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Hit-and-Run Success is No Accident
"In this game you never know enough."—Dale Mitchell
The hit-and-run play is not highly regarded by the analytical crowd. It is considered a one-run play and, like the sacrifice bunt attempt, it garners derision from people who hate small-ball tactics. No lesser authority than Earl Weaver preached against the use of the hit-and-run play in his book, Weaver on Strategy:
I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball… you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play. That's because you can't trust the pitcher to throw a strike, so the hitter is often waving weakly at a ball that's off the plate. That usually results in a weak grounder that gets the runner to second, but the hitter is easily retired at first. Hell, you may as well bunt! Over the course of the season, only a few guys actually get hits on the hit-and-run play, because everything must go right for it to work. About the only thing you can say for the hit-and-run is that it prevents the double-play grounder. But when you add up the caught stealing, the weak grounders, and the line-drive double plays, that advantage vanishes. I'll take my chances with a normal swing anytime.
As far as I can tell, no one has ever published a study on the value of the hit-and-run play. Thanks to data collected by MLB Advanced Media and provided by Retrosheet, it is now possible to research this question. The pitch sequence data from Retrosheet includes a notation of runners going with the pitch back to the 2003 season. The nine seasons of data from 2003-2011 should be enough to get a good idea of the value of the hit-and-run play.
The first problem to overcome is identifying the hit-and-run plays. Except on those rare occasions where the batter or the runner missed the sign, we know that the runner should be going and the batter should be swinging. However, not all such plays will be a hit-and-run.
First, how accurate are the stringers at identifying pitches on which the runners were going? The best benchmark I could find was that the runner was noted as going on about 90 percent of pitches resulting in a stolen base or caught stealing. So we are probably missing at least 10 percent of the hit-and-run plays. However, since I did not see a big difference in the quality of stringer data between parks, the data we have is hopefully still of good quality for addressing questions about the hit-and-run.
It is helpful to begin with a definition of the hit-and-run play so that we know what we are looking for. In the course of researching this topic, I read several good definitions, but by far the best exposition of the hit-and-run and the strategies involved appears in Keith Hernandez's Pure Baseball, pp. 20-29.
The riskiest option, the hit-and-run, is one of the more strategically complex plays in the game. I don't know any way to get into the subject other than at length because, as I mentioned, experience has taught me that some big leaguers don't fully understand what the play is all about, when it's a good idea, when it's a terrible idea. So here goes. Be patient—the in's and out's of the hit-and-run go to the heart of the baseball strategy, and you have to understand them to understand the game.
Hernandez identifies the following characteristics of a hit-and-run play:
(1) a runner on first base, who by running forces a middle infielder to cover second in anticipation of a throw from the catcher, thereby opening a hole in the infield defense for the batter
(2) in a ball-strike count where the pitcher needs to throw a strike or something close
(3) not a two-strike count, because you cannot force the batter to strike out while attempting to protect the runner
(4) not a three-ball count, because the batter walks on a bad pitch and should take power swings at a good pitch
(5) usually with no outs, occasionally with one out, but never with two outs, because a defensive swing yielding a ground ball is likely the third out
(6) not with a power hitter at the plate.
He discussed additional nuances and strategies around the hit-and-run play that are well worth reading, but this summary hits the main points. I ended up with a definition very similar to the one outlined by Hernandez.
Let's look at the situations where there was a runner at first base who ran with the pitch. The runner should be more likely to get caught stealing on a hit-and-run play where the batter swung and missed than if it were a straight steal and the batter took the pitch. Of course, it also may have been a straight steal if the batter swung and missed of his own volition.
I do not know any way of identifying or quantifying exactly which plays were hit-and-runs. However, the situations where the stolen base success rate was much lower when the batter swung than if the batter took are more likely to be hit-and-run situations. These likely situations, in combination with the fact that the batter swung and the runner ran with the pitch, should help us to identify a high proportion of the hit-and-run plays mixed with only a few straight steals.
Hernandez argued that the hit-and-run play was most likely to be used with no outs, where the following batters had the most opportunities to bring the baserunner home and the cost of a defensive swing leading to a groundball out was the lowest. Let's see if we can pick that up in the stolen base success rate based upon the number of outs. The following table shows the data for situations with less than two strikes.
When the batter swung and missed, the runner was caught stealing much more often with none out or one out than with two outs. This data is a good indicator that hit-and-run plays almost never happen with two outs. It also suggests that the hit-and-run is used a little more often with none out than it is with one out, though without having a good estimate yet for the stolen base success rate on pure hit-and-run plays, it is hard to calculate exactly how much more often.
Let's look at the same data, but this time for ball-strike counts. I will include all of the ball-strike counts for comparison, even though hit-and-run plays are very unlikely to be executed with two strikes or three balls. We can check if the data backs up our assumption. Because I determined that two-out situations do not contain many hit-and-run plays, I will restrict the data in the following table to situations with less than two outs.
The five ball-strike counts with a difference of more than 10 percent in stolen base success rate were 0-0, 1-0, 2-0, 1-1, and 2-1. There was some difference on the 0-1 and 3-1 counts, but it was small enough that we probably do not lose many actual hit-and-run plays if I exclude those counts from our list of likely hit-and-run situations.
The score of the game is another possible factor. Teams are unlikely to pursue strategies that put baserunners at risk when they are trailing by a large number of runs. However, teams are more liberal with the hit-and-run play relative to the score than I expected. The following graph shows the change in stolen base success rate when the batter swings and misses, given various score differentials for the batting team. The data in the graph is for situations with less than two outs and in the five likely hit-and-run ball-strike counts I identified.
The stolen base success rate decreased by about 19 percent when the score was within three runs. It decreased by about nine percent when the score of the two teams was exactly four runs apart. Though the runner-going situations with a four-run differential seem to include some straight steals, I will include them in our definition of a hit-and-run situation.
Finally, we arrive at the definition used for a hit-and-run situation in this study: (1) runner on first, bases not loaded, (2) none or one out, (3) a ball-strike count of 0-0, 1-0, 2-0, 1-1, or 2-1, and (4) the team leading or trailing by four runs or less. If the runner went on the pitch and the batter swung in such a situation, I will consider it a likely hit-and-run play.
The batter's position in the lineup affects the likelihood of seeing a hit-and-run play in any given hit-and-run situation.
The second hitter is the most likely position in the lineup to be involved in a hit-and-run play, particularly on the first time through the order. The fourth and fifth-place hitters are relatively unlikely to be involved in hit-and-run plays. The probability of a hit-and-run play increases again at the bottom third of the order.
I could further screen our likely hit-and-run situations by removing the third through sixth spots in the lineup. However, I suspect the variation in hit-and-run rate is more an indication of a decision based upon hitter quality. It might vary more widely based upon specific personnel and managerial preference than some of the criteria that are more closely tied to the game situation. Thus, I chose not to use lineup position as part of the definition for a hit-and-run situation.
Here is how the hit-and-run plays break down by team from 2003-2011, as best I was able to count them using the Retrosheet data and the above definition of a hit-and-run situation.
It is worth noting that American League teams used the hit-and-run slightly more often than National League teams during this period.
Here are the totals year by year for each team.
Mike Scioscia's teams led the major leagues four times in hit-and-run plays, and Tony La Russa's teams led three times. For managers who spent the bulk of a season with a team and managed multiple years, here are those with most and the fewest hit-and-run plays. (I did not have managerial data split out at the game level in order to divide season data on teams with multiple managers in one season.)
Subject to the limitations of what I can discern from the data, we now have a pretty good idea of when hit-and-run plays occurred and which teams used them. But, is the hit-and-run play a good idea? That turns out to be a question fraught with selection bias.
Teams that attempted the hit-and-run play scored 0.11 runs on the play and 0.69 runs in the remainder of the inning on average, compared to 0.17 runs scored on the play and 0.70 runs in the remainder of the inning by teams that did not attempt the hit-and-run play in hit-and-run situations. On its face, it seems that the hit-and-run play cost teams about .06 runs per play. Before I wade through some of the factors that bias this simple answer, let's examine how the results of hit-and-run batters differ from those of the batters who do not hit-and-run in the same situations.
