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A lady visits a gun shop to buy a hunting gun for husband's upcoming birthday. She picks up a good one and asks the salesman how much that will cost. The man's reply, "Lady, I am blind, but you can hand me over that gun and I can tell the price from its weight," After weighing the gun he tells that it will cost $144. The lady, now quite surprised and inspired, takes another gun of high quality. The man once again declares that the gun costs $180. The lady is totally amazed.
She is about to pay for the gun and leave the store, but suddenly she feels that she has to fart hard. She thinks for a moment and lets it loose, believing it does no harm since the salesman can't see. But to her surprise, the salesman speaks out and says, "Now that will cost you $200" The lady wonders what suddenly made him change his mind, and asks for an explanation. The man promptly replies, "It is $180 for the gun plus $20 for that unexpected duck call."

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Call it the "Million Dollar Fix."
Firefighters at the Spring Valley Volunteer Fire Department in Rockland County have just received a special delivery: a brand new firetruck and other critical equipment, including new turnout gear and radios for the 70 members after an I-Team investigation into the state of the department's equipment.
For years, firefighters had been saddled with outdated and expired gear, and a pumper that often failed during crucial calls. The department, the busiest in Rockland County, is facing mounting dangers from illegal housing conversions by slumlords and out-of-control construction.
Board officials in the village, locked in an internal political battle, initially refused to release funds for the department until the I-Team began highlighting the outrage two years ago.
After community pressure, the Board finally approved a $1.3 million bond.
"When you were here two years ago, it was a Department in disrepair," said departmant spokesman Aaron Lerer. "It's like night and day."
The bond allowed the Department to purchase iPads for all vehicles.
"All the iPads have GPS location, hydro location, even emergency information such as chemicals in the buildings, and pre-planned maps of apartment buildings," said Chief Ray Canario.
Every firefighter also has a new bailout system that allows for escape from high-rise buildings. The state had mandated escape ropes for all internal firefighters after the deadly Bronx black Sunday fire in 2005 when several FDNY firefighters were trapped. Two died.
Spring Valley ignored the state mandate until the I-Team's stories.
"The new equipment helps us stay safer, helps the village people be safer and it helps us better serve them," said Lerer.


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PPD STUDIOS is the new home of Princess Pole Dancing - Pole Fitness Lessons and Parties and the Huddersfield University Pole Dancing Society.
Owner SJ took up Pole Dancing for Fitness as a hobby just over 10 years ago and quickly fell in love with this fun, challenging way of keeping fit, toning up, improving core strength and flexibility and most of all, having fun. She began teaching back in 2006 in various venues around West Yorkshire.
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Consider YouTube, which is reshaping the notion of what "video entertainment" is, or video game experiences, which likewise are seen by some as the future for much of the "movie" business.
In the communications business, the big change is the ability application providers now have to use any broadband connection to deliver an experience, application or service.
But all rules of thumb have to be qualified. The conventional wisdom for Internet content is that, to make Google happy, content has to be original. On the other hand, according to David Karp of Tumblr, there are nine content curators for every content creator on his site. How sharing disrupts media
Reblogging, on Tumblr, is so easy that the vast majority of Tumblr sites actually create little or no original content: they just republish content from other people.
Some might argue that "adds no value." If you think about it, that's not actually true. Busy people always can save time if somebody else is doing a good job sorting through
Such linking, liking, re-posting, re-tweeting and so forth is a "voting" mechanism, allowing social tools to amplify and point to content people find interesting or useful.
That grows audiences for people who do create original content. The "is it better to create original content or curate it?" argument is misplaced. Both have value, and both create value.


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Study on the recognition and accreditation of MOOCs at higher education institutions
Skills gained outside higher education should enable the participant to earn university credits. This demand was reflected in a landmark resolution by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs way back in 2002. Since then, digital courses taken outside university may count towards up to half of an academic degree. In practice, however, credit is rarely awarded for individually acquired skills. The rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of digital education delivery has given fresh impetus to the debate on the possibilities – and risks – involved in the opening up of higher education.
There is a constant growth in the provision of digital courses, particularly MOOCs. The growth of digital formats has led to a diversification of such courses, which are offered to various target groups across the entire lifespan. The transition between university and non-university educational offerings appears to be increasingly blurred, making it difficult to classify a number of digital courses into traditional categories. The accreditation of skills gained outside higher education has always been a difficult issue, so the notion of digital course offerings being theoretically universally available on the internet takes it to a new dimension, and increases the uncertainties felt at higher education institutions concerning the evaluation of online courses.
The recently published study entitled "Digital anerkannt" (digitally recognised) was initiated by the educational organisation Kiron Open Higher Education and implemented in close cooperation with CHE Consult and Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age, HFD). The study evolved in the context of the "From Camp to Digital Campus" project funded by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. It offers critically reflected, practice-based assistance in dealing with the recognition and accreditation of MOOCs. The study also provides actors in higher education with positive impetus for integrating high-quality digital teaching and learning formats into their courses in a needs-based, transparent (open) manner.
The overall picture shows that the recognition and accreditation of digitally acquired skills is not clearly defined in many places, in spite of the fundamental political will and the strong commitment of individual players. Concerns about digitisation and institutional uncertainties often emerge with regard to the legal framework and quality assurance. There is no agreement on any additional standards that may be required, such as conducting examinations in digital contexts. Based on the analysis and examples of good practice, the study provides recommendations for central stakeholder groups on dealing with digital teaching and learning scenarios.
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There was a time not-so-long ago when troubled banks in emerging economies, sometimes formerly state-run banks, looked to private banks in the US and Europe for equity infusions. Now, well, troubled banks and broker-dealers in the US and Europe seem to be looking to banks -- often state-owned banks and investment companies -- in the emerging world for help ...
I (obviously) have no idea if CITIC is going to invest in Bear. The Bear-China Construction deal never happened. But it would be consistent with recent trends.
