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When Payton and Emma take on a trio of triplets at the Twin Festival, it's double—make that triple—the twin-switch fun!
Emma and Payton are home from Hollywood, but the drama continues: Not only is the Homecoming Dance coming up fast, but there's someone new in school! Three someones, actually: triplets. Oliver, Dexter, and Asher… See more details below
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When Payton and Emma take on a trio of triplets at the Twin Festival, it's double—make that triple—the twin-switch fun!
Emma and Payton are home from Hollywood, but the drama continues: Not only is the Homecoming Dance coming up fast, but there's someone new in school! Three someones, actually: triplets. Oliver, Dexter, and Asher look exactly the same, dress exactly the same, and—worse—have exactly the same superior attitude.
When the triplets mention they're participating in a regional Twins & SuperTwins Festival that has a Tweens Division and twin-related contests, Payton and Emma are instantly interested. Emma's been suffering from competition withdrawal ever since Jazmine James managed to get her disqualified from the upcoming science fair, so she's got her game face on. And once Payton convinces Mrs. Burkle that the festival is perfect for a VOGScast field trip, the whole gang takes a road trip and the games really get going. But attempts to take down the triplets threaten to land everyone in hot water. Can Emma and Payton switch their way out of trouble, or are they stuck in a multiples mess?
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autumn dance!
I stared at the poster hanging on the wall in the hallway near my homeroom. My first middle school dance! So exciting! So scary! Exciting! Scary! Yay! Eek! Yay!
I was excited because I mean, Yay! My very first dance! So yay! But also eek!
The eek part was that it was our first school dance and I was going with a date. Yes, Nick had asked me to the dance! My first dance! My first date! My mom said okay since we were going all together in a group with our other friends. But Nick would be my date.
My first dance! My first date! What would we talk about? Could Nick dance? Would we slow dance? What if we slow danced and my hands got sweaty?
"Miss Mills," a voice called out, "will you be joining us?"
It was my homeroom teacher, Mrs. "Bad Breath" Galbreath.
Bad breath. I hadn't even thought of that. Oh no! What if I was slow dancing with Nick and I had bad breath? What if—
I snapped out of it. I guess I should be focusing on What if Mrs. Galbreath gives me detention for being late? I had an iffy history of getting in trouble in middle school, so I raced to the classroom.
"Sorry!" I said weakly as I slid under Mrs. Galbreath's arm while she was shutting the door.
Whew! Made it.
I slid into a seat near the back and set my tote bag down on the floor next to me. I scrounged around for my social studies homework. I felt my brush and mini-mirror. My papaya-flavored lip gloss (that I'd bought in Hollywood). Sunglasses (that I'd worn in Hollywood—I didn't need them here). I really needed to clean out my tote bag.
And there it was: my social studies binder. I pulled it out and put it on my desk.
I'd promised my parents that missing school for HOLLYWOOD wouldn't interfere with my schoolwork. Sigh. Hollywood was over. No more starring in commercials, being on TV game shows, taking glamorous convertible rides, or bumping into celebrities and having my name linked to them. No more being famous. But lots more social studies.
And if I didn't keep my grades up, there would be "consequences." My parents had already once "limited my after-school activities" because of my grades. They just started letting me participate in drama club and VOGS (our middle school's video broadcast show) again. If I didn't get my schoolwork caught up, they might take those away again.
Or the punishment could be worse! What if they grounded me? Oh no! They wouldn't ground me from the dance, would they?
Don't panic, Payton, I told myself. I would focus on my schoolwork and let nothing distract me. Question one: What are the three export products of the country of . . .
I struggled to remember the answer from the chapter I'd read last night. There were times I wished I had Emma's brain. My twin sister, Emma, could read a textbook and remember practically all the answers not just the next day, but for the rest of her life. Emma would have no problem making up her schoolwork from the days we missed.
Emma would never get grounded because of her grades. She would never get grounded from her very first middle school dance.
Oh yes! Emma was going to the dance too! Emma had a date too. Ox had asked her to the dance. He'd asked me yesterday what color Emma's dress was so he could get her a matching corsage. Emma's dress was so pretty. Her fashion had definitely improved this year. She'd picked out a white dress that had purple flowers all over it. My dress was a jewel-toned sapphire blue. Even though blue was Emma's signature color, I'd seen it and knew one of us would have to wear it. Emma didn't like it, so it became mine, mine, mine.
Okay, enough thinking about the dance. No more distractions, Payton. What are the three export products of the country of . . .
The door to Study Hall opened, and a guy I'd never seen before walked in. He had straight black hair that flopped a little over his face. He was wearing an olive-colored shirt, skinny jeans, and skater shoes.
I wasn't the only one distracted. Everyone turned to look at him.
"You must be our new student," Mrs. Galbreath said. "Welcome. Take any empty seat."
The guy didn't seem bothered when everyone looked at him. He walked my way and sat down in the empty seat right behind me.
"Please return to your studies, students," Mrs. Galbreath said so everyone would stop checking out the new guy. I returned my attention to my homework. Okay. Three export products of . . .
"Psst." The new guy tapped my shoulder.
I turned around.
"It is you," he said. "I thought so."
Oh! I'd been recognized. He must have seen our TV commercial and knew who I was. I felt so famous!
"Hi," I whispered, smiling a nice, friendly smile so he'd know I wasn't a stuck-up celebrity and I hadn't let fame go to my head. Then I stopped smiling when I saw Galbreath looking at me. I turned back around.
Three export products of . . .
Poke, poke. The guy was poking my back again.
"Hey," the guy whispered. "Can you do me a favor?"
He slid a piece of paper toward me.
Oh! Oooh! He must want my autograph! Blush. You can take the girl out of Hollywood, but you can't take the Hollywood out of the girl! Hee hee.
I took the paper from him and wrote my signature across the back of the paper:
Payton Mills
I reached over and dropped the paper back on his desk. Then I turned around and faced my social studies homework. Such was the life of a tween star. Trying to balance Hollywood and homework.
"Psst." The new guy tapped my shoulder again. Yeesh, how do Hollywood celebrities ever get their homework done? I checked to see if Galbreath was watching us. She was, but she nodded at me to help the new guy. I turned around.
"You didn't do it," he whispered.
Confused, I pointed to my signature. I was even more confused when the guy flipped over the paper to the other side.
"No, I need you to do the math problems." He lowered his voice and looked around. "See? I'm new, and I have to take some placement test to see what math class I'll be in."
"Someone said you were a math genius," he whispered. "So, can you just write the answers in there? You can miss a couple to make it more authentic."
Ohhh. He thought I was my twin sister. And he thought I—meaning Emma—would help him cheat. Um, no.
"Sorry, I'm not a math genius," I whispered back. "That's my twin. She's the math genius in the family."
"Oh, you've got one of those too?" He nodded. "So do I. But wait, are you any good at math at all? Can you just do this anyway? I hate math."
"Um, isn't a placement test supposed to help you get into the right math class?" I asked.
