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It's not difficult to get caught up in the hype surrounding the young Matt Frattin. After all, all he does at the AHL level is score goals.
During the regular season all he did was score.
During the playoffs all he did was score.
Then the injury ended his playoffs prematurely.
Even after a difficult summer of rehab and getting his knee back to strength, what did Frattin do upon return?
He scored. Then he did it again. And again. Then again and again.
Dude can score.
He raised the collective attention furthering the whispers of 'gem', steal, young exciting prospect.
Since his return from his injury on November 16 he's scored seven times, good enough for a share of the scoring lead with Jake Gardiner and captain Ryan Hamilton.
So, is he primed to become Alex Ovchkin 2.0 in the NHL?
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Girls like guys with good translateable skills
Players are drafted with emerging skills and as prospects, there's a co-dependent relationship on their parent club to hone those skills in preparation for the highest level. This is development. Challenging prospects to excel by taking their skill set and adapting it to each professional level is the act of development.
Teams pace prospect's development by using them in situations that challenge their skill sets and evolve into legitimate NHL assets, while they mature both physically and mentally. The goal is to extract the peak combination of skill and intensity with consistency. At each level, prospects get used to time and space restrictions and adjust their skill sets accordingly. In some instances, it becomes clear that players struggle as their skills can't translate to the next level.
When watching minor league prospects, it's usually more about the process to the end result than the result itself.
Translatable skills are inherent in a prospect that will be exploited at the NHL level. A scorer in the minor leagues may not have the same skills set – or opportunity – at the NHL level to exploit those skills to continue the ability to score. Sometimes something else must emerge to compliment that scoring skill set.
This is why I pay less stock to NHL equivalency measures. Improvement as a statistical measure at the AHL is not very reliable at this juncture of professional hockey due to missing elements required for advance analysis. Even NHL equivalents are somewhat misleading in that they track an NHL comparable under current circumstance, but lacks some context in the process leading to the result.
With minor league prospects, what I look for are translatable NHL skills in accordance to the four S's of scouting – speed, skills, smarts, skating in any random order. It's something specific in the way they achieved their results, rather than the actual result.
Nice Frattin, what does it do?
I feel every NHL player has at least one outstanding quality they exploit in the NHL level and that's supported by complimentary skills that make them successful. We're not talking established stars with superior skills, we are trying to identify replacement level to lower roster players that may have something more to offer teams as they play through the minor system.
Sometimes the complementary skills aren't able to extract the most upside of that one outstanding skill. Think of a sniper with quick accurate shot that can't skate well enough to keep up to the game as an example of complementary skills holding back potential.
Matt Frattin has an NHL ready shot that almost always lands on net and he has shown that he can find space to let it fly, or get it on and off his stick lightning quick, or bull his way with upper body strength to unleash his shot. That's not what made him stick with the Leafs our of training camp though in 2011-12.
His compete level, skating ability, tenacity and physical game are also the translatable skills that formed the foundation which earned him a role out of training camp.
The former Hobey Baker candidate had been a scorer in college but he struggled scoring early in the NHL, taking 18 career games to net his first.
A brief stint in the minors brought back that scoring touch.
Frattin fits the description of players playing on their toes, a sentiment echoed in a recent interview of Calgary Flames coach Bob Hartley in a Flames Nation post: "I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes"
How does Frattin envision his own scoring feats in this shortened season?
"As soon as I started playing games, it felt like I was back to where I left off at the end of last year in the playoffs. I've felt really good out there. I've been put in situations to be able to put up points. Pucks are just going in for me right now."
Interesting to note that he specifically stated the role thrust upon him and he's succeeded at it. One would figure that given that same opportunity at the NHL level, he'd be a slam dunk pure scorer. He's the scorer the Leafs are looking for, right? After all, all he does is score goals, right?
Marlies coach, Eakins, expressed this sentiment about what makes Frattin successful to Jonas Siegel.
"It's interesting, a guy like that that can shoot the puck and get into open areas I think a lot of people say 'Well he just has to score'," Marlies head coach Dallas Eakins opined. "Well when he's finishing his checks he's getting a ton of chances, when he's not he's getting none. So it's not that he has to score, it's he has to drive his legs and be physical and the other stuff looks after itself." Eakins has been pleased with the early results.
This is another outlook that makes clear, Frattin's game isn't strictly about scoring. It's about exploiting the chances created by intense forechecking, aggravating physical tools that create space and turnovers. Then finding space and exploiting his shot.
Frankly, a high shooting percentage or any statistical regression is secondary to me, even unnecessary, since that's not what I find important.
The most important use of his time with the Marlies is to improve his skill set and tie in all the other translatable skills that ensure a successful NHL career. Can those skills translate to a pure scoring role at the NHL level?
I would say no, for now. There is an element missing.
Perhaps one day he could show enough improvement to emerge as an important element on the wing, perhaps as a good third line winger with the ability to counter strike (think David Clarkson), that can also be spotted at a more important role for periods and some secondary power play minutes.
If the foundation for a solid player is there and he can work on aspects of developing his best asset – a quick release, hard and accurate shot, as well as getting into scoring positions – then he's making the best use of his time as a Marlie.
