evaluating managers. We have an idea of the managers who have done a good job; many of them still have games to play. We also have an idea of those who haven't done a good job -- even up to the point of knowing who has a chance of being fired. The drawback, unfortunately, is that we still don't have a great way of truly evaluating managers, and so we look to the small amount of data that we do have when we try to gauge their performance. Dave Cameron talked about this in the context of filling out his NL Manager of the Year ballot last year -- here's a paragraph from that piece relevant to what we're discussing today:
"Evaluating player performance is tricky enough even with all the amount of information we have about their performance; with managers, we're basically just guessing. We can speculate about things that we think matter, but we don't really have much objective data to support these thoughts."
Dave's right -- we have very little data, and the data that we do have isn't terribly useful for evaluation. That being said, there is one newer area of data with respect to managers that I find interesting, and it lends itself to not only understanding an aspect of performance, but also -- in this year's case -- serves as a window into the operating style of particular managers.
That data is the result of the fairly new system of manager replay review, and this season of baseball has produced some very interesting results. We already had a post earlier in the season on manager challenges, looking specifically at Kevin Cash, and his rather "unique" style of challenging (not waiting for any sort of video consultation from his coaches/advisors before popping out of the dugout to signal for an official review). That post theorized on a way to rank managers on their challenge ability; this post will go a step further in refining an attempt to do that.
We'll do this a few ways. First, we'll start by looking at successful challenges. This data comes from Baseball Reference, with the site originally ranking managers by challenge success rate, or the percentage of the time managers were correct out of the total number of times they challenged. That actually isn't the best way of looking at this data, however, as an absolute value of how many successes during the season is probably more valuable: since there is no penalty for losing a challenge (other than the loss of a potential opportunity to use the challenge in the future), there shouldn't be any penalty in our ranks for not succeeding with a review.
Think about it another way: challenging unsuccessfully at some point during a game is always better than ending a game without having challenged, as a manager has given their team at least a chance to improve upon their possibility of winning the game (however small that chance might be).
With that said, let's take a look at the number of successes by manager, along with the total number of challenges that they've initiated (represented by the dot). Teams that have had multiple managers in 2015 have been grouped together:
As we can see, Joe Maddon of the Cubs leads the pack, with Lloyd McClendon right behind him. Maddon has also lost a lot of challenges, but again, those don't matter unless a more important challenge-eligible moment in the game arose later on -- which is both rare and difficult to get data for. Total numbers aren't everything, but they mean a lot, especially considering that challenges are underutilized in general: theoretically, it is always better to end a game having challenged than to not have.
On the opposite end of the spectrum we have Brad Ausmus and Matt Williams, who were both stingy with when to challenge and had a low tally of successes. Kevin Cash -- just like when we last checked in -- had the highest overall number of challenges and the lowest success rate, showing that his style of not waiting for any sort of team-led video review before challenging is unique in the major leagues. In a way, Cash should be given credit for understanding that challenges should be used freely, though he should probably employ some sort of dugout video review before challenging in future seasons to increases his chance at success.
Now we're going to add an important element onto these challenge numbers: timing. The concept of clutch is easy to understand, and it impacts every single game we watch: we know intuitively when an important moment in a game has arrived, and players often get a label for being "clutch" for performing in those situations. We keep track of these high leverage moments, and we have data for how important the moments were during every single manager challenge this year. I've averaged them all for each manager to get a sense of who challenged in the most crucial game situations. For background, a rating of 1.00 is a considered a game situation of average importance, with a rating of 2.00 being twice as important to the expected outcome of the game. Take a look:
Here we can see that Ned Yost challenged at the most important moments of games out of all managers: times when the possible change in the expected outcome of games were, on average, at their greatest. A lot of this leaderboard is opportunistic -- a manager must have encountered situations that were important and had a challenge-eligible play occur -- but it still took awareness to know when those moments had arrived. I've also highlighted Joe Maddon to point him out as the leader in our previous graph.
Now we're going to put both of these ideas together, as the true gauge of how well a manager has challenged is not just how often he has succeeded, but how often he has successfully challenged in important situations. To do that, I've simply combined each manager's total challenge successes and clutch rating, then compared them to the league average result for all managers. This gives us the best answer to who the best manager at challenging was during the 2015 season, and frames each manager as a percentage above or below average (100). Here are the results:
We have our answer: Joe Maddon was 43% better than the average manager at successfully challenging during important moments of games. It's difficult to overstate how influential it was for Joe Maddon to be successful at so many challenges; even though he was middle of the pack when it came to how important the moments were when he challenged, the sheer number of overturned calls he had pushed him to the top of the leaderboard.
