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No Switchbacks: Rethinking Aspiration-Based Dynamics in the Ultimatum Game
The stylized facts of ultimatum bargaining in the experimental lab are that offers tend to be near an equal split of the surplus and low, near perfect offers are routinely rejected. Bimmore et al (1995) use aspiration-based evolutionary dynamics to model the evolution of fair play in a binary choice version of this game, and show that incredible threats to reject low offers persist in equilibrium. We focus on two possible extensions of this analysis: (1) the model makes assumptions about agent motivations (aspiration levels) and the structure of the game (binary strategy space) that have not yet been tested experimentally, and (2) the standard dynamic is based on the problematic assumption that unhappy games who switch strategies may end up using the same strategy that was just rejected. To examine the implications of not allowing agents to "switch back" to their original strategy, we develop a "no switchback dynamic" and run a new, binary choice, experiment with induced aspirations. We find that the resulting dynamic predicts the evolution of play better than the standard dynamic and that aspirations are a significant motivator for our participants.
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Calories 3645 Calories from Fat 754
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 84 g129.1%
Saturated Fat 0.54 g2.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 215.1 mg9%
Total Carbohydrates 124 g41.2%
Dietary Fiber 19.7 g78.8%
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OK, so it's a little late. In the end, I was too tired last night to feel up to doing this, I felt it better to wait until I'd had a good night's sleep. So here we go, the Liberal Democrats' manifesto for the upcoming general election. Now, on their webpage with links to all the manifesto documents, you're faced with a bewildering amount of links. Why? each file has a .pdf version and a Word document version, and some of the .pdf files have "reduced size" versions too. They get credit for providing for so many different computer setups, but the documents are mostly in some random order that makes no sense, making it kinda difficult to find the document you're after. A good idea, poorly implemented (makes me wonder if maybe that's a good summing-up of the lib dems as a whole). I'm using the .pdf versions because…well, because I want to.
First up is education. Typical intro, in fact at this point I'm thinking the parties all seem to use intros and fluffing-out as a way to put off potential readers more than anything. There's nothing groundbreaking, original or even particularly interesting to be found in this filler. It adds several pages to each document, and makes it harder to find the actual useful bits – the actual proposals and plans of the party. Do they not want us to know what they intend to do if they get voted in? Probably not, cos then we'd realise there isn't a huge difference between them. Anyway, so here, the Lib Dems' manifesto could almost be the conservatives. They want to scrap tuition fees and top-up fees for university students. OK it goes a little further than the Conservatives, but if the Conservatives could only do this through making some massive cuts to various areas of government, what makes the Lib Dems think they could do it without big cuts elsewhere? They talk about cutting class sizes, although the only age ranges this is mentioned for is 5-7 and 7-11 year olds. At university level, they want students to have more choice in what modules they can take during their course. I'm more skeptical about this idea than I am of the same at secondary school level. Why? each university deals with a far larger amount of students than each school. Considering that things don't go 100% smoothly as it is, I do not believe that any university would be able to adequately handle the extra hassle associated with such increase of choice for students. Not without hiring loads more admin staff, at any rate.
They want to combine vocational and academic courses into the same assessment structure, to allow students at 14-17 years to mix-and-match those types of learning. It's a fair enough idea, but the problem comes when you have to decide what level of vocational work is equivalent to a specific level of academic work (or vice versa). Like with a number of the ideas in this document, there's plenty of blurb about what they want to do but very little about how they're going to go about it. In fact the main "how" given is with the extra revenue gained by increasing income tax for earnings over £100,000. The problem I have with that is, if you're going to increase such tax, why should you spend it on just one area of government?
