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The Back Country Pilots Association is interested in the back country air strips in Emery County. Association members like to fly-in and camp from their airplanes. Steve Durtschi from the organization was on hand at the May public lands council meeting to inform the council of the project.
Plans are underway for improvements at the Mexican Mountain air strip. It is within a wilderness study area and is managed so as not to impair wilderness character.
The road into the area has been closed for several years and is blocked off about three miles west of the airstrip. Improvements will be made to the airstrip and fire rings as well as picnic tables will be placed there to add to the amenities for the fly-in campers.
Fly-in campers have worked to clean-up the area and carry out their trash after each visit as well as cleaning up behind other campers to the area.
Trail Ace, a contractor out of Idaho, will do the work on the runway. Trail Ace specializes in trail maintenance in areas where motorized equipment cannot be utilized.
The Bureau of land management is evaluating the project and an environmental assessment will be completed by the end of summer.
The work will take place in October and will take approximately 10 days.
The local Back country Horsemen group volunteered to pack supplies in to the location for the project.
The air strip will be closed during the restoration project and will cost approximately $15,000-$20,000.
Durtschi said backcountry airstrips are a national treasure. There are about 12 in the state of Utah. "Mexican Mountain is a premier spot. I hope we can improve it."
Council member Gary Petty said the road to Mexican Mountain is one of the roads involved in the lawsuit and the county would like to see that road re-opened.
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Pan Am Cup: Canada takes first in Group B and advances to quarterfinals
Pan Am Cup men's volleyball championships
Wednesday, June 15 th
1:00pm Panama def. Bahamas 19-25, 25-23, 25-22, 25-18
3:00pm Brazil def. Venezuela 25-23, 25-14, 25-11
6:00pm USA def. Argentina 25-15, 25-21, 25-19
8:00pm Canada def. Dominican Republic 25-18, 25-23, 25-14
Group B Canada vs Dominican Republic
Canada takes first in Group B and advances to quarterfinals
GATINEAU – Gavin Schmitt of Saskatoon scored 20 points to lead Canada to a 25-18, 25-23, 25-14 victory over the Dominican Republic on Wednesday and a berth in the quarterfinals at the Pan Am Cup men's volleyball tournament.
The Canadians conclude the round robin at 2-0 for first place in Pool B. Brazil and the U.S., first in Group A and C respectively get byes to the semis because they had the best points for and against ratio among the first place teams.
Canada joins the three second place teams in the quarterfinals and face Mexico Thursday night at 8 p.m. at the Centre Robert-Guertin in Gatineau. The other quarter pits Argentina against Puerto Rico.
''There are areas we showed improvement especially our serving which was very good tonight,'' said Canada's head coach Glenn Hoag. ''I think it's good for us to play another match. Mexico is a young team that can play really well.''
Canada's team captain Fred Winters of Victoria says there is a lot of room for improvement.
''We just have to keep working,'' he said. ''I know we can be better.''
John Gordon Perrin of Creston, B.C., added eight points for the victors while Justin Duff of Winnipeg and Adam Kaminski of Chatham, Ont., added six apiece.
Eduardo Concepcion led the Dominican with 12 points while Luis Pedro Garcia added 10.
''The team you saw in the first and second set, that was my real team,'' said the Dominican's head coach Jacinto Campechano. ''Overall it was a good match for our guys but we lacked concentration in the third set.''
''Canada was really tough against the block,'' added Dominican Republic's captain Tolinson Aquino. ''It was a good experience.''
The Dominicans (0-2) head to the consolation playoff.
Canadian roster: Nicholas Cundy, Edmonton, Dan Lewis, Oakville, Ont.; Brock Davidiuk, Edmonton; Justin Duff, Winnipeg; Joel Schmuland, Edmonton; Steve Brinkman, Bowmanville, Ont.; Gavin Schmitt, Saskatoon; Olivier Faucher, Quebec City; Adam Kaminski, Chatham, Ont.; Fred Winters, Victoria; Steve Gotch, Okotoks, Alta.; John Gord Perrin, Creston, B.C.
Head coach: Glenn Hoag, Gatineau, Que.
Assistant coach: Vincent Pichette, Gatineau.
Group C USA vs Argentina
Americans beat Argentina and lock-up semifinal berth
GATINEAU – Team USA assured itself a bye to the semifinals on Wednesday defeating Argentina 25-15, 25-21, 25-19 at the Pan Am Cup men's volleyball tournament.
The US finishes first in group C with a 3-0 record and get a bye to the semis because they are assured of having at least the best two point for and against ratios among the first place group finishers. Argentina drops to 2-1 and is headed to the quarterfinals as a second place finisher.
''Argentina has played great defence at this tournament and we knew we had to be at our best today,'' said U.S. head coach Gordon Mayforth. ''I was aware of the points situation and we worked our players hard. We really wanted that day off tomorrow.''
''We got some great experience in those first three matches,'' added US captain Robert Tarr, who led his team with 14 points. ''Argentina was a big challenge for us and that kind of match will really help us.''
William Price added 12 points for the Americans.
Ivan Castellani led Argentina with nine points while Nicolas Mendez had eight.
''This was a great way for us to prepare for the world junior championships,'' said Argentina's head coach Juan Manuel Cichello. ''The U.S., have an incredible defensive-blocking system and we were nervous against that. It's a learning process.''
