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Gingrich unofficially concedes GOP race, calls on conservatives to back Romney
(CBS News)
Updated 10:30 a.m. ET
CRAMERTON, N.C. - Newt Gingrich on Wednesday unofficially conceded the Republican presidential race to Mitt Romney, calling on conservatives to unite behind the presumptive nominee.
Following Romney's clean sweep of all five primaries on Tuesday - including Delaware, where Gingrich had staked the remainder of his tattered campaign - the former House speaker said in a speech to the Gaston County GOP that "it's pretty clear Governor Romney is going to be the nominee."
"I think you have to at some point be honest with what's happening in the real world, as opposed to what you'd like to have happened," Gingrich said. "Governor Romney had a very good day yesterday. He got 67 [percent] in one state, and he got 63 in other, 62 in another. Now you have to give him some credit. I mean this guy's worked six years, put together a big machine, and has put together a serious campaign.
"I think obviously that I would be a better candidate, but the objective fact is the voters didn't think that," Gingrich said. "And I also think it's very, very important that we be unified."
Gingrich said he will continue to campaign in North Carolina through the week "as a citizen," and that "we're working out the details of our transition and we'll have information for the press in the next couple of days."
Confronted by a gaggle of shouting reporters in the rope line afterward, Gingrich told them "you got enough this morning" and directed them to his spokesman, R.C. Hammond. When CBS News/National Journal contacted Hammond, he answered then hung up when asked if Gingrich was suspending his campaign.
Until he officially suspends his campaign, Gingrich will presumably maintain his U.S. Secret Service detail, which is costing taxpayers roughly $44,000 per day but allows him security that's cost-free to the campaign. On Friday, he reported being $4.3 million in debt - a casualty he attributes to trying to compete with Romney in Florida. Gingrich won only two states during the primary season, South Carolina and his home state of Georgia.


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Fall is here, but fire season still has us in its grip.
Even with the change of seasons, the potential for wildland fires is still high given the current and forecasted dry weather, said a news release issued Wednesday by the Forest Service. Trees are turning dormant and dropping a fresh leaf cover on the ground that will readily carry fire quickly.
Forest Service officials reminded hunters to use caution.
Several small human-caused fires were sparked in the region, including one on Missionary Ridge that came within 100 yards of three structures, said Charlie Armiger, a fire information officer for the Forest Service.
The fire, dubbed the Haflin Fire, was spotted about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday about two miles east of East Animas Road (County Road 250) on Missionary Ridge. Helicopters made several bucket drops to prevent its spread.
We havent had any lighting, so it pretty much narrows it down to human-caused, Armiger said.
The Vallecito Fire, which started Oct. 12 from a lightning strike, continued to burn along the ground 1½ miles west of Vallecito Reservoir and about a mile southwest from the center of the Vallecito community.
It was 459 acres in size and posed no immediate threat to the Vallecito community, the release said.
Flames occasionally crept into concentrated heavy fuels, growing in size and sending a cloud of smoke into the sky.
A helicopter was making water drops on hot spots next to the fires perimeter to keep the fire from spreading, the release said. A fixed-wing aircraft also was monitoring the situation.
Forest Service managers are committed to staff this fire until a significant wet weather event arrives, the release says.
The blaze had 18 people assigned to it. But because of the danger of falling dead trees in the old Missionary Ridge Fire burn area, no direct fire-suppression activities were being conducted. A rain or snow event will ultimately be needed to extinguish the blaze, Armiger said.
Were down to a skeleton crew, he said.
These fires also were burning in the region:
South Hope Fire near Hermosa, a quarter of an acre.
Crazy Creek Fire, Missionary Ridge Road, 5 acres.
Goblin Fire in the Weminuche Wilderness, 800 acres.
Lantern Fire, Missionary Ridge Road, one-tenth of an acre.
Steam Fire, Weminuche Wilderness, a quarter of an acre.
Firefighters responded to a human-caused fire Tuesday on private property on Sierra Loop Road off of County Road 214 near Lemon Reservoir.

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The Call House
by C.P. Stiles
GENRE: Historical Fiction
A war on vice In Washington, DC—a city constantly awash in scandals? Hard to believe, but it really happened. Only not exactly the way it's told here.
All Mattie Simon knows is that she wants adventure and her hometown doesn't have any. She wants independence, maybe some romance.
All Andrew Stevens wants is to do his job as a newly-elected congressman.
But Washington has a way of changing people—even when they get what they want.
Fast-paced and funny, The Call House takes you back to a time of relative innocence, when people flocked to the nation's capital to do good works and instead got caught up in sex, money, and politics. What else would you expect?
IN the mornings, the bathroom was crowded with the sweet smells of lavender soap, gardenia perfume, and lilac dusting powder, with the bright colors of pink-red lipsticks and near-orange rouge, with drying stockings and still damp lingerie. With five women in one apartment, even an apartment as grand as Flo's on the top floor of the building on Connecticut Avenue, mornings were hectic.
Awake early but unsure what to do, Mattie ended up being last in line for the bathroom. She wasn't used to waiting.
She'd grown up with only her mother; her father had been wounded in the last war, his lungs badly damaged by gas. She barely remembered the man who died when she was four, but his absence lingered in the white clapboard house. Upstairs, her mother kept always to one side of the bed and lived so quietly, Mattie almost felt as if she'd grown up on her own.
A tall girl, with soft ash-blond curls, walked past Mattie waiting in the hall.
"You'll have to learn to be pretty fast around here if you want to get in the shower while we've still got hot water."
"That's all right," Mattie said. She'd never showered in hot water back home. Her momma hadn't wanted to trouble anyone to fix the water heater after it broke. She didn't like troubling anyone for anything, so when something broke, and it couldn't be fixed by prayer, it stayed broken. Mattie thought her momma's whole life stayed broken after her daddy died.
"I'll show you how it's done," the tall girl said.
She banged on the bathroom door. "Vera, there's exactly one of those jelly donuts left. If you want it, you'd better come grab it fast." She had to step back, the door opened so quickly.
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C. P. Stiles is a fiction writer living in Washington, DC. This is her first novel
From the Author
I've been writing all my life.
When I first heard the story about the best-known, high-priced call house on the East Coast located right in the middle of a nice residential neighborhood - I was intrigued. I'm still not sure why. Even after spending a few years researching and many more years writing. Maybe it's the idea of having something sort of shady going on right down the street and none of the neighbors had the faintest idea. (Warning: No sex or even steamy scenes)
C.P. Stiles
The Call House
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Bacon Press Books
website – http://www.baconpressbooks.com
blog – http://www.baconandbooks.com
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I got my copy of Reinhart's new book yesterday! I'm used to referring to The Bread Baker's Apprentice as BBA, so maybe I'll use WGB to refer to this one - Whole Grain Breads...less typing.
I've been cruising through the first three chapters, and I feel like I'm preparing for a mid-term. Is this gonna be on the test? Since I want to bake something from the book this weekend, I'm going to skip a few pages and go to page 95, 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread. Tomorrow I'll start the 'pre-doughs' (ha! a new goofy word, like 'pre-boarding'. I guess you could even claim that raw flour is 'pre-dough'). Anyone want to join me in baking this and posting the results? Maybe this book will kick-start us out of the summer doldrums of lower site activity.


