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Defense, BABIP, and James Shields
One of my favorite things to do with baseball statistics is to pick two of them and see what kind of relationship they have. Many pitchers have changed locations this off-season and will have to get accustomed to the new team defense behind them. Some have made the move to strong defensive teams while others have moved into situations that are a step down from what they have been accustomed to having around them.
Not only are pitchers changing places but so are good and bad defenders, which makes it tough to predict how a team defense could affect a pitcher in 2013, but that does not prohibit from looking back at how the relationship works. Specifically, we can look at the relationship between a pitcher's batting average on balls in play and team Defensive Efficiency ratings to see how one impacts the other.
Our crack stats team pulled together a report for me showing all 3,105 pitchers that threw at least 160 innings for a single team in a season from 1974 to 2012. In comparing the two metrics, we see that Defensive Efficiency (DEF_EFF) and batting average on balls in play (BABIP) have a negative correlation of r=-0.57.
Generally, scores of higher than 0.7 or lower than -0.7 are considered strong while anything less than 0.3 on either end is considered weak. The correlation between BABIP and DEF_EFF is not strong, but it's not one that can be completely dismissed either.
A prime example of why the correlation is not stronger is the recently traded James Shields. If you look to the far left of the image above, you'll see a small dot near the .28 mark on the y axis to the extreme left of the x axis. That represents the .282 BABIP Shields posted during the 2007 season when the then Devil Rays defense turned in the worst team defensive efficiency in the entire sample: .670. It was a historical low for a team score, and the improvement from 2007 to 2008 was one of the many reasons the Rays won the American League that season. In 2007, Shields had a .282 BABIP; Scott Kazmir was at .332 and Edwin Jackson was at .341. Jump ahead to the 2010 season when the Rays had a .722 team defensive efficiency, and Shields had a .341 BABIP. Shields owns both the best BABIP against the worst defensive efficiency as well as the third-highest BABIP for any pitcher on a team with a team defensive efficiency score of at least .720.
The table below shows how the two metrics break down at .025 intervals:
If you are one to avoid risk, the obvious plan of attack would be to target pitchers on teams with the highest defensive efficiency scores. Unfortunately, only two teams have eclipsed the .725 threshold in the past three seasons: the 2011 Rays (.735) and the 2010 Athletics (.726). The American League does, however, dominate the leaderboard over the last three seasons; it owns each of the top 11 spots and 12 of the top 20. The Rays have three of the top 10 scores pitching in a pitchers' park, Oakland has two of the top ten in their pitchers' park, while Texas has two top-ten finishes in their hitters' park.
Getting back to Shields, he moves from a team that has averaged a .723 defensive efficiency score over the past five seasons to one that has averaged a .696 score over that same time period. Shields had that rough 2010 season despite the strong team defense mainly due to pitch sequencing issues and giving his cutter usage a baptism by fire. He made some slight mechanical tweaks that off-season and came into 2011 with a different sequencing strategy, and the results since then have been excellent.
Shields has pitched converted himself into a groundball pitcher in recent years. He has both succeeded in spite of poor defensive play and has squandered excellent defensive support in the past. While this may be attributable to simple luck, it's also possible that those worrying about how he'll fare away from the comforts of Tropicana Field and the Rays defense may be making much ado about nothing.
Jason Collette is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Just a note: In 2007 Shields LD% was 16.3% and in 2010 it jumped to 20.3%. That is a pretty large swing, and thus while luck may play a part in this poor 2010 BABIP, it's tough for any good defensive team to catch line drives.
Jan 02, 2013 05:59 AM
Sequencing issues? So it is pointless overthinking Shield's value if you don't know how he's going to 'sequence' with a new pitching coach in a new home park? Do we know different pitching coaches/catchers sequencing proclivities? In short: is there a stat for that?
Jan 02, 2013 06:17 AM
Here's some info into the sequencing issue http://crashburnalley.com/2012/06/21/joe-blanton-and-the-james-shields-parallel/
Jan 02, 2013 06:23 AM
Aside from the fact that Defensive Efficiency lumps errors and hits together into "outs not made," BABIP is just the inverse of Defensive Efficiency. Isn't it? As such, the correlation of the two measures within a sample is kind of meaningless, isn't it? A high DE and a low babip go together almost by definition so that finding doesn't really say anything about how a defense impacts a pitchers BABIP. It just says that if a pitcher has a high babip he probably also has a low DE. But who cares? What am I missing?
Jan 02, 2013 07:31 AM
The actual inverse would be the quick way of 1 minus the BABIP. The way our engine computes it is 1-(H-HR)/(AB-SO-HR+SH+SF). According to our glossary, the ROE component, that was once part of the formula, is no longer.
Jan 02, 2013 07:36 AM
Thanks for pointing me to your glossary. Here are the definitions I found:
Jan 02, 2013 08:01 AM
It looks like each observation for the BABIP axis is an individual pitcher and each observation on the DE axis is a team. If you look closely, you'll see that the slope of the regressed line is very close to -1, even though all of the points don't lie on or close to that line. Each of the fuzzy green vertical lines is the conditional distribution of BABIP for the pitchers on each team. The mean of each conditional distribution is 1-DE for each team (apart from the SH difference and apart from the fact that pitchers with less than 160 IP have been excluded).
Jan 02, 2013 10:38 AM
Yes, the BABIP's are from individual pitchers while the DE results are team based. The slope of the regressed line comes in at -0.57.
Jan 02, 2013 10:44 AM
This chart is the sort of analysis that gives us more information (or at least places to ask questions) about the outliers, than about the middle. Even better would be to plot a pitcher's BABIP against the DE of his team in all other PAs (that is, with the Pitcher Under Test removed from the DE). Then the outliers could be inspected to see if they are particularly well/badly suited to their teams (imagine Derek Lowe in front of Brooks Robinson, Ozzie Smith, Bill Mazeroski and Keith Hernandez {all in-their-prime versions}...) or if something else is going on.
Jan 02, 2013 11:29 AM
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+1 Larry, I couldn't agree more.
Jan 02, 2013 12:50 PM
+1 to the idea of removing the pitcher's PA's from his team's BABIP (I wouldn't be surprised if this is what JC did). Within the pitcher's PA's, the relationship between the two statistics is tautological, as we've established, so including them is going to bias the observed relationship toward that y=1-x line. Removing them gets us closer to the relationship we're really trying to study.
Jan 02, 2013 15:31 PM
That isn't what I did but I've put the request in with our stats group to see if it is possible to pull such a report.
Jan 02, 2013 15:34 PM
The stats team pulled the data for me. When I run a line of best fit for BABIP against Team DE without that pitcher's PA's included, I get r=-0.36. The average difference between the overall Team DE and the adjusted Team DE was .004. The largest difference belonged to Catfish Hunter whose overall Team DE was .729 but only .715 when he wasn't pitching. Conversely, the Rays were a .734 DE when Shields wasn't pitching but a .722 overall in 2010
Jan 03, 2013 07:32 AM
If I play with the starting point of the X axis only, here are the r= figures
Jan 02, 2013 13:03 PM
How about the type of pitcher and type of fielding excellence? If a pitcher gives up a lot of ground balls how much does the infield help or hurt, and the same for fly ball pitchers and the outfield? My bias would suggest that infield would help ground ball pitchers more than outfielders would help fly ball pitchers, but I was amazed that the Tigers ERA would go up a run with their infield last year, and I was surprised their pitching looked as good as it did. Has this been well-studied?