There was a strong presumption several years ago that China's financial system would -- over time -- evolve so that it looked more like the US financial system and, I suspect, an presumption that private US and European financial firms would be major players in China's domestic markets. Now in a world of "reverse globalization" it is at least plausible that China's state (along with financial institutions controlled by China's state) could end up with a significant ownership stake in US banks, US broker-dealers and US private equity firms, which would, in a way, make the US financial system look a bit more like China's financial system.
Potential ironies abound. The US government has long resisted any suggestion that hedge funds be required to disclose their positions. But CITIC buys a stake in Bear, China's state -- through CITIC -- could conceivably end up having access to a fair amount of information about the positions of some US hedge funds. Bear is a big prime broker, and a large equity investor like CITIC would certainly have every right to know what risks Bear is taking.
It wouldn't be entirely unprecedented for a government to invest in a financial firm to get access to financial information: the Bank of Italy claimed it invested in LTCM in part to understand how hedge funds were influencing the Italian BTP market ...
The intermingling of public and private money -- in a world where "socialism is for capitalists" and "capitalism is for socialists" -- does raise some interesting questions -- questions that I am still struggling with.
I wonder what Michael Pettis -- who worked for Bear at one time -- thinks ...
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Today, August 9th 2019 is being celebrated as International Indigenous Day in Dominica.
Directer of the Carifuna Cultural Group, Prosper Paris has said that that a language exposition will be part of the activities scheduled for today to mark the occasion in the Kalinago Territory.
"The Carifuna Cultural Group together with the the events committee of the Kalinago Territory is putting on an activity on the 9th of August which is today," Paris told state-owned DBS Radio. "It will be held at the Salybia government school from 5pm. We will have a language exposition where the public is invited to view Kalinago words and sentences and they might choose names for themselves."
He said there will be a symposium at 7 pm, "where we will be doing presentations on different people who have done work on the language and hearing from different leaders, their perspective or how they would like to see the language develop."
The theme for this year's International Indigenous Day is "Indigenous Language."
Paris stated that the United Nations (UN) has also declared 2020-2030 as the Decade of Indigenous Language.


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The initiative aims to elevate the skills of aspiring and established photographers and inspire a whole new generation of storytellers.
Eight renowned local and international photographers and filmmakers have been announced as the new Canon Storytellers whose work and visual stories will inspire audiences to tell their own stories. The Canon Storytellers will lead a series of workshops and seminars aimed at honing the skills of enthusiastic snappers. The workshops will be running at various locations across the region and throughout the year, with the aim of ensuring everyone is able to capture the stories and images that make them better storytellers.
The Storytellers are widely known to have influenced and inspired others and are masters of a range of specific techniques and talents. All are dedicated to the art of visual storytelling and are highly skilled at adopting the latest innovations and technologies to produce outstanding results.
Venkatasubramanian Hariharan, Business Unit Director B2C, Canon Middle East said: "Through Storytellers we aim to ensure people who love storytelling through photography or videography are able to make the most of their skills. We seek to inspire and motivate them to tell incredible stories in the most effective way possible through pictures. This is why we have sought out world renowned photographers who understand the art of photography and who are excited to share their expertise with others."
He added that Canon is and always has been dedicated to ensuring everyone is able to capture beautiful photos in order to hold treasured memories for generations to come.
Taking part is award-winning fashion photographer Clinton Lubbe, who has won Media 24, Photographer of the Year, and who directed an award-winning TV series. Also partnering with Canon is Sukaina Rajabali, who is one of only seven Certified Phase One Professionals in the Middle East and who has contributed to a long list of bestselling books and popular magazines.
Jorge Ferrari is a Dubai based photographer who specializes in live action and has photographed some of the country's leading sports tournaments and international events. He will be sharing expert tips on action and commercial photography, while Nicolas Tohme, who describes himself as a Visual Therapist & Content Creator, will be teaching creative and portrait photography.
Gary Schmid, an internationally acclaimed Luxury Hotel and Resort Photographer and an approved head photographer for several high-end hotel chains, will be sharing secrets to taking perfect shots of food and interiors while Jalal Abuthina, an expert in street photography who has published books of images on Dubai will be showing photographers how to master street photography.
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|@ Lanvin SS 2011 (L-R) Ajak Deng (img), Jenell Williams (nathalie), Ataui Deng (elite), Jourdan Dunn (nathalie), Melodie Monrose (silent)...Alber Elbaz always knows how to do it right.
Besides more than half the spring/summer 2011 shows being a bit of a safe snooze, a lot of kids noticed something new and fresh on the runways. FLAVOR. I know there were a lot of complaints in the past about the Caucasian models dominating the runways, or...er...ahem...the lack of black or any other ethnicity on them. Now that we've actually seen a leap with the numbers of darker girls strutting in the best shows, it's even more apparent what we were missing. I was LOVING it. Not only does it mix it up a bit, they are GORGEOUS in the fashions and the makeup. And we got to see a lot of them. Not one or two dark girls like in the past (Naomi, Tyra, Alek, Beverly...). But a lot. Almost so many that I'm afraid I've missed some of them here (if i have, please do let me know). It was a throw-back, in a good way, to the past and the iconic YSL all-black shows. And come on, when you have a lot of girls to look at, you see how different they all are and and how essential they should be to every show. Or most shows. It was also cool that a lot of them shot to the top. I can't imagine...one day they're going on editorial and catalog go-sees, and the next they're going for fittings at Lanvin, YSL, Louis Vuitton...must be amazing. So I wanted to showcase these gorgeous beauties. By the way, if you didn't already know...Italian Vogue does have a black edition. That's how f-ing cool they are. (PPS I'm waiting for the Persian girls to take over next season.)♡
|Ajak Deng (img) at Louis Vuitton...HOT.
|Ashane Rose (next) at Cacharel...!
|Ataui Deng (elite) at Cacharel (all in the family)
|Jenell Williams (nathalie) at Louis Vuitton!
|super foxy Joan Smalls (img) at Louis Vuitton. She is hot.
|so is Melodie Monrose (silent) at YSL
|Nyasha Matonhodze (elite) at Louis Vuitton
|Rose Cordero (elite) at Louis Vuitton
|Simone Carvalho (oui) at Louis Vuitton...so hot.