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UPDATE: AP National Site Headline on Trayvon Martin Case Evidence Goes From 'Huge Gaps' to 'Questions Nag,' But 'Huges Gaps' Version Persists
Update: An AP official has responded to this post. That response, and my reply, are here.
Note: A sentence which erroneously reported the Eastern Time Zone equivalent of a story at the Kansas City Star has been removed.
The Associated Press appears to have done something unusual in its coverage of the the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case on Monday. Two identically worded stories with differing headlines are still at the AP's national site.
It is more than a little odd that the story with the earlier headline ("Cache of evidence in shooting, still huge gaps") is still present. The headline grossly mischaracterizes the nature of the publicly released data. The same story with a different and more accurate headline ("Amid evidence cache in Martin case, questions nag") is also still there. I don't think I've ever seen this happen at AP, especially not for over 24 hours (the time stamps on the two stories are both late Friday afternoon). Graphics with the two examples follow the jump.
Here's the earlier version, (with the URL "http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEIGHBORHOOD_WATCH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"):
Now the later version (with the URL "http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEIGHBORHOOD_WATCH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"):
So why are two otherwise identical stories with different headlines still present at the wire service's national site? My theory: By changing the URL of the second story, AP made the old story with the distortion-driven headline less likely to be replaced at subscribing outlets on Friday evening, meaning that that a lot more print editions probably carried the "Huge Gaps" headline in their Saturday editions than would have been the case if the wire service had done what it usually does, which is to revise stories, make no change to their URLs, and effectively flush older versions down the memory hole.
The "huge gaps" headline's continued existence is pretty convenient for those who desperately want to keep portraying Trayvon Martin as an innocent, harmless victim while continuing to fan racial animosities. Based on what they have seen during the past week or so, many who are closely following the case, including well-known lawyer Alan Dershowitz, believe that the second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman should be dropped
If there's a better explanation for what AP has done, I'd like to see it.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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Potential Disaster #1: You plan on saving more down the road once you earn more.
Even if you feel like you are strapped for cash every month, now is the time to start saving. "One of the most common pitfalls of money management occurs when people forget to save early for the long run," says Aimee Berniard, executive director of financial literacy nonprofit Cents Ability.
Cents Ability teaches in its financial literacy workshops that the best way to save for the future is to save early and often. If you deposit $2,000 into an account earning 10% interest every year from ages 22 to 34, you will save $993,000 by age 65. However, most people don't start saving until around age 34. If you deposit the same $2,000 annually from 34 to 65, you will only return $442,500 despite having saved for 2.5 times longer, says Berniard. Remember, take advantage of the power of compound interest and try to save as much as you can whenever you can. It is never too late to start!
Potential Disaster #2: Your idea of a financial organization system is a shoebox.
One of the keys to avoiding financial disaster is to keep your finances organized so that you always know where you stand. Start by building a budget to track all of your expenses that go in and out. Break your expenses into categories, like rent, utilities, groceries, eating out, entertainment, shopping and more. Assign an amount to each category, and don't forget about setting aside money for things like short- and long-term savings goals, as well as credit card and other debt.
It is equally important to be organized so you can stay on top of your finances and never miss a bill. Use a free, secure service like Manilla.com to manage and share your bills and accounts in one place. Manilla will provide bill reminders so you will never miss a payment and also automatically stores all of your bills and statements to help you keep organized.
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Build an emergency fund by saving three to six months' worth of your total expenses to act as a safety net. Keep your emergency fund in a secure place, even from yourself. You don't want to be tempted to use it for a vacation or new car. When shopping for insurance, keep in mind that your life insurance coverage should be five to six times what you earn. Also, check with your employer to see if they have a life insurance benefit you can take advantage of.
Potential Disaster #4: You aren't rich, so you don't invest.
Too often people are hesitant to invest because they don't think they have enough money or are overwhelmed by the process. Just because you aren't Warren Buffet doesn't mean you can't invest. To get started, make sure you are in a healthy financial place and have a solid working budget with money set aside for investing. Find an online brokerage account with a low or no minimum balance and get a full understanding of all fees. Dive in by doing your research and building a diversified portfolio.
You can also get creative with financing your investing. Shareswell, a platform for gifting stock, lets you invest with financial help from other people. Shareswell allows you to select stock and bonds for your portfolio and invite friends and family to your registry to help contribute to your life goals.
No matter your financial state, you can avoid disaster by being smart and disciplined and always planning ahead for your future.
This story originally appeared on WomansDay.com
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Mary-Kate Olsen says she and twin sister Ashley were like "little monkey performers" during their time in front of the cameras on "Full House."
The unique childhood forged an even deeper bond between the two, but it all seems strange in retrospect, she said.
"I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all," Mary-Kate told Marie Claire magazine. "I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world."
U.S. & World
Mary-Kate and Ashley were ranked 11th on Forbes list of wealthiest women in Hollywood in 2007, with their net worth listed as an estimated $1 billion. Originally built on movies, their empire now includes clothes, hair care products and merchandising, as well.
The former child stars have been there for each other through all the ups and downs and are still each others biggest supporters.
"Sometimes Ash and I have to bring each other back, or push each other more," she says. "It's really helpful to have another half; we're constantly checking in with each other."
Now the 24-year-old siblings are focused on their fashion lines, Elizabeth and James, The Row and JCPenney's Olsenboye. Mary-Kate takes her designs very seriously and spent a "year-and-a-half to make the first T-shirt."
But Mary-Kate hasn't ruled out acting again.
"I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but [The Row] is my day job," said the actress who has a role in Beastly, a horror film due out in 2011.