Jan 02, 2013 20:33 PM
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ALAN Kemp, from Weaver Valley Cycling Club, ended another successful week as a national champion.
He was first in class in The League International Criterium Championships at Rhyl, where he lapped the field along with three other riders with 1,000m to go.
He edged his rivals in a sprint to the line to emerge as victor.
Clubmate Nick Butterworth placed fifth in his age category.
Kemp repeated the trick in the Steve Jones Memorial Road Race at Saighton, near Chester, the next day when he was fastest in class over a 43-mile course after fending off multiple attacks and reacting to more than one breakaway.
It marked his third win in a seven-day period following another age category victory in the fourth round of the Dave Astles Memorial Road Race series at Lower Withington.
Weaver Valley's Kevan Underhill was close behind him, claiming sixth spot in the men's 45-49 race.
Dave Fearon was quickest of Weaver Valley's contingent in the Stone Wheelers' 25, completing a fast course at Blythe Bridge in 54:22 to finish inside the top 30.
Alistair Stanway clocked 56:00, Jim Duffy 57:09 and Chris Gilbertson a 58:08.
Manchester Wheelers' Scott Burns and Charles Taylor (South Pennine RC) had a close battle with just three seconds separating them at the finish.
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Jacob Booth claimed a top 10 classification in the West Pennine Road Race over 50 miles on a course close to Clitheroe.
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And I thought this was an schedule win SMH
Go pacers ...
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And I thought this was an schedule win SMH
Go pacers ...
I just hate watching this team play basketball.
we need to make a trade this team has stagnated we really do we lack people that can actually put the ball in the basket.
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
Great 2nd half defense, but our offense? REALLY???
Boy is this getting old...
This season has turned comically bad
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
This team is quickly undoing everything they did last season. Keep this up, and they'll be out of Indiana in a few years.
Good God. That was awful.
"But, first, let us now praise famous moments, because something happened Tuesday night in Indianapolis that you can watch a lifetimes worth of professional basketball and never see again. There was a brief, and very decisive, and altogether unprecedented, outburst of genuine officiating, and it was directed at the best player in the world, and that, my dear young person, simply is not done."
If THIS doesn't show that SOMETHING needs to happen, change, or SOMETHING, idk what will.
We have one player in Hill who gives a damn. Lance couldn't get in, West gets angry nd stops rebounding when he can't get the ball offensively, our MAX C can't make a layup, lol at this point it's just laughable how bad we are.
We ****ing suck the refs did their best to let us win and people wondered why certain teams were ahead of use before the season on ESPN power ranking ...
Larry Bird and Ryan Grigson- wasting the talents of Paul George and Andrew Luck
At least the combined record of teams we've beaten is better now: 4-16
No longer undefeated at home, but still undefeated against teams that are all-defeated.
Just stop with this ****. No they won't.
Ready for a new coach.
It sucks Vogel isn't even on the hot seat.
K. I'm in. **** this team. Direct me to the kneejerk reaction thread. Direct me to a therapist. Direct me somewhere, because right now I hate every member of this team except for Hill, West, and Stephenson.
Roy is about to become untradeable with that contract.
The bench is still ****ing awful.
Hansbrough was the best player on the team tonight.
The Raptors scored FIVE ****ING POINTS IN THE ENTIRE FOURTH QUARTER AND STILL WON THE ****ING GAME.
Any timetable for Roy coming back ?
And this team was picked to finish 2nd??? Lmao!!!
Larry Bird and Ryan Grigson- wasting the talents of Paul George and Andrew Luck
Oh, and the first person to waltz in here and say, "Guys, look at the positives: We played great defense! We held them to 74 points!" Deserves an immediate ban without any further questions.
Nah he got traded to the Blue Jays with Jose Reyes.
Not fun. Not fun at all.
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Not likely.
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
Indiana will be the worst team in the league this year...
1st draft selection, goes to Indianapollis...
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BALTIMORE -- Lefty Eric O'Flaherty was perfect in his first rehab outing since undergoing Tommy John surgery, striking out the side in an inning of work on Friday.
Pitching for Class A Advanced Stockton, O'Flaherty threw 10 of his 13 pitches for strikes.
"Good start for him, and he felt good afterward," said manager Bob Melvin, "so that's important."
It doesn't mean he's ready to join the big league club just yet, though. O'Flaherty will continue his rehab on a Spring Training-like progression, so it's likely he makes at least five more Minor League appearances.
Melvin, however, doesn't believe he'll need to pitch on consecutive days, like most clubs have their relievers do in advance of the season, so it's plausible O'Flaherty's return could still come before month's end.
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With a clutch 3-pointer at the regulation horn, Kirby Dederian gave the Terra Linda High boys basketball team a chance to steal a critical road win.
But Will Breck helped host Redwood survive an 84-77 overtime heart-stopper on Tuesday night — and a share of the MCAL lead — with his own three-point plays, of the old-fashioned variety.
Breck scored 13 of his 24 points in the extra period, sparked by a pair of bruising and-one plays, to carry the Giants (11-8, 6-1) to victory. The win -- coupled with Drake's loss to Novato -- means Redwood is in a three-way tie for first with Branson and the Pirates.
But the Giants needed to overcome the feisty Trojans (8-11, 2-5) who shot a sizzling 42.9 percent from beyond the arc.
"We were expecting a battle," said Breck, who was 10 for 13 from the stripe and added 11 boards to help his squad outrebound Terra Linda, 40-32. "We were ready for a battle and we got one."
Redwood coach Steve Compagno, right after raving about Breck's "absolute monster" of a performance, echoed the same sentiment.
"There are no easy nights in this league," he said. "It's a challenge every time."
The Trojans, still deeply in the hunt for the league's final playoff spots, certainly made the Giants sweat. The visitors led by as many as seven in a game that saw five ties and 12 lead changes.
With four players in double figures, led by Beau Keeve's 25 and Dederian's 14, Terra Linda connected 12 times from beyond the arc.
None were bigger than the shot by Dederian to force an extra period.
After five lead changes over the final three minutes of the fourth quarter alone, the Trojans trailed 67-64 when they inbounded from midcourt with 2.8 seconds left. But Dederian ensured four more minutes of play with his third 3-pointer of the period and fourth of the game — an arcing, fall-away jumper from the right wing.
"Kirby shot the hell out of the ball today," Trojans coach Steve Farbstein said. "He hit a tough, tough shot there and he's been really coming on. This was a phenomenal, phenomenal game."
But one in which the Giants reasserted control, outscoring Terra Linda 17-10 during OT. Farbstein was wary over Redwood's size on the boards and after going toe-to-toe throughout regulation, Terra Linda was unable to keep pace on the glass. That rebounding edge also helped the Giants finish 25 for 32 from the line on the night, compared to just 11 for 15 for TL.
Redwood got 17 points from Peter Kennedy (including 10-for-14 shooting at the foul line), 12 from Nick Jones and 11 by Jack Bronson.
Josh Pinto had 13 points and seven boards for the Trojans, while Zach Able scored 12.
Redwood travels to Marin Catholic on Friday, while Terra Linda hosts Drake.