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When I had my Portafold Caravan, I bought some chrome things that the leather straps went through and I'd like two more but, I don't know what they're called and, for some reason, when I go in a shop and can't tell the assistant what I want, they don't help me! What is this country coming to...anyway; they're (the chrome things, not the assistant) are about 3" long and are like small drawer handles for mice. A hole either end to fix them to something. Anyone know what they're called, or even know what I'm on about.
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Here is a list of fun concerts, festivals, and events I found for the month of September! Please comment and let me know if you know of any others!! Concerts! Sept 1 & 2: Dallas Symphony Orchestra- Jurassic Park in Concert when & where: 7:30 pm on the 1st and 2:30 pm on the … Continue reading A List of Fortunate Events in Dallas for the month of September


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A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children. Gutierrez started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country's wealthier neighborhoods. The discarded reading material slowly piled up, and now the ground floor of his small house is a makeshift community library stacked from floor to ceiling with some 20,000 books. They range from chemistry textbooks to children's classics. He says books are luxuries for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods such as his. New reading material at bookstores is too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota, a city of 8.5 million. But they tend to be located far away from poorer areas. "This should be in all neighborhoods, on each corner of every neighborhood, in all the towns, in all departments, and all the rural areas," says Gutierrez. "Books are our salvation and that is what Colombia needs." The 53-year-old Gutierrez has a love of reading he attributes to his mother. She always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school. "She used to read me stories every night," said Gutierrez. He has traveled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to share his experience of starting a library with discarded reading material. "To me, books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being." While Gutierrez still sifts through the rubbish for additions to his library, his fame as Colombia's "Lord of the Books" has also brought him thousands of donated tomes. He has sent many to other libraries around the country. That is because he doesn't have room for them all. Gutierrez is an avid reader of works by authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Mario Vargas Llosa. His favorite books include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The General in his Labyrinth" by Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He says he doesn't reject technology that allows books to be read digitally. But he prefers to read the printed word on paper. "There's nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket, in your bag or inside your car," he says.
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We offer tours to appeal to five general areas of interest. Or call us for a charter trip, and we'll custom-design to your wishes! Whatever the tour, you won't soon forget the snowcapped mountains that look close enough to touch, right out your window; the glacial valleys, icy blue lakes, and amazing waterfalls await you.
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Getting To The Point – Resources


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This piece will be comparing Wade Baldwin's to many successful Point Guards of the past.
In honor of Wade Baldwin measuring both taller than expected (6'4″) and with a longer wingspan (6'11.25″), we'll examine his profile in further depth. Skipping over the things we already know. 1) That Wade Baldwin can really get to the rim AND that Wade Baldwin has numbers that would lead us to believe he has a good chance to shoot at the NBA level, possibly even off the dribble. And as we've all seen in the last week or two, with Steph Curry, with Damian Lillard, even at times with Kyle Lowry, shooting off the dribble can be a swing skill in the NBA.
Not just because it makes the player really dangerous as an individual scorer. But also because it presents the defense with an impossible choice when it comes to P-N-R. Either they follow the player over the screen, preventing a three-point attempt while also creating lanes by which the defense can be attacked. Or the defender goes under the screen and surrenders the three. (I've oversimplified things here, but similar problems are presented no matter how the defense plays the screen, if they trap, if they switch, etc . . . In any situation in which the offensive player can do these three things: 1) Shoot off the dribble, 2) Penetrate off the dribble, 3) Pass the ball, the defense is fucked.
So the question is why, if Wade Baldwin, has the real hope of being able to do these three things is he not considered a top 10 lock? Or more to the point, what does Wade Baldwin do well? And what does Wade Baldwin do not as well?
And I will try to answer this not by making a scouting report (Derek Bodner of DraftExpress has done an excellent job here) hitting all the main points. Struggled to finish at the rim, check. Not a finished product, check. Could really use work on his handle, check. (It's come a long way since his Freshman season. What I would add is that Baldwin struggles when he gets sped up, which is why his dribble is sometimes loose and perhaps also why he struggles at the rim. Which is to say, body control is an issue now. It might continue to be an issue into the future. You'll notice, it's something that Russell Westbrook sometimes struggles with as well, though Baldwin's Top Gear is nowhere close to that of Westbrook.)
What I will do is place Baldwin's per 40 numbers against the Point Guards of the past. Not quite an Apples-to-Apples comparison, since we've had any number of rules changes in the last 30 years, but it's close enough to get a feel for how good these players were in their respective Freshman and Sophomore years and to see where they succeeded and where they failed. More importantly, it will also allow us to see that as far away as Wade Baldwin perhaps is, he's also way ahead of schedule.
Point Guards take a lot of time to cook. Even great Point Guards. Stockton and Nash both took four years in college and then three or four years in the NBA. Chauncey Billups was outstanding by his second year in college, then took until age 26 in the NBA to consolidate his game. (If Billups didn't improve in the way he did, it's somewhat likely he was on his last contract.) Payton was scoring 60+ in college games and even he took two or three years after a four-year college career.
Which is to say this much, drafting Baldwin definitely carries risk. He's not a finished product. And he might be on his 2nd contract before he becomes excellent (if he indeed does.) Next year will be Wade Baldwin's Age 20 season. Thanks to Sports-Reference.com, here's a list of most of the Point Guards who played a qualifying Age 19 or 20 season:
Kobe Bryant doesn't quite make the per 36 Assist cut off I've set to select for Primary Perimeter Initiators, so let's keep that in mind. Still, we have to admit that it's a rather select list of players who could both dribble and pass to some degree and were deemed to be good enough at basketball to have an Age 20 qualifying season. (Remember that when looking at the list below, a player like Chauncey Billups was nearly half a year older than Wade Baldwin during his sophomore season.) There's somewhere around 30 guys in the whole database, and very few of them with dimensions close to as big or bigger than Wade Baldwin (again, 6'4″ with a 6'11.25″ Wingspan), passing ability AND any kind of demonstration of shooting ability from distance.