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Amid the tranquility of western Montana, the U.S. Forest Service's Ninemile Ranger Station raises and trains horses and mules for use by ranger districts throughout the northern Rockies.
Ringed by the ridges and peaks of the Lolo National Forest, Ninemile Ranger Station lies cupped among rolling pastures west of Missoula, Montana. The Cape-Cod-style buildings include a blacksmith shop, saddle shop and historic Ninemile Remount Depot barns. Beyond the barns stretch corrals and chutes for handling stock – U.S. Forest Service stock.
The Ninemile Remount Depot was established in 1930 to breed, train and winter horses and mules for the Forest Service. Though its mission as the agency's only remount depot ended in 1953, Ninemile Ranger Station continues to support ranger districts in Montana, North Dakota and northern Idaho by growing hay and wintering stock for summer use in wilderness areas.
The ranger station, at about 3,200 feet elevation, is reached by Remount Road along Ninemile Creek. The creek flows into the Clark Fork River, just nine miles west of the old Frenchtown stage stop.
"The ranger station is a working ranch," says District Ranger Garry Edson. "Ninemile is a unique place, rich in the history of the Forest Service and its stock."
For the complete story, pick up a copy of the August issue of Western Horseman.


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EXPANSION is expected to be officially put on the backburner on Monday when the ARL Commission unveils its long-term vision for the game.
With a $1 billion-plus broadcast deal now in place, the ARLC will present its strategic plan for 2013-2017 - with expansion and the split of the funding pie amongst the key topics.
A new logo for the NRL will also be revealed as the commission sets out its long-term priorities at Rugby League Central.
Consortiums up and down the eastern seaboard - including groups in Brisbane, Ipswich and the NSW Central Coast - along with others from Perth, Wellington and even Papua New Guinea have been building their case for inclusion for a number of years.
But intent on ensuring the survival and growth of the 16 teams already in the competition, the ARLC is set to announce that expansion is not on the agenda for at least the next five years.
Bid teams were always facing an uphill battle to secure a start from the moment Nine Network boss David Gyngell indicated more games would not drive up broadcast revenue.
The ARLC will confirm a $5 million salary cap for the 2013 season, while clubs are also set to be given an indication on where the cap and the annual grants will head over coming years.
It is anticipated that a greater financial commitment to both grassroots and country football will be announced, with plans for more NRL games to be played in the bush.
There will also be clarification on representative eligibility for both State of Origin and Test football.
The ARLC's strategic plan has been six months in the planning, though there is still no word on who will be empowered to enact the vison, with no word yet on a replacement for former chief executive David Gallop, who was forced out in June.


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A Touch of Crayon
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A high contrast theme for Ruby, HTML & CSS (mostly).
Brilliance Black
Now a default TextMate theme
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Chocolate brown theme.
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Three crashes on Wisconsin roads killed five people over the 2018 Memorial Day weekend.
Not to be outdone, Minnesota had six deaths in six separate crashes.
This coming weekend is the start of the potential seven-day holiday stretch one-third of the way through the "100 deadliest" travel days of the year, that time period from Memorial Day to Labor Day when students are out of school and families hit the road. We remind motorists to be especially alert now because Fourth of July falls on a Wednesday, and it will be difficult to predict when traffic might be the heaviest: Some people may take the entire week off while others may take one half the week. Regardless, the roads will be busy.
Both states are on a disappointing safety trajectory.
In Minnesota, preliminary numbers from the Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety show that 118 people lost their lives in traffic crashes on Minnesota roads as of June 1, 2018. That's compared with 115 that time last year.
In Wisconsin, fatalities as of June 17 totaled 235 and, while that's down from 2017's 249, it is above the five-year average of 220 for this time.
Here are a few quips to keep in mind as you drive:
• "Click it or ticket it." Wear your seat belt and make certain others buckle up, too, or expect to be issued a ticket.
• "One text or call could wreck it all." Stay off your cellphone.
• "Orange cones, no phones." And especially don't use a cellphone while going through a construction zone.
• "Drive sober or get pulled over." Be or get a designated driver. Please.
• "Wise up, slow down." Speeding increases your chances of causing an accident.
• "Watch out for the other idiots, dear." Drive defensively.
Hey, you want that chance to travel over Labor Day weekend, right?


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Stop It With The Farmhouse Sex!
Why are people doing Google searches for "Farmhouse sex"? I haven't figured it out. I get several hits on this site every day from people searching for "Sex in a farmhouse", "Farmhouse sex", "Sex in an antique farmhouse" or just plain "Sex on a farm". I know why they are finding the site. It is because of this post some two years ago. What I don't understand is WHY people are searching. You can rest assured knowing that the majority of such searches originate in India or Pakistan. Must be something to do with a translation glitch. Maybe there is a rock band called Farmhouse Sex, I don't know. I think I'll Google it and find out for myself ........
"Hey, what is this Crackhouse site?"
This is my 500th post by the way. I apologize if you have had to read the other 499 in order to find this one that tells you absolutely nothing about what you are searching for. I suggest that you go buy a goat!


