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|Executive Summary: No temporary tables or table variables are needed to perform FOR XML PATH concatenation, so the resulting query is not only fast but also high performing.
In Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (Microsoft Press, 2006) by Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, and Roger Wolter, I was delighted to read about a clever way of using SQL Server 2005's FOR XML PATH option to concatenate string values in rows into a single column or result set without using temporary tables or table variables (see page 109). This unorthodox method of concatenating string values can be quite useful in queries. For example, you can use it to list all columns in an index or all files in a file group.
See also: How do I retrieve values from a table and store the results in a string?
Listing 1 shows a traditional query to list all the columns in the indexes for a table or view. In the results in Figure 1, notice that the index IX_Address_AddressLine1_Address Line2_City_StateProvince_PostalCode_Country Region (index_id 3) has six columns: AddressLine1, AddressLine2, City, StateProvince, PostalCode, and CountryRegion.
You can use the FOR XML PATH option and the text() XPath node test (see SQL Server 2005 Books Online—BOL at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345115.aspx) to list all the indexes' columns in a single concatenated string, as shown in Listing 2. Figure 2 shows the results from this query. As you can see, a comma is prepended to each column name. Granted, having all the column names listed together like this is of limited use.
However, you can refine this technique so that it produces useable results. By using the handy STUFF string function with the FOR XML PATH option, you can get output like that in Figure 3, page 10.
In Figure 3, notice the row for the multi-column index IX_Address_AddressLine1_AddressLine2_City_StateProvince_PostalCode_CountryRegion. The AddressLine1, AddressLine2, City, StateProvince, PostalCode, and CountryRegion columns are all now in this row, with their names separated by a comma. Listing 3, page 10, shows the query that was used to produce this result. In this query, the STUFF function removes the comma preceding the first name in the comma-separated column list.
The query in Listing 3 is only meant to demonstrate how you can concatenate the names of columns inmulticolumn indexes. A query that you can use on your databases to list all the columns in every index is available online in the file named FullQuery.sql. You can download this file by going to www.sqlmag.com, entering 99197 in the InstantDoc ID text box, clicking Go, then clicking the 99197.zip hotlink.
You can use the FOR XML PATH option with the STUFF function for other tasks. For example, you can use this technique to concatenate the names of files in a file group, as shown in Listing 4, page 10. In addition to the FOR XML PATH option and STUFF function, this query uses a derived table and the dynamic management view (DMV) dm_io_virtual_file_stats to summarize statistics for all the databases and all the files given that NULL, NULL parameters are passed to dm_io_virtual_file_stats. The DMV provides detailed information for each file in the database. The query in Listing 4 groups the results by database, as Figure 4 shows. This can be handy for looking at databases from a high-level perspective so that, for example, you can easily determine which database has the highest reads. You'd just need to sort the results by descending DB_Reads.
Note that no temporary tables or table variables were needed to perform these nifty concatenation operations. As Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming mentions, not only is the resulting query "short and slick" but it is also high performing. With these examples as a starting point, can you think of other creative ways to use FOR XML PATH to display concatenated string results?
See also: UDF Eliminates Concatenation Woes
—Raul Pubill, senior database administrator, JP Morgan FCS


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|RHP Justin Masterson elected free agency.
|August 13, 2017
|Oklahoma City Dodgers activated RHP Justin Masterson from the 7-day disabled list.
|August 6, 2017
|Oklahoma City Dodgers placed RHP Justin Masterson on the 7-day disabled list.
|April 5, 2017
|RHP Justin Masterson assigned to Oklahoma City Dodgers.
|April 4, 2017
|Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Justin Masterson to a minor league contract.
|November 7, 2016
|RHP Justin Masterson elected free agency.
|May 29, 2016
|RHP Justin Masterson assigned to Bradenton Marauders.
|April 15, 2016
|Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RHP Justin Masterson to a minor league contract.
|August 19, 2015
|Boston Red Sox released RHP Justin Masterson.
|August 10, 2015
|Boston Red Sox designated RHP Justin Masterson for assignment.
|June 23, 2015
|Boston Red Sox activated RHP Justin Masterson from the 15-day disabled list.
|June 10, 2015
|Boston Red Sox sent RHP Justin Masterson on a rehab assignment to Pawtucket Red Sox.
|June 5, 2015
|Boston Red Sox sent RHP Justin Masterson on a rehab assignment to Portland Sea Dogs.
|May 31, 2015
|Boston Red Sox sent RHP Justin Masterson on a rehab assignment to Pawtucket Red Sox.
|May 14, 2015
|Boston Red Sox placed RHP Justin Masterson on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to May 13, 2015. Right shoulder tendinitis.
|December 11, 2014
|Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Justin Masterson.
|October 30, 2014
|RHP Justin Masterson elected free agency.
|October 17, 2014
|St. Louis Cardinals activated RHP Justin Masterson.
|October 2, 2014
|St. Louis Cardinals reassigned RHP Justin Masterson to the minor leagues.
|July 30, 2014
|Cleveland Indians traded RHP Justin Masterson to St. Louis Cardinals for OF James Ramsey.
|July 20, 2014
|Cleveland Indians sent RHP Justin Masterson on a rehab assignment to Columbus Clippers.
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|Cleveland Indians placed RHP Justin Masterson on the 15-day disabled list. Right knee inflammation.
|July 31, 2009
|Cleveland Indians Traded C Victor Martinez to Boston Red Sox; Boston Red Sox Traded RHP Justin Masterson to Cleveland Indians; Salem Red Sox Traded RHP Bryan Price to Indians Organization and Greenville Drive Traded LHP Nick Hagadone to Indians Organization.
Full name JUSTIN DANIEL MASTERSON…He and his wife, Meryl, have three children...Was ranked as the No. 24 overall draft-eligible prospect in 2006, according to Baseball America...Went 6-7 with a 4.81 ERA in 17 games (16 starts) as a junior for San Diego State in 2006 (108K, 116.0IP)... Represented the Wareham Gatemen in the 2005 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game...Attended Beavercreek (OH) High School, graduating in 2003 where he played basketball and baseball and was inducted into the school's hall of game in 2014…Attended Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana and played there in 2004-05 and was inducted into the Bethel Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013…Active in several Jimmy Fund events while with the Red Sox…Is the first Jamaican-born pitcher in Major League history and just the 4th player overall, joining Chili Davis (1981-99), Devon White (1985-2001) and Rolando Roomes (1988-90)…Justin and his wife, Meryl, are active in the community, participating in the Tribe's annual Shop With A Pro event, Glove Drive and working with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland...Justin is active in the Tribe's Faith Day activities as well as the Youth For Christ Bleacher Blast event each year....Makes numerous school visits throughout the year and is active with the Make-a-Wish Foundation...Active in the Dominican Republic Mission of Mercy program in the city of Moca, DR and was the Indians' Roberto Clemente nominee in 2011 and again in 2013 (was also the club's Branch Rickey Award nominee in 2013)...Teamed with Bright Hope in 2013 to raise awareness to those living on less than $1 a day around the world...Visited the Mathare Valley slum in Nairobi, Kenya in November 2013, serving meals, interacting and encouraging the children the campaign is supporting...Has been the Baseball Tomorrow Fund/Equipment Drive ambassador the last two seasons.2014