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Terra Linda 18 16 15 18 10 — 77
Redwood 16 15 21 15 17 — 84
TERRA LINDA—Keeve 8 5-6 25, Gable 3 2-2 9, Pinto 6 0-0 13, DiMatteo 1 1-2 4, Dederian 4 2-2 14, Able 5 1-3 12. Totals: 27 11-15 77.
REDWOOD—Tarantino, Bongiorno, Bullock 1 2-2 4, Sullivan 1 0-0 2, Thompson 4 0-0 8, Donick 0 0-1 0, Bronson 4 2-2 11, Jones 5 1-1 12, Kennedy 4 10-14 17, LaViale 3 0-1 6, Breck 8 10-13 24. Totals: 27 25-32 84
3-pointers—Terra Linda 12 (Dederian 4, Keeve 4, Gable, Able, DiMatteo, Pinto); Redwood 5 (Breck 2, Kennedy, Jones, Bronson). Foul outs—Dederian, Pinto; Technicals—none.
Records: Terra Linda 8-11, 2-5; Redwood 11-8, 6-1.


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SIMON Gustafsson was once again frustrated by his own performance despite scoring nine in the Robins' surprise victory at Leicester.
The Swede started the meeting in superb form, winning his first two outings before running a second in his third, but ended the meeting poorly with only one point from his final two rides which cost him a place in heat 15.
Last time out Gustafsson was unbeaten in his four rides against Wolves before finishing at the back in his fifth, and while he was able to take positives from his start against Leicester, he was once again unhappy with how things finished.
"I looked at the programme a bit into the meeting and saw we were up by 10 which was a bit of a surprise, and it's good we went on to win," he said.
"I started well and I really had a good one, so we all have to be really pleased.
"I'm pleased with my score and the track was really nice, but I'm not pleased with how I finished off the meeting. When I was gating the track was good and when I wasn't it wasn't that much fun.
"It's different when you start a meeting off badly and carry on badly all the way through, but when you start off well like I did and then things go bad it can be really frustrating.
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M. Ellen Mitchell, Ph.D.
Rehabilitation News
The Rehabilitation Counseling Program celebrated its 30th Anniversary on April 14th. Honored guests and speakers were Dr. David Hershensen, founder of the program, Dr.Brian McMahon, M.S. graduate and previous faculty member, and George McCrowey, M.S. graduate and current Deputy Director of Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services. Topics discussed included "Rehab Yesterday & Today" and "New Directions in Disability Management".
Marcie Zinn, clinical/rehab student, is an active lecturer on increasing self-efficacy of music students and the mind-body connection in music. Marcie's audience includes music teachers of all levels across Illinois. Marcie has a professional certificate in Piano Performance, Music Theory and Piano Pedagogy which has just been renewed by the Music Teachers' National Association, the official certifying agency for music professionals.
Clinical News
Margie Pechota, clinical student, will presented the results of her thesis at the Midwest Psychological Association on May 9th.
The clinical faculty are delighted to announce that the following students will enter the program this coming summer. Welcome to the College of Psychology!
Lara Dhingra - Johns Hopkins University
Erika Gold - University of Michigan
Tim Houle - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ilianna Hevia - University of Illinois
Kristen Krueger-Mendoza - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Dong-Hyung Lee - Chungnam National University
Deepa Rao - University of Chicago
David Rapp - Grinnell College
Laura Schmitt - Plymouth State College
Jennifer Schneps - University of Wisconsin
Gary Soley - University of Illinois- Chicago
Melissa Marquart - University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Steven Zombory - Rutgers University
Take a look at the great 1997 internship placement sites for clinical students. Congratulations!
John Anderson - Henry Ford Health Science Center, Detroit
Andrew Burns - Children's Memorial, Chicago
Johnathan Cole - Biloxi Mississippi VA
Theresa Kiolbasa - Westside VA, Chicago
Michelle Kornbleuth - Franciscan's Children's Hospital, Boston
Maureen Mansfield - LI Jewish Medical Center, NY
Eddie O'Connor - Salem VA, VA
Amy Siston - University of Chicago
Industrial/Organizational News
Dr. Roya Ayman
Dr. Roya Ayman, Director of the Industrial/Organizational Program, was selected to participate on the Review Committee to update a leadership training program for the National Fire Academy, FEMA, Maryland.
The I/O program produces its own newsletter which will be coming to you in the fall with updates of their many activities. Click here for the I/O Newsletter.
Faculty List
Full-time faculty
M. Ellen Mitchell, Associate Professor - Clinical Program & Director of the College of Psychology
Roya Ayman, Associate Professor - Industrial/Organizational Program & Director of I/O Psychology Program
Glen Geist, Professor - Rehabilitation Program
Nancy Hansen, Assistant Professor - Rehabilitation Program
John Hilburger, Assistant Professor - Rehabilitation Program
Joyce Hopkins, Associate Professor - Clinical Program
Margaret Huyck, Professor - Undergraduate Program, Developmental
Chow Lam, Professor - Rehabilitation Program & Director of Rehabilitation Program
Paul Larson, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology
Charles Merbitz, Associate Professor - Rehabilitation Program
Scott Morris, Assistant Professor - Industrial/ Organizational Program
Nambury Raju, Professor - Industrial/Organizational Program & Director of the Center for Research and Service
Sylvia Roch, Instructor - Industrial/Organizational Program
Lori Rokicki, Assistant Professor - Clinical Program
Robert Schleser, Professor - Clinical Program
Tamara Sher, Assistant Professor - Clinical Program
Gwen Stinebrink, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology
Allen Wolach, Professor - Undergraduate Program, Experimental
Michael Young, Associate Professor - Clinical Program & Director of Clinical Training
Faculty News
Dr. Chow Lam, Rehabilitation Program Director, received the Booz Allen and Hamilton 1997 Booz-Allen and Hamilton Excellence in Teaching and Service Award from IIT for his outstanding contributions in leading the program development in rehabilitation psychology, and for his ability to serve as mentor to students and faculty alike.
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Merbitz, who, in collaboration with Dr. Paco Ruiz, a professor of Mechanical Engineering, was awarded a grant by the Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE).
This program aims to help undergraduate engineering students to be more inventive by developing and marketing their ideas. Dr. Merbitz was also appointed Chair of the Outcome Measure Task Force of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers.
Dr. Nambury Raju of the I/O program, was recently named Distinguished Professor. Dr. Raju is an internationally recognized expert in psychometrics and meta-analysis.
The title is bestowed on faculty members who have achieved national or international prominence in their field based on scholarly work and excellence in teaching. Nambury recently rejoined IIT's faculty as director of the Center for Research Service. He returned after serving as professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology (1993-1996). Prior to that, he was with IIT from 1978-1993.
Dr. Raju introduced a new statistical analysis procedure (Raju's Formula) and his findings have been adopted by experts in the field. He has the rare distinction of being elected a Fellow in two divisions of the American Psychological Association.
Undergraduate applications increased 6% this year. Support for exceptional students is being provided through the Heald Scholarship Program.
Dr. Margaret Huyck, Professor, continues her project based learning class on Post Occupancy Evaluation. This semester, she and her colleagues from Architecture and Civil Engineering are evaluating new student residences to make recommendations for the IIT campus development program.
