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Saturday, June 18 – 1 – 4 p.m.
Kingstown Center for Active Adults – 6488 Landsdowne Center, Alexandria, VA 22315
Kingstowne Center for Active Adults invites you join us for our summer open house on Saturday, June 18. Scheduled demonstrations include:
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WEST HEMPSTEAD, NY - The New York Lightning run Slam N' Jam tournament concluded on Sunday, and it featured a highly anticipated 17u rematch between the NY Lightning and The Rens in the championship game.
The Lightning won in pool play on Saturday, and The Rens were out for payback. It was a back and forth contest that could've gone either way until Omar Williams (Cardozo '13) hit a big three to break a 73 all tie with 3.5 left to propel The Rens to the revenge 76-73 victory and the title.
The Rens got out of the gate quick going up 10-0 early on behind a pair of early threes from Williams and Mohamed Touray (Christ the Ling '15). Undeterred, the Lightning fought back and went on an 11-0 run right after that to take the lead behind 8 in the run from Jessie Govan (St. Mary's '15).
Rawle Alkins (Christ the King '16) started off slow for The Rens, but he got in a comfortable groove as the half went on, sticking a pair of treys midway through the half, but the Lightning were slowly able to pull away. Kayvon Williams (St. Raymond '14) and Kahari Beaufort (Notre Dame Prep, MA '14) were lethal from deep, and C.J. Davis (Molloy '14) was running the show to perfection helping them go up 34-21 late in the half. A couple of late strong buckets inside by Jordan Fuchs (Christ the King '13) helped at least grab some momentum back for The Rens, but the Lightning had a 38-29 lead at the half.
At halftime the Lightning were greeted by the arrival of Khadeen Carrington (Bishop Loughlin '14) who had just gotten in from the Nike Global Challenge in Washington D.C., he came into the game right away and immediately made an impact hitting on his first shot of the game, a three from the left wing.
With 7:30 left in the game, the Lightning were up 65-54 and seemingly in control, but The Rens started to press the ball in the backcourt, and the Lightning seemed a bit passive, letting the trap come to them instead if attacking it and breaking it down. Turnovers became much more common for the Lightning, and The Rens really started to feed the ball inside to Adonis Delarosa (Christ the King '14). He was light on his feet and showed good post up and finishing sills in the paint. Another thing he did was draw contact, getting Govan, Luis Santos (St. Raymond '15), and Angel Delgado (Redemption Christian '14) into foul trouble, which really hurt the Lightning's offensive sets, and rebounding.
The Rens went on an 11-2 run punctuated by an Alkins dunk to cut the deficit to 67-65 with 3 minutes to go. The Lightning got a couple FT's from Davis, but Delarosa kept doing his thing in the paint, enabling him to get to the line. With 1:25 left, the Lightning, while up 2, had the ball stripped just over mid court, and Alkins threw a pass down court to Fuchs who threw it down with 2 hands to tie the game at 71.
Alkins ended up giving The Rens their first lead since early in the first half when he got a steal and slashed his way inside for a deuce to make it 73-71 with 37.5 to go. The Lightning called timeout to set up a play and Delgado hit on a beautiful spin in the lane to tie it back up with 16 seconds to go.
The Rens did not call timeout and Williams brought the ball up the court. He surveyed his options quickly and took a deep right with three that hit nothing but net with 3.5 seconds to play to put The Rens back up 76-73.
The Lightning called a timeout and executed a very good inbounds play getting the ball off the inbounds to Delgado near midcourt. He then made a feed to Beaufort near the left wing. Beaufort got up a real good look just as time expired but it fell off the side of the rim, and The Rens took the 17u title over the NY Lightning 76-73.
Alkins led all scorers in the game with 24 points, while Delarosa had. 16, 12 of which came from the FT line.
Williams led the Lightning with 17, while Delgado added 16 in defeat.
NY Lightning 78- The Rens 53- 16u Championship
After a tight first half that saw the Lightning only up by 6 at the break, the Lightning poured it on the 2nd half going up by as many as 31 before coasting to the title.
Dimencio Vaughn (Thurgood Marshall '15) led the Lightning to the title with 27 points. including 18 in the 2nd half where he really carried the load in helping his squad charge to the win. Melik Thomas (St. Raymond '15) and Jermaine Bishop (Holy Cross '15) added 17 and 15 respectively for the winners as well.
In the loss The Rens were led by the 17 points of Christian Wilson (Holy Cross '16)
NY Lightning 67- LP Fam Bandits 56- 15u Championship
Bryan Assie (Redemption Christian '16) was a force inside leading the Lightning with 23 points to help them get payback on a defeat they took Saturday to the Bandits, and defeat them for the title.
Caheim Brown (St. Raymond '16) was a versatile perimeter threat who threw down two monster dunks, and added 16 as well to help pace the way.
Cameron Winston (Rectory School, CT '16) led the Bandits in defeat with 15.
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A slipper chair with artisan roots, the Tori proves that long-lasting good looks are in the details. With a base that recalls a draftsman's or architect's desk, the chair and matching ottoman form a memorable team — or function beautifully on their own. Welting around the frame adds subtle polish, and cushions with no seams in the foam or seat underscore the clean lines.
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The iPhone 4s was unveiled to the public on October 4, 2011, just before the death of recently departed CEO Steve Jobs. Media went on to name the iPhone4s "iPhone for Steve" and it is the last iProduct to be launch in Jobs' lifetime. Rumor led many to believe that the iPhone 5 was to be launched, so people were surprised when iPhone 4s was officially announced.
From the outside, the iPhone 4S looks almost identical to the iPhone 4, and it has the new Apple A5 processor for double the speed and 7x the graphics performance. It's also got a new 8MP, F2.4 camera for great pictures and 1080p video and, it is claimed, improved better battery power. The introduction of voice-control system, Siri and storage facility iCloud have also made iPhone4s more attractive to consumers worldwide. While iCloud is not revolutionary technology, this new service from Apple that debuted with iOS 5 is certainly a step forward for mobile users. The main function of the service is to automatically back up files such as Mail, Notes, Reminders, Bookmarks and Photos.
iPhone 4S may be evolutionary hardware, faster than iPhone 4, with a better camera and more resilient antenna, but as great as the iPhone 4 was, the iPhone 4S is even greater. In terms of software, almost everything about iOS 5 feels broader and better, and not only more functional, but more personal and more tactile as well.
As we all know, Apple has a huge group of fans and the death of Jobs has only increased the attention given to Apple products. Since iPhone 4s is the last handset released in the Jobs era, it is destined to be one of best selling gadgets of our time.
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WALTHAM, Mass. -- Kroger is now offering its shoppers the ability to redeem SavingStar e-coupons when they use their Kroger Plus Card at checkout. According to a press release from SavingStar, it is the only national paperless grocery coupon service, and the addition of Kroger to the SavingStar network of retailers increases the number of grocery and drug stores offering their customers digital coupons through SavingStar to more than 24,000 stores nationwide.
"In today's digital world, many shoppers want to save on groceries but don't have the time or desire to print or clip paper coupons. SavingStar makes it easy and convenient for people to save money on groceries with a service that fits their lifestyle," said David Rochon, CEO of SavingStar. "Kroger shoppers can now get additional savings from SavingStar by selecting eCoupons online or through their smart phones - even while walking the aisles in the store."


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HELP!! Baby boy due in 13 weeks, and we can't agree on any names!
My husband and I are expecting our first boy in July but can't agree on any names!
I love names with French history (due to my ancestry), however he thinks they all sound too girly....
We already have a daughter, named Ellysees and want to choose a name that is both unique and able to be shortened to a funky nickname.
Our surname rhymes with "Vessel"....and we are wanting two middle names to keep the tradition we have used with our daughter.
