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JR wrote:Private message me if you want to continue let us not threadjack more. Besides i think you are annoying and not aware of how off you are and worst of all think too much of what you think you know and what is enough for correct analysis. I really do not want to waste my time with you. There is more to life than bending you back straight. I really liked your debate with JHern the other day. That shows you are very good at ignoring logic and lacking analysis skills. Poor you. It seems to me that you don't care that the people you are arguing against are more experienced and well informed and possibly better performing than you. Your choice just don't wonder if they don't force you to learn the things they know to make you better. They obviously know something better judging from better results. JHern has a PhD.
You don't act like someone who knows his elbow from his ass when it comes to thinking straight. Sorry to be blunt i'm not trying to be hurtful is just call the situation like i see it. I think you fit the saying one fool can ask more than ten wise can answer. Everyone is born without knowing a thing and fools born stay fools as long as they don't learn or listen. It is pointless for a fool to ask if he does not listen. If he listened he would learn to not be a fool after all. The flip side is that it is even worse for the ten wise persons to answer the fool if they could do something useful in the meantime. That is why scientists often don't want to discuss things with others than colleagues. Peers are likely to get something wrong and laypersons are dangerous armed with information they are not equipped to understand and apply. Like giving a monkey a grenade because sooner or later the pin comes out. I am not calling you a monkey but i suspect you are too close to a fool and it is not as bad as it sounds because not all fools stay fools. After all even wise people started out as fools and it is better to start learning late than never. It is a decision.
For learning i suggest observation of a big armed thrower smashing your discs well farther than you throw. If they don't act like i described it at sea level it still may not be just the discs. I have thrown discs more cleanly than some and some discs are difficult for me to release cleanly consistently. I don't always feel the disc leaving uncleanly from my hand but it would be odd to have Vulcans scrape the fingers each time without feeling it. Considering Comet record is 330' without any flipping and that is a disc that shows every flaw without fail. The other thrower may be able to spin the discs more and i have no clue how sensitive those two disc are to spin and if your spin and spin to speed ratio differs in your favor. From what others say of Monarchs on this site i've had the least problems with it. So obviously YMMV. The discs do vary a lot and without you sending me your discs i cannot say if they do differ from mine.
The answer to me not giving in and being stubborn is easy. Your newness makes you think your current power and form is the be all end all of reality of how those two discs fly. It is not and i have already described why and how. You ignoring that annoys me and you can leave it at that. I'd love to. Letting flasehoods spread leads to extinction. Many liars have tried that. There are many practicing lying about dangerous things all the time and the US wages war because of that your economy sucks and thousands have died as a result. Lies and untruths have to combated everywhere. Or accept your death penalty for no other reason than it pleases a liar. No thanks.
Ha, I post there. yes, lots of idiots there, but they use less words, so it's easier to read.If you insist on not knowing anything about disc golf and ignoring reality move over to http://www.discgolfcoursereview.com you'll find many friends there.
Yes, I must be wrong about the unique air and rules of physics you play in.You are dead wrong about how my discs fly for me anyway your discs can be different and it happens all the time. That is an unfortunate fact of disc golf manufacturing and you don't know anything if you have not encountered that. Just read up on disc review threads and you see it all the time from many members. Don't try to make this about me because it is the same for everyone.
I will absolutely not back down because anyone insists that i am wrong. Insisting without real world proof is not true. Your data set is too narrow and depicting the whole situation therefore only half right meaning in usefulness dead wrong. Repetition of a false claim does not make it right. If you are into letting false claims when repeated "becoming facts" die or learn to know better immediately. That is how dictators work among other assholes. That leads to murders and worse.
Just because you see the back of your hand does not mean there is not more in the world behind your hand. The same applies to your limited vision of what influences the flight of discs. I repeat (har har) speed stability. Use the search function of this forum to read up some more on it. Do you like salt with that crow? Buy your own i've given you free lunches and am tired of it being spat at my face. BOOO!!!
I still would like to know how far you throw to assess where you're coming from experience wise. If you throw significantly shorter than me or in the mountains things are different between us. Maybe you should look at what long throwing pros carry in their bags too to compare the stability of the discs they use to have them stay reliable at their probably higher power than you have.
south.texas.dead.i wrote:Just and update I also not have mamba and a banshee, the banshee is a tomahawk disc and mamba is father than the comet area and more understable than the monarch. Normally if I need an overstable disc I throw a hyzer. But what would y'all recommend to fill in that overstable gap?
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HOUSTON — Specialty retailer Francesca's has appointed Laurie Ann Goldman and Joseph O'Leary to its board of directors.
Goldman has been CEO of rapidly growing Spanx, makers of slimming intimates and body shapers, since 2002. Prior to joining privately held Spanx, she spent 10 years at the Coca-Cola Company in a number of leading marketing roles. Earlier in her career, she held marketing positions at R.H. Macy and Maison Blanche Stores. Goldman currently serves on the advisory board for Suntrust Banks.
O'Leary is currently EVP of merchandising, marketing, supply chain and strategic planning at PetSmart. In June 2013, O'Leary will become president and COO of PetSmart. He served as COO of Human Touch from 2005 to 2006. He also spent six years with Gap, including as SVP of supply chain strategy, and global logistics.
"We are excited to welcome Laurie Ann and Joe to our board. Both have deep experience with fast-growing and highly successful retail brands and will help Francesca's continue to create substantial value for our shareholders. Laurie Ann's extensive brand management and multichannel experience will be invaluable as we continue to build Francesca's into a multichannel lifestyle brand. Joe's best-in-class merchandising and supply chain experience and strategic insights will help us chart our future course, further enhance our distribution strategies and maximize speed to market," said Greg Brenneman, non-executive chairman of the board.
Francesca's has retail locations designed and merchandised to feel like independently owned, upscale boutiques. It carries a diverse and balanced mix of apparel, jewelry, accessories and gifts. Francesca's operates 406 stores in 44 states and also serves its customers through francescas.com.

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It's worthless if Golden State doesn't want him, though:
But I thought it was interesting that it fit (per CBA).
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It's worthless if Golden State doesn't want him, though:
But I thought it was interesting that it fit (per CBA).
well obviously d_c should weigh in on this but i get the feeling that they're not interested in this as the murphy/dunleavy, foyle and richardson deals were all about cutting significant amounts of salary. they lose a lot of size with pietrus, al and o'bryant leaving.
This is the darkest timeline.
The more I think about it, the more I don't like it.
3 expiring contracts and Al Harrington for JO?
Hell no.
Yeah, I just don't see this one happening.
Carter is 31 and has big money coming his way for another 3 years. From an age perspective, he doesn't fit in with the younger core of the Warriors.
If his deal was shorter, I could definitely see the Warriors trying to make a quick run with him, Baron and Jackson, but he just doesn't fit in the long range plans of GS, I don't think.
For the Pacers, I just don't see the point of getting nothing but cap relief and Harrington, who makes some sizable money himself for an additional 2 years. Doesn't make much sense for Indy, either.
He's also not "young" in the sense I was referring to, and has already had major surgery.
I repeat: hell no.
