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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. government officials say a recall of XL Foods beef and beef products, due to E. coli concerns, has been expanded.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service said Public Health Alert it "has reason to believe, based on information provided by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, beef from cattle slaughtered during the period associated with the recall was produced under insanitary conditions that resulted in a high event period -- a period when the trim from carcasses exhibited an unusually high frequency of positive findings for the possible presence of E. coli O157:H7."
The alert said products produced Aug. 24, 27, 28, 29 and Sept. 5 "are considered adulterated and must be either destroyed or verified as having received a full lethality treatment."
The FSIS said all receivers of affected beef from the Canadian-initiated recall have been notified and have removed product from commerce, and will take appropriate action if prohibited activity is found.
The U.S. government tested raw boneless beef trim product from Canadian Establishment 038, XL Foods, Inc., confirmed positive for E. coli O157:H7 on Sept. 3, the U.S. and Canadian agencies began an investigation and CFIA announced a recall by XL Foods, Inc. of a variety of ground beef products on Sept. 16.
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I noticed in the article http://robots.net/article/2003.html that there is an argument for Utilitarianism and that robots should observe this social concept. The concept itself is doomed to failure. There is mention of a "greater good" but in who's context? Who decides what is "good" for everybody? Is my robotics hobby more important than your liposuction? The article talks about one person being sacrificed so that five people can have his organs. I beg your pardon? Did anybody ask the human organ production plant what his views on this concept are? The last person that I recall sanctioning the use of one person or their organs for another person's interests was Hitler. I don't recall everybody being pleased with that (though, undoubtedly, some were). Please read 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand for more info.
Also, do we realize we are attempting to assign such things as rights to a robot? Let me put it another way, do you think a hammer and screwdriver should be governed by Utilitarianism or Objectivism? Sounds ridiculous, yes? No matter what, a robot is a device (like a phone) that does exactly what we tell it to do. If we 'emulate human response', we have not created a sentient being. So if the argument is that the designer or programmer might consider these rules as principles to guide the construction of a robot that makes sense to me. But keep in mind it is not the "robot's fault" any more than it's the hammer's fault. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" as they say.
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The Dynamo Academy, presented by Statoil, will pack its bags this summer and head to the Netherlands for the 35th edition of Eurovoetbal, a prestigious tournament hosted by SC Cambuur beginning June 11. Exact dates and times of the matches will be announced at a later date. This will be the second time the Academy has traveled abroad after defeating their counterparts at Real Madrid and Rangers on a European tour in 2009.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for the Academy," Dynamo Director of Youth Development James Clarkson said. "It is another chance for the players to compete against quality competition from around the world, and another opportunity to prove that the Dynamo are one of the strongest clubs in the world."
The 12-team tournament will feature six Dutch clubs and six international clubs, including Brazilian squad Botafogo and the 2009 champion Valencia. The roster of players who have participated in past tournaments includes Dutch superstars Edwin van der Sar, Edgar Davids, Wesley Sneijder, and Robin Van Persie. In last year's event, FC Groningen defeated Ajax in the finals, with PSV Eindhoven taking third place. The Dynamo received an invite to Eurovoetbal due to their previous success at the Dallas Cup, including a first-place finish by the U-16 squad in 2010.
"Cambuur is a team that we have become familiar with at the Dallas Cup," Clarkson said. "They come to Dallas to compete every year, and we have formed a good relationship with the club. Because of our previous success, they recognized us a top club and invited us to participate in the tournament."
The tournament will come at a critical juncture for the Dynamo. The Academy season wraps up at the beginning of June, and if the squads secure spots in the playoffs, they will be able to use this tournament as an opportunity to stay match fit after the regular season ends. Currently, the U-16 and U-18 squads sit in sixth place in their respective divisions.
"So far our Academy teams haven't played up to their full potential," Clarkson said. "But we are confident that over the second half of the season, the teams will perform at a higher level and we will qualify one, if not both teams for the playoffs. This tournament provides us a great opportunity to continue playing soccer at a high level in June, and hopefully we can build some momentum heading into the playoffs."


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A Rochester-based developer said Tuesday that it has secured an option to buy 129 acres near the Harriman Metro-North station and will propose a "very significant" casino resort for the site in a competition for casino licenses that is expected to start by Monday.
A Rochester-based developer said Tuesday that it has secured an option to buy 129 acres near the Harriman Metro-North station and will propose a "very significant" casino resort for the site in a competition for casino licenses that is expected to start by Monday.
"We identified this site as the site that will have the highest revenue potential of any sites in the region," said Asher Flaum, president of Flaum Management Co., a development and property-management firm that claims to control 8 million square feet of commercial space in the Northeast.
Citing the property's proximity to the international tourist magnet Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, Flaum said, "We are looking to develop a project that compliments and enhances this tourist destination in New York."
