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Last night I posted a thread with a poll and ten hours later it is gone.
I have a list of questions but I will just ask one...
I am pretty sure it aint gone, though it might have been merged with another thread, I am sure the admin responsible will tell you.
You all have to understand however that if in our opinion the topic is already posted n times that we merge threads
If we didn't our board would now look the same as the Star board, with F Jax posts on the first 3 pages.
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If you've done 6 impossible things today?
Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!
Yes, it was merged with the "should the pacers suspend the players" thread.
Same topic, so it was moved.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. - Catherine Aird
What they said. Please, and this goes to everyone, when you have a question like this, post it on the Feedback board, not the Pacers board.
I am the one who merged your thread with Uncle Bucks thread entitled "should the pacers suspend the players".
It had nothing to do with whether your post crossed any line but like Able said we have made a very conscious effort to try & keep the main board from becoming clogged with nothing but thread after thread after thread of Jackson & Co. at the strip club.
I don't remember your content exactly but I think I moved it to this thread because I'm pretty sure you were covering what should occur with the players.
There was no offense intended on my part & in truth normally we would probably let it go but with this scenario it became obvious very fast to us that this could easily take over our board, just like Able said it has the stars board.
Everybody would be starting a new thread about the subject every single time they posted.
In a couple of days I'm sure Hicks will want us to not continue to merge the threads, but in the mean time it has nothing to do with deminishing your post it is just house cleaning.
If you have any other problems about this or if I can explain something else please give me a p.m.
Thanks for your understanding.
I was wondering the same thing. I was posting something really profound, and then it disappeared - the profundity was lost.
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In the West, a plume of tropical moisture stretches from the Desert Southwest to Montana. Flash flooding remains a threat, particularly from southern California to Utah. Meanwhile, dry weather persists across northern California and the Northwest, where more than two dozen large wildfires are burning. The Rim fire, near Yosemite National Park in California, has blackened more than 160,000 acres and is only 20% contained.
On the Plains, hot, dry weather prevails, except for a few showers in Montana. Heat favors spring wheat maturation and harvesting on the northern Plains, but is stressing rain-fed crops on the southern High Plains.
In the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms remain active in the Great Lakes region, but most Midwestern locations are experiencing hot, dry weather. Monday's high temperatures topped 95°F in many areas west of the Mississippi River, and will do so again today. On August 25, one-fifth of the soybeans in Iowa and North Dakota were rated very poor to poor, tops in the U.S. and well above the national average of 13%.
In the South, drought-easing showers continue in the western Gulf Coast region. In contrast, favorably dry weather prevails in the Southeast, except for lingering showers in southern Florida. On August 25, Florida and Georgia led the nation with topsoil moisture rated 36% surplus. Due to ongoing issues with wetness, more than one-tenth of the peanuts were rated very poor to poor on August 25 in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
Outlook: For the remainder of the week, areas between the Rockies and Appalachians will continue to experience a late-season heat wave. In areas with limited soil moisture, including much of the Midwest, the heat will adversely affect crops in the filling stage of development. Meanwhile, showers and thunderstorms will continue to rotate clockwise around a ridge of high pressure parked over the nation's mid-section. Five-day rainfall totals could reach 1 to 2 inches, with locally higher amounts, in the Southwest and from North Dakota to the central Appalachians. After mid-week, showers will arrive in the Pacific Northwest. The NWS 6- to 10-day outlook for September 1-5 calls for near- to above-normal temperatures and rainfall across much of the nation. In fact, near-normal temperatures will be confined to the West and Northeast, while drier-than-normal conditions will be limited to the south-central U.S.

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retrofuturist wrote:...check out the section on metta in Visuddhimagga...
clw_uk wrote:Greetings
I seem to have a problem with compassion in a sense that when i hear a story about someone being raped, killed or tortured in some way i feel compassion for the victim and then begin to really hate the person who inflicted it
Ive tried directing compassion for the person who is doing the raping etc but i just cant get past hating them
In a sense my compassion for the victim has lead me to hate the perpetrator
Does anyone have any helpful advice on how to sort this out?
Thanks in advance
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings bhante,
Not that I know of.
Sometimes I see the odd chapter of the Visuddhimagga online, as translated from Pali (possibly by someone related to the "Dhamma Study Group"?), but can't seem to find it (let alone the section on metta) online.
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Twelve years after being exiled to a deserted island, the sorcerer and former Duke of Milan, Prospero, invokes an outrageous storm in order to beach his wrongdoers for a final confrontation. His storm washes up royalty, drunkards and clowns in order to amend old wrongs and to offer his daughter Miranda a cast of characters worthy of her exclamation, "Oh, brave new world, that has such people in it!" Weighing virtue against vengeance, Prospero readies for retirement as he relinquishes power over his savage slave Caliban and his spiritual muse, Ariel.
The Tempest, Shakespeare's last great play, may be one of his most autobiographical, as playwright and character alike put the final touches on their long careers of creativity and power. St. Olaf's production will feature the exciting innovations of several student designers as they create the scenic and aural landscapes for The Tempest's beguiling island environment. Complimentary tickets for the St. Olaf Community. Off campus patrons pay $8.00. Tickets can be reserved at 786-8987.
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Out of Joint to Stage Readings Series to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD at St. James Theatre, Feb 2013
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Olivier Award-winning play, Our Country's Good, Out of Joint will present a series of staged readings of Timberlake's work. This will include the acclaimed play Three Birds Alighting on a Field, which will be directed by Max Stafford-Clark, and The Grace of Mary Traverse directed by Blanche McIntyre. Out of Joint will also present the world premiere of Timberlake's new play - Jefferson's Garden.
In addition, both Max Stafford-Clark and Timberlake Wertenbaker will hold a free platform discussion about Our Country's Good and Max will direct a staged reading of George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer (the play staged by the convicts in Our Country's Good).
Our Country's Good premiered at The Royal Court in 1988 under its then Artistic Director Max Stafford-Clark. Inspired by true events depicted in Thomas Keneally's bestselling novel The Playmaker, Our Country's Good received great critical acclaim, transferring to the West End and Broadway and winning the Olivier Award for Play of the Year and the New York Drama Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.
The readings will take place at the St. James Theatre, London, SW1E 5JA, from 4pm - 6.30pM. Price: £5. Box Office: 0844 264 2140.
Wednesday 13 February:
Three Birds Alighting on a Field by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark
The much-praised satire on the art world in the boom-time 1980s.
Wednesday 20 February:
The Grace of Mary Traverse by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Blanche McIntyre
A vividly imaginative story about the pretty, carefully-schooled daughter of a wealthy London merchant who becomes tired of her pampered life and goes in search of experience and emancipation on the streets of 18th Century London, with both comic and perilous results.
Wednesday 27 February:
The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark
Staged by the convicts in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, George Farquhar's 1706 comic masterpiece is an unashamed celebration of love, lustiness and the victories of battle and the bedroom. From military manoeuvring to sexual strategies, Farquhar's triumphant The Recruiting Officer, written in 1706, is an unashamed celebration of love, lustiness and victory in battle and in the bedroom.
Wednesday 6 March: WORLD PREMIERE
Jefferson's Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker
As revolutionary fever grips the American Colonies, a young man leaves his family in search of freedom. As he moves from bloody battlefields to the elegant plantations of Virginia, and becomes increasingly entangled with the charismatic and elusive Thomas Jefferson, Christian discovers the contradictions at the heart of America's foundation as well as in his own heart.
Venue: St. James Theatre, London, SW1E 5JA
Monday 11 February: Time: 6.15 - 7.15pm
With Max Stafford-Clark and Timberlake Wertenbaker
Karl Sydow presents the Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre Bolton production
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
30 January - 30 March 2013
Venue: St. James Theatre, London, SW1E 5JA
Times: 7.30pm (Monday to Saturday) 2.30pm (Thursday and Saturday)
Running Time: approximately 2hours 30minutes with one interval.
Previews (30 January to 2 February, not Saturday evening) Premium £40, Standard £25 and £35
Regular (4 February to 9 March, Including Saturday 2 February Evening) Premium £50, Standard £35 and £42.50
Groups (8+). Schools and Access Bookings: available from Box Office
Box Office: 0844 264 2140
Website: www.stjamestheatre.co.uk
Director: Max Stafford-Clark
Designer: Tim Shortall
Lighting: Johanna Town
Sound: Andy Smith
Casting: Sam Stevenson and Gemma Hancock
Cast: Damola Adelaja; Helen Bradbury; Laura Dos Santos; John Hollingworth; Lisa Kerr; Matthew Needham; Ciarán Owens; Kathryn O'Reilly; Ian Redford; Dominic Thorburn.


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Beatzen wrote:I don't know what kind of sanghas here in the states you guys are familiar with, but my sangha refers to sutras all the time. Especially the Heart Sutra, which i am quite fond of as my favorite.