We don't have a particular style, and are open to suggestions...however are keen to avoid common popular names.
Some names that we both like but one of us doesnt 'love' are...
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Years ago, I scouted some property in Shanghai and found a condominium that I liked for a very reasonable price. I knew that even if the property didn't rise in value, the yuan would -- and the condo was valued in yuan. In other words, even if the price of the condo remains stagnant, its value will rise in terms of U.S. dollars, assuming that the yuan gains ground against the dollar.
There were problems with the entire concept. While I like Shanghai, it's not a place I visit often enough to justify a purchase. It's fascinating to watch a society rapidly evolve and grow, but environmentally speaking, it's not a great place to vacation. I let the idea fizzle and focused on other ways to make money on the coming currency appreciation in China....494 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Wireless Wisdom: Whats Your Strategy? Wheres Your Committee?
A Forum of Wireless Experts at ISA Expo 2008 Turns into a Cautionary Consensus About the Dangers of Falling in Love with Technologies and Applications That May Run Counter to Your Long-Term Wireless Strategy and Corporate Goals
This article is an original article of our sister publication Pharma Manufacturing
With dazzling wireless technology now available, it's tempting for manufacturers to snatch up any wireless sensor that comes along as a means of optimizing processes and plant performance. This is especially true within the pharmaceutical industry, where vendors are plying industrial-strength wireless sensors for temperature, humidity and pressure, as well as sensitive process-monitoring wireless devices to support PAT applications.
But drug and other manufacturers may do well to exercise more caution when it comes to wireless. At least that's the resounding message sent by a panel of experts who spoke on the current state of wireless standards at October's annual ISA (International Society of Automation) Expo meeting in Houston.
The discussion drew an overflow crowd, and it was clear why the audience members, mostly from the end user community, had come: "Help!" If anything, wireless standards for industrial purposes have been getting more complex and confusing of late (see Box), and the audience was looking for a little comforting advice.
It did not come right away. "The wireless landscape is pretty confused, and will probably stay that way for a long, long time," said wireless guru Hesh Kagan, Director of New Business Opportunities for Invensys Process Systems, near the start of the session. "Interoperability and coexistence are the issues we're really grappling with, and I don't have a prediction where standards will go, other than clearly they want to follow mass-market technology, which is driven by the communications and cell phone world."
Jose Gutierrez, Corporate Director of Technology for Emerson Electric, agreed that telecommuncations companies are leading the advance of wireless technology, and cited what is being called Fourth Generation Broadband as a mobile, wireless technology that will have a transformative impact upon the wireless world in time. The problem is, as the panel pointed out, what's good for commercial applications is rarely right for industrial ones. What's a plant engineer with responsibility for wireless applications and planning to do?
Fortunately, the panel did get around to offering guidance and constructive advice, summarized here:
- Have a corporate wireless strategy. This strategy should be top-down and consider how wireless can work within the wired facility and within the company's business model.
- Have a committee. Wireless decisions in one part of the plant can have far-reaching implications, and may even be antithetical to efforts elsewhere or to the business mission.
- Collaborate. In particular, get control and IT working together in decision-making.
- Start small. Try some wireless alerting and monitoring on a part of your plant that is not critical.
- Proceed cautiously.
Hail to the Incumbent
One of the problems with the wireless world of today is that, as in politics, the incumbent has the edge. Harry Forbes, an analyst with ARC advisory group, noted how the most accepted wireless (and wired, for that matter) protocols were also the oldest. People will stick to the same technology for a given application unless there's a good reason for them to shift to a new one, Forbes noted. Thus for wireless, a Babel of standards has evolved.
Incumbency isn't necessarily a bad thing, noted Ed Ladd, technical director for the HART Communication Foundation. "The old standards have migrated forward as the technology has improved," he says. "These are evolutionary standards."
There has been sufficient evolution to give most plant engineers the tools they need to build an effective wireless system, noted session moderator and Control magazine editor in chief Walt Boyes—this includes both industrial- and process-monitoring applications. "The landscape today is completely confused, as Hesh said," said Boyes. "There's all of these technologies, many of which are academic and not intended for industrial applications."
However, Boyes noted, "there are three sensor network standards that you're going to be seeing products from soon, in the next six months." These include ZigBee, Wireless HART, and ISA100—though the ISA standards are not yet ratified, vendors are already developing prototypes for market based on ISA100.
"For purposes of what you've got to do as a decision maker, the standards are here," Boyes said. "What isn't here is the engineering tools to help you make those decisions. Companies need to develop those tools, and those are unfortunately behind the development of the standards."
As others in the panel would do, Boyes cautioned engineers to develop their wireless strategies carefully and slowly. "Pay very careful attention and do it properly, or you will do rip and replace," he said.
"Think about what you can deploy, how you can deploy, and how you can sustain it in the long run," said Pat Schweitzer, Instrument Team Lead at ExxonMobil. "Because you basically can't take it out of service."
As Kagan put it, "The standard is secondary to the solution," said Kagan.
What's Your Strategy?
Honeywell's David Kaufman, Business Development Director for Wireless Technologies, agreed that companies must be very shrewd in planning for wireless."There are limitations in using wireless," he said. "It's not going to do everything you want to do, and you only have so much bandwidth. It time you will use all that up unless new bands open up."
"I have talked to customers that have actually used up their bandwidth," Kaufman said. These customers began to install wireless implementations and incrementally used up their entire band. "Were those the most important things that you wanted to use wireless for in your plant?" Kaufman asked the customer. "No," the reply came. "They just kind of snuck in."
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OverviewDrivers on I-5 through South King County are already seeing the benefit of this where 8 new ramp meters were installed and activated along with 3 existing ones at nearby locations. A ramp meters is an on-ramp traffic light that spaces vehicles entering the roadway at a more uniformed and even pace that reflects the real-time travel conditions. This invaluable traffic management tool has proven to decrease highway travel times and reduce collisions. Before this project began, travel speeds on I-5 in South King County had steadily dropped over the years, with average speeds for the morning commute north bound averaging 37 mph, and 40 mph during the evening for southbound drivers. Ramp meters for this project at the following locations were activated on July, 29:
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HE IS the cute little character that has won the heart of the nation.
Popping up everyday on our television screens, baby Oleg has become the real star of the Compare the Market adverts.
But visitors to Hampshire don't have to rely on a cartoon anymore to get their fix of cute baby meerkat action, because Marwell Zoo has not one but three of the real thing.
The fluffy triplets are taking their first tentative steps out into the big wide world, under the watchful eye of their proud parents Macbeth and Choggy.
The healthy pups were born three weeks ago but are only now just starting to find the courage to venture out of their burrow to explore their new home.
They are the first litter for three-year-old Macbeth and four-year-old Choggy who seem to be coping well with their newfound parenthood.
The new family are now on public view but in a private den away from the main meerkat enclosure.
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"First time mum, Macbeth, is doing a great job looking after them and the caring duties are being shared with dad, Choggy. The energetic pups have been finding their feet - they have been out and about playing and crawling over mum.
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June 19, 2012 5:00 am
A look at Dickey's incredible run.
He went for $2 in the Tout Wars Mixed. He went for $5 in Tout Wars NL draft while going for $4 in LABR NL (purchased by Derek Carty in both instances). Yet, there is no hotter fantasy baseball asset in leagues right now than R.A. Dickey, who currently stands 11-1 with a 2.00 ERA, 103 strikeouts, and just 21 walks in 99 innings of work. Those are the kind of numbers people pay $24 to roster Cole Hamels for, yet Dickey owners are getting it for a 75 percent discount amidst arguably the best story going in baseball today. Dickey's last six starts encompass 48 2/3 innings of work in which he has allowed just 21 hits, one earned run, five walks, and 63 strikeouts. Those are not even Hamels-like numbers; those are more like Koufax numbers.
