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And down the stretch they come… it's the final week of two-start pitchers.
You almost couldn't ask for a better pair of two-start pitchers in the final full week of the season. These two are bona fide aces, and teams who have been riding them all year get two more shots to make a move with them. The margin between these two is razor thin; they are basically left- and right-handed mirror images with Hamels holding the strikeout edge and Cain holding the WHIP edge. Both are incredible, reliable aces.
Paul Maholm (vs. MIA; vs. NYM) – Maholm has seen his ERA tick up a bit as a Brave (4.09 in 55 IP after a 3.74 mark in 120 1/3 with Chicago), but his WHIP has stayed about the same while his strikeout rate, something he is definitely not known for, has surged from 6.1 in Chicago to 7.4 with Atlanta. Even with the uptick in ERA, that strikeout level takes him into a different level of pitcher. If this is something that is legitimate going forward, we will have to reassess Maholm. For now, enjoy the run and his two starts against a pair of teams who struggle against southpaws.
Wandy Rodriguez (@ NYM; vs. CIN) – Wandy had been on fire before running into the white-hot Brewers on Thursday night. They knocked him around for four runs in four innings on five hits and two walks, pushing his Pittsburgh ERA to 3.71 in 63 innings of work. The Mets matchup is great, though the Reds fare well against lefties in general. He has actually faced them five times this year and has a 5.28 ERA, but that is inflated by a seven-ER outing in five innings back when he was with Houston. In the other four, he has a 3.85 ERA in 25 1/3 innings. His composite strikeout-to-walk ratio against them is a healthy 3.0 too.
Mike Fiers (@ CIN; vs. HOU) – Fiers has been inconsistent down the stretch, starting with a pounding in Coors Field; the Rockies got to him for eight earned in just two innings. Since then he has had three good and three bad, but it is still heartening to see him missing bats with 34 strikeouts in 32 1/3 innings across the six starts. He has fared quite well against Cincinnati this year, and the Houston matchup is obviously very enticing, so I'm comfortable putting him in the lineup for the final full week (:singletear: season is almost over!).
Trevor Cahill (@ COL; vs. CHC) – Cahill is pitching well in September, but even a looming Cubs start late in the week can't get me to bend my Coors Field rule about non-studs.
Tyler Skaggs (@ SF; vs. CHC) – The matchups simply aren't enough to overcome the fact that Skaggs just hasn't been good in his MLB debut. Here is a shocker: perhaps the team actually knew best when they decided to wait until September to bring him up. Hell, I was leading the throng calling for Skaggs back in mid-summer as he knifed his way through Double- and Triple-A, but clearly the Diamondbacks had their reasons, and they appear to have known best.
Chris Rusin (@ COL; @ ARI) – Could you pick Rusin out of a lineup consisting of Barack Obama, a male cast member from the godawful Whitney, and Rusin himself? Sure, it feels like you have a 50/50 shot, but do you? Do you really?
Tyler Chatwood (vs. ARI; @ LAD) – No.
Jorge de la Rosa (vs. CHC; @ LAD) – He was blasted in his return from injury. I'm keeping him on my radar to analyze for next year, but I don't see much upside with him in these final two starts, which are essentially rehab outings in the majors.
Houston*, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Pittsburgh's second (they play seven games next week), San Diego, St. Louis, and Washington
*They are using a six-man rotation with only six games, so they won't have one.
Verlander had a pair of rough outings a few weeks back, but he has bounced back exactly as you would expect him to: with 13 scoreless innings and a pair of wins. He is the American League Cy Young. Or at least he should be if voters want to award the right guy.
Sure, Sale's ERA has risen from 2.11 at the All-Star break to 2.82 now, but I think there is this perception that he is limping to the finish, and that is simply not the case. He has a pair of five-ER starts and three four-ER starts, but he still has a respectable 3.65 ERA since the break even with those outings making up nearly half of his 12 starts. He has also fanned 83 batters in 79 innings (9.5 K/9) and walked just 21 others (2.4 BB/9). The issue has been home runs. He allowed just five in 102 2/3 innings before the break but has allowed 12 in 79 since, including seven in those five problem starts.
Yu Darvish (vs. OAK; vs. LAA) – Darvish has been similar to Holland in that he, too, struggled through a rough period in the dog days only to come out of it better than ever. His run started with his final start in July and lingered for another two in August, during which he allowed 18 earned runs in 18 innings, pushing his season ERA up to 4.57. He has allowed just 12 earned runs in the subsequent seven starts spanning 50 2/3 innings (2.13 ERA) with 60 strikeouts (10.7 K/9) and, more importantly, just 14 walks (2.5 BB/9). The Rangers' rotation is coming together at the right time, powered by these two.
Anibal Sanchez (vs. KC; @ MIN) – Sanchez was finally in a groove with a 1.89 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, and 7.3 K/BB in 33 1/3 innings before the A's got to him for five runs in 5 2/3 innings on Thursday afternoon. He still had eight punch-outs, though, so it wasn't a complete disaster. I expect him to get back on track with favorable matchups this week.
Andy Pettitte (@ MIN; @ TOR) – Pettitte put everyone at ease with five shutout innings in his return from the disabled list on Wednesday, pushing his season ERA down to 2.97 in the process. No one expected anything close to this from a 40-year-old Pettitte after a year out of the game, but here we are and nothing in his game suggests that it can't continue for another week, especially with a pair of favorable matchups.
Francisco Liriano (vs. CLE; vs. TB) – It's always a roll of the dice with Liriano, and unfortunately, they seem to be weighted dice leaning toward you crapping out. Still, he has shown flashes of being worthwhile lately and gets two of the worst teams in the league against lefties. You know the risks going in with him, but this a calculated risk that has a probability rating in your favor.
C.J. Wilson (vs. SEA; @ TEX) – He's just been wildly inconsistent since the break, and it's too late in the game to feel comfortable trusting him, especially in Texas.
Zach McAllister (@ CHW; vs. KC) – He's still ironing out the kinks a bit as he adjusts to the league during his second and third times seeing teams. There is legitimate stuff here, but his command needs refinement for him to be successful. He is usually good about not giving up walks, but his penchant for the zone has resulted in a barrage of homers lately (1.7 HR/9 since the break).