Went 7-9 with 116 SO in 128.2 IP and a career-worst 5.88 ERA in 28 outings (25 starts) between CLE and STL...Acquired by the Cardinals at the trade deadline after missing most of July due to injury...Had a 59.2% ground ball rate, 2nd highest in the majors behind HOU's Dallas Keuchel (min. 120.0 IP)...Induced 21 ground ball double plays, T-12th in MLB...Limited right-handed batters to a .239 AVG (55-for-230) but allowed left-handed batters to hit .320 (86-for-269)...Among major leaguers, had the 7th-best opponent AVG (.178) and 8th-best opponent OPS (.502) with 2 outs (min. 125 batters faced)...Combined for 4 scoreless starts, all at least 7.0 IP...Walked no more than 2 batters in 4 straight starts from 4/18-5/3, each of at least 6.0 IP (1-1, 2.96 ERA)...Was his longest such streak since an 8-start stretch from 6/25-8/4/11...Struck out a season-high 10 batters in 7.0 IP on 6/2 vs. BOS...Made 19 starts with the Indians before being placed on the 15-day DL on 7/8 due to right knee inflammation...Was his 1st trip to the DL as a major leaguer...Made 2 rehab starts with Triple-A Columbus (0-1, 5.40 ERA)...Was reinstated on 7/30 and later that day was acquired by the Cardinals in exchange for OF James Ramsey...Made 6 starts for STL, all in August...Appeared in 3 games in September, his only relief outings of the year (3.0 IP)...On 12/11, signed by the Red Sox to a 1-year contract for the 2015 season.2013
Was the club's most consistent starting pitcher before being derailed most of September with a strained left oblique muscle, suffered in a career-low 1.0-inning start of September 2 vs. Baltimore...At the time of the injury ranked 5th in the American League in innings pitched (189.1) and strikeouts (188), tied for 3rd in wins (14), tied for first in shutouts (3) and tied for 2nd i n complete games (3)... Ended the season 15th in the AL in ERA (3.45), T8th in wins (14), T1st in shutouts (3), T3rd in complete games (3), 1st in hit by pitches (17), 7th in strikeouts per 9.0IP (9.1/9.0IP) and 1st in slugging pct allowed (.312, 22 2B, 1 3B, 13HR, 120 1B)... Pitched in relief on Sept 25 vs. Chicago-AL, his first relief appearance since July 9, 2011 vs. Toronto...Went on to make 3 relief appearances over the last week of the season and did not allow a run in 3.2IP (1H, 0R, 1BB, 7K, .083AVG) and caught the season's final out at first base on Sept 29 at Minnesota to clinch the American League Wildcard...Also pitched 2.0 shutout innings in the AL Wildcard game. Tossed three complete game, shutouts in his first 18 starts, two against the Chicago White Sox as he defeated the Sox 4 times in 2013...Tossed CG/shutouts on April 12 vs. Chicago-AL (9.0IP, 5H, 0R, 1BB, 7K), May 13 vs. NY Yankees (G1, 9.0IP, 4H, 0R, 3BB, 9K) and June 30 at Chicago-AL (10th win, 9.0IP, 6H, 0R, 1BB, 8K), giving him four for his career...Justin became just the 5th pitcher in the Majors over the past 19 seasons (1995-present) to register at least 10 wins and 3 CG SHO's prior to the Mid-Summer Classic, joining Greg Maddux (1998), Dontrelle Willis (2005), Chris Carpenter (2005) and Roy Halladay (2010)...Became the first Indians hurler to reach those bench marks since GAYLORD PERRY went 15-3 w/ 3 CG SHO's entering the 1974 All-Star game....Was selected, but did not pitch, to his first American League All-Star team for his first half efforts. Followed up his 4-1 Opening Day victory opposite 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. DICKEY & the Toronto Blue Jays (6.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 4 BB, 5 SO) by tossing 7.0 scoreless frames of 2-hit ball (7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 8 SO) in a 13-0 SHO against 2012 A.L. Cy Young Award winner DAVID PRICE and the Tampa Bay Rays on April 7...According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Masterson became just the 3rd pitcher in baseball history to record victories against both reigning Cy Young Award winners in the same season (with award winners taking a loss), but the first to do so in consecutive starts...Marked his second career/consecutive Opening Day start. ?ecorded a team-high 18 quality starts on the season...Tossed a career-high, 2013 club-best 20.0 consecutive scoreless innings from May 8-24 and went 4-1 with a 3.02 ERA in 6 May starts (41.2IP, 29H, 14R/ER)...Also recorded 3.12 ERAs in both April (4-2, 6GS, 40.1IP, 34H, 14ER) and July (2-1, 4GS, 26.0IP, 17H, 9R/ER)...Was 10-7 with a 3.72 ERA in 20 first half starts (135.1IP, 112H, 56ER, 137K) and 4-3 with a 2.81 ERA in 9 second half starts (12G, 57.2IP, 44H, 18ER, .210AVG)...Masterson's 1-0 win in his start vs. Texas on July 27 was his 3rd such victory of the season which ties him with Addie Joss (1908), Stan Coveleski (1917), Jim Bagby Jr. (1943), Bob Feller (1946) and Greg Swindell (1988) for the most 1-0 wins in a single season in Indians history...Coveleski is the all-time leader in 1-0 wins for the Tribe, totaling 9 such victories in his career with the Indians...Masterson has now racked up 4 over his 5 seasons with the Tribe. ?ent 3-0 w/a 0.41 ERA in his first 3 starts (22.0IP, 10H, 1R/ER, 20K), joining Luis Tiant (1966) as just 2nd pitcher in Indians history to win his first 3 starts in a season while allowing one or zero combined runs...Masterson became the first Indians pitcher to record multiple 1-0 CG shutouts in the same season since 1989 when left-handers BUD BLACK and GREG SWINDELL both accomplished the feat twice...Also became the first Cleveland pitcher to post a 1-0 CG SHO against the Yankees since GREG SWINDELL on Sept. 6, 1988 at Yankee Stadium and the first Indians right-hander to do so against New York-AL since LUIS TIANT on May 3, 1966 at Yankee Stadium...Defeated the Mariners on May 19th at Progressive Field becoming the first Indians pitcher to win 7 starts through the club's first 42 games of the season since Charles Nagy in 1996…Struck out a season-high 11 batters on May 19 vs Seattle. Also ranked 1st in the American League in ground ball/fly ball ratio (2.48, 293GB/118FB), 3rd in right-handed batting average allowed (.182, .507OPS) and T6th in walks allowed (76)...Batters hit .245 (72-294) off him w/runners on base and .260 (40-154) with RISP...Recorded a first inning ERA of 2.79 (29.0IP, 17H, 9R/ER)...Batter hit .170 (46-270) when Justin was ahead in the count...Basestealers were 9-for-12 off him with Justin on the mound.2012 Did not replicate or build on the success he enjoyed in 2011, but still managed to lead the team in virtually every pitching category (wins, starts, innings, strikeouts) and finished tied for first in the American League in starts (34), 9th in innings pitched (206.1), 17th in strikeouts (159) and allowed the 6th fewest HR per 9.0IP at 0.79 (18HR/206.1IP)...He is the first Indians pitcher to throw consecutive 200.0-inning seasons since Cliff Lee in 2005-06. Season started off on a high note, posting a season-high 10 strikeouts in his first career opening day start vs. Toronto on April 5 (8.0IP, 2H, 1R/ER, 1BB, 10K), his 2nd career double-digit strikeout game..His run support of 3.77RS per 9.0IP was the lowest mark in the AL, 6th-lowest in the Majors as he received 2-or-fewer runs of support in 21 of 34 outings. Best month came in June, going 2-3 with a 2.05 ERA in 5 starts (35.0IP, 26H, 9R/8ER, 9BB, 29K), 5th lowest ERA in the AL for the month...Went a career-best 18.0 consecutive scoreless innings from June 9-20, 2nd-longest stretch by an Indians pitcher in 2012 (Pestano 21.0IP) and longest by a Tribe starter... Did not record an ERA under 4.93 in any other month of the season as he went 6-7 with a 5.60 ERA in 16 second half starts (91.2IP, 104H, 57ER) after posting a 4.40 first half ERA. Tossed his 4th career complete game on June 20 vs. Cincinnati (9.0IP, 3H, 1R/0ER, 0BB, 9K)...Also fanned 9 in previous start of June 15 vs. Pittsburgh in 7.0IP...Logged 13 straight starts of at least 6.0IP from April 27-July 1, longest streak by an Indians starter since Cliff Lee in 2009...His season slugging pct. allowed of .388 was 13th lowest in the AL as his walks per 9.0IP went from 2.7BB/9.0IP in 2011 to 3.84 in 2012...Also led the AL in ground ball/fly ball ratio of 2.36 (356GB/151FB)...His .232 mark vs. RHH was 10th lowest in the AL and he was tied for 5th with 26 GIDP's induced... Also was 2nd among league pitchers in steals against (25), T11th in caught stealings against (7), 5th in hits allowed (212), pitches (3426) and walks (88), 3rd in losses (15) and earned runs allowed (113), 2nd in wild pitches (14) and T2nd in hit batters (13). 