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Third Basemen
Today we continue our positional tier rankings. Last offseason, Derek Carty tackled the tiers by himself; this spring, we've decided to attack them as a team. Players at each position will be divided into five tiers, represented by the number of stars.
Five-star players are the studs at their respective position. In general, they are the players that will be nabbed in the first couple of rounds of the draft, and they'll fetch auction bids in excess of $30. Four-star players are a cut below the studs at the position. They will also be earl- round selections, and they're projected to be worth more than $20 in most cases. Three-star players are the last tier in which players are projected to provide double-digit dollar value in auctions, and two-star players are projected to earn single digits in dollar value in auctions. One-star players are late round sleepers and roster placeholders. As was the case with our positional rankings series, the positional tiers aren't simply a regurgitation of the projected PECOTA values.
We retained last year's roster requirements for the positional tier series. Dollar values come from our PFM using a 12-team, standard 5x5 scoring format, with 23-man rosters and the following positions: C (2) 1B (1) 2B (1) 3B (1) SS (1) CI (1) MI (1) OF (5) UT (1) P (9). The minimum bid for players is $1, and, as we did last year, we'll allocate $180 of a $260 budget to hitters. Players needed to play in 20 games at a position to qualify there. The PFM is customizable, so if your league uses a different format, you can adjust it to match your league settings and see how it impacts players' dollar values.
You can find the previous Fantasy Tier Rankings posts here:
Now, here are our third-base tiers.
Five Stars
With the Mike Trout regression possibilities and the Ryan Braun PED rumors that won't go away, Miguel Cabrera is the top player on my board this year (followed by the aforementioned Braun and Trout, of course). And, when you look across the third-base landscape, there's no one who can even hold a candle to his upside and consistency. Of course, this is what happens when you win a Triple Crown. Cabrera has hit above .320 in each the last four seasons. He has driven in at least 100 runs each of the last nine seasons. He has scored at least 109 runs in each of the last three seasons. He has missed only 22 games due to injury in his 10-year career, and he's never been on the disabled list. No one is 100 percent safe in fantasy, but Miggy is as close as they come.
Four Stars
This is the best Four Star tier you're going to find in the entire infield. All of these players, assuming no further injury news for Wright or H. Ramirez, should go off the board within the top 30 picks. In fact, based on the latest NFBC data, they were all going in the top 25.
If you're going for safety in this tier, Beltre is your man. Over the last three years, a composite of his worst seasons in each of the three major categories in which he will contribute shows a .296 average, 28 homers, and 102 RBI. Longoria has been inconsistent, both in terms of health and performance, but one of these years, he's going to have an MVP-type season. Will it be 2013?
Wright's fantasy outlook hinges on two numbers—his strikeouts and his steals. His 16.7 percent strikeout rate in 2012 was in line with his early-career days as a .300 hitter, but if it looks more like his 21-24 percent rates from 2009 through 2011, that batting average is going to suffer. Hanley is more valuable as a shortstop, but unlike Buster Posey or Joe Mauer at first base, there are legitimate reasons why you would play him at third base. I really like his chances to have a much-improved season in Los Angeles, so hopefully this thumb injury from the WBC final is merely a minor ailment.
Four-Star Value Pick: Considering that I've taken Ramirez is just about every draft (mock and otherwise) this preseason, he's my guy here. Of course, this is assuming that there's not something more seriously wrong with his thumb [as of writing this, there still is not]. He is a near lock to go 20-20, and his batting average can rebound into the .270-.280 range. Plus, there's always the chance that he just pulls out a vintage Hanley season and goes crazy (though I'm certainly not counting on it).
Three Stars
Just like the Four Star group, this tier is strong—although it lost a name when Chase Headley's injury news came out, reducing it to a party of four. You're really going to want to have your third baseman by the time this tier ends, as the biggest dropoff at the position comes after Lawrie.
A. Ramirez just keeps on hitting. He gets a bad rap as being an older, more injury-prone player, but in reality, he has only been on the disabled list twice in the last five years. Just don't be the guy who drafts him and trades him in mid-May—his career OPS is below 800 in both April and May, but after that, it's 863, 912, 910, 890, chronologically by month.
Zimmerman did his best Aramis Ramirez impression by just going off in the second half of 2012, hitting .319 with 17 homers and 55 RBI in only 298 at-bats. If his shoulder holds up, he could return great value. The talk of Sandoval's weight has at least died down over the past couple of weeks, and it was never that important to begin with. He was tearing it up before his hamate bone injury last year, and now that he has had both of them removed, it's one less thing to worry about going forward. Lawrie is still the same player he was last preseason, just with a slightly more reasonable price tag.
Three-Star Value Pick: I'm agreeing with PECOTA here and taking Zimmerman from this group. By all indications, his shoulder is up to snuff, and he has the potential to do the exact same thing that Longoria could do, but three to four rounds later in the draft (or $5-10 cheaper, whichever suits your fancy). The offense in Washington should be very good, and there's a real chance for both 100 runs and RBI from the still 28-year-old third baseman.
Two Stars
This group is all about picking your poison. There is really only one low-risk/low-reward option here, as the tier is filled to the brim with potential. Unfortunately, potential busts are just as likely as potential studs.
Headley is going to miss the first month of the season, at least, and thumb injuries can be tricky even when players return. He's dropping outside the top 125 in almost all leagues at this point, which is about right considering he was lower than Curtis Granderson on draft boards when they were both healthy (and he should be once again). Freese and Prado are relatively boring, but at least Prado doesn't have the health risk that Freese carries. The thin air of Arizona may help Prado a little, but don't expect huge upticks in his power numbers.
The rest of the tier is filled with players who are question marks because of contact issues (Frazier, Middlebrooks), youth- and inexperience-related risks (Machado), an unwillingness to live up to their billings as a top-three overall picks (Moustakas, Alvarez), or a supposed lack of upsde (Seager). Any one of them could end up in the top 10 at the position, or they could fizzle out and end up on the waiver wire in July.
Two-Star Value Pick: It's no secret that I'm a huge Machado supporter—and if I'm going after one of the upside guys (which I likely am, because Prado/Freese are going way too early for my liking), I'm grabbing him outside the top 200. Right now, he has the highest ADP of this entire tier at 214 overall, which isn't shocking given his lack of experience. However, he's made adjustments very quickly at each level he's reached in professional baseball, including the majors (he went from 9.5 strikeouts per walk in August to 3.0 strikeouts per walk in September, taking those strides during a pennant race, no less). He's going to be a star, and I'm willing to pay the price to see if his ascent starts this year.
One Star
There is some upside buried in this bottom tier, but it's unreliable at best. Some of these players won't even have starting roles and Rodriguez won't be back until three months from now (at the earliest). Also, a few of these guys are multi-eligibility cases, and Keppinger, Carpenter (a week into the season), Izturis, and Nelson are all going to be more valuable at middle-infield spots.
Youkilis and Young are potential bounce-back candidates, but they're not going to repeat their 2007 seasons. Gyorko is having a great spring, but can he carry it forward into the regular season, while playing half of his games at Petco Park? Chisenhall and Donaldson both have shown some glimpses of viability, but both also carry sizable flameout risk (along with their limited upside).
Plouffe was a great pickup last year, when he carried that "SS" next to his name—but now that he's a 3B-only option, he's just one of many potential 20-home-run hitters who would have to put a dent in your batting average just to get there. Francisco, who has power for days, also fits into that group, because he may never make enough contact for that to matter.
One-Star Value Pick: Donaldson is currently being taken 390th overall in NFBC drafts, which probably sounds about right for a 27-year-old with a career 666 OPS. But, something happened to Donaldson on the way to becoming a career minor-leaguer. Over the last three years, he has decreased his Triple-A strikeout rate from 22.3 percent to 19.9 percent to 14.5 percent (in 2012), and in the last fourth of the 2012 season, he finally brought that development to the major-league level. From August 14 through the end of the season, Donaldson got his third shot in Oakland after Brandon Inge went on the DL, and he hit .290/.356/.489 with eight homers, 26 RBI, three steals, and (most importantly) an 18.3 percent strikeout rate in 176 at-bats. It looks like Donaldson will be the Opening Day third baseman for the Athletics at this point, and if he can pick up anywhere near where he left off, he can provide a huge return on investment.