"Whatever," he said. "I have family pressure to get in advanced classes."
"Well, if it makes you feel any better, I know the feeling," I said. "Although my family is used to it. My sister is four grades ahead of me in math. And we're even identical twins! That's why you mixed us up."
Yes, sometimes even I almost mixed us up. Like one time in a clothes store I went over and started talking to her. But then I realized it was a full-length mirror.
But there are differences!
I'm PAYTON, the twin who
• is one inch taller.
• has slightly greener eyes.
• definitely, without a doubt, has shinier hair—today, at least.
Today Emma definitely was not shiny, shiny, double the shiny. This morning she'd put her unwashed hair in a scrunchie. A green scrunchie! Fortunately, I'd had an extra rubber band in my tote bag and convinced her to change it. Otherwise, she would have embarrassed us. Yes, us. When you're an identical twin, there's always the chance that people will think your twin is you.
And I didn't want anyone thinking I'd wear a green scrunchie. Emma had to represent the Mills Twins better.
Sometimes being a twin could be annoying. Being Emma's twin could be seriously annoying. Like sibling rivalry times two. She's been cranky. And not very well dressed. I know she's been feeling stressed, but we were just in a shampoo commercial, representing good hair, yet she had put her hair up in a scrunchie?
Like I told her before homeroom: Represent the Mills Twins, Emma. Represent.
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There are other optionsDecember 03,2013
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A recent column in The Sunday Times Argus touts the benefits of electric cars and makes many great points about why switching to an electric vehicle is good for the wallet and the environment.
What that article and many others of its kind fails to address is that getting from Point A to Point B shouldnt automatically mean getting into a car of the fossil fuel variety or the electric variety. If we truly want to implement changes to our carbon footprint, thinking outside the car box is required. Perhaps the state of Vermont should be investing in infrastructure that encourages more people to ride bicycles. Perhaps bus service should be improved. Maybe rethinking rail travel is needed. How about car sharing and ride sharing?
We are a rural state and distance and weather dictate choices we make in transportation. But suggesting that the only alternative to a car fueled with gasoline is a car powered by batteries doesnt embrace a myriad of potential options that ought to be part of our conversation.
Larry Gilbert
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Here is the formula for a good prehardener.
Water 500 ml
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Is anyone having problems with SKY+ for this programme, as it was in my planner on both Thursday and Saturday but neither episode recorded and they have both disappeared from it.
same here! i had to put it back it the sky+ planner this morning! but i think its sky's problem as sky+ was on watchdog a few backs for these problems and other problems. Its happened to alot of people for a whole range of shows not just this but for me the chart show is the first time its happened!
you and me will have to watch out it'll probs end up deleting other shows next!
its not the vault or the chart show program to blame for this the sky+ planner deleting shows is a common problem but like i say its the first time its happend for me!
but i think they repeat it at 5pm on tuesday or thursday incase you not happy about missing it!
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Talking to Network World, Gelsinger didn't see it having great success coming into the enterprise because it's a framework for constructing clouds. People have largely adopted and have extremely large deployments of VMware and the switching costs and so on of that are not particularly effective, he said.
OpenStack will be effective in cloud providers, service providers, an area where VMware hasn't had a lot of business in the past. This made OpenStack an important strategic initiative for VMware that it is committed to supporting.
"VMware will work to ensure its products and services work in cloud environments based on the open source platform. And in that sense", Gelsinger.
The software is also an opportunity for VMware to penetrate the service provider market, which is he says the company has not focused heavily on in the past, he added.
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European Mining, Minerals and Environmental Program (EMMEP)
Master of Science (Technology).
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•Aalto University
•Delft University of Technology
•RWTH Aachen
•University of Miskolc
•Wroclaw University of Technology
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European Mining, Minerals and Environmental Program (EMMEP) is a Master's degree programme organized in international cooperation between five Europe's leading universities in Mining and Resource Engineering:
- Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands)
- Aalto University (Finland),
- RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
- Miskolc University (Hungary)
- Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)
EMMEP builds on the strengths and the complementary expertise of the mentioned universities in Earth Science studies and research. The European Mineral Programs started in 1996 and until 2013 over 650 students have participated to the programme and are united in a well‐organized alumni network.
Aalto University School of Engineering participates to the study track of European Mining Course (EMC) and Aalto University School of Chemical Technology takes part to the European Mineral Engineering Course (EMEC).
During the two-year Master's programme students study in three different universities:
• EMC: Aalto University, RWTH Aachen and TU Delft.
• EMEC: Miskolc University, Wroclaw University of Technology and Aalto University.
EMMEP and admission to the programme is coordinated by TU Delft. Please, see more information at http://emmep.org/
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Hotel Careers – Head Housekeeper
We are known as the fastest growing brand in the history of the lodging industry (we opened 140 locations in 36 months). Our concept is a cross between a hotel and an apartment- we only rent rooms by the week. Our product is in high demand by business travelers and those who life's circumstances cause them to need an extended stay hotel. Most locations have occupancy rates 20-25% greater than competitors.
As the largest economy extended stay lodging franchise in the U.S. we currently operate over 180 hotels in more than 30 states. By December 2016 we have plans to open another 125 locations, with goals to have 1,000 locations nationwide. Our property management company is ranked in the top 20 largest company owned PMCs with locations throughout the U.S.
This job has a flexible work schedule including On Call work, and accepts responsibility to maintain hotel rooms in a guest ready state. The work closely with the general manager and the housekeepers to clean each room to brand standards, following the check lists and inspecting every room before it is rented.
Besides performing the duties of a housekeeper, the head housekeeper acts as a trainer and leader of the other housekeepers. They help stock carts; assure personal protective equipment is used and that cleaning supplies are properly used.
Specific Duties include:
- Coordinate activities, cleaning priorities and guest service with the front desk and management
- Inspects work performed to ensure that it meets specifications and established standards.
- Perform or assist with cleaning duties as necessary.
- Confer with staff to resolve performance and personnel problems, and to discuss company policies.
- Establish and implement operational standards and procedures for the departments supervised.
- Investigate complaints about service and equipment, and take corrective action.
- Inspect and evaluate the physical condition of facilities to determine the type of work required.
- Check and maintain equipment to ensure that it is in working order.
These jobs require the employee to be able to lift up to 50 lbs., stand, bend and kneel. The work pace is steady; the work schedule is flexible to meet the employee's needs. These employees love to "make it shine", they take pride in doing a good job, are careful to follow directions, check lists and process. They get along with others and like working on a team. In general CLEAN is a passion they have and take pride in delivering an exceptionally clean room.
The Head Housekeeper is provided a rent free furnished studio, free utilities and cable TV, free local phone, and internet. While on call they are not paid and are free to do what they wish but must carry a portable phone, pager, or cell phone, so guests can reach them.
Best Qualified Candidates will have:
- Quality Inspection process
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- Hazardous Waste Certification
- Hotel/Apartment/Cleaning Experience
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Candidates can also apply in person in the location of their choice.
