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Astros bring in wave of talent for Oswalt
Houston gets Happ from Philly, receives Wallace from Jays
By Brian McTaggart / MLB.com
With the glory years of a half-decade ago a distant memory, Oswalt longed for another chance to pitch on baseball's biggest and brightest stage in October and two months ago asked the Astros to trade him to a contender -- a wish the club granted him Thursday afternoon.
The Astros sent Oswalt and $11 million in cash to the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for left-handed pitcher J.A. Happ, Minor League shortstop Jonathan Villar and Minor League outfielder Anthony Gose, who was then traded to Toronto for Minor League first baseman Brett Wallace.
This is the second blockbuster deal general manager Ed Wade, the former GM of the Phillies, has engineered with his former team. On Nov. 7, 2007, he acquired Michael Bourn and others from Philadelphia in the deal that sent Brad Lidge to the Phillies. The Astros have also signed former Phillies players Jason Michaels, Pedro Feliz and Brett Myers in Wade's time in Houston.
"We're trying to do everything we can to make this a championship-caliber club," Wade said. "We recognize the profile of a guy like Roy Oswalt and what he's meant to this team and we certainly salute that. At the end of the day, we had a pitcher who didn't want to be here and he expressed that feeling, and at the end of the day, we were able to convert that into three very good players who we think fit our direction going forward."
Oswalt, who had to approve the deal because he had a no-trade clause, got what he wanted and will be thrust into the middle of a pennant race when he starts for the Phillies on Friday night in Washington. But the Astros believe they made out like winners, too.
The club has made a commitment to building for the future through its Minor League system, and Thursday's trade enabled them to do that while shedding some payroll.
Prospect analysis
|The Phillies got their man in Roy Oswalt from the Astros. Whether Houston got enough in return remains to be seen, with the two Minor Leaguers coming back along with lefty J.A. Happ a few years away from being big-league ready. One of them, Anthony Gose, was flipped to Toronto for Brett Wallace. Here's some more information on Wallace and Jonathan Villar:
Villar is a high-end athlete at a premium up-the-middle position. Just 19, the switch-hitter signed with the Phillies out of the Dominican Republic in May 2008. He has hit .272/.332/.358 in his first taste of full-season ball with Lakewood in the South Atlantic League. Like Gose, he's got speed, with his 38 steals good for third in the league. He's stolen 82 bases since signing with the Phillies. The bat has a ways to go, but it's projectable and some feel he'll hit in the future.
He's a little raw, but has good range at shortstop and gets high marks for his arm from shortstop. He has made 42 errors, but that's not unusual for such a young middle infielder, and some scouts feel he'll be a very good defender as he matures. The trade gives the Astros another prospect at the position in the lower levels of the Minors, with Villar one step behind 2009 first-round pick Jio Mier, currently playing with Class A Advanced Lexington.
For Brett Wallace, a 2008 first-round pick of the Cardinals, this will be his fourth organization. Coming out of Arizona State, Wallace has had the "good bat, bad body" tag placed on him. A third baseman initially, the Blue Jays had moved him over to first after getting him from the Oakland A's. He hit .301/.359/.509 for Triple-A Las Vegas in 95 games. For his career, the 2009 Futures Gamer has hit .304/.375/.487.
There's long been a concern about Wallace's body and some were worried that he'd gone in the wrong direction a little bit this year. But he's also been described as being a better athlete than his body might indicate. That being said, Wallace will have to watch his conditioning as he gets older. While his production has been fine, it hasn't been quite where some felt he'd perform as a professional. He's struggled with pitches on the inner half of the plate a little bit, but not enough for scouts to stop projecting him as an impact, middle-of-the-order bat at the big-league level.
-- Jonathan Mayo
Oswalt, 32, has about $5 million left on his current contract and is scheduled to make $16 million next year. The Phillies and Oswalt will have a mutual option for 2012 for $16 million, with a $2 million buyout.
"It's exciting, for sure," said Oswalt, who went 6-12 with a 3.42 ERA for the Astros and was one win shy of tying Joe Niekro's franchise all-time wins record of 144. "I think it works out for both of us. Houston's getting a good prospect and another pitcher, and I'm getting to go to a great team. I'm happy for both sides."
The Astros fielded numerous calls about Oswalt when, frustrated with a lack of run support and understanding the club was looking to make somewhat of a youth movement, his agent told owner Drayton McLane in May he wanted to be traded to a contender.
Even though Oswalt had to approve the deal, the Astros wanted to make sure they were content with the package they were getting in return. Happ, who went 1-0 with a 1.76 ERA in three starts for the Phillies, will be plugged into the rotation and will start Friday in Houston against Milwaukee.
"Obviously, I was a little shocked and a little surprised today, but I'm definitely looking on the positive," Happ said. "I hope to be a part of their future and help turn things around there. It's nice to go to a team that wants you. I want to go down there and pitch well and see what happens."
Happ has spent time on the disabled list this year with a flexor tendon strain, but Wade said the Astros examined his medical charts and are confident he's healthy.
Wade said Villar will be sent to high Class A Lancaster and Wallace will be the starting first baseman at Triple-A Round Rock. He said the addition of Wallace doesn't have an impact on Lance Berkman, who's in the last year of his deal and has a $16 million option for next year.
"Obviously, we want to get younger, but we want to be as good as we can possibly be," Wade said. "If we could have figured out a way to make that happen and still have Roy Oswalt at the top of our rotation, that would have been something we would have pursued, but we deal in real time and the reality is he requested a trade and that opened up the window for us explore it."
The market for Oswalt was diminished by the Astros' insistence they receive at least one Major League player in the deal, and Wade said the action began to heat up after Cliff Lee was traded to the Texas Rangers from the Seattle Mariners a few weeks ago.
The Astros approached Oswalt on Wednesday about waiving his no-trade clause to go to the Phillies, and he called former teammate Lidge to get the lay of the land in Philadelphia, where the Phillies are on the heels of the Braves in the NL East. He informed the club Thursday he would waive his no-trade clause to join the Phillies.
"We never approached Roy until we had a deal in hand," Wade said. "We understood there were some issues that had to be dealt with, but I don't think this took on a longer shelf life than we expected it once we got the elements put together. It was a case of talking to all the clubs we thought was a fit. We had a lot of in-depth conversations with a number of teams, all of which revolved around what's the right package to put together."
One of the first phone calls Oswalt made upon learning the deal had been completed was to longtime teammate Berkman, who along with pitcher Wandy Rodriguez are the only holdovers remaining from the Astros' 2005 World Series team.
"It's kind of sad, really," Berkman said. "It's not surprising, because all this has been going on for a while and I thought he would wind up getting traded. We both signed in '97 and have been playing together pretty much ever since. He's certainly a good friend of mine and we had a great run. Roy is obviously a huge part of the best years the franchise ever had, and he's definitely one of the all-time greats we've ever had in the organization."