The translatable skill set is already there.
A hard, dedicated compete level and an equally tenacious forecheck are the skills that kept him in the lineup last season. During his playoff scoring run, he changed up the way he approached scoring, incorporating more creativity and amped up will to bury the puck. It wasn't just a zone entry and hard shot on goal.
I feel he lacks one quality that would earn him a permanent scoring role – and makes him somewhat predictable. His hands lack quickness and his stickhandling isn't evolved enough. And it's not something that develops naturally, so missing this item in an inherent skill set makes it much more difficult to incorporate, especially under the pressure of maintaining an NHL spot.
This video is a good compilation of the skills minus the shooting ability. He recovers the puck in his zone, 'pushes' the puck up – not stickhandling, a theme we will revisit shortly.
He demonstrates his overall strength absorbing the hit attempt by Beauchemin, slightly escaping, but applying enough counter force to take down the former Leafs blueliner and then staying on his feet afterward – balance – before setting up as a forechecker as the Ducks set up for the breakout.
His physical game is already mature and he's shown a penchant for big hits, some that may have bordered on aggressive or reckless.
Nazem Kadri's overtime winner on Saturday began as a Frattin rush up the boards. The 'pushing' effect is fairly evident there with a point between the red line at center to the opposition blueline where his stick wasn't even on the puck:
As quick as his release on a potent shot, I feel some rigidity and lack of quickness in his hands is a sign of predictability, with his head movements and feet as tells, indicating what he is likely to do on any given rush. I also feel he lacks natural playmaking imagination that adds to the element of predictability.
He's adapting the play of pushing the puck past a defenseman and bullying his way past, using his upper body strength and improved overall quickness to get behind them for scoring chances.
This is inherent. The last goal also demonstrates that bullying ability to get around a defenseman.
It's easy to get excited about Frattin's contributions and seeing him score in bunches is an encouraging sign.
If he ends up being a reliable hard working, checking forward with the ability to bury it should the chance come up, I think that would be already be a success. Should he emerge as a more formidable contributor, then that's the gravy.


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Nedbank partnered with IBM and its Business Partner OLRAC SPS to develop a predictive modeling solution that integrates social media analytics into the bank's systems. By doing so, decision makers across the bank's operations now have access to deep, near-real-time analysis of social media data through flexible dashboards. This gives marketers potent insights regarding preferences, sentiment and satisfaction that help to craft and deliver more effective sales promotions and customer messages.
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Willow River Clerk Connie Ecklund presented the Pine County All-Hazard Mitigation resolution for signing at the October 7 meeting. The county's letter to the city stated, "This Plan makes your city eligible for federal mitigation and disaster funding through FEMA." The council adopted the plan, bringing the county one step closer toward proceeding with the June 2012 flood property buyouts. All the cities in the county must adopt the plan for the buyouts to proceed.
The city's newly acquired John Deere 544E Wheel Loader was on display outside Willow River City Hall for the council. The council requested city worker Todd Anderson to seek quotes on a used sander that can be attached to the city's truck. Anderson also stated they still needed a strobe light for the loader. The old orange truck was successfully sold through Do-bid.
Anderson reported the Sinnott contractors are scheduled to begin crack sealing on the city roads on Wednesday. The area by Peggy Sue's restaurant has been holding water because the gravel in the parking lot was damming it back along the edge of the new pavement. Anderson was directed by the council to landscape the gravel on the city owned right-of-way to allow the water to continue its flow. Peggy Sue's owner, Albert Villa, was present at the meeting and agreed to work with the city on this problem. Villa said, "We need to fix this for the customers."
Anderson brought up the situation of water puddling by the football field. Councilmen Tom Jensen and Sheldon Johnson asked Anderson to get quotes for directional boring so a drain could be installed. The council also said there would be a need to landscape the city right-of-way after Anderson puts in a drain.
Ecklund presented an email that was sent to the city and Jensen in reference to the Wyatt's Cove gravel problem. It stated that Fjosne Construction will be correcting the issue on or before October 21. The council asked Anderson and Councilman Daryl Poslusny to inspect the gravel once finished.
Other business
Mayor Vicki Whitehouse asked Ecklund to find out what cemetery funds were available to help gravel the travel lanes located in the cemetery.
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2013-14 RTC Class Schedule: Kansas JayhawksPosted by BHayes on September 16th, 2013
Bennet Hayes is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @HoopsTraveler. Periodically throughout the preseason, RTC will take an in-depth look at the schedules of some of the more prominent teams in college basketball.
We have seen rapid and successful overhauls in Lawrence before, but perhaps never on this scale. Kansas is short five starters from a year ago, and in their wake arrives a decorated freshman class headed by a once-in-a-generation talent. Commitments from top-50 recruits Joel Embiid, Wayne Selden, and Conner Francamp had Jayhawk fans believing a quick rebuild was possible, but it was the May signing of Andrew Wiggins, the top player in the high school class of 2013, that has turned hope into belief. Another Big 12 championship and a return to the Sweet 16 would no longer constitute a brilliant coaching job by Bill Self, a man who has crafted many of them. Wiggins' presence on campus has not only turned those achievements into mere expectations, but also transports hope to Lawrence that the ultimate prize – a National Title – is again a realistic possibility.