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Katie Holmes would do a "Dawson's Creek" reunion--if there was something to reunite for, that is.
"I love everyone from the show and we have kind of talked about it here and there, but what do you do?" wondered Holmes on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," her first TV sit-down since her split from Tom Cruise.
"Michelle's character passed away...Our last episode, we were already five years older. Maybe we'll go on vacation, that will be fun--and just film it!" she suggested.
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Hey, Michelle Williams is down, so..."Dawson's Creek Goes to Hawaii With Jen's Ghost" it is!
Until the proper plot is cooked up, however, Holmes is keeping plenty busy--and she's loving her return to Broadway in Dead Accounts, costarring Josh Hamilton and Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz.
"It's a comedy, but there's a lot of heavy themes," Holmes said of the play, in which she plays an Ohio woman who still lives with her parents whose brother--played by Butz--returns to the family abode after "doing something really wrong."
Katie Holmes confesses to a love of box wine, talks about her supportive family
Holmes, meanwhile, had to save face when a prop tech caught her eating pizza meant for a scene onstage.
"We didn't have an audience yet!" she recalled, laughing.
Suri's mom also got to flex her performance skills during a round of charades, where she almost got Will, her partner from the audience, to guess "Hit Me With Your Best Shot."
Anne Hathaway spoofs Katie Holmes on SNL
"What is wrong with you? Don't hit me again!" protested Fallon after Holmes landed a punch to make her point.
Fallon's partner George easily got "Home Alone" because, well, that's much easier to act out and, even though Holmes is the one who's been on the show, Fallon's the one who correctly guessed "So You Think You Can Dance" when both George and Will tried to act it out.
As you might have suspected, Jimmy steered away from the tough questions.


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Sorry dude but flowering plants produce seeds not spores. You need to study up on your basic botany then get back to us. "George Hammond" <ghammond at mediaone.net> wrote in message news:3A3C13B6.D8241A58 at mediaone.net... > Cereoid wrote: > > > > Sorry but you are mistaken. The "Dandelion" is not an asexually clonally > > propagated species. It reproduces from seeds. Seeds are propagated sexually > > by definition. > > GH: That's what i was asking.. i got the impression Dandelion "seeds" > were actually "spores"... thanks for the info. > > > > An asexually propagated species is one propagated from offsets, division or > > tissue culture. > > GH: I'm aware of the definition. > > [Hammond] > Elsewhere you have asked what the BOTTOM LINE of this discussion > is. well, here it is. Perhaps you can answer the fundamental question > which is posed below: > > > > GH: You've totally missed the point. I DON'T WANT TO CONTROL ANYTHING. > > > What I want to know is, what is the Standard Deviation of plant > > > growth in the "real environment" when we are talking strictly about > > > a crop of geneetically identical plants? > > > Now, somebody in agriculture must KNOW the answer to this, say > > > for potatoes, or onions or some other asexual crop plant. > > > > It depends on the variety and on the trait, and it depends if you are talking > > about the SD within a field or between fields. For something like flower color, > > the SD would be close to zero. > > GH: Right, I understand that. > > > For something like height or yield, it would > > fairly uniform within a field (barring spots which are overly wet/dry, or > > otherwise inappropropriate), > > GH: YES, this is what I'm talking about, "gross overall size", > I'm NOT concerned with "specific traits". > I argue that there is such a thing as a "growth curve" for > ALL plants and animals and the "plateau" of this > curve represents what we call "maturity", or > "terminal growth". > However, there is reason to believe that there is such > a thing as a "theoretical growth curve" for any given > genetic species, and that in fact, since a large cloned > plant population has a "terminal growth variance"; that very > few plants EVER achieve this "theoretical growth curve". > Would you agree with this speculation? > > but could be quite large between fields, depending > > on how distant they are. Breeders generally call this genotype x environment > > interactions. Genotypes are known which are more stable across environments than > > others. In the end, the SD is difficult to predict without measuring it. > > GH: Yes, it is the "between fields" VARIANCE that I am talking about. > You apparently agree that such a thing exists and can be > measured. > > > > > Keep in mind that plants need not reproduce vegetatively to be genetically > > identical. Hybrids from inbred parents (as in a field of corn) are genetically > > identical. So are inbred plants (as in a field of soybean) and apomictic plants > > (as in dandelions). > > GH: You see; the question here is nothing but the old NATURE-NURTURE > discussion.... with a NEW TWIST. > It is now hypothesized that higher animals, and probably plants, > have something which we could call a "nominal maximum genetic > size", and that in the natural environment, very few IF ANY > individual specimens EVER ACHIEVE IT. > The object then, becomes the task of PROVING THIS CONJECTURE. > That is, proving from existing data, that there is such a > thing as a "terminal growth deficit" that exists for all > plants and animals, and naturally we would want to eliminate > "genetic variation" from the measurements, which is why the > question has come up explicitly concerning "clonal" plants. > > > -- > BE SURE TO VISIT MY WEBSITE, BELOW: > ----------------------------------------------------------- > George Hammond, M.S. Physics > Email: ghammond at mediaone.net > Website: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/index.html > -----------------------------------------------------------


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Impact of Election on Oscar Race
I was just about to write a rave review of the wonderful, important revival of "March of the Falsettos" and then The Election happened and turned the world, and my brain and everyone else's upside down.
I tried to write about it but I couldn't. I was in such deep shock. Like when you have a serious fall, as I did recently, and it wasn't until hours later, or was it a day later, that the real pain kicked in, and I was reminded I had fallen backwards onto a fire-hydrant. It took four or five really strong women(In town for the marathon, I'm guessing) to pull me back up and set me on my feet.
Yes, my reaction to The Election was just as severe as that, as disappointed for anyone who voted for Hillary. I can't believe it happened. I'm still processing it. And so is the country. It's something that I can't snap out of but just being depressed and angry isn't constructive. Hillary Clinton had nothing but a positive message. Maybe there is something good inside Donald Trump. Well, first of all, he's a native New Yorker. As I am. And that counts for something.
After coming out of a Whole Foods on Union Square, I ran into hundreds of protesting young people. I got on a bus. It took quite awhile for the big New York City Bus to get through the noisy crowd of protesters. They made me smile though. I knew what they were feeling. I had done this, too, in my youth. Protesting the Viet Nam War. Civil Rights. Free Nelson Mandella. Gay Rights. Aids. There's been a lot to protest, always peacefully. Make your voice heard.I was happy to see them there.This made me think of what a terrible day it was when Ronald Reagan got elected. I thought it was it the end of the world. It wasn't. The same way when Bush after Bush after Bush entered the White House. Until Bill Clinton. Until Barack Obama.
I've been thinking of the night when "Brokeback Mountain" lost the Oscar to "Crash." Sasha Stone and I were both disconsolate that night and so was everyone else on Oscarwatch. We thought we'd never get through it. I was never going to watch the Oscars again. But I did. We got through it because we were together.
Sasha did everything she could think of to help Hillary. I'm still shocked, and sickened, but she's probably more shocked and more sick. She and Assistant Editor Ryan both added Rodham as their middle names.
But, as with "Brokeback", she went back to work and felt back. I did, too. Over the years I'm happy to report that I developed a friendly relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway and Michelle s and Williams and now Ang Lee, who did win his first Oscar for "Brokeback" by the way. I loved his new "Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk."
But all those disappointments and depressions and shocks were way worse than this. Maybe as much as I loved Hillary, and I still do, I just knew, I just KNEW that America was never going to elect a woman to the Oval Office.
And now this happened. Donald Trump may not have meant a lot of what he said. Was it Melania or Ivanka who said he was "saying all those things just to get elected"?
Melania Trump and Michele sitting down to have tea, to chat and tour the White House. File it under a list of Things I Never Would Have Thought Ever To Have Happened.
And now the Oscar Race, how is this going to land with the very left wing Academy? I think this says goodbye to anything light and fluffy like "La La Land" and hello to something that can't be denied like "Fences" or the very political "Jackie."