I'd take a healthy Al and expirings over the JO we currently have any day of the week...


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TWO men who were involved in the trade in cannabis last year have been told to expect jail terms.
Samuel Thiel, 26, and George Durbin, 27, were given the warning after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply the drug.
The pair admitted their role in the drugs trade between Thursday, January 10, and Friday, March 15, last year when they appeared at Swindon Crown Court.
But they will not be sentenced until after the trial of a third man, 33-year-old Ricardo Benjamin, who denied the allegation.
He also pleaded not guilty to the simple possession of heroin and cocaine on Thursday, March 14.
Judge Tim Mousley QC adjourned the case against Benjamin, of Corporation Street, to a trial date to be fixed and released him on bail.
He ordered pre-sentence reports on Thiel of Kitchener Street, Gorse Hill, and Durbin of Gable Close, Abbey Meads, on granted them bail until after the trial.
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The latest science connecting hurricanes and global warming suggests more is yet to come. Tropical storms are likely to bring:
Over the course of this century, maximum windspeeds could increase 2-11 percent and rainfall could increase 3-31 percent.
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The EMEA Technology Infrastructure Expo in London, attended by 350 of our technology experts, featured 19 interactive booths with hands-on demonstrations, a series of talks by leaders from across the firm, and opportunities for our people to network and learn from each other.
The expo was just one in a series of Goldman Sachs Technology Infrastructure events geared towards global collaboration and knowledge share across regions—a similar one was held at our Jersey City offices earlier this year.
The solutions on display in London were drawn from the wide range of Technology Infrastructure teams, and included green technologies like the latest small-form-factor, high-performance, high-density drives for the data center; low-latency and high-performance computing equipment; and high-definition video conferencing systems.
A series of talks offered insights on emerging Infrastructure themes from Technology Division experts, while Managing Director Bill Shope, who leads our Global Investment Research Division's coverage of the infrastructure technology hardware sector, gave an update on developments across the industry.
Like any good tech expo, the London event also had a combination of friendly competition and high-end technology on show—a rivalry for "Best Booth" brought out the showmanship in our technologists. The Race to Zero booth sponsored by the High Performance Computing team featured a "test your reaction time" challenge using a laser-based atomic clock on loan from the National Physics lab, accurate to more than a billionth of a second per year. The MultiMedia booth showcased the Hi-Def video-conference systems deployed at Goldman Sachs, and the new London Recording/Webcasting Studio. And the winning Enterprise Hardware Technology booth featured a "graveyard" of end-of-life, power-hungry data equipment; "tombstones" displayed the servers' wattage and an exercise bike challenged attendees to generate the power required to run the devices.
Expo attendees were drawn by the breadth and depth of infrastructure products on display, as well as the need to better understand and utilize the constantly evolving technologies. "The staggering pace of technology development has totally transformed the way the business operates," said Fareed Ali, head of Technology Infrastructure in EMEA, "our mission is to harness these developments and use them to innovate solutions that give Goldman Sachs a competitive advantage."
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Andrew, you have got to be the most stuck up, elitist little s**t on this forum. Keep up the good work putting a few animals about the lives of human beings--I know it's easy for you since they are in a different state and Southerners. I know you don't care about the locals because you don't see them as intelligent as you are and they are dirty from working with their hands--eeeewwwwww. But, they did just fine before idiots like you decided in your self-righteousness that you had the upper ground and can tell them what to do with THEIR resources (which were put aside for RECREATION in the first place)
Hey, I bet you are elated that Cape Hatteras Point is closed now. Those dirty rednecks in Hatteras village don't really need the money that comes from the hordes of surf fishermen this time of year to fish the blue, drum and speck run. They can just go find something else to do, right? Like get a little bio degree and live in Wilmington effen Delaware, right? Hell, doesn't matter to you as long as you can still drive on hwy 12 and get to the few places you surf down there, right?
Andrew, I need help, I don't know if I can go through life anymore without someone as right and intelligent as you telling me what is good and bad for the area I live in! Please, come down and tell me to my face how to live my life!
Maybe you will change your mind one day when they come out with a 4x4 Volt....
One quick question: Do you play golf?
Maybe you should take the advice someone gave me on this forum when I was ranting about coastal golf courses: Save the world, kill yourself.


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THE SUBMISSIONS to the 37th annual photo contest were remarkable, not only for sheer volume—nearly 16,000 images—but for geographic breadth. Our winning photographers hail from Texas, California, New York and Tennessee, among other states, but also from India, Poland and the United Kingdom. Winners in eight categories—Mammals, Birds, Other Wildlife, Underwater Life, New Life, Connecting People and Nature, Habitat and Power of Nature—were selected on the basis of originality and execution. In each category, a first-place prize was awarded for both the amateur and professional divisions, and one first-place prize was given in the youth division. A selection of winning images appears below.
Piotr KwateraKrakow, PolandGrand Prize Kwatera's digital image of a tiny hoverfly perched on a blade of grass appears on this issue's front cover. The computer programmer from Krakow, Poland, took the picture on a rainy day in a meadow not far from the center of the city. "I was about to head home when I saw the fly land next to some drops of water containing reflections of the grass," he says.
Stephen E. KirkpatrickMadison, MississippiFirst Place, Other Wildlife, Professional Kirkpatrick keeps an eye out for the "little jewels of nature." He was thrilled to come across a setting in a field behind his house that allowed him to include several gem-like elements—spider web, dragonfly (a twelve-spotted skimmer) and flowers—in one scene. He made the digital image using a 60mm lens.
Natasha MhatreBangalore, IndiaFirst Place, Habitat, Amateur This flower from a sausage tree (Kigelia Africana)—here as exquisite as stained glass—was "actually relatively ugly," says Mhatre, who photographed the sturdy bloom in Bangalore. Hoping to make its "plastic and velvet" texture more interesting, the student lit the flower from behind, rendering it as appealing to us as it must appear to the bats that pollinate it. Mhatre made the handheld digital image with a 28–105mm lens.
Carol GoldsteinSetauket, New YorkFirst Place, Connecting People and Nature, Amateur For this digital image, Goldstein took full advantage of the golden summer light at Reflection Lake in Alaska's Denali National Park. "I included the photographer for a sense of proportion," she says—vital when photographing such grand scenery, including the highest peak in North America. Goldstein used a 17–85mm lens to capture the scene.
Jim ZuckermanFranklin, TennesseeFirst Place, Birds, Professional On a recent trip to Costa Rica, "my number one goal was to shoot macaws in flight because they're so stunning," says Zuckerman. During his stay, Zuckerman saw dozens of macaws, bickering away. "But there were always branches in the way," says the photographer. After a week of trying, he photographed this majestic bird—using a 70–200mm zoom lens with a 1.4x teleconverter—while on a hot, humid walk high above the canopy. "I got some serious blisters," he says, "but it was worth it."
Steve HinchYellowstone, WyomingHonorable Mention, Mammals, AmateurHinch, who manages hotels in Yellowstone National Park, photographed a red fox inside the park as it dove beneath the snow for prey—and came up empty.
