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The U Files #11: The Case of The Wayward Owner - New York - Scout
The U Files #11: The Case of The Wayward OwnerDarren Uscianowski (Photo by Getty Images)11/22/2002The Mets are ever more looking like a mime "trapped in a box". Trapping themselves in a box of their own making and looking foolish trying to get out of it. They've stuck to a "win now" philosophy, at least in theory. In practice it's been a "won a bit then" philosophy well on it's way to a "won't win again" philosophy.In the 2000 season, the Mets reached the World Series with a roster of mostly unspectacular veterans. The following offseason, they lost first baseman John Olerud to free agency. Immediately they signed Todd Ziele to replace Olie. This deal illustrates their lack of creativity and dependence on "proven veterans". To replace pitcher Mike Hampton, they signed Kevin Appier to a contract funkier than the pitcher's delivery.
When their team of expensive stopgaps stopped up over their own gaps in talent, Steve Phillips went mad. In a bewildering series of maniacal moves, the general manager picked up bad contracts belonging to crusty veterans in the guise of repairing the defective parts of his engine. When that failed, we can only assume he consoled himself with the preseason Rotisserie awards he won. It was manager Bobby Valentine who got hit when the axe inevitably fell.
What has become quite clear by now is that the entire theory behind the team's construction needs to be completely overhauled. The Mets shortsighted approach got them into an expensive bind, and continuing to weave their psychotic tapestry will only sink them deeper into the confusing maze. What the Mets need to do is cut their binding cords and regrow the team from the roots.
In dealing away their overpriced, underproducing veterans, the Mets only managed to acquire overpriced veterans contractually obliged to under produce for years further. The only way to relieve themselves of the burden is to wait until the contracts expire. However, owner Fred Wilpon seems to believe that bringing back the same tired players will produce negative results at the ticket office. He's right, but what he can't see is that he won't produce big sales until he can field a team cleansed of it's overpriced baggage, a fresh new team built around a young homegrown core. After all, this is the way the Mets can get back to a winning franchise. Unwilling to wait a few years until he can build a consistent winner, he's focused on finding old luggage that will carry it's own weight. To rid themselves of Appier, they picked up the impressive girth of Mo Vaughn. Even Vaughn couldn't fit his contract into his wide belt, and for the Mets he did little more than wow fans with a 505-foot blast of a home run on June 26th. Taken from a paradise in Fenway Park and placed in the restrictive environs of Shea Stadium, his aged self did as little as could be reasonably expected. Fortunately or unfortunately, there may be no worse contract the Mets can exchange for his, so they seem to be stuck with him whether they like it or not. Wilpon has commanded Vaughn to lose weight in the hopes this may restore some measure of productiveness to the former slugger.
Rey Ordonez may be tradeable, if the Mets aren't bothered by the pathetic sum they can expect in return. Or, he can be packaged in another deal as a throw-in. The Mets have finally grown tired of the useless shortstop and have a shiny new replacement to slot in named Jose Reyes. The Mets shouldn't care who the stopgap is that they employ, as long as he's not Rey Ordonez. If it comes to it, they have Jorge Velandia, a cheap clone of Ordonez. He can fill in for a year and be disposed of once the golden child Reyes is ready to step up to the plate.
To replace Ziele, the Mets picked up Jeromy Burnitz and Jeff D'Amico in a three way trade. Burnitz was never the best suited hitter for Shea Stadium, being a pure swing-for-the-fences home run hitter whose power would be sapped by the dead air of Flushing Meadows. Still, more should have been reasonably expected than the season-long parade of strikeouts and popups that ensued. He may be tradeable on the premise that he can restore his former productivity in a new environment. However, such a deal would only bring back more baggage. Teams won't be willing to pick up so much salary to inherit a question. They'll balance the money coming in with money going out. A player with as much uncertainty as Burnitz won't net a player who produces numbers as big as his contract.
D'Amico completely bombed out as well, but he is a free agent this year. Roger Cedeno was signed in one of the more mindless moves of the trading season. The speedster had had only one good year and never produced any power whatsoever. He did produce numbers even lower than would have been expected, though even a more normal season wouldn't have been worth the cost in draft picks. The Mets will seek to trade Cedeno, but will likely face the same problems as with trading Burnitz. Luckily, his contract is not as expensive as Burnitz'.
The roster the Mets have currently, or would likely have if they traded their current problems, is bogged down with too much dead wood for aging stars Mike Piazza and Al Leiter to carry. The Mets won't be able to build a winner with a fresh nucleus within the remaining playing lifetimes of Piazza and Leiter. Surrounded by dead wood, they won't be able to go anywhere with this team. With improvements in performance by their players and choice good moves, the Mets may move into the 80+ win range at best.
If the Mets sign a big name free agent, they have to be sure they can contend. Otherwise, said player will only tie down more money and years for mediocre teams. Right now, the Mets cannot be sure they can contend. Mike Piazza, Al Leiter, and Edgardo Alfonzo will suffice to provide as much leadership as the kids will need as the new nucleus of the Mets is brought through it's infancy. Also, the Mets need to make sure any signed player(s) will be able to produce during the years of their contract(s).