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Replication is supported between partitioned tables as long as they use the same partitioning scheme and otherwise have the same structure except where an exception is specifically allowed (see Section 126.96.36.199, "Replication with Differing Table Definitions on Master and Slave").
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Gluten-free carrot cake
Junior cook Emily shares her simple, no-fuss recipe for gluten-free carrot cake
Nutrition and extra info
- Freeze un-iced
- Gluten-free
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal599
- fat28g
- saturates16g
- carbs86g
- sugars64g
- fibre2g
- protein6g
- salt0.6g
- 140g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 200g caster sugar
- 250g carrots, grated
The carrot, with its distinctive bright orange colour, is one of the most versatile root…
- 140g sultanas
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 200g gluten-free self-raising flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 1 tsp gluten-free baking powder
- 50g mixed nut, chopped
For the icing
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 900g/2lb loaf tin with baking parchment.
Beat the butter and sugar until soft and creamy, then stir in the grated carrot and sultanas. Pour the eggs into the mix a little at a time.
Add the flour, cinnamon, baking powder and most of the chopped nuts and mix well. Tip the mix into the loaf tin, then bake for 50-55 mins or until a skewer poked in the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin for 15 mins, then remove from the tin and cool completely on a wire rack.
Meanwhile, make the icing. Beat the butter in a large bowl until it is really soft, add the icing sugar and cinnamon, then beat until thick and creamy. When the cake is cool, spread the icing on top, then sprinkle with a little more cinnamon and the remaining chopped nuts.


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Although Sumner County stretches up to the Kentucky border, it's located just northeast of Nashville. So homebuyers looking in this area may live only a short drive outside of downtown Nashville and still be within county lines. Alternatively, homebuyers may choose the peaceful, quiet area of Westmoreland, an hour away from the big city.
Sure, Sumner County is close to the action of downtown Nashville, but it has a lot more to offer than that. Outdoor enthusiasts, for example, will find this area a dream. Avid hikers, campers, boaters and fishermen frequent Bledsoe Creek State Park near Gallatin. In addition, the Old Hickory Wildlife Management Area provides a welcoming site for bird watching. And at the Wynnewood State Historic Site in Castalian Springs, you can visit the biggest log structure in all of Tennessee. Let's not forget the Historic Rock Castle, where visitors can tour an 18th century home, walk along the lake and enjoy outdoor concerts.
Sumner County has a very wide range of home styles, and prospective buyers shouldn't have any trouble finding a style they're comfortable settling down in. This area offers older homes, newer homes and even brand new construction at all price levels.


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EL SEGUNDO, CA -- Spectrum Athletic Clubs once again hired a CEO with roots in The Wellbridge Co.
Bud Rockhill was recently announced as Spectrum's president and CEO. Rockhill, who has served in the fitness and wellness industry for more than 25 years, was one of three owners of Colorado-based Club Sports International—now known as The Wellbridge Co. Clubs Sports grew to more than 40 clubs and created more than $100 million in revenue during his tenure there.
Rockhill replaces Matthew Stevens, who left Spectrum last year to become the president and CEO of Western Athletic Clubs. Stevens served as an executive at The Wellbridge Co. before coming to Spectrum.
In the late 1990s, Rockhill left The Wellbridge Co. to become the CEO of Destination Cinema, an affiliate of National Geographic that owns IMAX theaters in select locations. Most recently, Rockhill was the president of Colorado-based Westwood College Online, a company that doubled its revenue in two years.
Rockhill has taught at the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) Management Institute. He also has published management articles for various industry publications and served as an advisor for fitness and spa companies.
"I'm thrilled to be on board with the Spectrum Clubs team," Rockhill said in a statement. "Spectrum has a tradition of excellence, and I'm very much looking forward to building on that tradition in a time that Spectrum is expanding its presence."Spectrum, headquartered in El Segundo, CA, has 11 locations in San Antonio and 12 locations in Southern California.