Next up is family. Currently, this doesn't really affect me, as most of it is actually about raising a family (i.e. children). There's a good deal of repetition of proposals already given in their education document. The home ownership section is interesting, particularly the sentence (and i quote) "We will also free up much more land for housing…". I wonder where this land will magically appear from? perhaps they'll pull it out of their arses. Or maybe, they'll let a load of green belt land be built on. Hmm. They say they will scrap the council tax and replace it with a local income tax, which will be fairer. Although this will mean the rich pay more in absolute terms, if the same amount of money is to be raised as through council tax. Once again, the document is rather general, at least on points that interest me. For example, on the environment, they say they would "tackle climate change and cut pollution and congestion," but the only things they say they'd do would be to promote the use of public transport, encourage hosueholds to produce less waste and promote recycling. If that's all the ideas they have on this, it doesn't exactly give me confidence that they'll really do anything to help there. Don't they have any real ideas in this area? well, let's wait and see if there's a specific document on the environment…
OK, there's a little more detail in the "Urban and Suburban Communities" document. Although, it's a little confusing. In the previous one, there was a brief mention of getting a doorstep recyclable waste collection to 100% of homes by 2010. Yet here, it only says they will "move towards" kerbside recycling for everyone. Heh. Can you say "consistency"? There's a somewhat strange claim here, too. Under crime, they say the Acceptable Behaviour Contract – a development of the Liberal Democrats, no less – has been adopted by most councils as "the main tool for tackling anti-social behaviour among young people". Funny, we only hear about ASBOs in the news. I wish I could check up on this, but I suspect it to be nigh-on impossible to either prove or disprove, typical of such claims by political parties. Finally, they have some ideas that sound pretty similar to those of the Conservatives regarding community sentencing and its place in punishing criminals.
Next we have the document on young people. Rather stupidly, the first page (after the cover) has been processed in landscape instead of portrait format, but then put into the finished document in portrait format. So it's rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise. Nice and easy to read, like. It doesn't matter much though, the actual proposals aren't until the second page. And there really isn't a lot here–in fact they've done an admirable job – comparable to my days of writing coursework pieces at GCSE and A-level, in fact – of padding it out to fill even the one page of actual substance that it does. There's mention of their want to change our voting system to one of proportional representation. Although now they seem to be calling it the Single Transferable Vote. And they don't give details of what it entails. But the most interesting proposal in this document is that they want to allow 16-year-olds to vote and stand for office. I'm not too sure I agree with this. I'm all for fairness and all, but I was 16 not all that long ago and I can remember only too well what it was like. I also get to see 16- and 17- year-olds regularly as I work at a secondary school. I just don't think the average 16-year-old is in any position to make an even slightly informed vote. It's a case of "if you're gonna let them vote, you may as well let 11-, 12-, 13-, 14-, and 15-year-olds vote too."
On to law and order. The first proposal to catch my eye is the scrapping of Labour's ID card scheme. I know, the Conservatives say they'll do this too, but it's reassuring to see both parties have realised the stupidity associated with such a scheme. Or, at least, have decided to follow the sway of popular opinion that is against it. For the record, as I mentioned when I went through the Conservatives' manifesto, I am against the ID card scheme, as I view it as an unnecessary and essentially flawed idea; it would further restrict the law-abiding, whilst having little effect on the likes of terrorists who'll still find ways to circumvent it, and all at the expense of the law-abiding. There's talk of more education for prisoners. This I like, as even if the statistics they give are a little skewed (4 out of 5 prisoners are functionally illiterate and over half of prisoners go on to re-offend after their release) it has been shown that if you give prisoners an education that can help them get a good job, and on the right side of the law, on release, they are a whole lot less likely to reoffend.
Their ideas for drugs are interesting. They have ideas for helping addicts to kick the habit, tougher treatment of career drug dealers, but legalisation of cannabis (both ownership and cultivation) for personal use and social supply. There's no definition of "social supply" given but I suspect it means if someone were to grow cannabis, and just share it with friends for cost, or free, as opposed to growing fields of the stuff to sell at a profit. It's not full-on legalisation, as career dealers would still be prosecuted, but the police would no longer have to spend any time and resources on catching personal users of the stuff. It's a good compromise, I think, unfortunately they don't seem to be making much of it, probably scared that labour and the conservatives would demonize such an idea and claim it's something it isn't. Nevermind eh?
The environment is the next document. As I already mentioned earlier, their idea is to make it easier and more attractive for homeowners to have green energy generators of their own to help power their houses and two-way electricity meters to allow surplus power produced to be sold back to the grid. This I view as A Good Idea. Things like wind turbines still have a way to go before the tiny versions suitable for home owners (they may look large but they're tiny compared to the huge ones used in wind farms) are a real investment money-wise. But they are an investment environment-wise. And combined with other ways of reducing pollution, they could go a long way towards reducing the damage we're doing to the environment.