''They are a hard team to play against,'' added Argentina's captain Juan Ignacio Finoli. ''We've taken this as a great opportunity.''
Group A Brazil vs Venezuela
Brazil turns on the power to place first in Group A
GATINEAU – Raphael Oliveira led all scorers with 14 points as Brazil defeated Venezuela 25-23, 25-14, 25-11 on Wednesday at the Pan Am Cup men's volleyball tournament.
With the victory Brazil finishes first in Group A with a 2-0 record. They must wait the results of the other two matches later this evening to find out whether they head to the quarterfinals or get a bye to the semis. Meanwhile Venezuela finishes at 0-2 and heads to the consolation round while Mexico (1-1) advances to the quarterfinals.
''We improved our rhythm in this second match,'' said Brazil's head coach Flavio Marinho. ''We played with more cohesion than against Mexico. Our goal is to get better and we are happy with the result.''
''Venezuela served well in the first set but I think they got a little discouraged when they didn't win it,'' said Brazil's captain Anderson Rodrigues.
Kevin Pinerua and Maximo Montoya scored 10 points each for the Venezuelans.
''Brazil is very experienced and we are just a bunch of kids,'' said Venezuela's head coach Idolo Herrera. ''We tried hard in the first set then lacked concentration and made too many mistakes.''
''This tournament is a great opportunity for us,'' said Pinerua. ''We've come here to learn.''
Group C Panama vs Bahamas
Panama earns first victory at Pan Am Cup
GATINEAU – Ricardo Brown scored 14 points Wednesday to lead Panama to its first victory at the Pan Am Cup men's volleyball tournament.
The Panamanians improved to 1-2 with a 19-25, 25-23, 25-22, 25-18 victory over the Bahamas which is making its debut at this tournament. The Bahamas concludes the round robin at 0-3 but did win its first set of the tournament.
''I was surprised with how we did not play well at the beginning,'' said Panama's head coach Sergio Balletas. ''After the first set, we seem to get back into our game.''
''The Bahamas showed a lot of variety in its game and that took us a bit off guard at the start,'' added Brown, Panama's captain.
Domingo Avila and Edward Diaz added 12 points apiece for Panama.
The top scorers for the Bahamas were Renaldo Knowles with 15 and Shedrick Forbes with 14.
''We lost focus and you can't do that at this level,'' said Bahamas' head coach Raymond Wilson. ''We gave our opponent confidence and put ourselves in a hole.''
Remaining schedule
Thursday June 16th
1:00pm Consolation Quarter Final: Panama vs Venezuela
3:00pm Consolation Quarter Final : Dominican Republic vs the Bahamas
6:00pm Championship Quarter Final : Argentina vs Puerto Rico
8:00pm Championship Quarter Final : Canada vs Mexico
Friday, June 17th
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1:00pm Consolation Semi Final
3:00pm Consolation Semi Final
6:00pm Championship Semifinal
8:00pm Championship Semifinal
Saturday, June 18th
1:00pm 7th place match
3:00pm 5th place match
6:00pm Bronze medal match
8:00pm Gold medal match
Closing Ceremonies
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Spoiler!Monet is Snow after all eh? Nice to see the differences from her fruit and Aokiji's
so so
Spoiler!Monet is Snow after all eh? Nice to see the differences from her fruit and Aokiji's
Aggravate, Anger, and Piss off
Law has no chance as long as Vergo holds his heart. Now we will be able to gauge how strong Vergo truly is versus Smoker. Luffy is still being clumsy means the situation is not that bad yet.
Law's hat fell off, Maybe Luffy will catch it and bring it back to Law or a slight chance that his crew will bet it. I'm a little impressed on how Law still being able to put a smile on his face even though the odds are against him. Well that's the old Law anyway.
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Yeah law pretty much prepared for everything but not the arival of the SH's and Vergo.
I'm must be honest to say i don't like the way oda is always somehow putting luffy in disadvantage positions
this also goes for law.
law has been beaten twice by vergo now.
though he already beated smoker
But luffy, he was token by suprise by CC and then failed again a second time.
now again monet seemd to get the advantage
but i'm glad oda stated that monet won't be able to defeat luffy.
eather way it still pisses me of now luffy is hold back/delaid once again
Seems monet also never betrayed donfla
who will be her next oppenent. if it's zorro i'm gonna be real pissed of if he doesn't finish her emmidiatly
though i think CC will also will join monet there
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Good chapter.Cant wait to see Smoker vs Vergo.
Finally smoker vs vergo
To be honest i expect Vergo to win this fight. Luffy is gonna but in and kick his ass (at least luffy will be able to defeat someone)
though he (vergo) has taken some damage but he never really used his strenght even against sanji he barely moved
(sry this part was supposed to be part of my previous post)
And why are you quoting yourself?
sig made by me
so, Law>Smoker>Vergo
means that, Law can beat smoker but cannot defeat vergo & smoker cannot beat Law but will beat Vergo.
law can't beat vergo cause vergo got his heart, so stop trying to compare smoker, law and vergo.
Not surprised at luffy being dweeby again & I'm interested in how the situation with the children will be resolved...
To bad zoro isn't doing anything significant atm, but that will prlly change when Dofla's men arrive.