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CALGARY — Students at a private post-secondary in Calgary are saddled with larger debts when they finish their studies and are up to twice as likely to fall behind on repaying student loans as those at publicly funded schools.
In the wake of news that DeVry Institute of Technology will close its campus later this year, critics say loan default data demonstrate why the Alberta government should never have given the for-profit facility the right to grant academic degrees a decade ago.
"This is proof the primary preoccupation of private schools like DeVry is to get students in the door, not on ensuring they get a quality education," said Jim Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
"The government often gets left holding the bag when they default."
Loan repayment figures are often used by regulators as a measure of whether graduates are obtaining work in their field and are used to determine if future students should be eligible for loans to attend an institution.
But DeVry's president in Calgary said the numbers also reflect the socio-economic background and unique challenges faced by students.
"Our students are often the first generation to attend a post-secondary institution and holding down a full-time job or supporting a family while going to school," Ranil Herath said.
"I would expect students with like demographics at other schools would have similar default rates."
Acting on the advice of the its private colleges accreditation board, the province gave DeVry the right in 2001 to grant baccalaureates in computer systems, electronic engineering and business operations.
At the time, it was the country's first for-profit degree-granting institution.
A Herald analysis of Canada Student Loan figures found that students leaving DeVry during the past five years owed an average of $15,863.
By comparison, those leaving the University of Calgary were on the hook for $12,039 on average and those exiting the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology had a debt of $11,619, on average.
Nearly 23 per cent of federal loans to DeVry students during that five-year period — some $3 million — were delinquent or in default within 12 months of when repayment should have started.
Each of Alberta's three main line universities had non-repayment rates of well under 10 per cent during the same time period.
Rates at both of the province's technology institutes had averages at or below 10 per cent in each of the past five years. Two publicly funded colleges that grant degrees, Mount Royal and Grant MacEwan, never had rates that exceeded 15 per cent during that period.
Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education was unable Tuesday to provide default rates and amounts on loans given to students at various institutions under provincial assistance programs.
Cody Bergen said he abandoned his electronics engineering degree program at DeVry in 2011 after accumulating over $50,000 in student loans during three years of study.
"I was accumulating so much debt and I was very disappointed with the quality of the teaching," Bergen said.
"Everything I was learning was about me and the time I spent with a stack of textbooks."
While he fends off calls from debt collectors seeking repayment of approximately $20,000 in loans still outstanding from his stint at Devry, Bergen said he is now completing a two-year diploma in electronic engineering online with a community college in Ontario.
"It'll cost me $3,700 and even two years full-time at SAIT would only have been $15,000," he said.
"Anyone asks about Devry, I say don't waste your money or your time."
Herath said DeVry's internal figures show that over 90 per cent of its Canadian graduates are working in their respective fields after six months of leaving school.
"The Alberta government is quite disappointed we're leaving," Herath said.
"They know we have outstanding graduates and that we served a population that other schools didn't."
Thomas Lukaszuk, Alberta's deputy premier and the newly minted minister in charge of advanced education, said DeVry's closure and its high non-payment rate on student loans should serve as a warning to all universities and colleges in the province.
"Students are customers who vote with their feet," Lukaszuk said.
"Unless we change our practices to suit their demands, they will find a product of equal value or better somewhere else."
About 20 staff and 14 faculty will lose their jobs when the southeast facility shuts its doors at the end of June.
The closure of DeVry's only Canadian operation comes as the school's publicly traded parent grapples with declining enrolment and earnings at dozens of its campuses around the continent.
DeVry also faces tough scrutiny from the U.S. government for a rising loan default rate among its American students. More than 14 per cent were behind on their payments in 2009, compared with just 8.8 per cent for all colleges and universities south of the border.
Approximately 180 current students at DeVry in Calgary will have to transfer to other schools or complete their programs online with the Illinois-based company.


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So far this season has been essentially a typical one for 'American Idol.'
Despite the promise of revolutionary and wholesale changes from the producers running into the season, we've essentially seen nothing new thus far except for the new judges. Yes, that could be considered a big change, but really it's been the same nonsense as any previous season – the same type of auditions, the same bickering, and the only real difference being determining whether or not Keith Urban is actually a living human being or a tattoo practice mannequin with a bad wig.
Last night, we saw our first big wrinkle and I'm not sure it worked.
Group night used to be the most "reality" show evening of the entire 'Idol' run, a night where having to choose groups, rehearse and the drama inherent with watching a bunch of people who think they're God's gift to music actually try to work with a few other people took the show off its feel-good rails for a few hours and finally got down and dirty with the rest of the reality dreck.
In other words, it was just horrible and nasty fun.
Last night, not so much. A steamrolled 120-minutes that saw no ladies, just dudes paired together by the producers and ramrodded through a dozen or so performances before we even realized who had sung what, who got through and if anybody got into a fight backstage.
All that drama was cut for the most part while we focused on singing. None of it very compelling, a lot of it downright bad.
First, it was an a capella round for the individual boys. My favorite (the singing doctor) went out before he got a breath of screen time and a few fan favorites got through. It all happened so fast that I barely caught who was left standing. For a show notorious for stretching time as much as it possibly can, this was like Usain Bolt on bath salts – fast and delirious.
Once that confusion was settled, it seemed like the fighting and bickering about who would be in whose group was about to begin. But what's this? Nigel Lythgoe is putting the groups together!? Well isn't that…boring?
This seemed like a perfect opportunity to see the stuttering guy wandering around for a group to join. For the outcast kid to end up without a group. For diva-tastic Papa Peachez to proclaim he doesn't need a group and attempt to go it alone before getting stuck with the stuttering guy and outcast kid and yelling at them the whole time.
Where was that moment? I wanted that moment! There's really not much use to Hollywood week besides those moments. A bunch of overtired wannabes stumbling over lyrics to songs everybody's heard 15,000 times while trying to choreograph a lame dance routine in a hotel lobby bathroom. That's what we're supposed to get out of this round.
Instead we just got a whole buncha singing. Endless singing. Performance after performance with little more than Seacrest's introducing the groups in a quick breeze through fifteen seconds of their rehearsal and then…there they were. Performing. Like this was a singing competition and not a bizarre Thunderdome of emotional breakdowns that made this such a unique and compelling week for this show.
Sure, some of the performances were memorably bad, but not enough to undo the lack of the backstage squabbles that are supposed to define this stage of the just. The whole evening was just lacking without these, like a circle that doesn't quite come fully rounded – just left feeling utterly incomplete.
I don't know what other changes the producers have in store for us this season, but so far they 0-for-1.
What did everybody else think of Hollywood Week's new look?