They want to reform car taxing so that owners of less polluting vehicles pay less vehicle tax, and those with more polluting vehicles pay more tax. Fair enough on that. There's mention of the railways; both the mess the Conservatives left them in, and the little-to-no improvement that has come about under Labour. I'm not sure if their suggestion to improve things would work, but they really ought to be making much more of an issue over this.
There's mention of improving energy efficiency, and making businesses more responsible for the environmental impact they have (and making improvements in that area). Much like the Conservatives, they say they won't allow GM crops unless they know they're safe for the environment, and they want detailed labelling of food and easy traceability, to give greater power to the consumer.
Now for their business document. Once again, there's very little here, and it's all covering old ground; mention of the extra option they'll give to new mothers (paid for by the state rather than businesses), reduced business rates for small businesses, the (hoped-for) improvements in employee skills that some of their education ideas will bring. And…that's it, really.
In their health document, there's some interesting ideas. They want to scrap charges for eye and dental checks, and extend the range of long-term medical conditions that are exempted from prescription charges. They want to improve cleanliness in hospitals and put less importance on artificial waiting list targets – targets that focus only on some kinds of waiting lists, at the expense of others, similar to a number of the Conservatives' ideas.
I skimmed briefly through the document on disabilities. Almost the entire thing is just re-hashing proposals already made in previous documents. The two extras are the provision of government information (that in pamphlets and that on websites) in forms accessible to e.g. the visually impaired, and the improving of wheelchair access and so on to government buildings, to allow for greater participation in government by people with disabilities. Admirable ideas, it remains to be seen how well they'd be implemented.
It's a similar situation with their document on older people. Again, just like the Conservatives, they want to scrap arbitrary retirement ages and enforce age discrimination legislation. Once again, I must utter my reservations about such an idea. There are a good many jobs where being of an older age is, in almsot all cases, detrimental to the quality of work you can do, and sometimes a real barrier. Not simply because of your age, but due to other factors that are affected by your age. The problem is, I can see all to well, that what would happen in some such situations is that older people would still be allowed to do such jobs because the employer would fear having accusations of age discrimination brought against them. There's PC, and then there's too far. And once you go too far, it's difficult to get back to a reasonable place, and all too easy to slip and slide waaay down the slope.
The Liberal Democrats are the only one of the three main parties to have a specific document covering the parts of their manifesto that would benefit women. The way they're playing it up, you'd think it was the Victorian age, or something. Seriously though, there's very little in here that doesn't actually apply to more than just women. The biggest two things are the extra choice covering mothers' rights to work and pay, and the levelling of the pensions field that apparently, in its current state, favours men more than women, although this disparity is more to do with the state of the country several decades ago than the state of it as it is now. Not that I'm against the Lib Dems' proposal on pensions, I do think it a good idea.
In the ethnic minorities document it is, as you may have guessed by now, almost all re-hashing policies already mentioned in previous documents. The extra stuff covers immigration – though I'm not sure it really covers it enough. If this is it as far as the Lib Dem's ideas on immigration go, well, it's hardly attention-grabbing stuff.
And that's it. Overall, there's not as much detail as the Conservatives give, and to be honest the Lib Dems seem rather short on ideas. The vague promises to "cut red tape" aren't nearly so solid as the Conservatives' specific plans showing exactly which bits of red tape they'd cut. There's also a distinct lack of figures as far as savings go, in fact the only solid one I can think of offhand is their plan to replace council tax with local income tax, that would apparently save about £300 million thanks to abolishing the need for regular revaluations of properties. Also, along with the scattered promises to cut red tape, are a significant number of ideas that sound very much like they'd add to the red tape. As in, what they take away with one hand they give right back with the other. When it comes to red tape, this is as bad as giving with one hand what they take right back with the other. It's just a juggling of government bodies and public money that ends up making little real difference to you and I.
But by far the biggest problem the Liberal Democrats have is in not making themselves heard. It's been noted by those three political comedians (and by that, I mean they make fun of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats) Bremner, Bird and Fortune that the Lib Dem's big strategy seems to be to let Labour and the Conservatives rip each other apart in a frenzied bid to win the most votes, whilst they sit back and hope the other two show themselves up enough to ruin their credibility in favour of the Liberal Democrats. Of course, this also means the Lib Dems spend very little time actually telling the voters what their policies are. Sure, you can find them on their site but, just like the other two, it takes a lot of reading through useless fluff and items that don't interest you in order to find things that do.