Wade didn't pretend Happ, who went 12-4 last year and finished second in the National League Rookie of the Year voting, was going to replace Oswalt, who's won at least 19 games three times in his career. But the move made sense considering Oswalt's desire to leave Houston and the Astros' eye on the future.
"This is a deal we felt makes sense for our organization," Wade said. "What we want to do is build a team that's got long-term success and stability and have our fans begin to develop a new identity. We're very excited about the impact [catcher] Jason Castro's had on our club so far, the impact [pitcher] Bud Norris and [third baseman] Chris Johnson and [reliever] Wilton Lopez and some of these other kids have had.
"By bringing Happ in here and getting him in the rotation, we feel we're headed in the right with our club over the long term, and that will be a good thing."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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"The Great Animal Orchestra is about the symphony of beasts that surrounds us, a vast orchestra in the process of being silenced.... Krause wakes up your ears, gives you a desire to experience these wild soundscapes."NYTBR
"The Great Animal Orchestra speaks to us of an ancient music to which so many of us are deaf. Bernie Krause is, above all, an artist. I have watched him recording the calls of chimpanzees, the singing of the insects and birds, and seen his deep love for the harmonies of nature. In this book he helps us to hear and appreciate the often hidden musicians in a new way. But he warns that these songs, an intrinsic part of the natural world and essential to human well being, are vanishing, one by one, snuffed out by human actions.... As Bernie urges, let us all do our part to preserve the age old sounds of nature."Jane Goodall

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Sara J. Miles
History Department
Wheaton College Wheaton, IL 60187
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.
New York: Warner Books, 1991.
The positivistic approach to science has had, as an underlying assumption, the total objectivity of the scientist. The truth about nature is thought to be "out there," waiting to be found, and any person--no matter of what national, ethnic, gender, or class background--is capable of finding it. Thus, scientific research articles are written in the passive voice: "It was determined that . . ."; "it was discovered that . . ." Moreover, the time of discovery is thought to be limited by and dependent on the state of knowledge and technological inventions. Hence, for example, in the 19th century, "truths" discovered about physiology required preliminary advances in organic chemistry, and cells could not be discovered and described until microscopes had improved enough for scientists to be able to see "accurately" the structure of living organisms. Based on this positivistic philosophy, scientific biographies had a somewhat hagiographic purpose: the honoring of the scientist who "got there first."
Since Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions1 was published in 1962, however, the positivistic approach has been under attack. It is now generally acknowledged that no scientist can be totally objective, and that so-called "external" factors influence the way scientists view nature, the questions they ask about nature, the methods used to answer those questions, and the forms the answers take. While the exact meaning of "influence" is still at issue, biographies of scientists now have a different purpose. Instead of honoring the "winner" in the scientific race, biographies must now tell a much more complex story--one that describes the personal and private life of the scientist as well as its social and public context, and that then tries to relate both life and context to scientific practice.
Adrian Desmond and James Moore state in the prefatory chapter of their new biography Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist2 that it is this latter kind of biography that they purposed to write:
Our Darwin sets out to be different--to pose the awkward questions, to probe interests and motivations, to portray the scientific expert as a product of his time; to depict a man grappling with immensities in a society undergoing reform.3
The result of their efforts has been variously described as "a splendid book,"4 "an extraordinary monument,"5 and "a riveting tour de force."6 The extensive use of superlative phrases to characterize this book indicates the wide-spread recognition that the authors have indeed produced a new standard both for biographies about Darwin and for scientific biographies in general. The book reflects the "thick description" prescribed by Clifford Geertz7 and the "archeological digging" enjoined by Michel Foucault.8 Yet the authors maintain a narrative reminiscent of a good novel, and can carry the reader effortlessly along through the myriad details filling the 677 pages of text, in addition to 91 well-selected photographs, which result from the authors' painstaking and exhaustive research, noted in 100 pages of references.
So what does the reader learn? First, the Charles Darwin portrayed by Desmond and Moore is in reality many Darwins: there are the scientific Darwin, the invalid Darwin, the son/brother/husband/ father/ family- man Darwin, the social and political manipulator Darwin, the "Devil's Chaplain" Darwin, the economic speculator Darwin, the "let's-keep-up-appearances-at-all-costs" Darwin, the insecure Darwin, the student Darwin, and innumerable other Darwins who surface in particular situations. The result is a composite picture of Darwin that is much more living and dynamic, much more nuanced and complex than previous biographies have produced. One begins to believe that one knows Darwin as a person: what he likes and dislikes, how he reacts in a given situation, why he thinks the way he does. In reading the book one begins to anticipate how he will behave. For example, having learned how Darwin's work and thought patterns affect his health, the reader begins to sense when tension and overwork are going to cause him to be sick again, and, sure enough, Darwin is soon back in bed. One starts to feel Darwin's discomfort and nausea on the Beagle, his excitement at exploring Copiapó and the Guasco Valley, his mental and spiritual unsettledness at seeing the people of Tierra del Fuego and trying to understand what it means to be "human."
Second, new interpretations and values are put on well-known events of Darwin's life, and less-well known incidents are given coverage and import. Three examples will illustrate this contribution of the book. First, in most biographies of Darwin, his time in Edinburgh studying medicine is depicted as a time in which young Darwin begins to emancipate himself from his family, rejects a medical career, and becomes interested in a quasi-professional approach to natural history. In this biography, however, the time in Edinburgh is portrayed as critical both intellectually and psychologically for Darwin, for he is introduced through the Plinian Society to radical views, including ideas about the materialistic basis of mind, and observes what happens to those who do not follow the "party line." The Plinian Society thus challenges and warns Darwin: it challenges him with non-orthodox views; it warns him that heterodoxy is dangerous. Desmond and Moore use these experiences in Edinburgh as the basis for explaining Darwin's later hesitancy to publish his new theory, and they interpret actions and comments of the older Darwin in light of these lessons supposedly learned as a young man. Edinburgh thus becomes much more important in explaining Darwin's later ideas and behavior than it has been in earlier biographies.
A second example of reinterpretation of events concerns Darwin's voyage on the Beagle. Most people who know anything about Darwin's trip know about the Galapogos Islands and his experiences with turtles and finches, and his exploration of this region is considered to be seminal for the development of his evolutionary views. Thus, Peter Brent's biography, Charles Darwin: A Man of Enlarged Curiosity,9 devotes the whole of chapter 7 to Darwin's findings on this archipelago. On the other hand, little is known or reported about Darwin's experience with the Fuegians of Tierra del Fuego. Brent's work describes the encounters with these people, but the thrust of his presentation is that these exchanges with "natives" were interesting "sightseeing" episodes, but of no real importance to his work in natural history. Desmond and Moore, however, depict these encounters as being critical to the development of Darwin's theories, for they caused him to see how narrow the gap was between pongids and humans--if there was a gap at all. They also argue that the visit to the Galapogos Islands was not important for Darwin at the time, but only in retrospect. Darwin is portrayed as not really appreciating what he saw, not really understanding what he was told about the animals on the islands, and not really taking much care in his collecting. Hence Desmond and Moore ask the reader to reevaluate these episodes and their importance to Darwin's theorizing.