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Instead of an objective, accommodate a able summary: "a brief, one- to three-sentence area featured acutely on your resume that succinctly describes who you are, what you do and why you're absolute for the job," the adviser recommends. For a decidedly acute able summary, abstain all-encompassing descriptors like "hard-working" and "self-motivated," and adduce accurate metrics that authenticate your impact. If you've formed for a decidedly absorbing company, you ability additionally appetite to name-drop them.
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The borough council approved the purchase of six radios to use with the recent emergency communications system updates to the police department at a cost of $27,000 at its Wednesday meeting.
Under new federal regulations, the county's emergency management communications network must be converted to a narrowband frequency to make it more efficient. The county is in the process of complying with Federal Communications Commission-required upgrades to emergency communications.
The borough ordered six Motorola APX6000 radios from Green's Communications, Pottsville, on Friday. Three 2 Way Radios will be placed in the cars and three are for officers to carry.
The radios could take four weeks to arrive, borough Manager Mike Lonergan said.
In other news, the council also voted to approve a proposal by the Exeter Ambulance Association, Berks County, for two Automated External Defibrillators.
The cost for the AEDs is $4,200. They will replace one for the police department that is at least 10 years old, Lonergan said.
Also at the meeting, Lonergan said he will apply for a $40,000 grant through the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for new playground equipment at Community Memorial Hall, mulch and other park maintenance.
The playground equipment that is in good shape, such as the jungle gym, merry-go-round and seesaw, would not need to be replaced. However, the swing set is about 20 years old and could be removed or relocated to another park in the borough, Lonergan said.
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A spokesperson for the U.S. Marine Band, which backed the pop diva at the ceremony, said Tuesday that Mrs. Jay-Z decided to use a previously recorded vocal track before delivering the national anthem, but later on another spokesperson, this one for the Pentagon, said there was no way of knowing whether the 16-time Grammy winner was guilty of lip-synching or not.
Should it matter? Let's remember that Whitney Houston, in what is widely considered one of the best renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" of all time, didn't sing it live either at the 1991 Super Bowl.
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Lip-synching – or at least singing over pre-recorded vocal tracks – has long been acceptable for dance-driven artists like Madonna, Janet Jackson and Britney Spears, whose emphasis on intense, intricate choreography makes it hard to execute the moves fans have come to expect while also singing live. Huffing and puffing into the microphone or barely projecting for the sake of keeping it real just isn't gonna cut it. Of course, there have been other instances – such as Ashlee Simpson's 2004 Saturday Night Live debacle – where faking it crossed the line.
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Last week: 10-6. Season totals: 10-6, Pct. .625. Best Bets: 1-2, Pct. .333.
Home team in capital letters; point spreads (opening line) in parentheses after underdog team; selections with point spreads in bold.
GREEN BAY 27, Chicago 16 (+4) - The Packers already have their backs to the wall, in that only one team that opened a season with two losses, both at home, has ever made the playoffs in a non-strike year (the 2003 Eagles). But Green Bay has won four in a row over the Bears and four points would appear to be a bargain price.
N.Y. GIANTS 24, Tampa Bay 17 (+9) - The Giants face the same daunting historical trend as the Packers, but the last Super Bowl champion to lose their opener the following year finished 6-10 (the Broncos in 1999) and Josh Freeman is 8-2 lifetime against the spread on artificial turf so take the points.
PITTSBURGH 23, N.Y. Jets 14 (+6 1/2) - Guess how Mark Sanchez did in those exhibition games didn't turn out to mean a whole lot, now did it? But the Jets are 1-8 straight up and 2-7 against the line in franchise history at Pittsburgh, and face the dreaded sandwich scenario - division game last week (at home vs. Buffalo), division game next week (at Miami).
Baltimore 13 (+1), PHILADELPHIA 10 - As a Raven, Joe Flacco has been a maven on natural grass, going 15-8 both ways on it; and when Art Modell watched the Browns win at Philadelphia by seven as a nine-point favorite in the 1969 season opener, it probably never occurred to Modell that he would not live to see his team neglect to cover the spread there again.
NEW ENGLAND 45, Arizona 14 (+13) - The Patriots actually played some defense in the opener - and they have won and covered in their last five over the Cardinals, taking the last four by a combined 106 points, which is the most lopsided result of the last four meetings in any of the NFL's 496 head-to-head matchups.
BUFFALO 24, Kansas City 13 (+7) - A monstrous overlay - until it is pointed out that the Chiefs haven't won in Buffalo since 1986 and have been outscored 145-49 in five games there over that span. Furthermore, the Bills finally get the Chiefs at home after the four most recent meetings have all been in KC (and even that hasn't hurt them, as Buffalo won three of them and covered in all four) - a betting angle that is as venerable in the NFL as "First Time Lasix" is in horse racing.
CAROLINA 34 (+4), New Orleans 27 - The Buccaneers managed to get in Cam Newton's face all day, and that was the key to Tampa Bay's victory - but doubt if the Saints can replicate that given the present state of their defense and New Orleans is 4-8 against the line outdoors in this decade. Upset special.
Houston 31, JACKSONVILLE 13 (+7 1/2) - Unless the Texans are looking ahead to what is quite possibly a preview of January's AFC title game next week in Denver, they should have little trouble beating either the spread or the Jaguars.
MIAMI 23 (+1), Oakland 20 - This game was originally scheduled for the late time slot, but was moved up so that the many Dolphins fans who are Jewish can get home in time for Rosh Hashanah, which begins at sundown on Sunday. But the Raiders have been anything but kosher in Miami of late, winning only one of their last seven games there.
CINCINNATI 24, Cleveland 10 (+7) - Eight starting running backs averaged more yards per carry in Week 1 than 5.1, which was Brandon Weeden's passer rating against the Eagles - and that was at home; now imagine how Weeden will do here, on the road.
INDIANAPOLIS 30 (+3), Minnesota 20 - The Vikings beat Jacksonville at home in overtime, and that makes them a powerhouse? And they have never beaten the Colts on the road, taking an 0-for-10 lifetime collar. I'm all over Indy in this one.
