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Having been badly 'bitten' in the recent past, I am doubly cautious about the most minute postgresql complaint. I have finally been able to restore a database completely as a trial for scheduling daily dumps totally aside from file level backups which I found out the hard way are totally useless. In the current situation, where a successful restore operation took place after initialization, I used the -v option to give me a detailed look at the process. The command was simply: pg_restore -v --disable-triggers -d thedb -Fc thedb.pgr At the start: WARNING no privileges could be revoked for "public" WARNING no privileges were granted for "public" CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql pg_restore: creating SCHEMA public pg_restore: creating COMMENT SCHEMA public pg_restore: creating PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql pg_restore [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC; pg_restore [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 334; 2612 16388 PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql postgres pg_restore [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: language "plpgsql" already exists CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql; ....... the line by line record of creating and restoring ....... setting owners and privileges. -------------------------------------------------------------- I can see no problem with the restored tables. Can I safely ignore the language plpgsql sequences, ie CREATE -> error -> already exists -> create When the process concluded there was but the one warning. George
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Been looking for this for years but i cant find another picture of it anywhere http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC01963.jpg does it have much value? Many Thanks.
Been looking for this for years but i cant find another picture of it anywhere http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC01963.jpg does it have much value? Many Thanks.
Hi, Welcome to eBid and the Forum
I recently asked about some Chinese things that I have and this link was suggested to me:
You might also get more response if you put a picture up of the back stamp.
It's a very nice piece you have there.
When it comes to Chinese ceramics, it is an absolute minefield. The vase you have pictured, if it were indeed a piece which was MARK and PERIOD, meaning it was actually made during the reign of the Emperor whose mark may appear on the bottom, would be a great find indeed. Normally, pieces that are brightly colored such as wares that have a base colour of either GREEN, RED, PINK or YELLOW were pieces that were not for the normal Chinese population but for the Imperial court. Chinese marks are faked all the time and you can have a piece with a Chinese KANGXI reign mark that was made in the 20th century. Not meant to deceive but more in veneration of the early Chinese ceramic artists of the period for which the piece carries a modern mark. If marks are printed, they are almost certainly late 19th or 20th century pieces. To properly indentify if a piece is actually mark and period, it takes decades of research and an expert eye. Considerations such as glaze type and colour, pigementation and bleeding such as a technique known as HEAPED and PILING in Ming Dynyasty ceramics all need to be taken into consideration. Motifs of designs of the period also need to be taken into consideration so it is not an easy thing to identify.
Hope this bit of information helps
Best wishes
Wow! Thanks for sharing. I too have many oriental pieces, but have not plunged into really trying to date them because of exactly what you are stating above. Maybe someday, I will begin to do this.
Some of the pieces I have acquired are in the colors you mentioned above. Again, very fascinating information about Chinese ceramics. Appreciate your sharing.
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Neal Anderson
Audi RS2 Avant
Owned since:
Previously owned:
1956 VW Beetle (still own), 1972 VW Beetle (my first car that I've now owned for 23 years), 1972 VW Camper, 2 x VW 412s (weird thing - Google it!), 1976 Mk1 Ford Transit, MK2 VW Jetta GTI, E39 BMW 5 Series
In 1995 I was 22-year-old sitting on a wall outside a local shop in my hometown of Portstewart, Northern Ireland when this brand new blue Audi estate pulled up. The colour immediately struck me, and then I noticed the Porsche wheels, brakes and mirrors. I just thought "wow, that's cool", and immediately knew this car was something different and special. A few years later when I was in the fortunate position to get one, I started my search. I eventually found this well cared for example in Nogaro Blue with full history on PistonHeads.
What I wish I'd known:
With the history and service record, it was a great car to start with. I had it inspected by my local Audi specialist Fontain before I bought it. This picked up a few minor things that I was able to negotiate the price on. If you do want one, get the very best one you can find with service history from dealers and specialists, plus receipts etc.
For me, the RS2set the benchmark for a fantastic all round practical performance car that isn't actually a compromise. Reasonably economical around town, the four-wheel drive gives you real confidence with the added advantage of loads of space. Put the foot down, get it above 3,300rpm and WHHHOOOOSSSHHH, there's the turbo - warp speed Mr Sulu! I also like the fact that its one of only 180 RHD cars made, so has that exclusive feel and still turns heads. It's now 17 years old, but it certainly doesn't look it, plus my car has the full black leather interior, which helps - for me the blue Alcantara interiors look a little more dated.
Things I hate:
No cruise control is a bit of an arse, but there's not much else I'd fault. Well, apart from fuel economy at speed. Can be expensive if you get carried away, but then what isn't?
Insurance isn't too bad - helps with a Cat 1 alarm/immobiliser. Service costs are reasonably OK. Main dealers won't have a clue on something this age, so stick with recognised Audi specialists like QST or MRC, alternatively someone you trust (like my friend Pete at Funkenblitz in Portsmouth). I soon discovered some parts that are unique to the car, so are only available from Audi and therefore very expensive - especially original brake discs. Plus, due to the limited production run (less than 3,000 were made), other parts are either very hard to find or NLA. Thankfully, after recently speaking to the very helpful head parts chap at Audi UK, I've heard that they are looking to reproduce some parts as there is still a strong demand from both RS2 owners and S2 owners looking to upgrade to RS2 spec. Some of the specialist forums, especially the S2forum and RS246, have been very helpful finding parts and getting invaluable advice from fellow owners. Quattro Corneris another good source for bits.
To be honest, I love just driving it to the shops! The most memorable journeys I've done are home to Northern Ireland and back trailering my 12.6sec quarter mile 'Cal-Look' VW Beetle to be my sister's wedding car, then in late August this year I drove my new wife Emma 2,000 miles through France for our honeymoon. We went via Reims (including a trip to the old F1 circuit), Lyon, the Alps, Monaco, Antibes, Orleans, Versailles and Paris. The Alps roads were crazy (actually got a bit fed up with hairpins after a while), and it was a real highlight to drive around the Monaco circuit then over the amazing Milau Bridge on the way back. I certainly don't recommend driving through Paris though - not fun!
What next?
Just before the honeymoon trip, I completed a major refresh of the car. This included new shocks all round, repainted front and rear bumpers, wheels refurbished, four new Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric tyres and the 'big red' 993 Turbo brakes fully refurbished. Also took the opportunity to fit a few subtle extras like an optional rear spoiler and Porsche 993 front fog lights/air ducts. Next up a new exhaust, but other than that I'm really happy with it and plan on keeping it for some time.


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Senator Lanza Announces New York State Police to Participate in Statewide Stop-Dwi, Texting-While-Driving Crackdown for Super Bowl Weekend
Crackdown on Impaired and Distracted Driving Runs Jan 31st – Feb 3rd and Will Make New York Safer
Senator Andrew Lanza today announced today that the New York State Police will join other law enforcement agencies, across the state, in a special effort to crackdown on impaired and distracted driving during Super Bowl Weekend. The statewide STOP-DWI and Texting-While-Driving Crackdown efforts will start on January 31st and will run through February 3rd. This effort builds on the State's initiatives to stop repeat drunk drivers and prevent youth texting-while-driving in order to make New York's roads safer.
The New York State Police will be collaborating with County Sheriff and municipal law enforcement agencies across the state in this coordinated effort to reduce the number of alcohol related and distracted driving injuries and deaths.
While STOP-DWI and distracted driving efforts across New York have led to significant reductions in the numbers of alcohol, drug and texting-while-driving related fatalities, still too many lives are being lost because of crashes caused by impaired and/or distracted drivers. Highly visible, highly publicized efforts like the STOP-DWI Crackdown and the "It Can Wait" texting-while-driving campaigns aim to raise awareness about and reduce drunk or distracted driving.