April 19, 2012 3:00 am
This week's mailbag takes a look at Hall of Famers who were picked in later rounds of the draft, home team winning percentage in extra innings, and Matt Cain's one-hitter.
Welcome to the latest installment of the Baseball Prospectus Research Mailbag. This week, we'll tackle Hall of Famers being selected in later rounds of the draft, the home team's winning percentage in extra-inning contests, and the quirks of Matt Cain's one-hitter against the Pirates last Friday. As always, if there's a question you would like to see answered in a future mailbag, please feel free to send it in via email or through the "Contact Author" form (please remember to include your full name and hometown with your question).
February 29, 2012 3:00 am
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December 21, 2011 9:00 am
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December 16, 2011 9:00 am
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Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping our caps to some of the most illuminating work being done elsewhere on the internet, we'll be yielding the stage once a week to the best and brightest baseball writers, researchers and thinkers from outside of the BP umbrella. If you'd like to nominate a guest contributor (including yourself), please drop us a line.
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November 18, 2011 9:00 am
You might not know it from watching the World Series, but it often makes sense for a manager to pinch hit for his starter before the late innings.
Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping our caps to some of the most illuminating work being done elsewhere on the internet, we'll be yielding the stage once a week to the best and brightest baseball writers, researchers and thinkers from outside of the BP umbrella. If you'd like to nominate a guest contributor (including yourself), please drop us a line.
Mitchel Lichtman, or MGL, has been doing sabermetric research and writing for over 20 years. He is one of the authors of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, and co-hosts The Book blog, www.insidethebook.com. He consulted for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2004 to 2006, as well as other major-league teams. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Nevada Boyd School of Law. Most of the time these days you can find him on the golf course.
October 31, 2011 9:00 am
While anticlimactic after Game Six, the final game of the World Series capped off one of the most exciting postseasons in recent memory
That Game Seven of the 2011 World Series couldn't match the drama of Game Six was almost a given even before the first pitch was thrown. We don't talk about the finales of the 1975 or 1986 World Series in the same reverential tones as we do their penultimate contests, great though they may have been on their own merits. So unsurprisingly, we were not treated to a Jack Morris-level performance or an extra-inning walk-off win to complete the neat historical parallel provided by the Buck family's "We'll see you tomorrow night!" calls following game-winning homers. Nonetheless, the first Game Seven in nine years required one more come-from-behind effort—down 2-0 before their starter had retired a single hitter—as well as heroics from some familiar names for the Cardinals to complete one of the most unlikely comebacks in baseball history en route to winning their 11th world championship via a 6-2 win over the Rangers.
October 28, 2011 10:37 am
If you tuned out when the Rangers led 7-5 in the ninth, you missed quite a finish
It was the best worst World Series game—or perhaps the worst best World Series game—I've ever seen. Four and a half hours, 11 innings, 42 players, 19 runs, 23 men left on base, six home runs, five errors, two final-strike comebacks, a handful of bad relief performances, some managerial howlers including a cardinal (not Cardinal) sin… and it all ended with the much-maligned Joe Buck giving a fitting nod to history by emulating one of his father's most famous calls. As David Freese's game-winning blast landed in the grass beyond the center field wall of Busch Stadium, Buck exclaimed, "We'll see you tomorrow night!" Game Six of the 2011 World Series will be remembered as a classic—a Game Six that can sit alongside those of 1975, 1986, and 1991, among maybe a couple others—as the Cardinals staved off elimination to beat the Rangers 10-9, forcing a Game Seven.
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Indonesian aviation authorities have found that human factors and a series of small technical problems involving air traffic control led to the crash of Sukhoi Superjet 100 S/N 95004 on May 9 near Jakarta, killing 45 people. Investigators concluded that the cockpit crew of the ill-fated demonstration flight, unaware of the mountainous area surrounding their flight path, disregarded an alert from the airplane's terrain awareness and warning system (Taws). The report also notes that the Jakarta radar service had not established the minimum vectoring altitudes and lacked a functioning minimum safe altitude warning for the particular area surrounding the crash site on Mount Salak. Finally, says the report, prolonged conversation not related to the progress of the flight distracted the flight crew and resulted in the pilot's inadvertently exiting a right orbit he had requested and for which he had received ATC approval.
During a special briefing in Moscow Tuesday, Russian deputy minister for industry and trade Yuri Slyusar conceded that, despite the report's failure to mention any technical fault with the airplane, the accident had already damaged the Superjet's reputation. "This catastrophe delivered a strong blow to the commercial prospects for the Superjet project," he said. However, he said he thinks that Indonesian type certification and plans by local airline PT SkyAviation to take delivery of its first airplane by the end of this year have repaired the Superjet's image to a degree.
Sukhoi claims the Superjet 100 holds an 8-percent efficiency advantage over the Embraer E190, but few examples of the Sukhoi have yet to enter service. Not until December 18 did Sukhoi deliver another SSJ100–to Russia's Yakutia Airlines–since sending Aeroflot its tenth in September. Under a newly adjusted plan, Sukhoi plans to assemble 25 airplanes next year, 42 in 2014 and 50 in 2015.
As of December 16, Aeroflot's Superjet fleet averaged between 1.9 and 3.9 hours' utilization a day and had amassed nearly 15,400 hours during 8,138 flights. While giving a generally positive assessment of the airplane's handling qualities, Aeroflot has complained of high noise during extension and retraction of the wing high-lift devices, false fuel readings and spotty reliability of the air conditioning system. Software, after repeated updates, continues to cause problems, as has the flight management system (FMS) in certain modes. A more serious flaw involves the Taws, which works correctly only when both pilots have selected the same map scale on their navigation displays. Should a crewmember select a different map scale, a "TAWS FAIL" warning message appears and "TERRAIN" vanishes from both screens. Finally, the system does not supply information on terrain at flight altitudes above 2,000 feet agl.
Alexander (not verified)
December 28, 2012 - 1:49pm
The irony of this situation escapes you, I'm sure. So let me elaborate. Same pilot would have saved the plane and landed it even if it's wings fell off, he was that good. He functioned his best under pressure and did not function at all in a normal situation. Once again Pogosian outsmarted himself by putting a test pilot behind the wheel - regular pilot with a standard balance of fear and responsibility would have done a much better job and saved the day... and amen to that.
Jean Ubota (not verified)
January 26, 2013 - 8:00am
The last paragraph shows that the averaged numbers of flight hours per day for the aeroflot SJ 100 span fron 1,9-3,9 hours per day for 15440 flight hours and 8138 flights.
Simple arithmetic applied to live operational data shows different results. Here are the details:
Number of operational month for each aircraft:
The number of months is calculated from the in-service date first flight tfor each aircraft to 2012 december 06 as state din this article though numbers may be slightly different from other sources.
Months Aircraft #
17,72 First aircraft
15,39 Second
12,92 Third
11,28 Fourth
10,45 Fith
9,04 Sixth
7,92 Seventh
6,41 Eighth
3,91 Ninth
2,53 Tenth aircraft
97,6 Months of operations (Total number of months)
97,6 Times (365/12)= 2968 flying days.
2968 Days of operation for the total fleet of 10 SSJ100 totalling 15440 flight hours and 8138 flights.
So the averaged flight hours per day for the whole fleet is équal to 15440/ 2968 = 5,24 hours per day on average. Not 1,9 to 3.0 as stated in this article.
So, using basic grade 4 arithmetic and documented common sense and applied logic it is clearly seen that the above mentioned avereage in the article is non exact..
I am requesting the author of this article that he verifies all data sheeet pertaining to the nmber of hours per day and to offer an honest and documented reply to this observation.