One signing the Mets should make is of their own free agent third baseman Alfonzo. He provides consistent on-base ability and solid defense, and is perfect for the number two spot in the lineup. He is the best on-base man the Mets have. Off his last two years, he should not command as much money as he would have if he continued as he had before. Also, the available free agent replacements do not look appetizing. Fonzie and Cliff Floyd seem the only good free agents with listed ages under 30. Japanese third baseman Norihiro Nakamura cannot provide more than questions until it is shown how well Japanese power hitters adjust to American baseball. Nakamura has shown in Japan he is not an on-base kind of guy, I must say with a polite bow of apology.
The move that set off the Mets trading bonanza was the trade of prospect Alex Escobar and others to the Indians for second baseman Roberto Alomar. Escobar, a decent prospect, wasn't the heaviest price to pay for Alomar. Indeed, the trade by itself was not a bad move at all. It is unfortunate, though, that Escobar was the only decent outfielder in the organization, and is now gone.
Still, trading of prospects should be discouraged at the moment. At this point we should look to them as the future of the Mets. Right now the Mets do not have a depth of talent to trade from. Once the nucleus is in place and the Mets evaluate which prospects are non-essential, those can be dealt.
The Mets philosophy of late shows that Fred Wilpon is overly concerned with keeping ticket sales up. He will sign a free agent to attract fans without concern over the future. He trades names the Shea faithful have tired of for fresh names with their own baggage that perpetuates a vicious cycle. His names have not produced wins.
The names that can produce wins are Jose Reyes and Aaron Heilman, if the Mets can build a team around the gems of their farm. In so doing it will be greatly helpful not to be bogged down with dead wood names. When the time is right to sign free agents and pull off the trades to surround our new nucleus with the players needed to fill out a winning team, we will need money and space.
That the Mets pursued name Lou Piniella and signed name Art Howe to manage, and are rumored to have interest in names Tom Glavine and Denny Neagle shows that they have not changed from their dysfunctional philosophy. Be forewarned to expect more articles from me with the same tone if this does not change.
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Scouting report: Gary Hooper, Scunthorpe United
The 20-year-old Iron forward has a good touch and can play at breakneck speed
Tue 3 Mar 2009 03.25 EST First published on Tue 3 Mar 2009 03.25 EST
Gary Hooper, Scunthorpe United. Photograph: Neal Simpson/Empics Sport/PA Photos
Gary Hooper's all-round game during Scunthorpe's recent 2-0 defeat at Southend was disappointing, although it is never easy going back to a club you have just left and coming up against players who were your team-mates a short while ago, something I know only too well. It also did not help Hooper that Southend's big centre-half, Peter Clarke, got into him both physically and verbally and managed to knock him out of his stride in what was an undoubtedly awkward game for the 20-year-old.
Although there were not many of them, Hooper did still manage to prove some moments of quality, particularly when a sniff of a goalscoring chance presented itself. There were two moments when Hooper looked really sharp and showed just how capable he is; once in the first half when he accelerated between the two centre-halves, leaving them both for dead, and dug a shot out with the outside of his right foot. Unfortunately for Hooper, the Southend goalkeeper, Steve Mildenhall, stood up and did not commit himself by going to ground. The second moment came late in the second half when Hooper received the ball on the right-hand side of the penalty area, took a touch, keeping his body between the ball and the advancing defender, and hit a fierce rising drive from the angle that Mildenhall did well to turn away.
Hooper clearly has a good touch, although on too many occasions against Southend he received the ball on the move, meaning he never got settled and so either had to look for a first-time pass or lost possession with a loose touch because of the pace he was playing at. In fact, much of Hooper's game is played at either breakneck speed when he is involved in play or at walking pace when he is not. In this respect, it is vital for his development that he gets more involved.
Hooper also loves to play off the last man but he has to get the balance right to ensure the player on the ball has time to pick him out so he can make the run in behind or, when the player on the ball is in a tight area, offer an option short in order to provide his team-mate with a yard of space to play in.
I would also like to see Hooper work harder to get closer to his striking partner, particularly from throw-ins deep inside Scunthorpe's half, and when the ball is played long out of defence, to do more to get in front of his marker and not allow that player to have a free header back towards the Scunthorpe goal. This is certainly something he can do as once or twice against Southend he gained free-kicks just by showing good body strength and standing his ground.
But despite all these shortcomings, I still left Roots Hall with the definite impression that Hooper is a genuine goalscorer. This was a hunch borne out by the brace he got away to Leeds on Saturday, which took his tally to a more than impressive 24 for the season. If he improves his all-round game then there is no doubt in my mind that Hooper can progress to a higher level.
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Karan Johar set to launch fresh faces in Bollywood - bollywood - Hindustan Times
Karan Johar set to launch fresh faces in Bollywood
After successfully launching three debutants — Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt — in Student Of The Year (2012), Karan Johar now plans on furthering his reputation as Bollywood’s talent-scout-in-chief.
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After successfully launching three debutants — Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt — in Student Of The Year (2012), Karan Johar now plans on furthering his reputation as Bollywood’s talent-scout-in-chief. “With Dharma Productions, I’ve launched more than 11 filmmakers and now I’m starting to launch new acting talent,” says Karan, who will soon start shooting his first short film, Bombay Talkies.
Some of the directors from the Karan Johar school include Karan Malhotra (Agneepath; 2012), Punit Malhotra (I Hate Luv Storys; 2010), Ayan Mukerji (Wake Up Sid; 2009) and Siddharth Malhotra (We Are Family ; 2010). Karan is known to still mentor these artistes.