Whether attending the game, watching at a bar or hosting a party, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, TEAM Coalition, the NFL and the New York State Police remind everyone that Fans Don't Let Fans Drive Drunk.
The NHTSA offers these additional safety tips:
If you're attending a Super Bowl party or watching the game at a sports bar or restaurant:
- Designate your sober driver, or plan another way to get home safely before the party begins.
- If you don't have a designated driver, then ask a sober friend for a ride home; call a cab, friend, or family member to come and get you; or just stay for the night.
- Use your community's sober ride program.
- Never let friends drive if they have had too much to drink.
If you're hosting a Super Bowl party:
- Make sure all your guests designate a sober driver in advance, or arrange for alternate transportation to ensure they get home safely.
- Serve food and include non-alcoholic beverages at the party.
- Stop serving alcohol at the end of the third quarter of the game and begin serving coffee and dessert.
- Keep the numbers for local cab companies handy, and take the keys away from anyone who has had too much to drink.
Seat belts are the best defense against a drunk driver in a crash.


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Antioch, TN, United States, 2007/06/01 - Antioch Software announces the release of Virtual Documents, innovative data sharing software designed to improve team collaboration and data security - AntiochSoftware.com.
Virtual Documents easily integrates into any .NET application, allowing all members of the team to store their communal project data in one central location so they can more efficiently share, edit and organize files in real time.
Virtual Documents software is fully localizable. It can accommodate and display all the most common scripts, languages and formats such as: documents, emails, PDF files, spreadsheets, images, presentations and more. The intuitive and familiar folder/file structure of the interface makes Virtual Documents one of the easiest document sharing programs to learn and use.
Virtual Documents addresses growing concerns over data security, both inside and outside the company. A project coordinator has control over which team members get read-write and read-only access, so documents can be amended by designated individuals only.
In addition, 256-bit encryption ensures that only those with authorization can access Virtual Documents data. So in case of theft, sensitive data won't fall into the wrong hands. In case of a server crash, the regularly backed-up files are easily recovered and reinstalled so work can continue quickly without data loss.
Companies enjoy an added sense of control over critical information because Virtual Documents runs on their in-house system and not online. And unlike many other data sharing programs that carry steep monthly fees, Virtual Documents has a one-time-only cost.
Virtual Documents Professional (unlimited users and documents) is now available at Antioch Software for $69.95 USD.
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Mark and Kelly Qualley of Princeton announce the birth of their daughter, Avery Elizabeth, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at Fairview Northland Medical Center in Princeton. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces.
Grandparents are Carl and Colleen Smith, Bruce Qualley and the late Penny Qualley, all of Elk River.
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Remembering the Jamaican Cultural Theorist Stuart Hall
Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall died today; netizens and academics all over the Caribbean - indeed, the world - were shocked by the news, expressing their grief on social media.
Why are Rice Farmers Protesting in Thailand?
Rice farmers have organized several protests in Thailand's capital after the government failed to pay them under the rice subsidy program. The opposition has expressed support to the farmers.


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Compton, Calif. – Foodsco will open its first store in Oakland, Calif., on March 26. The new 80,000 sq.-ft. supermarket is located in East Oakland's Foothill Square Shopping Center.
Foodsco currently operates five stores in The Bay Area: two stores in San Francisco and one store each in Pittsburg, Redwood City and Richmond. Shoppers visiting the new Foodsco will have access to an expanded selection of products and services, including fresh produce; a fully staffed meat department; a fresh seafood department; a full-service bakery featuring fresh breads, rolls and desserts; and a service delicatessen with fresh items for shoppers on the go.
The new Foothill Square Foodsco will employ approximately 175 full- and part-time associates, the majority of whom have been newly hired from the surrounding community.


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Rochester's Geek Unconference
BarCamp Rochester is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Plan on a relaxed day of discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. The spirit of BarCamp and unconferences in general, is that all attendees prepare a talk, and arrive ready to share. Regular talks are 20 minutes, Lightning Talks are 5 minutes.
Presentations in the auditorium are recorded and streamed live. To be guaranteed a time slot in the auditorium, send your talk outline, slides, or idea to email@example.com. All other presentations, including leftover slots in the auditorium, are scheduled the day of BarCamp.
BarCamp Rochester, Spring 2015
BarCamp Rochester will be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology on Saturday, 5/9.
Register by April 17th to reserve your free t-shirt and make sure we buy enough food!
If you want to learn more about how BarCamp Rochester works, you can always check out our How-To page.**Check-in begins around 10:00am, with the first presentations starting at 11:00am.**
Registration is open, so sign up now!
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NimbleUser focuses on empowering professional and trade associations, whose members and staff strengthen the collective voice, leadership, and educational programs that drive change and improve our society. NimbleUser has been helping associations and nonprofits become nimble through technology since 1992. Our flagship product, Nimble AMS, is an enterprise class association management system (AMS) built on the Salesforce Platform, the world's leading and most innovative customer relationship management (CRM) system.
Datto is a leading provider of hybrid-cloud based backup and disaster recovery solutions. Founded by RIT grad Austin McChord in 2007, Datto has enjoyed tremendous growth and now employs more than 250 people. What drives Datto's growth is the amazing team of people who provide the technology, solutions, marketing, and support for its 8,000 partners worldwide. Datto is always on the lookout for smart, new hires that will bring drive and energy to the fastest growing technology company in Connecticut.
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Computer Science House, founded in 1976, is one of the oldest and most active Special Interest Houses at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Located on the third floor of the Nathaniel Rochester Hall dormitory, CSH provides a revolutionary living environment for over fifty "on-floor" students and many off-floor members as well. In addition to RIT's standard residence hall facilities, CSH has several unique, multi-purpose rooms, filled with technical and material resources for members to use.
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ram not working with p67 pro3
hello, ive got myself new pc, which is: i7 2600k/3x2gb ddr3 1600 8x8x8x24 ocz/be quiet psu 730w/gtx 570/asrock p67 pro3 b3/ blah blah
the thing is, i cant get the ram to work, i checkd every single stick alone and it works, tho it recognizes it with 1066mhz or smt like that.. when i plug second stick pc turns on with black screen (dual channel), once i put together 2 sticks near each other not in dual channel it turnd on and showd 4gb, still 1066.. i tried to change dram voltage in bios to 1.65 or 1.50 from auto w/e it is but didnt help, tried changing different options and max i got was 1 stick working at 1333mhz. i didnt bother puting there 3 sticks cuz im not sure how it wud work, even if it wud work, im planing to buy fourth same for 2x dual channel and then try. also i cant change dram timing in bios manually, its set on auto and when i try to put it on manual and wirte some value (CL 8-8-8-24 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS)) it always gives me minimum like 5, auto is on 7 i think.
OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Gold Low-Voltage Triple Channel - OCZ
got this ram, i thought theres no such thing as triple channel ram, just packd like that, isnt it?
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|30 Mar 2012
Windows 7 Pro X64 SP1
I once tried to use four DIMMs that were originally from two triple channel kits (used on an X58 motherboard) on a P67 board. I couldn't get the RAM to run at its rated frequency (DDR3-1600) by any manual settings (timings, voltage).
Maybe you should try a dual channel kit or two. DDR3 is pretty cheap at the moment, at least in the USA.
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well, i fixed it. issue: bent pins on cpu socket... actually i made them look even worse with my pencil, but hey, now it recognizes all my ram in dual channel. cant get it to work at 1600 but 1333 tho, CLOSE ENOUGH.
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Spartanburg, SC (PRWEB) April 18, 2013
Michael Riffenburg joined 1,000 other professional insurance agents, advisors, brokers, consultants and employee benefit specialists from across the country in Washington, D.C., April 8-9 to meet with U.S. Senate and U.S. House members and staff as part of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Congressional Conference.