- Team Outlook: Wiggins' talent and projected impact has been well-documented, but even if he becomes the star he is expected to be, the Jayhawks will still need to develop the supporting cast around him. Perry Ellis (5.8 PPG, 3.9 RPG) is the one returnee that will almost definitely be a key part of that equation, but Nadiir Tharpe (5.5 PPG, 3.1 APG) and Jamari Traylor (2.1 PPG, 2.1 RPG) should also see minutes. We have seen Jayhawk role players emerge into key contributors after an offseason before, but no matter what happens with that trio, Bill Self will surely be relying on newcomers not named Wiggins to carry the load. Prime among them are freshmen Wayne Selden and Joel Embiid, who are expected to take over starting duties at shooting guard and center, respectively. Like Wiggins, both are projected as top-ten picks in next year's NBA draft, so it's a distinct possibility that this could be their lone rodeo in Lawrence. That being said, both need to add significant polish to their games, and despite the top-ten ranking recruiting gurus bestowed upon him, Embiid even drags the "project" title with him to Kansas. Freshmen guards Conner Frankamp and Brannen Greene are also consensus Top-100 recruits, and both will have the opportunity to compete with Tharpe and Selden for minutes in the Kansas backcourt. Rounding out the frontcourt rotation is Memphis transfer Tarik Black (8.1 PPG, 4.8 RPG) and redshirt freshman Landen Lucas. Black's addition was another significant coup for Self this offseason, as he provides the Jayhawks with a player who has actually been through it all before at the college level. Black, like nearly every Jayhawk outside of Wiggins, could end up as a thirty-minute a game starter, a marginalized bit player, or nearly anything in between. There is tons of talent in Lawrence and a superstar to headline the show, but much of the onus for the destination of this Jayhawk campaign rests on Bill Self and how he fits all the pieces together – something Jayhawk fans should feel pretty good about. Read the rest of this entry »


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Have you ever wondered what makes a person a liberal or a conservative, a Democrat or a Republican? Or to be more precise with language, what makes a person a socialist or not?
Is it the old joke -- a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged? Or the other old joke -- he who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart and he who is not a conservative at 40 has no brain?
Is it just environment? Do children tend to take on the opinions and beliefs of their parents and their peers? This probably explains many people, especially the passive-minded people who are content to go along with the crowd. But what shaped the opinions and beliefs of their parents and peers? There can't be an infinite regress; at some point, somebody had to have an original thought.
Is it the belief in God? Many more Republicans than Democrats believe in God. But how do you explain that Objectivists, up until lately, voted mostly Republican? With the growth of religion, the belief in God might become the defining premise in American politics in the near future -- and a baleful day that will be indeed. But we're not quite there yet.
Is it pressure group politics? Do people gravitate toward the party that serves their interests best? This would explain why minorities and unions vote Democrat and why the middle class, small business and military vote Republican. But it does not explain why rich educated whites vote Democrat, nor does it explain why many poor people in the "heartland" vote Republican. Both parties are such broad coalitions that it is hard to determine sometimes who they would not give money to in order to buy votes.
In my opinion, the defining premise is the belief in moral absolutes. Liberals are moral relativists. Both the religious right and Objectivists are moral absolutists. (The problem with the religious right, of course, is that their morality comes from religion, not reality. Their morality is grounded in faith, not reason, and is therefore dogmatic.)
In issue after issue, you can see politics determined by morality. Take crime, for an easy example. As moral relativists, liberals tend toward lenient punishment; they shrink in horror from the death penalty. Those who believe in moral absolutes, on the other hand, see vigorous punishment as justice; when someone kills in cold blood, he deserves to be executed.
In the 19th century Thomas Jefferson, a product of the Enlightenment, thought rapists deserve the death penalty. Today, after two centuries of the radical subjectivism of modern philosophy after Kant, most people would think Jefferson was a little harsh. One wonders how much modern philosophy has affected even those of us who oppose it.
Guns are another issue. Liberals think, "Who are we to judge other people?" It's a short step from that idea to, "Who are we to hold the power of a gun? Only the state should have such power." (Granted, the state is just comprised of fallible individuals as much as any other institution; this is a contradiction of statism.)
Liberals support intervention in the economy because it's not fair that employers with their subjective judgment can fire whomever they want or pay "slave wages."
The belief in moral absolutes has been the defining premise in politics all my life. But things are changing, and not for the better, with the increasing religiosity of the Republicans and the increasing radicalization of the Democrats (see Daily Kos). What does the future hold?
If the Republicans become the party of religion and the Democrats the party of modern philosophy, then we will have a pure, classic rationalist-empiricist split in American politics, with the left mumbling skepticism and the right shouting dogma detached from reality. Neither party will be a comfortable fit for those who advocate reason, except on an ad hoc basis. We're close to this situation now, although both parties show moments of lucidity and reasonableness.