Gurdas DuaIndore, IndiaHonorable Mention, Birds, Professional On the second day of a trip to Pakistan last year, Dua spotted these juvenile scavenger vultures (Neophron percnopterus) resting in a window of the Lahore Fort. As in India, the birds are increasingly rare in Pakistan. Says Dua: "Though I travel a lot, I haven't seen a vulture in India in the last 16 or 17 years." He photographed the pair with a 70–300mm zoom lens.
Robert M. PalmerMilliken, ColoradoFirst Place, Birds, AmateurPalmer was driving not far from his home when he happened upon this little American kestrel hovering unusually close to the road. He stuck his camera out of the car, set it for a very slow shutter speed—and lucked out. "If kestrels stay really still, their wings are a blur but the head is sharp," says Palmer, who retired this year to focus full-time on photography. He used a 500mm lens with a 2x extender to make this digital image.
Kathleen FosselmanBoynton Beach, FloridaHonorable Mention, Birds, Amateur Fosselman photographed this bright-eyed pileated woodpecker in her own backyard. "I took about 30 pictures," she says, "and in 10 of them he's got this expression—sort of like 'What are you looking at?'" The postmaster's secretary used a 600mm lens.
Ganesh ShankarBangalore, IndiaFirst Place, Other Wildlife, AmateurThis looks like pure motion captured in a photograph, but it's actually a tailed jay butterfly perched on a Mexican sunflower. "Instead of freezing the butterfly's wings, I decided to blur it with a slow shutter speed," says Shankar, who spotted the insect in a local park. The engineer made the digital image using a 300mm lens and a 1.4x teleconverter.
Alex M. TattersallCharminster, United KingdomFirst Place, Underwater Life, AmateurTattersall spotted this "terribly cute" juvenile cuttlefish—only about 2 cm long—near the Philippines' Malapascua Island. "I spent a good 20 minutes observing its behavior and making it feel happy with my presence," says the teacher, who eventually captured this digital image of the tiny cephalopod as it stared directly into his macro lens.
Lorri FreedmanYorktown Heights, New YorkFirst Place, Power of Nature, AmateurOn a rainy tour of Utah's Zion National Park, Freedman was rewarded with this photograph that includes "just about everything Mother Nature could throw at us:" a stormy sky, a rainbow and a slice of brilliant blue, all set against the glowing red earth. Freedman made this striking digital photograph with a 17–35mm zoom lens.
Stephen W. OachsSan Jose, CaliforniaFirst Place, Mammals, AmateurOachs photographed these play-fighting grizzlies near Yellowstone National Park at a nonprofit preserve for bears and wolves that have become dangerously acclimated to humans. "I got an exhilarating, up-close look at their incredible strength and impressive grace in action," says the web analyst, who made the digital image with a 100–400mm zoom lens.
Pete OxfordQuito, EquadorFirst Place, New Life, Professional This normally very shy newborn crowned lemur, peering out from its mother's belly, "could no longer resist its curiosity," says Oxford. "It stared straight at me as I managed to grab a few shots before its mother carried it away." He captured the cuddly image with an 80–200mm zoom lens while on a trip to Madagascar.
Mark BartosikHouston, TexasHonorable Mention, Birds, Amateur While visiting a small patch of wetlands in rural Burleson County, Texas, Bartosik stumbled upon this dramatic showdown between a red-shouldered hawk and a large yellow-bellied water snake. The chemist watched the scene unfold from the moment the raptor spotted its prey until it flew away eight minutes later, carrying the snake in its beak. "This photo was taken in the middle of the action when the snake was trying to show an aggressive posture—its mouth was wide open and it was ready to strike," says Bartosik, who used a 500 mm lens with a 1.4x extender to capture the digital image. "But the hawk was ready and made a smooth move to avoid it."
George SankerBrighton, MassachusettsFirst Place, Mammals, Professional Sanker followed a bull moose and his harem for three weeks in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park before he captured this digital image of one of the cows jumping a fence.


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discspeed wrote:I just bought a pair of Salomon XAs from the Sports Authority. Got them for $60, which is a pretty decent deal. The clerk asked me if I wanted to buy a 1yr $10 replacement plan. I was initially suspicious because no DG shoe has ever held up more than 6 mos for me without having at the very least the tread worn to flat on the balls of my feet. I showed him the Merrells on my feet that I bought there in Jan (and declined the replacement plan). They are leather and have no damage other than flat soles. He told me they would replace those if I had bought the plan. So...I bought the plan. So far the shoes are comfy and none of the sole has torn of yet. My Merrell Outlands (I had 3 pair) would have pieces of Vibram rubber ripping off the outside edges on the pad the first round. However I can say for certain the Salomons WILL NOT last me anywhere close to a year, so we will see how good this plan is. To me it sounds like I'm getting 2 pair of shoes for $10 more. I'll keep you posted because if this deal is honored there will be no beating the Sports Authority for DG shoes and I will be a loyal customer.
I'm waiting for my 4th replacement pair to come in the mail this week. Five pairs of shoes for the price of one. Not bad. The shoes are the best I've owned (dg-wise) if the lack of durability doesn't count.


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The team released the following statement this evening from Phil Esposito regarding the death of his daughter, Carrie.
Tampa Bay Lightning Founder Phil Esposito released the following statement this evening:
"On behalf of Alex Selivanov, Carrie's sisters Laurie and Cherise, and my wife Bridget, I'd like to thank everyone in the Tampa Bay community and in the hockey fraternity for their thoughts, prayers and well wishes as we grieve Carrie's passing yesterday. We are shocked and saddened with her death but we will remember her for the energy and vigor that she brought to each day of her life. Our focus will now center on her sons Dylan, Nikko and Rocco."
Carrie Esposito Selivanov passed away on Monday, January 30 in Germany after suffering from an unknown illness. She had been living in Germany with husband and former NHL and Lightning player Alex Selivanov and their three children Dylan (18), Nikko (13) and Rocco (10) as Selivanov has been most recently playing and coaching in the Netherlands. Private funeral services will be held later this week in Germany.
Condolences for the family can be sent to: Phil Esposito, c/o Tampa Bay Lightning, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa, FL 33602. The family has yet to determine where memorial donations should be made. More information will be forthcoming when available.


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Report: Questionable toxin levels found in local toys
SEATTLE -- A new state investigation has uncovered toxins in popular kids toys that have been sold at major retailers. A dozen stores and more than 220 products were tested, including at least one product that needed to be pulled from shelves.
"A lot of chemicals going into these products that really aren't safe and they aren't tested for safety," said Nancy Uding with the Washington Toxic Coalition.
The investigation found some popular items have too much lead, cadmium and other elements inside.
"If companies and manufacturers are going to be selling products that contain these chemicals, they should be making sure that they're safe," Uding said.
In the report listed as "Limit Violations," Toys "R" Us showed up for items like a bendy action figure, an Angry Birds Star Wars pencil case and a Minnie Mouse purse.
The report also singled out sandals found at Old Navy for a chemical found that makes the plastic flexible that could be toxic. The Ecology Department reported the toxic findings and said the sandals were pulled.
Uding doesn't entirely blame the stores.