So already, we're realizing just which kind of group Wade Baldwin might one day belong. But let's look further into it. (Please forgive me for leaving out a couple of players that clearly should feature here: Baron Davis, Kevin Johnson (no good stats I could find), Magic Johnson (he was so good in college that there's little enlightenment to be found in comparing Magic to anyone, except perhaps guys like Kidd, Wade and Anfernee Hardaway.)
Shit Wade Baldwin Does Good
Three Point Percentage
This is clearly not a list of every college PG to put up a Freshman or Sophomore season in college basketball. Nor even all those who would it to the NBA. But it's a pretty decent sized list featuring many of the best PG and Combo Guards of the last 30 years or so. So obviously the "Rank" Column is just ranking the players in this group to try to better contextualize where the player might fall. Please, do not read too much into the number, more than to know that the better a player ranks, the more likely the skill is a real strength. (Another issue is that the function I created to rank the players doesn't distinguish between players who are tied.)
Though I've also made smaller groupings, selecting out players that are more similar to Baldwin in each category to help us:
1) The first thing we can tell is that Three-Point Shooting has been a strength for Wade Baldwin. Even NBA greats at the position didn't shoot as well as Baldwin his first two years. When you're Freshman season is bounded on one side by Chris Paul, Kyle Lowry and Mark Price and your sophomore season is bounded on the other by Steve Nash and Chauncey Billups, as a jump shooter that's where you want to be.
2) I'd like for us to continue to note Chauncey Billups. He'll continue to come up as a player who was similar to Baldwin in important statistical categories in both his Freshman and Sophomore year. He also, like Baldwin, was a huge Point Guard without the Top End Speed of a player like Jason Kidd or Russell Westbrook, but with the legitimate ability to guard multiple positions. The key for Billups was when he finally consolidated his jumper off the dribble from distance. It took him a long time, but after that, when defenders couldn't just sit on drives, he became a player for whom the defense basically had no answers.
When you're a player like Billups or Kyle Lowry or Marcus Smart (this is going to be one of the major questions he needs to answer), getting the defense to chase you around screens is one of the keys to becoming a huge value offensive player. And it's one of the reasons why we see Billups getting so much better from Age 23 to Age 26, while being relatively stagnant in value before that. The ability to shoot from distance ultimately led not just to higher efficiency three-point numbers (from 17.1% to 39.2% between those years) , but better passing numbers (from 6.5 Assists per 100 possessions at Age 23 to over 13 Assists per 100 at Age 29) since he was now playing with advantage on offense, and even more Free Throw Attempts (from 7 Free Throw Attempts per 100 to 9 or 10 FTA per 100 year in and year out), since he was now driving into help defense, which is much more likely to commit a foul.
When you add these improvements to the other ways in which many players get better from Age 23 to Age 30 (rebounding, knowledge of the game, defensive understanding), you get an outstanding player. Though 4 teams gave up on Billups before that happened, and the Pistons only signed him for a 6-year mid-level deal, meaning he wasn't all that attractive a free agent.
3) But back to how good Wade Baldwin is at jump shooting, when we're talking about players who put up these kinds of percentages in both their Freshman and Sophomore years, we are basically talking about Damian Lillard, Steph Curry, Chris Paul, Ben Gordon and perhaps James Harden (when you allow for the fact that he likely shot a lot more off-the-dribble threes than Baldwin.) Here are Some Career Shooting Numbers for those five players plus Chauncey Billups:
Let's not read everything into this list. There are other players who shot this well their first two years in college that didn't make a scratch in the league. But we will see, it is rare for a player to have Baldwin's array of skills AND to display shooting both from the Three Point Line and the Free Throw Line. When that happens, you generally have an NBA lifer, at the least. And all of these guys were Top 7 picks. For good reason. Then why is Baldwin being thought of as a mid-first rounder or even as a 2nd rounder?
I'd suggest that it's highly possible that we selectively give prospects credit for their age and the skills they have. That if Baldwin were either highly regarded coming into college, or were Baldwin just to have gone through an Age-19 Freshman season rather than an Age-19 sophomore season, we would have much more positive thoughts about him as a player.
The fact of the matter is that there's no way Lillard would have been drafted after his sophomore season, despite it showing all the same skills he displayed as a senior, and there was little likelihood of Curry being drafted highly. (He had yet to really display his dribbling ability or his passing ability, as much of his game was off-the-catch his first two years at Davidson. And his defensive ability and potential was lightly regarded by everyone, not least of all me, because he didn't look the part).
There're not many chances to get in on a potential star player a year early. We're going to see Baldwin presents that type of package. That there are a lot of reasons Baldwin is a very solid bet after Simmons and perhaps Ingram, to be this draft's 2nd or 3rd biggest impact player 10 years from now.
Free Throw Shooting
Before sizing down to a smaller list, I'd just like to point out that players do indeed get a lot better from their Freshman year and that their growth as individuals is unpredictable. And why I'm perhaps being too harsh on Jamal Murray. When everyone is projecting Jamal Murray to be a Star Player, they are seeing this much, that his jumper is already money, that he can dribble well enough, that he's decently tall, and then projecting him to have the all-around growth that Brandon Roy had from his Freshman Season in college to his Sophomore year in the NBA. There's a number of reasons this is unlikely. It's not to say it's altogether impossible. It has happened before. And someday it will again. Jamal Murray could legitimately be that player. Or perhaps Devin Booker from last year.
Not all players growth curves are the same. Which is why all of this is at best a guess. No one would have bet on Brandon Roy after his Freshman season. And everyone would have been wrong. So take whatever anyone says with a grain of salt, unless perhaps you've met the person that could predict how good Brandon Roy would become. (Not me.)