I think the Liberal Democrats will improve their standing in government still further than in the last general election, but I think it unlikely they'll get the majority, and to be honest, while I probably disagree with more of the policies of Labour or the Conservatives, I view the Liberal Democrats as being too weak to really do a good job. I could also see them ending up doing things too similarly to Labour if they were to win power.
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Like most teenagers, Mix came back around and picked up the guitar in his 20's. " I have never a good guitar player. I can still just do the basic chords and not much more. There are really just 7 chords and ones in between right? I write songs and that's all I really need. It took a very long time to get the courage to even play, let alone sing in front of anyone. It has just been the last couple of years that I've even come to terms with my voice. That's why when I get the you sound like Dylan thing I'm wondering do you mean that in a good way?"
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If you told me two years ago that Alienware would be selling an 11.6" gaming laptop I would have called you insane, yet here we are. The reason I would have doubted the future of such a laptop is the engineering challenge that exists whenever powerful hardware is crammed into a small frame. Gaming laptops are generally thick, heavy monsters with displays over 15 inches because that's the size required to pack in and cool gaming hardware. And what does the M11x pack in?
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jose Contreras was downright nasty. His splitter was diving, his slider was breaking and the Texas Rangers were swinging and missing.
Contreras won his 15th straight decision with a nearly dominant performance Monday night, striking out a career-high 11 without a walk and pitching the Chicago White Sox to an 8-3 victory.
"I felt that this was my best start of the year," Contreras said through a translator. "I had everything working, including the split, slider, changeup ... in and out, up and down, throwing strikes."
Contreras (7-0), who hasn't lost in the regular season since last Aug. 15, threw 75 of his 108 pitches for strikes over eight innings. The right-hander allowed three runs and six hits, with the AL West-leading Rangers scoring all their runs in a four-batter span in the fifth.
He tied the franchise record for consecutive wins set by LaMarr Hoyt (1983-84) and Wilson Alvarez (1993-94). Contreras' streak is also the longest in the majors since Minnesota lefty Johan Santana won 17 decisions in a row from July 2004 to April 2005, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"I've never been around a streak like that," Chicago catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. "It's good to see."
Contreras won his final eight starts last season, and has made 11 starts this year.
"It's tough to pick up his pitches with all the arm angles and it breaks at the last second," Rangers shortstop Michael Young said. "The ball moves all over the place."
Contreras' previous career high of 10 strikeouts came with the New York Yankees, against the Mets on June 27, 2004.
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Texas had only an infield single by Young before its scoring spurt. Contreras retired 10 of his last 12 batters after that.
"In that inning, I left my pitches a little bit high, but I felt very strong the whole way," he said.
While the Rangers struggled against Contreras, Chicago started the game with five straight hits off rookie left-hander John Koronka (4-4) for a quick 3-0 lead.
The White Sox had seven hits their first time through the order. Juan Uribe and Brian Anderson, the last two hitters (both batting under .200), started the second with consecutive hits before scoring to make it 5-0.
Pierzynski drove in the next two White Sox runs. He grounded out in the fifth as the last batter to face Koronka, and hit his third homer leading off the eighth. Scott Podsednik added an RBI single in the inning.
Contreras retired his first 10 batters, with five strikeouts, before Young's infield single with one out in the fourth.
Joe Crede made a diving, backhanded stop on Young's short-hopper. The third baseman scrambled to his feet and made a strong throw, but Young beat it by a step.
Brad Wilkerson had a one-out bunt single in the fifth. Then the bottom third of the order -- which had struck out consecutively in the third -- produced the runs. Ian Kinsler doubled, Jason Botts hit a sacrifice fly and Rod Barajas a two-run homer, his fifth of the season.
"The first at-bat, I had no chance. His slider was really biting. He had great stuff," Barajas said. "He'd throw a split in the 70s and then throw something in the 90s. He had us off balance."
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A Taste for Tradition
The holidays seem far off, but the days will fly by as autumn takes hold. We asked some prominent Clevelanders to share one of their holiday traditions (and in some cases, prized recipes) to serve as inspiration for your celebration.