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We've always felt that the gap in functionality and price between the two prongs of Panasonic's LCD TV range (LXD500 and LXD50) was a bit large.And it seems that perhaps Panny shares our concerns,as it has just unleashed a new 'middle'way: the LXD52 range - represented by the 26in TX-26LXD52.
From the outside,the 26LXD52 has more in common with its cheaper LXD50 sibling.It looks identical, differing from the top-range LXD500 via its slimmer black screen frame and chunkier silver subsection.
Thankfully,from here on in the 26LXD52 shifts much closer to the LXD500.This impression begins with its connectivity,which includes an HDMI jack alongside a set of component video inputs - raising hopes that this TV will be HD Ready. It's nice,too,to find three Scarts. There's no PC input or SD photocard slot like on the LXD500,though.
The 26LXD52 follows through on its connections'HD Readiness with a sufficiently high native resolution of 1366 x 768,and compatibility with all the necessary HD formats.
Its biggest feature is probably its digital tuner.This is backed up by support for the 7-day Freeview EPG that includes genre filtering and direct timer event setting.Other tricks include colour management for automatically optimising colour saturations and tone,plus both 'normal'and MPEG noise reduction (handy for reducing blockiness in lower-quality digital broadcasts). The LXD52 does,however,lack the LXD500's picture-in-picture options.
The LXD52 matches the excellent LXD500 for picture quality,though. This means pictures are remarkably flexible,looking great with all sources, from the analogue tuner right through to pristine digitally-fed high definition.In fact,it's an all-rounder of positively Flintoffian proportions.
Getting more specific,the TV boasts terrifically bright and well saturated colours that also score over those of many rivals by being 100 per cent natural at all times - even during dark scenes.
More good news comes with the TV's fine detail response,which picks out tremendous amounts of texture during HD viewing,but also delivers sharpness with notoriously soft digital TV broadcasts.
There's an almost complete dearth of picture noise with all sources too, and only the rarest trace of the smearing that can accompany motion on LCD TVs.
This TV also enjoys very good black levels by 26in LCD standards, giving dark scenes exceptional scale and plenty of easily visible background detailing.In fact,now we think about it,there really isn't anything bad to say about the 26LXD52's pictures at all.
All this is backed up by a terrific audio performance,too.The TV's unassuming looking speakers will blow your socks off with their deep, rounded bass,massively wide but controlled soundstage,rich vocal tones,and high but never harsh trebles.If there's a 26in LCD TV that sounds better,we ain't heard it.
Panasonic has pitched its new mid-range set perfectly.The only problem might be just how heavily this cracking newcomer could eat into sales of its other two ranges!


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Radio host Don Imus has been suspended from his radio talk show for two weeks after calling female members of the Rutgers basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on Wednesday, April 4. Imus, who has since apoliized for his remarks, called the punishment appropriate but stressed, "I am not a racist."
"What I did was make a stupid, idiotic mistake in a comedy context," Imus said on his show Tuesday, April 10. CBS Radio and MSNBC both said they were suspending the morning talk show for two weeks beginning Monday, April 16.
The Rev. Al Sharpton called the suspension "not nearly enough. I think it is too little, too late."
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13th Annual Gala Recognized Health Net's Roger and Erika Greaves; CNN's
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SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Burn Foundation, which provides the expertise and programs to prevent pediatric burns and to heal severely burned children, celebrated its 13th annual Giving New Hope Benefit at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 21. The event was attended by more than 700 guests and raised more than $875,000 to help children and families in Los Angeles and around the world.
"We are privileged to have raised these funds through the dynamic efforts of The Council who worked tirelessly to ensure that the Foundation can continue to do its important work," stated Doug Mancino, chairman of the board of the Children's Burn Foundation and a partner with McDermott, Will & Emery. "Proceeds raised by the benefit will provide state-of-the-art medical treatment for children who have suffered severe burn injuries. Funds will also be used to conduct fire safety and burn prevention programs for children and families in high-risk communities throughout Los Angeles County."
Health Net's Roger Greaves and his wife Erika were presented the Giving New Hope award by the Foundation for their philanthropy and commitment to giving young people hope for a better future. The Foundation also recognized CNN's Tony Maddox, executive vice president and managing director of CNN International, with the first "Spirit of Humanity" award. The award was inspired by CNN's continuing coverage of five-year-old Youssif, the Iraqi boy set on fire by two masked men in January 2007 and subsequently brought to the U.S. for treatment by the Foundation. Youssif's parents helped present the award to Maddox with emotional words of thanks to all donors.
Greaves, former president of Health Net, is a nationally renowned
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Briefly: Glasgow grand opening; Cinematte
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Glasgow grand opening
In brief: Apple's Buchanan Street store in Glasgow, Scotland is scheduled to open this Saturday at 9:00 a.m. local time, the developers of the Cinematte Photoshop plug-in are putting the software as well as the source code up for sale, Bombia Design has released two new office add-ons, and Soft Solutions has released its FaxPack 7 for REALbasic. Apple's first Scotland-based retail store in Glasgow is scheduled to hold its grand opening on Saturday, August 25th beginning at 9:00 a.m. local time. Attendees can expect all of the traditional Apple Store opening events, including a free Apple T-shirt for the first 1,500 people through the doors. The company is also giving away a Digital Lifestyle Collection with a black MacBook and a silver iPod nano to one lucky winner.
Cinematte for sale
Nova Design -- the company responsible for development of the Cinematte Photoshop plug-in -- is putting the plug-in and its source code up for sale. Cinematte allows users to easily make complex photo-realistic composites of subjects that are photographed against a blue or green screen background. The plug-in uses the same techniques utilized worldwide in motion picture technology, and allows users to keep soft edges as well as add effects to composites.
The buyer of Cinematte will receive three source code packages covering Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows along with ongoing answers to questions. The original plug-in developer is also available on a consulting basis, according to Nova Design.
Office add-ons, FaxPack 7 for REALbasic
Bombia Design today released two new Office icon kits titled "Office Addon 1" and "Office Addon 2" which cover important concepts like currency and announcements; both kits include 20 icons and are available via a digital download for $50 each.... Soft Solutions has released FaxPack 7 for REALbasic, a new and free faxing/email plug-in that works with leading network fax software 4-Sight FAX.


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I was listening to an episode of my favorite podcast: You Are Not So Smart the other day, and his guest was Google director of People Operations (Human Resources): Laszlo Bock. You should go listen to the whole podcast, because it was really fascinating. One part that caught my ear was when Mr. Bock was talking about hiring, and how managers hire within Google [20 minute mark]. Their research shows that college sophomores can make the same judgement on an interviewee that trained HR professionals can within just 10 seconds of watching the interview. That is astounding. What Google has found is that that first impression is so strong that the rest of the interview, the interviewer is confirming the biases they've formed within the first 10 seconds of the interview. They are still professional and get good answers and good results from the interview, but their personal bias is so subconsciously overwhelming that they interpret the information they've gathered to fit their bias.