On the other end, if anyone needed more fuel for the Matt Williams fire, they have it: not only did Williams have among the lowest number of challenges and successes in the majors, he also challenged at relatively inconsequential times. The outcome of the reviews he initiated were not particularly important, and given the rate at which he challenged, he most likely made the poorest use out of the review system.
As said before, a lot of success and failure with the replay system is opportunistic, and one season of challenges is going to be subject to some small sample size problems. However, there are two common traits that successful managers share with respect to replay: they challenge often, and they identify the most important moments to use their challenges. They can't control how often they find themselves in those crucial situations, but they can control how they choose to handle them when they arise. And, while replay is only one part of a huge picture of manager performance, maybe it's not a coincidence that the three best managers above are all headed to the playoffs.
2015 In Time of Possession.
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The Angels' PD staff — half of it hired or in new positions since Servais took over — has become used to seeing its unconventional ideas tested. In the Dominican Republic, the Angels started measuring time of possession.
Time of possession is a familiar statistic to fans of other sports. It's very much unfamiliar to fans of baseball, because baseball is the sport that doesn't even keep time, so it's not something you hear about. But, reading that section was all I needed. It put the idea in my head, and there was no getting it out without writing this post. Because of that excerpt, I've calculated time of possession for the regular season just gone. One thing's for sure: you can't say I didn't do this.
I didn't calculate time of possession, directly. I approximated it, using our leaderboards to find total pitch information and average pace. For the hitters and pitchers of each team, I simply multiplied the pitches by the average pace, and that should work well enough to capture time spent hitting or pitching. One thing this leaves out is mid-inning pitching changes. It also leaves out, say, mound meetings and pick-off attempts. The truest measure would be just measuring inning lengths from start to finish, but that would take a while and my method took about a minute and a half so I'm content with going the easy way.
I should also say that, for these purposes, I'm defining "possession" as "on offense," as opposed to literally being in possession of the ball. This way, a higher number is a better number, in theory. I calculated, for the hitters, hours spent hitting. For the pitchers, I calculated hours spent pitching. Then I subtracted the latter from the former, for one representation of the result, and I also calculated a rate stat, putting time on offense over all time. Both are presented below, sort of.
I know full well there's a reason this doesn't get talked about much, and it's not because no one's thought of it before. I also know it's easy enough to imagine how this could be helpful. A team that's always hitting might wear the opponent down. A team that's always on defense might itself wear down. Come up with whatever explanations you want. I don't want to lead anyone to believe this is hugely important, or even a little important! It's just, here's information you haven't seen before, in graph form.
This season in time on offense – time on defense:
It probably shouldn't come as a surprise to see the Blue Jays leading the pack. By this method, combined, they spent nearly a full day more at the plate than in the field. The next-closest team was behind by about six hours. The Jays' lineup is brutal and almost relentless. It's offered few breaks, and it's generated a lot of long innings. Meanwhile, the Jays' pitching staff had baseball's fastest average pace, owing in part to Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey. David Price isn't a fast worker, pitch to pitch, but he negates that by being efficient. And Toronto relievers had the second-fastest pace, so it wasn't all about the starters.
The Yankees are at the other end, although their difference isn't as extreme as the Jays' is. Yankees pitchers had baseball's slowest average pace, while the lineup came in sixth-fastest. Just right here, that's indication enough that there's more than one way to be successful. The Jays led baseball in time of possession, and they're in the playoffs. The Yankees finished last, and they're in the playoffs. I warned you this wouldn't be super important.