Riffenburg, a local insurance business owner with Riffenburg Insurance Services, is a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, which sponsored the event.
Riffenburg joined NAIFA leaders, including IFAPAC, APIC and Government Relations Chairs; Association Presidents and Executives; NAIFA CEO Dr. Susan Waters; NAIFA President Rob Smith; and members of NAIFA's Board of Trustees for the event.
Congressional Conference attendees talked to their members of Congress about the importance of life insurance, annuities and employee benefits for both their clients and the U.S. economy. Life insurance products account for 20 percent of Americans' long-term savings. The life insurance industry pays out $1.5 billion each day and supports 2.5 million jobs.
"I met with Lindsay Graham and a representative of Trey Gowdy's office," said Riffenburg. "It's so important to make these contacts on Capitol Hill and to share with our Representatives and Senators how important the insurance and financial services that we provide to our clients are to families, our communities and our country's economy."
Riffenburg was among hundreds of insurance advisors who asked lawmakers to protect preferential tax incentives for life insurance, saying that life insurance can help people with personal insurance needs and can protect those who would otherwise have to rely on entitlement programs.
Among the insurance products Riffenburg Insurance offers for clients are disability insurance, long term care insurance, 401K rollovers and whole life insurance policy.
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Colleen Conrad, Director of the Nike Ultimate Camp at Texas State University and the Head Ultimate coach at Kealing Middle School in Austin, is back with her third coaching tip! Conrad explains how to best read the disc in order to make the best catch or interception. Conrad explains the important variables to consider, which perspective to take, and how to practice to improve. Cara Crouch of Showdown and Matt Cueva of Grass Knuckles help demonstrate. Check out Coach Conrad's video to learn more.
Colleen Conrad has almost 20 years of coaching experience at youth sports camps across the country, including the National Ultimate Training Camp in Massachusetts, the University of Texas's Ultimate Day Camp, and Spirit Sports Camp in Maine. She has played at the college level at UT Austin, at the club level with Showdown, Chewbacca Defense, and other women's and mixed teams. She has competed in three NCAA tournaments and six National Ultimate Championships. Conrad has also served as the Youth Coordinator for the Ultimate Players League of Austin and collaborates on various Youth and Women's Ultimate task forces with USA Ultimate and Without Limits. Conrad is currently a seventh grade English Language Arts teacher and the Head Ultimate coach at Kealing Middle School in Austin.
For more great tips and instruction from Coach Colleen Conrad, check out the Nike Ultimate Camp at Texas State University this summer. Camp runs from July 27-31, 2014 and campers can choose between Overnight, Extended Day (8:30am-9:00pm) and Day (8:30am-5:30pm) camp options. Camp is geared towards high school athletes, boys and girls, ages 13-19, of all ability levels. Conrad and her expert staff teach campers important fundamentals and techniques to help each camper improve their skills and understanding of the game. Campers will leave better prepared to play in the College Ultimate Division and beyond.
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The Nigerian naira weakened against the U.S dollar on the interbank market and bi-weekly forex auction on Wednesday, with the auction, a separate central bank intervention and dollar sales from a gas firm all failing to meet robust demand.
The local currency closed at 161.80 to the dollar on the interbank market, compared with 161.55 at Tuesday's close.
"As you can see, the demand at the official window is not a true reflection of what is happening in the economy. There is latent demand for the dollar, which is putting pressure on the local currency at the interbank market," one dealer said.
Traders said the central bank official continue to advice banks on the amount of dollars to be demanded and rate quote to reduce pressure on the bi-weekly auction.
The central bank sold only $200 million at 156.70 to the dollar on the bi-weekly auction on Wednesday, short of the $245 million demanded but at par with the $200 million sold at 156.50 a dollar on Monday.
Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company sold unspecified amount of dollars to some lenders, while the central bank also intervened at the interbank market toward the end of business, but not enough to calm the market.
"The market failed to react to the inflows from the gas company and direct sales to some banks by the central bank because of strong demand in the market," another dealer said.
Traders said the naira will continue to depreciate in the near term unless there is a large dollar inflow from the oil companies or the central bank to increase the volume of direct sales to banks.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Oludare Mayowa)
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I strongly disagree with this county chairman. Enabling and empowering two federal government Leviathans, particularly the IRS, to generate additional time-consuming and costly regulations against businesses, especially small- to medium-sized businesses (where the largest percentage of illegal hiring occurs) is giving the fox the keys to the hen house.
This is not the best solution to the "Hispanic immigration problem," as the Howard County Republican puts it. A critical component of a comprehensive immigration-reform solution is to increase the public's understanding and awareness that this issue, along with many others, is not just a so-called "national government" problem. Rather, it is a "better governance" problem.
In Arizona v. United States (2012), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against three of four provisions in a controversial Arizona law, which, among other things, provided local law-enforcement officials the authority to detain possible illegal aliens by allowing a check of their immigration status. Referred to as the "show me your papers provision," it provided latitude to law-enforcement officials to ask for specific immigration and citizenship papers in order to prove an individual is living and working in the U.S. legally.
For over 100 years the Supreme Court has consistently upheld the various constitutional powers of the federal government to enforce federal immigration policy, including the Commerce Clause (Article I, Sec. 8, clause 3), the Migration and Importation Clause (Article I, Section 9, clause 1), the Naturalization Clause (Article I, Sec. 3, clause 4) and even the War Powers clause (Article I, Section 8, clause 11). These powers, however, are not solely what some scholars contend are the "implied right of the federal government to regulate non-citizens." Instead, they simply demonstrate that: 1. "The federal government is the national government; and 2. that it has inherent sovereign power to regulate international affairs," including immigration policy.
Regulation of immigration is one thing; regulation of citizenship is another. The current comprehensive immigration reform bill passed in the Senate but is stalled in the House. It provides citizenship status to the 17 million or so illegal immigrants before invoking stronger anti-illegal immigration laws. This is the case in point.
In order to gain Republican votes, a Congressional bipartisan coalition (the "Gang of Eight") included nearly $50 billion in additional resources. Yet experts such as former border patrol agents argue that these additional resources will not stop an influx of "criminal illegals" into nearly all 50 states.
Providing amnesty or ease-of-path-to-citizenship status is not going to address the critical problem of preventing illegal aliens from entering the country or reducing the number of "criminal illegal aliens" who currently live and work in the U.S. The national government has not and cannot effectively deal with this immense and growing public-interest concern. It is a problem that encompasses a broad swath of public and private domain and is thus not limited to government jurisdiction alone — whether national, state or local.
What we have then is a governance problem. It is a problem that involves all aspects of society — from the public to private to nonprofit sectors, to families, businesses, places of worship, education and charitable organizations. This is a problem that involves the value system that makes up this nation. It is not just a "Hispanic illegal immigration" problem.
Nor will it be solved in the traditional way, using the worn-out policies. And it certainly will not be solved or even managed properly by using the Howard County Republican's suggestion of granting more national government oversight to rogue federal agencies, such as the IRS, thus hamstringing small- to medium-sized businesses.


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Does Good Pitching Beat Good Hitting in Basketball?
It's taking longer than I anticipated to compile and analyze the context-dependency of various player stats by the method I outlined in my last post, so in the meantime I would like to shift gears and introduce a method that uses team stats to try to understand whether the offensive or defensive team controls various aspects of the game.
There's an old saying in baseball that "good pitching always beats good hitting." I want to examine what a claim like this is trying to get at, look at a method that attempts to objectively analyze whether it's true, and then apply that method to many areas of basketball and see what we can learn.
What does it mean?