Bret Sayre is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @BretSayreBP
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Again ,a nicely put together tier list Bret, thanks.The only question I would have about your summations would be not having Adrian Beltre as your four star value pick, to my mind there is something to be said for safety picks so early in a draft ,and Beltre is almost bombproof here.
Mar 21, 2013 02:18 AM
Thanks - I agree that Beltre is the safest of that group, but he's also the oldest of the group as well. With that said, he was a very close second to Hanley for value pick, and I definitely understand the argument for it. I'm just a big Hanley supporter (who is anxiously awaiting hopefully good news this morning..)
Mar 21, 2013 06:35 AM
Nice Job.... Although I still fail to see why Brett Lawrie is ranked ahead of Moustakas or even Middlebrooks..... They both have shown better power. With everyone at roughly equivalent BA, is Lawrie speed that much more valuable?? In addition he really has not shown anymore at the MLB level than Middlebrooks or Moustakas....
Mar 21, 2013 05:23 AM
Thanks - and here's my reasoning for each:
Mar 21, 2013 06:48 AM
Thanks for the information. I have a questions for you related to Matt Carpenter. I have him in a NL-only, auction, keeper league from last year. He was a $10 DL pickup and finished the year on my roster. We allow a player to fill a position if he is slated to play that position starting the year, meaning I don't have to wait for a minimum of games for him to qualify at 2B, I can keep him at 2B. What do you think of Carpenter at $10 in a 2B/MI role? Thanks!
Mar 21, 2013 08:31 AM
I think in an NL-only, that price is probably right about where I'd feel comfortable going. He doesn't do anything particularly well, but he should be able to return some profit at that price if he can keep his head above water on defense. Of course, that's still a question that's yet to be answered.
Mar 21, 2013 10:40 AM
Thanks, that's sort of what I was thinking. My decision is whether to keep Carpenter at $10 or Scutaro at $7. Scutaro's probably a safer play but I think Carpenter has more upside. What do you think? Thanks!
Mar 21, 2013 11:00 AM
Adjustment for Hanley? He really just screwed me pretty good in a money league keeper... Bastard..
Mar 21, 2013 11:31 AM
Me too - he was the most expensive player I bought in one of my jellybean home leagues over the weekend. I'd just slash that projection by a third and hope for the best. Think .275-16-18 with 55 runs and 60 RBI. Still good, but just not what we paid for. Hanley plus a replacement level player can still get you 20-20 for 2013, so no one's screwed yet.
Mar 21, 2013 11:42 AM
If I keep him, Rd 2 is attached.. If I don't keep him, I can probably get him later in draft, but pedroia and Hamilton slide up a spot.. Your input? I've got:
Mar 21, 2013 11:46 AM
I would drop him; you might still end up with him in the 4th round (since it's a keeper), but then you can keep him next year at that, expecting a full season of production.
Mar 21, 2013 12:12 PM
Matt Dominguez is a zero star player? I suppose but I think he does have some upside, no?
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text: Karma's not been kind to WVU's Alston By Dave Hickman November 7, 2012 Story Share MORGANTOWN - Shawne Alston doesn't quite know what it was, but he's apparently paying for something that he's done somewhere along the line."I just keep think it was karma,'' Alston said. "I probably did something bad one day in my life or something like that. I don't know.''The thought of bad karma of whatever it might be has occasionally crept into the West Virginia running back's mind over the course of the last 71/2 weeks. That's how long it's been since he suffered an injury to his right thigh in the Mountaineers' second game of the season.That injury by itself wouldn't be all that unusual, even if the injury itself seems to be. After all, college football players get hurt. A lot.But Alston seems to have shouldered more than his share. He had knee and leg injuries as a freshman and sophomore. He injured his neck in a traffic accident that limited him greatly last season as a junior.Then, after overcoming all that, he finally began to show what a healthy Shawne Alston could do this year as a senior. In West Virginia's first game, against Marshall, he was a bulldozer, running 16 times for 123 yards and dragging would-be tacklers all over Mountaineer Field.But just as he began to finally feel good about what he was able to show people, it happened again. He took a shot that running backs take. At first he thought nothing of it, but it was different."I was able to play through it. It was the first quarter of the JMU game. The score was still 0-0 when it happened,'' Alston said. "I caught a shot there and it just got worse and worse as the game went on. I wasn't able to move my leg or have any knee drive or anything like that.''The diagnosis was a deep thigh bruise."I know what people think of a bruise. I've played with little contusions in my thigh. Running backs get those,'' Alston said. "It was just something way worse than what everybody thought it was.''It was bad enough that twice he saw specialists and was anesthetized while they drained blood from his leg. "It was a deep tissue bruise that was down by the bone and my body couldn't absorb all the blood,'' Alston said. "So I had to get a couple of procedures done to help it out. Then some calcification started to form. It was just different obstacles that kept coming up."It was a hassle trying to get my motion back and get the strength back in my leg. I still don't have the strength I had.''All the while, the rumors swirled. Alston heard them. He was soft. He had off-the-field issues. He was a discipline problem.Shoot, he even heard some so funny that he put them out on his Twitter account. "I have a sense of humor,'' he said. "It was funny.'' Alston essentially hadn't played since that JMU game. He dressed for the next week's game against Maryland and was in on a play or two, but didn't carry the ball. Finally, he got back on the field last Saturday when WVU played TCU. He carried seven times for 16 yards and scored a touchdown.But he's still not really back."Presence, good. Mentality, good. Health, not good,'' coach Dana Holgorsen said of Alston now. "He's a different guy now than he was the first couple of games. He was more healthy than he was the two weeks prior to that, which is why he suited up [against TCU]. He'll continue to rehab and continue to work through it and practice more, but he didn't look the same, and that's why we didn't play him much.''"I don't feel like I did going into the Marshall game,'' Alston said. "But every day is a work in progress to get it stronger and get it better. I'm still working.''West Virginia's offense is certainly better with a healthy Alston on the field. Andrew Buie has filled in capably and even had a monster of a game at Texas with 207 yards. Dustin Garrison is improving each week after offseason knee surgery. But those two smaller backs need more help gaining yards than Alston. Against Marshall he was moving the ball at times without much blocking. Nothing against those other two, but there's a reason he was the clear-cut leader at tailback going into the season.Whether he ever regains that form, though, seems to be in doubt. It's not to Alston, because he has confidence. But he also knows how bad it was and what he's coming back from."It's like a buildup of pressure in your leg. I couldn't bend it back or kick it up at all,'' Alston said. "I had pain walking around. I couldn't really get up stairs. I had to turn sideways and use railings to help me up.''Along with all the rumors surrounding his status, there was also talk about Alston perhaps just cashing it in this season and taking the redshirt year he didn't take as a freshman. He was under the limit of games when he went out. But that's no longer an option after he played against TCU, and that's just fine with him."If they had come to me then maybe it would have been something we could have talked about,'' said Alston, who already has his degree. "But I think everybody just agreed that if I kept working hard I'd be able to come back.''And finally he is, although not at 100 percent. He estimates he's perhaps 70 percent of what he was at the start of the season. But he still thinks it's possible to get all the way back."My treatment regimen is crazy right now. I'm always in there,'' Alston said. "They put up a picture of me in there one day I was in there so much."I still have a little bit of lingering effects, but most of those are starting to go away. It's just the issue of getting the strength back and getting the mobility back.''And erasing whatever karma lingers.Reach Dave Hickman at 304-348-1734 or firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at Twitter.com/dphickman1. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 3 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says 4 Congressional opioid investigation targets drug wholesaler Miami-Luken 5 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world Winfield beats GW in overtime Previous Story Capital reminds Price of young SC teams Next Story

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Here's a possible scenario where Ron could be back in a Pacer uniform. Whether the Pacers would let him play . . . I don't know.
What scenario?
