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AUSTRALIA v NAMIBIA
Adelaide Oval, 4pm.
TV: live, Channel Seven, 4pm, delayed Fox Sports Two, 6pm.
BETTING: Australia $2.10 (to win by 90 points or more), Namibia $71.
TEAMS: Australia: Chris Latham,
Lote Tuqiri, Stirling Mortlock, Nathan Grey, Mat Rogers, Matt Giteau, Chris
Whitaker (capt), David Lyons, David Croft, George Smith, Nathan Sharpe, Justin
Harrison, Ben Darwin, Jeremy Paul, Matt Dunning. Res: Brendan Cannon, Bill
Young, David Giffin, John Roe, Matt Cockbain, Morgan Turinui, Matthew Burke.
Namibia: Ronaldo Pedro, Deon Mouton, Du Preez Grobler, Corne
Powell, Vincent Dreyer, Emile Wessels, Hakkies Husselman, Sean Furter (capt),
Wolfie Duvenhage, Schalk van der Merwe, Archie Graham, Heino Senekal, Neil du
Toit, Johannes Meyer, Kees Lensing. Res: Cor van Tonder, Andries Blaauw, Herman
Lintvelt, Jurgens van Lill, Neil Swanepoel, Melrick Africa, Morne Schreuder.
FRANCE v SCOTLAND
Telstra Stadium, Sydney, 8.30pm.
TV: delayed Channel Seven 11pm, delayed Fox Sports 10.30pm.
BETTING: France $1.04, Scotland $8.25.
THE LOWDOWN: Martin Leslie's World Cup-ending suspension has given Scotland the inspiration it needs to take on France in its toughest match of the year. The match at Telstra Stadium tomorrow is a virtual pool B decider. Scotland's hopes appeared wrecked on Wednesday when flanker Leslie was scrubbed out for 12 weeks for using his knee on the head of American Jason Keyter in their game on Monday. Injuries have forced Scotland to call in Cameron Mather for his first Test in three years. But coach Ian McGeechan said Leslie's loss had galvanised the team and Mather offered a style of play that could counter the French back row.
TEAMS: France: Nicolas Brusque, Aurelien Rougerie, Tony Marsh, Yannick Jauzion, Christophe Dominici, Frederic Michalak, Fabien Galthie (capt), Imanol Harinordoquy, Olivier Magne, Serge Betsen, Jerome Thion, Fabien Pelous, Sylvain Marconnet, Raphael Ibanez, Jean-Jacques Crenca. Res: Yannick Bru, Olivier Milloud, Olivier Brouzet, Patrick Tabacco, Gerald Merceron, Damien Traille, Pepito Elhorga. Scotland: Glenn Metcalfe, Chris Paterson, Andy Craig, Andrew Henderson, Kenny Logan, Gregor Townsend, Bryan Redpath (capt), Simon Taylor, Cameron Mather, Jason White, Stuart Grimes, Scott Murray, Gavin Kerr, Gordon Bulloch, Tom Smith. Res: Rob Russell, Bruce Douglas, Nathan Hines, Ross Beattie, Michael Blair, James McLaren, Simon Danielli.
ITALY v WALES
Canberra Stadium, 6.30pm.
TV: live Channel Seven, delayed Fox Sports 8.30pm.
BETTING: Italy $3.20, Wales $1.30.
THE LOWDOWN: Do not expect any surprises from the Italians when they take on Wales today - they have exhausted their repertoire. Coach John Kirwan says his team displayed every trick in its book as it fought to beat Canada 19-14 on Tuesday and overcome Tonga 36-12 last week. So all that's left to surprise Wales with is the Italians' determination. "I don't think we're good enough to have anything hidden," Kirwan said. "We've shown it all against these other two sides so we've just got to go out there and play like we've been playing." Italy will be fighting Wales for its first quarter-final berth in five cups. It has already achieved a tournament best of two wins and lies just one point behind the second-placed Welshmen.
TEAMS: Italy: Gonzalo Canale, Nicola Mazzucato, Cristian Stoica, Andrea Masi, Denis Dallan, Rima Wakarua, Alessandro Troncon (capt), Sergio Parisse, Aaron Persico, Andrea De Rossi, Santiago Dellape, Carlo Checchinato, Martin Castrogiovanni, Carlo Festuccia, Andrea Lo Cicero. Res: Fabio Ongaro, Salvatore Perugini, Matthew Phillips, Scott Palmer, Cristian Bezzi, Francesco Mazzariol, Mauro Bergamasco. Wales: Kevin Morgan, Mark Jones, Sonny Parker, Iestyn Harris, Gareth Thomas, Ceri Sweeney, Dwayne Peel, Colin Charvis (capt), Martyn Williams, Dafydd Jones, Gareth Llewellyn, Brent Cockbain, Adam Jones, Robin McBryde, Duncan Jones. Res: Mefin Davies, Gethin Jenkins, Robert Sidoli, Jonathan Thomas, Gareth Cooper, Stephen Jones, Rhys Williams.
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When did you start having symptoms of pregnancy? Before or after your BFP? I was reading about these people who swear they just knew a few days after conception.. So I'm sitting here reading it and thinking "How is that possible the baby hasn't even attached?"
Is it a quack , or did some of you do this?
I didn't have symptoms with either pregnancy until about 6 1/2-8 weeks

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Join fellow members for an exclusive happy hour in the Celebrity Cruises® Modern Luxury Lounge, followed by a free performance by followed by a free performance by José González and yMusic as part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
The fun kicks off at 6pm at a lively happy hour, which includes an open bar of Radeberger beer and William Hill Estate wine from 6 to 7:30pm, live DJ set by Lauren Ritter (Resolute), a Phhhoto booth, art displays by Vera List Art Project, jewelry trunk show by DIB Jewelry, and more.
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Scheisse n' Dice
Editor's note: this was originally published on Spielboy, a quarterly online journal about German games.
The German fascination with feces can be seen in many aspects of German life, from the way the trains "run" on time to the art and literature that Germans enjoy. In general, scatological references in art, film, and literature have long been used as a source of levity, not just to invoke feelings of shock or disgust, so it is no great surprise that you will find shit inside the many games you play, too.
Player elimination never felt so good as Spielboy makes a splash with this look at the mind of the German shitta.
History's Piss-stories
Many scholars point to the Reformation as the beginnings of the German obsession with cleanliness, and conversely their obsession with heaving a Havana. Among the general population, it was not uncommon for Germans in the Middle Ages to park the fudge in the street. Bodily functions play a large role in many paintings and musical and theatrical productions of the time, and metaphors of shit were common in German literature as far back as the 17th century.
The modern German fascination with bowling from the pavilion end seems to have really taken hold at the beginning of the 20th century. It was at this time that German thinkers were advocating a revolt against the Victorian ideals of diligence, cleanliness, sobriety, and honesty. This helped Neitsche's notion of aestheitic nihilism capture the imagination of the general populace and the result had a profound impact on all aspects of German culture. In 1903, author Richard Ungewitter advocated a return to ancient Greek attitudes toward nudity for hygienic and moralistic reasons. And in 1905, Paul Zimmerman opened the first resort for social and family nudism, Freilichtpark (Free Light Park). As we will see in later sections, art, film and literature also benefitted from the rejection of the Victorian mores.
Bringing Up Baby
The notion that Germans have an obsession with children's feces is well known; Alan Dundes and Friedrich von Zglinicki wrote entire books on the subject. German parents take a tremendous interest in teaching their children that poo is bad, and it is this over-emphasis on the negativity of shit that causes repression and resentment of that instruction, and often leads to a development of fecal fascination later in life.
The Toxic Excretions gene makes your amoeba's excrement bad to eat.
More info about Ursuppe Expansion.
The Stink Bean is more like the Shit Bean in Bohnanza.
More info about Bohnanza.
Many parents shower children with praise when they curl one off. The more solid, round, and dark it is, the greater the praise. For the adult, a big fat one means their child is healthy and "productive". For the child, the pile of shit represents a magnificent present to the world. It's the only thing he owns, and the only thing he can produce on his own.
