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As NBC's Biggest Loser ends tonight, one expert asks: Is it abusive?
As NBC's popular weight loss show The Biggest Loser presents a live, three-hour finale tonight, some fitness trainers and health experts remain skeptical of the example set by the show -- with one authority calling the series' marathon workouts an unrealistic example of "abusing people for having excess body fat."
Run that analysis by Bill Germanakos, winner to the Biggest Loser's fourth cycle in 2007, and he offers a surprising response: He agrees. Sort of.
"Of course it's not real, it's television," said Germanakos, who sold his businesses and started a career as a spokesman and public speaker after losing 164 pounds to take the show's $250,000 prize. "It's not meant to teach people what to do . . . it's entertainment. It's meant to inspire and motivate, not to educate."
Seasoned viewers know that NBC's weight-loss competition actually tries to have it both ways, as trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels offer tips on diet and exercise one moment, just before riding on contestants' backs during workouts that can last eight hours.
Former contestant Jenn Widder says the show, which starts contestants who may not have exercised in years with four-hour workouts and 1,300 calories each day, "was almost like we went through a detox program . . . I felt like I was sweating out sugar for the first week."
But Boston area registered dietitian and author Nancy Clark, who wrote about how Biggest Loser makes her "feel like throwing my shoe at the TV," said the show mostly teaches viewers to starve themselves to lose weight, making it hard to develop the consistent, life-changing habits that keep weight off.
"How can something so abusive be inspirational?" said Clark, who found, to her surprise, that about 20 percent of those who responded to her article said the show was exactly that. "It just shocked me that the show doesn't turn people off."
As the final four contestants face off -- Tara Costa (left), Mike and Ron Morelli and Helen Phillips – click below to see the biggest objections some experts have raised about the show:
Contestants work out too hard, too quickly – "You don't just decide to run a marathon overnigh . . . you train for months," said Alexandra Stefanes, wellness center supervisor at the YMCA of Greater St. Petersburg. "(Biggest Loser) has overweight people jumping on big boxes, running on treadmills right away . . . it's not healthy to put your body through such total extremes."
Gemanakos acknowledged participants are placed in an extreme environment, where committed contestants can spend 10 hours a day working out, without the pressures of a job, family, friends or everyday life. But he said the show doesn't highlight how often participants consult with experts such as a dietitian and psychologist, outside of the show's two trainers.
Contestants don't learn about changing their lifestyles for long-term weight loss – "I don't believe in diets, because one day you've got to stop the diet," said John Hunter, sales manager for Gold's Gym Northeast in St. Petersburg, who questioned how the show limits contestants to such a low-calorie intake. "It's about changing your eating habits within reason, for the rest of your life."
But Widder, who said she has maintained her 70-pound weight loss from the show's fifth cycle last year, said contestants learn to cook their own healthy meals and keep house while on the show, helping foster a change in eating habits.
Viewers see contestants' radical weight loss and may get discouraged – "To lose 10 pounds a week is such a bad message to people," said Clark. "The physiological reaction to starving is to overeat . . . people say 'I lost my willpower,' but it's just the body reacting. The reality is, you want to chip away, losing a pound or two a week."
Germanakos said viewers should understand that the dramatic weight loss is extreme, but that the overall lessons of the show – that regular exercise and healthy eating are the keys to weight loss – are sound.
"The amount of time I spend working out now, that's the amount of time I would spend watching (ESPN's) SportsCenter," he said. "So much of this is mental . . . until people decide to let go and put together a support system, they will have trouble keeping the weight off."


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I have been drinking this a lot lately. I've been trying it with different juices. Carrot and apple juices work well with matcha, but I also tried cranberry juice, which, apart from looking REALLY nasty, tasted really, really strange.
Nearly out of this now! :( I don't think I used enough leaf today though as the taste was even lighter than usual, and I struggled to find the raspberry taste. The juicy watermelon in this is just right – sweet but not cloying and it has the delicious aftertaste that watermelon gives you right after you have swallowed. The taste doesn't hang around for long though, which is a shame.
I just proofread that last bit and I'm glad I did as I made about a hundred typos in there.
This tastes like foam banana sweets today. I had the first steep plain, and I am now sipping on the second steep as a latte since it is a miserable cold and rainy day here. I have made this as a latte quite a few times and it always comes out very sweet and syrupy, even without the addition of sugar. I was craving sweet today, so I am glad I chose this.
Backlogging from this morning – I ran out of juice for my usual matcha OJ, so I dug the (ancient and disused) juicer out of the cupboard and made mango juice because we had tons of mangoes that needed to be eaten. Matcha mango juice is my new morning love! So refreshing, and I loved the sweetness of the mango juice against the slight bitterness of the matcha.
I made a pitcher of this iced – I was in the mood for a non-flavoured black, but it is too muggy and humid here today to enjoy a nice cup of hot black tea. I made a small amount of very strong tea, then diluted it with ice. It went REALLY cloudy though – I have had this happen before, but not so drastic. It looks like I put milk in it.
Anyway, it is very refreshing. I oversteeped it a little, but the bitterness that resulted wasn't overwhelming and overall it was quite tasty, though I much prefer it hot.
I love the taste of this tea – juicy and fruity – but it is so fernickity. I can't let it oversteep, even by a little bit, otherwise it gets very bitter, which is sad and a bit of a waste. On the other hand, it is a perfect tea for the warm weather we have been having over here.
I ordered this from iheartteas not long ago and I'm always so impressed with the service! Shipping is prompt and I love the little handwritten notes thanking you for your order. It's the little things that really count.
On to the tea! I made a huge batch of snickerdoodle cookies to have with this when it came yesterday, but by the time I had finished and they had cooled, it was 8 o'clock and way too late for any black tea. So I consoled myself with a few cookies and waited to have it this morning.
I promise, we are really on to the tea now. Out of the bag, this has that zing of freshly ground cinnamon (one of my favourite scents in the world) but also a hint of vanilla that takes the edge off the cinnamon, and calms it slightly. I'm not really sure what my steeping parameters were, I think I might have used water that was quite a bit too cool for black tea and I got distracted while it was steeping. It smells mostly of cinnamon and it is such a homey, warming scent. I love it.
The taste is predominantly black tea, which I wasn't expecting from the aroma. The cinnamon and vanilla support the tea, instead of the tea base supporting the flavours. This means it is very smooth and soft. Although this isn't what I expected, it is still really lovely. (and perfect with my cookies, which, if I may say so, were REALLY good).
I thought I would try this iced, seeing as I have just received an iced tea maker from Nothing but Tea! I honestly didn't think I was going to like this one, I generally can't stomach ginger in teas. Suprisingly, though, it's nice! The ginger isn't too overpowering annd the orange adds a fresh quality to the tea. Overall, it make a very refreshing, summery iced tea!

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BATON ROUGE For the third consecutive year, the LSU men's tennis team has a pair ranked in the preseason doubles poll as tandem Gabor Csonka and Julian Saborio enter the year at No. 21, the ITA announced Tuesday.