"The single biggest thing, the most valuable thing you can do, is- whoever's doing the interviewing, and especially the hiring manager, do not let them make these decisions" -Lazlo Bock
He then goes on to talk about Google's hiring process. They have interviewers, and then they send it to a hiring comitee. So they solved it with a number of ways. Potential candidates go through a number of interviews. Their answers are compiled. It's given over to an HR comittee that has never met or seen the candidate does the hiring. They've found this to be an extrodinarly effective way of evaluating talent.
So the thought hit me: how can this apply to hockey?
To me, interviewers are very analagous to hockey scouts. That talent evaluators basically make up their minds on people within 10 seconds of seeing them is why I am extremely skeptical of scouts opinions on players. This is true for talent evaluators, and it's almost certainly true for hockey scouts as well, since they are, in fact, human. (This goes for people on the internet whose primary way of evaluating players is watching them too). Scouts aren't useless, and I want to make sure I don't shortchange what they do. There are still people whose inputs I greatly valiue, and who have a lot of insight. The draft vets this out. Better players are generally taken at the top of the draft. Just like the interviewers: Scouts are still good at their jobs and they still pick out talent. It's just that they also let their biases cloud their ability to finally judge them.
So how could hockey apply these principles for talent evaluation? How could hockey take advantage of a scouts knowledge and insight, but try and strip out the bias that clouds their judgement? A place to start, IMO, is follow Google's model as closely as possible. So here's how I'd apply these few things to hockey (ok. I'd do a lot more research before doing this, but this is a start based upon these interviews and other behavioral science principles):
• I'd send scouts to view prospects multiple times. Seperately. I wouldn't really let them converse with each other, and I'd attempt to keep them away from media coverage (and corrupt their own evaluations with others' biases). They would all be responsible on every prospect they've viewed at least 5 times. (obviously potential 6th round picks wouldn't have 20 scouts worth of data, but as much as possible) We'll call these scouts write-ups.
• I'd have an analytics department gather as much data on these prospects as possible. All the relevent stats possible. (and I'd try and see if someone's tracked the advanced ones for all these leagues) These would be a player's analytics write-up.
• I'd have a 3rd group of people combine the analytics and scouts write-ups together. Then, they would strip out as much of the biased language (big body, good motor, etc) as possible. I'd even have them strip out size (size bias is rampant). The player would be marked by "player A, position and handedness" This would be the final write-up, and hopefully it's stripped out the scouts AND analysts biases.
• I'd then send it on to a 4th comittee (maybe GM and Asst GMs, or maybe not). This would be analagous to Google's hiring comitee. They would take these full write-ups and rank the players based on those final write-ups. Then reveal the palyers names on the list.
There's your draft list. Choose the top one available.
There's probably a lot of tweeks to this that could be applied (there's a lot more behavioral science that could be applied). But this, to me, is a starting framework to start applying the very valuable stuff that's being discovered in behavioral science to hockey.
This would take a giant leap of faith because what I just laid out above lays out something that's almost crazy when it's said a different way: The guys deciding who to draft are not going to be watching those players play! That's a concept that's quite a bit different than what hockey does now. I don't see hockey culture being anywhere near ready for this. Hockey culture isn't really known for being on the innovative heels of Google. Any organization that did this would face intense scrutiny (especially from a hockey media that revels in the pride of it's own crustiness).
But, I think the behavior science in hockey is worth investigating, and the steps I laid out above, modeled after Google's hiring process, based on behaviorial science, is a way to get a more comprehensive evaluation process.
This could be a doozy, so we'll jump right in, because there's a lot I want to cover.
Most of the regression talk with the Avs comes in three forms: Goaltending/sv%, Corsi/Fenwick, and Shooting %. There's a couple more areas I don't thik have gotten a lot of ink, so I'm going to talk about them, but I'll start with Shooting %:
Shooting %: Shooting % is a stat that really goes all over the place, from year to year for nearly every team. It's a touchy subject, because the Avs (and pretty much every team who has a solid sh%, really) make the claim they are taking better shots. The Avs were 2nd in the league at 8.77% shooting percentage (5v5 close), and many stats folks have that coming down.
But there is some evidence that the Avs actually do have some shooting % skill. They have some elite offensive shooting talent (Duchene, MacKinnon, O'Reilly, and Tanguay) and there's some numerical evidence too: they appear to be good at Zone Entries, which lead to better quality shots.
I think they will regress some, but maybe not as much as predicted. For a reasonably optimistic (and to avoid contraversy) let's say they don't regress here.
One-Goal Games - The Avs had a +30 goal differential last season but 112pts. +30 is normally reserved for teams in the 100 point range, not so much in the 110 point range. This led me to believe the Avs had some fortune on when they scored goals too. Sure enough, the Avs were a league leading 27-4-8 (.700) in 1-goal games last season. That's a ridiculous record (and completely unsustainable). [The image in that link is broken, but I think the r^2 of .05 makes the point] (Here's another link with a broken link to the really good stuff). (One more link on one-goal games)
If the Avs fall to a .500 record in 1-goal games next season that would be similar to Carolina (20-9-11). That's 51 points rather than the 62 the Avs got last year, an 11-point drop, which, isolating all other affects, would put them at 101 points instead of 112. Much more typical of a team with a +30 GD.
That's a fairly significant point: The Avs could do everything the same as last season and still drop 11 points (or more, if they get some bad luck) just on when their goals happen to come, i.e. when they are able to pull out a 1-goal win.
If you're counting at home, I've put down 7points to goalie regression & 11 to 1G game regression. That's down to 94 pts without shooting regression.
Injuries - I've seen people say "don't forget, Tanguay is back too" when discussing the Avs forwards corps, but really I think the Avs had a very fortunate spell on injuries last season. Here's GP for the Avs top 9 players:
Duchene - 71
Landeskog - 81
MacKinnon - 82
O'Reilly - 80
Stastny - 71
Erik Johnson - 80
Barrie - 64
Parenteau - 55
Varlamov - 63
The Avs basically had 2-3 important injuries last season. Among the Avs most important 7 players (Stats, Duchene, MacK, ROR, Landeskog, EJ, Varlamov) they suffered two minor injuries (Duchene and Stastny) and no major ones. Among their second tier of plyers they did have some significant injuries (Barrie, PA, and Tanguay missed time, and Hejda played injured). That no major pieces of the team were injured, and there was only one really devestating injury, a 3rd liner, is incredible luck.
And injuries are terrible, because they affect everything. An injury to the best player, say Duchene, affects possession and sh%.
It's possible the Avs can go another season without injuries to top guys. (After all, the injury dice have no memory), but do I think it's likely? No.
Which brings us to:
Aging -
The Avs have young players who will likely get better: Duchene, O'Reilly, MacKinnon, Landeskog, EJ, & Barrie. Now maybe one of those guys stalls a little but yes, they are going to get better. This should really help the Avs possession, and these guys, as stated above, are the Avs key players.
