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We all know that Lowriders are all about paint. Without the right paintjob, your automotive masterpiece is just a rough draft. From Candy to Flake, Lowriders have been at the forefront of automotive paint technology; it just comes with the territory of being the talk of the Boulevard. Thanks to advances in paint production, there is no secret that today's paint technology is not the same as it was when our culture was born, some thirty years ago. We have seen great strides in paint technology and techniques, as the industry has evolved from the single stage acrylic paint, lacquer, and urethane basecoats which have lasted for over a decade, to where we are at today. So now, we are showcasing the latest waterborne basecoat technology. This innovation is something that is environmentally friendly, and is still able to give you the luster found in some of today's most sought after paint finishes.
Who ever thought you would use water to thin out your paint? It's not new technology; it's been around for years in Europe. This technology has also been in play at the OEM level in America. Current air quality regulations have led to safer paints, in order to promote a cleaner environment and a healthier world. The local body shops have followed suit, making their own transition into the waterborne paint bases. It's been a learning experience for everybody, but it is not as bad as some people thought the transition would be.
With all of that said, what are custom painters to do? Should they quit painting, or move to Arizona where the laws are a little more lenient for custom paint finishes? For those of you in this boat, we advise you to make the transition, too. After all, you can't really run from it, and you certainly can't just stockpile the old paint. The best thing that you can do is grab the bull by the horns and learn the new system. Once you do, you will realize that it really isn't that difficult.
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text: Aw, shucks: Woman takes corn husk dolls from craft to art By Michael Ramsburg November 10, 2012 Story Share Michael Ramsburg "If you would have ever asked me if I'd make corn husk dolls, I would have giggled," says corn husk doll maker Christine Ingersoll. You can see Ingersoll's dolls on display at Tamarack. HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Growing up in upstate New York, Christine Ingersoll was surrounded by cornfields. So her passion for crafting elegant corn husk dolls may seem an appropriate, if not a de facto, extension of her childhood environment.But she'd beg to differ."If you would have ever asked me if I'd make corn husk dolls, I would have giggled," Ingersoll said. "I don't see myself as a doll person or a sewer or a craftsy kind of person at all."So it was a bit of surprise when, after seeing an article on how to construct traditional corn husk dolls in a craft magazine, she fell in love with the past time."I just played with it and made one," Ingersoll said. "I've made them ever since."Like many of her corn husk crafting counterparts, her first dolls resembled traditional, pioneer-themed creations. But as her interest in the craft grew, so did the look of her dolls.From her desk in her office at Marshall University, the assistant professor of advertising displayed photos of her intricately embellished work. In one photo, a colonial doll with a tricorn hat is dressed in a flowing, multilayered red dress. In another, a Slovakian-inspired doll, bearing rose petals as its base, is adorned with an ornate bonnet and intricately patterned dress cover. In a third photo, an angel doll's dress is made all the more detailed with its flowing, bowed train.What started as mere leisurely craft, Ingersoll said, has turned into much more. Twenty years of experimentation have led her to a more refined process. No longer are the dolls simply craft to her, she said. Now she considers them art."I remember the turning point when my dolls finally went from just being corn husk dolls to being art I was incredibly proud of," Ingersoll said. "I don't think I really truly made art until maybe five years ago."Ingersoll has built a career around her creative side -- though not necessarily of doll making. In college, she obtained degrees in drawing and advertising. As a professor at Marshall, she guides advertising students in creating dynamic and visually appealing messages. "I guess you could call me an artist," Ingersoll said. "I see myself more as a designer."While her work is on display and for sale in West Virginia's showcase arts center, Tamarack in Beckley, Ingersoll said she has no desire to make a solo career from doll making."I just make them as art, like a painter sits to paint," Ingersoll said. "But if you're not inspired to paint, you don't paint. What I make is what I make, and that's it."The process of making each doll, each of which find their inspiration in historically and culturally accurate research, is detailed and often time-consuming. All parts of her dolls are made from natural materials, except for the wire and paper structure that forms the base of her creations. Everything is formed by hand, and she places each embellishment on her dolls piece by piece."That's what I like about making them," Ingersoll said. "I try to constantly think of ways to challenge the corn husk." Ingersoll said she finds the natural materials during her hikes and in the bulk bins at natural food stores. Mustard seed, barley and rose petals are just some of the items used in her pieces. The natural embellishments she chooses for each doll depends on the look she's going for."It's like painting," Ingersoll said. "You pick the right color for the thing."Ingersoll said one of her next projects is to create a West Virginia-inspired doll."When I was at Tamarack for my first interview ... I thought, 'I'd like to try a doll that has the essence of West Virginia,'" Ingersoll said. That's where she got the idea to make a doll using Pearl S. Buck, the Hillsboro-born author, as a starting point.One of the things that make Ingersoll's dolls unique is the amount of detail that goes into them."When [people] see all this detail, they're always overwhelmed because they know it probably took hours and hours," Ingersoll said. Indeed, each doll Ingersoll makes takes several days -- if not months -- to finish."Sometimes I'll start making a doll and it doesn't look right, and I'll put it aside and I'll go back to it," Ingersoll said. "I've got a couple little dolls that are sitting there that have probably sat there a year, and I've never went back to them because they just weren't working."In all, Ingersoll said she has made hundreds of dolls -- most of which have been unique in style and presentation.Ingersoll said the best part of making the dolls is seeing the expressions on the faces of those who see her work."When people look at them they get all excited," Ingersoll said. "I don't know, I think all of us artists have huge egos and we like people to like what we do."Want to go?WHAT: Opening reception for Corn Husk Dolls by Christine IngersollWHEN: 3 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 11WHERE: Dickirson Gallery, Tamarack, BeckleyRamsburg is a Charleston-based freelance journalist. 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"For predicting spin-transfer torque and opening the field of current-induced control over magnetic nanostructures."Background:
John Slonczewski received the Physics BS at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1950 and the Physics PhD at Rutgers University in 1955. He pursued solid-state theory as Research Staff Member in IBM from 1955 until retiring in 2002. He was located at Yorktown Heights, NY USA, except for sabbaticals in 1965-6, 1970-1, and 1987 at Rueschlikon, Switzerland.
His research in solids included fundamental theories of graphite bands, dynamic Jahn-Teller effect, and structural phase transitions. But he mostly concentrated on magnetism, including magnetic anisotropy, dynamics of bubble domains, magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque between magnetic films separated by tunnel barriers or metallic spacers, dynamics of magnetic vortices, and exchange interactions between films. Some of this work contributes critically to magnetic-memory initiatives. At times, he managed groups of general theorists and magnetism experimentalists. His personal research today involves thermallly-driven spin transfer.
Dr. Slonczewski is Fellow of the American Physical Society and Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. His awards include an IBM Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2006 IUPAP Award and Neel Medal in Magnetism, and the 2012 IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to Lead NO MAN'S LAND & WAITING FOR GODOT on Broadway in Fall 2013
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will star on Broadway in a limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, directed by Sean Mathias, in the fall of 2013.
Internationally acclaimed for their performances on stage, screen and television, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will return to Broadway playing in a rotating schedule of two of the most iconic plays of the 20th Century.
Waiting for Godot played a critically acclaimed, sold-out run in London's West End in 2009. Prior to Broadway, No Man's Land will play an out-of-town engagement this summer.
Designs for the productions include sets and costumes by Stephen Brimson Lewis (twice Tony-nominated for Indiscretions) and lighting by Peter Kaczorowski (a Tony Award winner for Contact and The Producers).
The theatre, performance dates and schedule, additional casting and other members of the creative team will be announced shortly.
Ian McKellen made his Broadway debut in Arbuzov's The Promise in 1967 and won the Tony Award for his performance in Amadeus in 1981. Patrick Stewart first appeared on Broadway in Peter Brook's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1971 and won the Drama Desk Award for A Christmas Carol in 1992. The two actors have appeared together on stage once before. In 1977 they performed in the premiere of Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Both actors have received knighthoods for their services to drama and the performing arts.