NATCHITOCHES Longtime 18-year Major League Baseball pitcher Russ Springer and nationally-known championship tennis coach at both LSU and UL Lafayette, Jerry Simmons, are the two with LSU ties that were announced Wednesday as part of the induction class for the 2018 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
BATON ROUGELSU men's tennis co-head coaches Andy Brandi and Chris Brandi announced Monday Stewart Block will be joining the Tigers in August.
PARIS Former Tiger Michael Venus became the first Grand Slam winner in LSU tennis history as he and partner Ryan Harrison defeated Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young in three sets, 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, to win the French Open Doubles title Saturday evening on the Philippe-Chatrier Court at the Stade Roland Garros.
PARIS Former Tiger Michael Venus and partner Ryan Harrison advanced to the French Open Doubles Final after recording a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win against Colombia pair Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah Friday at the Stade Roland Garros.


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s Summer tries to return to the celebrity-loving-gossip girl she once was, she realizes that making the trip to Brown may have changed her forever. Fortunately, Seth continues to be supportive of the new Summer through all her endeavors. Similarly, Ryan empathizes with Taylor and surprisingly helps her out of her bind when her French husband's lawyer arrives wanting Taylor to sign annulments papers. Meanwhile, Julie and Kaitlin both make attempts to stay out of trouble, but both bad girls cannot resist the temptation to add a little spice to their lives with their flirtations.Résumé de IMDb.com
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text: am i right in thinking all quattro auto will be tiptronic and not the poor perception/review of multitronic? any issues with these, do they have a cam chain? anything to take note on used examples at circa 80k on a 2005 plate? what do you think is a good price for a 2005, 3.0tdi avant with about 80k? i'm not really one to look at such high mileage cars due to more expense on maintenance and resale value of being such a high miler opinions?


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LINCOLN, Neb. - The Shooting in Sensitive Environments Workshop is the third of a series of workshops hosted by the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The goal is to provide intensive training in accurate shooting to improve the safety and effectiveness of shooting in non-traditional shooting locations.
Dr. Anthony DeNicola of White Buffalo Inc will be the lead instructor. He has vast experience in the effective use of firearms in wildlife damage management. Participants will experience high level training in ballistics, shot choice and placement, and overall firearm use suitable for wildlife damage management.
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Coriolanus, Marcus Minucius, Valeria, Veturia, Volscians, Volumnia
After much ado, many conflicts, we're finally here! It is the end of Coriolanus. How does his grisly end unfold? Who will be pivotal to the end of his career? In this episode, Drs R and G push through all the barriers to make sure this part of Roman history comes to a close! Check out the link below to tune in:


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OROVILLE — A Chico man is still missing and his family and authorities are still trying to find answers.
Neal King, 25, of Chico, has been missing for 11 days.
King was last heard from when he reportedly told his girlfriend that he was going out to a business meeting at 11 a.m. March 26 at a private residence on the 4000 block of Hildale Avenue in Oroville.
His girlfriend reported him missing to the Chico Police Department at 4:31 p.m. March 29 after he didn't call or check in with her, according to police records. King's girlfriend reportedly said that they usually keep in touch every day.
She also reported seeing his car outside the residence where the meeting took place, but King was reportedly not there, according to police records.
His vehicle was later towed.
There was allegedly no cellphone or credit card activity in the days before his girlfriend reported him missing, according to police records.
Detectives have been working really hard on this case since it was received and they were able to obtain search warrants for various locations so they can gather evidence, said Butte County Undersheriff Kory Honea.
The search warrants were served over the last couple of days.
Neal is 5-foot-11, approximately 130 pounds, with red hair and fair skin. He was last seen wearing a light green long-sleeve T-shirt and hiking shoes.
A Facebook page titles "Missing: NEAL KING" was created for people to leave tips or contact information.
King's case has also been posted on the cortjones.org website, which was created after Redding resident Cort Jones went missing in August 2012.
Anyone with information on King's case is encouraged to contact the Sheriff's Office at 538-7322.


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Gas explosion kills one, injures six in Tehran
A gas cylinder exploded Monday in a Tehran workshop killing one person, wounding six others and destroying part of the building, witnesses said.
The explosion took place at 8:30 am (local time) at an underground workshop that makes gold jewelry in an alley near the city's bazaar, Abolfazd Seraj, who lives across the street from the shop, said, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
There was no immediate comment from officials with regards to the casualties.
Earlier, state-run Tehran radio said the explosion resulted in "loss of human life and damage to buildings."
Part of the three-story building where the workshop is situated at was destroyed, SPA added. The blast in the southern area of Tehran also shattered windows of a nearby building. (Albawaba.com)
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text: Its really important to me that I raise my daughter with a good taste for all different foods - even if she resists and only wants pizza and hot dogs, at least I tried! We normally do not order off of kids menus, but give her a taste of what we order but sometimes its unavoidable and as she get older and eats more she is going to need her own meal. We stopped at Wine Theif yesterday for drinks and order a kids meal for my daughter to keep her happy and quiet and it was great, good selection. She got mac n cheese which really was penne in a tasty cheese sauce, some of the best homemade applesauce I ever had and carrot sticks. I think I ate as much of it as she did, it was so good (one bite for baby, one bite for mommy!). I really was impressed. What other restaurants offer a good kids menu, and not your typical hot dogs, chicken fingers, etc.


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May 23, 2009
Prospectus Idol Entry
Why is On Base Percentage King?
The lesson that many people take away from Michael Lewis's best-selling book Moneyball is that On Base Percentage (OBP) is the only way to build a good baseball team. What is often missed is that the book is really a tale of economics, about finding inefficiencies in the market and exploiting them. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the baseball market was inefficient at judging the value of OBP. Realizing this, the low budget Oakland A's were able to build a successful offense on the cheap.
For better or for worse, the mantra "OBP is king" is often the first step an average baseball fan takes towards becoming a regular Baseball Prospectus reader. For those readers of Moneyball who are not convinced that Billy Beane wrote the book to praise his own genius, it should be obvious that it is better to get on base than to make an out. But why is OBP so important?
To explore how OBP affects run scoring, I will conduct a thought experiment. A thought or "gedanken" experiment is an imaginary experiment that illustrates an idea or hypothesis that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to perform. These were particularly useful for 20th century physicists as they attempted to visualize revolutionary new ideas. Einstein was well known for his numerous thought experiments on relativity, and the most famous example from quantum mechanics is Schr�dinger's Cat, better known to many BP readers as the namesake of Dan Fox's column.
In our thought experiment we will consider two teams, one made up of nine hitters each of whom has a 0.400 OBP and a second team made up of nine hitters each of whom has a 0.300 OBP. As an homage to two of the better known players from my baseball card collecting days, we'll call the 0.400 OBP team the "Rickeys" (Rickey Henderson had a lifetime OBP of 0.401) and the 0.300 OBP team the "Shawons" (Shawon Dunston had a 0.296 lifetime OBP).