Flaum Management's interest in Woodbury has surfaced just as the casino competition is about to begin and weeks after Orange County emerged for the first time as a potential host county. Although casinos have long been sought as an economic development tool for poorer places such as Sullivan County, Orange was among the counties eligible for the one or two casino licenses set aside for the Hudson Valley and Catskills in a state law passed last year.
Flaum has been pursuing a number of possible casino sites around the state, including one in Sullivan County's Town of Mamakating.
A state siting board is due to solicit applications for casino resorts no later than Monday and choose up to four sites in three regions this fall. Applications will be due by June 30.
After an initial flurry of overtures to local officials in Orange County, developers seemed to have lost interest, perhaps daunted by more advanced resort plans elsewhere. But that was not the case.
The Baltimore-based Cordish Companies, which had envisioned a casino resort at the same 129-acre Woodbury site Flaum Management now says it has secured, confirmed Tuesday that it still plans to propose a project in Orange and is weighing various sites.
"The Cordish Company will definitely be applying in Orange County for a casino license, and while we are considering alternative locations in the County, Woodbury is most definitely under serious consideration," Cordish spokeswoman Candace Coolahan said in an emailed statement.
"We will be making our final site selection in the next couple of weeks, in ample time to complete the State application and meet its filing deadlines."
Woodbury Mayor Michael Queenan said Tuesday that he's trying to schedule a public presentation by Flaum Management on April 1. Flaum said his company has signed an option to buy the vacant land beside the Harriman train station, taking it off the table for Cordish and other developers. The sellers were asking $14 million for the property. Flaum declined to reveal the agreed-to purchase price.
Rehearsing some arguments his firm will likely make in its pitch, Flaum noted that environmental impact studies already have been done for an earlier development planned for that location; that the rail connection to New York City would minimize car trips; and that Orange County's budget woes make it a legitimate contender for an economic lift. "They need this project just as much as anyone else does to spur the economy," he said.


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The Mo'ne Davis Craze Is Over…For Now
Unless we're calling him the next Michael Jordan, it's exceedingly rare that a teenager galvanizes the national sports conversation. That was before Mo'ne Davis, the phenom Little League pitcher who caught everyone's attention not for what she might do in the future, but what she was doing right now…as a 13-year old girl, which is even rarer.
Davis, a pitcher for the Philadelphia-area Taney Dragons, would be impressive even if it weren't for her double-X chromosomes: She throws in the low 70s, where most Little League pitchers struggle to reach, and until Thursday was leading her team through the tournament. But the rareness of a girl dominating a traditionally boy-controlled sport grabbed headlines, giving Davis the first "Sports Illustrated" cover for a Little Leaguer and winning her the admiration of thousands who saw her as a potential role model rather than a 13-year-old. She is a 13-year-old, it's important to note, one who dreams of playing college basketball, though she is long past the point of going unnoticed. When Philadelphia was knocked out of the World Series on Thursday, that meant the end of her current run in the spotlight.


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The Steelers faced a fourth-and-one from the Giants' three yard line with more than 10 minutes to play, leaving Mike Tomlin with a decision.
Tomlin could have gone for it, perhaps using Isaac Redman who has cleared the 100 rushing yards by battering the Giants, or he could have kicked a field goal to tie the score at 20. Tomlin went for neither of those calls. He sent the field goal team into the game, but called a fake that had holder Drew Butler flip the ball to kicker Shaun Suisham for a run at the first down. Michael Coe wasn't fooled and dropped Suisham short of the first down to keep the score at 20-17.
The Steelers defense has been playing great all day and wound up forcing a three-and-out to get the ball right back. That just makes it harder to figure out why Tomlin chose such a low percentage play if he was willing to go for it on fourth down in the fourth quarter of a close game.
Pittsburgh has climbed back into the contest thanks to a 51-yard touchdown pass to Mike Wallace and they have the ball again near midfield after a good Emmanuel Sanders punt return. Sanders set up the previous scoring chance with a return all the way to the 13, where punter Steve Weatherford kept him from scoring and, as it turns out, helped keep the Giants in front.
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Twenty-three students will graduate from the Kilgore College Fire Academy No. 86 on Wednesday, March 27.
The ceremony is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Bert E. Woodruff Adult Education Center Auditorium in Kilgore.
The KC Fire Academy is accredited by the Texas Commission on Fire Protection and the State Firemen and Fire Marshal's Association and approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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This reissued classic demystifies hypnosis and explains its influence on the mind and body -- from its effectiveness in helping people conquer pain, anxiety, and phobias to its culpability in forced confessions, false memories, and misdiagnosed disorders. Leading journalist Donald Connery chronicles the extraordinary career of Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a psychiatrist whose legendary teachings and discoveries (including the linkage of personal trance talent to personality traits) have established hypnosis as a viable healing technique. sA new introduction by the author describes the renewed importance of this field in the context of today's concerns -- the exposure of wrongful conviction cases, accusations of abuse based on "recovered memories," patients struggling with dissociation and post-traumatic stress disorders, and the controversy over therapy versus medication. Offering no-nonsense explanations on the science and practice of hypnosis, this book takes a critical look at the perceptions and misconceptions of hypnosis and offers a promising outlook for those interested in the powers of self-healing. Book jacket.