1) I've included Steph Curry, Chauncey Billups, and Mark Price in the list of close comparables. Rest assured, Wade Baldwin is not that kind of Free-Throw Shooter, at least not yet. But comparing favorably to Steve Nash an George Hill is not so bad.
2) I find the names that surround Baldwin's two season on this list to be particularly interesting. CJ McCollum, Ben Gordon, Jarrett Jack, George Hill, Jeff Hornacek. They all seem like different possibilities for Wade Baldwin, were you to give these players a nearly 7'0″ Wing span.
3) In particular I find Jarrett Jack, George Hill and Jeff Hornacek to be interesting comparisons. Imagine if Jarrett Jack had a near 7'0″ Wingspan and a more consistent Three-Point shot, what kind of player are talking about? We are talking about Jarrett Jack in his two or three best offensive seasons (2009-2010 with Toronto, 2011-2012 with New Orleans and 2012-2013 with Golden State, seasons in which he shot 35-41% from three, which helped raise his TS% and allowed other parts of his game to shine), a player similar to that, but with better defense, due to the added length.
That's probably a kind of lower level baseline for Wade Baldwin as a player, at least if he sticks at PG.
4) As for Hill and Hornacek, we will see their names come up again in comparison with Baldwin. Especially Jeff Horancek. Even before I did this study, I had started to think about an offensive career like that of Jeff Hornacek as one of the more positive outcomes for Wade Baldwin. And yes, if Baldwin is anywhere as close to as good as Hornacek on offense with his potential on defense, he should be a superstar, since Hornacek was a Top 10 offensive player at least two times and as many as five or six.
As a side note: The funniest thing about all the flack that Hornacek got for his Two-Point guard system when it bottomed out in his second season is that everyone somehow forgot that Hornacek was on teams that played these kinds of systems his entire career. Next to Kevin Johnson in Phoenix. Next to John Stockton in Utah. Horancek was a Point Guard who could play Two. So instituting a system in which multiple players could dribble, pass and shoot would for him be the most natural thing in the world.
I also think it's generally the right way to go. When you have multiple offensive players who can threaten the defense in this way (Golden State with their roster of Point Guards and Point Forwards, San Antonio with Kawhi+Manu+Parker, Miami with Lebron and Wade, Chicago with Michael and Scottie, Utah with Stockton and Hornacek, Detroit with Isaiah and Joe Dumars, etc . . .), your team becomes next to impossible to defend. If anyone gives Hornacek a job and gives him smart players with talent, I think we'll once again see some excellent teams.
Free Throw Rate
Free Throw Rate is another statistic by which Wade Baldwin does well. Though just how well will be easier to see when we shrink the size of the group.
1) It should be said, I removed all the really small sample seasons (less than 150 FGA) from the group. It should also be said that this number is somewhat dependent on Three-Point Rate as well. The more Three-Pointers a player shoots, the more difficult it becomes to have a high Free-Throw Rate, since players are much less likely to be fouled while shooting jump shots, unless of course they are Reggie Miller.
2) Here we see a quite noticeable jump in FTr from Baldwin's Freshman season to this year. 46.7% to 61.4%. I'd argue we see that for two reasons. The first that Wade Baldwin became Vanderbilt's full-time PG this year after playing mostly off-ball as a Freshman, playing alongside both Shelton Mitchell and Riley LaChance, who was actually quite good his first year before completely bottoming out.
The second is that Wade Baldwin is much better at dribbling now than he was as Freshman. He still has a long way to go. Baldwin's still very loose with his handle at times, especially when he builds up speed and gets out of control, though not just in those situations. And yet he still gets to the rim and into defenders bodies with relative ease.
3) I'm not going to go on and on about this. Just to note that when most of this group of all-time greats isn't as good as Baldwin at this skill, it's because he's doing something right as a player. Even players like George Hill, Jarrett Jack, and Andre Miller, who weren't exactly elite at getting to the line in the league, did manage to earn value at the Foul Stripe. And there are players like James Harden who are in the same athletic ballpark as Baldwin that manage to get to the Free-Throw Line and convert at elite rates in the NBA.
Now Baldwin isn't quite as good an overall prospect as James Harden, at least not going into the draft, but his draft also doesn't appear to be anywhere near as deep.
Free Throw Attempts Per 40
1) As the list is related heavily to FTr, I've decided just to give you the shorter list of comparables. (Which is still quite long.) Dwayne Wade is awesome. He's the guy missing at the Top.
2) I'm not wholly prepared to make the argument, but it wouldn't surprise me if Free Throw Attempts per 40 (regardless of FTr) is the more important number. Or at least, a number as important. Not just because it removes the wonkiness of small samples, but also because it gives us an insight into how many times a game a player is pressuring the defense.
3) I need not say again, Wade Baldwin was really good at this.
4) Now, if you want to be more impressed, look at the FTA per 40 against the number of Field Goal Attempts. (Though don't forget, due to the shortened shot clock, there are likely more possessions per 40 now than there were five or ten or twenty years ago.) Only Chris Paul and Ron Harper have the same combination of relatively low FGA and incredibly high Free Throw Attempts per 40.
Assists Per 40
First, most of the guys at the very top of this list, Jason Kidd, Ty Lawson, Andre Miller, Gary Payton, Chris Paul, they were incredible.
By the way, this is where Kahlil Felder would belong were we doing this same exercise with his numbers. He's been an incredible college player. Plus, for a shorter player, he definitely has the right build, very thick. There are many reasons why he might be the best bet for a possibly elite one-way offensive player out of this draft. If that happens, no one is going to love watching Felder more than me.
Though not every player who excels at this stat continues to excel into the pros (MCW, Hinrich, Jarrett Jack as some examples). There's a difference between getting to one's spots in college and getting to one's spots in the pros. And it's why those who have concern about Baldwin's future are right to have it. I just happen to disagree on the risk-reward proposition in this scenario, considering the fact that even if Baldwin bottoms out, he's likely to be a decent NBA player.
