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2006 Nissan Murano SUV SE 4dr SUV AWD (3.5L 6cyl CVT)
My engine lite was on constantly. Took to Nissan dealership. Seems it had something to do with broken support bracket drivers side. They wanted $1300 to fix. Called Nissen and they paid for the repair. Took sever conversations but finally go an OK.
Comfort, drives nice, Had a window issue. resolved. Oil Engine light was also on all the time and could not fix it.
Seat issue
I absolutely love this car. Very comfortable as the driver; and get lots of compliments on how comfortable the back seat passengers are. Excellent "road trip" vehicle offering extreme comfort and dependability.
Keyless entry & ignition Smart key will no allow you to lock yourself out of the car while key is still in the car (very important feature for me who has the habit of locking keys in car)Bose system offers incredible stereo sound (great for road trip) dual climate control no complaining passengers
A/C control on steering wheel; other than that, can't think of of thing to complain about.
I love my car, and I tell everyone! I get asked how I like it by interested strangers and tell them about the 26 MPG highway (22 city - I drive less aggressively than most though) people seem surprised that is gets the same MPG as my maxima did. My friends called it the YAV - Yuppie Assault Vehicle until I took it camping. Don't let the leather seats fool you - the Murano handled the dirt roads, streams and beach as well as my mom's Jeep! I can't wait to get a tow-bar to pull the toys. This is my 2nd Murano I upgraded from a 2wdS to the 4wdSE and will drive it as long as it goes!
CVT, keyless ignition!
The front grille has a problem with the chrome coming off the plastic. I have to get it replaced (on warranty) about once a year. It happened on my other Murano too.
This is an impressive SUV for its value. I was planing to buy Benz or BMW but I am glad I kept my 20,000 bucks in my pocket and got more from my Murano than those vehicles offer. Excellent comfort, service and performance. It sticks to the ground on snowy and icy road conditions. Interior design is very attractive and CVT shift is the most interesting feature you can experience and only at Nissan vehicles. I am glad that I test drove this vehicle that day and bought it. Extremely recommended.
CVT, interior design, performance on slippery road conditions esp. on snow and ice, reliability
Great styling and general performance. Gas mileage is much less than similar cars of this size that I have owned. The car is solid, but any packages that I place in the car rattle like crazy. This is the only car where I have experienced this phenomenon. It detracts immensely from the overall driving experience. Is there that much difference in the ride of an SL versus my SE?
Styling, performance, smooth shifting with CV transmission. No major mechanical issues in 30,000 miles.
Better gas mileage, smoother ride, door locks that activate when you place the transmission in DRIVE or PARK (even my cheap Beetle has this feature).
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Very quiet, even on high tension setting. Only drawback(s) - getting the handlebars on and to stay on securely was a bear; their directions are not how I was able to get it on. Both that L handle and one for seat are too long for distance between cycle frame and attachments so have to have handle pulled down (if you can get it to attach to begin with) and then use enclosed tool to turn bolt on L handle (so handle not moving, just the screw/bolt into seat/handlebars). Also, I am 5' 7 1/2" and it almost feels like can't get seat and handlebars close enough for length of my body. I feel like the piece that one of them (seat or handlebars) attaches to needs to be turned the other way around..............so would have to say if you are short, either don't buy this cycle or you'll have to have someone drill holes in other side of seat and handlebar posts so you can utilize them going the opposite direction then they're supposed to (that will make it so seat and handlebars can be closer to eachother).
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. very good quality, especially for the money
- Was the product free of any manufacturer defects? yes
My wife is very happy WHIT THE Sunny Health Fitness Indoor Cycling Bike
- How accurate was the sizing? great
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. excellentone bolt turning knob was to large
- Was the product free of any manufacturer defects? yes

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Does Riley Nelson not count as having flourished as BYU quarterback after a two-year mission?
- 11:29 p.m. July 2, 2012
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I think it's too early to say about Riley Nelson. I say we should leave that decision till after his playing career has finished.
- 11:51 p.m. July 2, 2012
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Why did Max Hall come home after a year ?
- 6:05 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Good luck to you Tanner. I think you've made a great decision to serve.
- 6:09 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Bronco is doing a great job managing the difficult dynamics Missionaries present
to their Footbal Program.
These young athletes who choose to serve missions can succeed if they have enough patience with themselves as Tanner seems to have. He knows the risks and rewards and realizes it's a 5-7 year journey.
There are disadvantages to the Missionary Program on a team to be sure, but Bronco has turned it to his advatage. He's created a nice "Farm-System" for himself.
While others play Checkers....Bronco is playing Chess!
Between Bingham and Timpview High, Snow College and the Missionary Program, he has players lined up as far as the eye can see. ie Hall and Olsen among many others.
Their QB situatuion looks great for many years to come.
- 6:51 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Assuming Taysom Hill is the starter after this season, this sets Tanner up for
three years as the starter after his mission.
Three years with Taysom and three years with Tanner is a pretty bright future. This should add two more RMs to the list of successful QBs. BYU will regain it's reputation as QBU.
Although Billy Green, Ammon Olsen, Munns, and Kuresa could have something more to say about the starting rotation. The QB future looks bright.
- 7:15 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Congratulations on a great decision to serve a mission. The two years will fly by and the amount of personal growth will more than compensate the temporary leave of absence you will experience in sports.
Here's wishing the greatest blessings for you and your family for your service. It will make a positive difference in your life on and off the 'field'.
- 7:28 a.m. July 3, 2012
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It's great to see young men like Tanner who have already developed such a clear vision of setting priorities at such a young age. Good luck on your mission Tanner. We'll look forward to seeing you on the field when you return.
- 7:31 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Here is the key - and kudos to the parents and Church leaders who taught this
young man what is important:
"Fortunately, I decided when I was young that I was going to serve a mission, so before I had all of these opportunities to play in college I already had the goal of going on a mission. It's not something I really thought about not doing," said Mangum.
"It's going to be hard, but I know that I'll be blessed for it and I know it's the right thing to do, so it's not a decision I've ever really struggled with."
The same can be said for all tough decisions our kids make. It is our job to discuss the tough situations with them (not ignore them and hope), and prepare them so that when they face them, the decision is already made.
- 7:56 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Tanner must come from a great home with great parents.
- 8:15 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Why do you care? Seems like a personal issue to me that only Max Hall and maybe his family need to know.
- 8:32 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Wait - what? I thought returned missinaries gave BYU an unfair advantage. Are you telling me that Norm Chow, et al are wrong? Perish the thought!
- 8:43 a.m. July 3, 2012
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This is an aspect of the culture here in Utah that should generate respect and
encouragement for the young men & women who have various forms of talent
(not just in athletics) who choose to follow a higher personal pathway.
It was noticeable that some folks commenting on Harvey Langi's recent similar decision clearly don't get it... but fortunately many do.
Clearly the odds for success in life AND on the gridiron are in this young man's favor.
To Tanner, a toast ---- L'Chaim!!
- 8:43 a.m. July 3, 2012
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So being happy and positive means you aren't competitive? WHAT?
- 8:46 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Sounds pretty much awesome.
- 9:04 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Way to go Tanner; you will never regret your decision!