But, we're already here, so we might as well go deeper. The Blue Jays batted for about 21 more hours than they pitched and fielded. Another way of expressing that is that, out of all the Blue Jays baseball this year, they spent just under 54% of it on offense. Very obviously, the average is 50%. We have this information going back to 2008, so now here are the top 10 teams in time of possession as a rate statistic:
Top 10, Time of Possession(%), 2008 – 2015
Team Season Time of Possession% Win%
Blue Jays 2015 53.8% 0.574
Nationals 2014 53.2% 0.593
Athletics 2014 53.1% 0.543
Nationals 2015 52.9% 0.512
Athletics 2013 52.8% 0.593
Phillies 2010 52.7% 0.599
Mariners 2010 52.7% 0.377
Diamondbacks 2012 52.6% 0.500
Phillies 2011 52.6% 0.630
Athletics 2008 52.5% 0.466
Blue Jays win! It might not seem like 54% is extreme, but it's separated from the average by 2.9 standard deviations. The spread here is very tight, so the Blue Jays win as the team that, relatively speaking, wore its opponent down the most. You can see that most of the teams in here were fairly successful, with a couple exceptions. In one sense, the 2010 Mariners spent a lot of time hitting. In a second, no less accurate sense, the 2010 Mariners spent very little time hitting. The A's have a big presence here because of their patient lineups. Recent Nationals teams show up because of their fast-working pitchers.
Where there's a top 10, there's a bottom 10:
Bottom 10, Time of Possession(%), 2008 – 2015
Team Season Time of Possession% Win%
Astros 2013 46.7% 0.315
Rays 2014 46.9% 0.475
Red Sox 2009 47.3% 0.586
Astros 2010 47.4% 0.469
Astros 2009 47.4% 0.457
Rockies 2012 47.5% 0.395
Blue Jays 2012 47.6% 0.451
Blue Jays 2010 47.6% 0.525
Yankees 2015 47.8% 0.537
Rays 2013 48.0% 0.564
We get a cameo from this year's Yankees, but the lowest possession rate belongs to the Astros from a few years ago, when they were really really terrible. Four of these 10 teams finished with good records, so again, obviously, there's not a real strong relationship here. The 2009 Red Sox pitching staff was, shall we say, deliberate, but it clearly wasn't too detrimental. I wish we didn't have to live through that era of Red Sox and Yankees baseball, but if that hadn't happened maybe the newer pace-of-game improvements wouldn't have happened, so in the end we're better for the experience. If only we'd known then.
Just to make absolutely sure you don't make too much of this, here's the relationship between time of possession(%) and success:
There's the hint of a relationship, and it's not nothing, but the points are scattered and the relationship is weak, so it's not like this is something you'd want to classify as a true team strength or weakness. It's a trait, to be sure, more extreme for some teams than others, but you've got your quick strikers and your slow strikers, your quick workers and your methodical ones. Consider it somewhat a matter of style. That's probably the best way to put it.
The Blue Jays' style: control the pace. For the eight years for which we have data, this year's Blue Jays have the very greatest rate of possession. In the playoffs, now, maybe that will even do something for them.


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B2 [ C or U ] a willingness to give your time and energy to something that you believe in, or a promise or firm decision to do something:
She is known chiefly for her commitment to nuclear disarmament.
B2 [ C ] something that you must do or deal with that takes your time:
Children are such a commitment.
Más ejemplos
- The government yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the current peace process.
- Marriage is no longer always seen as a lifetime commitment.
- She had a lifelong commitment to feminism.
- In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
- You're young and healthy and you have no commitments - you can do whatever you want.
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Positive response to Strickland Foundation Internship Scheme
The Strickland Foundation has received 28 applications for internship with media companies under a sponsorship scheme meant to promote journalism as a career.
The scheme, launched in November, is planned to run over three years and the foundation is committed to sponsor six internships a year. Each sponsorship is for one year. The foundation considers the response to its first call for applications as quite positive.
Applicants had to specify the media organisations or companies of their choice, indicating their order of preference. Selection for placement will now be made through interviews by media organisations agreeing to take part in the scheme in consultation with the foundation.
Of the 28 applicants, 15 gave The Times and The Sunday Times as their first choice for internship. Three applied for internship with PBS, two with Malta Today and one with The Malta Independent.
However, six gave The Malta Independent as a second preference, with the rest of the applicants giving as first or second preference Medialink, One Productions, maltarightnow.com, Content House, di-ve.com, and Sunday Circle.
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reliable brand of PH and TDS meters?
what's a reliable yet reasonably priced meter for PH and/or TDS
I use this TDS meter:
HM Digital TDS-3 Handheld TDS Meter With Carrying Case, 0 - 9990 ppm TDS Measurement Range, 1 ppm Resolution, +/- 2% Readout Accuracy - Amazon.com
For TDS, I stand by the $10 blue units on eBay.