The batters who attempted the hit-and-run play ended that plate appearance with an average batting line of .294/.323/.403, as compared to the batting line of .267/.324/.419 for the batters who did not attempt the hit-and-run play. At first take, the hit-and-run appears to confer about 26 more points of batting average, at the cost of some walks and extra base hits. Since the two pools of batters have very similar batting average skills, as we will discuss in more detail, this difference is largely attributable to the hit-and-run play. Creating the hole in the infield defense really is a valuable advantage.
The hit-and-run attempt also significantly cut the rate of walks, strikeouts, and the double play. It is no surprise that swinging at pitches early in the count, perhaps even bad pitches, cut the walk rate, dropping it from seven percent of plate appearances by batters who did not hit-and-run in these situations to only four percent of plate appearances by batters who attempted the hit-and-run play. The strikeout rate also dropped for hit-and-run batters, to 13 percent of plate appearances, compared to 15 percent for batters who did not execute the hit-and-run. Presumably, the increase in balls in play early in the count had a greater effect than did being forced to swing at bad pitches to protect the runner. The double play rate dropped from 13 percent of plate appearances when the hit-and-run was not attempted to nine percent when the hit-and-run was attempted. That rate includes both groundball and line drive double plays.
Baserunner advancement is another obvious consequence of the hit-and-run play. Extra runners caught stealing roughly balanced out the reduction in double plays, leaving about the same number of outs and runners on base on average whether or not a hit-and-run was attempted. However, the runner from first base had a better chance of moving up to second or third base on a hit-and-run play. The drop in extra-base hits that accompanied the hit-and-run slightly decreased the runners' chance of scoring from first base as a result of that plate appearance.
Now that we have some idea of the typical results of the hit-and-run play, let's examine some of the potential biases in our data, particularly in the average runs scored in the inning during and after the hit-and-run play.
One obvious consideration is that the number of outs affects the chances of scoring. The overall run scoring following the hit-and-run play looks better than it really was because the hit-and-run play was used more frequently with no outs, when run scoring expectations were highest.
I included as potential hit-and-run situations those with runners on first and second or runners on first and third. However, teams are much less likely to hit and run with multiple runners on base. If I restrict the analysis to the hit-and-run situations with only a runner on first base and the other bases empty, here are the run-scoring results.
Once I have adjusted for the number of outs and made sure the baserunner state is the same, the hit-and-run play is a net gain for run scoring in the inning, particularly when it is attempted with no outs.
The quality of the batters and pitchers involved is another important concern. I calculated the average performance of batters and pitchers during the period 2003-2011 and weighted the result by the number of times they appeared in a hit-and-run situation. I compared it to the average performance of the batters and pitchers during 2003-2011, weighted by the number of times they attempted a hit-and-run play.
The pitchers were of similar quality in both pools, with an average of .004 fewer runs allowed than average, as calculated from their linear weights runs allowed. The batters who attempted hit-and-run plays, however, were noticeably worse hitters than those who did not attempt hit-and-run plays in hit-and-run situations. The batters who attempted a hit-and-run had an average batting line of .274/.342/.419, or +0.003 runs above average per plate appearance, as compared to the batters who did not attempt a hit-and-run, who had an average batting line of .275/.349/.448, or +.014 runs above average per plate appearance.
Before I add the difference in batter quality to the ledger in favor of hit-and-run plays, however, we need to consider the effect of the lineup order. Because more hit-and-run plays occur before the middle of the order comes up, the likelihood of a runner subsequently being driven in by the big bats is higher. Conversely, fewer hit-and-run plays occur ahead of the bottom of the lineup, where the weaker hitters are less likely to drive the runners home.
We can compare the number of runs scored in the remainder of the inning for attempted hit-and-run plays to the runs scored when a hit-and-run play was not attempted in a hit-and-run situation for each spot in the lineup. Here again, I restrict the data to those situations where there was only a single runner on base, in order to compare on a level playing field, or at least as level as I can make it.
The hit-and-run play is most advantageous in the second, third, and ninth spots in the lineup, and it is a net negative only for the fifth-place hitter, although I am not controlling here for the quality of batter involved in the hit-and-run plays, other than as represented by the lineup position.
The preceding graph shows the weighted average of the no-out and one-out situations. We can also look at them separately.
The no-out situation shows a bigger advantage for the hit-and-run attempt over the one-out situation at every lineup spot except for the second and sixth-place hitters.
In order to combine the remainder-of-inning scoring advantage with the batter quality advantage for a total hit-and-run advantage, I need to adjust both for lineup position. After adjusting for the lineup, teams scored .057 more runs when they attempted a hit-and-run play as compared to when they did not. After adjusting for the lineup spot, the quality of the batters who did not hit-and-run was .005 runs per plate appearance better than that of the batters who did hit-and-run. Thus, the advantage for attempting a hit-and-run play during 2003-2011 appears to be about .061 runs on average.
That is a much larger number than I expected when I embarked on this research. I have attempted to remove as much of the selection bias as I could reasonably identify. It is possible that I have overlooked some bias or used a mistaken assumption, but every direction from which I came at the analysis pointed to the hit-and-run being a positive offensive play in most circumstances in which it was attempted.
We have already considered how the number of outs and the lineup position affect the advantage to be gained via a hit-and-run play. The ball-strike count also plays a role. The more favorable the count is to the hitter, the less likely that the batter will be forced to swing at a pitch he does not like. On the other hand, the same is true if the batter is not protecting the runner, and in that case, he may be more selective and take more powerful swings.
The biggest advantage for the hit-and-run play comes early in the count, on the first pitch or at 1-0. However, 2-1 is the most popular count on which to attempt the hit-and-run play, even though the average result of the play in that count is a net negative.
With this in mind, let's see which teams did the best job of turning the hit-and-run play into extra runs over the course of 2003-2011. This time I am considering only the plays with a single runner on base in order to compare apples to apples, as explained earlier, so the "plays" totals will be slightly lower than those listed in the previous team table.
Across nine seasons, a handful of teams have managed to add a total of 30 runs or more by using the hit-and-run play. The average team has added about two runs per season on hit-and-run plays.
Which batters hit and run most often? Here are the leaders from 2003-2011. I have also listed each batter's success percentage in hit-and-run situations with a runner at first base only, where a successful hit-and-run play is defined as one that advanced the baserunner. League average was a 60 percent success rate.
Among others of interest, Jonathan Herrera attempted a hit-and-run play in 27 percent of his opportunities, Skip Schumaker had an 86 percent success rate at advancing the runner from first, and Albert Pujols attempted a hit-and-run play in three percent of his opportunities (with a 49 percent success rate). No word on how many of those plays he called himself.
Here are the baserunners who were on first base for the most hit-and-run attempts, along with their stolen base and caught stealing totals when the batter swung and missed in such situations. Since most of these players are regular basestealers, some of the plays I have classified here as hit-and-runs were probably actually straight steals.
The hit-and-run is far from the worst play in baseball. For a small-ball tactic, it has been quite successful over the past nine seasons, increasing scoring by .06 runs per attempt on average. The value of the hole in the infield defense is real, adding about 27 points to the batting average of the hitter. The double plays avoided by executing the hit-and-run offset the runners caught stealing on the play, and the extra bases gained by the runner when the ball is put in play are enough to move the play into the plus column overall.
However, there are some situations where the hit-and-run attempt made less sense and was a barely positive or even a net negative play—with the fourth and fifth hitters in the lineup up, with one out, or in the popular ball-strike count of 2-1.
Additional research could be done to fine-tune the definition of hit-and-run situations. In particular, I suspect that some of the situations with runners on first and second or runners on first and third could be removed. It would also be interesting to examine the detailed PITCHf/x data for the hit-and-run plays in the seasons for which that data is available.
Furthermore, future studies on the stolen base breakeven point or on the value of catcher defense in controlling the running game should probably incorporate what we have learned about the hit-and-run play.
The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at 20 Sunset Rd., Newark, DE 19711.
Mike Fast is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Fascinating study. Thanks.
Dec 21, 2011 03:31 AM
Or, when you win a playoff series by rolling snake eyes in a tie game with that GbA machine catcher in Strat.... :-)
Dec 21, 2011 06:42 AM
Washington used the hit-and-run a lot with the Rangers the last two years, but not as much before that. Some people on Twitter mentioned that Washington liked to hit-and-run with the Kinsler-Andrus combo. I have the data on the combos he used; I'll have to take a look at that.