Because of the importance placed on the production of shit, witholding it, then, is a childish but powerful act of defiance. By holding back a steamer, children not only test the boundaries of right and wrong, but also develop a sense of self importance and often a taste for anal eroticism. And because German parents place an especially disproportionate emphasis on drawing mud from the well, their children are at risk to grow up with a distorted view of crap.
This is also the time when children first begin to associate burying a quaker with wealth accumulation. They made it, and their parents loved them for it. Later in life, they might show this association of riches with filth when saying "so-and-so is filthy rich", "she's rolling in it", or "he's got piles of it". This notion that poop has value is illustrated by the popular but misguided Austrian alchemist Cornelius Kolig, who's attempts at early chemistry led him to try and transmute shit into gold. Innovative idea, yes, since most of his contemporaries were still working with lead (the fools!), but ultimately unsuccessful.
When you talk crap about German children, you can't avoid bringing up the theories of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He spent a considerable amount of effort comparing and contrasting the metaphorical characteristics of feces, penises, and babies. When each of these are forced out, they "stimulate a membranous passage," which is psycho-babble for "turnin' you on". In his "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (1905), Freud drew a correllation between holding your bowels and erotic stimulation. To build a log cabin feels good. To not build a log cabin feels really gooooooood.
In "On transformations of instinct as exemplified in anal erotism" (1917), Freud then cheeses off half of the planet's population by exposing women's repressed wish to possess a penis. And since the penis, the baby, and the shit are the same (like an unclean trinity), women develop the same kind of neuroses about chucking muck as men. Furthermore, because German parents place too much importance on shitting, German children grow up with an interesting dichotomy: shit feels good and represents wealth, but it's so damn stinky. Eventually, they learn to repress the positive aspects of shit and emphasize the negative, but they never fully reject an interest in shit as part of their lives. Freud observed that "it is in particular the coprophilic impulses of childhood which are submitted the most vigorously to repression."
Freud also looked at feces as a representation of past generations, whereas babies represent the present and penises represent future generations. Most people just thought he was crazy.
The Shelf Toilet
Any examination of social attitudes toward crimping off a length must also include an inspection of the bowl: the central altar on which we bend and to which our bowels pray, the pyre on which we burn our excrement in effigy and offer the ashes up to the gods. Here, Germany stands among the few nations in the world that really surprises us with a cultural oddity: the shelf toilet (known as the flachspueler or "flatflusher" toilet).
The shelf toilet is nearly identical to a standard thunder mug in all ways except one: instead of an open pool in which to drop our kids off, a shelf protrudes into the middle so that the bum cigar might rest above the water before being flushed into oblivion. The following illustrations show the difference between the American standard crap-trap and the German flachspueler:
(Images from Scott Anderson's excellent piece, German Toilets).
The flachspueler provides several benefits to the wind jammer, but also has some downsides:
Author Erica Jong writes of the shelf toilet:
I hated [the Germans'] fanatical obsession with the illusion of cleanliness. Illusion, mind you, because Germans really are not clean. ... But just go into any German toilet and you'll find a fixture unlike any other in the world. It has a cute little porcelain platform for the shit to fall on so you can inspect it before it whirls off into the watery abyss, and there is, in fact, no water in the toilet until you flush it. As a result German toilets have the strongest shit smell of any toilets anywhere.
--from Fear of Flying (1973)
From all indications, the flachspueler is not ubiquitous in Germany. In most public places, traditional open bowls are more common; the flachspueler appears mostly in residential bathrooms. For the curious traveller, several models are on display, like the doots they provide shelf space for, at the Zentrum für Aussergewohnliche Museum in Kreuth, Germany, where there is a permanent display of historic toilets.
Shit Lit 101
The use of scatology can be seen across many German forms of expression, from visual arts to literature, stand-up comedy to film.
According to Dieter and Jackqueline Rollfinke in "The Call of Human Nature", English writers rarely use scatological elements in their writing. In German literature, though, scatology appears in the works of writers such as Busch, Benn, Thomas Mann, and Kafka. Modern German literature is littered with it as they found that the use of shit metaphors and allegories is in "relative abundance".
Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitters' masterpiece was "The Merzbau": a massive interior sculpture that Schwitters created in his own house starting in the late 1910s. The Merzbau itself contains literal shit and urine, as well as the incorporaton of many kinds of detritus. The curator of the exibit once remarked, "[The Merzbau is] a kind of fecal smearing -- a sick and sickening relapse into the social irresponsibility of the infant who plays with trash and filth".
Horses leave "road apples" as they wander in the pasture, the farmers collect the "apples" hoping to use the manure in their gardens. One of the variations wants you to gather poop and trade them for carrots.
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In Ursuppe, your amoeba excrete cubes and then eat other amoeba's excretions. Delicious.
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Schwitters is described as an artist who exibited many contradictory tendencies, often simultaneously. It is just these contradictions which make opening the lunchbox so fascinating to the Germans. On the one hand, shit is an attention getter. On the other hand, it's shit and should be avoided.
The Aktionist artistic movement, which was directly influenced by the Dadaists, rose from 1960's German counter-culture scene. Artists Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus and Rudolph Schwarzkogler seemed to delight in shocking for the purpose of shocking, and in that pursuit naturally came to rely on the scatalogical. Nitsch summed it up nicely: "Through my artistic production I take upon myself all that appears negative, unsavoury, perverse and obscene, in order to spare YOU the defilement and shame entailed by the descent into the extreme."
Other German artists to use shit included Helmut Brosch and Bernd Eilts; the latter of which casually explained his use of blown mud in his artwork: "Artists are always looking for new materials and I was struck by the similarities in the consistency of the manure to my paints... I used sheep droppings at first but they were too small so I switched to cow dung."
In film, Germans were able to commit scatalogical atrocities to celluloid with remarkable flair and frequency. For example, in "Otmar Bauer Presents", the eponymous writer/director sits at a dinner table and proceeds to shit, vomit, urinate, and ejaculate into his plate and then devour it.
Then there was the controversial film "The Colour Brown" (directed by Byrnes), which was shown at 45th Sydney Film Festival. It dealt with the German fascination with cleanliness and shit as it relates to vague tendencies of racial purity and the racial conflicts of the early 1990s.
In Bonobo Beach, shitting is bad, since you score less points when your beach-goers end up near active outhouses.
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According to the translated website, "the long overdue chicken poop is here for complete gaming fun." If you fall in someone else's poo, you have to give that player all your feathers!
More info about Zicke Zacke Entenkacke.
In the vernacular, the term "German Kaviar films" refers to shit-lover movies, such as Die Kaviarklinik and Eat My Kaviar. One internet forum poster opined that "Poop porn is the backbone of the German adult film industry!"
Perhaps it's unfair to paint the many for the actions of the few. Just because a handful of artists, filmmakers, and writers wallow in shit, one should not necessarily draw the conclusion that the entire German culture rolls in the shit its artists play with. Indeed, for every Schwitters or Bauer, there is a Mapplethorpe or Waters who's fingernails are equally dirty.
But linguist Peter Farb says that the German fascination with the dishonourable discharge is clear from other aspects of German culture, too, like the national sense of humor. According to Farb, where French jokes focus on seduction and adultery, British on homosexuality and incest, and American on oral-genital contact and misogyny, German jokes focus on the bathroom and the bowel movements. A good German joke, so goes the conventional wisdom, always ends in scheisse!
Peter Ruhmkorf studied the strong fecal focus in German children's rhymes and the Rollfinkes go to great lengths to show that modern German print advertising features scatological elements more openly and regularly than any other culture.
What is important to remember, though, is that the portrayal of basic bodily functions is not just an unhealthy approach to engage the audience. When used properly, shit can be a powerful tool to convey a message, and its very use should not preclude a work from serious examination. In the words of Jae Num Lee, "scatology as such does not make a work bad or good in a thematic, moral or rhetorical sense." (Swift and Scatalogical Satire, 1971).
-- Matt @ Speilboy
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41 Comments on "Scheisse n' Dice"
What the hell? Who's the homo that deleted my post? This site is getting shitty.
Why did they drop your last post?
Wow... I haven't seen something this intelligently written on this site since, well, the last article in the Intellectual Crap section.
I have to wonder: do shelf toilets make Germans obsessed with their feces, or does German fecal obsession make them want shelf toilets? Which came first... the poop loving, or the poop loving-facilitating infrastructure?