For simplicity we will think of each plate appearance for the Rickeys as resulting in 0.6 outs and 0.4 times on base. It doesn't really matter how the player reached base, just that he didn't make an out. Similarly, each Shawon plate appearance will result in 0.7 outs and 0.3 times on base. Since a nine inning game consists of 27 outs, we can determine how many plate appearances will be necessary for each team to accumulate 27 outs by dividing 27 by the fraction of each plate appearance resulting in an out.
For the Rickeys, 27 outs divided by 0.6 outs per plate appearance yields 45 plate appearances. In 45 plate appearances the Rickeys will make 27 outs, leaving 18 times in which they reach base by a hit or walk. For the Shawons, 27 outs divided by 0.7 outs per plate appearance yields 38.6 plate appearances. We'll round this to 39, meaning the Shawons reached base 12 times before accumulating 27 outs.
Clearly it is better to reach base more often than not, but how can we quantify how much better the Rickeys' offense is than the Shawons' offense? The best method would be to calculate the probability of each plate appearance ending in a single, double, triple, home run, walk, out... to estimate how many runs each offense should score in a given game, then playing the season out and repeating this with random numbers millions of times.
While writing a computer code to run Monte Carlo simulations would create a more accurate model, the aim of this column is to introduce beginners to more advanced statistical concepts without utilizing much math. We can get a fairly good answer just by looking at pitching statistics that most readers will be familiar with from a typical fantasy baseball league: ERA and WHIP! Unsurprisingly, there is a correlation between ERA and WHIP; pitchers who give up fewer walks and hits usually allow fewer runs
The graph below shows WHIP plotted against ERA for all pitcher seasons from 2000-2008 with more than 20 IP (thanks to http://baseball1.com/ for the raw stats). The straight line is a simple, unweighted least-squares fit to the data. Note that for particularly high WHIPs the results become non-linear, with more points above the line for a given WHIP. For our purposes the type of fit doesn't really matter, it is intended to guide the eye and show what a typical ERA is for a typical WHIP.
Returning to our two offenses, the Rickeys averaged 18 walks plus hits per 27 outs (9 innings), or a WHIP of 18/9 = 2.00, while the Shawons averaged 12 walks plus hits per 27 outs or a WHIP of 12/9 = 1.33. Without looking at the figure above, your fantasy baseball spidey sense is no doubt tingling at the sight of those WHIPs. Chances are a fantasy team whose pitchers sported a collective WHIP of 1.33 would be doing reasonably well, while most fantasy managers wouldn't consider using a pitcher with a WHIP of 2.00 for fear of the damage he would do to their team. Although�he would be a fantastic HACKING MASS player assuming he was used sufficiently!
Looking at the figure, we see that from 2000-2008 pitchers with a WHIP of 2.00 typically had an ERA over 7 while pitchers with a WHIP of 1.33 had an ERA of about 4. In other words, a pitcher who allowed all opposing hitters to reach base at the rate of the Rickeys would have been among the worst pitchers in baseball, while a pitcher who allowed hitters to reach base at the rate of the Shawons would have been an above average pitcher (the average pitcher in the sample had an ERA of 4.52). There are very few data points for pitchers with a WHIP near 2.00, since pitchers who allow this many base runners do not last long in the major leagues.
Thinking about ERA from the offense's point of view, our hypothetical Rickeys would score about 7 runs per game while the Shawons would score a much more modest 4 runs per game. A difference of 3 runs per game is a lot, but how many more games would the Rickeys win than the Shawons over the course of a season?
Ideally we would take into account things like the number of runs each team allowed on defense, fluctuations in scoring from game to game, league wide scoring levels, etc. However, for our purposes, the sabermetric rule of thumb that an extra 10 runs scored or prevented will result in an extra win over the course of a season will suffice. Over 162 games, the Rickeys would score about 500 more runs than the Shawons. All other things being equal, the Rickeys would be expected to win nearly 50 more games!
As a sanity check that this method is valid, the figure below plots the OBP and runs per game of every team season from 2000-2008, again with a least-squares fit to the data overlaid. While no team approached a 0.400 OBP, extending the line to an OBP of 0.400 predicts a team would score about 7.0 runs per game. A few did approach a 0.300 OBP: the 2002 Tigers (0.300), 2003 Tigers (0.300), and 2003 Dodgers (0.303). These offensively challenged squads averaged a paltry 3.6 runs per game. Despite reducing the discussion to common fantasy statistical categories, our estimate of the effect of OBP on runs scored proved very good!
This thought experiment is clearly an exaggeration of how offenses are constructed. No team is likely to field a lineup with nine hitters capable of a 0.400 OBP, while only the occasional team is likely to be so bad as to field a team with nine hitters approaching a 0.300 OBP. However, it illustrates well the importance of conserving outs. If you want to score runs, OBP is king.
Postscript: Call me CWebb. As a number of readers have pointed out in the comments to my initial entry, I was sloppy with my usage of BABIP when it should have been BA on contact. I am embarrassed to look so foolish on my first chance in the sabermetric spotlight. I know 1993 was Webber's second Final Four, but you know what I mean. It is a tremendous honor to be one of the ten BP Idol finalists, and I am grateful to all the readers who are holding me to the same lofty standards that they expect of the regular BP writers. I can't promise I'll never make another mistake, but I'll sure try. Hopefully I can follow this up with 15 more years of elite basketball...er baseball analysis.
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Kevin Goldstein
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This one actually surprised me. At first I was saying to myself, "oh no, not something else about how great OBP is," but then you took it in a pretty interesting direction, so as they say, way to make it your own.
May 23, 2009 23:50 PM
Will Carroll
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Couple things ... I don't like that he stuck with a "title" here. It's a bit presumptuous and precious. (Of course, you don't see that since we evidently shifted the subtitle. Still.) Also, the apology is overwrought and didn't need to be there. He made a mistake, you learn. I don't follow his process here at all. It starts off about OBP and then veers quickly off to WHIP. I had to read through a couple of times to really grasp what he was trying to do and I dont think he did it. This is the first article I've read that took a real step back from what I saw in the original submissions.
May 24, 2009 08:12 AM
Christina Kahrl
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Yes, to clarify on what Will has pointed out, and which isn't transparent to the public, is that Matthew stuck with his reference to "Back of the Envelope," which we trimmed as a matter of presentation. I guess my problem with this piece is that it's hard to call this an introductory piece when, unlike his initial, winning entry, the light humor from before is missing, and I guess I suffer from a bit of cognitive dissonance when something that's supposed to be "Basic" gives us a couple of scatter plots--if this is the back of an envelope, that's some envelope. Regardless, while I did find the extended initial throat-clearing a bit tedious, that *did* speak to the exercise's purpose, to deliver something introductory. It's an uneven effort, but one that I liked, but I'd like to see Matthew resume with the light, confident, engaging tone that he introduced himself with.
May 24, 2009 09:36 AM
(I feel deficient without a photo.) Anyway, with all due respect to the staff's opinions, I actually like the tone of your piece. I found it light, simple, and instructive but not condescending. I also liked your scatter plots. They were also simple and quite clear. There are little bits and pieces of your writing that could be cleaned up, but that's to be expected for anyone writing on deadline without an editor.
