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But then again, I have higher expectations and belief in Lance's abilities than most at PD.
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But then again, I have higher expectations and belief in Lance's abilities than most at PD.
Im more amazed we've gotten this far with how our back up center is playing
George Hill will have an excellent game tonight. Be ready. He had to deal with CP3, Tony Parker, Westbrook, Lillard and it simply kicked his tail. Brandon Jennings is averaging 17.5ppg and 8 dimes and isn't chopped liver. At Miami...at times he had to deal with DWade...and Chalmers is a tough PG. Go easy on him. He'll be back. It was a very tough stretch.
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
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Hill's problem is too many good players on one team, and unrealistically high expectations. The reality is we have too many good players for the majority to even get close to their statistical potential. Hill could be shooting better, but sometimes players have bad shooting seasons. It happens, I'm not going to go all crazy about it when it is his first season since his rookie year that he has shot under 44%. As far as defense goes, everyone always likes to claim that we are in the age of the PG, and that there are far more talent at PG than any other position by far, if this is all true it shouldn't be surprising when that talent is able to play well. Unless you are getting one of the top 2 or 3 starting worthy defensive PGs in the league you won't be finding someone who can play better defense.
How do You like Goran Dragic?
I posted something on the trade board.
Not sure I like it myself but:
We solve this "issue",
get a better passer,
a better scorer,
and save money both this year and for the future.
You assume the Suns would take George Hill (who as you said makes 500K more and they don't really have a need for), and Dragic really isn't a very good defender.
This isn't an awful idea, but if Goran Dragic is your baseline trade value for Hill, you're probably better off sticking with what you have.
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Dudes Hill had a great game last night. I agree with Kstat. He is here today and the rest of the season. If an upgrade is warranted be ready to lose Lance or West. And have a **** poor bench.
As long as George Hill plays aggressively on offense and makes the other PG work defensively he is adequate. It is when he sticks his head in his shell that he becomes a liability and detriment to this team.
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Originally Posted by George Hill, from last night
George Hill fan here. But really? "Start being aggressive"? That easy for him to say just AFTER he faced CP3, Westbrook, Rose, Parker and Lillard.
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
First point of disagreement. I was hoping he would not be here. You could already see he was at the end of his road, and the Pacers were just beginning down their road.
I don't know about "strictly" pass first, but their are a number of PG's in the league that are very capable passers. Off the top of my head I can think of C. Paul, Irving, Rose, Rubio, Williams (multiple players with that name), Wall, Parker, etc.The truth is there are really only 3-4 starting caliber PG's like that left in the league now.
To me, Hill also struggles defensively. How many other teams guards can he keep up with. Time after time, game after game we see him getting beat defensively.Our system requires good defense from all 5 positions so its time to face the music....A combo guard who has length and athleticism, plays good defense, takes care of the ball, and can hit the occasional jumpshot is exactly what this team needs, that's George Hill.
Yes, once in a while he comes up with a very good game. But, he still drives me nuts when he does his Travis Best impression dribbling away the shot clock.
Are you kidding? GH is a very good PG and adds scoring. If he was so awful imagine what our record would be with another guard? Oh yeah, not 23-5. I hate it when people try to nitpick players to find as many faults that they can in other players. To me personally, my favorite thing about GH is his heart. You can see that he is a team player because he is looking to pass or set up someone in a match-up that gives them an advantage. He's not a big guy but he can hang with most PG's in the league.
If Stephenson is our PG, he will have a lot of assists, but our pace would be awful. Turnovers, bad shots, all would go up. I love Lance, but he is very attack-minded when it's not always the best thing to do. That's why he works so well at SG. He can initiate the fast break or a fast-paced offense from time to time to keep the defense honest, but we still have Hill for when we need a slow pace.
Hill's defense is very good. He struggles sometimes, like every other player ever, but look at what the Nets point guards did last night. Nothing.
If every other player had as short of a leash from the fans as Hill, people would be wanting to trade Hibbert after the Rockets game and the Nets game. People would be shipping him off for Robin Lopez and a 2015 first rounder.
How much more off the ball do you want him to play? I mean, seriously the guy rarely touches the ball.
Here, take a look at that -> http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/IND/2014.html
Look at our player's usage a bit. George Hill is 8th. Scola, Granger and Copeland get more plays called for them when they're on the floor than Hill. His usage at 16.9% is extremely low. Even Mario Chalmers get more plays called for him -> http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/holli...ageRate/page/2
Same story with CJ Watson who is the only Pacer that sees rotational minutes and a has a lower USG% than Hill. Our PGs do not get plays called for them. It's as simple as that. The only thing that we ask out of them is to defend and hit the 3. Thankfully, George Hill is very good at those things and CJ Watson is quite good at those things as well.
Our offense is simply not designed around PGs. We just need them to share ball-handling duties, compliment our bigs and wings with outside shooting and defend the point of attack.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Let's see if this is true.
Deron Williams shot 3/9 last night against the Pacers. How did Deron do against us back in November? He shot 7/14.
Let's take a look at other top PGs.
Jrue Holiday shot 8/18.
Kyrie Irving shot 6/17.
Mike Conley shot 4/11.
Ricky Rubio shot 3/9.
Kemba Walker shot 3/17 in November and 5/14 in December.
John Wall shot 4/14.
Chris Paul shot 6/15.
Damian Lillard shot 7/17.
Tony Parker shot 6/14.
Brandon Jennings shot 6/20 in November and 4/13 in December.
The only big name PG that was able to shoot good against us? Russell Westbrook. He shot 11/17 when we lost to OKC.