"Usually they're buying the product from somebody else. They're buying the product and it's made overseas," she said.
It can get murkier online. Amazon was listed in the report too for selling multiple products from three different manufacturers.
Both the state and the Coalition say these studies can only go so far.
"It mostly underscores the fact that we don't know what's going into products like these if we have to have laws like these," Uding said.


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The 2nd Annual Dark Star Jubilee, All Good Presents first festival of the 2013 season, has been scheduled for May 24th-26th, featuring three full shows by renowned Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra and performances by Mickey Hart Band, Yonder Mountai
Every day our cars and trucks guzzle an eye-popping 378 million gallons of gasoline, spewing millions of tons of global warming pollution into the air. This accounts for about 40 percent of U.S. oil consumption, with freight trucks adding another 14 percent.
The Western Arctic Reserve may be less well-known than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but its wildlife populations are every bit as unique, spectacular and endangered.
Overpopulation is at the root of all environmental problems, but you wouldn't know it from listening to most environmental groups. The topic is rarely discussed, even though unsustainable human population growth is eating up wildlife habitat, polluting water, overfishing the oceans, and driving species extinct.
On April 17-18, thousands of communities around the world will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
The Everglades wetlands ecosystem, our country's largest subtropical wilderness, has already been devastated by a century of destructive human activity. For many years, NRDC and other environmental groups have been working to stop a gargantuan limestone mining project from causing even more harm to the Everglades, irreversibly destroying critical wetlands and endangered species habitat, contaminating local drinking water supplies and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
We've known for years that our oceans are in trouble, struggling under the strain of oil drilling, pollution and overfishing. More recently, scientists have learned that rising amounts of carbon dioxide from burning fuels reacts with seawater to form an acid that dissolves sea shells. This process, called ocean acidification, makes it more difficult for any shelled creature in the ocean to survive and threatens the stability of marine food webs worldwide.
At long last, the Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of recognizing that global warming pollution leads to killer heat waves, stronger hurricanes, higher smog levels and many other threats to our health and environment. In April, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson proposed an "endangerment determination" under the Clean Air Act -- a finding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping air pollutants "may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare."
Just before leaving office, the Bush administration issued sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act to weaken protections for imperiled wildlife, including polar bears, wolves and whales.
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One of the things that is a real benefit of working with suppliers that operate nearby, is that learning more about what you are purchasing is just a short ride away. Today we headed out to Hillsboro, Oregon to take a tour of International Paper and watch some of our beautiful full color case boxes being printed. Keeping up with the growing demand for whole grains keeps us busy around the clock. It's great to have a few good business nearby that can keep up with our packaging needs to help us get the products you want on store shelves.
We wanted to share with you some of our photos from the tour so that you can get a feel for how our emphasis on minimal packaging really adds up. When you consider that most products on the supermarket store shelves come packaged in an individual box, it's easy to understand that doing something as simple as putting four bags in just one case box for shipping can make a real impact over time.


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Staff and students at Guiseley School are celebrating a record batch of A level results - with 62 per cent at A*-B.
The school says its students have secured numerous university places, including Durham,York, Manchester and Newcastle alongside a range of apprenticeships and college courses in Yorkshire and beyond.
Headteacher Paul Morrissey said the excellent results were a reflection on the hard work by students and staff throughout the year.
He said: ""This is a fantastic set of examination results published today. The students hard work has been rewarded and they must be congratulated for what they have achieved. We are very proud of them and their grades. The results reflect the dedication and commitment of both students and staff together with the continuing support of parents, carers and governors. We wish all students every future success."
Students who achieved outstanding results were -Ellie Bickerdike, Ilya Cereso, Sophie Clayton, Holly Clarke, Danny Hamer, Calum Hayes, Jake Lester, Chloe Myers, Joseph Linney, Hazel Parkinson, Chris Soderburg, Jack Stockdale, Emily Watts and Atika Zafar.
Students picked out for performing extremely well were - Hannah Barnes, Hannah Bartle, Ben Birss, James Bloor, Isla Bowman, Alex Chantrell, Chris Dunn, Maddy Eglin, Jack Hansen-Maughan, Dan Jones, Claudia Marchbank, Chloe Mercer, George Prescott, Megan Throp, Isabel Westwood, Mathew Whitehead and Joe Woodley.


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A SWINDON doctor has hit back at the findings of a survey showing large numbers of GPs would support charges for accident and emergency department attendance.
Doctor Peter Swinyard, of Phoenix Surgery, based in Toothill, said introducing a fee, no matter how small, could have horrifying consequences for patients.
A poll conducted by Doctors.net.uk showed 32 per cent of the 800 GPs who took part in a survey said charging people £10 for going to A&E for conditions that were not an emergency would be the most cost-effective way of reducing pressure on the health service.
Doctors.net.uk chief executive Dr Tim Ringrose said: "It is not surprising many GPs believe people who abuse the system should be hit in the pocket.
"It may be a clear departure from the traditional NHS vision, but many doctors are saying radical action has to be taken to reverse the 'free at the point of abuse' culture that is a key contributor to the current emergency care crisis in some areas."
The survey also found support for the idea of putting GP surgeries – with extended opening hours – next to hospitals. This was backed by 39 per cent of the sample.
But Mr Swinyard said even a price-tag as low as £10 could see people who were in serious need of the casualty unit searching elsewhere for treatment.
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He said the average cost of treating someone in a casualty unit was around £120 compared to the £6 to £10 cost at a GP surgery.
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Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the BMA's GP committee, said: "We will not solve the problem by penalising less well-off patients by erecting financial barriers within the health service.
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This week, Appellation Mountain's Abby Sandel points out the large proportion of names in the news that start with the letter 'T'.
Why is it that certain letters have their day in the sun? Even before reality television gave us the Duggar and Kardashian clans, J and K had been having their moment. Lately, H is on the rise, thanks to Hannah and Harper and Henry. Now Huxley, Henley, and Hattie are poised to follow.
Other letters seem to hang in limbo. We haven't heard much from T lately. Classics like Thomas and Timothy hibernate, while James and Henry take center stage. Names that should have caught on remain relatively underused. Tamsin, Tilda, Tennyson, Tenley, Tate, Trixie, Tess – lots of possibilities have never gotten quite as much attention as you might expect.


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An acquaintance emailed to say that her husband has some business in your neighborhood once a week for the next month and she looks forward to coming over and spending time with you while he's working. How do you get out of this unintended social obligation?
Dear Miriam,
An acquaintance of mine recently emailed to let me know that her husband has some business in my neighborhood once a week for the next month. She wrote to say that she looks forward to coming over and spending time with me while he's working. I have no intention of spending any time with her, let alone once a week, but it sounds like it's a done deal in her mind. How do I get out of this unintended social obligation?
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How lovely for you that you're geographically convenient for this acquaintance! You'll benefit in the long run by staying positive, so write back and say that you're glad to hear her husband has work nearby. Offer to meet her for coffee one time at a local cafe. Then the meet-up is on neutral territory and when you need to leave, you can just walk away. You could use that meeting as an opportunity to tell her about other nearby attractions for her to visit on her husband's other work days. If you can't stand the idea of meeting her even once, suggest a few nearby attractions over email and offer to make additional suggestions if there's something in particular she'd enjoy.