May 24, 2009 15:01 PM
I'm not sure how you can write an article about OBP without defining OBP and an article on WHIP without defining WHIP. It seems you assume the reader knows what OBP and WHIP is and why it is important, but then go through one or two "thought experiments" to show how important it is?... but to lack a formula or definition? Yet you spend a paragraph explaining what a "thought experiment" is? Or you digress into Monte Carlo? You use Rickey Henderson and Shawon Dunston as examples, but show scatter plots from 2000-2008?
May 24, 2009 16:05 PM
If I can keep up, I'm voting for one article a week, based simply on enjoyment.
May 24, 2009 18:29 PM
Matthew Avery
I liked this idea quite a bit. It's a simple concept and easy to understand. I think this article could be an excellent introduction to why OBP matters with a few changes.
May 24, 2009 19:39 PM
I liked this article, but I felt like the section involving WHIP and ERA didn't flow very well. As will pointed out, it didn't really stick to the title, and I think the author should have gone straight for the OBP and runs/game relationship.
May 24, 2009 19:57 PM
OBP is not King. OBP is Life.
May 24, 2009 20:21 PM
This one has my thumb perched in the middle ground. It's hard to get much more basic than OBP at least for the BP crowd. Not faulting you for that though. You did take it an interesting way. I did have to read the paragraph that morphed into a WHIP discussion, but on just 1 reread it made a lot of sense. Anyway I am reserving a thumbs up until I check out more of the competition first.
May 24, 2009 20:48 PM
Sky Kalkman
If my dad asked me for the basics of OBP, I would not refer him to this article. There were some interesting points worked in, but I'm still waiting for a really good introductory article. Writing a Basics article might seem strange when your actual audience is a whole bunch of people who are already familiar with OBP (or whatever), but the trick is to impress us with the path you take from simple to more complex without losing anyone on the way.
May 24, 2009 21:03 PM
John Carter
Sorry, but I think Matthew Knight is still missing the mark. Does even an entry level BP reader need a long explanation as to why OBP is important? Spare us, please. Many of my favorite people are geeks, but I found this to be a crashing bore.
May 24, 2009 23:37 PM
Two articles that had thought experiments, but also had some problems. The initial entry made a number of assumptions and incorrectly used some terms while this entry assumed things about the reader... they don't know OBP is important but know WHIP is important solely because it's a fantasy stat? I keep wavering on giving this one a thumbs-up... it seems there's potential that in a future article you'll write something that I wuld be "wowed" by, and I've given my votes to articles that had less of a "wow" factor, but were otherwise solid. Both articles submitted so far by you have been better than mediocre, but not quite great either. Both seemed like they could have been something "more", or lacking that, "more solid". Is it worth a save to the next round? I'm not sure as of yet... but I do know there are other finalists who are writing "wow" articles and are writing "sound" articles.
May 25, 2009 02:49 AM
I will say this. I did enjoy the article, but I was left with one overriding thought. Ok, two overriding thoughts. One was, "Why was the concept of power completely ignored in the article?" The second was: "Where is the regression analysis which would prove the year to year stability of OBP?" Now, understanding that you approached the subject from a less rigorous stand, it might be reasonable to ignore a regression analysis, but to ignore power is as bad as the A's ignoring offense when they built their team this year. Whats worse is that your two example players, Dunston and Henderson, were PERFECT: Dunston hit .269/.296/.416 where Rickey hit .279/.401/.419
May 25, 2009 07:34 AM
Matthew is jumping through a lot of hoops to compare offensive output derived from OBP to offensive output derived from WHIP. Simple math shows them to be essentially the same thing: OBP=(H+BB)/(H+BB+OUTS)
May 25, 2009 08:44 AM
I liked this article, but the transition from OBP to WHIP was poorly done. It was not smooth at all and I had to re-read it to get where he was going. Other than that, I enjoyed the article. And I don't think the scatter points were very complicated so that an average person couldn't read it.
May 25, 2009 09:18 AM
I don't object to the use of scatterplots in a beginners' article - perhaps someone should write such an article on how to read scatterplots, because they are so very useful when dealing with baseball data.
May 25, 2009 10:31 AM
Jason Snell
Not a basics article. OBP is never sufficiently defined; it's assumed that the reader knows what it is. OBP is such a fundamental statistic and is the building-block for a whole way of thinking about baseball stats. I would've spent time talking about OBP versus batting average and really explaining why this stat is preferable. But instead we're off into a series of hypotheticals with teams made up of Rickeys and Shawons (cute).
May 25, 2009 11:33 AM
I thought the first paragraph was well-done. I hated the explanation of thought experiment, and I'm not sure that the "experiment" itself led to any conclusion. I thought that after mentioning OBP as a specific example of market inefficiency, there were two ways to go: either give me examples to show how that inefficiency has gone away, or explain why OBP is king. Not why it's good, why it's King. While scatterplots do in fact show that getting on base more often is *good* - it's better than not getting on base! - without any information about the slope, that's all they do. There are myriad reasons why Rickey Henderson was better than Shawon Dunston; OBP is only one of them. Bob hit the nail on the head above saying that in order to demonstrate that OBP is King, you have to compare it to the other contenders for the throne.
May 25, 2009 17:14 PM
Reading this article first, and I had no problems with it as a beginner article. If you want the definition of OBP, do a roll-over.
May 25, 2009 17:18 PM
I don't quite understand BP's decision to make the theme "Basics". The readers and voters are all BP readers so a basic article of OBP is absolutely not needed. I much rather enjoyed introductory articles on subjects at least a little more complicated.
May 25, 2009 19:29 PM
I agree with a lot of what has been said, and will only add that the first three paragraphs were weak. Particularly, I think readers of Moneyball understood the theme of market inefficiencies.
May 25, 2009 20:05 PM
Nathan M. Smith
I am left distinctly thinking 'eh'. Aside from the writing, which was not the best, the attempted humor fell flat for me, and all your argument really says is that OBP correlates with runs.
May 25, 2009 22:05 PM
I think you want a little too much from the "basics" theme. Admittedly, I have had a thirst for more analysis after reading a few of these, but I think that is not the point.
May 26, 2009 11:51 AM
I find it ineteresting that everyone's critique of this article is that he didn't define OBP, and yet as BurrRutledge pointed out, all you have to do is a roll-over and, voila!, there it is. I liked how he just delved right into his point.
May 25, 2009 22:10 PM
Most people new to BP won't know to roll over words for additional definitions, unless they are highlighted blue. The slightly off-color background of a word with a definition attached isn't really obvious to me unless I squint at the monitor.
May 25, 2009 22:40 PM
OBP is obviously an important stat and the writer explained it well and the article was interesting.
May 25, 2009 22:35 PM
Dear Author: I think on a 'basics' level your article does the job. I believe (just my belief - can't prove it) that most baseball followers start down the road of appreciating statistical analysis by being in fantasy/roto leagues - and the WHIP comparison to OBP will assist the process of moving the basic reader from a fantasy/roto world into a deeper appreciation of baseball stats. Below the thinking level of many BP readers, but does the job if aimed at 'newbies'. Look forward to seeing more from you.