Yes. I was first exposed to the Heart Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, for instance, in a Zen group. And the Surangama Sutra later on. &c.


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'We'd love to have all kinds of businesses. We just need them to be lawful'
COOS BAY, Ore. - Looking to set up a pot shop? Don't come to Coos Bay.
The City Council voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries - or any business - that doesn't meet state and federal law.
Key word: federal.
Marijuana remains illegal in the U.S. for both medicinal and recreational applications. And even though the Obama administration hasn't cracked down, the country will elect a new president in 2016.
"There was no guarantee that future administrations wouldn't do it differently," said Rodger Craddock, Coos Bay city manager. "The fact is that there could be jeopardy of federal funds as a penalty for violating law."
Critics contend the city is denying a business opportunity in an area that needs it.
"It's more about cause and effect, and right now we'd love to have all kinds of businesses," Craddock said. "We just need them to be lawful."
Nearby North Bend extended the city's moratorium for another six months. City officials said business might look outside but near Coos Bay, so North Bend needs more time to review its laws since it doesn't plan to ban dispensaries outright.
That is something North Bend resident John Chamberlin is happy about.
"If I have to go to let's say the street," said the medical marijuana card holder, "it's 3 times as expensive, and a lot of people - veterans like myself - we can't afford that."


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text: One poll voter misses WVU's beauty By Mitch Vingle September 4, 2012 Story Share TO BORROW from Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.And to bend that idiom absolutely sideways, so too is the ranking of West Virginia University's football team.On Tuesday, both the Associated Press and USA Today coaches polls were released and the Mountaineers emerged tied for ninth in the former and eighth in the latter.But here's where the beauty-and-beholder part enters the story. I voted WVU No. 5. Ray Ratto of Comcast Sports Bay Area (San Francisco) voted the Mountaineers No. 24.You read correctly. No. 24.Now, if you're a Mountaineer fan, please don't go all Lindsay Lohan on Ratto. It's the first week of the regular season. And, truth be told, I received grief for ranking WVU higher than any other voter except Cecil Hurt of the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News, who also slotted the Mountaineers No. 5.Among my Twitter birds, one said he was "proud" of me, but another said I was drinking Kool-Aid and yet another said I was just "bat-[expletive] crazy."Maybe, but I watched a ton of college football this past weekend. Even saw some of that goofy Oklahoma at Texas El-Paso game. And there were only a few teams that impressed me more than WVU.One was Alabama. In the preseason poll, I voted for "Brother" Nick Saban's Tide No. 2. But after Alabama steamrolled Michigan 41-14, voting the Tide No. 1 was a no-brainer. (Eleven voters, however, did vote Southern Cal No. 1 after a 49-10 win over Hawaii and four more voted for LSU, which defeated North Texas 41-14.) Here's the deal, though. One votes for teams in the preseason poll based on returning talent. In the regular season, one votes for teams that show talent. Teams earn spots.Alabama certainly earned its No. 1 spot. USC, LSU and Oregon were impressive enough to earn my votes for 2-3-4.Next, though, is where a discerning voter has to get out the magnifying glass.The only two teams that seemed viable candidates for the No. 5 spot were Florida State and West Virginia. FSU defeated Murray State of the FCS Ohio Valley Conference by 69-3. WVU waxed in-state rival and Conference USA member Marshall by 69-34. To me, West Virginia's rout was more impressive. MU coach Doc Holliday seemingly has the Thundering Herd on an uptick playing in a respectable FBS conference. But the team was no match for the Mountaineers. Murray State, meanwhile, was picked to finish behind Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State in the preseason OVC poll. You make the call.Oklahoma, you should know, was actually fifth in both the AP and coaches polls. Although the Sooners have plenty of talent, it didn't exactly twinkle in that UTEP game. OU won but 24-7. (Those pesky Miners.) To me, WVU showed more than No. 5 Oklahoma, No. 6 Florida State, No. 7 Georgia (a 45-23 win over Buffalo), more than No. 8 Arkansas (a 49-24 win over Jacksonville State) and more than the other AP No. 9, South Carolina, which nudged Vanderbilt by 17-13.By the end of the season, all of the above will mostly be irrelevant. Again, it's just Week 1. But I did have to reach out to Ratto. He voted Texas State (which, playing in its first FBS game, defeated Houston) No. 15, which is a topic for another columnist.I simply had one question for Ratto: Um, bro ... WVU at No. 24?He was kind enough to respond to my email."I wasn't really convinced that West Virginia was going to be a Top 10 team before the season started, which is one of the reasons so many early-season polls are so volatile," Ratto wrote. "I voted [it] 23rd in my preseason poll, and, oddly enough, heard not a peep from anyone in your neighborhood, so I'm a bit surprised at the anger now after a win over a fairly ordinary Marshall team. That said, I could be completely wrong in my assessment, which is why we vote every week."Ratto also said he had a "brain spasm" on Twitter when he wrote the Mountaineers defeated Elon, rather than Marshall. (North Carolina played Elon.) He quickly corrected the mistake though. "So it goes," Ratto wrote. "The early season is all about adjustment, not lasting judgments, so if West Virginia ends up being a very good team, my vote and all others will reflect that. For the moment, if I am unpopular, we'll all get over it in time."A la Lohan.Reach Mitch Vingle at 304-348-4827, firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/MitchVingle. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 2 YWCA Charleston's Women of Achievement to be honored in March 3 WVU pulls away from Kansas for 56-34 win 4 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 5 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD MU gets ambitious in hoops schedule Previous Story Quite the debut for Bruce Next Story


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Photo gallery: Becoming Los Angeles exhibition coming to Natural History Museum
The museum built on land where brothels, booze and gamblers once ruled will celebrate its centennial this year with two exhibits intended to take visitors back to Los Angeles' future.
That means a lush, sun nourished nature garden where a parking lot once stood and a 14,000-square- foot exhibition that tells the story of how Los Angeles transformed from the home of native peoples and dusty pueblos, to the epicenter of the motion picture industry and a bustling global city.
The two upcoming exhibits at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, to be unveiled in June and July, are a culmination of a decade-long, $135 million transformation. The goal behind all the work, officials said, is to bring the visitor's experience full circle with the message that a natural museum is more than just a repository of ancient fossils, petrified wood, and rusted artifacts: It's a living monument that tells the ongoing story of how nature and culture intertwine.
"We wanted to create a place for everybody, where a whole family could have a unique experience," said Jane Pisano, president and director of the museum.
In addition to its main entrance, visitors already can enter the museum from Exposition Boulevard, but come June they will walk over a pedestrian bridge that will lead to a 3.5 acre nature garden filled with native plants such as rosemary and hummingbird sage, artemisia and laurel sumac. Adults and children can stop by a listening post where specially placed microphones will allow visitors to hear the way a tree "drinks" water. They also can pause by a pond to watch for turtles, lizards and dragon flies.
"Every plant was argued over by our scientists," said Karen Wise, vice president of education and exhibits.
Children also will have the chance to enter a nature lab and a "get dirty zone" where they can turn rocks over and examine pill bugs under microscopes, Wise said.
The Exposition Boulevard entrance also opens up to the Otis Booth Pavilion, the centerpiece of the gardens. The all-glass pavilion will feature a hanging, 63-foot-wide fin whale that will appear to be floating from those who can see it from the street level.
"The old museum looked like it was built to keep people out," Pisano said. "This new entrance is going to say 'Come in. It's fun in here.'"
The museum opened to great fanfare in Exposition Park on Nov. 6, 1913, a day after thousands of people followed William Mulholland to the San Fernando Valley to watch water trickle down the new cascades in Sylmar at the end of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct.
The $350,000 Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, as it was called then, was built to enhance civic pride in an area once dominated by debauchery. Legal prostitution, bars, and horse races lured corrupt politicians to the area. But the museum, with its grand Beaux Arts edifice, its 53-foot rotunda made of marble, gold and stained glass and its historical artifacts and fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits, placed Los Angeles on the cultural map, historians say. Over the years, the museum would amass thousands of historical and cultural objects, making it the largest collection of its kind in the West.
But time and the elements took their toll on the building, and in the last 10 years especially, public officials and private funders invested in its renovation, which included a seismic retrofit, the installation of high-tech electrical makeover, a restoration of the rotunda's stained-glass windows and dome. Also opened was the Age of Mammals in 2010 and Dinosaur Hall in 2011.
But that water from the Owens Valley that rushed into Los Angeles was a pivotal moment for the region, said William Estrada, curator of the History Department at the Natural History Museum and the award-winning author of "The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space."
The museum's second exhibition, which opens in July, is called "Becoming Los Angeles" and will include a small glass bottle filled with the very same water that rushed into Los Angeles that day in 1913.