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They call him the Ramblin' Pie Man, and he lives up to the name. Almost nine years after Dangerously Delicious Pies founder Rodney Henry opened his first pie shop, in Patterson Park, he has reached the point where he doesn't have to be in the kitchen making pie crust every morning. He's becoming the go-to pie expert, popping up on TV with Bobby Flay and Paula Deen, and on the Food Network. Browse pictures of Baltimore's Ramblin' Pie Man through the years. -- Sam Sessa • Read the Q&A with Dangerously Delicious Pies owner Rodney Henry
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January sees the release of the papers for the art and design externally set tasks and teachers are starting to prepare their students for their art timed exams. With new regulations in place for the reformed GCSE, AS and A Levels, we are starting to receive a lot of queries on the regulations surrounding the timed exams.
Although all the components for art and design qualifications are non-exam assessments and will be externally moderated, the timed element of the externally set task, often referred to as the 'timed exam', needs to comply with the JCQ Instructions for Conducting Examinations.
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The art and design teacher is able to act as the invigilator for the art exams. However, JCQ guidelines suggest additional invigilators should be used so the teacher is free to give technical assistance to individual students (see below). This makes sure the supervision of other students is maintained at all times.
The required ratio is one invigilator for each group of 20 candidates. However, JCQ suggests for art timed exams that the ratio of invigilator to candidate should be higher so this is something for you to consider within your school or college.
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Students may take any preparatory supporting studies, sketchbooks, journals or notes which they have produced into the exam room. These will be submitted for assessment along with the work produced during the timed exam. They may also take in anything they need to set up a still-life group.
Invigilators need to make sure any preparatory work a student brings into the exam room is their own work.
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If using a computer then access to the internet must be monitored and restricted as necessary.
You must remind students all the work they produce during the exam must be their own.
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Invigilators are allowed to speak to students to provide technical assistance. This means helping students with processes, machinery or tools they require assistance with or the student is unable (perhaps for health and safety reasons) to do themselves.
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Commentary by Tim Graham: Dropping the R-word is the right thing to do
I'm not out to change the world or the NFL or what you believe.
My plan is to change me and how I operate.
Beyond the period at the end of this sentence, I intend never to use the word redskin again.
I say "intend" instead of "vow" because I very well could slip up and accidentally say it again in casual conversation or during an interview. For any sports fan, the word simply falls from the lips without thought.
And that's the problem with uttering a racial slur so cavalierly over the years: We don't think about the R-word's meaning anymore.
We must not take for granted anything so harmful to other people.
There are folks who'll see this and instinctively moan about political correctness and bleeding-heart liberalism or the loss of old-school traditions. And a vast majority of those readers will be white men. Almost none of them will be Native Americans.
We don't get to decide what's offensive. The people about whom we speak do.
"It's an incredibly offensive word," said Samantha Nephew, the marketing and communications specialist for Seneca Holdings in the HSBC Tower. "White people came in and didn't call them what they called themselves. It was a way of belittling them, almost dehumanizing them.
"It does take a lot for someone who has something that's called white privilege to sit back and go, 'Why is it OK to keep saying it?' "
Every few years, there's a push for Washington's NFL team to change the nickname because it's a racial epithet. Two weeks ago, 10 members of Congress sent a letter to owner Dan Snyder and urged him to stop.
Similar letters were sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, FedEx CEO Frederick Smith (Washington plays at FedEx Field) and the other 31 NFL owners.
"We'll never change the name," Snyder told USA Today. "It's that simple. NEVER. You can use caps."
Upon reading Snyder's mulish comment, I realized I didn't need to wait for his blessing to drop the R-word from my vocabulary.
The R-word long has been sports white noise.
Merriam-Webster's definition states the R-word is "usually offensive," and the Merriam-Webster dictionary for people learning the English language states: "The word redskin is very offensive and should be avoided."
"We don't like it," said Chief Darwin Hill of the Tonawanda Band of Senecas. "Black people don't like the words that are used for them. Hispanics, Jewish people, everybody has been called different things that we don't say anymore. When does it end?
Hopefully, soon.
Last week, the Canisteo-Greenwood Central School District south of Hornell announced it was dropping the R-word as its nickname. Just a month ago, Cooperstown Central School students forced a change, leaving only two schools in the state still using a slur to identify their sports teams.