She is also staying busy writing her quarterly OWL (Older Women's League of Illinois) News and is chair of the program committee for the Silver Images Film Festival of Terra Nova, Inc. You can visit the WTTW web page to see Dr. Huyck's essay on "Work".
Dr. Huyck has been selected for the Science Policy Fellowship sponsored by the American Psychological Association, with an appointment in the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) within the office of the Director of National Institutes of Health.
The year long Fellowship is under the AAAS program of fellowships designed for individuals working in public policy in many different areas. AAAS provides an intensive 2-week training (in September), and periodic meetings with public figures.
The OBSSR was established by Congressional mandate and opened officially on July 1, 1995.
The broad mission of OBSSR is to stimulate the growth of behavioral and social science research which contributes to the improvement of health.
OBSSR has accomplished its first mandate, which was to develop a standard definition of behavioral and social sciences research which can be used to assess and monitor funding for behavioral and social sciences research at all of the NIH institutes, centers and divisions.
During her fellowship year, she will participate in a variety of initiatives, including: 1) helping to identify areas of research that cut across institute boundaries that could be suitable for funding; 2) increasing behavioral and social science visibility in the NIH community; 3) communicating behavioral and social science advances to the public and within the scientific community; and 4) working to enhance multidisciplinary research.
Faculty Profile
Dr. Scott Morris
Dr. Scott Morris has been an assistant professor in the Industrial/ Organizational Psychology program since Fall 1993. Scott's home town is Keokuk, Iowa. Scott later moved to Cedar Falls where he obtained his Bachelor's Degree at the University of Northern Iowa. Soon after, he earned his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology at the University of Akron.
Dr. Morris has numerous papers in his field, targeting research toward gender stereotyping in personnel selection. Specifically, he examines the cognitive processes involved in the acquisition of information and decision-making. According to Dr. Morris, a key problem in stereotyping research is that social norms dictate an unwillingness to admit using stereotypes. As a result, he has worked on methods of detecting the presence of stereotypes.
Alumni Notes
Linda Dunaway
Linda Dunaway, clinical/behavioral medicine student, was the 1st author on a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Psychological Association and awarded for the Best Poster.
Johnathan Weinand
Johnathan Weinand is a 1990 graduate whose internship, The University of Mississippi/VA Consortium, was awarded the "Outstanding Training Program" by AABT, 1995. Dr. Weinand was also admitted into Council of the National Registrar of Health Service Providers in Psychology (1995).
Sander I. Marcus
Sander I. Marcus, an alumnus of the Clinical Program, co-authored a book entitled, Could Do Better, which is a handbook for parents who have underachieving children. Dr. Marcus received his M.S. in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1969 from The Institute's Clinical Program. He worked at IIT until the mid-1980's at the Counseling Center, where along with Jot Friedland, he established a program of retention for advising students.
"Many thanks to alum who provided financial support, suggestions and comments. We hope to hear from many others."
Faculty, Student, & Alumni Publications & Presentations
Boutelle,* K., Kirschenbaum,* D, Baker,* R, Mitchell,* M.E., (1996, November). An antidote to weight gain over the holidays: Attention and very consistent self-motivating. Paper presented at the Association Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New York.
Canar,* J., DeMarco,* G., Sher,* T., & Young*, M. A. (1997, April). A test-retest reliability analysis of the WHYMPI, modified for the study of partner response to symptoms toward PMS. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
Daniels,*R., Mitchell,* M.E., Renhoffer,* K., Crean,*J., Mirsky,* J., McCarthy,* C., Malina,* A., Pechota,* M., Benson,*R (1997, May). Applying the Positive-Negative Symptom Distinction to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Paper to be presented at the Midwest Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago IL.
DeMarco,* G. (1997, May). Applying behavioral analysis in a clinical setting in Chicago. Poster session to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral Analysis, Chicago, IL.
Huyck,* M. (1997). Advantaged women at mid-life. Poster session presented at the Gerontological Society, Washington, D.C.
List, M. A., Mumby, P., Haraf, D., Siston,* A., Mick, R., MacCracken, E., & Vokes, E. (In press). Performance and quality of life outcomes in patients completing concomitant chemoradio-therapy protocols for head and neck cancer. Quality of Life Research.
List, M., Haraf, D., Siston,* A., Stenson, K., Brockstein, B., Kies, M., & Vokes, E. (1997, May). A prospective study of quality of life performance in head and neck cancer patients on and intensive chemoradio-therapy protocol. Paper to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Denver, CO.
Merbitz,* C. T., (1996). Frequency measures of behavior for assistive technology and rehabilitation. Assistive Technology, 8, 121-130.
Mulqueen,*C. M., Stahl,* J., Gershon,*R. (1997, April). A Multifaceted Rasch analysis of 360. Paper presented at SIOP meeting.
Pechota,* M. , Mitchell,* M.E. (1997, May). The impact of positive and negative behaviors of social network members on an individual's recovery from sexual assault. Poster at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association.
Roth, E. J., & Merbitz,* C. T. (In press). Hemiplegic gait: Relationships between walking speed and other temporal parameters. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Runkle,* J., Ayman,* R. (1997, April). Relationships between ethnic stereotypes & requisite management characteristics. Paper to be presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial/ Organizational Psychologists.
Rybarczyk, B., DeMarco,* G., DeLaCruz, M., & Lapidus, S. (1997, February). Comparing two types of mind-body wellness programs for older adults with chronic illness. Poster session presented at the Rush University Research Forum, Chicago, IL.
Rybarczyk, B., DeMarco,* G., DeLaCruz, M., & Lapidus, S. (1997, April). The efficacy of two types of mind-body wellness programs for at-risk adults. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
Schleser,* R., Smith, M., Veck-Brosnan, J., & Siston,* A. (1996, November). Psychological response to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Symposium conducted at the Illinois Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Schmaling, K., & Sher,* T. G. (1997). "Physical Health and Relationships" In Clinical Handbook of Marriage and Couple Intervention. K. Halford & H. Markman (Eds.), (pp. 323-345). Sussex, England: John Wiley and Sons.
Shaw, L. R., Chan, F., & Lam,* C. S. (1997). Development and application of the Family Involvement Questionnaire in brain injury rehabilitation. Brain Injury, 11 (3), 219-231.
Sher,* T., Hopkins,* J., DeMarco, G., & Marshall, K. (1997, February). Impact of antepartum hospitalization on maternal mood and marital satisfaction. Paper presented at the meeting of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chicago, IL.
Sher,* T. G., & Cella, D. (In press). Communication differences between physicians and their patients in an oncology setting. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.
Sher,* T. G., Canar,* W. J., Young,* M. A., & Theodos,* V. (1996). The relationship among marital satisfaction and spousal response to symptoms in predicting PMS severity. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy Conference, New York.
Siston,* A. K., List,* M. A., Schleser,* R., & Vokes, E. (In press). Sexual functioning and head and neck cancer. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology.
Zhang,* M., Bergmann,* M., Miller,* S., McCarty,* B., Enzen,* M., & Merbitz,* C. (1997, May). Age, lesion location, and driving performance of individuals with stroke. Poster session to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral Analysis, Chicago, IL.
Zinn, M. (1997, January). The high risk model and classical pianists: New empirical findings. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Illinois Music Educators Association, Peoria, IL.