Several people will say that Hibbert played a big role in those PGs shooting bad and that would be true. But if you think that Hill doesn't play a big part at this then you're fooling yourselves.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
I'm just saying that this is what this team already does. Most of George Hill's plays come from spotting up and the ball is mainly in Paul's and Lance's hands.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
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Neurocognitive Functioning in Patients With Hepatitis C Pre- and Post-Treatment With Antiviral Medication
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The estimated global prevalence of hepatitis C (HCV) infection is approximately 3% (170 million individuals). In Canada there are an estimated 240,000 people infected with HCV. The current study addresses the hypothesis that neurocognitive and neurochemical abnormalities may occur in individuals with HCV-infection who do not have liver cirrhosis or vasculitic neuropathy, and this may result from a direct effect of HCV on the Central Nervous System (CNS). The purpose of this study is to assess whether infection with the Hepatitis-C virus is associated with changes in thinking skills and brain chemistry, in patients who do not have liver cirrhosis. In addition, we are examining whether such changes in thinking skills and brain chemistry are reversed by antiviral treatment. We are also studying whether factors such as fatigue and depression have an effect on thinking skills in people with Hepatitis-C. In order to take into account the impact of having viral hepatitis, we will be comparing the results of the Hepatitis-C group to the results of a group of patients with Hepatitis-B, and to a group of individuals who do not have Hepatitis.
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Academic Capitalism
Richard Münch
Academic capitalism is a unique hybrid that unites the scientific search for truth and the economic maximization of profits. It turns universities into enterprises competing for capital accumulation and businesses into knowledge producers looking for new findings that can be turned into patents and profitable commodities. In order to understand what this new institutional setting means for science and the evolution of scientific knowledge, science as a field in a Bourdieusian perspective, which operates in the tension field between autonomy and heteronomy, is explored. On this basis, crucial features of academic capitalism and their impact on science as well as the evolution of scientific knowledge are described. Academic capitalism is located in the zone of the intersection of scientific research, economic profit maximization, and innovation policy. The institutional conflicts of interest involved in the corporate funding of academic research are addressed. The logic of academic capital accumulation is spelled out by describing the entrepreneurial university. Field effects of academic capital accumulation on science, namely over-investment at the top and under-investment among the rank and file, are examined, along with the organizational effects of academic capital accumulation in terms of managerial quality assurance on diversity and creativity as crucial prerequisites of advancing scientific knowledge. The main results of the analysis are summarized and some guidelines for future research are presented.
Accountability and Responsibility
Robert Gregory
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
The words accountability and responsibility are often used as if they were synonymous. They are not, though both concepts are contestable as to their real meaning, and various interpretations can be found, including different types, or sources, of accountability—for example, political, administrative, legal, and professional. Generically, accountability is better understood as a synonym for organizational and political control: subordinates provide true or false accounts (stories, reports, fabrications, lies, and so on) of their actions to superiors in the first instance, and governors to the governed in the second. Accountability is essentially about answerability to relevant others for the ways in which discretionary power and authority are exercised, in political and organizational contexts. Popular demands that governmental agents be held accountable when things go wrong are seldom satisfied, because the quest for accountability is usually a matter for political disputation and reputation-protection rather than forensic determination.
Responsibility also has different meanings in common discourse. One principal usage is close to the idea of accountability (as above), and so lines of hierarchical responsibility are often depicted in organization charts and such. However, responsibility means much more than this. It is better understood as individual or collective agency—that is, individuals or groups intentionally or unintentionally cause particular effects or outcomes, and in so doing, they are willing to acknowledge to others that they have done so. While accountability is often a matter of simply ensuring that systems are under control and operate as intended, questions of responsibility, by contrast, focus on issues of individual and collective moral choice among or between different and sometimes conflicting obligations.
There is a relationship between the ideas of accountability and responsibility, as the former can be understood as a necessary but insufficient condition of the latter: public officials' willingness to be fully accountable is an integral component of their willingness to act responsibly, but acting responsibly means much more than merely being accountable. Too great an emphasis on the need to be accountable can supplant or diminish an individual's or a group's sense of responsibility, by discouraging self-reflection while encouraging blame-shifting: "I was only following orders." As a consequence, people and organizations can be held fully accountable for their actions, after the event, and may be willingly accountable for them, even though such actions may be judged by others to be in gross violation of widely held moral standards and social norms. In sum, the idea of individual and collective responsibility is of a higher philosophical order than that of accountability.
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
Paúl Cisneros
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins Smith introduced the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in the late 1980s, to refine the theoretical and methodological tools available for the study of the policy process. In the past two decades, the framework has grown in use outside the United States, and it is now applied to study a broad range of policy arenas in all continents. ACF scholars have created a core community that regularly synthetizes findings from applications of the framework, giving the ACF the form of a true research program.
The ACF has three principal theoretical domains: advocacy coalitions, policy subsystems, and policy change. Expectations about the interactions between and within these domains are contained in 15 main hypotheses. The ACF posits that advocacy coalitions and policy subsystems are the most efficient way to organize actors interested in the policy process for empirical research. The policy subsystem is the main unit of analysis in the ACF, and there are four paths leading to policy change. The aspect that has received more attention in existing applications is the effect that external events have on policy change, and some areas in need of refinement include: policy-oriented learning, interactions across subsystems, the theoretical foundations to identification of belief systems, and how the interactions between beliefs and interests affect coalition behavior.