Since pH meters mostly have to be calibrated before each use, I'd say the best brand is no brand unless you've got dozens of tanks and need to test pH with frequency.
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Somewhatshocked, are you talking about the light blue opaque plastic one or the darker blue with more translucent plastic. There is a few different "blue" models on Ebay, and most don't have a brand name with them. Thanks for the clarification, as I may be purchasing one soon.
Just the standard light blue TDS meter with the dark blue cap.
But any of the $10ish meters on eBay should work just fine. I've been using them for years.
I use a $15 meter off amazon. You should definitely invest in some calibration solution though no matter how expensive the meter is.
Milwaukee makes good PH monitors/controllers.
is this a good one and will the 1382 ppm solution be what I need for recalibration. Sorry I'm not familiar with these TDS meters. I know you can get other ppm solutions.
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what?! link removed??? ok.... it's a HM TDS4 meter with 1382 solution for $21
You can't post ebay links, instead post the item number only.
do you still need to callibrate a TDS meter then? when you buy them do they come callibrated?
i do have a ph pen the cheap yellow ones on ebay but i never seemed to have much luck using it on my old shrimp tank as it never stayed stable it kept rising as the water moved round? i did callibrate it but in the end gave up
do you need to store them in a liquid as i also read that if you dont store them in a liquid then they stop working anyway?
im about to buy an R/O machine and guess a TDS meter would be needed really but not checked as i have been buying my RO in
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this one work really well for me ... approx200$ nice looking well working
They come calibrated from the factory, but I never trust them. I read somewhere on this forum that a member's meter from the factory was over 50ppm off out of the box. If you are planning on being in the lower TDS range, you don't really need to get the 1000ppm calibration solution.
I have both a Hanna and a Milwaukee PH meter. One is as good as the other.
You have to calibrate them before you use them- easy enough to do though. I like having the meters
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Are Games The Key To Educating Children About The Environment?
Interactive toys and tablet apps are teaching kids about the earth and sustainability in new ways, creating collaborative experiences that are amusing while instilling good values.
After analysis of hundreds of data points collected around the modern family experience and how it is changing, the PSFK consulting team noticed that games are engaging kids in ways that are educating them more and more each day, creating collaborative experiences whether by tablet, application, or modern toys. Leveraging the attention grabbing potential of gaming mechanics, parents and educators can tailor content to instill lessons of sustainability, and the like in subtle ways while avoiding a formalized education. Through repeat engagement and continued use over time, these platforms can be leveraged to instill life lessons in children at an early age.
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Some checks may be written before they pass successfully in Wine. Without some mechanism, such checks would potentially generate hundred of known failures for months each time the tests are being run. This would make it hard to detect new failures caused by a regression. or to detect that a patch fixed a long standing issue.
Thus the Wine testing framework has the concept of platforms and groups of checks can be declared as expected to fail on some of them. In the most common case, one would declare a group of tests as expected to fail in Wine. To do so, use the following construct:
todo_wine { SetLastError( 0xdeadbeef ); ok( GlobalAddAtomA(0) == 0 && GetLastError() == 0xdeadbeef, "failed to add atom 0\n" ); }On Windows the above check would be performed normally, but on Wine it would be expected to fail, and not cause the failure of the whole test. However. If that check were to succeed in Wine, it would cause the test to fail, thus making it easy to detect when something has changed that fixes a bug. Also note that todo checks are accounted separately from regular checks so that the testing statistics remain meaningful.
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Mumbai: As you may probably know, the latest buzz in the film industry of tinsel town is related to the upcoming READY Live Mad Concert. The past few years, this popular music has started to become quite a rage now. So, taking it further, we are now waiting for the upcoming READY concert from T-Series. If you do not know, this much liked idea was in fact the initiative with 3rd Rock Entertainment, Agni Jewels and Provogue India at the Hotel Tulip Star on the second of June.
As you may have expected, the celebrities from the film industry of B-town are also looking forward to this popular concert. Amongst the
super stars that have confirmed that they will take part at the event is the well liked Bollywood actor Salman Khan. In a recent interview he stated that "It feels great when you have mass adulation. That is what keeps us actors alive. On stage, you sense this love and affection instantaneously. As an entertainer, I thoroughly enjoy the experience and want everyone to enjoy the same as well.
I am looking forward to the concert."