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Restoration of the Gospel
See also Apostasy; Dispensation; Gospel; Smith, Joseph, Jr.
God's reestablishment of the truths and ordinances of his gospel among men on earth. The gospel of Jesus Christ was lost from the earth through the apostasy that took place following the earthly ministry of Christ's Apostles. That apostasy made necessary the restoration of the gospel. Through visions, the ministering of angels, and revelations to men on the earth, God restored the gospel. The Restoration started with the Prophet Joseph Smith (JS—H 1:1–75; D&C 128:20–21) and has continued to the present through the work of the Lord's living prophets.
- The Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains:Isa. 2:2; ( Micah 4:2; 2 Ne. 12:2; )
- God will do a marvellous work and a wonder:Isa. 29:14; ( 2 Ne. 25:17–18; D&C 4:1; )
- God shall set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed:Dan. 2:44;
- Elias will come, and restore all things:Matt. 17:11; ( Mark 9:12; D&C 77:14; )
- There will come times of restitution of all things:Acts 3:21; ( D&C 27:6; )
- In the dispensation of the fulness of times, God will gather together in one all things:Eph. 1:10;
- I saw another angel, having the everlasting gospel to preach:Rev. 14:6;
- The fulness of the gospel will come unto the Gentiles:1 Ne. 15:13–18;
- The Jews shall be restored to the true church:2 Ne. 9:2;
- In the latter day shall the truth come:3 Ne. 16:7;
- Upon you I confer the Priesthood of Aaron:D&C 13:1; ( JS—H 1:69; )
- I have committed the keys of the kingdom for the last times:D&C 27:6, 13–14; ( D&C 128:19–21; )
- Gather together the tribes of Israel and restore all things:D&C 77:9;
- The keys of this dispensation are committed:D&C 110:16; ( D&C 65:2; )
- The priesthood is given in the dispensation of the fulness of times:D&C 112:30;
- I saw two Personages:JS—H 1:17;
- I will reveal unto you the priesthood, by the hand of Elijah:JS—H 1:38; ( Mal. 4:5–6; )


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By DOUG PERRYCommunications director of Utah Association of Counties
On Election Day, Nov. 7, and during the early voting period, Utahns have the opportunity to cast a ballot for various elected offices and propositions. Many of those vying for public office are seeking county government positions. However, some citizens may not understand the role of each county office they are voting for. To help make the most informed decision, it is important to understand the general responsibilities of each elected county office in governing and serving the residents of each community.
All 29 county governments in Utah include various elected offices, such as assessor, attorney, auditor, clerk, commissioner or council member, mayor or executive, recorder, sheriff, surveyor, and treasurer. Depending on each county's individual needs, some of these offices can be combined. It's not uncommon to see the offices of clerk and auditor held by one person, for example. Other offices can be filled by appointment, or in other words a non-elected office.
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But what's the difference between a county assessor and a county treasurer? Here is a list of each county office and the basic responsibilities they have.
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The city of Valparaiso rises from Chile's Pacific coastal plain along steep mountains that surround the port like an amphitheater. The setting that makes it picturesque also put the city at risk in April 2014.
On the afternoon of April 12, a wildfire broke out in the hills south of the city and quickly moved into densely packed neighborhoods of wooden houses. Steep, narrow roads—or no roads at all—challenged firefighters trying to control the fire. By the time the fire was extinguished, 3,309 homes had been destroyed and 15 people had died. It was called the largest, most destructive fire in the city's history.
On May 4, 2014, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite acquired these images of the burned landscape. At the top is a false-color image that incorporates infrared light to make a clear distinction between newly burned land and the surrounding landscape. The fire scar is dark red; plant-covered land is bright green; sparsely vegetated land is tan; and the city is gray and purple. The fire burned 965 hectares (2,385 acres), extending down several hills and ravines toward the center of the city.
The lower image shows a more detailed, natural-color version of the scene. In this case, the newly burned land is dark brown and unburned vegetation is dark green. The city is white. A highway runs through the burn scar, and pale tan roads within the burned area hint at where homes once stood.
Satellite images such as these can help land managers assess both the extent and severity of the burns in a hard-to-reach landscape. This information can show where measures need to be taken to prevent further damage from landslides, erosion, falling trees, and water pollution.
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2014, April 15) Chile: Fire – Emergency plan of action operation no. MDRCL010. Accessed May 6, 2014.
- The New York Times (2014, April 14) After fire, picturesque hills of Chilean port city are left in ruin. Accessed May 6, 2014.
- Redhum (2014, April) Chile – Emergencia Incendio de Interfase. Accessed May 6, 2014.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon using EO-1 ALI data provided by the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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Sigh... AMEN!!!That I'm not 24 and hot and single and living in Cincinnati.
Sigh... AMEN!!!That I'm not 24 and hot and single and living in Cincinnati.
2016 Reds record when I'm attending: 20-14 FINAL2016 Dragons record when I'm attending: 1-0 FINAL
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops." - Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
Last edited by MWM; 04-07-2004 at 01:36 AM.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
Cell phones in movie theaters.
Asking for extra butter and getting less.
Buying a beer at a ballpark when you could have had a 6-pack at home for less.
Realizing that it's better to be at the game after you buy the 6-pack.
Watching the 6-pack gain on you.