May 26, 2009 10:32 AM
Dr. Dave
Sorry, no. Didn't like it at all. It seems unlikely that anyone who didn't already know OBP is important would be convinced by appeal to WHIP. Worse, the oversimplification of the probability model was sufficient to make it useless for intuition, and the implication that Monte Carlo simulation is the only alternative is both misleading and annoying to people who know some math.
May 26, 2009 11:18 AM
I must say, I had a poor opinion of the author after the first article, but I was won over by this.
May 26, 2009 11:49 AM
I agree with many of the others who commented on this, that this article had a lot of potential, but was comparing something we already knew. I think the biggest "old school" fans would agree they would rather have a .400 OBP player over a .300 OBP player if everything else is equal. I think the true comparison is between a player like Ichiro who consistently has a great pre-Moneyball stat like Batting Average, to players like Adam Dunn and Nick Swisher who bat about 80 points lower then Ichiro but get on base at a higher clip, and provide more power.
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i'm not certain if he can take the left hand away completely. i tend to doubt it.
i think manny will win the fight but i wont be putting anything down on him
you have to take pacquiao's left hand away. that's still your chief task out there.
i think bradley will be able to keep from getting badly hurt by the left hand by backing away or getting close enough where pacquiao cant get extension, but i dont think he will take it away enough to win the fight (IE counter it or make him miss and then get his work in.)
i think bradley might end up covering and getting more defensive than he has in the past. he was cautious against alexander. obviously it was alexander on his bicycle the most, but bradley wasnt exactly going all out in there
and devon alexander does not punch like manny pacquiao. manny can still hurt guys with big punches and combinations and bust up their grills. he's the most gifted offensive fighter in boxing. nobody comes close frankly. his ability to hurt markedly larger guys is awesome.
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eventually manny's age is going to develop a pattern of making his performances lack luster. if he's starting to deteriorate it will be closer than it would be were manny in his prime. the guy that fought hatton would make timothy bradley look very ordinary
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Oxana Malaya, also called the Ukranian dog girl, was recently featured again on UK television. Oxana Malaya was abandoned by her parents and raised by a pack of dogs until she was around eight years old. View the video of the Ukranian dog girl below.
Supposedly Oxana went missing at age 3, and her alcoholic parents didn't really seem to mind. Malaya had actually moved into a vacant building behind her house with a pack of neighborhood dogs.
When she was discovered at age 8, Malaya was being raised by the dogs and had acquired many of their traits. Not only was Oxana eating and drinking with the dogs, but she had also picked up many of their traits like barking, smelling and an acute sense of sound.
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Drogba: I don't act
Didier Drogba has told Friday's pre-match press conference that he is not an "actor" after seemingly being labelled one by Bayern Munich boss Jupp Heynckes.
Heynckes claimed earlier on Friday that Chelsea striker Drogba on occasions "overdoes it a bit", adding: "Sometimes he's an outstanding actor on the pitch.'' Bayern later blamed the translation given, insisting the word "actor" should have been "performer''.
It was too late to stop the quote making news and when asked whether he was an actor, Drogba responded: "As far as I know, no. They (Bayern) have a great manager with a lot of experience. I have a lot of respect for him and that's all I can say.''
Pressed further on the matter, Drogba added: "Oh, no, I don't think so. No, no, no.''
Saturday's Champions League final with Bayern could be Drogba's final game for the Blues, with the Ivorian forward yet to sign a new contract. Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay had revealed after the FA Cup final that talks would resume at the end of the season.
"We'll sit down with him and we're going to talk. There are a lot of rumours about me being offered to Barcelona. It's not true. It's not true,'' Drogba said on the matter today.
He added: "No matter what happens, everybody's talking a lot about 'last game'. I'm just happy because we're again in the Champions League final. Nobody expected us to be there at the beginning of the season but I think we did everything to reach the finals. Now we'll do everything to win.''
For Drogba, the final will be particularly important, with the Ivorian having ended his last appearance on the final stage in disgrace. Drogba was sent off in the 2009 final for a slap on Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic.
"It was a difficult moment for me and for the club as well. I apologised to the fans. It's one memory I cannot forget but, at the same time, it's the past," Drogba added
"It was a good experience, a first Champions League final for Chelsea - an experience. Now I think we've learned from that."
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The Bulls were trailing in their home opener, and Johnson sparked them in the fourth quarter, which led to a comeback win for the Bulls. Johnson scored 8 points, grabbed 9 rebounds, dished out 4 assists, had 3 blocks, 2 steals in 19 minutes. Some were speculating that if Johnson showed that much energy and played that well, he could take some rotation minutes from Deng. With Deng playing the most minutes on the team, we know that it wasn't the case. Three weeks later, Johnson broke a 6-game DNP streak by sparking the Bulls again, this time in Phoenix. Johnson had 23 minutes in an overtime win, scored 12 points, with 5 rebounds, 3 assists but also fouled out. He hasn't played meaningful minutes since.
Now my question is, why doesn't he get more time? I don't know the answer to that, but it could have something to do with practice. Last year, we heard about his conditioning all of the time. But in a season where Luol Deng is obviously over worked and underperforming on the offensive side of the ball, you're telling me he can't come in for 6-8 minutes per game?
It may seem like I'm a big fan of James, but I don't really know how I feel about him. I didn't like when the Bulls drafted him at the time. I felt he was a poor man's Tyrus Thomas on draft day. The Bulls could have used more athleticism that season, but they could have had better players, even though they didn't fit a need. Jrue Holiday is who I wanted the Bulls to draft, even though Derrick Rose and Kirk Hinrich were on the roster. My feeling was that Holliday was a better player, and he could be used for trade bait down the stretch. Can you use Johnson as trade bait now? He's a bit of an unknown, and even though he's not 24 yet, how much can other teams value him? Although, Anthony Randolph really hasn't done much, and apparently, teams are willing to give up lottery picks for him. Am I a fan of him now? Not really, although I think he can be useful in resting Deng during the course of a game, and providing a spark off the bench. I'm just upset with management when they drafted a kid that had some character issues, but a lot of talent waiting to be developed. They haven't developed him thus far, and maybe sending him to the D-League will help. But it seems counter-productive to wait to send him to the D-League a year and a half after he was drafted.
Dropping the ball on the 2008 draft might not seem like a big deal when the team is winning, but today it hurts. When the Bulls need to upgrade, they find that they can't because of the lack of young talent. Maybe there's a team that believes in Johnson, but they don't have to give up much.
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Dominion starts $20 million program to replace transformers
Dominion Virginia Power is starting a $20 million program to replace older electric transformers to ensure they perform.
The company has already replaced more than 700 transformer in Northern and Central Virginia and the Hampton Roads area. It will soon replace another 1,400 in Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Hampton, Alexandria, Springfield and Richmond.
"It takes a lot of infrastructure to keep electricity flowing safely and reliably to our customers," said Rodney Blevins, vice president-Distribution Operations. "Keeping it up-to-date and working around-the-clock is a big challenge, but it is exactly what our customers expect. This is one example of how we work to fix potential problems before they affect our customers."