Advocacy Coalitions in Foreign Policy
Jonathan Pierce and Katherine Hicks
The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) was developed to explain policy processes where contentious coalitions of actors seek to translate competing belief systems into public policy. Advocacy coalitions may include interest groups, members of the media, scientists and academics, and government officials that share beliefs about a public issue and coordinate their behavior. These advocacy coalitions engage in various strategies using resources to influence policy change or stasis. As part of this process, advocacy coalition members may learn within and/or across coalitions.
This framework is one of the most prominent and widely applied approaches to explain public policy. While it has been applied hundreds of times, in over 50 different countries, the vast majority of ACF applications have sought to explain domestic policy processes. A reason for the paucity of applications to foreign policy is that some ACF assumptions may not seem congruent to foreign policy issues. For example, the ACF uses a policy subsystem as the unit of analysis that may include a territorial dimension. Yet, the purpose of the territorial dimension is to limit the scope of the study. Therefore, this dimension can be substituted for a government body that has the authority or potential authority to make and implement foreign policy. In addition, the ACF assumes a central role for technical and scientific information in the policy process. Such information makes learning across coalitions more conducive, but the ACF can and should also be applied to normative issues, such as those more common among foreign policy research.
This article introduces the ACF; provides an overview of the framework, including assumptions, key concepts and theories, and transferability of the ACF to foreign policy analysis; and discusses four exemplary applications. In addition, it proposes future research that scholars should explore as part of the nexus of the ACF and foreign policy analysis. In the final analysis, the authors suggest the ACF can and should be applied to foreign policy analysis to better understand the development of advocacy coalitions and how they influence changes and stasis in foreign policy.
The Aftermaths of Civil Conflicts
Jaclyn M. Johnson and Clayton L. Thyne
The devastating Syrian civil war that began after the Arab Spring in 2011 has reminded the international community of the many consequences of civil war. However, this conflict is simply one of many ongoing conflicts around the globe. Civil war has a number of effects on individual lives, the country experiencing the conflict, as well as the international system more broadly.
The humanitarian costs of civil war are steep. Individuals are negatively impacted by civil war in a myriad of ways. Three main areas of research are of interest: mortality, physical and mental trauma, and education. Several factors increase the number of deaths in a civil war, including a lack of democracy, economic downturns, and foreign assistance to combatants. Even if civilians survive conflict, they are likely to endure trauma that affects both mental and physical health. Strong evidence indicates that civil war spreads infectious diseases and severely diminishes life expectancy. Mental health is also likely to suffer in the face of conflict, as individuals often must overcome debilitating trauma. Finally, children are particularly susceptible in civil war settings. Children are often unable to continue their education as a consequence of civil war because combatants often target schools strategically or the state is unable to fund education as a result of funneling resources to the conflict.
Civil wars also pose a number of threats to the state itself. First, a state that has experienced a civil war is much more likely to have another civil war in its future. Conflict recurrence has been explained through the type of settlement that concludes the initial civil war, institutions that may prevent recurrence like proportional representation, and the role of third parties in providing peace-ensuring security guarantees. Beyond recurrence of war, scholars have looked at the impact that civil wars have on state-level institutions, including democratization. While most state-level effects of civil war seem to be deleterious, there may also be positive effects, specifically in terms of female representation. Civil war in sub-Saharan Africa has been shown to increase the number of female representatives, perhaps providing an avenue for gender equality.
Civil wars have ripple effects that impact neighboring countries and the international system more broadly. Proximate states are often challenged with an influx of refugees that may burden social programs or facilitate the spread of diseases and illicit arms. However, positive consequences of hosting refugees may include trading opportunities or economic growth from remittances. Moving beyond proximate states, civil wars have consequences for the entire globe. For example, civil wars have been demonstrated to spur international terrorism. The civil war literature has explored the various effects of conflict at the individual, state, and interstate level.
Agenda Setting and the Policy Process: Focusing Events
Thomas A. Birkland
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Agenda setting is a crucial aspect of the public policy process. Sudden, rare, and harmful events known as focusing events can be important influences on the policy process. Such events can reveal current and potential future harms, mobilize people and groups to address the policy failures that may be revealed by such events, and open the "window of opportunity" for intensive policy discussion and potential policy change. But focusing events operate differently at different times and in different policy domains. While the idea of focusing events is firmly rooted in Kingdon's "streams approach" to the policy process, focusing events are an important element of most contemporary theories of the policy process. But not every event works as a focusing event. The process by which a focusing event can yield policy change is complex and involves attention to the problems revealed by the event, as well as evidence of learning from the event on the part of policy makers. While focusing events are important, in many ways the concept remains underdeveloped, with few researchers seeking to understand the dynamics of these important events.
The Age-Structural Theory of State Behavior
Richard Cincotta
Over the past three decades, economic and political demographers, using various measures, have discerned that increased age-structural maturity makes significant statistical contributions to levels of per capita income, to educational attainment, to declines in the frequency of onsets of intrastate conflict, and to the likelihood of achieving and maintaining liberal democracy. Some of the stronger statistical relationships have been used in forecasts. For example, using the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) demographic projections, political demographers have relied on the strong statistical association between age structure and stable liberal democracy to forecast the rise of democracy in North Africa more than two years in advance (in 2008)—at a time when regional experts believed that forecast to be absurd.
Whereas critics remain skeptical of the murky causal connections of age-structural theory, its proponents counter that causality in the development of state capacity is complex and is less important than the theory's positive qualities (namely, that it is forward-looking, its statistical findings are easily repeated, its forecasts have outcompeted regional experts, and its predictive products can be readily adapted to the needs of intelligence foresight, defense planning, and foreign policy analysis). Perhaps most important, the age-structural theory of state behavior has yielded a surprising number of "novel facts"—new knowledge concerning the observed pace and timing of state political, social, and economic behaviors.