But the Avs are really counting on some old guys too. Iginla, Stuart, Briere, Hejda, Tanguay are not the most important players, but they are pretty important players. They are all on the wrong side of 33, and injury is a big risk with these guys. But so, too, is regression. In fact all of these players have shown signs of regressing already, and one or two may fall off the cliff this season. Regardless, if we're prognosticating young players getting better, it's fair to prognosticate old players getting worse.
Again, the older players are not counted on as much as the young players, and the young players growth will probably is better than the old guys depreciation, but both need to be taken into effect.
Conf III
Honestly, I don't think Conf III is as good as being projected. Chi is still great. StL limped into the post season, possessionally, and is going with Allen & Brian Elliott as their goalies (Picking up Stats & Gunnerson helps them a lot). .i not convinced. Dallas seems legitametly better (& good). Minnesota had miserable possession numbers, too, last season (worse than the Avs). Preds are the opposite Avs - killer top 3 D , 1 forward (Neal). And Winnipeg still has Pavelec.
The only team in the west who I think is not getting the credit they deserve is Vancouver, who isn't what they were, but were also unlucky last season (and were saddled with Torterella. How'd Alan Vigneault's team do?). The Cali teams are good.
So, my predictions: Top 7 spots in the west:
Chi, Dal, StL
LaK,Sj, ANH
WC- Vac
Last WC: dogfight for the 8-seed with Minnesota, Nashville, Phoenix, & Col.
I think COL is the better of those 4, but not by a lot. A bad shooting season or a really significant injury & the Avs fall below all 3.
Going into this preview i was thinking COL-88pts... but i don't think the West is that good outside the top 6 and the Avs should improve.
Final prediction: 94 pts & a 1st round exit to the Hawks.
(I wrote a good portion of this on a tablet, with no spell check. Please forgive any typing or spelling errors)
Key Additions: Brad Stuart, Zach Redmond
Key Subtractions: Andre Benoit, Corey Sarich
The defense is actually a place where I think the Avs improved over a season ago, the problem is, it's a slight improvement and not nearly enough for a team with a defense that is, legitimately, thought of as one of the weakest in the league.
Let's throw some Zone Exit data out there, curtesy of Corey Sznajder (whose doing some AMAZING work over at his Hurricanes blog this summer, and has now been hired by an NHL team). Here's the Avs through the first half (give or take) of last season.
|Nick Holden
|Tyson Barrie
|Nate Guenin
|Erik Johnson
|Jan Hejda
|Cory Sarich
|Ryan Wilson
|Andre Benoit
(note: Success% is successful attempts to exit the zone)
First, Let's talk about Erik Johnson: He faced some of the toughest competition in the NHL last season, and ended with a pretty successful CorsiRel of 2.4, and a point line of 9-30-39. That's tremendous. He may not ever be in the same class as Doughty, Keith, Subban, Chara or Weber, but I think he's one of the best 30 defenders in the game, and is a legitimate #1D. He's got a very good Exit Success % (See Above: at least from my limited sample of what I've seen). He's very good.
The problem is: he needs a partner. Jan Hejda is not it. That exit data is brutal (The Sharks data, below, gives his more context). Brad Stuart is not the answer either.
In fact Brad Stuart isn't a very good defenseman anymore. He faced the equivalent of lower 2nd line competition and wasn't used super defensively, slightly more than average, and got buried at ES relatively. The nice part about Brad Stuart is that he pushes other inferior defensemen out of the lineup. The Avs probably won't see 68 gp for Nate Guenin, so that makes them a better team instantly. But Brad Stuart wasn't a top-pairing defenseman in his peak, and he's well past that now. Here's his Corsi w and w/o last season (Zone start adjusted):
Here's a text link, for blowing it up
And Stuart's data for the two years prior:
And, here's the exit zone data for the Sharks (again, this covers the first 1/2 a season, give or take a game)
|Jason Demers
|Brad Stuart
|Dan Boyle
|Scott Hannan
|Marc-Eduoard Vlasic
|Matt Irwin
|Justin Braun
Hejda and Stuart are not very good at getting the puck out, marginally better than Scott Hannan. I'm not sure when Hejda broke his hand, and obviously that would affect his ability to get the puck out of the zone, so maybe he gets some slack here. Stuart has no such excuse, though. Stuart is prone to turnovers (more than any Av or Shark not named Ryan Wilson). He doesn't get the puck out well. His one positive is he doesn't ice it. It appears that when Stuart was with the Red Wings 3 seasons ago, he was a pretty decent defender. He wasn't that player for the Avs. Most likely; he got old.
I don't think I've given Nick Holden enough credit. He played decent competition and held his weight, and has terrific underlying numbers. I'm ok giving Holden-Barrie the second pair (and dropping Hejda to 3rd pair). That said, Holden did play in 54 games last season. He should be getting more ice time, and play in 20 more games, so that should improve the Avs defense, some.
I <3 Barrie
If the Avs had a real solid top-pairing guy, I'd probably like their D ok, but as it is there's just a giant hole next to EJ that no one on the Avalanche roster can adequately fill. And Guenin being projected on the 3rd pair is still a disaster. He's not an NHL defenseman.
That said, I think the D is a small improvement. A full season of Nick Holden will help, Brad Stuart isn't very good, but he's a lot better than Guenin, and probably slightly better than Hejda. I don't know what to expect from Redmond (My draft of this had the wrong first name and mispelled last name) and he only played 10 games for Winnipeg last season. He's kind of a Benoit replacement who can PK I guess. Hejda starts the season without a nagging injury. I don't like Hejda-Stuart 1st PK at all.
So, small improvement in the D over last season, but still a not very good one.
Part I was Goalies. This is part II - Forwards
Key Additions - Jarome Iginla, Danny Briere, Jesse Winchester, Ben Street
Key Subtractions - Paul Stastny, PA Parenteau, MA Cliche
Edit: for some stupid reason, I thought the Avs did not re-sign of Cliche. Apologies for the error.
Let's start the position players with the elephant in the room: The Avs Corsi-tied last season was 22nd in the league. Their Fenwick-tied was 23rd. That's not good, and while it's possible to overcome a possession deficiency, it's extremely hard (and usually requires a good dose of... favorable random chance, which the Avs got in spades last season). The Avs needed to increase their possession game in order to maintain some of their success, and it's pretty hard to make the claim the Avs got much better at forward this offseason.
What I see from a lot Avs fans saying: Iginla replaces Stastny, and Briere replaces Parenteau, who wasn't that good anyways
I see something a lot different
Jarome Iginla plays wing. Iginla played perfectly fine minutes for Boston. He was on a line, almost exclusively, with Milan Lucic and David Kreiji, and they weren't on the ice against the toughest players the east had to offer (that honor went to Patrice Bergeron, Loui Eriksson and Riley Smith, with a little Brad Marchand thrown in too). In the last three years he's put up 76-85-161 in 204 GP (.79ppg).