Peter Vecsey in his Jan. 3 NY Post article said, "I'm told an outraged David Stern lodged a complaint with the Pacers concerning management's ruling to place Ron Artest on the inactive list indefinitely."
I overlooked it at the time because Vecsey makes wisecracks in his column all the time. However, what if he were telling the truth?
What if the Union decides the Pacers are being unfair to Ron? What's Stern going to do? He could tell the Pacer's that they have to put Ron back in uniform.
What choice would Walsh and Bird have? None at all since they are management too. What would JO do? He would have to suck it up and play, otherwise he would be hurting the team more than Ron.
Wouldn't that make for a nice little Payton Place!
Interesting speculation if nothing else!


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Effects of Prednisolone and Pentoxifylline on the Regulation of Urea Synthesis in Alcoholic Hepatitis
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University of Aarhus
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Loss of total mass of muscles (catabolism) is a serious clinical problem in patients with alcoholic hepatitis. The liver might play an important role in this stress-catabolism by increasing the production of urea during the inflammatory process.
The purpose of this study is to examine the regulation of urea synthesis in patients with alcoholic hepatitis and to study the effect of the anti-inflammatory drugs prednisolone and pentoxifylline on this regulation.
|Alcoholic Hepatitis
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|Observational Model: Case-Crossover
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|Effects of Prednisolone and Pentoxifylline on the Regulation of Urea Synthesis in Alcoholic Hepatitis
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Functional Hepatic Nitrogen Clearance [ Time Frame: At inclusion, after approximately 3 month and if severe alcoholic hepatitis also after 14 days medical treatment ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Clinical and biochemical measures of inflammation [ Time Frame: At inclusion, after approximately 3 month and if severe alcoholic hepatitis also after 14 days medical treatment ]
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Serum, plasma, urine
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Patients with alcoholic hepatitis
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Patients with alcoholic hepatitis admitted to hospital for treatment.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Alcoholic hepatitis (alcohol intake (> 40g/day in 6 months), bilirubin > 80 μmol/l)
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- Severe bacterial infections
- Other chronical inflammatory diseases
- Cancer
- Other catabolic diseases
- Treatment with prednisolone or pentoxifylline within the last 8 weeks
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Urea Synthesis
Nitrogen balance
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Hepatitis, Alcoholic
Hepatitis A
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Liver Diseases, Alcoholic
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Danny Granger left Conseco Fieldhouse without comment Monday afternoon. But how he left the arena, and where he was going, said a lot.
After watching practice from the sideline with his bruised right heel in ice, Granger left the practice court on crutches, bypassing the media and saying only, "I've got to go get my MRI."
The Pacers didn't expect to have results of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging until Tuesday but Coach Jim O'Brien said after practice he was preparing to be without the team's leading scorer for awhile.
"That's my mindset," O'Brien said. "I'd like to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm preparing for the worst."
If Granger is out an extended period, that would be a major blow to a struggling offense. He's the team's leading scorer (24.4) and biggest 3-point threat. In fact, other than Granger (who's hitting .356 from the arc), the Pacers are shooting 27.1 percent.
The most likely candidates to replace Granger in the lineup would be either Brandon Rush or Mike Dunleavy. Dunleavy has been limited to roughly 20 minutes in his first five games since returning from a length rehab from knee surgery.
"We're going to have to (adjust) because he's our leading scorer," said T.J. Ford. "That's 20-something points that'll be gone. Collectively, it's not one individual that's going to be able to make up those points. It's going to take multiple people to make up for it.
"It gives the next person an opportunity to step up. You've got a lot of guys, Brandon Rush, Luther Head, guys you have to call upon to come out and be productive. So this'll give those guys an opportunity."
Granger, who has been bothered by the heel bruise since the preseason, aggravated the problem early in the third quarter Saturday night in the Pacers' 88-72 loss to the Clippers in Los Angeles. On a drive into the middle, he pulled up lame, lost the ball and dropped to the floor. He was helped off the court by trainers Josh Corbeil and Carl Eaton and did not return to the game.
Granger missed the Pacers' 86-73 victory over the Clippers on Nov. 25 in Conseco Fieldhouse with a sprained knee. The Pacers are 14-8 all-time in games Granger has missed.


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SoftCharts digital charts are raster, whereas C-Map and Navionics charts are vector. Basically, raster charts are simple pictures of familiar paper charts, while vectors are tracings turned into databases of chart information, then displayed as graphics by the plotter.
Raster charts are created by scanning the official works of hydrographic offices, and some users favor them because they show every detail and nuance laid down by the original cartographer. It takes tremendous effort for the various private vector shops to convert all these details into mathematically defined lines, symbols, and text, but the results take better advantage of the processing power of plotters (and onboard computers).
The pros of vector start with cleanly drawn lines and letters and solid colors. Data is layered, so elements can be turned on and off for clearer presentation on smaller screens or when zooming out. Numbers are real, so depths can be shown in meters or feet, even fathoms. Vectors can be turned course up, and all the soundings and labels will remain right side up--nice for comparing to a split-screen radar image. Also, data can be attached to any object on the chart; you'll learn to move the NavNet cursor over a buoy or port information symbol to get a small pop-up data window and access to a full page of information.
The cons are that "noncritical" data is left off of vector charts to make the tracing process less expensive. You won't see much of the shoreside information that you get on a paper or raster chart. There is also the possibility of error in the tracing process. I've seen such errors, though minor and in remote areas. Watch out for those! Lastly, vector charts are ultimately drawn by a machine and thus lack some of the little niceties a real cartographer is capable of--like placing an island name just where it won't get in the way of other data. In my opinion, they don't look as good.
C-Map has recently introduced a new vector specification called NT+ that includes numerous valuable improvements, and Navionics is planning to introduce its own new data format "soon." It's also worth noting that new ways of mixing and blending cartography seen in the latest Nobeltec and RayTech products suggest that the functional differences between raster and vector will eventually fade away. --B.E.
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Thanks for all the work on the Korean pages. Really great! --jome 15:56, 24 September 2006 (PDT)
- It is pleasure to hear that. I find the wiki editor is the effort producing tool. Ovthrz 22:08, 27 September 2006 (PDT)
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Hello, did you encounter any problems in displaying Korean or other East Asian characters in 0.8.2? -- Gsklee 20:13, 28 November 2006 (PST)
- I found that the text file 'fontmap.dat' has the name ukai.ttf which does not exist in the package.
- I changed that name to the font file name and now the western names, the polynesian names, planets, cardinal points are shown in korean letters. Ovthrz 15:57, 6 December 2006 (PST)
- The Chinese, Egypt constellation names are shown in English for the differences bettween 5spaces and 1 tab. these files has to be changed. Ovthrz 17:38, 7 December 2006 (PST)
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About your changes to Coding standard and Stellarium Code Architecture - when translating a page, please create a separate page with a Korean title for the translation, instead of replacing the English text in the original. It is possible that you were confused by the link at 메인페이지 (Korean) - it's a collapsed link that shows Korean text but links to the English page name. --Daggerstab 06:09, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- It was mistake. Thanky for reminding me that. Ovthrz 23:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


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In my experience, animals show a very great deal of mindfulness. Observe cats, leopards, Tigers etc, and they never can be caught off guard!
Hmmm,interesting,perhaps this is one of the methods they get better rebirths after thier deaths?. ..
I doubt it. There is such a thing as the mindfulness of the sniper, and I'm pretty sure that one leads downwards.
Well, they are not only mindful to hunt or also to prevent being hunted,the latter might be conducive to them...I don't know. .. . ..


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Its been a pretty decent season so far, but I do have one complaint: where are the tasks involving ornery animals? Those are always the best. Who wouldnt love to see Tina and Terence use their winning personalities to try and coax a stubborn donkey somewhere, or have to carry a ticked-off chicken around for the rest of the leg? Heck, for that matter, how about a gross eating task? Imagine Terence, the lean mean whining machine, having to eat 23 pounds of boiled Polish sausage or some such thing. Now thats good tv. Hint hint, producers. We need more drama!