2011 Enjoyed a break-out season, leading the team in ERA, strikeouts, starts, innings pitched and tied for the team high in wins (new career-high 12)...His 3.21 ERA was 12th in the AL, was 13th in innings (career-high 216.0), 20th in strikeouts (158), 7th in slugging % allowed (.349) and allowed the 2nd fewest HR per 9.0IP in the AL (.46, 11HR, 216.0IP) to Doug Fister (11HR, 216.1IP)...Won his first 5 starts of the year, going 5-0 w/a 2.18 ERA in 5 April starts (33.0IP, 26H, 8ER)... Last Indians pitcher to win each of his first 5 starts of the year was Cliff Lee in 2008 when he started 6-0...Didn't earn 5th win in 2010 until August 26th in his 26th start and won 6 games in all of 2010... According to Elias three Indians pitchers since 1955 have won first 5 starts of a season w/an ERA sub 2.20: Masterson 2011, C Lee 2008, Lemon 1955... He was only the 4th pitcher in team history to win five games during April in one season... The others were Bob Lemon in 1955, Greg Swindell in 1988, and Cliff Lee in 2008 (all 5-0)...Tossed 3rd career CG and only one on the year in tough-luck loss at Chicago on May 18 (8.0IP, 5H, 1R/ER)... Was winless in 6 starts during the month of May going 0-3 with a 3.79 ERA (40.1IP, 41H, 17ER) as the Indians scored just 13 runs in the 6 starts...On the year the Indians scored 2 runs or less in 11 of 33GS and 1 run or less in 7 of 33 starts...Went 0-3 w/a 2.78 ERA in 5 June starts (32.1IP, 37H, 10ER)... Was winless over 11 starts from May 1 thru June 25 going 0-6 w/a 3.34 ERA (72.2IP, 78H, 27ER) as Indians scored just 22 runs in those starts (4SHOs)...Earned his 1st win since April 26 on July 1 at Cincinnati, a 8-2 Indians win as he allowed just 1 run, while equaling his season-high with 8.0IP... 8.0IP, 4H, 1R/ER, BB, 5K, HR (to Phillips)... Tossed 1.0 scoreless inning (BB, K) of relief on July 9 vs. Toronto before the break... Went 3-1 w/a 1.58 ERA in 7 July games (6GS, 45.2IP, 32H, 8ER, .195AVG)...From June 8 thru July 30th he went 3-3 w/a 1.76 ERA in 10 starts (71.2IP, 59H, 14ER)...ERA in the first half was 2.64 (18GS, 122.2IP, 111H, 36ER)...Second half ERA was 3.95 (93.1IP, 100H, 41ER)...Was 2-1 w/a 4.00 ERA (36.0IP, 40H, 16ER) in 6 Aug. starts and 2-2 w/a 5.65 ERA in 5 September GS (28.2IP, 35H, 18ER)...Combined in August/September he was 4-3 w/a 4.73 ERA over his last 11GS (64.2IP, 75H, 34ER)...His 3.15 road ERA was 9th best in the AL...His .210 average against right-handed hitters was 9th lowest in the AL...Led the AL with 14 caught stealing against 14 steals...Was 3rd in GB/FB ratio at 2.13 (364GB/171FB)...Underwent arthroscopic surgery on left, non-throwing shoulder on October 12 in Wilmington, DE (Dr. Craig Morgan) to repair a pre-existing posterior labral tear...Expected to be w/o limitations to start the 2012 regular season. 2010 Was very sharp over the last two months of the season, spending nearly the entire season in the rotation before completing his innings in the bullpen over the last few weeks of the season...Over his last 13 games/8 starts from August 4th thru the end of the season he went 3-3 w/a 2.86 ERA (56.2IP, 49H, 18ER, 43K, .286 AVG), the 9th lowest mark in the AL among pitchers with at least 56.0IP....Was 1-1 w/a 2.25 ERA in 6 September games (2GS, 20.0IP, 17H, 5ER, 18K), the 8th lowest ERA in the AL in September among pitchers with at least 20.0IP. ...Overall on the year he was 8-12 w/a 4.78ERA in 29 starts (169.1IP, 188H, 90ER) and 0-1 w/a 3.38 ERA in 5 relief outings (10.2IP, 9H, 4ER)...Went 3-5 w/a 3.84 ERA in 16 games/11 starts (75.0IP, 74H, 32ER) in the second half...Struck out an Indians season-high 9 batters in his 2nd start vs. the Texas Rangers in Cleveland (L #1, 6.0IP, 9H, 4R/2ER, 9K)...Finished April 0-3 w/a 5.68 ERA (19.0IP, 26H, 12ER) in 4 starts. ...Fell to 0-5, his 11th straight losing decision, in his start vs. Chicago-AL on May 24 (4.0IP, 9H, 5R/ER)...Went 0-2 w/a 5.97 ERA (34.2IP, 44H, 23ER) in 6 May starts...Lost a personal 11 straight games from August 25, 2009 to May 24, 2010, tied for the 3rd longest losing streak in Indians club history...The span of 17 straight starts without a win was the longest such stretch in club history....Indians scored 39 runs over those 17 starts for Justin. ...Won his first game since August 20, 2009 and just his 2nd as an Indian in his start of Friday, June 4 against the Chicago White Sox in US Cellular Field...Was a 10-1 win over the Sox and John Danks...5.2IP, 5H, 1R/ER, 6BB,1K, HR to A Ramirez...Also broke 12G personal road losing streak. ...Improved to 2-5 in his outing of June 9 against the Boston Red Sox in Cleveland...Was an 11-0 win over the Sox and Clay Buchholz, tossing his first ever complete game shutout...9.0IP, 2H, 0R, 2BB, 6K...Was 2nd career CG...Boston did not have a batter reach 2nd base...Also first CG 2-hitter for the Indians since Scott Elarton in 2004...Went 1-3 w/a 6.32 ERA in July (37.0IP, 50H, 26ER) and didn't win over his last 5 starts (0-3, 7.85 ERA, 28.2IP, 42H, 25ER). ...Improved to 3-7 on July 1 vs. Toronto in Cleveland, a 6-1 win over the Jays...Took a shutout in to the 9th before...8.1IP, 8H, 1R/ER, 0BB, 5K...Allowed career-high 13 hits in start at Toronto on July 30 and tied a career-high w/8 runs allowed... Moved to 2-0 vs. Boston in start of August 4 at Fenway (5.0IP, 4H,1R/ER)...First Tribe starter since B Colon in 2001 to beat Boston twice in same season as a starter. ...Moved to bullpen after start of Sept. 8 at LAA (W#6, 7.0IP, 6H, 1R/ER) and in his first relief outing of Sept. 12 vs. Minnesota went 7.0IP (5H, 3R/1ER, 0BB, 6K) in relief of Mitch Talbot, who left with a shoulder injury w/o recording an out...Longest relief outing by an Indian since JAKE WESBTROOK in April of 2004 and longest in the big leagues since 2008...Made spot start in KC on Sept. 18 (rain-shortened, 3.1IP, 3H, 0R) in place of Talbot and made his last 4 outings in relief the remainder of the season...Closed season w/3 straight scoreless 1.0IP outings. ...Was T16th in the AL with 19 double plays induced...Was 1st in the AL in GB/FB ratio (2.74, 337GB/123FB)...Was T5th in WP (12), 5th in HB (11), 8th in runs allowed (107) & t10th in ER allowed (97)...Was 13th in HR allowed per 9.0IP (0.70HR/9.0IP) and 20th with a .385 slugging % allowed...Overall big league hitter hit .278 (197-709) w/14HR, including a mark of .263 (84-320) by RH hitters...Starts of 6.0IP or more: 15 of 29 (52%). 2009 Mid-season acquisition from Boston made 10 starts for the Indians and was solid in a starting role, finishing the season with a complete game, 4-hit performance with 12 strikeouts vs. the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 30 (G2)...The 1-0 loss to the Sox was his first career CG and a career-high in IP (9.0IP) and strikeouts (12)...The Tribe season-high 12 strikeouts were the most by an Indians pitcher since CC SABATHIA (13K, 9/14/07 v KC) and most by an Indians RHP since BARTOLO COLON on 9/18/2000 @NYY (13K, 1-hitter)... According to Media Guide 2010 159 2010 C leveland Indians ELIAS he was the 1st major-leaguer to lose a 9.0IP CG by a 1-0 score w/at least 12K since May 6, 2000 (Pedro Martinez, 17K, 0-1L to TB)...The last Indians pitcher to lose a game in that manner was Sam McDowell in 1968 (June 13 vs. Oakland, 14 strikeouts)...As a starter with the Indians he was 1-7 w/a 4.80 ERA in 10 starts (54.1IP, 54H, 29ER, 34BB, 48K, .262AVG) as the Indians scored just 27 runs in his starts (2.7RS/GM)...Lost his last 6 decisions (7GS) from August 25th-on, going 0-6 w/a 4.87 ERA (40.2IP, 41H, 22ER) as the Indians scored 11 runs over the 7GS (1.6RS/GS)...Started the season in the Red Sox bullpen making 4 relief appearances to begin the season, posting a 4.50 ERA (6.0IP, 7H, 3ER, BB, 7K) before taking Daisuke Matsuzaka's spot in the rotation... Made his first start of the season on April 20 vs. Baltimore, a 12-1 Sox win as he earned his 1st victory of the season (5.1 IP, 4 H, 1R/ER, 2 BB, 3 K)Returned to the bullpen on May 22 vs. the NY Mets as he tossed 3.0 innings, allowing 1 run on 3 hits...Made 9 relief appearances during the month of June going 0-0 w/a 4.38 ERA (12.1 IP, 12 H, 7R/6ER, 4 BB, 15 K)... Did not allow an earned run in 6 consecutive appearances (8.0 IP) from June 4 through June 19th...As a reliever with the Red Sox was 1-1 with a 4.42 ERA (36.2 IP, 34 H, 20R/18ER, 12 BB, 39 K) in 25 relief outings...Did not allow an earned run over his last 4 appearances covering 7.0 innings of work (2H, 2BB, 8SO)...Was added to the Indians Major League Roster August 1...Made his 1st appearance with the Indians on August 1 vs. Detroit as he tossed 3.0 scoreless innings, allowing 2 hits while walking 1 and striking out 4... Made first start for Cleveland on August 8 in Chicago, an 8-5 loss to the Sox and DJ Carrasco...4.0 IP, 4 H, 1R/ER, 1 BB, 4 K...Left w/a 4-1 lead (Ohka took loss)...Earned his 1st & only victory as an Indian on August 20 against the LA Angels in Progressive Field, a 11-3 win over the Angels as he allowed just 1 unearned run in 6.1 innings...Is 1-7 w/a 4.06 ERA in 15 games in the 2nd half (10GS, 64.1IP, 58H, 29ER, 60K, .242AVG)...ERA in 1st/2nd innings of his starts was 2.25 (32.0 IP, 22 H, 8 ER)...Was 0-4 w/a 4.34 ERA in 5 September starts (7 runs of support, 29.0 IP, 26 H, 14 ER, 28 K, .245 AVG)...His .203 average against vs. right-handed hitters was 2nd lowest in the American League...Batters hit .300 (69-230) with runners on and .279 (38-136) with RISP, .232 (16-69) with RISP-2outs...Runners are 15-for-21 in SB off him (6CS were T16th in the league)...Was T13th in the AL w/8HB...Is the first Jamaican-born pitcher in major league history and just the 4th player overall, joining Chili Davis (1981-99), Devon White (1985-2001) and Rolando Roomes (1988-90). 2008 Began the year as a starter at Double-A Portland and finished the season as a valuable member of the Red Sox bullpen...Was 4-3, 3.67 in 9 starts over 3 stints with Boston in the season's first half...Moved to the bullpen in July and was 2-2, 2.36 in 27 appearances over the final 2 and a half months...His overall 3.16 ERA was 5th best on the Red Sox staff.