Three year passes on player performance due to injury, but bat-by-bat indictments of young players.
Houston's infactuation with Brad Ausmus.
Pitchers who get ahead 0-2 and then Walk the guy.
Where's my dang butter on this stinking popcorn???? Arrrrrrrrghhhhh!
When my wife calls me upstairs to tell me something she could have come downstairs to relay. Communication should not be an endurance sport.
Jeff Foxworthy.
Players who take all day to lollygag to the Outfield. Ditto with home run trots (excusing Dave Parker of course).
Passed balls.
"Tweaks" that turn into strains that turn into sprains that turn into tears.
People on the interstate who mistake speed zone minimums for maximums.
Kids who bump into you in a mall who feel that the words "excuse me" are optional.
Parents who raised aforementioned kids.
The 7th inning stretch. If I'd have wanted to stretch, I'd have taken up yoga. Play some damn baseball.
Todd Van Poppel.
The need to build a ballpark to generate the revenue to compete and then taking an operating loss while cutting payroll.
Lawn gnomes.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch thats over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.
--Ted Williams
Wow, some good ones! I'll add one from another thread...
I don't mind complaining - Redszone is a good place for that - misery loves company. But when there is a problem and there is a means to get an answer to said problem, I find it very annoying (Sorry Chip, sweetie - see cups thread). I sent an email to the Marketing Dept. about last year's cups dying to use the word "cheap" instead I settled for "cutting corners". (of course, the response caused more complaining). But if I was at OD I would have went to Customer Service and ask for an explanation - no matter how silly it made me feel.
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"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Originally Posted by SteelSD
You hate the seventh inning stretch?
Where is your SOUL, man?!
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
ones that lollygag?Originally Posted by Chip R
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Sorry, wheels. That one is bourne of having to listen to Harry Carey spit through the song on WGN broadcasts.Originally Posted by wheels
If I wanted to see old drunk people, I'd have watched the game at the local pool hall...or spiked my great grandmother's ensure.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch thats over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.
--Ted Williams
I'll give you that, sir!
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Those darn LOLLYGAGS or LOLLYGAGGERS!!!What does that make them?!
SYLLABICATION: lol·ly·gag
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: ll-gg KEY
VARIANT FORMS: also lal·ly·gag (ll-)
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: lol·ly·gagged, lol·ly·gag·ging, lol·ly·gags
To waste time by puttering aimlessly; dawdle.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown.
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Shoot I'm annoyed with being called a geek every summer... but I get by.I am annoyed by those who belittle others with their perceived superior knowledge of the art and science of evaluating baseball players.
There was a great article on BP's site by a new writer named Steve Goldman, despite being a Yankee fan he has some good stuff.
I don't post whole articles usually but this one is worth it.
April 05, 2004
You Could Look It Up
by Steven Goldman
In 1937, George and Ira Gershwin wrote a song for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers picture Shall We Dance that was an instant classic satire of the human need to scoff at the merest hint of progress:
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round;
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Rockefeller Center
Now they're fighting to get in;
They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin.
Just as Terry Cashman rewrote the lyrics of "Talkin' Baseball: Willie, Mickey, and the Duke" for just about every franchise in the game (right down to the Rangers version, "Talkin' Baseball: Buddy, Sunny, and the Scoop"--my cat's favorite version because he loves Texas and a clean litter box), there should be an edition of the Gershwin song for baseball, one of the most reactionary of institutions. As a culture, as an institution, from the inside of the commissioner's office to the lowliest beat writer, baseball fears change and always has. "Fear springs always," said Ralph Waldo Emerson, "from ignorance." Actually, fear sometimes springs from being chased by an enraged grizzly bear, but in general Emerson's point stands.
Night baseball was a travesty. "High-class baseball cannot be played under artificial lights," said ossified Senators owner Clark Griffith in the 1930s. The farm system was "raping the minors." Radio broadcasts were thought to be a threat to attendance, so the American League banned them for a while, and even after the league relented, the three New York City teams actually signed a five-year ban. Integration would not work for a million and a half reasons too disgusting to relate here--the most repulsive of them, probably also the most seductive to the pasty white magnates of the 1940s, was Yankees front man Larry MacPhail's formulation that African-American stars would equal more African-Americans in the stands which would cause fewer Caucasians to come to the games which would mean decreasing franchise values.
The list goes on: The Pacific Coast League had to evolve into a de facto major league before there was a franchise west of the Mississippi. Free agency would destroy the game. "Without a reserve system," former commissioner Bowie Kuhn wrote in his autobiography, "our vast array of minor leagues would hardly survive It was not hard to imagine that we could even lose a major league."
Nowhere has the baseball establishment's ostrich-like qualities been more evident than in the continued reaction to the now year-old book Moneyball, Michael Lewis' look at the operations of the Oakland A's front office under the management of Billy Beane. The reception to the book has at times been downright bizarre, including the confused dismissals like those of ESPN's Joe Morgan, who repeatedly insisted that Billy Beane should not have written a book extolling his own genius despite the fact Beane was neither the book's author nor its instigator. Beane cannot be found within its pages cackling like Lex Luthor about how he's smarter than the entire Detroit Tigers organization put together and Dusty Baker too. Yet as recently as this February, a columnist with the Long Beach Press-Telegram perpetuated the myth, writing: "Oakland's Billy Beane has done a terrific job with modest funds with the A's, but he's also a shameless self-promoter who wrote a book about his imagined genius and is despised by scouts around baseball."