American Grand Strategy and Political Economy Theory
Kevin Narizny
Nearly everything a state does has distributional consequences, including grand strategy. Societal groups with different stakes in the international economy and defense spending often have conflicting strategic priorities, and these groups pursue their parochial interests by supporting the nomination and election of like-minded politicians. Thus, grand strategy is a product of political economy. An overview of American foreign policy over the last several decades illustrates this logic. In the 1980s, the Democratic and Republican coalitions had conflicting interests over the international economy, so the two parties diverged on grand strategy. The recovery of the Rust Belt in the 1990s and 2000s, however, brought increasing convergence. Political discourse over foreign policy was fiercely partisan, but, with the notable exception of George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, the two parties shared essentially the same view of America's role in the world. The disastrous outcome in Iraq led the Bush administration back to the middle ground in its second term, and Obama followed the same course. In contrast, the election of Donald Trump augurs change. Trump's electoral coalition consists of a different balance of interests in the international economy than that of past Republican presidents, so he is likely to pursue different strategic priorities.
Analogies and Metaphors and Foreign Policy Decision Making
William Flanik
Like all decision making, foreign policy decision making (FPDM) requires transferring meaning from one representation to another. Since the end of the Cold War, students of FPDM have focused increasingly on historical analogies and, to a lesser extent, conceptual metaphors to explain how this transference works. Drawing on converging evidence from the cognitive sciences, as well as careful case studies of foreign policymaking, they've shown analogy and metaphor to be much more than "cheap talk." Instead, metaphor and analogy are intrinsic to policymakers' cognition.
This article traces the development of this growing literature. So far, FPDM has treated analogy and metaphor separately. It has also paid far more attention to the former than the latter. By contrast, the article argues that analogy and metaphor are not only similar, they are equally essential to cognition. It defines and compares metaphor and analogy, analyzes their socio-cognitive functions in decision making, and charts the evolution of analogy and metaphor research in FPDM. It also suggests the utility of a constructivist-cognitive synthesis for future work in this area.
Analytical Liberalism, Neoclassical Realism, and the Need for Empirical Analyses
Mark R. Brawley
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Final Vote candidate Rendon hits game-tying homer in sixth inning
WASHINGTON -- The Battle of the Beltways began at Nationals Park between the Nats and Orioles on Monday night. In Game 1, Chris Davis' home run in the top of the 11th inning kicked off a six-run frame as the O's won, 8-2.
The Nationals are 2-8 in extra-inning games.
Right-hander Craig Stammen is one of the Nationals' most reliable relievers. But he had his worst outing of the season, and it came with the score tied at 2 in the 11th. After Nelson Cruz reached on a broken-bat single to left field, Davis came to the plate and it looked like he had struck out looking on a 2-2 pitch, but home-plate umpire Gary Cederstrom called the pitch a ball.
"I thought it might have been a good pitch. I may have thought it was a strike, but I'm not the umpire, so it doesn't matter," Stammen said.
Davis took advantage of the situation after that. On the next pitch, Stammen tried to throw the ball down and away, but the ball was up and Davis hit a mammoth two-run home run over the right-center-field wall to give Baltimore a two-run lead.
"I said earlier today I feel like for the last month I've been one swing away," Davis said. "I've done everything I can to get here early and hit off the tee, look at video, hit early BP if I can. It was just a combination of things. The pitch I fouled off, I was like, 'Wow, I actually stayed through on that.' [Stammen] made some tough pitches, some close pitches. I was just able to hang in there."
It would get worse for Stammen, and it didn't help that his slider was nowhere to be found. J.J. Hardy followed and hit a home run over the left-field wall, and four batters later, Nick Markakis doubled to right-center field, scoring Nick Hundley.
Aaron Barrett entered the game and allowed a two-run homer to Manny Machado to make it a six-run game. Machado had a career-high five hits in his six at-bats.
Stephen Strasburg was dominant except for one of his seven innings, allowing two runs on four hits, with nine strikeouts. The Orioles scored their two runs off Strasburg in the fourth inning, when Cruz hit a two-run homer over the right-center-field wall to give them a 2-0 lead.
"I was trying to go out there and build off [my] last start," Strasburg said. "I was focusing on executing the pitches. I tried not to analyze every pitch as much. I was trying to get into the flow of the game."
Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman was just as good as Strasburg. Tillman also lasted seven innings and allowed two runs on five hits. The Nats ended up tying the score in the sixth inning.
After Denard Span led off with a single, National League Final Vote candidate Anthony Rendon swung at the first pitch and hit a mammoth homer to tie the game at 2. The Nationals are 25-1 when Rendon and Span score in the same game.
"I put the barrel on it," Rendon said. "[With Tillman], nothing was the same speed the whole night. He changed speeds often."
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"You figure that a right-handed side arm pitcher [like O'Day], the ball sinks a lot. But he was throwing balls up in the strike zone," Nationals manager Matt Williams said. "That's difficult to see because it comes from down here and it's a completely different angle than you are used to: up to down as opposed to down to up. That's why he is in that spot. He is really tough on right-handed hitters."
With the loss, the Nationals are 48-40 and still a half-game behind the Braves in the NL East.
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Okay, I am growing my 3a/3b, shoulder length hair out. (I want my hair to eventually be down to my belly button). It is very hot where I live right now (desert), and I want to put my hair up, and also want to put my hair up in buns and ponytails as protective styles. However, I have heard (and am deathly afraid of) hair loosing its curl pattern from being stretched too often/too much. Is this true? Please say it's not so. I am not planning on stretching and slicking my hair back harshly with a bristle brush like some women do to get that sleek look, or anything- I just want to gently pull my hair back while wet, put it in a ponytail or bun, and leave it alone. I do NOT want the front/top part of my hair to be straighter than the rest of my hair. I don't know..maybe I'm wrong and just being paranoid.