A final example illustrating the revised interpretation of Darwinian ideas or activities concerns the stress Darwin placed on animal breeding and sexual selection. Far from being a pragmatic way of dealing with theoretical questions, this emphasis, according to Desmond and Moore, arose largely from his own worries regarding the intermarriages in his own family and the inferior health that he saw in his children. Charles Darwin married his cousin, Emma Wedgewood, and there had been earlier cases of "interbreeding" between the Darwin and Wedgewood families. As Darwin worked on his theory, he also struggled with the apparent lack of "selective fit" in his own children. Eugenics (a "science" first developed by his cousin Francis Galton) not only illustrated for him the truths of his theory, but explained the personal tragedies and adversities faced by the Darwin-Wedgewood clans, and it was this personal aspect that was predominate, according to these authors. Challenging the reader to comprehend that the scientist Darwin did not leave personal issues aside when doing his work, Desmond and Moore produce a very human scientist whose personal concerns and theoretical concerns were never that far apart.
Admirable, fascinating, and enlightening as this book is, the
authors' reconstruction of the life of Darwin raises some interesting
and profound questions, however. First, there is the question
about the accuracy of the picture of Darwin we see. Do we know
Charles Darwin as he actually lived and thought and felt, or do
we know the Darwin that Desmond and Moore want us to know and
therefore have constructed for us? If earlier biographies provided
us with a 2-dimensional straw man Darwin, is it not possible that
all Desmond and Moore have given us is a 3-dimensional straw man--but
a straw man nevertheless? I raise the question of accuracy not
to impute the authors' integrity, but to point out firstly the
dilemma of selection facing Darwin scholars at present as they
sift through the massive Darwinian corpus. For instance, it is
a great advantage that Darwin's correspondence is currently being
published; the problem is that there are already seven volumes
and yet the correspondence only goes up to 1859,10 i.e., just
prior to the publication of On the Origin of Species.
His notebooks, journals, and diaries are likewise detailed and
lengthy. How does one decide which comments to privilege,
which events to emphasize, which relationships to prioritize?
Scholars/biographers must have some filter, some a priori
set of beliefs that allow them to organize the data in a particular
way. In this case, it means that we have one picture of
Darwin, but it is an interpretative portrait, not a dispassionate
or objective photograph. In spite of the superlatives used to
describe this biography, it is not the definitive biography
(and the authors would be the first to agree that it is not),
for selection and presentation require the perspective of an artist,
and different artists see--and help us to
see--situations differently. Therefore a "definitive" biography will not be forthcoming.
It is vital, though, that the reader understand, first, that choices were made and, second, that they were made for some reason. If the scholar has a Herculean task to sort through the massive piles of documents, the consumer of the resulting scholarship has an impossible one to know if a proper selection has been made. Therefore the reader must take a certain amount on faith. But if s/he is to do that, it would be wise to know the reasons for the scholar's choices, and in this case the choice is determined by the authors' historiography. That historiographical perspective may be evident to trained historians of science, but it probably is not to the general, educated readers. As a result, the latter may find themselves accepting the implied conclusions derived from the authors' implicit interpretative stance, but had the perspective been made explicit, the readers would have been more critical and skeptical of the inferences.
Desmond and Moore operate within the historiographical tradition
called sociology of knowledge. In its most basic form, this position
simply claims that scientific "facts" and theories are
not hermetically sealed from social, cultural, political, economic,
philosophical, and/or religious events and theories. In its most
extreme form, it asserts that external factors, not the reality
of nature, determine the content and expression of science. In
other words, scientific theories are dependent on, and the result
of, the social, cultural, political, etc. context. Desmond's earlier
works11 have placed him very close to this latter form, whereas
Moore''s work12 has been a little more centrist, but still more
toward this latter position.
Locating Desmond and Moore in terms of their historiography helps to explain why at times their biography of Darwin seems to tell two stories: one about Darwin and one about England. The two story lines are juxtaposed, sometimes side by side, sometimes interwoven, but always near to each other. The activities of the atheists Richard Carlile and Robert Taylor (whose sobriquet "The Devil's Chaplain" made a lasting impression on Darwin) during Darwin's Cambridge years are laid alongside his study of Paley's Natural Theology; the battles of the Crimean War are described just as Darwin is portrayed as wrestling with the idea of plant seeds trying to establish "beachheads" on islands they are "invading;" debate over the Whig-sponsored Poor Laws coincides with Darwin's theorizing over competition and natural selection. The reader is meant to deduce that the social events in some way influenced Darwin's thinking--if not consciously, at least subconsciously; if not immediately, at least ultimately.
The issue is what the nature of that influence is exactly. Do events determine the theory? Do they determine the expression of the theory? Or is determine too strong a word to employ? Do they merely suggest ways in which nature may be seen to operate and explained? Desmond and Moore do not tell us here what they believe to be the nature of that influence, but their earlier works indicate that they would most likely advocate either the first or second position, and more probably the former. However, there are major philosophical and theological differences between these two answers.
In terms of the philosophy of science, the important issue of realism is raised by these views. Realism holds that nature and objects and phenomena of nature exist and act independently of our knowledge of them. Moreover, realists would argue that the reality of the natural world somehow limits what can and must be explained. Scientists seek to describe actual occurrences in nature, and so, for instance, they would not seek to develop theories about bodies falling upwards or butterflies swimming. This is not to say that they would insist that every theory really describes reality, but it is to argue that every theory is an attempt to really describe real nature.
The more extreme position in the sociology of knowledge--the one that would say that events determine the theory--leads to an anti-realist position, for scientists see only what social events program them to see. While nature may be real, theories describing it can not be said to be real explanations since they are determined by historical contingencies and not by natural phenomena. Moreover, the evaluation of theories ultimately boils down to judgments about social, political, economic, and/or religious philosophies, not to verdicts based on how closely a theory describes or predicts natural phenomena. If this is the position of Desmond and Moore, then are they not forced, along with Karl Marx, to conclude that evolution by natural selection is just a bourgeois, Whig, capitalistic, Victorian theory of nature? And how is that conclusion ultimately different from the position of creation scientists who claim that Darwin's theory is just an outgrowth of a secular, materialistic world view? In both cases, nature does not do the informing; society does.
Moreover, if this historiographical method is valid in the history of science, it is also valid in the history of theology. Just as society determines the form and content of science, so it determines the form and content of theology. God may exist, but truth claims about his nature and activity are as invalid as truth claims in science about natural objects and events. Theology becomes nothing more than a socially-shaped statement of what we believe about God; it is not limited or shaped by what God says about himself.