"bowling from the pavilion end"
"drawing mud from the well"
"burying a quaker"
"standard thunder mug"
Shit on a shelf? Gimme a BREAK!!
Ty, the answer to your question could possibly be traced to the reason for adopting the shelf design. Did it beat out other designs over time and become "the People's Choice"? Or is it just a model of German efficiency; saving water and preventing backsplash at the same time?
Actually, "bowling from the pavilion end" is a euphemism for homosexuality, not pooping. Thanks for playing, though.
Absolutley wonderful submission. It made me think about the years I lived in Germany and was confronted, for the first time, with people who used cologne to cover up the fact that they hadn't showered for a while. The cleanliness mentioned in the above article, I wonder, is it European or just German?
Second, this article made me think of what happened when our daughter was hospitalized for Salmonella in a German hospital. She and a little German girl, about 9 months of age were together because of extreme diarrhea, and the parents of the little girl didn't come visit her once. I mean, not once. I ended up playing with her, because she was so lonely.
The nurse said this was normal, for a family to leave a child with this type of illness alone, and not to visit, and that Americans were the exception, wanting to stay with their kids.
Now, I wonder. Did she say that to be truthful or because she felt bad for the little girl and couldn't bash mom and dad? What type of culture leaves a kid that tiny alone because she has extreme diarrhea?
Really good article, still, and I enjoyed reading it.
.....hugging bunnies since 1969
Sehr interesant! Obwohl ich nicht deutsch bin, bin ich schweizer, es bin ungl
It's 7:30 pm here in NE Ohio. Fighter jets have been criss crossing the sky. I've heard they are also flying over the "NO FLY ZONE" OVER THE PERRY NUCLEAR PLANT! Any one know what"s goin on???
Ty: Sigh. Yes, I know it's a cricket term. It's also a term for those who "putt from the rough"; "friends of Dorothy"; botters; pansies; butt pirates; turd burglars; Hershey Highway Patrolmen; donut punchers; Nancy boys; etc.
See Roger's Profanisaurus.
Shelves are fun...for me to poop on! (literally)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt - Speech at the Hamilton Club (April 10, 1899)
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hermann Goering - Nuremburg Diary
(April 18, 1946)
The Swiss aren't as open as Germans? WFT? Dude, I lived in Switzerland (albeit the French-speaking part) for a while about a decade ago. Let me tell you, it's a pretty open place. It's the first time I ever encountered a unisex bathroom. In fact, I encountered quite a few. I'm not only a Shameful Shitter, but I suffer Bashful Kidney syndrome, so you can imagine the horror to walk into the loo and find a chick primping at the mirror, while I try to "take the Browns to the Superbowl" or even just "siphon the python."
Also, in the train station in Geneva they had a bathroom with the old "Turkish Toilet" (squat over the hole in the floor) that was just out, unenclosed, in the middle of the bathroom. And with a clear view to the door, so anybody opening it would give the folks in the train station a nice view of you pinching a loaf.
Of course, the only nice thing about Switzerland's openness was the attitude to nudity. I lived just down the street from a big public pool in Meyrin. The locker rooms were all out in the open, and as I walked to work it was pretty cool to watch the girls change, or see all the nude ones sunning themselves by the pool.
C. Everett; First: I don't know who, other than the Uberpooper himself, has editorial reign over PR.
Second: A site about poop getting shitty? That's kind of funny if you think about it.
C Everett Poop - "Who's the HOMO"? Why is that all your posts contain hatred and intolerance towards a minority group? What is it you have against gays and germans? Do you have something against Sigfried & Roy too?
C Everett; are you really an intolerant homophobe? I hadn't noticed.
Yet, another spectacular insightful remark by an old bitter fart.
I was serious when I asked that question - I thought Reynolds' post was laughable.
There was a German kid's book that got translated into English around the early '90s that shows this fascination with feces. Basically, this mole wakes up in his hole with a load of soft-serve curled up on his head, and he's really pissed off about it. So he walks around and accuses every animal he meets of shitting on his head. They deny it, and as physical evidence, drop a load right there for him to inspect and verify that it's not the right shape...
I think this tops that Japanese book, "Everyone Poops" .
Dude I experienced the the sick ass nature of the Arien fixation with poo, in Amsterdam. You have answered all my question abuot the 'shelf toilet' think you. I can rest easy now and think of tulips, a much nicer aspect of Dutch culture.
K Everett (radio/video show)- was a famous british gay comedian who died of AIDS... any relation??
What an informative article! I never knew Germans had such a fascination with crap.
They have the shelf toilets in Russia as well.
It's really a choice between smear and splatter. After all, dropping the mother load in an American toilet is similar to a "cannonball" jump from a diving board. Kerplunk!
oh how wonderful! i'm 75 percent german...my whole obsession now makes sense...
when i visited Germany, one thing my mom and i brought back was a book...about an elefant. Every day he'd make a poo, and when his birthday rolled around, he'd suddenly add a poo a day. Until he hit 50 years old; then he started making fewer poos each year. The whole book is the elefant counting his poo, and worrying about what would happen once he hit 100--would he disappear? Or never make poops again?
Translation is incorrect on Zicke Zacke Entenkacke-Enten are ducks, not chickens.
poop poop eee doop!
poop poop eee doop!
Regarding the shelf toilet, sometimes where water pressure is not great, shelf toilets have trouble removing a large, or sticky deposit from the shelf (then again, no spashback). To kill the stench, many people overseas have an airfreshener affixed to the ring of the toilet bowl.
Jammin' lo'flo's since 1977.
"Two percent of the population think; three percent of the population think they think, and 95 percent of the population would rather die than think."
The shit I am learning today alone on PR ia assmazing!!!!
Producing waste since 1967
Producing waste since 1967
im glad other people are as afraid of the shit shelf as myself. i have recently moved to berlin and my only complaint so far is the shit shelf! im afraid im gonna give myself hemorroids cuz i force myself to go to the bathroom so quickly because i want to spend the least amount of time in there as possible.
there is water in a toilet bowl for a reason! i know us americans are wastleful but really i do not see the point to the design of this toilet at all. although i just researched toilets from around the world and i guess i should be thankful that i atleast have a toilet to sit on, and i can press a button and wash everything down! im really afraid to ever get too drunk also, because then i'll be forced to be on an initimate level with my vomit the next morning too!
I was in Germany when I was 12 and don't remember these weird toilets at all. Is this something new?
Artist....If you were in Germany as a military dependent that would account for your lack of
seeing one.
Eat chilies and feel the burn!!
If I had two faces do you think I'd be wearing this one?
who is obsessed with poop here? you have a site dedicated to it, and say we germans are obsessed with it? i have never read such crap... you just see what you want to see!
Dear exactly...Jawohl wir sehen, was wir sehen wollen....but when we go to Germany we can't help but notice the little shelf in the potty that holds the turd for observation. If you bothered to read the pros and cons of this type toilet you will have noticed that more pros than cons were listed.
Now go have yourself a nice beer and some sauerkraut and try to get over it.
Eat chilies and feel the burn!!
If I had two faces do you think I'd be wearing this one?
i have one in my home. I love the poo shelf! I'm german, so not only am I owner, I'm a client.
squarepants.....Are you any kin to Sponge Bob?
Eat chilies and feel the burn!!
If I had two faces do you think I'd be wearing this one?
Nothing like German Teachnology. Are the toilets made by BMW ? Bavarian Manure Works ?
WTF? For six years you guys have been talking about German toilets and shit? I read almost every post in here and I can't believe it. First of all: That Guy who claims to be Swiss is either a liar or really stupid. He can't even write one German sentence without making a severe mistake. Second: Not visiting your children in the hospital is not a matter of culture, they are just bad parents. You can find them all over the world even in the States. Furthermore I can't remember any book from my childhood that had to do with pooping. I don't think that we Germans are more obsessed with our feces than you people (e.g. we don't start websites called poopreport). And last but not least the type of toilet you described: It is right. We use that thing. I don't know exactly why. The only reason I could think of is that you don't get your bum splashed with water when you drop the bomb.