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A Day at Mayhem Festival '09: CoS Strikes Again…
This year, Rockstar Energy Drinks presented the 2nd Annual Mayhem Festival for 26 dates in the U.S., all with the intention of upping the ante of last year's inaugural blowout. If you recall, that initial docket featured the likes of Slipknot, Disturbed, Dragonforce, and Mastodon. It's hard to imagine how any organizer could top that line up, but here we are in 2009, and sure enough, they did.
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Israel to Review Ties With Abbas Over PA Unity Government Deal
At Monday's summit, Olmert to demand Abbas secure Shalit release, not likely to offer goodwill gestures.
Israel has decided to reassess its relations with the Palestinian Authority and its chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, due to the unity government agreement reached between Fatah and Hamas in Mecca last week.
The agreement, including its implications for the diplomatic process and Israeli-Palestinian relations, will be at the center of Monday's trilateral summit in Jerusalem, senior government sources said Tuesday.
The summit, to take place at Jerusalem's David Citadel Hotel, will include Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Olmert departs on Wednesday for a visit to Turkey, and Rice is due to arrive in the region on Saturday.
At a preparatory meeting on the summit Tuesday, Olmert said that the strategic and geopolitical implications of the Mecca agreement are no less important than those of Hamas's victory in the elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council a year ago. He added that Israel must calculate its policies toward the new Palestinian unity government carefully.
"The chances that there will be talk of a political horizon at the summit, given that a Fatah-Hamas government is waiting in the corner, are not high," a well-placed government source said.
Olmert is planning to demand that Abbas obtain the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit. "Abu Mazen [Abbas] can no longer evade responsibility for the release of Shalit if he sits with Hamas in the same government," the source explained.
Government sources added that at Monday's summit, Olmert has no intention of offering Abbas any goodwill gestures aimed at easing daily life for Palestinian civilians, such as those that followed the two men's meeting on December 23, 2006.
The Mecca Agreement poses a dilemma for Israel. Before it was signed, Israel maintained contacts with Abbas, who it presented as a moderate, while boycotting the Hamas government. The tripartite summit, which was scheduled during Rice's previous visit to the region, was meant to restart the diplomatic process. But following the Mecca Agreement, the lines distinguishing the moderates from the extremists among the Palestinians have become blurred.
Olmert will therefore seek clarifications from Abbas and Rice on how the relationship with the new Palestinian government will be conducted.
During Tuesday's preparatory meeting, which was also attended by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and the heads of the intelligence agencies, Olmert expressed his view that Israel does not have to take the lead in moves against the new Palestinian government or in ceasing contacts with Abbas. Instead of Israel positioning itself at the forefront of the struggle, he said, it should conduct a diplomatic campaign to demand that the international community insist on the Palestinians meeting the three conditions put forth by the Quartet: recognizing Israel, relinquishing violence and honoring previous agreements between Israel and the PLO.
Over the last few days, Olmert has talked on the telephone with Rice, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of Russia, Britain and Germany. According to government sources, this diplomatic effort aims to marshal international pressure on Abbas in order to influence the Palestinian unity government's diplomatic platform.
One of the main recommendations to emerge from Tuesday's meeting was that Israel should avoid doing anything that would cause political harm to Saudi Arabia, which brokered the Mecca Agreement, so as not to undermine Riyadh's position as part of the region's "axis of moderates" against the developing threat from Iran.
At a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu urged Olmert to cancel the tripartite summit in response to the Mecca Agreement. Olmert's reply was that there is no need to respond rashly. Senior Israeli officials did weigh the possibility of canceling the summit over the weekend, but Rice insisted that the meeting be held.
During his visit to Turkey Wednesday, Olmert will meet with Turkish President Ahmet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He will also meet Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul.
It is not clear whether the visit, which was originally scheduled to take place Thursday, was moved forward because a secret meeting has been arranged with some Arab or Muslim figure via Turkish mediation, or for some other reason. A year and a half ago, the foreign ministers of Israel and Pakistan held their first public meeting in Istanbul, and the Turkish government has repeatedly offered its services in mediating between Israel and Syria, the Palestinians and others.
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March is National Kidney Disease Awareness Month
March is National Kidney Month, the perfect time to remind adults 60 and older to get an annual urine test to screen for kidney disease. Kidney disease is the 9th leading cause of death in the United States. Kidney disease is also one of those diseases that don't show symptoms in the early stages. Making a kidney screening urine test part of your routine checkup can help detect kidney disease early.
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The kidneys are two, fist-sized organs in your lower back. They maintain overall health through the following functions:
- Filtering waste out of 200 liters of blood each day.
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As highly publicized Comet ISON was rushing toward its fateful encounter with the sun last month, another comet has quietly become visible in our morning sky. Comet Lovejoy, currently shining at about 4th magnitude, now appears as a small fuzzy blob to the naked eye 20 degrees above the east-northeastern horizon. The comet, however, is best viewed under a dark sky with binoculars. With optical aid, the comet's tail will come into view.
Look for Comet Lovejoy this week, in the east-northeastern sky, 90 minutes before sunrise. The comet is currently to the right of the "keystone" pattern of stars that make up Hercules.
As 2013 comes to an end, so will Venus' current appearance in the evening sky. Our sister planet is sinking toward the southwestern horizon and will be lost in the glare of the sun early next month. Look for our "evening star," currently shining at a dazzling -4.6 magnitude, 17 degrees above the southwestern horizon at 5:30 p.m.


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Appropriate coding for tube placements and replacements depends on coders distinguishing whether the gastroenterologist performed the procedure manually or endoscopically. Further, understanding the different tube variations and applications can help limit coding problems.
PEG Tube Variations
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement is reported with 43246 (
upper gastrointestinal endoscopy including esophagus, stomach and either the duodenum and/or jejunum as appropriate; with directed placement of percutaneous gastrostomy tube
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Physician notes sometimes contain references to buttons"" PEG buttons or ""Mickey"" buttons. These are smaller" shorter tubes that are inserted through the tract in the skin of the abdomen that was created by a standard PEG tube explains
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of Metropolitan Gastroenterology Group in Washington D.C. and previous American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) representative to the CPT Advisory Board.
"PEG buttons are used to replace a standard PEG tube after several weeks or months when the original tube tract has matured " Weinstein says. "Therefore you usually code it as a PEG tube replacement (43760
change of gastrostomy tube
"You also might see tube descriptions with ports balloons or bumpers " Weinstein adds. "They're all tubes. MIC and Bard are just some of the brand names." Placement of these shorter tubes is still coded with 43246. Changing PEG tubes of any kind should be reported with 43760.
An Alternative to PEG Tubes
Gastroenterologists also use percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (PEJ) tubes explains
Thomas M. Deas Jr. MD
of Gastroenterology Associates in Fort Worth Texas and chairman of the Practice Management Committee of the ASGE. This is a long tube that is passed through the PEG tube into the small bowel rather than the stomach.