Jean Ubota (not verified)
January 26, 2013 - 2:07pm
Though pilot Yablontsev was discussing different matters with potential customers while the aircraft was performing an orbital manoever in order to reduce altitude before landing one has to remember that there was another pilot in the aircrapt cokpit with over 8000 flying hours.
The second pilot was also busy talking about a variety of sujets, some being not related to the purpose of the flight, that he also forgot his primary duty which is flying the aircraft to the airport.
This point was not adressed in the final report: The rôle played by the second pilot durint the last minutes of flight. Was he in the cockpit?
One can conclude that this flight was badly planned and conducted as well as the overall planning of the the trip to Asia.


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The stuff kids really need for high school
Here are some easy tips to help you upgrade your childs supplies for high school. more
The band of vitamins which make up the B group have a heavy workload in the human body from the moment of conception onwards. And they're a crucial part of all children's diets because of the role they play in growth and development.
As a group, the B vitamins are necessary for the brain and nervous system to work properly, and for the metabolising of carbohydrates, fats and proteins essential for growth. They are also involved in maintaining the health of the hair, skin, nerves, blood cells, immune system, hormone-producing glands and digestive system.
The B group, a complex of eight water-soluble vitamins, likes to work as a team in the human body so getting the right ratio of each B vitamin is fairly important.
Below are the better-known members of the B team, what they do, where we can find them and what the recommended daily intake (RDI) is for kids.
This vitamin plays a crucial part in converting sugar and carbohydrate into energy as well as being important for growth and normal function of the nervous system and heart.
Essential for converting carbohydrate as well as protein and fat into energy, riboflavin is also important for growth and contributes to the normal structure of mucous membranes such as the surface of the tongue, mouth, eyes and intestines.
Niacin is important for releasing energy from food and normal function of the nervous system. Like riboflavin, it is necessary for normal function and structure of skin and mucous membranes.
Vitamin B6 performs a wide variety of functions, among them it's essential for red blood cell metabolism and keeping the nervous and immune systems functioning efficiently.
This is required for formation of red blood cells. It is essential for growth as it helps to produce DNA, the body's master plan for cell reproduction. As such, during pregnancy, folate is one of the most important nutrients for foetal growth and development.
This vitamin's essential role is releasing energy from food and metabolising amino and fatty acids. It also plays a role in keeping skin and hair healthy.
Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) is the average daily dietary intake level that is sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97–98%) healthy individuals.
B vitamin deficiencies cause a variety of disorders ranging from the severe but uncommon deficiency disease, beriberi, through to the more common conditions, dermatitis and anaemia.
Interestingly, research has found that B vitamin deficiencies are often found in psychiatric patients and may contribute to depression and other symptoms.
Shortly before conception and in the first trimester at least, folate is vital – and the body needs a lot to make new cells.
It's now known that having plenty of folate just before and during the early months of pregnancy can reduce the risk of a group of abnormalities called neural tube defects in your baby.
As it can be hard to get sufficient from our diet alone, it is recommended that women take a folate supplement.
Meanwhile, vitamin B6 has been linked with reducing morning sickness in some women.
The one B vitamin that can be more elusive in the vegetarian diet – and non-existent in a vegan diet – is B12 which is essential for children's growth and development. This is because the only reliable source of B12 is in animal products like meat, eggs and dairy.
Parents of vegan children are advised to seek out foods which have been fortified with B12 and to be very aware of how essential this vitamin is for making blood cells and keeping the nervous system healthy.
The Vitamin B group is all-important for breastfeeding mums because it helps provide energy and is associated with relieving stress. And the most important B vitamin as far as your nursing baby is concerned is B12.
Vitamin B12 is essential for your baby's brain development. If you are a vegetarian and you do not have at least four serves daily of eggs, dairy foods or Vitamin B12-fortified soy products, you will need to take a Vitamin B12 supplement while you are breastfeeding.
This article was written by Fiona Baker for Kidspot, Australia's best family health resource.
Last revised: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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DeRosa makes rare start at second base
ST. PETERSBURG -- Blue Jays veteran infielder Mark DeRosa made a rare start at second base for Wednesday night's game against Tampa Bay.
DeRosa previously made four appearances at second base this season, but had yet to receive a start. Before Wednesday, he played a few innings at the position after coming into games as a late-inning pinch-hitter.
Manager John Gibbons made the decision to start DeRosa as a way to get another right-handed bat into the lineup against Rays left-hander Matt Moore.
"DeRo had a good spring," Gibbons said. "He came in from the get-go, swinging the bat well. One thing about him, he's a steady defender as well. If he gets to it, you're out. And he gets you a good at-bat every time he's up there.
"He's on a nice little roll himself, so take advantage of those at-bats as well. Guys that hang around the game a long time because they know how to play, they know how to play in certain situations, they're not going to make mistakes. Their bodies slowed down, naturally, but you know what? You can count on him."
DeRosa entered Wednesday night with two homers and a total of four hits in his previous eight at-bats. One of those home runs came during a key pinch-hit situation on Monday night that helped sparked Toronto's come-from-behind victory after the club trailed by seven runs.
The 38-year-old DeRosa is hitting .220 (9-for-41) with three homers and 11 RBIs in 18 games.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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WILMINGTON, Del. — The retail industry is awash with forecasts and projections during the holidays, but a near real-time indicator from Chase reveals how shoppers are actually behaving.
Data culled so far from Oct. 29-Nov. 15 shows that this year's holiday season is off to a lively start, with year-over-year e-commerce sales volume up 12.3% and in-store growth up 1%. Based on figures so far, retailers are already offering early sales and promotions, jumpstarting consumer spending. Transactions so far are likewise showing a positive trend with year-over-year growth at 25% and 2.2% for online and in-store, respectively.
The seventh annual Chase Holiday Pulse is a comprehensive near real-time tracker of holiday shopping trends, which will be updated on Chase's website (http://pulse.chasepaymentech.com/) every business day. It provides data tracking sales volume, payment transactions and average ticket value from 50 of the leading U.S. online retailers. Data is tracked and compiled by Chase Paymentech, a leading merchant acquirer, payment processor and subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co. For the first time since its inception, the Pulse will also provide Chase cardholder spending data at brick-and-mortar stores.
"The holiday shopping season has always been a critical barometer for economic activity," said Eileen Serra, CEO of Chase Card Services. "A strong start to the holiday shopping season typically sets the tone for sales volume for the remainder of the year."
Early indicators point to a continued decline in e-commerce average ticket size, down 10.1% year-over-year. In-store ticket sizes saw a smaller decline, down 1.1%. This is consistent with last year's Chase Holiday Pulse, which demonstrated a new trend in spending habits, wherein sales volume rose while average ticket prices declined.
For e-commerce purchases, sales growth is up 27.2% for consumer electronics and up 32.5% for mass market, which comprises large e-retailers providing affordably priced products such as electronics, apparel, furniture and jewelry. For in-store purchases, sales growth is 12% for sporting goods and up 5% for wholesale clubs.
"The improvement in October's University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment over last year's reading leads us to believe that holiday sales (over November and December) should rise by as much as 4.5% (on a year-over-year basis) versus last year's 3.3% figure," said Anthony Chan, head economist for JPMorgan Chase. "Additionally, the recent rise in housing prices and the healthy (year-to-date) jump in U.S. equity prices are likely to put downward pressure on U.S. savings rates and thereby provide some support to holiday sales this year."
Chase has finger on the holiday pulse
WILMINGTON, Del. — The retail industry is awash with forecasts and projections during the holidays, but a near real-time indicator from Chase reveals how shoppers are actually behaving.