"A little bottle tells a big story," said Estrada, who is working on the five installations that make up "Becoming Los Angeles."
The exhibit will include artifacts and stories from the native Tongva peoples, the Californios and Mexicans, to present day. A wooden automobile from 1902 made in a Los Angeles factory will be on display as well as Charlie Chaplin's original "Tramp" suit from 1932 and Walt Disney's handmade animation stand.
"The Natural History Museum was the first institution to collect Hollywood Memorabilia beginning in the 1930s," said Beth Werling, collections manager of the history department at the museum.
"It's being designed as an environmental and cultural history of Los Angeles," Estrada added. "The story of immigration and diversity of Los Angeles runs through the whole exhibit."


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For this month's theme of Finger Foods, I decided to revise an old recipe that I got from Sheila, former secretary at my school. She brought this occasionally, and everyone loved it. The original version had full fat cream cheese and sour cream, and used a packet of Italian dressing mix, all things I didn't want to use. My version uses lowfat cream cheese, low-fat cottage cheese or sour cream, the same flavorings as Grandma's Vegetable Dip, and the lemon juice, shrimp, and peppers that were in Sheila's original recipe. I also bumped up the ratio of shrimp and red peppers in the dip, making it more nutritious. I don't use fat-free cream cheese or fat-free cottage cheese because they usually contain sugar, but if you wanted to make this even lower in fat, you could make that change.
Some of you might be wondering about a dip that has shrimp and claims to be heart healthy. There was a time when doctors recommended avoiding shrimp if you were concerned about cholesterol, but now it's considered a healthy food. I ate my dip with celery and bell pepper strips, both of which are also considered to be some of The World's Healthiest Foods.
Heart-Healthy Shrimp Dip served with Veggie Dippers
(Recipe makes about 5 cups, at least 8-10 servings or more, created by Kalyn with inspiration from Sheila and Grandma's Vegetable Dip.)
8 oz. low-fat cream cheese, room temperature
3/4 cup low-fat cottage cheese or low-fat sour cream
2 tsp. fresh lemon juice
2 tsp. dill weed (dried)
2 tsp. Bon Appetit Seasoning or celery salt
1/2 cup finely chopped green onions
1 cup chopped red bell pepper
(one large pepper, cut in pieces about 3/8 inch)
2 cups frozen cooked shrimp, thawed and cut in pieces about 3/8 inch
(or use fresh cooked shrimp if it's available)
Stir in chopped green onion and chopped bell pepper, then gently fold in shrimp. Chill dip for about an hour before serving for best flavor. Serve with celery sticks and red, green, yellow, or orange bell pepper strips. Other vegetable dippers could also be used.
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Drew Alexander Steier, 19, of Evanston, Wyo., waived his right to a preliminary hearing on attempted robbery Thursday and his case was bound over to district court.
The tellers told him the money was locked up and they couldnt get to it, bank president Bob Mayber said later.
The two were picked up an hour later about 60 miles away, near Imperial.
Steier was originally charged with robbery, but that charge was reduced to attempted robbery, Deputy County Attorney Tanya Roberts-Connick said.
Defense attorney Pat Hays asked Turnbull to lower the bond for his client from $250,000 to $125,000. Turnbull granted the request.
Also in county court Thursday:
Heather and David Granados both waived their right to preliminary hearings in county court and their case was bound over to district court.
Heather is charged with possession of meth and David with possession of marijuana.
Both are in jail. Their bonds were reduced to $10,000 each, down from $25,000 each.
Heather and David were arrested Sept. 17 when hair follicle tests from their 18-month-old child tested positive for amphetamine, methamphetamine and THC, the active chemical in marijuana, according to police information officer Rodney Brown.
The child is now in the care of the Nebraska Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Michael Stone, 24, of Sugar Creek, Mo. appeared. Defense attorney Mike Nozicka asked for more time to prepare his defense, and the case was continued until Oct. 4.
Stone was arrested while driving a car stolen from Independence, Mo. after a womans purse and car keys were stolen. Stone is also charged with seven past offenses in Lincoln County including theft, writing bad checks and failure to appear.
Nicholas Hasenauer, 32, of North Platte, pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, first offense. He was sentenced to 27 days in jail. He had served 28 days and the extra day would be credited toward his court costs. The charges were amended in a plea bargain with the Lincoln County Attorneys, who dropped a criminal trespass and criminal mischief charges.
On Aug. 8, North Platte Police were called to 1495 E. Suburban Rd. on a report of a man trespassing and causing property damage. When they arrived and confronted Hasenauer he resisted arrest to the point that the officers used a taser on him, prosecutors said.
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Single and Multiple Dose Study in Japanese
This study has been completed.
Ardea Biosciences, Inc.
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First received: November 29, 2012
Last updated: June 18, 2013
Last verified: June 2013
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Detailed Description:
This study will explore the safety, tolerability, and serum uric acid lowering effect of lesinurad in healthy Japanese males to allow comparison with the Western population.
|Drug: Lesinurad Drug: Placebo
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 1, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of Single and Multiple Doses of Lesinurad in Healthy Male Japanese Subjects
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Drug Information available for: LesinuradU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Ardea Biosciences, Inc.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Incidence of Adverse Events and Changes in Laboratory Parameters [ Time Frame: 5 to 6 weeks ]
- Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of lesinurad from plasma and urine in terms of AUC, tmax, cmax and t1/2. [ Time Frame: Day -1 through 12 ]AUC: area under the plasma concentration time curve from zero to 24 hours post dose and from zero to infinity; tmax: time to maximum plasma concentration; cmax: maximum observed plasma concentration t1/2: terminal elimination half life
- Pharmacodynamic (PD) profile of lesinurad from serum and urine in terms of sUA concentration, renal clearance, urine uric acid excretion, and fractional excretion. [ Time Frame: Day 1 through 12 ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 200 mg lesinurad
200 mg lesinurad or placebo fasted and fed
|Drug: Lesinurad Drug: Placebo
Experimental: 400 mg lesinurad
400 mg lesinurad or placebo fasted and fed
|Drug: Lesinurad Drug: Placebo
Experimental: 100 mg lesinurad
100 mg lesinurad or placebo fasted and fed
|Drug: Lesinurad Drug: Placebo
Experimental: 50 mg lesinurad
50 mg lesinurad or placebo fasted and fed
|Drug: Lesinurad Drug: Placebo
Experimental: 600 mg lesinurad
600 mg lesinurad or placebo fasted and fed
|Drug: Lesinurad Drug: Placebo
Detailed Description:
While there is extensive clinical experience with lesinurad in the Western population, it is recognized that both intrinsic and extrinsic factors may impact the PK, PD, safety, and dose response in different ethnic populations. The purpose of this study is to explore the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic (PK), and pharmacodynamic (PD) of single and multiple doses of lesinurad in healthy Japanese males, and to allow comparison of these parameters with the Western population.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Able to understand the study procedures, the risks involved and willing to provide written Informed Consent before the first study related activity.
- Healthy adult subjects born in Japan
- All laboratory parameters should be within normal limits or considered not clinically significant by the investigator.
- Screening serum uric acid level >= 4.5 mg/dL.
- Subjects must be free of any clinically significant disease that requires a physician's care and/or would interfere with study evaluations or procedures.
- Subject does not have clinically relevant abnormalities in blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, and respiratory rate, as per the Investigator's judgment.
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- Positive serology to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1 and HIV-2).
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September 10, 2012
The Strasburg Shutdown and How It All Could Have Been Avoided
The countdown had been coming for months. It was just a matter of what would happen when it ended. We're of course talking about the Washington Nationals' declaration that they would shut down starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg at 160 innings pitched, something that the club had said they would be doing after the no. 1 draft pick and Scott Boras client had Tommy John surgery in 2010 to replace the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
We counted. We watched. We never made it that far.
Saturday, the Nats pulled the plug. His projected last game Wednesday at Citi Field against the Mets? Not happening. His last game of 2012 against the Marlins on Friday at National Park is not exactly the way you want to be remembered. Tying his season low for innings pitched in a game, he went just three frames, allowing two runs in the first inning, one run in the second, and two more in the third. That was enough, and Davey Johnson pulled the plug.
So, one of the most closely watched marches to an arbitrary number in recent history will be speculated ad nauseum for the remainder of the season, possibly through the offseason and into next year. After all, the Nationals have painted themselves into a corner by making nothing less than a World Series championship the only way that the topic goes away.
Davey Johnson tried to frame the decision as a way to remove distraction and tried to shoehorn in that physical signs were beginning to show.
"I just told Stephen that his year is over. He's had a great year. I know what he's growing through," Johnson said. "The media hype on this thing has been unbelievable. I feel it's as hard for him as it would be anybody to get mentally, totally committed in the ballgame. And he's reached his innings limit. So we can get past this and talk about other things for a change."