Zinn, M. (1997, May). EMG feedback for transfer of deep muscle relaxation into piano technique. Poster to be presented at the annual convention of the Association of Behavioral Analysis, Chicago, IL.
Zinn, M. (1997, May). Biofeedback, behavior analysis and typing: A preliminary study. Poster to be presented at the annual convention of the Association of Behavioral Analysis, Chicago, IL.
Zinn, M. (1997, August). The HRMPT: A case study of one pianist. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Zinn, M. (In press). The high risk model and classical pianists: New empirical findings. Journal for Research in Music Education.
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Tillman making progress from abdominal soreness
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Orioles starter Chris Tillman continues to progress from abdominal soreness and will throw either a simulated game or a bullpen session on Friday.
"I feel much better," said Tilman, who was scratched from Sunday's scheduled start. "I came in yesterday, threw long toss, threw a little flat ground. It went good, and hopefully tomorrow [I'm] going to get on the mound."
Tillman said there are no plans right now for him to get into an actual spring game, and the organization has proceeded cautiously with the 24-year-old, who is projected to be part of the starting rotation after going 9-3 with a 2.93 ERA in 15 games last year.
Evan Drellich is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @EvanDrellich. Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hope everyone is well and having a good day (and for those who are not - tomorrow is only an earth spin away).
I was wondering if anyone would like to comment on a question that I am struggling with. The question is in three parts and I think I have got to grips with parts 1 & 3. However, I am slightly concnerned about the lack of knowledge I have surrounding part 2.
Anyhow, this is the whole question...
1) What do the various representations of enlightened figures tell us about how Buddhists perceive the ideal of enlightenment?
2) Why is there so much variation?
3) What uses might these representations be put to?
Any comment or direction to answering this question would be most appreciated.
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It's not surprising that home owners spend $54,200 on an average for remodeling their kitchen, according to the Remodeling magazine.
The following are the top ten kitchen design trends that have been highlighted in the recently held annual Kitchen Industry Show and Convention in Las Vegas. Discover the 2015 kitchen design trends and keep in touch with what home buyers want.
1 The kitchen area.
The emerging trend is the decentralization of the traditional kitchen consisting of a range, refrigerator and sink into different zones based on the work functions. Today's hottest kitchens are those that are organized according to key themes such as cooking zone, clean-up zone, coffee center etc.
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The kitchen is not only a cooking zone but a major center of activity. Consequently, the trend in modern kitchens is towards bigger spaces equipped with amenities such as fireplaces, flat-screen TVs and seating.
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The trend is towards products that are easier to maintain. For instance, preference is for materials such as manmade quartz that is not only available in varied colors but is also a more inexpensive option compared to granite.
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This year too the trend towards earth-friendly products for kitchens is strong. Green products such as bamboo and wheatboard floors, countertops, VOC paints and energy star-rated appliances are big favorites.
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TWO men have pleaded guilty to possessing hundreds of pounds of counterfeit money.
Waqas Hussain, 22, and Usman Hussain, 23, the owner of Velvet Shisha Cafe, in Blackburn, admitted having fake £20 and £10 notes.
The pair, both of Downham Street, Blackburn, are set to be sentenced next month.
A third man, Mustafa Hussain, 25, of Lancaster Place, had also appeared before the courts on the same charge of having counterfeit currency with intent.
He pleaded not guilty and the crown prosecution service decided to offer no evidence in his case.
Waqas and Usman Hussain had been stopped by police in Preston, who had been informed the pair might be have fake cash.
They were found to have £200 in notes. Officers from Greater Manchester police then contacted their counterparts in Lancashire after carrying out a warrant and finding Usman in possession of a further £200.
Speaking after the hearing at Preston Crown Court, Detective Constable Andy Bleasdale, from Blackburn CID, said: "We were contacted by somebody in Glovers Court, in Preston. It was information from ticket sellers that the asian males may be in possession of fake currency.
"Police attended and a quantity of notes were sent off for examination."
Anybody with information about fake currency should call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.


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The Effect of Family History on Insomnia During Sobriety in Alcoholics
This study has been completed.
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Subhajit Chakravorty, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: February 3, 2012
Last updated: October 2, 2016
Last verified: October 2016
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Detailed Description:
The investigators intend to assess the following:
- the efficacy of CBTi in treating insomnia during recovery,
- does a family history of alcoholism moderate the insomnia symptoms,
- does an improvement in insomnia lead to a decrease in impulsivity.
|Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Family History on Insomnia During Sobriety in Alcoholics
Further study details as provided by Subhajit Chakravorty, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Insomnia Severity Index total score [ Time Frame: 8 weeks. ]There will be post-treatment follow up at 3 months and 6 months.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time Line Follow Back measure [ Time Frame: 8 weeks. ]There will be post-study follow-up at 3 months and 6 months also.
|Study Start Date:
|June 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: CBT-I
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
Behavioral management of insomnia
|No Intervention: Monitor Only (M.O.)
Detailed Description:
The primary goals of this pilot study are the following:
a) to assess for the difference in improvement insomnia, after 8 weeks of treatment with recommended CBTi, in Veterans with alcohol dependence during early recovery,
The secondary goals include the following:
- to assess for any change in the alcohol consumption indices between the groups after 8 weeks of CBTi,
- to assess for change in psychiatric symptoms of mood and anxiety across the groups,
- to assess for differences in insomnia in subjects, with and without a first degree family history of alcohol dependence,
- to evaluate for any change in impulsivity-related measure with insomnia treatment.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Presence of insomnia currently
- DSM IV diagnosis of alcohol dependence within the past year
- Not in acute alcohol withdrawal and within a year of sobriety from alcoholism
- Patients with moderate-severe sleep apnea compliant on their PAP device
- Can speak, understand and print in English.
- Is capable of giving written informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Dependence on psychoactive substance (excluding alcohol, nicotine and cannabis) in the past 12 months, or evidence of chronic opiate use.
- Unstable/serious psychiatric condition e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder.
- Unstable or serious medical/neurologic illness
- Severe cognitive impairment
- Untreated moderate - severe obstructive sleep apnea
Contacts and Locations
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01603381
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01603381
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
Sponsors and Collaborators
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Subhajit Chakravorty, M.D.
|Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Subhajit Chakravorty, Staff Physician, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01603381 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 3, 2012
|Last Updated:
|October 2, 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Mental Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Indiana's forage crop yields are down and won't likely improve without decent rainfall in the near future, prompting a need for growers to take precautions to avoid further crop loss, says a Purdue Extension forage specialist.
Forages initially were damaged during hard freezes in April and have struggled to yield amid the unrelenting hot, dry weather of May and June.
"Many producers have reported to me that their first cutting was reduced fairly substantially as compared with other years - down by 25 percent or more," Keith Johnson said. "So we're starting out in a deficit in terms of total-season hay production possibilities. Then we couple that with the dry weather and the next harvest doesn't look to be super high-yielding either."
The April freezes damaged alfalfa tillers and, as a result, not only was the first cutting reduced, but if harvested prematurely the crop could have been lacking in carbohydrate reserves needed for the next crop to regrow. Harvesting second and subsequent cuttings before the plants have time to rebuild vigor could cause stands to suffer into the future.