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Mama to C, Z, E, P, D, & G
Considerations In Progress for Agent 007
Horatio Frederic Eto :: Horatio Ethan Amadeus
Rainier Ozias Ethan :: Rainier Ozias Eto
girl names shelved for the moment
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Okay, a few more C names just in case they haven't yet been suggested or thought of:
And these are sort of random:
Gretel (love this one with Eve actually . . .)
Edwina (I'm almost sure this has been offered up as a way to get to Gwen, but just in case it hasn't . . .)
Also wanted to say that Willow is really lovely and I hope it can be a bit of a relief that you have one good name that overlaps your and husband's lists. Though of course I understand the impulse to keep searching!
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Ffion Willow sounds nice.
So does
Willow Ffion
I have both names in my family actually:
Ffion Doro And Erin Willow are amongst my cousins' unusually named children.
Ffion isn't all that popular although its a beautiful sound and everyone I mention it to says 'oh I love that' and no one questions the Ff - it's just welsh and that's normal in the UK. I'd go for Ffion Willow personally.F: Esmé, Willow, Daisy, Mathilde, Alice, Tessa, Violet, Evelyn, Beatrix, Rosalie, Amelie, Arya, Julia, Maya, Caitlyn, Clementine.
M: Gabriel, Noah, Ivo, Benjamin, William, Alfred, Sasha, Jacob, George, Eliot, Tristan, Oliver, Louie, Lucas, Dylan, Vincent.


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Malawi President awarded Agricola Medal
President Mutharika leads country from deficit to food exporter
During a ceremony held in the Malawian capital Lilongwe on 27 November, FAO Director-General, Jacques Diouf, conferred the medal on President wa Mutharika, noting that despite sharply rising food and energy prices earlier in the year, and the negative impacts of climate change, Malawi has been able to contain food prices to the extent that economic growth of 8 percent was forecast for 2008.
In 2005, thanks in a large part to the adoption of an Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme piloted by the Government of President wa Mutharika, the country has succeeded in restoring national food security by increasing access to fertilizers and improved seeds by poor farmers and other vulnerable population groups.
The FAO Director-General also said that Malawi was one of the few countries to have surpassed the agreement reached among Ministers at the 2003 Maputo African Heads of State and Government Conference for a minimum budget allocation of 10 percent for agriculture, by allocating as much as 16 percent to the all-important agriculture sector.
A landlocked country in Southern Africa bordered by Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique with a population of over 13.2 million, very largely rural, Malawi is amongst the poorest countries in Africa with an estimated 35 percent of the population undernourished in 2004.


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Cole's rehab start goes beyond the numbers
PITTSBURGH -- As Pirates right-hander Gerrit Cole continues to work his way back from a strained right lat that forced him to the disabled list a month ago, his next step is another rehab start, according to manager Clint Hurdle.
Cole gave up five runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings on Tuesday, throwing 74 pitches (53 strikes) in his second outing for Triple-A Indianapolis. Hurdle, who spoke with Cole over the phone Wednesday, called the start a "gear down game" and noted the organization gave him a list of goals going into it that didn't have to do with his pitching line.
"We wanted him to repeat delivery and maintain arm slot," Hurdle said. "The challenge that can come with that is a young man who is out there competing and doesn't want to give up runs. We told him the bigger picture this time is not to be reactionary to what results we might get."
Hurdle added Cole will throw a bullpen session Thursday, and the team hasn't yet decided exactly when his next rehab start will be.
Cole is on the DL for the second time this season -- his first trip was for right shoulder fatigue -- and he has pitched only twice for the Pirates since June 3. In 14 Major League starts, he is 7-4 with a 3.78 ERA, a 1.31 WHIP and 78 strikeouts.
Stephen Pianovich is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mondelēz International & Mediavest: Designing For Mobility
November 14, 2012
Mondelēz International's Bonin Bough and MediaVest's Amanda Richman shared how they approach the space as mobility versus simply mobile, leverage the unique opportunities it offers, and design mobility experiences with impact.
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"Mondelēz International: Designing for Mobility." Bonin Bough, Vice President of Global Media and Consumer Engagement, Mondelēz International; Amanda Richman, President of Digital, MediaVest USA. ANA Mobile Marketing Conference, 11/14/12.
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11th Nihon Quilt Show
WMQFA to host 11th Nihon Quilt Show Exhibit Featuring 33 stunning quilts from Japan and around the world October 23, 2013 – January 5, 2014
The Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts is one of only three museums in the U.S. chosen as a venue for a traveling exhibit of 33 quilts from around the world. The quilts were gathered by Japan's largest quilt guild, in a juried show in 2011. These quilts feature amazing design and craftsmanship!
Related Lecture and Classes:
October 26 – Sashiko Workshop, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with Akemi Nakano Cohn. Sashiko is a traditional Japanese embroidery craft that typically involves stitching with white silk thread on indigo fabric.
November 9 – Lecture "Weaving, Dyeing, Printing: Textiles & Clothing in Japanese Woodblock Prints" with Dr. Hilary K. Snow, 9:30 a.m.
During the 18th and 19th centuries in Japan, woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) became a popular medium for depicting daily life and interests of the newly prosperous merchant class. From the luxurious kimonos worn by Kabuki actors and courtesans to more humble workers' clothes, woodblock prints displayed the wide range of textiles produced in early modern Japan. This talk will highlight examples of textile and textile production as shown in prints and explore how prints helped to disseminate textile patterns and influenced consumer fashion. Textile styles developed and perfected during this period form the basis of many modern textile styles in Japan.
November 9 – Temari Ball Class, noon to 4 p.m. with Terri Sankovitz. Temari Balls are Japanese handicrafts made by wrapping silk thread around ball forms in decorative patterns.
Family Fun Days, with Japanese crafts for all ages, will be held Nov. 3, 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. and again Nov. 16, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. These are drop in events, with no registration required. However, youth groups and people bringing 6 or more children should register in advance.
Registration online, as well as more information, can be found at our website, www.wiquiltmuseum.com


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Fear on the Eve of WarNews at Home
The story is told in the first person by the young priest of a hunting and gathering
tribe who nerves himself to go to the Place of the Gods -- the great abandoned
city called newyork on the river. He trembles at the prospect of encountering
spirits and demons and the ashes of something his father, the high priest of his
tribe, called "the Great Burning." But the son is driven by a recurring
dream of this Great Dead Place. After traveling eight days, he reaches the river
and builds a raft that carries him beneath ruined bridges to his destination.
How shall I tell what I saw? There should have been the wailings of spirits and the shrieks of demons but there were not. It was very silent and sunny where I landed.
The towers are not all broken -- here and there one still stands like a great tree in a forest, and the birds nest high. But the towers themselves look blind, for the gods are gone.
He walked through the ruined city, an arrow ready in his bow. He found a building with letters carved in it, making a word he did not understand: UBTREAS. He also found the shattered image of a god whose name was ASHING. Pursued by wild dogs, he took refuge in a building with bronze doors and ascended to the upper floors. He looked through great dustcovered windows at the ruins around him. He prowled the silent rooms, puzzling over the words "Hot" and "Cold" on metal spigots. Night was falling and he decided to sleep there.
In the middle of the night the young priest awoke and felt himself surrounded by "whisperings and voices." He tried to sleep again but he could feel the spirits "drawing my spirit out of my body as a fish is drawn on a line." Then he was out of his body -- he could see it lying on the cold floor and he was carried to the window to look out on the city.
It should have been dark for it was night but it was not dark. Everywhere there were lights -- lines of light -- circles and blurs of light -- ten thousand torches would not have been the same. The sky itself was alight. You could hardly see the stars for the glow in the sky. I knew I was seeing the city as it had been when the gods were alive
Everywhere there were gods, on foot and in chariots -- there were gods beyond number and counting and their chariots blocked the streets. They had turned night to day for their pleasure -- and they did not sleep with the sun. The noise of their going and coming was the noise of many waters.