Night Riders
Once again, teams take off in the darkness (11:22pm, ugh) for their next destination: Delhi, India. Because we havent seen enough of India in the other 2000 times The Amazing Race has blown through there. Nick and Starr leave first, reaching the travel agency just ahead of Toni and Dallas. This suits Dallas just fine, as he tries to flirt with Starr the best he can with his mom in the background, cramping his style. He declares her the worst wingman ever. Starr confesses there is an attraction, while Dallas grumbles about not being able to spend any alone time with her. Mind on task, big boy. Youre still in a race, remember? Race?
In a little bit of foreshadowing for Kens Big Blowup at Tina later on, he gripes about feeling useless as Tina takes charge of everything, practically shoving his butt out of the way and commandeering the computer. Another funny is Nick and Starr ragging on Kelly and Christy for their clothing, or lack thereof. Never mind that Starr has her puppies on full display, they think the divorcees short shorts are guaranteed to get them groped in the crowds.
Terence and Sarahs 30 minute penalty for the speeding ticket fiasco last week? Amounted to squat. They catch up easily and all teams end up on the same 2000 mile flight to Delhi. Snore.
The teams all expected chaos when they got to India, and they werent disappointed. Dan thinks its brutally hot, and the traffic is awful. Beyond awful. Cows wander the street, leading Christy to chime in with her two cents, declaring that the cows werent afraid of being hit by cars because they know theyre sacred in India. Well that explains it, then. Im starting to think those cows may have a bit more mental horsepower than our girl Christy. Or she's been watching too many Chik-fil-a commercials.
Step Aside, Earl Scheib
Off to Moonlight Motors (talk about a cheesy name) and their first task, a Roadblock. One team member gets to paint the black part of a black and yellow rickshaw green, to signify that it now runs on natural gas. Lots of taping, masking, and newspapering ensues. Starr, Andrew, Kelly, Toni, and Sarah don their respirators and begin the messy task of painting the little cars. Ken? He and Tina are circling the streets outside in their taxi, driven by a dropout from taxi school. The guy cant find the car lot, ensuring Ken and Tina get to the Roadblock last. The dysfunctional duo bicker about which way to go, and as always, Tina insists shes right. Ken looks disgusted. Im still waiting for The Big Blowup we were promised.
Oh, the frat boys. While I enjoyed their snarking on Terence - they thought he was quite a tool for his non-stop bitching at Sarah during the task - and was glad to see them finish the Roadblock first, Dandrew managed to blow their new lead immediately by bumbling around in the street, unable to find a taxi. Nick/Starr and Toni/Dallas pass them up. Even Ken and Tina pass the frats, after Tina nitpicked Kens masking job to death. I kept waiting for him to turn the spray gun on her and paint that scrunchy face green. Ken and Tina also thought themselves quite clever for making their taxi driver stay and wait for them. Yeah. The same guy who got them lost before, they wanted to keep. This dude couldnt find his own behind with both hands and a map, yet they trust him to carry them to the next destination?
Ironing 101
Teams now head to the Ambassador Hotel, where a doorman awaits them with the next clue. Its a Detour, of course. Our intrepid Racers can choose to Launder Clothes, where they must iron twenty pieces of clothing with an unwieldy-looking charcoal heated iron, or Launder Money, where they have to create a traditional wedding necklace made out of ten rupee notes that must add up to 780. No change? Tough. Youd better find a passerby who can make change for you. From your own stash of cash. In the middle of the freaking night.
And thats just what Ken and Tina and Terence and Sarah choose to do. Everyone else chooses the laundry task and gets busy with the smoking hot irons. Smarties Nick and Starr pull out their gloves that theyve been carrying around as the other teams wish theyd had the foresight to bring things they might actually need, instead of makeup and hair products. Kelly and Christy glower at their arch-enemies and are forced to use pieces of clothing wrapped around the handles of the irons. Dandrew grumps about ironing, period. Theres never any ironing going on in the frat house, snips Dan. Im willing to bet theres never much of anything going on in your frat house, guy.
Over in the other half of the Detour, Terence and Sarah and Ken and Tina are scrounging for change to make their necklaces. They manage to find some locals to give them change (seriously, flashing piles of money to strangers on a dark street in a foreign country isnt my idea of a good time). One guy wants a kiss from Sarah in return for the change - she declines, but I bet Terence sulked about that for hours. Then comes the hard part: making it through the throngs of the wedding party to the assembly table. This doesnt look like a wedding celebration so much as a mosh pit at Lollapalooza. Must have been one hell of an open bar.
While Dandrew struggles with the highly complicated task of ironing clothes as the wind blows their work all over the ground and the inspector continues to fail their pitiful efforts at folding, the other teams are headed for the Pit Stop at the Bahai House. Well, except for Ken and Tina, who have taxi issues once again. They finally dumped their doofus driver from before, but cant find a replacement. After running to another, busier, street, they finally find an available rickshaw. And this driver promptly gets lost, too.
Pulling over for directions, an infuriated Tina gets out and scares the locals into giving her some info. But she refuses to get back in until Ken moves his backpack, laying on the floor of the cramped little car. Where he was supposed to put it, I dont know. As Tina waffled around, wasting time, I think he was about ready to put the pack where the sun doesnt shine as he yelled at her to Please, get in!!
Wait. What? Thats it? That was The Big Blowup we were promised from last week? Oh, brother. What a letdown. You got me again, editors. Not funny.
So, the Pit Stop. A windblown, sweaty Phil awaits the teams next to the greeter o the week, a cute girl with a firepot on her head. Im not terribly familiar with Indian custom or costume, so I have no idea what the flaming head was all about. But, ouch. Teams hit the Amazing Bathmat in this order:
1st - Nick and Starr, each winning an electric car and all the Amazing taxes that go with.
2nd - Kelly and Christy, happy for a change.
3rd - Toni and Dallas. You have fire on your head - thats insane! he tells the greeter.
4th - Terence and Sarah. I want to put the firepot on his pointy little head.
5th - Andrew and Dan. They cant believe theyre still in it. Neither can I.
Philiminated - Ken and Tina.
Oh, wait. Not! Its a non-elimination leg, and the soon-to-be-divorced couple get another chance. Uh, yay for them. I guess. Im trying to be excited here, but it aint working. Phil informs them of the Speedbump awaiting them in the next leg, and they look downtrodden. Ken talks of wanting to be the comeback kids and how much they want to be in it, and save their marriage, and....*sniff* chokes up with tears in his eyes, unable to continue. Tina looks up at him and manages a smile/grimace, commenting that It takes going to the bottom sometimes to get to the top.
Next week: Tina and Kelly have meltdowns as they get pelted with some kind of colored powders. This better be good, editors. Or Ill find out where you live.


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Southern Rap was recognized as its own sect of Hip Hop long ago. From the all-encompassing lifestyle that surrounds it to the rearview mirror rattling bass, its reputation is geared towards parties. But artists like Outkast, and later T.I., have helped slowly change that perception, mixing in club tracks with deep, introspective cuts that have let those outside the region better understand a culture unlike any other.
Among the select group of emcees pushing this change is Atlanta veteran Young Skoop, who dropped the first installment of his mixtape series The Blindfold last month. HipHopDX sat down with the self-proclaimed Atlanta Hawks fan and former football player to talk about the diversity in his music, the importance of record labels in today's music industry and making it through the come-up stage of his career.
Young Skoop Explains Why Fan Interaction Is "Hand-To-Hand Combat"
HipHopDX: There's no straightforward method for the come-up in today's Rap game. What have you done to set yourself apart?
Young Skoop: I'm keeping it straight music, and I'm just making good music at the end of the day. I'm just trying to keep on doing it, man—no gimmicks. A lot of people get caught up in other dreams besides music, but this is really coming back to straight Hip Hop. I'm really trying to keep a steady pace with my music, seriously make good music and not letting anybody down or getting caught up in the hype or anything else that's going on.
DX: Social media seems to be the biggest way for artists to interact with their fans these days, but what else do you do to keep in touch with the people that listen to your music?