Now onto our shorter list:
1) Once again we have Jarret Jack, Jeff Hornacek, Chauncey Billups as close comparables. But now we have another offensive name I find interesting, another guy who jumped from a likely late 1st rounder (or worse) as a sophomore to a legit Top 5 player as a junior, Deron Williams. He's also another Big PG without the Top End speed of guys like Rose and Westbrook. That didn't stop Williams from being a five or six time Top 10 offensive player.
The place again where Baldwin has a major advantage over Williams, he's nearly an inch taller and his wingspan is nearly a half foot longer.
2) Another we can see if we compare the two players, Williams was equally bad at converting on Two-Point Field Goal Attempts as a sophomore. That's a peak ahead to when we'll talk about the areas of the game in which Baldwin is not as successful, but it's true of a lot of the players.
3) From watching Baldwin, I actually think the passing numbers might underrate his success in this area of the game. I have no concrete evidence of it, but I always had the feeling that his teammates were leaving lots of points on the table with unconverted looks created by Baldwin. (Anyone watching LSU and Ben Simmons probably had a similar feeling, though there's more evidence of that. You can just look at how bad Ben Simmons teammates were and realize that many of Ben Simmons numbers are likely being suppressed by how poor his teammates were.)
4) Regardless, the numbers are there. Wade Baldwin, even compared to the cream of the crop, pretty good at passing. Which is especially impressive because he wasn't even a full-time PG as a Freshman.
Assist to Turnover Rate
Here's another place, somewhat surprisingly, Wade Baldwin does really well. I always had the sense that Wade Baldwin was turning the ball over, sometimes because of his play and sometimes because of his teammates, so it was surprising when I found this:
I'll let the list speak for itself.
Rebounding Per 40
Wade Baldwin's success does not stop there. Let's take a closer look at rebounding:
1) Wade Baldwin was fairly consistent as a Freshman and Sophomore. That's something we see from a few players. Not only Baldwin, but Kyle Lowry, Andre Miller, James Harden, Steph Curry. All players who rebound for their position in the NBA.
2) We do have to remember the new shot clock, but on the whole, this is another data-point that ballparks one of Baldwin's future NBA skills as likely average or above.
3) That might be all Baldwin needs. To be an MVP candidate, the player needs to be elite or super elite at something, but there are Top 10 guys who are merely big pluses in every area of the game without having any real deficits. Kyle Lowry as one example. Chauncey Billups as another. (Though of course, there are arguments to be made about just how good these players were on defense.)
Shit Wade Baldwin Is Not As Good At
Two-Point Field Goal Percentage
Wade Baldwin is not good at scoring from Two-Point Range. A further demonstration:
1) Wade Baldwin is really not good at scoring from Two-Point Range. As we've already discussed, that's mostly because Wade Baldwin is not good at finishing at the rim. (This relates to the body control issue that causes some turnovers as well.) Wade Baldwin is a quite capable mid-range jump shooter, even off his own dribble.
2) The question then is what this means for Baldwin's future. Possibly something. Likely not all that much. As we can see, Kyle Lowry, Mark Price, Steve Nash, Chauncey Billups, Jeff Hornacek and others had similar two-point struggles at the same age and stage as Baldwin. Players do get better at shooting in close, especially the ones who get really good at pulling up from distance. Which is to say, don't be surprised if this number, Baldwin's ability to get Free Throws and Three-Point Shooting are closely related. The better Baldwin is at shooting the basketball, the better he'll likely be at everything else.
Since that's the Baldwin skill that will alter the shape of the defense and allow the rest of his game to play. Baldwin is not that different from Chauncey Billups in this regard, even if their games don't exactly resemble each other on the surface.
Steals Per 40
There's clearly a disconnect in the NBA draft between how valuable players who can potentially initiate offense are, and how long they sometimes take to develop. And we can see this by looking at the number of Point Guard prospects who were drafted outside of the Top 7 who became legit All-Star types. And such Point Guards continue to be drafted beyond the Top of the draft despite their disproportionate effect on the game. Not just Kyle Lowry, Jeff Hornacek, John Stockton, Tim Hardaway, Mark Price, Steve Nash, Jameer Nelson, Ty Lawson, etc . . . from this list, but also players like Jeff Teague, Goran Dragic, Eric Bledsoe, Reggie Jackson, Isaiah Thomas, Dennis Schroder (as a player who just went through his Age 22 season, he's one who seems like he's probably on an All-Star kind of path) and others from more recent drafts.
This is another Bias I failed to mention. That subconsciously we treat all of the positions as if they are equally important, but it's the players future role we have to judge. Players who initiate offense just intrinsically have easier pathways to higher ceilings and these ceilings of value are very often underrated. Which is to say, I don't know why Wade Baldwin is rated as lowly as he continues to be, despite testing athletically almost exactly as one might expect from watching. Not as a dunk contest talent, but right below, in that next tier of players that should have the athleticism to turn the corner on screens, especially if they can pop off the dribble.
This rant doesn't have anything to do with the Steal Statistic, but I'd hope if Baldwin did better at this that he'd be rated more highly. This lack of steals, especially for a player with Baldwin's length, and not the Two-Point Field Goal Percentages is the biggest red flag in Baldwin's statistical portfolio. Why does he not get more steals?
Yet we do see a number of other very good Point Guard defenders in similar places to Baldwin:
1) Most notably we see Gary Payton (as a Freshman), Kyle Lowry (as a Freshman), George Hill, Derek Harper, Russell Westbrook and Chauncey Billups.
2) George Hill and Chauncey Billups are again particularly interesting, not just because they profile as the same kinds of Big Point Guards or Combo Guards that Wade Baldwin is, but because their defensive numbers through their first two years and all their ancillary indicators are basically identical to those of Wade Baldwin. Which is to say they rebounded decently on the defensive glass, created new possessions at okay rates and played on mediocre or slightly better than mediocre college defenses.