And if we can use this historiographical approach in history of science and history of theology, can we not also use it when examining a historical biography? What social factors determined what Desmond and Moore could see? What political events influenced which data they selected from the notebooks, journals, and diaries? What economic debates affected the way in which they contextualized the events of Darwin's work? What philosophic and religious commitments biased their reconstruction of Darwin's life? Would an economically conservative, socially moderate, evangelical Christian or a nationalistic, militant, fundamentalist Irani Shi'ite select the same data, see the same relationships, draw the same conclusions? If the answer to this last question is "No, they would not," then what is the purpose of scholarship, and what are the criteria for judging historical or scientific opinions? Ultimately, it seems to me, this extreme sociology of knowledge position leads to an intellectual and religious skepticism and angst, which makes the life of the mind and the life of faith futile.
However, if what Desmond and Moore are trying to do is to demonstrate how the form of scientific theories (or historical explanations) may be inspired by externalities, then their method is much more fruitful and illuminating for Christian scholars. Such an approach requires that we acknowledge the tension between our apprehension of reality and our attempts to define, describe, and explain it. That is true whether the reality be nature or God, natural or spiritual. This historiographical method claims that scientific positivism is dead, and Christians can be heartened by its demise. The framing of scientific explanations, while originating with our experience of nature, nevertheless is always partial, always biased, always influenced by a particular historical context, and constantly requiring reformulation.
But we also need to see that theological positivism must also be put aside. Our theological creeds, themselves originating with our experiences of God and his revelations of himself, are likewise incomplete, prejudiced, historically contingent, and ever in need of reexamination. In this respect, Desmond and Moore's book reminds us that if we are to understand either a scientific theory or a creedal statement, we must understand the historical context in which it was articulated. It calls us to examine carefully traditional ideas about the importance of particular events or the nature of specific influences in the development of a scientific concept or the exposition of a theological doctrine. Finally, it admonishes us to remember that the scientist and the theologian are not immune to the biases, presuppositions, and events of the societies in which they live. Neither scientific theory nor theological pronouncement should be accepted or rejected without carefully examining the social and historical context in which it was first articulated. Only then will we understand the meaning behind the form.
Thus Darwin serves us as a source book for better understanding
the life of Charles Darwin, as a model of how the history of science--and
the history of theology--should be done, as a warning against
naive social determinism, and as a reminder that our knowledge
of both nature and God will always be limited and shaped by personal
and historical forces. For these reasons, it is a remarkable book
and one that merits close and continued study.
1Thomas S. Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962.
3 Desmond and Moore. Darwin. p. xviii.
From Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 45:4 (1993): 191-5.


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Lindsay Lohan Rejects Yet Another Plea Deal. And It's Not Even Her Lawyer's Fault This Time.
Despite attorney Mark Heller's best efforts, Lindsay Lohan refuses to accept a plea bargain in that case where she supposedly lied to the cops. This will end well.
Law enforcement officials told TMZ that Lohan may have been drinking at the time she crashed a Porsche, which she later claimed not to be driving. A bottle was found next to the car, and Lohan allegedly smelled like booze — but she was never given any sobriety tests. (Really, boys in blue?)
The Santa Monica City Attorney was slated to offer Lohan mandatory AA meetings, 30 days of residential rehab (down four months from the original plea offer) and "closely monitored" community service, which Lohan would be able to complete in New York if she wanted to.
The L.A. City attorney, who was handling her necklace theft case, wanted jail time for Lohan because lying to cops was a violation of her probation for that case, but prosecutors may have backed down.
The plea they offered seemed like one helluva deal, but Lohan and Heller threw all those options out.
The L.A. and Santa Monica City prosecutors had a phone meeting with Heller yesterday and he rejected every offer they put on the table. And while his legal acumen has certainly been in question, this time he may not have had a choice — because it's Lindsay who won't budge, saying taking the plea would be "punishment for something I didn't do."
Despite there being a lot of evidence — and witness testimony — that indicates otherwise.


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Franchise QBs carry the team not the other way around.
I want coaches that hold people accountable too. Guys who do not give out positions based on anything other then results.
2. The only reason Mark Sanchez was in third and long on that play is because a) Kerley made a bad read and didn't score the TD on the big throw, b) Sparano made lousy playcalls, and c) Keller committed a stupid penalty.
3. The reason Sanchez fumbled was because he was sacked on a completely unblocked blitzer. It was the third such hit he'd taken during the game and it's a miracle he didn't fumble the first two times.
4. I predicted this back in June. If that makes me the moron in your eyes, good.
Franchise QBs carry the team not the other way around.
I want coaches that hold people accountable too. Guys who do not give out positions based on anything other then results.
3. Can't argue it was bad communication on the oline the guy was unblocked but it seemed that sanchez made it worse then it had to be. Sanchez was not rocked by a blindside hit he was wrapped up and it looked like he was trying to get rid of the ball to not lose yards. He should have just went down. Instead the ball came loose.
Fight through adversity and make a play.
The "blame" on that play isn't in the Sanchez fumble. It's on whatever offensive lineman or back was supposed to block the guy who came in at full speed, untouched. If you were sitting in an intersection, preparing to make a turn and a truck slams into you broadside, no one is going to blame you if you trip and fall getting out of the car.
If the rest of the team tried as hard as Mark Sanchez did, we'd have a winning record right now.
I can't believe SAR is still embarrassing himself on this thread. Even Sanchez's immediate family would take issue with his posts.
The reason is irrelevant to the play. 3rd and Long is an NFL Reality. This is a delfective argument from the issue.2. The only reason Mark Sanchez was in third and long on that play is because a) Kerley made a bad read and didn't score the TD on the big throw, b) Sparano made lousy playcalls, and c) Keller committed a stupid penalty.
An unblocked blitzer he did not see, did not feel coming, did not avoid and instead of pulling the ball in (the right decision), he choose to mishandle it leading to the fumble.3. The reason Sanchez fumbled was because he was sacked on a completely unblocked blitzer. It was the third such hit he'd taken during the game and it's a miracle he didn't fumble the first two times.
You're not a moron, far from it. This is simply your schtick. You choose some thing you know will engender a strong reaction, and you ride it.4. I predicted this back in June. If that makes me the moron in your eyes, good.
Only a moron would believe you actually believe in Mark Sanchez, QB, as much as you seem to claim to.
For me, it's simply good practice to crush down your various logical fallacy, straw men, and deflective arguments. I have to admit, they're quite good at times.
Not good enough to actually provide a legitimate defense of the play of Mark Sanchez, of course.
But you're not really posting about Mark Sanchez in this thread, you never really were. You've set up a position of defense of the indefensible via poor play or other weaknesses unrelated to the indefensible.