Henderson Alvarez (@ BAL; vs. NYY) – His stuff is way too good for him to be Aaron Cook 2.0, but his peripherals just haven't progressed as planned.
Liam Hendriks (vs. NYY; vs. DET) – It's a tough draw for the youngster who is showing some signs of improvement lately.
Ricky Romero (@ BAL; vs. NYY) – Make it stop, Toronto. It's been a rough season for one of my favorites. I think we would know by now if Romero's struggles were injury-related, and if that were the case he would have been shut down long ago, so this just seems like a lost season mechanically. Maybe I'll see if our own Doug Thorburn can do something on RR in the near future so we can see exactly what's going wrong (and what improvements we'd need to look for next spring to justify taking the plunge).
Paul Sporer is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @sporer
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Trying to set my rotation for the 10-day championship week in a 5x5 H2H. Since it's it's the last 10 days, pretty much every starter has 2 starts.
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Yes, I do like Estrada & Pettitte. I like Minor, too. I understand your concern, but the starts are just too appealing. With the depth of his rotation (though Kershaw isn't likely to play at least), I think I'd take the closers edge if I were you.
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- The measurables are there for Carlos Peguero. It's the performance that has been more of an enigma. Peguero, Seattle's massive outfielder, has come into his own in recent seasons and he's causing a stir in Spring Training by leveraging all of his impressive talent.
Peguero, listed at 6-foot-5 and 260 pounds, has taken the long route through the Seattle system, signing as a 19-year-old out of the Dominican Republic and slowly progressing through each level. But it's his mastery of Triple-A -- at the advanced age of 25 -- and a hot spring that is earning him notice.
Peguero batted .285 with 21 home runs for Triple-A Tacoma last season, and he's hitting .429 with three home runs this spring. Peguero even made two highlight-reel catches in Friday's game, and manager Eric Wedge said that the youngster is doing his best to make a case to stick with the Mariners.
"There's so much power and athleticism there for a big guy," Wedge said. "He's off to a great start."
Peguero came on as a substitute and scored a run in Seattle's 9-5 victory over the Dodgers Saturday, but the day was mostly a quiet one. Hours before, he spoke about his hot streak and what it could mean for his future, and he lauded Raul Ibanez and Kendrys Morales for being positive role models.
Peguero has gotten his big league chance before, but he's never really produced. The 26-year-old has gotten a look in each of the last two seasons, but he's batted .191 in 212 big league at-bats. This year, for whatever reason, everything is clicking, and Peguero doesn't want to overanalyze it.
"I worked hard in the Dominican this winter, and I played Winter League there too," Peguero said. "I started doing what I'm trying to do here: just being patient at the plate and trying to hit my pitch. Not trying to hit two or three pitches each at-bat, just trying to hit one and make good contact on it."
Peguero said it's been a learning experience just to be in camp with the big league team, and he said his main job is to be patient and consistent, to iron out erratic swings in performance. If he can do that, he said, he'll go a long way toward realizing his potential and cracking the big league barrier.
"I don't think about it," Peguero said. "I want to make the team, because every player's dream is to be in the big leagues and to stay there. I want to make the team and I want to play in the big leagues, but it's not my decision. I just try to improve in the field, and I know exactly what they want from me."
Seattle may get to take a long look at Peguero over the next week or two, because center fielder Michael Saunders is leaving camp to play with Canada in the World Baseball Classic. That move -- and days off for other regulars -- could wind up giving Wedge a chance to play Peguero more regularly.
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Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With ... Bernadette PetersFebruary 10, 2014 12:00 AM
Three-time Tony Award winner, actress, singer and author Bernadette Peters has not stopped entertaining audiences since she was 5 years old. A veteran of stage and screen, she is instantly recognizable by her curly mane and unique voice. Among her Broadway triumphs were "Sunday in the Park With George," "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Gypsy." At 65, she continues to tour the world, performing in concerts. She will be in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Music Hall on Feb. 22 for Equality Gayla's premier event to benefit the LGBT community. For tickets, call 1-888-71-TICKETS or visit Deltafoundation.us/gayla.
Have you ever had the experience of singing a song that completely relates to something going on in your life at the moment?
Very much, very often, actually. I try to make the songs as personal as possible, and I relate them to things that I am familiar with. I know what a song means to me. Hopefully, I get surprised. That's what I live for.
When you say you get surprised, what do you mean?
Like I sometimes say, I know what country I am going to go to, but I don't know what's going to happen when I get there. I know where in my emotionality I might think about something, but I don't know where it's going to bring me.
Was there ever a time you became discouraged about the way your career was going?
Oh, sure. You know, we all have our highs and our lows and our ups and downs. After I had made a big splash off Broadway in a show called "Dames at Sea" and then I did my Broadway lead debut, the show lasted one night [laughs]. So after that I really wasn't the go-to girl, and I wasn't getting a lot of work. My dear friend Carol Burnett was a great supporter, and she just hired me and kept hiring me to be on her show many times for the next couple of years. So that was wonderful of her.
At what point does a character come into full bloom for you when you are doing a long-running show?
It was interesting when I was in "Gypsy" and the cast was so great, and we did it for over a year on Broadway. I explored a lot of emotions in that role. One day, I just said to myself: "I just stopped acting." You know? I just stopped acting. The strangest thing happened the next night. There was a scene with Tammy Blanchard -- she's actually a fabulous actress. She played the young Judy Garland on that television biopic. I said, "Gee, that scene went really well, and she said, "I just stopped acting." It's a weird thing that happens between people on stage when you are connected. It was without me saying anything to her. She just like got it. I don't have to act anymore.
Have any of the characters you've done stayed with you long after the run is over or the camera stops rolling?
Not after the show closes but during they are just with me all the time. Sometimes I can't even read anything because it would take me out of the character. At 8 o'clock at night I'm the character and you finish at 11 and I come home and I go to bed and the next day, you know, I'm just thinking about the character and different things that I could bring into the show that night.
So are you thinking in character and reading in character?
I'm more exploring things that relate to the character.
You have been doing this since you were 5 and been through the transitions of child to teen to young adult and mother characters. What was that like?