"My job is to do what's best for the player. And this is what's best," Johnson added. "If you're not there 100 percent mentally—he's a gifted athlete, his velocity can still be there—but I don't see the crispness. I don't see the ball jumping out of his hand. I'm a firm believer that this game's 90 to 95 percent mental and he's only human. I don't know how anybody can be totally mentally concentrating on the job at hand with the media hype to this thing, and I think we'd be risking more by sending him out."
To Mike Rizzo, Davey Johnson, and the Lerner family, the general sentiment is, "You've created your own monster."
At 159 1/3 innings, a 15-6 record, a 3.16 ERA, and 197 Ks, one can't help but wonder, "What if?" The players on the staff (especially the rotation) will be asked about it repeatedly the remainder of the way. Then there's John Lannan, who pitched his last two games at Triple-A and is being called up to replace Strasburg in the rotation. Lannan is no slouch (he was the Opening Day starter for the Nationals in 2009 and 2010), but for every pitch thrown, there will be that undeniable urge to compare him to Strasburg. Nothing like heaping unneeded pressure on the guy.
This is what we've come to. Players are no longer players; they're assets to be protected. The Nationals should have never said anything about the innings limit in the first place. In baseball—an industry where every comment is carefully measured for public consumption—silence is often the preferred response. Instead, the Nationals opened their mouth and, with it, put a bull's-eye on Strasburg for the season.
It's one thing to say that pulling Strasburg was about his elbow, but neither he nor the club has made even a whisper about any discomfort. The self-inflicted media attention is to blame, not his arm.
Strasburg may have been the most wildly anticipated rookie pitcher to debut in the last decade, and this is where the marketing element collides with the real matter at hand: winning a World Series. It's been two years, but if you work in the front office of Nationals Park, you can't help but remember his debut. Here's just how much interest there was:
To go with the hype, Strasburg backed it up on the field that day as well:
The Nationals remember this. He earned $3 million this season as part of his four-year, $15.1 million deal that he was signed to before he had ever stepped on a major league diamond. The fans know he's a key piece. So what went wrong, and could it all have been avoided?
The answer is, yes. This mess—and that's what it is—could have been avoided by having him come in late to Spring Training. Okay, if that would have been a media nightmare, then they could have eased back on the throttle and figured out how to have him miss maybe four or five starts over the course of the season. That would have allowed Strasburg to be within the self-appointed window of 160 innings pitched through the postseason. As one prominent agent said to me, "They did it ass backwards."
But it comes back to that thing. That thing that can drive some closely watching the game nuts. Why put a player on an innings pitched limit in the first place?
I can't help but be reminded of the Winter Meetings in 2008. The Texas Rangers had just made Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan president of the club, and he was there to talk about it. There in the back of the cavernous media room at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, I asked Ryan what he thought of putting pitchers on pitch counts. He said (and I'm paraphrasing), "I don't like them, and I'm not saying that because of my days as a player. We're going to go about things differently. We'll watch a guy at 100 pitches in a game, but if he's looking sharp, we're going to let him go to maybe 105 or 110 pitches. If he's not sharp in the following game, we may pull back and only let him go 90 pitches. The point is, why get into a pitcher's head that there's some number? Why not measure them by how well they're doing and adjust from there?"
Mike Rizzo and the Nationals should have simply done that with Strasburg. That was all that was needed. "We're monitoring him," they could have said. "We're not sure if he'll pitch the entire season, but if he's fine, we want him to help us win games for as long as he can." It would have all been that simple, if for no other reason than to set up a better excuse for shutting him down.
Instead, in the first year that D.C. baseball has been truly relevant since the 1930s, there's this mess. The fans aren't happy. The media is bewildered. And the player that is at the center of it all is right there with us.
"I don't know if I'm ever going to accept it, to be honest," Strasburg angrily said Saturday after the shutdown. "It's something that I'm not happy about at all. That's not why I play the game. I play the game to be a good teammate and win. You don't grow up dreaming about playing in the big leagues to get shut down when the games start to matter. It's going to be a tough one to swallow."
"All I can do is be the best teammate possible for these guys. I think everybody overlooks all the great contributions that we've had this year. I know they're going to keep going that way, and I'm going to do everything in my power to support them."
Except Strasburg was never signed to a $15.1 million contract to be a cheerleader. He was signed to do what he had been doing. Instead, the Nationals will use the "we're protecting him for the long-haul" and "we need him for next season" party line. But no one knows the future. No one knows if the Nationals will be in this position next year. No one knows if, heaven forbid, after shutting him down, he winds up injuring his elbow early next year. You can't second guess. You don't have to be reckless, but at the same time, you can't treat high-paid players like a Ming vase. There will always be risk. You have to use the tools at your disposal to win, and Strasburg is certainly one of those tools for the Nationals.
There may never be an opportunity like this again for the Nationals to win a World Series with Stephen Strasburg in the rotation. They have all the makings of one that will, but in the immortal words of that great scholar Yoda, "Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future." Grab some popcorn, and pull up a chair. The questions surrounding "The Shutdown" are far from over.
Maury Brown is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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There are practical reasons why the late start and the skipping starts along the way strategies were not used. The late start strategy (assuming you are leaving enough innings for a full playoff run) had a high risk of leaving Strasburg a long way short of 160IP, given the possibility of missing some starts due to minor injuries or the Nationals missing the playoffs/going out early (remember that pre-season they were one of four realistic contenders in that division). If he didn't pitch the full 160 or close to it, you have a similar problem next year in that he would have a huge jump in innings, which is also a significant injury risk.
Sep 10, 2012 02:53 AM
If he would have finished with 120-130 IP this year due to minor injuries along the way (after a late start to year), that's not an issue at all. A jump from 125 innings in 2012 to 200 innings in 2013 wouldn't have been much of a concern.
Sep 10, 2012 09:02 AM
Veteran pitchers that jump from 120 to 200 innings usually aren't much of a concern. If it was a young pitcher, I'd be concerned.
Sep 10, 2012 09:06 AM
To rehash what's been said on other Strasburg articles, the same thing was done with Jordan Zimmerman and Strasburg isn't even the best pitcher on the Nationals. If he was in the playoffs, there's a chance he'll overthrow and/or be forced to throw on short rest, further risking injury.
Sep 10, 2012 03:44 AM
The Zimmerman shutdown made sense... the Nationals were out of contention. This is different.
Sep 10, 2012 06:19 AM
Not really. The Nationals aren't fighting for a playoff spot, they have one pretty well secured. Thus the Nationals don't need him for September.
Sep 10, 2012 07:27 AM
September is not the issue, it's October. That's what the focus has been.
Sep 10, 2012 07:42 AM
John Douglass
If Strasburg becomes one of the premiere pitchers in baseball--one of the game's 6-8 true 'aces'--he will be an outlier in that he will have had Tommy John surgery.
Sep 10, 2012 08:08 AM
No, there's nothing out of the Nats camp that there is currently anything medical. However, Strasburg is only 24 and, prior to this year, had never thrown more than 145 innings. Most players his age are still in AA or AAA and, with the way minor league schedules go, stop throwing in August. Should the Zimmerman rules apply to every young pitcher who gets Tommy John surgery? Who knows, those kinds of guidelines haven't been attempted before. Perhaps it'll work splendidly, or it'll inherit the Joba Rules punchline.
Sep 10, 2012 08:52 AM
There's very little reason to believe that Nats' "fans aren't happy," as you say. I think I read every major Nats blog, as well as the Washington Post and the Washington Times, and all are overwhelmingly supportive of the decision, as are the reader comments. The Washington Post has editorially endorsed the decision. Every online poll of DC fans shows support in the 75%-plus range. This one today, from NatsGM, shows only 10% opposed to the decision.
Sep 10, 2012 05:30 AM
John Douglass
I think the 'mess' Maury is referring to doesn't have a lot to do with fan sentiment, and has everything to do with the dynamic between Strasburg and the Nationals--which gets amplified by fan and media attention.
Sep 10, 2012 06:28 AM
Plus one. I am a big Nats fan and I am completely happy with the decision. I don't personally know anyone who isn't. At spring training, we all expected that the Nats would be second or third in their division this year. Things broke their way.
Sep 10, 2012 06:52 AM
So sick of the whole Nolan Ryan thing. Ryan did not throw 200 innings untill he was 25.
Sep 10, 2012 05:32 AM
And yet, I don't see any comment on his principled statement. Why set arbitrary numbers ? Why have pitch counts? Why not just monitor performance?
Sep 10, 2012 06:16 AM
Have you watched his last couple of starts? What part of his performance suggests to you that he's anything other than worn down?
Sep 10, 2012 06:51 AM
I don't think anyone has shown that the innings limits is arbitrary. It may not be precisely set, but that doesn't make it arbitrary.