A report in the Hornell Evening Tribune quoted the Canisteo-Greenwood superintendent as saying officials didn't want to be the last New York school clinging to a pejorative nickname.
Lancaster and Oriskany, you're on the clock.
Nephew was a media-relations intern for the Bills in Toronto series two years ago. That's when Buffalo played Washington in the Rogers Centre. Part of her job was to type news releases and transcripts from interviews with the coaches and players.
She referred to the visiting team as only Washington whenever she could, but part of her job was to type out the interviews verbatim. She seethed every time her fingers clacked out that personal, racial insult.
"I feel it every time I hear it," Nephew said. "It stung to have to write out the team name."
The trouble with using the R-word isn't limited to the word itself. There are so many ancillary abuses that can be even more offensive.
Fans have a tendency to push the boundaries of a theme. They'll carry out the R-word as theater. There are mascots, costumes and chants. Insensitive media outlets will use punny headlines or drop a flippant reference to Native American culture.
Other sports teams such as the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians have made similarly unfortunate mistakes.
But only one major professional sports team proudly uses a racial smear as a nickname.
Nephew relayed a story from Buffalo's preseason loss to Washington last year in Ralph Wilson Stadium, where a Buffalo fan was overheard yelling at a Washington supporter that despite the score, "It's OK! We stole your land!"
"People need to stop taking this so lightly and understand it gives people some kind of license to make light of my ancestors," Nephew said. "Ralph Wilson Stadium is right on the territory that would have been our land.
"It comes down to a lack of compassion, really. And it hurts that people don't have that respect to know that our land was taken away under really horrible circumstances. To make light of that at a football game doesn't make sense to me, and that's what the Redskins name does."
FedEx Field is located in Maryland partially because lawmakers, including former Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, wanted the team to change its nickname before the public would secure land for a new D.C. stadium in 1993.
Washington football fans still arrive at games in over-the-top Native American regalia, feather headdresses and all. Some whoop and stomp like they imagine they're supposed to, based on what they saw in John Wayne movies.
"A good many Americans don't know any Indians," Kevin Gover, who runs the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, recently told CNN. "The Indian you see most often in Washington D.C. is at a football game – at the expense of real Indians, real history, real culture. The petty stereotype has become expected."
In late April, Washington's star black quarterback, Robert Griffin III, tweeted against the push to strike the R-word. Griffin called it the "tyranny of political correctness."
Two months earlier, at a Smithsonian symposium called "Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports," Nighthorse repeated a question he frequently has asked African-American R-word defenders.
"How you would like for us to change the name of that team to the Washington Darkies?" Nighthorse said.
The R-word would be embarrassing to say if we hadn't heard it from the time we became conscious of NFL teams and logos.
The R-word should not tumble from our mouths so effortlessly, so thoughtlessly.
"It's a matter of respect," Nephew said. "I wouldn't call anybody whatever racially derogatory term there is for them even if I don't understand why it's offensive. Why would I do that? I'm not in the business of offending people."
I won't speak for anybody else, but neither am I.
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England bowlers kept their nerves in the final overs to pull off a sensational five-run win over Pakistan in the third and final Twenty20 here on Monday to take the series 2-1.
Set 130 to win Pakistan were going along nicely at 107-4 with 23 needed off the last three overs and 17 off the remaining two but Stuart Broad and Jade Dernbach did not shrink from the challenge and pulled off the win in the final over.
Broad dismissed a well set Umar Akmal (22) off the third ball of the penultimate over and gave away just four runs, leaving Dernbach to defend 13 in the last, which he successfully did, removing Misbah-ul Haq (28) off the final delivery.
Dernbach finished with 2-24 and most importantly gave the World Twenty20 champions an unexpected win.
Pakistan won the first match by eight runs while England won the second by 38 runs -- both played in Dubai.
Pakistan had lost opener Mohammad Hafeez for a second nought of the series but Awais Zia (23) and Shafiq added 40 for the second wicket before Zia was trapped leg-before by Graeme Swann and Shafiq was run out.
Captain Misbah and Umar Akmal added 37 for the fourth wicket and when it looked as if that would help Pakistan cross the line England pulled back with remarkable determination.
With 13 needed off the final over Shahid Afridi took a couple before he was run out while taking a second off the next. The next three balls produced singles and a wide and with six needed off the final ball, Misbah was bowled.
Broad was full of praise for the bowlers.
"It was a very good win," said Broad. "(Kevin) Pietersen played a good knock and then bowlers showed a lot of character to pull off the win, it was remarkable."
Despite being lost for words Misbah gave credit to England.
"What can I say," said a visibly upset Misbah. "It is really disappointing not to have won this match. It was a gettable target and we needed 23 off the last three but we failed, we are responsible for this defeat."