Johnson recommended waiting until just after late bud or on into some flowering before harvesting alfalfa.
"If we've harvested relatively early a couple of times, we really have put some stress on that plant," he said. "We probably should give it an opportunity to get beyond late bud and maybe into some flowering to give us more days to put carbohydrates into the reserves in the crown and taproot. Then there should be enough vigor for regrowth."
In addition to delaying harvest a bit, Johnson also said now is a good time to look at soil fertility. Soil tests can reveal any nutrient deficiencies and help producers know which fertilizers need to be applied.
But Johnson cautioned producers against applying nitrogen in hay and grass-dominant pastures until there is enough moisture.
"I think we have to recognize at this point moisture is the yield-limiting need," he said. "I would hold off on nitrogen fertilizer application until we return to the more timely and sufficient rains we need for grass production to occur."
The lack of rain also has created conditions that exaggerate potato leafhopper damage. The insect feeds on alfalfa and many other plants. During feeding, it injects the crops with toxins that stunt growth and limit yield.
Johnson encouraged growers to scout for the potato leafhopper with a sweep net intended for this pest. Insecticide treatments could be warranted when the average number of potato leafhopper in a single sweep of the net is 0.1 leafhoppers per inch of alfalfa height.
For example, an alfalfa crop 10 inches tall would need more than one leafhopper per sweep to warrant control. Those insecticides, however, also kill beneficial insects.
A better option, Johnson said, is for growers to plant a leafhopper-resistant variety the next time they seed the field.
Finally, growers need to pay attention to harvest dates to avoid harvesting forage crops too late in the season.
"If enough stresses occur, growers really need to be aware of when they harvest the last crop," Johnson said. "Traditionally, for those in the northern part of the state, somewhere around Sept. 5 should be the last growing-season harvest. For those in southern Indiana, we probably can stretch that to around Sept. 15.
"This allows enough time to build those carbohydrate reserves before a killing freeze comes along, so we have a plant with a full tank of energy through the course of winter. And then, as we break dormancy the following year, enough reserves are there for a vigorous break winter dormancy crop."


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TJ Walkup said he began his punk days as a "mohawk Christian punk" teenager in Napa.
Now, he's channeling his creative sides as a documentarian and artist.
Working together with his wife, Christina, Walkup's latest endeavor is a four-day Mocktoberfest, described as a punk and edge arts festival.
"Punk is a really amazing creative community," Walkup said. "It's intelligent. It's both juvenile and grown up."
Walkup said he felt accepted in the punk community as he was growing up.
"The punk community didn't care what you're into," he said.
Through the art and music festival, Walkup said he wants to give Vallejo "a look into a culture that it's never seen."
The festival will showcase Bay Area artists, including those from Vallejo and surrounding cities. Walkup also said it's important to keep the festival family friendly and for all ages.
"The popular view of punk is violence, people throwing rocks," he said. "But those are just (expletive). Violence is oppressive and the punks that I know from the 70s understand anarchism as peace. It's social, not political."
The theaters will not be serving alcohol, and drugs and violence will not be tolerated, Walkup said.
In addition to promoting Vallejo as the next cultural city, the Walkups are also using the volunteer-run festival to raise money for a greater cause.
The proceeds collected from tickets will benefit a youth music program created in partnership with the Mira Theatre Guild. Ten teenagers, ages 12 to 18, will be chosen randomly to receive an instrument of their choice and 10 music classes each of the musical genre they prefer.
The application will be available online at www.Mocktoberfest.org, or at the festival.
Music teachers are also still needed for the program.
Walkup said the festival is just an addition to the evolution that he sees in Vallejo.
"The culture is stewing in the downtown area and Mare Island," he said. "I think this will be a permanent change."
He said Mocktoberfest will be a curation of punk, and also described it as an "edge arts festival."
"I want a discussion to happen... what punk is," Walkup said. "Edge art is anything that inspires thinking. I can't define punk to everybody."
He encouraged attendees to wear zombie costumes to win door prizes. A custom guitar made by local guitar maker Tony Schroom with the festival's mascot Mocky, the mock turtle, will also be available as a raffle prize.
But most importantly, Walkup said he wants people to have fun.
"We want to create an environment for folks to come out and have fun, and go home thinking about it, just to want to come back and experience it all over again," he said.
Walkup said punk will thrive in Vallejo.
"Vallejo is a beautiful town, where punk will flourish because people are frustrated," he said. "If it was still the city of opportunity, the opportunity is here, it is to change the image."
For more information and to see the show's lineup and time, visit www.Mocktoberfest.org.
If you go:
What: Mocktoberfest
When & Where:
Saturday, *2 p.m., Bay Terrace Theater, 51 Daniels Ave.
Oct. 25, *2 p.m., Bay Terrace Theater, 51 Daniels Ave.
Oct. 26, *6:30 p.m., The Empress Theatre, 300 Virginia St.
Oct. 27, *2 p.m., Bay Terrace Theater, 51 Daniels Ave.
Price: $10 for a night, $30 for 4-day pass
Info: www.Mocktoberfest.org
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TJ Walkup
Age: 43
Hometown: Napa, San Francisco, Vallejo
Occupation: Documentarian
Family: Wife Christina Walkup and daughter Aurora, 3.
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Bitcoins may be the biggest beneficiary of the mistrust in the financial system stirred up by the banking crisis in Cyprus.
Even before news that Cyprus' banking system was on the verge of collapse and considering confiscating a portion of account holders' balances to cover the shortfall, the value of bitcoins was rising. But since news of the severity of Cyprus' troubles broke, the price of a single bitcoin on the world's largest exchange, Mt. Gox, has risen from around $47 to nearly $80, according to BitCoinCharts.com.
That may have something to do with the fact that holders of bitcoins would be essentially immune from the troubles that hit consumers in a Cyprus-type crisis. For instance, Cypriot checking accounts have been severely restricted as part of a "bank holiday" since March 18. Such a freeze is impossible with bitcoins because their processing network is highly decentralized, says Jon Matonis of the nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation board.
"In order to stop bitcoin transactions, the authorities would have to disable Internet connectivity like they did in a limited way in Egypt during the protests," Matonis says.
Vinnie Falco, a computer programmer and bitcoin investor, says for those worried about government tampering with their savings Cyprus-style, that attribute has value.
"No one can stop you from making a payment or receiving a payment," Falco says.
Matonis says the value of a bitcoin also can't be eroded through inflation caused by a central bank. Rather than being minted by some central authority as most national currencies are, bitcoins are awarded to "miners" who use computers to solve what amounts to a very complex math problem. Once they solve it, they are allowed to create bitcoins and then sell them on the open market. A predetermined schedule controls how many bitcoins can be created in a given period of time, and that schedule calls for mining to taper off until it reaches essentially zero.
"A major selling point is that (bitcoins are) inflation-proof," Matonis says.
However, the freedom that bitcoins afford users isn't free.
Falco says the most difficult aspect of investing and using bitcoins is buying them. He's experienced delays in receiving bitcoins because exchanges have had trouble keeping up with the influx of national currency they've received.
Matonis says regulations may be set to get tougher on bitcoins. The Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network released guidance this month saying that anti-money-laundering regulations apply to exchanges that convert dollars and other currencies into bitcoins.