Sep 10, 2012 07:01 AM
The sentiment is good, although for pitch counts, I think most teams do that. Starters doing well and looking good have always gone an extra inning, and someone who looks gassed is often brought out a little early. That doesn't have a lot to do with how best to help a pitcher come back from Tommy John surgery, except that if Strasburg had looked tired earlier the Nats might have done something to help him out - skipped a start or whatever
Sep 10, 2012 08:10 AM
A funny sidebar about all that. Tommy John was quoted as saying he didn't think Strasburg should be shut down. Boras's response is "Would you rather take the advice of the doctor who performed the surgery or the patient who was asleep?"
Sep 10, 2012 08:32 AM
Note that Nolan Ryan instilled heavier pitching workloads in the minor leagues as one of his main priorities when he took over the Rangers. Has the Rangers staff gotten better? Yes. But they've also had a ton of injuries, to the point where their deep rotation got so thin they had to dig up Roy Oswalt.
Sep 10, 2012 07:29 AM
The general sediment?
Sep 10, 2012 06:01 AM
Let me ask the quorum... who's better, Strasburg or Lannan?
Sep 10, 2012 06:21 AM
Right now, Lannan...because he can pitch this year still.
Sep 10, 2012 06:56 AM
It's also the wrong question to ask. The Nationals have a pretty good hold on a playoff slot. The correct question is whether Strasburg is that much better than Zimmerman, Gonzalez and Jackson since most playoff staffs use a three man rotation with all the extra off days. Or, if they use a four man, is he that much better than Detwiler?
Sep 10, 2012 07:33 AM
False premise. Most Nats fans aren't unhappy about this. We're just not. I know everyone ELSE is, and that everyone expects the Nats fans to be gathering their pitchforks and torches, but we're not. Sorry.
Sep 10, 2012 06:50 AM
Awful article. It rests on a false premise- Rizzo DIDN'T set an innings limit, i.e. he did exactly what the author says he should have done. The strict innings limit was a creation of media and fan speculation, based on what they did with Jordan Zimmermann the previous year. I challenge the author to find me a quote from Rizzo or anyone else in the Nats front office setting an innings limit before late August.
Sep 10, 2012 07:09 AM
"This is the kind of analysis I'd expect from the simplistic major media outlets, not BP." Yeah, but kind of understates the case. This is the kind of analysis I'd expect from Mike Lupica.
Sep 10, 2012 07:14 AM
The innings limit was said by Davey Johnson based on Zimmerman. So, it was said.
Sep 10, 2012 07:27 AM
Davey said it recently and vaguely, though. The whole premise of your article is that the front office "created a monster" by setting an innings limit earlier in the season. They did no such thing. You're really grasping for straws here.
Sep 10, 2012 07:42 AM
I don't know if it was "vague"...
Sep 10, 2012 08:29 AM
I don't see how that conflicts with the Nationals taking expert medical advice on this, and then coming to an informed decision. While I'm not saying you treat everyone the same in these things, I'm unclear why Strasburg should be able to go significantly more innings than Zimmermann. If you're going to convince people, you're going to either have to come up with evidence that the Nats have not gone with the best available advice, or that they should ignore that advice. I don't think you've managed either of these so far.
Sep 10, 2012 08:42 AM
One point of clarification - Zimmermann is the reference point for Strasburg's innings limit. Zimmerman plays third base and presumably not under any innings limit.
Sep 10, 2012 07:43 AM
Oh, hey, he's a fun game. How about his start before THAT? Pitched 5, 9H, 1BB, 3Ks, 7 runs (5 earned).
Sep 10, 2012 07:44 AM
"If you're "happy" about the move, you're basically saying at this point and this time, Lannan is a better option than Strasburg."
Sep 10, 2012 07:45 AM
God I wish I could add more than one plus one to some comments. Plus one million, wilsonc.
Sep 10, 2012 07:48 AM
Exactly. I'd only add that the drop-off from Strasburg to Lannan would have occurred if they'd skipped starts earlier in the year, too. If her skipped five starts in the spring and summer, they might only be up 3.5 games in the NL East instead of 5.5 games with a weekend series against the Braves looming.
Sep 10, 2012 08:01 AM
(1) As far as getting into a pitcher's head, would it be better to shut him down out of the blue after a few so-so starts? Or to announce early that it's coming, and then follow through with your plan? I'm thinking the former is more damaging.
Sep 10, 2012 07:46 AM
Seriously, the Nats aren't going to use Strasburg in the playoffs? Someone should be fired.
Sep 10, 2012 07:11 AM
This is a poor BP article. Reads more like a Tom Verducci piece where it's clear that the author wants to tell a specific story, selecting a few pieces of "evidence" that are either out of date (talking about his economic impact 2 years ago instead of this year) or irrelevant (quote from Nolan Ryan about pitch count philosophy), finishing off with a restatement of the story that keeps asking questions instead of providing answers.
Sep 10, 2012 07:12 AM
"Pissed?" I don't understand it, but this is not something I am "pissed" about. And, I'm fine with the article. It's not an entirely objective topic, and I know it. To not cover the topic here at BP would have been to not cover a high-profile issue.
Sep 10, 2012 08:31 AM
Maury: I generally agree with your basic premise- that this was not handled well. The discussion you provoked seems to me to have covered every issue, but one, which I wiull get to. Whether the Nationals are correct or not, only time will tell. What I woud really like to know, from a BizBall column, is what effect, in your opinion, insurance had on this decision by the Nationals, or on Scott Boras' acquiescence? It is somewhat unuaual for Boras to go along with something like this affecting a client. Just curious.
Sep 10, 2012 11:26 AM
Why is it unusual for Boras to go along? Both his interests and Strasburg's interests are best served by Strasburg being healthy enough to get future contracts. Maybe if Strasburg were a pending free agent he'd be against the innings limit but Strasburg's under contract for the next few years still.
Sep 10, 2012 11:35 AM
I'll reiterate what others have already pointed out. The majority of Nats' fans understand this move and are not mad at the team because of it. I've been a season ticket holder from day 1 here in DC, and very few fans that I know are second-guessing the team on this.
Sep 10, 2012 12:19 PM
Alan G. Ampolsk
Here's another Nats season ticket holder completely in favor of the decision to shut him down. The inconsistency he's been showing in the second half is very close to what we saw last year from Jordan Zimmermann. Having watched Zimmermann's performance this year, I'm more than willing to go with the Nats' medical crew on this. What I've yet to see is an equally qualified medical opinion in favor of keeping Strasburg going. The "put him in a power dive and see if the wings come off" approach, to me, doesn't cut it. Get him injured again and you're back in Mark Prior territory.
Sep 10, 2012 12:42 PM
I think every team that isn't in contention should bench all of its valuable future starters. What if one of them gets hurt?
Sep 10, 2012 12:47 PM
You must be an Eric Chavez fan.
Sep 10, 2012 13:11 PM
I don't understand this reference. Why must I be an Eric Chavez fan?
Sep 10, 2012 13:40 PM
Guess it was a bit obscure because Chavez was a position player, but he had a tendency to get hurt if the wind ricocheted off the empty seats at the Oakland Coliseum wrong.
Sep 10, 2012 14:20 PM
Oh, I see. Well yeah, I remember Chavez's fragility, but of course I was being sarcastic.
Sep 10, 2012 15:34 PM
Thanks on this. I was beginning to think I was the only one.
Sep 10, 2012 17:11 PM
To rehash some of what I've said elsewhere on this thread...
Sep 10, 2012 18:39 PM
This is really what is so bothersome to those who disagree with the shutdown: the data and evidence for innings limits or pitch count limits reducing injuries just isn't convincing (the publicly available data, at least- it is absolutely likely that the Nats have done a LOT of research on the topic).
Sep 10, 2012 19:48 PM
Not convincing to you. But convincing to those who are able to combine a) more and better data than you have with b) a much more complete mosaic of injury and recovery outcomes than you possess based on hundreds of combined years of observing and correlating pitcher injuries with usage patterns. So just recognize that you and all of us are operating at an information disadvantage here, and are in a better position to question the strategy/implementation of the innings limit than its medical merit. And of course keep in mind that inconclusive data doesn't mean a theory isn't valid, it just means that presently available data doesn't prove it (think Higgs boson until a couple months ago).
Sep 10, 2012 20:28 PM
And, in general, the Nationals have much better information than we do about Strasburg's medical status than we do and they can talk to doctors to get opinions. If they think it's a good idea to shut him down and if the benefit of keeping him going is relatively neglibile, it makes sense to defer to them.