Whats funny, IMO, is how many chuckleheads are actually lapping it up.
Says everything you need to know about forums tbqh.
Last edited by Warfish; 11-11-2012 at 10:40 PM.
The only knuckleheads here are the ones who thinks I've got some master plan to get reactions or set up some straw man or create indefensible positions, like I'm in some secret laboratory with graph paper and a sliderule instead of sitting here on my kitchen laptop with the kids at my ankles and my wife telling me to help set the table as I type.
I'm just a fan with an opinion, that's it. Wish there was more to it, wish I was some fabulous internet forum strategist. I'm just a long-time fan who has seen enough of Mark Sanchez in the early years and in the postseason to know that he's got a special ability. I'm also someone who can see that he's been neglected by his coaches and hung out to dry by his GM. If Mark Sanchez never won 4 playoff games and led us to an 11 win season with 5 absolutely heroic performances I'd likely feel just like you do. But what I see is a good QB that has never had a stable set of receivers to bond with and one who has seen his targets erode each year until the point where he just can't make it work anymore. He's punch-drunk, has taken dozens of hits from a porous offensive line, bad OC, a HC focused on the other side of the ball, you name it, he's affected by it.
There's no reason to mock my position or subscribe to some Grass Knoll theory simply because you disagree with it.
That's all SAR is saying. Not sure how that's embarrassing in any way. Sounds very logical and honest to me.
The Sanchez Flat Earth Society is down to three members: SAR, Rex and my father. And I'm pretty sure two of those people are only still card carrying members to annoy me.
The bolded part above is completely and utterly not even close to what happened on the field. Yes an unblocked blitzer came free, that happens all the time, but instead of eating the football and losing the 4 yards that he would have with the sack, he tried to switch the ball in his hands, and throw it away, resulting in a fumble that is 100% his own fault. Not to mention, he has NEVER been able to adjust a protection at the line to protect himself, and this is his 4th season.
You are correct bad plays happen and these games come down to inches/plays, and when push comes to shove, sanchez never makes the ones we need. How many games will you have to see a fumble from the QB and a redzone int until you see that our "field general" should be holding a clipboard.
The two best drives of yesterday's game were ended by Mark Sanchez and Mark Sanchez alone. Whoops, I mean Mark Bumchez.
Back up the truck.
After Thanksgiving, he's gone.
Chad Pennington: Missed 50% of the games he was paid to play, lousy under pressure.
Mark Sanchez shares traits with neither of these two players. He's a young kid who has been ruined by the team that promised to support him.
And the mistakes that led to both the interception and the fumble happened in June when our GM put on the blinders and ignored how woefully staffed his offense was. From Wayne Hunter to Stephen Hill to Shonn Greene to Joe McKnight, this offense was a disaster before we left Cortland.
And even if Mark throws that TD and doesn't fumble in the 4th quarter, the Jets defense and ground attack didn't do enough to win this game so we'd have lost anyway. You don't like 28-7, fine, would have been 28-17.
The team lost yesterday. Mark Sanchez is just a small component of a big train wreck.
Another reason why Rex Ryan's stupid strategy to win in today's NFL doesn't work. The margin for error is too narrow. We've seen plenty of Jets games where we throw a pick six and fumble a few times but have enough offensive firepower to answer back for those mistakes. But this dumb idea of having the 1985 Bears defense and 1959 Packers offense has left us unable to overcome even the simplest of mistakes.
Mark Sanchez is not a good quarterback right now. No different than Shonn Greene, Joe McKnight, and Jeremy Kerley who shouldn't even be on the field in an NFL game, no different than Bart Scott, David Harris, and Kyle Wilson who suck every-other-week. No different than Rex Ryan who had two weeks to prepare for Seattle which looked like the Miami result. No different than Mike Westhoff who's already retired. No different than Tony Sparano who doesn't know what he's doing. No different than Mike Tannenbaum whose drafting is killing us.
This team sucks. Mark Sanchez is just a small part of it.


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Behavior Changes After Brain Injury
Behavior Changes After Brain Injury
After a brain injury, a person may behave in new or different ways and may have personality changes. Patients may become agitated or aggressive, and these mood changes may be disturbing. Some may curse, laugh, or cry out of context. Others may show increased or decreased sexual interest. Judgment may be altered. This can have financial and legal implications.
Behavior changes may be caused by damage to the brain. Or they may result from the person's increasing awareness of what has happened. Such changes may be linked to frustration, anger, or grief.
Handling feelings
Many patients have extreme mood swings. Others show no change in emotions. As a patient becomes more aware, depression may set in. Signs of depression should be brought to the attention of health care professionals. A number of treatments are available that may be helpful for improving the patient's quality of life.
Team members address the patient's feelings and behavior. A team member may ask an angry patient to "calm down." If the person does so, he or she is praised for using self-control. Then the patient may be asked how he or she was able to handle the emotion. If the patient knows, the technique can be used again.
Controlling agitation
Agitation and aggression may be stages a patient passes through. One needs to ensure that there is no physical, medical, or psychiatric cause for the agitation. If the patient's safety is a concern, restraints may be used. Also be sure to contact the health care team. Or team members may take turns staying with the patient. As a patient becomes calmer, the team may do the following:
- Point out when a behavior is not proper. Then explain what the patient could do instead.
- Redirect agitated actions such as pacing.
- Divert the patient from tasks that are upsetting.
Regaining social skills
After a brain injury, some patients see only how matters relate to themselves. They may not be aware of how their actions and words affect others. Group rehab helps patients learn to deal with others. It also improves speech. Playing games helps patients link ideas and increase hand-eye skills.
You can help
Try to act in ways that teach good behavior. Also, let the person know he or she is still needed and loved. Try the tips below.
- Stay calm.
- Do not hold a grudge.
- Do not always give in to demands.
- See depression as a stage of recovery.
- Ignore outbursts of anger. Direct the person toward a task he or she can do.
- Do not cringe, frown, roll your eyes, shake your head, or clear your throat.
- Make contact. Hug, hold hands, offer a gentle touch.


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Hi Marcello,
It looks a bit like Lampronia fuscatella
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Lampronia_Fuscatella
But supposedly that does not occur in Italy.
There are other species of L. that do occur in Italy, eg. L. aeripennella.
I suggest you see if any of those match.
Unfortunately, many species of L. are not illustrated on www.lepiforum.de, so you may have to look elsewhere.
Also consider Incurvariidae
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Fotouebersicht_Incurvariidae
Please let us know how you get on.
Hi Mike,
thanks for the info.