FROM JAMAICA: Is the first Jamaican-born pitcher in major league history and just the 4th player overall, joining Chili Davis (1981-99), Devon White (1985-2001) and Rolando Roomes (1988-90). AS STARTER: Started 4 games at Double-A Portland to begin 2008 before making his major league debut in a spot start on April 24 vs. the Angels...Allowed 2 hits and one run in 6.0 innings without a decision in Boston's 7-5 win...Was the 3rd Sox pitcher since 1956 to pitch at least 6.0 innings while allowing 2 hits or less in his debut, joining Jim Lonborg (April 23, 1965) and Billy Rohr (April 14, 1967)...Was optioned back to the Sea Dogs later that day. Returned for a 2nd start on May 20, beating the Royals for his first career win...Gave up 3 hits and one run in 6.1 innings...Was the 4th Sox pitcher to ever allow 3 hits or less in each of his first 2 major league starts, joining Blaine Thomas (1911), Lee Rogers (1938), and Frank Baumann (1955). Recalled for a 3rd time on June 3 and went 3-3, 4.32 (20 ER/41.2 IP) in 7 starts...Won his first 2 outings, both at Fenway Park, becoming the first pitcher in Red Sox history to go undefeated in each of his first 4 major league appearances, all as a starter at Fenway Park...Was 4-1, 3.00 (12 ER/36.0 IP) in first 6 major league starts before going 0-2, 5.00 (10 ER/18.0 IP) in his last 3 outings...Worked at least 6.0 innings in 8 of 9 starts with high of 6.2 innings on June 13 at Cincinnati...Set a major league career-high with 9 strikeouts in that game.
IN RELIEF: Was optioned to Pawtucket on July 7 and made 3 relief appearances for the PawSox before returning to Boston for remainder of year on July 20...Issued runs in 9 of 27 bullpen outings and permitted 3 of 17 inherited runners to score (17.6 percent)...Had 3 holds and finished 6 games with 10 of 27 first batters reaching base...Held opponents to a .231 batting average in relief. Tossed 2.2 scoreless frames in his first major league relief outing, July 23 at Seattle and had a 1.89 ERA (4 ER/19.0 IP) over his first 14 appearances through August 26...Compiled a 2.93 ERA (5 ER/15.1 IP) in final 13 games...His 2.36 ERA beginning July 23 was 6th lowest among all A.L. relievers with at least 30.0 innings...Worked 2.0 or more relief innings on 7 occasions...Gave up just 2 homers in relief...Was 5-0, 3.10 in 20 games/5 starts at home and 1-5, 3.23 in 16 games/4 starts on the road.
IN THE MINORS: Began the year at 1-0, 0.95 in 4 starts at Portland to earn 1st recall to Boston... After return was 0-3, 7.45 in 4 starts...After 2nd start with Boston, was sent to Pawtucket and defeated Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in lone start for the PawSox on May 29...Allowed 2 runs in 3.1 innings in his 3 relief appearances at Pawtucket, July 10-17.
POSTSEASON: Set a Red Sox rookie record with 9 appearances in the 2008 playoffs, going 1-0 with a 1.86 ERA (2 ER/9.2 IP)...Only 4 major league rookies have ever logged more post-season outings in a season: Julian Tavarez (12 in 1995), Brendan Donnelly (11 in 2002), Francisco Rodriguez (11 in 2002) and Tyler Johnson (10 in 2006)...Pitched in each of Boston's first 6 games, joining Scott Williamson (6 in 2003) as the only Sox hurlers ever to do so in a single post-season. Logged a 2.25 ERA (1 ER/4.0 IP) in 4 ALDS games against the Angels...Made his playoff debut in Game 1 at 23 years, 191 days old, the youngest Red Sox pitcher to appear in a post-season game since Ken Brett (19 years, 24 days) in Game 7 of the 1967 World Series...Went 1.0 inning in each of the first 2 games, recording holds in both contests...Combined to allow one run over 2.0 innings in ALDS Games 3 and 4...Suffered a blown save in Game 4, but did not take the loss as Jed Lowrie's walk-off 9th-inning single gave the Red Sox the 3-2 victory and clinched the series. Pitched in 5 of 7 ALCS games against the Rays, going 1-0 with a 1.59 ERA (1 ER/5.2 IP)...Allowed just one hit in his first 2 outings (1.1 IP)...Turned in his longest playoff appearance in Game 4, giving up one run with 4 K's over 2.1 frames...Tossed a scoreless 9th to earn the 8-7 win in Game 5... At 23 years, 208 days, became the 7th-youngest Sox hurler to win a post-season game...Babe Ruth was the last to do so at a younger age, 21 years, 246 days, in Game 2 of the 1916 World Series.2007 Advanced from A Lancaster to AA Portland in his 2nd pro season, finishing 2nd among all Red Sox minor leaguers with 12 wins...Had 115 strikeouts and only 40 walks in 153.2 innings... Combined to go unbeaten over a 12-start span from 6/7-8/5, posting a 10-0 record and a 1.72 ERA (15-ER/78.1 IP)...Named the No. 4 prospect in the Red Sox organization, the No. 2 pitcher, according to Baseball America...Rated as having the Best Fastball in the organization in the publication's annual "Best Tools" survey.


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Kanye Screens Cruel Summer for Cannes, Kim, and an Approving Jay-Z
We caught 'Ye's new 26-minute film. And then Jay-Z rubbed our back.
Last night, on a beach on the easternmost edge of Cannes (the equivalent for festivalgoers of the edge of the world), a select crowd of rappers and Middle Eastern aristocracy arrived to find a giant white cloth pyramid set up in a parking lot. Within it, an arena had been installed, complete with seven movie screens — three opposite the bleachers, two on either side, one on the ceiling, and one on the floor. See, Kanye West had made a movie, and when Kanye does a movie — even if it's only 26 minutes long — you'd best believe he goes big.
The man of the hour arrived so un-rapper-ish-ly early — and in a boring car instead of on a yacht or something — that the red carpet hadn't even been set up yet. (He was sweetly proud and nervous about the premiere and wanted to be on site in case anything went wrong.) A publicist scrambled to shuffle photographers into place as 'Ye began a romantic walk along the edge of the Le Palm Beach Cannes nightclub parking lot with his main squeeze, Kim Kardashian, who looked stunning in a low-cut, mirrored minidress. At one point, Kanye stopped to tuck a stray hair behind Kim's ear, maintaining eye contact as she smiled back. The moment was well-documented. Folks, they're really in love! Check out the photos.
Soon, the film's stars, Kid Cudi and Pusha-T, had arrived, along with many a gorgeous, tall Qatari woman, almost all of them in skin-tight, white Hervé Léger numbers. See, Kanye's film, more an art installation than a traditional narrative drama, had been funded by the Doha Film Institute, where its beautiful, Kardashian look-alike star, Sarah A. (she can't use her real name because it is frowned upon in Qatar for women to act) was an intern before 'Ye swept her up in this. Somehow, I lucked into sitting right in front of Cudi, Kanye, and Kim, and could bear witness to their nervous patter as they waited for the lights to go down. Kim to Kid Cudi: "That's how I am when I act, and you're insecure because you're out of your element, but every time you do it, you improve. You gotta do what scares you."
The screening began with the briefest of Kanye speeches:
"So I'd like to thank everybody for coming out tonight. Thank you for all the support, all the cash, for being a part of making this dream come true, this idea ... and I've made notoriously, very long speeches in the past, so I'm going to keep it very short. But this has been a very crazy last three months to say the least, and it's just surreal to see it all come into fruition like this and for us to actually be doing this, so thank you, and this is Cruel Summer right here."
Then came the ominous hum of violins. On the screen above us, two black-clad thieves (Cudi and Pusha-T) began climbing down an air shaft ladder into a parking garage. As they continued down the ladder, the image switched to the screen right in front of us, then expanded to all three front screens as they bantered about Prince versus Michael Jackson while casing out the garage. Suddenly, they were in Lamborghinis and screaming down the streets of Qatar with cops in hot pursuit as the music swelled. The seat-rattling bass thumps were more powerful than anything Michael Bay could have produced. Kim and Kanye held hands. He danced furiously in his seat; she sat still and attentive. The music, I'm told, is all new and will be the foundation for an album called Cruel Summer that Kanye will drop later this year, featuring his boys like Big Sean, Pusha, and Cudi.
No budget information was available, but if there's any doubt about how much dough went into this, think about what it would take to shut down the streets of Qatar to shoot twenty or so speeding Lamborghinis for a one-minute sequence. Then multiply that by 26.