Dear German guy, My Grandpa ThunderButt was from Switzerland and I can offer you the following information;
The language spoken in German-speaking Switzerland is quite different from standard German - called High German. The German Swiss speak Swiss German, often called "Mundart" - which itself is broken up into numerous local dialects. These are different enough to make it possible to determine where a speaker comes from, but generally not so different as to be incomprehensible to other Swiss German speakers. The dialects which give the most difficulty are those spoken in some of the remote valleys in the southern canton of Valais, but with a bit of effort from both sides even these can be understood by speakers of other Swiss German dialects.
A question for you, if you aren't obsessed with poop how did you end up on this website?
Mögen all deine Stuhlgang freudigen Anlässen werden.
Dirty old men need love too!!
If I had two faces do you think I'd be wearing this one?
Sorry, German guy, but I was told by three different nurses in Germany that it was common for nationals not to visit their children while in the hospital. I'm not going back on it.
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Eric Idle, STOMP to Be Featured on 'Olympics Closing Ceremony' CD
Universal Music labels Decca/UMC announced today the digital release of "A Symphony of British Music - Music For The Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games." While the recording is currently available for download, it will soon be released as a two-disc set and will celebrate the music of both contemporary British artists and legendary performers.
Among the artists who will be featured in the collection is Monty Python cast member Eric Idle, performing 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." The song was featured in SPAMALOT, which debuted on Broadway in 2005 and ran for over 1,500 performances. The show received 14 Tony Award nominations, winning three including Best Musical and Best Director (Mike Nichols), as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Musical.
Also included on the CD will be the cast of Stomp, featuring Timothy Spall, a Spice Girls reunion and a medley of songs from British rock band, Queen.
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5. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
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8. David Arnold - Parade Of Athletes
9. Elbow, LSO, Urban Voices Collective- Open Arms
10. Elbow, LSO, Urban Voices Collective - One Day Like This
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Michael G., Imber: Ranches, Villas, and Houses offers readers highlights from the architect's award-winning residential designs. The book also digs into Imber's process of creating these classical buildings. He begins every custom house commission with a watercolor study of the landscape where the building will sit. He uses the paintings to explore the colors, light, and textures of the site. These romantic watercolors are featured in the first section of the book and also scattered throughout the pages in conjunction with corresponding projects.
Imber introduces the beautifully illustrated volume with an essay on his personal philosophy, which informs the firm's approach. He talks about rambling road trips with his family that traversed the most remote corners of his native Texas. The arid countryside and hardened residents inspired Imber's devotion to nostalgic forms and rough, local materials. "It was this rugged landscape that forged a rich character in the people and helped shape their buildings and communities," he writes.
Once process and inspiration are revealed, the rest of the book is devoted to individual projects. Organized, as the title indicates, into sections by building type—ranches, villas, and houses—each project covers 10 to 15 pages of storylike descriptions interspersed with lush photographs, floor plans, and hand-painted or drawn renderings. Imber's firm also does interior and landscape designs for most of the projects, so images include a variety of gardens, outdoor living spaces, and cozy interior settings.
Michael G., Imber: Ranches, Villas, and Houses was published by Rizzoli New York in March. The publisher's listing price is $60.


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Citroën Visa series II
Much less idiosyncratic to look at than the original Visa, the series II was very successful, remaining in production until 1989 while the C15 light van remained in production until 2005.
In 1983, a new Visa L was introduced, together with the 1,4 litre, 168 kph Visa GT.
The next addition to the Visa range was the 1984 launch of the Diesel 17 D and 17 RD models and new names for the Super E which became either the Visa 11 E or Visa 11 RE.
In 1985 came the 1.4 litre Visa 14 and the 1,6 litre, 188 kph Visa GTi and in 1987 came the 1,0 litre Visa 10 and a new dashboard without the PRN satellite.
The Visa was superceded by the AX.
A number of sports versions were built too including the 135 bhp Chrono and 4 x 4 Mille Pistes both of which proved very successful in competition.
A rag top décapotable was also built.
A bootleg, three cylinder copy of the Visa was built in China.
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Shares in diversified industrialist Alesco Corp gained 3 per cent yesterday after the company upgraded its forecast half-year net profit.
Alesco shares, up as high as $5.65 during the day, ended 18c higher at a record close of $5.57.
The company expects net profit for the half year to November 30 will rise by more than 60 per cent to $10.3 million, compared with $6.4 million for the previous corresponding six months.
It said the new forecast equated to an earnings per share (EPS), pre goodwill amortisation and significant items, of 29.5c a share, 31 per cent up on the prior corresponding period of 22.5c a share.
Alesco, which distributes automotive parts, building products, earthmoving tyres, and scientific and testing equipment, said the new earnings guidance was an upgraded forecast following the one provided at the annual general meeting on September 10.
Chief executive Kevin Clark said Alesco flagged to the market at the annual general meeting in September that Alesco was budgeting for similar profit growth to last year's.
"What we flagged to the market was we would deliver around 10 per cent EPS growth for the full year," Mr Clark said.
"Some people have been saying that translates to a higher first-half improvement of around 10 per cent, so when we looked as though we are going to do 20 per cent for the year and 30 per cent for the half, clearly we were way ahead of ourselves.
"It was quite important to clarify it with the market."
Mr Clark said Alesco was trading well and was showing the benefits of buoyant trading conditions, supply chain and productivity initiatives and a stronger Australian dollar."
Two recent acquisitions - Biolab and Robinhood - were performing ahead of expectations.
The new forecast excluded the one-off gain to be recognised on the sale of the company's investment in Marlows, which was announced in February.
Alesco will announce its half- year results on January 28 next year.
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The capsule drug ring (CDR) is a reservoir and delivery agent, which is designed to be placed within the capsular bag during cataract surgery. Prototypes were manufactured by hot melt extrusion of Bionate II®, a polycarbonate urethane. The devices have been optimized using Avastin® as the drug of interest.
Of the diseases that result in vision loss, those which affect the retina and retinal function are of particular research interest due to the resultant permanent loss of visual function for which there is no definitive treatment. Current therapies restrict the progression of the disease, but due to limitations inherent in current pharmaceutical delivery modalities, cannot cure it [
The primary location of pharmaceutical action for the treatment of AMD is the posterior segment and the retina, with particular focus on the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The primary goal of treatment is to preserve the macula. While there are multiple methods of treatment under investigation, the current clinical treatment for this disease is indefinite frequent intravitreal injections (
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Glaucoma methods of treatment are shown.
Current treatments of AMD focus on pharmacological approaches. Due to the impact of angiogenesis in wet AMD, a significant amount of successful research has been focused on the use of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapies as viable treatments for patients [
Currently, there are implantable intraocular drug delivery devices on the market, but none of these commercialized ocular drug delivery devices deliver anti-VEGF; nor are they refillable, versatile and implantable by general ophthalmologists. In addition, these devices target AMD, which is the leading cause of blindness in the United States [
To test our idea of an implantable permanent intraocular drug delivery device we chose materials, which have shown
The CDR devices were manufactured of three materials: Bionate II®, polyethersulfone and Loctite® 4307™. Bionate II (DSM-Biomedical, Berkeley, CA, USA) 80A, a polycarbonate urethane (PCU) was synthesized by DSM Biomedical into pellets using DSM's proprietary technology and subsequently extruded into tubes using hot melt extrusion (Haake Minilab II Micro Compounder, Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). Tubing was extruded using a long land die (Guill Tool and Engineering, West Warwick, RI, USA) with a 0.750 outer diameter (420 SS) and a bullet nose tip. As the Bionate II tubing was extruded from the dye, it was wrapped around an 8 mm pipe to incorporate the correct inner and outer diameters into the polymer before fully setting. This extrusion/die setup formed tubing with an outer diameter of 1.4 mm, a wall thickness of 0.2 mm and an inner diameter of 1.0 mm (
Polyethersulfone (PES) (Sterlitech, PES0032005) was purchased from Sterlitech Corporation (Kent, WA, USA). The membrane has passed USP Class VI tests and is commonly used for hemodialysis membrane filters. The PES filter had 30nm pore-sized holes at a density of ~70%. Loctite 4307 (Henkel Corporation, Düsseldorf, Germany), a UV sensitive medical grade adhesive, has a history of being used in medical devices and is ISO 10993 compliant. This material served as the medium of adhesion between the Bionate II tubing and the PES membrane. The CDR's were assembled by cutting the Bionate II tubing into 360° segments, yielding a circular area of 0.79 mm2. PES membranes were cut to fit around one of the two open ends of the tubing segment and adhered into place using Loctite 4307. The other end of tubing was sealed closed using a heat press. CDRs were then cleansed by rinsing the devices three times in 200 proof ethanol. The devices were dried between each rinse. The devices were then sterilized using standard ethylene oxide treatment methods as part of a larger batch for the University of Utah medical hospital.