I mean, I just go with what I understand. If I say I don't understand anything about this character than I am not going to do it. You know, I'm not a mother but I understand the love you have for your mother and the mother/daughter relationship. I can understand that and explore it. But, yeah, I kind of just go with the flow.
Have you become a collector over the years, or do you just cherish the memories?
I try not to collect [laughs]. I try not to have rows and rows and rows and shelves and shelves of things. So I think, basically, it is in my mind. All of a sudden I will remember something and think, "Wow! That's incredible. I should start jotting them down" -- which I haven't done yet. I plan to.
What's it like to belt out a great Broadway song and have the audience just go crazy?
What happens usually when they go crazy is because you hit something, some kind of nerve within yourself. So you are like flying and they get it. That is thrilling. They are feeling it and flying with you. I feel like a concert is: You are all in this one room together to try to make something happen, to have this experience. I know I'm there to entertain. It could be in a dramatic way. It could be in a funny way. But I know I'm there to hit it, to try to get somewhere. When I do then the audience does, too, and so it becomes enjoyable for them.
So you are getting that same thrill the audience is feeling.
Yeah, I mean if you are doing it just to lift them it's probably not going to work as well. But if you are doing it because for the song and what is happening to the character, then they are going to feel it and you are going to feel it. That's what you want to happen. So I have the experience, and they have the experience.
Do you feel like you have ever had to sacrifice anything for this great career?
Not really, not really. No, I mean I really, really appreciate it. You know, I never became a mother, but I never really planned on being a mother. But now women go out and adopt children, so that doesn't hold you back. Um, you have to have the time for it. But, no, I don't think I sacrificed anything.
You have always been a supporter of the LGBT community.
I love that same-sex marriage became legal because that means everyone has the right to be who they are and love who they want. Also, what I think is the best thing about that is for young people when they are growing up, and also for parents, that it has become, for lack of a better term, more mainstream. So basically, it becomes a lot easier for a young person to think they can have a future, and it is not as limiting as they would have thought it would be.
Nobody has to go sneaking around, and I think that is a very bad place to be in when you have to do that, if you feel not accepted. It is hard enough when you are growing up and you always feel different. So, I think that is such a great thing [acceptance of LGBT people].
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Parsons said researchers have not found any evidence from the ATF that shows any of Class 3 weapons sold nationwide have been used in a crime. Parsons said the key to safe gun ownership is controlling who gets a weapon, not what the weapon can do.
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Well, here they are. After years of rebuilding and unloading bad contracts, the Pacers had their coming-out party in 2011-12 and look set to have a half-decade window of being a quasi-serious contender in the Eastern Conference. Meticulous cap management under Larry Bird and some shrewd drafting -- Danny Granger and Roy Hibbert were selected outside the lottery and Paul George 10th overall -- allowed the Pacers to rebuild. The final step came when they scored a rare free-agent coup with David West.
Bird stepped down over the summer, however. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Indy handed the reins back to Donnie Walsh, with former Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard as a heavily involved No. 2. Meanwhile, the Pacers parted ways with Bird's right-hand man, David Morway.
The new front office inherits an enviable situation, as most of the hard work has been done. The Pacers identified a solid coach in Frank Vogel and seem locked into this starting five, assuming West re-signs, for the foreseeable future. With West the only player on the wrong side of 30, the Pacers don't figure to go away any time soon.
The question, instead, is whether they can make the additional leap to be something more than a solid second-round playoff team. The Pacers have five good players, but they don't have a true star, Hibbert's max contract notwithstanding. The best shot at one is George, but he and Granger are both natural small forwards. It seems inevitable that the Pacers will have to move Granger to get the best out of George.
The other move that could lift the Pacers another level would be upgrading the bench. An effort was made on that front in the offseason, although to what end is unclear. Indiana will be able to keep the starting five together and stay under the luxury tax or reasonably close -- an imperative in this market -- but the Pacers have to keep finding inexpensive role players to piece together the rest of the roster.
Drafting well would go a long way toward accomplishing that, and the draft was Pritchard's specialty in Portland. Nonetheless, the Pacers represent a typical study in the challenges facing small-market teams trying to take the final steps to be a champion. Nobody is flocking to Indiana in free agency or demanding a trade to this team, they can't go deep into the tax, and they'll be drafting in the 20s for the next few years.
Getting to this point took some wise drafting and a lot of patience, which was impressive. Getting further will take a double dose of smarts, luck and timing.
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Roy Hibbert and Danny Granger could be celebrating more success if the Pacers keep rolling.
How is this possible? The Pacers were 28th in 2-point shooting percentage, ahead of only Cleveland and Charlotte, and somehow had a good offense anyway. This answers one of the big questions of last season, which is how an offense could look so ugly and still produce decent results.
It turns out, it looked ugly because it was ugly. There were a lot of forced shots and bad bricks, and much of it came either in straight isos or pick-and-rolls that the ball handler turned into isos. The indiscriminate gunning was bad enough with the starters, but it really went over the top any time Tyler Hansbrough checked in. Not surprisingly, the Pacers had the third-lowest assisted-basket rate in the league.
W-L: 42-24 (Pythagorean W-L: 42-24)
Offensive efficiency: 103.5 (8th)
Defensive efficiency: 100.4 (10th)
Pace factor: 93.4 (19th)
Highest PER: Roy Hibbert (19.35)
So where's the good news in all this? And how the heck did they finish eighth in offensive efficiency?
For starters, they got to the line a ton and made their freebies. While they had trouble finding the open man, when they did, they made the shot, as Indy shot a strong 36.8 percent on 3s -- albeit on very few attempts; again, finding the open man wasn't a strength. As a result, its true shooting percentage was almost exactly at the league average of 52.7.
The second part, as you may have figured out by now, is that Indy was a classic quantity team. Maybe the guards didn't find the open man, but they didn't throw the ball away either. And all those ugly isos at least produced a shot. The Pacers were well below the league average in turnover rate and well above it in offensive rebound rate. As a result, only five teams averaged more shots per possession than the Pacers.
Basically, they were good at every part of offense except 2-point shooting. That's still an important factor, but the Pacers were the rare team whose excellence on the rest of the spectrum let them thrive despite an abysmal shooting percentage inside the arc.