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The political fight in Washington over the debt ceiling is heating up but on Wall Street -- where the government goes to borrow -- there's still not a hint of worry. Full story
The United States could trigger "another catastrophic financial crisis" if Congress fails to raise the debt limit, the chairman of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee said. Full story
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The United States and China will hold their annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue meeting in Washington on May 9-10, the Treasury Department said on Monday. Full story
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The Treasury Department said Friday that an investment program set up during the financial crisis to buy toxic assets from banks is showing a $1.7 billion gain. Full story
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MINNESOTA -- Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Friday that it's "probably fair to say" CC Sabathia could miss the remainder of the season.
The Yankees won't know for sure what Sabathia's official status is until he meets with Dr. James Andrews on July 14.
The left-hander made a rehab start for Double-A Trenton on Wednesday, but then experienced swelling in his right knee on Thursday morning. The team had him undergo an MRI, and will hold any official decisions until he sees the esteemed Andrews.
"He's going to see Andrews a week from Monday," Girardi said. "The MRI didn't reveal anything new. It's what we saw. I'm sure surgery is possible. So they've got to talk about it and decide what's best."
Girardi was asked about the possibility of microfracture surgery for Sabathia.
"That's always a possibility when you have a degenerative knee," Girardi said. "That could be one of the steps. That's a surgery that a lot of players don't want to hear that they need to have. It's a pretty long rehab."
Sabathia was placed on the 60-day DL on May 11.
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A panel of 10th District Court of Appeals judges -- by a 2-1 vote -- upheld a Franklin County Board of Elections ruling that Sheriff Zach Scott didn't have the five valid signatures he needed on his candidate petition to run for a state central committee post. The election is May 6.
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Porsche320 wrote:I've had the most success with what is basically baseball swing.
Porsche320 wrote:I throw 240-270'. Doing the right pec drill with no steps, I was throwing more like 150 when I kept my hips/shoulders around 90deg, and 190' when I turned my hips closed. I expected it to be a bit closer to my normal throw.
Porsche320 wrote: I feel I need to develop more muscle memory before I move on. The short distances lead me to believe I'm still doing something wrong, and I don't want to make a habit of bad form. In my reasoning, once the arm and body motion of the throw occur effortlessly, adding steps/x-step will not be too difficult
Porsche320 wrote:I'm unsure whether I'm getting it right so far. Especially the tendon bounce; I don't have much "feel" for it. I have plenty of grip and wrist strength (from years of weight training, MMA and BJJ), but it seems using too much is a liability.
Porsche320 wrote:So, ballpark numbers (I know everyone is different): If a player (with no glaring flaws in the bent-elbow technique) can throw a leopard line-drive 300' at 85% power, how far would he throw from right-pec standstill?
CatPredator wrote:Probably not very far, and this person will not feel like they are ever doing the right pec drill correctly. The person throwing the Leo 300' does not have any snap. The right pec drill is a very awkward motion if you don't have any snap. With no snap, it will feel like you are exerting great effort and not seeing good results (less than 200' for sure, probably significantly less). You need to move the disc "in" to the power zone just a little bit before you launch it out. You don't want to take a big reach back, but the disc has to create a little tension on the muscles before you try to snap the disc or else it won't work.
"Anyway, as you bring the disc forward into the "power zone", your elbow angle collapses as the disc approaches your right pec. The farther into the power zone the disc gets, the more your wrist will need to bend inward, and that will create the elastic tension in your muscles that can be unloaded in the "tendon bounce" when you open up your hips and shoulders, and release your forearm. The thing is, the inward bending of the wrist is something that needs to happen naturally. If you purposely let your wrist collapse, it doesn't build the elastic tension and you end up with no snap. So, you need to be try to keep the wrist straight, but it needs to be dynamic and willing to accept a little stretching as well."
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Porsche320 wrote:I somehow, in all my reading, missed that the wrist should bend naturally at the end of the pull; I've been purposefully bending the wrist inward (and probably muscling out the extension too). I've been looking at the throw like a baseball swing, where I should view it more like a baseball throw. Proper wrist tension is something that won't come too easy for me, so I'll move onto the other mechanics of the throw while being constantly conscious of what my wrist is doing.
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JR wrote:You should try to resist the bending back of the wrist to the left of neutral coming from the elbow extension.
JR wrote:And there is an active component to the movement of the wrist from bent back to neutral to the right of neutral. Sure the wrist fill flap open without any effort, but you should also try to actively to increase power by moving the wrist from left of neutral to right of neutral. And finish with an active stopping of the wrist and one mother of a pinch of the fingers. Especially the index finger and the thumb.
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PHOENIX -- Tim Lincecum quickly recovered from an upset stomach Wednesday and will make his scheduled start against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Thursday's series finale.
Lincecum said he began feeling queasy after the Giants took batting practice Tuesday. This prompted pitching coach Dave Righetti to tell listeners on KNBR, the club's flagship radio station, that Lincecum might have to be scratched against the D-backs.
But, munching on a cracker and sipping Pedialyte to replace lost fluids, the ever-resilient Lincecum declared that he felt healthy enough to pitch.
"It was pretty mild," he said of his illness.
Said manager Bruce Bochy, "Today he's bouncing around like nothing happened."