Dec 21, 2011 06:50 AM
Brandon R. Warne
'nother Mike Fast column to bookmark. As if I didn't reference others -- like the catcher's defense one -- enough.
Dec 21, 2011 07:04 AM
I'm shocked no MLB club has coming knocking on Mr. Fast's door (yet).
Dec 21, 2011 07:32 AM
Randy Brown
Great piece of research Mike. I really appreciated the thoughtful evaluation of selection biases. As I was reading the article, I was thinking to myself "What about batter quality?" (oh, he addresses that in a minute) and "What about lineup position?" (oh, he addresses that too...)
Dec 21, 2011 07:46 AM
From a coaching rather than managing standpoint, hit-and-run is a great way to get a pull-happy, trying-to-do-too-much RHB to ease up and get his swing in order. There's no better slump-buster than a sharp grounder the other way.
Dec 21, 2011 08:01 AM
Interesting observation.
Dec 21, 2011 08:05 AM
Great article. Both the baserunners and batters that lead those lists don't really come as too much of a surprise I guess.
Dec 21, 2011 08:03 AM
Kevin Seitzer in the house!!! Well done, Mike.
Dec 21, 2011 08:32 AM
I remember an Atlanta-St. Louis game years ago. Men on 1st and 2d, no outs, pitcher Woody Willimas at the plate. One of the announcers said something like "La Russa likes the hit and run, and Williams isn't a bad hitter for a pitcher."
Dec 21, 2011 14:06 PM
Going to have to take this back. I started thinking it was Furcal, not Renteria playing for Atlanta; which Baseballreference seems to confirm - but I couldn't find the game. Would've had to be 2001-2004. I'm sure I wasn't hallucinating, but without documentation, well...
Dec 21, 2011 14:40 PM
It must have been the game on August 10, 2003:
Dec 21, 2011 15:04 PM
Is there an advantage to being a visiting/home team in doing a hit and run? Or is it more successful in certain innings?
Dec 21, 2011 15:24 PM
There is no sizable difference in the rate of the hit and run attempts between visiting and home team until you get to extra innings, where the visiting team uses it more often.
Dec 21, 2011 16:07 PM
Some teams use hit and runs more often than others and supposedly, groundskeepers sculpt grass height etc to tailor to their team's strengths, which is why I wonder if home teams have a higher success rate at hit and runs. Also, since a home team score a run in the bottom of the 9th or an extra inning, it would seem to me they'd have more incentive to try a hit and run more often.
Dec 21, 2011 16:37 PM
Well, when one run will win the game in the bottom of the ninth or the bottom of an extra inning, seems to me that a sacrifice would be the safer play. Some of that is the "avoid second-guessing if it doesn't work", but it also avoids the potential negative outcomes inherent in hit and run plays.
Dec 21, 2011 22:49 PM
Mike, great work, but I still think that the hit and run is virtually never correct and I think I found a fatal flaw in your analysis:
Dec 21, 2011 23:10 PM
MGL, as I had mentioned to you at the Book blog, I had looked into this preliminarily prior to publication, and I didn't see in the data much indication of what you claim. The good basestealers don't steal at their normal success rate in these situations (they are below 70 percent), nor do they make up a majority of the hit-and-run attempts, so I don't think it's going to move the results as much as you think.
Dec 22, 2011 06:44 AM
Differences in baserunner quality between H&R attempts and H&R situations with no attempts inflated the value by about .016 runs/play. If make that adjustment, it drops the overall hit-and-run advantage to about +.045 runs/play.
Group SBA% range SBA% SB% H&R Adv. (runs/play)
Dec 27, 2011 13:13 PM
A few questions to ponder with regards to further study.
Dec 28, 2011 11:45 AM
Good questions. As far as breakeven points, that's a good idea for further study.
Dec 30, 2011 15:02 PM
Shaun P.
This is a fascinating study, and one I am surprised no one look at in detail before.
Dec 29, 2011 07:52 AM
I would assume he averaged between 26 and 44 hit and run plays a year, meaning he was around league average.
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Canadians don't have to travel for adventure: It's coming their way. In certain ways it's already here, whether they like it or not.
On Sunday, for instance, there will be a commemorative rally at a suburban Islamic Center in Toronto to celebrate the struggle (a.k.a. jihad) of the "Imam Khomeini to bring justice for the oppressed."
The organizers are talking about the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, no less, the morose patriarch who returned from French exile to his native Iran in 1979 to lead a successful revolution against the Peacock Throne, thereby helping to rekindle, whether by design or as an unintended consequence, the ancient struggle between Islam and Christendom.
The event that advertises "internationally renowned speakers" and a "poetry, art and essay competition" as well as a "Youth Quiz for people up to 25 years of age," is being organized by supporters of Iran's theocratic leaders, the grim ayatollahs with nuclear ambitions. This doesn't sit well with other members of the Iranian ex-pat community, who presumably fled to Canada because the Imam's "justice" threatened to oppress them.
These good folk are upset, and I can't blame them. In their own flyer, they describe the rally, perhaps inelegantly but not inaccurately, as "a commemoration event in support of the terrorist-[anti-Semitic] Islamic regime of Iran's dictator Khomeini organized by the Islamic regime supporters" — which is what the event is, all right.
And they call upon the "Conservative Government of Canada to make such events illegal," which is where they and I reach a fork in the road, for reasons discussed below.
Meanwhile, they're organizing a counter-rally to protest what they describe in their own literature to the press as a "very infamous and shameful event in Toronto."
The anti-Khomeini literature includes exchanges from what looks like an online forum for Iranian exiles. I can't read what I take to be Farsi lines in Arabic script, but some contributors use English to deliver themselves of such sentiments as "we'll have to look at the ugly baboon Bangash spew b.s." (This is presumably a reference to Toronto-area Imam Zafar Bangash, a slavish supporter of the Iranian regime.) "Well, that's democracy, and lets give him some more string to hang himself." Or, less tolerantly: "A note for the Candians (sic): I believe Khomeini has done crimes in the bigger scale than Hitler did to Europe. His crimes have being prolonged and carried for 34 years …"
I'd be happier if people from other parts of the world did themselves and their new 'Candian' countrymen a favor and left their baggage behind
Time out for a brief meditation on the uses of language. Much of poetry is a kind of linguistic short-circuit. It's deliberately induced by the poet to reveal new meanings hiding in old words and ideas, or just to blow a fuse in the reader's mind. What poets call "inspiration" is a short circuit spontaneously created in the bard's brain. This being so, typos and grammatically-challenged online rants are capable of creating their own poetry.
Speaking as one of the aforementioned "Candians," I'm enthralled by the description. I think the name is inspired. I think it fits. Candia. The anti-Khomeini bloggers/pamphleteers haven't been setting up a counter-poetry contest; they're just reaping the benefit of their limited skills in typing and English.
I like Candia, along with everything the name conjures up, but I'd be happier if people from other parts of the world — people who come here to seek refuge and shelter, as I did many years ago myself — did themselves and their new Candian countrymen a favor and left their baggage behind. This certainly applies to supporters of the repressive-aggressive ayatollahs, who are gearing up for an election of sorts at home, and would no doubt welcome expressions of support abroad. But it also applies to those who would want the "Conservative government" to deny Khomeini's supporters the guarantees of Candia's constitution. It's a document that guarantees to let even its enemies assemble and celebrate as long as they do so peacefully, with poetry contests and essays.
"Even when they propose to celebrate tyrannical theocrats trying to equip themselves with nukes?" some might ask. After all, it's not only Iranian ex-pats who oppose pro-Atayaollah rallies in Toronto; but also the Jewish Defence League, which is protesting Sunday's event.
Yet the answer is the same: Even then. It sounds crazy, I know, but that's what Candia is like. That's why we came here, fellows. Now live with it.
The dilemma isn't new. Here's what a great Persian poet had to say about it in the 14th century. I don't speak Farsi, so I'm accessing Muhammed Hafiz through George Faludy's Hungarian translation. The poem was written at a time when various warring factions demanded Hafiz to take sides:
Swords hiss as evening falls,
Seventy-two sects tear into
Each other, all calling on
Islam, while painting secret signs
And monsters on the walls,
But Hafiz pays no heed as he
Runs his ten fingers through
The rich hair of Persian words
And remembers the sweet taste
Of candy and the mercy of God.
Candy, eh? A Candian understands.