But if people want to give Kanye money to do something like this, let them. He's got a great visual sense. Particular highlights were the gorgeous close-ups of a bird of prey, stretching over two screens as it took off, and one of horses' feet galloping along the sand, played on all five eye-level screens at once. The movie is all Kanye's vision: his images, his music, and costumes he designed, mixed with pieces by local Arabian designers. And he put it together in two and a half months, with only four days of actual shooting (which included wrangling twenty camels and 100 extras in addition to those Lambos). The camera rig they used was invented for this shoot and made up of multiple cameras, so each screen could bear a different image. Why? Because why show a movie on one screen if you could show it on seven?
The plot, such as it is, follows a car thief (Cudi) who crashes into a dune and winds up in a palace in a parallel universe where he falls in love with a blind Arabian princess. Her father says he can marry her if he can make her see. What else?
• Cudi's gang of car thieves is called the Lamborghini Dons (not mentioned in the movie, but Cudi told me this later). He formed it to honor his father, who was a car thief, too.
• She lives in a palace filled with taut golden strings. Her mother set them up so she could run and play while holding onto them, even though she's blind.
• Those strings all lead to a single Game of Thrones–like throne, where she sits, surrounded by barriers as if in a prison.
• Cudi finds her there but is immediately tackled by guards and winds up in a prison with ... Aziz Ansari.
• Somehow Cudi winds up in the desert, beaten and abandoned by guards.
• He wraps himself in a magic scarf and becomes a cocoonlike statue standing against the sandstorms for a good third of the movie. "It kind of mummified me," Cudi told us of the scarf.
• To make the princess "see," Cudi plucks the strings to make music. Each note brings up a bright light, kind of like the end sequence in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
After the screening, Kanye gave one of his infamously long speeches, explaining that there had been a problem with the sound on a voice-over and talking about his vision:
"The [seven screens idea] is related to a post–Steve Jobs, post-Windows era of where we're always on a BlackBerry or a phone at a ballgame, at the movies, and you're looking at seven windows when you're online. And I've found myself even falling asleep at the theater unless I'm talking to somebody or I'm on the phone, and it's because of the amount of information that we have at once. ... I was very particular about having the screens be separate and having it where your mind puts the screens back together the way you can put memories together, the way that happens throughout the day and it all links back up.
When I was in grammar school, I had a couple of drawings of my take on synesthesia. I didn't know that definition, but I knew that I could see sound. I like to see shapes in sound, and there's different types of synesthesia where people relate letters and shapes and smells in different ways. But my way is that I can see sound in front of me. So that drawing that I was doing when I was 17 years old, this is that same exact drawing at age 34, post-working on the Throne tour, and working on music and having a record label with all these awesome artists. [Editor's note: His voice actually got high, excited, and a little choked up at this point.] So basically, it's all like a painting.
I'm not the best director in the world or anything like that, but I had an idea. I could dream of one day this being the way that people watch movies, in this form where it surrounds you and people want to go back and see it more and more because they missed something else to the left and missed something else to the right, and it felt more like the experience of life. Like, the first time you come to Cannes, you look at this way and you look that way and you look up."
This was a rough cut, he explained, and he promised to bring the installation to Qatar and New York, reediting and improving it along the way. He equated the leap between making this movie and his first, Runaway, in 2010, to doing his first fashion show:
"Where we completely got mutilated [by the critics] and then coming back with the next collection and getting decent reviews. … The reason why I went so hard at this is that I want to work on cities. I want to work on amusement parks and I want to change what entertainment experiences are like and [make movies] that have the same entertainment value of a Cirque du Soleil or Walt Disney or something like that. That's my goal."
As I exited the arena to an outdoor party with Champagne and sushi that then led to an after-party in a crazy French nightclub where Cudi, Big Sean, and Pusha T performed, I unexpectedly found myself standing next to Jay-Z. What was his review? "Amazing!" Had he ever seen a movie like this before? "Have you?" he asked me back, and laughed and laughed while rubbing my back. (My review of that: amazing!) Had Kanye talked to him about this? "Yeah, about the idea, but to see it come to fruition is great, because the execution of idea is everything." So what did he think the film meant? He got deep: "It's about the things that separate us — race and class in society and things like that. But the only thing that really binds us is true love." He continued to rub my back. I got nervous. I tried to ask another question. "No, no, hold onto that," said Jay-Z. "That's what I'm going to leave you on." He laughed some more and walked away, and as he did, I think I finally got what he meant about true love.
(The exhibit is open for the next two days. Anyone lucky enough to be in Cannes can grab free tickets here. Or check back to see when it's playing elsewhere.)


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Objective: Students will be able to explain what happens to the value of a bank account as the number of times the interest is compounded annually approaches infinity. Students will be able to identify this limit using e.
Big Idea: We know that the more times you compound the interest in a year, the more money you will have in your account. Does it keep increasing forever? What happens if you compound infinitely many times?
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Another Round of Mad Bitch, Please
In defense of the offensive episode of "Mouthpiece Theater."
Will nobody stand up for Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza's asinine horseplay on the July 31 episode of their Washingtonpost.com video feature "Mouthpiece Theater"?
Certainly not the Washington Post. The paper panicked and removed the comedy segment from its site after protests from those who took issue with the duo's suggestion that the proper beverage to serve Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the White House beer summit would have been a bottle of Mad Bitch beer. Proving that you can't unring a bell, copies of the episode can be found all over the Web.
Post spokeswoman Kris Coratti disowned the video in this statement to the press: "The video was a satirical piece that lampooned people of all stripes. There was a section of the video that went too far, so we have removed the piece from our website." When the Columbia Journalism Review approached Post Managing Editor Raju Narisetti—nominal supervisor of the playground that is "Mouthpiece Theater"—to discuss the furor, he stiffed them. (Disclosure: Coratti also works with Slate, which is owned by the Post Co. I've had lunch with Milbank a couple of times and have met Cillizza once or twice.)
Has it really come to the point that you can't call the secretary of state of the most powerful nation on earth a mad bitch in a comedy segment without people becoming unhinged and managing editors running for the exits?
If you're late to the dispute, Milbank and Cillizza are political journalists at the Post who, since early June, have been donning silly costumes and hoisting stupid props on a cheesy set that's supposed to echo the old Masterpiece Theater set. They make fun of themselves. They make fun of powerful politicians. The segments are short and topical.
Are they funny? I'm not really a fan of Milbank and Cillizza's brand of humor. But to put a finer point on it, I'm actually not a fan of any kind of humor. The very essence of humor is aggression. The point of most jokes is to inflict psychological suffering and pain—to transgress and make someone the butt. This is why I've declared my journalism, my office, my home, and the subway line I commute to work on absolutely comedy free.
Although I avoid making jokes—lest I hurt someone's feelings—I support the right of others to cross the line from gentle teasing to gore-splattering comedic mayhem. As Michael Kinsley has repeatedly noted, if you don't risk going too far, you probably won't go far enough. Nowhere is this maxim truer than in comedy. If you're not offending somebody, you're probably not pleasing anybody. Political satire that errs on the side of civility and good taste is empty. If you want that sort of crap, book Mark Russell.
When the Post gave Milbank a video berth on its Web site, it knew exactly what it was in for. Doesn't anybody over there recall that he's the guy who went on Countdown With Keith Olbermannwearing an orange ski cap, a hunting vest, and gloves right after Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a friend in the face with a shotgun and made light of the incident? Milbank said:
The vice president's always been a big believer in executive privilege, so this is just taking it to its logical extreme.
I understand that [Plamegate special prosecutor] Pat Fitzgerald has been offered an invitation to the next [hunting trip].
Readers protested Milbank's tastelessness to Post ombudsman Deborah Howell, who got Liz Spayd, then assistant managing editor for national news, to comment. She told Howell that Milbank had "crossed the line" in his Countdown appearance.
Crossed the line? Isn't that what Coratti accused him of, too? Can humor exist without routine crossing of the line? Isn't swerving across the line again and again what humor is all about?
Howell pacified Post readers about Milbank's behavior by writing, "Suffice it to say that he has been taken to the Post's version of the woodshed and told not to do that again."
Fat chance. They've yet to build a woodshed that's strong enough to hold a guy like Milbank.
The only scandal here is the Post's cowardly removal of the "Mouthpiece Theater" segment from its site and Managing Editor Narisetti's cowardly refusal to discuss the controversy with the writer from CJR.
Meanwhile, Milbank and Cillizza aren't taking the excision of their work too personally, as today's segment, "Censored & Under Wraps," indicates. And something good has come out of the suppression of their work: This effective parody.
Hillary Clinton should consider herself fortunate. At least Milbank and Cillizza didn't call her a "congenital liar," as William Safire did in a 1996 New York Times column. Call me names via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and listen to my nonstop rudeness on my Twitter feed. (E-mail may be quoted by name in "The Fray," Slate's readers' forum; in a future article; or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)
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The National Telecom Alliance (NTA), Houston, recently announced the completion of its Founding Membership drive at its National Summit in Las Vegas. Twenty-five people attended, representing 18 founding member companies.