Owner of the Velvet Tango Room
Even as a kid, Paulius Nasvytis evidenced the taste that would make him the proprietor of a posh drinking establishment. While other kids in his Collinwood neighborhood waited for the milkman to deliver ice-cream treats for their Christmas celebrations, the future owner of the Velvet Tango Room looked forward to the quart bottle of eggnog (nonalcoholic, of course) that his mother ordered for him and his sister every December.
Ten years ago, after decades without drinking it, that delicious memory prompted Nasvytis to pick up a carton of eggnog during a trip to the local grocery store. The moment he tasted it, he understood why so many people avoid the classic drink at Christmas parties. "It was just absolutely retched, nothing like the light, frothy eggnog I remembered from my past," the 51-year-old says shuddering. Later, he looked at the ingredients on the label. "I was like, 'Oh, my God! What the hell is all this stuff? You can't even pronounce it.' "
In late 2006, Nasvytis decided to restore eggnog's good name — in his bar, at least — by whipping up a complimentary batch for his customers. That concoction has become so popular that he now offers it every night of December. The recipe is an interpretation of classic forerunners that includes freshly grated nutmeg, organic vanilla, VSOP 12-year-old brandy, and either Myers or Gosling's Black Seal dark rum.
"If I want to make it more interesting, I will add a splash of Cruzan Black Strap Navy-Strength Rum," he says. "There's a lot of big molasses flavors in there." Nasvytis also uses raw eggs — a controversial move in many kitchens, even though he insists eggs carrying the dreaded salmonella virus rarely enter the food chain in this part of the country. The chances of contracting it, he adds, are minimized by adding liquor to the beaten egg-and-sugar mixture before the milk and cream.
"It's like eating sushi, oysters, carpaccio or steak tartar," he says of the risk. "You can use pasteurized eggs, but you'll notice there's some coagulation of the whites when you're drinking the eggnog. It's not very pleasant. And I just don't think it's necessary."
Velvet Tango Room Eggnog
Chill all ingredients. Beat eggs until frothy; then beat in sugar, vanilla and nutmeg at medium-high speed. Slowly beat in brandy and rum; then fold in cream and milk until thoroughly combined. Serve immediately. Makes 1 gallon/128 ounces. (Leftovers can be used for french toast the next morning.)
Leon Bibb
NewsChannel 5 Anchor
Leon Bibb began a family tree-trimming tradition by making a mistake: He forgot to take the tree stand with him when he went shopping for a live Christmas tree in 1980.
As a result, the NewsChannel 5 noon and 6 p.m. anchorman returned home with a tree that wouldn't fit in his stand. So, he lowered the tree to its side, picked up his hacksaw, and began cutting off pieces of trunk like slices of bologna until he reached a portion of it that was smaller in circumference and fit the stand.
As Bibb cleaned up the debris, his eyes singled out an inch-thick piece of trunk, a cleanly cut disk uniform in thickness. He labeled the chip with the current year in black paint and drilled a hole in the top. When the shellac he applied had dried, he hung his simple creation on the tree with a length of red ribbon. "I kept it when my wife and I took the ornaments down," Bibb recalls. "I thought, Well, why don't I just take the bottom off every tree I get and make an ornament out of it?"
Bibb subsequently cut the annual ornament off the trunk after he took the tree down each year. His daughters, Jennifer and Alison, helped him with the decorating when they were younger. Although the project lends itself to hours of crafty creativity, the Bibbs always kept ornaments plain. There are gaps in the family's collection, a result of the years when Bibb didn't make it to the local tree lot and fell back on the artificial one in the attic. But he says those lapses are a good thing.
"You could end up filling a tree with pieces of tree trunk from years back," he points out and then chuckles. "We didn't want to do that!"
Carol Heiss Jenkins
Olympic figure skating champion
Olympic figure skating champion
As the daughter of a German-immigrant baker, Carol Heiss Jenkins might be expected to produce any number of delectable European-style pastries to top off her Christmas dinner. But the 1960 Olympic figure skating champion laments that her father never wrote down any of his recipes before he died.