I found the list of the species that occur in Italy:
|Lampronia aeripennella (Rebel 1889)
|Lampronia corticella (Linnaeus 1758)
|Lampronia flavimitrella (Hübner 1817)
|Lampronia luzella (Hübner 1817)
|Lampronia morosa Zeller 1852
|Lampronia provectella (Heyden 1865)
|Lampronia rupella (Denis & Schiffermüller 1775)
|Lampronia standfussiella Zeller 1852
|Lampronia stangei Rebel 1903
But no one match with this one, the most similar is L. fuscatella.
I'll do other research tomorrow.
I'll let you know about it.
Hi Mike,
I found it
I asked on Lepiforum.de if they was sure that L. fuscatella don't occur in Italy and they said that it's Cauchas rufifrontella!
I never heard it btw ...
Thanks for your help!
Hi Marcello,
Well done, and thanks.


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GormanGhaste wrote:This is something that is easier to check in the pet journal than on this site. Under the Sources filter choose only Pet Battle, and then search for pets using the name of the zone. Sort your list by rarity.
I have to agree. This is how I search for all my rares. Would've been helpful if I learned this while I was hunting just for the pets


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Angels are facing tough pitchers
It's hard to pinpoint why offense is struggling in ALCS
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There is no one formula. There is no one reason you could point to for why a team struggles. If you could, then you would be able to just point out the problem and be able to fix it, but it isn't that easy.
It's hard to put a finger on why the offense is struggling. Vladimir Guerrero is struggling and it looks like his timing is off. Orlando Cabrera is hitting, but remember, we're facing some really good pitching.
Saturday's game is important, because we're down 2-1 now and we don't want to go down 3-1.
The biggest way for us to fix it is to turn the page, and fortunately we're pretty good at doing that. We've been in tough spots a lot this year, so we're confident we'll be able to put this behind us.
John Lackey has been throwing so well start after start that it seemed the law of averages caught up with him. You can't have your best stuff night after night or start after start. He didn't have his best stuff and it caught up to him.
There wasn't a sharpness on his breaking ball that there usually is. You have to give credit to Paul Konerko. He recognized the pitch and put a good swing on it.
I think that Kevin Gregg did a great job coming out of the bullpen and I thought that Brendan Donnelly did an excellent job, too, when he came in with two on and nobody out. He gets a big strikeout of Carl Everett and then the double play. That's huge and what you need on a night like tonight.
But scoring runs on Jon Garland was really tough and you have to tip your cap, because he came out and did his job.
Garland was phenomenal and it shows that what people expect is often the reverse of what actually happens.
The Angels were supposed to be too tired to play and we went out and won. Garland hadn't pitched in two weeks and he wasn't supposed to be sharp. That was probably the best thing that could have happened to him, because he was as sharp as I've seen him.
The last time we faced these guys, Mark Buehrle, Garland, we beat them up pretty good, but they've come back and pitched really well against us, so you have to give them credit.
It's two really good pitching staffs going at it and runs are not going to come cheap. We're going to have to earn it.
It is encouraging, though, to know that we have two more games here in Anaheim. Our fans are great and if we win Saturday, it's all tied again. We like being here.
Ervin Santana is going Saturday. He's rested and he's looked really sharp. I'm excited and I like him in the playoffs. But they have Freddy Garcia going, so it should be a good matchup.
Paul Byrd's journal appears as told to MLB.com reporter Mike Scarr. Byrd's journal will appear regularly while the Angels are in the playoffs. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Our romance is growing flat,
For you like this and the other
While I go for this and that,
Goodness knows what the end will be
Oh I don't know where I'm at
It looks as if we two will never be one
Something must be done…
But oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part
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Let's call the whole thing off.
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Australian Matthew Goss (HTC-HighRoad) won the second stage of the Tour of Oman on Wednesday taking the leader's red jersey from Dutchman Theo Boss of Rabobank.
Goss won a sprint finish ahead of Italy's Daniele Bennati and Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen following a stage which included the first significant climb of the event.
However the three kilometer climb some 60km from the line caused some problems for many of the sprint specialists including Belgian Tom Boonen, American Taylor Phinney, Britain's Mark Cavendish and Norway's world champion Thor Hushovd.
"I got stuck in. I've felt very good since the start of the season thanks to the training I did in Australia and then the kilometres notched up in the Tour Down Under where I already felt very good," said 24-year-old Goss, who is
four seconds ahead of Bennati in the overall standings with Boasson Hagen six seconds off the pace.
"I'm in form but Oman is only my first race this year and maybe I still lack preparation compared to the other riders," added the 22-year-old Norwegian.
Thursday's third stage cover 208km around Sur.
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could I use a pointer to manipulate a value private value of a class I dunno if it's possible just doing a bit of experimenting lately and got the idea or would I still have to use a public accessor?
short example of what I mean in words:
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I have a private value in a class of 100;
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oh another question posp up here
if it is possible would the pointer have to be made inside the class?, or could I make it anywhere?
just curios thats all probably better ways to do this but I I always try my own way first


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With the Kernels – Day Three
Hank Conger told FutureAngels.com the back story to his presidential campaign video.
Not much time to write, as we have a noon game today against Clinton. If the weather cooperates. Right now a light shower is falling. The forecast has the rain tapering off by early afternoon, but Midwest weather is so unstable you really can't make a certain prediction what will happen.
Lanny Peterson, who runs the Kernels host parent program, was gracious enough to take me to breakfast today. Tom Pumroy joined us. Tom and his wife Abby have been host parents for years. Because Abby speaks Spanish, they usually host the Latin players who are assigned to Cedar Rapids.
Lanny and Tom told me about their trip to the Angels' academy in the Dominican Republic. Prospect pitcher Rafael Rodriguez escorted them around town. They confirmed what we've heard so often about the impoverished conditions in the Dominican. If the players fail, they go back to a life of picking sugar cane or cleaning fish. And you thought you had pressure at work.
I recorded interviews yesterday with Kernels manager Ever Magallanes, catcher Hank Conger and Clinton LumberKings broadcaster Dave Lezotte. Hopefully I'll record more interviews today. Conger's interview is already on the home page at www.futureangels.com. For those of you who've heard about Hank's YouTube video, I finally got the straight story on its origins. Hank's dad and grandfather showed up mid-game and were welcomed by the P.A. announcer.
Depending on how the stars align, I might do the pre-game show or some color on the Kernels broadcast today with John Rodgers. John is an endless well of optimism and good cheer. He's a refreshing change from the snide and cynical commentary you read on certain web sites and hear on certain sports radio shows. If only more people were like John … well, the world would be a better place.
I go straight from the ballpark to the airport, and don't arrive home in O.C. until 10:30 PM PDT, so look for the next blog in the morning.


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Wright returns after missing one game
By Chris Iseman / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- David Wright was back in the Mets' lineup for Saturday's game against the Brewers after missing Friday's game with a swollen right thumb. He went 0-for-5 in the 4-2 loss to the Brewers, including grounding into a double play with the potential winning run on third base in the ninth, and left seven men on base.