- 9:19 a.m. July 3, 2012
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The benefits certainly aren't in athleticism, Cougar fans don't care.
With such a short list of successful QB's, serving a mission is a negative
for football, but that's not what life is all about. Tradition, Spirit,
Have a great mission Tanner
- 10:04 a.m. July 3, 2012
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This Ute wishes Tanner the best.
- 10:23 a.m. July 3, 2012
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Tanner is a wonderful young man and he will make the world a better place. I just wish he realized that he could be a better missionary by staying and playing football and taking BYU to the NC. But I respect his choice and wish him well.
- 11:54 a.m. July 3, 2012
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I have to say, certain people I follow on Twitter stated months ago that Tanner received his mission call to Chile, and would be leaving this month. Either they were wrong, which isn't likely, or Tanner postponed it. . . Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. In the article he stated that he is grey shirting to get a feel for college, instead of having to dive completely in as an RM. He may have asked for a deferment, which, I understand the church reviews on an individual basis. I don't know if he'll have to resubmit papers, or if his calling to Chile is still his, either way, I wish him the best.
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SCGA Match Play Championship
Aug. 22-24, 2016 at Coto de Caza (North)
The Match Play and Senior Match Play championships began in 2008 as a means of bringing new credence and incentive to the SCGA points program. The SCGA points program awards points to golfers who give strong performances in SCGA, USGA, CGA and other selected outside tournaments. The championship fields consist of 32 players in single elimination match play. The top 24 players on the Match Play Points List earn automatic invitations to compete. The remaining 8 spots into the field are filled through a one day qualifying event. Match Play qualifying is open to members with a Handicap index of 5.4 and below at the time of registration.
Dan Erickson wins first SCGA titles
It took 40 holes, a couple of lucky breaks and a hell've a lot of great golf but Dan Erickson was able to defeat James Holley and Justin De Los Santos on Wednesday to become the youngest ever winner of the SCGA Match Play Championship. At just 16 years old, Erickson becomes the first non-collegian golfer to win the Championship, which is in its eighth year.
Needing 20 holes to beat San Diego State alum Holley in the semifinals at Valencia CC, Erickson would find himself in a tough spot in the finals, falling down 2 early to De Los Santos, a Cal Poly golfer who recently won the individual title for the Big West Conference.
"It was mentally challenging," said Erickson of the 40-hole day. "I was down in both matches early and had to battle back. I caught a couple good breaks, and ended up capitalizing on them."
De Los Santos had his foot on the gas from the start, playing the first seven holes in 3-under par and jumping out to a 2-hole advantage.
But Erickson would birdie holes 12 and 13 to square the match, before a timely birdie by De Los Santos put him back in the driver's seat. Heading into No. 18 down 1, Erickson hit a great drive and solid approach shot to put the pressure on De Los Santos, who struggled to a bogey, sending Erickson into his second extra-hole match of the day.
And after the emotional rollar coaster on the 18th hole, which did give De Los Santos the opportunity to win the match with a 10-foot putt, Erickson again had to leave things in his opponent's hands, as the eventual runner-up had about a five-foot birdie putt for the victory. The putt would come just short, and Erickson would this time take advantage, winning the 20th hole of the match with a par.
For Erickson, this was his first time playing in the SCGA Match Play Championship, and first time competing within the match play format at all. Erickson, however, came into the Championship hot, recently having won his first AJGA title with a three-day total of 8-under-par 205 at Hillcrest CC.
"I'm playing really solidly right now, I'm on a good run," said Erickson. "Hopefully I can keep it going."
Erickson's Match Play victory did not come cheap, as the youngster had to defeat a number of proven golfers along the way, beginning with a surprising opening round upset over Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Sean Crocker of USC. Erickson would follow that up with a win over 2013 SCGA Mid-Amateur Champion Robert Funk, before taking out Sean Birren, Holley and De Los Santos.
With the win, Erickson secures himself an exemption into next year's SCGA Amateur Championship, which will be held in July at Barona Creek GC.
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Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriters: Cyril Gely, Volker Schlöndorff
Starring: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner
Genre: Drama
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"Is Paris burning?" – Hitler asks General Dietrich von Cholitz on August 25, 1944. Volker Schlöndorff, Oscar-winning director of "The Tin Drum," dramatizes an all-night confrontation between the steely Nazi general (played by Niels Arestrup) and the wily Swedish consul-general, Raoul Nordling (played by André Dussollier). Ensconced in the legendary Hotel Meurice, on Rue de Rivoli, the two men (played with extraordinary intelligence and fervor by two of France's greatest actors), engage in an extended battle of wits, that -- amazingly -- leaves us breathless until the film's final moments. Based on a play by Cyril Gely, keeps the odds shifting, so just when we think the consul has won over the general, the old soldier comes back with a riposte that a new law, passed specifically for him, means death for his wife and children if he disobeys orders.


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Cher Villa, Albufeira, Algarve
Maksimum Konuk Sayısı8
Yatak odası3
Boyut160 metrekare
Floor No.0
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Divided by two flats, Cher Villa has: a double bedroom, two twin bedrooms and a sofa bed where up to 8 sleep confortable. The living room has a traditional decoration, with a dining table, some sofas and a TV. The villa also has two bathrooms and a kitchen so you can prepare your meals and enjoy it with your friends and family!
The garden is a perfect space to enjoy the sunny days! Take a dip in the inviting swimming pool or just lay of the grass to relax and sunbathe. It also has a barbecue at your disposal and garage for two cars.
This villa also has a great advantage with the Praia dos Pescadores just a 10 minute distance. Enjoy it and take a few days to be unhurried.
The Villa Bugg has space for the whole family!
We wait for you here!
Some pets are allowed, subject to prior confirmation.
Where to pick up the keys: at the apartment
We also provide transfer service from the airport
Cleaning: Taxes Free
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Great accomodation, great help from the host!
who wasnt Tiago but Fernando. Anyway great vacation!
Overall a very nice place. Property was as described-- a fairly new place and everything was working pretty good-- except maybe the TV which did not matter to us. manager joao was very nice and accommodating. We had a little difficulty finding the place but Joao was kind enough to meet us at a landmark and guide us to property.
We spent 5 days in this house and it was amazing.
We loved the place... the pool... the accommodation... the beach nearby...
The owner of the place is not Tiago but everything was well managed before the check in with him and all of the contacts were provided to reach the real owner.
The owner was also really nice.
Thanks for everything!
I am very satisfied about my stay in albufeira. Communicating with Olga and Tiago went very smoothly and everything in the appartment was in good condition. They even have an airconditioning and free towels which was not mentioned so that was a very nice surprise. I would definitely recommend Tiago as a host.
MUY DECEPCIONADOS! Todo muy sucio y lleno de grasa.Tienen subcontratada a una mujer muy borde que si le informas que todo esta sucio te contesta de muy malas formas.El anfitrion es una empresa con subcontratas y ni lo vimos.No estuvimos ni 12horas y nos han cobrado toda la estancia.Wimdu no verifica el estado de las viviendas y no re hace responsable de nada. Muy mala gestion de Warmrental. Perdimos nuestras vacaciones por vuestra mala gestion y servicio. Queremos nuesteo dinero!!!