Jarome Iginla is a winger who played against top line competition but took a lot of starts in his attacking zone, relative to his teammates. He had ok possession numbers, but nothing that jumps off the page. He's a possession positive, or at the very worst not an anchor. He had a very good 30-31-61 points line, and he was paired up almost exclusively with David Kreiji and Milan Lucic at even strength. In the last three years he's put up 76-85-161 in 204 GP (.79ppg).
Paul Stastny is a center. He was dynamite for possession and Stastny racked up his points (25-35-60) against some of the toughest competition in the NHL. The Avs forwards who played the toughest minutes last season were: Ryan O'Reilly, Gabriel Landeskog and Paul Stastny. (Apologies to Mitchel and Talbot, who also had tough minutes, but against lesser competition). In the last 3 seasons he's 55-82-137 over 190gp (.72ppg)
Jarome Iginla isn't taking those minutes, especially the defensive ones. He's not a center, and he's not really capable of it. Whose going to replace those minutes in the defensize zone? Ryan O'Reilly already had a difficult workload, does he double down on it? How will that affect his offensive game? John Mitchell is a fine player, underrated in fact, but is he really that shutdown guy? Does anyone think MacKinnon is ready to take those tough draws in his own end against the Toews, Koivus and (sigh) Stastny's that lurk in our division?
I don't see anyone on the Avs roster who can replace what Paul Stastny was brining to the team.
PA Parenteau is a winger. He He played tough competition, (both years), but he was slightly sheltered in terms of zone starts. He was terrific possessionally. Last season was a down season (14-19-33 in 55 GP). But over the last three years he's got a line of 50-93-143 in 183gp (.78 ppg). PA Parenteau may be the most underappreciated Av. He had a fantastic two year spell with the Avs, including a better PPG with the Avs than: Claude Lemieux, Gabe Landeskog, Chris Drury, Adam Deadmarsh, Ryan Smyth and Pierre Turgeon. While those guys aren't HoFers, that's a pretty impressive list. Yes, he had a down season (0.55ppg) last season, but he battled injuries and at 31 with three other very productive years prior it's fairly likely he'll return at least mostly to form next season.
When I look at the possession numbers I see: Iginla is an upgrade on Parenteau and no one replaces Stastny. That's a lot less palatable. You could probably argue that's unfair, because we're comparing only last season to this season, but then that changes to:
Iginla replaces Stastny's offense, No one replaces Stastny's defense, and who replaces PA?
Which brings us to Danny Briere, who had a terrible season (13-12-25). He played middling competition, but did so often from his own zone. He was ok possessionaly, in that role and he is a good bet to slot into a 3rd line with Mitchell and Talbot, I think. In his prime, Danny Briere was another player I think was overlooked in his career. But I don't think he's going to be able to replace PAs contributions to the team. And at 36 it's significantly more likely that he'll never recover from his poor season. Ove the last three seasons he was 35-55-90 over 173 gp (.53ppg). The absolute best case is he almost covers for the loss of PAs career worst season. At 36 the most likely scenario is he bolster a weak bottom-6, and not much else.
The one clear win for the Avs is replacing reducing MA Cliche's role with Jesse Winchester. Cliche may have been the worst non face-punching regular NHL forward last season. Winchester maybe be a below ave 4th liner, but he's an upgrade over Cliche. That said, the 4th line gets, what, 7 min a night? Downgrading in the top 6 and upgrading on the 4th line is still a significant downgrade.
Overall, I think the Avs forward corps took 2 steps backwards this season, and I don't think they're going to be able to improve on either their Goals For, Goals Against, Corsi or Fenwick next season. For a team in the 20s in possession, that's big trouble.
(Yes, there are young players on the Avs that will improve. I'll get to that in the Part - IV 'Others')
I've been insanely pessimistic about the Avs season all summer, and I have only revealed the source of my pessimism in bits and pieces over twitter. So I figured I needed to give a comprehensive guide to why I don't think the Avs are going to be very good this season: (and why I'm going to enjoy the season anyways). This is intended to be a 5 part series, but it could balloon to six or drop to four depending on how much I have to say. The intended parts are:
I - Goaltending
II - Forwards
III - Defense
IV - 'Other'
V - Recap
So here we go:
Goalies -
Key Additions: Reto Berra (kind of, he was here last seaosn but played 2 games).
Key Departures: JS Giguere
Starting Goalie-
Semyon Varlamov: Is coming off of a great season professionally, in which he was second in Vezina voting and sported a sparkling .927 sv% (including a .933 ES sv%). At 25, this should be a cause for optimism, right?
Well, yes and no. He went a long ways to establishing himself as a bona-fide starting goaltender in this league, and one a team can lean on (this was very much in doubt before last season). But expecting him to repeat his perfomance from last season is unrealistic. League average sv% for starters (35+ GP) last season was .9167%. This includes other goalies such as: Henrik Lundqvist (.920), Jon Quick (.915), Ryan Miller (.918), Luongo (.919).
If Varlammov regresses to a .919 sv% (which would be above average for starters): That's 17 more goals given up next season, on regression alone. It's important to note that Varlamov may not regress to there, it's entirely possible that he regresses only a little... but it's equally possible he could also have an 'off' year next season too (his sv%'s the three season's prior to last were all at or below league starter ave). Goalies are fickle and unpredictable: there's too much random chance in goals (even over the course of a 2,000 SA season).
My baseline on Varly: an ~17 GA drop next season, a .919 sv%. That would still be an excellent season for him. (Of course the error bars on that are large. 1 st dev on average is a range of .910-.923. For the Avs that would mean a GA of 35-9 more. 35 is terrible, nine isn't so bad.) Still, I think everyone would be happy with Varly in the .919 range.
Backup Goalie
Reto Berra: The most contraversial backup goalie in the league. The avs paid a steep price (2nd rounder) for a guy who has not performed well at the NHL level. He's got a career sv% of .893 over only 31 career starts. Now many people have pointed out, that's a very small sample size to judge from, but really bad players don't usually get to have enough games to have a large sample size, either. And Berra's international appearences for Switzerland and in other leagues don't inspire much donfidence that he's very good either.
So he's an unknown, and Allaire and Roy are using him as a replacement. It's also worth noting that if he doesn't cut it, he'll likely be replaced by Aittakaillio or Pickard.
Last season Giguere had a sparkling .913 sv %, which was also good enough for "below average starter". Even if Reto Berra improves/regresses 12 points in save %, that's a net loss in the backup goalie position. How much?
Giguere faced 608 shots last season. Replacing that with a .905sv% adds 5 to the GA column, not terrible but that translates roughly to 2 points in the standings. (again, that's assuming Reto Berra/backup by comittee can improve a whopping .012 in his sv%, which is pretty optomistic for anyone to improve)
So, I expect -22 in Goal Differential (with large error bars) based on goaltending alone (which translates to ~7 points in the standings). Again it's worth noting my regressions are, IMO, optimistic with assumptions that:
- Varly is an above average NHL starter
- The Backup Goalies performing well above their (admittedly Small Sample Size) career averages.