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Anderson, who goes by Liz while working as a registered nurse in the neonatal care unit at Logan Regional Hospital, admits she doesn't remember each mother and baby she's helped over the years, but she's pleasantly surprised when one remembers her.
In 28 years as a nurse — including 15 in Logan — Anderson has seen a lot of babies. Most start out small, sick and struggling, but with Anderson's help, leave the hospital healthy and on their way home.
Anderson, a Mendon, Cache County, resident, got her associate's degree in nursing from Brigham Young University and started working as an RN in 1984 at the University of Utah. She worked in pediatrics for 18 months before moving to the Ogden area, where she eventually worked her way into the neonatal unit and was certified as a lactation consultant.
"I always knew I wanted to work with babies," she told The Herald Journal.
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At least one nurse from the neonatal unit is in the room for each delivery — whether it's routine or not — to determine whether the baby is healthy or if she or he needs to be moved into the special-care unit.
As part of her responsibilities while working one recent Friday, Anderson checked in on 5-day-old Tyler Barrow, who is spending a few days in the unit to put on more weight before heading home. The infant was born full term but was small — just over 5 pounds — and struggled to eat on his own. Within a few hours of his birth, Tyler was moved into Anderson's unit.
She explained that as a nurse, she's looking for certain criteria before little Tyler — and others like him — can go home. In addition to being able to eat enough on their own (not through a feeding tube), the babies need to gain a certain amount of weight, be capable of staying warm in an open crib and have good vital signs.
Tyler is a relatively "easy" baby for the unit, but Anderson has seen her share of challenges over the years.
Logan Regional Hospital's neonatal care unit is a level 2B, which means it does not keep babies born earlier than 32 weeks gestation or with severe problems. While it does provide some specialty care — including assisted breathing for brief periods — the sickest babies are sent to Ogden or Salt Lake City.
Seeing babies born with genetic diseases and heart defects tug at Anderson's heart strings. Sometimes there's only so much doctors and nurses can do, and often, those babies are sent to Ogden or Salt Lake City, where the units at those hospitals have more options in caring for the infants.
Anderson said sometimes she'll find out what happens to those babies she sends off, but other times she doesn't hear anything. While she works to be professional in her job, Anderson also sympathizes with parents struggling with a very sick newborn.
"It's very rewarding that you're stabilizing babies and helping families," she said, "but it's also very hard because I'm a parent, too."


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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
This anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. Here Ian Hacking discusses the salient features that distinguish mathematics from other disciplines of the mind; Doris Schattschneider identifies some of the mathematical inspirations of M. C. Escher's art; Jordan Ellenberg describes compressed sensing, a mathematical field that is reshaping the way people use large sets of data; Erica Klarreich reports on the use of algorithms in the job market for doctors; and much, much more.
In addition to presenting the year's most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a foreword by esteemed physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us--and where it is headed.
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Today's knowledgeable guest blogger takes an analytic look at the literary names of the Glass family and other memorable characters created by J. D. Salinger.
Would you believe that we recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of the publication of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye? To commemorate — a year after Salinger himself passed away at the age of 91 — here's a look at the names of some of his protagonists:
Holden. Holden Caulfield is one of the twentieth century's iconic anti-heroes. A surname in origin, Holden derives from a little place in Lancashire, England, meaning "hollow valley." Salinger may well have chosen it because it sounds like "hold on" – just as Holden wanted to do to preserve the innocence of children, as "the catcher in the rye." Holden has been gradually rising in use in the US over the past twenty-five years, and is now ranked at Number 316.
Phoebe. Holden's little sister. From the Greek phoibos "bright, radiant," very appropriate for the character Holden idealizes. Phoebe is also the name of a Titaness – a daughter of Uranus and Ge. It was not uncommon as a name in antiquity, and stumbled into The New Testament. In past centuries, Phebe was often the preferred form. The best know Phoebe is recent years is Phoebe Buffay, in Friends (followed by Phoebe Halliwell in Charmed). Ironically, it was the UK that felt Phoebe Buffay's influence greatest, with the name mushrooming in use virtually overnight. In 2009, it was in 23rd place in the UK — but falling. In the US, it has been steadily climbing since the late eighties but is still far from common.
Sunny. The name of the young prostitute. English use of "sunny" as a given name dates to the nineteenth century. Sunny is the heroine of the musical Sunny (1925), and Sunny Baudelaire is a principal character in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. A real-life Sunny is the second daughter of Adam Sandler, born in 2008.
Many of Salinger's short stories and novellas, particularly his last works in the sixties, feature the Glass family. Like Holden in Catcher, several of the characters walk rather out of step with "normal" society. They are seekers of truth, wisdom and happiness in a "phony" world.
Their names make an interesting sibset:
Seymour. The pivot of many of the Glass family stories – whether physically present or not, he was introduced in the 1949 "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." Intellectually brilliant, and deeply spiritual, he commits suicide while on holiday with his wife by the sea in Florida. "See more glass" is how Sibyl, the prophetically named little girl to whom he tells the story of bananafish, interprets his name, and it is clear Seymour does "see more" than most people. His is a name barely met with today, even among the older generation. It peaked just inside the top 200 in the early 1920s, and fell out of the Top 1000 in 1947. It was originally the surname of an aristocratic English family (Jane Seymour was the third wife of King Henry VIII.)
Buddy. Seymour's brother, and the one to whom he was closest. Like most early Buddys, his is a nickname – Buddy Glass's real name is Webb, appropriate for the character regarded as Salinger's alter ego. Buddy is the narrator in several of the Glass family short stories, and the surname Webb derives from the Old English webba "weaver" – in Buddy's case, of tales. The choice of the cheerful nickname Buddy at first seems incongruous to the character. However, the name Buddy developed from "brother" in the nineteenth century, and that, in a sense, is one of Buddy's main roles. Chef Jamie Oliver recently named his son Buddy Bear.
Boo Boo. The other sister, is featured in the 1949 short story "Down at the Dinghy." Her real name is Beatrice, a form of the Latin Beatrix, from beatus "happy" and "blessed." Beatrice last peaked in 36th place in 1910, and though it is now quite uncommon, is showing definite signs of a revival.
Walt. A straightforward short-form of Walter, for a straightforward guy. Walt was killed in World War II, and is encountered in the 1948 short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," which is more about his former girlfriend Eloise. Her name hints at one of the great legendary love stories, that of the medieval Abelard and Helewise, of which Eloise is a modern form. Like many of Salinger's names, it was most popular in the twenties, but has recently started to make a comeback. Walter left the Top 100 in 1972, but in the last couple of years has also shown signs of revival, currently ranked 372.
Waker. A curious name for the most mysterious and little-known member of the Glass family. The English surname Waker is from Middle English meaning "watchful" but it is tempting to say Salinger intended it to carry the meaning of "someone who has awoken." The name is – and always has been – rare.
Zooey. Like the rest of the Glass family, Zooey was a "child genius." Featured in Zooey, this cynical and rather conceited young man ultimately manages to help his sister, now an emotional mess. Zooey is a pet form for Zachary, though perhaps Salinger chose it as Zooey is probably the most "worldly" of the siblings, the one most at home in the "zoo" that is society. Sadly, most nowadays see Zooey as a variant of the female Zoe, even though the pronunciation is different.
Franny. Seymour's sister, who is first encountered in the novella Franny . Franny's formal name is Frances, another old classic, extremely popular in the early twentieth century. It has been languishing for a long time now, in 782nd place in 2010, but now seems set for a revival. It derives from the Old German Frank, an ancient tribal name that is the source of the English word meaning honest and open, as well as an older sense of "free."
And lastly, one of Salinger's most popular short stories is "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor." Esmé was first used by the aristocratic Scottish Lennox family in the sixteenth century as a variant of Aimé – for their sons; it began to be used as a girl's name in the nineteenth century. Salinger's Esmé has probably been eclipsed now by Stephenie Meyer's Esmé Cullen, but – in unambiguous homage to Salinger – there's an Esmé Squalor in Lemony Snicket.
For the name-seeker, Salinger's work certainly offers a fascinating collection of vintage classics as well as more unusual and eye-catching (or should that be rye-catching?) possibilities.
A graduate of the University of Cambridge, K. M. Sheard is the author of the recently published Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names, and writes Nook of Names, a blog on all things onomastic.