"I just told him to keep me informed during the game," manager Terry Collins said before the game. "If it gets to the point he's not sure he can swing or whatever, re-aggravates it, just to say something."
The third baseman jammed his thumb Thursday night when Brewers starter Johnny Hellweg hit Wright on the left side of his helmet with an 86-mph changeup in the third inning. Wright immediately fell, and jammed his right thumb on the ground. It was still swollen on Friday, keeping him out of the lineup.
Wright passed all concussion tests after leaving Thursday's game, and completed more running drills on Friday without experiencing a headache. But team doctors advised him to rest the thumb for 24 more hours and allow the swelling to go down.
Before leaving the clubhouse on Friday night, Wright said he hoped to play Saturday. He got his wish, as Collins wrote him into the lineup, batting in his customary third spot in the order.
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• Collins said Jon Niese will likely be held to about 80 pitches in his final start of the season on Sunday, as the Mets look to send the left-hander into the offseason healthy.
"I told him the importance that he walk out of that clubhouse tomorrow afternoon 100 percent," Collins said before Saturday's game.
Niese is 8-8 with a 3.74 ERA in 23 starts but spent time on the disabled list with a slight tear in his rotator cuff.
Chris Iseman is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Carpenter's all-around effort leads Crusaders past Lee
PITTSFIELD -- Tank Roberson may put up gaudy numbers, but he's not the only tool the St. Joseph's boys basketball team has at its disposal.
The Crusaders have a virtual utility belt in Michael Carpenter.
"Every time I look at the end of a game, he's got double-digit points, double-digit rebounds, six assists, five steals, two blocks. He is in every category," said St. Joe's coach Paul Brindle. "He's just the ultimate player."
Carpenter did it all again for the Crusaders in a 72-47 win over Lee on Friday night at the Boys and Girls Club. The senior finished with 17 points, 15 boards, a couple of steals and a block. Roberson had 21 points, but only four after halftime. That's when Carpenter took over with nine points in the third quarter to give St. Joe's (5-2, 5-0 South) the win in a rematch of last year's Western Massachusetts final.
Roberson appreciated the help on the scoreboard and the glass. Carpenter ripped down boards, reeling the ball in with a vigor that made it clear no one else was getting a hand on the ball. St. Joe's needed some kind of spark after the Wildcats hung around throughout the first half.
"Carp just came into his own and said, 'Hey, I'm going to grab every board,' " Roberson said. "He got every board and I'm just going, because he knows I'm gone [in transition]. He helps me out with the scoring. He helps the whole team out with the scoring with the runs that we go through."
Lee (4-4, 2-2) got 21 points from Heamon Williams and 22 from Jake LePrevost but just four points from the rest of the team. St. Joe's depth and ability to adapt under pressure made the difference.
"They know how to respond and react when you take away their first option, when you take away what they're trying to get," said Wildcats coach Dan Korte. "We're not quite there yet. When the other team takes away our first option, takes away whatever we're going for, we don't know how to adapt to find the open man and make a nice play. Sort of playing off the cuff instead of playing by the script."
Carpenter and St. Joe's showed just how good they can be at writing their own ending. The Crusaders really put some distance between them and Lee in the third quarter, when Roberson -- the county's leading scorer -- wasn't piling on points. The Crusaders had five different players score in the quarter. Jon Bianchi had two of his 12 points in the third while Lavante Wiggins scored five of his nine.
Carpenter was the star of the push that put the game out of reach. He scored seven points in 95 seconds, including one bucket where he cleaned up a Roberson miss. That's what he sees his role as: doing a little bit of everything to help the team.
"I just do what Coach needs me to do," Carpenter said. " If I need to score, I need to score. If he needs a rebound, I get a rebound. If he needs an assist, I'll dish it."
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FULLERTON – SWAT officers went room by room through Cal State Fullerton's five-story Mihaylo Hall late Wednesday, searching for a robbery suspect they presumed was armed while checking on students and staff members who had taken shelter in classrooms.
Authorities searched past 10 p.m. with no sign of that man or a second suspect they believed was also in the area. Three others were arrested after an armed robbery in Moreno Valley and a police pursuit into Fullerton that hit speeds of 120 mph.
The campus lockdown ended just before midnight and classes were to resume Thursday morning as scheduled, officials said.
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It was not immediately clear how many people had been in the classrooms at Mihaylo Hall, although officials said there could have been several hundred. Police had begun easing their lockdown orders around 10 p.m., letting people out of the building but checking their IDs as they left.
Officers cleared Mihaylo Hall shortly after 10 p.m., and more than two dozen SWAT officers filed out of the building. Police said they were turning their focus to other buildings, several hours after the sequence of events that locked down the campus began in a Moreno Valley jewelry store.
Witnesses reported that five men armed with handguns and wearing ski masks forced their way into the jewelry store around 3 p.m. and shot a clerk during the robbery. The clerk was rushed to Riverside County Regional Medical Center; he was described as being in stable condition.
Minutes after the robbery, the California Highway Patrol began pursuing a charcoal-colored two-door Lexus identified as the getaway vehicle. The high-speed chase ended across the street from Cal State Fullerton, when the Lexus crashed into a parked car.
Five men got out and scattered, police said, three running from the campus and two running toward it. Officers quickly captured one suspect on campus and another nearby. A third carjacked a vehicle, police said, kicking off another pursuit that ended at a baseball field in Watts, where the man was taken into custody.
One man who fled from campus remains on the loose, and police said they don't know where he is. "If he's outside our perimeter, hunkered down, he isn't as much of a risk" as the other suspect thought to be hiding on campus, Fullerton police Sgt. Jeff Stuart said.
Police said that man was last seen in Mihaylo Hall, a classroom complex that houses the university's business school.
Cal State Fullerton officials announced a campus lockdown on the school's Twitter feed around 4:30 p.m., noting that there was a "possible dangerous suspect on campus."
Campus officials advised students and campus visitors who were outside college buildings to leave the campus and for those inside to remain in place.
"They are going under the assumption that (the suspects) are armed and dangerous," Stuart said.
Witnesses reported seeing snipers set up at businesses nearby as three SWAT teams entered Mihaylo Hall to begin the search. Nutwood Avenue was closed, and a crowd of about 100 students and workers gathered across the street from campus to watch the police.
Police said there were no gunshots fired, and no injuries had been reported.
All classes were canceled for the remainder of the day, spokesman Chris Bugbee said.
Officials at Cal State Fullerton estimate that fewer than 10,000 students were on the campus around 4 p.m. when the incident started.
"Right now, everybody is locked in and checking the television and the Internet, waiting to see what happens next," Bugbee said.
Students reported a confusing scene as authorities instituted the lockdown and ordered some out of the campus buildings. Officers were reportedly going building to building, asking people to leave as soon as possible as police surrounded buildings where alarms were sounding and a helicopter hovered overhead.