Still, one wonders how good they might be with a dynamic point guard. Shooters like George, Granger and West dot the perimeter, and Hibbert has a solid face-up game too. A guard who could drive and dish would make their lives a lot easier.
Defensively, the Pacers were solid overall, but their weakest link pointed an arrow at the frontcourt. Indiana fouled like crazy, particularly with the second unit, posting the league's fifth-worst opponent free throw rate. The Pacers also had a subpar defensive rebound rate and gave up more 3s than normal.
Usually all three of those are signs of an ineffective frontcourt rotation, and it's not a huge surprise to see Indy rank so low. While Hibbert and West were effective offensive players, they both had defensive limitations. West is a bit undersized and couldn't jump after offseason Achilles surgery, while Hibbert protects the rim but moves slowly. The second unit didn't help either, as undersized Lou Amundson struggled as the backup center.
This takes us to the other big story of the season. A lot of people don't realize how bad Indiana's bench was and how much it held the Pacers back, especially in the playoffs. Consider that the four-man pairing of West, George, Granger and Hibbert outscored opponents by 259 points. The rest of the time Indy was -41. Every bench player had a negative plus-minus, every starter had a positive plus-minus, and George Hill and Darren Collison, who swapped roles halfway through the season, were neutral.
This carried over to the playoffs, where the Pacers' starters outplayed Miami's, but the bench was so bad they lost the series anyway. Indy was plus-58 with its starting five on the court, but with at least one sub playing, it was minus-97 against a club not exactly renowned for its bench.
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Pacers center Roy Hibbert re-signed, giving Indiana long-term stability in the middle.
Indiana kept its starting five intact and, based on the failures of the bench, went about rebuilding the second unit. In the end, I'm not sure the overall impact was a net positive, but it beat trying something that had been proven not to work. Check out these moves:
Let Amundson go, drafted Miles Plumlee and Orlando Johnson: Plumlee is a great athlete and leaper, but he might have been a reach in the first round. His anemic production at Duke suggests he'll be a one-dimensional rebounder. He does, however, add some genuine size to a frontcourt that needed it. Second-rounder Johnson was another need-based pick, as the Pacers look to fortify a wing rotation that disappointed last season.
Re-signed Roy Hibbert for four years, $56 million: The Pacers "matched" an offer sheet from Portland that was never actually signed by Hibbert, as Indy quickly offered him identical terms and he decided not to bother with the charade. The most important part, other than the money, is that it contains a player option for the fourth year, which means the Pacers and Hibbert could be doing this dance again three years from now. The Pacers probably overpaid, but they had no realistic alternative; Dwight Howard wasn't clamoring to come to Indiana.
Re-signed George Hill for five years, $40 million: This one was preordained when the Pacers traded their first-round pick to San Antonio for Hill a year ago, with the intent to re-sign him. While one can argue that the money was a bit rich for a restricted free agent who isn't a star, Hill had a productive first season in Indiana, and his ability to play both guard spots gives the team some roster flexibility. The biggest issue may be the fully guaranteed fifth year on the deal, which no other team could even offer Hill. That, combined with the dollars, seems like an overreach.
Traded Collison and Dahntay Jones to Dallas for a signed-and-traded Ian Mahinmi (four years, $16 million): This was the big question mark in Indy's summer, as the Pacers could have signed Mahinmi outright rather than trading two players for him. The contract also seemed a bit generous for a player of Mahinmi's modest talents. The one big positive is that the Pacers seem to have solved their backup center issue. Mahinmi will be a big upgrade on Amundson defensively, and unlike Amundson, he can make a shot from outside the charge circle.
The problem is more that the Pacers needlessly gave away two players to make it happen. Apparently they viewed Jones as a negative asset and wanted him gone badly enough that they were willing to throw in Collison. That seems a stretch given that Jones was fairly productive a year ago, but it was the logic. Meanwhile, the Pacers lost a productive point guard who was the lone positive for their struggling second unit -- all for a player they could have signed outright.
Signed Gerald Green for three years, $10.5 million: Indy filled its backup small forward spot by looking to cash in on Green's potential. He washed out earlier in his career, but last season, he destroyed the D-League like it was a video game and played quite well for New Jersey. Given the dollars, it was a reasonable risk on the Pacers' part that may pay big rewards. The nice part for Indy is that if Green thrives, it can play small lineups with Granger at the 4 much more frequently, something the team hardly ever did last season.
Let A.J. Price go, signed D.J. Augustin for one year, $3.5 million: The new backup point guard in Indy will be Augustin, which is the other puzzling part of the Collison deal. First, the positive: Augustin is a better passer than any guard on the Pacers, and he may be able to distribute the ball to Indy's shooters much more effectively. Unfortunately, Augustin hasn't made his own shots, either from outside or in the paint, and defensively he is a major liability. As a result, he is a downgrade from Collison in nearly every respect and costs $1.2 million more.
The Pacers signed him to only a one-year deal, which means even if Augustin plays well, they're hosed, because he can walk as a free agent and the Pacers won't have his Bird rights -- the most they can offer is a 20 percent raise to $4.2 million. Collison would have been a restricted free agent and much less of a flight risk.
Let Leandro Barbosa go, signed Sam Young and Sundiata Gaines to one-year, minimum deals: Barbosa was secretly awful last season, and the Pacers were wise to let him walk. I liked the moves they made to fill out their roster, as Young and Gaines were undervalued by their former teams. Neither can shoot, but the Pacers have enough shooting. It's likely one of these two will be the backup shooting guard, although Johnson and Lance Stephenson also figure in the picture. Gaines may get minutes at the point if Augustin struggles.
2012-13 Outlook
The continued emergence of Paul George is one key to the rise of Indiana.
The biggest advantage the Pacers have is that they play in the Eastern Conference, where it looks like they may land the No. 2 seed by default. With the former powers crumbling around them and nobody else to take the mantle, Indiana may find itself in the conference finals this spring.
This would be another tangible sign of progress, but if you're looking past this to the Pacers' chances of winning a conference title or the whole shebang, look at two factors: Paul George and the bench. George is the team's one chance to have a genuine star emerge, so if he can take that next step in his third pro season, it will make Indy's already potent starting five a real force -- even against the Miamis of the world.