On the announcement, Ian McKellen said "British actors are used to playing in repertory, whether for The National Theatre or the Royal Shakespeare Company. We enjoy the challenge of variety, and audiences, myself included, enjoy watching a group of actors in contrasting roles. We hope, at least once a week, to give Broadway audiences the chance of seeing Beckett and Pinter on adjacent nights, perhaps even on the same day."
"All my acting life, I have been drawn to the principals and practice of a 'company,' and working with familiar, trusted friends/colleagues," said Patrick Stewart, "whether in British repertory theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, "Star Trek" or X-Men. It's not that strangeness/newness isn't exciting - it is - but when there is a common language and experience, then the unpredictable can happen. So, Ian McKellen, Sean Mathias, Stephen Brimson Lewis, Sam Beckett, Harold Pinter- plus two yet-to-be cast actors - it feels good."
In Harold Pinter's No Man's Land we wonder if two writers, Hirst (Patrick Stewart) and Spooner (Ian McKellen) really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of two other men. Do all four inhabit a no-man's-land between the present and time remembered, between reality and fantasy? No Man's Land was first produced in 1975 by The National Theatre in London with John Gielgud playing Spooner and Ralph Richardson as Hirst. No Man's Land debuted on Broadway a year later.
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot follows two consecutive days in the lives of Vladimir (Patrick Stewart) and Estragon (Ian McKellen), who divert themselves by clowning around, joking and arguing, while waiting expectantly and unsuccessfully for the mysterious Godot. Waiting for Godot premiered in Paris in 1953, followed by London in 1955 and eventually opened in New York in 1956.
Director Sean Mathias added "In Waiting For Godot, two men exist in a universe that is both real and imagined - a place where time does not always advance towards a future. And as the two men wait, two outsiders enter to disrupt that universe. In No Man's Land, two men inhabit a land that is neither here nor there - a land where time and memory play unreliable tricks. And as these two men converse, two other men who are both familiar and unfamiliar enter this same land with unnerving effect.
"Beckett and Pinter - the idea of connecting these two giant authors by examining two of their most remarkable plays with the same company of four actors portraying the writers' eight characters is one of the most exhilarating challenges I have yet faced in my work."
Rehearsals for the unprecedented repertory will begin this summer after Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart finish filming the next installment of the "X-Men" film series in their signature roles of Magneto and Professor Xavier.
No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot will be produced on Broadway by Stuart Thompson and NOMANGo Productions.
Ian McKellen (Spooner/ Estragon) has been honoured with more than 40 international awards for his performances on screen and stage. He was born in 1939 and raised in the industrial north of England. He started acting professionally in 1961. He has regularly been leading man for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre of Great Britain and on the West End stage in Shakespeare and a wide range of classic and new plays. For Sean Mathias, he was Max in Bent, Uncle Vanya and an outrageous Widow Twankey in the Old Vic's Christmas pantomime. McKellen has often worked on stage in the USA. In New York, he won every available award for his Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (1981). His solo show Acting Shakespeare packed theatres across the States and is now a teaching aid throughout the country. In 2001, he returned to Broadway in Dance of Death again directed by Mathias and hosted "Saturday Night Live." He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. Most recently, he played King Lear for the RSC at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. McKellen has starred in more than 40 movies. In 1996, he co-produced, co-scripted and starred in his film adaptation of Richard III. After Stephen King's Apt Pupil, he achieved his first Oscar nomination as film director James Whale in Gods and Monsters. He was the villain in The Da Vinci Code, the mutant Magneto in three X-Men films (with Patrick Stewart) and the wizard Gandalf, in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and again in the record-breaking Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey. Full career details on www.mckellen.com
Patrick Stewart (Hirst/ Vladimir) most recently appeared on stage in Edward Bond's Bingo at the Young Vic and Chichester Festival Theatre; and as Shylock in a 2011 RSC production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Rupert Goold. His previous collaboration with Goold, in the title role of Macbeth, played Chichester, London, BAM and then Broadway, where he earned a Tony nomination. Stewart is an Honorary Associate Artist with the RSC, having appeared in over 60 productions including, most recently, a 2008 production of Hamlet, opposite David Tennant; and 2005 repertory productions of Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest. In 1978, he won an Olivier Award for his performance in Peter Brook's production of Antony and Cleopatra and was nominated for his role in The Merchant of Venice. He also appeared in the now legendary Peter Brook production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. On Broadway and West End stages, Patrick has appeared in A Life in the Theatre, The Master Builder, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan and The Tempest. For his acclaimed solo production of A Christmas Carol, Stewart played over 40 characters, garnering an Olivier, Drama Desk and What's on Stage Award. Perhaps best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation, both on television and film, and as Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men films, Stewart has also enjoyed a successful film and television career, earning Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG Award nominations. Screen appearances include "King of Texas," Jeffrey, Dune, Excalibur, LA Story, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Conspiracy Theory, "Extras" (for which he earned an Emmy nomination), "The Lion in Winter," "I, Claudius" and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. His vocal talents have been heard on "The Simpsons," "American Dad" and "Family Guy," and as narrator of Seth MacFarlane's hit comedy, Ted. Stewart recently completed production on the Israeli film Hunting Elephants and the film adaptation of Stephen Belber's Match and will soon reprise his role as Professor Xavier in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Sean Mathias (Director) Mathias's productions have received global acclaim from Northern Ireland to New Zealand. They have visited many international cities including Paris, Sydney, Cape Town, Los Angeles, New York and London and have played on various stages including the Royal National Theatre, the Music Centre Los Angeles, the Kennedy Centre Washington DC, the Sydney Opera House, the Market Theatre Johannesburg, the Oliver Tambo Hall in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa as well as the London Fringe, the West End and Broadway. He has directed classic plays by Anhouilh, Beckett, Chekhov, Cocteau, Coward, De Filippo, Ibsen, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Strindberg and Williams as well as works by contemporary writers Samuel Adamson, Pam Gems, Richard Greenberg, Ronald Harwood, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Edna O'Brien, Bernard Pomerance, Martin Sherman and Stephen Sondheim. He has won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, a Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival, a Critics' Circle Award and an Evening Standard Award as well as nominations for the Olivier and Tony Awards. He was Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket for 2009/2010 where his legendary production of Waiting For Godot starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart smashed all box office records and the debut production of Breakfast at Tiffany's enjoyed a sensational run. He will be directing Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway this spring. He is the author of the plays Cowardice, Infidelities, A Prayer For Wings, Poor Nanny, Swansea Boys and of the screenplay The Lost Language of Cranes. He directed the movie Bent.


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Melanie Ball steps back in time in a landmark hotel that began life as a coffee palace.
Did you hear the story about the teenage porter who eventually bought the hotel? Of all the anecdotes that contribute to the history of the Quality Hotel Mildura Grand, that one most captured my imagination the first time I visited the Murray town. And planning my return with my husband, en route to the Flinders Ranges, the Seventh Street establishment, built in the early days of the Canadian Chaffey brothers' irrigation colony, is my pick.
Opened in 1890 as the Mildura Coffee Palace and described in the Sunraysia Daily as a "thing of beauty", the hotel was the Windsor of country Victoria (Melbourne's landmark hotel was also originally called the Grand) and became popular as a holiday destination for Mallee farming families.
The Mildura Grand was arguably Victoria's best country hotel in 1956, when 15-year-old Italian migrant Don Carrazza started there as a porter. By the time he bought it in 1987, it was run down. But with the help of Carrazza's new son-in-law, Stefano de Pieri, the family returned it to the upper echelons of country accommodation. While the Grand is now part of the Choice Hotels group, Carrazza still owns the building, and de Pieri, with wife Donata, still runs his signature restaurant in the cellar.
Stefano's is closed the night we are there, so we book in to another of the hotel's six eateries, but that's a few hours and a G&T away when we arrive on a sunny afternoon.
Our room is on the first floor (no lift) of the Chaffey wing, originally the Chaffey brothers' office. It is one of four rooms opening on to an elegant, wide balcony overlooking the garden and the Chaffey fountain, in which magpie-larks take turns to enthusiastically bathe.