Earlier off-spinner Saeed Ajmal finished with 4-23 -- his third four wicket haul in the shortest form of the game -- to restrict England to a modest 129-6 after they won the toss and batted.
Ajmal, who destroyed England in the preceding three-Test series with 24 wickets to help Pakistan to a 3-0 rout, put the brakes on his rival's progress.
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Kieswetter had hit a four and six off paceman Umar Gul in the third over.
Pakistan had Ravi Bopara caught behind off paceman Aizaz Cheema for one and Eoin Morgan run out for nine before Ajmal accounted for Jonny Bairstow (three), Jos Butler (seven) and Samit Patel (16).
The match ended England's long tour of the United Arab Emirates where they lost the Tests but won the one-day series 4-0.
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With the date that pitchers and catchers report being ... um ... THIS WEEK, it's finally time to hammer out the final installment of the Spring Training Preview - the infield. Having looked at the rotation, the bullpen, and the outfield, let's take it around the horn with Paulie C to see what 2009 may hold in store for the Tribe infielders. Paul focuses on four players in this installment. Victor, Shoppach, Garko, Hafner. Only three of them can be in the lineup each night. How will the AB's break down?
With the date that Pitchers and Catchers report being...um...THIS WEEK, it's finally time to hammer out the final installment of the Spring Training Preview - the infield. Having looked at
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, let's take it around the horn to see what 2009 may hold in store for the Tribe infielders. As much as I'd like to get the whole infield into one nice, tidy package, the Indians' infield situation really has to be divided into two subsets of positions, with the players that figure into the C/DH/1B subset existing on a separate plane from the players that figure to fill 2B/SS/3B for 2009.
Thus, let's divide up this final installment into two parts (and I should still get the second part up before Thursday) by starting with the C/DH/1B contingent as one positional subset really has nothing to do with the other, unless you live, and don't just think, "outside the box".
As the 2008 meandered its way to the finish line, the Indians welcomed Victor and Hafner back into the fold (if in name only) while Shoppach concluded his reign of terror on the AL and Garko finished in a flurry to come close to respectability, if his 2008 totals are looked at simply as a final result. The thought process by many going into the off-season was that the Indians had an excess of players to fill three positions, with Martinez and Hafner assumed to be healthy and taking everyday AB in 2009 and with Garko at least providing his "placeholder" numbers as a 1B, leaving (at least at first glance) Kelly Shoppach as an odd man out, particularly as the quotes that "Victor is our Catcher" came en masse from Tribe brass.
Given that Shoppach had unquestionably earned a chance for an everyday job had some thinking that ShopVac represented a trading chip for the Indians that could be used to augment the starting rotation. But, as news surrounding Hafner's shoulder continued to come out and as the off-season rolled on (with Shoppach still obviously on the roster) a new rhetoric started to emerge - the idea that Hafner's shoulder would need days off as strength was still an issue and that Shoppach would surely see more AB, likely at the expense of Garko (who was suddenly being spun as a potential OF) and to fill the holes left by Hafner's assumed days off.
But before we get ahead of ourselves on the potential ways to fit four pegs into three holes, let's acknowledge that much of the production and positioning for C/1B/DH is going to depend upon the health of Martinez and, more crucially, Hafner. From 2005 to 2007, those two constituted the heart of the Indians' lineup as the pair posted two of the three highest OPS on the team every year from 2004 to 2006, with Hafner's mediocre 2007 (which put him .005 percentage points behind Garko, pushing him into 4th on the team that year) preventing the duo from accomplishing the feat for four straight years.
All of that steady middle-of-the-lineup production from Martinez and Hafner came to a screeching halt last year as the two combined for only 464 AB combined last year as injuries crippled their effectiveness in those AB, as the two COMBINED for 34 extra-base hits over those 464 AB.
Want some perspective on that?
Jason Bartlett, that all-glove, no-hit SS for the Rays had 29 extra-base hits in 10 fewer AB than Hafner and Martinez combined on his way to posting a .286 BA / .329 OBP / .361 SLG / .690 OPS line for the season.
So, imagine two Jason Bartletts occupying the #3 and #4 holes in your lineup. Yes, that's oversimplifying it, but the power outage for the two is staggering as Victor slugged .365 and he had a higher SLG than Hafner by a solid 42 points!
Obviously, the extenuating circumstances of injuries played a big role in that power outage, but the Indians are expecting these two to get back to being middle-of-the-order contributors to the team and, while the fact that the Indians led MLB in runs scored after the All-Star Break getting only 109 unproductive AB (10 XBH) from the duo proved that the offense can survive without them, having a healthy and effective Victor and Hafner deepen the lineup and strengthen it by allowing the pieces that emerged last year to settle into complementary roles at the outset instead of being counted upon to carry the offensive burden as they did last year.