And while it's riding high at the moment, the value of bitcoins has also been extremely volatile. For example, the currency made headlines by falling from $30 in June 2011 to below $5 in October 2011.
"People have gone their whole life thinking of money in a certain way, so to understand bitcoin, and for someone to move any considerable amount of wealth into it, it's really a leap of faith," Falco says.
Matonis says wild swings in value are to be expected in what's still a relatively small market. "It's a thinly traded market. Bitcoin has only a $700 million market cap, so you could have some Wall Street guys throwing a billion dollars around, manipulating the market if they wanted to," he says.
For some perspective, consider that the market capitalization of a medium-sized company such as Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is 10 times as valuable all the bitcoins in the world put together.
As a currency, bitcoins still have a ways to go. While companies like WordPress and Reddit have recently begun accepting bitcoins, and Amazon will soon allow independent sellers to do so, most businesses still don't accept the virtual currency.
Bitcoin transactions aren't free, either. Those sending bitcoins to another person usually have to attach a fee to entice one of the organizations that process bitcoin transactions to handle it, Matonis says.
Security also can be an issue, but not in the way you might think. While counterfeiting a virtual currency might seem to be as easy as hitting the "copy key," it's never actually happened, Matonis says. All bitcoins are tracked on a giant ledger that's constantly updated and shared between the decentralized network of bitcoin miners worldwide.
Where security comes into play is on individual computers. If a thief does happen to steal your password and gain access to your individual bitcoin account, he could clean it out and spend your bitcoins. Unlike a bank account, there is no recourse for fraud victims involving bitcoins.
For that reason, Falco says he keeps his pass phrase memorized and uses a separate laptop to conduct bitcoin transactions.
"(Security) is another obstacle to mainstream adoption," Falco says. "You do have to exercise care."


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29 Desert Bighorn Sheep Released at Big Bend Ranch State Park
ALPINE – Twenty-nine desert bighorn sheep bolted out of transport trailers and straight up into the Bofecillos Mountains along the Rio Grande at about 3 p.m. today. The 24 ewes and five rams were captured by helicopter at Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area this morning and moved to Big Bend Ranch State Park.
Cheers and applause broke out among the crowd of about 80 people witnessing the sheep release, many of whom had been working toward this moment for years. It's the latest phase of a multi-partner wildlife restoration project begun in 1954, and the first bighorn reintroduction at a Texas state park.
From dawn til about 1:30 p.m., helicopter service Quicksilver Air made multiple trips around Elephant Mountain. The private contractor hired by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department captured sheep on the run using a net gun, slung them in bags below the flying copter, and expertly returned them to the wildlife management area headquarters and lowered them safely to the earth without landing.
Ground crews then carried the blindfolded sheep to check-in stations where veterinarians took blood samples and wildlife biologists fitted the sheep with radio tracking collars before loading them in trailers to await the journey to Big Bend Ranch.
Biologists were concerned because of unseasonably warm weather, and check-in crews continually monitored each sheep's temperature this morning, spraying water on the animals to keep them cool. But, except for a short delay caused by a blowout that required a quick tire change on the sheep trailer carrying the five rams, the operation unfolded in textbook fashion, and all sheep arrived safely at their new home.
The sheep were released about 20 miles west of Lajitas on FM 170, the river road, near Panther Canyon. Within minutes the sheep had bounded up the rocky mountains into the state park and were soon visible only as small gray-white dots winding up to the summits.
The sheep were moved from Elephant Mountain WMA for several reasons. Because of the success of restoration efforts in recent years, the area had a surplus of animals that needed to be removed to maintain a balance with the available habitat, providing a source population to restore sheep to their historic range elsewhere in Texas. Big Bend Ranch contains quality sheep habitat, and restoring them at the park will restore the native wildlife ecology and provide an outstanding new visitor wildlife viewing opportunity.
The following day, TPWD and its partners intend to move approximately 10 more bighorn sheep from Elephant Mountain, completing the initial release at Big Bend Ranch.
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CHICO — For all his accomplishments — NFL MVP, Super Bowl MVP, premier quarterback — perhaps Aaron Rodgers' most impressive one is turning an ardent community rooted in red and gold or silver and black into one that now includes plenty of green and yellow.
Northern Californians predominantly favor the nearby San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, but with the city's No. 1 native son leading the Green Bay Packers, people can't help but support Rodgers.
"I'm for Aaron all the way," Laurene Feingold said.
Feingold, 76, of Chico, said she switched from being a 49ers fan for most of her life to a Packers backer "the moment the Niners passed on him and Green Bay took him."
Feingold won't be at today's playoff game in San Francisco, but she said she'll be watching, hoping the most famous Chicoan continues to excel. And she won't leave anything to chance.
"I'll have my fingers crossed," Feingold said, "and my toes."
After today's matchup was set, Rodgers even made the call out to any "Chico Cheeseheads" to come out in support.
Tony Tallerico, Pleasant Valley High's softball coach, purchased four tickets, enough for his family of Packer backers to go.
"People said it wasn't a lot for a playoff game," Tallerico said, "but it sure seemed like a lot for a teacher in Northern California."
But Tallerico, a former Raiders fan, simply couldn't pass up the opportunity.
"My son has three Packers jerseys — all of them Aaron Rodgers," Tallerico said of Anthony, an 8-year-old third-grader.
While Tallerico's allegiance is clear, others have mixed emotions.
Tony Carlisle, PV's JV girls basketball coach, will be at the game, tail-gating.
"I want the Niners to win — I think Aaron would understand— but if they don't, it's OK," said Carlisle, who was the fifth-grade teacher of Aaron's younger brother, Jordan, a talented quarterback in his own right after leading Vanderbilt to consecutive bowls.
Laurene's son, Scott Feingold, the coach for the PV junior varsity boys basketball team, shares a 49ers season ticket, but chose not to go.
"That place will be wild for a Saturday night playoff game," Scott Feingold said.
That kind of atmosphere inspired others to make the venture.
Wendell and Kelly Sorenson have two season tickets and they can't wait for the anticipated contest.
"I'm Niners all the way, since I was born," said Kelly Sorenson, 37, of Chico.
For others yet, who to root for simply comes down to their preferred order.
"The Packers are my favorite team," Frank Garrison said, "and the 49ers are my second-favorite team."
Garrison said he'll be at the game in a Clay Matthews jersey and his son will probably be in a Donald Driver jersey as they are part of another family of four making the trek south.
"We're all Green Bay fans," the 60-year-old Chicoan said.
The same goes for those who have known Rodgers since his days at Pleasant Valley.
"I want the Packers to win," PV baseball coach Ron Souza said. "I still like the 49ers, but the Packers, I follow them all the time."
Souza knows Rodgers well. Souza was the JV team's offensive coordinator when Rodgers played.
"Back then, he would watch NFL games on Sunday and bring things he saw and apply them," Souza said.
Rodgers even served as a teacher's assistant for Souza twice.
"I convinced him to play baseball his senior season," Souza said. "He nearly chose baseball to go into instead of football. He was pretty good from the bump.
"I think it worked out pretty well," Souza said, chuckling.
Souza won't be at the game, but he said he plans on having a good time watching Rodgers on TV.
Still, others who can't make it to the game made special arrangements, nonetheless.