The attendees learned of NTA's initiatives for the next several years, which include the national accounts program (the ASAP program), designed to harness the organization's nationwide installation capabilities; the group purchasing program, designed to pursue proprietary programs with manufacturers and distributors of telecommunications and electrical systems and supplies; the sales-driven organization program (the SMART program), designed to improve members' ability to differentiate themselves in today's market; and the proprietary Internet-based estimating/purchasing/project management system, intended to allow NTA members to act as a cohesive whole when servicing customers.
Members also established member oversight committees for NTA's initiatives.
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The Smallest Violin Plays for the Atlanta Braves
As the Atlanta Braves often do following losses to the Phillies, they whined after tonight's 5-3 loss to Jamie Moyer and the Phillies. The Braves love to whine about the Phillies, usually for their own imagined reasons.
July 2005: John Smoltz says of Citizens Bank Park, "I've played a long time, and some of the balls that are leaving there–it's not right. It's a joke." [Link]
At the time Smoltz said that, Citizens Bank Park was only one and a half seasons old. The CBP homerun tally between the two teams in 2004 and 2005: Braves, 26; Phillies, 16. And the Braves enjoyed an 11-8 record against the Phillies in Philadelphia.
Flash forward to the bottom of the fifth inning in tonight's nationally broadcast game (meaning the game comes with complimentary terrible commentary by Jon Miller and Joe Morgan) when Atlanta starter Buddy Carlyle starts off the inning with a walk to Jimmy Rollins. Carlyle got the next hitter, Tadahito Iguchi, to hit a ground ball to second baseman Martin Prado, who quickly flipped the ball to shortstop Yunel Escobar for the force at second base. Escobar got off a nice throw to first that was a hair too slow to get Iguchi at first base.
As soon as Escobar released the ball to first base, he caught the umpire's "safe" motion and threw his arms up in the air as if he was accused of first-degree murder. To add insult to injury, Iguchi was called safe at first, so that was a huge double-whammy for Escobar. And replays showed that Escobar didn't even come close to touching second base. He was trying to get the throw off as fast as possible with Jimmy Rollins heading full-throttle in his direction.
Bobby Cox came out to argue to no avail, and no, he wasn't ejected. As a Phillies fan, I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, considering he's on the precipice of managerial history in terms of ejections.
Pat Burrell popped out on the seventh pitch of the at-bat, and made way for Ryan Howard, who had a walk and a strikeout to his name at that point.
In his first at-bat, Carlyle stayed away from him low and away, and walked Howard on five pitches. Howard wasn't so fortunate in the third inning, when Carlyle grooved a fastball high and outside for a called strike three.
Carlyle wasn't so fortunate on Howard's third try. He tried getting him high and outside again, but Howard was a step ahead of him and drove the pitch 391 feet to left-center for a three-run homerun, staking the Phillies to a 4-2 lead they wouldn't relinquish.
Keep the homerun distance in mind, as it is an important fact that the Braves will conveniently ignore in their post-game whining.
Hit that fast-forward button again to the bottom of the ninth inning. Phillies closer Brett Myers easily retired Andruw Jones and Brian McCann, leaving the Braves' hopes with pinch-hitter Willie Harris.
Myers threw Harris five straight fastballs, all at least 94 MPH, and all but one were low and outside. The last pitch, a 96-MPH called strike three on the outside corner, elicited some barking and gesturing from Myers at Harris and the Braves' dugout, who didn't take very kindly to his actions.
As Michael Radano notes on his blog,
If you saw the final strike of the night, you may have seen a little extra showmanship from Brett Myers.
Understand that Myers knows Braves hitter Willie Harris. The two were in the minors together and while they like to compete against one another, they have a good talking relationship.
Anyway, back in A-ball, Harris abused Myers. Always a leadoff hitter, Myers tried to overpower Harris with his fastball with little luck as Harris would slash away. Finally, Myers decided to "**** with him" and threw him a curve to start a game that Harris more than struggled with.
According to Myers, he faced him once this year and threw the curves, prompting Harris to challenge Myers manhood in a face-to-face.
Myers being Myers, he saw the final at bat of the ninth as a challenge. Fastball No.1 drew a smirk from Harris. Fastballs two, three and four allowed Myers to look in and at one point, show Harris four fingers. On the fifth fastball, Harris froze and began his walk back to the dugout.
"I wanted to show him I have *****," Myers said with a grin.
That's not it, though. The Braves were not exactly gracious losers. Some quotes, courtesy ComcastSportsNet.com.
Bobby Cox on Howard's three-run homerun (remember the distance — 391 feet), said, "It was a little fly ball. It was out here and Cincinnati, and maybe Houston."
391 feet is only out of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Houston's ballparks? It would've been out of yours too, Bobby. From the Braves website, the left-field power alley is 380 feet. Howard's homerun would have been at least 3 or 4 rows back at Turner Field.
Jeff Francoeur was a bit more subtle. "We lost on a ball that just happened to go out of the ballpark. That's all I can say. It's tough to lose that way."
Just happened to go out? Was Jeff watching the same homerun the rest of the country was watching?
And just for convenience sake, a recap of tonight's whining from the Atlanta Braves:
– Yunel Escobar's "throw your hands up in the air if you care" routine when he clearly didn't touch any part of the second base bag, and Bobby Cox's subsequent argument with the umpires (both at second base and at first, as he felt Iguchi was also out at first).
– Willie Harris and the Braves' dugout yapping following Myers' called strike three to end the game.
– Bobby Cox and Jeff Francoeur pouting about Ryan Howard's game-winning, 391-foot, three-run homerun that would have left any ballpark.
Can someone get these guys on The Montel Williams Show? It is so unfortunate that they have to play in such a bandbox, where the other team gets more offensive innings than they do! (For those without sarcasm detectors, the Phillies had 8 offensive innings; the Braves had 9, so they had more chances to hit "little fly balls" for homeruns.)


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MINSTER — Two drivers were transported by medical helicopter to a regional hospital after a two-vehicle collision Wednesday afternoon near Minster.
According to a report from the Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, at 12:17 p.m., Christopher Blumenstock, of Minster, was driving a 2001 Honda Odyssey and traveling east on Ohio 119 when he attempted to pass another vehicle. Blumenstock's vehicle struck a 2005 Chevy Impala that was driven by Caitlin Gross, of Sidney, who was traveling west on Ohio 119.
Blumenstock's vehicle struck the Impala head-on, traveled off the right side of the road, struck a ditch and came to rest in a field. Blumenstock and Gross were taken via Care Flight to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton for incapacitating injuries. Two passengers in Gross' vehicle — Nora Gross, 2, and Brandon Gross, an infant — were taken to Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys for possible injuries.
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Partners has been taken off the air with immediate effect after failing to win over viewers.
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When was the last time you enjoyed THE ROOM game? This phenomenal tribute to the best/worst movie in the universe is a stunning achievement. You too can be a poor soul trapped within those four rose-colored walls of despair. Be a part of the madness as you look for clues to a mystery no one understands. Will you get to the bottom of the spoons? Will anyone?
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Docs cozy up to brands that bring unique benefits, thought-leader backing
Physician trust in pharmaceutical brands is driven by an emotional connection as well as functional attributes and perceptions of the manufacturer, said Harris Interactive, which found Advair, Spiriva and Mirena to be tops in their categories with doctors.
The market research firm surveyed American physicians on their attitudes towards drugs for asthma, COPD, osteoporosis, pregnancy prevention and rheumatoid arthritis. The firm scored brands in those categories according to five measures of physician trust, including their view of the product's familiarity, function and connection as well as feelings towards the company and its representatives.
"Among the commonalities we see are that to lead the pack, you have to be good in all these dimensions," said Joseph Vorassi, SVP healthcare research at Harris Interactive, "and within each of those there are sub-dimensions. For function, it's offering unique benefits, excellent outcomes and consistent results. On the connection, being able to identify with the product, feeling positive about it, believing it inspires confident prescribing and brings great value to your practice. On the rep side, it's being respectful of staff, being responsive, providing unbiased info, knowing the condition, valuing doctors as customers and being sensitive to patient needs. Then on the corporate side, it's whether an accountable organization backs it and if the company is known for thought leadership, high integrity and doing the right thing."
The most powerful trust-builders were products offering a unique benefit and companies seen to be backed by thought leadership, said Vorassi.
The most-trusted brands in the categories polled were as follows:
- For asthma, Advair, followed by Symbicort
- For COPD, Spiriva, followed by Advair, Symbicort and Combivent
- For osteoporosis, Actonel, followed closely by Evista, Forteo, Prolia and Reclast
- For pregnancy prevention, Mirena, followed by NuvaRing, Lo LoEstrin and Dep-Provera
- For RA, Enbrel and Humira were tied for first, followed by Remicade, Orencia and Rituxan
The survey of 1,034 US physicians was the second of its type from Harris Interactive. The first, released in May, 2012, covered antidepressants, antipsychotics, ED drugs and those for diabetes.


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Who we are
JWB&CO is an Australia wide full service creative and marketing agency specialising in helping and guiding educational institutions to be remarkable. That is to say, to be worth making a remark about.
Established in 1995, JWB&CO is a full-service graphic design and marketing agency, specialising in the development of strategic marketing and branding solutions and visual identities for independent and private schools and businesses across Australia.