Many of those critics who actually read the book--or seem to have read it--have frothed as if they were members of some baseball version of HUAC circa 1950. The book has given birth to a retrograde, reactionary movement, all of it provoked by its important but less than revolutionary point: In a money-scarce environment, a business must maximize its chances. A good way to do this is to improve your intelligence-gathering operation, then start looking for opportunities the well-heeled operations might have missed.
Moneyball is not Thomas Paine's Common Sense, inciting a people to rebellion. It isn't Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin or Charles Darwin's Origin of Species; yet we have our own counterrevolution promoted by the establishment. Recent favorites: In mid-March, New York Times columnist Selena Roberts hacked and mocked her way through a piece on Beane and Moneyball, including this car accident of a paragraph:
At 42, Beane didn't invent sabermetrics, a sci-fi word formed from S.A.B.R., the Society of American Baseball Research [sic] (a k a The No-Life Institute). But with its philosophy filtered through his Ivy League predecessor in Oakland, Sandy Alderson, Beane applies the tenets of numeric efficiency found in the stapled baseball abstracts of the 70's fringe writer Bill James.
We'll skip the enumeration of the flaws in the above--"fringe writer" James has sold an awful lot of books, for one--and move right to the easy anti-intellectualism of that "No-Life Institute" crack. Think back to grade school. What's the first thing the dumb kids say to the smart kids to belittle them? They call them geeks, nerds, freaks. Anti-intellectualism is the last P.C. prejudice--certainly the Times would not allow one of its writers to refer to "The Urban League (aka The No-Whites Institute)"--and it's an easy way of mocking an idea without really addressing it.
ESPN.com's Rob Neyer pointed out another example just a few days ago, a St. Louis columnist who appealed to the sentimentalists among us to pity the now-endangered scouts, as if they were some tribe of pygmies being relocated to make way for a new Wal-Mart:
But this awkward adaptation to "Moneyball" is foolishly compromising these men and dissolving this time-honored culture. The new trend in baseball is to trim scouting staff while making room for the technical operatives. That is cause for alarm.
When said columnist responded to Neyer, he suggested that Neyer put away the "Beane/Bill James badge" and, rising to a crescendo of bad taste, thanked Neyer for "all the e-mail from the stats Nazis."
Finally, there is this passage from a Publisher's Weekly article from last week, in which a book editor hyped his new offering on the New York Mets with an allusion to the sabermetric/Moneyball culture:
The '86 Mets are arguably the last of the great hell-raisers. They stand as a rambunctious reminder that baseball was a lot more fun before the SABR-metrics [sic] freaks took over.
We're back on the playground.
"Sabermetrics" applies to a wide area of study, a good deal of which has nothing to do with Billy Beane and Moneyball. Some of the hostility the book has received is due to misreading; if not read closely it can easily be misconstrued as a Beane hagiography. The source for the anti-intellectual sentiment cited above is harder to pin down, but is ultimately traceable to a knee-jerk reaction by the mainstream baseball press to being deprived of their "expertise" by the smartypants sabermetricians. Despite years of following the game, they were being told, in effect, that they didn't know enough, or that what they knew--about RBI, stolen bases, about the very qualities that made good ballplayers--was just plain wrong.
Feeling threatened, they struck back. Tragically, the counterrevolution is based on a misunderstanding. The A's' focus on on-base percentage is entirely compatible with old-school subjective observation. Each method of inquiry informs the other, providing team decision-makers with a more complete picture of a player. Statistics are an objective record of a ballplayer's performances. Interpreted adroitly, statistics can provide an informative, sight-unseen picture of a player; a young pitcher's strikeout rate, for instance, is a powerful indicator of his future prospects. There is a great deal, though, that numbers cannot tell you, which is where subjective, first-hand observation comes in.
Numbers may tell you that a pitcher had a 1.50 ERA last year, but they don't tell you that he throws across his body, his neck may snap with every pitch, he's aroused by underage livestock, his personal habits are so bad that like the colonial terrorist Nathaniel Bacon he may be devoured from within by his own body lice, and whenever a runner reaches third his he loses control of his curve and his bladder. You need an experienced scout to tell you that, and you always will.
Moneyball gives the 2002 amateur draft as an example of these two forms of analysis in conflict, but in reality their complementary relationship goes back to the beginning of time. Due to an ill-timed injury in 1934, some scouts advised their teams to take a pass on Joe DiMaggio. Here were the two competing inputs teams faced when the Clipper was a 20-year-old with the San Francisco Seals:
Performance analysis: "He's hitting .350 with a ton of doubles and homers."
Scouting: "Forget it. He's got a bad knee."
That's where the discussion ended for a lot of teams, but the Yankees continued the conversation.
Performance analysis: "Yeah, but even with the bad knee he's hitting like crazy. There must be more to this story. Go get a second opinion."
Scouting [after heading out to the coast for another look]: "Forget the bleeping knee and sign this guy in a hurry."
Statistics are a tool, not unlike a microscope. Statistics are a hammer, a speculum, a thermometer. A statistics-based approach to understanding of baseball is one of many paths to knowledge of the game. Calling those who take that path "freaks" or "Nazis" makes as much sense as calling a Ph.D. chemist a wimp because he tests the qualities of his cyanide compound by means of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy rather than just drinking the thing.