Of course, with these two it's all about health in terms of figuring how productive they can be, but their usage may assist each in staying healthy. If Hafner's shoulder is not at 100% and needs periodic rest, the Indians have the depth with Shoppach and Garko to allow Hafner to take days off to maximize his effectiveness when he does DH. With Victor, the emergence of Shoppach last year allows Martinez to shed the tools of ignorance from time to time (which hopefully reduces the wear and tear on his body) and play a less exhaustive 1B to keep Victor's legs fresh, perhaps allowing the power that left him in 2008 to return. Regardless, keeping both players fresh and healthy throughout the season is an important goal for the Indians because, while the offense can sustain itself without them, it's much easier with them.
As for the players that figure to be the depth that augment Hafner and Martinez, Shoppach entered the everyday lineup on May 22nd, and from that point to the end of the season, he posted a line of .266 BA / .356 OBP / .552 SLG / .908 OPS with 20 HR and 25 2B over the 90 games he played in that stretch. To put that in perspective, Victor's highest season total for OPS is .879 in 2007 and that's not to take anything away from Victor as he and Show Pack are inherently different players with Shoppach's strength being his power, if not always putting the ball in play while Victor's strength being that ability to put the bat on the ball. It's more to point out that Shoppach, from the time he entered the lineup last year, was an elite player in all of MLB.
Whether he can sustain that level of excellence in 2009, as pitchers make adjustments to him and exploit his weaknesses, will be certainly a thing to watch as one of the warts on Shoppach that figures to become much more prominent with increased AB is the frequency with which he strikes out. Last year, in his first extended look in MLB, Shoppach posted a 37.8% K rate, which is the same K% as Arizona's Mark Reynolds, he of the 204 K last year. Factor that out over 500 AB and you're looking at 189 K, over 600 it becomes 227 K. Regardless, warts and all, Shoppach's 2008 served as the revelation on the team (along with Lee and Choo) and whether he can continue that success in 2009 will determine how often he finds himself in the lineup.
If Shoppach is trying to translate his 2008 success into 2009, Ryan Garko finds himself on the opposite end of the spectrum as he tries to distance himself from his nightmarish 2008 season at the plate, during which he didn't have an extra-base hit in 24 straight games last year from June 10th to July 9th over 97 plate appearances. Just to blow your mind on that stat, over that same stretch of games, Andy Marte netted 2 extra-base hits in 24 plate appearances...and Marte looked positively lost at the plate all year!
I'm not sure why everyone keeps intimating that Garko's 2nd half performance "saved his season", when in fact (if we're using the All-Star Break as the dividing line) in the first 46 games out of the All-Star Break he posted a .281 BA / .356 OBP / .413 SLG / .769 OPS with 13 extra-base hits in 191 plate appearances. Sure, the OBP returned to Garkoesque levels, but the power remained absent until the final 13 games of the season.
Over those final 14 games, he posted a .467 BA / .500 OBP / .822 SLG / 1.322 OPS with 7 extra-base hits in 52 plate appearances, the net result of which raised his OPS a staggering 59 points in a little more than two weeks. And even with that Herculean push, his 2008 numbers remained inadequate, particularly for a 1B.
Looking, then, at the four players and how each looks to find time in the batter's box, how to divide up what would ostensibly be 1,900 AB for 3 spots in the lineup is really not that hard, assuming everyone's moderately healthy for the whole season:
Victor - 600 AB
Shoppach - 500 AB
Hafner - 400 AB
Garko - 400 AB
If you're looking at players who are purportedly 100% healthy (and Victor is, although maybe skipping the Opener isn't a bad idea given the events of the last two Openers) and have the most appeal in the everyday lineup, my thought would be to maximize Victor and Shoppach in the lineup while limiting Hafner's use and maybe putting Garko in the position to thrive perhaps by playing him more frequently against LHP (career OPS vs. LHP - .894, career OPS vs. RHP - .767) to get him to forget that 2008 even happened. While Hafner doesn't show such a defined split against LHP and RHP (career OPS vs. LHP - .849, career OPS vs. RHP - .962), his dominance against RHP may make it easier to see how match-ups are going to play a big role in dictating who plays when.
Garko's had about 500 AB each of the last two years and, depending upon how much they protect Hafner's shoulder, he may even see his AB rise from that 400 AB number. Hafner's only topped 500 once in his career (in 2007), and according to some, his shoulder is going to benefit from additional time off, so that 400 number could come down pretty easily.
You can figure out the different amalgamations pretty easily, just by moving Victor between C and 1B, slotting Garko and Shoppach to the open position and having the other fill in when Hafner's taking a day off from being the DH. Truthfully, the pieces and parts move around pretty easily, dependent upon who's pitching (Victor catches Carmona, Shoppach catches Lee for instance) and how often Hafner needs time off to rest his balky shoulder. Any of the four can DH (with no obvious alternative to DH ahead of one of the other three if Hafner has a day off) and Victor can play either C or 1B, so it's really just a matter of shuffling the players around to get them as much time in the lineup as possible (wherever they play) while resting Hafner adequately.