"Good pitching always beats good hitting." Maybe this is saying that when good pitchers match up with good hitters, good pitchers always (or at least usually) come out on top. But what does "come out on top" mean in this context? It can't just mean that the good hitters will hit lower than their average, because of course we'd expect this to happen to some degree when they face good pitchers (since their "average" is obtained by both facing both good pitchers and fattening up on bad pitchers). Similarly, it can't just mean that the good pitchers will hold the good batters to a lower average than they typically hold batters to (because again the "typical" is a mix of facing good and bad batters). But what if we assume that the range between the best and worst pitchers is larger than the range between the best and worst hitters. Taken to an extreme, what if all batters were of equal ability but pitchers varies in their ability - then good pitching would always beat good (=average) hitting, and bad pitching would always lose to bad (=average) hitting. So maybe what the saying is getting at is that the distribution of talent among pitchers is more spread out than it is among hitters.
At the core of the idea is the fact that in every pitcher-batter matchup their is one side doing all it can to get a hit, and one side doing all it can to prevent the other side from getting a hit. But this doesn't necessarily mean each side has an equal influence over the eventual result. The claim that "good pitching always beats good hitting" is expressing the view that when it comes down to it, it's the pitcher who holds more control or influence over what happens in an at-bat. The pitcher is the one who imposes his will on the batter, not the other way around. Even the best batters don't have the ability to overcome the best pitchers and get a hit (and even the worst batters don't have the lack of ability to overcome the worst pitchers and not get a hit).
How can we measure it?
In the introduction to his 1986 Baseball Abstract, Bill James addressed the claim that "baseball is 75% pitching," which one could take to be a close cousin to "good pitching always beats good hitting." To rebut the claim, James went through a list of specific statements that would seem to follow if the claim were correct. Here is one of the specific statements and how James dealt with it:
The standard deviation of runs allowed would be larger than the standard deviation of runs scored. If pitching were 75% of the game, then one would expect the differences between teams created by pitching to be larger that those created by hitting. But they aren't; the standard deviation of runs scored and runs allowed are almost the same.
The idea here is that if pitching really had all the control, then the results in a particular matchup would be determined by the ability (or lack of ability) by the pitcher. Batters would basically be passive participants whose performance in a given matchup would not be determined by skill or lack of skill on their part but by the quality of the pitcher they were facing. So every player's batting average (or a team's runs scored) would basically just be an average of the abilities of the pitchers they faced, which would mean there would be little variation between players (or teams) in batting average (or runs scored) assuming they all tended to face the same mix of opposing pitchers. On the other hand, some pitchers would be better than others, and they would consistently perform better because they would always be facing the same level of batters. There would be much greater variation in pitcher ability than hitter ability, which would lead to much greater variation in team runs allowed than runs scored (unless, in spite of the variation in pitching ability among players, it so happened that each team had the same mix of high and low quality pitchers and thus averaged around the same runs allowed).
How can we apply this method to basketball?
The only time I've seen this method applied to basketball was a brief mention in Kevin Pelton's 2003 HoopsWorld article, Moving Beyond 'Defense Wins Championships'. Pelton applied the method to offensive and defensive efficiency.
I think we have to break things down further to gain a real understanding of what's going on. Many things go into a team's offense (or defense) - there's surely a mix of aspects more controlled by one side of the ball and aspects more controlled by the other. Put them all together and they'll tend to cancel each other out, leading to the unsurprising result that basketball is basically 50% offense and 50% defense. What I think is much more interesting is separating out these different parts of the game and seeing how much each one is controlled by the offense or defense. So that is what I will attempt to do.
One difference in basketball from the pitcher/hitter example in baseball is that many basketball stats don't have both offensive and defensive components on the individual player level. On a team level we can look at field-goal percentage and field-goal percentage allowed, but only the first of these has a counterpart on the player level. Similarly, by looking at team stats we can see how many shots a team blocked and how many times they had their shots blocked, but only the defensive side of blocks is available on the player level (though this will no longer be the case going forward thanks to the addition of Blocked Attempts to boxscores). 82games does a good job of tracking some of these missing player stats, but they don't cover all of them. So at least initially I will just be looking at stats on the team level.
My method
I looked at all the team stats that I could think of. I used stats from boxscore data, 82games, NBA.com HotZones, and Harvey Pollack's yearbooks. One team stat that can't be analyzed with this method is possessions per game or pace. This is because in any given game both teams by definition have the same number of possessions.
I looked at each season separately. For a given season, I calculated how each team fared in the offensive side of the stat, and took the standard deviation of all the teams' rates. I then did the same for the defensive side of the stat. I wanted to compare these two SD's but I didn't want a ratio (of offensive SD to defensive SD) for a variety of reasons, so I divided the offensive SD by the sum of the two SD's. This way the resulting stat ranges from 0 to 1, with a higher figure indicating more offensive control, and .5 indicating equal 50% control by the offense and 50% by the defense. I'm not sure what the best name for this measure is. Offensive Control Rate or OCR is the first thing I thought of, but I'm open to other suggestions.
OCR = SD(tmoSTAT)/(SD(tmoSTAT) + SD(tmdSTAT))
An extreme case - free-throw percentage
Maybe the first part of the game that comes to mind when one starts talking about stats being controlled by either the offense or defense is free-throw shooting, which seems to be almost completely controlled by the offensive team. No matter how well a team plays defense, they can't guard an opponent when he's on the foul line. A team's free-throw percentage is likely to be determined by the free-throw shooting skills of their players (and how frequently those players get to the line relative to one another). It's not going to be determined by which defense they're facing on a given night. Because of that, one would expect all teams to have around the same free-throw percentage allowed on the season (which would mean a low standard deviation in tmdFT%), while there would be greater variation in teams' free-throw percentages depending on how well their players shot from the line (which would mean a higher standard deviation in tmoFT%). This is a slight simplification because defenses may be able to control who they foul, and thus some teams may disprortionately send their opponents' lesser foul shooters to the line, and vice versa. This would lead to some variation in free-throw percentage allowed, but still one would think that the variation would not be nearly as great as it would be for free-throw percentage. Free-throw percentage just doesn't have a defensive side to it like many other stats do (such as field-goal percentage).
Here's an example of how I applied the method to free-throw percentage. For a given season I calculated each team's free-throw percentage and then took the standard deviation of those percentages (SD(tmoFT%)). Then I took the standard deviation of team free-throw percentages allowed (SD(tmdFT%)). From these I calculated the Offensive Control Rate (OCR) for free-throw percentage by dividing the standard deviation of tmoFT% by the sum of the standard deviation of tmoFT% plus the standard deviation of tmdFT%.
FT% OCR = SD(tmoFT%)/(SD(tmoFT%) + SD(tmdFT%))
I then averaged each season's league-wide free-throw percentage OCR. Over the 73-74 to 06-07 seasons, the average free-throw percentage OCR was .69, or 69% offensively-controlled. I think this provides a useful ceiling to compare other stats' OCR's to. If a stat has an OCR near 69%, it's pretty strongly controlled by the offensive team.
Below is a link to a spreadsheet on Google Docs that lists all the stats I looked at, their OCR's, their definitions/formulas, the source of the data, and the years for which I had data. I would have posted the table directly but I looked at almost 70 different team stats (though many of them are related). I will try to highlight some of the more interesting results below, but it may help to first take a glance at the table of all the results to get a feel for the numbers.
Stats that are even more controlled by the offense than FT%:
When teams shoot
The top two stats in OCR were 82games stats indicating the percentage of a team's field-goal attempts that came in the first 10 seconds of the shot clock, and the percentage that came with 16-20 seconds elapsed off the clock. Both had OCR's of 0.73. Not far behind were the percentage taken with 21 or more seconds elapsed (OCR of 0.72) and the percentage taken with 11-15 seconds elapsed (OCR of 0.67). So the offensive team strongly controls when it takes its shots. Defenses generally can't force teams to take quick shots, or prevent them from being able to get a shot off until the end of the shot clock.