We come to an interesting question: Why has President Bush, a seriously religious man, advanced socialism with his spending and big government?
Well, he is actually being consistent with Jesus Christ with his socialism. Christ was no capitalist; his Sermon on the Mount sounds outright communist to me. Christ was an altruist who believed the individual should sacrifice.
The contradiction between capitalism and Christianity has always been present in the religious right. Throughout the 20th century, as traditionalists, they rode the last waves of our enlightenment heritage and were for free markets (to some extent, or at least in lip service). As modern philosophy advances and we get further from the 18th century, the right will become more altruist and socialist. Combine that statism with nationalism and religious dogma and you will have fascism. Religion does not protect the right from modern philosophy.
Although the defining premise now is the belief in moral absolutes, the difference 20 years from now might be whether or not one subscribes to reason and reality -- with a vast majority on the left and right who do not uphold reason and reality and a small minority who do.
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The nightmare hemp scenario for Kentucky State Police apparently is a field legally licensed to grow hemp for grain with illegally planted marijuana mingled in.
Unlike hemp grown for fiber (when the plants are inches apart to promote tall stalk growth), the hemp grown for grain and marijuana plants would look substantially the same, said Jeremy Triplett, supervisor of the state police forensic lab.
Both could be shorter and bushy. The only way to really know, he said, would be to test for delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical that gives marijuana smokers a high.
Such testing could cost hundreds thousands of dollars each year, at $755 per quantitative analysis, not to mention $1.8 million in start-up expenses, state police have estimated.
But would that really happen? Would an unscrupulous pot grower plant marijuana with hemp?
Take Canada, where marijuana also is illegal but hemp has been legally grown since 1998: "Health Canada's Industrial Hemp Program has never found marijuana growing in hemp fields instead of hemp," the agency said in a statement.
They've looked. A lot.
Canadian inspectors take samples annually from each field and have found THC levels slightly above 0.3 percent from stress during growing, but not above 0.5 percent, Health Canada said.
Keith Watson, Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives agronomist, has seen and tested most of the hemp grown in his province in the past 15 years. Does marijuana creep in?
"I've never run into it," Watson said. About 95 percent of the crop is sampled annually, and he said that marijuana and grain hemp might look just alike and could be planted side by side and only an expert eye might distinguish the difference. But in his experience, it just doesn't happen.
"Over the years, that's taken me out to an awful lot of fields," Watson said. "I've never found marijuana in the field or any trace of it."
He said a "handful" of times he has seen paths cut into the fields, places were people have topped the plants. But it doesn't happen much any more.
"After a couple of years, nobody bothers it," he said.
What about marijuana?
As for marijuana growers using hemp to pad their illegal pot, "the general impression is that's a self-regulating industry," Watson said. "They'll get away with it once … but if the quality (of the marijuana) isn't up to par, there will be a lot of broken kneecaps."
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and others say marijuana growers would not want hemp anywhere near their illegal crop because the extra-low THC varieties of Cannibis sativa known as hemp would cross-pollinate with the high-THC Cannibis sativa that is marijuana and weaken the potency of the illegal product.
But Triplett, of the state police lab, said there is a flaw in that argument: The offspring of the current crop might be watered down, but the original plants would be just as potent as ever.
"I might reduce my profit margin, but I can plant 10 acres in plain view and not worry about it," Triplett said.
Most of the 3,128 samples of marijuana that Triplett's lab tested last year for felony drug cases had much higher levels of THC than 0.3 percent. The National Institute of Drug Abuse reported that 10 percent is about the norm nationally.
"But I can tell you for sure there's still lots of very average marijuana out there," Triplett said.
Kentucky State Police Chief Rodney Brewer confirmed that. "Ten percent would be a good grade for Kentucky," he said.
His office destroyed 441,000 marijuana plants last year, and he attributes much of it to Mexican drug cartels willing to come to Kentucky, grow "what we call ditchweed — 3 to 4 to 5 percent THC — grow twice as much, sell twice as much and make twice the profit," Brewer said.
As for Canada's experience, Brewer said: "Just because they didn't find it doesn't mean it's not there."
He pointed to the boom in medical marijuana in Canada, which he said keeps the Royal Canadian Mounted Police busy, primarily stopping indoor growers.
But medical marijuana growers are not thrilled with hemp either.
In California, where medical marijuana growers are aiming for THC levels of 30 percent or higher, many growers are up in arms over the possibility of hemp being grown in the San Joaquin Valley, said Sarah Soares, an advocate with the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform.
They argue that "pollen from industrial hemp will destroy their crops," she said.
Even indoor growers go to great lengths to prevent pollen from sneaking in, with HEPA filters and sticky mats at doorways.
One way growers boost the level of THC is by destroying male pollen-producing flowers so the female flowers keep producing sticky, THC-laden resin. Once the flowers are fertilized, they stop making the resin and set seed, something that most growers don't want.
"Nobody will buy marijuana that is full of seeds any more," Soares said. "That was the '70s."
Soares said that the law enforcement argument that marijuana might be hidden among the hemp is "a Trojan horse." Any grower who wanted to hide in plain sight would be taking a risk: Scrutiny is guaranteed.