Butte College athletic director Craig Rigsbee had to pass up a sideline pass his cousin acquired because of Butte's annual crab feed fundraiser today after the Roadrunners' basketball doubleheader against Shasta with the women's game at noon and the men's contest at 2 p.m.
"We sold out with 360 people," Rigsbee said of the athletic fundraiser. "I had to have had 20 people call me and ask if we would have the game on at the feed. They said they wouldn't come if we didn't. We'll have four flat screens with the game on."
While Rigsbee, Rodgers' coach when the quarterback was at Butte, is missing out to go to the game, he said he won't miss the Super Bowl if Rodgers once again reaches the NFL's title game, set for Feb. 3 in New Orleans.
"That would be a lot of fun," Rigsbee said.
Any Chico Cheesehead would agree.
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Roy William Neill's passport photograph, circa 1920.
Click here, or on the image above, to see the trailer for Roy William Neill's film Black Angel (1946), one of most interesting and atmospheric noirs of the late 1940s, and the last film he made before his untimely death at the age of 59.
From Wikipedia, All Rovi and other sources: "With his father as the captain, Roy William Neill was born on September 4, 1887, on board a ship off the coast of Ireland. His birth name was Roland de Gostrie. Neill joined the film industry in 1915 as an assistant to Thomas Ince, subsequently directing 40 silent films. He made one talkie for MGM before moving to Columbia Pictures, where he worked until the mid '30s. While at Columbia, Neill directed the atmospheric period chiller The Black Room (1935), arguably the best movie that Boris Karloff made away from Universal in the '30s.
In 1935, Neill moved to England, where better opportunities existed for American directors, and spent the next three years there, working for Gainsborough Pictures and later for Warner Bros.-First National. Among the features that he made while there was the 1935 drama Dr. Syn, starring George Arliss and Margaret Lockwood, about a local vicar who has a connection with a long-missing pirate, and who tries to save his village from the oppression of the king's soldiers.
In 1936, Neill got what could have been the best picture-making opportunity of his career. In May of that year, screenwriter and future director Frank Launder suggested that Gainsborough Studios buy the rights to Ethel Lina White's new mystery novel The Wheel Spins, which they did and assigned Launder and his longtime associate Sidney Gilliat to adapt into a screenplay called Lost Lady. The script was completed in August of that year and Neill was chosen as director of Lost Lady, and a film unit was sent to Yugoslavia to shoot some summer exteriors under an assistant director named Fred Gunn. Unfortunately, Gunn broke his ankle in an accident, and in the course of investigating, the police found his script and demanded to review the manner in which it treated their country.
The opening pages — which found parallels between goose-stepping soldiers and geese waddling — offended the authorities, and the entire unit was expelled from the country. By that time, both Neill and the studio had lost much of their original enthusiasm for the project, and it was shelved while Neill went to to other thrillers. A year later, as he was finishing up Young and Innocent for the same studio, Alfred Hitchcock was looking for another film and asked the studio if they had any screenplay on hand that would be suitable for him. What they pulled out was Lost Lady which, after a few minor rewrites, became The Lady Vanishes.
Altogether, Neill helmed 107 films, a remarkable accomplishment by any measure; he was known for directing films with meticulously lit scenes and carefully layered shadows, a style that would become the hallmark of film noir in the late 1940s. After working in Hollywood for Universal in the early 1940s, mostly notably on films in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Neill returned to London, and a house he had just built for his retirement, only to die on the doorstep of a heart attack on December 14, 1946. Neill was a conscientious craftsman as a director, but his signature style of high key lighting, and his smooth, luxurious tracking shots set him apart from the more quotidian directors of the era."
As Bruce Eder comments, "according to Rathbone in his memoirs and other survivors of the series over the years, Neill — who was known affectionately to Rathbone as 'Dear Mousie' — was the final arbiter in all things Holmes-ian on the set of the Universal series. In addition to being a master directorial interpreter of the character, Neill also got a joint writing credit (with Bertram Millhauser) for the screenplay of The Scarlet Claw, which is arguably the best entry in the entire Universal series. Neill also directed and produced Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man — considered by many to be the last wholly serious entry in Universal's classic series of horror films. An instantly recognizable stylist, Neill's work is characterized by meticulously lit scenes and carefully layered shadows, with restrained but mobile camera movements."
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Maurice Clarett, in front of room full of his UFL Omaha Nighthawks teammates, came clean, confessing his sins as a player and a man.
The former Ohio State superstar, the one who brought coach Jim Tressel a national championship, long ago skidded into trouble and oblivion.
Former Nighthawks coach Joe Moglia's "Life After Football" classes included training camp dinners followed by each player telling a piece of his life story. Forbes writer Monte Burke trailed Moglia, a former CEO of TD Ameritrade and current coach at Coastal Carolina, and wrote about the after-dinner confessions in his book, "4th and Goal: One Man's Quest to Recapture His Dream."
Clarett was among those who told all. In an excerpt obtained by Deadspin, Clarett tells his story:
"I took golf, fishing, and softball as classes," Clarett says. "Away from class, anything you can think of I did in my 13 months at Ohio State." Drugs and women were two of the things. Cars were another—he owned three of them at a time, including a brand-new Cadillac and Lexus. "I was living the NFL life in college," he says. "I got paid more in college than I do now in the UFL."
That wasn't the beginning of Clarett's troubles, as he was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. And, it most certainly wasn't the end. A life of crime and drugs led him to prison.
"Contrary to popular belief, prison does not give you street cred," Clarett says in 4th and Goal. "Anyone who glorifies it is an idiot. It only lets your dumb ass know that you got caught doing something wrong."
Clarett was sentenced to seven and half years, but was released early for good behavior. Prison was dark—and enlightening, a period in which he freed himself from addiction. He's now on the road to redemption.
"I don't want people to say 'Don't be like Maurice Clarett,"" he says. "In fact, I want the opposite. I want people to see me now and say they want to be like me. And I'm working every day to earn that."


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Police are investigating the death of a man found lying in a field by a member of the public near Drynham Lane in Trowbridge at 7.37pm on Saturday.
The scene was attended by police officers and paramedics and the man, aged in his 30-40s, was declared dead.
Detectives are in the process of identifying the man and have yet to inform the next of kin.
At this early stage, the man's death is being treated as unexplained. A post mortem examination will take place in due course.
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Speech team places second in Ohio and 22nd nationally at Pi Kappa Delta tournament
Four Muskingum College students garnered significant honors at the biennial Pi Kappa Delta national forensics tournament, held March 17-19 at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Muskingum placed 22nd overall in individual events sweepstakes at the tournament and ranked second in Ohio in individual events.
Top competitors earn overall ratings of good, excellent or superior. The Muskingum College team members received top ratings for every event they entered.
Making up the Muskingum team were Eugene Saunders '06, Daniel Shuey '05, Nate Strum '06 and Kevin Triskett '07.
Earlier this month, each of these students was inducted into Pi Kappa Delta, the national forensics honorary, which also qualified them for the national tournament. They were granted degrees of special distinction for their academic and forensics achievements. Additionally, Saunders, Shuey, and Triskett were awarded the degree of highest distinction for community service, at least two academic years of forensics participation, and a grade point average of 3.5 or above.
The forensics team at Muskingum is coached and advised by Instructor of Speech Communication Rachel Pollock.
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