Un amplio apartamento que nos permitió disfrutar de unos estupendos días en el sur de Portugal.
Estuvimos a gusto y el apartamento tiene una relación calidad precio aceptable. Un pero: La persona de contacto para la recogida de llaves sólo hablaba portugues.
el apartamento era perfecto , a nuestra llegada fuimos recibidos rapidamente,y los utensilios de la casa funcionaban perfectamente, las fotos reflejan la realidad, por poner una unica pega , es que las toallas deberia de renovarlas
Apartament czyściutki, dobrze położony. Byliśmy bardzo zadowoleni
le balcon avec vue mer donnait en fait sur un parking.
on nous a attribué le logmt N° 446 AU LIEU DU LOGEMENT N° 534
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VEATHERCOCK 2012, h93x44x23cm - oak and beech wood
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Thank you very much. But I can't explain the meaning because of my english, sorry...
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Bloody nose and all, Manu Ginobili wasn't letting the Dallas Mavericks get ahead in this playoff series. Playing with a bandage across his nose after getting popped by Dirk Nowitzki's elbow, Ginobili returned to the game and helped the San Antonio Spurs hold on in a wild fourth quarter for a 94-90 win over Dallas on Friday night.
Ginobili scored 11 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter with a
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Singer-songwriter Laura Marling will release her latest album, Once I Was an Eagle, this May. She's shared a first song off of it, "Where Can I Go?" [more inside]
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Noah and the Whale: five years' time...
It's been exactly five years since Charlie Fink and his musical band of friends - his brother Doug on drums, Tom "Fiddle" Hobden on violin, Matt "Urby Whale" Owens on harmonium and bass and Laura Marling on backing vocals - first appeared on the London nu-folk circuit, their moniker a conflation of a famous indie film and its director: Noah and the Whale. [more inside]
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How I Wrote is a series of videos from The Guardian where musicians perform a song after talking about it a little bit. Among the artists who've taken part are Rufus Wainwright, Kristin Hersh, Corinne Bailey Rae, Laura Marling, Keren Ann, Patrick Wolf, Elbow, Gruff Rhys, Warpaint, Cee Lo Green, Antony and the Johnsons, P. J. Harvey and Emmy the Great, who sings a song about the Royal Wedding, appropriately enough for today (though I suppose the Cee Lo Green song is appropriate too).
"Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones!"
The Mercury Prize shortlist for 2008 is: Adele - 19 | British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? | Burial - Untrue | Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid | Estelle - Shine | Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim | Neon Neon - Stainless Style | Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep in the North Sea | Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns | Radiohead - In Rainbows | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand | The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement [more inside]
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The Pontine islands are located in the Tirrenian Sea about 120 km south of Rome. Ponza is the main and larger one, but there are also other smaller but still beautiful islands: Palmarola, Ventotene, Zannone and Santo Stefano.
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went to ponza was young met emiliano morle. has a store up on the lev3 banchine .. can someone give him my email. firstname.lastname@example.com and ask him to write me. thanks . diana please . i would appreciate it. . dad born there.
I envy you. This is an amazing photo. Thank you for sharing!!
A stunning picture and info.! Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Cape Town.
Posso solo dire : Mamma Mia che splendore! La nostra Italia e affascinante, come, dopo tutto gli Italiani No???
Beautiful! I love emerald waters on the photo with a boat, surreal!
How many times did I stand or sit and watch the Ponza ferries waiting to depart from Formia? Well at least 100 times - - I can't believe now that I failed to get on board. I will rectify that. Thank you for the reminders. Carole.
Ponza looks just gorgeous. It is surely on my list of destinations in Italy for my next visit.
Beautiful photos! Your Village of Ponza photo was featured on the main page of VT which brought me to see what else you have here. Very enjoyable pages.
wonderful place ... the boot seams to fly over the crystaline water of Palmarola island
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The 2014 May primary election is still seven months away, but Nov. 6 is the first day for candidates to file to run for office.
Jan. 28 is the deadline to run in the primary, which will includes races for many county offices, including judge-executive, sheriff, jailer, clerk, magistrates, coroner and county attorney.
Any eligible resident looking to file can pick up forms at the Grant County Clerk's Office, 107 North Main St., Williamstown.
The clerk's office is open from 8: 30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturdays.
The partially decomposed body of a female found Aug. 27 by mowing crews on Interstate 75 north of Crittenden has been identified.
The body was identified as Melinda Sue Ingram, 28, of New Richmond, Ohio.
State mowing crews reported they had found something suspicious to police, which later confirmed it was a body.
A cause of death is still undetermined and the investigation is ongoing by Kenton County Police.
Anyone with information regarding Ingram's death is asked to call Detective Paul Anderson at 859-392-1952.
Hailey Leach, a sophomore at Grant County High School, is on a mission to raise awareness of autism and she's taking her game to the Grant County High School football field on Nov. 8.
Leach, the GCHS Family Career and Community Leaders of America Chapter president, will be leading a 'powder puff" football team against the Williamstown High School FCCLA Chapter at 5 p.m.
The cost to play is $15, which includes a T-shirt. Gate admission is $1 and concessions will be available for purchase.
The Williamstown Baptist Church is again delivering Hope Thanksgiving meals to shut-ins and those in need throughout Grant County.
In 2012, this project reached 650 people in the community, the largest number since this ministry started.
The meals will be delivered by noon on Thanksgiving Day.
Monetary donations will be accepted to help provide the meals. Checks should be made payable to the Williamstown Baptist Church. Note the donation is for the Hope Thanksgiving Day project.
More than 72 percent of Kentucky's 173 school districts have adopted the new "Graduate Kentucky" standard raising the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 18.
Grant County and Williamstown Independent Schools are two districts who are not in any hurry to make the change.
It's been a year since someone torched the Dry Ridge Consolidated Colored School, a historic, structure inside Grant County Park in Crittenden and Connie Taylor is still mad.
"I'm still very upset. I'm angry and upset in humankind," Taylor said.
She has spent countless hours researching and documenting the history of black families in Grant County.
Five Dry Ridge residents were indicted by a Grant County grand jury last week for their involvement in an explosion that ripped the back wall off of Locust Ridge Apartments.
Indictments for wanton endangerment, criminal mischief, possesion of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia were returned against:
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• Zachary S. Kennedy, 23
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Improvement in assessments were seen in nearly all local schools in the second year of Kentucky's Unbridled Learning for All Assessment and Accountability System.
The scores, which were applied to test scores and other data for the first time for the 2011-12 school year, were recently released by the Kentucky Department of Education.
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The Vietnamese dong's recent rally suggests the market sees "very little chance" of a devaluation in the next three to four months, according to Standard Chartered Plc.
The currency has strengthened 1.4 percent in the past month, at the official exchange rate, according to official prices from banks data compiled by Bloomberg. On the so-called black market, it gained 2 percent during April, according to data from Viet Capital Securities in Ho Chi Minh City.
The dong has been devalued four times in the last eighteen months, most recently in February, when the currency's value was cut by about 7 percent. Recent government measures have discouraged the holding of U.S. dollars and boosted the Vietnamese currency, said Louis Taylor, the Ho Chi Minh City-based chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
The dong's rally "reflects people's views that in the next three to four months, there's very little if any chance of another devaluation," Taylor told reporters yesterday in Hanoi. The government measures are "increasing confidence in the currency and underpinning its value," he said.