Unfortunately, the reaction has put many baseball writers in the untenable position of denying facts that are probably true. The vastly overstated Beane/Moneyball/sabermetric bias against scouting is a red herring, as is the macho derision of sabermetricians. The truth is, while statistics provide the evidence for most of the new theories of the game, most of the ideas advocated by the so-called statheads can be explained by plain old common sense. Over in the Pinstriped Bible about a year and a half ago, I attempted to summarize what I had learned in 20 years of following baseball in the form of 19 "commandments." Let's revisit a few of those now and see if we can justify them in the most simplistic way possible, without resorting to "freaky" sabermetric weirdness--that is, no "advanced" stats, no math, which I can't do anyway:
It's how often a player reaches base that's important, not batting average, not RBI.
Baseball doesn't have a clock in the sense that football or basketball does, but it has outs, 27 of them, and each one an offense spends brings the game closer to extinction. The players who reach base most often are the ones most likely to put off the inevitable death of the offensive effort. The more your players get on base, the more your players get a chance to hit, meaning you score more runs.
Remember league and position averages: numbers have meaning only in context.
Hypothetical season: the Anaheim Angels' first baseman hit .275 and slugged .440. That seems pretty good, until you realize that the American League as a whole hit .277 and slugged .445, and that American League first basemen in particular hit .295 and slugged. 500. The Yankees often endured this problem with Tino Martinez. Baseball is, among other things, a game of matchups, of 'my first baseman is better than your first baseman.' It's not enough that your first baseman answers to an amorphous definition of "good"; where he ranks in the class is most important.
RBI are opportunistic; RBI are a team stat and are not indicative of a player's ability.
In 1985 Don Mattingly had a great year. The Yankees often batted Rickey Henderson first and Mattingly second. Henderson was having an even better year than Mattingly, reaching base 42% of the time and putting himself in scoring position constantly thanks to his 28 doubles, five triples, and 80 stolen bases--the last of which cost the Yankees only 10 caught stealing. At his peak, Henderson was the rare player where the rewards of stealing handily outweighed the risks. Hitting .324/.371/.567 behind this on-base dynamo, Mattingly drove in 145 runs and won the MVP award.
The next year, Mattingly was even better, improving his numbers to .352/.394/.573. Oddly, he drove in 32 fewer runs. The problem was Henderson, who saw his OBP drop to .358 in 1986, meaning he was on base less often. Better Mattingly + Worse Henderson = fewer RBI opportunities for Mattingly. If RBI were an expression of a player's ability, we should hold the shortfall against Mattingly despite his being better than the year before. That doesn't make much sense.
Stolen bases don't matter all that much.
Wade Boggs was a terrific leadoff hitter stealing two bases a year. Vince Coleman, a contemporary, was nearly useless stealing 100 a year. Rickey Henderson and Tim Raines would have been among the best players in baseball had they never stolen a base in their careers. Boggs, Henderson, and Raines all "manufactured" runs, to use a term favored by the conservatives, by finding ways to get to first base. Coleman couldn't get to first base at the Annual Cotillion for Semi-Inebriated Cheerleaders Who Are Really, Really Turned On By Ballplayers. Speed is value-added in a player, but not in and of itself a reason to put someone in the lineup (see Endy Chavez).
Then there's the home-run era that we've been living in more or less continuously since 1920. Say your team has a runner on first base in a game at Coors Field. Most often, there is really very little to be gained by having your runner attempt to move up one base, at the possible cost of a caught stealing, when the next hitter has every chance to hit the next pitch out of the ballpark.
If you're playing at Pac Bell, where everyone except Barry Bonds has trouble hitting for power, then the stolen base becomes more valuable--but that's what pinch-runners are for.
The main function of the batting order is to distribute plate appearances.
Over the course of a season, the leadoff hitter is going to bat more often than the number-two hitter, the number-two hitter is going to bat more often than the number-three hitter, and so on, and the leadoff hitter is going to bat a lot more often than the number-nine hitter. If you make Neifi Perez your everyday leadoff hitter, he is going to play more than any other player on your roster, including Barry Bonds. We leave the question as to whether that's a good idea or not up to you.
A strikeout is just another out.
Each batter is presented with fewer opportunities to advance a runner from second to third with a grounder than you might think. Each hitter gets fewer chances to hit a sac fly than it appears. There are, however, quite a lot of opportunities to hit into a double play. These things tend to come out in the wash. In any case, strikeouts correlate with power. That's your trade-off for home runs. Mickey Mantle used to regret the number of times he struck out, but he also said that if he hit like Pete Rose he would wear a dress. That's a pretty good summary of the trade-off inherent in cutting strikeouts.
Placing good bats on the right side of the defensive spectrum is one of the keys to winning.
It's that 'my shortstop is better than your shortstop' thing again. It's harder to find a good hitter that can play up the middle than it is, say, a right fielder. Take two teams at random, both run competently. Both are going to have right fielders and first basemen that are roughly comparable, but only one is going to have Derek Jeter at short. At the tail end of their championship run, the Yankees were getting relatively poor production from all four corners. They so outdistanced the competition at catcher, short, center field, and (sometimes) second base that they won anyway.