After manufacture, the devices were tested for presence of endotoxin. CDR device components and fully manufactured devices were placed in LAL water in separate endotoxin free containers and placed on a shaker plate at room temperature for 3 days. The samples were then placed in sonication for two hours and thirty minutes at 37 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, a standard curve was formed from known endotoxin concentrations of 0, 0.005, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5 and 50 EU/mL. Afterwards, the rinsate from the samples was extracted. The filter began to degrade after sonication and was centrifuged at 13,000 RCF to remove debris, and the supernatant was used for the experiment. Each sample rinsate was read using a microplate reader at 405 nm. The reaction onset time of each sample was recorded at n = 3. The onset time is the time taken to reach the OD value (usually 0.03 OD units). Using the standard curve, the endotoxin levels of the samples were determined.
To predict the
A preliminary
Ocular drug distribution was gathered upon sacrifice of the rabbits at the predetermined time points. These data can be seen in
Despite not being currently FDA approved for ocular applications, Avastin (bevacizumab; Genentech, San Francisco, CA, USA) was used as the pharmacological agent in this study. Lucentis® (ranibizumab; Genentech, San Francisco, CA, USA), the Fab fragment of Avastin, is an FDA-approved treatment for AMD. While Lucentis is a prescription medicine for the treatment of AMD, Avastin is being investigated as a lower-cost potential alternative therapy and is often used off-label for the clinical treatment of AMD [
Our CDR devices were designed and manufactured to be placed within the capsular bags of cataract patients prior to IOL insertion. In order to be successful, the devices have very specific size requirements. To that end, polymer tubes were extruded with an outer diameter of 1.4 mm, a wall thickness of 0.2 mm and an inner diameter of 1.0 mm. This allowed for the devices to fit around the periphery of the capsular bag, maximizing reservoir size without obstructing vision. Standard electron microscopy (SEM) was performed on the devices to show appropriate adhesion of Bionate II to PES filters to confirm that the reservoir contents were not leaking from the device, but were indeed being released only through the membrane, which was carefully selected to generate our desired drug release kinetics. SEM also confirmed that adhesive did not foul our PES filter restricting drug flow from the device (
Standard electron microscopy (SEM) images show appropriate adhesion of Bionate II tubing using to the device membrane. Bionate II is shown in red, UV adhesive is shown in blue, the polyethersulfone (PES) membrane is highlighted in green and the SEM mount is shown in dark grey.
Manufactured CDRs should be free of adventitious microbial agents for the protection of ocular tissues and for the reduction of the host inflammatory and immune responses. Adventitious microbial could be introduced by the raw CDR materials or the manufacture process. In an attempt to reduce microbial presence, the CDRs were treated with ethanol washes and ethylene oxide after manufacture. In order to determine the efficacy of this method of cleansing, the manufacture method of the device and the raw CDR materials were tested for contamination with endotoxin. Endotoxins are the lipo-polysaccharides (LPS) from Gram-negative bacteria. Endotoxin assays test for the presence of viable Gram-negative bacteria and additionally detect the LPS from dead Gram-negative bacteria. LPS is one of the most common causes of toxic reactions due to the presence of pyrogens. Therefore, the absence of detected LPS indicates an absence of pyrogens. For this study, samples of each material and fully manufactured CDRs were quantified for endotoxin presence using a Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) assay. The result of the assay is shown in
Endotoxin contamination levels of each component of the Capsule Drug Ring (CDR). Each component is at levels that are considered to be endotoxin free (< 0.5 EU/mL).
The interface between an implanted material and the surrounding biological tissue is the site of action wherein the host's response to an implant is most markedly manifested. Materials implanted into both hard and soft tissues generate some degree of cellular response. The severity of the host's response to an implant can be attributed to a number of factors, including the surgical technique, the size, shape and surface properties of the implant and the nature of the tissues at the implant location. The interfacial interactions are a major factor in determining the success or failure of an implant. Therefore, the determination of an implant's impact on the host tissues is important to evaluate. This impact can only fully be anticipated through statistically powered
L-929 fibroblasts were incubated on each surface and growth media was quantified 1, 3 and 5 days post-incubation for inflammatory cytokines (
MCP-1 and TGF-β1 proinflammatory cytokines produced by L-929 fibroblasts were quantified by cytometric bead array (CBA) and are compared to cells cultured on tissue culture polystyrene.
J774A.1 macrophages were cultured experimentally similar to the L-929 fibroblasts, and media was harvested and quantified for days 1, 3 and 5. MCP-1, TNF, MIP-1α and MIP-1β proinflammatory cytokines were measured using CBA (
It should be noted that cellular adhesion is also an important indicator of material biocompatibility. During this study, this property was not implicitly measured for quantitative analysis, but a qualitative analysis shows cellular adhesion on each material surface to be comparable. Macrophage cell adhesion was unaffected by the material type, showing similar growth and adhesion on each of the materials. Fibroblast cellular adhesion appears to be impacted by each of the materials, resulting in a slight morphological change despite remaining viable.
MCP-1, TNF, MIP-1α and MIP-1β proinflammatory cytokines produced by J774A.1 macrophages were quantified by CBA and are compared to cells cultured on tissue culture polystyrene.
Surface roughness was measured for samples of TCPS, Bionate II and Vitrostealth-coated Bionate II. Contact angle measurements were also taken for TCPS and Bionate II samples. These data are shown in
Surface measurements of roughness and hydrophilicity.
|Surface roughness (Ra, Å)
|RMS roughness (Rq, Å)
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|177.7 ± 46.6
|227.1 ± 62.6
|76.5 ± 2.3
|Bionate II
|754.3 ± 372.2
|953.5 ± 452.3
|77.0 ± 2.5
|98.8 ± 36.4
|123.1 ± 47.0
The current standard of care for the treatment of AMD is monthly intravitreal injections of Lucentis (ranibizumab; Genentech). However, Avastin (bevacizumab; Genentech) is a drug that is increasingly being used off label as a replacement for Lucentis for AMD treatment. For our drug release kinetics assessments, we have used Avastin. For clinical treatment, each monthly bolus injection contains 1.25 mg, and thus, the daily rate delivered is 41.7 μg/day. We used this as an initial target rate to be further refined with future
Drug release for the CDR was assessed
CDR sustained drug release was quantified by measuring Avastin release over time. (
Today AMD continues to be the leading cause of blindness and significant visual impairment in developed nations. While current treatments are able to slow the progression of the disease and improve the quality of life of many patients, the treatment process is far from perfect. Significant improvement can be made in patient health outcomes through the development of an extended release device. The development of the Capsule Drug Ring continues to be a work in progress, but preliminary results of key
The results of this study show the successful manufacture of the CDR, a potentially refillable drug delivery device. The device is able to deliver Avastin out to 90+ days, while showing acceptable biocompatibility. With a strategy of refilling the device only once over this 90 day period, the burden of the cost of healthcare resulting from AMD treatments could be reduced by 25%.


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Do you want to skype with a friend halfway around the world? Do you need to monitor your blood sugar levels? Did you forget your airplane ticket in the car on the way to the airport? Don't worry, there's an app for that.
Today, there seems to be a mobile application for just about anything. In a recent report by Distimo (Utrecht, Netherland), a company focused on analyzing app store markets, it found that nearly all app stores more than doubled the number of available apps in 2011. Combined, there are over one million mobile applications offered through smartphones and tablets.
Below is a list of the top 10 mobile apps of 2010 based on amount of downloads. The list takes into account both free and paid versions of the applications.