"Farmers are in farming to make money. If they planted something that would get them in trouble, they wouldn't make money," Soares said.
What's the cost of testing?
Kentucky Senate Bill 50, filed by state Sen. Paul Hornback, R-Shelbyville, gives the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and law enforcement the right to inspect hemp crops at will; the GPS coordinates of fields would be reported as well, to avoid confusion.
As for increased drug testing, it is not clear that the state police drug lab would be required to do much more work than they do now: The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is prepared to handle testing to regulate industrial hemp, Comer said.
"It will cost $20 to do a test," Comer said. The state Agriculture Department "can do all the testing without one additional person or one additional penny of tax dollars."
What are the economic benefits?
Brewer and narcotics officers have said that hemp's economic benefits have been overblown. Brewer, along with House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, said that it needs more study.
Brewer pointed to Canada, which studied hemp production for three years before licensing farmers. There, hemp has been a bit of a roller coaster, but the general trajectory remains up.
"It's a very small industry at this point, but it's growing at about 20 to 25 percent a year, each year," said Watson, the hemp agronomist. "So it's getting to be fairly significant."
But there have been ups and downs. In 2006, a bumper crop combined with overplanting resulted in a depressed market from which growers are just now recovering.
Even during the down years, production and processing still grew, Watson said.
"It's a solid 50,000 acres in Canada now, which is pretty small, but it's worth a few million dollars," he said.
He said the United States could be looking at a similar boom/bust cycle if hemp restrictions are lifted: "Everybody will want to grow it," he said. That would result in a huge oversupply until the processing and the market catch up.
But the bigger problem might be winning over farmers from record high prices for corn, which at current prices could gross about $1,000 an acre.
In Canada, hemp typically generates a gross return of $350 to $400 an acre, he said.
"Hemp has to compete to buy its acres," Watson said.
Comer said that Kentucky farmers will have the information they need to make a market-driven decision.
The Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission, which he chairs, has commissioned the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture to study the economic potential of hemp production in the state.
The UK study will not be ready until late spring or early summer; it will be used, hemp commission members said, to lobby on the federal level for changes that could allow Kentucky to be among the first states in decades to grow hemp.
"The farmers won't grow it if it's not economically viable," Comer said. "Farmers are smart businesspeople. They won't grow it if they can't make money. And no processor will come if they can't make money either."
But he said that, based on the phone calls and meetings he has had since the hemp debate has resurfaced, he doesn't think the market will be a problem.
"Let the bureaucrats get out of the way," Comer said, "and let the market dictate what happens."
State Senate Committee to vote on Hemp bill on Monday
The state Senate Agriculture Committee will vote Monday on Senate Bill 50, sponsored by state Sen. Paul Hornback, R-Shelbyville, to license Kentucky farmers to grow hemp if federal restrictions are lifted.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, and U.S. Reps. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, and Thomas Massie, R-Vanceburg, will testify with Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and James Woolsey, former director of the CIA.
The hearing will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Room 131 of the Capitol Annex, 700 Capitol Avenue Loop in Frankfort.
Separate hemp legislation will be the subject of a hearing in the House Agriculture and Small Business Committee on Wednesday.
Janet Patton: (859) 231-3264. Twitter: janetpattonhl
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2013/02/09/2509794/hemp-vs-marijuana-deciphering.html#storylink=cpy


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It's raining hard in north Florida today which means golf is totally out of the question and that means my planned commune with nature (I'm an into the river and deep in the woods kind of golfer) will have to wait for sunnier days. That leaves a day for contemplation so here are some thoughts to share about the Florida Gators.
It will be Senior Day at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center Sunday, the last rodeo at home for Lee Humphrey and Chris Richard. Should we also make this Junior Day? Could this also be the last time we'll see the Oh-Fours playing in the O-Dome?
All season long, it's been speculated that Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Corey Brewer and Taurean Green would bolt for the NBA after this season but Florida's recent mini-slump has fans and NBA scouts alike wondering if it's such a great idea for at least three of Florida's Fab Four. Al Horford has certainly played himself into a top five pick the last several games. Horford is a warrior who plays tough defense, scores in the low post and can run the floor. The fact that he's 6-10, 250 and can put the ball on the floor to lead the break hasn't been lost on the NBA scouts who are at every Florida game. He's a top five lock.
The bigger questions are with Noah, Brewer and Green. If you had asked the question about will they move on three weeks ago, the answer would have been a profound yes. Now? It might be wise for two or possibly even three of them to stay in school one more year.
There are questions about Noah's health since he seems winded and spends a lot of time on the bench recently. There is no question that when he's full of energy, Noah brings some dimensions to the game that you don't expect to see in a seven-footer (I know they list him at 6-11 but if you saw him eye to eye with Greg Oden when Ohio State came to town back in December you know he's over seven feet). He can dribble, he can pass and he can certainly run the floor. When he's on his game, he is the eraser in the middle, a shot blocker that can take a team completely out of its offense.