The government has increased lenders' reserve-requirement ratios for foreign currencies and introduced an interest-rate cap of 3 percent for dollar-denominated deposits. It's also prohibited the lending of gold and is phasing out gold deposits at banks.
"The interest-rate differential between dollars and dong is attractive enough to make people want to hold dong," Taylor said. "Whether there is another devaluation later in the year will depend on how long that sentiment lasts."
Central bank governor Nguyen Van Giau said on May 2 that the foreign-exchange market has been "stable and within the government's control, especially during the past four weeks."
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Fish-tail palms or fancy caladiums, amaryllis or bromeliads—if you're interested in important landscapes you can rejoice that the Henry Nehrling Society has saved the remnants of Palm Cottage Gardens for posterity. Thanks to a generous grant and donations, as well as a large personal loan, the society was able to buy the 6.5-acre property from its longtime private owner (and Nehrling enthusiast) for $450,000 on Nov. 30, after a decade-long campaign. Here, just outside Orlando, from the mid-1880s until his death in 1929, Henry Nehrling collected, planted and shared thousands of varieties of tropical and subtropical plants imported from Central and South America, China and Japan, the South Seas, Europe and India. But he also loved the flora he found in Florida, declaring "Native plants should always form the foundation of every garden." Now rundown and overgrown, Palm Cottage Gardens is still redolent of "Old Florida," and inch for inch its grounds are some of the most historic in American horticulture.
According to Kathleen Klare, the Nehrling Society's archivist, at one point Nehrling owned 65 acres, 25 of which he used for his experimental garden, which was officially registered with the Agriculture Department. However, parcels of Palm Cottage Gardens were sold off over the years and in 1979 developers began building large homes on what land remained, excepting the core garden area stretching from the public road to Nehrling's house and Lake Nally beyond. This is the property which has been preserved by the society.
Before he settled in Gotha, a small colony of like-minded Germans and German-Americans who spent the day working in their orange groves and the evening singing songs by Schubert and Schumann, Nehrling was a noted ornithologist as well as former director of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Once here he became a founder of Florida's nursery industry and an early and eloquent advocate of preserving the Everglades as a national park; he was also consulted on the plantings at Seminole Lodge, Thomas Edison's winter home in Fort Myers, and Vizcaya, the Deering family's magnificent estate on Biscayne Bay.
Nehrling's own gardens in Gotha and also later in Naples were major tourist draws; visitors included Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Ford, naturalist John Burroughs and botanist David Fairchild. More recently, Martha Stewart stopped by, declaring the place a "diamond in the rough." His two-volume "My Garden in Florida" (abridged and reprinted by the University Press of Florida as "Nehrling's Early Florida Gardens" and "Nehrling's Plants, People and Places in Early Florida") is a must read for anyone interested in the state's past, full of engaging accounts of plant-hunting trips to Tallahassee and St. Augustine—where Nehrling gathered seeds from the grounds of Henry Flagler's luxurious hotels—and of exploring ancient Indian shell mounds and cruising the St. Johns and Manatee rivers by steamboat. These waterways were the original Florida Turnpike for visitors from up North (the current turnpike cuts through Gotha, very close to Palm Cottage Gardens).
Nehrling's favorite Florida season—the joys and discomforts of which he describes perfectly—was summer, when his most spectacular specimens were in bloom. Those caladiums, for instance, though they're gone now (Palm Cottage suffered a period of decline in the Depression, when Nehrling's widow sold off flowers and shrubs to raise cash): The leaves of these plants imported from Brazil, and also known as the elephant ear from the shape of their foliage, ranged from "the purest white to the deepest red, and from the most delicate, transparent bluish and pinkish-white to . . . translucent claret, scarlet and purple . . . the colors sparkle and scintillate like precious stones or like the plumage of the hummingbirds. There is nothing like them in the whole floral kingdom." And Nehrling had 250,000 caladiums, in more than 1,500 varieties, planted in his lath, or shade, houses here. Another spectacular but lost feature of the property was the allée of different palms stretching from the house to tiny Lake Nally, which itself used to boast a brilliant display of native and exotic water lilies floating on its surface. The citrus trees that framed the vista on the far side of the lake are also gone, soon to be replaced by large houses.
An early December tour of the grounds led by Theresa Schretzmann-Myers, the Nehrling Society's president, reveals large magnolias (Nehrling's favorite: "the most beautiful evergreen tree in our whole plant world . . . really a live poem," he wrote), as well as one of the oldest known cycads in Florida (it looks like a prehistoric palm), other-worldly bromeliads, and a large Camellia in bloom, perhaps one of the 97 different varieties Nehrling acquired directly from Japan in 1895; its few gorgeous, pink blooms lighting the dense understory of trees. One of the greenhouses installed by Julian Nally—a later owner of Palm Cottage Gardens and a noted bromeliad expert in his own right—remains, but it lacks much of its glass. Just beyond the 19th-century, Florida-vernacular frame house, with its two stories of verandahs, are magnificent stands of bamboo. The naturalist Charles Torrey Simpson, an overnight guest, later remembered how the "magic light" of the moon revealed stems that "arose almost straight for 50 feet, and then with indescribable grace arched lightly outward. I sat for hours at my window and drank in the intoxicating beauty of this stately grass."
As we, too, admired the bamboo, Ms. Klare, Angela M. Withers (the society's past president and current development officer) and Richard Nehrling (Henry's great-grandson) shared the society's plans for the property—and the buzz words are "adaptive reuse": First, Palm Cottage Gardens will be thoroughly surveyed, to see which trees and shrubs remain from Nehrling's day so they can be preserved. But due to the reduced size of the property, it's impossible to re-create Nehrling's layout. Instead the society will "provide an education center that focuses on historic preservation, horticultural education and environmental conservation," bringing in students, garden clubs and anyone else with a personal or business interest in the Florida landscape, educating the public just as the great man did in his own day.
Of course, this calls for continued fund raising. Nehrling's friends, colleagues and customers testified to his generosity and good will, and more than one noted that he treated his flora more as "pets" to be admired and shared than as a source of income. He lived on a shoestring, battling debt as well as Florida's droughts, fires and plant-killing freezes, like the one the state experienced in January. Maybe now it's time to give back to this pioneer whom one biographer called "the patron saint of gardeners."
—Mr. Ferguson is writing "Ladies of the House: The Rossetter Sisters of Florida," to be published by the Florida Historical Society.


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A recent decision to allow video and still cameras in most Illinois' trial courtrooms is a move toward more openness and accountability in the state's legal system.
The announcement on Jan. 24 by Thomas Kilbride, chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, paves the way for circuit courts to apply to participate in the experimental program. If the circuit court is approved, then members of the media can request permission to cover certain cases.
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Births – Joshua Michael to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Perkins of Effingham; Kenny Robert to Jackie Richards and Kendall Pryor of Shobonier; and Hayley Beth to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Jahn of Centralia.
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It's the time of year to step up. It's the time when champions rise to the challenges and leaders lead.
And that's exactly what we've seen recently from athletes at Vandalia Community High School.