The room itself is a good motel size and the dominant colour of the recent refurbishment is clay, with complementary carpet and curtains. There is a flat-screen television with a free in-house movie channel, a minibar, an iPod dock and free wi-fi, none of which we use. The queen-size bed proves to be extremely comfortable. With the fountain's tinkling water as a lullaby, we are not long awake on retiring after dinner.
And then we ate There is little that's Iberian about the new Spanish Bar & Grill, despite it being named after the Grand's popular Spanish Grill, which closed in 1989. Paddock products are the focus and the "meat matters" blurb on the menu convinces us to suspend, for now, our policy of eating only grass-fed beef. We wash down succulent grain-fed Mallee steaks with The Guilty, a full-bodied shiraz from the boutique Mildura winery Shinas Estate.
The included breakfast is a continental and pre-cooked hot buffet eaten under hanging extravaganzas in the Chandelier Room.
The deal maker The Grand's historic charm shines through the recent contemporary corporate refit and the lobby lounge is a gallery of black-and-white photographs illustrating the changing fashions in exterior and interior design - some more appealing than others - over the hotel's life. Staying here also puts you at the heart of foodie Mildura, and across the road from the twice-monthly Sunraysia Farmers Market.
Stepping out Take a day tour to World Heritage-listed Mungo National Park, in southwest NSW. Wentworth, where the Darling River meets the Murray, is a short run downstream, but there's lots to see and do in Mildura, too. Explore the diverse memorabilia in the Langtree Hall Museum or check out current exhibitions at the Art Vault.
Quality Hotel
Mildura Grand
Address Seventh Street, Mildura, Victoria 3500.
The verdict A companionable marriage of modern facilities and heritage at the happening end of town.
Price Grand Rooms $175 a couple a night, Grand Executive Rooms $210; includes cooked breakfast. Packages available.
Bookings Phone toll-free 1800 034 228 (24 hours); see qualityhotelmilduragrand .com.au.
Getting there A six-hour drive via the Calder Freeway/Highway into southern Mildura.
Perfect for Couples and families exploring the Mallee region and on the way to outback South Australia and NSW.
Wheelchair access Some parts only, with assistance.
While you're there Stock up on Mallee foodstuffs. Drop in at W.B. Chaffey's grand home, Rio Vista House. Step back in time at Old Wentworth Gaol and toboggan down the Perry Sandhills on cardboard, just north of Wentworth.
Weekends Away are reviewed anonymously and paid for by Traveller.
The story From grind to Grand first appeared on The Sydney Morning Herald.


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Danny did make a few nice passes yesterday, he only got 2 assists, but he did have some hockey assists
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Danny did make a few nice passes yesterday, he only got 2 assists, but he did have some hockey assists
I saw what I hoped to see from Danny last night. Really great to see that he was noticeably looking to make the extra pass. My brother and I were laughing because some of those passes were kind of awkward looking, and they were passes we'd rarely seen Danny attempt. He made most of them though, and he made several good basketball plays that led to hockey assists. I know it's 1 only 1 game, but I think if he's stays healthy he'll really help the offense.
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Of course, in the same breath one can easily forget that Mike Dunleavy looked like an all-star offensive player under JOb as well...and one can easily forget that we were dreaming of a .500 records for years while those threes were racking up fake numbers for Troy Murphy too. Yes, we have all forgotten so much...
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
But my belief is that people need to adjust what they expect from Granger this year for several reasons. One is his health. Another is the fact he's not going to have the same role on this team. This is not a .400 JOb team. Yet people insisted early on he would have to start shortly after he returned.
Then you have people who are trying to prop up Danny's dribble, passing and defense as-if they are anything better than average as a starting SF. I'm sorry, but he can't be all-star level at everything particularly when he hasn't made an all-star team in a long time. Average starting quality skill is nothing to sneeze at. He is below average dribbling the ball for a wing. Is that blasphemy or something? Nope. Is he still an above average starting SF in the NBA? If healthy, yes.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Anyone who seriously thought Dunleavy looked like an all-star was solely focuses on his 19ppg and nothing else.
I'm one of the people who thought Danny would be a starter if/when he came back at the start of the season. I believed that mostly because Coach Vogel said so and Danny said so. My not so secret wish was for him to be the 6th man coming in for West and PG/Lance. Of course, that was before we signed Luis and Danny came up with the strain. I now see him as the 8th guy off the bench to rotate Lance and PG for rest periods. Probably won't see much time at the 4 unless we have injuries down the road. Thought then and think now that DG will be whatever the team needs him to be to help the Ps win games. I just hope he stays healthy and gets to finish the year(and maybe his career) as a winner/Champion. Why some folks get so angry that everybody doesn't agree with their opinion is beyond me???
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Also, I think Dunleavy and Murphy supporters...maybe even JOb supporters as a whole...invented the phrase "team defense" to eliminate defensive weaknesses from being considered.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Another word that was impossible to use here without creating a lot of overreactions, yes he said that he was "one dimensional"Granger said afterward that his seemingly one-dimensional approach was a virtual necessity in previous years, but changed when Vogel replaced Jim O'Brien as coach midway through the 2010-11 season.
And this is Paul George's take on what DG is going to bring:
The highlighted part is interesting.You saw it all tonight, George said. He was able to share the ball. He was drawing guys to him. He wasn't looking to force anything. And when he had opportunities to be aggressive and look for his shot, he did. I think that's what's your gonna see.
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Love Larry Bird. Asked him why Granger starts so slowly every year, he says, "Cuz he doesn't work hard enough in the off-season.''
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Bird said he's not actively looking to deal Granger, but isn't closing any doors to the idea, either. "If it can help the franchise...''
I'm glad to hear that.
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Bob Kravitz is drinking the koolaid "and hope he lead them to a championship", lets calm down Bob lol
http://www.indystar.com/story/sports...anger/4157841/Danny Granger probably won't be a Pacer beyond this year, not with him being in the final year of a contract that pays $14 million a season. And he understands that. The Pacers aren't going to pay the luxury tax, unless Herb Simon has an epiphany, and there's the not-so-small matter of re-signing free agent-to-be Lance Stephenson this summer.
But Granger, who returned to the lineup Friday against the Houston Rockets, wants desperately to remain a Pacer beyond the trade deadline, to help take this team as far as it can go this spring.
"It's really important for me to remain a Pacer," he said Saturday. "I feel like I've been a big part of the building, gone through a lot of the bad years and now the good. I'd love to stay, but I understand the business of basketball and I understand that I might be a trade commodity."
The Pacers will have two options: They can hold onto Granger and hope he helps lead them to a championship and ultimately lose him to free agency for no compensation, or they can trade him at the deadline.
The best call is to keep him. Hope he returns to something close to his All-Star form and turns into one of the most dynamic bench scorers in the league. As good as this team is now, 21-5 heading into Sunday's home game against Boston, imagine the Pacers with Granger off the bench instead of, say, Orlando Johnson or Rasual Butler.
"I've talked to Danny, talked to his agent; I'm not looking to trade him," team president Larry Bird said Saturday. "But you never know. If the right thing came along that would help the franchise, I would have to look at it, but I'm not out there looking at deals."
If the Pacers did deal Granger —and he'd have to be healthy for anybody to want him — they'd have to take back $14 million in salary commitments. That means bringing back guys who are in the final year of their contract, along with trade exceptions.
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"We couldn't take back guys who are going to be $14 million next year," Bird said.
Will Granger struggle in his comeback? Absolutely, he'll struggle. He's missed nine months. Even when he's been healthy, he's always been a slow starter throughout his career.
There's a reason for that, according to the eternally honest Bird.
"He doesn't work hard enough (in the offseason)," Bird said. "He's not a guy who'll push himself to the brink like a lot of our guys do. He works hard but he doesn't push himself. That's why he starts slow every year and he just works his way back. Now this year, he's been hurt, so it's a different deal."
A word for Pacers fans: Patience.
Because in the long run, Granger could be the difference between beating the Miami Heat in the likely Eastern Conference Finals matchup and falling short for a third straight time.
I get the sense that Pacers fans have dismissed Granger, or at least forgotten about him, but we're talking here about a former All-Star and a guy who will give you significant points, whether he's a starter or, more likely, as a leading light off the bench.