If anyone happens to go down to an injury in this quartet, the Indians do have some internal options, most of whom figure to start the season in AAA. Michael Aubrey, who can't really be considered a prospect anymore and is no longer on the 40-man, would be an avenue they could take, as is Jordan Brown, whose 2008 season in Buffalo was underwhelming enough that the Indians exposed him to the Rule 5 Draft (rightfully so, it turns out), who will be looking to put himself back on the map after experiencing his first non-MVP season in the Minors since 2005. Brown and Aubrey, however, would really need to distinguish themselves in Columbus to merit a long look for this year, while the possibility of Matt LaPorta may be one that the Indians find more appealing in that he still has that luster of a newly-found coin on him.
LaPorta, obviously, would be in the same boat as Aubrey and Brown as he's not on the 40-man and isn't going to get called up without some performance in AAA that would merit such a promotion. LaPorta also will likely be playing LF for most of his time in Columbus and a transition back to his old college position of 1B may be one that is inevitable, but it's also one that limits the versatility that the Indians are seeking to take advantage of by having him able to play 1B and LF going forward to fill a hole in either place as needed. Of course, if 1B does suddenly become a hole (though quite a bit would have to transpire with Victor and Garko for that to happen), LaPorta could find himself at 1B/DH for the Indians. More likely would be LaPorta ascending to the parent club to essentially taking the spot of an ineffective Ryan Garko in the sharing of AB listed above. The extenuating factor in LaPorta replacing Garko on the roster is that LaPorta (seeing as how he will be playing LF in AAA) is just as likely to take the place of a struggling OF on the roster as he really represents the first viable option past Francisco (unless you count Crowe) in LF, whereas other options exist by moving the existing MLB parts around that 1B/DH role.
The other (and probably more likely) solution that the Indians could go if one of the assumed quartet of C/1B/DH goes down with an injury or is wildly ineffective would be to promote either super-utility/Catcher Chris Gimenez or C Wyatt Toregas, both of whom will start the year in Columbus, and both of whom are already on the 40-man roster. If, for instance, Garko or Shoppach struggles badly or Victor or Hafner go down with an injury, the Indians could simply move Gimenez or Torregas up to the parent club to be the back-up Catcher and allow the three remaining principals in the foursome of Victor, Kelly, Hafner, and Garko to slide around the diamond/lineup accordingly. Neither Gimenez nor Torregas looks to be a major prospect at this point, but neither would be a defensive liability and their presence on the 40-man roster already would make a promotion/demotion of either easier than making a decision on adding a 1B.
Beyond those AAA guys, I suppose that there's an off chance that the troika of hitting jewels who figure to start the year in Akron (Santana, Weglarz, and Mills) could make a push to get into this mix (some see Weglarz eventually as a 1B), but it would take an awful lot to go wrong or one of those players going Roy Hobbs in Canal Park to make that happen.
All told, the C/1B/DH situation this year figures to be a pretty fluid one where the notion of resting Hafner's shoulder is going to allow the Indians to find AB for Shoppach and Garko to find out if Shoppach's 2008 was real (which they hope it was) and if Garko's 2008 was real (which they hope it wasn't). Regardless of how it shakes out, even if one player goes down or struggles, the Indians have the ability to slot the other three players into those three positions without too much trouble. The AB seem to be there for all four to stay busy, it's just a matter of the Indians being pro-active on these players to not keep trotting an ineffective or injured player out there (as they have done in the past) to the detriment of the team when another option exists.
Still up (hopefully before the Pitchers and Catchers report) is the last section on the subset of infielders who figure in at 2B/SS/3B.
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Home for Elkins eventually became the small town of Monterey, California, where in 1918 she and her husband, Felton, paid five thousand dollars for Casa Amesti, a run-down 1830s adobe house. Elkins knew that she could transform Casa Amesti into a showplace that would serve as a calling card for her burgeoning interior decorating business.
She worked with her brother on the restoration, and his influence resulted in classically detailed interiors that possessed excellent balance and proportion. For example, in the living room on the second floor, Adler added a dentil cornice, fluted door casings and a pedimented overmantel that refined the space without interfering with the patina on its thick plastered walls and plank ceiling.
Although the room was furnished with a mixture of English, French and Chinese pieces, a precise use of color—complementary shades of blue, yellow and white—unified it. Her daughter, Katherine E. Boyd, who is also an interior designer, says that this was her mother's gift—she knew how to mix.