(A side note on goalies:
The season Varlamov had last year doesn't even guarantee he is an above average starter [I think he is, but it's well within the realm of possibilities that it was a fluke year]. If you are a betting man regarding who you think will turn out the best, I'd suggest using uk's leading sports betting website.
Here's a partial list of guys who had seasons as good as Varly (.014 sv% points above average): Dan Ellis, Manny Legace, Rick Dipíetro, Ron Tugnett, Dan Ellis, Manny Fernandez, Arturs Irbe, Roman Cechmanek. Of course, Henrik Lundqvist, Dominik Hasek, Roberto Luongo, Tim Thomas all have those kind of seasons too. The point is: having one great season isn't really uncommon for mediocre goalies.
Very good goalies do it a lot. Varly had a very good season, he needs a couple to be in a spot where you can pen him in for an above ave sv%. Goalies are fickle. Never ever forget this. )
Those who argue with Advanced stats usually do so because of the eye test. The general vibe given off in these conversations is that a trained eye is better at evaluation because it can pick up nuance that numbers don't capture.
Here's why I find "the eye test" extremely unreliable, in ove video about a card trick:


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Just curious as to what other brands of pads have the handle portion in the same spot as Avid and will work on my bike (2005 Marin Rift Zone).
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Cris Cyborg: I can make 135, but UFC 157 rumors are false
The rumors started when the Brazilian language version of UFC.com appeared to show that Ronda Rousey would be defending her UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion against former Strikeforce Women's Featherweight Champion Cris 'Cyborg' Santos at UFC 157 on Feb. 23 in Anaheim, Calif.
However, a UFC official told MMAJunkie that the information was in error, and that Rousey vs. Cyborg is not planned for UFC 157, and any card. Further, in an interview with 'Junkie', Santos said the rumor is "wrong information."
However, Santos reversed her position on being unable to make the 135 pound weight limit, and said her camp is in negotiation with the UFC for the fight.
"In one month, I can't do it," said Santos. "But if I have time, I could do it."
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2/22/13 4:43 AM by CapnKindBud
Cyborg obviously knows that she can't weigh 135 and still have the steroid advantage. Ronda knows that also. This is why this fight won't happen. Ronda is in control and she is saying "No Roidy Roids" That simple ...
2/22/13 3:16 AM by FinestScotch
Selective reading. They'll read the title then start yelling loudly and scrolling down so their dumbasses don't absorb what Cyborg said herself.
2/22/13 2:42 AM by UGSlapshot
I bet a lot of Cyborg defenders feel stupid, if not they should.
2/22/13 1:40 AM by Thacommish
?? maybe if she cuts the weight but why would she do that when she has all this time she can diet properly down to make a safer cut
2/22/13 1:01 AM by BzGrappla
Honestly Rousey would wreck Santos and it wouldnt even be close.I compare this to the Cain Valeasquez vs Brock fight. One guy with Tecchnique going against a guy with str8 power.Ronda is an olympic caliber judo athlete and most ppl dont get what that entails. Cyborg is just a roided up muscular person who made a name going after smaller girl who were not on roidsTechnique and skill will beat power everytime.
2/22/13 12:01 AM by Clarence Parents
but interesting as fuck, Cyborg wasn't worried about "having babies" back at the time of OP I guess
2/22/13 12:00 AM by Clarence Parents
edit: old thread is old.
2/21/13 11:59 PM by Anderson Emelianenko GOAT
mmalogic is a stupid fuck
2/21/13 11:57 PM by Raezor19
This dropped 50 lbs to make 135.......anyone can do it....hell I'm 170, think Ill go for 120....
2/21/13 11:29 PM by FinestScotch
People keep forgetting this. Ttt.


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Administrative hearings for criminal defendants who owe court costs and restitution payments will increase in 2013.
Clerk of Courts Bryan Kline said on Tuesday that his year-old program to collect cash for the court system brought in an additional $600,000 last year.
"It's generating revenue for the county and for victims. Victims are the main focus here because they need to be made whole again," Kline said.
Kline's office, in addition to keeping all criminal court records, is responsible for collecting court costs, fines and restitution payments.
Last year Kline initiated a system in which he summoned defendants who have missed payments to a hearing before him at the courthouse.
About 40 hearings each month are conducted, in which payment plans are set up, Kline said. Those who ignore hearing notices go before a Common Pleas Court judge, who can find a defendant in contempt of court and face a potential jail sentence for not making payments.
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His office collected $5.4 million last year. The office took in $4.89 million in 2011; $4.79 million in 2010; and $4.56 million in 2009, the year before Kline took office.
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Istanbul, 2 July 2012: The state funding of fertility treatment through public reimbursement policies has a direct influence on national birth rates. Lower levels of reimbursement are correlated with higher unmet needs for treatment, while more generous reimbursement policies increase access to treatment and may even make a measurable contribution to national birth rates.
The findings come from a study reported here today at the annual meeting of ESHRE (European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology). The results, says health economist Dr Mark Connolly from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, reflect the wide variety of reimbursement policies throughout Europe and come at a time when many national and local authorities have made plans to cut back their IVF funding as a cost-cutting initiative.(1)
Dr Connolly and colleagues quantified the reimbursement policies of 23 European countries, using an index score ranging from 0 to 18; the higher index scores indicated fuller state funding/reimbursement for treatment. The countries with the most generous funding policies were Belgium, France and Slovenia (with scores between 14 and 18); those with the least generous were the UK, Russia and Ireland (all with scores under 3).
These index scores were then correlated with treatment practice and outcomes in each of the 23 countries. Results first showed a significant relationship between the level of reimbursement and the annual contribution of assisted reproduction (ART) births to national birth numbers. " This finding," said Dr Connolly, "has important policy implications for national authorities concerned about ageing populations and interested in policies for influencing national birth rates. Although the influence on birth rates is small, the relationship is positive and provides an opportunity to compare with other policies implemented by local and national governments to influence birth rates."(2)
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The good people at Major League Soccer have you covered, creating club-specific covers for the world's most popular sports video game. Click the photo below, right-click the full-size image and download to enjoy Crew captain Michael Parkhurst on the cover of this year's game for your XBOX 360.
Ahead of the annual release of 24 Under 24, a ranking of the best players in the League under the age of 24, MLSsoccer.com's Andrew King profiled the Crew Homegrown Player.
The piece largely centers around Trapp's local ties and his affectionate nickname of "The Franchise." An excerpt:
"The Columbus Crew have had their share of legends.
But when Crew fans think of the biggest names who have come and gone for one of Major League Soccer's founding franchises – Brian McBride, Jeff Cunningham, Frankie Hejduk, and Guillermo Barros Schelotto – there's always been something missing.