The Miami Heat have kept Greg Oden in mothballs, all in the hope of having him play a couple of productive minutes here or there against Roy Hibbert. But it's the Pacers who have the true secret weapon waiting to be unleashed come the springtime, and that's Granger.
"You know how I feel about Danny," Bird said. "He brings so much more to our team than people realize. Watching the game Friday night, our team finally looked complete. Just his toughness, his ability to shoot the ball from the outside. What we're going to need is for him to defend. It all boils down to how he defends, and that'll determine how many minutes he gets."
Before the season — before Granger had his setback with his calf — Bird said he should not lose his starting spot because of an injury. But 26 games into the season, Bird's changed his tune, and for very good reason. Stephenson has been the perfect complementary player, an energizer who doesn't need plays called for him. At this point, there's no reason to tinker with a good thing.
"It's up to Frank (Vogel), but I see him (Granger) coming off the bench for the rest of the season," Bird said. "I think Lance has earned his spot (in the starting rotation)."
Consider this bench now: C.J. Watson, who's been a massive improvement over D.J. Augustin. Granger, a former All-Star. Luis Scola, who's been money since the moment he arrived in Indianapolis. Ian Mahinmi, who gives the Pacers a rim protector when Hibbert is on the bench. And sometimes Stephenson, who often stays on the floor and plays with the second unit.
That is a scary bench — scary in a good way and not in the way they were last year, when they made you hold your breath while Gerald Green chucked up 3s.
Competitively and financially, it makes no sense to move Granger at the trade deadline.
And who knows? If Granger doesn't ask for mega-bucks at season's end, Bird can see ways to accommodate both Granger and Stephenson, however unlikely that may be. It wouldn't hurt if Simon allowed Bird to pay into the luxury tax (again, unlikely).
"Would he (Simon pay the luxury tax)? I don't know," Bird said. "I do what he tells me to do. Right now, his thing is we can't pay the luxury tax. It's like Oklahoma City; we're in the same position. If Herbie came to me, sure, we'd definitely talk about it."
In the end, Granger would be a rental through season's end, but that's a worthwhile purchase. As good as the Pacers are, they can be even better with Granger near the top of his game. He's been here through the bad times, a bright light amidst the darkness of the Jim O'Brien years. Here's hoping he's central to a championship run.
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"You know how I feel about Danny," Bird said. "He brings so much more to our team than people realize. Watching the game Friday night, our team finally looked complete. Just his toughness, his ability to shoot the ball from the outside. What we're going to need is for him to defend. It all boils down to how he defends, and that'll determine how many minutes he gets."
Well, it seems like Bird's basically saying that Danny will remain a Pacer so long as he defends and remains a team player. Also, Larry's assessment was perfect: The team finally looked complete. A healthy Danny's exactly what this team needs.
The operative word there is "approach".
It speaks to The O'brian scheme wherein Danny pretty much was a shooter first and foremost.
Approaches encourage tendencies and build upon existing talent but can be dropped or adjusted. Just like a coaching staff.
Danny is a smart, coach-able player with all the tools necessary to succeed...except perhaps good health.
Im going to say it now. With the current attendance uptick (we haven't drawn BELOW 15,000 since the second week of the season, and 7 of the 13 games have been SOLD OUT!), it might be a little easier for Mr. Simon to perhaps consider opening the pocketbook a little more....
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
If Granger is healthy you keep him through the end of the year. You only have so many shots at a championship and we have one this year. Trading him would be akin to trading Antonio Davis at the wrong time and you all know how that turned out.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
speaking of knees. at least Danny isn't supposed to be the guy to take us into the next era of Pacers basketball.
If this team wins a championship this year, I'm 85% certain that Larry will convince Herb to go over the tax to resign Lance and Danny (if he takes a major paycut to remain on a contender). Herb's not getting any younger and he's having just as much fun watching this team compete and win (flashback to Herb dancing). He knows this could be the last time he sees his team be a contender.
He probably won't ever be the same player he used to be, but I'm glad he's finally back... been waiting for so long
"Josh Smith Re-building the city of Detroit one brick at a time"Originally Posted by Piston Prince
I'm not saying. But I'm jus'sayin.
I mean, your niece already put your name on Assembly Hall. Gotta do SOMETHING with all them billions Herbie.No. I tell you, I was pretty content. The thing that got me was when other teams started calling. It sort of fired me up a little bit. I never really gave Donnie or anyone an answer until Herbie called me one day. That day, I was a little bored. He said, with his age, he wanted to make a run for it. Just about all the guys here were our guys. Let's make a run for it and see what we can do. If you're not doing anything, why not? Once I found out we had a little bit of money this summer and were probably going to sign Paul George without waiting to match an offer and all that, I was set to come back. Once I told him that, he called back the next day and said, 'I want you in the office next week.' And I'm not going to start paying you until July 1. (laughs)
Think when he goes to a board of directors meeting for Simon Properties Group anybody has the balls to call him Herbie? Let alone in print.
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It's Mother's Day, the day we have set aside to honor mothers throughout the country. Actually, each day should be a day to reflect on what our mothers and fathers have done for us and what, as parents, we have done for our children.
Of course not every parent sticks around, a curse of our society. But for those that do, especially with athletic children, it's very satisfying and rewarding. This week, we listened as NBA most valuable player Kevin Durant praised his mom and viewed top NFL draftees hug their mommas after being announced.
Athletes, it seems, have a special place in their hearts for their mothers. It usually starts at an early age as it's the mom who often takes the athlete to practice and enforces the rules (mainly grades) required. We are short-changing fathers, but during our lengthy career, we've seen more mothers at practices than fathers.
Not many will remember Courtney Hall, who played football at L.A. Banning, Rice University and the San Diego Chargers. Yet, despite the fact he last played in the NFL in 1999, his praise of his mother rings true for so many current athletes.
"My mom is probably the toughest person I know and she really instilled that toughness, fearlessness, really great desire to achieve and excel and not let anything hold me back," the former All_pro center said. "Everything that I have done, she has said, 'Courtney, do not settle for second best. Always strive to do more, do better, and do not be afraid to fail because if you do not try you are not going to know how well you can do.'
"She is still a very powerful force in my life and gives me a lot of great words and inspiration."
Not a bad compliment to the person that brought you in to the world.
And talk of tough, we'll always remember the role Chris Polk's mom played in his life. Long before he joined the NFL and the Eagles, Polk played youth football in the area before his Redlands East Valley High School career. He was good enough to earn a scholarship to Washington.
But what made him so tough? His mother played tackle with him, encouraging her son to run faster and hit harder until she no longer was able to take it. Many others followed her path on getting out of Chris' way.
While not widely known, mothers were a key part of the Fontana High School football dynasty more than 25 years ago. Each time one of Dick Bruich's players gained all-CIF recognition, his mother would receive a bouquet of flowers with a card that read, "To have an All-CIF kid, it takes an All-CIF mother.
Not a bad compliment to the person that brought you in to the world.
Across the country in Florida, as Teddy Bridgewater played high school football, his mother Rose fought breast cancer. He wanted to quit playing football and be the man of the family, but his mother refused to let him. In turn, she fought with all her strength, not missing a game. She was also his beacon during hard times at Louisville.
"She told me that I'm blessed and God blessed me with talent so use it to the best of my ability and take advantage," he said before the draft where he was taken in the first round by Minnesota. "She told me to have a purpose in life and that's one thing that I take away from her, besides her fight, determination and sacrifices that she made. To live that purpose out loud."
And now, Bridgewater has kept a promise he made in the third grade as an eight-year-old.
"When I make it to the pros, guess what I'm going to buy you?" he said to his mother. "A pink Escalade."
On Wednesday, he presented his mother just that, a Cadillac SUV with pink rims, that was captured by filmmaker Spike Lee's documentary, "A #Promise2Rose."
Not a bad compliment to the person that brought you in to the world.