Much of our marketing positioning and design work has received industry awards for creativity, impact, and effectiveness in delivering in-market results. We love what we do and what we do gets results. Our small size allows us to be nimble, creative and fast with exceptional customer service.
What we stand for
Helping others. Money does not define nor drive us, but client success does. We love working closely with our clients to deliver a unique, authentic and creative solution which sets them apart from the competition. This then drives awareness, interest and ultimately sales. We believe in giving back and helping others, so 2% of net sales goes to philanthropic activities.
Services we provide:
Website development
Intregated ad campaigns for print, online and outdoor
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Strategic marketing plans
Communications plans and management
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Our work
Who we have or are working for:
|Brighton Grammar School "we teach boys" prospectus, website and rebrand campaign; Loreto Mandeville Hall, prospectus and rebrand campaign "Madeline" illustrative approach; MLC Sydney, prospectus and rebrand campaign; PLC Sydney, prospectus and rebrand campaign; Kincoppal Rose Bay, prospectus, website and rebrand campaign; Melbourne High School, prospectus and rebrand campaign; Christ Church Grammar School, "cherishing families", prospectus, website and rebrand campaign; CLC Eltham, "girls flourish here", prospectus, website and rebrand campaign; Fintona Girls School "great things come in a small package", prospectus, website and rebrand campaign, CBC St Kilda "cultivating boys character", prospectus and rebrand campaign, St Columba's College, prospectus and rebrand campaign; Swinburne University of Technology; Melbourne Girls Grammar; RMIT University Gallery; Monash College; Melbourne Girls College, prospectus, website and rebrand campaign; Gippsland Grammar School, prospectus, website and rebrand campaign; Norhcote High School; IOOF, Bridges; Marymede Catholic College, prospectus, website and rebrand campaign; University of Notre Dame - Maryland, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
The team
The people of JWB&CO who create remarkable work which get results. We combine our talents and strengths in order to compel your audience to notice and remember you.
Having received several scholarships to university Joe graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, which is consistently ranked as a top 10 American art school by U.S News and World Report with a BFA, Visual Communication. After graduation Joe worked as a freelance graphic designer for North Charles Street Design Organisation.
Her engaging and insightful methods articulate and communicate your message effectively and creatively. Passionate about bringing ideas to life, she has a wealth of experience, having created design for print and digital projects for a large range of local and international clients.
Roland has been working in the financial/technical industry for over 25 years. He has been a consultant to large corporations for over 20 years and is very passionate about providing the best customer service and products and is continuously keeping up with the latest technology around the world.
At the forefront of online marketing mediums SEO & SEM coupled across social media, video, digital advertising, optimisation, remarketing and retargetting, Troy's support of Australia's schools and their communities stretch back to 2001.
As a writer, Frank, from Action Words, delivers. His clients keep coming back because he listens to them carefully, he has an innovative approach and he provides text that is compelling. Readers sit up and take note when they read his impactful work.
James has been part of the team from the beginning and is responsible for all of the wonderful images within the work we do. His eye for detail and technical nous is beyond belief. Great to work with and uncanny ability to deliver the unexpected.
A proven marketing and product manager with over 17 years experience including 10 of those years as a senior Telstra marketing manager. Deep and broad experience across all of the marketing disciplines means that Amy brings positive change to any of the marketing elements, across many industries and scale.
Originally from Scotland, Al has been heading up his award winning printing company since 1985. What sets Al apart from other printers is their fastidiousness to detail and meeting any deadline. We have been working together for 20 years and deliver memorable finished products.
Katherine is a Registered Landscape Architect, with experience in projects of all scales as well as a broad design background including Industrial Design. As Director of Leaf Design Studio, she contributes to place making, story telling and way finding with a focus on combining Landscape Architecture skills with Interpretive Design.
Nicki holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Communication Design), Graphic Design from Deakin University. She is a passionate designer who is more than able to deliver high quality, well thought out and visually pleasing solutions to any design problem.
Contemporary, forward-thinking advancement solutions and strategic advice to educational institutions and not-for-profit organisations.
Educate+ National and International Award Winners 2014
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Catholic Ladies College
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Fintona Girls' School
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CMS School Marketing Prospectus Awards 2012
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Silver Award: - Catholic Ladies College website, VIC
CMS School Marketing Prospectus Awards 2011
Gold Award: - Catholic Ladies College, VIC
Bronze Award: - St Columba's College, VIC
ADAPE National and International Award Winners 2010: [Association of Development and Alumni Professionals in Education]
Website Development and design: - Highly Commended: Fintona Girls School, Vic Judges' Comment: Refreshing, easy, quick links, great budget. Effective submission.
CMS School Marketing Prospectus Awards 2009
Silver Award, CBC St Kilda
CMS School Marketing Prospectus Awards 2008
Silver Award, MLC Sydney
ADAPE National and International Award Winners 2006
Winner Communications/Marketing, Campaign: Brighton Grammar School, We Teach Boys
Winner Communications/Marketing, Alumni Development Campaign: Brighton Grammar School
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Winner - Communications/Marketing, Campaign: - Loreto Mandeville Hall
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How to market your educational institution
Believe what?
What is the authentic differentiating idea?
This idea must be 5 things:
- Authentic - something which is being done or exists in the business already
- Compelling - something the audience value, want and willing to pay for
- Unique - sets them apart from the competition
- Consistent - staying on message
- Simple - one or two words, three max
Our/your job
To create a message so that the viewer recognizes what makes your business different from your competitors:
- Consider the landscape your business is competing in. Who are the competitors
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- Simplicity is vital
- Credibility / authenticity
- Consistency
- Try not to be all things to all people
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Build awareness - begin to tell your story.
Begin to communicate to your audience that differentiating idea where they are like on facebook or in the mall...
- visual must be appropriate for and sympathetic to the differentiating idea
- must reinforce the differentiating idea
- consistency - stay on message
- build momentum - first two years of roll out dial up the spending on marketing in order to get the message out and build momentum
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Unhappy With Your Job? 8 Signs That It's Time To Quit [VIDEO]
I had a heart-to-heart with a friend of mine who left one job for another, only to find out the grass may have looked greener on the other side, but she still had to mow. In other words, she was extremely unhappy with her job and couldn't figure out why. She then left that job only to find the same issues in her new job. Sometimes we can work to correct the unhappy, but how do you know when it's time to really look elsewhere? Here are 8 signs that it's time to quit your job.
- You no longer feel you are growing. After several years with your employer, you still feel like you are at a point where there is no room to grow. If you feel like you've reached the top of your departments "food chain" than it may be time to look elsewhere.
- You are not involved in meetings. Monday morning meetings can be a real pain when you must endure them weekly, but what happens when you are not invited to attend any longer? It's either a sign that your employer does not find you valuable, or could care less what you think. Maybe your employer doesn't see you as a leader. Either way, before jumping ship, try to find out why you're ideas and thoughts are no longer valued. It could be that your employer sees you losing interest in your job. If there is no clear answer from your superior, then it may be time to go.
- You feel like your career is just a JOB. This is a big red flag that you may need to re-evaluate you working options. If you've been a stable, dependable employee for a considerable amount of time, and you feel like you're just a robot, this is a clear sign that you need to see if you can change departments, or change jobs altogether.
- Your company has undergone a massive change. When companies are bought out, sold, and management dismantled, often times you may find yourself having to change with it. Layoffs, firings, and demotions all play part in many of these changes. Be it good or bad, if the company you work for no longer fits the core structure you stand for, it may be time to quit.
- "Raise? What raise?" If this sounds like you after one year of employment with no blemishes on your record, um, yeah — it may be time to go. If you feel like you're being strung along for manpower purposes, and not getting paid anymore than when you first were hired, chances are there is a pattern of employees not getting paid what they are actually worth. Time to re-evaluate.
- You feel like you've been wasting time and talent. If you find yourself in your cubicle wondering what you've done with the past 7 years of your life, instead of working — this is not good! You technically are wasting your time asking yourself this and your employers. Both are equally unfair. If you're constantly mulling over and over in your head that you wasted good money and time going to college for this job, quit.
- You're home life is suffering. Often busy individuals are pulled, stretched and bent far away from their families. If your job is causing your home life to suffer due to hours, stress, or finances, it may be time to chalk up your losses and quit.
- You just don't feel like you're valued. If you never hear praise, or get thanks for doing what you consider outstanding work, then walk. Make sure you as the employee have given all you can to make your job work. Be fair: If your employer has praised you for your good work, there may be potential there to tap into what can gain you increased notoriety. If the cards are still not playing out in your favor, do everyone a favor and quit.
In every job there are going to be struggles, downfalls, challenges, and stress, but if you feel like you are being used and over worked, underpaid – then chances are, it's not worth staying unhappy. You are not doing anyone any favors being a toxic employee.
Listening to my friend, I feel like there probably would've been ways she could've circumvented her just quitting what she called, "a good job." A good rule of thumb: if your gig is not growing you, utilizing you (in a positive way), or exciting you, it may be time leave.
I hope the above are used as a guideline in your career journey into taking the path of the happily traveled.
Good luck!