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By ANDREW TAYLORWASHINGTON (AP) a¿¿ Congress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year's automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October's partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest. The Senate voted 72-26 for the measure, which cleared the House a little more than 24 hours earlier on a similarly lopsided vote. Obama's signature on the bill was expected in time to prevent any interruption in government funding Saturday at midnight. The huge bill funds every agency of government, pairing increases for NASA and Army Corps of Engineers construction projects with cuts to the Internal Revenue Service and foreign aid. It pays for implementation of Obama's health care law; a fight over implementing "Obamacare" sparked tea party Republicans to partially shut the government down for 16 days last October. Also included is funding for tighter regulations on financial markets, but at levels lower than the president wanted. The compromise-laden legislation reflects the realities of divided power in Washington and a desire by both Democrats and Republicans for an election-year respite after three years of budget wars that had Congress and the White House lurching from crisis to crisis. Both parties looked upon the measure as a way to ease automatic spending cuts that both the Pentagon and domestic agencies had to begin absorbing last year. All 53 Democrats, two independents and 17 Republicans voted for the bill. The 26 votes against it were all cast by Republicans. The measure advanced to Obama three months after House Republicans called off the government shutdown and sought a scaled-back bargain with Democratic lawmakers and the president. It added the details to the framework laid out by the December bargain between the chairmen of the House and Senate Budget committees. Congress still has to act in the next few weeks to increase the government's borrowing cap to avoid a potentially devastating default on U.S. obligations, but GOP leaders no longer appear to have much enthusiasm for a showdown with Obama over that issue. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Thursday that the government "shouldn't even get close" to a default.
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"I was bitten by the property bug, there was no turning back."
Jo Chivers proves that women can indeed have it all- a career that you are passionate about and a family. While all of this sounds great, it does require hard work, dedication, perseverance and a bit of risk-taking.
Jo's love of property development inspired her to leave her corporate career and pursue her true passion. After educating herself in property investing, she started building up her own property portfolio. After purchasing a few blue chip properties in Sydney, she soon realised how negatively geared they were and began researching outside of Sydney. She discovered a more affordable, large region of NSW where she completed her first property development. Soon her friends were asking her to find them sites and manage their developments.
She realised there was a need for an all encompassing project management service and her business Property Bloom™ was born. Ten years down the track, she has developed over 60 properties for clients, creating literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity and high end yields.
When it comes to developing, we have all heard about the Development Application (DA) and the Construction Certificate (CC), but how and what exactly is involved with each council approval?
The thing that I've really learnt is that relationships are extremely valuable. Not shallow, B.S. relationships but good, strong established relationships that can only really be made with time.
I often get asked what I do for a living. My 'elevator pitch' or quick answer is…" I help people develop property by managing all the details from finding the right site through to finding the right tenants on completion. The result is cr ...
Property development can be daunting so I've put together some FAQs to help address some of the important questions that will arise as you start your development.
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Property development can be daunting so I've put together some FAQs to help address some of the important questions that will arise as you start your development.
Property development can be daunting so I've put together some FAQs to help address some of the important questions that will arise as you start your development.
Even before you start looking for your development site, you'll need to clarify one thing. Are you developing to sell or to hold?
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So what exactly did I do, you ask? I slept - I caught up on sleep and nap when ever I felt like it!
I sat on my beach chair...a lot. I don't surf or skim board or fish so my time on the sands was either spent sitting or napping or swimming. We like to wait and go to the beach after 4 pm to avoid the heat, sunburns, and the crowds. The downside is the lifeguards go home at 5 pm, but the upside, I did meet a few friends - the sand crabs (not sure that's their official name) come out at twilight and were fun to watch skitter sideways around on the sand.
I caught up on my pile of magazines, and I read a stack of books. Here's a list of the books I finished:
- The Death Cure, by James Dashner
- The Farm, by Emily McKay (not out yet - but will be soon - look for an interview on my blog).
- Darkbeast, by Morgan Keyes (not out yet - but will be soon - look for an interview on my blog).
- Dead Radiance, by T.G. Ayer (my interview with T.G. here: http://officialmariavsnyder.blogspot.com/2012/02/girl-with-sword-looks-like-my-kind-of.html)
- Whisper of Warning, by Laura Griffin
- Unspeakable, by Laura Griffin
I created - not with words as my family was very adamant that I not write while on vacation. But my good friend Judi came for a few days and we made Gourdaments - they look like glass x-mas ornaments, but they're really painted gourds. Pretty cool! And I also made two necklaces, and three pair of earrings and got my sister addicted to making jewelry.
I visited with my extended family. My parents came for a few days and my sister and her boys came, too.
I watched a LOT of DVDs - which I don't do at home. I mostly watched season 2 of The Big Bang Theory (love this show - it appeals to my inner scientist geek), and season 2 of Deadliest Catch (don't know why I enjoy this show, but I do).
I took photographs. I went out around sunset to get the best light. No - I don't do sunrises - I haven't seen a sunrise since I landed in Sydney, Australia last August ;>
And there was some biking on the boardwalk, walks on the beach, shopping at the outlets, dining out, and skeet ball, too.
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Then and now – How our breastfeeding relationship has changed
My twenty month daughter is still nursing. This is the longest I have breastfed a child so far. My other three children were weaned at eighteen months. It was partially them and partially me when it came to the weaning.
With my oldest I had tried to wean him before his little sister was born, they are only 15 months apart. He broke his leg shortly before hand and there was no way I was going to try to wean him while he was dealing with that. I ended up nursing him for three months after she was born and then one day he just decided he was done.
My second was not really wanting to wean, I was pregnant at the time and I just did not want to nurse anymore. I started weaning her around sixteen months and by eighteen months she was ready to stop without a fight. My third was about the same way.
Now that Amelia is older and I am not pregnant, I decided that I am not in a huge hurry to wean her. While I have my days, like when she likes to use my breast as a teething ring, overall I am still happy with our breastfeeding relationship.
Amelia has been very attached to nursing since birth. She seemed to nurse around the clock for the first couple months of her life. Of course she would nurse because she was hungry but also when ever she was hurt, scared or upset by something. When she was teething she nursed all the time. She got RSV when she was a tiny baby and again she nursed all the time. It has gotten a little better now that she is older but she is still very attached to nursing. She still nurses several times a day, I am wanting to cut it back a little just to make it easier when I do decide to wean.
She started sleeping through most nights when she was only a few months old. Now that she is going on two, she will still wake on occasion and want to nurse in the middle of the night. That is one thing I am trying to break her of. We are cosleepers when the kids are babies, she starts the night off in her crib now but if she wakes, I take her to bed with me. This happens a couple times a week ( while her three year old sister still climbs into our bed every night ). Now Amelia wakes up I try offering a sippy cup to her and take her into my bed. Sometimes this works, sometimes it does not. I am hoping with a little bit more time she will either stop waking up in the middle of the night or will take the sippy every time.
She has also started falling asleep by being rocked by my husband. This is a new thing. When she was little daddy was good for play time but she did not want to fall asleep on him. She always wanted to nurse to sleep. Now she is happy a lot of time to lay in his lap with a sippy and go to bed.
I am not sure yet how much longer I will nurse her. I am just going to take it day by day. We will know when the time is right.


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A meet up for vintage toy collectors in downtown Asheville Nc. This is a FREE event that is for collectors to meet each other and show-off, sell, trade, swap toys in their collections. The event will take place at GALLERY MIA starting at 6:30pm. If you have table and chairs please feel free to bring them, along with anything you would like to show other attendees. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.


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First Aviation exemplifies the architect's wisecrack to a client planning expansion: "First, the good news–you have a building in place to work with. Now the bad news–you have a building in place to work with."
First Aviation's previous owners, Joe and Florence Ritorto, bit the bad-news bullet when contemplating taking their Teterboro FBO (which they had owned since 1985) to the next level, and they chose to leave the existing building in place on the northwest corner of the field and start from scratch farther south on the infield beside Taxiway Quebec, which parallels Runway 6.
Formerly Beechcraft East, the original First Aviation facility had served as NetJets' terminal at the busy field, and its seven-acre facility was constantly active with QS tail numbers of all sizes. That activity continues now on the 22-acre ramp at the new facility, and NetJets is the largest of First's customers to enjoy the benefits of operating from a complex designed in and built for the post-9/11 era.