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April 26, 2013
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The Hawk Trap
I don't know how we got to this point, but the long-awaited grudge match between White Sox color commentator Hawk Harrelson and MLB Network broadcaster Brian Kenny (with occasional contributions from Harold Reynolds) took place last night. Everyone was polite, nobody got sent to the hospital, and Hawk launched a thousand indignant tweets. You can see the whole thing through the miracle of YouTube, if you have ten minutes to spare for Hawk to say five minutes' worth of sentences twice:
So what we have is a discussion between someone who's practically a caricature of the old guard of baseball and someone in Kenny who is trying to immerse himself as much as possible in new analysis. And, of course, it started with Hawk asking, "Did any you guys see the movie Moneyball?"
Hawk had seen Moneyball, and boy, did it get his goat. He felt like the movie missed the point: "When you got Mulder and Zito and Hudson, you can write any book you want to. Because this is a game of defense, and pitching is the first line of defense."
This is as good a time to mention this, not that I haven't said it before and not that I won't have to say it again. But let's quickly examine the official rules of baseball. Don't worry, we'll stick to the very first page:
That's baseball in a nutshell—you win by scoring more runs than your opponent, or put another way, more runs than you give up. You can do this two ways:
Except that good teams tend to be good at both. And the key point is that each run scored is a run allowed for the other team—there's a symmetry in baseball between scoring and allowing runs. Hawk can focus all he wants to on one side of the ledger, but that just means he misses out on the other half, not that he's found some key insight. He also seems to miss out on the point of Moneyball, which can be explained by this delightful exchange:
Ignorance of the other side's point is the best way to prove yourself right. (To yourself, at least.)
And now we get to the crux of Hawk's argument, doing the best job I can of capturing his unique manner of speaking:
I also said there's a place in baseball for numbers. But, I also said that it's the most overrated issue to come into baseball in the last 10, 15 years. And I stand by that, because it's not ready yet. Down the road 40 or 50 years… when you can put some of those categories, you know you got your oh-bee-pee-ess, and all that, and the vee-oh-arr-pees. When they put in tee-dubya-tee-dubya and then interface those numbers with tee-dubya-tee-dubya, then you might have something cooking. And that's the will to win.
Let's get the minor objections out of the way first—there is no such thing as OBPS (and yes, I listened to that section of the clip a good dozen times to transcribe it for y'all, that is what he said), and while we at Baseball Prospectus are always thrilled to have a mention of VORP, it should be noted that it hasn't been our primary replacement-level metric for, oh, about six or seven years now.
But that's incidental to the thrust of his argument—that these things just aren't ready yet, dadgum it. It turns out, though, that real baseball teams are using this stuff to win baseball games. And not just the Moneyball A's and the Too Much Moneyball Yankees and Red Sox. It's the San Francisco Giants, who just won a World Series and who have been the pilot team for a lot of new technologies like FIELDf/x. It's the St. Louis Cardinals, who have quietly built one of the most impressive analytics operations in all of baseball. Numerous division rivals, even the tradition-oriented Minnesota Twins, are getting in on the act. Hawk may be surprised to find that even the White Sox themselves are not above using a number now and then, and have a general manager who can talk meaningfully about the concepts of sample size and regression to the mean.
And why are all these teams using sabermetrics, even though there are still gaps in our understanding? Because there are still gaps in our understanding! That's not a belief contrary to doing good sabermetrics, it's one that is central to it—Bill James got his start precisely because he was willing to accept that there were baseball questions that had yet to be answered. So there are things we can't measure, and there are things we measure incorrectly. Yet people still use sabermetrics, and it still has value. How is that?
Think of how our knowledge of our own solar system has grown and changed over history. We started off with convoluted geocentric models that, while they did have predictive power, managed to get such things as "the Earth orbits around the Sun" completely backwards. Then Nicolaus Copernicus gave us the first complete heliocentric model, which managed to get the Sun in the right position and improved upon the geocentric models for predictive power, but made such basic errors as assuming orbits were circular. Johannes Kepler came along and gave us elliptical orbits and his laws of planetary motion, further improving the model. Later works introduced the idea that the sun itself is not stationary but also moving throughout a larger galaxy. And Albert Einstein's theory of relativity has further increased our understanding of how our solar system works.
What do all of these models of planetary motion have in common? Well, one common feature is that all of them were wrong (give Einstein's theories time, and eventually they will probably be supplanted as well). But each in succession has improved our understanding of how the universe works and our place in it, as well as our ability to make predictions that astronomers (and interested observers) find useful.
Meanwhile, you have some people who still think the whole shebang is a giant disk sitting on the back of an enormous tortoise and that this whole globe idea is nothing more than a conspiracy of cartographers, and that's where you'll find Hawk Harrelson.
Hawk is at least two kinds of extra special wrong. One is what Isaac Asimov described as "wronger than wrong," where you're clinging to outmoded beliefs and defending yourself by claiming that better ideas than yours are also incorrect and refusing to address your own deficiencies. Sabermetrics' failure to be perfect is not a blanket justification to ignore all of it.
The other kind of extra special wrong Hawk stumbles into (in the same paragraph, no less!) is what Wolfgang Pauli called "not even wrong." It's when you make claims that can't be refuted, and in doing so make claims that aren't worth refuting. Hawk talks about "the will to win" (and believe me, he keeps repeating this) being the most important thing in baseball, and apparently it's judged by how many wins you have. If you've won a lot, you had the will; if you didn't, well, you didn't.
People like Hawk will always roll out this line of thinking because it can't be disproven, so they never reach a moment where they're refuted and forced to actually quit. So what they never notice is that it's also totally meaningless; you can only ever figure out who had the will to win after the fact, at which point it's too late to do anything about it.
Sabermetrics, meanwhile, works the way science does: by making predictions (scientists call these hypotheses) that you can test. In testing them, you can find evidence for or against your prediction. And over time, as you come up with more hypotheses and do more testing, you inch closer to a better understanding of what it is you're studying. One side effect of this is that you end up making predictions that have been tested, which turns out to be useful to people who have to make decisions about the future. So by trying to do baseball science, sabermetricians found themselves doing things that general managers could adopt and use to their own purposes. Hawk has noticed this, but it hasn't exactly made him happy. In fact, it has made him kind of angry, which prompted a wonderful rant.
"It's gotten people fired," Hawk said. "It's gotten managers fired because they had to manage a game they didn't know. Sabermetrics disdains defense, disdains speed, bunting—bunting!—hit-and-run… A friend of mine who was a scout, God rest his soul, told me there was a manager who had to call up in the late innings of a ballgame to a GM's booth and ask him if he could bunt, because it was a close ballgame."
The three of them debated this for a bit until Kenny asked point blank, "Wouldn't you want to know what the percentages were?" And Reynolds and Harrelson both in unison shouted "no!" At this point Reynolds took over for Hawk, asking the question, "But are the percentages going to tell you what's going to happen at that exact moment?"
No, of course they're not. Nor is the manager's gut. What they are going to tell you is the likelihood of certain things happening, with a certain amount of accuracy (and the more and better inputs you have, the more accuracy you can get).
Let's take the intentional walk as an example. If you intentionally walk a guy with two outs, typically the next batter you face gets out and the intentional walk "works." On the other hand, if you decide not to issue the intentional walk and face the current batter with two outs, typically he gets out and challenging the hitter "works." This is because even the very best batters (aside from a four-year stretch by Barry Bonds) make outs more than half the time.
So if you look at one "to IBB or not to IBB" decision in isolation, either way it works most of the time. But one decision is more right than the other—maybe not by a lot, probably never by as much as you might guess from the more impassioned reactions of some armchair managers. And you won't notice the difference just looking at this one instance. But if you step back and look at a whole lot of them all at once, then you can see how the small difference accumulates over time.
That's why the percentages matter—they cannot tell you exactly what will happen right now, but they will help you make the right decision often enough that over time you'll accumulate more wins than you would have otherwise.
That is the game managers know, and it works towards the goals that managers have—winning ballgames. It can be difficult for managers to incorporate new information and new learning and process it in real-time in a ballgame. And yes, some of the responsibility falls on the sabermetricians and the front-office types to make the information manageable and accessible and convenient to use. But some of it falls on the manager to adapt and incorporate every advantage he can get his hands on. Some managers won't be able to bring themselves to do what it takes to bridge that gap, and yes, they will be left behind. Because there will be other managers who take it upon themselves to learn these things and take advantage of them.