Members of the wrestling team and the boys basketball team have shown such strength of character as they've competed in recent days.
Five wrestlers qualified for the state individual tournament, with Levi Ulmer coming home with a fifth-place medal. And Tuesday night, the squad pulled out a close match with Herrin to return to state as a team.
Understandably, the city of Vandalia has kept a close watch on its spending the past couple of years. That has meant delaying some needed infrastructure projects.
But one city alderman is making sure that one of those projects, the Kaskaskia River intake, is not forgotten.
Terry Beesley announced at Tuesday's city council meeting that, as a way of getting something done with the intake, he has contacted every state agency he could think of, looking for some type of free assistance.
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The Best of Climate Progress " Spring 2007
As with The Best of Climate Progress — Winter 2007, I'm hoping to save new readers time by culling the archives myself. It's my version of a clip show:
- One more Hansen (et al.) must read — What is "dangerous" human interference with climate?
- The growth rate of carbon emissions has TRIPLED
- U.S. Media Duped by Bush, Foreign Media not Fooled
- 2006: Second Most Extreme Weather Ever
- GM Volts to the Lead
- Congress should say NO to coal-to-diesel
- AP & MSNBC: Climate Progress Knows its Crap
- Don't Discount the Stern Review
- 26 Climate Myths Debunked
- Revealing Evidence Proves Global Warming
- Is Corn Ethanol a Climate Solution?
- Study: NO Fuel Economy and Safety Trade-off
- More Humor: George Bush, Climate Activist
- The Weather IS Becoming More Extreme
- Paris Hilton Carpools!
- Conservatives Don't Know Jack
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I thought this was an interesting article, raising various questions. I submit it with only a very sincere: "whaddya think?"
Congratulations on the growth of your blog in 2007. The first post I read was on July 3rd and I've enjoyed visiting almost every day since. Climate Progress is well written, witty and very educational. I note that some of your posts also appear on Gristmill. A recent very good post and comment thread there about the possibilities and problems with wind power should be of interest to your readers.
I like your site, it's very helpful. I was wondering if you wanted to exchange links. If yes, you can find my information below. Be sure to send me your information as well either through email or a comment on my website so we can properly exchange links. Thank you and Happy Holidays!
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Thanks. And thanks for your comments. That is indeed a good post on windpower issues. I'll be doing a report on the blog's growth in early January. mantolama
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Michele Bachmann on Ellison: 'He has long record of association with Muslim Brotherhood'
Ellison is amused by Bachmann's Islamophobic allegations.
-- Michele Bachmann, Profiles in Courage: She runs away from, lies to CNN reporter [VIDEO]
-- John McCain blasts Bachmann for 'sinister, degrading' Muslim Brotherhood fear-mongering [VIDEO]
-- Bachmann's source for Muslim Brotherhood claim reportedly man Grover Norquist called a 'sick bigot'
making reckless allegations politics were blackjack, it'd be fitting to say that yesterday, Michele Bachmann doubled down.
Under fire for making sensational yet unsubstantiated claims that the Muslim Brotherhood has made "deep penetration" into the U.S. government, Bachmann isn't backtracking. In fact, during an appearance on Glenn Beck's radio program yesterday, she dramatically broadened the scope of her McCarthy-esque allegations, saying Rep. Keith Ellison "has a long record of being associated... with the Muslim Brotherhood."
Here's a transcript of Bachmann's remarks (courtesy of Edina Patch -- for the full audio, click here):
GLENN BECK: Okay. So when you wrote [the letters spelling out the allegations], then Keith Ellison comes out. And Keith Ellison is -- he has a record of being the Mafia hitman.
BACHMANN: Well, he has a long record of being associated with [Council on American-Islamic Relations] and with the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR is an unindicted co‑conspirator, as stated in the large terrorist financing case that we've had in the United States of America and so he came out and essentially wanted to shut down the inspectors general from even looking into any of the questions that we were asking. So he wanted to shut it down. In response I wrote another letter back to Keith Ellison, a 16‑page letter which I would encourage all of your listeners to go and read this letter. It's what I call a bulletproof letter. I have 59 footnotes with one example after another of the penetration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the federal government. One of the most recent is so outrageous, it's hard to believe. Two weeks ago the State Department broke its own law, like I said, and let a foreign terrorist come into the United States, into the White House, meet with the National Security Council...
Ellison is denying Bachmann's allegations... with a chuckle, the Huffington Post reports.
Echoing the sort of Congressional testimony you would've expected to hear during the 1950s Communist witch-hunts, Ellison, with a laugh, told the HuffPo, "I am not now, nor have I ever been, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood."
But, on a more serious note, Ellison characterized Bachmann's allegations as being particularly dangerous for mid-level federal employees who could be impugned by Bachmann as being part of some sort of Islamist conspiracy.
Referring to Huma Abedin, a deputy chief of state for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton whose family Bachmann has linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, Ellison said:
Miss Abedin, who has a stellar reputation, everybody admires her, she's like this great person. And she works for one of the most high-profile people on the planet. So Michele Bachmann cannot hurt Huma Abedin. But what about some mid-level guy named Mustafa or a woman named Aisha? Some everyday person who happens to be a Muslim?
Ellison added that in fact, he feels sorry for Bachmann.
"Her world must be a scary place," he told the HuffPo. "It must be very frightening to see the world through her eyes."
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I want to sign of up that class really bad but I am totally broke right now :'( Looking forward to seeing some new sketches tho
I want to sign of up that class really bad but I am totally broke right now :'( Looking forward to seeing some new sketches tho
Here's my latest! I just ordered an Intuos4 to finally replace my Graphire4 (hence why I am broke) so I think I'll be going back to life drawings soon. I posted something now it's your guys' turn :p
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Nice work Brandon! Really cool the tablet... isn't it?
How's the sketching going guys & gals?
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Hey people,
Anyone still working on stuff?
haha kinda sorta...ok no not really Sketching but not really painting You?
I'm the same... occasionally sketching with pen and paper...If any of you have some challenges in mind please post them on our facebook group page.
(I could use a challenge to get things going again)
I have started doing the environment of the week challenges on here. You guys should just participate in them as well.
C'mon guys lets do some environments !
I'm really bad at environments! Maybe I can come up with some quick thumbnails...
How about more a mood then a theme? I say we do sensual moods for this. What do you think?
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Frances Susan Simpson Gibbs, loved Mother, Grandmother, aunt and friend, passed from this life on July 6, 2012. Frances married Dorsie Wilson Gibbs, now deceased, on March 29, 1939. They lived the majority of their lives in the Asland, Ken., area. In 1979, the moved to Carthage, Missouri where Frances resided until June 2002. While there, she was an active member of the Carthage Grand Avenue Church of God, and was employed by Allergon. She loved to paint and left many cherished paintings to her family and friends. The past four years Dreama and Paul Blevins have lovingly cared for her in their home. Frances is survived by her four children: Joe (Jeanne) Gibbs of Webb City, Mo., Dreama (Paul) Blevins of Argillite, Ken., Janice Snyder and Gary (Jean) Gibbs of Ashland, Ken.; 12 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren plus a host of nieces, nephews and friends who loved her, were blessed by her and will miss her. Funeral services were held Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10 a.m. in Ashland, Ken.