With the rebuilt bench, the hope is that supplementing the frontcourt with Mahinmi and Plumlee and adding a passer in Augustin will offset some of the weaknesses that plagued this team last season. Adding Green helps too. I'm dubious that the changes will amount to an improvement, but give Indy credit for aggressively addressing a problem area.
The final issue, as always, is fortune. The Pacers had good luck with health last season, as Hill was the only rotation player to miss more than six games, and they received another stroke of good luck with opponents shooting only 72.9 percent from the line, well below the 75.2 percent league average. (Indy benefited by about a full game in the standings from this.)
They probably won't have quite as much buena suerte this season, but they probably won't need it either. In this conference, Indy looks like the biggest threat left to Miami's dominance.
Prediction: 52-30, 1st in Central Division, 2nd in Eastern Conference


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Australia's new Prime Minister, who actually does have more balls than Obama since she's actually openly atheist, is still perfectly happy to throw lesbians, bisexuals who want to marry same sex partner, and gay men under her gov't's bus.
Australian Marriage Equality (AME) spokesman Alex Greenwich said he was "disappointed" with Gillard's comments on commercial radio last week that she would not be reversing the Government's current opposition to gay marriage. "We were disappointed and especially disappointed because she came out the day before and said she's an atheist and doesn't hold the same allegiance to [religion] that, say, Kevin Rudd did," Greenwich told Sydney Star Observer.
Just shows that some of us are too icky even for an Atheist prime minister to touch.
also here: Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced, rather disappointingly, in an interview, that she had no plans to amend current definitions of marriage. She supports the definition in the Marriage Act that defines marriage as the 'union between a man and woman'.
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ANDERSON, Ind. -- You won't see any wacky photos of weird haircuts from the Colts' 2010 Training Camp.
The Colts don't haze, and they actually do whatever they can to make rookies feel as if they're part of the team. Colts quarterback Peyton Manning said there's a simple reason:
They're not only part of the team, but they're expected to be important factors in the team's success.
"You've seen all the highlights with the rookie hazing and haircuts," Manning said Tuesday. "We don't do that around here, because we don't treat the guys like rookies. We expect those guys to play this year and to play well."
Manning, the Colts' starting quarterback and the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player a record four times including each of the last two seasons said the Colts are tough on their rookies in one sense: expectation level.
The Colts historically have gotten big contributions from rookies, with wide receiver Austin Collie, running back Donald Brown, cornerbacks Jerraud Powers and Jacob Lacey and punter Pat McAfee all playing key roles last season.
"We're probably not very patient," Manning said. "We don't cut them a whole lot of slack. If they're on the team, we expect them to know the offense and to be in there. That's why we treat them all like veterans."
The Colts' approach in the area is far from a recent trend. Throughout much of Manning's career, which has coincided with the tenure of Colts President Bill Polian, they have remained one the younger teams in the NFL. While they pay well to keep players they drafted who they consider core, franchise-level players, they historically allow contributing players to leave via free agency to stay under the salary cap.
Key to the philosophy is Polian's ability to draft talent capable of contributing quickly, and in recent seasons, players such as safety Antoine Bethea, running back Joseph Addai and last year's group have been critical to the success of a team that has made eight consecutive playoff appearances.
Also crucial to the process has been the willingness of veterans to work with young players, something Manning said he takes particularly seriously.
"I think you have to put the work in," Manning said, citing offseason passing work he has done with players such as rookie tight end Brody Eldridge. "He's going to play a role in the offense this year. I think you have (to) spend the time with him. You have to watch some film with him. You have to go out and throw with him.
"What I've always liked to do is instead of going out and throwing with three quarterbacks and 10 receivers, I'd rather just take me and one receiver and go out and have truly one-on-one throwing where you might throw 30 routes and you're talking about the route beforehand. You're really trying to reach and get him on the same page with you. . . .
"I like that because it keeps the older guys like me and (center) Jeff (Saturday) and (kicker Adam) Vinatieri feeling young, but at the same time, when you bring in new players it means you're going to have to work even harder to bring those guys up to speed and get timing down."


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He announced at the full council meeting last Wednesday that he was leaving for personal reasons.
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He said he found the hardest part of the role was attempting to assist people with "what was always a non town council problem, i.e. a Wiltshire Council issue".
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Wisconsin could hardly have picked a better way to start the game and Nebraska could scarcely have done a better job finishing it.
Here are my three keys to the second-largest comeback in school history (chime in on the talkback with your take):
1. The Blackshirts showed some teeth in the second half especially the front seven shutting down Wisconsin's running game and forcing redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave into less-than-desirable down-and-distance situations.
Although the Badger offensive line appears to be down from last year, it was still a great accomplishment to hold the defending Big Ten champs to 84 total yards in the second half and only 60 rushing yards for the game.
Even Sean Fisher, who hasn't done much as a linebacker since breaking his leg two years ago, got a big stop on Monte Ball and that could be enough to make the pre-med student an Academic All-American.
2. Ameer Abdullah provided a much-needed spark when Rex Burkhead didn't seem like his old self for much of the game. Abdullah rushed for 70 yards, caught three passes for 22 yards and had an 83-yard kickoff return that set up Maher's first field goal.
3. Brett Maher started to look like his old All-Big Ten self, kicking three field goals, including a 38-yarder to tie the game at 27-all late in the third quarter and a dead-center 41-yarder with 9:41 left in the game that provided the winning margin. Equally important, all Maher's second-half kickoffs went for touchbacks, denying Wisconsin good field position.
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DETROIT - If you didn't believe the NFL experts who predicted that the Lions would take a step back this season, you should now.
The Lions officially took that step on Sunday afternoon. After their 20-13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings at Ford Field, the Lions are now 1-3 and in last place in the NFC North.
The Lions were trying to bounce back from a horrible loss a week ago in Tennessee, but things only got worse.
Many will simply chalk this bumpy start to the season as a blip on the screen, nothing to worry about. The die-hard fans believe there are plenty of games left for the Lions to bounce back and make it to the postseason for the second straight season.
Guess again.
This terrible football is real, a trend.