I guess you could say it's because they have the will to win.
Colin Wyers is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @cwyers
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Karl Hungus
There is a geocentric universe theory look in his eyes when he gets passionate. The only reason I go to sox games is so i dont have to see him on tv. It isnt a debate unless both parties bring something to the discussion. You cant divide by zero.
Apr 26, 2013 05:06 AM
Thanks for the summary. I had been wondering what Hawk had been saying to get everyone so riled up. I guess TWTW (tools want what tools want).
Apr 26, 2013 05:08 AM
Hawk speaks in metaphor and colloquialism yet everything he says is interpreted literally. It's ridiculous, really, as is this entire manufactured binary divide between new school and old school. MLBN uses it to drive ratings, BP and FG use it to generate page views, and tweeps use it to self-congratulate and mock the perceived "enemy." The reality is that baseball clubs rely on old and new school methods. Like economics, sabermetrics cannot account for every variable, so the best we can achieve are models of predictability. The issue for Hawk, I believe, boils down to using advanced metrics to dictate every in-game decision. The rest is noise. Everyone knows Hawk was a terrible GM. He's essentially an entertainer and propping him up as any kind of spokesman for a "debate" proves how ridiculous the debate is. .
Apr 26, 2013 06:23 AM
I think Hawk expressed himself clearly and pretty unambiguously; exactly how many times does he need to explicitly say sabermetrics isn't ready to be used by an major league team before we take him at his word that he really believes that? Because I counted something like five times in that video.
Apr 26, 2013 07:18 AM
Fair enough. Thanks for responding. I think you made your point, and you made it very well--certainly better than I made mine here. I'm just tired of the tone of the argument. My statement regarding page views/ratings was meant more generally than specifically. It's perfectly understandable that you'd want to write about this in the wake of the hyped showdown on MLBN, I just wish the conversation would move away from mocking condescension. I'm interested in learning more about what I don't know, and I think in-game strategies deserve analysis that values the input of people who have played the game. As easy as it is to mock TWTW, playing pro ballgames 162 times in 180 days is extraordinarily difficult physically and mentally, and doing so creates innumerable variables that deserve serious consideration.
Apr 26, 2013 08:19 AM
Agree 100%.
Apr 26, 2013 07:37 AM
"But does anyone think attacking the hyperbole is going foster the discussion or help improve them numbers?"
Apr 26, 2013 08:19 AM
"I also said there's a place in baseball for numbers."
Apr 26, 2013 09:22 AM
Shaun P.
"Do we have a uniform formula for WAR? Are defensive metrics consistent? If no, then are these numbers truly "ready" to be accepted en masse?"
Apr 27, 2013 07:11 AM
First off, who is creating straw men? How are you getting "should not use them" from "there's a place in baseball for numbers"? Mischaracterizing what he said to suit your argument also does nothing to further the discussion nor does it address his point. And calling anyone who has a different opinion on an issue a "moron" really doesn't help matters either.
Apr 28, 2013 06:44 AM
I don't think Hawk was as far out in left field as everyone thinks he is. I think he's just a typical skeptic who will only accept sabermetrics when it is fully baked and able to predict every single moment. Of course, that's ludicrous to ask for, but it's also a symptom of the view that many people have of the sabermetric community. I wonder how many copies of Moneyball get sent to the White Sox TV booth after this. I personally thought the segment was excellent; two sides presenting differing viewpoints and letting the viewer decide on the merits of each.
Apr 26, 2013 06:56 AM
It was tough to resist the urge to scoop out my eye balls with my spoon while eating breakfast this morning. Great job with the article Colin. I enjoyed how you added an academic angle to the "debate".
Apr 26, 2013 07:12 AM
Mike W
Every religious nut sounds the same. Frightened by reality.
Apr 26, 2013 08:10 AM
It's not as if Kenny doesn't believe there is anything to player makeup or the value of understanding of physical tools necessary to execute the game on a daily basis. MLBTV creates the debate to drive ratings, and while people lean to different sides no saber believers are 100% driven by stats, but I suppose some guys like Hawk believe in dumb luck, curses, ghosts and Adam Dunn! I know a lot of Hawks and math is hard so...
Apr 26, 2013 08:16 AM
Hawk and Harold don't want to know the percentages? I want to play poker with those fellows. And I would never dare tell them they are wrong.
Apr 26, 2013 08:21 AM
"you have some people who still think the whole shebang is a giant disk sitting on the back of an enormous tortoise"
Apr 26, 2013 09:23 AM
But the disk doesn't sit on the tortoise. It sits on the four elephants that stand on the back of the tortoise (the Great A'Tuin).
Apr 26, 2013 14:32 PM
I think it's a reference to Diskworld (Terry Pratchett series of novels - awesome)
Apr 27, 2013 23:17 PM
There's two things that I think inspired that particular turn of phrase. One is a story Stephen Hawking tells:
Apr 29, 2013 07:29 AM
Obviously, there is a point to be made, but ... Shakespeare had a line for this ...
Apr 26, 2013 10:22 AM
A team's "will to win" starts at the top, and infuses the entire organization, including the faces of the organization's media arm / cheerleaders. It takes commitment. Conviction.
Apr 26, 2013 10:52 AM
It boils down to the question of whether we, as individual baseball consumers, want more information about the game or less information.
Apr 26, 2013 10:56 AM
In defense of Hawk, Lenny Dykstra had the " will to win " against Steve Carlton. Billy bean didn't. Eventually we WILL find a metric for will to win. Whether its going to be a psych evaluation or some other measure, we will get there. Hawk be ready!!!!
Apr 26, 2013 11:25 AM
It would be interesting to hear Hawk and Harold explain the Tigers lack of "will to win" in last years WS. those Detroit boys obviously have no backbone at all.
Apr 26, 2013 14:40 PM
Hawk does, however, make a really salient point when he goes on about people getting fired.
Apr 26, 2013 15:37 PM
Why has the Law of Large Numbers never been interjected into these debates? I know it is in essence sample size, but not entirely.
Apr 26, 2013 16:01 PM
Computer models don't agree on hurricane tracks. I guess we should stop using them until we know more.
Apr 27, 2013 05:30 AM
I've never been a big fan of harrelsons broadcasts, and his whole dismissal of "sabermetrics" was pretty ridiculous, but I give him props on two things, one was that he was so damn civil about it. The first time someone says Kinney took issue with his comments on saber metrics, hawk just says, people think differently, "and you're one of my favorite guys" . the other thing is that he had a point about beane's success with the As was as much about having those three young aces Hudson, mulder and zito, and their eventual replacements as it was their selection of hitters by OBP rather than old school ways. Ignoring the pitching aspect was IMO a glaring omission in the otherwise great film. It is not however reason enough to completely statistical analysis as hawk does. Conversely, hawks flawed anti numbers argument deserves to be eviscerated but he doesn't deserve to be labeled a flat-earther just because he won't embrace new statistical analysis overnight.
Apr 27, 2013 15:07 PM
Dave Holgado
"So there are things we can't measure, and there are things we measure incorrectly."
Apr 28, 2013 09:27 AM
You might think that, but last night I was at the BP get together at Dodger Stadium and Ned Colletti felt the need to open the discussion with a vigorous defense of the importance of scouting, assuring us that numbers weren't the be all and end all for player decisions. He was clearly assuming we didn't think it was important at all. He also clearly hasn't read this site recently (if ever) and was, IMO, really condescending in the whole segment of the discussion. For the record, Ned treats it as 52% scouting and 48% statistical evidence.
Apr 28, 2013 18:29 PM
P.S. mulder and Hudson were moneyball selections. They were college pitchers.
Apr 28, 2013 09:47 AM
He says that stats have a place "in 40-50 years," so he might as well say "never." But it'd be interesting to see what he thinks the numbers would have to produce to be accurate.
Apr 28, 2013 13:04 PM
Am I the only one who glanced at the article title and thought about the Hawk Trap guy from the Up and In Podcast?