Washington 31, ST. LOUIS 24 (+3) - That was quite a show RG3 put on in his first NFL start, and he gets another porous pass defense to feast on here (the Rams gave up the most passing yards in the league in Week 1). And if the Redskins, who are 5-1 against the spread on artificial turf in 2011-12, win this one, look out: Since 1982, 19 teams have opened a season 2-0 with both wins coming on the road - and 12 of them went on to make the playoffs, including four who reached the Super Bowl, with three winning it (including the Skins themselves in '82).
SEATTLE 20 (+4), Dallas 17 - The Cowboys can put themselves in the same situation as Washington with a win, but it figures to be letdown time after the shockingly dominant road win over the Giants, and the home team in this series has won five in a row. And I wouldn't care if Russell Wilson was 4-foot-11 - this line is a total joke.
SAN DIEGO 41, Tennessee 14 (+6) - Hopefully the Chargers got the red zone woes out of their system Monday night - and San Diego has beaten the Titans eight consecutive times, with a seven-game covering streak. Even Bain Capital couldn't offer you a safer investment than the Chargers this week.
SAN FRANCISCO 34, Detroit 17 (+7) - Another lousy defense the 49ers can score on - plus they've won eight in a row over the Lions, who have also lost a whopping eleven straight in San Fran, not having won there since 1975. Jim Schwartz might not even feel like wanting to shake Jim Harbaugh's hand after this one is over.
Denver 28 (+4), ATLANTA 21 - Doesn't Matt Ryan always lose on the big stage? And lose is something the Broncos haven't done in Atlanta since 1975, and Peyton Manning is 11-3 straight up on Monday night, and shouldn't have any problems playing indoors.
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PECOTA trashes Angels
If manager Mike Scioscia needed any ammo to fire up his troops, it was grooved like a Doc Gooden fastball at the belt by stat maven Nate Silver in his PECOTA ratings for Baseball Prospectus.
Silver, it turns out, doesn't think much of the Halos — specifically, what he sees as an aging offense creating more headaches for Angels pitchers than rival managers. PECOTA has the Angels finishing 16 games off their MLB-best 2008 pace with a mere 84 wins, barely managing to prevail in what it envisions as a weak AL West.
I can understand some anticipated slippage with Mark Teixeira and Garret Anderson departing; those are two high-quality offensive players. But Bobby Abreu has been a fairly consistent 100/100 man (runs. RBIs), and he should fit nicely between Chone Figgins and Vladimir Guerrero in Scioscia's projected top third. Of course, a big spring by Howie Kendrick, Erick Aybar or Maicer Izturis could convince Scioscia to plant Abreu in the No. 3 hole, with Guerrero fourth and Torii Hunter fifth.
The rest of the lineup is deep and potentially much more explosive than PECOTA imagines. Mike Napoli has the tools to go 30/100 with enough at-bats, joining Guerrero on a surgically-repaired knee, and Hunter, Kendry Morales, Juan Rivera all are capable of exceeding 20 homers with 80 to 100 RBIs. If Hunter bats fourth, behind Vlad, he could surpass his career high of 107 RBIs from 2007.
Call me an incurable optimist, but this shapes up as a pretty fair attack — and it has a nice blend of youth and experience, top to bottom.
It was last year at this time that a lot of snipers were relegating the Angels to second place in the AL West behind Seattle, with its new ace, Erik Bedard. Scioscia, I'm sure, got some clubhouse mileage out of that. I'm sure PECOTA and its views might surface in one of his pre-game chats with the players before too long.
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I think it's all about the injuries, or, we hope, the lack thereof. Team depth has a bit to do with it too.
In general, I agree with Lyle's assessment, assuming the starters play they will score a LOT of runs (I think more than last year).
However, we haven't even started the year and Napoli is already tagged for DHville. That in itself isn't the end of the world, but (for example) it would keep them from having Bobby, Tori, Vlade, Juan, and Nap in the line up at the same time.Take one out, and they are a little less potent. I don't buy the minus 15 game nonsense UNLESS they have to play a lot of games without a full deck on hand.
If Howie can't stay healthy, if Nap can't catch, if Kendry hasn't figured it out, if Matthews never recovers fully, if Figgie gets hurt again . . . even with the great depth they have, they could be anemic . . .
Let's hope the sick heal, the young (esp. wood, mathis, and kendry) learn fast . . . and they really get going!
It seems like the Angels often outperform the statheads. If not in runs allowed and scored, they certainly outperform in the won/loss column. Is that true? And if so, why?
I like your offensive projections but can't help but think they are too optimistic.
"Call me an incurable optimist, but this shapes up as a pretty fair attack — and it has a nice blend of youth and experience, top to bottom."
I agree. Thanks for your insightful reporting. Keep up the great work.
I am going to play the devil's advocate here for a moment; ask anyone who knows me and I am the biggest Angel fan on the planet, but I believe that PECOTA is going to be right on their analysis. I don't believe we are going to pitch to the level we pitched last year and the offense has definitely been downgraded. Call it a "recession" year or whatever you want to call it, but I think there is alot of wishful thinking going on in the Angels' clubhouse. We all are hoping people stay healthy, we all are hoping the kids FINALLY live up to their potential, and we all are hoping that we hit like we did in 2002. But, and it's a big BUT, the jury is still out and let's hope they prove me wrong!
Well I have to say you are all right. We have to stay healthy, we have to hit, we have to pitch. Let me refresh your memories on a few things. Last year, like Lyle said, we were pegged to finish second in our division, the Tigers were supposed to be this big powerhouse after signing Miquel Cabrera, both of our big stud pitchers didnt start the season due to injury. Last year for most of the season each starter was batting 30-50 points below their normal batting average, and yet with all of this we had a 100 win season. The year we won the World Series we were pegged to come in last having no star power, no home run threat. We started that season having lost 30 games by the end of May and it was looking very bad. June hit and we couldnt be stopped. With no stars, a wild card entrant into the post season, and given no chance on earth to win the Series against Barry Bonds and his crew, we surpassed all the critics and the nay sayers. What Im trying to say is that there is a reason why we play the game and that is why this game is so much fun. Sciosia is so good as a manager that he knows how to take a bunch of individuals and make a team out of them. Lasorda did it, Torre did it, Bill Rigney, the Angels first manager, did it. So let hope that Mr. Angel (Sciosia) can do it again, and let's PLAY BALL!……..
I think the problem is we are relying very heavily on some guys who haven't produced full time yet – Morales, Wood, even Kendrick.
And as the playoffs last year showed us, if guys don't get on in front of the big guys, nothing will happen.
I hope PECOTA is wrong but I can see how it would be right.