In the last 16 games -- including the playoff game -- after their 5-0 start last season, the Lions are 6-10. Worse, they're 1-5 in the last six regular-season games. The lone win came in this season's opener over the St. Louis Rams. And the Lions needed a miracle at the end to win that game.
"It's incredibly disappointing," Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy said. "You know, coming home you'd think we'd have a little bit of energy, a little burst, come out the gates firing."
The nightmare game started ugly, too. The Lions gave up another special teams touchdown. Percy Harvin took the opening kickoff and returned it 105 yards for the score. By the way, Harvin was untouched in the process.
"They came out, opened it up with a kickoff return," Levy said about the Vikings. `"They took the momentum from the get-go and we were clawing our way back and waited to the end."
In the second half, the Lions also gave up a 77-yard punt return for a touchdown. Marcus Sherels' TD gave Minny a 20-6 lead in the third quarter.
It meant the Lions gave a kickoff return and punt return for touchdowns in back-to-back weeks.
The fans let the Lions have it, showering the team with boos.
"I think big things need to change," kicker Jason Hanson said. "There's no excuse for us giving up touchdowns and not covering. We need to do it better and we need to cover better and all special teams need to get their act together because we're good."
The Lions simply continue to make mistakes. There was a huge dropped TD by Brandon Pettigrew and Mikel Leshoure also had a big fumble.
"Yeah, it's frustrating," Leshoure said. "It's frustrating because we know we're a better group. We got probably one of the most talented teams offensively in the league and we just need to put it together."
Matthew Stafford and the Lions have settled for way too many field goals in the red zone. Stafford threw for 319 yards, but had no TD passes and no interceptions.
"Just not executing enough," said Stafford when asked about settling for field goals. "Got a good plan. Whether it's me missing guys open or us not being efficient enough in the run game or guys not making plays that they can make -- it's all the way around."
Plus, the Lions aren't going to Calvin Johnson as much as they need to. He had just five catches for 54 yards. He had a chance for a TD. but it was jarred lose after he was popped in the end zone, attempting to secure the football.
And Stafford was sacked (five) more times on Sunday than combined in the first three games. The protection is now a problem.
Nothing is working right now, or so it seems.
"We've given up five non-defensive scores in the last two weeks," said coach Jim Schwartz. "We're 1-3 right now because we deserve to be 1-3 and that's part of the reason."
The bottom line remains that the Lions are in trouble. They have four of their next five games on the road after a bye this coming Sunday.
Worse, the first two games are in Philadelphia and in Chicago on Monday night. For sure, tough games to win.
"There is a reason we're 1-3 and it hasn't been bad luck," Schwartz said. "We've made ourselves have to overcome way too much."
And it's been now going on longer than just the first four games this season.
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MnDOT officials will be in St. Cloud today to announce plans for the future of the closed DeSoto Bridge.
The DeSoto Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Cloud was closed last month for safety reasons when bridge inspectors found distorted gusset plates under the bridge. The steel plates essentially tie together the span's support beams.
The 31,000 vehicles that crossed the bridge daily have been rerouted to other bridges in the St. Cloud area.
MnDOT engineers need to decide whether the bridge should be repaired or replaced.
Repairs to the bridge would mean it could carry traffic again by summer. If the bridge is replaced on a fast track like the 35-W bridge in Minneapolis, work could be done by fall of 2009.
A bridge built under the standard bidding process could take three and a half years to finish.


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I've figured out that, if I go and right pec drill into a fence for a while before playing a round, that my drives will be a lot better. Or just warming up by throwing a number of drives in an open field.
While warming up is usually talked about in the context of putting practice before a round, driving practice and drills are another universe, and they can take a lot more out of the thrower in terms of energy and working of muscles. For example, if I do 200 right pec drills into a fence in 20 minutes, I might be too exhausted to play well (unless I did it in a ridiculously relaxed manner).
So my question is this: What is the ideal pre-round driving practice or drills, and how much is too much, how much is too little, etc.? How does this ideal vary for 18 holes to play, or 27, or even 36?


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Metabolic Changes in Prostate Cancer Patients With Androgen-ablation Therapy (AAT) (UROCOR)
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- Diabetes [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
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On Jan. 10, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced appointments to a newly created National Commission on Forensic Science.
Members of the commission will work to improve the practice of forensic science by developing guidance concerning the intersections between forensic science and the criminal justice system. The commission also will work to develop policy recommendations for the U.S. Attorney General, including uniform codes for professional responsibility and requirements for formal training and certification.
University of Colorado Boulder Distinguished Professor and Nobel laureate Thomas Cech is one of 32 commissioners chosen from a pool of more than 300 candidates.
The commission includes federal, state and local forensic science service providers; research scientists and academics; law enforcement officials; prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges; and other stakeholders from across the country.


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Any web site can be a container for OpenSocial, any web site can add social features even if it's not a social network - that seems to be the idea behind Friend Connect, a new piece from Google's social puzzle. Friend Connect will allow the users of a site to add profiles, to import their friends from other social networks, to use social applications in the context of a site.
Paul Buchheit wrote last year that "there's no such thing as a social network". The social aspect of a site is just one of its many features. "Real products need more functionality in order to somehow deliver value to their users. It is this other functionality that defines the real purpose of a product, not the social network, which exists only to enable or enhance the core purpose."
Friend Connect is an enabler for making web sites more social, since the barrier to entry is really low. "First, many website owners want to add features that enable their visitors to do things with their friends, but the technology and resource hurdles have been too high. Second, people are tiring of needing to create new logins and profiles and recreate their friends lists wherever they go on the web." Google will use OpenID or Google Accounts for authentication, OAuth or APIs like Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability to find your friends from other social networks and OpenSocial gadgets to interact with your friends.
"Social is in the air. It's the blossoming of a lot of work by a lot of people. We don't move in lockstep and don't need to. We converge on interoperable technology. There's more than one way to connect a site to the social Web. With Friend Connect, we're confident it's a good step forward. I'm sure there will be more ways to do that than what Friend Connect does. We wanted to start with easiest and safest starting point," said Google's David Glazer in a conference call.
A preview of Friend Connect will be available later today at http://www.google.com/friendconnect (update: the page is live) and the service should be launched in a couple of months.