Apr 28, 2013 20:15 PM
No. And I'm a former White Sox fan/South Sider... I can't stand Hawk. Most of us can't/couldn't.
Apr 28, 2013 22:17 PM
I suspect that was the intention, yes. One of the editors (I don't know which, but I suspect Lindbergh) included it. Roughly 75% of the time I do my own headlines, but I couldn't come up with one for this. I think it works well on a number of levels, though.
Apr 29, 2013 07:33 AM
The problem with the 'debate,' is that it doesn't exist in any meaningful way in the places that matter. 30 MLB organizations use proprietary and advanced metrics to the point where they're standard operating procedure. Perpetuating the 'discussion' outside that scope is mostly meaningless. Harrelson is an entertainer who's there to make it easier for people to watch baseball games. MLB Network is a goof ball marketing tool and a revenue generating mass. Who cares what either person's take is on it?
Apr 28, 2013 23:35 PM
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LAKEPORT -- The City of Lakeport turned 125 years old on Tuesday, just in time for the city council to get a briefing on its first official capital improvement plan (CIP), which will be reflected in the 2013-14 budget.
Daniel Buffalo, the city's finance director, outlined a draft of the five-year plan and its place in the next fiscal year at a special meeting of the city council at City Hall.
"It's the best way to run a city or local government," Buffalo said after a 45-minute presentation to the council. "It promotes transparency and accountability."
City manager Margaret Silveira said that the city, while budgeting for capital improvements, hasn't developed a formal, long-range plan for major expenditures in infrastructure and other improvements, such as the 84 projects on the "wish list" for the next five years that will cost an estimated $15.9 million.
For 2013-14, they include $2 million for "downtown infrastructure/economic development" and $412,000 for new water meters. A total of $8.1 million is projected next year for water and sewer infrastructure.
In 2014-15, $800,00 is penciled in for the parks' department to replace an old dock.
The CIP listings cover expenditures beginning at $1,500 (aerators for 2015-16).
It also anticipates spending $2,500 next year for a pool cover and $5,000 for a pool pump.
In other business, the council voted 5-0 to recommend to the Alcohol Beverage Control that it renews the Buckhorn Club's liquor license at its new location at 150 N. Main St.
Rich Mellott is a staff reporter for Lake County Publishing. He can be reached at 263-5636, ext. 14 or email@example.com


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"Look at how we helped Harry organise his passion for more than 4500 records and make room for his family life. If you could do with some help storing your things, maybe some of the solutions we used for Harry might help you too." – Ikea
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President Barack Obama has picked Louisville, Indiana, Ohio State and Florida to reach the Final Four in the 2013 NCAA Tournament with the Hoosiers winning it all.
Obama's full men's bracket was revealed Wednesday morning on ESPN's SportsCenter.
In the women's tournament, Obama chose Baylor, Connecticut, Notre Dame and California to reach the Final Four.
His full women's bracket will be unveiled on Friday.
In 2012, President Obama's men's bracket ranked 2,347,421 out of 6.45 million entries in ESPN's bracket contest, placing him in the 63.6th percentile.
Obama filled out the bracket Tuesday at the White House, before departing on a trip to the Middle East.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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On March 18 shortly after midnight, the coming of our baby was announced by the first contractions.
Quickly the contractions got longer and more intense, and soon the labor felt like I was surfing on huge waves, holding on to the heating in our bathroom like a surfboard, with lavender aromatherapy and Reiki music in the background. My husband and my 17-year-old daughter supported me with drinks and food. They called the midwife and doctor as the sea of birth grew stronger and stronger with every minute. While my husband hurried downstairs to open the door for the midwife, our baby decided not to wait any longer, and she was caught by her sister's hands and put softly into my arms—all of this happened in the familiar surroundings of our home.
My midwife and doctor stayed in the background, reassuring us that all was going well and to wait for the placenta to come out naturally. Only after our Victoria started to drink from the breast and approximately one hour after she was born, the placenta (her spaceship during pregnancy) was born. Upon the arrival of the placenta, nobody rushed in to cut the umbilical cord. With the baby being breastfed while she was still connected to the placenta, baby, mother's breast and placenta were united in the holy trinity of life, giving us time to perform a small lotus birth ritual with flowers, honoring and showing gratitude for nature's gifts. After one and a half hours, the umbilical cord was cut by my teenage daughter while my husband was holding the baby in his hands for the first time. We feel very blessed and are enjoying our babymoon. This weekend we are going to bury the placenta under a silver birch tree in our garden. The placenta kept our baby alive during pregnancy providing it with oxygen and nutrients—with this burial we would like to close and honor the symbolic and continuing circle of life.
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Mamas with babies presenting breech are a very special minority group whose right to birth naturally has been systematically removed in recent years. A woman often finds out that her baby is breech during prenatal care, but she may not find out until labor. She relies on midwives, doctors, nurses and other caregivers to review the risks and benefits of birthing choices and to support and guide her through labor and birth. Too often, she is met with condescension and coercion instead of information, guidance and respect for her right to choose.
The decrease in vaginal breech delivery has been dramatic. In the United States, in 1970, the cesarean rate for breech presentation was 29.4%; in 2002, it was 86.9% (Nichols 2010). The opportunity for vaginal delivery disappeared completely in many hospitals in the United States and around the world after the publication of the Term Breech Trial of Labor Study in 2000 (Hannah et al. 2000).
This was a study of 2083 women birthing in 121 centers and 26 countries around the world, with frank or complete breech babies at the start of labor. The women were randomized into two groups: planned vaginal delivery and planned cesarean delivery. The trial ran from January 1997 until April 2000. It was stopped at an interim analysis because of excess morbidity and mortality among the babies in the vaginal delivery group.
On publication of the study, the availability of vaginal breech delivery immediately decreased around the world. However, criticism emerged from many quarters. Inexplicably, two women whose babies were found to be dead when they entered the hospital were included in the study, both in the vaginal breech group. Two other neonatal deaths in the vaginal breech group were unrelated to delivery; one from diarrhea, another from SIDS.
Many large centers with expertise in vaginal breech delivery, particularly in Europe, had decided against participation in the study. A concern was that for accurate results, candidates for breech birth should be carefully chosen over time rather than by randomization in labor. Ultrasounds were recommended to evaluate the weights of babies who were candidates for vaginal breech delivery, but were unavailable in many centers that participated in the study. Providing ultrasounds might have prevented the deaths of seven vaginally delivered breech babies who weighed less than 2500 grams. (A premature baby has a larger head size relative to the size of its body and is at greater risk of complications in breech delivery.) Further, in three deaths in the vaginal breech group, heart tones were lost during labor and emergency cesarean was not available. The mortality rate in the study was refigured, and no significant differences between the two groups were found.
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A: I think the old docs were right. Most breeches are a breeze, but now and then one will scare you, and now and then one won't make it no matter what you try.
One very experienced midwife told me, "Nine out of ten will fall out and you will feel really proud of yourself. But the one that won't…that's going to give you grey hairs."
And then there is that consistent 3 to 5% mortality stat which shows up decade after decade in the textbooks. I think it is mostly a matter of luck, except for those nice 9 lb 40 wk frank breeches with intact membranes!
A: My first breech was a scrotum presentation. He just needed a few puffs of oxygen and he was right as rain. His scrotum was a tad swollen and bruised, along with his left butt cheek, but all healed well in a short amount of time.
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A: If I were having a breech birth, I would enlist the companionship of one of the midwives I know. I trust my body would do beautifully, but I think that the presence of a midwife would help me remain calm and let my body open.
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Andy Murray has spent his career striving to match those ahead of him rather than looking over his shoulder.
But the Scot's humbling quarter-final loss to Grigor Dimitrov at Wimbledon showed that change is coming in the men's game and standing still means going backwards.
The defeat was Murray's earliest at Wimbledon since 2008 and marks the first time he has failed to at least repeat what he achieved the year before.
Losing the ranking points from his Wimbledon title last year means he will drop to 10th, his lowest standing since before he reached his first grand slam final at the US Open in 2008.