Sep 11, 2012 07:59 AM
I think you make some wild assertions here, including that he was capable of "pitching his team to a Championship" (when that would require 220+ innings on the season) and that there's "nothing wrong with him physically" (when the guy is coming off of a major surgery with historical evidence indicating the recovery process is still ongoing). I know it's fun to be a hero and everything, but if you work out the differential b/t the Nats' championship odds with and without Strasburg (as some others have indirectly alluded to), it is going to be somewhere in the fraction of a percent range. He's already done the most important part, which is add enough value in the regular season to get his team (almost certainly) into the playoffs. So what would you risk for that miniscule increase in odds? A 10% chance of a second TJ for Strasburg? 5%? It's really low in my book, effectively zero percent, so I'd shut him down whenever I felt like I was hitting an inflection point in the risk curve. It's the team's job to be rational about these things, and that's why it was smart to take the decision out of Strasburg's hands, and why one has to respect management's willingness to stick to the original plan.
Sep 10, 2012 20:02 PM
Doug Thorburn
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"...I'd shut him down whenever I felt like I was hitting an inflection point in the risk curve."
Sep 10, 2012 22:35 PM
Why not shut down Ryan Zimmerman then? Replacing him isn't going to cost you a playoff spot, and the drop-off from him to whomever will replace him (or whomever will replace Espinosa, who will replace him, or what have you) cannot be much larger than the drop-off from Strasburg to Lannan. You are committed to Zimmerman through 2019, and for a lot of money, too. Once you're in the playoffs, as we all know, it's kind of a crapshoot, and you'll need Ryan Zimmerman for your run next season, should you have one.
Sep 11, 2012 10:50 AM
Ok, should we really play that game.
Sep 11, 2012 11:00 AM
That's a fair point. I guess I just mean that Strasburg has been in the rotation all year. Getting pulled from it has got to be painful.
Sep 11, 2012 11:14 AM
Sure, it's painful, but it's not a real good justification to keep someone in. A.J. Burnett, Jason Marquis, and quite a few others have been left off postseason rosters before.
Sep 11, 2012 14:02 PM
There is a completely different injury probability curve for pitchers and position players. Pitchers are typically afflicted by repetitive stress injuries, i.e. those whose probability accumulates with usage. Position players occasionally are as well (throwing elbows, wrist ailments, maybe obliques), but a lot more often there is a specific incident (hit by pitch, pulled hammy, dislocated shoulder, etc.), i.e. those in which the probability of injury on any given play is independent of any preceding plays. So Zimmerman's injury probability is essentially unchanged from play to play, game to game, and there's thus no more reason to sit him today than there was yesterday. In that case your reasoning holds - it's baseball, there's risk, you could get hurt on any play, but that's no reason to sit.
Sep 11, 2012 12:06 PM
I like your plan. It would level the playing field for my Twins, whose rotation would be unaffected.
Sep 10, 2012 13:29 PM
Wouldn't affect the A's either since they trade away their rotation every year.
Sep 10, 2012 13:37 PM
RB: Out of the 10,000 posts from you in the past 6 months, this one may have been the best.
Sep 10, 2012 23:14 PM
Aw thanks (though it's closer to a few hundred posts). I've had a few fun posts about the A's lately, though overall, I think I enjoyed the Dungeons and Dragons posts the most.
Sep 11, 2012 08:01 AM
Hello, Dusty Baker. I didn't know you were a BP man.
Sep 11, 2012 01:43 AM
I suspect it was for me. Hahahaha, that's a good one!
Sep 11, 2012 10:33 AM
I'm a Cubs fan, I watched the 2003 NLCS. When neither Wood nor Prior were barely throwing 90 mph during the playoffs, it was obvious that something was wrong. Also, the Cubs were up 3-1 in that series but kept throwing Prior and Wood on short rest. That's the kind of thing that happens during a playoff, risks get taken. If Strasburg was on the Nationals postseason roster, I guarantee you similar risks would be taken to throw him on short rest or have him throw in relief if a game went into extra innings. Does it guarantee injury? No. But just because you play Russian Roulette only once doesn't mean you'll survive the experience. Each extra risk is an extra spin.
Sep 11, 2012 10:50 AM
I lived in Chicago at the time. Really, they were barely throwing 90? I don't remember it that way. Are you sure?
Sep 11, 2012 10:54 AM
Yes, I'm sure. Prior peaked around 91 and Wood around 93. I'm sure there are replays of the Bartman inning that show the mph.
Sep 11, 2012 14:05 PM
No, we don't know that the way Dusty Baker used pitchers was conclusively the thing that ruined them. There's no real way we could ever know exactly what caused a particular injury in a particular player.
Sep 12, 2012 02:41 AM
I can't believe you guys are still going on about this. But if you would rather have Edwin Jackson start a playoff game than Strasburg, then I have some nice land to sell you.
Sep 11, 2012 14:11 PM
If you don't notice that their overall statistics are similar with Jackson providing longer starts in exchange for a slight drop in quality, then I'll buy your land, hold onto it for ten years (since land prices tend to go up.. you noticed that, right?), then sell it for a healthy profit.
Sep 11, 2012 14:25 PM
Sure, all land and real estate have gone up the last 10 years. Ask people living in Nevada or Florida if they got a good deal. And I'll still take Strasburg 99 out of 100 times.
Sep 11, 2012 18:43 PM
Actually, I live in Denver and my house is in one of the Top 10 foreclosed zip codes in the country. I'm still doing ok.
Sep 11, 2012 19:19 PM
I give up. I wouldn't make that offer, as I'm only comparing Strasburg to Jackson. You never see the other side of the equation and are stubborn as a mule.
Sep 12, 2012 09:32 AM
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"This agreement meets the requirements of U.S. antidumping law and provides an effective remedy for the U.S. domestic industry that protects American jobs," Piquado said in the release.
The Commerce Department proposed the plan Feb. 2, and the signing was preceeded by comment period. The agreement sets different floor prices for Mexican fresh tomatoes during the summer and winter and also specifies prices for open field/adapted-environment and controlled-environment production.
The proposal raises minimum prices substantially, in some cases more than double the current floor price for certain products.
The previous floor prices for all Mexican tomatoes — whether grown in fields, greenhouses or shadehouses — was 21.69 cents per pound in the winter and 17.2 cents per pound in the summer.
The agreement sets new prices:
- Open-field and "adapted-environment" tomatoes are 31 cents per pound in the winter and 24.58 cents per pound in the summer.
- Controlled-environment tomatoes are 41 cents per pound in the winter and 32.51 cents per pound in the summer.
- Loose specialty tomatoes are 45 cents per pound in the winter and 35.68 cents per pound in the summer.
- Packed specialty tomatoes have minimum prices of 59 cents per pound in the winter and 46.79 cents per pound in the summer.
In a news release, Lance Jungmeyer, president of the Nogales, Ariz.-based Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, called the finalized agreement a win for for U.S. jobs, companies and consumers.
"We stand fully behind the Mexican growers in implementing the new tomato suspension agreement," said Lance Jungmeyer, President of FPAA. "Their tireless efforts to maintain market access for Mexican tomatoes mean that consumers will still be able to find the quality and diversity of tomatoes that they have grown to prefer at the supermarket and in restaurants. The agreement will ensure continued stability in the tomato supply chain."
A Commerce Department official said there were no significant changes made to the agreement proposed in February. The official said more than 600 Mexican growers and exporters signed the agreement, up from 450 growers/exporters who signed a 2008 agreement.
All fresh or chilled tomatoes from Mexico are covered by the new prices. Tomatoes imported for processing are not. The agreement accounts for changes that have occurred in the tomato industry since the signing of the original agreement in 1996, according to the release. Since then, Mexico has significantly increases greenhouse acreage.
"I'm pleased with the collaborative efforts that resulted in this agreement, which will help to maintain stability in tomato trade between the United States and Mexico," Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sánchez said in the release.
The original 1996 suspension agreement was updated in 2002 and 2008.


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Australian rock legend Chrissy Amphlett, best known as the singer of the Divinyls, has died in New York aged 53.
The charismatic frontwoman was surrounded by family and friends at her home when she died this morning.
Her husband of 14 years, former Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton, says Amphlett died of breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
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Travis Wood and the Winds of Wrigley
One of the first axioms I learned when I wandered into the world of sports betting was to heed Wrigley Field's winds. Wrigley's proximity to Lake Michigan gave it a reputation for dramatically affecting fly balls, which would inflate or deflate the game over/under on runs. If the wind was blowing out, fly balls were expected to sail out as home runs, and the total would be unusually high. A low total typically meant that winds were blowing toward home plate, suppressing fly balls.
Vegas already knew this, which unfortunately added an additional dimension to handicapping Cubs home games. Amazingly though, this advice was extremely exploitable in fantasy baseball. An "@ChC" note next to my pitcher meant a trip to Baseball Weather Analyzer or Daily Baseball Data (two sweet resources) to examine Wrigley Field's conditions that day. Flyball pitchers sat on blow-out days and started on blow-in days.