There are two ways to code the PEJ tube procedure. The patient may already have a PEG tube in place and the physician has to convert it to a PEJ tube by going beyond the duodenum. This method should be reported with 44373 (
small intestinal endoscopy enteroscopy beyond second portion of duodenum not including ileum; with conversion of percutaneous gastrostomy tube to percutaneous jejunostomy tube
). If the patient does not have a PEG tube coders should use 44372 (...
with placement of percutaneous jejunostomy tube
) for the initial PEJ tube placement.
Code 44500 (
introduction of long gastrointestinal tube [e.g. Miller-Abbott]
) refers specifically to the length of a tube Weinstein explains. Longer tubes are weighted at the end (with mercury for example) and are used when there is a gastrointestinal obstruction.
"No other procedure needs to be performed with this " Weinstein says. "The tube position usually requires checking an x-ray -- a separate billable service -- and advancing or [...]
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Some of you may see at the top of your screen...try out the new look. If you click on it you will also see the new layout for your homepage. I rather like the new change. Makes it much easier to navigate to your groups...change your profile...and other important things to you.
They will also be rolling out a new look for the groups slowly. I don't have that one yet. I have only seen a screenshot of it so I can't really tell you if I like that one or not.
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1) How many persons named John Smith do you have in your genealogy management program or online family tree? How many persons named John Smith are ancestors?
2) Pick out one of those persons named John Smith and do some online research for
them in Ancestry, FamilySearch, or another set of record collections. Your goal is to
add something to your database.
3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post
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Well, as Ace Ventura would say, alrighty then:
I only have four John Smiths on my family tree, and as luck would have it, one of
them is my 7x great grandfather John Smith. There doesn't seem to be any birth
record for him but when he died in Middleboro,Ma. on 16May 1727 his age was
given as 69 years old, so that would put his birth year 1658. Now the interesting
thing about John is who he married, and who his daughter Abigail Smith married.
I'll get to Abigail later in this post. As to who John's wife was, he married Mary Ellenwood on 23May 1684 in Beverly, Ma. She was the daughter of my immigrant ancestors Ralph Ellenwood/Ellingwood and Eleanor Lynn. In researching this article
I learned John was a "coaster", someone who transported goods in small boats
along the Massachusetts coast between the port cities. Since he ended up in
Middleboro south of Boston, I believe he may have done his business between Beverly and Plymouth which is close by to Middleboro.
I'd always wondered how he'd met Mary if he was in Middleboro and she lived in Beverly. But the following information I found in an old edition of National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volumes 6-11 shows they were both living in Beverly at the time
We find John Smith joining in an agreement of division of the Ellenwood land under date of April 17, 1695, in right of Mary, his wife—how long he had been married does not appear. (Salem Deeds, Vol. II, p. 192).
Nov. 19, 1702, John Smith of Beverly, with consent of his wife, Mary, sells his house and lot in Beverly to Robert Hale for £100. His brother, Benjamin Ellenwood, is mentioned as an abutting property owner. (Salem Deeds, Vol. 15, p. 261).
About—1702, John Smith removed from Beverly to Middleboro, in Plymouth County, Mass. We find of record at Plymouth, the following deed: John Doggett and Samuel Doget, both of Marshfield, sell to John Smith, late of Beverly, in the County of Essex, Marriner, for £55, lot No. 26, in the 26 Men's purchase on Whetstone Brook, containing 100 acres. The deed is dated Feb. 11, 1702-3. (Plymouth Deeds, Vol. 6, page 127).
Oct. 6, 1712, John Smith sold onehalf of this lot to his son Jonathan.
According to the stone in the Old Cemetery, in Middleboro, John Smith died May 16, 1727, in his 69th year. He was born, therefore, about 1658. His widow Mary was appointed administrator July 3, 1727 (Plymouth Probate Records, Vol. 5, p. 266). Since he died intestate, the estate was divided among the heirs by agreement (Plymouth Wills, Vol. 12, p. 222.)
-COREY (CORY), CLEAVES AND SMITH FAMILY LINES. By Prof. Arthur Adams, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Vol. VII APRIL, 1918 No. 1
I found the images of the probate record and agreement online at FamilySearch. It's going to take me awhile to transcribe them since the handwriting is difficult to read and the last page has some really small and messy added writing at the bottom of the page. So that is the material I've added to my database as a result of the assignment.
|The Smith family estate agreement is on the left hand page.
Now, as to the marriage of Abigail Smith, John and Mary's daughter: on 12Dec 1719 she
married my 6x great grandfather Ebenezer Donham/Dunham in Middleboro, Ma. And
131 years later their descendant Florilla Dunham married my 2x great grandfather Asa
Freeman Ellingwood. I don't think they would have known about that family connection.


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AUGUST H. SCHWIEGER. The enterprising German citizen is to be found all over the West, and in other parts of the United States, pushing his way to the front, and almost without exception, industrious and well-to-do. His descendants have lost nothing by being American-born, and have united with the traits of their substantial ancestry, the adventurous and progressive qualities distinguishing the people of a country which leads the world, and we find among them some of our most reliable and responsible citizens. They have contributed their full share to the development of the rich resources of Illinois, and in Morgan County have particularly illustrated their worth in all the walks of life.
The subject of this sketch is the son of Frederick and Louisa (Muller) Schwieger, who were natives of Germany, and who emigrated to America in 1853. They settled in Erie County, N.Y., where the father died two years later, in 1855. In the meantime August H., our subject, had been born in the city of Buffalo, Dec. 2, 1853. His mother after the death of her husband, was married to Mr. Henry Pruss. When our subject was a boy thirteen years, leaving the vicinity of Buffalo, where he had spent his early life, he sent with his mother and step-father to Muscatine County, Iowa. They took up a tract of land from which they constructed a good homestead. The mother is still living in Carroll County, Iowa.
After a sojourn of eight years in the Hawkeye State, Mr. Schwieger recrossed the Father of waters, and coming to this county, was thereafter employed as a farm laborer by the month for five or six years. With genuine German prudence and forethought, he had saved what he could of his earnings, and in the spring of 1882, purchased 160 acres of land in township 14, range 10, that which constitutes his present homestead. Since that time he has given his close attention to the improvement of his property, and the cultivation of the soil. He has erected a good house with a barn, and the other necessary structures, and has established a most pleasant home. He operates considerably as a stock-dealer, and is in the enjoyment of a comfortable income.
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The other week we had a proper crisis in my house when the kettle became so utterly scaled up that I made a cup of tea which literally had so much limescale in the bottom of it I nearly choked on it. Utterly disgusting and one of the main bugbears I have with living in a hard water area.
My previous kettle was a kenwood pink and chrome affair in the same old fashioned style as this one is. Other than the limescale it was ok, but having been descaled pretty much every 2 weeks for 3 years and used so frequently it was starting to be completely unresponsive and the bits I couldn't get to were also clogged beyond rescue. I resolved that a new kettle was in order and nipped into Tesco on my lunch break to replace it.
This kettle is virtually identical in size and style to it's predecessor but cost only the pricely sum of £14.97 (why do Tesco make their prices add up to weird numbers!?) because it was their own brand rather than being a Kenwood or so on. I figured for the amount it was going to get used a stores own version was probably a good investment as the lime will overwhelm it within a couple of years anyway.