The athlete-turned-coach also doesn't have a lot of time to cook during the winter months, when her days are spent preparing and accompanying students to exhibitions and competitions. So for the past four decades, she's been serving an easy-to-make, cheesecake-like confection in a graham cracker crust that looks more like a pie — hence the name cheesecake pie.
"It's very simple," the 70-year-old grandmother of 10 says. "But it's so good. And it's even better the day after you make it. I don't normally like cheesecake. It's too heavy. But this has a very lemony taste to it."
Ironically, the humble dessert has a pedigree worthy of a place on an Olympic icon's holiday table. The recipe came from the kitchen of Leonard Firestone, son of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. founder Harvey Firestone, and his first wife, Polly. The family cook gave it to Heiss Jenkins' best friend, Laurie, during the early years of her marriage to the Firestones' son Kim. Heiss Jenkins spent hours trying to coax the recipe out of her buddy after she first tasted cheesecake pie at an informal get-together in the younger Firestones' home sometime in the mid-1960s. But Laurie Firestone refused to give it up unless Heiss Jenkins pledged that she wouldn't make it for any of their friends — a promise Heiss Jenkins knew she just couldn't keep.
"Laurie said, 'I will only give you the recipe if I ever move out of Akron,' " remembers Heiss Jenkins, still amused by the situation. "So when her husband was transferred by Firestone to Washington, D.C., the first thing I said to her was, 'Oh, I hate to see you go. But remember: You promised me the cheesecake pie recipe!' "
Heiss Jenkins doesn't know if her friend served cheesecake pie at any of the wonderful dinners she hosted in her Georgetown home — a talent that won her a job as George H.W. Bush's social secretary during his vice presidency and presidency. But the recipe remains Heiss Jenkins' all-time favorite.
Cheesecake Pie1 10-inch unbaked graham cracker crust (prepare according to directions on Keebler- or Nabisco-brand package);
Filling:2 8-ounce packages Philadelphia-brand cream cheese<
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
juice of 1/2 large lemon
1 pint sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
juice of 1/2 large lemon
Mary Verdi-Fletcher
Founder of Dancing Wheels
Mary Verdi-Fletcher is mighty particular when it comes to picking out a live tree. Yes, artificial imposters are OK for the foyer, living room, family room and master bedroom. But nothing less than a 12-foot white pine, straight as an arrow and devoid of bare spots, will do for the place of honor in her Sagamore Hills home: the vaulted octagonal dining nook in the kitchen.
"There's nothing so special as the smell of a real tree, the feel of the soft branches," says the 55-year-old president and founding artistic director of the Dancing Wheels Company & School. "It's alive."
To find a fir that meets her exacting standards, Verdi-Fletcher and her management-consultant husband Bob Fletcher harvest their own tree. They began the tradition 29 years ago at Manners Pine Tree Lodge in New Lyme, approximately a half-hour's drive east of Chardon, after Verdi-Fletcher saw a listing for the cut-your-own-tree farm in a local newspaper. She liked the idea of taking a horse-drawn hayride into the acres of blue spruce, white pine and Scotch pine and relaxing afterward with cups of hot chocolate in the "lodge," a barn on the property with snacks for sale and an acoustic guitarist performing Christmas carols.
That romantic date evolved into an annual trip that starts promptly at 10 a.m. the Saturday or Sunday after Thanksgiving. Verdi-Fletcher scouts trees from her wheelchair. Her husband and his sister and brother-in-law trek into the fields to get a closer look and "hold" any keepers until Fletcher can wheel his wife over to give her approval. "I've never had a tree that I didn't OK," she declares.
Despite Verdi-Fletcher's affection for the Manners experience, her last two trees have come from Pine Tree Barn near Wooster, where the current selection of white pine meets her height requirements. "Manners just has not had the large trees," she explains. She laments that the horse-drawn wagon rides into the fields are shorter and the music is recorded instead of live. But in the end, nothing's more important to Verdi-Fletcher than finding the perfect tree.
Rocco Whalen
Owner/executive chef of Fahrenheit
Christmas Eve dinner is a really big production for chef Rocco Whalen. Ever since he can remember, he's spent that day preparing the Feast of the Seven Fishes, a traditional Italian meal featuring seven seafood dishes. His fondest childhood memories include helping his mother, Rose Marie, whose parents emigrated from southern Italy, prepare the massive spread in the family's Mentor home.