If she persists with her original suggestion to come over once a week, tell her that you just aren't able to devote that much time during the week to socializing, but if your schedule changes, you'll be sure to let her know. Also consider the possibility that if you have something to do where she wouldn't be in the way, you could invite her along. Whatever you decide, be kind but firm, and don't let yourself be talked into anything that you really don't want to do.
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Phi Kappa Tau Cops First Place in Winter Carnival Statue Competition
February 7, 2013—
"The Incredibles" animated movie was the inspiration for Phi Kappa Tau's winning statue in Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival. The Hancock-based group took first in the fraternity division for their diorama that combined massive size with plenty of details sculpted in ice.
All the creations had to follow this year's Winter Carnival theme: "Heroes and villains find their powers, in these frozen winter hours."
For Phi Kappa Tau, windows, chains, a mailbox, baby in a high chair, and much more were all created in clear ice, accenting the large structure that showed a family working together as a team of superheroes.
Second place among the fraternities went to Tau Kappa Epsilon for their Fantastic Four-focused creation next to Michigan Tech's Administration Building. Delta Sigma Phi took third place, and Sigma Phi Epsilon was fourth.
Within the sororities, Alpha Sigma Tau, located near Franklin Square on College Avenue, took first with a statue depicting Hercules slaying the serpent Hydra. Second place went to Theta Chi Epsilon, in front of the Van Pelt and Opie Library. Third was Alpha Gamma Delta, and fourth was Delta Zeta.
In the residence halls division, Summit/WIE took first, with Mama's Boys runners-up. Air Force ROTC bested Army ROTC in the student organization division.
Groups also competed in the One-Nighter division, beginning their sculpting at 4 p.m. Wednesday and finishing at 8 a.m. Thursday, the same deadline as the month-long statues.
FYE-Wads took first in the Residence Hall group, NAHB in the on-campus category, and Evangel Baptist in the off-campus contestants.
Temperatures in the teens most of the night made for more-pleasant construction conditions than have been experienced in the past. The students were resting this morning before partaking in all of the rest of Carnival activities.
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BOROUGH hospital bosses say they are facing a £6.7million deficit despite introducing a raft of cost-cutting measures to cope with budget pressures.
Dudley North MP Ian Austin was horrified to hear the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust had slipped £1.38million into the red in quarter three of the last financial year – and now trust bosses have admitted their plan for 2014/15 shows a £6.7million shortfall.
Paula Clark, Dudley Group chief executive, said: "In common with all trusts in England, we are under extreme financial pressures against the backdrop of a budget freeze for the past four years and a requirement to make four percent efficiency savings, year on year, which equates to £10 to £12 million. The money we get paid for treatments and procedures is also reducing.
"We have also experienced an increased demand on our services, higher pension costs and we are losing £6million, across 2014/15 and 2015/16, to the Better Care Fund which aims to reduce the number of patients using our emergency services."
She said a national shortage of qualified nurses had also forced the trust to invest heavily in recruiting more nurses from overseas and to employ agency staff at premium rates to "maintain safe levels of nursing care" and trust board papers for May said agency spending was "at unprecedented levels".
Labour MP Mr Austin says he has written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, calling for Dudley's hospitals to get the resources they need to tackle increasing waiting lists and queues at A&E.
He said: "I'm really concerned by the news that Dudley hospitals are going deeper into debt.
"Doctors, nurses and other staff are working flat out at Russells Hall but the government has squandered £3billion on reorganising the NHS instead of supporting front-line staff.
"As a result, local people are facing longer waits at A&E, cancelled operations at their highest level for a decade and waits for vital cancer tests and treatments increasing too. The Tories need to get a grip on their finances and give hospitals the resources they need."
Natasha Millward, Labour's candidate for Dudley South, added: "Dudley and other hospitals are operating under a relentless financial squeeze. In overstretched hospitals, standards of care are at risk. Patient care is going backwards."
Dudley Group bosses say they have introduced and are working on an array of measures to help balance the books.
Ms Clark said: "For example we have introduced a text messaging service to reduce the number of outpatients who fail to turn up for their appointments.
"We are also introducing a triage system to ensure outpatients go to the most appropriate place for treatment, and we're aiming to reduce the number of unnecessary follow up appointments.
"We have plans in place to reduce the number of unnecessary admissions and to ensure inpatients leave hospital as soon as they are medically fit to make way for other patients who need a hospital bed."
The trust ended the 2013/14 financial year with a small operating surplus of £350,000 but the 2014/15 figures look bleak with the trust's financial plan showing a predicted £6.7million deficit.
However Ms Clark said: "We hope the measures we have put in place will help bring the books back into balance by 2015/16."
Dudley South Conservative MP Chris Kelly said of the situation: "Trusts are being given intensive support to confront under-performance and failure in a way the last Government completely failed to do.
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MicroRNAs in Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
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MicroRNAs are small molecules which have recently been discovered in cells. They are known to be responsible for the normal development of cells and when they are disrupted can contribute to the development of cancer. Many previous studies have been done evaluating the expression of microRNAs in normal tissues as well as in a wide variety of cancers.
Recently, microRNAs from tumor cells have been detected circulating in the blood of patients with cancer. This presents a novel opportunity to assess the utility of microRNAs in the blood as an early predictor of cancer as well as a marker of response to therapy. No previous studies have been performed evaluating microRNAs in archived tumor tissue and blood of patients with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). The investigators propose a feasibility study to evaluate the presence of microRNAs in archived tumor tissue and the blood of patients with NF-1. If the investigators are able to identify circulating microRNAs in this population of pediatric patients, they will build upon this data in proposing a future study.
|Glioma Neurofibromatosis Type 1
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|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|MicroRNAs as Disease Markers for Central Nervous System Tumors in Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
- Evaluate miRNA expression patterns in tissue of low grade gliomas [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Evaluated miRNA expression patterns between patients with and without imaging findings of gliomas [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
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|February 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2015
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|July 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|NF-1 without evidence of glioma
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|2 Years to 21 Years (Child, Adult)
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- Patients ages 2 years to 21 years.
- Patients with NF-1 being followed in the Neurofibromatosis Clinic.
- Patients have had MRI imaging in the 24 months prior to enrollment on the study.
- Patients may have known concurrent malignancies such as plexiform neurofibroma.
- Patients and/or parents/legal guardians must have signed an informed consent and assent when applicable.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have had prior tumor-directed therapy (including chemotherapy and/or radiation)
- Patients with a prior or current diagnosis of a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor.
- Patients who are considered too ill to participate as determined by their treating physician
- Patients who are pregnant or lactating
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01595139
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|Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Principal Investigator:
|Rishi Lulla, MD
|Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
|Responsible Party:
|Rishi Lulla, Principal Investigator, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
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|NCT01595139 History of Changes
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|May 8, 2012
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Neurofibromatosis 1
Nerve Sheath Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
Neurocutaneous Syndromes
Nervous System Diseases
Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms
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This week's installment of Main Street Monday takes us to Red Bluff, California. The image below, from our Eastman Originals Collection, was taken in 1944.