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International troops should leave Afghanistan in 2013, a year ahead of schedule, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai told Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a meeting Thursday.
Karzai cited a massacre allegedly by a rogue American soldier as a prime reason for NATO forces to leave the country early, saying transfer of authority to Afghan troops would help prevent a similar incident from happening in the future.
The Afghan president also called for troops to leave rural areas and villages, and return to the main bases.
The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians has been moved to Kuwait amid increasing violence in Afghanistan in retaliation for the attacks.
The level of violence has not, however, reached the crescendo it did last month following the revelation that a number of Qurans had been burned as trash on a U.S. base.
Afghan lawmakers have expressed outrage at the transfer, demanding that the suspect be brought to justice in Afghanistan.
The U.S. says the suspect is still entitled to fair and proper judicial proceedings, which the move to Kuwait will allow, but did not rule out the possibility of ultimately trying the case in Afghanistan.
The suspect will be held in a detention center that has held other prominent U.S. troops, most recently Army PFC Bradley Manning, held for his alleged role in the WikiLeaks case.
Afghan lawmakers say moving the soldier will only further damage the increasingly fraying relationship between the two countries.
"If the trial was in Afghanistan, the people would see that America doesn't like this soldier and wants to punish him," said Kandahar lawmaker Abdul Khaliq Balakarzai. "But unfortunately America ignored our demand."
The U.S. has assured Afghans that anyone found responsible for the shootings will be held accountable.
The Afghan Taliban announced Thursday ahead of Panetta's meeting that the militant group is suspending talks with the U.S, issuing a statement that Americans "turned their backs on promises" after agreeing on "practical steps regarding the exchange of prisoners and to not oppose our political office."
The talks were part of an attempt by the U.S. to negotiate peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
The Taliban closed a diplomatic office in Qatar that had been opened "for the purposes of reaching an understanding with the international community and for addressing some specific issues with the American invaders."
The group said it would not reverse its decision until "Americans clarify their stance on issues concerned, and until they show willingness in carrying out their promises instead of wasting time."


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England Taylored to fill void
England women begin a new era on this month's tour of South Africa, without former ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year Claire Taylor.
Taylor, who won the women's game's highest accolade in 2008, retired from international cricket in July immediately after England's last action - a NatWest Quadrangular Series victory.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Sarah Taylor is set to take her namesake's place up the order, leaping above Lydia Greenway, who believes England can fill the void left by the first woman to be named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year.
"She's obviously a world-class player and has been for a number of years. I think probably replacing her is one of our challenges, but we've got the players coming through to do that," Greenway told ecb.co.uk.
"Sarah Taylor coming in at three now. It's quite a nice replacement to have for Claire Taylor. Our batting, we've got a very long line-up now and I think as a team we'll be all right when it comes to trying to fill Claire Taylor's boots."
Charlotte Edwards' squad tomorrow fly out for three one-day internationals and as many Twenty20s with the Proteas, the next step towards next year's World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka and the 2013 50-over World Cup in India.
"Hopefully we can put into practice some of the plans that we're speaking about for the two World Cups coming up and see where we're at because we've been training indoors for a little while now, so I think everyone's looking forward to getting back outside," Greenway added.
"We've done a lot of talking about targets and what sort of scores we want to get and I suppose the thing that will be different out in Sri Lanka and India is the conditions.
"We can't really replicate that too much in South Africa, but if we go out and play the way that we want to play then we can hopefully gain more from that.
"Then when it comes to going out to India and Sri Lanka we'll hopefully we'll be more prepared for it."
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As the summer came to a close and the school year began, the young men of Mentoring and Partnership for Youth Development (MPYD) reminisced on the activities at the 8th Annual MPYD Cardinal Paint Summer Camp on Aug. 13-17, 2012. The camp took place at the Oakbridge Camp facility in beautiful Ramona, California, on the foothills of the Laguna Mountains about 29 miles from San Diego.
This year's campers were greeted with a welcomed treat: MPYD was sent off in prayer by Rev. Tyrone Skinner from Metropolitan Baptist Church before they boarded an air conditioned charter bus. This was all thanks to the generous support in part with funds received from: Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, Pasadena Tournament of Roses ® Foundation, Cardinal Paint, Vons Foundation, Sharp Seating Company, Carolyn Ingram-Seitz, Peter LeSourd and Bernardean Broadous.
The MPYD Summer Camp came to a close with The Talking Stick Discussion, a time that allows the campers and staff to share a few words about their challenges and decisions they made at the summer camp. "Don't take your parents for granted, because one day they won't be here" is a quote from one of the heartfelt stories shared at camp from a student who just lost his mother.
MPYD would like to thank all of our volunteer mentors, community partners and board members who give their time and services to change the lives of our young men. So far we have 54 community men willing to mentor students. These volunteers consist of members from Metropolitan Baptist Church, Friendship Baptist Church, First A.M.E. Church, Morningside Baptist church, and Abundant Harvest Christian Center.
We are grateful for their support, but we are in need of more volunteers. Our goal is to have 75 mentors, so every MPYD student can have a personal mentor. It's up to the MPYD and the community to make sure this happens. If you would like to become a mentor please contact Tecumseh Shackelford email@example.com or (626)840-0925.


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LAKE GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. — Most high school students get a gift-wrapped present and a pat on the back when they graduate, but not Taylor Baker.
Instead, the 18-year-old Gurley, Ala., resident's graduation gift is a seat in a decked-out bass boat next to one of the top names in professional bass fishing. Taylor, who will graduate from Madison County High School in late May, is a Marshal in the Southern Challenge this week. Marshalls serve as non-fishing observers in Elite Series tournaments and have the opportunity to learn bass-fishing tips from some of the best in the business. Each Marshal is paired with a different contestant every day and the first 50 to sign up at registration get to accompany the top 50 pros in Round Three.
The Marshal program was instituted this year and has been wildly successful to the point that some participants are repeat customers. It costs $100 to serve as a Marshal in an Elite Series event, but guys such as Taylor consider it money well spent, or in his case, cash well-spent by his parents, Kim and Billy Baker.
"Just being able to watch how the pros fish and how they make choices in lures and locations is a real learning experience," says Taylor, who rode in Boat No. 96 with Gary Klein on opening day. The Texas veteran, who's been in the pro ranks for 29 years, didn't disappoint. Klein caught a five-bass stringer that totaled 22 pounds, 10 ounces, good enough for 34th place going into Friday's second round.
"I had a blast fishing with Gary. He taught me a lot about techniques and establishing patterns," said Taylor. "He's on some good fish, too. He would fish a spot, catch some fish and then move on to his next place, always leaving bass behind for tomorrow. That's a good thing to remember when a tournament lasts for four days like this one does."
Taylor will trade Lake Guntersville's classroom for the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) in late summer. He hopes to earn a degree in civil engineering. Along the way, however, he plans to spend a lot of time fishing.
"I would like to see a Collegiate Bass Association chapter open at UAH," notes Taylor. "I've been told if you can get enough guys to sign up, you can have a team. There's already a team at the University of North Alabama in Florence, so we would have somebody to compete against close by."