First's new facility occupies 27 acres of reclaimed wetland (TEB's four runway threshold elevations are 6, 7, 8 and 9 feet msl) and consists of the 22-acre ramp, which has no access choke points and is the biggest on the field; a suitably grand terminal; three hangars totaling 140,000 sq ft, the largest area offered by any of TEB's five FBOs; a 300,000-gallon jet-A on-site fuel facility shared with neighbor Jet Aviation; and, large enough to accommodate three fuel trucks, a building devoted to maintenance of ramp service vehicles, since fuel trucks are not allowed in hangars. First is home base for 12 jets, the largest of which are three GVs, and it employs 26 technicians to provide 24/7 maintenance for based and transient aircraft, overseen by director of main-tenance Bill Dunne, who has been with First for more than 20 years. A cleaning department tackles that task on the inside and outside of aircraft.
"We are well situated," says First Aviation managing director/ CEO Bill Thomas, a former U.S. Navy A-7 pilot who knows the field intimately from his two years working for Johnson Controls as TEB's operations manager. It was during this stint that Thomas met the Ritortos, and in May 2008, when they sold the freshly completed $60 million facility a year after opening it, the Ritortos recommended to the current owners that they hire Thomas to run it.
Current owner Goldman Sachs finds itself the proprietor of First Aviation in some
of business aviation's most challenging times. Will the investment bank turn the facility? "Everything is for sale; it's just a matter of price," notes Thomas, "but right now Goldman Sachs is not looking to sell." NetJets' declining fortunes have affected all its vendors, and First is no exception. "With NetJets as our primary customer, its downturn has had an impact on us," concedes Thomas. "In the depths of the recession we were down by more than 20 percent, but in January this year all indicators–ramp traffic, fuel sales, maintenance–were up by 8 to 12 percent over the previous January," he noted. "We're currently selling 600,000 to 800,000 gallons of fuel a month, versus 900,000 gallons in our best month ever, November 2007."
Access to First's ramp is through a ground-level tunnel between the terminal and a hangar. On the public side of the facility, passengers pull up beneath a covered portico wide enough to accommodate three limos side-by-side, thereby all but eliminating the possibility that passengers not at the head of a line of limos might have to walk through the rain. From their limo, passengers walk a few feet to a First minibus for the ride through the gated tunnel to the ramp. With prior notice, passengers with special needs can proceed straight to their aircraft in their own vehicle without transferring to a minibus.
Caterers can deliver food to the glass-door refrigerators in the meal storage room in the terminal building through a door on the public side of the tunnel gate. Line crew wheel aircraft lavatory carts into a segregated room between two hangars that isolates any aroma.
There is also a "special projects" room with ramp access for unobtrusive comings and goings, and the room was designed to accommodate full-time Customs if desired at some future stage. For example, it has a regulation steel rod on one wall for handcuff anchoring.
The architects of the new facility used Disney guidelines to design the building so that workers can move around behind the scenes and not through the terminal. Upstairs in the terminal is a fitness center with showers for crews and, for peace and quiet, a large VIP guest room.
For aviation-related busi-nesses, the First complex offers 42 offices/suites with access direct to the parking lot, and currently 70 percent of them are occupied. All the offices are accessible from inside the terminal, too, without tenants or visitors having to go outside. With closure of its New Jersey office last year, NetJets moved a couple of dozen staff to offices within the First Aviation facility.
Location is one of First's selling points. The company is now far from its previous location on Industrial Avenue, a window for hostile people with cameras hoping to catch a glimpse of Mr. Big living to excess. First's new facility is accessible only through a manned gate on Moonachie Avenue.
Although it already has the most ramp and hangarage area of any TEB FBO, there is room for expansion into an eight-acre area that would open up access from Taxiway Golf. There's no firm schedule yet for doing this, says Thomas, and it would be a five-year process to move from the planning application stage to parking aircraft.
The time will come. As Thomas confidently notes, "Air-planes are part of a company's toolkit, and as the economy improves those companies will be reaching into the toolkit and using airplanes."


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Pork with Garlic Cream Sauce Recipe
- 1 pork tenderloin (1 pound)
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted, divided
- 1 to 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/3 cup 1% milk
- 3 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon minced chives
- 1. Cut pork into 1-in. slices; flatten to 1/2-in. thickness. Place in a 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Brush oil over all sides of pork; sprinkle with half of the sesame seeds.
- 2. Broil 4-6 in. from the heat for 3-5 minutes; turn and sprinkle with remaining sesame seeds. Broil 3-5 minutes longer or until meat juices runs clear.
- 3. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, saute garlic in butter for 1 minute. Stir in milk and cream cheese. Reduce heat; cook and stir until blended and smooth. Stir in chives. Serve with pork. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
3 ounce-weight: 255 calories, 14g fat (6g saturated fat), 88mg cholesterol, 151mg sodium, 3g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 27g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 4 lean meat, 1 fat.
Reviews for Pork with Garlic Cream Sauce
Average Rating
"This was super quick and very tasty. I did add about 2 extra cloves of garlic because...well I like the stuff!! I cut the pork loin super thin so I didn't have to "flatten" it...it was just about 3 minutes each side and it was wonderful. The cream sauce thickens a lot next time I may add a bit more milk to thin it a little bit...but there will be a next time!"
"This was delicious, fast and simple! I used light herb and garlic cream cheese and doubled the sauce recipe to serve with rice. I pan fried the pork tenderloin slices instead of broiling. Very popular!"
"This is Elisa from Tigard, OR. These are mine. They got the city and state wrong. This is for friends who I know wanted to look these up online and did not want them to pass them up thinking it was someone else."


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NATO Meritorious Medal
The NATO Meritorious Service Medal is awarded to military and civilian personnel who have been commended for providing exceptional or remarkable service to NATO. The Secretary of Defense has approved the acceptance and wear of the NATO MSM for U.S. military and civilian personnel. Eligible personnel are individuals serving permanently or temporarily within NATO's operational chain of command or in those forces under NATO command or control, or in a NATO Body, who are commended personally by a Commander or a Head of a NATO Body for:
• Performing acts of courage in difficult or dangerous circumstances; or
• Showing exceptional leadership or personal example; or
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Stuck in the middle: a case study investigating the gap between top-down and bottom-up change
Paton, Steve and Boddy, David (2007) Stuck in the middle: a case study investigating the gap between top-down and bottom-up change. Journal of General Management, 32 (4). pp. 39-52. ISSN 0306-3070
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Few studies have addressed the differing roles that should be adopted by those at the top and bottom of the organisation when implementing change. This empirical ethnographic study within an engineering company concludes that: a multiplicity of top levels must be defined before any role allocation can occur; the role of the top is most important when boundaryshaking activity is required; the role of the change agent must link the top and bottom; and the embodied knowledge at the bottom must be identified and utilised effectively.
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DETROIT — The Rays lost another close game, this one 6-3 to the Tigers on Monday, but it didn't have to be that way.
"Obviously," Johnny Damon said, "we wish things could have been different."
They could have been if Damon's game-ending smash had been a couple of inches higher or wider and gotten by Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera to score two and put Damon on second — "third," he said — as the tying run.
Or if catcher Kelly Shoppach had been closer to the plate and able to tag Brennan Boesch on what looked like a good-enough throw from Matt Joyce to prevent the Tigers from taking a 2-1 lead in the sixth.
Or if the Rays had been more successful with their early opportunities, specifically bases loaded with one out in the fourth against a reliever making an unexpected big-league debut. But neither Felipe Lopez nor Shoppach could even put the ball in play.
"A lot of that game was lost for us early on when we had opportunities to score and did not," manager Joe Maddon said. "If you're able to do that then you do things differently toward the end of the game that could have averted them scoring those extra runs."
What that means is that if the Rays had the lead, then Juan Cruz wouldn't have been in the game when the Tigers broke it open with four in the eighth.
The loss was the Rays' seventh in 10 games and dropped them to 26-22 overall, though they hung on to their share of first place in the AL East.
They also lost shortstop Elliot Johnson, who will be out at least a few days with a left knee sprain.
Jeremy Hellickson failed in his bid to become the first Rays rookie to win five consecutive starts, but he didn't pitch badly, allowing two runs on four hits and four walks over 61/3 while throwing 100 pitches.
"He pitched great," Maddon said.