These traits are pretty much what we see in the NBA. Okay to better than okay defensive rebounding for the position, fairly average at creating steals, and yet these players played (or play) excellent NBA defense. Which is to say, we can't read too much into the numbers defensively. Since, they don't necessarily indicate any number of defensive events that actually alter and influence possessions. Most obviously, what happens on the ball.
3) What we see from Wade Baldwin is a player who is slightly inconsistent, and I think that might be because his focus and energy level tend to be lower when the team is ahead or playing even, then when they are behind. If that continues, it could severely hamper him on the defensive end in the NBA. We've seen better athletes completely fail on the defensive end (Tony Wroten for instance). Nowhere does an NBA player need to be so focused and in tune as on the defensive end. The smallest slip-up becomes a Steph Curry Three-Pointer, a Russell Westbrook dunk, a Lance Stephenson "I'm going to hold the ball and let you recover so I can restart the play from scratch".
But we've also seen how good Baldwin can be when he does play at high energy. This is one of the risks when you draft a player like Baldwin. It doesn't make a player like Baldwin a bad pick. Because there are few players in this draft who could be as good as him, even if only 75% of his game pans out.
Blocks Per 40
Let's start out by saying blocks, for a Point Guard, are an incredibly small sample size events. We're often talking, even in the case of players who are good, about 8 or 9 blocks in a season.
1) Looking at this now, I believe the Steals number for Curry's Sophomore season might be a typo. Seems entirely too low.
2) Aside from that, this is one place in which Baldwin does separate himself from many of the poorer defenders at the position. Jarrett Jack, Ty Lawson, Mark Price, Steve Nash, none of them put up a season like Wade Baldwin's sophomore year in which he had 0.4 blocks per 40.
3) Mookie Blaylock, who became a very good NBA defender, has a similar rise from one year to the next. Blaylock from 0.1 Blocks per 40 to 0.5. Baldwin from 0.2 to 0.4.
Now we shouldn't make too much of these numbers. We're talking about 11 blocks in a season from Baldwin. And 20 for Blaylock. But again, their definitely seems to be a trend in that better defenders often do at least passably in blocks, even at the Point Guard position. Indeed, at the top of the first list, we find some of the all-time greats. Dwayne Wade, Gary Payton, Doc Rivers.
4) This is to say, there's a definite reason why our defensive projection of Baldwin shouldn't be as high on Baldwin as it is on Dunn or Payton II. That's not to say there isn't some possibility that he won't outplay them on that end as well.
Turnovers Per 40
Turnovers, Wade Baldwin doesn't have great turnover numbers. Though we've already seen they are hardly terrible judged against how often he creates opportunities for others.
1) This is one place I expected Baldwin would be much worse when compared with his fellow Point Guard brethren. Point Guards turn it over more. They handle the ball more. They pass the ball more often. So we should expect these types of players to have higher turnover numbers, and, for most of them, we should expect that trend to continue into the NBA. Still, I always had the impression Wade Baldwin would be worse.
2) Turnovers per 40 are one place where the new shot clock rules could make Baldwin look worse than he actually is. More possessions equals more opportunities to turn the ball over.
3) Regardless of what the numbers suggest, if Baldwin doesn't continue to improve his handle and/or fails to shoot consistently from three, this is an area of the game where I'd not be surprised to see Baldwin become worse. That's the worst case scenario projection. The scenario where Baldwin moves to shooting guard on offense, or is a back-up PG going forward. And like every player in this draft not named Simmons or Ingram, being a back-up is on the table as a future possibility.
The Most Similar Players to Wade Baldwin
This first list is the guys from this group who do a lot of the same things well as Baldwin, mostly while not being great from Two-Point land. There's not the closest correlation to all of them, but in general, these are the guys who showed any aptitude to hit three-pointers, free throws, to pass the ball and to rebound. (Again while not necessarily making a high percentage of Two-Point shots.)
Still, a lot of these guys were much better prospects than Baldwin (Isiah Thomas, Chris Paul, James Harden), noticeably so. And some of them were worse prospects, notably Ben Gordon, since he didn't have quite the same passing ability. (Ben Gordon with better passing would have been awesome by the way.) So we should thin out our list, mostly by removing these players who are worse than Baldwin at one end of the spectrum or the other. Though I could understand if you wanted to include Gordon, Lillard (through Year 1 and 2), even D'Angelo Russell, as players who have features to their statistical profiles that are relatively similar to those of Baldwin.
Though we should be clear, such a list not meant to suggest that Baldwin is overwhelmingly similar to these players in the way that he plays. Only to suggest that a number of players who have played as well as Baldwin through two years have gone on to more than a small amount of NBA success.
The Players Even More Similar Than Most
This is our list. Chauncey Billups, Jeff Hornacek, Wade Baldwin. Okay at best at scoring from Two-Point Range. Good FTr. Relatively low Usage for this sample group. Good three-point shooting in the case of Billups and Baldwin. (I don't believe they had threes yet in college when Hornacek was playing.) Good, but not elite passing numbers. Similar defensive numbers. Not nearly as strong as Chris Paul or Kyle Lowry or even James Harden. (Though good defensive numbers in college don't necessarily translate to good defense, then or in the future.) And apart from Billups' Freshman season, excellent Assist to Turnover Rates.
Both types of careers are potentially on the table for Baldwin. Both would be hugely positive offensive outcomes. If he then manages to match, Billups defensively, that's when you get Baldwin as a Top 5 to Top 8 player. That's one potential career path for Baldwin. In terms of value, it's very difficult to get there when discussing the majority of the players in this draft class, as it would be discussing the majority of players from any draft class.
The only real problem with Baldwin as a prospect is that we don't have enough information since Point Guards often take a lot of time to cook. Just look at the college careers of Steve Nash, of John Stockton, even of an athletic guy like Kevin Johnson. No one was drafting these players with what they did through their first two seasons of their college career. The fact that this is not true for Baldwin should tell us a lot about what kind of player he could be in the future.