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Don't expect the girls at Branham High School or the boys at Leigh to try to squeeze in a trip to catch an Oscar-nominated movie this Saturday night in anticipation of Sunday's Academy Awards telecast–at least not the girls and boys on the basketball teams at the two schools.
It seems that the Bruins and Longhorns have other plans for Saturday night, and they have nothing to do Academy Awards and everything to do with Central Coast Section honors.
Branham and Leigh, both winners in last week's Blossom Valley Athletic League tournaments, will open CCS play this weekend, each team as the No. 2 seed in its division.
The Bruins, 49-46 winners over Santa Teresa in the BVAL title game on Feb. 15, are No. 2 in the CCS Division III tournament. They'll put their 21-6 season record up against either No. 7 Saratoga (13-11), No. 10 Terra Nova (8-15) or Del Mar (11-13) on Saturday at Christopher High School in Gilroy.
The Westmont girls will also be in action on Saturday, opening CCS DII play as the No. 3 seed. The Warriors are 15-10 this year and will face the No. 6 Woodside (21-5)-No. 11 El Camino (11-11) first-round winner at Oak Grove.
No. 8 Leigh (10-14) was to face No. 9 Willow Glen (18-8) in a first-round game on Feb. 21, with the winner to take on No. 1 Presentation (10-15) on Saturday at Oak Grove. No. 10 Leland (14-12) and No. 12 Lincoln (10-12) also opened on Thursday, and with wins, would also be in action this weekend.
Leigh's boys are seeded No. 2 in Division II with a solid 20-7 record that includes a 61-54 overtime win over Piedmont Hills in the BVAL championship game.
The Longhorns will face either No. 7 Mountain View (15-9), No. 10 Los Gatos (10-14) or Pajaro Valley (12-12) on Saturday at Santa Clara.
Willow Glen is the No. 4 seed in the CCS DII tourney and will put its 20-6 record up against either No. 5 Leland (16-9), No. 12 Woodside (11-13) or Overfelt (10-15) on Saturday at Santa Clara.
No. 9 Lincoln (17-9) and No. 11 Pioneer (12-12) were to open CCS DII play on Tuesday night and needed two wins to reach the quarter-finals this weekend. The same was true for No. 9 Prospect (15-9) and Del Mar (20-5) in DIII action.
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Branham swept through the BVAL tournament with three straight wins, beating Westmont 46-42 and Gunderson 43-22 before topping Santa Teresa in the finals.
Senior sensation Taylor Morway poured in 28 points to lead the Bruins to the three-point win over the Saints in the title game. Morway popped a pair of threes among her 10 field goals and added six points at the free-throw line.
Regina Sankey supported with nine points, including a three, and Ashley Parsons hit five. Sam Yoshino added four points, and Jessica Mok hit a three.
The Bruins opened the tourney with a tight 46-42 win over Westmont in the Taylor Morway-Savannah Scott show. Morway led the Bruins with 19 points and Scott poured in 24 for the Warriors to lead all scorers in the game.
Morway dropped a three among six field goals and tossed in six charity throws on her way to a 19-point night.
Scott pitched in 10 buckets from the field to finish with a game-high 24 points. She was 10 of 16 from the floor, including 4 of 5 from behind the arc. She also led the Warriors with 12 rebounds, eight steals and three assists to complete a brilliant night.
Leland and Willow Glen each split in BVAL tourney play. The Chargers opened with a 58-38 win over San Jose before losing 55-40 to Gunderson, and the Rams beat Andrew Hill 58-37 but lost 59-48 to Santa Teresa.
Niya Paul, Angie Vallejo and Kiya Paul each hit in double figures to lead a balanced scoring attack for the Rams in the win over the Falcons. N. Paul led Willow Glen with 13 points, Vallejo had 12 and K. Paul added 10. Katy Drennan chipped in with seven, Briana Boyd and Ashley Azadeh had six apiece and Christine Hikido and Cianne Thomas had two each. Boyd popped two threes and Drennan hit one.
Drennan had four threes among six field goals to finish with 16 points and Boyd canned three threes among four field goals to wind up with 11, but the Rams lost to the Saints. K. Paul pitched in 10 points, Vallejo had eight and Azadeh hit a three.
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Kim Francisco tossed in five three-pointers and was 4 of 7 at the line to lead Leigh with 27 points in the 61-54 overtime win over Piedmont Hills in the championship game of the BVAL tournament.
Kyle Morrison had a big night for Leigh with 20 points, including two threes and a 4 of 4 effort at the line. He also led Leigh with five assists and a couple of steals.
Leigh earned its spot in the finals with a lopsided 76-34 win over Willow Glen. The Longhorns led just 14-11 after a period, but turned a close game into a rout by outscoring the rams 18-8 in the second, 24-9 in the third and 20-6 in the fourth.
Taylor Meeker led the Rams with 11 points, including three threes. R.J. McCune had seven points, Omar Cross had five, Tucker Bacon four, Mikey Riley and Paul Rodriguez three apiece and Minsu Lee one. Riley, Cross, Rodriguez and McCune each hit threes.
Willow Glen rolled over Evergreen Valley 73-41 in its tourney opener. McCune and Meeker were on fire, combining for 39 points against the Cougars. McCune led the Rams with 20 points, including four threes, and Meeker had a couple of threes among his 19 points.
Cooper Wilson joined the two in double digits with 10 points, Bacon had eight, Rodriguez six, Cross five, Riley and Lee two apiece and Hasson Abdi one. Bacon and Cross each buried threes.
Lincoln won its tourney opener, beating Del Mar 57-50, but lost in the second round 53-37 to Piedmont Hills.
The Lions managed to hang with the powerhouse Pirates for a half, holding them to an 8-4 lead after a quarter and just a 14-11 lead at intermission. But Piedmont unloaded 29-12 in the third and rolled from there to the win.
Chris Azure led the Lions with 15 points and Kurt Lojera added 12. Each of them canned a couple of threes.
Cole Funk supported with six points, and Eligio Maturino and Nathaniel Azure had two each.


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Gearbox Software has finally fixed the serious badass rank bug in Borderlands 2 that we reported way back in September, affecting PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms. This problem could leave users feeling very frustrated, with perhaps some of the more vocal ones throwing their controllers at their big screen TVs… This fix is included in a megapatch (for Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms only) improving and fixing many other aspects of the game. Gearbox describe the fix simply, like this: "Modified profile behavior to better protect Badass Rank and related data." So, does "better protect" mean that it could still happen? There's masses of other improvements for missions, equipment, challenges and general areas, totalling around 60 in all.
Interestingly, or perhaps worryingly, the changelog for the PC version doesn't include the badass fix and is only 6 lines long! So, does that mean that Gearbox couldn't be bothered to apply as much time and effort to fix the PC version as the console versions? All three changelogs can be viewed at the link below.
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Recent success nets Nicasio home opener start
MIAMI -- Rockies manager Walt Weiss decided to go with right-hander Juan Nicasio for Friday's home opener against the D-backs, rather than lefty Franklin Morales, because Nicasio's experience at Coors Field is fresher.