The filmmaker is equally concerned about the future projects of his newly launched actors as well. Reportedly, Varun has bagged a lead role in a non-Karan Johar film; Alia will be working in Imtiaz Ali’s next; and Sidharth is yet to sign his next. Karan has taken it upon himself to announce their next projects, even if the films are not produced by him.
“They have already been offered films, and very soon, I will announce them. It’s wonderful that they have been accepted, not only by the media, but also by the audience,” he says.
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The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab by Janice S. C. Petrie, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
by Janice S. C. Petrie (Illustrator)Janice S. C. Petrie
The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab is a story set in Duxbury, MA about a sleek little horseshoe crab who learns how taking critters and creatures for a ride could save his life. This picture book has a whimsical, rhyming style, and portrays horseshoe crabs exhibiting behaviors that they commonly use in real life. It is the perfect choice for a family read aloud for
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The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab is a story set in Duxbury, MA about a sleek little horseshoe crab who learns how taking critters and creatures for a ride could save his life. This picture book has a whimsical, rhyming style, and portrays horseshoe crabs exhibiting behaviors that they commonly use in real life. It is the perfect choice for a family read aloud for children 2-8 years old. It also is a great tool for teachers who are studying marine life, tidepools, or coastal sea animals, and is an invaluable resource for language arts teachers. The fun, colorful, simply drawn illustrations are expressive, and bring each sea creature to life. Although two horseshoe crabs are the central characters, periwinkles, limpets, barnacles, and green and jonah crabs are also portrayed in the story. There are information pages included in the back of the story that tell interesting facts about horseshoe crabs, as well as the other sea animals that have been introduced in the book.
In Petrie's (Did You Make the Hole in the Shell in the Sea?, 2013, etc.) educational children's book, a horseshoe crab learns that an apparent fashion statement is actually necessary for survival.
As a young horseshoe crab wanders the seafloor, "flapping his gills" and "gliding with ease," he notices something peculiar—a fellow horseshoe crab who's a bit older, with bits of seaweed, barnacles, and other sea fauna encrusting her shell. The youngster is shocked that his female counterpart would choose to mar her shell this way—why not be light and free? Upon closer inspection, he sees that she has periwinkles, limpets, barnacles, and seaweed covering her sleek outer shell. Although the younger horseshoe crab is bewildered at the idea of weighing oneself down on purpose, he quickly learns why it's smart. As the sea retreats and the tide gets low, the female horseshoe crab buries herself in the sand, disguising her shell and avoiding the watchful eye of predatory birds. From the air, she just looks like a bunch of seaweed in the ocean. Without anything to hide behind, the younger horseshoe crab is quickly snatched into the sky by a sea gull, but the crustacean manages to fall from its grasp by twisting and turning. After this near-death experience, he understands the wisdom of collecting creatures to live on his carapace, and he's soon lumpy, bumpy, and, most importantly, safe. Petrie once served as an outreach educator for the New England Aquarium, and her knowledge of and passion for marine life is apparent throughout this colorful work. Readers don't need to have a deep interest in marine biology to love this book; it's so engrossing and engaging that the fact that it's also educational is just an added bonus. Children won't just learn about horseshoe crabs: after the story is over, the last pages offer a glossary of the sea creatures mentioned within, including limpets, Jonah crabs, and barnacles. Petrie's bright illustrations are also a delight. Overall, this work is sure to inspire further under-the-sea exploration at bedtime and beyond.
A fun marine adventure that's fit for everyone.
In her children's book, Petrie uses simple, bright images and a playful rhyming scheme to convey her message that horseshoe crabs have a greater purpose than their appearance may suggest. She's also hoping her readers will feel the same spark she felt 20 years ago.
"I love the little guys, and I think they're incredible," Petrie said. "And people would, too, if they spent some time with them." --(Muriel C. Hoffacker)
Topsfield resident Janice S.C. Petrie knows so much about horseshoe crabs that she wrote a children's book "The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab" to debunk common myths about the sea creatures and to educate children.
"Horseshoe crabs are not well known. They get a bad rap! There are many misconceptions about these friendly sea creatures," Petrie said.
"The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab" is a story set in Duxbury, MA about a sleek, little horseshoe crab that learns how taking critters and creatures for a ride could save his life.
While working as an outreach teacher at the New England Aquarium in Boston, Petrie became interested in learning more about horseshoe crabs.
"I learned how to catch a horseshoe crab and was able to observe them in their nature habitat," Petrie said. Petrie, a graphic designer, certified K-8 teacher and reading specialist, collects her horseshoe crabs and other sea creatures from Power Point Bridge in Duxbury.
"Horseshoe crabs are easy to collect in shallow water. I have always gone to Power Point Bridge to find horseshoe crabs and I never come home empty-handed!" Petrie said.
For many years Petrie, founder of Seatales Education Company, went to elementary schools to give sea creature demonstrations to students.
"I would catch sea creatures in September for my school presentations and release them back into the wild in June," Petrie explained.
Petrie created an impressive system to make sure the animals were kept in a similar environment to what they were use to, even though they were in Topsfield.
Through demonstrations, Petrie learned the biggest misconception people have about horseshoe crabs is they sting because of their long tails.
"They do not sting or even bite! Horseshoe crabs use their tails for balance," Petrie explained.