He gave up the tying run in the fifth, on a leadoff homer by outfielder Andy Dirks, a 25-year-old who made his major-league debut last week.
The Tigers took the lead the next inning, but it was more of a team effort by the Rays. Hellickson got two quick outs then gave up a double, on an 0-and-1 pitch, to Boesch. Maddon had Hellickson pitch to always dangerous Miguel Cabrera, which had as much to do with having Victor Martinez, who came in with his MLB-best .384 career average against the Rays, next in the order.
Cabrera delivered a crisp single to right, and third-base coach Gene Lamont decided to force the action by sending Boesch.
Joyce, who just came in as a result of Johnson's departure, made what looked to be a strong enough throw, though slightly off the mark. Shoppach appeared positioned in front of the plate — enough so that Maddon asked him about it afterward — and Boesch went around him, diving and swiping the plate.
Shoppach, though, said he was in the right spot and the throw was a little bit up the line. "I really thought he was going to be out by a bunch," he said. "But when I turned around he was already gone, and I couldn't reach him."
The key moment seemed to be in the fourth, when Lopez and Shoppach went down swinging against debuting lefty Charlie Furbush, who replaced injured starter Phil Coke. "You've just got to be able to move the ball, give yourself a chance to score," Maddon said. "We have to do a better job of scoring runs when we get opportunities. We haven't been very good at that."


text: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Pierre GM <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Robert Ferrell wrote: >> Have you considered creating a TimeSeries for each data series, and >> then putting them all together in a dict, keyed by symbol? > > That's an idea As far as I understand, that's what pandas.DataFrame does. pandas.DataMatrix used 2d array to store data > >> One disadvantage of one big monster numpy array for all the series is >> that not all series may have a full set of 1800 data points. So the >> array isn't really nicely rectangular. > > Bah, there's adjust_endpoints to take care of that. > >> >> Not sure exactly what kind of analysis you want to do, but grabbing a >> series from a dict is quite fast. > > Thomas, as robert F. pointed out, everything depends on the kind of analysis you want. If you want to normalize your series, having all of them in a big array is the best (plain array, not structured, so that you can apply .mean and .std directly without having to loop on the series). If you need to apply the same function over all the series, here again having a big ndarray is easiest. Give us an example of what you wanna do. Or a structured array with homogeneous type that allows fast creation of views for data analysis. Josef > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > firstname.lastname@example.com > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >


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-- Dolores M. Hatfield, 67, of Canal Road, went home to be with the Lord, Monday, Nov. 8, 1999, after a lengthy illness.
Services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Murray Funeral Home in Creston, with the Revs. Paul Jarrell, Doug Sparks and Roy Marrs officiating. Burial will be Friday at 1:30 p.m. at Green Valley Cemetery in Cabell County, W.Va.
Friends may call today (Wednesday) from 2-4 and 7-9 at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Wayne County, 2525-A Back Orrville Road, Wooster 44691; or to Good News Baptist Church, 238 N. Milton St., Smithville 44677.
She was born Aug. 28, 1932, near Huntington, W.Va., to Harrison and Zola (Nichols) Guthrie and married the Rev. Jeff Hatfield on May 27, 1949. He survives.
Other survivors include daughters and sons-in-law, Donna and Richard Crisco of Wooster and Phyllis and Mike Conners of Pickens, S.C., and a daughter, Linda Tecco and Timothy Hopkins of Wooster; grandchildren, Michael Tecco Jr. and his fiance, Mindy Cronick, Jeffrey Tecco and his fiance, Kara Fienga, Jerry Mooney and his wife, Karen, Nelson Mooney and his wife, Kerrie, Angela Kestner and her husband, James, and Anthony Lovejoy; great-grandchildren, Julie, Jacqueline and Alexis Tecco, Benjamin Fienga, Austin, Savannah and Paiden Mooney, Alexis Garberich, Bailey Krouse and Tyler Lovejoy; and sisters, Ruth McCallister and her husband, Herman, and Vada McCallister, all of West Virginia.


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Tales of Thanksgiving woes
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! By now, I'm sure you're all sick of turkey...turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey casseroles...
I personally have been on turkey overload because the holiday party season has kicked off and between the parties that have the deli trays out with turkey meat (avoid avoid goes the flashing red sign in my head!) and the leftovers, I need a great big green salad!
I got home from work today and it occurred to me to share a personal Thanksgiving story and throw it out there to see if I wasn't alone in my experiences.
Let me give you a brief background: I enjoy cooking and while I'm by no means professionally trained, my mother did her part to make sure that I left the next able to cook more than just stuff that comes out of a box. So when Thanksgiving rolled around and I offered to contribute to the meal, I thought I would try to be fancy. Well, that was just a poor idea.
KK, who also works at the winery, had made this absolutely delish pumpkin-shrimp bisque one day last year so I figured I would wow everyone at my Thanksgiving table with it.
Fast-forward to Thanksgiving morning. I had to be at my meal house around 1pm to help with the cooking, therefore the bisque had to be ready to go by then. So you can imagine my panic when I woke up, only to find that I had overslept! Not an awesome way to start Thanksgiving! I flew out of bed, and began scurrying about, thinking I only had two hours to shower and cook. Realized that I still had to peel and de-vein the shrimp, I began to panic. I don't know if any of you have ever had to peel and de-vein shrimp, but it isn't exactly easy and of course, I had put it off til that morning, since I had an event to attend Wednesday night. So you can understand why I was sweating bullets. I mean, I had really talked up this soup to my friends. The other people at my Thanksgiving celebration had heard how delicious it was. I had to deliver.
I called KK in a panic and she (who has always been honest with me) said, "I don't know about the time frame...it doesn't look good."
I didn't know what to do.
So I did what any panicked chef might do. I opened the refrigerator and cracked open one of the Sutter Home Sauvignon Blanc 187ml single serves I had. Seriously. Then, I took my glass of wine and googled "easy pumpkin bisque" recipes and quickly made the adjustment and veto-ed the shrimp.
I made my soup, got cleaned up while it simmered and it was a hit. And the best part is that I totally played the lack of shrimp off on the fact that one of the guests was allergic and I was just looking out for him.
If they only knew...
So I would hate to think that I'm alone in my Thanksgiving malfunction. Anyone have any good stories? Leave me a comment so I don't feel so bad about holiday blunders...
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Surrounded by family and friends, 100 year old Betty Watson welcomed in the start of her second century with a sunshine filled garden party.
The centenarian - the oldest resident of Benwell's Allan Court care home - was born before the first shots of World War One were even fired, though spend her life far from the front lines on Tyneside.
"The party went very well," said home administrator Tania Elliott. "Betty was very happy - though I think a little tired by it all.
"Quite a few people came. All her family were there.
"She's our oldest resident, but still going strong."
Elizabeth "Betty" Watson was born in Gateshead on June 23 1914 to Frederick and Hannah Watson.
As a child she lived in Dunston, and recalled her days playing with other children from her neighbourhood.
"I remember staying with my neighbour throughout the day and we used to have so much fun," said Betty. "She was a very good friend.
"I attended Kelvin Grove School in Gateshead, and though I wasn't very keen on school, I did enjoy netball.
"There was no TV or radio back in those days and I also spent my time knitting and crocheting."
However, it was a childhood tinged with sadness as Hannah died when Betty was very young.
"I left school and worked as a waitress, and from there I went on to work as a wages clerk for British Road Services in Gateshead.
"And though the years went by I never married or had children."
Eventually Betty moved to the West End of Newcastle, where she would remain until last August, when she moved into Allan Court.
"I became a resident at Prince Philip Court and I made lots of friends and joined many organisations - one of my favourites was the Co-op Guild WI sequence dance group.
"But after many accidents and falls, and for the safety of my health, I decided to move into Allan Court care home last year.
"Now my neighbour Kim visits often and keeps in touch with my sister Ella, and my two nephews who live a long way away - though they visit whenever they can."


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Sainsburys has been using athene® capacity management software since 2001 to ensure that, with a constantly growing business base, they provide a consistent level of IT service at all times.
The opening of new supermarkets, convenience stores and extensions during 2012/13 has brought the total number of stores Sainsburys operates to over 1000. This with Online grocery business sales consistently up by 20% per year, means there is a significant increase in demand for IT services.
Tony Burke Service Improvement Manager at Sainsburys commented Having the ability to be able to take a proactive approach to performance and capacity management is vital to us.