When talking about the event, Bhushan Kumar CMD –T Series said "READY Live Mad Concert is the next step forward to bring the entertainer Salman on to the stage. I am sure the show will create mass hysteria as did the music." The concert is scheduled to take place on the 2nd of June
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Claiborne Stallion Arch Dies at Age 21
Arch, the sire of 11 grade I winners, died Jan. 20 of an apparent heart attack, according to Bernie Sams, representative of Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky., where the 21-year-old son of Kris S. stood at stud.
Arch, the sire of 11 grade I winners, died Jan. 20 of an apparent heart attack, according to Bernie Sams, representative of Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky., where the 21-year-old son of Kris S. stood at stud.
No horse entered in this year's Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) owns a more decisive victory than Firing Line, who won the Sunland Derby (gr. III) by 14 1/4 lengths.
See photos from Anne's recent visit with Thunder Gulch at Ashford Stud, as well as Groupie Doll and Plum Pretty at Timber Town Stable. read blog
A selection of Keeneland September yearlings with noteworthy pedigrees set to sell on Sept. 9 at the auction's second session
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has entered three for the $200,000 Summertime Oaks (gr. II) June 21 on the main track at Santa Anita Park, headed by three-time winner Delta Flower.
The Blood-Horse catches up with 2011 Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty. Learn about what Plum Pretty and her connections have been up to since her Kentucky Oaks win. Also, learn more about pasture friend Havre de Grace! watch video
Within minutes of each other, colts by Giant's Causeway and Tapit each sold for $1.6 million, the day's highest price at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. selected sale of 2-year-olds in training March 11.
Whisper Hill Farm's Havre de Grace and Plum Pretty both produced their first foals at Timber Town Farm near Lexington, a Tapit filly from Havre de Grace and a colt by Distorted Humor out of Plum Pretty.
There was no catching California-bred Doinghardtimeagain, who ran away with the $150,000 Hollywood Oaks (gr. II) as the odds-on choice in her graded stakes debut June 22 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Iotapa, runner-up to Beholder in the Santa Anita Oaks (gr. I) and coming off a win in the listed Railbird Stakes, is among the favorites for the $150,000 Hollywood Oaks (gr. II) June 22 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Stuart S. Janney III and Phipps Stables, who bred and race Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Orb, will receive an additional $50,000 bonus as a result of the colt's May 4 victory.
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During the first weekend in February, he was represented by three graded stakes winners: Flashback, Honorable Dillon, and Tapicat.
The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association has named its champions and leaders for 2012.
Gainesway Farm's Tapit has three graded stakes winners in the span of about two hours Feb. 2. His winners, all 3-year-olds, came at Tampa Bay Downs, Santa Anita, and Gulfstream.
Trainer Bob Baffert viewed the $200,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes (gr. II) as a scrimmage for untested Flashback, and the talented son of Tapit proved he was ready for tougher with an easy tally at Santa Anita Park Feb. 2.
The first session of Keeneland's January horses of all ages sale registered improved gross and average compared with the first session last year as 201 horses sold for $15,331,400, up 10.04%. Average price improved 14.42%.
While they did not draw the interest Plum Pretty garnered in November, two of the three half sisters to the 2011 Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) winner sold on the opening day of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Big Tiz, a grade I stakes-placed daughter of Tiznow, brought $600,000 during the later portion of the Jan. 7 session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Buyers will have the opportunity to purchase horses from the Issam Fares' Fares Farm dispersal at a Keeneland January sale that will feature a larger catalog compared with last year.
Potesta, the Hollywood Oaks winner who suffered a career-ending condylar fracture to her left foreleg, recently arrived at Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky., for her engagement in Keeneland's January sale.
Mandy Pope, who paid $14.2 million in November for major broodmare prospects Havre de Grace and Plum Pretty, has taken important steps in what she believes will pay off handsomely.
The demand for quality bloodstock was in full force at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, but the middle and lower markets were soft.
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Demand was strong for quality young mares and broodmare prospects as the Keeneland November breeding stock sale opened its 11-day run in Lexington.
Dual grade I winner Zazu fetched $2.1 million from Katsumi Yoshida's Japan-based Northern Farm at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale Nov. 6. She was consigned by William S. Farish's Lane's End, agent.