Young Skoop: Oh I get out, man. I get out in the streets. We call it hand-to-hand combat, when you're actually out there in the streets talking with your fans, giving them CDs, letting them know your favorite song and what they can expect from you. I'm just paying attention to the fans, man. It might not even be a fan; it might be a co-worker or another up-and-coming artist that's on the same grind as you, because the music talks for itself. So when the fans hear it or another artist hears it and you can collab, it's in the record books.
DX: The music video for your song "Talibandz" is in a strip club, which isn't an uncommon setting for Southern Rap videos. Why are strip clubs so important to Southern Rap, and why aren't they as big a part of East or West coast Hip Hop?
Young Skoop: In the South, we have a lack of labels, and what we do is, we have to break our record ourselves before we can get the help of major labels. In New York and LA, you can. You have all the labels actually there; you can just walk up and go to the labels, meet somebody and ask them to listen to your tape. But in the South, just to get the noticed, you have to do all that yourself. So we're actually taking our records to the club and getting them played. We're actually taking them to parties. It's hand-to-hand combat once again. We basically have to break the record ourselves, and the strip club is a major outlet. That's where everybody likes to go to have a good time and kick it, so that's a great way to get your record heard and get out there.
DX: It seems that as the music industry shifts into the Digital Age, labels may no longer be needed for success. Can you talk about the relationships you've had with record labels and how important you think they are to the genre?
Young Skoop: Record labels are still important. I respect the record labels; I respect a lot of record labels, but not all of them. I respect the record labels that are actually willing to work with the artist, because like I said, at the end of the day I'm a firm believer in good music.
A lot of people don't have the means to get their records out there, but they don't have the quality of work or the quality of music. And so you think about how saturated Hip Hop is and how people are getting mad and saying Hip Hop is dead. But that's because the people that have the means of getting their records out aren't the ones making good music, and the ones that are making the good music don't have the means of getting it out. So the record labels that are still signing people on straight talent, I salute you for that. But a lot of record labels are just jumping behind people that are already hot—whether their music is good or not. As long as they have a buzz or not, record labels are willing to get behind them.
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How Atlanta's Diversity Works In Young Skoop's Favor
DX: As an Atlanta-based rapper, you have such a wealth of past and present ATL greats that have laid out a roadmap for you. Who do you think are some of the best all-time Atlanta artists and what up-and-comers are next in line?
Young Skoop: I like everybody, man. It's not one style, and it's not one sound; Atlanta has different swag from Zone 1 all the way to Zone 6, so I won't knock anyone who's doing their thing. Shout out to Chaz, man; shout out to Young Jeezy. They're really keep it dope for Atlanta, man. It goes without saying—Outkast.
But the up-and-comers…salute Trinidad [James]. I love everybody, man. It's like a big melting pot out here. But as for me, I love Young Skoop too. I put in the work, I have a solid background behind me, and I really have good music. I can stand the test of time, and if anyone wants to test it or go against it, I'm open for whatever people need to do. Get at me.
DX: Let's talk about your upcoming "Blindfold" mixtapes. What can we expect?
Young Skoop: You can expect a total 360, man…around the world and around Atlanta. It's definitely not what people are expecting, and it's not just a one category time of thing. It's not just a club deal; it's not just the street deal. We've got some club joints on there, we've got some riding tracks and we've got some really lyrical tracks.
The Strategy Behind Young Skoop's "Blindfold" Mixtape Series
DX: Why did you decide to break up the mixtape into a larger series of installments?
Young Skoop: I have a super producer on my team, man. Soundz is dope, and when me and him get together, it's like magic. We always have so much music, and we couldn't stuff everything on "Blindfold Vol. 1." " one is just a couple of chapters of a big book we already have, so we decided to put some tracks out. We put "Blindfold" out, and we're going to put "Blindfold Vol. 2" out. We're continually making good music, and it's just going to get better from here. We have so many records, and we're still working.
DX: You've talked about being a basketball player, and sports seem to have such a big impact on the game today. How does that influence your sound?
Young Skoop: When you get out on the court, it's people skills man. You talk a little stuff with people, and I'm a real competitive person. I like it to beat you in basketball, and when I knock you down, I'm going to be the same one to pick you back up. But the next game we play you might beat me, and it's the same thing with the music.
I practice my craft so much, and I'm very confident in my craft. I stay back, watched the game and I've actually worked on it, and worked on it, and worked on it, versus a lot of people who just flipped a card, got lucky and they're just there now. I'm actually working with my stuff. I prefer to be here.
DX: Well you've collaborated with a bunch of people, including Jeremih. Who else would you want to work with going forward?
Young Skoop: On the production end, I got to work with a new producer called Mo Diggity, he's out of East side Atlanta too. He did a beat called "Beat Steady Knockin'" with samples from Gorilla Zoe. And Duke Nukem did "Talibandz" with me and Jeremih on "Blindfold."
DX: You discussed this a bit earlier, but most of your music seems to have a party sound. Yet you actually talk about your life and what you do. How do you balance the two?
Young Skoop: That's because my life is balanced. That's about keeping it 100. When you wake up, you don't feel the same way every day. If you want to slap the shit out of somebody or go to the club and talk to females… People that say they wake up and feel that way every day, that's a lie. I just keep it all the way 100. Everything I do, I put it in my tracks and it is what it is.


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The clothing and jewelry art of Lindy Lopez of Los Altos will be available for purchase at this year's Fine Art in the Park show.
The Rotary Club of Los Altos' 38th annual Fine Art in the Park show is scheduled 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 18 and 19 in Lincoln Park in Los Altos.
Local interior designer Lara Pai serves as artist coordinator for this year's event. She has developed relationships with dozens of fine artists over the course of her design career.
Pai and her team of seven jurors screened an array of new artists for the show, selecting a record 70 new participants.
After contacting fine-arts organizations in San Francisco, Carmel and Los Angeles for recommendations, Pai instructed the artists to submit representative pieces for evaluation.
Pai created a new accolade this year – "Jury Featured Artists," recognition for the 35 artists who received the jury's top votes. The jury based its selections on uniqueness, scale, use of color and use of materials, especially in mixed media. Blue and gold balloons and stars will designate the award-winning artists' booths.
Current and past mayors of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills will select and present the blue-ribbon Mayor's Choice Awards to their favorite works of art and publicly honor the artists.
Three Los Altos artists are slated to exhibit their work at Fine Art in the Park:
• Terenia Offenbacher uses mixed media on wood panels with found objects to create portraits in Modigliani style.
• Stephanie McClean paints contemporary landscapes with a focus on California open spaces and parks.
• Lindy Lopez specializes in textiles.
The Rotary Club's Young at Art competition will display winning entries from students at six local high schools at the gazebo in Lincoln Park. Carol Garsten, owner of Nature Gallery at 296 State St., is scheduled to recognize winners and their families at a reception 6-8 p.m. Friday, during the monthly First Friday event. The Rotary Club will honor the winners at an awards ceremony May 23.
In addition to the selection of fine art for sale, Fine Art in the Park will feature entertainment and a food court.
Lincoln Park is located at University Avenue and Foothill Expressway.
For more information, visit www.rotaryartshow.com.
Marlene Cowan is a member of the Rotary Club of Los Altos.


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For each number, unscramble the capitalized letters (the two groups in each number do not intermix) to form first a famous person and then a famous work or theory of theirs.
1) LONE ROAD, known for painting PAPER SHUTTLES.
2) ACTIONS WANE, known for the TWO HEEL FORMATIONS.
3) HELICAL GNOME, known for painting CATHERINE FOOTMAN.
4) SITE NINE, known for the THRIFTY EYE VIOLATOR.
5) SUPERCONIC, known for the EITHER TOY CHRONICLE.
Answer1) LEONARDO, known for painting THE LAST SUPPER.
2) ISAAC NEWTON, known for the THREE LAWS OF MOTION.
3) MICHELANGELO, known for painting THE CREATION OF MAN.
4) EINSTEIN, known for the THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
5) COPERNICUS, known for the HELIOCENTRIC THEORY.
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Africa's vast new transfrontier "peace park"* is larger than the entire country of Switzerland. In fact, it's being called "the world's largest animal kingdom."