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With dividends coming fast and furious, it looks like a great holiday for income-oriented investors. Here are a few thoughts regarding the current dividend-fest.
Remember that when you play special dividends, focus on the total return on the trade, not just the cash payment. The larger the special, the steeper the drop in the stock when it goes ex-dividend. Expect to book a capital loss along with receiving the dividend, so the difference is what really matters. A couple of specials I played recently illustrate how you should shape your thinking.
FutureFuel (FF): I bought this on Nov. 19 at $11.90, after the special dividend of $1.20 had been declared and a couple weeks before the ex-dividend date. The stock dropped to $11.10 from $11.60 on the ex-date, one of those uncommon but wonderful situations where the stock didn't drop the full amount of the dividend. The stock is now at $11.35, where I am selling it today. Combining my capital loss with the dividend return of 10% means I will earn a bit over 5% on the trade, with a holding period of around three weeks.
Boise (BZ): I bought BZ also on Nov. 19 at $8.33, well after the declaration of a $0.72 special. The stock dropped to $8 from $8.80 on the ex-date, but has since recovered $0.20, or 3%. The capital loss on selling today combined with the income will yield a total return of nearly 7%.
Last week, Real Money contributor Chris Laudani made some important points regarding special dividends: they are mainly a payout to insiders, and they shouldn't matter in theory since the company has the same prospects after the dividend as before. For your personal finances, the dividend shouldn't matter either. Before it, you are holding a stock worth X dollars, and afterward you have cash and stock together that should be worth X dollars. Yet the reality is often what I illustrated above. While the economics are mostly unchanged, the value of the stock seems to be more preserved than expected after the dividend, probably because it signals management's strong confidence in future growth. If they were concerned about economic conditions, they would hoard cash, not return it.
One unnoticed consequence of this surge in dividends driven by the change in tax rate is that cash is finally freed up for better investment, which helps the economy. Many have noted that cash is piling up on corporate balance sheets and is not being used to drive growth. By returning cash to shareholders, it can find its way to more productive investments.
In addition to the specials, there are many regular dividends being paid this month rather than next. I recently initiated positions in Disney (DIS) for 1.5%, Reynolds American (RAI) for 1.2%, Williams Cos. (WMB) for around 1%, and Fastenal (FAST) for a similarly sized 1%. The table below shows the most attractive coming up this week.
HollyFrontier (HFC) is my dividend champ of the year, supplanting my old favorite Limited Brands (LTD). HFC has been aggressive in returning copious amounts of cash to shareholders, in both the regular and special dividends. This table shows all the payouts they have made this year, rewarding shareholders with tons of cash, as well as a stock that is up 80% this year.


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Ramos resists calls to resign after calling Stonewall Democrats 'Nazis' and 'termites'
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Democratic Party officials across Texas are calling for the resignation of Bexar County Democratic Party Chairman Dan Ramos after he called Stonewall Democrats "Nazis" and "termites."
On Thursday, March 17, Ramos held a press conference where he was expected to resign. Instead, according to Sam Sanchez of QSanAntonio.com who attended the press conference, Ramos hurled new epithets.
Ramos said gays are like "white termites who have infiltrated the party much like termites infiltrate your house."
He called Texas Democratic Party Chair Boyd Richie a "racist bastard" and an idiot who is advised by gay people.
Currently there are no rules in place for removing someone from a party position for incompetence, according to Dallas County Democratic Party Executive Director Steve Tillery.
"If he had publicly supported a Republican, he could be thrown out of office," Tillery said. "But not for just being a dumbass."
"He's just ignoring calls for resignation," said Dan Graney, president of Stonewall Democrats of Texas. Graney is from San Antonio.
The Bexar County Democratic Party has been in turmoil for several years according to Graney. The former treasurer was indicted recently for siphoning more than $200,000 in party funds.
That money came from the state to run the 2008 primary election.
The county chair stepped down in Dec. 2009, Graney said, but not because of the missing money. He said she left to run for higher office and was not implicated in the scandal despite her signature appearing on checks.
Graney's husband Roberto Flores replaced her and served as interim county chair from Dec. 2009 through the May 2010 election that Ramos won.
Flores did not run for a full term against Ramos. He died in September 2010.
Graney said that Stonewall endorsed Ramos' opponent in the election for county chair last year, but that Ramos sought the group's endorsement.
Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio is among the largest Democratic clubs in that city and the second-largest Stonewall group in Texas after Dallas.
"He [Ramos] came to our meeting and answered our questions," Graney said. "He made statements that he doesn't condone discrimination."
But Graney said that Ramos has a long history of divisiveness.
"He [Ramos] was an ACLU board member and was divisive there," he said.
Graney said that the good that's coming out of this is all the support Stonewall is getting from around the state.
Stonewall Democrats of Dallas president Omar Narvaez said response to the incident shows how far the LGBT community has come in Texas.
"We didn't have to ask for anything," he said. "It was already done."
Narvaez said that before Stonewall even asked for the party's support, Richie had already called for Ramos' resignation.
Narvaez said the state party was just following its platform of inclusion.
The 2010 platform states, "We believe in and support repeal of discriminatory laws and policies against members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community."
"It's part of who we are," Narvaez said.
At their monthly meeting, members of Stonewall Democrats of Dallas added their official voice to the chorus of organizations condemning Ramos and unanimously passed a resolution calling for him to step down.
Ramos made his original comments in reaction to legislation filed by San Antonio Democrat Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer that would enable a state party executive committee to remove a county chair for misconduct or incompetence.
Stonewall of San Antonio had criticized Ramos' fundraising efforts and his attempts to change precinct level leadership, ignoring party rules and committees. Among other things, Ramos called Stonewall "90 percent white, blue-eyed and Anglo." Narvaez, who is Hispanic, took offense. He said leadership in six Stonewall groups in Texas, including San Antonio Stonewall co-chair Eduardo Juarez, are also Hispanic.
The Dallas County Democratic Party called on Ramos to resign. In a statement they said, "His hateful, bigoted comments have no place in the Democratic Party. We are a party of inclusiveness that supports and promotes equality, diversity, and tolerance." Dallas County chair Darlene Ewing and members of the State Democratic Executive Committee signed the letter.