The 27 outs of a ballgame are precious. Managers should not give them away lightly.
Again, each ballgame has a life of exactly 27 outs. Bunting away outs is a bit like smoking cigarettes--you're hastening the end. The sacrifice bunt is a tactical tool. You deploy it when it's obvious that it will win you a ballgame. Some managers make a fetish of it, failing to recognize that even their worst hitter--Einar Diaz, say--has a 30% chance of reaching base, thus prolonging an inning long enough for a real hitter to come to the plate. When the bunt sign is on, that chance drops from 30 to zero.
A player's offensive and defensive contributions must be in balance.
Over the course of the season, your great defensive shortstop saves 10 more runs that the average shortstop would have missed but creates 15 fewer runs with the bat than that same average shortstop does. You're down five runs.
The odds are on the closer's side.
In most cases, the difference between the best and worst closers in terms of save percentage is quite small. That's because with only three outs to get, a closer has a tremendous advantage. Tony Gwynn comes to bat against Dickie Noles. Against the league, Tony is hitting .350. Against Dickie, he's a .450 hitter, which is to say that Dickie still gets him out 55% of the time.
There's nothing complicated in the passages above. It's simple, common-sense stuff like, "don't have a picnic in a war zone" or "the polar bear at the zoo is not gesturing for you to climb into his cage." This is the great secret of Moneyball and of sabermetrics: Keep your eyes open and see the obvious. When gathering intelligence, shelve your biases, forget your inherited wisdom, and listen without prejudice.
If you can do it with a flashlight, great. If you can do it with the Hubbell space telescope, swell. If you do it with statistics you're going to be mocked, but the ideas are still valid. The cosmic joke of the backlash is that no one has yet attacked sabermetrics on its merits. Those of us who work with performance analysis tools know that we rule the stats, the stats don't rule us. The same cannot be said for our critics.
Great article. I hope everyone takes the time to read it.
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
That was an incredible article. Thank you for posting it.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch thats over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.
--Ted Williams
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Lieutenant Colonel Laurence A. Dobrot
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Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Andrew Dobrot is currently the Deputy Director for the Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser Program. He was commissioned into the U.S. Air Force in 1985 through Air Force ROTC. Lieutenant Colonel Dobrot has served on the Air Staff in the Pentagon supporting Home Land Defense, the Joint Requirement Oversight Council, and a tour of duty in Afghanistan. In addition, he is an acquisition professional, having worked on a wide variety of Air Force space and aircraft programs. Lieutenant Colonel Dobrot holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, masters' degrees from University of Southern California and the Naval War College, and is a 2007 graduate of the U.S. Army War College.
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Authored by Lieutenant Colonel Laurence A. Dobrot.
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Paris in the 1890s was the centre of the modern world. In 1889 the city had staged the Exposition universelle, a world's fair organised to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution and to boost the national economy and culture — to mark the event, engineer Gustave Eiffel built his 300-metre tower.
Early work, the Nabis
A number of still lifes, portraits, domestic interiors and street scenes from the 1890s reveal Bonnard's early talent as a painter who translated his observations of the life around him into highly subjective compositions. Eager to capture striking phenomena for his art, his eyes were continuously moving, literally hunting for new images, transposing into his work the vibrant, irregular rhythm and cultural momentum of Paris.
Bonnard, who had begun to study law in 1887, also attended art classes at the Académie Julian in Paris. With a number of other young art students, he was co-founder of a group called the Nabis (from the Hebrew word for prophets), who sought to foster a new aesthetic — a poetic transposition of form and colour. They particularly admired Paul Gauguin's expressive use of colour. The Nabis included Paul Sérusier, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Aristide Maillol and Félix Vallotton.
The cosmopolitan spirit and new lifestyle of the city is reflected in work produced at the time by Bonnard and his Nabi friends. They introduced decorative pictorial motifs borrowed from contemporary design; they responded to the bold flat colours of the currently popular Japanese woodblock prints; they were inclined to move between subjects, ranging from images of their fast-moving urban surroundings to quieter scenes of leisure at home or in country retreats. For them, art embraced all areas of human life, including the cultural pursuits of an urban society — literature, theatre, music, dance, photography, applied art, interior design and fashion design.
In 1854 Japan's two centuries of isolation from the rest of the world came to an end, and the West discovered a completely new aesthetic with the influx of Japanese art and traditional objects. In 1890 in Paris, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, an exhibition of the history of Japanese woodblock prints featured more than 700 prints from private collections in Paris. The exhibition inspired in Bonnard what would be a life-long interest — he came to be known by his friends as le nabi très japonard (the very Japanese Nabi).
Much later Bonnard recalled the impact of the exhibition:
I realized that colour could express everything, as it did in this exhibition, with no need for relief or texture. I understood that it was possible to translate light, shapes and character by colour alone, without the need for values.
The inspiration of Japanese woodblock prints is apparent in the flat, bold colours and the delineation of forms in Bonnard's early work, with his cropping of forms a lasting characteristic.
From 1893 onwards the linear style of Bonnard's early Nabi paintings gradually gave way to a more painterly visual approach. His figures are no longer brought to life with an undulating line; instead their contours have become diffused and sketchy, merging into their surroundings. The broken and fragmented silhouette has become a vehicle for Bonnard to express in a very different way the corporeality and movement of his figures.