"It was just one of those great family experiences where we all got together and cooked then celebrated," Whalen says. "My mother is no longer with us, but it's something we hold very close to our hearts and try to emulate year after year."
Whalen notes that seafood choices and preparations vary in Italy by region. His mother's menu consisted of calamari sauteed in Ligurian olive oil with lemon, Gaeta olives and basil; smelt dipped in egg batter and pan-fried; shrimp served both chilled and sauteed in roasted garlic, San Marzano tomatoes and pecorino Romano; lobster whole-roasted in butter with lemons and oregano; and chilled crab. Rose Marie Whalen also made a tuna marinara sauce served over linguine, rigatoni or cavatelli for her husband, William, who didn't appreciate the calamari and smelt.
Whalen now prepares that menu for his wife, Alexis, and 20 other family members. He puts the cold dishes out as appetizers; the hot ones are served family style. As a child, he always chose shrimp, lobster or crab when his mother asked what he'd like to prepare.
"They were the most expensive," he explains. "I grew up lower middle class. Christmas Eve was a special day for us, and I wanted to make it more special." Today, he singles out the tuna marinara sauce as the standout. "Done properly, it's the best sauce over pasta that you can get," he says.
Tuna Marinara Sauce
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, finely chopped
1 cup fresh basil (stems and all)
1 teaspoon chili flakes
1 tablespoon fresh oregano
1 tablespoon fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 pounds No. 2-grade tuna, skinned and with bloodline removed
1 tablespoon capers, fried
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups pinot grigio
zest of 1 lemon
salt and pepper
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Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yəhôšūaʿ, "The Lord is salvation").
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- The son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua; Quranic figure.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Joshua 11:23:
- So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
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- 1835 The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir by H.W.Beechey, London: T. Cadell, Strand, page 33:
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We all know the old adage that baseball is a team sport, and players can't win games all by themselves.
Certainly, over the past week, Josh Hamilton did his best to try and prove that theory wrong, but even with an insane 64-point week (ESPN standard scoring), the Texas Rangers still didn't go undefeated. However, there's no disputing that Hamilton has a lot of weapons surrounding him, both in the lineup and on the mound.
For a fantasy owner, however, all that matters is whether or not a player is able to provide you with fantasy points. Whether or not his real-life team wins is irrelevant, so long as the stats keep coming. A perfect example is Andrew McCutchen, who hit .524 last week which translated into 33 fantasy points.
He gets little, if any, help from his teammates in terms of run production. Case in point, in the four Pittsburgh wins last week, McCutchen went 10-for-14. In their two losses, he went 1-for-7. For McCutchen, it does seem he is winning games all by himself and he remains one of the few Pirates worth owning in points leagues as a result.
All of which leads me to a statistical indicator to use when deciding whether or not a player is a product of his supporting cast, or if he has value to you independent of the rest of the players on his team. I like to look at the OBP of players when nobody is on base in order to glean exactly how well a player is doing in terms of generating fantasy points "on his own."
Let's take a quick look at the best players in the majors so far in 2012 at this stat with a minimum of 40 qualifying at-bats:
If a fantasy owner is looking to figure out whether or not a player from a weak offense is worthy of a spot in their starting lineup, this stat can be a solid guide. McCutchen's OBP in these situations is a solid .388, for example. Anything below .350 on a team that simply isn't generating any runs and you might want to consider benching a player until he can start to produce some offense on his own.
A list of some of the names at the bottom end of the spectrum showcases a whole heap of players you wouldn't ever dream of drafting alongside some of the more frustrating players to fantasy owners in 2012:
All players are going to go through slumps, and hitters can't be expected to drive in too many runs if they never have anyone on base when they get to the batter's box. But forget about their teammates, whose stats don't count for you. Players need to be able to get on base for themselves, or else there will be very little chance of them winning any games for you.
Note: AJ Mass' top 100 overall players are ranked based on statistics that have already been accrued in ESPN standard points formats and should be used as a supplement to the ESPN Player Rater.
That's a simple truth that cannot be denied.
Pointing Up
Josh Reddick, OF, Oakland Athletics: Any player with a one-game, 21-point effort, as Reddick had on Friday, is likely to have a weekly points-league total that appears to be headed in the right direction. That said, with hits in seven of his past eight games, and two runs scored in his lone hitless affair, Reddick has now seen points growth in each of the past two scoring sessions.