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Dutch soccer team picks up 7-1 win over Smethport
Tuesday was a nice afternoon to be out enjoying a soccer match and the spectators who attended the boys' soccer match at St. Marys Area High School were treated to a dominating performance by the St. Marys Area Flying Dutchmen soccer squad, who picked up a 7-1 win over the visiting Smethport Hubbers. The match saw six different Dutch players score goals, while Brett Lanzel and Josh Burns split time at keeper for St. Marys. "[It was a] great team effort today by everybody," said St. Marys head coach Russ Micale. "There was a lot of good passing, a lot of good communicating, and I was very pleased with the way they played."Things got off to a slow start in the first half as both teams traded control of the ball. St. Marys had some nice shots, but the Smethport keeper was able to keep the game scoreless until almost three quarters of the way through the half. With 12:03 remaining, St. Marys' Weston Challingsworth was finally able to put the team on the board as he found the back of the net after the Smethport keeper made a dive to stop the ball, but was unable to secure it. The score put St. Marys up 1-0. Once the Dutchmen started scoring, it was hard to stop them. Matt Hoffman was the next St. Marys player to score, with his shot bouncing over the Smethport keeper's head and into the goal with 4:33 remaining to make the lead 2-0. Just over a minute later, Evan Lepovetsky extended St. Marys' lead to 3-0 after he put a shot past the Smethport keeper with 3:17 remaining in the half. St. Marys carried the 3-0 lead into halftime and got right to work extending it once play resumed. Less than two minutes into the second half, Tim Mosebarger made the score 4-0 as he headed the ball into the net with 38:09 remaining. Mike Fox put St. Marys up 5-0 after scoring with 31:14 remaining, and Mosebarger made his second goal of the match less than 10 minutes later, making the score 6-0 in favor of the Dutchmen with 25:07 remaining. St. Marys' final goal of the match came less than a minute later as Zachery Fox had a shot bounce off the crossbar and past the Smethport keeper with 24:43 remaining to make the lead 7-0. St. Marys faced increasing pressure from Smethport throughout the second half and Burns made a number of nice saves as the team tried for a shutout; however, despite a good effort, Smethport's Dario Caminite was finally able to put the team on the board when he slipped the ball past Burns with 14:26 remaining to make the score 7-1. With the win, the Dutchmen are now 3-1 on the season and will be on the road Thursday evening as they face cross-town rival Elk County Catholic High School at Angela Huey Field in Fox Township at 7 p.m.


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Time certainly has a way of slipping away when you're on an Azamara Club Cruise® voyage. Departure times, however, need to be strictly observed. And while they may vary and be as early as noon, you are encouraged to allow plenty of time to get to the port on the day of boarding. For the specific boarding time of your voyage, please check with your travel professional.
As a convenience, all boarding times are noted in your travel documents. Suite guests are invited to take advantage of priority boarding privileges. When checking in at the cruise terminal, please follow the signs for Suite Guests to enjoy this special benefit.
Government regulations require Azamara to submit final departure manifests. You (and your guests) must board the ship at least 90 minutes prior to our scheduled departure time. If you fail to check in at least 90 minutes before our scheduled departure, this constitutes a "no-show" and will result in an automatic cancellation of your booking and assessment of cancellation charges.
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Weed Control Advice
If there's one thing in the garden that seems to survive anything, it's weeds. These unwanted plants provide cover for disease and insects, take up growing space and reduce available moisture, nutrients and sunlight. Garden weeds are especially difficult to control because they can grow and spread rapidly. With early prevention and simple changes, you can spend more time helping your plants grow and less time fighting garden weeds.
Here are some methods to help you deal with garden weeds:
- Start Early: Since garden weeds are capable of growing quickly, it is important to kill all weeds prior to planting. Get rid of garden weeds before they are larger than 3 inches tall. They will be smaller and easier to manage, and you'll prevent them from spreading.
- Keep Your Soil Healthy: Test your garden soil and make adjustments to stimulate plant growth. Your plants will grow big and strong, which discourages garden weeds from moving in.
- Use Mulch: Mulch stops garden weeds from growing up and getting more sunlight. You can smother the weeds around your plants, but be careful not to hurt the plants you actually want in your garden.
- Dig Them Out: Garden weeds can be hand pulled or removed using gardening hand tools. Take out as much of the weed, including the root, as you can in order to prevent it from growing right back. Troy Bilt's TBPN Weeding is the perfect gardening tool for pulling up tough, deep-rooted weeds.
- Wait for Rain: Garden weeds are easier to remove from wet soil. If necessary, dampen the soil around the weeds or pull them right after you water.
- Dispose of Weeds Properly: Unearthed garden weeds can take root again and wreak havoc if left on the ground. Put weeds in a compost pile or follow your city's guidelines for disposing of yard waste.
- Prepare for Winter: When the gardening season comes to an end, weed your garden and cover the area with mulch to smother any remaining weeds. This will make things easier next spring.
- Enjoy Your Garden: Managing garden weeds is important, but a couple of weeds won't destroy all your hard work. Take some time to relax and enjoy your garden.


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This page covers the process of taking MIDI messages sent from the Arduino and creating sound with them via a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) such as Ableton LIVE, Logic or Garageband.
What You'll Need to Know
To get the most out of this lab, you should be familiar with the following concepts. You can check how to do so in the links below:
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Here we have a little Arduino instrument I whipped up using the MIDI Output tutorial. It features two photocells, one controlling the pitch (or note being sent) and the other controls the volume. Now that we are sending MIDI messages, we need to get them into the computer.[table "" not found /]
To get the MIDI messages into the computer, we will need a USB MIDI interface. A MIDISport 2×2 like the one pictured can be found in the Equipment Room. The interface connects to your computer via the USB cable and to the Arduino via a MIDI cable. Connect the Arduino to the MIDI In port of the interface.[table "" not found /]
You will most likely need to download drivers for the MIDI interface you are using. Go to the manufacturer's website and download the drivers that correspond to your interface and operating system. Once the drivers are installed, the interface should be recognized by your computer. To check this, open up the Audio MIDI Setup. If you only see the Audio setup, click Window in your task bar and select Show MIDI Window. You should then see the window pictured here and the interface should appear colored in. Interfaces that are not connected will appear faded as shown.[table "" not found /]
Now that your computer recognizes the MIDI interface, you need to set up your preferences in the DAW. In this case, we are using Ableton Live so open up the preferences window. Ableton will recognize the interface but the ports need to be set. Find your interface and where it says Input, turn on the button listed under Track. Now Live will receive MIDI messages on these ports.[table "" not found /]
Select a MIDI track and add an instrument. Live has some instruments built in or you can use a third party plugin as a sound generator. In this case, I've selected the Operator FM synthesizer. If I only have one instrument going in to Live, it is fine to leave the track's MIDI input set to "All Ins." If you have more than one, you will probably want to select a specific port as shown in the image.[table "" not found /]
The last step is to Arm the track by clicking the Arm button on the bottom of the channel strip. Now you are ready to go. Start sending MIDI from the Arduino and you should be hearing your lovely new instrument.[table "" not found /]
A good tool to have is the Snoize MIDI monitor. You can download it here: http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/
When running the application, MIDI Monitor will show you all the information that is coming in through the MIDI interface, such as the source, channel, message and note values. This is especially useful for debugging your MIDI instrument.


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Photo by Bridget Bellmore ('15)
EDUC 339W: Rogers*
Philosophy of Education
Alexander graduated in May 2013 with a B.S. degree in psychology.
*Note: The "W" after the course number indicates that this is a writing-focused course. Students in these courses complete a combination of formal, high-stakes writing assignments and informal, low-stakes writing assignments with instructional support from the professor. The goal is not only to practice academic modes of writing, particularly in a given discipline, but also to learn course content through the act of writing itself.


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"JUDY" Julius B B Stryker and his wife Mary MCKinstry_ Stryker had 6 Children....._
_ (Judy ran his Company, the "Perkins Glue Co. - from his father Julius BB Stryker, Sr. Patented in 1915))_
_1) Julius B (Ju-Bee) ____
2) Gertrude Perkins Stryker (Perky) Born Doylestown, PA 1941, passed 1988, Paoli, PA
Gertrude Married Unknown Mackleer
Children: Living Daughter and Son: BOYD KIMBALL MACKLEER~1965~1970
_3) Stephen Bayard Stryker ( July 1944) Professor/Language /Author /BOOK;By Stephen B. Stryker, Betty Lou Leaver _
Foreign Language Education.
Professor, Department of English
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish
Director: TESOL Programs
4) Michael O (about 1946) Lives in Tucson, AZ
5) Frank P ( Jug ) born about 1948
Johanna C Stryker, E B Stryker, Matthew M Smit, Daniel Smit
6) William (Bill-Bill ) (about 1953 or 54)
1) PHOTO of DOCUMENT / Naturalization Record; Alvine Luise Eitz, Born in Germany, 22 March 1901 (Badersleben, Germany) Julius BB and Mary Higgins Stryker were witness to this person, arriving from Germany by way of France. (This HAS to Be Judy's Father ,(Also) Julius B B and Mother, Mary H) Witness in 1928, Court St. Doylestown, PA.
_ The son., THIS Julius B "JUDY" also Married a MARY McKinstry Stryker._
(Their son Julius BB Stryker, III was called "Ju-Bee").
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