Horseshoe crabs are very valuable for science research, Petrie added. Scientists are interested in horseshoe crabs for a number of reasons including their optic nerve, chitin shell and blue blood. "Scientists have discovered that a horseshoe crab's oxygen-based blood has the ability to clot when it reaches certain temperatures."
In the 1960s, Dr. Frederik Bang, a Johns Hopkins researcher working at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, found when common marine bacteria were injected into the bloodstream of the North American horseshoe crab, massive clotting occurred.
Their blood is used by the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to ensure that their products, such as prosthetic limbs and vaccines, are free of bacterial contamination, Petrie explained.
"Horseshoe crabs are invertebrates, meaning they do not have a backbone, but they do have a very hard shell," says Petrie.
Their shell is made out of chitin, a flexible but hard material.
"Chitin from horseshoe crabs is used to make chitin-coated sutures and contact lenses," Petrie said.
Although horseshoe crabs are a valuable resource to the medical community, they are in danger of extinction, Petrie added.
"Fishermen use horseshoe crabs as bait to catch conch," Petrie said.
For more information about horseshoe crabs check out Petrie's youtube video by searching for "The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab."
On Monday, July 25 at 10:30 a.m., Petrie will be reading her new book at the Topsfield Town Library. Sea animals are also expected to make an appearance. "The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab" has a whimsical, rhyming style, and portrays horseshoe crabs exhibiting behaviors that they commonly use in real life.
"Although it is a fictional story, I tried to make it as accurate as possible," Petrie said.
"I was always interested in writing a children's book," Petrie said. "This book is a great tool for teachers who are studying marine life, tide pools, or coastal sea animals."
Petrie used her graphic design experience to create colorful, fun and simply drawn illustrations that are expressive and bring each sea character to life.
Although two horseshoe crabs are the central characters, periwinkles, limpets, barnacles and green and Jonah crabs are also featured in the story.
In the last few pages, Petrie includes additional information about horseshoe crabs and the other sea animals that appear in the book.
"The main reason I wrote a book about horseshoe crabs is because I thought the more familiar and comfortable people get with horseshoe crabs, the more apt they would be to care about them and want to protect them," Petrie added.--(Suzanne Snell)
They hang out at the beach and are so scary looking you think they might bite. No, they're not men wearing Spandex.
These little creatures are actually horseshoe crabs and author Janice S. C. Petrie, who grew up in Montrose and raised her children in Greenwood, has written a book about them.
Written in rhyme, "The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab" is set in Duxbury at Powder Point Bridge and is for children ages three to nine. The book tells the story of horseshoe crabs and their undersea adventures. A glossary is included at the end of the book and teaches about limpets, barnacles and other underwater life forms and explains the individual parts of a horseshoe crab. Petrie said that she learned details about the "sweet" horseshoe crabs while working for the New England Aquarium at the wooden Powder Point Bridge. She also worked for Seatales Publishing Company for 20 years where she learned about other forms of sea life.
"In writing the book, my hope was that the more familiar people become with the crabs, the more they'll be apt to want to protect them," she said. "It's amazing how many people know so little about these sea creatures."
Petrie, a Topsfield resident for the past 15 years, said that horseshoe crabs are an endangered species, and the entire population could be wiped out if measures are not taken to protect them. For instance, she said they are used as bait in the conch industry and to catch other seafood, and these practices could wipe out the entire population.
The horseshoe crabs, she said, are not royalty but they actually do have blue blood. This is because their blood has a copper base that appears blue when oxygen is present, whereas when human iron-based blood has oxygen present, it appears red.
This finding has led to the LAL test, which helps to expose bacterial contamination of injectable and intravenous drugs. LAL testing is also used to screen prosthetic devices such as heart valves and hip replacements for bacterial contamination.
To learn more about the horseshoe crab, Google You tube and type "The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab" on the search line. To view Petrie's Facebook page, type in the title of the book after going to the Facebook site.
Surprising facts about horseshoe crabs:
• A horseshoe crab's tail is not a weapon; in fact, it's fragile. Therefore, crabs should never be picked up by their tails.
• It takes a male crab nine years to reach reproductive maturity and female crabs 10 years.
• Loggerhead turtles and shore birds depend on horseshoe crabs and their eggs for food.
• If horseshoe crabs die out, these populations can be reduced and biomedical research would screech to a halt.
• Horseshoe crabs have aided eye research, and their shells are used in sutures that are absorbed by the body in dressings for wounds. --(Gail Lowe)
Janice Petrie first learned about horseshoe crabs when she worked for the New England Aquarium as an outreach teacher. Since then, she has spent years caring for horseshoe crabs and other coastal marine animals, providing hands-on programs to children in schools throughout New England. Janice Petrie holds a B.S. in Education and a M.Ed. in Reading, as well as a B.A. in Art with a concentration in Graphic Design.
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I am a third grade teacher and read this book to my class. The vocabulary is wonderful, "debris." Being from Maine I figured the children were aware of what a horseshoe crab was, but NO. The book is sure to bring on much discussion. Fabulous! A must read!
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I read "The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab" to my class of 2-3 year olds. They really liked it, especially the part where the seagull swooped down and grabbed the horseshoe crab and then wiggled free and fell back into the water. We had to look at those few pages and talk about them again and again! I also read the story to my 7 year old and she really liked it as well!!