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The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is used by many of today's top businesses to monitor and manage customer relationships. Fred Reichheld and his co-developers of the NPS say that a single survey question, "How likely are you to recommend Company Name to a friend or colleague?", on which the NPS is based, is the only loyalty metric companies need to grow their company. Despite its widespread adoption by such companies as General Electric, Intuit, T-Mobile, Charles Schwab, and Enterprise, the NPS is now at the center of a debate regarding its merits.
Fred Reichheld, the co-developer of the NPS (along with Satmetrix and Bain & Company) has made very strong claims about the advantage of the NPS over other loyalty metrics. Specifically, they have said:
- The NPS is "the best predictor of growth," (Reichheld, 2003)
- The NPS is "the single most reliable indicator of a company's ability to grow" (Netpromoter.com, 2007)
- "Satisfaction lacks a consistently demonstrable connection to... growth" (Reichheld, 2003)
There is considerable scientific evidence disputing the findings of the NPS camp (Hayes, 2008; Keiningham et al., 2007; Morgan et al., 2006). The basic finding is that the NPS is not the best predictor of business performance measures. Other conventional loyalty questions (e.g., overall satisfaction, continue to purchase) are equally good at predicting revenue growth. Reichheld's claims are grossly overstated with regard to the merits of the Net Promoter Score. Despite the scientific research criticizing the NPS claims, the NPS developers still presses the claim that the NPS is the best predictor of company growth.
The Net Promoter developers have not refuted the current scientific research that brings their methodological rigor into question. Instead, they only point to the simplicity of this single metric which allows companies to become more customer-centric. That, however, is not a scientific rebuttal. That is marketing.


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McFadden Urges Richards Not to Run
City Councilman Adam McFadden says there's been a lot of peacemaking in the Democratic Party over the past few days. He's a supporter of City Council President Lovely Warren, who defeated the party-endorsed Democratic mayor in Tuesday's primary.
"We have to unify the party and I think that's the responsibility of (party chair) Joe Morelle and Lovely because if she becomes mayor, she becomes the elected official who's leader of the party," McFadden said. "I think that also the people that are on the other side, I don't think Lovely should go to them. They should go to her. She won. Winners don't go to the other side and ask for support."
During an appearance on News 8 First at 4, we asked McFadden if there's a racial divide among city voters. The results indicated Mayor Tom Richards won primarily white neighborhoods.
"I don't think there's a racial divide in voting," McFadden said. "I think when you are a candidate you tend to work your base and try to solidify that and sometimes you try to unify it to get as many people of that base out as possible. I think it's more that than anything. You tend to go where you're strongest and make sure you shore that up."
McFadden does not believe Richards should continue to campaign.
"My opinion is no. I don't think he should. I think it would divide the party and split the city a little bit. I don't think we need to go through that. Also, when you spent the amount of money he spent and lose by the percentage points that he lost by, one has to question whether he has a base to continue on in the first place."
Would McFadden get a job in a Warren City Hall?
"I represent the people in the city and I hope to continue to do that," McFadden said. "If i'm offered something, depending on what it is, it might be hard to turn down. I can't say I will or won't but I just know my heart."
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Bob Hartley best coaching choice for Montreal
Former NHL goaltender Patrick Roy is an up-and-coming coaching candidate, thanks to his work at the major junior level.
Veteran coach Bob Hartley added to his extensive resume by taking Zurich Lions in a deep playoff run in Switzerland. His earlier success the Avalanche and Thrashers make him a prime candidate to the NHL this summer.
These two appear to be frontrunners for the Montreal opening -- although with former Canadiens Guy Carbonneau -- although new GM Marc Bergevin isn't tipping his hand.
"I've been talking to people and I'm putting a list together, but it's confidential," Bergevin told the Montreal Gazette.
Roy is beloved in Montreal, but his lofty standing with fans and his mercurial personality could make him a difficult fit for this job. The Canadiens face a major overhaul that could take years to complete.
Hiring Roy would create quite a buzz, but this franchise doesn't need a celebrity coach. It isn't a fledgling team in a backwater market. The Habs need a strong leader with proven vision for building competitive teams.
Carbonneau would be a great candidate . . . except for the fact he has been fired once from this job. Otherwise his playing and coaching credentials make him a solid fit.
This makes Hartley the more logical choice. He is a defensive-minded tactician, so he could get the most out of cornerstone goaltender Carey Price while the team retools.


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