Although we can't look at pace in terms of possessions per game with this method, we can look at other proxies for pace like the percent of shots taken in the first ten seconds of the shot clock, and fastbreak points per minute. As we saw above, the first of those proxies for pace has an OCR of 0.73. And fastbreak points per minute also has a very high OCR of 0.70. Both of these suggest that offensive teams control the pace they play at. Teams push the ball or bring it up slowly, but they generally don't force their opponents to push it or force their opponents to bring it up slowly.
Where teams shoot from
Another interesting high-OCR stat is the percentage of a team's shots that are taken from behind the three-point line, with an OCR of 0.72. This suggests that the offense controls where it shoots from (at least in terms of threes vs. twos), and that the idea that defenses can keep their opponents off the three-point line may not hold water.
Looking at 82games and NBA HotZones stats we can see that even when shooting zones are further broken down, it generally is the case that the offensive team is controlling where it shoots from. The 82games stats %Dunk, %Tips, %2PJump and %3PJump all have OCR's in the 0.65 to 0.69 range. %Close is lower, at 0.60. Similarly, the HotZones stats %08_16, %16_24, and %24_Plus all have OCR's between 0.68 and 0.69. But again, %00_08 is less controlled by the offense, with an OCR of 0.58.
Mixed bags:
Looking at some 82games stats, we can see that the percentages of a team's dunks and close shots that are assisted are mostly controlled by the offense (OCR's of 0.60 and 0.62), but the defense seems to have more control over the percent of jumpers that are assisted (OCR of 0.53). I'm not sure how to interpret this.
Rebounding appears to be more controlled by the offensive team than the defensive team (the OCR of offensive rebounding percentage is 0.56, meaning tmoORB% has a greater standard deviation than tmdORB% or tmoDRB%). In other words, teams (and players?) separate themselves in their differing offensive rebounding abilities, while defensive rebounding is more the default and doesn't vary as much throughout the league. However, the OCR of 0.56 isn't that extreme compared to some other stats, which means things aren't completely one-sided. One possible theory for why rebounding is more controlled by the offense is that coaches make strategic decisions to either have their players crash the offensive glass or to have them instead get back on defense. Those differing strategies from team to team would increase the variation in offensive rebounding percentages, but of course it's also possible that coaches could have different strategies in terms of sending players to the defensive glass versus having them leak out on the break, which would increase the variation in defensive rebounding percentages.
What areas of the game are controlled by the defense?
Shooting percentages by distance
We already saw that the defense seems to have some control over the percentage of their opponents' shots that are taken near the basket (at least more than they do over how many threes their opponent takes). This pattern extends to field-goal percentages - FG% for shots from 8-16 feet has an OCR of 0.58, 16-24 ft FG% has an OCR of 0.55, and 24+ ft FG% has an OCR of 0.55. But for shots from 0-8 feet, the OCR is 0.48, which means that it is the defense that is primarily in control (82games' close-shot FG% also has an OCR of 0.48). This is very close to 50%, so it's not like the defense is in total control, but relative to the OCR's for other stats, this is one of the areas where a defense can have its greatest impact.
The defense also exhibits a lot of control over whether players are fouled on shots. The OCR for shooting fouls drawn per two-point shot (taken from 82games) is 0.51, which is low compared to most other stats. If we look at an estimate of free throw trips per two-point shot (which allows us to use many more seasons' worth of data), the OCR is 0.46. These numbers suggest that while players may have the ability to draw shooting fouls, there is also a large degree to which defenses are more or less prone to committing shooting fouls.
A similar story holds for other types of fouls. The OCR for personal fouls drawn per play is 0.46, and for offensive fouls drawn per play it is 0.41. This last figure is one of the very lowest OCR's that I found, suggesting that charge-drawing may be more of a controllable skill than offensive-foul-proneness is (the OCR is below 50% even with illegal screens included among the offensive fouls, which one would assume are more offensively controlled).
Steals and turnovers
Steals are more controlled by the defense, with turnovers from steals per play having an OCR of 0.45. Bad-pass turnovers per play has an OCR of 0.50, and ball-handling turnovers per play has an OCR of 0.51, indicating that the defense has a good deal of control over both. However, some bad-pass and ball-handling turnovers are also steals for the opponent, and some aren't. If we look at non-stolen, non-offensive-foul turnovers (one could call these "unforced" turnovers) we get an OCR of 0.58, which as we would have expected suggests that those types of turnovers are more controlled by the offensive team than the defensive team. Team turnovers, which consist of inbound, backcourt, and shot clock violations, have an OCR of 0.59, perhaps somewhat surprisingly suggesting that the offense mainly controls these types of turnovers.
Finally, we get to the stat (along with offensive fouls) that is most controlled by the defense - blocked shots. The percentage of a team's two-point shots that were blocked had an OCR of 0.41. This isn't a surprise, as shot blocking has usually been thought of as a skill that different players have to greatly different degrees, moreso than the tendency to have your own shots blocked.
Compound stats
We can also look at compound stats that combine the basic stats discussed above into more comprehensive measures. Generally I don't think this is as useful as looking at the isolated components, but there may be something to be gained from it nonetheless.
First let's look at Dean Oliver's Four Factors - shooting, turnovers, rebounding, and getting to the foul line. There are a variety of ways to measure each factor, but here's one breakdown (which actually uses two compound stats and two basic stats):
Factor OCR ------- --- eFG% .53 TO/Play .48 ORB% .56 FTM/FGA .48
Of course, as with all the stats we've looked at, even if one side of the ball doesn't have much control over a stat, that stat could be very important to winning, and thus even a slight gain in it could pay large dividends. So while defenses may have more control over getting to the foul line than shooting, the importance of this may be outweighed by the fact that Oliver and others have found shooting to be a much more vital factor to winning than getting to the foul line.
Now, finally, we can look at the ultimate compound stats - offensive and defensive efficiency, or points per 100 possessions. The average OCR for offensive efficiency from the 73-74 to 06-07 seasons was 0.52. This suggests that overall, both sides of the ball have a lot of influence over how many points a team scores on a given possession. We can also look at some trends over time:
Offensive Efficiency - average OCR by decade: Seasons OCR -------------- --- 73-74 to 79-80 .48 80-81 to 89-90 .55 90-91 to 99-00 .53 00-01 to 06-07 .51 Offensive Efficiency - OCR by season: Season OCR ------ --- 97-98 .52 98-99 .47 99-00 .50 00-01 .53 01-02 .55 02-03 .57 03-04 .48 04-05 .52 05-06 .46 06-07 .45
Potential uses of OCR's:
Coaching strategies
Which areas should players and teams focus on improving in practice, and which should they put less time into because not much improvement is likely in that area anyway? This is something that OCR's can help answer. Similarly, OCR's can help determine which general strategies coaches should try to employ to improve either their team's offense or defense. This applies to player acquisition as well, in terms of which areas of a team one can most hope to improve by bringing in players that excel in that area.
Identifying flukes and anticipating regression to the mean
If early in a season a team's free-throw percentage allowed is very high or low relative to the league average, knowing that free-throw percentage is strongly controlled by the offense we would suspect that their current figure is something of a fluke and that it will move toward the league average as the season progresses. OCR's can be used as a way of estimating regression to the mean on the team level. Though really you would want to go beyond OCR's and look at the variation in the offensive and defensive sides of a stat separately (two stats could both have OCR's of 0.50 but one could have high standard deviations for both offense and defense while the other could have low standard deviations in both).
Predicting matchups
In trying to predict what will happen in various areas of the game when two teams meet in a game or series, we can do better than just averaging one team's offensive stats with the other's defensive stats. For example, given the high OCR of free-throw percentage, we would weight the offensive team's season free-throw percentage higher than the defensive team's season free-throw percentage allowed in predicting how the offensive team would do from the foul line. Knowing whether good offense beats good defense in various stats is especially important in the playoffs, when the matchups are typically between two teams that are both good in many statistical categories.