Defensively, everybody knows Noah can play when he's physically okay. It's the offense that has people worried. He isn't finishing around the basket and in each of the last four games he's had a dunk attempt blocked by a smaller player. Those are huge concerns. He worked hard on his jump shot in the offseason but we haven't seen much of it this year so that's still a questionable aspect of his game. Noah does take more physical abuse on the court than any big man in the country, but scouts are concerned that he spends too much time begging for a call that the zebras have decided he's not going to get this year.
If Noah leaves after this season, he will still be a top 10 pick. He'll go that high based on what he did in last year's NCAA Tournament alone. But with Greg Oden of Ohio State, Kevin Durant of Texas and Brandan Wright of North Carolina likely to do the one and done thing and bolt to the NBA after their freshman seasons, Noah is not the number one pick overall pick that he would have been last year. He will NOT hurt his draft status if he comes back for his senior year. In fact, he could probably move back up to the top pick overall if he stays and plays a consistent season that is similar to the way he played in Florida's run to the national championship last year.
Brewer's problems can be described in one word — turnover. The scouts love his speed, athletic ability and the fact he can flat out elevate. What concerns them is that he tries to play too fast and that makes him susceptible to turning the ball over. Brewer played under control the last 11 games of last season. He needs to put together a 10-game stretch where he shows all his skills and reduces the turnovers by a wide margin otherwise he would be wise to return.
The plusses for Brewer are his speed, leaping ability, and his open court defense. His game is much better suited for the NBA than it is for college but even in the pros, you have to take care of the basketball. He has not shown the consistency on his jump shot that the scouts would have liked to see this year. With his ability to slash to the rim and elevate, he should be getting to the foul line for 8-10 points a game, also. He could help his draft stock in the tournaments but if Florida doesn't snap out of its slump, he won't have a chance to showcase what he can do and that might mean he needs to stay another year.
If you had asked the scouts about Taurean Green after the Alabama game, they would have told you he's played himself into a first round pick. If you ask them today they'll tell you the same questions they had coming into the season are still there. The last five games haven't been kind to Green's chances of moving onward and upward in the NBA draft.
What they like about Green is that when he's on his game, he will take and make tough shots and he will be in total command of the offense. He's an underrated defender, too. However, in the recent five-game mini-slump, Green hasn't hit his jump shot, has turned the ball over way too much and his defense has not been consistent. He's another one that needs a long, successful run in the tournament to get back in the good graces of the scouts.
The guess here is that two of the four come back next season. Which two? I think Green is coming back and one other will do the same. Now if three of the four come back and you throw in Florida's recruiting class (Nick Calathes, Chandler Parsons, Alex Tyus, Adam Allen and possibly Patrick Patterson) to go with Walter Hodge, Dan Werner, Marreese Speights and Brandon Powell, you have the makings of a team that can go wire to wire as best in the country next year.
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Patterson, the 6-9 shot rejector from Huntington, West Virginia, will be in town for the Kentucky game Sunday along with his parents. This is an unofficial visit (official was the weekend of the UCF football game) but it has significance because it's the last chance for Patterson to be on campus for a game. A rowdy full house at the O-Dome could play a big role in the final decision.
Calathes, Parsons and Allen will be at the game, too, and there is an unconfirmed report that Tyus will be in Gainesville, too. There's nothing like having the entire recruiting class on hand to try to reel in that one last piece of the puzzle. If Florida gets Patterson, there is no question the Gators will have the number one recruiting class in the nation.
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Another big question for Senior Day is how much trouble is there up ahead for the loser of the game? If the Gators lose, will this be a sign of a season that peaked far too early? If Kentucky loses, will this be a sign that Tubby Smith is going to say see ya' to Big Blue Nation and go to the NBA?
This is a game the Florida Gators need to win and they need to win it by getting back to basics. That means playing tough defense on the perimeter and forcing Kentucky to take challenged twos instead of open threes. That's the formula that worked in Lexington when Kentucky was one for its first 20 three-point shots (finished the game at 3-22). If the Gators clamp down on defense on the perimeter, it should result in the sixth straight win over Kentucky.
There is no question that Smith is in deepest and darkest, not only with Kentucky fans but the administration, too. Everybody likes Tubby and everybody knows he can coach. What they don't like is the fact that the really good players in the country aren't even thinking about Kentucky anymore.
Kentucky needs to beat Florida to really have a shot at landing Patrick Patterson but the Wildcats chances of landing the 6-9 big guy took a hit last Sunday night when point guard Jai Lucas (son of former NBA great John Lucas) was shown the love in College Park. Not only did Jai get the first class treatment from his dad's alma mater, but Maryland fans let it be known that they think of Jai as a home boy. Word is that Jai has all but committed to Coach Gary Williams. If Lucas doesn't go to Kentucky, it's doubtful that Patterson will.
That will leave Kentucky with a class of 7-footer Mike Williams of Arlington (VA) Bishop O'Connell and 6-7 A.J. Stewart of Jacksonville's Arlington Country Day. Those aren't the kind of players that take your program over the top.