Actually, a lot has happened to Lincecum since he faced the A's in last Friday's Bay Bridge Series exhibition. His status for Thursday initially was tenuous due to a bruised left knee caused by Daric Barton's fourth-inning line drive. But Lincecum's lack of pain and ample range of motion made the bruise a non-issue.
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Changes to Daylight Savings Time continue to plague IT companies across the country
Daylight savings time (DST) is probably one of the most annoying inventions of the human race. Each year people spend a week or so adjusting to an hour forwards or backwards causing all sorts of erratic behavior and poor sleep while people adjust. Last year the U.S. Government decided to take it a step further and cause IT professionals and IT vendors to spend plenty of time and money to satisfy a few politicians with a not so brilliant idea.
The reason the last few transitions were different than any other change was because of the U.S. government mandated move for the start of DST to the second Sunday in March and a return to standard time on the first Sunday in November. This change required multiple computer systems and servers to be patched to change how they handle the traditional switch to DST. While this isn't such a big deal for the lone computer sitting on your desk at home, for an enterprise with hundreds of computer workstations and servers the issue is huge.
When this change first went into effect I wanted to throttle the U.S. Congress for the headaches of changing over countless software systems and applying patches. You also have to deal the small eventuality of IT, that not everything works or patches exactly as intended, resulting in some manual changes and hacks to get everyone on the same page. The
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in this whole ordeal was the fact that its estimated that we didn't save a penny in electricity, yet we spent tons of money making the change. What's even worse is that by Congresses' own admission if the change didn't save them anything they might revert back to the old system in 2008 forcing us again to change everything back to the way it was. This would cost IT professionals and IT vendors again.
An article at
during the original change last year outlines the rough costs of the change back in early 2007 to be in the neighborhood of $300 million. This amount is a very conservative estimate based on labor costs alone. This does not account for the time and money spent on developing, testing and distributing DST patches by the various IT vendors. It also does not take into account the headache and manual pain of having to change older systems by hand or troubleshoot modern systems that fail to patch correctly.
According to the
Wall Street Journal
a researcher observed India while making the switch from standard time to a DST system. The change to DST resulted in an increase in electricity costs of nearly 9 million annually. The article also points out that past studies have shown no cost savings by switching clocks in the U.S. each year.
Wall Street Journal
reports that in the spring of 2006 when the Indiana Legislature mandated that all counties in the state had to participate in DST, as opposed to only 15 of the 92 counties that participated before, it gave Matthew Kotchen, a economics professor from the University of California-Santa Barbara the chance to actually see if DST saves money in the United States. According to Kotchen, his numbers (taken from actual meter readings in Indiana counties) showed that Indiana residents spent an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills after the change to DST.
I dislike DST as much as the next guy and after dealing with the initial impact of the switch in March 2007, I wanted to wash my hands of it and never speak of it much like the Y2K debacle. The problem is that with DST the problems seem to rear their ugly head every time we change the clocks, resulting in a few loose screws falling out and causing headaches for IT teams across the country.
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Prettier than Milan and less busy with tourists than Venice, Verona is one of Italy's most immediately likeable cities. Best known internationally as the home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Verona is a city whose ancient past is instantly visible.
Flights to Verona take you direct to this historical heart of northern Italy: its Roman arena, the site of one of Europe's best-known opera festivals, remains almost intact, while grand Renaissance spaces such as its central Piazza della Signoria still act as an open-air living room for people-watching locals. Verona also a great place for strolling and shopping, whether you prefer exploring the designer boutiques of Corso Porta Botari or eating local dishes such as bigoli pasta with duck in the restaurants lining the River Adige. Verona's environs are as popular with visitors as the city itself, with the mountain-lined shores of Lake Garda so close to the city that it forms the backdrop for much of the area's summer nightlife.
Experience the perfect introduction to Verona aboard this hop-on hop-off sightseeing tour. You will see all the beautiful sights of the city in a comfortable and secure environment, with full commentary provided. Discover Verona in an open-top double-decker bus with the opportunity to hop-on and hop-off at 16 different stops on two different bus routes whenever you wish, all day long. Tickets are valid for 24 hours.
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We are proud to announce the winner of Blog Cabin 2011. Please read our exclusive Q&A to learn more about Carol Livingston and her plans for the future.
I'd like to thank everyone who particpated in our People's Choice voting and entered for a chance to win this gorgeous Chesapeake Bay home. Keep checking this blog for more details on our 2012 home.


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We're pleased to introduce Darrell Anderson as a new blog contributor. Darrell was raised on a livestock farm in southern Minnesota and graduated from South Dakota State University, where he was a member of the SDSU Livestock, Meats and Wool Judging Teams. While serving as the Cottonwood County Extension Director in Minnesota, he coached the 1980 National Champion 4-H Livestock Judging Team.
Darrell was a sought-after judge and auctioneer at national sheep events prior to being named executive secretary of the American Yorkshire Club. He then was selected to serve as the first CEO of the National Swine Registry, a position he held for 17 years. Darrell has received countless industry awards for his valuable contributions, including recipient of the Livestock Publications Council Headliner Award and the Honored Agriculturalist Award from SDSU. He and his wife, Merlene, presently own a small llama herd.
I've always appreciated Darrell's thoughtful editorials on the pork industry, and know he'll be a valuable contributor. His first blog appeared yesterday, so if you missed it, click here.


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Have you thought about volunteering? Why not go along to Volunteer Centre Wiltshire's drop in session at Devizes Library on Monday January 27 from 10am to noon.
If you've got a bit of spare time you like to put to good use but don't know where to start then drop in and find out about all the volunteering opportunities in the area.
Volunteer Centre Wiltshire currently has more than 1,500 volunteering opportunities waiting to be filled across the county.