Potential follow-up research:
Trends and changes over time
Instead of looking at the average OCR over a number of seasons for a stat, one could look at how the OCR has changed from year to year. From this one could look for general trends over time as to which areas have been controlled by the offense or defense. One could also see how rule changes have affected things.
Player-level stats
The idea of comparing the standard deviations of the offensive and defensive sides of various stats doesn't have to be limited to team stats. It can also be applied to the player level. It won't work for stats like field-goal percentage that don't have a defensive side for players, but it will for things like rebounding. Where the method can be applied, it can potentially give us a fuller picture than we can get from just looking at team stats, where other factors can cloud things (such as the earlier baseball example of variation in pitching ability being hidden on the team level by teams having the same mix of talents and thus the same average runs allowed).
Year-to-year correlations
Another way we can look at controllable aspects of the game is to see whether teams' performances are consistent from year to year. If the OCR of the percentage of shots taken from three-point range is high, this suggests that defenses have little control over this area of the game. But isn't one aspect of the Spurs defensive success that they consistently keep their opponents off the three-point line? By looking at year-to-year correlations we can better understand these types of cases.
Game-by-game matchups
In the discussion above about using OCR's to predict matchups, it was suggested that one could come up with something better than just averaging Team A's offensive rebounding percentage with Team B's defensive rebounding percentage to predict what Team A's ORB% will be when they match up. By using game-by-game data we can test this out - the OCR suggests that ORB% should be weighted more than DRB%, but does past data bear this out?
Team-specific game-by-game variation
Another approach would be to look at specific teams and try to see how much variation they have in different statistical areas from game to game. Those areas in which they show greater variation can be seen as areas in which their opponents have been able to exert their will against them, whereas areas where there is little variation are those in which no matter what their opponents do, the team fares the same. I believe an approach like this lies behind Dean Oliver's Roboscout program, though that's just based on the few somewhat-dated public articles I have read about it.


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WMU finds itself in a familiar position this week heading into Homecoming, as the visiting Buffalo Bulls are a ten point favorite at Waldo Stadium.
With what should be a solid crowd on a nice day and a team that's a bit less powerful than most the Broncos have played this year, there is the possibility of an upset. BroncoBlitz.com looks at five ways the Broncos could pull it off.
1. Get Terrell comfortable
Tyler Van Tubbergen has not been officially ruled out, but it appears redshirt freshman Zach Terrell is likely to get his first career start this Saturday. Terrell found some success last week after Van Tubbergen left with a shoulder injury, finishing 10-for-13 for 184 yards.
Things are going to be different this week, for any number of reasons. For one thing, the mentality when starting is different-- Terrell has never prepared for a whole week as the top guy, and never had another team prepare that way either. Probably more important is the fact that Terrell's numbers against Toledo came in garbage time, as the Rockets were up 30 by the time he saw the field.
WMU needs to get Terrell comfortable for a couple of drives, giving him easy dumpoffs and mixing in plenty of running plays. If he can settle in and move the chains a couple of times, things will get easier. The new offensive staff has shown no hesitation in going deep, but that could maybe be saved until a few drives in.
2. Get on the board in the first quarter
It almost seems to be counterintuitive after the first key, but nobody said this game would be easy. WMU has only put up three points all season in the first quarter, which probably isn't a surprise to those who have watched the Broncos' slow starts.
The Bronco defense and special teams, again, need to put Terrell and the offense into positions from which they can realistically succeed. It's a young offense, and will be especially young without Van Tubbergen and possibly senior right guard Greg Peterson. Confidence is key, and they need to get some first downs and points early to build that confidence up.
3. Take Neutz away
For a lot of teams taking on Buffalo, the easiest way to gameplan might be to give wide receiver Alex Neutz his yards but take away the other options for quarterback Joe Licata. And sure, it's unlikely for anyone to completely shut down Neutz.
WMU may actually be in a good position compared to most, though, when it comes to frustrating the Buffalo passing game. With Donald Celiscar presumably manning up on the top Buffalo wideout, and Justin Currie providing good help over the top, it may be worth the gamble for WMU to leave the rest of their defensive backs on an island.
4. Buck the turnover trend
There's one way this game could get ugly, and that's turnovers. Unfortunately for the Broncos, things are not swinging their way in that department.
Buffalo is tied for second in the conference with a +6 turnover margin, as they've picked off eight passes and recovered four fumbles. WMU, meanwhile, is dead last in the conference at -8, throwing a staggering 13 picks and losing four fumbles of their own.
That's a trend that is going to be hard to break. Frankly, the Broncos have to hope that Zach Terrell does a better job protecting the football than Van Tubbergen has been. WMU has forced a respectable nine turnovers (though they could use a few more INTs), so the responsibility for improvement lies primarily on the offense.
5. Give the backfield a chance
This is the second straight week that WMU is taking on one of the tougher front sevens in the conference. Buffalo ranks second in the MAC in sacks with 16, including five from star linebacker Khalil Mack.
UB has not been as stout against the run, though, giving up over 180 yards per contest. Players like Mack are a huge challenge for young, often struggling offensive lines like WMU's, though. It's also important to note that while the Bulls give up 446 yards of total offense per game, that's heavily skewed by the 781 that Baylor, one of the nation's best offenses, put up.
The offensive line has got to give the quarterbacks and running backs some room to operate, but that's easier said than done against Buffalo.


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Southwestern 4, Trimble Co. 3
Rebs edge Raiders on bases-loaded walk in 7th
Mark Campbell
, Sports Editor
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:00 AM
Trimble County's Michael Dunaway (above) smiles in disbelief after his 3-2 pitch in the bottom of the seventh was called a ball to walk in the game-winning run for Southwestern in a 4-3 win over the Raiders. Trimble's Robbie Brooks (photo below, right) looks to first after sliding into second as Rebels' second baseman Gage Hartman begins his throw to first on a double play attempt. (Staff photos by Mark Campbell)
When Southwestern's Cory O'Neal stood in for a bases-loaded, three-two pitch in the bottom of the seventh inning, there was perhaps nobody in the park who knew the strike zone better than the Rebels' catcher.
That still didn't make it any easier - or less tense - for O'Neal to take on a low fastball just off the outside corner of the plate. But that's exactly what he did and the result was a walk-off-walk that capped a 4-3 comeback win over Trimble County in Hanover.
"It was probably that far off the plate," O'Neal said, holding up two fingers about four inches apart. "I didn't think it would be a strike at all. There was no way ... but I was still kind of worried about it."
"I bet he was nervous. I know I was, too," Rebels head coach Derik Hutton said of the game-winning play.
"It was tough to see, from where I was at, whether it was a strike or not," Hutton added. "It looked pretty good, but Cory gets to see that perspective all game. He's catching so he knows the zone and if he says it's out, it's out and that was a good at-bat."
The pitch capped what was a rough ending to an otherwise quality outing for the Raiders. Trimble limited the Rebels to just three hits and carried a 3-1 lead into the home seventh before the wheels fell off to open the door for the Southwestern.
Trimble County's Kyle Spark was just three outs from a complete game two-hitter when he committed one of the cardinal sins of baseball by walking leadoff batter Matt Schwartz- the Rebels' No. 8 hitter at that.
As is often the case in such meltdowns, the Raiders compounded their problems by bobbling the catch at second on a seemingly surefire double play ball to put the tying run on base before Sparks gave up the only well-hit ball of the game to Southwestern's Darius Whitson-Spegal to score Schwartz and make it 3-2.