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With North Carolina losing to Georgia Tech Thursday night, that puts Florida in a position to pretty much sew up a number one seed this weekend although one or two wins in the SEC Tournament would be added breathing room. Figure with 28 regular season wins (a win over Kentucky and two SEC tourney wins gets the Gators there), Florida is a lock to be in New Orleans in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and in the San Antonio Region. If Florida gets to 29 regular season wins the number one seed of the whole tournament is not out of the question although UCLA seems destined for that spot.
Figure the SEC is a lock to get four other teams in the tournament: Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Anyone else will have to run the tournament table to get in the big dance.


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A doctoral Composer-in-Residence position and new MA in Opera Making will be offered at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama through a new collaboration with the Royal Opera House.
The new qualifications are designed to help develop opera music, support emerging opera-makers and foster new creative talent.
The Composer-in-Residence studentship, which begins in September 2013, will offer one composer every three years the opportunity to research and write a major work for Covent Garden's Linbury Studio Theatre. The position, which offers a composer a secure fully funded period to research and develop a new work, will be supervised by Guildhall School's Head of Composition Dr Julian Philips, who was Composer-in-Residence at Glyndebourne, and Associate Director of The Royal Opera John Fulljames. Applications for the position close on 13 May. Further details about how to apply will be released shortly.
The School also plans to introduce a new Masters Programme in 2014, subject to validation by City University London, that will focus exclusively on how opera is created, developed and performed. The programme, which will commence in September 2014 and focus on the completion of one chamber operatic work, will offer young composers their first immersive experience in the creation of contemporary opera.
Of the new work to be created through the partnership, The Royal Opera's Director of Opera Kasper Holten said:
'It is important that we take risks when we try to create the opera of tomorrow. But it is equally important that we discuss, analyse and continue to understand better how the magic of opera works and how we can offer the best possible tools to the composers, librettists, directors and other opera makers of the future.'
The new relationship officially begins on 29 April 2013, and will be marked by a conference about the role of the writer in opera. ResearchWorks, which will be held at the Barbican's Pit Theatre, will include talks by Kasper Holten, Dr Julian Philips, Director of RADA Edward Kemp and poet/librettist Lavinia Greenlaw.
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Once there was an apartment building, full of happy people. They grew to be almost like a family. They laughed and cried together, fought and made up, watched each other grow and change. But the apartment grew run down, turned into a slum, partly because of the tenants and partly because of the absentee Slumlord. The tenants weren't happy. The Slumlord grew embarrassed because her building wasn't like the other buildings in the neighborhood. It had a bad reputation in some circles.
Never Wrong drove by and said, "Look at this awful building. The people who live there are horrible." In fact, Never Wrong drove by repeatedly to say this to the tenants. The tenants said, "If you think it's so bad, why don't you move in and help fix it up?" She said "No way. You people are just too horrible." She took her complaints to the Slumlord.
Meanwhile, a Laudable Person in Her Own Mind moved in. She said, "Look at this place. The tenants throw trash everywhere." Then she scattered her own trash all over the building while loudly complaining about other people's trash.
The tenants held a meeting. "We've got to do something about this place," they said. They came up with some ideas on how to do it. The Slumlord showed up at the meeting. "Those are good ideas," she said. "I'm going to manage this building personally now."
The tenants were angry. Several of them said, "You Slumlord. You have no business running this building. It's your fault it got into this condition in the first place."
The Slumlord said, "How dare you call me a slumlord!" and evicted several of the most prominent tenants. All the supers quit. Several long-time tenants moved out.
The tenants who left already had another place to live. It wasn't as fancy a building as the one they left, it was quieter and in a less fashionable neighborhood, but they were all there, running it themselves without a landlord.
Even so, many of the former tenants were angry. They picketed the old building. Some of them threw eggs at the building. Some of them used false names and pretended they wanted to move in; then they threw more eggs. The Slumlord was in over her head. She had no clue how to actually run an apartment building. Never Wrong volunteered to be the new super. Slumlord and Never Wrong said they would make the building better by evicting anyone who littered. When old tenants pointed out that nothing happened when new tenants littered, Slumlord and Never Wrong said they would evict anyone who complained about the way they ran the building. Laudable Person contributed by throwing trash at former tenants whenever she saw one.
Most of the former tenants were content in their new building. But some of them kept going back. Two of them moved in for awhile under false names to see how they'd be treated and then moved back out. Several kept showing up at tenant meetings. Another moved in under a false name and settled down. Another went back and gave Never Wrong a manual on how to run an apartment building.
Another former tenant -- one of the first three evicted for insulting the Slumlord, in fact -- was confused by this. He liked to look at the old building -- he thought he'd seldom seen people sillier than the Slumlord, Never Wrong, and Laudable Person or a more amusing sight than the three of them trying to run an apartment building -- but he never went to their meetings. He thought the best revenge was making his current building a nice place to live and allowing the old one to decay on its own. "Why go back?" he asked his friends. "Sure, we have good memories there, but it's just a building," he said. "A community is made of people, and the people are here in this new building. Why go back and associate with the likes of Slumlord, Never Wrong, and Laudable Person? It makes no sense to me." He wondered how the story would end.