I looked out another window -- the great vines of their bridges were mended and the god-roads went East and West. Restless, restless were the gods, always in motion. And always, as they labored and rested, as they feasted and made love, there was a drum in their ears -- the pulse of the great city, beating and beating like a man's heart.
Then I saw their fate come upon them and that was terrible past speech. It came upon them as they walked the streets of their city. It was fire falling out of the sky and a mist that poisoned. It was the time of the Great Burning and the Great Destruction. They ran about like ants in the streets of their city -- poor gods, poor gods! Then the towers began to fall. The city had become a Dead Place, for many years the poison was still in the ground. I saw it happen. I saw the last of them die. It was darkness over the broken city and I wept.
In the morning, the young priest awoke, "perplexed and confused." Now he knew the reason for the Great Dead Place but he did not understand why it had happened. The gods seemed so strong, so powerful. He prowled the building, looking for an answer. In a room he had not entered before, he found a dead man sitting in a chair by the window. He was perfectly preserved in the hot dry room.
There was wisdom in his face and great sadness. You could see that he would not run away. He had sat at his window, watching his city die--then he himself had died. But it is better to lose one's life than to lose one's spirit -- and you could see from the face that the spirit had not been lost.
For the young priest, the man was a revelation. I knew then that they had been men, neither gods nor demons. It is a great knowledge, hard to tell and believe. They were men -- they went down a dark road, but they were men. I had no fear after that.
The young priest returned to his father and told him what he had seen. The father warned him not to tell the people for the time being. The truth of newyork's fate was so terrible, it would fill their hearts with horror and dread. "It was not idly that that our fathers forbade the Dead Places," the high priest said.
The young man accepted this paternal wisdom. But he resolved that when he became high priest he would lead his people to the Place of the Gods -- the place newyork. They would find the god ASHING and the other gods he had heard about from his father, who had read old books -- Licoln and Biltmore and Moses. They were men who built the city, not gods or demons. They were men. I remember the dead man's face. They were men who were here before us.
Can New York -- and the rest of America -- escape this fate? God helping us, we must try. We are not gods but we have courage and strength and the memory of dark roads we have survived, thanks to our commitment to freedom.
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Dion Kucera - 9/29/2005
I went over this story today with my 9th grade Literature teacher. We pulled from the story that it is at an undefined point in the future after a nuclear bomb hits us. The Great Burning would be a nuclear bomb. Einstein said that he knows not what weapons WWIII would be fought with, but he knows that WWIV would be fought with sticks and stones. This is saying that our next war could be so devastating that it would wipe out most of the world. In this story the hill people don't know about this, but they don't go there anyways. Ubtreas is a broken sign in the story for SUBTREASURY and ASHING is a broken sign of WASHINGTON. This story gets you thinking, because one day it may happen.
R. L. Fast - 9/29/2003
If you REALLY want to get chills, check out the epic of Gilgamesh. The young king is restless and wants to "make a name" by killing or conquering someone (Humbaba, who guards the forest). He goes before the city council to ask their blessing. They are reluctant, but realize that the king desperately needs some action, and give him their OK.
It probably depends on the translation, but in mine (Herbert Mason), his words to the council echo Bush's claims of the "evil enemy" who must be destroyed: "We must kill him/And end his evil power over us. . . . I am impatient and cannot wait long."
This is the first time I've visited your site. Interesting stuff!
John - 9/8/2003
"Subtreasury Building" in NYC
John - 9/3/2003
Does anyone know what this means in the story?
Steven Smith - 6/25/2003
In winter 1985 I read Stephen Vincent Benet's affecting tale "By the Waters of Babylon" in a collection of literary science fiction stories which had first seen print in the Saturday Evening Post. The late great Mister Benet's story is every thing Mister Fleming claims and more. I had been reading science fiction in 1 form or another since 1966 when I became instantly addicted to super hero comic books but this was among the most evocative things I had read since 1971 when I very clumsily plodded through Clifford Simak's fine collection City and 1973 when I essayed When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer.
Mister Fleming invokes the aid of a God in Whom I dis-believe in assuring America's avoidance of the fate suffered by New York City in Benet's haunting story. Long reference to Ayn Rand, Philip Wylie, William Graham Sumner, Herbert Spencer and HL Mencken convince me of the futility of asking a God to help men save western civilization when men alone were and are the creative as well as destructive agents of the west. Our immediate task must be restoration of the American republic as conceived by the more ideologically consistent and freedom focused of the founding fathers, specially Washington whose farewell address should be closely studied by any one claiming serious interest in domestic politics. Of course rejection of foreign war and all that may lead to it will be deemed imperative by the statesmen of such a republic. Mister Fleming covered this ground well in his recent book on the execrable new deal. That Stephen Vincent Benet at least tacitly understood the same things is borne by exposure to his other enjoyable prose and Mister Fleming rates high praise for drawing attention to 1 of the best efforts of a truly magnificent writer.
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Sony's PS4 is facing up to what could be a fairly disruptive blow to its launch plans.
Kotaku claims to have received verification from a "person familiar with goings-on at Sony" that launch title DriveClub is going to be delayed and will miss the PS4's launch.
The rumour stems from The Same Coin.
Sony has told MCV that it isn't yet able to comment on the chatter. The game's design director Paul Rustchynsky said on Twitter that he "doesn't have any new information to share".
Following the delay earlier in the week of Ubisoft's high-profile launch title Watch Dogs, the potential loss of DriveClub is a big blow for PS4, particularly as Microsoft has Forza 5 primed and ready for the Xbox One launch.
Indeed, should it come to fruition PS4 would be left with just two high-profile launch exclusives – Killzone: Shadow Fall and Knack – along with a handful of digital titles.
Xbox One, on the other hand, will arrive alongside the likes of Dead Rising 3, Ryse, Killer Instinct and Turn 10's aforementioned racer, as well as lower-profile releases such as Fighter Within and Crimson Dragon.
Both machines will of course welcome big third-party titles such Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Need for Speed: Rivals and FIFA 14.


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I admit to reluctance to watch "House of Cards," the Netflix remake of a 1990 drama.
According to a Wikipedia entry for the U.K. series "House of Cards," it was broadcast in four episodes from Nov. 18 to Dec. 9, 1990. It was set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister. The story follows the scheming by villainous Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) to become Britain's Prime Minister. For Bloomberg News, Cliff Edwards' assessment of the "House of Cards" remake initially caught my interest but Edwards lost points when he called the show Netflix' "most ambitious step yet into original online-TV programs."
My impression from a trailer for the Netflix remake is that it adopts a practice of its predecessor: its villain, portrayed Kevin Spacey, speaks directly to the viewer. It also seems to duplicate the original story's plot, but transplants the setting to Washington, D.C. I might have given the remake a chance but a review by Alyssa Rosenberg raised my concern about its portrayal of women journalists.
"There is no one to whom [the "House of Cards" remake] is nastier, and for no discernible reason, than female political reporters." Rosenberg's review of "House of Cards" was published by Slate and was reprinted by Digital First Media.
"If the depiction of Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) and Janine Skorsky (Constance Zimmer) is meant to be a trenchant critique of Washington journalism, or of sexism in Washington journalism, it falls very, very short of that mark," Rosenberg said. "Instead, it's grotesquely insulting to the women who do serious policy and political reporting in Washington every day."
Rosenberg identifies systemic barriers to women in political journalism:
"In surveys of major magazine bylines, the literary organization VIDA found that men overwhelmingly outnumber women, and correspondingly, women are nominated for far fewer National Magazine Awards. Women are also frequently siloed into covering so-called ?pink' topics, issues that are treated as if they are of interest to female readers, but not to a general news audience."