Of the top 10 most downloaded apps in 2011, three are social media and four are games. According to the report, the games category is the largest app category in most app stores, and subsequently generated the most downloads. According to Distimo, the three largest stores for games are the Apple app store for the iPhone (79,000 games), the Android app story (45,000 games) and the Apple app store for the iPad (28,700 games).
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'Mad Men' Season 6 Premiere: 10 Biggest Moments From Season 5
It's been a heck of a long time sincethe Mad Men season 5 finale aired (okay, fine, 10 months), and if your memory is shoddy as ours is, you're going to need a little primer heading into tonight's much-anticipated premiere.
Remember when Don's new wife Megan sang en francais? Or when his old wife Betty got kind of, you know, fat?
Below, check out the eight most memorable moments from season 5 for the ultimate Mad Men refresher course.
Megan Sings …
Whatever your opinion of Megan is, it's hard to argue that she was the centerpiece of season 5, which kicked off with her seductive, if slightly off-key, rendition of 'Zou Bisou Bisou.' Tres bien.
… And Then She Quits
Despite the potential for a promising career at Sterling Draper Cooper Price, Megan decides to quit the firm to pursue a career in acting, instead, leaving the fate of the feminist movement in question.
Peggy Quits, Too
What do you do when you're fed up with a co-worker like Don Draper? Why, you get another job, of course! That's exactly what Peggy did at the tail-end of the season. In doing so, she not only severed her testy working relationship with Don, she forever altered the dynamic of the show.
Lane Puts Pete In His Place
After a boardroom meeting takes a turn for the testy, Lance challenges Pete to a fight and knocks him to the ground in the process. It took five seasons to happen, but at least someone finally did it.
Lane Says Goodbye
Of course, Lane's success was short-lived in season 5. In fact, no one quite had a rougher go than he did after he landed himself in a heat of financial debt. His quick-fix attempt (he cashed his Christmas bonus early without telling anybody) got him sacked by Don and led him to hang himself in his office.
Betty Gains Weight
In a startling twist, Don Draper's notoriously petite ex-wife, Betty, returns to the show about 50 pounds heavier. One cancer scare later, Betty decides to shed the pounds (but keep the attitude, of course) by joining Weight Watchers.
Pete Has An Affair With Rory Gilmore
Pete's seemingly happy marriage to Trudy hits a rough patch when he gets involved with the married woman of a fellow-commuter. On the show, the affair ends tragically. (Beth undergoes electroshock therapy to treat her depression, and loses memory of Pete as a result.) In real life, it led to the engagement of stars Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel.
Joan's Bad Marriage Ends Badly
Joan's marriage falls apart when her deadbeat husband, Greg, returns from Vietnam, only to return again, voluntarily. Fed up with his deadbeatness (come on, Greg sucked), Joan agrees to end the marriage, leaving her to raise their child alone.
Joan Makes A Devastating Decision
While the end of Joan's marriage was a great feminist moment, it left her with a whole lot of responsibilities — not to mention bills to pay. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Joan heartbreakingly agrees to spend the night with a Jaguar executive — and makes partner in return.
Don Takes Life's Ultimate Test
Is Don Draper a changed man? Can he stay faithful to Megan? That's the question we're left with in the final scene of season 5, when a pretty girl walks into a bar and catches Don's eye. Odds are, Don will finally keep it in his pants, but with that guy, you never can tell.
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Traditional wet flies ruled they waters for most of fly fishing history, but these effective patterns have been over-looked by a generation of fly tiers and anglers.
In Advanced Classic Wet Flies, part of The New Hooked On Fly Tying Series, Don Bastian introduces his prorietary and unique method of material handling to simplify the assembly and construction of the married wing trout flies. His new technique eliminates the confusion and difficulty often associated with handling wing quill and tail slips.
Patterns covered by Advanced Classic Wet Flies with Don Bastian (DVD) include:
Don Bastian has been a fly fishing guide and instructor in his home state of Pennsylvania for 15 years and has be teaching fly tying for over 25 years. The book Forgotten Flies (2000) features photographs of Don's reproductions of 499 wet fly patterns from the Ray Bergman book Trout (1938).
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Kyle Hendricks might be a lot closer to Greg Maddux than he thinks.
One of the challenges of bringing BP's new pitching data to light is figuring out whether it's useful and how we can leverage it to better understand what is happening on the field. As mentioned previously, we look at this in much the same way we look at pitch movement or velocity; we need to figure out how these tunnels data points interact with other components of a player's performance to unlock a deeper understanding of what is happening.
Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks is a perfect subject to start with. As we mentioned in "Two Ways to Tunnel," Hendricks has some of the smallest pitch tunnels in all of baseball. Hendricks is often compared to Greg Maddux (including by us!), and we can see how he is in fact like Maddux in certain respects. It gives us an idea of how he's successful, but only an abstract one. That is, we rationalize Hendricks' success because we've seen Maddux do it before, but we don't really know how all of the moving pieces come together.
In order to better understand how Hendricks is successful, we'll have to dig into some of our new data to see what that can tell us about how he pitches.
Hendricks has steadily learned how to strike out opposing batters, increasing his K% by 55 percent from 2014 to 2015 and 2016, and it's clear the effect that has had on his game. In fact, Hendricks' new-found ability to strike batters out has resulted in him becoming one of the best pitchers in baseball as he has posted a sub-3.50 DRA over each of the past two seasons despite getting dinged for pitching (and winning an ERA title) in front of an elite defense.
January 25, 2017 6:00 am
Tunneling from Greg Maddux and Barry Zito to Kyle Hendricks and Rich Hill, and everything in between.
The new pitch tunnels data released by Baseball Prospectus gives us a new glimpse into the repertoires of pitchers across the major leagues. Of course, this data is only as useful as the analysis it helps produce. To showcase how pitch tunnels data can help us better understand the success, or lack thereof, of certain pitchers, we'll need to better understand how pitch tunnels manifest themselves in the real world.
The title of this article— "Two Ways to Tunnel"—already signals that there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to this new data. While game theory might suggest that each individual pitcher has an optimal approach (or approaches), there can be dramatic differences in how different pitchers attack major-league hitters. As such, we should look at this tunnels data much like we would PITCHf/x data. It's descriptive, and there are many ways to interpret and utilize the data.
We'll use modern pitchers to explain these concepts with requisite data, but first it's worth revisiting a historical example. Jeff Long's very first post for BP over two years ago included the following quote about Greg Maddux, the patron saint of tunneling (yes, we know the majority of this quote is included in the introductory post about pitch tunnels, but it's so good that it merits inclusion once again):
January 24, 2017 6:00 am
Greg Maddux was on to something, whether he knew it or not.
One day I sat a dozen feet behind Maddux's catcher as three Braves pitchers, all in a row, did their throwing sessions side-by-side. Lefty Steve Avery made his catcher's glove explode with noise from his 95-mph fastball. His curve looked like it broke a foot-and-a-half. He was terrifying. Yet I could barely tell the difference between Greg's pitches. Was that a slider, a changeup, a two-seam or four-seam fastball? Maddux certainly looked better than most college pitchers, but not much. Nothing was scary.
Afterward, I asked him how it went, how he felt, everything except "Is your arm okay?" He picked up the tone. With a cocked grin, like a Mad Dog whose table scrap doesn't taste quite right, he said, "That's all I got."
Then he explained that I couldn't tell his pitches apart because his goal was late quick break, not big impressive break. The bigger the break, the sooner the ball must start to swerve and the more milliseconds the hitter has to react; the later the break, the less reaction time. Deny the batter as much information—speed or type of last-instant deviation—until it is almost too late.
- "Greg Maddux used methodical approach to get to Cooperstown" by Thomas Boswell
Greg Maddux may have known about the concept of pitch tunnels. He may not have. Regardless, he knew how to put the concept into practice, and really that's the important part. Maddux:
January 23, 2017 6:00 am
Introducing new tools to evaluate command and control through the lens of strikes.
About a year and a half ago, Baseball Prospectus revealed a suite of catching stats that formed the basis for our industry-leading valuation of catchers. These new stats would shape how we perceived and discussed catcher value, but they also opened the door to better understanding the performance of pitchers.