Dimitrov, who tackles Novak Djokovic in his first grand slam semi-final on Friday, will jump above him, as will Milos Raonic, another 23-year-old.
This has been the tournament where the next generation have shown they are ready not just to challenge the top names but to win grand slams.
They are also hungry, a question mark that has been hanging over Murray since he achieved his ultimate goal of winning Wimbledon 12 months ago.
The 27-year-old insisted "the fire was still there" against Dimitrov, even if his game was not, and that he has his sights firmly set on winning more grand slam titles.
"When I stop thinking I have a chance of winning these tournaments, I'll stop playing tennis," he said.
"This is what I play for. I love these events. I've had a lot of hard losses in them in my career, but also with some big highs, as well.
"This is obviously one of the hard ones. But I need to gain some motivation from it. The only way for me to get better or win these tournaments again is to make improvements because other guys are getting better now."
It is a year since Murray has reached the final of any tournament, and he has not beaten a top-10 player since the title-clinching victory over Djokovic here last year.
His losses have included three major off days at grand slams - against Stan Wawrinka in New York last year, a thrashing by Rafael Nadal at the French Open and Wednesday's Dimitrov defeat.
Murray's camp played down reports his form may have been affected by something that happened just before the match, the Scot reportedly heard to shout "Five minutes before the f****** match!'' towards his team.
The result may prove to be just what Murray needs to give him the drive to rediscover his best form.
He said he has been motivated by both victories and defeats in the past, adding: " I gained a lot of motivation when I lost in the final of Wimbledon in 2012.
"But after the US Open I was pretty pumped and motivated because it took me such a long time to do that. It was nice to feel what it was like to win one of them. I gained a lot of motivation from that, too.
"But the reality is you lose in most tournaments that you play. You don't win even 30 or 40 per cent of them. Sometimes it's in the final, sometimes it's a bit earlier.
"You need to be able to deal with defeats and move on from them. That's what the best players do."
One of the first things Murray will want to get sorted out is his coaching situation.
He initially hired Amelie Mauresmo only for the grass-court season but has already said he would like to make the partnership a longer-term one.
The pair were said to be meeting up on Thursday morning, with the ball appearing to be very much in Mauresmo's court.
Murray has enjoyed working with the Frenchwoman, the Wimbledon champion in 2006, and insisted life on the tennis circuit was not becoming a drag.
"The last few months, I've really enjoyed it," he said. "I've enjoyed being on the practice court. I've enjoyed especially the last few weeks with Amelie.
"In terms of moving forward, I think when you stop enjoying practising and training and travelling, then you have to have a think about what you actually want to do with yourself.
"Because you don't want to make yourself miserable when you're doing something that you've loved since you were a kid. T here's been periods where I've struggled, but right now isn't one of them."
Presuming Mauresmo agrees to carry on the partnership, the pair are likely to hit the practice court soon at Murray's training base in Miami.
The US hard-court season, culminating in the US Open at the end of August, takes on added importance because of Murray's indifferent results.
Undoubtedly the back surgery he had last September has played a part and he is looking forward to having a month off from tournaments to address weaknesses in his game.
"There's not that many times in the year where you can change things in your game or try to make big improvements, because the tournaments go on all the time," he said.
"For me this year, coming back from the surgery, I haven't had as much time training as I would have liked."
Murray's next tournament is expected to be the Rogers Cup in Toronto at the start of August.


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Comparative Evaluation of Osteopathy Treatment Efficacy in Pain Support After Breast Surgery in Oncology (OSTEOPATHIE)
This study has been terminated.
(Recruitment difficulties)
Centre Leon Berard
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: July 21, 2011
Last updated: June 26, 2015
Last verified: June 2015
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This is an open, prospective, controlled, randomized, comparative study with 2 arms.
The purpose of the study is to assess the efficacy of osteopathy after breast surgery.
80 patients will be enrolled, 40 per arm. Patients will be randomized at inclusion and will be followed during one year.
|Breast Cancer
|Other: OSTEOPATHY + conventional analgesic treatments Other: Conventional analgesic treatments
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Comparative Evaluation of Osteopathy Treatment Efficacy in Pain Support After Breast Surgery in Oncology
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: breast cancerU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Centre Leon Berard:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Efficacy of the osteopathy treatment on pain [ Time Frame: 3 months ]Pain is assessed by means of visual analogic scale (from 0 to 10 points). A decrease of 2 points after 3 months is expected.
|Study Start Date:
|April 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: osteopathy + conventional analgesic treatments
Other: OSTEOPATHY + conventional analgesic treatments
5 sessions for osteopathy are planned and will start in the 15 days following the enrollment.
The conventional analgesic treatments will be administered in the 15 days following the enrollment.
|Placebo Comparator: conventional analgesic treatments
Other: Conventional analgesic treatments
These treatments will be administered in the 15 days following the enrollment. Dose and frequence will depend on patients.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- woman >= 18 years
- pain (median VAS >=3 on the week prior to inclusion)
- mastectomy or tumorectomy with axillary dissection <= 12 months
- able to write, understand and read French
- signed informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- no pain
- immediate breast reconstruction
- history of cognitive or psychiatric troubles
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01403168
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01403168
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|LYON Cedex 08, France, 69373
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|Centre Leon Berard
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Fassoulaki A, Patris K, Sarantopoulos C, Hogan Q. The analgesic effect of gabapentin and mexiletine after breast surgery for cancer. Anesth Analg. 2002 Oct;95(4):985-91, table of contents.
Ivens D, Hoe AL, Podd TJ, Hamilton CR, Taylor I, Royle GT. Assessment of morbidity from complete axillary dissection. Br J Cancer. 1992 Jul;66(1):136-8.
Jung BF, Ahrendt GM, Oaklander AL, Dworkin RH. Neuropathic pain following breast cancer surgery: proposed classification and research update. Pain. 2003 Jul;104(1-2):1-13. Review.
Labrèze L, Dixmérias-Iskandar F, Monnin D, Bussières E, Delahaye E, Bernard D, Lakdja F. [Postmastectomy pain syndrome evidence based guidelines and decision trees]. Bull Cancer. 2007 Mar;94(3):275-85. Review. French.
Dirks J, Fredensborg BB, Christensen D, Fomsgaard JS, Flyger H, Dahl JB. A randomized study of the effects of single-dose gabapentin versus placebo on postoperative pain and morphine consumption after mastectomy. Anesthesiology. 2002 Sep;97(3):560-4.
Kalso E, Tasmuth T, Neuvonen PJ. Amitriptyline effectively relieves neuropathic pain following treatment of breast cancer. Pain. 1996 Feb;64(2):293-302.
Attal N, Cruccu G, Haanpää M, Hansson P, Jensen TS, Nurmikko T, Sampaio C, Sindrup S, Wiffen P; EFNS Task Force. EFNS guidelines on pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain. Eur J Neurol. 2006 Nov;13(11):1153-69.
Vick DA, McKay C, Zengerle CR. The safety of manipulative treatment: review of the literature from 1925 to 1993. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 1996 Feb;96(2):113-5. Review.
Ernst E. Manipulation of the cervical spine: a systematic review of case reports of serious adverse events, 1995-2001. Med J Aust. 2002 Apr 15;176(8):376-80. Review.
Licht PB, Christensen HW, Høilund-Carlsen PF. Is cervical spinal manipulation dangerous? J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2003 Jan;26(1):48-52.
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|Responsible Party:
|Centre Leon Berard
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01403168 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 21, 2011
|Last Updated:
|June 26, 2015
Keywords provided by Centre Leon Berard:
Breast cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Fantastic Four star Jessica Alba was all smiles with her adorable 6-month-old daughter Haven at Coldwater Canyon Park in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sunday (February 12). Papa Cash Warren and big sis Honor, 3, were also seen enjoying the park playdate on a sunny California day.
The Alba-Warrens looked every bit the perfect family as they made sand castles and roamed around at the favorite playground of the stars. And how cute was baby Haven in her white winter hat?!
A few weeks ago, we saw the family-of-four at the same park.
Jessica is currently promoting her new e-commerce business, The Honest Company.