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I am a fourth grade teacher. Recently, I read The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab to my students. Each year we study the ocean biome and this book nicely illustrates the need for adaptation in order to survive in the ocean environment. The rhyming pattern of the text is a fun read.
Fun and colorful illustrations.Text is rhyming and rhythmic, which makes it fun to read!
I received this wonderful children's book on Wednesday and couldn't wait to read it to my first graders at Brophy Elementary School, Framingham, MA. The students extremely enjoyed this story as a read aloud as they had touched and felt a horseshoe crab when we went to the Aquarium. The rich vocabulary and rhymes kept students highly engaged. Although my students knew it was a fiction story, they appreciated the non-fiction elements including the glossary, diagrams, and facts throughout the book. They wondered whether the author was an expert on horseshoe crabs. Some direct quotes from my students include: "I like this book because it tells us about real life in the ocean;" "I think it is a good book and I hope the author writes another book about a seahorse;"
"The pictures are cool! How did she make them? Maybe with markers."
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The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab is an extremely enjoyable book for both children and adults. The rhyming story is fun to read, the characters are expressive and the illustrations are beautiful. My classroom of preschoolers (4 year-olds) found The Bumpy Lumpy Horseshoe Crab entertaining and ask for it to be read during Circle Time whenever they see it on the shelf! As a teacher, I find the last few pages very educational, which explains what the other animals are that are in the book too.

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Manchester City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo under scrutiny as numbers show Chilean has conceded 14 goals from the last 22 shots he has faced | Daily Mail Online
Manchester City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo under scrutiny as numbers show Chilean has conceded 14 goals from the last 22 shots he has faced
Manchester City were beaten 4-0 by Everton on Sunday afternoon
The Toffees scored from their first three shots on goal
City have conceded a goal from the first shot in four of their last seven games
Claudio Bravo has the worst shots-to-goal ratio in the Premier League
Published: 07:44 EDT, 16 January 2017 | Updated: 09:28 EDT, 16 January 2017
Manchester City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo has conceded 14 goals from the last 22 shots he has faced in the Premier League.
The Chilean is yet to convince the City faithful of his ability to replace Joe Hart and did his cause no help with a hapless display against Everton on Sunday.
Pep Guardiola's men were thrashed 4-0 at Goodison Park with the Toffees scoring from their first three attempts.
Claudio Bravo has conceded 14 goals from his last 22 shots faced in the Premier League
Bravo (right) can only watch as Tom Davies' lifted finish makes its way toward goal
PREMIER LEAGUE GOALS CONCEDED FROM LAST 22 SHOTS
14 - Claudio Bravo
11 - Artur Boruc
11 - Fraser Forster
11 - Lee Grant
11 -Lukasz Fabianski
11 - Ron-Robert Zieler
10 - Steve Mandanda
9 - Shay Given
8 - David Marshall
8 - Kasper Schmeichel
8 - Wayne Hennessey
7 - Eldin Jakupovic
7 - Loris Karius
7 - Maarten Stekelenburg
6 - Adrian
6 - Ben Foster
6 - Hugo Lloris
6 - Jordan Pickford
6 - Simon Mignolet
5 - Tom Heaton
5 - Vito Mannone
4 - Darren Randolph
In fact the Sky Blues have conceded a goal from the first shot they have faced in four of their last seven games.
And fingers are starting to be pointed firmly in the direction of Bravo, who moved to the Etihad for £17million last summer.
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Bravo's 14 goals conceded from his 22 shots faced becomes all the more worrying for his manager when compared with stoppers at the league's top clubs.
For instance it is more than double what Manchester United's David De Gea (4), Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois (5) and Arsenal's Petr Cech have let past them from the same number of shots.
The Chilean puts out a hand but cannot stop Kevin Mirallas's shot beating him
BRAVO 16/17 STATS
Shots faced: 54
% conceded: 43
Shots saved: 57
Bravo has faced 54 shots on target in the Premier League and saved 31, meaning he has conceded 42.59 per cent of the shots on his goal.
They are Southampton’s Fraser Forster (43.33 per cent), Swansea City’s Lukasz Fabianski (43.75 per cent), Stoke City’s Shay Given (45.16 per cent) and Leicester City’s Ron-Robert Zieler (47.06 per cent).
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equivalent of nevow.tags.raw for twisted.web.template - Stack Overflow
I'm trying to port pydoctor to twisted.web.template and have hit a pretty basic problem: pydoctor uses epydoc to render docstrings into HTML but I can't see a way to include this HTML in the generated page without escaping. What can I do?
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There is, somewhat intentionally, no way to insert HTML into the page without parsing; twisted.web.template is a bit more of a stickler about producing correct output than nevow was.
Ultimately, your HTML is going to some kind of output stream. You could simply insert a renderer that returns a pair of Deferred objects, and does a .write to the underlying stream after the first one fires but before the second. Kind of gross, but it effectively expresses your intent :).
You can simply re-parse the output of epydoc into HTML using XMLString or similar, so that twisted.web.template can write it out correctly. This will "waste" a little bit of CPU, but in my opinion it will be worth it for (A) the stress-test it will give t.w.t and (B) the guarantee - presuming that t.w.t is correct - that it will give you that you're emitting valid HTML.
As I was writing this answer, however, I realized that point 2 isn't generally possible with arbitrary HTML with the current public API of twisted.web.template. Ideally, you could use html5lib to parse this stuff, and then just dump the parsed input into your document tree.