Once the restoration of Casa Amesti was well under way, Elkins's friends—many of whom were building houses in Pebble Beach—began asking her for professional advice. Among her earliest projects was Hester Griffin's house, an imposing Monterey Colonial designed by Santa Barbara architect George Washington Smith. With her keen architectural sensibility, Elkins created a perfectly balanced living room, where Chippendale furniture, Queen Anne mirrors and a pair of Ming screens were at home with modern lamps by Jean-Michel Frank and Salvador Dali. Griffin raved about Elkins's outstanding sense of color, such as the peach corduroy she chose for the room's scoop-back sofa and armchairs. This was shocking at the time but consciously planned for an interior dominated by shades of bone and black.
As Elkins's reputation spread, she was hired by the local Cypress Point Club to decorate its new clubhouse, which opened in 1930. For the club's living room, she used quiet tones of beige, yellow and melon, and furniture such as overstuffed sofas and French provincial pieces, including a large antique table, which seventy years later is still the primary focus of the room.
Her innovative design also made a bold statement at San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939. There, her interiors for the Yerba Buena Club for Women defied tradition. Using upholstery fabrics in turkey reds and blues, Elkins transformed a Victorian-style sofa and settees that furnished the waiting room and main lounge. The late designer Tony Duquette praised her choice of a "wonderful color of yellow" for the velvet that draped the walls of the dining room. The project solidified her reputation in the Bay Area. She already had many friends in San Francisco, and several of them, including Lewis Lapham, Whitney Warren and J. D. Zellerbach, hired her to design their houses.
Elkins's taste ran the gamut, and according to Duquette, she was the first person in the United States to import country French furniture, a style she employed to create warm, informal interiors in several houses that her brother designed along Chicago's North Shore.
She was also partial to French provincial furniture and made use of it when she collaborated with Adler on one of his most important commissions, a seventeenth-century-Norman-style manor house designed in 1926 for advertising entrepreneur Albert D. Lasker. In the spacious Lasker living room, Adler's eighteenth-century-style pine paneling was a handsome backdrop for Elkins's selection of predominantly French pieces, which included provincial Louis XV–style chairs, painted stools and a bombé commode. Elkins purchased most of these pieces during one of her many excursions abroad. She had a thorough knowledge of French antiques but also knew how to successfully integrate Chinese rugs, multitiered English tables and even a low table by Frank into the Laskers' traditional décor.
By now Elkins had begun the most fruitful period of her career. In Chicago, from 1926 through the late 1930s, she worked with her brother on nine houses, whose styles ranged from Norman to Georgian to Greek Revival and Tudor. David Adler and Frances Elkins were an unbeatable combination, and the pinnacle of Elkins's career came when she did the interiors of the residence for Mrs. Kersey Coates Reed, which her brother designed on the North Shore.
The 1931 Pennsylvania German–style house, in shimmering dark gray mica stone, exemplified the symmetry, balance and elegance of Adler's buildings. It had a gated forecourt, a walled formal garden and eastern views over Lake Michigan. The interiors bridged the traditional and the avant-garde, starting in the entrance hall, where a slick black-and-white-marble floor led to the ladies' powder room and the gentlemen's cloak room. Although both spaces were Art Déco, they were completely individual.
In the powder room, yellow-lacquered panels outlined in silver leaf cast a softened reflection on the mirrored walls and the Steuben glass bolection molding (a favorite of Elkins's), which edged the overmantel and dressing table alcove. Shiny aluminum squares, inserted into a black ebony floor, gave additional sheen to the room.
The cloakroom, directly across the hall, was a study in Jean-Michel Frank. He designed the room's furnishings and accessories, which included his trademark leather-upholstered club chairs, parchment-covered tables and plaster lamps and wall sconces. There was also an Alberto Giacometti bas-relief over the fireplace.
Elkins took a traditional approach in the living room and dining room, using floral chintz on the living room's overstuffed sofas and armchairs; in the dining room, she opted for an antique hand-painted chinoiserie wallcovering.
In the Reed library, she used a monochromatic palette to create the most extraordinary interior of her career. The room was also her finest tribute to Jean-Michel Frank. She elaborated on the Art Déco theme of the gentlemen's cloakroom, covering the walls with panels of tan Hermès goatskin. Bookcases were recessed into the walls, and many of the volumes that lined the shelves were wrapped in parchment covers with cutouts to expose the titles. An antique English games table, four Elkins-designed Queen Anne–style armchairs (one of her specialties) and an imported carved pine mantel, doors and casings complemented Frank's sofa and club chair.
Reed had a high regard for Elkins's taste, living nearly fifty years in her house without altering it. Such reverence was not unusual, because Elkins's clients believed her interiors were timeless. They were content to keep the rooms as they were. One West Coast client remarked that Elkins not only introduced her to innovative design but also to a distinctive way of living.
"She was CHIC," Tony Duquette wrote about Elkins. "She knew about the art of living, and the living arts and she lived, lived, lived."


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