Whilst my kenwood was pink on the handle and base, this is black and where the kenwoods light was orange, this one is blue. It is pretty much a like for like exchange, holds 2.5 litres of water, is a rapid boil and is certainly quick and it is easy to pour and fill with a removable lid. It also has a water guard to try and prevent the worst of any limescale getting into the tea.
I think for less than £15 this is a proper bargain and certainly it does the job more than adequately. I have only one negative to highlight - the noise is quite astonishing. As we have an open plan kitchen and living room, the kettle can be heard from our sofa, we used to be able to hear the old one but this one is actually almost laughable it is so loud. It drowns out the TV and sounds like a plane taking off! The one saving grace is that the rapid boil means this is short lived - maybe this is actually why it is so loud!?
Anyway, overall this has been a very suitable replacement and very good value for the price. It fits in well to our kitchen, looks stylish and sleek and boils fast, if it were not for the noise this would actually be the perfect kettle but it's close enough for us!
I was living away from home for a while and needed to save as much money as I could to keep the cost of living down and Tescos was the place to do that.
Being quite the fan of tea I knew that my first purchase had to be a kettle and this was the kettle I chose.
The Tescos TK39 kettle has nothing special to it, no special design, colourings or any kind of special functions, it is as you see it and acts exactly how you would expect.
The kettle has got that old traditional look, where you would expect to fill up the metal kettle, place it on the Hob and wait for it to start whistling through the front spout signalling it was boiled, but as traditional as it looks it does not whistle, although it may look like it's a kettle from back in the day the kettle is actually more modernized than you think, it is made with stainless steel so the kettle doesn't weigh a tone when filling it up or pouring the water, it has the same style old kettle top lid to reveal where you would pour the water, you don't actually place this on a Hob but on a kettle dock or charger if you will, and to turn it on you flick the little lever down that is located towards the bottom of the kettle and a orange light illuminates to start boiling the water, so really the only part that really is of the olden day kettles is the visual look of it. But be careful, when the kettle is boiled, due to the fact it is stainless steel it does get extremely hot on the main body, But all this is mentioned in the manuals, even though most of it is all self explanatory be sure to read it before hand.
The actual kettle itself is cordless but the bass unit of the kettle is not and although it has a fair amount of cord available on it, it's advised to not stretch it out too much.
There are two ways you can fill up the kettle:
1 Through the spout of the kettle
2 under the lid in the middle of the kettle
This kettle looks like it cant really do that much cups of tea but you would be surprised to know that when the kettle is full to the brim with water it can hold 1.7 litres of water, so to tell you how long it would take to boil the kettle depends on the amount of water you have in the kettle but we tend to have it filled a bout half way and it takes around a minute and a half. It takes no time at all to boil with this kettle. But I guess that's why they call it a fast boil kettle.
A good thing about this kettle is that although this kettle is a stainless steel it has also provided parts that are toughened plastic that is black in colour, these parts are the kettle handle, the kettle lid and the charging station for the kettle. The one thing I wish i did have was a water gauge on the main body but I guess that would take away that old traditional look.
You can get this from Tescos for around £12 and is perfect for the collage lot who need a nice cheap and cheerful kettle for next to nothing.
Final Thoughts
It's a good little kettle that gets the job done in a quick time. being so cheap you would expect it to be one of those noisy kettles that sounds like an old steam train is passing through your house but to my surprise it you could barley hear anything, perfect.
I do find that lime scale can build up at the bottom of the kettle over time and there are ways to help with that if you get a little wire-descaler and put it in your kettle and clean the ball when required.
It helped me a lot.
Tesco TK39 Traditional Style Kettle.....
After a trip to our local Tesco Store which is a larger Tesco Extra where there are far too many different things to buy I saw this wonderful looking kettle which matched all my other kitchen appliances so well it was well worth getting for the £14.69p that it was priced at.
There were a few kettle to choose from in the Tesco store but this was bar far the best looking one in my opinion as it has that traditional style which makes it short and dumpy and resemble one that goes on the stove.
It is brushed stainless steel which makes it easy to clean but does mean that it gets very hot to touch so is not overly safe in clumsy hands! (mine).
The kettle is a cordless one as it sit on a bottom plate which has the power lead attached. The power lead is of a good size and stretches across the kitchen work surface enough for my needs. The bottom plate along with the kettles handle and lid knob are made from black toughened plastic and has a ncie feel and cleans up well.
The spout of the kettle is designed well as it pours easily without any spills to talk of. You are able to fill the kettle either by the spout from a tap or by lifting out the lid which is situated right in the middle under the handle on the top of the kettle. I more often use this to fill it as I used filtered water from a jug and having a bigger opening makes for less mess.
The boiling time of the kettle is pretty fast and when filled up to just the right amount seems to take under a minute to come up to the boil. It is described on the packaging as a rapid boil kettle which is one reason why I was drawn to buying the kettle too. The on of switch is a nice slip clear plastic type at the base of the main kettle body. This has an orange light which illuminates dimly when the kettle is boiling.
The concealed element in the kettle makes for easier de-scaling and less build up of lime-scale which is always a good thing. It holds a large amount of water as it has a 1.7 litre capacity which makes tons of cups of tea so as you can imagine doesn't get filled up very often!
The kettle is going strong and I do use it rather a lot. The price was very good and it does look good in the kitchen so I am very pleased. A high recommendation and a 5 out of 5 star rating.
I do hope that this has been of some help/interest to you.
Many thanks for taking the time to read.
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Peter Molyneux's latest crowdfunding game, Godus, is entering beta on September 13th through Steam's Early Access. Godus was first announced on Kickstarter and went on to make $750,000.
Peter Molyneux's 22cans studio announced today that Godus will be available through Steam's Early Access program for $19.99. It will be available on both Windows and Mac. In an interview, Molyneux said, "I think Godus is going to be the best game I've ever worked on. Fable was an epic RPG, but I think the best, most obsessively designed game I've ever done is Godus. It's the game I've played the most, for sure."
In Godus, you play a god, and are tasked with guiding a civilisation from primitive origins to the Space Age. You will initially have abilities like sculpting the land, but as your followers grow, so will your powers. And as civilizations progress, their motivations also change, and the more advanced the civilization gets, the more they start questioning their beliefs in Gods.
The game also has a unique multiplayer mode. As you make progress through civilizations with your followers, other players will also be doing the same, and since all players are on the same world, there should be a lot of interesting battles scenarios. Here's the beta trailer:
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Topher Donahue with client made the FA in 2000 of a line up the center of the triangular buttress which finished on the left edge of the Love Route roof. He called it "Lust Route" aka 'Bold is Love' -10a. The R rating is pretty much a given for any route on Hallett.
You can find him at alpinecreative.com I remember his saying it was the best route he had done on Hallett...
Always tough with Hallett figuring out what major features have been climbed and not?
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|Just talked to Topher and he did guide a client up this and the left-facing dihedral above calling it Bold is Love.
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