Indeed, Point Guards are often undervalued come draft time. Even more than that, the Freshman or Sophomore Point Guard is one of the most frequently undervalued types of players. In recent years, we can find any number of prominent players chosen after the 15th pick in the draft:Rajon Rondo, Eric Bledsoe, Jeff Teague, Jrue Holiday, Cory Joseph, Avery Bradley, Javaris Crittenton are most recently these types of players. I think you could make a fairly convincing argument that Tony Parker, Dennis Schroder, and Goran Dragic belong to this group as well.
Leaving aside Javaris Crittenton, who probably failed in large part because of off-the-court issues, we have a pretty decent range of positive outcomes from above average back-up (Cory Joseph) to solid regular (Avery Bradley) to all-star (Rajon Rondo, Jeff Teague, Goran Dragic, Eric Bledsoe is that type of player, Dennis Schroder likely at one point will be) to Hall-0f-Famer (Tony Parker).
It's a similar story to the one told by the group of PG who were deemed good enough to have a qualifying AGE 20 NBA season, a list that Wade Baldwin is quite likely to join. These guys end up at least decent. Every one of the players that had the kind of shooting skill, vision and willingness to pass that Wade Baldwin has displayed ultimately ended up much better than that.Think about it this way. Wade Baldwin will have two extra years of development before he completes his Age 21 season. Kris Dunn was completing his Age 21 season last year, when he was a Redshirt Sophomore. Might we not be using our understanding of Age and Improvement rather selectively?
Just looking at the players who've been somewhat in the same ballpark as Baldwin in terms of skill, size, and athleticism, isn't it more likely than not that Wade Baldwin will continue to improve? I'm relatively unsure of this group of NCAA players beyond the Top 10 to 15. I'm pretty sure about the Top 4 NCAA guys. The players with the both the easiest avenues towards NBA stardom and the greatest likelihood of having some reasonably meaningful NBA future. I can't see a way in which Mr. Baldwin is not one of them.


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Mary has been teaching at the School for 9 years. At the age of 10 she won a RAD Scholarship. She went on to join the Royal Ballet School and danced with the Royal Ballet and Opera Ballet at Covent Garden. Mary went on to teach at the Bristol School of Dancing and also at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Having also run her own dance school for many years, Mary has a wealth of experience, both of performing and teaching, to offer our ballet students.
Emily trained at The Centre Performing Arts College in London with Karen King, graduating with a full DDE teaching qualification from the ISTD in Ballet,Tap and Modern. After leaving college she taught extensively in many local dance schools in Surrey and Kent, gaining 100% pass rate for all students submitted for examinations. Emily also taught Modern, Tap and Jazz at Rosalle for over 7 years before having the pleasure of taking over as Principal. With a fantastic teaching team at Dance First, Emily continues to grow and develop the school, inspiring the next generation! Emily is also a fully qualified Pilates instructor, having trained with Polestar Pilates in London.
Born in Kenya, Michelle moved to Vancouver Island, Canada as a young child where she began dancing at the local dance school. By fourteen she had been offered a place at the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto. Missing the west coast, Michelle eventually returned to Vancouver to further her career working with professional dancers such as Joe Lauglin, Reid Anderson , Earl Kraul and Beverley Bagg. In 2007 Michelle moved to London where she was given the opportunity to work with West London School of Dance. This encouraged Michelle to focus her career on dance education, which led her to acquire her teaching certification through the British Ballet Organization.
Annabelle trained at Doreen Bird College, graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in dance and theatre performance. Whilst at college, she toured with Bird Theatre Company, gaining experience both on-stage, as a performer and dance captain, and off-stage as a stage manager. After graduation, Annabelle worked with a number of emerging contemporary choreographers on new performance pieces in a variety of genres. Annabelle has taught dance for the past 18 years and was previously deputy head and acting head of an established dance school based in Surrey. Throughout this time, Annabelle has taught ballet, tap, modern, jazz and contemporary to students at both local dance schools and vocational schools and has recently completed the RAD CBTS.
Hayley graduated from Italia Conti where she gained DDI and DDE qualifications in Modern and Tap. Since qualifying she has taught at various schools all across London, from baby classes, pre- professionals, professionals and adult beginners covering a range of styles including; tap, modern, jazz, contemporary, street and musical theatre. She has taught BTEC and HND level and recently qualified as a gym instructor too, teaching fitness to both children and adults.
Hayley is also an experienced performer with an impresive resumé, collaborating with a wide range of companies and artists. Her experience has allowed her to develop a extensive range of skills and a versatile, adaptable way of working.
Hayley enjoys sharing her professional experience with the Dance First students.
Alexandra is our first point of contact at the school and a vital member of the team. Dealing with enquiries regarding classes, timetables, class trials, uniform and invoicing, Alexandra is there to help. Full contact details can be found on our 'Contact' page.
Maria has always had a passion for dancing and performing and graduated from The Centre Performing Arts College with a DDI teaching qualification in Modern and Tap. Maria is currently working towards DDE with Karen King.
As well as teaching, Maria trains with hip hop / commercial companies several times a week. She enjoys teaching children as she loves to see her students flourishing in confidence as they master new skills.
Phoebe graduated from Performers college in 2013 with a National Diploma and her DDI teaching qualification from the ISTD. Since graduating, some of Phoebe's performing credits include: New Jersey Nights (UK Tour), Puttin' on the Ritz UK Tour, Spirit of the Dance (Niagara Falls), P&O Australia Cruiselines, Classical Spectacular (Royal Albert Hall) and Princess Cruiselines. Phoebe has years of teaching experience in all genres, training students locally and in the London area and loves to share her passion with the next generation of dancers. Phoebe is delighted to join the faculty and is looking forward to working with the Dance First students in September.


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The Passion of Control
Genesis 3:6-7
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, [1] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (ESV)
[1] 3:6 Or to give insight