University officials posted information for students in Storify form.
City News Service and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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- Lotus news
Valsecchi named Lotus third driver
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- Davide Valsecchi
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- Lotus F1
2012 GP2 champion Davide Valsecchi has been named as Lotus' third driver for the 2013 season.
Valsecchi moves in to the role having impressed the team during an outing at the Abu Dhabi Young Driver Test last November, with Jerome d'Ambrosio staying on as reserve driver and Nicolas Prost as development driver. Valsecchi said he is "excited about the future" and is focusing on impressing the team further this year.
"I'm really happy that the team want me on board and I'm excited about the future," Valsecchi said. "I hope that this is a really good start to a career in Formula 1.
"Every day I will do the very best job that I can to give Lotus F1 Team the same passion and commitment that I showed last year. My last season in GP2 in 2012 was something I really focussed on, and in the end I succeeded. Now in Formula 1 my target will be a little different, but my focus to do the very best is still the same."
Valsecchi also admitted that he views his role as a stepping stone towards a race seat.
"I very much hope, step by step, to get into Formula 1 as a race driver, and being here as third driver is as near as you can get. It's a great opportunity here - If I do the best job I can this year then it will open up my chances for the future, and we'll see if I'm good enough."


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Allman Brothers Band guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks shocked the jam band community tonight (January 8) by announcing via press statements, that they will be leaving the band at the end of 2014.
The current version of the Allman Brothers Band – featuring founding members Gregg Allman (keyboards, vocals), Jaimoe (drums) and Butch Trucks (drums) along with newer additions Marc Quinones (percussion), Oteil Burbridge (bass), Derek Trucks (guitar) and Haynes (guitar, vocals) – is the longest running lineup of the group, having been together since 2000. The Allmans celebrate their 45th anniversary this year.
In a joint statement, Haynes and Trucks said, "For 25 years and 15 years respectively, we've had the honor and pleasure of playing, living, learning, and traveling with the Allman Brothers Band, one of the truly legendary rock and roll bands. We will be forever grateful for the opportunity and the experience, and for the love, enthusiasm, and support of the incredible fans. We are both preparing to dig even deeper into our various creative and musical endeavors and, as a result, 2014 will be our final year as part of the band. We are looking forward to seeing our loyal ABB fans at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta this Friday night January 10th and in March at the Beacon Theater in New York City as we celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the band."
Friday night's show isn't a regular Allman Brothers Band concert; it's a tribute to the band's leader and namesake, Gregg Allman, titled "All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman" and will feature a lineup of major stars including Eric Church, Natalie Cole, Widespread Panic and Jackson Browne, as well as, of course, the Allmans.
Haynes first joined the Allmans in 1989 after playing in founding member Dickey Betts' solo band; when the band reunited Betts brought Haynes with him. Haynes left in 1997, to concentrate on his other band, Gov't Mule. He rejoined in 2000, replacing Jimmy Herring, who, ironically, replaced Betts, who was fired by the other founding members of the band. In his own press statement, Haynes said: "I joined the Allman Brothers Band in 1989, at age 28, for a reunion tour with no promise or expectations of it going any further. Based on the success of the tour and the uncanny chemistry between the original members and the new members, we decided to continue and see where it all led. Now, here we are, 25 years later, and it has been an amazing experience. I've always said that if I were to join a band that I grew up listening to the ABB would be at the top of that list. The original version of the band was a huge influence on me and I'm sure that the countless hours I spent listening to and studying that music helped shape me as a musician. As proud as I am of being a member of such a legendary band, I'm even more proud of the music that we've made together and of being a part of carrying their original vision into the future. As someone who's been fortunate enough to juggle a lot of musical projects and opportunities I look forward to maintaining a vigorous schedule which will include many more years of touring and recording with Gov't Mule in addition to my solo projects and to enjoying more family time as well. Being part of the ABB has opened a lot of doors for me and that's something I don't take for granted nor do I take for granted the friendship and musical relationships I have with each of the members. The 45th Anniversary of the ABB is a milestone amidst too many highlights to count and I'm looking forward to an amazing year creating music that only the Allman Brothers Band can create."
In recent years, Haynes has spent time recording and touring as a solo artist, and also did a symphonic tour where he played the music of Grateful Dead founder Jerry Garcia (in addition to his other projects, he has also played in Dead bassist Phil Lesh's solo band, and also in the ad hoc reunion band known as The Dead, featuring Lesh and Bob Weir).
Derek Trucks, the nephew of drummer Butch Trucks, was a guitar prodigy who had released two solo albums and had opened several shows for the Allmans when he got the invitation to join the band, while he was still a teenager. His press statement reads: "I got the call to join the Allman Brothers while on tour with my own band at the age of 19. It was out of the blue and felt surreal. I leapt at the chance. This was the music that I had cut my teeth on and it was the distinctive sound of Duane's guitar that inspired me to pick up the instrument in the first place. When I started with ABB I didn't know how long it would last, only that I would let the music lead me and teach me. Amazingly that led me past the band's 40th anniversary, to the band's 45th, and now my 15th year as a member of this incredible band. Five years ago the 45th seemed like a lofty goal but I thought if we could make it to that milestone it would be a logical time to move on. While I've shared many magical moments on stage with the Allman Brothers Band in the last decade plus, I feel that my solo project and the Tedeschi Trucks Band is where my future and creative energy lies. The Tedeschi Trucks Band tour schedule keeps growing, and I feel the time has finally come to focus on a single project, which will allow me to spend that rare time off the road with my family and children. It's a difficult decision to make, and I don't make it lightly. I'm proud to have made a small contribution to the masterful music they have created over the past forty years, and will continue to create. Now seems like a good time to go out on a high note with a great 45th anniversary in 2014, and the mutual respect and friendship of the other 6 members of ABB."
His current project, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, is a collaboration with his wife, singer/songwriter/guitarist Susan Tedeschi. He has also played guitar on some of Eric Clapton's recent albums and tours.
The Allmans have scaled down their tour schedule in recent years, sticking with a few weeks in the summer, a couple of festivals, and their annual New York City residency at the Beacon Theatre (they just announced this year's dates). Haynes and Trucks have spent more time with their other projects, and Gregg Allman tours with his solo band, and recently told Rolling Stone that he has more two solo albums in the works. The Allmans haven't released an album since 2003's Haynes-produced Hittin' The Note.
While many bands, like the Allmans, have continued on through the decades with some founding members accompanied by younger musicians, it's rare that the newer musicians get much focus from the audience and press. That's not the case with the Allmans, where Haynes and Trucks' guitar interplay is a highlight of every show. Additionally, Haynes handles lead vocals for several songs at each concert. While it seems clear that the band intend to stay together after this year, it will be a challenge, to say the least, to replace Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks.
— Brian Ives, Radio.com