Maybe civil engineering is in Taylor's future, but who knows? Many of today's top bass pros started out in other careers, including such notables as Rick Clunn (Taylor's scheduled partner on Friday), Paul Elias and Denny Brauer. Taylor already sounds like a tournament veteran. When asked what he thought it would take to win the Southern Challenge, he replied without hesitation.
"At least 26 pounds a day. Guntersville is my favorite largemouth lake and these guys are hitting it just right," says Taylor. "I think most of the bigger fish are out in deeper water now and the smaller bass are in shallow. The ledge fishermen and the guys fishing some of the deeper flats are going to bring in some good stringers and some big individual fish."
Though Taylor isn't banking on a career as a pro bass angler, he's not ruling it out either. A few lucky breaks here and there, some motivation supplied by the pros in the Southern Challenge, and a casual interest in fishing could become a life's journey. And a fisherman is never too young to start the trip. After all, Gary Klein was only 20 when he fished his first B.A.S.S. tournament, and look at him now.
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ERA, or Earned Run Average, is one of the most instantly recognizable, frequently cited measures of a pitcher's performance.
The problem: It's also one of the most misleading measures for forecasting future success and forecasting future success is the name of our game.
Sure, ERA accounts for two of the most critical skills of a pitcher -- recording outs and preventing runs -- but many external factors impact those departments, often skewing the results. Even the Wikipedia page for Earned Run Average hints at its misleading nature, noting that "because of the dependence of ERA on factors over which a pitcher has little control, forecasting future ERAs on the basis of the past ERAs of a given pitcher is not very reliable and can be improved if analysts rely on other performance indicators such as strike out rates and walk rates."
That's not to say ERA is entirely without value. For one thing, it remains one of the five primary Rotisserie categories. But before you blindly assume that a pitcher's low, past-season ERA -- or even his three-year ERA -- portends future success in the category, be sure to consider its context. This is something we do every season when formulating our projections, and it helps explain how a pitcher like Ryan Vogelsong, who had the sixth-best ERA in baseball in 2011 (2.71), can be projected to have an ERA a run and a half higher (4.21) in 2012.
Instead of taking Vogelsong's 2.71 -- or similarly successful or unfortunate pitchers' ERAs -- at face value, consider that any or all of the following factors might have had a strong influence on the final numbers:
Unearned runs
In a literal sense, of course unearned runs have no impact on ERA; earned runs are the ones included in the calculation. But unearned runs are the product of faulty defense, a result of an error or passed ball, and while a pitcher doesn't get charged for many of the runs he allows after such a mistake, for evaluation purposes maybe he should. (At the same time, maybe he should get credit for the outs he'd have gotten when an error occurred instead.) Remember, recording outs is the most critical task for a pitcher, and just because his defense lets him down, his skills should be strong enough that he's capable of converting four -- sometimes more -- outs in a single inning when necessary. Those pitchers who allow themselves to be unraveled frequently by errors might have flawed skills, which could easily be exposed even when backed by a flawless defense.
These were the leaders in unearned runs in 2011, the chart including what percentage of the team's unearned runs that pitcher allowed, as well as the number of times opposing batters reached base via an error.
Garza's statistics are the most notable. His number of unearned runs matched his major league-leading number of batters who reached on errors (17 apiece), and his unearned runs total amounted to more than a quarter of the Chicago Cubs' entire team total of 66. Yes, the Cubs had one of the game's worst defenses a year ago, but as you can read here, they should improve in that regard this season. That Garza wasn't unraveled further by his defense last year is somewhat remarkable; it's a testament to how much hidden value he has in 2012 drafts.
Conversely, Moseley's numbers are troubling, considering he surrendered the seventh-most unearned runs (15) despite pitching for one of the game's 10 best defenses (by any measure) last season. Only eight baserunners reached via error against the right-hander in 2011, yet a quick scroll through his game logs reveals two instances in which he allowed three unearned runs after two outs had already been recorded in the inning. He had a 4.09 ERA in his final 14 starts last season, and coupled with his tendency to struggle recording "fourth outs," one might expect him to struggle in the ERA department this season.
Team defense
This isn't exactly the same as the previous section, unearned runs, because unearned runs only occur as a direct result of an error or passed ball. Defense, however, is about a heck of a lot more than merely errors and passed balls. Range -- a better measure of defense's ability to convert balls in play into outs -- is every bit as important and arguably much, much more so. A defense can be accurate with the plays it makes, but that doesn't mean it's getting to the tougher plays, which, when made, result in greater team success.
Perhaps there's no greater example of that than last year's Philadelphia Phillies; they committed the second-fewest errors in baseball (74), but in terms of both UZR (Ultimate Zone Rating) and Defensive Runs Saved, they didn't crack the top 10 (they were 18th and 27th).
The Phillies' winter losses, however, might actually be their gains in the defensive department. Their worst defender from 2011, left fielder Raul Ibanez (minus-16 Defensive Runs Saved, minus-18.9 UZR), is now with the New York Yankees, and their second-worst defender, first baseman Ryan Howard (minus-9 DRS, minus-4.8 UZR), will miss a significant chunk of the season recovering from an Achilles' injury. With even slightly improved defense from either of those two positions, Phillies pitchers might benefit in terms of outs they might not have gotten last season, and those can have a profound impact upon a pitcher's ERA.
It's for that reason there are countless statistical tools out there to measure the impact of defense upon a pitcher's ERA. Two of my favorites are FIP (Fielder Independent Pitching), and xFIP (Expected FIP), both of which evaluate a pitcher's performance regardless of how his fielders performed behind him. The difference between the two: Whereas FIP includes a pitcher's home runs allowed in the formula -- (HR*13+(BB+HBP-IBB)*3-K*2)/IP, plus a league factor designed to put it on an ERA scale -- xFIP "normalizes" home runs, calculating instead based on the league average of home runs allowed per fly ball.
Pitchers whose FIP or xFIP vary greatly from their ERA might have experienced one of two things: Particularly strong or poor defense, or particularly good or bad luck. That's why, when evaluating ERAs, it's smart to take FIP/xFIP into account.
A caveat, however: Some pitchers do tend to be historically strong in FIP/xFIP despite it never resulting in a low ERA. Ricky Nolasco is a prime example. His 3.57 FIP ranked 30th and xFIP 14th among 135 qualified starters (per FanGraphs) over the past three seasons combined; his ERA during that span, however, ranks 18th-worst. It's smart, therefore, to consider a pitcher's FIP/xFIP history.
These were the 2011 leaders in both FIP and xFIP:
Greinke's xFIP dominance pops right off the page, doesn't it? If there's any fact that should temper 2012 expectations for the right-hander, it's that he has a history of success in both the FIP and xFIP categories, having ranked 20th and 21st in those departments in 2011. In addition, his Milwaukee Brewers signed Aramis Ramirez, potentially diminishing their defense, something that might result to another significant split between Greinke's ERA and FIP performance. Still, even on a team that was only so-so defensively in 2011, Greinke managed a 2.59 ERA after the All-Star break, so his rebound potential remains immense. We've projected him for a 3.39 ERA which is perhaps even a bit conservative.