McBride is from the Chicago suburbs, while Cunningham was born in Jamaica and grew up in Florida. Hejduk is California to the core and Schelotto spent most of his life in Argentina. None of the big names in the franchise's rich history are from Columbus or even the state of Ohio, one of the great soccer hotbeds in the United States.
Wil Trapp is out to change that. He's a local kid from the Columbus surburbs and was something of an Ohio schoolboy soccer legend before he signed with the club in 2012. At 21, he still struggles to go grow hair on his face and carries around a somewhat diminutive 5-foot-8, 150-pound frame, but he's already earned a fitting nickname inside the Crew locker room in just his second year on the team."
TheCrew.com will have more on Trapp later in the week, coinciding with the Thursday release of 24 Under 24.
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While the three points that the Crew earned on Saturday against New England were enormous in the context of the MLS Cup Playoff race, many of the Black & Gold's closest rivals also earned positive results as well. As such, the Crew experienced little movement in the national Power Rankings, even though there is no question that it's playing its best soccer of the year at the right time.
See below for this week's ranks and last week's position:
MLSsoccer.com: 10 (10)
SI.com: 10 (11)
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Recognized for their work in Saturday's 1-0 win over the New England Revolution, goalkeeper Steve Clark, defender Eric Gehrig and midfielder Tony Tchani earned Team of the Week honors for Week 28 on MLSsoccer.com. The Black & Gold are the only club with three players in this week's Best XI. The Crew also had three representatives in Week One and Week 23 following wins against D.C. United and the LA Galaxy, respectively.
Steve Clark's fingertip save to deny the New England Revolution's Charlie Davies and help the Crew to a 1-0 shutout victory on Saturday is nominated for Save of the Week on MLSsoccer.com. Clark's competition in this week's poll includes New England's Bobby Shuttleworth, New York's Luis Robles, D.C. United's Bill Hamid and Houston's Tyler Deric.
Voting ends at 2:59 a.m. on Friday.
Ashleigh Ignelzi joins Matt Finkes every week for Massive Monday on 95.5 The Game.
Federico Higuain continues to lead MLS in corner kicks this season (121). His career high for a single season was 123 last year, which he is on-pace to potentially break this weekend. Overall, Higuain is third on the Crew's all-time list for corners, trailing Robert Warzycha (503) and Guillermo Barros Schelotto (423).
Six Crew players 25 years old and younger have at least 19 chances created, per Opta (Finlay: 26, Trapp: 21, Jimenez: 21, Tchani: 20, Francis: 20, Meram: 19). No other team has more than three players with that type of chance creation.
Josh Williams (#3) was taken off the Disabled List this week after missing significant time. He was placed on the disabled list on July 18 following a surgery to remove a rib following a blood clot. Overall in 2014, Williams has made 14 appearances -- including 13 starts -- at rightback and has recorded one assist.


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'Cathouse' co-defendant said he planned killings, inmate testifies
Prosecutors believe Phillips was at the drug house, either outside or inside, at the time of the attack.
Mease, a native of Iowa, is serving federal time for possessing a firearm.
He testified that Phillips told him he wasn't at the murder scene but "was there watching."
Other witnesses
also testify Friday
Another witness, the defendant's former girlfriend, told a judge Phillips described the killings in such detail it gave her the impression he witnessed them.
"He liked to brag," Kelsey Day testified.
Day said Phillips told her Brooke Phillips didn't die easily, that "she was still screaming" after being shot, stabbed and burned.
Barrientos, a drug dealer with ties to the Mexican cartel, was the intended target of the attack, prosecutors allege.
Police identified Denny Phillips as a distributor who made frequent trips to Oklahoma City to pick up drugs and take them back to the Tulsa area.
Phillips and Barrientos had a falling out in the days leading up to the slayings because Phillips owed him $30,000 and had not made payments on a car he bought from Barrientos, a third witness testified Friday.
Michael Lujan, a convicted drug dealer serving time, said Tyner did whatever Phillips told him.
Lujan testified that Tyner was looking to gain membership in the Indian Brotherhood and wouldn't have killed Barrientos unless Phillips directed him to do so.
"I figure, he needs to get what he deserves," Lujan said as he looked in the direction of the heavily tattooed Phillips.
Prosecutors allege Phillips acted with Tyner, 30, who already has been convicted in the case.
Tyner, of Locust Grove, is serving six consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole for the murders.
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Hi All,
I really want to add an effect like this to our 3D Engine:
This is the so-called Mental Ray "Camera Glow Shader". We want it to apply such effects to some objects we have in the level.
Any idea/guideline about implement this?
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Depending on a number of things, like which objects you want the effect on, and how close you can get to those objects, you might be able to get away with a simple hack like using a quad with alpha that represents the glow. If you can't get away with a simple trick like that, you can search for "Bloom" or "Bloom Shader".
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If you want excatly this effect, a simple bloom will not do it. A bloom filter would have a more equal distribution of the light bleeding. In your example the vertical effect is much larger than the horizontal effect. It is hard to beat mental ray with a real time shader, but if just want some light bleeding, then bloom is the way to go.
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Thx guys I'll try this way......just an early test
I'll test different shape and blur parameters...
I'll test different shape and blur parameters...
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Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels. Now, Delaware's new adventure leads the sleuthing psychologist on a harrowing exploration into the realm he knows best: the human psyche, in all its complexity, mystery, and terrifying propensity for darkness.
"Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit," homicide detective Milo Sturgis tells Alex Delaware. But there's definitely nothing nice about the brutal tableau behind the yellow crime-scene tape. On a lonely lover's lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single gunshot wound to the head. The female victim has also been impaled by a metal spike. And that savage stroke of psychopathic fury tells Milo this case will call for more than standard police procedure. As he explains to Delaware, "Now we're veering into your territory."
It is dark territory, indeed. The dead woman remains unidentified and seemingly unknown to everyone. But her companion has a name: Gavin Quick—and his troubled past eventually landed him on a therapist's couch. It's there, on familiar turf, that Delaware hopes to find vital clues. And that means going head-to-head with Dr. Mary Lou Koppel, a popular celebrity psychologist who fiercely guards the privacy of her clients . . . dead or alive.
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You know that's never going to happen... ?
... becuase it was beyond all chance of turning into a profitable venture again.
The NextGen'ers said the same thing about TOS. Anything is possible when enough time goes by.
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... I don't think that the Primeverse is beyond all chances to be turned into a profitable and most of all enjoyable and successfull venture again. I think that's what they have to do if they don't want to lose the ardent die-hard fans together with those who see recent Trek as a temporarily interesting novelty before moving on to other trendy things.
Just look and see what we had. We had this universe created in TNG, DS9 and VOY with hundreds of exciting races and enormous possibilities to come up with good stories about all this. And what do the fools do? They regress back to pre-TOS, followed by a lousy remake of the same series. It's like if the whole music industry should abandon the technology of today and go back to 78 rpm records and technology from the 30's...
I'd rather the next series do what TNG did to TOS and set it in the 25th century.
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