But according to Rosenberg, the Netflix remake "is not interested in these real journalism issues, perhaps because it's too busy pitting Zoe and Janine against each other, or insisting that all female journalists are sleeping their way to the top."
Great; and too many people already think we behave like tabloid journalists.
For political drama that is character-driven with a strong (villainous lead), perhaps I would be better off re-visiting the original "House of Cards."
The story was continued in two sequels, "To Play the King" and "The Final Cut." According to Wikipedia, "The House of Cards trilogy was ranked 84th in the British Film Institute list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes."
Read the review by Rosenberg at www.record-bee.com/digital-first-media/ci_22538910/house-cards-thinks-all-female-political-reporters-are.
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The Rockies targeted Houston Astros pitcher Darryl Kile, fresh off a season in which he finished fifth in the NL Cy Young voting (19–7, 2.57 ERA), and inked him to a three-year, $24 million dollar deal. That may not seem impressive in 2013, but it made Kile the fourth-highest paid pitcher in baseball at the time. Rockies owner Jerry Morris proclaimed it a "memorable moment" for the organization and "the first step to attaining a world championship."
Unfortunately for Kile and the Rockies, his stay was a disaster. In 1998, Kile's ERA ballooned to 5.20 and his K/9 rate dropped to its lowest level since his rookie season. Still, his ERA+ was 100, suggesting he would have been a league-average pitcher if all MLB games were played in the same stadium. It was in 1999 that things got really ugly. In 190.2 innings, Kile posted a 6.61 ERA, the second-worst of all time for someone who'd thrown that many innings in a season. Worse, his road ERA (5.89) had become so bad that it couldn't do much to offset his atrocious home ERA (7.44). It was as if Kile had been ruined as a pitcher.
Bewildered by his drop-off in performance, the Rockies shipped Kile out to St. Louis, where he recovered his form from Houston. In 2½ seasons with the Cards, Kile went 41–24 with a 3.54 ERA (125 ERA+). Tragically, he died of a heart attack at midseason in 2002.
Meanwhile, the Rockies were on the hunt again for starting pitching. They were even more aggressive this time, signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $124 million deal—the largest in baseball. Hampton had finished the 1999 season in Houston with a league-leading 22 wins and was the runner-up in Cy Young voting. In 2000, with the Mets, he was productive again and posted a 3.14 ERA in 217.2 innings.
The problem was, Hampton couldn't pitch at Coors. Before his signing, his career ERA in Colorado was 6.88. Once he started pitching there full-time, he overnight became one of the worst pitchers in baseball. He spent two seasons in Denver, accumulating a 21–28 record and a 5.75 ERA before mercifully being sent off to Atlanta. His ERA returned to Earth in 2003, at 3.84.
Why did two of baseball's biggest pitching stars, in the prime of their careers, fail so dramatically in Colorado? One hypothesis I developed is that both Kile and Hampton were known to rely on specific pitches that Coors's thin atmosphere could have affected. Kile threw one of the most feared curveballs of his day. He played before PITCHf/x, but the video evidence suggests that it was a mean breaker indeed. Hampton's sinker has been tracked by PITCHf/x and can be viewed below in comparison to his four-seam fastball.
The sinker clearly sinks as well as tails. The visual gap in movement between his four-seam and two-seam fastballs speaks to a great difference in their effectiveness, too. In the PITCHf/x era, batters hit .272 against his sinker (not bad, considering sinkers have the lowest whiff rates of any pitch type) versus .401 against his fastball. Yikes.
It turns out that Hampton could not make his sinker work in Denver. He complained to one reporter in 2002, "I've just stopped throwing it. It's been ineffective. … [It] hasn't worked in over a year."
It's also the case that pitch selection at Coors varies dramatically from the rest of Major League Baseball. In the 2012 season, visiting pitchers favored cutters and sliders and stayed away from curveballs, compared to MLB averages.[i]
To me this prompted the question: which pitches—and pitchers—have a better shot of succeeding for the mile-high Rockies?
First, I will prove the existence of a "Coors Effect" on pitching that slightly decreases a pitch's spin deflection compared to other parks, using curveballs as an example. Second, I will show that the Coors Effect is uneven across pitch types, and that sliders are the least impacted by the atmospheric change in Colorado.
Pitch movement
Luckily, the curveball is rarely thrown by submarine-style pitchers.[ii] The wrist "snap" on the release of a curveball is most natural when thrown from a three-quarters or over-the-top arm slot. Additionally, the "drop" characteristic of a good curve can be achieved only by imparting topspin—that is, by snapping the wrist down instead of across the body. The curveball thus has a distinctive spin deflection across MLB that makes for easy park-to-league comparison.
This is easily viewed in the chart below, containing the spin deflections of a sample of 5,000 curveballs thrown by right-handed pitchers in the 2012 season outside of Coors Field.[iii]
As the chart demonstrates, an average curveball usually gets between about 4 and 8 inches of horizontal spin deflection ("sweep"), and about -3 to -9 inches of vertical spin deflection ("drop"). About 10 percent of these pitches (515) had at least -10 inches of vertical deflection. This gives us an idea of what to expect from Coors Field curveballs if the hypothesis is null and Coors has no effect.
Below is a graph of all right-handed curveballs thrown in Denver by visiting pitchers during the 2011 and 2012 seasons (N=1,471).
There is a small but visible shift toward zero movement for both the horizontal and vertical axes, as well as a sharp drop-off in the number of curveballs with lots of vertical deflection.[iv] Both the shift in mean deflection and the reduction in high-deflection curves is visible in the following overlay.
The PITCHf/x data used here indicates a Coors Effect of about 1 inch of horizontal movement and 1.5 inches of vertical movement. The width of a bat at the sweet spot is only about 2.5 inches, so every bit of lost movement is a victory for the hitter.
Dr. Alan Nathan, an expert on the aerodynamics of a baseball in flight, has hypothesized that one would expect the Magnus effect to have only 82 percent of the impact in Denver that one would expect at sea level, since given equal atmospheric inputs (temperature, humidity), air pressure in Denver is only 82 percent of what it would be at sea level. Dr. Nathan noticed in reviewing some of my early results that the root of sum of squares of the curveball movement was .80, suggesting that atmospheric conditions explained most, if not all, of the variation in curveball spin deflection.
Pitch outcomes
In order to get a comprehensive view of the success of each pitch type, I have calculated the batting average and ISOs against each type inside and outside of Coors in the 2011 and 2012 seasons.[v] ISO, or isolated power, is slugging percentage minus batting average, a measure of extra-base power. An increase in batting average between two data sets means the ball is being hit more frequently, whereas an increase in ISO between two data sets means the ball is being hit for more power. With that in mind, let us view the data, looking first at batting average.
For pure batting average, the data strongly supports the idea that curveballs lose effectiveness relative to sliders, and that sinkers lose effectiveness relative to cut fastballs. Sliders become by far the best absolute option. Changeups and four-seamers also had significant Coors Effects. Now let's look at ISO.
Once again, sliders drew a comparative and absolute advantage against curveballs in comparing extra-base power. Interestingly, changeups and cutters suffered the worst effects. The four-seam fastball, meanwhile, was the only pitch type whose ISO increase was significantly less than its batting average increase—meaning that a great deal of the inflated batting average resulted in extra singles.
A side note on "whiffs"
These trends were not followed at Coors, where the curveball actually had the largest jump in whiff rates compared to the non-Coors numbers from last year. Fastballs and changeups suffered.