Two key statistics—CSAA and CS Prob—serve as the basis for the pitch framing portion of our catching metrics. Today, we'll show how those same statistics can tell us a great deal about pitching as well. CS Prob was initially introduced in 2014 with Harry Pavlidis and Dan Brooks' first catcher framing model. Early the next year, Jonathan Judge joined the effort and the team introduced CSAA, officially moving our framing models beyond WOWY.
Of the two, CS Prob—short for Called Strike Probability—is the more straightforward: the likelihood of a given pitch being a strike. CS Prob goes beyond what the strike zone ought to be and instead reflects what it is: a set of probabilities that depends on batter and pitcher handedness, pitch location, pitch type, and count. Good pitchers understand that while the strike zone is a dynamic construct, it nonetheless has some consistencies depending on which combinations of these factors are present. We calculate CS Prob for every pitch regardless of the eventual outcome.
The other statistic, CSAA, stands for Called Strikes Above Average; a measure of how many called strikes the player in question creates for his team. In the case of catchers, we isolate the effects of the pitcher, umpire, and other situational factors which allows us to identify how many additional called strikes the catcher is generating, above or below average. For catchers, this skill is commonly described as "framing" or, in more polite company, "presentation."
For pitchers, we can apply a similar methodology—controlling for the catcher, umpire, etc. to identify the additional called strikes created by the pitcher. CSAA is calculated only on taken pitches, an important nuance. A pitch must be taken in order to be eligible to be called a strike by the umpire, so while CS Prob looks at all pitches, CSAA only takes into account pitches where the outcome is left up to the umpire.
What can these two statistics tell us about pitcher performance and skill? First, we should define a few important things:
February 12, 2016 4:46 pm
A closer look at some of the statistics and projections that are new in Baseball Prospectus 2016.
January 12, 2016 6:00 am
Today, we take our catching-defense offerings to some pretty exciting places.
It's Catcher Day at Baseball Prospectus, as we celebrate the expansion—both in method and in scope—of our new catching statistics. Given the age and breadth of some of these stats, we truly feel as if we are debuting our large adult child.
The statistics both apply to and measure players other than catchers, but they are all perhaps most important to catchers as we measure their total value to a team. The statistics are four-fold, covering three critical catching skills:
1. Running Game
a. Swipe Rate Above Average (SRAA) – the effect of the player on base-stealing success;
b. Takeoff Rate Above Average (TRAA) – the effect of the player on base-stealing attempts;
2. Blocking Pitches
The head of our stats team dives into his favorite gems within this new world of data.
As we prepared for Catchella, I spent a fair amount of time sifting through the data—65 years of it, to be exact. There are many stories and analyses to run, but there are just a bunch of fun things that I noticed while playing in the sandbox.
Brad Ausmus is one of the most durable and valuable receivers on record: 1st in blocking runs, 2nd in framing runs, 11th in throwing runs, 1st in total runs...suddenly on the fringe of the Hall of Fame. Is he more Mark Belanger or Ozzie Smith? Either way, the man managing the Tigers these days hasn't completely given up the tools of ignorance.
November 25, 2015 6:00 am
To make things better.
Our objective at BP Stats is to provide sophisticated and useful metrics. Our mission is to do this while working transparently. Part of this involves reviewing what we have. As much—if not more—is about building new things.
Today we arrive at an update to FRAA—Fielding Runs Above Average—that represents both lanes of the process. FRAA is the metric we use at BP to measure the defensive contributions made by players in the field. In reviewing what we had, we found something we really needed to fix—outfield assists were not being counted in FRAA. We're also adding some new metrics for catcher throwing skills (SRAA and TRAA) along with the framing and blocking metrics (CSAA and EPAA) we already were adding. This will allow FRAA to reflect player defense across a variety of important spectrums.
All of these improvements are happening even while we work on the next generation of FRAA using some of the techniques that have produced things like DRA and CSAA. This new version of FRAA will be the next "old" version if our offseason projects go well.
Zoom Out: WARP
A quick review of how we make our Wins Above Replacement Player (WARP) metric. Here's how we generate WARP, in two parts.
June 10, 2015 6:00 am
You asked about DRA; we've got answers.
About six weeks ago, we introduced you to Deserved Run Average (DRA),1 our new metric for evaluating past pitcher performance at Baseball Prospectus. We gave you both the overview of why a new pitcher performance metric was needed and explained in detail how the metric worked and the equations we were using to get there. We even subjected one of the authors to intense questioning.
After considering the comments we received and a few additional thoughts of our own, we've made some minor revisions. Many readers also asked us for a "DRA minus" statistic that would allow them compare different pitcher seasons across different years and eras. We've done that too.
Finally, other readers asked that we break down some examples of DRA value calculations so that even if you can't (or don't want to) do the modeling yourself, you at least understand why DRA acts in the way it does, and why it does a better job than ERA and FIP in evaluating pitcher quality. We'll take these topics in order.
A Refresher
DRA is premised on the notion that while a pitcher is probably the player most responsible, on average, for what happens while he is on the mound, he is not responsible for everything. DRA therefore only assigns the runs a pitcher most likely deserved to be charged with.
DRA works through a multi-step process.
April 29, 2015 5:30 am
Baseball Prospectus is excited to announce what we believe to be the best measure of pitching ever, as well as advances in measuring pitchers' effectiveness stifling basestealers and avoiding errant pitches.
Baseball Prospectus' Director of Technology Harry Pavlidis will be chatting with readers Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. If you have any questions after reading this overview of Deserved Run Average, ask them here.
But ERA has a problem: it essentially blames (or credits) the pitcher for everything, simply because he threw the pitch that started the play. Sometimes, that is fair. If a pitcher throws a wild pitch, he can't blame the right fielder for that. And if a pitcher grooves one down the middle of the plate, chances are that's on him too. Not too many catchers request those.
However, most plays in baseball don't involve wild pitches or gopher balls. Moreover, things often happen that are not the pitcher's fault at all. Sometimes the pitcher throws strikes the umpire incorrectly calls balls. Other times they induce grounders their infielders aren't adept enough to grab. And still other times, a routine fly ball leaves the park on a hot night at a batter-friendly stadium.
ERA doesn't account for any of that. It just tells us, in summary fashion, how many runs were "charged" to the pitcher "of record." And so, a starting pitcher who departs with a runner on first gets charged with that run even if the reliever walks the next three batters. The same starter would get charged if the reliever makes a good pitch, but the shortstop can't turn a double play. And none of these runs count at all if they are "unearned"— an exclusion by which the home team's scorer decides whether a fielder demonstrated "ordinary effort."
The list of problems goes on. Pitchers who load the bases but escape are treated the same as pitchers who strike out the side. Pitchers with great catchers get borderline calls. Guys who can't catch a break for months show immense "improvement." Guys who are average one year wash out the next. ERA, in short, can be a bit of a mess, particularly when we have only a few months of data to consider.
February 5, 2015 6:00 am
We move ever closer to a catcher-framing metric that captures a player's true value.
Last year, Baseball Prospectus introduced our Regressed Probabilistic Model (or "RPM") for catcher pitch-framing. RPM uses PITCHf/x data to increase the measured accuracy of the actual contributions made by catchers. But RPM also suffered from two limitations. First, because PITCHf/x data was not publicly available before 2008, RPM could only measure catcher framing from recent seasons. Second, it relied primarily on a piecemeal approach to identifying the individual contributions of pitchers, umpires and catchers.
This year, we are pleased to announce an improvement that will address both limitations. We propose to move RPM from a "With or Without You" (WOWY) comparison method to a mixed model we call "CSAA" —"Called Strikes Above Average." This new model allows simultaneous consideration of pitcher, catcher, batter, umpire, PITCHf/x, and other data for each taken pitch over the course of a season, and by controlling for each of their respective contributions will predict how many called strikes above (or below) average each such participant was worth during a particular season. Although PITCHf/x data is preferable when available, the mixed model (in a revised, "Retro" form) will allow us to live without it when need be, permitting us to project regressed framing of catchers all the way back to 1988, when pitch counts were first officially tracked.[1] This same technique developed for Retrosheet can also be applied to recent minor-league data to provide an even deeper view into the progression and value of this skill.
October 13, 2014 6:00 am
An experimental broadcast with a sabermetric slant got off to a slow start, but some 'in-game' adjustments gives us hope.