If you don't mind mucking around with private API, you could probably hook up html5lib's SAX support to the internal SAX parser that we use to load templates.
Of course, the real solution is to fix the ticket you already filed, so you don't have to use private API outside of Twisted itself...
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Thanks for confirming my suspicions that there is no facility for doing this today. I'll give option 2 a go initially.
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Alexis Sanchez has outperformed Sergio Aguero this season | Daily Mail Online
Alexis Sanchez has outperformed fellow South American striker Sergio Aguero this season... but can he help Arsenal beat Manchester City?
Sergio Aguero and Alexis Sanchez are their teams' top scorers
Sanchez leads Aguero in almost every striking and creative metric this season
But Manchester City are seven points ahead of Arsenal in the league
The Gunners need Sanchez to fire them to victory on Sunday
Published: 09:28 EST, 31 March 2017 | Updated: 09:28 EST, 31 March 2017
They are two of the Premier League's deadliest strikers, and the similarities between Alexis Sanchez and Sergio Aguero don't end there.
Both diminutive South Americans who have thrived in the Premier League, neither is certain of their future at their current club.
And as Arsenal and Manchester City prepare to do battle on Sunday, both could be crucial to their teams chances of playing Champions League football next season - whether they are there or not.
Alexis Sanchez and Sergio Aguero are the top scorers for Arsenal and Manchester City
Sanchez's future at Arsenal may be in doubt, but he has been on fire for the Gunners this year
In the statistical battle between the two men, it is Sanchez who has had the edge this season, in almost every department.
First and foremost, the Arsenal man leads his Manchester City counterpart on goals scored, with 18 to Aguero's 13, and despite Sanchez playing more football, he is also ahead on minutes per goal - with 126 minutes per goal, compared to Aguero's 130 minutes.
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That's despite the Argentine striker having more shots per game than the Chilean, Aguero shooting almost five times again, but Sanchez less than four per game.
Of course Sanchez has benefited from being the main man for Arsenal this season, while Aguero has had to compete with Gabriel Jesus for a starting spot since January, only being assured of his place in Pep Guardiola's XI once the Brazilian was injured.
Yet Sanchez's shots to goal percentage suggests that the Chile star may also just be in better form, averaging a 19 per cent conversion compared to Aguero's 14 per cent.
It is not just in front of goal that Sanchez is out in front. When it comes to dribbles he has completed 25 more this season (74 to 59), and at a better rate (68 per cent to 62 per cent).
Aguero has scored 13 goals for City in the league, but not managed a single assist
Sanchez has provided nine assists, and a massive 65 chances for his team-mates
He has also created a massive 65 chances, compared to just 15 from Aguero, and laid on nine assists.
Aguero is yet to provide a single goal for a team-mate this season, despite playing 27 games under Guardiola.
However, none of Sanchez's statistical dominance will matter if he and his Arsenal team-mates cannot find a way to beat City.
Defeat would see Arsenal fall 10 points behind their rivals in the race for Champions League football, albeit with a game in hand.


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European atmosphere and yummy food! - Review of Yellow Vase, Palos Verdes Estates, CA - TripAdvisor
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Their salads are delicious and oh so fresh ... Try their Greek salad with the lemon vinegrette! Yum! The private patio is sweet.
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I really wanted my baby shower here. It was $8 a head more than other places & only allowed for a 2 hour slot or it was an addl $75 an hour. I thought that was crazy but my friend planning the shower was ok with it. However she got the run around for weeks while trying to book my date. It was impossible to connect with the party planner Monica. For 3 weeks we played phone tag & did not have any our emails answered. Then we received a very rude voice mess from Maureen the Manager blaming us for not being responsive & we were advused she didnt hold our date. That was enough for me to take my party of 40 elsewhere. I will never give them my business in any fashion again.
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Just not a very friendly place, food is so-so. Nothing to write home about. Very pretty, though, and I do like the macaroons.
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Great location, great lunch!
Love Yellow Vase! Great location in that it has a lovely view of the sea as well as being in an area in desperate need of a great place to meet for lunch. Perfect portions of tasty paninis and salads and fab selection of omelettes. Great service, very friendly and very accommodating. Love the quirky yellow decor and the tables outside, the running water of the fountains drowns out the sound of passing traffic! In short nice, unpretentious and reasonable as well as having lots of character and tasty food and drink!
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Thanks so much for your review; we love the gorgeous location too!
Excellent lunch spot, Socal meets Provence. A nice addition to the area that was in need of a go to venue.
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Stephen White/Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London By juxtaposing African spears and Aboriginal shields from Australia with electric drills and saws, Mr. Goldstein comments on how a shift in space and time can transform everyday tools into art; and by placing Duchamp’s “Waistcoat for Benjamin Peret” near Asian robes he wonders if Western art can be perceived as art outside of its context.“What fascinates me about our world is that by moving things around we change them,” Mr. Goldstein said. “By changing the context we redefine the object.”While Mr. Goldstein’s crowded selection recalls a cabinet of curiosities from the 16th or 17th century, Ms. Hiller took a more classic approach, choosing just 34 pieces, mainly from the museum’s contemporary and modern holdings.The display is titled “A Work in Progress” because according to Ms. Hiller, weaving a new thread of meanings around a work of art is the museumgoer’s job, not the artist’s.Constantly shifting the focus, the London-based American touches on feminist art, explores art by Israelis and Palestinians, and evokes feelings of fragility and decay with works like Anya Gallacio’s “Preserve Beauty,” red daisies pressed behind glass and left to rot as the show goes on.For many visitors, the exhibition may also prompt reflections on the Holocaust through Christian Boltanski’s “Réserve” (“Storeroom”), an entire wall filled with discarded clothes, and Ms. Hiller’s own “The J. Street Project,” a video installation with images of street signs in Germany marking places that have the word Juden (Jews) in their name.The selection “doesn’t set out to illustrate a thesis, I let the visitors say what they think it means or doesn’t mean,” Ms. Hiller said. “That is something these exhibitions have in common, they show other possibilities.”