Encompassing more than 35,000 square kilometers (13,500 square miles), the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park extends into three countries; Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, communities and wildlife in Africa coexisted in a fairly harmonious manner. Although people used wildlife to sustain themselves, species were not seriously threatened. The human population was small, and land remained abundant.
The Nyamuragira volcano, located 20 kilometers north of the town of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is erupting. This eruption occurs only months after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from the region when an adjacent volcano destroyed much of Goma.
Local vulcanologist Dieudonne Wafula said ash and debris were being thrown hundreds of feet in to the air above the crater. The BBC reports that lava was flowing down both sides of the 3,000 metre high Mount Nyamuragira.
On July 16th the Acting USAID Mission Director, Mr. Roudolf Thomas, launched the Conservation of Afro-montane Forest and Mountain Gorillas in a Landscape Context project. The ceremony took place at the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP) office in Kabale. It was attended by representatives from the local government, Uganda Wildlife Authority, community representatives, NGOs as well as staff from AWF and IGCP.
USAID has provided US$ 1.9 million for the three year project which will focus on the following objectives:
Forty years ago, Tarangire was a game area in Tanzania used by hunters. In 1969, AWF played a crucial role in establishing the new Tarangire National Park by supporting construction of the headquarters building and the rangers' antipoaching lookout stations.
Today, Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks are the core conservation areas of the large and varied landscape that is AWF's Maasai-Steppe Heartland.


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Yes, insecticides can kill insects, bees and birds. Let's get that out of the way right off the bat. Shall we ban the use of all insecticides? My answer is no, but many environmental activists say yes.
Neonicotinoid insecticides are coming under harsh attack from environmental activists that want to blame this family of insecticides for depleting the world's bee population. They now want to blame bird deaths on this class/family of insecticides.
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) issued a call for the ban of neonicotinoid seed treatments following their sponsorship of a study by a toxicologist who titled his report: "The Impact of the Nation's Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds."
It should have been no surprise that insecticide seed treatments have the potential to kill birds. Eating insecticide-coated seeds definitely would be hazardous to the health of a bird. To increase the impact of their nothing-new discovery, the ABC made sure to suggest the birds that might be killed are "song birds." Nobody wants to kill a song bird.
The ABC further claims the Environmental Protection Agency is not requiring the right tests for determining toxicity plus it has "grossly underestimated the toxicity" of neonicotinoids.
Toxicologists and researchers working with crop protection companies have all the facts and counter arguments to contend there is very limited exposure to bees, birds and other animals by neonicotinoids.
I'm not a toxicologist, but I've been involved in reporting on product registration procedures with major crop protection companies. I oversaw the production of a stewardship manual for the use of a highly toxic insecticide. I've interviewed toxicologists who submit their findings to the EPA.
But most importantly, I've seen crops that were grown with and without insecticide seed treatments. I've seen the losses from crops that weren't properly treated with insecticides. I've seen ag retailers using good stewardship in treating seeds, and I've seen farmers plant seed in the field using good practices to keep seed from being available for birds to eat.
Using seed treatments to grow more crops to feed more people is important. Is one starving human less important than the isolated death of a bird—most commonly an English/house sparrow, starling or other pest bird?


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July 16, 2012 5:00 am
Ratings for the MLB All-Star Game were up this year, but does that really tell the whole story?
Television ratings are a funny thing. The spin that can come out of the numbers can drive reports in wildly divergent directions. In sports, ratings can be spun to say that the popularity of a given league or club is high or low, depending on those feeding the information. Of course, leagues and clubs love to tout growth, while detractors can spin numbers negatively. For Major League Baseball, ratings have been used to show that the game's popularity is on the rise, while others have pounded keys to say that it's a "dying sport."
So, which one is it? As is often the case in data analysis, the truth can lie in the middle. Before we get started, let's give a quick primer on what the ratings numbers mean.
March 16, 2012 3:00 am
An examination of how baseball's increasing strikeout rate has impacted the game, torn from the pages of BP's next book.
Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers, edited by Steven Goldman, is the sequel to Baseball Prospectus's 2006 landmark Baseball Between the Numbers, a book that gave many their first taste of state of the art sabermetric thinking in the years after Bill James and Moneyball. BP now returns with a sequel that delves into new areas of the game, such as how to evaluate managers and general managers, the true effects of performance-enhancing drugs, how prospects are recruited and developed in Latin America, and more. The book is now available for pre-order from Amazon and Barnes & Noble and should ship ahead of its official release date of April 3, 2012. Today, we present the first of two excerpts from the book.
February 22, 2012 3:00 am
Roundtable discussion of the pressing questions facing the NL East teams as we approach the start of the season
1) After a disappointing sophomore campaign, what can we expect of Jason Heyward going forward?
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January 18, 2012 3:00 am
After starring for opposing teams in the Japan Series, Wei-Yin Chen and Tsuyoshi Wada will try to adjust to life in Baltimore and last place, as the Orioles react to the new CBA by plugging their pitching holes with Asian imports.
On November 12th, 2011, as Major League Baseball recovers from one of the most exciting World Series in recent memory, Nippon Professional Baseball begins its own best-of-seven championship: the Japan Series.
Much like MLB, Japanese professional baseball has two leagues—the Central and the Pacific—and much like MLB, the champions of those respective leagues play each other to determine a final champion for the entire season. As NPB has only 12 teams compared to to MLB's 30, however, the playoffs are structured a bit differently; with only six teams per league, NPB does not bother with divisions or Wild Cards—the best three teams in each league make the playoffs, with the league's top seed getting a first-round bye. The second and third seeds play a best-of-three series, and the winner faces the first seed in a best-of-five "Climax Series" that's roughly analogous to MLB's League Championship Series. The winning club from each league's Climax Series is that league's champion and advances to the best-of-seven Japan Series to determine which is the best club in NPB. The Climax Series format was implemented first by the Pacific League in 2004 and then adopted by the Central League three years later. Previously, there had been no real postseason in NPB: the team with the best season record from the Central would play the team with the best season record from the Pacific in the Japan Series, and that was that.
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January 13, 2012 9:00 am
A writer who never saw Jack Morris pitch watches him in action for the first time and comes away even less convinced that the traditionalist case for his candidacy should earn him a call to Cooperstown.
December 30, 2011 3:23 am
Jay Jaffe and JAWS examine the starting pitchers on this year's Hall of Fame BBWAA ballot, starting with the inevitable Jack Morris.
After delivering the JAWS piece on first basemen earlier this week, I had planned to tackle the outfielders—Tim Raines, Bernie Williams et al—next. The sad news of Greg Spira's untimely passing on Wednesday presented me with a reason to change course, however. In the service of working on a chapter on Jack Morris's Hall of Fame case for Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers in November, I had called upon the Internet Wayback Machine to unearth Greg's seminal research piece questioning whether Morris "pitched to the score." a piece that was published in Baseball Prospectus 1997, predating Morris's arrival on the BBWAA ballot by a three years and Joe Sheehan's own outstanding Morris research by five years. I suggested to Dave Pease that we republish it on our site to run alongside yesterday's article in tribute to our fallen colleague and friend, a fine example of his intellectual curiosity and dogged research efforts, particularly as the work dated to a time when Retrosheet was in its infancy and the relevant data not easily compiled. This piece is dedicated to his memory.
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December 2, 2011 9:00 am
Redefining the JAWS equation sets a new standard for Hall of Fame induction.
This time of year is a busy stretch if you're a Hall of Fame buff, or at least this particular Hall of Fame buff. The 2012 BBWAA ballot was released on Wednesday, adding 13 new candidates to the 14 holdovers from last year's ballot. I'll start digging into the details of those candidacies starting at some point late next week. Meanwhile, the vote on the Golden Era candidates will take place at the Winter Meetings in Dallas this coming Monday, December 5; alas, I think I'm actually going to be in the air when the results are announced, but I'll weigh in upon arrival. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to discuss some of the Golden Era candidates on television as part of my debut appearance on MLB Network's new show, "Clubhouse Confidential." It wasn't my first time on TV, but I believe it was my first time discussing JAWS in that medium. Explaining the system concisely AND discussing the merits of a handful of candidates in a four-minute span was certainly a challenge, but host Brian Kenny and his producers seemed quite pleased with the segment, and there's reason to believe that it won't be the last time I appear on the show.