Wei-Yin Chen, SP, Baltimore Orioles: Opponents are hitting just .224 against him over the past two weeks, and that includes a matchup with Josh Hamilton when the Texas Rangers did not seem to have an answer for Chen. With a K/BB rate of 2.33, you're looking at a pitcher who is going to minimize any potential damage done by the occasional home run mistake.
Alejandro De Aza, OF, Chicago White Sox: He's hitting .394 since May 5, and while most of those hits are singles, he has three steals over that time. More importantly, he has only one more strikeout than he has walks. That's a kind of consistency that has far more impact in points leagues than it does in a category-based league where the lack of power surely depresses de Aza's value greatly.
R.A. Dickey, SP, New York Mets: With Dickey, it's all about fooling the hitters, and he's been doing that a lot lately. He is 4-0 this season in games in which he's gotten more than 20 called strikes. After watching him beat the Atlanta Braves despite recording nary a strikeout and allowing nine hits, yet somehow still managing to earn positive fantasy points, we're ready to declare Dickey's 2012 success legitimate.
Dustin Pedroia, 2B, Boston Red Sox: No, this isn't a huge limb we're going out on here, selecting a guy who is in the midst of a 14-game hitting streak. However, we do want to point out that not all streaks are created equal. In Pedroia's case, a .339 batting average has led to a solid rise in fantasy points. But don't get enamored by the mere fact of "consecutiveness." Case in point: Angel Pagan has hit safely in all but one game since April 14, yet his batting average on May 11 was the same as it was on April 18: .278.
Bud Norris, SP, Houston Astros: Whenever a pitcher throws 12 straight shutout innings, the attention is going to be headed in his direction, but in Norris' case, what intrigues us more than the lack of runs allowed is the 3.8 K/BB rate over his past three starts. There's a reason 61 of his 88 season-to-date points have come over the past two scoring periods.
Pointing Down
Ross Detwiler, SP, Washington Nationals: It's not that he's pitching poorly. After all, with an ERA of 2.10 and a WHIP of 1.02, it's hard to find fault in his efforts so far this season. But that's kind of the point. He's got a terrific BABIP (.240) but with so few strikeouts, it seems every ball goes into play and it's just a matter of time before that fact catches up with him and a few more of those ground balls start to find holes.
Jose Altuve, 2B, Houston Astros: It's not like we're panicking simply because of one bad week. However, when a guy goes 3-for-19, we take a closer look. Only one extra-base hit in May after 11 in April, 1-for-2 in stolen base attempts this month after going 4-for-4 last month, and now we're looking at a .244 hitter since the calendar page turned. In what world can those trends be seen as a good thing?
James Shields, SP, Tampa Bay Rays: We still like Shields overall, but there's no mistaking the fact he's struggling a bit of late. In his first five starts he had a K/BB rate of 3.5. That has fallen to 2.2 over his past three starts, and that's with a double-digit whiff performance against the Seattle Mariners. Adding fuel to the fire of discontent, see the seven home runs he's allowed in his past four appearances.
Curtis Granderson, OF, New York Yankees: Three out of his past six games have earned negative fantasy points, and a couple of solo homers does little to ameliorate the damage done by his recent run of strikeouts: 14 in his past 10 games with only one clean sheet in that department. With a walk in Sunday's game being the first he's managed to secure since May 3, points league owners have reason to be cautious with Curtis.
Starlin Castro, SS, Chicago Cubs: Let's use another example of our stat of the week with Castro, who with no runners on base this season has an OBP of only .314 with 11 strikeouts in 67 at-bats. That's a red flag for us, combined with the fact despite getting hits in nine of his past 10 games, his batting average has actually gone down. Castro hit just .269 last week and scored only once. He's simply not doing enough himself.
Chris Sale, SP, Chicago White Sox: So let's see what happened here. Sale had a sore elbow, so the White Sox moved him to the bullpen to save stress on his arm. After one poor outing, a blown save, they immediately throw him back into the rotation four days later and he needs 103 pitches to get through five innings, a loss that earns him negative fantasy points. Anybody else worrying about this ending badly, or is it just me?


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