There is no obvious explanation for this. There might be a selection bias in who decided to throw curveballs at Coors despite the Coors Effect—maybe only pitchers with good curves dared to throw them in Denver. The ony discernible pattern is that the three pitch types with the most tailing movement were the ones that suffered drops in whiff rate, while the pitch types with the most gloveside movement had improvements. I will leave it for future research to tease that relationship out more fully.
For the first time, however, PITCHf/x has given us the ability to show that certain pitch types actually are adversely affected by thin atmospheric conditions more than others. There is strong evidence that the slider performs in absolute and comparative terms better than the curveball in Coors Field. Part of this can probably be attributed to the fact that sliders deviate from the "gyroball" trajectory of a pitch thrown in a vacuum the least of the major pitch types. Sinking fastballs also have a sharp drop-off in performance at Coors, and there is some evidence that using a cut fastball would be a good alternative.
Rockies management would be wise to learn from failed pitching experiments past. Their system ought to emphasize pitchers developing an arsenal of pitches that could be used effectively at home. This most obviously means encouraging their pitchers to throw sliders instead of curveballs as their main breaking ball, although further study might be able to illuminate what other pitches offer a comparative advantage in Denver.
[i] Based on all pitches thrown in the 2012 season (N=676,730). Selection bias caused by mistaken labeling is a risk with this data, but it is minimized by the fact that I'm using manually classified pitch labels. All pitch information is courtesy of MLB Advanced Media and Sportvision, and the manual labels are courtesy of Harry Pavlidis.
[ii] Arizona's Brad Ziegler is an exception to that rule. His data was therefore excluded from this study. I also excluded his teammate David Hernandez, whose slurvy breaking ball appears closer to slider than curveball. Additionally, two pitches thrown by Livan Hernandez and one by Blake Hawksworth were excluded from the Coors Field data set because they were very clearly misread by PITCHf/x (exhibiting anomalous spin and speed characteristics).
[iii] Skewness in the distribution of horizontal movement (H mov) was almost nonexistent. Skewness of vertical movement (V mov) was only minutely present—not nearly large enough to warrant further comment.
[iv] In the Coors sample, only 15 pitches (1%) had more than -10 inches of vertical deflection.
[v] I excluded bunt attempts from this data, unless it resulted in a strikeout. Due to concerns about sample size, I excluded splitters and knuckleballs from this study.
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The impact on sinkers is basically all batting average; sinkers don't rank nearly as bad when you look at ISO. So maybe the Rockies should get sinkerballers and a competent infield defense!
Apr 02, 2013 07:16 AM
Sinkers might be a more effective strategy at Coors than in some other parks. Sinkerballers will give up lots of hits since they are putting balls on the ground more often, but theoretically fewer of those hits will be home runs.
Apr 02, 2013 07:37 AM
Few Rockies pitchers have featured sliders. Usually, its cut fastballs or sinkers then limiting walks and relying on a strong defense i.e. the Aaron Cooks/Jeff Francises of the world.
Apr 02, 2013 07:25 AM
Also, I've seen Livan Hernandez throw at least one eephus pitch during the playoffs at Coors. Were those the pitches excluded for anomalous speed?
Apr 02, 2013 07:26 AM
Fair question. The data set contains what Harry Pavlidis calls "slow curves," some of which might resemble eephus pitches. I lumped those in with the other curveballs.
Apr 02, 2013 07:33 AM
I have always speculated that a sinker would be more effective at Coors than elsewhere, at least from a "sink" point of view. As the data shows, the vertical movement on a sinker is upward, so I would expect less upward movement at Coors, meaning more sink. Of course, there will also be less armside movement. Have you taken a look at sinkerball movement at Coors compared to other places?
Apr 02, 2013 07:32 AM
I haven't studied this in depth yet, although it presents a research opportunity that I know you have been curious about.
Apr 02, 2013 07:46 AM
I would expect a 4S fastball to be more of a baseline trajectory for a batter, in part because a batter typically sees more of these pitches than any other. Relative to the 4S, a ball thrown with a lot less backspin (SI or splitter) or with topspin (CU) sinks and one thrown with a little extra backspin rises.
Apr 02, 2013 08:02 AM
Please send this article to the "geniuses" that run the Rockies. They have preached sinkerball pitchers as the answer ad nauseum. Problem is--the sinkers don't sink as much at Coors and they end up in the pine trees in right center or clunking some poor purple troll* (trademark name for the normal Rockies fan who could care less about the game of baseball, but likes to come out to Coors to be seen, enjoy the weather, and drink some great Colorado microbrews) in the back of the head in the left field concourse who is standing in line for a Helton Burger.
Apr 02, 2013 07:37 AM
As Alan Nathan noted above, it is possible that sinkers actually do sink more in Coors (although they would also have less tailing action, which is another characteristic trait of sinkers). In any case, they would almost certainly behave differently at Coors than at other parks, which means Rockies pitchers should not expect to be able to pitch successfully using exactly the same approach at home as on the road. Pitchers are creatures of habit, and the idea of pitching as an adjustment to the atmosphere is probably not something they have dealt with before.
Apr 02, 2013 07:55 AM
Here's a thought about higher curve ball whiff rates at Coors:
Apr 02, 2013 08:37 AM
Clayton Kershaw has a 5.88 career ERA at Coors. That should tell you something.
Apr 02, 2013 08:53 AM
So tell us what it tells you. Otherwise, I don't see the point of your comment. I'm not trying to be nasty here, just want to know what conclusion about pitch selections (the topic of the article) you draw from Kershaw's ERA at Coors.
Apr 02, 2013 08:56 AM
Simply that it's difficult to pitch at Coors...even for the best of them.
Apr 02, 2013 08:59 AM
And Kershaw has a great curveball that probably suffers at Coors. His fastball also has a lot of "rise" that would decrease there. Thanks for the comment.
Apr 02, 2013 11:03 AM
What's most out of whack is his HR/9 rate. His other ratios like H/9, BB/9 are slightly worse than his career rates, but then again, you're comparing Coors vs a guy who spends half his starts in a pitcher's park like LA.
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Shaggy Dinosaur Jr. guitar wizard J Mascis is a notoriously flaky and reticent interview subject, so maybe that explains why he's kept a deeply fascinating life episode to himself for the past couple of decades. But in a recent interview, Mascis mentions offhandedly that Kurt Cobain once extended Mascis an invitation to join Nirvana. Let's all think about that for a second.
Mascis let this little nugget slip while he was talking to Spin's David Bevan, who has a big new feature on Dinosaur Jr. According to Mascis, Cobain met Mascis in 1989 and casually mentioned that he should be in the band: "Nirvana was playing Maxwell's and after the show I was talking to Kurt and Thurston Moore. Kurt said, 'You should join my band.' I think he was sick of the guy Jason [Everman] who was in the band at the time, and thought I should play guitar. I didn't think much about it. Later, there was also talk of playing drums on a single [1990's 'Sliver'] they were doing, but it ended up being [Mudhoney drummer] Dan Peters."
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This is a total Marvel Comics What If? scenario, and it reminds me a bit of the question of the 2003 NBA draft. The Pistons, picking second, settled on untested Serbian center Darko Milicic, widely regarded as a historic bust even though he's still in the league and playing OK. In picking Darko, they passed over future stars Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh. A year later, the Pistons won the NBA Championship, relying on defense and scrappy underdog chemistry to overcome the all-star juggernaut Lakers, but Darko barely played that year. If the Pistons had picked one of the obviously better players later in the draft, would they have still won the title? Could they have repeated the next year? Or would the presence of a young star on a tough veteran team fuck the chemistry all up? If Mascis had joined Nirvana, he would've gotten the band a ton of attention, added one legend to the lineup, and automatically jumped out as the most talented musician in the band. But would his presence have helped Nevermind or hurt it? After all, it's not like Nevermind needed a ton of help.
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