Stressing that open-ended aspect, the works in the three exhibitions were left unlabeled, though visitors can pick up leaflets that give details on the objects.Like Ms. Hiller, whose work often involves audience participation, Mr. Shonibare used his stint as curator to bring to the foreground some of the main themes in his own work.For “Earth, Wind, Fire and Water,” the British-Nigerian artist scoured all of the museum’s collections for “hybrids,” objects that display cross-cultural influences and commonalities.Mr. Shonibare arranged the artworks in four clusters, linking them to the four elements.The “Water” section houses a jumble of vessels spanning thousands of years, while “Earth” includes crowns made from European beads used by the Yoruba people in Nigeria and a photo of an 18th-century synagogue in Suriname that blends local design with Dutch architectural elements. “Air” links spiritual objects ranging from ancient pagan statuettes to Jewish and Buddhist religious artifacts, while “Fire,” according to Mr. Shonibare, displays pieces that touch on sensitive subjects — like “Pilgrimage,” a painting by an Israeli artist, Joshua Borkovsky, that refers to the journey devout Muslims make to Mecca.Each cluster is dominated by a personification of the element, created for the show by Mr. Shonibare in his signature style of mannequins dressed in Victorian garments made from colorful, African-looking fabrics.Mr. Shonibare said that revealing the unseen links between cultures is especially important for an exhibition held in Jerusalem, a city where political, ethnic and religious strife make it hard to find common ground.It is a message to humanity “that you can follow the example of artists, because artists don’t have walls, they don’t have boundaries.”Suzanne Landau, the chief curator of fine arts at the museum, said the multilayered exhibitions showed visitors how curating can itself be a rich form of expression.“Each of these exhibitions, I see them as a work of art, not just as an installation,” she said. “It’s something we should do more.”

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Another thriller by JT Ellison. Taylor Jackson is on the hunt for "The Conductor" a killer so sick and twisted...he starves his captives.When he's finished, he creatively disposes of the body by reenacting scenes from famous paintings. And it seems similar macabre works are being displayed in Europe. Taylor teams up with her fiancé, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, and a New Scotland Yard detective named James "Memphis" Highsmythe, a haunted man who only has eyes for Taylor, to put an end to the Conductor's art collection.I actually loved this book and was sorry to see the ending. Now to wait another year for a follow up - pure torture. This is the 4th book in her Taylor Jackson series and it is definitely worth the read. Don't Miss it!!!
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agile - How do you do TDD in a non-trivial application? - Stack Overflow
9 I've read a number of books and websites on the subject of TDD, and they all make a lot of sense, especially Kent Beck's book. However, when I try to do TDD myself, i find myself staring at the keyboard wondering how to begin. Is there a process you use? What is your thought process? How do you identify your first tests?
The majority of the books on the subject do a great job of describing what TDD is, but not how to practice TDD in real world non-trivial applications. How do you do TDD?
tdd agile share|improve this question edited Nov 16 '08 at 22:48
asked Oct 17 '08 at 7:49
I used to have the same problem. I used to start most development by starting a window-designer to create the UI for the first feature I wanted to implement. As the UI is one of the hardest things to test this way of working doesn't translate very well to TDD.
I found the atomic object papers on Presenter First very helpful. I still start by envisioning user actions that I want to implement (if you've got usecases that's a great way to start) and using a MVP or MVC-ish model I start with writing a test for the presenter of the first screen. By mocking up the view until the presenter works I can get started really fast this way. http://www.atomicobject.com/pages/Presenter+First here's more information on working this way.
If you're starting a project in a language or framework that's unknown to you or has many unknown you can start out doing a spike first. I often write unit tests for my spikes too but only to run the code I'm spiking. Doing the spike can give you some input on how to start your real project. Don't forget to throw away your spike when you start on your real project
share|improve this answer answered Oct 17 '08 at 8:06
Please could you explain what "doing a spike" means. I haven't come across the terminaology before. Presumably you mean a prototype?
Nov 26 '08 at 16:31
Spike comes from XP (extreme programming), a spike is smaller than a prototype (my spikes usually take half an hour to an hour). It means writing throwaway code to try out a small piece of technology. Because you're not writing production code you can do spikes without testing and refactoring.
Nov 27 '08 at 10:43
It's easier than you think, actually. You just use TDD on each individual class. Every public method that you have in the class should be tested for all possible outcomes. So the "proof of concept" TDD examples you see can also be used in a relatively large application which has many hundreds of classes.