Nicasio has been with the Rockies the last three seasons. Morales began his career with the Rockies as a callup starter on the 2007 team that went to the World Series, and as a reliever in 2009, but he was traded to the Red Sox in 2011. Weiss thought it was better to have Morales make his first start Thursday, at Marlins Park.
"More than anything, Juan has pitched a lot and made a lot of starts in our park," Weiss said. "Frankie did at one time, but it's been a while. I'd rather Frankie's first start be on the road before we get back there in all the hoopla of Opening Day and throw that on top of being with a new club. Juan was the best choice."
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Kate Gosselin on Dating: 'The Odds Are So Against Me'
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Kate Gosselin hasn't had much luck in love since splitting with her womanizing husband Jon in 2009. Appearing on Dr. Drew's "Lifechangers" Wednesday, the 36-year-old single mom opened up about her lackluster love life.
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"The odds are so against me, one mom and eight kids," Kate said. "I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit. Ideally, I would find that person ... don't know if I feel ready for that."
The former TLC reality star (who now blogs for CouponCabin.com) said her relationship with Jon, 38, has slowly improved since their divorce.
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"He basically lives his life and I live mine. It's more peaceful. Probably not anything that I'm doing differently. Possibly he's working now and so he feels like he's living a regular life again and maybe a little happier with himself, so that boils down to peace between us. The kids are now OK going there."
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"I feel like he's trying [to be a good dad] again," Kate added. "That's good. The bottom line is the kids come home basically happy and that's all that matters."
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Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni has little hope Metta World Peace, who has a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee, will return before the end of the regular season, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.
"I say I'm not optimistic only because it's a couple weeks," D'Antoni said Wednesday at the team's shootaround. "If it's bad enough to get it checked, we'll see what it is once we get it checked, but it'll be tough."
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The Lakers have 11 games left in the regular season, and given that they lead the Utah Jazz by only one game for the eighth and final playoff spot in the West, it's not clear whether they'll play beyond the regular season.
An MRI exam Tuesday in Minneapolis revealed the injury, and the Lakers expected to find more answers later once Lakers team doctor Steve Lombardo reexamines World Peace in Los Angeles.
But World Peace's injury sounds serious, according to the Daily News.
"Sorry bout the injury," World Peace tweeted late Tuesday. "First ever knee injury. Recovery time hopefully is a week and a half."
However, he deleted the tweet later.
"It's been a trying year for a lot of years and not just because of injuries," D'Antoni said, according to the Daily News. "That's what everybody has to go through. We can't seem to get any traction. Besides that, nobody is feeling sorry for us. We have plenty to win anyway so let's do what we're supposed to do, play as hard as we can and see what happens. If we do that, we should be fine."
World Peace is the fifth and final Lakers starter to experience a significant injury this season: Dwight Howard (torn labrum in right shoulder), Steve Nash (fractured left leg), Pau Gasol (torn plantar fascia in right foot) and Kobe Bryant (sprained left ankle). Also, reserves Steve Blake (lower abdominal strain) and Jordan Hill (season-ending left hip injury) also experienced significant injuries.
"It seems like all year when somebody comes out, somebody goes down," Howard said. "It's tough. Then to see Metta go down, it hurts."
"That's how the NBA is," D'Antoni said. "Other teams don't care. You can't feel sorry for yourself. You regroup and fight on."
The Lakers enter tonight's game having lost three straight, though they've defeated the Timberwolves 21 consecutive times.
"It'll be tough to offset it," Howard said of World Peace's absence. "But everybody else has to pick up the slack. That's the only way we can do it. We just all have to be on a string on defense, communicate, trust each other and have each other pick. We just all have to be together and do it together."
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July 5, 2013
Manufactured Runs
Ruben Amaro and the Ryan Howard Reality
Some baseball teams are disappointing by strange twists of fate. Some are disappointing by design. Not because they're designed to perform poorly (although that happens, too), but because they're given expectations contrary to reality, and when reality diverges from expectations, they continue to cling to the expectations.
The 2013 Phillies are a team modestly below .500. Given a preseason forecast of a basically .500 team, this shouldn't be a terrible shock—baseball is a game filled with randomness, after all. But to view the Phillies as a real disappointment requires you to compare them to their run of excellence from 2007 through 2011, rather than the team they are now. General manager Ruben Amaro's expectations, then, seem weirdly out of date, in more ways than one. When asked about the player who will most likely define Amaro's career as a GM, he responded succinctly:
"If Ryan Howard is now relegated to being a platoon player, he's a very expensive platoon player and he needs to be better," Amaro said. "I think he knows it. I know he's struggling, I know he's not happy with his performance—neither are we. I think he's going to be better, but right now, he's just not doing the job."
It's always wise to be cautious with how one interprets statements from front office personnel. Their job is not to be brutally honest with the media, but to win baseball games. And sometimes that means you put your relationship with a player ahead of being totally forthright with the media.
So let's concede that Amaro's private views may not be entirely these. We have no way of knowing for sure. The views expressed here are troubling, though, not just for what they say about how Amaro still views Howard, but for what they say about how Amaro views Amaro.
The issue here really isn't platoon splits; as Steven Goldman points out, Howard has always had large platoon splits. The issue really isn't his declining production overall—that's what most if not all hitters do as they age. And it's not even the boat anchor of a contract Howard was signed to two years in advance of any actual need to sign him to a new contract. (Although that's a hell of a list of things to not be the issue.) Ryan Howard is what he is, and his contract is what it is.
The real issue is that Amaro seems to be unwilling to concede the reality of the situation. Amaro signed Howard to a deal based on Amaro's future expectation of Howard's value. And even with the benefit of regular old sight, much less hindsight, that expectation was woefully incongruous with the reality of Ryan Howard. But that mistake is in the past. The real issue is that Amaro says Howard "needs to be better," rather than considering that Amaro needs to do things to cope with the fact that he isn't and won't be.
This isn't an isolated incident, either. When asked last year about his team:
When asked about the divergence between the way things have gone and the way he expected them to go, Amaro seems to continually lay the blame on reality, rather than his own planning. If for two seasons your mid-season lament is about the same players not being on the field, you have not been beset by injuries, you have been beset by unreasonable expectations for your players and inadequate planning for backups for them.
So the Phillies have an aging core, and some contracts that handcuff them. It's a tough spot to be in, to be sure. And 2013 is littered with teams who went all in over the offseason only to have results far underwhelm expectations. But staying the course and hoping that the shores will move themselves into the path of the currents you're in is lunacy.
Ryan Howard and his money and his platoon splits are a sunk cost. Playing him against tough lefties and building your team and lineup around the idea that Howard is going to return to form is going to the ATM in the casino so you can win back the money you lost at the slot machines.
The Phillies are going to be stuck with Amaro's biggest mistakes for the near future. What's worse is that they're going to be stuck with a general manager who hasn't learned from his mistakes, and seems not to realize that they're mistakes at all. Teams have survived bigger mistakes than the contract given to Ryan Howard. But the Phillies may well not survive the sort of man who makes them.