Chris Constancio of The Hardball Times investigated the effect of winds on HR/FB rates six years ago, and he observed statistically significant results in Chicago parks. I replicated his method on data from 2007 to the present and found that the Wrigley wind effect is stronger than ever. Over 508 games, here's how pitchers performed in HR/FB rate, ERA, and slugging percentage allowed, split by Retrosheet's wind field:
Harry Pavlidis, one of BP's many Cubs experts, notes that wind direction and speed can change within a game at Wrigley Field.
Unfolding "Other" into its respective "In" and "Out" bins yields an intuitive symmetry, indicative of Wrigley's varying wind spells:
The distribution of wind events is not perfectly uniform from season to season, but even when divided into yearly buckets (so that talent is better controlled for), the outcomes are very apparent.
A considerable portion of the performance of pitchers in Wrigley was affected by the day's wind condition. I retrieved the splits for starters with at least 45 innings pitched each in the "In" and "Out" states at Wrigley, since 1998:
No one was immune—not even The Professor. The effect is quite evident for starters with flyball tendencies like Wood, Lieber, and Lilly. Ultimately, the opposing wind extremes end up balancing each other out; taking the sum of all Wrigley Field numbers, the given rates are a sliver off league averages. However, the extremes might cause Wrigley pitchers to have more variation in their starts than a non-Wrigley pitcher.
The biggest beneficiary of the wind effect this season is Travis Wood. His 2.24 ERA ranks seventh in the NL, and every one of his nine starts has been deemed "quality." Unsurprisingly, none of his six home starts featured a game with wind blowing in from the ivy:
The "wind schedule" has skewed favorably for Wood in these early months. Combined with some BABIP luck, he's evaded the regression that is looming—so far. We know he can't sustain a .193 BABIP forever. But if he continues to serendipitously find the wind behind him, there's a chance that his HR/FB rate will keep floating around his current 6.5 percent mark, enabling him to outperform his peripherals. For his career pitching at Wrigley, Wood's numbers reveal a massive dichotomy:
Travis Wood is a flyball pitcher like Kerry Wood before him, and the wind effect on his numbers is amplified. Hitters won't continue slugging .818 against him with southwest winds, but if the trend is real, the .508 opponent slugging mark served by Wrigley pitchers under those circumstances in the past seven years can be expected.
Obviously, the Cubs can't control Mother Nature, nor schedule its starters around her. Pitchers at Wrigley Field will always be, to a degree, at the mercy of its winds. The fiercest months—April and May—are nearly over, but the summer games will still see the occasional gusty afternoon. It's a convincing reason to observe the weather, whether you're debating a start/sit decision for a fantasy starter, or you're the Cubs manager, pondering your offensive strategy.
Andrew Koo is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @akoo
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Great analysis. And one more thing I have to check before I set my lineups.
May 22, 2013 05:45 AM
Travis seems pretty athletic regardless of the wind. He can put the bat on the ball and runs better than your average pitcher from what I've seen. I like his potential in the long-term.
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Category: rock star names
Rock musicians have gotten the rap of being the most extreme baby namers, which certainly is true for some but by no means all. This led me to wonder if their choices bore any relationship to the kind of music they played: would the Dixie Chicks, for example, pick names with a countryish flavor, Atomic Kitten more edgy?
And how about within the groups– were their choices in sync? Since they functioned basically as families on the road, how did their kids' names work as sibsets? In the examples listed below, you can see certain similarities—such as a Beatles theme running through the Oasis offspring, and several other musical references, including Jagger, Les Paul, Elvis, Madonna, Bebop and even Rock .


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Slow Cooker Ground Beef and Refried Bean Chili with Salsa and Lime
Not that there is a shortage of good chili recipes on the blog, with a few of them having made an appearance at Denny family Superbowl parties in the past! What was fun about this recipe was the way it uses a can of refried beans to thicken the chili, and also the addition of salsa. There's also a healthy amount of lime juice, and I'd serve this with slices of lime so lime lovers (like me) can squeeze even more lime into their chili! And this tasty chili is gluten-free, dairy-free, and South Beach Diet phase one (with portion control.) Enjoy, and I hope your team is the winner!
Rinse the beans with cold water until no more foam appears. Use black beans or kidney beans along with the pintos, your choice.
Slow Cooker Ground Beef and Refried Bean Chili with Salsa and Lime
(Makes 4-6 servings; recipe adapted from Penzeys catalog recipe by Kathleen Bergeron.)
1 lb. lean ground beef (use beef with less than 10% fat for South Beach Diet)
2 tsp. + 1 tsp. olive oil
1 cup finely chopped onion
2 T minced garlic (or less)
2 tsp. chile powder
2 tsp. ground Ancho chile pepper (or use more regular chile powder if you don't have Ancho)
1 T ground cumin (or less if you're not a big fan of cumin)
1 tsp. Mexican oregano
1 1/4 cups salsa (I used Pace Mild Picante Sauce)
1 can (15 oz.) pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (15 oz.) kidney beans or black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (16 oz.) refried beans
1 can (14 oz.) beef broth
2 T fresh-squeezed lime juice
lime slices for serving (optional)
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Round 5 announces their next assortment of UFC "Ultimate Collector" figures. UFC "Ultimate Collector" Series 3, scheduled for release this summer, will depict five popular UFC fighters including: Rich Ace Franklin, Antonio Rodrigo Minotauro Nogueira, Diego The Nightmare Sanchez, Anderson Spider Silva and Wanderlei The Axe Murderer Silva.
Fans will also want to be on the lookout for a special PRIDE edition of the Wanderlei Silva figurine, available on a limited basis. The PRIDE variant will feature the gloves and trunks Silva wore during his successful championship run between the PRIDE ropes.
Round 5 also announced the formation of its new "Versus" line, which highlights battle scenes from great matchups in MMA history. Additionally, these distinctly new figurines are accompanied by an Octagon segment display.
Included in the "Versus" series are figure pairs from the following bouts:
- Quinton Jackson vs. W. Silva (UFC 92), 12-27-2008
- Georges St. Pierre vs. B.J. Penn (UFC 94), 1-31-2009
- Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar (UFC 100), 7-11-2008
- Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell (UFC 66), 12-30-2006
- Ortiz vs. Liddell (TUF 11)
- Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar (Ultimate Fighter Season Finale) 4-9-2005
- Jackson vs. Silva (PRIDE 28), 10-31-2004.
The "Versus" line is due to hit stores in time for the 2010 Holiday season.
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Watch a video highlighting CFCA's work in India and the beauty of the mothers groups.
Ilene Adams, CFCA International programs – Asia project director, reflects on the award given to Father Francis Thumma and the Hyderabad team, and the mothers group program established there.
The culture of creativity and courage which was established by Fr. Francis is alive in Hyderabad today. The culture can be witnessed in many different ways. It is witnessed through the proud faces of the mothers as they display the products they have produced and will sell at a profit, through the bounce in their step as they walk among 5,000 other sponsored mothers at the annual mothers conference, through the confidence in their faces as they explain that the blue vest they are wearing denotes them as a mothers group leader, and through the excitement in their voices as they introduce their child and explain that she will be graduating this year with a masters degree.
In a society where women are oppressed, these opportunities are made available only by a culture of great creativity and great courage. A culture established by Fr. Francis and embraced by Suresh, Prakash, Rosy and by each and every member of the CFCA Hyderabad team. And, while it's this culture which allows for such opportunities, Fr. Francis and the staff in Hyderabad would be quick to point out that it is the endless work of the mothers themselves which turns these opportunities into the glorious realities that we celebrate.


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ARS believes that CPM, while only partially validated, has the potential to make useful contributions to American cotton producers when completed. For these reasons, ARS decided to make the model available for further development and commercialization.
Unconditional Release - The model is now being released at no cost to the public for further development. ARS is releasing the CPM so that interested parties can continue to develop the model for their own needs and purposes. ARS does not foresee providing monetary or technical support to refine, adapt, or use this model, and provides no warranty for its use for any purpose. ARS does not reserve any rights or interests in the work that may be performed by others to refine or adapt it. ARS does reserve the right to continue its own refinement of the current version of the model at a later date, should program needs require it.
Information on CPM - A new process-based cotton model, CPM, has been developed to simulate the growth and development of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) throughout the growing season with minimal data input. CPM predicts final cotton yield for any combination of soil, weather, cultivar and sequence of management actions.
The personal computer system requirements to run CPM are minimal, requiring IBM-compatibility, Windows95+, 64K RAM, and 4Mb hard disk space.
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Claytoon wrote:How exactly did you decide on/test that combination of colors to get the color so close? I'm gonna do a copy of this dye as a gift to my dad...so just wanted to do it right.
Oh and since I'm going to try and copy it anyways...do you still have the image you created/used? I can create it on my own, but that would save me some time.