The news of a saber-oriented broadcast option for Game One of the NLCS gave me some mixed feelings. While it is always promising when a major broadcaster embraces "advanced" metrics, it's a little disheartening for it to be a separate offering, rather than something integrated with the primary broadcast.
Host Kevin Burkhardt was joined by a solid panel, including some of our friends. Padres manager Bud Black had the least broadcast experience of the group but offered the perspective of how advanced metrics are actually applied or understood by the men in the uniforms. Well known saber-scribe Rob Neyer was there, a man well-versed in communicating the subject matter at hand, along with two former big leaguers with a strong curiosity and appreciation of sabermetrics, Gabe Kapler and C.J. Nitkowski. Kapler, the former position player, has managing experience in pro ball. Nitkowski was a well traveled pitcher whose career included time in Japan.


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Storm lose game, control of playoff destiny
Terrance Taylor's deflection led to Terrance Sanders interception return for a touchdown, which unfortunately might lead to the Tampa Bay Storm missing the playoffs.
After Tampa Bay's offense withstood the tough road conditions in Spokane for three quarters Monday night, one play turned the fate of the game and perhaps the Storm's season. Sanders' pick-six, after good pressure from NG Taylor, gave Spokane its first lead of the game, one it would never give up in a 55-52 victory late Monday.
The Storm's third straight loss means they now need help to get into the postseason. Namely Philadelphia must lose to Pittsburgh Saturday, and the Storm must defeat 16-1 Cleveland. Pittsburgh is 14-3 so the help isn't the most out of the question, but the Storm beating Cleveland won't be easy.
For a long time Monday it looked like the Storm would be helping themselves. Tampa Bay scored every time it had the ball, and when Joe Hills caught a daring long pass on fourth down for a 39-yard TD it was 45-34. But Spokane quickly answered and then got the defensive score beginning the fourth quarter for a 48-45 lead.
Storm QB Randy Hippeard was knocked down hard by Taylor on the field, and appeared a bit woozy still on the next possession. Sure enough he was a bit off on his throws and Spokane earned a turnover on downs. After Shock QB Erik Meyer ran in for a 55-45 lead the Storm took too long to score, with Hills' 2nd TD of the night coming with :44 remaining.
Tampa Bay needed to either recover an onside kick -- which it didn't -- or hold Spokane to negative yardage on one of its next three snaps to stop the clock. It couldn't and Spokane (10-7) prevailed.
The Storm's only chance to make the playoffs is to have Philadelphia lose, followed by the Storm beating a 16-1 Cleveland team. The Philly-Pittsburgh game kicks off at 5 p.m. Saturday with the Storm starting at 7:30, so Tampa Bay will know its fate sometime in the first quarter.
Hills caught two of Hippeard's five touchdown passes. The Storm looked to have taken control of the game late in the first half. Hippeard snuck in for a score with :37 left for a 28-20 lead, and then new DB signing Randall Burden made a big interception to set up Juan Bongarra's field goal with three seconds left.
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Forty-one-year-old William Preston was arraigned Thursday in Garfield County District Court.
The woman told police Preston tried to attack her with the knife on July fifth, but she took it from him and stabbed him in the arm.
Because of two prior felony convictions, Preston could receive ten years to life in prison.
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I am wondering if maybe I can add volume through non-surgical nose job, to correct the pinch in my nose in the front, and on the top of my nose to create more of a ski slope and to make it more squared instead of "V" shaped? Thank you.
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Non-surgical rhinoplasty to lift a droopy nose
Non-surgical rhinoplasty is performed by adding small amounts of injectable material deep to the nasal skin. Results are temporary as the material is slowly absorbed by your body. Typically, the bridge of the nose and bony areas are best treated with this method to filler subtle irregularities. Ideally, injectable fillers should never be placed in the tip of the nose.
Yes, one may be able to add volume and lift the nasal tip via non-surgical rhinoplasty. However, a pinched nose or changing the tip shape should be performed via traditional rhinoplasty surgery.
Based on the single photograph, I don't think non-surgical rhinoplasty would be appropriate for you. Speak with a rhinoplasty surgeon to perform a comprehensive evaluation and determine which rhinoplasty method is appropriate for you.
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Based on your wants, description, and photo, I do not think a Non-Surgical Rhinoplasty would be your best option.
The photo shows wideness of the lower two-thirds of your nose, and this cannot be narrowed by adding volume. I do not appreciate the pinched appearance you're describing.
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What to Watch: Easy As Pie on Barefoot Contessa and Bobby Grills a Vegetarian Menuby Nikhita Mahtani in Shows, July 25th, 2014
From indulgent vacation recipes to healthy twists on old favorites, Food Network has you covered this weekend.
First, join Ree Drummond as she fixes up some manly recipes for her boys on The Pioneer Woman on Saturday. Next, join the gang on The Kitchen as they take you on a vacation right in your own home with tropical meal and cocktail ideas.
On Sunday, learn the art of pie-making with Ina Garten on a new season of Barefoot Contessa, then find out how to pack a nutritional punch in your favorite dishes with Bobby Flay on Barbecue Addiction: Bobby's Basics. The fun continues on Sunday night, with three whole hours of competition shows – tune in to new episodes of Guy's Grocery Games, Food Network Star and Cutthroat Kitchen.
The boys and their friends are fixing up a man cave on the ranch, and Ree's feeding them during the remodeling. There are Chicken Bacon Ranch Paninis for lunch, then Steak Fingers with Gravy alongside a Mini Chopped Salad and Crazy Brownies for dinner.
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The Kitchen: The Staycation Show
Jeff Mauro kicks off the staycation show with an island-inspired Jerk Chicken. The crew showcases global gadgets they've collected from their culinary travels. Geoffrey Zakarian makes his luxurious, buttery, Lobster Roll recipes, and Katie Lee creates DIY spa treatments with ingredients from your kitchen. Sunny Anderson throws an easy DIY Korean BBQ party, and Geoffrey caps off the staycation with a refreshing Strawberry-Ginger Daiquiri.
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Barefoot Contessa: Easy As Pie
Baking and blooms are on the menu as Ina shares the secrets of pie making with her friend Michael in exchange for some floristry magic. There are Raspberry Corn Muffins to welcome him to the barn, then Ina shows him how to make foolproof pie crust, a fabulous Fresh Blueberry Pie and a Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie. Then from flour to flowers, it's over to Michael's where he shows Ina the secrets of a show-stopping table centerpiece.
Sunday 10a|9c
Barbecue Addiction: Bobby's Basics – Veggie Delight
Chef Bobby offers simple steps for creating a healthy, vegetarian-style menu that packs flavor. First, he creates a Portobello "Pizza" Nicoise, reimagining pizza as a meaty portobello mushroom with Mediterranean toppings. Next he showcases one of his favorite shortcuts for flavorful dressings, with his White Chicory Salad with Apricot Dressing and Grilled Whole Wheat Pita Croutons recipe. Bobby also has a healthier version of a fruity and creamy dessert – Strawberry-Rhubarb Greek Yogurt Fool – and a spin on a Vodka and Orange cocktail.
Sunday 11a|10c
Guy's Grocery Games: Around the World in Three Carts
In Game 1, take a trip around the world as the chefs create an international dish using items found only in the Clearance Carts. Next, the chefs set out to make a delicious dessert, but Guy surprises them with a savory Red Light Special. In the final game, the chefs try to make their best dish in the letter-limiting challenge, ABC. Whichever chef uses his or her spelling and culinary skills the best will go on to play for $20,000 in the Shopping Spree.
Sunday 8|7c
Food Network Star: Rachael Ray Show
Testing their abilities to think on their feet and react to any situation thrown at them, the finalists are tasked with solving a culinary problem for a Rachael Ray viewer. They must each create a dish that addresses the viewer's problem, and then perform a demo of the dish on The Rachael Ray Show. The Selection Committee watches the action backstage and determines who will continue forward.
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Cutthroat Kitchen: I Like My Peppers Pulverized
It's tough to smoke out the competition when forced to use a cigar cutter to make a Cubano sandwich. Then two chefs get up close and personal when stuffed like peppers into a very confined workspace. Finally, one chef must make a tiramisu using coffee filters and stirrers as his or her only tools.
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