In building his case against Ramos, Richie accused him of a series of violations in addition to his "bigoted attitudes." He said that Ramos "consistently refused to follow the Bexar County Democratic Party Rules and the Texas Democratic Party Rules" keeping the county party "in a state of turmoil."
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition March 18, 2011.


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Chrysler has refused a request by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall about 2.7 million Jeep models, saying they are confident the cars are safe. It is very rare for an automaker to refuse to recall cars when requested by the government agency.
The focus of the recall request are 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2002-2007 Jeep Liberty models. The NHTSA feels that the gas tank design is unsafe and could cause the cars to catch on fire in a rear-end collision.
Chrysler said in a statement that it believes the agency's conclusions are based on an "incomplete analysis of underlying data." Furthermore, Chrysler says the design of the gas tank, which is located behind the rear axle, is common in many other cars, and many other fatal crashes of the cars in question involved very high-speed collisions that would have had the same outcome even with a different design.
Chrysler has been providing data to the NHTSA since September 2010. The agency began investigating the Jeep models at the request of the Center for Auto Safety, a consumer group that monitors accident data and takes consumer complaints. The center also recently requested that the NHTSA issue a recall of the cars, saying it had contacted the CEOs of Chrysler and its parent company, Fiat, five times to recall the Jeeps but received no response.
NHTSA can only require Chrysler to repair a small percentage of the affected vehicles, since the recall laws only require cars to be repaired free of charge if they are less than 10 years old. That would include cars that are 2003 models or newer for current recalls. The matter will likely be taken up in U.S. District Court if Chrysler doesn't reverse its decision on the recall request.
Do you own one of the cars that could be recalled?
Tara Baukus Mello writes the cars blog as well as the weekly Driving for Dollars column, providing both practical financial advice for consumers as well as insight into the latest developments in the automotive world. Follow her on Facebook here or on Twitter @SheDrives.


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Chris wrote:Which monastery are you planning to go to? Have you had contact with any particular one?
How long can you legally enter Sri Lanka for? Have you been learning a ittle Sinhalese?
BlackBird wrote:Today I took the plunge, and booked my plane flight to Sri Lanka. I'm leaving NZ on May 26th to begin in earnest a life of homelessness.
To describe the feeling just before hitting that button, it was like standing at the door of a plane ready to jump out. You know you've got the parachute and your emergency-chute, it's all packed, secured, you checked it thrice, but all the same there's that last minute wish to stay with what you know - something to stand on. For me that something to stand on was the life I have led over the past 19 and a bit years, in a southern New Zealand town called Dunedin, where you run into people you know on the street, the Winters are cold and romantic, the Summers lazy and warm, and nothing really changes.
Of course that middle class comfort, replete with the sensual pleasures is a mere illusion, disguising the inevitable disease, decay and death that must befall us all, and yet there was a hesitation, a willingness to continue this life of grand procrastination. There was a willingness to go down with the ship, a long with all those that I love.
But in the end that's all it is, a great deception. No comfort. No safety.
It's time to do what should be done. It's time to put forth effort and steer this raft to the farther shore.
Dhammabodhi wrote:...u'll do fine wherever you go.
May you find profound and unshakeable peace.
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State-Fish Art Contest Calls for Entries
ATHENS, Texas-Texas students in grades 4 through 12 are invited to enter the eleventh annual Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest. Deadline for entries is March 31, 2009.
Contestants must create an illustration of an officially recognized state fish and write a one-page composition about its behavior, habitat and conservation. One Texas winner will be selected from each of three grade levels: 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. Those winners will then compete at the national level for best of show and art of conservation stamp honors.
The Toyota Texas Bass Classic Foundation will provide funding for prizes for Texas winners and for travel expenses for Texas winners and their chaperones to the national expo at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in July 2009.
Texas entries are judged at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens. For details on the contest and how to enter, visit the State-Fish Art Contest page on the TFFC web site.
Texas contest coordinator Zoe Ann Stinchcomb offers these tips to students and teachers interested in the contest.
"If possible, visit an aquarium or a state or national fish hatchery to observe live fish and their behaviors," she said. "People who work at these facilities are good sources of information. You can also find information on the Internet."
Stinchcomb pointed out that past winners in the Texas contest have come from small towns and big cities and have included home-schooled students as well as private and public school students.
"One of the common characteristics shared by many of the winners has been having a teacher or parent who encouraged the student and took the time to help them plan a course of study of the fish leading up to the preparation of the final work," she said. "No prior knowledge of fish is needed. The Wildlife Forever Web site has a free downloadable lesson plan."
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I would trim the entire world if I could! It's so fun to add a little ribbon to the cuffs of jeans or some fringe around a throw pillow. I love the addition that a little dash of color can give. Today, seven awesome designers show us different ways that today's steal, the Fancy Pants Designs Ribbon and Trims, can be used to create all sorts of unique projects for this month's Blog Hop.
If you're not familiar with how the Blog Hop works, it's easy-peasy and lots of fun!
Here's how to enter for a chance to win a $20 ScrapbookSteals.com gift code:
After drooling over the seven sneak peeks, visit each of the designers' blogs and leave a comment every stop along the way (including this post).
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Have fun hopping, and remember you have until Sunday at 11:59 PM MST to drool over the creations and leave your comments. A winner will be selected and announced on Tuesday in our How To'sday blog post.
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Researchers say more workers at pork plants have contracted a mysterious neurological illnesses.
The Mayo Clinic's Daniel Lachance is leading the research on what is causing the illnesses among workers in Austin, Minnesota, as well as in Indiana and Nebraska.
The workers all processed pig brains at the plants. Lachance says while a very specific set of people are getting sick, the research could have a wider impact.
"We're hopeful that something like this, a natural-occuring experiment of nature, if you will, will really help us get a better insight into these types of disorders," said Lachance.
There are now 24 confirmed cases of the disease, 18 of them worked at the Quality Pork Processors plant in Austin.
Lachance says the common thread among the affected workers is that they all worked in an area of the plants that used compressed air to blow pig brains out of skulls.
Lachance says one possibility is that small brain matter went airborne and got into workers' lungs, and the body's auto-immune response caused nerve damage.