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Peter Hutchinson, president of the St. Paul-based Bush Foundation, spoke with MPR's Morning Edition to provide more context for the debate over K-12 education funding.
Hutchinson served as state finance commissioner during the 1980s under DFL Gov. Rudy Perpich. In the mid-'90s he spent four years as superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Hutchinson was also the Independence Party's candidate for governor in 2006, but has not endorsed anyone in this year's race for governor.
Cathy Wurzer: Emmer and Horner both plan to delay payments to schools as part of their budget solution. Mark Dayton says he may have to delay payments, too, if he can't find savings or revenue elsewhere. What's the practical effect on schools, students and teachers of delaying those payments?
Peter Hutchinson: The narrow way to think about this is that the school districts have to go out and borrow, short term, a whole bunch of money.
Now that sounds terrible, except that interest rates are so close to zero that it's actually not very expensive -- I would guess across the state we're probably talking $10 or $20 million in borrowing costs, which no one would like to pay. But it's a heck of a lot better than $1.5 billion or whatever it is that we would have to cut if we were going to do it some other way.
So it's a relatively cheap deal today. If interest rates go up, if interest rates went from 1 percent to 5 percent, now you're talking $100 (million,, $150 (million), $200 million -- that's going to feel just like a cut.
So for now we're getting by, but I think the bigger challenge ... you're either going to repay the loan, which I don't think is going to happen, or you're going to have to find a way to make education less expensive by about $1.5 billion, and that is no mean feat.
Wurzer: Where do you look for $1 billion in reductions? Consolidating school districts?
Hutchinson: There's only one way to take real cost out of schools, and that's class size. In Minnesota, and it's true nationally, over the last 25 years we've been running one of the largest educational reform initiatives ever attempted, and this was to reduce class sizes. And we succeeded.
Class sizes are down almost 50 percent from where they were 20 to 25 years ago. And that's the reason, by the way, that spending has gone up so much. It's not actually teachers taking home a lot more dough. It's the number of teachers in every classroom has gone up so dramatically, and we just don't see the results.
Wurzer: Some people say educational spending has gone down, not up.
Hutchinson: If you look back over time, 20 or 25 years, we're spending almost twice as much per pupil in real dollars -- take inflation out -- than we were 20 to 25 years ago. And the truth is we're not getting any different educational outcomes.
Wurzer: When you hear some candidates, including DFLer Mark Dayton, say they want to spend more money on education, what do you think?
Hutchinson: Whoever is the next governor, let's assume they last for eight years. While they're governor, almost half the teachers in that period of time will leave teaching and be replaced. It's 25,000 teachers, by the way. That's the big opportunity that I think we have in this state.
If I could give the new governor one piece of advice that's what would be: Try to make the next 25,000 teachers the most fabulous teachers we could have. And we can make them the most fabulous teachers in Minnesota without spending more money, because we are going to replace them. Their salaries are already in the budget.
I think it would never be a bad thing if we spent more money on the schools. But it would be a bad thing if we didn't use that money to, in the next 10 years, to dramatically alter who goes into teaching, and to make sure that we put in front of our kids the very best teaching force we possibly can, and it's within our reach.
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WOOTTON Bassett's Division One West title drive lost momentum on Saturday, but boss Dave Turner says his team are not giving up yet.
Second-placed Bassett were beaten 2-0 by league leaders Brimscombe & Thrupp for the second time this season, but still remain well-placed to grab at least the second automatic promotion spot.
A goal in each half was enough to give Brimscombe victory at the Meadow, and Turner freely admitted the hosts were well-worth their win.
"They were the better team, it's as simple as that. We can have no complaints," he said.
"I did some spying in the week and it would have taken a hovercraft to get round that pitch, but on Saturday it was remarkably good so I can't even use that as an excuse.
"They managed to get a friendly in against Gloucester City last Saturday and getting that game in really helped them.
"I cant fault my lads ' effort, Brimscombe were just stronger and sometimes you have to hold your hands up.
"It's all too easy to make excuses but I'm going to take nothing away from them, they were the better team.
"We either sulk and let it ruin our season, or we dig in and hope they slip up, and be ready to take advantage.
"I know which one I'm expecting but the proof of the pudding will be in the next game."
Despite the defeat, Bassett are still hot favourites to return to the Hellenic Premier alongside Brimscombe and Turner is more than content with that situation.
"If someone had offered me this position before a ball had been kicked, I would have snapped their arm off," he said.
"It's in our hands and it's up to us to be professional and committed as we have been.
"We haven't conceded the title and we'll fight to the end. We aren't a million miles away."
Elsewhere in the division, Fairford recorded a 1-1 draw at Hook Norton in the absence of manager Paul Braithwaite, who was away on holiday in Egypt.
Mark Dennis put the hosts 1-0 up several minutes before the break. However, Callum Parsons received a chest-high kick in the penalty area midway through the second half and Nathan Gambling put away the spot kick.
Fairford have several chances to win the game with Ash Taylor and Nathan Gambling both going close.
Braithwaite said: "From what my assistant told me, we deserved to win the game and they were a bit lucky to come away with a point."
New College remain very much in relegation trouble following a 2-0 defeat at Lambourn, while Purton were beaten 3-0 by mid-table Old Woodstock.
Several matches in the Hellenic League did not get started this weekend, with neither of our Hellenic Premier sides getting a game due to the weather.
Highworth were scheduled to travel to Slimbridge but the fixture did not go ahead, while Shrivenham's away trip to Flackwell was also called off.
In Division One West, Malmesbury's woes with their Flying Monk pitch continued as their clash with Carterton was postponed.
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This also happens with old skins not meant for dharma. I like this skin more than pmiii.hd so dont ask why i have it.
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Its due to the way the skin was designed and things that changed in XBMC you need to add a <textwidth> to the menu button controls and make it wide enough for the text
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source is here https://xboxmediacenter.svn.sourceforge....hem%20III/
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Letter Juggle 12Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Rode - Can
2. Font - Farce
3. Tory - Stale
4. Dire - Cash
5. Self - Shill
Hint1. Stick
2. Visage
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Rotnei Clarke and Kellen Dunham each scored 17 points Tuesday night to lead unranked Butler past No. 9 North Carolina 82-71 in the second round of the Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawaii.
One day after beating Marquette on a 3-pointer by Clarke at the buzzer, Butler (3-1) held North Carolina to 18 points in the first half and led 60-31 before the Tar Heels rallied.
North Carolina (4-1) got within six points with under two minutes to play, but the Bulldogs hit five free throws to ice the victory.
"In the first half, they really kicked us," North Carolina coach Roy Williams said. "In the second half, we're trying to make comebacks, but they were making shots."
P.J. Hairston led the Tar Heels with 15 points.
Record night: Jack Taylor scored 138 points to shatter the NCAA scoring record in Division III Grinnell's 179-104 victory over Faith Baptist Bible in Grinnell, Iowa.
Faith Baptist's David Larson scored 70 points on 34-of-44 shooting.
Taylor, a 5-foot-10 sophomore guard, was 52 of 108 from the field, going 27 of 71 from 3-point range.
Rio Grande's Bevo Francis held the NCAA scoring record with 113 points against Hillsdale in 1954. In 1953, Francis had 116 against Ashland Junior College. Frank Selvy is the only other player to reach triple figures, scoring 100 points for Division I Furman against Newberry in 1954.
Indiana 82, Georgetown 72: Cody Zeller had 17 points to help the No. 1 Hoosiers (5-0) beat the Hoyas (3-1) in overtime in New York.
San Jose State 94, UC Santa Cruz 54: Chris Cunningham had 19 points and 18 rebounds to lead the Spartans (2-2) past the Banana Slugs (1-2) at the Event Center.
James Kinney and Nick Grieves each added 18 points for San Jose State.
Santa Clara 85, SC Upstate 65: Marc Trasolini led four double-digit scorers with 18 points as the Broncos (3-0) defeated the Spartans (1-3) at the Leavey Center.


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AMBITIOUS plans to build a hotel and university accommodation in Sidcup town centre have been given the green light.
Developer Pure Lake Group is set to demolish Christopher House in Station Road and replace it with a 106-bedroom Premier Inn and a nine-storey halls of residence for Rose Bruford College.
Professor Michael Earley, the principal and CEO of the Lamorbey Park-based university specialising in theatre and performance, says the development will help "benefit the regeneration and growth of Sidcup as a desirable place".
The plans were given the go-ahead at a meeting of Bexley Council's planning committee on Thursday.
Committee member and Belvedere ward councillor Kerry Allon said: "I think a sensible decision was made and it will be an asset to the area.
"You've got a Premier Inn, rooms for students, shops below and a lovely public realm area as well.
"Sidcup is coming on leaps and bounds."
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