Sainsburys will be using athene® at their Head Office and across their business centers and supermarkets.
Andrew Smith Chief Executive Officer at Metron I am delighted that we will continue working with Sainsburys for a further four years. This type of demanding environment highlights the strengths of athene® and its ability to handle multiple systems, bringing the data together into a single management and reporting system
Sainsburys will be extending their use of athene® to include VMware ESX hosts and Linux in addition to Unix and Windows.
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Sainsburys was founded in 1869 and today operates over 1,000 stores, comprising both supermarkets and convenience stores, and employs 150,000 colleagues. It jointly owns Sainsburys Bank with Lloyds Banking Group and has two property joint ventures with Land Securities Group PLC and The British Land Company PLC. The
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South Florida House candidate raises $100K
Daniel Diaz Leyva has raised $100,000 in his bid to represent House District 112, the Republican candidate said Tuesday.
"I am excited to announce today that our campaign has raised over $100,000 in less than 80 days after filing my candidacy," Diaz Leyva wrote in an email to supporters. "This was no easy task especially when running against an incumbent."
That's a serious haul for a state House race that's still a year away -- and news that has Florida Democrats concerned.
At the close of the last fundraising period (Oct. 31), incumbent state Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, a Democrat, had amassed about $51,000 in cash and in-kind contributions for his reelection campaign, records show.
Diaz Leyva had raised about $85,000 by the same deadline, records show.
The contest between two young attorneys is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched House races in South Florida.
District 112 includes several Miami neighborhoods: Brickell, the Roads, Coconut Grove and parts of Little Havana. It also includes some of Coral Gables.


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Jennifer Michael offers a rather mix bag of professional event management in Sydney, a growing trend of which she is at the forefront of.
Online PR News – 26-May-2014 – Sydney, Australia – Jennifer Michael is one of the leading event management services in Sydney. According to industry experts, services like Jennifer Michael are the future of the event management and planning industry, the reason being that these services offer an all in one solution. In the case of Jennifer Michael the service offers not just planning for weddings and birthdays but also for corporate events, Bar&Bat Mitvahs and engagements etc. This essentially allows for one professional or a team of professionals to use their existing network of links to extract the best rates and arrange for these events even at short notice.
In the old days event management was considered a huge task and often required the help of multiple experts and coordinators depending on the size of the event. Many times businesses would have to start planning and preparing for an event at least a year in advance, the same for wedding couples and couples who wanted to get engaged in a memorable ceremony. That said hiring a professional planner was also a costly affair with some planners charging thousands of dollars owing to the fact that there were few and far between but even then people complained that the events planned were not up to the mark and for businesses it meant losing face.
Today, businesses like Jennifer Michael are able to offer almost every type of event management service you can think of, even ones that they have never planned before. Jennifer Michael is also able to offer many of these services at a far lower cost compared to competitors owing to the fact that they have a network of vendors and partners who offer the business their best rates. This is why many wedding couples and businesses alike find it a lot cheaper and easier to hire a professional service like Jennifer Michael.
"Event planning is a science but it also requires skill, the skill part of the process is actually knowing who to speak to and how to get the job done right. A lot of this can only be learnt from experience and I think we have a lot of experience regardless of the event we are asked to plan. Our extensive portfolio of clients and vendors is simply testament to our ability to plan an array of events," said the team lead for Jennifer Michael. "Even though some events take longer to plan and are more difficult, our rates are very competitive and we offer a one stop, hassle free solution to our clients."
Over the past few years Jennifer Michael has definitely earned a name in the event management industry. This has mainly been because of the great customer service and almost instantaneous response time that prospective and existing customers experience.
In order to find out more about Jennifer Michael's services simply start by visiting: www.JenniferMichael.com.au. If you are in a real hurry you can also call the number on the website anytime during business days and business hours.
81/88 Wycombe Rd,
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81/88 Wycombe Rd, Neutral Bay NSW 2089
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Hi Jen,
Thank you for your reply. I'm not exactly sure how I fixed the second issue, but I did in fact resolve it. As far as the code goes, it was a dumb mistake on my part, not checking to see if the taxonIds variable had any child elements in it. So when a post didn't have one of my custom classifications set, it would throw the "Id cannot be an empty Guid" error. That makes perfect sense.
As far as the issue I had loading the content item itself to edit it's contents, I'm really not sure why that went away. I made sure every dll had copy to local set to true and redeployed my code, recycled the app pool in IIS, and it seemed to fix the issue. Will keep an eye out if it happens again. Thanks again Jen.
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Dubai, UAE, United Arab Emirates, 2006/05/30 - Regional market reflects analyst predictions of global expansion in inkjet and laser MFDs.
The Middle East consumer electronics market is expected to record a rapid increase in demand for Multi-Function Devices (MFD) during 2006, driving the growth of the computer product manufacturing industry and bringing regional consumers the benefits of better-designed, feature-packed and more affordable models of Multi-Function products.
Khalil El-Dalu, General Manager, Epson Middle East said: Multi-Function Devices are becoming common placements in homes and offices. We expect demand for Epsons MFDs to grow by 25 per cent this year. The market is already witnessing a trend where Single Function Devices (SFD) are making way for affordable, feature-packed MFDs. Multi-Function Devices accounted for 44 per cent of Epsons total inkjet unit shipments in fiscal 2005, which we expect to rise to 50 per cent in 2006.
Multi-Function Devices are basically printers that come with built-in scanners and fax modems, and double as copiers and fax machines. Consumers prefer MFDs as these offer a cost-effective solution with a single machine requiring one set of consumables as against investing in several machines that need different sets of consumables. These devices occupy far less space than that required to accommodate several SFDs and are therefore ideally suited for modern, small offices and homes where space is a major constraint.
Booming consumer sales and a growing awareness of the advantages they offer have elevated MFDs from a niche market to mainstream technology. Multi-Function Devices now come with a range of capabilities, offering printer or photocopier technology, inkjet or laser models, black and white or colour models, business colour functionality and high-end graphics colour.
Higher unit shipments of Multi-Function Printers benefited Epsons revenues during 2005-2006. This trend is expected to continue during fiscal 2006. The company predicts a steady expansion of the inkjet printer market, with demand projected to shift away from Single-Function Printers and toward Multi-Function Printers and photo printers. Epson also expects sales of low-priced colour models in the laser printer market to grow, especially in overseas markets during the year.
The past months have seen Epson successfully launching its range of stylishly designed feature-packed MFDs incorporating innovative technologies - Stylus Photo RX700, Stylus Photo RX520, Stylus CX 3700, Stylus CX 4700 and Stylus CX 4100 - in the Middle East.
Considered one of the best in the series, the Stylus Photo RX 700 model offers serious photo enthusiasts top quality photo printing, scanning, copying and archiving functionality. Incorporating features such as Photo Fine preview display, CD face printing and Photo Enhance retouching technology, the Stylus Photo RX 700 comes in a distinctive design that won it the iF Product Design Award.
Similarly, the easy-to-use Stylus Photo RX520 features Micro Piezo technology, allowing users to make high quality prints directly from popular memory cards, PictBridge and USB Direct-Print digital cameras and to copy, enlarge, retouch photos in a single step.
Targeting the home and Small and Medium Business segment, the Stylus CX 4700 and Stylus CX 3700 models use Epsons flexible DURABrite Ultra ink and offer highly durable, laser-like prints alongside scanning and copying capabilities. While the Stylus CX 4700 comes with memory card slots and PictBridge compatibility, the Stylus CX3700 is a more cost-effective but stylishly packaged model. The Stylus CX4100 is a high-performing versatile solution featuring BorderFree printing technology.
Recent figures by analysts show that the demand for MFDs is growing at a fast clip. IDC points out that inkjet MFDs are expected to grow at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of around 82 per cent between 2004 and 2006, while laser MFDs will grow at a CAGR of around 40 per cent during the same period. The home-user segment, along with the entry-level commercial market within inkjet MFDs, is expected to provide the biggest growth opportunity.
Multi-Function Devices offer total value for money by integrating more functions in a single product. Epsons Stylus Photo range of MFDs has gone down well among quality-conscious photo enthusiasts and professionals in the Middle East. We expect this trend, coupled with the growth of multimedia applications, to intensify in the months ahead, pushing up demand for MFDs, El-Dalu pointed out.
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