For example you could help Wiltshire Blind by becoming an eBay sales promoter, support a young carer's group with Spurgeons, use your IT skills to help others get online or become a befriender for organisations such as Age UK, Splitz and Mencap.
There are plenty more opportunities to choose from covering a wide range of activities. If you don't want to make a regular commitment you can join the Volunteer Centre's bank of 'one-off' volunteers and just help out at events when you are free.
Volunteering not only helps the organisation but you can get lots of benefits too.
One volunteer says that volunteering makes him feel "valued, useful and part of the community". Another volunteer is sure that volunteering helped her into paid employment saying "I'm sure the confidence and skills I gained from my volunteer role played a huge part in me getting the job".
If you are unable to attend the drop in centre but want to get involved and make a difference phone the volunteering support line "Call-IT!" now on 0845 521 6224. Or visit www.volunteercentrewiltshire.org.uk.


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- deconfinement phase transition (1)
- early freeze–out (1)
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- heavy ion (1)
- inverse slope parameter (1)
- longitudinal flow (1)
- quark gluon plasma (1)
- Transverse momentum spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons from quark gluon plasma hadronization in nuclear collisions (2001)
- Recent results on transverse mass spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV are considered. It is shown that those results support a hypothesis of statistical production of charmonia at hadronization and suggest the early thermal freeze-out of J/psi and psi prime mesons. Based on this approach the collective transverse velocity of hadronizing quark gluon plasma is estimated to be <v^H_T> \approx 0.2. Predictions for transverse mass spectra of hidden and open charm mesons at SPS and RHIC are discussed.
- Transverse activity of kaons and the deconfinement phase transition in nucleus-nucleus collisions (2003)
- We found that the experimental results on transverse mass spectra of kaons produced in central Pb+Pb (Au+Au) interactions show an anomalous dependence on the collision energy. The inverse slopes of the spectra increase with energy in the low (AGS) and high (RHIC) energy domains, whereas they are constant in the intermediate (SPS) energy range. We argue that this anomaly is probably caused by a modification of the equation of state in the transition region between confined and deconfined matter. This observation may be considered as a new signal, in addition to the previously reported anomalies in the pion and strangeness production, of the onset of deconfinement located in the low SPS energy domain.
- Transparency, mixing and reflection of initial flows in relativistic nuclear collisions (2006)
- We propose to use the hadron number fluctuations in the limited momentum regions to study the evolution of initial flows in high energy nuclear collisions. In this method by a proper preparation of a collision sample the projectile and target initial flows are marked in fluctuations in the number of colliding nucleons. We discuss three limiting cases of the evolution of flows, transparency, mixing and reflection, and present for them quantitative predictions obtained within several models. Finally, we apply the method to the NA49 results on fluctuations of the negatively charged hadron multiplicity in Pb+Pb interactions at 158A GeV and conclude that the data favor a hydrodynamical model with a significant degree of mixing of the initial flows at the early stage of collisions.
- System size and centrality dependence of the balance function in A+A collisions at sqrt[sNN]=17.2 GeV (2005)
- Electric charge correlations were studied for p+p, C+C, Si+Si, and centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt[sNN]=17.2 GeV with the NA49 large acceptance detector at the CERN SPS. In particular, long-range pseudorapidity correlations of oppositely charged particles were measured using the balance function method. The width of the balance function decreases with increasing system size and centrality of the reactions. This decrease could be related to an increasing delay of hadronization in central Pb+Pb collisions.
- Study on chemical equilibrium in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies (2004)
- We present a detailed study of chemical freeze-out in nucleus-nucleus collisions at beam energies of 11.6, 30, 40, 80 and 158A GeV. By analyzing hadronic multiplicities within the statistical hadronization approach, we have studied the chemical equilibration of the system as a function of center of mass energy and of the parameters of the source. Additionally, we have tested and compared different versions of the statistical model, with special emphasis on possible explanations of the observed strangeness hadronic phase space under-saturation.
- Strangeness in Nuclear Collisions (1996)
- Data on the mean multiplicity of strange hadrons produced in minimum bias proton--proton and central nucleus--nucleus collisions at momenta between 2.8 and 400 GeV/c per nucleon have been compiled. The multiplicities for nucleon--nucleon interactions were constructed. The ratios of strange particle multiplicity to participant nucleon as well as to pion multiplicity are larger for central nucleus--nucleus collisions than for nucleon--nucleon interactions at all studied energies. The data at AGS energies suggest that the latter ratio saturates with increasing masses of the colliding nuclei. The strangeness to pion multiplicity ratio observed in nucleon--nucleon interactions increases with collision energy in the whole energy range studied. A qualitatively different behaviour is observed for central nucleus--nucleus collisions: the ratio rapidly increases when going from Dubna to AGS energies and changes little between AGS and SPS energies. This change in the behaviour can be related to the increase in the entropy production observed in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at the same energy range. The results are interpreted within a statistical approach. They are consistent with the hypothesis that the Quark Gluon Plasma is created at SPS energies, the critical collision energy being between AGS and SPS energies.