Colin Wyers is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @cwyers
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Brutal article, but sometimes you have to call them like you see them.
Jul 05, 2013 15:31 PM
It's called being delusional, and he certainly is in that state of mind, that's for sure.
Jul 06, 2013 00:50 AM
The Phillies intentionally hedged this offseason, neither reloading nor rebuilding. They made a few low-cost investments, avoided any big splashes, and waited to see if the veteran core - one year removed from THE MOST WINS IN FRANCHISE HISTORY - could bounce back. The fact that they haven't wasn't unexpected - the offseason moves (or lack thereof) should have made that clear. But it's not at all unreasonable to give that group a second chance.
Jul 06, 2013 13:40 PM
Did you even read the article? The criticism of Amaro isn't the poor moves, but that he has yet to acknowledge that his expectations were incorrect year after the fact. Amaro still seems to think that Howard will once again become the Howard of 2009, and does not seem to grasp that you had better make plans for (and not be surprised by) injuries on an aging roster.
Jul 07, 2013 08:33 AM
Amaro says Howard needs to play better (duh) and from that you extrapolate that he "still thinks Howard will once again be the Howard of 2009"?
Jul 07, 2013 20:41 PM
The flaw was in repeatedly relying on a bunch of injury-prone players, and then being shocked when they break. It's fine to look at giving the players one more go before tearing it down, but you might want to invest in, say, a really solid utility guy or two, because they'll get a lot of work on that roster. Having some solid backups would be good as well.
Jul 08, 2013 07:58 AM
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"Amaro says Howard needs to play better (duh)"
Jul 08, 2013 08:03 AM
The National League presents a tough context to evaluate the directions GMs take, because the caliber of teams is not so high that a .500 club couldn't get into the playoffs with some breaks. So yes, the aging Phillies had a chance, though not enough to double down, and you can kind of defend his (lack of) moves.
Jul 08, 2013 11:27 AM
"Yes, Amaro has mistakenly given low dollar contracts to fringe ballplayers we could have reasonably expected to be terrible. Yes, Amaro has mistakenly relied on guys we could reasonably expect to be washed up. Yes, Amaro has made trades that looked bad at first glance, and still look bad today. Yes, Amaro has gone into a season without quality Plan Bs at positions that were known to be iffy. But the point is, so does every other GM if they stick around long enough"
Jul 07, 2013 14:11 PM
If your defense of Amaro is that he is not as bad as the man who gave Barry Zito 7yrs/$126M (and Aaron Rowand 5yrs/$60M) or the front office that has two of the biggest albatrosses in baseball draped around their neck (the Angels).... that is not a very strong defense.
Jul 06, 2013 14:51 PM
Peter Hood
I rather thought Terry Ryan's assessment of the MIN performance was rather decent. He took responsibility for the players available to play.
Jul 07, 2013 03:29 AM
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Happy Friday… especially for those looking for new details on Fallout: New Vegas!
Just a little bit ago, IGN released an exclusive first look at gameplay footage. Watch it here or after the break below. Elsewhere, Xbox 360 Achievements has a new interview up with Project Director Josh Sawyer, while Front Towards Gamer Radio interviews Senior Producer Larry Liberty in a recent podcast.
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Austin Etherington's knee injury ended his game before it barely began, and perhaps a lot more.
Saturday night's 100-69 victory over Central Connecticut State couldn't change that.
"It was a very tough moment," forward Christian Watford said. "He's a guy who has done a lot with the program. He's a teammate, but also a friend. It's always tough to see a comrade go own."
Etherington, a sophomore reserve guard, went down late in the first half on a collision under the Central Connecticut State basket. He appeared to bump knees with the Blue Devils' Terrell Allen, fell to the floor and instantly shouted in pain. IU's medical staff quickly got to him, and just as quickly called for a stretcher. His teammates lifted him onto the stretcher. Etherington was in obvious pain, but pointed to the crowd as he was transported off the court for further evaluation.
Coach Tom Crean said Etherington was taken to the hospital just after halftime.
"It will take a little time for a determination," Crean said. "We're in the process of that. He was in a lot of pain. It takes a little while for that to settle down.
"It's a significant injury. He left shortly after halftime. We moved on it right away. Get that process moving as quick as possible."
In two minutes Etherington had one rebound and two fouls.
"Austin had a couple of fouls, and I was getting him out when he got hurt," Crean said. "That was the tough part. This would have been a good gamed for him."
The injury came during IU's 38-20 half-ending run.
"When Austin got hurt, and there's no question when you have a close-knit team like this, it affected everybody," Crean said. "They were really bothered by it. Their thoughts were for their friend. This is a close team. That's one of the reasons why we're having the success we've had."
Added forward Cody Zeller: "It's tough. There's no preparing for anything like that. You have to get back out there."
The 7-foot Zeller bounced back to exploit a much smaller Central Connecticut State team — no player than 6-8 — for a career-high 19 rebounds (his previous best was 13) along with 19 points.
"Cody was 19 and 19, goodness gracious," Crean said. "He was fantastic. It's not like he was given any advantages around the basket by any stretch of the imagination. He earned everything he got."
Zeller credited IU's week off, which allowed him to work on his rebounding.
"Having a week off, I was fresh," he said.
Watford scored 21 points. Victor Oladipo had a monster game with 15 points, nine rebounds, five steals and three blocks. He also spearheaded a defense that held the Blue Devils' Kyle Vinales, the nation's leading scorer, to 7 points on 3-for-15 shooting. Vinales entered the game averaging 25.9 points.
"I pretty much guard the best guy on the other team every play," Oladipo said. "I've been doing that for a while. It's a challenge every game.
"We did a pretty good job of not letting him get comfortable, not letting him get to his sweet spots, and make him use his off hand."
Added Crean: "That kid (Vinales) was the leading scorer in the country. He's only been out like 27 seconds all season. He's averaging over 40 minutes a game. That's a big test."
However, the Blue Devils (4-4) got 40 points and seven rebounds from guard Matt Hunter. That tied the most points scored by an opponent in Assembly Hall held by Michigan State's Shawn Respert and Terry Furlow.
Hunter was 6-for-11 from three-point range.
"We gave up too many to another guy," Crean said. "He was shooting 11 percent from 3. He had a good game, but you don't want to take away the nation's top scorer and then have somebody else become that guy. So there's room for us to shore things up over the week."
IU (9-0) gets a week off for finals before playing Butler next Saturday as part of the Crossroads Classic. Notre Dame will play Purdue in the other game at Indianapolis' Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
The Butler game should mark the first appearance of the season for freshman Hanner Perea and Peter Jurkin. They were suspended for the first nine games for receiving impermissible recruiting benefits.
Central Connecticut State had been competitive in its first three losses, but had no chance against a Hoosier team that is 7-0 at Assembly Hall.
IU's full-throttle pace took about seven minutes to wear down Central Connecticut State. Then came a 21-2 run that left the Blue Devils reeling. By halftime, the Hoosiers led 53-34.
Oladipo led another Indiana surge to start the second half with a steal and a dunk. After 90 seconds, Blue Devils coach Howie Dickenman had seen enough and called a timeout, but it wasn't nearly enough.