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November 18, 2011 9:00 am
You might not know it from watching the World Series, but it often makes sense for a manager to pinch hit for his starter before the late innings.
Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping our caps to some of the most illuminating work being done elsewhere on the internet, we'll be yielding the stage once a week to the best and brightest baseball writers, researchers and thinkers from outside of the BP umbrella. If you'd like to nominate a guest contributor (including yourself), please drop us a line.
Mitchel Lichtman, or MGL, has been doing sabermetric research and writing for over 20 years. He is one of the authors of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, and co-hosts The Book blog, www.insidethebook.com. He consulted for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2004 to 2006, as well as other major-league teams. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Nevada Boyd School of Law. Most of the time these days you can find him on the golf course.
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October 31, 2011 9:00 am
Will Yu Darvish's Japanese League domination translate to major-league success?
Rumors abound that Yu Darvish, perhaps the most hyped player to come from Japan since Daisuke Matsuzaka, will be posted by his Nippon Pro Baseball team this winter. If that happens, Major League Baseball teams will have the right to bid on exclusive negotiating rights with Darvish in the hopes of securing his services for their rotation. This possibility has the blogosphere abuzz, with many a writer speculating on where he'll end up or how he'll fit in with a blogger's favorite team.
But the big question on everyone's mind is how much of this buzz is merely hype and how much is legitimate. As Michael Street has shown, Japanese pitchers (particularly starters) have a very spotty track record when they come across the Pacific, and even a guy like Matsuzaka only managed one above-average season before giving way to injuries and ineffectiveness.
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October 26, 2011 9:00 am
Despite being terrible at baseball, these players are (or were) enjoyable to watch
October 19, 2011 9:00 am
Sizing up every facet of each contender in this season's Fall Classic.
October 13, 2011 9:00 am
One of BP's co-founders returns to reveal an important amateur draft inefficiency.
Everyone missed on Mike Trout. Don't get me wrong: Trout was a well-regarded player headed into the 2009 draft, a certain first-round talent. But he wasn't—yet—a phenom. Everyone liked Trout; it's just that no one loved him. Baseball America ranked him as the 22nd-best player in the draft. No one doubted his athleticism or his work ethic; a lot of people doubted the level of competition he faced as a high school player from rural New Jersey. The Angels drafted him with the 25th pick overall, and they'll tell you today that they knew he was destined to be a special player. What they won't tell you is that they had back-to-back picks at #24 and #25, and they announced Randal Grichuk's name first.


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By Mifa Kim, senior, peer educator with Counseling and Psychological Services
My name is Mifa Kim. I'm a senior studying psychology and a peer educator at CU-Boulder's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). I am spreading the word about the How to Help a Friend campaign, an online resource with information and advice on how CU community members can help friends or other people in their lives who may be encountering various challenges.
November is an especially busy month for CU students - deadlines, assignments, exams and projects seem to occur at the same time. During this time, we all can get overwhelmed because of school, work and our social life. Try to remind your friend (and yourself) that in order to be the most productive person and student they can be, their first priority is to take care of themselves and manage their stress. Good healthy stress is important to have because it motivates us to get things done and gives us a burst of energy. Bad stress can reinforce itself to make us less productive or lessen the quality of our work.
Common myth about stress: All types of stress are bad.
Reality: There is good stress and bad stress. Good stress helps you feel alert, productive and get the things you need to get done - done. Bad stress is when it takes a negative effect on your mind and body. Balancing your stress helps manage bad stress levels while maximizing good stress.
The following suggestions are different ways to help manage and balance stress.
Stress management techniques:
- Take care of your body. Eat regular meals and focus on nutrition instead of indulging on "junk food." Taking care of your body will help manage your stress.
- Sleep regularly. Get the amount of sleep that makes you feel good, not too much or too little. Try to keep a consistent sleep schedule.
- Exercise. Exercise makes you feel good and energized. Stretch. Move. Breathe.
- Center yourself. Engage in activities that relax you. Meditate. Breathe.
- Get outside. Go for a walk or hike. Enjoy the sunshine and fresh air.
- Get creative. Find something creative that you enjoy. Paint, draw, take pictures, play music.
- Write it down. This will help you be organized and clear your thoughts. Journal your experiences. Make "to-do" lists. Use a planner.
- Change your schedule. Simplify your life if you are feeling overcommitted, or increase your responsibilities if you feel bored. Boredom can also be stressful.
- Involve others in your life. Talk to family or friends or seek extra support from a counselor or mentor.
- Generate success. Do at least one thing a day to make you feel competent and in control. Mastery leads to self-confidence and makes you more resistant to negative emotions.
- How to Help a Friend - Want more information on stress or more topics? Worried about someone? This is a peer-to-peer resource to help students help each other.
- Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) - A free counseling resource for CU-Boulder students. CAPS offers six individual counseling sessions per academic year and unlimited workshops and groups. We have walk-in hours from M-F, 10 a.m. - 4p.m. and we are located at the Center for Community (C4C) room S440. 303-492-6766.
Free events
- How To Help a Friend Get Together - Get your tea and cookies on. We also will have arts and crafts - a great way to de-stress. If you have questions about resources or just want to stop by to say hello, you can join me every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 12:30 - 2 p.m. at the Foyer (near the Norlin Commons information desk) at the Norlin Library. The next How to Help a Friend Get Together will be on Nov. 13, 12:30 - 2 p.m. at the Norlin Library.
- Stress Breaks - Feeling stressed out? Overwhelmed? Stress Break is a relaxation program provided for CU-Boulder students by trained volunteers from CAPS. The volunteers provide quick tips in managing stress and then guide students through a relaxation exercise. Stress Break volunteers are available to come to residence halls, student groups, Greek chapters, classes, meetings, academic departments, and anywhere that stressed-out students can be found. If you would like to book a 20-minute Stress Break for your group, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Feel Good Fridays - Need a break? Want to unwind before the weekend? This group is an opportunity to be led through a powerful guided meditation to undo your stress, sooth your nervous system and feel good. It's on every Friday from 12:10 - 12:40 p.m. at the C4C's Abram's Lounge.
- Ta Chi Wednesday - This drop-in group will utilize Tai Chi exercises as a way to release stress and increase a sense of calmness in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. The group is intended to facilitate physical and psychological wellness, and will increase awareness of how stress impacts one's daily life, health and emotional well-being. It's on every Monday from 12 - 1 p.m. at C4C room S440.


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Notes: The authors of this study developed a model for UVB-induced premature senescence of skin human diploid fibroblasts. Markers of senescence were expressed in the system, and the authors were able to detect a common mitochondrial DNA 4,977-bp deletion that is associated with oxidative damage. After a series of ten UVB stresses, total RNA was prepared from the cells using the RNAgents® Total RNA Isolation System and used for RT-PCR to detect differentially expressed genes. Forty-four stress or senescence-associated genes were identified that were differentially expressed between UVB irradiated and untreated cells including c-fos, c-jun, insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3, several HSPs, genes involved in protection from oxidative stress, and the type II receptor of TGF-β. The Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 pAb was used to assess whether the UVB treatment or incubation with TGF-β1 led to apoptosis in this system. (3670)
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Xiao, Y., Zhong, Y., Greene, W., Dong, F. and Zhong, G.
Notes: The DeadEnd™ Fluorometric TUNEL System was used to label apoptotic Hela cells that were infected with C. trachomatis for 40 hours before treatment with 2μg/ml Staurosporine for an additional 5 hours. Cultures were co-stained with either Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 pAb or Anti-Cytochrome c mAb. Cy®3-conjugated goat anti-rabbit or -mouse IgG was used as a secondary labeling antibody and the cells were visualized by confocal microscopy. (3252)
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Kommers, G.D., King, D.J., Seal, B.S., Carmichael, K.P. and Brown, C.C.