- Strangeness and pion production as signals of QCD phase transition (1997)
- A systematic analysis of data on strangeness and pion production in nucleon–nucleon and central nucleus–nucleus collisions is presented. It is shown that at all collision energies the pion/baryon and strangeness/pion ratios indicate saturation with the size of the colliding nuclei. The energy dependence of the saturation level suggests that the transition to the Quark Gluon Plasma occurs between 15 A·GeV/c (BNL AGS) and 160 A·GeV/c (CERN SPS) collision energies. The experimental results interpreted in the framework of a statistical approach show that the effective number of degrees of freedom increases in the course of the phase transition and that the plasma created at CERN SPS energies may have a temperature of about 280 MeV (energy density ~ 10 GeV/fm exp-3). The presence of the phase transition can lead to the non–monotonic collision energy dependence of the strangeness/pion ratio. After an initial increase the ratio should drop to the characteristic value for the QGP. Above the transition region the ratio is expected to be collision energy independent. Experimental studies of central Pb+Pb collisions in the energy range 20–160 A·GeV/c are urgently needed in order to localize the threshold energy, and study the properties of the QCD phase transition.
- Search for short lived particles in high multiplicity environment (1999)
- A method of statistical selection of short lived particles in high multiplicity nucleus-nucleus collisions is discussed.
- Report from NA49 (2004)
- The most recent data of NA49 on hadron production in nuclear collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. Anomalies in the energy dependence of pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions are observed. They suggest that the onset of deconfinement is located at about 30 AGeV. Large multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations are measured for collisions of intermediate mass systems at 158 AGeV. The need for a new experimental programme at the CERN SPS is underlined.


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I was in a local sporting goods store that has an extensive discg golf dept, including brands like Lat 64, Westside, Legacy, Prodigy, MVP and Vibram. Anyway, I found a pale red Soft Challenger that was in an eraser plastic, and it has the new "X" stamp. This thing is velvety while also being firmer than other Soft Challengers...they had a few others which were the typical chalky and somewhat floppy versions. Needless to say I grabbed it, a 172g. Awesome look and feel! I haven't seen a Discraft soft plastic like this before.
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Whether he was searching for fame or just wanted to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood sign, a Laysan Albatross somehow made his way to sunny Los Angeles, CA. After his weekend trip (catching some rays, hopefully) with members of International Bird Rescue, the Albatross was brought a half mile by boat from the California shoreline and released back into its Pacific Ocean home.
Because of the bird's size – its wingspan can reach 5 feet – and normal range from Hawaii to Alaska in the Pacific, the Albatross is a rare sight in Tinseltown. He was first spotted on the back of a pickup truck on Friday by concerned citizens, according to the Associated Press. Once the driver was shown the stowaway, he brought the him to county lifeguards who then brought the Albatross to International Bird Rescue, according to a statement. International Bird Rescue decided a simple shoreline release wouldn't do for this special bird: The Albatross might be tempted to return to the beach, where dogs, people, and LA smog can harm it.
"International Bird Rescue knows that Laysan Albatrosses are capable of soaring great distances," said Jay Holcomb, director of International Bird Rescue, in the statement. "We hope that it will head back to the Hawaiian Islands to nest with other Laysan Albatrosses. Its journey should only take a few days."
The wildlife rescue center says that the Albatross is not the first stowaway they've helped. Laysan Albatrosses might mistake a cargo ship as a new nesting island. International Bird Rescue speculates that the Albatross was a double stowaway – once on a ship from Hawaii crossing the Pacific and again in the cozy truck bed.


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For years after finishing my stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador, I listed "killing chickens" in the skills/interests section of my résumé—not because of my enduring hatred for the rooster that awakened me every morning at 2 but, rather, because the Peace Corps experience is singularly unshakable. Pretty much every volunteer can list the ways in which Peace Corps changed his or her life—and Santa Fe, perhaps unsurprisingly, is practically teeming with former Peace Corps volunteers. This March marks the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary. In July, the agency will conclude its national commemorative campaign in Santa Fe, in a series of events connected with the annual Santa Fe International Folk Art Market.
Frank Katz
Afghanistan, 1962
I had this wonderful conversation with my father [before I left]. He said, 'Why are you doing that? Life is work, and you need to get down to it, not do this other stuff that's just delaying your career and your profession.' I responded that I didn't really think that life was going to be work; I thought I was going to enjoy it, whatever it is that I was going to be doing with my life…But if he was right, and life was work, then I wanted to stall it off as long as I possibly could!
George and Dee Gamble
Colombia and Gabon, 1962-64
George: Our training—we went to Puerto Rico first. Everybody went to Puerto Rico.
Dee: The whole idea is, you do this physical stuff that you didn't think you could really do. You swim for 45 minutes with your arms tied behind your back—
George: And your feet tied together.
Dee: They taught you how. We rappelled off a 250-foot dam. We had to spend the night by ourselves in the rainforest.
George: The theory was, 'We're going to put you through some challenges that you believe you are incapable of doing because you've never tried those kinds of things. And you will learn that you can do them.'
Dee: And we think it worked pretty well…Every month or so, they sent a group of psychologists down to interview and test us. And people would be selected out—but it wasn't for the physical stuff.
Jenn Tawney
Vanuatu, 2003-06
When we first got in training, I was like, 'Is this really Peace Corps?' It was just beautiful. But I was on one of the islands, and it's very isolated. I think that's where the hard part comes in: There was no other volunteer within walking distance of me. The plane came once a week, and that was how you got everything. The stores on the island had no refrigeration or anything like that. You're really tested—you have all this time at first, and you don't know what to do with it, and you have to figure out all this stuff.
Anna Carvlin
Togo, 2002-04
It's very much a part of me. I have rings that I've had since then; I haven't taken them off. I remember this woman I was friends with, she was making dinner—and she had a relatively good salary; she was a nurse. She had a little tomato can, and she would add water to make sure she got every speck out. I never forget stuff like that. I didn't grow up with money—I grew up poor—but it just gave me even more of a depth of gratitude for the material wealth—and also for the freedom of expression that I'm allowed to have in my country.