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Newswise — In the first study of its kind, a research team led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University discovered 12 genetic markers associated with the development of erectile dysfunction (ED) in prostate cancer patients who were treated with radiation. The findings, to be published online September 27, 2012, in advance of the October 1, 2012 print issue in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology• Biology• Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, are an important step towards helping clinicians determine the best course of treatment for prostate cancer patients and may lead to the development of therapies that alleviate side effects.
The main treatments for prostate cancer – surgery, brachytherapy (seed implants) and external beam radiation therapy – are all very effective at curing prostate cancer. Unfortunately, each treatment places patients at risk for ED. According to the National Cancer Institute, the prevalence of erectile dysfunction following external beam radiation for prostate cancer ranges from 65 percent to 85 percent. The Prostate Cancer Foundation estimates prevalence of ED following seed therapy at 25 to 50 percent. Many men will be able to regain their potency with time and treatments, but doctors would like to identify which men may be more likely to develop this side effect.
In the first large scale Genome-Wide Association Study to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with susceptibility for the development of erectile dysfunction following radiotherapy for prostate cancer, researchers conducted a two-part study, first, to discover the candidate genetic markers of side effect risk, and second, to confirm which of those markers are replicated in a second group of patients. In the first group of prostate cancer patients, which included 132 men who developed erectile dysfunction after radiotherapy and 103 men similarly treated who did not develop erectile dysfunction, they found a set of genetic markers associated with erectile dysfunction. In the second part of the study, which examined 128 patients who developed erectile dysfunction after radiotherapy and 102 who did not, researchers confirmed that 12 SNPs were associated with erectile dysfunction.
"Thankfully, current treatments for prostate cancer offer excellent rates of long-term survival, so patients and their physicians have a choice about which treatment path to take," said Barry Rosenstein, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "However, the risk of developing erectile dysfunction after radiation treatment is highly variable, suggesting there may be a genetic component to determining that risk. Our study confirms that specific markers make certain patients more susceptible to this side effect."
Patients in the study cohort were given one of three treatments: internal radiotherapy, known as brachytherapy; brachytherapy plus external beam radiation; or external beam radiation alone. They were followed for an average length of nearly four years to determine level of sexual function after treatment.
Interestingly, the 12 SNPs identified in this study were located near genes that seem to be related to erectile function rather than related to radiation response. The researchers conclude that these SNPs may affect genes that sensitize a patient to developing erectile dysfunction when exposed to radiation during therapy.
"Prostate cancer screening and treatment are undergoing major shifts," said Harry Ostrer, MD, Professor of Pathology and Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of Genetic and Genomic Testing at Montefiore Medical Center and co-principal investigator of the study. "This is part of our ongoing effort to identify men at highest risk for disease, identify the aggressive tumors that would be responsive to therapy, and to improve quality of life for men with indolent prostate cancers who might benefit from active surveillance, rather than therapy."
The authors indicate that examination of a large, independent cohort of similarly treated patients will be necessary to definitively determine which SNPs to include as part of a clinically useful predictive test to identify which men are at greatest risk for developing erectile dysfunction following prostate cancer radiotherapy. The researchers are also evaluating the impact of radiation treatment on urinary complications and proctitis, the inflammation of the rectum.
This study was supported by the American Cancer Society, United States Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Medical School is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 14th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Mount Sinai is one of 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and by U.S. News & World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.
For more information, visit http://www.mountsinai.org/. Find Mount Sinai on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mountsinainycTwitter @mountsinainycYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/mountsinainy
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is one of the nation's premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Einstein is home to 724 M.D. students, 248 Ph.D. students, 117 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and 368 postdoctoral research fellows. The College of Medicine has 2,522 full time faculty members located on the main campus and at its clinical affiliates. In 2011, Einstein received nearly $170 million in awards from the NIH. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. Its partnership with Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, advances clinical and translational research to accelerate the pace at which new discoveries become the treatments and therapies that benefit patients. Through its extensive affiliation network involving Montefiore, Jacobi Medical Center –Einstein's founding hospital, and five other hospital systems in the Bronx, Manhattan, Long Island and Brooklyn, Einstein runs one of the largest post-graduate medical training programs in the United States, offering approximately 155 residency programs to more than 2,200 physicians in training. For more information, please visit www.einstein.yu.edu and follow us on Twitter @EinsteinMed.
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Clarksburg is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1798 and was previously called . It can be found in Berkshire county and is a part of the Northern registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 111 River Rd., Clarksburg 01247. On the attached map, Clarksburg is shown as 2 in Berkshire county.
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Curbed reports that new mama Miranda Kerr has slashed the price of her Flatiron condo. The supermodel originally listed the property in November for $1.395 million, but with no bidders, she recently dropped the price 16 percent to $1.175 million. The one bedroom, one bath unit is located in the residential condo complex at 16 West 19th Street, a building designed by Mick and Bianca spawn, Jade Jagger. In addition to fantastic city views, the condo comes with a pod that functions as a kitchen, bathroom and closet. With a new baby and hubby Orlando Bloom in tow, the Victoria's Secret model is clearly past her pod-using days and looking to move on up (and out). View the listing.
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