This manner of painting is particularly evident in Bonnard's images of children — a favourite subject since becoming uncle to the children of his sister Andrée and her husband, the composer Claude Terrasse. Drawings and paintings vividly capture movement and sometimes humorous body language. Bonnard's approach here owes much to the Japanese master Ando (Utagawa) Hiroshige, who explored in his prints the ever-changing poses of people going about their daily lives.
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Thank you so much for transferring Herb's memorial to me! He is so missed!!
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Could you please add parents to Memorial# 51901389 (Alexander Brashear). Memorial# 19844493 (John Joseph Brashear) as father and Memorial# 81978118 (Katherine/Kate Molton McGowen Brashear) as mother.
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Would you consider transferring Herb Presler's memorial to me. He was my cousin Charla's 1st husband. I thank you in advance.
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Would you consider transferring Herb Presler's memorial to me. He was my cousin Charla's 1st husband. I thank you in advance.
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Re:Bernard Phillip Hopkins Memorial #52513068
I came across this memorial more out of curiosity. It certainly doesn't present a very pretty picture of the person. Anyway after my visit, I got to thinking just how Irish the comments were.... sarcastic to the end so I did a bit of research on the man and wondered if you'd like to add any of the information to his bio.
Bernard was the son of Peter Paul Hopkins born in Ireland and immigrated to USA in 1884. His mother was Catherine Noger born in Kansas but her father was born in Switzerland. Her mother born in Pennsylvania.
Bernard had siblings: Catherine, Margaret, Thomas and Anastacia. This is from the 1910, 1920 and 1930 census. The family does not seem to be listed (so far as I have found at this time) on the 1940 census.
Bernard was an electrician in 1930 and worked for R&R Signals. he was single and renting a room for $5 per month from a man called Robert Farris who was an odd job labourer. No indication of any relationship as Farris had a few roomers at this time as well as his family living in the home at 90 Morris Street.
From 1910 - 1930 USA census his siblings:
John M b)1899 - not on census beyond 1910
Rosemary b)1901 - not on census beyond 1910
Catherine b)1902 - not on census beyond 1910
Margaret b)1907 - not on census beyond 1920
Patrick b)1908 - not on census beyond 1910
Thomas b)1908
Anastasia b)1910 - not on census beyond 1910
Usually not being on the census would indicate death. However, I found two marriages for Anastasia:
Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002��
Anastasia Nettie Hopkins (widow)
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Name: Anastasia Hopkins
Spouse: James F O'Neal
Marriage: 8 Sep 1914 - Daviess County
At birth Bernard is listed as living: 6300 Verona Rd, Mission Hills, KS, 66208-1831
at time of death in 1993 Bernard lived at: 77836 Caldwell, Burleson, Texas, USA (SS# 457-07-5922).
He served in WW11 from 1940-45 and I have added a photo of his draft card to the memorial.
I don't see anything on line to indicate his lousy headstone.
Bernard & Lucille had a daughter and a son:
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 about Lucille Lorraine Hopkins Name: Lucille Lorraine Hopkins Birth Date: 19 Sep 1927 Gender: Female Birth Place: Pettus, Bee, Texas, USA Father: Bernard Phillip Hopkins Father Birth Place: Pleasant Hill, Missouri Mother: Lucille Lillian Newman Mother Birth Place: Alice, Texas - See more at: http://www.joeydevilla.com/2012/04/30/legacy/#sthash.1jZZ9Y1q.dpuf
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 about Jack Malcolm Hopkins Name: Jack Malcolm Hopkins Birth Date: 5 Sep 1929 Gender: Male Birth Place: Brownsville, Cameron, Texas, USA Father: Bernard Phillip Hopkins Father Birth Place: Missouri Mother: Lucille Newman Mother Birth Place: Texas Mother Residence: Texas - See more at: http://www.joeydevilla.com/2012/04/30/legacy/#sthash.1jZZ9Y1q.dpuf
Bernard worked at O.W. Dyer - 162nd floor, 2nd National Bank in Houston when he signed up to serve in WW11.
Not sure why such an awful grave marker. Some information on line says he was only married to Lucille the last 7 years of his life and it was revealed a few weeks prior to his death that he was unfaithful.
It seems very sad though that he gave of himself serving in WW11 and has no respect for that.
Anyway, some information for you to play with if you wanted to update his bio.
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No problem Isabelle, thank you so much!
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I'm sorry Isabelle, I usually remember to include it. Memorial# 24484857
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I'm sorry Isabella, I completely forgot to include it. It's Memorial# 24484857. Thank you so much!
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Hello Isabella, would you please transfer my uncle, Capt. Glen E. Moore to me? I would like to add family members to his memorial.
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Hello Isabelle, would you please transfer my uncle, Capt. Glen E. Moore to me? I would like to add family members to his memorial.
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I don't know what Antiquity is, but I do know this is a cool picture. I think this is probably your most creative picture of a woman yet. Having clothes made of bacon is awesome! It's like Lady Gaga, only it looks better. Maybe someone will make a real version of this. Summoning meat would be awesome.
I don't know why she's blue, but I don't care. You always know how to experiment with different things. I love that in an artist or anyone else, really. The shadings and shadows are gorgeous as usual. The background is a good example of meat power.
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