When Sparks walked his second man of the inning, Southwestern pitcher Brad Sims, Trimble coach Frank Ragland turned the ball over to his big freshman reliever, Michael Dunaway, with the bases loaded and still no outs.
MacKenzy Withered greeted the freshman with a slow grounder to second. Even with the Raider infield playing in, the hit produced a throw to the plate that was too late and tied the game 3-3 still with no outs.
Dunaway then fanned Caleb Rogers and Gage Hartman back-to-back to stand an out away from sending the game into extra innings with O'Neal coming to the plate.
O'Neal worked the count to 3-2 - including a couple of foul offs - and then left the bat on his shoulder on a low fastball that just missed the strike zone outside to walk in the game winner to the disbelief of Dunaway and the protest of Ragland.
"Very disappointed," Ragland later said of the call. "I thought it was a strike but you can't tell from where I was. We coaches always think they're strikes when our guy's pitching. When we're batting we don't think they're strikes and when we're pitching we do. That's the way it is. That's the way it goes.
"It was one of those should of, could of, would ofs," Ragland added. "When you go into the bottom of the seventh with a two-run lead you've got to think you can hold it and we didn't.
"We had them," Ragland added. "No reason we shouldn't have been able to go out there and finish that one off. Our pitcher was still strong but he goes out there and walks the leadoff batter - the No. 8 batter - and then we botch a double play ball and next thing you know the bases are loaded and no outs and the top of the order coming up."
"He did a great job," Hutton said of O'Neal. "He worked the count and got it deep and he forced their pitcher to throw strikes and when you do that sometimes you end up on the good end of it.
"We've come from behind several times this year," Hutton added. "We sometimes get things going late. I think it says a lot about our kids. They don't give up ... with these guys I never feel like we're out of it. They're not going to give in and just quit."
On the other hand, Trimble started early. The Raiders plated their first run in the top of the first after a leadoff double by Jordan Tingle and a single by Evan Young set the table for Zack Beard's RBI sacrifice fly.
Southwestern answered in the bottom of the first when Sparks issued back-to-back walks and Trimble overthrew first on a fielder's choice to shortstop that scored Sims for a 1-1 tie.
While Southwestern remained quiet until the bottom of the seventh, Trimble tacked on a run each in the fourth and fifth innings to ease out to the 3-1 cushion.
In the fourth, Zack Beard singled to right with one out, advanced to second on a pickoff throw that got away at first and then scored when Sims bobbled Conner Beard's comebacker to the mound and threw wild to first.
In the fifth, Trimble got a leadoff single by Hunter Duncan before benefiting from a two-out error at shortstop that set the table for Zack Beard's RBI single to left and a 3-1 lead.
"We scored a few runs but we missed a lot of opportunities during the game to score some more runs," Ragland said. "We had runners on base in a couple of innings with our three, four and five hitters up and didn't get anything."
"Brad Sims battled and gave us a chance in the end to come back," Hutton said. "We don't need a lot of runs when our starting pitchers do that."
And while the Rebels were a pretty quiet group for much of the game, Hutton said he's come to expect that as much as he expects that the team will battle, albeit quietly, to the end.
"We've got six seniors who play. We're a senior-dominated team but they're not vocal," Hutton said. "A lot of these guys lead with their play ... we're never going to be the loudest team but hopefully we'll be the last team standing."
Trimble County rapped out five hits with Zack Beard leading the way with two singles while Tingle had the only extra base hit with the double. Southwestern got singles from Schwartz, Withered and Whitson-Spegal.
Sparks pitched six innings of three hit baseball with six walks and three strikeouts to take the loss. Dunaway struck out two and walked one.
Sims went the distance for Southwestern, striking out three and walking two while allowing five hits to get the win.
Both teams are at home today with Trimble hosting South Oldham and Southwestern hosting Jac-Cen-Del.
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ClayDavis wrote:The Lakers won titles with pau as a center but once Bynum joined him Dallas killed them.
Memphis has struggled this year as teams just pack the paint against them.
The celtics only began to play well last year after kg moved to center
The finals teams had absolutely no inside presence. Neither did the spurs or the celtics.
The clippers routinely bench Jordan in the 4th last year and this year
The last team to win with 2 true post presence was the spurs a decade ago
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And about damn time! We have waited a whole entire month for the next UFC and its almost here. Good thing, I was getting antsy. After Titos last fight, hes looking hella mean and 'Suga' Rashad Evans is, for damn sure,gonna have his hands full for this battle.
Heading up to Philly, at the Wells Fargo Center, UFC 133 has a stacked card and was originally suposed to have Light Heavyweight Champ, Jon 'Bones' Jones first defense against Evans. However due to injury to Jones and Phil Davis, who took Jones spot after injury, we are left with Tito and Evans duking it out in the Light Heavy Weight Main Event. Thats ok, take a minute on that one. Im still trying to wrap my head around it as well. We also have one of my favorite thrashers, Vitor Belfort squaring off against Yoshihiro Akiyama in a Middleweight bout. Also, Rory MacDonald and Mike Pyle going toe-to-toe. Not to mention a ton of undercard fights that will be available for free on Spike and Facebook. Sorry you still gots to pay for the good stuff. I cannot wait, not only because of good fights, but damn, really a whole month Dana? I know its usually a month between but this one has seemed like a lifetime. You can catch all the event info along with ticket details are the home for all things UFC. . Things are also starting to heat between the 'Huntington Beach Bad Boy' and 'Suga' Evans! Check it…
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DUESSELDORF, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Franz Beckenbauer became the second high-profile former footballer to be elected to high office on Friday when he was voted onto the executive committee of FIFA, world soccer's governing body.
Beckenbauer, 61, was voted into a vacant UEFA seat on the committee by acclamation of the 52 member associations at the UEFA Congress.
An hour earlier, Michel Platini, like Beckenbauer one of the greatest players of all time, was elected as the new president of UEFA when he beat the incumbent Lennart Johansson 27-23 votes in a straight contest.
Platini was already an ordinary member of the FIFA executive but by winning the UEFA presidency, he becomes a FIFA vice-president.
Johansson, in contrast, loses his seat on the FIFA executive that he has occupied since he became UEFA president in 1990.
Six seats had become vacant on the UEFA executive committee and a separate ballot for those positions saw Icelandic FA president Eggert Magnusson, the new chairman of West Ham United, voted off.
Angel Maria Villar Llona of Spain, Senes Erzik of Turkey and Joseph Mifsud of Malta were all re-elected. Mircea Sandu of Romania, Gilberto Madail of Portugal and Grigoriy Surkis of Ukraine were also elected to the committee.
Giangiorgio Spiess of Switzerland was not re-elected while Rakhat Aliyev of Kazakhstan and Tomas Gea of Andorra failed in their attempts to get on to the executive body.


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Rangers cut the gap to SPL leaders Celtic to just one point with a 4-0 victory over Hibernian at Ibrox.
The hosts, who were without the ill Nikica Jelavic as he continues to be linked with a move to England, took the lead when captain Steven Davis curled past Mark Brown.
David Healy put his hand up to replace Jelavic as he added the second, tapping into an empty net following a mix-up in the Hibernian defence.
Hibs were reduced to ten men when James McPake was shown a second yellow, shortly before Sone Aluko added a third with a long-range free-kick. Davis completed the scoring in injury time.
Celtic play against Falkirk on Sunday for the right to face Kilmarnock in the Scottish League Cup final.
Motherwell maintained their status as the closest challengers to the Old Firm, recording a 3-2 victory over St Johnstone at Fir Park. Henrik Ojamaa was on target twice for the hosts - one either side of Jody Morris' equaliser - before Keith Lasley restored Motherwell's two-goal cushion. Fran Sandaza scored from the penalty spot to ensure a nervy fish - but 'Well held on.