The FIP "whipping boy" entering 2012, meanwhile, is Tampa Bay Rays sophomore Hellickson, who had a whopping 4.44 FIP and 4.72 xFIP despite a 2.95 ERA. Hellickson has his critics, and if he repeats what was a surprisingly low 5.57 strikeouts-per-nine innings ratio last season, by all rights he might have a difficult time keeping his ERA much beneath 4.00. We've projected him for a 3.24 ERA this season accounting for some regression in the category, but that's also forecasting an increase in his strikeout rate, bringing his number closer to those during his minor league career. But unless Hellickson manages to approach a K-per-inning rate, his prospects of a second straight sub-three-ERA season are practically nil.
Left-on-base percentage
Also called "Strand Rate," this measures a pitcher's ability to prevent runners he allows to reach base from scoring. Along with BABIP and home run/fly ball percentage, Left-on-base Percentage is one of the more popular measures of a pitcher's luck. A typical, league-average strand rate is generally about 70-72 percent; those who have numbers significantly higher might have gotten a few lucky bounces, while those with numbers significantly lower might have been struck by terrible luck.
Not to say that strand rates are always a sign of good or bad luck. Brandon Morrow, for example, has a 67.2 left-on-base percentage the past two seasons combined, sixth-worst among 86 qualifiers. But there's an explanation: He has afforded only .219/.306/.339 triple-slash rates with the bases empty, a time during which he'd be pitching from the windup, compared to .273/.348/.459 with men on, when he'd be pitching from the stretch.
These were the leaders and trailers in strand rate in 2011:
There are both Garza and Greinke, again, on the "unlucky" side of the ledger, though they share the same space with the aforementioned Morrow. Garza is the most peculiar inclusion on the list, however. His 69.7 percent rate represented easily his lowest of any of his four full big league seasons, was substantially beneath his 75.5 percent number of 2010 and is noticeably lower than his 72.9 career rate in the category. Numbers like that have a tendency to even out over time, and to put Garza's into perspective, had he stranded runners at merely his career (72.9 percent) rather than 2011 (69.7 percent) rate, he'd have surrendered seven fewer runs meaning his ERA would've been 3.00, not 3.32. Having a stronger defense behind him, as discussed above, can only help.
The aforementioned Hellickson and Vogelsong, meanwhile, fall on the "luckier" side of the ledger. Hellickson's left-on-base percentage provides another rationale behind his higher projected 2012 ERA, but in the case of Vogelsong, his projected ERA suffers considerably more because he lacks a skill Hellickson might yet develop: He's much less likely to boost his strikeout rate. Vogelsong is 34, after all. And considering the San Francisco Giants won't be doing the veteran any favors on the days they trot out Ryan Theriot at shortstop, there's a good chance Vogelsong's out-of-nowhere year might indeed be termed a "career year."
Bullpen support
One of the least discussed, and infrequently measured, factors that impacts ERA, a starting pitcher's bullpen support can be critical to his success. Fantasy owners might see a starting pitcher's final stat line in the box score on any given night, but what they might not see was that the pitcher departed with two outs and the bases loaded, only to see his reliever surrender a grand slam in the very next at-bat. Three of those runs are charged to the starter, a significant hit to his ERA. Even a small handful of extra inherited runners allowed to score by the bullpen over the course of a given season can taint an otherwise quality performance by a starting pitcher, so always consider whether such a starter might have been let down by the men behind him when evaluating his ERA.
Baseball-Reference.com tallies "Bequeathed Runners," or runners that a starter leaves on base when departing; the chart below shows 2011's leaders in terms of percentage allowed to score, minimum 10 bequeathed runners:
Only one pitcher in baseball had his bullpen allow more of his bequeathed runners to score than Romero (11), and that was Pineiro (12). To think, Romero still managed a 2.92 ERA, meaning that if Toronto Blue Jays relievers had allowed half -- OK, let's say six, or half plus one -- of those bequeathed runners to cross the plate, his ERA would've been 2.72, which would've ranked him seventh in the majors. Heck, had Romero received comparable bullpen support to Blackburn, his ERA would've been 2.56. Don't underestimate the significance of that, because the 2011 Blue Jays bullpen had the majors' 10th-worst ERA (3.88), 12th-worst WHIP (1.33) and allowed the sixth-most homers (53). And since then, they've retooled by adding both Sergio Santos and Francisco Cordero.
Two New York Yankees right-handers, Garcia and Nova, meanwhile, ranked among the most fortunate starters when it came to bullpen support. Between them, Yankees relievers allowed only two of their 39 bequeathed runners to score, both off Nova. Yes, the Yankees' bullpen remains stout, with Mariano Rivera, David Robertson and Rafael Soriano at the back end, but neither Garcia nor Nova is guaranteed a rotation spot, let alone as much good fortune in the left-on-base category. It's for that reason we've projected both for ERA increases in 2012: Nova to 3.91, Garcia to 4.57.
Ballpark factors
This one's obvious. A pitcher's ERA is impacted by the venue he calls home, as bandbox ballparks lead to untimely home runs that inflate that number, while those who pitch in spacious venues can afford the occasional mistake without taking as much of a hit. Fantasy owners have long taken this into account, but for a specific measure of a ballpark's impact on ERA, Adjusted ERA (or ERA+) can be a handy evaluation tool. What it does is calculates a pitcher's ERA assuming a neutral ballpark; anything significantly over 100 is considered good, beneath 100 bad.
These were the 2011 leaders and trailers in ERA+:
The top five pitchers in terms of ERA and ERA+ were the same last season, though that's to be expected; the No. 5 finisher in ERA, Weaver (2.41), finished with an ERA more than a quarter-run lower than the No. 6 finisher, Vogelsong (2.71). In other words, the top five was an especially exclusive group in 2011.
At No. 6 on the ERA+ list, however, is a pitcher who escaped a hitting-friendly venue for a pitching-friendly one: Wilson. Though his 2.94 ERA ranked 25th, his 152 ERA+ demonstrates how valuable he was when ballpark effects are taken out of the equation. That explains his projected 3.07 ERA, which is actually lower than the 3.14 he had during his two seasons as a Texas Rangers starter.
Conversely, a pitcher such as Jeremy Guthrie might be in trouble as a result of his winter change of teams. Guthrie, whose 4.33 ERA was already below-average, had a 95 ERA+, 65th among 93 qualified starters. Now he's moving to Coors Field, meaning he might be little more than a matchups type in road games. Understandably, we have him projected for a 4.84 ERA.
Not that any one of these five influences should be expected to radically shift a pitcher's ERA in one direction or another, but they can, which is why instead of looking at that one category on the surface, you need consider what went into it. Remember, even for the most durable starting pitchers, one earned run can mean a 20th of a point in ERA or more; five earned runs can cost a pitcher as much as a quarter of a run in ERA (and often an ERA crown).
That's why, when evaluating pitchers, I place ERA lower on my priority list than categories like WHIP, strikeout and walk rates. That's not to say ERA is devoid of value -- you simply can't take it at face value.
Tristan H. Cockcroft is a fantasy baseball analyst for ESPN.com, a two-time champion of the League of Alternative Baseball Reality (LABR) experts league, and a 2011 FSWA award winner for Best Baseball Article on the Web. You can e-mail him here, or follow him on Twitter @SultanofStat.


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