Another TDD strategy you could use is simulating application test runs themselves, by encapsulating the main app behavior. For example, I have written a framework (in C++, but this should apply to any OO language) which represents an application. There are abstract classes for initialization, the main runloop, and shutting down. So my main() method looks something like this:
myApp &mw = getApp(); // Singleton method to return main app instance
if(mw.initialize(argc, argv) == kErrorNone) {
result = mw.run();
mw.shutdown();
The advantage of doing this is twofold. First of all, all of the main application functionality can be compiled into a static library, which is then linked against both the test suite and this main.cpp stub file. Second, it means that I can simulate entire "runs" of the main application by creating arrays for argc & argv[], and then simulating what would happen in main(). We use this process to test lots of real-world functionality to make sure that the application generates exactly what it's supposed to do given a certain real-world corpus of input data and command-line arguments.
Now, you're probably wondering how this would change for an application which has a real GUI, web-based interface, or whatever. To that, I would simply say to use mock-ups to test these aspects of the program.
But in short, my advice boils down to this: break down your test cases to the smallest level, then start looking upwards. Eventually the test suite will throw them all together, and you'll end up with a reasonable level of automated test coverage.
I start with thinkig of requirements. foreach UseCase analyze UseCase
think of future classes
write down test cases
testing and implementing classes (sometimes adding new tests if I missed sth at point 4). That's it. It's pretty simple, but I think it's time consuming. I like it though and I stick to it. :)
If I have more time I try to model some sequential diagrams in Enterprise Architect.
share|improve this answer answered Oct 17 '08 at 8:00
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I agree that it is especially hard to bootstrap the process.
I usually try to think of the first set of tests like a movie script, and maybe only the first scene to the movie. Actor1 tells Actor2 that the world is
in trouble, Actor2 hands back a
package, Actor1 unpacks the package,
That is obviously a strange example, but I often find visualizing the interactions a nice way to get over that initial hump. There are other analogous techniques (User stories, RRC cards, etc.) that work well for larger groups, but it sounds like you are by yourself and may not need the extra overhead. Also, I am sure the last thing that you want to do is read another book, but the guys at MockObjects.com have a book in early draft stages, currently titled Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests. The chapters that are currently for review may give you some further insight in how to start TDD and continue it throughout.
share|improve this answer answered Oct 17 '08 at 8:13
Thanks for the recommendation. Bootstrapping is a good term.
Oct 17 '08 at 8:44
The problem is that you are looking at your keyboard wondering what tests you need to write.
Instead think of the code that you want to write, then find the first small part of that code, then try and think of the test that would force you to write that small bit of code.
In the beginning it helps to work in very small pieces. Even over the course of a single day you'll be working in larger chunks. But any time you get stuck just think of the smallest piece of code that you want to write next, then write the test for it.
share|improve this answer answered Nov 17 '08 at 0:35
I don't think you should really begin with TDD. Seriously, where are your specs? Have you agreed on a general/rough overall design for your system yet, that may be appropriate for your application? I know TDD and agile discourages Big Design Up-Front, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be doing Design Up-Front first before TDDing your way through implementing that design.
share|improve this answer answered Oct 17 '08 at 8:03
I didn't say begin with TDD, I said how do you do TDD. I have specs. I have conceptual designs. I have use cases. But when the coding comes around, where do you start? Sure, I could write a bunch of random tests for random objects, but that doesn't really bring any cohesion.
Oct 17 '08 at 8:41
Sometimes you don't know how to do TDD because your code isn't "test friendly" (easily testable).
Thanks to some good practices your classes can become easier to test in isolation, to achieve true unit testing.
I recently came across a blog by a Google employee, which describes how you can design your classes and methods so that they are easier to test.
Here is one of his recent talks which I recommand.
He insists on the fact that you have to separate business logic from object creation code (i.e. to avoid mixing logic with 'new' operator), by using the Dependency Injection pattern. He also explains how the Law of Demeter is important to testable code. He's mainly focused on Java code (and Guice) but his principles should apply to any language really.
share|improve this answer answered Nov 17 '08 at 1:33
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Miško Hevery talk's are great, good recommendation.
Nov 17 '08 at 8:06
The easiest is to start with a class that has no dependencies, a class that is used by other classes, but does not use another class. Then you should pick up a test, asking yourself "how would I know if this class (this method) is implemented correctly ?". Then you could write a first test to interrogate your object when it's not initialized, it could return NULL, or throw an exception. Then you can initialize (perhaps only partially) your object, and test test it returns something valuable. Then you can add a test with another initialization value - should behaves the same way. At that time, I usually test an error condition - such as trying to initialize the object with a invalid value. When you're done with the method, goes to another method of the same class until you're done with the whole class. Then you could pick another class - either another independent class, or class that use the first class you've implemented. If you go with a class that relies on your first class, I think it is acceptable to have your test environment - or your second class - instantiating the first class as it has be fully tested. When one test about the class fails, you should be able to determine in which class the problem lies. Should you discover a problem in the first class, or ask whether it will behave correctly under some particular conditions, then write a new test. If climbing up the dependencies you think that the tests you're writing are spanning over to many classes to be qualified as unit-tests, then you can use a mock object to isolate a class from the rest of the system. If you already have your design - as you indicated in a comment in the answer from Jon LimJap, then you're not doing pure TDD since TDD is about using unit tests to let your design emerge. That being said, not all shops allow strict TDD, and you have a design at hand, so let's use it and do TDD - albeit it would be better to say Test-First-Programming but that's not the point, as that's also how I started TDD. share|improve this answer answered Nov 17 '08 at 7:33
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