A howler from Dunfermline Athletic goalkeeper Iain Turner allowed Aberdeen's Scott Vernon to score the only goal of the game at Pittodrie - a result that keeps the Pars bottom of the table.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle were held to a 0-0 draw at home to St Mirren.
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Will St. Petersburg regret loss of spring training for its history and economic stimulus?
Is downtown St. Petersburg setting itself up for the Big Whiff when it comes to baseball? Anyone who was is a Grapefruit League fan knows what a joy it used to be to watch spring training games at Al Lang Field at Progress Energy Park in downtown St. Pete. At least until the Tampa Bay Devil Rays defected to build a snazzy new park in Charlotte County, leaving Al Lang Field without a team and downtown St. Petersburg without spring training fans and tourists. (Photo: The last spring training game at Al Lang, March 28, 2008, by James Borchuck of the St. Petersburg Times.)
Don't forget that area business poobahs are helping the Rays, who now play at Tropicana Field, look for a potentially superior location for a new stadium for their regular season games. That site, if it materializes, probably won't be in downtown St. Pete and may not be in St. Pete at all.
So consider this scenario. The Rays relocate at some point to Tampa or at least mid-Pinellas, leaving downtown St. Pete with an empty Trop and a still empty Al Lang Field. The city will regret losing spring training all the more.
Other Florida towns remain ravenous for a spring training team. Naples is eagerly courting the Chicago Cubs, for example. A group was formed four months ago with the purpose of making Collier County the spring training home for the Chicago Cubs, the Naples Daily News reports in this story. That group already has met with the Cubs – both at their headquarters in Wrigley Field, and earlier this month in Naples for a two-day visit by new owner Tom Ricketts and CEO Crane Kenney. During that visit, the Cubs -- a team that currently does its spring training in Arizona -- toured Collier County looking at potential stadium sites.
Reports the Naples newspaper: "The Chicago Cubs are exploring Naples, Florida, as a potential spring training venue and have been working with Chicago-based Esmark and Naples-based Fifth Avenue Advisors in that regard," Kenney confirmed in a statement. "Our site visits and discussions confirm that Collier County has a number of suitable locations for a world-class spring training facility."
Naples is not alone. Sarasota saw its spring training home of the Cincinnati Reds get snatched away by an Arizona town. Sarasota agonized with several teams, trying to negotiate a new team for vacant Ed Smith Stadium (show in better days in photo by AP), its spring training site. Now it's got the Baltimore Orioles coming to town (after promised renovations and state assistance) for the 2011 season. Meanwhile, after Fort Myers watched as the Boston Red Sox left its downtown City of Palms Park for south Lee County, recruiters are looking for a new hometown team. Maybe the Milwaukee Brewers, another Arizona spring training team that plays near Phoenix.
The point? Wouldn't it be ironic that downtown St. Pete so easily gave up its spring training team if the Tampa Bay Rays Major League Baseball franchise also relocated to supposedly greener pastures? It would be an astonishing turn of events and loss of baseball culture (and economic stimulus) to the city.
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30 March 2006
in a nutshell
… and not nearly enough of this
Hopefully next week I will have an essay under my belt and I can indulge in more knitting, muffin-eating and tea-drinking.
Generic Muffin Recipe
1/2 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
1 cup white self-raising flour
2/3 cup sugar
dash coconut
1 mashed banana (optional)
2/3 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup oil
handful of flavourings (nuts, seeds, dried fruit)
Sift dry ingredients and toss in your flavourings. Mix together and add wet ingredients. Stir quickly and roughly until just combined (do not overmix) and spoon into a muffin pan. Bake for about 15 minutes in a moderate (180 Celsius) oven.
Makes 12.
I always do double quantity and freeze half for lunchboxes and knitting-related emergencies.
Flavouring ideas:
Choc chips (add a dash of cocoa to the flour)
Orange/lemon and poppyseed (replace some of the milk with juice and add a bit of zest)
Date and walnut (add a dash of coffee to the mix)
Apple and sultana/raisin
Dried apricot and sunflower seeds
Pear and ginger
Raspberry and white chocolate
I leave you with a (knitting) joke.
My mum and I were driving somewhere recently when a discussion about homosexuality came on the radio. The guest said jokingly to the host, in an exaggeratedly camp voice, My mother made me a homosexual.
Quick as a flash my mother said Ooh, if I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?
16 comments:
- Jerry & Maxy said...
Your Mum is a hoot!
Good luck with the essay. Is it for school? A scholarly article? Just curious....
I look forward to trying out your muffins this weekend. Cheers.
- Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 13:07:00 GMT+11
- Surfing Free said...
Yum, pear and ginger sounds like a scrumptious combination.
- Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 14:28:00 GMT+11
- Lazy cow said...
I've been looking for a good muffin recipe with wholemeal flour. Thanks for that.
Like the knitting joke.
- Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 14:39:00 GMT+11
- String Bean said...
Yay for your mom!
I'm going to try your muffin recipe this weekend. I have a big bag of wholemeal flour lounging around in the pantry waiting to be used. (To make flour into self-rising flour add 1 teaspoon of baking powder to 1 cup of flour)
I haven't been knitting much either. I think I'm going through FO withdrawal.
- Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 14:58:00 GMT+11
- jorth said...
Excellent - I'm always on the lookout for new muffin ideas.
- Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 16:24:00 GMT+11
- telfair said...
Your mother is way too mentally agile for me...I hope I never have to match wits with her. How funny. Thanks for the recipe! I have a free day tomorrow so maybe I'll give it a go.
I will confess to being eager to seeing more of your beautiful knitting projects...they're very inspirational to a newbie knitter such as myself.
- Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 18:53:00 GMT+11
- Kim said...
I'm with surfing. Bring on the ginger and pear, although you should experiment with dried peaches and macadamias - dried peaches in cookies and muffins are divine.
and teeheehee to your Mum's comment.
- Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 21:05:00 GMT+11
- BabelBabe said...
Elizabethan England? What are you studying for? (I know you've probably told us, sorry...)I have a total thing for Elizabeth and the Engish Renaissance. Particularly the way the church of the time intertwined with the literature. (I did post-bacc work in EngLit...forgive my dorkiness.)
- Friday, 31 March 2006 at 00:37:00 GMT+11
- blackbird said...
oh she's very clever, your mom!
it's so nice to see your cup - like an old friend...
- Friday, 31 March 2006 at 05:44:00 GMT+11
- sueeeus said...
Such a witty Mum! I admire you for pursuing your studies. That stuff looks downright daunting. I'm much more of a Lemony Snicket reader, myself. :)
- Friday, 31 March 2006 at 12:06:00 GMT+11
- doubleknot said...
Beautifull pictures.
Your mom - ha, ha, hee, hee, yuk, yuk - good for her.
- Friday, 31 March 2006 at 13:35:00 GMT+11
- Elizabeth said...
Looks like the sweater is coming along though, just in time for your autumn.
- Saturday, 1 April 2006 at 05:29:00 GMT+11
- Flourish & Blotts said...
Harde har har. I love to make muffins in advance and freeze them individually too. That way you've got them when you're on the go. I use the recipe from Tightwad Gazette. -Flourish
- Saturday, 1 April 2006 at 06:49:00 GMT+11
- jess said...
Knitting related emergencies - a muffin sounds like the perfect solution.
- Saturday, 1 April 2006 at 09:43:00 GMT+11
- jojo* said...
Thanks for your nice comment on my blog. The muffins look divine! Your mom sounds hilarious :)
- Tuesday, 4 April 2006 at 07:08:00 GMT+10
- Lazy cow said...
I made the muffins yesterday for the first time - frozen blueberries and lemon zest & juice - and I always replace normal milk with buttermilk. Yum. Should have made a double batch though.
- Friday, 21 April 2006 at 11:18:00 GMT+10


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