Notes: The Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 polyclonal antibody was used to immunohistochemically stain Newcastle Disease virus (NVD) -infected chicken spleens. Sections were deparaffinized, peroxidase treated and microwaved for 10 minutes to retrieve antigens. The Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 polyclonal antibody was utilized and detected with a biotinylated anti-rabbit antibody, steptavidin-phosphatase and DAB. See the original article for more information on sample treatment for immunohistochemical analysis of this tissue. (2831)
Yu, A., McMaster, C.R., Byers, D.M., Ridgway, N.D. and Cook, H.W.
Notes: Researchers used the Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 polyclonal antibody to immunocytochemically stain transiently transfected CHO-K1 (Chinese Hamster) cells overexpressing PLSCR1 or PLSCR2. Confocal microscopy, in conjunction with an immunofluorescent Alexa fluor 488 secondary antibody, was used to visualize samples. The authors provide details of the staining procedure. They used a 1:500 dilution of the Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 pAb and counterstained samples with propidium iodide. Representative microscopic images were displayed as well as a graphical depiction of the percent of active caspase-3-positive cells. (2832)
Wyttenbach, A., Sauvageot, O., Carmichael, J., Diaz-Latoud, C., Arrigo, A.P. and Rubinsztein, D.C.
Notes: Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 antibody was used in immunocytochemical analysis of human neuroblastoma (SK-N-SH) cells transiently transfected with various vectors and an expression vector expressing huntingtin exon 1 (httEx1) containing 103 glutamines fused to enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). The authors also used Promega's SB 203580 MAP kinase homologue, p38α, p38β and p38β2 inhibitor in both COS-7 and SK-N-SH huntingtin exon 1-transfected cell cultures. Decreased nuclear fragmentation was reported when 1 or 10μM SB 203580 inhibitor was added to the transfected cell cultures. (2828)
Bezzi, P., Domercq, M., Brambilla, L., Galli, R., Schols, D., De Clercq, E., Vescovi, A., Bagetta, G., Kollias, G., Meldolesi, J., and Volterra, A.
Notes: The apoptotic nature of neuron cell death via a chemokine-activated cell–cell communication system involving microglia was characterized. Hippocampal pyramidal neurons were obtained from embryonic day 17 rat brain. Cells were exposed to gp120IIIB and stained for neuronal death by apoptosis using the DeadEnd Colorimetric TUNEL System. Neuronal death was also detected by immunocytochemistry using the Anti-ACTIVE® Caspase-3 pAb (1:250 dilution). (2352)
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For the average paint job, the work is done once the paint guns are put away in the booth and the masking tape is pulled off. In the world of custom or show-quality paint, there is still work to do if the goal is to approach perfection. No matter how clean the paint booth might be, and no matter how skillfully the paint is sprayed, there will be flaws. If everything was done to top shelf standards, the texture will be minimal, and the paint surface will have very little contamination, but a glass-smooth surface with a mirror finish demands just that little bit more.
Here's where the cutting and buffing step comes into play. The technique is really not new. In fact, it's a form of burnishing and polishing, which has been around for centuries. What it consists of is fine-sanding the surface until it's perfectly smooth, and then using buffing techniques to polish the paint to a brilliant luster. In the world of automotive refinishing, there are special tools, techniques, and materials designed just for this purpose. A proper cut and polish job is always a part of a custom show-quality paint job.
Technicians have their own favored materials and techniques, but the basic process is well established, beginning with sanding the surface. This is normally a wet-sanding process, using water to clean and lubricate the surface while it's sanded smooth. Wet-sanding is done with very fine sandpaper, with the goal of flattening the surface while removing a minimum of material. A break through the clearcoat can be disastrous while sanding, necessitating starting over and repainting the surface to repair the damage. Properly wet-sanding requires plenty of skill.
Once the sanding process is complete, the job is completed by polishing to bring the surface to a beautiful shine. Usually this is done in two steps, with a coarser cutting step to remove the sanding scratches and quickly bring the surface to a shine, followed by a polishing step to take the surface to perfection. We recently visited Corvettes and Customs in Upland, California, where Brian broke out the supplies to demonstrate how a cut and polish is done. Our subject is Rick Stoner's '62, which was recently painted by Corvettes and Customs in a House of Kolor candy.


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No support for Sanabia in Marlins' seventh shutout
Miami has chances, strands 12; righty allows four runs in six frames
MIAMI -- Miami's hottest batter entering Wednesday night -- rookie Derek Dietrich -- recorded his third consecutive multi-hit game by the fifth inning.
Yet during two key at-bats with runners in scoring position, Dietrich couldn't produce the clutch swing for a struggling offense.
That's just the way things have gone so far this season for the Marlins, who were shut out for a league-leading seventh time in a 4-0 loss to the Reds in front of 14,866 at Marlins Park.
At least one baserunner reached in every inning but the sixth for Miami, which couldn't capitalize, stranding 12 and grounding into a pair of double plays on 11 hits.
"It's the same stuff, same story," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "Somebody's got to step up in there. I've been trying to be patient -- I am patient -- but at the end of the day, somebody's got to step up and get a hit with guys in scoring position."
Right-hander Alex Sanabia (2-6), who has dropped four straight decisions, gave up four runs on nine hits over six innings, including a pair of solo home runs to Shin-Soo Choo.
Sanabia ran into trouble in the first inning, but limited the damage to just one run.
The first two batters reached -- Choo with a single to center and Cesar Izturis via a walk -- before Joey Votto flied out to left. Brandon Phillips sent a fly ball to the warning track in left-center that sailed just over Juan Pierre's glove for an RBI double.
Jay Bruce struck out swinging and Xavier Paul walked to load the bases for Jack Hannahan, who grounded into a fielder's choice to end the frame.
"I battled through the game pretty much -- you saw from the beginning it was a grind," said Sanabia, who struck out three batters and walked another three. "My job is to pitch. That's all I worry and focus on. Anything else is outside of my control. Those situations when they had runners in scoring position, I just had to bear down and battle and get through it."
Miami squandered a chance to tie it in the second with runners at first and second and no outs against right-hander Mike Leake (3-2).
Following Justin Ruggiano's leadoff walk and Greg Dobbs' single to left, Adeiny Hechavarria grounded into a double play and Rob Brantly struck out swinging.
The Marlins failed to cap a two-out rally of three consecutive singles when Ruggiano flied out to right with the bases loaded in the third.
Cincinnati extended its lead to 3-0 in the fourth.
Choo blasted his eighth homer of the season -- an opposite-field solo shot on a 1-2 pitch from Sanabia -- and Votto drove in Izturis, who doubled to left, with a single.
Choo belted another dinger -- this one to right field -- on a full count with two outs in the sixth for his ninth career multi-homer game. He is 5-for-5 in his career against Sanabia.
"It's been pretty tough over the last two weeks," said Choo, who entered the game with one hit in his previous 11 at-bats. "Tonight I hit the ball on the barrel of the bat. Last night, I had some swings that I missed on because I was a little bit out in front. Tonight, I was able to fix that. Opposite field is my approach, but I just reacted tonight and put the barrel on the ball and hit it in the sweet spot."
After back-to-back singles by Brantly and pinch-hitter Chris Coghlan to open the seventh, Pierre struck out swinging and Placido Polando popped out to second.
Left-hander Sean Marshall relieved Leake to face the left-handed-hitting Dietrich. A wild pitch advanced both runners, but Dietrich struck out swinging on a 3-2 pitch.
In the ninth, with closer Aroldis Chapman on in a non-save situation, pinch-hitters Miguel Olivo and Matt Diaz walked and singled, respectively. After Polanco popped out to second, Dietrich battled during a 10-pitch at-bat, but struck out looking to end the game.
Miami dropped to 0-10 when the roof has been open this season.
"The pitchers today made their pitches," said Dietrich, who became the 11th Miami rookie to record a hitting streak of four or more games to start a career. "Took the count deep and they just didn't fall for us tonight. Just keep grinding and grinding and we're trying to get better each and every day. Tomorrow's a new day. Hopefully we can get things rolling."
Christina De Nicola is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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